I’m sorry it’s been so long between blogs but I’ve had a major life change and have been away for almost 2 months.  My father and mother passed away within 2 weeks of each other, my father was in upstate New York and I was with my mother in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  I’m really still trying to accept the fact that they are no longer here—I can no longer build my relationships with them.  Our time here together is over. 

When I got back to Florida and had a glimpse of some of the news, I was sick (and honestly, almost wished I could be out of the mess in this world).  Every time I get into what is happening, I get physically ill.  It is so hard to believe America is just accepting the total takeover of our freedoms.  I recently read the following book and I’m sick that the Obama administration has such disregard for life.  I’ve quoted many of the endorsements and introduction for Betrayed as their words are much more powerful than any I could write.  Please read this book and ask everyone you know to read this book.  We MUST make a stand for our country before it is too late.

“. . . the Afghan theater has become a fiasco…a fiasco that turned a war we were once winning into a killing field with our troops the victims…the war that went sour when Barack HUSSEIN Obama allowed politicians to run the war instead of listening to the generals on the ground. Four times between 2009 and 2011 Obama rejected the generals recommended advice concerning the Afghan theater…including announcing the dates for our troop’s withdrawal…and in 2011 things started to seriously sour.”  Diane Sori

“Obama Administration’s politically-correct “Rules of Engagement” in Afghanistan have devastated our military.  In 87 months under the Bush Administration there were 630 killed and 2,600 wounded.  In 58 months of Obama there were 1,547 (increasing every day) and 15,000 wounded.”  Where is the outrage America?

Betrayed:  The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as told by a Navy SEAL’s Father
Copyright © 2013 by Billy Vaughn

Endorsements:

“Classical military strategist Carl von Clausewitz wrote of the ‘paradoxical trinity’ encompassing the collective wills of the government, the military, and the people in order for a Nation to successfully prosecute a war. In the breathtaking book Betrayed, we see what happens when one aspect of that that trinity and senior levels of another, through seemingly willful negligence, eschews the trust of the other two. As a former Member of Congress and member of the House Armed Services Committee, I was briefed on the classified details of the mission infamously referred to by call sign Extortion 17. Having been a Combat Arms officer in the US Army for 22 years, I was disturbed at several instances where standard TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) were not followed. As well, having been Billy and Karen Vaughn’s representative, I know the hurt and anguish of the parents of an elite warrior, their son Aaron, whose life was lost because of a blatant betrayal of the trust they put into their government to protect those who support and defend our Constitution and way of life. Betrayed is a must read for those who wish to restore Clausewitz's trinity and ensure that future administrations and military leadership places the safety and wellbeing of our warriors first and foremost.” Lieutenant Colonel Allen B. West, US Army (Ret.) Member of 112th Congress

“Betrayed is a book that must be read.  It is the story of American heroes and how America let them down. While combat losses are sadly inevitable, failure to support our war fighters with every means at our disposal, prioritization of foreign lives over American lives, deference to the enemy ideology of jihad and sharia, and blatant cover-ups about what really happened to the brave men on board Extortion 17 were not inevitable. We need to know the truth so we can reassert a national policy based on core American principles. Betrayed begins that critical process.” – Clare Lopez, Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Policy

“Betrayed provides a detailed account of a tragic incident involving the single largest loss of life of our elite special warriors, which could have been avoided if proven warfighting principles were adhered to. The book correctly points out how ‘political correctness’ by our military leadership directly contributed to this tragedy by

needlessly exposing the lives or our military personnel in the failed hope of winning the ‘hearts and minds’ of a tribal society. Unconscionable!” — Admiral James A. “Ace” Lyons, Jr., US Navy (Ret.)

“When our government and media make our most covert warfighters a public spectacle, putting the operators, their families and the SpecOp Community in clear and present danger, we must ask ‘why?’, figure out what went wrong, hold people responsible and make sure it does not happen again. Simple.  The bodies of American military men (my friends) were damned by an Islamic Imam at an official Ramp Ceremony at the Bagram Airfield, all allowed by US officials. This is pure sacrilege. We the People need to hold our government accountable and the families of the fallen particularly deserve a coherent explanation. Political correctness, the counter-insurgency strategy and our Rules of Engagement have neutered our warfighter in life or death situations that WE/ our government have sent them to do. In a chaotic world on the brink of a religious world war we must, as a people, identify and define our willingness to accept what our warfighters can commit in our defense. This is not an attack on the community or the Navy but a conversation that must be had. Our lives depend on it. It is our civic duty.” --Ben Smith, (Former SEAL), US Navy

Introduction:  Lieutenant General Jerry Boykin, US Army (Ret.) As the sun rose over the beaches of Normandy on the morning of June 6, 1944, thousands of young Americans waded through the surf and raced toward the German defenses, intent on bringing WWII to an end and destroying the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. Each man on those beaches knew that he had the full support of his nation and of his chain of command.

General Dwight Eisenhower, the Allied Commander, had taken a huge risk with an expectation of a huge payoff when he ordered the invasion. He was there to win and he never contemplated anything less. Although Ike wrote a letter before the invasion accepting responsibility for the failure if the invasion was not successful, he still intended to win the war even if it meant multiple attempts at establishing a beachhead on mainland Europe. Those men who he had ordered into combat would have his full support, and he would trust commanders at all levels to do all they could to defeat the enemy and to protect the lives of their troops. His gamble paid off, the coalition that he lead succeeded, and Hitler’s forces were defeated, restoring sovereignty to the nations of Europe.

For the United States, a new warfare paradigm exists that would make the success of the D-Day efforts doubtful if executed today. In fact, warfare has always been an extension of politics, but after WWII, politics began to impede American war fighting to the extent that victory is fleeting at best and unlikely at worst. Furthermore, the risks to the troops have increased as a result of this shifted paradigm. Commanders are often unable to employ their full capabilities or use their preferred tactics in order to defeat the enemy. The reason is simply that the political considerations have become so dominate that it is nearly impossible to win. Undoubtedly the nature of warfare has changed since WWII, but the imperative to defeat the enemy has not. “Winning hearts and minds” is a poor substitute for victory over a determined foe. If America does not intend to win, then US Forces should never engage an adversary. “Nation Building” should be done through the NGO and PVO communities and not using trained warriors of the US military. Humanitarian projects are often effective and beneficial in areas where warring factions have disrupted and destroyed the local infrastructure, but the use of the US military for these activities is ill advised due to the overpowering and irresistible political influences. The imperative of providing American Forces with the tools and authority, including the appropriate rules of engagement, to achieve victory and to protect themselves and their coalition partners should always dominate American war fighting. When commanders can no longer make every reasonable effort to ensure the safety of their troops, they should terminate combat operations and withdraw from the battle space. Unfortunately, American commanders in Afghanistan have been forced to deal with an unacceptable choice between meeting the ubiquitous political demands and fighting to win.

The Counter-Insurgency (COIN) strategy that has been pursued by the last two administrations has not succeeded in destroying the Taliban nor in winning the war. Moreover, this strategy has produced the most restrictive Rules of Engagement in modern warfare, jeopardizing the lives of every military member serving in Afghanistan. Commanders have been forced to fight an enemy who knows the US rules well and leverages those restrictions on our warriors to kill and wound our men and women. The days of boldness and audacity by small unit leaders in closing with and destroying an enemy are gone. That type of tactics and strategy has been replaced by a COIN strategy that focuses more on preventing collateral damage at the risk of US lives. There is no greater example of the results of this approach to warfare than the tragedy of August 6, 2011. It occurred in the Wardak province of Afghanistan, where a US Chinook helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down in a Taliban ambush, killing thirty Americans and seven Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel and one interpreter. Fifteen of those killed were some of America’s finest and most dedicated warriors from Seal Team Six, the same unit that killed Osama Bin Laden. One of the SEALS on Extortion 17 was Aaron Vaughn, the son of Karen and Billy Vaughn. While seeking the details of the shoot down that took Aaron’s life, Billy and Karen uncovered some startling facts about the mission that Extortion 17 was on the night that their son died in a fiery crash west of Kabul, Afghanistan. After receiving a heavily redacted copy of the after action report of the incident, Aaron’s parents began to have serious questions about the events surrounding that Special Operation. Simply wanting to know the facts about Aaron’s death, the Vaughns asked some hard questions of the chain of command. They were shocked to discover that no effort was made to eliminate known threats around the landing zone (LZ) before the Chinook landed even though there were multiple opportunities and means to do so. The Vaughns were also surprised to discover that the Chinook that Aaron and his mates were on was not a Special Operations helicopter with the most modern technology. Rather it was a nearly fifty-year-old aircraft with minimal capabilities flown by courageous pilots with no experience with Special Operations.

The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) in Tampa has spent untold millions of dollars equipping their SOF helos with the finest technology available; why were these SEALS not on one of these? The Vaughns simply wanted to know why. Was it because there were none available or were there higher priorities than this mission? These are not unreasonable questions from a grieving family. They were also startled to find that seven of the ANA soldiers who died in the crash were not even manifested for the flight. In fact, they were substituted at the last minute for seven other ANA personnel who actually had been manifested. The conclusion that they came to was that neither they nor the other families were being provided with the whole story about the operation that took the lives of their sons, husbands, and brothers. Overhearing a senior commander tell another family of one of the dead SEALS that the primary focus in Afghanistan was to “win the hearts and minds,” the Vaughns were enraged. The idea that the sensitivities and feelings of the Afghani people were more important than the lives of America’s warriors was more than they could tolerate. Was that the message or did they simply not understand the words and meaning of the senior officer? They decided that they must act and call for accountability and truth. In their minds and that of other families, there were simply too many contradictions and half-truths for them to accept the story that they had been given regarding the events of August 6, 2011, and they would not rest until they had been provided accurate details. Was there some kind of cover up? Were their sons targeted deliberately because of their team’s involvement in the Bin Laden operation? Who were the seven ANA soldiers that were added at the last minute? Why was a Non-Special Operations helo used? These and myriad other questions have yet to be answered but must be before the Vaughns and other families will cease in their efforts to get to the facts of the deaths of their sons. This book is part of their painful quest for a full accounting. It is a fascinating story of incredible courage and sacrifice, government deceit, and the changing nature of warfare.

Please read Betrayed.

I have so many notes on events to include in my blog that I'm finding it very difficult to decide what to put in.  While researching I came across this post and would like to include now.  I'll be back soon with my summary of all that I've been researching; but for now, please read the following:

An Open Letter to All Americans & Russian President Vladimir Putin

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Tim Brown

Editor’s Note: The Conservative Wife has graciously allowed us to repost an open letter she wrote to all Americans and to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

My Fellow Americans,

Over the past few days we have been subjected to an op-ed from Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin. Now it seems as though we will also be subjected to an op-ed from John McCain and Fidel Castro. I see no difference in these people other than the country in which they each reside. I will address Mr. Putin’s letter in a moment, but first I would like to be completely honest and tell you that I could care less what Mr. McCain and Castro have to say. Their ideals do not match those of the American people. And when I say American people, I mean those who truly care and love this great Nation. Those who have fought and died for our special freedoms and who are sick at the systematic destruction that is taking place. America has cancer and it is going to take some heavy chemo to rid her of this disease.

The disease is greed and laziness. There is a greed for money and power and those who crave it will stop at nothing to attain it. There is laziness in this country such as I have never before seen. The work ethic is all but gone. More and more Americans are on food stamps than at any other time in our history. There are those who have no choice but to accept them because not doing so means their family doesn’t eat. They can’t find jobs to support themselves and their family. Then there are those who are generational in their welfare. There is no incentive to better themselves. There is guiding hope that once pushed Americans forward in their quest to make the most out of this life. To work hard and reap the rewards of that work. No, these are the ones that are dangerous. They sit around and expect something to be put in their hand by those who do work, never once caring that those who are working are struggling to get by. If these benefits are removed, this generation of lazy people will riot in the streets, demanding that their pocket be filled with the fruits of another’s labor.

America has gone through many changes since she became a Nation. Many people think that the founding fathers created the Constitution as freedom FROM religion. This is wrong. It is freedom OF religion. This means that just as you are free to worship whomever you choose or to not worship anyone at all, I am also free to worship God. Openly and fervently. But the voice of a few has drowned out the voice of the many. And God is being denied at a breakneck pace. The further God is pushed out, the further away from blessing our Nation is. Those who deny God so as not to offend another had better be ready to have God deny them. These aren’t my words, they are God’s. And it doesn’t matter if you believe or not. What will happen is what will happen and no one will stop it. I have not ever in my life shoved my religion down anyone’s throat, yet I now have homosexuality and abortion shoved down mine. If you wish to live as a homosexual, then do so. I could care less, but do not think I find it okay to shove that filth in my face or have my children exposed to it. And if you wish to have an abortion, that also is on you. Just don’t expect me to pay for it unless you are willing to finance a trip for me to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. Fair is fair after all.

Now Mr. Putin, you stated that Obama is wrong about America being exceptional. I say that you are both wrong. America IS exceptional but not because of more empty words spoken through vain, lying lips. America is exceptional not because of the land we have or the name we carry. It is exceptional because of what lives inside of every American Patriot. Men, women and children who have a love for the idea of America. A place where we are free to express ourselves and worship whomsoever we will. We do not have nor do we need a so called leader to think for us. Again, I am speaking of true Americans and not those who feel they are entitled to something because of events that happened long ago and not in their individual life, (slavery). We have a passion in our heart and we will always stand with Liberty, no matter the cost of that freedom. Many have laid down their lives for the cost of our exceptionalism. Not because a dictator told them to do so. We worship no king and no dictator. We serve God and there is absolutely nothing that anyone could ever do to make us not do so. God hears our thoughts and He knows our heart.

Do not think, sir, that you have somehow earned the right to speak to Americans as though you are our leader. You are not. Just because you stand stronger than our own leader at the moment, he does not represent true Americans. He is a joke. He is our pusillanimous (p)resident. And he has other goals in mind for the destruction of America. And it has nothing to do with the color of his skin. He is half white after all. And I despise the white half as much as the black.

We are Americans and we will not go silently into the night. We are strong and we will stand. Our might is in our heart. We are exceptional. And we will remain so. And no one will take that from us. Not through words, not through a liberal controlled media, and not through a president who wishes he was dictator. No. We will remain American Patriots and there is nothing you can do about it. We ARE The People and America IS our home. We are America.

The media, Obama, and our Dept. of Justice at every opportunity try to Incite Racial Divide.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have been through a year of people & the media trying to present the George Zimmerman murder trial as a crime of hate and white against black prejudice. It has been a national media event, Obama immediately commented that Treyvon could have been his son, DOJ organized demonstrations in Florida right after it happened. Zimmerman was accused by the media (NBC even altered a tape they presented on the news) before anyone even knew the facts in the case.

I would like you to look at another murder--black against white--where the facts are so horrific you can't even believe them, don't want to believe them. You have probably never even heard of it; probably never saw it in the news and yet the poor parents of the 2 murdered young people had to go through trial after trial and then after the 5 black murderers were found guilty and sentenced, the convictions were overturned "by a special judge who ruled that the presiding judge at their trials was intoxicated at the time". The parents of the murdered couple had to go through all the trials again. The murders were committed in Jan. 2007 and the final trials were not until May 2013--OVER 6 YEARS!

Please do some of your own research and ask yourself why did the media, Obama (first trials were in 2009), and the US DOJ say and do nothing about THESE murders when they immediately jumped in to influence public opinion on a self-defense trial in Florida? Where is the outrage? Where were the demonstrations for these hate crimes? Some of the details of this horrific crime are given below:

Channon Christian, Age: 21
University of Tennessee student
Parents: Gary and Deena Christian
Carjacked and kidnapped on Jan. 7, 2007
She and boyfriend Newsom were later raped and murdered.

Christopher Newsom, Age: 23
Halls High School graduate
Parents: Hugh and Mary Newsom
Carjacked and kidnapped on Jan. 7, 2007
He and girlfriend Christian were later raped and murdered.


In the early morning hours of Jan. 7, 2007, Christopher Newsom and his girlfriend Channon Christian were carjacked and held captive in a house on Chipman Street in Knoxville. Both were raped, tortured and killed. Newsom's body was discovered in the vicinity that afternoon burning alongside railroad tracks. Christian's body was found stuffed in a trashcan inside the house a couple of days later. Five people were arrested in connection with the crime.

These murders were NOT done in self-defense. The carjackers had taken Christian's vehicle at gunpoint, bound and blindfolded the couple, and transported them to Davidson's residence. At that location, Newsom was raped by multiple assailants, his penis was cut off, he was shot multiple times, his body was set on fire, and finally his corpse was taken away and dumped alongside railroad tracks. With Newsome out of the way, the perpetrators next focused their depravity on Christian. Over the ensuing two days, they beat her, gang-raped her, urinated upon her, cut off one of her breasts (while she was still alive), and poured bleach down her throat. As with Newsom, they finished up by shooting her multiple times and setting her body on fire, but instead of dumping her corpse elsewhere, they wrapped it in a blanket and stuffed it into a trash can which as left inside the residence.

Eric Boyd was convicted in federal court of aiding the alleged ringleader, LeMaricus Davidson, after the carjacking and murders and is serving an 18-year prison sentence. The first defendant to be tried in Knox County Criminal Court, Letalvis Cobbins, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in August 2009. His brother, Davidson, was tried next and was sentenced to death by lethal injection in October 2009. In December 2009, George Thomas was sentenced to life in prison without parole. In May 2010, Vanessa Coleman was acquitted of first-degree murder in the deaths but was convicted of facilitating the death of Christian. She is currently serving 53 years.

In December of 2011, Special Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood ordered new trials for each defendant following a TBI investigation revealing that former Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner had been under the influence while presiding over the trials.

In November of 2012, Vanessa Coleman was retried and found guilty of facilitating the kidnapping, rapes and death of Christian. She was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

In January of 2013, Senior Judge Walter Kurtz denied new trials for alleged ringleader LeMaricus Davidson and his brother Letalvis Cobbins, but granted a new trial for George Thomas. Thomas was retried and found guilty on all counts in May 2013 and sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.

 

From:  Capitalism Institute:

In Egypt, we’re seeing some of the largest protests in human history, as untold numbers of Egyptian citizens are rising up against the Muslim Brotherhood. They’re reasoning differs according to the group, but many of the protesters include the Christian and secular population of Egypt.

So what has Obama done to help them? Actually, he doesn’t support them. In fact, he’s been preparing the Muslim Brotherhood with tear gas and anti-riot training so they can squash the riots. Yes, we’re siding with the Islamic fascists. Yes, this is criminally evil.

In the latest twist in our upside-down war on terror, President Obama withdraws troops fighting terrorists in Afghanistan and sends others to Egypt to protect a regime that supports terrorists.

According to reports, the commander-in-chief is deploying a riot-control unit from Fort Hood to Egypt to help the Islamofascist regime there repel its own citizens protesting increasing human-rights violations.

Obama supports terrorism and Islamofascism. We know this now. It’s been happening for literally years. We’ve reported on this on an almost weekly basis. Meanwhile, the US is now arming the Syrian rebels while the rebels murder families, Christians, and other innocent people. I am at a loss of words at this point. That Obama is in office shows how dark the apathy of Americans can truly be.

For the sake of the lives of the innocent people and Christians, it’s time to consider drastic (legal) action. The Republic is under attack, liberty is under attack, and people around the world are paying the ultimate price.

IJ Review:  
MSNBC says Gitmo prisoners are subjected to “horrific racial violence in the name of national security.” Obama laments, in response to their ongoing hunger strike: “I don’t want these individuals to die.”  So how did things get to such an “untenable point” point at Guantanamo Bay?

“Even the hunger strikers were gaining weight because of all the food – so we go out and buy all this exercise equipment and throw it in the rec yard,” a Gitmo official said of a 2007 requisition.  There was just one problem. The detainees refused to use the treadmills. Because they weren’t made by Muslims. Seriously.  “Within the first week, there were guys saying, ‘Hey, this stuff is made in the US – made by infidels – and we’re not going to use it.’”  So what did the commanders do?  “We took all of that s–t out – gave it to the soldiers to use, and bought them equipment that was made in a Muslim part of the world.”

In the understatement of the century, one official called Gitmo detainees “some of the most pampered prisoners on the planet.”  “They get as many as four choices of halal meals and have access to a new $750,000 soccer field. Islamic prayer beads and rugs are now “standard issue. They get their choice of more than 10,000 Islamic books and videos stocked by a Muslim librarian, who also records soccer and Arabic TV for them. They even have their own clerics to preach to them in Arabic.”

As maddening as is the (re)purchase of exercise equipment made by Muslims, this is worse: Detainees even persuaded prison officials to stop raising the American flag anywhere they could see it.  Independent Journal Review, 7/1/2013

How does the treatment of Gitmo detainees compare or contrast with the treatment afforded US soldiers captured by al-Qaeda or the Taliban?  As long as we have a US president and his administration appeasing the terrorists, they will keep asking for more and more and Obama and his gang will keep giving them more and more until there will no longer be America.

Obama Regime Says AP Searches were based on Investigating Leaks—Obama Regime Leaks Actually killed 30 Americans, including 17 SEALs.

The Obama administration states AP investigations were based on leaks that “put the American people at risk.”  We now know they already knew the person (from their administration) who leaked the information and yet they still requested a search warrant and seized phone records and e-mails of journalists, including Fox News reporters and management.   

The Obama administration actually did leak information that not only put the American people at risk but caused the death of American heroes—Navy Seal Team 6.  In May 2011 the White House showed photos all over the news with Obama and his team watching the Osama bin Laden raid.  They went on the news saying Obama took down bin Laden and continued extensive leaking of the details, including identifying the raiders as the secretive SEAL Team 6.  This put a target on the heads of the SEALs on the mission in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011.  Obama aides leaked bin Laden mission details for political reasons to make sure Obama won the 2012 election and the result was:  brave Americans died.  Where are the repercussions for this crime?

“The CH-47 Chinook helicopter used in the mission had no gunship escort and no cover when it was attempting to land at 2 a.m. that Aug. 6.  Taliban on the rooftop shot down the helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade.”  All 38 on board died and the casualties included 17 SEALs, “making it one of the elite unit’s worst losses in combat.  The hastily planned mission was intended to aid 47 Army Rangers in the Tangi Valley, even though the Rangers controlled the battle zone.”  Afghan security forces were closely involved in planning the mission.  The SEAL families feel these insiders leaked information about the mission to the Taliban as they “were positioned in a tower in a building at the perfect place and the exact time to launch an attack on the CH-47 when it was most vulnerable.”  A SEAL’s father said the White House’s leak “put a target on their backs.”

Please read “Families of SEAL Team 6 Demand Answers” to get all the terrible facts about this mission.  The US Commander in Chief is NOT protecting Americans; he is putting them in danger while crushing our freedoms in the process all with absolute indignation that we would dare to accuse him or his “minions” of any wrong doing!

While the left is still trying to twist and spin all the scandals that are coming out, some from mainstream are reporting what is really happening.  This from ABC News:

An employee in OH said that is not the case and that staffers have been threatened with their jobs if they are caught talking to the media:

At the [Cincinnati] IRS office on the fourth floor, a woman who answered the buzzer referred reporters to officials in Washington, though they were not returning very many calls. That staffer also said she was not allowed to speak to anyone – a line that was repeated by agency personnel during the week.

IRS headquarters in Washington denied that a no-talk rule was official policy because, after all, agency staffers still have a constitutional right to talk to whomever they want. …

Not so, said IRS folks in Ohio.

One of them, who asked not be named, told ABC News that security guards did remind employees of the official policy not to talk with the press – a warning cemented by the punch line "or risk losing our jobs."

"The Obama administration's Culture of Intimidation knows no bounds, apparently."  John Nolte 20 May 2013

Pelosi and other Democrats are playing their usual games--let's divert all the attention on this IRS scandal and blame it on the very groups who were targeted and harassed. They should never have non-profit status anyway.  They weren't targeted; they are a political group and should not get 501 (c) (4) status.  We better make another law to correct that problem.  Blame the conservatives (their favorite game) because all those tea party groups are not a social group but a political one.  Pelosi said they must pass another law to make it clear.  Sooo, they think the IRS did nothing wrong so let's move on. 

Not so fast!!!  The political groups on the left did not have the same harassment.  In fact, Organization for America (Obama's huge political group) too only 30 days to get their approval.  Another huge group on the left, Priorities USA, was not targeted.  Neither were Moveon.org and Organizing for Action targeted.

Meanwhile tea party groups, religious groups, companies who donated to conservative groups, Fox News reporters and producers were all targeted, investigated, and harassed.  Something is very wrong with this picture!  Please don't let the left switch the narrative and the responsibility again.

US security seriously compromised:  borders not protected (our own government sold guns to Mexican drug criminals); we don’t protect our borders & we watch illegals cross into our country.

Don’t uphold our laws—either on illegal aliens or criminals.  There are no repercussions for criminals in the Obama/Holder kingdom, unless you are white.  Obama and Holder have no respect for our constitution and no one holds them accountable.  Anything goes in their world.  Sports heroes and coaches cheat to win and commit crimes and everyone looks the other way.  The superintendent of Atlanta school system develops a plan to have teachers change grades so they can get awards for improved scores, gets a half million dollars herself, and Obama brings her to Washington to give her a special award for all she achieved!  And now we have the AP and IRS scandals.

Allow all kinds of illegal actions by our own government officials:  Extravagant  GSA parties at our expense, Secret Service with prostitutes in Columbia, use of private computers and e-mail addresses to avoid reporting to the public on their illegal affairs:  “. . . uncovered widespread use by activist employees of the federal government—both career and political appointees—of private means to conduct official business:  unofficial computers, off-site servers, and private email accounts that, like those secret email addresses created to keep correspondence from being seen, all were presumably free from prying taxpayer eyes and record-retention systems.”  The Liberal War on Transparency by Christopher C. Horner

Obamas extended vacations and golf trips and elaborate parties at the White House every Wednesday night while White House tours are canceled and airline traffic is delayed.  According to a new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), President Barack Obama has spent over twice as many hours on vacation and golf (976 hours) as he has in economic meetings of any kind (474.4 hours).  The report, “Presidential Calendar: A Time-Based Analysis,” used the official White House calendar, Politico’s comprehensive presidential calendar, and media reports through March 31, 2013 to calculate its results.  GAI’s findings may actually understate Obama’s recreational hours.

Protect Muslims; attack Christians.  Allow Saudia Arabia quick entry to US while nothing like it for those coming from Israel, England, France, or Germany.  Obama placed people who had been involved in the weather underground in his administration.  Bill Ayers the leader of the weather underground in the sixties hosted Obama’s entry into politics.

Call terrorism workplace violence when it’s anyone connected to Muslims—Fort Hood.  This administration will not even say the word terrorism when it is obvious that’s what it is!

Holder dismissed case against New Black Muslims who were charged with interfering with voting in 2008 elections.  Holder will only prosecute cases of what he considers white discrimination against blacks.  He will not prosecute blacks when they attack whites.  As a result of the DOJ’s failure to support the prosecution of civil rights violators, J. Christian Adams resigned from his position with the department.


State Dept. ignores requests for protection in Benghazi.  They made marines change out of their uniforms before going to help in Benghazi so they would not offend the Arabs—trying to be politically correct at the expense of lives.  Delays help terrorists and 4 Americans are killed.  When ambassador requested more security, State Dept. said they didn’t have money for more protection. The State Dept. spent millions on “green” cars & batteries for green cars at embassies and then held an expensive party at the Switzerland embassy to celebrate green policies just 2 months before the Benghazi disaster—the same time they were requesting more security in Benghazi!  And our Secretary of State Hillary said to Congress when questioned about Benghazi:  “What does it Matter?”  What matters is that Americans died unnecessarily, asked for help, were denied help and left to die.  That does matter, Queen Hillary!  Start praying now that she is not our next president.

Universities in US hire criminals and murderers from the Weather Underground.  Bernadine Dohrn (once on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List) involved in killing 2 policemen and a Brinks guard and spent 22 years in prison now holds an adjunct professorship at Columbia University.  Bill Ayers, leader of Weather Underground, professor of education at University of Illinois in Chicago; Mark Rudd, teacher in Central NM Community College; Van Jones, admitted communist in 1992, was appointed by Obama as his Green Czar in 2009.  Van Jones left position after controversy over his past and now has an appointment at Princeton University. 

Deficit keeps multiplying while Obama & the Democrats keep blaming Bush & Republicans. 

·       1987, the shortfall was $149.7 billion

·       President Bush’s next-to-last year was $160.7 billion

·       2009 under Obama, deficit ballooned to $1,400 billion

·       Next 3 years under Obama deficit has remained above $1 trillion each year—even as tax revenue has averaged about $2.2 trillion

“There is not a speck of support for the theory that America can tax itself out of its growing sinkhole.  The federal government has grown too large and spends too much.  We’re now borrowing 35 cents of every dollar we spend.”  The last thing Obama cares about is what is happening to American families.  He is running around the country to destroy the Republican Party so he can win back a majority in Congress in 2014 and continue his destruction of America.  His agenda is to do whatever it takes to promote his agenda no matter what the outcome to this country. 

Obama blames Republicans for sequestration when it was his idea, and now he continues to use sequestration to make Americans suffer—to beat them into submission.  There are many, many ways to save that 2% without causing the turmoil he is orchestrating.  Just getting rid of the duplication and waste would save more than the sequester amounts.  If he just stopped flying all over the country for vacations, golf, and campaigning he could save more than is needed for sequester!

Obama and his gang carried on about tax shelters in the Cayman Islands, Wall street fat cats and their bonuses.  Then Obama nominates Jack Lew for Treasury Secretary, a man who took a $1 million bonus from Citi group and stashed some of his money in—you guessed it . . . the Cayman Islands. 

Obama demonizes what he calls the “One Percent” and says he’s all for the middle class and then takes two luxury vacations, costing taxpayers millions of dollars, in less than two months!  While his wife takes a separate one.

Obama rewarded his departing chief trade negotiator, Ron Kirk, by taking him on his Golf Heaven vacations at the Floridian golf resort, even though Kirk has not negotiated a single new free trade agreement!

Obama tells Americans he is determined to cut the deficit (with a straight face) and then spent his State of the Union address proposing new spending programs.

The White House continues to say they are open and transparent while keeping the press in the dark, holding meetings behind closed doors, and having private computers and secret email addresses in government offices to hide correspondence they don’t want to release to the public.

While Obama & the Democrats blamed Bush for the housing crisis which led to the economic crash (even though Democrats controlled both House and Senate and Bush went to Congress 17 times to put controls on Fanny & Freddie), Obama & the Democrats are AGAIN talking about banks lowering standards for home ownership!!!  Who will they blame when the next crash comes?  And now Obama is flying around the country (at $180,000 an hour for Air Force One) to raise money to make sure Democrats have control of both houses again in 2014.  If we don’t inform voters and get them out to vote against this takeover, we will lose this country and I don’t think we would be able to come back.

America’s massive national debt is now almost $17 trillion and Obama vacations in Hawaii every year at a tremendous expense to the taxpayers.  Obama’s Hawaii vacations are a symbol of his presidency—“extraordinary arrogance, reckless spending, a striking lack of accountability, and a shameless let them eat cake mentality.”  Keith Koffler, February 2013.                                                                                                                                            

One of Obama’s campaign lies was that Obamacare would not change anyone’s present insurance.  If they wanted to stay with the insurance they had, they could.  Premiums would not increase—they would decrease.  Medical coverage would be better.  Seniors on Medicare would not be affected.  ALL LIES and he knew he was lying when he said all of it!  It isn’t even in full force yet and already premiums are rising, doctors are leaving their practices, and coverage is decreasing. 

Recently cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients blaming sequester budget cuts.  Directors of the clinics said reduced spending took effect for Medicare on April 1 making it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs while staying afloat financially.

We don’t uphold present laws yet Obama & Congress want to pass more laws to take away our freedoms just to show us they can and mainstream media remains silent!

 (From article by Joseph Curl who covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times and is now editor of the Drudge Report):

President George W. Bush –

·       President Bush stopped playing golf in 2003, at the height of the Iraq War.  “I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”  He said years later, “I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.  I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.”

·       He never headed home to his Texas ranch until after Christmas, instead going to Camp David for a few days.  “That way, the hundreds of people revolving around him at all times—White House staff, Secret Service agents, reporters, photographers, all the others—could spend the holiday with their families in and around Washington, D.C.”  No one ever reported that—until this column, said Curl in his opinion on March 31, 2013.

·       He rarely attended sporting events.  His thinking was the same:  if he went to a baseball game (right down the street from the White House), his presence would mean hours and hours of extra security for fans.  He once stopped off at the Daytona 500 and the metal detectors through which every fan had to pass left thousands outside in line when the flag fell to start the race.  He didn’t attend many sporting events after that.

The Obamas  –  They’re going to enjoy their time in the White House, no matter what the cost and no matter what we think!

·       Nonstop vacations during this terrible economic and world crisis.  In 2013, the First Family has already had three vacations—that’s one a month even though most Americans will not be able to afford even one vacation this year.

·       The Obamas ended 2012 and started 2013 in an $8 million, 6,000 sq.-ft. house in Hawaii (they left way before Dec. 25).  “The president played five rounds of golf (breaking 100 rounds as president).”  A month into Term 2, Michelle went off with the 2 daughters to Aspen.  VP Biden also went to the Colorado slopes.  While the girls were gone, Obama went to Florida for a 4-day weekend of golf (with friends and Tiger Woods).  He golfed again Easter weekend and then dropped in for an NCAA game in Washington.

·       Obama girls went on spring break but the White House put the press on “silence;” they were not to report anything.

For Biden’s part, he spent New Year’s in the Virgin Islands and spent Easter weekend on a golf trip in South Carolina (where rounds of golf cost $353.  His 3rd vacation of 2013 came when reports came out that he and his group spent $460,000 for a single night in London and $585,000 for a night in Paris. 

All these trips cost millions for Secret Service protections alone.  They could skip a few vacations so taxpayers could visit their White House, but it’s obvious Obama and his gang don’t care in the slightest what America is going through and continue to pile the debt onto taxpayers while lying about how they are trying to improve conditions for the middle class.  Can you just imagine what the media would have reported if the Obama vacations had been taken by President Bush and his family???

“The Democrats never change their ideas; they change the voters.  For decades, Democrats have been working feverishly to create more Democrats by encouraging divorce (another Democratic voter!), illegitimacy (another Democratic voter!) and Third World immigration (another Democratic voter!).”  ~  Ann Coulter 1/30/13

“Democrats are the same people who rediscover poverty every election and promise to cure it.  They’ve cured it so often that they’ve now made a profession of it.  They thrive on failures, on righting wrongs, on aiding victims, and so forth.  It must be understood that success in those tasks would put them out of business.”   ~ Ronald Reagan, December 7, 1973

Obama is using the Sequestration cuts to beat Republicans and America into submission.  Applying his usual tactics of threats, scares, and lies he seems to get away with whatever he wants (mainstream media certainly never holds him accountable).  Instead of investigating areas that should be cut because of fraud or duplication, Obama is using our debt crisis to further advance his socialistic agenda.  There is so much absolute nonsense and fraud in federal spending that we don’t have to cut critical areas like defense and homeland security, we could just cut the areas that need to be stopped and we could probably have a balanced budget in a few years!  In fact last week the GOA, Government Office of Accounting, reported 162 areas of waste and duplication—almost $100 billion a year. 

·       There are 679 overlapping programs just in renewable energy and we see how they’ve worked out over the past 4 years! 

·       There are 76 different programs on drug abuse across 15 different agencies.

·       47 programs on job training and our unemployment figures are still as high as when Obama took office in 2008.

Private industry removes anything that is not working or they go out of business.  Obama and his gang just add more of what is not working to pay off political buddies or to advance their liberal agenda.

The GOA estimates the federal government could save $2.5 trillion over 10 years if Congress and the administration worked at cutting waste and duplication instead of just ignoring it and adding to it.

In fact, if Obama would stop vacationing and running around the country campaigning (Air Force One costs $180,000 an hr. to operate), we would save a tremendous amount.  Obama has barely been in the White House since he took office; which, of course, makes sense as he had no job experience (certainly no leadership experience) before entering the White House.  He probably doesn’t know what to do so he runs away.  His only experience has been in community organizing and campaigning, which we really don’t need at this point in our country.

We must keep sending emails, making calls, writing to the newspapers.  We must stop the insanity.