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Obama snubs Ft. Hood to relax @ Camp David

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:25:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: No surprise really. Just more evidence that Obama cares not a twit for our military and is happy to enjoy the perks of being President in name only. Besides, it makes him uncomfortable to be around REAL men and women.

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Obama snubs Ft. Hood to relax at Camp David

Dan Riehl checks the President's schedule and learns that Obama's not going to Fort Hood, but rather to Camp David for the weekend.

Are you kidding me? Camp frickin' David? What, does he have a tee time close by? For heaven's sakes, he's the CIC. And he's taking the weekend off? This guy simply doesn't care.

That Dancing with the Indians conference must have really worn the poor guy out so much he can't spare time to comfort the survivors of the jihadi Major's massacre.

GWB and Laura spent a few hours at Fort Hood, no photo ops.

Report: 237 millionaires in Congress

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:21:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Given that there are so many liberal democrats in congress and the whitehouse, can we finally stop demonizing wealthy people?

Clip Source: www.politico.com

As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress.

Among the highlights: Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires

All told, at least seven lawmakers have net worths greater than $100 million, according to the Center’s 2008 figures.

lawmakers have profited from investments in companies that have received federal bailouts

Among executive branch officials, CRP says the richest is Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary L. Schapiro, with a net worth estimated at $26 million.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is next, worth an estimated $21 million. President Barack Obama is the sixth-wealthiest, worth about an estimated $4 million

One caveat on those numbers: Federal financial disclosure laws don’t require members to list the value of their personal residences. That information could alter the net worth picture for many lawmakers.

Tags: politics, congress, obama, hillary, milionaire

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:41:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Transference is that period of transition between one life and the next that occurs just before, during, and after death. The video discussions greatly help convey the intent and meaning of the book since they are in terms more easily understood by the western world. You can access the video by clicking links that will appear along the left side of the pages as you read through the book.

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This book is the first English language translation of the famous Tibetan death text, The Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Intermediate State. Also known as the Bardo Thodol which means "liberation by hearing on the after death plane" (Bardo: after death plane, Thodol or Thotrol: liberation by hearing), it was originally written in the Tibetan language and is meant to be a guide for those who have died as they transition from their former life to a new destination.

The work has been traditionally attributed to Padma-Sambhava, an Indian mystic who was said to have introduced Buddhism to Tibet in the 8th century.

this Tibetan text goes beyond a study of Tibetan culture and reaches into a psychology that has great relevance to the western world.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead can be quite difficult to read and understand since it was written for a different audience. However, we offer video broadcasts of readings of the book that include insightful discussions

Hero Cop's First Words After Surgery: 'Did Anybody Die?'

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:15:49 GMT

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After Sgt. Kimberly Munley stopped the Fort Hood massacre by shooting Major Nidal Malik Hasan several times, she collapsed from her wounds and doctors who treated her were afraid she wouldn't survive.

Munley, a 34-year-old former soldier who became a civilian cop on the Fort Hood base, was shot twice in both legs during Thursday's confrontation. Two powerful "cop killer" rounds allegedly fired by Hasan tore through her left thigh, exited and blasted through her right thigh as well. She was also struck in the wrist.

Munley proved to be as tough in the operating room as she was while confronting Hasan in their close range shootout.

Dr. Kelly Matlock, who treated Munley, said her first words in recovery were concern about Hasan's victims.

"She opened her eyes and said, 'Did anybody die?' That's what she said, 'Did anybody die?'" Matlock told "GMA."

Chuck Medley, the director of emergency services at Fort Hood, said many more would have died if Munley hadn't leaped into action.

Tags: ft hood, military, army, hero, cop

Happy Birthday Tany

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:55:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Your day; your day . . .

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Tags: to you

Among the dead at Fort Hood: An Expecting Mother, Age 21

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:41:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Army strong. The 2006 Kelvyn Park High School graduate served in Korea and most recently in Iraq, where she drove fuel tankers. She made her father proud. "She was the best I have. The light of my family," Juan Velez said of his only daughter. "She was living my dream . . . to be part of the military, part of the United States. To be part of something. Just to give back to the United States because this is where we are from."

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On Thursday, Pvt. Velez, 21, was one of 13 people killed and 30 wounded during an Army psychiatrist's rampage at the Fort Hood military base in Texas.

She was due back from Iraq on Dec. 10, but came home early after she found out she was three months pregnant. Her family was planning to visit her in Texas next month.

But Friday there came a knock on the front door of the Velez family's Humboldt Park two-flat. Outside were Army officers with tragic news.

"The hardest thing is to accept the reality that she is gone," Juan Velez said through an interpreter.

Pvt. Velez had her father's electric smile, glorious dance moves and charisma that filled a room, family members said.

"This girl was full of life. She was a happy girl, and he took her from us," Pvt. Velez's cousin, Sandy Rivera said. "She was supposed to have the baby, and everything was going to be happy. We were all waiting. It's not fair."

She made her father proud.

Tags: francheska velez and child, rest in peace

JFK Quote

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:53:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.notonemore.us

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” — John F. Kennedy

Instant Karma - John lennon

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:34:59 GMT

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Instant Karma - John lennon

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Accused Car Thief Steals Car To Go To Court.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:30:51 GMT

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Accused E. Bay Car Thief Steals Car To Go To Court

A 24-year-old Oakland man is under arrest after authorities say he stole a car to make a court appearance on an auto theft charge.

California Highway Patrol investigator Chris Linehan said he arrested Samuel Botchvaroff Tuesday as he sat inside a stolen 2000 Range Rover at the Vallejo courthouse. Botchvaroff had just left his arraignment on auto theft charges stemming from an Oct. 31 arrest.

Linehan said the Range Rover's LoJack system helped him locate the vehicle, which had been stolen from Oakland earlier Tuesday morning.

Authorities say Botchvaroff told officers his car had been impounded, and he had no other way to get to his arraignment.

He was booked into Solano County Jail on suspicion of auto theft and possession of stolen property.

Tags: crime

More teabagging, GOP style

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:28:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Gotta love it! LOL

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

No one said freedom was pretty

They came as directed, about 5,000 tea-party regulars and antiabortion activists, to the West Lawn of the Capitol on Thursday for what Bachmann called a "Super Bowl of Freedom," sponsored by Republican members of Congress. And what a game it was.

(a Capitol Police spokeswoman explained that the lawmakers didn't have a permit for a demonstration)

More ominously, a man standing just beyond the TV cameras apparently suffered a heart attack 20 minutes after event began. Medical personnel from the Capitol physician's office -- an entity that could, quite accurately, be labeled government-run health care -- rushed over, attaching electrodes to his chest and giving him oxygen and an IV drip.

he would read from the Constitution, then read the "we hold these truths" bit from the Declaration of Independence

By the time it was over, medics had administered government-run health care to at least five people in the crowd

Bachmann overlooked this irony

Tags: teabagging, government-run healthcare, gop idiots

Granny and dog

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:30:06 GMT

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Do not deny what happened at Ft. Hood

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:28:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: FTA: "Getting at Islamist cells, to say nothing of lone, self-appointed jihadis within our society, means getting over the false sentimentality that turns a terrorist incident into an "incomprehensible tragedy" when it is not incomprehensible, and not a theatrical event." "We'd be better off confronting that Islamist enemy, than spraying perfume after each fatal strike." Long article but worth the read.

Clip Source: www.ottawacitizen.com

Do not deny what happened at Fort Hood

President Barack Obama

assumed the "presidential grieving tone" over the Fort Hood massacre, the moment after he'd just done an equally scripted segment of light joking banter for the benefit of the Tribal Nations Conference he was addressing.

What happened at Fort Hood was no kind of "tragedy." It was a criminal act, of the terrorist sort, performed by a man acting upon known Islamist motives.

To present the perpetrator himself as a kind of "victim"

is to misrepresent the reality.

He reportedly shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before opening fire on American soldiers

He shot about 40 people, over 10 minutes, with two pistols, neither of them military issue.

"Muslims should stand up against the aggressor." Do we still have a category for treason?

This deadly enemy of the West -- the Islamist ideology which holds all Jews, Christians, other non-Muslims, and a considerable number of Muslims, too, to be human filth in need of extermination -- is well infiltrated.

Post-Communist Postcards

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:52:04 GMT

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Clip Source: www.michaeltotten.com

Nicolae Ceausescu's "Palace of the People," now the Romanian parliament building, Bucharest

Bucharest, Romania, in the rain

Bucharest, Romania

Old City, Bucharest, Romania

Transylvania, Romania

Medieval clock tower, Sighisoara, Romania – birthplace of Vlad the Impaler

Brashov, Romania

Kiev, Ukraine

Orthodox Church, Kiev, Ukraine

A Soviet-built Lada, Ukraine

Crimea, Ukraine

Yalta on the Black Sea, Crimea, Ukraine A statue of Lenin angrily stares at a McDonald's across the square in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine

A babushka, her two goats, and a Soviet tank, Ukraine

Communist housing blocks, Odessa, Ukraine

Tags: communism can suck it

Orlando/Fort Hood Shooters Both Linked to Psychiatric Drugs

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:57:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.naturalnews.com

Orlando shooter, US army Fort Hood shooter both linked to psychiatric drugs

by: Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 people and wounded 30 others in a violent attack at a Texas Army base this past week. He reportedly opened fire at the Fort Hood army base without any particular reason or motivation. In fact, as a psychiatrist, he had counseled many other soldiers on how to cope with the consequences of extreme violence (losing limbs, mental anguish, etc.).

As an army psychiatrist, he was also allowed to prescribe powerful psychiatric drugs to both his patients and himself. Many psychiatrists self-medicate, and Hasan was extremely anxious about the possibility of being sent overseas by the army, according to statements from family members (Reuters, below). Although official confirmation will probably never be made, it seems altogether likely that Hasan was treating himself with powerful psychotropic medications.

First Amendment doesn’t shield us from private infringements

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:30:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.firstamendmentcenter.org

Every American is protected by the guarantees of the First Amendment, but protections for religious liberty and free expression apply only when government actions are involved — and therein is the rub for some of our fellow citizens.

In both instances, the concept that as citizens we are free to express ourselves as we see fit runs smack into the legal reality that private employers, associations, Internet companies and such aren’t restrained by First Amendment protections regarding religion, speech, press, assembly or petition.

Public officials, public schools and public agencies all must present such strong proof of significant public benefit or safety concerns before our First Amendment protections can legally be overridden.

But for now, although the First Amendment protects your right to speak in the marketplace of ideas from government interference, it doesn’t automatically shelter what you want to say at work or on the Web.

Tags: first amendment, free speech