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Post by luvinretrmnt on Oct 23, 2016 6:14:27 GMT -5
> > Think, all of this in less than 8 years – just think about it!!! > Before Obama, there was virtually no outlandish presence of Islam in America . > > • All of a sudden, > Islam is taught in schools. Christianity and the bible are banned in schools. > > • All of a sudden, > we must allow prayer rugs everywhere and allow for Islamic prayer in schools, airports and businesses. > > • All of a sudden, > we must stop serving pork in prisons > > • All of a sudden, > we are inundated with lawsuits by Muslims who are offended by American culture. > > • All of a sudden, > we must allow burkas to be worn everywhere even though you have no idea who or what is covered up under them. > > • All of a sudden, > Muslims are suing employers and refusing to do their jobs if they personally deem it conflicts with Sharia Law. > > • All of a sudden, > the Attorney General of the United States vows to prosecute anyone who engages in “anti-Muslim speech”. > > • All of a sudden, > Jihadists who engage in terrorism and openly admit they acted in the name of Islam and ISIS, are emphatically declared they are NOT Islamic by our > leaders and/or their actions are determined NOT to be terrorism, but other nebulous terms like ‘workplace violence.” > > • All of a sudden, > it becomes Policy that Secular Middle East dictators that were benign or friendly to the West, must be replaced by Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood. > > • All of a sudden, > our troops are withdrawn from Iraq and the middle east, giving rise to ISIS . > > • All of a sudden, > America has reduced its nuclear stockpiles to 1950 levels, as Obama’s stated goal of a nuke-free America by the time he leaves office continues uninterrupted. > > • All of a sudden, > a deal with Iran must be made at any cost, with a pathway to nuclear weapons and HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars handed over to fund their programs. > > • All of a sudden, > America APOLOGIZES to Muslim states and sponsors of terror worldwide for acts of aggression, war and sabotage THEY perpetrate against our soldiers. > > • All of a sudden, > the American Navy is diminished to 1917 Pre-World War I levels of only 300 ships. The Army is at pre-1940 levels. The Air Force scraps 500 planes and planned to retire the use of the A-10 Thunderbolt close air support fighter. A further drawdown of another 40,000 military personnel is in progress. > > • All of a sudden, > half of our aircraft carriers are recalled for maintenance by Obama rendering the Atlantic unguarded, NONE are in the Middle East . > > • All of a sudden, > Obama has to empty Guantanamo Bay of captured Jihadists and let them loose in Jihad-friendly Islamic states. He demands to close the facility. > > • All of a sudden, > America will negotiate with terrorists and trade FIVE Taliban commanders for a deserter and Jihad sympathizer. > > • All of a sudden, > there is no money for American poor, disabled veterans, jobless Americans, hungry Americans, or displaced Americans but there is endless money for Obama’s “Syrian refugee” resettlement programs. > > • All of a sudden, > there is an ammunition shortage in the USA . > > • All of a sudden, > the most important thing for Obama to do after a mass shooting by two Jihadists, is disarm American Citizens. > > • All of a sudden, > the President of the United States cannot attend the Christian Funerals of a Supreme Court Justice and a former First Lady because of previous (seemingly unimportant) commitments. > > • All of a sudden, > the President of the United States won’t attend the funeral of a flag-rank Officer (Gen. Greene) killed in action; he played golf. But he sends a big delegation to Michael Brown’s funeral. He sends a minor delegation to Margaret Thatcher’s funeral. He won’t acknowledge Chris Kyle’s murder but he’ll fly the > Flag at half mast for Whitney Houston. > > • All of a sudden, > I’m sick to my stomach. > I’m not sure the majority of Americans recognize the seriousness of the situation and how much "progress” has been made by Islam these last 7 years, a very brief time compared to a 75 year lifetime! > > If you agree, be strong enough to at least forward this to a few friends. >
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Post by bohica9 on Oct 23, 2016 23:17:07 GMT -5
Sick to my stomach, Brother.
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Post by bohica9 on Oct 23, 2016 23:20:12 GMT -5
america: the Last best hope by William J. Bennett
The great American historian David McCullough recently testified to a terrible secret about what is happening in America’s classrooms. While we hear much about how U.S. students are falling behind the rest of the world in math and science competency (and that is indeed alarming enough), McCullough pointed out that students fare even worse in American history education—more than 50 percent of our nation’s high school seniors are functionally illiterate in American history. As inheritors and protectors of this country, this is a shame for them and a concern for the future of our Republic. That is why I have written a series of textbooks called America: The Last Best Hope. How can we ask the next generation to fight—and possibly die—for a country they do not know? We are, right now, making aliens of our own citizens.
Where and when your past is denied to you, especially a past that is the second greatest story ever told and the greatest political story of all time, making home-grown aliens is exactly what we are doing . As a great Eastern European intellectual once said, “The American Revolution is the only revolution that did not betray the hopes of its children.” Instead, though, today, our entire system of education is denying the story of the American Revolution, and everything that came after it, to its own children.
The problem is precisely this, and it is not our children’s fault. Our country’s adults are expected to instill a love of country in its children, but the greatness and purpose of that country are mocked by the chattering classes: Newspaper columns and television reports drip with a constant cynicism about America while doubts about her motives on the world stage are the coin of the realm. Too many commentators are too ready to believe the worst about our leaders and our country, and our children’s history books — and even some of the teachers — close off any remaining possibility of helping children learn about their country.
Many of our history books are either too tendentious, disseminating a one-sided, politically correct view of the history of the greatest nation that ever existed; or worse, they are boring, providing a watered down, anemic version of a people who have fought wars at home and abroad for the purposes of liberty and equality, conquered deadly diseases, and placed men on the moon. As McCullough put it, to make our story boring, to water it down, is nothing less than an intellectual crime.
Am I asking that we paper over our black eyes and birthmarks? Of course not. Have we done terrible things? Absolutely. Are there great stains on this history? Yes, indeed. But overall, if you judge a country as you judge a man—in the totality of its actions—I believe it is as Lincoln said shortly after Antietam: “We shall nobly save or meanly lose this last best hope of earth.”
It was Daniel Patrick Moynihan who introduced me to the U.S. Senate hearing considering my merits to become chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Listen to what this wise old American statesman had to say about his country: “Am I embarrassed to speak for a less than perfect democracy? Not one bit. Find me a better one. Do I suppose there are societies that are free of sin? No, I don’t. Do I think that ours, on balance, is the most incomparably hopeful set of human relations the world has? Yes, I do. Have we done obscene things? Yes, we have. How did our people learn about them? They learned about them in television and in the newspapers.”
These words form the introduction to my first volume on American history. We tell the story of America and we tell it truthfully. I am very proud that the reviews of my book, all across the political spectrum, have concluded that they tell America’s history in a fair way. But the main object of my texts was not to avoid causing a food fight at the annual gathering of history teachers, but rather to not write another history of the United States that is so dreadfully boring.
Again, this is the most exciting story ever told in political history, and it is sadly ironic that most of our books are painful to read. Said another way, when was the last time you caught your son or daughter staying up past bedtime reading a history textbook by flashlight under the covers?
I spent a lot of time in this book on Frederick Douglass, who is largely unknown to too many children, including and especially, black children. This is an incredible guy who wrestled his overseer to the ground and escaped to Massachusetts. A man who climbed through windows of the White House to visit presidents. A man who refused a bid for president himself, so he could support Ulysses S. Grant.
Douglass was a man who argued with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony when they challenged by saying, “Why aren’t you supporting us the way we are supporting you?” His response: “Because they are not lynching you. Your time will come, too, but ours has a prior claim.” What an interesting debate between a vigorous, strong, and eloquent black man with a couple of very persuasive women.
My favorite Douglass story, which I tell in the book, should be irresistible to any boy: Douglass bought a first-class ticket on a Massachusetts train only to have the conductor come through with two of his heavies and say, “You’ve got to get out of the first class section, it’s not for you.” Douglass wrestled with the two enforcers, as well as the conductor, before finally losing and was thrown off the train. But when he gathered himself on the platform, he was holding the seat. Curious bystanders approached him, and he simply stated, “I paid for this seat and I am taking it with me.” This is a great story and a wonderful way to start talking about all that happens before him and after him, as well as his debates with Lincoln. Yet, this is a great story, and a great man, that is simply absent from our history books.
Here’s another one: The pope recently visited Washington to a warm reception, but that would not have been the case had he arrived 225 years earlier. As commander in chief of the Continental Army, General George Washington firmly ordered his soldiers not to celebrate “Pope’s Day.” Was this Washington’s early attempt to separate church and state? Hardly. It had become a New England tradition to set afire effigies of the pope, and (yes, it gets worse) they were filled with live cats whose screams were said to be those of the popes from their demise. Washington knew that the Continental Army swarmed with Roman Catholic soldiers, and he wisely put an end to such bigotry. He not only put an end to Pope’s Day in the military, he put an end to Pope’s Day in America.
It was also Washington who recognized the Hebrew congregation of Newport, Rhode Island. This was the first time a public official publically recognized the equality of the Jews in the Commonwealth.
These are great and important things, and our kids need to know them. And they will listen if we trade boring memorization of sterile historical dates with the vitality of these stories. One of ways I illustrate the youthfulness of the American Experiment is to note that we have lived longer under our form of democratic government than any people in the history of the world, yet we are still a very young country. Consider this: as a young boy, Oliver Wendell Holmes met veterans from the Revolutionary War; as an older man, he hired Alger Hiss to work for him. Alger Hiss died just over ten years ago. That is the reach—and youth—of this great nation. The extent of this one man’s arms stretch from beginning to end of our youthful American history.
There is a joke I tell in the book about an Englishman who went to the British Museum and requested a copy of the French constitution. The clerk replied, “I’m sorry, sir, but we don’t keep periodicals here.” We do better here, of course. Yet we are not much past the preface and early chapters of our own story. We have done a lot, but there is much more of our story and it is today’s students who will have teach it to those who usher in the 22nd century. It is such inspiration that caused me to write the book. It was written out of a certain sense of romance for this country. It is the case that dreams do come true here. Some don’t, but many do.
It was also written to correct the record on a number of fronts. And it was written ultimately to counter the cynicism. There is just too much cynicism on the right and the left. This is dangerous because, as Oscar Wilde said, “Cynicism corrodes.” People need to understand that this country is a hopeful one. We must give an honest account of it, of course, and then each of us must make it our own.
When I became secretary of education, the best piece of advice I got was from my wife, who formerly taught elementary and special education. She told the nation’s schools’ chief, “Don’t just stand there and make pronouncements. Find out what you’re talking about first, now that you’re in the cabinet.” I said, “Why should I be different than the other guys?” And she said, “You’re the secretary of education. Do your homework.”
She then instructed me to go into classrooms, ask teachers if they will let me teach a class, and get a teacher’s evaluation from the kids and their parents. My retort—“Elaine, I am the secretary of education for the United States, I do not do retail, I do wholesale”—was met with a retort of her own. The daughter of a good businessman, she said, “Do good retail, and you will do better wholesale.” So off I went to 130 classrooms as a way of paying honor to the teachers and to learn firsthand their challenges and aspirations.
These teachers, students, and parents taught me a lot, especially as I engaged them in civics and American history. For example, I like to challenge seventh graders with this question about the Declaration of Independence: “Which is the most important of these words, ‘We hold these truths to be self evident’ or ‘that all men are created equal?’” Or I’d ask an eleventh grader to pick two or three of the Federalist Papers they deem most important. Upon finishing a Federalist Papers lesson in California, a young woman raised her hand and said, “You really love this country, don’t you?” I said “Yes, I do.” She asked me why, and I told her that it’s a long and complicated story, but this is a country unlike any other—where dreams really do come true.
But to live that dream, to know what hope we convey, and to teach it from generation to generation, we must describe it, appreciate it, and learn to fall in love with it all over again. Thankfully, historical amnesia still has a cure. Let us begin the regimen now.
William J. Bennett is the author of many books, such as The Book of Virtues and his three-volume history textbookAmerica: The Last Best Hope. During the 1980s, Dr. Bennett served as the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and as U.S. secretary of education. Dr. Bennett is now the Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute.
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Post by overthecap on Oct 24, 2016 16:26:23 GMT -5
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Post by redstone14 on Oct 24, 2016 22:45:25 GMT -5
The left has brought ignorance to its highest level. That explains why a large part of our country is virtually comatose and supports the anti American democrats and Hillary Clinton. An educated American would never fall for their lies. I would make the study of American history the number 1 priority of education. World history would get a lot of attention too; as it relates to the founders design of our Constitutional Republic. I would ask the people at this college to help with the curriculum. www.hillsdale.edu/Hillsdale’s modern rise to national prominence began in the 1970s, when the federal government attempted to impose a host of regulations on the College—including racial quota requirements that violated Hillsdale’s principled policy of nondiscrimination. When the Supreme Court upheld these regulations in the 1980s on the basis that Hillsdale students received federally funded grants and loans, the College decided to refuse even this indirect form of federal aid, replacing all federal student aid with privately funded grants, loans, and scholarships.
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Post by redstone14 on Oct 24, 2016 23:08:09 GMT -5
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Post by bohica9 on Oct 24, 2016 23:42:55 GMT -5
Trump Rally Report:
Tampa, Florida
I was totally shocked to hear Fox New's Carl Cameron report that the Tampa Rally has about 9,000 attendees.
I was there and every seat was taken PLUS people standing up in front. The MID-FLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheater has a listed capacity of 20,000 seats.
I personally saw over 20,000 people, probably closer to 23,000.
It warmed my heart to hear everyone screaming, "Lock Her Up"
America has had it with the corruption in government, federal, state or local.
I pray this election is not stolen through fraud and dead people voting.
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Post by bohica9 on Oct 25, 2016 0:00:38 GMT -5
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Post by overthecap on Oct 25, 2016 17:16:15 GMT -5
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Post by overthecap on Oct 25, 2016 20:54:23 GMT -5
Sent to me :
Just when you thought it couldn't get any scarier! Don't know if it's true that Obama signed executive orders of if there is any legality to this, but we do know that the Obamas and Clintons loathe one another!
Here’s a very scary thought…………..
A guy had to take his vehicle to the mechanic the other day for service. The Service Manager, Pete, gave him a ride home and on the way he told him his theory about the upcoming election and the next four years of U.S. government. At first he thought it a bit farfetched. But as He listened to him it began to make sense, scary sense...
“I believe that Hillary Clinton will win the election in November,” Pete began. “Then, sometime between November and January, Hillary will be indicted. The IRS is now investigating the Clinton Foundation and the whole e-mail thing isn’t over yet.”
“Once under indictment she won’t be able to assume the Office of the President in January. Tim Kaine, who will not actually be the Vice President because neither he nor Hillary have been inaugurated, cannot assume the Presidency.”
“The Speaker of the House can’t move up to it because there is already a sitting President and Vice President. So President Obama, in an Executive Order citing “emergency situation,” gives himself another four years in office is the only way possible.”
Pete believes Obama has been planning this for a while now, knowing he has enough on Hillary to indict her. Had the Attorney General indicted her based on evidence from the FBI, this plan wouldn’t have worked because the DNC would have quickly come up with another candidate.
If you think about it, it’s not that outrageous. Many people on the left, including the President, want Obama to stay another four years. The law prohibits him from being re-elected so the only ways he can do it is by declaring martial law and suspending the election (which would be a very negative thing for the country) or to declare himself still President because the elected candidate cannot assume her duties.
The latter makes more sense and is actually more feasible. And since it’s never been done before, it would set a precedent that would be difficult to challenge.
Of course, if Trump wins the election none of this is going to happen. But what if Pete is correct? Four more years of Obama and a mostly useless Republican House and Senate would give Obama the time he needs to continue destroying and changing the country to fit his stated goals.
I thanked Pete for the ride home – and for messing up my day. Now I’ve got more things to worry about!
PS: Obama just recently signed “executive orders” giving the president (himself) the authority to actually do this. I hope it’s a coincidence. Just sayin’ .
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Post by redstone14 on Oct 26, 2016 1:41:26 GMT -5
Nothing would surprise me at this point. We have become a lawless nation. I often hear about Warlords controlling parts of lawless countries. I wonder if that is coming here.
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Post by luvinretrmnt on Oct 26, 2016 7:02:05 GMT -5
Nothing would surprise me at this point. We have become a lawless nation. I often hear about Warlords controlling parts of lawless countries. I wonder if that is coming here. wonder if it is coming? ? Id say it is here already..just look at the wrath Trump is fighting off as the politicians try to stop the truth and their club from being invaded by common sense and laws that will help the masses....just look at local politics...it all had to go through oheka castle for approval...both nassau and suffolk...
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Post by jmandmj on Oct 26, 2016 9:08:06 GMT -5
In cases where a president has not been chosen by January 20 or the president-elect "fails to qualify," the vice president-elect becomes acting president on January 20 until there is a qualified president. If the president-elect dies before noon January 20, the Twentieth Amendment states the vice president-elect becomes president. In cases where there is no president-elect or vice president-elect, the amendment also gives the Congress the authority to declare an acting president until such time as there is a president or vice president. At this point the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 would apply, with the office of the Presidency going to the speaker of the House of Representatives, followed by the president pro tempore of the Senate and various Cabinet officers.
The Vice president elect would be president. And not for nothing he is more liberal then she is.
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Post by bohica9 on Oct 26, 2016 20:21:39 GMT -5
No election fraud to see here, the election is not rigged, keep moving
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Post by opie on Oct 26, 2016 21:40:23 GMT -5
Trump Rally Report: Tampa, Florida I was totally shocked to hear Fox New's Carl Cameron report that the Tampa Rally has about 9,000 attendees. I was there and every seat was taken PLUS people standing up in front. The MID-FLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheater has a listed capacity of 20,000 seats. I personally saw over 20,000 people, probably closer to 23,000. It warmed my heart to hear everyone screaming, "Lock Her Up" America has had it with the corruption in government, federal, state or local. I pray this election is not stolen through fraud and dead people voting. Fox News is anti Trump. Owned by Rupert Murdoch the globalist establishment thug.
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