Give Obama Credit

The following list* of Obama's accomplishments was sent to me in a recent email:

1. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

2. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

3. First President to violate the War Powers Act.

4. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

5. First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.

6. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

7. First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.

8. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

9. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

10. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.

11. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

12. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

13. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

14. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

15. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.

16. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which State they are allowed to locate a factory.

17. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

18. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

19. First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

21. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

22. First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office.

23.First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.

24. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

25. First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’.

26. First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.

27. First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

28. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

29. First President to repeat the Holy Qur'and tells us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

30. First President to take a 17 day vacation.

*I will gladly give credit to the person who compiled this list as soon as they come forward.

Big Laws vs Little Laws

"When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws." - G.K. Chesterton, Daily News, 7/29/1905

1. After 2012, U.S. citizens will no longer choose the type of light bulbs they buy and use. Only the florescent bulbs will be available.

2. Not content to merely outlaw the use of trans fats by restaurateurs, N.Y. Legislators are now crafting a law to prevent them from using any salt when preparing food for public consumption. This is after they prohibited the sale of pate foie gras.

3. Every state has passed adult seat belt and baby car seat laws to save lives. These laws were promoted by the same people who insist on killing babies in the womb and who openly support euthanasia.

4. Daylight savings time laws force us to change our sleep/wake patterns twice a year despite the fact that the rate of heart attacks increases 6% to 10% the first three days after the spring time change. More Americans disapprove than approve it, but it's the law in all but two states.

5. Federal BATF agents recently confiscated a shipment of toy pellet guns made of pot metal because they claimed the guns could be modified to work as machine guns. The fact that the pellets are plastic and pot metal would disintegrate before firing bullets seems to be irrelevant to the case.

6. Officials in two states have barred Christians from holding Bible studies/prayer meetings in their own homes, even though no complaints had been lodged about noise or parking problems.

7. Most Democrat Congressional Clowns are working as hard as they can to put 157 new agencies between every patient and his physician to decide when, how, and if the patient will be treated and the physician paid. There is no mention of the additional costs of the new agencies and the personnel to work in them.

8. Each spring brings a new group of lawsuits over what may or may not be said at graduation services, even by the students. Already most public schools no longer allow even a moment of silent meditation, much less a prayer, during the school day or at sporting events. Under the guise of anti discrimination laws, university level Christian organizations are being threatened with expulsion unless they agree to allow atheists to hold elected office in the group.

9. Federal regulators have developed thousands of pages of rules to "save" the environment which encroach on personal liberty even when dealing with private, not public, property. Recently they officially declared carbon dioxide (which we exhale with every breath and which plants need to survive) a menace to the environment as they prepare the Cap and Trade bill to further limit personal freedom and injure our hopes of economic recovery.

10. Other draconian environmental laws either hinder or stop Americans from engaging in ordinary production and sale of legal substances that everyone needs - oil, gas, and coal. They ignore the fact that we have so much oil that in some areas, it seeps up out of the ground and ruins the pristine beaches. So American consumers pay Muslim countries exorbitant prices for their oil while would-be American producers sit around unemployed.

G. K. Chesterton wrote the quotation above regarding government encroaching on the freedoms of ordinary citizens one hundred and five years ago. He was concerned with the growing tendency to ignore the Ten Commandments (The Big Laws) and the Judeo-Christian heritage of Western Civilization, while governments established more and more regulations that encroached into everyone's daily life. Since then the small laws have continued to grow in number and scope to such a degree that most young people have no concept of individual liberty Americans enjoyed one hundred years ago.

Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less

There are only 11 days left to tell the Minerals Management Service what you believe about using the resources that we already have. This agency within the Department of the Interior, chooses when and where we can drill for American energy through a public process called "Notice and Comment." They will decide whether we can drill offshore during the years 2010-2015. It will be five years before they consider drilling again.

Using our own resources will:
1. Create millions of new high-paying American jobs
2. Promote economic security with independence from OPEC
3. Decrease gasoline, heating oil, and natural gas prices
4. Reduce the environmental impact of natural oil seeps
5. Develop oil reserves that are over three times larger than Saudi Arabia’s reserves
6. Reduce federal, state, and local budget deficits
7. Reduce risk of environmental damage from foreign tanker spills
8. Stop financing Hugo Chavez and Saudi Kings
9. Fund environmental preservation efforts with increased drilling royalties
10. Finance research and development in alternative energy

The deadline for submitting comments is September 21. Go to YourEnergyOpinion
and make sure we can drill during the next five years.

Yet Another Petition for You

Here is another opportunity to make use of your *First Amendment right to "petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Go to Your Energy Opinion to sign a letter to an agency within the Department of Energy. This agency, Minerals Management Services, will accept public comments until September 21, then they will decide when, where, and if we can drill for American oil between 2010 and 2015. This decision will be our last chance to use our own natural resources until 2015. Otherwise, we will continue to be held captive by despotic regimes of other oil producing countries and unproven pie-in-the-sky schemes of so called "green" energy companies.

Once you've signed the letter, please forward this information to everyone who shares your views about the folly of ignoring our own resources and ask them to sign also. If we can flood the system with protests, maybe we can have some effect on their decision. Who knows what could happen to the price of oil between now and 2015?

*Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Obama Believes in Offshore Oil Drilling

The only trouble is, he wants it for Brazil, not the US, and he's putting our money where his mouth is to the tune of $2,000,000,000 (and possibly even more in the future) in US loans. Too bad he didn't get our whole message. We had said, "Drill here. Drill now," but he only heard the drill now part. So he is paying Brazilians to do the very thing he refuses to allow our own businesses to do. Hot Air first had the news a couple of days ago.

Strangely enough, last Friday, George Soros positioned himself to benefit from Brazil's Petrobras dividends days before the announcement of US aid was made public, causing an increase in the value of said dividends. Of course, it's mere coincidence. . .

Government of, by, and for The Czars

Obama has named at least 21 czars that greatly increase the power of the Executive Branch of our government. None of these people face hearings or confirmations; their sole allegience is to the president. It is such a massive power grab that even Robert Byrd left his sick-bed long enough to pronounce the moves, which are outside of congressional oversight, violate the Constitution.

A president may have as many advisors as he wishes, however the Constitution does not provide for executive “czars” who directly dictate policy, such as Feinberg who will approve of executive pay for any business that receives government money.

After a two-hour search of the Internet I found the names and positions of 21, but I am not certain my list is complete. They are:

Af-Pak: Richard Holbrooke
Border: Alan Bersin
Cars: was Steve Rattner
Climate: Todd Stern
Cybersecurity: Rod A. Beckstrom
Drug: Gil Kerlikowske
Energy: Carol Browner
Executive Pay Rate: Kenneth Feinberg
Faith Based: Joshua DuBois
Guantamano Closure: Daniel Fried
Health Reform: Nancy Ann DeParle
Info Tech: Vivek Kundra
Mideast Peace: George Mitchell
Non proliferation: Gary Samore
Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia: Dennis Ross
Regulatory: Cass Sunstein
Science: John Holdren
Stimulus Accountability: Earl Devaney
Sudan: J. Scott Gration
TARP: Herb Allison
Terrorism: John Brennan
Urban: Adolfo Carrion, Jr.

Little is known about their backgrounds, about their direction from the President, or about the exact scope of their power. For example, few people know that John Holdren has co-authored a book praising forced abortions and mass sterilization, that his Cyber Security Czar claims to know nothing about IT, or that his energy czar is a member of the Socialist International who believes in one world government.

Next time, let's test the candidates for President on their understanding of basic civics and the Constitution. And maybe we need to re-read the Tenth Amendment ourselves.

The Flat Earth Society of The 21st Century

Today, Earth Day, 2009, will feature thousands of calls to protect the earth from the scourge of Global Warming. The methods of protection proposed will generally be no more well researched than the “science” of man-made climate change.

For example, the proposal to grow soybeans for fuel to reduce foreign oil dependency would require plowing up and planting the entire state of Minnesota when we could just drill off shore and/or in the Alaskan wilderness for our own oil. The effectiveness of using power generated from wind farms is also questionable at best. Fervent environmentalists, like Sen. Diane Feinstein, forbid setting up windmills in the Mohave Desert because it must be kept pristine. So exactly where would you put them if they did work?

Cap and Trade legislation would probably reduce the entire population to poverty because it acts like a regressive tax on everything in the market. Europe has already tried this method of decreased carbon emissions and found that it only increased costs without reducing emissions.

Years from now, I can imagine school children laughing at our stupidity, just as we used to giggle over the people who believed the earth was flat. The perception that global warming proponents are more interested in control than in the environment will only increase as more discoveries are made.

Drill Here. Drill Now. Create Jobs. Boost Economy.

My pain free solution to the economic malaise is to start allowing Americans to make use of the natural resources that we already own. If sanctions against drilling for our own oil, building nuclear power plants here, mining and processing our own oil shale, and using our own coal were immediately lifted, the economy would surge. Think about the number of jobs that would become available, not to mention the increase in consumer and investor confidence. Understand that we would become far less vulnerable to foreign attacks or blackmail because we would be energy independent.

Frivolous lawsuits would have to be disallowed or settled within six months. This is no time to fight the energy companies.