Thursday, April 30, 2009
Obama’s 57 Muslim States
List of Organisation of the Islamic Conference member states by population
This is a list of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) countries sorted by their estimated population. It is sourced from the global list of countries by population page, as of July 2008.
Rank  |
Country |
Population |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Indonesia |
231,627,000 |
| 2 |  Pakistan |
163,707,000 |
| 3 |  Bangladesh |
158,665,000 |
| 4 |  Nigeria |
148,093,000 |
| 5 |  Egypt |
75,498,000 |
| 6 |  Turkey |
70,586,256 |
| 7 |  Iran |
70,495,782 |
| 8 |  Sudan |
38,560,000 |
| 9 |  Algeria |
33,858,000 |
| 10 |  Morocco |
31,224,000 |
| 11 |  Uganda |
30,884,000 |
| 12 |  Iraq |
28,993,000 |
| 13 |  Uzbekistan |
27,372,000 |
| 14 |  Malaysia |
27,170,000 |
| 15 |  Afghanistan |
27,145,000 |
| 16 |  Saudi Arabia |
24,735,000 |
| 17 |  Yemen |
22,389,000 |
| 18 |  Mozambique |
21,397,000 |
| 19 |  Syria |
19,929,000 |
| 20 |  Côte d’Ivoire |
19,262,000 |
| 21 |  Cameroon |
18,549,000 |
| 22 |  Kazakhstan |
15,422,000 |
| 23 |  Burkina Faso |
14,784,000 |
| 24 |  Niger |
14,226,000 |
| 25 |  Senegal |
12,379,000 |
| 26 |  Mali |
12,337,000 |
| 27 |  Chad |
10,781,000 |
| 28 |  Tunisia |
10,327,000 |
| 29 |  Guinea |
9,370,000 |
| 30 |  Benin |
9,033,000 |
| 31 |  Somalia |
8,699,000 |
| 32 |  Azerbaijan |
8,467,000 |
| 33 |  Tajikistan |
6,736,000 |
| 34 |  Togo |
6,585,000 |
| 35 |  Libya |
6,160,000 |
| 36 |  Jordan |
5,924,000 |
| 37 |  Sierra Leone |
5,866,000 |
| 38 |  Kyrgyzstan |
5,317,000 |
| 39 |  Turkmenistan |
4,965,000 |
| 40 |  United Arab Emirates |
4,380,000 |
| 41 |  Lebanon |
4,099,000 |
| 42 |  Palestinian Authority |
4,017,000 |
| 43 |  Albania |
3,190,000 |
| 44 |  Mauritania |
3,124,000 |
| 45 |  Kuwait |
2,851,000 |
| 46 |  Oman |
2,595,000 |
| 47 |  Gambia |
1,709,000 |
| 48 |  Guinea-Bissau |
1,695,000 |
| 49 |  Gabon |
1,331,000 |
| 50 |  Qatar |
841,000 |
| 51 |  Djibouti |
833,000 |
| 52 |  Bahrain |
760,168 |
| 53 |  Guyana |
738,000 |
| 54 |  Comoros |
682,000 |
| 55 |  Suriname |
458,000 |
| 56 |  Brunei |
390,000 |
| 57 |  Maldives |
306,000 |
| Total | 1,468,119,824 |
Saturday, June 14, 2008
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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Monday, October 19, 2009
Number of States won by Republicans 29, Democrats 19
H/T Herbert
Interesting Statistics
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota , points out facts of 2008 Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Democrats: 19
Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Democrats: 580,000
Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Democrats: 127 million
Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Democrats: 13.2
Republicans: 2.1
Professor Olson adds:
“In aggregate, the map of the territory won by Republicans was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country.
Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare.
Professor Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the “complacency and apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
Friday, December 11, 2009
The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the CIA, the US Department of Defense, Department of Justice and three other government agencies on Tuesday for allegedly refusing to release information about how they are using FACEBOOK, TWITTER, MYSPACE and others in surveillance and investigations.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the CIA, the US Department of Defense, Department of Justice and three other government agencies on Tuesday for allegedly refusing to release information about how they are using social networks in surveillance and investigations.
The not-for-profit internet rights watchdog group formally asked more than a dozen agencies or departments in early October to provide records about federal guidelines on the use of sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr for investigative or data-gathering purposes, according to the lawsuit.
The requests were prompted by published news reports about how authorities are using social networks to monitor citizen activities and aid in investigations. For example, according to the lawsuit, government officials have: used Facebook to hunt for fugitives and search for evidence of underage drinking; researched the activities of an activist on Facebook and LinkedIn; watched YouTube to identify riot suspects; searched the home of a social worker because of Twitter messages regarding police actions he sent during the G-20 summit; and used fake identities to trick Facebook users into accepting friend requests.
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Google is a corporate member of The Council on Foreign Relations – part of the NWO
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
An angry muslim from Kenya is holding you hostage
Break Free Obama Slaves, break free .
Say something.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
wow same kid, different problem
same kid
218-643-2694 ask for Dan Bettin and politely give him your opinions, bettind@breckenridge.k12.mn.us
this is terrible, he thinks he can trump the constitution and infringe our rights by censoring free speech. Last time I checked principals don’t override the us constitution, let’s let em’ have it this time, let’s show them the police state can’t prevail.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Remember this Obama speech about Health Care?
Republicans should use this as an ad.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
The Jesse Ventura Show / RE: 9/11
Great questions, especially the last segment.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
We have a Media Relations Director acting as President, a complete fool
This was an “isolated extremist” in action who was connected to Awlaki.
Hasan was another “isolated extremist” who was connected to Awlaki.
19 “isolated extremists” particpated in 9-11.
Barack Obama is an idiot.
A REAL PRESIDENT WOULD END HIS VACATION SHORT AND RETURN TO WASHINGTON TO ADDRESS THE NATION.
C’mon New World Order, you’re SLOPPY with your puppets now.
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Hussein is visibly pissed to have to leave the beach fun and give this uninspiring, unreassuring talk. He obviously just saw the speech for the first time as he was performing it. ANY other POTUS would have reviewed the speech, made changes to reflect his personal view, and delivered it with emotion. WORST. POTUS. EVER.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Obama was at an al Qaeda training camp from 1980-1983
By Terminu
Rev. Manning says Obama was at an al Qaeda training camp from 1980-1983 and his Columbia diploma and transcripts were bought.
www.atlah.org/atlahworldwide/?p=3711
He says that his church and followers are holding a huge rally at the Columbia campus 7 blocks from Atlah church to demand the truth. James Allyn Root former liberatarian VP candidate, offered Obama $1million to show his transcripts, because as president of the ‘83 political science class at Columbia, he nor anyone else, remembers Obama ever going there. Of course Obama ignored the proposal. And Obama says he too graduated ‘83 political science.
www.reason.com/archives/2008/09/05/wayne-allyn-roots-million-doll
Root said, “I think the most dangerous thing you should know about Barack Obama is that I don’t know a single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know me. I don’t have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever!”
The lack of Columbia attachments and documents, falls in to the category of the “unspeakables” along with his obvious ineligibility because he was born and is still a British citizen, thus not a natural born citizen.
Obama campaigned for his “cousin” Raila Odinga in 2007, he is al Qaeda backed, also by oil billionaire al Bakari and Kadaffi. Odinga threatened genocide if he lost, which he did, and genocide ensued led by Odinga’s Luo thugs (Obama and Odinga are both Luo tribe members), wherein 3,000 Kenyans (mostly Christians) were hacked, raped, burned– murdered, and 300,000 were displaced; 50 women and children were burned alive in a church. Odinga now shares a presidency with Kibaki, a compromise to make the genocide stop. Obama was a sitting US senator at the time he campaigned for Odinga, violating the Logan Act. He knew Odinga would incite genocide ahead of time, because Odinga threatened it openly. Kibaki said in the Kenyan press that Obama was “Odinga’s stooge”. Obama recently gave $2.5million to oil rich Kadaffi. Odinga is a marxist who signed a pact to install sharia law in Kenya. Rev. Wright and Louis Farrakhan met with Kadaffi in Libya; Kadaffi is behind the U.S.Africa (United States
of Africa) proxy wars throughout north Africa, meant to unite Africa under the umbrella of radical Islam, for they commit genocide on not only native Africans and Christians, but also non-fundamentalist Muslims. Darfur, Chad, Somalia, Yemen, Kenya etc. are now breeding grounds for radical Islam. Don’t expect Obama to interfere with this.
www.atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obamas-ogin…
www.caosblog.com/archives/7071
www.atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obama-islam…
I never hear any media speak of Obama’s dealings with Odinga, which spoke to evil way before the campaign.
Looks like Obama was trained and sent to destroy America from within, just as Bin Laden said.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Obama can’t handle the truth: The honeymoon is over, Mr. Soetoro
MINDLESS DRONES cheer and applaud the silencing of people’s rights.
Booing a Man who stands up for the life of an individual being, shows us all we need to know about Coakley supporters.
And we don’t care if you murder your unborn children.
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SMILE
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Oh my. Barack Obama was heckled at his Bush-bash rally in BOSTON… Of all places, at a university in Boston?
And it went on for 3-4 minutes.
It was his usual talk. He bashed the productive people in America and pushed redistribution.
Elitist Obama also bashed Scott Brown for driving a truck.
The venue holds 3,000 but only 2,000 to 2,500 showed up… including the abortion protesters.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
A fucking teleprompter inside a 1st grade class!!!!!
WOW, 100% real photo
His audience is 1st graders. LOL
100% REAL photos.
“barry, seriously, this is embarrassing….”
Still don’t believe it?
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Check out the evil Muslim stare when Diane goes off script
Check out the evil Muslim stare when Diane goes off script
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Reuters gets rid of a story about Obama raising EVERYONE’s taxes
Probably Axelrod , the ex-newspaper editor throwing his weight around.
Here is the article
By Terri Cullen
The Obama administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the
next decade relies heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a
bigger tax bill for middle-class families.
In the 2010 budget tabled by President Barack Obama on Monday, the White House wants to let billions of dollars in tax breaks expire by the end of the year — effectively a
tax hike by stealth.
While the administration is focusing its proposal on eliminating tax breaks for
individuals who earn $250,000 a year or more, middle-class families will face a slew of
these backdoor increases.
The targeted tax provisions were enacted under the Bush administration’s Economic
Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Among other things, the law lowered
individual tax rates, slashed taxes on capital gains and dividends, and steadily scaled
back the estate tax to zero in 2010.
If the provisions are allowed to expire on December 31, the top-tier personal income
tax rate will rise to 39.6 percent from 35 percent. But lower-income families will pay
more as well: the 25 percent tax bracket will revert back to 28 percent; the 28 percent
bracket will increase to 31 percent; and the 33 percent bracket will increase to 36
percent. The special 10 percent bracket is eliminated.
Investors will pay more on their earnings next year as well, with the tax on
dividends jumping to 39.6 percent from 15 percent and the capital-gains tax increasing to
20 percent from 15 percent. The estate tax is eliminated this year, but it will return in
2011 — though there has been talk about reinstating the death tax sooner.
Millions of middle-class households already may be facing higher taxes in 2010
because Congress has failed to extend tax breaks that expired on January 1, most notably
a “patch” that limited the impact of the alternative minimum tax. The AMT, initially
designed to prevent the very rich from avoiding income taxes, was never indexed for
inflation. Now the tax is affecting millions of middle-income households, but lawmakers
have been reluctant to repeal it because it has become a key source of revenue.
Without annual legislation to renew the patch this year, the AMT could affect an
estimated 25 million taxpayers with incomes as low as $33,750 (or $45,000 for joint
filers). Even if the patch is extended to last year’s levels, the tax will hit American
families that can hardly be considered wealthy — the AMT exemption for 2009 was $46,700
for singles and $70,950 for married couples filing jointly.
Middle-class families also will find fewer tax breaks available to them in 2010 if
other popular tax provisions are allowed to expire. Among them:
* Taxpayers who itemize will lose the option to deduct state sales-tax payments
instead of state and local income taxes;
* The $250 teacher tax credit for classroom supplies;
* The tax deduction for up to $4,000 of college tuition and expenses;
* Individuals who don’t itemize will no longer be able to increase their standard
deduction by up to $1,000 for property taxes paid;
* The first $2,400 of unemployment benefits are taxable, in 2009 that amount was tax
-free
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REMEMBER THIS????
From 2008
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/more_tax_deceptions.html
Thursday, February 4, 2010
“Sometimes when he’s not using his monitors and reading what it says…he exposes the fraud that he is…”
Maybe the problem is: Obama left Vegas with blue balls after not getting his dick sucked by a white gay man.
“Reid to Obama: ‘Lay off Las Vegas’.
“The President needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn’t be spending their money,” Reid said. “I would much rather tourists and business travelers spend their money in Las Vegas than spend it overseas.”
Obama’s reply was insipid at best:
“I was making the simple point that families use vacation dollars, not college tuition money, to have fun,” Obama said, according to the letter. “There is no place better to have fun than Vegas, one of our country’s great destinations.”
Sen. John Ensign, a Republican, complained that Obama “failed to grasp the weight that his words carry.”
Well, Ensign hits the nail on the head. How can this man be the POTUS and not understand that his every remark is tracked to within an inch of its life. If the President voices disapproval about a city – it’s revenues falter. How could he not know that?
Las Vegas’ Mayor Goodman concluded with this telling remark:
“Sometimes when he’s not using his monitors and reading what he says, he doesn’t think…”
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Regardless of outcome, ‘birthers’ will be vindicated
Written by Zach Jones
Two days ago I read an American Thinker article that challenged my current thinking. The result – I may have to acknowledge the possibility that Obama is a ‘natural born citizen’ and therefore eligible to serve as President. If either possibility presented in the article proves true and a few loose ends are tied up concerning Obama’s mother, I will be forced to stop referring to Obama as Obama and begin referring to him as President Obama. Time will tell if ‘facts’ come out that beckon such a change. Jack Cashill’s presentation is very compelling, but will journalists and historians use their gravitas to drive the final nails in the eligibility issue coffin?
I do so want to turn away from the eligibility issue temporarily and focus on the cliff Obama is taking America over. Did you see that a majority of Democrats have a favorable view of Socialism? That’s going to be a main focus of the 2010 battle for Independents because spending, taxing, personal responsibility, voter dependency, federal debt, job creation, technological innovation and the role of government are all intimately intertwined with it. The reality is that November is fast approaching and every effort needs to be made to stop Obama’s socialist objectives.
But, because Presidential eligibility is such a bedrock issue, it’s almost impossible for those of us who care deeply about the Constitution and the rule of law to turn away based solely upon political calculations. Something has to be added to the calculation to tip the scales. If real journalists could find documentation verifying Mr. Cashill’s suppositions, I’m sure most of us challenging Obama’s eligibility would fall away satisfied because there would in fact be a there there.
As much as it has been denied and misconstrued, determining the ‘truth’ has always been the objective regarding the ‘eligibility’ question for the vast majority of those trying to look behind the Obama curtain. The media can name call and ridicule each and every one who has questioned Obama’s eligibility to serve as President. (‘We’ certainly didn’t choose the moniker ‘birther’.) They can maliciously imply that each and every question we raise involves some race-based angst or worse. They can manipulate public opinion. They can even shape the public’s understanding of the Constitutional requirements for the Presidency. It’s not right, it’s not true, it’s not journalism – but they can do it. What they can’t do is rewrite history to say there wasn’t (isn’t) a ‘there, there’ regarding Obama’s eligibility to serve as President of the United States. What exactly the ‘there’ is hasn’t been discovered. Obama knows – but he’s not cooperating.
Let’s be honest, don’t you think objective legal historians/researchers looking at the facts, the circumstantial evidence, the testimony of his grandmother, the news reports from years earlier, the actions of Obama (withholding documents from the public, spending vast sums in legal fees, etc.), the ‘founders’ understanding of the term ‘natural born citizen’, the reasons for the Constitutional provision, the actual limitations of what can be proven from Obama’s online ‘Hawaiian birth certificate’, the lack of on point court decisions talking about the term ‘natural born citizen’, the differences in meanings for the terms ‘citizen’ and ‘natural born citizen’, etc., etc. – would realize that it’s almost a certainty that legitimate issues of some type exist? It may take historians many years to acquire the documentation that will vindicate the ‘birthers’. But rest assured, this issue is important enough that some historian will continue to pay attention. I wonder if a book is being out-lined at this very moment, maybe a few law review articles?
But seriously, looking at the big picture, is the status quo really the best situation for Obama?
Everyone knows that there’s a huge secret being kept. You know it. I know it. Orly Taitz knows it. Larry Sinclair knows it. Ahmadinejad knows it. Netanyahu knows it. Hu Jintao knows it. It’s like your driving on the interstate; you see a car pulled over with a police car on its bumper, lights flashing. As you drive past, you see one passenger toss something in the bushes when the State Trooper approaches the driver. You don’t know exactly what’s up but you know something is.
Right now the situation is that a substantial number of Americans cannot ethically recognize Obama as President. How can that be good for America? How can that be good for the military? Given that Obama has done nothing except post a document of limited evidentiary value online, how can anyone expect the concerns of Americans to be allayed?
The reason Obama is fighting this so hard, spending so much, is because he knows the outcome is a crapshoot. Taking the facts in a light most favorable to Obama, it still requires the judge(s) to find that Obama was born in Hawaii and that the meaning of the term ‘natural born citizen’ is either American citizenship equals ‘natural born citizenship’ or being a ‘natural born citizen’ requires only one of Obama’s parents to be an American citizen by birth or naturalization at the time of Obama’s birth.
Such an interpretation by the courts would necessarily require activist judges who believe that the Constitution is a living breathing document that changes with the times. Fortunately, the American justice system is not there yet because that would make the Constitution subject to the political whims of judges and politicians. Nevertheless, if such a decision did occur most Americans would live with the result.
Additionally, such a decision outcome would vindicate the ‘birthers’ because the Constitution had to be stretched beyond its original meaning and that would be the ‘there’. It would give Obama what he wants. But, it would be the crapshoot of his life!
The other factual possibility that could establish Obama as a ‘natural born citizen’ brings us back to the American Thinker article – the existence of a secret so big that it jumps right over the inconvenient problems arising from the citizenship of Barack Obama, Sr.
The nice thing about this possibility is that (for me) it explains a lot if true and it vindicates the ‘birthers’. And to top it off, it follows the principle of Occam’s razor.
… When competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selection of the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities while still sufficiently answering the question.…
It acknowledges the common sense desire a parent would have to make sure baby Obama has American citizenship and family legitimacy. It also recognizes that a parent would not have been worried about making sure Obama was a ‘natural born citizen’ because it is not realistic to think that a particular child will grow up to be President.
It makes it possible to imagine how and why the CIA and FBI appear to be covering for Obama.
It partly explains why Hillary Clinton, John McCain and the Republican Party didn’t raise the issue. What politician would risk raising such a possibility without absolute proof? (Gov. Jindal’s situation may have factored in for Republicans and for far left Democrats- effectively eviscerating one more parts of the Constitution is a progressive’s dream.)
It exposes how judges might have been persuaded to do a kabuki dance to avoid getting to the merits of eligibility cases and being forced to make the choice of wrongly expanding the meaning of ‘natural born citizen’ to avoid rioting in the streets or expose a huge secret.
It also partly explains why Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Hannity are being so reluctant to fully address the issue. However, if the possibility of an election-changing secret is true and Glenn Beck did not reveal it, did Mr. Beck aid the Progressives in gutting the meaning and force of Article 1, Section II of the Constitution?
It explains why the media is going so far out of their way to misdirect and vilify those asking questions. (Not they needed a lot of arm-twisting to go – given their coverage of John Edward’s affair/love child and Larry Sinclair’s allegations of cocaine use and sex with Obama in 1999.)
And finally, it vindicates the much-maligned ‘birthers’ because there is a there there. Either Obama is not a ‘natural born citizen’ and is not eligible to serve as President or Obama is a ‘natural born citizen’ and every other part of his life is a ‘natural born lie’/deception. (As more and more Americans are discovering.)
Regardless of outcome, ‘birthers’ will be vindicated.
Notwithstanding ‘birther’ vindication, it remains essential that we know the truth because though the actions and non-actions of the media, courts, talk-radio, and politicians – Article I, Section II of the Constitution has been weakened (eviscerated) for future elections unless individual States require Presidential Candidates to present proof of theirs and their parents’ citizenship.
Sorry, I haven’t given specific details about the American Thinker article’s revelations. To briefly mention the actual details doesn’t do justice, given that Jack Cashill has done such a nice job of laying it out. It’s a must read.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Morning Talk DJ’s in a nutshell
so true
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WHY DOES EVERY MORNING DJ THINK THAT THEIR LAUGHTER IS FUNNY?
So
Fucking
Annoying
Not just this bitch
Every single Morning DJ does this shit.
It’s so fucking annoying.
Here’s the old rule:
When an actor laughs at a joke on screen, it takes the audience laughter away, so they don’t laugh on screen.
So SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY , ALL YOU MORNING AND AFTERNOON DJ’s.
Let us decide when to laugh for god sakes. ….
AND
Don’t get me started on those stupid fake TV sitcoms laugh tracks.
Here’s what a TV show sounds like without the Laugh track
Not Funny, right?
Without that bitch’s laughter, her radio show would play like that TV show above.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77, wonder what God will talk to him about after all his bullshit & corruption against other humans…
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Rep. John Murtha, a retired Marine Corps officer whobecame the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77.
The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., spokesman Matthew Mazonkey said.
Murtha was an officer in the Marine Reserves when he was elected in 1974. Ethical questions often shadowed his congressional service, but he was best known for being among Congress’ most hawkish Democrats. He wielded considerable clout for two decades as the ranking Democrat on the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending.
Murtha voted in 2002 to authorize President George W. Bush to use military force in Iraq, but his growing frustration over the administration’s handling of the war prompted him in November 2005 to call for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops.
“The war in Iraq is not going as advertised. It is a flawed policy wrapped in illusion,” he said.
Murtha’s opposition to the Iraq war rattled Washington, where the tall, gruff-mannered congressman enjoyed bipartisan respect for his work on military issues. On Capitol Hill, Murtha was seen as speaking for those in uniform when it came to military matters.
William Russell, Murtha’s GOP opponent in the 2008 election, who was planning to challenge him again in November, asked in a statement Monday that people pray for the Murtha family and said his campaign would suspend activity for a few days.
“Regardless of your political position, you always knew Jack had an immense love and loyalty to his family and the residents of the 12th Congressional District,” Russell said.
Born June 17, 1932, John Patrick Murtha delivered newspapers and worked at a gas station before graduating from Ramsay High School in Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Military service was in Murtha’s blood. He said his great-grandfather served in the Civil War, his father and three uncles in World War II, and his brothers in the Marine Corps.
He left Washington and Jefferson College in 1952 to join the Marines, where he rose through the ranks to become a drill instructor at Parris Island, S.C., and later served in the 2nd Marine Division.
Murtha moved back to Johnstown and remained with the Marine Reserves until he volunteered to go to Vietnam. He served as an intelligence officer there from 1966 to 1967 and received a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.
After his discharge from the Marines, Murtha ran a small business in Johnstown. He went to the University of Pittsburgh on the GI Bill of rights, graduating in 1962 with a degree in economics.
He served in the Pennsylvania House in Harrisburg from 1969 until he was elected to Congress in a special election in 1974. In 1990, he retired from the Marine Reserves as a colonel.
“Ever since I was a young boy, I had two goals in life — I wanted to be a colonel in the Marine Corps and a member of Congress,” Murtha wrote in his 2004 book, “From Vietnam to 9/11.”
Murtha’s criticism of the Iraq war intensified in 2006, when he accused Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians “in cold blood” at Haditha, Iraq, after one Marine died and two were wounded by a roadside bomb.
Critics said Murtha unfairly held the Marines responsible before an investigation was concluded and fueled enemy retaliation. He said that the war couldn’t be won militarily and that such incidents dimmed the prospect for a political solution.
“This is the kind of war you have to win the hearts and minds of the people,” Murtha said. “And we’re set back every time something like this happens.”
In 2008, the Republican Party used Murtha’s words against him in TV ads aired less than a month before the election. The ads cited his criticism of the Haditha incident, as well as his comment about “racist” voting tendencies of many western Pennsylvania residents. Still, Murtha handily won his 18th full term.
Murtha was a perennial target of critics of so-called pay-to-play politics. He routinely drew the attention of ethical watchdogs with off-the-floor activities, from his entanglement in the Abscam corruption probe three decades ago to the more recent scrutiny of the connection between special-interest spending known as earmarks and the raising of cash for campaigns.
Murtha defended the practice of earmarking. The money, he said, benefited his constituents.
Murtha became chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee in 1989. The same year Paul Magliocchetti, a former subcommittee staffer, left Capitol Hill to found the now-defunct PMA Group. The lobbying firm, which specialized in obtaining earmarks for defense contractors, was one Murtha’s biggest sources of campaign cash.
In 2007 and 2008, Murtha and two fellow Democrats on the subcommittee directed $137 million to defense contractors who were paying PMA to get them government business. Between 1989 and 2009, Murtha collected more than $2.3 million in campaign contributions from PMA’s lobbyists and corporate clients, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political money.
Shortly after the 2008 election, the FBI raided PMA’s offices as part of a criminal investigation. In a separate development in January 2009, FBI agents raided the offices of a defense contractor from Murtha’s district — Windber-based Kuchera Defense Systems Inc. — that had received millions of dollars in earmarks sponsored by Murtha while contributing tens of thousands to his campaigns.
A year later, Kuchera was suspended from bidding on government contracts because of allegations that it paid more than $200,000 in kickbacks to another defense contractor.
Around the same time, the House ethics committee was investigating the link between PMA-related campaign contributions and earmarks, but it had not named a subcommittee to look into possible violations by individual lawmakers.
Murtha’s critics recall the Abscam corruption probe, in which the FBI caught him on videotape in a 1980 sting operation turning down a $50,000 bribe offer while holding out the possibility that he might take money in the future.
“We do business for a while, maybe I’ll be interested and maybe I won’t,” Murtha said on the tape.
Six congressmen and one senator were convicted in that case. Murtha was not charged, but the government named him as an unindicted co-conspirator and he testified against two other congressmen.
Murtha’s district encompasses all or part of nine counties in southwestern Pennsylvania and embodies the region’s stereotypes of coal mines, steel mills and blue-collar values.
Constituents credited Murtha with bringing jobs and health care to the region, delivering hundreds of millions of dollars for local industry, hospitals and tourism. Critics derisively nicknamed Murtha the “king of pork” and said he used his position on the defense subcommittee to win favors.
Murtha often delivered Democratic votes to Republican leaders in exchange for the funding of pet projects. He wasn’t shy about such deals, once saying that “dealmaking is what Congress is all about.”
In 2006, when the Democrats captured control of the House for the first time in 12 years, Rep. Nancy Pelosi endorsed Murtha to become majority leader. Pelosi, D-Calif., went on to be elected as the first female House speaker, but caucus members picked Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., as their leader.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Andrea Mitchell is a paid NWO agent married to a NWO agent
OH THE FAKE OUTRAGE over her hand notes. lol
Monday, February 8, 2010
Reggie Love Loves Tea Bags
Monday, February 8, 2010
Obama and Tim Geitner, take orders from the NWO
By Jake Tapper
One year ago this month President Obama announced a plan to help alleviate the housing crisis. Part of that plan included incentives for banks and lenders to renegotiate mortgages with homeowners who were struggling to make payments.
“Under this plan, lenders who participate will be required to reduce those payments to no more than 31 percent of a borrower’s income,” the president said. “And this will enable as many as 3 to 4 million homeowners to modify the terms of their mortgages to avoid foreclosure.”
Up to $75 billion could be spent on this program, called the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP. Program — $50 billion of which could come from the Troubled Asset Relief Program funds. (The other $25 billion would come from the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, used to modify mortgages owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.)
As of December 30, $35.5 billion had been allocated to the program, the Special Inspector General for the TARP program, Neil Barofsky,reported to Congress last month, with $10 billion “allocated to encourage HAMP modification by protecting investors from potential home-price declines in their mortgage portfolio assets in regions where forestalling foreclosure may lead to significant losses.”
But only $15.4 million had been disbursed.
Why so little?
Because far from the 3-4 million the president had said the HAMP program would help, only 66,465 Americans have received permanent mortgage modifications.
With a slow start to the program, the Obama administration announced in July 2009 that it would seek 500,000 trial loan modifications by November 1. As of the end of December there were 902,620 trial modifications, many of which were done through verbal agreements and with no guarantee they would become permanent.
In our interview yesterday with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, I asked him if a year ago, were I to tell him that a year later only 66,000 Americans had permanent mortgage modifications through the program, if he would have said at the time that the HAMP program was a success.
“I think it’s very important to recognize this program is providing very, very substantial cash flow relief right now to more than three quarters of a million Americans,” Geithner said. “We believe we’re still on a path to be able to reach many, many more American households. And of course we’re going to make sure that those temporary modifications translate into permanent modifications.”
A lot of those temporary modifications were done verbally, I pointed out.
“We’re absolutely committed to make sure that translates into what we said it would, which is for eligible Americans — they’re getting permanent modifications that substantially lower their monthly payment…For the average household that translates into hundreds and hundreds of dollars every month for them.”
-jpt
