Islamic Muslims and other Illegal Immigrants are destroying the USA

By Oscar Y. Harward 

Since our “Founding Fathers”, many others from around the globe have sought to enter America and live within our “free and open” Constitutional freedoms.

 

Our “Founding Fathers” never imagined that someday others who “hate America” would come to the USA and intentionally violate our laws.  Today, many “Illegal Immigrants” do “hate” our “free and open” Constitutional freedoms as they enter the USA; then use our “Constitution freedoms” to become a resident; only to destroy our Constitution and its’ freedoms and replace it with “Islam” and “Sharia Law”. 

“Islamic Muslim” governments founded on “Sharia Law” is a “conflicting and opposite” system of government to our “US Constitution” government founded on “Judeo-Christian” values.  Islamic Muslims have been at war for more than a thousand years against nations who will not support “Islam” and “Sharia Law”. 

Many “Islamic Muslim” nations represent “oil-rich” nations.  Our USA Democrat Party leadership denies American entrepreneurs from drilling, retrieving, refining, and marketing our own known oil and gasoline reserves.  “Oil-rich” nations are getting wealthier while USA “consumers” are forced to pay higher prices than would be more available and less expensive using our own oil and gasoline reserves. 

For the more recent 20 or so years, many elected and appointed officials have ignored our “Federal, State, and local” Statues affecting “immigration” as millions of “Illegal immigrants” have entered America and “no government agencies” have the abilities to identify or even locate these “law breakers”.  Permitting additional “radical” Islamic Muslims into the USA is inviting more terrorists to openly obliterate our communities.  SCOTUS decisions deny law enforcement from using “profiling” to identify and eliminate, otherwise, terrorists. 

President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats advocate more “open immigration” without further jurisdiction(s). 

“Illegal immigration” is associated with criminal activity as murder, rape, robbery, and assaults are “out-of-control”.  “Illegal immigrants” enter America without obstructions, steal or purchase a fraudulent Social Security card, and they are free to come and go at will.  “Immigration” enforcement has become hollow. 

“Illegal immigrants” have “learned the system” to circumvent income taxes, evade the laws, and collect entitlement benefits with other deceitful documentations. 

“Illegal immigrants” must not be allowed to live or receive citizenship without first obeying America’s current “immigration” laws. 

All Capitol Hill Legislators and, specifically, Republicans must demand “full enforcement” of all current immigration laws!  Passing new laws allowing additional “Illegal immigrants” to enter and/or stay in the USA is affecting our nation in the “wrong” direction. 

Law-abiding Americans must not be forced to suffer more due to “illegal immigration” in criminal, fiscal, social, national security, and/or other costs.

Support the “Taxed Enough Already” (TEA) Party

By Oscar Y. Harward 

“Taxed Enough Already” (TEA) Party members and supporters are Conservative and usually Republicans. TEA Party members and supporters are ordinary, middle, working class Americans.  TEA Party members and supporters have a strong desire to work hard and work smart as a part in life to exceed while on their job(s) in providing their family’s necessities of shelter, food, other needs, and additional comforts in life.  In their progression of life, each understands the importance of Constitutional freedoms and expects to pay reasonable and sensible taxes, rather than excessive and/or disproportionate taxes, for necessary government services. 

Republican members on Capitol Hill who support TEA Party principles are attempting to stop the excessive and wasteful spending in completing the remainder of fiscal year 2011 that Congress failed to finish last year.  Republicans are concentrating on spending less on wasteful projects as well as lowering taxes.  This would assist Americans to invest more of their resources into “new jobs” and/or “expanding existing jobs”. 

President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats are attempting to “tax and spend” more of (y)our taxpayers’ money while in their effort to destroy the Republican Party and all TEA Party principles.

Tomorrow never comes

President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats perform like “vultures” 

Capitol Hill Republicans “must” remember and recognize that President Obama’s and/or Capitol Hill Democrats’ “continued” promises of reduced spending are “just not true; they never happen”. 

President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats continue to “bully” Republicans for more “tax and spending” while promising another “lie after lie” on “cutting the spending”.  Eventually, this will lead to one more “fiscal cliff” or “USA bankruptcy”. – Oscar Y. Harward

Posted by Judson Phillips on November 29, 2012 at 12:38pm in Tea Party Nation Forum

Word is slowly seeping out for Washington about a grand bargain being worked out between Barack Obama and John Boehner.

As we hear about the negotiations, the obvious question to be asked is, does Boehner and the Republican leadership in the House even have a clue?

What is going on that is so dangerous?

The Republicans are going to surrender on taxes. According to published reports a deal is going to be made. It is your typical Republican deal. The GOP will agree to a trillion in new taxes and there will be spending cuts in the future.

When will the Republican Party learn that tomorrow never comes?

The Republicans have made these kinds of deals before. In 1986, Ronald Reagan agreed to Amnesty for an estimated three million illegal aliens. The deal was amnesty today and a sealed border tomorrow.

Twenty-six years later the border is still not sealed.

Now the Republicans want to make the same kind of deal.

Wait, didn’t they do that last year?

Yes. Yes they did.

Anyone remember the debt ceiling crisis of August 2011?

Anyone remember John Boehner’s great stroke of genius?

He would give Obama $2 trillion more to borrow in exchange for a promise of spending cuts. Either the Democrats would agree to spending cuts or automatic spending cuts would kick in. These spending cuts disproportionately hurt national defense and other programs that Republicans allegedly believe in.

What about the programs of the Nanny State? Their growth would be slowed only a little.

That was last year.

Now that day has come and what is the GOP doing? It is running around like Chicken Little screaming the sky is falling and asking Obama for his terms of surrender. Obama has already gone through that $2 trillion and is going to be asking for more. John Boehner is ready to surrender on taxes that will not reduce the deficit but will only fuel additional government spending.

Does anyone in the Republican Party bother to looks at history? George H.W. Bush broke his infamous “read my lips” pledge. He went from 90% approval a little more than a year before the election to being soundly defeated by Bill Clinton.

Breaking his “read my lips” pledge was one of the main reasons he lost.

On November 6, John Boehner showed up at the Republican Victory Party in Washington DC. He was ecstatic. He would have another two years as House Speaker. He said the Republicans were the party of less government, less spending and lower taxes.

Right.

Under John Boehner, we could say the Republicans are the party of gullible fools.

We know what the plan to raise taxes will do to the economy. For Obama and the Democrats, this is like winning the lottery.

They knew raising taxes was such a bad idea they did not want to do it before Obama ran for reelection. Now the circumstances are perfect. John Boehner and the Republicans will go along with the Obama-Boehner Tax Hike. It will give the Democrats perfect cover.

When the economy tanks even worse than it is already tanking, and Republicans want to run against the Great Obama Depression, the Democrats will be able to say not so fast. You own this depression as much as we do. Minutes after Obama and Boehner shake hands over the deal that video footage will be in the archives of the DNC to be used as ammo in attack ads against any Republican who challenges the Democrats on the economy.

Even worse for Republicans, this deal with destroy the base.

As reports come out that John Boehner and the House leadership are considering a grand bargain with Democrats, many rank and file Republicans are now openly talking about leaving the Party.

Christmas is coming early for the Democrats. 2014 is the Republican’s best chance for taking control of the Senate in the next two or three election cycles. Yet the GOP is doing everything possible to depress its base and possibly shatter the party.

Meanwhile, the Obama, Pelosi, Reid axis of fiscal evil is laughing all the way towards a permanent Democrat Majority in government.

Will work for food. God Bless!!

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It was an unusually cold day for the month of May. Spring had arrived and everything was alive with color. But a cold front from the North had brought winter's chill back to Indiana. I sat with two friends in the picture window of a quaint restaurant just off the corner of the town square. The food and the company were both especially good that day. As we talked, my attention was drawn outside, across the street. There, walking into town, was a man who appeared to be carrying all his worldly goods on his back. He was carrying a well-worn sign that read, "I will work for food."

My heart sank. I brought him to the attention of my friends and noticed that others around us had stopped eating to focus on him. Heads moved in a mixture of sadness and disbelief. We continued with our meal, but his image lingered in my mind. We finished our meal and went our separate ways. I had errands to do and quickly set out to accomplish them. I glanced toward the town square, looking somewhat halfheartedly for the strange visitor. I was fearful, knowing that seeing him again would call some response.

I drove through town and saw nothing of him. I made some purchases at a store and got back in my car. Deep within me, the Spirit of God kept speaking to me: "Don't go back to the office until you've at least driven once more around the square." And so, with some hesitancy, I headed back into town. As I turned the square's third corner, I saw him. He was standing on the steps of the storefront church, going through his sack. I stopped and looked, feeling both compelled to speak to him, yet wanting to drive on. The empty parking space on the corner seemed to be a sign from God: an invitation to park.

I pulled in, got out and approached the town's newest visitor. "Looking for the pastor?" I asked.

"Not really," he replied, "Just resting."

"Have you eaten today?"

"Oh, I ate something early this morning."

"Would you like to have lunch with me?"

"Do you have some work I could do for you?"

"No work," I replied,"I commute here to work from the city, but I would like to take you to lunch."

"Sure," he replied with a smile.

As he began to gather his things. I asked some surface questions. "Where you headed?"

"St. Louis."

"Where you from?"

"Oh, all over; mostly Florida."

"How long you been walking?"

"Fourteen years," came the reply. I knew I had met someone unusual.

We sat across from each other in the same restaurant I had left earlier. His face was weathered slightly beyond his 38 years. His eyes were dark yet clear, and he spoke with an eloquence and articulation that was startling. He removed his jacket to reveal a bright red T-shirt that said, "Jesus is The Never Ending Story." Then Daniel's story began to unfold.

He had seen rough times early in life. He'd made some wrong choices and reaped the consequences. Fourteen years earlier, while backpacking across the country, he had stopped on the beach in Daytona. He tried to hire on with some men who were putting up a large tent and some equipment. A concert, he thought. He was hired, but the tent would not house a concert but revival services, and in those services he saw life more clearly. He gave his life over to God.

"Nothing's been the same since," he said, "I felt the Lord telling me to keep walking, and so I did, some 14 years now."

"Ever think of stopping?" I asked.

"Oh, once in a while, when it seems to get the best of me. But God has given me his calling. I give out Bibles. That's what's in my sack. I work to buy food and Bibles, and I give them out when His Spirit leads."

I sat amazed. My friend was on a mission and lived this way by choice. The question burned inside for a moment and then I asked: "What's it like?"

"What?"

"To walk into a town carrying all your things on your back and to show your sign?"

"Oh, it was humiliating at first. People would stare and make comments. Once someone tossed a piece of half-eaten bread and made a gesture that certainly didn't make me feel welcome. But then it became humbling to realize that God was using me to touch lives and change people's concepts of other folks like me."

My concept was changing, too. We finished our dessert and gathered his things. Just outside the door, he paused. He turned to me and said, "Come ye blessed of my Father and inherit the kingdom I've prepared for you. For when I was hungry you gave me food, when I was thirsty you gave me drink, a stranger and you took me in."

I felt as if we were on holy ground. "Could you use another Bible?" I asked.

He said he preferred a certain translation. It traveled well and was not too heavy. It was also his personal favorite. "I've read through it 14 times," he said.

"I'm not sure we've got one of those, but let's stop by our church and see." I was able to find my new friend a Bible that would do well, and he seemed very grateful. "Where you headed from here?"

"Well, I found this little map on the back of this amusement park coupon."

"Are you hoping to hire on there for a while?"

"No, I just figure I should go there. I figure someone under that star right there needs a Bible, so that's where I'm going next." He smiled, and the warmth of his spirit radiated the sincerity of his mission. I drove him back to the town square where we'd met two hours earlier, and as we drove, it started raining. We parked and unloaded his things.

"Would you sign my autograph book?" he asked. "I like to keep messages from folks I meet."

I wrote in his little book that his commitment to his calling had touched my life. I encouraged him to stay strong. And I left him with a verse of scripture, in Jeremiah, "I know the plans I have for you," declared the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a future and a hope."

"Thanks, man," he said. "I know we just met and we're really just strangers, but I love you."

"I know," I said, "I love you, too."

"The Lord is good."

"Yes, He is. How long has it been since someone hugged you?" I asked.

"A long time," he replied. And so on the busy street corner in the drizzling rain, my new friend and I embraced, and I felt deep inside that I had been changed. He put his things on his back, smiled his winning smile and said, "See you in the New Jerusalem."

"I'll be there!" was my reply.

He began his journey again. He headed away with his sign dangling from his bed roll and pack of Bibles. He stopped, turned and said, "When you see something that makes you think of me, will you pray for me?"

"You bet," I shouted back, "God bless."

"God bless." And that was the last I saw of him. Late that evening as I left my office, the wind blew strong. The cold front had settled hard upon the town. I bundled up and hurried to my car. As I sat back and reached for the emergency brake, I saw them...a pair of well-worn brown work gloves neatly laid over the length of the handle. I picked them up and thought of my friend and wondered if his hands would stay warm that night without them.

I remembered his words: "If you see something that makes you think of me, will you pray for me?" Today his gloves lie on my desk in my office. They help me to see the world and its people in a new way, and they help me remember those two hours with my unique friend well.

Author Unknown

"Murder by President"

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President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats continue to “bully” Capitol Hill Republicans.

By Oscar Y. Harward

Since January 2009, and under President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats, our National Debt has increased by some $6 trillion; more than 50% more in 4 years than all of the previous 43 Presidents combined in more than 236 years.  Now, President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats  are forcing America into a “definite” Obama looming “fiscal cliff”. 

As President Obama’s administration continues, President Obama continues to “bully” Capitol Hill Republicans even further.  The issue is why does President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats continue to “bully” Capitol Hill Republicans into speeding more of taxpayers’ money as doing so is “destroying our nation” and its’ fiscal responsibilities. 

President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats perform like “vultures” demanding more of (y)our money to all, and are directly responsible for our “fiscal cliff” failures.  The main challenge is to “stop-the-spending”.  America is no “Santa Clause”.  America cannot afford all needs and desires, to all the people, all the time.

Naughty or Nice?

AFA's 2012 listing of top retailers and how they recognize Christmas

Color Code:

BLUE: An AFA "5-Star" rated company that promotes and celebrates Christmas on an exceptional basis.

GREEN: Company uses the term "Christmas" on a regular basis, we consider that company Christmas-friendly.

YELLOW: Company refers to Christmas infrequently, or in a single advertising medium, but not in others.

RED: Company may use "Christmas" sparingly in a single or unique product description, but as a company, does not recognize it.

List updated on 11-12-12

Companies For "Christmas" AFA Online Store ACE Hardware Amazon.com Bass Pro Shops Bed Bath & Beyond Belk Best Buy Big Lots Books-A-Million Cabella's Collective Brands Costco CVS Pharmacy Dick's Sporting Goods Dilliards Dollar General Dollar Tree H.E.B. Stores HSN.com Hallmark Hancock Fabrics Harris Teeter Stores Hobby Lobby Home Shopping Network JC Penney JoAnn Fabrics & Crafts Stores Kmart Kohl's Kroger Lowe's Macy's Marshals Meijer Menard's Michael's Stores Neiman Marcus Nordstrom Office Max Petsmart Pier One Imports ProFlowers.com Publix QVC.com Rite Aid Sam's Club Sears Scheels Sporting Goods Super D Drug Stores Target TJ Maxx Toys R Us True Value Walgreens Wal-Mart Zappos.com

Companies marginal on "Christmas" 1-800-Flowers.com Bath & Body Works Cooking.com Hy-Vee Stores Safeway Starbucks UncommonGoods.com Whole Foods

Companies AGAINST "Christmas" Banana Republic Barnes & Noble Family Dollar Foot Locker Gap Stores L.L. Bean Limited Brands Maurice's Office Depot Old Navy Radio Shack Staples Supervalu Victoria's Secret

Based on current advertising, below is a list of companies that avoid, ban, or use the term "Christmas" in their advertising. We will continually update the list, so check back often.

Criteria - AFA reviewed up to four areas to determine if a company was "Christmas-friendly" in their advertising: print media (newspaper inserts), broadcast media (radio/television), website and/or personal visits to the store. If a company's ad has references to items associated with Christmas (trees, wreaths, lights, etc.), it was considered as an attempt to reach "Christmas" shoppers.

If a company has items associated with Christmas, but did not use the word "Christmas," then the company is considered as censoring "Christmas."

Want to report on a company? Send your detailed report to christmas@afa.net. Please know that we receive hundreds of reports (emails) each day. We are unable to respond to each one personally, but your report will be read by one of our staff.

Note: AFA does not list local or regional companies. Only nationally-recognized companies will be listed. This list only reflects a company's "Christmas" advertising and does not take into account other corporate policies AFA may not agree with.

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Jerusalem’s Enemies to Be Destroyed

Zechariah 12 (New International Version 1984)

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Zechariah 12

New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)

Jerusalem’s Enemies to Be Destroyed

An Oracle
 

12 This is the word of the Lord concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, who lays the foundation of the earth, and who forms the spirit of man within him, declares: ² “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. ³ On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. ⁴ On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the Lord. “I will keep a watchful eye over the house of Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations. ⁵ Then the leaders of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God.’

⁶ “On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among sheaves. They will consume right and left all the surrounding peoples, but Jerusalem will remain intact in her place.

⁷ “The Lord will save the dwellings of Judah first, so that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem’s inhabitants may not be greater than that of Judah. ⁸ On that day the Lord will shield those who live in Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the Angel of the Lord going before them. ⁹ On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that attack Jerusalem.

Mourning for the One They Pierced

¹⁰ “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit^[a] of grace and supplication. They will look on^[b] me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. ¹¹ On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be great, like the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. ¹² The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, ¹³ the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, ¹⁴ and all the rest of the clans and their wives.

 

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1. Zechariah 12:10 Or the Spirit
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The Clock of Life

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The following text, the author of which is unfortunately lost in an endless loop of email forwards, is to me a powerful message about life and purpose.  I hope readers of this blog will agree and that anyone who knows the source will add it in a comment below: 

    Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago . Capone wasn't famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder.  Capone had a lawyer nicknamed "Easy Eddie." He was Capone's lawyer for a good reason. Eddie was very good! In fact, Eddie's skill at legal maneuvering kept Big Al out of jail for a long time.

     To show his appreciation, Capone paid him very well. Not only was the money big, but Eddie got special dividends, as well.. For instance, he and his family occupied a fenced-in mansion with live-in help and all of the conveniences of the day. The estate was so large that it filled an entire Chicago City block.  Eddie lived the high life of the Chicago mob and gave little consideration to the atrocity that went on around him.  Eddie did have one soft spot, however. He had a son that he loved dearly. Eddie saw to it that his young son had clothes, cars, and a good education. Nothing was withheld.  Price was no object.  And, despite his involvement with organized crime, Eddie even tried to teach him right from wrong.  Eddie wanted his son to be a better man than he was.  Yet, with all his  wealth and influence, there were two things he couldn't give his son; he couldn't pass on a good name or a good example. 

      One day, Easy Eddie reached a difficult decision. Easy Eddie wanted to rectify wrongs he had done.  He decided he would go to the authorities and tell the truth about Al "Scarface" Capone, clean up his tarnished name, and offer his son some semblance of integrity. To do this, he would have to testify against The Mob, and he knew that the cost would be great. But, he testified.  Within the year, Easy Eddie's life ended in a blaze of gunfire on a  lonely Chicago Street.  But in his eyes, he had given his son the greatest gift he had to offer, at the greatest price he could ever pay Police removed from his pockets a rosary, a crucifix, a religious medallion, and a poem clipped from a magazine. 

The poem read: 

"The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour.  Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith in time. For the clock may soon be still."

Requiem For America

Folks, 

Last night’s election was most disturbing and disheartening to me. It certainly was not a landslide victory for Romney as I had predicted. I now realize that I was thinking with my heart and not my head. I did not want to believe that our country had changed so much, and that a failure like Obama could actually get re-elected and be given an opportunity to “Finish the job”. “Finish the Job” are his words from his acceptance speech, last night. Therein lies the problem. To the uneducated and ill-informed Obama Zombies, “Finish the Job” means that he will continue to work to improve the economy, create jobs, etc. To Obama, and those of us who possess critical thinking skills and have ears and actually listen, “Finish the Job” means to “Fundamentally Transform America”! Obama’s plan has been and will continue to be to diminish America and his pledge to “Finish the job” is a threat that is actually applauded by the numbskulls that voted for him, support him and cheer for him.

This morning, all the pundits are offering their worthless opinions about how Obama won and how the Republicans lost and what needs to be done. These self-avowed intellects are blaming Romney’s strategy, Romney’s timidity, the Republican Party establishment, the media, and on and on. Many believe that a more Conservative candidate is the solution. Others believe that the Tea Party posture is too extreme and it frightens the electorate. Still others believe the Republicans need to find a way to attract single women, Blacks, Latinos, and Gays. In other words, the Republicans need to become “Democrat Light” if they want to win. 

Folks, the problem is not the candidate, nor the Republican Party. Romney was a great choice and he would have been a great president. The problem is not the Republican platform or the Tea Party tugs to the right. The problem is that the Republicans are selling products, values, beliefs, that too many of the present day electorate ain’t buying. The Republicans/Conservatives are selling what the people don’t want…..accountability, self-sufficiency, competition, success, hard work, honesty, respect, family values, God, Pro-Life, American Exceptionalism, traditional marriage, border control and legal immigration, sanctity of life, Constitutional Rights and freedoms, smaller government, less dependence on government, less taxes, fiscal responsibility, freedom to get rich, freedom to own firearms, freedom of religion, free speech, etc. 

America has changed!

It’s not the candidate and it’s not the platform. It’s the changed electorate. This is no longer Post WW II America. That generation is gone and those values are gone. The last generation with solid American values is mine and we are dying off daily. We are the sons and daughters of the Greatest Generation. All the following generations (my children and their children) are kids from the 60’s and 70’s with different values towards America, fiscal responsibility, world politics, drugs, music, entertainment, fashion, language, education, work ethic, etc. Not all of these generations, but too many!

Today’s Americans see things in a different way. They see: 

Abortion….not murder

Free contraceptives……not Freedom of Religion

Gun control…….not 2nd Amendment rights

Fairness….not competition

Government assistance……not independence

Gay marriage and tolerance…….not values and beliefs

Illegal immigration and a “live and let live” attitude/lawlessness……..not border control

A One World mentality……..not American Exceptionalism

Spend more than we earn…….not fiscal responsibility

Cut defense spending and spend more on social justice…..not peace through strength

Tax the rich/successful more……..not encourage success and entrepreneurialism

Divisive class warfare…….not “E Pluribus Unum” 

Folks, I fear that today’s electorate is the proverbial dog that caught the truck. They are not going to understand the consequences of their actions until it’s too late and the worst part of it is, there is nothing we can do to prevent this! 

We can preach until the cows come home. We are fighting against the times, the education system, the media, the New World Order. 

All we can do is look at our America as the Shining City on the hill that once existed. America will become the legend, like Camelot. Tales will be written about America and movies will be made. Songs will be sung and future generations will wistfully gaze up to the heavens as they privately (and perhaps secretly) muse about how wonderful such a place as America must have been. It’s a Camelot story and at the same time a Planet of the Apes tale. My grand-children will read that …………”….for one brief shining moment there was a place called Camelot/America”! 

Farewell, America. 

God bless the land that I loved! 

Carlo

Recount 22nd Congressional Election in St. Lucie County, FL

As a former member of an Elections Board where machines may fail in total tabulations, there appears to be sufficient evidence in St. Lucie County’s miscalculations of voting machine tabulations to require a recount. 

I believe the Florida General Statues will not prohibit the Board of Elections from executing a “recount” to verify to the voters that their selected votes are “factually accurate”. 

The balloting in contest being in a “Federal election”, A Federal Judge should rule in favor of Rep. Allen West. 

With the multiple voting failures, and if the votes are correct, what is there to hide? 

Oscar Y. Harward

“If I Were the Devil” by PAUL HARVEY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Az0okaHig

President Obama “bullies” Congress over George Bush’s tax cuts

By Oscar Y. Harward 

When Barack Obama took the “oath of office” as US President, our National Debt was $10.6 trillion.  Today it is nearing $16.3 trillion.  President Obama has increased our National Debt some $6 trillion; more than 50% more in 4 years than all of the previous 43 Presidents combined in more than 236 years.  Now, America is facing an Obama looming “fiscal cliff”. 

During these last 4 years, President Obama has “bullied” his Socialism of inducing Capitol Hill Republicans to spend more on “stimulus” and other programs.  President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats have “wasted” $787 billion of taxpayers’ money while creating very few jobs.  Most of the $787 billion ended up in the pockets of Labor Unions and campaign donors of President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats. 

As we close year 2012, President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats are demanding George Bush’s tax cuts be eliminated to individuals making over $250,000 annually; President Obama’s translation is “tax the rich”. 

Higher income workers usually work harder, longer hours, and smarter in an effort to earn more, keep more comforts for their families, and create even more jobs for others.  Many lower income workers are unwilling to work harder or work longer hours.  Some individuals are unwilling to work at all. 

Americans are always willing to provide necessities for those who are unable to help themselves.  The problems arrive as those who are willing to work harder, longer hours, and smarter in an effort to earn more comforts for themselves and their families are now being commanded by President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats to be taxed at a higher rate; only for government to give it to individuals who are unwilling to better themselves. 

By taxing higher income individuals and demanding more of their hard-earned income, only to give it to individuals who are unwilling to better themselves is “creating emptiness” for the hard working individuals’ efforts in creating new jobs and expanding more jobs. 

President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats must extend George Bush’s tax cuts to “all individuals” including those making over $250,000 annually.  These individuals are the “job creators” in the private sector.  Those without financial resources are unable to create jobs. 

President Obama, stop “bullying” the Republicans and allow “all Americans” to continue the George Bush tax cuts.  While President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats will try to shift their “failures” onto Republicans, President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats are directly responsible for our “fiscal cliff” failures.

Election 2012: Obama, Socialism, and main-stream Medias win; America losses

By Oscar Y. Harward 

In the mid-1970’s with a newer Conservative named Ronald Reagan seeking the Presidency, it was difficult to spread the Conservative message in Union County, NC and many others areas across America.  The multiple main-stream Medias practiced “liberalism” in writing and/or reporting the news.  Some may remember that Governor Ronald Reagan won his first Presidential Primary during 1976 in North Carolina.

The political issues published in the main-stream Medias then, as well as now, were swayed toward “Liberalism” viewpoints and away from “Conservative” visions.  It was so left-wing “locally” by our own newspaper Medias, they “refused to print Conservative candidates’ News Releases” for publication.  Even back then, we knew we had a message to share with the massive numbers who would welcome and learn from it, if they could only receive it.

Much of this changed with the addition of a new local newspaper, a change in the Managing Editor of a different local newspaper, and the purchase and management change at a local radio station. All of these changes allowed opportunities for Conservatives to communicate through multiple Medias to its’ citizens.

In the early days, “local” Democrats outnumbered Republicans in registration by some ten to one.  Today, “local” Republicans outnumber Democrats some 60% to 40%.  The changing differences are that local unbiased Medias have allowed citizens to see and hear the facts; both Liberal and Conservative.

Today, the “national” main-stream Medias; ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, and many others across America are presenting their cities, towns, and other communities a “left-wing”, more pro-Obama political base, pro-Socialist, “out-of-control” spending by left-wing Democrats political views, etc.  Americans are becoming more informed of these Liberal presentations and their “failing” economic, social, and national security policies.

At the same time, main-stream Medias are “denying” Conservative views as they present Conservatives into a “negative biased view”.  Americans must learn our Constitution is based on Judeo-Christian values; a system that must be restored to prevent our USA economy from the worsening and/or completely failing economy.

There appears to be coordination between the “Liberal” views of partisan politics and higher education.  As liberals are defeated and/or  in the electoral process, the defeated liberals are appointed as Professors, Instructors, Counselors and/or other management positions in public schools, Universities, and Colleges, teaching our children the same “harmful and destructive political beliefs” which may be contrary to our Constitution and our US Code, as well as rejected by the voters.  Our “public school” system has become an assembling factory turning out more “Liberalism”; an “out-of-control” spending dilemma that is destroying our “free and open” economy.

For many Liberals in the Medias, it is “easier” to write and/or report their personal political views than it is to “work” in exploring for the true facts; get the “largest bang” with the “least work”, better well-defined as “laziness”. 

For “Liberal Medias”, it is much easier to disassociate and/or discard more Conservative, Judeo-Christian values, and/or old English common-sense  law views.  “Favorable Liberal reporting” by “Liberal Medias” on “out-of-control” government spending on Capitol Hill is directly responsible for what has led America’s deficit to explode into $16 Trillion plus, of national debt and still growing. 

Conservative leaders with “values and policies” are determined to save our great nation and to stop “out-of-control” government spending.  Our national debt leaves an enormous liability to our children and their children that “must be paid”. 

With these continued Liberal positions on fiscal, social, and national security issues, America and Americans lose.

With “common-sense” Conservative positions on fiscal, social, and national security issues, America and Americans can and will survive and thrive.

Finally, on November 6, 2012, it is as if American voters put on their “blinders”, went to the polls, continuing to ask more and more government to supply even more needs and wishes, then voted to re-elect a candidate in President Obama without any “plan strategy” to repay, or even stop the bleeding of our “out-of-control” spending.  Have our American voters become so uninformed and/or so uncaring from our “public schools’” teachings? 

Our USA leadership is running on “empty” with “unfilled” fiscal, social, and national security “solutions”.  America is being served with “defenseless leadership” in this entire incapable administration.  President Obama’s “Forward” will continue to be “In reverse” to (y)our “Backward” economy.