Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC-8) responds to the President's Sequester on saving our fiscal responsibility.

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC-8) responds to the President's Sequester on saving our fiscal responsibility. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQP8x-hnXM8

 

Woodward: Obama Not Telling Truth on Sequester

Read the way Obama makes a decision saying one thing; then blames others for his on former wrong decisions.

Then see and listen to each of the following You Tube videos. - Oscar Y. Harward

Flashback: Obama promises veto stopgap alternative to sequester cuts

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Woodward-Obama-Not-Telling-Truth-on-Sequester/2013/02/23/id/491678?s=al&promo_code=128F8-1

 

Saturday, 23 Feb 2013 07:27 PM

By Paul Scicchitano

Despite President Obama’s insistence that Republicans are to blame for the coming sequester, The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward maintains that the commander-in-chief need look no further than his own White House if he wants to blame someone.

“The president and (Treasury Secretary Jack) Lew had this wrong,” Woodward penned on Friday. “My extensive reporting for my book 'The Price of Politics' shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.”

Woodward, who is an associate editor at the Post, said the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts that are set to begin on Friday are surrounded by “misunderstanding, misstatements and all the classic contortions of partisan message management.” The cuts amount to a total of $1.2 trillion over 10 years.

“Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,” asserted Woodward. “They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.”

Woodward also cited comments attributed to Nabors.

“Nabors has told others that they checked with the president before going to see Reid,” Woodward explained. “A majority of Republicans did vote for the Budget Control Act that summer, which included the sequester. Key Republican staffers said they didn’t even initially know what a sequester was — because the concept stemmed from the budget wars of the 1980s, when they were not in government.”

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney countered in a tweet that the goal was always to replace the cuts with a so-called grand bargain, reported Politico on Saturday.

"Super Committee's mandate was not to replace sequester w/spending cuts alone," Carney tweeted. "To suggest otherwise is willfully wrong."

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqD2h7e_MLg

Remember when President Obama supported the sequester cuts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWEvs1UBnSk  

The Battling Bastards of Benghazi

  

http://www.teamm14.com/showthread.php?6988-The-Battling-Bastards-of-Benghazi

Found this...

We're the Battling Bastards of Benghazi, no fame, no glory, no paparazzi.
Just a fiery death in a blazing hell,
defending the country we loved so well.
It wasn't our job, but we answered the call,
fought to the consulate, 'n scaled th' wall.
We pulled twenty countrymen from the jaws of fate,
led them to safety, 'n stood at th' gate.
Just the two of us, 'n foe by th' score,
but we stood fast to bar th' door.
We called for reinforcement, but it was denied,
so we fought, 'n we fought, 'n we fought, 'n we died.
We gave our all for our Uncle Sam,
'n Obama didn't give a damn,
just two dead SEALS, who carried the load,
no thanks to us, we were bumps in the road.

Immigration legislation for ‘illegals’ magnifies the Democrat Party

By Oscar Y. Harward

 

Some Conservatives are unhappy as how our government has swayed to the left, now suggest a new Constitutional Convention.  My response is with President Obama in the White House, and a Liberal Democrat controlled US Senate, a Constitutional Convention would likely end up with an even more left-wing Socialist-led Constitution than under our current. 

The same applies to new legislation on ‘Immigration’.  ‘Legal immigration’ is not broken. Do not allow the Liberal Democrats and Republicans In Name Only (RINO) to falsely convince you otherwise.  Do not follow their ‘aggressive and hostile’ policies to change our Constitutional system. 

‘Legal immigration’ is where the heart and the brain unite; all is welcomed!  ‘Illegal immigrants’ must follow our ‘immigration’ laws that have worked well for more than 200 years.  Our Capitol Hill Democrats and Republicans must stop the invasion of unidentified, unknown, and all criminal ‘illegal immigrants’ from stealing and/or purchasing a fraudulent Social Security and/or Driver’s License, etc. of Americans identities, prior to and/or after their arrival? 

RINO Senators, namely, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) have been so ‘aggressive and hostile’ by allowing Democrats Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL.), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), and others into supporting new ‘immigration’ to some 11 million “illegal immigrants” into our great nation. 

Anytime Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Robert Menendez, and/or Sen. Dick Durbin are leading legislation(s), it is not good for Republicans.  It is not good for law-abiding and/or tax-paying Americans. 

America is in a depressed economy and we are seeing even more disappearing jobs, while President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats are demanding more taxes that destroy more jobs.  Who, how, and when is the $16.5 Trillion debt to be paid?  Americans are searching for jobs.  Americans should come first.  “Illegal immigrants” must be rejected.  Sen. Jeff Sessions, (R-AL) says this newly proposed legislation will add Trillions of dollars more to our national debt. 

President Obama and every Capitol Hill legislator should be asked, “Who, how, and when is our increasing ‘National Debt’ to be paid that has now passed $16.5 trillion?  More ‘illegal immigrants’ would take more of our American jobs.  These same ‘illegal immigrants’ are increasing American taxpayers’ more cost for their education, food assistance, healthcare, housing, etc.  Are you willing to force (y)our child(ren), (y)our grandchild(ren), etc. to be further burdened with even more debt? 

Each Republican who supports new legislation on ‘illegal immigration’ is a Republican In Name Only (RINO) who may unknowingly support more of the ‘Socialistic’ Democrat Party control.  New immigration legislation for ‘illegal immigrants’ will ‘magnify’ the Democrat Party.

Obama’s Pick For CIA Is A Converted MUSLIM!

Do and/or will you support Obama’s Director of CIA as an Islamic Muslim? 

Islam is “conflicting” to the Judeo- Christian values as Islamic law, based on “Sharia Law” called for the filling of all “infidels; Americans, Jews, and all others who oppose Islam and Sharia Law.

 

Our Constitution is based on Christian values. – Oscar Y. Harward

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=odIFwDh6E58

History of the Second Amendment

Over the years, many legislators “illegally” embellished their constitutional rights by introducing, voting for, and legislating laws that superseded our Constitutional limitations. 

Americans are now facing that same “illegal” and “superseding” of our Constitutional limitations on the Second Amendment. – Oscar Y. Harward

 

http://www.redefinegov.com/history-of-the-second-amendment/comment-page-1/#comment-12

On January 30, 2013 · 1 Comment

Many people and organizations misconstrue the Bill of Rights including the 2nd amendment. The Constitution does not grant rights. The Bill of Rights does not grant rights. The Constitution specifically defines the powers delegated to the federal government, restrictions on both the federal and state governments (to different and varying extents), and the structure of government. The Bill of Rights were changes — amendments — to the original Constitution and they included further restrictions and declaratory statements regarding the delegated powers and Constitutional construction.

Generally speaking limitations or provisions on a single delegated power are including within the body of the power itself. However, restrictions or limitations that cover all powers or multiple powers are stand-alone. For instance, Article I Section IX clause 3 states “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed”. Likewise, clause 5 of the same section states “No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.” Note the use of the word shall explicitly prohibits laws of this nature.

In practice, this means that Congress can pass laws that fall within the enumerated powers of Section I Article VIII but that law cannot be a bill of attainder, an ex post facto law, or a law they levies a tax or duty on State exports. The restrictions in Article I Section IX apply to all the powers of Congress, not just a single power. Likewise, the 9th and 10th amendments are ones of construction and apply to the entire Constitution not a single power. Even if Congress passes a law within the enumerated powers of Article I Section VIII, those laws cannot violate the 9th amendment (it wouldn’t violate the 10th amendment if the law indeed fell within the enumerated powers).

The first eight amendments to the Constitution are further restrictions on the federal government. The 2nd amendment does not grant people the right to bear arms. The 2nd amendment FORBIDS the federal government from doing anything to infringe on your unalienable right to self-defense. The last four words in the 2nd amendment are “shall not be infringed“. This means Congress, the Executive, or the Judiciary cannot pass a law, sign an executive order, or adjudicate a case that would result in an infringement of your rights to bear arms, to have ammunition, or accessories for your arms. Even if Congress passed a law regulating the commerce of arms or ammunition it would violate the 2nd amendment just as a ex post facto law would violate the restrictions in Article I Section IX.

Moreover, if the amendments to the Constitution were incorporated directly into the body of the Constitution (as many in Congress advocated), the second amendment would have naturally fit into Article I Section IX along side the restrictions on bills of attainder and ex post facto laws.

Most of the founding generation were Englishmen. English history spans many centuries. The primary concern of the founding generation was the rights of Englishmen. This was the basis for the clarion call “no taxation without representation”. The very idea that the colonists could be taxed by King George was insulting because the colonists had absolutely no representation in Parliament. The concept of due process of law wasn’t invented by the colonists. It goes back several centuries to the Magna Carta of 1215. Englishmen had a long history of securing certain rights including due process, trial by jury, etc. That history also applies to the 2nd amendment.

In the 10th century, King Alfred of Britain required each adult male to possess weapons to defend Britain.

In the 12th century, King Henry II recognized these fundamental rights in the Assize of Arms in 1181.

Henry VIII modified the law and required fathers purchase long bows for their sons age 14 and older and train them in their use.

Under Queen Elizabeth I, local citizens formed militias in each county and were led by a loyal knight.
In 1628, Parliament issued the Petition of Rights which outlined King Charles’ violation of his subjects’ rights. Shortly thereafter King Charles began to raise standing armies, and eventually when Lord Cromwell reigned he attempted to disband the local militias.

King Charles II attempted to reinstate standing armies and disarm the people. King James II continued his father’s policy of disarming the people.

In 1688, King James II was deposed by William of Orange. After the “glorious revolution” Parliament restricted the power of the King through the Bill of Rights of 1689 or more accurately, the English Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights codified the preservation of the right to bear arms.

The following four paragraphs are from a paper by Andrew Wayment titled “The Second Amendment: A Guard for Our Future Security” and include Blackstone’s views on the right to keep and bear arms.

William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, in which he explains the underlying purpose of the right to keep and bear arms as understood in the English common law. According to Blackstone, the liberties of Englishmen are reducible into three principal rights: the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right of private property. However, Blackstone asserted that any declaration of these rights would be meaningless “if the constitution had provided no other method to secure their actual enjoyment.”

The common law, therefore, developed barriers against infringement upon these rights. According to Blackstone, whenever the government infringed upon any of the three principal rights, the people could employ certain auxiliary rights to ameliorate the problem. First, the people had the right to apply to the court system for redress of injuries. Second, the people had the right to “petition the king, or either house of parliament, for the redress of grievances.” However, if these branches of government failed to provide the necessary relief, then the people had the right of having and using arms for their defense and self-preservation “when the sanctions of society and laws are found insufficient to restrain the violence of oppression.”

According to Blackstone, English common law recognized the right to own guns as a way for an individual to protect himself and “the three great and primary rights” in the face of an actual violation or attack by a tyrannical government. In essence, under the common law, individual gun ownership is to serve as the final safeguard when the government fails to protect the rights of the people.

Legal scholars, judges, and lawyers in colonial times and after the ratification of the Constitution used Blackstone’s Commentaries as a reference to help them understand the various aspects of the common law. Blackstone’s ideas concerning the underlying purpose of the right to keep and bear arms must have reflected and significantly influenced the colonists’ understanding of this right under the common law, and led them to take the actions they pursued in the Revolutionary War and in the drafting of the Second Amendment.

In 1775, the British attempted to disarm the colonists in New England. General Gage’s army disarmed many of the individual citizens in Boston. The Continental Congress issued its Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms and one of the grievances in the declaration was disarmament of the people.

As nearly all the founding generation were rightly concerned with their rights as Englishmen the inclusion of an amendment restricting the federal government from infringing on the right to self-defense is reasonable given the history of Britain specifically, and mankind generally. Moreover, the amendment formally recognizes self-defense as the final act for the people to defend themselves against tyrannical and despotic government. Several centuries of English experience taught the founding generation that words written on parchment can be abridged by brute force and raw power. Rulers ignore rules for various reasons and by many justifications, however by doing so, transform themselves into tyrants and despots.

Ultimately, it is our experience, not our reason or common sense, that dictates the peoples’ right to self-defense. Though much of this history occurred two or more centuries ago, the 20th century was the deadliest in the history of mankind. The people of the Soviet Union, China, and Germany were disarmed and hundreds of millions of people were killed. This doesn’t imply everyone wishing to disarm the people will ultimately kill large numbers of people. However, this is the path which not only allows that possibility it enhances that possibility. Prudence dictates citizens should be alarmed whenever the jewels of liberty are encroached upon, as they must be defended vigorously, for we never know precisely what one man, one government is capable of doing to its citizens, or when that may happen.

Scott Strzelczyk is the Executive Producer and fill-in co-host of the popular Forgotten Men Show broadcast weekly on 930 WFMD. He is also a leader in the Liberty Movement and owner of a provocative blog A Citizen’s View.

War may be hell…but home ain’t exactly heaven, either.

http://www.rr-cirkits.com/KEEPINGITINPERSPECTIVE.pdf

Ohio Election Official: "I Voted Twice for Obama"

Voter fraud would or should “also” be prosecuted under Federal Law for voting in any and all “Federal Elections”.  Where are the US Attorneys to investigate and prosecute these cases?  Where is President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder?  Oh, I am so sorry!  Voter fraud is not prosecutable against Democrats. - Oscar Y. Harward
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyNkIMGVw58

Bronze Rat

Author unknown 

A Tourist walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco. While looking around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized, bronze statue of a rat. It had no price tag, but was so incredibly striking the tourist decided he must have it. He took it to the old shop owner and asked, "How much for the bronze rat?" 

"Ahhh, you have chosen wisely! It is $12 for the rat and $100 for the story," said the wise old Chinaman. 

The tourist quickly pulled out twelve dollars. "I'll just take the rat, you can keep the story". 

As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, the tourist noticed that a few real rats had crawled out of the alleys and sewers and had begun following him down the street. This was a bit disconcerting so he began walking faster. 

A couple blocks later he looked behind him and saw to his horror the herd of rats behind him had grown to hundreds, and they began squealing. 

Sweating now, the tourist began to trot toward San Francisco Bay. 

Again, after a couple blocks, he looked around only to discover that the rats now numbered in the MILLIONS, and were squealing and coming toward him faster and faster. 

Terrified, he ran to the edge of the Bay and threw the bronze rat as far as he could into the Bay. 

Amazingly, the millions of rats all jumped into the Bay after the bronze rat and were all drowned. 

The man walked back to the curio shop in Chinatown. 

"Ahhh," said the owner, "You come back for story?" 

"No sir," said the man, "I came back to see if you have a bronze Democrat."

Dr. Benjamin Carson Epic Full Speech at National Prayer Breakfast Attacks Obama's

Dr. Benjamin Carson delivered a noteworthy National Prayer Breakfast keynote speech in President Barack Obama’s presence. 

“I think particularly about ancient Rome. Very powerful — nobody could even challenge them militarily…they destroyed themselves from within,” Carson continued. “Moral decay. Fiscal irresponsibility.” 

While he said America’s issues are dire, he was positive that the nation can fix its ways, as there are bright and innovative people who simply need to come together to address the problems at hand. 

“And one of our big problems right now…our deficit is a big problem,” he said, as Obama watched him intently. ”Think about it — and our national debt — $16 and a half trillion dollars.” 

To illustrate just how massive the debt is, Carson told the audience that if they counted one number per second, it would take them 507,000 years to get to the sum total. The doctor said that the massive fiscal blunder is something that the nation must contend with. From there, he moved on to taxation, seemingly taking a stance in direct opposition to Obama’s.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyyHegP255g&feature=youtu.be

Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed

President Obama, Capitol Hill Democrats, and others are attempting to dismiss or destroy our Holy Bible and its’ teachings. This deterioration of civility is all around us in our federal, state, and local governments, our public schools, now entering into our “Houses of Worship”, and now even into the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), etc.

Read and understand one of these teachings: “Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed”; Genesis 19:1-29 (NIV) http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+19%3A1-29&version=NIV

Oscar Y. Harward

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Genesis 19:1-29

New International Version (NIV)

Sodom and Gomorrah Destroyed

19 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. ² “My lords,” he said, “please turn aside to your servant’s house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning.”

“No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”

³ But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. ⁴ Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom—both young and old—surrounded the house. ⁵ They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”

⁶ Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him ⁷ and said, “No, my friends. Don’t do this wicked thing. ⁸ Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”

⁹ “Get out of our way,” they replied. “This fellow came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to play the judge! We’ll treat you worse than them.” They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

¹⁰ But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. ¹¹ Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.

¹² The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, ¹³ because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”

 

¹⁴ So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry^[a] his daughters. He said, “Hurry and get out of this place, because the Lord is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

¹⁵ With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”

¹⁶ When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. ¹⁷ As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in
the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!”

 

¹⁸ But Lot said to them, “No, my lords,^[b] please! ¹⁹ Your^[c] servant has found favor in your^[d] eyes, and you^[e] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. ²⁰ Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”

 

²¹ He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. ²² But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.^[f])

²³ By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. ²⁴ Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. ²⁵ Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. ²⁶ But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

²⁷ Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. ²⁸ He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.

²⁹ So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.

Footnotes:

1. Genesis 19:14 Or were married to
2. Genesis 19:18 Or No, Lord; or No, my lord
3. Genesis 19:19 The Hebrew is singular.
4. Genesis 19:19 The Hebrew is singular.
5. Genesis 19:19 The Hebrew is singular.
6. Genesis 19:22 Zoar means small.