Thursday, November 8, 2012

FEMA Disaster Centers Shut Down 'Due To Bad Weather'


Subj: FEMA Disaster Centers Shut Down 'Due To Bad Weather'

http://dailybail.com/home/fema-disaster-centers-shut-down-due-to-bad-weather.html

FEMA Disaster Centers Shut Down 'Due To Bad Weather'

This is too easy. Presented without comment.
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TOTTENVILLE — They fly into disaster areas, but flee from raindrops.
FEMA disaster recovery centers in Hurricane Sandy-ravaged sections of the city that were supposed to provide assistance to hurricane victims went MIA Wednesday morning, posting signs saying that they were closed due to the approaching Nor'easter.
“FEMA packed up and left,” said Louis Giraldi, 47, a volunteer handing out cleaning supplies to victims.
“We don’t know where they are, so there’s nothing here but us.”
The site is listed on FEMA's list of NYC recovery centers, and was supposed to be open from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday. The site was also included in the city's list of warming facilities supposed to open at 9 a.m. on Wednesday at the site.
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FEMA theme song:
The Carpenters - Rainy Days and Mondays
Oh, the irony. More photos are here.
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DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CAN'T PUT SOLDIERS, BALLOTS TOGETHER


ROB THE VOTE

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CAN'T PUT SOLDIERS, BALLOTS TOGETHER

'This is precisely where DoD has failed these overseas troops'

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Barack Obama is president and commander-in-chief of the U.S. military but after his attorneys argued in court that service members who are fighting for the defense of the nation deserve no special accommodation to vote, a number of elected officials are raising questions about the White House commitment to the soldier’s rights.
According to a letter sent by several U.S. senators to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, an appointee of Obama, the federal department simply has failed in its obligation to make sure soldiers are allowed to vote.
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“Because our service members move regularly between U.S. military installations and overseas locations, their mailing addresses are constantly changing,” said the letter from Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, John McCain of Arizona, Rob Portman of Ohio and Marco Rubio of Florida.
“This challenge makes it critically important that DoD be able to redirect blank ballots effectively and efficiently. Sadly, this is precisely where DoD has failed these overseas troops.”
Time magazine reported just one day before the election that soldiers, sailors and others in the U.S. military lean Republican, noting that while ranks are not a “monolithic bloc”  “the U.S. military plainly tilts toward the GOP.”
The senators said the problem had been identified much earlier, and raised as an issue as recently as 2010, because the military was taking up to seven weeks to connect ballots with soldiers.
“These ballots are unlikely to reach these service members until after Election Day has passed,” the senators said.
The actions of the military under Obama, therefore, “could result in the imminent disenfranchisement of thousands,” they said.
But why?
“In the 2010 election, DoD’s Military Postal Service Agency documented widespread problems experienced by overseas military voters, and then made a series of formal recommendations to DoD to fix them,” the senators wrote. “It has come to our attention that DoD has failed to implement the MPSA’s top recommendations…”
They continued, “If DoD had followed this recommendation, it would have reduced ballot transit time by several weeks for many overseas service members who are trying to vote.”
And they cited the potential problems as “especially widespread.”
“We are perplexed as to why DoD did not do everything in its power to modernize the system … to eliminate this roadblock for military service members. … They deserve to have a voice in choosing their elected leaders. Our men and women in uniform should be able to participate in the very same democratic system of government that they defend, not be relegated to mere spectator status because their ballot never reached them.”
The Army Times reported just before the election that ballots apparently were being lost.
“We are investigating reports of possible missing military election ballots. We take this situation very seriously and expect to resolve this matter as quickly as possible,” U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman Katina Fields to the publication.
Wrote John Hayward in a commentary at Human Events, “It’s too late to do anything about the current election (good thing it’s not historic or anything like that!) but the senators asked Panetta to ‘ensure that DoD moves expeditiously to modernize its system for redirecting blank ballots, so that our service members do not encounter the same roadblocks to voting in the next election.’”
He also cited a Washington Times report that said the Pentagon’s own inspector general found that requests for assistance to the voter assistance offices on military bases had a 50 percent failure rate, and that fueled “the belief among military voter advocates that not everything has been done to ensure America’s soldiers have proper access to the elections they have sworn their lives to defend.”
The Examiner reported that “scores” of absentee ballots from members of the military simply won’t be counted.
It quoted the Naval Enlisted Reserve Association expressing concerns over a system that simply cannot function to the point of getting military ballots to the polling stations on time.
Columnist Michelle Malkin took it one step further in that report, telling the Examiner that the “Obama administration has actively worked against pro-troop voting protection efforts.”
“The bottom line is that our military, those men and women who risk their lives to protect our freedom, those most deserving to exercise their right to vote, are being prevented from doing so. This is unconscionable,” wrote article author Susan Stallings.
The court arguments submitted by the Obama administration came in an Ohio case this year. The White House argued against making allowances for members of the military.
“President Obama’s lawsuit argued that providing special consideration for the unique challenges faced [by] members of the military by ensuring that they have every opportunity to vote is ‘entirely arbitrary’ and has ‘no legitimate justification’ in the law…” said a report from the American Center for Law and Justice.
The organization said Ohio’s attorney general has decided to appeal the ruling that banned special accommodations, because it could have “far-reaching and disastrous effects on the voting rights of the men and women [in] our armed forces.”
It was the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that said Ohio would not be allowed to provide members of the military three extra days to vote early.
The ACLJ’s amicus brief had argued that such accommodations “due to their unique circumstances is reasonable and fully consistent with the United States Constitution.”
While Ohio’s legislature had addressed the concern by setting standards for early, in-person voting, and extending that for military personnel, Obama attacked the idea.
His attorneys said that “treats similarly situated Ohio voters differently.”
The ACLJ said that argument would “roll back decades of military voting rights laws…. This is not just a mere matter of Ohio law; it is being appealed to the Supreme Court, and thus any ruling would affect military voting rights nationwide.”
The ACLJ statement continued, “To hold, as the Obama campaign argues, that our men and women in uniform do not deserve these special considerations, that providing them is ‘entirely arbitrary,’ and that there is ‘no legitimate justification’ for recognizing and addressing the unique situation that the brave members of our military face with regarding to protecting their right to vote would have disastrous affects on the numerous military voting rights laws that have been passed both federally and at the state level.”
Posted by John MacHaffie at 6:51:00 PM 1 comments

Letter to All Republicans


Subj: FW: Letter to All Republicans

To All Republicans
The movie, “The Obama Deception” very well predicted the future results of Obama's Presidency way back from when he was sworn in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
and so did the second part titled, “Fall of the Republic” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU&feature=relmfu

Yes, Obama is the enemy of your freedom and prosperity, your future and your children's future.

But do you know really know who Mitt Romney is?

The following are 40 ways that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were essentially the same candidate....

1. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported TARP.
2. Mitt Romney supported Barack Obama's "economic stimulus" packages.
3. Mitt Romney says that Barack Obama's bailout of the auto industry, was actually his idea.
4. Neither candidate supports immediately balancing the federal budget.
5. They both believe in big government and they both have a track record of being big spenders while in office.
6. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both fully support the Federal Reserve.
7. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are both on record as saying that the president should not question the "independence" of the Federal Reserve.
8. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both said that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, did a good job during the last financial crisis.
9. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both felt that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, deserved to be renominated to a second term.
10. Both candidates oppose a full audit of the Federal Reserve.
11. Both candidates are on record as saying that U.S. Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, has done a good job.
12. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both been big promoters of universal health care.
13. Mitt Romney was the one who developed the plan that Obamacare was later based upon.
14. Wall Street absolutely showers both candidates with campaign contributions.
15. Neither candidate wants to eliminate the income tax or the IRS.
16. Both candidates want to keep personal income tax rates at the exact same levels for the vast majority of Americans.
17. Both candidates are "open" to the idea of imposing a Value Added Tax on the American people.
18. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the TSA is doing a great job.
19. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the NDAA.
20. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both supported the renewal of the Patriot Act.
21. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that, the federal government should be able to indefinitely detain American citizens that are considered to be terrorists.
22. Both candidates believe that American citizens suspected of being terrorists, can be killed by the president without a trial.
23. Barack Obama has not closed Guantanamo Bay, like he promised to do and Mitt Romney actually wants to double the number of prisoners held there.
24. Both candidates support the practice of "extraordinary rendition".
25. They both support the job-killing "free trade" agenda of the global elite.
26. They both accuse each other of shipping jobs out of the country and both of them are right.
27. Both candidates are extremely soft on illegal immigration.
28. Neither candidate has any military experience. This is the first time that this has happened in a U.S. election, since 1944.
29. Both candidates earned a degree from Harvard University.
30. They both believe in the theory of man-made global warming.
31. Mitt Romney has said that he will support a "cap and trade" carbon tax scheme (like the one Barack Obama wants), as long as the entire globe goes along with it.
32. Both candidates have a very long record of supporting strict gun control measures.
33. Both candidates have been pro-abortion most of their careers. Mitt Romney's "conversion" to the pro-life cause has been questioned by many. In fact, Mitt Romney has made millions on Bain Capital's investment in a company called "Stericycle", that incinerates aborted babies collected from family planning clinics.
34. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both believe that the Boy Scout ban on openly gay troop leaders is wrong.
35. They both believe that a "two state solution" will bring lasting peace between the Palestinians and Israel.
36. Both candidates have a history of nominating extremely liberal judges.
37. Like Barack Obama, Mitt Romney also plans to add "signing statements" to bills, when he signs them into law.
38. They both have a horrible record when it comes to job creation.
39. Both candidates believe that the president has the power to take the country to war, without getting the approval of the U.S. Congress.
40. Both candidates plan to continue running up more government debt, even though the U.S. government is already 16 trillion dollars in debt.

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/40-points-that-prove-that-barack-obama-and-mitt-romney-are-exactly-the-same

But do you know really know who Mitt Romney is? He is the son of Rockefeller Republican, George Romney. Look at who called him “..our favorite son”! None other than globalist kingpin, Nelson Rockefeller.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJSHaxRZQVA

Mitt Romney would have been the enemy of your freedom, prosperity and your children's future, just as much as Obama. He is a “Rockefeller Republican” and true to the legacy of J.D Rockefeller, he is as slick as the snake oil selling family of banksters, who pushed his father and now push him. Just watch this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccMpXDIB0cw

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.”- Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope (We the People's 'Tragedy' and the elite's 'hope'; mentor to Bill Clinton)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRkCvubUGCM
No doubt, if Romney had won, the destination would be the same for America, but we would have taken a more scenic route to oblivion. And most of you neo-conned sheeple would have gone back to sleep thinking that your “man” was in charge and all was well.

I can't prove it, but I suspect that the fix was in and Obama knew it. He went to play basketball yesterday (11/06/12). The Lie Bold (Diebold) machines have been proven to be easy to hack.

All things considered, this may be a blessing in disguise; for you, no doubt, are NOT going back to sleep, again, anytime soon, after what happened yesterday.

Obama now has a maximum of four years remaining in the office; If Romney, or any of the other unqualified Republican's, were elected, then one would probably be looking at twelve to sixteen years before the people will have another opportunity to vote for a qualified candidate. This is based upon the premise that the unqualified Republican would probably get two terms, or at least prohibit a qualified candidate after his first term; then another switch back to an unqualified Democrat for at least four and maybe eight years. During the Republican Primaries, The establishment Republicans repeatedly demonstrated, conclusively, that they will undermine a qualified candidate on their own ticket and are opposed to limited Constitutional government; they offered, realistically, twelve to sixteen more years of failure. I don't think the Nation can survive another twelve to sixteen years; it may be able to survive another four.

If the Republican Establishment had really wanted my vote, they would have needed to run and support qualified candidates who support and defend The Constitution - I'm not listening anymore to their nonsense about being against Obama, when they undermined the only two qualified candidates they had, Congressman Paul and Governor Gary Johnson. Since they would not support two qualified candidates, they did not get my vote for the unqualified candidate Mitt Romney. They are liars and can not be trusted. They are only against Obama because he is a democrat, not because they oppose his ideology and beliefs, because they are pretty much the same as Romney.
If the GOP were genuine in their belief of limited government, we would not have seen the DELIBERATE marginalization of the best candidates. It's all smoke and mirrors; Simply one party with two names, both intent on the ruination of America. I am sick of watching this puppet show.
There was One Candidate for President, who has shown by his example, by his past record, who he truly is: A Christian who does not brag about it, instead he walks the walk every day of his life practicing the Golden Rule; A family man who has been married to the same woman for 55 years; The Patriarch of a family who are salt of the earth Americana at it's very best; A true Constitutionalist, who has never wavered from his principles and Votes “NO” to every unconstitutional bill. And to those who say he did not get enough legislation passed, I say that is like criticizing a Nun for not turning “tricks” in a brothel, when her purpose for being there is to redeem the harlots and show them a better way.

He does not boast, he does not brag, he does not tell you he is the toughest - so elect him, because he has demonstrated a firm, yet resilient, purposefulness all his life and he speaks a simple, yet powerful truth. He does not want to “lead” you by manipulative tyranny; instead, his personal and political life is a benediction to virtue and inspires others to listen, look and act. He does not want to control you or your life. He wants you to live in Liberty. He wants you to live in Freedom. He does not seek the Presidency to assuage his ego. He sought the Presidency so he can Serve the People and Restore the Constitution and America, and he was willing to forgo the $400,000 that Obama is being paid, and only accept $39,336 to serve us.
If 7Up is the un-cola, Ron Paul is the Un-Politician and America would not have had to choose from coke “Obama” or pepsi “Romney.” Remember that you could have had a V8 in 08, instead of McCain't. McCain was a ringer and so was Romney in 12. Instead, you will have to settle for O-bomb-a in 12. You could have had a Ron Paul, instead, and you would have been feeling a whole lot better about it today, after the election.

You were warned that one of three likely scenarios would take place:

1. “Ron Paul doesn't get the nomination and runs as a third party candidate: Ron Paul gets the following voters: (a. 2008 Obama voters who thought they were going to get 'Change', (b. 2008 Obama voters who voted to end the wars, (c. the VAST majority of the Independent vote. (d. Ron Paul supporters coming out to vote in DROVES. Maybe Obama wins. Probably Ron Paul wins.” But Ron Paul did not run as a third-party candidate. Instead, he stayed in The Party and worked hard against great odds to change the course of history until the bitter end of the Convention.
2. “Ron Paul and his supporters are shut out and even violently attacked at the conventions: Fervent and stubborn Ron Paul supporters stay home or write him in or vote for Gary Johnson.” This is what happened

RNC Disenfranchises Paul Delegates; Rigs Rules to Nominate Romney
http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/12645-rnc-disenfranchises-delegates-rigs-rules-to-nominate-romney

RNC/GOP Corruption 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOLVrfPQWZM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

RNC Sham 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B39W91O-rUg&feature=player_embedded&fb_source=message

Surrealism, Soviet Realism
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/119572.html

3. This is what could have happened. “Ron Paul gets the GOP nomination: Ron Paul gets the following voters: (a. 2008 Obama voters who thought they were going to get 'Change', (b. 2008 Obama voters who voted to end the wars, (c. the VAST majority of the Independent vote, (d. the entire GOP voting block who dislikes Obama enough to vote for Ron Paul instead. (e. Ron Paul supporters coming out to vote in DROVES. Ron Paul definitely wins.”

You could have made a difference. You could have awakened and got up and did something productive to get the only Constitutionally Qualified and most decent human being who was running for President; who so humbly walks the walk of Christ, without calling attention to himself, like so many who are glitter bugs talking as they are stumbling.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle” Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Next time, get behind someone who is truly Constitutionally Conservative, like Ron Paul is. It will NOT be anyone like Marco Rubio, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Michelle Bachman, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, or Mitt Romney.

It WILL be someone like Ron Paul, Justin Amish, Walter Jones, John Duncan, Gary Johnson, Virgil Goode, Chuck Baldwin, or Rand Paul.

History will record what we do today, moving forward. Will we save America, while we still can? Or will we re-arrange the furniture on a sinking ship? I am not young, but I feel for the young people and I would like to leave our children and our children's children, an America of Freedom and Liberty with Constitutional Law and specifically, a Bill of Rights that protects their God given rights to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. Posterity will judge us, for what we do today and for what we don't do today. Will Posterity pay homage to you for acting wisely to protect them, by bringing flowers to your place of bodily rest, or will they curse your memory and bring sledge-hammers and wrecking balls, to tear down your monuments and edifices and desecrate your graves?

Think about it People.

Yahoo: Ron Paul Only Candidate Able to Defeat Obama in New Poll

Edges out Obama while Romney, suffering from Obama’s enthusiasm gap, at best ties Obama

 
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ron-paul-only-candidate-able-011300652.html

Fox News says Ron Paul is the biggest threat to Barack Obama. Not Mitt Romney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwn5lIJ-_cQ&list=FLeaKKMqnFUzdeR0pICdiDKQ&index=4&feature=plpp_video

As George Washington once said, “Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”

Witness the Power of an Idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hgsg7a-Ok8Q

“An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Cannot Be Stopped By Any Army Or Any Government” RP

Ron Paul: The Economy

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

Paul Plan to Restore America

http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/ron-paul-plan-to-restore-america/

Romney's six largest campaign contribution sources in 2011 were executives, family members and affiliated political action committees of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Citigroup and Bank of America, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington, D.C.-based group that monitors campaign finances.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/From-the-Wires/2012/0202/Mitt-Romney-draws-more-Wall-Street-donations-than-Obama

By contrast, Ron Paul's three largest donors are The US Army, The U.S. Navy and The U.S. Air Force.
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cid=N00005906

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Posted by John MacHaffie at 6:46:00 PM 4 comments

Yahoo News: Absentee ballots may have been destroyed in crash


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Yahoo News: Absentee ballots may have been destroyed in crash
Posted By: RumorMail
Date: Thursday, 8-Nov-2012 17:59:08
In Response To: Military Absentee Ballots Delivered One Day Late, Would Have Swung Election For Romney (RumorMail)

While the above site may have been a parody (as some claim) this is not.
Federal officials say that absentee ballots being sent to U.S. military serving in Afghanistan may have been burned in a plane crash.
A top official in the Federal Voting Assistance Program this week notified election officials across the nation that a transport plane crashed at Shindad Air Base on Oct. 19.
The crash resulted in the destruction of 4,700 pounds of mail inbound to troops serving in the area.
Federal officials in their email to state election offices said they did not know if any ballots were destroyed. They also said the lost mail was limited to one zip code.
But they recommended that election officials resend a new ballot to anyone who requested one since the first ballot may have been destroyed in the crash and fire.
Posted by John MacHaffie at 6:44:00 PM 1 comments
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