In memory of all of my brothers and sisters in arms who made the ultimate sacrifice, so our Nation can be free.

To my uncle, SGT Sixto Rivera, KIA, B Co, 38th AIB, 7th ID, St Vith, Battle of the Bulge 23 December 1944

And to those who still remain in the POW and MIA lists,

May the grace of God be with you, and your loved ones.

To those whose love ones passed en route to the Fiddler’s Green, God Bless you and give you the strength to honor the memory of our heroes.

The Bush Administration, and now the Obama Administration have recognized the need of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to become independent from the need to import natural gas from outside sources. So, the Obama Administration has approved to transfer nuclear technology to the UAE.

This friends, is appalling.

First, yeap, I agree that if they do not get the technology from us, they would get it from France, or Germany, or Russia. But, why give others our nuclear secrets, even if they are not so secret? As usual, they will eventually be used against us.

Second, we are giving the nuclear secrets because the UAE recognized that importing energy producing natural gas is not only a drain of their money, but a source of potential blackmail. Natural resources needed to fulfill crucial needs of a Nation are their weakest link, anybody with the proper mind frame and ability could potentially bring such nation to their knees.

That is why the U.S. is in such precarious position, having to import oil from the Middle East, Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, etc.

What does the fact that the UAE are counting on nuclear power to drop their dependence on foreign natural resources by producing electricity from nuclear power teaches us?

Two things:

1.       Nuclear power is a viable source of power.

2.       It is smart to become energy independent.

So, how could we apply these lessons?

1.       Imitate France and produce around 70% of our electricity from nuclear power.

2.       Let’s drill our own oil out of the Continental shell and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Unfortunately, our politicians are more interested on catering to extreme private interest groups, rather than help us become energy independent.

You do not become energy independent by reducing the amount of energy you consume, but by producing the majority of the energy you consume. Right now, if we did just that, we would have a multibillion dollar surplus every month, since we would not have to send the money to our oil suppliers. At the same time, by producing our energy, we produce more jobs, a new industrial area would emerge, producing countless jobs, thus stimulating our economy.

But, what do I know? Politicians are the real experts. Or, are they?

No, not really.

Our elected officials, for the most part, use their time and the job that we trusted them with (scary thought) undermining the Constitution, or, like John Murtha, trying to help their families make multimillions of dollars by renting empty space to the Department of Defense, or like Barney Frank, getting a job for his boyfriend at either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac (I don’t remember which).

Or, like Nancy Pelosi, getting briefed and not paying attention to the briefings.

What do you say? How about making a push to vote those bums out?

Presidential Documents

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

NOTICE: Part II

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Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 27, 2009

Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Related To Gaza
Memorandum for the Secretary of State
By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the ``Act''), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.
You are authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.


(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington, January 27, 2009
[FR Doc. E9-2488
Filed 2-3-09; 8:45 am]
Billing code 4710-10-P

http://www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488

What does this means? Simple. Under the disguise of humanitarian assistance, our President has allocated $20.3 million to relocate Gaza refugees, which for the most part, are Hamas supporters. Hamas, if you remember correctly, has the thought that Israel should be eradicated from the face of the earth, and the United States is the great Satan. They also believe that non Muslims either convert, or else, they forfeit their right to be alive.

The United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund, allows for those refugees approved, to be relocated to the United States.

Let’s see, the people who perform security clearance investigation for the military are so backed up that it takes them sometimes more than a year to catch up. How is the State Department going to be able to investigate the new wave of refugees, so they can be granted asylum? My guess is that it will be completed the same way that government do things… with ineptitude, and lack of accountability.

78 out of 100 Senators, spearheaded by Christopher Dodd and recently converted Democrat Senator Arlen Specter, along with Republicans Thune and Isakson (son of Isaac) wrote what could be considered an open letter to President Obama, reminding him of the long history of friendship and loyalty among the Nations of Israel and the United States.

In the letter, the Senators emphasize that as mediators in the conflict between Israel and Palestine, the United States needs to remember to press Palestine to completely eradicate terrorism, and while mediating and attempting to get a Palestinian State, to at the same time think and ensure Israel’s safety.

I think it is important to remember how our President has been seen attending dinners along with his wife in which the key note speaker insisted in bashing Israel. We should also remember that some of his friends are well known anti Israel, just as much as anti American.It is good to see both sides of the aisle cooperating at least in theory in reminding our President that Israel is our only real allied in the region.

“And over here to my right, your left, we have the XX Office, they ensure that xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (the “x”s represent the title of my office, and what we do, and are being used here to protect our identity. These were the words of a young female Soldier straining her voice while acting as a tour guide for a delegation of local Sheiks, businessmen and local politicians. I can now understand how the animals at a Zoo feel. Well, I guess that we are trying to show the delegation that we are still trying to help them, and not really trying to figure out how to get the heck out of the land of Hammurabi and into the land of the Poppy seeds as promised by our President. 

I cannot fault the locals here for wanting to know what in the world we are really doing since the door kicking trying to find terrorists was left to the Iraqi Army. They are having a modicum amount of success in their venture. But that modicum amount of success could be compared to President Obama’s budget cuts… uuummmm, sorry, no… the Obama administration just faked making cuts in other areas other than defense.

Let’s see, it could be compared to Barney Franks success in protecting the housing and banking industry…. Uuuuummmmmmmmmmm no, I don’t think so either, he failed miserably there too.

OOOOOOHHHHH yeah, Murtha’s family member succeeding to operate a useless storage facility funded by Defense Contracts for no apparent service rendered? Yeah, he was actually successful.

Or, how about Vice President Gore’s brilliant defense of Global Warming against all of those scientists who testify against man made global warming? Nope, wait, the only one the Democrats allowed to present the counter point wasn’t a scientist, but Newt Gingrich, who, even though is a bright and articulated political figure, IS NOT A SCIENTIST.

My point is that I have watch the Iraqi Army go from a rag tag bunch of cowards who run at the sound of a truck back firing to a semi coherent bunch of folks trying to defend their Nation. That is more than I can say of famous groups like Moveon.org, Self confessed terrorist William Ayres and wife, the California Congresswoman who could not see the light that she was shining on the performance of her job when she said that some Cuban Citizens live better than some of her constituents.

Some Iraqis could teach some of our Congress people a thing or two about courage and patriotism.

In a thought that could have come out of the leaders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) of old, President Obama said: “…We don't want every single college grad with mathematical aptitude to become a derivatives trader. We want some of them to go into engineering, and we want some of them to be going into computer design." That thought might be true, but it is a scary thought never the less.

The reason that line scares me, is not because we do not need experts in all areas of knowledge, it is because if your son wants to be a derivatives trader, he should be just that, provided he meets the requirements. It is not up to the government to tell you what you should or should not be.

I initially open my word processor with the idea to tackle a headline on the Drudge Report where Obama says that the financial sector is to shrink.

In his words: “The financial sector will make up a smaller part of the U.S. economy in the future as new regulations clamp down on "massive risk-taking,"

To the nearsighted, it seems that businesses have gone awry and lose control of their operations. The President blames businesses for all the risk-taking, and the loses that followed. The Unions speak about greed, and the uninitiated in economic matters blames whomever.

Everybody wants to point fingers, and nobody seems to be willing to accept their part on our Nation’s economical debacle.

Well, what can I say?

There are a lot of people in our Nation that had become very successful, and with success comes money. Think about the oil company executives, who share in record earnings. Consider also the fact that for the most part, oil company earnings fuel more than cars, they also fuel the pension plans of millions of American retirees.

Consider MSNBC’s parent company, General Electric. Their stock has gone down. However, Forbes.com lists GE CEO’s, Jeffrey Immelt, last five years compensation as $53 million dollars (http://www.forbes.com/static/pvp2005/LIR67G5.html). Also remember that GE still sells supplies to Iran. The same Iran that is directly responsible for the death of some of our American Soldiers.

Remember Franklin Raines? President Clinton’s budget director, one of President Obama’s economic advisors during his campaign, and former Fannie Mae Chief, was compensated more than $ 90.12 million over a six year period; even though he had overestimated Fannie’s solvency by the tune of$10.6 Billions (http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NDA4YTY1N2ZhMDhmNjIwNTk4OTI2MDYxZWU4NDg1Y2Q=) in order to continue paying their overinflated salaries and perks.

So yes, there has being and still is plenty of greed to go around in the world of economics. But, the problem is not so much that our economic system is unregulated, but that is regulated too much.

Wait, how in the world can I say something like that? Especially when I have provided tangible evidence of greed and corruption in economic industries; that would not make sense…

Well, we have plenty of rules in the books to deal with corruption. Once it is found, the rules are to be applied. But we do not need the government to stick their noses in the private sector. That is not their jobs, and when you put incompetent individuals to investigate, and regulate, you end up with even more nonsense. Think about it. Congress cannot keep their own cafeteria running without tax dollars subsidies; they cannot manage the Social Security Administration, they made a mess out of the Veterans Administration… These incompetent politicians have no idea, no knowledge about how the economy works, and still do not even have the common sense to keep their mouth shut.

When the President accuses Wall Street of risky behavior, according to the context, he is thinking of the mortgage industry. The mortgage industry was doing fine until Congress and a few activist organizations (ACORN?) forced the bankers’ hands to lower their credit standards, thus converting perfectly safe loans into an economic trap. Because now bankers were forced to lend money to people that under normal circumstances would be unable to pay such loans back, the whole house cards came tumbling down. And when some conscious politicians attempted to bring the problem into the open, they were mocked, ridiculed, and accused of hating the poor. Maxine Waters, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, tried their darnest to shift the blame to the Regulator, and later on, just brushed off their part in the whole sordid mess.

Nonsense? Check out the video at http://www.conservative–ideals.com under Weasels club. When Former President Clinton states that the Democrats got on his way and in the Republicans way of reforming the Housing Industry…

So, right now Obama wants to shrink the economic sector and grow the government, does that make any sense?

Government only produces bureaucratic incompetence. For the most part of the 20^th Century, the economic sector gave us a standard of living where the poorest among us lives like a king or queen when compared to other Nations.

It is outrageous to believe that the government needs to shrink our Economic sector. If anything, government needs to shrink itself and get out of our way.