WEIGHED AND FOUND WANTING

By Sheriff Jim R. Schwiesow, Ret.

December 4, 2008
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Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin

To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

AT THE GATES OF PERDITION

On January 20th upwards of four million Americans are expected to gather in the nation’s capitol to celebrate the swearing in to Presidential Office of the one that they have anointed as their savior, and to drink of the golden vessels containing the fruits of the victory of their exalted elect and praise the secular gods of this nation.

In solemnization reminiscent of the great celebratory spectacles of the Third Reich four million voices will be raised in adulation to the greatest con man to grace the political scene in the history of the nation, a seeming apparition without credentials who wandered onto the American political landscape ostensibly out of nowhere, and who has - along with his wife - expressed only a deep abiding disdain for the traditions and values of the Republic of which he is an unverified part. Unable to produce a certificate of birth he appears to be a stateless nomad. No records were produced by his campaign to confirm his place of birth or the name by which he was registered at Columbia University. His academic registers are as blank as his record of political accomplishments and as vacuous as his promises.

How is it, one might ask, that such a man could be elected to the Office of Presidency of the United States? The answer is easy the level of ignorance in this nation has reached a saturation point that brings a flush of shame to the countenance of knowledgeable thinking Americans. A solid majority of those who voted for this king of prestidigitation have a cognition level of near zero. Poll after poll has revealed that his most rabid supporters were so intelligence deprived that they had barely the ability to comprehend or communicate at a fourth grade level.

When queried, these were unable to supply the most basic information about their nation, its origins or its governing institutions. Most could not name their elected representatives, they could not name any of the cabinet members, they did not know the powers and functions of the three branches of government in fact they didn’t know that there were three branches of government, their knowledge of the Constitution was nil, and they couldn’t differentiate between the revolutionary and the civil war. The Electoral College is a mystery to them and when the campaign programs of their candidate’s opponent were put to them they inaccurately identified these as the platform of their own preferential candidate. Their abysmal ignorance extended to their own home localities, the majority could not name their mayors or their governors, and about international issues and personages they had not a clue.

These mentally challenged souls, products of a perverted education system, do not view the inauguration as a swearing in of a president, they view it as the coronation of a great and benevolent king. They actually believe that they have in the person of Barak Obama a worshipful savior who will deliver them from the obligations that accrue to their status as citizens. They now expect that they will be able to tell their creditors to go fly a kite, that they will be disengaged from mortgage and rental payment obligations, that food will magically appear on their plates and that medical, educational, and a host of other services will be free, paid for - they hope - by those who voted against their chosen one. I wish that I could state that this was written satirically, but unfortunately I cannot.

Ah! You say, but what about those of academia, the national media and the entertainment community who so fanatically supported Obama as a messiah and potential savior of the nation? Surely these are not ignorant. To this I would say that to be able to comprehend and to understand and profit from experience one must be possessed of two mental attributes, general knowledge and guiding commonsense. Many of the former have knowledge, but are sadly lacking and direfully short of an ability to make sound practical judgments, in short they have not a lick of common sense. They, like those who are deficient of both knowledge and commonsense, are the product of an education system that indoctrinates rather than educates. It was indeed an unholy alliance of the dimwitted and the deceived that put this man into office.

SICK SOULS – SICK WAYS – A SICK NATION

This week a number of grim news stories appeared that very prominently pointed up the increasingly perverse and depraved nature of a significant portion of the population of this country.

The first of these had to do with a male pedestrian who was struck by a hit and run driver, and then laid along the roadside for hours in plain sight and expired from his injuries while thousands of vehicles passed by, the drivers of which neither stopped to render assistance or bothered to phone in a report of the injured man to public safety authorities. This coldness and lack of compassion defies an explanation except to say that the majority of our people are seared of conscience and lack even a smidgeon of awareness and sympathy for another's suffering. The blood of this unfortunate man stains the souls of those who had no pity for a fellow human being.

In Florida a teenager committed suicide in full view of thousands who watched him on their computers, via his web cam, as he progressed through the stages leading to his death from a deliberate ingestion of prescription pharmaceutical drugs. The watchers were enthralled by the young man’s macabre progression from cognizance to stupor then to a comatose state and finally into the hands of the grim reaper. Some of the watchers exhorted him on in his grim departure from life. For ten hours they urged him to continue with his suicide endeavor with taunts of, “Take more that is not enough to kill you” and “Go ahead and do it”. That such as these claim membership in the human race is discordant with reason or logic. They have more affinity with the evil spirits of the demon world, their apparent mentors in life, than they do with the human race.

What has happened to human decency? In Long Island, New York a young temporary worker who had been assigned to security duties at a Wal-Mart Store was stomped and trampled to death by a “Black Friday” rabble of wild-eyed so-called shoppers with the mentality of a herd of hollow-horned ruminants with mad cow disease.

As the young man prepared to unlock the doors for the day’s business nearly two thousand of these half-wits surged forward and burst through the doors ripping them from their hinges and shattering the glass. Then with the intensity of a herd of demented bulls with the smell of blood in their nostrils they trampled to death this young man who was trying to shield a pregnant woman from the savagery of their onslaught. To add to their ignominy they roared around the store, in the likeness of sanity deprived Neanderthals, filling their carts while totally ignoring the suffering of the injured and the endeavors of the rescue people.

After describing the wretched event a TV station invited listeners to call in. I tuned out quickly with the strains of a whiney woman’s comment that it was all Wal-Mart’s fault echoing in my ears. Lord deliver us from such in the coming time of retribution.

A recent news report of a survey of thirty thousand high school seniors disclosed that eighty percent of them admitted to cheating and lying, sixty-four percent admitted to cheating on tests, and thirty percent admitted to stealing from stores. Another new report just out indicates that one in five young adults in this country have serious personality disorders that interfere with their daily lives. One has to wonder where these young people acquired their values and their mental disturbances. Was it at home or in the schools? And what part did the church play in their lives, if any?

A JUST RECOMPENSE

Following is the prophesy of Nahum given unto Nineveh of Assyria prior to the complete destruction of that great city by the Eternal Most High God. Think not that such Biblical prophesy is confined strictly to whom it was originally addressed, in this case the Assyrian residents of the capitol city Nineveh. It instead identifies God’s wrath upon a people of depraved hearts and minds, worshippers of the lusts of the flesh rather than worshippers of GOD, and our people fit the bill of particulars perfectly in this regard.

“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of hosts; I will lift your skirts over your face, I will show the nations your nakedness, And the kingdoms your shame. I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle. It shall come to pass that all who look upon you will flee from you, and say, Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her?” Nahum 3:5-7

The sack of the city of Nineveh by the Babylonians and Medes in 612 BC effectively put an end to the Assyrian Empire; and, although some of its sections were later inhabited, Nineveh never again regained it power and affluence. Take heed - a similar fate waits this nation

“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of hosts, “I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no more.”

© 2008 - Jim R. Schwiesow - All Rights Reserved

COLUMNISTS CALL FOR TAXPAYER REVOLT - WANT MORE SOCIALISM

By: Devvy
December 4, 2008

© 2008 - NewsWithViews.com

Back in September, I happened upon a column titled 'Time for a Taxpayer Revolt.' As I began to read the column, I thought, "This is good." The two authors were outlining the disaster of the so-called "bail outs" underway. As I worked my way through the column, I realized it was just more blame Republicans. At the bottom of this drivel, out popped the ignorance of the authors as they spewed their socialism: the government should help people build houses, create jobs for the greenie movement and universal health care.

I don't know where Medea Benjamin & Arun Gupta went to school, but it's obvious they know nothing about our legal form of government or the U.S. Constitution. Yet, these socialists who hide behind the "liberals" label have a large forum where they pump out their propaganda. Because Americans are so under educated from attending the dumbing down institutions they call public schools and blind loyalty to their political party, they believe it. Benjamin and Gupta call for a Twenty-First Century New Deal, similar to the dangerous and toxic message put out by Richard C. Cook.

Isn't it odd how people like Benjamin and Gupta rail about the bailouts, but how much you want to bet both of them voted for Comrade Obama who voted for this grand larceny? Allegedly Americans voted back the entire Congress (with 17 seats changing in the House out of 435) who approved this looting of the American people. So, why on earth would there be a taxpayer revolt? Americans were so happy with the performance of Congress (who had an approval rating of about 17% before the pretend elections) - they rehired 99% of the same people who are destroying this country! We're right back to where we were before the pretend election with the same Congress and people think there's going to be change?

I was out of the state from November 16 - December 2nd. When I travel I always try to engage Americans on current issues just to see what they know. The bail out issue has people hopping mad, yet we're to believe Americans supposedly voted all the same crooks back into office? The one thing that did surprise me was how many folks from restaurant personnel, gas station employees, grocery store, you name it - have heard about the citizenship controversy surrounding Comrade Obama.

While on the road, I caught a segment with Bill O'Reilly who said quit listening to the gloom and doom people out there and spend! It's important for the economy said O'Reilly, and people like yours truly and Dr. Edwin Vieira don't know what we're talking about. According to the big O, we're just fear mongers. A few days later I caught a morning segment on FAUX. The subject: people are now saving their money and how bad that is for the economy. Listen. It's real easy for a gas bag like O'Reilly to tell you to spend yourself further into debt when he likely spends cash; easy to do with an income of about $20 million bux a year. Yes, our economy depends on the exchange of goods and services for compensation. However, with pink slips dropping like leaves in fall and Americans living on the edge of financial ruin, the economy will suffer. People can't spend what they don't have and those who do have are weighing their options on spending. Need vs want.

Over the past few decades, Americans haven't saved, but spent themselves into massive debt. Banking institutions, lenders and private companies have been lying and cheating about the solvency of their corporations and now the day of reckoning has come with the worst still on the horizon. As millions of Americans have no credit or bad credit, they are unable to spend, even for necessities. Millions more are finally coming to the realization that because they have no savings to speak of, they are standing on a cliff and the view isn't pretty. The wipeout of 401(k)s has been devastating, but well paid hucksters who make their living peddling bull, knocked yours truly and others for warning about the 401(k) issue. Guess what? Tragically, it has come to pass.

Back in 2005, I told my husband we have to sell our home in Sacramento and get out because the housing market was going to crash. While I was planning to get packed up and put the house on the market, John was diagnosed with cancer so we had to push back our plans a bit. We purchased this house in West Texas in April, 2006 and sold our house in Natomas Park, Sacramento, California, several months later. We were one of the lucky ones who got out. While we had no debt on our home except the original mortgage, I knew the hurricane was building steam and sure as the sun shines, it has hit Natomas Park hard. The house across the street from ours, same floor plan except flipped, sold for $405,000 in June 2005. Today that house is appraised at $274,000. The house we sold is worth $150,000 less today than the day we signed the final escrow papers. Those buyers are saddled with huge mortgages that far exceed the value of the homes in that foreclosure capital and it will never turn around for them. The property will continue to age and eventually new houses in the area will be built commanding higher selling prices than the used ones.

I warned in a column back on September 25, 2008, the bail out disaster would be a never ending hemorrhage and we the people will be the ones bankrupted while CON-gress makes sure their banking buddies are bailed out. Congress critters continue to appear on cable networks talking about how the auto industry CEOs need to give them a plan so they can unlawfully dole out loans. Not one of them except Ron Paul has firmly stated that the U.S. Constitution forbids Congress from acting as a bank giving lines of credit, owning banks, bailing out private industry (auto and insurance) and dictating employment terms to private corporations. Now the states of the Union are lining up like beggars because they, along with their state legislatures, have mismanaged their budgets and want you and I to pay the interest on any money unlawfully loaned to these states by a corrupt Congress.

The level of lawlessness out in Washington, DC, is breath taking and will bring the entire economy to complete and total ruin because there's no one to stop it. Congress is running amok as if the U.S. Constitution doesn't exist. There's no president to stop this massive looting using veto power. No checks and balances any longer. The picture is grim and sugar coating it won't change the reality of what should begin to hit in the first quarter of next year. Back in January, I wrote about a tent city in Ontario, California. "Shantytowns" are now springing up in major cities:

November 14, 2008: "Rising unemployment and widespread foreclosures have left many homeless and living in tents and makeshift huts in cities around the nation. It's a scene not seen since the "Hoovervilles" of the Great Depression."

No new "stimulus" packages being thrown around by Pelosi and Obama will make a damn bit of difference. Using borrowed money to try and bail out a dead economy is simply more lunacy. Congress destroyed our major job sectors (ag, manufacturing, industrial) with all these "free" trade treaties - BOTH parties. Neither have done a thing to stop the destruction by getting America out of NAFTA, CAFTA and GATT. Their only solution is to borrow more money from the privately owned FED, slap all Americans with the interest and dole out more borrowed, worthless currency in an effort to plug the dam that is about to burst.

Who is going to pay the tab for this $8 TRILLION dollar give away called bail outs and rescues? You, me, our children and grand children will be paying the interest on all this borrowed money if the current system stays intact. With the people's purse overdrawn $10.6 TRILLION dollars, how does Congress expect the debt load to be paid? Don't ask Nancy Pelosi. That vile female is the quintessential example of an immoral crone who has absolutely no regard for the supreme law of the land. Come April 15, 2009, we shall see if all the money stolen from your paycheck this year via the withholding rip off taxing scheme was enough to support this massive theft from the sweat off your back. Remember the figures from 2004 and multiply them to what Congress has done over the past three months and intends to continue doing. No, this isn't great news at "Christmas time." Yes, it's important for Americans to put money into the economy, but when enough of them see the big picture, they are not going to continue spending. It's called survival.

But, I guess this is all okay with the American people because they allegedly rehired the same crooks, not just CON-gress, but the state legislatures as well. The destruction of California is voter approved. Not only do the people of California approve of the looting of their wallets by their state legislature and that nitwit governor, Arnie the Terminator, they allegedly voted in even more communists to Sacramento last month. The people of California threw out Davis and replaced him with a "movie star" who is no more qualified to be the governor of any state than I am to teach physics at MIT.

Republican heavies and "leadership" in the state said no to Tom McClintock and convinced gullible conservatives that a pig like Arnold Schwarzenegger had "more name recognition." Oh, did I call Da Governor a pig? I certainly did. How quickly people forget. Arnie's photo appeared on Drudge during his run for the governor's mansion. It was a picture of a female, buck naked except for a wisp of material covering her pubic area, sitting on Arnie's shoulders, bare legs wrapped around his neck with big udders hanging in his face. Oh, yes, and was I shocked to see it up on Drudge's web site. I'm sure Maria, California's first lady, enjoyed that display of her husband for the whole world to see. Schwarzenegger is an empty bag of skin (sagging now since he no longer pumps his pecs with steroids) who has done nothing but rubber stamp the financial destruction of California.

My home state is over run with illegal aliens bankrupting the taxpayers. THAT is why I left California. BILLIONS of dollars fleeced from the hard working people of California every year to support somewhere around 8 MILLION illegal aliens who have no right to anything except being deported, but are given free medical treatment in hospitals, bankrupting them from one end of the state to the other. Crowding California's class rooms with kids who have NO right to be in the state, much less sucking off the system. From medical treatment to food stamps, education and stealing jobs that belong to natural born and naturalized citizens, to filling the state prisons, illegals are stealing the resources of that state with the blessing of the taxpayers who voted back in the same crooks, cowards and criminals into the state house last month. I said hasta la vista to Arnie and that corrupt legislature.

The mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villagarosa, who is of Mexican ancestry, protects illegals. How he whines about water shortages and not enough money, but he turns a blind eye for "his people" instead of working with Arnie to deport millions of criminals running loose in the state. How much water do you think 8 MILLION illegals use in California every day taking showers, flushing toilets, cooking and doing laundry? Quit complaining, Villagarosa. You and the terminator are nothing but hypocrites who care nothing for the law.

I was just in LA two weeks ago. There are huge areas of that basin that resemble the slums of Tijuana. A third world dump that continues to grow in size. Militant illegals who demand the productive citizens of California work their fingers to the bone to keep them in free services. The people of California asked for this chaos and plunder and now they're getting a good dose of it up front and in their faces. The citizens in the golden state are so happy about it, they voted the same vermin back to the state house who continue to fund and protect these criminals who sneak across our borders. The same incompetent professional politicians who have destroyed California both morally and economically. That's why I left California. We could have purchased another home anywhere in the state, but I refuse to have my pocketbook drained to fund criminals.

I continue to encourage people to diversify as much of their holdings as possible into gold. This always brings email telling me the government is going to seize all the gold "just like they did before." Dr. Edwin Vieira recently made an excellent statement on this very issue:

"Gold confiscation will be far more difficult than confiscation was in the 1930s, when much of the gold was held in the banks, which FDR simply closed. Now very little of it is. So how will it be seized, if people do not voluntarily turn it in? By house-to-house searches? The 401k loot, however, is all in various financial institutions. It can be confiscated electronically and immediately. So, in that respect, the 401k loot is in a worse position than the 1930s gold, because much of that gold was not in the banks, and was never turned in. Of course, people might start liquidating their 401k accounts (leaving aside the tax consequences) if they feared confiscation. But if that started to occur on a massive scale, the PTB would invoke a kind of "bank holiday," simply freezing the assets in place."

People are free to do what they feel necessary to protect their assets and if they're afraid to buy gold because they fear confiscation, so be it. I do not because we are a different people than back in 1933. Know what? Let them try. Some of the most powerful people in this country - including banking barons - own gold and lots of it. We'll see if Pelosi and the gutless coward, Harry Reid, want to take them on and millions of Americans who will just say, stuff it.

I need to make a correction. In a recent column I wrote the Illinois State Lottery winning Pick 3 numbers on November 5, 2008, was 666. That is a fact. I erred when I said this drawing was on election night. For some reason, I had it stuck in my head the election was November 5th when in fact it was the 4th. An honest mistake.

The Obama citizenship controversy is reaching a full head of steam. Please click here for my last press release two days ago titled 'Treachery Inside the U.S. Supreme Court.' There is a second case that has the same teeth as Leo Donofrio's and that press release covers Cort's case and what everyone needs to do asap. Regular readers know I filed several FOIAs and the aforementioned press release contains a scan of the letter I received while on the road from the University of Hawaii under their state records act. Now that I'm home, I need to follow up on the others. The U.S. State Department has not responded; I predict those two will have to be lawsuits. I won my last lawsuit against the FAA, so do not give up hope before I even begin my battle.

Also, remember my persistent requests to James Burrus, head of election fraud at the FBI in Washington, DC, to open an investigation into Obama for violation of wire fraud laws. While the FBI will not comment on any on-going investigation, I am hopeful there is one underway. Burrus simply cannot ignore the overwhelming evidence against Obama and not expect at some point for all hell to break loose when the truth comes out and that for political reasons, the FBI knowingly and willfully ignored it. There is a rage blowing across this country and a demand for justice. We shall see if our voices are heard.

As for Phil Berg's case, Obama and the DNC thumbed their noses at the Supreme Court. This column covers it well. The only thing I disagree with in Mr. Latino's column is that if Phil's case gets kicked to the curb, it's over. Leo and Cort's cases are clearly the cannon that will stop an impostor from being sworn in as president of these united States of America IF the U.S. Supreme Court has the guts to bring their cases to a full oral argument.

Obama has hired three law firms. Not three lawyers, but three law firms to defend him against this growing legal quagmire. I predict it won't be long before even Obama's staunchest supporters begin asking hard questions: Why not produce a real COLB? Why can't you refute beyond any doubt the valid and solid allegations in Leo's lawsuit that you, Mr. Obama, were not a natural born citizen at birth? All this can come to a halt by just proving these Americans wrong, Mr. Obama. Why do you refuse to release your records from Columbia? Is it because you obtained funding as a foreign student as has been alleged? The list goes on about this man who has managed to keep all records of his life sealed up nice and tight. There's a reason and anyone not drowning in denial knows why.

Obama is now a private citizen. Thankfully for this country he has resigned his unlawful seat in the U.S. Senate. He is also creating a constitutional stand off and an on going legal crisis. It can all go away tomorrow, but it won't. Obama is still gambling he can bluff his way into the Oval Office. Oops, there's one other legal obstacle: the electoral college. They vote December 15, 2008. But, wait! It now is confirmed that one of the electoral college delegates scheduled to vote on that date from the late, great State of California is deceased! No, you can't make this stuff up:

"A lawyer playing a major part in a California lawsuit urging officials to prevent the state's 55 Electoral College votes from being recorded for Barack Obama until questions about his citizenship are resolved has written to county clerks around the state, seeking an investigation into a process that has allowed a dead woman to be listed as an official elector." (Full column here.)

Not only have we the people been cheated by vote fraud for the past 30+ years, but now due to the diligence of dedicated Americans, we find the electoral college delegates may also be a con job.

The next big event is tomorrow when all nine Supreme Court justices meet in private to consider the merits of Leo's case. As it is a Friday, likely we won't hear anything until next week, but you never know because the clock is ticking. You can't tell me all nine justices are not aware of the importance of Leo's case and the huge controversy that has been boiling for months. They know the consequences of not granting Leo oral arguments and the consequences if they do. If they don't and Obama is sworn into office, the lawsuits will be non stop. If Obama is ruled ineligible, the potential for mass riots across this country is sadly very real. However, we cannot and must not allow what "might" happen due to Obama's deliberate conning of the American people keep us from pursuing the truth. Any negative consequences will be because of Obama's actions and his actions alone, not Americans who care about what's right.

WHAT CHANGE?

By Chuck Baldwin
December 5, 2008
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"Change you can believe in." This was Barack Obama's campaign slogan. There is no doubt that the American people were fed up with George W. Bush and his fellow Republicans. Who can blame them?

After campaigning for change back in 1999 (What political challenger doesn't campaign for change?), President Bush and his fellow neocons promptly set out to continue business as usual in Washington, D.C. Federal spending and meddling exploded under the leadership of the GOP. In fact, one has to go back to the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt to match the increases in Big Government and Big Brother by Bush and Company. Add to the out-of-control spending habits of the GOP an unnecessary war, a near-Depression economy, and a burgeoning police state. It is no surprise that the American people were ready for change. And Obama excelled in delivering the message of change. So, what kind of change will Obama actually deliver?

Will Obama remove U.S. troops from Iraq and Afghanistan? Probably not. Oh, he might reduce troops in Iraq, but if anyone believes that he will not leave a significant U.S. presence in Iraq, they are living in a dream world. Furthermore, many, if not most, of the troops from Iraq will most likely find themselves in Afghanistan. Mark my words; Barack Obama has no plans to remove U.S. troops from the Middle East. Net result: no change.

What about America's economic woes? What changes will Barack Obama bring to the table? Hardly any. America will continue it's trademark deficit spending; we will continue to send manufacturing jobs overseas; so-called "free trade" deals will continue to advance; Big Business will continue to receive government bailouts; the Federal Reserve will continue to call the shots for America's financial decisions (and reap gargantuan profits in the process); Congress will continue to be inept, irresponsible, and clueless; there will be no attempt to return the United States to sound money principles; and there will be no reduction in foreign aid. In a nutshell, it will be business as usual in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Don't get me wrong: Barack Obama will doubtless throw out some bones to his liberal supporters in much the same way that Republican presidents throw out a bone or two to their conservative constituents. Watch for Obama to overturn the ban on embryonic stem cell research. America's upper income earners can expect some sort of tax increase. No doubt oil companies will end up losing some tax exemptions. Watch for additional environmentalist policies to be enacted. And, yes, there will be some sort of "universal health care" proposal. But the Bush administration has already given America a socialized financial system, so how can Republicans complain about socialized medicine?

Obama might try to resurrect the "Fairness Doctrine." Some suggest that Obama might try to rid the prohibition of homosexuals serving in the armed forces, but I doubt that he will take on this one. The political net gain would not be worth the potential fallout.

Although he might want to, I doubt that Obama will actively promote additional gun control (Democrats always lose when this happens). He may push for a ban on "high capacity" magazines that hold over ten rounds, as Bill Clinton did. If Obama does not go after guns directly, we can expect some sort of attack on ammunition (which is already happening) that will drive up the cost of ammo even more. Of course, some sort of gun confiscation or martial law could materialize in the wake of another "terrorist" attack. But a McCain administration would act no differently, so, again, the net result is zero change. Remember, it was Republican George W. Bush who expunged Posse Comitatus and deployed 20,000 army troops on U.S. soil to be used for domestic law enforcement. If Obama really wanted to bring about change, he would reverse Bush's draconian decisions, would he not? Don't hold your breath.

We can also expect more harassment of gun owners and lawful gun dealers by the BATFE. But this is no change at all. The current leadership at BATFE is already about as hostile to gun owners and gun dealers as it can possibly be. An Obama BATFE will be no worse. But neither will it be any better. Net result: no change.

So, what will be the overall change to the direction of America? Answer: there will be no change to the overall direction of the country. There will be no change to the welfare state. There will be little change to the warfare state. No change to NATO, except to expand it. Very little change, if any, to foreign policy. No change to America's open sieves, otherwise called national borders. And there will be absolutely no change to the burgeoning New World Order that began in earnest under both Bushes and Bill Clinton.

The NAFTA superhighway will have the support of the Obama administration. The North American Community will proceed unimpeded by the Obama White House. In all likelihood, the Amero (a common currency with Canada and Mexico) will materialize during Obama's first term. But this would all have happened had John McCain been elected. No change here.

One reason why it is so easy to predict a business-as-usual Obama Presidency is the people that Obama has surrounded himself with. Former New York Federal Reserve chairman Timothy Geithner* for Secretary of the Treasury; former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers* for National Economic Council director; Bush's Defense Secretary Robert Gates* will keep his job; Illinois Representative Rahm Emanuel for Obama's Chief of Staff; Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State; Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano* for Secretary of Homeland Security; former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle* to head the Health and Human Services Department; former Assistant Attorney General Eric Holder to be Attorney General; New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson* as Secretary of Commerce; Susan Rice* for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Paul Volcker* for the Economic Recovery Advisory Board; James Steinberg* as Deputy Secretary of State; Mona Sutphen* for Deputy White House Chief of Staff, and Louis Caldera* for Director of the White House Military Office.

Does anyone see "change" with the above names? Every one of them is a longtime political insider. And at least eleven of them (those with an asterisk [*] behind their names, above) are members of the globalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). In fact, six out of the eleven cabinet-level positions in the Obama administration are CFR members.

The CFR has dominated both Democrat and Republican Presidential administrations for decades. Presidents such as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton have all been members of the CFR. Vice Presidents such as Hubert Humphrey, Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, and Dick Cheney have been CFR members. And over the last several decades, practically every secretary of defense, secretary of the treasury, and most CIA directors have been CFR members. And let's not forget that this year's Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain, is a CFR member.

Do you now see why--no matter who is elected President of the United States--nothing changes? Republican or Democrat, it does not matter: the CFR and their collaborators remain in power. And as Sonny and Cher used to sing, "The Beat Goes On."

There will be no real change in Washington, D.C., until the CFR and their elitist cronies are thoroughly and universally removed from power. And the only way this will happen is if we elect an Independent President of the United States (someone who truly understands the New World Order and is dedicated to defeating it), because the two major parties will never allow someone opposed to the CFR to become their nominee. The only Republican candidate for President in 2008 who demonstrated those credentials was Dr. Ron Paul. And to a lesser degree, the only Democrat who even seemed to vaguely understand this was Dennis Kucinich. Notice that both men were thoroughly repudiated by their respective parties' leadership and all but totally ignored by the national news media. (The CFR and their surrogates also control the national news media. What a coincidence!)

So, while the occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue may have changed, there will be no real change to the direction of these United States. Count on it!

SITTING DUCKS

By Coach Dave Daubenmire
December 4, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

On the boats and on the planes
They're coming to America
Never looking back again
They're coming to America. -Neil Diamond “America”

That used to be a happy thought. We are all here in America because someone got on a boat or a plane and sought out a new life in a new world.

But sadly, the world has changed today. Instead of the “land of the free and the home of the brave,” that our fore-fathers fought to preserve we are rapidly becoming “the land of the fleeced and with one foot in the grave.”

America has been taken over by robbers. After surviving another phony election where one side didn’t even try to win, we are now faced with some of the direst circumstances any American could have ever imagined.

Sometimes I don’t even feel like taking the time to share my thoughts. If it were not for the encouraging emails I receive from some of the readers, and some of the phone calls I receive on my radio show it sure would be easy to just walk away from my computer and just blend in with the rest of the “Christians.” You know the kind. The “blab it, grab it” everything-is-rosy crowd.

I can’t believe how clear it all is to me and yet how blind others seem to be. Life sure was a lot easier when I just coached football and raised our babies. Ignorance is bliss I heard a wise man say, and there sure do seem to be a lot of blissful people around me. As Glenn Beck is apt to say it makes me want to wrap duct tape around my head.

America has changed her stripes. In one generation we have gone from a nation of eagles to a gaggle of geese. The Bible calls it “lambs to the slaughter.” We have no idea what is about to befall us. It is as if we were disconnected from reality…nothing more than the latest episode of “24”…oblivious to the tsunami building on the horizon.

Do you remember watching the videos of the tsunami that struck Thailand a few years ago? Vacationers stood on the beach as a massive wave swallowed them up.

And how about Katrina? By the thousands the geese stayed despite the clear warnings of impending danger confident to the end that they were immune to the wrath of nature and of Nature’s God. “It can’t happen here.”

Well, there is another storm rolling in over the horizon and this time we are not lambs and we are not geese. Although we are just as blissful in our ignorance we are a bird of a different feather.

We are sitting ducks.

But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

I look at what is going on in America and I feel like a seismologist in Thailand. “What is wrong with those people? Don’t they have any common sense? Can’t they see what is coming down the pike?”

America is bankrupt. I can’t believe people can’t see it. The “government” is bailing out banks. Is it just me, or shouldn’t it be the other way around? Take time to ask your friends where the government gets the money to bailout the banks. You will be shocked at how ignorant they are. But what the hey…I’m sure they spend money they don’t have as well. It’s the American way. Storm Wal-Mart as the storm clouds build.

But as it was in the days of Noah…..

I am the eternal optimist by nature. I always see the glass half-full. As a coach I always told our guys that we didn’t lose…we just ran out of time. I think that statement is appropriate here. We’re about to strike midnight. The two-minute warning has sounded.

Please understand, I am not predicting the return of Jesus, although that could certainly be near. No my friends, I’m talking about the end of America as we know it. For some, the end of the world might be less painful.

The Bible is replete with examples where God judged nations. We are not safe from His wrath, no matter how special we think we are in the eyes of God. God is not mocked. We have not defended unborn babies, we have not protected the sanctity of marriage, we have given His children over to Caesar, and we have allowed his Name to be removed from this nation. “God shed His grace on” us and to whom much is given, much is required. We will pay a harsh price for squandering what He endowed to us.

Like it or not folks our American economic system is on the verge of collapse. Our dollar is worthless, our factories have moved oversees, our banks are out of money, and our enemies hold our debt. We can’t “produce” our way out of this one.

We’re sitting ducks.

Cities are broke, schools are broke, states are broke, churches are broke, and banks are broke. Only shoppers seem to have any money, borrowed from banks who have empty vaults. As it was in the days of Noah….

I see a perfect storm coming to America. Oh Lord help me be wrong.

The world was shaken last week when a terrorist attack was launched in Mumbai. The news reports speak of an attack by “terrorists” who are referred to as “insurgents” or “extremists” without once mentioning their religion. These were not Methodists, or Baptists, or Pentecostals. They were radical Islamic revolutionaries, and their attack was coordinated to hit at multiple locations making defense and security so much more difficult.

On the boats and on the planes, They're coming to America.

They are already here…and they are waiting for the right moment.

While most of America is shopping and going to ball games, spending money that they don’t even have, our enemies are biding their time and waiting.

Joe Biden warned us that it was coming. Fox News warned us today. Newsmax reports a WMD attack is inevitable. Terrorist cells are everywhere in America.

President Bush is bringing home combat troops to defend America. Evidently Iraq is safer than our homeland. Although it has been seven years since 911 the fact that another attack has not hit on our shores does not mean we are safe. It is a ticking time bomb, with the fuse already set. The next attack will come when we are most vulnerable.

We have been lulled into a false sense of security. Can you imagine what could happen with a coordinated attack by as little as one hundred men committed to death? Recent reports state that as few as 10 men were involved in the attacks in Mumbai. They killed over 200 people. They had hoped to kill 5000.

Read this report on dirty bombs. As this report shows they are a real concern. We have received several warnings about the devices already being stationed in multiple American cities. We are helpless to do anything about it; regardless of how many metal detectors they have in our schools.

Imagine as few as 10 terrorists in 10 different American cities, armed with dirty bombs, an arsenal of weapons, and a desire to kill. From school houses to shopping malls, churches to basketball arenas, movie theatres to mass transit, the targets are unlimited. The carnage would make Katrina look like a Spring shower.

Do you find the scenario hard to believe? Are you counting on Jesus to save you from the horror? I wonder if any of the victims of Mumbai expected to die so soon.

Hug your kids. Love on your wife. Prepare your heart. I pray I am wrong. The feathers are about to fly.

I think we are sitting ducks.