Background checks would be good

The rebels Obama is arming are a branch of al-qaeda.  Also they are murdering Syrian Christians.

What difference does it make if they hardly knew each other?

Ayers, the former Weather Underground member and University of Illinois at Chicago professor, told Real Clear Politics that Obama is “absolutely” engaged in terrorist activity by using drones and “absolutely” should be tried for war crimes.

“Every president in this century should be put on trial,” Ayers said. “Every one of them goes into an office dripping with blood and then adds to it. And, yes, I think that these are war crimes. I think that they’re acts of terror.”

Ayers said he would give Obama a failing grade for his presidency but praised his personal style.

“I like him personally,” Ayers said. “I mean, he’s a really good guy.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/18/bill-ayers-obama-should-be-tried-for-war-crimes/

Analysis of how Obamacare will affect Ohioans

January 2014 will usher in multiple changes to health insurance plans for Ohio residents from the Patient Protection and Affordable Act Care (PPACA or ACA), popularly known as ObamaCare. The ValuePenguin analyst team dove through pending health insurance rate tables filed by health insurers with the State of Ohio's Insurance Division to get a preview of what premiums residents could expect. We compared the costs of health insurance today to costs expected under ObamaCare for three sample demographic profiles (27, 40, and 55-year old non-smokers) to give you a sense of how much health insurance costs would increase in Ohio. Unlike some gender neutral states, these premium costs are not the same for men and women as health insurance companies do factor in gender to more accurately price their products. -

See more at: ValuePenguin

Why is it a good idea to arm these guys?

These are the rebels Obama wants to arm.

"The video shows the teenagers shooting handguns at a large photo of Syrian leader Bashar al-Asad. It also shows them stating that their leader is Abu Bakr al Baghdadi (the head of al Qaeda in Iraq), and then singing joyfully of their desire to overthrow both Asad and his sister Bushra, of the valor of al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri and of al Qaeda’s success in blowing up the World Trade Center towers. "We destroyed America with a civilian airplane,” the young Syrian rebels sing. “The World Trade Center was turned into rubble. The World Trade Center was turned into rubble. -

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/syrian-rebel-teens-sing-al-qaeda-camp-we-destroyed-america-civilian-airplane

Guest Blogger Joan—she is no longer naïve, believes she must speak out.

“For a number of years, I allowed myself to naively believe that individual citizens couldn't make any difference in our country's destiny and that surely those in charge had our country's best interests at heart and would take care of things. I believed that all the heated political debate was useless and that no one was going to change anyone else's opinions on any political topic. While I still believe that last sentence, I have finally grown up enough to realize that a responsible, patriotic citizen cannot sit on the sidelines and watch his/her country be totally destroyed without at least speaking up and taking a stand, for whatever it might be worth. We have elected leaders who do not share typical, traditional American values and who do not have the experience necessary for the job. We have elected leaders who have no depth of character from which to draw for decision-making. This link is to an article that gives a morsel of hope to those of us who realize the jeopardy our country is in and hope to avoid losing our treasured way of life."

If the Nixon era should have taught politicians anything, it is that trust and credibility are essential to the presidency. Nixon's downfall was not so much in the petty thievery of his campaign researchers; it was the lying and cover-up that brought him down. With Obama, abuse of trust is the theme running through all the scandals. Ironically, the shear number of scandals is helping the president in the short term - there is scattershot investigative coverage rather than focused probing. The cumulative effect, though, is beginning to show. Americans bought into the president's campaign image of "hope and change," but lately, they instinctively know that "where's there is smoke, there's fire" and the "smoke" of all the scandals seems to come directly from fires at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In the Internet era, doubletalk doesn't work; there've been too many side-by-side comparisons of truth versus White House spin.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/06/obamas_loss_of_trust_and_credibility.html#ixzz2WaDlKgdu

Today’s House hearings on the NSA phone surveillance and PRISM

This morning I've been watching representatives of the NSA and FBI describe at Congressional hearings (House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) the details of the NSA phone and Prism programs. It all sounds benign and necessary--claims of 50 attacks thwarted. Deputy Attorney General James Cole, Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce, Deputy Director NSA Chris Inglis, and Robert Litt, general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (addressing misconceptions).

Two questions. Then why were the details so secret and our Congress so uninformed (it's been upgraded and approved twice once under Bush in 2005, once under Obama in 2011) and how can we trust the assurances of any agency after the IRS scandal? Cole says collecting and analyzing phone metadata does not violate the 4th amendment. NSA Director Keith Alexander will bring information on the thwarted attacks on Wednesday. Stay tuned.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/18/live-blog-nsa-hearing/?hpt=hp_c2

How Obama stays popular with the uninformed

Obama has two very successful methods for staying popular as a leader. 1) Focus on Bush's mistakes, and 2) ignore his own.

Which was a bigger error, the Abu Ghraib abuses by military guards which Bush probably knew nothing about, or the fumbling of the closing of Guantanamo prison on which Obama campaigned in 2008?

Which is a bigger scandal, the passing of the Patriot Act after 9/11 with bipartisan support and debate under Bush, or its expansion in secret under Obama?

Bush supported traditional marriage and was consistent regardless of political attacks; Obama publicly supported traditional marriage until he was pushed into applauding same sex marriage in order to get gay support for the 2012 election.
Bush expanded government health care (Pt. D drug coverage in Medicare for 40 million seniors) with strong bipartisan support; Obama got no support from Republicans for Obamacare (estimated to eliminate employer coverage for 40 million), which increasingly is proving to be horribly more expensive and invasive to privacy (IRS) than he promised.

Bush was criticized for not offering war time detainees at Gitmo protections afforded American citizens; Obama has been slicing, dicing and trashing those freedoms we all should have as Americans. He and his cronies not only claim the 5th (the only amendment they like), they claim ignorance, absence and Cincinnati for their illegal behavior.

Why are Democrats and Republicans pushing us into war in Syria?

In 2002 President Bush took his case against Iraq and WMD to Congress and the U.N. He had bi-partisan and international support; he had intelligence going back years into the Clinton Administration. Obama has done none of that except to draw an imaginary red line about WMD and he's been fuzzy about that. Yet Democrats who originally supported Bush and later lied and feigned outrage, have been silent about Obama's duplicity, lack of leadership, and now arming rebels who are al-qaeda lite. Obama is taking us into another war, one in which we have no national interest. Where are the outraged Democrats? Why are Republican hawks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham playing along? Where are all those Republicans who switched parties so they could vote for Obama because Bush had failed them?

Google visits me regularly

Justification, justice, just us.

The shoe hunt

I drove to Tuttle Mall today to look at Ecco brand shoes. The Walking Company had four, none in my size and in bizarre colors. So I browsed a few other brands and had my feet measured. I have extremely high arches and according to the picture, no toes on my left foot. Anyway, the only pair that didn't slip or rub was $189. So I left the store and walked over to Sears. I bought a pair there that cost $20. Not any more uncomfortable than all the $120 styles I tried on in the other store. It looks a little odd in the photo because it is a soft fabric and sort of folds if your foot isn’t in it.

Ask the NSA

Keeping cool in Arizona, equine style

We have guests from Arizona this week, a Methodist minister and his wife who giving several presentations.   We tell them that Ohio is always this green--it's the greeniness that they comment on the most. And last night they were like little kids when the fireflies (lightning bugs) came out.

Obama is taking us to war

If you switched your party allegiance from GOP (Bush) to Dem (Obama) because of the two wars (which had bipartisan support and WMD intelligence from the Clinton years), then you’re just out of luck—or justifications. You fell for a slick speech and a pretty face topped off with a smattering of white guilt.  Obama’s red line has gotten very smudged.  We have no national interest in this civil war in Syria—and even if you say, “what about the slaughter of Syrian Christians,” keep in mind the rebel forces (which Obama is backing) are the ones killing the Christians.   Now we find out the decision was made weeks ago.

U.S. officials said that the determination to send weapons had been made weeks ago and that the chemical weapons finding provided fresh justification to act.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/decision-to-arm-syrian-rebels-was-reached-weeks-ago-us-officials-say/2013/06/14/3cc2d372-d51a-11e2-8cbe-1bcbee06f8f8_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

You’ve been had.  The rest of us knew it back in 2008. He’s a liar; liars lie and then tell more lies to cover up the lies they told to get elected. Liars hang out with other liars—or even confirmed, unrepentant terrorists.

Sometimes he’s been right

Bush 41 is 89 today

In his honor, people are wearing loud, outrageous socks.

Ted Cruz on “help” from liberals

“Fifty-five years ago, my father fled Cuba, where he had been imprisoned and tortured—including having his teeth kicked out—as a teenager. Today my father is a pastor in Dallas. When he landed in Austin, Texas, in 1957, he was 18. He couldn’t speak a word of English. He had $100 sewn into his underwear. He went and got a job washing dishes and made 50 cents an hour. He worked seven days a week and paid his way through the University of Texas, and then he got a job, and then he went on to start a small business.

Now imagine if, at that time, the minimum wage had been two dollars an hour. He might never have had the opportunity to get that dishwashing job and work his way through school and work his way up from there. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve thanked God that some well-meaning liberal didn’t greet him when he landed in Austin and put his arm around him and say: “Let me take care of you. Let me make you dependent on government. Let me sap your self-respect—and by the way, don’t bother learning English.” “

Graduation speaker at Hillsdale College, “The Miracle of Freedom” May 11, 2013

This is most certainly true

In 2006 I jointed the choir at Upper Arlington Lutheran Church on Lytham Rd.  Alas. I only lasted about a year. My voice didn’t return. I had only four notes, and they weren’t in a row. But I certainly enjoyed it, and am so glad I tried. It gave me a new appreciation for our choir at UALC.

Thirteen things I liked about singing in the choir

Choir is hard work

Trying to keep up

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The Democrats’ War on Girls

Why wring hands over sexual assaults on military women, who at least should know how to protect themselves, physically, emotionally and sexually.  Plan B, a powerful hormone with complex directions that need to be followed exactly, is now available for girls of any age without medical or parental supervision, even though sex with a minor is against the law. The war against women is now the war against young girls.