FLEECED: by Dick Morris

Dick Morris, Bill Clinton’s former confidante and political consultant and a Fox News contributor, has come out with a new book called FLEECED. A must read for those who are still on the fence about this November.

In the book, Morris points out the fact that mainstream media treats Obama as if he was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Perhaps he is. But the reasons they give for why he might be are disturbing and exemplifies what animates the Democratic party today. Liberals don’t really care about rational thought or substantive policies. They care about superficiality and identity politics. Liberals today, generally speaking, are shallow. Emotional. They care about his race, his background. They want to hear his heart-warming speeches. It makes them feel good inside. They love that he’s inspirational, charismatic. They sit there like infant birds with their mouths open squawking for more demagoguery. Therefore, it’s certainly understandable that mainstream media supplies the demand. It’s a business after all.

Well, for those of you (liberal and conservative) who want facts, here’s a handful straight out of FLEECED and Obama’s (BHO) own website:

1. In effect, BHO would legislate a 60 percent tax bracket for upper-income Americans, killing all initiative and innovation. He’d raise the top bracket to 40 percent. He’d apply FICA taxes to all income, not just that under $100,000 as at present. So add 40 percent plus FICA’s 12.5 percent plus Medicare’s 2 percent plus state and local taxes averaging, after deduction, at 5-6 percent, and you have a 60 percent bracket.

2. BHO would double the capital gains tax, saddling the 50 percent of Americans who own stock with dramatically higher taxes.

3. BHO would double the dividend tax, hitting elderly coupon-clippers now retired and depending on fixed incomes.

4. BHO wants to cover 12 million illegal immigrants with federally subsidized health insurance, dramatically driving up costs and forcing federal rationing of healthcare. As in the U.K. and Canada, you will not be permitted certain medical procedures if the bureaucrats decide you are not worth it.

5. BHO proposes requiring Homeland Security operatives to notify terror suspects that they are under investigation within seven days of starting the investigation.

6. BHO says that unless they can establish that there is “probable cause to believe that a certain individual is linked to a specific terrorist group,” Homeland Security cannot seize his documents and search his business. The current standard is only that the search be “relevant” to a terror investigation.

FLEECED: by Dick Morris

Dick Morris, Bill Clinton’s former confidante and political consultant and a Fox News contributor, has come out with a new book called FLEECED. A must read for those who are still on the fence about this November.

In the book, Morris points out the fact that mainstream media treats Obama as if he was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Perhaps he is. But the reasons they give for why he might be are disturbing and exemplifies what animates the Democratic party today. Liberals don’t really care about rational thought or substantive policies. They care about superficiality and identity politics. Liberals today, generally speaking, are shallow. Emotional. They care about his race, his background. They want to hear his heart-warming speeches. It makes them feel good inside. They love that he’s inspirational, charismatic. They sit there like infant birds with their mouths open squawking for more demagoguery. Therefore, it’s certainly understandable that mainstream media supplies the demand. It’s a business after all.

Well, for those of you (liberal and conservative) who want facts, here’s a handful straight out of FLEECED and Obama’s (BHO) own website:

1. In effect, BHO would legislate a 60 percent tax bracket for upper-income Americans, killing all initiative and innovation. He’d raise the top bracket to 40 percent. He’d apply FICA taxes to all income, not just that under $100,000 as at present. So add 40 percent plus FICA’s 12.5 percent plus Medicare’s 2 percent plus state and local taxes averaging, after deduction, at 5-6 percent, and you have a 60 percent bracket.

2. BHO would double the capital gains tax, saddling the 50 percent of Americans who own stock with dramatically higher taxes.

3. BHO would double the dividend tax, hitting elderly coupon-clippers now retired and depending on fixed incomes.

4. BHO wants to cover 12 million illegal immigrants with federally subsidized health insurance, dramatically driving up costs and forcing federal rationing of healthcare. As in the U.K. and Canada, you will not be permitted certain medical procedures if the bureaucrats decide you are not worth it.

5. BHO proposes requiring Homeland Security operatives to notify terror suspects that they are under investigation within seven days of starting the investigation.

6. BHO says that unless they can establish that there is “probable cause to believe that a certain individual is linked to a specific terrorist group,” Homeland Security cannot seize his documents and search his business. The current standard is only that the search be “relevant” to a terror investigation.

Kennedy v. Louisiana: Judicial Activism Part 3

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court published its 5 to 4 opinion in Kennedy v. Louisiana striking down Louisiana’s law imposing the death penalty for Kennedy who was convicted by a jury for raping his 8 year old stepdaughter. More generally, it ruled that the 8th amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited the death penalty for crimes that do not end in death of the victim. Louisiana’s law imposed the death penalty for those convicted of raping a victim 12 years old or younger. The national repercussion of this devastating opinion is to render the death penalty an option for the State to pursue solely for the most heinous murders, and for nothing else. Well, here’s what happened in Kennedy case:

“Petitioner’s crime was one that cannot be recounted in these pages in a way sufficient to capture in full the hurt and horror inflicted on his victim or to convey the revulsion society, and the jury that represents it, sought to express by sentencing petitioner to death. At 9:18 a.m. on March 2, 1998, petitioner called 911 to report that his step-daughter, referred to here as L. H., had been raped.He told the 911 operator that L. H. had been in the garage while he readied his son for school. Upon hearing loud screaming, petitioner said, he ran outside and found L. H.in the side yard. Two neighborhood boys, petitioner told the operator, had dragged L. H. from the garage to the yard, pushed her down, and raped her. Petitioner claimed he saw one of the boys riding away on a blue 10-speed bicycle.When police arrived at petitioner’s home between 9:20 and 9:30 a.m., they found L. H. on her bed, wearing a T-shirt and wrapped in a bloody blanket. She was bleeding profusely from the vaginal area. Petitioner told police he had carried her from the yard to the bathtub and then to the bed. Consistent with this explanation, police found a thin line of blood drops in the garage on the way to the house and then up the stairs. Once in the bedroom, petitioner had used a basin of water and a cloth to wipe blood from the victim. This later prevented medical personnel from collecting a reliable DNA sample. L. H. was transported to the Children’s Hospital. An expert in pediatric forensic medicine testified that L. H.’s injuries were the most severe he had seen from a sexual assault in his four years of practice. A laceration to the left wall of the vagina had separated her cervix from the back of her vagina, causing her rectum to protrude into the vaginal structure. Her entire perineum was torn from the posterior fourchette to the anus. The injuries required emergency surgery.”

Now how a can person with a right mind say this does not deserve the death penalty? Is this not heinous enough? Our prisons are over-capacity. On average, it costs taxpayers more than $15,000 per prison per year. Anyway, forget the practical effects of this opinion. The legal reasoning is almost as breathtaking.

It is true that across our country there is trend toward banning the death penalty under the 8th amendment that outlaws cruel and unusual punishment. Specifically, there is solid case-law and precedence that unequivocally prohibits the death penalty for the rape of an adult woman. (Although, personally, I wouldn’t mind killing these guys off too.) However, a minority of states have laws that allow the imposition of the death penalty for the rape of a minor, and in Louisiana’s case, a minor 12 years old and younger.

The Court reasoned that because a majority of States have banned the death penalty for rapists of adult women, the death penalty for rapists of minor girls should also be banned under the 8th amendment. Ok, for any of you who know a little logic, clearly, this is logically fallacious. The Court takes a logical skip from rape of an adult women to the rape of a minor girl. The Court treats the two alike.

The Louisiana Supreme Court, before the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, rightly took this dichotomy into consideration, and reasoned that the depravity of raping and brutally injuring an 8 year old girl was distinguishable from a rape of an adult woman. It further reasoned that although the law is well settled that the 8th amendment bans the death penalty for rapists of adult woman, there is no such well settled law concerning the rape of an 8 year old girl. Therefore, the Louisiana Supreme Court held, we affirm the death penalty for Kennedy.

More disastrously, this was another example of the Supreme Court trampling over States’ rights. The Louisiana law clearly was a law passed by the Louisiana legislature. The Louisiana legislature represents the people of Louisiana. Therefore, the Supreme Court struck down the wishes of the people of Louisiana. Judicial usurpation of the Legislative branch at its finest. What happened to the separation of powers?

Ultimately, it was discovered that Kennedy had raped and brutalized his stepdaughter, and he was convicted by a jury of his peers. The prosecutor in this case had a memorable line during closing arguments. She implored, “Execute this man. Justice has a sword and this sword needs to swing today.”

Israel Training For ?…….And Where, Oh Where Has My Embassy Gone. Oh Where Oh Where Can It Be?

The Israeli military has been referencing to a possible attack on Iran. The weak position of the West and the questionable support for Israel’s position on its security leave Israel with little choice in the matter. The most likely timeframe would be before an adminstration change takes place in the US. If Obama gets in the White House, the entire Middle East could be in for a chaotic future.

IS THIS ISRAEL PREPARING FOR SECURITY DETAIL OR……

For security reasons I am not allowed to say where these maneuvers were taking place. I just hope Israel is prepared should anything ever happen.

For those who are curious about what the US Embassy looks like…,.

Israel Training For ?…….And Where, Oh Where Has My Embassy Gone. Oh Where Oh Where Can It Be?

The Israeli military has been referencing to a possible attack on Iran. The weak position of the West and the questionable support for Israel’s position on its security leave Israel with little choice in the matter. The most likely timeframe would be before an adminstration change takes place in the US. If Obama gets in the White House, the entire Middle East could be in for a chaotic future.

IS THIS ISRAEL PREPARING FOR SECURITY DETAIL OR……

For security reasons I am not allowed to say where these maneuvers were taking place. I just hope Israel is prepared should anything ever happen.

For those who are curious about what the US Embassy looks like…,.

Israel Training For ?…….And Where, Oh Where Has My Embassy Gone. Oh Where Oh Where Can It Be?

The Israeli military has been referencing to a possible attack on Iran. The weak position of the West and the questionable support for Israel’s position on its security leave Israel with little choice in the matter. The most likely timeframe would be before an adminstration change takes place in the US. If Obama gets in the White House, the entire Middle East could be in for a chaotic future.

IS THIS ISRAEL PREPARING FOR SECURITY DETAIL OR……

For security reasons I am not allowed to say where these maneuvers were taking place. I just hope Israel is prepared should anything ever happen.

For those who are curious about what the US Embassy looks like…,.

Israel Second Biggest Tech Powerhouse in the World!!

Israel has been referred to as the little silicone valley, after THE silicone valley. The United States is far ahead of the rest of the world in internet startups and innovation. But most people are unaware of the position Israel has on the world stage.
After the Russian exodus in the 1990’s, all the scientist and engineers made Aliyah to Israel. Aliyah is when a Jew makes his or her “return” to Israel after being in the Diaspora. The Russians were cleaning floors and hotel rooms, cooking and other less taxing occupations because of their initail status after arriving. It was the only work available. With their higher education, the internet became an avenue to uplift their positions in society and apply their intellect. They were the catalyst in giving Israel the terrific position in tech today. Who is in Israel? Google, Yahoo, Agilent, and many many more. I will show a few pictures to show a small sample of what is going on. Consider the small population, the high taxes, the terrorism, and the limited resources and one can appreciate what has been accomplished.

Israel Second Biggest Tech Powerhouse in the World!!

Israel has been referred to as the little silicone valley, after THE silicone valley. The United States is far ahead of the rest of the world in internet startups and innovation. But most people are unaware of the position Israel has on the world stage.
After the Russian exodus in the 1990’s, all the scientist and engineers made Aliyah to Israel. Aliyah is when a Jew makes his or her “return” to Israel after being in the Diaspora. The Russians were cleaning floors and hotel rooms, cooking and other less taxing occupations because of their initail status after arriving. It was the only work available. With their higher education, the internet became an avenue to uplift their positions in society and apply their intellect. They were the catalyst in giving Israel the terrific position in tech today. Who is in Israel? Google, Yahoo, Agilent, and many many more. I will show a few pictures to show a small sample of what is going on. Consider the small population, the high taxes, the terrorism, and the limited resources and one can appreciate what has been accomplished.

Obama’s Plan to Criminalize Terrorism

During a recent television interview with ABC News, Obama said the following:

“[I]t is my firm belief that we can track terrorists, we can crack down on threats against the United States, but we can do so within the constraints of our Constitution.”

Then the discussion turned to Gitmo and the recent Supreme Court opinion in Boumediene v. Bush. Obama said, “What we know is that, in previous terrorist attacks — for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center – we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated.”

This erroneous answer clearly demonstrates the naivete of a junior Senator. Osama bin Laden is still at large my friend. And the fact is, because we treated the 1993 WTC attack as simply a crime, as opposed to an act of war or a war crime, the individuals were treated as criminals, not enemy combatants/terrorists, as they should have been. Therefore, the individuals were adjudicated in our criminal justice system. What were the ramifications of this? Well, to start, the result was an incredibly slow trial process. All the federal rules of criminal procedure were effectuated. This meant that a vast amount of evidence was tossed due to the strictures of evidence procedure. This meant that those who were caught were not interrogated. This meant that those caught had no incentive to give any information voluntarily. Ultimately, this meant that we did not find out the true mastermind behind the attacks until after 4 years had passed.

We all know now that Osama bin Laden was the brainchild behind the 1993 (and 2001) WTC attacks. Thanks to the slow criminal proceedings, this critical fact was unknown to us until 1997, AFTER Clinton denied Sudan’s offer to arrest bin Laden and extradite him to the U.S. rightly saying that we had no grounds to incarcerate him. Yes, you heard it right. Bin Laden at the time was not in hiding. He was openly living in Sudan. The Sudanese government always had an eye on him. President Bashir at the time offered to arrest and extradite him to the U.S. In exchange, we would lift our sanctions. You can read about the offer here.

Again, Clinton was right that we had no grounds to incarcerate him, since, in 1996, we had no idea that bin Laden was the brainchild of the 1993 attacks. But there is no doubt, if Clinton and his national security adviser had treated the 1993 WTC attacks as acts of war and treated those caught accordingly (NOT as criminals, but as foreign enemy combatants and terrorists), we would’ve found out much earlier about bin Laden, and, when Sudan offered him up on a silver platter, we certainly would’ve taken it. (But of course, Clinton was extremely preoccupied during this time so we can’t really give him the benefit of the doubt that he would have taken bin Laden even if he knew.)

Immediately after Boumediene opinion was issued, Obama made it clear that suspected terrorists must be given the right of habeas corpus and the right to be tried in our civilian courts. This would be a fatal blow to our national security policy and would give a huge advantage to the terrorists caught on the battlefield. Our federal courts will be swamped, and most importantly, this opens the gates to a very slippery slope (as I discuss below). Well, as the adage goes, history is our greatest teacher. Apparently, Obama has not learned enough.

RETURN TO THE US!!

Okay, I am back. I have plenty of material to post. I have not had a chance to enter my pictures yet. I have pictures of the Autistic home I visit (the sign for the entrance), I have pictures from the area in Israel where the French are moving to and the construction that is following. I have pictures of the booming internet companies and start ups in Israel. And more! All will be revealed in the next few days. Stay tuned!