This and That for Friday

~~~ You need to know more about the Law of the Sea Treaty. Why? Because it works abainst our best interest. Here is four minutes well spent.

http://www.dickmorris.com/law-of-sea-treaty-hearings-today-dick-morris-tv-lunch-alert/

~~~ All indicators, especially polling done using probable voters (as opposed to simply registered voters) indicate the likelihood of a defeat of landslide proportions in the presidential race. The president’s campaign is still trying to find a theme. They cannot run on their record and have already begin the down and dirty campaigning usually withheld for use at the end of a race. We get the sense there is a feeling of fatality to this race.

While the above is good news electorally it is bad news for how a bunch of far left ideologues may cast about to institute all they can to implement all their liberal fantasies. Obama told the Russian president wait until I am reelected and we will do things we can’t even think aloud about before the election.

We must not only defeat Obama and his merry men in the congress we must gird ourselves for the battle created in their political death gasp. A lame duck congress can be very dangerous. Add to that the fact lots of treatises could be floated through a sayonara session of the senate. After November 6^th nothing will be safe. Lock up the women and children and post the 24 hour guard.

Get ready for the race card to be played so hard it will reopen old race wounds. Obama will most certainly go down hard but you can count on continued divisiveness until the national media tire of covering his whimpering.

~~~ In a lead in to a Howie Carr article on the dems fem fatal the editor of Lucianne.com had the following to say:

	Another taxing problem for Elizabeth Warren……. What next? A pilgrim costume? This silly woman with an identity crisis should just pack it in. Here’s Howie’s article: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20120525another_taxing_problem_for_ elizabeth_warren/srvc=home&position=2
	~~~ Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tells Newsmax there is “increasing speculation” that Vice President Joe Biden could be dropped from the ticket — and he cites Hillary Clinton as his possible replacement. Sorry Newt, it won’t make any difference. Besides dumping Biden for Clinton could cost the Democrats the clown vote. The Dems need all the clowns they can get to vote for them and we could add a magician or two to their cause. More tomorrow. Ciao…….Moe Lauzier

This and That for  Wednesday and Thursday

Sorry for no posts for yesterday and today. I had a medical procedure for an problem which has lingered for far too long.  I thought I'd be home early enough to post yesterday; I was wrong. This is my first time on the computer since I posted on Tuesday and don't feel up to applying myself to doing one today. Typing is difficult today but my doctor said I should be back to normal by tomorrow.

With all that is taking place I should have no shortage of topics to discuss with you. As always I appreciate very much your regular visitation.

I would like to thank and express gratitude for the fine medical staff at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, Massachusetts. They not only provided fine medical care they put me at ease. Whatever good health I now have is thanks in large part to competent doctors and kind and caring nurses.

Ciao.......Moe Lauzier

This and That for Tuesday

~~~ Did you catch the press conference from Chicago yesterday? So the president wants a stimulus package for Greece. He sees it as fair to the people of Greece and part of his I’m my brother’s keep approach to things.

~~~ No wonder evolution takes a long time, it brings real consequences. Of course, when the "evolving" we are talking about is Obama's changing position on gay marriage, those consequences are not about natural selection, but November election. And there, evolution's consequences may be just as serious.

Looking at polls now starting to measure the public's reaction to Obama's changed position and you understand why he did not want to be forced to do this prior to Election Day.

~~~ Jed Babbin in The American Spectator has a knack of distilling some of our problems to their lowest common denominator in a very succinct way. It's more and more difficult to write about the Islamist war against Western civilization. Not because there is too little to write, or because the fronts in that war are quiet. It's tough to do because fewer people seem to give a damn each week.

~~~ I had a nightmare last night. Her ladyship Hillary Clinton was nominated for veep. She’s not nearly the fun or fodder than current mouth of the year Joltin Joe Biden.

~~~ Catholic colleges, dioceses, schools, universities and charitable organizations have launched a broad strike against the Obama administration regarding the contraceptive mandate by the Health and Human Services department.

Notre Dame, Franciscan University of Steubenville, and dozens of Catholic hospitals and organizations have filed a total of 12 lawsuits today against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration over the controversial HHS mandate.

Among the plaintiffs are the Archdioceses of New York, Washington, D.C., and St. Louis, as well as the Dioceses of Dallas, Ft. Worth, Rockville Centre, Pittsburgh, and the Michigan Catholic Conference, which represents all seven dioceses in the state.

Just last week Franciscan University in Steubenville reported it will close its student health care program as of August 15, 2012 because the college will not comply with the HHS directives to cover contraceptives in its health plan.

Notre Dame's president, Fr. John Jenkins weighs in:

Let me say very clearly what this lawsuit is not about: it is not about preventing women from having access to contraception, nor even about preventing the Government from providing such services.

This filing is about the freedom of a religious organization to live its mission, and its significance goes well beyond any debate about contraceptives. For if we concede that the Government can decide which religious organizations are sufficiently religious to be awarded the freedom to follow the principles that define their mission, then we have begun to walk down a path that ultimately leads to the undermining of those institutions.

A big Amen to Father Jenkens.

Obama's actions have galvanized disparate personalities within the Catholic Church, i.e., conservatives and liberals like Jenkins of Notre Dame; the president surely knew this would happen if he pushed the church too far. Obviously, he doesn't care.

He has one mission in mind: force religious institutions to relinquish rights to religious freedom and become servants of the State.

~~~ At campaign headquarters, the Obama gang is in full meltdown mode after Newark Mayor Cory Booker went off script, undermining and mocking "what this campaign is going to be about."

ABC said of the comments the Obama campaign is in full damage-control mode one day after Newark Mayor Cory Booker publicly derided Democrats’ assault on presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney over his record at Bain Capital.

Chief Obama apologist David Axelrod publicly rebuked the mayor, a popular surrogate for the campaign, saying he was “just wrong.”

“I love Cory Booker. He’s a great mayor. If I were, if my house was on fire, I’d hope he were my next door neighbor,” Axelrod said on MSNBC, referring to Booker’s rescue of a neighbor last month.

“I agree with what he said later. I think this was a legitimate area for discussion,” Axelrod said of Booker’s subsequent comments clarifying the issue.

But Booker isn't the only Democrat already tired and made uncomfortable by Obama's divisive

If Obama loses the Bain Capital battle, he'll probably lose the election. All a failed incumbent can do is toxify their opponent into some unelectable, and this is a failed incumbent who has staked his entire campaign on divisive class warfare and envy.

Team Obama is in a panic because their entire playbook is falling apart.

~~~ Is Barak Obama a wunderkind or dumb Kopf? The truth may be somewhere in between, sort of where George Bush was at Yale. Since Obama’s academic record has been kept a national secret we’ll never know for sure but we can make some educated guesses.

The administration can never be accused of modesty in any way. With that thought in mind we can only wonder why all the secrecy surrounding anything resembling Obama’s past. The White House is positively secret about anything Obama.

Here’s an article which may explain the paranoia in protecting us from personal knowledge about the most powerful man in the world. Somehow we smell a rat in this woodpile. Read this and tell me how well you sleep tonight with this man at the helm:

 http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/22/Exclusive-The-Vetting-Obama-Wrong-on-Columbia-Admission-Transfer-Class-Had-Low-SAT-Scores-Grades

Have a nice day. We’ll attempt to put something together for tomorrow since we’ll be away most of the day.

Ciao…….Moe Lauzier

This and That for Monday

~~~ Robin Gibb, RIP

~~~ Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell said cconcerning the blame for long-term U.S. debt, "We all know that it's on the entitlement side. So at some point here, this president needs to become the adult because the speaker and I have been the adults in the room arguing that we ought to do something about the nation's most serious long-term problem."

The White House has all the earmarks of a kiddy corps. What leadership? None, flat out, none.

~~~ You may not believe this but Barack Obama and Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren have more in common than just their left wing political ideology, Harvard Law connection, and Democratic Party affiliation. Both claim Cherokee ancestry, and neither can prove it. Please put on a shocked look.

Warren's claims are current and well known, but President Obama's claims were made back in 1995, when his memoir, Dreams from My Father, was published. On pages 12 and 13 of the 2004 paperback edition, the President unequivocally asserts his Cherokee ancestry:

In Obama’s case he says he asked, Toot [Obama’s maternal grandmother, Madelyne Payne Dunham] would turn her head in profile to show off her beaked nose, which, along with a pair of jet-black eyes, was offered as proof of Cherokee blood.

Heck, I have a large proboscis. Maybe I can claim Indian heritage. Yeah, sure.

Unlike Warren, no one has ever alleged that President Obama may have secured employment due to his claim of Native American ancestry. Like Ms. Warren, however, the President puts forth his claim with emphatic certitude, although until now no one has sought to ask him to provide evidence to prove it.

~~~ Based on what we know now about Elizabeth Warren’s Pow Wow Chow we now understand her main ingredient is more bull than anything else.

~~~ The Boston Celtics are in a ‘gotta win’ situation tonight. Tied at two wins each the Celtics are like a team in a best of three series. They need a good performance or they will surrender the series lead to with play returning to Philadelphia.

~~~  Only three days after the U.S. Free Trade Agreement with Colombia went into effect, the U.S. government began issuing permits for importing the Obamas’ favorite vegetable -- arugula.

“We are advising the public of our decision to begin issuing permits for the importation into the continental United States of fresh celery, arugula, and spinach from Colombia,” stated the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.

The Administration issued the notice in the Federal Register on Friday, saying the leafy greens can be safely imported, based on the results of three pest-risk analyses.

As a candidate for president in 2007, Mr. Obama famously mentioned arugula during a campaign stop in Iowa. “Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?"

Obama’s reference to a salad green often found in expensive restaurants – and to Whole Foods, an upscale grocery store not found in Iowa at that time – had Obama’s critics painting him as an elitist.

I wonder, with his propensity for McDonalds’ fare if we will next see a presidential order for fast food restaurants to offer arugula.

~~~ Nearly two-thousand Americans have lost their lives in Afghanistan and Hamid Karzai thanks us for our monetary help. The man has all the tact and diplomacy of a jack hammer.

~~~ Oops, what is happening with the price of Facebook stock? I guess the amateurs got in early and now the professional traders are eating their collective lunches. How far will the slide go? Drudge referred to is as Fadebook.

C ya tomorrow.

Ciao…….Moe Lauzier

This and That for Sunday

We ran across the following in Breitbart today and thought it was just too tasty to pass up.

By J. Christian Adams

The Florida Secretary of State has discovered 53,000 dead voters registered to vote. The Secretary of State has also flagged thousands of potential non-citizens who are also registered to vote. This discovery is indicative of a wider national problem with dead and ineligible voters on the rolls heading into the Presidential election.

In the 2012 legislative session, Florida finally passed a law requiring the use of the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) to determine if dead people are registered to vote in Florida. Secretary of State Kurt Browning and then-State Election Director Don Palmer proposed this idea in the previous legislative session, but the bill did not pass.

Florida discovered the dead voters by matching voter rolls against the SSDI.

The SSDI is the list of Americans who have died and applied for death benefits. Because an application must be submitted by the next of kin and carries criminal penalties for false statements, it is considered the most accurate list of dead voters available.

Yet most states don’t use the SSDI. Instead, they use a hodge-podge of other information, usually compiled from the state bureaus of vital statistics. But state bureau reporting is slow and incomplete.

Three counties in Florida have reported more citizens registered to vote than people alive eligible to vote – St. Johns, Okaloosa, and Santa Rosa – according to the most recent Election Assistance Commission report.

Having dead people infesting the rolls is the first step to voter impersonation.

Federal law requires states to have a reasonable voter list maintenance program and gives the Eric Holder Justice Department the power to sue states that don’t. Not surprisingly, Holder’s DOJ has not brought a single case under the law to require states to clean up corrupted voter rolls. Indeed, when I served at the DOJ Voting Section, an announcement was made in November 2009 that this provision of the law would not be enforced. The political leadership was philosophically opposed to the law, and they said so.

Make no mistake; the problem of corrupted voter rolls is not confined to Florida. It extends to New Mexico, Iowa, Indiana, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, and other states. Judicial Watch has notified various states they are in violation of the law and will be filing lawsuits to force the sort of clean-up that Florida has now started.

Many resist cleaning up the voter rolls as directed by the Secretary of State. Brenda Snipes, the Supervisor of Elections in Broward County (Fort Lauderdale) is one.

"I'm feeling really uncomfortable about this," Broward County Supervisor of Elections Brenda Snipes told officials with the state's Division of Elections.

With the election just months away, the time for removing ineligible voters is now. Unfortunately, millions are on the rolls across the nation, and election officials from the DOJ to local offices are reluctant to act.

A big well done to Mr. Adams. Voting in Florida can be so much fun. Bring back the good old days of Florida recounts like the 2000 presidential election.

Have a nice weekend.

Ciao…….Moe Lauzier

This and That for Saturday

~~~ It is now apparent to most that Elizabeth Warren is as Native American as my cat. Now we learn she is not only a liar she is a plagiarist. She is even taking credit for some recites she claims as her own. I must admit she would serve us better as a politician than professor because we expect a minimum amount of honesty from our teachers.

Old friend Howie Carr came up with the story. Howie gets three attaboys for it.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/18/did-elizabeth-warren-plagiarize-pow-wow-chow-recipes

~~~ A little more than two weeks from now for the June 5th recall election in Wisconsin that will decide whether or not Governor Scott Walker remains in office. Polls a month ago had the recall in a dead heat. Since then Walker had mounted a more than five point lead and because of the enthusiasm of the  pro-Walker side Wisconsin may indeed not only keep their governor but give him a margin he can use to push all his solutions to Wisconsin’s fiscal woes. The Badger state has already shown solid progress on the jobs front and this election will give some stability in state government.

Wisconsin is also considered to be a swing state and is an open seat in the US Senate.

All in all, this is good news for Republicans. Union democrats have awakened a sleeping GOP giant.

P.S., Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, the national party arm to support candidates running for Congress is shifting resources into Gov. Scott Walker recall election. They’re desperate.

~~~ Lots of shares in Facebook were peddled. The share price jumped initially and then slumped back to the level the stock was originally pegged at.

~~~ The Church should cut its ties to Georgetown. It is hard to understand how a Catholic institution can promote someone promoting abortion. We call pro-abortion people pro-choice. What choice does the unborn baby have? Face reality, an abortionist is an executioner. Georgetown and their Jesuit leaders did nothing less than promote a foreign ideology.

Asking Catholics to accept a pro-abortionist is comparable to asking a Jew to accept a Nazi under the guise of freedom of speech. This was not a debate but a sales pitch for abortion.

~~~ Will George Zimmerman get a fair trial? It is becoming clear that on the basis of the known facts he is not the cold blooded murderer he has been made out to be.

~~~ Why does the G-8 conference look more like a meeting of over spenders anonymous?

~~~ What do you make of this? According to archive.org, a website that caches websites on a regular basis, the Dystel.com website – the official website for Dystel & Goderich, Obama’s literary agents – was using the Barack Obama “born in Kenya” language until April 2007, just two months after then-Senator Obama declared his campaign for the presidency. The statement by them first appeared in 1991.

~~~ In the good news department Blind Chinese Chinese freedom activist Chen Guangcheng and his family are on board a flight bound for the U.S., the State Department confirmed. Now that’s good news.

Enjoy your weekend.

Ciao…….Moe Lauzier

This and That for Friday

~~~ Have you bought your Facebook shares? Better hurry up before they sell out.

~~~ Do you think the US Senate sent a message to President Obama by voting 99-0 to reject his proposed budget? Not even his lap puppies in the senate cast a single vote for him. I guess my Christian sensitivities dictate at least a little sympathy. Not!

~~~ Watch the next Obama fineness move, getting out of Afghanistan. After gutting the budget for continuing our efforts there Obama is now passing the collection plate to those who have made a commitment there. First President Bush mishandled the war effort there and now the error is being compounded by Obama by gutting the budget beneath the feet of our soldiers. It’s a disgrace.

~~~ My favorite governor, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, has made the greatest short quote of the year:

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/erikajohnsen/2012/05/16/bobby_jindal_obama_never_even_ran_a_lemonade_stand

~~~ According to The Washington Post’s election blog a new study released by the Brookings Institution finds that Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith may help him in the fall election. The authors of the study said that Romney’s religion “poses little threat” to his chances and may even help among conservatives.

The online survey of 2,084 respondents, included 16 percent white evangelical Christians. However, the Post cautions that the survey was “not based on a nationally representative sample” and was conducted online, the Post noted.

~~~ Senator Marco Rubio on Wednesday blasted the decision to grant Cuban President Raul Castro’s daughter a visa as “shameful,” “outrageous,” and a slap in the face to democracy activists in Cub.

The U.S. State Department approved a visa for Mariela Castro, a prominent gay rights activist in Cuba, to visit the United States. She is scheduled to chair a panel on the politics of sexual diversity at a gathering next week in San Francisco organized by the Latin American Studies Association. She will also speak at the New York Public Library on May 29. His comments came from a press release in Rubio’s office.

~~~ The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world’s proven reserves combined, an auditor from the Government Accountability Office says.

Sounds good to me. We bet you hadn’t heard that.

~~~ A woman takes her life every three seconds in China,” and men outnumber women by 40 million because of the “systematic elimination of girls” through forced abortion and sterilizations resulting from China’s one-child policy, Chai Ling, founder of the human rights group All Girls Allowed, said Tuesday.

Ling testified during a House Foreign Affairs Subcommitte on Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist who was imprisoned by the Chinese government and fled to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. He is waiting to complete paperwork so that he can travel to the United States.

The story didn’t mention his family and whether they will be allowed to travel to the USA.

~~~ This from Breitbart yesterday:

The beauty of new media is that there are lots of voices out there with all sorts of expertise in things the average person probably doesn't know much about. We see that again today when blogger Twila Barnes, whose blog is subtitled "A little Cherokee history and genealogy mixed in with a whole lot of truth," wrote an open letter to Elizabeth Warren:

Ms. Warren, some of us have independently done our own research and we know you have no documentation supporting your claim of Cherokee ancestry.* We wonder why you believe you have the right to claim Cherokee ancestry and to call yourself a Native American when you have no evidence to support your claim. While you cling to a family story and the inaccurate report that ONE document was found that supports your claim, we real Cherokees understand that those things mean nothing. You see, we Cherokees have lots and lots and lots of documentation supporting our claims of our ancestry. Our Cherokee ancestors are found on every roll of the Cherokee Nation (30+ rolls!) dating back to before the removal and in all sorts of other documentation, including but not limited to claims against the US government for lost property; the Moravian missionary records; ration lists before and after the forced removal, etc...yet your ancestors are found in NONE of those records...

You have claimed something you had no right to claim -- our history and our heritage and our identity. Those things belong to us, and us alone. These are not things we choose to embrace when they benefit us and then cast aside when we no longer need them, but that is what you seem to have done by "checking a box" for several years and then no longer "checking" it more recently, when apparently you no longer needed it.

Ed. Note……Sqaw Warren speaks with forked tongue. There are more stories about her ancestry coming from Breitbart. We’ll keep you posted.

~~~ I’m listening to all the news on Facebook. Hundreds of millions of people use Facebook. My son only chuckled when I asked him what Facebook is about. I’m sure the word Neanderthal crossed his mind.

~~~

Fundraising is a crucial part of virtually any political campaign. Without

fundraising success a campaign is always in trouble. It can be likened to a

barometer which is not a perfect weather forecaster but can give an

indication of what direction a campaign is taking.

The money barometer is pointing in the downward position for Barack Obama

while it is pointing up for Mitt Romney. Obama is falling far short of the billion

dollar amount his campaign was touting just a few months ago while Romney 

is exceeding expectations. Does this mean Romney will win? No, but it means 

we in the leash have a competitive race.

Anything short of some unforeseen events Romney is in a horse race. Dick 

Morris thinks Romney is poised for a landslide win in November because he 

says the undecided vote usually breaks 4-1 or more for the challenger.

I hope Morris is right, historical evidence bears him out.

Another beautiful day and I’m heading to the back yard to soak up some sun.

Ciao…….Moe Lauzier