Considered an expert on the Fast and Furious scandal, Townhall.com editor Katie Pavlich recently asserted that not only has the Obama administration been silent on the F&F scandal but that they used the tragic events of Brian Terry’s death to push for gun control. Props and politicizing tragic events seem to be a normal behavior for this administration does it not? Yet, according to Pavlich “This is a situation where the government was creating a situation where they could blame law-abiding citizens, turn them into criminals and create this false problem that they could solve through gun regulation,” Pavlich said. Pavlich is not the only commentator to assert that Fast and Furious was an attempt to curb the Second Amendment. NRA executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre said in 2011 that “Fast and Furious” was a “plot to undermine” the right to bear arms.

Read more here……http://politichicks.tv/column/fast-and-furious-more-like-slow-and-sedated/

While the mainstream and leftist fringe media focuses on the Supreme Court hearings on gay marriage and sequestration, the story of what happened on September 11, 2012 in Benghazi still remains a mystery.  One group, Judicial Watch, has continually focused on the 800lb gorilla in the room and has vowed to never stop on its investigation into the tragic events that lead to the death of four Americans until the answers are exposed. Good for them!

Click here for the rest of the story….http://politichicks.tv/column/benghazi-keep-brushing-it-under-the-rug/

Perez was also involved in the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) in the 2008 presidential elections that occurred in Philadelphia.  Perez was with the CRD of the DOJ at the time of the investigation and was reported to have been involved in the administration dropping the charges against the NBPP.  Perez denied the fact that the Obama administration was involved in a political act of getting involved in the NBPP case, but according to a report by the federal court of Washington, DC under Judge Reggie Walton (who heard the case brought forward by a political watch dog group known as Judicial Watch), Judge Walton disagreed with the DOJ’s request for dropping the suit and found that instead the DOJ was indeed involved in the charges being dropped based on legal evidence presented in the case and considered the action of dropping those charges against the NBPP as nothing more than a political move once Obama was elected into office.  Judge Walton’s response to the DOJ’s denial of being involved was the following:

Read more of my article at Politichicks here: http://politichicks.tv/column/thomas-perez-new-labor-secretary/

When I think back to the days of growing up I realize in many ways how creative my mind could work as I would imagine myself in any given situation and acted out scenes of my favorite songs or even the movies I watched on the big Drive In theater screens! I remember the pomegranate trees we had in our yard in one house we lived in and how I could eat myself sick in blackberries that grew wild along the dirt road that lead to my grandparents house.

Walking past pastures of horses and cows were the normal landscape to me during the time we lived in Georgia.  One of our neighbors in Baxley had a big farm and my brother and I would walk down to get some of the sugar cane they grew. I remember watching the older lady who the family that owned the farm lovingly called “Granny” as she would take her finger and scoop around this big huge hot vat that they used to boil down the sugar cane to make rock candy and syrup.  The foam on the edges would collect and she would take her aging wrinkled fingers and would go all the way around the hot sides of the vat every time and she would have this big toothless smile on her face as she would take that finger and put it in her mouth and cry out “now that’s some good stuff right there”! She never left a trace of the foam, licked it clean off! Guess it gave her an energy source because she would dance around and sing a tune I had never heard of but it sure sounded good in her head!  And they always put us to work when we came down. After all it was sugar cane that was our payment, so off we would go helping to feed the chickens, pigs, goats, cows and my favorite the horses.  Now me and the chickens got along okay most of the time, but every once in a while the red rooster would get an attitude and chase me around their yard. Of course I provided the comical entertainment to break the monotony of their work. Glad I could be so helpful!

My grandparents had a small farm as well and of course when it was the weekend during the school year or through out the week in the summer, Mike and I would always have chores to do but we would always get a reward.  One of the best for me was sitting inside the tire swing they had on this big oak tree in their back yard and I would spin around and listen to the AM station.   We also helped pick the vegetables in their garden and I used to love the smell of my Grandma, Mom and my Aunt Debbie making “chow chow” and those wonderful dill pickles! I was never much on the canned beets or the sweet pickles so I always made sure I stayed outside when they canned those! YUCK!

Life, despite being hard at times never seemed to reflect the tough times we lived in because as kids we were never told about the worries our parents or grandparents had on their minds.  Matter of fact despite knowing that both my Grandfather and Uncle served in the Navy during war times, it was never a conversation we heard about in the home. Conversation with the “kids” of the family stayed within the limits of school, chores and the fact we had better not ever get in trouble or embarrass the family! Punishment meant spankings from everyone who happened to be around at the time of the poor choice made, and that was always motivation enough to do my best to stay out of trouble. Didn’t always work out that way, but it finally sunk in after a while!

Memories in Florida were different and my favorite scenery was the beach! Every day outside of school was spent at the beach with friends and family. Even when we moved away from Florida we would always visit family and my Nana’s (my Dad’s mom) house was just a short walk from the New Smyrna beach access ramp! Now that was pretty cool to live that close to such an awesome stretch of scenery! Made up for the fact I had to stay with my Nana. Now don’t get me wrong, I loved my Nana…but she was one of those women who had fancy things in her house because of her worldly travels so you couldn’t touch and you had to sit on the furniture with that thick plastic covering on it and that always stuck to my legs! Ouch! Plus she had this knack for using moth balls in her closets so it always smelled!

As a parent I look around and watch how our world has changed. Our kids know about the struggles to some degree because there are so many that surround them going through a similar crisis.  On our neighborhood streets you can pick several houses around you that someone has adult kids living back in the homes with them or senior family members because they can no longer afford to live on their own.  What is different about these “hard times” than those before is the entitlement mentality that has grown in the last 30 years.  Never before have I witnessed so many people who only want what they can get out of our government through checks, even willing to lie to collect them.  Our government has gotten so big in size that fraud is rampant and yet they don’t seem to do what is necessary to change it.

For the first time ever, I really worry about the future of my kids and grand-kids  I wonder what kind of country they will be left with because I watch our congress and our leader in the White House care more their best interest than they do of the people.  I watch how our media is complicit in selling a dream of “sunshine and lollipops” when in reality we are going to be facing tough times. I watch how families struggle to cut items out of their budgets to make ends meet while our Government demands more money and spends like an addict.  Only we, the people can change this direction.  Obama is hoping you will put more people like him and his progressive colleagues in power by the 2014 midterm elections.  I can tell you that if he is successful and the Democrats have the power of Congress and the White House then we will see the end of what used to make our country the greatest in the world. Socialism will be the new theme and we will be worse off than Greece ever imagined because we will have more takers than we will makers.

I can live with the fact that I was “Betty” growing up. I look back and consider myself lucky even though my childhood was not perfect.  I just want my kids and my grand-kids to be able to decide who they want to be and have the chance to imagine and play. It is up to us to make that happen, my generation needs to step up to the plate and begin to fight for that chance.

Below are real examples (and unfortunately not all listed) of what ridiculous projects taxpayers are funding provided by Senator (Dr.) Tom Coburn. While you and I sit at our kitchen table cutting coupons, counting spare change or trying to figure out what expense we can do without in our budgets, our Government (both state and federal) are living it up and sending our money to special interest groups and lobbyist who don’t represent our best interest.

• Do you need to relive your youth? Or how about prom week? Or prom night? Well you too can relive those memories because our Government has taken OUR money to make that happen for you! It only cost $516M to create the video game!
• Yes fellow taxpayers, our Government with Pres. Obama in charge is asking for more people to “pay their fair share”! Just don’t ask them why we needed to pay $300,000 to fund a study to help golfers channel their imaginations by believing the hole is bigger than it actually is!
• Alabama taxpayers YOU spent $500,000 to install surveillance cameras in federal court houses that may be so powerful that they violate the privacy rights of people who visit there!
• If you are a SBO and you suffered a loss, the IRS may not allow any deductions but by golly they are going to make sure federal prison inmates get their tax breaks for attending college despite being behind bars! $3.2 billion in tax credit to be exact!
• If you were one of the lucky consumers who paid for a book or roll of those “Simpsons” stamps the post office offered last year; well you didn’t buy enough because they printed 1 billion and only sold 318 million! Oh well, it only cost us taxpayers $2M in funds to put Homer and Bart on our envelopes!
• Hey Michigan and Massachusetts taxpayers YOU both paid $939,771 to study the attraction of male fruit flies to female fruit flies! (I think Dr. Ruth would have charged less but hey…it’s only YOUR money!)
• Hey New Hampshire taxpayers YOU paid $750,970 for installing sewer connections to HUD dwellings and brewing equipment! (Hopefully the brewing equipment were not found in the same warehouse as the sewer pipes!)
• Hey Georgia taxpayers YOU paid $547,430 to create mini-robots that can dance to music from YOUR smartphones! Guess what…you can pay $200 now to own one of those robots you helped to build! (I.Kid.U.Not)
• Hey Missouri taxpayers YOU paid $548,731 for a study that came back with the conclusion that if you are over 30 and drink heavily, then you are immature! (I.Kid.U.Not)
• Hey Louisiana taxpayers YOU have paid over $21.6M for those blighted and abandoned HUD homes destroyed during Katrina 7 years ago! Oh and yes they are still blighted and abandoned!
• Hey North Carolina taxpayers YOU paid $1.2M for research to see if the elderly should play “World of Warcraft”! (I.Kid.U.Not)
• Hey taxpayers in Indiana YOU paid $142,419 to bus the Super Bowl attendees who could afford $3,000 per ticket to be there!

So I wonder, while President Obama puts back in place a measure that made no difference the last time it was in place, will he then begin to try to legislate morality as well? Will he now come with a new plan to require a person obtain a license before they have children? I mean we are talking about the simple fact that this President and his base along with his lap dog media continue to ignore: it was not the guns that killed the people it was the person behind the gun Mr. President!

President Obama stated in his address to reporters with children in attendance that Congress should act to ensure that people who purchase gun for criminals or criminal activity should be faced with stiff penalties of justice.  Will he include his own administration in that deal? How about the DOJ and Eric Holder with Fast and Furious? Mr. President will you be enforcing that stance on Benghazi as well? You know since it was our own Government who supplied these weapons to KNOWN terrorists, drug cartels and criminals!

How about the violent video games? President Obama wants Congress to loosen the reins on funding research on the effects of violent video games on young people. Funding = spending just so you know Mr. President so I guess we just need to charge that on our already over the limit credit card right? Mental health is the one aspect of this whole speech I could agree with along with background checks and yet this issue on putting priority for coverage of mental health therapy has been suffering for years. Many practices in this field have closed because either insurance stopped covering the service with the “medical necessity” clause implemented and the cost of copays and deductibles rose when Obamacare was passed by the Democrats. So where is this money coming from? Who will pay for this Mr. President and if the taxpayers are carrying the burden what are you willing to cut in order to pay for it?

Finally one of the executive orders enlists our Doctors who provide service to us, to determine whether we carry firearms and if we could be a detriment to the safety of ourselves or others if we do and then report back to the Government. What other questions will our Government require providers to ask? So where is the Dr/Client confidentiality privilege fit into this and how will it financially affect the protection of providers against lawsuits for breaking that confidential relationship? Providers are already court mandated reporters so we do not need our Government to impose further on them. That is a slippery slope we should never ride down!

So will we start legislating hammers, clubs, baseball bats, golf clubs, frying pans, beer bottles or any other weapon of choice that when used by human hands have killed more in numbers than any gun ever has? How about cars, trucks, or any other vehicle on the roads that have claimed a larger number of human lives than guns? Will our big brother Government decide they need to regulate what we put in our hands or drive on the roads? This is a slippery slope and our Government is only so happy to ride it all the way down with no remorse over the consequences! Just don’t ask them to discuss abortion though! Despite the fact we have allowed genocide to take place with legal funding of aborting a human life since the passing of Roe vs. Wade!

I admit I had that feeling today…the one where I just wanted to haul off and smack somebody and that somebody was Andrea Mitchell from MSNBC.  Today Ms. Mitchell decided to take the efforts that Mitt Romney was planning in Ohio to assist in the relief efforts of Hurricane Sandy and make a political jab.  Mitchell actually suggested on her show today that Romney was wasting the time of the Red Cross by accepting donations of anything other than money and blood.  If you didn’t have those two to give then Andrea Mitchell says you are wasting people’s time instead of helping the people in distress out!  Like a mental picture of Nellie Oleson giving her opinion despite no one asking for it (as if she was the expert on the matter)! Oh and the location of Ohio was all wrong too according to Mitchell.  It doesn’t matter that Ohio was the state Romney was in already for his campaign. Nope, she wanted him in New York or New Jersey after all (sigh)!

Let’s just go ahead and realize that no matter what Mitt Romney does in a given situation it will never be right to the lapdog media types like Mitchell who have made it clear she and her network are “in the tank” for Obama.  These media pundits will do whatever it takes to re-elect Obama including dismissing any coverage of the Benghazi crisis. Instead they will take every little thing that Mitt Romney says or does, twist it tight like a pretzel and spin it into a negative story.  Romney could “part the seas” like Moses (as they once touted Obama could do) and Mitchell and her pundits would sit back and say “well you didn’t part it down the middle”! Now I’m being factious of course but you get the point.

What the sad and tragic crisis of Hurricane Sandy has created (and it is truly a devastating tragedy) for the lapdog media is yet another reason to not talk about Benghazi, Fast and Furious, Senate’s failure to produce a budget, et al that the American people are learning about despite them.  Talk Radio (like our station), Fox News, internet sites, conservative publications and social media focus on these stories and still find the time to discuss the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.  It’s called a balanced approach and one that the MSM seems to consider a foreign concept.

Quite frankly I wish media shills like Andrea Mitchell would get their butts out in the flood devastated areas hit hard by Sandy and do some physical work like Romney and the volunteers are doing.  Unloading supplies, searching for victims, clean up debris/trash as I am sure the Red Cross and other relief efforts could use their two hands.  I think Ed Schultz could use some exercise as well.  Seems he and Chris Matthews both need to move more of their body parts than their mouths they use each day to spew their divisive mantra.  I’m thinking Mitchell is a little “high maintenance” though and would not want to break a nail. She’d probably take a bullhorn and tell other people what to do.  Like Nellie Oleson!

It was June 17, 1972 a custodian worker by the name of Frank Wills was working a graveyard shift at the Democratic National Committee office in Watergate Plaza and witnessed what looked like a break-in so he alerted authorities (Many of us never heard of Wills and it is unfortunate to learn he was forever marked as someone to never hire amid fears of retaliation. Mr. Wills never received a pension for his work and actually died penniless on September 27, 2000 in Augusta, Georgia).  Watergate became the scandal when it was discovered that Nixon was involved in the break-in at the DNC office. Prior to that revelation representatives in office on both sides of the isle did not want to make a big deal of the initial demands of impeachment because quite frankly this was not the first time something of this nature had taken place and Democrats did not want Spiral Agnew to be the next President if Nixon was impeached. It was only after Agnew resigned as Vice President for fear of federal prosecution that Democrats rejoiced louder for Nixon’s impeachment.  Nixon’s actions caused his resignation and rightly so in the grand scheme of things. The national media and press had this scandal on every news hour and front pages of all the papers for months.  On August 9th, 1974 news anchor for ABC Sam Donaldson actually was the first journalist to break the news on national television that President Nixon was set to resign from office at 9 p.m. (ET) that evening.

Today we have another cover-up taking place and many have dubbed this latest scandal Benghazigate.  The tragic circumstances surrounding the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith who served as Stevens’ assistant, and Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty are in the minds of many Americans. Outrage really does not begin to scratch the surface of emotions many of us are feeling because the more that is uncovered of the facts surrounding this act of terrorism on Sept. 11, 2012, the less we see the main stream media and newspapers covering the details.  Shocking revelation when you compare the coverage of Watergate by the media and that scandal pales in comparison to the magnitude of Benghazigate!

So why the shut out by the media? Why is this story with the deaths of these four great patriots not considered newsworthy to ABC, NBC, or CBS? Or how about the New York Times? In the generation of 24/7 media coverage you would think that news organizations other than Fox News would be covering the on-going events of the latest breaking news on this tragedy? I mean if it wasn’t for sites that the left consider “radical right wingers” and social media sites, many of us would not know the details we know today and the amount of lies told to the American people. Why is this not a national news story? Where is the outrage that we saw in levels during the Watergate scandal? No one died in Watergate! Four Americans died in Benghazigate! They didn’t have to die and now we await the news that will determine who in the administration said “No” three times to the cries of help they heard during the attacks.  Seems that 3 AM call came during Barack Obama’s watch and he did nothing about it. Guess he needed to make sure he got his rest that evening since the next day after his Rose Garden press conference he was off to Vegas to party with JayZ and Beyonce’. That’s more important after all to this President. http://www.therightscoop.com/emotional-pat-caddell-on-the-msm-ignoring-benghazi-these-people-have-no-honor/

Ronald Reagan had a similar crisis hit him while in office.  In December 1985, five American citizens were killed in simultaneous terrorist attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports. Moamarr al Quaddafi took ownership of the attacks and vowed a war would be waged against the United States.  Quaddafi would order his own embassies to attack Americans and vowed to assassinate President Reagan.  After expanded sanctions and frozen Libyan assets in the United States were tried more attacks by Libya would continue. On March 24, 1986, U.S. and Libyan forces clashed in the Gulf of Sidra, and four Libyan attack boats were sunk. On April 5, Quaddafi backed terrorists bombed a West Berlin dance hall known to be frequented by U.S. servicemen. In the bombing one U.S. serviceman and a Turkish woman were killed, and more than 200 people were wounded, including 50 other U.S. servicemen.  President Reagan answered those attacks on April 14, 1986. Liberal media types such as New York Times and the “Big 3″ networks constantly attacked President Reagan and questioned whether Operation El Dorado Canyon was a good idea. So why are they so silent on the Benghazi attacks and the murders of 4 Americans? http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-bombs-libya

What is clear in just these few examples is that the “lapdog media” (as I affectionately refer to them) continue their partisan coverage. When you watch CBS, NBC, ABC or even the cable news like CNN or MSNBC you will hear about abortion rights and how great it is to compare your first time for voting as your experience in losing your virginity.  You won’t hear anything about the attacks in Benghazi or the cover- up.  The large difference from history to today is that the MSM is becoming outnumbered by social media, conservative web sites and coverage of the Benghazi attacks by Fox News.  The left leaning media will either continue to cover for this President to ensure his re-election or more damning evidence will be uncovered and there will be a change in course.  We know who will cover it and who won’t.  Either way the American people are becoming informed and outraged by this behavior and with this type of momentum the scandal will not be ignored.

We know that our President watched in real time the attacks in Benghazi and did nothing.  That speaks volumes for itself.  Ambassador Stevens begged for more security and warned of future attacks months prior to his death and the decision to deny that security has been exposed. We know there were several terrorist attacks within months of the Sept 11th attacks. We know the brave effort that Americans Woods and Doherty made when ignoring orders to “stand down” and saved the lives of at least 40 people despite losing their own in the sacrifice.  We also know that President Obama has ordered all tapes related to the attacks “top secret” and now we realize the desperate measures this administration will take to keep the truth from coming out.  We know that “We the People” will honor those 4 Americans when we insist on the truth and nothing less and we will find the truth in spite of the “lapdog media” ignorance.  Shame on them.

The media touts that the undecided voter will actually decide this election.  For me it seems almost impossible to consider there are people out there who by all counts (according to the media) have yet to decide who they want as their next President.  What bothers me is the rest of us voters who have been decided for quite some time about who we will vote for, seems to be discarded as if we are leftovers? Especially the conservative voter.  Now, if it is true that Evangelical Christians are the largest voting block nationally why does the lap-dog media attack that group as often as they do? Even Hollywood takes jabs at conservatives/Christian’s every chance they get and yet are surprised when their ticket sales drop or their new show is cancelled on TV after a few episodes.  Does it not resonate with the liberal media types including Hollywood elites that if you continually attack people based on their belief system or moral values they hold that there will not be repercussions?

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Let’s just be real here for a moment and realize what another 4 years of Obama will look like.  The Supreme Court for example will likely see retiring Judges and if Obama is still in office it is certain he will be choosing liberal leaning people for those seats.  Constitution and law will be replaced with liberal/progressive ideology if Obama has his way and you will see Government powers continue to grow out of control. One example of a possible Obama selection is California Attorney General Kamala Harris. AG Harris reminds me of Eric Holder because she takes issues decided upon by the majority of voters and decides not to enforce the laws. Harris has been touted by the left as the next “rising star of the Democratic party”. Sound familiar?

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Our nation’s debt will continue to be a concern for so many of us, but if we look at the past 4 years under Obama he has never taken any recommendation seriously to decrease the debt (including his own Simpson/Bowles).  Matter of fact, he will use “savings” from ending wars to not pay down any debt but to increase spending in another area of social justice.  We’ve also heard how no one is willing to get serious about entitlement spending (which is the bulk of our debt problem today) because our elected officials are more concerned about getting re-elected than to do the right thing fiscally for our country’s solvency.  You think Bernie Madoff was a crook how about looking at the members of Congress who continue to spend money we don’t have and recklessly add to the debt. Instead they call tea party conservatives who block spending as obstructionists or extremist.   Each year Senator Tom Coburn comes out with a report on Government waste and each year those lists either increase or are ignored. Seems to be a better strategy to demonize members of Congress who try and take the debt seriously than to deal with the spending problem right MSNBC?

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The answers with the left leaning ideology are of course to tax the wealthy. Let’s bash the successful and make them out to be lower than dirt for the sake of growing our entitlement mentality as the liberal progressive left would like and watch this country go down the tubes like Greece.  Bill Whittle did an excellent video appropriately called “Eat the Rich”  around the time of the Scott Walker/OWS protests where he used the ideology of the left to tax the wealthy to pay for the spending and it was quite an eye-opening experience.  I’ve included it below in this blog because I think it is important to keep passing it along for anyone who has yet to see it.  Basically Whittle says you can take 100% of everyone’s income and still not make a dent in the debt and spending habits we have today.  Remember, we have Democrats in control of the Senate who have refused to work on a budget for almost 4 years and actually take pride in that lack of accomplishment.  Of course the lap-dog media would rather focus on an edited secretly taped video of Romney and the 47% than focus on the bigger problems we face. That’s why they are lap-dog media and not real news or journalists but instead are shills for Obama who have sold their souls to get him re-elected at all costs.  Amazing isn’t it?

How about the military under another term of Obama? Right now he has systematically taken the use of drones to a higher level and will just take out innocent civilians just as fast as he will the target and yet you won’t hear the lap-dog media cover that story at all.  I remember when Bush was in office the left were attacking him daily on the use of water boarding but Obama would rather just blow your head off instead of bringing you to the United States (like Anwar al-Awlaki) index.html.   Serves a better purpose maybe? Or how about skirting Congress all together and infiltrate Libya? Do you think if Bush made that choice he would have gotten a pass from the media? Nah…He’s a Republican after all and that is different right? index.html

The movie 2016: Obama’s America was an eye-opening experience for the millions of people like me who viewed the depiction of why Obama believes and governs as he does.  Make no mistake, everything this POTUS decides on is in direct relation to how he was raised and the mentors that guided his thinking.  For example, in the movie the last 30 minutes focuses on the scenario if Obama is re-elected and what that will mean for the United States.  One example given was the number of our nuclear war heads and how Obama wants that number to be lowered to around 300-400 leaving the United States vulnerable instead of being considered a super power.  The United States of Islam is a goal that will succeed if Obama has another four years and this movie will be considered just personal attacks by the extreme wing of the left while others who have viewed it consider it their wake up call. 45060