January 29, 2009
Natural Born Citizen Harold Sorensen
Pob 44
luverne, Maine 04240
Dear Harold:
Thank you for contacting me regarding your concerns that President-elect Obama has not proven his citizenship. I appreciate hearing from you.
The rumors concerning President-elect Obama's citizenship are not valid. Candidates for President of the United States face rigorous scrutiny and provide public documents regarding their citizenship. I am confident that President-elect Obama has proven that he is a citizen. He was born in Hawaii and lived there for most of his pre-college years.
I look forward to working with President-elect Obama in the 111th Congress. Government works best when it stands for the working families of this country. This means supporting important programs in education, healthcare, and economic development. It also means bringing the national deficit under control, so our children will not be burdened by tremendous debt, and making sure that free trade is fair trade with protections for environment and labor standards.
Thank you again for sharing your views with me. In addition, I also provide occasional email updates on a range of issues affecting people in Maine. If you would like to receive this information, please visit my website at http://michaud.house.gov/email_newsletter.asp and sign up for my email newsletter. I appreciate the opportunity to represent you.
With warmest regards,
Michael H. Michaud
Member of Congress
Thursday, January 29, 2009
We need patriots from Maine to schedule a personal meeting with this congressman ASAP, he is completely clueless
Who was the man that tried to object on 01.29.09.
I received several e-mails that one man raised his hand and Chaney tried to check if there are objections, at which time Pelosi interrupted, started clapping and de facto prevented Congressmen and Senators from making any objections. Please check on the video, who this man is. Is it John Linder of GA? We need to talk to him.
Orly, I have watched this video over and over, hoping that what I was wrong. Unfortunately, the evidence is there, loud and clear. Pelosi interrupted Cheney and the process whereby, the objections would have been solicited. Cheney did not go back and ask for objections. There was definitely a man in the audience that had raised his hand and was not part of the crowd clapping for the glorious news. I have retained these videos and have looked at them frame by frame to make sure I'm not mistaken. I am not. The required procedures were not followed. Jerry Piecemaker
Orly, I have watched this video over and over, hoping that what I was wrong. Unfortunately, the evidence is there, loud and clear. Pelosi interrupted Cheney and the process whereby, the objections would have been solicited. Cheney did not go back and ask for objections. There was definitely a man in the audience that had raised his hand and was not part of the crowd clapping for the glorious news. I have retained these videos and have looked at them frame by frame to make sure I'm not mistaken. I am not. The required procedures were not followed. Jerry Piecemaker
from Ray Kraft
We have to stop this guy. To have the Military take their oath to the President,rather than the Constitution, puts the President above the Constitution, and makeshim Caesar Obama. Ray
This can happen here, if you don't stand up
This blog out of England portends trouble for US if we don't get our Washingtonian heads out of the sands of Mecca most hastily.
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2009/01/lord-ahmed-threatens-parliament-into.html
Buckle your seatbelts. Expect some turbulance.
Spread the word.
Tom K.
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2009/01/lord-ahmed-threatens-parliament-into.html
Buckle your seatbelts. Expect some turbulance.
Spread the word.
Tom K.
A new idea from a reader, Scott. Flood White House system with demands for production of eligibility
Dean, I was just looking at the whitehouse.gov website and discovered that they have a "contact us" page with a form to fill out and submit with a question or comment: (http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/). I think it would be fantastic if we could flood their website with demands that Obama produce his birth certificate to prove his eligibility to be president. Maybe we can crash the White House servers with thousands upon thousands of emails... Maybe we could ask that everyone submit their comments at the same time! That ought to get their attention!! Comments? http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Did anybody else notice this? e-mail me
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Orly, *** FYI and use ...Important ?**** NO Response required
I read somewhere( please X-check ) someone has posted on you tube the
video of the proceedings 8 Jan of the electoral college. I did not
watch this video but the individual who posted stated that someone (
elector ? ) raised their hand and immediately Nancy Pelosi sprang to her
feet and began clapping and roused the electors to do the same. If this
is true , this MAY have interfered with the opportunity to object and
in fact may have been intentional obstruction of procedure. If this is
a potential work around I would put my name on the list to sue her in a
heartbeat !!!!! There is nothing in my Oath of Office to conflict me in
this regard.
Orly, *** FYI and use ...Important ?**** NO Response required
I read somewhere( please X-check ) someone has posted on you tube the
video of the proceedings 8 Jan of the electoral college. I did not
watch this video but the individual who posted stated that someone (
elector ? ) raised their hand and immediately Nancy Pelosi sprang to her
feet and began clapping and roused the electors to do the same. If this
is true , this MAY have interfered with the opportunity to object and
in fact may have been intentional obstruction of procedure. If this is
a potential work around I would put my name on the list to sue her in a
heartbeat !!!!! There is nothing in my Oath of Office to conflict me in
this regard.
another constitutional violation in CA, we are sinking in more debt
Hi,
If you know of someone in California who wants a little fame, here is the makings of a good case.
"Callifornia State Controller John Chiang announced on January 26 that California's bills exceed its tax revenues and credit line and that the state is going to print its own money known as IOUs. The template is already designed. Instead of receiving their state tax refunds in dollars, California residents will receive IOUs. Student aid and payments to disabled and needy will also come in the form of IOUs. California is negotiating with banks to get them to accept the IOUs as deposits."
Now what is wrong with this?
How about the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 10:
No State shall...emit Bills of Credit, make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts....
"A bill of credit is some sort of paper medium by which value is exchanged between the government and individuals. An interest-bearing certificate that was issued by Missouri, and usable in the payment of taxes, was thus ruled to be an unconstitutional bill of credit."
"Such bills of credit are declared to mean promissory notes or bills issued exclusively on the credit of the state, and for the payment of which the faith of the state only is pledged."
Looks to me that there is a serious Constitutional question. But as George Bush noted, the Constitution is just a piece of paper; I suppose anything goes. When was the last time you were in a state where you used gold or silver coin as legal tender? A new President who was born to a non US citizen father, hence making him not a "natural born citizen", but the Supreme Court refuses to hear any case challenging his Constitutional qualification. So California is about to issue bills of credit, and nobody seems to notice that this is a blatant violation of the US Constitution.
Regards,
Neil Hauschild
If you know of someone in California who wants a little fame, here is the makings of a good case.
"Callifornia State Controller John Chiang announced on January 26 that California's bills exceed its tax revenues and credit line and that the state is going to print its own money known as IOUs. The template is already designed. Instead of receiving their state tax refunds in dollars, California residents will receive IOUs. Student aid and payments to disabled and needy will also come in the form of IOUs. California is negotiating with banks to get them to accept the IOUs as deposits."
Now what is wrong with this?
How about the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 10:
No State shall...emit Bills of Credit, make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts....
"A bill of credit is some sort of paper medium by which value is exchanged between the government and individuals. An interest-bearing certificate that was issued by Missouri, and usable in the payment of taxes, was thus ruled to be an unconstitutional bill of credit."
"Such bills of credit are declared to mean promissory notes or bills issued exclusively on the credit of the state, and for the payment of which the faith of the state only is pledged."
Looks to me that there is a serious Constitutional question. But as George Bush noted, the Constitution is just a piece of paper; I suppose anything goes. When was the last time you were in a state where you used gold or silver coin as legal tender? A new President who was born to a non US citizen father, hence making him not a "natural born citizen", but the Supreme Court refuses to hear any case challenging his Constitutional qualification. So California is about to issue bills of credit, and nobody seems to notice that this is a blatant violation of the US Constitution.
Regards,
Neil Hauschild
marriage licenses
Writing about Ayers and Dorhn got me thinking. Ann Dunham and BO SR supposedly got married in HI, however nobody has ever found an actual marriage license, only an application for one. Ayers and Dorhn were in underground for 11 years, under assumed names. How did they get a marriage license? Didn't they need to supply their birth certificates or passports with their application for marriage license? What did they submit? Where did they get birth certificates under assumed names? How about social security cards? Who was the "creative artist" that supplied those? Is he the same Michelangelo, that created BO's short form birth certificate, seletive service certificate and all the other docs? Maybe the same person of interest can explain the mistery of some 80 entries in national databases, showing some 80 different addresses and social security nambers for BO.
another question to ask Mr. Pritzker
From what I recall Mr. Pritzker was a graduate of North-Western school of law and is very influential and a big benefactor there. Was he the one that used his connections and pulled the strings to get Bernadine Dorhn a position to teach at North Western school of law and be in charge of youth outreach program even though she is not licensed with the IL bar and has a conviction for domestic terrorism? It may be a pure coincidence of course.
Just to connect the dots: Pritzker and his sister Penny are amongst the biggest supporters of BO. BO sat on the Annenberg challenge board for 6 years with Ayers; and Michelle worked in the same firm where Ayers's wife (or common law wife) Bernadine Dorhn worked. Dorhn and Ayers were leaders of Weather underground and were involved in masterminding the bombing of police headquarters, Pentagon and Capitol. I remember reading a famous speech given by Bernadine Dorhn after Charles Manson groupies murdered Sharon Tate, that was 8 month pregnant. Dorhn was telling her followers to dig it and take example from these people, in how they murdered those people and later sat down to eat dinner and stuck a fork in Tate's belly. Never in my life have I seen such a depraved, sick disregard for human life, particularly coming from a woman. I wonder if the parents of the students in that program were told who she is, if they ever signed a consent, allowing her to be anywhere near their children. I, personally, as a parent, wouldn't want her anywhere near my kids. Same goes for the programs run by Ayers. Do the parents know who he is, what is his past? If you are a parent of a child in any of the programs ran by these people, please contact me.
Orly
Just to connect the dots: Pritzker and his sister Penny are amongst the biggest supporters of BO. BO sat on the Annenberg challenge board for 6 years with Ayers; and Michelle worked in the same firm where Ayers's wife (or common law wife) Bernadine Dorhn worked. Dorhn and Ayers were leaders of Weather underground and were involved in masterminding the bombing of police headquarters, Pentagon and Capitol. I remember reading a famous speech given by Bernadine Dorhn after Charles Manson groupies murdered Sharon Tate, that was 8 month pregnant. Dorhn was telling her followers to dig it and take example from these people, in how they murdered those people and later sat down to eat dinner and stuck a fork in Tate's belly. Never in my life have I seen such a depraved, sick disregard for human life, particularly coming from a woman. I wonder if the parents of the students in that program were told who she is, if they ever signed a consent, allowing her to be anywhere near their children. I, personally, as a parent, wouldn't want her anywhere near my kids. Same goes for the programs run by Ayers. Do the parents know who he is, what is his past? If you are a parent of a child in any of the programs ran by these people, please contact me.
Orly
Need to cut computer time
I wanted to thank everybody for all the e-mails and help and support. I got some 17,000 e-mails. I am sorry, it is hard for me to answer. Additionally on Monday a tire blew up on my car, I got in a slight accident, nothing major but got a bad back pain and will have to cut the hours of computer time until the the back pain is more manageable. Thank you again for your support, I am not snobbing anybody by not answering, just need some time to rest and get better.
Orly
Orly
Is superior bank of Chicago Il connected to superior bank in Birmingham AL?
You mention the Pritzker - Superior Bank connection. I know Pritzker and Superior were based in Chicago. I have not done any research on this Superior Bank in Birmingham, Alabama to see if it is connected to Pritzker, but it received TARP money according to the following article: http://bailoutsleuth.com/2008/11/at-least-eight-more-banks/ Superior Bancorp, of Birmingham , Ala. , announced that it would receive $69 million.
Nanci Pelosi, from reader James Canon
Remember the big flap about Sarah Palin's dress? Americans! Where are you? Are you awake? We haven't heard any comment on "Queen Madam" Pelosi's snit about having to ride home in the small private, economy jet that comes with the Speaker's job. Remember how Madame Pel's was so aggravated that this little jet had to refuel while transporting her to California every week? Remember that she insisted on a luxurious 200 seat jet to fly her to California nonstop, instead? Hello Folks! Are you awake? Can you muster even a little indignation? Washington legislators who observed the Madam's Big Fat jet grinned with glee as Joe informed everyone that Nancy's luxury Jet will require hard working American tax payers to buy thousands of gallons of expensive jet fuel every week. She only works 3 days a week but her gas guzzler luxury jet flights home, to California , costs taxpayers $60,000 one way! As Joe noted, 'Unfortunately we have to pay to bring her back on Monday night,' so there goes another $60,000. Folks, that is $480,000 per month or an annual cost to taxpayers of $5,760,000. And she complains about the cost of the war? She could take the smaller jet which she says would cramp her style -- but since her flying in style takes precedence over war costs -- what the hell, eh? Military families in this country do without while this woman, who heads up the most do-nothing Congress in the history of our country, spends lavishly to fly herself and associates to and from California every week. That burns me!! How about you? Madame Pelosi expects you and I to conserve our carbon footprint by driving smaller cars and buying a bicycle pump to over-inflate our tires for better economy while she and her hypocrite cohorts waste tax payer dollars. Ticks me off mightily! How about you?
"Yank and scrub"
Somebody just posted that they (meaning Annenberg challenge merry crowd) had ample time to yank and scrub the files of Annenberg challenge and nothing will come out of this, meaning if Fitzgerald unseals them, everything will look kosher.
On contrair, if they scrubbed the fies, there will be a clear inconsistency between the tax returns, as filed and what shows now. Unless somebody is seriously hacking into the IRS computer system and completely re-calculates all of the tax returns of all of those foundations, they are in deep...Moreover, keep in mind, that the tax returns of all of these funds are public knowledge. How do they know that I and a few other people didn't download and print out hard copies of the tax returns of all of these foundations, as they were filed with IRS? do I need to remind you, how did Elliott Ness get Capone?
Orly
On contrair, if they scrubbed the fies, there will be a clear inconsistency between the tax returns, as filed and what shows now. Unless somebody is seriously hacking into the IRS computer system and completely re-calculates all of the tax returns of all of those foundations, they are in deep...Moreover, keep in mind, that the tax returns of all of these funds are public knowledge. How do they know that I and a few other people didn't download and print out hard copies of the tax returns of all of these foundations, as they were filed with IRS? do I need to remind you, how did Elliott Ness get Capone?
Orly
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Can Mr. Patrick Fitzgerald unseal the records of the Annenberg Challenge?
Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?
According to this article by Mr. Kurtz, there are 132 boxes, containing 947 files, sealed from the public and currently in the Richard J Dailey library of the University of Chicago. BO was the president of the Annenberg challenge. William Ayers de facto ran the program. Innitially Annenberg foundation donated 50 mln, to be used with 2:1 matching funds. Officially a total of 160 mln was raised. According to the research done by Prof Stanley Diamond of CA, due to fund swap it was 500 mln total. Mr. Fitzgerald has subpoenaed JB Pritzker. From what I recall Pritzkers were big donors of Annenberg challenge. Additionally BO was on the board of Joyce foundation that was also one of the donors for Annenberg challenge. I believe, he was on the board of Woods as well. From what I recall they were big donors as well. I hope Mr. Fitzgerald can get those records from U of Chicago before Mr. Pritzker's grand jury testimony and before those records somehow disappear, just like my case disappeared from the docket of the Supreme court. Was there any other connection between Mr. Pritzker and Obama? Penny Pritzker was the chair of Obama Campaign financing. I wonder if Superior bank, where she worked got TARP money? This ban supposedly was going under due to numerous subprime mortgages. Did they get lown guarantees from the Congress and Senate? We know it was around 7.7 trillion in loan guarantees given in general, how much of it was received by Superior Bank? Maybe Mr. Pritzker can tell which accounting firm did external audit of Annenberg Challenge foundation as well as Annenberg itself? Does stimulus package provide for any financial aid for their foundation or other foundations that donated to Annenberg challenge. Does Mr. Pritzker have an explanation, how could it happen that with 500 million donated to the organization, they had zero results. Student's academic achievement after 6 years of Annenberg were as poor as all the other schools in Chicago. So where did the money go?
It is of concern, because our elected officials just gave 900 Billion of our taxpayer dollars to Obama, the guy that sent 500 million down the drain while being the president of Annenberg Challenge.
-< Back 1 2 3
The question of who the donor is and/or who holds formal authority over access to the collection, is also critical. It’s notable that after trying to ascertain this information several times, I have still not received a proper reply. One obvious question is whether Bill Ayers and perhaps even Barack Obama himself may be connected to the donor. Obama began his CAC board chairmanship in early 1995, and stepped down from the chairmanship in late 1999, though he remained on the board until CAC phased itself out of existence in 2001. At that time, CAC handed over its remaining assets to a permanent new institution, the Chicago Public Education Fund. Obama served on this Fund’s “Leadership Council,” from 2001 through 2004, overlapping with council service by Bill Ayers’s father, Thomas, and Ayers’s brother, John. Bill Ayers, as noted, was a CAC founder, its guiding force, and co-chaired CAC’s powerful “collaborative.” CAC appears to have been housed at UIC because of Ayers’s connection to the school.
↓ Keep reading this article ↓
Nordlinger: Davos Journal, Part I
Editors: California Rules
Kahane: Do the Right Thing: Die
Ferrara: The Constitutional Right to Listen
Geraghty: A Formula for Frustration
Robbins: More of the Same on Al-Arabiya
Nordlinger: Even the food in his mouth! &c.
McCarthy: Politicizing Justice
Adler: Climate Policy Crash
Hemingway: Challenging Gillibrand
Grin: Facing the Hollywood Giants
Franc: Time to Set Aside Set-Asides?
Lowry: When Maynard Met Nancy
Sowell: What Are They Buying?
Charen: Where Is Free-Market Economics When We Need It Most?
Kudlow: Obama’s Wounded Treasury Man
So informally, and perhaps formally, it would appear that both Ayers and Obama may be closely connected to the donor of the CAC records. In fact, Ayers himself may be the donor. In raising her belated point about the absence of a signed deed of gift, Ann Weller indicated that she had been alerted to the fact by the donor, and would henceforth be working with the donor to provide access “within the next few weeks.” One can at least speculate that Weller might have been in touch with her UIC colleague, Bill Ayers, either because he actually holds formal authority as donor, or because he is granted de facto authority over the papers by whatever entity has formal control. One can also speculate that, as former CAC board chair, board member, and as an official of CAC’s successor organization, Barack Obama himself might have had, or may still have, some sort of formal or informal role in this process. Could this help explain why I have never received a clear answer to my question about the identity of the donor?
Obama and Annenberg
I expect to follow up this piece with an examination of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and what it suggests about Obama’s personal, financial, and ideological ties with Bill Ayers. I will also discuss what Obama’s CAC connection might suggest about Obama’s links to various radical groups, about the political character of his service at various foundations, and about his leadership record. I treated some of these issues in “Inside Obama’s Acorn,” and have just explored them, using new material, in an article in the current issue of National Review, entitled “Senator Stealth.” Further information on the Obama-Ayers connection can be found in “Barack Obama’s Lost Years.” Of course there is no substitute for access to the CAC records, but at over 60 pages, the extremely detailed “finding aid” to the CAC records by itself provides important new information that helps extend our understanding of Obama’s political past. I will shortly have more to say about what the finding aid reveals. And while there were no major revelations in it, the contents of the folder from the chancellor’s archive are also of some interest.
We already know a good deal about Obama’s service at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. That information paints a disturbing picture, and one sharply at odds with Obama’s claim that Bill Ayers was just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” A number of bloggers, including, for example, Tom Maguire, at Just One Minute, have done excellent work on the CAC issue. (See here and here.) But the key reporting on the Obama-Ayers connection via the Chicago Annenberg Challenge has been done by Steve Diamond, at Global Labor and Politics. (See especially this important post of June 18, 2008.) Sad to say, the mainstream media has almost entirely ignored the issues so powerfully raised by Diamond, and discussed at length by various bloggers, even though Obama’s service at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge raises serious questions about the veracity of his account of his relationship with Ayers. Access to the CAC records promises to provide a treasure trove of documentary evidence fronting on this and many other critically important issues, from Obama’s policy views, to his political-ideological alliances, to his leadership abilities.
Access and Security
There will be time for substantive discussion later. The immediate concern is to swiftly gain public access to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, and to ensure the security of these documents in the meantime. Despite UIC library’s claim that it hopes to be able to provide access within the next few weeks, the apparently shifting and contradictory character of their reasons for denying access have left me with a low level of confidence in these assurances.
I intend to continue my efforts to examine the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, to take notes, and to order extensive photocopies, to be mailed to me and/or received personally by me, in a timely fashion. I call on the UIC library to take extraordinary steps to secure the documents until such time as this issue is resolved. The public needs clear assurances that none of the CAC records have been, or will be, damaged or removed. I call on UIC library to reveal the name of the donor of the CAC records and/or to specify the person, persons, or body that currently hold authority over these records. I also call on Barack Obama to voice support for the swift release of these records.
Libraries are designed, not to unduly restrict information, but to make it available to an interested public. This country is now mere months away from a momentous presidential election in which a central issue is the political background and character of a relatively young and unknown senator. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge records almost surely contain important information on Senator Obama’s political associations, policy views, ideological leanings, and leadership ability. His role as board chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge is the most important executive experience Obama has held to date. Given this, the public has an urgent right to know what is in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records.
If you agree, then please write to the president of the University of Illinois system, B. Joseph White. Ask him to take immediate public steps to insure the safety of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, to release the identity of the Collection’s donor, and above all to swiftly make the Collection available to me, and to the public at large. You can find an email link for White here. Telephone, fax, and mailing addresses for White’s offices can be found here.
— Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
According to this article by Mr. Kurtz, there are 132 boxes, containing 947 files, sealed from the public and currently in the Richard J Dailey library of the University of Chicago. BO was the president of the Annenberg challenge. William Ayers de facto ran the program. Innitially Annenberg foundation donated 50 mln, to be used with 2:1 matching funds. Officially a total of 160 mln was raised. According to the research done by Prof Stanley Diamond of CA, due to fund swap it was 500 mln total. Mr. Fitzgerald has subpoenaed JB Pritzker. From what I recall Pritzkers were big donors of Annenberg challenge. Additionally BO was on the board of Joyce foundation that was also one of the donors for Annenberg challenge. I believe, he was on the board of Woods as well. From what I recall they were big donors as well. I hope Mr. Fitzgerald can get those records from U of Chicago before Mr. Pritzker's grand jury testimony and before those records somehow disappear, just like my case disappeared from the docket of the Supreme court. Was there any other connection between Mr. Pritzker and Obama? Penny Pritzker was the chair of Obama Campaign financing. I wonder if Superior bank, where she worked got TARP money? This ban supposedly was going under due to numerous subprime mortgages. Did they get lown guarantees from the Congress and Senate? We know it was around 7.7 trillion in loan guarantees given in general, how much of it was received by Superior Bank? Maybe Mr. Pritzker can tell which accounting firm did external audit of Annenberg Challenge foundation as well as Annenberg itself? Does stimulus package provide for any financial aid for their foundation or other foundations that donated to Annenberg challenge. Does Mr. Pritzker have an explanation, how could it happen that with 500 million donated to the organization, they had zero results. Student's academic achievement after 6 years of Annenberg were as poor as all the other schools in Chicago. So where did the money go?
It is of concern, because our elected officials just gave 900 Billion of our taxpayer dollars to Obama, the guy that sent 500 million down the drain while being the president of Annenberg Challenge.
-< Back 1 2 3
The question of who the donor is and/or who holds formal authority over access to the collection, is also critical. It’s notable that after trying to ascertain this information several times, I have still not received a proper reply. One obvious question is whether Bill Ayers and perhaps even Barack Obama himself may be connected to the donor. Obama began his CAC board chairmanship in early 1995, and stepped down from the chairmanship in late 1999, though he remained on the board until CAC phased itself out of existence in 2001. At that time, CAC handed over its remaining assets to a permanent new institution, the Chicago Public Education Fund. Obama served on this Fund’s “Leadership Council,” from 2001 through 2004, overlapping with council service by Bill Ayers’s father, Thomas, and Ayers’s brother, John. Bill Ayers, as noted, was a CAC founder, its guiding force, and co-chaired CAC’s powerful “collaborative.” CAC appears to have been housed at UIC because of Ayers’s connection to the school.
↓ Keep reading this article ↓
Nordlinger: Davos Journal, Part I
Editors: California Rules
Kahane: Do the Right Thing: Die
Ferrara: The Constitutional Right to Listen
Geraghty: A Formula for Frustration
Robbins: More of the Same on Al-Arabiya
Nordlinger: Even the food in his mouth! &c.
McCarthy: Politicizing Justice
Adler: Climate Policy Crash
Hemingway: Challenging Gillibrand
Grin: Facing the Hollywood Giants
Franc: Time to Set Aside Set-Asides?
Lowry: When Maynard Met Nancy
Sowell: What Are They Buying?
Charen: Where Is Free-Market Economics When We Need It Most?
Kudlow: Obama’s Wounded Treasury Man
So informally, and perhaps formally, it would appear that both Ayers and Obama may be closely connected to the donor of the CAC records. In fact, Ayers himself may be the donor. In raising her belated point about the absence of a signed deed of gift, Ann Weller indicated that she had been alerted to the fact by the donor, and would henceforth be working with the donor to provide access “within the next few weeks.” One can at least speculate that Weller might have been in touch with her UIC colleague, Bill Ayers, either because he actually holds formal authority as donor, or because he is granted de facto authority over the papers by whatever entity has formal control. One can also speculate that, as former CAC board chair, board member, and as an official of CAC’s successor organization, Barack Obama himself might have had, or may still have, some sort of formal or informal role in this process. Could this help explain why I have never received a clear answer to my question about the identity of the donor?
Obama and Annenberg
I expect to follow up this piece with an examination of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and what it suggests about Obama’s personal, financial, and ideological ties with Bill Ayers. I will also discuss what Obama’s CAC connection might suggest about Obama’s links to various radical groups, about the political character of his service at various foundations, and about his leadership record. I treated some of these issues in “Inside Obama’s Acorn,” and have just explored them, using new material, in an article in the current issue of National Review, entitled “Senator Stealth.” Further information on the Obama-Ayers connection can be found in “Barack Obama’s Lost Years.” Of course there is no substitute for access to the CAC records, but at over 60 pages, the extremely detailed “finding aid” to the CAC records by itself provides important new information that helps extend our understanding of Obama’s political past. I will shortly have more to say about what the finding aid reveals. And while there were no major revelations in it, the contents of the folder from the chancellor’s archive are also of some interest.
We already know a good deal about Obama’s service at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. That information paints a disturbing picture, and one sharply at odds with Obama’s claim that Bill Ayers was just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” A number of bloggers, including, for example, Tom Maguire, at Just One Minute, have done excellent work on the CAC issue. (See here and here.) But the key reporting on the Obama-Ayers connection via the Chicago Annenberg Challenge has been done by Steve Diamond, at Global Labor and Politics. (See especially this important post of June 18, 2008.) Sad to say, the mainstream media has almost entirely ignored the issues so powerfully raised by Diamond, and discussed at length by various bloggers, even though Obama’s service at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge raises serious questions about the veracity of his account of his relationship with Ayers. Access to the CAC records promises to provide a treasure trove of documentary evidence fronting on this and many other critically important issues, from Obama’s policy views, to his political-ideological alliances, to his leadership abilities.
Access and Security
There will be time for substantive discussion later. The immediate concern is to swiftly gain public access to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, and to ensure the security of these documents in the meantime. Despite UIC library’s claim that it hopes to be able to provide access within the next few weeks, the apparently shifting and contradictory character of their reasons for denying access have left me with a low level of confidence in these assurances.
I intend to continue my efforts to examine the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, to take notes, and to order extensive photocopies, to be mailed to me and/or received personally by me, in a timely fashion. I call on the UIC library to take extraordinary steps to secure the documents until such time as this issue is resolved. The public needs clear assurances that none of the CAC records have been, or will be, damaged or removed. I call on UIC library to reveal the name of the donor of the CAC records and/or to specify the person, persons, or body that currently hold authority over these records. I also call on Barack Obama to voice support for the swift release of these records.
Libraries are designed, not to unduly restrict information, but to make it available to an interested public. This country is now mere months away from a momentous presidential election in which a central issue is the political background and character of a relatively young and unknown senator. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge records almost surely contain important information on Senator Obama’s political associations, policy views, ideological leanings, and leadership ability. His role as board chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge is the most important executive experience Obama has held to date. Given this, the public has an urgent right to know what is in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records.
If you agree, then please write to the president of the University of Illinois system, B. Joseph White. Ask him to take immediate public steps to insure the safety of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, to release the identity of the Collection’s donor, and above all to swiftly make the Collection available to me, and to the public at large. You can find an email link for White here. Telephone, fax, and mailing addresses for White’s offices can be found here.
— Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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Obama suit dismissed as moot, SCOTUS denies another application
An article from Sonoran News.
By Linda Bentley | January 28, 2009
Amazon.com sells out of “Pocket Obama”
OLYMPIA, WASH. – During the first week in December, Stephen Pidgeon filed a complaint in the Washington Supreme Court on behalf of James Broe and 11 other registered voters requesting Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed set aside the votes cast for Barack Hussein Obama.
According to Pidgeon, “Reed failed to establish that Obama was even an American citizen running under his own name at the time of the election, let alone a ‘natural born citizen’ as required by the U.S. Constitution. Unlike other cases that have been dismissed for lack of standing, these plaintiffs have standing under a unique Washington statute that allows any registered voter to challenge the election of someone who, at the time of the election, was ineligible to hold the office.”
Pidgeon says the secretary of state’s office had already admitted it did nothing to determine Obama’s eligibility, and Obama “hasn’t produced a single piece of evidence to prove he was born in the United States and establish his eligibility.”
On Jan. 8, the same date Congress counted the electoral votes and declared Obama president, the Washington Supreme Court held an en banc conference to discuss Broe’s case and, in a unanimous decision, granted Reed’s motion to dismiss as moot.
Pidgeon plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Following U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s denial on Dec. 17 of Attorney Orly Taitz’ application for an emergency stay in the pending case of Gail Lightfoot against California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, challenging Obama’s eligibility, she refiled and submitted her application to Chief Justice John Roberts, who distributed the case for conference on Jan. 23.
On Jan. 13, Taitz filed a suggestion for the justices to recuse themselves from swearing Obama in as president as it would be a conflict of interest while there were cases still pending in their court regarding his eligibility.
Her suggestion was noted on the docket, although ignored as eight of the nine Supreme Court Justices (Samuel Alito absent) held an ex parte, private, closed-door meeting with Obama on Jan. 19, only days before Lightfoot’s case was to be discussed.
Taitz said she will file a motion to compel the records of that private meeting.
On Monday, Jan. 26, Taitz’ application was denied.
Lightfoot’s case asserts Obama’s presidency is illegitimate because his father was a foreign subject and there is no evidence Obama was actually born in Hawaii, since Hawaii State Statute allows foreign born children of Hawaiian residents to obtain a certification of live birth.
Further, when Obama immigrated as a child to Indonesia, which does not allow dual citizenship, his school records indicate his legal name was Barry Soetoro, a citizen of Indonesia.
According to Taitz, Obama’s stepfather and mother, Lolo and Stanley Ann (Dunham) Soetoro, would have been required to relinquish Obama’s U.S. citizenship in order for him to become an Indonesian citizen, which was a requirement to attend school in Indonesia.
She claims there is ample evidence that Obama traveled on his Indonesian passport up until the time he became a U.S. Senator, whereby he reaffirmed his Indonesian citizenship as an adult.
“The swearing of Mr. Obama is null and void due to the fact that he was sworn in on a name that is not legally his name and he is a foreign subject from birth and now and never qualified as a natural born U.S. citizen,” said Taitz.
Taitz, also the principal attorney behind the Alan Keyes v. Debra Bowen lawsuit, was born in the former Soviet Union but escaped over 20 years ago to begin a life of freedom in the United States.
In addition to being an attorney, Taitz, who speaks five languages, is a licensed real estate agent and a dentist with a successful practice in Orange County, Calif.
Having experienced life under a totalitarian Communist regime, Taitz is dedicated to preventing the United States from following that same path and says she is “committed to doing everything in her power to prevent such a disastrous mistake,” while defending the rights and freedoms that exist for all citizens in the United States under the Constitution.
Taitz is working on another lawsuit on behalf of current and former military personnel and says the plaintiffs include a blood relative of Obama’s.
There have been 32 lawsuits filed to date challenging Obama’s eligibility to be president. And, as they are summarily dismissed in state and federal courts across the country, with the merits yet to be addressed, the U.S. Supreme Court also continues avoiding the Constitutional question at hand as the justices have denied each application that has come before them.
Meanwhile, Amazon.com is sold out of the $5.95 paperback titled “Pocket Obama,” released Jan. 8, 2009 by the History Company, which states, “Printed in a size that easily fits into pocket or purse, this book is an anthology of quotations borrowed from Barack Obama's speeches and writings … serves as a reminder of the amazing power of oratory and the remarkable ability of this man to move people with his words.”
“Bonnie Blue” posted a comment titled “Mao's Little Red Book Resurrected” on Jan. 25, 2009, stating, “This is either a joke or the most disturbing thing I've ever seen. Can sane Americans really have such worshipful adoration for any politician, especially to this level? Supporting a politician is one thing, but this is sick, sick, sick. Mao's Little Red Book, now Obama's Little Blue Book …”
The next day, Steve Sailer, president of the Human Biodiversity Institute in Chicago, posted, “Pocket Obama cured my insomnia! I used to be troubled by sleepless nights. But reading in bed this collection of the wisdom of President Obama – e.g., ‘The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events or history, or whether we act to shape them’ – has enabled me to awake each morning refreshed and ready to serve Chairman Obama.”
By Linda Bentley | January 28, 2009
Amazon.com sells out of “Pocket Obama”
OLYMPIA, WASH. – During the first week in December, Stephen Pidgeon filed a complaint in the Washington Supreme Court on behalf of James Broe and 11 other registered voters requesting Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed set aside the votes cast for Barack Hussein Obama.
According to Pidgeon, “Reed failed to establish that Obama was even an American citizen running under his own name at the time of the election, let alone a ‘natural born citizen’ as required by the U.S. Constitution. Unlike other cases that have been dismissed for lack of standing, these plaintiffs have standing under a unique Washington statute that allows any registered voter to challenge the election of someone who, at the time of the election, was ineligible to hold the office.”
Pidgeon says the secretary of state’s office had already admitted it did nothing to determine Obama’s eligibility, and Obama “hasn’t produced a single piece of evidence to prove he was born in the United States and establish his eligibility.”
On Jan. 8, the same date Congress counted the electoral votes and declared Obama president, the Washington Supreme Court held an en banc conference to discuss Broe’s case and, in a unanimous decision, granted Reed’s motion to dismiss as moot.
Pidgeon plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Following U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s denial on Dec. 17 of Attorney Orly Taitz’ application for an emergency stay in the pending case of Gail Lightfoot against California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, challenging Obama’s eligibility, she refiled and submitted her application to Chief Justice John Roberts, who distributed the case for conference on Jan. 23.
On Jan. 13, Taitz filed a suggestion for the justices to recuse themselves from swearing Obama in as president as it would be a conflict of interest while there were cases still pending in their court regarding his eligibility.
Her suggestion was noted on the docket, although ignored as eight of the nine Supreme Court Justices (Samuel Alito absent) held an ex parte, private, closed-door meeting with Obama on Jan. 19, only days before Lightfoot’s case was to be discussed.
Taitz said she will file a motion to compel the records of that private meeting.
On Monday, Jan. 26, Taitz’ application was denied.
Lightfoot’s case asserts Obama’s presidency is illegitimate because his father was a foreign subject and there is no evidence Obama was actually born in Hawaii, since Hawaii State Statute allows foreign born children of Hawaiian residents to obtain a certification of live birth.
Further, when Obama immigrated as a child to Indonesia, which does not allow dual citizenship, his school records indicate his legal name was Barry Soetoro, a citizen of Indonesia.
According to Taitz, Obama’s stepfather and mother, Lolo and Stanley Ann (Dunham) Soetoro, would have been required to relinquish Obama’s U.S. citizenship in order for him to become an Indonesian citizen, which was a requirement to attend school in Indonesia.
She claims there is ample evidence that Obama traveled on his Indonesian passport up until the time he became a U.S. Senator, whereby he reaffirmed his Indonesian citizenship as an adult.
“The swearing of Mr. Obama is null and void due to the fact that he was sworn in on a name that is not legally his name and he is a foreign subject from birth and now and never qualified as a natural born U.S. citizen,” said Taitz.
Taitz, also the principal attorney behind the Alan Keyes v. Debra Bowen lawsuit, was born in the former Soviet Union but escaped over 20 years ago to begin a life of freedom in the United States.
In addition to being an attorney, Taitz, who speaks five languages, is a licensed real estate agent and a dentist with a successful practice in Orange County, Calif.
Having experienced life under a totalitarian Communist regime, Taitz is dedicated to preventing the United States from following that same path and says she is “committed to doing everything in her power to prevent such a disastrous mistake,” while defending the rights and freedoms that exist for all citizens in the United States under the Constitution.
Taitz is working on another lawsuit on behalf of current and former military personnel and says the plaintiffs include a blood relative of Obama’s.
There have been 32 lawsuits filed to date challenging Obama’s eligibility to be president. And, as they are summarily dismissed in state and federal courts across the country, with the merits yet to be addressed, the U.S. Supreme Court also continues avoiding the Constitutional question at hand as the justices have denied each application that has come before them.
Meanwhile, Amazon.com is sold out of the $5.95 paperback titled “Pocket Obama,” released Jan. 8, 2009 by the History Company, which states, “Printed in a size that easily fits into pocket or purse, this book is an anthology of quotations borrowed from Barack Obama's speeches and writings … serves as a reminder of the amazing power of oratory and the remarkable ability of this man to move people with his words.”
“Bonnie Blue” posted a comment titled “Mao's Little Red Book Resurrected” on Jan. 25, 2009, stating, “This is either a joke or the most disturbing thing I've ever seen. Can sane Americans really have such worshipful adoration for any politician, especially to this level? Supporting a politician is one thing, but this is sick, sick, sick. Mao's Little Red Book, now Obama's Little Blue Book …”
The next day, Steve Sailer, president of the Human Biodiversity Institute in Chicago, posted, “Pocket Obama cured my insomnia! I used to be troubled by sleepless nights. But reading in bed this collection of the wisdom of President Obama – e.g., ‘The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events or history, or whether we act to shape them’ – has enabled me to awake each morning refreshed and ready to serve Chairman Obama.”
Obama is ineligible in the eyes of world comunity
Russian Media Asks Who Is Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama Where Is His Birth Certificate
By Mark S. McGrew
I know that World leaders are fully accustomed to conducting business with all manner of criminals, terrorists, dictators and other illegitimate “leaders” of Nations.
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama vs World Leaders
But Obama may be different, as no one knows his real name, his place of birth, who his true parents are or even his actual birth date.
Every relationship must contain an element of trust. Without trust, marriages, business relations, families and friendships are destroyed. At the least, constructive progress is stymied.
America is said repeatedly, to be a “Nation of Laws”. It is not. It is a Nation under the control of mob rule. When the American public understands that, America will be a Nation of Anarchy.
Obama not only refuses to show proof that he is eligible to become President of the United States of America, but he has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to prohibit any one from discovering his true identity or his history.
Because Obama is not eligible to be the President of the United States, any agreements he makes are subject to change or removal by the current American government of by future administrations, far into the future. Any and all agreements he makes gives foreign powers permission to deny them, rescind them or renege on them, far into the future.
Any orders he gives to the American military are subject to being refused. Orders that Obama gives to America’s Joint Chiefs of Staff of the military can be refused. If Obama doesn’t like a particular Chief of Staff, or all of them, theoretically, he can fire them and replace them with new Staff. But even the order to fire a Chief or to demand his resignation can be lawfully refused by that Chief of Staff.
The security and abilities of NATO are being compromised as well as current agreements and Treaties around the World.
The only power Obama will have is that which is illegally permitted by a corrupt government.
The United States Congress is required, under the US Code of Federal Regulations to count the Electoral College votes for President and Vice President, ask if any member of Congress objects to the count and hear that Congressman’s objection. This is under Title 3, Chapter 1, Section 15, “Upon such reading of any such certificate of paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any”.
The US Code can be found by clicking here, or go to this URL: http://uscode.house.gov/
Continue Reading It Gets More Interesting
Pages: 123
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/106972-0/
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
By Mark S. McGrew
I know that World leaders are fully accustomed to conducting business with all manner of criminals, terrorists, dictators and other illegitimate “leaders” of Nations.
Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama vs World Leaders
But Obama may be different, as no one knows his real name, his place of birth, who his true parents are or even his actual birth date.
Every relationship must contain an element of trust. Without trust, marriages, business relations, families and friendships are destroyed. At the least, constructive progress is stymied.
America is said repeatedly, to be a “Nation of Laws”. It is not. It is a Nation under the control of mob rule. When the American public understands that, America will be a Nation of Anarchy.
Obama not only refuses to show proof that he is eligible to become President of the United States of America, but he has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to prohibit any one from discovering his true identity or his history.
Because Obama is not eligible to be the President of the United States, any agreements he makes are subject to change or removal by the current American government of by future administrations, far into the future. Any and all agreements he makes gives foreign powers permission to deny them, rescind them or renege on them, far into the future.
Any orders he gives to the American military are subject to being refused. Orders that Obama gives to America’s Joint Chiefs of Staff of the military can be refused. If Obama doesn’t like a particular Chief of Staff, or all of them, theoretically, he can fire them and replace them with new Staff. But even the order to fire a Chief or to demand his resignation can be lawfully refused by that Chief of Staff.
The security and abilities of NATO are being compromised as well as current agreements and Treaties around the World.
The only power Obama will have is that which is illegally permitted by a corrupt government.
The United States Congress is required, under the US Code of Federal Regulations to count the Electoral College votes for President and Vice President, ask if any member of Congress objects to the count and hear that Congressman’s objection. This is under Title 3, Chapter 1, Section 15, “Upon such reading of any such certificate of paper, the President of the Senate shall call for objections, if any”.
The US Code can be found by clicking here, or go to this URL: http://uscode.house.gov/
Continue Reading It Gets More Interesting
Pages: 123
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/106972-0/
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
Truth about the military losses, you'll be surprised
Did you know?
Whatever your politics, however you lean and however you feel about the current administration, this report is interesting. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the below statistics:
The annual fatalities, by any cause, of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2007:
1980 2,392 (Carter)
1981 2,380 (Reagan)
1984 1,999 (Reagan)
1988 1,819 (Reagan)
1989 1,636 (George H W)
1990 1,508 (George H W)
1991 1,787 (George H W)
1992 1,293 (George H W)
1993 1,213 (Clinton)
1994 1,075 (Clinton)
1995 2,465 (Clinton)
1996 2,318 (Clinton)
1997 817 (Clinton)
1998 2,252 (Clinton)
1999 1,984 (Clinton)
2000 1,983 (Clinton)
2001 890 (George W)
2002 1,007 (George W)
2003 1,410 (George W)
2004 1,887 (George W)
2005 919 (George W)
2006 920 (George W)
2007 899 (George W)
Clinton years (1993-2000): 14,107 deaths
George W years (2001-2007): 7,932 deaths
Are you surprised when you look at these figures? They indicate the loss from the two latest Middle East conflicts are less than the loss of military personnel during Clinton's presidency when America wasn't even involved in a war--unless you include Bosnia and Mogadishu, Somalia. (Remember Blackhawk Down?) Even more surprising is that in 1980, during Carter presidency, there were 2,392 US military fatalities!
These figures appear to indicate many members of our media and politicians pick and choose the information on which they report--that they present only those "facts" that support their agenda. (Oh, Gosh, Do you think?) Consider the latest census of Americans. It shows the following distribution of American citizens by race:
European descent 69.12 percent
Hispanic 12.50 percent
Black 12.30 percent
Asian 3.70 percent
Native American 1.00 percent
Other 2.60 percent
Many members of the media lead us to believe the military death ratio is off balanced compared to the distribution by race in America. Here are the fatalities by race over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom:
European descent 74.31 percent
Hispanic 10.74 percent
Black 9.67 percent
Asian 1.81 percent
Native American 1.09 percent
Other 0.33 percent
Surprised again? Hopefully, during the time between now and November, intelligent Americans can decipher-- (Too Late)
the facts from the spin.
the spinners from the leaders.
those who seek even more power from those that seek justice.
the dividers from the uniters.
These statistics are published by the Congressional Research Service and may be confirmed at: www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf --
Whatever your politics, however you lean and however you feel about the current administration, this report is interesting. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the below statistics:
The annual fatalities, by any cause, of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2007:
1980 2,392 (Carter)
1981 2,380 (Reagan)
1984 1,999 (Reagan)
1988 1,819 (Reagan)
1989 1,636 (George H W)
1990 1,508 (George H W)
1991 1,787 (George H W)
1992 1,293 (George H W)
1993 1,213 (Clinton)
1994 1,075 (Clinton)
1995 2,465 (Clinton)
1996 2,318 (Clinton)
1997 817 (Clinton)
1998 2,252 (Clinton)
1999 1,984 (Clinton)
2000 1,983 (Clinton)
2001 890 (George W)
2002 1,007 (George W)
2003 1,410 (George W)
2004 1,887 (George W)
2005 919 (George W)
2006 920 (George W)
2007 899 (George W)
Clinton years (1993-2000): 14,107 deaths
George W years (2001-2007): 7,932 deaths
Are you surprised when you look at these figures? They indicate the loss from the two latest Middle East conflicts are less than the loss of military personnel during Clinton's presidency when America wasn't even involved in a war--unless you include Bosnia and Mogadishu, Somalia. (Remember Blackhawk Down?) Even more surprising is that in 1980, during Carter presidency, there were 2,392 US military fatalities!
These figures appear to indicate many members of our media and politicians pick and choose the information on which they report--that they present only those "facts" that support their agenda. (Oh, Gosh, Do you think?) Consider the latest census of Americans. It shows the following distribution of American citizens by race:
European descent 69.12 percent
Hispanic 12.50 percent
Black 12.30 percent
Asian 3.70 percent
Native American 1.00 percent
Other 2.60 percent
Many members of the media lead us to believe the military death ratio is off balanced compared to the distribution by race in America. Here are the fatalities by race over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom:
European descent 74.31 percent
Hispanic 10.74 percent
Black 9.67 percent
Asian 1.81 percent
Native American 1.09 percent
Other 0.33 percent
Surprised again? Hopefully, during the time between now and November, intelligent Americans can decipher-- (Too Late)
the facts from the spin.
the spinners from the leaders.
those who seek even more power from those that seek justice.
the dividers from the uniters.
These statistics are published by the Congressional Research Service and may be confirmed at: www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf --
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