Guest views are now limited to 12 pages. If you get an "Error" message, just sign in! If you need to create an account, click here.

Jump to content

delta22

Platinum VIP
  • Posts

    2,442
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    46

Everything posted by delta22

  1. . Look mom. I can tell from the way you haven't looked me in the eye since fetching me from my crib well before dawn that you're upset about last night. Waking up every 45 minutes to 1.5 hours isn't easy for me either. In my defense, my blanket really did keep coming off, I was thirsty, and... I can't remember the other reasons, but I'm sure they were equally valid. There was at least one nightmare. I was in a strange house. I knew it wasn't ours because the dishes were washed and your hair wasn't everywhere. I do want to thank you for bringing back the 3 a.m. milk that you worked so hard to get me off of. It was delicious and instrumental in helping me wake up soaked in urine at around 4. Can't wait to have it again forever. You seem tired and short tempered this morning which is why I felt more comfortable writing this than having a face-to-face. Can I get you anything? A cup of coffee? While you're up please bring me a sippy cup of juice and some unbroken crackers. Oh that's right. We don't have crackers... I recall you saying that around 1:15. That's OK. Why keep the house stocked with my favorite foods? I'm sure we have two kinds of wine though. But that's fine. Anyway I wanted to thank you for changing my pajamas and throwing that towel down on my pee pee sheets. I noticed you didn't open your eyes once (weird). It's also OK that you didn't actually change my sheets. I find the faint smell of ammonia comforting. Love means doing things halfway. I mean, I know another mother or a grandma might have removed the soiled sheets and replaced them with freshly laundered ones but you just do you. There is something I did want to discuss now that I have your attention. It's none of my business what goes on between you and father after I go to bed but if you could just throw on a robe before coming into my room, that'd be awesome. I think you should definitely rock what you've got but angry nude lumbering zombie isn't your best look. I want to be honest. This seems like as good a time as any to bring up the possibility of reintroducing cosleeping. I can't promise I won't judo kick you to the face like I used to but at least one of us will get a good night's sleep and isn't that what matters? Anyway. I hope this note brings you some comfort. You really do look awful. Maybe you'd feel better if you made us some breakfast? love and hugs, your HT
  2. MONDAY, Aug. 13, 2012 (MedPage Today) — Cocoa flavanols have shown some benefits for the heart, but they may also be good for cognitive function in older people, researchers found. .[/url] In a double-blind study, elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment who consumed high or moderate levels of cocoa flavanols for 2 months had significant improvements on certain cognitive assessment tests compared with those who took in only small amounts, Giovambattista Desideri, PhD, of the University of L'Aquila in Italy, and colleagues reported online in Hypertension. "Although additional confirmatory studies are warranted, the findings...suggest that the regular dietary inclusion of flavanols could be one element of a dietary approach to the maintaining and improving not only cardiovascular health but also specifically brain health," they wrote. Evidence suggests eating flavonoids, polyphenic compounds from plant-based foods, may confer cardiovascular benefits. Flavonols are a subclass of these compounds that are abundant in tea, grapes, red wine, apples, and cocoa products including chocolate. So to assess whether cocoa flavanols could improve cognitive function in elderly patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Desideri and colleagues assessed 90 elderly patients with MCI who were randomized to drink varying levels of a dairy-based cocoa containing flavanols per day for 8 weeks: 990 mg (high), 520 mg (intermediate), or 45 mg (low). The researchers found that scores on the Mini Mental State Examination didn't change significantly in any of the groups, a finding that was likely due to the low sensitivity of the test to detect small changes at the upper end of cognitive performance over time, they wrote. There were, however, changes in the time required to complete Trail Making Tests A and B, with significantly greater improvements for those on high or intermediate doses of flavonols compared with those who had a low intake: High: -14.3 seconds for A, -29.2 seconds for B Intermediate: -8.8 seconds for A, -22.8 seconds for B Low: +1.1 second for A, +3.8 seconds for B Scores on the verbal fluency test improved significantly for all groups, but, improvements were significantly greater for those who had a high versus low intake: High: +8.0 words per 60 seconds Intermediate: +5.1 words per 60 seconds Low: +1.2 words per 60 seconds Desideri and colleagues also observed improvements in several metabolic parameters, including blood pressure and insulin resistance, for those on high and intermediate doses of cocoa flavanols. The effect on cognition appears to be mediated in part by improvement in insulin sensitivity, the researchers wrote. They noted that there were no changes in cholesterol or triglycerides in any of the groups. The study was limited because its short time-frame didn't allow for conclusions about the extent of cognitive benefits and their duration. Nor can it establish whether the observed benefits are a consequence of the cocoa itself or a secondary effect related to general improvements in cardiovascular function or health. Also, participants were in good health overall and without known cardiovascular disease, so the population may be representative of all subjects with MCI. Still, the researchers concluded that the data "are suggestive of a possible clinical benefit derived from the regular dietary inclusion of cocoa flavanol-containing foods in subjects with MCI." Source: Hot Cocoa May Boost Seniors’ Brain Power Last Updated: 08/14/2012
  3. From Mother Nature Network's Bryan Nelson: Women who might think twice about a summer trip to a national park can now officially rest assured: it turns out that menstrual odors do not attract bear attacks, according to a paper by the National Park Service. The paper was written in response to the long-standing concern that the odors associated with menstruation could lure in hungry bears, putting women at a higher risk than men of being mauled. The concern proved to be little more than an urban legend, at least when it comes to grizzly and black bears. According to researcher Kerry A. Gunther, who wrote the paper: "There is no evidence that grizzly and black bears are overly attracted to menstrual odors more than any other odor." The paper also traced the origin of the myth to a single evening on Aug. 13, 1967, when two women were killed by grizzly bears in Glacier National Park. The events caused speculation at the time that the attacks may have been prompted by menstrual odors. Presumably, as years passed without any investigation, the speculation eventually morphed into belief — and, unfortunately, unjustified fears. The NPS paper gleaned its conclusions from separate studies performed on grizzly bears, black bears and polar bears. For grizzly bears, hundreds of attacks on humans were analyzed, finding no link between menstruation and the attacks. Such a link was also debunked regarding black bears, after a 1991 study recorded the responses of 26 free-ranging black bears to used tampons collected from 26 different women. Not a single instance of a black bear being attracted to the tampons was observed. Results were not so cut-and-dry when it came to polar bears, however. A 1983 study found that four captive polar bears elicited a strong response when presented with menstrual odors. That study also reported that wild polar bears were found to consume used tampons, while ignoring unused tampons. The bears also ignored non-menstrual human blood. So polar bears may provide the lone exception to the rule. Even so, the unjustified spread of the menstruation/bear attack myth, in spite of the lack of corroborating evidence, raises concerns that old stereotypes regarding women, the outdoors, and the National Park Service have not gone away. As pointed out by one magazine, the persistence of the myth has reinforced the stereotype that women are not as suited for survival in the wilderness as men. It implies that the wilderness is a masculine domain, and that a woman's place is indoors — for her own safety, of course. (Interestingly, 79 percent of all bear attacks in Yellowstone National Park from 1980-2011 were inflicted on men. In other words, it's possible that these stereotypes also mask the disproportionate dangers that men seem to face from bears.) The National Park Service is no stranger to these biases either. According to an official NPS 1962 report, "women [(and people of color) were seen] as competent to be interpreters in historical parks, but not in the military or traditional 'national' parks where the prevailing ethic still saw a uniformed ranger as a white male." It was not until 1978 that women were allowed to don the same uniform as male rangers and assume equal responsibilities. Even today, only a third of park rangers are women. In other words, it would appear that the real bias toward women has come from our culture and the National Park Service, not from the bears. Perhaps now that the National Park Service has officially come clean about the bear attack myth, the bounty of open spaces in the U.S. national park system can finally begin to truly be open to all.
  4. Both President Obama and Governor Romney have had to repeatedly address their views about an itinerant rabbi who lived 2000 years ago. But why does anyone care? Yale historian Jeroslav Pelikan wrote, "Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of Western Culture for almost 20 centuries. If it were possible, with some sort of super magnet, to pull up out of history every scrap of metal bearing at least a trace of his name, how much would be left?" It turns out that the life of Jesus is a comet with an exceedingly long tale. Here are some shards of his impact that most often surprise people: Children In the ancient world children were routinely left to die of exposure -- particularly if they were the wrong gender (you can guess which was the wrong one); they were often sold into slavery. Jesus' treatment of and teachings about children led to the forbidding of such practices, as well as orphanages and godparents. A Norwegian scholar named Bakke wrote a study of this impact, simply titled: When Children Became People: the Birth of Childhood in Early Christianity. Education Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind. The first legislation to publicly fund education in the colonies was called The Old Deluder Satan Act, under the notion that God does not want any child ignorant. The ancient world loved education but tended to reserve it for the elite; the notion that every child bore God's image helped fuel the move for universal literacy. Compassion Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world. His compassion for the poor and the sick led to institutions for lepers, the beginning of modern-day hospitals. The Council of Nyssa decreed that wherever a cathedral existed, there must be a hospice, a place of caring for the sick and poor. That's why even today, hospitals have names like "Good Samaritan," "Good Shepherd," or "Saint Anthony." They were the world's first voluntary, charitable institutions. Humility The ancient world honored many virtues like courage and wisdom, but not humility. People were generally divided into first class and coach. "Rank must be preserved," said Cicero; each of the original 99 percent was a personis mediocribus. Plutarch wrote a self-help book that might crack best-seller lists in our day: How to Praise Yourself Inoffensively. Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. Historian John Dickson writes, "it is unlikely that any of us would aspire to this virtue were it not for the historical impact of his crucifixion...Our culture remains cruciform long after it stopped being Christian." Forgiveness In the ancient world, virtue meant rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies. Conan the Barbarian was actually paraphrasing Ghengis Khan in his famous answer to the question "what is best in life?" -- To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women. An alternative idea came from Galilee: what is best in life is to love your enemies, and see them reconciled to you. Hannah Arendt, the first woman appointed to a full professorship at Princeton, claimed, "the discoverer of the role of forgiveness in the realm of human affairs was Jesus of Nazareth." This may be debatable, but he certainly gave the idea unique publicity. Humanitarian Reform: Jesus had a way of championing the excluded that was often downright irritating to those in power. His inclusion of women led to a community to which women flocked in disproportionate numbers. Slaves--up to a third of ancient populations--might wander into a church fellowship and have a slave-owner wash their feet rather than beat them. One ancient text instructed bishops to not interrupt worship to greet a wealthy attender, but to sit on the floor to welcome the poor. The apostle Paul said: "Now there is neither Jew nor Gentile, slave or free, male and female, but all are one in Christ Jesus." Thomas Cahill wrote that this was the first statement of egalitarianism in human literature. Perhaps as remarkable as anything else is Jesus' ability to withstand the failings of his followers, who from the beginning probably got in his way at least as much as they helped. The number of groups claiming to be 'for' Jesus are inexhaustible; to name a few: Jews for Jesus, Muslims for Jesus, Ex-Masons for Jesus, Road Riders for Jesus, Cowboys for Jesus, even Atheists for Jesus. The one predictable element of this fall's U.S. presidential campaign is that it will be called "the most important election of our time." As the last one was called, and the next one will be. Meanwhile, the unpredictable influence of an unelected carpenter continues to endure and spread across the world
  5. The Nebraska Board of Education on Friday unanimously voted to approve a rule change that will make it mandatory for the state’s public schools to set aside time daily for the Pledge of Allegiance. According to KHAS-TV, the decision, which will affect all students from kindergarten to 12th grade, must still pass through the attorney general’s office and the governor. Both are expected to approve the policy. The change in question applies to Rule 10, which governs all Nebraska schools and districts. Failure to comply with the new requirement could put districts at risk of losing their accreditation and therefore state funds, the Sioux City Journal reports. Students will not be forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance under the new rule, as they will have the option of standing or sitting quietly, provided they respect peers who do participate. However, schools will be required to allocate time for the Pledge. According to the Sioux City Journal, state board candidate Bob Van Valkenburg proposed an amendment Friday that would require flags be present in every classroom, and that all students stand during the recitation of the pledge even if they elect not to join in. Van Valkenburg also championed requiring students who do not recite the pledge to write a 50-word essay on what it means to be an American. Board member Bob Evnen reportedly said the voluntary aspect of the rule was implemented so as to comply with the U.S. Constitution. Meanwhile, an official with the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska described the new state rule as “disappointing,” but apparently constitutional, according to the Omaha World-Herald. ACLU Nebraska legal director Amy Miller told the paper her organization receives 1-2 complaints a year from students and teachers who claim they were pressured into reciting the pledge. “Each time we’ve had a complaint, we’ve made contact with the school and showed them the clear law that says no one can be required to participate in the pledge, and that’s resolved the situation,” she said. According to the Associated Press, the state board decided to pass the rule change — which will take effect sometime this school year — after Nebraska lawmakers did not succeed in advancing a law that would require recitation of the pledge. After being repeatedly punished for refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, New Jersey high school student Chelsea Stanton finally won her battle in June after using the law to her advantage. Stanton, a senior and atheist at Collingswood High School, objected to the phrase “one nation under God” and was sent to administrative offices twice for violating the school code of conduct. However, she found a state provision requiring students to stand was held unconstitutional by the United States Court of Appeals in 1978, but was never revised to reflect the ruling. Similar to the situation in Nebraska, a bill requiring every Michigan public school student to recite the pledge and every classroom to display a flag was approved by the state Senate last November. The bill does note a student “shall not be compelled” to participate if they or their parents object.
  6. . On January 1st, 2013, there will be a $494 billion tax increase on you. This is the highest single-year tax hike in U.S. history. We call it taxmageddon. Taxmageddon is coming from a variety of income tax rates increases, a higher death tax, new taxes from Obamacare, and many more. These tax hikes will primarily hit the middle class, with the dreaded Alternative Minimum Tax being the worst offender. You need to see the details to grasp just how bad it is. >> We've broken out these tax hikes by state, so you can see how bad taxmageddon is for you. Help us spread the word on the impending tax hikes, so we can push Congress to stop taxmageddon. Please share this email and the website thetaxmageddon.com with your friends. Sincerely, Michael A. Needham Chief Executive Officer Heritage Action for A
  7. Although President Obama lavishly praised her over the weekend as an “American patriot,” a manifesto commissioned by the ruling Saudi Arabian monarchy effectively places the work of an institute that employed Secretary of State Hillarious Clinton’s deputy chief of staff at the forefront of a grand plan to mobilize U.S. Muslim minorities to transform America into a Saudi-style Islamic state, according to an Arabic-language researcher. Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, was an assistant editor for a dozen years for the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs for the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs. The institute – founded by her late father and currently directed by her mother – is backed by the Muslim World League, an Islamic organization found in the Saudi holy city of Mecca that was founded by Muslim Brotherhood leaders. . Amid a backlash against five Republican lawmakers who want to probe Muslim Brotherhood infiltration in the federal government, the 2002 Saudi manifesto shows that “Muslim Minority Affairs” – the mobilizing of Muslim communities in the U.S. to spread Islam instead of assimilating into the population – is a key strategy in an ongoing effort to establish Islamic rule in America and a global Shariah, or Islamic law, “in our modern times.” The manifesto, a sweeping account of the king’s success in disseminating the radical Wahhabi interpretation of Islam worldwide, does not mention the Institute for Muslim Minority Affairs by name. But it cites a book written by Huma Abedin’s father, “Muslim Minorities in the West,” listing him as co-author. The manifesto was unearthed and translated by Walid Shoebat, a Palestinian American author and critic of radical Islam who has done extensive research on the Abedin family’s connections to the Muslim Brotherhod and its Wahhabist affiliations. “Muslim Minority Affairs,” the manifesto says, works “under the umbrella of the Muslim World League and the International Islamic Relief Organization and World Association of Muslim Youth and others.” The document notes that the king “declared from the first day that the Kingdom (of Saudi Arabia) was formed that its purpose was to spread the Shariah throughout the world, as it had been revealed in the Quran and the sunnah,” the sayings and deeds of Muhammad. It also identifies “the Jews” as the main obstacle to success: “The greatest challenge that faces Muslims in the United States and Canada are the Jews who take advantage of their material ability and their media to distort the image of Islam and Muslims there by spreading their lies and distortions in the minds of the people in these countries.” Huma’s father, Sayed Zaynul Abedin, founded the Institute for Minority Affairs in 1979. Huma was listed as an assistant editor from 1996 to 2008 for IMMA’s Journal for the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, the key disseminator of the institute’s ideas. Huma’s mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Shoebat documents that Huma’s brother, Hassan Abedin, has worked with Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Omar Naseef, former secretary general of the Muslim World League and founder of a group reputed to fund terrorists, including al-Qaida. President Bush issued an executive order shortly after 9/11 designating Naseef’s Rabita Trust, a subsidiary of the Muslim World League, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Entity, and the Treasury Department froze its assets. Saleha Abedin also is chairwoman of the International Islamic Committee for Woman and Child, the IICWC, an entity within the Muslim World League that designated Qaradawi as the main author of its charter and policies. Her group partners with the International Islamic Council for Dawa and Relief, which Israel has outlawed as a terrorist group that funds Hamas. The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy has warned that the IICWC is pressing for the repeal of Egypt’s Mubarak-era prohibitions on female genital mutilation, child marriage and marital rape. The IICWC say the prohibitions conflict with Islamic law. Saleha Abedin also is vice dean at Dar El-Hekma College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She helped found the school with Yaseen Abdullah Kadi, a designated terrorist by the U.S. and a member of the bin Laden family. Two years ago, Huma Abedin arranged for Clinton to speak at the school alongside Saleha and another member of the Muslim Sisterhood, Suheir Qureshi. Shoebat believes the Wahhabist connection to the Abedin family is significant and that Huma Abedin, as an assistant editor for the Journal for the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs was serving the interests of Saudi Arabia’s anti-American foreign policy. Security clearance Advocates for an investigation of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence on the U.S. government argue a simple reading of security clearance guidelines in reference to Huma Abedin’s family would warrant investigation. The Center for Security Policy notes that security clearance guidelines for federal employees state a “security risk may exist when an individual’s immediate family, including cohabitants and other persons to whom he or she may be bound by affection, influence, or obligation are not citizens of the United States or may be subject to duress.” The guidelines express concern for any “association or sympathy with persons or organizations that advocate the overthrow of the United States Government, or any state or subdivision, by force or violence or by other unconstitutional means.” Nevertheless, Clinton’s top aide, who was born in the U.S. but raised in Saudi Arabia, has been fiercely defended by both Democrats and Republicans since five Republican lawmakers led by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., cited her as an example of possible Muslim Brotherhood infiltration and asked the inspector generals at the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State to investigate. Yesterday, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank suggested researchers and lawmakers who have presented evidence of the Muslim Brotherhood ties of Abedin and her family are motivated by racism. He commented it’s “hard to escape the suspicion” that the charges have “something to do with the way she looks and how she worships.” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called the request for an investigation of Abedin and her family a “sinister” and “nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable woman, a dedicated American and a loyal public servant.” But Shoebat says that “page after page” of the Saudi manifesto casts “Muslim Minority Affairs” not “simply as a title or as a religious or even a social entity, but as a Saudi foreign policy, a jurisprudence and commandment from the highest of authorities commissioned to the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs.” It’s the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs that enforces the infamous ban on any expression of any religion other than Wahhabi Islam in Saudi Arabia through its religious police, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Shoebat says the manifesto recalls five decades of efforts and billions of dollars spent “to ensure that Muslims will be an unassimilated group which then can influence the non-Muslim host nation and other nations, regardless how small the numbers of Muslims, by shifting the demographic scale due to their population growth in favor of this Saudi agenda.” As WND had reported, a founder of the Muslim Brotherhood front group Council on American-Islamic Relations, Omar Ahmad, spoke to a group of Bay Area Muslims in 1998 about their duty to not “melt” into American culture but, instead, to spread Islam in America until it becomes “dominant” and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth, according to a local reporter who stands by her story despite CAIR’s claims to the contrary. President Obama speaks at White House Iftar dinner, Aug. 10 (White House photo) ‘Values that we hold dear’ President Obama praised Huma Abedin at a White House dinner Friday night celebrating the Muslim ritual of Iftar, which concludes the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Obama said Abedin has been “nothing less than extraordinary in representing our country and the democratic values that we hold dear.” Shoebat noted that the head of the Islamic Society of North America, a Muslim Brotherhood-backed group mentioned as an important player in the 2002 manifesto, was sitting across from Abedin at the White House Iftar dinner. In his remarks, Obama said, to applause, that among the “American women serving with distinction in government” are his “good friend, Huma Abedin, who has worked tirelessly” in the White House, U.S. Senate and “most exhaustingly, at the State Department.” While many defenders of Abedin have downplayed her influence – even to suggesting she’s little more than a fashion adviser to the pantsuit-wearing secretary of state – Obama indicated she has a role in policy. “Senator Clinton has relied on her expertise, and so have I,” Obama said. In a June 7, 2011, feature, the Washington Post reported Abedin is “personally close to Clinton” and “oversees planning and scheduling and advises on politics and policy, especially the Middle East.” Obama told Iftar guests the “American people owe her a debt of gratitude – because Huma is an American patriot and an example of what we need in this country – more public servants with her sense of decency, her grace and her generosity of spirit.” “So, on behalf of all Americans, we thank you so much.” Major authorities Shoebat says the Abedins’ Journal for Muslim Minority Affairs acknowledges that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Qaradawi and Alwani are major sources of Islamic authority to back their doctrine of how Muslims should act when they are a minority. Alwani, who, as WND reported, vets Muslim military chaplains for the State Department, asserts in a paper titled “The Jurisprudence of Muslim Minority Affairs” that the whole world already is under the rule of Islam. Shoebat notes Alwani speaks of a future literal war. Alwani writes that “the land belongs to Allah, his religion is Islam, and every country is already in the House of Islam – now in the present time – since they will be in the House of Islam by force in the near future.” The director of the Islamic Center of Lubbock, Texas, Mohammed bin Mukhtar Shanqeeti, agrees. “The Muslim Minority Jurisprudence is not a heresy or a novel,” he writes, “it’s an ancient doctrine filled with the provisions for Muslims living in Dar al-Kufr (House of the Heathen) or Dar Al-Harb (House of War).” Shoebat says the “Muslim Minority Affairs” plan combines two Islamic jurisprudences: The Minority Affairs Jurisprudence and the Jurisprudence of Muruna, or “flexibility.” Under this doctrine, Muslim minorities, because of their special circumstances, can do some things other Muslims are not allowed to do, if they are for the purpose of advancing Islam. Shoebat believes the doctrine of Maruna has allowed Huma Abedin to marry former congressman Anthony Wiener, a Jew, who resigned his office in disgrace after he was found to have engaged in illicit Internet communications with other women. Islamic law bars a Muslim woman from marrying a Jew. But Shoebat argues the marriage is “one more reason for suspicion,” since Huma’s mother, a Muslim Brotherhood leader, never denounced it.
  8. Plus 1 Brother ,I don't care who you are that was F--king funny.
  9. House Republicans filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against Attorney General Eric Holder, the country's top law enforcement official, seeking to obtain documents on a botched operation to link Arizona gun sales to Mexican drug cartels. The suit likely means the debate over the anti-gun-trafficking operation nicknamed "Fast and Furious" will go on for months, lasting through the U.S. elections on Nov. 6 when Democratic President Barack Obama is likely to face Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Republicans' focus on Fast and Furious has helped to energize gun owners, who are a large and important voting bloc in presidential swing states such as Pennsylvania and tend to vote Republican. The suit asks for documents Republicans say are critical to their investigation of the operation, but Obama has claimed executive privilege. In June, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to hold Holder in contempt for withholding the documents. House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, said the lawsuit was necessary because the Obama administration was "stonewalling." Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said the department, which Holder runs, was "always willing to work with the committee." "Instead the House and the committee have said they prefer to litigate," she said. Some legal analysts said it should not have taken more than six weeks from the June 28 contempt vote for Republicans to file their suit. Basic elements of the case were contained in the House's citation for contempt, they said. "Frankly it suggests that they don't expect to win quickly," said Charles Tiefer, a law professor at the University of Baltimore and a former House acting general counsel. It will take months for the case to work its way through the U.S. District Court and any appeals process that might follow, legal analysts said.
  10. A critical comment about Medicare by vice presidential pick Paul Ryan was curiously edited out of the “60 Minutes” interview which aired on Sunday night, HotAir.com reported. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and Ryan were interviewed for the program by Bob Schieffer of CBS News, who referred to a newspaper headline in Florida saying Ryan hurts Romney in the state because of his Medicare plan. “There’s only one president that I know of in history that robbed Medicare, $716 billion to pay for a new risky program of his own that we call Obamacare,” Romney told Schieffer. “What Paul Ryan and I have talked about is saving Medicare, is providing people greater choice in Medicare, making sure it’s there for current seniors. No changes, by the way, for current seniors, or those nearing retirement. But looking for young people down the road and saying, ‘We’re going to give you a bigger choice.’ In America, the nature of this country has been giving people more freedom, more choices. That’s how we make Medicare work down the road.” According to HotAir.com, the following remark by Ryan was cut and did not air but is crucial in explaining to viewers, especially Florida seniors, that his plan does not affect senior citizens and that his own mother is a Medicare senior. “My mom is a Medicare senior in Florida,” Ryan said. “Our point is we need to preserve their benefits, because government made promises to them that they’ve organized their retirements around. In order to make sure we can do that, you must reform it for those of us who are younger. And we think these reforms are good reforms that have bipartisan origins. They started from the Clinton commission in the late ’90s.” HotAir.com called the broadcast cut “journalistic malpractice.” “Ryan’s plan doesn’t affect those already eligible for Medicare,” Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com wrote. “In fact, one of the conservative criticisms of the plan was that he didn’t give current Medicare recipients the option to choose a private-insurance plan, as younger Americans will get once they become eligible. That’s a pretty newsworthy detail, no?”
  11. . As news spread of Paul Ryan being named Mitt Romney’s running mate, YouTube video of the House Budget Committee chairman’s tour de force during the Obama “health care summit” in February, 2010 began going viral. But an even more substantive – indeed visionary – Ryan's performance regarding Obamacare isn’t getting the full attention it deserves. During the summit, a gob-smacked President Obama sat frozen as the seven-term Wisconsin congressman in six minutes dazzled the room with his fluency not just of the gimmicks hidden within the Democrats’ health legislation, but of the complexities of federal entitlement programs and the Congressional Budget Office’s scoring techniques. Story continues below. The episode was so embarrassing for Obama that Ryan's dissection of the plan was excised from the hours of excerpts from the summit featured on the White House website. A search for Ryan’s videotaped remarks presents you with this message: “Sorry, no results found for ‘Paul Ryan health reform.’” (By comparison, a video search for Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander’s ponderous address to the summit comes right up on the White House site.) The next month, however, during reconciliation markup on the bill in the House – which took place on the ides of March, no less – Democrats were resorting to legislative tricks as the only way to enact Obamacare into law in the wake of Scott Brown’s election to Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat. In that forum, Ryan prophetically warned of the consequences of socialized medicine in America. Story continues below. Obamacare, Ryan said, was an “abuse of the Constitution” that “moves away from the American Idea and toward a European-style welfare state that will lead millions of Americans into becoming dependent on the government rather than themselves.” The man who in January may be sworn in as vice president emphasized that “even though it’s not single-payer, and even without the so-called ‘public option,’ this is still a government takeover of health care.” At sharp variance with Obama’s oft-stated 2008 campaign claim that “if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan,” Ryan charged that “the entire architecture is designed to give the federal government control over what kind of insurance is available for patients, how much health care is enough, and which treatments are worth paying for.” He cautioned that it would establish “a Washington-controlled price-setting board” that would “usurp state governments’ role in regulating insurance and premiums, and will further smother the normal market forces that would otherwise encourage innovation and cost-saving efficiencies.” Ryan described the coming horrors of Obamacare’s “comparative effectiveness board,” which would “restrict providers’ decisions about what treatments are best for their patients.” The president’s claim that Obamacare would “not add a dime to the deficit” was a false pledge, Ryan said, because Democrats “gamed the system” with “smoke and mirrors” within the legislation for purposes of getting a favorable CBO deficit scoring, including “gimmicks” and “double counting.” Not content with skewering the health care transformation enacted when Democrats controlled the White House, Senate and House, Ryan has been offering his own health reform, including shifting Medicare into a program in which the federal government substantially helps seniors pay the premiums of their private insurance plans. Ryan also proposed a refundable, portable health insurance tax credit of $5,700 for families, transparency in the pricing of health services, the establishment of state-based health exchanges to address the coverage of pre-existing conditions, plus allowing small businesses to pool together in offering coverage. Last year, Ryan even shocked Washington by partnering with liberal Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on a plan to allow private insurers to compete with Medicare on a regional basis by, through competitive bidding on the price of services Shortly after Obamacare was passed, Ryan took to the pages of The New York Times to predict that “the true costs of this legislation — concealed by timing gimmicks, hidden spending and double-counting — will make the deficit explode, plunging us deeper into debt.” With the national debt soon to exceed $16 trillion, going from under 75 percent of GDP during George W. Bush’s last year in office to over 104 percent of the nation’s output today, Ryan’s warning in retrospect sounds right on the money. A Kaiser survey of nearly 2,100 private companies and state and local government agencies, finding that the cost of family coverage rose 9 percent last year to $15,073, also suggests that Ryan’s fears about ObamaCare’s costs were well-founded. The Obama campaign is undoubtedly armed with plenty of ideas on how to attack Mitt Romney’s new partner, but removing the shine from a running mate who correctly predicted that ObamaCare would bend the cost curve up – not down – may take an awful lot of mud. .
  12. By Jove ,your a freaking genius Sir ! Plus 1 . I'm changing to Dawn!!!
  13. Well after seeing the picture I realize it's a Love / Hate relationship, he hates being lonely and she loves the money ! Lutie I think Bridesmaid is more like it:lol:. I think all this same sex laws he's pushing is for his own beneifit.
  14. Dear Patty ,sorry your having a jerk spoil your peace. I have found most annoying problems can be fixed with a 12 gauge pump!
  15. Thanks guys,it's nice to know I'm not alone!
  16. He shouldn't be getting married, he should be getting hung! I guess with enough money you can buy off the Simon Wiessenthal center. Guess they only looking for broke nazis.
  17. Just received my tax return for 2011 back from the IRS.It puzzles me! They are questioning how many dependentsI claimed. I guess it was because of my response to the question:"List all dependents"I replied: 12 million illegal immigrants;3 million crack heads;42 million unemployed people on food stamps;2 million people in over 243 prisons;Half of Mexico ;and 535 persons in the U.S. House and Senate."Evidently, this was NOT an acceptable answer.I KEEP ASKING MYSELF, WHO DID I MISS?
  18. Here's a thought ,elected politicians are there to represent the people that put them in office and not their own crazy or bought agendas. Here's a way to enforce this and eliminate lobbyist and outside influence ! Before any major vote that affects the people there should be a poll ( internet,phone ) and what ever majority prevails that is what the senator congress person or other politician must vote. Not his concience ( since we all know is lacking or his opinion,which is paid for ) but what the majority decides. The same goes for all officials, we need to remember they are " Public Servants " and we need to start treating them as such . What happend that now we are letting the maids and butler (if you will ) tell us how to run our household . Enough already lets stop pampering our servants and make them work ,no more perks that we don't have for ourselves . Lets save billions by doing away with all this extra security, NO one is irreplacable ! Not even the Head Butler ( president ) Elected politicians should be afraid,it's one way of keeping them honest ! And if you have ever been stuck in gridlock or traffic jams because some politicians motorcade well I don't think his time is more important than mine ! Well I could go on but my anger is rising and it's getting harder not to use language that offends the mods. So I will call it quits .
  19. Want to cure gun violence ? Arm every one ,An Armed Soceity Is A Polite Society .
  20. Sorry Guys I have no idea what went wrong . I copied the article and pasted and it looked good,but I deleted the pictures and then this **** happend sorry!!!
  21. NEW YORK -- Transportation Security Administration officers at Boston's Logan International Airport are alleging that a program intended to help flag possible terrorists based on passengers' mannerisms has led to rampant racial profiling, a newspaper reported Saturday. The TSA told the newspaper on Friday that it is investigating the officers' claims. At a meeting last month with the agency, officers provided written complaints, some of them anonymous, from 32 officers. The officers said their co-workers were increasingly targeting minorities, believing the stops would lead to the discovery of drugs, outstanding arrest warrants and immigration problems, in response to pressure from managers who wanted high numbers of stops, searches and criminal referrals, The Times reported. "The behavior detection program is no longer a behavior-based program, but it is a racial profiling program," one officer wrote in an anonymous complaint The Times obtained. The program, which has been billed as a model for other airports across the country, is intended to allow officers to stop, search and question passengers who seem suspicious. Specially trained "assessors" observe security lines for unusual activity and speak individually with each passenger, looking for inconsistencies in the passenger's responses to questions and behavior such as avoiding eye contact, fidgeting or sweating. Passengers considered suspicious can be taken aside for more intensive questioning. At least one passenger has filed a formal complaint with the TSA. Kenneth Boatner, a black psychologist and educational consultant who was traveling to Atlanta on business last month, said he was detained for nearly half an hour as agents examined his belongings, including his checkbook and his patients' clinical notes. In an interview with The Times, Boatner said he felt humiliated, and that the officers never explained why they were singling him out, but he suspected it was because of his race and attire. He was wearing sweat pants, a white T-shirt and high-top sneakers. "I had never been subjected to anything like that," Boatner said. The TSA said the program at Logan "in no way encourages or tolerates profiling," and that passengers cannot be subjected to behavior assessments based on their nationality, race, ethnicity or religion. "If any of these claims prove accurate, we will take immediate and decisive action to ensure there are consequences to such activity," the agency said in a statement. The TSA said it did not compile information on passengers' race or ethnicity and could not provide a breakdown of passengers who may have been stopped on either basis through the program. ___
  22. An Obama classmate speaks out Yes, Wayne Allyn Root's statement below has been "Correctly Attributed" The link to Snopes.com is at the end of his statement. If Obama is re-elected in 2012, the US is finished. The following is in simple language that everyone can understand. Not the gibberish that our government keeps telling people. Please read this carefully and make sure you keep this message going. This needs to be emailed to everyone in the USA ... OBAMA'S COLLEGE CLASSMATE SPEAKS OUT By Wayne Allyn Root Barack Hussein Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. Economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos – thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within. Barack Hussein Obama was my college classmate. ( Columbia University , class of '83). He is a devout Muslim; do not be fooled. Look at his Czars... Anti-business… anti-American. As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Barack Hussein Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University ... They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival... And can be counted on to always vote for even bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it. Universal health care! The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression? Cap and trade! Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around." Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers! But this has been Barack Hussein Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressmen and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government. (This will tip the balance of those living off the government to more than those who must pay for it; and we're done for) Legalize 12 million illegal Mexican immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America . But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security... (see note above re: Puerto Rico) Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions – including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America ... The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means. Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Barack Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition. With the acts outlined above, Barack Hussein Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system. Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme – all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Hussein Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan... http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/overwhelm.asp Last point: think about what this designed 'rule of the rabble' will do to anyone successful…and everyone receiving this is. What will your lives be like under communism? The time to fight this abomination is now…I hope each of you will forward to at least a dozen people. THE ONLY WAY I SEE TO STOP THIS PLAN IS VOTING – VOTING THIS NOVEMBER. I HONESTLY HOPE YOU WILL PASS THIS ON AND BY ALL MEANS VOTE. The more people that understand what Obama is accomplishing, the better chance we have to save our Republic. It may be our last and only chance.
  23. . Every public school in America is about to receive a wake-up call that will eliminate any excuse for stomping on students’ and teachers’ religious liberty. Ever since the Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,” activists of various stripes – most recently from atheist and homosexual groups – have tried to find ways around the ruling, to squash free speech, and religious speech in particular, in America’s public schools. . Last year, for example, Florida teacher Jerry Buell at Mount Dora High School faced suspension after the homosexual advocacy group Equality Florida demanded he be disciplined for voicing disapproval of same-sex marriage on Facebook. Though Buell used his personal computer, on his personal time to post his opinion on his personal Facebook page, he lost three days in the classroom to suspension before the Lake County School Board realized its mistake and decided to exonerate and reinstate the teacher. Just this month, Missouri State Rep. Mike McGhee explained to the Missourian that the state’s newly passed “right to pray” constitutional amendment was needed because he heard about children who were asked not to pray after getting a school lunch, a girl being told not to take her Bible to study hall and a parent explaining how an adult at her child’s school told her son to change the words in the song “Jesus Loves Me” to “My Mom Loves Me” while he was on the school playground. Though voters passed the “right to pray” amendment by a roughly 5-to-1 margin, standing against it was the Washington, D.C.-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State. WND has covered dozens of stories in recent years – such as the censorship and humiliation 15-year-old Brandon Wegner faced from Wisconsin’s Shawano School District for writing an assigned paper in opposition to homosexual adoption or a Virginia lawsuit against a display of the 10 Commandments or a New York City attempt to ban churches from using school buildings – in which students, teachers and community groups have been wrongfully told it’s “unconstitutional” to carry their faith onto campus. But now Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing religious freedom, has announced it is sending 99,750 copies – one for literally every public school in America – of an exhaustive guide on religious liberty in school to principals, vice principals and school administrators around the country. Thousands of sponsors have made the mass mailing possible. “Over the past few years, Liberty Counsel has seen a surge of complaints from school administrators, educators and students, whose rights were egregiously violated,” said the organization in a statement. “Secular activists attempt to remove religious expression from our public schools, indoctrinate students in alternative lifestyles and bully through intimidation and blatant misrepresentation. To be proactive in countering this growing threat, Liberty Counsel developed and distributed the ‘Patriot’s Handbook of Religious Freedom in Public Schools.’ “This booklet,” the organization explains, “clarifies the rights of students to pray, form Bible clubs and engage in religious expression in public schools, including holiday celebrations and the rights of teachers, parents and guardians.” “The public school is not a faith-free zone,” said Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “Students need not leave their spiritual beliefs on the schoolhouse steps. Liberty Counsel is here to educate and, if need be, litigate to defend their First Amendment rights.” America’s public school system, which had long included religious elements such as daily prayer and even biblical passages and stories as part of the common primers from which many of our nation’s presidents learned to read, faced a significant crisis of faith in 1962 and 1963 when a pair of landmark Supreme Court cases first found unconstitutional state-sponsored prayer in schools, then struck down Bible readings and other state-sponsored religious activities. But in 1969, the Supreme Court’s Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District case reaffirmed the rights of the individual students and teachers, concluding, “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. This has been the unmistakable holding of this Court for almost 50 years.” Though the case was originally about three students wearing arm bands to protest the Vietnam War, many cases since have pointed to the 1969 decision and the “Tinker test” to affirm a right to religious expression as well. Nonetheless, Liberty Counsel notes, several questions, controversies and even lawsuits over free speech and religious liberty in public schools pop up every year, including questions about students, teachers, curriculum, graduation ceremonies, public access to school facilities by religious groups and more. “That’s why Liberty Counsel has developed an invaluable resource compiled through decades of experience defending the rights of educators, students, administrators and community members from radical activists who want to suppress our precious freedom of religious expression in public settings,” the organization states. Liberty Counsel’s goal in distributing the “Patriot’s Handbook of Religious Freedom in Public Schools” is to dramatically reduce the number of instances when school administrators erroneously censor or punish religious expression. By having the guidebook in hand or on file, the organization hopes, schools will look to sound advice on protecting religious liberty when confronted by activist organizations that demand students, teachers or community groups be silenced. “Our nation’s public schools must allow the full and free exercise of every American’s First Amendment rights to free speech, free association and religious expression,” Liberty Counsel states. “There must never be restraints or prohibitions on any American expressing religious sentiments in public settings. There is no place in our democracy for anti-religious bigotry.”
  24. .[/url] Nine years after a battle over a stone monument listing the Ten Commandments inside a state court building in Alabama, the state Supreme Court chief justice who was removed from office by a state judiciary panel is the leading candidate – to be the state Supreme Court chief justice. Judge Roy Moore had installed the 5,280-pound stone monument as part of an acknowledgement of God’s sovereignty over American life, and when he refused to haul it away as a federal judge wanted, a state judicial panel removed him from office. . But after a stunning upset victory over two better-funded competitors for the GOP nomination for the office, incumbent Chuck Malone and former state Attorney General Charlie Graddick, Moore now is leading in the statewide race in Alabama, where voters choose the chief justice. According to a poll taken just days ago, Moore leads Democrat Harry Lyon by 21 points, 54 percent to 33 percent. The poll surveyed 600 Alabama voters. He’s built that stunning support with endorsements that include one even from the Democratic Alabama AFL-CIO. State President Al Henley told Real Clear Politics it’s the first time the union group has backed Moore, and Moore was the only Republican picked by the group this year. Henley cited Moore’s record as a circuit judge in Gadsden and as a Supreme Court justice from 2001-2003 of treating the average person fairly in court. . But Moore beat out even the Democrat nominee, Harry Lyon, who had wanted the AFL-CIO endorsement. In an interview, Moore told WND he will not make an issue of a Ten Commandments monument in the state’s judiciary building again, but that doesn’t mean he’s abandoning the principles they espouse. “To restore the monument would be to deflect from the true issue, an acknowledgement of the sovereignty of God,” he told WND. “It would certainly confuse the public.” But he said if elected he would be true to the foundational documents of the United States, its Constitution and the Alabama Constitution, which acknowledges God. “Without the acknowledgement of God we have no basis for a moral law, and for the foundation of the Constitution,” he said. He said it would be a “significant statement” for voters to return him to office, “knowing what I stand for.” He said the federal judge who ordered the Ten Commandments monument removed from state grounds during his original battle blasted Moore, saying the state was not allowed to acknowledge the sovereignty of the Judeo-Christian God and attribute to Him the foundation for the law. But Moore noted that conflicted with case law from the U.S. Supreme Court, which “said religious liberty comes from the will of God.” “Throughout my campaign I have told people I would not bring back a monument, because it would confuse the people about the issue. But I will acknowledge the sovereignty of God in everything I do.” He said if elected, in office he would be a chief justice “for everyone. I want fairness and equity in the courts. I think that’s what most people want.” And Moore said he’s taking nothing for granted, continuing to speak and travel, raising support for his effort. He said the judiciary in the United States today is busy establishing rulings based on previous court precedents and statements, when judges should, instead, be going back to the federal Constitution and state constitutions that established America. And some of the decisions that have been released, he said, are “ridiculous” in light of the opening statement in the U.S. Supreme Court of “God save the United States and this court.” He told the Press-Register in Alabama that the election of the state’s Supreme Court chief justice will in many ways “determine the course of our future.” “We’ve got to go back to the Constitution,” he said. “We’ve got hope in this country as long as we have God and as long as we have a Constitution.” Since his removal from office in 2003, he has served with the Foundation for Moral Law and surprised political observers by taking a majority, 51 percent, of the primary vote in March against current Chief Justice Malone and Graddick. He previously had launched two unsuccessful bids for the governor’s office in Alabama. John L. Carroll, dean of Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, told Reuters he wasn’t aware of another case where a judge removed from office reclaimed the same elected position. “It really boils down to backlash against the federal court order and his removal from office the first time,” said Carroll. As WND also reported, Moore lit a fire in the hearts of tea partiers at the first national convention in Nashville – inspiring four impassioned standing ovations with his reading of a “bill of particulars” against President Obama. He also told a cheering crowd, “We’re tired of liberal Republicans who don’t hold the principles of their party.” He also wrote, “So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom.” Moore, 64, a periodic WND columnist, has condemned “senseless treaties” like the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, and the Central America Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA. He said the nation’s borders have been opened to criminals and terrorists, the Constitution discarded, the federal government grown in size and scope “far beyond anything our founders ever imagined,” and the nation’s debt is soaring. Columnist, author and action star Chuck Norris previously endorsed Moore’s campaign for governor. “More than just an amazing legal mind, he is first a true patriot and passionate family man,” Norris wrote. He said Moore is one of the “constitutionally abiding legal eagles who walk in the legacy of our Founding Fathers and who we need serving in every state across our union.” Norris currently is wrapping up his work on the coming “Expendables 2.” Moore grew up the son of a jackhammer operator. He bagged groceries for 85 cents an hour at Piggly Wiggly to support his family and later attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Moore commanded an Army military police company in Vietnam from 1969 to 1974. He graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law and worked as a deputy district attorney for Etowah County from 1977 to 1982. After an unsuccessful bid for circuit judge in 1982, Moore reportedly worked on a ranch in Australia and became a kick boxer in Texas before returning to Alabama to practice law. Former Gov. Guy Hunt appointed him circuit judge in 1992. In 2000, he was elected chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. In 2003, Chief Justice Moore was removed from his position for defying a federal judge’s order to move a Ten Commandments monument from the state Supreme Court building.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.