What Is This World Coming To?

I got an email attached to an Omega Letter Daily Intelligence Digest regarding the growing mystery about Barack Obama’s birth certificate. The email highlighted the following quote from Politifact proclaiming, “Obama’s Birth Certificate: The Final Chapter.”

The Hawaii Department of Health receives about a dozen e-mail inquiries a day about Obama’s birth certificate, spokesman Okubo said.

“I guess the big issue that’s being raised is the lack of an embossed seal and a signature,” Okubo said, pointing out that in Hawaii, both those things are on the back of the document. “Because they scanned the front … you wouldn’t see those things.”

Okubo says she got a copy of her own birth certificate last year and it is identical to the Obama one we received.”

What was not included in the quote was this line:

“Unlike the other documents, Hawaii birth certificates aren’t public record. Only family members can request copies, so when the campaign declined to give us one, we were stalled.”

One cannot call it the ‘Final Chapter’ on Obama’s birth certificate without some explanation for the campaign’s refusal to authorize the State of Hawaii to release an original copy to the media. Assuming that the two are identical (which is certainly the contention made by the Obama campaign at its “Fight The Smears” website.)

I don’t mind being proved wrong. In fact, I’ll cheerfully admit that I might be. But something doesn’t smell right. The whole premise behind the “Fight the Smears” website is to, well, fight the so called internet ’smears’ by giving Obama supporters ‘evidence’ they can send to their brainwashed friends to help them ’set them straight about Obama.’

There are but eight identified ’smears’ on the whole website. One would, therefore, logically assume that these must be the eight ’smears’ the Obama campaign finds the most damaging. (If you have a more logical explanation, feel free to post it in the comments section below — I’m genuinely interested.)

Having assumed that these eight ’smears’ are the most needful of being cleaned up, the “Fight the Smears” menu offers in 4th place, below “Michelle’s Pride in Country“; “Obama and Taxes“; and “Michelle on Tape” where we find, “Birth Certificate.”

Displayed on that page is what the Obama campaign claims is a photocopy of Obama’s birth certificate, suitable for framing, or for sending along to a skeptical friend in order to fight the ’smear’. There is no private information on the original that isn’t on the photocopy — not if they are identical. (You can see for yourself that the only thing blocked out on the Obama copy is the certificate number)

So making a photocopy, creating a web page, posting the photocopy, (along with a handy note to your skeptical friend) seems like lot of trouble to go to. But if it helps ‘fight the smear’ then not so much. There ARE only eight of them, after all. Knocking out any one of them would help.

It raises the question, how much trouble, comparatively speaking, would it be for the Obama campaign to authorize the state to release a certified copy of the original to an independent media to examine?

One second after reporters compared the state-certified copy to the copy posted on the ‘Fight the Smears’ website, this is a smear the campaign can tick off forever. Not only that, but such conclusive evidence of what would then be such an obvious smear would blunt the edge of Smears 1- 7.

But certainly, Smear #4 will die an immediate death beyond any hope of resurrection. One might countenance a conspiracy within the Obama campaign, but nobody outside of a psychiatric ward is going to suggest the State of Hawaii of being complicit in a conspiracy to conceal Barack Obama’s official vital statistics.

Fighting this ’smear’ isn’t nearly so difficult and complicated as building a website or creating a special web page to dispel myths about his birth certificate. All it would take is a phone call to the Hawaii Bureau of Vital Statistics.

But this incredibly simple solution the Obama campaign refuses to do. Until it either releases a certified copy, or explains why it won’t, Smear #4 isn’t going anywhere.

The price of oil at the barrelhead plummeted for three straight days following the Bush administration’s lifting of a 1989 presidential order declaring a ban on off-shore drilling.

A three-day drop in oil futures is no guarantee that the recent streak has permanently ended, but it does expose the liberal lie that it would take ten to twenty years for drilling to have any effect on the price of oil.

The mere THREAT of drilling was enough to cause a twenty-percent drop in the price of crude oil futures — something the liberals in Congress knew would happen all along. But they opposed it anyway — because they knew it would help the Bush adminstration’s image.

Better you should use your grocery money to buy gas for work than that. Nonetheless, they feel your pain. Honest.

Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority and the alleged moderate who is the ‘last, best hope for peace’ between Israel and the Palestinians offered his congratulations to the family of child murderer Samir Kuntar on his release from an Israeli prison.

Kuntar was among those traded for kidnapped Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. Kuntar had been in Israeli custody for thirty years after being convicted of murdering a four year old Jewish girl by crushing her head with a rifle butt.

Despite the grisly nature of his crimes, Kuntar was not only alive, but in good health.

Regev and Goldwasser, who were guilty of nothing, were believed to be hostages of Hezbollah for two years. Despite their innocence, all Israel got back was their bodies.

In Gaza,Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday hailed Kuntar as “a great hero” and said Israel’s decision to release him and four Hezbollah fighters undermined Israel’s policy of not freeing “prisoners with blood on their hands.” He called the deal “a victory” for Hezbollah.

“The Israelis should pay the price for the release of Gilad Shalit,” Haniya said. “It is hard to see thousands of prisoners still held in Israeli jails,” he added. (My sympathy for their plight is tempered by the image of the coffins containing Hezbollah’s ‘prisoners’.)

People celebrated in the streets of Gaza, and handed out sweets in support of Hezbollah.

“Today is a great victory for the resistance movements and to Hezbollah, said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. “It shows that the only successful way to free the prisoners is by kidnapping soldiers.”

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman in an official ceremony addressed as ‘freed heroes’ the five Lebanese prisoners freed by Israel. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and members of major political factions, including Hezbollah’s rivals, also welcomed them on a red carpet with an honor guard.

President Shimon Peres, who pardoned Kuntar but said he did not “forget or forgive what he did”, compared the solemn behavior of Israelis, mourning the two Israel Defense Forces soldiers with what he called Lebanese “dancing and drumming.”

“I watch and hear what is happening on both sides of the barricade. In Lebanon there are victory celebrations,” Peres said in a special address on the return of the bodies of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev.

“The heads of states, heads of Hezbollah are dancing and drumming before welcoming Kuntar - the murderer who with his rifle’s butt smashed the skull of Einat, of blessed memory, who was four years old, and who shot her father in cold blood. In Israel, the people are crying.”

A former cellmate of Samir Kuntar, Jaber Weshah, who is, ironically enough, now deputy director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, said: “Today is a true day of joy for all Palestinians and all freedom lovers across the world.”

Let’s see. Hezbollah ‘freedom fighters’ kidnapped two Israelis from inside Israel, secretly murdered them and then negotiated for their ‘release’ knowing they were already dead. Less than two hours before the coffins were exchanged, Eldad’s mother still held out hope he was alive. Freedom fighters?

Hamas is at this moment still holding hostage a young Israeli corporal named Gilad Shalit. He’s been held for two years, assuming he is still alive. But Hamas will not confirm whether he is alive or dead, preferring to torture his family as well.

(Human rights? There are humans among the Palestinians? Who knew?)

by Marie Jon’

While some might be undecided on who to vote for this coming Election Day, for others it’s a no-brainer. Although the news media would like us to believe otherwise, there is still an enormous political gap between the Left and the Right.

“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins” — William Pitt

The American people must wake up to the the facts. The Democratic Party has moved well to the left of liberalism, and Barack Obama is — by his record — as far left as one can get in the party.

Sorry America, but we can’t afford an Obama presidency. It would be political and social mayhem having a Democrat House, Senate, Supreme Court and Executive branch. For many decades the United States would be held under the sway of a very unjust, destructive force. Our citizenry would have to deal with the extreme rulings of a Supreme Court gone wild. There would be no more checks and balances.

Liberal judges would change our country’s disposition. Even if Americans were roused from their lethargy and subsequently voted in a Republican president and Congress, it would be too late. They would not be able to neutralize the highest court of the land.

Once a liberal Supreme Court is installed, all traditional values will be null and void. Everything will change to satisfy the progressives’ mind-set. Nothing would be sacrosanct, from the war against terror to the right to bear arms, late-term abortion and the varied definitions of marriage.

America needs a Republican president who will appoint judges to the Supreme Court without a litmus test. Only then can liberalism’s hold of our federal benches be defeated. Our country might then be spared from the dictates of a black-robed oligarchy.

Senator John McCain is not trying to run as a Ronald Reagan conservative. He is a maverick. Yet, even his worst critics understand that our nation would be much better off in the hands of President John McCain than President Barack Obama. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday President Bush removed the executive-branch moratorium on offshore drilling. Today, at a news conference, Bush repeated his new position, and slammed the Democratic Congress for not removing the congressional moratorium on the Outer Continental Shelf and elsewhere.

Crude-oil futures for August delivery plunged $9.26, or 6.3 percent, almost immediately as Bush was speaking, bringing the barrel price down to $136.

The Democrats refuse to permit drilling, evidently based on the principle that it will take “oh, ten or twenty years” before drilling has any effect on global oil prices. Ignoring the reality that we’ll still need fuel in ‘ten or twenty years’ that argument seems kind of , ummm, well, stupid to the point of moronic, but if the shoe fits. .

Oil closed down nine bucks today just because we might drill. Imagine if we actually followed through on the threat?

Barack Obama addressed a meeting of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) last month in which he claimed he supported Israel’s right to Jerusalem as it’s undivided capital.

“Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided,” Obama declared on June 5 to a standing ovation. But that was June 5, before the Arab world began to recall its endorsement of his candidacy. Even Hamas said it was no longer enamored of hm.

On CNN’s new pro-Islamic talk show, Fareed Zakaria — GPS over the weekend, Obama revealed he has undergone yet another ‘clarification of policy’. It would appear that his statement, “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided” was misinterpreted’ to mean Obama believes” Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and must remain undivided.” No, no, that’s not what he meant at all!

“You know, the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech, and we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given . . . The point we were simply making was, is that we don’t want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the ‘67 war, that it is possible for us to create a Jerusalem that is cohesive and coherent. I was not trying to predetermine what are essentially final-status issues.”

Obama’s 180 degree reversal (oops, I mean ‘clarification’ of ‘interpretation’) came following his appointment of Daniel Kurtzer as his Arab-Israeli policy advisor. Noted Worldnetdaily:

“Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, has long been recognized by Israeli leaders, including prime ministers, as biased against Israel and is notorious for urging extreme concessions from the Jewish state. He was appointed as a primary Obama adviser on the Middle East earlier this year.”

If there is any consolation to be had, it is found only in the fact that very few Jews believed him in the first place. After all, his lips were moving.

Former White House Press Secretary and Fox News anchor Tony Snow died early this morning from complications associated with treatment for colon cancer. He leaves behind a wife and three children.

Snow, 53, was a broadcaster for Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio when he replaced Scott McClellan as President Bush’s press secretary in May 2006.

Snow served just 17 months as press secretary, a tenure interrupted by his second bout with cancer. He resigned as Bush’s chief spokesman six months later, in September 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

Judicial Watch, group that investigates government corruption has filed separate complaints with the Federal Election Commission and the Senate Ethics Committee against Barack Obama for allegedly accepting a below market rate loan mortgage not available to the general consumer.

According to the Judicial Watch complaints, Senator Obama (D-Illinois) received a home loan of $1.32 million from Northern Trust at a rate of 5.625 percent — although two different surveys indicated that the average going rate that day was around 6 percent.

Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton contends that Obama got a special below market “super super jumbo” loan because he was a United States senator. “…[W]e filed ethics complaints with the Senate Ethics Committee concerning the receipt potentially of an illegal gift,” he said. “The other issue is that it may be an illegal campaign contribution by a corporation in that it is a substantial financial gift to Barack Obama of at least $125,000,” suggests Fitton.

Fitton also filed the complaint with the Federal Election Commission, and says there is another shady aspect to this mortgage deal. He says Obama’s real estate dealings are also linked with Tony Rezko, a convicted felon, which Fitton contends raises a “whole host of questions” about Obama’s relationship with the man.

The United States is more vulnerable to attack in the period between now and the inauguration of a new president in January, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said last week.

Adm. Mike Mullen told soldiers at Fort Lewis, Washington June 24 that he has set up a transition team to be ready for the next administration.

“I have, in my current job, stood up a transition team because this is a great time of transition,” Mullen said. “A time of transition is very, very challenging for any institution much less an entire country. And in that time of transition, it’s my belief that we as a country will be more vulnerable.”
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It appears that the Reverend Jesse Jackson is not quite as enamored of Senator Barack Hussein Obama as are the majority of his constituents.

Unaware that his microphone was on before a television interview Wednesday, Jackson expressed anger that in his view, Obama has been overly critical of the black community.

“See Barack Obama been, um, talking down to black people on his faith based — want to cut his n*ts off,” Jackson said in a video that aired Wednesday on the Fox News program “The O’Reilly Factor.” Read the rest of this entry »