Posted by: bj | May 15, 2011

Doggie Diner

Two Dogs Having Dinner…………….

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=EVwlMVYqMu4&vq=medium#t=125

For More Post on Dogs go to “Select Category”:  Dogs or click below:

https://america-wake-up.com/2009/09/17/dogs/

Posted by: bj | May 10, 2011

California’s $200,000 per Year Lifeguards

No Wonder California is  Insolvent…………………………………………………………..  Public Employee Unions are bankrupting California and the Country.

Newport Beach Full Time Lifeguards (all but one)  make annual salaries ranging from $120,000 to $211,000 plus benefits.   Some retired  lifeguards make more than those currently working.   This is not just a Newport Beach problem.  This is a common story all over the “once golden State”.  In California 31% of state, county and city payroll goes toward pensions of retired employees.  This number is growing fast.  In Fresno the number is 51%. 

To solve this  fast approaching TRAIN WRECK,  City, County and State governments will try to raise revenues by raising taxes which will accelerate their insolvency.   Until State, County and City governments stand up to the PUBLIC   EMPLOYEE   UNIONS,  these problems will not go away and they will get worse.   With the vast majority of California politicians on the progressive, Statist  left, voting for more taxes,  our only solution is to VOTE, like the nation voted  in November 2010.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5FytHY2qhc

Since 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder has been investigating  CIA officers who interrogated detainees at overseas locations. We learned this week that CIA interrogators were able to obtain the nickname of Osama bin Laden’s courier through the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Faraj al-Libi. Intelligence professionals were able to build on this information, and it eventually led to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.   CIA Director, Leon Panetta confirmed CIA Director Leon Panetta confirmed that enhanced interrogation of high-value detainees contributed to the intelligence that led to the raid on bin Laden’s compound.

Despite this major victory, the CIA officers who helped locate Osama bin Laden still face the threat of prosecution by the Obama Administration.   Yesterday, Debra Burlingame met with President Obama at Ground Zero.    When she asked President Obama she asked President Obama if he would ask Attorney General Eric Holder to back off the CIA officers, he said simply:

 “No, I won’t,” and turned around and walked away. The CIA officers deserve better than to face possible prosecution by the very government they have devoted their lives to serving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2oqcEKF4U4

Posted by: bj | April 27, 2011

Introducing IL VOLO

Three Italiam Boys sing like no others.

http://www.interscope.com/artist/player/default.aspx?meid=6314&aid=1200

 Click on the link below

http://www.flixxy.com/the-diamonds-little-darlin-1957-2004.htm

Posted by: bj | April 2, 2011

Obama Advisor Advocates the Invasion of Israel

Samantha Power, the wife of Cass Sunstein (who is Obama’s Regulatory Czar and has been called the “most dangerous person in the Obama  Administration”, has  emerged as a key player in foreign policy. 

In March 2011, Power was instrumental in persuading Obama to authorize military intervention in Libya, to prevent President Moammar Qaddafi’s forces from killing the rebels who were rising up against his regime at that time. Power’s counsel in this matter was consistent with her longstanding advocacy of the doctrine known as the “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P), which encourages the international community to intervene in a sovereign country’s internal affairs — with military force if necessary — in order to thwart genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, or ethnic cleansing. The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCRP), which is the world’s leading advocate of this doctrine, is funded by George Soros‘s Open Society Institute. Power and GCRP advisory-board member Gareth Evans — who is also president emeritus of the International Crisis Group — have been joint keynote speakers at a number of events where they have championed the R2P principle together.

In the past few weeks, this philosophy has been touted as the “Obama Doctrine” by the statest, progressive media.

Our concern is that this same rationale could be used by Obama, the United Nations or any country as an excuse to invade Israel or any country.  Talk about a stretch:  The same philosophy used to justify the invasion of Libya and Israel??

It is not hard to envision that this R2P concept, swirling through the United Nations and in international foreign policy circles, can one day be applied against Israel when that nation is forced to respond from attacks coming from the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon.

Samantha Power on a  u tube video calling for a Military Invasion of Israel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O5XxXm8wPE

Has a Pandora’s Box  just been opened?   Power’s emergence as a key player, and her influence over the President, who already is inclined to outsource American foreign policy to the “international community,” should heighten this concern.

This is a “Must listen to video”  by Dr David Janda on October 13, 2010;   click here,     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HnkxIh62dQ

or read below and click at the end to view video.

Part I – The Stimulus Bill (March 2009 – which no one read) contains a well  hidden provision which:

  • Creates The Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness  Research
  • at a cost of $1.1 billion
  • has a board of 15 members (which Obama appointed within 3 days of the stimulus being passed)  I would call this a health care rationing board. 
  • Why would one call this a “Rationing Board”?

Comparative Research is defined as :

  • The cost of medical treatment
  • divided by the years of benefit from the treatment
  • which equals a Ratio
  • where the Ratio will determine if you can or will be treated

The existence of this Rationing Board proves that Obama had the full intention of rationing health care even before Obama Care was passed.

Part II   The Health Care Bill   (March 2010 – that no one read)   created:

  • a second multi billion $  board:  the “National Coordinator  for Health Information Technology”
  • to implement the decisions of the 15 board member “Coordinating Council”
  • where the “National Coordinators Office” will determine a patients treatment at the time and place of care.

This whole experiment was passed on the pretense of providing health care to 32 million people who currently have no health care.  This fact alone would lead to  the conclusion that health care will be rationed.  With polls showing that 45% of existing physicians will leave their practice,  the US Health Care System faces complete destruction after January 2013 if Obama Care is not defeated in its entirety

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HnkxIh62dQ

Posted by: bj | March 6, 2011

Eliminate the Federal Bureaucracy – Now –

Congress should  Eliminate the Federal bureaucracy (here is an example of why)

Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of
a desert.  Congress said, “Someone may steal from it at night.”  So
they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Then Congress said, “How does the watchman do his job without
instruction?”  So they created a planning department and hired two
people, one person to write the instructions and one person to do time
studies.

Then Congress said, “How will we know the night watchman is doing the
tasks correctly?”  So they created a Quality Control department and
hired two people, one to do the studies and one to write the reports.

Then Congress said, “How are these people going to get paid?”  So they
created two positions, a time-keeper and a payroll officer,  then hired
two people.

Then Congress said, “Who will be accountable for all of these people?”

So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an
Administrative Officer, an Assistant Administrative Officer, and a
Legal Secretary.

Then Congress said, “We have had this command in operation for one
year, and we are $918,000 over budget.  We must cut back.”  So they
laid off the night watchman.

Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.

Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY….. during the Carter Administration?

Anybody?        Didn’t think so!

Bottom line:  We’ve spent several hundred billion dollars in support
of an agency…the reason for which not one person who reads this can
remember!

Ready??  It was very simple . . . and, at the time, everybody thought
it very appropriate.

The Department of Energy was instituted on 8/04/1977 TO LESSEN OUR
DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.

Hey, pretty efficient, huh???

AND, NOW, IT’S 2010 — 34 YEARS LATER — AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS
“NECESSARY” DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR.  IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES, AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE! 

A little over 33 years ago, 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports.  Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.  Ah, yes — the good old Federal bureaucracy!!

NOW, WE HAVE TURNED THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY OVER TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?

Hello!!  Is Anybody Home?

Posted by: bj | March 3, 2011

A Great Commercial From Taiwan

Ogilvy & Mather in Taiwan created this advertisement fo TC Bank, with the theme:  “For Ordinary People with Extraordinary Dreams”.  It is based on a true story where a group of older men in Taiwan decide to revisit their motorcycling youth after one of their own passes away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vksdBSVAM6g

Posted by: bj | March 3, 2011

A Great Lawyer

 

Part of rebuilding New Orleans caused residents often to be challenged with the task of tracing home titles back potentially hundreds of years.. With a community rich with history stretching back over two centuries, houses have been passed along through generations of family, sometimes making it quite difficult to establish ownership.

Here’s a great letter an attorney wrote to the FHA on behalf of a client: You have to love this lawyer…….

A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down.  After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following  reply.

(Actual reply from FHA):

“Upon review of your letter adjoining your client’s loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin.”

Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:  (Actual response):

“Your letter regarding title in Case No.189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 206 years covered by the present application.  I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased by the United States from France , in 1803 the year of origin identified in our application. For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France , which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain . The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Queen Isabella.  The good Queen Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful  about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing  of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus ‘s expedition.

Now the Pope, as I’m sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created thisworld. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana . God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it, and the FHA.   I hope you find God’s original claim to be satisfactory. Now, may we have our loan?”

The loan was immediately approved.

…and some want Government running health care?

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