No 784 “En mi
opinión”
Noviembre 3, 2014
“IN GOD WE TRUST” Lázaro R González Miño EDITOR
"Government's 1st Duty is to
protect the people, not run their lives." ~ Reagan
Ciudadanos del Condado Miami Dade, estimados amigos:
Hasta hoy a un día de las elecciones de medio término han botado solamente unos
20,000 electores. El condado tiene más de 2 millones de personas. Es algo deprimente que tan pocas personas
hayan usado su derecho a elegir a quien les va administrar la vida.
Todos se quejan de que los políticos que tenemos sean
UNA MIERDA pero la culpa es nuestra porque solo un grupo que bota son los que
eligen a los comemierdas y a los ladrones para que dirijan el destino de
nosotros. Queda el día de hoy y mañana para cerrar las elecciones. En mi
opinión tenemos un gobierno que es una porquería. Tenemos la oportunidad de
poner personas mejores en el congreso y sacar a toda la metralla que tantos
problemas han causado apoyando al presidente africano. Salga de su
enquilosamiento moral, enajenante y político y bote, BOTE quitese la morrina y
el desencanto BOTE. Lázaro R González Miño. Nota: aquí debajo tienen la forma
que yo voy a botar (Muy conservadora) Usted hágalo, como le de la gana, pero
HAGALO!!!
Elecciónes
de Noviembre Mañana Martes 4 de Noviembre 2014
Yo
botare así:
Este mensaje estará aquí hasta el
día Martes 4 día de las elecciones.
1. Para gobernador y vicegobernador:
Rick Scott y Carlos López Cantera.
2. Para fiscal general: Pam
Bondi
3. Para Funcionario Principal de
Finanzas: Jeff Atwater
4. Para Comisionado de Agricultura:
Adam Putnam
5. Representante ante el Congreso,
Distrito 23: Joseph "Joe" Kaufman
6. Representante ante el Congreso,
Distrito 24: Carlos Curbelo.
7. Representante Estatal, Distrito
100: Martin a. "Marty" Feigenbaum
8. Representante Estatal, Distrito
103: Manny Díaz, Jr.
9. Representante Estatal, Distrito
105: Carlos Trujillo
10. Representante Estatal, Distrito 110:
Jose Oliva
11. Representante Estatal, Distrito 111:
Votar por uno
12. Representante Estatal, Distrito 112:
Daniel Díaz Leyva
13. Representante Estatal, Distrito 114:
Erik Fresen
14. Representante Estatal, Distrito 115:
Michael Bileca
15. Representante Estatal, Distrito 116:
Jose Felíx Díaz/Carmen Sotomayor
16. Representante Estatal, Distrito 118:
Frank Artiles
17. Representante Estatal, Distrito 119:
Jeanette M. Nuñez
18: Tasador de Inmuebles: Pedro J.
García
19. Enmienda #1-Water and Land Convervation-Conservación
de Aguas y Tierras: No.
20. Enmienda #2-Marihuana: No.
21. Enmienda #3-Nombramiento
Eventual para Ciertos Cargos Judiciales Vacantes: No.
22. Preguntas del Condado-Enmienda
para permitir bibliotecas en parques: No.
23. Preguntas del Condado-
Eximir al Parque Regional de Fútbol de Miami-Dade del Articulo 7:
No.
24. Preguntas del Condado-
Permitir terrenos para acampar y alojamientos/cabañas en el Parque de
Matecumbe: No.
25. Enmienda para eximir del
Articulo 7 la ampliación de la Universidad Internacional de la Florida en
los predios de la Fería de la Juventud: No.
26. Imponer otro impuesto a la
propiedad para cubrir el gasto de construir una Corte que reemplaze el edificio
del Cielito Lindo: No.
27. Juez del Condado, Grupo 19:
Frank Bocanegra
28. ¿Se deberian retener en sus
cargos los tres jueces del Tribunal de Apelaciones: Thomas Logue, Barbara
Lagoa, y Vance E. Salter? Si.
La decisión es suya. Compartan
cualquier información que piensen que es importante con sus familiares y
amigos. Pidanles que voten por cualquiera de los candidatos que ellos
merecen que se merecen su voto, pero que voten.
The
Press Is Souring On Obama
"The
Obama administration has been 'more dangerous to the press' than 'any
administration in American history.'"
The deteriorating relationship between the
mainstream media and President Obama was highlighted once again this past
weekend when USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page said that the Obama
administration has been “more dangerous to the press” than “any administration
in American history”:
“This administration has been more restrictive
and more challenging to the press, more dangerous to the press, really, than
any administration in American history, in terms of legal investigations…and I
think access to the White House has just gotten worse and worse.”
Page made her remarks at a White House
Correspondents Association seminar meant to help reporters deal with the lack
of transparency by the Obama administration. Her words echoed those of former
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, who said earlier this year that,
“It is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in
covering.” That’s in addition to Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer, who said,
“This administration exercises more control than George W. Bush’s did, and his
before that;” and more recently, New York Times reporter James Risen, who said,
“I think Obama hates the press.”
And they’re liberals!
Obama has no one to blame but himself for the
soured relations with the media. After all, not only did they fall all over
themselves to support his candidacy, they provided valuable cover for his
mismanagement of the economy and largely ignored the scandals that were
engulfing his administration. In return, the media received limited access,
threats of prosecution for not revealing sources, and demands to change pool
reports, to name a few things that have infuriated them.
Even though not everyone in the media has
soured on Obama, there has been enough backlash to ensure that his last
two-plus years in office won’t be the love affair it was when he was first
elected.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/press-souring-obama/#TAvykwR6uBMcy46A.99
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/press-souring-obama/#TAvykwR6uBMcy46A.99
Amenper:
The Democrats
need a candidate like a Democrat they used to have.
Henry "Scoop" Jackson
Sometimes we forget the times
when the Democratic Party was not the Socialist Democratic Party- party.
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat.
This year marks the 103th, anniversary of the birth of Henry M. “Scoop”
Jackson, one of the towering figures of American politics in the latter half of
the 20th century and the avatar of neo-conservatism. A Democrat representing
the state of Washington in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until his sudden death in
1983, he deserves to be recalled not only because he merits honor but also because
little of today’s politics would be comprehensible without understanding his 30
years in office.
Senator Henry M. Jackson, the
Washington Democrat who served in Congress for more than half of this century,
ran for President twice and he emerged as a leader of a strain of Democrats
committed to a strong national defense and skeptical of their party's impulses
in foreign affairs.
These Democrats, some of whom
called themselves neoconservatives, often regarded Mr. Jackson as the symbol of
the party's traditional center.
They supported him vigorously
when he campaigned for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976;
the Democrats need a candidate like a Democrat they used to have. He was Henry
"Scoop" Jackson and the Republicans need a candidate like a Democrat
they use to have. He was Ronald Reagan.
Jackson was the father of
neo-conservatism, a legacy that troubles some Democrats today. Richard Perle,
Douglas Feith and Paul Wolfowitz all worked for or with him. These Jackson
alumni planned and promoted the Iraq war during the Bush administration.
“Scoop” Jackson was a
traditional Democrat, that tradition began dying after the Johnson presidency,
as the party’s nomination of George McGovern in 1972 and Jimmy Carter in 1976
(and he would die again if could see the Barack Obama
administration)
Perhaps a better proof of what
would happen to Scoop Jackson today was the fate of Joseph Lieberman, the last
of the “Jackson Democrats,” who was his party’s nominee for vice president in
2000 but could not get renominated for his Senate seat in 2006.
In the 1970s and 1980s there
were many of Jackson Democrats and many references to the “Jackson wing” of the
party. The meaning was clear: Democrats who cared deeply about defense issues
and were hawks.
They believed in military
superiority for the United States, and supported big defense budgets.
More important, they believed
that American power was a great force for good in the world, which was not the
view taken by the “McGovern wing” of the party—whose heir Barack Obama seems to
be
He also was a leading advocate
of the antimissile missile, arguing that the Soviet Union was a ''dangerous,
unpredictable opponent.'' He held up approval of the first treaty on limiting
strategic arms, insisting that future treaties not limit the United States to
missile levels inferior to those of the Soviet Union.
He was perhaps the most
vociferous Democratic opponent of the second strategic arms pact.
Senator Jackson won perhaps
his greatest attention for his efforts in behalf of Israel and Soviet Jews.
"I wanted to work for
Scoop Jackson. He was the last Democrat who embodied the high tradition of
internationalism," said Charles Horner, a former aide who is now
a scholar at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C
He did not think sending a
small peacekeeping force was the right role for a superpower, he thought they
would be a target, and he worried what would happen if they were killed—exactly
what happened in 1983. The idea that Jackson was a mindless hawk, rather than a
careful proponent of American power, is and always was ridiculous. The year was
1980. The Iranian revolution had toppled the shah’s regime, the Soviet Union
had just invaded Afghanistan and the United States’ president, Jimmy Carter, was
widely perceived as a weak leader. But read this quote from
Jackson —“There is a need for the U.S. to make careful decisions, stand
by those decisions, and avoid sending false or conflicting signals”—and
what of course comes to mind is Obama and his Syria red line. There, Obama made
an off-the-cuff threat about what we would do if chemical weapons were used,
told allies we would move to enforce the threat, and then backed off at the
last minute. It’s exactly what Jackson was warning against. This is nonsense on
stilts. Jackson opposed the kind of policies that are central to this
administration, and would have been appalled by the massive cuts in the defense
budget, the imprudent (there’s that word again) rush to the exits in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the effort to engage American enemies without reinforcing American
power, and very clearly by the story of the Syrian red line. As to the current
Ukraine crisis, an old line of Scoop’s from the height of the Cold War comes to
mind: “the Russians are like a burglar going down a hotel corridor, trying all
the doors. When they find one that’s unlocked, they go in.” Jackson strongly
opposed the world view that calls for American weakness and withdrawal, and was
the leading opponent of the Nixon-Kissinger version of détente—in good part
because he thought weakness would invite aggression, which is just what Lindsey
Graham said.
Many former Jackson staff
members became
disillusioned with the Democratic Party during the Carter administration and
later supported President Reagan. As a group, they were known as the
"neoconservatives," or neocons.
When Reagan presented
Jackson's widow, Helen, with a posthumous Medal of Freedom in 1984, he
said: "I am deeply proud —
as he would have been — to have Jackson Democrats serve in my administration. I
am proud some of them have found a home here."
Years later, many of those
Jackson Democrats are credited with helping devise Bush's war on terrorism and
invasion of Iraq.
Perle and Jeanne Kirkpatrick,
former U.N. ambassador under Reagan, serve on the board of the Seattle-based
Jackson Foundation, which provides grants to nonprofits and educational
institutes.
Former House Speaker Tom
Foley, who also worked for Jackson, and longtime civic leader Jim Ellis are
also board members, as are Peter Jackson and his mother.
Charles Horner, and Douglas
Feith were former Democratic aides to Jackson who, disillusioned with the
Carter administration, supported Ronald Reagan and joined his administration in
1981, later becoming prominent foreign policy makers in the 21st-century Bush
administration. Neoconservative Ben Wattenberg was a prominent political aide
to Jackson's 1972 and 1976 presidential
In the post-9/11 world, Scoop
Jackson seems fresh again. And Democratic candidates would do well to speak his
language on national security
His legacy found expression
within the Reagan administration where a number of Jackson’s followers helped
shape policy. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who had been Scoop’s representative (along
with Ben J. Wattenberg) to the Democratic platform committee in 1976, became
Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations and the chief exponent of his
foreign-policy philosophy. Richard Perle became assistant secretary of defense,
formulating positions on armaments and arms control, while Elliott Abrams, who
had also worked in Scoop’s Senate office, became assistant secretary of state
and point man for Central America policy during the Reagan administration. A
number of other Democrats closely affiliated with Scoop—Max Kampelman, Paul
Nitze, Eugene V. Rostow, Richard Schifter, to name a few—also took on important
roles.
If neoconservatives made an
impact on Reagan’s administration, so did he on them. On the eve of Reagan’s
inauguration, most or all of these old liberals were still Democrats and still
liberals in the old sense, except that they had surrendered the label. But
under Reagan several things drew them closer to conservatism and the Republican
Party. One was the success of Reaganomics, which restored the U.S. economy to
strength with high growth and low inflation after Jimmy Carter had thrown up
his hands at the challenge. A second was the transformation of the labor
movement from a bastion of patriotism to a vehicle for leftism akin to European
labor unions; labor had once tied the neocons to the world of Keynesianism and
the Democratic Party, but no more. Above all was their appreciation of Reagan
himself, who steered America to victory in the Cold War and became the hero who
succeeded Jackson in their hearts. This did not lead to automatic acceptance of
all positions, but it did lead these old liberals to revisit conservative ideas
with fresh eyes.
Irving Kristol of the
conservative Weekly Standard used to be a Democrat. He and
other neoconservatives, bound together with horror to the ascendancy
of the “McGovern liberals” in the Democratic Party, and turn to conservative
senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson (D-WA) for leadership.-
What we have to understand, is
that what we see today, is not the Democratic Party, it is a socialist party
that has nothing to do with the traditional Democratic Party.
Amenper: La Codicia Sindical
La
proposición del aumento del salario mínimo y la conducta de los sindicatos, es
algo que puede perjudicar grandemente la economía de los Estados Unidos. No
importa lo que piense Hillary Clinton, las empresas son en generador que
mantiene funcionando la economía y los generadores de empleos.
No se
trata aunque parezca a simple vista algo como para proteger los intereses de
las compañías multinacionales, que lo están haciendo muy bien bajo Obama, pero
se trata de los empresarios medianos y pequeños en la economía doméstica. Son
los millones de pequeños empresarios los mayores empleadores de la nación.
En los
Estados Unidos de América, las empresas han perdido mucha de su ventaja
competitiva en el mercado mundial en gran parte debido a los sindicatos que
exigen indignantes salarios, beneficios y el poder y por los desbocados
impuestos corporativos..
Bajo esta administración, los sindicatos han ganado más y más poder, con el resultado de que las empresas no pueden competir con el resto del mundo. Los sindicatos tuvieron un propósito legítimo en los Estados Unidos en algún momento. Los dueños de negocios estaban poniendo a sus trabajadores en ambientes de trabajo peligrosos y pagándoles muy poco, pero ahora hay leyes federales asegurándose de que no pueden hacer eso ahora y no lo han hecho por muchos años por leyes aprobadas por administraciones Republicanas y Demócratas.
Bajo esta administración, los sindicatos han ganado más y más poder, con el resultado de que las empresas no pueden competir con el resto del mundo. Los sindicatos tuvieron un propósito legítimo en los Estados Unidos en algún momento. Los dueños de negocios estaban poniendo a sus trabajadores en ambientes de trabajo peligrosos y pagándoles muy poco, pero ahora hay leyes federales asegurándose de que no pueden hacer eso ahora y no lo han hecho por muchos años por leyes aprobadas por administraciones Republicanas y Demócratas.
Estas
leyes han hecho los sindicatos efectivamente inútiles y ahora esperan tomar
ventaja de las empresas que les han proporcionado una forma de vida para
conservar su poder político y para el beneficio económico personal de sus
dirigentes.
¿Así que
aún se necesitan los sindicatos en los Estados Unidos de América?
Con la
inestabilidad económica los sindicatos tratando de mantenerse
fuertes luchan contra las empresas de una manera que impiden la
reducción efectiva del desempleo.
Los
sindicatos representan a una muy pequeña minoría de los trabajadores de Estados
Unidos. Según los números, los sindicatos representan sólo el 12 por ciento de
la fuerza de trabajo. Los trabajadores estadounidenses están conscientes de que
no tienen ventajas perteneciendo a un sindicato y cada día menos trabajadores
quieren sindicalizarse.
Pero
todavía los negocios están teniendo a ceder a la demanda de los sindicatos,
incluso si no lo exigen los tiempos económicos. Los sindicatos del sector
público parecen tener más poder que el privado, y en esta administración los
sindicatos han adquirido un poder extremo por agendas políticas de la
administración de Obama.
Mientras que
los beneficios y los salarios del sector privado se han estancado
necesariamente durante la recesión, el gobierno continúa aumentando la
compensación para trabajadores del sector público.
Durante
el tiempo de mayor deuda del gobierno en la historia de la nación,
los sindicatos del sector público están logrando ordeñar al tesoro público con
aumento de salarios de los trabajos públicos.
Los
sindicatos no son necesarios para proteger a los trabajadores de las empresas,
y ya van contra la libertad económica de las empresas obligándolo a obedecer a
los sindicatos. El gobierno tiene leyes para hacer cumplir las condiciones
seguras de trabajo y un salario decente, no necesitan a los sindicatos.
Los
empresarios merecen ser capaz de administrar sus negocios. Las empresas también
tienen que empezar a competir con los precios de las empresas extrajeras que
tienen a nivel mundial una mano de obra barata.
Las
empresas de los Estados Unidos de América no sólo compiten contra otras
empresas estadounidenses multinacionales, pero con el resto del mundo. –No sólo
por los sindicatos pero por los impuestos corporativos que son los mayores del
mundo y aumentando bajo esta administración.
Si no lo
entienden, busque quien es el fabricante de su computadora, de su televisor, y
hasta la ropa interior que están usando.
Con
personas alrededor del mundo que están contentos con un salario mucho menor que
el salario mínimo estadounidense, y los sindicatos exigiendo de altos salarios
y beneficios de los trabajadores se hace cada vez menos atractivo para las
empresas trabajar en Estados Unidos y menos atractivo el invertir en Estados
Unidos.
Una
empresa puede enviar las operaciones al extranjero, automatizarse, reducir su
nómina para poder tratar de vender un producto que pueda competir con el
extranjero.
Pero las
compañías multinacionales con sus fábricas en el extranjero, están
beneficiándose de esta política del gobierno. Lo que vemos es la
hipocresía de los liberales del gobierno como John Kerry y Nancy Pelosi, que
tienen intereses en empresas con fábricas en el extranjero y se llenan la boca
para llamarse defensores de los trabajadores.
Los
sindicatos de ahora sólo están perjudicando la posibilidad de los trabajadores
para competir contra otros de todo el mundo.
Los
sindicatos una vez tenían un objetivo, pero ya ha pasado su utilidad y ha
convertido incluso en algo que daña a este país. Los sindicatos
obligan a la gente en unirse, pagando las cuotas sindicales, y cuando piensan
que es conveniente para ganar poder, obliga a la gente a ir a la huelga, que
muchas veces fuerza a cerrar a centros de trabajo.
Las
empresas tienen que ser capaces de ofrecer productos de calidad a precios
bajos, pero cuando tienes que pagar por todas las demandas sindicales y los
impuestos corporativos, se convierte en un trabajo muy duro.
Amenper:
ATRASANDO EL RELOJ
Daylight Saving Time terminó hoy, 2 de noviembre a las 2:00, ¿o debo decir
a la 1:00? Porque lo que esto significa es que tuvimos que atrasar
los relojes una hora y conseguimos una hora extra de sueño.
Pero no todos estaban durmiendo, si había una pareja haciendo el amor
a la 1:55 AM terminaron a la 12:55 así que no han hicieron nada, nada
sucedió, esa hora no existió, no son culpables si estaban cometiendo
adulterio.
Esto es a lo que se nos estaba tratando de decir Bill
Clinton con respecto a su relación con Mónica Lewinsky, cuando dijo que lo
escucháramos bien, que él nunca había tenido relaciones sexuales con esa mujer.
Pero la gente no lo creyó, es que los republicanos no quieren entender
la resbalosa honestidad del pobre Willy.
Lo mismo pasa si padecemos de estreñimiento, aunque el laxante te haga
efecto a la 1:55 cuando termines a las 12:55 todavía tienes el episodio de
estreñimiento, porque no hiciste nada
Pero ¿se han dado cuenta? Somos una hora más joven, porque no vivimos por
una hora de 1 a 2 AM.
Por eso me siento más descansado cuando me levanté por la mañana.
Quizás esto que digo arriba en broma, hace evidente la tontería satírica
del humor negro.
Pero la justificación del cambio de tiempo diciendo que es para ahorrar
energía, es la evidencia de las tonterías de la corrección política, una
tontería que parece humor negro, un racista pudiera pensar que la persona que
se le ocurrió esa justificación era un negro.
Uno no apaga o enciende las luces por el reloj, pero por la claridad o por
la oscuridad.
Claro que es conveniente el cambio de hora, porque oscurece más temprano y
la noche es más evidente, pero no por el ahorro de electricidad por el reloj,
aunque no se cambiara el reloj se ahorraría lo mismo.
La hora y el tiempo está más allá de nuestro control, y el reloj de la vida
sigue avanzando sin importar cómo llevamos nuestras vidas aunque atrasemos o
adelantemos nuestros relojes.
Lo único que podemos hacer es maximizar el tiempo que tenemos y sobre todo
de aprender del tiempo que hemos vivido.
Se aprende a vivir por la historia que estudiamos y la historia que hemos
vivido personalmente.
La historia no es todo, pero es un punto de partida. La historia es un
reloj que usa la gente usa durante su tiempo político y cultural de los
momentos que viven y que sirven de experiencia para ellos y para los que
después estudian sus decisiones durante su vida en la historia..
Es una brújula que usan para encontrarse en el mapa de geografía humana,
que les dice dónde están pero, más importante aún, lo que deben ser y hacer, de
acuerdo con lo que el reloj de la historia les ha enseñado.
No podemos retrasar el reloj ni podemos corregir el daño ocurrido, pero
nosotros tenemos el poder para determinar el futuro y para asegurar que lo que
no pasó nunca pasa otra vez.
Por desgracias el ser humano no parece entender esto, por eso nos han
atrasado el reloj de la historia y nos están tratando de llevar a la hora
pasada con el fracasado sistema comunista
Amenper: ATRASANDO EL RELOJ
Daylight
Saving Time terminó hoy, 2 de noviembre a las 2:00, ¿o debo decir a la
1:00? Porque lo que esto significa es que tuvimos que atrasar los
relojes una hora y conseguimos una hora extra de sueño.
Pero
no todos estaban durmiendo, si había una pareja haciendo el amor a la 1:55 AM
terminaron a la 12:55 así que no han hicieron nada, nada sucedió, esa hora
no existió, no son culpables si estaban cometiendo adulterio.
Esto
es a lo que se nos estaba tratando de decir Bill Clinton con
respecto a su relación con Mónica Lewinsky, cuando dijo que lo escucháramos
bien, que él nunca había tenido relaciones sexuales con esa mujer.
Pero la
gente no lo creyó, es que los republicanos no quieren entender la
resbalosa honestidad del pobre Willy.
Lo mismo
pasa si padecemos de estreñimiento, aunque el laxante te haga efecto a la
1:55 cuando termines a las 12:55 todavía tienes el episodio de estreñimiento,
porque no hiciste nada
Pero ¿se
han dado cuenta? Somos una hora más joven, porque no vivimos por una hora de 1
a 2 AM.
Por eso
me siento más descansado cuando me levanté por la mañana.
Quizás
esto que digo arriba en broma, hace evidente la tontería satírica del humor
negro.
Pero la
justificación del cambio de tiempo diciendo que es para ahorrar energía, es la
evidencia de las tonterías de la corrección política, una tontería que parece
humor negro, un racista pudiera pensar que la persona que se le ocurrió esa
justificación era un negro.
Uno no
apaga o enciende las luces por el reloj, pero por la claridad o por la
oscuridad.
Claro que
es conveniente el cambio de hora, porque oscurece más temprano y la noche es
más evidente, pero no por el ahorro de electricidad por el reloj, aunque no se
cambiara el reloj se ahorraría lo mismo.
La hora y
el tiempo está más allá de nuestro control, y el reloj de la vida sigue
avanzando sin importar cómo llevamos nuestras vidas aunque atrasemos o
adelantemos nuestros relojes.
Lo único
que podemos hacer es maximizar el tiempo que tenemos y sobre todo de aprender
del tiempo que hemos vivido.
Se
aprende a vivir por la historia que estudiamos y la historia que hemos vivido
personalmente.
La
historia no es todo, pero es un punto de partida. La historia es un reloj que
usa la gente usa durante su tiempo político y cultural de los momentos que
viven y que sirven de experiencia para ellos y para los que después estudian
sus decisiones durante su vida en la historia..
Es una
brújula que usan para encontrarse en el mapa de geografía humana, que les dice
dónde están pero, más importante aún, lo que deben ser y hacer, de acuerdo con
lo que el reloj de la historia les ha enseñado.
No
podemos retrasar el reloj ni podemos corregir el daño ocurrido, pero nosotros
tenemos el poder para determinar el futuro y para asegurar que lo que no pasó
nunca pasa otra vez.
Por
desgracias el ser humano no parece entender esto, por eso nos han atrasado el
reloj de la historia y nos están tratando de llevar a la hora pasada con el
fracasado sistema comunista
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Six
Islamist activist in the White House and one coming.
Look who's new in the white house!
Arif
Alikhan -
Assistant Secretary for Policy Development
for the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security
Mohammed
Elibiary -
Homeland Security Adviser
Rashad
Hussain -
Special Envoy to the
Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC)
Salam
al-Marayati -
Obama Adviser and
founder of the Muslim Public Affairs
Council
and is its current executive director
Imam
Mohamed Magid -
Obama's Sharia Czar from
the Islamic Society of North America
Eboo Patel - Advisory Council on Faith-Based
Neighborhood Partnerships
Abu Bak al-Baghdadi- Advisory Council of the Unites
States Armed
forces .
(well the last person mentioned is just
a product of my
imagination, but you never know,
it could be possible
one day. Abu Bak al-Baghdadi
is the Commander in Chief of ISIS,
and it looks like he is
already advising Obama)
This is flat-out
scary!!! The foxes are now officially living in
the
hen house...
Now ask me why I am very concerned!!!
Do you feel OK with this???
How can this happen, and when will we wake
up???
We are quiet while our Country is being
drastically changed!!!
We’ve got to have some relief starting
with the 2014 Elections!
PLEASE PRAY FOR AMERICA AND THE PEOPLE.
Remember: IT'S NOT WHAT WE GATHER
IN LIFE BUT WHAT
WE SCATTER
Breaking: Judge In Mexico Has Ruled Sgt. Tahmooressi To
Be Released Immediately
The Mexican judge has decided to set him
free without issuing any determination regarding the firearms charge being
pursued by authorities.
According
to recent reports,
a judge in Mexico has ruled that jailed U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi
will be released immediately after spending most of this year behind bars in
that country.
The
26-year-old, who was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder before his
arrest in March, has sparked widespread support among Americans demanding his
release. Veteran and venerable talk show host Montel Williams has been a vocal
critic of his treatment by Mexican authorities, claiming he has had no access
to proper treatment for his disorder.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-sgt-tahmooressi-released-immediately/#4EIKYksh11TmGTP0.99
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-sgt-tahmooressi-released-immediately/#4EIKYksh11TmGTP0.99
Why Romney Calls Obama’s
Plan for Illegal Immigrants ‘Shameful’
Mitt Romney had some harsh words about
what he called President Obama’s plan to “unilaterally” grant amnesty to illegal immigrants after next
week’s midterm elections.
“[It
is] is a very shameful thing,” the 2012 Republican presidential nominee said
yesterday in an interview with MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow. “It’s very clear that what
he wants to do he knows will be very unpopular, and so he won’t tell the people
until after the election. That is really a very cynical thing and
inappropriate.”
While
campaigning in Arizona near the Mexico border, the former Massachusetts
governor also criticized the president’s lack of leadership in the Ebola
crisis. “Mr. President, you’re in charge,” Romney said. “[T]his is the
responsibility of leadership.”
ANOTHER BEHEADING: 21-Yr Old Beheaded
In Oklahoma
Police are saying there is not
connection to Islam or terrorism…let’s wait and see. Check this out…
Jacob Crockett was 19-years old, but will never see
another birthday. He was gruesomely beheaded by a 21-year old acquaintance,
Isaiah Marin in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Police are currently saying there is no
connection of this beheading to terrorism or any specific religious group, but
rather that Marin was a heavy drug user who fantasized about killing a number
of people, including his victim, Crockett.
Marin actually stopped the beheading just before fully
completing the act, called police and told them that he killed someone. Police
found him running in bloody clothes along the road holding the large knife that
he used to commit the crime.
The End of the Age of Obama
We
can only hope this is also the end of liberalism.
Check it out:
Check it out:
The end of the Age of Obama. It began with high hopes on a winter’s night
in Iowa in 2008 and ended in disappointment on a crisp fall day nearly seven
years later.
Sure, the president has another two years in office, but he is now
the lamest of lame ducks. He is soon to face a House majority that is one of
the most Republican since the 1920s, and a Senate, we hope, about to be taken
over by a Republican majority. But more than this, he seems to have no friends,
and few allies, on Capitol Hill.
One fact of politics that the
president never fully grasped is that Congress, not the White House, is the
center of our political system. Sure, the president lives in a fancy house,
enjoys a full-time chef, and has “Hail to the Chief” played when he enters a
room. But Congress is—as Stanford’s Morris Fiorina once put it—“the keystone of
the Washington establishment.” The Framers gave pride of place to Congress,
making it Article I of the Constitution, and were so worried about its
potential power they divided it into two. Ideally, the modern president can use
his prestige and acumen to lead Congress, but Obama has fallen far from that
ideal. He has treated Congress in a supercilious manner, burned his bridges
with Republican leaders, and alienated even Democrats.
Read more at http://patriotupdate.com/2014/10/end-age-obama/
Read more at http://patriotupdate.com/2014/10/end-age-obama/
The True Reason Gas Prices
are Falling (Hint: It’s Not Because of Green Energy)
Stephen
Moore, who formerly wrote on the economy and public policy for The Wall Street
Journal, is chief economist at The Heritage Foundation.Read his research.
American
workers and motorists got some badly-needed relief this week when the price of
oil plunged to its lowest level in years. The oil price has fallen by about 25
percent since its peak back in June of $105 a barrel. This is translating
to lower prices at the pump with many states now below $3 a gallon.
At
present levels, these lower oil and gas prices are the equivalent of a $200
billion cost saving to American consumers and businesses. That’s $200 billion a
year we don’t have to send to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other foreign nations.
Now that’s an economic stimulus par excellence.
There
are many global reasons why gas prices are falling, but the major one isn’t
being widely reported. America has become in the last several years an
energy-producing powerhouse. And sorry, Mr. President, I’m not talking
about the niche “green energy” sources you are so weirdly fixated with.
Oil
prices are falling because of changes in world supply and world demand. Demand
has slowed because Europe is an economic wreck. But since 2008 the U.S. has
increased our domestic supply by a gigantic 50 percent. This is a result of the
astounding shale oil and gas revolution made possible by made-in-America
technologies like hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling. Already
thanks to these inventions, the U.S. has become the number one producer of
natural gas. But oil production in states like Oklahoma, Texas and North Dakota
has doubled in just six years.
Without
this energy blitz, the U.S. economy would barely have recovered from the
recession of 2008-09. From the beginning of 2008 through the end of 2013 the
oil and gas extraction industry created more than 100,000 jobs while the
overall job market shrank by 970,000.
When
the radical greens carry around signs saying “No to Fracking,” they couldn’t be
promoting a more anti-America message. It would be like Nebraska not growing
corn.
We
are just skimming the surface of our super-abundant oil and gas resources.
New fields have been discovered in Texas and North Dakota that could
contain hundreds of years of shale oil and gas supplies.
Here’s
another reason to love the oil and gas bonanza in America. It’s breaking
the back of OPEC. Saudi Arabia is deluging the world with oil
right now, which is driving the world price relentlessly lower. The Arabs
understand–as too few in Washington do–that shale energy boom is no short term
fad. It could make energy cheaper for decades to come. As American
drillers get better at perfecting the technologies of cracking through shale
rock to get to the near infinite treasure chest supplies of energy locked
inside, we will soon overtake Saudi Arabia as the dominant player in world
energy markets.
You
can’t have a cartel if the world’s largest producer–America–isn’t a member.
OPEC will never again be able to create the level of economic turmoil that the
Arab members of OPECs engineered in the 1970s with their oil embargo. And by
the way: lower oil prices place increased pressure on Iran’s mullahs to abandon
their nuclear program and curb Putin’s capabilities to engage in East Europe
aggression.
Yet
the political class still doesn’t get it. As recently as 2012 President Obama
declared that “the problem is we use more than 20 percent of the world’s
oil and we only have 2 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves.” Then
he continued with his Malthusian nonsense, “Even if we drilled every
square inch of this country right now, we’d still have to rely
disproportionately on other countries for their oil.” Apparently, neither he
nor his fact checkers have ever been to Texas or North Dakota. And we
don’t have 2 percent of the world’s oil. Including estimates of onshore and
offshore resources not yet officially “discovered”, we have ten times more than
the stat quoted by the president–resources sufficient to supply hundreds of
years of oil and gas.
America,
in sum, has been richly endowed with a nearly invincible 21st century economic
and national security weapon to keep us safe and prosperous. The plunge is gas
prices is just one visible sign of this supply explosion. Think of how
much bigger this revolution could be if we started building pipelines,
repealed the ban on oil exports, expanded drilling on public lands,
and stopped trying to punitively tax and regulate the oil and gas.
For
much of the last forty years, oil’s periodic price spikes have remained a
constant threat to growth. Higher consumer energy costs as well as increased
industrial production costs weighted on the economy. Now oil is one of the
primary accelerators; the new big drag on the economy is politicians who
despise the carbon-based industry.
A version of this article
originally appeared on FoxNews.com
The version above replaces an
earlier version of this article originally published on The
Daily Signal. Some of the numbers have been changed.
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Not new but
increasingly more import to circulate.
Think clearly about
this, if they view themselves as ELITE (from us) as they have proven with their
separate medical and retirement programs, then why not other programs.
This is what Mark
Levine has been talking about--a Constitutional convention by the States to get
back to the laws of the Constitution.
This will take less
than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, nothing to sign; just pass it on.
This is an idea that we should address.
35 STATES SO FAR.....IT'S
GROWING!
One message to forward!
Governors of 35 states
have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens
upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional
Convention.
For too long we have
been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Their latest stunt is to
exempt themselves in all of its forms from the Healthcare Reform that they
passed. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite
ruling class that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are
Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
If each person that
receives this will forward it on to 15 people, in three days, most people in
The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that
really should be passed around.
Proposed 28th Amendment
to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that
applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the
Senators, President of the United States, their employees, Representatives of
Congress; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or
Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United
States."
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FOUR THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MARIJUANA BEFORE VOTING
October 29, 2014 by Dr. Juan
Torres
On November 4 Floridians go
to the polls to decide whether or not marijuana should be legally marketed for
“Medical Use”.
Depending on our personal
opinion, knowledge and political vision much has been written in recent months
about this subject.
In this article, I will
mention four things that every citizen should know before voting YES or NO on
the amendment number two.
1. MEDICAL MARIJUANA
Cannabis or marijuana has
been used in medical practice in the US for many years. It is important to
emphasize this point; the use of medical marijuana is not prohibited in the
United States.
The Food and Drug
Administration approved the drug in the 80s as an appetite stimulant and
antiemetic patients with cancer, HIV related Wasting Syndrome and other chronic
debilitating diseases. Some doctors have also used marijuana as an analgesic in
certain conditions associated with severe or chronic pain.
The brand names of medical
marijuana in the United States are Marinol y and Cesamet. These are synthetic
forms of cannabis and classified in the medical literature as type C drugs
according to the FDA. (The risk for the fetus cannot be ruled out. Either
studies in animals have revealed adverse effects on the fetus or studies in
animals and women are not available)
Patients who overdose on
Marinol or Cesamet develop symptoms similar to marijuana-intoxicated
individuals. Depending on the dose, these patients may have decreased motor
coordination, altered mental status, hypotension, tachycardia and seizures.
2. SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL
AND MEDICAL PROBLEMS
Marijuana use is associated
with many social, medical and psychological problems. These problems are widely
recognized in the literature but unfortunately ignored or denied by the
proponents of the second amendment.
Among the major social
complications associated with marijuana use are poor academic performance,
premature withdrawals from school, illicit use of other drugs, interpersonal
and family problems, unemployment and crime.
The smoke from marijuana
contains carcinogens and cigarette smoke-like particles. Its use is also
associated with respiratory diseases such as pharyngitis, bronchitis and
exacerbation of chronic lung diseases such as asthma and cystic fibrosis.
Other studies indicate that
smoking marijuana may increase the risk of cardiovascular problems. This risk
is caused by increased levels of catecholamines and cardiac work associated
with drug use. This is a concern in older people and patients with a variety of
cardiovascular illnesses.
There is significant
evidence in the literature that the use of marijuana causes psychosis.
(Schizophrenia-like Problems). This appears to be the result of a neurochemical
component called dopamine. Due to this complication, the drug is
contraindicated in patients with schizophrenia.
In addition, because of
potential drug interactions the public should be warned about the possibility
of undesirable side effects, especially in patients with certain neurological,
psychiatric, cardiovascular conditions or those under certain treatment
regimens
We should also keep in mind
that marijuana use is responsible for more than 400,000 visits to emergency
departments in the United States due to psychosis and panic attacks.
3. AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS AND
FATALITIES
Several studies have shown
the dangers of driving under the influence of marijuana. An analysis of nine
studies found that marijuana use is associated with an increased risk of
traffic accidents and fatalities.
According to the
investigators, the drug can cause a false perception of the sense of distance
and drivers can follow vehicles too closely increasing the risk of automobile
accidents. The findings of this study were published in the British Medical
Journal.
A study by the University
of Colorado recently revealed that fatalities due to marijuana use increased
significantly after the commercial use of the drug was approved in that state
in 2009.
The percentage of fatal
accidents due to marijuana use increased from 4.5 percent in 1994 to 10% in
2011. The study also showed that fatalities in Colorado were much higher
compared to states where commercial marijuana is not approved.
A more alarming study from Columbia
University reported that the number of fatalities related to marijuana has
recently tripled. In this study, researchers collected information on more than
25,000 drivers who died between 1999 and 2010 in six states: California,
Hawaii, Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and West Virginia.
The study reported that the
risk of a fatal accident to a driver under the influence of alcohol is 13 times
higher compared to a sober driver. But if the driver was under the influence of
alcohol and marijuana at the same time, the risk increased to 23 times higher
compare to a sober driver.
4. WHAT HAPPENED IN
COLORADO
The state of Colorado
legalized the use of marijuana for medical use in 2009 and for recreational use
in 2012. The changes that Colorado experienced in recent years are the best
example of the negative effects of the law.
I will mention some of
these changes:
* 26% increase in marijuana
use in youth (ages 12 to 17 years)
* A survey of 100 Colorado
school resources officers (SROs) revealed that the most common violation on
campus is possession followed by being under the influence
* 32% increase in
suspensions and expulsions from schools due to drug use.
* 48% of adults arrested in
Colorado tested positive for marijuana.
* Most arrests for driving
under the influence of drugs are related to marijuana use.
* Given the high taxation
and cost, legalization of marihuana did not stop the black market. (Only 60 %
of people who consume marihuana buy it through legal channels).
* Increase of 82% in the
number of hospitalizations due to marijuana use.
* In 2013 up to 40 states
received marijuana from Colorado, an increase of 397% compared to previous
years.
* 18% increase in crimes
against individuals and 8% increase in crimes against property.
It is noteworthy that the
negative impact of consumption and the sale of marijuana in Colorado occurred
massively despite the limitations provided by the law.
For detailed information on
the impact of marijuana in Colorado, you can review the report of the “Rocky
Mountain High Intensity Drug Area Trafficking” published on August 2, 2014.
Conclusions: If medical
marijuana is available in the US why do we need to pass amendment number two?.
Reports from Colorado and Washington State are conclusive. The sale of marijuana has a negative and
harmful impact on the social, educational, medical and economic spheres.
The report of the “Rocky
Mountain High Intensity Drug Area Trafficking” in Colorado should be an example
for states that want to legalize the use of marijuana and a message to the
proponents of the amendment number two.
Unfortunately, politicians
like Charlie Crist ignore the facts, statistics and related damage to
consumption and marketing of marijuana. No policy that ensures the safety of
our citizens should encourage or support the use of drugs through
constitutional amendments.
Amendment number two is a
law against citizens, families and the state of Florida.
On November 4 vote in favor
of FLORIDA and against amendment number two.
More information related to
this topic can be found in this article published by the Heritage Foundation:
Jorge Alberto
Villalón Y.
Otra perspectiva sobre el soborno. Una mirada excesivamente moralina suele
aparecer cuando de sobornos se trata. Los
que alzan la voz, las más de las veces con una enorme hipocresía, despotrican
contra las prácticas corruptas e intentan explicar el fenómeno desde lo
estrictamente ético.
Una reciente encuesta
realizada entre hombres de negocios en un tradicional foro empresario, confirmó
que poco menos de la mitad de los consultados manifestó que no sería censurable
un acto de esta naturaleza.
Si bien el muestreo contempla matices en esa mitad de los entrevistados entre
los que dicen que esa sería una situación aceptable solo en casos extremos y
los que afirman que nunca sería un acto condenable, lo que preocupa finalmente
no es esa porción, sino la elevada cuota de falsedad de la otra, esa que se
espanta frente a esta realidad, ocultándose, negándolo y hasta repudiando
conductas habituales propias en lo cotidiano.
La corrupción, en cualquiera de sus grados, tiene un origen concreto y su
resolución no pasa ni por aterrarse, ni por negar su existencia. Una de las claves del asunto tiene que ver con que
la sociedad toda, frente a situaciones como estas, se coloca, con absoluta
ausencia de autocrítica, en una posición repleta de incongruencias y cargada de
prejuicios.
Son muchos los ciudadanos que
defienden la vigencia de aquella creencia que dice que para que exista un
cohecho se requieren dos actores, el que cobra y el que paga. Esa visión pretende, intencionadamente, quitarle
responsabilidad al funcionario que solicita el pago de dinero a cambio de un
favor. Lo plantean como si fuera una cuestión menor e intrascendente.
Con inusitada virulencia se
inculpa con fuerza a quien está dispuesto a pagar a cambio de un beneficio
irregularmente otorgado. Es solo en
ese caso en el que se califica al protagonista como una persona corrupta. Para
esa caricaturesca descripción, ese privado, ese particular es alguien que
incita al ingenuo y desprevenido funcionario estatal a cometer un delito en el
que no desearía incurrir, pero que dadas las circunstancias no tiene otra
salida más que aceptar de mala gana y con culpa semejante despropósito.
Lo habitual es que este tipo
de razonamientos surja de gente que reivindica, desde la derecha autoritaria a
la izquierda socialista, el protagónico rol del Estado como contralor de la
vida ciudadana, despreciando el papel de los individuos y el empresariado
genuino en el desarrollo. Se trata de
personas que atacan ideológicamente al capitalismo y descreen de sus bondades.
Es frecuente que quienes
critican en los demás estas conductas sean los mismos que en su vida cotidiana,
evaden impuestos, utilizan tecnología sin pagar licencias, fotocopian
literatura y contratan servicios de personas sin registrarlas. Son los cultores de la doble moral de este tiempo.
La corrupción forma parte de
la realidad y está presente de diversas formas en la vida terrenal. En el mundo empresario, como en todas las
actividades, se puede encontrar a aquellos que disponen de un comportamiento
ético, progresan asumiendo riesgos y compiten en el mercado ofreciendo talento.
Pero no menos cierto es que
otra importante cantidad de personas viven a la luz de negocios espurios, de
prebendas estatales, de privilegios otorgados desde las sombras del poder. Obviamente esos individuos obtienen sus ingresos
gracias a la influencia circunstancial de empleados que trabajan para la
sociedad desde el Estado y que con atribuciones desmedidas más una absoluta
discrecionalidad, deciden los destinos de esos fondos.
Es peligroso generalizar, pero
más hipócrita es hacerse el distraído y hacer creer a los demás que la
corrupción incluye a unos pocos cuando la realidad muestra a diario exactamente
lo contrario. En todo caso, la tarea consiste en entender lo que
sucede y asumir las verdaderas implicancias de defender ciertas ideas. Un
Estado grande en el que los funcionarios tienen atribuciones inmensas gracias a
regulaciones impulsadas inocentemente por personas que creen en las
benevolencia de sistemas intervencionistas, solo genera más corrupción y de eso
también hay que hacerse cargo.
Cuando alguien
"puede" pagar por un favor a un funcionario, es porque previamente
alguien creó un texto legal que lo habilita. Nadie abona dinero extra por algo que no resulta necesario. Cuando el
Estado exige requisitos, allí nacen los sobornos. Sin regulaciones,
simplemente, eso no sería posible.
Son los votantes y sus ideas
políticas, los que han generado esta dinámica interminable de múltiples
controles e infinitas regulaciones. Son
esas normas, esa excesiva burocracia estatal, la que multiplica los hechos de
corrupción. Allí está la causa y no en la falsa moral que se pretende de los
demás cuando en la vida propia se hace algo demasiado parecido.
No se resuelve nada con retórica y voluntarismo moral. El problema no es que la
mitad de los empresarios reconozcan que están dispuestos a cometer cohecho,
sino que la otra mitad no asuma que también lo hace. La solución pasa por
comprender lo que ocurre, eliminar la inmoral burocracia, los excesos
regulatorios y terminar con la cultura de pretender controlarlo todo.
Sin esa acción decidida todo
seguirá igual y los políticos continuarán creando normativas, porque ellos sí
saben como se consiguen recursos adicionales con esa modalidad. Por eso estimulan estas ideas, para poder crear
reglas que les permitan utilizarlas para su provecho personal.
Para que un inconveniente no
encuentre solución precisa de un diagnóstico equivocado. Si la evaluación de la situación es errónea, las chances
concretas de resolverlas son nulas. Es por eso que no hay que cometer el
infantil error de quedarse con la mirada simplista de observar las
consecuencias de los hechos, sino en todo caso, si se está disconforme con el
presente, comprender como funciona todo y actuar sobre las verdaderas causas
que lo originan. Solo así se puede cambiar la historia. El resto es solo una
versión más del cinismo contemporáneo.
Alberto Medina Méndez
albertomedinamendez@gmail.com
“FREEDOM IS NOT FREE”
“En mi opinión”
No 783
“En
mi opinión” Noviembre 3, 2014
“IN GOD WE TRUST” Lázaro R González Miño EDITOR
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