No
1109 “En mi opinión” Diciembre 15, 2015
“IN GOD WE TRUST”
Lázaro R Gonzalez Miño Editor
Lázaro R González Miño para Alcalde
de Miami Dade
“FELIZ NAVIDAD A TODOS NUESTROS
AMIGOS”
AMENPER: Noticias de
Venezuela
A
raíz de la histórica derrota electoral, los Chavistas culpan a su fracaso para
lograr presentar su imagen como la razón que el pueblo de Venezuela votó
abrumadoramente contra socialismo.
"Nuestro
regular mensaje de miedo y la intimidación no estuvo presente lo
suficiente," dijo el Presidente Maduro. "Aquel mensaje que nos dió la
victoria...."Hola, Hola. ¿Puedes oírme? Si no votas Chavista te
disparamos.
No
logramos llevar al pueblo este mensaje y perdimos”.
"Pensábamos
que teníamos la gente bien agarrados por los testículos y aflojamos el apretón"
explicó Maduro a un reportero. "El socialismo es un sistema donde hay que
tener a todo el mundo agarrado por los testículos sin aflojar.
“Vivienda,
comida, trabajo, dinero – todo tiene que venir del gobierno. Si no se dejan
apretar los testículos, tu vida no vale la pena. Todo el mundo nos
tiene que tener miedo."
"Dejaron
de tener temor a nosotros, al parecer, porque no pudimos conseguir nuestro
mensaje de temor e intimidación con eficacia.
Creímos
que al cubrir todas las paredes en Caracas con fotos mías como el gran hermano
orwelliano era suficiente, pero no lo fue.
Dejaron
de tenerme miedo, porque las fotos eran muy agradables y amorosas.
Algunos
dicen que las masas finalmente no tenían nada que perder sino sus cadenas.
Pero
creo que el problema de los retratos fue la razón, los retratos no
eran lo suficientemente aterradores.
Como
una medida de respuesta rápida, cesanteamos esos artistas y los pusimos en la
cárcel por sabotaje, y contratamos artistas cubanos que puedan expresar mejor
nuestra filosofía política, y ganaremos las próximas
elecciones.
"Hemos
aprendido una cosa de esta elección: socialismo y Chavismo para ganar tenemos
que trabajar más duro en aterrorizar a las masas," dijo el Presidente
Maduro. “No más ser buena gente ya estamos cambiando los mensajes que nos
llevará a la victoria. Cómo dice el compañero Raúl, hay que darle más duro y a
la cabeza. Hasta la victoria siempre, patria o muerte
venceremos.
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AMENPER: Hablando de
maníacos
Algunos
me preguntan por qué no votaría por Donald Trump.
Primero
por que no me gustaría que Trump tuviera la oportunidad de establecer una
dictadura disolviendo las instituciones, porque sabe más que los militares y no
admitiría la democracia representativa de las cámara legislativas y el poder
judicial y fuera capaz de empezar una guerra nuclear. Después porque en
estas primarias y mirando a la vida pública de Donald Trump, lo que
he notado es que la filosofía de Donald Trump se basa simplemente en lo que
conviene a Donald Trump.
No
votaría por Donald Trump por las mismas razones que el atribuye a Ted Cruz,
igual que Trump pienso que una persona maniaca con un temperamento que no se
lleva con nadie que no esté de acuerdo con él, no es posible que sea el
presidente, no está calificado para ser presdidente de los Estados Unidos.
Donald
Trump ha creado unos seguidores que están en contra del establecimiento
político, republicano y demócrata con mucho éxito, aprovechando el disgusto de
los que se sienten traicionados por los políticos tradiconales.
Pero
vemos sus comentarios en Fox News el domingo y fue parte del argumento de
Donald el que él se lleva bien con gente mejor que Cruz. Dijo que Cruz no está
"calificado" para ser el Presidente porque él no "tiene el
temperamento adecuado".
"Nos
fijamos en la manera en que trató al Senado, donde él va allí, francamente como
un maníaco. Nunca vas a hacer las cosas de esa manera. […] No puede
caminar en el Senado y gritar y llamar mentirosos a la gente y no ser
capaz de persuadir y llevarse con personas. Él nunca conseguirá nada. Y ese es
el problema con Ted.”
Tal
parece que estaba haciendo una descripción de él mismo.
Pero
precisamente los seguidores de Trump lo que quieren es una persona que sean una
voz de rebelión de los conservadores contra no sólo el establecimiento de
Demócrata, pero el republicano. Y esto es lo que ha hecho Ted Cruz poniendo
en riesgo de su carrera política.
Pero
esto no debiera ser nada que asombre a alguien que ha seguido la vida de Trump
y su campaña.
No
sólo no ha Trump nunca tomado una postura conservadora en nada, salvo que fuera
durante un discurso en beneficio de sí mismo. Y ahora para tratar de logar un
beneficio personal, ataca a alguien que tiene el apoyo
conservador por su ideología y su conducta conservadora como un
"maníaco".
Vamos
a ver claramente lo que dijo : Donald Trump acusa a Ted Cruz de ser un
"loco" porque él no juega bien con el establecimiento y los
demócratas.
Y
hay que repetirlo para los que todavía apoyan a Trump. Donald
Trump acusa a Ted Cruz de ser un "loco" porque él no juega bien con
el establecimiento y los demócratas.
Será
interesante ver a esos dos en el debate de mañana, no voy a poder verlo en vivo
porque tengo un compromiso, pero lo voy a grabar porque no quiero perderme los
detalles.
Creo
que la palabra “maniaco” saldrá en el debate, y creo que
objetivamente hay un maníaco en la campaña y no es precisamente Ted Cruz.
Conociendo
a Trump y viendo el camino por el que va, también el que Ted Cruz sea hijo de
cubano y nacido en Canadá, la elegibilidad de Cruz y su “hispanidad” saldrá
entre los ataque de Trump, tarde o temprano, y quizás salga en el debate.
Lo triste en que cómo en otras oportunidades le beneficie en vez de
perjudicarlo.
Los
candidatos finales debieran ser Marco Rubio y Ted Cruz, tienen diferencias y me
gusta mejor las posiciones de Rubio que la de Cruz, pero sin lugar a dudas no
dudaría en darle el voto al que estuviera en mejor posición en las primarias
para derrotar a Trump. Y sin lugar a dudas no dudaría en darle el
voto a cualquiera de los aspirantes republicanos menos Trump en las elecciones
contra Hillary Clinton.
Bloomberg Poll: Cruz Takes Big Lead Over Trump In Iowa
Republican presidential candidate
Ted Cruz has surged ahead to become the latest front-runner in the
campaign for the Iowa caucuses, dislodging Ben Carson and opening an impressive
lead over a stalled Donald Trump, a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa
Poll shows.
The firebrand junior senator from
Texas is backed by 31 percent of those likely to attend the Republican caucuses
that start the presidential nomination season on Feb. 1. Trump is a distant
second at 21 percent, up slightly from 19 percent in October, but below his
peak of 23 percent in August.
Cruz's 21-percentage-point jump
since October is the largest surge between Iowa Polls recorded in at least
the last five presidential caucus campaigns
When first and second choices are combined, he has the support of 51 percent of likely caucus-goers. The senator’s great leap forward comes largely at the expense of Carson, as Iowa’s evangelicals appear to have picked the candidate they want to get behind. The retired neurosurgeon, now barely in third-place, is supported by 13 percent, down from the first-place showing he posted in October, when he was at 28 percent.
When first and second choices are combined, he has the support of 51 percent of likely caucus-goers. The senator’s great leap forward comes largely at the expense of Carson, as Iowa’s evangelicals appear to have picked the candidate they want to get behind. The retired neurosurgeon, now barely in third-place, is supported by 13 percent, down from the first-place showing he posted in October, when he was at 28 percent.
For Iowa’s conservative voters,
“the coalescing has begun,” said J. Ann Selzer, founder of Selzer & Co.,
the West Des Moines-based firm that conducted the poll.
The same can’t be said for the
voters who describe themselves as part of the Republican establishment, which
the poll recorded as 29 percent of the likely electorate. For now, Trump has 23
percent from those who consider themselves Republican establishment voters,
followed by Cruz at 22 percent. Senator Marco Rubio and his one time mentor,
former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, are both at 12 percent.
There's no good news in the poll
for Bush, who despite his political pedigree as the son and brother of past
presidents and a massive campaign war chest, has moved up only slightly since
October, to 6 percent from 5 percent, and is in fifth place. The super
political action committee supporting Bush has been by far the largest
political ad buyer in Iowa, Kantar/CMAG data shows.
Bush's negatives are the highest of
any candidate in the field and at an all-time high in the state, with 54
percent of likely Republican caucus-goers viewing him unfavorably. That's up
from 43 percent in October. He also recorded his highest level of likely
caucus-goers who say they could never support him, 41 percent. "Based
on this data, it's hard to keep Bush in the picture," Selzer said.
Cruz’s new front-runner status in
Iowa has been accompanied by a jump in his favorability rating, now an
all-time high of 73 percent, the highest in the Republican field. That could
come as a surprise to members of Washington's establishment, who have shown
disdain for him and complained that his three years there have been marked
by showmanship, inflexibility and a lack of collegiality. In his
campaign autobiography, A Time for Truth, Cruz's opening anecdote recounts
him becoming the target of "red-faced name calling" by his
Republican Senate colleagues when he wouldn’t go along with a party vote on
extending the debt limit.
Cruz dominates yet another gauge
the poll takes of candidates' strength, the "Selzer Score," which
uses multiple measures to try to assess potential upside in a crowded field.
The index looks at first and second choices, as well as whether respondents
could ever -- or would never -- support candidates not in their first two
choices. (The first choices are given double weight, while “ever support” is
given a half weighting.) Using that system, Cruz scores an unprecedented 97.5.
He's followed by Trump at 72.5, Carson at 67.5 and Rubio at 62.
The Texan’s rise suggests that
Rubio's recent attacks on Cruz for alleged weakness on national security have
failed so far to do damage, at least in Iowa. Rubio, the subject of criticism
by some Iowa Republians for not spending more time in the state, is treading
water: The junior senator from Florida is in fourth place with the support
of 10 percent of voters, up just one point from October.
The poll also sets up an intriguing
dilemma for Trump, including in the Republican debate Tuesday: The billionaire
has sometimes mocked challengers on the basis of their personalities, but doing
so against Cruz could prove risky, given the high senator's high favorable
rating in Iowa. This weekend, Trump started to attack Cruz for his opposition
to the Renewable Fuel Standard that supports the corn-based ethanol
industry in Iowa.
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In a week when he received the
endorsement of one of Iowa's most visible evangelical leaders, the poll shows
Cruz with support from 45 percent of those who mainly define themselves as
evangelical conservatives, more than double what Carson gets. Half of likely
Republican caucus-goers in the poll described themselves as "born
again" or evangelical Christian, up from 42 percent in the October poll,
possibly signaling greater participation from this group.
"He's very conservative and I
agree with most of his views on the financial situation of our country and
abortion and gay marriage," said Sarah Chappell, 34, a stay-at-home mother
from Des Moines who is leaning toward caucusing for Cruz. "He wants to let
us make choices, instead of the government being all powerful and making
choices for us."
Cruz is also winning nearly half --
46 percent -- of those who identify as very conservative, as well as 39 percent
of those who consider themselves aligned with the Tea Party movement.
A victory in the Iowa caucuses
would give Cruz some early- state momentum that could help carry him well
beyond the second voting state of New Hampshire, where he isn't nearly as
strong.
Unlike some recent Iowa Republican
caucus winners, who have foundered because they didn’t have the campaign cash
to capitalize on their strong showing in the state where the first ballots are
cast, Cruz has plenty of money: His campaign committee had collected $26
million as of Sept. 30 and a family of super-political action committees
backing him reported receipts of more than $37 million as of June 30.
With just seven weeks until the
caucuses, a third of those likely to participate on the Republican side say
their mind is made up. Trump and Cruz supporters are more certain, at 45
percent and 43 percent, respectively.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie,
former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky are
tied for sixth place, with each getting 3 percent. All other candidates
recorded 2 percent or less. Paul's score in the Iowa Poll could be enough to
knock him from the main debate stage Tuesday in Las Vegas.
In keeping with Iowa tradition, the
poll suggests there will be lots of late deciders, so Cruz can't coast. Almost
a third say they're likely to still be deciding the week leading up to the
caucuses, while 30 percent say they expect to have their minds made up at least
a week ahead of time. Just 3 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers say
they've signed a pledge card for a particular candidate, while 1 percent
admit to signing one for more than one candidate.
Among the top four candidates in
the poll, Cruz scores the highest on half of the 14 candidate attributes
tested, with Trump winning the other half. Cruz is strongest on items related
to presidential leadership, while Trump is strongest on questions related to
getting specific things done, such as managing the economy, solving illegal
immigration and reducing the deficit.
The billionaire real estate mogul
also beats Cruz, 30 percent to 26 percent, on the question of who has the best
chance to beat Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the general election.
Underscoring the
anti-establishment mood, just 19 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers say
they'd prefer a governor to win the nomination. Senators are picked by 30
percent, while a "government outsider who has handled complex issues and
managed teams" is the preference of 39 percent.
A minority of 40 percent of
likely Republican caucus-goers support making abortion illegal, including in
cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. Among supporters of
Cruz—who supports a no-exceptions abortion ban—that number is 58 percent,
compared to 30 percent among Trump's backers.
More than two-thirds of likely
Republican caucus-goers want to stop all U.S. resettlement of Syrian war
refugees, 61 percent support sending at least 20,000 troops to fight the
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and 54 percent support deporting the estimated
11 million undocumented residents in the U.S.
On fiscal issues, almost
three-quarters of Republican caucus-goers support a tax reform plan that cuts
taxes on all Americans, including the very wealthiest. Sixty one percent want
to abolish the Internal Revenue Service. Roughly the same proportion want to
repeal the financial reform laws enacted after the banking crisis in 2008, and
say they think climate change is a hoax.
The Iowa Poll, taken Dec. 7-10,
included 400 likely Republican caucus participants. On the full sample, it has
a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points, although higher for
subgroups.
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AMENPER: Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin defend Cruz against
Trump attacks
By HANNA
TRUDO
Ted Cruz has
a new defender: conservative king of radio Rush Limbaugh.
The
Republican host on Monday supported the Texas senator against his
presidential opponent, Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
Once a
strident supporter of Trump, Limbaugh dialed back his support after he labeled
Cruz a “maniac” for his ability to incite broad and long-standing opposition
within the party’s leadership in the Senate. Trump’s remarks followed a series
of open-ended questions from Cruz that took issue with his private fundraising
tactics and judgment, as well as Cruz's surge in polls in Iowa.
Limbaugh
addressed the issue head-on during his show, claiming Trump's behavior was out
of character.
“My
questioning here about the way Trump has gone off on Cruz here, calling him a
maniac, refusing to work with people in the Senate, the reason I’m focusing on
that, folks, ’cause that’s so unlike Trump. I mean, that’s a huge mistake,” he
said.
Over the
weekend, Trump appeared on "Fox News Sunday," where he dished
out criticisms of the Texas senator.
"I
don't think he has the right temperament," he said of Cruz. "I don't
think he's got the right judgment. You look at the way he's dealt with the
Senate where he goes in there like a ... You know, frankly, like a little bit
of a maniac. You're never gonna get things done that way."
The following
day, Limbaugh swiftly responded, "A genuine conservative, even in the
Republican field, would not go after Cruz this way," he said. "So
that just raised a red flag for me."
It's an
unusual shift in tone from the usual defense Limbaugh has provided to Trump
throughout the election cycle against the media and public over the variety of
remarks the real estate mogul has made against his GOP opponents and, most
recently, Muslims.
Limbaugh
made reference to one such former target of Trump’s, Sen. John McCain
(R-Ariz.), claiming that he, like McCain, was attempting to act as someone who
could cross party lines to work with Democrats, unlike Cruz.
“He’s
essentially put on his John McCain hat here and is saying: ‘I’m Donald McCain,
and I’m the guy that can cross the aisle and work with the other side. Ted Cruz
can’t.’ I was kind of surprised by that,” he said.
In a similar
defense of Cruz, Mark Levin, a syndicated radio show host who worked in the
Reagan administration and has long applauded Trump's campaign, wrote,
"Does that make all conservatives who support Cruz against [Mitch]
McConnell, et al, maniacs? And he thinks Cruz is owned by the oil companies
because he opposes taxpayer-subsidized ethanol, like most conservatives?
Defending the GOP ruling class and lurching left are dumb tactics.”
Levin added
that although he considers Trump a friend, he “really screwed up this
time. Big time.
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Terrorist in the White House?? Look who Obama just
hired as “ISIS czar”
Written
by The
Analytical Economist on December 10, 2015
There’s a tendency in
American politics for industries to be regulated by government officials who
were previously employed in the industry they’re regulating. Many of those in
the EPA and FDA are former Monsanto employees, and many financial regulators
were once employed by some of the nation’s largest financial
institutions.
This so called
“revolving door” effect has its common sense critics who realize the decisions
of these regulators will be biased in favor of their own industry.
The “revolving door” is
the closest analogy I could come up with to explain the following story, whose
headline reads like a piece out of The Onion: “ISIS Czar a Terrorist Sympathizer Once
Fired by Obama for Hamas Ties”
As Judicial Watch reports, A
radical foreign policy adviser fired by President Obama years ago for meeting
with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is back as the administration’s new
czar in charge of countering the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria
(ISIS).
The White House
downplayed the new appointment by burying it deep in a press briefing delivered
at a Paris hotel during the recent climate summit. “The President recently
elevated Rob Malley, the NSC [National Security Council] Coordinator for the
Middle East and North Africa, to serve now as the Senior Advisor to the
President for the Counter-ISIL Campaign in Iraq and Syria,” White House Press
Secretary Josh Earnest said during the briefing at the Marriott Rive Gauche
Hotel and Conference Center. Before moving onto the next topic Earnest said the
president has directed Malley to “support our reinvigorated diplomatic track
toward a political transition in Syria…”
Malley grew up in
France and his Egyptian-born father was a key figure in Egypt’s communist party
and a close friend of Arafat’s. His parents were fervently anti-Israel and huge
supporters of several leftist revolutionary liberation movements, especially
the Palestinian cause.
Malley has, in the
past, urged the U.S. to negotiate with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Muqtada al Sadr —
terrorists all.
Is anyone else’s head
blowing up over this, or is it just me?
Just as we realize it
may not be in our best interest to have a former Goldman Sachs executive
regulating the financial industry, it kinda goes without saying that having a
terrorist sympathizer in charge of our policy on ISIS might be disastrous to
our national security.
But with this
administration, is anything really a surprise anymore? [This article was
written by The Analytical Economist]
Malley grew up in
France and his Egyptian-born father was a key figure in Egypt’s communist party
and a close friend of Arafat’s. His parents were fervently anti-Israel and huge
supporters of several leftist revolutionary liberation movements, especially
the Palestinian cause.
Malley has, in the
past, urged the U.S. to negotiate with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Muqtada al Sadr —
terrorists all.
Is anyone else’s head
blowing up over this, or is it just me?
Just as we realize it
may not be in our best interest to have a former Goldman Sachs executive
regulating the financial industry, it kinda goes without saying that having a
terrorist sympathizer in charge of our policy on ISIS might be disastrous to
our national security.
But with this
administration, is anything really a surprise anymore?
Malley has, in the
past, urged the U.S. to negotiate with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Muqtada al Sadr —
terrorists all.
Is anyone else’s head
blowing up over this, or is it just me?
Just as we realize it
may not be in our best interest to have a former Goldman Sachs executive
regulating the financial industry, it kinda goes without saying that having a
terrorist sympathizer in charge of our policy on ISIS might be disastrous to
our national security.
But with this
administration, is anything really a surprise anymore?
AMENPER: Permítanme
aclarar mi Matemática
Algunos me dicen que no
entiendo mi matemática sobre Donald Trump en las elecciones. Insisto
que al no ser que como decía aquel dicho en las aulas de mi
juventud, las matemáticas se equivocaran y resultara Pitágoras
fuera simplemente un maricón, la próxima presidente será Hillary Clinton.
Observen bien, Donald
Trump y una encuesta de una universidad dicen que el 68% de los que apoyan a
Trump, lo apoyarían si va de independiente. Observen de nuevo estoy
hablando con los números que nos ofrece el mismo Trump.
Es el
68% del 30% que apoya a Trump, esto es un neto de un 19.4%
que quedarían de republicanos que apoyan a Trump como independiente.
Definitivamente
hay un 80.6% de republicanos que no apoyan a Trump. (Estamos
hablando ahora solamente de republicanos, no de independientes o demócratas)
Ahora observen lo que esto significa en unas elecciones generales:
Los Demócratas tienen una afiliación mayor que los republicanos,
aunque esto es engañoso, porque hay demócratas del sur (dixiecratas) que votan demócrata
por los candidatos regionales pero que votan contra los que consideran de
filosofía yanqui, en las elecciones presidenciales, y muchas veces votan
republicano en las elecciones generales.
Pero era posible y era muy probable la victoria del partido
republicano en estas elecciones, por eso hay tantos candidatos.
Si consideramos a los votantes republicanos, los independientes y los
demócratas del sur y hasta del norte hastiados de esta administración, los
cálculos de los expertos era que los republicanos, cualquiera que
fuera, ganarían con una ventaja de al menos 55-45, una victoria de doble
dígitos.
Pero con Trump de independiente quitándole el 19.4 al candidato
republicano la votación quedaría así:
55%
Hillary Clinton, 35.6% el candidato Republicano, 19.4% Donald Trump
Estos números son muy parecidos a los de las elecciones del 1992, así
que hay precedente que atestiguan la posibilidad de estos números.
Bill
Clinton 43%, George Bush con el 37.5% y Ross Perot el 18.9%
Ahora, vamos a pensar en la desgracia que Trump fuera el
candidato del partido republicano. De los 80.6% de los republicanos que
no sólo no apoyan a Trump, pero que no lo toleran, esto incluye al
establecimiento, los verdaderos conservadores y los tradicionalistas americanos,
todos estos se abstendrían de votar y se les puede considerar
nunca menos de un 15%.
Aunque pudiera ser todavía un número mayor si tomamos en consideración
el número de abstenciones que le costaron la presidencia de Mitt Romney.
Esto también daría como ganadora a Hillary.
Vamos a pensar conservadoramente qué sólo un 15% del 80.6% se
abstuviera de votar el resultado sería el siguiente:
54%
Hillary Clinton, 46% Donald Trump
Estos últimos números que hemos calculado aquí, coincide con el
promedio de las encuestas que hace Real Politics, cuando presentan a Hillary
frente a frente con Donald Trump en las encuestas.
Por desgracia, las encuestas pueden variar, en este caso quizás para
peor. Pero la matemática en este caso no puede equivocarse.
Lo que en realidad pasa es que aunque la cerveza Polar en Cuba decía
que “el pueblo nunca se equivoca” la Polar estaba equivocada el
pueblo se equivoca bastante. La prueba de que la Polar estaba hasta
equivocada en su lema en Cuba porque la verdad era que el pueblo no
prefería la Polar pero la Hatuey, y que el pueblo se equivocó con Fidel.
Como crear un estado
socialista.
Por Saul Alinsky,Admirado por
Obama y por Hillary
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Lo que está pasando en Estados Unidos es algo bien planeado
por anos. Ocho niveles de
control
Irmende Méndez
EL MEJOR ESCLAVO es aquel que
piensa que es libre ...
Saul Alinsky murió hace unos
43 años, pero sus escritos influenciado los de control político de nuestra
nación hoy
Recordemos que Hillary hizo su
tesis universitaria sobre sus escritos y Obama escribe sobre él en sus libros.
Murió: June 12, 1972,
Carmel-by-the-Sea, Ca
Educación: Universidad de
Chicago
Cónyuge: Irene Alinsky
Libros: Reglas para Radicales,
Reveille para los radicales
¿Alguien por ahí creo que esto
no está sucediendo hoy en día en los EE.UU?
Las ocho normativas está
actualmente en juego
Cómo crear un Estado social de
Saul Alinsky:
Hay ocho niveles de control
que deben obtenerse antes de que son capaces de crear un Estado social. El
primero es el más importante.
1) La asistencia sanitaria de
Control de salud- y controlar al pueblo
2) Pobreza - Aumentar el nivel
de pobreza tan alto como sea posible, los pobres son más fáciles de controlar y
no luchar si usted está proporcionando todo lo necesario para que ellos vivan.
3) Deuda - Aumentar la deuda a
un nivel insostenible. De esa manera usted es capaz de aumentar los impuestos,
y esto va a producir más pobreza.
4) Pistola Control- Retire la
capacidad de defenderse de Gobierno. De esa manera usted es capaz de crear un
estado policial.
5) Bienestar - Toma el control
de todos los aspectos de su vida (alimentación, vivienda, e Ingresos)
6) Educación - Toma el control
de lo que las personas leen y escuchan - tomar el control de lo que los niños
aprenden en la escuela.
7) Religión - Retirar la
creencia en el Dios del Gobierno y escuelas
8) Class Warfare - Dividir al
pueblo a los ricos y los pobres. Esto hará que más descontento y será más fácil
de tomar (impuestos) a los ricos con el apoyo de los pobres.
¿Algo de esto suena como lo
que está sucediendo a los Estados Unidos?
Alinsky simplemente simplificó
el esquema original de Vladimir Lenin para la conquista del mundo por el
comunismo, bajo el dominio ruso.
Stalin describió sus conversos
como "idiotas útiles".
Los idiotas útiles han destruido
todas las naciones en las que han tomado el poder y el control.
Es actualmente está ocurriendo
a un ritmo alarmante en los EE.UU.
Si la gente puede leer
esto y todavía decir que todo está bien ... son "idiotas útiles.
"Es difícil tontos libres
de las cadenas que veneran."Eight Levels of Control
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Aleman: barak hussein obama
WHO CAN SOLVE THIS
MYSTERY?
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Algun
dia se conocera este gran fraude. El Obama Library no tendra nada de su pasado,
solo de sus ocho años de pasear en su avion a nuestro costo y hacer decisiones
por todos lados sin sentido y todavia negando que estamos en una guerra contra
el terrorismo islamico.
Unusual
wouldn't you say ??????????????????????????
Subj: Who can solve this mystery?
God Bless our Warriors and America !!
Well, he is ending
8 years of presidency
MANY, MANY INTERESTING QUESTIONS !!!!!!!!
8 years of presidency
MANY, MANY INTERESTING QUESTIONS !!!!!!!!
THE UNANSWERED MYSTERY
OF THE CENTURY!!!
This came from a union guy in Chicago who didn't vote for Obama.
Very, very interesting perspective that I never thought of in this light.
This came from a union guy in Chicago who didn't vote for Obama.
Very, very interesting perspective that I never thought of in this light.
It will be interesting to see what they
put in his "Presidential Library"
about his early years when he is out of office.
In a country where we take notice of many, many facets of our public figures' lives, doesn't seem odd that there's so little we know about our current president, Barack Obama.
For example, we know that Andrew Jackson 's wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery; Abe Lincoln never went to school;Jack Kennedy wore a back brace; Harry Truman played the piano.
As Americans, we enjoy knowing details about our news makers, but none of us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president.
We are all aware of the lack of incontestable birth records for Obama; that document managing has been spectacularly successful.
There are however, several additional oddities in Obama's history that appear to be as well managed as the birthing issue.
One other interesting thing... There are no birth certificates of his daughters that can be found ?
It's interesting that no one who ever dated him has shown up. The charisma that caused women to be drawn to him so strongly during his campaign, certainly would in the normal course of events, lead some lady to come forward, if only to garner some attention for herself. We all know about JFK's magnetism, that McCain was no monk and quite a few details about Palin's courtship and even her athletic prowess, Joe Biden's aneurysms are no secret; look at Cheney and Clinton, we all know about their heart problems. Certainly Wild Bill Clinton's exploits before and during his White House years, were well known. That's why it's so odd that not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was soooo shy..." or "What a great dancer..."
about his early years when he is out of office.
In a country where we take notice of many, many facets of our public figures' lives, doesn't seem odd that there's so little we know about our current president, Barack Obama.
For example, we know that Andrew Jackson 's wife smoked a corn cob pipe and was accused of adultery; Abe Lincoln never went to school;Jack Kennedy wore a back brace; Harry Truman played the piano.
As Americans, we enjoy knowing details about our news makers, but none of us know one single humanizing fact about the history of our own president.
We are all aware of the lack of incontestable birth records for Obama; that document managing has been spectacularly successful.
There are however, several additional oddities in Obama's history that appear to be as well managed as the birthing issue.
One other interesting thing... There are no birth certificates of his daughters that can be found ?
It's interesting that no one who ever dated him has shown up. The charisma that caused women to be drawn to him so strongly during his campaign, certainly would in the normal course of events, lead some lady to come forward, if only to garner some attention for herself. We all know about JFK's magnetism, that McCain was no monk and quite a few details about Palin's courtship and even her athletic prowess, Joe Biden's aneurysms are no secret; look at Cheney and Clinton, we all know about their heart problems. Certainly Wild Bill Clinton's exploits before and during his White House years, were well known. That's why it's so odd that not one lady has stepped up and said, "He was soooo shy..." or "What a great dancer..."
It's virtually
impossible to know anything about this fellow.
Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Then check groomsmen.
Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony. Has anyone talked to the professors? It is odd that no one is bragging that they knew him or taught him or lived with him.
When did he meet Michele, and how? Are there photos there? Every president gives to the public all their photos, etc. for their library, etc. What has he released? And who in hell voted for him to be the most popular man in 2010? Doesn't this make you wonder?
Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from President Obama's past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc?? Not one person has ever come forward from his past.
It certainly is very, very strange...
This should be a cause for great concern. To those who voted for him, you may have elected an unqualified, inexperienced shadow Have you seen a movie named. "The Manchurian Candidate"
As insignificant as each of us might be, someone with whom we went to school will remember our name or face; someone will remember we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us.
George Stephanopoulos of ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign. He questions why no one has acknowledged the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches on campus. Stephanopoulos also was a classmate of Obama at Columbia -- the class of 1984. He says he never had a single class with him.
He is such a great orator; why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him? Why won't he allow Columbia to release his records?
Nobody remembers Obama at Columbia University ....
Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there... but none remembered him.
Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983.
In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a
single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia , ever."
Nobody recalls him. Root adds that he was also, like Obama, Class of '83 Political Science, and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him.
At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, 'the macha' who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."
Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia .
Some other interesting questions:
Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002?
it is said there is no record of him ever taking the Bar exam.
Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order?
We understand that was forced to avoid fraud charges.
It is circulating that according to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 alias connected to him.
The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is reported to have never lived. And was originally registered to another man
(Thomas Louis Wood) from Connecticut, who died in Hawaii while on vacation there. As we all know Social Security Numbers are only issued 'once, they are not reused'
No wonder all his records are sealed...
Please continue sending this out. Somewhere, someone has to know SOMETHING!?!... School? Before he reorganized Chicago?... SOMETHING!!! He just seemed to burst upon the Scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention. ANYONE??? ANYWHERE??? ANYTHING???
Who was the best man at his wedding? Start there. Then check groomsmen.
Then get the footage of the graduation ceremony. Has anyone talked to the professors? It is odd that no one is bragging that they knew him or taught him or lived with him.
When did he meet Michele, and how? Are there photos there? Every president gives to the public all their photos, etc. for their library, etc. What has he released? And who in hell voted for him to be the most popular man in 2010? Doesn't this make you wonder?
Ever wonder why no one ever came forward from President Obama's past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc?? Not one person has ever come forward from his past.
It certainly is very, very strange...
This should be a cause for great concern. To those who voted for him, you may have elected an unqualified, inexperienced shadow Have you seen a movie named. "The Manchurian Candidate"
As insignificant as each of us might be, someone with whom we went to school will remember our name or face; someone will remember we were the clown or the dork or the brain or the quiet one or the bully or something about us.
George Stephanopoulos of ABC News said the same thing during the 2008 campaign. He questions why no one has acknowledged the president was in their classroom or ate in the same cafeteria or made impromptu speeches on campus. Stephanopoulos also was a classmate of Obama at Columbia -- the class of 1984. He says he never had a single class with him.
He is such a great orator; why doesn't anyone in Obama's college class remember him? Why won't he allow Columbia to release his records?
Nobody remembers Obama at Columbia University ....
Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there... but none remembered him.
Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983.
In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a
single person at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia , ever."
Nobody recalls him. Root adds that he was also, like Obama, Class of '83 Political Science, and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him.
At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, 'the macha' who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him."
Obama's photograph does not appear in the school's yearbook and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia .
Some other interesting questions:
Why was Obama's law license inactivated in 2002?
it is said there is no record of him ever taking the Bar exam.
Why was Michelle's law license inactivated by court order?
We understand that was forced to avoid fraud charges.
It is circulating that according to the U.S. Census, there is only one Barack Obama but 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 alias connected to him.
The Social Security number he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is reported to have never lived. And was originally registered to another man
(Thomas Louis Wood) from Connecticut, who died in Hawaii while on vacation there. As we all know Social Security Numbers are only issued 'once, they are not reused'
No wonder all his records are sealed...
Please continue sending this out. Somewhere, someone has to know SOMETHING!?!... School? Before he reorganized Chicago?... SOMETHING!!! He just seemed to burst upon the Scene at the 2004 Democratic Convention. ANYONE??? ANYWHERE??? ANYTHING???
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al Espanol:
Barak Hussein Obama
¿Quien puede resolver
este misterio?
Algun dia se conocera
this gran fraude. El Obama Biblioteca no tendra nada de su
Pasado, solista de Sus ocho años de pasear en su avion de nuestro de Coste y
Hacer Decisiones por Todos Lados Sin Sentido y todavia negando Que Estamos en
Una guerra contra Terrorismo Islamico eléct.
Inusual ¿no te parece
??????????????????????????
Asun: ¿Quién puede
resolver este misterio?
Dios bendiga a nuestros
guerreros y América !!
Bueno, él está
terminando
8 años de la
presidencia
, Preguntas
interesantes MUCHOS MUCHOS !!!!!!!!
EL MISTERIO SIN
RESPUESTA DEL SIGLO !!!
Esto vino de un tipo
sindical en Chicago que no votaron por Obama.
Muy, perspectiva muy
interesante que yo nunca pensé en este punto de vista.
Será interesante
ver lo que ponen en su "Biblioteca Presidencial"
Acerca de sus primeros
años, cuando él está fuera de la oficina.
En un país donde se
toma nota de muchas, muchas facetas de la vida de nuestras figuras públicas, no
parece extraño que hay tan poco que sabemos de nuestro actual presidente, Husein
Barack Obama.
Por ejemplo, sabemos
que la esposa de Andrew Jackson 's fumaba una pipa de mazorca de maíz y fue
acusado de adulterio; Abe Lincoln nunca fue a la escuela; Jack Kennedy llevaba
un corsé para la espalda; Harry Truman tocaba el piano.
Como estadounidenses,
disfrutamos detalles saber de nuestros fabricantes de noticias, pero ninguno de
nosotros conocemos un hecho humanizadora única sobre la historia de nuestro
propio presidente.
Todos
somos conscientes de la falta de registros de nacimiento incontestables para
Obama; ese documento gestión ha sido un éxito espectacular.
Sin embargo, hay varias
rarezas adicionales en la historia de Obama que parecen estar tan bien
gestionada como la cuestión de parto.
Otra cosa interesante
... No hay certificados de nacimiento de sus hijas que se pueden encontrar?
Es interesante que
nadie que alguna vez le fecha ha aparecido. El carisma que hizo que las mujeres
a ser atraída hacia él con tanta fuerza durante su campaña, sin duda sería en
el curso normal de los acontecimientos, conducir una señora a presentarse,
aunque sólo sea para reunir un poco de atención por sí misma. Todos sabemos
sobre el magnetismo de JFK, que McCain había ningún monje y un buen número de
detalles sobre el cortejo de Palin y hasta su destreza atlética, aneurismas de
Joe Biden no son secretos; mirar a Cheney y Clinton, todos sabemos acerca de
sus problemas cardíacos. Ciertamente, las hazañas de Wild Bill Clinton antes y
durante sus años en la Casa Blanca, eran bien conocidos. Es por eso que es tan
extraño que no una señora ha intensificado y dijo: "Él era tan tímido
..." o "¡Qué gran bailarina ..."
Es prácticamente
imposible saber nada de este hombre.
¿Quién
fue el padrino de su boda? Empezar por ahí. A continuación, compruebe los
padrinos de boda.
A
continuación, obtener las imágenes de la ceremonia de graduación. ¿Alguien ha
hablado con los profesores? Es extraño que nadie se jactaba de que él sabía o
le enseñaron o vivían con él.
¿Cuándo
cumple Michele, y cómo? ¿Hay fotos allí? Cada presidente da al público todas
sus fotos, etc. para su biblioteca, etc. ¿Qué ha lanzado? Y que en el infierno
votado por él para ser el hombre más popular en el 2010? ¿Acaso esto no hace
que te preguntes?
Alguna vez se preguntó
por qué nadie se adelantó desde el pasado del presidente Obama diciendo que lo
conocían, asistieron a la escuela con él, era su amigo, etc ?? Ni una sola
persona ha presentado de su pasado.
Sin duda, es muy, muy
extraño ...
Esto
debería ser un motivo de gran preocupación. Para los que votaron por él, es
posible que haya elegido un rotundo, sombra inexpertos ¿Has visto una película
llamada. "El mensajero del miedo"
Tan
insignificante como cada uno de nosotros podría ser, alguien con quien fuimos a
la escuela recordarán nuestro nombre o la cara; alguien va a recordar que
éramos el payaso o el idiota o el cerebro o en el tranquilo uno o el matón o
algo acerca de nosotros.
George
Stephanopoulos de ABC News dijo lo mismo durante la campaña de 2008. Se
pregunta por qué nadie ha reconocido el presidente estaba en su salón de clases
o comió en la misma cafetería o hacer discursos improvisados en el campus.
Stephanopoulos También fue un compañero de clase de Obama en Columbia - la
clase de 1984. Él dice que nunca tuvo una sola clase con él.
Él
es un gran orador tales; ¿por qué nadie en la clase de la universidad de Obama
lo recuerdan? ¿Por qué no le permitirá Columbia para liberar sus registros?
Nadie se acuerda
de Obama en la Universidad de Columbia ....
Buscar
evidencia del pasado de Obama, Fox News contactó a 400 estudiantes de la
Universidad de Columbia de la época cuando Obama afirma haber estado allí ...
pero ninguno se acordaba de él.
Wayne
Allyn Root era, al igual que Obama, una de las principales ciencias políticas
de Columbia, que también se graduó en 1983.
En 2008,
Raíz dice de Obama, "no sé un
una de las personas en
Colombia que lo sabía, y todos me conocen. Yo no tengo un compañero que supo
nunca Barack Obama en Columbia, nunca ".
Nadie
lo recuerda. Raíz añade que él también era, al igual que Obama, Class of '83
Ciencias Políticas, y le dice: "Usted no consigue más exacta o más cerca
que eso. Nunca lo conocí en mi vida, no conozco a nadie que nunca lo conoció.
En la
reunión de clase, nuestra 20a reunión de hace cinco años, que se le pidió que
sea el representante de la clase? Yo. Nadie ha oído hablar de Barack! Y hace
cinco años, nadie sabía quién era. El tipo que escribe las notas de clase, que
es una especie de, como decimos en Nueva York, la macha 'que sabe todo el
mundo, aún tiene que encontrar a una persona, un ser humano que jamás se reunió
con él ".
Fotografía
de Obama no aparece en el anuario de la escuela y Obama se niega constantemente
solicitudes para hablar de sus años en Colombia, proporcionar registros de la
escuela, o proporcionar el nombre de ningún antiguos compañeros de clase o
amigos, mientras que en Colombia.
Algunas
otras preguntas interesantes:
¿Por qué se licencia de
abogado de Obama inactivada en 2002?
No hay
registro de él alguna vez de tomar el examen de la barra.
¿Por
qué se licencia de abogado de Michelle inactivada por orden judicial?
Entendemos
que se vio obligado a evitar cargos de fraude.
Está circulando que
según el Censo de Estados Unidos, sólo hay una Barack Obama, pero 27 números de
Seguro Social y más de 80 alias conectados a él.
El número de Seguro
Social se usa ahora se originó en Connecticut, donde se dice que nunca han
vivido. Y se registró originalmente con otro hombre
(Thomas Louis Wood) de
Connecticut, que murió en Hawai durante sus vacaciones allí. Como todos sabemos
los números de Seguro Social sólo se expiden "una vez, no son reutilizados
'
No
es extraño que todos sus discos están sellados ...
Por
favor continúe enviando esto. En algún lugar, alguien tiene que saber algo!?!
... Escuela? Antes de que él reorganizó Chicago? ... ALGO !!! Él parecía a
punto de estallar en la escena en la Convención Demócrata de 2004. ¿¿¿NADIE???
¿¿¿EN CUALQUIER SITIO??? ¿¿¿CUALQUIER COSA???
AMENPER: ¿Por
qué está realmente Trump diciendo esto?
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En
un blog de la internet Nick Allen, quien no conozco, hace un comentario
muy corto y adecuado sobre la motivación de Donald Trump cuando hizo
una proposición que es imposible de ejecutar por motivos políticos para
recuperar el espacio perdido en Iowa frente a Ted Cruz
¿Por
qué está realmente Trump diciendo esto?
¿Por
qué Trump está haciendo estos comentarios?
Nick
Allen en Washington, explica:
No,
Donald Trump no ha vuelto loco. Trump es un político sumamente ambicioso y
pragmático que carece de una brújula moral. Para entender por qué hizo su
propuesta para una prohibición a los musulmanes de entrar en el país, tienes que mirarlo a través del
prisma de la carrera primaria republicana.
Hay
tantos candidatos en esta carrera que Trump puede ganar la nominación
fácilmente si él es apoyado por un tercio de los republicanos. Eso es
exactamente lo que él tiene en las encuestas por el momento.
Todo
lo que hace está dirigido a disparar al pueblo que ya partidario de él, la
clase de gente que John McCain una vez llamó "locos" y para que
realmente salgan a y votar.
Trump
está obsesionado con las encuestas.
Así
que no te sorprendas si él ha hecho su propio sondeo y encontró que esto
reforzaría su apoyo.
Es
autoritario, intolerante y descarado, y sólo hace algo para conseguir lo que
quiere él.
Vamos
a ver cuando salen las próximas encuestas.
Si
sus números aumentan el partido republicano enfrenta a una terrible elección.
Se
une a sus comentarios extremistas, o se separan de él y lo ejecuta como
independiente, que es un regalo al partido demócrata por el riesgo de la
elección de Hillary Clinton.
Newsmax's Top 50 Christmas Destinations in America
Santa's
loading up his sleigh, living room trees are sparkling with lights, and the
presents are wrapped and hidden, so why not do something really special this
Christmas? Hit the road.
America is chock-full of towns that herald the arrival of Yuletide with bang-up, over-the-top celebrations, millions of lights, dozens of Santa sleighs, real reindeer, and Christmas celebrations that you and your family will remember forever.
Newsmax has rounded up 50 of the very best places in America for you and your loved ones to visit this Christmas season — places that will etch themselves forever in both your memories and your hearts. Our list isn’t defined specifically by size or by number of visitors, but you’ll notice that each location's unique, wholesome, and family-oriented events and activities help shape these rankings.
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1. Christmas Town USA, in McAdenville, North Carolina, goes all out to give a once-in-a-lifetime Christmas experience to the 600,000 people who regularly show up. With 375 Christmas trees, more than 450,000 twinkling lights, free kettle corn and hot chocolate for the first 1,000 people who arrive for the Lighting and Yule Log ceremonies, and a sparkling, dancing fountain of light in the center of its lake, McAdenville is hard to beat.
2. The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, with a 236-year-old tradition, goes all-out for Christmas, with opulent decorations, a West Virginia Symphony performance at Lewisburg's Carnegie Hall, and the famous Christmas Eve Gingerbread Ball in Colonial Hall. Its 60 Spectacular Days of Holiday Cheer features shopping at 37 distinct stores, tree lighting ceremonies every weekend in December and, of course, plenty of opportunities to meet Santa and Mrs. Claus.
3. Koziar's Christmas Village in Bernville, Pennsylvania, features more than a million lights that illuminate their various displays, including Christmas Beneath the Sea, Christmas in the Jungle, and Christmas in Other Lands, as well as indoor and outdoor model trains. It opened in 1948 and is still going strong today.
4. Ogden's Christmas Village in Ogden, Utah, has 59 pop-up cottages modeled after Santa's North Pole Village, where kids can see elves busily working to get ready for their Christmas Eve sleigh ride. You can also take a free ride on the Polar Express train through a gaily decorated tunnel or go and visit Santa's Castle.
5. Branson, Missouri's Ozark Mountain Christmas is Yuletide with a country flair. Silver Dollar City's roller coasters, five million lights, 1,000 Christmas trees, and the Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade will add a special sparkle to anyone's Christmas.
6. Nevada City, California, hosts an annual Victorian Christmas Festival as a step back in time, where carolers dress in period costumes to sing joyous noels as the authentic gas lamps flicker and the smell of roasting chestnuts fills the air.
7. Georgetown, Texas, has huge wooden nutcracker soldiers dotting the streets, an annual window display competition between 18 stores for the most lavish Christmas show, and the 35th Annual Christmas Stroll through Georgetown Square's Bethlehem Village, which is like a Christmas card come to life. You may even see the Grinch and his pals in Whoo-Village.
8. Zoar Village in Zoar, Ohio, founded in 1817, boasts horse-drawn wagon rides, a candlelight church service, a live manger scene, and tours of its historic homes where craftsmen show off their wares.
9. New York, New York, always goes big for Christmas, with a huge Norway spruce bearing 30,000 lights, five miles of wiring, and a 550-pound star on top at Rockefeller Center. There's also the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, "The Nutcracker" at Lincoln Center, the Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show and, of course, holiday shopping along Fifth Avenue's winter wonderland.
10. Wisconsin's Elkhart Lake Christmas features an Old World Christmas Market modeled after Nuremberg, Germany's Christkindlesmarkt, horse-drawn carriage rides through the woods complete with jingle bells, and traditional German food and sweets.
11. Genesee Country Village in Mumford, New York, makes note of the year 1849, when New York declared Christmas as a state holiday. Groups of visitors tour local period homes where they learn of the historic event and celebrate with the residents.
12. Charlottesville, Virginia's historic downtown mall explodes with Christmas lights during the Yule season, with 90 local vendors of crafts and foods. The nearby resting place of President James Madison and his wife Dolley, in Montpelier, also hosts annual candlelight Christmas tours.
13. Chicago, Illinois, goes Christmas-crazy with millions of holiday lights strung along The Magnificent Mile, a large outdoor German Christkindlmarket craft market, and Navy Pier's Winter WonderFest, which boasts an indoor ice-skating rink.
14. Key West, Florida, makes up for the fact that there probably won't be any snow with its lavishly lit Boat Parade, the Holly Jolly Trolley, tours of historic Key West inns, and performances of "The Nutcracker," the largest stage performance in the Keys.
15. Yuletide in Taos, New Mexico, features lovely luminarias or farolitos, warming bonfires, winter concerts by the Taos Community Chorus, and the Christmas Tree lighting and Electric Light Parade on Taos Plaza.
16. The 12 Days of Aspen in Colorado turns this ski destination into a winter wonderland, with lights, horse-drawn sleigh and wagon rides, a visit from Santa, live reindeer, the Ugly Sweater Party, a concert by Burt Bacharach, and fireworks over Aspen.
17. Charleston, South Carolina, hosts Christmas in Charleston, with bourbon eggnog, the Holiday Festival of Lights, "The Nutcracker" ballet, and sleigh rides.
18. Boston, Massachusetts' Christmas celebrations feature three tree lightings, performances of Holiday Pops by Boston Pops, the Christmas Celtic Sojourn at the Cutler Majestic Theater, and lavish Christmas décor, including a huge Christmas tree in front of historic Faneuil Hall.
19. Santa Claus, Indiana, lives up to its name with the Santa Claus Land of Lights, the Family Christmas Light Adventure, hot chocolate at Santa's Candy Castle, an international fruitcake-eating contest, and the Santa Claus Christmas Parade.
20. San Antonio, Texas, decorates its historic River Walk with 120,000 lights and, this year, carolers will serenade diners from boats along the 1.3-mile San Antonio River. The Fiesta de las Luminarias will feature 6,000 candle-lit brown bags for the tradition of
lighting the way for the Holy Family.
21. Atlanta, Georgia's tradition of riding the Pink Pig at Macy's is a must for the holidays, but don't forget to go ice skating at Centennial Park, sled down Stone Mountain, or revel in the Magical Night of Lights at nearby Lake Lanier Islands. The city also hosts the lighting of Macy's Great Tree at Lenox Square Mall and Garden Lights, Holiday Nights at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, with more than a million twinkling lights.
22. In Louisville, Kentucky, you can make your own Christmas tree ornament at Glassworks, take in "A Christmas Carol" at the Actor's Theater, enjoy Christmas and music from Pam Tillis at the Galt House, go to the Snow Fairy Princess Tea, or have breakfast with Santa Claus.
23. Head for Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida, for the traditional Candlelight Processional at Epcot Center, and enjoy the bright illuminations at the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights, with Santas, angels, and elves everywhere you turn. Also plan a stop at Mickey Mouse's Very Merry Christmas Party and Disney's Days of Christmas.
24. Durango, Colorado, features the Polar Express, a train pulled by a real steam locomotive, with hot chocolate and Christmas carols, which takes kids to visit Santa Claus.
25. Woodstock, Vermont, kicks off Christmas with an equestrian parade of more than 50 horses and riders and the Wassail Weekend, celebrating the Norse tradition, and features sleigh rides, a wassail feast, and tours of the area's historic homes.
26. Newport Beach, California, hosts the 107-year-old Boat Parade, a three-hour spectacle in which residents brightly decorate their boats. All kinds of vessels, from kayaks to multimillion-dollar yachts, participate.
27. Frankenmuth, Michigan, has Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland, the "World's Largest Christmas Store," with daily visits from Santa Claus and Christmas carol sing-a-longs. Frankenmuth calls itself Michigan's "Little Bavaria," and features horse-drawn carriage rides through covered bridges, a holiday celebration, and a Christmas Candlewalk.
28. Paradise, Pennsylvania, boasts the National Christmas Center Family Attraction and Museum, with 20,000 square feet of life-sized, walk-through displays which show off Christmases present and past, plus visits with Santa Claus.
29. New Orleans, Louisiana's pure Christmas nighttime beauty is hard to top, with candlelight carols sung in front of the city's historic St. Louis Cathedral, Reveillon (meaning "awakening") dinners, lots of hot jazz, and NOLA's ChristmasFest.
30. In Miami, Florida, Santa's Enchanted Forest, the world's largest Christmas-themed amusement park with more than 100 rides, draws a million visitors a year. Watch Santa take a death-defying ride in the motorcycle cage or marvel at the 92-foot Christmas tree and more than 3 million lights.
31. Los Angeles' Hollywood Christmas Parade, a dazzling spectacle of floats and lights, is not to be missed. Also be sure to try some outdoor ice skating, or indoors at Chill at the Queen Mary, head to Anaheim for Disneyland Christmas Fantasy, or take in Grinchmas at Universal Studios Hollywood. And don't miss the Latino Las Posadas celebration on Olvera Street.
32. Leavenworth, Washington, holds three Christmas tree lightings to accommodate the flood of visitors who come to this small town every Christmas season. Live music, the arrival of St. Nickolaus, a parade, a performance of "The Nutcracker," sledding, and Winter Wonderland Walks make this a must-see spot for Christmas fans.
33. Baltimore, Maryland's 34th Street transforms into a festival of lights with some traditional displays and some quirky, like a Christmas tree made out of hubcaps. The German Christmas Village has choirs, traditional German food, and the Charity Weekend, where you can buy a Christmas ornament to contribute to a charity.
34. Mall of the Americas in Minneapolis, Minnesota, goes virtually Noel-nuts every Christmas with huge holiday wreaths, giant ornament balls, two 40-foot-high Christmas trees, and Santa Sid, the most popular mall Santa in the country, drawing more than 17,000 visitors per year.
35. Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Tennessee has more than 2 million lights strung over 50 acres and boasts a huge Nativity scene with figures 10 feet tall. The famous Nashville Christmas Parade is on tap again this year, with the theme "Miracle on Broadway," and the Nashville Ballet will present "The Nutcracker."
36. Washington, D.C., is far from left out when it comes to Christmas. The lighting of the national Christmas tree in President's Park has been a tradition since 1923, and families can also enjoy the Pathway of Peace, with 56 smaller trees representing the 50 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia.
37. Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, has the Inn, which features a visit from Charles Dickens' great-great-grandson, scads of Christmas decorations, and the Christmas Place, the largest Christmas store in the South. Nearby, Dollywood's Smoky Mountain Christmas will have a visit from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and high-tech holograms of Christmas Past, Present and Future, along with special Christmas shows.
38. Solvang, California, does Christmas with a Danish flair. The city, known as the "Danish Capital of America," decorates its half-timber houses and working windmills with Christmas lights, and also hosts a parade, Danish dancers, and the Julefest Tree Lighting Ceremony, plus a Santa village.
39. Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, is all about the history. You can visit Christmas at a typical 1780s farm, hear accounts of Christmas during the Revolution at the Yorktown Victory Center, enjoy the Christmas tree lighting, the boat parade, Yorktown Market Days, the Toyland Parade and, yes, Virginia, they have Santa Claus.
40. The Resort at Paws Up in Greenough, Montana, gives kids their very own Santa Claus, horse-drawn sleigh rides, a gingerbread house-building contest, and a lavish Christmas feast.
41. The Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco, California's Cow Palace brings the Victorian era in London to life with 700 costumed performers in Victorian garb, loads of tasty food, music hall tunes in Mad Sal's Dockside Alehouse, plenty of Christmas shopping, dance parties, and Irish and Scottish dancers.
42. Christmas by the Sea in Ogunquit, Maine, has a tree-lighting ceremony, hay rides, a Chowderfest Dinner With Dickens at the Clay Hill Farm and, this year, a concert by Rusted Root. There is also a carol-singing stroll that leads to the town's holiday fireworks display.
43. North Conway and Lincoln, New Hampshire, are the perfect spots for train-lovers. Try the Polar Express and its Journey to the North Pole. You munch chocolates on the way and, when you arrive, elves take you to see Santa at his Toy Workshop where the boy from the "Polar Express" book, now grown up, relates his experiences, and your kids get to tell Santa just what they want for Christmas
44. Beaufort, South Carolina, residents and visitors enjoy the annual Crystal Coast Christmas Flotilla of gaily decorated boats and a gala traditional Christmas parade through downtown city streets.
45. Park City, Utah, is nestled in a valley that glows with thousands of lights during the Christmas season and features the annual Electric Parade and Santa Claus on skis, leading a torch-lit procession down the PayDay Trail. Nearby Montage Deer Valley has an enormous gingerbread house, 13 feet tall, made out of 11,000 cookies.
46. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has dazzling white lights hung like Spanish moss in the trees and 5,500 hand-lit candles showing off the beauty of Brookgreen Gardens. The city also features the Festival of Trees at Ripley's Aquarium — with 50 sparkling trees, one for each state — and the Christmas Show of the South, featuring the Carolina Opry.
47. Annapolis, Maryland, features the "It's a Wonderful Life Holiday Celebration," free horse and carriage rides, the Jolly Express cruise around Spa Creek, and State House by Candlelight, with caroling and a huge Christmas tree. But the big event is the Eastport Yacht Club Parade of Lights, with festive decorated boats cruising the Annapolis Harbor.
48. Newport, Rhode Island, encourages locals to use only white Christmas lights, which gives an old-timey, candlelight atmosphere to the entire town. The seaside town's rich history is the focus here, with walking candlelight tours of the city's old mansions and a nod to pirates and smugglers with the Rogues and Scoundrels History Walking Tour. The Newport Artillery will fire a cannon blast to mark the opening of the season at the tree lighting on Dec. 1.
49. Helen, Georgia, is a Bavarian old-time village nestled in the mountains, and its Deck the Halls festival at Unicoi State Park kicks off the celebrations, followed by the town's annual costume holiday parade, carriage rides, visits from Santa, a traditional German Christkindlmarkt, and the annual Christmas in the Mountains Lighted Parade.
50. In Las Vegas, Nevada, the Bellagio takes the holiday lead by transforming its 13,000-square-foot conservatory and botanical garden into a Christmas wonderland, while carolers sing around the dancing lights in front. Meanwhile, the Ethel M. Chocolate Factory and Cactus Garden in Henderson drapes more than a half million lights over three acres of cacti. Don't miss the giant Christmas tree at Doge's Palace at the Venetian.
America is chock-full of towns that herald the arrival of Yuletide with bang-up, over-the-top celebrations, millions of lights, dozens of Santa sleighs, real reindeer, and Christmas celebrations that you and your family will remember forever.
Newsmax has rounded up 50 of the very best places in America for you and your loved ones to visit this Christmas season — places that will etch themselves forever in both your memories and your hearts. Our list isn’t defined specifically by size or by number of visitors, but you’ll notice that each location's unique, wholesome, and family-oriented events and activities help shape these rankings.
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1. Christmas Town USA, in McAdenville, North Carolina, goes all out to give a once-in-a-lifetime Christmas experience to the 600,000 people who regularly show up. With 375 Christmas trees, more than 450,000 twinkling lights, free kettle corn and hot chocolate for the first 1,000 people who arrive for the Lighting and Yule Log ceremonies, and a sparkling, dancing fountain of light in the center of its lake, McAdenville is hard to beat.
2. The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, with a 236-year-old tradition, goes all-out for Christmas, with opulent decorations, a West Virginia Symphony performance at Lewisburg's Carnegie Hall, and the famous Christmas Eve Gingerbread Ball in Colonial Hall. Its 60 Spectacular Days of Holiday Cheer features shopping at 37 distinct stores, tree lighting ceremonies every weekend in December and, of course, plenty of opportunities to meet Santa and Mrs. Claus.
3. Koziar's Christmas Village in Bernville, Pennsylvania, features more than a million lights that illuminate their various displays, including Christmas Beneath the Sea, Christmas in the Jungle, and Christmas in Other Lands, as well as indoor and outdoor model trains. It opened in 1948 and is still going strong today.
4. Ogden's Christmas Village in Ogden, Utah, has 59 pop-up cottages modeled after Santa's North Pole Village, where kids can see elves busily working to get ready for their Christmas Eve sleigh ride. You can also take a free ride on the Polar Express train through a gaily decorated tunnel or go and visit Santa's Castle.
5. Branson, Missouri's Ozark Mountain Christmas is Yuletide with a country flair. Silver Dollar City's roller coasters, five million lights, 1,000 Christmas trees, and the Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade will add a special sparkle to anyone's Christmas.
6. Nevada City, California, hosts an annual Victorian Christmas Festival as a step back in time, where carolers dress in period costumes to sing joyous noels as the authentic gas lamps flicker and the smell of roasting chestnuts fills the air.
7. Georgetown, Texas, has huge wooden nutcracker soldiers dotting the streets, an annual window display competition between 18 stores for the most lavish Christmas show, and the 35th Annual Christmas Stroll through Georgetown Square's Bethlehem Village, which is like a Christmas card come to life. You may even see the Grinch and his pals in Whoo-Village.
8. Zoar Village in Zoar, Ohio, founded in 1817, boasts horse-drawn wagon rides, a candlelight church service, a live manger scene, and tours of its historic homes where craftsmen show off their wares.
9. New York, New York, always goes big for Christmas, with a huge Norway spruce bearing 30,000 lights, five miles of wiring, and a 550-pound star on top at Rockefeller Center. There's also the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, "The Nutcracker" at Lincoln Center, the Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show and, of course, holiday shopping along Fifth Avenue's winter wonderland.
10. Wisconsin's Elkhart Lake Christmas features an Old World Christmas Market modeled after Nuremberg, Germany's Christkindlesmarkt, horse-drawn carriage rides through the woods complete with jingle bells, and traditional German food and sweets.
11. Genesee Country Village in Mumford, New York, makes note of the year 1849, when New York declared Christmas as a state holiday. Groups of visitors tour local period homes where they learn of the historic event and celebrate with the residents.
12. Charlottesville, Virginia's historic downtown mall explodes with Christmas lights during the Yule season, with 90 local vendors of crafts and foods. The nearby resting place of President James Madison and his wife Dolley, in Montpelier, also hosts annual candlelight Christmas tours.
13. Chicago, Illinois, goes Christmas-crazy with millions of holiday lights strung along The Magnificent Mile, a large outdoor German Christkindlmarket craft market, and Navy Pier's Winter WonderFest, which boasts an indoor ice-skating rink.
14. Key West, Florida, makes up for the fact that there probably won't be any snow with its lavishly lit Boat Parade, the Holly Jolly Trolley, tours of historic Key West inns, and performances of "The Nutcracker," the largest stage performance in the Keys.
15. Yuletide in Taos, New Mexico, features lovely luminarias or farolitos, warming bonfires, winter concerts by the Taos Community Chorus, and the Christmas Tree lighting and Electric Light Parade on Taos Plaza.
16. The 12 Days of Aspen in Colorado turns this ski destination into a winter wonderland, with lights, horse-drawn sleigh and wagon rides, a visit from Santa, live reindeer, the Ugly Sweater Party, a concert by Burt Bacharach, and fireworks over Aspen.
17. Charleston, South Carolina, hosts Christmas in Charleston, with bourbon eggnog, the Holiday Festival of Lights, "The Nutcracker" ballet, and sleigh rides.
18. Boston, Massachusetts' Christmas celebrations feature three tree lightings, performances of Holiday Pops by Boston Pops, the Christmas Celtic Sojourn at the Cutler Majestic Theater, and lavish Christmas décor, including a huge Christmas tree in front of historic Faneuil Hall.
19. Santa Claus, Indiana, lives up to its name with the Santa Claus Land of Lights, the Family Christmas Light Adventure, hot chocolate at Santa's Candy Castle, an international fruitcake-eating contest, and the Santa Claus Christmas Parade.
20. San Antonio, Texas, decorates its historic River Walk with 120,000 lights and, this year, carolers will serenade diners from boats along the 1.3-mile San Antonio River. The Fiesta de las Luminarias will feature 6,000 candle-lit brown bags for the tradition of
lighting the way for the Holy Family.
21. Atlanta, Georgia's tradition of riding the Pink Pig at Macy's is a must for the holidays, but don't forget to go ice skating at Centennial Park, sled down Stone Mountain, or revel in the Magical Night of Lights at nearby Lake Lanier Islands. The city also hosts the lighting of Macy's Great Tree at Lenox Square Mall and Garden Lights, Holiday Nights at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, with more than a million twinkling lights.
22. In Louisville, Kentucky, you can make your own Christmas tree ornament at Glassworks, take in "A Christmas Carol" at the Actor's Theater, enjoy Christmas and music from Pam Tillis at the Galt House, go to the Snow Fairy Princess Tea, or have breakfast with Santa Claus.
23. Head for Disneyworld in Orlando, Florida, for the traditional Candlelight Processional at Epcot Center, and enjoy the bright illuminations at the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights, with Santas, angels, and elves everywhere you turn. Also plan a stop at Mickey Mouse's Very Merry Christmas Party and Disney's Days of Christmas.
24. Durango, Colorado, features the Polar Express, a train pulled by a real steam locomotive, with hot chocolate and Christmas carols, which takes kids to visit Santa Claus.
25. Woodstock, Vermont, kicks off Christmas with an equestrian parade of more than 50 horses and riders and the Wassail Weekend, celebrating the Norse tradition, and features sleigh rides, a wassail feast, and tours of the area's historic homes.
26. Newport Beach, California, hosts the 107-year-old Boat Parade, a three-hour spectacle in which residents brightly decorate their boats. All kinds of vessels, from kayaks to multimillion-dollar yachts, participate.
27. Frankenmuth, Michigan, has Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland, the "World's Largest Christmas Store," with daily visits from Santa Claus and Christmas carol sing-a-longs. Frankenmuth calls itself Michigan's "Little Bavaria," and features horse-drawn carriage rides through covered bridges, a holiday celebration, and a Christmas Candlewalk.
28. Paradise, Pennsylvania, boasts the National Christmas Center Family Attraction and Museum, with 20,000 square feet of life-sized, walk-through displays which show off Christmases present and past, plus visits with Santa Claus.
29. New Orleans, Louisiana's pure Christmas nighttime beauty is hard to top, with candlelight carols sung in front of the city's historic St. Louis Cathedral, Reveillon (meaning "awakening") dinners, lots of hot jazz, and NOLA's ChristmasFest.
30. In Miami, Florida, Santa's Enchanted Forest, the world's largest Christmas-themed amusement park with more than 100 rides, draws a million visitors a year. Watch Santa take a death-defying ride in the motorcycle cage or marvel at the 92-foot Christmas tree and more than 3 million lights.
31. Los Angeles' Hollywood Christmas Parade, a dazzling spectacle of floats and lights, is not to be missed. Also be sure to try some outdoor ice skating, or indoors at Chill at the Queen Mary, head to Anaheim for Disneyland Christmas Fantasy, or take in Grinchmas at Universal Studios Hollywood. And don't miss the Latino Las Posadas celebration on Olvera Street.
32. Leavenworth, Washington, holds three Christmas tree lightings to accommodate the flood of visitors who come to this small town every Christmas season. Live music, the arrival of St. Nickolaus, a parade, a performance of "The Nutcracker," sledding, and Winter Wonderland Walks make this a must-see spot for Christmas fans.
33. Baltimore, Maryland's 34th Street transforms into a festival of lights with some traditional displays and some quirky, like a Christmas tree made out of hubcaps. The German Christmas Village has choirs, traditional German food, and the Charity Weekend, where you can buy a Christmas ornament to contribute to a charity.
34. Mall of the Americas in Minneapolis, Minnesota, goes virtually Noel-nuts every Christmas with huge holiday wreaths, giant ornament balls, two 40-foot-high Christmas trees, and Santa Sid, the most popular mall Santa in the country, drawing more than 17,000 visitors per year.
35. Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Tennessee has more than 2 million lights strung over 50 acres and boasts a huge Nativity scene with figures 10 feet tall. The famous Nashville Christmas Parade is on tap again this year, with the theme "Miracle on Broadway," and the Nashville Ballet will present "The Nutcracker."
36. Washington, D.C., is far from left out when it comes to Christmas. The lighting of the national Christmas tree in President's Park has been a tradition since 1923, and families can also enjoy the Pathway of Peace, with 56 smaller trees representing the 50 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia.
37. Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, has the Inn, which features a visit from Charles Dickens' great-great-grandson, scads of Christmas decorations, and the Christmas Place, the largest Christmas store in the South. Nearby, Dollywood's Smoky Mountain Christmas will have a visit from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and high-tech holograms of Christmas Past, Present and Future, along with special Christmas shows.
38. Solvang, California, does Christmas with a Danish flair. The city, known as the "Danish Capital of America," decorates its half-timber houses and working windmills with Christmas lights, and also hosts a parade, Danish dancers, and the Julefest Tree Lighting Ceremony, plus a Santa village.
39. Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, is all about the history. You can visit Christmas at a typical 1780s farm, hear accounts of Christmas during the Revolution at the Yorktown Victory Center, enjoy the Christmas tree lighting, the boat parade, Yorktown Market Days, the Toyland Parade and, yes, Virginia, they have Santa Claus.
40. The Resort at Paws Up in Greenough, Montana, gives kids their very own Santa Claus, horse-drawn sleigh rides, a gingerbread house-building contest, and a lavish Christmas feast.
41. The Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco, California's Cow Palace brings the Victorian era in London to life with 700 costumed performers in Victorian garb, loads of tasty food, music hall tunes in Mad Sal's Dockside Alehouse, plenty of Christmas shopping, dance parties, and Irish and Scottish dancers.
42. Christmas by the Sea in Ogunquit, Maine, has a tree-lighting ceremony, hay rides, a Chowderfest Dinner With Dickens at the Clay Hill Farm and, this year, a concert by Rusted Root. There is also a carol-singing stroll that leads to the town's holiday fireworks display.
43. North Conway and Lincoln, New Hampshire, are the perfect spots for train-lovers. Try the Polar Express and its Journey to the North Pole. You munch chocolates on the way and, when you arrive, elves take you to see Santa at his Toy Workshop where the boy from the "Polar Express" book, now grown up, relates his experiences, and your kids get to tell Santa just what they want for Christmas
44. Beaufort, South Carolina, residents and visitors enjoy the annual Crystal Coast Christmas Flotilla of gaily decorated boats and a gala traditional Christmas parade through downtown city streets.
45. Park City, Utah, is nestled in a valley that glows with thousands of lights during the Christmas season and features the annual Electric Parade and Santa Claus on skis, leading a torch-lit procession down the PayDay Trail. Nearby Montage Deer Valley has an enormous gingerbread house, 13 feet tall, made out of 11,000 cookies.
46. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has dazzling white lights hung like Spanish moss in the trees and 5,500 hand-lit candles showing off the beauty of Brookgreen Gardens. The city also features the Festival of Trees at Ripley's Aquarium — with 50 sparkling trees, one for each state — and the Christmas Show of the South, featuring the Carolina Opry.
47. Annapolis, Maryland, features the "It's a Wonderful Life Holiday Celebration," free horse and carriage rides, the Jolly Express cruise around Spa Creek, and State House by Candlelight, with caroling and a huge Christmas tree. But the big event is the Eastport Yacht Club Parade of Lights, with festive decorated boats cruising the Annapolis Harbor.
48. Newport, Rhode Island, encourages locals to use only white Christmas lights, which gives an old-timey, candlelight atmosphere to the entire town. The seaside town's rich history is the focus here, with walking candlelight tours of the city's old mansions and a nod to pirates and smugglers with the Rogues and Scoundrels History Walking Tour. The Newport Artillery will fire a cannon blast to mark the opening of the season at the tree lighting on Dec. 1.
49. Helen, Georgia, is a Bavarian old-time village nestled in the mountains, and its Deck the Halls festival at Unicoi State Park kicks off the celebrations, followed by the town's annual costume holiday parade, carriage rides, visits from Santa, a traditional German Christkindlmarkt, and the annual Christmas in the Mountains Lighted Parade.
50. In Las Vegas, Nevada, the Bellagio takes the holiday lead by transforming its 13,000-square-foot conservatory and botanical garden into a Christmas wonderland, while carolers sing around the dancing lights in front. Meanwhile, the Ethel M. Chocolate Factory and Cactus Garden in Henderson drapes more than a half million lights over three acres of cacti. Don't miss the giant Christmas tree at Doge's Palace at the Venetian.
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AMENPER: Hillary Clinton Electa Presidente
No están equivocado, lo que leyeron es una realidad, Hillary Clinton
fue hoy electa la presidente número 43 de los Estados Unidos, porque los
números se decidieron en los acontecimientos de hoy.
Para mi larga vida, las elecciones presidenciales de 1992 están cerca
en mi mente, lo recuerdo como hubiera pasado el año pasado porque fueron
impactantes, fue una frustración que como un fantasma se incrustó en mi
mente.
Este fantasma que ya parecía dormido, se comenzó a despertar cuando vi
el alza de Donald Trump en las encuestas.
Como dijo una vez Yogi Berra, era Déjà vu otra vez.
Otra vez un millonario ególatra al rescate de un canditato demócrata
al cual iba a ser fácil de derrotar.
Las elecciones fueron lo que se esperaba, Ross Perot no ganó ni un
solo estado, pero robó los suficientes votos para que Bill Clinton fuera el
candidato ganador.
El resutado fue Bill Clinton con el 43%, George Bush con el 37.5% y
Ross Perot el 18.9%.
Sin lugar a dudas este millonario ególatra, Ross Perot, entregó al
partido demócrata la victoria en bandeja de plata.
Muchos descansaron cuando Donald Trump firmó un papel diciendo que no
aspiraría para presidente como candidato independiente. Conociendo a
este tipo de persona sabíamos que este papel para Trump tiene menor importancia
que el papel higienico y su palabra tiene mismo valor de lo que limpiamos con
el papel higienico.
"Una nueva encuesta indica que el 68% de mis seguidores votarían
por mi si salgo del partido republicano y aspiro como
independiente," escribió Donald Trump en Twitter el martes.
Esto se refiere a una encuesta de la Suffolk University publicada el
martes, que reportó que más de dos tercios de los partidarios de Trump a nivel
nacional lo apoyarían como candidato independiente a la Presidencia.
Si hacemos los cálculos matemáticos, las elecciones del 2016, con este
nuevo millonario ególatra, Donald Trump, serán una copia de las del
1992.
El 68% de los seguidores de Trump no son muchos realmente cuando
consideramos las elecciones generales. Son matemáticamente el 20% de
los Republicanos, lo que da aproximadamente la misma votación de un
17% del electorado general en las elecciones generales, que es un poco menos
que la votación que recibió Ross Perot en las eleccones de 1992, pero
suficiente para asegurarle la presidencia a Hillary Clinton.
Si Trump corre como candidato independiente esto matemáticamente le
daría la victoria a Hillary Clinton sin la más mínima posibilidad de victoria
al candidato republicano….muuy iinteresante, una casualidad muy casual.
Hoy tenemos la confirmación de algunas cosas que para nosotros era
evidente, pero que muchos todavía no consideraban como una realidad.
Todo lo que dice Donald Trump sólo es para su coveniencia, ya sea el
firmar un documento aprófico y sin valor de que no va a correr de
independiente, no importa que lo afirme personalmente. Todo es papel higienico
para limpiar la mierda de sus palabras.
Otra cosa evidente es que sus cojonudas e imposibles posiciones, no
son reales, sólo es mierda de su boca para aromatizar a sus seguidores que
gustan del olor.
Que no le importa mentir, el niega las mentiras evidentes y repetidas
numerosamente,cada vez que quiere crear visibilibad, porque piensa y
cree que sus seguidores son estúpidos que se dejan llevar de su retórica, y los
números confirman esta creencia.
Hoy es el día en que fue electa Hillary Clinton la presidente número
43 de Estados Unidos.
Y por si no se acuerdan, porque ya no es noticia, hubo un atentado
terrorista en San Bernardino California con 14 muertos y 32 heridos.
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En lo que
comentamos hoy sonre el Corán, los musulmanes, y el Obispo de Ignacio, no fuí
muy exitoso en traer a la atención del grupo esto que muestro a continuación.
Aprovecho este medio para compartirlo con ustedes.
Con el
debido respeto que me merecen los estudaintes del Corán, a mi me luce que el
problema no está en el contenido del tal libro sino en las acciones de sus
seguidores. Estoy dispuesto a concertar, por el aquello de mantener la
conversación, que el Islam es una religión de paz y amor. De la misma manera
voy a aceptar que hay musulmanes buenos y musulmanes malos. ¿De qué me sirve
todo eso si los líderes de esa religión la tergiversan y sus seguidores
"malos" son unos asesinos despiadados y los "buenos" no
denuncian a los malos?
La historia
no recoge un momento --antes y durante el Califato-- en que el Islam haya
convivido pari-passu con ninguna otra religión. Si, han
coexistido; unas veces sumisos y otras sometiendo, pero nunca con igualdad. A
los judíos y cristianos en tierras conquistadas los dejaban relativamente
tranquilos, les llamaban "people of the Book" (perdonen el
anglicismo) siempre y cuando éstos reconocieran su autoridad,
se manejaran sumisos a la misma y les pagaran tributo periódicamente (el
"barato" en cubano).
Si los
buenos musulmanes no toman cartas en el asunto, criticando, denunciando,
condenando a los malos de manera activa y cuidando que camino toma su juventud,
esto va a terminar en una guerra religiosa de verdad donde, como usualmente
ocurre, van a pagar los justos junto con los pecadores.
Julio P. Dominguez
AMENPER:
El Factor
Trump
Un problema es la sensación de que algo está mal y que debe ser
corregido, es el sentir alguna sensación de aflicción o de
injusticia. Pero lo principal para corregir el mal es la diferencia entre lo
que es y lo que se podría o debería hacer para resolver el problema.
Aunque estemos abordando un problema aparentemente
insuperable, el proceso que se utilizará para resolverlo debe dejar
en claro para el público, si la solución que se está proponiendo es posible, o
si sencillamente, no es cierta, y es una conjetura que no es posible de implementar.
Este es el problema con el Factor Trump, sus proposiciones no son para
resolver el problema, pero para conseguir un protagonismo personal, y esto
puede ser contraproducente, no sólo para la campaña, pero puede ser beneficioso
para el partido contrario, y sobre todo para la solución del problema que dice
poder resolver.
Esto se puede aplicar a las medidas inconstitucionales que dice que
aplicaría si es electo presidente.
Cuando Trump dice que recogerá y expulsará del país a 11 millones de
inmigrantes ilegales que tenemos en el país, lo cuál sin lugar a dudas es una
realidad, está hablando de un problema que tenemos y que hay que solucionar.
Pero la imposibilidad logística y la inconstitucionalidad del plan,
hacen evidente que la proposición no es seria.
Cuando dice que cerrará las fronteras a todos los musulmanes,
es no sólo inconstitucional sino que violaría la carta de derechos
humanos de las naciones unidas.
¿Cuál es el resultado de estas declaraciones?
Bueno esto tiene cosas buenas para algunos y malas para otros.
Bueno para Trump personalmente, con este abuso de las emociones
de los que sienten que la política anti-terrorista, o la falta de política de
la administración están dejando a este país en un peligro evidente, con este
juego, se beneficiará en las encuestas.
Con la publicidad gratis que recibe de la prensa, se beneficiará en la
campaña.
Bueno para la prensa, es una magnífica oportunidad para lograr oyentes
y lectores- Se encuentran con un caudal de cosas que escribir y diferentes
entrevistas de personas de ambos partidos sobre las declaraciones de Trump.
Bueno para Barack Obama y Hillary Clinton, es un regalo de pascuas
adelantado.
En un momento cuando el flojo discurso de Obama sobre los sucesos de
San Bernardino, y las noticias sobre la vinculación de los atacantes con ISIS,
con una trayectoria de dinero de origen que ya debe de haber sido detectado,
las declaraciones de Trump han opacado el acto de terrorismo y el discurso de
Obama.
Escribo esto y parece mentira, las noticias del terrorismo han pasado
a segundo plano, candidatos, comentaristas, cintillos de noticias, están
enfocadas en las declaraciones de Trump sobre un hecho que nunca
sucederá.
Mientras los potenciales actos de terrorismo, que si sucederán, han
tomado un segundo plano.
Sin lugar a dudas, el factor Trump ha sido el mejor regalo para la
candidatura demócrata y un infierno para la candidatura republicana y para la
lucha contra el terrorismo.
Las victimas del Factor Trump, son en primer lugar la decencia, y
culminando con la posible elección de la sucesora de la administración
socialista.
Presentar una solución que no es cierta pero que está simplemente
enfocada a un beneficio de un político como un modo de capturar propaganda
gratis, no sólo es un insulto a la inteligencia de los ciudadanos, pero un acto
de complicidad en la lucha contra el terrorismo y una desestabilización del
proceso democrático.
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estoy opinando si lo que dijo Trump está o no correcto, lo que quiero destacar
es que solo se critica a los Republicanos.
CARTER BANNED IRANIANS FROM COMING TO US DURING HOSTAGE CRISIS
Frontpage Mag ^ | 12/8/2015 | Daniel Greenfield
Frontpage Mag ^ | 12/8/2015 | Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 12/8/2015 4:10:06 PM by Velveeta
Trump is a monster, a madman and a
vile racist. He's just like Hitler. Or Jimmy Carter.
During the Iranian hostage crisis,
Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran. Among these, Iranians
were banned from entering the United States unless they oppose the Shiite
Islamist regime or had a medical emergency.
Here's Jimmy "Hitler"
Carter saying it back in 1980.
Fourth, the Secretary of Treasury
[State] and the Attorney General will invalidate all visas issued to Iranian
citizens for future entry into the United States, effective today. We will not
reissue visas, nor will we issue new visas, except for compelling and proven
humanitarian reasons or where the national interest of our own country
requires. This directive will be interpreted very strictly.
Apparently barring people from a
terrorist country is not against "our values" after all. It may even
be "who we are". Either that or Carter was a racist monster just like
Trump.
AMENPER: La Debacle del Partido
Republicano
¿Es una convención abierta nuestra única
oportunidad de evitarla?
El
partido republicano se acerca a la peor debacle en las elecciones
presidenciales desde el 1964.
Era
joven en aquel tiempo, soy y siempre sido un conservador, la diferencia es que
entonces producto de las heridas sufridas en Cuba, era un conservador ideólogo
rígido, hoy en día soy un conservador pragmático, porque he
aprendido que el conservadurismo es precisamente lo contrario, es el
pragmatismo para conservar los valores establecidos, no para contribuir
destruirlos con una rígida ideología.
Pero
entonces era joven, y la juventud trae la inexperiencia, y me sentí muy
complacido cuando el partido eligió a un conservador ideólogo como yo, escogió
a Barry Goldwater.
Pero
esa satisfacción duró solamente hasta que Lyndon Johnson nos dio la pateadura
más grande de la historia moderna del partido, perdimos 486 votos electorales a
52, y sólo se ganaron 6 estados y se perdieron 44 y el distrito de
Columbia. ¿Qué ganamos con nuestro candidato? Una derrota
para nosotros y para el país.
Desde
entonces el partido últimamente se ha fraccionado todavía más, en las
elecciones pasadas estaba fraccionado en tres grupos, los conservadores
ideólogos rígidos, los conservadores pragmáticos y el establecimiento
político. Se escogió al mejor candidato, Mitt Romney, un hombre que
de haber sido electo hubiera sido un gran presidente por su capacidad y su
ideología.
Era
en candidato más apropiado, era un conservador pragmático, y era visto con
complacencia como candidato por el establecimiento político por su
pragmatismo.
Pero
el conservadurismo ideólogo se quedó en su casa y hemos tenido a Barack Hussein
Obama como presidente últimos cuatro años más.
¿Han
aprendido? Todo lo contrario, se han fraccionado más todavía. Ahora
todavía tenemos a los conservadores ideólogos rígidos, los conservadores
pragmáticos, el establecimiento y ha surgido una cuarta fracción los radicales
emocionales, que están llevando un 30% vociferante del partido al frente de la
contienda, mientras el otro 70% de las fracciones de conservadores y
establecimiento, se diluye entre 9 candidatos. Cuando estudiamos
esta situación vemos que estamos caminando apresuradamente a una debacle quizás
peor que la de 1964.
No
veo una solución a la vista, aunque la hay, tenemos un candidato, que no creo
que es el mejor, al menos ni es el que más me agrada, porque es un conservador
ideólogo como Barry Goldwater, pero a diferencia de Goldwater, Ted Cruz, que es
este candidato, está viviendo en una época en que cualquiera le puede ganar a
Hillary Clinton si logra unir el partido, sin importar su posición en una
fracción determinada del partido.
Un
miembro del establecimiento cómo Jeb Bush, que sería un buen presidente, no
tiene el menor chance, porque el establecimiento es la fracción con menos
apoyo, un conservador pragmático como Marco Rubio tampoco podría unir el
partido, porque los radicales y los ideólogos no lo aceptan y se abstendrían de
votar. El Radical emotivo Donald Trump sería la debacle total en las
elecciones generales porque la mayoría de los conservadores y el
establecimiento no lo acepta y se abstendría de votar. Solamente Ted
Cruz que inteligentemente no ha atacado frontalmente, ha establecido opiniones
diferentes pero cuidándose de atacar al monstruo, al radical Trump,
y por eso quizás pudiera lograr la unidad.
No
importa que no me guste el dogmatismo ideológico de Cruz que algunas veces lo
hace tomar actitudes que no nos gusta a los conservadores pragmáticos, lo importante
es un candidato que logre la unidad que pueda darnos la victoria en las
elecciones generales.
La
unidad significa que el 19% que los radicales emocionales de Trump, en las
elecciones generales salieran a votar porque aceptarían a un candidato que nunca
los atacó, los conservadores ideólogos tendrían su candidato, y lógicamente
saldrían a votar y los conservadores pragmáticos y el establecimiento político,
cómo son políticos prácticos no se abstendrían de votar para evitar la victoria
demócrata.
Esta
es la solución, pero el problema es ¿Quién y cómo se le pone el cascabel al
gato? ¿Cómo podemos agrupar al partido al candidato que realmente evite la
debacle electoral que se acerca? ¿Cómo podemos hacerle razonar a los
emocionalmente cargados radicales y a las otras fracciones que una victoria en
las primarias no es más que una victoria pírrica si trae la consecuencia de una
derrota histórica?
Quizás
por primera vez en nuestra vida veremos algo que no se ha visto en la historia
reciente, y que quizás salve a la nación. Quizás tendremos una
verdadera convención republicana, no una coronación como son últimamente las
convenciones, una convención del tiempo de antes, lo que llaman un “Brokered
Convention”, una convención abierta.
En
la política de Estados Unidos, una Convención abierta es una situación en la
que ningún candidato ha conseguido la mayoría de los delegados de la primera
votación oficial para el candidato presidencial de un partido político en su
nominación. Entonces empiezan la batalla cuando los delegados quedan
libres de votar por que quieran, y entonces el racionalismo puede ser que
prevalezca y elijan no al que más le guste, pero al que pueda evitar la debacle
de la vitoria de Hillary Clinton.
MIRIAM DOPICO: THE RUBIO
CAMPAIGN’S UNSEEMLY ALINSKY TACTICS AGAINST CRUZ. By: Mark Levin |
I was among the first
national radio hosts to support Marco Rubio in his uphill Republican primary
campaign for the Senate against the unprincipled Florida Governor Charlie
Crist. Back then, he ran as an unabashed Tea Party conservative. I
also supported Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, among others, in their campaigns
against the entrenched GOP establishment. But soon after arriving in
Washington, Rubio decided to throw in with these politicians – including John McCain andLindsey Graham and take an active leadership role
in the Gang of Eight fiasco. As he runs for the Republican presidential
nomination, Rubio has attempted to redefine his position on immigration yet
again, resulting in his utter incoherence on the subject.
Moreover, Rubio’s views
on foreign policy are also more in line with McCain-Graham
pseudo-conservativism. It is a kind of naïve and radical interventionism,
involving endless demands for American ground forces, that President Ronald
Reagan would never have supported – and did not. For example, Rubio’s
support for the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, joining with Barack Obama,
Hillary Clinton and, of course, McCain and Graham, has not led to
democracy. Instead, Libya has become another extremely dangerous and
growing stronghold for Islamic terrorists and a direct threat to our
country. “Democracy projects” have also led to the overthrow of the Shah
of Iran during Jimmy Carter’s presidency, ushering in the current Islamic
terrorist state that directly threatens America, as well as the more recent
rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, which was eventually ousted by the
Egyptian military, and so forth. Democracy requires more than an
election. It requires, first and foremost, a civil society. I’ve
talked about this a great length on my radio program.
But my commentary here
is not intended as a thorough analysis of immigration and foreign policies,
which may come in a later essay. This is a friendly warning to Marco
Rubio and his campaign donors, advisers, and consultants that they cannot wash
away some of Rubio’s less than stellar legislative actions and related
positions and pronouncements by embracing and unleashing Saul Alinsky-type
tactics against Ted Cruz or other conservatives. Such unprincipled ambition
has not and will not go unnoticed by conservatives.
Rather than proudly
standing on his own record, and contrasting his positions honestly with those
of Cruz, the latter of whom is clearly the more conservative and
anti-establishment candidate, Rubio and his surrogates have launched a
propaganda campaign against Cruz in a deceitful attempt to distort his
record. As an activist in Ronald Reagan’s 1976 and 1980 primary and
general election campaigns for president, I can tell you this is also something
Reagan did not do as he was proud of his record and sought a true battle over
ideas with the GOP establishment and liberal Democrats. However, his
primary and general election opponents over the years -- Gerald Ford, George
H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, or Walter Mondale -- preferred the route Rubio has now
taken – distortion and personal smears.
The “Cruz voted against Israel” Smear
Now let’s get to
specifics. Did you know that Ted Cruz is not supportive of Israel?
For anyone who has followed Cruz’s career, it would be like accusing Jeff
Sessions of supporting amnesty. Oh wait, Rubio has already done
that.
The Rubio campaign has
also accused Cruz of being weak on immigration, weak on national security, and
even supportive of Syria’s Assad! And we conservatives are
supposedly so stupid we will fall for all of it!
At each stage, there
has been an almost seamless coordination with Republican establishment media at
the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Weekly Standard and Commentary Magazine, to do
the bidding of the Rubio campaign – no matter how false and preposterous the
assertion.
Late last week, the Weekly Standard obsequiously peddled the Rubio
campaign attack that Cruz voted to cut funding for Israel’s defense as part of
his support for Rand Paul’s budget in 2013. The Rubio transcribers there
are claiming that the Paul budget, which balanced the budget in 5 years, “among
other cuts, slashed defense funding and international aid, including aid to
Israel.”
This is breathtakingly
dishonest. Aside from Cruz and Paul, 16
other Republicans,
including Mike Lee, Tom Coburn and Jeff Sessions, voted for the budget. The notion
that one can pull out any single provision of a massive budget, which doesn’t
set policy, in order to attack an opponent is wittingly disingenuous, as
witnessed by some of the pro-Israel conservative champions who voted for
it.
Indeed, the Weekly
Standard omitted that
the Paul budget zeroed out all aid to Israel’s enemies and terrorist entities
like the Palestinians. If it is fair to say Cruz voted against aid for Israel
by supporting the broader Paul budget, it is equally fair to say that Rubio
voted to continue aiding anti-Israel governments and terrorists because he
opposed the Paul budget. It would then be also equally fair to suggest that
Rubio opposes a balanced budget. The Rubio campaign’s notion
that Cruz opposes Israel’s Iron Dome program because it was one provision in
the massive National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which he voted against,
is also absurd. There have been many reasons to oppose the NDAA that include
both the policy and the actual process. For example, last year’s 1,648 page
NDAA bill was voted on less than two days after the text was posted online and
contained a massive federal land
grab.
Or the time Harry Reid allowed
only 2 amendmentvotes
on arguably the most important annual bill. And each time the future of
the Iron Dome was not hinging upon passage of this entire bill. Rubio and
his media cheerleaders know it.
But we need not focus
on one line item of a broader, more important, balanced budget vote. A
cursory glance at Cruz’s brief career in the Senate reveals a record of
standing for Israel on more fronts and with more force than any other senator
in modern history, including Rubio, who is undoubtedly a supporter of Israel as
well.
There was perhaps no
vote that had a more deleterious effect on Israel than the nomination by Obama
of John Kerry for Secretary of State. Rubio supported the nomination and
voted to confirm Kerry. Cruz was one of only three Republicans to oppose
him. And Kerry has been an unmitigated disaster across a wide range of
foreign policy issues.
Cruz’s other pro-Israel
actions include:
- A bill to move the U.S. embassy
to Jerusalem
- Using his subcommittee chairmanship to conduct
hearings on Obama’s refusal to follow a court order and grant restitution
to American victims of terror in Israel.
- Introducing legislation to designate the Muslim Brotherhood, a sister of Hamas, as a terror
group.
- During the Israel-Hamas war, when Obama imposed a de facto travel embargo on
Israel, Cruz shut it down within 24 hours after he threatened to block all
State Department nominees from confirmation.
- Nobody did more to fight the Iran deal harnessing
every messaging tool at his disposal.
Rubio’s major legislative achievement in the Senate
was the Gang of Eight travesty.
Where is Rubio’s Voice?
Which brings us to the
next logical question. Cruz has used his committee assignments, legislation,
floor speeches, and media appearances to fight against Obama’s war on
Israel. By Rubio’s own admission, he has for the most part checked out of
the Senate and as such has been MIA for fights on many of these important
issues.
Rubio would be wise to
focus on what he has done for conservatives on national
security or any other issue. But this is where he may be having some
difficulty. His record is thin. As I mentioned earlier, Rubio’s
major legislative achievement in the Senate was the Gang of Eight
travesty. This bill would have created permanent open borders, invited
back countless dangerous aliens who were already deported, and created an unlimited new pipeline
of immigration and refugees from the Middle East.
To this day, Rubio defends his Gang of Eight role,
while simultaneously trying to distance himself from aspects of the bill. Last week, he also refused
to vote for Rand Paul’s plan to pause the flow of refugees
entering our country from the Middle East or other areas of the world where
terrorism is pervasive. Given ISIS’s promise to hide terrorists among refugees,
including those from Syria, which they accomplished in the recent slaughter in
Paris, and the incompetence of the Obama’s administration’s vetting processes,
prudence should have guided Rubio to vote for the Paul plan – if he is the
national security hawk he and his media surrogates claims him to be.
Furthermore, the notion
that Rubio is little different from Cruz on immigration, as suggested by Rubio
and his campaign, ignores the dichotomy between the two of them on every aspect
of this issue. Cruz fought tooth and nail to block the Gang of Eight
bill. Rubio championed it. Cruz has led the fight against DACA,
DAPA, sanctuary cities, and Obama’s lawless refugee policies, while Rubio has
remained largely silent. The
truth matters.
Rubio’s
NSA Hit on Cruz
Rubio has accused
opponents of the earlier NSA metadata collection system, in particular Cruz, of
being national security doves. In fact, he has even warned them that if
the country is attacked as a result of the new law’s judicial review
requirement, which was spearheaded by Mike Lee and voted for by, among others,
Cruz, they will be responsible for weakening the nation’s defense. Yet there’s
not even one example of the earlier metadata collection system stopping
terrorism. In the latest terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Rubio fails to
mention that despite the telephonic activities, apparently the killers somehow
avoided NSA notice. There are honest disagreements about this program, based on
legitimate constitutional issues, but to insist that constitutional
conservatives, like Cruz, who backed a modified metadata program are weak on
defending America is contemptible. As Rubio knows, Sen. Steve Daines voted with Cruz, as did Sen.
Cory Gardner, both of whom are supporting Rubio.
For now, I will stop
here. Marco Rubio is a talented man who can potentially contribute a lot to
this presidential race in the remaining months. But that will only happen
if he abandons his Alinsky tactics for a more Reaganesque approach and treats
the conservative electorate with the respect it deserves. If Rubio is
proud of his record, then he should defend it. If he objects to Cruz’s record,
he should challenge it. But stop falsifying both.
Mark Levin is the Editor-in-Chief of Conservative
Review and host of the nationally syndicated “The Mark Levin Show.
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Alemán: Y tú que, ¿Eres de
Derecha o de Izquierda?
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ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Daesh: What's
The Difference?
By Maria
By Maria Vultaggio.
@mariamzzarella m.vultaggio@ibtimes.com on
November 16 2015 6:26
PM EST
Many
people are concerned about European citizens who have returned after fighting
in Syria or Iraq. Above, supporters hold an ISIS flag in 2014. Getty Images
After
the Islamic State group, the extremist organization that controls large parts
of Iraq and Syria, took responsibility for the slaughter in Paris Friday night, many people may be
confused about the name of the group, which has several different iterations.
The terrorists are known variously as ISIS, ISIL, the Islamic State and Daesh
-- so
what’s the difference?
Islamic State: This is the English version of what the
terror group calls itself. It also claims to be a caliphate, which is
a state ruled by a caliph, which is Arabic for "successor,"
meaning successor to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. The last generally
acknowledged Muslim caliphate was the Ottoman Empire, which ended in 1923. Many
governments and media refuse to use this name because it gives the group
legitimacy as a state and a representative of Islam.
ISIS: The militant group, which began as the Iraqi branch of
al Qaeda during the U.S. occupation, gained this name after it invaded
Syria in 2013. ISIS is short for "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,"
or "Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham," which is an old Arabic term
for the area.
ISIL: ISIL translates to “Islamic State of Iraq and the
Levant.” The Levant is a geographical term that refers to the eastern
shore of the Mediterranean -- Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Jordan.
It’s the term the U.S. government uses since the "Levant" is
apparently a better translation for al-Sham, the Arabic name for the region.
Daesh: This is a term the militant group hates. French
President François
Hollande has used it since the attacks Friday, and
first used it in September 2014. It’s an Arabic acronym for “al-Dawla
al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham.” It can sometimes be spelled DAIISH,
Da'esh or Daech, a popular French version. The hacktivist group Anonymous and
President Barack Obama have used the term since the deadly terrorist attacks in
Paris.
Thanks
to Arabic wordplay, it could also be an insult. “Depending on how it is
conjugated in Arabic, it can mean anything from ‘to trample down and crush’ to
‘a bigot who imposes his view on others,'" Boston
Globe writer Zeba Khan reported in October
2014. ISIS threatened “to cut the tongue of anyone who publicly used the
acronym Daesh, instead of referring to the group by its full name,” theAssociated
Press wrote in September 2014.
International efforts to stem the flow of funds to the
self-described Islamic State group have run into steep challenges. The group is
known by several names. Above, an ISIS parade in Syria. Reuters
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