Posted on 10/24/2009 3:28:39 PM PDT by maggief
The liberals and Marxists up on Capitol Hill (and in the SRM) are avoiding facing that reality like the plague. Our economy is worse now, than at any time in the last 70-odd years, and they're talking it up, or downplaying the worst of it.
They're just whistling past the graveyard, while the American people get angrier, and angrier.
Meanwhile, Pelosi and Obama party at the White House on our dime.....
Well, it looks like we got em outnumbered, eh? Okay, release the hounds.
No, I didn’t go back for the rifle. It was an impulse thing anyway. It was a birthday present to myself I really wanted.
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We sure do,,,
Sorry ‘bout the rifle,,,
Happy Birthday anyway,,,
I just bought a new Mossberg shotgun myself,,,
Grampaw’s old Model 11 Rem (trench broom) is near 100yo,,,
Next is a new 1911.45,,,
‘Bout the same age,,,
I’ve been a very,very Good Boy this year!!!
Ain’t shot nobody!!!...;0),,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,(yet)...;0)
Bump. Thanks Maggie!
Classic Sun Tzu - trying to project power where there is little or none.
Obama absorbed in reveries of self-proclaimed omnipotence.
Maybe I was unnecessarily hard on the clerk. There just might be a surge in gun sales that really did set the record checkers back a few days. I just had the feeling the guy was just being overly arbitrary, having no reason to delay checking out an 80-year-old. Five days is a bit much -— for a 22 rifle. I could understand if it was a Patton tank or a sqadron of old fighter planes.
bookmark:
http://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title11/1135.htm
AUTHORITY TO WAIVE REQUIREMENTS DURING NATIONAL EMERGENCIES
"Your rights as an American are no longer recognized under this national emergency declaration."
-actually they haven't been recognized for awhile...this "emergency declaration" just makes it *official*.
-and methinks somebody's puppet master over at 1600 P--- is spoiling for a revolt...
Think so?
And from who might this revolt come?
Pray tell? LOL
The United States of Entertainment, she bends but has never broke. Makes it a reasonable gamble for pushing a bit more? Don'tcha think?
I mean seriously, my friend. If an assassinated POTUS, a sitting POTUS getting BJs *in* the Oval Office (OUR house) from a government employee on government time, or trillions of shekels of debt we know really WTH it went don't even stimulate so much as a bowel movement of several 10s of millions?
What's a little {less} liberty?
Barring a series of 'in 'yo face' bigger than life incidents, all totally unexpected, anticipated and/or well outside the *design* --which assumes the general public (you & I) are ever informed said incident(s) happened-- there're profits to be made, my friend.
Just shush yo' mouth & go to work.
There's taxes to be pai..errrrr...collec...errr made & the day's young. {g}
One thing's from sure, my friend.
Appears we're all being taken *somewhere*. LOL
-ha, yeah... see pic. - if the fire don't get us...the fall will...
LOL
*perfect*, my friend.
The buggers, they're killing us softly with unkindness. LOL!!
Obama’s H1N1 national emergency declaration could invoke FEMA response to pandemic (opinion)
(NaturalNews) President Obama’s declaration of a national pandemic emergency is “no cause for alarm,” reported the mainstream media throughout the weekend. The declaration is nothing more than a “precaution,” they say. “It’s really more a continuation of our preparedness steps,” said Anne Schuchat, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in a USA Today story.
In other words, there’s not really any emergency at all. So why declare a national emergency in the first place? The media reports this was done to allow hospitals to bypass federal regulations concerning the setting up of large-scale triage sites — emergency medical camps quickly constructed to deal with large numbers of sick people.
But at the same time, H1N1 isn’t causing large-scale sickness. As USA Today reported, an expert on infectious disease, P.J. Brennan (the chief medical officer for the Penn Health System at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia) said, “The public ought to take some solace, some relief in this. It’s not a suggestion that things have deteriorated in any way. In no way is the virus more severe or more difficult to manage.”
So let me get this straight. The H1N1 virus remains mild. The CDC reports that swine flu infections already peaked out in mid-October. There have been no new developments in swine flu that would be cause for alarm and no reason to suspect huge numbers of sick people flooding into the hospitals. And yet, for some reason, the Obama administration has declared a national pandemic emergency specifically for the purpose of speeding the ability of hospitals to process large masses of sick people through emergency medical triage tents?
What are these people not telling us?
Something doesn’t add up here. Why would the U.S. government need to declare a national emergency to enable hospitals to handle a flood of sick people when there is no flood of sick people (and the pandemic seems to be fizzling out)?
This is more like the kind of preparation you might expect in advance of a biological terrorism attack, not for a flu that appears no more dangerous than the seasonal sniffles.
The National Emergencies Act and FEMA
Meanwhile, the media ignores the rest of the story about what dangerous powers a declaration of a national emergency puts into play. As reported here on NaturalNews, this declaration effectively ends many civil liberties in America and, at least on paper, puts the U.S. government in the position of having the legal authority to force vaccinations on the entire population at gunpoint (if they wanted to).
The National Emergencies Act passed in 1976 has some peculiar realities attached to it. In particular, as Wikipedia reports:
A federal emergency declaration allows the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to exercise its power to deal with emergency situations ... Typically, a state of emergency empowers the executive to name coordinating officials to deal with the emergency and to override normal administrative processes regarding the passage of administrative rules.
Got that yet? By declaring a national emergency, Obama invokes a set of laws that not only override important sections of the U.S. Constitution, but that also activate FEMA to take charge of “responding” to the emergency.
Now we know why they need all those emergency medical tent camps near the hospitals. FEMA’s in charge! And if FEMA handles the swine flu pandemic in the same way the agency handled the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we may indeed need all those emergency triage tents after all.
Those of you who have been following the ongoing march to destroy the freedoms of the American People already know about FEMA camps. These aren’t Boy Scout field trip camps; they’re detention centers designed to hold large numbers of people for “emergency” purposes. Many theories abound on what these FEMA camps might be used for.
http://www.naturalnews.com/027330_fema_pandemic_H1N1.html
-wellll, isn’t this interesting, considering the H1N1 flu started in Mexico, which is where the flu usually *ends*
Seasonal Flu Starts in Asia and Migrates Throughout World
http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/URItheFlu/9142
“...The flu arrives in Europe and North America six to nine months after the viruses infect Asia, and finally ends its travels in South America after another six to nine months, the researchers reported in the April 18 issue of Science.
Dr. Russell said in a telephone press conference that flu viruses die out after they cause an epidemic — mainly because their human targets have acquired immunity — but are continually being replaced by new ones evolving in what he called a “circulating network” in east and southeast Asia.
Every year, one or two strains emerge, cause seasonal epidemics throughout the world, enter the “evolutionary graveyard” of South America, and disappear after causing one last burst of disease, he said.
The Science finding arises from a study of the hemagglutinin gene of more than 13,000 influenza A H3N2 isolates from 2002 through 2007, Dr. Russell and colleagues said.
A separate study, in the April 17 issue of Nature, also suggests that seasonal flu strains arise from a central source and eventually peter out in a “sink.”
That study, by Edward Holmes, Ph.D., of Pennsylvania State University, and colleagues, hypothesizes that the source for the viruses is in the tropics, but does not pin the location down.
The studies are “beautifully complementary,” said Derek Smith, Ph.D., also of Cambridge University, who was senior author of the Science study. Among other things, both show clearly that flu viruses do not persist in any region, but are constantly being replaced by new ones....”
Indeed, just as It is moving to control the Internet before AM Talk Radio.
What's next, Chicago's water supply? LOL
There is an excellent piece on the president’s swine flu panic at investors.com. So far, H1N1 has been less lethal than most other flu bugs.
Perhaps, but you may be underestimating what people conditioned to obey orders will do. Look at what happened in New Orleans after Katrina.
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