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According to Pamela Geller of the Atlas Shrugged blog an examination of the Federal Election Commission filings made by Barack Obama reveals that he has been receiving campaign contributions over several months totaling $24,000 from three brothers from the Edwan family. Well, what’s the big deal? People give to political campaigns every day. Well, here’s the problem. These three brothers are Palestinians who currently live in Rafah, Gaza near the Egyptian border. Rafah is a known Hamas stronghold and a hotbed of terrorist activity.

Terrorist connections aside, Attorney Debbie Schussel points out that, first, foreign nationals are forbidden from giving any money in connection with any election in the U.S. be it local , state, or federal. Second, the most any individual is allowed to give to any federal candidate or to the candidate’s campaign committee is $2,300 per election. That makes these contributions very much illegal. However, I guess the precedent was set by Bill and Hillary Clinton who accepted money from Red Chinese Communists and the Feds ignored it.

If this wasn’t so serious, the way that the Obama campaign tried to hide these contributions would be almost funny. At the very least it shows just how stupid they think Americans are. Schussel explained, "They listed the campaign contributions as coming from Rafah, Georgia..." (There is no such town)... "They used the ‘GA’ from Gaza so it makes it look like it’s legal; and for the zip code it says ‘972,' which is actually the area code to dial over to Gaza."

Let’s face it, if the Obama campaign is going to thumb its nose at the Federal Election Commission by taking contributions that are way above legal limits, why should it bother them if the money comes from foreign nationals with a possible connection to Terrorists. Doesn’t that tell us what kind of president Obama would be?

Don’t expect to hear any of this coming from the mainstream media anytime soon. If John McCain had done this it would be front page news for weeks, right?

There is a lot of talk right now about alternative energy sources that are suppose to be the silver bullet that will kill our dependence on fossil fuels. Unfortunately there is no technology available today that will allow us to do that, and no matter how much Congress insists that there is, the truth is still the truth and nothing will change that. People are working on it and someday we may have an alternative to petroleum, but not today.

One particular source seems to have come to the forefront recently as a result of a series of ads run by T. Bone Pickens, and oil man, promoting the use of wind power. Pickens sees a way to make money from the recent craze to use alternative fuels, and I don’t fault him for that. But that’s all it is, a craze, and that’s all he’s doing, trying to make a bundle of money while he myth of wind power is alive..

To find out the facts on wind power I went to the E.ON Report on Wind Power that is published in Great Britain. E.ON Netz operates the largest energy grid in Europe and has been a leader in developing the means to use wind power to generate electricity for quite some time now. So they are the experts, and this report points out some of the shortcomings in using the wind to generate electricity.

The first downside to wind generators has earned them the wrath of animal rights groups all over the world. You see, the spinning blades on wind generators have a tendency to shred birds every now and then and heaven help you if one of those shredded birds happens to be endangered. In California they’re known as Condor Cuisinarts. This means that any effort to install a wind generator is met with just as many law suits from animal rights kooks as a nuclear power plant would face. They also generate the wrath of the likes of John Kerry and Ted Kennedy if you dare to try to spoil their view while their out yachting by installing wind generators along the shore.

The second thing is the cost. Per kilowatt hour of capacity wind generators are very costly to install and maintain when compared to conventional generating plants. Conventional generators are usually inside buildings and are protected from the elements. Wind generators on the other hand are, by their very nature, exposed and in hard to reach locations. They must also be built to withstand the ravages of nature.

The third thing is the power source to operate the generators isn’t consistent. Wind generators need a consistently strong wind twenty four hours a day seven days a week in order to be efficient. Well, that’s just not going to happen. No matter how windy the location is, on average, there is only enough wind available to supply about 30% of the power needs of its users. That means that 70% of the power must be supplied by a more conventional source.

The fourth problem is that wind generated electricity fluctuates as the wind speed fluctuates and no one wants to have their lights alternating from very bright to very dim all the time. This means that the operators must try to balance out the flow of electricity by the short term use of conventional generators.

Problem number five is that power grids are not able to handle a load that is constantly fluctuating. Power companies try to predict the wind speeds so they can take measures to compensate for this problem but forecasting wind speed in advance is not very reliable. Since there is no way to store the electricity produced by stronger winds to be used during the slack times this wavering flow of electricity creates real problems on the power grid. If the operators aren’t careful there can be major overloads from time to time that can damage a lot of very expensive equipment.

On, Sunday, July 6, 2008 the forecasted wind speed at a wind farm in Oregon proved to be much less that the actual wind speed they encountered. When the wind suddenly picked up the power grid operators couldn’t react to the increased flow of electricity fast enough and the excess power threatened to burn out the generators at the Bonneville Hydroelectric Plant. They could have shut down the hydroelectric generators by spilling more water but the EPA said they couldn’t do that because it might kill a few salmon and we can’t have that now can we. When they tried to call the wind generator operators to get them to shut down the wind generators, since it was Sunday, all they got were answering machines. Well, to make a long story short, they did manage to get someone at one of the wind farms and they were able to shut down the wind generators at that location just in the nick of time to avoid disaster. If they hadn’t stopped it in time that incident could have fried the power grid in most of the Northwest. They may not be so lucky next time.

The bottom line is this. Wind generated electricity is only able to replace electricity generated at traditional power stations to a very limited degree. Since wind generators rely on a very unreliable power source themselves, the wind, this means that wind power has a very limited load factor even when it is technically available. In other words, wind power never supplies power even close to its design capacity. Power companies that use it cannot guarantee that it will be available for any consistent supply of electricity. Experience has shown that wind generators, on average, only produce about 14% of their design capacity. That means that 86% of what they are capable of producing never materializes and must be supplied from other sources. Consequently, this means that traditional power generators must be on line at all times with a capacity equal to at least 90% of the installed wind generator capacity, and since these conventional generators can’t be turned on an off by throwing a switch they must be running all the time so that they are ready to balance out the shortcomings of the wind powered units.

So the only way that wind power even comes close to being commercially viable is through huge government subsidies. Your tax dollars, folks. Even then wind power isn’t really saving anything since the conventional generators must be on line anyway. It’s all smoke and mirrors.

John McCain has already traveled to Iraq several times and the Mainstream News Media has hardly noticed. Then Barack Obama decides to go to Iraq for the very first time and the three Major Networks decide to send their News Anchors along with an army of soundmen and cameramen so they can drool over his every word as Obama illegally commits to send more troops to Afghanistan and tries to take credit for everything the Bush Administration has been doing to win in Iraq while Barry was waving the white flag and saying our military wasn’t able to win.

Do I need to remind these media types that Obama, when he bothered to vote at all, voted against funding the troops as well as voting against everything that he is now trying to take credit for, like the Surge. Nothing attracts political glory seekers like success.

And don’t think I haven’t noticed that Obama just can’t seem to bring himself to give any credit at all to his own country and the U.S. Military for the successes in Iraq. Instead, he gives all the credit to the Iraqi Government and al Sadre’s decision to stop fighting. Well Barry, why do you think the Iraqi Government has been successful and al Sadre decided to stop fighting, hmmmmm?

We all know what they’re doing. They want to get lots of footage of Obama acting presidential so that they can use the footage in campaign ads in an effort to overcome his lack of experience. They want to give people the impression that he is a real diplomat. The truth is, ol Barry chairs a Senate Committee on Afghanistan and has never even had a meeting. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. After all, he only had 143 days in the Senate before he started running for president. Before that, name one thing he has done that would qualify him to be president.

Someone needs to remind Barry and the Network News Anchors that he isn’t president yet and shouldn’t be committing the U.S to sending more troops into Afghanistan. Barry also need to be reminded that Afghanistan is a NATO operation and there aren’t more troops there because NATO has decided not to send them. If Barry had been chairing his committee instead of campaigning, he may have known that. Barry, your inexperience is showing again.

At the same time all of this Obama bootlicking is going on John McCain steps off of an plane in New Hampshire today and there is one local reporter and one cameraman there to cover his arrival. Now try to convince me that the Mainstream News Media isn’t in the tank for Obama? Is there any doubt?

Okay folks, lets get real. Liberals are telling us that we need to conserve just about everything we use today and the incentive they give us is that we’re going to save tons of money.

That’s exactly what the people in Charlotte, North Carolina were told when the Charlotte City Council mandated water conservation. They put up with toilets that wouldn’t flush, dirty cars, and brown lawns. In other words , they were responsible citizens and helped save a lot of water. Well, the decrease in water use resulted in a decrease in revenues for the city owned water utility. We can’t have that now can we? So what do you think the City of Charlotte did? They raised the water rates by 15% to make up for the loss. You're taxed if you use the water, and you're taxed if you don't.

Several cities in the U.S. have installed red-light cameras to catch red-light runners in an effort to make you safer. They told us that the cameras would pay for themselves in increased revenues from traffic fines. Some cities in Florida have followed suit. However, many cities that put them in have now turned them off. You see, tickets issued for running red lights actually went down so much that the traffic fines weren’t even paying for the electricity to run the cameras. Besides, the city relied on those fines to make money and they wanted that money back. So I guess your safety wasn’t as important as they told you it was. Making money from the traffic fines was what they really wanted.

What do you think is going to happen if you start driving a roller skate with a lawnmower engine in it and save gasoline? The gas tax revenues are going to drop. Do you think those politicians are going to let you get away with that? They’re going to raise the gas tax to make up the difference.

What do you think will happen if we survive the mercury hazard and save tons of electricity by using those CFL bulbs they’ve mandated? Electric company revenues will go down. Then what do you think will happen? They’ll raise your rates to make up the difference.

Government never thinks that it should ever have to make do with less, but they don’t think that that’s any problem for you. Trust me, you’re going to pay one way or the other.

Well folks it has begun. In light of the June 12, 2008 Supreme Court ruling that gave Guantanamo Bay detainees access to American courts the U. S. District Court of Appeals in Washington DC ruled today that a Chinese Muslim named Huzaifa Parhat can no longer be considered an enemy combatant and should be released. Parhat is one of several Chinese Uyghurs, a Chinese Separatist group living in Afghanistan with known ties to al Qaeda, who are being held in Guantanamo. The government has been trying to find a country willing to accept the Uighurs but, so far, have had no luck. The court said that since there is no evidence that Parhat had actually picked up a gun an fired at any Americans, he must be released. Who knows, maybe the Liberals on the court will allow him to move into your neighborhood. Get ready, this is only the beginning, folks.

With the threat on another attack looming large over America Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat leadership in the House decided that they owe more to the Trial Lawyer Lobby than they owe to the American people. So, instead of passing the Protect America Act that would help protect Americans they spent their time before leaving for vacation holding hearings about some baseball players who were suppose to be taking steroids.

I've got it! Let's start a rumor that all Islamic Terrorists are taking steroids. That should get the Democrats to pay attention.

It seems that whenever Hillary (or, if you prefer, Billary) says something outrageous it isn’t long before her supporters will jump to her defense by saying, "She had to say that to satisfy her base." Well there is one group that Hillary doesn’t have to pander to. They love her just the way she is. They’re the Islamic Terrorists.

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Aaron Klein, the Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily, recently published a book and devoted a part of it to finding out which American politicians the terrorists liked best. He found out that the overwhelming favorite of the terrorists was, you guessed it, the Democrats in general, and Hillary Clinton in particular. Klein said, "The terrorists understand very well the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, and they see that a lot of Democratic presidential candidates are competing with each other on who would withdraw from Iraq first, who would create dialogue with Iran, dialogue with Syria, cease fires with some of the insurgent leaders."

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According to Klein, the terrorist leaders understand that it is in their best interests for Democrats to gain the political upper hand in the United States. That’s why all of bin Ladin’s recent videos basically regurgitate Democrat talking points. Do you really think that bin Ladin give a rat’s rear end about uninsured Americans? But he was sure to mention them in his latest tape. Listen to Ahmadinejad’s speeches. He tends to repeat points that have been written by the staff at the DNC.

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Klein talked to Hamas leader Ahmed Yousuf and he says that Yousuf has nothing but praise for Mrs. Clinton. Klein said, "He believes that the Palestinian ticket to victory is Hillary Clinton and he’s just one of literally dozens of senior terrorist leaders that I talked to..." Klein says that the consensus among the terrorists is that a Clinton victory in 2008 would open the door for them to impose Islam and Sharia Law onto the rest of the world. That includes the United States, folks.

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Klein went on, "These terrorists.... are looking to get America out of the Middle East and to destroy Israel. But these are just means to an end. They’re ultimately looking to spread their brand of Islam in the Middle East and Europe, and ultimately to the United States of America. So they’re going to support any political party or candidate that would try to push through their short term goal." The terrorists ..."apparently believe that Hillary Clinton, in particular, is that candidate."

Well, look at the bright side. Any terrorist who enters New York illegally won’t have to travel by cab. Hillary will see to it that they have driver’s licenses.

I have maintained for quite some time now that our public schools are abandoning traditional education more and more in favor of becoming indoctrination centers where "Liberalthink" is the main subject. School Boards seem to be more interested in turning out students who are proficient in the art of politically correct thinking than they are in turning out students who actually have the skills they will need in the future to get a decent job. Did you notice how Clay Aiken struggled last night on the "Are You Smarted Than A Fifth Grader" show over how much 8 times 8 was? It’s a good thing for him he can sing.

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One of the latest examples of this occurred at the Adams Middle School in Brentwood, California. The principal, Adam Clark, encouraged all the students to dress like the opposite sex on the last day of "Spirit Week." It was suppose to create sensitivity and tolerance of cross dressers, transsexuals, and transvestites among the students. That’s something that every 13 year-old needs, right?

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One parent of a seventh-grader questioned the principal about this and was told that she could keep her son home that day if she didn’t want to send him to school dressed as a girl.

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To make a long story short, when the parents got wind of this the outcry to fire the principal was so great that the event was cancelled and instead the students were asked to wear the school colors on that day. The parents won this one. Even so, they need to watch very closely what’s going on in schools today. You’d be surprised.

Back on October 12 the Empire State Building in New York City was lit up with green lights for the entire weekend to honor the Muslim holiday of Eid. This is one of the most important days on the Muslim calendar since it marks the end of Ramadan.

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Whoever thought of doing this didn’t seem to think that the families of the victims of 9/11 -- who were killed by Muslim extremists -- might look at this as a gross insult.

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So why would they do this? Simply because city leaders refuse to associate terrorism with Islam. It’s not politically correct. That’s amazing given the fact that the people who killed 3,000 people on that day were motivated by the teachings of Islam as were terrorist who have been killing Americans for the last 30 years..

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This idiocy is coming from the same city officials that ban nativity scenes, Christmas trees, Christmas carols, and Hanukkah menorahs but they see no problem at all paying homage to Ramadan. This is another slap in the face for the 9/11 victims.

Every Democrat candidate has come up with his own version of HillaryCare. For those of you who are interested in HillaryCare and other Social Democrat Health Care plans, here's something from a Canadian on their socialized medical care plan. I have added my own comments after each point. I also did not correct any typos in the original.

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 Subject: Health Care

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. This was sent from Canada to a friend in the States.

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 I  saw on the news up here in Canada where Hillary Clinton introduced her new health care plan. Something similar to what we have in Canada. I also heard that Michael Moore was raving about the health care up here in Canada in his latest movie. As your friend and someone who lives with the Canada health care plan I thought I would give you some facts about this great medical plan that we have in Canada.

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 1) The health care plan in Canada is not free. We pay a premium every month of $96 for Shirley and I to be covered. Sounds great eh. What they don't tell you is how much we pay in taxes to keep the health care system afloat. I am personally in the 55% tax bracket. Yes 55% of my earnings go to taxes. A large portion of that and I am not sure of the exact amount goes directly to health care our #1 expense.

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 Most Canadians pay out several hundred dollars a month in healthcare premiums. Low income families are exempt. According to the Canadian government that average tax burden in Canada is 40%. In the U.S. it averages just under 33%.

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 2) I would not classify what we have as health care plan, it is more like a health diagnosis system. You can get into to see a doctor quick enough so he can tell you "yes indeed you are sick or you need an operation" but now the challenge becomes getting treated or operated on. We have waiting lists out the ying yang some as much as 2 years down the road.

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The long waiting periods for care is why many Canadians opt to come to the United States and pay for their care. Of course this option is only open to the higher income groups. I like what Rudy Giuliani said yesterday. "If Hillary's health care plan gets implemented, where are the Canadians going to go for their heath care?" 

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3) Rather than fix what is wrong with you the usual tactic in Canada is to prescribe drugs. Have a pain here is a drug to take- not what is causing the pain and why. No time for checking you out because it is more important to move as many patients thru as possible each hour for Government re-imbursement

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 4) Many Canadians do not have a family Doctor.

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There is a severe shortage of doctors in Canada. They have all gone to places where they can actually make some money practicing medicine. The few who are left aren't taking on any new patients. According to the Canadian Medical Association 14% of Canada's population does not have a family doctor.

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5) Don't require emergency treatment as you may wait for hours in the emergency room waiting for treatment.

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Well, that can even be the case in the United States. You only go to the head of the line if you're about to die. But the wait times in Canadian emergency rooms are legendary, to say the least.

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6) Shirley's dad cut his hand on a power saw a few weeks back and it required that his hand be put in a splint - to our surprise we had to pay $125. for a splint because it is not covered under health care plus we have to pay $60. for each visit for him to check it out each week.

If you’ve ever entertained any doubts that the Democrats in Washington are really invested in the defeat of the United States in the Middle East, there can no longer be any doubt.

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You see, indications are that things are going very well in Iraq right now. And the Democrats can’t allow that to happen. They can see their hopes in 2008 going down the tubes if the United States military were to actually win over there. After all, they’ve already declared that the war is lost and that U.S. soldiers are just running around over there bombing villages and murdering civilians. They’ve called General Petraeus a liar when he said that we’re winning. So they can’t allow him to be right.

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Well, fearing an eminent victory in Iraq, the Democrats have been feeling pressure coming from their Left Wing base to get more serious about opposing the Bush Administration’s efforts to win the war. To that end, Nancy Pelosi is presenting a resolution to the House condemning Turkey for killing Armenians during World War I, calling it genocide. The Resolution has already passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

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Turkey has always denied that any genocide of Armenians took place. They say that both Turks and Armenians died as the Ottoman Empire collapsed at the end of World War I and they are very sensitive to suggestions that there was any wrongdoing on their part.

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Whether it happened or not is up for debate. But, even if it happened, that was almost a hundred years ago. So what possible purpose could such a resolution serve today? Especially given the fact that the U. S Congress has already passed two resolutions since that time that said the same thing.

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Simple folks. Turkey is a critical ally in the War on Terrorists. They allow flyovers of U.S. military aircraft as well as allowing us to use their country as a staging area for men and supplies being deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. So the Democrat strategy is to alienate this important ally in the war in the hope that it will hinder our efforts to win victory in Iraq and Afghanistan. Think about that, folks. The Democrats are actively trying to sever the supply lines to our troops in their effort to cause them to lose the war. I find that unbelievable. In fact, it's downright treasonous.

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Passing this resolution will be considered a gross insult by the Turks. In fact, the Turks have already recalled their Ambassador. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan commented last Friday that U.S. Turkish relations are endangered because of this resolution. He used a Turkish idiom to describe how bad relations are by saying, "Where the rope is worn thin, may it break off."

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It’s hard to believe that we could have a political party in the United States that is so desirous of seeing their country defeated in a time of war that they are purposely trying to alienate our allies. This is the same party that has been bashing Bush for years claiming that he has alienated the rest of the world from us. This is the same party who seems to be obsessed with what other countries think of us. This is the same party who seems to feel that we must get the permission of other countries before we can defend ourselves. Yet this same party is willing to insult our allies if it serves their political ambitions. That is almost beyond belief.

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I say again. If you had any doubts that the Democrats were so invested in our defeat that they are actively working to undermine our efforts to win the victory, there can be no doubt now.