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You are equating anyone who believes in keeping religion specifically out of the political decision-making as being amoral or unmoral.

Am I reading that correctly?

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by thier Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness...”

What part of “...all Men are created equal...” don’t you get?

A hundred and fifty years ago, the economy of part of the United States relied on slaves. Southerners tried to explain it away by claiming black slaves as “property”, like livestock - cattle, horses, and hogs. What they did was exploit human beings, keeping them in bondage, to enrich themselves.

This was a blatantly unconstitutional. Humans are not livestock. Not now, not ever.

Just so you know, my great-grandmother was Melungeon through her mother. She passed herself off as white, as many Melungeons had until the late 19th century. Her husband knew and hadn’t cared, until he wanted a divorce. She took her little boy and moved to California, where they could be free. That was in 1903.

If you’ve never heard the term ‘Melungeon’, I suggest you look it up on Wikipedia.

Joan who?

LOL!

NO. It was a constitutional issue.

You’re correct about people within the Republican Party working to destroy him.

The Rockefellers and the Romneys all worked towards Goldwater’s defeat in 1964.

” My reading indicates that he [Goldwater] saw no place/role for Christians in the Republican party.”

I do not understand your comment. Why should any specific religion be important to a political party?

The original founding of the Republican Party in the 1850s specifically rejected social issues from their platform.

By talking about Boston I tried to show how compliant Americans can be when there is a perceived threat.

That is an impressive photo.

We are talking about BHO2 declaring martial law. You brought up the “Boston bombers”. What happened in Boston is interesting, and I’ve been following it.

You’re talking to the wrong person.

I’m Welsh, Irish, Scottish, English, French, Dutch, Sub-Saharan African, Swiss-Italian, and Spanish. My ancestors came here in the mid-1600s and we’ve dealt with the racism and ancient hatreds dragged here, then left for “dead” because building a nation is really hard work without having to live with inherited resentment.

If there are super majorities who love LaRaza, MECHhA, and the NAACP, then they ought to emigrate to somewhere else. They will be more comfortable in that other place minus the rest of us. No one is stopping them, they are free to go, except that the “super majority”, as you call them, seem to be happier bitching and complaining than doing something constructive.

Have the remaining “bombers” been charged with any crimes?

I didn’t see anyone react in Boston. Did you?

Everyone, in fact, seemed very cooperative.

Yes. Westboro Church is a group of lawyers who harrass conservative groups in order to elicit a response, then sue. It’s all about money.

BHO2 has only one goal and that is to create chaos among the people residing in these United States. His purpose: to declare martial law and establish himself as dictator.

I suspect it hasn’t occurred to him that if he is successful - and by no means do I believe it inevitable - it will be his last act as President.

The Puppeteers are not pleased with their puppet’s performance in the White House. He’s made too many mistakes.

That is why he and Valerie Jarrett have taken such extreme security measures. Both are truly terrified of assassination. I suspect it is the primary reason the First Lady and daughters are frequently separated from him.

I haven’t looked at the stats in a while, but at one point in the near past, half the inmates in the Washington State Penitentiary system where Hispanic. And this was a point not so long ago when they made up a much smaller percentage of the overall population.

This was due to the illegal drug trade up and down Interstate 5, our national highway, from Mexico up into Canada.

I notice how such criminal activities have tainted the public perception of Hispanics, just like the Mafia tainted that of Italians. Not all Italians were criminally inclined; so too with Hispanics, but the public perception is there and will be difficult to overcome.

NO, I don’t doubt it. We must have a national language and for the purposes of business, science and education, that means English.

English should be the national language, but there should be no laws forbidding the use of other languages OUTSIDE of government with the exception of specific associations.

Immigration to the U.S.A. should be measured and slow, spread across all the nations of the world.

OH! Didn’t you go to Ebay and read about this item?

Lucky the guinea pig passed away, so his armor is up for sale.

Was that a spoiled guinea pig, or what!?

There are 108 bids, and at this time, $5,400. Three more days to go until auction ends.

Just when you thought you've seen everything!

He was murdered by garrote.

Never work for the Chinese.

I’m certain that there will be irony in any attempt against BHO2 — like a leopard that no one noticed, dropping from a tree while visiting Africa.

Bureaucrats ought to live in terror of the citizenry. It is how we stay free.

Unfortunately it is the opposite; and so we have tyranny.

You signed up on Free Republic just to prostitute your blog?

Come back when you have something worthwhile to say, and not acting as an apologist for the Progressives giving illegal orders to government employees these days.

If you don’t understand that last paragraph, look up the Nuremburg trials after WWII. Every last Nazi had an excuse for the crimes they committed - “just following orders”. It didn’t prevent their being hanged.

Bttt! Well said.

“Crony capitalism” is the reason Republicans are pushing amnesty.

The construction and agricultural business sectors require exploitable and expendable workers who can be easily laid off. So, those economic sectors donate large amounts to politicians to prevent strong enforcement of our immigration laws.

Oh, it is so hard but I did the same with my nephew.

I served in the Navy, as did my father and grandfather. It would have been a continuation of a family tradition, but because of Obama he has decided otherwise. Wise choice.

Really? When did that happen, that all California beaches went public?

When I lived in California back in the early 80s, there were still beaches that were private.

One of the really special aspects of the State of Oregon is that all the beaches are publicly owned. NO PRIVATE BEACHES!

It’s much worse than that.

From the interview: “I’m for solutions. To me, being able to use your skills to solve problems should be the focus for everybody in elected office today because our systems are broken. They’re not working and to point out the fact that they’re broken is one thing. To actually find creative solutions in a divided country to solve them is what we ought to be focused on. So Senator Cruz is gifted and he can play a constructive role in that regard.”

WOW! Let’ pick that apart.

“...being able to use your skills to solve problems should be the focus for everybody in elected office today because our systems are broken.”

How are they broken, Jeb?

Are you referring to the immigration laws that the majority of citizens support but the government refuses to enforce? That doesn’t equate with being broken, Jeb; just inconvenient to special interests, like the building industry or the agricultural industry who line your pockets with political donations.

“... To actually find creative solutions in a divided country to solve them is what we ought to be focused on...”

Yes, and making new laws and/or regulations is NOT a creative solution. It is a statist’s solution making government bigger.

Truly creative solutions, Jeb, is realizing the people can do it themselves if the government just gets out of the way. Americans are some of the most creative and hard-working people on the globe. You know what kind of solutions I’m talking about Jeb; the way we used to do things in this country before the Progressives intervened.

“...So Senator Cruz is gifted and he can play a constructive role in that regard.”

Yes, Ted Cruz, and other true conservatives, will do just that and make you look foolish.

Oh, and that first line, Jeb: “I’m for solutions. To me, being able to use your skills to solve problems should be the focus for everybody in elected office today..” I sure hope you didn’t pay a lot of money to some schmuck to write that silly line!

Thank you.

Yeah, that’s the cover story, good for this year. Don’t you believe it!

“Are we doing the Saudis dirty work?”

YES!!

Who owns it? Who are the people or corporations behind that newspaper, USA Today?

(I never read it.)

Bookmark this page.

For quite some time I’ve suspected that Barak Hussein Obama II died in the early 70s. Photographs of him from 5 years ago show a kid with blotchy complexion, bloated face and notched chin. His foster sister, Lia Soetoro, said that her little brother Barry had fallen out of a tree and sustained serious injuries, including a limp, which the present BHO2 doesn’t exhibit.

Is the person we think of as BHO2 actually what he has called himself a couple years ago: “a Jakarta street kid”? The Soetoros had a half-dozen foster children they had taken in off the streets of Jakarta. Madelyn Dunham told a visitor that a boy living with her family had a mother who’d died in 1970.

Is there an Indonesian “street kid” in our White House?

Pretty interesting about Michelle Bachman. Did you read, on LameCherry, about why Bachman is quitting Congress?

Yes, thank you, I read that.

What kind of community doesn’t have insurance for public repairs or damages to schools?

Don’t the people there have insurance?

Why ask Uncle Sugar for handouts?

Sec. 101. [8 U.S.C. 1101] (a) As used in this Act-

(3) The term “alien” means any person not a citizen or national of the United States.

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“Illegal alien” is a government term. It means a foreign national in the U.S. illegally.

There are tens of millions roaming the United States as I write this.

President Eisenhower deported millions of Mexicans during the 1950s. So can we today.

See: Wikipedia “Operation Wetback”.

There exists, incised in the hard cement of a Hawaiian sidewalk, the words, “King Obama”.

No doubt - a sad child hungry for attention.

BHO2 returning to Indonesia sounds wonderful! Let’s help him get a move on, shouldn’t we?

WOW! A hotel!

My parents liked to rough it. We went to 1930s-era vacation bungalows on a hillside overlooking Avalon on Catalina Island off the coast of California (1957 & 1958). No room service, no carpets, but it did have a rustic kitchen with a depression era refrigerator and a really scary shower in the bathroom.

The beach was rocky rather than sandy, but the glass-bottom boats and the the flying fish in the Channel were kinda cool.

To travel to Catalina Island we took a steamer that had wooden benches on the outside decks. I think the island had an airport but I could be wrong on that; flying boats is what I remember.

I remember going to Disneyland in the late 50s and early 60s. It was truly magical then.

Went to Disneyworld in 1980. Thoroughly tacky.

Yes, isn’t that interesting, how BHO2 doesn’t seem to care much about the repercussions of his actions?

It is as though he doesn’t intend to be here in the future.

What went wrong? Simple: the Wong Kim Ark decision has nothing to do with Natural born Citizen. There are FReepers who will post lies, stating that Natural born Citizen is included in the Wong Kim Ark case, but it was not.

Watch out for disinformation, which I believe was fed to the court in Indiana.

Three types of citizenship are recognized by our government: native born (’jus solis’); naturalized; and citizen-by-statute (’jus sanguinis’ - derived citizenship from parents). All have equal rights. All can serve in Congress, either as a Representative in the House, or as a Senator in the Senate.

The following link will take you to the government’s own Immigration Service web page describing the three types of citizenship.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=a2ec6811264a3210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=a2ec6811264a3210VgnVCM100000b92ca60aRCRD

Natural born Citizen is NOT a type of statutory citizenship. Natural born is ONLY an eligibility requirement for the U.S. Presidency per Article II, Section 1, clause 5, of the U.S. Constitution, and requires, as per the Founders, the President to be born in the United States (’jus solis’) AND of two citizen parents (’jus sanguinas’).

The definition of natural born Citizen appears in the holding of SCOTUS’s unanimous decision of Minor v. Happersett (1875).

Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. 162 (1875), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Constitution not only did not grant women the right to vote...but didn’t grant anyone the right to vote.

The Minor v. Happersett ruling was based on an interpretation of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme Court readily accepted that Minor was a citizen of the United States, but it held that the constitutionally protected privileges of citizenship did not include the right to vote.

SCOTUS rejected Minor’s argument that she was a citizen under the 14th Amendment of the U.S.Constitution, and examined her eligibility, concluding that she belonged to the class of citizens who, being born in the U.S. of citizen parents, was a natural born Citizen, and not covered by the 14th Amendment. This holding has been used in 25 consequent SCOTUS decisions since 1875.

(A holding supports the final decision in this case, and thus is NOT dicta, as some contend.)

No one has the RIGHT to be President.

The eligibility requirement of Natural Born Citizenship (’jus solis’ + ‘jus sanguinas’: born in the U.S. of U.S. citizen parents) must be viewed as a means to prevent split allegiance for any President of the United States.

The following is often used to support people like Rubio who seek to be President, but it was superceded centuries ago and is a false argument.

“The First U.S. Congress included in the 1790 Immigration & Naturalization Act language to alert the State Department to the fact that Americans born abroad are “natural born” citizens” and are not to be viewed as foreigners due to foreign birth. They were not granted citizenship via that US statute rather citizenship was stated as a fact that must be recognized by immigration authorities. These children were not citizens by any other means than natural law, according to Congress, and statutory law was written to insure that their natural citizenship was recognized.”

This is not a reasonable explanation. It fails to recognize that Congress only has powers over naturalization and has no power to define “Natural born Citizen”, which has nothing to do with naturalization. Furthermore, if Congress wants to tell the State Department something, they don’t have to enact legislation to do it.

But more important is that all of the following naturalization acts, 1795, 1802, etc., were also passed to naturalize the children of U.S. citizens born abroad. And the words “natural born” were repealed in the 1795 Naturalization Act and never returned again.

President Jimmy Carter used the same phrase back in 1976: “Trust me”.

The past year I’ve come to the conclusion that Barry Obama Soetoro, son of SADO and Obama SR, died in his early teens. There is no other explanation for the DOH in Hawaii blocking access to ALL records of Obama and Soetoro names.

When BHO2, the usurper, stated that he was “just a Jakarta street kid”, I recognized it as a verbal slip of the tongue.

Oh, boy! Grandmas with guns!

OMG!! I thought nothing about it — until you mentioned it.

My mind must be clean, or something.