Say Again..Terrorists are Who?

When Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's report to Law Enforcement Officers across the country surfaced on the Internet, I got physically ill. That hasn't happened to me before, although my friend Jan at Vinegar and Honey is sometimes forced to take time out from reviewing Governmental antics because she literally becomes ill as a result of her reading and researching.

I think everyone knows by now that the DHS report focuses on Right wing Extremists as a threat to the Nation.
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Those who are dissatisfied with the job their Elected Officials are doing,
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Those who support the Second Amendment,
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Those Military Veterans returning from war,
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and Those whose Religions don't support abortion.
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There was no mention of Muslim Extremists. There was no mention of the Mexican Drug Cartels that are moving into the US, killing and kidnapping.
Nope, just us, mainstream Americans, Moms and Dads, Children and Grandparents who wave flags, say the Pledge of Allegiance, work and pay taxes and still believe that the Constitution of the United States of America should guide our law makers and our law enforcers.

For those who haven't seen this Fox News video yet, it's interesting to see that Napolitano admits to Megan Kelly that she signed the document without reading by being briefed on the contents, then later tries to intimidate the reporters with her importance and makes a reference "if you had read the report.." Surprise! They had actually read the report when she hadn't!
Also, although she has changed the language referring to the Muslim Extremists who killed thousands of Americans on 9/11 as "Man Caused Disasters", she still bandies about the word terrorist when talking about Right wingers in this video.



The report came out just in time for the tea parties, but guess what? The tea parties were orderly. People were actually smiling and laughing as they waved their creative signs. According to Michelle Malkin, there were at least 250,000 across the Nation who exercised their right to peaceful assembly and freedom of speech. Pretty much on the spur of the moment!
For those seething at the insult to America"s Veterans, here's a wonderful letter written to Napolitano by David K. Rehbien, National Commander of the American Legion.
There are some Senators who have taken action by submitting a letter to President Obama calling for an investigation into Napolitano's Report.
Today I'm writing to John McCain and John Kyle to urge them to speak out for Average Americans.
And if you are from another state, you can write to your own Congressional representatives expressing your outrage in polite terms. Just go to Project Vote Smart for addresses and voting records. Get those mighty pens out and tell 'em what you think!

Scenes From the Prescott Tea Party!

See you at the Tea Party!

Something"s brewing in the United States of America and it isn't tea.

It's concern for our future and for the future of our children and Grandchildren.

It's concern for the rights of the individual as set out by our forefathers in the Constitution.

As we see a Congress heady with power, passing bills in hysterical abandon without authorizing or even reading them, we feel the icy fingers of socialism chill our very bones. (well, I got a little Victorian thriller there, but you know that feeling..and it's scary)

FreedomWorks has a nifty map pegged with tea parties where a click on your area will tell you the time and place. Let's let our Congressional representatives know that the Silent Majority is made up of law abiding, tax paying, hard working citizens who are standing up in orderly protest of Big Government saying, "We will be Silent No More! "

Prescott Arizona is having a tea party on the Court House Plaza at 6:00p.m. to 8:00p.m. Wednesday April 15, 2009. See you there!

Freedom of Choice?

I thought I was going to post this yesterday, got interrupted and never got back, but someone called last night to tell me the title published alone.

Sorry! This is time sensitive too. This bill will be voted on tonight, so if you want your opinion to be counted in this it has to be within the next 12 hours.

President Obama is planning to rescind the rules on conscience exemptions put in place by President Bush.

This will affect medical professionals who decline to do a procedure because of personal moral, religious or ethical codes.

Thirty six Senators have written a letter to the President outlining the reasons medical professionals should not be coerced into performing procedures against their own consciences.

I feel almost overwhelmingly grateful to them for continuing to fight for American rights and freedoms when there is such an overwhelming tide against them. They signed the letter so you can check to see if your Senators are represented. My letter today will be to thank John McCain for signing this letter to the President.

Catherine Favazza has posted: The 10 Things You Need to Know About Conscience Protection

I left a comment here at A Doctor's Right to add one more digit to the number, and I'm posting this hoping others will do the same today. It's a quick and easy way to stand up and be counted.

God Bless America!

Guns on the Border

In case you missed this special Fox report regarding the supposed 90% of guns entering Mexico from the United States. Here's the gist of it.

Blatantly copied from Michelle Malkin:

You’ve heard this shocking “fact” before — on TV and radio, in newspapers, on the Internet and from the highest politicians in the land: 90 percent of the weapons used to commit crimes in Mexico come from the United States.
– Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said it to reporters on a flight to Mexico City.
– CBS newsman Bob Schieffer referred to it while interviewing President Obama.
– California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said at a Senate hearing: “It is unacceptable to have 90 percent of the guns that are picked up in Mexico and used to shoot judges, police officers and mayors … come from the United States.”

– William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, testified in the House of Representatives that “there is more than enough evidence to indicate that over 90 percent of the firearms that have either been recovered in, or interdicted in transport to Mexico, originated from various sources within the United States.”

There’s just one problem with the 90 percent “statistic” and it’s a big one: It’s just not true.
In fact, it’s not even close. By all accounts, it’s probably around 17 percent.
What’s true, an ATF spokeswoman told FOXNews.com, in a clarification of the statistic used by her own agency’s assistant director, “is that over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S.”

In other words, 83% of the guns confiscated from the drug cartels are from other countries or are untraceable.

Senator John Kyle

730 Hart SOB

Washington DC 2510

Dear Senator Kyle,

Recently, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke apologetically to the Mexican Government regarding the huge number of guns supplied by the US to Mexican Drug Cartels.

She used a figure of 90% that was supplied by William Hoover, assistant director for field operations at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in a report to the House of Representatives.

According to a special report by William Lon Juenesse on Fox News, the number should have been 90% of traceable guns which translates to about 17% of total firearms captured from Mexican Drug Lords.

What worries me and many of my fellow citizens is that the exaggerated and therefore false report fed by Mr. Hoover to the House of Representatives, State Department and to the media could be used as a serious threat against the Second Amendment Rights of law abiding American citizens. We are hoping you can do something to set the record straight.

Thank you for the hard work you have already done to defend the rights of American citizens while serving in the Senate.

Sincerely yours,

Linda G.

Hillary on the Border

One of these border barriers was built between 1368 and 1644, by men with no modern equipment, through fantastically rugged terrain and it's 4000 miles long.


The other is part of the best fencing to be built by Government on the US/Mexico border. So far, the Government claims to have built over 500 miles of the two thousand mile fence with a matching run of fence a wide road's width inside of it. In other words, a double barrier. This is not true and I'll post more on the border tomorrow. Oh, and the cost so far? Around 600 million tax payer dollars.

I borrowed this photo from the Christian Science Monitor and there are more pictures along with an interesting article.This is an American Citizen looking through the fence at Mexico.

On her recent trip to Mexico, Hilary Clinton apologized to Mexico for the existence of the drug cartels. Ms Clinton said that Americans are responsible for so much drug use that we have created this situation.

Now, wait just a minute, Ms Clinton! Do you happen to recall the pleas of responsible Americans who over a span of 30 some years, have begged our elected officials to fence and effectively man the border between the United States and Mexico?

One of the things We the Responsible Tax Paying American Citizens wanted most was to end the free transport of drugs into this country from Mexico. We were aware that Mexican drugs were being used to entice American School Children into drug use and from there into crime and wasted American lives.

Administration after administration has ignored the common sense solution to many of the problems that exist in our country today. There was a lot of bluster on Capitol Hill about The War on Drugs, but never a serious mention of the most obvious solution....getting control of the border by building a fence and increasing border patrol agents.

Remember the bill that Ted Kennedy and John McCain authored that granted amnesty to illegals? The one that served as the straw that broke the camels back? The one that caused millions of Americans to write, call, email, and petition Congress and the White House until the bill was squelched?

Remember how in 2007 you and your fellow members of Congress finally authorized a bill to build a fence on the border? Then, after much self-congratulatory posturing before the media you all took a recess while neglecting the process of appropriating the necessary funds for the actual building of that fence. And yup, it worked. By the time you got back to whatever it is Congress People do, We the People had cooled down and didn't notice for awhile that you'd pulled the wool over our eyes yet again.

Yes, I know that eventually there was funding for 700 miles of the 2000 needed miles of fencing, but the fence being built is a joke! Congress called for 700 miles of double fencing that has been replaced in spots by flimsy barriers, many of which wouldn't stop a pet rabbit let alone determined drug cartels.

I notice too, that you are apologizing to Mexico because criminals are smuggling guns from America into Mexico. A closed border would have prevented that problem as well and you could have avoided all that groveling!

However, if you're in a mood to grovel and apologize, then please do so to the American mothers who have seen their sweet sons and daughters "hooked" by pushers of Mexican drugs....all that bright potential lost forever; to those Americans who have lost jobs because greedy employers found they could exploit illegal aliens by paying them next to nothing; to American property owners who live on the border and have had their ranch land ruined and their homes invaded; and to all Americans who must now live with ever increasing crime, poverty, and fear.

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President Barack Obama

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama,

Since recent events along the Mexican border have proven the disastrous effects resulting from the lax attitude of your predecessors toward protecting American Citizens from an influx of drugs and crime, I hope you will be the first of our Presidents to take this problem seriously. I hope you will take control of the Mexican border by building a real fence.

You may want to take a look at what $600,000,000 has paid for so far... It's pretty pathetic.

Sincerely yours,

Linda. G

American Tea Party

Alice looks like I feel right now. Stop the insanity and let me go back to my nice little life!

But there's this tea party...and we're all invited..... to participate in mailing a tea bag to President Obama to remind him of the way we feel about big government and increased taxes.
The Postal Service is already complaining that tea will mess up their sorting machines, so I'm sending a picture of a tea bag that I scanned and printed. I thought I'd send one to my favorite gal Nancy Pelosi and one to Harry Reid as well as the President and the three Congressional representatives from my District.

This way I can send my tea and drink it too! (Sorry!)

The tea bags or facsimiles are supposed to be mailed tomorrow April 1.

President Barack Obama

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20500

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Senator Harry Reid

522 Hart SOB (or Senate Office Building,)

Washington, DC 20510-2803

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Senator John McCain

241 Russell SOB

Washington, DC 20510

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Senator John Kyle

730 Hart SOB

Washington, DC 20510

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Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick

1123 Longworth HOB

Washington, DC 20515

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For anyone who wants to find the address or research the voting record of any legislator from their district or any other, Project Vote Smart is a great tool.

This is a chance for Americans to join together to make themselves heard as one entity by their representatives in Congress! I'm making these my letter(s) for the day!

Now, just for fun a little biology 101.