Maybe Obama Doesn’t Realize The Term ‘War On Terror’ Is Appropriate When Terrorists Behead People!

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is spreading the word…the Obama Administration is purporting a kinder, gentler phrase for our global terrorist friends. Instead of referring to any attempts to thwart their “inappropriate behavior” with a term like ‘WAR ON TERROR’, it will be replaced with the pansy substitute ‘OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATION’. "The administration has stopped using the phrase and I think that speaks for itself," Clinton said. Apparently, it is disliked in Europe and other nations (overseas) where even our close allies are pandering to the extremist organizations by attempting to water-down the highly appropriate phrase, claiming it as militaristic and somewhat counterproductive. Meanwhile, in "Reality Land"...Hillary and Barack...an Al Qaeda-linked militant group has declared that they will in fact stick to their Tuesday "beheading deadline" of a Red Cross hostage unless government troops pull out of the area. I am not Catholic…and neither are they…but I thought I’d toss in the fact that even Pope Benedict XVI has appealed to these “bad boys” and basically he has been ignored. Maybe President Obama Doesn’t Realize The Term ‘War On Terror’ Is Appropriate When Terrorists Behead People! Why just today, according to the Associated Press, The Pakistani Taliban commander sweetly claimed responsibility for a deadly Pakistani Police Academy assault and was kind enough to let us know of a terrorist attack (Do I dare use those words?)planned for the United States capital. America, I am saying this as adult-like as I possibly can to a world, made up of nations that are getting whimpier than We The People ever dreamed possible. If you want to know whether or not this blog is fiction...rest assured...I'm not kidding and these terrorists aren't playing!

Note: There are dire consequences for just playing WAR.

May God bless America...and may America deserve it!

Zanne Booker 3-31-09

Card Check Bill: Unions Are Using Harassment & Intimidation To Recruit!

A bill is "snaking" its way through the Congressional "pit" aimed at changing the way employees create unions and join them...if they would like...supposedly. This piece of "bad legislation" is not even sanctioned yet and already workers are facing Union members using harassment tactics to recruit "fresh meat". Well, I hate to say I told you so, but...I TOLD YOU SO! Why any worker would want to agree to anything tied to bullying tactics is unfathomable and this should be a tip-off to Congress that it is a bad idea. Let's break it down. The bill is called the Employee Free Choice Act (AKA the "Card Check" bill) and it is suppose to create an easier process for workers who wish to join or form a Union. Employees can obtain blank cards (from existing unions) for their co-workers to sign if they express any interest in membership. When a threshold of 30 percent have signed, companies can then hold a secret-ballot election to see if the climate is right, in that workplace, for unionization. Doesn't that sound so sweet and simple? If it is, then why are individuals at an Indiana Plant so upset? Could it be that these are tough economic times and plant workers, who are already worrying about their jobs, are having to add the Union's "fear factor" to their stress level? Workers in an Albion, Indiana plant (Dana Corporation Auto Parts) are angry because the card check process has all but ripped the 50-person plant apart after a henchman from the United Auto Workers forced them to a vote via secret-ballot. It all started with a union organizer coming to the small plant two years ago and asking them to join because the company had signed a neutrality agreement...with the union. Larry Guest (plant worker) said that the meeting was less than successful. "He was using real rough language -- cursing. It didn't go over well with the women at all. There were a couple that just got up and left," he told FOX News. The UAW representative would approach them in every nook and cranny of the plant...even following them to their cars! "He was just like an itch that you couldn't scratch. He just wouldn't go away," said Rita Murphy (plant worker). It got worse. The Union representative followed Jamie Oliver home! CAN ANYONE SAY RESTRAINING ORDER? "We're here in a little town and we're a plant of 50 some people -- you know the last thing you need is to have the union coming to your door saying I want your name," Oliver said.The union's relentless approach, she said, eventually wore her down. I wish I could say there was a happy ending...but it is more like a bittersweet one. Although the UAW collected the signatures they needed, plant employees appealed to the National Labor Relations Board and it ruled that the employees could hold a secret election. After the close election results were posted...there was no more union! However, the forced issue has turned friends into enemies, at the Hoosier plant, and caused some to be threatened by those who wanted the union."I have my reasons for the way that I voted. That's nobody else's business, and had it not been for the card check, nobody would know if I was for or against," Beverly Musolf said. Congress should take a hard look at the current activity taking place on the fringes of the CARD CHECK vote. If Congressional leaders vote "for" this bill they are voting for the precursor to a government gestapo!

Note: Congressional legislation shouldn't create a delegation of thugs.

May God bless America...and may America deserve it!

Zanne Booker 3-30-09

Hillary Clinton Gives U.S. Partial Blame For Mexico's Drug And Weapons Smuggling Problems

Hillary Clinton (Secretary of State) travelled to Mexico and confessed our sins to the world on foreign soil. “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the death of police officers, soldiers and civilians … I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility,” Clinton said. Now, I am not going to pretend that I am a Hillary Clinton fan, however, I am going to admit that there is a large element of truth to her “above” words. Through the world’s (which includes the United States) pleasure seeking mentality we have fueled the very economic principle of capitalism, supply and demand, and bestowed power on the Mexican drug cartels. Someone said that, “ by making drugs illegal instead of decriminalizing them (not legalizing, but decriminalizing) we have made the cartel in Mexico almost as powerful as those in Columbia.” I was baffled by the statement…and what it meant…so I looked up the work “decriminalization”. Decriminalization: The act of making a previously illegal activity no longer treatable as a criminal offence. Isn’t that just a struggle with semantics? Who are we trying to kid here? If the War On Drugs has created a higher Demand For Drugs it is because we haven’t truly been at war yet! We have tip-toed around it and sent token sentinels to our borders with insufficient fire power to out-gun the enemy. We have given illegals ease of passage and rights promised only to American citizens (see Constitution of the United States). Our own government has fettered civilian patriots like Roger Barnett of Arizona (see my February 25, 2009 blog) for attempting to defend property using fear of prosecution...by illegals no less! The Obama administration has only promised to buy Mexico a few helicopters and add approximately 350 additional border agents. WE ARE STILL PLAYING! We have 1,989 land miles to guard between Mexico and the United States, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website, and that doesn’t even include maritime protection. This administration has decided to call the “War on Terror” a watered down “Overseas Contingency Operation”. “Terrorist attacks” are now “man-made disasters”. Look, there is no such thing as a “misdemeanor drug dealer” and there is no way we are going to call members of Drug Cartels anything but what they are…murderers! We are at war and it has spilled over our borders. Hillary may not have meant to get the reaction she received, however, now that she has opened the door…LET’S FIGHT THE WAR!

Note: When Death comes knocking at your door you are not obligated to let him come in…unless you have a “Death Wish”.

May God bless America...and may America deserve it!

Zanne Booker 03-26-09

China Pushes For A New Global Currency...With The U.S.

You and I know that China has invested heavily in the United States via significant U.S. government bond holdings. They are just as nervous, if not more, at the fluctuation in the dollar...which seems to occur every time President Obama (or Timothy Geithner) opens his mouth. The problem is that China’s central bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, is pushing for a new global currency to replace the dollar and echoing growing displeasure with the U.S. role in the economy of the world. Next week a summit of the Group of 20 (made up of the world’s industrial and developing nations) will meet in London. Previously, China has been criticized for their policies economically, however, it is now backed by Russia and other budding economies who want a global order where the economic standing is less dominated by wealthy nations and the United States. Around the world central banks hold more U.S. dollars and securities than any other type of foreign currency. True, scandalous deeds within our own country are still being revealed on Wall Street and (sadly) within our own Congressional leadership. As we try to repair and hold accountable those who directly or indirectly caused the financial debacle, we are seeing the vast undertaking, within our own political and legal systems, that this pursuit imposes. Can you just imagine how this problem could be exacerbated on a global level? That’s all we need is to try to ferret out across seven continents, before a tribunal no less, just who screwed poor little America out of its money...every time it happens. We are seeing that many of our leaders are not trustworthy, however, I wouldn’t trust any other country with our welfare either. Americans needs to turn the nation around! Our MAIN STREET power is mightier than we realize. WE THE PEOPLE can make a difference in our own nation, but it will be hard to be heard when we criticize...if we globalize!

Note: If we spit on a sidewalk in America...we get a reaction. It is really hard to spit across oceans.

May God bless America...and may America deserve it!

Zanne Booker 03-26-09

Downsizing Your Life Should Never Include Your Dreams!

The economy is not what it use to be and we are having to make adjustments, but downsizing your life should never include your dreams. Until Washington decides what direction it wants to take, many of us are sitting in a limbo state hoping for guidance. Why? Congress doesn't have the answers to our aspirations...we do. If we won the lottery tomorrow (a big one) all pistons would be firing as we pondered the possibilities both great and small. We might even (eventually) think of philanthropic endeavors. Well, think of this juncture in America as one of opportunity for success! Money is not the only asset we have and the sooner we discover this the better off our nation will become. Americans are not at a crossroad, but rather they are at a "spaghetti junction" (like Atlanta) with multiple directions to choose from (which even includes global markets)...if we dare. Hope is wasted on the hopeless. Why are we waiting on the government to come up with an alternative anything? While Congress sits stagnant, bickering over moot points, it is going to be up to WE THE PEOPLE to kick the economy into gear via new directions. Did you know that we have the computer technology we have today because young "Geeks" (like Bill Gates) hung out in garages tinkering with electronics, armed with little more than theories and passion? You have heard that a mind is a terrible thing to waste, right? I would take it one step further...TIME IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE!

Note: Why are we waiting on the governent to come up with an alternative anything? If we invent it and patent it, maybe we can sell it on ebay...or to another country!

May God bless America...and may America deserve it!

Zanne Booker 03-24-09

Elkhart, Indiana's Unemployment Rate Spikes 16% In One Year!

This evening Governor Mike Huckabee’s television program showcased Elkhart, Indiana…the hardest hit town in the United States during these tough economic times. The small Hoosier town has witnessed an unemployment rate leap from 4% to approximately 20% in one year’s time. Elkhart is the home of the RV industry boasting that 75% of all RVs are made in their locale. But that’s not their only business. They exist like millions of towns across America, who have a wide variety of businesses, a strong dependable workforce, and room for new industries to thrive. To date, they have only received $1 million of the $92 million requested (to create 2,310 jobs). Oddly enough, President Obama started his “appeal to main street” tour, in Elkhart. His purpose was to rally support for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan…And it was very appealing. Obama had words of encouragement: I promised you back then that if elected President, I would do everything I could to help this community recover. And that's why I've come back today - to tell you how I intend to keep that promise. Wow! He also seemed to have his finger on the pulse of their plight when he said, “If you don’t have money, you can’t spend it. And if you don’t spend it, our economy will continue to decline.” Well, they don’t have money, can’t spend money they don’t have, and their economy is declining. What’s the hold up? President Obama is starting to sound like a sociopath. See http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html H. Cleckley and R. Hare’s list of sociopathic traits. Isn’t it odd that Obama has all of these platitudes, trite remarks and statements expressed as if it were original or significant, yet he seems to have no inclination to actually put words into action. He has the stimulus money (which is really our money) yet it still flows to “Wall Street”. Americans are truely starting to question Obama's abilities in the White House...he just may be too overwhelmed. Or maybe he can't make a decision. Let me help you. GIVE ELKHART THE MONEY! Governor Huckabee had a great line when he said, “I believe that Elkhart will thrive again, but not because of the Federal Government, but in spite of it!” All America is needing is one sign that Washington gives a flip to what happens on “Main Street”. One theory I have is that President Obama…and the Democrats…are grandstanding, at our expense, so when the "moola" comes down it will be closer to election time and they will be hailed as conquering heroes. The other involves Obama’s march toward socialism…or worse. WE THE PEOPLE don’t have time for this! Timothy Geithner needs to spend less time crunching numbers and more time writing checks! Let’s start with one made out to Elkhart, Indiana for $91 million. That’s how much you seem to have shorted them! You can even do direct deposit, Tim.

Note: If America's hope is locked inside a Democratic vault it is time to give someone else the combination.

May God bless America...and may America deserve it!

Zanne Booker 03-21-09

Nancy Pelosi Defines "Un-American"...Incorrectly

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi is a Californian who is perpetually seeking re-election. It is no secret that California has an extremely high Hispanic population...many are illegal or have friends and relatives who hold that status. She recently addressed a “mixed” group, one of both legal and illegal Hispanics, and told them that existing immigration laws (as practiced) were “un-American” while she condemned raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Now, let me refresh your memory, Ms. Pelosi. There are immigration laws and procedures in place...not just in America, but all over the world. They were established (and necessary) for national security reasons, health related issues, and economic stability purposes. Had they entered the country through proper channels they would not have become a potential security risk, health hazard, and/or tax burden on the very people who are the “true” Americans (of all races). Clearly, you were pandering to a crowd of potential constituents while insulting Americans (which include the Hispanic immigrants who played by the rules) when you were at the St. Anthony’s rally. Nancy Pelosi resounded, "You are special people. You're here on a Saturday night to take responsibility for our country's future. That makes you very, very patriotic." What?! Have you handed the country (or a portion) over to the Mexican government...or is that Obama’s next revelation? Please, allow me to present a scenario to parallel the plight of America. Let’s pretend that you are giving a dinner party for fifty people and two additional people, just show up. You are not quite sure if they are friends or relatives of the original fifty, however, you are a gracious host so you find a place for them to sit and stretch your food and beverages (resources) to accommodate the extra people. When the party is over everyone goes home except the two “party crashers”. You are a little surprised, but you make room for them in your guest room and know you will send them on their way after breakfast. The next morning, you come down the stairs and are greeted by the smell of coffee perking and sizzling bacon...and the hedges have been trimmed. The guests have made themselves at home, however, they have made themselves useful, as well. You smile wryly because you hate to get up early and make breakfast for the family and those hedges are a nightmare to trim. So, you make room for the visitors...on a temporary basis. A few months later you notice they have frequent friends stopping by, eating your food, sleeping on your couch, and using up all of the hot water. You have also noticed your bills are increasing...and your income is not. When you ask them to leave they refuse and start making demands. The law enforcement agencies you contact, to have them evicted, say their hands are tied and the government, who is supposed to be your advocate, sides with the “party crashers”. Are you getting my drift? Enough is enough! WE THE PEOPLE are fed up with being hosts to illegal aliens. We cannot afford it and it is presenting security risks, on both state and national levels, for all American citizens. Check out the drug wars neighboring our borders, the drug trafficking crossing our borders, and the kidnappings (Phoenix is now the 2nd leading kidnapping capital...in the world). These "patriot illegals" flood our workplaces (without paying taxes), place their children in our schools (supported by taxes paid by Americans) and seek medical attention in hospitals. The health and legal requirements to enter this country have been ignored for literally millions of your supposedly “very, very patriotic” people. If you can’t see (or refuse to see) the big picture...it is time for retirement, Nancy! America, wake up and smell the coffee...they are trimming the hedges as we speak!

Note: When the American government chooses to advocate for illegal aliens over its own citizens...do we have a government?

Another Note: Take solace in the fact that all of the House of Representatives have only two year terms and that 1/3 of the Senate comes up for re-election every two years.

May God bless America...and may America deserve it!

Zanne Booker 3-20-09