Now that Obama-Care has been passed into law, liberals are finally opening up about their true feelings. Vice President Biden and Howard Dean admit this is a redistribution of wealth and now Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL) admits he doesn't care about the Constitution in regards to Obama-Care. What more is it going to take for Americans to realize that the leftists in control do not care about the Constitution or taking your money by force.
The Obama-Care bill that is about to become law of the land includes the establishment of the Ready Reserve Corps. What is that you ask, well I'm not sure. I do know we already have a Ready Reserve Force that that was created in 1976 as a subset of the Maritime Administration's National Defense Reserve (NDRF). This force supports rapid world wide deployment of the US military and was called upon to provide humanitarian relief after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Rita in 2006.
The bill is rather vague about the mission of the new Ready Reserve Corps (CORPSE in Obama speak) and I'm not sure if that was intentional or not, I will let you be the judge. President Obama did call for some sort of Citizen National Security Force during the campaign and I don't know if this is the spawn of that or not. What I do know is this, the Ready Reserve Corps needs to be explained to the American public as well as their mission. I'm not going to throw out some sort of conspiracy theory and accuse Obama of creating his own little jack booted Interior force, but without some sort of explanation he runs that risk.
Here is the text in the bill that creates the Ready Reserve Corps-
SEC. 430. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS. Section 203 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 204) is amended to read as follows: SEC. 203. COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY RESERVE CORPS. (a) ESTABLISHMENT.— (1) IN GENERAL.—There shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps for service in time of national emergency. (2) REQUIREMENT.—All commissioned officers shall be citizens of the United States and shall be appointed without regard to the civil-service laws and compensated without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended. (3) APPOINTMENT.—Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall be appointed by the President and commissioned officers of the Regular Corps shall be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. (4) ACTIVE DUTY.—Commissioned officers of the Ready Reserve Corps shall at all times be subject to call to active duty by the Surgeon General, including active duty for the purpose of training. (5) WARRANT OFFICERS.—Warrant officers may be appointed to the Service for the purpose of providing support to the health and delivery systems maintained by the Service and any warrant officer appointed to the Service shall be considered for purposes of this Act and title 37, United States Code, to be a commissioned officer within the Commissioned Corps of the Service. (b) ASSIMILATING RESERVE CORP OFFICERS INTO THE REGULAR CORPS.—Effective on the date of enactment of the Affordable Health Choices Act, all individuals classified as officers in the Reserve Corps under this section (as such section existed on the day before the date of enactment of such Act) and serving on active duty shall be deemed to be commissioned officers of the Regular Corps. (c) PURPOSE AND USE OF READY RESERVE.— (1) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the Ready Reserve Corps is to fulfill the need to have additional Commissioned Corps personnel available on short notice (similar to the uniformed service’s reserve program) to assist regular Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions. (2) USES.—The Ready Reserve Corps shall— (A) participate in routine training to meet the general and specific needs of the Commissioned Corps; (B) be available and ready for involuntary calls to active duty during national emergencies and public health crises, similar to the uniformed service reserve personnel; (C) be available for backfilling critical positions left vacant during deployment of active duty Commissioned Corps members, as well as for deployment to respond to public health emergencies, both foreign and domestic; and (D) be available for service assignment in isolated, hardship, and medically underserved communities (as defined in section 399SS) to improve access to health services. (d) FUNDING.—For the purpose of carrying out the duties and responsibilities of the Commissioned Corps under this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to the Office of the Surgeon General for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Funds appropriated under this subsection shall be used for recruitment and training of Commissioned Corps Officers.
I wrote Congressman Neugebauer and asked if he knew anything about this clause or if he knew what the mission of this new force would be, but I haven't had a response as of yet. I would encourage you to contact your Representatives as well so we can get some answers that will help us understand the need of the Ready Reserve Corps.
I and many other bloggers warned before the election of Barack Hussein Obama that he would not be a friend of Israel. Obama's first year in office saw him placing unreasonable demands on Israel and public lashings when they did not concur. I cannot remember an American Administration placing such demands on Israel, much less in the public forum, during such troubling times in the Middle East. A recent poll shows that only 6% of Israelis think Obama is pro-Israel and 50% say he is pro Palestinian. Israels own Ambassador is calling the recent dust up the worst in 35 years.
I will admit that the announcement of the building of new housing in Jerusalem during Vice President Biden's visit was ill timed, but to call out Israel and to cancel high level visits is just unprecedented. The Palestinians are on the verge of a third Intifada and the image of conflict in American-Israeli relations only encourages such action. Hamas has called for an Intifada against Israel and will use this ruse to unite Palestinian voters in Gaza and the West Bank to support Hamas versus Fatah in upcoming elections.
Israel is under a continued threat from the North with Iranian-Syrian backed Hezbollah, Iranian backed Hamas in Gaza and from Iran itself and their quest for nuclear arms to annihilate the Jewish state. President Obama may not agree with Prime Minister Netanyahu, but Obama needs to understand that the terrorist elements are taking this cue as a weakness in our relationship with Israel and will try to exploit it.
The election of President Obama and his inexperience in foreign policy just shows what can go wrong when you let emotion rather than substance guide your vote. Israel is our only true friend in the Middle East and to treat them as our enemy is just a huge mistake and one we will pay for in the near future. The animosity that this Administration shows towards Israel needs to be reined in and more support should be offered. Israel does our bidding in the turbulent Middle East and we need to show our support, whether it be militarily or financial , but encouragement nonetheless.
UPDATE LINK: This just goes to show the disdain that this White House for Likud. LINK
The news reports about Joe Stack crashing his plane into an Austin TX building are making him out as a conservative loon. They mention his diatribe that he posted on the net before his kamikaze attack but fail to mention his disdain for George W. Bush. They do mention his hate for taxes, the IRS and the Government in general. I wonder why they would do this? Do you think the MSM would like to make him fit a template of a Tea Party type? I think we all know the answer to that question.
I checked ABC, NBC, MSNBC and CNN and all of them quote from Mr. Stack's internet rant and not one of them mention his disdain for George W. Bush. It appears they are trying to make the narrative that Mr. Stack is just another far-right IRS hating loon. They are trying to paint the right in a bad light before the upcoming tsunami in Novemember.
Joe Stacks rant here.
It is being reported that the Taliban's top commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, has been captured by a joint Pakistani-CIA operation in Karachi Pakistan. Apparently the New York Times has been sitting on this story for a couple of days as to not disrupt current operations. Mullah Baradar is one that may have actionable intel on the location of Bin Laden and with the right interrogation this could be big. I hope Obama does not try to insert himself and demand that this terrorist leader have counsel and implore the Pakistanis not to torture him.
Mullah is the second in command of the Taliban and he appoints and fires the Taliban's commanders and governors; presides over its top military council and central ruling Shura in Quetta, the city in southwestern Pakistan where most of the group's senior leaders are based. According to a terrorist subcommander from Helmand province, Mullah Shah Wali Akhund, Baradar also controls the Taliban's finances which is in the range of millions of dollars.
This is the second high value terrorist taken from of the field of battle in the last week and will have far reaching ramifications. I hope the Pakistanis use every method at their disposal to extract info from this robed pig. If Obama and Eric Holder will stay out of the way and let the adults get the info we need, we may just get Bin Laden in short order. I can't wait for the first liberal group to cry out about Baradar's civil rights and demand the Pakistanis appointment him an ACLU attorney.
Watch this video and see how easy it really is for radical Muslims to blow an airliner out of the sky or to commit a mass casualty vest bomb on a train or subway. I'm not sure what type of explosives the crotch bomber attempted to use on the Detroit flight but it sounds similar to this binary explosive.
Steve Brown is the first Republican since Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. to hold this Senate seat, which was lost to John F. Kennedy in 1952. In that vein, I think Senator elect Brown should give this speech to serve notice to both parties.
We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom—symbolizing an end to Socialism, as well as a beginning—signifying renewal, as well as change. Our leaders have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.
The country is very different now with Obama/Pelosi/Reid in charge. For these people hold in their mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of freedom and all forms of personal responsibility. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of Obama or Pelosi, but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to Republicans and Democrats alike, that the torch of freedom has been passed to a new generation of Tea Party Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by government expansion and over spending, proud of our capitalist heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those same capitalist traits to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which made this the greatest country on God’s green Earth .
Let every politician know, whether it be Republican or Democrat, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
This much we pledge—and more.
To the old two party establishment whose practices we abhor, we pledge to fight for our individual freedoms and to fight for a true transparent Government. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do—for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
To those statesmen whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that our form of Constitutional Government shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more socialist tyranny. We shall always expect them to support our Constitution d them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom—and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
To those peoples in America struggling to break the bonds of Government control, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required—not because the Socialists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. A free society cannot help the poor by punishing the wealthy and it cannot make poor people successful by destroying the producers.
Finally, to those politicians who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for freedom and truly open Government, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by hubris engulf Congress in planned or accidental self-destruction.
We dare not again to tempt those in Government with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed again.
So let us begin anew—remembering on both sides that we will longer be weak and voiceless and your sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never again be subjugated to fear. But let you fear us at election time.
Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
Now the trumpet summons us again—235 years after the first revolution, not as a call to bear arms (yet), though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
My fellow citizens of America: ask not what Obama will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
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