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When you cut through all the smoke and mirrors, many of the founding slavers had one goal---to replace an English aristocracy with an American one.

They never intended to have an inclusive society and they did everything in their power to prevent that from happening.

Follow their behavior.....not their eloquent hollow proclamations.

Most of them could use their tongues better than any $100 hooker.

Of course most of them didn't have to worry about paying for hookers when their needs could be met by a midnight ramble over to the slave quarters.

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Obama’s ‘Sealed’ Records


Posted on July 31, 2012


KHH1

Please explain his Social Security number.

I have been told it originated in Conn. But he has never iced in that state.

Snoopy





Q: Are Obama’s early records “sealed”?

A: No. Many records that presidential candidates don’t ordinarily release do remain confidential, but they are not “sealed” by a court. The 16 claims in a widely distributed graphic are mostly false or distorted.



FULL QUESTION

Is this true?


Subj: What?

…and they want 12 years of Romney’s tax returns? THIS should be on billboards all over our nation!

Forward this to others who are interested in re-claiming America and saving our future

FULL ANSWER

This is an example of mostly old baloney in a new casing. It mainly recycles years-old falsehoods and insinuations, most of which we covered long ago, in connection with an earlier viral email.

But with President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign heating up, this new graphic has appeared on countless anti-Obama websites and in viral emails like the one we’ve reprinted here. Very little that it contains is new, and the old falsehoods have not improved with age.

Nothing ‘Sealed’


The idea that any Obama record is “sealed” is a falsehood, to start. The word “sealed” when applied to documents ordinarily refers to records that would normally be public, but that a judge has ruled cannot be released without the court’s permission. Common examples of truly “sealed” documents include records of crimes committed as a juvenile or records of adoptions. None of the claims in this message refers to records actually “sealed” in that usual sense.

In some cases, the records this screed claims are “sealed” are actually public, and open for anyone to see. Other supposedly “sealed” records are normally private documents that Obama hasn’t released — and that other presidential candidates haven’t released either.

So as with earlier versions, this is little more than an attempt to raise suspicions by asking for records that aren’t ordinarily made public, without any evidence that those records contain anything derogatory. We’ll take the claims and questions in the order they appear.
■Claims #1, 2 and 4, college records. Obama’s college records are not “sealed” by a court order, as this graphic would have you believe. It would be illegal under federal law (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) for Occidental, Columbia or Harvard Law School to give any former student’s records to reporters or members of the public without that person’s specific, written permission. Obama hasn’t released them, but neither have other presidential candidates released their college records. George W. Bush’s grades at Yale eventually became public, but only because somebody leaked them to the New Yorker magazine. Bush himself refused to release them, according to a 1999 profile in the Washington Post.
■Claim #3, thesis paper. Obama did write a paper on nuclear disarmament for an honors course in American foreign policy during his senior year, but it wasn’t the sort of “thesis” that some colleges require for graduation and keep on file in their libraries, like those that Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama released. During the 2008 campaign, reporters were told that Columbia had not retained a copy of Obama’s 1983 paper, and that Obama didn’t have a copy, either. NBC News contacted his former professor, Michael Baron, who said he looked for his copy but couldn’t find it, and thought he probably tossed it out eight years earlier in a move.
NBC quoted Baron as saying the paper likely would have disappointed Obama’s critics. “The course was not a polemical course, it was a course in decision making and how decisions got made,” Baron told NBC. “None of the papers in the class were controversial.”
■Claim #5, Selective Service registration. Obama’s Selective Service registration is public. A copy has been posted publicly, and the Selective Service confirmed that Obama registered for the draft on Sept. 4, 1980, and was given registration number 61-1125539-1.
Worth noting is that nobody in the U.S. has been drafted for military service since 1972, the year Obama turned 11. Obama, like other young men turning age 18 since then, was required to register on a standby basis, in case Congress ever resumes an active military draft. Failure to register is technically a crime, and disqualifies a man for federal student aid or from holding certain federal jobs.
■Claim #6, medical records. During the 2008 campaign, Obama released summary medical information from his personal physician, who pronounced him to be in “excellent health” with routine test results for such things as cholesterol all within normal levels. (McCain, who is a cancer survivor and was 71 at the time, let reporters see his records for three hours to show he was cancer-free.)
Since taking office, Obama has followed the practice of earlier presidents. He released results of his first “periodic” physical exam on Feb. 28, 2010. Results of his second “periodic” exam were released Oct. 31, 2011. His physician described him as being “in excellent health and ‘fit for duty.’”
■Claims #7 and 8, Illinois state Senate records. Obama’s voting record in the Illinois state Senate is a matter of public record, and about as far from being “sealed” as one can imagine. Reporters extensively went over his votes in 2008. Transcripts of Senate debates in which Obama took part while in office (1997 – 2004) can even be found online, at the website of the Illinois General Assembly.
Obama’s personal appointment calendar as a state senator may still be private — if it still exists — but we’ve seen nothing to suggest that would add much to what is already public. As president, Obama has released records of visitors to the White House (2.4 million so far). There are some exceptions. Personal information about visitors, such as Social Security numbers are not released. And there’s an exemption for “particularly sensitive” information, which might include a visit by a potential Supreme Court nominee, for example. But that’s still more disclosure than any previous president has made, by far.
■Claim #9, law firm clients. It’s true that Obama has not released a list of the 30 or so clients for whom he worked personally while he was a lawyer with the firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill and Gallard in Illinois. He did routinely disclose the law firm’s entire client list while he was in the state Senate, however. And his campaign confirmed in 2008 several specific clients that Obama represented personally, when reporters asked about them. For example, he once represented the liberal group ACORN in a 1995 lawsuit against the state of Illinois, to make voter registration easier.
■Claims #10 and 11, birth certificates. The claim that Obama’s birth certificate is “sealed” is pure nonsense. Copies of both the so-called “short” and “long” certificates have been released, and state officials in Hawaii have said repeatedly that Obama was born there in 1961 and is a “natural born American citizen.”
■Claim #12, baptism record. If a paper record exists (and we’ve seen no evidence that it does), it would most likely show only what numerous, undisputed news accounts have stated: Obama was baptized in 1988 in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. Obama was often seen in attendance at Wright’s church in the 20 years that followed. He was married there, and his two daughters were baptized there.
He remained a member even after some of Wright’s controversial sermons were given national attention in early 2008. When Obama reluctantly severed ties with Wright after weeks of controversy, it was a major news event. Obama and his family now attend St. John’s Episcopal Church, near the White House, though not on a regular basis.
■Claim #13: Michelle Obama’s law license. It’s simply not true that the first lady “can no longer practice law as an attorney.” She could resume the practice of law any time she chooses. Both the president and his wife have voluntarily inactivated their Illinois law licenses, thereby avoiding a requirement to take continuing education classes and pay hundreds of dollars in annual fees, which is common for lawyers no longer actively practicing.
■Claim #14, first ladies’ assistants. It’s true that the first lady has more than 20 on her staff, but that’s roughly the same as other recent first ladies. The claim that “other first ladies had only one” might conceivably be true of Martha Washington or Dolley Madison, but it’s certainly not true of Laura Bush or Hillary Clinton. Bush had at least 18 that we could count, and probably more with job titles that didn’t make the link clear. The White House has said Michelle Obama’s staff is the same size as Laura Bush’s was.
■Claim #15, foreign student aid. The claim that Obama got “foreign student aid” is untrue. That wild falsehood began as an absurd April Fools’ Day hoax in 2009, which we quickly exposed.
■Claim #16, Obama’s passport. There’s no reason to think Obama used anything but the then-current version of his U.S. passport when he traveled to Pakistan as a student in 1981. Some who questioned Obama’s birthplace made baseless claims that Pakistan had banned U.S. citizens from visiting in 1981, and speculated that he must have used an Indonesian passport. But they were quite wrong. There was no such travel ban. In fact, the New York Times published a travel piece that year describing the author’s own visit to Lahore, and the U.S. consul later wrote a letter to the Times saying he would “welcome an influx of Americans” and giving advice on how to make the journey.

Other Claims

Besides the numbered claims, the graphic also states that Obama has been endorsed by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). It’s true that the Communist Party USA supports Obama. It claims to have about 2,000 members. Obama didn’t seek the CPUSA endorsement, nor has he endorsed that group.

The graphic also attributes three quotes to Obama, all of which are commonly offered on conservative websites. All the quotes are accurate. Here’s the background:
■Obama appeared at the Service Employees International Union Sept. 17, 2007, to seek the union’s endorsement for the Democratic nomination, and he said, “your agenda has been my agenda in the United States Senate.” (The words appear at about 3 minutes and 15 seconds into this video.) And the SEIU eventually endorsed Obama, but not until February 2008, helping him wrap up the nomination battle against Hillary Clinton. The union has endorsed him again for reelection.
■At the 2008 National Council of La Raza annual meeting in San Diego, Calif., on July 13, 2008, Obama concluded his remarks by saying, “And together, we won’t just win an election – we will transform this nation. Thank you, and God bless you.”
■And speaking to the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle on Jan. 17, 2008, Obama said electricity costs would “necessarily skyrocket” as a result of capping carbon emissions. However, the cap-and-trade legislation he endorsed provided allowances intended to protect consumers from higher bills.

In summary, there are bits here that are true. But most is wrong or misleading, and overall the graphic falls far short of getting our seal of approval for accuracy. Call it “unsealed.”

– Brooks Jackson

Republicans will blame the mythical voter fraud and if that doesn't work they will blame George Soros, Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco, the media (whatever that means), Obama, Benghazi, quilted toilet paper, gay marriage, liberals (whatever that means), public schools, Equal rights for minorities (often referred to as racism), contraception, worker safety regulations, food stamps, women voting, sex education, taxes on the extremely wealthy, the end of public hanging, the lame stream media, and the elimination of work houses. There are many more possibilities and combinations.

Charlie Strange, of Philadelphia, is trying to repair a piece of his heart. He, along with more than a dozen other families, are coming together in October to remember SEAL Team Six, who successfully completed May 2, 2011 the mission to find and kill Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJpMK9xPsM4
Three months later, SEAL Team Six was “ambushed,” Strange said, in Afghanistan during Mission Extortion 17, killing all the members of the team, including his 25 year-old son Michael. Extortion 17 was a call to rescue Army Rangers in Afghanistan.

“Michael was everybody’s best friend,” Strange said. “I want the world to know that he was a genuine guy. He was loyal. He always helped the underdog. And, he was the guy, if he met ya, he would have swept you off your feet.”

A proud father, Charlie can rattle off a list of Michael’s accomplishments and accolades as quickly as any proud father could do. He said his son, who was a Navy cryptologist, entered the military to prevent another 9/11, or a Boston Bombing incident. As he talks, the devastation, though, slowly finds its way back into his voice when he faces the realization that his son was murdered in the largest loss of American life in a single incident in the Afghan War.

The shock came from his daughter in a phone call, who told Strange the news that his son – along with soldiers in elite Special Operations units; 16 Navy SEALS, which includes SEAL Team Six – was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade. The grenade that destroyed the Chinook helicopter, Strange said, burned all the bodies beyond recognition. Strange, though, said information collected from the investigation contradicts what the U.S. military told him.

Prior to the May 2, 2011 raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Strange said Michael let him know that he was “going off the grid.” According to a timeline Strange put together, Michael called April 20, 2011, and said, “Dad, I just want you to know, you won’t be able to call, text message or e-mail me for a few weeks, you’ll soon know why.”

The raid happened May 2, 2011. The next day, Strange said, Vice President Joe Biden “divulged top-secret, classified information in his speech during an awards dinner at the Ritz Carlton, that it was SEAL Team Six who did the Osama bin Laden raid, and goes as far as giving the name of the SEAL Commander.”

The unraveling of classified information, Strange said, continued throughout May. For his 25th birthday in June, Michael came home, and Strange said he noticed a difference in his son’s demeanor. He said he was more affectionate than usual, as well, he had mentioned establishing a will, something Strange said his son had never mentioned in the eight years Michael was in the Navy.

Then the day that broke Strange’s heart happened, when his son was sent on a mission August 6, 2011, in which the Taliban retaliated. Strange read the more than 1,300 pages of investigative information specifically detailing Extortion 17 provided to him and his wife by Brigadier General Jeffrey Colt. He still waits for his answers.

Why did they fly in a 1960 CH-47 Chinook that was refurbished in 1985?
Who made the call for all 38 to go on one helicopter?
Why were Standard Operating Procedures not followed?
The Tangi Valley is known to be the “Taliban Stronghold,” why land them there when it had never been done?
Night vision goggles weren’t working for our troops, but they worked for the Taliban?
Strange found a photo of his son, whose body he said was not burned, yet, the government said all bodies were burned beyond recognition, essentially cremated. The pain Strange feels every day is unforgettable, he said. The National Security Agency (NSA) tracks his communications, but the overwhelming loss of his son is greater than a government agency, and their half-truths.

“What more are they going to do to me,” Strange said, “they killed my son.”

He admits to not being a conspiracy theorist, or an alarmist, but a man who wants answers, and healing. He established the Michael Strange Foundation in honor of his son, and speaks publicly as often as he can to share his tragic story.

“At this point, we need to help five families get to New Jersey in October,” Strange said.

The facts of Extortion 17 do not add up for Strange. He struggles to embrace joy. And, the only way he said he thinks he will be able to attain it again is by achieving answers to his questions.

Hey, the dollar bin is where I last saw Hilary's book, it even had a half off sticker on it ;)
I didn't know you were a Phynius Taylor Barnum fan. I read his biography about ten years ago. The saying you should go w/ is " you can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time" who does that remind you of? Who is always trying to fool the people?
I all give ya a hint, his name starts w/ an O and ends w/ an A, by the time many figured it out, he already did the middle to us :)