Lying, The New American Normal?

There was the Benghazi Scandal, the IRS Scandal, and the little covered but equally alarming Secretary Sebelius scandal.

Then we learned that the Justice Department had secretly obtained two months worth of phone call records for more than 100 Associated Press reporters. This is the largest violation of the First Amendment in modern times and so we now have four scandals in the Obama Administration.

The White House wants Americans to believe the four scandals are all, in one way or another, the rogue acts of insignificant subordinates.

They want us to believe that a few misguided but well-meaning IRS agents in regional offices took the initiative to persecute and harass conservatives in an election year.

They want us to believe that repeated requests for more security at the Benghazi compound were ignored by fourth-tier bureaucrats at the State Department, never making it to the Department’s leadership. That the talking points were altered by unknown analysts at the CIA, rather than senior administration officials as evidence suggests. That the explosive allegations of a senior diplomat are really just the ramblings of a disgruntled employee.  They want us to believe that the White House was completely unaware that the Department of Justice secretly grabbed two months of phone records from Associated Press reporters who cover the administration, in an effort to identify their sources.

And no doubt we will soon discover that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s shakedown of insurance companies for money which Congress refused to appropriate was really the initiative of some unfortunate functionary deep in the bowels of the Department.

But in truth, these scandals are not the random acts of a few bureaucrats who got out of hand.

These scandals are in fact the natural manifestations of Obamaism.

Unaccountable power, untethered from law or the Constitution, and employed for political gain is standard operating procedure in an administration which seeks to make government bigger and bigger. It is the Chicago machine transplanted to the federal government.

And they continue without shame, lying about what they’ve done, then lying about lying, and finally lying about the people who are telling the truth until everyone forgets what they lied about in the first place.

Is this the new “normal” for American politics?   Is this the new “normal” for American behavior?  It is a sad day when the government, we as taxpayers pay for, can lie to us without blinking an eye.

Obama INFLATES Deportation Figures

Removal numbers have traditionally consisted of legal immigrants who have

committed crimes, those who overstay visas, or illegal aliens caught inside the
 

country.

 

The immigration statistics yearbook states that removals are the compulsory

and confirmed movement of an inadmissible or deportable alien out of the
 

United States based on an order of removal.

An alien who is removed has administrative or criminal consequences placed

on subsequent reentry owing to the fact of the removal.

In the past, removal numbers did not include “returns,” who are Mexican

nationals caught illegally crossing the border by the Border Patrol and returned.

According to the yearbook, returns are the confirmed movement of an

inadmissible or deportable alien out of the United States not based on an
 

order of removal.

Most of the voluntary returns are of Mexican nationals who have been

apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol and are returned to Mexico.

 

 

The Obama administration has started counting certain “returns” as

“removals” in order to artificially inflate the numbers and create a
 

“record level” of deportations.

Specifically, those caught by the Border

Patrol who are shuttled to a different town along the border before they are
 

returned are being dishonestly counted as deportations.

This has falsely

increased the number of total removals by more than 100,000 for the\
 

past two years.

 In fact, if we count removals and returns together historically, then the

Obama administration numbers are not close to “record-setting.” In the
 

1990s, the totals of returns and removals were well over one million.

For example, according to the yearbook of immigration statistics, in
 

1996, removals and returns numbered more than 1.6 million, up from
 

more than 1.3 million in 1995.

 

In an October 2011 roundtable with Hispanic reporters, President Obama

himself said the deportation numbers were artificially high because they include
 

those caught at the border:

“The statistics are actually a little deceptive because what we’ve been doing
 

is, with the stronger border enforcement, we’ve been apprehending folks at

the borders and sending them back. That is counted as a deportation, even
 

though they may have only been held for a day or 48 hours, sent back – that’s
 

counted as a deportation.”

 

 

On January 31, 2013, White House domestic policy chief Cecilia Muñoz –

formerly the Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and
 

Legislation at the National Council of La Raza – blamed Congress for the
 

“record” number of deportations carried out by the Obama administration:
 

“The government’s job is to do what Congress tells it to do. Congress, under
 

the immigration laws that we’ve got now, Congress requires us to remove
 

people who are removable and gives DHS, frankly, a whole lot of resources to
 

do that job. DHS’s job is to make sure they make the best possible decisions
 

on how they use those resources.”

 

The

Washington Post Reveals the Fraud

In December 2010, the Washington Post revealed that U.S. Immigration and

Customs Enforcement (ICE) had included more than 19,000 illegal immigrants
 

who had exited the country in the previous fiscal year in its deportation
 

statistics for the current (2010) fiscal year.

 
On February 22, 2010, ICE Detention and Removal Operations issued a

memo stating that, despite record deportations of criminals, the overall
 

number of removals was down.

 

According to the memo, while ICE was on pace to achieve “the Agency goal of

150,000 criminal alien removals” for the year ending September 30th, total
 

deportations were set to barely top 310,000, "

Welll under the Agency’s goal of
 

400,000” and nearly 20 percent below the 2009 total of 387,000.

 

The memo also explained how ICE would inflate the number: increasing

detention space to hold more illegal immigrants while they await deportation
 

proceedings; sweeping prisons and jails to find more candidates for
 

deportation and offering early release for those willing to go quickly; and a
 

surge in efforts to catch illegal immigrants who lied on immigration or visa
 

applications or reentered the U.S. after being deported.

The memo also encouraged field directors to “maximize” participation in the

Mexican Interior Repatriation Program (MIRP), a bilaterally voluntary program

 

that attempts to quickly return Mexican nationals found unlawfully in the
 

Sonora Arizona desert region of the U.S. to their places of origin in the Mexican
 

interior. The program is run by ICE, the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 

and the Mexican Ministry of the Interior.

 

Under this program, aliens caught by U.S. Border Patrol agents are turned

over to ICE to carry out the returns.

 

Since MIRP’s inception in 2004, the program had never started earlier than

July 7th each year.

 

 

In 2010, the first group returned to Mexico on June 1st. By starting in June,

ICE tallied 6,527 returns that in the past would have been handled and
 

counted by the U.S. Border Patrol.

 

In total, 23,384 Mexicans between June and September of that year accepted

flights back to Mexico City and then a bus ticket to their home town at a cost
 

of almost $15 million.

 

 An ICE spokesman claimed the agency started the

program early because of available funds and a timely agreement between
 

the U.S. and Mexico.

According to the Washington Post, internal emails showed that when ICE

officials realized in the final weeks of the fiscal year, which ended September
 

10th, that ICE’s numbers would fall short of the previous year’s mark, they
 

quietly directed immigration officers to bypass immigration courts whenever
 

possible and encourage eligible foreign nationals to agree to voluntarily return to
 

their countries without a negative mark on their immigration record.

This allowed hundreds of immigrants who typically would have gone

before an immigration judge to contest deportation offenses such as
 

drunk driving, domestic violence and misdemeanor assault to leave
 

the country without a statutory civil or criminal bar for applying for
 

legal residence or traveling to the U.S. in the future.

According to the emails, once ICE met its goals for 2010, it directed agents to

stop offering voluntary returns and revert to business as usual.

According to an October 1, 2010 email obtained by the Washington Post, an

acting ICE assistant director cheered field directors on to the finish line: “We
 

are just 106 shy of 390,000. However, we still get to count closed cases through

Monday, October 4th so… keep having your folks concentrate on closing those

Starting in 2009, ICE stopped counting deportations for the fiscal year

ending September 30th in the first few days of October. Any deportations

that take place in one fiscal year but are confirmed after October 5th are

added to the next fiscal year’s statistics.

 

Based on the new accounting approach, ICE was able to 19,422 removals

from 2009 in the 2010 statistics. In 2010, 373,440 other people were

deported.

 

If ICE had not included the 19,422 departures, removals would have

fallen by almost 16,000 from the previous year and by about 20,000 in

2009.

At a news conference on October 6, 2010, ICE Director John Morton said that no

unusual practices were used to break the previous year’s mark: “When the

secretary tells you that the numbers are at an all-time high, that’s straight, on

the merits, no cooking of the books. It’s what happened.”

However, Chris  Crane, President of the ICE Union, stated that offering voluntary

return was not a common practice and that it was “breaking the rules

to break the record.”

 

On October 5, 2011, Secretary Napolitano announced that a “record” 195,000

convicted criminals had been removed in 2010.

 

However, DHS’s Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) reported that only 168,532 convicted

criminal aliens were removed in 2010.

 

Napolitano also announced that

there were 392,862 aliens removed from the country in 2010,

while OIS reported 387,242 removals

.

The primary reason for the difference is that Napolitano is using the numbers

reported by ICE, which uses different methodology than the OIS whose numbers

are arguably more accurate.

OIS has used a consistent methodology to calculate immigration statistics,

while ICE has changed its methodology for the sole reason of meeting

numerical outputs.

The only possible reason to reject the OIS numbers is to give the appearance

that DHS is deporting illegals in record numbers. Although OIS does not

keep track of paroles and deferments, its numbers are a more accurate

reflection of this administration’s failure to enforce immigration laws.

According to OIS statistics, the number of removals from 2009 has decreased

by 7,923 and returns have decreased by 109,759. The number of arrests

made by DHS has decreased 66% from about 1.8 million in 1999 to about

600,000 in 2010.

 While prosecutions increased slightly in the years prior to

2005, the general trend has been downward for at least ten years.

Padding the Numbers: The Alien Transfer Exit Program

Since 2011, the Obama administration has counted removals from the Alien

Transfer Exit Program (ATEP) as ICE deportations, which artificially inflates

ICE removal numbers.

 According to a source in a Border Patrol field office,

“the only reason this group [in the ATEP] program is in detention at a

is for the purpose of padding ICE’s year-end removal statistics.”

Created in 2008, ATEP is a program that moves Mexican nationals

apprehended in one Border Patrol Sector to another Sector before removing

them to Mexico. There are no penalties or bars attached when illegal

immigrants are sent back via ATEP and they can simply attempt re-entry. As

a result, illegal immigrants who are subject to ATEP can return to the U.S.

numerous cases only to be counted as removals each successive time they

reenter illegally and are apprehended at the border.

 

From 2008 to 2011, apprehensions through ATEP were counted in the U.S.

Border Patrol’s statistics, not ICE’s statistics. However, in 2011, the Obama

administration started including ATEP apprehensions by CBP in ICE’s

deportation statistics.

In the first seven months of 2012, ICE reported 221,656 arrests (ICE

apprehensions in the interior of the country), yet reported 334,249 removals

(deportations). The 112,000 additional removals were from the ATEP

(72,030) and an unknown source (40,000).

Thus, ICE removal statistics had

 

over 112,000 deportations included that previously had never been counted in

its deportation statistics.

 

In 2008, official ICE removals totaled 369,221; in 2009, 389,834; in 2010,

392,862; in 2011, 396,906; and in 2012, 409,849.

 

However, when ATEP removals are subtracted from ICE’s removals total, the

2011 number drops from 396,906 to roughly 360,319, and the 2012 number

drops from 409,849 to 324,299.

 

Therefore, if the ATEP removal numbers are subtracted from ICE’s 2011

removal numbers, total removals are 2.5% below 2008 levels, 7.5% below

2009 levels, and 8.3% below 2010 levels.

 

 

 

 

Why is DHS Buing Ammunition?

In a puzzling, unexplained development, the Obama administration has been buying and storing vast amounts of ammunition in recent months, with the Department of Homeland Security just placing another order for an additional 21.6 million rounds.  Several other agencies of the federal government also began buying large quantities of bullets last year.

But DHS has been silent about its need for numerous orders of bullets in the multiple millions. Indeed, Examiner writer Ryan Keller points out Janet Napolitano’s agency illegally redacted information from some ammunition solicitation forms following media inquiries.

Since last spring DHS has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm. That’s sufficient firepower to shoot every American about five times, including illegal immigrants.

The lack of a credible official explanation for such awesome ammunition acquisitions is feeding all sorts of conspiracy theories, mainly centered on federal anticipation of some kind of domestic insurrection.

“If you want to get paranoid, Obama can really help you in your work,” Savage continued. “Why would the Department of Homeland Security have purchased 1.6 billion rounds of hollow-point ammunition over the last 10 months at the same time they’re trying to disarm the average American citizen?”

Bush was not that Bad Afterall

bush was

This tells the story, why Bush was so bad at the end of his term.

 Don’t just skim over this, it’s not very long, read it slowly and let it sink in. If in doubt, check it out!!!

 The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd, 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.

 The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.

 For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this:

January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress.

 At the time:

 The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77

 The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%

 The Unemployment rate was 4.6%

 George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH

 Remember the day...

 January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.

 The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?

 BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!

 Unemployment... to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOES!

 Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie - starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy.

 And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac?

 OBAMA

 And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?

 OBAMA and the Democrat Congress

 So when someone tries to blame Bush,

 REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007.... THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!"

 Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.

 Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 & 2009 as well as 2010 & 2011.

 In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

 For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the 2009 budgets.

 And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.

 If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

 If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

 There is no way this will be widely publicized, unless each of us sends it on!

                                     We must limit him to one term.       
 It would be nice to keep this going until November 2012...

Why I Carry a Gun

I don’t carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed. I don’t carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place. I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world. I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world. I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government. I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry. I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared. I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon. I don’t carry a gun because I’m a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy. I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love. I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate. I don’t carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me. Police protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves. Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess. Personally, I carry a gun because I’m too young to die and too old to take a butt whoopin’.

The Bloated IRS

The following are 24 outrageous facts about taxes in the United States that will blow your mind….

1 – The U.S. tax code is now 3.8 million words long. If you took all of William Shakespeare’s works and collected them together, the entire collection would only be about 900,000 words long.

2 – According to the National Taxpayers Union, U.S. taxpayers spend more than 7.6 billion hours complying with federal tax requirements. Imagine what our society would look like if all that time was spent on more economically profitable activities.

3 – 75 years ago, the instructions for Form 1040 were two pages long. Today, they are 189 pages long.

4 – There have been 4,428 changes to the tax code over the last decade. It is incredibly costly to change tax software, tax manuals and tax instruction booklets for all of those changes.

5 – According to the National Taxpayers Union, the IRS currently has 1,999different publications, forms, and instruction sheets that you can download from the IRS website.

6 – Our tax system has become so complicated that it is almost impossible to file your taxes correctly. For example, back in 1998 Money Magazine had 46 different tax professionals complete a tax return for a hypothetical household. All 46 of them came up with a different result.

7 – In 2009, PC World had five of the most popular tax preparation software websites prepare a tax return for a hypothetical household. All five of them came up with a different result.

8 – The IRS spends $2.45 for every $100 that it collects in taxes.

9 – According to The Tax Foundation, the average American has to work until April 17th just to pay federal, state, and local taxes. Back in 1900, “Tax Freedom Day” came on January 22nd.

10 – When the U.S. government first implemented a personal income tax back in 1913, the vast majority of the population paid a rate of just 1 percent, and the highest marginal tax rate was just 7 percent.

11 – Residents of New Jersey pay $1.64 in taxes for every $1.00 of federal spending that they get back.

12 – The United States is the only nation on the planet that tries to tax citizens on what they earn in foreign countries.

13 – According to Forbes, the 400 highest earning Americans pay an average federal income tax rate of just 18 percent.

14 – Warren Buffett had an effective tax rate of just 17.4 percent for 2010.

15 – The top 20 percent of all income earners in the United States payapproximately 86 percent of all federal income taxes.

16 – Sadly, as Bill Whittle has shown, you could take every single pennythat every American earns above $250,000 and it would only fund about 38 percent of the federal budget.

17 – The United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the world (35 percent). In Ireland, the corporate tax rate is only 12.5 percent. This is causing thousands of corporations to move operations out of the United States and into other countries.

18 – Some tax havens are doing a booming business in setting up sham headquarters for U.S. corporations. For example, the city of Zug, Switzerland only has a population of 26,000 people but it is the headquarters for 30,000 companies.

19 – In 1950, corporate taxes accounted for about 30 percent of all federal revenue. In 2012, corporate taxes will account for less than 7 percent of all federal revenue.

20 – In a previous article, I discussed how many of our largest corporations make huge profits and yet pay less than nothing in taxes….


What U.S. corporations are able to get away with is absolutely amazing.

The following figures come directly out of a report by Citizens for Tax Justice. These are combined figures for the tax years 2008, 2009 and 2010.

During those three years, all of the corporations below made a lot of money. Yet all of them paid net taxes that were below zero for those three years combined.

How is that possible? Well, it turns out that instead of paying in taxes to the federal government, they were actually getting money back.

So for these corporations, their rate of taxation was actually below zero.

If you have not seen these before, you are going to have a hard time believing some of these statistics…..

*Honeywell*

Profits: $4.9 billion

Taxes: -$34 million

*Fed Ex*

Profits: $3 billion

Taxes: -$23 million

*Wells Fargo*

Profits: $49.37 billion

Taxes: -$681 million

*Boeing*

Profits: $9.7 billion

Taxes: -$178 million

*Verizon*

Profits: $32.5 billion

Taxes: -$951 million

*Dupont*

Profits: $2.1 billion

Taxes -$72 million

*American Electric Power*

Profits: $5.89 billion

Taxes -$545 million

*General Electric*

Profits: $7.7 billion

Taxes: -$4.7 billion

Are you starting to get the picture?

21 – Exxon-Mobil paid $15 billion in taxes in 2009, but not a single penny went to the U.S. government.

22 – Many wealthy Americans hide enormous amounts of money outside the country in order to avoid paying taxes. According to the IMF, a total of 18 trillion dollars is currently being hidden in offshore banks.

23 – The number of traffic accidents spikes each year right around April 15th. The following is from a recent Bloomberg article….


Deaths from traffic accidents around April 15, traditionally the last day to file individual income taxes in the U.S., rose 6 percent on average on each of the last 30 years of tax filing days compared with a day during the week prior and a week later, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

24 – Most of the tax debate is focused on income taxes, but the truth is that Americans pay dozens of other taxes every single year. The following are just a few of the taxes that many Americans pay….

#1 Building Permit Taxes

#2 Capital Gains Taxes

#3 Cigarette Taxes

#4 Court Fines (indirect taxes)

#5 Dog License Taxes

#6 Federal Unemployment Taxes

#7 Fishing License Taxes

#8 Food License Taxes

#9 Gasoline Taxes

#10 Gift Taxes

#11 Hunting License Taxes

#12 Inheritance Taxes

#13 Inventory Taxes

#14 IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)

#15 IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)

#16 Liquor Taxes

#17 Luxury Taxes

#18 Marriage License Taxes

#19 Medicare Taxes

#20 Property Taxes

#21 Recreational Vehicle Taxes

#22 Toll Booth Taxes

#23 Sales Taxes

#24 Self-Employment Taxes

#25 School Taxes

#26 Septic Permit Taxes

#27 Service Charge Taxes

#28 Social Security Taxes

#29 State Unemployment Taxes (SUTA)

#30 Telephone Federal Excise Taxes

#31 Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Taxes

#32 Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Taxes

#33 Telephone State And Local Taxes

#34 Tire Taxes

#35 Toll Bridge Taxes

#36 Toll Tunnel Taxes

#37 Traffic Fines (indirect taxation)

#38 Utility Taxes

#39 Vehicle License Registration Taxes

#40 Vehicle Sales Taxes

#41 Workers Compensation Taxes

When you account for all forms of taxation on the federal, state and local levels there are many Americans that pay out more than half of their incomes in taxes.

We are being taxed into oblivion, and yet most Americans do not even realize that it is happening.

It is kind of like being killed by thousands of tiny cuts.

So what do all of these taxes buy us?

They buy us a massively bloated government that wastes money on some of the craziest things imaginable.

Obama - The Great Pretender

The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised "Meet The Press'.
From Sunday's 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, Televised "Meet the Press" THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.

General Bill Ginn USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...
During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, "Stand and Face It".

NOW GET THIS !!
'Senator' Obama replied:
"As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides". "There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression.." "The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing."

(ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???)

Obama continued: "The National Anthem should be 'swapped' for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing'. If that were our anthem, then, I might salute it. In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as 'redesign' our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we, as a Nation of waring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails - - - perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments ......"

When I become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of Islam, an unfair injustice which is WHY my wife disrespects the Flag and she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past".

"Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside . I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path.. My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country's First black Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America "

Obama Firsts

Obama accomplishments:

Borrowed from a FB friend: An impressive list of accomplishments!
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States .
First President to violate the War Powers Act. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .
First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party, a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.
First President to recommend changing our National Anthem as it portrays and promotes violence and is warlike in its theme.
First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer Breakfast and activities.
First President to initiate a Cash for Clunkers Program to clean up exhaust that adds to global warming,
Then extended it because it was so popular -- wasting hundreds of millions of Tax-Payer dollars.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. ,
Including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to terminate America ’s ability to put a man in space.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which State they are allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date.
First President to pledge complete transparency while campaigning, then hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Qur'and tells us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
Feel free to share this list of accomplishments!

Obama, Closer to the Fire

Breaking CBS News! This morning the Georgia Court of Administrative Hearings denied Obama’s motion to dismiss our ballot challenge. More importantly, the court’s opinion ruled in favor of CCA on all procedural and state law issues, leaving only one thing left to decide: Whether Obama is a natural-born-citizen under the Constitution.

Remember that no court has ever addressed this issue! As you know our argument is very simple. We argue that the Supreme Court has defined “natural-born-citizen” as a person with two U.S. citizen parents, and Obama admits that his father was never a U.S. citizen.

Others have raised many legal theories and asserted numerous facts regarding Obama’s past, his identity, his parentage, and his qualifications to hold office. None of those others have EVER succeeded in having a single court address the substantive issues they raised. Every one of those cases have been dismissed on procedural grounds without considering the substantive arguments at issue. Liberty Legal Foundation will now be the first to appear before a court that has affirmatively stated that it will decide the Constitutional question.

The hearing is set for 9AM on January 26th in Atlanta, Georgia

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Ode to the Democrat Welfare State

Father must I go to work?
No, my lucky son.
We're living now on Easy Street
On dough from Washington.

We've left it up to Uncle Sam,
So don't get exercised.
Nobody has to give a damn---
We've all been subsidized.

But if Sam treats us all so well
And feeds us milk and honey,
Please, daddy, tell me what the Hell
He's going to do for money.

Don't worry, bub, there's not a hitch
In this their noble plan---
He simply soaks the filthy rich
And helps the Democrat man.

But father won't there come a time
When Sam runs out of cash.
And we have left them not one dime
So what then will they trash?

My faith in you is shrinking, son
You nosy little brat:
You do too damn much thinking, son
To be a Democrat!

So take your Uncle Sam's stolen cash
And never work a lick.
For tomorrow America will be trash,
And you will be a hick.

Obama is in DEEP Trouble

Obama May Be In Deep Trouble...with Chief Justice John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court.

According to sources who watch the inner workings of the federal government, a smack-down of Barack Obama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable.

Ever since Obama assumed the office of President, critics have hammered him on a number of Constitutional issues. Critics have complained that much, if not all of Obama's major initiatives run headlong into Constitutional roadblocks on the power of the federal government. Obama certainly did not help himself in the eyes of the Court when he used the venue of the State of the Union address early in the year to publicly flog the Court over its ruling that the First Amendment grants the right to various organizations to run political ads during the time of an election. The tongue-lashing clearly did not sit well with the Court, as demonstrated by Justice Sam Alito, who publicly shook his head and stated under his breath, 'That's not true,' when Obama told a flat-out lie concerning the Court's ruling. As it has turned out, this was a watershed moment in the relationship between the executive and the judicial branches of the federal government. Obama publicly declared war on the court, even as he blatantly continued to propose legislation that flies in the face of every known Constitutional principle upon which this nation has stood for over 200 years.

Obama has even identified Chief Justice John Roberts as his number one enemy, that is, apart from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, and so on. And it is no accident that the one swing-vote on the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy, stated recently that he has no intention of retiring until 'Obama is gone.'

Apparently, the Court has had enough. The Roberts Court has signaled, in a very subtle manner, of course, that it intends to address the issues about which Obama critics have been screaming to high heaven. A ruling against Obama on any one of these important issues could potentially cripple the Administration. Such a thing would be long overdue.

First, there is ObamaCare, which violates the Constitutional principle barring the federal government from forcing citizens to purchase something. And no, this is not the same thing as states requiring drivers to purchase car insurance, as some of the intellectually-impaired claim. The Constitution limits FEDERAL government, not state governments, from such things, and further, not everyone has to drive, and thus, a citizen could opt not to purchase car insurance by simply deciding not to drive a vehicle. In the ObamaCare world, however, no citizen can 'opt out.'

Second, sources state that the Roberts court has quietly accepted information concerning discrepancies in Obama's history that raises serious questions about his eligibility for the office of President. The charge goes far beyond the birth certificate issue. This information involves possible fraudulent use of a Social Security number in Connecticut, while Obama was a high school student in Hawaii.

And that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Third, several cases involving possible criminal activity, conflicts of interest, and pay-for-play cronyism could potentially land many Administration officials, if not Obama himself, in hot water with the Court. Frankly, in the years this writer has observed politics, nothing comes close to comparing with the rampant corruption of this Administration, not even during the Nixon years. Nixon and the Watergate conspirators look like choirboys compared to the jokers that populate this Administration.

In addition, the Court will eventually be forced to rule on the dreadful decision of the Obama DOJ suing the state of Arizona. That, too, could send the Obama doctrine of open borders to an early grave, given that the Administration refuses to enforce federal law on illegal aliens.

And finally, the biggie that could potentially send the entire house of cards tumbling in a free-fall is the latest revelation concerning the Obama-Holder Department of Justice and its refusal to pursue the New Black Panther Party. The group was caught on tape committing felonies by attempting to intimidate Caucasian voters into staying away from the polls. A whistle-blower who resigned from the DOJ is now charging Holder with the deliberate refusal to pursue cases against Blacks, particularly those who are involved in radical hate-groups, such as the New Black Panthers, who have been caught on tape calling for the murder of white people and their babies. This one is a biggie that could send the entire Administration crumbling--that is, if the Justices have the guts to draw a line in the sand at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE ON YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS LIST!!!

In passing this on it is no wonder Americans of every race and political persuasion are disgusted with our Federal Government, it is not hard to understand the mistrust and the disgust. Obama and his administration should be impeached and the quicker the better. Obama only knows the blame game, now it is the Tea Party that caused him to spend our country into debt so deep it may never recover. He is a President that had a super majority in both houses until last November. And because of that he jammed pork barrel projects and spending of every kind of an entitlement bill one can't imagine along with Obama Care down our throats with spending that is unattainable. He is borrowing 42 cents on every dollar we owe and spend, wake up America we have become a third world communist country.

HOW DO YOU LIKE HIS CHANGE NOW??

A Woman's Poem

He didn't like the casserole

And he didn't like my cake,

He said my biscuits were too hard

Not like his mother used to make.

I didn't perk the coffee right

He didn't like the stew,

I didn't mend his socks

The way his mother used to do.

I pondered for an answer

I was looking for a clue.

Then I turned around and

smacked the shit out of him...

Like his mother used to do.

DEMOCRAT CRY BABIES

If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great test!

If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
If a Democrat doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.
If a Democrat is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a Democrat is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A Democrat wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Democrats demand that those they don't like be shut down.

If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A Democrat non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.

If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it..
A Democrat demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a Republican reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A Democrat will delete it because he's "offended".

Common Sense Dead at 100

An Obituary printed in the London Times - Interesting and sadly True!

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- and Maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims.

Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death; by his parents, Truth and Trust; by his wife, Discretion; by his daughter, Responsibility; and by his son, Reason.

He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;
I Know My Rights
I Want It Now
Someone Else Is To Blame
I'm A Victim

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

RECENT AP POLL - OBAMA FAILING

Do you support the full repeal of President Obama's healthcare plan Congress passed in 2010?

Yes, repeal it completely 539424(68%)

No, don’t repeal it at all 172036(21%)

No, repeal just parts of it 72285(9%)



Should Congress restore $500 billion in Medicare benefits for seniors that the Obama plan cut?

Yes, restore the Medicare benefits 625460(80%)

No, don't restore the Medicare benefits 147142(19%)


Do you support President Obama's desire to give 12 million illegal aliens amnesty and a path to citizenship?

Yes, I support Obama's amnesty plan 161232(20%)

No, I oppose it 618964(79%)



What do you believe Congress' top priority should be in 2011?

Cutting spending 438161(56%)

Cutting taxes 62665(8%)

Paying down the national debt 204768(26%)

Improving the nation's security 64047(8%)


Do you plan on voting to re-elect President Obama in 2012?

Yes, re-elect 196859(24%)

No, for another candidate 561245(71%)

Not sure right now 29849(3%)

Black Hurricanes

just when you think you have heard all of the stupid things that are
going on in the US -- this comes along...
Black hurricanes....

Well, it appears our African-American friends have found yet
something else to be pissed about. A black congresswoman (this would
be Sheila Jackson Lee, of Houston ), reportedly complained that
the names of hurricanes are all Caucasian sounding names.

She would prefer some names that reflect African-American culture
such as Chamiqua, Tanisha, Woeisha, Shaquille, and Jamal. I am NOT
making this up!

She would also like the weather reports to be broadcast in
'language' that street people can understand because one of the
problems that happened in New Orleans was, that black people
couldn't understand the seriousness of the situation, due to the
racially biased language of the weather report.

I guess if the weather person says that the winds are going to blow
at 140+ MPH, that's too hard to understand

I can hear it now: A weatherman in New Orleans says...

Wazzup, mutha-f****as! Hehr-i-cane Chamiqua be headin' fo' yo azz
like Leroy on a rocket!


This foolishness has got to stop. America is a melding pot of all races and religions and this is WASTED ENERGY. Let's focus on fixing America Ms. Lee of Houston, or step down from serving this great country. The last 5 years have shown us an eroding of relationships in America. One would think that the Obama Administration would unite the Country, not tear it apart as he and George Soros are trying to do...........

Balance the Budget

While I might want to take credit for the comments below - I cannot. Written by gentleman that is not a friend of TBO.


A typical article brought to you by the liberal-leaning, Democrat-owned, socialistically one sided TBO executives and owners. The Oblowsoturd administration, supported by a number of RINOs, are continuing to gain traction – if we let them. No compromise on the debt reduction and no new taxes. The Oblowsoturd has proven that he can spend OPM (other People’s Money) and drive us further to the brink of destruction. Here is the plan to balance the budget:

All US troops out of other countries. They should stand on their own or fight their own battles.

Oust the United Nations and convert the building to condos.

No aid to any foreign nation. Stand on your own dinner.

Cut all entitlement programs, except for SS and Medicare (they WORKED FOR IT) by 75%.

No funding to Planned Parenthood, NAACP, CAIR, and all other left-wing fringe radicals.

Tariffs on ALL imported goods.

Sell corn and wheat at the same price as a barrel of oil.

Disband EPA, FDA and all others that stifle America’s growth.

Deport all illegal’s ASAP and treat them as enemy combatants.

OK, now watch out for the liberal bashing Demotards. How about a return to what made this country great….hard work, new products and services and the best that the world has to offer. Get the slags and slackers off the hind teat and back to work!!

Burzynski, the Movie

Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food and Drug Administration in American history.

In the 1970’s, Dr. Burzynski made a remarkable discovery that threatened to change the face of cancer treatment forever. His non-toxic gene-targeted cancer medicine could have helped save millions of lives over the last two decades had his discovery not been criminally suppressed by the US government, as his therapy, called “antineoplastons,” have been shown to effectively help cure some of the most “incurable” forms of terminal cancer.

This documentary takes you through the treacherous 14-year journey Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to finally obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of antineoplastons.

His story is yet another testament that fact can be far stranger than fiction, as the film exposes the powerful, unscrupulous forces that work to maintain the status quo of the medical- and pharmaceutical industry at any cost—including the lives of millions of people.

Thanks to the fantastic work of Bilderberg activists, journalists and the Swiss media, we have now been able to obtain the full official list of 2011 Bilderberg attendees. Routinely, some members request that their names be kept off the roster so there will be additional Bilderbergers in attendance.

Infowars will be on the scene identifying other attendees not on the list.

Belgium

Coene, Luc, Governor, National Bank of Belgium
Davignon, Etienne, Minister of State
Leysen, Thomas, Chairman, Umicore
China

Fu, Ying, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
Huang, Yiping, Professor of Economics, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
Denmark

Eldrup, Anders, CEO, DONG Energy
Federspiel, Ulrik, Vice President, Global Affairs, Haldor Topsøe A/S
Schütze, Peter, Member of the Executive Management, Nordea Bank AB
Germany

Ackermann, Josef, Chairman of the Management Board and the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank
Enders, Thomas, CEO, Airbus SAS
Löscher, Peter, President and CEO, Siemens AG
Nass, Matthias, Chief International Correspondent, Die Zeit
Steinbrück, Peer, Member of the Bundestag; Former Minister of Finance
Finland

Apunen, Matti, Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA
Johansson, Ole, Chairman, Confederation of the Finnish Industries EK
Ollila, Jorma, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell
Pentikäinen, Mikael, Publisher and Senior Editor-in-Chief, Helsingin Sanomat
France

Baverez, Nicolas, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Bazire, Nicolas, Managing Director, Groupe Arnault /LVMH
Castries, Henri de, Chairman and CEO, AXA
Lévy, Maurice, Chairman and CEO, Publicis Groupe S.A.
Montbrial, Thierry de, President, French Institute for International Relations
Roy, Olivier, Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute

Great Britain

Agius, Marcus, Chairman, Barclays PLC
Flint, Douglas J., Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings
Kerr, John, Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell
Lambert, Richard, Independent Non-Executive Director, Ernst & Young
Mandelson, Peter, Member, House of Lords; Chairman, Global Counsel
Micklethwait, John, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
Osborne, George, Chancellor of the Exchequer
Stewart, Rory, Member of Parliament
Taylor, J. Martin, Chairman, Syngenta International AG
Greece

David, George A., Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A.
Hardouvelis, Gikas A., Chief Economist and Head of Research, Eurobank EFG
Papaconstantinou, George, Minister of Finance
Tsoukalis, Loukas, President, ELIAMEP Grisons
International Organizations

Almunia, Joaquín, Vice President, European Commission
Daele, Frans van, Chief of Staff to the President of the European Council
Kroes, Neelie, Vice President, European Commission; Commissioner for Digital Agenda
Lamy, Pascal, Director General, World Trade Organization
Rompuy, Herman van, President, European Council
Sheeran, Josette, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
Solana Madariaga, Javier, President, ESADEgeo Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics
Trichet, Jean-Claude, President, European Central Bank
Zoellick, Robert B., President, The World Bank Group

Ireland

Gallagher, Paul, Senior Counsel; Former Attorney General
McDowell, Michael, Senior Counsel, Law Library; Former Deputy Prime Minister
Sutherland, Peter D., Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
Italy

Bernabè, Franco, CEO, Telecom Italia SpA
Elkann, John, Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
Monti, Mario, President, Univers Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
Scaroni, Paolo, CEO, Eni S.p.A.
Tremonti, Giulio, Minister of Economy and Finance
Canada

Carney, Mark J., Governor, Bank of Canada
Clark, Edmund, President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group
McKenna, Frank, Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group
Orbinksi, James, Professor of Medicine and Political Science, University of Toronto
Prichard, J. Robert S., Chair, Torys LLP
Reisman, Heather, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. Center, Brookings Institution
Netherlands

Bolland, Marc J., Chief Executive, Marks and Spencer Group plc
Chavannes, Marc E., Political Columnist, NRC Handelsblad; Professor of Journalism
Halberstadt, Victor, Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings
H.M. the Queen of the Netherlands
Rosenthal, Uri, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Winter, Jaap W., Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Norway

Myklebust, Egil, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, sk Hydro ASA
H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon of Norway
Ottersen, Ole Petter, Rector, University of Oslo
Solberg, Erna, Leader of the Conservative Party
Austria

Bronner, Oscar, CEO and Publisher, Standard Medien AG
Faymann, Werner, Federal Chancellor
Rothensteiner, Walter, Chairman of the Board, Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG
Scholten, Rudolf, Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
Portugal

Balsemão, Francisco Pinto, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister
Ferreira Alves, Clara, CEO, Claref LDA; writer
Nogueira Leite, António, Member of the Board, José de Mello Investimentos, SGPS, SA
Sweden

Mordashov, Alexey A., CEO, Severstal
Schweden
Bildt, Carl, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Björling, Ewa, Minister for Trade
Wallenberg, Jacob, Chairman, Investor AB
Switzerland

Brabeck-Letmathe, Peter, Chairman, Nestlé S.A.
Groth, Hans, Senior Director, Healthcare Policy & Market Access, Oncology Business Unit, Pfizer Europe
Janom Steiner, Barbara, Head of the Department of Justice, Security and Health, Canton
Kudelski, André, Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group SA
Leuthard, Doris, Federal Councillor
Schmid, Martin, President, Government of the Canton Grisons
Schweiger, Rolf, Ständerat
Soiron, Rolf, Chairman of the Board, Holcim Ltd., Lonza Ltd.
Vasella, Daniel L., Chairman, Novartis AG
Witmer, Jürg, Chairman, Givaudan SA and Clariant AG
Spain

Cebrián, Juan Luis, CEO, PRISA
Cospedal, María Dolores de, Secretary General, Partido Popular
León Gross, Bernardino, Secretary General of the Spanish Presidency
Nin Génova, Juan María, President and CEO, La Caixa
H.M. Queen Sofia of Spain
Turkey

Ciliv, Süreyya, CEO, Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri A.S.
Gülek Domac, Tayyibe, Former Minister of State
Koç, Mustafa V., Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.
Pekin, Sefika, Founding Partner, Pekin & Bayar Law Firm
USA

Alexander, Keith B., Commander, USCYBERCOM; Director, National Security Agency
Altman, Roger C., Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
Bezos, Jeff, Founder and CEO, Amazon.com
Collins, Timothy C., CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
Feldstein, Martin S., George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Hoffman, Reid, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn
Hughes, Chris R., Co-founder, Facebook
Jacobs, Kenneth M., Chairman & CEO, Lazard
Johnson, James A., Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
Jordan, Jr., Vernon E., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC
Keane, John M., Senior Partner, SCP Partners; General, US Army, Retired
Kissinger, Henry A., Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Kleinfeld, Klaus, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
Kravis, Henry R., Co-Chairman and co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis, Roberts & Co.
Kravis, Marie-Josée, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.
Li, Cheng, Senior Fellow and Director of Research, John L. Thornton China Center, Brookings Institution
Mundie, Craig J., Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Orszag, Peter R., Vice Chairman, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
Perle, Richard N., Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Rockefeller, David, Former Chairman, Chase Manhattan Bank
Rose, Charlie, Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose
Rubin, Robert E., Co-Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury
Schmidt, Eric, Executive Chairman, Google Inc.
Steinberg, James B., Deputy Secretary of State
Thiel, Peter A., President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
Varney, Christine A., Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust
Vaupel, James W., Founding Director, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Warsh, Kevin, Former Governor, Federal Reserve Board
Wolfensohn, James D., Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC