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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

The Bill Keith Report News And Commentary: What Is Our President Doing?

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During the past three years, 300,000 people from Muslim countries have come to the United States. White House insiders say President Obama plans to make an executive decision to grant some form of amnesty to some six million illegal aliens in this land. His decision will send a loud and clear message to multiplied millions more people in Mexico and Central America to come to this land.


Wednesday October 8, 2014


The Bill Keith Report


News And Commentary


Greetings to our readers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and 133 foreign countries.


Your comments are welcome!


If you believe the information in this edition of The Report is worthwhile, please tell your friends about it.


 


 


A Texan wrote:”A bad day in Texas is better than a good day in Washington, D.C.”




Muslims on American Food Stamps demand the food meets Islamic requirements.



Convoluted Reasoning:Global warming is so bad that predictions call for a colder, snowier winter.




Why are Americans so fat if they are so poor?


Nashville, Tennessee, Public Schools – 20 percent of students are from Mexico and Central America.




Las Vegas, Nevada, Public Schools have 85 thousand students who speak 83 different languages other than English.




During the past three years, 300,000 people from Muslim countries have come to the United States.


Insanity on the Horizon? White House insiders say President Obama plans to make an executive decision to grant some form of amnesty to some six million illegal aliens in this land. His decision will send a loud and clear message to multiplied millions more people in Mexico and Central America to come to this land.




 


Hundreds of Schools Reject Federal Lunch Mandate


 First lady Michelle Obama is trying to force America’s schools to serve healthier lunches but many of those schools have rejected her choice of food because the children won’t eat it, according to Gary DeMar in Eagle Rising.


“Hummus is too fatty, pretzels are too salty, even hard-boiled eggs and yogurt don’t make the cut,” DeMar wrote.


The problem arose when thousands of school children began throwing their lunches in the trash. The situation became so critical that officials in Illinois’ second largest school district decided to forfeit nearly $1 million in federal lunch assistance to serve students something they will eat.


“Who elected her (Michelle Obama) food boss?” DeMar asked. “Liberals are playing both ends…Thy want to raise our taxes to care for the poor because we are told that nearly 25 percent of the nation’s population goes to bed hungry each night and at the same time they want to control what we eat because they claim we are too fat…”


Comment: Last week I reported that under the federal guidelines — with the threat of losing federal lunch program funds — school vending machines are not allowed to have any items with more than 200 calories. Yet a White House vending machine sells giant Honey Buns with 590 calories, 17 grams of fat and 30 grams of sugar.


A National Disgrace


Back in August, an al-Qaeda terrorist, dressed as an Afghan soldier, killed Army Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, the highest-ranking American soldier killed in combat since Vietnam.


His family and friends paid their last respects to this hero during his burial at Arlington National Cemetery. His wife Susan saluted her late husband as his remains were removed from a horse-drawn caisson during the burial service. 1st Lt. Matthew Greene saluted his grandfather, Harold Greene.


Sadly, neither the President, the Vice President nor Secretary of Defense Chuck Hegel attended the ceremony and no one from the White House was there to represent them.


The President was playing golf at the Vineyard Gold Club on Martha’s Vineyard and the Vice President was in the middle of the third day of a week’s vacation.


Comment: It’s sad that the President and others failed to attend the funeral of this national hero. Actually it’s a shame. He deserved a lot better.


To date, the President has not commented on the General’s death.


But I remember that the White House sent three members of the President’s staff to the funeral of Michael Brown, the young black man who was killed in Ferguson, Missouri.




Gallup Poll: Solid Majority Favor Prayer in Schools


Americans all across the land overwhelmingly favor allowing schoolchildren to pray in the public schools, according to a new Gallup poll.


A solid majority of 61 percent favor daily prayer in the nation’s classrooms. Thirty-seven percent are opposed.


Some 75 percent of the people also favor religious expressions during school graduation ceremonies and 77 percent believe school facilities should be available to religious groups for after-school meetings.


Comment: When the American people speak on an issue, one would think the elected officials in Washington would listen. But if you believe that, then keep on dreaming. What has happened to this country? Liberal politicians, the ACLU, and left-leaning judges have ambushed the nation and the people no longer matter. How much longer are we going to remain silent and let these groups continue to lead us down the Primrose Path of their making?




Letter to the President from an ER Doctor in Mississippi




Dear Mr. President:


During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive, shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular R & B ring tone.


While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as “Medicaid.” (A completely free healthcare program provided by our government).


During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.


You and our Congress expect me and our taxpayers to pay for this woman’s healthcare? I contend that our nation’s healthcare crisis is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. Rather, it is the result of a “crisis of culture,” a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one’s self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based on the irresponsible credo that “I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me.”


Once you fix this “culture crisis” that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you’ll be amazed at how quickly our nation’s healthcare difficulties will disappear.


Respectfully,


Starner Jones, MD




Doctor Starner Jones


Congress Takes Another Vacation


Last week I reported that a couple of months ago Congress took a five-week vacation then returned to Washington for eight days during which time they accomplished virtually nothing.


But voila! They are on vacation again until after the November 5 congressional elections.


When they return, the will work for a few days and get ready for their Christmas vacation.


Comment:We Americans are a bunch of suckers to stand by and watch these men and women in Congress disgrace their offices and try to beguile the taxpayers by telling us how hard they work.


Each member of Congress receives $286,000 in salary and benefits. That is $7,944 per week or $1,134 per day.


Wake up Americans! Come November 5, let’s throw them out of office and see if we can start all over with men and women of character.




Work? What work?


A Mystery: Why Did Eric “Let ‘em Go” Holder Resign?


 Eric “Let ‘em Go” Holder has been one of the most enigmatic attorney generals in recent history. Not since President Richard Nixon’s AG John Mitchell (who used his office to support Nixon’s political agenda), has the AG’s office been used so often to promote President Obama’s political agenda.


Several polls show that Holder’s approval rating with the American people is down to 23 percent. He is clearly one of the most unpopular men in Washington.


Some believe he resigned so that the President would have time to choose his successor and have him cleared through the democratic senate before the November 5 election, should the Republicans take over the senate.


Others believe one of the U. S. Supreme Court justices’ retirement may be imminent and Obama could appoint Holder — again, while there is a democratic majority in the senate, the body that must approve the appointment.


One of his first acts a AG was to release several Black Panthers who had been convicted of threatening voters in Philadelphia with clubs and night sticks during the 2008 presidential election.


He turned them loose and word around the Justice Department was that he would not prosecute blacks.


Next, he refused to defend the federal law that defined marriage as between one man and one woman.


He also told a meeting of state attorneys general it would be okay not to enforce the marriage laws in the 38 states that had such laws.


Earlier this year, “Let ‘em Go” Holder released 39,000 illegal alien criminals from federal penitentiaries including murderers, rapists, kidnappers and those who had committed other serious crimes. Now they are back on the streets of America.


He repeatedly filed lawsuits against states that wanted to introduce voter ID laws for all voters. He said it would discriminate against Hispanic and black voters.


He refused to enforce the laws that require illegal aliens to be deported back to their native lands and, hence, millions have come to the U.S. and are receiving various forms of welfare, food stamps, and other services.


Finally, he has refused to allow the IRS (under his jurisdiction) to turn over emails and other documents to a congressional investigating committee that would shed groups and refused to grant them tax-exempt status before the 2012 presidential election. However, they granted the tax exemption to dozens of liberal groups.


Holder leaves behind a bitter legacy of deceit, lawlessness, cover-ups and bad decisions such as giving 2,500 assault weapons and other guns to drug cartels in Mexico. All he ever said about the gun transfer was that he didn’t know anything about it and would look into it. We’ve heard nothing more.




Commentary


President Obama’s Blueprint for America


What is President Obama’s blueprint for America. Some believe he has a secret agenda, a dangerous plan to create a one-party nation. And he may well be on the way to doing just that.




Dick Morris,author and former advisor to President Bill Clinton, in his new book Power Grab believes this country is at a crossroads. He told Newsmax that the American people can choose a strong constitutional government or endorse the President’s dream: a nation ruled by the democrats with a leftist progressive blueprint for the future.


According to Morris, to implement his secret agenda, the President must do the following:


Execute a giant power grab such as Obamacare that creates a permanent class of people dependent on the government.




Enact “comprehensive immigration reform” which is the President’s name for amnesty for millions of illegal aliens that will vote democrat giving the democrats total control of government for the next 100 years.




Capture the control of state-run education systems by using the Common Core curriculum.




Control private business by giving the EPA governing power in the name of climate change that will affect the lives of all Americans. Note: Current EPA regulations are 38 times longer than the Bible.




Block energy independence that will slow down economic growth and lead to more dependency on government.




Do away with all efforts to reform welfare and keep millions looking to government as their source for everything. That’s why there is a determined effort to get more and more people on food stamps.




Give more authority and control of our nation to the United Nations a body that wants to confiscate all guns from gun owners.




“Obama is a left-wing president who is desperately determined to impose his radical agenda to transform our democratic government and free market economy into his socialist-style ideal before leaving office in 2016,” Morris wrote. “He’s a president who is obsessively fixated on keeping the left in permanent power by turning our two-party system into a one-party monopoly….He is close to achieving his goal.”




Do you see a pattern here?


Comment: Morris is right on target. Otherwise, why would nothing be done about the 11 million illegal aliens that have come into this land and the 100,000 children? Why hasn’t he approved the Keystone Pipeline? Why has the EPA shut down so many coal mines? Why would he support a United Nations Resolution that would require the citizens of all signatory nations to turn in their guns? Why would he advertise in Mexican consulates that when the illegals arrive in the U.S., food stamps will be waiting for them? Why would he continue to push Obamacare when the vast majority of the American people are opposed to it?


Yes, Dick Morris may be right on target.




This is Ray Mossholder for Bill Keith. God bless America… please.




The Bill Keith Report News And Commentary: What Is Our President Doing?

Thursday, September 18, 2014

THE BILL KEITH REPORT AND COMMENTARY September 18, 2014

The Bill Keith Report


News And Commentary


September 18, 2014


Greetings to our readers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and 133 foreign countries.


Your comments are welcome!


If you believe the information in this edition of The Report is worthwhile, please tell your friends about it.


 


Bill’s book The Rise and Fall of Practically Everything carefully documents the culture war that is raging across this land. The book chronicles the cataclysmic paradigm shift that has put this nation in peril. The thesis is that the American people face the serious threat of losing our once-great civilization as government, the news media, our other great institutions, and even the Christian church reel under the assault of a cultural revolution. The book is available from www.billkeithbooks.com, Amazon.com and Amazon/Kindle.



     How stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, happier…But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she’s still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home. ~~ President Ronald Reagan’s Farewell Address, Jan. 11, 1989


     News Alert: Federal tax revenues from WE THE PEOPLE through August of this year totaled $2.6 trillion. But the feds still ran a deficit of $589 billion for that period.


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China Syndrome: Nuclear Power Plant Without Security


     About 50 miles from Washington, D.C., the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant sits on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. Investigative reporters from the Daily Caller have learned it is wide open to a terrorist attack.


     The reporters found that “anyone can enter the property, drive through the front gates, park not far from a nuclear reactor and have no contact with any kind of security.”


     “A reporter and videographer drove from the nation’s capital (50 miles away)…to Calvert Cliffs and twice accessed the power plant site,” The Callerwrote. “No one stopped or even seemed to notice them.”


     They even passed through an unmanned security checkpoint — “the guard booth was empty and padlocked — and only minutes later, entered a parking lot about 550 feet from one of the plant’s two nuclear reactors.”


     On a subsequent visit, a lone marked security car passed by without slowing down or asking questions.


     The reporters said that at “one point, a large civilian truck — roughly the size of the trucks used in terror bombings around the world, including at the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995 –rolled through the front gates and approached the reactors without being stopped.”


     Comment: Should there be a nuclear meltdown at Calvert Cliffs, it would be a disaster so terrible it would make 9/11 look like a Chinese Fire Drill. Tens of thousands of people within a 50-mile radius would die from radiation. And, depending on the direction of the wind, the nuclear fallout would reach Washington, D.C., according to Modern Survival.


     As one commentator said, “This is an open house for domestic terrorists.” Yet I see no concern from the President, the Congress, Homeland Security or anyone else about this threat to the millions of people living near the Calvert Cliffs Plant. It’s almost as though this whole land is asleep and I wonder what it will take to wake us up?




 David Vs. Goliath: The White House War on Nuns


     The Report has consistently alerted readers to the cultural paradigm shift spreading across the land. The following is a microcosm of that shift that reveals how traditional values and old standards have passed away.


     The Obama administration continues to wage war against a Catholic charity of nuns over the Obamacare mandate.


     Little Sisters of the Poor disagrees with a mandate that says their employee healthcare plan must cover contraceptives and drugs used for abortions, according to Newsmax. “They claim their religious beliefs preclude them from offering coverage…”


     The insanity continues. “But federal government lawyers are pressing on with the case against the charity,” the news agency points out. “If the government wins and the sisters are forced to provide plans that cover the drugs and devices in question, they will have to either go against their beliefs or not do so and risk paying (huge) fines.”


     Little Sisters of the Poor was founded some 250 years ago and cares for elderly men and women all over the world, according to Newsmax. “It claims to have served…poor and elderly people in 31 countries.”


     Comment: With the Middle East burning, Russia threatening, China’s military growing, racial unrest in this land increasing, the border crossing with Mexico out of control, you would think government attorneys could find something better to do with taxpayer money than punish the Little Sisters, who because of their deep religious convictions, do not want to provide abortion-inducing drugs for their employees.


     There was a time when most Americans watched out for and helped the underdog, like the Little Sisters. But I don’t see any outcry on their behalf. Today’s outcry is on behalf of homosexuals/lesbians/transgenders who want to redefine marriage in their own jaded image. And there is the outcry on behalf of endangered animal species and an outcry for women to have all their contraception devices paid for by the government. And an outcry for illegal aliens. But no outcry for the Little Sisters. That’s the cultural paradigm shift I’m talking about.



Obamacare and Small Businesses: Bigger Bucks, Fewer Jobs


     Obamacare is taking a heavy toll on small businesses. A new analysis on its effect found that workers lost billions of dollars in reduced pay last year and hundreds of thousands of jobs.


     According to the American Action Forum, take-home pay at small businesses was trimmed some $22.6 billion last year and individual’s year-around take-home pay dropped as much as $900, CNBC reported.


     


“That report also says that there has been the loss of more than 350,000 jobs due to Obamacare-era premium hikes at small businesses,” CNBC said.



Illegal Aliens Kidnap Teenager for Ransom in Tuscon


     Three Mexican nationals – in this country illegally — kidnapped a Tucson, Arizona, teenager and held him for $400,000 ransom, according to Breitbart News.One of the aliens had been arrested on two prior occasions but was not prosecuted. All three had previously been deported yet returned to the U. S.


     Tucson police reported that when they received word that a 16-year-old had been kidnapped, they located and apprehended the suspected kidnappers and found the teenager. A police spokesman said the teen had a blindfold on his face, his hands were tied behind him and there was evidence he had been beaten and drugged.


     Breitbart also reported the officers found an assault rifle, several handguns and narcotics in possession of the aliens.


     Meanwhile, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced that 203,000 illegal aliens have been booked into Texas county jails since 2008 and they have committed 3,000 homicides and 8,000 sexual assaults against Texans.




Former VP Dick Cheney: We have a “Disengaged” President


     Former Vice President Dick Cheney says President Obama is “disengaged” and sends him some advice on how to deal with violent ISIS jihadists.


     “While the president was claiming the tide of war was receding and core Al-Qaeda had been decimated, the threat was actually increasing,” Cheney told the American Enterprise Institute think-tank in Washington, D. C. and received a standing ovation.


     From Iraq, Syria and Yemen, over to Pakistan and all the way down to Somalia and Western Nigeria and ” in various places under various  names — a whole new wave of jihadists was on the rise.”


     


“We must move globally to get back on offense in the war on terror,” he warned. “Our president must understand we are at war and that we must do what it takes, for as long as it takes, to win.”


     Cheney said he is concerned about “the decline of American military power” due to “irrational” budget cuts.


     His advice to Obama for defeating ISIS? “Immediately hit them in their sanctuaries, staging areas, command centers, and lines of communication wherever we find them.”


     The 73-year-old Cheney was invited to address the Institute on the eve of the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept 11, 2001,  Newsmax reported.




Memo to President Obama: Decisions Determine Destiny


     Politicians often fail to realize that wrong decisions may come back to haunt them, for decisions — good or bad — determine destiny.


     This week we learned of two decisions the President made that have had a devastating effect on Iraq and Syria and, ultimately, on national security in our own land.


     First, Syria. We learned that the President’s national security team — including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — urged him to arm the moderate Syrian rebels who were fighting against the barbaric President Anwar Assad who used poison gas to kill thousands of his own people. The moderate rebels, if armed, would have kept ISIS from building their army using Syria as a sanctuary.


     But the President went against all his national security advisors and refused to arm the moderate rebels.


     Then, Iraq. All of the President’s top military advisors urged him to leave a residual force in Iraq when he ordered the American troop withdrawal from that land. The advisors believed the residual army of a few thousand men could continue the training of the Iraqi army and provide intelligence on any threat to that country.


     However, as with Syria, the President refused to listen and removed all the troops from Iraq and told the American people that country was secure.


     But he was wrong. When our troops were withdrawn, the country fell apart and now much of Northern Iraq — where American troops once bled and died — is controlled by ISIS, the evil Islamic terrorists who have executed hundreds of captured prisoners, raped, crucified and killed Christian women and children and beheaded two Americans.


     Comment: What is it about a leader that would cause him to disregard the advice of his top national security and military advisors? Is it arrogance? Is a feeling of superior intellect? What possesses a leader to think that only he is right and everyone else is wrong? I can’t answer these questions, but I do know that the President’s two fatal errors in judgment have already cost this nation dearly and the worst may be to come.




Rocky Mountain High


     Call it “Maui Wowie,” “Panama Red,” “Acapulco Gold,” or “Mary Jane,” marijuana use is sweeping across America. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have legalized the drug and others are expected to follow.


     However, as legalized recreational marijuana increases, some are warning that a sobering study by several Boston-based researchers points out that even casual use of the drug among young adults can have damaging effects, according to the Society for Neuroscience.


     “The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, which compared high-resolution MRI brain scans to recreational marijuana users aged 18 to 25 with those of nonusers, found significant abnormalities in…those who smoked just once per week,” CNS reported.


     Concerning the moral standpoint of smoking marijuana, some scholars assert that “it inexcusably inhibits man’s most God-like faculty — rationality.”


     Meanwhile, another long-term study of men in Sweden found that those who smoke marijuana at age 18 — especially heavy users — were more likely to end up on the nation’s disability rolls by age 59, Fox News reported.


     Comment: I’ve never smoked marijuana but I understand it gives the user a sense of euphoria. I’m convinced that in this age of nihilism and hedonism, neither young nor old users are going to be influenced by any warnings concerning the damaging effects of the drug. The short-term euphoria will be more important to them than the long-term consequences.


Parenthetically, The Report has learned that the feds have approved the use of EBT (food stamp) cards for the purchase of marijuana in states where it is legal.




Commentary


Congress: A Lot of Thunder, Not Much Rain


     Big salaries, free travel throughout the world, a two-day work week with limited legislation but unlimited generosity to themselves and their families — that’s our Congress!


     They receive $286,000 a year in salary and benefits and that’s more than 95 percent of the American income earners whose taxes pay their salaries. And at least one congressman wants to raise the salaries to pay their rent in Washington, D.C.


     “Congress’s main job is to budget. But when it comes to passing annual spending bills, members of Congress have not accomplished that on time since 1997,” according to the Drudge Report.


     They raise their own salaries, have free postal service worth thousands to each congressman/women and receive about $1.5 million each year for their office expenses, aides, etc.


     Comment: When I hear them talking about how hard they work, I want to say, “Strike up the violins.”


     The biggest problem WE THE PEOPLE have is that members of Congress are indifferent to the will of the people. That makes me feel like I’ve been kicked right in my cocoanut.


     Our politicians tell us a lot about ourselves — that we have lost the passion for good government and many of us are too lazy even to hold elected officials accountable.


     Where are the prophets that would challenge the politicians’ flatulent rhetoric?


     The people never win. Politicians win, illegal aliens win, and at times criminals even win. But the people are pushed around by high taxes, excessive government control, congressmen who forget it was the people who sent them to Washington, and the federal courts that rewrite the Constitution to fit their personal agendas.


     Each year Congress is in recess a total of 16 weeks. That means they work on 36 weeks a year. Do the math and you see they make $7,944 per week while at work or $1,134 per day.


     Good work if you can get it.



THE BILL KEITH REPORT AND COMMENTARY September 18, 2014