"While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer. "
foxnews.com
by Todd Starnes
President Obama’s first major speech on immigration contained several factual errors.
He concluded his remarks at American University with the moving story of Emma Lazarus, the woman who wrote the sonnet, “The New Colossus,” for the Statue of Liberty, in 1883.
President Obama said Lazarus was “inspired by what she saw and heard, she wrote down her thoughts and donated a piece of work to help pay for the construction of a new statue – the Statue of Liberty which actually was funded in part by small donations from people across America.”
There’s just one problem — the story is incorrect. According to the National Park Service, the Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France. The NPS told FOX News Radio French donors gave money to the Franco-American Union, a non-profit organization that gave the statue to the United States.
The statue’s pedestal, however, was paid for by contributions through an American branch of the Franco-American Union.
According to the Park Service, Lazarus’ poem was sold at auction by the pedestal committee for $1,500.
The sonnet was engraved on a bronze plaque and affixed to the inner walls of the pedestal in the early 1900’s.
The president also misquoted her sonnet. According to New York Magazine, he recited the line as “yearning to be free.” instead of “yearning to breathe free.”
Michelle was right when she said: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."
Canada Free Press
by Dr. Don Boys
...Medical people kill the unaware, the unarmed, and the unwilling! News reports reveal, “A high proportion of deaths classed as euthanasia in Belgium involved patients who did not ask for their lives to be ended, a study found. More than 100 nurses admitted to researchers that they had taken part in ‘terminations without request or consent.’” Exactly what we predicted if euthanasia became legal!
Euthanasia means “good or easy death,” but call it what it is–the right to kill the helpless, the innocent and the “useless.” It is a ploy to get rid of all the “useless eaters,” people who take up space on the earth and consume the resources.
...It also shows our lack of courage, for you will notice that these brave, bold, and brash killers are going after those who can’t fight back! But then, cowards have always done that!
...Dr. Joseph Fletcher wrote, “If it is believed that the well-being of persons is the highest goal, then it follows that either suicide or mercy killing could be the right thing to do in some exigent and tragic circumstances.”
...Note his positive spin: Killing the helpless is the “right thing” to do. Well, the helpless sure would not agree with that. Neither does God. We are living in a day when men call good, evil and evil good. Right is wrong and wrong is right.
...Geriatrics magazine opined, “How long shall life be preserved when there is no redeeming social value?” Ah, yes, “redeeming social value.”
...If one is blind or deaf or dumb (like most liberals) then snuff them out. After all, they can’t enjoy life the way “normal” people do.
...Dr. Glanville Williams wrote that he wants “humanitarian infanticide” (killing babies after birth) and euthanasia for handicapped kids. Why? Because they don’t have the quality of life that “normal” people have. They are also so much trouble, aren’t they? And expensive!
...However, the trophy for muddled thinking (non-thinking) goes to Dr. Robert Williams who wrote in Northwest Medicine, “planning to prevent overpopulation of the earth must also include euthanasia….” We need to kill off the helpless because they are taking up too much space on earth without producing anything in return
...Those people who are fanatics about the earth’s population must not travel outside their ivory towers very often.
...In fact, every person on earth could live in Alaska with each family getting about 3,500 square feet of living space!
...These fools don’t understand that if they keep breathing, they will one day be old or ill with not much quality of life. Promoting euthanasia is not good long-term personal planning.
...Would you want to be in a hospital with a euthanasia-biased physician (who has a missionary zeal for donor organs) standing over you with scalpel in hand? “No way that could happen,” says the Innocent One. Oh, but it is happening right now. In the Netherlands, it happens every day! The U.S. News and World Report revealed, “Contrary to law, some three-fifths of all Dutch cases of euthanasia go unreported….1 in 5 of the unreported cases involved the most vexing kind of euthanasia, death without a patient’s consent.” Say WHAT? Many more people are being killed in the Netherlands than is being reported and 20% of them are killed without the patient’s permission or knowledge! Those physicians are killers in white coats. They smile when they kill you. They have “good” motives: they want to help someone else using your organs. They are also making room for someone else in the over-populated world.
...But that’s not always true. One 27-year-old ballet dancer was killed by her physician because she had arthritis in her toes and could not continue dancing. After all, her “quality of life” was not what she wanted. She couldn’t dance any more. Therefore, she was killed.
...You can rest assured that not many innocent, helpless, burdensome, and sickly people are clamoring for mercy killing.
...A society is measured by the way it treats its young, old, helpless, and ill, and God warns in Proverbs 21:13, “Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.” While the state may close its eyes to the “mercy killings” going on in America and the world, God’s eyes are not shut, and I would not want to get caught in God’s wheels of judgment. They grind very fine.
We are here to minister not to murder, and make no mistake: Euthanasia, mistakenly called “mercy killing,” is murder.
American Thinker
by Robin of Berkeley
...So what is the matter with Obama? Conservatives have been asking this question for some time. I've written a number of articles trying to solve the mystery.
Even some liberals are starting to wonder. James Carville railed about Obama's blasé attitude after the catastrophic oil spill. The New York Times' Maureen Dowd revamped Obama's "Yes We Can" motto into "Will We Ever?"
The liberal women of the TV show "The View" have expressed sympathy for Michelle Obama's living with a man so out of touch. Peggy Noonan, hardly a vehement Obama foe, recently pronounced him disconnected.
...Many people attribute Obama's oddness to his narcissism. True, Obama has a gargantuan ego, and he is notoriously thin-skinned.
Yet a personality disorder like narcissism does not explain Obama's strangeness: his giggling while being asked about the economy; his continuing a shout-out rather than announcing the Ft. Hood shootings; or his vacations, golfing, partying and fundraising during the calamitous oil spill.
Take also Obama's declaring on the "Today Show" that he wants to know whose ass to kick. Consummate narcissists would never stoop to this vulgar display of adolescent machismo.
Obama is flat when passion is needed; he's aggressive when savvy is required. What's most worrisome is that Obama doesn't even realize that his behavior is inappropriate.
...If I saw a client as disconnected as him, the first thing I would wonder: Is something wrong with his brain? And I'd consider the following theoretical diagnostic possibilities.
...--Physical problems: There are a multitude of physiological conditions that can cause people to act strangely.
...Drugs and alcohol: Damage to the brain from drugs and alcohol can also cause significant cognitive impairments. Obama once said that there were 57 states -- and didn't correct himself. Memory problems can be caused by both illicit and prescription drug use.
...--Asperger's Syndrome: Also known as high-functioning autism, Asperger's causes deficits in social skills. A person with Asperger's can't read social cues. Consequently, he can be insensitive and hurtful without even knowing it.
...--Mental Illness: Obama's family tree is replete with the unbalanced. His maternal great-grandmother committed suicide. His grandfather, Stanley Dunham, was particularly unhinged: He was expelled from high school for punching his principal; named his daughter Stanley because he wanted a boy; and exposed young Barry to not just drunken trash talk, but unrestricted visits with alleged pedophile Frank Marshall Davis (who might or might not be Obama's biological father). Barack Sr. was an abusive, alcoholic bigamist.
Since mental illness runs in the family, does Obama have any signs? Yes and no.
...While Obama doesn't appear to hallucinate, he seems to have delusions. His believing he has a Messiah-like special gift smacks of grandiose delusions.
...Along with a delusional disorder, Obama may fit for a mild psychotic disorder called schizotypal disorder. It may explain some of Obama's oddness
...--Trauma: My gut tells me that Obama was seriously traumatized in childhood. His mother disregarded his basic needs, dragged him all over the place, and ultimately abandoned him.
But I think there may be something even more insidious in his family background. While I can't prove it, the degree of Obama's disconnect reminds me of my sexually abused clients.
...Apparently, young Barry was left in the care of Communist Frank Marshall Davis, who admitted to molesting a 13-year-old girl. As a teenager, Obama wrote a disturbing poem, "Pop," that evoked images of sexual abuse -- for instance, describing dual amber stains on both his and "Pop's" shorts.
...Along with the brain issues are personality disorders: narcissism, paranoia, passive-aggressiveness. There's even the possibility of the most destructive character defect of all, an antisocial personality. Untreated abuse can foster antisocial traits, especially among boys.
...If my assessment is accurate, what does this mean?
It means that liberals need to wake up and spit out the Kool-Aid...and that conservatives should put aside differences, band together, and elect as many Republicans as possible.
Because Obama will not change. He will not learn from his mistakes. He will not grow and mature from on-the-job experience. In fact, over time, Obama will likely become a more ferocious version of who he is today.
Why? Because this is a damaged person. Obama's fate was sealed years ago growing up in his strange and poisonous family. Later on, his empty vessel was filled with the hateful bile of men like Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers.
Obama will not evolve; he will not rise to the occasion; he will not become the man he was meant to be. This is for one reason and one reason alone:
He is not capable of it.
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