Threats from Global Warming

Recently I came across this in a National Wildlife Federation’s publication:

Global Warming and the Great Lakes

The Great Lakes are important sources of drinking water, economic livelihood and recreation opportunities for millions of Americans and Canadians. Recreational boating in the eight Great Lakes states produces more than $35 billion in economic activity annually, and fishing, hunting and wildlife watching amount to more than $18 billion in annual economic activity in these states.

Threats from Global Warming

Global warming adds yet another stress to a Great Lakes system already struggling with aquatic invasive species, deleterious land use changes, nonpoint source pollution, toxic chemical contamination, and coastal habitat degradation/wetlands loss. Potential global warming impacts include reduced water levels (due in particular to decreased winter ice cover allowing more evaporation), increased frequency of intense storm events (altering the timing of inflows), and warmer water temperatures.

Already, Lake Superior has increased water temperatures and an earlier onset of summer stratification by about two weeks in just the past 30 years. Within another 30 years Lake Superior may be mostly ice-free in a typical winter.

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Also on June 27th in an Huffington Post Canada Business entry we find this:

TORONTO – If the low water levels recorded in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River in recent years continue for sustained periods, the long-term impact on the region’s economy could reach more than C$20 billion by 2050, according to a new report.

The study, conducted by the Mowat Centre for the Council of the Great Lakes Region, said water levels in the Great Lakes — which hold about 20 per cent of the world’s surface freshwater supply — and St. Lawrence River “fell dramatically” in 1997-98.

Since then, the basin has experienced the longest extended period of lower water levels since the U.S. and Canada began tracking levels in 1918.

Mark Fisher, who heads the council, said there’s a “very real future” where the region could be plagued by low water trends.

Now here is the kicker, as reputed by the New York Times on June 28th just the day after the Huffington Post’s hit piece:

But after reaching historic lows in 2013, water levels in the Great Lakes are now abruptly on the rise, a development that has startled scientists and thrilled just about everybody with a stake in the waterfront, including owners of beach houses, retailers in tourist areas and dockmasters who run marinas on the lakeshore.

Lakes Michigan, Huron and Superior are at least a foot higher than they were a year ago, and are expected to rise three more inches over the next month. Lake Ontario and Lake Erie are seven to nine inches higher than a year ago.

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Norma and John Bramsen, who live in Baileys Harbor, Wis., on the shore of Lake Michigan, said the returning lake levels had been the talk of the town all spring and early summer, after more than a decade of their watching the frustratingly low waters recede from their beachfront home.

“It’s been quite dramatic, actually,” Mr. Bramsen said. “Every time you lose a foot in the lake level, it means that the lake is that much farther away. We’ve been wringing our hands over this for years.”

Scientists say the reversal of fortunes for the lakes is partly a result of the most bone-chilling winter in memory for many Midwesterners. The thick and long-lasting ice cover on the lakes kept the water colder and slowed evaporation. Heavy snowfall and a rainy spring allowed the lakes to make even more gains.

Reread that last part again, “…a result of the most bone-chilling winter in memory for many Midwesterners. The thick and long-lasting ice cover on the lakes kept the water colder and slowed evaporation. Heavy snowfall and a rainy spring allowed the lakes to make even more gains.”

Why do you reckon that both the Huffington Post and the National Wildlife Federation were so quick to blame the water loss in the Great Lakes on Global Warming and not on natural cycles?  Well it is no surprise that the Huffington Post is without doubt a Progressive voice and have adopted the Global Warming Hoax as gospel  and push it as a means to help impose their socialistic agenda upon America.  What about the National Wildlife Federation?

This is what they say about themselves:  “National Wildlife Federation is a voice for wildlife, dedicated to protecting wildlife and habitat and inspiring the future generation of conservationists. We believe that helping wildlife survive the challenges of the 21st century like climate change and habitat loss is best done by: Working with diverse groups to achieve our common conservation goals. Forming resilient and sustainable solutions to problems facing our environment and wildlife. Focusing on the future of conservation as well as the present, to ensure America’s wildlife legacy lives on.”

Its genesis was J. N. “Ding” Darling was a renowned editorial cartoonist who advocated conservation of our nation’s natural resources. Father of the Federal Duck Stamp Program, founder of the National Wildlife Federation, creator of the Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit Program, “Ding” Darling laid the groundwork for the system of today’s National Wildlife Refuges.

They are a big part of the push to remove people from the land and force them to live in cities.  Below is one of Darling most famous cartoons, a sentiment all supports of UN Agenda 21 can wholeheartedly embrace, as well as those who oppose fraking:

One of “Ding” Darling’s cartoons—”How Rich Will We Be When We Have Converted All Our Forests, All Our Soil, All Our Water Resources and Our Minerals Into Cash?”—best illustrates both his conservation ethic and his remarkable ability to convey complex thoughts with a few stokes of pen and ink. Darling drew this cartoon in 1938.

As you can see just by looking around none of these things have came to pass, just like “Peak Oil” came and went.  Our ability to produce food has out striped out population growth.

Paul R. Ehrlich in his book “The Population Bomb”  could not have been more wrong. He warned of the mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth.  Now the rate of population growth is declining, and expected to go below replacement.  About That Overpopulation Problem:

The Caliphate is Heading for Hell

These two pictures invoked outcry from every Progressive and Liberal leaning mind in America and was used as propaganda to kill American’s support for the Vietnam War.

Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnamese chief of the national police, fires his pistol into the head of suspected Viet Cong official Nguyen Van Lem on a Saigon street early in the Tet Offensive, February 1, 1968. Photographer Eddie Adams reported that after the shooting, Loan approached him and said, “They killed many of my people, and yours too,” then walked away. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams) 1969 Pulitzer Prize winner for Spot News Photography.

Bang, followed by soldiers of the South Vietnamese army’s 25th Division, June 8, 1972. A South Vietnamese plane seeking Viet Cong hiding places accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on civilians and government troops instead. Nine-year-old Kim Phuc (center) had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. The other children (from left) are her brothers Phan Thanh Tam, who lost an eye, and Phan Thanh Phouc, and her cousins Ho Van Bon and Ho Thi Ting.

The worse that the US was involved in was the My Lai Massacre which out government never sanction but did try to cover up.  It ended up with Lieutenant William Calley being convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but two days later, President Nixon released him and sent him to Fort Benning, Georgia, where he spent three-and-a-half years under house arrest. A federal judge then ordered him freed. Calley’s conviction was the only one of the 26 men who had faced charges.

Here are some pictures from that massacre:

I showed the pictures above to have you recall the hell that was raised over the My Lai Massacre when it was made public, and to ask where is the outrage from the so call Moderate Islamic by what ISIS and the so-called Syria Rebels are doing in Iraq and Syria?

The ISIS terrorists are raving about a “New Caliphate” and totally ignore the fact that they’re cornered themselves and have nowhere to flee to now.

The 13th century Iraqi Caliphate was destroyed by the Mongols and their ruler Hulagu Khan. He was a disciple of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. The Buddhist sect of his masters – The Sakyapas – followed a deity of the Apocalypse called Kalachakra. The Kalachakra announces the end of the world.

The Fall of Baghdad in the 13th century is linked to the Kalachakra, the faith of the Mongols. The previous 13th cent. The Caliphate was destroyed by an alliance of enemies gathered to defeat it. Islam is the most horrible thing existing in the world in those days. The Shiites along with tribes from Azerbaijan, Mongols, Christians, Jews, Chinese, Afghans all allied to destroy Iraq’s dictatorial 13th cent. Caliphate and raze it to the ground.

This is the box they have put themselves in, and  arrayed against them is almost the same coalition they faced in the 13th Century: Syria’s Assad and his air-power, the biggest Middle Eastern air force, newly refurbished by Russia;  Turkey, hitting back for incursions into Turkey by  ISIS; Iran, has sent elements of The Islamic Republic of Iran Army into Iraq, but not to help ISIS; Jordan  risks suffering the same political and humanitarian disasters currently embroiling Syria and Iraq;  Russia is backing Syria in its war with ISIS; Baghdad that is hitting northern Iraq;  China, who knows what China will do; And if Obama ever gets off his ass, the USA.  The Caliphate is heading for hell.

This is the box they have put themselves in:

Now compare these pictures to the ones at the beginning of this post.  No!  I am sorry, there are no comparison!

Where possible I have given credit to copyright holders, for the picture I did not it was because it was unknown to me.

Here is a video of ISIS executing 30 Ethiopia Christians:

Connecting The Dots: Gadhafi, Benghazi, Syria, Qatar, Turkey, Russian, and the Ukraine

Today I am going to discuss Libya and why the powers that be decided that Moammar Gadhafi had to go, and tie it to other recent events. It was not, as we were were led to be because he was killing and peaceful demonstrates.  We read lots of headlines like this, “Libya protests: More than 100 killed as army fires on unarmed demonstrator” , but you did not read many like this, “Gaddafi under siege: Two CIA-backed groups, an al-Qaeda-linked LIFG on top of power stakes” from The Asian Tribune, or this “CIA & MI6 in Libya: U.S.-British covert operations exposed”  where it says this:

“The New York Times, the Washington Post and other corporate news sources are now openly admitting that the opposition forces fighting the Libyan government are supported and coordinated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Britain’s MI6 with in-country special forces.”

One more and I will move on, “Are Libyan rebels being led by a CIA plant?” here we read,

“Until recently, Khalifa Hifter — who’s leading the anti-Gadhafi forces — lived five miles from CIA headquarters in Virginia. Coincidence? By The Week Staff | March 31, 2011 LIbyan rebels ride a tank in the eastern part of the country: The anti-Gadhafi forces are led by a former Gadhafi army commander… and possible CIA plant. LIbyan rebels ride a tank in the eastern part of the country: The anti-Gadhafi forces are led by a former Gadhafi army commander… and possible CIA plant. CC BY: BRQ Network Now leading Libya’s ragtag army of rebels, Khalifa Hifter has a mysterious past that’s raising provocative questions. Once a top commander in Moammar Gadhafi’s own army, he left its ranks after a disastrous campaign in Chad, then moved to a home five miles from CIA headquarters in northern Virginia, where he lived from the early 1990s until mid-March, 2011. What happened during those 20 years in the U.S.? Hifter’s lifelong friend Abdel Salam Badr reports only that Hifter somehow supported a large family. With the CIA mingling among the rebels, some commentators are wondering: Is Hifter a CIA plant?

Well, the reason was not the way he was treating his people, what was it? It was over Gadhafi dream, he was the last major global leader that was promoted the dream of pan-African unity, and his disappearance from the political stage would remove the last remaining enthusiast for a European-style political union in Africa. His plan to quit selling Libyan oil in U.S. dollars — demanding payment instead in gold-backed “dinars” (a single African currency made from gold) — was the real cause he had to go. For more details go read this: “Gadhafi’s Gold-money Plan Would Have Devastated Dollar”.Have you considered why the US Government is so opposed to dis alowing oil to be sold for anything other than US dollars?  First a little history:

In 1971 Richard Nixon was forced to close the gold window taking the U.S. off the gold standard and setting into motion a massive devaluation of the U.S. dollar. In an effort to prop up the value of the dollar Nixon negotiated a deal with Saudi Arabia that in exchange for arms and protection they would denominate all future oil sales in U.S. dollars. Subsequently, the other OPEC countries agreed to similar deals thus ensuring a global demand for U.S. dollars and allowing the U.S. to export some of its inflation.[2] Since these dollars did not circulate within the country they were not part of the normal money supply, economists felt another term was necessary to describe the dollars received by petroleum exporting countries (OPEC) in exchange for oil, so the term petrodollar was coined by Georgetown University economics professor, Ibrahim Oweiss. [snip] Financial impact In the existing system all transactions actually be settled in U.S. dollars creating a world-wide demand for dollars. The petrodollar system also meant that the U.S., the largest consumer of oil in the world, gained the power to buy oil with a currency it can print at will. Large inflows of petrodollars into a country often has an impact on the value of its currency. For Canada it was shown that an increase of 10% in the price of oil increases the Canadian dollar value versus the US dollar by 3%and vice versa.  From Wikipedia

If Gadhafi had been allowed to sell his oil for gold the status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency would have been thrown into jeopardy.  What does that mean?  A reserve currency is a currency that is held in significant quantities by governments and institutions as part of their foreign exchange reserves, and that is commonly used in international transactions. People who live in a country that issues a reserve currency can purchase imports and borrow across borders more cheaply than people in other nations because they don’t need to exchange their currency to do so.  It would have meant that if the Dollar had lost its status all of those dollars printed (created) by our government and held in reserve (out of circulation) wold no longer be held out of circulation.  You know what happens when you have to fast of an increase in the money supply don’t you?  Inflation!

The success that Obama had with Gadhafi has led his to him to try and depose Assad in Syria.  The motive is not the protection of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, but is is still cast in the light of removing a cruel dictator who kills and tortures his own people.  This in spite of  his recent re-elected in the country’s first presidential vote since its civil war broke out three years ago, state-run television reported Wednesday.  Al-Assad received 88.7% of Tuesday’s vote, the state media outlet said, in an election that took place only in areas controlled by the government. Rebels hold significant parts of the north and east of the country.  Read here:

Obama  had sent Stevens to Libya to collect up the arms that the US had supplied the so called rebels and transfer then to the so called rebels in Syria as this article indicates in Fox News, “Was Syrian weapons shipment factor in ambassador’s Benghazi visit?”

A mysterious Libyan ship — reportedly carrying weapons and bound for Syrian rebels — may have some link to the Sept. 11 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Fox News has learned. Through shipping records, Fox News has confirmed that the Libyan-flagged vessel Al Entisar, which means “The Victory,” was received in the Turkish port of Iskenderun — 35 miles from the Syrian border — on Sept. 6, just five days before Ambassador Chris Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed during an extended assault by more than 100 Islamist militants. On the night of Sept. 11, in what would become his last known public meeting, Stevens met with the Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin, and escorted him out of the consulate front gate one hour before the assault began at approximately 9:35 p.m. local time.

And this from the New York Times, “In Turnabout, Syria Rebels Get Libyan Weapons”

During his more than four decades in power, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya was North Africa’s outrageously self-styled arms benefactor, a donor of weapons to guerrillas and terrorists around the world fighting governments he did not like. Syria’s Improvised Arsenals Bryan Denton for The New York Times A Libyan rebel in 2011 carried off boxes of ammunition from a factory near Tripoli that served as a supply point for Qaddafi forces. Even after his death, the colonel’s gunrunning vision lives on, although in ways he probably would have loathed. Many of the same people who chased the colonel to his grave are busy shuttling his former arms stockpiles to rebels in Syria. The flow is an important source of weapons for the uprising and a case of bloody turnabout, as the inheritors of one strongman’s arsenal use them in the fight against another. Evidence gathered in Syria, along with flight-control data and interviews with militia members, smugglers, rebels, analysts and officials in several countries, offers a profile of a complex and active multinational effort, financed largely by Qatar, to transport arms from Libya to Syria’s opposition fighters. Libya’s own former fighters, who sympathize with Syria’s rebels, have been eager collaborators.

Now why do you reckon Qatar is wanting Assad out of power so bad?  Could it be because Qatar is the largest exporter of liquid natural gas in the world and Assad won’t let them build a natural gas pipeline through Syria?  Of course.  Qatar wants to install a puppet regime in Syria that will allow them to build a pipeline which will enable them to sell lots and lots of natural gas to Europe.   Further explained here back in 2009: “Qatar seeks gas pipeline to Turkey”

Other reports in the Turkish press said the two states were exploring the possibility of Qatar supplying gas to the strategic Nabucco pipeline project, which would transport Central Asian and Middle Eastern gas to Europe, bypassing Russia. A Qatar-to-Turkey pipeline might hook up with Nabucco at its proposed starting point in eastern Turkey. Last month, Mr Erdogan and the prime ministers of four European countries signed a transit agreement for Nabucco, clearing the way for a final investment decision next year on the EU-backed project to reduce European dependence on Russian gas.

This explains why the Russia are backing Assad who has refused to let the pipeline be built through Syria.  Why is Obama backing Qatar?  Could it be because of the Al Udeid Air Base which is located in Qatar?

The Al Udeid Air Base is a military base located west of Doha Qatar and is owned by the Qatar Emiri Air Force. It is home to the headquarters of United States Central Command (USCC) and United State Air Force Central Command (USAFCC). The Al Udeid Air Base Qatar is also a home to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing of the USAF and to the No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group RAF. When the war against Afghanistan was at its peak, there were around 4000 American soldiers who were stationed at this base. Along with the American soldiers were two dozens of KC-10A Extenders and KC-135 Stratotankers which were used for the re-fuelling of bombers and fighter jets over Afghanistan. By September of 2002, the number of American soldiers in the air base went down to approximately 2000 in number. After six months, the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar underwent expansion so that it can accommodate up to 120 aircraft and 10,000 troops

Now back to Russian and to see how the pipeline dream ties into  Ukraine and Russia taking the Crimea. The Ukrainian “orange revolution” lived through one presidential term. Like the rest of the coloured revolutions, it basically amounted to a coup d’état orchestrated by Washington through the manipulation of public opinion.  “Ukraine Geopolitics and the US-NATO Military Agenda”

A look at the map will indicate just how strategic Ukraine is for both NATO and for Russia. Not only does the country directly border Russia to its east, but it also provides the transit route for most Russian natural gas pipelines to western Europe – some 80% of all Russian gas exports from which the country earns dollars, a vital economic lifeline for Russia.

In short order, The “orange revolution” led to:

The Ukrainian President has abandoned his offices and is reported to have left the capital Kyiv (Kiev).  All police, including the riot police, have left the streets. The presidential offices are under the control of the Maiden protestors. The jailed opposition leader and former President Yulia Tymoshenko is expected to released from prison on the orders of Parliament. The Speaker of Parliament has resigned citing “ill health” and has been replaced by a pro-opposition MP. A new transitional government is being formed.  Read here:

After the Ukrainian President fled to Russia Putin took the Crimea in order to keep his only deep water port open.  Then he demanded that Ukraine pay its bill for the Natural Gas coming through their pipeline to Europe.  “Russia warns Europe of gas supply cuts over Ukraine debt”

President Vladimir Putin warned European leaders on Thursday Russia would cut natural gas supplies to Ukraine if it did not pay its bills and said this could lead to a reduction of onward deliveries to Europe. In a letter to the leaders of 18 countries, he demanded urgent talks with Europe on pulling Ukraine’s economy out of crisis but made clear his patience was running out over Kiev’s $2.2 billion gas debt to its former Soviet master.

So in response Obama is upping his efforts to remove Assad from power so the Qatar pipeline can be built to Turkey and replace Russian Natural Gas with Qatar Natural Gas.  To pursue this goal “Obama asks Congress for $500 million to train Syrian rebels”.  This in spite of the last group of so called Syrian rebels he trained morphed into ISIA who are in the process of converting  parts of Syria and Iraq into an Islamic Caliphate. “Militant Islamic Group ISIS Trained at U.S. Base in Jordan”

Jordanian officials recently revealed that members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (also known as ISIS) were trained in 2012 by U.S. military instructors at a secret base in Jordan.

With this I will stop connecting the dots, again I ask you not to take my word for, but do your own research. Rx

ISIS and Oil Prices

 have spetn a little time this morning thinking about oil. Yes, Texas has oil and gas too, but Obama has done all in his power to curtail oil and gas production in America, all of the increases in production have come in spite of him, not because of his policies. However, the oil and gas pumped in Texas sells at world market prices, and the disruption of supplies from Iraq will drive the prices up here, and you could see gas price going to $6-10 per gallon should they get control of the oil fields in Iraq. Rising oil prices will not due to the interruption of Iraqi production, but the disruption of deliveries out of the Mideast. As long as the markets are in surplus we will not notice it much, but when that surplus has to be replaced is when the higher prices will kick in.

The ISIS' breakthrough has allowed it to control the two main pipelines: the one exiting toward Banias to supply Syria while the other transporting crude to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. The Islamic Emirate has interrupted the first, causing additional power outages in Syria, but strangely, it allows the second to function. This is because this pipeline is used by the local pro-Israel Kurdistan government to export the oil it just appropriated from Kirkuk.

The question is, how can they sell this oil without the US allowing it? All income from it would be devoted to world wide jihadism, to sell it they will have to ship it by truck to the black market like Saddam use to do.

The possible division of Iraq into three countries will reshuffle the oil cards. In the face of the ISIS' breakthrough, all oil companies have reduced their staff. Some more than others: this is the case of BP, Royal Deutsch Shell (which employs Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib, the geologist former president of the Syrian National Coalition), Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı (TPAO) and Chinese companies (PetroChina, Sinopec and CNOOC). So the losers are the British, the Turks, and especially the Chinese, who were by far Iraq's largest customer. The winners are the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Along these lines, the U.S. State Department recently singled out Russia, who is a backer of Assad, by name, to criticize its law prohibiting homosexual propaganda aimed at youth, but the same State Department refused to comment on Saudi Arabia where homosexual conduct is punishable by death, but has announced that it will significantly increase its production to compensate for the reduced supply due to the marketing ban by ISIS. However, the kingdom has never produced more than 10 million barrels per day. The fact that the ISIS’ is financed by Aramco, the Saudi Arabian national petroleum and natural gas company. is enough to explain why Saudi Arabia claims to be able to compensate for the decline in Iraqi production: the kingdom would just put its stamp on the stolen barrels to legalize them. Saudi Arabian is the source of all the Wahhabi Schools worldwide. The European Parliament has identified the Wahhabi movement as the source of global terrorism.

The reason that they are funding ISIS are both ideological and financial. All the oil they will sell for ISIS they will pocket a commission, and high as 50%. Saudi Arabians are Sunni, and the Shi'a have striped the Sunni of power in Iraq. The Sunni believe that they are the one true expression of Islam and it is their way or the highway, or rather, off with their heads!

I took a lot of this from a varied of sources, and  I agree with the opinions expressed above.  There is ,more to the ISIS emergence than meet the eye.

Our chicken are come home to roost: The US created ISIS

Our chicken are come home to roost:  The US created ISIS, armed them, and trained them to fight against Assad in Syria. Stevens was in Benghazi overseeing the arms collection and transfer to Turkey that we had given them to overthrow Graffiti, and the arms captured from Graffiti, when he was killed killed. Turkey in turn was giving the arms to Qatar who then gave them to what has become ISIS. Qatar wants to build a pipeline through Syria to ship its natural gas to Turkey, and when Assad said no deal they have paid billions of dollars to instigate and support the so called Syrian Rebels. Obama is supporting Qatar in this endeavor in order, I suspect, to keep his drone bases there in operation.

Obama is being hosted by his on petard.  A petard, for those who do not know, was a small bomb used to blow up gates and walls when breaching fortifications back in the sixteenth century.  The term is used today to means "to be harmed by one's own plan to harm someone else" or "to fall into one's own trap," implying that one could be lifted up (hoist, or blown upward) by one's own bomb.  Fit well doesn't it?

Harvard Educated Michelle Obama Says Founders Not Born In America

It is not uncommon for Progressives to lie, recast history in a manner more of their liking rather that of what actually happened. For example Harvard educated Michelle Obama speaking at a U.S. naturalization ceremony said, "Founders Not Born In America". Reckon she was she including Obama in that group? In any case, to push the Progressive's goal of open borders, they are not above lying to us, or to mischaracterizes history.

Is she showed how ignorant/stupid she is, or practicing Joseph Goebbels advice, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Excerpt Via Godfather Politics: Harvard Educated Michelle Obama Says Founders Not Born In America:

Not only didn’t her Harvard and Princeton educations teach her how to feed her children, they apparently didn’t teach her much about American history: “It’s amazing that just a few feet from here where I’m standing are the signatures of the 56 Founders who put their names on a Declaration that changed the course of history,” she said during her speech, referring to the Declaration of Independence. “And like the 50 of you, none of them were born American – they became American.”

I’m trying to grasp the meaning of her comments. Is she saying that the founders weren’t born Americans because there was no United States of America in 1776? This can’t be the case since the Declaration of Independence states, “The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.” America did not begin with the Declaration. If it did, it would exclude anybody born prior to July 4th 1776 from ever becoming president.

Did she actually mean that those who signed the Declaration of Independence and participated in the drafting of the Constitution were not born in America? Benjamin Franklin was born in Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and James Madison were born in Virginia. John Adams was born in Massarichusetts. Surely she knows this. But maybe not.

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison served as President of the United States. They had to have been born in America in order to qualify for the office.

This is junior high history stuff. Is America’s educational system so bad that the First Lady of the United States does not know that our founders were born in America? Or is it something else? Did anybody blink when she said it?

Harvard Educated Michelle Obama Says Founders Not Born In America

A Catholic Approach to the Problem of Immigration Reform

In a recent interview with the Daily Beast that focused on the “bigotry” and “xenophobia” of Americans who are opposed to amnesty for illegal immigrants, Boston archbishop Cardinal Sean O’Malley said, “Obviously, the fear is not rational, and I think we are dealing with it in an irrational way.”

So the argument is that if you believe in the rule of law, that laws should be obeyed and enforced you are being irrational. Does this go for all laws or just our immigration laws?

BOSTON'SCARDINAL O'MALLEY: AMERICANS AGAINST AMNESTY HAVE 'IRRATIONAL' FEAR