October 2, 2009 - Washington, DC

Obama runs an errand for the Chicago political machine - cost to taxpayers is over one million dollars / Obama's errand for the Daley machine fails! / Fed official: Real unemployment is at 16% / Let Congressmen READ the bills before a vote!? / Strip ACORN of tax exemption / Three sure things about Obama-care / BEYOND SHOCKING: Iran's anti-Semitic leader Ahmadinejad was born Jewish.  

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THE PRESIDENCY

OBAMA SINGS "CHICAGO, CHICAGO" - Barack Obama running errands for the Daley political machine in Chicago is like Nero fiddling while Rome burned. Chicago has been run by the Daily family for nearly a century. The current Mayor Richard Daley told Barack Obama to take Air Force One and run over to Copenhagen and plead for Chicago to have a turn at hosting the Olympics. Obama's wife Michelle also made a the plea to Olympic Committee, but she didn't ride on Air Force One. Oprah Winfrey gave her a lift on her private jet which is actually more luxurious than Air Force One, although a little smaller. While Obama was overseas pleading like a third world dictator for an Olympic game a decade in the future, the official unemployment rate hit 9.8% while the real rate hit at least 17%. In the end Obama lost the bid to Rio de Janeiro and headed home after only five hours with his tail between his legs. The total trip lasted 20 hours and cost the taxpayers over one million dollars. Read more  

REAL UNEMPLOYMENT AT LEAST 16% - Officially the unemployment rate rose to 9.8% in September as another quarter of a million jobs, mostly in manufacturing, were lost in America. However, one Fed official places the rate at 16%, and even that rate does not include the self employed, such as carpenters, masons, and tradesmen of all kinds who can find little or no work. It also doesn't include people who are working many fewer hours than they would like. Dont' worry though -- President Obama and radical left Speaker Nancy Pelosi have a solution: A huge tax on energy production and manufacturing. They plan to save the planet from carbon dioxide (the stuff plants need to grow) by implementing a "cap and trade" program. Refineries and energy producers will have to pay huge sums of money to continue to produce electricity or manufacture trucks. Meanwhile the EPA, now controlled by Obama, has refused to issue permits for 79 new mountaintop coal mines putting thousands of people out of work in West Virginia and Kentucky.

THE CONGRESS

72 HOUR RULE - Before taking office Barack Obama promised transparency and honesty in government. Apparently members of his Administration, along with Democrat leaders in Congress, didn't get the memo. House Members were given only 12 hours to review the 1,073-page long stimulus bill that cost $787 billion. Most people probably give more thought to buying a used car. The cap and trade bill, which would cost $846 billion and weighs in at 1,428 pages, was available for only 16.5 hours before the vote. To slow down this steamroller process, Congressman Greg Walden is pushing H. Res 179 that would require a full 72 hours after a bill has been finalized and made available to Members, before it could be voted on. So far 182 members have signed a discharge petition to force radical left Speaker Nancy Pelosi to allow a vote on the H. Res 179. Read more  

ACORN IS TAX EXEMPT - Congressman Todd Tiahrt (R-KS) has offered a resolution in the House stating that ACORN should be stripped of its tax exempt status because of its numerous violations of the law. In his H.Con.Res. 192, Tiahrt lists various election law fraud cases against ACORN as well as its acceptance of funds from Obama's political campaign as reasons for the far left organization to lose its exemption. Since 1994 ACORN has received $53 million in funding, most of it while Republicans controlled Congress. Now that the Democrats are in control, the Republicans have figured out that ACORN is a criminal enterprise. NEWS FLASH: ACORN has always been a criminal enterprise! Read more
 
OBAMA CARE BILL - Most of my work on Capitol Hill involves issues of religious freedom. However, in order to advocate for those issues, I have to be present at wide ranging meetings that cover many other subjects; hence my ability to write this update each week. The health care issue comes up at virtually every briefing I attend with congressmen and Senators. After listening to countless briefings and discussions, I have been able to reach a conclusion as to three major results that will ensue from the final health care bill. The final health care bill will: 1. Cut Medicare benefits 2. Raise taxes, 3. Be over 1,000 pages long. Regardless of promises from Barack Obama, it will pay for a full range of "reproductive health care procedures," which is liberal speak for abortions and sex-change operations.

CULTURE AND RELIGION

MUSLIM MARCH A FLOP - Muslims claim to outnumber Jews in the United States. I have always known the six million figure which Muslims claim is bogus, because so many people of Arab descent in the United States are Christians who fled Islam. I was very skeptical about the claim that 60,000 American Muslims were going to march on Washington, in an event called "Our Time Has Come". The official estimate for the march turned out to be about 8,000 people. Prior to the march, social conservatives, including myself, requested that the Muslim organizers publicly disavow terrorism. They didn't. Read the group letter demanding that organizers renounce terror before the march. 
 
MUSLIM MARCH ORGANIZERS - One of the "moderate" imams who helped organize the "Our Time Has Come" march had previously advocated that our current Constitution be discarded and replaced by a new Constitution that would create a Caliphate to rule over America. Another of the "moderate" organizers is an attorney who has represented Islamic terrorists including those who first bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. Read more about "moderate" Muslims who organized the "Our Time Has Come" march.
 
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PERSONAL NOTE - This update was posted a day late this week because I traveled to Austin, Texas to participate in a national conservative briefing. The meeting is open only to a select group of leaders in the conservative community and gives them the opportunity to interact with each other on a one on one basis. Since the meeting is off the record, I will not be reporting on it.  

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INTERNATIONAL

IRAN'S AHMADINEJAD A JEW? - The news is astonishing. The mad Iranian leader who just days ago at the United Nations denounced the Holocaust as a fabrication, has been discovered to have been born a Jew. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's real family name is Sabourjian, a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. His family converted to Islam when he was four years old for "economic" reasons. If the Mullahs run him out of Iran because of his Jewish blood, I wonder if he will plead for mercy from Israel and ask for asylum. Read more .... I thought the anti-Israeli Jews in the Obama White House were a phenomena, but this revelation makes them pale by comparison.  

IRAQI CHRISTIAN REFUGEES - The persecution of our brothers and sisters in Christ who fled Iraq has gotten worse since our troops left the cities. Rather than Christians returning to Iraq, more are making their way to Jordan and Syria. Our ministry is barred from operating in Syria, but our feeding and medical program continues in Jordan. A third shipment of medical supplies has been delivered, and this week we funded our feeding program in Amman for another three months. Your help is still needed.
 
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September 25, 2009 - Washington, DC

Obama to Israel - "Shrink and die" / Obama worshiped in New Jersey school / New school czar not ashamed of drug use / Taxpayer funded abortion? / Protecting the Taxpayers Conscience / Former Muslims ask Congress for protection / Yale University's fear of Islam / US Muslims invade Capitol Hill with "Our Time Has Come" march / State Department steers congressmen away from the truth

 

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THE PRESIDENCY

OBAMA TO ISRAEL: "SHRINK AND DIE" - Obama wants Israel to shrink itself to a size smaller that the total area of Houston, Texas. He believes that the Muslims, who already control 99% of the Middle East plus parts of Asia and Europe, must be given the land that Jews fought and died for to make "peace." Israel has been shrinking itself at the insistence of both Democrat and Republican presidents since Jimmy Carter. The result has been more terrorist attacks, not only on Israel but on the United States. Osama bin Laden made it clear that the 9-11 Jihad attack on the USA was punishment for supporting the very existence of Israel, regardless of its size. Obama's anti-Israel policy will not end Muslim terror, it will only embolden it. Barack Obama is setting forth an agenda for Israel which will lead to a war of extermination against Jews and perhaps the use of nuclear weapons by Israel as a final defense against another Holocaust. Read comments of Ambassador John Bolton  
PUBLIC SCHOOL CHILDREN WORSHIP OBAMA - In a public school auditorium in New Jersey, elementary age children, both black and white, were filmed singing a song of praise to "Barack Hussein Obama" for all his glorious deeds. The school district refuses to respond to news organizations' questions, but the video on Youtube leaves no doubt about the intent of the teacher to indoctrinate the school children. I thought the Hollywood stars video promising to "serve" Obama was on the weird side, but this video of children singing a worship song about a living president is sickening. See video of kids worshiping Obama here.
SCHOOL CZAR'S DRUG USE? - President Obama's "safe schools czar," Kevin Jennings has advocated promoting homosexuality in schools. He has written about his past drug use without condemning it and expresses a general contempt for religion. While a teacher in 1990, he was one of the founders of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, a group promoting pro-homosexual activities in public schools. This is just one of the czars that Barack Obama surrounds himself with. Read more

THE CONGRES

HEALTH CARE AND ABORTION - A conference committee has the final say in what is in a law. Often the law that comes out of the joint House-Senate conference has little resemblance to either the House or the Senate version. Many times the majority party will allow the minority small victories in the House or Senate chambers because they plan on removing those "victories" from the final language in conference. In the House version of Obama-care, abortion is not only paid for in the "government option," but it is mandated that "approved" private insurance companies must cover abortion. The Democrats in the Senate have now agreed that their Obama-care bill will not cover abortion. BUT, BUT, BUT: It is the Democrat controlled conference committee that will actually write the finished Obama-care law after it is voted on in the Senate. I can assure you that radicals Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will appoint conferees from the House and Senate to work on the final language who believe there are too many living Americans and more need to be aborted. Liberals believe the birth rates are too high and the carbon "footprint" of human beings disturbs the planet. 
PROTECTING TAXPAYERS' CONSCIENCES - Congressman Pete Olson of Texas has introduced the Taxpayer Conscience Protection Act that would force an audit of how tax dollars are spent that go to organizations such as Planned Parenthood. Olson points out that the funds are liquid and just sort of disappear inside Planned Parenthood with no proof that tax dollars are not used to promote abortion. It is very unlikely that radical House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will allow a vote either in committee or on the floor for this legislation. Read more
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CULTURE AND RELIGION

FORMER MUSLIMS ASK FOR PROTECTION - The day before the Muslim "Our Day Has Come" rally on Capitol Hill former Muslims pleaded with Congress for protection from Sharia law. This Islamic law mandates death for adult male "apostates." Females are usually imprisoned for life, but sometimes just killed in Western nations such as the UK and the USA. In Texas two teenage girls were murdered last year by their father for "straying" from Islam. Honor killings are also becoming popular with Muslims in the United States. A "moderate" Muslim TV cable channel operator ion New York beheaded his wife this year when she asked for a divorce. Read a toned down story in the Washington Times ... Yes ... Fear of Islam even effects conservative outlets. Click here for Former Muslims United home page.  
YALE UNIVERSITY'S FEAR OF ISLAM - It has been almost four years since publication of some political cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad in an obscure Danish newspaper led to riots in countries around the globe and resulted in the deaths of 200 people, trade boycotts against Denmark, and attempts by the United Nations Council on Human Rights to have 'blasphemy laws" observed by member nations.

This week Danish author Jytte Klausen led a discussion at the Hudson Institute about her book, "The Cartoons that Shook the World." Her publisher, Yale University Press, refused to allow the actual cartoons to be reprinted in the book, out of fear of violence. Riots followed the original cartoons' publication were not spontaneous, but were carefully orchestrated by an international network of radical imams bent on intimidating the West and gaining a toehold for Sharia laws in Europe. Free speech is a major front in the war against Islamic extremism. Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders must live in secret locations under constant guard because of his film called "Fitna." He is but one on a growing list of those threatened or even killed for publishing articles, books or movies critical of Islam.
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U.S. MUSLIMS: "OUR TIME HAS COME"

THE MARCH - Emboldened by victories for sharia law in Europe and Canada, Muslims have organized a march on Capitol Hill for Friday, September 25, 2009. The theme of the march is "Our time has come," to make the point to lawmakers that they must receive the same preferential treatment as they do in other nations. Starting at 4:00 AM loudspeakers will proclaim Washington as Muslim from Capitol Hill to the Lincoln Monument in mandatory prayers. Noise and public nuisance laws will not be enforced as the loudspeakers blast prayers before dawn. The final goal of the estimated 50,000 who plan to participate? To remind Congress that even though they are less than 1% of the population they can not only be organized as well as deadly The organizers of the event have refused to reject terror as a tool of Islam. Read group letter demanding that organizers renounce terror before the march. 
THE ORGANIZERS - One of the "moderate" Imam organizers of the "Our Time Has Come" march has advocated that our current Constitution be discarded and replaced by a new Constitution that would create a Caliphate to rule over America. Another of the "moderate" organizers is an attorney who has represented Islamic terrorists including those who first bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. Read more about "moderate" Muslims who organized the "Our Time Is Now" march.
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INTERNATIONAL

IRAQ, ISRAEL AND WHATEVER - Congressmen and Senators go on fact finding missions to many of the same places I visit on fact finding missions, such as Israel, Iraq, and Jordan. When they come back I talk to them, and I find that because of the State Department they never see what I have seen while there. I give them contact information for Christian refugees in Jordan, but the State Department routes them to UN officials. I make arrangements for them to visit bombed out churches in Iraq, but State tells them it is too dangerous to go. In Israel I make arrangements for them to visit "settlements" like the city of Ariel, and somehow the Embassy there manages to route them elsewhere. I have been doing this work for decades and this is not an Obama or Hillary Clinton problem. Condoleezza Rice did the same thing under Bush. The result is that there is almost no media coverage of the problem in the Middle East of persecution of non-Muslim minorities. Attention is also directed away from major cities in Israel that the State Department wants handed over to Palestinian Muslims. For the most part, the State Department sides with dictators against democracies and favors persecutors over the persecuted.  
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