An Army Veteran’s Open Letter to President Obama Regarding PFC Manning

Dear President Obama,

My name is MAJ(R) Matthew Wadler. I served honorably for just over 20 years. During that time, it was my distinct privilege to serve in a multitude of organizations and specialties. This included starting my career as a young paratrooper with the Military Police Corps at Fort Bragg and a deployment to Somalia. That was a unique and educational experience for me in ways that I would not come to understand for many years to come.

After six years of service to our nation, I applied for and received an Army ROTC scholarship. This was a momentous occasion for me, as I felt that I would be able to have much more of an impact as an officer in service to America. During the next 15 years, I was blessed to have served in many unique positions. This includes my time as a Field Artillery Officer at Fort Bragg where I had my first deployment to Afghanistan, then as a Recruiting Company Commander, followed by Assistant S1 for the 4th BCT (Currahee Brigade) out of Fort Campbell (where I had my second Afghanistan deployment), the Brigade S1 for the 15th Sustainment BDE at Fort Bliss, and finally back to recruiting as a Battalion XO and S3.

During my time in the military, I have always held the highest regard for the office of president. I believe that anyone who ascends to the office of president is no longer really a person. They are the embodiment of all that America signifies. Who you are as a person no longer matters. From now until the end of time, you are the physical embodiment of the United States of America. Just based upon that alone, you are given respect and honor without the need to have brought honor upon yourself.

I may have disagreed with your decisions politically. In fact, I cannot honestly not think of a single decision that you have made in accordance with your official capacity that I have actually agreed with. For example, when you lowered yourself to not only campaigning for Hillary Clinton but making snide comments to Trump (“At least I will go down as being a president”), I basically ignored it. Or when earlier in your presidency you called out the police for “[acting] stupidly,” and then later made the office of the president look moronic for completely misrepresenting the facts, I basically blew it off. I was even able to overlook how you stated that there was a red line with Syria that you ignored, allowing countless people to die a horrible death and doing nothing about it, making us look pathetically weak to our enemies and allies alike. Even with all of this, you were my president, and I respected the office you held. After all, with the oath I took, I swore to protect the Constitution against all enemies, and you were the gatekeeper of that oath.

However, I am no longer sure that I can look at the office in the same light. During my career, I would have sacrificed my life in order to save a brother or sister in arms. This is not something I would want to do, nor is it a price I would pay without regret. I would also have given my life to protect and uphold the Constitution, for I believe that this document has led to immense good in the world and has been a light to those in need since our inception. I would have done it then and would still to this day do so because of a belief in the honor and commitment all servicemen have to their oath. It is an oath that we are never relieved from, whether we are 20 or 85. It is an oath that we have seen paid in blood and tears and death, both by our brothers and sisters and to our enemy.

So hopefully you will understand the shock and horror I felt when my president—the man who is supposed to be the standard-bearer for the Constitution—commuted the sentence of a traitor. Someone who is solely without honor or virtue. You are our leader, the commander in chief. We follow your orders because we know at the end of the day you will hold true to the values we are supposed to emulate: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, personal courage. How could you turn your back on the men and women who have bled and died on your command?

Let us look at Bradley Manning for a moment, Mr. President. PFC Manning took classified documents because he apparently wanted to stop the war by showing just how convoluted and horrible war can be. What he actually did was potentially cost the lives of his fellow soldiers. The democratic party wants to parade President Trump as a recruiting tool for the Islamic terrorists, yet how many killers did this turncoat help to recruit? How many men and women will never again return home due to him? Of course, this is not a concern of yours. After all, there will always be a round of golf to help take your mind off such things of inconsequential magnitude.

Again, Manning professes his desire to show the horror of war, yet we already know of this, or at least the warriors who are suffering from his cowardice do. Combat is horrible and awful. It leaves scars that run deep and permanent. But that is not your concern, Mr. President. You don’t need to understand the effect war has on those who engage in it. We volunteered to take on that badge for the rest of the nation. We don’t ask for you pity or remorse. What we ask is that you honor our sacrifice by ensuring our values are kept sacred and that when one of our own violates them, they are punished swiftly and with absolute justice.

How can you expect the men and women who are fighting your wars to keep faith when they know that you are not going to punish those who betray them? During my second tour in Afghanistan, my unit lost a soldier on a mission. I had never met this man, and to this day I could not identify him even if I saw a picture of him. However, his death haunts me often. See, he was killed by an insurgent who had become an Afghanistan police officer. He was actually shot in the head from behind, so he never even had a chance to defend himself. Why would this soldier’s death affect me so much? It was when I discovered from his platoon leader that he died on his young daughter’s birthday and that she was expecting a call from her daddy, who was deployed on your orders, Mr. President. This is the gift you give to her and all of those who lost parents, brothers, sisters, etc. Her life will always be missing something because of the sacrifice he was willing to make. And you honor that sacrifice by allowing a war criminal to go free. Not even just a war criminal, but a former brother in arms for whom any of us would have given our lives.

President Obama, I cannot begin to express to you the outrage and betrayal I feel. My nation has turned on all of us who swore to protect it—remember you are not a man anymore but the embodiment of all that this great nation represents. I don’t expect any of this to affect you. I don’t believe you lower yourself to feel the pain of those who followed your orders into battle. Nor can I envision you actually concerning yourself with the opinion of one lowly veteran. However, with all of that said, I never believed you would so blatantly spit in our faces either. I guess the joke is on not just me, but all of us who have served under you.

Matthew Wadler is a Senior OpsLens Contributor and U.S. Army veteran. Matt served in the Army for 20 years as both enlisted and officer before retiring. His service includes time as Military Police, Field Artillery, Adjutant General, and Recruiting. His deployments include Somalia and two tours to Afghanistan. His formal education includes a master’s degree in HR Management. He is a strong supporter of the constitution and advocate for the military and veteran communities. Follow Matthew on Twitter @MatthewWadler.
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Sunday Show 4/13/14

Palm Sunday

Programs of sacred music are performed in many towns and cities in the United States on Palm Sunday. In many Christian churches, Palm Sunday includes a procession of the assembled worshipers carrying palms, representing the palm branches the crowd scattered in front of Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem.

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/palm-sunday

Many Christians in the United States remember Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, which marks the beginning of Holy Week. This day is also on the Sunday before Easter Sunday.

http://www.catholic.org/clife/lent/palmsunday.php

Senate sends Governor bill banning United Nations election monitors in Tennessee

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http://knoxblogs.com/humphreyhill/2014/04/08/senate-sends-governor-bill-banning-united-nations-election-monitors-tennessee/

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http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/oops-obama-champion-scrubbed-from-website/#BbS3XW97W1Cslvqw.99

EPA Concedes: We Can’t Produce All the Data Justifying Clean Air Rules

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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/epa-concedes-we-can-t-produce-all-data-justifying-clean-air-rules

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Show Notes 01/10/2014

Friday Show 1/10/14

Obama unveils first 5 'Promise Zones'

Invoking his own personal story, President Barack Obama made a plea for bipartisan work to combat poverty and declared, after a 2013 marked by struggles and disappointments, that "this is going to be a year of action."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-unveils-first-5-promise-205724522.html

Former Guantanamo detainee and his group expected to be designated 'foreign terrorist entities' over Benghazi attack

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/09/former-guantanamo-detainee-and-his-group-to-be-designated-foreign-terrorist/

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wash-state-faces-prospect-pot-growers-21453319

A letter to Michelle Obama

My daughter found this post and sent it to me. Her name is Michelle and she feels ashamed that her name is the same as the First Lady. That's a sad state of affairs folks. I tell her don't be ashamed, her Dad chose that name a long time before we knew that woman existed. I wish we still did not know.

From westernjournalism.com

On the day that your husband was elected, you said that you had never been proud of the United States until that day. For the last three and a half years, I have been observing your husband and you, and I feel that it is time I share my thoughts with you. The day your husband was elected was the first time I was ever ashamed of this country, and today I am even more ashamed.

GOODLATTE: PRESIDENT OBAMA AGAIN UNILATERALLY IGNORES IMMIGRATION LAWS

I am sick and tired of these elected Cockroaches whining about the President and what he is doing. Impeach him already and stop bitching! I do not care if the Senate does nothing! Let the people know what this man is doing to our country. Lay out all the Unconstitutional actions he has taken. Not because it won't work but because it is the Rule Of Law and the right thing to do.

A press release from Bob Goodlatte:  

“President Obama has once again abused his authority and unilaterally refused to enforce our current immigration laws by directing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to stop removing broad categories of unlawful immigrants.  The primary reason why our immigration system is broken today is because our immigration laws have largely been ignored by past and present administrations.  It’s imperative that we prevent this from happening again by taking away the enforcement ‘on/off’ switch from the President.  That’s why the House Judiciary Committee approved the SAFE Act, which prevents the Executive Branch from unilaterally turning off immigration enforcement by granting states and local governments the authority to enforce federal immigration laws. 

So what is the SAFE Act? I know that this article is from a quasi lefty group, but it will give you an overview and a link to the entire bill. Which is Unconstitutional and not needed. Just let the States handle this issue as they see fit!


From Immigration Policy Center:

On June 6, 2013, the House Judiciary Committee considered H.R. 2278, the “Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act,” commonly known as the SAFE Act. This wide-ranging immigration enforcement bill would make unlawful presence in the United States a criminal act punishable with jail time, greatly expand detention of immigrants, authorize states and local governments to create their own immigration enforcement laws, and impose harsher penalties and restrictions for immigration violations, among other enforcement-related provisions.

Show Notes 08/25/2013

Show: Sunday 8/25/13

Reefer sadness cities battle legal pot push

Colorado and Washington state have both legalized the use and possession of small amounts of marijuana -- but while a majority of voters supported the change at the polls last year, there is currently no outright legal way to buy non-medical marijuana.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/25/reefer-sadness-cities-battle-legal-pot-push/#ixzz2d1OZGb5

DOJ tries to stop school choice for poor children in failing Louisiana public schools

The U.S. Justice Department is trying to stop the state from distributing school vouchers in any district that remains under a desegregation court order.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/doj-tries-stop-school-choice-poor-children-failing-louisiana-public-schools#sthash.zPLODp0U.dpuf

Judge strikes down Obama's improper NLRB recess appointment

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http://cnsnews.com/news/article/judge-strikes-down-obama-s-improper-nlrb-recess-appointment#sthash.kWyXXYDn.dpuf

Coptic Christians march on Washington: We support Egyptian army

Hundreds of Coptic Christian and Egyptian Americans rallied outside the White House today to express their support for the Egyptian army in its effort to protect people in Egypt from Muslim Brotherhood.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/coptic-christians-march-washington-we-support-egyptian-army#sthash.i7bDaoQc.dpuf

Italian coast feeling force of Arab Spring as 1000 migrants arrive in one week

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http://www.telegrkaph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/10265116/Italian-coast-feeling-force-of-Arab-Spring-as-1000-migrants-arrive-in-one-week.html

Military communities brace for 'hardship' as defense furloughs take effect

This just pisses me off. 

From Fox News:

Officials at military bases and other DoD facilities will have some flexibility in scheduling days off. But the furloughs will nevertheless result in non-essential civilian workers missing one paid workday a week -- a roughly 20 percent pay cut -- over the next three months.

This pisses me off because, one: when you are furloughed by the government you get back pay when the furlough is over and two: if you cannot survive without losing one days' pay you are a dufus and you and your family have made some very bad choices. Brian and I live on a fixed income that does not and will not change, EVER.  We have cut back on every expense we could, including not having Direct TV. I am sick and tired of all the whining and entitlement mentality that is pervasive in America now. 

And how many of these civilian jobs are redundant and need to be eliminated? The government is to big, all of it. So, suck it up people, because if it was up to me all the agencies would go bye bye! I'm only sorry that they started and maybe finished at the Defense Dept, it should start at the executive branch, starting with President "Caesar" Obama.

Show Notes 07/14/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 07/14/2013

Justice Department says it will consider whether to file civil rights charges in Zimmerman case

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/justice-dept-says-it-will-consider-whether-to-file-civil-rights-charges-in-zimmerman-case/2013/07/14/ad73c76c-ecc0-11e2-b46e-f15eec37b46c_story.html

Military spending millions to protect gophers while workers go on furlough

A total of 650,000 civilian employees are now being furloughed at U.S. military bases in response to sequester cuts -- but the Department of Defense is still spending millions to protect fuzzy critters.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/14/military-spending-millions-to-protect-gophers-while-workers-go-on-furlough/#ixzz2Z3pgrc3s

New movement spreads “impeach Obama” message

There’s a new grass-roots movement developing across the country that likely isn’t going to mean good news for President Obama. The folks at Overpasses For Obama’s Impeachment are staging protests on those freeway overpasses across the country, calling for impeachment.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/new-movement-spreads-impeach-obama-message/#yphrlzbf21w31u5C.99

Summary of President Obama gun proposals

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http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/justice/summary-president-obama-gun-proposals.aspx

Show notes 01/312013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Thursday 01/31/13

30 population control quotes that show that the elite truly believe that humans are a plague upon the earth

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http://thetruthwins.com/archives/30-population-control-quotes-that-show-that-the-elite-truly-believe-that-humans-are-a-plague-upon-the-earth

Arrest numbers signal 9 percent jump in illegal immigration in 2012

Even as President Obama travels to Las Vegas Tuesday to call for legalizing illegal immigrants, the latest numbers from the U.S. Border Patrol suggest that the flow across the nation’s southwest border jumped by 9 percent last year.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/29/arrests-signal-9-percent-jump-illegal-immigration/#ixzz2Jaxk3ehV

Japanese scientists develop humanoid to keep astronauts company

The 13-inch android is scheduled to be completed by next summer and will be sent to the orbiting ISS shortly before astronaut Koichi Wakata arrives, according to officials of the Kibo Robot Project. Currently being developed by a consortium of companies, including Toyota, Robo Garage Co. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the robot will weigh around 2.2lbs and be able to recognise Wakata's facial features.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/9717238/Japanese-scientists-develop-humanoid-to-keep-astronauts-company.html

The App driven life: How smartphone apps are changing our lives

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http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Tech/2013/0127/The-app-driven-life-How-smartphone-apps-are-changing-our-lives

Star Trek tractor beam created by scientists

A team of scientists has created a real-life miniature "tractor beam" - as featured in the Star Trek series - in a development which may lead to more efficient medical testing.

The microscopic beam - created by scientists from Scotland and the Czech Republic - allows a source of light to attract objects.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/26/star-trek-tractor-beam-created-by-scientists/?intcmp=HPBucket#ixzz2JDiivQDe

Obamas' jobs council shutting down on Thursday

As new weekly jobs numbers emerged Thursday showing a jump in unemployment claims and a report released the previous day showed the economy shrinking in late 2012, President Obama is effectively laying off his jobs council.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/31/obama-jobs-council-shutting-down-thursday/?test=latestnews#ixzz2Jb8bsOpp

Show notes 01/20/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 01/20/13

New Black Panther Field Marshal: Whites ‘Should be Thankful We’re Not Hanging Crackers By Nooses…Yet, Yet, Yet’

The National Field Marshal for the New Black Panther Party (NBPP), King Samir Shabazz, engaged in multiple vicious tirades on his national radio show this weekend, calling for broad violence against whites.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/05/21/new-black-panther-field-marshal-whites-should-be-thankful-were-not-hanging-crackers-by-nooses-yet-yet-yet/#ooid=A1aWpxNDoXnz0albor2cI9C8UppKu2w3

Flu Season Fuels Debate Over Paid Sick Time Laws

A school speech therapist who works as an independent contractor, she doesn't have paid sick days. So the mother of two reported to work and hoped for the best — and was aching, shivering and coughing by the end of the day. She stayed home the next day, then loaded up on medicine and returned to work.

http://news.yahoo.com/flu-season-fuels-debate-over-paid-sick-time-160609193--finance.html

Barack Obama: Our Imerial Emperor in Chief

He spoke of having had the debate over the economy during the 2012 campaign and boasted, “…the American people agreed with me.” By the way, can we now retire the phrase “the American people”? Too many politicians overuse it, including Speaker John Boehner.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/17/barack-obama-our-imperial-emperor-in-chief/#ixzz2IYkcIFbt

White House responds to secession petitions

“As much as we value a healthy debate,” writes Jon Carson, director of the White House’s Office of Public Engagement, in in the official response, “we don’t let that debate tear us apart.”

WND was the first news outlet in the nation to report when a Louisiana man began a petition on the White House’s “We the People” website, asking permission for his state to peacefully secede.

http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/white-house-responds-to-secession-petitions/#wArwvE3DvfLfgdSm.99

NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Moon with Laser

Call it the ultimate in high art: Using a well-timed laser, NASA scientists have beamed a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, the Mona Lisa, to a powerful spacecraft orbiting the moon, marking a first in laser communication.

http://www.space.com/19323-mona-lisa-moon-laser-photo.html

'Strongest evidence yet to there being life on Mars'

Prof John Parnell, 55, has co-written a theory with Dr Joseph Michalski, a planetary geologist at the Natural History Museum, that suggests they have discovered the best signs of life in the huge McLaughlin Crater on the surface of Mars.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9814256/Strongest-evidence-yet-to-there-being-life-on-Mars.html

Show Notes 12/20/2012

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Thursday 12/20/12

As Connecticut story unfolds: media struggle with facts

The scope and senselessness of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting challenged journalists' ability to do much more than lend, or impose, their presence on the scene.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/12/15/As-Conn-story-unfolds--media-struggle-with-facts

Obama begins push for new national retirement system

A recent hearing sponsored by the Treasury and Labor Departments marked the beginning of the Obama Administration’s effort to nationalize the nation’s pension system and to eliminate private retirement accounts including IRA’s and 401k plans, NSC is warning.

http://www.nationalseniorscouncil.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89:obama-begins-push-for-new-national-retirement-system&catid=34:social-security&Itemid=62#

Fast and Furious: the gift that keeps on giving

More than two years after the murder of a Border Patrol agent cracked the lid on a gun trafficking scandal that would bring down careers, hound the attorney general and force Capitol Hill hearings, the mismanaged Operation Fast and Furious continues to provide one thing that may haunt the Obama administration for years: Dead bodies.

http://usopenborders.com/2012/12/fast-furious-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/

What did Mahatma Gandhi think of violence and self-defense

I WOULD risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of a whole race.

http://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil8.htm

Show Notes 10/28/2012

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 10/28/12

Frankenstorm': Worse than sum of its parts

The storm that is threatening 60 million Americans in the eastern third of the nation in just a couple of days with high winds, drenching rains, extreme tides, flooding and probably snow is much more than just an ordinary weather system. It's a freakish and unprecedented monster.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ia8NfdDGkOMwIUVZh3Ov_eDJ8glw?docId=67287305a5464d4cb3155bbcd64bca3e

Marines and police prep for mock Zombie invasion

Move over vampires, goblins and haunted houses, this kind of Halloween terror aims to shake up even the toughest warriors: An untold number of so-called zombies are coming to a counterterrorism summit attended by hundreds of Marines, Navy special operations forces, soldiers, police, firefighters and others to prepare them for their worst nightmares.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/27/marines-police-prep-for-mock-zombie-invasion/?test=latestnews#ixzz2AdXZEpNk

Prince of Sealand dies

Paddy Roy Bates, who occupied an abandoned fort in the North Sea and declared it the sovereign Principality of Sealand with himself as its prince, has died aged 91, his son said on Wednesday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/10/prince-sealand-dies?CMP=twt_gu

Secret Service asks Americans to report tweets that concern you

The Secret Service has expanded its operation to Twitter, urging Americans to report on their fellow citizens whose tweets “concern you.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/secret-service-asks-americans-report-tweets-concern-you

12th century chanting re-imagined by Madonna producer

A series of compositions by Hildegard of Bingen, a Benedictine abbess who died in 1179, have been released as an album. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/9636871/12th-century-chanting-re-imagined-by-Madonna-producer.html

Elvira's made millions off Halloween

If you want to learn all about Christmas, you ask Santa Claus. If you want to learn all about Halloween, you ask Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/10/24/elvira-mistress-of-the-dark-halloween-coors/1625069/

Pro-Obama Ad Has Children Singing About an America Where ‘Sick People Just Die’ & ‘Oil Fills the Sea’

The founders of the ad agency behind the iconic “Got Milk?” ad campaign and some of the other most well-known advertisements in the country have a new message: re-elect President Barack Obama, or your children will live in an America where “sick people just die” and “oil fills the sea.” Here's the lyics.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/pro-obama-ad-has-children-singing-about-an-america-where-sick-people-just-die-oil-fills-the-sea/

Show notes 09/27/12

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Thursday 9/27/12

Unraveling Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel 
As drug smugglers from the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico sent a never-ending stream of cocaine across the border and into a vast U.S. distribution web in Los Angeles, DEA agents were watching and listening. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/24/local/la-me-cartel-20110724

The Myth of the Failure of Capitalism 
The nearly universal opinion expressed these days is that the economic crisis of recent years marks the end of capitalism. Capitalism allegedly has failed, has proven itself incapable of solving economic problems, and so mankind has no alternative, if it is to survive, then to make the transition to a planned economy, to socialism.
http://mises.org/daily/6202/The-Myth-of-the-Failure-of-Capitalism

Special report: terrorist professor Bill Ayers and Obamas federal school curriculum
http://www.aim.org/special-report/terrorist-professor-bill-ayers-and-obamas-federal-school-curriculum/

Show Notes: 09-06-2012

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Thursday 9/6/12

AFL-CIO has hug a Union thug booth at DNC
The Hill is reporting that the North Carolina AFL-CIO has a "Hug a Union Thug" booth at Monday's Carolina Fest celebration, one of the final "pre-convention" events at the DNC.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/03/AFL-CIO-Has-Hug-a-Union-Thug-Booth-at-DNC

The continuing unpopularity of labor unions
In honor of the Labor Day holiday, Gallup is out with its regular survey assessing the public's attitude about labor unions. Gallup's headline is that approval of labor unions is steady at 52%. This is true, if by steady you mean that unions continue to have the lowest approval rating since the question was first asked in the 1930s.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/03/the-continuing-unpopularity-of-labor-unions

Illegal Immigrant Undocubus rolls into Charlotte for DNC
Emboldened by President Barack Obama's executive action that allows some illegal immigrants to apply for work permits, a group of illegal immigrants on the "Undocu-Bus" arrived in Charlotte during the week of the Democratic National Convention to advocate for broader amnesty programs.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/Illegal-Immigrant-Undocu-Bus-Rolls-Into-Charlotte-For-DNC

The Democrat Media Latino-Hispanic Hoax
When Republicans feature a Latina governor and a Latino U.S. Senator at their party’s convention, the mainstream media reports it as a desperate attempt to reach out to a voting bloc it is rapidly losing.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/04/The-Democrat-Media-Latino-Hispanic-Hoax

Attention media: Walmart and Target have been offering $9 birth control
For over two months the Left and their media minions have been making a big stink about the need for mandatory health insurance coverage of contraceptives. In all this fuss and distraction from the real problems this nation is facing, nobody noticed that since 2007 Walmart has been offering a month's worth of birth control pills for only $9
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/03/05/attention-media-walmart-and-target-have-been-offering-9-birth-control#ixzz25jbl6lue

With landmark lawsuit, Barack Obama pushed banks to give subprime loans to Chicago’s African-Americans
President Barack Obama was a pioneering contributor to the national subprime real estate bubble, and roughly half of the 186 African-American clients in his landmark 1995 mortgage discrimination lawsuit against Citibank have since gone bankrupt or received foreclosure notices.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/03/with-landmark-lawsuit-barack-obama-pushed-banks-to-give-subprime-loans-to-chicagos-african-americans/

Mrs. Obamas tweet urges visits to website featuring sex tips and prostitutes
First Lady Michelle Obama tweeted a suggestion on Monday that people should visit iVillage.com, a website where she recently served as a guest editor that features graphic sex tips, including from prostitutes at a Nevada brothel.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/mrs-obamas-tweet-urges-visit-website-featuring-sex-tips-prostitutes

Show Notes: 08-19-2012

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 8/19/12

A Prayer
I arise to day, through God's strength to pilot me :
God's might to uphold me,God's wisdom to guide me.
God's eye to look before me,God's ear to hear me.
http://wwwfaithandworship.com/Sunday.htm

US Foreign Aide
Per your request, this memo includes a table depicting U.S. foreign assistance in FY2010, by sector, to countries holding more than $10.0 billion in U.S. treasury securities.
http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=8afef35c-cdd1-487c-9a30-5b83a16104e6

Senate nominee Mark Clayton disavowed by Tennessee Democratic Party
The party of Cordell Hull, Estes Kefauver and Al Gore Sr. and Jr. won’t have a standard-bearer or at least not one it can stomach in Tennessee’s next U.S. Senate race.
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120803/NEWS02/308030124/Senate-nominee-Mark-Clayton-disavowed-by-Tennessee-Democratic-Party-?odyssey=nav|head&gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

Minnesota firearms facility allows public to shoot Bin Laden in role-playing game
Usama bin Laden is not dead – in Minnesota, at least. A firearms training center in New Hope is offering Americans the chance to gun down the former Al Qaeda leader in a $325-per-person role-playing game, which runs three times per week.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/19/minnesota-firearms-facility-allows-public-to-hoot-bin-laden-in-roleplaying-game/#ixzz242aOJvII

Suspects in Deputy Killings Linked to Anarchist Movement
A sheriff says seven people arrested in a fatal shootout with Louisiana deputies have been linked to violent anarchists on the FBI's domestic terrorism watch lists.
http://www.newsmax.com/US/Deputies-Louisiana-killings-anarchist/2012/08/18/id/449014

Romney Turns Up Heat on Obama After Iran Calls Israel 'Insult to Humanity'
Presidential challenger Mitt Romney is leading a Republican charge to prompt the Obama administration to take decisive action against Iran following leader Mahmoud Ahmedinejad “outrageous” claim that Israel is an “insult to humankind.”
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Romney-Iran-insult-humanity/2012/08/18/id/448995

Spanish company will count American votes overseas in November
When the Spanish online voting company SCYTL bought the largest vote processing corporation in the United States, it also acquired the means of manufacturing the outcome of the 2012 election.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/spanish-company-will-count-american-votes-overseas-in-november/

A tornado that saved a city and defeated the enemy
The capital of the United States, on the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland was designed by Pierre L’Enfant and became the capital in 1800. In August 1814 during the War of 1812 the British captured and sacked Washington, burning most of the public buildings, including the Capitol and the White House. It is one of the few cities in the world planned expressly as a national capital.
http://www.afweather.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123042444

Costs and conflicts arise in Reid's push for green energy
Say this about U.S. Sen. Harry Reid: He really believes in renewable energy. Reid has beat up NV Energy pretty good in recent years. In the closing days of the George W. Bush administration, Reid blocked plans to build coal-fired power plants in Nevada.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/costs-conflicts-arise-in-reid-push-for-green-power-164858086.html

The 14th Amendment

I am posting a link to this video that Brian reviewed.It is worth every minute to watch this video, it took me over 6 months of research to learn what is on this video, this is factually accurate please pass it on. Brian Bonner

 

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Obama takes women's issues from campaign trail to international stage

I am so sick and tired of this President and his commie administration touting "women's issues", that includes Mama Michelle Obama, (and that is not a term of endearment I give to her, folks). We are not footballs to be thrown around from political player to political player or piles of play-doh to be molded to fit anyone's agenda at any given moment!!

From Fox News:

President Obama brought women's issues – a major topic in the 2012 presidential campaign -- into world politics Saturday, when he said world leaders at the G-8 summit assembled to discuss Afghanistan, the European debt crisis and other international issues, but also talked about "female empowerment."

"We had a brief discussion around the issue of women's empowerment, where we agreed that both, when it comes to economic development and when it comes to peace and security issues, empowering women to have a seat at the table and get more engaged and more involved in these processes can be extraordinarily fruitful," Obama said at the Camp David presidential retreat, located about 90 minutes from the White House, in western Maryland.

I could talk to three different women and get ten different answers on what our "issues" are. So how in the hell do these people know what our issue's are? And on top of that, these people are mostly MEN!!! Look I blame us "we the women" for this problem. We have let ourselves be used for centuries. It's time to tell the world we are not victims, we are not idiots and no one can tell us what issues we care about. If I want to work, I will find a way to work. If I want to stay home and raise my family, I will find a way to do so. If I want to sell my body or start a business, I will make it happen. I can't stand the feminist movement, we did not need it then and we don't need it now. And we certainly do not need these pin head politicians telling us anything. They work for us, we need to be telling them what to do!!!!

Show Notes: 05-17-2012

Links for Uncooperative Radio Show: Thursday 05/17/12

There were three volumes of Emmerich de Vattel's The Law of Nations at The Philadelphia/Constitutional Convention of 1787.
*§ 212. Citizens and natives.*
The citizens are the members of the civil society; bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages.
http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/vattel/vatt-119.htm

The Vetting Barack of Obama Breitbart
News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.
"http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii

Guest; Bob Shcultz from Give Me Liberty.org, a Constitutional lobby. http://www.givemeliberty.org/

Quote from Alexander Hamilton
"The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is in fact, and must be, regarded by the judges as a fundamental law.
http://liberty.quotes@centre.telemanage.ca

Dream act students sue to stop Senate filibuster
Illegal immigrant students and members of the House sued the Senate this week to try to overturn the upper chamber’s filibuster rule, arguing that the 60-vote supermajority requirement violates the Constitution and is blocking important legislation such as legalization for illegal immigrants. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/15/dream-act-students-sue-stop-senate-filibuster/