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The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan. 15, 2008.  It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe - and possibly to the rest of the world. REMEMBER AS YOU READ -- IT WAS IN A SPANISH PAPER Date:  Tue. 15 January 2008 14:30 ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz.  We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims.  In  Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent.  We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world. The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life:  science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world.  These are the people we burned. And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who  brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride. They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition. We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs. What a terrible mistake was made by miserable  Europe. *********************************** A  lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves. Absolutely No Profiling!  Pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple choice test.  These events are actual events from history.  They really happened!  Do you remember? HERE'S THE TEST 1.  1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:    a.  Superman    b.  Jay Leno    c.  Harry Potter    d.  A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40 2.  In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:    a.  Olga Corbett    b.  Sitting Bull    c.  Arnold Schwarzenegger    d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 3.  In 1979, the US embassy in  Iran was taken over by:    a.  Lost Norwegians    b.  Elvis    c.  A tour bus full of 80-year-old women    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 4.  During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:    a.  John Dillinger    b.  The King of Sweden    c.  The Boy Scouts    d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 5.  In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:    a.  A pizza delivery boy    b.  Pee Wee Herman    c.  Geraldo Rivera    d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 6.  In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:    a.  The Smurfs    b.  Davey Jones    c.  The Little Mermaid    d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 7.  In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:    a.  Captain Kidd    b.  Charles Lindberg    c.  Mother Teresa    d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 8.  In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:    a.  Scooby Doo    b.  The Tooth Fairy    c.  The Sundance Kid    d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 9.  In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:    a.  Richard Simmons    b.  Grandma Moses    c.  Michael Jordan    d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 10.  In 1998, the US embassies in  Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:    a.  Mr. Rogers    b.  Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems    c.  The World Wrestling Federation    d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 11.  On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers.  Thousands of people were killed by:    a.  Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd    b.  The Supreme Court of Florida    c.  Mr  Bean    d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 12.  In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:    a.  Enron    b.  The Lutheran Church    c.  The NFL    d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 13.  In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:    a.  Bonnie and Clyde    b..  Captain Kangaroo    c.  Billy Graham    d.  Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40 14.  And now we can add: In 2009, 31 people wounded and 13 American Soldiers murdered on base at Fort Hood by a Major that was known as.... a: You guessed it - A Muslim male extremist between the age of 17 and 40. No, I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?  So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people.  They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling. We can not allow the socialist transformation being brought on by the current administration to continue.  Look at what it has done to Europe.  We all must stand together before it's too late and everything America stands for is lost. The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.                   They have received the  following Nobel Prizes:                   Literature:                   1988 - Najib  Mahfooz                   Peace:                   1978 - Mohamed Anwar  El-Sadat                   1990 - Elias James Corey                   1994 - Yaser  Arafat:                   1999 - Ahmed  Zewai                   Economics:                   (zero)                   Physics:                   (zero)                   Medicine:                   1960 - Peter  Brian Medawar                   1998 - Ferid Mourad                   TOTAL: 7  SEVEN The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.                   They have  received the following Nobel  Prizes:                   Literature:                   1910 - Paul  Heyse                   1927 - Henri Bergson                   1958 - Boris Pasternak                   1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon                   1966 - Nelly Sachs                   1976 - Saul Bellow                   1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer                   1981 - Elias Canetti                   1987 - Joseph Brodsky                   1991 - Nadine Gordimer World                   Peace:                   1911 - Alfred Fried                   1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser                   1968 -  Rene Cassin                   1973 - Henry Kissinger                   1978 -  Menachem Begin                   1986 - Elie Wiesel                   1994 - Shimon Peres                   1994 - Yitzhak Rabin                   Physics:                   1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer                   1906 - Henri Moissan                   1907 - Albert  Abraham Michelson                   1908 - Gabriel Lippmann                   1910 - Otto Wallach                   1915 - Richard Willstaetter                   1918 - Fritz Haber                   1921 - Albert Einstein                   1922 - Niels Bohr                   1925 - James Franck                   1925 - Gustav Hertz                   1943 - Gustav Stern                   1943 - George Charles  de Hevesy                   1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi                   1952 - Felix Bloch                   1954 - Max Born                   1958 - Igor Tamm                   1959 -  Emilio Segre                   1960 - Donald A. Glaser                   1961 - Robert Hofstadter                   1961 - Melvin Calvin                   1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau                   1962 - Max Ferdinand  Perutz                   1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman                   1965 - Julian Schwinger                   1969 - Murray Gell-Mann                   1971 - Dennis Gabor                   1972 - William Howard Stein                   1973 - Brian David Josephson                   1975 - Benjamin Mottleson                   1976 - Burton Richter                   1977 - Ilya Prigogine                   1978 - Arno Allan Penzias                   1978 - Peter L Kapitza                   1979 - Steph en Weinberg                   1979 - Sheldon Glashow                   1979 - Herbert Charles Brown                   1980 - Paul Berg                   1980 - Walter Gilbert                   1981 - Roald Hoffmann                   1982 - Aaron Klug                   1985 - Albert A. Hauptman                   1985 - Jerome Karle                   1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach                   1988 - Robert Huber                   1988 - Leon Lederman                   1988 - Melvin Schwartz                   1988 - Jack Steinberger                   1989 - Sidney Altman                   1990 - Jerome Friedman                   1992 - Rudolph Marcus                   1995 - Martin Perl                   2000 - Alan J. Heeger                   Economics:                   1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson                   1971 - Simon Kuznets                   1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow                   1975 - Leonid Kantorovich                   1976 -  Milton Friedman                   1978 - Herbert A. Simon                   1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein                   1985 - Franco Modigliani                   1987 - Robert M. Solow                   1990 - Harry Markowitz                   1990 - Merton Miller                   1992 - Gary Becker                   1993 - Robert Fogel                   Medicine:                   1908 - Elie Metchnikoff                   1908 - Paul Erlich                   1914 - Robert Barany                   1922 - Otto Meyerhof                   1930 - Karl Landsteiner                   1931 - Otto Warburg                   1936 - Otto Loewi                   1944 - Joseph Erlanger                   1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser                   1945 - Ernst Boris Chain                   1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller                   1950 - Tadeus Reichstein                   1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman                   1953 - Hans Krebs                   1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann                   1958 - Joshua Lederberg                   1959 - Arthur Kornberg                   1964 - Konrad Bloch                   1965 - Francois Jacob                   1965 - Andre Lwoff                   1967 - George Wald                   1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg                   1969 - Salvador Luria                   1970 - Julius Axelrod                   1970 - Sir Bernard Katz                   1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman                   1975 - Howard Martin Temin                   1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg                   1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow                   1978 - Daniel Nathans                   1980 - Baruj Benacerraf                   1984 - Cesar Milstein                   1985 - Michael Stuart Brown                   1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein                   1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]                   1988 - Gertrude Elion                   1989 - Harold Varmus                   1991 - Erwin Neher                   1991 - Bert Sakmann                   1993 - Richard J. Roberts                   1993 - Phillip Sharp                   1994 - Alfred Gilman                   1995 - Edward B. Lewis                   1996- Lu RoseIacovino                   TOTAL: 129! The Jews are NOT promoting brainwashing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.  The Jews don't hijack planes or kill athletes at the Olympics or blow themselves up in German restaurants.  There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church.  There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people. The Jews don't traffic in slaves or have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems. Muslims must ask what can they do for humankind before they demand that humankind respects them. Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all: 'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence.  If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.' Benjamin Netanyahu General Eisenhower Warned Us.  It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps, he ordered all possible photographs to be taken and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.  He did this because he said in words to this effect: 'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.' Recently the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred.  It is not removed as yet.  However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it. It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.  This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way. Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets. How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States?

Update on Class Action Suit

Ginger, Good news! A Federal court has ruled that most Americans have standing to challenge the Constitutionality of Obamacare. The District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan recently ruled that Americans who “reorganize their affairs,” and “forego certain spending today, so they will have the funds to pay for health insurance when the individual mandate takes effect in 2014,” have standing. This is most Americans. The Obama administration filed a notice in our lawsuit last week acknowledging the Michigan court’s ruling and its relevance to our case. However, their notice reemphasized their assertion that Congress has authority to enact Obamacare. Today we filed a response to that notice. Our response demonstrates, once again, that our lawsuit against Obamacare is unique. Rather than arguing that current precedent limits Congressional authority, we used this opportunity to reiterate and emphasize the argument that we have been making since the beginning: Current precedent leaves zero limitations on Congressional authority, and that violates the clear meaning of the Constitution. Obamacare is simply the latest in a long line of Federal legislation that increasingly intrudes upon personal rights. If the courts don’t overturn the flawed precedent currently in place, Obamacare will not be the end of these intrusions. That is why all Americans that want to reign in Congress should be part of this class action. Send out this link for others to JOIN THE OCA. Ours is the only lawsuit against Obamacare that is making this point in this way. Ours is the only lawsuit that explicitly acknowledges that Congress currently has no limits on its authority, and argues that this must change. Ours is the only case that begins and ends with our assertion that specific precedent must be overturned. Now that the “standing” issue has been effectively eliminated, the court is left with one simple question: Will it follow the clear meaning of the Constitution, or will it follow clearly erroneous precedent? Our latest filing presented this question very clearly. The defendants’ most recent filing and our response can be viewed at our website. The ruling from the Michigan court can also be reviewed from our web site. Our first appearance in court for the Obamacare Class Action lawsuit has been scheduled. The Eastern District of Tennessee noticed all parties that a scheduling conference has been set for November 19th in Chattanooga, Tennessee. While a scheduling conference is usually routine, this one will likely become a discussion of the pending motions. The judge from the Eastern District of Tennessee now has all the briefs related to our motion for preliminary injunction and to the defendants’ motion to dismiss. If a separate hearing date is not set before the November 19th scheduling conference, we’d like to encourage everyone that can be present for the scheduling conference to be there. We will update you further as that date approaches. We are excited that a Federal judge now has the opportunity to make history. It only takes one brave judge to re-establish our Constitutional Republic by overturning Wickard v. Filburn. If we are able to tell the judge that we now have over 100,000 plaintiffs it would have a much stronger effect on his decision. Please continue to tell everyone you know about the OCA. Please forward this e-mail to everyone on your e-mail lists. Please encourage them all to join the OCA. You can them this link - JOIN THE OCA. Van Irion President, Lead Counsel, Co-Founder Liberty Legal Foundation P.S. Liberty Legal Foundation is a non-profit organization. We appreciate all contributions. Please give what you can to help support our work to re-establish our Constitutional Republic. ©2010 Liberty Legal Foundation | 9040 Executive Park Dr, Ste 223, Knoxville, TN 37923

Indicator of more pain to come...

I "blogjacked" this from Wake Up America.  My healthcare monthly copay with my employer already doubled last year (Anthem).  Rising gas prices, grocery prices, rent????  How much does the government expect us to bear on stagnant salaries and retirement?  Well folks...here's part of that "change" Obama campaigned on. Obamacare Is The Reason For A 47 Percent Health Insurance Rate Hike By Anthem Posted: 16 Oct 2010 10:05 AM PDT "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy."-- Nancy Pelosi The state's largest insurer has been approved to raise health premium rates by 41 percent to 47 percent for some of its policies sold to individual buyers, in the largest price hikes yet seen in Connecticut since the adoption of national health care reform. For all of its individual market plans, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield has received approval to raise rates by at least 19 percent -- including a range of 30 percent to 44 percent for the brand of plans in the individual market that was most popular in 2009, Century Preferred. The reason for the increases is the new federal health reform mandates, according to Anthem and the state Department of Insurance, which is defending its approval against charges by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. Those reforms took effect Sept. 23. The very first comment after the article, says it all. So the "Affordable" Health Care Act is hurting affordability by up to 47%? Text, from the White House website itself: ......So Americans buying comparable coverage to what they have today -- I already said this -- would see premiums fall by 14 to 20 percent -- that’s not my numbers, that’s what the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says -- for Americans who get their insurance through the workplace. How many people are getting insurance through their jobs right now? Raise your hands. All right. Well, a lot of those folks, your employer it’s estimated would see premiums fall by as much as 3,000 percent [sic], which means they could give you a raise. (Applause.)..... Connecticut is just latest in a long line of "learning what is in the bill after it passed" . Recent news shows that Colorado is raising rates in Colorado, ending sales of child-only policies and blaming their actions in part on the federal health reform law. (source) Michigan- Some health insurers in Southeast Michigan are beginning to charge higher premiums to employers who offer high-deductible employee health plans and then 'wrap' the plans by buying gap insurance or giving workers subsidies to cover the deductibles. NYT reported that major insurance companies have stopped offering new child-only policies because under Obamacare it would be unprofitable. WSJ: Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the health overhaul in coming weeks, complicating Democrats' efforts to trumpet their signature achievement before the midterm elections. The search engines are full of these articles and before people start screaming about those "nasty" insurance companies, businesses are not started with the goal of losing money and when laws are passed that that will cost a business their profits, those losses are always handed down to consumers. It is called Capitalism. Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for a private profit; decisions regarding supply, demand, price, distribution, and investments are made by private actors in the market rather than by central planning by the government; profit is distributed to owners who invest in businesses, and wages are paid to workers employed by businesses and companies. The icing on this Obamacare cake is that while insurance companies are raising premiums, Obamacare also requires by threat of fines that you, the consumer, pay those prices and mandate that everyone spend those extra dollars to buy insurance. Thank heavens a Florida judge has agreed to move forward with the lawsuits by 20 states arguing that mandate is not constitutional and that Congress does not have the right to force people to buy any product by virtue of simply being alive. Judge Vinson disagreed. “It is not based on an activity that they make the choice to undertake,” he wrote. “It is based solely on citizenship and on being alive.”