H/T Charlotte Iserbyt    www.deliberatedumbingdown.com

~LTG

This past Thursday, January 26, 2012, an administrative law judge in Atlanta conducted a hearing into whether Barack Obama, a sitting President of the United States of America who’s seeking reelection, should be allowed to have his name be placed on the electoral ballot of the state of Georgia.

But the defendant, Obama, and his attorney Michael Jablonski failed to appear in court, and so forfeited their defense. All of which means that Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi can simply make a default judgment in favor of the plaintiffs.

I received an email that claims five more states are joining Georgia in demanding that Obama produce proof of his constitutional eligibility as a Natural Born Citizen, in order that his name be placed on the states’ primary election ballots.

After going to the URL sources listed in the email, I can only find confirmation for one state, instead of five. That state is Alabama.

An article published on Liberty News Online, Jan. 7, 2012, claims that an Alabama court has announced that it will hear arguments as to whether Obama is in fact eligible to appear on the state’s presidential primary ballot.

Several Alabama citizens have filed a lawsuit within the Alabama Circuit Court to “prevent certification of President Barack Obama for 2012 Alabama ballot access pending final hearing based on factual evidentiary hearings.”

By agreeing to hear the case, the Alabama Courts have effectively stalled any efforts by the Democratic Party to place Obama on the ballot.

At the same time, the Alabama court also is recognizing that ordinary Alabama citizens do in fact have legal standing to question and challenge Obama’s eligibility. In the past, judge after judge have ruled that ordinary citizens did not have standing, i.e., that they were not sufficiently harmed by the actions of the defendant and therefore had no legal right to bring their cases before the courts.

Despite this Liberty News article, however, I cannot find the Alabama judge’s name, the location of the Alabama court that allegedly will have a hearing, nor can I find the names of the plaintiffs and the names of the attorney(s).

If you have better information, please leave a comment!

Meanwhile, Capt. Pamela Barnett (Ret.) has founded a website and initiative that provide assistance to citizens who wish to challenge Obama’s constitutional eligibility and name placement on the 2012 presidential ballot.  She and her team are currently compiling election law from all 50 states and will be providing forms and sample letters which registered voters can use to file a complaint. [Source: Sharon Rondeau, The Post & Email]

H/t beloved Tina.

~Eowyn

If this picture scares you, you need to grow thicker skin!

Starbucks’ “Pro-Gun” Policy Prompts Gun Victims’ Advocate Group to Launch Nationwide Boycott on Valentine’s Day 2012

PR Newswire: A nationwide boycott of Starbucks stores and its products will be launched on Valentine’s Day 2012. Its goal is to eliminate the risk of guns in public places and ultimately to bring sane gun laws to the U.S.

This boycott is being called by the National Gun Victim’s Action Council (NGAC), a network of 14 million gun victims, the faith community including the: Episcopal Peace Fellowship, United Church of Christ, Fellowship of Reconciliation , secular groups working to reduce gun violence and many of the organizations that support passing sane gun laws.

WHY STARBUCKS?  Currently, Starbucks allows guns and assault weapons to be openly carried in its stores (in 43 states) and concealed and carried in its stores (in 49 states). Starbucks’ compliance with the National Rifle Association’s Pro-Gun Agenda was exposed in 2010 when members of the “open carry” movement began meeting in popular chains, such as California Pizza Kitchen, Peets, IKEA, Disney and Starbucks openly carrying their handguns and assault rifles.

To protect their customers and employees, all of the retail chains—except for Starbucks— banned guns from being carried in their stores.

“Starbucks allowing guns to be carried in thousands of their stores significantly increases everyone’s risk of being a victim of gun violence,” says Elliot Fineman, CEO of the NGAC. “Open and conceal and carry are among the reasons there are 12,000 gun homicides each year in the U.S.  If we had England’s gun laws we would expect 375 gun homicides each year—97% less than we have. England’s gun laws are based on protecting public safety, ours on maximizing sales for the gun industry.”  (No link provided for these statistics.)

Starbucks has the legal right to ban guns (which also means they have the legal right not to) but despite having been petitioned by thousands, asked at a shareholder meeting, and a direct appeal made to their Board, Starbucks clings to this policy that puts millions of Americans at risk every day and encourages the spread of guns being carried in public.

According to NGAC, the boycott will end when Starbucks rejects the NRA’s Pro-Gun agenda by banning all guns from their stores and committing to be an Aggressive Corporate Advocate for sane gun laws.

Apparently this organization has a problem with the Second Amendment!

I really wish they would have provided a link to the statistics they cite about gun deaths.  Instead, they issue a press release with inflammatory words, “sane gun laws”, “pro-gun agenda”, “spread of guns being carried”, “at risk every day”, blah, blah, blah.  Like a criminal is going to follow the rules of the law anyway.

Never have I felt more safe when I’m in eastern Washington and see plenty of people carrying.  A criminal will most likely think twice about robbing a store or a person if they see multiple guns being carried by people in public, on a holster.  And that’s what I call sane and your right under the Second Amendment.

DCG

Notable author Charles Murray has a new book out, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.

In the book, Murray says there’s an unprecedented and troubling cultural separation in Amerca — between not just rich and poor but between upper-middle class and working class. Americans are living separate lives, defined by increasingly distinct core values and practices.

To promote the book, his publisher AEI has put together an interesting and amusing quiz to measure “How thick is your bubble?”– that is, how insulated you are from how most Americans live.

Take the quiz! Click here.

I scored 12. Here’s my certificate, LOL:

This is what my score of 12 means:

“On a scale from 0 to 20 points, where 20 signifies full engagement with mainstream American culture and 0 signifies deep cultural isolation within the new upper class bubble, you scored between 13 and 16. In other words, you don’t even have a bubble.”

I think my “12″ score has something to do with the fact that, despite my Ph.D. degree and full professorship, I’m an immigrant (legal) who grew up in poverty and worked my way through my first 4 years of college with menial jobs that included dishwasher, graveyard-shift waitress, shoe-salesgirl, A&W fast food worker, deep-frying artichokes, and selling Fullerbrush and Avon door to door.

I have a feeling effete Liberals or Progressives will score lower on this Bubble Quiz than Conservatives. It’d be interesting to see how Fellowship of the Minds’ readers do on this quiz.

National Review’s David French scored “17″ on the quiz. I support his endorsement of Charles Murray’s call for successful Americans to leave the bubble and to consciously engage across the entire spectrum of American society.

To take the Bubble Quiz, click here!!!

H/t Bob Russell. 

~Eowyn

h/t Nevada Journal

DCG

PRESBYTERIAN:

When you rearrange the letters:

BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:

When you rearrange the letters:

MOON STARER

DESPERATION:

When you rearrange the letters:

A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:

When you rearrange the letters:

THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:

When you rearrange the letters:

HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:

When you rearrange the letters:

HERE COME DOTS

DORMITORY:

When you rearrange the letters:

DIRTY ROOM

SLOT MACHINES:

When you rearrange the letters:

CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:

When you rearrange the letters:

IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:

When you rearrange the letters:

LIES – LET’S RECOUNT

SNOOZE ALARMS:

When you rearrange the letters:

ALAS! NO MORE Z ‘S

A DECIMAL POINT :

When you rearrange the letters:

I’M A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:

When you rearrange the letters:

THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:

When you rearrange the letters:

TWELVE PLUS ONE

MOTHER-IN-LAW:

When you rearrange the letters:

WOMAN HITLER

AND FINALLY~!

FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

When you rearrange the letters:

STRUGGLING INCOMPETENT LIAR

Several days ago as I left a meeting at our church, I desperately gave myself a personal TSA pat down.  I was looking for my keys.  They were not in my pockets or purse.  A quick search in the meeting room revealed nothing.

Suddenly, I realized I must have left them in the car.  Frantically, I headed for the parking lot.  My husband, David, has scolded me many times for leaving the keys in the ignition.  My theory is the ignition is the best place not to lose them.  His theory is that the car will be stolen.

As I burst through the doors of the church, I came to a terrifying conclusion.  His theory was right. The parking lot was empty.

I immediately called the police.  I gave them my location, confessed that I had left my keys in the car, and that it had been stolen.

Then I made the most difficult call of all.

“Honey,” I stammered.  I always call him “honey” in times like these.  “I left my keys in the car, and it has been stolen.”

There was a period of silence.

I thought the call had been dropped, but then I heard David’s voice. “Betty” he barked, “I dropped you off!”

Now it was my time to be silent. Embarrassed, I said, “Well, come and get me!”

David retorted, “I will, as soon as I convince this policeman I have not stolen your car.”

H/t our beloved GrouchyFogie!

~Eowyn

H/t my dear sis-in-law Shireen.

~Eowyn

For previous “A rose a day” roses, go here!

~Eowyn