Thursday, June 30, 2011

Beck: Do We Have a Plan? Published June 29, 2011 | Glenn Beck

This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," June 29, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

GLENN BECK, HOST: Well, hello, America. This is the last audience that will join us, because tomorrow is just you and me. And tomorrow is our last episode on Fox News Channel. You don't want to miss it.

I have a lot to share with you. Tonight, it's big picture. When you're down to the last two episodes of something that you've worked in for five years and you try to think, what is it I want to leave you with? What is the most important? I haven't been good at narrowing things down.

Today, I thought I wanted to spend time with you on two things, the most important things. What's coming our way? One last stab at it. And who do you trust? The media.

Tonight, I want to talk to you about those things, but I have to start over here with Israel, because you are being lied to. Absolutely, positively, you're being lied to. And you need to know what the truth is.

Some analysts that's got together in Washington, D.C. and now, they have come out with this -- the three things that Washington feels might be the most pressing threats to America. See if you've heard these anywhere?

Nuclear-armed Iran. No! No, they just want peace. What are you talking about? This is from CBN.com. That's all they want. Nuclear-armed Iran dominating its neighbors -- what?!

By the way, Iran just carried out a test of a ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear payload. Just days earlier, Iran said the missiles are capable of striking Israel or the U.S. targets in the Gulf.

Worry about this? No.

Three years ago or four years ago, that's what I sat down for an hour with Benjamin Netanyahu to talk about. I said nobody is taking him seriously. Nobody is.

What are we doing about it now? Obama wrote a love letter to Ahmadinejad when he first got into office that sought to unfreeze U.S.-Iranian relations. Oh! Yes.

The second thing that we're worried about as most pressing threat now in Washington, Egypt under control of the Muslim Brotherhood. What?! The Muslim Brotherhood -- they're great! This administration doesn't see the Muslim Brotherhood as even a religious organization. Let alone a dangerous one.

And three, al Qaeda terrorists roaming free near Yemen's coast where 40 percent of the world's oil supply passes through. I haven't heard that. Where do you get that? These are all crazy. An oil spike because of an unstable Middle East? What?

May I ask you, do we have a plan for oil flow interruption? Is there a plan? What are we doing?

The president did just agree to release 30 million barrels from our strategic oil reserve to help at the gas pump. But that's not just us. That's for the entire world. That's not your gas but for the rest of the world. We put up 30 million barrels, the rest of the world put up 30 million barrels so we can relieve the tension around the entire globe.

Look, this is not difficult to figure out. There's a lot of people in the Middle East that hate the Western way of life. Heck, there's a lot of people here in America that hate the Western way of life. They think that it is evil. At least in the Middle East, the people who hate it here do not believe in evil.

The only answer to millions in the Middle East is re-establishing a caliphate. That's not a blanket statement. That's not everybody. There are good people in Iran that don't want a caliphate. But those with power do.

These elitist dopes in the media can laugh all they want because they think caliphate is, I don't know, some sort of fancy hors d'oeuvre. I've never had a caliphate before, does it have fish eggs on it? I like it, huh?

They don't get it. When they say we're going to kill the little Satan and drive the little Satan into the sea and then go kill the great Satan, they mean it. You'd think we've learned by now, but we haven't.

I've shown you several videos on this program. This one I showed you just I think a couple of weeks ago. 1953, a group rose to re-establish a caliphate, six days of -- six decades of challenging tyranny.

Notice these are all the guys that we've been in bed with. Pretty much all the guys we've been in bed with. You notice the regime in Israel -- I mean, in Iran wasn't there. Then oppression, they have been challenging that.

This is all promoting -- I love this one -- exposing colonialism, all us and the Jews. This is promoting an upcoming caliphate conference. Caliphate is spelled two different ways. Caliphate, as we usually spelled it here on this program. And also Khilafah, but they mean the same thing.

This is their vision for change. There's Khilafah. That means caliphate, a global Islamic Sharia law government.

Now, this conference is in the U.K. Hizb ut-Tahrir is organizing these conferences, like it said, in 44 countries around the globe. They had this in the U.K. They had one I think in Australia and the on the road Khilafah tour continues.

They have just announced that the next will be in the Netherlands this weekend, July 3rd. This is interesting. Does anyone know who Geert Wilders is?

Eric?

(INAUDIBLE)

BECK: I'm sorry, bring his mike up.

ERIC, AUDIENCE MEMBER: He's a leading Dutch politician who takes a strong stand against radical Islam.

BECK: Got it.

This guy has been speaking out for a long time. What -- do you know what just happened to him this week?

ERIC: He was cleared of hate speech charges in the Netherlands.

BECK: He was just cleared of hate speech charges. Right.

So, now, they announce this. It's not like there's any kind of problems going on that they might to take advantage of. This July 3rd, this weekend.

You got questions about Islamic unity, the establishment of a caliphate, or you want the destruction of capitalism and the Western way of life? Well, then, this is for you.

But wait, there's more. They have a promo video explaining where we are, they believe, in history. They believe that we are on the verge of the next great Khilafah or caliphate from Allah.

If you look and read the message in this -- go ahead and play this message here.

You see this message. It is narrated that the messenger of Allah has said. The prophet will be there. Then there will be a caliphate on the prophetic method. Then there will be biting rule for as long as Allah wills. Then there will be oppressive rule for as long as Allah wills. And then he'll remove it when he wills.

This is the time they believe there is because then there will be a caliphate on the prophetic method.

They believe that they are at that time that Allah promised through the Prophet Muhammad. They believe that. And they are rallying the troops right now.

It is an easy message to sell to the people when the United States looks dazed, when Israel is under attack by the whole world, you pull the linchpin out of Israel and the entire West falls! You don't believe me?!

Well, hell, they didn't believe me when I said you pull out Egypt and it will set the entire Middle East on fire! Is that happening? Yes or no? Yes or no?

Yes is the answer! The Middle East is on fire.

Now, would you like to believe the clowns in Washington and the clowns on television who told you that I was wrong that time?!

Or how about the time when I was telling, talking about buying gold at $700 an ounce, it's now $1,500 an ounce! When? When will your neighbors decide to stop listening to the people who are steering them wrong every single time?

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"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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By Karl Rove June 30, 2011 Print How the GOP Can Blow It in 2012 Thomas Dew

How the GOP Can Blow It in 2012

Thomas Dewey tried to run out the clock on Harry Truman. It didn't work.

High unemployment, anemic growth, defections in key groups such as independents and Hispanics, and unpopular policies are among the reasons President Obama is unlikely to win re-election. But likely to lose is far from certain to lose. If Republicans make enough unforced errors, Mr. Obama could win.

The first such mistake would be forgetting that the target voters are those ready to swing away from Mr. Obama (independents, Hispanics, college educated and young voters) and those whose opposition to Mr. Obama has deepened since 2008 (seniors and working-class voters).

These voters gave the GOP a big win in the 2010 midterm. They are deeply concerned about the economy, jobs, spending, deficits and health care. Many still like Mr. Obama personally but disapprove of his handling of the issues. They are not GOP primary voters, but they are watching the contest. The Republican Party will find it more difficult to gain their support if its nominee adopts a tone that's harshly negative and personally anti-Obama.

The GOP nominee should fiercely challenge Mr. Obama's policies, actions and leadership using the president's own words, but should stay away from questioning his motives, patriotism or character. He will do this to his GOP opponent to try to draw Republicans into the mud pit. They should avoid it.

It won't be easy. Mr. Obama can't win re-election by trumpeting his achievements. And he has decided against offering a bold agenda for a second term: That was evident in his State of the Union emphasis on high-speed rail, high-speed Internet and "countless" green jobs.

Instead, backed by a brutally efficient opposition research unit, the president will use focus-group tested lines of attack to disqualify the Republican nominee by questioning his or her values, intentions and intelligence.

Republicans should avoid giving him mistakes to pounce on and should stand up to this withering assault, always looking for ways to turn it back on Mr. Obama and his record. The GOP candidate must express disappointment and regret, not disgust and anger, especially in the debates. Ronald Reagan's cheery retorts to Jimmy Carter's often-petty attacks are a good model. Any day that isn't a referendum on the Obama presidency should be considered wasted.

Republicans also must not confuse the tea party movement with the larger, more important tea party sentiment. As important as tea party groups are, and for all the energy and passion they bring, for every person who showed up at a tea party rally there were dozens more who didn't but who share the deep concerns about Mr. Obama's profligate spending, record deficits and monstrous health-care bill.

The GOP candidate must stay focused on this broader tea party sentiment, not just the organized groups, especially when some of them stray from the priorities that gave rise to them (for example, adopting such causes as the repeal of the 17th Amendment, which established election of U.S. senators by popular vote). The broader sentiment is what swung independents so solidly into the GOP column last fall.

The GOP nominee could also lose if the Republican National Committee (RNC) and battleground-state party committees don't respond to the Obama grass-roots operation with a significant effort of their own. The GOP had the edge in grass-roots identification, persuasion, registration and turnout efforts in 2000 and 2004. It lost these advantages in 2008, big time, in part because its candidate didn't emphasize the grass roots. It must regain them in 2012. Only the RNC and the state party committees can effectively plan, fund and execute these efforts.

Finally, Republicans cannot play it safe. It is tempting to believe that Mr. Obama is so weak, the economy so fragile, that attacking him is all that's needed. Applying relentless pressure on the president is necessary but insufficient. Setting forth an alternative vision to Mr. Obama's will be required as well. Voters are looking for a serious GOP governing agenda as a reason to turn Mr. Obama out of office.

Failing to offer a well-thought-out vision and defend it against Mr. Obama's inevitable distortions, demagoguery and straw-man arguments would put the GOP nominee in the position of Thomas Dewey in 1948, whose strategy of running out the clock gave President Harry Truman the opening he needed.

Mr. Obama could have enjoyed the advantage of incumbency—with its power to set the agenda and dominate the stage—until next spring when the GOP nomination will be settled. Instead he prematurely abandoned the stance of an assured public leader to become an aggressive political candidate. Now his re-election depends on political rivals making significant errors. That's dangerous for any politician, but given his Oval Office record, Mr. Obama may have no other viable strategy.

This article originally appeared on WSJ.com on Wednesday, June 29, 2011.

 
Carl Ray Louk

"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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Michael Reagan Now Is Not the Time to Go Wobbly

Michael Reagan

Michael Reagan

Now Is Not the Time to Go Wobbly

If the GOP is really serious about winning back the presidency, they need to win the deficit debate. The government of these United States is broke -- flat broke -- and if the nation is to survive as the prosperous nation it has long been, Republicans must restore fiscal sanity and call a halt to spending money we don't have!

That's what the Republicans promised us they would do last November, and largely on the strength of that pledge we let them take back the House. After all, it's obvious that we can't trust the Democrats to spend the public's money wisely and well.

President Obama is promising to seek $3 in spending cuts for every $1 of new taxes, exactly as my father Ronald Reagan sought to do. When he passed away in 2004 he was still waiting for that $3. Barack Obama can expect the same dismal outcome.

Ask the first President George Bush how it worked out when he cut a deal with the Democrats in 1991 to reduce the deficit by $500 billion. All he had to do was go back a little on his "Read my lips -- NO NEW TAXES" pledge and raise taxes just a little bit.

The Democrats promised not to use the tax issue in the 1992 elections. They promptly hung President Bush with it. So I say to the Republican leadership, as Margaret Thatcher once said to GHW Bush, "Now is not the time to go wobbly." Stick to your guns and call a halt to spending nonexistent dollars.

Unlike the Democrats, who have long been able to win elections by buying votes with lavish government programs paid for with phantom dollars, Republicans have for the most part demanded that fiscal sanity play a large part in determining the wisdom of enacting new programs or financing existing ones.

Democrats have no problem with spending what I like to call "tomorrow money," big bucks stolen from future generations, who aren't around to protest having enormous debt loads placed on their shoulders even before many of them have even been born.

Tragically, we have now reached the point where it's time for Peter --that's this generation -- to pay Paul, yet unborn, by paying for the cost of government programs with today's dollars. That would require that we stop spending tomorrow's dollars. Of course, in that case Democrats would start losing elections.

In this era of the Obama recession, Republicans had better stiffen their spines, stand erect and challenge Obamanomics before the president drags us over an economic cliff.

As I said, for the GOP, this is no time to go wobbly.

Michael Reagan

Michael Reagan

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Carl Ray Louk

"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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Ann Coulter Glenn Beck vs. The Mob

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter

Glenn Beck vs. The Mob

Of all the details surrounding the liberal mob attack on Glenn Beck and his family in New York's Bryant Park last Monday night, one element stands out. "No, it won't be like that, Dad," his daughter said when Beck questioned the wisdom of attending a free, outdoor movie showing in a New York park.

People who have never been set upon by a mob of liberals have absolutely no idea what it's like to be a publicly recognizable conservative. Even your friends will constantly be telling you: "Oh, it will be fine. Don't worry. Nothing will happen. This place isn't like that."

Liberals are not like most Americans. They are the biggest pussies on Earth, city-bred weaklings who didn't play a sport and have never been in a fight in their entire lives. Their mothers made excuses for them when they threw tantrums and spent way too much time praising them during toilet training.

I could draw a mug shot of every one of Beck's tormentors, and I wasn't there.

Beck and his family would have been fine at an outdoor rap concert. They would have been fine at a sporting event. They would have been fine at any paid event, mostly because people who work for the government and live in rent-controlled apartments would be too cheap to attend.

Only a sad leftist with a crappy job could be so brimming with self-righteousness to harangue a complete stranger in public.

A liberal's idea of being a bad-ass is to say vicious things to a conservative public figure who can't afford to strike back. Getting in a stranger's face and hurling insults at him, knowing full well he has too much at risk to deck you, is like baiting a bear chained to a wall.

They are not only exploiting our lawsuit-mad culture, they are exploiting other people's manners. I know I'll be safe because this person has better manners than I do.

These brave-hearts know exactly what they can get away with. They assault a conservative only when it's a sucker-punch, they outnumber him, or he can't fight back for reasons of law or decorum.

Liberals don't get that when you're outnumbering the enemy 100-1, you're not brave.

But they're not even embarrassed. To the contrary, being part of the majority makes liberals feel great! Honey, wasn't I amazing? I stood in a crowd of liberals and called that conservative a c**t. Wasn't I awesome?

This is a liberal's idea of raw physical courage.

When someone does fight back, liberals transform from aggressor to victim in an instant, collapsing on the ground and screaming bloody murder. I've seen it happen in a nearly empty auditorium when there was quite obviously no other human within 5 feet of the gutless invertebrate.

People incapable of conforming to the demands of civilized society are frightening precisely because you never know what else such individuals are capable of. Sometimes -- a lot more often than you've heard about -- liberals do engage in physical violence against conservatives ... and then bravely run away.

That's why not one person stepped up to aid Beck and his family as they were being catcalled and having wine dumped on them at a nice outdoor gathering.

No one ever steps in. Never, not once, not ever. (Except at the University of Arizona, where college Republicans chased my assailant and broke his collarbone, God bless them.)

Most people are shocked into paralysis at the sight of sociopathic liberal behavior. The only ones who aren't are the conservative's bodyguards -- and they can't do anything without risking a lawsuit or an arrest.

My hero Tim Profitt is now facing charges for stopping a physical assault on Senate candidate Rand Paul by a crazed woman disguised in a wig.

But the disturbed liberal whose assault Profitt stopped faces no charges -- she instigated the entire confrontation and then instantly claimed victim status. In a better America, the cop would say, "Well, you provoked him."

Kentucky prosecutors must be very proud of how they so dutifully hew to the letter of the law (except in the case of Paul's assailant).

Maybe they wouldn't be such good little rules-followers if they ever, just once, had to face the liberal mob themselves. But if Beck's own daughter can't imagine the liberal mob, I suppose prosecutors can't be expected to, either.

Michael Moore and James Carville can stroll anywhere in America without risking the sort of behavior the Beck family experienced. But all recognizable conservatives are eternally trapped in David Dinkins' New York: Simply by virtue of leaving their homes, they assume a 20 percent chance of being assaulted.

Bullying is on the rise everywhere in America -- and not just because Obama decided to address it. It's because no one hits back. The message in our entire culture over the last two decades has been: DON'T FIGHT!

There were a lot fewer public confrontations when bullies got their faces smashed.

Maybe it's time for Beck to pony up some of those millions of dollars he's earned and hire people to rough up the liberal mob, or, at a minimum, to provide a legal defense to those like Profitt who do.

These liberal pukes have never taken a punch in their lives. A sock to the yap would be an eye-opening experience, and I believe it would do wonders.

They need to have their behavior corrected. It's a shame this job wasn't done by their parents. It won't be done by the police.

As long as liberals can't be normal and prosecutors can't be reasonable, how about a one-punch rule against anyone bothering a stranger in public? Then we'll see how brave these lactose-intolerant mama's boys are.

Believe me, liberal mobbings will stop very quickly after the first toilet-training champion takes his inaugural punch.

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
 
 
Carl Ray Louk

"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
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"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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Woman Seated Near Beck at Movie Claims Innocence…But What Does Twitter Tell Us…(With UPDATES!)
 
Posted on June 29, 2011 at 11:32am by Scott Baker Scott Baker

On Tuesday, Glenn Beck told his radio and TV audiences how he and his family were harassed during an outing to an outdoor movie in New York City's Bryant Park.

You can listen to Glenn describe what happened here.

The account involves people shouting nasty things and even a cup of wine being kicked onto Glenn's wife.

"These people were some of the most hateful people I have ever seen," Beck said. "All I wanted to do is go out on a blanket with my family and have dinner in the afternoon sun and sit around Americans, not like-minded Americans, and just watch a movie in the park. And last night that was what it was about‑‑ when the movie was just about over, my wife and I got out because it was hostile."

Well, now a woman has come forward to say that she was seated right behind Glenn and that his account is "FALSE."

True?

The woman, Lindsey Piscitell, wrote to New York Magazine:

To Whom It May Concern:

Just a quick FYI -saw your article on Mr. Beck and his numerous FALSE claims about the way that he was treated at Bryant Park last night. Myself and several of my friends were seated immediately behind Mr. Beck & co (have pictures) and I can tell you that while the crowd was certainly not *thrilled* that he had shown up, his family was left completely alone, and for the most part he was too. Conversely, it was his security detail (two body guards) that seemed to be unnecessarily prickly with the crowd, scolding myself and my friends for acrobatics and other harmless activities taking place well before the movie started, and contributing to a considerably less relaxed atmosphere than is typically experienced during BPMN (I've been going for about six years now).

Click here to find out more!

It was my friend that spilled the glass of wine on Tanya -and I can assure you that it was a complete accident. A happy one, to be sure, but nonetheless a complete and utter accident. As soon as the wine spilled (and I question how Tanya became soaked from a half glass of wine) apologies were made and my friends pretty much scrambled to give Tanya & co napkins -no doubt aware that it would look terrible and that their actions could be perceived as purposeful. No words were exchanged after that, as I think that it became pretty clear to Beck & co that my friends and I were doing everything in our capacity to help clean the "mess".

I'm sure it's unnecessary to point out the hypocrisy in Glen's statements that we were being hateful. I can assure him that we don't need his sympathy. Incidentally, none of us have made a career of "spewing hate" on the radio, or any other media platform. We live our lives intolerant only of those who don't tolerate: We have chosen New York as our city for that very reason. We do things like go to Bryant Park Movie Night, and vote to legalize gay marriage. We don't taunt Glen, or his family. And we certainly don't waste our wine, even on Tanya.

Thanks, and please let me know if you have further questions.

Lindsey Piscitell

So that changes everything. Glenn will be issuing an apology this aft….oh, wait.

We decided to learn a little more about Lindsey Piscitell.

Turns out she is something of a "Nomad" who likes to write short stories and poetry in between panic attacks:

She posts some of that poetry on her Tumblr blog:

The muffled voice of the car horns

sang homage to married airshafts

and the clouds crept back to their night beds

while the teapot grew much older.

She also has a Twitter account…though that account is "protected" for confirmed followers only.

However, when GlennBeck.com's Wilson Garrett simply Googled her name he did notice this:

Hold on! Is this the same woman who wrote to New York Magazine? She seems much more agitated here than we were led to believe!

The link in that Tweet to FourSquare had the pictures of Glenn and his family on their blanket. It was active until a few hours ago. But….it's now not there:

We also noticed that one of her Twitter followers was eager to respond to her notification about proximity to Glenn with some timely suggestions:

How about that?! Lindsey's pal suggests an accidental spill!

I did want to see if Marissa had other suggestions, but guess what:

Yeah, her Twitter account is now gone.

Lindsey, we note, tells the world on Tumblr that she is:

What can we conclude? Is it possible that the wine spill really was accidental? Oh, maybe. But Twitter tells us a few things that may call her account and her motives into question.

We certainly would like to know more — but they keep deleting things!

Stay tuned for updates.

Update:

It seems that Lyndsey Piscitell was also busy posting comments on some blog posts about the Beck encounter. At least we know that it is someone using the same name as she uses on Twitter (dANGLINGbABY), and claiming to be in the group involved in the encounter.

Of course the "truly accidentally" part might be suspect now that we know about the friends Twitter suggestion.

AND was it a bottle? I thought she said it a glass?

Glenn also pointed out on the radio this morning that the suggestion about "accidentally" kicking him the mouth might have played a role in the "acrobatics" going on near them.

Lyndsey's e-mail to New York Magazine depicts innocuous interaction…"his family was left completely alone, and for the most part he was too"…while pointing any blame on Beck's security detail. I've watched Glenn's security team in dozens of tricky situations and they are a polite and professional group. Certainly Lyndsey wouldn't have done anything deliberate to draw their attention, right?

Seems a little less innocuous now, doesn't it?

Another commenter on one blog post asks this question of the group:

Turns out dANGLINGbABY had a ready answer:

Why has Glenn not been "chased" away? "We tried as best we could tonight." And then she references the picture taking, and the concept that "outside world" is trying to send a message to Glenn. We think we get the message about what happened that night.

UPDATE:

A Sara Romanoski recently blocked her Twitter account (saromo) but a Blaze reader managed to take some screen grabs before that happened.

Early in the evening she did solicit ideas for to what to do in the situation:

She too makes reference to "accidentally" spilling wine on:

She did get her wish on the TV mention.

And she did at the time seem to want to ride the wave of attention:

Jon Stewart? Hellooooo?

The Daily Caller's Jim Treacher quotes "saromo" saying this:

Since lots of accounts of been closed or locked in the last 24 hours, I haven't been able to confirm the rest of her original message…but I think the message, again, is clear.

 
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I bid you good noon I am @ dialysis & hoooked up. I have 4:23 left. I will om off around 4:53pm.
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Beck: The Push to Silence the Right Published June 28, 2011 | Glenn Beck

Beck: The Push to Silence the Right
Published June 28, 2011 | Glenn Beck | Glenn Beck
 
This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," June 28, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
 
GLENN BECK, HOST: I want to go through a few stories that came across my desk this morning and I want you to see if you can figure out what they all have in common.
 
 
 
First, Greece is rioting. This is the police in Greece. More violent clashes as youths throw rocks and gas bombs at the Greek Finance Ministry over the cost-cutting measures being taken by the government. They bombed a satellite truck. They blew up kiosks. They attacked police.
 
The protests and strikes have brought the economy to a grinding halt. Everything from the electric company workers to ambulance drivers, to air traffic controllers, to public employee workers employees, they all walked off the job.
 
Greece is lovely today.
 
We told you about this two years ago. We said it was coming. Nobody believed us then.
 
There is much more coming.
 
OK. There is story number one. Now, similar strike is set to hit the U.K. on Thursday. Up to three-quarters of a million workers plan to walk off their job on Thursday. So, there's another nation.
 
Now, let me take you back in time a little bit. This is the Israeli ambassador who was shouted down while speaking at students at U.C. Irvine.
 
They wouldn't let him speak.
 
Let me go now to the conservatives that speak on campuses. They're often silenced. Ann Coulter has been physically attacked on stage.
 
And then we have the president's spiritual adviser, Jim Wallis, who has several groups that targeted Fox, this program, hate talk radio, through groups like Sojourners and Faithful America, and Faith in Public Life. There's a whole bunch of them. And they attack through commercials.
 
Although when you go to their web sites, you always see it's -- I mean, it's painfully obvious that they are mere political arms of the DNC and the uber left.
 
Soros funds many of these. I have often been puzzled, he is an atheist. Why would he fund faith groups?
 
I've questioned Soros, speaking of him. How many times has he attacked us through Media Matters? They had a little party for our departure last night.
 
Media Matters, first of all, our departure is Thursday. But just know -- enjoy that party while you can. You'll be praying for these days to come back.
 
How many millions has George Soros spent to silence me?
 
Now, silencing people is what they do best. If you dare to be skeptical on global climate change, and according to the scientists, maybe you should be branded. This is from The L.A. Times. This has got to be a joke. "Surely, it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinion forcibly tattooed on their bodies. I'm not necessarily saying on the forehead. I'm a reasonable man. But just something along their arm or across their chest so their grand children can say, really? You were the ones who actually tried to stop the world from doing something? And why exactly was that, granddad?"
 
You know, there's nothing better than thinking about your grandchildren coming and seeing something tattooed on your arms. That's always good. Even to joke about.
 
It was the same line of attack on health care. If you disagreed with Obamacare, it was because you were a racist, you were a hate monger, you wanted to starve children. Not because you believed in small government or entrepreneurs, right? Do you remember?
 
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM APRIL 29, 2009)
 
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around.
 
(END VIDEO CLIP)
 
BECK: OK, waving tea bags -- why did he say that? Why did he do it that way?
 
Now, the Obama administration officials are hiring mystery shoppers to pose as patients to find out if doctors are accepting patients with private insurance while turning away those in government health programs that pay lower reimbursement rates.
 
Of course, they are. We told you this would happen. They knew this would happen.
 
What's amazing about this story is this really is the mark of the death of the free press. You see, the press is supposed to be the watchdog. But if you don't have the press, well, then who is it? Well, don't worry about it, because, now, you have the government being the watchdog.
 
You know you don't have an honest watchdog when the president said that doctors are out amputating legs or feet or taking out tonsils just for profit. And the press didn't expose those doctors or expose the president for lying to the American people, because only one of those things can be true. But the press just went away. So now, the government can be the watchdog.
 
In Wisconsin, protesters continue to chant, "this is what democracy looks like," but here is what it really looks like. Listen to what they are saying to a Republican state senator as he is being chased by hecklers around the capitol building.
 
Now, protesters are going around and mobbing banks and other companies. The government employee union is sending letters to businesses asking them to support workers rights or else. They put up signs like this one in their windows. It supports workers' rights. If you don't, then here is what happens -- "Failure to do so will leave us no choice but to do a public boycott on your business. And sorry, neutral means no to those who work for the largest employer in the area and are union members."
 
Do any of -- are you seeing a pattern here?
 
The unions did the same thing to Philadelphia. Locally owned coffee shop, little coffee shop didn't use the union outfit for some of renovations. They had thugs stand in front of their store every single day with signs saying that the coffee shop was harming their community.
 
Welcome to the third grade, gang. You don't agree with me? you don't agree with me? Well, then you must hate teachers. No, no, no, I tell you what. You hate teachers and firefighters and cops and you want to starve children to death. Get 'em!
 
That's what we're turning into. What do all of the stories have in common?
 
Mobs. We're turning into a mobocracy and they're doing it to the whole planet. Why? They don't need to -- they don't need to tear us apart if we'll tear each other apart. We're being taught to hate each other, from the teens in the street, to union workers, to college liberals, to politicians, businesses, at some point, your views are going to be challenged.
 
And, are you part of the mob? Or are you on the other end, the one that's surrounded? And if you are that person, how are you going to react?
 
Tonight, we begin the search for courage.
 
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John Stossel A New Day in Politics

John Stossel

John Stossel

A New Day in Politics

Most Americans used to call themselves Republican or Democrat. These days, more call themselves independent. What does that mean for American politics? A lot.

"Independents are everywhere, and they're becoming the largest single voting bloc in the country," Reason magazine Editor Matt Welch says. " (T)hey can determine every national election and every ... election for state office. So independent voters -- people who refuse to say, 'I'm a Republican or I'm a Democrat' -- that's where all the action is."

Welch and Reason.tv Editor in Chief Nick Gillespie just published a book on what to expect from this change: "Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America."

The big change they see stems from independents' refusal to be absorbed by any party. "Compare the tea party to the ... Howard Dean antiwar movement," Welch said. "Howard Dean became the chairman (of the) Democratic National Committee. But the tea party has kept an arm's length and said, 'No, we're not going to be Republicans. ... (W)e're going to focus on ... government spending, deficit, and debt, and that's it.' ... And by maintaining that independence they have retained power."

"Independence in politics means that you can actually dictate some of the terms to our overlords," Welch and Gillespie write, adding that we need independence not just in politics but from politics. Welch said, "When we look at the places where government either directly controls or heavily regulates things, like K-12 education, health care, retirement, things are going poorly."

It's very different outside of government where -- from culture to retail stores to the Internet -- there's been an explosion of choice. "(Y)ou were lucky ... 20 years ago (if) you would see one eggplant in an exotic store," Welch continued. "Now in the crappiest supermarket in America you'll see four or five or six varieties of eggplant, plus all types of different things. ... (W)hen you get independent from politics, things are going great because people can experiment, they can innovate. ... We should squeeze down the (number of) places where we need a consensus to the smallest area possible, because all the interesting stuff happens outside of that."

Government is a zero-sum game: Someone wins, and someone loses, unlike in the market, where it's win-win, where merchant and customer thank each other. "Anytime that you have the government expressing anything," Welch continued, "it's a battle of values. If a government is supporting an art show, people who find that art offensive have a legitimate claim. If a government buys ... a new baseball stadium, well, my wife hates baseball, so how is that fair to her?"

"Fifty-one percent of the people get to tell the other 49 percent what to do, how much to pay, where you have to show up," Gillespie added. In the private sector, everybody gets to pick what he or she wants.

"There are troubles and tradeoffs," Gillespie said. "But ... if somebody starts selling stuff you don't like, you don't hold a rally and you don't try and get a bunch of people to vote to change it. You go to the next grocery store ... or you build your own grocery store. It's hard to do that with schools ... with health care and ... retirement." Of course, as government makes more decisions for people and limits competition, it reduces our choices. It's also given us horrible, unsustainable debt.

But, surprisingly, the Reason folks are optimistic.

"There are cases (of big government rollbacks)," Gillespie said. "New Zealand did this. Canada did this. The U.S. did this after World War II -- dramatically ramped down the amount of spending, both in absolute terms and in relative terms as a percentage of economic activity. Political change happens."

But for now, the politicians continue to move us in the wrong direction. Last year, the feds alone added another 80,000 pages of rules. Despite talk of cuts, spending keeps growing. So does the debt.

And yet maybe the optimists are right. Maybe the human spirit is so powerful it will overcome the stupidity of politics.

I sure hope so.

John Stossel

John Stossel

John Stossel is host of "Stossel" on the Fox Business Network. He's the author of "Give Me a Break" and of "Myth, Lies, and Downright Stupidity." To find out more about John Stossel, visit his site at johnstossel.com.

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Michelle Malkin AmeriCorps' Favorite Scandal-Plagued Mayor

Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin

AmeriCorps' Favorite Scandal-Plagued Mayor

A prominent Democratic politician who was banned from receiving federal aid three years ago over fraud charges is once again raking in government funds from the very same program he abused. It pays to be a FOTO -- Friend of the Obamas.

Our publicly subsidized con artist is Sacramento mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson. He donated the maximum individual amount to Obama for America, campaigned across the country for Obama in 2008, and bragged to California media during his mayoral run about his friendship and access to both Barack and Michelle Obama. The Obama administration's Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) recently bestowed Johnson's city with an AmeriCorps grant worth more than $650,000.

The money will flow into Sacramento's "Get Fit Now! Initiative," which will hire 124 AmeriCorps members "to teach fitness and nutrition education to children and offer adult fitness classes for their parents. They will also set up school-based gardens where children will learn how to grow fresh vegetables."

That's a lot of fertilizer-shovelers employed in the name of "public service." If the award smells funny, it should. For Johnson, AmeriCorps has indeed been all about service -- self-service, that is.

In 2008, the independent Inspector General overseeing AmeriCorps, Gerald Walpin, concluded that Johnson and aide Dana Gonzalez had squandered hundreds of thousands of a nearly million-dollar grant earmarked for his nonprofit youth organization, St. HOPE. Based on Walpin's investigation, AmeriCorps' parent organization (the aforementioned CNCS) suspended Johnson and Gonzalez's access to federal funds. Here's a refresher on their fraud and abuse that led to the ban:


-- Using AmeriCorps members to "recruit students for St. HOPE Academy."

-- Using AmeriCorps members for political activities in connection with the "Sacramento Board of Education election."

-- Assigning grant-funded AmeriCorps members to perform services for Johnson such as "driving (him) to personal appointments, washing (his) car, and running personal errands."

-- Improperly using AmeriCorps "members to perform non-AmeriCorps clerical and other services" that "were outside the scope of the grant and therefore were impermissible" for "the benefit of St. HOPE."

Johnson didn't get jail time. Instead, the Democratic U.S. Attorney in Sacramento cut a cozy settlement deal so Johnson could avoid criminal prosecution. The deal also allowed Johnson to repay just a fraction of the money he siphoned from AmeriCorps coffers for personal gain -- and it freed Johnson to receive federal Obama stimulus money for Sacramento. (My most recent check of the Recovery.gov website shows the city has taken in at least $32 million in stimulus cash.)

In keeping with this administration's brutal war on whistleblowers, Walpin was unceremoniously fired and smeared by Team Obama. The White House baselessly questioned the veteran watchdog's mental health and accused him of political interference. The first lady then installed her former chief of staff, Jackie Norris, in AmeriCorps' top management to ensure -- in Mrs. Obama's own words -- that they remained the program's "No. 1 cheerleaders."

Even more troubling, Johnson continues to reap government tax dollars for youth programs while he remains dogged by questions about his predatory behavior with teenage girls. A little-noticed section of the joint November 2009 report by GOP Sen. Charles Grassley and GOP Rep. Darrell Issa on Walpin's firing revealed that the AmeriCorps inspector general's investigator "became aware of allegations of inappropriate contact between Johnson and three female St. HOPE students." Their stories mirror a similar incident involving Johnson (then 29 and playing for the Phoenix Suns) and a 16-year-old girl dating back to 1995.

Johnson's attorney, Kevin Hiestand, approached at least one of the St. HOPE students describing himself only as "'a friend of Johnson's,'" and "basically asked me to keep quiet," according to the student. She had complained to St. HOPE officials that Johnson groped her sexually after instructing her to grade papers with him in her apartment. The report also highlighted what clearly looks like a hush-money and witness-tampering attempt: "According to her interview with OIG investigators, about one week later, Kevin Johnson offered her $1,000 a month until the end of the program, which she refused to accept."

Erik Jones, a teacher at St. HOPE, reported to the police that one of his students told him Johnson "started massaging her shoulders and then reached over and touched her breasts." Jones quit his job in protest over the seeming cover-up of Johnson's harassment and wrote in his resignation letter that "St. HOPE sought to intimidate the student through an illegal interrogation and even had the audacity to ask me to change my story."

Another student recounted for investigators how Johnson "kissed her cheek, brushed up against her" and touched her thigh on various occasions -- as well as flipping up her skirt on a St. HOPE-sponsored trip to Harlem. She didn't report the incidents to AmeriCorps officials at the time because she "feared she would be terminated."

Another St. HOPE official, Jacqueline Wong-Hernandez, also left Johnson's nonprofit over the whitewash. Michelle Rhee, Johnson's fiancee and former D.C. schools chief, was a St. HOPE board member at the time. The Grassley-Issa report noted, "According to Wong-Hernandez, Rhee learned of the allegations and played the role of a fixer, doing 'damage control'" and vouching for Johnson's character.

He's a "good guy," Rhee told Walpin. Taxpayers -- and especially parents of teenage girls and AmeriCorps workers in Sacramento schools -- should beg to differ.

Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies" (Regnery 2010).

 
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"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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Thomas Sowell Is Democracy Viable?

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell

Is Democracy Viable?

The media have recently been so preoccupied with a Congressman's photograph of himself in his underwear that there has been scant attention paid to the fact that Iran continues advancing toward creating a nuclear bomb, and nobody is doing anything that is likely to stop them.

Nuclear weapons in the hands of the world's leading sponsor of international terrorism might seem to be something that would sober up even the most giddy members of the chattering class. But that chilling prospect cannot seem to compete for attention with cheap behavior by an immature Congressman, infatuated with himself.

A society that cannot or will not focus on matters of life and death is a society whose survival as a free nation is at least questionable. Hard as it may be to conceive how the kind of world that one has been used to, and taken for granted, can come to an end, it can happen in the lifetime of today's generation.

Those who founded the United States of America were keenly aware that they were making a radical departure in the kinds of governments under which human beings had lived over the centuries -- and that its success was by no means guaranteed. Monarchies in Europe had lasted for centuries and the Chinese dynasties for thousands of years. But a democratic republic was something else.

While the convention that was writing the Constitution of the United States was still in session, a lady asked Benjamin Franklin what the delegation was creating. "A republic, madam," he said, "if you can keep it."

In the middle of the next century, Abraham Lincoln still posed it as a question whether "government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth." Years earlier, Lincoln had warned of the dangers to a free society from its own designing power-seekers -- and how only the vigilance, wisdom and dedication of the public could preserve their freedom.

But, today, few people seem to see such dangers, either internally or internationally.

A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians -- risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has -- is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic.

The ease with which people with wealth can ship it overseas electronically, or put it in tax shelters at home, means that raising the tax rate on wealthy people is not going to bring in the kind of tax revenue that would enable wealth redistribution to provide the bonanza that some people are expecting.

In other words, people who are willing to give government more arbitrary power can give up their birthright of freedom without even getting the mess of pottage. Worse yet, they can give up their children's and their grandchildren's birthright of freedom.

Free and democratic societies have existed for a relatively short time, as history is measured -- and their staying power has always been open to question. So much depends on the wisdom of the voters that the franchise was always limited, in one way or another, so that voting would be confined to those with a stake in the viability and progress of the country, and the knowledge to cast their vote intelligently.

In our own times, however, voting has been seen as just one of the many "rights" to which everyone is supposed to be entitled. The emphasis has been on the voter, rather than on the momentous consequences of elections for the nation today and for generations yet unborn.

To those who see voting as more or less just a matter of self-expression, almost a recreational activity, there is no need to inform themselves on both sides of the issues before voting, much less sit down and think beyond the rhetoric to the realities that the rhetoric conceals.

Careless voters may be easily swayed by charisma and rhetoric, oblivious to the monumental disasters created around the world by 20th century leaders with charisma and rhetoric, such as Hitler.

Voters like this represent a danger of terminal frivolity for freedom and democracy.

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of The Housing Boom and Bust.

 
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"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
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"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

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Cut Cap Balance Pledge

Our nation's $14 trillion debt is fiscally irresponsible and continues to burden our sluggish economy. In the current debate over raising the debt limit, we've been provided a historic opportunity to focus public attention, and then public policy, on reforms that are necessary to pay down our national debt.

I pledge to urge my Senators and Member of the House of Representatives to sign the Cut, Cap, Balance Pledge and oppose any debt limit increase unless the conditions of the pledge have been met:

1. Cut - Substantial cuts in spending that will reduce the deficit next year and thereafter.
2. Cap - Enforceable spending caps that will put federal spending on a path to a balanced budget.
3. Balance - Congressional passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - but only if it includes both a spending limitation and a super-majority for raising taxes, in addition to balancing revenues and expenses.

Sign the pledge below now!

http://action.freedomworks.org/4662/cut-cap-balance-pledge/

 

 
Carl Ray Louk

"FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996
"LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000
"THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD
"EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941
"FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895
"FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895 
"I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock 
"TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003 
"EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS

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