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Obama’s Dual Citizenship equals Dual allegiance

Jul 31

Posted by Wayne Smith in Obamanation | 3 Comments

If you live near the border for any length of time, chances are you will run into somebody who has dual citizenship. You may even run into somebody who has a birth certificate in both Mexico and the USA.

It is not hard to have dual citizenship; all it takes is being born where your mother or father have citizenship in another country. Getting the birth certificate is only a matter of going to the county health office and filling out the forms (if you were not born in a local hospital); I would imagine that most home birth children get their birth certificate from a county office. People who are born from non-citizens are in most cases considered citizens of the place they were born, so it is actually possible to have be a citizen of three countries IE Canada, Mexico and the US – without being an immigrant to any country.

I’ve met many people with dual citizenship. Nothing strange about it. They did not get documentation to become dual citizens because when the child grows up they want to be the president. If you ask somebody why they have dual citizenship, running for the president will not be an answer – If you ask if they have it for the child to run for office one day they will look at you as if you are strange. Yet some who want to defend Obama’s actions correctly suggest that nobody will get a birth certificate as a child so they could run for president as an adult, as if somebody other than themselves suggested they would. Is it strange for somebody to publish a notice in the newspaper about having a child; no happens every day – even happens in non-English papers – people don’t do that because they have plans to become president. Although it is strange that somebody would point to a newspaper ad and say that proves citizenship. I am not even going to try to cross the border with a newspaper ad instead of a birth certificate.

If people don’t get dual citizenship because they want to be president then why do they? People with dual citizenship can travel more easily between country. They can own property in countries that do not allow non-citizens to own property. Being a citizen of the US allows you to work in the US. Being a citizen of Canada gives you the option of using socialized health care. If a country goes to war you can live in the country that is not at war.

Obama’s enrollment in school overseas under Barry Seotoro is an indication that he either has dual citizenship or lied that he did. Likewise his trails to Indonesian, why did they allow him to travel but not Americans. I don’t believe they knew he was going to become President. No the realistic answer is Obama has dual citizenship for the same reason other have dual citizenship.

Dual Citizenship is not an aid to running for President. It brings up an issue of what country are you loyal to! McCain did not want and would not ask about any person’s loyalty to the United States. The same for the Democratic Party they are not going to question the loyality of obama. Will moveon.org question his loyalty. Has the New York Times ever questioned the loyalty of a President they endorsed? No these people will not question Obama.

Global Warming Science claims animals getting smaller

Jul 29

Posted by Wayne Smith in False Science | No Comments

In the last 8 years temperature have fallen but never mind that fact. Never mind basic logic, we have sweat on our body because we have small pores that let water pass through our skin that cool our bodies; using such incomplete thought processes you could make a logical argument that a can of soda has pores because it has water on the outside but you would be wrong.

July 20,  National Academy of Sciences, study makes the argument that fish in locations used regularly by fisherman are getting smaller because of global warming. If you expect that the news media uses logical discernment when they report on global warming you would be disappointed. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aJZZoBNdKIN8

To pass for science one needs to create a control group. This is all the more important when there are numerous influences that could create the same effect. Take for example years of fishing with a policy of taking only the largest fish – would if not be expected that fish would adapt to that kind of selectivity by becoming smaller? Do farmers not allow the largest animals to reproduce to selectively breed larger animals and have they not created that effect in both animals and plants?

Are these scientists who have been paid to study global warming any different than the scientists hired by the tobacco industry to show that cigarettes are not addictive. If we look at when animals got larger and when animals got smaller, it can normally be attributed to their food supply and there may be a connection to their food supply and temperature. But, just looking at temperature in many cases shows many kinds of animals getting bigger.You can create statistics to show global warming (if it were happening) would cause fish to grow because plant life in rivers would grow faster in warmer water – warm water areas on the globe are some of the most productive fishing areas in the world.

Science reporters should use a degree of discernment when they report on science. Anything less and they open their papers up to suggesting myths are facts, open their papers up to snake oil fraud that claims to be based on science.

Obamacare + a doctor’s conscience on abortion + Lois Capps

Jul 28

Posted by Wayne Smith in Congress | No Comments

It has made the rounds that Obamacare will treat abortion like any other surgery. Or should I say like any other surgery that takes place in a clinic. It is not exactly treated like tonsils in that if there is nothing wrong with your tonsils you would be sent home with some pain pills. You can not go into the doctors office and ask them to take out your appendix because you don’t want it and have the taxpayers pay for it.

If has also made the rounds on the internet that Mount Sinai Hospital ordered a nurse to assist in a late-term abortion against her will

Clearly if Obamacare goes through it would be legal for a Doctor or Nurse to use conscience to not assist in the execution of a mass murder who was convicted by trial but unable to use conscience or their fear of God to not end the life of a baby.

Planned Parenthood stands to win big by Obamacare.  Rep. Lois Capps one of their supporters will see to that.

Planned Parenthood Honors Congressional Leaders

Rep. Lois Capps quoted by Planned Parenthood: “I’ve worked with Planned Parenthood since I was a school nurse in California. I am grateful to you all for your work in the community every single day, providing health care for a lot of people who don’t get it any other way. I’m delighted to work on your behalf and always will be there with you.”

Why did nobody from the church warn Tiller about his immortal soul?

Jul 28

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I’ve been troubled by the fact the Tiller died without ever coming to grips with his crimes against mankind. Why did no one speak out and let him know. Does he sit now begging for a drop of water; does he ask Abraham if he could come back and warn people?

If somethings are worth dying for (and they are) than surely some things are worth speaking up about, regardless if others may mock you.

Officers shot during home robberies, where are the claims of racism?

Jul 24

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Veteran New Orleans police detective, Thelonious Dukes, was shot in the leg and lower torso, and his wife was shot in the foot, said Sgt. Joe Narcisse, a spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department.

Woman Killed, cop Wounded in Robbery, The shooting occurred near the woman’s home … The incident is the second such shooting involving a police officer this year in Chicago.

A city police officer was shot by an armed robbery suspect who then took a woman and two children hostage inside a home, The hostages eventually were released uninjured … authorities took three suspects in custody.

An illegal search is an illegal search, but if the police are responding to a 911 robbery call with forced entry a search is a legal search.

If you are uncertain that abortion is part of Obamacare watch this video

Jul 24

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“This is a defining moment of us. If the abortion lobby is successful in defining abortion as health care, equivalent to a tonsillectomy (as some legislators have argued), we will have the greatest expansion of mandated abortion in history.” – Charmaine Yoest – (Americans United for Life) – July 23 2009 - Stop the abortion mandate

Obamacare profiteers lay out case that increasing costs to business costs jobs

Jul 24

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While they neglect discussion of the total costs of health care … adding additional government (non-volunteer) oversight between people and the services their doctors will be allowed to offer, does not make a system more efficient – Costs are reduced by reducing labor less labor equals more efficiency … Their Studies show that businesses, which for whatever reason, have not transferred health care costs to their employees have done so at a cost of being less productive, providing less services to the economy and employing less people.

They have also failed to note a shell game of moving the cost on their books from employee benefits to government taxation, they will not see less drain on business.

RAND Health Specifically states

The study found that excess growth in health care costs has adverse effects on employment, output and value added to GDP in the U.S., and that these effects are greater for industries where high percentages of workers have employer sponsored insurance. For example, the study estimated that a 10% increase in excess health care costs would reduce employment by about 0.24 percent in an industry such as motor vehicles, where about 80% of workers have ESI, compared with about 0.13% percent drop in the retail trade, where about one-third of workers have ESI. Economy-wide across all the 38 industries, a 10% increase in excess health care costs growth would result in about 120,800 fewer jobs, $28 billion in lost revenues, and about $14 billion in lost value added.

The report is a good one on looking at the realities of how employment is effected by added costs to businesses: With the exception that Obama is taken literally when he said costs would go down. Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, has warned people not to take Obama literally on tax issues.

Obama makes case: Politicians are less corrupt than Doctors and Police are racists

Jul 23

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Obama made a well spoken case for Socialist Style Medicine. Complete with rhetorical scapegoats. Provided examples of how doctors do unnecessary surgeries to collect more money from patents; specifically that tonsils are removed when they do not need to be.

According to Obama they do this for the love of money. The solution is to have the government tell Doctors to just give pain bills for sour throats, although Obama himself will not micromanage the treatment options the doctor will offer you – It would be a new efficient government agency – the efficient government agency will stimulate the economy and reduce our national debt or something very close to that.

Apparently police when responding to a report of a burglary in progress arrived and asked the person who was in the home for ID. The person was the home owner who was less than happy about the police coming to his home asking him for ID. It was not clear that the man knew his neighbor had called concerned there was a crime. Therefore the police did not accept the verbal assurance from who they considered to be a suspect. Obama took offense to this because the police assumed the person in the home who was black was a suspect.

Before the police left, while the policeman was on the street the man was from his door continued to make accusations about the policeman because the police confirmed it was his house. At some point the policeman made the decision that the man was disturbing the peace and arrested him, the charge was later dropped. It is not clear what level of yelling at an officer in front of your home is legal in his neighborhood. Certainly if it is legal to yell out your door then the police arrested a black man without cause.

Considering what Obama’s case was he did extremely well – but I think people actually have more trust for their doctors than they do in politicians. Hence those opposed can rest their case at this point – Good thing because the networks had no preparation to give them air time.

Obamacare genocide – pulls plug on Medicare Advantage patients

Jul 23

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Hat Tip: Hot Air

PETA’s theory of vegelution searching for their own missing links

Jul 21

Posted by Wayne Smith in False Science | No Comments

The basic theory many vegetarians believe is that Humans evolved from primates who were vegetarian. Here is were they begin … http://www.vet.ca

… Imagine the primordial jungle. Imagine many kinds of primates, including anthropoids (chimps, gorillas and early humans) foraging for fruits and protein-rich leaves in the canopy of the arboreal forest. This story begins more than 55 million years ago but it has been the life-long study of Dr.Katherine Milton, professor of anthropology at the University of California. Her quest for links between diet and evolution is shared by David Popovich, a doctoral student in nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto, who also sees a connection between diet and human development of vision, depth perception, memory, speech, dexterity and social behavior. …

It is ironic for liberals to use “Her quest for links” in a field that is to be free from bias. Science in its un-corrupted form is the search for truth. With it purest form being a logical explanation for everything that is observed. It was not until Newton demonstrated gravity that the concepts of testing became normal in science. You may believe you know something based on the evidence  you have, and based on that you can make predictions on what may be found in the future to confirm or disprove your explanation, your hypothesis, or theory.

Now when I say predictions I am twisting the word when it come to origins. Science calls for test results to be repeatable. Theories about the origin can not exactly be repeated. Science has not been able to create matter, create life, or create a new species. All attempts to date of selective breeding to the point that a animal can no longer reproduce with the original species have left the new animal unable to reproduce at all.

It begs the question should any of the theories of origin be taught in a science class? or does the subject properly belong in a metaphysics class? or in theology classes?

It also begs the question; Are vegetarians actually looking for a missing link? Darwinist have been looking for the missing link for over 150 years and have not found one. Is PETA just taking a play out of the Darwinist’s play book – say you are looking for a link a push it forward as science that you can not prove wrong or correct because it is metaphysics.

To continue with the PETA brand of evolution … http://www.vegansa.com/veganism-diet-and-human-evolution.htm suggests these as facts …

… But looking at the facts, we can find no reason to suppose that the human digestive system was designed for the eating of flesh and we can point to the many facts that point to the human digestive system being designed for the assimilation of plant foods. So the statement “we are naturally carnivores” merely means “I and the majority of people I know regularly eat meat and think that this is the basis of a good meal”. Certainly most humans are able to digest flesh foods and gain nourishment from them, but carnivorous dogs are able to adapt and thrive on a plant based diet, so this only proves that digestive systems can adapt to different diets.

The 19th Century scientist, T.H. Huxley, who was a staunch defender of Darwin’s theories against the denunciations of Church leaders, made a special study of the physiology of carnivores compared to creatures with other diets and prepared a list showing that carnivores have completely different systems from humans. …

Vegansa completely ignores that Humans are neither carnivores or herbivores … Our digestive system is unable to completely digest grass, leaves, straw …

Genesis 1:29-30:  Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground–everything that has the breath of life in it–I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Humans are omnivores we can eat both vegetables and meats. There exists no evidence that the human digestive system was ever different. There are fossils of tall people and short people and there are tall people and short people in the world today. Skulls have been found with the same teeth structure that exists in people today. Our digestive system has not grown shorter.

It is our digestive system that makes it impossible for us to be herbivores. Cows, houses, rabbits have a digestive system that is longer than ours – If you look at the droppings of an herbivore it is clear that they eat grass and straw and completely digest it. Humans could no more get all the nutrients  out of grass and straw any more than we could produce the same droppings. In the same way our digestive system is longer than that or carnivores. Meat does not require the same amount of time to digest.

Another fact that is overlooked is taste. You can not get a cow to eat meat because they do not like the taste: But you can get a human to eat a cow because of the taste. It may sound funny to suggest if God did not want us to eat steak he would of made it taste bad; But there may be considerable amount of truth to that … most poisonous plants taste bitter … most nutritious fruits taste sweet.