Dear Dick,
Yesterday, I shared lunch with fellow veterans to discuss their problems, solutions, and ideas on how to reform the Veterans Administration (VA). Being able to speak with my fellow veterans at these Veterans' Forums enables me to gain firsthand knowledge of what's going on here in the First District. They have been an important part of my campaign.
As President Obama begins the slow march toward yet another war in Iraq, he ought to think carefully about how our veterans are treated now. A nation that does not care for those who were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country is discouraging to those who have in interest in serving their country.
The current VA scandal is actually much worse than just another Obama Administration scandal. It is an open, infected scar upon our entire nation. President Obama and the bureaucrats he hired who mismanage this agency should all be held accountable-with criminal punishment on the table--where crimes against our veterans are found to exist.
What the President has allowed to happen on his watch has not only cost the lives of many of my fellow veterans who waited in vain for health care that was never coming, but it also may have turned off an entire generation of young men and women from serving in the armed services.
If elected, I have pledged to serve on the Veterans' Affairs Committee because we need more doctors and veterans in Congress who understand how the VA works so it can be truly reformed.
That is why I need your help to send me to Congress. I know there are ways to reform the VA system to save lives and taxpayer dollars. My opponent Buddy Carter has never served in the military and is not equipped to represent a District with four military bases and thousands of veterans. Click here to support me in this endeavor.
Thank you so much for your support, generosity, and prayers.
Thank you so much for your support, generosity, and prayers.
Thank you,
Bob Johnson
Candidate for Congress
Bob Johnson
Candidate for Congress
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I had lunch today with a retired litigation attorney from one of America's and D.C's outstanding law firms
I asked him what he thought about the IRS missing tape and hard drive scandal, Rep. Gowdy'sprosecution chances.and what will come of it.
He responded nothing. Obama's Justice Department will do nothing!
I then asked why and he said because that's Obama's Washington.
Pretty sad indeed. Had it been G.W, the press and media would have been all over him but not their anointed.
I can think of no better way to destroy a nation of laws than not to adhere to the law!
What I posted in the previous memo needs reposting.
The answer to Cannon is yes, but it will not happen because the appointment must come from Holder and anyone who believes he is going to 'lynch' his boss is dreaming.
So guess my lawyer friend is right - nothing will happen and Obama knows that.
The press and news media will certainly not stir the public to call for such and anyone else asking for same will be called a - you guessed it - 'racist.' See 1 below.
Kim on Lois. (See 1a below.)
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Updating and unfolding details regarding the kidnapping of three Israeli youth. (See 2 below.)
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This is from an old friend and fellow memo reader who was sent this (See 3 below.) by his friend and who I do not know but he receives and, apparently, reads my memos.
This is eye opening and bone chilling !
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ISIS insurgents have executed a very methodical and professional campaign to the surprise of the U.S and Obama.
An update from Iraq! (See 4 below.)
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I once had the privilege and honor of having lunch in The White House Mess and then, at another time, cocktails and hors d'oeuvres in the Blue Room..
Now everything coming out of The Obama White House is a mess!
Obama messed up when he went to Egypt and dissed America.
Obama messed up when he selected Atty Gen. Holder, Susan Rice, Ms. Clinton, Sen.Kerry and most all his other weak, inept and corrupt lackey appointments
Obama Messed up when he denied there was nothing about our giving guns to Mexican outlaws in a 'fast and furious' manner
Obama messed up big time when he wrecked our health care coverage with Obamacare and took money from Medicare to pay for his bizarre and costly plan
Obama messed up when he lied about our keeping our doctors and existing coverage if we wanted
Obama messed up again with his costly screw up of Obamacare's computer introduction
Obama Messed up when he left Netanyahu cooling his heels while he went upstairs to dinner.
Obama messed up when he claimed there was nothing underhanded going on at The IRS
Obama messed up in Libya and Benghazi
Obama messed up in Syria and Egypt
Obama messed up when he sent his goons to harass a Fox News Reporter
Obama Messes up because he invites illegals to crash our borders
Obama messed up when he thought a reset button with Russia would change Putin's appetite
Obama messed up by delaying our economic recovery
Obama messed up by adding trillions to our deficit
Obama messed up when he did not know the meaning of and how to pronounce 'corpsman'
Obama messed up when he jumped to a wrong conclusion about the actions of a Campus Policeman
Obama messed up when he financed Solyndra, to pay back campaign contributors
Obama messed up when he enacted his 'shovel ready' program
Obama messed up when he thwarted efforts to build an energy pipeline
Obama messed up when he directed the EPA to shut the coal industry down
Obama messed up when he told us he really never listened to Rev. Wright or attended many of his sermons
Obama messed up by withdrawing troops from Iraq and will repeat the same mistake when he withdraws from Afghanistan
Obama messed up when he told us al Qaeda and other radical Jihadists were no longer a threat
Obama, no doubt, is about to mess up in our negotiations with Iran
Obama is messing up by using his pen and phone to circumvent Congress and our Constitution
Obama never seems to miss a chance at messing up
and finally:
Obama is not truthful with the American people and thus has become a bigger mess himself.
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Dick
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1)Is It Time for a Special Prosecutor?
The anniversary of the Watergate burglary arrived this week, along with the disquieting revelation that it’s not just disgraced former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner who’s taking the Fifth. Her email is clamming up, too.
More than a year into the controversy over the tax agency’s targeting of conservative non-profit groups, IRS officials casually told congressional investigators last week that a 2011 computer crash caused thousands of sought-after Lerner emails to disappear.
So, can the mess at the IRS now objectively be called an Obama administration scandal?
Hillary Clinton seemed to acknowledge as much. “I think that anytime the IRS is involved,” she told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, “for many people it’s a real scandal.”
White House officials don’t concede the point. “You’ve never heard of a computer crashing before?” presidential spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters. “The far-fetched skepticism expressed by some Republican members of Congress,” he added, “I think is not at all surprising and not particularly believable.”
With its unprecedented abuse of executive power, no modern scandal was ever like Watergate, but this was a passable imitation of Richard Nixon’s press secretary Ron Ziegler, who said two days after five suspects were arrested in the Watergate break-in that “certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.”
President Obama himself hasn’t been above channeling Nixon, either. When the story first broke that the IRS was targeting groups with “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in their names, he told reporters aboard Air Force One that these machinations were all the work of a few rogue agents in an Ohio IRS office -- “two Dilberts in Cincinnati” was the president’s phrase.
After it turned out that the Washington office was actually calling the shots, Obama didn’t change his story. Yes, some “bone-headed decisions” were made, he told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly -- but it didn’t entail “even a smidgen of corruption.”
Perhaps that’s true. But the question is how the American people are supposed to discern the truth. One way to get those missing emails would be with a federal inspector general complete with subpoena powers. Another -- and God help me for saying this -- would be a special prosecutor.
Watergate begat the independent counsel system, enacted by law as a post-Watergate reform by a Congress burned by the memory of the “Saturday Night Massacre” -- Nixon’s firing of one attorney general after another until he found someone willing to sack special prosecutor Archibald Cox. It was only a temporary victory for the beleaguered president, but it convinced most Americans -- and not just Democrats -- that the Justice Department couldn’t be trusted to investigate executive branch wrongdoing.
Problems with the new reform arose from the start, however. Theoretically, special prosecutors were subject to judicial oversight, but in practice they were on their own. With no bosses, no time constraints, and no limitations on the scope of their probe, special prosecutors tended to turn into Inspector Javiers -- if the villain of “Les Misérables” had had an unlimited budget and no superior.
As the abuse of executive power gave way to the abuse of prosecutors with more power than British kings wielded at the time of the American Revolution, it became clear that the reform-minded liberals swept into power in the post-Watergate Democratic landslide of 1974 didn’t actually know more than the Framers.
It took a while for Democrats to fathom the problem, which was that many of the independent counsels appointed in the 1980s lack the trait known as “prosecutorial discretion.” This was understandable: many of them had never been prosecutors. And as independent counsels they contended with none of the normal checks and balances in courthouse politics -- because they never had to face the voters. Accountable to no one, they didn’t balance the alleged transgressions of their target with more serious cases -- because they didn’t have other cases.
“A one-case lawyer with nobody to question what is done in the investigation is a dangerous person," observed noted Washington attorney Jacob Stein, who served as both an independent counsel -- he didn’t indict -- and a lawyer representing a client caught up in a notorious example, the investigation of prominent Republican Theodore B. Olson.
A top legal official in the Reagan administration, Olson was investigated by a zealous special prosecutor named Alexia Morrison. Tasked with determining whether Olson lied to Congress over an EPA decision (he hadn’t), she took 28 months -- and several million taxpayers’ dollars -- before simply deciding to do nothing.
Olson responded by challenging the constitutionality of the law. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, before Olson lost. But he left us with a tidy summation of the distorted incentives in the system: “If you are given a fishing license which has the name of a fish on it, and you don’t come back with that fish, you’ve failed.”
For years, Republicans complained that congressional Democrats were abusing the law by demanding independent counsels for Republicans in the executive branch who thwarted their policy goals. Every Republican had their favorite horror story. One of the most egregious involved Lawrence Walsh. His zealous Iran-contra probe produced an October surprise -- the indictment of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and sliming of GOP presidential candidate George H.W. Bush a week before the 1992 presidential election.
For the better part of two decades these GOP complaints fell on deaf ears. All that changed when Bill Clinton was elected president, and congressional Republicans began using the independent counsel statute -- with its absurdly low standard of proof for triggering a special prosecutor -- against administration officials. Initially, Attorney General Janet Reno defended the statute, but as the 1990s rolled by Democrats began compiling their own list of fanatical special prosecutors.
Even before Kenneth Starr brought the Clinton presidency to a virtual standstill, an independent counsel named David M. Barrett spent $21 million and 10 years investigating HUD secretary Henry Cisneros for not telling the FBI about payments he’d made as a private citizen to a former mistress. In the end, he succeeded in jailing his star witness -- the girlfriend -- for fudging on housing loan forms. She is the only person ever known to do prison time for this offense.
Then there was Donald C. Smaltz, who spent four years and $17.5 million prosecuting Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy for allegedly accepting $35,000 worth of gifts from agribusiness interests. Espy was acquitted by a disgusted and perplexed jury.
In the midst of this kind of thing, even before Ken Starr’s far-reaching investigation into dodgy Clinton real estate deals in Arkansas unearthed a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky, Democrats began seeing the problem. “They’re criminalizing policy differences!” Clinton political adviser James Carville complained to me one night on the phone. I replied that Republicans had been making this same complaint for years, to little effect.
Eventually, the law was allowed to lapse during the Clinton administration. Many of us thought this was a good thing. Now, many executive branch observers are second-guessing themselves. Technically, this is probably third-guessing.
The current scandal has featured lying to Congress and stonewalling, and now missing evidence. The very fact that it appears to involve the Internal Revenue Service infuriates Republicans, as it should. Once upon a time, liberals were outraged by this sort of behavior, too -- one in particular.
On July 27, 1974, the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee completed work on three articles of impeachment. The first informational item in Article II included the charge that the president had caused “in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”
Article I accused the president of “withholding relevant and material evidence or information from lawfully authorized investigative officers and employees of the United States.”
Forty years later, one of the House Judiciary Committee staff attorneys who helped prepare that brief is pondering presidential ambitions of her own. That Democrat, Hillary Rodham Clinton, was asked about the current IRS matter this week by Van Susteren. While Clinton didn’t call for a special prosecutor, she didn’t minimize the situation, either.
“It’s important to get back to very professional inquiries that can’t be accused of politicizing things,” she said. “Let’s try and find out what the facts are.”
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About Those Missing Emails
The fact that they are "lost" at all suggests Congress is looking in the right direction.
By Kim Strassel
Lois Lerner's emails are lost, and they need finding. In the meantime, their very disappearance tells us that Congress is sniffing down the right trail.
A year into congressional investigations of IRS targeting, we know two things beyond a doubt. We know from the public record that starting in 2010 the most powerful leaders of the Democratic Party—President Obama, Senate chairmen, House Democrats—ran a ceaseless campaign pressuring the IRS to silence conservative groups. We also know from internal IRS emails that Ms. Lerner, the former head of exempt organizations, was at the epicenter of an agency effort to silence those very groups, in the precise same time frame.
Lois Lerner before Congress, May 22, 2013.Associated Press
What we don't know is the interaction between the two. The IRS's deliberate withholding for a year of Lerner emails allowed the press and liberals to crow that there was no "there" there—zero evidence of Lerner collusion with anybody in the Democratic Party. At the very worst, went the explanation, Ms. Lerner and her IRS pals were zealous bureaucrats, primed to crack down on campaign money, and therefore eager to interpret the Democratic campaign as an order to act.
But the alleged disappearance of Ms. Lerner's hard drive—and the fact that the missing conversations are those the former IRS director had with people outside the IRS—has suddenly resurrected, with force, the explosive possibility that she was chatting with Democrats who mattered.
There's plenty of reason to believe she was. Just last week Congress discovered (via a subpoena to the Justice Department) emails showing that Ms. Lerner had conversations with Justice prosecutors about investigating conservative nonprofits. Who else in the Obama administration was Ms. Lerner talking to?
Or consider the extraordinary interaction between congressional Democrats and the IRS. Some of it was in a recent complaint filed to the Senate Ethics Committee by the Center for Competitive Politics against nine Democratic senators. It details their many letters and statements (that we know of) demanding the IRS shut down specific organizations that posed a threat to their Democratic House and Senate majority in the 2010 election.
Sen. Carl Levin, the head of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, exchanged at least 12 letters (that we know about) with the IRS in 2012 alone. IRS officials, including Ms. Lerner, met with Sen. Levin's staff in 2013. And former IRS Acting CommissionerStephen Miller testified that the IRS acted in part because Sen. Levin was "complaining bitterly" to the agency. In what forums? Were email conversations also taking place, behind the scenes, between the Levin office and Ms. Lerner and other IRS officials?
We do know that email conversations were common. A new and comprehensive House Oversight Committee report this week—about how politics drove the IRS affair—reveals fascinating details about just how chummy Democratic staff was with the IRS.
Here we find a staffer for Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin in October 2010 emailing no less than the IRS chief of staff, Jonathan Davis (who he addresses in familiar terms), with a heads up about a Durbin letter to the IRS commissioner demanding an investigation of Crossroads GPS, a conservative group. "We're not the first to ask, of course," the staffer acknowledges in the email. A few months later, Ms. Lerner asked her staff why it hadn't taken action against Crossroads.
Here we also find staff from Sen. Chuck Schumer in March 2012 tipping off an IRS employee to a coming New York Times article about nonprofits, a tip that was passed to Ms. Lerner. This is the same Sen. Schumer who has been open in public speeches about the need for Democrats to use the IRS to crack down on the "extraordinary influence" of Tea Party groups (as he was quoted as saying in January 2014). When did he first start looking to use the IRS this way, and who did he talk to there?
We have emails suggesting that IRS staff aided Sen. Levin in putting together his letters of complaint to the IRS. We have staff for House Democrat Elijah Cummings asking the IRS for information to use in Mr. Cummings's campaign against a specific conservative organization, True the Vote. Ms. Lerner got involved in that one—querying her staff as to whether they'd helped Mr. Cummings.
As to Ms. Lerner's behavior, consider that House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp first sent a letter asking if the IRS was engaged in targeting in June, 2011. Ms. Lerner denied it. She engineered a plant in an audience at a tax conference in May 2013 to drop the bombshell news about targeting (maybe hoping nobody would notice?). She has subsequently asserted a Fifth Amendment right to silence in front of the only people actually investigating the affair, Congress. Now we learn that her hard drive supposedly defied modernity and suffered total annihilation about 10 days after the Camp letter arrived.
Is there something in those lost emails? The fact that they are "lost" at all probably answers that question.
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Israel's search for kidnapped teens: What is known so far, and what it means
Author: Christa Case Bryant
(Majdi Mohammed/AP)
A robust Israeli security operation to bring home three kidnapped teenagers has turned into a much wider crackdown on Hamas, which could potentially lead to a violent escalation after years of relative calm.
“The operation has developed over the past three days [beyond] the primary target … to strike a substantial hit to Hamas,” Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner told reporters today.
Here’s a look at what is known so far about the incident and what it means for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Where did the kidnapping take place?
Israeli yeshiva students Eyal Yifrach (19), Gilad Shaar (16), and Naftali Frenkel (16) reportedly got into a car at about 10:15 p.m. on Thursday, June 16. They were last seen at a hitchhiking post at the Alon Shvut junction near their school in the West Bank, located about halfway between Jerusalem and Hebron.
When did the search begin?
At 10:25 p.m., one of the teens called the police, whispering, “We’ve been kidnapped.” However the police, who receive dozens of prank calls a day, did not inform Israeli security forces until about 4 a.m. on June 17, shortly after Gilad's parents reported him missing.
The last signal from the cellphone used to call the police came about 11:30 p.m. in the area of Hebron, the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank.
On midday Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began a house-to-house search in Hebron. From Sunday, June 15, Israel erected military checkpoints around Hebron; closed the closest crossings into Israel to all Palestinians, including those who have work permits in Israel; and placed a travel ban on all male Hebron residents aged 16 to 50 on going to Jordan. Jerusalem-based human rights group B'tselem criticized the “collective punishment” of such travel restrictions.
Why does Israel think Hamas is behind the kidnapping?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said unequivocally on Sunday, June 15, that Hamas is behind the kidnapping. However, no evidence has been made public.
IDF spokesman Col. Peter Lerner said today that amid the sensitive investigation, no information would be released that could jeopardize the search or give the abductors an advantage in any negotiations for the prisoners’ release.
While the precise identity of the kidnappers is not known, he said, he added that Israeli security forces have foiled 64 abductions since the beginning of 2013 – most affiliated with Hamas.
About 240 Palestinians across the West Bank have been arrested so far since the kidnapping, the majority of whom are Hamas members, including former ministers, parliamentarians, and a Hamas founder.
Why is Israel launching a broader crackdown on Hamas?
Lerner says that the expansion of the operation beyond its primary goal of locating the kidnappers is intended to “take a toll” on Hamas. Gilad Erdan, a member of Mr. Netanyahu’s security cabinet, went further, saying that “the end result of any military operation should be the eradication of the Hamas movement.”
The kidnapping incident came just two weeks after the Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank reconciled with Hamas after a seven-year split. Israel says that the PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s alliance with Hamas – which Israel considers a terrorist organization – is a clear choice against peace and security, holding up the kidnapping as prime evidence.
How have Palestinians responded?
President Abbas has condemned the kidnapping and called for the teens’ release, and PA security forces have continued to coordinate with Israel, although their exact involvement remains unclear.
Hamas has called such security coordination with Israel a “disgrace,” but after years of political isolation, financial woes, and the loss of key sponsors in Iran and Syria, it has little leverage to end it.
The massive search operation, waves of arrests, house searches, and restrictions on travel have significantly disrupted Palestinian lives in a way not seen for years. Many Palestinians have taken to social media to criticize what they see as undue emphasis on the teens’ fate over the suffering of Palestinians, especially just a month after two Palestinians teens were killed by Israeli soldiers at a protest in Beitunia. It also comes amid a hunger strike by close to 300 Palestinian prisoners, some of whom are being held without trial. Some Palestinians advocate kidnapping Israelis as bargaining chips for the release of prisoners.
In contrast with Abbas’s condemnation, average Palestinians have taken to social media to hail the capture of the “three Shalits” with a three-finger salute, and have adopted the Jewish hashtag #BringBackOurBoys and used it to press for the release of their young men arrested by Israeli security forces.
What is the potential for an escalation of violence?
Residents of Gaza are bracing for another round of war with Israel, which has already stepped up air strikes. Meanwhile in the West Bank, a rare Palestinian sniper on a major highway – not far from the site of the kidnapping – as well as settlers reportedly throwing stones at Palestinian cars, signal a heightening of tensions.
While the PA, which is dependent on Western foreign aid, has a clear interest in maintaining relative calm, it is somewhat limited in its ability to rein in Hamas without undermining the recent reconciliation deal or provoking public unrest.
And while Israel has the military capability to launch full-scale incursions to crack down on terrorism in both Gaza and the West Bank, it would risk a potential backlash both from the international community and its Palestinian neighbors.
But Israel appears firmly resolved to find both the kidnappers and their captives, and any broader consequences will be dealt with down the road.
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3) One of my Michigan friends sent this to me.
3) One of my Michigan friends sent this to me.
Thought you might find this interesting.Dearborn, Michigan makes the news.This is from a fellow who lives and works in Dearborn!"Can't work in the school system front offices if you don't speak Arabic and need to know many dialects as some Arabs can't understand other's Arabic language.
Everybody goes back to the homeland for months and expects to get passed onto the next grade. It's crazy as I am at ground zero on this.
Kids (assuming girls, can't tell for sure) roaming the hallways in full blown burkas. Other kids attending classes that can't speak or understand English.
All school monies are being moved from the English end of town from (Irish, Polish, Italian etc. kids) to the east end (95% Arabic) in an attempt to prop up the poorly performing schools.
6th graders are reading at a 3rd grade level, forget math and sciences.
Everybody gets free breakfasts and lunches. After being dropped off in Land Rovers. The car of choice here is either Mercedes or Cadillac Escalade.
It is very common to have 3 families live in 1 house.
All garages are being converted into living spaces complete with stoves (against all codes ) and the city council can't find the nerve to enforce the safety regulations.
Cars end up parked all over the streets affecting snow plowing, garbage pick up, ambulance runs. (I'll send pics as I take them.)
If this doesn't scare you, you haven't been watching what has happened to our country in recent years.I bet you can't guess what this is!•ÅÐÇ ßÇä ÏÎáß ÇáÔåÑí ÇáÅÌãÇáí ÃÞá ãä 150 ÏæáÇÑ æ 100 ÏæáÇÑ Ãæ ÃÞá Ýí ÇáÃÕæáÇáÓÇÆáÉ )äÞæÏ Ýí ÇáíÏ¡ ÇáÍÓÇÈÇÊ ÇáÌÇÑíÉ Ãæ ÍÓÇÈÇÊ ÇáÊæÝíÑ¡ ÔåÇÏÇÊ ÇáÊæÝíÑ(¡ Ãæ•ÅÐÇ ßÇä ãÌãæÚ ÏÎáß ÇáÅÌãÇáí æÃÕæáß ÇáÓÇÆáÉ ÃÞá ãäWell, it's part of the instructions for how to apply for food stamps in the great state of Michiganin Arabic !!
Read on:
I actually called the Michigan Dept of Human ServicesTo check this out and it is true.
Have we gone completely nuts!!
Muslim men are allowed to have as many as 4 wives. Many Muslims have immigrated into the U.S. and brought their 2-3-or 4 wives with them,but the U.S. does not allow plural marriages, so the man lists one wife as his, and signs the other 2 or 3 up as extended family on welfare and other free Government programs!
Michigan has the highest population of Muslims in the United States.
When President Obama took office the United States paid several millions of dollars to have a large number of Palestinians, ( All Muslim ), immigrate from Palestine.
Why? We don't pay for others to immigrate here, and I'm sure that some of those Muslims moved to Michigan with the large current number of established Muslims already here.
So now in Michigan when you call the Public Assistance office you are told to “Press 1 for English. Press 2 for Spanish, or Press 3 for Arabic”! CHECK IT OUT YOURSELF - Here is the number 1-888-678-8914 1-888-678-8914 .
The following link takes you into the State of Michigan Public Assistance page, (as in Food Stamps etc). You won't have to scroll far before you see the assistance-letter options for ... (get this) ... English, Spanish, and ARABIC!!!Every time you add a new language to an American program it requires an additional number of persons fluent in that language to process those persons who refuse to learn English in order to live here at an additional cost to the taxpayer! Why are we even allowing persons to immigrate here who cannot provide for themselves, and putting them in our welfare system?This is quite alarming!!! It seems to have happened clandestinely, for, as far as I know, no public announcement or opportunity to vote on this was offered to the American people. They're just adopting an official stance, and very likely using tax-payer money for it, in various capacities, without public knowledge or approval.
When did the ARABIC option sneak into our culture?
Will we soon have to listen to our governmental offices, stores, and other venues offer us the option of "pressing 3 for ARABIC?"Check it out for yourself.
Every red-blooded American should know, this is happening. It is outrageous! The camel's nose is literally now OFFICIALLY under the tent!(When you get to this web site, just click on the FORMS AND PUBLICATIONS button - those forms in Arabic are listed as ending in AR!!)
YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK !
You promised change and you've certainly kept your word.Thank you Obama.
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4) Iraq crisis: on the frontline of the battle against Isis insurgents
Ruth Sherlock reports from near Tal Afar, a city that was once the emblem of US military success in Iraq, now fallen into the hands of Saddam's men
Tal Afar was once the emblem of US military success in Iraq - the city where American forces defeated their adversaries twice. First they drove out the army of Saddam Hussein, and later the Islamist militants who rose up against the occupation.
Less than a decade later, the two US foes have joined forces to seize back Tal Afar, and the machine guns and armoured vehicles that American troops left behind to defend its new-found freedom are being used by the very insurgents they sought to defeat.
Eight miles from Tal Afar, Kurdish peshmerga forces are now protecting the area which marks the edge of the territory that Isis now controls.
Dozens of peshmerga troops, heavily armed with rifles and machine guns mounted on pick up trucks, manned the road. They waved down cars coming from Tal Afar and, afraid of suicide bombers, pointed their guns at the drivers, their fingers on the triggers if they failed to stop.
The arrival of the jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham in northern Iraq has brought on sectarian insurgency anew, and loyalists to the late Saddam Hussein have once again picked up their arms to fight.
On Sunday, Isis jihadists, backed by local Baathist remnants from Saddam’s old regime, overran Tal Afar, causing the exodus of most of the city’s Shia community.
“It is Baathists from Tal Afar who enabled Isis to take over the town. They have a strong presence and are very well organised,” said one senior Iraqi intelligence officer from the area. “This is the return of Saddam’s men.”
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