Those that take up arms against their country (US) have committed treason; and need to be taken out any way possible.

@ ALL ... alan colmes is a victim of a three-way, with his parents and a jack ass !

Get busloads of able bodied, welfare recipients from all over the country to Moore, OK.; to help them re-build. By so doing the unemployed can regain their self-esteem and self-worth.

Execute all those, as listed by grove600, above. Add to it all those that take up arms against their own country (US). They have comitted treason. Do not delay with executions. Carry it out swiftly.

If you wish to save a life, save those that are being aborted daily. Give them a chance. Those that have killed others had their shot at life.

If ACC SCHOOL DISTRICT would quit spending on new programs every year and allow teachers to teach there would be enough money to keep a competent staff.

The cuts are being made where we can least afford them. As a result the youngest and most impressionable students, who are willing to learn, must suffer.

In the long run the young students and the community as a whole will suffer. Shouldn't we have good student habits and learning that begins at an early age ? Or would you prefer that we build more prisons in the future ? Which would enrich the younger student's lives and the community ?

There are a number of middle-easterners that have been able to purchase homes at a reduced rate.

Why they were brought here is questionable.

They do not want to assimilate with the community. We have friends that sold their home in this area; in order to get out of the area.

@ mpd0.59 // re: Watchman's earlier remark. Like they say, there is always an exception to every rule. Too bad obama's mom didn't abort !

Letting uneducated and unskilled illegals and legit but poor immigrants into our country and giving them things that our tax dollars pay for are neither going to grow this country nor make them love us.

Wait until other groups of foreigners that will not assimilate (re: Dayton, OH.)and have been dumped on us rise up to attack us.

When is enough enough ?

Yet, Janet Napolitano, if obama's version of the immigration reform act is passed, will have too much discretionary decisioning, as to which person will stay or will not remain in this country.

As Americans, we can not let this happen. We must write and call our representatives. We need our borders secured and then select those people that are able to have a sponsor, pay a penalty, and have a skilll be able to remain in our country. No more anchor babies. This too is a drain of our tax dollars. How has this been of benefit to America?

When is enough enough ?

Yet, Janet Napolitano, if obama's version of the immigration reform act is passed, will have too much discretionary decisioning, as to which person will stay or will not remain in this country.

As Americans, we can not let this happen. We must write and call our representatives. We need our borders secured and then select those people that are able to have a sponsor, pay a penalty, and have a skilll be able to remain in our country. No more anchor babies. This too is a drain of our tax dollars. How has this been of benefit to America.

Letting uneducated and unskilled illegals and legit but poor immigrants into our country and giving them things that our tax dollars pay for are neither going to grow this country nor make them love us.

Wait until other groups of foreigners that will not assimilate (re: Dayton, OH.)and have been dumped on us rise up to attack us.

@ Rita Raines - I concur. It is best to find out at least a day, or better yet, a week ahead.

I do not care where they get it, nor who supplies it. I just wanted it used and used expeditiously and often.

@ fishin4u ... castrated or, better yet, put to sleep.

Let Voekel, autumnlark, and any other professors or libs take out their checkbooks & write out a check for $100k apiece, to help defray the medical expenses our U.S. citizens pay for illegal aliens. Can they write a check their mouth's can cash ?

Subject: Fw: Lessons in economics
When the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Is this man truly a genius? Checked out and this is true...it DID happen!

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".. All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on)

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

Can you think of a reason for not sharing this? Neither could I.

"It's never too late to be what you might have been"

Click here: PolitiZoid - The Great Pretender - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tE0M9R1YXH0

http://www.youtube.com/embed/hC3VTgIPoGU?rel=0

With obama in charge, as with Manhattan, so goes OUR Country !!!

IMPEACH and CONVICT, NOW !!!

In January, a unanimous Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit held that the president violated the Constitution by making "recess appointments" when the Senate was not, in fact, in recess.

If you think this is just another one of those dry, lawyerly technicalities, think again. One of the Constitution’s essential checks and balances is the requirement of Senate "advice and consent" for presidential appointments. The Recess Appointments Clause of Article II provides a narrow exception to that requirement: the president can fill executive branch vacancies that occur between Congress’s official sessions.

Last year, President Obama became the first president to make “recess appointments” while the Senate was still in session when he appointed three members of the National Labor Relations Board.

As the current Chief Executive asserts dominion over the other two branches, we are in danger of losing our government of laws.
In trying to defend Obama’s power grab, the administration revealed its deep contempt for the rule of law. As the DC Circuit’s opinion makes clear, the administration had argued that the president should have the sole, unfettered discretion to determine when the Senate is in "recess," constitutionally speaking. Under this theory, the president could literally wait until the Senate is on a lunch break, and then quickly appoint Chuck Hagel to the Pentagon -- and nobody could second guess him. This assertion was so brazen that a shocked Court of Appeals flatly declared: "This will not do.” The president’s interpretation of the Recess Appointments Clause “would demolish the checks and balances inherent in the advice-and-consent requirement,” said the Court.

The president’s attempted end-run around the Constitution should come as no surprise to those of us who have watched the decline of the rule of law these last four years. The president’s first term began, let us recall, with an auto “bailout” that robbed Chrysler bondholders to pay off the United Auto Workers.

When the Supreme Court recognized the free speech rights of corporations in Citizens United v. FEC, Obama first resorted to public humiliation of the justices on national TV. He later prepared an executive order that sought to coerce corporations from making political contributions under pain of forfeiting government contracts. It was only when news of the pending order leaked out that the administration quietly dropped the whole thing.

Under the Constitution, the president’s primary duty in domestic affairs is to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” There’s no mystery about this imperative: it does no good for the People’s representatives to enact laws if the executive branch fails to implement the laws. And yet, the president has taken a pick-and-choose approach to this vital duty.

Obama did not like Bill Clinton’s Defense of Marriage Act, for example, so he declared that he wasn’t going to defend it. And he has routinely failed to enforce federal immigration laws; most egregiously in his executive order unilaterally exempting 800,000 illegal immigrants from the scope of federal law. Congress was not consulted. Why bother?

Whereas President Clinton signed landmark legislation to “end welfare as we know it,” President Obama has been exempting states from the law’s workfare requirements, even though the welfare reform law gives him no such power.

As a senator, Obama railed against George W. Bush’s anti-terror wiretapping program. As president, Obama claims the power to kill any person – even US citizens – via drone strikes without congressional authorization.

In 1780, future president John Adams wrote that separation of powers was essential to maintaining “a government of laws and not of men.” As the current Chief Executive asserts dominion over the other two branches, we are in danger of losing our government of laws.

Adam Freedman covers legal affairs for Ricochet. His latest book is The Naked Constitution: What the Founders Said and Why It Still Matters (Broadside Books).

@snarkydude - why should there be a 3rd time ? Put him to sleep !

National Income and Product Accounts
Gross Domestic Product, 4th quarter and annual 2012 (advance estimate)
Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property
located in the United States -- decreased at an annual rate of 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012
(that is, from the third quarter to the fourth quarter), according to the "advance" estimate released by the
Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 3.1 percent.

The Bureau emphasized that the fourth-quarter advance estimate released today is based on
source data that are incomplete or subject to further revision by the source agency (see the box on page 4
and the "Comparisons of Revisions to GDP" on page 5). The "second" estimate for the fourth quarter,
based on more complete data, will be released on February 28, 2013.

The decrease in real GDP in the fourth quarter primarily reflected negative contributions from
private inventory investment, federal government spending, and exports that were partly offset by
positive contributions from personal consumption expenditures (PCE), nonresidential fixed investment,
and residential fixed investment. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, decreased.

The downturn in real GDP in the fourth quarter primarily reflected downturns in private
inventory investment, in federal government spending, in exports, and in state and local government
spending that were partly offset by an upturn in nonresidential fixed investment, a larger decrease in
imports, and an acceleration in PCE.

Final sales of computers added 0.15 percentage point to the fourth-quarter change in real GDP
after adding 0.11 percentage point to the third-quarter change. Motor vehicle output added 0.04
percentage point to the fourth-quarter change in real GDP after subtracting 0.25 percentage point from
the third-quarter change.

_____________
FOOTNOTE. Quarterly estimates are expressed at seasonally adjusted annual rates, unless otherwise
specified. Quarter-to-quarter dollar changes are differences between these published estimates. Percent
changes are calculated from unrounded data and are annualized. "Real" estimates are in chained (2005)
dollars. Price indexes are chain-type measures.

This news release is available on www.bea.gov along with the Technical Notes and Highlights
related to this release.
_____________

The price index for gross domestic purchases, which measures prices paid by U.S. residents,
increased 1.3 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of 1.4 percent in the third.
Excluding food and energy prices, the price index for gross domestic purchases increased 1.1 percent in
the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of 1.2 percent in the third.

Real personal consumption expenditures increased 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter, compared
with an increase of 1.6 percent in the third. Durable goods increased 13.9 percent, compared with an
increase of 8.9 percent. Nondurable goods increased 0.4 percent, compared with an increase of 1.2
percent. Services increased 0.9 percent, compared with an increase of 0.6 percent.

Real nonresidential fixed investment increased 8.4 percent in the fourth quarter, in contrast to a
decrease of 1.8 percent in the third. Nonresidential structures decreased 1.1 percent; it was unchanged
in the third quarter. Equipment and software increased 12.4 percent in the fourth quarter, in contrast to a
decrease of 2.6 percent in the third. Real residential fixed investment increased 15.3 percent, compared
with an increase of 13.5 percent.

Real exports of goods and services decreased 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter, in contrast to an
increase of 1.9 percent in the third. Real imports of goods and services decreased 3.2 percent, compared
with a decrease of 0.6 percent.

Real federal government consumption expenditures and gross investment decreased 15.0 percent
in the fourth quarter, in contrast to an increase of 9.5 percent in the third. National defense decreased
22.2 percent, in contrast to an increase of 12.9 percent. Nondefense increased 1.4 percent, compared
with an increase of 3.0 percent. Real state and local government consumption expenditures and gross
investment decreased 0.7 percent, in contrast to an increase of 0.3 percent.

The change in real private inventories subtracted 1.27 percentage points from the fourth-quarter
change in real GDP after adding 0.73 percentage point to the third-quarter change. Private businesses
increased inventories $20.0 billion in the fourth quarter, following increases of $60.3 billion in the third
and $41.4 billion in the second.

Real final sales of domestic product -- GDP less change in private inventories -- increased 1.1
percent in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of 2.4 percent in the third.

Gross domestic purchases

Real gross domestic purchases -- purchases by U.S. residents of goods and services wherever
produced -- increased 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter, compared with an increase of 2.6 percent in the
third.

PLEASE READ THIS IS NOT A JOKE IT JUST SOUNDS THAT WAY BUT THE POINT IS VERY GOOD.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

One
of Maxine's very best!!

Minorities

We need
to show more sympathy
for these people.

*
They travel miles in the
heat.

*
They risk their lives crossing a
border.

*

They don't get paid enough
wages.

*

They do jobs that others won't do
or are afraid to do.

*

They
live in crowded conditions
among a people who
speak a different
language.

*

They
rarely see their families, and they

face adversity all day ~ every day.

*

I'm not
talking about illegal Mexicans…

~

I'm talking
about our troops!

Doesn't it seem strange
that so many are

willing to lavish all kinds

of social benefits on illegals,
but don't support our
troops?

Wouldn't it
be great if we took

the
$360,000,000,000 (that's billions)

we spend on
illegals every year,
and spend it on our
troops!!!

Please
pass this on; this is

worth the
short time it takes!

A
veteran is someone who,

at one point
in their life,
wrote a blank check

made payable
to

The United
States of America

for any
amount, up to
and including their
life.

Dear Friends,

I have been in contact with Senator McCain regarding the now released immigration reform ideas presented by his working group of Senators. I am pleased that there is expressed recognition of what we have been saying in Arizona: immigration reform will not succeed unless and until we have achieved effective border security. If this occurs, it would be a triumph for the rule of law and a testament to the united voices of Americans from across our country who have been clear in their call for the federal government to uphold its duty to secure the border.

Our nation cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past by pursuing immigration reform before tangible and effective border security, particularly in the Tucson Sector, is completed. That is the lesson of the last major immigration reform effort in 1986. The promise of border security was broken, and Americans - especially in border states like mine - have been paying the price ever since. We must not – and will not – let that happen again.

In the weeks ahead, I will review the specific details of this immigration plan when proposed in actual legislation. I am hopeful that the immigration system is reformed in a manner that combines the rule of law and human compassion, while strengthening the United States’ competitive position in the world.

In the meantime, I’ll be speaking with Arizona ranchers, business leaders and other residents of the border region, as well as law enforcement. I will continue to talk with those on the front lines and I will make sure their voices are heard. I am committed to do everything within my power to make certain our federal government finally upholds its obligation to secure America’s borders.

If you would like to support my efforts to secure our border, you can make a secure online donation by clicking here or you can donate by check. If donating by check, please make it payable to "Jan PAC" and mail to Jan PAC, P.O. Box 3798, Phoenix, AZ 85030.

My very best,

Jan Brewer
Governor of Arizona

If obama does not protect our borders and uphold the existing laws concerning immigration, until our elected officials of the people formulate a updated plan to deal with this urgent problem and financial drain, then obama must be impeached and convicted. Enough is ENOUGH !!!

There is so much uncertainty and no direction, but downward right now, for the where our great country is headed. Let's get on the phone and/or write Congress. If they will not work and govern as a consensus, they need to be recalled.