Tea Party will nominate their own candidate for the 2012 race rather than embrace a "pseudo-Republican" like Romney. Tea Party does not want to swallow and digest a Massachusetts Liberal posing as Conservative

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Even during his own 2012 primary republican campaign Mitt Romney is strongly flip-flopping. One day he is going to kick out 12 million "illegals" ( during a television debate ) and a few days later he says the opposite in Florida in order to win the Latino vote in the sunshine state.

This is what Mitt Romney said in Florida. Exact Words :

“I’m very concerned about those who are already here illegally and how we deal with those 11 million or so,” Romney said. “My heart goes out to that group of people… We’re not going to go around and round people up in buses and ship them home.”

People in Anger ( 2012 style ) don't want a "Patrician Blue Blood" and "Wealthy Guy" from the Liberal North East, a member of the Highest Class and more exclusive social clubs of the Rich. This is 2012, year of fury, rage, wrath and crazyness. Many Republicans and Tea Party are mad and they don't want such fraud and fake Republican.

I do not share their misdirected and misguided anger and fury, but I can understand it. They are deceived like the guys that were told lies about candidate John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign.

Unfortunately Lies and Hypocrisy are very effective !

I got a lot of inspiration to write this note by reading the Huffington Post and one of my favorite political writers and author of books : Stephen of the Great Schlesinger dynasty of intellectuals.

Huffington Post
The Republican Nightmare: A Third and Fourth Party?
January 29, 2012

By Stephen Schlesinger
He is the son of famous historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr and oldest brother of journalist Robert Schlesinger.

Stephen Schlesinger is an Adjunct Fellow at the Century Foundation in New York City. He is the former Director of the World Policy Institute at the New School University in New York City (1997-2006). Mr. Schlesinger received his BA from Harvard University and his JD from Harvard Law School. In the early 1970s, he edited and published The New Democrat Magazine. Thereafter he spent four years as a staff writer at Time Magazine.

For twelve years, he served as Governor Mario Cuomo’s speechwriter and foreign policy advisor. In the mid 1990s, he worked at the United Nations at Habitat, the agency dealing with global cities.

He is coeditor of Journals 1952-2000 by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. published by Penguin in 2007. He is also the author of three books, including Act of Creation: The Founding of The United Nations which won the 2004 Harry S. Truman Book Award; Bitter Fruit: The Story of the U.S. Coup in Guatemala (with Stephen Kinzer), which was listed as a New York Times "Notable" book for 1982 and has sold over 100,000 copies; and The New Reformers. He is a specialist on the foreign policy of the Clinton and Bush Administrations.

He is a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation Magazine, and The New York Observer. In 1978, he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. He has appeared on CNN, Fox TV, NPR and other media outlets


The Republican Nightmare: A Third and Fourth Party?


Some excerpts :

As one assesses the Republican primary race, it seems increasingly evident that Mitt Romney will win the party's presidential nomination. But he will be inheriting a fractured party.

The Tea Party activists have over the past months all but declared that they detest Romney and won't forgive him because of his establishment credentials and moderate views. Herman Cain's recent endorsement of Newt Gingrich is one example of this. The heroine of the Republican right-wing, Sarah Palin, has come out and publicly backed Gingrich. So has one-time presidential contender, Texas governor Rick Perry. Is Rick Santorum next? And influential radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh, while not outright endorsing Gingrich, is attacking Romney's advertising assaults against Gingrich.

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“I’m very concerned about those who are already here illegally and how we deal with those 11 million or so,” Romney said. “My heart goes out to that group of people… We’re not going to go around and round people up in buses and ship them home.”

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Florida has roughly 1.5 million Hispanic voters :

"DORAL, Fla. — Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney urged conservatives to back off aggressive anti-immigration policies as the Republican presidential candidates vied for Hispanic votes Friday, a day marked by heightened tensions entering the final weekend before Florida’s primary".

The Washington Times
Romney, Gingrich focus on Hispanic voters in Florida
By Brian Bakst and Steve Peoples
Associated Press
Friday, January 27, 2012


Romney, Gingrich focus on Hispanic voters in Florida


Some excerpts :

The compassionate approach, like Gingrich’s calls for politically practical reform, was aimed at improving the Republican Party’s tarnished reputation among Hispanics. Both men delivered speeches Friday to the same group of Hispanic leaders gathered in Miami but avoided — at least briefly — criticizing each other in what now looks like a two-man race for the nomination.

Any calls for temperance on immigration didn’t apply to personal attacks elsewhere.

The former House speaker released a new television ad in Florida using former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to question Romney’s integrity. “If a man’s dishonest to get a job, he’ll be dishonest on the job,” Huckabee says in the ad.

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"SB 1070 in Supreme Court will define us as a people, as Americans : will we embrace pluralism and our stated commitments to civil and human rights, or will we retreat to segregation and fragmentation ?"

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By Annie Lai, she is a Clinical Teaching Fellow at Yale Law School and former Staff Attorney for the ACLU of Arizona. She is the daughter of Chinese-Indonesian and Taiwanese immigrants and graduated from Duke and NYU School of Law

Hyphen Magazine
Asian America Unabridged
Finding Asian America in Arizona's Immigration Battle
By Annie Lai
January 23, 2012


Finding Asian America in Arizona's Immigration Battle


Some excerpts :

Then, last year, a handful of states launched a renewed attack on birthright citizenship, the constitutional guarantee that persons born on US soil will be treated as US citizens - - which was in fact settled over 100 years ago in a Supreme Court case involving a US-born Chinese American cook in San Francisco. Reviewing the anti-birthright citizenship proposals, I realized that I, too, would have qualified as an "anchor baby."

On the occasion of the ACLU’s 90th anniversary, I had the privilege of accompanying Jim and Marian to Ellis Island, where Marian gave remarks about her childhood behind barbed wire in an internment camp and Jim described his experience being profiled over half a century later. Back in Arizona, I began to realize that the advocacy community in Phoenix and across the country could no longer afford splintering or disunity. Through multi-ethnic, multi-generational and multi-issue coalition work, we defeated the birthright citizenship proposals (and many other anti-immigrant bills) in 2011.

We now find ourselves at a critical juncture. Just last month, the US Department of Justice, after an extensive investigation spanning two and a half years, found the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to have engaged in a pattern and practice of racially profiling Latinos. A week later, a federal court enjoined the Sheriff''s Office from detaining Latinos solely on suspicion of being undocumented. At the same time, unfortunately, states like Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina are following Arizona’s example and have enacted their own SB 1070 copycat legislation.

As we head into another presidential election year, Obama has a challenging road ahead of him on immigration. While the administration’s promises of prosecutorial discretion may mitigate the harshest aspects of our immigration system, the list of opponents to dragnet programs like Secure Communities continues to grow. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has granted certiorari in the federal government’s challenge to SB 1070. The legal arguments in the case are about the proper role of states in immigration enforcement, but as with the other efforts to isolate and exclude particular groups in our nation’s history, something greater is at stake. Decisions such as this define us as a people, as Americans : will we embrace pluralism and our stated commitments to civil and human rights, or will we retreat to segregation and fragmentation?

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"Rapists and murderers, frequently cited as the main unauthorized immigrants ICE is trying to remove, made up a far smaller percentage of those held that day than the innocent, traffic violators or low-level drug offenders, according to ICE's crime breakdown"

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"The fact is, we're not deporting huge numbers of rapists and murderers," said Emily Tucker, director of policy and advocacy for the Detention Watch Network, which pushes for limiting detention and deportation. "They would like us to think that, but that isn't what is going on."

Huffington Post
No Conviction, No Freedom: Immigration Authorities Locked 13,000 In Limbo
By Elise FoleyJanuary 27, 2012

No Conviction, No Freedom: Immigration Authorities Locked 13,000 In Limbo


Some Excerpts :

WASHINGTON -- On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of a crime, some of whom will not be charged with one, according to information The Huffington Post obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. Instead, at a cost of roughly 2 million taxpayer dollars per day, the men and women were detained while immigration authorities sorted out their fates.

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The FOIA request for information on all immigrants in detention on Oct. 3, 2011, turned up a list of nearly 32,300. Forty percent of those held by ICE had not been convicted of a crime, nor were they awaiting criminal trial. Despite what the term "illegal immigration" implies, simply being in the country without status is a civil, not a criminal, offense.

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Locking people up is big business. The Corrections Corporation of America, which gives heavily to both parties, is explicit about the connection between immigrant detention policy and the private prison company's bottom line. "The demand for our correctional and detention facilities and services ... could be adversely affected by changes in existing criminal or immigration laws, crime rates in jurisdictions in which we operate, the relaxation of criminal or immigration enforcement efforts, leniency in conviction, sentencing or deportation practices, and the decriminalization of certain activities that are currently proscribed by criminal laws or the loosening of immigration laws," the company wrote in an analysis for investors filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. "Immigration reform laws which are currently a focus for legislators and politicians at the federal, state and local level also could materially adversely impact us."

ICE has been publicly attempting to shift away from detaining innocent immigrants, and has implemented new policies to increase prosecutorial discretion. Separate data provided by ICE indicates progress in that direction. The percentage of non-criminals in detention decreased significantly between the 2008 and 2011 fiscal years, from 71 percent to 54 percent, according to that data, and deportation of criminal immigrants has increased from previous years.

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International human rights law requires governments to protect detainees from violent crime while in custody. Yet incidents of rape and violent assaults in immigration detention centers are not uncommon.

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VIDEO : Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer could not convert President Obama into a frog, she forgot her magic wand. A big collection of Videos and photos with Weird Actions and Awkward Silences of Brewer

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Lawerence O'Donnell says that 91% of the People in polls approve the State of the Union Speech of President Obama. Big Success of the President in communicating with common Americans. Richard Wolffe ( MSNBC political analyst ) and Howard Fineman ( Huffington Post and MSNBC ) comment.

Tense exchange between Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer

Uploaded by PresidentObama3 on Jan 25, 2012

Tense exchange between Obama and Arizona Gov. Brewer

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VIDEO : Tricia Erickson, super enemy of Mitt Romney, she is the daughter of a Mormon Bishop and left that Religion at an early age. She considers Mormonism as a horrible cult that is incompatible with being president

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Mitt Romney has to obey the Prophet in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has sworn that Church is before Country. His allegiance to Church is stronger. Mitt can not obey two masters.

The Fantasies of Mormonism can not be more absurd.

Tricia Erickson writes books against Mitt Romney.

Thom Hartmann and Tricia Erickson: Mitt Romney and the Mormon Chruch

Uploaded by thomhartmann on Jul 13, 2011

Progressive radio talk show host Thom Hartmann speaks with Tricia Erickson, Damage Control/Crisis Management Specialist / Political consultant / Author of the new book "Can Mitt Romney Serve Two Masters? The Mormon Church Versus The Office Of The Presidency of the United States of America" / daughter of a Mormon,. They discuss Mormon practices and U.S. politicians

Thom Hartmann and Tricia Erickson: Mitt Romney and the Mormon Chruch

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Where are the American Protestants so fond of the Bible and the Bible quotes about the Divinity of Jesus ?? - Why are they so passive before the Mormon to be president ?? -*- Is Mormonism so innocuous to their faith ??

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O Mother State, how quenched thy Sinai fires!
Is there none left of thy stanch Mayflower breed?
No spark among the ashes of thy sires,
Of Virtue's altar-flame the kindling seed?
Are these thy great men, these that cringe and creep,
And writhe through slimy ways to place and power?--
How long, O Lord, before thy wrath shall reap
Our frail-stemmed summer prosperings in their flower?
Oh for one hour of that undaunted stock
That went with Vane and Sidney to the block!

From a poem by James Russell Lowell : "To John Gorham Palfrey"

James Russell Lowell ( 1819 – 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat.

John Gorham Palfrey (1796 – 1881) was a fierce anti-slavery fighter that lost positions in the U. S. Congress and public offices for his strong views for freedom for all men. After Abraham Lincoln's election in 1861, Senator Charles Sumner secured him appointment as Postmaster of Boston, a post he held from 1861 to 1867.

The warmth of James Russell Lowell's affection was almost ideal, and it best expressed itself in memorial verses in honor of his friends. These verses show how greatly he valued courage and faithfulness in defense of the right, and they have a distinctly ethical character. The first of these poems is addressed " To John Gorham Palfrey," who had bolted from his party rather than support a candidate submissive to the encroachments of slavery.

This is a collection of poems to friends that he admired and loved for their political stances and affirmations, written circa 1848, 13 years before the American Civil War.

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Vicente's Tirade and Rant follows :

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How can the Greatest Country on earth and the Greatest Empire that has ever existed be ruled by a brainwashed brainwasher ??

By a Mormon Missionary ??? -- People do not know the History of this Religion founded by such frauds that wanted to exploit ignorance, foolishness, stupidity .... With the topmost in Fantasy and Absurd, contradicted by Science, like the Genetics of the Native American Indians or the reading of the Egyptian Scrolls of the "Book of Abraham" that "Prophet" Joseph Smith translated according to his schemes of swindling fools.

What about raping so many young girls in the History of this cult ??

What about those Old Mormons in Utah that castrated a young and handsome rival in order to enslave a preadolescent girl in their brutal harems ??

What about the Brutal Racism of Mormonism for most of its History ??

I even doubt that Mitt Romney believes in the foolish tenets of this faith.

I am not a Christian but I am amazed by the unChristian and antiChristian dogmas of Mormonism.

They contradict the Theology that Christianity has had during 2,000 years : Catholics and Protestants.

You have to go to some Gnostics or to the Cathars to find such "Horrible" Heretics.

And why Americans love and admire such millionaires that have made their fortune by dubious ways ??

Is it that they believe that they are going to be billionaires in the same Exclusive Clubs as Mitt ?? - Are they realistic ??

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Vicente Duque

Florida's January 31 presidential primary : 452,619 Latinos are registered as Republicans representing 11.1% of all Republican registered voters. And 564,513 Latino registered voters are registered as Democrats, representing 12.4% of all Democratic registered voters

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"As recently as 2006, more Hispanics in Florida were registered as Republicans than as Democrats. By 2008, the balance tipped over to the Democrats. This year that trend has accelerated, with the gap–111,894 registered voters–between Hispanics who are registered as Democrats and those registered as Republicans wider now than in 2008 or 2010".

Everything about Florida Voter Registration Statistics with relation to Hispanics : Political Affiliation, Country of Origin, Education, Home ownership.

Pew Research Center : Factsheet

Latinos in the 2012 Election: Florida

Released on January 23, 2012


Latinos in the 2012 Election: Florida


Some excerpts :

Geographically, the majority of Hispanic Republican registered voters are located in South Florida. According to the Division of Elections, 58.5% (264,721) are in Miami-Dade County alone. By contrast, among the state’s Hispanic Democratic registered voters, a smaller share, 33.9% (191,359), are registered to vote in Miami-Dade County.

Hispanics in Florida’s Eligible Voter Population

The Hispanic population in Florida is the third-largest in the nation. More than 4.2 million Hispanics reside in Florida, 8% of all Hispanics in the United States.

Florida’s population is 23% Hispanic, the sixth-highest Hispanic population share nationally.

There are 2.1 million Hispanic eligible voters in Florida—the third-largest Hispanic eligible-voter population nationally. California ranks first with 5.9 million.

Some 16% of Florida eligible voters are Hispanic, the fifth-largest Hispanic eligible voter population share nationally. New Mexico ranks first with 39%.

One-half (49%) of Hispanics in Florida are eligible to vote, ranking Florida 12th nationwide in the share of the Hispanic population that is eligible to vote. By contrast, 81% of the state’s white population is eligible to vote.

Characteristics of Eligible Voters

Age. Florida’s Hispanic eligible voters are younger than all eligible voters in Florida—25% of Hispanic eligible voters are ages 18 to 29 versus 19% of all eligible voters.

Citizenship. Some 43% of Hispanic eligible voters in Florida are naturalized U.S. citizens, compared with 13% of all Florida eligible voters.

Nativity. Hispanic eligible voters in Florida are less likely to be native-born citizens (57%) than are Hispanic eligible voters nationwide (75%).

Hispanic Origin. Hispanic eligible voters in Florida have a different country-of-origin profile from Hispanic eligible voters nationwide. One-third (32%) of Hispanic eligible voters in Florida are of Cuban origin, 28% are of Puerto Rican origin and 9% are of Mexican origin. By contrast, among Hispanic eligible voters nationwide, 59% are Mexican, 14% are Puerto Rican and 5% are Cuban.

Educational Attainment. Two-in-ten Latino eligible voters in Florida (20%) have not completed high school. That is lower than the rate for Latino eligible voters nationwide—25%—but greater than the rate for all U.S. eligible voters (12%) or all eligible voters in Florida (13%).

Homeownership. Two-thirds of Hispanic eligible voters in Florida (67%) live in owner-occupied homes versus 58% of Hispanic eligible voters nationwide. Somewhat greater shares of all eligible voters in Florida (71%) and all eligible voters nationwide (69%) live in owner-occupied homes.

Characteristics of Eligible Voters in Florida, by Race and Ethnicity

Number of Eligible Voters. White eligible voters outnumber both Hispanic and black eligible voters in Florida by more than 4 to 1.

Age. Black eligible voters are younger than Hispanic or white eligible voters in Florida—28% of black eligible voters are ages 18 to 29 compared with 25% of Hispanic and 16% of white eligible voters.

Educational Attainment. More than half (53%) of Hispanic eligible voters have attended college or earned at least a bachelor’s degree compared with 60% of white and 46% of black eligible voters.

Homeownership. Hispanic eligible voters are less likely than white eligible voters in Florida to live in owner-occupied homes—67% versus 76%.

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VIDEO : ABC News : Mitt Romney's Big Fortune in the Cayman Island, this is a Tax Haven and Heaven with lots of secrecy that allow rich people to launder money or cover the origin. Who are the other investors ?? - Who pays money to Mitt Romney ??

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Mitt Romney Stashing Millions In Offshore Banks :

This is a disaster for the U. S. Government and for the U. S. Taxpayers.

When Mitt Romney was running for the U. S. Senate for Massachusetts against Ted Kenney in 1994, he demanded that Ted disclose all his tax returns, and business deals. Mitt Romney lost to incumbent senator Ted Kennedy.

Uploaded by postpanic2 on Jan 19, 2012

January 18, 2012 ABC News

Mitt Romney Stashing Millions In Offshore Banks

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Post Mormon Organization : "Native American DNA and its impact on Mormonism" : By Dr Simon Southerton - A mormon became a great student of science : Genetics, History, Archaeology and discovered the lies of Joseph Smith and "Book of Mormon"

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This man spent a lot of his life preaching Mormonism, making converts and having a high post in this Church. But he was very fond of science and little by little he discovered the great scam of "Prophet" Joseph Smith.

His process of conversion to Post-Mormon was oveloaded with pain, psychological difficulties and inadequacies. He may have lost many friends and relations, but finally science proved to him the absurdity of Mormonism.

He discovered that the assertions of Joseph Smith about Native American Indians are contradicted by the science of Genetics and DNA.

Also the "Book of Abraham" written by Joseph Smith is another swindle and cheat of a Great Con Man. A Lier and Scoundrel, that was the "Prophet" and Founder of Mormonism.

His life as a Latter Day Saint was not easy, it was a painful and difficult psychological process that led him to embrace science and reject the fantasy and the delusions of this Religion.

Post Mormon Organization
Native American DNA and its impact on Mormonism
By Dr Simon Southerton



Native American DNA and its impact on Mormonism


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Newt Gingrich ( King of Grandiosity ) : "If I win the [South Carolina] primary on Saturday, I will be the nominee. If I don't win the primary on Saturday, we will probably nominate a moderate and he will lose to Obama"

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I comment about an article in "The Atlantic" Magazine :

Newt is like a super model and actress that I know that always says that she is the sexiest girl in the World and acts as if she is perfectly convinced and persuaded of that fact of powerful attraction to men, even if she is 60 years old and has undergone many plastic surgeries and medical treatments. And that outstanding Lady is still in show business and advertising, believe it or not, Mr Ripley !.

Newt is campaigning with all his shrewdness and grandiosity and presenting himself as the only possible and practical anti-Romney. Newt is the king of self-assuredness, imposing and impressive pretension.

"I think one of the great weaknesses that Republicans have is that they're boring," - Newt said on Wednesday

"They're boring! They don't know how to communicate!" he said. "I'm not a normal Republican. This is part of why the Washington establishment doesn't like me. I think being interesting beats being boring. I think communicating beats hiding"

If you believe that you have the power, then you have it. - And Newt is surging in the South Carolina polls for the Republican Primary that will take place on next Saturday, January 21 or 2012.

The Atlantic
The Unsinkable Newt Gingrich
Left for dead time and again, the former speaker tries for another improbable comeback in South Carolina.
By Molly Ball
Jan 19 2012


The Unsinkable Newt Gingrich


Some excerpts :

Peevish, pedantic, grandiose -- Gingrich is all of these things, and you don't have to spend much time around him to start rolling your eyes. ("I really am a bold change agent," he reflected, pensively, at one point.) But he's also a tremendous amount of fun, especially if he's on your side. His audacity is breathtaking, his imagination infectious, his humor as vicious as it is delectable.

Gingrich projects the promise of a total victory for the conservative argument in the war of ideas: "I believe we can go into every neighborhood in America, in every background, and say to people, 'Would you rather your children had dependence, with food stamps from the government? Or independence, with a payckeck from a job? And I believe we will win that argument everywhere, and I think we can set up a campaign this fall of extraordinary proportions by bringing the country together."

So, fine, Gingrich is a blowhard. But he's a very good blowhard.

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In Easley, he repeated a version of that line, warning the crowd that "without saying anything negative about Rick Perry or Rick Santorum, the fact is, as you look at the polls... there is one candidate that can stop Mitt Romney. A vote for anyone else is a vote that allows Mitt Romney to potentially be our nominee."

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Arizona : Organizations and groups who have ve been fighting on a grassroots level against SB 1070 are now turning their attention to voter registration, get out the vote, and throwing their support behind political candidates, on every level, from city council to U.S. Congress

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The genie is out of the bottle now, Latinos in Arizona realize that Republicans are against them. SB 1070-inspired a big protest movement that was very intense, but that level of intensity is not sustainable forever. That’s when people began to run for city council and school board and the state legislature and Congress. The idea was to take the ethos of the grassroots movement to the establishment.

NewsTaco.com
Anti-Latino Politics in Arizona spurs New Political Leadership
By Sara Inés Calderón
January 18, 2012


Anti-Latino Politics in Arizona spurs New Political Leadership


Some excerpts :

The anti-Latino political environment that has characterized Arizona’s state politics for the past several years is beginning to have it unintended consequence: empowering Latinos in that state to run for public office. What it comes down to is that organizations and groups of people who’ve been fighting on a grassroots level to combat the policies of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and SB 1070 are now turning their attention to voter registration, get out the vote, and throwing their support behind political candidates, on every level, from city council to U.S. Congress.

NewsTaco spoke to a couple beneficiaries of this political environment, as well as the state Democratic Party. As Arpaio is a Republican, and SB 1070 was proposed and signed by Republican politicians, the Democratic Party in Arizona has emerged as the party of choice for Latinos looking to shake up the state of affairs there. And, we’ve been told that the Barack Obama campaign, as well as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, are investing in these young Latino leaders and organizers in hopes of boosting registration and voter turnout.

Currently there are about 500,000 registered Latino voters in Arizona; 47% are registered as Democrats, 15% as Republicans and 37% as independents.

“SB 1070 certainly served as a rallying point, and we’ve seen consistent evidence of that with an exciting level of enthusiasm across the party heading into 2012,” Arizona Democratic Party Communications Director Andy Barr told NewsTaco. “All the new leaders and organizers who we’ve had step up in the party has already led to electoral success – helping boost turnout for our recent victories in Phoenix and Tucson, as well as in the recall of the bill’s author, Russell Pearce.”

Some of the names that we can include in this movement are: Randy Parraz (U.S. Senate in 2010), Wenona Benally Baldenegro (U.S. Congress District 1) and her husband Sal Baldenegro Jr. (state house district LD2), Martin Casada (2010 house), Daniel Valenzuela (Phoenix city council), Lorenzo Sierra (state house district 19), among others.

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I am deeply frustrated because WIKIPEDIA.ORG is in a strike to protest against the U. S. Congress - They say this : "Imagine a World - Without Free Knowledge - For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history"

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I support Wikipedia's strike and I hate restrictions against free speech :

Wikipedia.org is in strike against the U. S. Congress - They continue writing :

"Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia. Learn more.

Make your voice heard"

My Comment :

I need to study in Wikipedia the Byzantine Empire or Byzantium, the Parthians, Sassanids, Persians, Armenians, Kurds, Turks and others for the period between years 300 until the fall of Byzantium in 1453.

I have already written about the many defeats of Roman Armies in the "Hinterland" or Deep Lands of the Middle East and Near Asia ( Iraq or Mesopotamia, Iran, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, etc ... ) - I publish online in GATHER.COM and in my blogs PRESIDENTING.COM and RACIALITY.COM.

The Romans suffered a lot of defeats in the Near East, also the Byzantines suffered a lot in those Lands. Later the Crusaders, and in modern times the British until our lives in years of the third millennium, when we are witnessing more defeats of the Western Nations in those cursed lands of the "Graveyards of Empires"...

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Vicente Duque

Super Conservative "American Thinker" : Mitt Romney: The Last Republican President? - "The only criterion for people running for president should be: what have they actually done and accomplished in their previous jobs or positions ?"

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American Thinker
Mitt Romney: The Last Republican President?
By Steve McCann
January 17, 2012

Mitt Romney: The Last Republican President?

Some excerpts :

There now appears to be an inevitability surrounding Mitt Romney and the Republican nomination for president. Are the American people prepared to sit through another term of George H.W. Bush? The chances are that Romney would be the last Republican president, as the Party may fly apart under his rule.

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Mitt Romney, by his actions in Massachusetts both campaigning for the U.S. Senate and as Governor, has shown himself to be more than willing to compromise with the Left and the Democrats. He has proposed and passed the socialist RomneyCare policy, pro-abortion regulations, and gun control, and raised numerous taxes and fees while increasing spending dramatically. During the current campaign he refuses to call Barack Obama what he is; instead Romney refers to him as just "being over his head."

If ever a candidate mirrored the mindset and approach of George H.W. Bush, it is Mitt Romney.

This is the last hurrah of the Republican establishment. The conservatives and libertarians will vote for Romney in November, but only because he is not Barack Obama. There will be no enthusiasm, which will hurt the down ballot contests for the U.S. Senate, the House and state governorships. Despite the factors weighing against Obama in this upcoming election, it will be a much closer contest that it should be; perhaps a razor thin victory for Romney.

If Romney were to lose the election, there will be a grass-roots revolt against the Republican Party which will spell its demise. If he wins and the nation, through the mis-directed policies of Romney and the Republicans in the Congress, continues on its current path of compromising and nibbling around the edges of the nation's problems, then Romney will be the last Republican president and the specter of the Democrats re-assuming power will be a reality.

This is not only the most important election for the nation in over a century but also one that will determine the fate of a political party founded in 1854 in opposition to slavery and the corruption in the Democratic Party.

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Video of Miracle : God tells a woman to go to Romney and Mitt gives $50 dollars to the poor lady from his wallet. This reminds me of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Papa Doc ( Francois Duvalier ) and his brutal thugs the "Tonton Macoutes" in Haiti

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A miracle tells us that Mitt Romney should be President of the USA. See VIDEO of this miracle at bottom of this page :

From CNN

"Sumter, South Carolina (CNN) – Mitt Romney gave a handful of cash Saturday to a woman who had told him she was struggling financially after an event in Sumter, South Carolina".

"An aide said the GOP candidate gave the supporter "what he had on him" - about $50 or $60".

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"I was on the highway praying and said, 'God, tell me how to get [my] lights on, and I pulled up to a stop sign and his bus was there,'" Williams said.
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"God didn't tell me to go to nobody else," she said when asked whether she had approached other presidential candidates. "He told me to pray for Romney."

CNN Politics
Romney gives cash to struggling supporter at rally
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Posted by CNN Political Producer Rachel Streitfeld
January 14, 2012


Romney gives cash to struggling supporter at rally

Hugo Chávez's "Aló Presidente" TV program follows that principle. The president hears the cry of the individual, and directs his ministers to address it immediately.

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Papa Doc ( Francois Duvalier ) went in his car surrounded by his brutal thugs the "Tonton Macoutes".  Papa Doc in the caravan of cars used to throw coins to the poorest people in the worst slums of Haiti.

From Wikipedia :

Barbot was the leader of the "Tonton Macoutes"

The plot failed and Duvalier subsequently ordered a massive search for Barbot and his fellow conspirators. When during the search Duvalier was told that Barbot had transformed himself into a black dog, Duvalier ordered that all black dogs in Haiti be put to death. Barbot was later captured and shot by the Tonton Macoutes in July 1963. In other incidents, Duvalier ordered the head of an executed rebel to be packed in ice and brought to him to allow him to commune with the dead man's spirit.[16] Peep holes were carved into the walls of the interrogation chambers, through which Duvalier personally observed Haitian detainees being tortured and submerged in baths of sulfuric acid; sometimes, he was directly in the room during the tortures.

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I hope that Mitt Romney does not torture us in Sulphuric Acid - Republicans have been notable friends of torture lately.

Vicente Duque

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Romney Gives Unemployed Woman Cash on Ropeline

Uploaded by theync on Jan 15, 2012


Amid shaking hands and signing campaign posters, Mitt Romney did something he has never done before on the ropeline: He took out his wallet and handed a wad of cash to a woman waiting to shake his hand





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Obama was always planning for eight years, not four. And if he is reelected, he will have won a battle more important than 2008: for it will be a mandate for an eight-year shift away from the excesses of inequality, overreach abroad, and reckless deficit spending of the last three decades

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"It will recapitalize him to entrench what he has done already and make it irreversible".


My comment : This is a very long, wonderful and strong Pro-Obama article.

This author Andrew Sullivan is very intelligent and he is like a chimera : An imaginary monster made up of grotesquely disparate parts like lion, serpent, eagle, etc ... Mr Sullivan seems to have the brain of a liberal coexisting with the brain of a conservative and a libertarian inside his skull. I was reading the biography of this guy and was astonished to find that such people exist.

Newsweek Magazine
How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics
January 16, 2012


By Andrew Sullivan

Andrew SullinaThe right calls him a socialist, the left says he sucks up to Wall Street, and independents think he's a wimp. Andrew Sullivan on how the president may just end up outsmarting them all.

Andrew Sullivan, former editor of The New Republic, weekly columnist for the Sunday Times of London, brought his hugely popular blog, The Dish, to the Daily Beast in 2011. He's the author of several books, including "Virtually Normal," "Love Undetectable," and "The Conservative Soul."

How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics


Some excerpts :

A caveat: I write this as an unabashed supporter of Obama from early 2007 on. I did so not as a liberal, but as a conservative-minded independent appalled by the Bush administration’s record of war, debt, spending, and torture. I did not expect, or want, a messiah. I have one already, thank you very much. And there have been many times when I have disagreed with decisions Obama has made—to drop the Bowles-Simpson debt commission, to ignore the war crimes of the recent past, and to launch a war in Libya without Congress’s sanction, to cite three. But given the enormity of what he inherited, and given what he explicitly promised, it remains simply a fact that Obama has delivered in a way that the unhinged right and purist left have yet to understand or absorb. Their short-term outbursts have missed Obama’s long game—and why his reelection remains, in my view, as essential for this country’s future as his original election in 2008.

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Sure, Obama cannot regain the extraordinary promise of 2008. We’ve already elected the nation’s first black president and replaced a tongue-tied dauphin with a man of peerless eloquence. And he has certainly failed to end Washington’s brutal ideological polarization, as he pledged to do. But most Americans in polls rightly see him as less culpable for this impasse than the GOP. Obama has steadfastly refrained from waging the culture war, while the right has accused him of a “war against religion.” He has offered to cut entitlements (and has already cut Medicare), while the Republicans have refused to raise a single dollar of net revenue from anyone. Even the most austerity-driven government in Europe, the British Tories, are to the left of that. And it is this Republican intransigence—from the 2009 declaration by Rush Limbaugh that he wants Obama “to fail” to the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s admission that his primary objective is denying Obama a second term—that has been truly responsible for the deadlock. And the only way out of that deadlock is an electoral rout of the GOP, since the language of victory and defeat seems to be the only thing it understands.

If I sound biased, that’s because I am. Biased toward the actual record, not the spin; biased toward a president who has conducted himself with grace and calm under incredible pressure, who has had to manage crises not seen since the Second World War and the Depression, and who as yet has not had a single significant scandal to his name. “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” George Orwell once wrote. What I see in front of my nose is a president whose character, record, and promise remain as grotesquely underappreciated now as they were absurdly hyped in 2008. And I feel confident that sooner rather than later, the American people will come to see his first term from the same calm, sane perspective. And decide to finish what they started.

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VIDEO : Mike Papantonio : Racism Prevalent at GOP Primaries - Republican Party is driven by Racism - Chauncey DeVega, Blogger of "We Are Respectable Negroes" blogspot talks with Papantonio - "Ku Klux Klan language hasn't gone away !"

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"Tea Party is very fond of Race Baiting"


"We are respectable Negroes" has address WeAreRespectableNegroes.Blogspot.com



Uploaded by golefttv on Jan 12, 2012

When you drill down to the heart of the GOP's war on voting, you'll see that racism is the driving factor. And that racism isn't just coming in the form of voter suppression -- even the GOP Tea Party candidates are diving head first into the realm of race baiting. Mike Papantonio talks about how racism is driving the Tea Party candidates' campaigns with blogger and author Chauncey DeVega.

Papantonio: Racism Prevalent at GOP Primaries

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HuffPost : Unprompted striking Romney comment about Latinos, he started talking about them "out of the blue", unexpectedly, without any warning or preparation, or without being asked specifically about them. He has been a Great Enemy and Bigot against Latinos

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Mitt Romney is trying to repair the broken egg of his relation to Latinos, in order to get their votes in the General Election. During the Republican Primaries he has been Racist and Bigot, because this behavior is profitable for him, but he will have to change tone after being nominated by GOP.

After profiting from his intolerant Remarks on Latinos, Mitt Romney is preparing to change his narrative on them for the General Election. Good Job of Lies and Hypocrisy.

The Opportunist Flip-Flopper was briefly betrayed by his subconscious preparations to change positions much later after being nominated.

Huffington Post
Mitt Romney's Hispanic Voter 'Damage' Makes The Fix-It List
By Jon Ward
January 14, 2012


Mitt Romney's Hispanic Voter 'Damage' Makes The Fix-It List


Some excerpts :

WASHINGTON -- In a campaign appearance on Monday in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney was asked how to woo voters to the Republican party and to his candidacy. Out of the blue, he started talking about Latino voters.

"Perhaps one of the best tests would be to take a group like, uh, like, um, Latino Americans, and say, 'How can I convince more Latino Americans to, say, support a Republican?'" Romney said. "If I can do that, why, I will be doing well pretty broadly."

He's right, of course. Latino voters are about 9 percent of the American electorate, and that number is expected to rise this election and much more in the years to come. President Barack Obama's reelection effort has made Hispanic voters a top priority.

Romney's comment was striking because the former Massachusetts governor has not talked about Latino voters much during this election, except when he's been taking a hard line on immigration reform. He has said that all undocumented immigrants should have to return to their countries of origin and that he would veto the Dream Act. He battered Texas Gov. Rick Perry for passing a law in the Lone Star State allowing children of undocumented immigrants to receive in-state tuition to Texas universities.

In an interview with The Huffington Post a few days before the Iowa caucuses, Romney refused to engage the question of whether his positions on immigration might hurt his ability to win Latinos.

His unprompted reference to Hispanic voters was the first signal that after narrowly winning the Iowa caucuses –- where the Republican electorate is agitated about the issue of illegal immigration -– Romney is aiming to make up some ground that might have been lost.

"I think he recognizes that in a general election context, and I think he's starting to think in a general election context, I think he realizes he's got to undo some damage there," said a leading Republican strategist, who asked not to be identified so he could speak more frankly about the negative impact of Romney's positions so far on the issue.

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History of the failure of "Western Civilization" in the conquest of the Middle East, with only partial successes in the near East or Mediterranean and Great Failures in the "Hinterland" of the Middle East - Chapter 1

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I do not discuss today the Failures of Crusaders, British Imperialists, Americans or NATO. Only the Roman Empire.

The amazing long succession of failures, military catastrophes and defeats of Westerners, including Europeans, Romans, Crusaders, etc .... Culmination : the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars of our days.

This is my chapter one mainly concerned with the Roman Empire. I quote so much from Wikipedia, that you may consider me a copyst and I would not be offended. But this long rosary of failures and defeats is no invention or lies of my imagination. You may check the Wikipedia against my assertions.

Enter Rome, imperfect "Republic" ( The Public Thing ) in which the nobility of Patricians disputed and usurped power from the equastrian class and the people. The people became corrupted as a Populace or "Plebs". Very Plebeyan People that only wanted "Panem et Circens", that is "Bread and Violent Spectacles".

The Romans always had the most stupid ideas of conquering the Middle East and were only partially successful in the closer parts of Turkey or the Holy Land of Israel, Syria and Egypt.

But once the Romans went further they constantly failed.

Marcus Licinius Crassus (ca. 115 BC – 53 BC) was a Roman general and politician who commanded the right wing of Sulla's army at the Battle of the Colline Gate, suppressed the slave revolt led by Spartacus, provided political and financial support to Julius Caesar and entered into the political alliance known as the First Triumvirate with Pompey and Julius Caesar. At the height of his fortune he was allegedly worth more than 200,000,000 sestertii. He is considered the wealthiest man in Roman history, and perhaps one of the richest men in all history. Crassus nonetheless desired recognition for his military victories; this ambition for acclaim eventually led him into Syria, where he was defeated and killed in the Roman defeat at Carrhae against a Parthian Spahbod (General) named Surena.

Next Marc Anthony or Marcus Antonius ( 83 BC – 30 BC), lover of Cleopatra

But by now, Antony was skeptical of Octavian's true support of his Parthian cause. Leaving Octavia pregnant with her second child Antonia in Rome, he sailed to Alexandria, where he expected funding from Cleopatra, the mother of his twins. The queen of Egypt lent him the money he needed for the army, and after capturing Jerusalem and surrounding areas in 37 BC, he installed Herod as puppet king of Judaea, replacing the Parthian appointee Antigonus. Antony then invaded Parthian territory with an army of about 100,000 Roman and allied troops but the campaign proved a disaster. After defeats in battle, the desertion of his Armenian allies and his failure to capture Parthian strongholds convinced Antony to retreat, his army was further depleted by the hardships of its retreat through Armenia in the depths of winter, losing more than a quarter of its strength in the course of the campaign.

Trajan ( 53 – 117), was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117 AD.

It was at this point that Trajan's health started to fail him. The fortress city of Hatra, on the Tigris in his rear, continued to hold out against repeated Roman assaults. He was personally present at the siege and it is possible that he suffered a heat stroke while in the blazing heat. Shortly afterwards, the Jews inside the Eastern Roman Empire rose up in rebellion once more, as did the people of Mesopotamia. Trajan was forced to withdraw his army in order to put down the revolts. Trajan saw it as simply a temporary setback, but he was destined never to command an army in the field again, turning his Eastern armies over to the high ranking legate and governor of Judaea, Lusius Quietus, who in early 116 had been in charge of the Roman division who had recovered Nisibis and Edessa from the rebels;[31] Quietus was promised a consulate in the following year (118 AD) for his victories but he was murdered before this could occur. It has been theorized that Quietus was executed on the orders of the new emperor, Hadrian, for fear of Quietus' popular standing with the army and his close connections to Trajan.

Note from Vicente : This conquests of Trajan were useless because Emperor Hadrian was extremely intelligent and returned the conquered territories to their old kings. Hadrian knew that these conquests were crazy because Rome did not have the Military Power and Will to fight War constantly for them. Obama is our Emperor Hadrian.

Emperor Aurelian ( 214 or 215 – 275), was Roman Emperor from 270 to 275

In 275, Aurelian marched towards Asia Minor, preparing another campaign against the Sassanids: the deaths of Kings Shapur I (272) and Hormizd I (273) in quick succession, and the rise to power of a weakened ruler (Bahram I), set the possibility to attack the Sassanid Empire.

On his way, the Emperor suppressed a revolt in Gaul — possibly against Faustinus, an officer or usurper of Tetricus — and defeated barbarian marauders in Vindelicia (Germany).

However, Aurelian never reached Persia, as he was murdered while waiting in Thrace to cross into Asia Minor.

Note from Vicente : Aurelian was a Great Warrior and Conqueror but his conquests in Asia Minor were difficult to hold after his assassination, and the Roman Empire became weak.

Emperor Julian "the Apostate" ( 331/332 – 363)

This proved to be a hasty decision, for they were on the wrong side of the Tigris with no clear means of retreat and the Persians had begun to harass them from a distance, burning any food in the Romans' path. A second council of war on 16 June 363 decided that the best course of action was to lead the army back to the safety of Roman borders, not through Mesopotamia, but northward to Corduene.[72][73]

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Detail from the Sassanian relief of the incoronation of Ardashir II showing a defeated Julian.

During the withdrawal Julian's forces suffered several attacks from Sassanid forces.[73] In one such engagement on 26 June 363, the indecisive Battle of Samarra near Maranga, Julian was wounded when the Sassanid army raided his column. In the haste of pursuing the retreating enemy, Julian chose speed rather than caution, taking only his sword and leaving his coat of mail.[74] He received a wound from a spear that reportedly pierced the lower lobe of his liver, the peritoneum and intestines. The wound was not immediately deadly. Julian was treated by his personal physician, Oribasius of Pergamum, who seems to have made every attempt to treat the wound. This probably included the irrigation of the wound with a dark wine, and a procedure known as gastrorrhaphy, the suturing of the damaged intestine. On the third day a major hemorrhage occurred and the emperor died during the night.[75][76] As Julian wished, his body was buried outside Tarsus, though it was later removed to Constantinople.[77]

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There are more defeats of the Romans in the Middle East Hinterland. I am only scratching the surface and the readers have to be merciful on this humble scribe. I may add more emperors, and roman generals defeated in the Middle East.

Wait for the Crusaders and other "Western Civilization" fools trying to conquer the Middle East.

With Love :

Vicente Duque

The Jesus Christ of Mormonism is not the Jesus Christ of the Bible. - Brigham Young, said, "When the Virgin Mary conceived the Child Jesus ... He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost. And who is His father? He is the first of the human family" (Journal of Discourses, pages 50-51)

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You may be an atheist like me and accept that Pastor Cooper P. Abrams, III, Castle Country Baptist Church, P.O. Box 665, Price, Utah 84501 is doing a very beautiful and learned defense of Christianity against the anti Christian teachings of Mormons.

Pastor Cooper P. Abrams, III, explains to us with many Bible Quotes ( many of them from the New Testament ) how unChristian and anti Christian Mormonism is. If you accept the New and Old Testament as the ultimate and best explanation of Christianity then you have to reject Mormonism. It totally contradicts 2,000 years of Christianity.

Mormonism contradicts many tenets of the faith and the Theology that Catholics and Protestants have believed during almost 2,000 years - Our Pastor shows that there is no possible reconciliation in Theology. And I respect him for that even if I am an atheist or agnostic.

Are Mormons Christian?
"The Bible and LDS Scriptures Prove Conclusively that Mormons Are not Biblical Christians"
by Cooper Abrams

Are Mormons Christian?


Some excerpts :

The Jesus Christ of Mormonism is not the Jesus Christ of the Bible.

The Mormon Jesus is the son of this man-god. The Mormon Jesus is the brother of Lucifer, and according to LDS teaching, he married several of the Marys of the New Testament. He is not, to the LDS church, "God incarnate" as the Bible plainly states. Clearly, the Mormon god and Jesus are not the true.

God and Jesus of the Bible

Orson Hyde, the Mormon Apostle said, "We say it was Jesus Christ who was married in the marriage of Cana of Galilee" (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2, page 80).

Brigham Young, said, "When the Virgin Mary conceived the Child Jesus ... He was not begotten by the Holy Ghost. And who is His father? He is the first of the human family" (Journal of Discourses, pages 50-51).

Compare this with the Word of God, "And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God" (Luke 1:35).

Mormons teach that Jesus Christ suffered for sin in the Garden of Gethsemane when He sweat "as it were" great drops of blood. Mormons totally avoid the Biblical teaching of Christ's atonement for sin which was accomplished on the Cross.

Note the following quote from, "What Mormons Think of Christ" (LDS publication, pages 32-34):

"Christians speak often of the blood of Christ and its cleansing power. Much is believed and taught on this subject, however, it is utter nonsense and so palpably false that to believe it is to lose one's salvation."

It goes further to say that salvation is "conditional on faith, and repentance, and baptism and keeping the commands of God."

I would like to add, yes, it is very true that Christians do speak much of the blood of Christ. Note the emphasis the Bible places on the blood of Christ:

"But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin" (1 John 1:7).

"How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?" (Hebrew 9:14).

"And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood" (Revelations 1:5).

The ejection of this Biblical truth by the LDS church shows again it is not a Christian church.

Note that in the following verses the Bible says salvation, which is forgiveness of sin and receiving of eternal life, is a gift of God, and it is not obtained by "works":

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).

"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Romans 4:5).

I am aware that the L.D.S church has several definitions of salvation and several degrees of glory. A good discussion of the problem is found on the Internet at http:CastYourNet.com/LDS-Shock.

The real Jesus Christ is the "only begotten of the Father." He is not one of many sons and certainly not the brother of Satan as the following Scriptures clearly state:

John 1:18, "No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him."

John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

John 3:18, "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."

Hebrews 1:5, "For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?"

1 John 4:9, "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him."

Jesus Christ of the Bible is God Incarnate in Man

John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

John 1:14, "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth."

John 10:30 "I and my Father are one." Jesus claimed to be one with the Father.

In John 14:9, Jesus said to see him is to see the Father.

In John 8:25, 56-59, 18:6,8 Jesus used the Jehovistic "I AM," identifying Himself as God.

In Matthew 22:42-45, Jesus claimed to be the Old Testament "Adonai."

In Mark 2:5-7, Jesus forgave sin, a prerogative belonging only to God.

In Matthew 14:33; 28:9; and John 20:28-29, Jesus asserted Himself as God by allowing men to worship Him.

John 1:3 states that Jesus is the Creator, and Genesis 1:1 states that God was the Creator.

Only those who believe in the real Biblical God and Jesus Christ have the right to use the name "Christian." The Mormon prophets historically have openly ridiculed those who believe in the God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit that the Bible reveals.

One question that I would ask all Mormons is this: "If I accept you as a Christian, will you accept me as a Mormon?" Would you accept me as a Mormon if I reject Joseph Smith and all the LDS prophets as being prophets of God. If I do not believe in the Book of Mormon or the LDS Scriptures, baptisms for the dead, the temple endowments, the LDS gospel, would you accept me as a Mormon? The answer is obviously, you would not. In like manner, when Mormonism denies the Bible and every Christian doctrine do you think that Biblical Christians should accept Mormons as Christians? Again the answer is very obvious, no we will not. You cannot legitimately claim to be Christians when you refuse to accept what the Bible teaches and what a true Christian believes.

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Torturing Women detained by ICE ( Immigration and Customs Enforcement ) : "It was very hard for me as a young 24-year-old woman to see the great inhumane treatment that such detention centers practice. Many people who were not able to speak English were treated differently by the officers; some were neglected and ignored

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Imprisoning and Deporting People for Private Business - Some of them are American Citizens and some inmates are forgotten while making profits for Shark Entrepreneurs related to Republicans.

This Establishment of Jailer Businessmen gives a lot of Money for the Political Campaigns of Great Racists like Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona, former State Senator Russell Pearce ( already recalled ! ) and Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Color Lines - News for Action
What If Nobody Told You Your Daughter Had Been Mistakenly Deported?
[Reader Forum]
by Channing Kennedy
Monday, January 9 2012


What If Nobody Told You Your Daughter Had Been Mistakenly Deported? [Reader Forum]


Some excerpts :

I have been in detention in Florida at the Broward Transitional Center In Pompano beach; it was a bitter experience. You are treated very inhumanely; if you are sick, you must fill out a request to see the doctor (it can take up to a week to see the doctor). A lot of the women detained suffered from excessive bleeding during their periods; some had stopped menstruating (a sign of psychological stress). There was an inmate who had tried to commit suicide; the doctor placed her under surveillance for one day and then released her back into the regular population. She was always drugged up with medication and spent the entire day in bed.

It was very hard for me as a young 24-year-old woman to see the great inhumane treatment that such detention centers practice. Many people who were not able to speak English were treated differently by the officers; some were neglected and ignored. There was an issue with bed bugs; a lot of women developed rashes. Once again, if you felt sick you would have to wait a week, which by then you will either feel better or worse. I remember always feeling watched over, even in my sleep. I had very bad headaches, always had nightmares. When we had to be counted around 2:00 AM, the officers will come in the cells yelling and waking us up. Sometimes they will come in at any given time in the wee hours of the night and will take some detainees, and we never saw them again. I didn’t know where they were taking them to and neither did they. It was scary to think that you could not even sleep due to being afraid and always thinking ” will I be taken away next?” “where will they take me to” …

I met great women in detention; their stories will forever be engraved in my heart. These women were undocumented, but they were all great souls. A lot of them ended up there due to lack of drivers licences. Many of them like myself had no criminal records yet still forced to be detained under “a threat to society” or “terrorism.” In the detention center where I was, we were supposed to have “Arts and Crafts” every other day; I never attended any of them - since I never witnessed such classes. The food at commissary was very unhealthy; milk had to be sipped quick since we had no fridge to store it. When we had a meeting with one of ICE’s top directors of the center we asked if we can please have healthier choices at commissary. We felt that since we had to pay for the food ourselves we might as well demand fruits and vegetables. The answer we received from him was: “Ladies, I did a lot regarding the food we provide you with - It was my idea to have salt and pepper provided during lunch and dinner meals” … .

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Did the hearing officer, the case worker, the jailers, even the cops who arrested this Black girl, Age 14, all willfully blind themselves to the fact that this was clearly and obviously an American girl and not a Colombian national ?

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Why was she speaking perfect colloquial English and had absolutely no clue about any Spanish Word ?? - Did the blackness of this 14 year old girl weigh against her in the deportation procedures ?? - Is this a case of "Racial Profiling" going wild ?? - What about a 14 year old girl that is white, blond and blue eyed ??

Is ICE responsible for the pregnancy and possible moral sinking of this little girl of age 14 ?? - It is reported that the girl appeared on facebook smoking marihuana on the laps of men in Colombia, and that way she was found by a friend that saw her photo !

The league of Ordinary Gentlemen
She Was An American Girl, Raised On Promises (Of Due Process)
January 5, 2012

by Burt Likko
Burt Likko is the pseudonym of an attorney in Southern California. He is sometimes known as the "Transplanted Lawyer" in commemoration of a two-year sojourn in East Tennessee which was something of a transformative life experience. His interests include politics and public policy, Constitutional law with a focus on the separation of church and state.


She Was An American Girl, Raised On Promises (Of Due Process)


Some excerpts :

Jakadrian Turner was 14 years old in November of 2010 when, despondent over her parents’ divorce and the recent death of her grandfather, she ran away from her home in Dallas, Texas. Somehow, she made her way to Houston, where she was arrested on suspicion of theft, and gave a fake name to the police.

Only she was fantastically unlucky in her choice of fake names.

The name she gave showed up as a woman who had outstanding warrants and was on a list for referral to immigration authorities as an illegal alien. So Jakadrian was transferred from the Houston Police Department to Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who took her fingerprints. Armed with its own list of names and identities, the information given it by the Houston cops, and the fingerprints they took of their detainee, ICE determined that indeed the young woman in their custody was the person she had claimed to be upon her arrest by the Houston Police.

So, in April of 2011, ICE proceeded to deport a 14-year-old American citizen, who spoke no Spanish but apparently spoke excellent colloquial English, to Colombia. It took her grandmother and the Dallas Police nearly a year of searching to find her. Jakadrian was issued a work card by the Colombian government, and has been working as a house cleaner ever since her arrival in (I assume) Bogota.

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Young Ms. Turner’s horrifying story is not unique, although her case stands out for an astonishing obliviousness on the part of ICE — a Black girl who spoke excellent English and no Spanish was somehow mistaken for a Colombian national, after her fingerprints didn’t match up with the suspect they were looking for and (presumably) she denied her identity. About 2,000 U.S. citizens a year get deported, and about 4,000, or 1%, of the people in ICE detention are United States citizens.

We have due process of law in our Constitution to prevent exactly this sort of thing from happening. So what happened here? Was there no hearing? Did the hearing officer, the case worker, the jailers, even the cops who arrested this girl, all willfully blind himself to the fact that this was clearly and obviously an American girl and not a Colombian national? Maybe she was no angel — she got arrested for suspected theft, after all; but the fact that this was a young Black girl who seemed to be heading towards a life of petty crime is no excuse — that troubled young Black girl is a U.S. citizen. That fact ought to matter but apparently didn’t

This adds an extra level of perniciousness to state-level “anti-illegal immigrant” laws with mandatory referral provisions, like those recently adopted in Arizona and Alabama.

Mistakes will be made sometimes, I know. But 2,000 citizens wrongfully deported every year seems like more than we ought to be willing to tolerate. How much easier would it be to make a similar sort of mistake when the detainee is Latino, and does have good Spanish, maybe even better Spanish than English? I see lots of people I presume to be U.S. citizens who match that description, nearly every time I go to court.

I’ve got a simple word to describe what I think of the government deporting a citizen — that’s bullshit. Let this story serve as a caution to all those eager to conscript local law enforcement to be deputy ICE agents, and let this story serve as a caution to those who would urge stiffer enforcement of immigration laws. It’s not enough to “enforce the laws we have.” When we do that, we do terrible things to our own people — we do terrible things to ourselves.

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POLITICO.COM : Rick Santorum was greeted by a man who held up the arms of two women and screamed, “I’m a polygamist and I’m here with two girls! Why do you hate me? Do you want to come into my bedroom?” - Santorum is sparring with Mad Unruly Crowds

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My Comment :

Santorum has been very brave and fearless, also polite, civil, soft, calmed, tranquil, before big wild crowds of super right wing mad and hostile People in New Hampshire. Rick Santorum is doing his best effort to civilize and educate Republicans into moderation, the crowds are filled with anger, wrath, fury and craziness.

POLITICO.COM
Rick Santorum spars with growing New Hampshire crowds
By DAVID CATANESE
Januarey 6, 2012


Rick Santorum spars with growing New Hampshire crowds


Some excerpts :

At two stops Friday, the size of his audiences were deemed too large for the selected venue by local fire marshals. In one case, at a restaurant here, the situation prompted the campaign to move the town hall outside into a parking lot, leaving potential supporters miffed and uncomfortable.

“They should’ve just counted 100 people at the door instead of having this circus,” complained one woman, as Santorum’s staff ordered hundreds of attendees out into the open cold.

As the temperature dropped, tempers flared.

Santorum was instantly swarmed by throngs of media, as well as chanting Ron Paul supporters, Occupy Wall Street protesters and members of a college group called Students For A Sensible Drug Policy, who held up signs that read “Legalize Marijuana” and “Google Santorum.”

As Santorum fought his way to the center of the parking lot in search of hands to shake, he was instead greeted by a man who held up the arms of two women and screamed, “I’m a polygamist and I’m here with two girls! Why do you hate me? Do you want to come into my bedroom?”

While a smattering of Santorum supporters attempted to lighten the supercharged atmosphere with cheers of “Rick, Rick, Rick,” a Paul supporter lead onlookers in chants of “Dick, Dick, Dick.”

During the hour-long event — one of the shorter he’s had — Santorum used no microphone, rejected the offer of a bullhorn and was consistently jeered and mocked by onlookers and political tourists.

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A bleary-eyed Michael Biundo, Santorum’s campaign manager, attempted to spin the raucous scene into positive energy as he looked on from a distance.

“The crowds grew bigger than expected,” he said. “This is New Hampshire, though — I think they like the excitement around it.”

Not all of them did.

At an earlier event in Keene, Santorum was booed for his position on gay rights, shouted down by an Occupy Wall Street supporter and confronted several times about his opposition to President Obama’s healthcare law.

A basement room in the library was so crowded police interrupted the former Pennsylvania senator’s opening remarks to remove people in the aisles.

While nothing like the fracas in Manchester, it readily became apparent that many who showed up were there to listen and possibly engage — but ultimately disagree.

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