Wednesday, January 23, 2013

'What difference does it make?'

'What difference does it make?' Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shouted in anger on Wednesday in response to persistent questioning by a conservative Republican senator about initial, erroneous government talking points that the
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The Secretary of States faces tough questions in her long-awaited congressional testimony

Clinton testifies on Benghazi:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp=50552757&#50552757&from=en-us_msnhp&snid=18424742?ocid=msnhp

Finally, the long awaited testimony of the U. S. Secretary of States before the House and Senate committees on the September attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four, including a diplomat.


Secretary of States 


  1. Hillary Diane Rodham[nb 1] was born at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois...
  2. January 11, 1983 – December 12, 1992 ~ First Lady of Arkansas
  3. January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001~ First Lady of the United States (Washington, D.C.)
  4. January 3, 2001 – January 21, 2009 ~ United States Senator from New York
  5. January 21, 2009 ~ 67th United States Secretary of State (Washington, D.C.)

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Verizon Wants To Record You For Targeted Advertising





Published on Dec 5, 2012


Talk about interactive TV.

Verizon not only wants to provide your cable television service, but also stick around and observe everything you do while watching TV.

The company filed a patent for a set-top box that uses "a depth sensor, an image sensor, an audio sensor, and a thermal sensor" to record what you're doing so it can target you with specific advertising. As an example, Verizon notes the DVR box would send an ad for marriage counseling to an arguing couple, or ads for a romantic getaway or a commercial for contraceptives to a couple cuddling up.

And we all thought Google ad targeting crossed the line.


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Breathe Easier with Japanese Herbs


Sara Altshul 
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This botanical duo could ease asthma symptoms and cut drug doses

As many as 17 million American adults know asthma's symptoms firsthand: breathlessness, wheezing, and coughing. But Satoshi Yoshida, MD, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, both in Boston, suggests that Japanese herbal medicine (Kampo) may help control those symptoms as effectively as conventional asthma therapy.

In Japan, where all herbal treatments are covered by national health insurance, six different botanical therapies are recognized under national guidelines for asthma management. Dr. Yoshida says that two herbs are particularly effective--and both are available in the US.

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Saiko (Bupleuri radix) acts as an anti-inflammatory and helps to regulate the immune system, two critical functions in managing asthma symptoms, according to Dr. Yoshida. Over time, this herb has helped people with asthma lower their doses of corticosteroids, drugs that can have serious side effects.  Mao (Ephedra spp.), which is called ma huang in Traditional Chinese Medicine, relaxes bronchial passages that constrict during an asthma attack. While too much ephedra can be dangerous, using this herb under the care of a qualified herbal medicine practitioner can be safe and effective, Dr. Yoshida says.

Don't try this treatment plan on your own. Dr. Yoshida recommends consulting a qualified doctor of Oriental Medicine (OMD). To find one, call toll-free (888) 500-7999; in Canada, call (610) 266-1433. Or visit the American Association of Oriental Medicine online at www.aaom.org. Your OMD and your regular physician should work together to monitor your condition and drug dosages.

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Hillary The Movie


In the light of the meandering saga (during December 2012) regarding the health of  U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton;


First there was the cancellation of a diplomatic trip due to an upset stomach, then it was revealed to be food poisoning, then  allegedly Hillary suffered the fall which caused a concussion;
Finally, Hillary miraculously reappeared recuperated after the web of excuses and stalls just in time for the end of year holidays.

Now let's take a closer look at Hillary Rodham Clinton in a documentary (though it's rather old) video she didn't want the American public to see:


 

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The Final Movement ~ Prophecy Animation



Prophecy Animation - thefinalmovement.com from The Final Movement on Vimeo.

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Obama's Second Inaugural: Definition of 'Liberty' Subject to Debate





by BEN SHAPIRO 21 Jan 2013


In an Orwellian speech reversing the plain meanings of terms like “liberty,” “freedom,” and “tyranny,” President Barack Obama today laid forth a leftist agenda in the guise of universality. But even in doing so, he exposed just how divided America is – and why America may no longer be a single nation, but two nations kicking within one womb.

Obama began by quoting the Declaration of Independence. From there, though, his task was to twist founding principle to meet leftist needs, an Alinskyite strategy that reeks of falsity. Equating ending slavery with collectivist central planning, heavy-handed economic regulation and establishment of the welfare state, Obama claimed that leftism was part of the “founding creed”:

They gave to us a Republic, a government of, and by, and for the people, entrusting each generation to keep safe our founding creed.
For more than two hundred years, we have.
Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free. We made ourselves anew, and vowed to move forward together.
Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads and highways to speed travel and commerce; schools and colleges to train our workers.
Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play.
Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

Then Obama spelled out his true agenda: destroying founding principles about limited government to meet changing times. While paying lip service to “our skepticism of central authority,” Obama said that times have changed, and “so must we”: “fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges … preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.” This was the sheerest form of rhetoric sophistry; equating freedom with government control is an perverse reversal of language. Of course, the Constitution was written based on the notion that human nature does not change – people are not angels, nor devils, but self-interested creatures capable of greatness or evil, who must be checked against each other. But Obama doesn’t believe that. He believes that man can be made anew.

But only by government. And so Obama demonized limited government as anarchism, suggesting that meeting “the demands of today’s world by acting alone” is like forcing American soldiers to meet “the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias” – a straw man argument so blatant it appeared Obama would wheel out Ray Bolger to present it. In pursuing his agenda, Obama made clear that he will ignore basic realities – “we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.” He made clear that he will create false histories – “we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn.” He made clear that he will redefine taking and giving – those who wish to save their money for their families and children are “takers,” and those who wish to confiscate the wealth of others “strengthen us.”

In the end, Obama’s argument was a collectivist one. And it was an argument designed to irreparably tear this nation apart. Obama himself said it: “Being true to our founding documents does not require us to agree on every contour of life; it does not mean we will all define liberty in exactly the same way …”

But this renders the Declaration of Independence Obama cited completely meaningless. The founders may have disagreed on many things, but they agreed on the meaning of liberty: the right to live as an individual, without centralized planning infringing basic property rights, economic opportunities, and religious freedoms. Obama’s fundamental redefinition of liberty to include communitarianism is not merely wrong, it spells the end of the political commonality that has held the fabric of the nation together. If we define liberty differently, then there is nothing to talk about: my liberty is your tyranny, and vice versa. Our goals can never be shared. That gap can never be bridged.

Obama does not wish to bridge that gap. He wishes to destroy his opposition. And he wishes to do so by spitting on the ideals of the founders, all the while cynically citing “ancient values and enduring ideals.”

Ben Shapiro is Editor-At-Large of Breitbart News and author of the book “Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America (Threshold Editions, January 8, 2013).


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Los Angeles Catholic officials shielded pedophile priests: report


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(Reuters) - Two Catholic Church officials in California plotted to conceal child molestation by priests from law enforcement as late as 1987, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday, citing newly released internal Church records.

The records show that Los Angeles Archbishop Roger Mahony, who is now retired, and his top adviser on child sex abuse cases, Monsignor Thomas Curry, worked with other Church officials in 1987 to send priests accused of abuse out of state to avoid prosecution, the newspaper said.

Mahony and Curry also tried to keep pedophile priests from confessing to therapists who would be obligated to report the crimes, the newspaper said, citing the records, which were released on Los Angeles Times' website.

Curry even suggested in 1987 they send a pedophile priest to "a lawyer who is also a psychiatrist" to put the priest's "reports under the protection of privilege," the Times reported.

In another 1987 case, Curry cautioned Mahony against returning a child abuser to the Los Angeles parishes where he molested children.

"There are numerous - maybe twenty - adolescents and young adults that (the priest) was involved with in a first degree felony manner," Curry wrote of one accused molester. "The possibility of one of these seeing him is simply too great."

In a statement posted on the newspaper's website, Mahony offered an apology to all the young victims.

Mahony also said that after 1987, as he and other Church officials began to comprehend how damaging sexual abuse was to the child victims, the diocese began to take more aggressive steps to investigate the accused priests and prevent further molestations.

The sex abuse scandal has rocked the Catholic Church in the United States, costing it billions of dollars in settlements and driving prominent dioceses into bankruptcy.

The scandal erupted in the United States in 1992 with a series of sex abuse cases uncovered in the Archdiocese of Boston that helped encourage other victims of abuse to come forward.

Los Angeles is the largest Roman Catholic diocese in the United States, with over 4 million Catholics.

The records of 14 priests were made public as part of a civil lawsuit this month and posted on the Times' website.

Next month, a judge overseeing a civil sex abuse lawsuit against the Los Angeles archdiocese will decide whether the two Church officials will face new depositions about the alleged plot.

In the weeks ahead, the personnel files of 75 more Los Angeles priests will be released as part of a 2007 civil settlement with 500 victims, the newspaper said.

J. Michael Hennigan, an attorney for the archdiocese, was not immediately available for comment.

However, Hennigan told the Los Angeles Times that in the late 1980s the Church's policy was to let the families of the victims decide whether or not to contact the police. He said the newly released records, which the archdiocese fought for years to keep secret, are "part of the past."

"We are embarrassed and at times ashamed by parts of the past," Hennigan said. "But we are proud of our progress, which is continuing."

(Reporting By Chris Francescani in New York; Editing by Mary Wisniewski and Christopher Wilson)




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Monday, January 21, 2013

Obama’s gay rights remarks: Inspiration and watershed or ‘thumb in the eye of people of faith?’

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 21: The Lesbian And Gay Band Association march as the presidential inaugural parade winds through the nation's capital January 21, 2013 in Washington, DC. Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term as President of the United States. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)



By ROSALIND ROSSI AND MAUREEN O’DONNELL Staff  January 21, 2013 8:10PM


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President Barack Obama’s historic inaugural comments about gay rights could influence everything from an Illinois same-sex marriage bill to kids struggling with their sexual identities, key figures in Illinois’ gay community said Monday.

State Rep. Deborah Mell (D-Chicago) was sitting on a sofa at home, watching the inaugural address with her wife, Christin Baker, when Obama put New York’s Stonewall riots — a watershed event in the gay rights movement — on the same footing as key moments in the women’s and civil rights movements.

The journey to equality, Obama continued, “is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law — for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.’’

Such words could be pivotal to kids wrestling with their sexual identities, said Mell, the daughter of Ald. Dick Mell (33rd).

“I don’t think you can underestimate the power that has on a kid who is coming out of the closet or is struggling with who they are, or their family is struggling,’’ Mell said.

“I remember when I was growing up. To hear the president say that would make things a little bit easier when you go to school and feel so lonely.’’

Leaders on both sides of the gay marriage issue saw Obama’s remarks as a further endorsement of same-sex marriage, which the president said in May he personally supported.

Obama’s message Monday was so clear and strong that state Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago) predicted it would give impetus to his bill to make Illinois the 10th state to legalize same-sex marriage.

“I think it will make a huge difference — the way the president spoke of it as the right thing to do, fulfilling the dream of equality in our country,’’ said Harris.

“Everyone has a sense that history has totally changed in America. The narrative has changed.’’

But David E. Smith, executive director of the Illinois Family Institute, called Obama’s comments “disappointing.’’

“The president is using his position to promote the homosexual political agenda,’’ Smith said. “He’s furthering the notion that one’s sexual identity is a civil right. It’s not a civil right. ...

“When did we have the debate as to whether sexual identity is a special right that needed special protections from the state or federal government?” Smith asked.

Gays have “the right to live the life they want” but they should not be “coming to our Legislature, demanding we change our state laws so they can feel good about their chosen lifestyle,’’ Smith said.

Pastor John Kirkwood of the Grace Gospel Center in Bensenville went even further, calling Obama’s remarks an “insult to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’’ as well as “insulting to every woman” and “every African American who lived through” the tumult of the pre-civil rights era.

Kirkwood said Obama’s remarks contradict biblical teachings. Said Kirkwood of the president: “He never misses an opportunity to stick his thumb in the eye of people of faith.’’

Rick Garcia, director of the Civil Rights Agenda’s Equal Marriage Illinois Project, said he was working at home on a computer when he heard Obama mention “Stonewall’’ — the site of 1969 riots following a police raid on a gay Greenwich Village bar — in the same sentence as Seneca Falls and Selma, critical sites in the women’s and civil rights movements.

“When he said that,” Garcia said, “I couldn’t stop crying because the president of the United States acknowledged my people, my community, and said all of us are created equal.’’

It may not have been prudent for Obama to make such comments during his first inaugural address, when, as the first African American president, Garcia said, “he had to be careful in reaching out to everyone, so he couldn’t be too far left or too far right.’’

But as Obama begins his second term, Garcia said, “it’s a different story. And I’m heartened and touched and excited by what the president did. .... It’s unbelievable the impact this will have.’’

Mayoral advisor David Spielfogel, whose gay civil union 1 1/2 years ago was presided over by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, called Obama’s inauguration comments an “incredible validation” of the change that has hit the same-sex marriage debate in the last six months.

“By tying the struggle for marriage equality to other important civil rights battles, the president sent a very meaningful sign to the millions of Americans who are waiting to enjoy the rights and responsibilities of marriage,’’ Spielfogel said.

Contributing: Fran Spielman


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Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I have a dream' speech


Soon it will be 50 years since these words were spoken 
before thousands of people by Martin Luther King in Washington, D.C.:



Posted: Jan 21, 2013 8:58 AM EST
Updated: Jan 21, 2013 9:19 AM EST





MLK Service: President Barack Obama delivers his greeting


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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech delivered Aug. 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!



Source: http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story/20638288/martin-luther-king-jrs-i-have-a-dream-speech#at_pco=cfd-1.0#ixzz2IeEbc9xG

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Cramer Storms the 'Street Signs' Set



Cramer Storms the 'Street Signs' Set


FRI 18 JAN 13 | 02:30 PM ET

in the meantime, let's get to herb. a red flag on some high-flying stocks. i would like to know, a what makes them look vulnerable here. great question. over the next month, six weeksor so, we see companies come out they are priced forperfection. now what is priced for perfection easy for you to say,varies. it is in the eyes of beholder. when i look at my list, you look at price earnings multiple. going forward or trailing, whichever you want it use. and stock prices. some go up and they don't go down. i put together lists of those. the people i talk to seem it shake their head at it. let's go through the list and wewill break it down further. top of the list, salesforce.com. 87 times earnings. such a high number. then growth by acquisition story. under armour. and look down the little totractor supply. costco, such a great company, but hits the list because it has to do everything just right. now of course sherwin-williams. if we break it down to the top three, based on pe or just crazy run in the stock, i wil break it down this way. and i have lumber -- by the way, these three, jim cramer favorites.no offense to jim. everything has to go right. lumber liquidators.sherwin-williams, which by the way, it has been declining. you wantto keep an eye on that. i know incringly people looking at that over and over. they know there is a new part to the story because there is continued risk there. well keep watching that.actually you mentioned jim cramer. we've got jim cramer. he is currently running out to the set. there he is. come on out, jim.before jim gets mic'd up, i want it push back on you a little bit buddy. sure. first, beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, it is in the eye of the shareholder. and risky stock valued and whyare they so far off their lows and are they close to bankruptcy so it has outsized gains which are somewhat artificial. i don't disagree with you. it is just a matter of just remember it all has to go just right. price to perfection, as they say, jim. all right, chief. what are the pricearnings a year ago for sherwin-williams? for costco? right. oh, you mean like -- yeah, sorry.yes of course you're right on that. i just want it raise the point that -- i'm not going to defend all ten any more. ka ching, ka ching. tractor supply. but some of these, i mean, sherwin-williams was absolutely underpriced. i'm in a biepd on some of these. if we were -- you have to wait for a pull back because they move so much. sherwin-williams, higher price point --look at the nation of -- and pimco says they were investing in housing. right. what about the falling sales growth? i put up my chart and say, i'm surprised to see the sales sliding the way they are, the growth. the growth. comp store numbers arefabulous at their paint stores. remember, the cost of paint hascome down rather dramatically. and it is a housing play. i guess it. but masco, stanley works -- i get it, i get it. i run a distinguish between ulta, something i know you challenged me on and i backed way on. you put up a certain number of stores, ulta will not grow like it did. sure stz i have trouble with the housing place because t may actually be based on say 700,000 housing starts and maybe we go to 1.5 million housing starts. i'm not making any broad calls here. i'm trying to say these thecompanies that the guys on the other side say, they are rippingtheir hair out every time -- see me there. using metrics you used here as to why you think these high flyers could be vulnerable, how long have you been wrong? oh, my gosh. my, when did you start -- wrong and early. wrong and early. by the way -- no, netflix right. chipotle, right. and cramer, under armour -- let herb defend himself. as i told john mackey, co-ceo of whole foods --and former tight end. as he was walking off theet here, i said, red flags i flew over your company many years ago, and i con grat rated him. he did a great job. but there are plenty of people raising issues. but point here, this is a street that expects just perfection. but if it gets it, it goes higher. isn't it a shame chipotle reported a number not so great. stock didn't go down as much as during previous disappointment. because price earnings multiple is shrinking. and i just think what happens isif they miss, they are cut in half. if they make it, they go up. herb, since i first met you -- i have no interest in the stock market. i own no stocks and i will say this. companies in four years, ulta's revenue doubled. yes. gross margin is expanding,doesn't that merit a 27 pe which is not historically outrageousfor that growth rate? i can't wait to hear this. maybe now. but as they grow, and as they put stores in perhaps smaller markets and put them closer together, they could run into the home cannibalization. one time he said, cramer, you're too much. i know you didn't like it because it sounds like -- you have to be skeptical and what i love about herb is herb keeps me skeptical and it should keep the people at home -- is that the only thing you love about him. he is a loveable guy. there are many reasons. generosity in planning dinners that he owes is not one of the thi you love. maybe was it the chicken -- he is saying it a grand slam. the pvh portion of jc penny is a grand slam. and i like mandy very much. you are real good, you know that. he is a good egg. herb is about as good as -- absolutely. he is right more than wrong, by far. jim, thank you. all right, well, the can'tmiss exclusive interview with

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Nouriel Roubini | What’s in store in 2013


Fiscal austerity will envelop most advanced economies this year, not just the euro zone periphery and the UK

Nouriel Roubin


First Published: Mon, Jan 21 2013. 07 03 PM IST


While the ECB’s actions have reduced tail risks in the euro zone the monetary union’s fundamental problems have not been resolved. Photo: AFP


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Nouriel Roubini | The euro zone’s delayed reckoning



Updated: Mon, Jan 21 2013. 07 14 PM IST

The global economy this year will exhibit some similarities with the conditions that prevailed in 2012. No surprise there: we face another year in which global growth will average about 3%, but with a multi-speed recovery—a sub-par, below-trend annual rate of 1% in the advanced economies, and close-to-trend rates of 5% in emerging markets. But there will be some important differences as well.

Painful de-leveraging—less spending and more saving to reduce debt and leverage—remains ongoing in most advanced economies, which implies slow economic growth. But fiscal austerity will envelop most advanced economies this year, rather than just the euro zone periphery and the UK. Indeed, austerity is spreading to the core of the euro zone, the US, and other advanced economies (with the exception of Japan). Given synchronized fiscal retrenchment in most advanced economies, another year of mediocre growth could give way to outright contraction in some countries.

With growth anaemic in most advanced economies, the rally in risky assets that began in the second half of 2012 has not been driven by improved fundamentals, but rather by fresh rounds of unconventional monetary policy. Most major advanced economies’ central banks—the European Central Bank (ECB), the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Swiss National Bank—have engaged in some form of quantitative easing, and they are now likely to be joined by the Bank of Japan, which is being pushed towards more unconventional policies by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s new government.

Moreover, several risks lie ahead. First, America’s mini-deal on taxes has not steered it fully away from the fiscal cliff. Sooner or later, another ugly fight will take place on the debt ceiling, the delayed sequester of spending, and a congressional “continuing spending resolution” (an agreement to allow the government to continue functioning in the absence of an appropriations law). Markets may become spooked by another fiscal cliffhanger. And even the current mini-deal implies a significant amount of drag—about 1.4% of gross domestic project (GDP)—on an economy that has grown at barely a 2% rate over the last few quarters.
Second, while the ECB’s actions have reduced tail risks in the euro zone—a Greek exit and/or loss of market access for Italy and Spain—the monetary union’s fundamental problems have not been resolved. Together with political uncertainty, they will re-emerge with full force in the second half of the year.

After all, stagnation and outright recession—exacerbated by front-loaded fiscal austerity, a strong euro, and an ongoing credit crunch—remain Europe’s norm. As a result, large—and potentially unsustainable—stocks of private and public debt remain. Moreover, given ageing populations and low productivity growth, potential output is likely to be eroded in the absence of more aggressive structural reforms to boost competitiveness, leaving the private sector no reason to finance chronic current-account deficits.

Third, China has had to rely on another round of monetary, fiscal, and credit stimulus to prop up an unbalanced and unsustainable growth model based on excessive exports and fixed investment, high saving, and low consumption. By the second half of the year, the investment bust in real estate, infrastructure, and industrial capacity will accelerate. And, because the country’s new leadership—which is conservative, gradualist, and consensus-driven—is unlikely to speed up implementation of reforms needed to increase household income and reduce precautionary saving, consumption as a share of GDP will not rise fast enough to compensate. So the risk of a hard landing will rise by the end of this year.

Fourth, many emerging markets—including the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), but also many others—are now experiencing decelerating growth. Their “state capitalism”—a large role for state-owned companies; an even larger role for state-owned banks; resource nationalism; import-substitution industrialization; and financial protectionism and controls on foreign direct investment—is the heart of the problem. Whether they will embrace reforms aimed at boosting the private sector’s role in economic growth remains to be seen.

Finally, serious geopolitical risks loom large. The entire greater Middle East—from the Maghreb to Afghanistan and Pakistan—is socially, economically, and politically unstable. Indeed, the Arab Spring is turning into an Arab Winter. While an outright military conflict between Israel and the US on one side and Iran on the other side remains unlikely, it is clear that negotiations and sanctions will not induce Iran’s leaders to abandon efforts to develop nuclear weapons. With Israel refusing to accept a nuclear-armed Iran, and its patience wearing thin, the drums of actual war will beat harder. The fear premium in oil markets may significantly rise and increase oil prices by 20%, leading to negative growth effects in the US, Europe, Japan, China, India and all other advanced economies and emerging markets that are net oil importers.

While the chance of a perfect storm—with all of these risks materializing in their most virulent form—is low, any one of them alone would be enough to stall the global economy and tip it into recession. And while they may not all emerge in the most extreme way, each is or will be appearing in some form. As 2013 begins, the downside risks to the global economy are gathering force. ©2013/PROJECT SYNDICATE


Nouriel Roubini is Chairman of Roubini Global Economics and Professor at the Stern School of Business, NYU.



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Managing the Oval Office


OPINION

By DAVID ROTHKOPF

Published: January 19, 2013




Mark Ulriksen


BARACK OBAMA’s critics and supporters tend to agree: the first four years of the Obama administration have included plenty of disappointment and frustration.

Some of the that can be attributed to inherited challenges like the financial crisis. Some were caused by unexpected developments overseas. Some are the result of a dysfunctional Congress better known for logjams, corruption and ideological intransigence than action. (So much so that a recent poll showed that Americans like Congress less than cockroaches, colonoscopies and root canals.)

But Mr. Obama and his team would benefit, as they begin the second term, by acknowledging that many of the biggest problems facing the administration flow directly from the man at the top. Mr. Obama is a lousy manager. As chief executive he gets a C — and then only if graded on a curve that takes into account his predecessor’s managerial weaknesses.

For all of the notable achievements of Mr. Obama’s first term — getting troops out of Iraq, passing health care and financial services reform, signing legislation that guarantees that women get equal pay for equal work, removing Osama bin Laden — many of the administration’s shortcomings are traceable, at least in part, to troubles connected to the way Mr. Obama has chosen to run the government.

The administration has not done a good job of delegating to and empowering cabinet officials. Nor does it seem to have built necessary teams and coalitions or anticipated and planned for likely challenges. The Obama team’s failure to make the most of stimulus funding, to make progress on climate change, to react swiftly to international crises in Egypt, Libya and Syria, and to maintain good relations with allies on Capitol Hill and beyond stem from lack of managerial skill.

A predicate problem is that the president’s team has focused so intently on presenting Mr. Obama’s strengths that they, like many senior managers, seem to have begun to believe their own news releases.

Consider what is, perhaps, the iconic image of the Obama presidency: the photo of Mr. Obama, in the Situation Room, with Hillary Rodham Clinton and other members of his national security team, awaiting news of the raid on Osama bin Laden. The May 2011 photo depicts an engaged leader, in the center of a closely knit team, willing to take calculated risks but viscerally aware of the human stakes involved.

Like many official photos, this one said much about the president without revealing the full truth. Seemingly united in that moment, the president’s team is, in fact, a fractious group whose members are often at odds with one another, and Mr. Obama may be the most aloof president since Richard M. Nixon. Shot in the Situation Room, the nerve center of our government, the photo gives no indication that many of the president’s appointees see it and the rest of the West Wing as kinds of fortresses far removed from other government agencies.

There is no single template for the effective exercise of presidential power. In the modern era, Dwight D. Eisenhower applied the skills he mastered as a general, Lyndon B. Johnson horse-traded his way to legislative triumphs, Ronald Reagan managed with a light touch as if he were a congenial “chairman of the board,” the elder George Bush oversaw what was arguably the most disciplined and inclusive national security process in recent history and Bill Clinton was able to strike a balance between master politician and wonk in chief.

Each of these presidents understood the danger of personalizing the presidency, of making it too much about one man; each took care to harness resources within his cabinet and among his deputies.

Successful modern presidents share an experience that Barack Obama does not have: before becoming president, each played an executive or leadership role that provided insight as to how to run an effective government.

The management troubles that have dogged the Obama administration are not unique to Mr. Obama or his team. One of the biggest problems facing America today is that in Washington, the ability to effectively run complex organizations is among the skill sets that is least valued in our leaders.

Often people with no management experience — academics, writers or politicians who have never run an office with more than a handful of people — are put in charge of giant, complicated government agencies or processes. In part this is because so many people in government mistakenly believe that being able to articulate ideas is the same as being able to put ideas into action.

This administration provides an object lesson in how, when too many staffers have excessive influence, political calculations often trump good policy choices. When an inner circle maintains too tight a stranglehold over the president’s time and attention, too few views come into play. If isolated by an inner circle, the president will have a harder time fostering cooperation in his administration. During his first term, Mr. Obama’s inner circle included Michelle Obama, Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, David Plouffe and Pete Rouse. Even top administration officials believe these gatekeepers held power too closely. Staff casualties resulted.

When Obama campaign insiders on the National Security Council staff were thought to have more access to the president than their boss, Gen. James L. Jones, the general reportedly felt undermined and left the administration. Ms. Jarrett is said to be seen as so powerful that hardly anyone dares to cross her.

Despite constant behind-the-scenes grumbling from top officials, few appear to have successfully challenged her. Acknowledging how much the president values her opinion, staffers complain about her involvement in matters outside her competence. Battles with Ms. Jarrett reportedly played a role in at least one top official’s decision to leave the administration.

Mr. Obama’s top advisers say they often feel alienated from the president. There is a sense in the White House that “Barack Obama’s theory of government is he is the government.”

Mr. Obama’s perceived aloofness didn’t help his relations with Congress. Many Hill Democrats resent the fact that the president essentially did not consult with them during the last campaign, regularly keeping them away from him during his campaign appearances.

CHIEF executives who have visited the White House for much publicized consultations with the president and senior staff report that Mr. Obama appears to be more interested in delivering his message than in listening to others. This, too, speaks to Mr. Obama’s management weakness. Selecting a diverse team, creating a system in which ideas surface, listening to those ideas and then empowering others to put them into action are the cornerstones of good management — and of effective leadership.

The fact that Mr. Obama is not a good manager does not mean Americans were unwise to have elected him rather than Mitt Romney, who presented himself as an experienced business leader. There is no shortage of successful businessmen who flopped in government; Paul H. O’Neill, John W. Snow or John E. Bryson are examples. Public sector management poses its own unique challenges. Great business leaders and great governmental leaders require different personalities, skill sets, tactics and backgrounds.

The challenge here extends beyond Mr. Obama. The American electorate doesn’t ask questions about management skills. Congress rarely raises the issue of management when considering nominees for large, complicated cabinet agencies, many of which are larger than big corporations. Establishing a culture in which the metrics of successful governance are valued, discussed and evaluated is a vital step toward addressing a problem of which the current president’s management troubles is but a symptom. It would be helpful to have a permanent professional bureaucracy with continuing management responsibilities, as do many other nations. It would also be useful to consider salaries for top officials that provide incentives to the most qualified (much could be learned here from Singapore, which has blazed an important trail in this regard).

In the end, the success of our constitutional system depends primarily on how the occupant of the Oval Office governs. No president can succeed unless he views his job as collaborative, as requiring the motivation and empowerment of a vast United States executive branch bureaucracy, as being in partnership with Congress, as benefiting from a broad and diverse group of advisers, as being the kind of undertaking that promotes creativity even if it means embracing unpopular or even unsuccessful ideas. We know that for the next four years we will have a much more experienced president than the one who occupied it during the term just past. But if Barack Obama is to be a successful president — if he is to lead our country toward economic recovery, climate health and increased security — he must master the day-to-day management of government.


David Rothkopf is the chief executive of the FP Group, the publisher of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.



A version of this op-ed appeared in print on January 20, 2013, on page SR1 of the New York edition with the headline: Managing The Oval Office.



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Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis





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Published on Jul 2, 2012


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With the US raising their debt ceiling, are we in a global bail-out bubble that will eventually burst? This doc offers a fresh insight into the greatest economic crisis of our age: the one still awaiting us.

The financial storm that has rocked the world began brewing in the US when congress pushed the idea of home ownership for all, propping up those who couldn't make the down payments. When it all went wrong the government promised the biggest financial stimulus packages in history and gargantuan bailouts. But what crazed logic is that: propping up debt with more debt? "They're giving alcohol to a drunk: it just sets him up for a bigger hangover."

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Financial Crisis & Bible Prophecy - II



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In part 2 of this 3-part series, Tim Aka uses the Biblical examples of "The Bride, the Builders and the Cross" to explain God's purposes for allowing the world to experience a financial crisis.


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The Creature From Jekyll Island (by G. Edward Griffin)




The Creature From Jekyll Island (by G. Edward Griffin)


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Sunday, January 20, 2013

NM officials: Teenage gunman fatally shoots 5 at Albuquerque home; suspect in custody

Published Sunday, January 20, 2013






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A teenage boy fatally shot two adults and three children at a home near Albuquerque, authorities said Sunday.

The boy, who police believe to be about 15 years old, was arrested and booked on murder and other charges in connection with the shootings Saturday night at the home in an unincorporated area 10 miles southwest of downtown Albuquerque, Bernalillo County sheriff's spokesman Aaron Williamson said.





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Pope: Angelus appeal for peace




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(Vatican Radio) Pope Benedict XVI appealed for an end to conflicts around the world on Sunday. Speaking to pilgrims and faithful gathered in St Peter’s Square to pray the Angelus with him, Pope Benedict especially prayed that, in the various conflicts unfortunately under way around the world, “The slaughter of innocent civilians should cease.” He went on to say, “Let there be an end to all violence, and let there be found the courage to conduct dialogue and to negotiate.” The Pope’s appeal for peace came in the context of a reflection on the pressing need for a recovery of the full, visible communion of all Christians, which Christ Himself desires for His Church. This Sunday falls in the middle of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – a theme to which the Pope also turned in his English remarks to the faithful. Listen:

Let us join our prayers to those of our brothers and sisters of all Churches and communities, that we may dedicate ourselves ever more earnestly to working towards our visible unity in Jesus Christ.

A convert and founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, Fr. Paul Wattson began the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in 1908. It opens each year on the day of the traditional Feast of the Chair of St Peter (Jan. 18th,), and concludes on the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul (Jan 25th).



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What the FBI Doesn't Want You To Know About Its "Secret" Surveillance Techniques



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JANUARY 17, 2013 | BY PARKER HIGGINS AND TREVOR TIMM



The FBI had to rewrite the book on its domestic surveillance activities in the wake of last January’s landmark Supreme Court decision in United States v. Jones. In Jones, a unanimous court held that federal agents must get a warrant to attach a GPS device to a car to track a suspect for long periods of time. But if you want to see the two memos describing how the FBI has reacted to Jones — and the new surveillance techniques the FBI is using beyond GPS trackers — you’re out of luck. The FBI says that information is “private and confidential.”

Yes, now that the Supreme Court ruled the government must get a warrant to use its previous go-to surveillance technique, it has now apparently decided that it’s easier to just keep everything secret. The ACLU requested the memos under the Freedom of Information Act — which you can see FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann waving around in public here — and the FBI redacted them almost entirely.

Though the FBI won’t release the memos, we do have some information from other sources on the surveillance techniques federal agents are already using. And for the most part the FBI contends they do not need a warrant, and one wonders, given the public nature of this information, why they are officially claiming its "secret."

Cell Phone Data Requests

Tellingly, in U.S. v. Jones, after the US government lost its case in the Supreme Court with the GPS device, it went right back to the district court and asserted it could get Jones’ cell phone site location data without a warrant. EFF has long argued cell location data, which can map your precise location for days or weeks at a time, is highly personal, and should require a warrant from a judge.

In July 2012, the New York Times reported that federal, state, and local law enforcement officials had requested all kinds of cell phone data, including mappings of suspects’ locations, a staggering 1.3 million times in the previous year. Worse, the real number was “almost certainly much higher" given they often request multiple people’s data with one request. The FBI also employs highly controversial “tower dumps” where they get the location information on everyone within a particular radius, potentially violating the privacy of thousands of innocent people with one request.

Stingray Interceptors

In late 2012, we reported on the secretive new device the FBI has been increasingly using for surveillance known as a IMSI catcher, or “Stingray.” A Stingray acts as a fake cell phone tower and locks onto all devices in a certain area to find a cell phone’s location, or perhaps even intercept phone calls and texts. Given it potentially sucks up thousands of innocent persons’ data, we called it an “unconstitutional, all you can eat data buffet.”

The FBI has gone to great lengths to keep this technology secret, even going as far as refusing to tell judges its full range of capabilities. Recently, documents obtained by EPIC Privacy through a FOIA request shed more light on the devices.

License Plate Readers

In cities across the country, local police departments and other law enforcement agencies are installing automated license plate readers that create databases of location information about individual cars (and their drivers). These readers can be mounted by the side of a busy road, scanning every car that rolls by, or on the dash of a police car, allowing officers to drive through and scan all the plates in a parking lot.

In Washington, D.C., nearly every block is captured by one of the more than 250 cameras scanning over 1,800 images per minute. In Los Angeles, more than two dozen different law enforcement agencies operate license plate readers to collect over 160 million data points. This surveillance is untargeted, recording the movements of any car passes by. In cities that have become partners in the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, or have entered into another data-sharing agreement, this location information is at the fingertips of those federal agents.

Drone Authorization

On top of all this, the FBI is one of just a few dozen public agencies that has an authorization to fly a drone in the U.S. There is no evidence at this time that they are actively pursuing or using a specific device. But we do know that other branches of the federal government, namely the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), are conducting drone surveillance along the U.S. border, and have at least occasionally loaned these capabilities to other departments. EFF has sued DHS for more information about that program, but in the meantime, as with the redacted documents, information about their use in surveillance remains frustratingly opaque.

Secret Law

This is just the latest example of the Obama administration trying to interpret public laws in secret without adequately informing its citizens. Currently, EFF is suing the government for its secret interpretation of the Patriot Act Section 215, and for secret FISA court opinions that could shed light on the NSA warrantless wiretapping program. In addition, the ACLU has sued the Obama administration for its legal opinion stating it can kill US citizens overseas, away from the battlefield.

Of course, law enforcement needs the ability to conduct investigations. But explaining to the public how it generally conducts surveillance puts no one in danger, and compromises no investigations. After all, criminals have known the FBI has been able to wiretap phones with a warrant for decades and it hasn’t stopped them from using wiretaps to catch them.

This information is vital to know if law enforcement is complying with the law and constitution. As we’ve seen with GPS devices, and we are now seeing with cell phone tracking and the use of Stingrays, law enforcement will push the limits of their authority — and sometimes overstep it — if they are not kept in check by an informed public.



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The Presidential Oath: Not Always Perfect, But It Gets The Job Done


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By the time he is through with his inauguration on Monday, President Obama will have taken the presidential oath four times. In 2009, he had to do it twice after some stumbles between him a Chief Justice John Roberts. But as history shows us, his oath was not the first to suffer a few mishaps.



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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Thousands join pro-gun rallies in state capitals


STATES ON GUNS

Where the states stand on guns and violence as legislatures meet this year in the aftermath of mass killings. The District of Columbia, which already has strict gun laws, has no plans to further tighten them.



Considering gun restrictions
Considering loosening gun restrictions
Considering measures on school-safety
Considering measures on mental-health


Source: USA TODAY research
By Jerry Mosemak, USA TODAY



Mike Gottschamer, USA TODAY6:48p.m. EST January 19, 2013

The recurring message from state capitals: Responsible gun owners should be left alone.


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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Protesters said they were opposed to stricter gun-control measures
1,000 people turned out for the rally in Hartford, 50 miles from Newtown
Gatherings took place just days after President Obama announced his gun proposals



Thousands of gun rights supporters gathered at state capitols around the country Saturday to rally against new laws to regulate on firearms proposed by President Obama in the wake of last month's school shooting in Connecticut.

The crowds included people of all ages, some waving flags and holding signs saying "Don't Tread on Me" and "Stand behind the Second Amendment."

A recurring message was that responsible gun owners should be left alone.

"The current administration wants to control every aspect of our lives," Alabama Agriculture Commissioner John McMillan said to the crowd at the state capitol in Montgomery. "We need to use our state motto — 'Dare to defend our rights.' "

The rallies were part of a grass-roots effort, called Guns Across America, initiated by Texas resident Eric Reed. The group's Facebook page listed plans for protests in 46 states.

Police in Connecticut said about 1,000 people showed up on the capitol grounds in Hartford, about 50 miles from the site of last month's mass shooting at Newtown's Sandy Hook Elementary School. Demonstrators there urged state and federal authorities not to introduce new restrictions on gun ownership as task forces created by the Legislature and Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy consider changes to state gun laws.

In Albany, N.Y., several thousand people aimed their protests at Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who this week signed legislation that puts a tighter ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Protesters chanted "Freedom," "U.S.A." and "Cuomo's Gotta Go." Some gun owners said they are being unfairly targeted by the new law.



James Wilson carries a "Come and take it" flag Saturday during a gun rights demonstration on the lawn of the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. Dave Martin, AP











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"I don't feel like I'm a criminal. In order to keep order, we need good guys with guns," said Heather Johnson of Kirkville, N.Y.

At the Iowa capitol in Des Moines, state Rep. Tom Shaw told the crowd that serving overseas in the Navy had taught him the importance of allowing average citizens to defend themselves against dictators.

"I saw the eyes of the oppressed ... screaming for freedom," Shaw said. "I'm going to make sure that never happens in America and never happens in Iowa."

Chris Chaney, 23, of Davenport, Iowa, said he's disgusted by what he sees as the use of children's deaths in the Connecticut school shooting to win political support for gun-control legislation.

"If we give up liberty in the name of security, we will have neither," Chaney said. "Everybody has a right to defend themselves against evil people and tyranny."

Nearly 100 gun advocates drove from across South Dakota to attend a rally under the state's capitol dome in Pierre, where speakers praised gun rights as the only defense against tyranny and crime.

"When you try to take away our right to bear guns, you're trying to tear our country down," said Jeff Monroe, a state senator who addressed the crowd.

There were no actual firearms visible at the rally, which was held inside the Capitol where only law enforcement officers are allowed to be armed.

But a rally in Frankfort, Ky., drew hundreds of participants, several shouldering firearms and wearing holsters, and Tea Party leader David Adams told the crowd, "Our government is out of control."

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., received a large round of applause for announcing this week that he wants to introduce legislation to overturn Obama's recent executive orders on firearms and for saying teachers should be armed at schools.

Authorities reported no problems at an rallies, which remained peaceful Saturday afternoon.

Contributing: Matt Okarmus of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Joseph Spector of the Gannett Albany (N.Y.) Bureau, Jens Manuel Krogsatad of The Des Moines Register, David Montgomery of the (Sioux Falls, S.D.) Argus Leader, Tom Loftus or The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal, Terricha Bradley of the (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger; The Associated Press


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Over Authority





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Published on Jun 27, 2012


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Why Lambs Speak Like Dragons - Bill Hughes





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Alberto Rivera: The Rider of the Pale Horse




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Published on Sep 3, 2012


Alberto Rivera speaks on the prophetic significance of the rider on the pale horse in Revelation 6:8


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