Our FUCKIN PRESIDENT may God help us all now

Whether you are an Obama fan, or not, EVERYONE IN THE U. S. needs to know....

Something happened... H.R. 1388 was passed yesterday, behind our backs. You may want to read about it. It wasn't mentioned on the news... just went by on the ticker tape at the bottom of the CNN screen.

Obama funds $20M in tax payer dollars to immigrate Hamas Refugees to the USA . This is the news that didn't make the headlines... Hamas is the terrorist group that continues to attack Israel, our American alia, and sworn friend, now this jack-ass president is going spend my money, and put them in my home.... how dare that son-of-bitch!

By executive order, President Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3 million in "migration assistance" to the Palestinian refugees and "conflict victims" in Gaza . The "presidential determination", which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States , was signed on January 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on February 4.

Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006.

Where's my help Mr. President? I could use help with my housing, and food. I am a true American, served in the military, and have pledged my allegiance to this country

Let's review...itemized list of some of Barack Obama's most recent actions since his inauguration:
His first call to any head of state, as president, was to Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah party in the Palestinian territory.

His first one-on-one television interview with any news organization was with Al Arabia television.

His first executive order was to fund/facilitate abortion(s) not just here within the U. S. , but within the world, using U. S. tax payer funds.

Abortion has been a problem in America for a long time, many U.S. citizens feel that abortion is wrong, and it goes against God purpose, now this jack-ass president is going to spend my money again on shit I don't agree with, not only is this ass-hole spending my money on this, but he is spending my money in foreign countries. Lets try to keep my money in my own country, if you don't mind. If you feel you want to do this shit , then spend your own damn money on it, NOT MINE!

He ordered Guantanamo Bay closed and all military trials of detainees halted.

Where the hell are we going to put these people? Did you forget these our the same people who have sworn to be an emeny of the United States, they picked up arms and went out to kill our people. These people at Guantanamo bay are so bad that there own country won't even take them back. So this idiot thinks its a good idea to bring them to America.... Thanks Mr. President I feel so safe with you there, giving away my home, safety, and my money.

He ordered overseas CIA interrogation centers closed.

He withdrew all charges against the masterminds behind the USS Cole and the "terror attack" on 9/11.

Where is the justice for the lives lost on the USS Cole, and the lives lost on 9/11? The mesg I am getting here is that it is ok to kill U.S. Citiziens here and aboard, because of some wacked so-called god Ali says its ok, and these loser Muslims are just so mis-understood. Give me a break!

NEVER FOGET THEY ATTACKED US, THEY SLAPPED US IN THE FACE A DARED US TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. WE DID NOW THEY CRY FOUL, AND WE HAVE TO FEEL SORRY FOR THEM..... I say fuck them let them die.

Now we learn that he is allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refuges to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense.

These important, and insightful, issues are being "lost" in the blinding bail-outs and "stimulation" packages.

Doubtful? To verify this for yourself:

www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2009-02-04-E9-2488

PLEASE PASS THIS ON... AMERICA NEEDS TO KNOW

WE are losing this country at a rapid pace.

1987

Do you
Remember 1987 ?

Thought
you might be interested in this forgotten bit of
information.........

It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration. There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning!

He was being drilled by a senator; 'Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?' Ollie replied, 'Yes, I did, Sir.'

The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience 'Isn't that just a little excessive?' 'No, sir,' continued Ollie. 'No? And why not?' the senator asked. 'Because the lives of my family and I were threatened,
sir.''Threatened? By whom?' the senator questioned.'By a terrorist, sir' Ollie answered.

'Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?' 'His name is Osama Bin Laden, sir' Ollie replied. At this point the senator tried to
repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then
probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the
senator continued.

Why are you so afraid of this man?' the senator asked.'Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of', Ollie answered.

'And what do you recommend we do about him?' asked the senator.'Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the faceof the earth.'

The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.


By the way, that senator was

Al
Gore!

Also: the terrorist Mohammad Atta Blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called 'political prisoners.'

However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands, The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, 'insisted' that all prisoners be released.

Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked us by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center .. This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified.

It
was censored in the US from all later reports

No You Cant....Obama

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April 8, 2009 Vol. 4, No. 14 No, We Can't by Newt Gingrich President Obama enjoys comparing himself favorably to his predecessor. As a candidate he called the Bush Administration "one of the most secretive, closed administrations in history." As President, Obama has pledged "an unprecedented level of openness in government." Unless, that is, you want to voice your opinion as a citizen on whether we should reduce America's dependence on foreign oil by developing offshore oil and gas reserves. Whether you're pro or con, if you want to comment on offshore drilling, the "Yes, We Can!" Obama Administration has a simple, three-word answer for you: No, you can't. The Bush Interior Department Was Open to Public Comment (Pro and Con) on Drilling This is change alright, but not the good kind. Sponsored Content SEND A TEA BAG TO WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR $1.00! PatriotDepot.com & Reagan.org have joined forces to send 1,000,000 Tea Bags to Washington, D.C. on April 15th! You can sponsor a tea bag for just $1.00. Forward this email to your friends and help us reach our goal of 1,000,000 tea bags. More than 20,000 tea bags were sponsored in the first 24 hours! CLICK HERE TO SPONSOR A TEA BAG Last July, you may remember, President Bush rescinded the 18-year-old executive ban on offshore drilling in order to access the estimated 115 billion barrels of oil on the outer continental shelf. The elimination of the ban kicked off a regulatory process at the Interior Department to determine where to drill. The public was invited to comment. As part of the "Drill Here, Drill Now" campaign, American Solutions put out the call to supporters of responsible offshore drilling to make their voices heard. The "Drill Here, Drill Now" Campaign Was a Success of Citizen Activism The process was simple. From AmericanSolutions.com it was just two clicks on the computer to the government officials who were determining where the new oil and gas leases would be located. Just two steps. The response was overwhelming. From American Solutions alone, nearly 40,000 Americans used this simple, online process to let Bush Interior Department officials know they supported safe offshore drilling. In the end, supporters of responsible domestic energy production won the comment period by a margin of 86,000 to 79,000. And Congress responded to this outpouring of citizen support in September by letting its own moratorium on drilling expire. The Administration That Has Promised "Unprecedented Openness" Won't Provide an Email Address for Public Comment So where are we today? The government has created a proposed list of offshore leasing sites, including off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and California. And because public comments will be central in determining the fate of this plan, American Solutions once again developed a quick and easy way for Americans to weigh in online. Just go to YourEnergyOpinion.com. Enter your name, your address, and your email. Then hit "send." But just as soon as we were about to open this window, the Obama Administration slammed it shut. The government that has pledged itself to "unprecedented openness" and "collaboration" with the American people has refused to provide a government email address to forward public comments to. Instead of a Simple Email Address, You Have to Follow a Hopelessly Complicated, Ten-Step Process Instead of this simplified process, citizens have to undertake a hopelessly complicated, difficult to follow, ten-step process that goes like this: First go to Regulations.gov. Notice that there is no link on that page about submitting comments on offshore drilling. Instead, the next step is to click the link next to "Advanced Docket Search" under "More Search Options." Then, you have to click the drop-down menu labeled "Agency" and select "Minerals Management Service." Then, if you aren't frustrated enough by this tedious process, you have to manually enter the identification code for offshore drilling. How do you find that? Go to the Department of the Interior and look at the Minerals Management Website. Once you've found the code - the easily memorized "MMS-2008-OMM-0045" - go back to Regulations.gov and enter it into the "Docket ID" box. Fed up yet? You're only halfway there. Click "Submit" and wait for the system to retrieve the right regulation for you to comment on. Hopefully you entered the 16-character code correctly or else you will have to start over. If you entered everything correctly, you have to click the link for the code you entered. That code again is "MMS-2008-OMM-0045." Then, you will probably see a list of results (although the system doesn't work correctly every time and sometimes you have to resubmit everything.) In those list of results, at the top of the list is the docket ID "MMS-2008-OMM-0045-0001." Click the yellow balloon under "Add Comments" on the same line as that ID. (Notice, too, that the ID you are commenting on isn't even the same complicated code that you had to enter to get to this page.) If you still have enough patience, fill out all of the required fields. Finally, submit your comments to the Department of Interior about offshore drilling. To Make Your Voice Heard on the Environment...You Must Hurt the Environment Of course, if you really want to have your voice heard on offshore drilling, you could use one of the other options made available by the Obama Administration: Write your opinion down on paper and spend the time and the postage it takes to use snail mail. Write your opinion down on paper and travel to Virginia and deliver your comments in person. Travel to one of four town meetings and hope you get called on. Some would argue that all of these options are less cumbersome than using Regulations.gov, but all of them are less 'green' than a paperless email system. The irony: Being forced to hurt the environment to voice your opinion on the environment. American Solutions Has Your Back If President Obama really wants to have the most open government in American history, he should allow citizens to email their comments on offshore drilling. Sponsored Content Retirement, "Plan B" - Receive Paychecks Every 12 Days For Life Without ever doing a moment's work, you can now legally sneak onto the "payroll" of over 1,000 of America's best companies. You receive a check as often as every 12 days, and annual income can run as high as $120,000 or more. Learn more here It won't necessarily distinguish him from his predecessor, but it would be the right thing to do. While we wait for President Obama to make up his mind on what he believes, American Solutions will make sure what the American people believe is heard by President Obama. Simply go to YourEnergyOpinion.com and enter your information and support for safe, responsible offshore drilling. American Solutions will store your comments, and if the Obama Administration still refuses to practice the transparency they preach, we will hand deliver your letter for you to the Department of the Interior. Announcement: I Will Be Speaking at the New York Tax Day Tea Party April 15 is just a week away. As you prepare to pay the cost of big government next Wednesday, make sure to arrange to fight back against the high spending, high borrowing, high-taxing Obama budget by attending a Tax Day Tea Party on April 15. The Tax Day Tea Party movement has become a nationwide, grassroots phenomenon. I am looking forward to speaking at the New York City Tea Party. If you live in the area, I hope you will join me. Fox's Sean Hannity will be broadcasting live from the Tea Party in Atlanta. American Solutions' Dave Ryan will also be in Atlanta, and Princella Smith will be speaking at the Washington, D.C., Tea Party. I encourage you to attend a Tea Party rally in your area. I am working with two groups to get people to the rallies. The first group is TaxDayTeaParty.com, a broad coalition of grassroots groups which has already organized many of the Tea Parties that you probably heard about. They have already confirmed more than 400 locations in all 50 states for the April 15 Tea Parties. The second group is TeaPartyDay.com which is a joint effort by Renewing American Leadership and the American Family Association. They are committed to bringing people of faith and their families to the Tea Parties to show support for the family budget over the federal budget. They have over 2,000 organizers in 1,800 cities on their website. But Before You Go, Arm Yourself With the Facts The more we learn about the Obama budget, the worse it looks. Consider these facts, compiled by the Institute for Policy Innovation: Under the Obama budget, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the national debt will soar over the next 10 years from 40 percent of GDP today to a shocking 82.4 percent. (Ronald Reagan left office with the national debt at 42 percent of GDP). The president's budget also states that total federal borrowing will grow by $2.7 trillion this year alone, an increase of 27 percent in one year! The budget President Obama proposes for this year increases federal spending by an incredible 34 percent over the previous year, with a total of $4 trillion in federal spending, the highest ever. Before you head off to a Tax Day Tea Party next Wednesday, arm yourself with the facts about the Obama budget. And remember to go to AmericanSolutions.com/TeaParty and get your Took Kit for Tea Parties. Come out on April 15 and make your voice heard. Your friend, Newt Gingrich Newt's Quick Links: My statement on "Fox News Sunday" that the North Koreans should never have been allowed to fire a long-range ballistic missile, as they did last week, has attracted a lot of attention. But as I mentioned in this article on National Review Online back in 2006, the strategy of just talking to North Koreans failed long ago. And as my co-author Bill Forstchen illustrates so vividly in his new book, One Second After, if the North Koreans use their new missile technology to launch an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the United States, the results would be truly devastating.

Well is he or isnt he?

March 9, 2009 Well Is He, or Isn't He? Paul Hollrah It is a popular topic of discussion in political circles these days, and as the weeks pass more and more people are asking, "Is Barack Obama really a natural born citizen of the United States? Is he eligible to serve as President, or isn't he?" If he is, then so be it. We'll just have to grit our teeth until this long dark nightmare comes to an end. one way or another. But what if he is not eligible? What then? Well, in that case we have a problem. a very large problem, the solution to which could tear asunder the fabric of American society. Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution states that, "No person except a natural born citizen. shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States." That's pretty straightforward, yet, when confronted with the possibility that the man who sits in the Oval Office may be a usurper, a great many otherwise patriotic Americans can be heard to say, "What difference does it make? The election's over; the people have spoken. Get over it!" Well, it's not quite as simple as all that and the sooner we can all be satisfied that Obama is or is not a natural born citizen, the better. To postpone that finding for a year or two and then find, conclusively, that Obama is not eligible to serve as president would be disastrous. Every new law and every executive order he had signed, every political appointment, every judicial appointment, every order he had given to the military, and every act and every decision of all of his appointees would immediately become null and void. How could we ever undo all of that? The American people would quickly learn that it is not much easier to undo two or three years of history than it is to undo a decade or a century. It is imperative that we get to the bottom of this mystery as quickly as possible so that all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, can finally accept that, like it or not, Barack Obama is our president. In order to do that, and to force Obama to end his stubborn refusal to produce his birth certificate, his passports, his visas, and his college records, we must continue to recruit more and more Americans to insist that he do so. To do that, it is not necessary to prove that he was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii. as his paternal grandmother, a Kenyan half-brother, and a Kenyan half-sister insist. or who his natural father may have been. The proof of Obama's failure to meet the "natural born citizen" standard is much simpler than that. To convert a non-believer. one who insists that the Constitutional requirements must be met, but who believes that questions about Obama's citizenship status are nothing more than sour grapes. it is only necessary to establish the facts surrounding Obama's travel to Indonesia and Pakistan in the summer of 1981. Although Obama fails to mention that trip in either of his memoirs. not in Dreams from My Father and not in The Audacity of Hope. he made a potentially fatal error when he mentioned the Pakistan trip during an April 6, 2008 speech in San Francisco. the same speech in which he referred to rural Pennsylvanians as "bitter" people who "cling to guns or religion." In that speech, Obama explained in an offhand manner the value of that trip, vis-à-vis his knowledge of foreign affairs, saying, "I knew what Sunni and Shia was (sic) before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee." When questioned about that trip, Obama's campaign press secretary, Bill Burton, confirmed to the New York Times, and others, that Obama had visited Pakistan in 1981 on his return from Indonesia, traveling there with a Pakistani friend from Occidental College, Wahid Hamid. According to Burton, Obama stayed in Karachi with the family of another Pakistani friend, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo. Obama has never mentioned the Pakistan trip again. So it is well established that Obama did travel to Indonesia and Pakistan in 1981. What is not established, and what is critically important, is what passport he used during that trip. There are only three possibilities: Obama could have traveled under a U.S. passport. a passport first issued when he and his mother moved from Hawaii to Indonesia in 1967; he could have traveled under an Indonesian passport, issued following his adoption by his Indonesian stepfather; and it is conceivable that, if he was, in fact, born in Kenya in 1961, he could still have been a British subject, traveling with a British passport. So which is it? Unfortunately for Obama, in the present circumstance, Pakistan was under martial law in 1981 and certain undesirables. Christians, Jews, and Americans. were prohibited from entering the country. Pakistan was on the U.S. State Department's "no travel" list, making a U.S. passport no more valuable than an empty chewing gum wrapper at the Karachi Port of Entry. So how did a young man who arrived in New York in early June 1981, without the price of a hotel room in his pocket, suddenly come up with the price of a round-the-world trip just a month later? And once he was on a plane, shuttling between New York, Jakarta, and Karachi, what passport was he offering when he passed through Customs and Immigration? The American people not only deserve to have answers to these questions, they must have answers. It makes the debate over Obama's citizenship a rather short and simple one. Q: Did he travel to Pakistan in 1981, at age 20? A: Yes, by his own admission. Q: What nationality passport did travel under? A: There are only three possibilities. 1. He traveled with a U.S. passport, 2) He traveled with a British passport, or 3) He traveled with an Indonesian passport. Q: Is it possible that Obama traveled with a U.S. passport in 1981? A: No. It is not possible. Pakistan was on the U.S. State Department's "no travel" list in 1981. Conclusion: When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981 he was traveling either with a British passport or an Indonesian passport. If he was traveling with a British passport that would provide proof that he was born in Kenya on August 4, 1961, not in Hawaii as he claims. If he was traveling with an Indonesian passport that would tend to prove that he relinquished whatever previous citizenship he held, British or American, prior to being adopted by his Indonesian step-father in 1967. Whatever the truth of the matter, the American people need to know how he managed to become a "natural born" American citizen between 1981 and 2008. Given the destructive nature of his plans for America, as illustrated by his speech before Congress and the disastrous spending plan he has presented to Congress, the sooner we learn the truth of all this, the better. Is he a "natural born" citizen, or isn't he? It seems pretty clear from the available evidence that he is not. If that proves to be the case he should minimize the damage to the country and follow the Nixon example; he should simply resign from office so that we can begin to clean up the mess he leaves behind. FamilySecurityMatters..org Contributing Editor Paul Hollrah is a Senior Fellow at the Lincoln Heritage Institute. You can find this online at: http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2700/pub_detail.asp COPYRIGHT 2009 FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS INC

Top 10 ..... Proverty in OUR Major Cities

Top 10..Poverty in Our Major Cities

City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level
1. Detroit , MI	32.5%
2. Buffalo , NY	29.9%
3. Cincinnati , OH	27.8%
4. Cleveland , OH	27.0%
5. Miami , FL	26.9%
5. St. Louis , MO	26.8%
7. El Paso , TX	26.4%
8. Milwaukee , WI	26.2%
9. Philadelphia , PA	25.1%
10. Newark , NJ	24.2%

U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007

What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit, MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961;

Buffalo, NY (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati , OH (3rd).....since 1984;

Cleveland , OH (4th)...since 1989;

Miami , FL (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St.. Louis , MO (6th)....since 1949;

El Paso , TX (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

Milwaukee , WI (8th)...since 1908;

Philadelphia , PA (9th)...since 1952;

Newark , NJ (10th)...since 1907.

Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats---yet they are still ..............POOR

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."

Abraham Lincoln

...........................and you, Mr. Obama, are no Abe Lincoln

So much for the hope of the future

WASHINGTON – Calling it an "imperfect" bill, President Barack Obama signed a $410 billion spending package Wednesday that includes billions in earmarks like those he promised to curb in last year's campaign. He insisted the bill must signal an "end to the old way of doing business." The massive measure supporting federal agencies through the fall contains nearly 8,000 pet projects, earmarked by sponsors though denounced by critics. So even though its imperfect, your going to waste my money of this Bull-Shit. Tell again why you are the condutit of change??

Obama defended earmarks when they're "done right," allowing lawmakers to direct money to worthy projects in their districts. But he said they've been abused, and he promised to work with Congress to curb them. Well how about working to curb them with congress NOW???

"I am signing an imperfect omnibus bill because it's necessary for the ongoing functions of government," Obama declared. "But I also view this as a departure point for more far-reaching change."

In a sign of his discomfort with the bill, Obama signed it in private. He declined to answer a shouted reporter's question about why. Then why sign the mother fucker at all, ooh I know because you have to finish paying off the cock suckers who put you there, well thanks for wasting my money, and where is my help???

Obama also released a "signing statement" in which he said several of the bill's provisions raised constitutional concerns. This week, Obama criticized his predecessor, George W. Bush, for frequently issuing such statements upon signing bills into law. Bush attached the statements to legislation he viewed as placing unconstitutional limits on executive power.

Running for president, Obama denounced the many pet projects as wasteful and open to abuse — and vowed reform. Sure you'll bash Bush for his time in office then you go ahead and do the same crap, so what about your so-called vow to reform??

He said Wednesday that future earmarks must have a "legitimate and worthy public purpose" and that any earmark for a private company should be subject to competitive bidding rules. He said he would "work with Congress" to eliminate any the administration objects to.

He acknowledged that the system of influential lawmakers inserting earmarked projects has bred cynicism, and he declared, "This piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business."If you are the change or the hope as you call yourself, then stop signing crap, that hurts the people that you are suppose to be helping......

White House officials in recent weeks have dismissed criticism of the earmarks in the bill, saying the legislation was a remnant of last year and that the president planned to turn his attention to future spending instead of looking backward. are kidding me, "dismissed criticism of earmarks". Earmark's should be criticized, when they do nothing for the everyday day who will gain nothing from the shitty bill...

Obama's modest reform proposals build upon changes initiated by Republicans in 2006 and strengthened by Democrats two years ago. Most importantly, every earmark and its sponsor would have to be made public. So who are they, who is fucking us this time, and are we going to get some flowers for are ass-raping this time??

In new steps — outlined in concert with House Democratic leaders Wednesday morning — the House Appropriations Committee will submit every earmark to the appropriate executive branch agency for a review. And any earmark designed to go to for-profit companies would have to be awarded through competitive bidding.

Obama promised to resurrect a long-defunct process by which the president proposes to cut spending from bills that he has signed into law. Well how about starting now??

Under this "rescissions" process, the White House sends Congress a roster of cuts for its consideration. Congress is free to ignore the cuts, but both Obama and senior members including Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., say they want to use it to clean out bad earmarks that make it through the process.

Obama declined to endorse a stronger process advocated by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and others that would require Congress to vote on a presidential rescission earmark package. Senior Democrats dislike the idea even though many of them backed it in the early- to mid-1990s.

During his presidential campaign, Obama promised to force Congress to curb its pork-barrel-spending ways. Yet the bill sent from the Democratic-controlled Congress to the White House on Tuesday contained 7,991 earmarks totaling $5.5 billion, according to calculations by the Republican staff of the House Appropriations Committee.

The 1,132-page bill has an extraordinary reach, wrapping together nine spending bills to fund the annual operating budgets of every Cabinet department except Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs. Among the many earmarks are $485,000 for a boarding school for at-risk native students in western Alaska and $1.2 million for Helen Keller International so the nonprofit can provide eyeglasses to students with poor vision.

Most of the government has been running on a stopgap funding bill set to expire at midnight Wednesday. Refusing to sign the newly completed spending bill would have forced Congress to pass another bill to keep the lights on Thursday or else shut down the massive federal government. That was an unlikely possibility for a president who has spent just seven weeks in office.

The $410 billion bill includes significant increases in food aid for the poor, energy research and other programs. It was supposed to have been completed last fall, but Democrats opted against election-year battles with Republicans and former President George W. Bush

The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson

The Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe . Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson

And last but not least

In light of the present financial crisis, it's interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: 'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.'