Welcome! 06/29/2009
Posted by Leona Dawnfire in Uncategorized.Tags: a rising dawn, introduction, welcome
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Welcome to A Rising Dawn!
We believe in the freedom of the press and the power of the people. Here we are dedicated to the American ideals laid out in the US Constitution. In this blog, we shall share information about events around the world, bills being reviewed and passed by the United States government, as well as other related information. Opinions expressed in this blog are just that – opinions. Feel free to express your own!*
*Vulgar and offensive language is not permitted. Please be civil when expressing your opinions.
More and More Jobs Saved by Stimulus…Not 01/13/2010
Posted by Leona Dawnfire in Government.Tags: Government, stimulus, White House
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787 billion dollars to save/create jobs. That’s $787,000,000,000 of taxpayer money spent, supposedly to help the economy and the people by saving jobs.
The initial number: 640,329 jobs saved or created. However, many errors were discovered, including jobs supposedly created and saved in districts that do not even exist. Try again.
Then, somehow, despite many of the jobs not being real, the number of “saved” and “created” jobs rose to 900,000. Unbelievable.
Now the White House claims that the stimulus package saved 1.5 million to 2 million jobs. Incidentally, they also changed the requirements for counting the jobs. Instead of actually needed to determine whether or not the job would have existed without the money, ANY job that received ANY money from the stimulus package counts as a saved or created job. That includes raises to employees who were in no danger of losing their jobs. Also, double counting is impossible to avoid. Each quarter will include all the same jobs as before, making it appear as though many more jobs have been funded.
Despite these supposed saved/created jobs, unemployment has been rising and is now at 10%. Surely the American people are not dense enough to believe what the White House is claiming.
Keep America Safe: 100 Hours 01/09/2010
Posted by Leona Dawnfire in Government, Obama.Tags: obama, terror, terrorism, video
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Did it take you this long to realize that something in the system failed?
Behind Closed Doors – Health Care Negotiations Hidden from the Public Eye 01/07/2010
Posted by Leona Dawnfire in Government, Health Care, Obama.Tags: Congress, health care, obama
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“That’s what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are.” Obama said this in a debate against Hillary Clinton in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2008.
Yet now Democrats are negotiating and discussing the health care bill behind closed doors. Congress is leaving out the GOP. Obama has done nothing to bring the parties together – he has forced them more apart than ever. The only thing allowing him to do this is the Democratic majority – but that majority will not last long.
The American people are fed up with the lies, the broken promises, the bribes, the deals behind closed doors, and a government that is not listening to the people.
Our President does not care about what the people believe or want – he wants to get items passed that he wants, and he wants to get them through quickly, without proper negotiations and process. He wants to be able to announce such new policies as great victories, when they are really devastating weapons against the people’s freedoms.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/White-House-We-will-NOT-discuss-broken-C-Span-promise-80829987.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/05/c-span-challenges-congress-open-health-care-talks-tv-coverage/
America Rising 01/05/2010
Posted by Leona Dawnfire in Freedom, Government.Tags: America, Congress, Freedom, obama, video
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We have had enough.
Obama Hung in Effigy in Jimmy Carter’s Hometown – Secret Service Involved 01/04/2010
Posted by Leona Dawnfire in Obama.Tags: Bill of Rights, constitution, Jimmy Carter, obama, Sarah Palin, Secret Service
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A dummy of President Obama was found hanging from a sign dedicated to Jimmy Carter in Plains, Georgia. The Secret Service is now on a hunt for the person or persons responsible.
“The sheriff made this clear: This is a country that has freedom of speech, and we protect that right even when we think it’s idiotic and stupid and in bad taste,” said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Sheriff’s Department.
The display “appears to violate no law, said officials of the Secret Service.”
Yet, the Secret Service is investigating and is in search of who did it, when it is nothing more than a use of free speech? That is because the above quotes are not about the effigy of Obama, but another effigy:
Flashback: October, 2008, West Hollywood, California. Sarah Palin hung in effigy.
When Palin was hung in effigy, no one did anything about it because it was “free speech.” Even the Secret Service themselves admitted that the effigy violated no laws.
Hanging someone in effigy is a form of speech and protest, both of which the American people have a right to under the US Constitution. Hanging someone in effigy has long been a symbol of distaste, anger, or resentment and is sometimes used as an extreme way to communicate that you disagree with the person.
Whoever it was who hung Obama in effigy did nothing wrong. The Secret Service should not be hunting for them. The act was one of free speech and protest against the President – again, both rights are guaranteed through the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2010/01/video-obama-effigy-hung-in-georgia.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/29/local/me-palineffigy29
Obama Snubs a King (and all of Norway) 12/10/2009
Posted by Leona Dawnfire in Obama.Tags: Nobel Peace Prize, Norway, obama
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President Obama has turned down a dinner with King Harald V, didn’t visit his own exhibition in the Nobel Peace Center, didn’t go to a concert that was arranged in his honor, and even dissed a group of children who were to meet him in front of City Hall.
Norwegians (those giving him the Peace Prize) are shocked and angered by these snubs. Obama is breaking tradition in such a way as being (likely) the most rude winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in history. Some could try to pass it off as Obama simply not understanding European culture – but surely no one can buy that. He has people who know the culture advising him, and European culture is not so vastly different from American culture that it is entirely incomprehensible.
These actions are sheer arrogance.
President Obama is the way in which America is viewed by the rest of the world. He is our leader, thus, he (is supposed to) reflect the people. Obama has consistently showed himself to be mightier-than-thou, arrogant, rude, and, to put it simply, a lie. The Obama that the people elected was nothing more than a mask of hope – underneath, there’s just a boorish, self-centered man who has no idea how to even be a gentleman.
Is that how you want the world to view America?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-09/obamas-oslo-snub/
School out of control 11/23/2009
Posted by Hotonis in Government, Personal, Schools, school.add a comment
This has to be the first time in my experience that I am fully agreeing with something the ACLU is doing.
Smith-Green Community School Corporation and Churubusco High School Principal Austin Couch suspended two indiana teenagers athletic privileges for putting racy pictures of themselves on Myspace.
According to the school district policy they violated the terms of their athletic agreement.
The two teenagers have apparently gotten a lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union, and are now suing the school district for violating the first amendment. I say more power to them, and this is why.
The public school system has gotten out of hand. From my personal experience, the school interferes with things that are not within their jurisdiction. My evidence is from what was done to me. I was sent to a mental institution for becoming suicidal (btw I was on Topamax a drug for migraines in which it was recently released that it is prone to causing people to become suicidal) , and then before I could return to the school, rumors were created that I was planning on my own school shootout. I was suspended from all school activities for three weeks. A bit harsh right?
I sent my complaints to the school board, and was refused any type of hearing to get me back in school. When I contacted them, they would not give me a moment to plead my case and just told me to contact my principal and work through her. When I talked to my principal, I found out that it is not considered a suspension because they assigned me a homebound teacher. I will say that I got along with this teacher, but she was trained to teach homebound kids from middle school. She had no experience in any of the subjects I was taking because I was taking all higher level courses, AP courses, and duel enrollment through the community college.
I was not allowed to attend class for a total of three weeks after I was in an institution for a week mostly because of a migraine medication I was on. This was becoming absolutely ridiculous. I was never able to improve on my grades in my physics class, so I finished the year with a D+ because there were some vital concepts that I was never able to understand that my teacher went over while I was out of class. I had to drop AP European history because of inability to work with the teacher. Because of these two grades dropping, I was not able to stay in Beta Club that would have given me a very good scholarship to the college I am at now. I lost a very good friend of mine because I said things during the time that I was suicidal that I still wish I could take back. I was unable to be a part of any of my senior year band competitions because of the timing I was out of class.
All this because of a medication, and an administration refusing to hear my case. There must be something done about this system. Anyone who reads this hear my plea.
The government has got to get out of our schools, or else more people are going to end up like I did. Petition the government to redress grievances in our schools.
Health Care Bill Vote to End the Filibuster 11/21/2009
Posted by Leona Dawnfire in Government, Health Care, Obama.Tags: Government, health care, poll, Senate
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There are 58 Democrats in the Senate. There are also 2 Independents who tend to vote with the Democrats. 60 votes are needed to end the filibuster, which would lead to a vote for the Health Care Bill to pass it into law.
One of the Independents is certainly voting for the bill. The other Independent and one Democrat are questioning whether or not to vote for ending the filibuster.
The Health Care Bill the Senate is to vote on was only released on Wednesday the 18th. It is 2074 pages long. Who has read it?
Any vote for ending the filibuster is essentially a vote for the Health Care Bill because it continues to push the Bill forward. Thus, the federal government is two votes away from taking over our health care, insurance, and well-being. Do you trust the government with your life? With the lives of your children?
The Health Care Bill is a serious violation of our rights. The Bill is a huge overstep of the government’s power. Where in the Constitution does it say that the government can control our health care? Where does the Bill of Rights say that humans have an inherent right to health care insurance?
The Health Care Bill is unconstitutional, un-American, and downright wrong. This bill cannot become law. We expressed our displeasure at the townhall meetings. We expressed our desire to be heard at the Tea Parties. We have told them over and over, “You work for us!” We don’t want the Health Care Bill. It is bad for America. The federal government needs to stop treating us as inferior and realize that they are only there because of us. We can take away their power.
We should take away their power.
We have to take away their power.
Jobs Saved or Created by Stimulus…in Districts that Don’t Exist 11/17/2009
Posted by Leona Dawnfire in Government.Tags: stimulus
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Ooh, busted!
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(From ABC News)
Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.
Discrepancies on government web site call into question stimulus spending.
There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.
And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.
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The list of spending and job creation in fictional congressional districts extends to U.S. territories as well.
$68.3 million spent and 72.2 million spent in the 1st congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
$8.4 million spent and 40.3 jobs created in the 99th congressional district of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
$1.5 million spent and .3 jobs created in the 69th district and $35 million for 142 jobs in the 99th district of the Northern Mariana Islands.
$47.7 million spent and 291 jobs created in Puerto Rico’s 99th congressional district.
Interesting facts and figures, but none of these districts exist.
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The Recovery Board is trying to cover their butts by playing the blame game and saying it’s human err – but not on their part. It’s just that they report what they are told and everyone else keeps messing up.
But if the number of jobs created/saved keeps getting overestimated (again…) and over 10% of said jobs are in districts that don’t exist…where in the world is our money going?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/16/examiner-analysis-more-than-10-of-stimulus-jobs-are-phony/
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