Common Sense Thinking (or lack thereof) 2

9)  Who exactly is Barack Obama?  What is his agenda?  I have in the past cited his known associates, some criminal, some socialist/communist radicals, some radical Islamists, and some black and white radicals. Pieces of his agenda have been highlighted.  This item provides details, some shared previously, some new.  It does not paint a pretty picture of who and what Obama is and summarizes the truth of his nefarious "transform America" agenda.  Quote: "Some of the very same protesters involved in the street-level take-overs are, or have been in power under Obama. Eric Holder, for example, participated in the armed take-over of the former Columbia University ROTC office for 5 days in 1970. Holder served as Obama’s Attorney General from February 3, 2009 through April 27, 2015, replaced by Loretta Lynch.  Other members of Obama’s inner circle played important roles to varying degrees, including advisors, during his fundamental changing of the United States, including Bill Ayers and Ayers’ wife, Bernardine Dohrn, a self-described “revolutionary communist.” The list of individuals is lengthy. The pretexts differ, but the anarchy playbooks have been modified only to make the best use of social media, which provides more effective avenues of communication and organization." And, "We are seeing exactly what happens when we allow a man with known ties to members of the Marxist/Leninist/Maoist Left to take charge of a nation. We are seeing the fruits of his known associations, past and present, to be brushed aside as some sort of “fringe” conspiracy talk, even by some of our own. Those who have questioned his meteoric rise to power from a community organizer to the Oval Office without verifications of his genuine, authenticated bona fides, only to be told to stand down by fellow conservatives, should feel vindicated, if it helps. Obama, through his appointments, associates and his own words has made his biases clear, and his objectives clearer. Just as the “New Left” of the late 60’s and 70’s promised, their mission is to build a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary movement,” to replace the “racist, capitalist and imperialist American system,” To build the new system, though, they must burn down the old."  And, previously identified people along with this reprobate have met with or worked with, or work for Obama.  Quote: "BLM co-Founder Patrisse Cullors met with Michelle Obama at the White House on February 20, 2015In July 2015, Cullors spoke at the annual Netroots Nation convention in Phoenix. In the course of her remarks, she exhorted fellow blacks to “rise the f*** up” and “burn everything down!” She also said that the allegedly high incidence of black-on-black crime “is a myth.” And finally take note of this: "It is critical to note that this group has direct ties to the Obama White House. It is equally important to note that BLM is funded by many of the same who have funded both Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.  It has little to do with equal rights or civil justice, but chaos, anarchy and the destruction of America."   http://www.hagmannreport.com/headline-news/obamas-agenda-of-anarchy/   Wake up folks, danger ahead especially if Hillary gets elected. We will suffer through troubles directly attributable to Obama's destructive and divisive legacy no matter who becomes president.  Rest assured a Hillary presidency would be a continuation of Obama's destruction.  What a Trump presidency portends is unknown.  Under any circumstance, however, he is a much better risk than Hillary.

10)  Check this out.  Our national debt has doubled during Obama's tenure in office.  He has single handedly doubled the debt accumulated by all presidents combined from George Washington through to the end of George W. Bush's term.  Our national debt now increases at the rate of $100 million per hour of every day of the week.  If you think Obama has been a good steward of our nation's resources you are dead wrong.  He has been the biggest presidential spendthrift in our nation's history.  I ask you, what has it gotten us?  Deeper in debt for Zilch in benefits.  The debt will be a huge burden for our children and grandchildren and for those that follow far, far into the future.   http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/economics/item/23754-under-barack-obama-national-debt-increases-100-million-every-hour-of-every-day  Thanks, Mr. President...  And, if you think Hillary will do any better, think again.  She has already promised huge increases in taxes as if that is the solution to the problem.  She intends to take even more money out of the pockets of tax paying Americans to make debt payments and spend more on extraordinarily wasteful government programs. 

When considering the millions of dollars the Clinton's raked in giving speeches, one has to wonder....In fact, common sense demands a closer inspection.  This piece digs into the matter and encountered a most unpleasant odor and uncooperative Clinton surrogates....   Quote: "A review by the Washington Free Beacon found that Hillary Clinton often listed small foreign speaking firms as the sources of her husband’s lecture payments in her Senate and State Department disclosures, even though the actual paychecks came from undisclosed third parties.  In certain cases, these funders had interests that intersected with the U.S. State Department. Whitton, a real estate mogul, had business pending before UNESCO, an international agency that received a quarter of its funding from the State Department.  Government watchdogs say the practice is troubling from a transparency perspective, because it obscures the actual source of Clinton’s hefty payments. While the Free Beacon was able to track down information on the likely funders of several of these speeches, at least 30 of them remain a mystery. Spokespersons for the Clinton campaign and Bill Clinton’s office declined to provide the names of any actual payment sources when contacted for this article." http://freebeacon.com/issues/mystery-surrounds-sources-many-bill-clinton-speaking-fees/?

This really is common sense thinking.  Eliminate the ecological  double standards that make absolutely no sense.    http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2016/08/06/ecological-double-standards-n2202315? 

Finally a court rules that the Constitution applies in our country, not Sharia law. Quote: "Legal blogger Eugene Volokh said of the decision, “I think it was also influenced by a basic American legal principle: American courts apply American law, rather than one rule for Muslims, one rule for Christians, one rule for Jews, and so on.  “Sometimes American law does allow the implementation of foreign legal rules, or religious legal rules. A contract might, for instance, call for applying the law of Sudan, or a will might specify that the property be distributed one-fourth to the widow, one-sixth to the parents, one-sixth each to the three brothers, and one-twelfth to the one sister (whether or not that’s the Shariah-mandated split). A court may well enforce such provisions, subject to any constraints imposed by American public policy. (For instance, a contract calling for the cutting off of a person’s hand would be unenforceable; a will calling for a court to apply a legal rule that requires the court to distinguish males from females might be unenforceable, though a will calling for a court to distribute property to named parties would be enforceable.)  “But there, too, the principle is simple: American courts apply American law, including when an American law principle calls on American courts to enforce a foreign judgment, to apply foreign law or to follow terms in a contract or a will that deliberately track foreign or religious law. But there has to be an American law principle calling for such application of foreign law. And in this case, there was no such principle,” he said."    http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/u-s-court-rejects-muslims-demand-to-use-shariah/

  

Regarding the advancing problems with continuing expansion of Islamic incited violence, this former Muslim speaks common sense everyone must consider.  Quote: "These acts of terror are not a hijacking of Islam from the peaceful religion it was designed to be. Rather, these acts are the true face of Islam, and until we acknowledge it for what it is, we will continue to be victims, bowing at the feet of our executioners.” - Washington Times columnist Mark Christian.  As a former Muslim Sunni imam—now a grateful convert to Christianity—the aptly named Mr. Christian is an authority on defining what Islam is."   http://freedomoutpost.com/leftist-lie-islams-sharia-law/   Use your own common sense and dismiss the dishonest nonsense spouted by the likes of Obama and his fellow nonsensical Muslim apologists.  After the latest Muslim killing spree in France do you think Obama has enough sense to see his recipe for us is a really, really bad idea?  I think not.  Hillary has already said she wants to import one million more of these people and who knows how many of them will get the urge to drive a truck into a large crowd or blow a bunch of us to smithereens.  http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/07/after_nice_how_can_we_be_surprised_by_terrorist_attacks_anymore.html Neither of those two have any common sense at all.  They are blinded by their radical socialist/leftist ideology and self serving interests. 

Given the flaws of our two primary candidates for president this item deals with the trouble many voters are having in deciding who to vote for.  It is quite thought provoking, especially those who are Christian believers.  Since many non-believers have the same dilemma, you might, too, find the logic provided quite useful in helping you make your decision.   If you venture to read it you may also want to read the items at the two links at the end of the piece.   https://lastchanceamerica.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/to-the-never-trumper-a-biblical-case-for-trump/

Read this short item for a change of pace.  It seems to be on point.  Quote: "The society Dill describes in the last century of the Roman Empire is one burdened by increasing gaps in wealth, a declining middle class, tax evasion, corrupt politicians, cronyism, and the loss of self-government among the people.  Hmmm… It sounds all too familiar."   http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/frightening-description-decline-rome-sounds-america

This Hollywood actor sees the real world and is not blinded by the rose colored glasses or the liberal bias which plague typical Hollywood celebrities.  Read his observations which, based on facts rather the left's mandatory false narrative, are right on.  https://www.facebook.com/KevinSorbo/posts/1258679190838811

An example of common sense thinking.  Quote: "We are just now entering the age of industrialization, newly elected President Rodrigo Duterte said recently, explaining why the Philippines will not ratify the Paris climate accords. “Now that we’re developing, you will impose a limit? That’s absurd. It’s being imposed upon us by the industrialized countries. They think they can dictate our destiny.”  More developing nations are taking the same stance – and rightly so. They increasingly understand that fossil fuels are needed to modernize, industrialize, and decrease poverty, malnutrition and disease. Many supported the 2015 Paris climate treaty for three reasons.  They are not required to reduce their oil, natural gas and coal use, economic development and greenhouse gas emissions, because doing so would prevent them from improving their people’s living standards."  And, "Rich nations used fossil fuels to advance science, create wondrous technologies beyond previous generations’ wildest imaginings, eradicate killer diseases, increase life expectancy from 46 in 1900 to 78 today, and give even poor families better living standards than kings and queens enjoyed a century ago.  Instead of holding poor nations and billions of less fortunate people back still more decades, we are ethically bound to do everything we can to encourage and assist them to throw off their shackles, and join us among the world’s wealthy, healthy, technologically advanced nations."    http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2016/07/23/keeping-the-poor-impoverished-n2196581

Add this to the previous item and the odor gets worse.  Quote: "A number of Hillary Clinton’s top lobbyist bundlers, who have raised millions for her presidential campaign, either directly represent foreign entities or work at firms that represent foreign entities, according to documents from the Justice Department’s Foreign Agents Registration Unit.  Hillary for America, Clinton’s campaign committee, has hauled in more than $7 million in bundled lobbyist contributions since its inception. The committee finished 2015 with $4.1 million in bundled lobbyist contributions. It has since added more than $2.9 million to its coffers from lobbyists, with $1.2 million of that amount pouring in during the second quarter of 2016, from April 1 to June 30. Tony Podesta, owner of the Podesta Group and brother of John Podesta, the chairman of Clinton’s campaign, is a top bundler for Hillary for America. Podesta has bundled $267,835 in contributions to date. Podesta was hired to work on behalf of Saudi interests.     http://freebeacon.com/politics/top-clinton-lobbyist-bundlers-tied-foreign-banks-governments/?     It seems that Hillary is attempting to buy the presidency from the most awful of sources.  Even her foreign sources are surely illegal given current law.  But that is nothing new.  Bill took money from the Chinese in his day.  Boy, did the Chinese ever benefit.

Isn't this called racism?   http://campusreform.org/?I   Progressivism has brainwashed these students to believe being white is bad and they want to show the world how great they are because they want to room with a person of color.  This is a psychological problem that needs correcting.   

This is an example of the total absence of common sense thinking.  Quote: "History will soon be a thing of the past at a historically black Missouri university, despite opposition from faculty and the school’s own impressive historical pedigree. Originally founded as the Lincoln Institute in 1866 by black Civil War veterans of the 62nd and 65th U.S. Colored Infantry regiments, Lincoln University was among the first of what are now known as historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), and is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year." And, "Several professors and staff members strongly oppose the decision to eliminate history majors, especially given the lack of an official recommendation, and among the most vocal is Dr. Bryan Salmons, who chairs the English, Foreign Languages, and Journalism Department and also serves as president of the Faculty Senate.  “We all feel like this is an ominous, dreadful thing we’re headed toward,” Salmons said on behalf of critics, calling the decision “the kind of irrevocable change that will prove destructive to the kind of institution we’re supposed to be.”    http://www.campusreform.org/?

Very interesting observation.  See if you agree.   https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/collectivism-and-engineered-perception/ 

  

The contempt the Obama and some members of his administration has for the American people and even higher up elitists is astounding.  Read this piece to see why.  Quote: "It’s hardly any wonder that Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes has a "mind Here is a medical doctor with an abundance of common sense.  Would that the nation would follow her lead.  Her ideas beat the Obamacare travesty by miles and miles.  I had the opportunity to meet and talk with her at a conference I attended several years ago.  She is worth listening to.  Quote: "Yes, Obamacare needs to be repealed – every last syllable. But that’s not all. To make America and American medicine great again, we need to remember what made it great in the first place. It was, to quote Dinesh D’Souza’s great insight in his book “Stealing America,” the “anti-theft” society. That’s what attracted people like him from all over the world, including India, to come here and become great Americans. They certainly did not risk everything to come to America and turn it into what they had left behind.  To put what we need to do into a few words: Stop the lying and the stealing. Simple. But far from easy. Once a country has become addicted to theft – redistribution of wealth – it’s hard to stop it. Almost everybody has something to lose, and the benefits are hard to see."    http://www.wnd.com/2016/07/making-american-medicine-great-again/