SPECIAL UPDATE IN ON-GOING SANDY HOOK INVESTIGATION
- Joyce Reilly ( The PowerHour ) Interviews Mike Powers
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Is America The Greatest Country In The World?
You'll be shocked by what you see and hear...
(Just skip the blasted ad...)
BUT WHAT YOU SEE AND HEAR IS THE TRUTH!
Footnote:
Could it be the last 12 years of the Democrat controlled Congress?
Or is it still Bush's fault?
(Just skip the blasted ad...)
BUT WHAT YOU SEE AND HEAR IS THE TRUTH!
Footnote:
Could it be the last 12 years of the Democrat controlled Congress?
Or is it still Bush's fault?
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Precedent Teaches Us The Left Really Wants ALL Our Guns
Precedent Teaches Us The Left Really Wants ALL Our Guns
By Charlie Daniels - CNSNews.com
When the Supreme Court, or any other court for that matter, makes a ruling in a case they first look for precedent, in other words to see if there has been a court decision rendered on the same subject in the past and usually defer to the old decision in ruling on the case.
The greatest teacher in life is experience; it only takes one time of burning your fingers on a hot stove to know that you never want to touch another one.
The next greatest teacher is observation, paying attention to someone else's experiences and profiting from their wins and losses, trials and errors.
In my generation I have seen the rise and fall of fascism, communism, different experiments in socialism and the kind of downright social and fiscal foolishness that leads to what has recently happened in Greece.
There is an old saying that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
There is at this time a huge debate in our nation about the private ownership of firearms. The president and the anti-gun crowd claim they do not want to do away with private ownership, that they only want to modify the existing laws having to do with assault weapons -which can be construed as anything in your gun cabinet of any heavy caliber - and clips for semiautomatic weapons holding more than 10 bullets.
I submit to you that what is going on here is the first assault on private gun ownership
They will take what ever they can get now and continue to chip away until all you can legally own to protect your family with is a baseball bat.
Did you know that one of the major reasons the Japanese did not attempt to land troops on the American coast during World War Two is because they knew that Americans owned guns and would fight tooth and nail for every inch of shore line.
Hitler disarmed Germany, Stalin disarmed Russia, and Mao disarmed China.
The mainstream media is quick to report any kind of gun violence but omit the stories where lives have been saved by legally owned guns in the hands of good citizens and the stories are many and varied all across the country.
Let's look at some precedent:
In 1997, many Aussies were forced to give up their privately owned firearms. Over 630,000 were turned in to be destroyed as part of a "buyback plan" by the Australian government. Total cost of the buyback? $500,000,000.
One year later, here were the results:
Homicides nationwide: Up 6.2%
Assaults nationwide: Up 9.6%
Armed robberies nationwide: Up 44%
In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms went up 300%.
Five years later, a "continued modest decline" in homicides was noted, but what has gone up in the land down under over the past few years is the number of assaults. Overall, assaults are up 40% and sexual assaults are up 20%.
Across the pond, Great Britain passed a handgun ban in 1998. Ten years later, many British "bobbies" are armed for the first time because of the amount of illegal guns in the hands of criminals.
Have you read about gun bans resulting in more gun violence or seen it on the television news?
Do you think it's newsworthy?
America, no matter what Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the far left in America say, they want your guns.
They want them all.
Don't just wait and see.
What do you think?
Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem.
God Bless America!
Charlie Daniels
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Charlie, I couldn't have said it any better!
Thanks!
Saturday, January 12, 2013
American Muslims Stone Christians in Dearborn, MI
This happened last summer - June 26, 2012
Simply unbelievable...
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“Islam is as dangerous in a man as rabies in a dog.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
Simply unbelievable...
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“Islam is as dangerous in a man as rabies in a dog.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
Thursday, January 10, 2013
We Are Raising A Generation of Deluded Narcissists
We Are Raising A Generation of Deluded Narcissists
By Dr. Keith Ablow
A new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has accumulated data for the past 47 years from 9 million young adults, reveals that college students are more likely than ever to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, even though their test scores and time spent studying are decreasing.
Psychologist Jean Twenge, the lead author of the analysis, is also the author of a study showing that the tendency toward narcissism in students is up 30 percent in the last thirty-odd years.
This data is not unexpected.
I have been writing a great deal over the past few years about the toxic psychological impact of media and technology on children, adolescents and young adults, particularly as it regards turning them into faux celebrities - the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories.
On Facebook, young people can fool themselves into thinking they have hundreds or thousands of “friends.”
- They can delete unflattering comments.
- They can block anyone who disagrees with them or pokes holes in their inflated self-esteem.
- They can choose to show the world only flattering, sexy or funny photographs of themselves (dozens of albums full, by the way), “speak” in pithy short posts and publicly connect to movie stars and professional athletes and musicians they “like.”
Using Twitter, young people can pretend they are worth “following,” as though they have real-life fans, when all that is really happening is the mutual fanning of false love and false fame.
Using computer games, our sons and daughters can pretend they are Olympians, Formula 1 drivers, rock stars or sharpshooters.
And while they can turn off their Wii and Xbox machines and remember they are really in dens and playrooms, on side streets and in triple deckers around America, that is after their hearts have raced and heads have swelled with false pride for “being” something they are not.
On MTV and other networks, young people can see lives just like theirs portrayed on reality TV shows fueled by such incredible self-involvement and self-love that any of the “real-life” characters should really be in psychotherapy to have any chance at anything like a normal life.
These are the psychological drugs of the 21st Century and they are getting our sons and daughters very sick, indeed.
As if to keep up with the unreality of media and technology, in a dizzying paroxysm of self-aggrandizing hype, town sports leagues across the country hand out ribbons and trophies to losing teams, schools inflate grades, energy drinks in giant, colorful cans take over the soft drink market, and psychiatrists hand out Adderall like candy.
All the while, these adolescents, teens and young adults are watching a Congress that can’t control its manic, euphoric, narcissistic spending...
- A president that can’t see his way through to applauding genuine and extraordinary achievements in business...
- A society that blames mass killings on guns, not the psychotic people who wield them, and - here no surprise- a stock market that keeps rising and falling like a roller coaster as bubbles inflate and then, inevitably, burst.
That’s really the unavoidable end, by the way.
False pride can never be sustained.
The bubble of narcissism is always at risk of bursting. That’s why young people are higher on drugs than ever, drunker than ever, smoking more, tattooed more, pierced more and having more and more and more sex, earlier and earlier and earlier, raising babies before they can do it well, because it makes them feel special, for a while.
They’re doing anything to distract themselves from the fact that they feel empty inside and unworthy.
Distractions, however, are temporary, and the truth is eternal.
Watch for an epidemic of depression and suicidality, not to mention homicidality, as the real self-loathing and hatred of others that lies beneath all this narcissism rises to the surface.
I see it happening and, no doubt, many of you do, too. We had better get a plan together to combat this greatest epidemic as it takes shape. Because it will dwarf the toll of any epidemic we have ever known. And it will be the hardest to defeat.
Because, by the time we see the scope and destructiveness of this enemy clearly, we will also realize, as the saying goes, that it is us.
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We used to tell our kids that TV wasn't 'real', that it was just a 'show'. Now, with all this 'reality' programming - on nearly EVERY channel, our kids believe TV is REAL again... And that, even they can be 'superstars'! They even believe that the quirky opinions stated on internet sites are REAL!
And look at their role models...
Our own President IS ONE OF THEM!
Dr. Ablow is quite right... We need to start now to plan a treatment for these deluded youngsters!
Thanks for the article Doc... Let's just hope we're not to late...
Monday, January 7, 2013
“To conquer a nation,
first disarm it’s citizens.”
- Adolph Hitler
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This is a few months old, but it's worth revisiting...
Courtesy of The NRA...
AARP
AFL-CIO
Ambulatory Pediatric Association
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Civil Liberties Union
American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing
American Medical Women`s Association
American Medical Student Association
American Medical Association
American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
American Trauma Society
American Federation of Teachers
American Association of School Administrators
American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities
American Medical Association
American Bar Association
American Counseling Association
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Association for World Health
American Ethical Union
American Nurses Association
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
American Firearms Association
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
American Jewish Committee
American Trauma Society
American Psychological Association
American Jewish Congress
American Public Health Association
Americans for Democratic Action
Anti-Defamation League
Black Mental Health Alliance
B`nai B`rith
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Children`s Defense Fund
Church of the Brethren
Coalition for Peace Action
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
College Democrats of America
Committee for the Study of Handgun Misuse & World Peace
Common Cause
Congress of National Black Churches, Inc.
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Consumer Federation of America
Council of the Great City Schools
Council of Chief State School Officers
Dehere Foundation
Disarm Educational Fund
Environmental Action Foundation
Episcopal Church-Washington Office
Florence and John Shumann Foundation
Friends Committee on National Legislation
General Federation of Women`s Clubs
George Gund Fun
Gray Panthers
H.M. Strong Foundation
Hadassah
Harris Foundation
Hechinger Foundation
Interfaith Neighbors
Int`l Ladies` Garment Workers` Union
Int`l Association of Educators for World Peace
Jewish Labor Committee
Joyce Foundation
Lauder Foundation
Lawrence Foundation
League of Women Voters of the United States*
Lutheran Office for Governmental Affairs, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Manhattan Project II
Mennonite Central Committee-Washington Office
National Safe Kids Campaign
National Association of Police Organizations
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Black Nurses` Association
National Association of Chain Drug Stores
National Network for Youth
National Assembly of National Voluntary Health & Social Welfare Organizations
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association of School Psychologists
National Association of Counties*
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners
National Association of School Safety and Law Enforcement Officers
National Education Association
National Association of Elementary School Principals*
National Association of Public Hospitals
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Association of Social Workers
National Association of Children`s Hospitals and Related Institutions
National Association of School Psychologists
National Council of La Raza
National Center to Rehabilitate Violent Youth
National Commission for Economic Conversion & Disarmament
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
National Council of Negro Women
National Association of Community Health Centers
National People`s Action
National Education Association*
National League of Cities
National Council on Family Relations
National Council of Jewish Women
National Organization for Women
National Political Congress of Black Women
National Parks and Conservation Association
National Peace Foundation
National Urban League, Inc.
National Parent, Teachers Association*
National Urban Coalition
National SAFE KIDS Campaign
National Organization on Disability
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Ortenberg Foundation
Peace Action
People for the American Way
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Police Foundation
Project on Demilitarization and Democracy
Public Citizen
SaferWorld
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Council of the Great City Schools
The Synergetic Society
20/20 Vision
U.S. Catholic Conference, Dept. of Social Development
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Unitarian Universalist Association
United States Catholic Conference
United Methodist Church, General Board & Church Society
United Church of Christ, Office for Church in Society*
United States Conference of Mayors
War and Peace Foundation
Women Strike for Peace
Women`s National Democratic Club
Women`s Action for New Directions (WAND)
Women`s Int`l League for Peace and Freedom
World Spiritual Assembly, Inc.
YWCA of the U.S.A.
AFL-CIO
Ambulatory Pediatric Association
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Civil Liberties Union
American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing
American Medical Women`s Association
American Medical Student Association
American Medical Association
American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
American Trauma Society
American Federation of Teachers
American Association of School Administrators
American Alliance for Rights and Responsibilities
American Medical Association
American Bar Association
American Counseling Association
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Association for World Health
American Ethical Union
American Nurses Association
American Association of Neurological Surgeons
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
American Firearms Association
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
American Jewish Committee
American Trauma Society
American Psychological Association
American Jewish Congress
American Public Health Association
Americans for Democratic Action
Anti-Defamation League
Black Mental Health Alliance
B`nai B`rith
Central Conference of American Rabbis
Children`s Defense Fund
Church of the Brethren
Coalition for Peace Action
Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
College Democrats of America
Committee for the Study of Handgun Misuse & World Peace
Common Cause
Congress of National Black Churches, Inc.
Congress of Neurological Surgeons
Consumer Federation of America
Council of the Great City Schools
Council of Chief State School Officers
Dehere Foundation
Disarm Educational Fund
Environmental Action Foundation
Episcopal Church-Washington Office
Florence and John Shumann Foundation
Friends Committee on National Legislation
General Federation of Women`s Clubs
George Gund Fun
Gray Panthers
H.M. Strong Foundation
Hadassah
Harris Foundation
Hechinger Foundation
Interfaith Neighbors
Int`l Ladies` Garment Workers` Union
Int`l Association of Educators for World Peace
Jewish Labor Committee
Joyce Foundation
Lauder Foundation
Lawrence Foundation
League of Women Voters of the United States*
Lutheran Office for Governmental Affairs, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Manhattan Project II
Mennonite Central Committee-Washington Office
National Safe Kids Campaign
National Association of Police Organizations
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Black Nurses` Association
National Association of Chain Drug Stores
National Network for Youth
National Assembly of National Voluntary Health & Social Welfare Organizations
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association of School Psychologists
National Association of Counties*
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners
National Association of School Safety and Law Enforcement Officers
National Education Association
National Association of Elementary School Principals*
National Association of Public Hospitals
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Association of Social Workers
National Association of Children`s Hospitals and Related Institutions
National Association of School Psychologists
National Council of La Raza
National Center to Rehabilitate Violent Youth
National Commission for Economic Conversion & Disarmament
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
National Council of Negro Women
National Association of Community Health Centers
National People`s Action
National Education Association*
National League of Cities
National Council on Family Relations
National Council of Jewish Women
National Organization for Women
National Political Congress of Black Women
National Parks and Conservation Association
National Peace Foundation
National Urban League, Inc.
National Parent, Teachers Association*
National Urban Coalition
National SAFE KIDS Campaign
National Organization on Disability
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
Ortenberg Foundation
Peace Action
People for the American Way
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Police Foundation
Project on Demilitarization and Democracy
Public Citizen
SaferWorld
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Council of the Great City Schools
The Synergetic Society
20/20 Vision
U.S. Catholic Conference, Dept. of Social Development
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Unitarian Universalist Association
United States Catholic Conference
United Methodist Church, General Board & Church Society
United Church of Christ, Office for Church in Society*
United States Conference of Mayors
War and Peace Foundation
Women Strike for Peace
Women`s National Democratic Club
Women`s Action for New Directions (WAND)
Women`s Int`l League for Peace and Freedom
World Spiritual Assembly, Inc.
YWCA of the U.S.A.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Gun Laws Are For Little People
Laws Are For Little People
- Not David Gregory
By Mark Stein
A week ago on NBC’s Meet the Press, David Gregory brandished on screen a high-capacity magazine.
To most media experts, a “high-capacity magazine” means
an ad-stuffed double issue of Vanity Fair with the triple-page
perfume-scented pullouts.
But apparently in America’s gun-nut gun culture of
gun-crazed gun kooks, it’s something else entirely, and it was this latter kind
that Mr. Gregory produced in order to taunt Wayne LaPierre of the NRA. As the
poster child for America’s gun-crazed gun-kook gun culture, Mr. LaPierre would
probably have been more scared by the host waving around a headily perfumed
Vanity Fair.
But that was merely NBC’s first miscalculation. It seems a
high-capacity magazine is illegal in the District of Columbia, and the flagrant
breach of D.C. gun laws is now under investigation by the police.
So what?
Neither are the overwhelming majority of his fellow high-capacity-magazine-owning Americans. Yet they’re expected to know, as they drive around visiting friends and family over Christmas, the various and contradictory gun laws in different jurisdictions. Ignorantia juris non excusat is one of the oldest concepts in civilized society: Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Back when there was a modest and proportionate number of laws, that was just about doable. But in today’s America there are laws against everything, and any one of us at any time is unknowingly in breach of dozens of them.
And in this case NBC were informed by the D.C. police that it would be illegal to show the thing on TV, and they went ahead and did it anyway: You’ll never take me alive, copper! You’ll have to pry my high-capacity magazine from my cold dead fingers! When the D.C. SWAT team, the FBI, and the ATF take out NBC News and the whole building goes up in one almighty fireball, David Gregory will be the crazed loon up on the roof like Jimmy Cagney in White Heat: “Made it, Ma! Top of the world!” At last, some actual must-see TV on that lousy network.
More HERE...
Saturday, December 29, 2012
'White People Aren’t Afraid of Blacks, They’re ‘Afraid of Moron, Idiot Liberals Like Michael Moore’
Fox News Host: White People Aren’t Afraid of Blacks, They’re ‘Afraid of Moron, Idiot Liberals Like Michael Moore’
By Jason Howerton
On Friday, the hosts of Fox News’ “The Five” blasted liberal filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore for suggesting that white gun owners are motivated by racial fears when buying firearms.
Even the left-leaning Juan Williams found Moore’s comments “unnecessary.” He said adding race into the conversation for no reason distracts from the “reality” that gun control was first implemented as a way to stop blacks from owning guns.
But co-host Eric Bolling went off.
“Michael Moore is wrong.
White people who own guns aren’t afraid of freckle-faced Jimmy down the block, and white people who own guns aren’t afraid of black people breaking in or holding them up,” he said. “White people are afraid of moron, idiot liberals like Michael Moore who think they will get their guns taken away because they have a liberal Democrat in office… S0 [white people] go out and they buy guns and make sure they have guns before these idiots have their way.”
Watch the segment via Fox News/Mediaite below:
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Yes, I buy guns out of fear... As Mr. Bolling said... - Fear that one day our liberal congress and this goofy imposter of a President will outlaw the ownership of guns altogether. And if that ever happens, they will need to "pry my weapon from my cold, dead hands!"
The 2nd Amendment GUARANTEES THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, PERIOD!
And it's NOT OUT OF ANY FEAR OF BLACK PEOPLE!
I don't know where this bloated idiot Moore came from, but he needs to loose 200 pounds and get a life! Who ever gave him a platform for this kind of hate speech should be ashamed of themselves... But, what else should we expect from our communist government run media?
Monday, December 24, 2012
Christmas At The Mall? Why Not? Enjoy...
"For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life." John 3:16
that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life." John 3:16
Friday, December 21, 2012
Debunked: Gun Control Laws Reduce Crime
John Stossel Exposes The Myth: That Gun Control Laws Reduce Crime
From: IJReview - Kyle Becker
John Stossel explores in the course of two different segments — one on Fox Business and one on ABC News — why gun control laws are not only futile, but passing concealed carry laws does not reduce crime rates.
From: IJReview - Kyle Becker
John Stossel explores in the course of two different segments — one on Fox Business and one on ABC News — why gun control laws are not only futile, but passing concealed carry laws does not reduce crime rates.
Gee... I wonder where Mr. John has been all these years? It's taken him all this time to finally 'wake up'? Well, at least he's awake NOW.
Here's a quote for ya...:
The Bill of Rights says nothing about hunting.
The Second Amendment is NOT about hunting!
The Second Amendment is NOT about hunting!
It's about the possible need for a militia, which has since been affirmed as an individual right by the Supreme Court, particularly since anyone might be - In these dark times - To once again, be called upon to stand up for Liberty and the survival of the nation.
Criminals will always find a way to obtain a firearm... Remember, THEY"RE CROOKS!
Criminals will always find a way to obtain a firearm... Remember, THEY"RE CROOKS!
MORE GUNS IN THE HANDS OF LAW ABIDING CITIZENS MAKE US ALL SAFER! PERIOD!!!
Monday, December 10, 2012
The Chinese Are Buying America
By Laura Prabucki - FOX News
As the U.S. housing market slowly starts to recover, foreign investment is helping it along.
According to the National Association of Realtors, non-American buyers accounted for $82 billion in home sales last year. More than $7 billion of that is by the Chinese, who are now the second largest foreign home purchasers after Canadians. They're buying high-end, multimillion-dollar homes from California to New York and paying cash.
"They're probably the top 1 percent of the Mandarin speakers that are coming from China," said Brent Chang, a Coldwell Banker realtor in Southern California. "They're really the people who have their own businesses or maybe were part of the government."
Some of these homes are specifically catered to Chinese buyers.
Fox News visited a home listed at $8 million in Pasadena, Calif., that had two kitchens, the smaller one had ventilation for the cooking for aromatic or "stinky" foods like fish. It also has a lower level in-law suite and even a koi pond.
"People from China do a lot more business in their homes so they want their homes to really scream that they've made it and they're successful, " said Chang.
The Chinese like the U.S. because their money goes further. In Shanghai, $2 million might only get you a two-bedroom condo.
"You get a huge bang for your buck, you get land, you get good schools, you get a safe environment, nice community life, " said Linda Chang, a realtor who works with her son, Brent, in the San Marino and Pasadena areas of California.
Chang says while many other real estate markets have suffered, her area has flourished thanks to Chinese and other foreign buyers.
"It's been fantastic for the U.S. housing market because we have not suffered as other communities have," said the elder Chang. "In fact, our property values have increased."
While some of the Chinese buyers live in the U.S. full or part-time, realtors estimate about 40 percent of the homes are for investments. They're snapping up houses in states hit hard by foreclosures such as Nevada and Florida. Some are buying two or three homes at a time.
According to Shanghai magazine Hurun Report, mainland China has almost 1 million millionaires and nearly half of them say they want to invest in the United States.
"It's a sign of their status," said Betty Chan, who deals with Chinese buyers in Las Vegas. "You can show off to your friends and family that I can buy something overseas, not everybody can do it."
Chan continued: "Most Chinese like to own a Mercedes ... it doesn't matter whether a Mercedes is a good car or not. It's just showing their status in the community, so owning a foreign house is pretty much a prestigious status in China, so they're proud to tell their friends: 'Hey, I own a house overseas.'"
Buyers from China also invested almost $2 billion in commercial property in 2011, or quadruple what they spent several years ago.
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So, it looks as if the 'Housing Recovery' is being fueled by the Chinese... NOT by Americans buying and selling property.
Sort of a 'false' indicator, in my humble opinion!
As the U.S. housing market slowly starts to recover, foreign investment is helping it along.
According to the National Association of Realtors, non-American buyers accounted for $82 billion in home sales last year. More than $7 billion of that is by the Chinese, who are now the second largest foreign home purchasers after Canadians. They're buying high-end, multimillion-dollar homes from California to New York and paying cash.
"They're probably the top 1 percent of the Mandarin speakers that are coming from China," said Brent Chang, a Coldwell Banker realtor in Southern California. "They're really the people who have their own businesses or maybe were part of the government."
Some of these homes are specifically catered to Chinese buyers.
Fox News visited a home listed at $8 million in Pasadena, Calif., that had two kitchens, the smaller one had ventilation for the cooking for aromatic or "stinky" foods like fish. It also has a lower level in-law suite and even a koi pond.
"People from China do a lot more business in their homes so they want their homes to really scream that they've made it and they're successful, " said Chang.
The Chinese like the U.S. because their money goes further. In Shanghai, $2 million might only get you a two-bedroom condo.
"You get a huge bang for your buck, you get land, you get good schools, you get a safe environment, nice community life, " said Linda Chang, a realtor who works with her son, Brent, in the San Marino and Pasadena areas of California.
Chang says while many other real estate markets have suffered, her area has flourished thanks to Chinese and other foreign buyers.
"It's been fantastic for the U.S. housing market because we have not suffered as other communities have," said the elder Chang. "In fact, our property values have increased."
While some of the Chinese buyers live in the U.S. full or part-time, realtors estimate about 40 percent of the homes are for investments. They're snapping up houses in states hit hard by foreclosures such as Nevada and Florida. Some are buying two or three homes at a time.
According to Shanghai magazine Hurun Report, mainland China has almost 1 million millionaires and nearly half of them say they want to invest in the United States.
"It's a sign of their status," said Betty Chan, who deals with Chinese buyers in Las Vegas. "You can show off to your friends and family that I can buy something overseas, not everybody can do it."
Chan continued: "Most Chinese like to own a Mercedes ... it doesn't matter whether a Mercedes is a good car or not. It's just showing their status in the community, so owning a foreign house is pretty much a prestigious status in China, so they're proud to tell their friends: 'Hey, I own a house overseas.'"
Buyers from China also invested almost $2 billion in commercial property in 2011, or quadruple what they spent several years ago.
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So, it looks as if the 'Housing Recovery' is being fueled by the Chinese... NOT by Americans buying and selling property.
Sort of a 'false' indicator, in my humble opinion!
Friday, November 30, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Friday, November 23, 2012
Stay Safe Out There...
Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
HE does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. HE gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary,and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31
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Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
HE does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. HE gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary,and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
AMERICA VOTES - TWICE!
From Mark Alexander at PATRIOT POST
Patriots,
I am writing you today for two reasons.
First, I have heard from many Patriots who remain very disheartened about the election and direction of our country. I have also heard from many who appreciated the words of encouragement in Thursday's column, "We're Back in the FIGHT!," and have forwarded those to family and friends. That message is reprinted below so please forward them to others who need encouragement.
Second, I wanted to send you the most current county-by-county election map, which clearly reveals what state election maps don't, and what Obama and his Leftist cadres do NOT want you to contemplate. It shows where Leftist constituencies reside. (By the way, we have taken the Liberty to correct the colors -- red is a much more fitting color for the Leftist strongholds.)
The assault on Liberty we witnessed Tuesday, as was the case in 2008, was led primarily by those on urban "ObamaNation Plantations," those who depend on what Obama calls "redistributive justice" from the rest of us in order to survive. They account for almost 60 (SIXTY) percent of Obama's constituents, and Socialist Democrats are masters of co-opting (read: "buying") their allegiance and getting them to the polls. The good news is that about 10 million fewer Obama voters showed up in 2012, despite his billion-dollar campaign.
Words of Encouragement
Patriots, we were dealt an awful body blow on Tuesday, and the odds we face in our quest to restore Liberty and Rule of Law enshrined in our Declaration and Constitution may seem insurmountable. However, we can find strength and encouragement in the words from the most noble of Founding Patriots, George Washington.
In 1777, at a very dark moment amid a string of defeats in the first quest for Liberty -- and just before the fall of Philadelphia and the brutal Winter at Valley Forge, Washington wrote one of his generals: "We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times."
I also recall the words of Thomas Paine from his Revolutionary pamphlet, The American Crisis: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." When Samuel Adams signed the Declaration, he said, "We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come."
Indeed, God is Sovereign in the affairs of men.
As for the challenges we face, faithful Patriots, hold fast to this wisdom from James 1:2-4: "Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything."
(Some among our Patriot ranks are not Christians, but we know your devotion to Liberty is strong. However, everyone on your Patriot Post team here is a devoted Christian, and the bottom line -- you can bank on our faith, even if you don't share it.)
Patriots, we have lost a battle -- but not the war. Hold your head high and redouble your courage and resolve. Remain steadfast in your devotion to Liberty and hold the line. As Paine wrote, "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ... I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
It has taken generations for our nation to get into the ditch we are in now. It will take more than a few election cycles to pull it out. But there has been a great awakening among Patriots, and our ranks have grown rapidly in recent years.
Our fight for the eternal cause of Liberty, as "endowed by our Creator," ends only with our last breath.
On behalf of your Patriot Post Team, God bless our great nation and God bless each of you among our Patriot ranks!
Pro Deo et Constitutione — Libertas aut Mors
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis
Mark Alexander
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We're still in this fight folks! Don't let this get you down!
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Am I A Racist?
Am I a racist?
I wonder how many folks have asked that question of themselves?
I bring this up now, at election time, because just last week, someone accused me of
being a racist, because I said that I didn't like the way most Black people behaved. Well, I don’t like it. That’s a fact.
It’s like they have
their own language, and are consciously trying to
be very different from other Americans, especially
White folks. Now, at election time, there are reports that if 'the one' isn't re-elected, some Black folks are threatening to cause a national riot! It seems that many Blacks don't like White folks at all!
I guess one could argue that this group
of Black people - (those who hate Whites), are the real ‘racists’?
I really don’t think
I’m a racist. And I really don’t think
I’m a bigot.
I just don’t like
folks that are hurting America. And I
believe that many Black people hate America and are trying to hurt her.
I also believe that the Muslim people want to hurt America.
They can say they’re for peace, but their history says otherwise.
A while back, they protested a Christian minister
for giving a breakfast prayer at West Point.
And they have just attacked American Sovereign Soil in Benghazi and killed 4 Americans!
I just don’t trust any of them and I feel they will try to do us more harm at any time. Likely they have plans in the works right now!
I’m against anybody
that hates America… or has a lifestyle that is harmful to America’s
future. Patriotism is important to me…
Morals are important too…
Black, White, Jew,
Muslim, Russian, Chinese, African, Eskimo, Japanese… it really doesn’t matter
where your grandparents came from or what you look like.
It’s about how you
behave and whether you respect American values or not.
If you are demeaning to America, if you are trying to ‘change’ America, if you believe that America has
given you the freedom to do as you wish and to go against GOD’s Laws, if you are trying to hurt
America in any way, then I’m against you… and you are my enemy. I will fight you until my last breath for America!
Does that make me a
racist? Does that make me a bigot? I don’t think so… But
I’ll let you be the judge. If you can show me
that you’re qualified to judge me...?
Let's start with that.
Just what DO you believe in that makes you want to hurt America? That's right, why do you want to hurt America? If you hate her - and me - so much, why don't you just go back to where your ancestors came from? Sounds simple to me...
But, if you'd rather stay and fight, I'm ready... COME AND GET SOME!
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