Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero to cut 120 plus Public Sector Union Jobs.

In a March 29, 2011 article, the Lansing State Journal reported that former Michigan Government Candidate Virg Bernero has suggested cutting around 120 Public Sector Union jobs, involving Police and Fire, to help balance the City of Lansing budget. In other words, they will be laid off. http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110329/NEWS01/103290329/Bernero-s-Lansing-budget-plan-cuts-police-fire-jobs?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

GASP!!! Why, this is outrageous! Gather up the protestors! Let’s march on Lansing to protect our jobs! Call up the Unions and have them bus in as many people as they can so we can have a good show of force! Call up Michael Moore so he can give an uplifting speech so as to encourage the Union protesters.  Call up the Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson and have them begin to chant through the Bull Horns, “SAVE OUR JOBS! UNFAIR! SHAME!” Call up the Union Presidents to give rousing Union rights speeches in City Hall. Better yet, call up President Obama so that he can put in his two cents to help bring this to National Attention. We need too…..what? Mr. Bernero is a Democrat? Really?

Then….ummmmm. Blame Bush! Blame Bush! Wait….no….that won’t work. Ah Ha! Got it! Blame Snyder! Blame Snyder! How dare he take away municipality revenue sharing so as to help balance the State Budget! Who cares if this revenue sharing program will put us further in debt. The State of Michigan owes the municipalities that money so they can pay our $64,000 salaries with a $34,000 benefits package along with full health, dental, and vision. I mean, we can’t expect the cities, townships and villages to consolidate and balance their own budget, when the State can swoop right in and do it for them.  It’s not fair for them to take away this important…. wait….what did you say? The State will hand out incentives to the municipalities?

Great! What do you mean if they qualify? You mean that we need to hold municipalities accountable? They have to do work and make hard decisions so as to balance their budgets? We have to consolidate services so as to save millions of dollars? New Union Members will now have to pay 20% of their health care costs like the Private Sector. http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20110321/NEWS04/103210326/Gov-Snyder-lays-out-ideas-streamlining-Michigan-government?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

We are better than them! We do more for the individual taxpayer than any Private Sector employee! We are a necessity to the community! We are supported by the taxpayers that pay our salaries and benefit packages and to prove this we are going to ask the municipalities, cities and villages to raise the citizens taxes so as to counteract this atrocious cut that mean Mr. Snyder has suggested. This raise in taxes is necessary so that we can keep our salaries way above the Private Sector. How dare they! How dare they keep us accountable and force us to share the sacrifice with everyone else. How dare they. Shame. Shame . Shame.  We should have Bernero in office. He would have never cut Public Sector Union jobs to balance a budget regardless of the fact that he just did this in Lansing. We can’t hold him accountable to his actions because he is one of us…..

(Honestly I could go on, but I think I proved my point that when a Democrat does the same thing that a Republican does, they are exempt from all blame. Amazing double standard isn’t it? )

Florida Judge states that Islamic Law will be used to decide Civil case

This has not yet made it to the Large News Organizations, but it has been reported by ACT for America and other blog posts. I don't understand why this has not been on CNN, FOX, MSNBC or any other news organizations. It is a concerning case because it seems to trump United States Federal Law.

A little background on this case. According to an March 18th ACT E-mail which I received:

"In Tampa, Florida, a dispute arose over who controls the funds a mosque received in 2008 from an eminent domain proceeding. Former trustees of the mosque are claiming in court they have the right to the funds. Current mosque leaders are disputing that claim. The current mosque leaders want the case decided according to secular, Florida civil law, and their attorney has been vigorously arguing the case accordingly. The former trustees of the mosque want the case decided according to sharia law. "

Now, I normally would not automatically believe this type of claim, but a Judgment Ruling has been published and it states that the case will be decided by Ecclesiastical Islamic Law.

http://tool.donation-net.net/Images/Email/1097/110303_Order_in_Connection_with_Plaintiffs__Emergency_Motion.pdf

Why is Federal Law being trumped by Islamic Law? In my own opinion this Judge should be removed for subverting Federal Law. I wonder if the Major News Organizations will pick up on this Ruling.

Also see Newsmax who has recently reported this outrageous action by this Judge. 

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/tampa-judge-islamiccase-mosque/2011/03/22/id/390356?s=al&promo_code=BEA0-1

A few little Libyan secrets.

Now that the United States has engaged itself against Col. Gaddafi there are a few things that are beginning to "leak" out that seem to have been suppressed by the Obama Administration.

First, Obama has bowed to the United Nations authority instead of the United States Constitutional Authority which states that only Congress can "declare War" or authorize use of troops. Now, some may say that he is invoking the 1973 War Powers Act. However, the President can only invoke this act for one of three reasons: "1. A declaration of War. 2. Specific Statutory Authorization. 3. A National emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or it's armed forces."  http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/legal22/warpow.htm In taking a look at the Lybian situation this 1973 War Powers Act does not fall into play. A declaration of War was never made by Lybia. However, that could change because we have already attacked them. As for the "Statutory Authority", this may be where Obama "gets away" with side stepping this Act because the United Nations has Authorized the use of Force and may have invoked article 43 of the UN Charter. However, in section 3 of Article 43 it recognizes the constitutional processes of its members. http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter7.shtml We will see what happens. If Obama is successful in invoking the 1973 War Powers Act he has a total of 90 days to use the US Military, after that he must cease all use of the Military in Lybia period. A question that I have is, why has Obama submitted to the UN while ignoring the soverenty of the US? Does the UN now create US Policy under the Obama administration?

Second, it appears that the US has been duped in that the Rebels in Lybia may be tied to non other than al-Queda. Yep, you read right....al-Qaeda. S reported in the UK The Telegraph, "Statements of support for Lybia's revolution by al-Qaeda and leading Islamists have led to fears that military action by the West might be playing into the hands of its ideological enemies." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8391632/Libya-the-West-and-al-Qaeda-on-the-same-side.html

The article also states: "An al-Qaeda leader of Libyan origin, Abu Yahya al-Libi, released a statement backing the insurrection a week ago, while Yusuf Qaradawi, the Qatar-based, Muslim Brotherhood-linked theologian issues a fatwa authorising Col Gaddafi's military entourage to assasinate him."

So, this begs some questions, Why is our Military over in Lybia? Why are we backing our sworn enemies? Why is Obama backing our sworn enemies? Maybe this is a "wag the dog" type of a situation created by the Obama administration to create a diversion from the mess that he has caused. Maybe he want's to be seen as a War Time President for re-election purposes and Lybia is the key to making that happen. This could explain why the Arab League has joined in this UN approved action. But who will ask the President these hard questions? Who will call him out? Where is the Main Stream Media on this one? Will Congress have the guts to stand up to a President who seemingly rules like a king? Is impeachment an option if it is proven that Obama is supporting our enemies? Many questions to ask, but who will have the guts to ask them first?