Our European Arrogance? NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE!

Below is an email I just received, thanks AGB, and I realize it has been circulating since April, 2009 but the powerful message is still timely. I don't know about you, but I am sick and tired of Barack Obama bashing this great nation.

Ever since the Obama's hit the national stage it has been made popular to apologize and worse to bash us on foreign soil. At the start of their presidential campaign up to and including their failed bid in Copenhagen to host the Olympics, the apologist-in-chief couldn't resist his anti-American rhetoric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wbW5bIzAWU&feature=player_embedded#

The below email went viral, apparently in response to Obama's Anti-American Euro-tour. He had the audacity to explain to a French crowd that,

“In America, there is a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/10067

Of course all of this big bad arrogance in America was prior to his rise to the WH. Barack Hussein Obama, The One, arrived to fix it all...Maybe, now the bride of Barack can finally be proud of our country.

Powerful Email (I sourced it all and it is amazingly accurate and humble):

1. The American Cemetery at Aisne-Marne, France: 2289 of our Military dead


2. The American Cemetery at Ardennes, Belgium: 5329 of our Military dead


3. The American Cemetery at Brittany, France: 4410 of our Military dead.


4. Brookwood, England American Cemetery: 468 of our Military dead.


5. Cambridge, England American Cemetery: 3812 of our Military dead.


6. Epinal, France American Cemetery: 5525 of our Military dead


7. Flanders Field, Belgium American Cemetery: 368 of our Military dead


8. Florence, Italy American Cemetery: 4402 of our Military dead


9. Henri-Chapelle, Belgium American Cemetery: 7992 of our Military dead


10. Lorraine, France American Cemetery: 10,489 of our Military dead


11. Luxembourg, Luxembourg American Cemetery: 5076 of our Military dead


12. Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery: 14246 of our Military dead


13. Netherlands, Netherlands American Cemetery: 8301 of our Military dead


14. Normandy, France American Cemetery: 9387 of our Military dead


15. Oise-Aisne, France American Cemetery: 6012 of our Military dead


16. Rhone, France American Cemetery: 861 of our Military dead


17. Sicily, Italy American Cemetery: 7861 of our Military dead


18. Somme, France American Cemetery: 1844 of our Military dead


19. St. Mihiel, France American Cemetery: 4153 of our Military dead


20. Suresnes, France American Cemetery: 1541 of our Military dead


Apologize to no one. Remind those of our sacrifice and don't confuse arrogance with leadership.

If I added correctly, the count is 104,366 dead.(With the Unknown and Missing it's more!)

And we have to watch an American elected leader who apologizes to Europe and the Middle East that our country is "arrogant"!!

HOW MANY FRENCH, DUTCH, ITALIANS, BELGIANS AND BRITS ARE BURIED ON OUR SOIL, DEFENDING US AGAINST OUR ENEMIES??

WE DON'T ASK FOR PRAISE...BUT WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE!

1. Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial

2. Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial

3. Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial

4. Brookwood Cemetery

5. American Battle Monuments Commission (Cambridge)

6. American Battle Monuments Commission (Epinal)

7. Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial

8. American Battle Monuments Commission (Florence)

9. Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial

10. Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial(Largest number of graves of any WW2 cemetery in Europe)
11. Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial (Patton was buried at Cemetery along with other members of the Third Army)
12. Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial(The cemetery contains the largest number of American military dead in Europe)
13. American Battle Monuments Commission (Netherlands)

14. Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial(The first American cemetery on European soil in World War II)
15. American Battle Monuments Commission (Oise-Aisne, France)

16. American Battle Monuments Commission (Most died in the liberation of France)

17. American Battle Monuments Commission (Most died in the liberation of Sicily)

18. American Battle Monuments Commission (Somme, France)

19. American Battle Monuments Commission (St. Mihiel, France)

20. American Battle Monuments Commission (Suresnes, France)

Crap and Trade

Janschwalde Power Station, Wiki Commons

By Tony Vega

Update: H. R. 2454 can be found here , thanks Independent Voice

With the birth of an Obamanation the second amendment becomes an even more attractive target, health care is close to being socialized and Cap & Trade is a euphemism for oppressive taxation.

A quick look at the numbers for this Cap & Trade fiasco will reveal that your average American will get hosed at the gas pump, may want to read their electric bill with the lights out and watch their jobs sail away to overseas corporations. Oh, let's not forget about the polar bears or the planet, no help there either.

There are many credible organizations, such as the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Brookings Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) and even the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that detail the cost and ineffectiveness of Cap & Trade. I implore the folks to turn the pages for themselves and asses by fact.

How about our European neighbors, how has Cap & Trade been working for them?

According to an investigative report by the London Bureau of BusinessWeek, Europe's CO2 output actually rose 1.1%. An in depth analysis published in the Washington Post delves into Europe's issues with Cap & Trade. Let's take a look:

Business

Kollo Holding's factory in the Netherlands is a silicon carbide maker that calls itself the greenest such plant in the world, but now can't afford to run full-time. Europe's program has driven electricity prices so high that the facility routinely shuts down for part of the day to save money on power.

Although demand for its products is strong, the plant has laid off 40 of its 130 employees and trimmed production. Two customers have turned to cheaper imports from China, which is not covered by Europe's costly regulations.

French cement workers may lose jobs to Morocco, which doesn't have to meet the European guidelines. Four-hundred cement workers protested a license for a rival company that plans to take advantage of Europe's system for controlling greenhouse gases by circumventing it. The rival wants to import material from Morocco, where factories don't have to pay to emit carbon gas.

Residents

German homeowners pay 25 percent more for electricity, even as their utility companies earn record profits.

[Landlords will pass increased heating and electric costs to tenants. Workers across the continent face the prospect of losing their jobs to foreign facilities that aren't required to follow Cap & Trade standards. When the price of electricity, gas, and operating costs rise everyone will feel the hit, from heating your homes, driving to work, or paying for transportation to get to work and/or play.]

Environment

[In addition to Europe's CO2 output rising by 1.1%] Europe's cap-and-trade system has done little to reduce output at such places as the Janschwalde coal plant, [located near the village of Janschwalde in Brandenburg on the German-Polish border] Europe's third-biggest carbon dioxide emitter. Each year, it spews more than 25 million tons of carbon dioxide; half of its output can power all of Berlin.

Remember that cement plant in Dannes, France and the prospect of them losing their jobs to a Moroccan plant?

The Moroccan plant may produce even more carbon dioxide than the one in Dannes. "This is going the wrong way from an environmental point of view," Vincent Bichet, Director General, Dannes.

Back in the U.S., Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi and other Obama elites are pushing for similar Crap & Trade policies. Rest assured it will be like chum to the sharks, the lobbyists and enviro-arsonists are already circling.

It is my firm belief that we should all be good shepherds of the earth. The current Cap & Trade system will do nothing for the planet and is only green in the sense that it will remove the green from your wallet and plant it into the accounts of the fat-cats.