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Archive for November 2009
The Head Whiner
THE Emails
If you want to spend some time reading emails concerning the ‘man made global warming’ hoax, here’s the link. I read through some of them, and I gotta tell ya…they aren’t all that interesting, but there are a few tidbits that will raise some eyebrows.
No Holds Barred
Hassan Nurullah of Digital Publius fame, is probably one of the best Christian bloggers around. Well, in my opinion at least. He says what many of us think, and says it quite strongly, no word mincing for this guy. 
His most recent post, The Voters Stupid, is no exception. Please, go read it!
Oblivious
I have to ask….when are the people of Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional district going to snap out of their stupor and get rid of this ……guy?
The White House says domestic politics is irrelevant to its pending Afghanistan decision, but domestic politicians beg to differ. “There ain’t going to be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan,” the liberal warhorse David Obey told ABC’s Jonathan Karl, before threatening a “war surtax” if President Obama does end up granting General Stanley McChrystal’s request for 40,000 more troops.
When are these fools in Washington actually going to sit down and READ the U.S. Constitution?
ZoNation – Gitmo
“The Golden Rule”
Matthew 7:12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
Luke 6:31
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
To quote the Dalai Lama: “Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people’s suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.”
People of my age range (and prior) grew up with this Golden Rule. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, it got turned around. These days, it has become “Do unto others before they do unto you“.
So, with this in mind, I would like to make my demands.
1. Starting from today, I want 50% of the total worth of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid. 50% of any future income, whether it be from investments or personal business dealings, will also be deposited into my personal account.
2. 40% of the income and accumulated wealth of all U.S. Representatives and Senators who voted to steal money from the American citizen will be confiscated, and deposited in my personal account. Likewise, any future sums will be deducted and deposited.
3. All remaining employees of the government, federal, state, and local, will hand over 30% of all personal worth. All future earnings will be treated in a similar manner as stated in #1 and #2.
Once these sums are deposited into my account, I will determine where said funds will be distributed, to include:
1. Faith based charities, to aid in job training. “A hand up, not a hand out.”
2. All pro-life organizations.
3. Drug testing for all government assistance recipients.
4. Law enforcement to aid in the security of our borders.
5. Law enforcement to aid in the round up of all illegals, with the purpose of deportation.
6. All funds necessary to support our military in any, and all, endeavors.
7. Public schools will no longer be run by unions with an agenda, and pay for teachers will be based on merit.
These are just a few of the projects on which I will spend said funds. I will be taking suggestions from fellow concerned citizens. No politicians will be allowed to add their suggestions. We’ve already had enough of their foolishness.
As for the astronomical debt incurred by said politicians, they will personally be responsible for the repayment. They will pass this debt along to their children, and their children’s children, so on down the line, until complete repayment has occurred.
So D.C., etc., now that the citizens of the U.S. of A. are “doing unto you”, how does it feel? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Funny Stuff
Shared by Sue. Wish it hadn’t cut off! 
Something to Seriously Think About
Racing Toward Revolution?
by J. D. Longstreet
There is a strong undercurrent of anger just beneath the surface of American society these days. It is a “teeth-grinding” anger. It is hot and wrathful while, at the same time, cold and calculating. In short — it is in a state of “becoming”. Becoming what? It is becoming, I am very afraid, a spirit of revolution.
To anyone looking objectively at the USA today, it is clear — this country cannot survive as she is today. That is the reality.
The population is very nearly equally divided on practically everything. We are constantly at each other’s throats. We are fast becoming a bitter, unhappy, people. The famous American optimism is gone.
What happened? Socialism happened.
A Bit of Sarah Info
I got an email from a friend up there in the tundra this morning, and I just had to check out the guy to see if he was an actual person, and had really written the post. Turns out, yes, he really does exist, and he really did write it. So, I’m going to post it here. Some real interesting information about Sarah Palin that the LSM, and even supporters never bother to bring up. My posting this does not mean I’m a Sarah supporter, but it does mean that I, along with a vast number of people, am sick of all the bashing. H/T to Kathy
By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman.
As posted in comments on Greta’s article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin.
The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it. It’s not about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to mention here.
1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats, because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club ” (CBC) and sent them packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping around the yard, throwing confetti and singing, “la la la la” (well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this country that has ever done anything similar.
Obama/Holder Putting U.S. On Trial
Lawyer: 9/11 Defendants Want Platform for Views
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but “would explain what happened and why they did it.”
The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier this month that Ali and four other men accused of murdering nearly 3,000 people in the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. will face a civilian federal trial just blocks from the site of the destroyed World Trade Center.
Does anyone seriously think that either of those two clowns are bringing the murderous scum to New York, a short distance from the still gaping hole they helped create, to put THEM on trial? Their intention to do is to put the Bush administration, and the United States of America on trial. I can only pray, some day very soon, Obama and his minions will come to see the error of their ways.
H/T: Free Republic
Breaking It Down
ObamaCare By the Numbers
Meredith Jessup
5.5 million — Number of jobs that could be lost as a result of taxes on businesses that cannot afford to provide health insurance coverage, according to a model developed by Council of Economic Advisors Chair Christina Romer
$729.5 billion — Total new taxes on small businesses, individuals who cannot afford health coverage, and employers who cannot afford to provide coverage that meet federal bureaucrats’ standards
$1.055 trillion — New federal spending on expanded health insurance coverage over the next ten years, according to a Congressional Budget Office preliminary score of the bill
0.7% — Percentage of all that new spending occurring in the bill’s first three years-representing a debt and tax “time bomb” in the program’s later years set to explode on future generations
$88,200 — Definition of “low-income” family of four for purposes of health insurance subsidies
114 million — Number of individuals who could lose their current coverage under the bill’s government-run health plan, according to non-partisan actuaries at the Lewin Group
43 — Entitlement programs the bill creates, expands, or extends-an increase from H.R. 3200
111 — Additional offices, bureaus, commissions, programs, and bureaucracies the bill creates over and above the entitlement expansions-more than double the number in H.R. 3200
3,425 — Uses of the word “shall,” representing new duties for bureaucrats and mandates on individuals, businesses, and States-also more than double the number in H.R. 3200
$60 billion — Loss sustained by taxpayers every year due to Medicare fraud, according to a recent 60 Minutes expose; the government-run health plan does not reform the ineffective anti-fraud statutes and procedures that have kept Medicare on the Government Accountability Office’s list of high-risk programs for two decades
Zero — Prohibitions on government programs like Medicare and Medicaid from using cost-effectiveness research to impose delays to or denials for access to life-saving treatments
$634 Billion — Amount that could be saved by denying individuals access to treatments that are not “cost-effective,” according to a report by the liberal Commonwealth Fund; Section 1160 of the bill gives bureaucrats in the Obama Administration virtual free rein to develop a new “high-value” reimbursement system for Medicare by May 2012
2017 — Year Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be exhausted-an entitlement crisis exacerbated by the bill, which according to the Congressional Budget Office will increase the federal budgetary commitment to health care by $598 billion in its first ten years alone
$2,500 — Promised savings for each American family from health reform, according to then-Senator Obama’s campaign pledge-savings which the Administration’s own actuaries have confirmed will not materialize, as the Pelosi health care bill would increase the growth of health care costs
Source: HRC
Cuz I Really Like Third Day
Not sure what’s up with the subtitles, but oh well.
A Great “Copy & Paste”
This is from the 15th, but still oh so relevant!
Obama and the ‘Lost Boys’
By Stephen Guy Hardin
“One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach… all the damn vampires.” – Grandpa in ‘The Lost Boys”
To paraphrase the grandfather in the movie, ‘The Lost Boys’, one thing about living in America I never could stomach … all the damn Liberals! Just as in the fictional movie town of Santa Carla, so it is in the United States. There is a small, but deadly enclave of Liberals who terrorize and intimidate the peaceful law biding citizenry of our nation. The Leftist Progressive activists that haunt our country practice a perverse religion of totalitarianism and self-loathing that preaches the total aberration of America and the American way of life. Much in the way that Vampires lure and seduce innocent and trusting victims to their fate, so does the American Left attempt to lure and seduce the average American voter to the fate of socialism. Only twenty percent of Americans classify themselves as Liberal, yet this twenty percent has beguiled and manipulated the machinery of public policy and public opinion to an extent that we are no longer able to see the reflection in the mirror of an America founded on the Constitution.
I have to marvel at the similarities between Vampires and Liberals.
Just as Vampires recoil at the sign of the Cross, Liberals recoil at any mention of God and church and religion. And just as Vampires recoil from the light of day, Liberals recoil when the policies they pursue are brought into the light of day.
Persecution
A 15-year-old Egyptian girl, Dina el-Gohary, has written an emotional appeal to President Obama asking him to use his influence to save her father, Maher el-Gohary, who is being persecuted for his beliefs. “Mr. President Obama, we are a minority in Egypt,” Dina writes, according to a report from the Assyrian International News Agency. “We are treated very badly. … We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father, and now the Government has set for us a new prison, we are imprisoned in our own country.”
Dina and her father are Christian converts in a part of the world where conversion can mean death.
The Muslim-majority countries of the Middle East are among the world’s greatest offenders against freedom of conscience. Religious liberty does not exist or is severely curtailed based on Shariah supremacy. Egypt is a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which commits signatories to respect a variety of liberties, including religious freedom, but a court considering whether Mr. el-Gohary could legally change his religious affiliation ruled that Egypt was only bound to honor those provisions that did not contradict Islamic law, and “in the event of a contradiction, Shariah takes precedence.”
Further down in the column: “You said that the Muslim minority in America are treated very well,” Dina el-Gohary wrote to Mr. Obama, “so why are we not treated here likewise?”
In reality, the “Muslim minority” are treated a whole lot better than Christians in America. To be perfectly honest, I’d be really surprised if B. Hussein even responded.
Scroogery in NC
N.C. Parade Organizers Ban Mrs. Claus From Holiday March
Santa Claus is fine at a North Carolina Christmas parade. But Mrs. Claus has to stay away.
Organizers of the Raleigh parade told The News & Observer of Raleigh that they are just following policy and children would be confused if there were two people in the Saturday parade in Santa suits.
John Odom says organizers even discourage parade watchers from wearing Santa hats so everyone’s attention is on the real St. Nick.
Mrs. Claus isn’t happy. Debra Goldman says she was allowed to don her gray wig and long red dress last year as she walked with the sheriff.
Odom says organizers didn’t know Goldman was dressing as Mrs. Claus last year. This year, she sent out a press release.
Goldman says she still might wear a Santa hat as she walks.
Are the people in North Carolina not aware that Mrs Claus has been part of popular ‘modern culture’ since the 1889? Rather pathetic. Even Macy’s had a drag queen in the role of Mrs Claus back in 2003. So, what is their problem? Kids can’t tell the difference between a guy with a white beard and a woman in a dress?
