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Just In Time For The Jewish New Year
Those oh so peaceful folks make their presence known. Well, why should today be any different than any other day for TERRORISTS?
Gaza Terror Attack on Israeli Kibbutz Heralds Jewish New Year
Gaza terrorists launched a mortar attack on children and their parents in southern Israel Wednesday, just hours before the start of Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year.
One mortar exploded close to several kindergarten buildings in a Negev kibbutz, just half an hour before the children were set to arrive.
Thankfully, no one was injured or killed. But let me ask this…..do Israelis go out of their way to bomb Gaza on a regular basis? No, I didn’t think so. Do the Jewish people celebrate Muslim holidays with attacks on civilians? No, I didn’t think so. So, explain to me just who is doing what, and why so many believe that it’s the Israelis that are causing the problems in the region? Oh, I’ve heard all that bull manure about the “occupation of Palestine”. And that’s exactly what it is….MANURE! The Jewish people were there long before the ‘palestinians’ got kicked out of whatever country didn’t want to put up with them!
Genesis 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Joshua 1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Seems to me, it’s not the Jews who are doing the occupying! Who’s authority is higher than God’s?
Rosh Hashanah
What A Petty Little…….Man(?)
Obama Targets Boehner, Casts Election as ‘Fear Versus Hope’
The president toggled between telling anecdotes about his family history and hitting hard — very hard — at House Republican Leader John Boehner. Calling out the GOP leader by name, he ridiculed an economic speech Boehner gave in Cleveland last month, saying the Ohio Republican has offered “no new policies” and “no new ideas.”
“The easiest thing for the other side to do is to ride this fear and anger all the way to the election,” Obama said. “A lot has changed since I came here in those final days of the last election, but what hasn’t is the choice facing this country. It’s still fear versus hope, the past versus the future. It’s still a choice between sliding backward and moving forward.”
The more Obama opens his mouth, the more he is an embarrassment, not just to those of us on the RIGHT, but to the entire country. Hasn’t he already done enough damage to the image of the Office of the President of the United States? The ‘leader of the free world’ doesn’t behave like a petulant child, but I’ll be darned if this faker doesn’t do it on a daily basis!
To Burn, Or Not To Burn
Fla. minister: Sept. 11 Quran burn still planned
The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off.
“We are still determined to it, yes,” the Rev. Terry Jones told the CBS Early Show.
I rather dislike the idea of burning ANY books. Think of how much knowledge has been lost by burning books, throughout the ages! I’m a book fanatic, as evidenced by the ever shrinking dining area. Drives the Mr nuts. What I’m thinking, if the media, and some very public figures hadn’t made such a big deal out of this, no one would have paid a bit of attention. This church could have had it’s bonfire, and gone on about their business. What they hope to accomplish, I’m not really sure, other than sending a message. Well, these public folks can thank themselves for getting that message out!
I’ve got to ask, where are the Vatican, the NYPD, Holder, Clinton, and Patraeus every time some Muslim (Saudi Arabia?) trashes the Bible? Murders Christian children?
And They Wonder Why So Many Believe D’Bama Is Muslim?
Personally, I think he’s just an atheist ass, with a LOT of Muslim traits.
Neglecting Allies and Appeasing Foes
The Foundry
In yesterday’s New York Times, International Herald Tribune columnist Roger Cohen reported: “Since taking office, President Obama has reached out to the Muslim world as a whole, to China, to Turkey and to Iran, but has devoted scant serious diplomatic energy to Europe.” Cohen then went on to quote prominent Paris-based defense analyst Camille Grand: “Europe is the object of benign U.S. neglect. Obama has not established or re-established a strategic relationship with any single European country or with Europe as a whole.”
This analysis is dead on. In their report released last week, Defining the Obama Doctrine, Its Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them, Drs. Kim Holmes and James Carafano detail just some of President Obama’s practice of extending an open hand to enemies while rebuffing friends and close allies, including: not welcoming the Dalai Lama to the White House when that dignitary made his first visit to Washington after Obama took office; reversing years of U.S. policy by supporting Argentina over the U.K. on the Falklands; caving to Russia by abandoning our missile defense plans with the Czech Republic and Poland; and backing a Hugo Chavez ally in Honduras.
Glenn Beck 09/07/10 – Crash Course
It’s Bush’s Fault! ad nauseam
Political fables
by Thomas Sowell
President Barack Obama boldly proclaims, “The buck stops here!” But, whenever his policies are criticized, he acts as if the buck stopped with George W. Bush.
The party line that we are likely to be hearing from now until the November elections is that Obama “inherited” the big federal budget deficits and that he has to “clean up the mess” left in the economy by the Republicans. This may convince those who want to be convinced, but it will not stand up under scrutiny.
No President of the United States can create either a budget deficit or a budget surplus. All spending bills originate in the House of Representatives and all taxes are voted into law by Congress.
Democrats controlled both houses of Congress before Barack Obama became president. The deficit he inherited was created by the Congressional Democrats, including Senator Barack Obama, who did absolutely nothing to oppose the runaway spending. He was one of the biggest of the big spenders.
Read the whole column here.
I’m one of those people who is beyond sick of hearing “IT’S ALL BUSH’S FAULT!” I’m fairly sure I’m not the only one! Yeah, Bush was far from perfect, but then, is anyone perfect? Especially a politician? However, to consistently blame the previous administration for everything, is more than just childish. Immature, petulant, juvenile….I’m sure there are more words to describe such behavior, but I’m having a tough time coming up with appropriate words to describe what we’ve been seeing for the last 20 months.
It’s That Time Of Year!
So, the ol’ Ick in law has come out of hibernation, just in time for football season. Pfft! Typical! Anyway, he’s doing his infamous Ick’s Picks again this year. If you want to get in on the action, head on over to Ick’s Corner!
Government – Greedier Than Any Corporation
The Obama Tax and Spend Hikes
The Foundry
According to the Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released today, only 26% of voters think the economy is going to be better in the next year, and 61% think the country is on the wrong track. Desperate to show Americans he’s fighting “every single day, every single hour, every single minute” to turn the economy around, President Barack Obama unveiled yet another economic stimulus spending plan yesterday. This time the President is promising to spend $50 billion over six-years on a “Race to the Top”-style transportation pork plan that will fund pet leftist projects like high-speed rail. The President promised: “this will not only create jobs immediately, it’s also going to make our economy hum over the long haul.”
But even the President’s own officials aren’t believing the hype. Politico reports: “Under the best-case scenario, however, jobs would be created in 2011, the official said. ‘This is not an … immediate jobs plan. This is a six-year reauthorization that’s front-loaded,’ according to the senior administration official.” This Obama aide is half right: the President’s infrastructure plan will not create any jobs any time soon. As we have thoroughly documented before environmental regulations like the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) make it impossible for infrastructure spending to be implemented quickly. And even in the long run, as Heritage Foundation economist Ronald Utt has documented, the vast majority of independent academic and federal government studies show that the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic activity is close to zero.
The Irresponsible Kids With Dad’s Credit Card
Obama Offers a Transit Plan to Create Jobs
President Obama, looking to stimulate a sluggish economy and create jobs, called Monday for Congress to approve major upgrades to the nation’s roads, rail lines and runways — part of a six-year plan that would cost tens of billions of dollars and create a government-run bank to finance innovative transportation projects.
I’d highly recommend Mr Obama read Atlas Shrugged. I can lend him my copy, book or audio, if he doesn’t want to spend more taxpayer money….for a change.
Central to the plan is the president’s call for an “infrastructure bank,” which would be run by the government but would pool tax dollars with private investment, the White House says. Mr. Obama embraced the idea as a senator; with unemployment still high despite an array of government efforts, the concept has lately been gaining traction in policy circles and on Capitol Hill.
If you had any doubts about D’Bama’s plans, this should surely open your eyes. Although, evidently, there are some who actually WANT the U.S. to be socialized, even though it has failed, time and time again.
“It will change the way Washington spends your tax dollars,” Mr. Obama said here, “reforming the haphazard and patchwork way we fund and maintain our infrastructure to focus less on wasteful earmarks and outdated formulas, and more on competition and innovation that gives us the best bang for the buck.”
But the notion of a government-run bank — indeed, a government-run anything — is bound to prove contentious during an election year in which voters are furious over bank bailouts and over what many perceive as Mr. Obama pursuing a big government agenda. Even before the announcement Monday, Republicans were expressing caution.
Please…someone clean the wax out of this man/child’s ears! NO! NO! NO! How many times do we have to say it? How loud do we have to get, before you start paying attention. You do NOT know what is best for this country. Being someone who did NOT grow up here, in your formative years, you are evidently working under the misguided notion that we would embrace a socialist regime. Just because there were so many who were duped by your smooth lies, does not mean they still have the blinders on!
Specifically, the president wants to rebuild 150,000 miles of road, lay and maintain 4,000 miles of rail track, restore 150 miles of runways and advance a next-generation air-traffic control system.
The reason we have a tire tax is to make sure our roads get built and repaired. Yes, we need infrastructure, we need bridges built and kept up, but what we do NOT need is the government’s fingers in every pie of our existence! I’d suggest that the government stop sending billions of dollars to prop up tin pot dictators around the world and use those funds for what the U.S. Constitution intended. Secure the borders, fight terrorists, of EVERY nationality here at home. (Has anyone added up the cost to taxpayers of all the ‘vacations’ the Obamas have taken since the coups d’état?)
The White House did not offer a price tag for the full measure or say how many jobs it would create. If Congress simply reauthorized the expired transportation bill and accounted for inflation, the new measure would cost about $350 billion over the next six years. But Mr. Obama wants to “frontload” the new bill with an additional $50 billion in initial investment to generate jobs, and vowed it would be “fully paid for.” The White House is proposing to offset the $50 billion by eliminating tax breaks and subsidies for the oil and gas industry.
Of course he didn’t offer a price tag. How could he? And we all know the government only creates government jobs at the cost to the private sector, which is where the tax money comes from. No one wants the rail system. Trains don’t go where people want to, and they are a waste of time and money. ( BTW, they tried that train idea in Milwaukee. It fell flat on it’s face! As best I can figure, the only people in support of this idea are government union types, who, let’s admit it, LIKE the idea of socialism, and living off the backs of those who actually WORK.)
The column goes on and on, with ever more creative ideas to sap the economy, and put more and more power into the hands of a central government, power that was never intended, must be stopped, AND reversed! The government, at any level, does NOT create jobs. It creates dependency.
When you’ve dug yourself into a hole, the SMART thing to do……STOP DIGGING!
Glenn Beck 09/06/10 – Crash Course
How Much Do You Owe?
I have no personal income, yet I have a “share” of taxes to pay? How would I have ‘earned’ $118,280 from a zero income? And why do I ‘owe’? They gonna squeeze blood out of this turnip?
Islamification
Some folks might think I’m way off base here, but the way I see it, Muslims can’t actually conquer countries from the outside, through war, so they have changed their tactics. How better to actually conquer than by a take over from within? Our own Constitution is being used against us, our freedom OF religion is being threatened, from within.
The French might be too afraid to fight back, but in my opinion, Americans are not. Will we allow the “politically correct” destroy what so many have fought and died to protect? Or will we just roll over, as the French have done. With this administration and Congress, the question would be “when”, not “if”.
Government Day
Labor Day Has Become Government Day
The Foundry
This Labor Day marks a milestone in the history of the U.S. union movement. It is the first Labor Day on which a majority of union members in United States work for the government. In January the Department of Labor reported that union membership in government has overtaken that in the private sector. Three times as many union members work in the Post Office as in the entire domestic auto industry. The face of the union movement is not a worker on the assembly line but a clerk at the DMV.
This is a dramatic shift for the union movement. The early trade unionists did not believe that unions had a place in government. They believed the purpose of unions was to redistribute business profits from owners to workers … and the government makes no profits. Not until the 1960s did unionizing government employees become widespread. Now government employees make up 52 percent of all union members.
Byrd Issues
Byrd Family Objects to Funeral Footage in GOP Ad
The family of the late Robert C. Byrd blasted the GOP nominee for his U.S. Senate seat Sunday after he used an image from Byrd’s memorial service in a TV ad attacking the Democratic nominee.
The ad:
Now, if they hadn’t made an issue of this, it’s a good chance no one would have even known the picture was from the memorial. And wasn’t it televised? Looks like the whole thing is on YouTube. So, what’s the issue? It’s public.
