November 26, 2008
Some years ago, and after serving several years on the local County Board of Elections, one fact balanced the challenge. When using paper ballots and counting the ballot with a “scanner”, it is imperative to let the scanner only, work as designed to do, and count the votes.
When individuals try to count paper ballots which are designed to be counted for a scanner, personal choice begin to enter into the decision making conclusion(s), trying to justify their choice to get into the brain of the voter(s).
For example, when a proposed voter makes an X over an area which is to be covered if counted, the person(s) counting the vote for or against the candidate making the decision is making a determination as to whether the proposed voter wanted to vote for an individual, or did the voter want to vote against the candidate. Allow the scanners to do the job they are designed to do. Scanners are not political partisan. The scanner machines don’t care whether the vote is for a Democrat, a Republican, or an Independent. Persons making the determination for or against a candidate usually care, as to who gets the vote.
Each and every voter has a right to cast their ballot correctly, and/or ask for the assistance of their choice, and to make sure their voting ballot is properly marked and counted. Individuals should not be trying to make a determination of any ballots votes, when the ballot is improperly marked.
Sincerely,
Oscar Y Harward
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report - 20081023
"Daily Motivations"
When you sacrifice your integrity, you erode your most precious leadership possession. -- David Cottrell
"The Patriot Post"
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." - Justice Joseph
"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." - John Adams
"Freedom is... never more than one generation away from extinction. Every generation has to learnhow to protect and defend it, or it's gone and gone for a long, long time." - Ronald Reagan
"It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, 'We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.' This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves." ---Ronald Reagan
"The Web"
"It takes leaders to grow other leaders." -- Ray Blunt
"Leaders learn to lead as apprentices in the classroom of experience with senior leaders." -- Ray Blunt
From: "Newsmax" - Read the entire story. Click the "link" below.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_smears_fact_check/2008/10/20/142379.html?s=al&promo_code=6DC0-1
'Smears' About Obama Largely True
Monday, October 20, 2008 9:32 PMBy: Lowell Ponte
The Obama campaign says its candidate is a victim of “smears” — and has even created a Web site to fight such attacks.
But a Newsmax investigation finds many of the so-called smears are largely based in truth — and the Obama campaign uses half-truths, clever language, and ad hominem attacks to spin the facts.
Obama’s www.FightTheSmears.com focuses mainly on anti-Obama messages being repeated on the Internet and talk radio, the only media where Obama's ideological allies are not dominant.
These "smears" and the Obama rebuttals are often framed in lawyerly language that leaves much wiggle room in the candidate’s answers.
FightTheSmears.com also makes no attempt at objectivity, describing Obama’s critics as “pushing misleading research and distorted claims” because they are “ideologues” busy “spreading a ‘pack of lies’ about Barack.”
From: "AmeriPac" - Read the entire story. Click the "link" below.
Biden Confirms that Obama Too Inexperienced
“When Crisis Hits Obama Wouldn't Have Right Response” - Sen. Joe Biden
Terrorists attack the US and two planes just crashed into the World Trade Center. Another crashed into the Pentagon and a fourth plan is still in the air heading toward the White House. Americans look to the White House for Security, protection and decisive action during the crisis.
Obama what will you do, what will you do?
Where is Obama?
With no experience and just two years as a Senator he is out back in the rose garden smoking a cigarette. “The pressure of the crisis has raised his stress levels to the point where he really needs to take a drag.” says Assistant Press Secretary Simon Theodore who continued "Barack really tried to quit"
Obama not being able to make a decision will force an irresponsible Biden to step in to assure the nation that everything is OK by saying that you ”have to stand with them, because it wouldn't be apparent Sen. Obama would have the right response”.
"OneNewsNow"
Obama's economic advisor a 'big gov't' proponent
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 10/21/2008 6:00:00 AM
A conservative author says one of Barack Obama's most trusted economic advisers holds internationalist views that threaten American sovereignty.
During their final presidential debate, Barack Obama rejected John McCain's claim that the Illinois senator's associations with former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and the liberal group ACORN are troubling. Obama noted that, on economic policy, he associates with Warren Buffett and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. Buffet and Volcker are among the advisers that Obama says "have shaped [his] ideas and who will be surrounding [him] in the White House."
Tom Kilgannon, president of Freedom Alliance, says Volcker supports the idea of an international regulatory body overseeing America's capitalist economic system. "Paul Volcker, I think, brings a great desire to add more regulation, both domestically and internationally," Kilgannon explains. "He comes from the big government wing, and that's how he would approach issues like this -- get the government more involved."
Volcker, according to Kilgannon, was not aggressive enough in his investigation of the United Nations "Oil for Food" scandal in 2004. Volcker was appointed by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to lead the probe of the scandal, which occurred under Annan's watch. According to Kilgannon, the appointment was a conflict of interest.
"When the final report came out, issued by Volcker about the Oil for Food scandal, he pulled his punches on the Secretary General and the Secretary General's son Kojo Annan, who was also involved in the scandal," he says.
Kilgannon believes, since Volcker is tied in with the United Nations and the international finance community, his role in a future Obama administration would be troubling.
From: "Ameican Conservative Union"
Oscar,
I told you that Senator Chris Dodd and other liberals not only looked the other way as Fannie Mae changed the rules to push subprime mortgages, but they took thousands in campaign cash.
I pointed out that the person who took the second highest amount of cash was Senator Barack Obama, and in turn he used Fannie insiders to pick his VP nominee.
Now we learn they had an accomplice.
…ACORN
Worse, ACORN – a left wing activist group – not only aided the push for subprime loans, they extorted millions from the very mortgage companies they targeted in the process.
Even worse, ACORN has misused taxpayer money, mixed it with politics and now we are seeing the results.
THAT IS WHY ACU IS CALLING FOR AN EXPANDED FBI INVESTIGATION INTO ACORN, SENATORS OBAMA AND DODD AND THEIR ROLES WITH ACORN. We need your support on this project. We need you to sign the PETITION HERE.
The results are being seen in ACORN’s new front page story: the story of how ACORN Is promoting voter fraud.
ACU has created a new 2 minute video that spells out these facts for the American people. We want people to know the truth. Our Video is on our petition page and on the national video channel YouTube. If you would like to view this 2 minute video it is on a separate page with a link to our PETITION HERE.
Year after year we open our newspapers to read about efforts from the United States to send delegations to monitor elections for fairness in third world countries. But who is going to monitor ours?
ACORN and its various subsidiaries have earned millions from pork earmarks from Dodd and people like House liberal Rep. Barney Frank. Studies have proven that this money has been mixed into their political efforts to promote left-wing ballot initiatives and now apparently to push voter fraud.
THAT IS WHY ACU IS CALLING FOR AN EXPANDED FBI INVESTIGATION INTO ACORN, SENATORS OBAMA AND DODD AND THEIR ROLES WITH ACORN. We need your support on this project. We need you to sign the PETITION HERE.
Our video on our separate video page points out what they might be up to.
Who used to work for ACORN? Senator Barack Obama.
Obama not only did legal work for ACORN but his campaign gave ACORN more than $800,000 this year. Now ACORN is being investigated in multiple states for illegally registering non-voters. The FBI has launched an initial investigation. ACORN offices have been raided.
We all remember how close our nation’s electoral contest was in Florida in 2000. Now, ACORN is attempting to stuff ballot boxes with thousands upon thousands of fraudulent votes. We must reach and out and try to stop them.
THAT IS WHY ACU IS CALLING FOR AN EXPANDED FBI INVESTIGATION INTO ACORN, SENATORS OBAMA AND DODD AND THEIR ROLES WITH ACORN. We need your support on this project. We need you to sign the PETITION HERE.
While taking taxpayer money for its ACORN H.C., and while claiming it is not involved in Voter Fraud, ACORN’s website points out what they are really all about.
ACORN’s website says, quote: “Incident Highlights Republican Suppression Scheme , Bogus "Voter Fraud Charges" Aim to Camouflage Voter Suppression, and Don't Let The Right-Wing Noise Machine Get Away With It.
"My question to you is: are we going to let ACORN get away with voter fraud, promoting economic collapse and efforts to steal an election contest? Will you let them get away with it?
ACU IS CALLING FOR AN EXPANDED FBI INVESTIGATION INTO ACORN, SENATORS OBAMA AND DODD AND THEIR ROLES WITH ACORN. We need your support on this project. We need you to sign the PETITION and support this effort now, HERE.
If you want, take a couple minutes to view ACU’s new ACORN video here. But, whether you do or not, please join ACU’s call for an expanded FBI investigation through our petition here.
We need your help with this important effort. Please forward this email to your family and friends. We need to spread the truth. We need to push an further investigation.
THAT IS WHY ACU IS CALLING FOR AN EXPANDED FBI INVESTIGATION INTO ACORN, SENATORS OBAMA AND DODD AND THEIR ROLES WITH ACORN. We need your support on this project. We need you to sign the PETITION HERE.
From: "Michelle Malkin"
What’s on Bill Ayers’ door
By Michelle Malkin • October 15, 2008 11:13 AM
Guess his Mao poster and Obama signs are hanging in the bedroom. Via Chicago Trib:
Ayers’ office door is decorated with pictures of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara and Malcolm X. It is also home to pictures of children, bills of rights for students and parents, and a rainbow-hued greeting card advising “How to Be Really Alive.” A place of prominence is give to a New Yorker cartoon of a man interviewing for a job. The interviewer says, “I’m trying to find a way to balance your strengths against your felonies.”
“Rehabilitated” my foot.
In related Ayers’ news, read this e-mail from an education major at Marist College. I imagine Ayers’ book is standard fare for legions of teachers-in-training:
I thought you would be interested to know that Marist College has a gradute course for education majors opening with William Ayers’ book “To Teach”. I am one of four students in the seminar and the professor last week made some disparaging remarks that the news media was portraying him as a terrorist. She tried to explain the “times” of the sixties as being radical and what Ayers did was not too uncommon during the civil rights campaign, and how he was a friend of Stokley Carmichael. When I asked how we could take the book, which is well written in it’s prose but very anti-system/anti-traditional with clear overtones that stigmatizes education in America as being designed for white suburbia, as being credible - she went into a convoluted answer that berated the right wing media.
Nevertheless, I didn’t press the issue too much as I have not been brainwashed by the main steam media into believing Obama’s relationship with Ayers is no big deal - but I do find her choice of books to be an unnecessary indoctrination on education majors who will be teaching future generations of young people. There are, without question, plenty of other well written books by credible authors that can easily replace Ayers’ book and I believe this is something Marist College should not condone as it sends a biased message from an author who committed violent crimes and doesn’t see America as a good place. How, therefore, can one take his viewpoint on how teachers should ‘teach’ children as being feasible?
Maybe this would be something you want to look into as to why the book is used for the course.
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More schools to avoid: UNC-Chapel Hill. They heart The Unrepentant Terrorist.
Bill Ayers, the radical militant-turned-university professor whose ties to Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama are under scrutiny, is getting some support from faculty members across the country.
Professors from UNC-Chapel Hill are among the more than 3,200 educators who have signed an online petition in support of Ayers. More than a dozen signatories are from local universities here in the Triangle.
Lawrence Grossberg, a UNC communications studies professor, said he signed the petition because he believes Ayers should not be demonized for his actions 40 years ago. He said he also respects the work Ayers does now as an education professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Ayers is a school reform advocate who has written or edited more than a dozen books.
“He did break the law, and he was punished and he moved on,” Grossberg said. “He built an extraordinary life. He has become one of the leading scholars in the field of education. [People are] excoriating him for things he did 40 years ago and misrepresenting what he has done since, in order to make someone else suffer. That doesn’t seem very American to me.”
He wasn’t punished. And he hasn’t moved on.
From: "The email Bag"
NEW STOCK MARKET TERMINOLOGY
CEO -- Chief Embezzlement Officer.
CFO -- Corporate Fraud Officer.
BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
BEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.
VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.
BROKER -- What my broker has made me.
STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.
FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.
MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.
CASH FLOW -- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
WINDOWS -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.
PROFIT -- An archaic word no longer in use.
FRCC -- Fiercely Republican Commonsense Club
Why I Can't Vote For Obama
By Huntley Brown
Dear Friends,
A few months ago I was asked for my perspective on Obama, I sent out an email with a few points. With the election just around the corner I decided to complete my perspective. Those of you on my e-list have seen some of this before but it's worth repeating...
First I must say whoever wins the election will have my prayer support. Obama needs to be commended for his accomplishments but I need to explain why I will not be voting for him.
Many of my friends process their identity through their blackness. I process my identity through Christ. Being a Christian (a Christ follower) means He leads I follow. I can't dictate the terms He does because He is the leader.
I can't vote black because I am black; I have to vote Christian because that's who I am. Christian first, black second. Neither should anyone from the other ethnic groups vote because of ethnicity. 200 years from now I won't be asked if I was black or white. I will be asked if I knew Jesus and accepted Him as Lord and Savior.
In an election there are many issues to consider but when a society gets abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning to name a few, wrong economic concerns will soon not matter.
We need to follow Martin Luther King's words, don't judge someone by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I don't know Obama so all I can go off is his voting record. His voting record earned him the title of the most liberal senator in the US Senate in 2007.
NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007 (01/31/2008)
To beat Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton as the most liberal senator, takes some doing. Obama accomplished this feat in 2 short years. I wonder what would happen to America if he had four years to work with.
There is a reason Planned Parenthood gives him a 100 % rating. There is a reason the homosexual community supports him. There is a reason Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Hamas etc. love him. There is a reason he said he would nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court.
There is a reason he voted against the infanticide bill. There is a reason he voted No on the constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. There is a reason he voted No on banning partial birth abortion. There is a reason he voted No on confirming Justices Roberts and Alito. These two judges are conservatives and they have since overturned partial birth abortion. The same practice Obama wanted to continue.
Let's take a look at the practice he wanted to continue
The 5 Step Partial Birth Abortion procedures:
A. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps. (Remember this is a live baby)
B. The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
C. The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.
D. The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.
E. The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.
God help him. There is a reason Obama opposed the parental notification law.
Think about this: You can't give a kid an aspirin without parental notification but that same kid can have an abortion without parental notification. This is insane.
There is a reason he went to Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years.
Obama tells us he has good judgment but he sat under Jeremiah Wright teaching for 20 years. Now he is condemning Wright's sermons. I wonder why now?
Obama said Jeremiah Wright led him to the Lord and discipled him. A disciple is one in training. Jesus told us in Matthew 28:19 - 20 'Go and make disciples of all nations.' This means reproduce yourself. Teach people to think like you, walk like you; talk like you believe what you believe etc. The question I have is what did Jeremiah Wright teach him?
Would you support a White President who went to a church which has tenets that said they have
a ...
1. Commitment to the White Community
2. Commitment to the White Family
3. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
4. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community.
5. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
6. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
7. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.
Would you support a President who went to a church like that?
Just change the word from white to black and you have the tenets of Obama's former church. If President Bush was a member of a church like this, he would be called a racist. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been marching outside.
This kind of church is a racist church. Obama did not wake up after 20 years and just discovered he went to a racist church. The church can't be about race. Jesus did not come for any particular race. He came for the whole world.
A church can't have a value system based on race. The churches value system has to be based on biblical mandate. It does not matter if itʼs a white church or a black church it's still wrong. Anyone from either race that attends a church like this would never get my vote.
Obama's former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is a disciple of liberal theologian James Cone, author of the 1970 book A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone once wrote: 'Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.
Cone is the man Obama's mentor looks up to. Does Obama believe this?
So what does all this mean for the nation?
In the past when the Lord brought someone with the beliefs of Obama to lead a nation it meant one thing - judgment.
Read 1 Samuel 8 when Israel asked for a king. First God says in 1 Samuel 1:9 'Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.' Then God says 1 Samuel 1:18 ' When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day.' 19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. 'No!' they said. 'We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.' 21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22 The LORD answered, 'Listen to them and give them a king.'
Here is what we know for sure.
God is not schizophrenic
He would not tell one person to vote for Obama and one to vote for McCain. As the scripture says, a city divided against itself cannot stand, so obviously many people are not hearing from God.
Maybe I am the one not hearing but I know God does not change and Obama contradicts many things I read in scripture so I doubt it.
For all my friends who are voting for Obama can you really look God in the face and say; Father based on your word, I am voting for Obama even though I know he will continue the genocidal practice of partial birth abortion. He might have to nominate three or four Supreme Court justices, and I am sure he will be nominating liberal judges who will be making laws that are against you. I also know he will continue to push for homosexual rights, even though you destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for this. I know I can look the other way because of the economy.
I could not see Jesus agreeing with many of Obama's positions. Finally I have two questions for all my liberal friends.
Since we know someone's value system has to be placed on the nation,
1. Whose value system should be placed on the nation.
2. Who should determine that this is the right value system for the nation?
Blessings,
Huntley Brown
When you sacrifice your integrity, you erode your most precious leadership possession. -- David Cottrell
"The Patriot Post"
"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them." - Justice Joseph
"A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." - John Adams
"Freedom is... never more than one generation away from extinction. Every generation has to learnhow to protect and defend it, or it's gone and gone for a long, long time." - Ronald Reagan
"It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, 'We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.' This idea that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power, is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves." ---Ronald Reagan
"The Web"
"It takes leaders to grow other leaders." -- Ray Blunt
"Leaders learn to lead as apprentices in the classroom of experience with senior leaders." -- Ray Blunt
From: "Newsmax" - Read the entire story. Click the "link" below.
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_smears_fact_check/2008/10/20/142379.html?s=al&promo_code=6DC0-1
'Smears' About Obama Largely True
Monday, October 20, 2008 9:32 PMBy: Lowell Ponte
The Obama campaign says its candidate is a victim of “smears” — and has even created a Web site to fight such attacks.
But a Newsmax investigation finds many of the so-called smears are largely based in truth — and the Obama campaign uses half-truths, clever language, and ad hominem attacks to spin the facts.
Obama’s www.FightTheSmears.com focuses mainly on anti-Obama messages being repeated on the Internet and talk radio, the only media where Obama's ideological allies are not dominant.
These "smears" and the Obama rebuttals are often framed in lawyerly language that leaves much wiggle room in the candidate’s answers.
FightTheSmears.com also makes no attempt at objectivity, describing Obama’s critics as “pushing misleading research and distorted claims” because they are “ideologues” busy “spreading a ‘pack of lies’ about Barack.”
From: "AmeriPac" - Read the entire story. Click the "link" below.
Biden Confirms that Obama Too Inexperienced
“When Crisis Hits Obama Wouldn't Have Right Response” - Sen. Joe Biden
Terrorists attack the US and two planes just crashed into the World Trade Center. Another crashed into the Pentagon and a fourth plan is still in the air heading toward the White House. Americans look to the White House for Security, protection and decisive action during the crisis.
Obama what will you do, what will you do?
Where is Obama?
With no experience and just two years as a Senator he is out back in the rose garden smoking a cigarette. “The pressure of the crisis has raised his stress levels to the point where he really needs to take a drag.” says Assistant Press Secretary Simon Theodore who continued "Barack really tried to quit"
Obama not being able to make a decision will force an irresponsible Biden to step in to assure the nation that everything is OK by saying that you ”have to stand with them, because it wouldn't be apparent Sen. Obama would have the right response”.
"OneNewsNow"
Obama's economic advisor a 'big gov't' proponent
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 10/21/2008 6:00:00 AM
A conservative author says one of Barack Obama's most trusted economic advisers holds internationalist views that threaten American sovereignty.
During their final presidential debate, Barack Obama rejected John McCain's claim that the Illinois senator's associations with former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and the liberal group ACORN are troubling. Obama noted that, on economic policy, he associates with Warren Buffett and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. Buffet and Volcker are among the advisers that Obama says "have shaped [his] ideas and who will be surrounding [him] in the White House."
Tom Kilgannon, president of Freedom Alliance, says Volcker supports the idea of an international regulatory body overseeing America's capitalist economic system. "Paul Volcker, I think, brings a great desire to add more regulation, both domestically and internationally," Kilgannon explains. "He comes from the big government wing, and that's how he would approach issues like this -- get the government more involved."
Volcker, according to Kilgannon, was not aggressive enough in his investigation of the United Nations "Oil for Food" scandal in 2004. Volcker was appointed by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to lead the probe of the scandal, which occurred under Annan's watch. According to Kilgannon, the appointment was a conflict of interest.
"When the final report came out, issued by Volcker about the Oil for Food scandal, he pulled his punches on the Secretary General and the Secretary General's son Kojo Annan, who was also involved in the scandal," he says.
Kilgannon believes, since Volcker is tied in with the United Nations and the international finance community, his role in a future Obama administration would be troubling.
From: "Ameican Conservative Union"
Oscar,
I told you that Senator Chris Dodd and other liberals not only looked the other way as Fannie Mae changed the rules to push subprime mortgages, but they took thousands in campaign cash.
I pointed out that the person who took the second highest amount of cash was Senator Barack Obama, and in turn he used Fannie insiders to pick his VP nominee.
Now we learn they had an accomplice.
…ACORN
Worse, ACORN – a left wing activist group – not only aided the push for subprime loans, they extorted millions from the very mortgage companies they targeted in the process.
Even worse, ACORN has misused taxpayer money, mixed it with politics and now we are seeing the results.
THAT IS WHY ACU IS CALLING FOR AN EXPANDED FBI INVESTIGATION INTO ACORN, SENATORS OBAMA AND DODD AND THEIR ROLES WITH ACORN. We need your support on this project. We need you to sign the PETITION HERE.
The results are being seen in ACORN’s new front page story: the story of how ACORN Is promoting voter fraud.
ACU has created a new 2 minute video that spells out these facts for the American people. We want people to know the truth. Our Video is on our petition page and on the national video channel YouTube. If you would like to view this 2 minute video it is on a separate page with a link to our PETITION HERE.
Year after year we open our newspapers to read about efforts from the United States to send delegations to monitor elections for fairness in third world countries. But who is going to monitor ours?
ACORN and its various subsidiaries have earned millions from pork earmarks from Dodd and people like House liberal Rep. Barney Frank. Studies have proven that this money has been mixed into their political efforts to promote left-wing ballot initiatives and now apparently to push voter fraud.
THAT IS WHY ACU IS CALLING FOR AN EXPANDED FBI INVESTIGATION INTO ACORN, SENATORS OBAMA AND DODD AND THEIR ROLES WITH ACORN. We need your support on this project. We need you to sign the PETITION HERE.
Our video on our separate video page points out what they might be up to.
Who used to work for ACORN? Senator Barack Obama.
Obama not only did legal work for ACORN but his campaign gave ACORN more than $800,000 this year. Now ACORN is being investigated in multiple states for illegally registering non-voters. The FBI has launched an initial investigation. ACORN offices have been raided.
We all remember how close our nation’s electoral contest was in Florida in 2000. Now, ACORN is attempting to stuff ballot boxes with thousands upon thousands of fraudulent votes. We must reach and out and try to stop them.
THAT IS WHY ACU IS CALLING FOR AN EXPANDED FBI INVESTIGATION INTO ACORN, SENATORS OBAMA AND DODD AND THEIR ROLES WITH ACORN. We need your support on this project. We need you to sign the PETITION HERE.
While taking taxpayer money for its ACORN H.C., and while claiming it is not involved in Voter Fraud, ACORN’s website points out what they are really all about.
ACORN’s website says, quote: “Incident Highlights Republican Suppression Scheme , Bogus "Voter Fraud Charges" Aim to Camouflage Voter Suppression, and Don't Let The Right-Wing Noise Machine Get Away With It.
"My question to you is: are we going to let ACORN get away with voter fraud, promoting economic collapse and efforts to steal an election contest? Will you let them get away with it?
ACU IS CALLING FOR AN EXPANDED FBI INVESTIGATION INTO ACORN, SENATORS OBAMA AND DODD AND THEIR ROLES WITH ACORN. We need your support on this project. We need you to sign the PETITION and support this effort now, HERE.
If you want, take a couple minutes to view ACU’s new ACORN video here. But, whether you do or not, please join ACU’s call for an expanded FBI investigation through our petition here.
We need your help with this important effort. Please forward this email to your family and friends. We need to spread the truth. We need to push an further investigation.
THAT IS WHY ACU IS CALLING FOR AN EXPANDED FBI INVESTIGATION INTO ACORN, SENATORS OBAMA AND DODD AND THEIR ROLES WITH ACORN. We need your support on this project. We need you to sign the PETITION HERE.
From: "Michelle Malkin"
What’s on Bill Ayers’ door
By Michelle Malkin • October 15, 2008 11:13 AM
Guess his Mao poster and Obama signs are hanging in the bedroom. Via Chicago Trib:
Ayers’ office door is decorated with pictures of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara and Malcolm X. It is also home to pictures of children, bills of rights for students and parents, and a rainbow-hued greeting card advising “How to Be Really Alive.” A place of prominence is give to a New Yorker cartoon of a man interviewing for a job. The interviewer says, “I’m trying to find a way to balance your strengths against your felonies.”
“Rehabilitated” my foot.
In related Ayers’ news, read this e-mail from an education major at Marist College. I imagine Ayers’ book is standard fare for legions of teachers-in-training:
I thought you would be interested to know that Marist College has a gradute course for education majors opening with William Ayers’ book “To Teach”. I am one of four students in the seminar and the professor last week made some disparaging remarks that the news media was portraying him as a terrorist. She tried to explain the “times” of the sixties as being radical and what Ayers did was not too uncommon during the civil rights campaign, and how he was a friend of Stokley Carmichael. When I asked how we could take the book, which is well written in it’s prose but very anti-system/anti-traditional with clear overtones that stigmatizes education in America as being designed for white suburbia, as being credible - she went into a convoluted answer that berated the right wing media.
Nevertheless, I didn’t press the issue too much as I have not been brainwashed by the main steam media into believing Obama’s relationship with Ayers is no big deal - but I do find her choice of books to be an unnecessary indoctrination on education majors who will be teaching future generations of young people. There are, without question, plenty of other well written books by credible authors that can easily replace Ayers’ book and I believe this is something Marist College should not condone as it sends a biased message from an author who committed violent crimes and doesn’t see America as a good place. How, therefore, can one take his viewpoint on how teachers should ‘teach’ children as being feasible?
Maybe this would be something you want to look into as to why the book is used for the course.
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More schools to avoid: UNC-Chapel Hill. They heart The Unrepentant Terrorist.
Bill Ayers, the radical militant-turned-university professor whose ties to Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama are under scrutiny, is getting some support from faculty members across the country.
Professors from UNC-Chapel Hill are among the more than 3,200 educators who have signed an online petition in support of Ayers. More than a dozen signatories are from local universities here in the Triangle.
Lawrence Grossberg, a UNC communications studies professor, said he signed the petition because he believes Ayers should not be demonized for his actions 40 years ago. He said he also respects the work Ayers does now as an education professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Ayers is a school reform advocate who has written or edited more than a dozen books.
“He did break the law, and he was punished and he moved on,” Grossberg said. “He built an extraordinary life. He has become one of the leading scholars in the field of education. [People are] excoriating him for things he did 40 years ago and misrepresenting what he has done since, in order to make someone else suffer. That doesn’t seem very American to me.”
He wasn’t punished. And he hasn’t moved on.
From: "The email Bag"
NEW STOCK MARKET TERMINOLOGY
CEO -- Chief Embezzlement Officer.
CFO -- Corporate Fraud Officer.
BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
BEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.
VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.
BROKER -- What my broker has made me.
STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.
FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.
MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.
CASH FLOW -- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
WINDOWS -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.
INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.
PROFIT -- An archaic word no longer in use.
FRCC -- Fiercely Republican Commonsense Club
Why I Can't Vote For Obama
By Huntley Brown
Dear Friends,
A few months ago I was asked for my perspective on Obama, I sent out an email with a few points. With the election just around the corner I decided to complete my perspective. Those of you on my e-list have seen some of this before but it's worth repeating...
First I must say whoever wins the election will have my prayer support. Obama needs to be commended for his accomplishments but I need to explain why I will not be voting for him.
Many of my friends process their identity through their blackness. I process my identity through Christ. Being a Christian (a Christ follower) means He leads I follow. I can't dictate the terms He does because He is the leader.
I can't vote black because I am black; I have to vote Christian because that's who I am. Christian first, black second. Neither should anyone from the other ethnic groups vote because of ethnicity. 200 years from now I won't be asked if I was black or white. I will be asked if I knew Jesus and accepted Him as Lord and Savior.
In an election there are many issues to consider but when a society gets abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning to name a few, wrong economic concerns will soon not matter.
We need to follow Martin Luther King's words, don't judge someone by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I don't know Obama so all I can go off is his voting record. His voting record earned him the title of the most liberal senator in the US Senate in 2007.
NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007 (01/31/2008)
To beat Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton as the most liberal senator, takes some doing. Obama accomplished this feat in 2 short years. I wonder what would happen to America if he had four years to work with.
There is a reason Planned Parenthood gives him a 100 % rating. There is a reason the homosexual community supports him. There is a reason Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Hamas etc. love him. There is a reason he said he would nominate liberal judges to the Supreme Court.
There is a reason he voted against the infanticide bill. There is a reason he voted No on the constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. There is a reason he voted No on banning partial birth abortion. There is a reason he voted No on confirming Justices Roberts and Alito. These two judges are conservatives and they have since overturned partial birth abortion. The same practice Obama wanted to continue.
Let's take a look at the practice he wanted to continue
The 5 Step Partial Birth Abortion procedures:
A. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps. (Remember this is a live baby)
B. The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.
C. The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.
D. The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.
E. The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.
God help him. There is a reason Obama opposed the parental notification law.
Think about this: You can't give a kid an aspirin without parental notification but that same kid can have an abortion without parental notification. This is insane.
There is a reason he went to Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years.
Obama tells us he has good judgment but he sat under Jeremiah Wright teaching for 20 years. Now he is condemning Wright's sermons. I wonder why now?
Obama said Jeremiah Wright led him to the Lord and discipled him. A disciple is one in training. Jesus told us in Matthew 28:19 - 20 'Go and make disciples of all nations.' This means reproduce yourself. Teach people to think like you, walk like you; talk like you believe what you believe etc. The question I have is what did Jeremiah Wright teach him?
Would you support a White President who went to a church which has tenets that said they have
a ...
1. Commitment to the White Community
2. Commitment to the White Family
3. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
4. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community.
5. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
6. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
7. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.
Would you support a President who went to a church like that?
Just change the word from white to black and you have the tenets of Obama's former church. If President Bush was a member of a church like this, he would be called a racist. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton would have been marching outside.
This kind of church is a racist church. Obama did not wake up after 20 years and just discovered he went to a racist church. The church can't be about race. Jesus did not come for any particular race. He came for the whole world.
A church can't have a value system based on race. The churches value system has to be based on biblical mandate. It does not matter if itʼs a white church or a black church it's still wrong. Anyone from either race that attends a church like this would never get my vote.
Obama's former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is a disciple of liberal theologian James Cone, author of the 1970 book A Black Theology of Liberation. Cone once wrote: 'Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him.
Cone is the man Obama's mentor looks up to. Does Obama believe this?
So what does all this mean for the nation?
In the past when the Lord brought someone with the beliefs of Obama to lead a nation it meant one thing - judgment.
Read 1 Samuel 8 when Israel asked for a king. First God says in 1 Samuel 1:9 'Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.' Then God says 1 Samuel 1:18 ' When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day.' 19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. 'No!' they said. 'We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.' 21 When Samuel heard all that the people said, he repeated it before the LORD. 22 The LORD answered, 'Listen to them and give them a king.'
Here is what we know for sure.
God is not schizophrenic
He would not tell one person to vote for Obama and one to vote for McCain. As the scripture says, a city divided against itself cannot stand, so obviously many people are not hearing from God.
Maybe I am the one not hearing but I know God does not change and Obama contradicts many things I read in scripture so I doubt it.
For all my friends who are voting for Obama can you really look God in the face and say; Father based on your word, I am voting for Obama even though I know he will continue the genocidal practice of partial birth abortion. He might have to nominate three or four Supreme Court justices, and I am sure he will be nominating liberal judges who will be making laws that are against you. I also know he will continue to push for homosexual rights, even though you destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for this. I know I can look the other way because of the economy.
I could not see Jesus agreeing with many of Obama's positions. Finally I have two questions for all my liberal friends.
Since we know someone's value system has to be placed on the nation,
1. Whose value system should be placed on the nation.
2. Who should determine that this is the right value system for the nation?
Blessings,
Huntley Brown
ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report - 20081021
From: "Daily Motivations"
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.-- Mary Lou Cook
From: "The Patriot Post"
"Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject." --- George Washington
"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?" --- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Freedom is something that cannot be passed on in the blood stream, or genetically. And it's never more than one generation away from extinction. Every generation has to learn how to protect and defend it, or it's gone and gone for a long, long time. Already, many of us, particularly those in business and industry, there are too many who have switched rather than fight. And it's time that particularly, some of our corporations learned,that when you get in bed with government, you're going to get more than a good night's sleep." --- Ronald Reagan
From: "The New York Post"
“Who was the big winner in [Wednesday] night's presidential debate? That would be Joe Wurzelbacher - ‘Joe the Plumber’ - who Sunday demanded that Barack Obama explain why he should pay higher taxes for ‘fulfilling the American dream.’”
From: "Newsmax" - Read Entire Story by clicking "link" below.
Obama’s Secret Campaign Cash: Has $63 Million Flowed from Foreign Sources?
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_illegal_donations/2008/10/19/141979.html?s=al&promo_code=6D84-1
Sunday, October 19, 2008 6:28 PMBy: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Article Font Size
As Barack Obama reaped a stunning $150 million in campaign donations in September, bringing his total to more than $600 million, new questions have arisen about the source of his amazing funding.
By Obama’s own admission, more than half of his contributions have come from small donors giving $200 or less. But unlike John McCain’s campaign, Obama won’t release the names of these donors.
A Newsmax canvass of disclosed Obama campaign donors shows worrisome anomalies, including outright violations of federal election laws.
For example, Obama has numerous donors who have contributed well over the $4,600 federal election limit.
Many of these donors have never been contacted by the Obama campaign to refund the excess amounts to them.
And more than 37,000 Obama donations appear to be conversions of foreign currency.
From: "The email Bag"
Did you know?
Question: What is America 's first line of missile interceptor defense that protects the entire United States?
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard.
Question: What is the ONLY National Guard unit on permanent active duty?
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard.
Question: Who is the Commander in Chief of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Question: What U.S. governor is routinely briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Question: What U.S. governor has a higher classified security rating than either candidate of the Democrat Party?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska. According to the Washington Post, she first met with McCain in February, but nobody ever found out. This is a woman used to keeping secrets. She can be entrusted with our national security, because she already is.
Informational - Educational - Where is the mainstream media?
Listening to the mainstream media these last few days I've learned a few things about the GOP's VP nominee but, I also had to learn a few things on my own.
1. From the media I learned Sarah Palin's husband had a DUI conviction 22 years ago.
* On my own I learned that Ted Kennedy, hero of last month's tribute at the DNC, was drunk while driving a car off a bridge in Chappaquiddick. That same crash killed a young campaign volunteer with whom he was having an affair. Oh, and that woman was pregnant with his child.
* Mr. Palin's (who is not running for office) DUI came a mere 4 years after Barack Obama (who is running for president) stopped using cocaine and marijuana (by his own admission in his autobiography). Shocking - it's OK for the presidential candidate to use drugs or the Dem. party patriarch to kill someone while driving drunk yet a VP candidate should be demonized for something her husband did 22 years ago.
2. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant but not married.
* On my own I learned the Obama's mother was an unmarried street hippy in Honolulu, Hawaii, when she conceived Obama.
* On my own I learned that Joe Biden's (the other VP candidate) son was paid a large amount of money as a consultant to credit card company MBNA. That same company had business before Senator Joe Biden concerning regulation of consumer credit practices. After the company paid a hefty sum to Mr. Biden's son, he voted in favor of legislation to help that company. That same son, Hunter, is also engaged in a legal investigation and suit for defrauding a former business partner. Shocking - it's a crime for the republican VP candidate to have a daughter who's pregnant, even though it's irrelevant to how she performs her job, but it's ok that the democrat presidential candidate's mother conceived him out of wedlock. It's ok, also, for the democrat senator VP candidate to vote in favor of a company that paid his son over a quarter of a million dollars.
3. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin should be considered "selfish" for agreeing to run for VP knowing about her daughter's condition. Knowing that her public role would bring extra scrutiny on the family is selfish and she should have declined in order to protect her child (actually heard this on ABC last weekend).
* Strange - the same people who say Sarah is selfish for running for VP did not seem to care about any impact on Chelsea when Bill Clinton had his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky. That was a private, personal matter you see.
4. From the media I have learned to be "concerned" that Sarah Palin probably won't be able to manage her family and do an effective job of being VP at the same time.
* Funny - I never heard anything about Hillary's ability to support Chelsea while re-doing healthcare or anything from the feminist icons who say you can balance work and family. They also never mention that Barack will have to balance time with his children while meeting with heads of rogue nations or how Joe Biden's kids don't even have a mom and will be fighting for his time while he hosts White House coffee fundraisers and sells nights in the Lincoln bedroom.
5. From the media I have learned that Sarah Palin is "too inexperienced" to be a heartbeat-away from the presidency.
* Apparently taking on corruption in your own party and running a state that's the same size, people-wise, as Delaware (hint hint: that's where Joe Biden is from) is not really experience.
* However, time spent as a "community organizer" and less than 180 days in the senate where you've authored NO significant legislation is just the type of "change" we're looking for from the top of the ticket.
* Funny - inexperience at the top of the ticket is a mantra for "change" and "hope" while strong practical everyday experience, as the #2 is cause for concern.
6. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin's husband once got a ticket for fishing without a license.
* I haven't heard much about the fact that if he were still a practicing attorney, the VP candidate Joe Biden would be disbarred for plagiarism not once but multiple times. It's ok to break the rules if you' re a democrat candidate but not Ok if you are the spouse of a republican candidate.
7. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin doesn't know much about Iraq; in fact we wonder if she even knows where it is.
* Sarah's son volunteered for the US military and is now deployed in Iraq. I guess that doesn't count. Sarah has spent more time with troops in Iraq (as commander of the Alaska National Guard she visited Iraq last year) than Obama has even while running for president. In fact, when Sarah went to Iraq she spent time with the troops. When Obama went there, he skipped a base visit to instead go work out at the Ritz Carlton.
8. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin is a "lightweight" and she better be a "quick study" to keep up with this team.
* Funny, nobody is talking about how, after Barack Obama had "visited 57 states" according to him he only had "5 more to go" or endless other stupid gaffes that expose who he really is.
9. From the media I have learned that (gasp!), Sarah Palin's husband was once a registered member of a 3rd party that favored states' rights (man, this is really bad stuff).
* That same media has been silent to the story that when Barack Obama announced his first senate run, he did so in the home of William Ayers. Mr. Ayers is an un-repentant terrorist convicted for bombing the pentagon. This same Mr. Ayers said on 9/11 that he and his group did not do enough to harm our military and he wished he had done more. During the same time as that comment, he was serving on a board with Barack Obama. All notes and information about their serving together is now locked up by the corrupt Chicago machine and reporter access to those records are being blocked by the Obama campaign.
If we've had any doubts about the bias of the media, it's pretty clear now where they stand. Pass this on to your friends, some of whom may still be on the fence and/or may be getting all of their liberal-biased news/opinions from Katie Couric, Wolf Blitzer, Tom Brokaw and the gang. This is egregious and corrupt. The only way to stop it is to spread information using other outlets and make these guys irrelevant.
Take Down the Bird Feeder
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. I filled it lovingly and thought, 'What a beautiful bird feeder this is.' Within a week, hundreds of birds took advantage
of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.
But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table...
everywhere! Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb at me and even tried to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.
Others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed all hours of the day and night. They demanded that I fill it when it got too low on food.
After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch any more. So I took down the bird feeder, and the birds were gone in three days. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.
Soon, the back yard was like it used to be... quiet, serene, and no one demanded their rights to a free meal.Now, let's see... Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, and free education and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.
Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes increased to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an
emergency room doctor; your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English.
Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to 'Press one' to hear my bank talk to me in English; and people who wave flags other than 'Old Glory' are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.
This is just my opinion, but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder. If you agree, pass it on; if not, continue cleaning up the poop!
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.-- Mary Lou Cook
From: "The Patriot Post"
"Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject." --- George Washington
"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?" --- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Freedom is something that cannot be passed on in the blood stream, or genetically. And it's never more than one generation away from extinction. Every generation has to learn how to protect and defend it, or it's gone and gone for a long, long time. Already, many of us, particularly those in business and industry, there are too many who have switched rather than fight. And it's time that particularly, some of our corporations learned,that when you get in bed with government, you're going to get more than a good night's sleep." --- Ronald Reagan
From: "The New York Post"
“Who was the big winner in [Wednesday] night's presidential debate? That would be Joe Wurzelbacher - ‘Joe the Plumber’ - who Sunday demanded that Barack Obama explain why he should pay higher taxes for ‘fulfilling the American dream.’”
From: "Newsmax" - Read Entire Story by clicking "link" below.
Obama’s Secret Campaign Cash: Has $63 Million Flowed from Foreign Sources?
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_illegal_donations/2008/10/19/141979.html?s=al&promo_code=6D84-1
Sunday, October 19, 2008 6:28 PMBy: Kenneth R. Timmerman
Article Font Size
As Barack Obama reaped a stunning $150 million in campaign donations in September, bringing his total to more than $600 million, new questions have arisen about the source of his amazing funding.
By Obama’s own admission, more than half of his contributions have come from small donors giving $200 or less. But unlike John McCain’s campaign, Obama won’t release the names of these donors.
A Newsmax canvass of disclosed Obama campaign donors shows worrisome anomalies, including outright violations of federal election laws.
For example, Obama has numerous donors who have contributed well over the $4,600 federal election limit.
Many of these donors have never been contacted by the Obama campaign to refund the excess amounts to them.
And more than 37,000 Obama donations appear to be conversions of foreign currency.
From: "The email Bag"
Did you know?
Question: What is America 's first line of missile interceptor defense that protects the entire United States?
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard.
Question: What is the ONLY National Guard unit on permanent active duty?
Answer: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard.
Question: Who is the Commander in Chief of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Question: What U.S. governor is routinely briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska
Question: What U.S. governor has a higher classified security rating than either candidate of the Democrat Party?
Answer: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska. According to the Washington Post, she first met with McCain in February, but nobody ever found out. This is a woman used to keeping secrets. She can be entrusted with our national security, because she already is.
Informational - Educational - Where is the mainstream media?
Listening to the mainstream media these last few days I've learned a few things about the GOP's VP nominee but, I also had to learn a few things on my own.
1. From the media I learned Sarah Palin's husband had a DUI conviction 22 years ago.
* On my own I learned that Ted Kennedy, hero of last month's tribute at the DNC, was drunk while driving a car off a bridge in Chappaquiddick. That same crash killed a young campaign volunteer with whom he was having an affair. Oh, and that woman was pregnant with his child.
* Mr. Palin's (who is not running for office) DUI came a mere 4 years after Barack Obama (who is running for president) stopped using cocaine and marijuana (by his own admission in his autobiography). Shocking - it's OK for the presidential candidate to use drugs or the Dem. party patriarch to kill someone while driving drunk yet a VP candidate should be demonized for something her husband did 22 years ago.
2. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin's daughter is pregnant but not married.
* On my own I learned the Obama's mother was an unmarried street hippy in Honolulu, Hawaii, when she conceived Obama.
* On my own I learned that Joe Biden's (the other VP candidate) son was paid a large amount of money as a consultant to credit card company MBNA. That same company had business before Senator Joe Biden concerning regulation of consumer credit practices. After the company paid a hefty sum to Mr. Biden's son, he voted in favor of legislation to help that company. That same son, Hunter, is also engaged in a legal investigation and suit for defrauding a former business partner. Shocking - it's a crime for the republican VP candidate to have a daughter who's pregnant, even though it's irrelevant to how she performs her job, but it's ok that the democrat presidential candidate's mother conceived him out of wedlock. It's ok, also, for the democrat senator VP candidate to vote in favor of a company that paid his son over a quarter of a million dollars.
3. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin should be considered "selfish" for agreeing to run for VP knowing about her daughter's condition. Knowing that her public role would bring extra scrutiny on the family is selfish and she should have declined in order to protect her child (actually heard this on ABC last weekend).
* Strange - the same people who say Sarah is selfish for running for VP did not seem to care about any impact on Chelsea when Bill Clinton had his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky. That was a private, personal matter you see.
4. From the media I have learned to be "concerned" that Sarah Palin probably won't be able to manage her family and do an effective job of being VP at the same time.
* Funny - I never heard anything about Hillary's ability to support Chelsea while re-doing healthcare or anything from the feminist icons who say you can balance work and family. They also never mention that Barack will have to balance time with his children while meeting with heads of rogue nations or how Joe Biden's kids don't even have a mom and will be fighting for his time while he hosts White House coffee fundraisers and sells nights in the Lincoln bedroom.
5. From the media I have learned that Sarah Palin is "too inexperienced" to be a heartbeat-away from the presidency.
* Apparently taking on corruption in your own party and running a state that's the same size, people-wise, as Delaware (hint hint: that's where Joe Biden is from) is not really experience.
* However, time spent as a "community organizer" and less than 180 days in the senate where you've authored NO significant legislation is just the type of "change" we're looking for from the top of the ticket.
* Funny - inexperience at the top of the ticket is a mantra for "change" and "hope" while strong practical everyday experience, as the #2 is cause for concern.
6. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin's husband once got a ticket for fishing without a license.
* I haven't heard much about the fact that if he were still a practicing attorney, the VP candidate Joe Biden would be disbarred for plagiarism not once but multiple times. It's ok to break the rules if you' re a democrat candidate but not Ok if you are the spouse of a republican candidate.
7. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin doesn't know much about Iraq; in fact we wonder if she even knows where it is.
* Sarah's son volunteered for the US military and is now deployed in Iraq. I guess that doesn't count. Sarah has spent more time with troops in Iraq (as commander of the Alaska National Guard she visited Iraq last year) than Obama has even while running for president. In fact, when Sarah went to Iraq she spent time with the troops. When Obama went there, he skipped a base visit to instead go work out at the Ritz Carlton.
8. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin is a "lightweight" and she better be a "quick study" to keep up with this team.
* Funny, nobody is talking about how, after Barack Obama had "visited 57 states" according to him he only had "5 more to go" or endless other stupid gaffes that expose who he really is.
9. From the media I have learned that (gasp!), Sarah Palin's husband was once a registered member of a 3rd party that favored states' rights (man, this is really bad stuff).
* That same media has been silent to the story that when Barack Obama announced his first senate run, he did so in the home of William Ayers. Mr. Ayers is an un-repentant terrorist convicted for bombing the pentagon. This same Mr. Ayers said on 9/11 that he and his group did not do enough to harm our military and he wished he had done more. During the same time as that comment, he was serving on a board with Barack Obama. All notes and information about their serving together is now locked up by the corrupt Chicago machine and reporter access to those records are being blocked by the Obama campaign.
If we've had any doubts about the bias of the media, it's pretty clear now where they stand. Pass this on to your friends, some of whom may still be on the fence and/or may be getting all of their liberal-biased news/opinions from Katie Couric, Wolf Blitzer, Tom Brokaw and the gang. This is egregious and corrupt. The only way to stop it is to spread information using other outlets and make these guys irrelevant.
Take Down the Bird Feeder
I bought a bird feeder. I hung it on my back porch and filled it with seed. I filled it lovingly and thought, 'What a beautiful bird feeder this is.' Within a week, hundreds of birds took advantage
of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.
But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue.Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table...
everywhere! Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb at me and even tried to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket.
Others birds were boisterous and loud. They sat on the feeder and squawked and screamed all hours of the day and night. They demanded that I fill it when it got too low on food.
After a while, I couldn't even sit on my own back porch any more. So I took down the bird feeder, and the birds were gone in three days. I cleaned up their mess and took down the many nests they had built all over the patio.
Soon, the back yard was like it used to be... quiet, serene, and no one demanded their rights to a free meal.Now, let's see... Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care, and free education and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.
Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes increased to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an
emergency room doctor; your child's 2nd grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn't speak English.
Corn Flakes now come in a bilingual box; I have to 'Press one' to hear my bank talk to me in English; and people who wave flags other than 'Old Glory' are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.
This is just my opinion, but maybe it's time for the government to take down the bird feeder. If you agree, pass it on; if not, continue cleaning up the poop!
ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report - 20081020
From: "Daily Motivations"
Courage is a door that can only be opened from the inside. -- Terry Neil
From: "The Patriot Post"
"[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." -- John Adams
From: "World Net Daily"
ELECTION 2008 Obama: America is 'no longer Christian' Democrat says nation also for Muslims, nonbelievers
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67735
Posted: June 22, 20086:50 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein© 2008 WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM – Some have been taking issue with largely unnoticed comments made last year by Sen. Barack Obama declaring the U.S. is "no longer a Christian nation" but is also a nation of others, including Muslims and nonbelievers.
The comments have been recently recirculating on Internet blogs.
"Whatever we once were, we're no longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers," Obama said during a June 2007 speech available on YouTube.
At the speech, Obama also seemingly blasted the "Christian Right" for hijacking religion and using it to divide the nation:
"Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked. Part of it's because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us," he said.
From: "Human Events"
"I have been made victorious through terror." -- Muhammad, founder of Islam
From: "My Comment" - Barack Obama, "America is a Christian nation"!
I believe with the discovery of America in 1792, the landing of the pilgrims on Plymouth Rock in 1620, and specifically the foundation of our US Constitution in 1776, we have and still are a Christian nation. We must not allow Judeo-Christian values be destroyed from outside forces and/or from within. There seem to be so many in the elective political process who are determined to destroy and/or allow to be destroyed our Judeo-Christian values. Just think about it and remember; without elected and appointed officials "practicing and supporting" Judeo-Christian values, we alone, can be held accountable to our own children, grandchildren, etc. for these failures. America must not follow in the tracks of earlier Germany, under Hitler! God Bless America! - oyh
“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
— Pastor Martin Niemöller
From: "OneNewsNow"
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=288052
Poll question: Is Obama qualified?
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 10/17/2008 6:00:00 AM
A pro-family organization says it's had an overwhelming negative response to a poll that asks the question: "Do you think Barack Obama is qualified to serve as president of the United States?"
The American Family Association (AFA) created the online poll in response to PBS, which is running a taxpayer-funded poll that asks a similar question regarding the Republican vice-presidential nominee: "Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as vice-president of the United States?" Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, founder and chairman of AFA, further explains the situation.
"I mean, if they're going to run a poll one way, we run a poll the other way. Well over 300,000 people have voted in our poll that [Obama] is not qualified [to be president]. I think [several thousand have] voted that he is qualified," he says. "The poll was a comeback [to the] PBS [poll]."
Who do YOU think is more qualified to serve in the office they seek --Sen. Obama or Gov. Palin?
Vote in a OneNewsNow poll
Wildmon adds while AFA has published how many respondents they have had to their poll, PBS has not. He says it is interesting that the PBS survey has been stuck on 49 percent for and 49 percent against Palin being qualified for vice president.
"Some people [responding to the PBS poll] are saying now that they're getting the message that computers are down, and it's not working," he contends. "It could be that they're afraid to put it up, because she might, you know, be winning the thing."
As of press time, more than 400,000 people had voted in AFA's poll, with statistics showing roughly five percent believe Obama is qualified to be America's president, 95 percent do not believe he is qualified, and less than one percent are unsure.
Editor's Note: The American Family Association is the parent organization of the American Family News Network, which operates OneNewsNow.com.
From: "The email Bag"
ONLY IN AMERICA !!!
A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States . He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, 'Thank you Mr. American for letting me in this country , giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and free education!'
The passerby says, 'You are mistaken, I am Mexican.'
The man goes on and encounters another passerby. ' Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in America !'
The person says, 'I not American, I Vietnamese.'
The new arrival walks further, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand and says, 'Thank you for the wonderful America !'
That person puts up his hand and says, 'I am from Middle East , I am not American!'
He finally sees a nice lady and asks, 'Are you an American?'
She says , 'No, I am from Africa !'
Puzzled, he asks her, 'Where are all the Americans?'
The African lady checks her watch and says...'Probably at work!'
I know this guy, do you recognize him ?
YES, I'M A BAD AMERICAN
I Am the Liberal-Progressives Worst Nightmare. I am an American. I am a Master Mason and believe in God. I ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles and believe in American products.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some Liberal governmental functionary be it Democratic or Republican!I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer, its when you use the gun and at who makes you a killer.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything. we are all the same, a human being,Get over it!
I believe that if you are selling me a Big Ma c, do it in English.
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.
My heroes are John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and Willie G Davidson that makes the Awesome Harley Davidson Motorcycles.
I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.
I know wrestling is fake and I don't waste my time watching or arguing about it.
I've never owned a slave, or was a slave, I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks and neither have you! Heriage is great but, shut up already.
I believe if you don't like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country !
This is AMERICA .. like it the way it is!
If you were born here and don't like it you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you.
I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you're breaking the law, regardless of what color you are.
And, no, I don't mind having my face shown on my drivers license.
I think it's good..... And I'm proud that 'God' is written on my money.
I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don't want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years. I believe the president of the United States should put his hand over his heart and say the pledge of allegiance and should have no reservations about wearing American flag pins on his lapel.
I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making 'donations' to their cause. Get a Job and do your part!I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents.
I believe 'illegal' is illegal no matter what the lawyers think.I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in AMERICA !
If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I'm a BAD American.
Before you go to the polls on November 4th, pray this prayer: Lord, re gardless of who I vote for on this day, please put the person You decide will be the best for America in office, IN JESUS NAME, Amen
If you are a BAD American too, please forward this to everyone you know.
We want our country back! We NEED GOD BACK IN OUR COUNTRY!
Japanese doctor says, 'Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him out looking for work in 6 weeks'
A German doctor says, 'That is nothing. We can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him out looking for work in four weeks.'
A British doctor says, 'In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another and have both of them out looking for work in two weeks.'
The American doctor, not to be outdone, interjected, 'You guys are way behind. We are about to take a Muslim with no brains, put him in the White House, and then half the country will be looking for work in one week.
A quote from Obama's book Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
Courage is a door that can only be opened from the inside. -- Terry Neil
From: "The Patriot Post"
"[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." -- John Adams
From: "World Net Daily"
ELECTION 2008 Obama: America is 'no longer Christian' Democrat says nation also for Muslims, nonbelievers
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67735
Posted: June 22, 20086:50 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein© 2008 WorldNetDaily
JERUSALEM – Some have been taking issue with largely unnoticed comments made last year by Sen. Barack Obama declaring the U.S. is "no longer a Christian nation" but is also a nation of others, including Muslims and nonbelievers.
The comments have been recently recirculating on Internet blogs.
"Whatever we once were, we're no longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, and a Buddhist nation, and a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers," Obama said during a June 2007 speech available on YouTube.
At the speech, Obama also seemingly blasted the "Christian Right" for hijacking religion and using it to divide the nation:
"Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked. Part of it's because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who've been all too eager to exploit what divides us," he said.
From: "Human Events"
"I have been made victorious through terror." -- Muhammad, founder of Islam
From: "My Comment" - Barack Obama, "America is a Christian nation"!
I believe with the discovery of America in 1792, the landing of the pilgrims on Plymouth Rock in 1620, and specifically the foundation of our US Constitution in 1776, we have and still are a Christian nation. We must not allow Judeo-Christian values be destroyed from outside forces and/or from within. There seem to be so many in the elective political process who are determined to destroy and/or allow to be destroyed our Judeo-Christian values. Just think about it and remember; without elected and appointed officials "practicing and supporting" Judeo-Christian values, we alone, can be held accountable to our own children, grandchildren, etc. for these failures. America must not follow in the tracks of earlier Germany, under Hitler! God Bless America! - oyh
“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.”
— Pastor Martin Niemöller
From: "OneNewsNow"
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=288052
Poll question: Is Obama qualified?
Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 10/17/2008 6:00:00 AM
A pro-family organization says it's had an overwhelming negative response to a poll that asks the question: "Do you think Barack Obama is qualified to serve as president of the United States?"
The American Family Association (AFA) created the online poll in response to PBS, which is running a taxpayer-funded poll that asks a similar question regarding the Republican vice-presidential nominee: "Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as vice-president of the United States?" Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, founder and chairman of AFA, further explains the situation.
"I mean, if they're going to run a poll one way, we run a poll the other way. Well over 300,000 people have voted in our poll that [Obama] is not qualified [to be president]. I think [several thousand have] voted that he is qualified," he says. "The poll was a comeback [to the] PBS [poll]."
Who do YOU think is more qualified to serve in the office they seek --Sen. Obama or Gov. Palin?
Vote in a OneNewsNow poll
Wildmon adds while AFA has published how many respondents they have had to their poll, PBS has not. He says it is interesting that the PBS survey has been stuck on 49 percent for and 49 percent against Palin being qualified for vice president.
"Some people [responding to the PBS poll] are saying now that they're getting the message that computers are down, and it's not working," he contends. "It could be that they're afraid to put it up, because she might, you know, be winning the thing."
As of press time, more than 400,000 people had voted in AFA's poll, with statistics showing roughly five percent believe Obama is qualified to be America's president, 95 percent do not believe he is qualified, and less than one percent are unsure.
Editor's Note: The American Family Association is the parent organization of the American Family News Network, which operates OneNewsNow.com.
From: "The email Bag"
ONLY IN AMERICA !!!
A Russian arrives in New York City as a new immigrant to the United States . He stops the first person he sees walking down the street and says, 'Thank you Mr. American for letting me in this country , giving me housing, food stamps, free medical care, and free education!'
The passerby says, 'You are mistaken, I am Mexican.'
The man goes on and encounters another passerby. ' Thank you for having such a beautiful country here in America !'
The person says, 'I not American, I Vietnamese.'
The new arrival walks further, and the next person he sees he stops, shakes his hand and says, 'Thank you for the wonderful America !'
That person puts up his hand and says, 'I am from Middle East , I am not American!'
He finally sees a nice lady and asks, 'Are you an American?'
She says , 'No, I am from Africa !'
Puzzled, he asks her, 'Where are all the Americans?'
The African lady checks her watch and says...'Probably at work!'
I know this guy, do you recognize him ?
YES, I'M A BAD AMERICAN
I Am the Liberal-Progressives Worst Nightmare. I am an American. I am a Master Mason and believe in God. I ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles and believe in American products.
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some Liberal governmental functionary be it Democratic or Republican!I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer, its when you use the gun and at who makes you a killer.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything. we are all the same, a human being,Get over it!
I believe that if you are selling me a Big Ma c, do it in English.
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.
My heroes are John Wayne, Babe Ruth, Roy Rogers, and Willie G Davidson that makes the Awesome Harley Davidson Motorcycles.
I don't hate the rich. I don't pity the poor.
I know wrestling is fake and I don't waste my time watching or arguing about it.
I've never owned a slave, or was a slave, I haven't burned any witches or been persecuted by the Turks and neither have you! Heriage is great but, shut up already.
I believe if you don't like the way things are here, go back to where you came from and change your own country !
This is AMERICA .. like it the way it is!
If you were born here and don't like it you are free to move to any Socialist country that will have you.
I also think the cops have the right to pull you over if you're breaking the law, regardless of what color you are.
And, no, I don't mind having my face shown on my drivers license.
I think it's good..... And I'm proud that 'God' is written on my money.
I think if you are too stupid to know how a ballot works, I don't want you deciding who should be running the most powerful nation in the world for the next four years. I believe the president of the United States should put his hand over his heart and say the pledge of allegiance and should have no reservations about wearing American flag pins on his lapel.
I dislike those people standing in the intersections trying to sell me stuff or trying to guilt me into making 'donations' to their cause. Get a Job and do your part!I believe that it doesn't take a village to raise a child, it takes two parents.
I believe 'illegal' is illegal no matter what the lawyers think.I believe the American flag should be the only one allowed in AMERICA !
If this makes me a BAD American, then yes, I'm a BAD American.
Before you go to the polls on November 4th, pray this prayer: Lord, re gardless of who I vote for on this day, please put the person You decide will be the best for America in office, IN JESUS NAME, Amen
If you are a BAD American too, please forward this to everyone you know.
We want our country back! We NEED GOD BACK IN OUR COUNTRY!
Japanese doctor says, 'Medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him out looking for work in 6 weeks'
A German doctor says, 'That is nothing. We can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him out looking for work in four weeks.'
A British doctor says, 'In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another and have both of them out looking for work in two weeks.'
The American doctor, not to be outdone, interjected, 'You guys are way behind. We are about to take a Muslim with no brains, put him in the White House, and then half the country will be looking for work in one week.
A quote from Obama's book Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report 20081017
From: "Daily Motivations"
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. -- Gen. George S. Patton
From: "The Patriot Post"
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers." -- John Adams
So Joe Biden has had a sniper-fire incident of his own... On Monday, he relayed to the National Guard Association his firsthand understanding of the war in Afghanistan. Earlier this year, he claimed, "my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains." The implication was that the chopper had come under fire. In reality, however, Biden's adventure was akin to Hillary Clinton's whopper (http://PatriotShop.US/product_info.php?cPath=35&products_id=734) about landing under sniper fire in Bosnia in 1996. In fact, a snowstorm forced Biden's copter to land, and his group headed back to a U.S. Air Base in a motorized convoy instead. Oops.
Congress is going to serve as the "watchdog" over the dispensing and recovery of these funds? Can you say, "fox in the henhouse"?
"Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard." -- George Washington
From: "Newsmax" - Read the entire strory by clicking the "link" below.
My Comments: I still question as to why anyone who supports, practices, and/or loves Judeo-Chrisstian values will consider voting for Obama! - oyh
http://www.newsmax.com/estrich/jesse_jackson/2008/10/15/140635.html
"Jesse Jackson: Under Obama, 'decades of putting Israel's interests first' would end." According to Jackson, the "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" will lose clout.
From: "The Weekly Standard" - Read the entire strory by clicking the "link" below.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15386&R=13BA26C
" As details of Obama's early political career emerge into the light, his associations with such radical figures as Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, Reverend James Meeks, Bill Ayers, and Bernardine Dohrn look less like peculiar instances of personal misjudgment and more like intentional political partnerships. At his core, in other words, the politician chronicled here is profoundly race-conscious, exceedingly liberal, free-spending even in the face of looming state budget deficits, and partisan. Elected president, this man would presumably shift the country sharply to the left on all the key issues of the day-culture-war issues included. It's no wonder Obama has passed over his Springfield years in relative silence."
HERE'S THE WHOLE ARTICLE:
Barack Obama's Lost Years The senator's tenure as a state legislator reveals him to be an old-fashioned, big government, race-conscious liberal. by Stanley Kurtz 08/11/2008, Volume 013, Issue 45
Barack Obama's neighborhood newspaper, the Hyde Park Herald, has a longstanding tradition of opening its pages to elected officials-from Chicago aldermen to state legislators to U.S. senators. Obama himself, as a state senator, wrote more than 40 columns for the Herald, under the title "Springfield Report," between 1996 and 2004. Read in isolation, Obama's columns from the state capital tell us little. Placed in the context of political and policy battles then raging in Illinois, however, the young legislator's dispatches powerfully illuminate his political beliefs. Even more revealing are hundreds of articles chronicling Obama's early political and legislative activities in the pages not only of the Hyde Park Herald, but also of another South Side fixture, the Chicago Defender.
Obama moved to Chicago in order to place himself in what he understood to be the de facto "capital" of black America. For well over 100 years, the Chicago Defender has been the voice of that capital, and therefore a paper of national significance for African Americans. Early on in his political career, Obama complained of being slighted by major media, like the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. Yet extensive and continuous coverage in both the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald presents a remarkable resource for understanding who Obama is. Reportage in these two papers is particularly significant because Obama's early political career-the time between his first campaign for the Illinois State Senate in 1995 and his race for U.S. Senate in 2004-can fairly be called the "lost years," the period Obama seems least eager to talk about, in contrast to his formative years in Hawaii, Califo rnia, and New York or his days as a community organizer, both of which are recounted in his memoir, Dreams from My Father. The pages of the Hyde Park Herald and the Chicago Defender thus offer entrĂƒ©e into Obama's heretofore hidden world.
From: "Accuracy In Media" - Read the entir, e strory by clicking the "link" below.
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/socialism-comes-to-america/
Socialism Comes to America
AIM Report By Cliff Kincaid October 15, 2008
But many conservatives understood that, by capitulating to the political Left, McCain and the Republican Party were ceding unnecessary ground to Barack Obama and his “progressive” Democrats.
In his classic 1932 book, Toward Soviet America, Communist Party boss William Z. Foster wrote about how “The United Soviet States of America” would come about. As a result of various capitalist crises, the national government would assume more and more control over the economy. “In finance,” he wrote, “it will mean the nationalization of the banking system and its concentration around a central State bank…”
It would be an exaggeration to say that we are getting close to anything resembling the Soviet system. But it is also a big mistake to call massive federal intervention in the economy a “rescue” or even a “bailout.”
From: "The email Bag"
,
By: Chuck Sproull, Springville IN
Recently I read about the ACLU is trying to sue the US Naval Academy to stop them from praying to God. Here is what I sent them.
Exercise of our 1st Amendment Rights (responsible freedoms) especially freedom of expression, even religious expressions that are respectful of others, even as Government employees, and even while on Government tax-payer-funded property (if we are not wasting Government time, money or resources), doesn't depend on whether or not others believe or agree with our expressions, even if they are in management positions, or even if they are atheists, even if our good natured expressions cause them to feel bad. Furthermore, if upper level managers allow our religious expressions and public prayers, that should never be construed as State or Corporate "endorsement" of a particular religion.
Jefferson's "Wall of Separation of Church and State" was only intended to separate the "administration" of religion and politics, not to separate God's moral influences from our Government leaders' hearts nor from our legislative process. The only "wall of separation" in America should be between our government (State/Federal/local) and the ACLU (Atheists, Communists, Liberals United).
Most Americans oppose immoral acts, not because of fear (phobias), but because we love the heritage produced by high moral standards. Besides, immoral acts are not included in our 1st Amendment freedom ofexpression; only verbal and written expressions.
Just because people get angry and react negatively against our Bible-based religious expressions and to our peaceful resistance to their immorality, that doesn't mean they are right; but it means they are wrong and don't like the feeling of being wrong. My dad had a saying for people like this (and so-called "atheists" like Mike Newdow, who are "infuriated" with the phrase "One Nation under God" in our Pledge of allegiance). "They are stewing in their own juice." Even the devil and his demons are not atheists; they "believe and tremble" (James 2:19) at the name of Jesus Christ, because they recognize the power in His name. That is why the ACLU doesn't want anyone in our government to pray "in Jesus' name" or on public property.
If you study the Hebrew and Greek words translated "worship" in the Bible, it is easy to see that there is no such thing as an atheist. Everyone has gods and idols (lusts, fears, accomplishments and visual images) they worship and submit to daily. When people admire and submit to the life of love and holiness demonstrated by Jesus Christ, they worshipping the true God.
Our great country of USA was established over 230 years ago by Government leaders who believed the Bible, and were thus motivated by God to leave tyrannical (religious-controlled government and government-controlled religion) and immoral influences in Europe and England, and to separate themselves by 3,000 miles of water. America is like the second Canaan Land. The only way we can maintain the wonderful heritage God enabled us to establish by His divine influence in our Founders' hearts, is for current Government leaders to keep God's influence in their hearts.
God bless you, In Jesus' name.
Please read all of this and pass this on to those you care about. Your future and that of your children depends on everyone knowing the truth. Especially send it to people you know who might be thinking of voting for Osama, er, Obama.
OBAMA'S 'NOT EXACTLY'
1.) Selma Got Me Born - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. (Google 'Obama Selma ' for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various untruths.)
2.) My Father Was A Goat Herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) My Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - NOT EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya . It is the first widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo Obama, is Odinga's follower. You interrupted your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone.
Obama's cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia Muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers burne d Christians' homes and then burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No one wants to know the truth.
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5 am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.
6.) My Name is African Swahili - NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama. Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his fa ther's side. While Barack Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya , his father's family was mainly Arabs. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not African Negro). From...and for more....go to..... Http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.phtml?Barack_Hussein_Obama_-_Arab American,_only_6.25%25_African
7.) I Never Practiced Islam - NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office. 4-3-08 Article 'Obama was 'quite religious in Islam'' http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559
8.) My School In Indonesia was Christian - NOT EXACTLY, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as 'one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset.' This is just one example of what Pamela is talking about when she says 'Obama's narrative is being altered, enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts.'
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia , I Have More Foreign Experience - NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - NOT EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.
13.) An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My outlook on Life - NOT EXACTLY, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.
15.) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - NOT EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Voting 'Present' is common in the Illinois Senate - NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 'NO VOTES'.
17.) 'Oops, I Misvoted' - NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - NOT EXACTLY, you didn't write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records - NOT EXACTLY, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - NOT EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - NOT EXACTLY, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA - NOT EXACTLY, the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel
30.) I Want All Votes To Count - NOT EXACTLY, you said let the delegates decide.
31.) I Want Americans To Decide - NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
32.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - NOT EXACTLY, you passed only 26, most of which you didn't write yourself.
33.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
34.) I Don't Take PAC Money - NOT EXACTLY, you take loads of it.
35.) I don't Have Lobbyists - NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
36.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - NOT EXACTLY, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
37.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - NOT EXACTLY, you weren't in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.
38.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - NOT EXACTLY, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it.
GOD HELP US IF WE JUST SIT IDLY BY AND LET THIS PERSON BECOME OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. IT WOULD BE SUICIDAL FOR US TO DO NOTHING TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING.
PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE ONES YOU VALUE, JUST AS I AM DOING. IT'S TIME THE 'SILENT MAJORITY' TAKE A STAND! GET OUT AND VOTE! PLEASE!
From: "World Net Daily"
Question: Which is more important to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama - the voting rights of ex-felons, or the voting rights of America's military?
Answer: The ex-felons. Why else would Obama refuse to support the "Military Voting Protection Act," which would ensure that the votes of America 's troops serving overseas are counted, but instead supports the "Count Every Vote Act," which would override state laws and extend voting rights to millions of ex-felons?
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. -- Gen. George S. Patton
From: "The Patriot Post"
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers." -- John Adams
So Joe Biden has had a sniper-fire incident of his own... On Monday, he relayed to the National Guard Association his firsthand understanding of the war in Afghanistan. Earlier this year, he claimed, "my helicopter was forced down, with a three-star general and three senators at 10,500 feet in the middle of those mountains." The implication was that the chopper had come under fire. In reality, however, Biden's adventure was akin to Hillary Clinton's whopper (http://PatriotShop.US/product_info.php?cPath=35&products_id=734) about landing under sniper fire in Bosnia in 1996. In fact, a snowstorm forced Biden's copter to land, and his group headed back to a U.S. Air Base in a motorized convoy instead. Oops.
Congress is going to serve as the "watchdog" over the dispensing and recovery of these funds? Can you say, "fox in the henhouse"?
"Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard." -- George Washington
From: "Newsmax" - Read the entire strory by clicking the "link" below.
My Comments: I still question as to why anyone who supports, practices, and/or loves Judeo-Chrisstian values will consider voting for Obama! - oyh
http://www.newsmax.com/estrich/jesse_jackson/2008/10/15/140635.html
"Jesse Jackson: Under Obama, 'decades of putting Israel's interests first' would end." According to Jackson, the "Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades" will lose clout.
From: "The Weekly Standard" - Read the entire strory by clicking the "link" below.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15386&R=13BA26C
" As details of Obama's early political career emerge into the light, his associations with such radical figures as Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, Reverend James Meeks, Bill Ayers, and Bernardine Dohrn look less like peculiar instances of personal misjudgment and more like intentional political partnerships. At his core, in other words, the politician chronicled here is profoundly race-conscious, exceedingly liberal, free-spending even in the face of looming state budget deficits, and partisan. Elected president, this man would presumably shift the country sharply to the left on all the key issues of the day-culture-war issues included. It's no wonder Obama has passed over his Springfield years in relative silence."
HERE'S THE WHOLE ARTICLE:
Barack Obama's Lost Years The senator's tenure as a state legislator reveals him to be an old-fashioned, big government, race-conscious liberal. by Stanley Kurtz 08/11/2008, Volume 013, Issue 45
Barack Obama's neighborhood newspaper, the Hyde Park Herald, has a longstanding tradition of opening its pages to elected officials-from Chicago aldermen to state legislators to U.S. senators. Obama himself, as a state senator, wrote more than 40 columns for the Herald, under the title "Springfield Report," between 1996 and 2004. Read in isolation, Obama's columns from the state capital tell us little. Placed in the context of political and policy battles then raging in Illinois, however, the young legislator's dispatches powerfully illuminate his political beliefs. Even more revealing are hundreds of articles chronicling Obama's early political and legislative activities in the pages not only of the Hyde Park Herald, but also of another South Side fixture, the Chicago Defender.
Obama moved to Chicago in order to place himself in what he understood to be the de facto "capital" of black America. For well over 100 years, the Chicago Defender has been the voice of that capital, and therefore a paper of national significance for African Americans. Early on in his political career, Obama complained of being slighted by major media, like the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. Yet extensive and continuous coverage in both the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald presents a remarkable resource for understanding who Obama is. Reportage in these two papers is particularly significant because Obama's early political career-the time between his first campaign for the Illinois State Senate in 1995 and his race for U.S. Senate in 2004-can fairly be called the "lost years," the period Obama seems least eager to talk about, in contrast to his formative years in Hawaii, Califo rnia, and New York or his days as a community organizer, both of which are recounted in his memoir, Dreams from My Father. The pages of the Hyde Park Herald and the Chicago Defender thus offer entrĂƒ©e into Obama's heretofore hidden world.
From: "Accuracy In Media" - Read the entir, e strory by clicking the "link" below.
http://www.aim.org/aim-report/socialism-comes-to-america/
Socialism Comes to America
AIM Report By Cliff Kincaid October 15, 2008
But many conservatives understood that, by capitulating to the political Left, McCain and the Republican Party were ceding unnecessary ground to Barack Obama and his “progressive” Democrats.
In his classic 1932 book, Toward Soviet America, Communist Party boss William Z. Foster wrote about how “The United Soviet States of America” would come about. As a result of various capitalist crises, the national government would assume more and more control over the economy. “In finance,” he wrote, “it will mean the nationalization of the banking system and its concentration around a central State bank…”
It would be an exaggeration to say that we are getting close to anything resembling the Soviet system. But it is also a big mistake to call massive federal intervention in the economy a “rescue” or even a “bailout.”
From: "The email Bag"
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By: Chuck Sproull, Springville IN
Recently I read about the ACLU is trying to sue the US Naval Academy to stop them from praying to God. Here is what I sent them.
Exercise of our 1st Amendment Rights (responsible freedoms) especially freedom of expression, even religious expressions that are respectful of others, even as Government employees, and even while on Government tax-payer-funded property (if we are not wasting Government time, money or resources), doesn't depend on whether or not others believe or agree with our expressions, even if they are in management positions, or even if they are atheists, even if our good natured expressions cause them to feel bad. Furthermore, if upper level managers allow our religious expressions and public prayers, that should never be construed as State or Corporate "endorsement" of a particular religion.
Jefferson's "Wall of Separation of Church and State" was only intended to separate the "administration" of religion and politics, not to separate God's moral influences from our Government leaders' hearts nor from our legislative process. The only "wall of separation" in America should be between our government (State/Federal/local) and the ACLU (Atheists, Communists, Liberals United).
Most Americans oppose immoral acts, not because of fear (phobias), but because we love the heritage produced by high moral standards. Besides, immoral acts are not included in our 1st Amendment freedom ofexpression; only verbal and written expressions.
Just because people get angry and react negatively against our Bible-based religious expressions and to our peaceful resistance to their immorality, that doesn't mean they are right; but it means they are wrong and don't like the feeling of being wrong. My dad had a saying for people like this (and so-called "atheists" like Mike Newdow, who are "infuriated" with the phrase "One Nation under God" in our Pledge of allegiance). "They are stewing in their own juice." Even the devil and his demons are not atheists; they "believe and tremble" (James 2:19) at the name of Jesus Christ, because they recognize the power in His name. That is why the ACLU doesn't want anyone in our government to pray "in Jesus' name" or on public property.
If you study the Hebrew and Greek words translated "worship" in the Bible, it is easy to see that there is no such thing as an atheist. Everyone has gods and idols (lusts, fears, accomplishments and visual images) they worship and submit to daily. When people admire and submit to the life of love and holiness demonstrated by Jesus Christ, they worshipping the true God.
Our great country of USA was established over 230 years ago by Government leaders who believed the Bible, and were thus motivated by God to leave tyrannical (religious-controlled government and government-controlled religion) and immoral influences in Europe and England, and to separate themselves by 3,000 miles of water. America is like the second Canaan Land. The only way we can maintain the wonderful heritage God enabled us to establish by His divine influence in our Founders' hearts, is for current Government leaders to keep God's influence in their hearts.
God bless you, In Jesus' name.
Please read all of this and pass this on to those you care about. Your future and that of your children depends on everyone knowing the truth. Especially send it to people you know who might be thinking of voting for Osama, er, Obama.
OBAMA'S 'NOT EXACTLY'
1.) Selma Got Me Born - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. (Google 'Obama Selma ' for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various untruths.)
2.) My Father Was A Goat Herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) My Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - NOT EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya . It is the first widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo Obama, is Odinga's follower. You interrupted your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone.
Obama's cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia Muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers burne d Christians' homes and then burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No one wants to know the truth.
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5 am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.
6.) My Name is African Swahili - NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama. Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his fa ther's side. While Barack Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya , his father's family was mainly Arabs. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not African Negro). From...and for more....go to..... Http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.phtml?Barack_Hussein_Obama_-_Arab American,_only_6.25%25_African
7.) I Never Practiced Islam - NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office. 4-3-08 Article 'Obama was 'quite religious in Islam'' http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559
8.) My School In Indonesia was Christian - NOT EXACTLY, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as 'one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset.' This is just one example of what Pamela is talking about when she says 'Obama's narrative is being altered, enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts.'
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia , I Have More Foreign Experience - NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - NOT EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.
13.) An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My outlook on Life - NOT EXACTLY, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't, and never did, exist.
15.) I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08 - NOT EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Voting 'Present' is common in the Illinois Senate - NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 'NO VOTES'.
17.) 'Oops, I Misvoted' - NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - NOT EXACTLY, you didn't write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records - NOT EXACTLY, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - NOT EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - NOT EXACTLY, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA - NOT EXACTLY, the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel
30.) I Want All Votes To Count - NOT EXACTLY, you said let the delegates decide.
31.) I Want Americans To Decide - NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
32.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - NOT EXACTLY, you passed only 26, most of which you didn't write yourself.
33.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
34.) I Don't Take PAC Money - NOT EXACTLY, you take loads of it.
35.) I don't Have Lobbyists - NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
36.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - NOT EXACTLY, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
37.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - NOT EXACTLY, you weren't in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.
38.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - NOT EXACTLY, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it.
GOD HELP US IF WE JUST SIT IDLY BY AND LET THIS PERSON BECOME OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. IT WOULD BE SUICIDAL FOR US TO DO NOTHING TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING.
PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE ONES YOU VALUE, JUST AS I AM DOING. IT'S TIME THE 'SILENT MAJORITY' TAKE A STAND! GET OUT AND VOTE! PLEASE!
From: "World Net Daily"
Question: Which is more important to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama - the voting rights of ex-felons, or the voting rights of America's military?
Answer: The ex-felons. Why else would Obama refuse to support the "Military Voting Protection Act," which would ensure that the votes of America 's troops serving overseas are counted, but instead supports the "Count Every Vote Act," which would override state laws and extend voting rights to millions of ex-felons?
Rebuilding America With Labor and Educational Values
December 15, 2008
Organized Labor built manufacturing and many other industries in commerce. Now, states’ legislators, lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Organized Labor, the AFL-CIO, United Auto Workers (UAW), United Steelworkers of America (USW), National Education Association (NEA), and others have all but destroyed many in Manufacturing, our educational social system, and many other vocations within America’s culture.
In the earlier days, Organized Labor began as an effort to provide descent wages in America. Unions grew as America grew, more jobs, and issues grew. With growth, came efforts to provide added agreement benefits for working Americans. Oh, how changes have evolved! In the last five decades, organized labor, with the help of many state legislators, and Capitol Hill Lawmakers, many new laws have been prescribed as economic treatments. Added legislation brings added costs into America’s products’ marketplace. These added costs have created goods becoming excessively expensive, while an imported item is more economical. American consumers have discovered they can find equal or better quality products manufactured elsewhere.
America’s Big Three automakers and other companies within our economy are in a crisis. The rejection of a bailout and/or loan to GM, Ford, and Chrysler is the result of UAW leaders and memberships refusal to trim employee cost and benefits cost of $141M annually and more. Dr. Mark J. Perry, Professor of Economics and Finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/07/uaw-pricing-themselves-out-of-market.html, best defines the Big 3s’ employee cost.
UAW employees must become more competitive with Mercedes, BMW, Honda, Toyota, and Nissan. Chapter 11, in our US Bankruptcy Court, can make adjustments and trim GM, Ford, and Chrysler CEOs’ bonuses and employee costs and benefits, saving our US automobile manufacturing. Minority GOP Senators were right in denying a bailout and/or loan with the Big 3, and especially the UAW, who refuses to negotiate, in an effort to become more competitive within a free marketplace. In 1960, GM alone, controlled 53% of the worldwide automobile manufacturing. What happened between 1960 and 2008? Did organized labor which help build GM, now destroyed the same GM?
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger claims Toyota’ pay and benefit cost is more than the UAW employees. Please explain why with GM producing equal vehicles in volume to Toyota, GM produces losses of $10Ms while Toyota produces profits of $10Ms. What is the difference? Is it the Big 3 CEOs’ bonuses? Is it the UAW Union’s employees’ pay and benefit cost? America needs a treatment, and now! Chapter 11 Courts can provide the forced necessary changes to rebuild the Big 3.
For a growing economy, America must rebuild manufacturing. Organized Labor must recognize in a free-market America, labor cost must be controlled. We must restructure our educational system, teaching our children the foundations of a Judeo-Christian values system, as the founders of our US Constitution constantly wrote so much about, legislated, and then practiced in real life. With these ideals, we are rebuilding America. Organized Labor, other lobbyists, state legislators, Capitol Hill lawmakers, and others, the choices and determinations are (y)ours.
Organized Labor built manufacturing and many other industries in commerce. Now, states’ legislators, lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Organized Labor, the AFL-CIO, United Auto Workers (UAW), United Steelworkers of America (USW), National Education Association (NEA), and others have all but destroyed many in Manufacturing, our educational social system, and many other vocations within America’s culture.
In the earlier days, Organized Labor began as an effort to provide descent wages in America. Unions grew as America grew, more jobs, and issues grew. With growth, came efforts to provide added agreement benefits for working Americans. Oh, how changes have evolved! In the last five decades, organized labor, with the help of many state legislators, and Capitol Hill Lawmakers, many new laws have been prescribed as economic treatments. Added legislation brings added costs into America’s products’ marketplace. These added costs have created goods becoming excessively expensive, while an imported item is more economical. American consumers have discovered they can find equal or better quality products manufactured elsewhere.
America’s Big Three automakers and other companies within our economy are in a crisis. The rejection of a bailout and/or loan to GM, Ford, and Chrysler is the result of UAW leaders and memberships refusal to trim employee cost and benefits cost of $141M annually and more. Dr. Mark J. Perry, Professor of Economics and Finance in the School of Management at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2007/07/uaw-pricing-themselves-out-of-market.html, best defines the Big 3s’ employee cost.
UAW employees must become more competitive with Mercedes, BMW, Honda, Toyota, and Nissan. Chapter 11, in our US Bankruptcy Court, can make adjustments and trim GM, Ford, and Chrysler CEOs’ bonuses and employee costs and benefits, saving our US automobile manufacturing. Minority GOP Senators were right in denying a bailout and/or loan with the Big 3, and especially the UAW, who refuses to negotiate, in an effort to become more competitive within a free marketplace. In 1960, GM alone, controlled 53% of the worldwide automobile manufacturing. What happened between 1960 and 2008? Did organized labor which help build GM, now destroyed the same GM?
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger claims Toyota’ pay and benefit cost is more than the UAW employees. Please explain why with GM producing equal vehicles in volume to Toyota, GM produces losses of $10Ms while Toyota produces profits of $10Ms. What is the difference? Is it the Big 3 CEOs’ bonuses? Is it the UAW Union’s employees’ pay and benefit cost? America needs a treatment, and now! Chapter 11 Courts can provide the forced necessary changes to rebuild the Big 3.
For a growing economy, America must rebuild manufacturing. Organized Labor must recognize in a free-market America, labor cost must be controlled. We must restructure our educational system, teaching our children the foundations of a Judeo-Christian values system, as the founders of our US Constitution constantly wrote so much about, legislated, and then practiced in real life. With these ideals, we are rebuilding America. Organized Labor, other lobbyists, state legislators, Capitol Hill lawmakers, and others, the choices and determinations are (y)ours.
Friday, December 12, 2008
ConservativeChristianReport-Report - 20081016
"Daily Motivations"
There are as many ways to recognize people as there are people to recognize. You just have to use your brain to find them. Next time you think you've exhausted the possibilities, think again…and again! -- Eric Harvey
"The Patriot Post"
"For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market... If Congress doesnot act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole." --- John McCain arguing for passage of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act (S. 190) which he co-sponsored in 2005.
Soviet despot Nikita Khrushchev observed that America's transition from liberty to serfdom would have to be incremental: "We can't expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."
"Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue, or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; aharvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens." --- Federalist No. 62, likely James Madison
"So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldn't find honest employment." --- Mark Twain
"[A]s lawmakers debate buying up hundreds of billions in assets, they should realize that the government's aggressive meddling in financial decision-making is what got our economy into this mess in the first place. The long-term answer isn't more federal control, it's a return to free-market principles." --- Ed Feulner
"Newsmax"
More ACORN Fraud Exposed:
ACORN Whistleblowers
Monday, October 13, 2008 9:15 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
New testimony obtained by a consumer advocate group from former employees of ACORN paints a startling picture of the apparent misuse of taxpayer dollars to further the group’s left-wing political agenda.
Four former employees of ACORN and of ACORN Housing Corp. have supplied sworn affidavits to the Consumer Rights League that provide eyewitness accounts of how the two organizations have commingled funds and resources, in apparent violation of federal law.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) bills itself as a non-partisan group, supported by tax-exempt contributions from individuals and corporations.
The ACORN Housing Corp. (AHC), an ACORN affiliate, receives more than 40 percent of its funding from government sources, ostensibly to promote affordable housing to low- and middle-income families.
But according to CRL, internal documents obtained from whistleblowers suggest that ACORN has failed to maintain the proper distinction between its tax-exempt housing work and its aggressive political activities.
“ACORN and its offshoots take in millions of dollars in government grants under the guise of ‘consumer advocacy’ to line their own pockets,” said Jim Terry, CRL’s chief public advocate.
The new testimony, from four former ACORN and AHC employees, provides “hard confirmation” that ACORN and its affiliate are in fact one in the same, Terry told Newsmax.
“Here are people who have been in the room, testifying to the criminal intent of the people involved” in shuffling ACORN resources from tax-exempt purposes to political activities, he said.
“Everything they do and say, with the exception of filing their government reports, treats this family of organizations as one cohesive unit. They operated as one organization, controlled from the top down,” Terry said.
One former employee, who was with ACORN for six years, including in a management position, testified that she has “knowledge that AHC has subsidized and believe that AHC continues to subsidize ACORN activities,” in apparent violation of the law.
“AHC subsidies to ACORN include office telephone service, fax, supplies and rental space paid for by AHC funds,” she added.
In addition, AHC management routinely treated federal grants as money that could be shared with ACORN, Terry told Newsmax.
“Between 2004 through 2006, AHC transferred $4.6 million to ACORN in grants and fees, according to their tax returns. This is inherently wrong.”
Since 40 percent of AHC funds came from government grants, that means that U.S. taxpayers were in effect paying for ACORN’s partisan political activities, he added.
AHC required employees to “solicit funds and cash from clients and real estate professionals to pay for AHC operations,” one of the whistleblowers said, detailing what amounted to a “shakedown” operation.
Another former AHC employee said he would testify in court to the fact that “AHC and ACORN have operated as one entity,” and quoted internal e-mails detailing how federal grants were shared between the organizations.
The whistleblowers also stated that:
AHC employees were instructed to hide documents from federal auditors with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
AHC employees were instructed on “steering” loans to partner banks, including Chase (for loans in the New Orleans area) and Bank of America for other areas around the country.
AHC National Field Director Lee Trujillo stated in the presence of several of these witnesses that
“AHC and ACORN would be funded out of the same account.”
AHC and ACORN have also shared “voter initiative money.”
Internal AHC e-mails and other documents “clearly show that AHC is paying for lease space occupied by ACORN.”
All of these are potential violations of the laws governing non-profit organizations.
ACORN is currently under investigation for fraudulent voter registration and related activities in at least 11 key battleground states.
Election officials in several states have said that 50 percent of ACORN voter registrations are fictitious.
Just last week, for example, ACORN’s offices in Nevada were raided by state law enforcement officials after reports that ACORN had registered the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys to vote in Las Vegas.
In Connecticut, a 7-year-old girl was found to have been registered to vote by ACORN, which changed her age to 27.
ACORN announced last week that it had just completed “the largest, most successful nonpartisan voter registration drive in U.S. history,” by helping “1.3 million low-income, minority and young voters across the country register to vote.”
The group insisted that the allegations of voter fraud are “bogus,” and “aim to camouflage voter suppression,” a term used by many groups on the left to describe alleged police roadblocks in black neighborhoods in Florida during the 2000 campaign.
Despite a two-year investigation by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission under the direction of Jesse Jackson protégé Mary Frances Berry, not a single eyewitness stepped forward who could corroborate the allegations of voter suppression or police roadblocks in Florida during that election.
ACORN has paid more than 13,000 workers to sign up new voters this election season, and admits that “there are always some people who want to get paid without really doing the job.”
In any large voter registration operation, ACORN said last week, there will always be “a small percentage of workers who turn in bogus registration forms.” But discrepancies in voter registration documents “has nothing to do with ‘voter fraud,’” the group insisted.
AHC gets U.S. government grants to provide free advice and counseling services to low and mid-income consumers on how to qualify for a mortgage.
In the advice it offers consumers, AHC warns about “predatory” lending. And yet, CRL alleges in a report issued earlier this year that AHC engages in many of the same practices it condemns.
“ACORN’s ‘financial justice’ operations attack lenders for ‘exotic’ loans, but AHC has recommended ten-year interest-only loans (which deny equity to the buyer) and reverse mortgages (which can be detrimental to senior citizens),” the report states.
AHC also has worked to obtain mortgages for undocumented workers, and has advised intake officers to counsel consumers how to use “under the table” income not reported to the Internal Revenue Service in order to increase their borrowing ability.
ACORN has devoted $50 million to Project Vote activities in the current election cycle, primarily to register minority and low-income voters.
Barack Obama ran the Chicago branch of Project Vote in 1992, and soon afterwards began teaching classes for “Future Leaders Identified by ACORN.”
In 1995, Obama represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois for its supposed failure to implement the new “motor voter” law, the first piece of legislation signed by Bill Clinton after he became president in 1993.
In a statement now immortalized in a YouTube video, Obama promised ACORN and other community organizations in an Iowa presidential campaign forum for Democrats in December 2007 that if elected president, he would bring them into the White House to help shape the agenda of an Obama administration.
“[B]efore I even get inaugurated, during the transition, we're going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. We're going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America,” Obama pledged.
ACORN endorsed Obama on Feb. 21, 2008, at the most critical point of the tough primary battle that pitted him against Hillary Clinton. Welcoming that endorsement, Obama said, “I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues that you care about my entire career.”
But now that ACORN’s alleged voter fraud activities have become public, the Illinois senator has sought to distance himself from ACORN, just as he has from other former allies, such as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright or former wanted terrorist William Ayers.
His “fight the smears” Web site now has a statement claiming that “ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee,” but acknowledged that he was hired by the organization in the 1995 lawsuit.
“Obama’s failure to disclose the true nature of his relationship with ACORN is very surprising and deeply troubling,” the John McCain campaign said in a press release last week.
"World Net Daily" - Read the entire story by "link" below.
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78035
DISPATCH FROM NAIROBI
Obama raised $1 million for foreign thug's electionDemocrat joined Libya's Gadhafi among top contributors to Odinga
Posted: October 14, 2008
9:27 pm Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi© 2008 WorldNetDaily
NEW YORK –Sen. Barack Obama, with a donation of nearly $1 million, and a son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi were among the biggest contributors to the presidential campaign of controversial Kenyan leader Raila Odinga, according to an internal document obtained by WND.
The memo was prepared by the head of Odinga's campaign finance accounting section, Shakeel Shabbir, as an official report delivered to the national treasurer for Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement party, or ODM.
Among the 72 individuals and organizations that contributed money to Odinga's 2007 presidential run in Kenya, Shabbir lists "Friends of Senator B.O." as having donated 66,000,000 Kenyan schillings, about $950,000.
Saif el-Islam Gadhafi, the Libyan strongman's second oldest son, reportedly donated 53,450,000 Kenyan schillings, about $765,000.
According to several highly credible ex-ODM sources WND interviewed in Kenya, the $950,000 raised for Odinga's campaign came from a series of private meetings arranged for Odinga by Mark Lippert, a foreign policy adviser in Obama's U.S. Senate office. The meetings with top-dollar Obama fundraisers and donors took place during Odinga's 2006 trip to the U.S.
"The email Bag"
Subject: Fw: Military Deaths
Military death by by year and ethnicity - interesting facts
Military Losses, 1980 thru 2007 Whatever your politics, however you lean, however you feel about the current administration, this report should open some eyes.
Military losses,1980 through 2007. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the following statistics:The annual fatalities of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2006:
1980 ...........2,392 (Carter Year)
1981 .......... 2,380 (Reagan Year)
1984 .......... 1,999 (Reagan Year)
1988 .......... 1,819 (Reagan Year)
1989 .......... 1,636 (George H W Year)
1990 .......... 1,508 (George H W Year)
1991 .......... 1,787 (George e H W Year )
1992 .......... 1,293 (George H W Year)
1993 .......... 1,21 3 ( Clinton Year )
1994 .......... 1,07 5 ( Clinton Year)
1995 .......... 2,465 ( Clinton Year)
1996 .......... 2,318 ( Clinton Year)
1997 ............ 817 ( Clinton Year)
1998 .......... 2,252 ( Clinton Year)
1999 .......... 1,984 ( Clinton Year)
2000 ...........1,983 ( Clinton Year)
2001 ............. 890(George W Year)
2002 ......... 1,007 (George W Year)
2003 ......... 1,410 (George W Year) &n bsp;
2004 ..........1,887 (George W Year)
2005 ............ 919 (George W Year)
2006.............. 920 (George W Year)
2007...............899 (George W Year)
Clinton years (1993-2000): 14,000 deaths
George W years (2001-2006): 7,932 deaths
If you are surprised when you look at these figures, so was I.These figures mean that the loss from the two latest conflicts in the Middle East are LESS than the loss of military personnel during Bill Clinton's presidency; when America wasn't even involved in a war!
And, I was even more shocked when I read that in 1980, during the reign of President (Nobel Peace Prize winner) Jimmy Carter, there were 2,392 US military fatalities! I think that these figures indicate that many members of our Media and our Politicians will pick and choose the information on which they report. Of course we all know that they present only those 'facts which support their agenda-driven reporting. But why do so many of them march in lock-step to twist the truth? Where do so many of them get their marching-orders for their agenda?
Do you want further proof? Consider the latest census, of Americans. It shows the following
FACTS about the distribution of American citizens, by Race:
European descent 69.12%
Hispanic .............. 12.5%
Black .................. 12.3%
Asian .................... 3.7%
Native American ... 1.0%
Other.................... 2.6%
Now... here are the fatalities by Race; over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom:
European descent (white) 74.31%
Hispanic ....................... 10.74%
Black ............................... 9.67%
Asian ........... ................... 1.81%
Native American .............. 1.09%
Other ................... 0.33%
I was surprised again... until it became clear to me that the point here is that our mainstream media continues to spin these figures (for political gain). Nothing more!!!
It's all about politics and some politicians, are now famous for turning American against American for a vote. Consider Hillary Clinton's stump speech after her Super Tuesday 'victory' stating that the current administration does not listen' to anyone and continues the war costing precious American lives. Yes I might even agree with her, but she should be made to acknowledge her own husband's administration, without having an actual war, sent more soldiers to death during his presidency, and is on record of forcing the military to release Osama when we actually had him detained at the time I am not suggesting that any particular political party is necessarily right, there is a lot wrong. But, I hope that during the time between now and November, that intelligent Americans can decipher the facts from the spin and the spinners from the leaders; those who seek even more power from those that seek justice, the dividers from the uniters.
Over the next days let's be good listeners and see and hear who really tries to divide our nation; and who wants to unite our nation. Who wants to control how our money is spent and who wants our money spent the way we would spend it. Who seeks power and who seeks justice? Who spins the facts and who is genuine. (Very few are on both sides)
The above statistics are published by Congressional Research Service, and they may be confirmed by anyone at:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
"Smart Green"
http://www.smartgreenusa.com/news/anwr-news/a-trillion-dollar-boost-to-our-struggling-economy--anwr/
A Trillion-Dollar boost to our struggling Economy- ANWR
At a world oil price above $100 per barrel, the mean expectation for the federal and non-federal ANWR oil reserves is a gross cumulative market value of more than $1 trillion-some experts say $1.5 to $2 Trillion.
It might cost $20 to $30 per barrel to produce the ANWR oil, but the net revenues (after costs) would still be greater than $700 billion (and could turn out to be much higher, depending on the future price of oil). To put this in perspective, the United States could have paid for the entire Iraq war to date with the future oil revenues obtainable from ANWR. Or the U.S. could pay for the entire Defense Department budget for one year.
From the Congressional Research Service
There are as many ways to recognize people as there are people to recognize. You just have to use your brain to find them. Next time you think you've exhausted the possibilities, think again…and again! -- Eric Harvey
"The Patriot Post"
"For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac... and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market... If Congress doesnot act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole." --- John McCain arguing for passage of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act (S. 190) which he co-sponsored in 2005.
Soviet despot Nikita Khrushchev observed that America's transition from liberty to serfdom would have to be incremental: "We can't expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."
"Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue, or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; aharvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens." --- Federalist No. 62, likely James Madison
"So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldn't find honest employment." --- Mark Twain
"[A]s lawmakers debate buying up hundreds of billions in assets, they should realize that the government's aggressive meddling in financial decision-making is what got our economy into this mess in the first place. The long-term answer isn't more federal control, it's a return to free-market principles." --- Ed Feulner
"Newsmax"
More ACORN Fraud Exposed:
ACORN Whistleblowers
Monday, October 13, 2008 9:15 PM
By: Kenneth R. Timmerman
New testimony obtained by a consumer advocate group from former employees of ACORN paints a startling picture of the apparent misuse of taxpayer dollars to further the group’s left-wing political agenda.
Four former employees of ACORN and of ACORN Housing Corp. have supplied sworn affidavits to the Consumer Rights League that provide eyewitness accounts of how the two organizations have commingled funds and resources, in apparent violation of federal law.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) bills itself as a non-partisan group, supported by tax-exempt contributions from individuals and corporations.
The ACORN Housing Corp. (AHC), an ACORN affiliate, receives more than 40 percent of its funding from government sources, ostensibly to promote affordable housing to low- and middle-income families.
But according to CRL, internal documents obtained from whistleblowers suggest that ACORN has failed to maintain the proper distinction between its tax-exempt housing work and its aggressive political activities.
“ACORN and its offshoots take in millions of dollars in government grants under the guise of ‘consumer advocacy’ to line their own pockets,” said Jim Terry, CRL’s chief public advocate.
The new testimony, from four former ACORN and AHC employees, provides “hard confirmation” that ACORN and its affiliate are in fact one in the same, Terry told Newsmax.
“Here are people who have been in the room, testifying to the criminal intent of the people involved” in shuffling ACORN resources from tax-exempt purposes to political activities, he said.
“Everything they do and say, with the exception of filing their government reports, treats this family of organizations as one cohesive unit. They operated as one organization, controlled from the top down,” Terry said.
One former employee, who was with ACORN for six years, including in a management position, testified that she has “knowledge that AHC has subsidized and believe that AHC continues to subsidize ACORN activities,” in apparent violation of the law.
“AHC subsidies to ACORN include office telephone service, fax, supplies and rental space paid for by AHC funds,” she added.
In addition, AHC management routinely treated federal grants as money that could be shared with ACORN, Terry told Newsmax.
“Between 2004 through 2006, AHC transferred $4.6 million to ACORN in grants and fees, according to their tax returns. This is inherently wrong.”
Since 40 percent of AHC funds came from government grants, that means that U.S. taxpayers were in effect paying for ACORN’s partisan political activities, he added.
AHC required employees to “solicit funds and cash from clients and real estate professionals to pay for AHC operations,” one of the whistleblowers said, detailing what amounted to a “shakedown” operation.
Another former AHC employee said he would testify in court to the fact that “AHC and ACORN have operated as one entity,” and quoted internal e-mails detailing how federal grants were shared between the organizations.
The whistleblowers also stated that:
AHC employees were instructed to hide documents from federal auditors with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
AHC employees were instructed on “steering” loans to partner banks, including Chase (for loans in the New Orleans area) and Bank of America for other areas around the country.
AHC National Field Director Lee Trujillo stated in the presence of several of these witnesses that
“AHC and ACORN would be funded out of the same account.”
AHC and ACORN have also shared “voter initiative money.”
Internal AHC e-mails and other documents “clearly show that AHC is paying for lease space occupied by ACORN.”
All of these are potential violations of the laws governing non-profit organizations.
ACORN is currently under investigation for fraudulent voter registration and related activities in at least 11 key battleground states.
Election officials in several states have said that 50 percent of ACORN voter registrations are fictitious.
Just last week, for example, ACORN’s offices in Nevada were raided by state law enforcement officials after reports that ACORN had registered the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys to vote in Las Vegas.
In Connecticut, a 7-year-old girl was found to have been registered to vote by ACORN, which changed her age to 27.
ACORN announced last week that it had just completed “the largest, most successful nonpartisan voter registration drive in U.S. history,” by helping “1.3 million low-income, minority and young voters across the country register to vote.”
The group insisted that the allegations of voter fraud are “bogus,” and “aim to camouflage voter suppression,” a term used by many groups on the left to describe alleged police roadblocks in black neighborhoods in Florida during the 2000 campaign.
Despite a two-year investigation by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission under the direction of Jesse Jackson protégé Mary Frances Berry, not a single eyewitness stepped forward who could corroborate the allegations of voter suppression or police roadblocks in Florida during that election.
ACORN has paid more than 13,000 workers to sign up new voters this election season, and admits that “there are always some people who want to get paid without really doing the job.”
In any large voter registration operation, ACORN said last week, there will always be “a small percentage of workers who turn in bogus registration forms.” But discrepancies in voter registration documents “has nothing to do with ‘voter fraud,’” the group insisted.
AHC gets U.S. government grants to provide free advice and counseling services to low and mid-income consumers on how to qualify for a mortgage.
In the advice it offers consumers, AHC warns about “predatory” lending. And yet, CRL alleges in a report issued earlier this year that AHC engages in many of the same practices it condemns.
“ACORN’s ‘financial justice’ operations attack lenders for ‘exotic’ loans, but AHC has recommended ten-year interest-only loans (which deny equity to the buyer) and reverse mortgages (which can be detrimental to senior citizens),” the report states.
AHC also has worked to obtain mortgages for undocumented workers, and has advised intake officers to counsel consumers how to use “under the table” income not reported to the Internal Revenue Service in order to increase their borrowing ability.
ACORN has devoted $50 million to Project Vote activities in the current election cycle, primarily to register minority and low-income voters.
Barack Obama ran the Chicago branch of Project Vote in 1992, and soon afterwards began teaching classes for “Future Leaders Identified by ACORN.”
In 1995, Obama represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois for its supposed failure to implement the new “motor voter” law, the first piece of legislation signed by Bill Clinton after he became president in 1993.
In a statement now immortalized in a YouTube video, Obama promised ACORN and other community organizations in an Iowa presidential campaign forum for Democrats in December 2007 that if elected president, he would bring them into the White House to help shape the agenda of an Obama administration.
“[B]efore I even get inaugurated, during the transition, we're going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. We're going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America,” Obama pledged.
ACORN endorsed Obama on Feb. 21, 2008, at the most critical point of the tough primary battle that pitted him against Hillary Clinton. Welcoming that endorsement, Obama said, “I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues that you care about my entire career.”
But now that ACORN’s alleged voter fraud activities have become public, the Illinois senator has sought to distance himself from ACORN, just as he has from other former allies, such as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright or former wanted terrorist William Ayers.
His “fight the smears” Web site now has a statement claiming that “ACORN never hired Obama as a trainer, organizer, or any type of employee,” but acknowledged that he was hired by the organization in the 1995 lawsuit.
“Obama’s failure to disclose the true nature of his relationship with ACORN is very surprising and deeply troubling,” the John McCain campaign said in a press release last week.
"World Net Daily" - Read the entire story by "link" below.
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78035
DISPATCH FROM NAIROBI
Obama raised $1 million for foreign thug's electionDemocrat joined Libya's Gadhafi among top contributors to Odinga
Posted: October 14, 2008
9:27 pm Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi© 2008 WorldNetDaily
NEW YORK –Sen. Barack Obama, with a donation of nearly $1 million, and a son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi were among the biggest contributors to the presidential campaign of controversial Kenyan leader Raila Odinga, according to an internal document obtained by WND.
The memo was prepared by the head of Odinga's campaign finance accounting section, Shakeel Shabbir, as an official report delivered to the national treasurer for Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement party, or ODM.
Among the 72 individuals and organizations that contributed money to Odinga's 2007 presidential run in Kenya, Shabbir lists "Friends of Senator B.O." as having donated 66,000,000 Kenyan schillings, about $950,000.
Saif el-Islam Gadhafi, the Libyan strongman's second oldest son, reportedly donated 53,450,000 Kenyan schillings, about $765,000.
According to several highly credible ex-ODM sources WND interviewed in Kenya, the $950,000 raised for Odinga's campaign came from a series of private meetings arranged for Odinga by Mark Lippert, a foreign policy adviser in Obama's U.S. Senate office. The meetings with top-dollar Obama fundraisers and donors took place during Odinga's 2006 trip to the U.S.
"The email Bag"
Subject: Fw: Military Deaths
Military death by by year and ethnicity - interesting facts
Military Losses, 1980 thru 2007 Whatever your politics, however you lean, however you feel about the current administration, this report should open some eyes.
Military losses,1980 through 2007. As tragic as the loss of any member of the US Armed Forces is, consider the following statistics:The annual fatalities of military members while actively serving in the armed forces from 1980 through 2006:
1980 ...........2,392 (Carter Year)
1981 .......... 2,380 (Reagan Year)
1984 .......... 1,999 (Reagan Year)
1988 .......... 1,819 (Reagan Year)
1989 .......... 1,636 (George H W Year)
1990 .......... 1,508 (George H W Year)
1991 .......... 1,787 (George e H W Year )
1992 .......... 1,293 (George H W Year)
1993 .......... 1,21 3 ( Clinton Year )
1994 .......... 1,07 5 ( Clinton Year)
1995 .......... 2,465 ( Clinton Year)
1996 .......... 2,318 ( Clinton Year)
1997 ............ 817 ( Clinton Year)
1998 .......... 2,252 ( Clinton Year)
1999 .......... 1,984 ( Clinton Year)
2000 ...........1,983 ( Clinton Year)
2001 ............. 890(George W Year)
2002 ......... 1,007 (George W Year)
2003 ......... 1,410 (George W Year) &n bsp;
2004 ..........1,887 (George W Year)
2005 ............ 919 (George W Year)
2006.............. 920 (George W Year)
2007...............899 (George W Year)
Clinton years (1993-2000): 14,000 deaths
George W years (2001-2006): 7,932 deaths
If you are surprised when you look at these figures, so was I.These figures mean that the loss from the two latest conflicts in the Middle East are LESS than the loss of military personnel during Bill Clinton's presidency; when America wasn't even involved in a war!
And, I was even more shocked when I read that in 1980, during the reign of President (Nobel Peace Prize winner) Jimmy Carter, there were 2,392 US military fatalities! I think that these figures indicate that many members of our Media and our Politicians will pick and choose the information on which they report. Of course we all know that they present only those 'facts which support their agenda-driven reporting. But why do so many of them march in lock-step to twist the truth? Where do so many of them get their marching-orders for their agenda?
Do you want further proof? Consider the latest census, of Americans. It shows the following
FACTS about the distribution of American citizens, by Race:
European descent 69.12%
Hispanic .............. 12.5%
Black .................. 12.3%
Asian .................... 3.7%
Native American ... 1.0%
Other.................... 2.6%
Now... here are the fatalities by Race; over the past three years in Iraqi Freedom:
European descent (white) 74.31%
Hispanic ....................... 10.74%
Black ............................... 9.67%
Asian ........... ................... 1.81%
Native American .............. 1.09%
Other ................... 0.33%
I was surprised again... until it became clear to me that the point here is that our mainstream media continues to spin these figures (for political gain). Nothing more!!!
It's all about politics and some politicians, are now famous for turning American against American for a vote. Consider Hillary Clinton's stump speech after her Super Tuesday 'victory' stating that the current administration does not listen' to anyone and continues the war costing precious American lives. Yes I might even agree with her, but she should be made to acknowledge her own husband's administration, without having an actual war, sent more soldiers to death during his presidency, and is on record of forcing the military to release Osama when we actually had him detained at the time I am not suggesting that any particular political party is necessarily right, there is a lot wrong. But, I hope that during the time between now and November, that intelligent Americans can decipher the facts from the spin and the spinners from the leaders; those who seek even more power from those that seek justice, the dividers from the uniters.
Over the next days let's be good listeners and see and hear who really tries to divide our nation; and who wants to unite our nation. Who wants to control how our money is spent and who wants our money spent the way we would spend it. Who seeks power and who seeks justice? Who spins the facts and who is genuine. (Very few are on both sides)
The above statistics are published by Congressional Research Service, and they may be confirmed by anyone at:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL32492.pdf
"Smart Green"
http://www.smartgreenusa.com/news/anwr-news/a-trillion-dollar-boost-to-our-struggling-economy--anwr/
A Trillion-Dollar boost to our struggling Economy- ANWR
At a world oil price above $100 per barrel, the mean expectation for the federal and non-federal ANWR oil reserves is a gross cumulative market value of more than $1 trillion-some experts say $1.5 to $2 Trillion.
It might cost $20 to $30 per barrel to produce the ANWR oil, but the net revenues (after costs) would still be greater than $700 billion (and could turn out to be much higher, depending on the future price of oil). To put this in perspective, the United States could have paid for the entire Iraq war to date with the future oil revenues obtainable from ANWR. Or the U.S. could pay for the entire Defense Department budget for one year.
From the Congressional Research Service
ConservativeChristianReport-Report - 20081015
"Daily Motivations"
We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there. -- Gary Oldman
"The Patriot Post"
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." (John 8:32)
"I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on ALL that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men over rule under This Roof!" --- President John Adams
"For I have learned the truth: There are greater pursuits than self-seeking. Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. It is not a prize for being the most clever, the strongest, or the boldest. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself. No misfortune, no injury, no humiliation can destroy it. This is the faith that my commanders affirmed, that my brothers-in-arms encouraged my allegiance to. It was the faith I had unknowingly embraced at the Naval Academy. It was my father's and grandfather's faith. A filthy, crippled, broken man, all I had left of my dignity was the faith of my fathers. It was enough." --- John McCain in Faith of my Fathers, his 1999 book on military tradition, his family, and his faith.
John McCain is a man of strong faith---a faith tested by torturous hardship few men have faced. It is a faith that wholly informs his character, his integrity, his purpose, his mission, his worldview.Those who know John McCain well---his family, friends, pastor, political colleagues, and those Patriot veterans who suffered beside him as Prisoners of War---describe many facets of his personality. Their descriptions are ofa man who is complicated and diverse, but to a person, they recognize him as a man of deep and abiding faith.McCain, however, is a man who says little about his spiritual convictions, perhaps in constancy with the counsel of 12th-century Friar Saint Francis of Assisi: "Go forth and preach the Gospel; if necessary use words."
His Baptist pastor, Dan Yeary, says of McCain, "It is a privilege and an honor to be this close to a man I've learned to love, who has the potential to be a great president for our country. I certainly am in favor of God'sendorsement on his life."
Biographer Paul Alexander writes that McCain's quiet faith is also the result of military tradition: "He's a very spiritual person but... in his core, he's a military man. They don't feel comfortable talking about religion."
"The email Bag"
How many zeros in a billion?
This is too true to be funny.
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.
A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
While this thought is still fresh in our brain...let's take a look at New Orleans ....It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number...what does it mean?
A. Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, and child) you each get $516,528.
B. Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
C. Or... if you are a family of four...your family gets $2,066,012. - Washington, DC
Are all your calculators broken??Accounts Receivable Tax, Building Permit Tax, CDL License Tax, Cigarette Tax, Corporate Income Tax, Dog License Tax, Federal Income Tax, Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA), Fishing License Tax, Food License Tax, Fuel Permit Tax, Gasoline Tax, Hunting License Tax, Inheritance Tax, Inventory Tax, IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax), IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax), Liquor Tax, Luxury Tax, Marriage License Tax, Medicare Tax, Property Tax, Real Estate Tax, Service charge taxes, Social Security Tax, Road Usage Tax (Truckers), Sales Taxes, Recreational Vehicle Tax, School Tax, State Income Tax, State Unemployment Tax (SUTA), Telephone Federal Excise Tax, Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax, Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax, Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax, Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax Telephone State and Local Tax. Telephone Usage Charge Tax, Utility Tax, Vehicle License, Registration Tax, Vehicle Sales Tax, Watercraft Registration Tax, Well Permit Tax, Workers Compensation Tax.
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt...We had the largest middle class in the world... and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened? Can you spell 'politicians!'
And ! I still have to press "1" for English.
I hope this goes around the USA at least 100 times. What the heck happened????
"Radio WFTL 850" - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
More ACORN Voter Fraud: 7 Year old registered to Vote
(NY Post) O'jahnae Smith is ready and registered to vote this November. There's only one problem: She's 7 years old. The Connecticut girl is 11 years too young - and nobody in her family knows how she ended up on a voter registration form submitted by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
McCain Letter Demanded 2006 Action on Fannie and Freddie (Human Events) Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN EVENTS learned from the letter shown in full text below.
"MVRED" - Youngstown, Ohio's Conservatives News Source
http://mvred.com/?p=555
Dobbs: Obama Campaign Funding ACORN Registration Efforts
Sat, Oct 11, 2008
CNN’s Lou Dobbs is outraged that the Obama campaign is funding ACORN’s fraudulent registration efforts this fall. Dobbs says “It is Obscene and Outrageous that their is no federal investigation at this point.” Lou Dobbs and all Americans should be outraged that the Obama campaign gave ACORN $800,000 to fund their illegal voter registration efforts in most battleground states across America.
ACORN FRAUD
In Cleveland, OH, a young black man named Freddie Johnson registered to vote 72 times in return for money and cigarettes.
In York, PA, a part time ACORN worker was arrested for registering to vote 100 times.
In one Indiana County, 50% of the ACORN ballots had to be thrown out for being fraudulent.
On CNN, one woman admitted to registering 12 times. She said they encouraged her to register again, even though she was previously registered by others.
Barack Obama’s campaign paid ACORN $800,000 for voter registrations. Many of these registrations have been fraudulent and Americans need to know about that. Registering dead people, registering Batman, and registering people that live at McDonald’s is a sick way to win this election. Let’s hope the FBI rushes to stop this garbage before election day.
"Fox News" - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,436961,00.html - A second story on this one.
School Field Trip to Teacher's Lesbian Wedding Sparks Controversy
Monday, October 13, 2008
First-graders in San Francisco took a field trip to City Hall to celebrate the marriage of their lesbian teacher on Friday, but opponents of same-sex marriage in the state say the field trip was an attempt to “indoctrinate” the students, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The field trip was suggested by a parent at the Creative Arts Charter School, and the school said the trip, where students tossed rose petals on their teacher and her wife as they left City Hall, was academically relevant.
"It really is what we call a teachable moment," said Liz Jaroslow, the school’s interim director, according to the newspaper. She said same-sex marriage had historic significance. "I think I'm well within the parameters."
California will vote on Nov. 4 on Proposition 8 which seeks to ban same-sex marriage in the state, and supporters of the measure say the field trip shows that allowing same-sex marriage will mean it’s taught to school children, the newspaper said.
"It's just utterly unreasonable that a public school field trip would be to a same-sex wedding," said Chip White, press secretary for the Yes on 8 campaign, told the Chronicle. "This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to have an understanding of its purpose."
We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there. -- Gary Oldman
"The Patriot Post"
"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." (John 8:32)
"I Pray Heaven to Bestow The Best of Blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on ALL that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but Honest and Wise Men over rule under This Roof!" --- President John Adams
"For I have learned the truth: There are greater pursuits than self-seeking. Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. It is not a prize for being the most clever, the strongest, or the boldest. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself. No misfortune, no injury, no humiliation can destroy it. This is the faith that my commanders affirmed, that my brothers-in-arms encouraged my allegiance to. It was the faith I had unknowingly embraced at the Naval Academy. It was my father's and grandfather's faith. A filthy, crippled, broken man, all I had left of my dignity was the faith of my fathers. It was enough." --- John McCain in Faith of my Fathers, his 1999 book on military tradition, his family, and his faith.
John McCain is a man of strong faith---a faith tested by torturous hardship few men have faced. It is a faith that wholly informs his character, his integrity, his purpose, his mission, his worldview.Those who know John McCain well---his family, friends, pastor, political colleagues, and those Patriot veterans who suffered beside him as Prisoners of War---describe many facets of his personality. Their descriptions are ofa man who is complicated and diverse, but to a person, they recognize him as a man of deep and abiding faith.McCain, however, is a man who says little about his spiritual convictions, perhaps in constancy with the counsel of 12th-century Friar Saint Francis of Assisi: "Go forth and preach the Gospel; if necessary use words."
His Baptist pastor, Dan Yeary, says of McCain, "It is a privilege and an honor to be this close to a man I've learned to love, who has the potential to be a great president for our country. I certainly am in favor of God'sendorsement on his life."
Biographer Paul Alexander writes that McCain's quiet faith is also the result of military tradition: "He's a very spiritual person but... in his core, he's a military man. They don't feel comfortable talking about religion."
"The email Bag"
How many zeros in a billion?
This is too true to be funny.
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.
A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.
While this thought is still fresh in our brain...let's take a look at New Orleans ....It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D) is presently asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS to rebuild New Orleans . Interesting number...what does it mean?
A. Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, and child) you each get $516,528.
B. Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
C. Or... if you are a family of four...your family gets $2,066,012. - Washington, DC
Are all your calculators broken??Accounts Receivable Tax, Building Permit Tax, CDL License Tax, Cigarette Tax, Corporate Income Tax, Dog License Tax, Federal Income Tax, Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA), Fishing License Tax, Food License Tax, Fuel Permit Tax, Gasoline Tax, Hunting License Tax, Inheritance Tax, Inventory Tax, IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax), IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax), Liquor Tax, Luxury Tax, Marriage License Tax, Medicare Tax, Property Tax, Real Estate Tax, Service charge taxes, Social Security Tax, Road Usage Tax (Truckers), Sales Taxes, Recreational Vehicle Tax, School Tax, State Income Tax, State Unemployment Tax (SUTA), Telephone Federal Excise Tax, Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax, Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax, Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax, Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax Telephone State and Local Tax. Telephone Usage Charge Tax, Utility Tax, Vehicle License, Registration Tax, Vehicle Sales Tax, Watercraft Registration Tax, Well Permit Tax, Workers Compensation Tax.
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt...We had the largest middle class in the world... and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened? Can you spell 'politicians!'
And ! I still have to press "1" for English.
I hope this goes around the USA at least 100 times. What the heck happened????
"Radio WFTL 850" - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
More ACORN Voter Fraud: 7 Year old registered to Vote
(NY Post) O'jahnae Smith is ready and registered to vote this November. There's only one problem: She's 7 years old. The Connecticut girl is 11 years too young - and nobody in her family knows how she ended up on a voter registration form submitted by ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
McCain Letter Demanded 2006 Action on Fannie and Freddie (Human Events) Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN EVENTS learned from the letter shown in full text below.
"MVRED" - Youngstown, Ohio's Conservatives News Source
http://mvred.com/?p=555
Dobbs: Obama Campaign Funding ACORN Registration Efforts
Sat, Oct 11, 2008
CNN’s Lou Dobbs is outraged that the Obama campaign is funding ACORN’s fraudulent registration efforts this fall. Dobbs says “It is Obscene and Outrageous that their is no federal investigation at this point.” Lou Dobbs and all Americans should be outraged that the Obama campaign gave ACORN $800,000 to fund their illegal voter registration efforts in most battleground states across America.
ACORN FRAUD
In Cleveland, OH, a young black man named Freddie Johnson registered to vote 72 times in return for money and cigarettes.
In York, PA, a part time ACORN worker was arrested for registering to vote 100 times.
In one Indiana County, 50% of the ACORN ballots had to be thrown out for being fraudulent.
On CNN, one woman admitted to registering 12 times. She said they encouraged her to register again, even though she was previously registered by others.
Barack Obama’s campaign paid ACORN $800,000 for voter registrations. Many of these registrations have been fraudulent and Americans need to know about that. Registering dead people, registering Batman, and registering people that live at McDonald’s is a sick way to win this election. Let’s hope the FBI rushes to stop this garbage before election day.
"Fox News" - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,436961,00.html - A second story on this one.
School Field Trip to Teacher's Lesbian Wedding Sparks Controversy
Monday, October 13, 2008
First-graders in San Francisco took a field trip to City Hall to celebrate the marriage of their lesbian teacher on Friday, but opponents of same-sex marriage in the state say the field trip was an attempt to “indoctrinate” the students, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The field trip was suggested by a parent at the Creative Arts Charter School, and the school said the trip, where students tossed rose petals on their teacher and her wife as they left City Hall, was academically relevant.
"It really is what we call a teachable moment," said Liz Jaroslow, the school’s interim director, according to the newspaper. She said same-sex marriage had historic significance. "I think I'm well within the parameters."
California will vote on Nov. 4 on Proposition 8 which seeks to ban same-sex marriage in the state, and supporters of the measure say the field trip shows that allowing same-sex marriage will mean it’s taught to school children, the newspaper said.
"It's just utterly unreasonable that a public school field trip would be to a same-sex wedding," said Chip White, press secretary for the Yes on 8 campaign, told the Chronicle. "This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to have an understanding of its purpose."
ConservativeChristianReport-Report - 20081014
"Daily Motivations"
Feedback is the breakfast of champions. -- Ken Blanchard
"The Patriot Post"
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government." --- Edward Abbey
"You can't stop a politician, even by defeating him." --- Will Rogers
"The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy. In fact, what we see now is a market correction to foolhardy government policy. Congress' move to bailout lenders and borrowers whomade poor decisions will simply create incentives for people to make unwise decisions in the future." --- Walter Williams
"The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it." -- James Madison
"My comments" - oyh
If you believe, practice, and/or love Judeo-Christian values, you may find Barack Obama "one brick short" of a full load (an idiot). Click the "link" below for your own observation and evaluation.
Obama and his mocking of the Bible.
http://www.youtube.com/v/4FCNKwHRCQM
"One News Now"
Media ignores Obama's socialist past
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 10/13/2008 10:05:00 AM
A conservative media analyst says the mainstream media is not only downplaying Barack Obama's connection to former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, but also choosing not to report on the Democratic presidential nominee's past membership in a socialist organization.
Bob Knight of the Culture and Media Institute believes the media are so busy examining the GOP presidential ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin, hoping to uncover some dirt, that they are not looking into Obama's questionable connections, including that with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Knight contends the media are trying to portray Ayers as a "rehabilitated" terrorist whose bombing of the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol was merely a "youthful indiscretion."
"Ayers is still involved in radical efforts to socialize children into left-wing views beginning in kindergarten," Knight says. "That's what he does as an education expert; he's by no means reformed."
The media, according to Knight, is also attempting to cover up the fact that Obama was endorsed by and also a member of a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America. "When a candidate is revealed to have had ties to a far-left or far-right party, that should be news," he adds. "The fact that Obama has been linked to this socialist party would be of interest to most Americans, which is why the mainstream media are suppressing that fact."
While running for the Illinois State Senate, Obama signed a contract with the Chicago "New Party," which was established by the Democratic Socialists of America.
"The email Bag"
SIGN IN A WHITING, INDIANA STORE FRONT WINDOW
'WE WOULD RATHER DO BUSINESS WITH 1000 ALQAEDA TERRORISTS THAN WITH ONE SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER!'
This sign was prominently displayed in the window of a business in Whiting, Indiana . You are probably outraged at the thought of such an inflammatory statement.
However, we are a society which holds Freedom of Speech as perhaps our greatest liberty.
And after all, it is just a sign. You may ask what kind of business would dare post such a sign.
Answer: Owen's Funeral Home
(Who said morticians had no sense of humor?)
You gotta love it!!!
God Bless America
"World Net Daily"
WorldNetDaily
ExclusiveProof Obama backed ruthless foreign thug
Set up direct Senate contact for Kenyan opposition leader
Posted: October 10, 200812:05 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Sen. Barack Obama designated a personal aide as his direct contact for the 2007 Kenyan presidential campaign of Raila Odinga, who later was appointed prime minister after his election loss was followed by widespread, deadly violence that destroyed or damaged 800 Christian churches, according to e-mails obtained by WND senior staff writer Jerry Corsi during a trip to Kenya.
Corsi attempted to release this and other information at a Tuesday press conference in Nairobi. The WND reporter and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author was detained by Kenya security officers as soon as he entered the hotel to make his presentation. He was held incommunicado and without food for the entire day before being permitted to board his regularly scheduled flight out of the country to London, where he is currently recuperating from the ordeal.
As WND has reported, Obama openly campaigned for Odinga during the Illinois Democrat's 2006 Senate "fact-finding visit" to Kenya.
Odinga called for protests over alleged voter fraud after losing the December 2007 general election. The resulting protest violence left an estimated 1,000 members of the dominant Kikuyu tribe in Kenya dead and an estimated 500,000 displaced from their homes.
The links between Obama and Odinga were documented by copies of two e-mails obtained by Corsi during his meetings in Kenya with various government officials and others.
The e-mails, apparently sent by Obama himself, referenced the senator's aide, Mark Lippert. The e-mails were provided to WND by an insider in Kenya who fled Odinga's Orange Democratic political party and requested anonymity because of the danger of retaliation.
The e-mails, identified as coming from Obama's Senate office, are addressed to "railaaodinga" at a yahoo.com address.
A WND e-mail to the same Obama address generated an automated response and a list of contacts for Obama's offices. A WND e-mail sent to the Odinga e-mail address didn't generate a response.
One e-mail purportedly from Obama, dated Dec. 22, 2006, read, "I will kindly wish that all our correspondence [be] handled by Mr. Mark Lippert. I have already instructed him. This will be for my own security both for now and in future."
It is reproduced here with the e-mail address of the person who forwarded it to WND redacted:
Lippert is a long-term Obama Senate staff member identified by the Chicago Sun-Times as a member of Obama's "inner circle of foreign policy experts." The Sun-Times has said if Obama is elected president, his secretary of state and national security advisers are expected to come from this inner circle.
In December 2006 Odinga was in the early stages of planning to run as the Orange Democratic candidate against President Mwai Kibaki.
The e-mails from Obama's office to Odinga's presidential campaign seem to show Obama and Odinga, who once told the BBC he is Obama's cousin, had discussions about Odinga's 2007 campaign.
WND was unable to reach the Obama campaign for a comment, as the campaign telephone system disconnected a WND call three times in a row without any provision to leave a message.
Get the book that started it all – Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation," personally autographed – for only $4.95, available today, but only from WND!
The former Orange Democratic official who provided the e-mails to WND asked for anonymity because of concerns the disclosure of his identity could endanger his life in a volatile political atmosphere in Kenya where Odinga's fellow Luo tribal members staged sometimes violent protests against Kibaki's supporters, who primarily are Kikuyu.
Sen. Obama's relatives in Kenya are Luo.
The former Orange Democratic official reported abandoning the party and opposing Odinga because of concerns Odinga had manipulated tribal violence in Kenya to gain political power.
During Corsi's trip to Kenya, WND also confirmed the role of the anonymous party source in implementing an Odinga campaign strategy which the source claimed was shared with Obama's Senate office. The strategy is described in a document titled "Executive Brief on the Positioning and Marketing of the Orange Democratic Movement & 'The People's President.'"
The document at one point suggests: "It is possible to trigger a class war by painting the Kibaki Government as an insensitive, uncaring group of Muthaiga Golf clubbers. Available research also suggests that this strategy could also resonate with poor kikuyu youth who feel economically marginalized by their own government. As part of this strategy the party should seek to elevate the emotions within all youth constituents who may it successful, be willing to vote for us in the protest. Visible signs of class disparity will provide important fodder for this theme."
WND previously reported Obama was in telephone communications with Odinga on nearly a daily basis during the Democratic primary in New Hampshire in January.
The second e-mail, again from Obama's Senate address to Odinga's e-mail, stated, "Thanks for contacting me about Mr. Lippert through email. Contact him through mark_lippert.obama.senate.gov."
Chapter 4 of Corsi's "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," titled "Kenya, Odinga, Communism and Islam," refers to the strategy document, but its authenticity was confirmed by the former Oorange Democratic official during interviews with Corsi in Kenya over the last week.
The document describes an Odinga strategy of exploiting "anti-Kikuyu sentiments," a clearly racial strategy aimed at inflaming long-standing tribal animosity to gain electoral advantage for Odinga.
The last point of the campaign document describes what happened when Odinga lost the December 2007 election: "Ethnic Tensions/Violence as a Last Resort."
Sen. Barack Obama with Raila Odinga
Obama continued to support Odinga's effort to share Kenya's head-of-state with President Kibiki even after the wave of Odinga-prompted violence that followed his defeat.
Some pundits in the U.S. already are suggesting that if Obama is not elected, there could be violence. On CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" show, James Carville said, "But you stop and contemplate this country if Obama goes in and he has a consistent five point lead and loses the election, it would be very, very, very dramatic out there."
According to a Wall Street Journal article posted on the Obama campaign website, Lippert is doing double duty: in civilian life as Obama's chief foreign-policy adviser and in the military as a Lieutenant JG who is planning to serve as an intelligence officer for the Navy SEALS.
The site gives Lippert, 34, credit for helping "hone" Obama's anti-war views.
The website report states: "Over the past two years, Sen. Obama and Lt. Lippert have traveled around the globe together, played one-on-one basketball and shared each other's shoes. Lt. Lippert has continuing email exchanges with the senator's half sister in Africa. Sen. Obama encouraged Lt. Lippert to get engaged. Sen. Obama calls Lt. Lippert, 'one of my favorite people in the world.'"
Lippert previously worked at the State Department and at the Office of Naval Intelligence in Suitland, Md.
The report says Lippert accompanied Obama as an adviser to Russia and then to Kenya.
Feedback is the breakfast of champions. -- Ken Blanchard
"The Patriot Post"
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government." --- Edward Abbey
"You can't stop a politician, even by defeating him." --- Will Rogers
"The credit crunch and foreclosure problems are failures of government policy. In fact, what we see now is a market correction to foolhardy government policy. Congress' move to bailout lenders and borrowers whomade poor decisions will simply create incentives for people to make unwise decisions in the future." --- Walter Williams
"The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it." -- James Madison
"My comments" - oyh
If you believe, practice, and/or love Judeo-Christian values, you may find Barack Obama "one brick short" of a full load (an idiot). Click the "link" below for your own observation and evaluation.
Obama and his mocking of the Bible.
http://www.youtube.com/v/4FCNKwHRCQM
"One News Now"
Media ignores Obama's socialist past
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 10/13/2008 10:05:00 AM
A conservative media analyst says the mainstream media is not only downplaying Barack Obama's connection to former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, but also choosing not to report on the Democratic presidential nominee's past membership in a socialist organization.
Bob Knight of the Culture and Media Institute believes the media are so busy examining the GOP presidential ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin, hoping to uncover some dirt, that they are not looking into Obama's questionable connections, including that with former Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Knight contends the media are trying to portray Ayers as a "rehabilitated" terrorist whose bombing of the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol was merely a "youthful indiscretion."
"Ayers is still involved in radical efforts to socialize children into left-wing views beginning in kindergarten," Knight says. "That's what he does as an education expert; he's by no means reformed."
The media, according to Knight, is also attempting to cover up the fact that Obama was endorsed by and also a member of a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America. "When a candidate is revealed to have had ties to a far-left or far-right party, that should be news," he adds. "The fact that Obama has been linked to this socialist party would be of interest to most Americans, which is why the mainstream media are suppressing that fact."
While running for the Illinois State Senate, Obama signed a contract with the Chicago "New Party," which was established by the Democratic Socialists of America.
"The email Bag"
SIGN IN A WHITING, INDIANA STORE FRONT WINDOW
'WE WOULD RATHER DO BUSINESS WITH 1000 ALQAEDA TERRORISTS THAN WITH ONE SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER!'
This sign was prominently displayed in the window of a business in Whiting, Indiana . You are probably outraged at the thought of such an inflammatory statement.
However, we are a society which holds Freedom of Speech as perhaps our greatest liberty.
And after all, it is just a sign. You may ask what kind of business would dare post such a sign.
Answer: Owen's Funeral Home
(Who said morticians had no sense of humor?)
You gotta love it!!!
God Bless America
"World Net Daily"
WorldNetDaily
ExclusiveProof Obama backed ruthless foreign thug
Set up direct Senate contact for Kenyan opposition leader
Posted: October 10, 200812:05 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Sen. Barack Obama designated a personal aide as his direct contact for the 2007 Kenyan presidential campaign of Raila Odinga, who later was appointed prime minister after his election loss was followed by widespread, deadly violence that destroyed or damaged 800 Christian churches, according to e-mails obtained by WND senior staff writer Jerry Corsi during a trip to Kenya.
Corsi attempted to release this and other information at a Tuesday press conference in Nairobi. The WND reporter and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author was detained by Kenya security officers as soon as he entered the hotel to make his presentation. He was held incommunicado and without food for the entire day before being permitted to board his regularly scheduled flight out of the country to London, where he is currently recuperating from the ordeal.
As WND has reported, Obama openly campaigned for Odinga during the Illinois Democrat's 2006 Senate "fact-finding visit" to Kenya.
Odinga called for protests over alleged voter fraud after losing the December 2007 general election. The resulting protest violence left an estimated 1,000 members of the dominant Kikuyu tribe in Kenya dead and an estimated 500,000 displaced from their homes.
The links between Obama and Odinga were documented by copies of two e-mails obtained by Corsi during his meetings in Kenya with various government officials and others.
The e-mails, apparently sent by Obama himself, referenced the senator's aide, Mark Lippert. The e-mails were provided to WND by an insider in Kenya who fled Odinga's Orange Democratic political party and requested anonymity because of the danger of retaliation.
The e-mails, identified as coming from Obama's Senate office, are addressed to "railaaodinga" at a yahoo.com address.
A WND e-mail to the same Obama address generated an automated response and a list of contacts for Obama's offices. A WND e-mail sent to the Odinga e-mail address didn't generate a response.
One e-mail purportedly from Obama, dated Dec. 22, 2006, read, "I will kindly wish that all our correspondence [be] handled by Mr. Mark Lippert. I have already instructed him. This will be for my own security both for now and in future."
It is reproduced here with the e-mail address of the person who forwarded it to WND redacted:
Lippert is a long-term Obama Senate staff member identified by the Chicago Sun-Times as a member of Obama's "inner circle of foreign policy experts." The Sun-Times has said if Obama is elected president, his secretary of state and national security advisers are expected to come from this inner circle.
In December 2006 Odinga was in the early stages of planning to run as the Orange Democratic candidate against President Mwai Kibaki.
The e-mails from Obama's office to Odinga's presidential campaign seem to show Obama and Odinga, who once told the BBC he is Obama's cousin, had discussions about Odinga's 2007 campaign.
WND was unable to reach the Obama campaign for a comment, as the campaign telephone system disconnected a WND call three times in a row without any provision to leave a message.
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The former Orange Democratic official who provided the e-mails to WND asked for anonymity because of concerns the disclosure of his identity could endanger his life in a volatile political atmosphere in Kenya where Odinga's fellow Luo tribal members staged sometimes violent protests against Kibaki's supporters, who primarily are Kikuyu.
Sen. Obama's relatives in Kenya are Luo.
The former Orange Democratic official reported abandoning the party and opposing Odinga because of concerns Odinga had manipulated tribal violence in Kenya to gain political power.
During Corsi's trip to Kenya, WND also confirmed the role of the anonymous party source in implementing an Odinga campaign strategy which the source claimed was shared with Obama's Senate office. The strategy is described in a document titled "Executive Brief on the Positioning and Marketing of the Orange Democratic Movement & 'The People's President.'"
The document at one point suggests: "It is possible to trigger a class war by painting the Kibaki Government as an insensitive, uncaring group of Muthaiga Golf clubbers. Available research also suggests that this strategy could also resonate with poor kikuyu youth who feel economically marginalized by their own government. As part of this strategy the party should seek to elevate the emotions within all youth constituents who may it successful, be willing to vote for us in the protest. Visible signs of class disparity will provide important fodder for this theme."
WND previously reported Obama was in telephone communications with Odinga on nearly a daily basis during the Democratic primary in New Hampshire in January.
The second e-mail, again from Obama's Senate address to Odinga's e-mail, stated, "Thanks for contacting me about Mr. Lippert through email. Contact him through mark_lippert.obama.senate.gov."
Chapter 4 of Corsi's "The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," titled "Kenya, Odinga, Communism and Islam," refers to the strategy document, but its authenticity was confirmed by the former Oorange Democratic official during interviews with Corsi in Kenya over the last week.
The document describes an Odinga strategy of exploiting "anti-Kikuyu sentiments," a clearly racial strategy aimed at inflaming long-standing tribal animosity to gain electoral advantage for Odinga.
The last point of the campaign document describes what happened when Odinga lost the December 2007 election: "Ethnic Tensions/Violence as a Last Resort."
Sen. Barack Obama with Raila Odinga
Obama continued to support Odinga's effort to share Kenya's head-of-state with President Kibiki even after the wave of Odinga-prompted violence that followed his defeat.
Some pundits in the U.S. already are suggesting that if Obama is not elected, there could be violence. On CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" show, James Carville said, "But you stop and contemplate this country if Obama goes in and he has a consistent five point lead and loses the election, it would be very, very, very dramatic out there."
According to a Wall Street Journal article posted on the Obama campaign website, Lippert is doing double duty: in civilian life as Obama's chief foreign-policy adviser and in the military as a Lieutenant JG who is planning to serve as an intelligence officer for the Navy SEALS.
The site gives Lippert, 34, credit for helping "hone" Obama's anti-war views.
The website report states: "Over the past two years, Sen. Obama and Lt. Lippert have traveled around the globe together, played one-on-one basketball and shared each other's shoes. Lt. Lippert has continuing email exchanges with the senator's half sister in Africa. Sen. Obama encouraged Lt. Lippert to get engaged. Sen. Obama calls Lt. Lippert, 'one of my favorite people in the world.'"
Lippert previously worked at the State Department and at the Office of Naval Intelligence in Suitland, Md.
The report says Lippert accompanied Obama as an adviser to Russia and then to Kenya.
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"Daily Motivations"
But where was I to start? The world is so vast. I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No: my home. No: my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself. -- Elie Wiesel
"The Patriot Post"
"The freedom and happiness of man...[are] the sole objects of all legitimate government." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy." -- Benjamin Franklin
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." -- Nathan Hale
"World Net Daily"
Is the Federal Reserve the protector of America's money policy and financial well-being, as routinely portrayed by the establishment press?
Or is it, as critics have long alleged, an unaccountable, private banking cartel siphoning off citizens' wealth and manipulating America's economy for the benefit of a hidden elite?
A stunning, in-depth documentary now answers this question – and the answer is more than surprising. It's shocking.
"The Money Masters: How Banks Create the World's Money" is comprehensive and authoritative. This three-and-a-half-hour fast-paced historical documentary throws back the veil of deceit hiding the origins and operations of the corrupt banking elite that clandestinely controls America far more than most people realize.
But many of those in power, past and present, do realize:
"I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." – Thomas Jefferson
"Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money." – Daniel Webster
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." – James A. Garfield
"All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin credit, and circulation." – John Adams
What is happening to (y)our world with (y)our children? What else is being taught in (y)our public schools? Can your believe it? Will you believe it?
QUEERLY BELOVED
School takes 1st-graders to see lesbian teacher wed'This is an overt indoctrination of children who are too young'
Posted: October 11, 2008
7:30 pm Eastern© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Photo courtesy Liz Hafalia, San Francisco Chronicle
A public school in San Francisco bused 18 first-graders to City Hall yesterday, so the youngsters could scatter rose petals in celebration of their lesbian teacher's wedding.
The students, from Creative Arts Charter School, waited on the steps for their teacher with bags of pink rose petals, bottles of bubbles and, at least for some, with political buttons asking Californians to vote down Proposition 8, a ballot measure that seeks to define marriage in the state as a union between one man and one woman.
"She's a really nice teacher. She's the best," 6-year-old Chava Novogrodsky-Godt told the San Francisco Chronicle, wearing a "No on 8" button on her shirt. "I want her to have a good wedding."
As WND reported, supporters of California's Proposition 8 have claimed that combining legalized same-sex marriage with the state's mandate that schools "teach respect for marriage and committed relationships" would result in kindergartners being taught the virtues of homosexual marriage. Opponents have called such arguments fabrications and scare tactics.
Yesterday's field trip wasn't quite kindergartners, but it was close.
"It shows that not only can it happen, but it has already happened," said Chip White, press secretary for the Yes on 8 campaign.
"It's just utterly unreasonable that a public school field trip would be to a same-sex wedding," White told the Chronicle. "This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to have an understanding of its purpose."
The school's interim director Liz Jaroflow, however, defended the field trip to a homosexual wedding as academically justifiable.
"It really is what we call a teachable moment," she told the Chronicle. "I think I'm well within the parameters."
Jaroflow also told the Chronicle that despite the potential objections of some the decision was not controversial for her, and that "it's certainly an issue I would be willing to put my job on the line for."
According to the Chronicle, the field trip was a surprise to the teacher, Erin Carder, and originally proposed by a parent.
"How many days in school are they going to remember?" asked parent Mark Lipsett. "This is a day they'll definitely remember."
Carder married Kerri McCoy on the office balcony of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who officiated the ceremony.
As the couple held hands on the balcony overlooking the City Hall's rotunda, Carder proclaimed, "With this ring I thee wed!" shouting the last word for emphasis.
The couple told the Chronicle that they have participated in campaigning against Proposition 8 and planned to travel around the city after the ceremony in a motorized trolley car with banners reading "Just Married" and "Vote No on 8."
Two families of children in the class chose not to give permission for the trip, their children remaining at the school with another first-grade class.
"Newsmax.com"
Barney Frank Hit Over Boyfriend’s Fannie Mae Role
Critics are crying “conflict of interest” over Democratic Rep. Barney Frank’s live-in relationship with Fannie Mae executive Herb Moses while Frank was on the House Banking Committee.
Moses was Fannie Mae’s assistant director for product initiatives from 1991 to 1998.
He was also openly gay Frank’s live-in boyfriend during that time, while the Massachusetts lawmaker was on the committee that had jurisdiction over government-sponsored Fannie Mae,
Fox News’ Bill Sammon reported.
Now that Fannie Mae is at the center of the recent financial meltdown, the relationship is coming under increased scrutiny.
“It’s absolutely a conflict,” said Dan Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute.
“He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive. How is that not germane?
“But everyone wants to avoid it because he’s gay. It’s the quintessential double standard.”
A top Republican House aide told Fox News: “He writes housing and banking laws and his boyfriend is a top exec at a firm that stands to gain from those laws? No media ever take note?”
Frank and Moses met in 1987 and lived together in Washington, D.C., until they split up in 1998.
National Mortgage News disclosed that Moses “helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs.”
Critics charge that such programs led to the mortgage meltdown and the recent government takeover of Fannie Mae, according to Fox News, which noted that Fannie Mae and its financial cousin Freddie Mac “are blamed for spreading bad mortgages throughout the private financial sector.”
In 1994, Frank thwarted efforts by President Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development to impose new regulations on Fannie Mae.
Editor's Note:
Fannie, Freddie Collapse: Templeton Predicted Credit Crisis
Obama Enlisted Black Congressmen to Back Bailout
Barack Obama made calls to members of the House Black Caucus and convinced them to switch their votes and support the Senate-passed $700 billion bailout bill.
Several lawmakers told The Associated Press about receiving calls from Obama, who told them that if elected he would help hard-pressed homeowners keep their houses.
Obama originally kept the bailout measure at arm’s length when House leaders began their all-out push to convert members who had voted "no" on Monday, Sept 29. But he called several wavering Democrats who ended up voting "yes" the following Friday.
Obama "made numerous calls" and "helped us gather the votes on the Democratic side to pass this legislation," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., chairman of his party's House caucus.
In all, 33 House Democrats switched to the "yes" side, along with 25 Republicans.
Obama said in a statement after the House vote that the nation "is facing one of the greatest financial crises in history." The bill's passage, he said, "was absolutely necessary to prevent an economic catastrophe that could have cost millions of jobs and forced businesses across the country into bankruptcy."
In the first vote Monday, 13 members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) voted “no,” helping to defeat the measure. It lost in a 228-205 vote. Had the CBC members voted “yes,” the measure would have gotten the 218 votes needed for passage.
Obama keyed in on five of the CBC members: Reps. Elijah Cummings and Donna Edwards of Maryland, John Yarmuth of Kentucky, and Mike Thompson and Barbara Lee of California. All five switched their votes to support the bill after hearing from Obama, Newsmax correspondent Phil Brennan reported.
According to Cummings, Obama told him that if he won in November he would order an official of the Treasury Department to work with homeowners facing foreclosure to restructure their loans. He added that Obama promised he would try to make changes in bankruptcy laws allowing judges to reduce the amount of the mortgages borrowers owe.
"It's not too often you get the future president telling you that his priority matches your priority," Cummings told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Rep. Yarmuth said Obama had described the bill as "just patching up a hole in the boat to get it to port."
Editor's Note:
Obama’s Economic Wrecking Ball Coming For You
Obama's Plan: Mohamed Atta Gets His Driver's License
Dear Fellow American:
We have just weeks to go before Election Day . . . time is running short for us to avert a major disaster for our country. That disaster's name is President Barack Obama.
But this disaster can be averted. I'm confident about this - even though the slanted media are overstating Obama's inevitability.
But the numbers don't lie.
The latest Zogby poll had John McCain trailing Obama by two points. Just two points!
Despite the full-court press to destroy McCain and Sarah Palin, Katie Couric's antics against her, and a daily onslaught of media spin . . . McCain is still within striking distance.
The stakes have never been higher for the future of the country.
We either patriotically turn the country over to a man who has proudly served his nation in war time and peace - or we face electing a man who has a checkered past, a man who has counted domestic terrorists among his friends, and a man who spent 15 years in a church where his pastor regularly damned and condemned the United States.
Barack Obama is not simply a risky choice as our next president - He is a dangerous one.
This is why I have taken the helm here at the National Republican Trust Political Action Committee.
Here at the National Republican Trust, we understand our mission. It's simple. It will also drive the left-wing media nuts.
Here's the plan: We will tell the American people the truth about Barack Obama!
Every time John McCain or Sarah Palin tries to tell the truth about Obama, they are painted as mean-spirited and negative.
We here at the National Republican Trust can do the job McCain and Palin can't.
But we need your help. Time is urgent - it's crunch time.
You Can Help Us - Donate Today by Clicking Here Now
The latest reports show Obama outspending McCain by 3-to-1 in key states.
Millions of dubious new voters with the help of groups like ACORN are being registered to put the most extreme liberal in the history of the presidency in the White House.
But I'll shock you: that's OK!
Let them spend millions in getting new "voters" and millions more in TV ads.
I believe truth is more powerful than lies. How powerful?
Well, so powerful, in fact, that I believe one airing of our TV ads will equal at least 10 airings of theirs.
This issue will nail him.
In the closing weeks of this election, Obama is trying to remake himself as a moderate to win over lower-income, white, Democratic and independent voters.
He wants to hide the facts about his record. He is the most extreme liberal ever to be nominated by a major party.
We all know his 100 percent liberal rating in Congress, his support for the TOTAL gun ban in Washington, D.C., his opposition to protecting babies born alive, and his support for tax increases.
But there is one issue almost all Americans agree on: Illegal aliens should not be given driver's licenses.
Help Expose Obama's License Plan - Click Here Now
Mohamed Atta's Florida driver's license.
Not after 9/11.
Did you know that Mohamed Atta, the 9/11 ring leader, had a valid Florida driver's license?
Did you know 13 of the 19 hijackers had obtained valid driver's licenses? Armed with these licenses, eight of the hijackers even registered to vote!
Here is the shocking fact: Obama strongly supports giving illegal aliens in America driver's licenses.
He said as much during two Democratic debates earlier this year.The head of Homeland Security said such thinking was dangerous for national security.Even Hillary Clinton backed away from
Obama's radical driver's license plan.
Obama's position is not a new one: We discovered that Obama has been a major proponent of driver's licenses for illegals since his days as an Illinois state senator.
We have no doubt that, as president, Obama will also champion this radical plan.
With Osama bin Laden still at large, with al-Qaida promising "spectacular" attacks on the U.S homeland, with the threat of them using weapons of mass destruction against our cities - biological, chemical, and nuclear - can we risk putting such a man in the Oval Office?
Doesn't he remember what happened on 9/11? More than 3,000 Americans were murdered.Doesn't he want to prevent that from ever happening again?
If he supports driver's licenses for illegals, the answer is clear.
We need to inform millions of Americans about this man and his risky judgment.
We are days away from our new TV ad exposing Obama's support for driver's licenses for illegals.
But we need your help. We're already preparing our ad budget in key swing states. The more you can donate to us today, the more we can spend in the coming days.
And don't forget, you can donate a maximum of $5,000. Your spouse can also make a $5,000 donation.
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We at the National Republican Trust PAC appreciate your support and love of our country. We will not fail you. Too much is at stake.
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Thank you.
Yours for America,
Scott WheelerExecutive Director
P.S. If you agree with this letter, you can help in two ways. First, donate to us, and let us fight for you. Second, forward this e-mail and letter to at least 10 of your friends and family. Encourage them to read it. We can reach millions of Americans if even a fraction of our readers do this.
"Daily Motivations"
But where was I to start? The world is so vast. I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No: my home. No: my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself. -- Elie Wiesel
"The Patriot Post"
"The freedom and happiness of man...[are] the sole objects of all legitimate government." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy." -- Benjamin Franklin
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." -- Nathan Hale
"World Net Daily"
Is the Federal Reserve the protector of America's money policy and financial well-being, as routinely portrayed by the establishment press?
Or is it, as critics have long alleged, an unaccountable, private banking cartel siphoning off citizens' wealth and manipulating America's economy for the benefit of a hidden elite?
A stunning, in-depth documentary now answers this question – and the answer is more than surprising. It's shocking.
"The Money Masters: How Banks Create the World's Money" is comprehensive and authoritative. This three-and-a-half-hour fast-paced historical documentary throws back the veil of deceit hiding the origins and operations of the corrupt banking elite that clandestinely controls America far more than most people realize.
But many of those in power, past and present, do realize:
"I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." – Thomas Jefferson
"Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money." – Daniel Webster
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." – James A. Garfield
"All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin credit, and circulation." – John Adams
What is happening to (y)our world with (y)our children? What else is being taught in (y)our public schools? Can your believe it? Will you believe it?
QUEERLY BELOVED
School takes 1st-graders to see lesbian teacher wed'This is an overt indoctrination of children who are too young'
Posted: October 11, 2008
7:30 pm Eastern© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Photo courtesy Liz Hafalia, San Francisco Chronicle
A public school in San Francisco bused 18 first-graders to City Hall yesterday, so the youngsters could scatter rose petals in celebration of their lesbian teacher's wedding.
The students, from Creative Arts Charter School, waited on the steps for their teacher with bags of pink rose petals, bottles of bubbles and, at least for some, with political buttons asking Californians to vote down Proposition 8, a ballot measure that seeks to define marriage in the state as a union between one man and one woman.
"She's a really nice teacher. She's the best," 6-year-old Chava Novogrodsky-Godt told the San Francisco Chronicle, wearing a "No on 8" button on her shirt. "I want her to have a good wedding."
As WND reported, supporters of California's Proposition 8 have claimed that combining legalized same-sex marriage with the state's mandate that schools "teach respect for marriage and committed relationships" would result in kindergartners being taught the virtues of homosexual marriage. Opponents have called such arguments fabrications and scare tactics.
Yesterday's field trip wasn't quite kindergartners, but it was close.
"It shows that not only can it happen, but it has already happened," said Chip White, press secretary for the Yes on 8 campaign.
"It's just utterly unreasonable that a public school field trip would be to a same-sex wedding," White told the Chronicle. "This is overt indoctrination of children who are too young to have an understanding of its purpose."
The school's interim director Liz Jaroflow, however, defended the field trip to a homosexual wedding as academically justifiable.
"It really is what we call a teachable moment," she told the Chronicle. "I think I'm well within the parameters."
Jaroflow also told the Chronicle that despite the potential objections of some the decision was not controversial for her, and that "it's certainly an issue I would be willing to put my job on the line for."
According to the Chronicle, the field trip was a surprise to the teacher, Erin Carder, and originally proposed by a parent.
"How many days in school are they going to remember?" asked parent Mark Lipsett. "This is a day they'll definitely remember."
Carder married Kerri McCoy on the office balcony of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who officiated the ceremony.
As the couple held hands on the balcony overlooking the City Hall's rotunda, Carder proclaimed, "With this ring I thee wed!" shouting the last word for emphasis.
The couple told the Chronicle that they have participated in campaigning against Proposition 8 and planned to travel around the city after the ceremony in a motorized trolley car with banners reading "Just Married" and "Vote No on 8."
Two families of children in the class chose not to give permission for the trip, their children remaining at the school with another first-grade class.
"Newsmax.com"
Barney Frank Hit Over Boyfriend’s Fannie Mae Role
Critics are crying “conflict of interest” over Democratic Rep. Barney Frank’s live-in relationship with Fannie Mae executive Herb Moses while Frank was on the House Banking Committee.
Moses was Fannie Mae’s assistant director for product initiatives from 1991 to 1998.
He was also openly gay Frank’s live-in boyfriend during that time, while the Massachusetts lawmaker was on the committee that had jurisdiction over government-sponsored Fannie Mae,
Fox News’ Bill Sammon reported.
Now that Fannie Mae is at the center of the recent financial meltdown, the relationship is coming under increased scrutiny.
“It’s absolutely a conflict,” said Dan Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute.
“He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive. How is that not germane?
“But everyone wants to avoid it because he’s gay. It’s the quintessential double standard.”
A top Republican House aide told Fox News: “He writes housing and banking laws and his boyfriend is a top exec at a firm that stands to gain from those laws? No media ever take note?”
Frank and Moses met in 1987 and lived together in Washington, D.C., until they split up in 1998.
National Mortgage News disclosed that Moses “helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs.”
Critics charge that such programs led to the mortgage meltdown and the recent government takeover of Fannie Mae, according to Fox News, which noted that Fannie Mae and its financial cousin Freddie Mac “are blamed for spreading bad mortgages throughout the private financial sector.”
In 1994, Frank thwarted efforts by President Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development to impose new regulations on Fannie Mae.
Editor's Note:
Fannie, Freddie Collapse: Templeton Predicted Credit Crisis
Obama Enlisted Black Congressmen to Back Bailout
Barack Obama made calls to members of the House Black Caucus and convinced them to switch their votes and support the Senate-passed $700 billion bailout bill.
Several lawmakers told The Associated Press about receiving calls from Obama, who told them that if elected he would help hard-pressed homeowners keep their houses.
Obama originally kept the bailout measure at arm’s length when House leaders began their all-out push to convert members who had voted "no" on Monday, Sept 29. But he called several wavering Democrats who ended up voting "yes" the following Friday.
Obama "made numerous calls" and "helped us gather the votes on the Democratic side to pass this legislation," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., chairman of his party's House caucus.
In all, 33 House Democrats switched to the "yes" side, along with 25 Republicans.
Obama said in a statement after the House vote that the nation "is facing one of the greatest financial crises in history." The bill's passage, he said, "was absolutely necessary to prevent an economic catastrophe that could have cost millions of jobs and forced businesses across the country into bankruptcy."
In the first vote Monday, 13 members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) voted “no,” helping to defeat the measure. It lost in a 228-205 vote. Had the CBC members voted “yes,” the measure would have gotten the 218 votes needed for passage.
Obama keyed in on five of the CBC members: Reps. Elijah Cummings and Donna Edwards of Maryland, John Yarmuth of Kentucky, and Mike Thompson and Barbara Lee of California. All five switched their votes to support the bill after hearing from Obama, Newsmax correspondent Phil Brennan reported.
According to Cummings, Obama told him that if he won in November he would order an official of the Treasury Department to work with homeowners facing foreclosure to restructure their loans. He added that Obama promised he would try to make changes in bankruptcy laws allowing judges to reduce the amount of the mortgages borrowers owe.
"It's not too often you get the future president telling you that his priority matches your priority," Cummings told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Rep. Yarmuth said Obama had described the bill as "just patching up a hole in the boat to get it to port."
Editor's Note:
Obama’s Economic Wrecking Ball Coming For You
Obama's Plan: Mohamed Atta Gets His Driver's License
Dear Fellow American:
We have just weeks to go before Election Day . . . time is running short for us to avert a major disaster for our country. That disaster's name is President Barack Obama.
But this disaster can be averted. I'm confident about this - even though the slanted media are overstating Obama's inevitability.
But the numbers don't lie.
The latest Zogby poll had John McCain trailing Obama by two points. Just two points!
Despite the full-court press to destroy McCain and Sarah Palin, Katie Couric's antics against her, and a daily onslaught of media spin . . . McCain is still within striking distance.
The stakes have never been higher for the future of the country.
We either patriotically turn the country over to a man who has proudly served his nation in war time and peace - or we face electing a man who has a checkered past, a man who has counted domestic terrorists among his friends, and a man who spent 15 years in a church where his pastor regularly damned and condemned the United States.
Barack Obama is not simply a risky choice as our next president - He is a dangerous one.
This is why I have taken the helm here at the National Republican Trust Political Action Committee.
Here at the National Republican Trust, we understand our mission. It's simple. It will also drive the left-wing media nuts.
Here's the plan: We will tell the American people the truth about Barack Obama!
Every time John McCain or Sarah Palin tries to tell the truth about Obama, they are painted as mean-spirited and negative.
We here at the National Republican Trust can do the job McCain and Palin can't.
But we need your help. Time is urgent - it's crunch time.
You Can Help Us - Donate Today by Clicking Here Now
The latest reports show Obama outspending McCain by 3-to-1 in key states.
Millions of dubious new voters with the help of groups like ACORN are being registered to put the most extreme liberal in the history of the presidency in the White House.
But I'll shock you: that's OK!
Let them spend millions in getting new "voters" and millions more in TV ads.
I believe truth is more powerful than lies. How powerful?
Well, so powerful, in fact, that I believe one airing of our TV ads will equal at least 10 airings of theirs.
This issue will nail him.
In the closing weeks of this election, Obama is trying to remake himself as a moderate to win over lower-income, white, Democratic and independent voters.
He wants to hide the facts about his record. He is the most extreme liberal ever to be nominated by a major party.
We all know his 100 percent liberal rating in Congress, his support for the TOTAL gun ban in Washington, D.C., his opposition to protecting babies born alive, and his support for tax increases.
But there is one issue almost all Americans agree on: Illegal aliens should not be given driver's licenses.
Help Expose Obama's License Plan - Click Here Now
Mohamed Atta's Florida driver's license.
Not after 9/11.
Did you know that Mohamed Atta, the 9/11 ring leader, had a valid Florida driver's license?
Did you know 13 of the 19 hijackers had obtained valid driver's licenses? Armed with these licenses, eight of the hijackers even registered to vote!
Here is the shocking fact: Obama strongly supports giving illegal aliens in America driver's licenses.
He said as much during two Democratic debates earlier this year.The head of Homeland Security said such thinking was dangerous for national security.Even Hillary Clinton backed away from
Obama's radical driver's license plan.
Obama's position is not a new one: We discovered that Obama has been a major proponent of driver's licenses for illegals since his days as an Illinois state senator.
We have no doubt that, as president, Obama will also champion this radical plan.
With Osama bin Laden still at large, with al-Qaida promising "spectacular" attacks on the U.S homeland, with the threat of them using weapons of mass destruction against our cities - biological, chemical, and nuclear - can we risk putting such a man in the Oval Office?
Doesn't he remember what happened on 9/11? More than 3,000 Americans were murdered.Doesn't he want to prevent that from ever happening again?
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Daily Motivations -20081007
"Daily Motivations"
Courage is a door that can only be opened from the inside. -- Terry Neil
"The Patriot Post"
"[A] wise and frugal government... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." --- Thomas Jefferson
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,subsidize it." --- Ronald Reagan
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists ornot, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." --- Ernest Benn
"Human Events"
Obama-ACORN Root Causes of Mortgage Crisis?
FBI Investigates U.S. Financial Crisis - Where Did $1 Trillion Go?
The high-risk subprime mortgage social engineering community service experiment by left-wing ACORN and Obama has created the largest financial crisis since The Great Depression. The full reach of the corruption and scandal may never be known but those who created it must not be rewarded. The architects, primarily left-wing Democrats, created laws, took donations, looked the other way and instead were too busy overseeing donations to their own presidential campaigns and robbing main street blind. Now these same left-wing Democrats blame everyone else and get up on their high horses and say, "we are here to save you" from the crises they created.
"The email Bag"
13 YEARS TO THE DAY OF BEING ACQUITTED FOR MURDER IN THE DEATH OF NICOLE BROWN AND RON GOLDMAN, OJ SIMPSON WAS FOUND GUILTY OF KIDNAPPING, ARMED ROBBERY AND 10 OTHERS CHARGES IN LAS VEGAS. 13 APPEARS TO PLAY AN ERIE PART IN THIS SCENARIO AS THE CRIME TOOK PLACE ON SEPTEMBER 13TH, THE TRIAL LASTED 13 DAYS AND THE JURY DELIBERATED 13 HOURS.
MOST PEOPLE BELEIVE OJ GOT AWAY WITH MURDER 13 YEARS AGO AND THAT THE JUSTICE OF LIFE CAME CALLING. I AGREE! FOR THOSE OF US WHO BELIEVE THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL OF ALL THINGS INCLUDING JUSTICE, THE WAIT WAS WORTH IT. HE COULD GET A LIFE SENTENCE FOR THIS VERDICT, HE ESCAPED A LIFE SENTENCE 13 YEARS AGO.
WE SHOULD TAKE THIS AS A LESSON. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE JUSTICE ...............IT MAY NOT COME SWIFT, NOR IN THE SAME MANNER YOU EXPECT BUT IT WILL IN THE END COME!
OUR AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FULL OF CORRUPTION AND OFTEN THE INNOCENT BECOME THE VICTIM OF THIS CORRUPTION. HOWEVER GOD HAS SAID; VENGEANCE IS MINE! WHEN YOU HAVE DONE YOUR BEST TO FIGHT A WRONG, LET GO AND LET GOD HAVE CONTROL AND WAIT FOR HIM TO WORK, YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!
GOD HAS BLESSED THE BROWN AND GOLDMAN FAMILIES AND ALLOWED THEM TO SEE THE EVIL THAT CAME INTO THEIR LIVES GET WHAT HE DESERVES! MAY HE THE BLESS THE REST OF US WHO HAVE ENCOUNTERED SUCH EVIL ALSO!
CAROL CROSBY MURDOCK
Courage is a door that can only be opened from the inside. -- Terry Neil
"The Patriot Post"
"[A] wise and frugal government... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." --- Thomas Jefferson
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,subsidize it." --- Ronald Reagan
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists ornot, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." --- Ernest Benn
"Human Events"
Obama-ACORN Root Causes of Mortgage Crisis?
FBI Investigates U.S. Financial Crisis - Where Did $1 Trillion Go?
The high-risk subprime mortgage social engineering community service experiment by left-wing ACORN and Obama has created the largest financial crisis since The Great Depression. The full reach of the corruption and scandal may never be known but those who created it must not be rewarded. The architects, primarily left-wing Democrats, created laws, took donations, looked the other way and instead were too busy overseeing donations to their own presidential campaigns and robbing main street blind. Now these same left-wing Democrats blame everyone else and get up on their high horses and say, "we are here to save you" from the crises they created.
"The email Bag"
13 YEARS TO THE DAY OF BEING ACQUITTED FOR MURDER IN THE DEATH OF NICOLE BROWN AND RON GOLDMAN, OJ SIMPSON WAS FOUND GUILTY OF KIDNAPPING, ARMED ROBBERY AND 10 OTHERS CHARGES IN LAS VEGAS. 13 APPEARS TO PLAY AN ERIE PART IN THIS SCENARIO AS THE CRIME TOOK PLACE ON SEPTEMBER 13TH, THE TRIAL LASTED 13 DAYS AND THE JURY DELIBERATED 13 HOURS.
MOST PEOPLE BELEIVE OJ GOT AWAY WITH MURDER 13 YEARS AGO AND THAT THE JUSTICE OF LIFE CAME CALLING. I AGREE! FOR THOSE OF US WHO BELIEVE THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL OF ALL THINGS INCLUDING JUSTICE, THE WAIT WAS WORTH IT. HE COULD GET A LIFE SENTENCE FOR THIS VERDICT, HE ESCAPED A LIFE SENTENCE 13 YEARS AGO.
WE SHOULD TAKE THIS AS A LESSON. YOU CANNOT ESCAPE JUSTICE ...............IT MAY NOT COME SWIFT, NOR IN THE SAME MANNER YOU EXPECT BUT IT WILL IN THE END COME!
OUR AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FULL OF CORRUPTION AND OFTEN THE INNOCENT BECOME THE VICTIM OF THIS CORRUPTION. HOWEVER GOD HAS SAID; VENGEANCE IS MINE! WHEN YOU HAVE DONE YOUR BEST TO FIGHT A WRONG, LET GO AND LET GOD HAVE CONTROL AND WAIT FOR HIM TO WORK, YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!
GOD HAS BLESSED THE BROWN AND GOLDMAN FAMILIES AND ALLOWED THEM TO SEE THE EVIL THAT CAME INTO THEIR LIVES GET WHAT HE DESERVES! MAY HE THE BLESS THE REST OF US WHO HAVE ENCOUNTERED SUCH EVIL ALSO!
CAROL CROSBY MURDOCK
Daily Motivations - 20081006
"Daily Motivations"
There are as many ways to recognize people as there are people to recognize. You just have to use your brain to find them. Next time you think you've exhausted the possibilities, think again…and again! -- Eric Harvey
"The Patriot Post"
"No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave." --- Alexander Hamilton
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." -- Samuel Adams
"For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects." -- James Madison
"CBN.com"
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/359202.aspx
Hamas Political Advisor: "We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election"
April 17, 2008
Barack Obama is looking for as much support as he can get. But he doesn't need this support. The main political advisor to the Prime Minister of Hamas, Ahmed Yousef said the following in an interview the other day with World Net Daily and WABC radio host John Batchelor.
"We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election."
"He has a vision to change America."
"The email Bag"
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:49 AM
Subject: more info on questionable loans
In 2005 John McCain cosponsored a bill to deal with mortgage problems at Fannie MAE & Freddie MAC.
Senator John McCain warned of the problems with the mortgage market in 2005. He cosponsored a bill (Senate Bill 190, 109th Congress, 2005-2006)
to improve oversight of Freddie MAC and Fannie MAE.
It was stopped by Democrats & good old boy GOP types.
From: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-190
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109190&tab=summary&page-command=print
2005-2006 (109th Congress)
S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005
Sponsor:
Sen. Charles Hagel [R-NE]
Cosponsors [as of 2007-01-08]
Sen. Elizabeth Dole [R-NC]
Sen. John McCain [R-AZ]
Sen. John Sununu [R-NH]
A bill to address the regulation of secondary mortgage market enterprises, and for other purposes.
Status: Introduced - Jan 26, 2005 - Reported by Committee
-
Voted on in Senate
-
Voted on in House
-
Signed by President
-
This bill never became law. This bill was proposed in a previous session of Congress. Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each session all proposed bills and resolutions that haven't passed are cleared from the books.
Last Action:
Jul 28, 2005: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Congressional Research Service Summary
The following summary was written by the Congressional Research Service, a well-respected nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress. GovTrack did not write and has no control over these summaries.
1/26/2005--Introduced.
Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 -
Amends the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 to establish: (1) in lieu of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an independent Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Agency which shall have authority over the Federal Home Loan Bank Finance Corporation, the Federal Home Loan Banks, the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); and (2) the Federal Housing Enterprise Board.
The Greenlining Institute: Does the financial crisis have its origins in Berkeley?
Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Yesterday I followed a link to a new article by Matthew Vadum which named The Greenlining Institute (among similar nonprofits) as the actual cause of the current financial crisis threatening the US economy. I did a double-take: The Greenlining Institute? You mean the one in Berkeley? Answer: Yes. The very same.
I (and countless other people) often zip past the nondescript office on Berkeley’s University Avenue containing the Greenlining Institute — one passes it on the way in and out of the city, as University leads from the freeway to downtown and the U.C. campus.
Unlike most people, though, several months ago I took note of the office as I passed it one day, and asked myself, “The Greenlining Institute” — what the hell is that? When I got home, out of curiosity I googled it and spent a couple minutes trying to decipher their Web site, to little avail. A very few other scattered articles seemed to indicate that the Greenlining Institute existed solely to bully banks and financial institutions into giving loans to otherwise unqualified minority borrowers.
The Greenlining Institute’s own mission statement says,
The Greenlining Institute’s mission is to empower communities of color and other disadvantaged groups through multi-ethnic economic and leadership development, civil rights and anti-redlining activities.
…but Matthew Vadum puts it much more bluntly:
Financial Affirmative Action
When the history of the Great Economic Meltdown of 2008 is written, in-your-face shakedown groups like the Greenlining Institute will be held to account.
Greenlining, headquartered in Berkeley, California (where else?), is a left-wing pressure group that threatens nasty public relations campaigns against lenders that refuse to kneel before its radical economic agenda. Its principal goal is to push politicians and the business community to facilitate “community reinvestment” in low-income and minority neighborhoods.
The Greenlining name is a play on the unlawful practice of “redlining.” That’s when financial institutions designate areas, typically those with a high concentration of racial minorities, as bad risks for home and commercial loans. The Institute wants banks to give a green light to loans in these areas instead.
Recently profiled by John Gizzi, Greenlining uses carrot-and-stick tactics to blackmail public agencies, banks, and philanthropists to achieve its objectives. The Institute brags it has threatened banks into making more than $2.4 trillion in loans in low-income communities.
On a trip through Berkeley today I once again noticed the office, and this time stopped to take these pictures. But there was no news to be found there: just a building, with no one around. And I’m not the kind of person to just walk right in and ask to interview someone. Not that it would have done me much good: undoubtedly I would have been given the usual rigamarole about unfair housing and the need to redistribute wealth to help minorities.
There’s been a lot of finger-pointing on all sides about this financial crisis, but much of it misses the point. The off-topic details about CEO salaries and bond markets and mergers and bailouts and who voted for what all chase the horse after it’s already left the barn. The key question is this:
Once upon a time, banks only loaned money to individuals who could qualify for a home mortgage; and then sometime recently, they changed their practices and started loaning money to a lot of people who didn’t qualify and could not afford to pay back the loans. And when they started defaulting, and when real estate values starting dropping, the entire industry collapsed, because there was no equity to pay back the loans. The banks lost money, the customers lost money, and it all went down the toilet. Which, of course, many people had predicted. So the question is: Why? Why did banks start making countless risky untenable loans to unqualified customers?
And the answer is: Because they were afraid of being called racists by the legal bullies at the Greenlining Institute and other similar “community organizers.”
It all started with The Community Reinvestment Act, a federal law originally passed during the Carter administration and then ramped up during the Clinton years, that was originally designed to prevent racist lending practices by banks who wouldn’t loan money to minorities, even if they were qualified. But over time the law was twisted to force banks to make loans to minorities even if they weren’t qualified — which all may sound very peachy keen in Fantasy Utopia Land but which inevitably spells long-term financial suicide for a bank.
The Greenlining Institute’s self-appointed role is to identify those banks which by Greenlining’s reckoning haven’t doled out enough money to underqualified minority borrowers, and then threaten them with lawsuits, protests, and accusations of institutional racism if the banks don’t start opening their wallets ASAP. And the banks caved. Greenlining brags that they have unparalleled access to banking boardrooms, and they successfully squeezed $2.4 trillion (yes, trillion) in “CRA commitments” (i.e. loans to unqualified borrowers) out of terrified banks. Nearly every bank and financial institution you’ve ever heard of seems to kowtow to Greenlining.
Who are these people? And how did they gain so much power, while flying so far under the radar? Their latest push is to force the banks to convert the adjustable rate mortgage loans given to dodgy borrowers into fixed-rate loans, which would further punish the banks financially.
The American Anachronism blog lists some of the other pressure groups who bully banks — including the now notorious ACORN.
I don’t have any answers. Just a lot of questions. And a queasy feeling that there may be a lot more to the financial crisis than we’ve been told.
Further reading:The Greenlining Institute: Shakedown Artists, also by Matthew Vadum
"Boston Globe"
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/09/28/franks_fingerprints_are_all_over_the_financial_fiasco/
Frank's fingerprints are all over the financial fiasco
By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / September 28, 2008
'THE PRIVATE SECTOR got us into this mess. The government has to get us out of it."
That's Barney Frank's story, and he's sticking to it. As the Massachusetts Democrat has explained it in recent days, the current financial crisis is the spawn of the free market run amok, with the political class guilty only of failing to rein the capitalists in. The Wall Street meltdown was caused by "bad decisions that were made by people in the private sector," Frank said; the country is in dire straits today "thanks to a conservative philosophy that says the market knows best." And that philosophy goes "back to Ronald Reagan, when at his inauguration he said, 'Government is not the answer to our problems; government is the problem.' "
In fact, that isn't what Reagan said. His actual words were: "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Were he president today, he would be saying much the same thing.
Because while the mortgage crisis convulsing Wall Street has its share of private-sector culprits -- many of whom have been learning lately just how pitiless the private sector’s discipline can be -- they weren't the ones who "got us into this mess." Barney Frank's talking points notwithstanding, mortgage lenders didn't wake up one fine day deciding to junk long-held standards of creditworthiness in order to make ill-advised loans to unqualified borrowers. It would be closer to the truth to say they woke up to find the government twisting their arms and demanding that they do so - or else.
The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing mortgage lenders of racism and "redlining" because urban blacks were being denied mortgages at a higher rate than suburban whites.
The pressure to make more loans to minorities (read: to borrowers with weak credit histories) became relentless. Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act, empowering regulators to punish banks that failed to "meet the credit needs" of "low-income, minority, and distressed neighborhoods." Lenders responded by loosening their underwriting standards and making increasingly shoddy loans. The two government-chartered mortgage finance firms, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, encouraged this "subprime" lending by authorizing ever more "flexible" criteria by which high-risk borrowers could be qualified for home loans, and then buying up the questionable mortgages that ensued.
All this was justified as a means of increasing homeownership among minorities and the poor. Affirmative-action policies trumped sound business practices. A manual issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston advised mortgage lenders to disregard financial common sense. "Lack of credit history should not be seen as a negative factor," the Fed's guidelines instructed. Lenders were directed to accept welfare payments and unemployment benefits as "valid income sources" to qualify for a mortgage. Failure to comply could mean a lawsuit.
As long as housing prices kept rising, the illusion that all this was good public policy could be sustained. But it didn't take a financial whiz to recognize that a day of reckoning would come. "What does it mean when Boston banks start making many more loans to minorities?" I asked in this space in 1995. "Most likely, that they are knowingly approving risky loans in order to get the feds and the activists off their backs . .. . When the coming wave of foreclosures rolls through the inner city, which of today's self-congratulating bankers, politicians, and regulators plans to take the credit?"
Frank doesn't. But his fingerprints are all over this fiasco. Time and time again, Frank insisted that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in good shape. Five years ago, for example, when the Bush administration proposed much tighter regulation of the two companies, Frank was adamant that "these two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis." When the White House warned of "systemic risk for our financial system" unless the mortgage giants were curbed, Frank complained that the administration was more concerned about financial safety than about housing.
Now that the bubble has burst and the "systemic risk" is apparent to all, Frank blithely declares: "The private sector got us into this mess." Well, give the congressman points for gall. Wall Street and private lenders have plenty to answer for, but it was Washington and the political class that derailed this train. If Frank is looking for a culprit to blame, he can find one suspect in the nearest mirror.
There are as many ways to recognize people as there are people to recognize. You just have to use your brain to find them. Next time you think you've exhausted the possibilities, think again…and again! -- Eric Harvey
"The Patriot Post"
"No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave." --- Alexander Hamilton
"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." -- Samuel Adams
"For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects." -- James Madison
"CBN.com"
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/359202.aspx
Hamas Political Advisor: "We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election"
April 17, 2008
Barack Obama is looking for as much support as he can get. But he doesn't need this support. The main political advisor to the Prime Minister of Hamas, Ahmed Yousef said the following in an interview the other day with World Net Daily and WABC radio host John Batchelor.
"We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election."
"He has a vision to change America."
"The email Bag"
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:49 AM
Subject: more info on questionable loans
In 2005 John McCain cosponsored a bill to deal with mortgage problems at Fannie MAE & Freddie MAC.
Senator John McCain warned of the problems with the mortgage market in 2005. He cosponsored a bill (Senate Bill 190, 109th Congress, 2005-2006)
to improve oversight of Freddie MAC and Fannie MAE.
It was stopped by Democrats & good old boy GOP types.
From: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-190
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109190&tab=summary&page-command=print
2005-2006 (109th Congress)
S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005
Sponsor:
Sen. Charles Hagel [R-NE]
Cosponsors [as of 2007-01-08]
Sen. Elizabeth Dole [R-NC]
Sen. John McCain [R-AZ]
Sen. John Sununu [R-NH]
A bill to address the regulation of secondary mortgage market enterprises, and for other purposes.
Status: Introduced - Jan 26, 2005 - Reported by Committee
-
Voted on in Senate
-
Voted on in House
-
Signed by President
-
This bill never became law. This bill was proposed in a previous session of Congress. Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each session all proposed bills and resolutions that haven't passed are cleared from the books.
Last Action:
Jul 28, 2005: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Congressional Research Service Summary
The following summary was written by the Congressional Research Service, a well-respected nonpartisan arm of the Library of Congress. GovTrack did not write and has no control over these summaries.
1/26/2005--Introduced.
Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005 -
Amends the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 to establish: (1) in lieu of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), an independent Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Agency which shall have authority over the Federal Home Loan Bank Finance Corporation, the Federal Home Loan Banks, the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac); and (2) the Federal Housing Enterprise Board.
The Greenlining Institute: Does the financial crisis have its origins in Berkeley?
Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Yesterday I followed a link to a new article by Matthew Vadum which named The Greenlining Institute (among similar nonprofits) as the actual cause of the current financial crisis threatening the US economy. I did a double-take: The Greenlining Institute? You mean the one in Berkeley? Answer: Yes. The very same.
I (and countless other people) often zip past the nondescript office on Berkeley’s University Avenue containing the Greenlining Institute — one passes it on the way in and out of the city, as University leads from the freeway to downtown and the U.C. campus.
Unlike most people, though, several months ago I took note of the office as I passed it one day, and asked myself, “The Greenlining Institute” — what the hell is that? When I got home, out of curiosity I googled it and spent a couple minutes trying to decipher their Web site, to little avail. A very few other scattered articles seemed to indicate that the Greenlining Institute existed solely to bully banks and financial institutions into giving loans to otherwise unqualified minority borrowers.
The Greenlining Institute’s own mission statement says,
The Greenlining Institute’s mission is to empower communities of color and other disadvantaged groups through multi-ethnic economic and leadership development, civil rights and anti-redlining activities.
…but Matthew Vadum puts it much more bluntly:
Financial Affirmative Action
When the history of the Great Economic Meltdown of 2008 is written, in-your-face shakedown groups like the Greenlining Institute will be held to account.
Greenlining, headquartered in Berkeley, California (where else?), is a left-wing pressure group that threatens nasty public relations campaigns against lenders that refuse to kneel before its radical economic agenda. Its principal goal is to push politicians and the business community to facilitate “community reinvestment” in low-income and minority neighborhoods.
The Greenlining name is a play on the unlawful practice of “redlining.” That’s when financial institutions designate areas, typically those with a high concentration of racial minorities, as bad risks for home and commercial loans. The Institute wants banks to give a green light to loans in these areas instead.
Recently profiled by John Gizzi, Greenlining uses carrot-and-stick tactics to blackmail public agencies, banks, and philanthropists to achieve its objectives. The Institute brags it has threatened banks into making more than $2.4 trillion in loans in low-income communities.
On a trip through Berkeley today I once again noticed the office, and this time stopped to take these pictures. But there was no news to be found there: just a building, with no one around. And I’m not the kind of person to just walk right in and ask to interview someone. Not that it would have done me much good: undoubtedly I would have been given the usual rigamarole about unfair housing and the need to redistribute wealth to help minorities.
There’s been a lot of finger-pointing on all sides about this financial crisis, but much of it misses the point. The off-topic details about CEO salaries and bond markets and mergers and bailouts and who voted for what all chase the horse after it’s already left the barn. The key question is this:
Once upon a time, banks only loaned money to individuals who could qualify for a home mortgage; and then sometime recently, they changed their practices and started loaning money to a lot of people who didn’t qualify and could not afford to pay back the loans. And when they started defaulting, and when real estate values starting dropping, the entire industry collapsed, because there was no equity to pay back the loans. The banks lost money, the customers lost money, and it all went down the toilet. Which, of course, many people had predicted. So the question is: Why? Why did banks start making countless risky untenable loans to unqualified customers?
And the answer is: Because they were afraid of being called racists by the legal bullies at the Greenlining Institute and other similar “community organizers.”
It all started with The Community Reinvestment Act, a federal law originally passed during the Carter administration and then ramped up during the Clinton years, that was originally designed to prevent racist lending practices by banks who wouldn’t loan money to minorities, even if they were qualified. But over time the law was twisted to force banks to make loans to minorities even if they weren’t qualified — which all may sound very peachy keen in Fantasy Utopia Land but which inevitably spells long-term financial suicide for a bank.
The Greenlining Institute’s self-appointed role is to identify those banks which by Greenlining’s reckoning haven’t doled out enough money to underqualified minority borrowers, and then threaten them with lawsuits, protests, and accusations of institutional racism if the banks don’t start opening their wallets ASAP. And the banks caved. Greenlining brags that they have unparalleled access to banking boardrooms, and they successfully squeezed $2.4 trillion (yes, trillion) in “CRA commitments” (i.e. loans to unqualified borrowers) out of terrified banks. Nearly every bank and financial institution you’ve ever heard of seems to kowtow to Greenlining.
Who are these people? And how did they gain so much power, while flying so far under the radar? Their latest push is to force the banks to convert the adjustable rate mortgage loans given to dodgy borrowers into fixed-rate loans, which would further punish the banks financially.
The American Anachronism blog lists some of the other pressure groups who bully banks — including the now notorious ACORN.
I don’t have any answers. Just a lot of questions. And a queasy feeling that there may be a lot more to the financial crisis than we’ve been told.
Further reading:The Greenlining Institute: Shakedown Artists, also by Matthew Vadum
"Boston Globe"
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/09/28/franks_fingerprints_are_all_over_the_financial_fiasco/
Frank's fingerprints are all over the financial fiasco
By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / September 28, 2008
'THE PRIVATE SECTOR got us into this mess. The government has to get us out of it."
That's Barney Frank's story, and he's sticking to it. As the Massachusetts Democrat has explained it in recent days, the current financial crisis is the spawn of the free market run amok, with the political class guilty only of failing to rein the capitalists in. The Wall Street meltdown was caused by "bad decisions that were made by people in the private sector," Frank said; the country is in dire straits today "thanks to a conservative philosophy that says the market knows best." And that philosophy goes "back to Ronald Reagan, when at his inauguration he said, 'Government is not the answer to our problems; government is the problem.' "
In fact, that isn't what Reagan said. His actual words were: "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Were he president today, he would be saying much the same thing.
Because while the mortgage crisis convulsing Wall Street has its share of private-sector culprits -- many of whom have been learning lately just how pitiless the private sector’s discipline can be -- they weren't the ones who "got us into this mess." Barney Frank's talking points notwithstanding, mortgage lenders didn't wake up one fine day deciding to junk long-held standards of creditworthiness in order to make ill-advised loans to unqualified borrowers. It would be closer to the truth to say they woke up to find the government twisting their arms and demanding that they do so - or else.
The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing mortgage lenders of racism and "redlining" because urban blacks were being denied mortgages at a higher rate than suburban whites.
The pressure to make more loans to minorities (read: to borrowers with weak credit histories) became relentless. Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act, empowering regulators to punish banks that failed to "meet the credit needs" of "low-income, minority, and distressed neighborhoods." Lenders responded by loosening their underwriting standards and making increasingly shoddy loans. The two government-chartered mortgage finance firms, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, encouraged this "subprime" lending by authorizing ever more "flexible" criteria by which high-risk borrowers could be qualified for home loans, and then buying up the questionable mortgages that ensued.
All this was justified as a means of increasing homeownership among minorities and the poor. Affirmative-action policies trumped sound business practices. A manual issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston advised mortgage lenders to disregard financial common sense. "Lack of credit history should not be seen as a negative factor," the Fed's guidelines instructed. Lenders were directed to accept welfare payments and unemployment benefits as "valid income sources" to qualify for a mortgage. Failure to comply could mean a lawsuit.
As long as housing prices kept rising, the illusion that all this was good public policy could be sustained. But it didn't take a financial whiz to recognize that a day of reckoning would come. "What does it mean when Boston banks start making many more loans to minorities?" I asked in this space in 1995. "Most likely, that they are knowingly approving risky loans in order to get the feds and the activists off their backs . .. . When the coming wave of foreclosures rolls through the inner city, which of today's self-congratulating bankers, politicians, and regulators plans to take the credit?"
Frank doesn't. But his fingerprints are all over this fiasco. Time and time again, Frank insisted that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in good shape. Five years ago, for example, when the Bush administration proposed much tighter regulation of the two companies, Frank was adamant that "these two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis." When the White House warned of "systemic risk for our financial system" unless the mortgage giants were curbed, Frank complained that the administration was more concerned about financial safety than about housing.
Now that the bubble has burst and the "systemic risk" is apparent to all, Frank blithely declares: "The private sector got us into this mess." Well, give the congressman points for gall. Wall Street and private lenders have plenty to answer for, but it was Washington and the political class that derailed this train. If Frank is looking for a culprit to blame, he can find one suspect in the nearest mirror.
Daily Motivations - 20081003
"Daily Motiovations"
What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too. -- Fred Rogers
Today's Topic: Communicate the Rules of the Game
People become confused when there are no established performance standards, when the rules are contradictory, or when the stated values are not being followed.
For instance, we may communicate that we respect employees’ time, yet we consistently begin our meetings fifteen minutes late – wasting fifteen minutes of everyone’s time. Perhaps we say employees are our most valuable assets, but we hire the first “warm body” we can find to be on the team. Or maybe we tell people that we value excellence, yet ask more and more from our top performers, while tolerating mediocrity and poor performance from others.
Earning employees’ trust begins with clearly establishing acceptable standards of behavior for the team. To do that, managers must first answer the question, “What are the team’s values?” Then they can determine the “rules of the road” and decide which behaviors are “non-negotiable.” If the standards are not clearly established, are continually changing, or are contradictory, you can’t expect to develop personal trust. After all, what would they be trusting?
When people understand the rules of the game, generally speaking, they will do their best to play by the rules.
"The Patriot Post"
“[A] wise and frugal government... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” — Ronald Reagan
"World News Daily"
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76758
ELECTION 20084
Weathermen terrorists declare support for ObamaCall for 'grassroots effort' to help boost campaign
Posted: October 02, 200812:20 am Eastern
By Aaron Klein© 2008 WorldNetDaily
The names of four former top leaders of the Weathermen terrorist organization are listed as signatories on an online petition calling for an "independent grassroots effort" to help strengthen Sen. Barack Obama's campaign.
The petition was initiated by Progressives for Obama, an independent organization acting to ensure the Illinois senator's election.
Progressives includes among its ranks many former members of the 1960s radical organization Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, from which the Weathermen splintered, as well as current and former members of other radical organizations, such as the Communist Party USA and the Black Radical Congress.
"We agree that Barack Obama is our best option for president in 2008, and that an independent grassroots effort can help strengthen his campaign," states the online petition. "It can also strengthen the mandate for his programs for stopping war, promoting global justice and securing our rights, liberties, and economic well-being."
Among the names signed onto the petition are former Weathermen leaders Howard Machtinger, Jeff Jones, Steve Tappis and Mark Rudd.
"The email Bag"
3 Men who brought down Wall Street....................
Be sure to read the "where they are now"!!
Here is a quick look into 3 former Fannie Mae executives who have brought down Wall Street.
1. Franklin Raines: was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe reregulates in Fannie Mae's accounting activities. At the time of his departure The Wall Street Journal noted, " Raines, who long defended the company's accounting despite mounting evidence that it wasn't proper, issued a statement late Tuesday conceding that "mistakes were made" and saying he would assume responsibility as he had earlier promised. News reports indicate the company was under growing pressure from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of findings that the company's books ran afoul of generally accepted accounting principles for four years." Fannie Mae had to reduce its surplus by $9 billion.
Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear. http://housingdoom.com/2006/12/18/fannie-charges/ . The Government noted, "The 101 charges reveal how the individuals improperly manipulated earnings to maximize their bonuses, while knowingly neglecting accounting systems and internal controls, misapplying over twenty accounting principles and misleading the regulator and the public. The Notice explains how they submitted six years of misleading and inaccurate accounting statements and inaccurate capital reports that enabled them to grow Fannie Mae in an unsafe and unsound manner." These charges w! ere made in 2006. The Court ordered Raines to return $50 Million Dollars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated Fannie Mae profits.
2. Tim Howard: Was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard "was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a "stable pattern of earnings" at Fannie. In everyday English - he was cooking the books. The Government Investigation determined that, " Chief Financial Officer, Tim Howard, failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting functions within Fannie Mae,"
On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La ., asked the Justice Department to investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to Congress in October 2004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance giant's income statement to achieve management pay bonuses. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004.Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!
3. Jim Johnson: A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. A look at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside Fannie Mae, and you'll see some interesting things about Johnson. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million." Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae.
Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
1. FRANKLIN RAINES? Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor
2. TIM HOWARD? Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama
3. JIM JOHNSON? Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee
IF OBAMA PLANS ON CLEANING UP THE MESS - HIS ADVISORS HAVE THE EXPERTISE - THEY MADE THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Would you trust the men who tore Wall Street down to build the New Wall Street ?
"Ethics and Public Policy Center" (EPPC)
O's Dangerous Pals
What exactly does a "community organizer" do? Barack Obama's rise has left many Americans asking themselves that question. In a New York Post article, EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz provides a big part of the answer: "Community organizers intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to customers with poor credit."
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3554/pub_detail.asp
"Another email"
Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:
'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.
Amen!'
The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India , Africa and Korea .
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,'and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.
With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'one nation under God.'
If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends. 'If you don't stand for something, you will
fall for everything.'
Think about this: If you forward this prayer to everyone on your e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world.
Love & God Bless
What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too. -- Fred Rogers
Today's Topic: Communicate the Rules of the Game
People become confused when there are no established performance standards, when the rules are contradictory, or when the stated values are not being followed.
For instance, we may communicate that we respect employees’ time, yet we consistently begin our meetings fifteen minutes late – wasting fifteen minutes of everyone’s time. Perhaps we say employees are our most valuable assets, but we hire the first “warm body” we can find to be on the team. Or maybe we tell people that we value excellence, yet ask more and more from our top performers, while tolerating mediocrity and poor performance from others.
Earning employees’ trust begins with clearly establishing acceptable standards of behavior for the team. To do that, managers must first answer the question, “What are the team’s values?” Then they can determine the “rules of the road” and decide which behaviors are “non-negotiable.” If the standards are not clearly established, are continually changing, or are contradictory, you can’t expect to develop personal trust. After all, what would they be trusting?
When people understand the rules of the game, generally speaking, they will do their best to play by the rules.
"The Patriot Post"
“[A] wise and frugal government... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” — Ronald Reagan
"World News Daily"
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=76758
ELECTION 20084
Weathermen terrorists declare support for ObamaCall for 'grassroots effort' to help boost campaign
Posted: October 02, 200812:20 am Eastern
By Aaron Klein© 2008 WorldNetDaily
The names of four former top leaders of the Weathermen terrorist organization are listed as signatories on an online petition calling for an "independent grassroots effort" to help strengthen Sen. Barack Obama's campaign.
The petition was initiated by Progressives for Obama, an independent organization acting to ensure the Illinois senator's election.
Progressives includes among its ranks many former members of the 1960s radical organization Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, from which the Weathermen splintered, as well as current and former members of other radical organizations, such as the Communist Party USA and the Black Radical Congress.
"We agree that Barack Obama is our best option for president in 2008, and that an independent grassroots effort can help strengthen his campaign," states the online petition. "It can also strengthen the mandate for his programs for stopping war, promoting global justice and securing our rights, liberties, and economic well-being."
Among the names signed onto the petition are former Weathermen leaders Howard Machtinger, Jeff Jones, Steve Tappis and Mark Rudd.
"The email Bag"
3 Men who brought down Wall Street....................
Be sure to read the "where they are now"!!
Here is a quick look into 3 former Fannie Mae executives who have brought down Wall Street.
1. Franklin Raines: was a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fannie Mae. Raines was forced to retire from his position with Fannie Mae when auditing discovered severe reregulates in Fannie Mae's accounting activities. At the time of his departure The Wall Street Journal noted, " Raines, who long defended the company's accounting despite mounting evidence that it wasn't proper, issued a statement late Tuesday conceding that "mistakes were made" and saying he would assume responsibility as he had earlier promised. News reports indicate the company was under growing pressure from regulators to shake up its management in the wake of findings that the company's books ran afoul of generally accepted accounting principles for four years." Fannie Mae had to reduce its surplus by $9 billion.
Raines left with a "golden parachute valued at $240 Million in benefits. The Government filed suit against Raines when the depth of the accounting scandal became clear. http://housingdoom.com/2006/12/18/fannie-charges/ . The Government noted, "The 101 charges reveal how the individuals improperly manipulated earnings to maximize their bonuses, while knowingly neglecting accounting systems and internal controls, misapplying over twenty accounting principles and misleading the regulator and the public. The Notice explains how they submitted six years of misleading and inaccurate accounting statements and inaccurate capital reports that enabled them to grow Fannie Mae in an unsafe and unsound manner." These charges w! ere made in 2006. The Court ordered Raines to return $50 Million Dollars he received in bonuses based on the miss-stated Fannie Mae profits.
2. Tim Howard: Was the Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae. Howard "was a strong internal proponent of using accounting strategies that would ensure a "stable pattern of earnings" at Fannie. In everyday English - he was cooking the books. The Government Investigation determined that, " Chief Financial Officer, Tim Howard, failed to provide adequate oversight to key control and reporting functions within Fannie Mae,"
On June 16, 2006, Rep. Richard Baker, R-La ., asked the Justice Department to investigate his allegations that two former Fannie Mae executives lied to Congress in October 2004 when they denied manipulating the mortgage-finance giant's income statement to achieve management pay bonuses. Investigations by federal regulators and the company's board of directors since concluded that management did manipulate 1998 earnings to trigger bonuses. Raines and Howard resigned under pressure in late 2004.Howard's Golden Parachute was estimated at $20 Million!
3. Jim Johnson: A former executive at Lehman Brothers and who was later forced from his position as Fannie Mae CEO. A look at the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight's May 2006 report on mismanagement and corruption inside Fannie Mae, and you'll see some interesting things about Johnson. Investigators found that Fannie Mae had hidden a substantial amount of Johnson's 1998 compensation from the public, reporting that it was between $6 million and $7 million when it fact it was $21 million." Johnson is currently under investigation for taking illegal loans from Countrywide while serving as CEO of Fannie Mae.
Johnson's Golden Parachute was estimated at $28 Million. WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
1. FRANKLIN RAINES? Raines works for the Obama Campaign as Chief Economic Advisor
2. TIM HOWARD? Howard is also a Chief Economic Advisor to Obama
3. JIM JOHNSON? Johnson hired as a Senior Obama Finance Advisor and was selected to run Obama's Vice Presidential Search Committee
IF OBAMA PLANS ON CLEANING UP THE MESS - HIS ADVISORS HAVE THE EXPERTISE - THEY MADE THE MESS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Would you trust the men who tore Wall Street down to build the New Wall Street ?
"Ethics and Public Policy Center" (EPPC)
O's Dangerous Pals
What exactly does a "community organizer" do? Barack Obama's rise has left many Americans asking themselves that question. In a New York Post article, EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz provides a big part of the answer: "Community organizers intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to customers with poor credit."
http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.3554/pub_detail.asp
"Another email"
Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:
'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.
We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.
Amen!'
The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India , Africa and Korea .
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,'and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired.
With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called 'one nation under God.'
If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends. 'If you don't stand for something, you will
fall for everything.'
Think about this: If you forward this prayer to everyone on your e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world.
Love & God Bless
Daily Motivations - 100208
"Daily Motivations"
If you will spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field, you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less. -- Earl Nightingale
"Quotations Page"
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. - President Thomas Jefferson
"Patriot Post"
"I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree, all the beneficial purposes of society." - Alexander Hamilton
"This election year has generated a lot of talk about the role of America's military in the Middle East. Less frequently does the conversation turn to what's really at the heart of the matter whether we, as Americans,are committed to a world blessed with freedom for all humankind... Our warriors understand that America has a special calling to promote freedom and democracy. In the words of one Marine, 'the United States is a beaconof light, whether we want to admit it or not.'... Our Declaration of Independence cites freedom as an unalienable right, not just for Americans but for all human beings. Our way of life, our very right to exist, is the 'everything' for which our service men and women are willing to give so much of themselves. They fight to defend America's freedoms, and they fight to grant the gift of freedom worldwide." --- Rebecca Hagelin
"The Gathering Storm" - Folks, this is a publication from whom I believe is one of the most honorable US Senators ever, in the history of America. - oyh
Hugo Chavez said over the weekend that he will accept Russia’s help in developing a nuclear reactor. “In Venezuela we are interested in development of nuclear energy, of course for peaceful purposes, for medical purposes, for purposes of electricity generation…Brazil has various nuclear reactors, so does Argentina. We will have ours,” he told a rally of Communists and others hostile to the U.S. Chavez will also visit Belarus and Iran.
In addition to announcing plans to loan $1 billion to Venezuela, Russia outlined a plan to expand its army and nuclear capacity as part of an urgent effort to upgrade its military capabilities. The plan calls for mass production of nuclear submarines and building “an air- and space-defense system.”
Yesterday, Iran insisted it would continue to enrich uranium despite condemnation from the United Nations Security Council. “Enrichment is our right and we believe that suspension is an illegal request. We will continue on our path in a normal way,” Hassan Ghashghavi, the foreign ministry spokesman said.
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, accused Tehran of trying to keep Iraq “off balance” so that it can control the situation there. He added the Americans need to view Iraq with “a sense of strategic patience” adding, “All Americans should be and are proud of the achievements in Iraq and the American role in bringing about the change,” he said. “Iraq is in a far, far better place than it was say 18 months ago.”
"The e-mail Bag"
NEW PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION This is probably the best e-mail I've seen in a long, long time. The following has been attributed to State Representative Mitchell Kaye from GA. This guy should run for President one day...
'We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, delusional, and other liberal bed-wetters. We hold these truths to be self evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill of NON-Rights.'
ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them , but no one is guaranteeing anything.
ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone -- not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.; but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.
ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful; do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.
ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes .
ARTICLE V: You do not have the righ t to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in public health care..
ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.
ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure.
ARTICLE VIII: You do not have th e right to a job.. All of us sure want you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful. (AMEN!)
ARTICLE IX: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.
ARTICLE X: This is an English speaking country. We don't care where you are from, English is our language. Learn it or go back to wherever you came from! (Lastly....)
ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country's history or heritage. This country was founded on the belief in one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution. The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history, and if you are uncomfortable with it, TOUGH!!!! GET OVER IT !!!
If you agree, share this with a friend. No, you don't have to, and nothing tragic will befall you if you don't. I just think it's about time common sense is allowed to flourish. Sensible people of the United States speak out because if you do not , you know who will?
If you will spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field, you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less. -- Earl Nightingale
"Quotations Page"
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. - President Thomas Jefferson
"Patriot Post"
"I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree, all the beneficial purposes of society." - Alexander Hamilton
"This election year has generated a lot of talk about the role of America's military in the Middle East. Less frequently does the conversation turn to what's really at the heart of the matter whether we, as Americans,are committed to a world blessed with freedom for all humankind... Our warriors understand that America has a special calling to promote freedom and democracy. In the words of one Marine, 'the United States is a beaconof light, whether we want to admit it or not.'... Our Declaration of Independence cites freedom as an unalienable right, not just for Americans but for all human beings. Our way of life, our very right to exist, is the 'everything' for which our service men and women are willing to give so much of themselves. They fight to defend America's freedoms, and they fight to grant the gift of freedom worldwide." --- Rebecca Hagelin
"The Gathering Storm" - Folks, this is a publication from whom I believe is one of the most honorable US Senators ever, in the history of America. - oyh
Hugo Chavez said over the weekend that he will accept Russia’s help in developing a nuclear reactor. “In Venezuela we are interested in development of nuclear energy, of course for peaceful purposes, for medical purposes, for purposes of electricity generation…Brazil has various nuclear reactors, so does Argentina. We will have ours,” he told a rally of Communists and others hostile to the U.S. Chavez will also visit Belarus and Iran.
In addition to announcing plans to loan $1 billion to Venezuela, Russia outlined a plan to expand its army and nuclear capacity as part of an urgent effort to upgrade its military capabilities. The plan calls for mass production of nuclear submarines and building “an air- and space-defense system.”
Yesterday, Iran insisted it would continue to enrich uranium despite condemnation from the United Nations Security Council. “Enrichment is our right and we believe that suspension is an illegal request. We will continue on our path in a normal way,” Hassan Ghashghavi, the foreign ministry spokesman said.
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, accused Tehran of trying to keep Iraq “off balance” so that it can control the situation there. He added the Americans need to view Iraq with “a sense of strategic patience” adding, “All Americans should be and are proud of the achievements in Iraq and the American role in bringing about the change,” he said. “Iraq is in a far, far better place than it was say 18 months ago.”
"The e-mail Bag"
NEW PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION This is probably the best e-mail I've seen in a long, long time. The following has been attributed to State Representative Mitchell Kaye from GA. This guy should run for President one day...
'We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great-grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt ridden, delusional, and other liberal bed-wetters. We hold these truths to be self evident: that a whole lot of people are confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim they require a Bill of NON-Rights.'
ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them , but no one is guaranteeing anything.
ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone -- not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc.; but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.
ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful; do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.
ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes .
ARTICLE V: You do not have the righ t to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in public health care..
ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim, or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.
ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat, or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big screen color TV or a life of leisure.
ARTICLE VIII: You do not have th e right to a job.. All of us sure want you to have a job, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful. (AMEN!)
ARTICLE IX: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to PURSUE happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.
ARTICLE X: This is an English speaking country. We don't care where you are from, English is our language. Learn it or go back to wherever you came from! (Lastly....)
ARTICLE XI: You do not have the right to change our country's history or heritage. This country was founded on the belief in one true God. And yet, you are given the freedom to believe in any religion, any faith, or no faith at all; with no fear of persecution. The phrase IN GOD WE TRUST is part of our heritage and history, and if you are uncomfortable with it, TOUGH!!!! GET OVER IT !!!
If you agree, share this with a friend. No, you don't have to, and nothing tragic will befall you if you don't. I just think it's about time common sense is allowed to flourish. Sensible people of the United States speak out because if you do not , you know who will?
Daily Motivations - 100108
"Daily Motivations"
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best. Strive for excellence, not perfection. -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"The Patriot Post"
"I believe that the people you and I represent are ready to chart a new course. They look to us to meet the great challenge, to reach beyond the commonplace and not fall short for lack of creativity or courage... We can restore our economic strength and build opportunities like none we've ever had before. As Carl Sandburg said, all we need to begin with is a dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now." --- Ronald Reagan
"Sometimes bipartisanship is grounds for celebration, but more often it is cause for tears. Last week, congressional leaders from both parties went into a room to hammer out a plan that would put taxpayers on the hook for $700 billion. But they assert that the investment is essential to the health of the economy. And they insist that if we make this investment, we'll get all or most of it back. This promise would be more believable if the federal government had a long record of using tax dollars responsibly. In fact, it's the equivalent of the guy who raids his kid's piggy bank to feed the slots. The most notable impulse of our leaders is spending money the Treasury doesn't have, piling up bills that future Americans will have to cover." --- SteveChapman
"Under [Bill] Clinton, the entire federal government put massive pressure on banks to grant more mortgages to the poor and minorities. Clinton's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, investigated Fannie Mae for racial discrimination and proposed that 50 percent of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's portfolio be made up of loans to low- to moderate-income borrowers by the year 2001. Instead of looking at 'outdated criteria,' such as the mortgage applicant's credit history and ability to make a down payment, banks were encouraged to consider nontraditional measures of credit-worthiness, such as having a good jump shot or having a missing child named 'Caylee.' Threatening lawsuits, Clinton's Federal Reserve demanded that banks treat welfare payments and unemployment benefits as valid income sources to qualify for a mortgage. That isn't a joke---it's a fact. ... In 1999, liberals were bragging about extending affirmative action to the financial sector. Los Angeles Times reporter Ron Brownstein hailed the Clinton administration's affirmative action lending policies as one of the 'hidden success stories' of the Clinton administration, saying that 'black and Latino homeownership has surged to the highest level ever recorded.' Meanwhile, economists were screaming from the rooftops that the Democrats were forcing mortgage lenders to issue loans that would fail the moment the housing market slowed and deadbeat borrowers couldn't get out of their loans by selling their houses. A decade later, the housing bubble burst and, as predicted, food-stamp-backed mortgages collapsed. Democrats set an affirmative action time-bomb and now it's gone off." --- Ann Coulter
"The email Bag"
An Old Minister's Prayer
LORD PROP US UP...
Every time I am asked to pray, I think of the old deacon who always prayed, 'Lord, prop us up on our leanin' side.' After hearing him pray that prayer many times, someone asked him why he prayed that prayer so fervently.
He answered, 'Well sir, you see, it's like this... I got an old barn out back. It's been there a long time; it's withstood a lot of weather; it's gone through a lot of storms, and it's stood for many years. It's still standing. But one day I noticed it was leaning to one side a bit. So I went and got some pine poles and propped it up on its leaning side so it wouldn't fall.
Then I got to thinking about that and how much I was like that old barn. I've been around a long time. I've withstood a lot of life's storms. I've withstood a lot of bad weather in life, I've withstood a lot of hard times, and I'm still standing too. But I find myself leaning to one side from time to time, so I like to ask the Lord to prop us up on our leaning side, 'cause I figure a lot of us get to leaning at times.
Sometimes we get to leaning toward anger, leaning toward bitterness, leaning toward hatred, leaning toward cussing, leaning toward a lot of things that we shouldn't. So we need to pray, 'Lord, prop us up on our leaning side, so we will stand straight and tall again, to glorify the Lord.
''Pass this on to others who might need Propping Up, if you wish to!
Subject: Barack, Sarah and the Bible
Here is a very interesting look into what may be happening right in front of our eyes in this presidential campaign. Is Sarah Palin put into this race by God Himself? I don't know, but read the following and see what you think.
"Barack, Sarah, and the Bible" by Jim Bramlett
Dear friends:
Barack Hussein Obama has taken the nation by storm. From obscurity, with zero executive experience, or much of any kind, he has vaulted into the position of Presidential frontrunner. It is stunning. On the surface, it appears attributable only to his eloquent oratory and his race. But an invisible factor may be a strong spiritual force behind him, causing some people to actually swoon in his presence.
I have been very concerned that he has publicly said that he does not believe Jesus is the only way to heaven. This makes both the Bible and Jesus a liar, and it means that Christ has died in vain. A person cannot be a true Christian who believes that there are other ways of forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life with God. Only Jesus has paid the price for that. He also made fun of some of the scriptures in OUR Bible.
Therefore, there is, indeed, another spirit involved. And this spirit has come into our national life like a flood. Last week at Obama's acceptance speech, that spirit exalted itself in front of a Greek temple-like stage, and to a huge audience like in a Roman arena. Omaha was portrayed as god-like. His voice thundered as a god's voice.
At the end, Democratic sympathizer Pastor Joel Hunter gave the benediction and shockingly invited everyone to close the prayer to their own (false) gods. This was surely an abomination, but it was compatible with Obama's expressed theology, and Hunter's leftist leanings.
God was not pleased.
And God says, "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him." (Isaiah 59:19)
Enter Governor Sarah Palin. With incredible timing, the very next day, Sarah Palin also appeared out of nowhere. Her shocking selection as John McCain's running mate stunned the world and suddenly took all the wind out of Obama's sails.
We quickly learned that Sarah is a born-again, Spirit-filled Christian, attends church, and has been a ministry worker.
Sarah is that standard God has raised up to stop the flood. She has the anointing. You can tell by how the dogs are already viciously attacking her. But they will not be successful. She knows the One she serves and will not be intimidated.
Back in the 1980s, I sensed that Israel's little-known Benjamin Netanyahu was chosen by God for an important end-time role. I still believe that. I now have that same sense about Sarah Palin.
Today I did some checking and discovered that both her first and last names are biblical words, one in Hebrew the other in Greek:
Sarah. Wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. In Hebrew, Sarah means noble woman (Strongs 8283).
Palin. In Greek, the word means renewal. (Strongs 3825).
Only God knows the future and how she may be used by Him, but may this noble woman serve to bring renewal in the land, and inspiration.
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best. Strive for excellence, not perfection. -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"The Patriot Post"
"I believe that the people you and I represent are ready to chart a new course. They look to us to meet the great challenge, to reach beyond the commonplace and not fall short for lack of creativity or courage... We can restore our economic strength and build opportunities like none we've ever had before. As Carl Sandburg said, all we need to begin with is a dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now." --- Ronald Reagan
"Sometimes bipartisanship is grounds for celebration, but more often it is cause for tears. Last week, congressional leaders from both parties went into a room to hammer out a plan that would put taxpayers on the hook for $700 billion. But they assert that the investment is essential to the health of the economy. And they insist that if we make this investment, we'll get all or most of it back. This promise would be more believable if the federal government had a long record of using tax dollars responsibly. In fact, it's the equivalent of the guy who raids his kid's piggy bank to feed the slots. The most notable impulse of our leaders is spending money the Treasury doesn't have, piling up bills that future Americans will have to cover." --- SteveChapman
"Under [Bill] Clinton, the entire federal government put massive pressure on banks to grant more mortgages to the poor and minorities. Clinton's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Andrew Cuomo, investigated Fannie Mae for racial discrimination and proposed that 50 percent of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's portfolio be made up of loans to low- to moderate-income borrowers by the year 2001. Instead of looking at 'outdated criteria,' such as the mortgage applicant's credit history and ability to make a down payment, banks were encouraged to consider nontraditional measures of credit-worthiness, such as having a good jump shot or having a missing child named 'Caylee.' Threatening lawsuits, Clinton's Federal Reserve demanded that banks treat welfare payments and unemployment benefits as valid income sources to qualify for a mortgage. That isn't a joke---it's a fact. ... In 1999, liberals were bragging about extending affirmative action to the financial sector. Los Angeles Times reporter Ron Brownstein hailed the Clinton administration's affirmative action lending policies as one of the 'hidden success stories' of the Clinton administration, saying that 'black and Latino homeownership has surged to the highest level ever recorded.' Meanwhile, economists were screaming from the rooftops that the Democrats were forcing mortgage lenders to issue loans that would fail the moment the housing market slowed and deadbeat borrowers couldn't get out of their loans by selling their houses. A decade later, the housing bubble burst and, as predicted, food-stamp-backed mortgages collapsed. Democrats set an affirmative action time-bomb and now it's gone off." --- Ann Coulter
"The email Bag"
An Old Minister's Prayer
LORD PROP US UP...
Every time I am asked to pray, I think of the old deacon who always prayed, 'Lord, prop us up on our leanin' side.' After hearing him pray that prayer many times, someone asked him why he prayed that prayer so fervently.
He answered, 'Well sir, you see, it's like this... I got an old barn out back. It's been there a long time; it's withstood a lot of weather; it's gone through a lot of storms, and it's stood for many years. It's still standing. But one day I noticed it was leaning to one side a bit. So I went and got some pine poles and propped it up on its leaning side so it wouldn't fall.
Then I got to thinking about that and how much I was like that old barn. I've been around a long time. I've withstood a lot of life's storms. I've withstood a lot of bad weather in life, I've withstood a lot of hard times, and I'm still standing too. But I find myself leaning to one side from time to time, so I like to ask the Lord to prop us up on our leaning side, 'cause I figure a lot of us get to leaning at times.
Sometimes we get to leaning toward anger, leaning toward bitterness, leaning toward hatred, leaning toward cussing, leaning toward a lot of things that we shouldn't. So we need to pray, 'Lord, prop us up on our leaning side, so we will stand straight and tall again, to glorify the Lord.
''Pass this on to others who might need Propping Up, if you wish to!
Subject: Barack, Sarah and the Bible
Here is a very interesting look into what may be happening right in front of our eyes in this presidential campaign. Is Sarah Palin put into this race by God Himself? I don't know, but read the following and see what you think.
"Barack, Sarah, and the Bible" by Jim Bramlett
Dear friends:
Barack Hussein Obama has taken the nation by storm. From obscurity, with zero executive experience, or much of any kind, he has vaulted into the position of Presidential frontrunner. It is stunning. On the surface, it appears attributable only to his eloquent oratory and his race. But an invisible factor may be a strong spiritual force behind him, causing some people to actually swoon in his presence.
I have been very concerned that he has publicly said that he does not believe Jesus is the only way to heaven. This makes both the Bible and Jesus a liar, and it means that Christ has died in vain. A person cannot be a true Christian who believes that there are other ways of forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life with God. Only Jesus has paid the price for that. He also made fun of some of the scriptures in OUR Bible.
Therefore, there is, indeed, another spirit involved. And this spirit has come into our national life like a flood. Last week at Obama's acceptance speech, that spirit exalted itself in front of a Greek temple-like stage, and to a huge audience like in a Roman arena. Omaha was portrayed as god-like. His voice thundered as a god's voice.
At the end, Democratic sympathizer Pastor Joel Hunter gave the benediction and shockingly invited everyone to close the prayer to their own (false) gods. This was surely an abomination, but it was compatible with Obama's expressed theology, and Hunter's leftist leanings.
God was not pleased.
And God says, "When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him." (Isaiah 59:19)
Enter Governor Sarah Palin. With incredible timing, the very next day, Sarah Palin also appeared out of nowhere. Her shocking selection as John McCain's running mate stunned the world and suddenly took all the wind out of Obama's sails.
We quickly learned that Sarah is a born-again, Spirit-filled Christian, attends church, and has been a ministry worker.
Sarah is that standard God has raised up to stop the flood. She has the anointing. You can tell by how the dogs are already viciously attacking her. But they will not be successful. She knows the One she serves and will not be intimidated.
Back in the 1980s, I sensed that Israel's little-known Benjamin Netanyahu was chosen by God for an important end-time role. I still believe that. I now have that same sense about Sarah Palin.
Today I did some checking and discovered that both her first and last names are biblical words, one in Hebrew the other in Greek:
Sarah. Wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. In Hebrew, Sarah means noble woman (Strongs 8283).
Palin. In Greek, the word means renewal. (Strongs 3825).
Only God knows the future and how she may be used by Him, but may this noble woman serve to bring renewal in the land, and inspiration.
Daily Motivations - 20080930
"Daily Motivations"
Whenever you witness non-inclusive, discounting, or discriminatory words and actions, you have a choice. You can choose to remain silent, which allows these behaviors to thrive. Or you can speak up on behalf of respect. -- Leslie C. Aguilar
"The Patriot Post"
"Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions - The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the Tyranny mediated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth." -- George Washington
"The e-mail Bag"
Subject: Alaska Nat'l Guard from Sue Wood
I believe the following is important information [we probably will not hear via the News Media].......that American voters need to have. If you agree, pass it along. Thanks.
Alaska National Guard
Before you dismiss the fact that Sarah Palin is Commander of the Alaska National Guard, consider this:
Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptorDefense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from Ballistic missile attacks. It’s on permanent active duty, unlike Other Guard units.
As governor of Alaska , Palin is briefed on highly classifiedMilitary issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism. Her Exposure to classified material may rival even Biden's and Certainly by far exceeds Obama's.
She's also the commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF), a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security's counter terrorism plans.
Palin is privy to military and intelligence secrets that are vital to The entire country's defense. Given Alaska 's proximity to Russia , She may have security clearances we don't even know about. According to the Washington Post, she first met with McCain in February, but nobody ever found out. This is a woman used to Keeping secrets.
She can be entrusted with our national security, because she Already is.
WET PANTS
Come with me to a third grade classroom..... There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives.
The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down and prays this prayer, 'Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat.'
He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered.
As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap.
The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, 'Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!'
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else - Susie.
She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. You've done enough, you klutz!'
Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, 'You did that on purpose, didn't you?' Susie whispers back, 'I wet my pants once too.'
May God help us see the opportunities that are always around us to do good..
Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
Each and everyone one of us is going through tough times right now, but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that only He can. Keep the faith.
My instructions were to pick four (4) people that I wanted God to bless, and I picked you. Please pass this to at least four (4) people you want to be blessed.
This prayer is powerful, and prayer is one of the best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards. Let's continue to pray for one another.
The Prayer:
Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. Amen.
If the Lord lays upon your heart to send this to more than four '4' people, you are truly blessed
"Bloomberg"
How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett
http://repptide.com/commenting.php?value=5323&perm=pr36529
Commentary by Kevin Hassett
More Photos/DetailsSept. 22 (Bloomberg)
The financial crisis of the past year has provided a number of surprising twists and turns, and from Bear Stearns Cos. to American International Group Inc., ambiguity has been a big part of the story.
Why did Bear Stearns fail, and how does that relate to AIG? It all seems so complex.
But really, it isn't. Enough cards on this table have been turned over that the story is now clear. The economic history books will describe this episode in simple and understandable terms:
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exploded, and many bystanders were injured in the blast, some fatally.
Fannie and Freddie did this by becoming a key enabler of the mortgage crisis. They fueled Wall Street's efforts to securitize subprime loans by becoming the primary customer of all AAA-rated subprime-m ortgage pools. In addition, they held an enormous portfolio of mortgages themselves.
In the times that Fannie and Freddie couldn't make the market, they became the market. Over the years, it added up to an enormous obligation. As of last June, Fannie alone owned or guaranteed more than $388 billion in high-risk mortgage investments. Their large presence created an environment within which even mortgage-backed securities assembled by others could find a ready home.
The problem was that the trillions of dollars in play were only low-risk investments if real estate prices continued to rise. Once they began to fall, the entire house of cards came down with them.
Turning Point
Take away Fannie and Freddie, or regulate them more wisely, and it's hard to imagine how these highly liquid markets would ever have emerged. This whole mess would never have happened.
It is easy to identify the historical turning point that marked the beginning of the end.Back in 2005, Fannie and Freddie were, after years of dominating Washington, on the ropes. They were enmeshed in accounting scandals that led to turnover at the top. At one telling moment in late 2004, captured in an article by my American Enterprise Institute colleague Peter Wallison, the Securities and Exchange Comiission's chief accountant told disgraced Fannie Mae chief Franklin Raines that Fannie's position on the relevant accounting issue was not even ``on the page'' of allowable interpretations.
Then legislative momentum emerged for an attempt to create a ``world-class regulator'' that would oversee the pair more like banks, imposing strict requirements on their ability to take excessive risks. Politicians who previously had associated themselves proudly with the two accounting miscreants were less eager to be associated with them. The time was ripe.
Greenspan's Warning
The clear gravity of the situation pushed the legislation forward. Some might say t he current mess couldn't be foreseen, yet in 2005 Alan Greenspan told Congress how urgent it was for it to act in the clearest possible terms: If Fannie and Freddie ``continue to grow, continue to have the low capital that they have, continue to engage in the dynamic hedging of their portfolios, which they need to do for interest rate risk aversion, they potentially create ever-growing potential systemic risk down the road,'' he said. ``We are placing the total financial system of the future at a substantial risk.''
What happened next was extraordinary. For the first time in history, a serious Fannie and Freddie reform bill was passed by the Senate Banking Committee. The bill gave a regulator power to crack down, and would have required the companies to eliminate their investments in risky assets.
Different World
If that bill had become law, then the world today would be different. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, a blizzard of terrible mortgage paper fluttered out of t he Fannie and Freddie clouds, burying many of our oldest and most venerable institutions. Without their checkbooks keeping the market liquid and buying up excess supply, the market would likely have not existed.
But the bill didn't become law, for a simple reason: Democrats opposed it on a party-line vote in the committee, signaling that this would be a partisan issue. Republicans, tied in knots by the tight Democratic opposition, couldn't even get the Senate to vote on the matter.
That such a reckless political stand could have been taken by the Democrats was obscene even then. Wallison wrote at the time: "It is a classic case of socializing the risk while privatizing the profit. The Democrats and the few Republicans who oppose portfolio limitations could not possibly do so if their constituents understood what they were doing.''
Mounds of Materials
Now that the collapse has occurred, the roadblock built by Senate Democrats in 2005 is unforgivable. Man y who opposed the bill doubtlessly did so for honorable reasons. Fannie and Freddie provided mounds of materials defending their practices. Perhaps some found their propaganda convincing.
But we now know that many of the senators who protected Fannie and Freddie, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd, have received mind-boggling levels of financial support from them over the years.
Throughout his political career, Obama has gotten more than $125,000 in campaign contributions from employees and political action committees of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, second only to Dodd, the Senate Banking Committee chairman, who received more than $165,000.
Clinton, the 12th-ranked recipient of Fannie and Freddie PAC and employee contributions, has received more than $75,000 from the two enterprises and their employees. The private profit found its way back to the senators who killed the fix.
There has been a lot of talk about who is to blame for this crisis. A look back at the story of 2005 makes the answer pretty clear.
Oh, and there is one little footnote to the story that's worth keeping in mind while Democrats point fingers between now and Nov. 4: Senator John McCain was one of the three cosponsors of S.190, the bill that would have averted this mess.
(Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is a Bloomberg News columnist. He is an adviser to Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona in the 2008 presidential election.)
Liberty Counsel - www.LC.org
September 29, 2008
Google Comes Out of The Closet And Blast California Marriage Amendment
Google's cofounder and President of Technology, Sergey Brin, posted a statement Friday on the company blog against Proposition 8, the proposed constitutional amendment that would protect marriage in California as the union of one man and one woman. It is unfortunate that Google is taking the side of those who try to undermine traditional marriage.
Read our News Release for more details.
Of course, google.com is not the only search engine on the internet.
"My Comment"
By defeating the ‘bailout’ on Capitol Hill, America won. Taxpayers were saying no to this ‘giveaway’, with noone facing responsibility. By defeating the ‘bailout’, America lost. The direction of our economy must be corrected. In the end, American taxpayers are demanding for all legislation be directed toward the elected officials on Capitol Hill, as well as others on Wall Street, and anywhere else where unprofessional, unethical, and/or criminal activities rest. The entire leadership on Capitol Hill was made aware of the coming problems, yet noone as a group in leadership, chose to make the corrections until the ending of many financial institutions. Today and tomorrow, you will see ‘business as usual’. Americans are calling all on Capitol Hill to pass legislation to clean up corruption on Capitol Hill, Wall Street, and of others as applicable. Capitol Hill needs some major surgery. Do not allow the cancers to grow. - Oscar Y. Harward
Whenever you witness non-inclusive, discounting, or discriminatory words and actions, you have a choice. You can choose to remain silent, which allows these behaviors to thrive. Or you can speak up on behalf of respect. -- Leslie C. Aguilar
"The Patriot Post"
"Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions - The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the Tyranny mediated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth." -- George Washington
"The e-mail Bag"
Subject: Alaska Nat'l Guard from Sue Wood
I believe the following is important information [we probably will not hear via the News Media].......that American voters need to have. If you agree, pass it along. Thanks.
Alaska National Guard
Before you dismiss the fact that Sarah Palin is Commander of the Alaska National Guard, consider this:
Alaska is the first line of defense in our missile interceptorDefense system. The 49th Missile Defense Battalion of the Alaska National Guard is the unit that protects the entire nation from Ballistic missile attacks. It’s on permanent active duty, unlike Other Guard units.
As governor of Alaska , Palin is briefed on highly classifiedMilitary issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism. Her Exposure to classified material may rival even Biden's and Certainly by far exceeds Obama's.
She's also the commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force (ASDF), a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security's counter terrorism plans.
Palin is privy to military and intelligence secrets that are vital to The entire country's defense. Given Alaska 's proximity to Russia , She may have security clearances we don't even know about. According to the Washington Post, she first met with McCain in February, but nobody ever found out. This is a woman used to Keeping secrets.
She can be entrusted with our national security, because she Already is.
WET PANTS
Come with me to a third grade classroom..... There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives.
The boy believes his heart is going to stop; he puts his head down and prays this prayer, 'Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat.'
He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered.
As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap.
The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, 'Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!'
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy is wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else - Susie.
She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. You've done enough, you klutz!'
Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, 'You did that on purpose, didn't you?' Susie whispers back, 'I wet my pants once too.'
May God help us see the opportunities that are always around us to do good..
Remember.....Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.
Each and everyone one of us is going through tough times right now, but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that only He can. Keep the faith.
My instructions were to pick four (4) people that I wanted God to bless, and I picked you. Please pass this to at least four (4) people you want to be blessed.
This prayer is powerful, and prayer is one of the best gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards. Let's continue to pray for one another.
The Prayer:
Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those that I care deeply for, who are reading this right now. Show them a new revelation of Your love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy. Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. Amen.
If the Lord lays upon your heart to send this to more than four '4' people, you are truly blessed
"Bloomberg"
How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis: Kevin Hassett
http://repptide.com/commenting.php?value=5323&perm=pr36529
Commentary by Kevin Hassett
More Photos/DetailsSept. 22 (Bloomberg)
The financial crisis of the past year has provided a number of surprising twists and turns, and from Bear Stearns Cos. to American International Group Inc., ambiguity has been a big part of the story.
Why did Bear Stearns fail, and how does that relate to AIG? It all seems so complex.
But really, it isn't. Enough cards on this table have been turned over that the story is now clear. The economic history books will describe this episode in simple and understandable terms:
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exploded, and many bystanders were injured in the blast, some fatally.
Fannie and Freddie did this by becoming a key enabler of the mortgage crisis. They fueled Wall Street's efforts to securitize subprime loans by becoming the primary customer of all AAA-rated subprime-m ortgage pools. In addition, they held an enormous portfolio of mortgages themselves.
In the times that Fannie and Freddie couldn't make the market, they became the market. Over the years, it added up to an enormous obligation. As of last June, Fannie alone owned or guaranteed more than $388 billion in high-risk mortgage investments. Their large presence created an environment within which even mortgage-backed securities assembled by others could find a ready home.
The problem was that the trillions of dollars in play were only low-risk investments if real estate prices continued to rise. Once they began to fall, the entire house of cards came down with them.
Turning Point
Take away Fannie and Freddie, or regulate them more wisely, and it's hard to imagine how these highly liquid markets would ever have emerged. This whole mess would never have happened.
It is easy to identify the historical turning point that marked the beginning of the end.Back in 2005, Fannie and Freddie were, after years of dominating Washington, on the ropes. They were enmeshed in accounting scandals that led to turnover at the top. At one telling moment in late 2004, captured in an article by my American Enterprise Institute colleague Peter Wallison, the Securities and Exchange Comiission's chief accountant told disgraced Fannie Mae chief Franklin Raines that Fannie's position on the relevant accounting issue was not even ``on the page'' of allowable interpretations.
Then legislative momentum emerged for an attempt to create a ``world-class regulator'' that would oversee the pair more like banks, imposing strict requirements on their ability to take excessive risks. Politicians who previously had associated themselves proudly with the two accounting miscreants were less eager to be associated with them. The time was ripe.
Greenspan's Warning
The clear gravity of the situation pushed the legislation forward. Some might say t he current mess couldn't be foreseen, yet in 2005 Alan Greenspan told Congress how urgent it was for it to act in the clearest possible terms: If Fannie and Freddie ``continue to grow, continue to have the low capital that they have, continue to engage in the dynamic hedging of their portfolios, which they need to do for interest rate risk aversion, they potentially create ever-growing potential systemic risk down the road,'' he said. ``We are placing the total financial system of the future at a substantial risk.''
What happened next was extraordinary. For the first time in history, a serious Fannie and Freddie reform bill was passed by the Senate Banking Committee. The bill gave a regulator power to crack down, and would have required the companies to eliminate their investments in risky assets.
Different World
If that bill had become law, then the world today would be different. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, a blizzard of terrible mortgage paper fluttered out of t he Fannie and Freddie clouds, burying many of our oldest and most venerable institutions. Without their checkbooks keeping the market liquid and buying up excess supply, the market would likely have not existed.
But the bill didn't become law, for a simple reason: Democrats opposed it on a party-line vote in the committee, signaling that this would be a partisan issue. Republicans, tied in knots by the tight Democratic opposition, couldn't even get the Senate to vote on the matter.
That such a reckless political stand could have been taken by the Democrats was obscene even then. Wallison wrote at the time: "It is a classic case of socializing the risk while privatizing the profit. The Democrats and the few Republicans who oppose portfolio limitations could not possibly do so if their constituents understood what they were doing.''
Mounds of Materials
Now that the collapse has occurred, the roadblock built by Senate Democrats in 2005 is unforgivable. Man y who opposed the bill doubtlessly did so for honorable reasons. Fannie and Freddie provided mounds of materials defending their practices. Perhaps some found their propaganda convincing.
But we now know that many of the senators who protected Fannie and Freddie, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd, have received mind-boggling levels of financial support from them over the years.
Throughout his political career, Obama has gotten more than $125,000 in campaign contributions from employees and political action committees of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, second only to Dodd, the Senate Banking Committee chairman, who received more than $165,000.
Clinton, the 12th-ranked recipient of Fannie and Freddie PAC and employee contributions, has received more than $75,000 from the two enterprises and their employees. The private profit found its way back to the senators who killed the fix.
There has been a lot of talk about who is to blame for this crisis. A look back at the story of 2005 makes the answer pretty clear.
Oh, and there is one little footnote to the story that's worth keeping in mind while Democrats point fingers between now and Nov. 4: Senator John McCain was one of the three cosponsors of S.190, the bill that would have averted this mess.
(Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is a Bloomberg News columnist. He is an adviser to Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona in the 2008 presidential election.)
Liberty Counsel - www.LC.org
September 29, 2008
Google Comes Out of The Closet And Blast California Marriage Amendment
Google's cofounder and President of Technology, Sergey Brin, posted a statement Friday on the company blog against Proposition 8, the proposed constitutional amendment that would protect marriage in California as the union of one man and one woman. It is unfortunate that Google is taking the side of those who try to undermine traditional marriage.
Read our News Release for more details.
Of course, google.com is not the only search engine on the internet.
"My Comment"
By defeating the ‘bailout’ on Capitol Hill, America won. Taxpayers were saying no to this ‘giveaway’, with noone facing responsibility. By defeating the ‘bailout’, America lost. The direction of our economy must be corrected. In the end, American taxpayers are demanding for all legislation be directed toward the elected officials on Capitol Hill, as well as others on Wall Street, and anywhere else where unprofessional, unethical, and/or criminal activities rest. The entire leadership on Capitol Hill was made aware of the coming problems, yet noone as a group in leadership, chose to make the corrections until the ending of many financial institutions. Today and tomorrow, you will see ‘business as usual’. Americans are calling all on Capitol Hill to pass legislation to clean up corruption on Capitol Hill, Wall Street, and of others as applicable. Capitol Hill needs some major surgery. Do not allow the cancers to grow. - Oscar Y. Harward
Daily Motivations - 20080929
"The Patriot Post"
It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution. - Reference: Madison, Federalist No. 37 (230-31)
"The e-mail Bag"
A friend of mine came up with an absolute solution on the Presidential debate.
With no clear victor of the 1st presidential debate, its up to the American people to openly display who they feel won that debate.
Therefore, if you feel like "McCain won" the debate please drive during the day with your headlights on.
If you feel like "Obama won", please drive at night with your headlights off!!
"UNITED STATES MAP"
A father wanted to read a magazine but was being bothered by his little girl, Shelby. She wanted to know what the United States looked like.
Finally, he tore a sheet out of his new magazine on which was printed the map of the country. Tearing it into small pieces,he gave it to Shelby and said, 'Go into the other room and see if you can put this together. This will show you our whole country today.'
After a few minutes, Shelby returned and handed him the map,correctly fitted and taped together. The father was surprised and asked how she had finished so quickly. 'Oh,' she said, 'on the other side of the paper is a picture of Jesus. When I got all of Jesus back where He belonged, then our country just came together.'
This one is worth forwarding. OVER AND OVER AGAIN...... AMEN!!!!!
"Dog Logic"
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. - Anonymous
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Ben Williams
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. - Josh Billings
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andy Rooney Dogs love their friends & bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love & always have to mix love & hate. - Anonymous
Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. - Franklin P. Jones
If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. - Unknown
My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money. - Joe Weinstein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein
f you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras
If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them. - Phil Pastoret
"Who is a Fool"?
There are many references to fools in the Bible. To be foolish is different from being a fool. We all have done foolish things at one time or another. The Bible gives a description of a person who can be called a fool.
1. Psalm 14:1 and 53:1 state, "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God."
2. Proverbs 1:7 states, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
3. Proverbs 11:29 states, "the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart."
4. Proverbs 12:15 states, "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that harkeneth unto counsel is wise."
5. Proverbs 14:9 states, "Fools make a mock at sin…"
6. Proverbs 14:16 states, "A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident."
7. Proverbs 15:2 states, "The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness."
8. Proverbs 15:5 states, "A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regarded reproof is prudent."
9. Proverbs 29:11 states, "A fool uttered all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards."
10. Eccl. 2:14 states, "The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness."
11. Matthew 23:17 Jesus refers to fools as blind.
12. Luke 24:25 Jesus says that fools are slow to hear and believe."O fools, and slow of heart to believe…"
13. Luke 12:20 and worst of all, a fool is a loser. "But God said unto him, thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou has provided."Proverbs 10:8 states, "The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall." Proverbs 15:24 states, "The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath."
We find ourselves in the Bible, God’s Holy Word and what I have given today is purely the Word of God without any commentary.
It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it [the Constitution] a finger of that Almighty hand which has been so frequently and signally extended to our relief in the critical stages of the revolution. - Reference: Madison, Federalist No. 37 (230-31)
"The e-mail Bag"
A friend of mine came up with an absolute solution on the Presidential debate.
With no clear victor of the 1st presidential debate, its up to the American people to openly display who they feel won that debate.
Therefore, if you feel like "McCain won" the debate please drive during the day with your headlights on.
If you feel like "Obama won", please drive at night with your headlights off!!
"UNITED STATES MAP"
A father wanted to read a magazine but was being bothered by his little girl, Shelby. She wanted to know what the United States looked like.
Finally, he tore a sheet out of his new magazine on which was printed the map of the country. Tearing it into small pieces,he gave it to Shelby and said, 'Go into the other room and see if you can put this together. This will show you our whole country today.'
After a few minutes, Shelby returned and handed him the map,correctly fitted and taped together. The father was surprised and asked how she had finished so quickly. 'Oh,' she said, 'on the other side of the paper is a picture of Jesus. When I got all of Jesus back where He belonged, then our country just came together.'
This one is worth forwarding. OVER AND OVER AGAIN...... AMEN!!!!!
"Dog Logic"
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. - Anonymous
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Ben Williams
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. - Josh Billings
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andy Rooney Dogs love their friends & bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love & always have to mix love & hate. - Anonymous
Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. - Franklin P. Jones
If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. - Unknown
My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money. - Joe Weinstein
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein
f you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras
If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them. - Phil Pastoret
"Who is a Fool"?
There are many references to fools in the Bible. To be foolish is different from being a fool. We all have done foolish things at one time or another. The Bible gives a description of a person who can be called a fool.
1. Psalm 14:1 and 53:1 state, "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God."
2. Proverbs 1:7 states, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
3. Proverbs 11:29 states, "the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart."
4. Proverbs 12:15 states, "The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that harkeneth unto counsel is wise."
5. Proverbs 14:9 states, "Fools make a mock at sin…"
6. Proverbs 14:16 states, "A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident."
7. Proverbs 15:2 states, "The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness."
8. Proverbs 15:5 states, "A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regarded reproof is prudent."
9. Proverbs 29:11 states, "A fool uttered all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards."
10. Eccl. 2:14 states, "The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness."
11. Matthew 23:17 Jesus refers to fools as blind.
12. Luke 24:25 Jesus says that fools are slow to hear and believe."O fools, and slow of heart to believe…"
13. Luke 12:20 and worst of all, a fool is a loser. "But God said unto him, thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou has provided."Proverbs 10:8 states, "The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall." Proverbs 15:24 states, "The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath."
We find ourselves in the Bible, God’s Holy Word and what I have given today is purely the Word of God without any commentary.
Daily Motivations - 092608
"Daily Motivations"
I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that, then I realized I was somebody. -- Lily Tomlin
Today's Topic: Commitment
Think of someone you know (or know of) who is “a person of good character.” Lock his or her image in your mind. Now take a moment to reflect on the things this person says and does…the personal characteristics that make him or her a role model for you. What comes to mind? What do you see?
Chances are that high on the list of your role model’s qualities is COMMITMENT – the unwavering dedication to being a good family member and friend…to doing his or her best at work and away from the job…to doing what’s right, noble, and decent.
Committed people like your role model just seem to have their heads and hearts in the right place. They keep their priorities straight. They stay focused on what’s important. They know, inherently, that what they believe must drive how they behave – and how they behave ultimately determines the character they possess, the reputation they enjoy, and the legacy they leave.
Do they face occasional temptations to compromise their values…to do what’s easy, convenient, and self-serving? Of course they do! But they fight those temptations the same way they approach every aspect of their lives: With everything they have.
Questions to Ponder:
What am I committed to?
What values are important to me?
How committed am I?
What personal behaviors can I cite as evidence of those commitments?
How close are my behaviors to those of my commitment role model?
What can I do to be a commitment role model for others?
"The Patriot Post"
"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but becauseI wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form." --- Calvin Coolidge
"Ultimately, the choice before the American people is the choice between two visions: on the one hand, the policies of limited government, economic growth, a strong defense, and a firm foreign policy; and on the other hand, policies of tax and spend, economic stagnation, international weakness and accommodation, and always, always, from them, 'Blame America first.' It's the choice between the policies of liberalism or the policies of America's political mainstream." --- Ronald Reagan
"The Alliance Defense Fund"
Settlement: Illinois church finally able to worship on own property
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4688
ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASESeptember 24, 2008 –
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom
Settlement: Illinois church finally able to worshipon own property
ADF-allied attorney settles lawsuit with city and mayor who sought to block church from use of building
CARLINVILLE, Ill. — The city of Carlinville has agreed to a settlement proposed by an Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney on behalf of the Carlinville Southern Baptist Church. The settlement means that the church can now use a former Wal-Mart building it purchased and renovated after the city and its mayor approved the church’s use of the building and then backed out of the agreement.
“Churches should not be discriminated against in city zoning decisions,” said ADF-allied attorney Daniel P. Dalton. “We are pleased that the city has finally realized that it has no legal recourse to keep Carlinville Southern Baptist Church from using the property it has legitimately acquired for religious purposes.”
Since entering into a contract to acquire the building from Wal-Mart in August 2005, the Carlinville church has met resistance from city officials over its use of the building. Dalton filed the lawsuit Carlinville Southern Baptist Church v. City of Carlinville on the church’s behalf in March, alleging that the city’s attempt to block the church’s purchase, renovation, and use of the structure violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. RLUIPA is a federal law protecting churches from discrimination in land use disputes with local governments (www.telladf.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4551).
At least three times this summer, the city proposed terms of agreement to the church, only to refuse to vote on them and add more restrictive terms in an apparent attempt to drive the church and its pastor into insolvency and out of town. After the church publicly rebuked the mayor for the impasse, the city proposed a better settlement, and the church accepted.
“It’s simply wrong for a city to keep a church from using property because officials would rather see it used to generate commercial tax revenue. And forcing a church to endure bureaucratic nightmares over the matter is even worse,” said ADF Senior Counsel Joe Infranco. “We’re pleased that this settlement clears the way for the church to begin preparing the property for worship services.”
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
"Liberty Counsel"
Press ReleaseSeptember 23, 2008Kentucky Court Upholds Constitution, Rejects Illegal "Gay" Adoption
www.LC.org
Louisville, KY - The Kentucky Court of Appeals has strongly rebuked an activist lower family court for allowing a lesbian woman to illegally adopt her female companion's child, in clear violation of both Kentucky law and the Kentucky state constitution. The higher court reaffirmed that in Kentucky, stepparent adoptions are only legal when the stepparent is married to a biological parent. The court also reaffirmed that marriage can only exist between one man and one woman.
"It's not this or any court's role to judge whether the legislature's prohibition of same-sex marriage … is morally defensible or socially enlightened," wrote Judge Glenn Acree in the opinion. "Nor is it this or any court's role … to craft any means by which the legal consequences of such a prohibition may be negated or avoided."
Similar to the activist judge in Kentucky, on September 11, an activist Florida county circuit court issued a controversial opinion, suggesting that Florida's 31-year-old law that bans adoptions by homosexuals was somehow unconstitutional, despite the fact that the same law has been ruled constitutional by both state and federal courts of appeal. In fact, Liberty Counsel successfully defended the same law at the federal court of appeals that upheld the law. Despite the fact that these decisions by the appeals courts are binding on the Florida trial judge, he lawlessly disregarded these binding precedents.
Reporting on the Florida decision, the Associated Press erroneously indicated that the Florida law was "one of only two such statewide bans in the country." However, as the Kentucky decision establishes, this is patently untrue. In fact, most states ban homosexual adoption through legislation, regulation, or court precedent. Only a handful of states allow homosexual adoption. These state laws ban adoption by homosexuals because the best interest of children is served by placing them in homes with a mom and a dad or where there is a likelihood of a mom and a dad. A homosexual home automatically excludes one gender, either the mom or the dad.
Mathew D. Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: "Judicial activism is a cancer that eats away at the rule of law and undermines the confidence of the people in the legal system. There is a clear distinction between the role of a judge and the role of a legislator. One interprets law and one makes law. The psychological dysfunction known as 'Judicioactivism' is easily cured by a good dose of the Constitution, bed rest and removal from the bench to prevent relapse."
"Accuracy In Media"
Senator Bunning Blasts “Financial Socialism”
AIM Column By Cliff Kincaid September 24, 2008
Read the entire article: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/senator-bunning-blasts-financial-socialism/
Bunning’s views are consistent with the 2008 Republican platform, which declares, “We do not support government bailouts of private institutions.
John McCain claims to be a straight talker, but it is Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, who on Tuesday, in front of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke, labeled the Paulson/Bernanke $700 billion Wall Street takeover plan “financial socialism.” He also called it “un-American.”
"The e-mail Bag"
"WE CAN NEVER FORGET"
Obama's 143 Days of Senate Experience
Posted by Cheri JacobusMay 5, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Just how much Senate experience does Barack Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much.
From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.
After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan.
143 days -- I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that.
In contrast, John McCain's 26 years in Congress, 22 years of military service including 1,966 days in captivity as a POW in Hanoi now seem more impressive than ever. At 71, John McCain may just be hitting his stride.
Think about IT!!!
Think you know who this man is?
This possible President of the United States!!
Read Below andask yourselves, is this REALLY someone we can see as thePresident of our great nation?
Below are a few lines from Obama's books; In his own words!
From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 1 2 or 1 3, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!
From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
*If you have never forwarded an e-mail, now is the time to Do so!!!! We CANNOT have someone with this type of mentality running our GREAT nation
I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that, then I realized I was somebody. -- Lily Tomlin
Today's Topic: Commitment
Think of someone you know (or know of) who is “a person of good character.” Lock his or her image in your mind. Now take a moment to reflect on the things this person says and does…the personal characteristics that make him or her a role model for you. What comes to mind? What do you see?
Chances are that high on the list of your role model’s qualities is COMMITMENT – the unwavering dedication to being a good family member and friend…to doing his or her best at work and away from the job…to doing what’s right, noble, and decent.
Committed people like your role model just seem to have their heads and hearts in the right place. They keep their priorities straight. They stay focused on what’s important. They know, inherently, that what they believe must drive how they behave – and how they behave ultimately determines the character they possess, the reputation they enjoy, and the legacy they leave.
Do they face occasional temptations to compromise their values…to do what’s easy, convenient, and self-serving? Of course they do! But they fight those temptations the same way they approach every aspect of their lives: With everything they have.
Questions to Ponder:
What am I committed to?
What values are important to me?
How committed am I?
What personal behaviors can I cite as evidence of those commitments?
How close are my behaviors to those of my commitment role model?
What can I do to be a commitment role model for others?
"The Patriot Post"
"I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but becauseI wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we prudently save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form." --- Calvin Coolidge
"Ultimately, the choice before the American people is the choice between two visions: on the one hand, the policies of limited government, economic growth, a strong defense, and a firm foreign policy; and on the other hand, policies of tax and spend, economic stagnation, international weakness and accommodation, and always, always, from them, 'Blame America first.' It's the choice between the policies of liberalism or the policies of America's political mainstream." --- Ronald Reagan
"The Alliance Defense Fund"
Settlement: Illinois church finally able to worship on own property
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4688
ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASESeptember 24, 2008 –
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom
Settlement: Illinois church finally able to worshipon own property
ADF-allied attorney settles lawsuit with city and mayor who sought to block church from use of building
CARLINVILLE, Ill. — The city of Carlinville has agreed to a settlement proposed by an Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney on behalf of the Carlinville Southern Baptist Church. The settlement means that the church can now use a former Wal-Mart building it purchased and renovated after the city and its mayor approved the church’s use of the building and then backed out of the agreement.
“Churches should not be discriminated against in city zoning decisions,” said ADF-allied attorney Daniel P. Dalton. “We are pleased that the city has finally realized that it has no legal recourse to keep Carlinville Southern Baptist Church from using the property it has legitimately acquired for religious purposes.”
Since entering into a contract to acquire the building from Wal-Mart in August 2005, the Carlinville church has met resistance from city officials over its use of the building. Dalton filed the lawsuit Carlinville Southern Baptist Church v. City of Carlinville on the church’s behalf in March, alleging that the city’s attempt to block the church’s purchase, renovation, and use of the structure violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. RLUIPA is a federal law protecting churches from discrimination in land use disputes with local governments (www.telladf.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4551).
At least three times this summer, the city proposed terms of agreement to the church, only to refuse to vote on them and add more restrictive terms in an apparent attempt to drive the church and its pastor into insolvency and out of town. After the church publicly rebuked the mayor for the impasse, the city proposed a better settlement, and the church accepted.
“It’s simply wrong for a city to keep a church from using property because officials would rather see it used to generate commercial tax revenue. And forcing a church to endure bureaucratic nightmares over the matter is even worse,” said ADF Senior Counsel Joe Infranco. “We’re pleased that this settlement clears the way for the church to begin preparing the property for worship services.”
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
"Liberty Counsel"
Press ReleaseSeptember 23, 2008Kentucky Court Upholds Constitution, Rejects Illegal "Gay" Adoption
www.LC.org
Louisville, KY - The Kentucky Court of Appeals has strongly rebuked an activist lower family court for allowing a lesbian woman to illegally adopt her female companion's child, in clear violation of both Kentucky law and the Kentucky state constitution. The higher court reaffirmed that in Kentucky, stepparent adoptions are only legal when the stepparent is married to a biological parent. The court also reaffirmed that marriage can only exist between one man and one woman.
"It's not this or any court's role to judge whether the legislature's prohibition of same-sex marriage … is morally defensible or socially enlightened," wrote Judge Glenn Acree in the opinion. "Nor is it this or any court's role … to craft any means by which the legal consequences of such a prohibition may be negated or avoided."
Similar to the activist judge in Kentucky, on September 11, an activist Florida county circuit court issued a controversial opinion, suggesting that Florida's 31-year-old law that bans adoptions by homosexuals was somehow unconstitutional, despite the fact that the same law has been ruled constitutional by both state and federal courts of appeal. In fact, Liberty Counsel successfully defended the same law at the federal court of appeals that upheld the law. Despite the fact that these decisions by the appeals courts are binding on the Florida trial judge, he lawlessly disregarded these binding precedents.
Reporting on the Florida decision, the Associated Press erroneously indicated that the Florida law was "one of only two such statewide bans in the country." However, as the Kentucky decision establishes, this is patently untrue. In fact, most states ban homosexual adoption through legislation, regulation, or court precedent. Only a handful of states allow homosexual adoption. These state laws ban adoption by homosexuals because the best interest of children is served by placing them in homes with a mom and a dad or where there is a likelihood of a mom and a dad. A homosexual home automatically excludes one gender, either the mom or the dad.
Mathew D. Staver, Founder of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, commented: "Judicial activism is a cancer that eats away at the rule of law and undermines the confidence of the people in the legal system. There is a clear distinction between the role of a judge and the role of a legislator. One interprets law and one makes law. The psychological dysfunction known as 'Judicioactivism' is easily cured by a good dose of the Constitution, bed rest and removal from the bench to prevent relapse."
"Accuracy In Media"
Senator Bunning Blasts “Financial Socialism”
AIM Column By Cliff Kincaid September 24, 2008
Read the entire article: http://www.aim.org/aim-column/senator-bunning-blasts-financial-socialism/
Bunning’s views are consistent with the 2008 Republican platform, which declares, “We do not support government bailouts of private institutions.
John McCain claims to be a straight talker, but it is Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, who on Tuesday, in front of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Board chairman Ben Bernanke, labeled the Paulson/Bernanke $700 billion Wall Street takeover plan “financial socialism.” He also called it “un-American.”
"The e-mail Bag"
"WE CAN NEVER FORGET"
Obama's 143 Days of Senate Experience
Posted by Cheri JacobusMay 5, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Just how much Senate experience does Barack Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much.
From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate. That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.
After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan.
143 days -- I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that.
In contrast, John McCain's 26 years in Congress, 22 years of military service including 1,966 days in captivity as a POW in Hanoi now seem more impressive than ever. At 71, John McCain may just be hitting his stride.
Think about IT!!!
Think you know who this man is?
This possible President of the United States!!
Read Below andask yourselves, is this REALLY someone we can see as thePresident of our great nation?
Below are a few lines from Obama's books; In his own words!
From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 1 2 or 1 3, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!
From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
*If you have never forwarded an e-mail, now is the time to Do so!!!! We CANNOT have someone with this type of mentality running our GREAT nation
Daily Motivations - 20080925
"Daily Motivations"
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. -- Norman Vincent Peale
"The Patriot Post"
"Conscience is the most sacred of all property." -- James Madison
"National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." --- John Adams
"The e-mail Bag"
One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex standing in the foyer of the church staring up at a large plaque. It was covered with names and small American flags mounted on either side of it. The six-year old had been staring at the plaque for some time, so the pastor walked up, stood beside the little boy, and said quietly, 'Good morning Alex.' 'Good morning Pastor,' he replied, still focused on the plaque. 'Pastor, what is this?' The pastor said, 'Well son, it's a memorial to all the young men and women who died in the service.' Soberly, they just stood together, staring at the large plaque. Finally, little Alex's voice, barely audible and trembling with fear asked, 'Which service, the 8:30 or the 10:45?'
Yup, she's the real deal....this is a righteous woman. This video is in her home church...she shares and then her pastor prays for her. It's touching.
To all my Christian friends who are supporting Obama...make sure you are hearing from God.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1766638341
Lord in the Name of Jesus, we bless Sarah Palin and ask that You will protect she and her loved ones for such a time as this. We bind and break off any demonic assignment against her and loose to her 7 fold blessings in replacement. We cover her in the blood of Jesus Christ. We loose the angels of God to go with her and carry her into her destiny created before she was born. Thank You Lord for Your hidden servants and all that You do to raise them up. Thank You Lord that she honors You with her life. Now we ask that You will honor her, in a job well done. Open the double doors and release her into Your chosen destiny in Jesus Name we pray, amen.
"Human Events"
Dear Conservative Friend,
They say the truth hurts. In Barack Obama's case, it is simply devastating.
Not surprisingly the Big Media have kept the American public blind to the truth about Obama, including...
The fact that a corrupt Chicago Machine politician "made a U.S. senator" out of Barack Obama
How Barack Obama won his first election by having his lawyers knock all his opponents off the ballot on technicalities
Obama's support for a grotesque "infanticide" law that was too extreme even for Nancy Pelosi
The Tony Rezko connection: "I've never done any favors for him," says Obama about convicted developer Tony Rezko. Oh, but he has...
We at HUMAN EVENTS are set to embark on a massive truth-telling mission to unmask the real Barack Obama. And just like in 2004 when concerned Americans exploded John Kerry's presidential aspirations by helping the Swift Boat Veterans get out the truth about him. . ..
We're going to stop the Obama campaign juggernaut dead in its tracks!
Just wait until Americans read the special editorial supplement produced (together with our sister company, RedState.com) by our HUMAN EVENTS team called "The Truth about Obama:
What Every Citizen Needs to Know".
You see, while the Obama campaign is dying to keep the skeletons in Obama's closet hidden for just three more months, we plan to tell the truth to the American public before November.
Sadly, money talks when it comes to reporting the truth today. And we at HUMAN EVENTS have barely enough to stay afloat in today's difficult economy -- a situation I'm sure you can appreciate.
In addition, HUMAN EVENTS just bore the cost of including this special supplement into the 5,000 issues of HUMAN EVENTS we distributed at the Republican National Convention.
With the money we do have left, we vow to expose the dangerous liberalism of Barack Obama in the pages of HUMAN EVENTS every week and on our website HumanEvents.com every day.
But we need your help, my friend, to cover the costs of printing and delivering boxes of our special editorial supplement, "The Truth about Obama: What Every Citizen Needs to Know" to activist conservative students on college campuses and to selected media outlets across the country.
Why college campuses and media outlets? Simple...
Young voters -- including our own children and grandchildren -- are today being indoctrinated by biased liberal "educators" who distort the truth about terrorism, the reason for the energy crisis, spending, education and Barack Obama.
Our friends at key conservative organizations are providing us with the names and addresses of the conservative student leaders who are fighting on the front lines this election year.
By sending "The Truth about Obama" to conservative student leaders at every college campus in America, we're arming young conservatives with the facts about Barack Obama that they need to know.
And just as it's our responsibility to ensure that America's young voters know the straight facts about Obama, so too with the American public.
That's why we're sending "The Truth about Obama" to major media outlets across the country. Because we simply cannot let the Big Media from New York, Washington, Los Angeles and other large cities continue to have their way, covering up the truth about Obama, the man who repeatedly promises "change" but will give us the same old liberal policies that have failed for 40+ years.
As our loyal friend, you know that HUMAN EVENTS has been the stalwart defender of conservative principles and traditional values since 1944 -- longer than any other newsweekly.
Help us spread the conservative message even further by making it possible for us to deliver the report to every college campus and every media outlet in America as soon as possible.
Your contribution to this campaign will allow us to deliver boxes of "The Truth about Obama" to conservative student leaders on college campuses and to the opinion leaders at major media outlets. Just imagine the impact if we could afford to deliver one box to every campus and media outlet in America!
To express our gratitude for your donation of just $50 or more, we'll send you a complimentary copy of David Fredosso's brand-new New York Times bestseller, The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate.
Freddoso's comprehensive book serves to remove, once and for all, the halo from a man with fewer qualifications, and a more radical agenda, than the mainstream media lets on.
Of course, we'll send you a copy of our special report, "The Truth about Obama: What Every Citizen Needs to Know", to thank you for your contribution big or small. Any amount will be appreciated and will help "The Truth about Obama" reach more fact-hungry Americans.
These are critical times for our country. We must not allow the Big Media and liberal college campuses to succeed in placing one of the most liberal and inexperienced candidates ever in the White House.
Donate now so we can broadcast "The Truth About Obama" to the American public
Best Regards,
Tom Winter President and Editor in Chief, HUMAN EVENTS
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. -- Norman Vincent Peale
"The Patriot Post"
"Conscience is the most sacred of all property." -- James Madison
"National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman." --- John Adams
Folks, This is worth reading and learning about the arrogance of the Liberal media .
"Charlie Gibson got it wrong. There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration---and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today. It is utterly different. He asked Palin, 'Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?' She responded, quite sensibly to a question that is ambiguous, 'In what respect, Charlie?' Sensing his 'gotcha' moment, Gibson refused to tell her. After making her fish for the answer, Gibson grudgingly explained to the moose-hunting rube that the Bush doctrine 'is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense.' Wrong. I know something about the subject because... I was the first to use the term. In the cover essay of the June 4, 2001, issue of the Weekly Standard entitled, 'The Bush Doctrine: ABM, Kyoto, and the New American Unilateralism,' I suggested that the Bush administration policies of unilaterally withdrawing from the ABM treaty and rejecting the Kyoto protocol, together with others, amounted to a radical change in foreign policy that should be called the Bush doctrine. Then came 9/11, and that notion was immediately supersededby the advent of the war on terror. In his address to the joint session of Congress nine days after 9/11, President Bush declared: 'Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.' This 'with us or against us' policy regarding terror... became the essence of the Bush doctrine. Until Iraq. A year later, when the Iraq war was looming, Bush offered his major justification by enunciating a doctrine of preemptive war. This is the one Charlie Gibson thinks is the Bush doctrine. It's not. It's the third in a series and was superseded by the fourth and current definition of the Bush doctrine, the most sweeping formulation of the Bush approach to foreign policy and the one that most clearly and distinctively defines the Bush years: the idea that the fundamental mission of American foreign policy is to spread democracy throughout the world... Yes, Sarah Palin didn't know what it is. But neither does Charlie Gibson. And at least she didn't pretend to know---while he looked down his nose and over his glasses with weary disdain, sighing and 'sounding like an impatient teacher,' as the [New York] Times noted. In doing so, he captured perfectly the establishment snobbery and intellectualcondescension that has characterized the chattering classes' reaction to the mother of five who presumes to play on their stage." --- Charles Krauthammer"The e-mail Bag"
One Sunday morning, the pastor noticed little Alex standing in the foyer of the church staring up at a large plaque. It was covered with names and small American flags mounted on either side of it. The six-year old had been staring at the plaque for some time, so the pastor walked up, stood beside the little boy, and said quietly, 'Good morning Alex.' 'Good morning Pastor,' he replied, still focused on the plaque. 'Pastor, what is this?' The pastor said, 'Well son, it's a memorial to all the young men and women who died in the service.' Soberly, they just stood together, staring at the large plaque. Finally, little Alex's voice, barely audible and trembling with fear asked, 'Which service, the 8:30 or the 10:45?'
Yup, she's the real deal....this is a righteous woman. This video is in her home church...she shares and then her pastor prays for her. It's touching.
To all my Christian friends who are supporting Obama...make sure you are hearing from God.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1766638341
Lord in the Name of Jesus, we bless Sarah Palin and ask that You will protect she and her loved ones for such a time as this. We bind and break off any demonic assignment against her and loose to her 7 fold blessings in replacement. We cover her in the blood of Jesus Christ. We loose the angels of God to go with her and carry her into her destiny created before she was born. Thank You Lord for Your hidden servants and all that You do to raise them up. Thank You Lord that she honors You with her life. Now we ask that You will honor her, in a job well done. Open the double doors and release her into Your chosen destiny in Jesus Name we pray, amen.
"Human Events"
Dear Conservative Friend,
They say the truth hurts. In Barack Obama's case, it is simply devastating.
Not surprisingly the Big Media have kept the American public blind to the truth about Obama, including...
The fact that a corrupt Chicago Machine politician "made a U.S. senator" out of Barack Obama
How Barack Obama won his first election by having his lawyers knock all his opponents off the ballot on technicalities
Obama's support for a grotesque "infanticide" law that was too extreme even for Nancy Pelosi
The Tony Rezko connection: "I've never done any favors for him," says Obama about convicted developer Tony Rezko. Oh, but he has...
We at HUMAN EVENTS are set to embark on a massive truth-telling mission to unmask the real Barack Obama. And just like in 2004 when concerned Americans exploded John Kerry's presidential aspirations by helping the Swift Boat Veterans get out the truth about him. . ..
We're going to stop the Obama campaign juggernaut dead in its tracks!
Just wait until Americans read the special editorial supplement produced (together with our sister company, RedState.com) by our HUMAN EVENTS team called "The Truth about Obama:
What Every Citizen Needs to Know".
You see, while the Obama campaign is dying to keep the skeletons in Obama's closet hidden for just three more months, we plan to tell the truth to the American public before November.
Sadly, money talks when it comes to reporting the truth today. And we at HUMAN EVENTS have barely enough to stay afloat in today's difficult economy -- a situation I'm sure you can appreciate.
In addition, HUMAN EVENTS just bore the cost of including this special supplement into the 5,000 issues of HUMAN EVENTS we distributed at the Republican National Convention.
With the money we do have left, we vow to expose the dangerous liberalism of Barack Obama in the pages of HUMAN EVENTS every week and on our website HumanEvents.com every day.
But we need your help, my friend, to cover the costs of printing and delivering boxes of our special editorial supplement, "The Truth about Obama: What Every Citizen Needs to Know" to activist conservative students on college campuses and to selected media outlets across the country.
Why college campuses and media outlets? Simple...
Young voters -- including our own children and grandchildren -- are today being indoctrinated by biased liberal "educators" who distort the truth about terrorism, the reason for the energy crisis, spending, education and Barack Obama.
Our friends at key conservative organizations are providing us with the names and addresses of the conservative student leaders who are fighting on the front lines this election year.
By sending "The Truth about Obama" to conservative student leaders at every college campus in America, we're arming young conservatives with the facts about Barack Obama that they need to know.
And just as it's our responsibility to ensure that America's young voters know the straight facts about Obama, so too with the American public.
That's why we're sending "The Truth about Obama" to major media outlets across the country. Because we simply cannot let the Big Media from New York, Washington, Los Angeles and other large cities continue to have their way, covering up the truth about Obama, the man who repeatedly promises "change" but will give us the same old liberal policies that have failed for 40+ years.
As our loyal friend, you know that HUMAN EVENTS has been the stalwart defender of conservative principles and traditional values since 1944 -- longer than any other newsweekly.
Help us spread the conservative message even further by making it possible for us to deliver the report to every college campus and every media outlet in America as soon as possible.
Your contribution to this campaign will allow us to deliver boxes of "The Truth about Obama" to conservative student leaders on college campuses and to the opinion leaders at major media outlets. Just imagine the impact if we could afford to deliver one box to every campus and media outlet in America!
To express our gratitude for your donation of just $50 or more, we'll send you a complimentary copy of David Fredosso's brand-new New York Times bestseller, The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate.
Freddoso's comprehensive book serves to remove, once and for all, the halo from a man with fewer qualifications, and a more radical agenda, than the mainstream media lets on.
Of course, we'll send you a copy of our special report, "The Truth about Obama: What Every Citizen Needs to Know", to thank you for your contribution big or small. Any amount will be appreciated and will help "The Truth about Obama" reach more fact-hungry Americans.
These are critical times for our country. We must not allow the Big Media and liberal college campuses to succeed in placing one of the most liberal and inexperienced candidates ever in the White House.
Donate now so we can broadcast "The Truth About Obama" to the American public
Best Regards,
Tom Winter President and Editor in Chief, HUMAN EVENTS
Daily Motivations - 20080924
"Daily Motivations"
Never ignore a gut feeling, but also never believe that it's enough. -- Robert Heller (adaptation)
"The Patriot Post"
Never ignore a gut feeling, but also never believe that it's enough. -- Robert Heller (adaptation)
"Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." -- Benjamin Franklin
"This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications." --- Alexander Hamilton
"Simple Truths"
“Customer service is not a department...it's an attitude.”
"OneNewsNow"
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=257324
Biden 'honored' to speak at pro-homosexual gala
Allie Martin - OneNewsNow - 9/22/2008 7:00:00 AM
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A pro-family activist says Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden's upcoming appearance at the national dinner for the largest homosexual civil rights group shows what is truly at stake in the presidential election.
On October 4, Senator Biden (D-Delaware) will be the featured speaker at the national dinner for the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, DC. According to an HRC press release, the senator said he was honored to take part in the event and vowed to stand with the homosexual-rights group to advance their cause. Peter LaBarbera, founder of Republicans for Family Values, argues that the Democratic Party is clearly not for traditional values. "I think the Democratic Party has sold its soul to the radical homosexual lobby," he states bluntly. "And I think any Democrat who has a sense of pro-family values and a true faith should take issue with what has happened to this party." The Democrats, says LaBarbera, "are now fully in bed with the homosexual activist lobby." The pro-family activist points out that Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) is the most pro-abortion and pro-homosexual candidate ever to receive a major party's presidential nomination.
"ConservativeHQ.com"
Dear friend,
I urge you to read my piece, Congressional Shell Game, published at www.AmericanThinker.com.
My piece explains how members of Congress have created a form of “legalized” money laundering by which the most powerful members buy influence with their colleagues, but by using other people’s (i.e., their own campaign contributors’) money.
Through this shell game, members pass through lobbyist money to their colleagues out of sight of the public and campaign finance restrictions. It also allows members of Congress to make unrestricted contributions to their party committees, even though we mere citizens are limited in what we may contribute.
This congressional shell game contributes to and insulates bad behavior in Congress. The system of earmarks, the chumminess between special interests such as Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and Congress, and at least some of the corruption in Washington would likely take a severe hit if this system of campaign money pass-throughs were eliminated.
The next Congress and president should eliminate this system, which creates allegiances within Congress based on money rather than merit.
Cordially,
Richard A. Viguerie
ConservativeHQ.com
9625 Surveyor Court
Suite 400
Manassas, VA 20110
"American Family Association"
Before you vote, check out the AFA Voters Guide
September 22, 2008
Dear Oscar,
I hope you will check out the AFA Voters Guide. Please forward the guide to your friends and family. Ă¢€¢ Click here for the HTML versionĂ¢€¢ Click here for the PDF version
Never ignore a gut feeling, but also never believe that it's enough. -- Robert Heller (adaptation)
"The Patriot Post"
Never ignore a gut feeling, but also never believe that it's enough. -- Robert Heller (adaptation)
"Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." -- Benjamin Franklin
"This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications." --- Alexander Hamilton
"Simple Truths"
“Customer service is not a department...it's an attitude.”
"OneNewsNow"
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Election2008/Default.aspx?id=257324
Biden 'honored' to speak at pro-homosexual gala
Allie Martin - OneNewsNow - 9/22/2008 7:00:00 AM
var addthis_pub = 'onenewsnow';
A pro-family activist says Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden's upcoming appearance at the national dinner for the largest homosexual civil rights group shows what is truly at stake in the presidential election.
On October 4, Senator Biden (D-Delaware) will be the featured speaker at the national dinner for the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, DC. According to an HRC press release, the senator said he was honored to take part in the event and vowed to stand with the homosexual-rights group to advance their cause. Peter LaBarbera, founder of Republicans for Family Values, argues that the Democratic Party is clearly not for traditional values. "I think the Democratic Party has sold its soul to the radical homosexual lobby," he states bluntly. "And I think any Democrat who has a sense of pro-family values and a true faith should take issue with what has happened to this party." The Democrats, says LaBarbera, "are now fully in bed with the homosexual activist lobby." The pro-family activist points out that Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) is the most pro-abortion and pro-homosexual candidate ever to receive a major party's presidential nomination.
"ConservativeHQ.com"
Dear friend,
I urge you to read my piece, Congressional Shell Game, published at www.AmericanThinker.com.
My piece explains how members of Congress have created a form of “legalized” money laundering by which the most powerful members buy influence with their colleagues, but by using other people’s (i.e., their own campaign contributors’) money.
Through this shell game, members pass through lobbyist money to their colleagues out of sight of the public and campaign finance restrictions. It also allows members of Congress to make unrestricted contributions to their party committees, even though we mere citizens are limited in what we may contribute.
This congressional shell game contributes to and insulates bad behavior in Congress. The system of earmarks, the chumminess between special interests such as Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and Congress, and at least some of the corruption in Washington would likely take a severe hit if this system of campaign money pass-throughs were eliminated.
The next Congress and president should eliminate this system, which creates allegiances within Congress based on money rather than merit.
Cordially,
Richard A. Viguerie
ConservativeHQ.com
9625 Surveyor Court
Suite 400
Manassas, VA 20110
"American Family Association"
Before you vote, check out the AFA Voters Guide
September 22, 2008
Dear Oscar,
I hope you will check out the AFA Voters Guide. Please forward the guide to your friends and family. Ă¢€¢ Click here for the HTML versionĂ¢€¢ Click here for the PDF version
Daily Motivations - 20080923
"Daily Motivations"
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -- Andrew Carnegie
"The Patriot Post"
"Congress returns... for an abbreviated session, with energy being the number one issue on the agenda. Republicans, led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader John Boehner, spent the August recess pushing for Congress to enact an 'all of the above' package to increase energy supplies and lower gasoline prices, and they will continue to do so. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, clearly thrown off balance by public opinion polls showing that a decisive majority of the electorate agrees with the Republicans on drilling, have a different, irresponsible agenda: running out the clock and preventing a straight up-or-down vote on drilling. But to do this successfully, they will have to continue their strategy of pretending to support compromise, while loading up energy legislation with poison pills that will make expanded drilling impossible... In the House, the Democratic leadership will offer a'compromise' plan to allow drilling more than 100 miles from shore. (Which presumably means that if the next Prudhoe Bay is discovered 25 miles off the coast of Virginia or 50 miles from North Carolina, consumers should just shut up and be happy with oil from Mexico, Saudi Arabia or Venezuela instead.)" --- The Washington Times
"Let's not play games... You're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith... uh, my Christian faith. Well, what I'm saying is that he hasn't suggested that I'm a Muslim... What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith---something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time." --- Barack Obama demonstrating that he's as confused about his religious faith as everybody else is
"I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated...[I]t succeeded beyond our wildest dreams." --- commander in chief wannabe Barack Obama conceding he did not, in his "wildest dreams" xpect to win in Iraq
"When I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate [Barack Obama], I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates." --- Oprah Winfrey explaining why she will not bring on Sarah Palin for an interview, but did have Barack Obama on before he was "officially" a candidate
"Christianity Today"
September 19, 2008 1:41PM
Pro-life group attacks Obama campaign faith tour
Sarah Pulliam
The president of the Susan B. Anthony List attacked Barack Obama campaign's new effort to reach religious voters in battleground states.
"Barack Obama knows his extreme record on abortion doesn't resonate with everyday American voters, so now he's trying to soften his image with a so-called 'values tour,'" President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement. "It is cynical - because religious language without the actions to support it is so transparently empty. If you can't save one of the 'least of these' - a dying baby who survives an abortion - because you see it as a 'burden,' one wonders who is really at the heart of your faith."
The Susan B. Anthony List will invest $6 million to target 1.4 million pro-life women voters through mail, radio, and phone-banking across eight battleground states: Colorado, Ohio, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
"The e-mail Bag" - Friends and I of the elderly will understand these ones! -oyh
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. -- Andrew Carnegie
"The Patriot Post"
"Congress returns... for an abbreviated session, with energy being the number one issue on the agenda. Republicans, led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader John Boehner, spent the August recess pushing for Congress to enact an 'all of the above' package to increase energy supplies and lower gasoline prices, and they will continue to do so. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, clearly thrown off balance by public opinion polls showing that a decisive majority of the electorate agrees with the Republicans on drilling, have a different, irresponsible agenda: running out the clock and preventing a straight up-or-down vote on drilling. But to do this successfully, they will have to continue their strategy of pretending to support compromise, while loading up energy legislation with poison pills that will make expanded drilling impossible... In the House, the Democratic leadership will offer a'compromise' plan to allow drilling more than 100 miles from shore. (Which presumably means that if the next Prudhoe Bay is discovered 25 miles off the coast of Virginia or 50 miles from North Carolina, consumers should just shut up and be happy with oil from Mexico, Saudi Arabia or Venezuela instead.)" --- The Washington Times
"Let's not play games... You're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith... uh, my Christian faith. Well, what I'm saying is that he hasn't suggested that I'm a Muslim... What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith---something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time." --- Barack Obama demonstrating that he's as confused about his religious faith as everybody else is
"I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated...[I]t succeeded beyond our wildest dreams." --- commander in chief wannabe Barack Obama conceding he did not, in his "wildest dreams" xpect to win in Iraq
"When I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate [Barack Obama], I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates." --- Oprah Winfrey explaining why she will not bring on Sarah Palin for an interview, but did have Barack Obama on before he was "officially" a candidate
"Christianity Today"
September 19, 2008 1:41PM
Pro-life group attacks Obama campaign faith tour
Sarah Pulliam
The president of the Susan B. Anthony List attacked Barack Obama campaign's new effort to reach religious voters in battleground states.
"Barack Obama knows his extreme record on abortion doesn't resonate with everyday American voters, so now he's trying to soften his image with a so-called 'values tour,'" President Marjorie Dannenfelser said in a statement. "It is cynical - because religious language without the actions to support it is so transparently empty. If you can't save one of the 'least of these' - a dying baby who survives an abortion - because you see it as a 'burden,' one wonders who is really at the heart of your faith."
The Susan B. Anthony List will invest $6 million to target 1.4 million pro-life women voters through mail, radio, and phone-banking across eight battleground states: Colorado, Ohio, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
"The e-mail Bag" - Friends and I of the elderly will understand these ones! -oyh
And They Ask Why I Like Retirement !!!
Question: How many days in a week?
Answer: 6 Saturdays, 1 Sunday
Question: When is a retiree's bedtime?
Answer: Three hours after he falls asleep on the couch.
Question: How many retirees to change a light bulb?
Answer: Only one, but it might take all day. done.
Question: Why don't retirees mind being called Seniors?
Answer: The term comes with a 10% discount.
Question: Among retirees what is considered formal attire?
Answer: Tied shoes.
Question: Why do retirees count pennies?
Answer: They are the only ones who have the time.
Question: What is the common term for so me one who enjoys work and refuses to retire?
Answer: NUTS!
Question: Why are retirees so slow to clean out the basement, attic or garage?
Answer: They know that as soon as they do, one of their adult kids will want to store stuff there.
Question: What do retirees call a long lunch?
Answer: Normal .
Question: What is the best way to describe retirement?
Answer: The never ending Coffee Break.
Question: What's the biggest advantage of going back to school as a retiree?
Answer: If you cut classes, no one calls your parents.
Question: Why does a retiree often say he doesn't miss work, but misses the people he used to work with?
Answer: He is too polite to tell the whole truth. And, my very favorite....
QUESTION: What do you do all week?
Answer: Monday through Friday, NOTHING..... Saturday & Sunday, I rest.
SERENITY
Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, 'How old was your husband?' '98,' she replied. 'Two years older than me' 'So you're 96,' the undertaker commented. She responded, 'Hardly worth going home, is it?
Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman: 'And what do you think is the best thing about being 104?' the reporter asked. She simply replied , 'No peer pressure.'
The nice thing about being senile is you can hide your own Easter eggs.
I've sure gotten old! I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement, new knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes.
I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts.
Have bouts with dementia.
Have poor circulation; hardly feel my hands and feet anymore. Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92. Have lost all my friends. But, thank God, I still have my driver's license.
I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape, so I got my doctor's permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. < /FONT> I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over.
An elderly woman decided to prepare her will and told her preacher she had two final requests. First, she wanted to be cremated, and second, she wanted her ashes scattered over Wal-Mart. 'Wal-Mart?' the preacher exclaimed. 'Why Wal-Mart?' 'Then I'll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week'
My memory's not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
Know how to prevent sagging? Just eat till the wrinkles fill out.
It's scary when you start making the same noises as your coffee maker.
These days about half the stuff in my shopping cart says, 'For fast relief.'
THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
Now, I think you're supposed to share this with 5 or 6, maybe 10 others. Oh heck, give it to a bunch of your friends if you can remember who they are!
Daily Motivations - 20080922
"Daily Motivations"
We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe. -- Jane Goodall
From: "The Patriot Post"
"Let the American youth never forget..." --- Joseph Story
"No governor ever had foreign policy experience before becoming president---not Ronald Reagan, not Franklin D. Roosevelt, nor any other governor. It is hard to know how many people could possibly have had foreign policy experience before reaching the White House besides a Secretary of State or a Secretary of Defense." --- Thomas Sowell
"Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, see America as a nation in which government plays a primary role in individual lives. John McCain and Sarah Palin see the individual as primary and government as a protector of freedom that can help the less fortunate become self-sustaining." --- Cal Thomas
"If you've got a gun in your house, I'm not taking it. Even if I want to take them away, I don't have the votes in Congress." --- Barack Obama, who thinks the only thing between him and your guns is a few votes.
"AmeriPAC"
Let Palin Speak and Confront World Leaders
The Hillary Snubbing of American Jewish Groups is called “Problematic” of a National Political Leader and Obama Supporter
Vice Presidential Candidate Governor Palin planned to speak at the New York rally on Sept. 22 by American Jewish Groups and confront Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his nuclear terrorism. Palin believes that the danger of a nuclear Iran is greater than party or politics. She hopes that all parties can rally together in opposition to this grave threat.
"Governor Palin was pleased to accept an invitation to address this rally and show her resolve on this grave national security issue, regrettably that invitation has since been withdrawn under pressure from Democratic partisans.
"We stand shoulder to shoulder with Republicans, Democrats and independents alike to oppose Ahmadinejad's goal of a nuclear armed Iran. Senator Obama's campaign had the opportunity to join us. Senator Obama chose politics rather than the national interest."
Why Did Obama and Bill (Wannabe UN Sec. General) Clinton Meet?
The pressure worked and The National Coalition to Stop Iran Now said in a statement: In order to keep the focus on Iranian threats and to ensure that this critical message not be obscured, the organizers of the rally have decided not to have any American political personalities appear. Well,It is bad manners to invite someone then un-invite them because of pressure from the "DEMOCRATIC PARTY”.
Hillary Clinton had pulled out of her appearance at the New York rally to protest Ahmadinejad. Hillary doesn’t want to be seen alongside Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. Hillary seems to be taking marching orders from Obama and has decided that partisan politics is more important than the security of Israel and the United States.
"The e-mail Bag"
Paul R. Hollrah September 5, 2008
150 Walnut Street
Locust Grove, OK 74352
(918) 386-2444
Barry Goldwater is Back in Town
By Paul R. Hollrah
In the wake of the 2006 congressional elections, in which Republicans received a well-deserved drubbing at the polls, Republican members of Congress spent a weekend together at an east coast resort. Either as testament to their mind-numbing political insensitivity, or as a cruel joke on their constituents, they even had the temerity to call their weekend meeting a “retreat.”
With the political “earthquake” of 1994, Republicans were given the opportunity for leadership that millions of activists had worked toward since the close of World War II… the opportunity to lead the nation according to time-honored conservative principles. They went to Washington and for four years, under the leadership of Speaker Newt Gingrich, the House of Representatives actually acted as if it were the “People’s” House… as the Founding Fathers intended.
But then, in 1998, Gingrich decided not to seek reelection after having his reputation tarnished over a book advance from Rupert Murdock. When the 106th Congress was seated in January 1999, House Republicans elected Dennis Hastert as Speaker – a man who couldn’t buy an appearance on a network news program and who never saw a spending bill he didn’t like.
Meanwhile, in the Senate, after conducting a sham trial of Bill Clinton in 1999, Majority Leader Trent Lott was driven from his leadership position in December 2002 after making a racially insensitive remark at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party. Lott was succeeded by Bill Frist, a heart surgeon from Tennessee. Frist was a totally honorable, totally decent man who, being unaccustomed to dealing with the likes of Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle, and Harry Reid, quickly became the Democratic leadership’s favorite breakfast food.
With leaders who were incapable of imposing party discipline, Republicans were soon corrupted by their new-found power. Under the leadership of Tom Delay, House Republicans developed what came to be known as the “K Street Project,” a plan designed to shut Democrats out of the corporate money they had been extorting from K Street lobbyists during all their years in power.
It was a completely hare-brained scheme. Since most corporate lobbyists in Washington are what is referred to in the profession as “access” lobbyists, unprincipled and ideologically neutral men and women who buy access to members on both sides of the aisle, they would have given the bulk of their political support to members of the majority party without Delay & Company having to squeeze it out of them. It was a totally unnecessary move, but they did it anyway.
In a very short time, congressional Republicans became addicted to a Democratic pork barrel invention known as the “earmark.” They began to spend the People’s money like drunken sailors, and in just eight short years after Newt Gingrich’s unfortunate and untimely departure congressional Republicans became indistinguishable from Democrats. In 2006 the American people sent them packing... and deservedly so.
One would have thought that a Republican president, concerned for the pocketbooks of the American people and for the long term future of his party, might have imposed a bit of spending discipline on his Republican colleagues in Congress… but he didn’t. During his first seven years in office, the years during which congressional Republicans were losing their way, committing political suicide through a thousand self-inflicted wounds, George W. Bush never once used his veto power in the interest of either fiscal sanity or party discipline.
But the downfall of the Republican Party didn’t begin with Newt Gingrich’s departure from Congress or with the dawn of the Lott/Frist era in the Senate. The demise of the Republican brand began with Ronald Reagan’s departure from the White House and George H.W. Bush’s ascension to the presidency. The Bushes, father and son alike, are both products of the eastern liberal establishment (Rockefeller) wing of the Republican Party. They are not conservatives. They were, and are, political moderates… Ivy League elitists in ten-gallon hats… and whatever ideology it is that motivates them, it remains a mystery among the party’s conservative base.
George W. Bush won nomination in 2000 by claiming to be a “compassionate” conservative… insulting conservatives and confusing non-aligned voters all at one time.
What the Bushes have done, with the able assistance of Trent Lott, Bill Frist, Dennis Hastert, and Tom Delay, is to besmirch the value of the Republican brand. For the better part of a decade they have made it impossible for conservative Republicans, in good conscience, to publicly defend their own party… the party to which so many have dedicated “their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor.” What they have done to the party, collectively, is unforgivable.
But now, in a single act of courage and insightfulness, whether intentional or not, Senator John McCain has made it possible for conservatives and Republicans to put all of that behind them. In choosing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has given his party’s conservative base reason to once again feel proud and unashamed… to march forward to battle with shoulders square and heads held high.
Sarah Palin is an unabashed conservative, in the style of Barry Goldwater. She is courageous, she is self-confident, she knows who and what she is, she knows intuitively what it is that makes our country great, and she understands the evils of liberalism and the virtues of conservatism.
She punctures Democratic pomposity fearlessly and she does it all with grace, charm, and good humor. Not since Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan have we seen a Republican leader with the kind of piercing eyes and determined jaw that causes liberals and Democrats to quake in their boots. Ladies and gentlemen… Barry Goldwater is back in town and he (er, she) plans to kick butt and take names. Let the games begin.
"The e-mail Bag"
NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION...
1. The Bible will still have all the answers.
2. Prayer will still work.
3. The Holy Spirit will still move.
4. God will still inhabit the praises of His people.
5. There will still be God-anointed teaching and healing.
6. There will still be singing of praise to God.
7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people.
8. There will still be room at the Cross.
9. Jesus will still love you.
10. Jesus will still save the lost.
ISN'T IT GREAT TO KNOW WHO IS REALLY IN CONTROL!
We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe. -- Jane Goodall
From: "The Patriot Post"
"Let the American youth never forget..." --- Joseph Story
"No governor ever had foreign policy experience before becoming president---not Ronald Reagan, not Franklin D. Roosevelt, nor any other governor. It is hard to know how many people could possibly have had foreign policy experience before reaching the White House besides a Secretary of State or a Secretary of Defense." --- Thomas Sowell
"Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, see America as a nation in which government plays a primary role in individual lives. John McCain and Sarah Palin see the individual as primary and government as a protector of freedom that can help the less fortunate become self-sustaining." --- Cal Thomas
"If you've got a gun in your house, I'm not taking it. Even if I want to take them away, I don't have the votes in Congress." --- Barack Obama, who thinks the only thing between him and your guns is a few votes.
"AmeriPAC"
Let Palin Speak and Confront World Leaders
The Hillary Snubbing of American Jewish Groups is called “Problematic” of a National Political Leader and Obama Supporter
Vice Presidential Candidate Governor Palin planned to speak at the New York rally on Sept. 22 by American Jewish Groups and confront Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his nuclear terrorism. Palin believes that the danger of a nuclear Iran is greater than party or politics. She hopes that all parties can rally together in opposition to this grave threat.
"Governor Palin was pleased to accept an invitation to address this rally and show her resolve on this grave national security issue, regrettably that invitation has since been withdrawn under pressure from Democratic partisans.
"We stand shoulder to shoulder with Republicans, Democrats and independents alike to oppose Ahmadinejad's goal of a nuclear armed Iran. Senator Obama's campaign had the opportunity to join us. Senator Obama chose politics rather than the national interest."
Why Did Obama and Bill (Wannabe UN Sec. General) Clinton Meet?
The pressure worked and The National Coalition to Stop Iran Now said in a statement: In order to keep the focus on Iranian threats and to ensure that this critical message not be obscured, the organizers of the rally have decided not to have any American political personalities appear. Well,It is bad manners to invite someone then un-invite them because of pressure from the "DEMOCRATIC PARTY”.
Hillary Clinton had pulled out of her appearance at the New York rally to protest Ahmadinejad. Hillary doesn’t want to be seen alongside Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. Hillary seems to be taking marching orders from Obama and has decided that partisan politics is more important than the security of Israel and the United States.
"The e-mail Bag"
Paul R. Hollrah September 5, 2008
150 Walnut Street
Locust Grove, OK 74352
(918) 386-2444
Barry Goldwater is Back in Town
By Paul R. Hollrah
In the wake of the 2006 congressional elections, in which Republicans received a well-deserved drubbing at the polls, Republican members of Congress spent a weekend together at an east coast resort. Either as testament to their mind-numbing political insensitivity, or as a cruel joke on their constituents, they even had the temerity to call their weekend meeting a “retreat.”
With the political “earthquake” of 1994, Republicans were given the opportunity for leadership that millions of activists had worked toward since the close of World War II… the opportunity to lead the nation according to time-honored conservative principles. They went to Washington and for four years, under the leadership of Speaker Newt Gingrich, the House of Representatives actually acted as if it were the “People’s” House… as the Founding Fathers intended.
But then, in 1998, Gingrich decided not to seek reelection after having his reputation tarnished over a book advance from Rupert Murdock. When the 106th Congress was seated in January 1999, House Republicans elected Dennis Hastert as Speaker – a man who couldn’t buy an appearance on a network news program and who never saw a spending bill he didn’t like.
Meanwhile, in the Senate, after conducting a sham trial of Bill Clinton in 1999, Majority Leader Trent Lott was driven from his leadership position in December 2002 after making a racially insensitive remark at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday party. Lott was succeeded by Bill Frist, a heart surgeon from Tennessee. Frist was a totally honorable, totally decent man who, being unaccustomed to dealing with the likes of Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle, and Harry Reid, quickly became the Democratic leadership’s favorite breakfast food.
With leaders who were incapable of imposing party discipline, Republicans were soon corrupted by their new-found power. Under the leadership of Tom Delay, House Republicans developed what came to be known as the “K Street Project,” a plan designed to shut Democrats out of the corporate money they had been extorting from K Street lobbyists during all their years in power.
It was a completely hare-brained scheme. Since most corporate lobbyists in Washington are what is referred to in the profession as “access” lobbyists, unprincipled and ideologically neutral men and women who buy access to members on both sides of the aisle, they would have given the bulk of their political support to members of the majority party without Delay & Company having to squeeze it out of them. It was a totally unnecessary move, but they did it anyway.
In a very short time, congressional Republicans became addicted to a Democratic pork barrel invention known as the “earmark.” They began to spend the People’s money like drunken sailors, and in just eight short years after Newt Gingrich’s unfortunate and untimely departure congressional Republicans became indistinguishable from Democrats. In 2006 the American people sent them packing... and deservedly so.
One would have thought that a Republican president, concerned for the pocketbooks of the American people and for the long term future of his party, might have imposed a bit of spending discipline on his Republican colleagues in Congress… but he didn’t. During his first seven years in office, the years during which congressional Republicans were losing their way, committing political suicide through a thousand self-inflicted wounds, George W. Bush never once used his veto power in the interest of either fiscal sanity or party discipline.
But the downfall of the Republican Party didn’t begin with Newt Gingrich’s departure from Congress or with the dawn of the Lott/Frist era in the Senate. The demise of the Republican brand began with Ronald Reagan’s departure from the White House and George H.W. Bush’s ascension to the presidency. The Bushes, father and son alike, are both products of the eastern liberal establishment (Rockefeller) wing of the Republican Party. They are not conservatives. They were, and are, political moderates… Ivy League elitists in ten-gallon hats… and whatever ideology it is that motivates them, it remains a mystery among the party’s conservative base.
George W. Bush won nomination in 2000 by claiming to be a “compassionate” conservative… insulting conservatives and confusing non-aligned voters all at one time.
What the Bushes have done, with the able assistance of Trent Lott, Bill Frist, Dennis Hastert, and Tom Delay, is to besmirch the value of the Republican brand. For the better part of a decade they have made it impossible for conservative Republicans, in good conscience, to publicly defend their own party… the party to which so many have dedicated “their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor.” What they have done to the party, collectively, is unforgivable.
But now, in a single act of courage and insightfulness, whether intentional or not, Senator John McCain has made it possible for conservatives and Republicans to put all of that behind them. In choosing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has given his party’s conservative base reason to once again feel proud and unashamed… to march forward to battle with shoulders square and heads held high.
Sarah Palin is an unabashed conservative, in the style of Barry Goldwater. She is courageous, she is self-confident, she knows who and what she is, she knows intuitively what it is that makes our country great, and she understands the evils of liberalism and the virtues of conservatism.
She punctures Democratic pomposity fearlessly and she does it all with grace, charm, and good humor. Not since Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan have we seen a Republican leader with the kind of piercing eyes and determined jaw that causes liberals and Democrats to quake in their boots. Ladies and gentlemen… Barry Goldwater is back in town and he (er, she) plans to kick butt and take names. Let the games begin.
"The e-mail Bag"
NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION...
1. The Bible will still have all the answers.
2. Prayer will still work.
3. The Holy Spirit will still move.
4. God will still inhabit the praises of His people.
5. There will still be God-anointed teaching and healing.
6. There will still be singing of praise to God.
7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people.
8. There will still be room at the Cross.
9. Jesus will still love you.
10. Jesus will still save the lost.
ISN'T IT GREAT TO KNOW WHO IS REALLY IN CONTROL!
Daily Motivations - 20080919
"Daily Motivations"
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins…not through strength but by perseverance. -- H. Jackson Brown
"The Patriot Post"
"In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature." -- James Madison
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The e-mail Bag"
Anything worth saying, can be effectively communicated using decent language. Profanity is offensive to decent people, but decency is never offensive to anyone. - Chuck Sproull, Springville IN
"ConservativeHQ.com"
Today’s articles in the News From the Front section at ConservativeHQ.com include:
The Republicans should nationalize the election
He’s Kerry; she’s Reagan
It’s not just Palin, it’s the message
Say no to sham energy deal with victory in sight
Joseph Farah: Sarah Palin for president
Rich Lowry: The scandal of the McCain campaign
Bill Moyers fights conservative talk radio on PBS
New survey shows conservative base is ready to go
Palin discusses role in a McCain Administration
Palin’s the most versed in energy on either ticket
GOP gets no love from musicians
McCain: Commission should examine financial crisis
The latest Polls section includes a question about media coverage of Sarah Palin.
Also there’s a Blog from me on the ability of Republican candidates for the House, Senate, and other offices to benefit from Governor Palin’s popularity.
We’ll continue to provide you the latest news about conservatives and the elections.
Richard A. Viguerie
ConservativeHQ.com
UltimateJohnMcCain.com
UltimateRonPaul.com
9625 Surveyor Court, Suite 400
Manassas, Virginia 20110
rav@conservativesbetrayed.com
"The Charlotte Observer"
John McCain Warned Of Mortgage Collapse In 2005
Posted by: Ken_Taylor Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 10:06AM
Barack Obama has been playing off the fears that are running rampant in the market because of the collapse of several of Wall Streets major investment companies like Lehman Brothers. Attacking John McCain and trying to create the idea that McCain does not know what he is talking about and that he is ignorant when it comes to the economy.
For Mr. Obama's information John McCain saw this collapse coming as far back as 2005 and not only warned of the coming collapse but co-sponsored legislation to try and prevent it and go after the corruption that was causing much of the problem. Following is McCain's speech on the Senate floor during debate of Federal Housing Regulatory Act Of 2005 urging the Senate to pass the Act which fell to defeat after being blocked by Senate Democrats.
Mr. President, (referring to the Presiding Officer of the Senate) this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae’s former chief executive officer, OFHEO’s report shows that over half of Mr. Raines’ compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets.The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac. The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005.
These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform. For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs—and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO’s report this week does nothing to ease these concerns.
In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay. I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.
"Senate Democrats blocked the passage of the Bill and while it passed in the House it failed in the Senate because of the Democrats.
Additionally Obama has been claiming that the fault for this collapse lies in the policies of the Bush Administration and the Republicans using this as a way of finger pointing to John McCain when in fact the entire debacle was started under Bill Clinton. The Clinton administration dictated where mortgage lenders could lend and originally helped create the market for the high-risk sub prime loans now infecting the balance sheets of many of Wall Street's most revered institutions. If these institutions did not comply they were threatened with massive fines and penalties.
Clinton put the Community Redevelopment Act, a Carter era law designed to encourage minority home ownership, on steroids. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky sub prime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but "predatory".
Two of Barack Obama's top staffers, James Johnson who headed the VP selection Committee and Penny Pritzer, Obama's campaign Finance Chair were both not only involved in this debacle but are attributed in creating the situations that began the sub prime lending schemes that caused the mortgage collapse.
Pritzer along with Earnst and Young working through Merrill Lynch created the sub prime financial engineering that created this meltdown. While Johnson was CEO at Fannie Mae when the Clinton Administration ordered the beginnings of the high risk market through the Community Redevelopment Act.
The very reform act that could have stemmed this collapse in 2005 co-sponsored by John McCain was voted against by Barack Obama who also was the third highest recipient of campaign donations from the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac PACS behind only Christopher Dodd and John Kerry.
The hypocrisy of Obama in claiming that the GOP , President Bush and by inference John McCain caused this problem and did nothing to prevent it when in fact just the opposite is true as it began under the Clinton Administration with its birth created by Democrats who are now involved with the Obama campaign, shows that it is Obama who is ignorant about the economy while McCain knows what he is talking about.
McCain's statement that the fundamentals of the economy are still strong has been backed up by the 3.3 % growth in the economy last quarter as well as all other key economic indicators still holding strong. Democrat claims that we are in a recession heading to a depression are scare tactics as even the definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth. This economy has not even experience on quarter of negative growth. The mortgage debacle was caused by greed and sub prime loans that created a bubble that was bound to burst. A bubble that was begun by Democrats and their supporters.
A problem that McCain foresaw and tried to stem and Obama voted with Democrats to keep going. Then Obama hired the major instigators of the schemes that created the sub prime lending chaos as top staffers of his Presidential campaign. So who is actually in touch about the economy ? Well it certainly is NOT Barack Obama. Rather the proven foresight of John McCain as well as his understanding of how an economy actually works instead of trying to scare voters as Obama does proves that McCain is the candidate who will stem the tied of greed and bring necessary reforms while allowing the market based economy to continue to grow.
Ken Taylor http://theliberalslies.blogspot.com http://www.redstate.com/diaries/ken_taylor/2008/sep/17/john-mccain-warned-of-mortgage-collapse-in-20/
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins…not through strength but by perseverance. -- H. Jackson Brown
"The Patriot Post"
"In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature." -- James Madison
"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The e-mail Bag"
Anything worth saying, can be effectively communicated using decent language. Profanity is offensive to decent people, but decency is never offensive to anyone. - Chuck Sproull, Springville IN
"ConservativeHQ.com"
Today’s articles in the News From the Front section at ConservativeHQ.com include:
The Republicans should nationalize the election
He’s Kerry; she’s Reagan
It’s not just Palin, it’s the message
Say no to sham energy deal with victory in sight
Joseph Farah: Sarah Palin for president
Rich Lowry: The scandal of the McCain campaign
Bill Moyers fights conservative talk radio on PBS
New survey shows conservative base is ready to go
Palin discusses role in a McCain Administration
Palin’s the most versed in energy on either ticket
GOP gets no love from musicians
McCain: Commission should examine financial crisis
The latest Polls section includes a question about media coverage of Sarah Palin.
Also there’s a Blog from me on the ability of Republican candidates for the House, Senate, and other offices to benefit from Governor Palin’s popularity.
We’ll continue to provide you the latest news about conservatives and the elections.
Richard A. Viguerie
ConservativeHQ.com
UltimateJohnMcCain.com
UltimateRonPaul.com
9625 Surveyor Court, Suite 400
Manassas, Virginia 20110
rav@conservativesbetrayed.com
"The Charlotte Observer"
John McCain Warned Of Mortgage Collapse In 2005
Posted by: Ken_Taylor Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 10:06AM
Barack Obama has been playing off the fears that are running rampant in the market because of the collapse of several of Wall Streets major investment companies like Lehman Brothers. Attacking John McCain and trying to create the idea that McCain does not know what he is talking about and that he is ignorant when it comes to the economy.
For Mr. Obama's information John McCain saw this collapse coming as far back as 2005 and not only warned of the coming collapse but co-sponsored legislation to try and prevent it and go after the corruption that was causing much of the problem. Following is McCain's speech on the Senate floor during debate of Federal Housing Regulatory Act Of 2005 urging the Senate to pass the Act which fell to defeat after being blocked by Senate Democrats.
Mr. President, (referring to the Presiding Officer of the Senate) this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae’s former chief executive officer, OFHEO’s report shows that over half of Mr. Raines’ compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets.The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac. The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005.
These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform. For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs—and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO’s report this week does nothing to ease these concerns.
In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay. I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.
"Senate Democrats blocked the passage of the Bill and while it passed in the House it failed in the Senate because of the Democrats.
Additionally Obama has been claiming that the fault for this collapse lies in the policies of the Bush Administration and the Republicans using this as a way of finger pointing to John McCain when in fact the entire debacle was started under Bill Clinton. The Clinton administration dictated where mortgage lenders could lend and originally helped create the market for the high-risk sub prime loans now infecting the balance sheets of many of Wall Street's most revered institutions. If these institutions did not comply they were threatened with massive fines and penalties.
Clinton put the Community Redevelopment Act, a Carter era law designed to encourage minority home ownership, on steroids. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky sub prime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but "predatory".
Two of Barack Obama's top staffers, James Johnson who headed the VP selection Committee and Penny Pritzer, Obama's campaign Finance Chair were both not only involved in this debacle but are attributed in creating the situations that began the sub prime lending schemes that caused the mortgage collapse.
Pritzer along with Earnst and Young working through Merrill Lynch created the sub prime financial engineering that created this meltdown. While Johnson was CEO at Fannie Mae when the Clinton Administration ordered the beginnings of the high risk market through the Community Redevelopment Act.
The very reform act that could have stemmed this collapse in 2005 co-sponsored by John McCain was voted against by Barack Obama who also was the third highest recipient of campaign donations from the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac PACS behind only Christopher Dodd and John Kerry.
The hypocrisy of Obama in claiming that the GOP , President Bush and by inference John McCain caused this problem and did nothing to prevent it when in fact just the opposite is true as it began under the Clinton Administration with its birth created by Democrats who are now involved with the Obama campaign, shows that it is Obama who is ignorant about the economy while McCain knows what he is talking about.
McCain's statement that the fundamentals of the economy are still strong has been backed up by the 3.3 % growth in the economy last quarter as well as all other key economic indicators still holding strong. Democrat claims that we are in a recession heading to a depression are scare tactics as even the definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth. This economy has not even experience on quarter of negative growth. The mortgage debacle was caused by greed and sub prime loans that created a bubble that was bound to burst. A bubble that was begun by Democrats and their supporters.
A problem that McCain foresaw and tried to stem and Obama voted with Democrats to keep going. Then Obama hired the major instigators of the schemes that created the sub prime lending chaos as top staffers of his Presidential campaign. So who is actually in touch about the economy ? Well it certainly is NOT Barack Obama. Rather the proven foresight of John McCain as well as his understanding of how an economy actually works instead of trying to scare voters as Obama does proves that McCain is the candidate who will stem the tied of greed and bring necessary reforms while allowing the market based economy to continue to grow.
Ken Taylor http://theliberalslies.blogspot.com http://www.redstate.com/diaries/ken_taylor/2008/sep/17/john-mccain-warned-of-mortgage-collapse-in-20/
Daily Motivations - 20080918
"Daily Motivations"
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. -- Horace
Today's Topic:
Listen and Learn from OthersHave you ever been in a situation where someone in authority starts talking about the workplace, and you think “This person has no clue!” because his words bear no resemblance to reality? Well, you’re not alone. All too often we forget one of the basics of leadership: Listening. Of all the leadership attributes, listening may be the most important. You can have all the other leadership skills, but if you don’t listen to people, it’s all for naught.
The leader who listens knows what’s going on around him or her because listening opens the doors to genuine communication. It demonstrates respect and caring for others. But listening only gets you part way to better leadership. You must also learn from it and use that learning to guide your actions. It’s only through learning that we are able to change, grow, and prepare for the future. Listening and learning help make a leader credible because they compel the leader to put people first. And that’s when really good things can happen.
Here are three tips to help you be a better listener…and a better learner:
Know the difference between hearing and listening. To hear means “to perceive by the ear.” To listen means “to pay attention.” There’s a big difference.
Get into the ACT of listening. Employ body language. Look at the person who is speaking. Make and keep eye contact. Position your body in a way that shows you are open and receptive to what the person is saying.
Adopt the 2/1 rule: Listen twice as much as you talk. Why do you think we have two ears and one mouth?
"The Patriot Post"
"Unlike Barack Obama, who thought so highly of himself that he wrote twoautobiographies before he accomplished anything, Mrs. Palin has raised a family, run a business, managed a city and governed a state. She took on corrupt members of her own party, toppled a sitting Republican governor and said 'no' to Alaska's infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere.' She is pro-life, pro-family, pro-Second Amendment and pro-free enterprise. She is the governor of America's most natural resource-rich state and is an advocate of oil drilling in ANWR. (Perhaps she can talk some sense into McCain on that issue.) Oh, and she has an 80 percent approval rating among Alaskans." --- Doug Patton
"In our administration, our mission has been to appoint the best qualified people we could find, to fill substantial jobs with substantial individuals. And the result of this merit-based approach, not surprisingly, is that more women have served in top-level policy positions in our administration than in any previous one. And they've served with distinction, earning promotions and reappointments at a very high rate. We can be proud of what you and the other women have accomplished...I'm very happy about everything that American women are doing, yes, because it is good for women, but also because it's good for America." --- Ronald Reagan
"ConservativeHQ.com
It’s Sarah Palin’s Principles!
With the popularity of Governor Sarah Palin providing lift to the GOP ticket, Republicans are starting to feel better about races for Congress and at the state level. But most of them are missing the point of her popularity and may be personally disappointed on Election Day, Richard A. Viguerie said.
“Too many Republican candidates think Governor Palin is popular because of her gender or because she’s a fresh face with a ‘cool’ life story. They think they can hold onto her skirt and that her popularity will help carry them to victory,” said Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.
You can read the entire news release and add your comments to it at
http://conservativehq.com/blog_post/show/51?eid=35f115ef74d62ec3303825bab766831c
You can also express your opinion in a new poll on how the mainstream news media has treated Governor Palin at http://conservativehq.com/active-polls
And today’s News From the Front section includes:
Independents swing towards McCain
Bill O’Reilly: Some advice for Sarah Palin
Why feminists hate Sarah Palin
McCain team hustles amid rising interest
Records show McCain is more bipartisan
Liberal admires Sarah Palin’s ‘steeliness’
Larry Elder: Obama vs. McCain – A clear choice
Why Paul Weyrich is for McCain
Kristol: Palin turns the establishment upside down
Post-Palin, Democrats hit the panic button
Palin’s ‘Mr. Mom’ a secret weapon?
Familiar ground may be election’s deciding factor
Richard A. Viguerie
From: "A Local Church Sign"
The best vitamin for a Christian is B1.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. -- Horace
Today's Topic:
Listen and Learn from OthersHave you ever been in a situation where someone in authority starts talking about the workplace, and you think “This person has no clue!” because his words bear no resemblance to reality? Well, you’re not alone. All too often we forget one of the basics of leadership: Listening. Of all the leadership attributes, listening may be the most important. You can have all the other leadership skills, but if you don’t listen to people, it’s all for naught.
The leader who listens knows what’s going on around him or her because listening opens the doors to genuine communication. It demonstrates respect and caring for others. But listening only gets you part way to better leadership. You must also learn from it and use that learning to guide your actions. It’s only through learning that we are able to change, grow, and prepare for the future. Listening and learning help make a leader credible because they compel the leader to put people first. And that’s when really good things can happen.
Here are three tips to help you be a better listener…and a better learner:
Know the difference between hearing and listening. To hear means “to perceive by the ear.” To listen means “to pay attention.” There’s a big difference.
Get into the ACT of listening. Employ body language. Look at the person who is speaking. Make and keep eye contact. Position your body in a way that shows you are open and receptive to what the person is saying.
Adopt the 2/1 rule: Listen twice as much as you talk. Why do you think we have two ears and one mouth?
"The Patriot Post"
"Unlike Barack Obama, who thought so highly of himself that he wrote twoautobiographies before he accomplished anything, Mrs. Palin has raised a family, run a business, managed a city and governed a state. She took on corrupt members of her own party, toppled a sitting Republican governor and said 'no' to Alaska's infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere.' She is pro-life, pro-family, pro-Second Amendment and pro-free enterprise. She is the governor of America's most natural resource-rich state and is an advocate of oil drilling in ANWR. (Perhaps she can talk some sense into McCain on that issue.) Oh, and she has an 80 percent approval rating among Alaskans." --- Doug Patton
"In our administration, our mission has been to appoint the best qualified people we could find, to fill substantial jobs with substantial individuals. And the result of this merit-based approach, not surprisingly, is that more women have served in top-level policy positions in our administration than in any previous one. And they've served with distinction, earning promotions and reappointments at a very high rate. We can be proud of what you and the other women have accomplished...I'm very happy about everything that American women are doing, yes, because it is good for women, but also because it's good for America." --- Ronald Reagan
"ConservativeHQ.com
It’s Sarah Palin’s Principles!
With the popularity of Governor Sarah Palin providing lift to the GOP ticket, Republicans are starting to feel better about races for Congress and at the state level. But most of them are missing the point of her popularity and may be personally disappointed on Election Day, Richard A. Viguerie said.
“Too many Republican candidates think Governor Palin is popular because of her gender or because she’s a fresh face with a ‘cool’ life story. They think they can hold onto her skirt and that her popularity will help carry them to victory,” said Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.
You can read the entire news release and add your comments to it at
http://conservativehq.com/blog_post/show/51?eid=35f115ef74d62ec3303825bab766831c
You can also express your opinion in a new poll on how the mainstream news media has treated Governor Palin at http://conservativehq.com/active-polls
And today’s News From the Front section includes:
Independents swing towards McCain
Bill O’Reilly: Some advice for Sarah Palin
Why feminists hate Sarah Palin
McCain team hustles amid rising interest
Records show McCain is more bipartisan
Liberal admires Sarah Palin’s ‘steeliness’
Larry Elder: Obama vs. McCain – A clear choice
Why Paul Weyrich is for McCain
Kristol: Palin turns the establishment upside down
Post-Palin, Democrats hit the panic button
Palin’s ‘Mr. Mom’ a secret weapon?
Familiar ground may be election’s deciding factor
Richard A. Viguerie
From: "A Local Church Sign"
The best vitamin for a Christian is B1.
Daily Motivations - 20080917
"Daily Motivations"
We can do anything if we stick to it long enough. -- Helen Keller
"The Patriot Post"
"Unlike Barack Obama, who thought so highly of himself that he wrote twoautobiographies before he accomplished anything, Mrs. Palin has raised a family, run a business, managed a city and governed a state. She took on corrupt members of her own party, toppled a sitting Republican governor and said 'no' to Alaska's infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere.' She is pro-life, pro-family, pro-Second Amendment and pro-free enterprise. She is the governor of America's most natural resource-rich state and is an advocate of oil drilling in ANWR. (Perhaps she can talk some sense into McCain on that issue.) Oh, and she has an 80 percent approval rating among Alaskans." --- Doug Patton
"Chuck Sproull", Springville IN
Sometimes I wonder, if Obama had been alive 230 years ago:
1. Would he have signed our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution?
2. Would he have fought with George Washington for our independence?
3. Would he have been involved in writing our Bill of Rights?
4. When Islamic terrorists (pirates) captured American maritime merchants, would he have been involved in organizing or participating with the US Navy or Marine Corps that rescued them?
Subject: "Attitude of Gratitude"
No matter what your political convictions are this is an eye opener....What a thankless people we are!!!
David Letterman, on President Bush. (Surprising)
David Letterman wrote this; it's the David we don't often see....
'As most of you know I am not a President Bush fan, nor have I ever been, but this is not about Bush, it is about us, as Americans, and it seems to hit the mark.'
'The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some Poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source, right?
The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the President. In essence 2/3 of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change. So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, 'What are we so unhappy about?'
A. Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 Days a week?
B. Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter?
C. Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job?
D. Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?
E. Maybe it is the ability to drive our cars and trucks from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state.
F. Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter?
G. I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough either.
H. Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.
I. Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home.
J. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames thus saving you, your family, and your belongings.
K. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss.
L. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90% of teenagers own cell phones and computers.
M. How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world?
Maybe that is what has 67% of you folks unhappy.
Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S., yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.
I know, I know. What about the president who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? The president who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same president who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The president that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks? The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me?
Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad? Think about it......are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is it because the 'Media' told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day.
Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an 'other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable' discharge after a few days inthe brig.
So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans?Say what you want, but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds it leads and they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells, and when criticized, try to defend their actions by 'justifying' them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write a book about how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way......Insane!
Turn off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the NewYork Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially more good than bad. We are among the most blessed people on Earth and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative.' 'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, 'Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
-David Letterman Please keep this in circulation. There are so many people who need to read this and grasp the truth of it all.
"The Gathering Storm" by Rich Santorum
Last update - 03:58 13/09/2008
Ahmadinejad: Iran will support Hamas until collapse of Israel
By DPA
Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020630.html
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday to keep supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas until the "collapse of Israel." The Iranian news agency Khabar quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh that Iran views the support of the Palestinian people as part of its religious and national duty and that Iran will stand behind the Palestinian nation "until the big victory feast which is the collapse of the Zionist regime." In a phone conversation between the two leaders, the Iranian president said that the continued Hamas resistance against Israel and the group's achievements would always be "a source of pride for all Muslims."
Iran does not acknowledge the sovereignty of Israel and vowed to support Hamas until what Ahmadinejad calls "deliverance from Zionists (Israel)." Haniyeh, the leader of the Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, was elected Palestinian prime minister in 2006, but was dismissed in June 2007 by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after Hamas violently seized control over the Gaza Strip from Abbas' Palestinian Authority.
"American Conservative Union"
Charlie Rangel, the liberal Congressman from New York, has spent decades helping increase taxes and government regulation,
Liberal Charlie Rangel has only a lifetime ACU Conservative rating of only 3.82%... meaning he has voted liberal more than 96% of the time,
The same Charlie Rangel who is currently Chairman of the powerful tax writing Ways and Means Committee...
Rep. Charlie Rangel has now been caught hiding income from his official disclosure statements, living in below market rent apartments in New York, leaving income off his taxes and using his official Congressional stationary to solicit donations for a so-called "educational center" that will bear his name.
That's right, the same Charlie Rangel who is supposed to keep our tax laws straight and fair as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is instead playing fast and loose with his own taxes.
But in spite of the evidence of his schemes, Nancy Pelosi is refusing to make him step down from the powerful Chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee and he refuses to do it.
Where is there any morality in the Capitol Hill Democrats? - oyh.
We can do anything if we stick to it long enough. -- Helen Keller
"The Patriot Post"
"Unlike Barack Obama, who thought so highly of himself that he wrote twoautobiographies before he accomplished anything, Mrs. Palin has raised a family, run a business, managed a city and governed a state. She took on corrupt members of her own party, toppled a sitting Republican governor and said 'no' to Alaska's infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere.' She is pro-life, pro-family, pro-Second Amendment and pro-free enterprise. She is the governor of America's most natural resource-rich state and is an advocate of oil drilling in ANWR. (Perhaps she can talk some sense into McCain on that issue.) Oh, and she has an 80 percent approval rating among Alaskans." --- Doug Patton
"Chuck Sproull", Springville IN
Sometimes I wonder, if Obama had been alive 230 years ago:
1. Would he have signed our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution?
2. Would he have fought with George Washington for our independence?
3. Would he have been involved in writing our Bill of Rights?
4. When Islamic terrorists (pirates) captured American maritime merchants, would he have been involved in organizing or participating with the US Navy or Marine Corps that rescued them?
Subject: "Attitude of Gratitude"
No matter what your political convictions are this is an eye opener....What a thankless people we are!!!
David Letterman, on President Bush. (Surprising)
David Letterman wrote this; it's the David we don't often see....
'As most of you know I am not a President Bush fan, nor have I ever been, but this is not about Bush, it is about us, as Americans, and it seems to hit the mark.'
'The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some Poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must be true given the source, right?
The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the President. In essence 2/3 of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change. So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, 'What are we so unhappy about?'
A. Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 Days a week?
B. Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter?
C. Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job?
D. Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?
E. Maybe it is the ability to drive our cars and trucks from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state.
F. Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter?
G. I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough either.
H. Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.
I. Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home.
J. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames thus saving you, your family, and your belongings.
K. Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes, an officer equipped with a gun and a bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss.
L. This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents. Neighborhoods where 90% of teenagers own cell phones and computers.
M. How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world?
Maybe that is what has 67% of you folks unhappy.
Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S., yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have, and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.
I know, I know. What about the president who took us into war and has no plan to get us out? The president who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same president who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The president that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks? The commander in chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me?
Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad? Think about it......are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is it because the 'Media' told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day.
Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an 'other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable' discharge after a few days inthe brig.
So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of Americans?Say what you want, but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds it leads and they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells, and when criticized, try to defend their actions by 'justifying' them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write a book about how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way......Insane!
Turn off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the NewYork Times for the bottom of your bird cage. Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially more good than bad. We are among the most blessed people on Earth and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative.' 'With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, 'Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?'
-David Letterman Please keep this in circulation. There are so many people who need to read this and grasp the truth of it all.
"The Gathering Storm" by Rich Santorum
Last update - 03:58 13/09/2008
Ahmadinejad: Iran will support Hamas until collapse of Israel
By DPA
Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020630.html
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Friday to keep supporting the Palestinian militant group Hamas until the "collapse of Israel." The Iranian news agency Khabar quoted Ahmadinejad as telling Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh that Iran views the support of the Palestinian people as part of its religious and national duty and that Iran will stand behind the Palestinian nation "until the big victory feast which is the collapse of the Zionist regime." In a phone conversation between the two leaders, the Iranian president said that the continued Hamas resistance against Israel and the group's achievements would always be "a source of pride for all Muslims."
Iran does not acknowledge the sovereignty of Israel and vowed to support Hamas until what Ahmadinejad calls "deliverance from Zionists (Israel)." Haniyeh, the leader of the Islamist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, was elected Palestinian prime minister in 2006, but was dismissed in June 2007 by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after Hamas violently seized control over the Gaza Strip from Abbas' Palestinian Authority.
"American Conservative Union"
Charlie Rangel, the liberal Congressman from New York, has spent decades helping increase taxes and government regulation,
Liberal Charlie Rangel has only a lifetime ACU Conservative rating of only 3.82%... meaning he has voted liberal more than 96% of the time,
The same Charlie Rangel who is currently Chairman of the powerful tax writing Ways and Means Committee...
Rep. Charlie Rangel has now been caught hiding income from his official disclosure statements, living in below market rent apartments in New York, leaving income off his taxes and using his official Congressional stationary to solicit donations for a so-called "educational center" that will bear his name.
That's right, the same Charlie Rangel who is supposed to keep our tax laws straight and fair as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee is instead playing fast and loose with his own taxes.
But in spite of the evidence of his schemes, Nancy Pelosi is refusing to make him step down from the powerful Chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee and he refuses to do it.
Where is there any morality in the Capitol Hill Democrats? - oyh.
Daily Motivations - 20080916
"Daily Motivations"
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. -- Sir William Osler
"The Patriot Post"
"Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holdsamong the works of God." --- John Adams
"This is hardly the first presidential campaign to pit an antiabortion Republican ticket against pro-choice Democrats. Never before, however, has the difference been so stark. Obama advocates abortion rights even more sweeping than those enacted under Roe v. Wade. 'The first thing I'd do as president,' he assured the Planned Parenthood Action Fund last year, 'is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.' The measure would not only codify Roe, it would eliminate even restrictions on abortion that the Supreme Court has allowed---the federal ban on government funding of abortion, for example, or the law prohibiting partial-birth abortion. During last month's forum atthe Saddleback Church, Obama was asked when 'a baby gets human rights.' He fudged: 'Answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.' But there is nothing hesitant about Obama's abortion stance. As an Illinois lawmaker, he opposed a bill making it clear that premature babies born alive after surviving a failed abortion must be protected and cannot be killed or simply left to die. Even after virtually identical legislation---the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002---passed unanimously in the U.S. House and Senate, Obama continued to oppose the state version. On abortion, no presidential candidate has ever been so extreme. And when has a Republican ticket ever been so unabashedly antiabortion?" -- Jeff Jacoby
"Townhall.com"
“Let me tell you, for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.” — Michelle Obama (February 17, 2008)
A bust of Abraham Lincoln stolen from the White House is discovered in Al Gore’s home. (July 10, 2001)
“We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction...” — Ted Kennedy (September 27, 2002)
"American Conservative Daily"
http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2008/08/michelle-lavaughn-robinson-obama/
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* August 22, 2008
Filed Under The Voice
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama’s Senior Princeton Thesis
According to Snopes.com , Princeton was requested to put a ‘restriction’ on distribution of any copies of the thesis of Michelle Obama (a/k/a/ Michelle laVaughn Robinson) saying it could not be made available until November 5, 2008 but when it was published on a political website they decided they would lift the restriction.
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/thesis.asp
Thesis - Michele Obama aka Michelle LaVaughn Robinson
OBAMA’S MILITANT RACISM REVEALED
Through her Princeton Senior Thesis
In her senior thesis at Princeton , Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama stated that America was a nation founded on ‘crime and hatred’. Moreover, she stated that whites in America were ‘Ineradicably Racist’. The 1985 thesis, titled ‘Princeton-educated BLACKS and the BLACK COMMUNITY was written under her maiden name, “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson”.
Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to ‘WHITES at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, she will always be BLACK first…’. However, it was reported by a fellow black classmate, ‘If those WHITES at Princeton ‘ really saw Michelle as one who always would ‘be Black first,’ it seems that SHE gave them that first impression’. Most alarming is Michele Obama’s use of the terms
‘Separationist’ and ‘integrationist’ when describing the views of BLACK people! Mrs. Obama clearlyidentifies herself with a ’separationist’ view of race. ‘By actually working with the Black lower class orwithin their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight.’ Michelle Obama writes that the path she chose byattending PRINCETON, would likely lead to her ‘further integration and/or assimilation into a WHITEcultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.’
Michele Obama clearly has a BIG chip on her shoulder. Not only does she see separate black and white societies in AMERICA, but, but SHE ALWAYS elevates BLACKS OVER WHITES in her world.
Here is another passage that is uncomfortable and ominus in meaning: ‘There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit the black community FIRST and FOREMOST.’
What is Michelle Obama planning to do with her future resources “IF” she’s the first lady, that will elevate BLACK over WHITE in AMERICA ???
The following passage appears to be a call to arms for affirmative action policies that could be thehallmark of an Obama administration. ‘Predominately WHITEY universities like Princeton aresocially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the WHITE students comprising the bulk of their enrollments.’
The conclusion of her thesis is alarming. Michelle Obama’s poll of black alumni concludes that other BLACK Students at Princeton do not share her obsession with BLACKNESS. But rather than celebrate, she is horrified that BLACK alumni identify with our common American culture more than they value the color of their skin. I HOPED THAT these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that BLACK Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the BLACK community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.’ Is it no wonder that most BLACK alumni ignored her racist questionnaire? Only 89 students responded out of 400 who wereasked for input. Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd of Obama supporters and SEE AMERICANS!, SHE sees BLACK PEOPLE and WHITEY PEOPLE eternally conflicted with oneanother.
The thesis provides a trove of Mrs. Obama’s thoughts and world view seen through a race-based prism. This is a very divisive view for a potential first lady that would do untold damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Obama administration. Michelle Obama’s intellectually refinedracism should give all Americans pause for deep concern.
Will the media-press let Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama get a free pass over her OBVIOUSLY RACIST COMMENTS about AMERICAN “WHITES”?
I am almost quite sure that it will, but we emailers should NEVER let the ball drop. If SHE is let loose in the “WHITE HOUSE” more than dishes and furniture will disappear !!!
PS: We, the AMERICAN tax-paying society paid for her scholarship. SHE should show more GRATITUDE and GRACIOUSNESS, rather than BLACK exclusiveness, don’t you think !!!
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. -- Sir William Osler
"The Patriot Post"
"Let us hear of the dignity of man's nature, and the noble rank he holdsamong the works of God." --- John Adams
"This is hardly the first presidential campaign to pit an antiabortion Republican ticket against pro-choice Democrats. Never before, however, has the difference been so stark. Obama advocates abortion rights even more sweeping than those enacted under Roe v. Wade. 'The first thing I'd do as president,' he assured the Planned Parenthood Action Fund last year, 'is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.' The measure would not only codify Roe, it would eliminate even restrictions on abortion that the Supreme Court has allowed---the federal ban on government funding of abortion, for example, or the law prohibiting partial-birth abortion. During last month's forum atthe Saddleback Church, Obama was asked when 'a baby gets human rights.' He fudged: 'Answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.' But there is nothing hesitant about Obama's abortion stance. As an Illinois lawmaker, he opposed a bill making it clear that premature babies born alive after surviving a failed abortion must be protected and cannot be killed or simply left to die. Even after virtually identical legislation---the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002---passed unanimously in the U.S. House and Senate, Obama continued to oppose the state version. On abortion, no presidential candidate has ever been so extreme. And when has a Republican ticket ever been so unabashedly antiabortion?" -- Jeff Jacoby
"Townhall.com"
“Let me tell you, for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.” — Michelle Obama (February 17, 2008)
A bust of Abraham Lincoln stolen from the White House is discovered in Al Gore’s home. (July 10, 2001)
“We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction...” — Ted Kennedy (September 27, 2002)
"American Conservative Daily"
http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2008/08/michelle-lavaughn-robinson-obama/
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* August 22, 2008
Filed Under The Voice
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama’s Senior Princeton Thesis
According to Snopes.com , Princeton was requested to put a ‘restriction’ on distribution of any copies of the thesis of Michelle Obama (a/k/a/ Michelle laVaughn Robinson) saying it could not be made available until November 5, 2008 but when it was published on a political website they decided they would lift the restriction.
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Thesis - Michele Obama aka Michelle LaVaughn Robinson
OBAMA’S MILITANT RACISM REVEALED
Through her Princeton Senior Thesis
In her senior thesis at Princeton , Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama stated that America was a nation founded on ‘crime and hatred’. Moreover, she stated that whites in America were ‘Ineradicably Racist’. The 1985 thesis, titled ‘Princeton-educated BLACKS and the BLACK COMMUNITY was written under her maiden name, “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson”.
Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to ‘WHITES at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, she will always be BLACK first…’. However, it was reported by a fellow black classmate, ‘If those WHITES at Princeton ‘ really saw Michelle as one who always would ‘be Black first,’ it seems that SHE gave them that first impression’. Most alarming is Michele Obama’s use of the terms
‘Separationist’ and ‘integrationist’ when describing the views of BLACK people! Mrs. Obama clearlyidentifies herself with a ’separationist’ view of race. ‘By actually working with the Black lower class orwithin their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight.’ Michelle Obama writes that the path she chose byattending PRINCETON, would likely lead to her ‘further integration and/or assimilation into a WHITEcultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.’
Michele Obama clearly has a BIG chip on her shoulder. Not only does she see separate black and white societies in AMERICA, but, but SHE ALWAYS elevates BLACKS OVER WHITES in her world.
Here is another passage that is uncomfortable and ominus in meaning: ‘There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit the black community FIRST and FOREMOST.’
What is Michelle Obama planning to do with her future resources “IF” she’s the first lady, that will elevate BLACK over WHITE in AMERICA ???
The following passage appears to be a call to arms for affirmative action policies that could be thehallmark of an Obama administration. ‘Predominately WHITEY universities like Princeton aresocially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the WHITE students comprising the bulk of their enrollments.’
The conclusion of her thesis is alarming. Michelle Obama’s poll of black alumni concludes that other BLACK Students at Princeton do not share her obsession with BLACKNESS. But rather than celebrate, she is horrified that BLACK alumni identify with our common American culture more than they value the color of their skin. I HOPED THAT these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that BLACK Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the BLACK community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.’ Is it no wonder that most BLACK alumni ignored her racist questionnaire? Only 89 students responded out of 400 who wereasked for input. Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd of Obama supporters and SEE AMERICANS!, SHE sees BLACK PEOPLE and WHITEY PEOPLE eternally conflicted with oneanother.
The thesis provides a trove of Mrs. Obama’s thoughts and world view seen through a race-based prism. This is a very divisive view for a potential first lady that would do untold damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Obama administration. Michelle Obama’s intellectually refinedracism should give all Americans pause for deep concern.
Will the media-press let Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama get a free pass over her OBVIOUSLY RACIST COMMENTS about AMERICAN “WHITES”?
I am almost quite sure that it will, but we emailers should NEVER let the ball drop. If SHE is let loose in the “WHITE HOUSE” more than dishes and furniture will disappear !!!
PS: We, the AMERICAN tax-paying society paid for her scholarship. SHE should show more GRATITUDE and GRACIOUSNESS, rather than BLACK exclusiveness, don’t you think !!!
Daily Motivations - 20080915
"Daily Motivations"
Seeking to better understand shows you are open to feedback and care about your listeners. -- Leslie C. Aguilar
"The Patriot Post"
"Finally, there seem to be but three Ways for a Nation to acquire Wealth. The first is by War as the Romans did in plundering their conquered Neighbours. This is Robbery. The second by Commerce which is generally Cheating. The third by Agriculture the only honest Way; wherein Man receives a real Increase of the Seedthrown into the Ground, in a kind of continual Miracle wrought by the Hand of God in his favour, as a Reward for his innocent Life, and virtuous Industry." -- Benjamin Franklin
"I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such personalgreatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour ofneed. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. AndI will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God." --- John McCain
I spent 25 years in the private sector. I've done business in many foreign countries. I know why jobs come and why they go away. And I know that liberals don't have a clue. [Democrats] think we have the biggest and strongest economy in the world because of our government. They're wrong. America is strong because of the ingenuity and entrepreneurship and hard work of the American people. - Mitt Romney
And now, the stupidity of Obama for opening his mouth without previously "known information". Obama owes McCain an apology.
"World Net Daily"
ELECTION 2008Obama oops: War injuries prevent McCain from e-mailingCampaign issued ad today mocking GOP candidate for lack of computer savvy
Posted: September 12, 20088:40 pm Eastern© 2008 WorldNetDaily
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75147
Image from Obama campaign adA Barack Obama ad that mocks John McCain for not being able to use a computer and send an e-mail apparently didn't take into account the fact that the Republican presidential nominee can't use a keyboard because of the severe injuries he suffered as a Navy pilot and POW during the Vietnam war.
A Boston Globe report eight years ago cited by the National Review's Jonah Goldberg said McCain's "severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes."
But the Obama campaign ad posted on the Internet today poked fun at McCain for admitting "he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail."
The text of the ad says: 1982. John McCain goes to Washington. Things have changed in the last 26 years. But McCain hasn't. He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail, still doesn't understand the economy and favors $200 billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class.
After one president who was out of touch, we just can't afford more of the same.
My name is Barack Obama, and I approve this message.
"Human Events"
Near the end of a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pa., a woman arose to offer a passionate plea to Barack Obama to "stop these abortions."
Obama's response was cool, direct, unequivocal.
"Look, I got two daughters -- 9 years old and 6 years old. ... I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
"Punished with a baby."
"The e-mail Bag"
Out of respect for the U.S. flag, never:
dip it for any person or thing, even though state flags, regimental colors and other flags may be dipped as a mark of honor.
display it with the union down, except as a signal of distress.
let the flag touch anything beneath it: ground, floor, water, merchandise.
carry it horizontally, but always aloft.
fasten or display it in a way that will permit it to be damaged or soiled.
place anything on the flag, including letters, insignia, or designs of any kind.
use it for holding anything.
use it as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery. It should not be used on a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be attached to the uniform of patriotic organizations, military personnel, police officers and firefighters.
use the flag for advertising or promotion purposes or print it on paper napkins, boxes or anything else intended for temporary use and discard.
During the hoisting or lowering of the flag or when it passes in parade or review, Americans should stand at attention facing the flag and place their right hand over the heart. Uniformed military members render the military salute. Men not in uniform should remove any headdress and hold it with their right hand at their left shoulder, the hand resting over the heart. Those who are not U.S. citizens should stand at attention.
When the flag is worn out or otherwise no longer a fitting emblem for display, it should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
Seeking to better understand shows you are open to feedback and care about your listeners. -- Leslie C. Aguilar
"The Patriot Post"
"Finally, there seem to be but three Ways for a Nation to acquire Wealth. The first is by War as the Romans did in plundering their conquered Neighbours. This is Robbery. The second by Commerce which is generally Cheating. The third by Agriculture the only honest Way; wherein Man receives a real Increase of the Seedthrown into the Ground, in a kind of continual Miracle wrought by the Hand of God in his favour, as a Reward for his innocent Life, and virtuous Industry." -- Benjamin Franklin
"I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such personalgreatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour ofneed. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. AndI will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God." --- John McCain
I spent 25 years in the private sector. I've done business in many foreign countries. I know why jobs come and why they go away. And I know that liberals don't have a clue. [Democrats] think we have the biggest and strongest economy in the world because of our government. They're wrong. America is strong because of the ingenuity and entrepreneurship and hard work of the American people. - Mitt Romney
And now, the stupidity of Obama for opening his mouth without previously "known information". Obama owes McCain an apology.
"World Net Daily"
ELECTION 2008Obama oops: War injuries prevent McCain from e-mailingCampaign issued ad today mocking GOP candidate for lack of computer savvy
Posted: September 12, 20088:40 pm Eastern© 2008 WorldNetDaily
http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75147
Image from Obama campaign adA Barack Obama ad that mocks John McCain for not being able to use a computer and send an e-mail apparently didn't take into account the fact that the Republican presidential nominee can't use a keyboard because of the severe injuries he suffered as a Navy pilot and POW during the Vietnam war.
A Boston Globe report eight years ago cited by the National Review's Jonah Goldberg said McCain's "severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes."
But the Obama campaign ad posted on the Internet today poked fun at McCain for admitting "he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail."
The text of the ad says: 1982. John McCain goes to Washington. Things have changed in the last 26 years. But McCain hasn't. He admits he still doesn't know how to use a computer, can't send an e-mail, still doesn't understand the economy and favors $200 billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class.
After one president who was out of touch, we just can't afford more of the same.
My name is Barack Obama, and I approve this message.
"Human Events"
Near the end of a town hall meeting in Johnstown, Pa., a woman arose to offer a passionate plea to Barack Obama to "stop these abortions."
Obama's response was cool, direct, unequivocal.
"Look, I got two daughters -- 9 years old and 6 years old. ... I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
"Punished with a baby."
"The e-mail Bag"
Out of respect for the U.S. flag, never:
dip it for any person or thing, even though state flags, regimental colors and other flags may be dipped as a mark of honor.
display it with the union down, except as a signal of distress.
let the flag touch anything beneath it: ground, floor, water, merchandise.
carry it horizontally, but always aloft.
fasten or display it in a way that will permit it to be damaged or soiled.
place anything on the flag, including letters, insignia, or designs of any kind.
use it for holding anything.
use it as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery. It should not be used on a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be attached to the uniform of patriotic organizations, military personnel, police officers and firefighters.
use the flag for advertising or promotion purposes or print it on paper napkins, boxes or anything else intended for temporary use and discard.
During the hoisting or lowering of the flag or when it passes in parade or review, Americans should stand at attention facing the flag and place their right hand over the heart. Uniformed military members render the military salute. Men not in uniform should remove any headdress and hold it with their right hand at their left shoulder, the hand resting over the heart. Those who are not U.S. citizens should stand at attention.
When the flag is worn out or otherwise no longer a fitting emblem for display, it should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
Patriot Post - 20080913
"The Patriot Post"
This week, CNN's Anderson Cooper asked Obama, "Some Republican critics say you don't have the experience to handle a situation like this [Hurricane Gustav]. They've in fact said that Governor Palin has more executive experience as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state like Alaska. What's your response?"
Obama replied, "Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin's town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, 50 employees, uh, uh, we've got 2,500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years. Uh, and certainly, in terms of, uh, the legislation that I've passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina, uh, of how we handle emergency management. The fact that, uh, many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place, uh, as we speak, indicates the extent to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.
"Memo to former "community organizer" Obama: Palin is, in fact, governor of Alaska, which has annual budget of approximately $11 billion and more than 20,000 employees. She manages far more than a campaign and has done far more than co-sponsor non-controversial legislation.
And if Obama were in charge of Wasilla, the town of 9,000 would no doubt employ 2,500 on a budget of $36 million a month.
This week, CNN's Anderson Cooper asked Obama, "Some Republican critics say you don't have the experience to handle a situation like this [Hurricane Gustav]. They've in fact said that Governor Palin has more executive experience as mayor of a small town and as governor of a big state like Alaska. What's your response?"
Obama replied, "Well, you know, my understanding is that, uh, Governor Palin's town of Wasilly [sic] has, uh, 50 employees, uh, uh, we've got 2,500, uh, in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. Uh, uh, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. Uh, so I think that, uh, our ability to manage large systems, uh, and to, uh, execute, uh, I think has been made clear over the last couple of years. Uh, and certainly, in terms of, uh, the legislation that I've passed just dealing with this issue post-Katrina, uh, of how we handle emergency management. The fact that, uh, many of my recommendations were adopted and are being put in place, uh, as we speak, indicates the extent to which we can provide the kinds of support and good service that the American people expect.
"Memo to former "community organizer" Obama: Palin is, in fact, governor of Alaska, which has annual budget of approximately $11 billion and more than 20,000 employees. She manages far more than a campaign and has done far more than co-sponsor non-controversial legislation.
And if Obama were in charge of Wasilla, the town of 9,000 would no doubt employ 2,500 on a budget of $36 million a month.
Daily Motivations - 20080912
Daily Motivations"
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. -- Vince Lombardi
"The Patriot Post"
"Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters." -- Thomas Paine
"In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character..." --- Noah Webster
"The Conservative Union"
Because Governor Sarah Palin is a proven conservative.
Nick Cohen in London's Sunday Observer newspaper wrote, "As a Christian, conservative anti-abortionist who proved her support for the Iraq War by sending her son to fight in it, Sarah Palin was 'the other' - the threatening alien presence (the American liberal press) defined themselves against. They might have soberly examined her reputation as an opponent of political corruption to see if she was truly the reformer she claimed to be. But instead of following a measured strategy, they went berserk. The New York Times led the way in painting Palin as a glamour-puss in go-go boots you were more likely to find in an Anchorage lap-dancing club than the Alaska governor's office.. ...Hatred is the most powerful emotion in politics."
• Governor Palin served as Mayor of a community, President of the Alaska Conference of Mayors and now as the Chief Executive of a state. Obama has never held an executive position where he had to make decisions.
• Governor Palin has reformed government, cut taxes, provided tax rebates, cut spending and put policies in place to increase the flow of domestic energy production. She even had the state's "checkbook" posted on-line so citizens could see where money was being spent. Obama has never authored a single piece of legislative that passed into law, at either the state or federal level.
• Governor Palin serves as Chief Executive of a state that borders two nations, Canada and Russia, where she is forced to deal with international relations. Obama gave a speech in Germany.
• Governor Palin serves as Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guard. She personally directed deployment of units and visited units overseas. Obama visited a limited number of troops for photo ops on his around-the-world tour.
The liberal media doesn't like conservatives. Especially a conservative with more leadership experience than their favorite son, Barack Obama. With that, there is this report - oyh :
• Obama's spiritual advisor and pastor of 20 years, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who said that the 9/11 attacks were a case of ''America's chickens coming home to roost,'' and suggested that the government inflicted AIDS on black people;
• Obama's purchase of a mock Georgian mansion on Chicago's south side on June 15, 2005, the same day convicted Democrat fundraiser Tony Rezko's wife bought a plot next door to help in the sale. Rezko was convicted this year on fraud and bribery charges. According to columnist Robert Novak, Federal prosecutors recently revealed that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi billionaire who lives in London, wired $3.5 million to the financially strapped Rezko in Chicago less than a month before the Obama-Rezko purchases.
• And, Obama's connections to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick - who recently pled guilty to making false statements to prosecutors and who was forced to resign. Obama called Kwame, a "great mayor" who will do "astounding things for many years to come."
And now this! How much "more corruption" is there in the Obama organization?:
This is the same Michelle Obama who received a major salary increase from a hospital just after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate - a hospital which was set to receive a multi-million dollar earmark directly from Barack Obama. Shortly after Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, his wife's salary was increased from $121,910 to $316,962 at the University of Chicago Medical Center. In 2006, Obama requested a $1 million pavilion be built for the Medical Center 2006 using public tax money.
Folks, you just got to read it to believe it. Barack Obama supporting ex education in kindergarden? Click on the link below to read the entire article. - oyh
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/121087.php
McCain Ad Criticizes Obama For Supporting Age-Appropriate Sex Education In Illinois State Senate
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Article Date: 11 Sep 2008 - 5:00 PDT
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The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Tuesday released a television advertisement that criticizes Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) for supporting age-appropriate sex education beginning in kindergarten while he served in the Illinois Senate, the AP/Google.com reports.
The measure at issue would have required public schools that provided sex education to include medically accurate, age-appropriate lessons for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Obama has said that age-appropriate lessons for young children means being taught about sexual predators and the difference between a "good touch and bad touch." Lessons for other grades would have covered the consequences of unprotected sex and the effects of contraception and abstinence, according to the AP/Google.com. Obama voted in favor of the bill in the state Senate in 2003 but was not a sponsor. The measure never became law.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. -- Vince Lombardi
"The Patriot Post"
"Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters." -- Thomas Paine
"In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character..." --- Noah Webster
"The Conservative Union"
Because Governor Sarah Palin is a proven conservative.
Nick Cohen in London's Sunday Observer newspaper wrote, "As a Christian, conservative anti-abortionist who proved her support for the Iraq War by sending her son to fight in it, Sarah Palin was 'the other' - the threatening alien presence (the American liberal press) defined themselves against. They might have soberly examined her reputation as an opponent of political corruption to see if she was truly the reformer she claimed to be. But instead of following a measured strategy, they went berserk. The New York Times led the way in painting Palin as a glamour-puss in go-go boots you were more likely to find in an Anchorage lap-dancing club than the Alaska governor's office.. ...Hatred is the most powerful emotion in politics."
• Governor Palin served as Mayor of a community, President of the Alaska Conference of Mayors and now as the Chief Executive of a state. Obama has never held an executive position where he had to make decisions.
• Governor Palin has reformed government, cut taxes, provided tax rebates, cut spending and put policies in place to increase the flow of domestic energy production. She even had the state's "checkbook" posted on-line so citizens could see where money was being spent. Obama has never authored a single piece of legislative that passed into law, at either the state or federal level.
• Governor Palin serves as Chief Executive of a state that borders two nations, Canada and Russia, where she is forced to deal with international relations. Obama gave a speech in Germany.
• Governor Palin serves as Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guard. She personally directed deployment of units and visited units overseas. Obama visited a limited number of troops for photo ops on his around-the-world tour.
The liberal media doesn't like conservatives. Especially a conservative with more leadership experience than their favorite son, Barack Obama. With that, there is this report - oyh :
• Obama's spiritual advisor and pastor of 20 years, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who said that the 9/11 attacks were a case of ''America's chickens coming home to roost,'' and suggested that the government inflicted AIDS on black people;
• Obama's purchase of a mock Georgian mansion on Chicago's south side on June 15, 2005, the same day convicted Democrat fundraiser Tony Rezko's wife bought a plot next door to help in the sale. Rezko was convicted this year on fraud and bribery charges. According to columnist Robert Novak, Federal prosecutors recently revealed that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi billionaire who lives in London, wired $3.5 million to the financially strapped Rezko in Chicago less than a month before the Obama-Rezko purchases.
• And, Obama's connections to former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick - who recently pled guilty to making false statements to prosecutors and who was forced to resign. Obama called Kwame, a "great mayor" who will do "astounding things for many years to come."
And now this! How much "more corruption" is there in the Obama organization?:
This is the same Michelle Obama who received a major salary increase from a hospital just after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate - a hospital which was set to receive a multi-million dollar earmark directly from Barack Obama. Shortly after Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, his wife's salary was increased from $121,910 to $316,962 at the University of Chicago Medical Center. In 2006, Obama requested a $1 million pavilion be built for the Medical Center 2006 using public tax money.
Folks, you just got to read it to believe it. Barack Obama supporting ex education in kindergarden? Click on the link below to read the entire article. - oyh
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/121087.php
McCain Ad Criticizes Obama For Supporting Age-Appropriate Sex Education In Illinois State Senate
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The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Tuesday released a television advertisement that criticizes Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) for supporting age-appropriate sex education beginning in kindergarten while he served in the Illinois Senate, the AP/Google.com reports.
The measure at issue would have required public schools that provided sex education to include medically accurate, age-appropriate lessons for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Obama has said that age-appropriate lessons for young children means being taught about sexual predators and the difference between a "good touch and bad touch." Lessons for other grades would have covered the consequences of unprotected sex and the effects of contraception and abstinence, according to the AP/Google.com. Obama voted in favor of the bill in the state Senate in 2003 but was not a sponsor. The measure never became law.
Daily Motivations - 20080911
Daily Motivations"
Put a smile in the path of a complaint…once daily. -- Sam Parker
Today's Topic: Improvise to Maximize
Great conversations result when there’s an easy give and take, a go-with-the-flow sensation, along with an acute sense that you are being heard at a deeper level than the normal chitchat. In this instance, good conversations resemble improvisational theatre. Improv actually depends upon all the actors paying close attention to each other and then working with whatever is presented to them. Let me repeat that: pay attention and work with whatever is presented.
Select someone you’d like to (or need to) talk to. Open up the conversation by stating either why you’ve initiated the conversation or by asking an open-ended question. Then, practice these techniques:
Encourage talking by saying, “Yes…tell me more.” This means that no matter what is stated, don’t change the subject, get defensive, fail to listen, or ignore the response. You have the opportunity to create new and positive results by building upon whatever is said.
Don’t plan your response while the other person is speaking.
Seek what is provocative, interesting, or new in what you are hearing. There’s a gift somewhere. Trust me. Ask the other person to expand on something that intrigues you – even if it bothers you.
"The Patriot Post"
"If Obama is Hope, God save us from Despair." --- Mac Johnson
"To prevent crimes, is the noblest end and aim of criminal jurisprudence. To punish them, is one of the means necessary for the accomplishment of this noble end and aim." -- James Wilson
"The e-mail Bag"
From The Publisher:
If Barack Gave This Speech...I'd Vote For Him. Here is the speech Barack Obama would have to give to get me to vote for him:
My Fellow Americansand I do mean Americans.
I am not an African-American. I am an American who happens to have an African father.
I am not a Democrat. I am an American who happens to be a member of the Democratic Party.
I am not a liberal. I am an American who thinks that some answers to our societal problems can be found in government but most answers to our problems will come from you.
I believe that this nationwhile we have made many mistakes in our collective historyhas become historys longest-lived experiment in self-government precisely because we have always tried to do the right thing. We have not always succeeded but we have always tried.
I believe that we, as a nation, are good and do noble things. Again, we dont always do so without making mistakes, but were always out there doing what we perceive to be the right thing.
When I talk about change, what I mean is that, perhaps we need a fresh set of ideas in Washington because even my opponents will privately acknowledge that Congress has become an incumbent protection system on both sides of the aisle and that has the effect of stifling new ideas which might work.
Further, both political parties should be ashamed of themselves for the way theyand I will specifically include my opponent and I in thishave performed in Congress in the past.
I have spent the past four years in the Senate largely running for President.
In retrospect, it was probably not the best use of my time, since I could have legitimately been bringing change to Washington during that time.
Nonetheless, I have somehow maneuvered myself into the position I am today and perhaps, if Im realistic and do not let my press clippings overwhelm the reality, I might actually be in a better position to help fix a broken system.
With that in mind, let me tell you specifically what I will do if you honor me with the job I am seeking.
I will immediately appoint my opponent, John McCain, Secretary of Defense. He has forgotten more about the military than I will ever learn.
I will consult with the commanders in the field and Senator McCain and their advice will govern the future of our activities in the Middle East.
On the economic front, I will use my bully pulpit to explain to Wall Street that we can do things the easy way or the hard way. They need to stop squeezing the last nickel from people who cannot afford to pay it in areas such as mortgage securitization, oil speculation and other activities, which have the additional consequences of affecting the economy negatively. We can either regulate them in ways they wont like or they can fix the problems themselves.
I must be honest with you.
Any Presidentincluding the current Presidenthas a very limited ability to change economic factors. Presidents cannot lower gas prices or raise wages or lower interest rates or raise the value of your house or make someone give you a loan.
Presidents do have a bully pulpit and I would use mine to remind Wall Street that Main Street is watching and we can make their lives much more difficult should they choose to be particularly rapacious. The one thing I can immediately do is to allow for additional oil drilling in places where we have previously not allowed such activity. If nothing else, it is a matter of national security.
While we are on the subject of our current President, let me also say that President Bush is a decent, honest man who, like every other sitting President, has faced great challenges which none of us can actually know until we take the job.
I may disagree with his politics, but I would urge you to understand that George W. Bush is a patriot, a great American and I cannot promise you that after you elect me, I might not do many of the same things he did. Theres just no way to know until Im on the job.
I hope my honesty hasnt scared you. If you vote for my opponent, you are also voting for a great American. If you honor me with your vote, Ill do my level best not to embarrass you. Good night and God Bless America,
If he gave that speech, Id vote for him.
RED WEINBERG
Above Obama's Pay Grade
By MICHAEL REAGAN
Special To The Penny Press
Anybody who watched Barack Obamas sorry performance during last weeks Saddleback Civil Forum on thePresidency with Pastor Rick Warren had to come away with the question, What is this guy doing running for president of the United States?
The worshipping media described his comments as nuanced, the word they use to describe wishy-washy. It was full of those on the other hand answers to Pastor Warrens probing questions.
Obama was anything but wishy-washy, however,when hesaid that knowing when human life begins was above his pay grade. He was just plain evasive, obviously seeking to play down his extremist view that abortion at any time, in any circumstance, is perfectly acceptable to him.
This isnt surprising since he took the lead in the Illinois Senate in fighting a bill that would outlaw the barbarous murder of newborn infants who survive being killed in a partial-birth abortion.
During the forum, his struggle to please everybody by straddling the issues was plain for all to see. He showed he was willing to say and dowhat he believed everybody wanted to hear. When you try to find any real depth in his beliefsyou quickly discover he is utterly shallow and soulless, a sloganeer instead of a missionary.
He's just a politician on the make, trying to be all things to all people -- an empty suit proclaiming empty promises.
Being without real depth, his platform merelyfloats on a surface of promises categorized as Hope and Change, neither of which is clearly defined.
He assures us that he wants to change Washington and sweep away all that this city represents. Yet one has only to look at this weeks Democratic National Convention to understand that its not change, but lots more of the same.
Just look at the roster of speakers lined up and try to find a single new face. Its the same old lineup, the same old roll call of familiar Democrat politicians who have constituted the leadership of the national Democratic Party for eons.
Change? Does inviting Jimmy Carter (arguably the worst president in our long history and a dedicated foe of Israel) constitute meaningful change?
Is John Kerry a new face, or simply a retread of a failed presidential candidate who represents his partys recent past as well as its immediate future?
How about putting Al Gore on the speakers dais? Al Gore, the high priest of the phony climate-change religion who to this day cant accept the fact that he lost to George Bush in 2000 and never stops whining about it. Thats change?
Just what changes the old Democratic order when you have Bill Clinton speaking one night and Hillary Clinton the next night?
Is Mayor Daley, Obamas strongest backer and the boss of the corrupt Chicago Democratic machine, a symbol of change?
You look at this upcoming convention and you have to ask yourself, Have I not seen this show before?
We saw it in 2004 and 2000 and 1996 and 1992, and every other Democratic convention going back to Harry S. Truman. And by the way,if Truman were alive today he would be the one familiar face who wouldnt be invited to speak.
Plain-spoken Harry would take one look at Obama and wed be hearing some of his patented obscenities. Truman had no tolerance for politicians who tried to pass themselves off as messiahs, above the give and take of everyday politics.
Change? Its simply more of the same old thing: power-hungry politicians lusting after the authority to impose the decades-old Democrat, socialist, big-brother programs on the American people. An authority the people wisely continue to deny them.
Barack Obama hasnt demonstrated that by virtue of any past experience that he possesses the capacity to be president of the United States, a job far above his pay grade.
For this week's entire issue go to www.pennypresslv.com
Put a smile in the path of a complaint…once daily. -- Sam Parker
Today's Topic: Improvise to Maximize
Great conversations result when there’s an easy give and take, a go-with-the-flow sensation, along with an acute sense that you are being heard at a deeper level than the normal chitchat. In this instance, good conversations resemble improvisational theatre. Improv actually depends upon all the actors paying close attention to each other and then working with whatever is presented to them. Let me repeat that: pay attention and work with whatever is presented.
Select someone you’d like to (or need to) talk to. Open up the conversation by stating either why you’ve initiated the conversation or by asking an open-ended question. Then, practice these techniques:
Encourage talking by saying, “Yes…tell me more.” This means that no matter what is stated, don’t change the subject, get defensive, fail to listen, or ignore the response. You have the opportunity to create new and positive results by building upon whatever is said.
Don’t plan your response while the other person is speaking.
Seek what is provocative, interesting, or new in what you are hearing. There’s a gift somewhere. Trust me. Ask the other person to expand on something that intrigues you – even if it bothers you.
"The Patriot Post"
"If Obama is Hope, God save us from Despair." --- Mac Johnson
"To prevent crimes, is the noblest end and aim of criminal jurisprudence. To punish them, is one of the means necessary for the accomplishment of this noble end and aim." -- James Wilson
"The e-mail Bag"
From The Publisher:
If Barack Gave This Speech...I'd Vote For Him. Here is the speech Barack Obama would have to give to get me to vote for him:
My Fellow Americansand I do mean Americans.
I am not an African-American. I am an American who happens to have an African father.
I am not a Democrat. I am an American who happens to be a member of the Democratic Party.
I am not a liberal. I am an American who thinks that some answers to our societal problems can be found in government but most answers to our problems will come from you.
I believe that this nationwhile we have made many mistakes in our collective historyhas become historys longest-lived experiment in self-government precisely because we have always tried to do the right thing. We have not always succeeded but we have always tried.
I believe that we, as a nation, are good and do noble things. Again, we dont always do so without making mistakes, but were always out there doing what we perceive to be the right thing.
When I talk about change, what I mean is that, perhaps we need a fresh set of ideas in Washington because even my opponents will privately acknowledge that Congress has become an incumbent protection system on both sides of the aisle and that has the effect of stifling new ideas which might work.
Further, both political parties should be ashamed of themselves for the way theyand I will specifically include my opponent and I in thishave performed in Congress in the past.
I have spent the past four years in the Senate largely running for President.
In retrospect, it was probably not the best use of my time, since I could have legitimately been bringing change to Washington during that time.
Nonetheless, I have somehow maneuvered myself into the position I am today and perhaps, if Im realistic and do not let my press clippings overwhelm the reality, I might actually be in a better position to help fix a broken system.
With that in mind, let me tell you specifically what I will do if you honor me with the job I am seeking.
I will immediately appoint my opponent, John McCain, Secretary of Defense. He has forgotten more about the military than I will ever learn.
I will consult with the commanders in the field and Senator McCain and their advice will govern the future of our activities in the Middle East.
On the economic front, I will use my bully pulpit to explain to Wall Street that we can do things the easy way or the hard way. They need to stop squeezing the last nickel from people who cannot afford to pay it in areas such as mortgage securitization, oil speculation and other activities, which have the additional consequences of affecting the economy negatively. We can either regulate them in ways they wont like or they can fix the problems themselves.
I must be honest with you.
Any Presidentincluding the current Presidenthas a very limited ability to change economic factors. Presidents cannot lower gas prices or raise wages or lower interest rates or raise the value of your house or make someone give you a loan.
Presidents do have a bully pulpit and I would use mine to remind Wall Street that Main Street is watching and we can make their lives much more difficult should they choose to be particularly rapacious. The one thing I can immediately do is to allow for additional oil drilling in places where we have previously not allowed such activity. If nothing else, it is a matter of national security.
While we are on the subject of our current President, let me also say that President Bush is a decent, honest man who, like every other sitting President, has faced great challenges which none of us can actually know until we take the job.
I may disagree with his politics, but I would urge you to understand that George W. Bush is a patriot, a great American and I cannot promise you that after you elect me, I might not do many of the same things he did. Theres just no way to know until Im on the job.
I hope my honesty hasnt scared you. If you vote for my opponent, you are also voting for a great American. If you honor me with your vote, Ill do my level best not to embarrass you. Good night and God Bless America,
If he gave that speech, Id vote for him.
RED WEINBERG
Above Obama's Pay Grade
By MICHAEL REAGAN
Special To The Penny Press
Anybody who watched Barack Obamas sorry performance during last weeks Saddleback Civil Forum on thePresidency with Pastor Rick Warren had to come away with the question, What is this guy doing running for president of the United States?
The worshipping media described his comments as nuanced, the word they use to describe wishy-washy. It was full of those on the other hand answers to Pastor Warrens probing questions.
Obama was anything but wishy-washy, however,when hesaid that knowing when human life begins was above his pay grade. He was just plain evasive, obviously seeking to play down his extremist view that abortion at any time, in any circumstance, is perfectly acceptable to him.
This isnt surprising since he took the lead in the Illinois Senate in fighting a bill that would outlaw the barbarous murder of newborn infants who survive being killed in a partial-birth abortion.
During the forum, his struggle to please everybody by straddling the issues was plain for all to see. He showed he was willing to say and dowhat he believed everybody wanted to hear. When you try to find any real depth in his beliefsyou quickly discover he is utterly shallow and soulless, a sloganeer instead of a missionary.
He's just a politician on the make, trying to be all things to all people -- an empty suit proclaiming empty promises.
Being without real depth, his platform merelyfloats on a surface of promises categorized as Hope and Change, neither of which is clearly defined.
He assures us that he wants to change Washington and sweep away all that this city represents. Yet one has only to look at this weeks Democratic National Convention to understand that its not change, but lots more of the same.
Just look at the roster of speakers lined up and try to find a single new face. Its the same old lineup, the same old roll call of familiar Democrat politicians who have constituted the leadership of the national Democratic Party for eons.
Change? Does inviting Jimmy Carter (arguably the worst president in our long history and a dedicated foe of Israel) constitute meaningful change?
Is John Kerry a new face, or simply a retread of a failed presidential candidate who represents his partys recent past as well as its immediate future?
How about putting Al Gore on the speakers dais? Al Gore, the high priest of the phony climate-change religion who to this day cant accept the fact that he lost to George Bush in 2000 and never stops whining about it. Thats change?
Just what changes the old Democratic order when you have Bill Clinton speaking one night and Hillary Clinton the next night?
Is Mayor Daley, Obamas strongest backer and the boss of the corrupt Chicago Democratic machine, a symbol of change?
You look at this upcoming convention and you have to ask yourself, Have I not seen this show before?
We saw it in 2004 and 2000 and 1996 and 1992, and every other Democratic convention going back to Harry S. Truman. And by the way,if Truman were alive today he would be the one familiar face who wouldnt be invited to speak.
Plain-spoken Harry would take one look at Obama and wed be hearing some of his patented obscenities. Truman had no tolerance for politicians who tried to pass themselves off as messiahs, above the give and take of everyday politics.
Change? Its simply more of the same old thing: power-hungry politicians lusting after the authority to impose the decades-old Democrat, socialist, big-brother programs on the American people. An authority the people wisely continue to deny them.
Barack Obama hasnt demonstrated that by virtue of any past experience that he possesses the capacity to be president of the United States, a job far above his pay grade.
For this week's entire issue go to www.pennypresslv.com
Daily Motivations - 20080910
We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.-- Robert H. Shaffer
"The Patriot Post"
"We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity." --- Theodore Roosevelt"It is equally dangerous giving a madman a knife and a villain power." --- Socrates
You may have missed this on the TV News and/or in the print media!
"The U.S. economy---yes, that economy---grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate last quarter. This no doubt caused consternation at the highest levels of the Democratic Party, perhaps forcing some to consider a new convention film at the last minute: 'Dude, Where's My Recession?'... The bad news for the throngs in Denver is that Americans aren't as miserable as the Democrats need them to be." --- Jonah Goldberg
Earlier in Jimmy Carter's career, I had much respect for this man; not any more.
The unfortunate ex-president: "I think that John McCain is milking every possible drop of advantage from that unfortunate experience in his early military life." --- Jimmy Carter on McCain's five-year-long torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese
"The e-mail Bag"
BELIEVE it or not , These are Nashville , TN 's REAL 911 Calls!
Dispatcher : 9-1-1 What is your emergency? Caller: I heard what sounded like gunshots coming from the brown house on the corner. Dispatcher: Do you have an address? Caller: No, I have on a blouse and slacks, why?
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your emergency? Caller : Someone broke into my house and took a bite out of my ham and cheese sandwich . Dispatcher : Excuse me? Caller : I made a ham and cheese sandwich and left it on the kitchen table and when I came back from the bathroom, someone had taken a bite out of it. Dispatcher : Was anything else taken? Caller : No, but this has happened to me before and I'm sick and tired of it!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is the nature of your emergency? Caller: I' m trying to reach nine eleven but my phone doesn't have an eleven on it. Dispatcher: This is nine eleven. Caller: I thought you just said it was nine-one-one Dispatcher: Yes, ma'am nine-one-one and nine-eleven are the same thing. Caller: Honey, I may be old, but I'm not stupid.. My Personal Favorite!!!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What's the nature of your emergency? Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart Dispatcher: Is this her first child? Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!
And the winner is..........
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 Caller: Yeah, I'm having trouble breathing. I'm all out of breath. Darn...I think I'm going to pass out. Dispatcher: Sir, where are you calling from? Caller: I'm at a pay phone.. North and Foster. Dispatcher: ! Sir, an ambulance is on the way. Are you an asthmatic? Caller: NO. Dispatcher: What were you doing before you started having trouble breathing? Caller: Running from the Police
"The Patriot Post"
"We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity." --- Theodore Roosevelt"It is equally dangerous giving a madman a knife and a villain power." --- Socrates
You may have missed this on the TV News and/or in the print media!
"The U.S. economy---yes, that economy---grew at a 3.3 percent annual rate last quarter. This no doubt caused consternation at the highest levels of the Democratic Party, perhaps forcing some to consider a new convention film at the last minute: 'Dude, Where's My Recession?'... The bad news for the throngs in Denver is that Americans aren't as miserable as the Democrats need them to be." --- Jonah Goldberg
Earlier in Jimmy Carter's career, I had much respect for this man; not any more.
The unfortunate ex-president: "I think that John McCain is milking every possible drop of advantage from that unfortunate experience in his early military life." --- Jimmy Carter on McCain's five-year-long torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese
"The e-mail Bag"
BELIEVE it or not , These are Nashville , TN 's REAL 911 Calls!
Dispatcher : 9-1-1 What is your emergency? Caller: I heard what sounded like gunshots coming from the brown house on the corner. Dispatcher: Do you have an address? Caller: No, I have on a blouse and slacks, why?
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your emergency? Caller : Someone broke into my house and took a bite out of my ham and cheese sandwich . Dispatcher : Excuse me? Caller : I made a ham and cheese sandwich and left it on the kitchen table and when I came back from the bathroom, someone had taken a bite out of it. Dispatcher : Was anything else taken? Caller : No, but this has happened to me before and I'm sick and tired of it!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is the nature of your emergency? Caller: I' m trying to reach nine eleven but my phone doesn't have an eleven on it. Dispatcher: This is nine eleven. Caller: I thought you just said it was nine-one-one Dispatcher: Yes, ma'am nine-one-one and nine-eleven are the same thing. Caller: Honey, I may be old, but I'm not stupid.. My Personal Favorite!!!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What's the nature of your emergency? Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart Dispatcher: Is this her first child? Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!
And the winner is..........
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 Caller: Yeah, I'm having trouble breathing. I'm all out of breath. Darn...I think I'm going to pass out. Dispatcher: Sir, where are you calling from? Caller: I'm at a pay phone.. North and Foster. Dispatcher: ! Sir, an ambulance is on the way. Are you an asthmatic? Caller: NO. Dispatcher: What were you doing before you started having trouble breathing? Caller: Running from the Police
Daily Motivations - 20080909
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems. -- Anthony J. D'Angelo
There are no misunderstandings; there are only failures to communicate. -- Senegalese Proverb
"The Patriot Post"
"In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened." --- George Washington
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." --- Alexander Pope
"The e-mail Bag" - Listen to how Obama says America is no longer a "Christian" nation. My! My! How would you like a requirement that every candidate for President, Vice-President, US Senator, and/or US Congressman be required to practice Judeo-Christian values in their own personal Church?
Dr. John Tisdale
Dear Friends,
As I was listening to a news program last night, I watched in horror as Barack Obama made the statement with pride. . "we are no longer a Christian nation; we are now a nation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, . . ."
As with so many other statements I've heard him (and his wife) make, I never thought I'd see the day that I'd hear something like that from a presidential candidate in this nation.
To think our forefathers fought and died for the right for our nation to be a Christian nation -- and to have this man say with pride that we are no longer that. How far this nation has come from what our founding fathers intended it to be!
I hope that each of you will do what I'm doing now -- send your concerns, written simply and sincerely, to the Christians on your email list.
Please pray for our nation! Pray that God will give us TRUE CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP.
AND ANOTHER - FOOTBALL AND THE BLONDE.......
Out of all the "blonde jokes", this one has to be one of the best!Football FINALLY makes sense..........
A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game.
They had great seats right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience.
'Oh, I really liked it,' she replied, 'especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents.
'Dumbfounded, her date asked, 'What do you mean?
''Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm like .... Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!!!!
There are no misunderstandings; there are only failures to communicate. -- Senegalese Proverb
"The Patriot Post"
"In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened." --- George Washington
"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." --- Alexander Pope
"The e-mail Bag" - Listen to how Obama says America is no longer a "Christian" nation. My! My! How would you like a requirement that every candidate for President, Vice-President, US Senator, and/or US Congressman be required to practice Judeo-Christian values in their own personal Church?
Dr. John Tisdale
Dear Friends,
As I was listening to a news program last night, I watched in horror as Barack Obama made the statement with pride. . "we are no longer a Christian nation; we are now a nation of Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, . . ."
As with so many other statements I've heard him (and his wife) make, I never thought I'd see the day that I'd hear something like that from a presidential candidate in this nation.
To think our forefathers fought and died for the right for our nation to be a Christian nation -- and to have this man say with pride that we are no longer that. How far this nation has come from what our founding fathers intended it to be!
I hope that each of you will do what I'm doing now -- send your concerns, written simply and sincerely, to the Christians on your email list.
Please pray for our nation! Pray that God will give us TRUE CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP.
AND ANOTHER - FOOTBALL AND THE BLONDE.......
Out of all the "blonde jokes", this one has to be one of the best!Football FINALLY makes sense..........
A guy took his blonde girlfriend to her first football game.
They had great seats right behind their team's bench. After the game, he asked her how she liked the experience.
'Oh, I really liked it,' she replied, 'especially the tight pants and all the big muscles, but I just couldn't understand why they were killing each other over 25 cents.
'Dumbfounded, her date asked, 'What do you mean?
''Well, they flipped a coin, one team got it and then for the rest of the game, all they kept screaming was: 'Get the quarterback! Get the quarterback!' I'm like .... Helloooooo? It's only 25 cents!!!!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Daily Motivations - 20080908
"Daily Motivations"
Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood -- Freeman Teague, Jr.
"The Patriot Post"
"It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights." -- Benjamin Franklin
"There is little need of commentary upon this clause. No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions, which can operate upon the human mind." -- Joseph Story
"The e-mail Bag"
When you click on, the outline of the United States will appear and frame all of the pictures slowly, in a slide type presentation. Put your speakers on in a low tone, to go along with the mood that is created. This is better than Good, it's spectacular so key down and click on Make sure your sound is on. Absolutely beautiful!!! Click here: http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/mybeautifulamerica.htm
"More"
This is great. Take a look. It will make your day. Click on this URL to see the house that I found for sale, or more really, it is "free"; yours, only for the asking and receiving. This house is so awesome, that we all have been invited to invest in it. (if you click scroll bar once, it will auto scroll) Turn your speakers on.
http://wandascountryhome.com/forsale/index.html
Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood -- Freeman Teague, Jr.
"The Patriot Post"
"It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights." -- Benjamin Franklin
"There is little need of commentary upon this clause. No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions, which can operate upon the human mind." -- Joseph Story
"The e-mail Bag"
When you click on, the outline of the United States will appear and frame all of the pictures slowly, in a slide type presentation. Put your speakers on in a low tone, to go along with the mood that is created. This is better than Good, it's spectacular so key down and click on Make sure your sound is on. Absolutely beautiful!!! Click here: http://oldbluewebdesigns.com/mybeautifulamerica.htm
"More"
This is great. Take a look. It will make your day. Click on this URL to see the house that I found for sale, or more really, it is "free"; yours, only for the asking and receiving. This house is so awesome, that we all have been invited to invest in it. (if you click scroll bar once, it will auto scroll) Turn your speakers on.
http://wandascountryhome.com/forsale/index.html
Daily Motivations - 20080906
Will you support our US Flag, our US Constitution, and our American "freedoms"?
"The Patriot Post"
No small irony here that the subject of all this fervor, Barack Hussein Obama (http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=590), refused until recently to wear that flag on his lapel, much less recite a pledge to it.
"Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are all vastly superior to us now." --- Barack Obama
"Snopes.com" - May 21, 2008 ... From
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp
Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
"Human Events"
September 5, 2008 Special Edition Washington, DC
"The e-mail Bag"
Ice Fishing
The Presidential election was too close to call. Neither the Republican candidate nor the Democratic candidate had enough votes to win.. There was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc., but a week-long ice fishing competition seemed the sportsmanlike way to settle things. The candidate that caught the most fish at the end of the week would win the election.
Therefore, it was decided that there should be an ice fishing contest between the two candidates to determine the winner. After much of back and forth discussion, it was decided that the contest take place on a remote frozen lake in northern Minnesota.
There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out separately on this isolated lake and return at 5 P.M. with their catch for counting and verification by a team of neutral parties. At the end of the first day, John Mc. returned to the starting line and he had ten fish.
Soon, Obama returned and had no fish. Well, everyone assumed he was just having another 'bad hair' day or something and hopefully, he would catch up the next day.
At the end of the 2nd day John Mc. came in with 20 fish and Obama came in again with none.
That evening, Harry Reid got together secretly with Obama and said, 'Obama, I think John Mc. is a low-life, cheatin' son-of-a-gun. I want you to go out tomorrow and don't even bother with fishing. Just spy on him and see just how he is cheating.'
The next night (after John Mc. returns with 50 fish), Harry said to Obama, 'Well, tell me, how is John Mc. cheating?'
Obama replied, 'Harry, you're not going to believe this, but he's cutting holes in the ice.'
Experience Counts
From: "StarNewsOnline.com"
Obama sends supporters to blunt Palin's impact
By PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press Writer
Published: Friday, September 5, 2008 at 5:29 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, September 5, 2008 at 5:29 a.m.
http://www.newsletters.nytrng.com/kjmkvsk_ybzfqvw_vbfvcj..html
"The Patriot Post"
No small irony here that the subject of all this fervor, Barack Hussein Obama (http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=590), refused until recently to wear that flag on his lapel, much less recite a pledge to it.
"Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are all vastly superior to us now." --- Barack Obama
"Snopes.com" - May 21, 2008 ... From
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp
Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
"Human Events"
September 5, 2008 Special Edition Washington, DC
"The e-mail Bag"
Ice Fishing
The Presidential election was too close to call. Neither the Republican candidate nor the Democratic candidate had enough votes to win.. There was much talk about ballot recounting, court challenges, etc., but a week-long ice fishing competition seemed the sportsmanlike way to settle things. The candidate that caught the most fish at the end of the week would win the election.
Therefore, it was decided that there should be an ice fishing contest between the two candidates to determine the winner. After much of back and forth discussion, it was decided that the contest take place on a remote frozen lake in northern Minnesota.
There were to be no observers present, and both men were to be sent out separately on this isolated lake and return at 5 P.M. with their catch for counting and verification by a team of neutral parties. At the end of the first day, John Mc. returned to the starting line and he had ten fish.
Soon, Obama returned and had no fish. Well, everyone assumed he was just having another 'bad hair' day or something and hopefully, he would catch up the next day.
At the end of the 2nd day John Mc. came in with 20 fish and Obama came in again with none.
That evening, Harry Reid got together secretly with Obama and said, 'Obama, I think John Mc. is a low-life, cheatin' son-of-a-gun. I want you to go out tomorrow and don't even bother with fishing. Just spy on him and see just how he is cheating.'
The next night (after John Mc. returns with 50 fish), Harry said to Obama, 'Well, tell me, how is John Mc. cheating?'
Obama replied, 'Harry, you're not going to believe this, but he's cutting holes in the ice.'
Experience Counts
From: "StarNewsOnline.com"
Obama sends supporters to blunt Palin's impact
By PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press Writer
Published: Friday, September 5, 2008 at 5:29 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, September 5, 2008 at 5:29 a.m.
http://www.newsletters.nytrng.com/kjmkvsk_ybzfqvw_vbfvcj..html
Daily Motivations - 20080905
"Daily Motivations"
Love is blind, but hiring shouldn't be. -- Unknown
Today's Topic: The Main Thing
Here are five ways to ensure your employees not only know what your main thing is, but also that they work together to accomplish it.
Share your vision of what’s truly important…what you want and need your team to achieve. Don’t just recite the organization’s vision – that’s great for the annual report, but employees need to know what’s in your head. It should be a clear explanation of what your team’s results can and should be…and how you see that happening.
Provide regular feedback on how each team member is helping to accomplish the main thing. Do not fall into the “as long as you don’t hear from me you’ll know you’re doing okay” trap. Again, your people need to hear directly from you whether things are going well or not.
Show the team that you care. If your group is like most, the question “Does anybody really give a flip about what we do around here?” probably comes up now and then. Everyone needs to feel (and BE) appreciated by his or her leader. In fact, being recognized for one’s efforts and contributions is the number one factor leading to long-term job satisfaction. That’s right…it ranks above money!
Identify and eliminate unnecessary activities that either don’t support your main thing or that block the progress and success of your people. Test all of the team’s decisions and activities against the main thing. Then have the courage to stop doing the things that distract the team from accomplishing its top priority.
Stay consistent. The leader’s job is to provide consistency in everything he or she does. Your actions must be consistent with your words. The performance reviews you conduct must be consistent with the coaching you have provided along the way; the reward system you have in place must reflect and acknowledge the accomplishment of important team goals.
"The Patriot Post"
"Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow." -- Benjamin Franklin - (maybe today rather than tomorrow - oyh)
"The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." --- Thomas Jefferson
"'Trust me' government asks that we concentrate our hopes and dreams on one man; that we trust him to do what's best for us. My view of government places trust not in one person or one party, but in those values that transcend persons and parties. The trust is where it belongs---in the people. The responsibility to live up to that trust is where it belongs, in their elected leaders. That kind of relationship, between the people and their elected leaders, is a special kind of compact." --- Ronald Reagan
"[The media] want this Hurricane to illustrate the incompetence of Republicansagain; that's going to backfire on them with Governor [Bobby] Jindal down there running things... If you put a conservative Republican in charge of a state rather than a couple liberal Democrats like Nagin and Blanco, you're going to see the difference if this happens. But while Drive-Bys and the Democrats are keeping a sharp eye out on Hurricane Gustav, category three; Hurricane Sarah struck the Democrats and made landfall [Friday] as a category 10 and global warming had nothing to do with it!" --- Rush Limbaugh
"The e-mail Bag"
ConservativeHQ.com
Richard Viguerie: Now we know why liberals hate, fear Sarah Palin! “Sarah Palin is the next Ronald Reagan”
Love is blind, but hiring shouldn't be. -- Unknown
Today's Topic: The Main Thing
Here are five ways to ensure your employees not only know what your main thing is, but also that they work together to accomplish it.
Share your vision of what’s truly important…what you want and need your team to achieve. Don’t just recite the organization’s vision – that’s great for the annual report, but employees need to know what’s in your head. It should be a clear explanation of what your team’s results can and should be…and how you see that happening.
Provide regular feedback on how each team member is helping to accomplish the main thing. Do not fall into the “as long as you don’t hear from me you’ll know you’re doing okay” trap. Again, your people need to hear directly from you whether things are going well or not.
Show the team that you care. If your group is like most, the question “Does anybody really give a flip about what we do around here?” probably comes up now and then. Everyone needs to feel (and BE) appreciated by his or her leader. In fact, being recognized for one’s efforts and contributions is the number one factor leading to long-term job satisfaction. That’s right…it ranks above money!
Identify and eliminate unnecessary activities that either don’t support your main thing or that block the progress and success of your people. Test all of the team’s decisions and activities against the main thing. Then have the courage to stop doing the things that distract the team from accomplishing its top priority.
Stay consistent. The leader’s job is to provide consistency in everything he or she does. Your actions must be consistent with your words. The performance reviews you conduct must be consistent with the coaching you have provided along the way; the reward system you have in place must reflect and acknowledge the accomplishment of important team goals.
"The Patriot Post"
"Work as if you were to live 100 Years, Pray as if you were to die To-morrow." -- Benjamin Franklin - (maybe today rather than tomorrow - oyh)
"The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest." --- Thomas Jefferson
"'Trust me' government asks that we concentrate our hopes and dreams on one man; that we trust him to do what's best for us. My view of government places trust not in one person or one party, but in those values that transcend persons and parties. The trust is where it belongs---in the people. The responsibility to live up to that trust is where it belongs, in their elected leaders. That kind of relationship, between the people and their elected leaders, is a special kind of compact." --- Ronald Reagan
"[The media] want this Hurricane to illustrate the incompetence of Republicansagain; that's going to backfire on them with Governor [Bobby] Jindal down there running things... If you put a conservative Republican in charge of a state rather than a couple liberal Democrats like Nagin and Blanco, you're going to see the difference if this happens. But while Drive-Bys and the Democrats are keeping a sharp eye out on Hurricane Gustav, category three; Hurricane Sarah struck the Democrats and made landfall [Friday] as a category 10 and global warming had nothing to do with it!" --- Rush Limbaugh
"The e-mail Bag"
ConservativeHQ.com
Richard Viguerie: Now we know why liberals hate, fear Sarah Palin! “Sarah Palin is the next Ronald Reagan”
Daily Motivations - 20080904
I always said the world owed me a living. it was only up to me and every other person to go out, work hard and smart; then we/you can/will collect it.
"Daily Motivations"
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain
"The Patriot Post"
"Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." -- Benjamin Franklin
"We have heard of the impious doctrine in the old world, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people. Is the same doctrine to be revived in the new, in another shape...?" --- James Madison
"John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war [in Iraq]... You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in 80 countries by occupying Iraq. You don't protect Israel and deter Iran just by talking tough in Washington. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when you've strained our oldest alliances." --- Obama
What a speech on Wednesday evening, September 3, 2008 for Sarah Palin for Vice President of our United States at the RNC! A true Ronald Reagan social and fiscal Conservative. God Bless America!
"The e-mail Bag" - With some assistance from within a US Army retired Sergeant Major, read for yourself!
THE REAL OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN
Dr. Jack Wheeler'sThe Oasis for Rational Conservatives
The Pro-America, Pro-Capitalist, Pro-Western Civilization "Intellectual Ammunition Service" for Defenders of Liberty.
http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3271/87/
"Daily Motivations"
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain
"The Patriot Post"
"Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." -- Benjamin Franklin
"We have heard of the impious doctrine in the old world, that the people were made for kings, not kings for the people. Is the same doctrine to be revived in the new, in another shape...?" --- James Madison
"John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war [in Iraq]... You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in 80 countries by occupying Iraq. You don't protect Israel and deter Iran just by talking tough in Washington. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when you've strained our oldest alliances." --- Obama
What a speech on Wednesday evening, September 3, 2008 for Sarah Palin for Vice President of our United States at the RNC! A true Ronald Reagan social and fiscal Conservative. God Bless America!
"The e-mail Bag" - With some assistance from within a US Army retired Sergeant Major, read for yourself!
THE REAL OBAMA IN AFGHANISTAN
Dr. Jack Wheeler'sThe Oasis for Rational Conservatives
The Pro-America, Pro-Capitalist, Pro-Western Civilization "Intellectual Ammunition Service" for Defenders of Liberty.
http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/3271/87/
Daily Motivations - 20080903
How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood. -- Andrew Grove
"The Patriot Post"
"At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man." --- James Madison
"You know why they call it birth control? Because it's meant to stop a birth from happening nine months later. We know when life begins. Everyone who ever bought a pack of condom knows when life begins. To put it another way, with conception something begins. What do you think it is? A car? A 1948 Buick?" --- Peggy Noonan
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." --- George Orwell
"Barack Obama is finally ready for the dreaded 3 a.m. telephone call. Now he can answer it and hand the phone to Joe Biden... Joe starts talking and figures he'll eventually think of something to say. Sometimes he does, and often wishes he hadn't." --- Wesley Pruden
"The e-mail Bag"
You "must" be Saved
I was shocked, confused, and bewildered as I entered Heaven's door, not by the beauty of it all, nor the lights, or its decor. But it was the folks in Heaven who made me sputter and gasp; the thieves, the liars, the sinners, the alcoholics and the trash.
There stood the kid from seventh grade who swiped my lunch money, twice. Next to him was my old neighbor who never said anything nice.
Herb, who I always thought was rotting away in hell, was sitting pretty on cloud nine, looking incredibly well.
I nudged Jesus, “What's the deal? I would love to hear Your, How'd all these sinners get up here? God must've made a mistake’’.
“And why's everyone so quiet, so somber - give me a clue”. “Hush, child”, He said, “they're all in shock. No one thought they'd be seeing you”.
Judge not, that ye not be judged. – Matthews 7:1
Remember...Just going to Church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a mechanic or a car. You “must” be Saved. Make that most important “decision”. It is up to you!
The e-mail Bag - "Finally - HEADLINES - 2029"
HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR: 2029
Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as California.
White minorities still trying to have English recognized as Mexifornia's third language.
Spotted Owl plague threatens northwestern United States crops and livestock.
Baby conceived naturally! Scientists stumped.
Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage.
Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.
France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica. No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation!
Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.
George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2036.
Postal Service raises price of first class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesdays only.
85-year $75.8 billion study: Diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.
Average weight of Americans drops to 250 lbs.
Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for third consecutive year in Mexifornia and Floruba.
Abortion clinics now available in every High School in United States
Senate still blocking drilling in ANWR even though gas is selling for 4532 Pesos per liter and gas stations are only open on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Massachusetts executes last remaining conservative.
Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights.
Average height of NBA players is now nine feet, seven inches.
New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by January 2030 <> IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75 percent.
Floruba voters still having trouble with voting machines.
Now, send this to whomever you want and as many as you want, then, guess what....NOTHING will happen.
No miracles, no money, absolutely nothing, except you might make someone smile or very, very & nbsp; scared.
I Love This Country!
It's The Government That Scares Me!
"The Patriot Post"
"At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man." --- James Madison
"You know why they call it birth control? Because it's meant to stop a birth from happening nine months later. We know when life begins. Everyone who ever bought a pack of condom knows when life begins. To put it another way, with conception something begins. What do you think it is? A car? A 1948 Buick?" --- Peggy Noonan
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." --- George Orwell
"Barack Obama is finally ready for the dreaded 3 a.m. telephone call. Now he can answer it and hand the phone to Joe Biden... Joe starts talking and figures he'll eventually think of something to say. Sometimes he does, and often wishes he hadn't." --- Wesley Pruden
"The e-mail Bag"
You "must" be Saved
I was shocked, confused, and bewildered as I entered Heaven's door, not by the beauty of it all, nor the lights, or its decor. But it was the folks in Heaven who made me sputter and gasp; the thieves, the liars, the sinners, the alcoholics and the trash.
There stood the kid from seventh grade who swiped my lunch money, twice. Next to him was my old neighbor who never said anything nice.
Herb, who I always thought was rotting away in hell, was sitting pretty on cloud nine, looking incredibly well.
I nudged Jesus, “What's the deal? I would love to hear Your, How'd all these sinners get up here? God must've made a mistake’’.
“And why's everyone so quiet, so somber - give me a clue”. “Hush, child”, He said, “they're all in shock. No one thought they'd be seeing you”.
Judge not, that ye not be judged. – Matthews 7:1
Remember...Just going to Church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a mechanic or a car. You “must” be Saved. Make that most important “decision”. It is up to you!
The e-mail Bag - "Finally - HEADLINES - 2029"
HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR: 2029
Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as California.
White minorities still trying to have English recognized as Mexifornia's third language.
Spotted Owl plague threatens northwestern United States crops and livestock.
Baby conceived naturally! Scientists stumped.
Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage.
Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.
France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica. No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation!
Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.
George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2036.
Postal Service raises price of first class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesdays only.
85-year $75.8 billion study: Diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.
Average weight of Americans drops to 250 lbs.
Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for third consecutive year in Mexifornia and Floruba.
Abortion clinics now available in every High School in United States
Senate still blocking drilling in ANWR even though gas is selling for 4532 Pesos per liter and gas stations are only open on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Massachusetts executes last remaining conservative.
Supreme Court rules punishment of criminals violates their civil rights.
Average height of NBA players is now nine feet, seven inches.
New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by January 2030 <> IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75 percent.
Floruba voters still having trouble with voting machines.
Now, send this to whomever you want and as many as you want, then, guess what....NOTHING will happen.
No miracles, no money, absolutely nothing, except you might make someone smile or very, very & nbsp; scared.
I Love This Country!
It's The Government That Scares Me!
"Daily Motivations" - 20080902
Man cannot live without story any more than he can live without bread. -- Dr. Warren Bennis
Today's Topic: A Garden of Employees
Think of your employees as orchids, daisies, and weeds. Think of yourself as the gardener whose job it is to nurture them to full bloom. If you could choose the employees you’d most like to work with every day, would you select:
Orchid employees, who need you to stick close enough to ensure they get just the right amount of – but not too much – sunlight, water, and humidity (read that: directions, feedback, and praise), or else they’ll wither and die?
Daisy employees, who can yield voluminous blooms (excellent work) in a wide range of temperatures (situations), but still need you to check in every now and then to make sure they are getting adequate water, sunlight, and circulation (coaching, feedback, and opportunity)?
Or weed employees, who can fend for themselves in almost any situation, leaving you plenty of time to tend to the needier plants in the garden?When it’s put to them that way, most managers say they would welcome a garden full of weeds.
"The Patriot Post"
"I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man." -- Alexander Hamilton
"Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect." -- James Madison
"The e-mail Bag"
Billy Graham is now 86 years old with Parkinson's disease. In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte , North Carolina, Invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in His honor. Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with Parkinson's disease. But the Charlotte Leaders said, 'We don't expect a major address. Just Come and let us honor you.' So he agreed.
After wonderful things were said about him, Dr. Graham stepped to the rostrum, looked at the crowd, and said, 'I'm reminded today of Albert Einstein, the great physicist who this month has been honored by Time magazine as the Man of the Century. Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he Came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He couldn't find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets. It wasn't there, so he looked in his briefcase but couldn't find it. Then he looked in the seat beside him. He still couldn't find it. The conductor said, 'Dr. Einstein, I know who you are. We all know who you are. I'm sure you bought a ticket. Don't worry about it.'
Einstein nodded appreciatively. The conductor continued down the aisle punching tickets. As he was ready to move to the next car, he turned around and saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under his seat for his ticket.
The conductor rushed back and said, 'Dr. Einstein, Dr. Einstein, don't worry, I know who you are. No problem. You don't need a ticket. I'm sure you bought one.' Einstein looked at him and said, ”Young man, I too, know who I am. What I don't know is where I'm going.''
Having said that Billy Graham continued, 'see the suit I'm wearing? It's a brand new suit. My wife, my children, and my grandchildren are telling me I've gotten a little slovenly in my old age. I used to be a bit more fastidious. So I went out and bought a new suit for this luncheon and one more occasion.
You know what that occasion is? This is the suit in which I'll be buried. But when you hear I'm dead, I don't want you to immediately remember the suit I'm wearing. I want you to remember this: I not only know who I am ... I also know where I'm going.'
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning
Commentary.My confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees..
I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year.
It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a crĂ¯eche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
Today's Topic: A Garden of Employees
Think of your employees as orchids, daisies, and weeds. Think of yourself as the gardener whose job it is to nurture them to full bloom. If you could choose the employees you’d most like to work with every day, would you select:
Orchid employees, who need you to stick close enough to ensure they get just the right amount of – but not too much – sunlight, water, and humidity (read that: directions, feedback, and praise), or else they’ll wither and die?
Daisy employees, who can yield voluminous blooms (excellent work) in a wide range of temperatures (situations), but still need you to check in every now and then to make sure they are getting adequate water, sunlight, and circulation (coaching, feedback, and opportunity)?
Or weed employees, who can fend for themselves in almost any situation, leaving you plenty of time to tend to the needier plants in the garden?When it’s put to them that way, most managers say they would welcome a garden full of weeds.
"The Patriot Post"
"I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man." -- Alexander Hamilton
"Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect." -- James Madison
"The e-mail Bag"
Billy Graham is now 86 years old with Parkinson's disease. In January 2000, leaders in Charlotte , North Carolina, Invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in His honor. Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with Parkinson's disease. But the Charlotte Leaders said, 'We don't expect a major address. Just Come and let us honor you.' So he agreed.
After wonderful things were said about him, Dr. Graham stepped to the rostrum, looked at the crowd, and said, 'I'm reminded today of Albert Einstein, the great physicist who this month has been honored by Time magazine as the Man of the Century. Einstein was once traveling from Princeton on a train when the conductor came down the aisle, punching the tickets of every passenger. When he Came to Einstein, Einstein reached in his vest pocket. He couldn't find his ticket, so he reached in his trouser pockets. It wasn't there, so he looked in his briefcase but couldn't find it. Then he looked in the seat beside him. He still couldn't find it. The conductor said, 'Dr. Einstein, I know who you are. We all know who you are. I'm sure you bought a ticket. Don't worry about it.'
Einstein nodded appreciatively. The conductor continued down the aisle punching tickets. As he was ready to move to the next car, he turned around and saw the great physicist down on his hands and knees looking under his seat for his ticket.
The conductor rushed back and said, 'Dr. Einstein, Dr. Einstein, don't worry, I know who you are. No problem. You don't need a ticket. I'm sure you bought one.' Einstein looked at him and said, ”Young man, I too, know who I am. What I don't know is where I'm going.''
Having said that Billy Graham continued, 'see the suit I'm wearing? It's a brand new suit. My wife, my children, and my grandchildren are telling me I've gotten a little slovenly in my old age. I used to be a bit more fastidious. So I went out and bought a new suit for this luncheon and one more occasion.
You know what that occasion is? This is the suit in which I'll be buried. But when you hear I'm dead, I don't want you to immediately remember the suit I'm wearing. I want you to remember this: I not only know who I am ... I also know where I'm going.'
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning
Commentary.My confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees..
I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year.
It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a crĂ¯eche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
Daily Motivations - 20080901
HAPPY LABOR DAY AMERICA! ENJOY IT! YOU EARNED IT!
This first one is most important to (y)our own children, as each look up to each of you/us as an example. Learn from our Holy Bible as to how we are to act as an example; practice it, then teach it as each individual passes it on to (y)our own children.
From: "Daily Motivations"
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. -- Thomas Morell
From: "The Patriot Post"
"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security." -- James Madison
From: "The e-mail Bag"
Petition
Hey I usually don't pass along these 'add your name' lists that appear in my email, but this one is too important.
This one has been circulating for months and months. Please do not delete.... If you don't want to sign, at least keep it going!
To show your support for Obama and encourage him on his run for President of the United States in 2008, please add your name to the rapidly growing list below and send it on to your entire e-mail list.
1. Michelle Obama
2. Oprah
3. Jane Fonda
4. Osama bin Laden
5. Fidel Castro
6.
This first one is most important to (y)our own children, as each look up to each of you/us as an example. Learn from our Holy Bible as to how we are to act as an example; practice it, then teach it as each individual passes it on to (y)our own children.
From: "Daily Motivations"
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. -- Thomas Morell
From: "The Patriot Post"
"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security." -- James Madison
From: "The e-mail Bag"
Petition
Hey I usually don't pass along these 'add your name' lists that appear in my email, but this one is too important.
This one has been circulating for months and months. Please do not delete.... If you don't want to sign, at least keep it going!
To show your support for Obama and encourage him on his run for President of the United States in 2008, please add your name to the rapidly growing list below and send it on to your entire e-mail list.
1. Michelle Obama
2. Oprah
3. Jane Fonda
4. Osama bin Laden
5. Fidel Castro
6.
Daily Motivations
HAPPY LABOR DAY AMERICA! ENJOY IT! YOU EARNED IT!
This first one is most important to (y)our own children, as each look up to each of you/us as an example. Learn from our Holy Bible as to how we are to act as an example; practice it, then teach it as each individual passes it on to (y)our own children.
From: "Daily Motivations" 20080901
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. -- Thomas Morell
From: "The Patriot Post"
"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security." -- James Madison
From: "The e-mail Bag"
Petition
Hey I usually don't pass along these 'add your name' lists that appear in my email, but this one is too important.
This one has been circulating for months and months. Please do not delete.... If you don't want to sign, at least keep it going!
To show your support for Obama and encourage him on his run for President of the United States in 2008, please add your name to the rapidly growing list below and send it on to your entire e-mail list.
1. Michelle Obama
2. Oprah
3. Jane Fonda
4. Osama bin Laden
5. Fidel Castro
6.
This first one is most important to (y)our own children, as each look up to each of you/us as an example. Learn from our Holy Bible as to how we are to act as an example; practice it, then teach it as each individual passes it on to (y)our own children.
From: "Daily Motivations" 20080901
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. -- Thomas Morell
From: "The Patriot Post"
"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security." -- James Madison
From: "The e-mail Bag"
Petition
Hey I usually don't pass along these 'add your name' lists that appear in my email, but this one is too important.
This one has been circulating for months and months. Please do not delete.... If you don't want to sign, at least keep it going!
To show your support for Obama and encourage him on his run for President of the United States in 2008, please add your name to the rapidly growing list below and send it on to your entire e-mail list.
1. Michelle Obama
2. Oprah
3. Jane Fonda
4. Osama bin Laden
5. Fidel Castro
6.
'Trust, But Verify, Or US Bankruptcy Court
December 8, 2008
GM, Ford, Chrysler, the UAW, and some on Capitol Hill are pleading for (y)our taxpayers’ money to bail out a mismanaged industry. Just a few days ago, the call was for $25 Billon. Now, it’s $38 Billion, and maybe swelling to hundreds of Billions. Where are written contracts between legislators on Capitol Hill and UAW leaders, or Big 3 CEOs?
For this failure, taxpayers and legislators must demand leadership changes with the Big 3 CEOs and/or the UAW leadership. We must compel written agreements to slash bonuses, trim cost of employee earnings of some $141,000 pay and benefits annually, and more. Not just promises!
Big 3 executives say consumers aren’t buying new vehicles. Consumers are not purchasing new cars because of our decaying economy. Big 3 and the UAW management have created this auto economical crisis. Maybe, Big 3 and UAW members should finance this bailout with their own savings and retirement programs, rather than injuring taxpayers.
Through his wisdom, Ronald Reagan once said, ‘Trust, but Verify’. These words should apply today. In lieu of written contracts to verify, US Bankruptcy Court is the practical answer. Our Judiciary can cancel Big 3 bonuses, as well at UAW contracts.
GM, Ford, Chrysler, the UAW, and some on Capitol Hill are pleading for (y)our taxpayers’ money to bail out a mismanaged industry. Just a few days ago, the call was for $25 Billon. Now, it’s $38 Billion, and maybe swelling to hundreds of Billions. Where are written contracts between legislators on Capitol Hill and UAW leaders, or Big 3 CEOs?
For this failure, taxpayers and legislators must demand leadership changes with the Big 3 CEOs and/or the UAW leadership. We must compel written agreements to slash bonuses, trim cost of employee earnings of some $141,000 pay and benefits annually, and more. Not just promises!
Big 3 executives say consumers aren’t buying new vehicles. Consumers are not purchasing new cars because of our decaying economy. Big 3 and the UAW management have created this auto economical crisis. Maybe, Big 3 and UAW members should finance this bailout with their own savings and retirement programs, rather than injuring taxpayers.
Through his wisdom, Ronald Reagan once said, ‘Trust, but Verify’. These words should apply today. In lieu of written contracts to verify, US Bankruptcy Court is the practical answer. Our Judiciary can cancel Big 3 bonuses, as well at UAW contracts.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Daily Motivations
"Daily Motivations" -20080829
Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it. -- Bonnie Jean Thornley
"The Patriot Post"
"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters." --- Samuel Adams"
At what point does a baby get human rights?" ---Rick Warren
"I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or, uh, a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, uh, you know, is above my pay grade." --- Barack Obama, who seeks the office with the highest "pay grade" in the country.
"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant." --- Plato
"The e-mail Bag"
APHORISM : A SHORT, POINTED SENTENCE EXPRESSING A WISE OR CLEVER OBSERVATION OR A GENERAL TRUTH; ADAGE
1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.
2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.
3. If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense at all.
4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.
5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
9. Scratch a cat and you will have a permanent job.
10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.
11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM . - Like this: It could be a right number.
13. No one ever says 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.
14. I've reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.
15. Be careful reading the fine print. There's no way you're going to like it.
16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos? (And rap music will be the Golden Oldies ! )
18. Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Corvette than in a Yugo.
19. After 70, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead!
Always be yourself because the people that matter, dont mind.
And the ones that mind, don't matter.
Avoiding a problem doesn't solve it. -- Bonnie Jean Thornley
"The Patriot Post"
"Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters." --- Samuel Adams"
At what point does a baby get human rights?" ---Rick Warren
"I think that whether you are looking at it from a theological perspective or, uh, a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, uh, you know, is above my pay grade." --- Barack Obama, who seeks the office with the highest "pay grade" in the country.
"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant." --- Plato
"The e-mail Bag"
APHORISM : A SHORT, POINTED SENTENCE EXPRESSING A WISE OR CLEVER OBSERVATION OR A GENERAL TRUTH; ADAGE
1. The nicest thing about the future is that it always starts tomorrow.
2. Money will buy a fine dog, but only kindness will make him wag his tail.
3. If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense at all.
4. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs.
5. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
6. How come it takes so little time for a child who is afraid of the dark to become a teenager who wants to stay out all night?
7. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.
8. Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?
9. Scratch a cat and you will have a permanent job.
10. No one has more driving ambition than the boy who wants to buy a car.
11. There are no new sins; the old ones just get more publicity.
12. There are worse things than getting a call for a wrong number at 4 AM . - Like this: It could be a right number.
13. No one ever says 'It's only a game' when their team is winning.
14. I've reached the age where the happy hour is a nap.
15. Be careful reading the fine print. There's no way you're going to like it.
16. The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
17. Do you realize that in about 40 years, we'll have thousands of old ladies running around with tattoos? (And rap music will be the Golden Oldies ! )
18. Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Corvette than in a Yugo.
19. After 70, if you don't wake up aching in every joint, you are probably dead!
Always be yourself because the people that matter, dont mind.
And the ones that mind, don't matter.
Daily Motivations
"Daily Motivations" -20080828
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. -- Lance Armstrong
"The Patriot Post"
"'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." --- Thomas Paine
"Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated." --- Ronald Reagan
"The e-mail Bag"
ELECTION 2008American flag disappears from Obama campaign jetCandidate's trademark 'O' replaces stars and stripes
By Aaron Klein© 2008 WorldNetDaily
The U.S. flag no longer appears on the tail of the plane that will be used by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama (Courtesy Chicago Sun-Times)
As part of a month-long aircraft makeover, a painted American flag was removed from the tail of Sen. Barack Obama's official campaign airplane and was replaced with the presidential candidate's trademark "O" symbol.
The refurbished 757 was unveiled to members of the news media today, 41 of whom boarded the craft and took off to meet Obama in Amman, Jordan, where the presidential candidate will stop as part of a Middle Eastern and European tour.
Obama traveled to the Mideast earlier this week on board a separate airplane.
Fox News blogger Bonny Kapp, traveling on Obama's new airplane, reported:
"The North American jet that flew Obama and his traveling crew around for much of the primary season was refurbished with new seats and power for each passenger a must on the campaign trail. And the plane that once had an American flag on its tail now sports the Obama 'O.'"
Obama's 'O' symbol is red, white and blue.
Most official U.S. government aircraft, including Air Force One, have U.S. flags on their tails.
Both Fox News and the Chicago Sun-Times posted pictures of the Obama campaign's redressed airplane, which does not have an American flag or any other U.S. national symbols on the section that sports the airplane door from which Obama and his team will enter and exit.
The airplane boasts Obama's anthem, "Change We Can Believe In" and the candidate’s website address.
The plane that Sen. Barack Obama will use on his campaign features his slogan and his Web address (Courtesy Sun-Times)
The aircraft also has required identification numbers and a U.S. flag to identify the nationality of the aircraft.
According to Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet, the refurbished Obama aircraft features a "first class" section for the candidate and his closest advisors; several "business class" seats, and a large coach section, usually meant for the traveling press corps.
Sweet reported fruit and cheese platters greeted reporters on board the flight. Dinner options offered were beef medallions, baked tilapia or eggplant parmesan.
She wrote the Obama campaign provided overnight kits for the flight that include toothbrush, mouthwash, socks, Neutrogena body lotion and lip moisturizer, Scope mouthwash, ear plugs and a blindfold for sleeping.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. -- Lance Armstrong
"The Patriot Post"
"'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." --- Thomas Paine
"Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated." --- Ronald Reagan
"The e-mail Bag"
ELECTION 2008American flag disappears from Obama campaign jetCandidate's trademark 'O' replaces stars and stripes
By Aaron Klein© 2008 WorldNetDaily
The U.S. flag no longer appears on the tail of the plane that will be used by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama (Courtesy Chicago Sun-Times)
As part of a month-long aircraft makeover, a painted American flag was removed from the tail of Sen. Barack Obama's official campaign airplane and was replaced with the presidential candidate's trademark "O" symbol.
The refurbished 757 was unveiled to members of the news media today, 41 of whom boarded the craft and took off to meet Obama in Amman, Jordan, where the presidential candidate will stop as part of a Middle Eastern and European tour.
Obama traveled to the Mideast earlier this week on board a separate airplane.
Fox News blogger Bonny Kapp, traveling on Obama's new airplane, reported:
"The North American jet that flew Obama and his traveling crew around for much of the primary season was refurbished with new seats and power for each passenger a must on the campaign trail. And the plane that once had an American flag on its tail now sports the Obama 'O.'"
Obama's 'O' symbol is red, white and blue.
Most official U.S. government aircraft, including Air Force One, have U.S. flags on their tails.
Both Fox News and the Chicago Sun-Times posted pictures of the Obama campaign's redressed airplane, which does not have an American flag or any other U.S. national symbols on the section that sports the airplane door from which Obama and his team will enter and exit.
The airplane boasts Obama's anthem, "Change We Can Believe In" and the candidate’s website address.
The plane that Sen. Barack Obama will use on his campaign features his slogan and his Web address (Courtesy Sun-Times)
The aircraft also has required identification numbers and a U.S. flag to identify the nationality of the aircraft.
According to Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet, the refurbished Obama aircraft features a "first class" section for the candidate and his closest advisors; several "business class" seats, and a large coach section, usually meant for the traveling press corps.
Sweet reported fruit and cheese platters greeted reporters on board the flight. Dinner options offered were beef medallions, baked tilapia or eggplant parmesan.
She wrote the Obama campaign provided overnight kits for the flight that include toothbrush, mouthwash, socks, Neutrogena body lotion and lip moisturizer, Scope mouthwash, ear plugs and a blindfold for sleeping.
Daily Motivations
"Daily Motivations" - 20080827
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing. -- Bette Midler
"The e-mail Bag"
The four hardest tasks on earth are neither physical nor intellectual feats, but spiritual ones: To return love for hate; to include the excluded; to forgive without apology, and to be able to say 'I was wrong.' - Author Unknown
"Simple Truths"
"As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people." - P.G. Wodehouse
"The Patriot Post"
"I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security "-- James Madison
"We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support." --- George Washington
I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing. -- Bette Midler
"The e-mail Bag"
The four hardest tasks on earth are neither physical nor intellectual feats, but spiritual ones: To return love for hate; to include the excluded; to forgive without apology, and to be able to say 'I was wrong.' - Author Unknown
"Simple Truths"
"As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people." - P.G. Wodehouse
"The Patriot Post"
"I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security "-- James Madison
"We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support." --- George Washington
Daily Motivations
"Daily Motivations" - 20080826
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to. But be respected…that is essential. -- Anna Gould
"The Patriot Post"
"If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it." -- James Madison
And now, for (y)our better health!!!
" Amazing"
A friend sent this to me. It's been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish... all before making a human. He made and provided what we'd need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We're such slow learners...
God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? �It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actual ly balance the glycemic index of diabetics.Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other C itrus fruits look just l ike the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion,
Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.
SUBJECT: Psalm 46:19 'Be Still and Know that I AM GOD' Please don't break this even if you only send it to one person. Look at the date when this was started. Thanks
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I am not going to be the one who lets it die. I found it believable ---
Angels have walked beside me �All my life--and they still do. *********************
This is to all of you who Mean something to me, I pray for your happiness. The Candle Of Love, Hope & Friendship.
This candle was lit on the 15th of September, 1998.
Someone who loves you has helped Keep it alive by sending it to you.
Don't let The Candle of Love, Hope And Friendship die! Pass It On To All Of Your Friends and Everyone You Love! May God richly bless you as you keep this candle burning.
I received this today for the 1st time and I hope it comes back someday again. Please keep this candle alive
GOD BLESS AMERICA
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE...SOMEONE HAD TO PAY FOR IT If you can read this...thank a teacher. If you can read this in English...thank a veteran.
The Lord will never give you more than you can handle!!
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to. But be respected…that is essential. -- Anna Gould
"The Patriot Post"
"If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it." -- James Madison
And now, for (y)our better health!!!
" Amazing"
A friend sent this to me. It's been said that God first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish... all before making a human. He made and provided what we'd need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We're such slow learners...
God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? �It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actual ly balance the glycemic index of diabetics.Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other C itrus fruits look just l ike the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion,
Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.
SUBJECT: Psalm 46:19 'Be Still and Know that I AM GOD' Please don't break this even if you only send it to one person. Look at the date when this was started. Thanks
NOTICE AT THE END, THE DATE THE CANDLE WAS STARTED. GONNA GIVE YOU GOOSE BUMPS.
I am not going to be the one who lets it die. I found it believable ---
Angels have walked beside me �All my life--and they still do. *********************
This is to all of you who Mean something to me, I pray for your happiness. The Candle Of Love, Hope & Friendship.
This candle was lit on the 15th of September, 1998.
Someone who loves you has helped Keep it alive by sending it to you.
Don't let The Candle of Love, Hope And Friendship die! Pass It On To All Of Your Friends and Everyone You Love! May God richly bless you as you keep this candle burning.
I received this today for the 1st time and I hope it comes back someday again. Please keep this candle alive
GOD BLESS AMERICA
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE...SOMEONE HAD TO PAY FOR IT If you can read this...thank a teacher. If you can read this in English...thank a veteran.
The Lord will never give you more than you can handle!!
Daily Motivations
"Daily Motivations" - 20080822
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. -- Elbert Hubbard
"The Patriot Post"
"This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted,to be free." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The e-mail bag"
I believe the democrats have suddenly developed a keen sense of morality. John Edwards has been banned from making a speech at the democratic convention for having an affair and lying about it. -- In his place, Bill Clinton will be speaking.
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. -- Elbert Hubbard
"The Patriot Post"
"This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reenactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted,to be free." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The e-mail bag"
I believe the democrats have suddenly developed a keen sense of morality. John Edwards has been banned from making a speech at the democratic convention for having an affair and lying about it. -- In his place, Bill Clinton will be speaking.
Daily Motivations
"Daily Motivations" - 20080821
As we sail through life, don't avoid rough waters, sail on because calm waters won't make a skillful sailor. -- Unknown
"The Patriot Post"
"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." --- Thomas Jefferson
"I have always believed that America is strongest and freest and happiest when it is truest to the wisdom of its Founders. In Federalist 45, James Madison wrote that 'The powers delegated by the Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Government are numerous and indefinite.' Or to put it another way, 'We the People.' As long as we remember these words---'We the People' ---and make them our guide, so long as we remember that America has always drawn its inspiration from the people and has always been governed best when governed most by those governments closest to the people, America will remain strong and free, the envy of the world." ---Ronald Reagan
"One News Now"
Oregon citizens denied vote on marriage issue
http://www.onenewsnow.com:80/Legal/Default.aspx?id=220084
The Oregon Constitution says voters have the final say over any laws passed by the state legislature. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, however, says they don't.
As we sail through life, don't avoid rough waters, sail on because calm waters won't make a skillful sailor. -- Unknown
"The Patriot Post"
"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." --- Thomas Jefferson
"I have always believed that America is strongest and freest and happiest when it is truest to the wisdom of its Founders. In Federalist 45, James Madison wrote that 'The powers delegated by the Constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Government are numerous and indefinite.' Or to put it another way, 'We the People.' As long as we remember these words---'We the People' ---and make them our guide, so long as we remember that America has always drawn its inspiration from the people and has always been governed best when governed most by those governments closest to the people, America will remain strong and free, the envy of the world." ---Ronald Reagan
"One News Now"
Oregon citizens denied vote on marriage issue
http://www.onenewsnow.com:80/Legal/Default.aspx?id=220084
The Oregon Constitution says voters have the final say over any laws passed by the state legislature. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, however, says they don't.
Daily Motivations
"Daily Motivations" - 20080820
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. -- Thomas H. Huxley
"The Patriot Post"
"The exclamation of a journalist at the UNITY minority news media gathering this weekend sums up the star-struck reverence that fuels the Obama phenomenon: 'He touched me!' And yet, he's sooo 'down to earth.' Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go." --- Michelle Malkin
"Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." -- Thomas Jefferson
"In a speech [recently], Barack Obama said he's distantly related to the famous 19th century gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok. After hearing this, John McCain said, 'Big deal, I went to high school with him'." --- Conan O'Brien
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. -- Thomas H. Huxley
"The Patriot Post"
"The exclamation of a journalist at the UNITY minority news media gathering this weekend sums up the star-struck reverence that fuels the Obama phenomenon: 'He touched me!' And yet, he's sooo 'down to earth.' Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go." --- Michelle Malkin
"Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." -- Thomas Jefferson
"In a speech [recently], Barack Obama said he's distantly related to the famous 19th century gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok. After hearing this, John McCain said, 'Big deal, I went to high school with him'." --- Conan O'Brien
Daily Motivations
"Daily Motivations" - 20080819
Go for singles rather than home runs. They're a lot easier to hit. Besides, every four singles equals a run…and the bases are still loaded! -- Eric Harvey
"The Patriot Post"
"The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth." --- Alexander Hamilton
"Commenting on Senator Obama's suggestion that we all go out and get our cars tuned up, I have a couple questions: Senator, do you know what a tune up is? Have you ever been in an auto parts store? If politicians are in the business of giving out good advice they may want to practice what they preach." ---USAF Academy, Colorado
"When World War II ended, the United States had the only undamaged industrialpower in the world. Our military might was at its peak, and we alone had the ultimate weapon, the nuclear weapon, with the unquestioned ability to deliver it anywhere in the world. If we had sought world domination then, who could have opposed us? But the United States followed a different course, one unique in all the history of mankind. We used our power and wealth to rebuild the war-ravished economies of the world, including those of the nations who had been our enemies. May I say, there is absolutely no substance to charges that the United States is guilty of imperialism or attempts to impose its will on other countries, by use of force." --- Ronald Reagan
And, there is "more" or is it "less"?
"I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." - Barack Obama, July 29, 2008
Go for singles rather than home runs. They're a lot easier to hit. Besides, every four singles equals a run…and the bases are still loaded! -- Eric Harvey
"The Patriot Post"
"The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth." --- Alexander Hamilton
"Commenting on Senator Obama's suggestion that we all go out and get our cars tuned up, I have a couple questions: Senator, do you know what a tune up is? Have you ever been in an auto parts store? If politicians are in the business of giving out good advice they may want to practice what they preach." ---USAF Academy, Colorado
"When World War II ended, the United States had the only undamaged industrialpower in the world. Our military might was at its peak, and we alone had the ultimate weapon, the nuclear weapon, with the unquestioned ability to deliver it anywhere in the world. If we had sought world domination then, who could have opposed us? But the United States followed a different course, one unique in all the history of mankind. We used our power and wealth to rebuild the war-ravished economies of the world, including those of the nations who had been our enemies. May I say, there is absolutely no substance to charges that the United States is guilty of imperialism or attempts to impose its will on other countries, by use of force." --- Ronald Reagan
And, there is "more" or is it "less"?
"I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions." - Barack Obama, July 29, 2008
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