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"Daily Motivations"
Make time for the people you work with – especially those that work for you. The more attention you pay, the more important they'll feel. -- Eric Harvey
"The Patriot Post"
"[T]his is no time to throw good (borrowed) money after bad. If all this spending was going to get the economy growing, it would be working. Yet nobody expects things to improve soon. ... In times of uncertainty, it's natural that people will look to government for answers. Yet the long-term solutions to our current economic problems don't lie in more government spending, controls or regulations." --Heritage Foundation president Edwin Feulner
"I didn't expect Obama to know what to do about the economy; Obama's knee-jerk Keynesianism and allegiance to the disproved New Deal mythology ensure that he will try the Big Government solution, even when Big Government is the problem." --columnist Ben Shapiro
"In fairness to Obama, there is a huge consensus around the notion that government must do, well, something -- something big. .... It's the consensus that scares me. ... Obviously, consensus can be good. But it also can lead to dangerous groupthink. ... Everyone knows everything is right, until everything goes wrong. If that's not one of the great lessons of the financial collapse of 2008, I don't know what is." --National Review editor Jonah Goldberg
"President Elect Obama and his congressional henchmen are in the midst of swiping another $1 trillion-plus from American taxpayers.. And Republicans -- who once upon a time professed concern for taxpayers -- could apparently care less. Either they believe stealing from our grandkids makes for sound policy, or they're too afraid to second-guess the second coming of Jimmy Carter." --radio talk show host Laura Ingraham
"No phrase represents more of a triumph of hope over experience than the phrase 'Middle East peace process.' A close second might be the once-fashionable notion that Israel should 'trade land for peace.' Since everybody seems to be criticizing Israel for its military response to the rockets being fired into their country from the Gaza strip, let me add my criticisms as well. The Israelis traded land for peace, but they have never gotten the peace, so they should take back the land." --Hoover Institution economist Thomas Sowell
"The Web"
"Ultimate Freedom"
http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/UltimateFreedom.htm
“I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.” -- Dr. Robert Milikan, former President of the California Inst. Of Tech. And Nobel Peace Prize winner
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. -- Larry Hardiman
"White House"
President Obama, by Executive Order, has changed America with a stroke of the pen! America has now changed from supporting morality to immorality. Everyone must be made aware! -oyh
http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/civil_rights/
Support for the LGBT Community
"While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect."
-- Barack Obama, June 1, 2007
Expand Hate Crimes Statutes: In 2004, crimes against LGBT Americans constituted the third-highest category of hate crime reported and made up more than 15 percent of such crimes. President Obama cosponsored legislation that would expand federal jurisdiction to include violent hate crimes perpetrated because of race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical disability. As a state senator, President Obama passed tough legislation that made hate crimes and conspiracy to commit them against the law.
Fight Workplace Discrimination: President Obama supports the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and believes that our anti-discrimination employment laws should be expanded to include sexual orientation and gender identity. While an increasing number of employers have extended benefits to their employees' domestic partners, discrimination based on sexual orientation in the workplace occurs with no federal legal remedy. The President also sponsored legislation in the Illinois State Senate that would ban employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Support Full Civil Unions and Federal Rights for LGBT Couples: President Obama supports full civil unions that give same-sex couples legal rights and privileges equal to those of married couples. Obama also believes we need to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and enact legislation that would ensure that the 1,100+ federal legal rights and benefits currently provided on the basis of marital status are extended to same-sex couples in civil unions and other legally-recognized unions. These rights and benefits include the right to assist a loved one in times of emergency, the right to equal health insurance and other employment benefits, and property rights.
Oppose a Constitutional Ban on Same-Sex Marriage: President Obama voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment in 2006 which would have defined marriage as between a man and a woman and prevented judicial extension of marriage-like rights to same-sex or other unmarried couples.
Repeal Don't Ask-Don't Tell: President Obama agrees with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili and other military experts that we need to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The key test for military service should be patriotism, a sense of duty, and a willingness to serve. Discrimination should be prohibited. The U.S. government has spent millions of dollars replacing troops kicked out of the military because of their sexual orientation. Additionally, more than 300 language experts have been fired under this policy, including more than 50 who are fluent in Arabic. The President will work with military leaders to repeal the current policy and ensure it helps accomplish our national defense goals.
Expand Adoption Rights: President Obama believes that we must ensure adoption rights for all couples and individuals, regardless of their sexual orientation. He thinks that a child will benefit from a healthy and loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.
Promote AIDS Prevention: In the first year of his presidency, President Obama will develop and begin to implement a comprehensive national HIV/AIDS strategy that includes all federal agencies. The strategy will be designed to reduce HIV infections, increase access to care and reduce HIV-related health disparities. The President will support common sense approaches including age-appropriate sex education that includes information about contraception, combating infection within our prison population through education and contraception, and distributing contraceptives through our public health system. The President also supports lifting the federal ban on needle exchange, which could dramatically reduce rates of infection among drug users. President Obama has also been willing to confront the stigma -- too often tied to homophobia -- that continues to surround HIV/AIDS.
Empower Women to Prevent HIV/AIDS: In the United States, the percentage of women diagnosed with AIDS has quadrupled over the last 20 years. Today, women account for more than one quarter of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses. President Obama introduced the Microbicide Development Act, which will accelerate the development of products that empower women in the battle against AIDS. Microbicides are a class of products currently under development that women apply topically to prevent transmission of HIV and other infections.
"Accuracy In Media"
Geithner Accused of Lying About Tax Cheating
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | January 23, 2009
In a major conflict of interest media scandal, General Electric’s media properties, which include CNBC, NBC News and MSNBC, are indirectly benefiting from the Wall Street bailout through a federal loan guarantee of $139 billion.
Art Cashin, one of the talking heads on CNBC, said early on Thursday morning that the stock market was going down in part because of a lack of confidence caused by the failure of the Senate to quickly confirm Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary. This was the party line of the Wall Street insiders who have a special interest in getting Geithner confirmed. Later on that day, Geithner was endorsed 18-5 by the Senate Finance Committee. A full Senate vote on the nomination may be held on Monday.
The American people can’t be blamed for thinking that if a tax cheat inspires confidence on Wall Street and can get an overwhelmingly positive vote in a Senate committee, the nation must indeed be headed for financial ruin.
But Geithner not only got caught cheating on his taxes, he is now being accused of lying about his cheating during his confirmation hearing when he attempted to blame the problem on his TurboTax computer software program.
But don’t expect this to be a major issue for business cable network CNBC.
In a major conflict of interest media scandal, General Electric’s media properties, which include CNBC, NBC News and MSNBC, are indirectly benefiting from the Wall Street bailout through a federal loan guarantee of $139 billion extended to GE Capital, the lending arm of GE.
What’s more, GE chairman Jeffrey Immelt is a member of the board of the New York Federal Reserve, headed by one Timothy Geithner. In fact, Immelt may be involved in finding a successor to Geithner as president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
When GE Capital got its federal loan guarantee, the story was covered on CNBC by reporter Steve Liesman. A transcript includes the obligatory notation that “GE is the parent company of CNBC” but the video of Liesman breaking the story didn’t mention that.
The mantra, “GE is the parent company of CNBC,” is supposed to protect GE’s media property from any charges of conflict of interest in its coverage of the financial meltdown.
One of CNBC’s most famous and outspoken talking heads, Jim Cramer, did an amazing turnaround, first opposing Geithner and then supporting him. “I’ve given up fighting this,” he blurted out. “Obama loves him.” Cramer said that “the guy got a free pass” and “everybody on Wall Street―all my buddies who lost billions for you, for the American people, told me, ‘Jim, he’s the greatest.’”
“Well, now, everybody has discovered the truth,” he added, alluding to the tax cheating. Cramer said that if he had committed similar offenses, he would be going to jail.
On Capitol Hill, some senators were listening to their constituents, thousands of whom were phoning in protest over the Geithner pick, rather than to CNBC.
“I cannot vote to confirm the nomination based on the record and the need to foster greater accountability in both big government and our financial institutions,” declared Senator Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the committee, in making a point that should have been obvious to other members. He quoted a constituent as saying, “If the man cannot handle his own finances, how is he going to handle the country’s?”
Nevertheless, only four members joined with Grassley in voting against Geithner. They were Senators Jon Kyl of Arizona, Jim Bunning of Kentucky, Pat Roberts of Kansas, and Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming.
“I cannot even believe we are voting on this nomination today,” is how Enzi described the situation. He couldn’t believe a person with tax problems like Geithner could even be considered for the position.
Enzi, the Senate’s only accountant, announced his opposition to Geithner by asking, “How do I explain to my constituents that I voted to confirm someone who will make them pay taxes, but sometimes does not pay his own taxes?”
Enzi called Geithner’s handling of his taxes “negligent behavior” that “deserves more than a simple slap on the wrist or half-hearted apology before a Senate committee.” He explained, “In previous years, nominees for positions that do not oversee tax reporting and collection have been forced to withdraw their nomination” because of similar issues.
All 13 Democrats on the committee voted for him. Five Republicans―Hatch, Snowe, Crapo, Ensign and Cornyn―did so as well.
Senator John Ensign, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, which is composed of GOP Senate leaders and the chairmen of the Senate’s standing committees, voted for Geithner despite being quoted by the BBC as saying that his switchboard had lit up with calls from constituents asking how someone who’d failed to pay their taxes could be put in charge of the IRS.
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, once considered a conservative, said he would vote for Geithner because his tax cheating was nothing more than a series of “honest mistakes.”
The Hatch rationale for confirming Geithner reflected the influence of what Politico.com reported was a document of “talking points” originally prepared by the Obama transition office and “distributed to Capitol Hill, K Street and congressional reporters.” The “talking points” were designed to portray Geithner’s problems as “simple mistakes or oversights.”
In his confirmation hearing, however, Geithner dug a deeper hole by falsely suggesting that some of his tax dodging may have stemmed from use of the TurboTax computer software program that helps an individual file his tax returns.
While insisting that “these are my responsibilities, not the tax software’s responsibilities,” he was specifically asked by Grassley, “Did the software prompt you to report income and pay self-employment taxes on your IMF income?” He answered, “Not to my recollection, Senator.”
CNBC reported that shares of TurboTax-maker Intuit “fell to their low on the day on strong volume” after Geithner’s claims but did not include a rebuttal from TurboTax. But officials of the company flatly denied the allegation that their software could or should be blamed for his failure to pay taxes.
Dan Maurer, senior vice president and general manager of TurboTax, issued a statement saying that “Each year, millions of Americans use TurboTax to accurately prepare and file their federal and state tax returns. The software helps taxpayers report their income and find the deductions and credits they’re entitled to claim. TurboTax, and all software and in-person tax preparation services, base their calculations on the information users provide when completing their returns. TurboTax also has built-in error-checking tools that routinely catch common taxpayer mistakes.”
The headline, “Treasury Pick Misfiled Using Off-the-Shelf Tax Software,” over a story by business reporter Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post, suggested that the software was to blame. But inside the article Ahrens quoted an official of an international agency who handles these matters and understands the software as saying that TurboTax sends up a “red flag” in order to catch the “mistakes” that Geithner claims he made.
"Associated Press"
Military bows to ACLU demand against preaching
Americans entering the military often receive Bibles, courtesy of the Gideons International. But the Gideons have been told that while they can leave complimentary Bibles at most military induction stations, they cannot stay there to proselytize or preach to the recruits.
Daniel Trew, public information officer for the Military Entrance Processing Command, says the policy was recently established after concerns were raised by the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Our legal person went with a representative from the ACLU to one of our stations, and we actually found where the Gideons' individual at that station was getting up and talking to applicants who had just enlisted," he explains. "We could not allow that to go on because the applicants could perceive that this talk was given under the auspices of the Department of Defense."
Trew says the Gideons have agreed to abide by the policy.
He Is God
He is the First and Last, The Beginning and the End!
He is the keeper of Creation and the Creator of all! He is the Architect of the universe and the Manager of all times. He always was, He always is, and He always will be ... unmoved, Unchanged, Un defeated, and never Undone!
He was bruised and brought healing! He was pierced and eased pain! He was persecuted and brought freedom! He was dead and brought life! He is risen and brings power! He reigns and brings Peace! The world can't understand him, The armies can't defeat Him, The schools can't explain Him, and The leaders can't ignore Him. Herod couldn't kill Him, The Pharisees couldn't confuse Him, and The people couldn't hold Him! Nero couldn't crush Him, Hitler couldn't silence Him, The New Age can't replace Him, and "Oprah" can't explain Him away!
He is light, love, longevity, and Lord. He is goodness, Kindness, Gentleness, and God. He is Holy, Righteous, mighty, powerful, and pure.
His ways are right, His word is eternal, His will is unchanging, and His mind is on me. He is my Savior, He is my guide, and He is my peace! He is my Joy, He is my comfort, He is my Lord, and He rules my life!
I serve Him because His bond is love, His burden is light, and His goal for me is abundant life. I follow Him because He is the wisdom of the wise, the power of the powerful, the ancient of days, the ruler of rulers, the leader of leaders, the overseer of the overcomers, and is to come. And if that seems impressive to you, try this for size.
His goal is a relationship with ME! He will never leave me, never forsake me, never mislead me, never forget me, never overlook me and never cancel my appointment in His appointment book!
When I fall, He lifts me up! When I fail, He forgives! When I am weak, He is strong! When I am lost, He is the way! When I am afraid, He is my courage! When I stumble, He steadies me! When I am hurt, He heals me! When I am broken, He mends me! When I am blind, He leads me! When I am hungry, He feeds me! When I face trials, He is with me! When I face persecution, He shields me! When I face problems, He comforts me! When I face loss, He provides for me! When I face Death, He carries me Home!
He is everything for everybody everywhere, every time, and every way. He is God, He is Faithful. I am His, and He is mine! My Father in heaven can whip the father of this world.
So, if you're wondering why I feel so secure, understand this... He said it and that settles it.
God is in control, I am on His side, and that means all is well with my soul.
Everyday is a blessing for GOD Is!
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