ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report - 20090512

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"Daily Motivations"

You will find it easier to do a single, small piece of a large project than to start on the whole job. -- Brian Tracy



"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)

A Mother's Greatest Gift You shall teach [these words] diligently to your sons (Deut. 6:7). It's the responsibility of parents to invest whatever necessary to grow godly men and women.

"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty---the One who always was, who is, and who is still to come." (Revelation 4:8)



"The Patriot Post"

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill

"A republic, if you can keep it." -- 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 -- that the solid happiness of the people is to be sacrificed to the views of political institutions of a different form? It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object." -- James Madison, Federalist No. 45

"There's something very curious -- even laughable -- about watching the media assemble to offer President Obama a grade after the first 100 days. They weren't exactly a team of dispassionate scientists in a lab. They continue to be what they've been all along -- a rolling gaggle of Obama cheerleaders -- only before it was a campaign, and now it's an administration. So now they're assessing whether their awe-inspiring historic candidate still glows with the luster of victory. Hmm ... let's see. They applied the luster, they boasted of the luster, and you can bet your bottom dollar they'll continue doing both. ... After 100 days, the media still look more like the president's advertising team than the people's watchdog." -- Media Research Center president Brent Bozell

"Barack Obama is the frivolous man who concocted his own presidential-looking Great Seal before he was elected. An ego big enough to publicly display a ridiculous 'Vero Possumus' ('Yes, we can' in Latin) motto and a regal eagle with the Obama campaign logo emblazoned on its chest is an ego capable of far more reckless things. Obama orchestrated a grand photo-op in Berlin, Germany, to declare his world citizenship at the Siegessaule -- the Victory Column -- a soaring monument of arrogance championed by Adolf Hitler and Third Reich architect Albert Speer. He manufactured his own Open Temple of The One in Denver for the Democratic National Convention last summer, replete with fake Greek columns." -- columnist Michelle Malkin



"Heritage Foundation"

Morning Bell: Obama’s Job Killing Tax Plan

First the good news: earlier this week President Barack Obama admitted that high taxes kill jobs. Now the bad news: he wants to raise taxes on U.S. companies anyway. Pitching his new tax reform plan Monday President Obama said that our tax code “says you should pay lower taxes if you create a job in Bangalore, India, than if you create one in Buffalo, New York.” As the Wall Street Journal quipped: “That sounds like a great argument for lowering taxes on the guy creating jobs in Buffalo. Alas, that’s not what he has in mind.”
Instead, President Obama wants to raise taxes on U.S. companies by: 1) limiting the ability of American business to defer U.S. tax on their foreign income and 2) reducing the credit American businesses receive for foreign taxes paid. The President’s proposals demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding of tax policy principles and the market forces that drive the global economy. Currently, most other countries do not tax their companies’ overseas profits. So, as the WSJ illustrates:

A German firm doing business in Ireland, say, pays no German income tax on its Irish profits, but it does pay Ireland’s corporate income tax at its 12.5% rate. The U.S. company competing with that German business in Ireland, by contrast, pays Ireland the same 12.5% on its profits — and it then pays Uncle Sam up to 35%, minus a credit for what it paid the Irish. And because almost everyone else’s corporate tax rates are lower than America’s, U.S. companies end up paying higher taxes than their international competitors.



The Foundry: Bush’s Spending Cuts vs Obama’s Spending Cuts in Pictures

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/09/bushs-spending-cuts-vs-obamas-spending-cuts-in-pictures/

On Wednesday we exposed the farcical nature of President Barack Obama’s proposed spending “cuts” and today we posted a graphic putting his spending transfers in perspective.

Senior White House economic advisor to President George W. Bush Keith Hennessey adds another angle comparing President Bush’s last spending cut request with Obama’s latest effort:

This graphic does a great job exposing the Obama administration’s effort to cut our nation’s defenses while exploding every other area of federal spending

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/08/obama%e2%80%99s-17-billion-cut-in-pictures/

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/05/07/president%e2%80%99s-budget-%e2%80%9ccuts%e2%80%9d-should-go-towards-deficit-reduction-rather-than-new-spending/

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/30/risky-cuts/

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/21/military-compensation-reform-taking-a-bite-out-of-defense-spending/

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/20/obamas-spending-vs-obamas-spending-cuts-in-pictures/

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/04/17/obama%e2%80%99s-missile-defense-conundrum/



"Simple Truths"

http://www.thelaughtermovie.com/



"The Web"

The Scripture Tree

http://home.att.net:80/~sheryl4/ST/ST.html



Paintings Of Christ

http://www.keepandshare.com/photo/view.php?u=78415



How Would You Introduce Christ

http://str.typepad.com/weblog/2009/04/how-would-you-introduce-christ-to-a-room-full-of-people.html



A Lady Named Irena.

How screwed up can some of the most intelligent people do when ethics and values count! - oyh

There recently was the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena Sendler. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.

She had an ulterior motive... She KNEW what the Nazi's plans were for the Jews, (being German). Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of her tool box she carried, and she also carried in the back of her truck a Burlap sack, (for larger kids).

She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.

During her time and course of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi's broke both her legs and arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it, and reunited the families. Most, of course, had been gassed.

Those kids she helped were placed into foster family homes or adopted. Last year Irena was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.... She LOST. Al Gore won for doing a slide show on Global Warming.



McConnell Says Supreme Court Justice Should Apply Laws, Not Make Them

by Sen. Mitch McConnell
05/10/2009

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31801

Louisville, KY -- U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell delivered the following convocation address (as prepared for delivery) Saturday, May 9 at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law:

“Thank you for that very kind introduction. And thank you, Dean Chen, Dean Sealing, and members of the faculty, for giving me the honor of addressing the Class of 2009.

“A convocation address should be more enjoyable than most speeches I get to give, as the serious issues we face in Washington continue to mount. Take the growing public health concern over the swine flu.

“Just a day after Vice President Biden said he wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places, like an airplane or a subway, because of the swine flu, he rode a train from Washington to Delaware.

“Do you know what that means? Not even Joe Biden listens to Joe Biden.

“No, the vice president is a friend of mine, and we served alongside each other in the Senate for more than 20 years. Right alongside us, and still in the Senate today, is Senator Chris Dodd. The senator from the state of Connecticut is a proud graduate of U of L Law, Class of 1972.

“As you are moments away from receiving the degrees you have dedicated years of your lives to earn, take a look around. Remember your classmates. You’re probably going to be hearing about them -- and from them -- in the years to come.

“The University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law is a fine legal institution, and the men and women you meet here are the instigators and the innovators of the future.

“Graduates from U of L Law have gone on to serve the state of Kentucky in the legislature, the governor’s mansion, and on the Supreme Court. They are at the highest ranks of the law and business.

“Perhaps in not too short of time, a U of L Law graduate will ascend to the Supreme Court of the United States, and bring as much credit on this great school as Louis Brandeis once brought to his hometown.

“As you’ve heard, the highest court in the land has an opening. With Associate Justice David Souter’s retirement, President Obama will nominate and the Senate will debate the confirmation of someone new to take his place.

“Advice and consent for a president’s pick for the high court is one of the Senate’s most important duties, and one we take seriously. I’ve been fortunate to take part in several Supreme Court confirmations in my time in the Senate -- including twice for chief justice, and for David Souter himself.

“With that experience, I’ve got some thoughts on what kind of jurist is best suited for our nation and its most esteemed court, as well as what process for Senate confirmation is fairest to the court, the nominee, and the country.

“It’s no secret to anyone who’s followed my career that I believe the role of a judge is to apply the law as written, not create law from the bench. To borrow a phrase from the Chief Justice of the United States, who visited our university recently, judges ought to be like umpires at a baseball game -- they don’t make the laws, they apply them.

“Perhaps the best expression of this sentiment can be found in the oath of office every federal judge in America, by law, must take before ever hearing a case. That oath reads:

‘I…do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me…under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.’

“To answer a calling like that takes certain attributes. A superb intellect and legal ability. The highest personal and professional integrity. A wise, balanced temperament.

“And an appreciation that the Constitution grants judges life tenure so they can faithfully interpret the law, free from the political influences that informed those who wrote the law. Not so they can insert their own policy preferences into the law.

“Those are the qualities America has always looked for in its federal judges. Just as Americans deserve equal treatment in any court, America deserves judges at every level who will hear the cases before them fairly and impartially.

“Luckily for us, men and women who have these qualities, and who have demonstrated them through years of experience, are out there. They come from varied backgrounds, ways of life and regions of the country.

“Others, however, have a very different view of a judge’s role. Their view holds that interpreting the law as written, without favor for any particular policy or preference, should be abandoned in favor of pursuing policy outcomes that the judge prefers.

“They believe that judges should exercise the authority of legislators without having to bear the responsibility of legislators -- that is, accountability to the people. That is not the concept of a judge the Founders envisioned.

“On the contrary -- it’s one they emphatically rejected. Or as Justice Felix Frankfurter would put it one and a half centuries later, “The highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one’s personal pulls and one’s private views to the law.”

“Yet, some politicians and jurists who hold the contrary view are very open about it.

“One senator on the Judiciary Committee, during a past debate over a Supreme Court nominee, said ‘we need to know whose side he is on.’

“One federal circuit court judge stated plainly that the court ‘is where policy is made,’ before adding, apparently sarcastically, ‘I should never say that.’

“I could cite even more examples. But what concerns me is where the president stands on this important question.

“During the campaign, then-Senator Obama said his criteria for picking a judge were not legal brilliance or a judicious temperament, but “empathy” -- empathy, that is, for particular parties or groups over others. And the president emphasized that point again last week.

“This idea of “empathy” sounds appealing at first. After all, judges -- especially those on the Supreme Court -- hold a lot of power. And they ought to take care to use their power wisely.

“But you can see the problem with this view if you ever find yourself in front of a court and you’re not arguing for the party or group for whom the judge is empathetic. Suppose you happen to have, objectively, a very good case under the law. What fairness can you expect if the judge was appointed based on the ability to “empathize” with the opposing party?

“And anyone who’s ever been unfairly judged understands why “empathy” should not trump the rule of law.

“After all, empathy is mentioned nowhere in the inscription carved on the top of the Supreme Court building, which reads, “equal justice under law.” And nowhere is it mentioned in the judicial oath taken by our federal jurists.

“The president has many qualified candidates for the Supreme Court to choose from. And he certainly has the right to pick any one he chooses.

“But the Senate has an equally important part to play. And the impartiality of judges is one principle the Senate must vigorously defend.

“The Senate owes the American people and the nominee a full, free and fair debate. And as soon as a name is sent up Pennsylvania Avenue, I will work to ensure they get one.

“The next justice will immediately face several challenging, but critically important legal questions that will have an impact on our national and homeland security.

“One of those will be the constitutional rights of foreign fighters captured on the battlefield in the War on Terror.

“Perhaps to evade such thorny legal questions, the current administration has announced a deadline to close the secure detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within nine months -- without having any kind of plan to contain these deadly killers.

“I hope it does not take that step without a plan to make America safer as a result. And I certainly hope it does not transfer these terrorists to American soil. Such a move will likely raise more legal questions than it settles. And it will increase the risk to the American people.

“The men housed at Guantanamo are ruthless killers. Americans deserve to know that their leaders are as serious about their safety as they are about the symbolism of shutting down Guantanamo.

“In a related matter, many in the legal community are watching the fallout from the administration’s decision to selectively declassify a number of the so-called CIA interrogation memos. I’ve spoken on this issue before, so let me say it again here:

“It was a mistake for the administration to reveal to al Qaeda terrorists the interrogation methods they can expect to face if captured. Releasing those memos has made America less safe.

“Now the administration has another important decision to make. Some are calling for the prosecution of the lawyers who had the difficult task of providing legal advice on a critical national-security measure at the onset of a new type of war.

“Punishing government lawyers for giving their honest legal opinions will diminish the intelligence community’s ability to protect the American people. It will deter intelligence professionals from relying on such opinions in the future. And it will discourage those who write them from giving their best legal advice.

“That could include some of you, who may one day go on to important posts in the intelligence community, the White House or the Justice Department.

“So I call on President Obama to speak out forcefully against prosecuting lawyers who gave legal advice.

“And on this issue, I’m proud to say I’m bipartisan. The president should protect not only the lawyers who served in the Bush administration, but also those serving in his own.

“Thanks to the efforts and sacrifice of many, we have gone nearly eight years without another terrorist attack on American soil. With our country united, that success can continue.

“But giving in to the urge to punish by prosecution would divide us at a time when it is essential we present a united and determined front to our enemies.

“The constitutional rights of foreign fighters, Guantanamo Bay, the role of a justice on the highest court in the land -- these are serious issues. As lawyers, you will have the privilege of shaping them, as you launch your legal career.

“And if that prospect makes you excited, thrilled, even a little nervous -- congratulations. You’ve chosen the right profession.

“Starting today, your life as a lawyer means a lifetime of tackling issues vital to our country.

“When your future comes, remember the opportunity began here, at the University of Louisville.

“Dean Chen, Dean Sealing, members of the faculty: Congratulations on continuing a proud tradition of discovery, discourse and discipline at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law.

And congratulations to the Class of 2009 as you receive your degrees and step forward to a life of the law.

“Thank you.”



CNN's Acosta: Just Say Yes to Travel and Trade with Communist Cuba

It is so amazing to me as to how the so-called mainstream media, seem to be praising the Castro brothers and Cuba for President Obama's opening up visitation and trade with this Communist island nation. None of these Liberal sources, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and/or the Liberal print media report that Fidel Castro and Cuba "Nationized" (that means Fidel Castro stole; they just took over the businesses without paying the business owners) the business community. Why does the Liberal media not demand that the Castro brothers and Cuba repay the previous business owners? It seems as if the Liberal media support the Communist nation's economy more so than a free economy. - oyh

Correspondent Jim Acosta, "carrying the CNN flag" on the island of Cuba, filed several reports for the American Morning program during the first week of May which slanted favorably towards an end to the trade embargo with the communist country. His May 1 report on the policy that allows Cuban-Americans to travel to their homeland featured no critics of the Castro regime, nor did it mention the government's human rights abuses. This was also the case during a May 4 report about tourism to the island and how economic competitors of the U.S. are taking advantage of the country's resources. Acosta even referred to the ailing dictator emeritus Fidel Castro as a "Cuban icon." Acosta's May 1 report, which aired 21 minutes into the 6 am hour of the CNN program, highlighted the Obama administration's loosening of restrictions for Cuban-Americans who wish to return to the native soil. The correspondent featured one woman who was "taking bundles of food, clothing, and even toys back to her brother and sister on the island," and emphasized the popularity of charter flights back to Cuba.



THE POWER OF PRAYER

Louise Redden, a poorly dressed lady with a look of defeat on her face, walked into a grocery store. She approached the owner of the store in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her charge a few groceries.

She softly explained that her husband was very ill and unable to work, they had seven children and they needed food.

John Longhouse, the grocer, scoffed at her and requested that she leave his store at once.

Visualizing the family needs, she said: "Please, sir! I will bring you the money just as soon as I can."

John told her he could not give her credit, since she did not have a charge account at his store.

Standing beside the counter was a customer who overheard the conversation between the two. The customer walked forward and told the grocer that he would stand good for whatever she needed for her family.

The grocer said in a very reluctant voice, "Do you have a grocery list?"

Louise replied, "Yes sir." "O. K." he said, "put your grocery list on the scales and whatever your grocery list weighs, I will give you that amount in groceries."

Louise, hesitated a moment with a bowed head, then she reached into her purse and took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. She then laid the piece of paper on the scale carefully with her head still bowed.

The eyes of the grocer and the customer showed amazement when the scales went down and stayed down.

The grocer, staring at the scales, turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, "I can't believe it."

The customer smiled and the grocer started putting the groceries on the other side of the scales. The scale did not balance so he continued to put more and more groceries on them until the scales would hold no more.

The grocer stood there in utter disgust. Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and looked at it with greater amazement. It was not a grocery list; it was a prayer, which said:

"Dear Lord, you know my needs and I am leaving this in your hands."

The grocer gave her the groceries that he had gathered and stood in stunned silence. Louise thanked him and left the store.

The other customer handed a fifty-dollar bill to the grocer and said; "It was worth every penny of it. Only God Knows how much a prayer weighs."

THE POWER OF PRAYER: When you receive this, say a prayer. That's all you have to do.
Just stop right now, and say a prayer of thanks for your own good fortune.

Then please send this to all your friends and relatives. I believe if you will send this testimony out with prayer in faith, you will receive what you need God to do in your and your families' life So dear heart, trust God to heal the sick, provide food for the hungry, clothes and shelter for those that don't have as we do. Amen & Amen

Don't break this, please! Prayer is one of the best free gifts we receive. There is no cost but a lot of rewards.

May you always walk with Angels!



"The e-mail Bag"

The Best Surgeon In California

Three Californian surgeons were playing golf together and discussing surgeries they had performed. One of them said, "I'm the best surgeon in California. In my favorite case, a concert pianist lost several fingers in an accident, I reattached them, and 8months later he performed a private concert for the Queen of England."

The second surgeon said, "That's nothing. A young man lost an arm and both legs in an accident, I reattached them and two years later he won a gold medal in track and field events at the Olympics."

The third surgeon said, "You guys are amateurs. Several years ago a woman was high on cocaine and marijuana and she rode a horse head-on into a train traveling 80 miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the woman's hair and the horse's ass. I was able to put them together and now she's Speaker of the House."



Obama on gun control

Barack Obama, the lead Presidential Democratic Party candidate, is for banning all guns in America . He is considered by those who have dealt with him as a bit more than just a little self-righteous.

At a recent rural elementary school assembly in East Texas, he asked the audience for total quiet. Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence.

Then he said into the microphone, 'Children, every time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies from gun violence.'

Then, little Richard Earl, with a proud East Texas drawl, pierced the quiet and said: ''Well, dumb-a$$, stop clapping!'