ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report - 20090520

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"Daily Motivations"

Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you. -- Madeline Bridges



"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)

Guaranteed Deposit ...[He] has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come (2 Cor. 5:5). Once you're his child, you're his forever.

"I have a plan for the whole earth, for My mighty power reaches throughout the world." (Isaiah 14:26)



"The Patriot Post"

"Since private and publick Vices, are in Reality, though not always apparently, so nearly connected, of how much Importance, how necessary is it, that the utmost Pains be taken by the Publick, to have the Principles of Virtue early inculcated on the Minds even of children, and the moral Sense kept alive, and that the wise institutions of our Ancestors for these great Purposes be encouraged by the Government. For 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, letter to James Warren, 4 November 1775

"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



To Speaker Pelosi:

The time is "NOW" for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to resign from the US Congress and/or face a Special Prosecutor's investigation. If found guilty, Speaker Pelosi should be impeached and prosecuted under US law for lying to US Congress. Please, do not expect Pelosi's impeachment and/or removal from Congress. Democrats on Capitol Hill seems to deny any immoral, illegal, and/or other unlawful activity. The time is now for an independent investigation of the "Ethics Committee". The membership of the Ethics Committee seem to hear nothing, feel nothing, and/or see nothing. You will probably see Democrat members in the US House of Representatives "circle the wagon" (Nancy Pelosi) to defend any of her alleged lying activity. There was a very similar instance of President Bill Clinton lying under oath. Again, the Democrats on Capitol Hill defended each and everyone of Bill Clinton's activity; however, the SCOTUS did "impeach" President Clinton to ever practice law within the US Supreme Court. - oyh



"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." -- Abraham Lincoln



Warfront With Jihadistan: Gitmo Divides Demos

As congressional Democrats work on the FY2009 war supplemental, they are butting heads with Barack Obama over his campaign promise to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. In the $96.7 billion allocated for war funding, Congress found no money to fund Obama's executive order closing the facility and relocating its prisoners. Obama had requested $80 million to do so. Perhaps the idea that between 50-100 prisoners would be sent to the U.S. -- someone's congressional district -- was not appealing.

Apparently, Democrats' shot across the bow got the administration's attention. "With regard to those who you would describe as terrorists, we would not bring them into this country and release them," Attorney General Eric Holder told Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) in a Senate hearing Thursday. Yet the administration still insists on releasing some detainees who it believes are not terrorists. There are 241 detainees at Gitmo. Some will be released, others put on trial and some "are going to be detained on a fairly extended basis," Holder said.

In some respects, this problem dates back to President Bush's first term. The idea of bringing the terrorists to "justice" by trying them has distorted the real purpose of Guantanamo, which is to keep enemy combatants in a totally secure location off the battlefield. Intelligence should be as accurate as possible regarding each combatant, but they should be held until hostilities are over.



Army Destroys Afghan Bibles

"The US Army has reportedly destroyed Bibles in Afghan languages which were sent to a soldier in Afghanistan and then confiscated," reports Christianity Today. The Arab news network Al Jazeera released footage of U.S. soldiers at an on-base Bible class surrounded by Bibles translated into the Afghan languages of Pashto and Dari. The Bibles were sent to a soldier by his church, and he brought them to the class, though none were distributed to the native population. Soldiers are forbidden from proselytizing, a policy with which we will not quibble here. Yet it is striking that there were no riots in the U.S. or elsewhere over the destruction of the Bibles. There were also no Newsweek stories such as the one about the Koran supposedly being flushed down a toilet -- a false story that caused riots in the Muslim world. But who are we to compare Christianity with the Religion of Peace™?



"Simple Truths"

Leadership

http://www.theleadershipmovie.com/



"Find Law"

Appeals Court Rules White House Emails Not Covered by FOIA

CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON V. OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATION

(U.S. D.C. Cir., May 19, 2009) - In a dispute over whether the Executive Office of Administration (OA) must release memos regarding Bush administration emails, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rules that OA is not covered by the federal Freedom of Information Act Law (FOIA). The court help the OA outside of FOIA grasp because it "performs only operational and administrative tasks" for the White House, and according to precedential case law, "lacks substantial independent authority" to be covered by FOIA. Read more... http://news.lp.findlaw.com:80/hdocs/docs/gwbush/creoa51909opn.html

Related Resources
• White House wins court fight on e-mail disclosure (AP)

http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap_stories/a/w/1151/05-19-2009/20090519095006_27.html



"The Web"

Republicans want to keep Guantanamo Bay detainees out of the United Sates

http://www.politico.com:80/news/stories/0509/22677.html

By DAVID ROGERS | 5/19/09 4:29 AM EDT

Senate Republicans settle on their first line of attack in the battle over closing the detention facility.

Senate Republicans settled Monday on their first line of attack in the battle over closing the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay: No detainees can come to American soil.

With the blessing of his party leaders, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is expected to offer the language as an amendment to a $91.3 billion wartime spending bill that could come before the Senate as early as Tuesday.

The measure now includes $80 million requested by President Barack Obama to begin to carry out his January executive order that Guantanamo be closed by early next year. The House last week stripped out all of the money, but Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) has charted a middle course, keeping the money intact but allowing none of it to be released until the White House comes forward with a detailed plan to address security concerns among lawmakers.

Given the emotions of the moment, the chairman’s hopes appear doomed before the debate even begins.

In a week when Obama is poised to win both credit card reform and anti-foreclosure legislation from Congress, frustrated Republicans see a precious opportunity to bloody the president on what’s been a signature issue for him.

Democrats, under pressure from voters at home, are already wavering, as seen in the House and in statements by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) over the weekend. And Obama, who is slated to address the Guantanamo issue in a speech Thursday, has sent mixed signals himself as he sorts through the complexities of how to bring to trial the remaining prisoners.

“Obama hasn’t done us any favors on this,” said one Democratic leadership aide. “He’s a little of this, a little of that. The Republicans have one compelling message.”

The administration’s allies concede as much but argue that the attacks are in essence a partisan “fear mongering” campaign, given that closing Guantanamo was endorsed by Obama’s presidential rival, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, in last year’s election.

“I would hope we would allow this process to go forward,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) told reporters Monday, and Ken Gude of the Center for American Progress said it was “offensive” to suggest that military and corrections personnel in the United States would not be able to protect citizens from detainees brought into the country.

One side effect of the Guantanamo debate is that it makes it that much harder to complete the underlying bill before the Memorial Day recess, which begins this weekend. And that will leave a second Obama priority out in the open that much longer: new financing for the International Monetary Fund.

In a phone call to Inouye and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Dave Obey (D-Wis.) last Friday, the president had expressed his hope that the whole package — including IMF — could be wrapped up before the recess. But even the White House conceded Monday that this would be tough to do. And that means the IMF package — which drew the ire of the Wall Street Journal editorial page Monday — could be more prone to conservative attacks.

Obama has a personal stake in the IMF initiative since he and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner took the lead at an April G-20 meeting in urging that industrial nations help to raise $500 billion in new borrowing authority for the IMF as insurance against a future crisis among developing nations affected by the global economic downturn.

The U.S. share would be $100 billion, though the true cost is far less since it is essentially a line of credit that the IMF could tap in the future. And Treasury had hoped to make good on the April pledge before IMF and G-8 meetings next fall, in order to bring along other nations.

“It was our idea, and we want to deliver on our idea,” a Treasury official told POLITICO. “We are in the midst of a global financial crisis, and we want to know that the IMF has the resources to respond.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22677.html#ixzz0FxUHo1cX&B



Chrysler and the Rule of Law

The Founders put the contracts clause in the Constitution for a reason.

By TODD J. ZYWICKI

http://www.hoover.org/pubaffairs/dailyreport/archive/44874772.html

The rule of law, not of men -- an ideal tracing back to the ancient Greeks and well-known to our Founding Fathers -- is the animating principle of the American experiment. While the rest of the world in 1787 was governed by the whims of kings and dukes, the U.S. Constitution was established to circumscribe arbitrary government power. It would do so by establishing clear rules, equally applied to the powerful and the weak.

Fleecing lenders to pay off politically powerful interests, or governmental threats to reputation and business from a failure to toe a political line? We might expect this behavior from a Hugo Chávez. But it would never happen here, right?

Until Chrysler.

The close relationship between the rule of law and the enforceability of contracts, especially credit contracts, was well understood by the Framers of the U.S. Constitution. A primary reason they wanted it was the desire to escape the economic chaos spawned by debtor-friendly state laws during the period of the Articles of Confederation. Hence the Contracts Clause of Article V of the Constitution, which prohibited states from interfering with the obligation to pay debts. Hence also the Bankruptcy Clause of Article I, Section 8, which delegated to the federal government the sole authority to enact "uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies."

The Obama administration's behavior in the Chrysler bankruptcy is a profound challenge to the rule of law. Secured creditors -- entitled to first priority payment under the "absolute priority rule" -- have been browbeaten by an American president into accepting only 30 cents on the dollar of their claims. Meanwhile, the United Auto Workers union, holding junior creditor claims, will get about 50 cents on the dollar.

The absolute priority rule is a linchpin of bankruptcy law. By preserving the substantive property and contract rights of creditors, it ensures that bankruptcy is used primarily as a procedural mechanism for the efficient resolution of financial distress. Chapter 11 promotes economic efficiency by reorganizing viable but financially distressed firms, i.e., firms that are worth more alive than dead.

Violating absolute priority undermines this commitment by introducing questions of redistribution into the process. It enables the rights of senior creditors to be plundered in order to benefit the rights of junior creditors.

The U.S. government also wants to rush through what amounts to a sham sale of all of Chrysler's assets to Fiat. While speedy bankruptcy sales are not unheard of, they are usually reserved for situations involving a wasting or perishable asset (think of a truck of oranges) where delay might be fatal to the asset's, or in this case the company's, value. That's hardly the case with Chrysler. But in a Chapter 11 reorganization, creditors have the right to vote to approve or reject the plan. The Obama administration's asset-sale plan implements a de facto reorganization but denies to creditors the opportunity to vote on it.

By stepping over the bright line between the rule of law and the arbitrary behavior of men, President Obama may have created a thousand new failing businesses. That is, businesses that might have received financing before but that now will not, since lenders face the potential of future government confiscation. In other words, Mr. Obama may have helped save the jobs of thousands of union workers whose dues, in part, engineered his election. But what about the untold number of job losses in the future caused by trampling the sanctity of contracts today?

The value of the rule of law is not merely a matter of economic efficiency. It also provides a bulwark against arbitrary governmental action taken at the behest of politically influential interests at the expense of the politically unpopular. The government's threats and bare-knuckle tactics set an ominous precedent for the treatment of those considered insufficiently responsive to its desires. Certainly, holdout Chrysler creditors report that they felt little confidence that the White House would stop at informal strong-arming.

Chrysler -- or more accurately, its unionized workers -- may be helped in the short run. But we need to ask how eager lenders will be to offer new credit to General Motors knowing that the value of their investment could be diminished or destroyed by government to enrich a politically favored union. We also need to ask how eager hedge funds will be to participate in the government's Public-Private Investment Program to purchase banks' troubled assets.

And what if the next time it is a politically unpopular business -- such as a pharmaceutical company -- that's on the brink? Might the government force it to surrender a patent to get the White House's agreement to get financing for the bankruptcy plan?

Mr. Zywicki is a professor of law at George Mason University and the author of a book on consumer bankruptcy and consumer lending, forthcoming from Yale University Press.



Tax Poem

At first I thought this was funny....then I realized the awful truth of it. Be sure to read all the way to the end!

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts
Anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think..

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers,
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore..

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid.

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline At x (44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax &n bsp;
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
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 Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers20Compensation 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, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What in the heck happened?

Can you spell 'politicians?' And I still have to 'press 1' for English!?!?!?!?

I hope this goes around THE USA at least 1000 times!!!!! YOU can help it get here!!!!

GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN!!!!!!



The Whale

Fair Use Title 17 Section 107 for non-profit educational use.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported a female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, and a line in her mouth.

A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farralone Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help.

Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her...

One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.

They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her.

When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed gently around-she thanked them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.

The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.



"The e-mail Bag"

Media's interpretation of heroism: A Harley rider rescues a little girl

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Editor's note: Do you need something to smile about? Every day, WND selects the best joke offered up by readers and contributors to its Laughlines forum and brings it to you as the WND Joke of the Day. Here is today's offering:

A Harley rider is passing the zoo when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her under the eyes of her screaming parents.

The biker jumps off his bike, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch. Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back, letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly.

A New York Times reporter has watched the whole event. The reporter says, "Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I saw a man do in my whole life." The biker replies, "Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger, and acted as I felt right."

The reporter says, "Well, I'm a journalist from the New York Times, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front page... so, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?"

The biker replies, "I'm a U.S. Marine and a Republican."

The following morning the biker buys The New York Times to see if it indeed brings news of his actions, and reads, on front page:

"U.S. MARINE ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT AND STEALS HIS LUNCH."