ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report - 20090521

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"My Comments"

For the upcoming Memorial Day of May 25, 2009, we "Honor" each to the more than 600,000 Americans whom have given their "ultimate sacrifice" in protection of (y)our American Flag, (y)our US Constitution, and (y)our Freedoms from within.

God Bless each of these men and women, and God Bless America.



"Daily Motivations"

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them. -- Brian Tracy



"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)

Persecution You shall increase my greatness, And comfort me on every side (Psalm 71:21). If you are being persecuted, ask the Lord to reveal His purpose to you.

"Your choices are never free from this conflict." (Galatians 5:17)



"The Patriot Post"

"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the spot of every wind. With such persons, gullability, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Smith, December 8, 1822

"Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." --Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791



Video: Pirate Busting, Bofors Style

Sure the Bofors 40mm L/70 gun is hand-fed, open-air, and based on a design that is almost 80 years old. It also works, comes in quad mounts, and is absolute hell on pirates and rubber boats....More

http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=162188&page=3&ESRC=army.nl



"Find Law"

Grand Jury Indicts Somali Teen on Piracy, Hijacking and Kidnapping Charges

U.S. V. MUSE

(U.S. Dist. Ct., S.D. N.Y., May 19, 2009) - A federal grand jury indicted a teenaged suspect from Somlia on piracy, hijacking and kidnapping charges. The charges relate to the incident involving the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama container ship. The ten-count indictment alleges that Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse conspired with other alleged pirates to carry out his crimes, and that he "threatened to kill the captain [Capt. Richard Phillips] unless his demands were satisfied." Read more... http://news.lp.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/piracy/usmuse51909ind.html

Related Resources
• Teen Somali piracy suspect indicted in NYC court (AP) http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap_stories/other/1110/05-19-2009/20090519145006_08.html



"The Web"

Conyers: Judiciary has enough votes to overturn DOMA - Is this the change so many others voted for? The majority Democrats on Capitol Hill may change our Federal laws to allow same-sex homosexuality and lesbian marriages.

May 19, 2009 @ 11:39 am by Michael O'Brien

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/05/19/conyers-judiciary-has-enough-votes-to-overturn-doma/

The votes are there on the House Judiciary Committee to repeal the law allowing states to refuse to recognize other states' same-sex marriages, committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) said.

"Well in my committee, yes, but in the House and Senate, that's a different question," Conyers told the Michigan Messenger in a weekend interview published Tuesday about the prospects for a repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

A Judiciary-backed bill to repeal DOMA could mark a first step toward a repeal of the 1996 law enacted by a Republican-led Congress and signed into law by a Democratic president.

The law exempts same-sex marriages from states' usual obligation under federal law to recognize other states' marriage licenses. The law also bars the federal government from treating same-sex relationships as marriages for any purpose.

Conyers was one of only 67 members of the House to vote against DOMA in 1996; 342 House lawmakers supported it. Conyers also opposed the legislation in committee, along with eight other Democrats.

Since 1996, three states have established legal same-sex marriage through court or legislative decisions, while others intend to establish those rights later this year. Other states have seen voters overturn court decisions on same-sex marriage, while some state legislatures have elected to recognize other states' gay and lesbian marriages.

Conyers told the Messenger he has "always" supported equal rights for same-sex couples.



The Trap Door Beneath His Throne

The legions of unemployed peasants will someday bring down our imperial president.

By Dan Kennedy
Business & Media Institute
5/20/2009 10:53:59 AM

http://www.businessandmedia.org/commentary/2009/20090520105103.aspx

At this point the title ‘president’ seems so inadequate. Something grander and more glorious and imperial is needed. For want of any better idea, I’ve decided to use “The Great And Wonderful Ozbama.”

After all, just four months into his reign, he has waved his wizard’s wand over just about every aspect of American commerce, law and society. He’s taken over entire corporations, dictating to them everything from the firing and hiring of CEO’s to the make-up of their corporate boards – even to their ad budgets. State’s rights are antiquated, as Governor Schwarzenegger is discovering. The rule of law is now subordinate to His rule, as Chrysler bondholders and bankruptcy court judges are discovering.

And those are just previews of far more pervasive takeovers and acute disregard for individuals’ rights to come. It’s the price to be paid for the “progressive” agenda of the Ozbama.

There is, however, a trap door beneath his throne. The floor on which he poses may seem solid to him now. But …

The unemployment statistics reported daily in mainstream media fail to tell the whole story. In fact, they conceal the most important parts of it. Some states are already in double digits, at 10 percent, 12 percent and climbing. But how does a 31 percent number strike you? According to Harper’s Index in Harper’s Magazine, as of March 2009, the percentage of men over 20 years of age who are unemployed is 31 percent. Chances that an American who has been unemployed since December of 2007 is a man: 4 in 5.

As politically incorrect as it may be to say it, these stats suggest that the unemployment rate among primary breadwinners and family leaders is much higher than the 8 percent or 9 percent general number, and that means that the cancerous, insidious weakness of this economy is already much farther advanced and of more dangerous extreme than understood by most politicians, financial pundits, or media commentators.

We are nearer a breaking point than most might imagine. I do not know what that breaking point number is; a third of men and a fifth of primary breadwinners long unemployed? Half the men and a quarter of primary breadwinners? Even worse? At some point, they – the masses of unemployed – will pull the switch that springs open the hidden trap door beneath the Ozbama’s throne.

Everything the Ozbama is doing to re-craft America in His vision is worsening this unemployment number – not, as He claims, helping it. That’s because everything He is doing is inspiring a flight of investment capital, and destroying small business. The takeover of GM and Chrysler at the expense of well over 1,000 dealerships and of bondholders and lenders who had paid for first position security now stripped from them destroys more jobs than preserving the shrunken manufacturers saves. It also warns investors and lenders to avoid putting a penny of new money into anything He might decide to dictate to or confiscate as His own at any time in the future.

This is the pattern of His every act: save one job by destroying ten; spend a government printed dollar in a way that scares ten private dollars into hiding. For a time, His frenetic pace can conceal the destruction. For a time, He can bully frightened business leaders with his threats, demonizing and disregard for law, for a time He can buffalo the oh-so-compliant media with daily grand pronouncements and legerdemain. But He cannot stop the reality of primary breadwinner unemployment climbing; His own actions and mandates guarantee it.

At that breaking point, He will suddenly find the trap door opened beneath His feet. His poll numbers will plummet, His adoring fans will go silent, His media sycophants morph to critics, even His own party will desert him. His presidency will be impotent, His dictatorial takeover stalled and stymied.

This, ironically and sadly, is the hope we must believe in.

Dan Kennedy is a serial entrepreneur, adviser to business owners, sought-after speaker and author of 13 books. More information about Dan can be found at www.NoBSBooks.com, and a free collection of his business resources including newsletters and webinars at www.DanKennedy.com.



Concentrate on this Sentence

'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.' When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on this sentence... 'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.' Something good will happen to you today; something that you have been waiting to hear.

Please Do not break!

JUST 19 WORDS

GOD OUR FATHER, WALK THROUGH MY HOUSE AND TAKE AWAY ALL MY WORRIES AND ILLNESSES;
AND PLEASE WATCH OVER AND HEAL MY FAMILY IN JESUS ' NAME. AMEN

This prayer is so powerful. Pass this prayer to 12 people including me.



What happened to Harry Truman after the presidency--very interesting!

Harry Truman, from Missouri , was a different kind of President. He probably made as many important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.

Historians have written that the only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence , Missouri . On top of that, his wife inherited the house from her Mother.

When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.

After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves... There were no Secret Service agents following them. When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, 'You don't want me... You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale.'

Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, 'I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise.'

He never owned his own home and as president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food..

Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth.

Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale.

Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, 'My choices early in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference'



How does your state rate?

ALABAMA ... Was the first place to have 9-1-1, started in 1968.

ALASKA ... One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.

ARIZONA ... Is the only state in the continental U.S. that doesn't follow Daylight Savings Time.

ARKANSAS ... Has the only active diamond mine in the U.S.

CALIFORNIA ... Its economy is so large that if it were a country, it would rank seventh in the entire world.

COLORADO ... In 1976 it became the only state to turn down the Olympics.

CONNECTICUT ... The Frisbee was invented here at Yale University.

DELAWARE ... Has more scientists and engineers than any other state.

FLORIDA ... At 759 square miles, Jacksonville is the US's largest city.

GEORGIA ... It was here, in 1886, that pharmacist John Pemberton made the first vat of Coca-Cola.

HAWAII ... Hawaiians live, on average, five years longer than residents in any other state.

IDAHO ... TV was invented in Rigby, Idaho, in 1922.

ILLINOIS ... The Chicago River is dyed green every St. Patrick's Day.

INDIANA ... Home to Santa Claus, Indiana, which get a half million letter to Santa every year.

IOWA ... Winnebagos get their name from Winnebago County. Also, it is the only state that begins with two vowels.

KANSAS ... Liberal, Kansas, has an exact replica of the house in The Wizard of Oz.

KENTUCKY ... Has more than $6 billion in gold underneath Fort Knox.

LOUISIANA ... Has parishes instead of counties because they were originally Spanish
Church units.

MAINE ... It's so big, it covers as many square miles as the other five New England states combined.

MARYLAND ... The Oujia board was created in Baltimore in 1892.

MASSACHUSETTS .... The Fig Newton is named after Newton, Massachusetts.

MICHIGAN ... Fremont, home to Gerber, is the baby food capital of the world.

MINNESOTA ... Bloomington's Mall of America is so big, if you spent 10 minutes in each store, you'd be there nearly four days.

MISSISSIPPI ... President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear here. That's how the teddy bear got its name.

MISSOURI ... Is the birthplace of the ice cream cone.

MONTANA .. A sapphire from Montana is the Crown Jewels of England.

NEBRASKA ... More triplets are born here than in any other state.

NEVADA ... Has more hotel rooms than any other place in the world.

NEW HAMPSHIRE .... Birthplace of Tupperware, invented in 1938 by Earl Tupper.

NEW JERSEY ... Has the most shopping malls in one area in the world.

NEW MEXICO ... Smokey the Bear was rescued from a 1950 forest fire here.

NEW YORK ... Is home to the nation's oldest cattle ranch, started in 1747 in Montauk.

NORTH CAROLINA .... Home of the first Krispy Kreme doughnut.

NORTH DAKOTA .... Rigby, North Dakota, is the exact geo- graphic center of North America.

OHIO ... The hot dog was invented here in 1900.

OKLAHOMA ... The grounds of the state capital are covered by operating oil wells.

OREGON ... Has the most ghost towns in the country.

PENNSYLVANIA .... The smiley, :) was first used in 1980 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.

RHODE ISLAND .... The nation's oldest bar, the White Horse Tavern, opened here in 1673

SOUTH CAROLINA .... Sumter County is home to the world's largest gingko farm.

SOUTH DAKOTA .... Is the only state that's never had an earthquake.

TENNESSEE ... Nashville's Grand Ole Opry is the longest running live radio show in the world.

TEXAS ... Dr. Pepper was invented in Waco back in 1885.

UTAH ... The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant opened here in 1952.

VERMONT ... Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonald's.

VIRGINIA ... Home of the world's largest office building... the Pentagon.

WASHINGTON ... Seattle has twice as many college graduates as any other state.

WASHINGTON D.C. .... Was the first planned capital in the world.

WEST VIRGINIA .... Had the world's first brick paved street, Summers Street, laid in
Charleston in 1870.

WISCONSIN ... The ice cream sundae was invented here in 1881 to get around Blue Laws prohibiting ice cream from being sold on Sundays.

WYOMING ... Was the first state to allow women to vote.



"The e-mail Bag"

The Irish Bagpiper

As a bagpiper, I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless man who had no family or friends. The funeral was to be held at a cemetery in the remote countryside and this man would be the first to be laid to rest there.

As I was not familiar with the backwoods area, I became lost and being a typical man, did not stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late. I saw the backhoe and the crew who were eating lunch but the hearse was nowhere in sight.

I apologized to the workers for my tardiness and stepped to the side of the open grave where I saw the vault lid already in place.

I assured the workers I would not hold them up for long but this was the proper thing to do. The workers gathered around, still eating their lunch. I played out my heart and soul.

As I played the workers began to weep. I played and I played like I'd never played before, from Going Home and The Lord is My Shepherd to Flowers of the Forest. I closed the lengthy session with Amazing Grace and walked to my car..

As I was opening the door and taking off my coat, I overheard one of the workers saying to another, "Sweet Jeezuz, Mary'n Joseph, I never seen nothin' like that before and I've been putting in septic tanks for twenty years."



WHY ITALIANS CAN’T BE PARAMEDICS

Vinny and Sal are out in the woods hunting when suddenly Sal grabs his chest and falls to the ground. He doesn’t seem to be breathing; his eyes are rolled back in his head.

Vinny whips out his cell phone and calls 911.

He gasps to the operator, “I think Sal is dead! What should I do?”

The operator, in a calm soothing voice says, “Just take it easy and follow my instructions. First, let’s make sure he’s dead.”

There is a silence…

And then a shot is heard.

Vinny’s voice comes back on the line,

“Okay… Now what?”