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GET YOUR FLAG READY For Friday - Let (y)our American flag wave in honor of more than 3,000 who died on 9-11. - oyh



“My Comments”

Last night, August 9, 2009, President Obama addressed the Congress and (y)our nation. One of his most important statements which Obama said was that his Healthcare program would not add one cent to the deficit, now or never. That leaves only two (2) places for a $1 Trillion government program to be paid for; higher taxes and/or budget reductions. While Obama says it will be paid for by savings, he must identify specifically. I do not believe President Obama or anyone else can identify $1 Trillion in Healthcare savings, without totally disabling our existing Healthcare system.

Another Obama budget reduction may be planned in the US Military program, including the CIA, and other protective programs. We must remember that during his 2008 campaign, Obama promised to reduce spending on our anti-missile program. The “mean-stream will not address that Obama program. - oyh



"Daily Motivations"

Preparing yourself and your team for the virtual workplace is key to your continued effectiveness as a leader — not just down the road, but right now! -- Debra A. Dinnocenzo



"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)

"God also bound Himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that He would never change His mind." (Hebrews 6:17)

Recently, I stood at the grave sites of two dear friends. As I reflected on their lives, I realized that the most important moment we can experience is our death. When we breathe our last earthly air and take our first breath of the celestial, we transition into the presence of God! This life on earth is but a prelude to eternity. My friends had no fear of crossing over, for they knew the reality of God's unwavering faithfulness to them.

We who have given ourselves to God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ have received eternal life. God is committed to our redemption, our Christian walk, and our eternal destiny. God's unchanging nature assures us that we will indeed live with Him forever as He promised.

God's commitment is as strong as He is constant. No one and nothing can violate His promise. The Holy Spirit's presence within us is God's guarantee that He really will give us all that He promised. We can bank our entire future on His unchanging character. What a sure anchor for our faith!



"The Patriot Post"

"It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution." -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia Query 19, 1781

"To say that the United States should be answerable for twenty-five millions of dollars without knowing whether the ways and means can be provided, and without knowing whether those who are to succeed us will think with us on the subject, would be rash and unjustifiable. Sir, in my opinion, it would be hazarding the public faith in a manner contrary to every idea of prudence." -- James Madison



From the 'Non Compos Mentis' File

Speaking of Arizona, at a town hall meeting in his home state, sometimes-Republican Sen. John McCain was asked by an audience member, "I would like to know how the president is getting by with all of this money. It's against the Constitution. Doesn't he know we still live under a Constitution?" The transcript follows (hat tip to Rush Limbaugh):

McCain: I'm sure that he does. I'm sure --

Audience: (laughter)

McCain: No, no, I'm serious. I'm sure that he does and I'm sure that he respects the Constitution of the United States.

Audience: (groans)

McCain: No, no, no, no. No, I -- I -- I -- I really do. I -- I am absolutely convinced of it.

Audience Member: No!

McCain: I just believe, my friends, that there is a fundamental difference in philosophy and about the role of government. That's why we have competition for public office and competition amongst parties and competition about different ideas and visions for the future of America. I am convinced the president is absolutely sincere in his beliefs.

Audience: (groans)

McCain: But he's -- wait a minute. Wait a minute. He is sincere in his beliefs. We just -- we just happen to disagree, and he's the president of the United States and let's be respectful.

In a friendlier atmosphere on ABC's "This Week," McCain said, "I look at this as an opportunity right now. ...[W]ouldn't it be a good idea for us Republicans and Democrats to sit down with the president? ..... There's so many areas that we are in agreement on."

In a nutshell, that's why McCain lost in November. He just doesn't get it.



From the Left: Rangel's Latest Ethics Lapse

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) recently amended his 2007 financial disclosure report, adding $500,000 in previously unreported assets. Small oversight. Among the additions were a Congressional Federal Credit Union account valued at $250,000, an investment account valued at $250,000, real estate in New Jersey and various corporate stocks. Rangel is already a poster child for ethics lapses, and he currently faces a number of investigations for tax evasion, improper use of his office and violating New York City rent control laws. Although it's unlikely that true justice will be served in such a hyper-partisan atmosphere, Rangel's image has been tarnished as his troubles continue to mount. In addition, he's had to assemble plenty of financial and political resources toward fighting the allegations, thereby reducing his ability to support liberal causes. Shucks!

Republicans have asked him to step down as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee while these investigations are taking place, but Rangel has refused. Naturally, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has stood by his refusal, although in the past she has called for Republicans in less egregious circumstances to relinquish leadership roles. So much for San Fran Nan's incessant vows to clean up the "culture of corruption." If it weren't for double standards, liberals wouldn't have any.



ACLU Aids the Enemy

Speaking of treasonous actions, it appears that photographs of CIA personnel, including covert officers, were unlawfully shown by defense attorneys to terrorist detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, some of whom are charged with organizing the 9/11 attacks. Justice Department investigators are looking to see if laws protecting classified information were broken when three lawyers showed their terrorist clients the photographs. Apparently, the lawyers were trying to identify CIA officers and contractors involved in the interrogation of al-Qa'ida suspects in facilities outside the United States, where the agency employed harsh questioning techniques.

The photos allegedly were taken by researchers hired by a horrendously misnamed outfit called the John Adams Project, a joint effort of the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Both groups have said that they will investigate the CIA's interrogation program at "black sites" worldwide in order to defend their clients and, no doubt as an added plus for them, further damage our national security. But Justice Department investigators are now looking into whether this group went too far (ya think?) by showing photos of CIA officers, in some cases secretly taken outside the officers' homes, to the terrorist detainees. The ACLU finds it abominable for someone to take photos of abortionists outside their homes, but thinks it's just peachy to do the same with people entrusted with saving lives.

In other news, on Monday, the same day Obama decided to target our own CIA, a terror suspect captured on the battlefield and charged with attempting to murder two U.S. soldiers returned home to Afghanistan after being released by a federal judge, who ruled that his confession was inadmissible. The White House had declined to appeal the ruling. A clueless ACLU attorney righteously thundered, "We are pleased that the Justice Department has expressed a commitment to getting him home so that this nightmare of abuse and injustice can finally come to an end." We can only hope that when this terrorist is again found on the battlefield, U.S. soldiers end his "nightmare of abuse and injustice" permanently.



"ADF"

Reclaiming Religious Freedom on Campus

https://www.alliancedefensefund.org/ReclaimCampus/default.aspx?referral=I0809MA&home=yes#



"The Web"

Republicans Plan Vicious Fight Over Healthcare Reform

http://video.newsmax.com/?bcpid=20972460001&bclid=22770166001&bctid=36494423001&s=al&promo_code=87DE-1



Trunk Monkey Compilation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avOiTUcD4Y



THE MILITARY MAN AND WOMAN

The average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father's; but he has never collected unemployment either.

He's a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away. He listens to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and 155mm howitzer. He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk.

He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less time in the dark. He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and use either one effectively if he must. He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a professional. He can march until he is told to stop or stop until he is told to march.

He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without spirit or individual dignity. He is self-sufficient. He has two sets of fatigues: he washes one and wears the other. He keeps his canteens full and his feet dry. He sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle. He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts. If you're thirsty, he'll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his food. He'll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you run low.

He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were his hands. He can save your life - or take it, because that is his job. He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay and still find ironic humor in it all. He has seen more suffering and death than he should have in his short lifetime.

He has stood atop mountains of dead bodies, and helped to create them. He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in combat and is unashamed. He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body while at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to 'square-away' those around him who haven't bothered to stand, remove their hat, or even stop talking. In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their right to be disrespectful.

Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great-grandfather, he is paying the price for our freedom. Beardless or not, he is not a boy. He is the American Fighting Man that has kept this country free for over 200 years.

He has asked nothing in return, except our friendship and understanding. Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration with his blood. And now we even have woman over there in danger, doing their part in this tradition of going to War when our nation calls us to do so. As you go to bed tonight, remember this shot. A short lull, a little shade and a picture of loved ones in their helmets.

Prayer wheel for our military ... please don't break it. Please send this on after a short prayer.

Prayer Wheel

"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen."

Prayer: When you receive this, please stop for a moment and say a prayer for our ground troops in Afghanistan, sailors on ships, and airmen in the air, and for those in Iraq. There is nothing attached.... This can be very powerful....... Of all the gifts you could give a US Soldier, Sailor, Coastguardsman, Marine or Airman, prayer is the very best one.



Once Upon A Time...

Whatever happened to the old Barack Obama?

By Victor Davis Hanson

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmViYjc2OGM5ZGU0OTczM2NjMTNjNzcxYjc2NWZiN2I=&w=MA==

Once upon a time, a fresh new politician, Barack Obama — black, young, eloquent, and hip — soared with rhetoric about hope and change. The people were mesmerized. What a contrast with the tongue-tied outgoing president, George W. Bush , and his unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!

Presidential Candidate Obama sensed their ecstasy, and so he made two great promises: 1. Whatever Bush was, he would not be, and 2. despite the right-wing slander about his former intimacy with Bill Ayers, the Reverend Wright, Father Pfleger, Rashid Khalidi, and all his other old Chicago radical friends, Obama would be a centrist, a cooler version of Bill Clinton. There were to be no more red/blue state divides. The most partisan politician in the Senate promised a new era of bipartisanship. He who had profited from identity politics would suddenly be beyond race.

The people were considering voting for this unknown, fresh, hope-and-change candidate — a decision made easier after the financial meltdown of mid-September 2008. They decided then that they wanted a new-frontier moderate, a JFK for the 21st century, who would put competence and style over ideology — and clean up the financial mess left by Wall Street and the greedy Republicans.

Obama also promised that he would craft a foreign policy from the bipartisan center, while making us liked abroad once more. During the campaign, to reassure the doubtful, he name-dropped at length Republicans with whom he would consult: old centrist pros like Dick Lugar and Bob Gates , as well as four-star generals.

But having been elected, President Obama sensed that, just maybe, the United States was part of the problem rather than the solution. So he shunned Israel and warmed up to Syria and the Palestinians. He cut off relations with Honduras. He ignored our ally Colombia while reaching out to Castro, Chavez, and Ortega. Putin’s Russia received more deference than did most of Russia’s old vassals in Eastern Europe. The British were snubbed in gratuitous fashion.

When hundreds of thousands of Iranian dissidents went out in the streets to protest their theocracy’s rigged voting, Obama voted present — or perhaps accepted beforehand that the reformers would fail. After all, dealing with a lunatic revolutionary Iranian government would showcase far better his own singular multicultural finesse.

Meanwhile, Obama went on an apology tour abroad. He inflated the accomplishments of the Islamic world, magnified his own country’s sins, and once again blamed Bush for America’s global unpopularity. In short, it was not intrinsic differences in ideology and objectives, but the prior president, that explained the tension with Europe, Iran, North Korea, and Russia.

A common theme was that the new president, Barack Obama — suddenly referencing his family’s Muslim roots and his African lineage in a way that others dared not during the campaign — was as skeptical of America’s history as were its critics, who likewise doubted there was anything “exceptional” about American democracy.

During the campaign, Nominee Obama talked of fiscal sobriety. He damned the Bush deficits. And he warned voters that his comprehensive agenda might have to wait a bit while we put our financial house in order. From time to time, Obama brought old Paul Volcker out of the closet and proclaimed him a key adviser — the subtext being that Obama, too, was an inflation fighter, a budget balancer, and a fiscal hawk of the first order. The likes of Warren Buffett assured us that all this fiscal seriousness was authentic. So the people were relieved and found another reason to vote for the moderate — only to be shocked when he submitted a budget nearly $2 trillion in the red, with plans to add $9 trillion more to the soaring national debt.

In the spring and summer of 2008, when gas soared and right-wingers started chanting “Drill, baby, drill,” Barack Obama replied to his rival, John McCain, that all America’s energy cards would be on the table — oil, gas, nuclear, and new sources of petroleum in tar and shale. The wavering voters were once more relieved, and encouraged that their would-be president was an American nationalist who wanted to use our own energy as we transitioned to wind and solar.

But then gas prices dropped. Obama was elected — and there would be no new offshore drilling after all, no promise to use clean coal, and little if anything planned about nuclear power. Instead, Americans got one Van Jones, some sort of environmental “czar,” who had a long history of ritually trashing the American economy, American agriculture, and American coal producers — while derogating George W. Bush as a “crack-head” oilman as addicted to petroleum as an addict is to cocaine. (Presumably Mr. Jones does not fly to his many conferences on carbon-spewing jets and is not picked up by gasoline-burning taxis.)

“Distortions!” Candidate Obama screamed, when charged with wanting a Canadian-style health-care system. All he wanted to do, Obama swore, was lower our costs and insure the uninsured. But then President Obama somehow demanded that a 1,000-page blueprint of a proposed government takeover of the nation’s health care be voted on before August recess — as if even one more month of treating patients the way we have for the last 100 years simply would be too much.

Once upon a time, Candidate Obama also assured skeptical voters that he would show us how to transcend race. He was no Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, who used skin color and white guilt for careerist purposes. The Reverend Wright, “typical white person,” Michelle Obama’s “downright mean country,” and the Pennsylvania “clingers” remark were mere aberrations of the exhausting campaign, hyped by the shameless right wing.

But soon the people got the attorney general of the United States calling them racial cowards and dismissing voter-intimidation suits against club-wielding Black Panthers who had swarmed voting booths. Cambridge police were relegated to Neanderthal profilers who stereotyped the innocent, such as Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Environment czar Van Jones warned of white conspiracies to pollute the ghetto and bragged that blacks, unlike whites, did not go on public-school shooting sprees. The nation’s most powerful politicians, like House Ways and Means chairman Charlie Rangel and New York governor David Paterson, for some strange reason, were suddenly victims of racial bias, which alone explained their travails. All this was not supposed to happen in the age of Obama.

Bush trampled on the Constitution, Candidate Obama alleged. Without a major terrorist attack against the homeland in seven years, the voters had the luxury to consider those charges. They seemed to agree that Bush and Cheney were nearly as much a threat to our freedoms as was Osama bin Laden.

But soon President Obama read the classified intelligence briefings. Suddenly military tribunals, renditions, the PATRIOT Act, Predator assassinations, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were not just Bush conspiracies after all, but serious, necessary tools of American overseas contingency operations to thwart real man-caused disasters. The media, Hollywood, and the intelligentsia agreed, and thus Code Pink, Michael Moore, and a screaming Al Gore either quieted down or dropped out the news.

No lobbyists, Obama thundered during the campaign — not one! — would serve in his administration. Impending legislation would appear on government web sites for the people’s perusal. White House logs would be available from Day One to enlighten the voters about who did and did not enter the people’s house.

Cabinet nominees and officials would be beyond ethical reproach. Speaker Pelosi would “drain the swamp,” end the “culture of corruption,” and ensure the “the most ethical Congress ever.” There would be no more plants at news conference; no staged questions from administration hacks; no serial presidential addresses hogging the airways at prime time; no constant press conferences of a media-hungry president; no direct talks to school kids on state television screens.

Barack Obama, you see, had felt the pulse of the people. He was an old-pro community organizer, a street-savvy politician who had encouraged dissent and vocal protest.

But then President Obama appointed lobbyists. For months he forgot all about the White House logs and websites. His cabinet nominees had strange habits, such as not paying their taxes despite advocating higher rates for everyone else. Obama’s face was everywhere; he held more press conferences in eight months than did Bush in eight years. Questions and questioners were on occasion planted or staged.

The community organizing and protests of others now became regrettable, even unpatriotic. Criticism of the establishment was the work of brownshirts, mobs, Nazis, and the selfish, who had no moral or religious concern about the health of others and were envious of the success of their president. Insurance companies wanted even more astronomical profits. Doctors were greedy and took out tonsils needlessly for profit. Surgeons rushed to lop off diabetics’ limbs for princely sums of $50,000 and more.

The new town-hallers and tea-partiers who went to meetings and press conferences and protested their government were not Chicago-style hoi polloi, but counterrevolutionaries or insurance toadies who feared real reformers. The dissidents were, of course, also racists. These inauthentic Astroturfers simply could not tolerate a black president and so, like the doomed dinosaurs, they mindlessly bellowed out at the new landscape that they could not live within.

Once upon a time the people deluded themselves into thinking a suave extremist was to be their nuts-and-bolts centrist. Now they don’t know whether to be mad at him or themselves — or both.



Czar Dish

By Clarice Feldman

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/czar_dish.html
With virtually no input from the mainstream media, the alternate media exposed and forced the resignation of Communist, racist, intemperate partisan Van Jones. He will not be the only White House czar forced from office in this way.

According to the most recent count in Politico, with the resignation of the red green czar Van Jones, the White House still has 30 czars in its stable (12 more than Russia which had but 18 Romanov czars):

Afghanistan Czar: Richard Holbrooke

AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley

Auto recovery Czar: Ed Montgomery

Border Czar: Alan Bersin

California Water Czar: David J. Hayes

Car Czar: Ron Bloom

Central Region Czar: Dennis Ross

Domestic Violence Czar: Lynn Rosenthal

Drug Czar: Gil Kerlikowske

Economic Czar: Paul Volcker

Energy and Environment Czar: Carol Brower

Faith-Based Czar: Joshua DuBois

Great Lakes Czar: Cameron Davis

Guantanamo Closure Czar: Daniel Fried

Health Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle

Information Czar: Vivek Kundra

International Climate Czar: Todd Stern

Intelligence Czar: Dennis Blair

Mideast Peace Czar: George Mitchell

Pay Czar: Kenneth Feinberg

Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein

Science Czar: John Holdren

Stimulus Accountability Czar: Earl Devaney

Sudan Czar: J. Scott Gration

TARP Czar: Herb Allison

Terrorism Czar: John Brennan

Technology Czar: Aneesh Chopra

Urban Affairs Czar: Adolfo Carrion Jr.

Weapons Czar: Ashton Carter

WMD Policy Czar: Gary Samore

All of them work out of the White House and report directly to the President and none have been through the confirmation process, a process that would have weeded out Van Jones and a number of others who represent views anathema to the voters. (Cass Sunstein comes to mind, for example.)

The notion of an executive branch so closely run from the White house is not new. Clinton for example might have bragged about a Cabinet that looked like America but he took care to select a subcabinet that looked like him, reported to him and saw that his policies were carried out.

I must admit to having been asleep at the switch when the first alarms about the Czar -Dom were sounded by, of all people the Democrat's Senior Senator Robert Byrd. But as the number of Czars has exploded and the outrageously poor vetting of them exposed, I see the wisdom of Byrd's objections aired in February.

It seemed to me that over the years the White House staff has necessarily increased as the programs for which is responsible increased, but Byrd argued:

"The rapid and easy accumulation of power by White House staff can threaten the Constitutional system of checks and balances," Byrd wrote in a letter to Obama. "At the worst, White House staff have taken direction and control of programmatic areas that are the statutory responsibility of Senate-confirmed officials."

Byrd specifically cited the creation of a new White House Office of Energy and Climate Change, which is headed by Carol Browner. He also noted new offices for health reform and urban affairs policy and the appointment of White House staff to coordinate on technology and management performance policies. [Snip]

"Too often, I have seen these lines of authority and responsibility become tangled and blurred, sometimes purposely, to shield information and to obscure the decision-making process," Byrd wrote.

Some of these czars, Richard Holbrooke for example, seem clearly designed to strip power from Hillary Clinton, who it now is clear was offered the position of Secretary of State to mollify her and keep her under wraps. She can be sent off to Ghana or do the White House's unpopular dirty work like cutting off aid to Honduras, while those whom the President feels he can trust will be given the big assignments on the world's stage. And while rare I doubt this is the first time a President has used his own aides to circumvent a cabinet officer he neither trusts nor can remove from office.

But Senator Byrd made some very good points about Obama's overall misuse of his prerogatives: As he noted:

(a) They are not accountable to the Cabinet members in their areas of control;

(b) They rarely testify before Congress on data informing their decisions, their policies or their views.

Senator Byrd argued, in sum, that they were powerful, their work opaque and the means for holding them accountable for their acts or even for Congress to oversee their work were not apparent.

He asked Obama to require that assertions of executive privilege be made only by the president or with his specific approval and that White House senior personnel be limited for exercising authority over any person, program or funding within the responsibility of a Senate-confirmed department head.

The resignation of Van Jones has exposed the Czar-dom's weaknesses just as Byrd warned. Plus an additional factor -- the failure of the White House to adequately vet these czars. Jones would never have passed Congressional scrutiny to be confirmed to such an important post and given his unsavory background, it yet remains to be seen to whom he shoveled tax dollars and for what.

Were I in Congress, I'd demand that funds for these posts be cut off until a better system for scrutiny and accountability is offered and agreed upon. In the absence of oversight and Congressional scrutiny of this powerful inner circle in the White House the entire system of Constitutional checks and balances is meaningless.

Since they are in essence filling roles normally performed by cabinet or subcabinet officers subject to the Congressional confirmation process, at a minimum the President should immediately waive any claim of executive privilege with respect to his contacts and communication with these czars. And he should agree to make them available to Congressional committees to answer programmatic questions normally directed to confirmed officials. And Congress should insist on that before releasing funds to pay them.

Since it appears Congress is yet unwilling to insist on the preservation of its Constitutional prerogatives and the White House unlikely to change course on its own, I take it it's up to what we call the alternative media to keep plodding ahead and picking off by one by one those Czars who are manifestly unsuitable for these posts.

Clarice Feldman is a retired lawyer in Washington, DC, and a frequent contributor to American Thinker.



TOMBSTONE

I know the Socialists party (Dems) won the urban areas of the nation. The erosion of our liberties is in full view now. -- John Stambaugh

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the Presidential election:

Number of States won
by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29

Square miles of land won
by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000

Population of counties won
by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won
by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler 's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty-million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say good-bye to the USA in fewer than five years. If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message.

If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.



By FrogGiggerOrg

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=pluckcommentslocal&key=20090905.tennessean.DN909050312.article.NEWS06&s=d

It is high time that the so-called "Christians" of this country UNITE and overcome these Muslims with the LOVE of Messiah - the Savior of the World!

1Jn_4:8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Likewise, if these Muslims claim to represent The Creator then when are they going to overcome the "infidel" with the LOVE of The Creator?

Jas_2:13 For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment

It is time that ALL the "People of the Book" show mercy one-to-the-other and REPENT from lifting-up a FALSE IMAGE of The Creator!

Isa 64: NASB
8 But now, O LORD, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand.
9 Do not be angry beyond measure, O LORD, Nor remember iniquity forever; Behold, look now, all of us are Your people

Yahweh is FAITHFUL to the very works of His hands which we ALL are!

What will we say when He inquires: "Where art thou BROTHER?"



A Backroom Drug Deal

Obama’s turnabout on insider dealings.

By Rich Lowry

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZGMzYzIyYzNkOGUyZWM5YTVkNDg5NmM0NjNkM2IyNDQ

EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate.
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The White House has yet to entice any members of the Axis of Evil to the negotiating table, unless Billy Tauzin counts. The former Louisiana congressman doesn’t head a rogue state, but PhRMA, the drug-industry trade group whose name is itself a swear word for liberal Democrats.

Tauzin cut a deal with the White House that is keeping PhRMA out of its customary place in the pantheon of Democratic hate groups — for now. Pres. Barack Obama goes out of his way to praise the drug industry. Tauzin has visited the White House half a dozen times and has committed to a $150 million advertising campaign on behalf of Obamacare. He’s become the “good German” of the health-care debate — that is, the good $2 million-a-year drug-industry lobbyist.

Tauzin agreed to pass along $80 billion in savings over ten years. It wasn’t clear what exactly PhRMA had gotten in return until congressional Democrats began to run afoul of the unacknowledged provisions of the deal. It turns out the White House had committed not to not to do three things: impose more than $80 billion in savings, have the government set prices in the Medicare prescription-drug program, and import cheaper drugs from Canada.

Obama had strongly endorsed the last two measures in last year’s campaign. Of course, little that Obama said last year bears on how he governs. But his turnabout on insider dealing would be hilarious if Obama’s shifts hadn’t become so commonplace that they’ve lost their capacity to amuse.

In an ad last year called “Billy,” Obama explained that “the pharmaceutical industry wrote into the prescription-drug plan that Medicare could not negotiate with drug companies.” Obama noted that Tauzin shepherded the legislation to passage before going to work for PhRMA. “That’s an example of the same old game-playing in Washington,” Obama intoned. “I don’t want to learn how to play the game better. I want to end the game-playing.”

Obama deserves points for efficiency, if not consistency. Now the drug industry doesn’t even have to bother writing legislation. It just has to shake hands in a backroom with Obama. Dick Cheney should be jealous. The allegedly underhanded, CEO-coddling vice president merely had a secret energy task force. Obama has bought off an industry group in a secret deal to spare it the worst of a far-reaching government scheme.

Tauzin explained to the New York Times: “We were assured: ‘We need somebody to come in first. If you come in first, you will have a rock-solid deal.’” The implication? Play ball, or pay the price. The insurance industry thought it had responded to the same implicit threat by telling Obama it would stop excluding people with pre-existing conditions from coverage. It has been savaged anyway as “villains” by Democrats who figure they need to vilify at least one industry group, lest their health-care pitch lose its populist edge.

So who got the best of the PhRMA deal? Tauzin is nothing if not slick. PhRMA will charge half price for drugs to those seniors caught in the “doughnut hole” of Medicare coverage, when they have to pay 100 percent out of pocket. As a result, seniors may pass more quickly from the doughnut hole to the phase where the government picks up almost the entire price of drugs. Tauzin’s generosity actually may end up costing the federal government more money.

Nicely played. But slick doesn’t equal farsighted. Democrats in Congress want the government to impose drug prices within Medicare and want more than $80 billion from PhRMA. When pushed, will Obama really choose stereotypical lobbyist Billy Tauzin over stereotypical liberal lawmaker Rep. Henry Waxman? Especially when Obama has an allergy to saying “no” to his Left in Congress? Even if the deal holds, PhRMA will be at the mercy of a government system that will tend to squeeze out even those private players who have obligingly assisted in creating the predicate for their own destruction.

That’s why PhRMA doesn’t really belong in the Axis of Evil. It’s too naïve.



Funny.......yet sad...54 years ago..!!

Comments made in the year 1955!

That's only 54 years ago!

'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $10.00.

'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $1, 000.00 will only buy a used one.

'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. 20 cents a pack is ridiculous.

'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to mail a letter

'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.

'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.

'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it.

'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas .

'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.

'I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.

'It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.

'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.

'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.

'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to government..

'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.

'There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.

'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $15..00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.'

'If they think I'll pay 30 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'

Know any friends who would get a kick out of these, pass this on! Be sure and send it to your kids and grand kids too!



"The e-mail Bag"

Bubba had shingles and also managed care. Here's what happened to Bubba:

Bubba walked into a doctor’s office and the receptionist asked him what he had. Bubba said, “Shingles.” So she wrote down his name, address, and medical insurance number, and told him to have a seat.

Fifteen minutes later a nurse’s aide came out and asked Bubba what he had. Bubba said, “Shingles.”' So she wrote down his height, weight, and a complete medical history, and told Bubba to wait in the examining room.

A half hour later a nurse came in and asked Bubba what he had. Bubba said, “Shingles.” So the nurse gave Bubba a blood test, a blood pressure test, an electrocardiogram, and told Bubba to take off all his clothes and wait for the doctor.

An hour later the doctor came in and found Bubba sitting patiently in the nude and asked Bubba what he had. Bubba said, “Shingles.”

The doctor asked, “Where?”

Bubba said, “Outside on the truck. Where do you want me to unload 'em?”