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"My Comments"
For the upcoming Memorial Day of May 25, 2009, we "Honor" each of 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!
Sunlight Forms Cross In American Flag
Posted in God Bless America, Inspirational Photo by Chris
This is a beautiful photo of a giant American flag in Arizona The photo is authentic, UN-Touched and was taken on regular Kodak 35mm film. The person who took the picture couldn’t believe the image created by the suns rays.
That's It ..... The End! WOW!!!!!!
"Daily Motivations"
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Attitude … and “The Power of One"
Getting the best from yourself and others all starts with one: one thought … one word … one action.
“One” is the first note in orchestrating the personal attitude that shapes and directs your life – and impacts the members of your team. Contrary to the lyrics from a classic rock song, one is not the loneliest number. It’s the most important one!
Your thoughts, words, and actions are like individual notes that work in concert to create the power of one person – YOU – to make a difference. You can harness your “power of one” if you simply:
Catch one negative thought and turn it into a positive one;
Think of one thing for which you are grateful at the beginning of each day;
Say one “Fantastic!” when a friend or team member asks how you are doing;
Assume the best in one upcoming situation;
Keep on moving one more time when you experience adversity;
Help one friend or colleague in a time of need – and take pride in it.
Many people used to feel that one vote in an election couldn’t really make a difference. Well, recent political elections that have been decided by razor thin margins have proven them wrong. A single act can make a difference … it can create a ripple effect felt many miles and people away. So, ask yourself: What’s one thing I can do today that will make a positive difference in my attitude? Then DO IT!
Repeat that process every day and your life will improve – and so will the lives of the people you lead. Attitudes are truly powerful … and they’re contagious!
Pass it on (to more than ONE other person)!
"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)
Beyond Normal Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think... (Eph. 3:20). How could anyone read this and then settle for just a normal life?
"I have a plan for the whole earth, for My mighty power reaches throughout the world." (Isaiah 14:26)
"The Patriot Post"
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." -- Thomas Jefferson
"The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern." -- American statesman John C. Calhoun (1782-1850)
"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." -- Jewish philosopher Maimonides (1135-1204)
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly." -- American author and poet Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
THE DEMO-GOGUES - As seen from the left!
Obama's presidency in a nutshell: "It is past time for rules that are fair and transparent. That is why I have called for a set of new principles to reform our credit card industry. Instead of an 'anything goes' approach, we need strong and reliable protections for consumers. Instead of fine print that hides the truth, we need credit card forms and statements that have plain language in plain sight, and we need to give people the tools they need to find a credit card that meets their needs. And instead of abuse that goes unpunished, we need to strengthen monitoring, enforcement, and penalties for credit card companies that take advantage of ordinary Americans." -- President Barack Obama **What about a fair and transparent (and constitutional) government that doesn't use an "anything goes" approach full of abuse that goes unpunished?
The ceaseless Limbaugh obsession: "The Republican Party does not qualify for a bailout. Rush Limbaugh does not count as a troubled asset. I'm sorry." -- Barack Obama
On preventing an economic boom: "The president is committed and is working with the leaders of Congress on very comprehensive broad-based financial reform to put in place new rules of the game, more constraints on risk-taking to prevent a crisis like this from happening again. ....[T]hese things are about preventing the next boom." -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Give us a break: "President Obama won the election. He beat me in a primary in which he put forth a different approach. And he is now our president and we all want our president, no matter of which party, to succeed." -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton **"No matter of which party," huh?
From the gun grabbers: "There is no rational reason to oppose closing the [gun show] loophole. The reason it's still not closed is simple: the continuing power of the special interest gun lobby in Washington." -- Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), who, along with Jack Reed (D-RI) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) will introduce legislation to eliminate the private transfers of firearms and close the nation's "gun show loophole"
"The Web"
"MEMORIAL DAY ESSAY"
By: Chuck Sproull
Celebrating Two Freedoms In America
In the United States of America there are two departments of defense - a national and a spiritual. Members of our Department of Defense (DOD) spend about 40 hours per week helping to protect our national freedoms by contributing to the readiness of our troops and defense equipment. Also, many Americans who are born again into the Kingdom of God, spend time each day in prayer, helping to protect our spiritual freedoms. "We fight not against flesh and blood, but against spiritual wickedness in high places." In America these two freedoms are vitally related - they work together. If we loose our spiritual freedoms, we will be more susceptible to internal and external enemies, and will lose our national freedoms.
The United States of America is the most wonderful nation in the world. Our Republic is unique in it's establishment. Our overall Government is the greatest in the whole world. And our Department of Defense is the most humane and compassionate one in the whole world. What most DOD personnel don't realize is that they are still helping us (the U.S.) maintain our freedom to study the Bible and live by the principles of life contained in God's word. “…For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God” (Rom 13:1). This is especially true of our United States Government.
While none of the individuals running our Government are perfect, they represent a Government that gives us the freedom to worship a perfect God, and to pray for our leaders to make decisions based on the righteousness of God’s kingdom.
We are all born with certain God-given freedoms in America. Through the unselfishness and great sacrifices of our Founding Fathers, including the supreme sacrifice - the shedding of their blood during and after the Revolutionary War, they gave us "the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." The context meanings of the freedom they gave us includes: (1) freedom from tyrannical big- business controlled government and from government controlled religion (especially from the political religion that began in Rome in the 4th century), (2) free trade, (3) freedom to worship God according to the words of Jesus Christ (who shed His precious blood for us), as written by His original followers.
Jesus and our Forefathers did not give us freedom from religion, nor freedom from the morality that fulfills the righteousness of the Ten Commandments (they referred to this as the "Common Law"), nor freedom to believe anything or do anything we feel like doing. But they gave us freedom to worship the true God, the Giver and Maintainer of life. The freedoms they gave us may be characterized by the words disciplined, honest, unselfish and responsible.
According to Peter Marshall's excellent U.S. history book, "The Light and the Glory" (with many direct quotes from their own journals, diaries, bio's, and news paper articles), many groups of people came to America seeking religious freedom to “love God and their neighbors as themselves.” These people were called "Covenanters" because they thought this command was the New Covenant. Jesus taught about this love in Matt 22:38-39, Mark 12:30-33, Luke 10:27. This is a summary of the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament.
Jesus was the last preacher of the Old Testament. He finished the OT by His death, burial and resurrection. Jesus freely gave us remission of sins by shedding His blood on the cross, and He promised spiritual regeneration through His ascension into heaven. The New Testament began on the Day of Pentecost, when people began receiving all that Jesus had promised. This is when believers received a new Spirit and when God began writing His laws into their hearts. This is when prophesies of the New Covenant began being fulfilled (Joel 2:28, Jer 31:33 and Ezek 36:26), first for both Jews and gentiles. "The love of God shed abroad in their hearts" (Rom 5:5) is what enabled them to actually fulfill the righteousness of the Law more effectively than ever before.
Within God's righteousness we have three directions of love - upwards towards God, outward towards others, and inward to self. Unselfish love is directed more upward and outward, and then inward. This is the kind of love that maintains disciplined, honest, unselfish, responsible freedom; and passes It on to the next generation. Enduring liberty is guaranteed by a Constitutional Republic.
On the other hand, when people selfishly and dishonestly take freedom out of context (freedom from religion, or freedom to practice other religions that deny Jesus Christ as Savior and oppose the principles of life in God's Kingdom), then love becomes (1) selfish (more inward) and irresponsible, un-disciplined (2) which leads to moral decay, (3) more crime, accidents and illnesses related to harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol and illegal drugs, (4) overcrowded prisons and hospitals, (5) more Government regulations, (6) increased Government support of (selfish) special interest groups, and (7) more expensive Government (more taxes, welfare), (8) will eventually lead to increased susceptibility to our external enemies and loss of our freedom to worship God; and (9) will return full circle back to the oppressive government-controlled religion our forefathers fought to get away from.
We need to fight against this internal enemy of selfishness with prayer and faith in Jesus Christ. [Continental drift of USA away from Europe is being offset by moral and spiritual drift back to European standards that our Founders, inspired by God, separated themselves from].
The only thing that will reverse these trends is the ultimate freedom we receive when we trust Matt 11:28-30 and Acts 2:38-42 - stick our necks out and accept the yoke of responsibility, and follow the most honest, unselfish person who ever lived - Jesus Christ, beginning where He began - dying to self will, in water baptism, and in the Holy Spirit; with a heart full of God's love and joy, and consecrated to the work of the Lord, always ready to help others receive this spiritual freedom by telling them our testimony and preaching the gospel and new birth.
Returning to the (1) unselfish, honest, disciplined, responsible freedoms that Jesus and our forefathers freely gave us by shedding their blood will enable us to (2) fight against moral decay in our country, (3) reduce the number of people injured in crime, accidents, and sin related illnesses, (4) reduce the numbers of people in jails and hospitals, (5) reduce Government regulations, (6) reduce the number of unnecessary special interest groups and (7) therefore reduce the taxes needed to support extra and unnecessary programs (8) enjoy a more wonderful sense of mature, responsible, unselfish freedom that can be a bright light beaming outward to the rest of the world, (9) maintain victory over all internal and external enemies of our freedoms, so we can continue to live within our God-given rights.
The time period when people started sailing across the Atlantic to America, corresponds to the time of the Reformation, when sincere, honest Bible students in Europe and Great Britain began studying the Bible and rediscovered many great truths that were hidden on God's word during the dark ages.
But, according to Peterson's book "The Pentecostals," it was in America, during the first 15 years of the 20th century, that people (who had the unselfish, disciplined, responsible freedom, and the courage, honesty and humility to study God's word in Acts Ch 2 and to trust God), re-discovered vitally important things concerning the new birth of God - like the glorious baptism of the Holy Spirit with the initial evidence of "speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance," the importance of "believing on the name of Jesus Christ" in water baptism in order to receive remission (forgiveness) of sins, the oneness of the Godhead and the dual nature of Jesus, and the standards of love and holiness that define the boundaries of the “narrow way” to life. It was from America that many wonderful revivals have spread God's blessings all over the world, all because they exercised the unselfish, responsible freedom of religion our founding fathers fought to give us.
My personal Testimony: First, I was conceived around Thanksgiving 1940. Then, on August 30 1941, I was born of water and of breath (ie; came out of the water, passed through a very tight ("strait") birth canal, and began audibly gasping then breathing as an independent living person).
Our U.S. Constitution guaranteed my "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." But during my 20's to early 30's, in my pursuit of happiness,I took freedom out of context, and I became less disciplined, more selfish and irresponsible, and got lost in the world. Because I was a living body with a dead soul, I became bound by alcohol, tobacco, drugs, emotional/physical activities people do at parties for selfish satisfaction, in disobedience to the USA law and to the Ten Commandments. I desperately needed a Savior. I knew historically that Jesus Christ shed His blood for me (on the cross) and gave His Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
On July 11, 1975, I "believed on Jesus as my personal Savior" (some people think this is being born again, but in Bible terminology, this is when I was "begotten again of the gospel" (1 Cor 4:15, Philemon 1:10, 1 Peter 1:3). On July 13 and Oct 11 1975 respectively, I was "born again of water and of the Spirit" (Acts 2:38, 19:1-6). This is when I entered through the "strait gate” (of total commitment to Jesus (Matt 19:21,29; Luke 14:26), went through water baptism for remission (forgiveness) of sins, and received His Spirit) and began walking on the “narrow way of life" (Matt 7:13). Thus, God gave me a new birth along with additional spiritual freedoms.
According to Rom ch6, I was planted in water, in the likeness of His death (in His name) and arose to walk in the newness of life. Receiving remission of sins gave me salvation from the guilt of past sins and from the fear of future judgment (1 Peter 3:21). And receiving regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit baptism (Titus 3:5) saved me from my old addictions and gave me freedom from the power of sin. Thus, God enabled me to become a living body with a living soul.
Now, by trusting God's divine influence (“by grace through faith” – Eph 2:8), I can live every day in God's love, holiness, innocence, and an abundance of joy that satisfies my soul more than all the pleasures of this world. Just like Jesus promised in Matt 11:28-30, it is very enjoyable to wear the yoke of totally-committed discipleship, following Jesus, learning of Him, sharing His word and my testimony with friends, neighbors and co-workers, and seeing them receive the same new birth.
These spiritual freedoms are far more wonderful than just the national freedoms we are born with. Now I am a member of both the national and spiritual Departments of Defense. Through God's influence I am the husband of one Christian wife, father of 5 normal children (4 Christian), enjoying this new life on earth, and preparing to spend eternity in heaven with Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. There are millions of other believers like us here in America. Would you like to follow Jesus to heaven with us?
Chuck Sproull, Springville, IN
Are You an Obama Winner? Or an Obama Loser?
by: Newt Gingrich
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31750
If there was one feeling that inspired almost a million Americans to come out for the Tax Day Tea Parties last month it was this: That our government, supposedly created of the people, by the people and for the people, is busy picking winners and losers.
The feeling that our politics are increasingly rigged against us didn’t begin with President Obama. Deciding to bailout Wall Street rather than let deserving companies go bankrupt began under President Bush.
But the Obama Administration has elevated rewarding some Americans and punishing others to a governing philosophy.
And as he has expanded the size and the scope of government, President Obama has only increased his ability to reach into our businesses, our communities, and even our homes to separate Americans into two groups: Those who will benefit from the new order, and those who will pay the bills.
What follows is just a partial list of the winners and losers of the Obama Administration so far, organized by the government policies that will decide their fate:
The Chrysler Bankruptcy Pt. 1: From the Rule of Law to the Rule of Politics
Winners: The United Auto Workers
Loser: The Rule of Law
Bankruptcy was once a legal process in which an insolvent company, an impartial judge and creditors voting in good faith worked together to make the best of a bad situation.
Under the Obama Administration, the Chrysler bankruptcy has become a political process in which government has bought off some creditors, demonized others, and predetermined a favorable result for an important political constituency.
What happened last week with Chrysler was an unprecedented case of executive branch involvement in a bankruptcy proceeding. The Obama Administration bullied smaller investors to fall in line with TARP-funded creditors in a deal that ultimately benefited the union bosses who bear so much of the responsibility for Chrysler’s downfall to begin with. In the end, the losers weren’t just the secured creditors and the taxpayers who have footed the bill for all these bailouts, but the rule of law itself.
The Chrysler Bankruptcy Pt. 2: America, Get Ready for the “Model O”
Winners: The People Who Are Evading Responsibility for Chrysler’s Bankruptcy
Losers: Consumers Who Want to Buy Good American Cars
The end result of the rigged Chrysler bankruptcy is that two political entities whose priority is winning votes (the Federal Government and the UAW) now have majority ownership of a commercial entity whose priority should be making good cars.
And despite his protestations that he wants to get out of the auto business, President Obama has some definite ideas about what kind of cars Chrysler should make. Announcing the bankruptcy, he blamed Chrysler’s troubles, not on its uncompetitive labor costs, but on its “failure to make the fuel-efficient cars like its foreign competitors.”
Politicians, not businessmen and women, are calling the shots at Chrysler. America, get ready for the Model O.
Cap and Trade: Punishing Americans With High Energy Taxes
Winners: Government Favored “Green Industries”
Losers: Anyone Who Heats a Home, Drives a Car or Has a Job
I’m in favor of doing all we can to protect our environment, but I have a fundamental difference with Democrats on Capitol Hill and in the White House: I believe in incentivizing Americans to produce the innovations that will protect our environment, not punishing Americans with taxes, regulation and litigation.
The Administration’s cap and trade legislation makes losers of the American people by imposing a $1 trillion-$2 trillion energy tax on an already struggling economy. And the winners? They’re the lobbyists for favored special interests and “green” industries who are already lining up in Washington to collect the spoils.
Closing Gitmo: Terrorists from Guantanamo Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You
Winners: Terrorists and Anti-Americanism Worldwide
Losers: The New Neighbors of Terrorists and The American Tax-Payers
You may have missed it in all the news of the week, but the Administration has a truly mind-boggling idea about how to solve the problem of the terrorists left homeless by closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay: Send them to a neighborhood near you.
That’s right. As many as 30 detainees at Guantanamo are slated for release into the United States, including a group of Chinese, al Qaeda-trained jihadists who are reportedly being encouraged to settle in Northern Virginia.
And not only is the Obama Administration releasing these terrorists into the United States, it’s proposing that the U.S. taxpayers foot the bill.
Here’s how Dennis Blair, President Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, rationalizes their plan for welfare for terrorists: "If we are to release them in the United States, we need some sort of assistance for them to start a new life," Blair said last month. "You can't just put them on the street."
Picking a New Supreme Court Justice: Playing Favorites Through the Courts
Winners: Anyone the President Deems Deserving of Judicial “Empathy”
Losers: Everyone Else
President Obama has announced that his criteria for picking a Supreme Court Justice to replace the retiring David Souter are jurists with the proper “empathy” and those who don’t regard justice as “abstract legal theory.”
Empathy for the less fortunate should have a central place in our public policy. But feeling the people’s pain is the job of the people who make the laws. The job of judges is to interpret the laws without regard to the race, color, creed or station of the individuals involved.
When we start picking judges based on their “empathy” for certain groups, the rights of favored groups inevitably collide with the rights of others. That’s why we have – or should have – equal justice before the law.
Demonizing Wall Street: Putting Talent and Resources Where Washington Wants Them
Winners: Professional “Community Organizers” and Other Government Activists
Losers: Young Americans Who Want to Chose Their Own Careers
President Obama frequently urges young Americans to emulate him by making the choice to forgo a lucrative career in finance or law and choose public service instead. But now he’s put the full power of the federal government behind his favored career path for young Americans.
Speaking last week to the New York Times, President Obama said that his anti-business, high-taxing, and high-regulating crusade against Wall Street “means that more talent, more resources will be going to other sectors of the economy. I actually think that’s healthy."
The message will not be lost on young Americans: Do what the President thinks is “healthy.” Be an Obama winner, not a loser.
What is at Stake Isn’t Just Tax Dollars and Jobs But Freedom
The list could go on and on.
What is at stake isn’t just the tax dollars, the jobs and the opportunities of those Americans who come out on the losing side of the Obama Administration’s policies -- as important as these things are.
What is at stake are moral issues of fairness and freedom. As Arthur Brooks, the President of the American Enterprise Institute, wrote last week, it’s immoral for the government to “confiscate more income from the minority simply because the government can. It's also a moral issue to lower the rewards for entrepreneurial success, and to spend what we don't have without regard for our children's future.”
Americans don’t mind working hard and competing to win. We don’t even mind losing sometimes.
What we mind is government making the call. That was the real message of the Tea Party movement, and it’s one President Obama and his aides would do well to hear.
Remembering Jack Kemp
I end today on a note of sorrow and remembrance of a great man.
Callista and I were deeply saddened to learn of Jack Kemp’s passing last Saturday.
America knew Jack Kemp as a public servant of boundless wisdom, energy, optimism and compassion. Callista and I were fortunate to know him as a friend. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family in this painful time. You can read our full statement here.
Your friend,
Newt
More on the fake Marine anti-war poster boy
By Michelle Malkin
There’s more on “Rick Duncan/” Rick Strandlof, the fake Marine anti-war activist who managed to dupe Colorado politicians, leftists, and the local media for years.
First, “Duncan’s” veterans’ group has disbanded.
Next, the Denver Post, which had quoted him extensively, now jumps on public officials who happily pimped “Duncan”/Strandlof:
Dems red-faced over veteran imposter
Democrats are incensed over how a man duped the party and veterans during the ‘08 campaign.
By Michael Riley
Rick Strandlof, executive director of the Colorado Veterans Alliance and the man most colleagues knew as Rick Duncan, was front and center during the 2008 political campaigns in Colorado.
He spoke at a Barack Obama veterans rally in front of the Capitol in July, co-hosted several events with then- congressional candidate Jared Polis and attacked Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer in a TV ad paid for by the national group Votevets.org.
And the mostly Democratic candidates he supported — looking for credibility on veterans issues and the war — lapped it up appreciatively.
Now, politicians are dealing with news that the man they believed to be a former Marine and war veteran wounded in Iraq by a roadside bomb, in fact, never served in the military — but did spend time in a mental hospital.
Many of the candidates he supported won their elections handily and now say they were defrauded as much as anyone else…
…There is little doubt that Strandlof had a remarkable ability to fool people, something aided by the fact that among his fabrications was his claim that he suffered a severe brain injury, which helped cover behavior that associates now concede was often erratic and strange.
But there were also plenty of signs during much of the time Strandlof was working on behalf of candidates for anyone watching carefully.
Not including the Denver Post, apparently.
CVA wasn’t registered as a political organization until well after the campaigns were over, and then only at the state level despite being active in federal campaigns.
And although he claimed to represent 32,000 veterans — the biggest post- 9/11 vets group in Colorado — Strandlof always showed up at events with the same small number of supporters, and there were few concrete signs he represented more than a close circle he had gathered around him.
“Nobody really fully trusted any of those numbers. .. . . He had a few dozen people who were helping him out. He claimed to have a huge mailing list that no one ever saw. The VFW, the American Legion, none of those traditional veterans groups had ever heard of him,” said one prominent veterans activist who worked for Democratic candidates during the campaign and who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“The veterans community was very protective over him because he had portrayed himself as a wounded veteran. This is someone who claimed spending 18 months undergoing physical rehabilitation after suffering debilitating injuries. . . . You don’t go at somebody like that hard,” the activist said. “Perhaps we learned a good lesson here.”
Reminder: It’s not the first time.
It won’t be the last.
California Rejects Budget Referendums
Will the Liberal Media now believe Americans are tired of increased taxes, or will they promote the Liberal politicos who choose to increase even more taxes? - oyh
by Connie Hair
05/20/2009
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31945
California voters overwhelmingly rejected five of six budget referendums yesterday which would have approved higher taxes as a means to patch budget woes in the Golden State. Had the measures passed, the state would still have faced a $15.4 billion deficit. With the failure of the measures, the state now grapples with $21.3 billion in red ink.
Out of control spending and high taxes driving business out of state are at the core of California’s budget problems. Now voters in a tax revolt have overwhelmingly rejected more of the same from California lawmakers, choosing instead a path that could force budget cuts and spending restraint. Imagine that.
The only measure on the ballot that passed was one that bars state officials from receiving a pay increase during tough economic times.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, has made noises about crafting legislation to offer the State of California a bailout in the form of federal loan guarantees for state municipal bonds. A California bailout would not only set a very dangerous precedent with the majority of states now drowning in red ink, but the size and scope of California’s economy could put America’s AAA credit rating at risk. It is yet to be determined if any sort of state bailout legislation has enough votes for passage.
If California doesn’t get a bailout, the State Controller can sell Registered Anticipation Warrants or RAWs to solve their cash flow crisis. It is likely that investors would buy RAWs because it is a personal felony for the State Controller to fail to pay off these warrants as cash becomes available. Default is not an option. The action would place California on a pay-go system which would compel budget accountability, forcing liberals off of their spending binge cold turkey.
This is one time the adage “as California goes, so goes the nation” may just be a good thing.
"The e-mail Bag"
The post turtle
A doctor struck up a conversation with a hard-working 75 year old rancher while suturing a mean cut on the old man's leathery hand.. Eventually the topic got around to Obama.
The old rancher said, "Well, you know, Obama is a 'post turtle.'"
Unfamiliar with the term, the doctor asked him what he meant.
The old rancher replied, "When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle.'"
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued: "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, and he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you just wonder what kind of complete moron put him up there to begin with."
A Liberal is a person who will give away everything they don't own.
I like this confession of the 52% of American's who voted Democrat. The current state of affairs should take a big weight off of their shoulders.......
I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my horse.
I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.
I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
I voted Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
I voted Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they now think we're good people.
I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.
I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.
I voted Democrat because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.
I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for distribution as THEY see fit.
I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.
"The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
Margaret Thatcher
Friday, May 22, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report - 20090521
Motivational-Inspirational-Historical-Educational-Political-Enjoyable
"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?”
"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?”
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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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."
"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."
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Speaker Nancy Pelosi Must Resign From Congress
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 seems 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 majority 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.
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