ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report - 20091002

ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report - 20091002
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"Daily Motivations"

My learning disability gave me certain advantages, because I was able to live in the moment and capitalize on opportunities I spotted. -- Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinkos



"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)

"The Judge is standing at the door!" (James 5:9)

Columnist Ray Cohn writes in the New York Times, "I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is."
How important is a judge? All over the world, we hear of court cases that are mock trials. Defendants are paraded as guilty after being forced to sign confessions---many times to crimes they did not commit. The judges in these cases are part of a system that results in injustice for the people. On the other hand, if the judge is honest and fair, he will fulfill his role so that justice is served and complaints are addressed.

Since God is the most powerful judge in the universe, we must know what He is like to understand His role as judge. What kind of court does He hold? What kind of laws does He uphold? Is His justice fair and impartial?

Today most people ignore God's role as judge of mankind. They go on with their sin as if no one will ever call them to account. Yet in both the Old and New Testaments, God's justice is repeatedly presented. Look at a few of the times God acted as judge:

* He sent Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden because of their sin.
* He destroyed the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
* He sent plagues on Egypt for the Pharaoh's mistreatment of God's people.
* He struck down Ananias and Sapphira when they lied to the Holy Spirit.
* He inflicted King Herod with deadly worms after he accepted worship as a god.
* He allowed sickness in the Corinthian church for not honoring the Lord's Supper.

As we grow in our intimacy with God, we will learn how we can be free of the fear of His judgment against sin.



"The Patriot Post"

"Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!" -- Samuel Adams



INSIGHT

"Men use thought only to justify their wrongdoings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts." -- French writer Voltaire (1694-1778)

"Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear." -- French writer Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)

"We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance." -- American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics." -- American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)



THE DEMO-GOGUES

You lie! "My critics say everything is a tax increase. My critics say that I'm taking over every sector of the economy. You know that. Look, we can have a legitimate debate about whether or not we're going to have an individual mandate or not, but ... I absolutely reject that notion [that it's a tax increase]." -- Pinocchio Obama

Except what they're saying about you is mostly true: "Are there people out there who don't like me because of race? I'm sure there are. That's not the overriding issue here. I think there are people who are antigovernment. I think there's been a longstanding debate in this country -- that is usually that much more fierce during times of transition or when presidents are trying to bring about big changes. The things that were said about FDR were pretty similar to the things that were said about me. He was a communist. He was a socialist. Things that were said about Ronald Reagan when he was trying to reverse some New Deal programs were pretty vicious as well." -- Barack Obama



UPRIGHT

"President Obama vows not to raise taxes on any American family earning less than $250,000 a year. Yet he backs legislation that would force every American to carry health insurance or pay a hefty penalty to the IRS. Such an 'individual mandate' is included in all the major health care bills making their way through Congress." -- columnist Jeff Jacoby

"This isn't just about the partisan activists on the left or right. It's about an ever-growing sense on the part of regular Americans that their government isn't just clueless about their priorities and the realities of their lives; worse, they're beginning to believe that elected officials hold them and their views in outright contempt." -- columnist Carol Platt Liebau

"In a sense, the health care debate and the foreign policy debacle are two sides of the same coin: For Britain and other great powers, the decision to build a hugely expensive welfare state at home entailed inevitably a long retreat from responsibilities abroad, with a thousand small betrayals of peripheral allies along the way. A few years ago, the great scholar Bernard Lewis warned, during the debate on withdrawal from Iraq, that America risked being seen as 'harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.' In Moscow and Tehran, on the one hand, and Warsaw and Prague, on the other, they're drawing their own conclusions." -- columnist Mark Steyn

"Iran's ruling mullahs will be delighted to learn that the West not only is unserious about preventing them from acquiring nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them, but prefers to remain defenseless as well. They will view this as weakness. And they will find such weakness provocative, as tyrants always do." -- columnist Cliff May

"Are they agendas for the betterment of America? Or are they agendas for the betterment of the rest of the world? I'm referring to President Obama's policy agendas. Despite how much he reasserts that we 'must' embrace this or that policy simply because it is 'the right thing to do,' it's becoming increasingly difficult to claim that Obama's stated plans and intentions advance any sense of American wellbeing." -- columnist Austin Hill



VILLAGE IDIOTS

Government as parent: "[T]he American public ... just like your teenage kids, aren't acting in a way that they should act. The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue [of climate change] is." --Secretary of Energy Steven Chu

Village victimitis: "We all know that women are more likely to work part-time or to work in small companies or businesses that don't provide any insurance at all. Women are affected because, as we heard, in many states, insurance companies can still discriminate because of gender.. And this is still shocking to me. ... These are the kind of facts that still wake me up at night." -- First Lady Michelle Obama pushing for a government takeover of health care

A nut talks about ACORN: "Everything, I mean, you know, there are boneheads in all organizations. We've worked for them. We know that they're there. But do you kill the whole thing? And I don't think so. A lot of people think that you should kill it. But you can't answer, you can't tell me where those people who become even more disenfranchised go. Because we know the Republicans aren't going to take care of them. ... So now where do they go?" -- Whoopi Goldberg of ABC's "The View"



SHORT CUTS

"Of all the poisonous, ugly and intellectually vapid controversies ginned up in my lifetime, the current breakout of St. Vitus' Dance over the 'racist' opposition to Barack Obama may be the most egregious. Al Sharpton tells CNN's Larry King that decent and racially sensitive Americans shouldn't let a small minority make health care into a 'racial issue.' Someone in the control room surely yelled, 'Cue the laugh track!'" -- columnist Jonah Goldberg

"President Obama scrapped the missile defense system designed to protect Poland from Russian attack Thursday on the seventieth anniversary of Russia's invasion of Poland. This explains why Obama removed the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office and sent it back to the British Embassy. He wanted one of Neville Chamberlain." -- comedian Argus Hamilton

"The president thinks defense against long-range missiles is not so important any more ... Maybe an enemy will be considerate enough to dispatch short-range missiles. Maybe the Russians will help get a resolution through the United Nations condemning Iran's nuclear-weapons program. Maybe Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will repent and find a peaceful religion. We can hope for change." -- Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden

"The fall season is a little different this year -- even squirrels are distancing themselves from ACORN. Because of all these scandals, the executive director of ACORN said she will fire any employee who's 'too stupid to understand they're not reaching professional standards.' Why can't we get this rule for Congress?" -- Jay Leno



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The object of the game is to destroy American capitalism by having the government take over everything. Wanna play? No? Too bad, you're already playing. And in this game, nobody wins.



A Common Sense America

By Chuck Sproull, Springville IN

The enemies of our Constitutional Republic are people who are domineering and abusive (who knowingly or unknowingly worship Arius, a Greek masculine idol and pagan god). Also, they are selfish, dishonest and lazy, and desire is to be in the upper class and occupy influential government positions for the purpose of controlling other people. I don't think any of the socialist and communist activists want to be in the lower class and be controlled, but they want to be the controller, which renders them un-American.

I believe Real Americans are people who have been taught (or are willing to learn) the opposite core values that made this the greatest nation on earth- honest, unselfish, ambitious, willing to work with others and for others instead of making others feel subdued (similar to the Islamic concept of dhimmi).

I also believe the next political party to control both houses of Congress (possibly Republicans, if we can exhibit stronger, more consistent, more unified leadership and clearer vision) needs to represent Bible-based moral values that are still in the hearts and lives of many Americans and which lead to high quality of life. And we need to cut of all funding for ACLU and PP, eliminate their porn in public schools, protect the fundamental concept of normal marriage (God never commanded a man to marry another man), teach teens the long-term advantages of waiting to get married before having an intimate relationship, wanted pregnancies (real planned parenthood), teach them how to be ambitious and work for their own living instead of relying on government welfare, teach the English language to all immigrants, teach Bible studies to Islamics, and to work or starve (like they did 400 years ago in Jamestown and Plymouth), drill for oil in our own property and create environmentally friendly refineries, let private insurance companies compete to provide affordable insurance to all Americans let private auto manufacturers compete to produce fuel-efficient cars that are affordable, . in other words, just represent common sense principles of life. I really believe representing values of life will get gain the respect and votes of the majority of Americans.



"The Web"

Congressman Mike Rogers' opening statement on Health Care reform in Washington D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G44NCvNDLfc&feature=player_embedded



Guess who's now banned from Capitol Christmas tree!

Forest Service forbids 'religious themes' on 5,000 decorations recognizing holiday

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111509

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

The U.S. Forest Service has banned the name of Jesus from decorations being assembled by children in Arizona for a blue spruce from the state that will become the Capitol Christmas Tree this year, and a legal firm is challenging the censorship.

"Banning Christmas from the Capitol Christmas tree is just absurd. Christian students shouldn't be discriminated against for expressing their religious beliefs," said Jonathan Scruggs, litigation staff counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.

"The First Amendment does not allow government officials to exclude schoolchildren's ornaments for the capitol's Christmas tree merely because they communicate a religious viewpoint," he said yesterday.

The organization has sent a letter to state and federal officials, including Arizona Gov. Janice Brewer, who are supervising the program, calling on them to stop enforcement of the prohibition.

ADF set a deadline for response of Oct. 4, the day before all the ornaments must be turned in.

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The legal organization said one criterion states: "Ornaments cannot reflect a religious or political theme. Instead, share your interpretation of our theme 'Arizona's gift, from the Grand Canyon State."

But a mother whose child wanted to submit ornaments with holiday themes such as "Happy Birthday, Jesus," "Merry Christmas" and a manger scene raised her concern with ADF.

"[The child] desires to convey a message about Arizona from his religious perspective via Christmas ornaments. It is well established that expression of religious beliefs is protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution," the ADF letter said. "Religious expression is speech and is entitled to the same level of protection as other kinds of speech.

"The Supreme Court has consistently condemned viewpoint discrimination regardless where it occurs," the letter continued. "Viewpoint discrimination is an 'egregious' form of discrimination that occurs '[w]hen the government targets not subject matter, but particular views taken by speakers on a subject.'

"When the government excludes speech from a forum on an otherwise includible subject because of its perspective, it engages in viewpoint discrimination," the letter said. "Here, there is little question that government officials have opened up a forum for speech on a particular topic – the topic of Arizona – yet have singled out and forbidden religious viewpoints about this topic. … thus, while children may submit ornaments about Arizona from all different viewpoints – whether from different historical or cultural or geographical or economic perspectives – these children may not submit an ornament about Arizona from a religious perspective."

The ADF demands that the restriction be rescinded or the family "will be forced to take legal action to protect her child's First Amendment rights."

Those in charge of the program, including Capitol Christmas Tree Coordinator Richard Davalos in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, did not return WND messages asking for comment.

A public information officer for the forests promised to research the issue.

The ADF said the tree itself is an 85-foot blue spruce that will be chopped down and hauled to Washington. Four thousand of the ornaments will be on the tree itself, and 1,000 will be displayed at other locations.

The Forest Service ornament program specifies ornaments need to be 9-12 inches tall, able to withstand winter weather for three weeks, include a loop of wire for hanging, and be able to be seen 75 feet away.

Also, "Ornament designs may not reflect religious or political themes."



Footnotes or Flowers?

http://www.americanvision.org/article/footnotes-or-flowers/?awt_l=CQsGV&awt_m=1coBzq79d9P5qC

by Eric Rauch

In his August 2009 ministry letter, Dr. R.C. Sproul began with this sentence: "Clearly, the influence of Christianity in America has declined dramatically over the last twenty years." I'm sure that you have heard other Christian leaders make similar statements, maybe you've even made them yourself. It seems to be something of a self-evident observation: this "fact" that the influence of the Christian Church on modern society seems to be waning, even "declining dramatically." I would like to suggest that R.C. Sproul is only half-right though. I think that he is absolutely right that the influence that most of us in the Church would like to have on the culture is declining, however, I also believe that Christianity, as an institution, is still as influential as it has always been. In other words, the problem is not how much influence Christianity is having, but what kind of influence it is having.

Last week, we discussed the intellectual responses being submitted by academic Christians to the atheistic challenges of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and the other "new atheists." I want to be clear that these responses are necessary and are actually helpful to a few, but for the most part, they are falling on deaf ears. Why is it that when Dawkins and Co. release a new book they sell millions of copies, but the Christian response to the bestseller is lucky to sell tens of thousands? I believe the primary reason is that when the new atheists write their books, they are not aiming them at the Christian elite, but the masses. It is not as though the culture is somehow surprised when Christian leaders speak up and give intellectual answers to the challenges of atheism, it is just that they are not interested in listening. For them, the New Atheists ARE the response to what they perceive as fifty-plus years of Christian domination. To the majority of unchurched or moderately-churched individuals, the New Atheists are something of a breath of fresh air after decades of "Christian oppression." Whether this perception is right or not is beside the point, it is how the New Atheists have positioned themselves and many millions of readers apparently identify with it. A tightly-argued response from a brilliant Ph.D. scientist about the intellectual virtues and viability of the Christian worldview is nothing more than "white noise."

I have claimed previously that modern Christianity has two public faces: highly intellectual (which we have already discussed) and highly anti-intellectual (which we are preparing to discuss). I have also previously recommended that you take a field trip to the local Barnes and Noble bookstore and have a look-see at the religion section to find a representative sample of these two extremes. Now, I recommend that you make another trip, this time to the local Christian bookstore (if your community is lacking one, consider yourself lucky). If you can make it through the store without being choked by the perfumy scents that are inexplicably permeating the air, past the greeting cards, past the music CDs, past the jewelry and breath mints, past the t-shirts, and past the Bible covers and car-bumper ornaments, you will actually find a few books...kind of. At this point, you are literally trapped in the store, so you might as well take a look and wait for one of the ladies that work there to ask if you are looking for anything in particular (they're always ladies and they're always really nice). This is where it gets fun (and sad). Ask for a copy of any of the Christian responses to the New Atheists. Blank stare. Ask for a copy of a conservative commentary on the book of Acts. Another blank stare. Ask for anything by C.S. Lewis and when she brings you the Chronicles of Narnia tell her that you meant one of Lewis' nonfiction works. A really blank stare. Now ask for a copy of Joyce Meyer's newest book and her eyes will light up. She'll take you to a shelf containing every Meyer book written in the last ten years. She'll further tell you that she can order any of the other 453 books that Joyce has written and that she can have them by Friday. At this point you can thank her for her time and walk briskly to the exit, leaving without guilt and any intention of ever returning.

Such is the state of Christian "bookstores," bastions of anti-intellectual drivel and highly emotional, experiential trinkets to encourage you on your "Christian journey." It is this type of nonsense, which is being substituted for biblical Christianity, that is having the "influence" that R.C. Sproul rightly laments. Christianity is influencing America, but it's the wrong kind of Christianity that's having the influence. It is a feminine one. Most Christian bookstores are not designed with men in mind because it is women who do the majority of the buying. It has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Any man that unwittingly enters a Christian bookstore will quickly find his way out, thinking that he must have entered the Hallmark store instead. This would be funny if it wasn't so serious. The anti-intellectual, public-face of Christianity is a feminized, pastel-colored wall-hanging with a witty saying (maybe even a Bible verse) embroidered on it. It is a religion of feelings and emotions. It has nothing to offer besides happy thoughts. It is an emasculated, man-centered gospel of warm-hearted niceness...just like Grandma's cinnamon rolls.

This gospel of niceness did not just appear on the scene out of nowhere. It was a conscious response to the intellectual beating the church was taking. The intellectual Christians were issuing good enough responses, but the pew-dwellers weren't getting them. They were too busy sending their "Christian" sons and daughters off to the university, and getting them back as humanists. How could this happen? Hadn't they done everything that was expected of them as parents? Hadn't they taught them to say their prayers and have their "quiet time" every morning? How could this magical formula fail? They even bought a leather-bound Young Adult Study Bible with their child's name stamped in gold foil for an extra measure of protection. Grief-stricken parents vainly searched their back issues of Our Daily Bread for answers, but none were to be found.

The anti-intellectual movement responded by ignoring the problem, pretending like it wasn't there. The books that began to roll out were reflective of the general disregard for reality. Health and wealth became the order of the day. Being a Christian was like an insurance policy that guaranteed success. Jesus wanted you to be happy, healthy, wealthy, and well-liked. Devotional books began to fill the shelves. The culture was having a heart attack and Christian publishing houses were turning out band-aids. The culture learned quickly that the church was no longer a hospital but a convalescent center. No longer was the church actively fighting the war, it had given up and was now distributing lollipops to anyone who stopped in. Sugar-coated feel-goodism replaced the gospel of dominion and discipleship. The church had lowered its Christian flag and raised a plain white one instead. The humanist revolution was complete.

That's where the "influence of Christianity" is today—highly intellectual or highly anti-intellectual. You can have your books with either footnotes or flowers, but neither one will tell you what's really needed: a call to action. Any regular reader to this site will no doubt recognize this term: presuppositional apologetics—but it is about time that we actually begin to learn and implement it. I gave a hint at the end of last week’s article about Jason Lisle's book, The Ultimate Proof of Creation. This book is a great place to begin studying presuppositional thinking—which basically says that if the Christian worldview is not true, nothing is true. Simple as that; no Ph.D. required. As Dostoevsky famously put it in The Brothers Karamozov, "without God, everything is permissible." It really is this easy. In order to argue against God's existence, the atheist must presume God's created order. The atheist wants to live in a world where the Ten Commandments are obeyed, but they don't want to have the Writer of the Commandments anywhere around.

The presuppositional argument is neither intellectual or anti-intellectual. Anyone can learn it and begin to use it rather quickly, but like chess, there are countless strategies and ways that it can be used. A vast brainful of facts and figures is not necessary, but it certainly helps. Most people have never encountered anything like it in their daily activities, so don't be surprised when people call it foolishness. In fact, it is foolishness to those who are perishing; biblical truth always is. God said that fools will say "there is no God." Our task is to show that the foolishness of God is wiser than the wisdom of men (1 Corinthians 1:25-27). The presuppositional argument will stop ANY objection that an unbeliever can raise, because it is simply using God's own method. God never once tries to prove His existence, and neither should we. The proof of God's existence is that without Him, nothing makes any sense and "truth" becomes nothing more than mere opinion. After reading Dr. Lisle's book, you will be ready for the next level: Doug Wilson's response to New Atheist golden boy Sam Harris. In his short book, Letter from a Christian Citizen, Wilson expertly uses the presuppositional argument to destroy Harris' anti-God rhetoric and expose it for what it is—foolish whining.



An illustrated guide: All the president’s Olympic cronies

By Michelle Malkin

Photoshop: Paul Croteau

My syndicated column today — reprinted below with added links, pics, and info — gives you a rundown of the Obama cronies inside and outside the White House who stand to gain the most from the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid.

Chicagoans of all political stripes who oppose massive government funding of Mayor Richard Daley’s pet project have inundated my email-box. Reader Will P. sums it all up by noting that the games would “protect the current corrupt structure” and paper over Chicago/Illinois’s myriad woes, including: “Governor after Governor going to jail. Pay to play schemes. Crumbling and outdated infrastructure. Deteriorating public housing. Failing, dumbing-down schools. Hospital cutbacks. Sanctuary city. Never-ending gang wars (outbursts every Spring requiring massive police presence, police outmanned at the Taste of Chicago, innocents shot in the crossfire weekly, current beating video out now). Cemetery scandal (bodies removed and graves resold)…Acorn, Bill Ayers, Rezko, Blago, Wright. Univ. of Illinois “clout” scandal. Illegal preferential city hiring. City inspectors on the take (Operation Crooked Code). Voter fraud. The unemployment rate. Taxes through the roof. Mayor Daley attempting to extend city taxes to the suburbs. All this, and more…”

Daley’s approval ratings are at a record low as he scrambles to lease everything from parking meters to airports to raise cash. Residents are still reeling over the murder of teenager Derrion Albert. But FLOTUS Michelle Obama, on her merry way to Copenhagen, is singing a happy tune: “I mean, you know, most of these Games are taking place blocks away from my house. There’s good security by my house these days. And while Chicago is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, it is — people don’t live in fear. The downtown area is completely accessible…I know Mayor Daley, and he’s going to make sure that these Games go off without a hitch because that’s the kind of mayor he is. It’s not called the ‘City That Works’ for nothing.”

It “works” for the few at the expense of the many. That is the Chicago way.

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All the president’s Olympic cronies

by Michelle Malkin

Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

When government officials play the Olympic lottery, taxpayers lose. That has been the disastrous experience of host cities around the world (Forbes magazine even dubbed the post-Olympic financial burden the “Host City Curse”). So, why are President Obama and his White House entourage headed to Copenhagen, Denmark this week to push a fiscally doomed Chicago 2016 bid? Political payback.

Bringing the games to the Windy City is Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley’s “vision.” The entrenched Democratic power-broker – in office since 1989 – would like to cap off his graft-tainted career with a glorious, $4 billion bread and circuses production. The influential Daley machine backed Barack Obama for the presidential primary. Obama lavished praise on Daley’s stewardship of the city. Longtime Daley cronies helped pave Obama’s path to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Now, they’re returning the favor for their hometown boss.

Senior White House adviser and Obama consigliere Valerie Jarrett is a Daley loyalist who worked as his deputy chief of staff, deputy corporation counsel, and planning commissioner. She hired the future First Lady of the United States, then-Michelle Robinson, as a mayoral assistant. Jarrett went on to serve as president and CEO of The Habitat Company, a real estate firm with a massive stake in federally-funded Chicago public housing projects.

One of those public-private partnerships, the Grove Parc Plaza Apartments, was run into the ground under Jarrett’s watch. Federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex a bottom-of-the-barrel 11 on a 100-point scale. “They are rapidly displacing poor people, and these companies are profiting from this displacement,” Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle of Southside Together Organizing for Power, a community group that seeks to help tenants stay in the same neighborhoods, told the Boston Globe last year. “The same exact people who ran these places into the ground,” the private companies paid to build and manage the city’s affordable housing, “now are profiting by redeveloping them.”

Coincidentally enough, Grove Parc — now targeted for demolition as a result of years of neglect by Obama’s developer friends—sits in the shadows of the proposed site of the city’s 2016 Olympics Stadium.

Jarrett served as vice chair of Chicago’s 2016 Summer Olympics bid committee before moving to the White House, where she has helmed a new “White House Office on Olympic, Paralympic and Youth Sport” with an undisclosed budget and staff. It’s not just taxpayers in cash-strapped Chicago who should be worried about this field of schemes. Crain’s Chicago Business reports that Jarrett and Chicago 2016 committee member Lori Healey met this month with federal officials at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development “to discuss financing options” for the estimated $1 billion Olympic Village.

The door is open and the administration is “willing to meet and listen” to any federal subsidy proposals, Jarrett said. Hey, what happened to Obama’s tough rules on interest-conflicted lobbying by his administration officials?

A majority of Chicagoans who live in pay-for-play-plagued Cook County oppose public funding for the Olympic party. The city has more than a half-billion-dollar deficit – and just received word that its Olympic insurance policy will cover only about $1.1 billion of the $3.8-billion operating budget drawn up by Daley. Cost overruns, fraud, and union-inflated contracts are inevitable. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs defended President Obama’s all-out campaign for Chicago’s 2016 Olympics bid by claiming America will see a “tangible economic benefit.”

But as is always the case with sports corporate welfare disguised as “economic development,” an elite few will benefit far more than others.

Take senior White House adviser and Obama campaign guru David Axelrod. He’s been a Daley loyalist since 1989, when he signed up as a political consultant for the mayor’s first run. Axelrod’s public relations firm, Chicago-based AKPD Message and Media, has pitched in work for the Chicago 2016 committee. It is unknown how much AKPD has received for its services – or how much they’ll make in future income if the bid is successful. AKPD currently owes Axelrod $2 million.

The head of the Chicago 2016 bid committee is Patrick Ryan, chairman of the Aon Corporation and a co-chair of Obama’s deep-pocketed presidential inaugural committee. (Under Ryan’s watch at Aon, the company settled a massive corruption probe with 3 states for $190 million. More here on Ryan/Aon/Daley dealings More on corruptocrat Chicago Republicans like Ryan and others here.)

Also on both of those committees: Obama confidante Penny Pritzker, who in addition chairs the Olympic Village Subcommittee and is president of Pritzker Realty Group – a mega-developer in Illinois that could reap untold millions in project work if the Daley Machine/White House campaign succeeds.

Former Pritzker executive and Obama campaign treasurer Martin Nesbitt is also on the bid committee – and serves as Mayor Daley’s chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority.

Another bid committee member, Michael Scott Jr., is “trying to develop a for-profit real estate project that would sit within feet of the cycling venue if Chicago wins the 2016 Summer Games,” according to the Chicago Tribune.

It takes a crony-filled White House to raise a Chicago Olympic village. Daley and Obama will get the glory. America will get stuck with the bill.



An Olympics We Can Believe In

by Larry Elder

Close your eyes, and pretend it's still the George W. Bush administration.

In Afghanistan, more American service members died in August than in any month since the war began. His top military commander says that without more troops, we run the risk of losing the war. Iran admits operating a second previously undisclosed nuclear facility. Unemployment stands at 9.7 percent, with consumer confidence lower last month after a brief uptick. An important domestic initiative -- one he campaigned on -- faces a likely make-or-break month in Congress.

What does the President do? He flies to Copenhagen to personally lobby the International Olympic Committee to bring the Olympics to Crawford, Texas.

During Hurricane Katrina, critics accused President Bush of showing insufficient concern. CNN's Bush-hater-in-chief, Jack Cafferty, lit into him. Insensitivity! Lack of empathy! Poor sense of priorities! When the Iraq War started going badly, critics pounced on Bush for allegedly "failing to listen to his generals" about the troop strength necessary to secure that country.

Fast-forward. Americans elected Barack Obama, an "elegant and eloquent" liberal president. And my, how things change.

Iran's second -- now acknowledged -- nuclear facility appears to have but one purpose: to make a bomb. For good measure, over the weekend, Iran test-fired medium-range missiles with the distance to reach Israel.

Obama, during the campaign, called a nuclear-armed Iran "unacceptable." The President now demands that Iran come clean, or else. Or else ... what? Face "stiff sanctions." Never mind that our country's sanctions against Iran have been in place for 30 years. Ratcheting them up to include, say, energy embargoes requires the approval of U.N. Security Council members China and Russia. Who do you think assists Iran in the construction of its nuclear program? China and Russia.

The President, in August, called Afghanistan a "war of necessity." Obama's chosen top commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, wrote -- in a report requested by the White House -- that the conflict "will likely result in failure" without an increase in troop strength within the year. Obama sat on the report for a month, after which it was leaked to The Washington Post. He told the general to scrub the additional troop request because he now wants to reassess the entire mission.

Let's revisit.

After we helped expel the former Soviet Union from Afghanistan, we left. Afghanistan became a haven for terrorists, who were protected, sponsored and encouraged by its government. From there, al-Qaida conceived and directed 9/11, an attack against America that resulted in the loss of 3,000 lives. We attacked Afghanistan and toppled its Taliban government. After that country approved a constitution and established a government, we promised to remain until it could defend itself and serve as an ally in the war on terror.

A failure in Afghanistan would allow a safe haven for more attacks and would threaten to destabilize next-door Pakistan, a country that possesses nuclear weapons.

Our enemy seeks to impose theocratic governments in the Middle East and the Arab world. Then it seeks to subjugate (SET ITAL) all (END ITAL) non-Muslim peoples. In July 2007, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaida's No. 2, outlined the terror group's objectives. There is a near-term plan to globally target "Crusader" (U.S., NATO, etc.) and Jewish interests. The long-term plan has two parts: overthrowing "corrupt" non-Islamic governments and "hurrying to the fields of jihad like Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, for jihad preparation and training. Thus, it is a must to hurry to the fields of jihad for two reasons: The first is to defeat the enemies of (Islam) and repel the Zionist Crusade, and the second is for jihadi preparation and training to prepare for the next stage of the jihad." He failed to define "the next stage."

Obama, despite previous statements to the contrary, apparently considers a nuclear-armed Iran preferable to U.S. military action. And now that the majority of Democrats want out of Afghanistan, the "war of necessity" no longer seems necessary.

The picture now comes into sharp focus. Americans voted for president a man who thinks that government creates wealth; that "greed" caused the current economic crisis; that taxpayers should provide health insurance for those who don't have it; that a government-induced housing and financial crisis can only be addressed by more government; that government can more efficiently and profitably run businesses than can the private sector; that "global warming" requires the imposition of job-killing and price-hiking action against emitters; and that government should "spread the wealth" by taking from those who have "too much" and giving to those who have "too little."

National security is, as always, job one. We are at war against Islamofascists. To accomplish their ends, they seek chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. This is a conflict that, not unlike the Cold War, will likely take decades.

For now, though, President Obama intends to fly to Copenhagen to personally lobby to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago. Iran and Afghanistan can wait.



Fox News Has a Van Jones Problem

AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid , 2009

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/fox-news-has-a-van-jones-problem/

Hill will not discuss how much he is being paid to pontificate on issues far beyond his area of expertise, such as Obama’s foreign policy on Iran.

With good reason, the Fox News Channel (FNC) led by Glenn Beck spent many hours exploring the far-left radical views of White House official Van Jones. The scrutiny resulted in Jones being forced out. But officials and hosts of the cable channel clearly failed to "vet" Marc Lamont Hill, who is being presented to the FNC viewing audience on a regular basis as just "a Columbia University professor" with expertise on a wide range of domestic and foreign policy issues.

In fact, Hill, a self-described public intellectual, is an acknowledged expert on "hip-hop culture," a category defined as including break-dancing, rapping, graffiti writing, slang, and other such activities.

Much less well-known is Hill's record of involvement in "revolutionary" causes, including support for convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur, a member of the terrorist Black Liberation Army (BLA) now living as a fugitive from justice in Communist Cuba. David Horowitz's revelation of Hill's embrace of the terrorist apparently caught FNC officials by surprise.

But desperate to appear "fair and balanced," the popular cable news channel has already given Hill the special status of "Fox News contributor," making him one of the select few who are paid to appear regularly on several different FNC programs. Hill's performances on FNC have been featured on the air for several months now. But Hill will not discuss how much he is being paid to pontificate on issues far beyond his area of expertise, such as Obama's foreign policy on Iran.

On the other hand, Hill did reportedly give an interview to "Davey D's Hip Hop Corner," where "he talked honestly about the types of mindsets many of his colleagues like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity have when it comes to dealing with the Left" and praised Bill O'Reilly for not accepting some of the "outlandish claims" about President Obama.

In the same way that Van Jones was exposed originally by New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon by using Internet search engines to look into his controversial background and writings, over the course of just a few days Accuracy in Media has been able to determine the following about Hill from public sources:

He called the notorious anti-white, anti-Jewish Khallid Muhammad a "mentor, teacher, and revolutionary hero," and believes that the black racist died not from a brain aneurysm but was assassinated. Muhammad was so extreme that he was ousted from the Nation of Islam because of his hatred of Jews.

He gave a lecture on "The Importance of Ideological Training in the New Millenium (sic)" at the Polymathematic University's "Political Education Program for the Poor Righteous Communist Party."

He declared on a "MySpace" page that the people he'd like to meet personally include Assata Shakur, Louis Farrakhan, Fidel Castro, and Mumia Abu Jamal, another convicted cop-killer.

He speaks on "The Importance of the Nation of Islam to Hip-Hop Culture" and says that he once belonged to something called the Ansaaru Allah Community, an Islamic sect with doctrines similar to the Nation of Islam that has been accused of being a religious cult.

Hill's "MySpace" page features a slide show of such figures as Assata Shakur, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Ella Baker, who just happens to be the namesake of the Ella Baker Center, founded by Van Jones.

The Marc Lamont Hill website includes a graphic and obscene "Sex With Timaree" segment that features advice from a "Sexpert" on how to enjoy the "Land o' Anal" or anal sex.

Hill told me in an interview that while he supports Shakur (his Twitter page is plastered with police photos of the fugitive), he was not the author of an article under his by-line and on his website that hails her escape from prison and grant of political asylum in Cuba. However, the article concludes with the name of "Marc."

There is no confusion about Hill's speaking engagement at Polymathematic University (PU). He is so proud of it that he includes the appearance on his publicly available 9-page Curriculum Vitae.

But PU is not an ordinary "university." PU describes itself as "an institution built on the solid foundation of the revolutionary program of the Five Jewels and Restrictive Laws and the ideology of Polymathematics. In this day and time of intense class contradictions between the world's working classes of color and the white U.S. empire and their lackeys, the necessity for a revolutionary institution that focuses on the education and training of revolutionaries is extremely important. PU is a direct alternative to the bourgeois universities of the old world of decadent Capitalism, guiding the poor ghetto children of color into the new world of Righteous Communism (Peace.)"

PU, which is an institution of the "Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation," has 25different teachings. They include:

"That so called African people and their family (Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow) are the aboriginal people of the Planet Earth.

"That so called African people and their family (Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow) are the fathers and mothers of civilization.

"That so called African people and their family (Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow) are righteous by nature as shown by historical development.

"That the broad masses of dark-skinned people of the world majority are one people, the Original people, who share a common origin, a common destiny and a common enemy wherever they are at in the world."

An associated website is "the web blog of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation" where "you can find news, reports, analysis, statements and updates relating to the polymathematic revolution happening in the world today led our Party (sic)." It features photos of such figures as Mao Tse Tung, Lenin, and Malcolm X.

Hill's tribute to black racist Khallid Muhammad is featured on his web page in an article under his by-line that includes personal references. He writes, "Of course, many will remember Dr. Khallid for his anti-Jewish remarks at Kean College, his Congressional censure, his bitter departure from the Nation of Islam, or his contentious Million Youth March. I, however, will remember Dr. Khallid for what he truly was: mentor, teacher, and revolutionary hero."

"I love you and miss you Dr. Khallid," it concludes.

In the Kean College speech, Muhammad "referred to Jews as 'bloodsuckers,' called for the genocide of white people, and demeaned both Pope John Paul II and homosexuals," according to one report.

Hill goes on to say, "I first met Dr. Khallid when I was a 16-year-old activist working in Philadelphia. Khabyr Haddas and Hiram Ashantee, two Philadelphia activists to whom I looked up, introduced me to Dr. Khallid when he spoke to a community group at the West Philadelphia YMCA." Ashantee was a leader of the New Black Panther Party.

While Hill says that he and Muhammad had different views on some issues and went in "drastically different directions" in their lives, he nevertheless goes on to say, "The thing that I remember and treasure most about Khallid Muhammad was his profound love for Black people. Although the media attempts to portray him as a hate monger, Dr. Khallid exuded a palpable love for Black people that permeated every aspect of his being. In all honesty, I did not truly understand what it meant to love Black people before I met Khallid Muhammad. After meeting him, I couldn't help but do anything else."

Hill writes that, "Although I believe that his death was an assassination rather than an accident-as Dr. Khallid would say, 'another story for another time'-Dr. Khallid's legacy taught me that you can kill revolutionaries, but not revolutions. For that, I am eternally indebted and grateful."

He doesn't explain who or what was behind this alleged assassination attempt. Perhaps they were the same forces who convicted Shakur of the murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster.

Hill maintains that Shakur is innocent but refers in the controversial article on his website under his by-line to the positive role played by "the ancestors" in her escape. This is presumably a reference to members of the BLA who worked with the Weather Underground to free the terrorist. The term "ancestors" has been used on other occasions by Hill to refer to important black figures in history.

The term "ancestors" takes on added significance because it is also used extensively on a website devoted to Assata Shakur, where the United States is labeled the "United Snakes." A poem on the site declares, "Rise up, O Afrikan Ancestors, and let our enemies be scattered! And give us the wisdom and the boldness to deal with our oppressors and those who would hinder the liberation and empowerment of our people."

Polymathematics is also featured on the Assata Shakur website, where questions and answers on the subject are posted. Were all of the "ancestors"-"all original people-Black, Brown, Red and Yellow people"-Polymathematicians? The answer is, "YES! they did not call themselves that, just as there are Polymathematicians out there that don't call themselves that. But the word Polymathematician is a label for a phenomena (sic) that is Universal and Eternal."

There is no available public record of what Hill said when he delivered his PU lecture on "The Importance of Ideological Training in the New Millenium (sic)," but there is an account at www.peacecomrade.org of what members of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation did when they "participated in an interaction program organized by the Black Student Union of West Chester University."

According to the account, someone named "Comrade Ingiaye" discussed the use of the party "as a revolutionary project against our open enemies," while "Proctor Styles" declared that Black Panther Huey Newton was "one of the greatest and most important people in the history of our people" and recommended Mao's Little Red Book, also known as "Quotations from Chairman Mao TseTung," for reading.

One of Mao's most famous quotations is "Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.'"

In this context, an Internet slide show associated with someone or something called "Polymathematic" includes photos of books such as Negroes With Guns, by Robert F. Williams, a black communist who fled to Castro's Cuba and then communist China. Other recommended books include Assata: the autobiography of Assata Shakur; The Black Panthers Speak; Che Guevara Speaks; and Black Bolshevik.

Hill says that he doesn't support violence or terrorism but has declared that "I believe that my work also follows in the tradition of Dr. Khallid's revolutionary struggle for Black liberation."

His "work" is now being paid for and facilitated by the "conservative" Fox News Channel. He must be laughing all the way to the bank.



Letter to Mr. Rand, Executive Director of AARP

http://www.vtxoa.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2541801

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/aarp.asp

Dear Mr. Rand,

Recently you sent us a letter encouraging us to renew our lapsed membership in AARP by the requested date. I know it is not what you were looking for, but this is the most honest response I can give you. Our gap in coverage is merely a microscopic symptom of the real problem, a deepening lack of faith.

While we have proudly maintained our membership for several years and have long admired the AARP goals and principles, regrettably, we can no longer endorse it's abdication of our values. Your letter specifically stated that we can count on AARP to speak up for our rights, yet the voice we hear is not ours. Your offer of being kept up to date on important issues through DIVIDED WE FAIL presents neither an impartial view nor the one we have come to embrace. We do believe that when two parties agree all the time on everything presented to them, one is probably not necessary. But, when the opinions and long term goals are diametrically opposed, the divorce is imminent. This is the philosophy which spawned our 200 years of government.

Once upon a time, we looked forward to being part of the senior demographic. We also looked to AARP to provide certain benefits and give our voice a power we could not possibly hope to achieve on our own.. AARP gave us a sense of belonging which we no longer enjoy. The Socialist politics practiced by the Obama administration and empowered by AARP serves only to raise the blood pressure my medical insurance strives to contain. Clearly a conflict of interest there!

We do not understand the AARP posture, feel greatly betrayed by the guiding forces whom we expected to map out our senior years and leave your ranks with a great sense of regret. We mitigate that disappointment with the relief of knowing that we are not contributing to the problem anymore by renewing our membership. There are numerous other organizations which offer discounts without threatening our way of life or offending our sensibilities.

This Presidential Administration scares the living daylights out of us. Not just for ourselves, but for our proud and bloodstained heritage,but even more importantly for our children and grandchildren. Washington has rendered Soylent Green a prophetic cautionary tale rather than a nonfiction scare tactic. I have never in my life endorsed any militant or radical groups, yet now I find myself listening to them. I don't have to agree with them to appreciate the fear which birthed their existence. Their borderline insanity presents little more than a balance to the voice of the Socialist mindset in power. Perhaps I became American by a great stroke of luck in some cosmic uterine lottery, but in my adulthood I CHOOSE to embrace it and nurture the freedoms it represents as well as the responsibilities it requires.

Your website generously offers us the opportunity to receive all communication in Spanish. ARE YOU KIDDING??? Someone has broken into our 'house', invaded our home without our invitation or consent. The President has insisted we keep the perpetrator in comfort and learn the perp language so we can communicate our reluctant welcome to them. I DON'T choose to welcome them. I DON'T choose to support them. I DON'T choose to educate them. I DON'T choose to medicate them, pay for their food or clothing. American home invaders get arrested. Please explain to me why foreign lawbreakers can enjoy privileges on American soil that Americans do not get? Why do some immigrants have to play the game to be welcomed and others only have to break & enter to be welcomed?

We travel for a living. Walt hauls horses all over this great country, averaging over 10,000 miles a month when he is out there. He meets more people than a politician on caffeine overdose. Of all the many good folks he enjoyed on this last 10,000 miles, this trip yielded only ONE supporter of the current administration. One of us is out of touch with mainstream America. Since our poll is conducted without funding, I have more faith in it than one which is power driven.

We have decided to forward this to everyone on our mailing list, and will encourage them to do the same. With several hundred in my address book, I have every faith that the eventual exponential factor will make a credible statement to you.. I am disappointed as hell. I am scared as hell. I am MAD as hell, and I'm NOT gonna take it anymore!

Walt & Cyndy Miller Farms Equine Transport



Credit Card Fraud

Credit Card Fraud Schemes

http://clintonsheriff.com/crime-prevention/credit-card-fraud/

SCENE 1

A friend went to the local gym and placed his belongings in the locker. After the workout and a shower, he came out, saw the locker open and thought to himself, “Funny, I thought I locked the locker. Hmmmmm.” He dressed and just flipped the wallet to make sure all was in order. Everything looked okay – all cards were in place. A few weeks later his credit card bill came – a whooping bill of $14, 000! He called the credit card company and started yelling at them, saying that he did not make the transactions. Customer care personnel verified that there was no mistake in the system and asked if his card had been stolen. “No,” he said, but then took out his wallet, pulled out the credit card, and yep – you guessed it – a switch had been made. An expired similar credit card from the same bank was in the wallet. The thief broke into his locker at the gym and switched cards. Verdict: The credit card issuer said since he did not report the card missing earlier, he would have to pay the amount owed to them. How much did he have to pay for items he did not buy? $9,000! Why were there no calls made to verify the amount swiped? Small amounts rarely trigger a “warning bell” with some credit card companies. It just so happens that all the small amounts added up to a big one!

SCENE 2

A man at a local restaurant paid for his meal with his credit card. The bill for the meal came, he signed it, and the waitress folded the receipt and passed the credit card along. Usually, he would just take it and place it in his wallet or pocket. Funny enough, though, he actually took a look at the card and, lo and behold, it was the expired card of another person. He called the waitress and she looked perplexed. She took it back, apologized, and hurried back to the counter under the watchful eye of the man. All the waitress did while walking to the counter was wave the wrong expired card to the counter cashier, and the counter cashier immediately looked down and took out the real card. No exchange of words – nothing! She took it and came back to the man with an apology.

Verdict: Make sure the credit cards in your wallet are yours. Check the name on the card every time you sign for something and/or the card is taken away for even a short period of time. Many people just take back the credit card without even looking at it, thinking that it has to be theirs. For your own sake, develop the habit of checking your credit card each time it is returned to you after a transaction!

SCENE 3

Yesterday my friend Dan went into a pizza restaurant to pick up an order that he had called in. He paid by using his Visa Check Card which, of course, is linked directly to his checking account. The young man behind the counter took his card, swiped it, then laid it flat on the counter as he waited for the approval, which is pretty standard procedure. While he waited, he picked up his cell phone and started dialing. Dan noticed the phone because it is the same model as his, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Then Dan heard a click that sounded the way his phone sounds when he takes a picture. The young man then gave Dan back his card but kept the phone in his hand as if he was still pressing buttons. Meanwhile, Dan was thinking: “I wonder what he is taking a picture of, oblivious to what was really going on.” It then dawned on him: the only thing there was his credit card, so now he’s paying close attention to what the young man is doing. The young man set his phone on the counter, leaving it open. About five seconds later, Dan heard the chime that tells you that the picture has been saved. Now Dan is standing there struggling with the fact that this boy just took a picture of his credit card. Yes, he played it off well, because had they not had the same kind of phone, Dan probably would never have known what happened. Needless to say, Dan immediately canceled that card as he was walking out of the pizza parlor.

Be aware of your surroundings at all times. Whenever you are using your credit cards, take caution and don’t be careless. Notice who is standing near you and what they are doing when you use your card. Be aware of phones because many have a camera phone these days. When you are in a restaurant and the waiter/waitress brings your card and receipt for you to sign, make sure you scratch the number off. Some restaurants are using only the last four digits, but a lot of them are still putting the whole thing on there. The truth is that they can get you even when you are careful, but don’t make it easy for them.



Networks Flip Flop on Jobs

Identical Unemployment Numbers ‘Good’ News for Obama, But ‘All’ Bad under Reagan.

Executive Summary -- A study from the Business & Media Institute

http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialreports/2009/FlipFlop/flipflop.asp

Unemployment under President Barack Obama is at a 26-year-high. The last time the economy had 9.7 percent or higher unemployment was under President Ronald Reagan. But despite similar periods of rising unemployment, Obama and Reagan received almost exactly opposite treatment from the network news media.

Under Obama reporters have gone to great lengths to spin rising unemployment by finding “positive trends” in the job losses, even focusing on as few as 25 jobs being “saved” by the economic stimulus package. But when Reagan was president journalists showed unemployed families living out of their cars under a bridge in Texas and quoted Democrats or union leaders’ attacks on the president’s “wicked” and “sadistic” fiscal policies.

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos looked on the bright side for Obama Sept. 4, 2009, telling viewers, “the unemployment rate nears 10 percent, but the numbers aren’t all bad.” Rewind to May 7, 1982, when unemployment hit 9.4 percent – three-tenths of a percentage point lower than it would be in August 2009. That night, NBC found people in Seattle in dire straights.

“The lines for free food at food banks are four times what they were six months ago,” NBC’s Don Oliver told “Nightly News” viewers. Oliver’s report focused on the “new poor” and the emotional effects of unemployment, including suicide and battering.

The Media Research Center’s Business & Media Institute examined network unemployment stories on the evenings that unemployment data was released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics from March 2009 to September 2009 and March 1982 to September 1982. During that timeframe in 1982 unemployment ranged from 8.9 percent to 9.8 percent, and in 2009 it shot up even faster – from 8.1 percent to 9.7 percent. Here are some of our findings:

Network Reports 13 Times More Negative Under Reagan than Under Obama: An overwhelming majority of stories mentioning the Reagan administration were negative 91 percent (20 out of 22) while only 7 percent (1 out of 15) of Obama administration mentions were negative. Additionally, Obama mentions were favorable 87 percent of the time, but there were zero positive mentions of Reagan.
Networks Connect Reagan White House to Negative Jobs Numbers Almost Twice as Often as Obama: Unemployment stories in 1982 mentioned the Reagan administration 71 percent of the time (22 out of 31), but 2009 stories mentioned the Obama administration only 40 percent of the time (14 out of 35).
Charles Gibson: 9.4% Unemployment ‘Good News’ (Obama) and also ‘All’ Bad (Reagan): The unemployment rate reached 9.4 percent under Reagan and Obama. But ABC’s Charles Gibson covered the identical rate very differently in 1982 than in 2009. Gibson told viewers May 7, 1982, “[T]here really isn’t any good news in the statistics. All the numbers are bad.” But by 2009, Gibson had turned into an optimist citing “good news” June 5 and “hope the economy may be finally turning the corner” Aug. 7.



Some Interesting Tidbits

http://www.waskatenaulibrary.ab.ca/uploads/files/0002/4648/August_2008__Webpage__1_.pdf

• Peel a banana from the bottom and you won’t have to pick the little “stringy things” off of it. That’s how the primates do it.

• Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.

• Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

• Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

• To really make scrambled eggs or omelets, rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then, beat the up.

• For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andes mints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let them sit for a wonderful minty frosting.

• Add garlic immediately to a recipe, if you want a light taste of garlic, and at the end of the recipe, if you want a stronger taste of garlic.

• Reheat Pizza – Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza.

• Easy Deviled Eggs – Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw away when done, easy clean up.

• Expanding Frosting – When you buy a container of frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.

• Reheating Refrigerated Bread – To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.

• Newspaper Weeds Away – Start putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.

• Broken Glass – Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can’t see easily.

• No More Mosquitoes – Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.

• Flexible Vacuum – To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.

• Reducing Static Cling – Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and – ta da! – static is gone.

• Measuring Cups – Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

• Foggy Windshield? – Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard easer and keep it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog up, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

• Reopening Envelope – If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily.

• Conditioner – Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair…

• Goodbye Fruit Flies – To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it ½” with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

• Get Rid of Ants – Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it “home,” can’t digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works and you don’t have to worry about pets or small children being harmed!



"The e-mail Bag"

You might be a racist

If you think that a czar is unconstitutional ... you might be a racist!

If you are opposed to a government run health care system ... you might be a racist!

If you think that it is unAmerican to bow before the Saudi King ... you might be a racist!

If you think that the stimulus plan has been an utter failure ... you might be a racist!

If you think that this administration is driving the deficit up at alarming rates ... you might be a racist!

If you think that this is a nation based on Christian values ... you might be a racist!

If you think that communism and socialism are NOT the solution ... you might be a racist!

If you value the 1st Amendment, but think that the media is state-run .... you might be a racist!

If you are sick and tired of the race card being played ... you might be a racist!

If you are a racist according to the current liberal agenda ... you might just be an American!

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Promoting "God's Holy Values and American Freedoms"!



"Daily Motivations"

Think of each member of your work group as a high jumper. Celebrate the reaching of new heights…then "raise the bar" together. But don't forget, as you're raising the bar, so is your competition. -- Eric Harvey



"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)

"For I know the plans I have for you," says the Lord. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." (Jeremiah 29:11)

Jim was an executive with a telephone company. He worked hard and built a good reputation, right up to the day that his division closed. The company offered him a transfer to a branch in another state. For extra incentive, he could look forward to a promotion and a hefty pay raise.

Jim faced one of those agonizing decisions in life. He was a leader at a church where the family had grown in their love for Christ. His wife had many friends and activities. Then there were the children. Pulling them out of school in the middle of the academic year would be a lot to ask.

Still, that promotion was worth considering. Jim decided to accept the offer. He and his wife began making all the busy preparations involved in a cross-country move, but as the move date approached, the couple's nagging feeling only intensified.

"That's when we started praying," Jim said with a slightly embarrassed laugh. "Here I was a church leader, and I had forgotten to ask God what He wanted." Jim and his wife soon came to the conclusion that the Holy Spirit did not want them to make the move.

Several months later, Jim heard that the phone company had closed the division in the other state.

God knows the future already; it is not one of chance and chaos, but one defined by His perfect plan, lovingly worked out with our welfare in mind.



"The Patriot Post"

"As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. This is the real disposition of human nature." -- Alexander Hamilton



ACORN: Organizing the community one prostitute at a timeACORN -- A Tough Nut to Crack

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) bills itself as "the nation's largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people." Its mission is typical leftist activism -- anything from advocating for a higher minimum wage and the type of home loans that precipitated the housing crisis to ballot initiatives and voter registration. We know that ACORN has also submitted fraudulent voter registration forms filled out by "Mickey Mouse" and other fictional characters. But, hey, "get out the vote" knows no bounds. Also, Barack Obama worked alongside ACORN during his own "community organizing" days.

This week, news broke that the Census Bureau, which had planned to partner with ACORN in next year's census, severed all ties with the organization. Then the U.S. House and Senate each voted to deny the group access to further federal housing funds (though who knows what will happen in Conference Committee). Even the Obama White House "distanced" itself from this taxpayer-funded organization.

So why all the fuss? If inquiring minds read only The New York Times, they might be in the same blissfully ignorant boat as ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson, who, when asked about the ACORN scandal, claimed, "I don't even know about it."

The story began when two young conservative activists, James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, posed as a pimp and a prostitute seeking advice on obtaining a loan for a home to use as a brothel, evading income tax on the young woman's income and claiming as dependents underage El Salvadoran girls they wanted to employ. In five different ACORN offices (Baltimore, DC, New York, and San Diego and San Bernardino, California), workers bit on the story, hooker, line and sinker, freely giving pointers without so much as batting an eye on how to get illegal loans and evade taxes. The videos are posted on Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com. None showed concern for the obvious implication of child abuse.

The Times, however, with the motto "All the News That's Fit to Print," didn't find anything fit to print until days later, and then only with the laughable headline, "Conservatives Draw Blood From Acorn." As Charlie Gibson condescended, "[M]aybe this is just one you leave to the cables."

The truly unfortunate thing is that ACORN has received more than $50 million in taxpayer dollars since 1994 and was set to receive $8.5 billion in "stimulus" cash. Most Democrats are feverishly turning off the funding spigot before this scandal drags their own political skeletons out of the closet. For the record, however, seven senators voted to continue funding this criminal enterprise, and, not surprisingly, they're all Democrats: Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Dick Durbin (IL), Roland Burris (IL), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Bob Casey Jr. (PA), Patrick Leahy (VT) and self-proclaimed socialist independent Bernie Sanders (VT). In addition, 75 (yes, seventy-five) House Democrats voted to continue throwing our money at the group. Space doesn't permit us to list the names of these disgraceful twits, but BigGovernment.com has them for all to see.

One of the ACORN workers did tell O'Keefe, "Honesty is not going to get you the house." Perhaps she meant "House" with a capital "H." In any case, O'Keefe and Giles deserve a medal.



On Cross-Examination

"Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read the Politico headline about Team Obama trying to run away from ACORN: 'W.H. distances from activist group.' Choking. Up. With. Laughter. Barack Obama can no more disown ACORN than he could disown his own shadow. He IS ACORN. And ACORN is him. The 'accountability' that White House flack Robert Gibbs says they take 'extremely seriously' doesn't extend to Team Obama itself -- and the accountability they have evaded for pouring more than $800,000 into an ACORN front group for campaign advance work that was mysteriously re-classified as 'get-out-the-vote' work. As for the ACORN 'advisory committee' that will 'audit' the group's illicit activities, I repeat: Choking. Up. With. Laughter." -- columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin



NATIONAL SECURITY -- Choosing Hope Over Experience

Patriot readers will recall that one of the many reasons we opposed Barack Obama's candidacy for president last year was his spectacular lack of experience in international affairs (not to mention everything else). As expected, the results of that inexperience, combined with Obama's far-left bent, can be seen in several of the most important foreign policy issues facing the United States today, particularly what to do about Iran's nuclear program.

Obama thought he could simply extend his hand in peace to the lunatics in Iran and bring them around, as though the mullahs didn't really mean it all those hundreds of times when they said they would never give up their cherished nuclear program. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also thought they could simply "reset" relations with Russia through the sheer force of their personalities.

Yet, Iran has repeatedly dismissed Obama's overtures, and the rogue state yawned at his latest deadline for nuclear talks by submitting its own proposal that virtually ignores the nuclear issue. Meanwhile, Israel is watching with growing concern as Iran moves closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon. How long can Israel afford to wait? How will Iran react when -- increasingly a matter of when, not if -- Israel takes military action against Tehran's nuclear program?

As for the Russians, they finally convinced Obama to betray our Polish allies on missile defense. In a bitter irony that is a hallmark of this administration, the decision was announced on Thursday, Sept. 17, the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland. In "return," the erstwhile Soviets now indicate that they will not support any additional sanctions on Iran -- a threat they can back up with UN Security Council veto power. Why offer any concessions when Obama so readily gives up? (Incidentally, Obama claims that by quitting on missile defense, he is actually going to "strengthen America's defenses against ballistic-missile attack." Up is down, black is white...)

In the end, the heart of Obama's presidency is this: Instead of actually being something, Obama thinks it's sufficient to merely project something. That might convince the ACORN crowd, but the nuts in charge of Iran (and a nascent USSR) will only laugh.



Warfront With Jihadistan: ROE Cost Lives

It's a scene that has been repeated too many times in recent U.S. conflicts and has cost far too many American soldiers' lives. We send our best and bravest off to fight the enemies of liberty while our politicians tie one hand behind the troops' back, essentially giving aid and comfort to the enemy. That aid and comfort, of course, are the Rules of Engagement (ROE) that define when, where and how our soldiers can fight and kill the enemy. The enemy has no such rules, which all too often leaves our troops unnecessarily exposed to enemy fire on the one hand, or exposed to prosecution by U.S. lawyers on the other, a choice that leads to uncertainty and, therefore, death on the battlefield.

Last week, when four U.S. Marines were killed in an ambush while training Afghan soldiers, the ROE were to blame. Eight Afghan troops and the Marine commander's Afghan interpreter also died in the ambush and the subsequent battle that took place in the village of Ganjgal, near the Pakistan border. The Marines came under heavy fire from jihadis hidden in the hills near the village, where women and children were helping to replenish the insurgents' ammunition. Citing the new ROE implemented by the Obama regime, designed to minimize Afghan civilian casualties, U.S. commanders repeatedly rejected calls from the Marines for artillery and air support aimed at the jihadis, who were dug into the slopes around the village but not in the village proper. The lack of air support led to a fierce firefight and directly contributed to the Marines' deaths. This is nothing short of criminal.

While minimizing civilian casualties is proper, we are at war, and defeating the enemy is priority one. War-fighting decisions must be made by the troops who are actually in battle, not by cynical, agenda-driven politicians safely ensconced in their posh DC offices.



Income Redistribution: A Tale of Two Americas

We in our humble shop have discovered that John Edwards was right after all: There are two Americas. However, we don't believe this story was quite what he had in mind.

An analysis by Chris Edwards (no relation to the former senator) of the Cato Institute found that federal civilian employees are a group not exactly hit hard by the recession. They now have an average compensation package (wages plus benefits) that doubles the average compensation package found in the private sector. Furthermore, it's an overall disparity that's increased over the last eight years.

In relating his findings, Edwards notes, "The result [of a lack of fiscal restraint during the Bush administration] has been an increasingly overpaid elite of government workers, who are insulated from the economic reality of recessions and from the tough competitive climate of the private sector." While federal employees tend to complain about their pay scale -- which is "only" about 60 percent higher than the private sector's -- it's telling that they quit their jobs much less often than do those in the private sector. Obviously few are forced out because the federal government never shrinks in size, and, as the data show, federal employees are loath to give up their gold-plated benefit packages.

It's a trend that will only increase with the proclivity of Barack Obama to expand the highly unionized government workforce and create additional bureaucracy. After all, someone has to push pencils for the dozens of czars Obama has appointed to supplement the already burgeoning workforce in place under those Cabinet department heads.

However, there is a chance this difference may be erased soon. With the proposed addition of thousands more workers to referee cap-n-tax and ration our health care, our growing government may finally leave no private sector jobs to be compared. That seems to be the desired result of this administration's policies.



CULTURE & POLICY -- Around the Nation: Guns, Crime and Prison Population

According to new data released by the FBI, violent crime in America continued its downward trend in 2008, proving once again that criminals -- not more guns -- are the problem. While murder, manslaughter and rape have all been on the decline since an all-time high in the early '90s, killings dropped 3.9 percent between 2007 and 2008 alone, even with millions of guns purchased during that time -- especially those scary "assault rifles" that give liberals such heartburn. "These are rates we haven't seen since the 1960's, even though the change from year to year has been rather small," said Alfred Blumstein, a criminal justice professor at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Of course, despite the drop in crime (or the fact that none of these crimes even require a gun), liberals continue to push for stricter gun control laws in the interests of our "safety," and the Leftmedia (expectantly) points out that crime usually rises during recessions and that the bulk of this data was gathered before the height of the economic crisis.

While government is trying to deprive us of our Second Amendment rights, courts are advancing the rights of criminals. When presented with a class-action suit brought by California inmates, a three-judge district court panel found that prison overcrowding is robbing them of their constitutional rights and decided to free 46,000 criminals in order to make incarceration more comfortable. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay on the ruling, arguing that the safety of Californians would be at risk if the prisoners are released, but the Supremes refused.

So, if the Left has its way, we should all turn in our firearms and pray that Big Brother will protect us from the thousands of newly released criminals prowling the streets. Another attempt to pay lip service to the Constitution while trampling it.



Judicial Benchmarks: Court Weighs in on Surgery

From the "Court Jesters" File, the Associated Press reports, "An Indiana court has ruled that a pizza shop must pay for a 340-pound employee's weight-loss surgery to ensure the success of another operation for a back injury he suffered at work." The worker was hurt in March 2007 when struck in the back by a freezer door. Doctors advised that back surgery was needed, but that it wouldn't do much good unless he first lost weight -- he hit 380 pounds after the accident. His employer agreed to pay for the back surgery but claimed no obligation to pay for weight-loss surgery, which would cost between $20,000 and $25,000.

The Indiana workers' compensation board said that his weight and the accident combined to form a single injury. The court agreed. Score a jackpot for the legal lotto. Of course, this decision will have unintended consequences detrimental to other employers and potential employees.. The AP notes, "The Indiana Court of Appeals decision, coupled with a recent Oregon court ruling [that the state workers' compensation insurance must pay for gastric bypass surgery to ensure that a man's knee replacement surgery was effective], could make employers think twice before hiring workers with health conditions that might cost their companies thousands of dollars ... down the road." In other words, thinner employment, but not in the intended fashion.



Faith and Family: Murder in Michigan

A 63-year-old disabled man was shot and killed last Friday near a high school in Owosso, Michigan. This murder was particularly noteworthy because of the protest that James Pouillon was engaged in at the time of his death. CNS News reports, "Known as 'the sign man,' Pouillon, who had leg braces and required oxygen, was a pro-life activist for many years and well-known by other pro-life advocates around the country." Pouillon's death received some media coverage, though it was nothing compared to the media storm over the murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller in May. What little coverage of Pouillon there was included such descriptions of him as an "anti-abortion protester" with an "in-your-face" style. George Tiller, on the other hand, was a hero to the media. For his part, Barack Obama said two days after the shooting that the murder was "deplorable" and that "whichever side of a public debate you're on, violence is never the right answer." Tell that to the unborn babies Pouillon was defending.



And Last...

It appears that nothing is sacred in the Era of Hope and Change™ -- especially when it comes to advocating for ObamaCare. A trio of thugs knocked on the door of a home in Huntington, New York, claiming to have information supporting Barack Obama's proposed takeover of the health care system. A man dressed as a doctor with a stethoscope around his neck and a woman with a clipboard full of pamphlets forced their way into the home followed by a third perpetrator who had been hiding outside. That man shot the woman's boyfriend several times, shot the woman in the foot while she sat next to her two-year-old daughter and pistol-whipped the woman's mother. The three then fled with $4,000 cash in a getaway car driven by a fourth thug. A fifth suspect remains at large. Michelle Malkin observed, "Imagine the national uproar that would be occurring right now if these home invaders had posed as Tea Party activists." That would take quite an imagination, however, since Tea Party folks are calling on government to stop stealing our money.



"The Web"

ORIGINAL - UPDATED VERSION! - DID JESUS GIVE US THE NAME OF THE ANTICHRIST?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgHUZXgNAWo



SHOCKING REVELATION! Are THESE Really The FINAL Days of Man? THREE minutes of a REALITY check!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck9vMI6m1og&feature=related



Bachmann: U.S. Faces One-World Currency, End of U.S. Sovereignty (Video)

Rep. Michele Bachmann Speaks at 'How to Take Back America Conference'
By David Weigel

http://washingtonindependent.com/61253/bachmann-obama-policies-could-bring-about-one-world-currency-end-of-sovereignty-video

On Saturday, I mentioned that Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)

http://washingtonindependent.com/61037/bachmann-in-st-louis-defund-the-left-beware-one-world-currency

had warned the How to Take Back America crowd of one-world currency in her luncheon speech. The crack team at TWI has uploaded a short video of Bachmann’s remarks (after the jump).



The ' L I T T L E ' Things~

As you might remember, the head of a company survived 9/11 because his son started kindergarten.

Another fellow was alive because it was His turn to bring donuts.

One woman was late because her Alarm clock didn't go off in time.

One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike Because of an auto accident.

One of them Missed his bus.

One spilled food on her clothes and had to take Time to change.

One's Car wouldn't start.

One couldn't Get a taxi.

The one that struck me was the man -- Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning, Took the various means to get to work
But before he got there, he developed a blister on his foot.

He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid. -- That is why he is alive today..

Now when I am Stuck in traffic, Miss an elevator, Turn back to answer a ringing telephone...

All the little things that annoy me. I think to myself, This is exactly where God wants me to be At this very moment..

Next time your morning seems to be Going wrong,

The children are slow getting dressed, You can't seem to find the car keys, You hit every traffic light, Don't get mad or frustrated; It May be just that God is at work watching over you.

May God continue to bless you With all those annoying little things And may you remember their possible purpose.

God's Love Is Not Dependent On E-Mail!!
(that's the cool part)

A M E N



A Personal Response - Subject: RE: Another Failed Presidency

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/another_failed_presidency.html

By Tom McDonald

I wish I could agree with this assessment of "O" not knowing what he is doing. He knows exactly what he is trying to achieve. One "proof" of this is that he is demonizing anyone who "dares" to disagree with him on anything he is doing - so that he can, in effect, marginalize his opposition - so that he can carry on as though they do not exist and do precisely what he intends doing. Another "proof" is that he is racing to get all the pieces of his fascist/ socialist agenda in place so that when the 2010 elections turn the US Congress back to the conservatives (or maybe only to the Republicans) it will be too late - or at least very difficult for the changed Congress to unwind his destructive folly - or that the nation may have by then already collapsed.

I continue to pray that God will save BHO and Michelle. I continue to pray that God will remove the dark cloud of evil that hangs like a pall over the US Capitol. I continue to pray that God will cause the citizens of this country to vote in the largest numbers ever in history in the 2010 elections. I continue to pray that God will give us new, godly men and women to lead us back to righteous behavior. I continue to pray that God will withhold His hand of Final Judgment on America. I continue to pray that God will Revive His Church - and crush the apostate bodies that call themselves Christian churches.

I continue to pray that God will keep me praying what I hear Him wanting me to pray. In short, I continue to pray that God's Will be Done in America, AMEN!!!

iHsay, tom



SEND CONGRESS A PINK SLIP

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Historic! 700,000 'pink slips' to Congress – in 3 days!

Goal of 5 million likely be exceeded, say organizers

WASHINGTON – An innovative new campaign to alert Congress of widespread grass-roots opposition to massive new spending plans as well as other objectionable and intrusive legislation is already responsible – in the first 72 hours – for the distribution of 700,000 "pink slip" notices to members of the House and Senate.

Send an urgent warning to every member of Congress to let them know you're watching.

WND announced the "Send Congress a Pink Slip" campaign Friday and it has already reached one-seventh of its stated goal of 5 million notices, individually addressed, personalized with senders name and address and delivered to all members of Congress by Fed Ex. Already, 700,000 of the "pink slips" are on their way to Washington.

"This looks like a historic effort – comparable to the massive march in Washington, the tea party rallies and the town hall actions," said Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND. "I'm quite sure nothing like this has ever before been undertaken."

The idea was conceived by Janet Porter of Faith2Action and a WND weekly columnist.

"We set a goal of 5 million pink slips to members of Congress," she said. "We might even surpass that goal."

Porter said the highest priority of members of Congress is re-election. The campaign is designed to put them on notice their hopes of staying in Washington are fading fast.

"There is a revolution brewing across this country," she said. "People are angry about losing their country and they are ready for action. This campaign is just the latest evidence."

The "Send Congress a Pink Slip" campaign ensures that a brief but poignant message will be delivered by Fed Ex to all 535 members of the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate – all for a remarkably low price based on economies of scale.



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"We encourage citizens to take individual actions," said Farah. "But when we act as a group, it's more cost-effective and the results more dramatic. Just try Fed Exing members of Congress yourself and see what it costs. We have learned from past experience that Fed Ex actually ensures delivery to members. What they do with them at that point is their choice."

The program is based on several other successful programs of the past, including one last summer that delivered 705,000 letters to senators protesting a "hate crimes" bill dubbed by critics as "the Pedophile Protection Act."

"I believe this has the potential to be the most successful grass-roots effort in history," said Porter. "After all the town halls and tea parties and the massive demonstration in Washington, Congress still hasn't gotten the message. Now it's time to show them just how serious we are with a message aimed at what they most care about – getting re-elected."

The "pink slip" each official will get is a reminder that they work for the taxpayers. Each is individually printed with the sender's contact information under the closing salutation "Signed, Your Employer:"

The warning lists four key issues that are deemed unacceptable to program participants:

A previous WND FedEx campaign blanketed Congress with over 705,000 personalized letters.
government health care cap and trade "hate crimes" any more spending "If you vote for any of these, your real pink slip will be issued in the next election," it warns.

To send individual notices to all 535 members of Congress through the Postal Service would cost you $235 in stamps alone.

The "Send Congress a Pink Slip" program permits participants to Fed Ex 535 individually addressed pink slips to members of Congress, each one with the name and address of the sender for just $29.95.

"This is a program that only works with massive numbers of participants that bring paper and printing and shipping costs way down," explains Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, which has conducted similar programs in the past - this one being the largest and most ambitious.



Glenn Beck: The Letter

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GLENN: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona. She writes an open letter to our nation's leadership: I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?

Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This isn't to be confused with legal immigration.

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Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.

Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.

Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.

Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!

Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don't you start there.

Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ‑‑ what do you have against shareholders making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band‑Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ‑‑ please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.

Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let's just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.

From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.

We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when hewill rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.



THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

This one is a little different..... Two Different Versions! ................. Two Different Morals!

OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself.

MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant 's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.' Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group curse God for the grasshopper's sake.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC & nbsp; drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.



Grown Women

Girls leave their schedule wide-open and wait for a guy to call and make plans.
Grown women make their own plans and nicely tell the guy to get in where he fits.

Girls want to control the man in their life.
Grown women know that if he's truly hers, he doesn't need controlling.

Girls check you for not calling them.
Grown women are too busy to realize you hadn't.

Girls are afraid to be alone.
Grown women revel in it-using it as a time for personal growth.

Girls ignore the good guys.
Grown women ignore the bad guys.

Girls make you come home.
Grown women make you want to come home.

Girls worry about not being pretty and/or good enough for their man.
Grown women know that they are pretty and/or good enough for any man.

Girls try to monopolize all their man's time (i.e., don't want him hanging with his friends).
Grown women realize that a lil' bit of space makes the 'together time' even more special-and goes to kick it with her own friends.

Girls think a guy crying is weak.
Grown women offer their shoulder and a tissue.

Girls want to be spoiled and 'tell' their man so.
Grown women 'show' him and make him comfortable enough to reciprocate without fear of losing his 'manhood'.

Girls get hurt by one man and make all men pay for it.
Grown women know that that was just one man.

Girls fall in love and chase aimlessly after the object of their affection, ignoring all 'signs'.
Grown women know that sometimes the one you love, don't always love you back-and move on, without bitterness.

Girls will read this and get an attitude.
Grown women will read this and pass it on to other Grown women and their male friends.

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"The e-mail Bag"

Why buy the cow? WE MEN CAN TAKE IT

For all those men who say, "Why buy a cow when you can get the milk for free." Here's an update for you: Nowadays, 80% of women are against marriage, WHY? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage.

Men are like....

1. Men are like Laxatives. They irritate the crap out of you.
2 Men are like Bananas . The older they get, the less firm they are.
3. Men are like Weather .. Nothing can be done to change them.
4. Men are like Blenders You need one, but you're not quite sure why.
5. Men are like Chocolate Bars .. Sweet, smooth, & they usually head right for your hips.
6. Men are like Commercials . You can't believe a word they say.
7. Men are like Department Stores ... Their clothes are always 1/2 off!
8. Men are like .. Government Bonds .... They take soooooooo long to mature.
9. Men are like .. Mascara . They usually run at the first sign of emotion.
10. Men are like Popcorn . They satisfy you, but only for a little while.
11.. Men are like Snowstorms .. You never know when they're coming, how many inches you'll get or how long it will last.
12! . Men are like Lava Lamps . Fun to look at, but not very bright.
13. Men are like Parking Spots All the good ones are taken, the rest are handicapped.

Now send this to all the remarkable women you know, as well as to any understanding good-natured, fun kinda guys you might be lucky enough to know !!!!!!!!!!