Never Keep Quiet

Abolish Income Tax and FICA Withholding Now!

2010-12-05T08:48:00.003-06:00

Abolish Withholding

Here is the problem: we can elect and send to Washington DC all the conservative Representatives and Senators we can. And when they get there and try to reign in the Federal Government, the Progressives, Unions, Entitlement supporters, and powerful lobbying groups come together to squash those efforts.

What to do?

We have to get the vast majority of Americans behind efforts to shrink the size of Government!

How to do that?

There are two ways to force the effort to pare back Government:

1. Use the strategy of "Starve the Beast"

2. Show every American, every day, how much he/she is paying in taxes

How to do that?

Abolish withholding of Federal Income Tax and FICA. Go back to the system where each American holds back a portion of their earnings to send it in at the end of the year. Then each and every American will clearly see how much of their hard earned money is going to Washington DC.

But can we really do that?

Sure we can! Before WWII that was the way the system worked. But in the early 1940's the Government needed to step up the rate of tax collection to pay for the war effort. A group in the Treasury Department, including famed economist Milton Friedman, developed the withholding policy and this was implemented in July 1943. It was even touted as a way "to relive the taxpayer from having to do the work of setting aside his own money. Now it would all be done for him".

So, how can we do it?

We all have to contact our Representatives and Senators and let them know we want legislation introduced into the Congress to repeal withholding---NOW!

What will this do?

1. It will let every American see how much of their hard earned pay is going to Washington

2. It will build broad-based support for cutting back spending in Washington

3. When our elected Representatives propose legislation to cut back the size of Government, The People will be a large, vocal lobby in support of those efforts

4. As size of Government is reduced, spending will go down, deficits will be eliminated, and we can begin to pay off our debt.

Contact your Elected Representatives Now----Abolish Withholding!!!!!

Off on Spiritual Journey

2010-09-20T08:31:00.002-05:00

By the grace of God, I am continuing my spiritual journey on a new and exciting path. This is something I want to give full attention to, so I will be scaling back my internet usage and specifically will put blogging on the back burner for awhile. When I come to a resting place in my new journey, I will give an update where I am at and where I think I am going.

The Rev. Warren B. Mueller

Unbelievable News Day

2010-09-16T18:26:00.004-05:00

The level of insanity in this country and the world today is beyond my comprehension. I don't have the time to write commentary on it all, all I can do is point you in the direction of the stories and suggest you ask yourself this question: would I be comfortable inviting the people in these stories over to my house for coffee and pastries?

Strap in: here we go!!!!!

Want to know why we can't cut the deficit? The word is entitlements, read it all here.

How to lie like a pro: Nancy Pelosi demands a vote on the Obama Tax Cuts. What????? There are NO OBAMA TAX CUTS.....the vote is on extending the Bush tax cuts. But hey, Nancy never lets the facts get in the way, read it all here.

Little Kevin Jennings, the Obama Safe School Czar is back at it. Pushing the Gay-Lesbian agenda in our schools, read it all here.

Maybe you don't like your job, or your life. But look at the bright side, at least you don't have to go throught the hell that Michelle Obama does, her life is really hell on earth, according to her, read it all here.

Now, we all know that "rights" can spring up as fast as lillies in the spring, but here you go: prisoners who need safe tattoos; yeah the regular kind in prison are dangerous and so "advocates" are beating the drums for safter tattoos. Guess who will pay for those,,,,,read it all here.

And just to put out a little "I told you so", here is a story describing how former President Bush is starting to look better to folks, read it all here

Making her list: and checking it twice!

2010-09-14T06:25:00.003-05:00

'As a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs—we knew that," President Obama said at his press conference Friday in response to a question about rising health spending.

Well, that wasn't his pitch when he was twisting arms to get ObamaCare passed. But hey, we are used to politicians "twisting" the truth.

But now, [w]itness Kathleen Sebelius's Thursday letter to America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry trade group—a thuggish message even by her standards. The Health and Human Services secretary wrote that some insurers have been attributing part of their 2011 premium increases to ObamaCare and warned that "there will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases."

Zero tolerence? Like in "I will punish you"? What does that mean?

What Ms. Sebelius really means is that the government will prohibit insurers from doing business if reality is not politically convenient for Democrats. ObamaCare includes a slew of mandated benefits for next year, such as allowing children to remain on their parents' plans until age 26 and "free" preventative care (i.e., no direct out-of-pocket cost sharing for consumers). The tone of Ms. Sebelius's letter suggests that she doesn't understand that money is exchanged for goods and services, and that if Congress mandates new benefits, premiums will rise.

These are Gestapo tactics. This is the "Chicago Way". Who will they use the Chicago Way against next? Look how easily the First Amendment is shredded!

Read it all here.

Caution: You may be entering the Twilight Zone!

2010-09-13T17:02:00.003-05:00

The parents of a teenage boy are suing a Roman Catholic School for not granting a religous exemption so their son could attend the school without having received state mandated immunizations. Andrea and Paul Polydor, of Garden City, believe human bodies "should not be defiled by vaccines," according to a complaint filed in Nassau County Court against Kellenberg Memorial High School in Uniondale.

So, why don't they just go and find another school that fits their particular set of religous values?

Oh no, this is a perfect example of the "me generation". It's all about me, and my desires, and my wants, and who I am.

The "me generation" cannot and will not change: we all have to change to fit them.

LOL and grow up! Oh yes, read it all here.

County goes after criminal Farmer!!!

2010-09-13T09:23:00.003-05:00

Be careful, this story could make your head explode.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- DeKalb County is suing a local farmer for growing too many vegetables, but he said he will fight the charges in the ongoing battle neighbors call “Cabbagegate.” Read it all here.

Obviously the bureaucrats in DeKalb County don't have enough worthwhile work to do. Sounds like some government layoffs could be used to cut county expenses and get the geeks off the backs of everyday people trying to work hard and do well.

Gov. Christie continues to use the Weapon of Truth

2010-09-11T09:35:00.003-05:00

Governor of New Jersey, Republican Chris Christie is making use of a special weapon that has not been wielded by nationally prominant politicans since Ronald Reagen. What is the name of that weapon? It's called THE TRUTH.

Watch all this video to see what the weapon looks like and how it is used.

I figure this guy needs to clean up NJ in a hurry so he can make a run as president.

ObamaCare Amnesia......remember the claims?

2010-09-10T08:55:00.002-05:00

Hard to believe that just 6 short months the country was furiously embroilled in the ObamaCare debate. Public opinion polls showed that over 60% of Americans wanted nothing to do with it. Nonetheless, key members of the house extolled the list of fictional list of benefits, the Pharma industry joined the Whitehouse in selling the benefits, and finally the President called in House members one by one to offer the carrots and sticks necessary to bring votes into line. And at the last moment the plan was deemed to pass in its final form. Read it all here.

'They're betting that between now and November, you're going to come down with amnesia," President Obama told a Milwaukee crowd on Monday, vilifying the Republicans who "helped devastate our middle class." But it seems as if the real case of amnesia—or maybe post-traumatic stress disorder—has struck the Democrats, who are now doing everything they can to help voters forget ObamaCare.

This is a remarkable turn of events for Mr. Obama's major domestic achievement that was also supposed to be a political winner. Facing a grim November, Democrats are now running on another quarter-baked stimulus plan and the specter of John Boehner's perpetual tan, instead of the bill they spent more than a year debating and hailed as the liberal triumph of the century. Democrats now barely mention ObamaCare on the trail—unless they're trashing it.

Which goes to show, Americans didn't like having ObamaCare shoved down their throats, and the taste isn't any better today.

And here it starts! Open the cookie jar!!!!!!

2010-09-07T11:00:00.004-05:00

Here come the cookies for everyone!! Now $110B for all those nasty business people, evil profiteers, to heat up the economy.

What happens when all those businesses start to hire people and then make big profits from all the new business. Will Prez Obama them demonize them for being profit driven? Will he then propose new taxes on those profits? The Govt giveth and the Govt taketh away!

Read it all here.

Are we this scared?

2010-09-07T06:43:00.003-05:00

What has become of this country? We were attacked by radical Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001. Now a little bitty church in Florida plans to burn Korans to commemorate the 9-11 attacks.

And here we have the general in charge of our Afgan war declaring that such actions by the church might get his troops killed. Read it all here.

Are we, the most powerful nation on earth, ready to shut down a little church protest of an attack on OUR country, because we are too afraid of the people who attacked us?

Are we afraid to tell the people who attacked us "no you can't build your mosque on hallowed ground?"

What have we come to?

And here it starts! Stimulus II

2010-09-06T19:24:00.002-05:00

"If we don't pass my stimulus plan right now, unemployment could go above 8%"

Well Mr. President, we passed that threshold a year ago. And it's still going up.

And now, you just happen to have the magic Elixer for the economy!!!!!

Wow!! Why didn't you bring it out and hawk it earlier???? Oh yeah, had to work on ObamaCare. Oh yeah, had to work on financial reform so no more downturns?

So this is the silver bullet, right? Read it all here.

Just one little question Mr. President? What democrat in congress up for re-election is going to vote for all this new deficit spending?

This is not going to pass, so why all this campaigning????

Is this just an attempt to fire up the languid looney left base? Must be, because this is going nowhere.

Think you need a better church? Check Progressive!!!

2010-09-06T13:38:00.004-05:00

Feel like you are not getting anything from your church?

Feel like your church is not meeting your needs?

Want to shop around but think it's too much trouble?

Then you need Progressive Church.com

You pick the church YOU want!

"Hail Mary Pass Time": get your bullshit filter out!

2010-09-06T07:27:00.003-05:00

In case you have not noticed, today is September 6, Labor Day. For many of us that is the last day of a nice, long 3 day weekend.

For the political ruling class it is the first day of the race toward the November elections. And despite all the deniles, the Democrats are in deep, deep do-do.

So, get ready, the Dem's in general and Lord Obama in particular are going to start rolling out a blizzard of proposals to both dazzle and confuse the electorate. Why confuse?

Well, they can't run on their miserable record, they can't debate real ideas because their ideology is both flawed and rejected by the electorate, so they have to use the oldest political trick in the playbook: go buy the votes.

Read some of it here.

Veep Biden: "We're Headed in the Right Direction!"

2010-09-03T12:42:00.003-05:00

In case you don't remember the Veep's message, here is a reminder.

Let's take a look at the direction we have been headed in: see the following graphic display.

Yep, can't wait for November!!!!!

Physics trumps God?

2010-09-02T11:47:00.003-05:00

Did God create the world and the universe as told in the Book of Genesis, or is that just a mythical tale used as a setting for the whole Canon of Scripture we call the Bible. Those faiths aligned with the monotheistic entity, God, have contended in one way or another that the Genesis account is a faithful rendition of worldly creation.

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has come out here with the opinion that God was not necessary for the movement of matter and energy as the laws of physics would shepherd us toward the creation which we know.

I suppose it has never occured to prof. Hawking to ask "where did the laws of physics come from"? As cartesian beings, we sense a three dimensional world with a one way arrow flow of time as a fourth dimension. Thus, for us, everything including our experience of our own lives has an immutable time dependence about it. Not only does this shape our world view but it also shapes our comprehension of the world and universe which we cannot directly view. This leads to theological speculations on the ontological nature of God based on our own nature. While that can be helpful, it does not constrain God to our speculative thoughts.

The theological conclusions about the nature of God and indeed scriptural witness strongly argues that God does not exist in time. To God, time is another orthogonal coordinate of the universe. This implies that the nature of God as a set of behaviors does not intersect with the set of time dependent natures of man and the world. That God can "invade" our space with His creative revelations is certainly his perogative. Our ability to move to His space apparantly only occuurs through His Son, Jesus Christ (Jn. 14:6).

Physics has a lot to say to us about how the univers works. It has nothing to say to us about why it (and we) are here. That is what God's word revealed in scripture is all about.

Pity poor Prof Hawking if he never comes to this place of faith.

What is a muslim moderate?

2010-09-01T18:22:00.003-05:00

The proposed Mosque at Ground Zero has stirred up a fierce debate in this country over radical and moderate Islam and the dangers, perceived or otherwise.

This begs the question: what is a moderate Muslim?

From the Wall Street Journal there is this;

Don't Gloss Over The Violent Texts
By Tawfik Hamid

In regards to Islam, the words "moderate'" and "radical" are relative terms. Without defining them it is virtually impossible to defeat the latter or support the former.

Radical Islam is not limited to the act of terrorism; it also includes the embrace of teachings within the religion that promote hatred and ultimately breed terrorism. Those who limit the definition of radical Islam to terrorism are ignoring—and indirectly approving of—the Shariah teachings that permit killing apostates, violence against women and gays, and anti-Semitism.

Moderate Islam should be defined as a form of Islam that rejects these violent and discriminatory edicts. Furthermore, it must provide a strong theological refutation for the mainstream Islamic teaching that the Muslim umma (nation) must declare wars against non-Muslim nations, spreading the religion and giving non-Muslims the following options: convert, pay a humiliating tax, or be killed. This violent concept fuels jihadists, who take the teaching literally and accept responsibility for applying it to the modern world.

Moderate Islam must not be passive. It needs to actively reinterpret the violent parts of the religious text rather than simply cherry-picking the peaceful ones. Ignoring, rather than confronting or contextualizing, the violent texts leaves young Muslims vulnerable to such teachings at a later stage in their lives.

Finally, moderate Islam must powerfully reject the barbaric practices of jihadists. Ideally, this would mean Muslims demonstrating en masse all over the world against the violence carried out in the name of their religion.

Moderate Islam must be honest enough to admit that Islam has been used in a violent manner at several stages in history to seek domination over others. Insisting that all acts in Islamic history and all current Shariah teachings are peaceful is a form of deception that makes things worse by failing to acknowledge the existence of the problem.

Mr. Hamid, a former member of the Islamic radical group Jamma Islamiya, is an Islamic reformer and a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.

Beck: Restoring Honor Event

2010-08-31T07:01:00.003-05:00

In case you have been living under a rock or perhaps in a cave for the last week, Glen Beck hosted a "Restoring Honor" event in Washington DC which drew perhaps 300,000 to 500,000 people. It was held at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, the anniversary of the Martin Luther King "I have a dream" speech.

Beck's stated purpose was to "turn the country back to God and to restore honor". Beck has been on a journey to try and understand the fundamental nature of the problems that have beset this country. He has transitioned from blaming democrats, to blaming Progressives, and now in effect blaming himself and all of us with the idea that we Americans need to turn around to God. In effect claiming that we should not ask whether God is on our side, but are we on God's side?

This is precisely the position that Abraham Lincoln was in during the Civil War and Beck has come to recognize his coming full circle to that same realization.

You might think that public soul searching of this sort would be generally applauded. But not in the current fractious atmosphere. Read here for example.

While the Progressive and Liberal press beats the drums for Islamic tolerance in America, these same camps seek to bludgeon anything that smacks of Christianity or real religion. The same folks who extol the endless virtues of Islam possibly haven't darkened the doors of a place of worship for a long time.

America's formation and history is inexorably connected with God's providential plan for mankind. As Beck accurately points out "if we don't turn back to God and get on his side, he'll find another bunch of people who will". The Old Testament of the Bible is full of stories to back Beck's statement.

From the NYT: Economy options dwindle

2010-08-30T06:57:00.003-05:00

According to the NYT; "THE American economy is once again tilting toward danger. Despite an aggressive regimen of treatments from the conventional to the exotic — more than $800 billion in federal spending, and trillions of dollars worth of credit from the Federal Reserve — fears of a second recession are growing, along with worries that the country may face several more years of lean prospects."

Read it all here.

And they are right: the current Obama administration has tried everything THEY know how to do!!!!!!!

But folks we have been here before: it was called Jimmy Carter!

In 1979 we had high inflation, no growth, no jobs, high interest rates, and a demoralized country that was being told from the White House that "this may be as good as it gets".

Ronald Reagen came to office, let a wrenching economic correction take its course to wring out the inflation monster and then slashed marginal tax rates which unleashed the largest economic expansion in modern history. Oh, and by the way, he defeated the Soviet empire in his spare time!

But do not dispare......the current crowd is not out of ideas yet! They are going to let the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year. They still want ObamaCare to go forward, they still want Cap & Trade, and don't forget their debt commission that will no doubt call for a National VAT tax. Won't all those things do such great good for our economy??????

If we do not start major surgery this November, a couple years down the road we may look back at 2010 as a time of unparalleled prosperity!

Wouldn't that be a pathetic thing!

Good News on the Gun Front.......for now.....

2010-08-28T07:41:00.002-05:00

The EPA has rejected a petition to ban lead from bullets and fishing lures, read it all here.

"EPA is taking action on many fronts to address major sources of lead in our society, such as eliminating childhood exposures to lead," the agency said in a written statement. "However, EPA was not and is not considering taking action on whether the lead content in hunting ammunition poses an undue threat to wildlife."

A coalition of conservation groups had filed its petition earlier this month arguing that the use of lead in ammo and tackle is poisoning the nation's lakes, ponds and forests and asking the EPA to ban the "manufacture, processing and distribution" of lead shot, bullets and fishing.

Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action, objected to the pettion, saying the conservationists were trying to circumvent this rule by suggesting that while ammunition itself is exempt from regulation, the chemical components of the ammo and fishing lures -- specifically, the lead -- can fall under the EPA's jurisdiction.

But environmental activists like Michael Fry of the American Bird Conservancy told FoxNews.com that the petitioners waited to submit their request until nontoxic alternatives such as steel, copper and alloy became readily available.

Stay tuned, the gun banners will not stop here.

Those darn "Little People"...

2010-08-27T14:43:00.004-05:00

What is an elite leader to do? You enact everything you think the people need in order to live out your vision of a universal utopia and what do the thankless louts do? They protest! So how should you react? Charles Krauthammer nails the answer to that question right here.

And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.

● Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness, and debt, as represented by the tea-party movement? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.

● Disgust and alarm with the federal government’s unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism.

● Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history, as expressed in Proposition 8 in California? Homophobia.

● Opposition to a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero? Islamophobia.

Now we know why the country has become “ungovernable,” last year’s excuse for the Democrats’ failure of governance: Who can possibly govern a nation of racist, nativist, homophobic Islamophobes?

Note what connects these issues. In every one, liberals have lost the argument in the court of public opinion. Majorities — often lopsided majorities — oppose President Obama’s social-democratic agenda (e.g., the stimulus, Obamacare), support the Arizona law, oppose gay marriage, and reject a Ground Zero mosque.

And since the liberals have lost the battle of ideas, all they can fall back on are attacks such as these.

EPA: Ban Lead Bullets!

2010-08-27T09:19:00.003-05:00

The EPA is proposing to ban the use of the metal Lead in bullets, read it all here.

While it is possible to read this as a move by the typical enviro-whacko groups to prevent lead poisoning in deer, more than likely this is a bigger part of the socialist agenda to disarm Americans.

After all, guns are of no use with out effective ammunition. So instead of tackling the Second Amendment head on and getting clobbered for it, the Gun-Banners may take the backdoor route through the EPA.

All patriots need to let the EPA hear from them.

Jobs: Saved, Created, and DESTROYED!

2010-08-25T07:07:00.002-05:00

While the Obama administration is busily crunching the fictional numbers of jobs saved or created, Americans will probably be more interested in this compilation of jobs destroyed as chronicled by Michelle Malkin here.

For example;

They’re employees of companies like Assurant Health, which announced last week that it would slash 130 jobs at its offices in Milwaukee and Plymouth, Minn., to prepare for costly Obamacare mandates.

They’re employees of medical-device firms in Massachusetts, where officials say they’ll be forced to cut back on operational costs and jobs thanks to a little-noticed Obamacare tax on their products that goes into effect in 2013.

They’re employees of such restaurants as White Castle and International House of Pancakes, whose executives say they will be forced into layoffs and premium hikes to cope with the federal law’s $3,000-per-employee penalty on companies whose workers pay more than 9.5 percent of household income in premiums for company-provided insurance.

They’re mom-and-pop enterprises across the country that must now deal with Obamacare’s onerous Section 9006 tax-filing mandate. It requires them to file 1099 forms with the IRS for every vendor from whom they purchase $600 or more in goods. Sen. Mike Johanns (R., Neb.) calls it one of many “job-crushing provisions” that will bury small business in paperwork and legal costs.

They’re the estimated 23,000 workers in the deepwater-drilling industry whom the White House deliberately wrote off in pursuit of its junk-science-based drilling moratorium.

They’re the estimated tens of thousands of workers employed by car dealers shut down by Obama’s auto czars at a time, as the TARP inspector general pointed out last month, “when the country was experiencing the worst economic downturn in generations and the government was asking its taxpayers to support a $787 billion stimulus package designed primarily to preserve jobs . . . all based on a theory and without sufficient consideration of the decisions’ broader economic impact.”

They’re employees of Utah oil and gas companies whose leases have been pulled without cause by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The Interior Department’s own inspector general rejected Salazar’s explanation that the Bush administration had rushed the leases through. The Deseret News reports that “rescinding these leases has likely cost the state millions already. Officials in Uintah county estimate the county lost 3,000 jobs in 2009, and Duchesne lost 1,000 jobs.”

They’re employees of commercial and recreational fishing businesses in New England, who have organized a flotilla on Martha’s Vineyard on Thursday to protest the Obama administration’s restrictive environmental policies and stealth regulatory ocean grab.

Insanity right at the top: Veep Biden, "moving in the right direction"

2010-08-24T18:01:00.003-05:00

No Mr. Veep, we are moving to the hard-core Progressive Left at Warp Speed and you clowns are taking the economy not to mention the country down the toilet with a huge flush.

What does the Veep say? Read it all here!

In Iowa: "Beat Whitey Night!"

2010-08-24T17:51:00.003-05:00

What kind of "change we can believe in" have we had over the last 19 months? Well, the President called a white policeman stupid for arresting a black homeowner. The New Black Panthers have gotten off scott free after intimidating white voters in Philadelphia, and the DOJ under Eric Holder apparently is not going to prosecute black on white crime.

Can you speculate on what consequence all these high level actions might have? Well, if not, then read this article here where multiple fights at an Iowa State Fair were apparently the product of a call to "Beat Whitey Night".

No matter hard the times in America, no matter how difficult the challenges we face; we would hope the President would serve, at the least, to unite us in the one thing we all share in common: We are Americans.

But this President has amply demonstrated he does not like the America that propelled him to where he is and he is incapable of providing that kind of leadership.

One Word Summary of ObamaCare: Failure, Failure, Failure

2010-08-23T17:54:00.002-05:00

From National Review Online..........

The wheels are coming off Obamacare even sooner than most had predicted. The American people are not being fooled by the sugar-coated sales campaign, jobs are being lost, health costs are rising, and the first program to be launched is a dud.

● A new CNN poll shows that 56 percent of Americans oppose the health-care law, with only 40 percent supporting it — virtually unchanged from March when the legislation passed. Rasmussen’s latest poll of likely voters shows that 56 percent want it repealed and 54 percent say the law is bad for the country.

● Liberal advocates for Obamacare now have no choice but to admit that their messaging campaign has failed. In a conference call last week hosted by Families USA to share extensive polling data, advocates were told to stop saying that the law will reduce costs and lower the deficit. It’s not true and people don’t believe it. Instead, they advised liberals to focus on anecdotes about people who have been helped by the changes.

Do they really believe that people won’t pay attention to the double-digit premium increases that are coming, the $575 billion coming out of Medicare to pay for massive new entitlement programs, the $500 billion in new taxes that are driving up health-care costs, the barrage of new regulations putting employers and the health-care sector in a straightjacket, and the despised individual mandate that will force Americans to purchase expensive, government-dictated health insurance?

● We have (more) direct evidence of jobs being lost as a result of Obamacare. Assurant Health, a health insurer based in Milwaukee that specializes in individual and small-group policies, has announced that it is laying off 130 workers as of October 1. Assurant is a terrific company that was the first to sell a Health Savings Account policy and has continued to be responsive with innovative products to serve customer needs.

But new one-size-fits-all regulatory requirements are forcing insurers to slash personnel to meet new “administrative” tests, rules that present real challenges to a company that focuses on direct customer service rather than selling policies thousands at a time. Assurant is highly adaptable and will survive, but many capable employees and their families can thank Obamacare for losing their jobs.

● The president’s much-touted high-risk pools so far are a flop. Kaiser Health News reports that “an unexpectedly small number of people” have signed up for the program designed to provide insurance for people with preexisting conditions who were uninsured for at least six months. So far, a total of about 3,600 people have applied for state plans and 1,200 have been approved, with another 2,400 in the 22 state plans operated by the federal government.

North Carolina’s risk pool director says that “interest in the program has been lower than we expected.” As of last week, Connecticut had enrolled just one person.

The risk pools were flawed from the start, as we have written. Washington should have instead provided adequate resources to the states to supplement existing risk pools or create their own.

Obamacare will get even more unpopular as the damage of this fatally flawed legislation becomes clearer. And it also will become clear that the only solution is to start over with a clean sheet of paper and sensible reforms that don’t take a wrecking ball to our health-care sector.

How do you know this is true? What how many democrats WON'T mention ObamaCare in the campaigns unless forced to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"It's Fiscal Child Abuse!!!"

2010-08-22T09:26:00.003-05:00

Turn up the speakers and watch this video!!

Hat Tip: Wilma R

Don't forget the Oldies to catch up on Today

2010-08-22T07:50:00.002-05:00

According to a Library of Congress survey, Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957, may be second to the Bible as the most influential book read in America. It is required reading in management training at BB&T, the 12th-largest bank in the U.S. and one that resisted taking TARP bailout funds. Since the Obama administration took office, Atlas Shrugged has been making a renaissance with rising sales and library waiting lists, partly because it explains our current economic woes more straightforwardly than most of what we hear from today's experts.
What happened in Ayn Rand's narrative is coming to pass today, with an anti-business administration reviling private industry, capitalizing on crisis to expand and redirect investment within and between sectors of the economy — setting quotas, prices and compensation. Businesses responded by retrenching — ceasing to invest, innovate and expand. Whole industries contracted, closed down, or moved offshore; much like the U.S. gas and oil drilling industry is doing today. Then, just as now, management became frustrated and discouraged, reluctant to create jobs in an environment of excessive government meddling.

While the private sector shed nearly 8 million jobs in the past two-and-a-half years, the federal government increased its payroll by 240,000 jobs. So the private sector that is the primary source of national wealth has been shrinking while supporting a growing public sector that generally produces nothing. That burden is made greater by the fact that government workers have incomes 30% higher and benefits 50% more costly on average than those received by equivalent private-sector workers.

Read it all here and maybe in the book too!

Is Pandora's Box being opened????

2010-08-21T07:15:00.003-05:00

That picture above is a view of Iran's first nuclear power plant outside the city of Bushehr. With Russian assistance it will be loaded with nuclear fuel rods with a couple of days from now. After various tests, the plant will presumably go critical in the near future and begin generating power. Read it all here.

Iran is not just another country joining the nuclear power club: Iran is the "ground zero" of radical Islamic terrorism around the world. No less source than the CIA, read here, lists the legal system of Iran as being based on Sharia Law. What does that mean? Sharia Law is the sacred law of Islam, read more
here.

In its radical expression, Islam and Sharia Law seek to purge the world of infidels, those who are not Muslim under Islamic religion. With the advent of nuclear power in Iran, one of the world's most radical Islamic nations now has the secrets of the greatest power mankind has devised.

Is that smart?

Doctors vs Guns..................

2010-08-19T06:18:00.001-05:00

Doctors
(A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is
700,000.

(B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians
per year are

120,000.

(C) Accidental deaths per physician
is
0.171.

Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept of
Health and Human Services.

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Now think about this:

Guns
(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S.
is
80,000,000.

(Yes, that's 80 million)

(B) The number of accidental gun deaths
per year, all age groups,
is
1,500.

(C) The number of accidental deaths
per gun owner
is
.000188.

Statistics courtesy of FBI

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So, statistically, doctors are approximately
9,000 times more dangerous than
gun owners.

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Remember, 'Guns don't kill people, doctors do.'

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN,
BUT
Almost everyone has at least one doctor.
This means you are over 900 times more likely to be killed by a doctor as a gun owner!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Please alert your friends
to this
alarming threat.

We must ban doctors
before this gets completely out of hand!

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Out of concern for the public at large,
I withheld the statistics on
lawyers
for fear the shock would cause
people to panic and seek medical attention!

Hat Tip: Susan R

INVESTIGATE THOSE ANTI-MOSQUE PEOPLE NOW!!!!!

2010-08-18T19:51:00.003-05:00

The Mosque at Ground Zero was elevated to national status plus by President Obama at a Ramadan dinner at the White House last week.

The issue has gone viral in the US since then.

Now, Nancy Pelosi wants to investigate who has made this such a political issue.

Uhhhhh, call the White House, Ms. Pelosi.......read it all here.

Rod Blagojevich guilty of one count

2010-08-17T18:54:00.002-05:00

Let's see. After a major Federal trial, the former governor of Illinois is convicted of ONE count??????????

Read it all here.

And now the Fed's are going to retry him?????? Uh, I hope this time they put President O and Rambo on the stand. I have a lot of questions I would ask.

Stay tuned. This ought to be good!!!!

Muslims have right to build Mosque....Christians can't build church

2010-08-17T17:38:00.004-05:00

No one less than the President of the United States has waded full depth into the controversy to support Muslims who want to build a new Mosque at Ground Zero. The place where radical muslims killed 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001.

After all the President said "our Founders wanted there to be Freedom of Religion" and we have to preserve that in this case.

Okay, but what about the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church which was destroyed when the twin towers fell Apparantly this Christian church does not have the same rights? The Port Authority which has tripped all over itself to approve of the Mosque and ended talks with the Greek Orthodox Church......no rebuild!!

Really? Read it all here.

We will wait to see what the President says about the rights of this Church, which existed at this site prior to the radical Muslim murder of 3,000 Americans.

Blame the American People.......again.....

2010-08-17T09:24:00.002-05:00

The President claims he did not support building the Mosque at Ground Zero. He supported their right to do so.

So he went to great lengths to support something no one was discussing. We know what their rights are. We were discussing the appropriatness of the project.

As reported here,

Pres. Barack Obama’s ringing statement in favor of the Ground Zero mosque had a gaping escape clause: He didn’t necessarily support the mosque.

Not that he bothered to spell that out for his entranced listeners at an iftar dinner at the White House last Friday night, or to those of his supporters who rushed to hail the “finest moment” of his presidency. “Moment” turned out to be the right word. Less than 24 hours later he was telling reporters he hadn’t taken a position on the “wisdom” of the mosque project, only on the organizers’ “right to build a place of worship and community center on private property in lower Manhattan.”

So, all the uproar is our fault because we could not parse his words the way HE was parsing them.

Shame on us!

Deja Vu

2010-08-17T06:35:00.002-05:00

Remember way back in 2008 and The Housing Crisis? Well, who can forget! Here it is 2010 and we STILL have a housing crisis......a housing crisis built on bad loans, bad loan policies, and bad political policy that in essence said it is a fundamental right to own a home.

So we put a lot, a whole lot, of people into homes who could not afford them. And we let a lot, a whole lot, of people speculate in real estate who had no business doing so. And who greased the wheels for this? Freddi and Fannie.

So did we learn our lesson from this disastor? Apparantly not, because we are at it again, read it all here.

Faced with the utter failure of its TARP funded mortgage bailout, the Obama administration is now turning to the left’s old stand-in for housing market interference: the government-sponsored entities (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Fannie Mae is now working with the National Council of State Housing Agencies to let people buy houses with little or no down payment just like the GSEs did at the height of the housing bubble. And last week, Freddie Mac was also promoting no-down payment loans, this time through an array of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs. All this despite the fact that last week Fannie Mae announced it lost $1.2 billion in the second quarter of this year, and this week Freddie Mac announced a $4.71 billion loss. Both companies were also forced to ask for more Obama bailout cash, including $1.5 billion of your tax dollars for Fannie and another $1.8 billion for Freddie.

No wonder the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill did nothing about Fannie and Freddie; the Obama administration had every intention of continuing to use them to prop up the housing market. These programs will do nothing but delay the inevitable housing market correction. Instead of letting the market sort out what these homes are really worth, the Obama administration is only prolonging economic hardship by making it harder for new home buyers to afford a moderately priced home and making it harder for those who need to move for work to sell their current homes.

Two Wrong/Bad Policies do not make the Economy Right.

Lies, Lies, and Damnable Lies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Part II

2010-08-16T10:52:00.003-05:00

House Democrats this week will consider another cut to the Food Stamps program to fund Michelle "Antionette" Obama's “Let’s Move” initative.

Why is Food Stamps taking the cut? Here is the shocker of an answer:

Food stamps have made multiple appearances on the fiscal chopping block because Democrats have few other places to turn to offset the cost of legislation. Read it all here.

So let's see if we have this straight. In a $3.5 trillion Federal Government budget, the only place to find some spare cash is in the Food Stamps budget?

This is a lie. It is cover for something else. It is deception of the worst kind and the typical government use of the weakest to jam home the case for more revenues.

Shameful and dispicable aren't strong enough terms. Maybe EVIL is appropriate.

From the President's Lips: ....Muslim's Rights to Build

2010-08-16T10:34:00.002-05:00

August 13, 2010, from Barack Obama:

Friday: 'Let me be clear: As a citizen and as President I believe that Muslims have the same right ... to build a place of worship and a community centre on private property in Lower Manhattan'

That is clear: he supports building a Muslim Mosque on the site where radical Muslims killed 3,000 American citizens.

See any problem with that?

Racial Inflation?

2010-08-14T20:06:00.002-05:00

The other day, I posted an article that suggested that as a Nation, we may be suffering from Black Fatigue. See it here.

With all the ethics questions for the Congressional Black Caucus, with the Dept of Justice blind eye to black-on-white crime, to the cries of racism over the TEA Parties, with little real power behind those claims, we may also be witnessing something I am now calling Racial Inflation!

And I define this as this: the more the liberal black institutional lobby plays the Race Card, the less effect it has.

Hence, Racial Inflation!

Build the Mosque he says: Is the President Muslim?

2010-08-14T07:32:00.003-05:00

President Barack Obama on Friday endorsed a controversial plan to build a mosque and Islamic center just blocks from Ground Zero in Manhattan, despite the strong objections of conservatives, the ADL and those who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks.“Ground Zero is, indeed, hallowed ground,” Obama said at a White House dinner celebrating the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. “But let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances.”

Under the First Amendment, Muslims have the right to worship in this country but that does not give them the right to build where they want and when they want. No other religion has that right either. If anti-abortion Evangelical Christians want to build a church next to an abortion clinic, in all likelyhood they will be denied a building permit to do so because of the expectation of interrupting the work of the abortion clinic.

Likewise here, Ground Zero is hallowed ground: where some 3,000 Americans were killed by Islamic extremists. The construction of an Islamic Mosque will forever escalate the feelings of hatred that families of the victims must feel for those who killed their loved ones.

Healing will require the mosque go elsewhere.

So, why is our President, who bows to Saudi princes, and apologizes to muslims overseas so in favor of this? Is he at heart a Muslim also?

When Cornered: Blame Bush!

2010-08-13T12:08:00.003-05:00

Embattled Rep. Maxine Waters on Friday blamed the Bush administration for her ethics problems -- saying she had to intervene with the Treasury Department on behalf of minority-owned banks seeking federal bailout funds -- including one tied to her husband -- because the Treasury Department wouldn't schedule its own appointments.

The California Democrat said in a Capitol Hill news conference
-- an event rarely held during a congressional recess -- that she reached out to then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in late 2008 when his department failed to respond to the National Bank Association's request for a meeting.

But the House ethics committee, which is investigating Waters for allegedly improperly using her position for personal gain, says in its report of charges that when the meeting was held, the officers of only one bank came -- OneUnited.

That's a problem for Waters since her husband, Sidney Williams, served as a member of OneUnited's board of directors from January 2004 until April 2008, and was a stockholder in the bank.

OOOOps! The truth hurts! But nevermind,,,,,,,BLAME BUSH!

More Christian Persecution in the name of Freedom

2010-08-12T06:25:00.003-05:00

Now the anti-religous, anti-Christian movement heads west. Leaders of a Christian organization are convinced a group of atheists were successful in getting annual fellowship services moved from the Missoula County Fair, but church organizers say they’re determined to make the best of their new location.

Sunday morning church is a long-standing tradition at the Missoula County Fair, thanks to the Missoula Christian Network’s planning. But that tradition fell by the wayside this year after complaints from a national atheist group, which called the service “a violation of civil rights.”

Rebecca Markert, staff attorney for the atheist/agnostic group Freedom From Religion, said, “Anyone who went to the church service received free admission to the county fair, which is a violation of the Civil Rights Act. It discriminates against non-churchgoers.”

According to Steve Earle, director of the Missoula County Fairgrounds, the churchgoers did receive free admission – but so did every other Sunday morning fair attendee. The fair does not offer churchgoers any special privileges, Earle told FoxNews.com.

So, once again, this is nothing more than a radical atheist group exerting power through intimidation to prevent a community from coming together to worship at a public event.

There is nothing in the Constitution which prohibits this; in fact the Constitution protects this precious Freedom. We are going to have to fight back to preserve it.

Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain!!

2010-08-11T19:11:00.002-05:00

Now that the House has passed a $26 Billion bill to support teacher Unions and pension benefits, you no doubt can hear the Food Stamp lobby squealing like stuck pigs about cuts in Food Stamps used to prop up the teacher unions.

And to many of us, it might seem somewhat cruel to take food out of children's mouths to prop up teacher pensions.

Oh, but do not worry. This is Washington, and nothing of the sort will happen. Read it all here.

After all,

Democratic rank and file members, including Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, say the cuts won’t take effect until 2014 and will merely return food stamp benefits to pre-stimulus levels.

Translation: we are only cutting the INCREASE in benefits. There is no reduction.

Welcome to life in Obamaville..........

What will it take to make the States Adopt Secession?

2010-08-11T18:38:00.004-05:00

Not only is Washington DC suing Arizona over immigration. They are pushing the stimulus programs and hijacking state budgets in the process. Read it all here.

Standing with teachers yesterday in the White House Rose Garden, Mr. Obama said, "We can't stand by and do nothing while pink slips are given to the men and women who educate our children or keep our communities safe." Maintaining the salaries and generous benefit plans for members of teachers unions is indeed a top Democratic priority. That's why $10 billion of the bill's funding is allocated to education, and the money comes with strings that will multiply the benefits for this core Obama constituency.

Specifically, the bill stipulates that federal funds must supplement, not replace, state spending on education. Also, in each state, next year's spending on elementary and secondary education as a percentage of total state revenues must be equal to or greater than the previous year's level.

Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi did the math and figured out his state will be worse off. Mr. Barbour says the bill will force his state "to rewrite its current year [fiscal 2011] budget. Preliminary estimates of the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration show that we will now have to spend between $50-100 million of state funds—funds that must be taken away from public safety, human services, mental health and other state priorities and given to education—in order for an additional $98 million of federal funds to be granted to education. There is no justification for the federal government hijacking state budgets, but that is exactly what Congress has done."

So guess who gets to clean up the state's budget books when things go south? The state's taxpayers of course.

This Federal Government is out of control. It needs to be stopped.

Is our Nation suffering from Black Fatigue?

2010-08-10T08:26:00.002-05:00

Blacks, or Afro-Americans, make up about 12.4 % of the population, as cited here. Hispanics make up about 15% and whites make up about 75%.

As we head into the backside of 2010, with mid-term elections along the way, it seems curious that a major crime story like the recent one from Connecticut has not caused more of an outrage or received more media coverage than it has. After all, a deranged former employee of a business killed eight of his co-workers.

Why is the nation so quiet about this? Is it simply another case of black on white crime that the liberal media wants to hush up because it does not fit with liberal narrative about life in America: where whites are racists and black are victims?

Or is it that as a nation, a nation still majority white and minority black, we are suffering from Black Fatigue?

What do I mean by Black Fatigue? In a nutshell I define Black Fatigue as the condition where the nation wants Black Americans to have all the freedoms and liberties and opportunities to succeed that any citizen of this Country should enjoy by virtue of their Citizenship. But the nation is tired of being called racist every time a black demagogue feels spurned, tired of watching a black man kill eight whites and all the media talks about is what a victim the black man is, tired of pouring billions upon billions of dollars into anti-poverty programs only to see claims that "poverty" is worse than ever; knowing that many of those "in poverty" have flashy cars and all the other toys of modern America, yet still line up for handouts. The nation is tired of reverse discrimination in the name of equality. The nation is tired of bending over backwards to excuse poor black behavior. The nation is tired of walking on eggshells, fearful of being labeled a racist for not walking on eggshells. And the nation is tired of being labeled racist because we are tired of paying for all the Government programs that don't seem to alleviate any problems, rather they just seem to perpetuate a dependent class which is nothing more than a modern version of slavery.

Black Murders Eight Whites; Media Blames Whites

2010-08-10T06:31:00.002-05:00

After 50 years of being inundated with stories of white racism, and being taught in college that in this white-dominated society only a white can be a racist, the American public has been properly brainwashed into accepting the otherwise incredible: A black man murdered eight white people at his place of work because they were white, and the media story is about the murderer’s alleged experiences of racism.

To those closest to him, Omar Thornton was caring, quiet and soft-spoken. . . . But underneath, Thornton seethed with a sense of racial injustice for years that culminated in a shooting rampage Tuesday in which the Connecticut man killed eight and wounded two others at his job at Hartford Distributors in Manchester before killing himself.

“I know what pushed him over the edge was all the racial stuff that was happening at work,” said his girlfriend, Kristi Hannah.

In fact, just before he started shooting, Thornton had been told he had the choice of quitting or being fired for stealing beer, and there was video proof of his doing so. But this fact — the one indisputable and most pertinent pre-murder fact — got lost within the larger context of Thornton’s claims of being a victim of whites.

Where does all this slanted reporting come from?

Just as leading liberals would not ascribe Islamist motives — until there was no possibility of denying them — to recent Muslim attacks on Americans, so the liberal media — i.e., almost all news outlets in America — are not branding these Connecticut murders for what they are: racist. Thornton actually told the 911 operator, “I wish I could have gotten more of the people [i.e., whites].”

We are repeatedly told by liberals — both whites and blacks — that America needs an honest dialogue on race. Needless to say, they don’t mean it, because the moment a white or a black says anything critical of black behavior, he is labeled racist or Uncle Tom. So most nonliberal whites and blacks just keep quiet.

And where has the current intensity of racial tensions come from? The White House and the Obama Administration.

Marriage, Homosexuality, Courts, and Constitution

2010-08-09T19:15:00.003-05:00

The federal same-sex marriage decision out of California sets into motion a sequence of events that will result in a Supreme Court earthquake two years from now. The Supreme Court can either vindicate traditional marriage, or forever redefine the most basic unit of human civilization. Read it all here.

On August 4, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California decided Perry v. Schwarzenegger. The Federal Judge in essence substituted his thinking for that of 7 million California voters who had decided in their state that marriage would remain between one mand and one woman. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that marriage is a fundamental right in the U.S. Constitution. In this ruling, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker held that the California Constitution violates that federal right by not allowing gays to marry each other.

Although not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, marriage is an implied fundamental right. The test for whether a right is a fundamental right is whether it is rooted in the history and tradition of the American people, and essential to an Anglo-American scheme of ordered liberty.

As one commenter to this article added, "The Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and The Ten Commandments of Almighty God are the Triune Pillars of this Republic. The basis of our "Christian Nation, Supreme Court Case, 1892" was the Bible. And that is what the enemies of America want removed from our Nation. It is the Bible and God they want US to exclude from this "Christian Nation."

Religion, morality, freedom, and liberty are under massive attack from the Socialists who want to redistribute wealth to the various interest groups who want what they want, no matter what the Christian tradition of this country is.

Together, they may bring down this country which gives them the freedom to undertake their subversive ways.

Local Govt's cut services to deal with budget pinches

2010-08-08T06:42:00.003-05:00

Local Governments do not have the lavish streams of revenue they had just a few years ago, read it all here. Property tax revenues are stagnant or falling. Citizens will not approve new taxes, and depopulation or foreclosures have hit hard.

Cities by and large still seem to be resorting to old tricks to punish voters who won't fork over more money to finance bloated city budgets.

The typical response from City Hall is to declare "the budget has been cut to the bone" and start laying off teachers, police, firemen, or cutting back on libraries, street lights, or sanitation workers. Note that administrations never get cut, pensions don't get cut, benefits don't get cut as those are "obligations".

The voters need to send clear signals to their local governments on what they think are "obligations" or not. I bet the voters have a different take on that.

The Car Government Builds for (not) Every Man

2010-08-06T13:36:00.005-05:00

There it is: the pride of Government Motors; even Prez Obama had to sit behind the wheel to enjoy the new-car smell of the Chevy volt and the billions in Government money that props it up.

You see, the Chevy Volt has a couple of techical features that at first might seem to cramp its style: a range of 40 miles on a full battery charge and enough room for perhaps two full-sized adults and precious little luggage.

With its $41,000 price tag, it has a couple of marketing problems also. The first is, most people can't afford it even if they wanted one. But no fear, the Government is offering a $7,500 tax rebate to those who persevere and actually buy one of these things.

That raises a question, will anyone buy it? Yes, says GM's marketing consulting firm; Deloitte Consulting says that the demand for such cars is from “young, very high income individuals” from households that make more than $200,000 a year, which is why the Volt will be rolled out in upscale, trendy urban markets.

Isn't that just so special? The working class folks who can't afford such a monstrosity will be paying taxes to subsidize the upper-income somethings with no children who will buy it.

Sounds like a scheme only Michelle "Antoinette" Obama could make up!

Michelle "Antionette" Obama....." I do it for the little people"

2010-08-06T13:19:00.003-05:00

The 2010 Spainish Vacation of Michelle Obama and 40 of her "closest" friends is reaching French Revolution proportions in awareness by the "little people". Read it all .......here.

Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too familiar with during this economic downturn. It was a key theme in President Obama's inaugural address to the nation, and he's referenced it numerous times when lecturing the country on how to get back on its feet.

But while most of the country is pinching pennies and downsizing summer sojourns - or forgoing them altogether - the Obamas don't seem to be heeding their own advice. While many of us are struggling, the First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her "closest friends." According to CNN, the group is expected to occupy 60 to 70 rooms, more than a third of the lodgings at the 160-room resort. Not exactly what one would call cutting back in troubled times.

Reports are calling the lodgings of Obama's Spanish fiesta, the Hotel Villa Padierna in Marbella, "luxurious," "posh" and "a millionaires' playground." Estimated room rate per night? Up to a staggering $2,500. Method of transportation? Air Force Two.

And read here about the rising anger of taxpayers who are footing the bill for this largesse. Of course you have to read that in a UK paper since the Lame Stream Media in the US totally ignore the stories of Michelle "Antionette" Obama

"A Tidal Wave is Coming....." Pat Cadell

2010-08-06T07:31:00.004-05:00

Former Carter pollster Pat Cadell sees it coming; look here.

He calls the voter's mindset, "pre-revolutionary".

I think he misses the point a little: he better pray there is a pre-revolution in November. The reason is that two things COULD spark a REAL revolution in this country otherwise:

1. People find their wealth has been stolen by the government

2. People find out that their votes no longer count; they have no voice

If in November they find out they have no voice, they may not wait for #1 to hit home.

2010-08-06T07:30:00.000-05:00

GM makes political donations----why you should care

2010-08-06T07:08:00.002-05:00

GM, aka Government Motors, is owned by you and me. We have 60% of the tab. So, are you in favor of your company making political donations to the Black Caucus? With your money? That is exactly what they are doing, read it all here.

The Federal takeover of GM was nasty; bondholders, stockholders got screwed. The Unions ended up with equity to protect their rich pensions, and we got stuck with the bill. And now this politically controlled entity is making political donations to favored groups who helped grease the skids for this corrupt takeover.

This is political self-dealing and corruption of the highest order.

Just SOP in Obamaville.......

You with the Lemonade Stand----get a license!!!

2010-08-05T16:17:00.003-05:00

Did you ever have a Lemonade Stand? Hopefully not in Oregan! You might have been shut down for not having a $120 Restaurant license.

Read it all here.

Oregon county officials have apologized after health inspectors told a 7-year-old girl that she can’t run a lemonade stand without a $120 temporary restaurant license.

Jeff Cogen, chairman of the Multnomah County Board of Commissions, told FoxNews.com that he apologized to the mother, Maria Fife, and is now turning his attention to changing the rules.

Socialist Non-Constitutionalist Confirmed to Supreme Court

2010-08-05T16:08:00.002-05:00

These Republicans-In-Name-Only helped Confirm Kagen to the Supreme Courts:

Collins-Maine

Graham-South Carolina

Gregg-New Hampshire

Lugar-Indiana

Snowe-Maine

And Nelson of Nebraska was the only Democrate to vote against the Socialist

Prayers are disorderly conduct!....Updated!!

2010-08-04T17:29:00.002-05:00

As we reported the other day, a man was arrested outside a Chicago abortion clinc for praying!! See here.

Well, now the city of Chicago has dropped the charges!

A clerk at the Cook County Court confirmed Wednesday that the case against Joe Holland -- a 25-year-old graduate student arrested while praying the rosary outside a Planned Parenthood facility -- had been dropped. The case gained widespread attention after it was reported by FoxNews.com on Monday.

The Chicago Police Department had no comment on Holland's dismissal. Earlier it had contended that Holland violated the city's new "Bubble Zone" ordinance, which prevents people near a health clinic from approaching within eight feet of another person with the intent to speak to them or hand them a leaflet without their consent. It also prevents people from interfering with another person's ability to enter or exit the building.

Planned Parenthood spokeswoman Lara Philipps would not comment directly on the dismissal of Holland's case, but she said she hopes patients' "bubble zones" will continue to be protected.

What a shame there is no protective bubble around the fetus......oh, there is....it's called the womb! No rights there!

Do You Hear Us Now Barack??????

2010-08-04T05:20:00.002-05:00

ObamaCare has taken two blows to the gut in the last week. Virginia is pushing ahead with a court case to try the Constitutionality of ObamaCare's insurance mandate and now voters is Missouri have said HELL NO by a 71 to 29 percent margin against the mandate. Read it all
here.

Is this the momentum that is building toward a total repudiation of the Obama agenda?

Let's hope so!!

Great Democrat Sayings......

2010-08-02T11:16:00.001-05:00

Great Orators of the Democrat Party

"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The buck stops here." - Harry S. Truman

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy

And, from today's genius Democrats...

"It depends what your definition of 'IS' is?'' - Bill Clinton

"That Obama ... I would like to cut his NUTS off." - Jesse Jackson

"Those rumors are false ... I believe in the sanctity of marriage." - John Edwards

"I invented the Internet." - Al Gore

"The next Person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ASS." - Joe Biden

"America is ... is no longer, uh, what it ... it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was ... uh, and I say to myself, 'uh, I don't want that future, uh, uh for my children." - Barack Obama

"I have campaigned in all 57 states." - Barack Obama (Quoted 2008)

"You don't need God anymore, you have us Democrats." - Nancy Pelosi (Quoted 2006)

"Paying taxes is voluntary." - Sen. Harry Reid

"Bill is the greatest husband and father I know. No one is more faithful, true, and honest than he." - Hillary Clinton (Quoted 1998)

And the most recent gem of wisdom from the "Mother Moron":

"We just have to pass the Healthcare Bill to see what's in it." - Nancy Pelosi (Quoted March, 2010)

Hat Tip: Susan R

Prayers are disorderly conduct!

2010-08-02T09:52:00.003-05:00

The man on the left praying was arrested in Chicago for disorderly conduct. Read it all here.

Chicago has an inane "bubble law" which says a protester cannot enter someone else's bubble!

The yellow shirted Planned Parenthood person entered the praying man's bubble but he got arrested!

Watch the video here.

Notice the disorder the man provokes!!!!!

Dysfunctional Liberalism

2010-08-02T09:08:00.003-05:00

East St. Louis, long ruled by a liberal class that pushed the Progressive Agenda, is now broke. So, how do they address their fiscal problems? By cutting bloated city government, bloated school administration rolls, cutting government salaries? Of course not: they go after the police and fire forces--partly because the unions for these agencies would not compromise.

This is a typical government response to fiscal problems: cut those services most vital to the citizenary so that those citizens will scream so loud that the services will be restored after higher taxes are exacted. Read it all here.

Never let a crisis go to waste!

Is there a Double Standard?

2010-07-31T08:24:00.003-05:00

Think there is a double standard in Washington?

Here are the 13 allegations against Charlie Rangel, here.

Rangels response: "a little sloppiness in my paperwork"

Yeah, tax evasion and controlled rent violations in New York City and campaign solicitation violations.

On just the tax evasion alone, how do you think you and I would fair with that charge? Can we say "hello Leavenworth?????"

Double Standard: the Ruling Class and the rest of us "unwashed"

Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?

2010-07-31T07:52:00.003-05:00

Where did that headline come from? Some far-right minuteman blog somewhere up in the mountains out west?

No, actually from staid, buttoned-up, Investors Business Daily!

The article makes a pretty good case that we may be closer to 1776 than we think:

The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.

Too many overreaching laws give the president too much discretion to make too many open-ended rules controlling too many aspects of our lives. There's no end to the harm an out-of-control president can do.

Fear and uncertainty stalk the land. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says America's financial future is "unusually uncertain."

Obama is building an imperium of public debt and crushing taxes, contrary to George Washington's wise farewell admonition: "cherish public credit ... use it as sparingly as possible ... avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt ... bear in mind, that towards the payment of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not ... inconvenient and unpleasant ... ."

And most telling..........A wounded rampaging president can do much damage — and, like Caesar, the evil he does will live long after he leaves office, whenever that may be.

The overgrown, un-pruned power of the presidency to reward, punish and intimidate may now be so overwhelming that his re-election in 2012 is already assured — Chicago-style.

Nancy! Turn on the Pump, the Swamp is getting Deeper!

2010-07-30T18:06:00.003-05:00

Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House once declared that she was going to "drain the swamp of corruption", speaking to persistent ethics violations in the House.

Well this week we have seen the Charlie Rangle ethics charges go public and a different committee is working toward a similar outcome for Maxine Waters who just happened to lobby the Govt for a bank that her husband owned stock in.

Read it all here.

The Wizards of Central Planning

2010-07-30T12:21:00.002-05:00

Question: it's campaign time. How do you make your anti-business appear to be pro-business for campaign purposes?

Well, you fly all over the country touting your new Small Business Loan Program. People clap, cheer and go home.

The small business folks you supposedly are trying to help (actually you are trying only to help yourself) take a look at your program and say "no way!". Why is that?

Read it all here.

And if you've been paying attention over the last 18 months, you're probably asking, what's the catch?

Glad you asked: most of the tax cuts are so narrowly targeted as to be economically trivial. The list includes bonus depreciation, small business expensing and a temporary zero capital gains tax rate for small business start-ups. These would be in place for a year or two and then vanish, which means they'll do little to change business behavior.

The bill authorizes Treasury to purchase up to $30 billion of stock in small, community banks across the country. The banks in turn would agree to issue as much as $300 billion in loans to small businesses that they wouldn't otherwise lend to.

Here's the best part: The whiz kids at the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation estimate that this program will raise $1.1 billion for the federal government. So there really is a free lunch.

The false assumption here is that banks are reluctant to lend because they lack the capital. This ignores that small business lending is also down because the business demand for loans is weak. Businesses don't typically expand when Washington is raising dividend, capital gains and personal income tax rates while piling on the new costs of ObamaCare and other regulations.

So what is the bottom line for all t his bureaucratic sleight of hand?

The tax cut in this bill will provide $12 billion in relief over 10 years. The tax increase that Mr. Obama favors for 2011 would raise what the Joint Committee on Taxation figures will be $600 billion of revenues, about half of which comes from the coffers of small business. So the tax hikes, which are permanent, are about 50 times larger than the tax cuts, which are temporary. And the Obama Administration wonders why some people think this President is antibusiness.

More Hope than Change.............

Campaigner in Chief: Auto Bailouts a Good Thing

2010-07-30T06:54:00.003-05:00

Now that he has done his appearance on "The View" to bolster his support among women, he is heading to Michigan to fuel up his Union buddies by explaining again how the Government Motors bailout was so good for America, without saying how it was sooooo much better for the Unions that poured hundreds of millions into his election.

He also probably won't say anything about all the Chrysler creditors and autodealers who got robbed by his heavy handed bailout of Chrysler either.

Gotta put some lipstick on those Pigs! Read it all here.

Warren Buffet: Kindly old gentleman? Or not?

2010-07-29T06:25:00.002-05:00

Warren Buffet has the kindly looking face and slow demeanor that we might associate with our own grandfathers. He has made billions investing in industries that make real products as well as in the service industry, eg, insurance.

We have read stories about how he has given away billions of his amassed fortune to good causes. What we have not read is that Warren Buffet is among one of the most prolific funders of abortion in this country! Read it all here.

IN 1999, UTA LANDY, a former director of the National Abortion Federation, and Philip Darney, her husband and an OB-GYN professor at U.C.S.F., created the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program. The program gives medical schools two or three years of seed money for abortion training for OB-GYN residents. Through it, 58 campuses in the U.S. and Canada have received financing. Landy also directs the Family Planning Fellowship, with Jody Steinauer as the associate director.

The money for the Ryan and the Family Planning Fellowship comes from one foundation and from one family. The donor has chosen to remain anonymous, which helps to explain why there’s been so little publicity about the pro-choice strategy of bringing abortion into academic medicine. It has been covered by a veil of semisecrecy.

At the same time, as the Ryan and the fellowship have expanded to dozens of institutions, many people have come to know about the source of funding. In the course of my reporting, two doctors who had not done the fellowship themselves, but who work in universities, volunteered to me that the money for the programs comes from the Buffett Foundation. They meant the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation.

Susan Thompson Buffett was married to Warren Buffett and served as president of the foundation that bears her name. She died in 2004. Two years later, Warren Buffett gave the foundation about $3 billion. He said that he expected the gift to increase the foundation’s annual expenditures by $150 million. And in fact, total giving by the foundation, where two of the Buffetts’ children sit on the board, increased from $202 million in 2007 to $347 million in 2008, according to tax returns.

The tax records also show that most of the foundation’s spending goes to abortion and contraception advocacy and research. According to Access Philanthropy, a research institute that focuses on the giving preferences of foundations and corporate donors, family planning is one of the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation’s main purposes. The foundation’s nonprofit 990 tax form shows that in 2008, Planned Parenthood and its affiliates in the U.S. received about $45 million; the international arm of the organization got about $8 million. There is no line item for the Ryan program or the Family Planning Fellowship. But the foundation paid out around $50 million to universities with one or both of the programs.

Puts a little different light on the kindly old image of Warren Buffet.

2010-07-27T13:28:00.002-05:00

President Obama is set to make history this week: with the Boy Scouts?

Nope, he will appear on "The View", an innane morning talk show that is worth the air time it burns up, but attracts viewers who can't resist watching a "cat fight".

And what about the Scouts? Oh, nothing much. Just marking their Hundreth Anniversary at their summer Jamboree. Nothing that a President who didn't grow up in America could care much about. Read it all here.

White House Backed Release of Lockerbie Bomber

2010-07-26T06:33:00.003-05:00

The iconic picture above defines the anger and fear that terrorism can strike anywhere and at anytime and is perpatrated by slimy characters who will not put on a uniform and fight conventional wars.

As noted here, we now find out that our own President Obama agreed with releasing the Lockerbie bomber on grounds of "compassion" rather than having him locked up in a Libyan prison.

Compassion? What about the hundreds that died on that plane? What compassion did they get from Abdel Baset al-Megrahi?

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.

The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama's claim last week that all Americans were "surprised, disappointed and angry" to learn of Megrahi's release.

In the letter, sent on August 12 last year to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and justice officials, Mr LeBaron wrote that the US wanted Megrahi to remain imprisoned in view of the nature of the crime.

The note added: "Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose."

Which is more sad: that we aided the release of this monster or that our President lied to us about his official position on it? With this outfit, that's a tough choice indeed.

Stunning Imagery of Gulf Oil Slick!

2010-07-24T19:15:00.000-05:00

Hat Tip: Wima R

John Kerry not doing his Patriotic Duty?

2010-07-23T14:18:00.003-05:00

Remember Joe Biden told us it was our "patriotic duty" to pay taxes. Maybe John Kerry did not get the memo?

Seems Kerry's new $7million yacht is tucked away in Rhode Island instead of Kerry's homestate of Massachuesetts.

Now why might that be?

Well there are no boat taxes in RI and in MA one gets hit with 6.25%.........so the Kerry's save a whopping $500,000 by keeping it down the road a bit in RI.

But what about that patriotic duty thing?

Let's wait and hear John Kerry speak for himself.

Off Topic: Seen in Texas

2010-07-23T08:29:00.001-05:00

Hat Tip: Susan R

Off Topic: it's a race!

2010-07-22T16:51:00.001-05:00

Hat Tip: Wilma R

One Reason we hate +2000 page bills no one reads

2010-07-22T06:56:00.002-05:00

Remember the famous Pelosi quote? "We have to pass the bill in order to find out what is in it"!

Well, read here something that is in the bill which has not a darn thing to do with healthcare!

Those already outraged by the president's health care legislation now have a new bone of contention -- a scarcely noticed tack-on provision to the law that puts gold coin buyers and sellers under closer government scrutiny.

If you buy or sell gold coins, the Government wants to know all about it and will tax you in the process.

Starting Jan. 1, 2012, Form 1099s will become a means of reporting to the Internal Revenue Service the purchases of all goods and services by small businesses and self-employed people that exceed $600 during a calendar year. Precious metals such as coins and bullion fall into this category and coin dealers have been among those most rankled by the change.

So every time a member of the public sells more than $600 worth of gold to a dealer, Piret said, the transaction will have to be reported to the government by the buyer.

And somewhere in that vast Federal database, it will be recorded what you bought or sold and presumbably what you are holding on to.

Remember when FDR confiscated gold in the 1930's?????

Flashback 2007: Greatest Threat to Obama Campaign?

2010-07-21T06:46:00.003-05:00

It's 2007 again: The Obama campaign is rolling full steam ahead; the Clinton campaign is on the ropes. Then potential disastor rises up in the form of Rev Jerimiah Wright, none other than Obama's spiritual advisor.

His anti-American, anti-white rhetoric threatens the Obama's carefully crafted, pleasing, innocent to whites, persona. What to do?

Read it all here.

It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama’s campaign.

The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”

According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

And so, in what used to be called "the media", what we really have is nothing but a bunch of Pravda-like propogandists for the far left liberal Progressives in this country.

What will a Hurricane do to the Gulf Oil?

2010-07-20T07:05:00.001-05:00

For nearly a hundred days we have watched as oil pours into the Gulf of Mexico because of the Deepwater Horizon accident.

Now we are in Hurricane Season. So, we might wonder......what would/could happen if all that oil got sucked up into a hurricane.

Here is what Dr. Jeff Masters, the founder of WeatherUnderground.com thinks about that.

NAACP: clean thy own house........

2010-07-20T06:44:00.003-05:00

Last week we posted here on an NAACP resolution about TEA Parties being racist.

Well, well, look what a difference a week can make: see here.

This is a video about a Georgia USDA executive explaining how she would not help a white farmer who was losing his land. So, she sent him off to "one of his own", a white lawyer, for help.

If you listen carefully to the video you can hear that the audience loves the presentation and finds it very amusing.

Which just proves once again: we are all sinners. If you see someone acting truly racist, you need to try and right that wrong.

But to point to a whole collection of people and call them racists simply shows the lack of humility which YOU possess.

Required Reading: America's Ruling Class

2010-07-19T18:16:00.003-05:00

This brilliant article from the American Spectator makes the case that Americans have become captive to a professional ruling class; irregardless of what political party is in power or sharing power.

The key objective of the ruling class is to........continue to rule! They care not for their "subjects" nor the Constitution. Many have bluntly said so!

Please read this in detail. We will talk about it more later.

Veep Biden: The gift that keeps on giving......

2010-07-18T18:11:00.002-05:00

In this story from Fox News, VP Biden tried to reverse the claim made by press secretary Robert Gibbs last week.

Democrats going up the chain all the way to Vice President Biden tried feverishly on Sunday to reverse Robert Gibbs' prediction that Republicans could seize the House in November, as GOP lawmakers claimed Washington indeed was on the verge of a power shift.

And here is the punch line from Biden: .......Biden made a confident prediction about his party's chances in November. He said voters don't yet grasp the benefits of Democrat-passed policies but that they will begin to crystallize in time for the midterm elections.

Oh but Joe, we DO realize the "benefits" and we realize what they are and will be doing to this country for a hell of a long time. And that's why we are going to cut as many of you Progressive Democrats to the ditch as possible so we can take this country back and repeal as much of this socialistic crap as we can.

Lessons from Nature.....

2010-07-18T16:17:00.003-05:00

This article from National Review Online provides some interesting things humans ought to pay attention to in nature.

Westchester County, in the suburbs of New York City, was home to Hillary Clinton when she pretended to represent New York in the U.S. Senate, and its voters gave Barack Obama 63 percent of their ballots in 2008. It’s the sort of place that causes heavy breathing among the liberal faithful devoutly awaiting the coming of the New Democratic Majority.

But Westchester County has a problem more often seen in rural, Republican-leaning jurisdictions: coyotes. These canine predators are a real menace, a fact that was dramatically illustrated in late June by the case of young Emily Hodulik, age six, who was attacked by a pair of coyotes on a leafy suburban street in the quaint town of Rye. The coyotes’ offensive proceeded along classically predatory lines as the canines ignored the other children in the group and targeted the smallest, weakest child. Miss Hodulik suffered serious bite wounds but escaped without life-threatening injuries.

Coyotes like to attack the little ones, human or otherwise. That was the case for one unfortunate coyote that attacked a puppy out for a jog with his master in Travis County, Texas, in the suburbs of Austin, where coyotes have it a little rougher than they do in suburban New York. That particular coyote had the bad luck to set his gaze on a puppy owned by Gov. Rick Perry, who produced a laser-sighted .380-caliber automatic pistol, loaded with hollowpoints, and sent it to the Happy Hunting Grounds.

People have a visceral reaction to guns, which is why the reactions to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago have been so emotional. One extraordinarily telling reaction came from David Ignatius of the Washington Post, whose response was headlined: “The Supreme Court Gun Decision Moves Us Toward Anarchy.” Mr. Ignatius wrote: “My biggest worry with Monday’s Supreme Court decision is that by ruling, in effect, that every American can apply for a gun license, the justices will make gun ownership much more pervasive in a society that already has too many guns. After all, if I know that my neighbor is armed and preparing for Armageddon situations where law and order break down (as so many are — just read the right-wing blogs) then I have to think about protecting my family, too. That’s the state-of-nature, everyone for himself logic that prevails in places such as Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan.”

Mr. Ignatius here is remarkably forthcoming: He is not worried about guns in the hands of criminals, but about guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, people who are willing to apply for a permit and jump through the bureaucratic hoops required of gun buyers

That is the essence of 21st-century progressivism: In matters ranging from financial derivatives to education to gun control, the Left believes that we face a choice between a masterful state and a Hobbesian war of all against all. For all of the smart set’s vaunted and self-congratulatory nuance, it is this absolutist vision, this Manichean horror, that forms the foundation of progressivism.

But the idea that individuals might use firearms lawfully to defend themselves is either anathema to progressives or inconceivable to them. President Obama’s reaction to the Heller decision, the predecessor to McDonald v. Chicago, suffered the inevitable lacunae: “I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to bear arms, but I also identify with the need for crime-ravaged communities to save their children from the violence that plagues our streets through commonsense, effective safety measures,” he said, unable to consider the possibility that citizens’ arming themselves against criminals is one potentially effective safety measure.

To use lethal force in self-defense is the ultimate declaration of independence, a kind of momentary secession from the authority of the government whose laws and prisons and police officers have, in that moment, failed the citizen.

Read it all; it basically records the horror of Progressives who find real life to be, well, "so very messy"!

Beware the Myth of Collective Salvation

2010-07-17T08:03:00.001-05:00

From a recent article I wrote:

Beware the Myth of Collective Salvation: The subject of Collective Salvation probably had its last great stand in the 1970's thru early 1990's under the guise of Liberation Theology, which primarily came out of the horror and suffering of South American civil wars. But here in the United States, we are now hearing it more and more and more. And unlike South America, where it sprang up from a synthesis between the communists and the Roman Catholic clergy, we are seeing it coming straight at us from our own Federal Government. That, in and of itself, should be very troubling to all faithful Christians.

First let me be very very clear. In Christianity and Christian Theology, salavation is an individual issue. Our salvation depends on Jesus Christ and our faith in Him as our Lord and Savior. Period, end of story, no ifs, no buts, and no add-ons, period!

Collective Salvation posits that there can be no wealth, unless all have wealth. There can be no successful people, unless all are successful. There can be no salvation until all achieve equality in all dimensions of humanity. The most sneaky formulation is that the grace of Jesus Christ has to be the same grace for everyone (more on that later).

Where wealth is mal-distributed (in someone's opinion), where some achieve worldly success but others don't (in somone's opinion), and where we all don't have all the same things (in someone's opinion), the priesthood of Collective Salvation demands that there must be sacrifices. In the theology of Collective Salvation, the poor and oppressed have a special duty to bring the wealthy oppressors to salvation by taking their wealth from them. The poor and oppressed cannot achieve salvation until they bring the wealthy to redemption by redistributing their wealth; hence the term "collective" salvation.

Please notice that in the previous paragraph there is no mention of Jesus! The arbitrars of equality are self-appointed judges who not only decide how wealth and success are to be portioned out, but also decide who will make sacrifices for the "Collective Salvation" of the whole.

Jesus told us a much different story of salvation. He told us (see the Gospel of John), "I am the truth, the way, and the life.........the path to the Father is through me". We each are personally responsible for our salvation through our devotion, worship, and faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. As we recently heard in the Gospel of Luke, we are to love our neighbors as ourselves, but that brotherly, Christian love is not to be confused with the Christian Theology of our own personal salvation. Everyone can partake of the grace of Jesus Christ through faith. But that in no way shape or form suggests that all will achieve equal outcomes in their earthly existance. You might say, that is what heaven is for!

Does this seem confusing? There are those who try to make it that way. Please talk to your clergy if this confusion troubles you.

Arizona: Illegal Immigration,,,,the facts

2010-07-15T19:19:00.003-05:00

The Obama administration declares, "the border is as secure as it has ever been!!"

Really? Then please take a look at this!!!!!

Warning!!!! Prayer outside Supreme Court is Illegal!!!!

2010-07-15T18:37:00.003-05:00

You can't make this up: read it all here.

A group of Christian students was ordered to stop praying outside the U.S. Supreme Court building on May 5 because a court police officer told them it was against the law.

The students were part of a junior high school American History class at Wickenburg Christian Academy in Arizona. After taking pictures on the steps of the Supreme Court building, their teacher gathered them to a side location where they formed a circle and began to pray.

According to Nate Kellum, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, a police officer “abruptly” interrupted the prayer and ordered the group to cease and desist.

“They were told to stop praying because they were violating the law and they had to take their prayer elsewhere,” Kellum told FOX News Radio.

A spokesperson for the Court said the Marshal of the Court will look into the events alleged by the ADF.
“The Court does not have a policy prohibiting prayer,” said public information officer Kathy Arberg in an email to FOX News Radio.

So the group of 15 students and seven adults left the Supreme Court and relocated to a sidewalk – where Rigo said the children stood in a gutter – and continued their prayer.

Are we at the Liberal Tipping Point?

2010-07-15T06:31:00.003-05:00

We have clearly reached the point where President Obama is no longer viewed as the "Messiah" except by himself and the most radical of his liberal base.

A great number of his liberal supporters naturally think he has not gone far enough toward enacting his agenda so they are angry.

A boatload of moderates including so-called independents and a big slug of white voters have finally realized they made a huge mistake in voting for him by thinking that "he had to govern from the center" and that his election was a way to wash away their "white guilt" for remaining racism in this country.

The polls are showing he is on the edge of a cliff as far as his support is concerned. Even the late-night comedians are taking persistant shots at him.

The next step in the polls will be a headlong rush toward buffunary, that is, being viewed as the pathetic leader that he is, rigidly locked into an ideology that hates this country and sincerely wishes to destroy it.

So, are we at that tipping point? Watch in the coming months. If he acts true to form as a despotic socialist, he will lash out more rather than pulling back in the name of self-preservation.

And Now.......Al Qaeda is Racist!!!!!!!!

2010-07-14T11:41:00.003-05:00

President Obama and WhiteHouse aids have declared Al Qaeda to be racist because they seemingly don't value African life and kill innocents without caring and they use Africans as cannon fodder in lower level suicide missions.

Read it all here.

Does this now mean the Dept of Justice and Eric Holder might become interested in fighting the Al Qaeda organization?

TEA Parties Vindicated!!

2010-07-14T10:12:00.004-05:00

While the NAACP is busy passing worthless resolutions condemming racisim in the TEA Party Movement, the Obama Administration is making come true one of the warnings heard all around the country last year about ObamaCare.

ObamaCare will now start paying for abortions using taxpayer money! Read it all here about new high risk plans going into effect in PA. These plans are going into effect in other states also, and most likely pro-abortion folks in those states will push for taxpayer funded abortions there also!

Remember all the democratic promises and the Executive order that bought off Stupak so "this could not happen"?

Lies, lies, damnable lies!

NAACP: Tea Parties are Racist!!

2010-07-14T06:33:00.003-05:00

Read it all here.

After Michelle's stump speech about how bad things are still for blacks and someday needs to fix that, see here, the next step to whip up the base is to attack the TEA Parties,,,,,,,who have been going after the Washington politicans who making the economy bad for blacks, whites, hispanics, asians, and in fact, EVERYBODY!

The nation's leading civil rights group took up the language at its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo. The resolution initially said the NAACP would "repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties" and stand against the movement's attempt to "push our country back to the pre-civil rights era,"

Not only is this just stupidity in the extreme, it is pandering politics to give those black Americans who still give credence to the NAACP a "straw man enemy" to get fired up about.

All that matters for these folks is this: can they keep those folks fired up until November?

Well, that's your problem folks. Just recall that it was white voters who put Obama into office and you are kicking sand in those folk's faces.

Keep it up, keep it up!

"We have problems, others have to solve them for us",,,M. Obama

2010-07-13T10:13:00.003-05:00

Speaking to the NAACP’s National Convention in Kansas City today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her husband is where he is today because of the organization, and now is not the time to "rest on our laurels."

Really? Actually her husband is where he is today because he fooled a whole bunch of white people into voting for his slightly veiled socialist agenda.

Enjoy this one, When African American communities are still hit harder than just about anywhere by this economic downturn, and so many families are just barely scraping by, I think the founders would tell us that now is not the time to rest on our laurels.

She failed to mention this is her husband's engineered economic downturn.

And of course we get this push for equal outcomes instead of equal opportunities; When stubborn inequalities still persist -- in education and health, in income and wealth -- I think those founders would urge us to increase our intensity, and to increase our discipline and our focus and keep fighting for a better future for our children and our grandchildren.”

And then we get the victim analogy; We are living today in a time where we’re decades beyond slavery, we are decades beyond Jim Crow; when one of the greatest risks to our children’s future is their own health. African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children.

Read the whole story here, you will see nothing about personal responsibility. Her message is that we are still victims and we are waiting for someone to fix our problems for us.

What a role model.......

Comedians take aim at Obama

2010-07-13T08:51:00.003-05:00

No one seemed to care when President Obama did stupid stuff early on. Now, the mainline comedians are taking aim at a target rich environment:

You know the honeymoon is over when the comedians start.

The liberals are asking us to give Obama time. We agree . . . and think 25 to life would be appropriate.

--Jay Leno

America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.

--Jay Leno

Q: Have you heard about McDonald's' new Obama Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.

--Conan O'Brien

Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fund raiser.

--Jay Leno

Q: What's the difference between Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers, and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners.

--David Letterman

Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?
A: America !

--Jimmy Fallon

Q: What's the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
A: Bo has papers.

--Jimmy Kimmel

Q: What was the most positive result of the "Cash for Clunkers" program?
A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper stickers off the road.

--David Letterman

Hat Tip: Jack K

Lies, Lies, and Damnable Lies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-07-12T06:21:00.004-05:00

Obama's so-called Debt Commission is providing a perfect illustration how the politics of Washington are toxic to the survival of this nation. It does not matter whether we are talking about Democrats or Republicans, when the game is pure politics, the good of the Nation is certain to suffer. Read it all here, but here are some of the tidbits;

The co-chairmen of President Obama's debt and deficit commission offered an ominous assessment of the nation's fiscal future here Sunday, calling current budgetary trends a cancer "that will destroy the country from within" unless checked by tough action in Washington. We need a commission to know this?

There are many who hope we fail," Simpson said at the closing session of the National Governors Association annual meeting. He called the 18-member commission "good people with deep, deep differences" who know the odds of success "are rather harrowing Actually we don't know why you exist except to provide Obama with political cover after the November elections to ram through a VAT tax

And my favorite,

Bowles said that unlike the current economic crisis, which was largely unforeseen before it hit in fall 2008, the coming fiscal calamity is staring the country in the face. "This one is as clear as a bell," he said. "This debt is like a cancer Who are you kidding, lots folks were horrified at the Fannie and Freddie mortgage lending practices which created the housing bubble and enriched their executives by fraudulent bookkeeping.

And then the coup de grace;

Bowles and Simpson said the commission would have had a stronger hand politically had it been created by Congress, rather than through an executive order. Simpson was pointed in his criticism of seven Republicans who once co-sponsored such a measure but who helped block it in the Senate.

"As far as I can discern, it was to stick it to the president," Simpson said

Ahhhhhh, you see, poor President Obama, he was just a victim!

This is nothing more than a soap opera of epic proportions, get the tissues out, it is bitter tears time........

The Constitution of the United States is our roadmap out of this mess. For these clowns to insult a gathering of the governors of the United States with this tripe is ego at the highest level.

Big Brother: digging deeper at the IRS

2010-07-11T07:19:00.002-05:00

The mammoth government agency known as the IRS will implement rules hidden in the depths of ObamaCare to dig deeper into minute business transactions in search of "hidden" transactions in the hope of pulling in more tax revenue for the Federal Govt, read it all here.

The new regulations, which kick in at the start of 2012, require any taxpayer with business income to issue 1099 forms to all vendors from whom they purchased more than $600 of goods and services that year. That promises to launch a fusillade of new paperwork: An estimated 40 million taxpayers will be subject to the requirement, including 26 million who run sole proprietorships, according to a report released this week by National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson.

Let's say you own a Landscaping business, you have two employees and you buy gasoline, parts, equipment, supplies from a dozen different vendors over the year. As part of your tax process you have to issue all these 1099's. That means you have to gather all this info, segment the transactions, total them up, fill out the 1099's, and issue them.

What does any of that activity add to value of your business?

Nothing.

Again, the IRS is a massive intrusion on the American people and American business.

Revenues could be collected with a National Sales Tax or Fair Tax and the IRS and all its forms could become history.

But they LIKE to know what you are doing!

Hard Truth: Government spending does not create Prosperity

2010-07-10T19:29:00.003-05:00

Whether it is Thad Cochran in Mississippi or Robert Byrd in West Virginia, many politicians like to sell what they "bring home from Washington" as something akin to manna in the Old Testament.

The recent death of Robert Byrd illustrates how vacuous that promise is. Byrd brought home $4billion in pork in the last 20 years of his senate seat, read it all here.

Despite all this largess, West Virginia is still the third poorest state in the Union.

Cochran of Mississippi has brought home a similar bounty and scoffs at constituents who plead for fiscal responsibility. If Mississippi isn't at the bottom of the poor state list, it is close.

Federal spending does not replace or supplant hard work and individual responsibility.

Sex Ed in Montana.........strong content warning!

2010-07-10T10:45:00.003-05:00

Why am I posting the Sodom and Gommorah pix again?

Read this about a proposed Sex Ed program in Montana for public schools:

The Helena Public School system is considering a comprehensive plan for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It includes teaching first graders that people can be attracted to the same gender. In second grade students are instructed to avoid gay slurs and by the time students turn 10 years old they are taught about various types of intercourse.

According to the draft proposal obtained by FOX News Radio, fifth graders should “understand that sexual intercourse includes but is not limited to vaginal, oral, or anal penetration.”

Education obviously is not the 3 R's anymore.

Like your tax dollars going for this?

I bet Kevin Jennings thinks this is just great!

Who is Kevin Jennings? Use the search function on this blog to go back and see some of Kevin's work for the Federal Government.

Conservative values in Action: New Jersey!

2010-07-09T19:28:00.002-05:00

New Jersey would close its centralized car inspection lanes and motorists would pay for their own emissions tests under a sweeping set of recommendations set to be released by the Christie administration today.

State parks, psychiatric hospitals and even turnpike toll booths could also be run by private operators, according to the 57-page report on privatization obtained by The Star-Ledger. Preschool classrooms would no longer be built at public expense, state employees would pay for parking and private vendors would dish out food, deliver health care and run education programs behind prison walls.

The state conducts more than 1.94 million initial inspections a year and pays for all of them. Drivers pay only if they fail the inspections and have to make repairs.

Privatization is a good thing: it injects competition into feather-bedded state jobs.

But let's take it one step further: a risk/benefit analysis on car inspections. Does the cost of car inspections lead to a benefit which is worth the cost? If the answer is no, then drop the whole darn thing and work on something that does have a tangible benefit.

Obama: Week in Review

2010-07-09T06:41:00.003-05:00

As he pursues his efforts to transform America by collapsing the system, let's reveiw briefly some of those efforts this week: Five that quickly come to mind:

1. Oil Moratorium: still trying to strangle oil development in the Gulf and elsewhere.

2. Medicare & ObamaCare: used a recess appointment to slip David Berwick, a redistributionist and socialist into running these programs

3. DOJ: holding strong to the position that it is okay for black militants to engage in voter intimidation.

4. NASA: forget the moon, mars, or that fabulously expensive space station, we have to make muslims feel good about themselves.

5. Defend the broders: screw you Arizona, see you in court. The borders are as secure as we want them to be.

Sodom and Gomorrah

2010-07-08T06:26:00.003-05:00

In the ancient bible story, God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for their vulgar immoral ways.

Check out this story about the Washington DC Capital Pride Parade and it's "sponsorship" by the Episcopal Church here.

Forget a moment about biblical admonistions against homosexual activity. What about decency? None of that is observed here in this event.

That an Episcopal parish (St. Thomas) would take part in the parade is bad enough. That the Bishop of the Diocese of Washington was a participant is beyond the pale.

It is hard to believe that God is pleased.

Let the Numbers Speak

2010-07-08T06:12:00.004-05:00

A new gallup poll here reveals some interesting statistics.

The headline of course is Obama Job Approval Rating Down to 38% Among Independents.

Yes, that is an interesting number and not too surprising given the socialist-leftist thrust of the administration as it tries to transform American into a western-European socialist state.

The most interesting number to me is that Meanwhile, Obama maintains the support of 81% of Democrats,

Really? While Obama seeks to unravel the country and turn it into a socialist state 81% of Democrats support that move?

So here is my question: are most Democrats anti-American? And if the answer is yes, what do they consider themselves? Socialist, Communists?

What else to make of these numbers?

New Black Panthers: Off Limits or Not?

2010-07-08T06:03:00.003-05:00

Let's pretend for a moment that a group of KKK supporters took up position outside a voting place in Jackson, Mississippi and intimidated black voters and called for whites to kill blacks and black babies. Do you think that would cause an uproar in Washington, DC?

Duh, do you even have to think about that?

Yet, the group calling themselves the New Black Panthers did just that in 2008. Yet, as reported here, the Dept of Justice under Obama's AG Eric Holder told the DOJ not to pursue the cases or any case that involves black on white victims.

It sounds like this story is getting ready to explode, just in time for the November elections. Very good timing. Keep watch.

2010-07-07T19:14:00.001-05:00

President Obama said earlier this year that the health-care bill that Congress passed three months ago is "essentially identical" to the Massachusetts universal coverage plan that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law in 2006. No one but Mr. Romney disagrees.

As events are now unfolding, the Massachusetts plan couldn't be a more damning indictment of ObamaCare. The state's universal health-care prototype is growing more dysfunctional by the day, which is the inevitable result of a health system dominated by politics.

The deeper problem is that price controls seem to be the only way the political class can salvage a program that was supposed to reduce spending and manifestly has not. Massachusetts now has the highest average premiums in the nation.

In a new paper, Stanford economists John Cogan and Dan Kessler and Glenn Hubbard of Columbia find that the Massachusetts plan increased private employer-sponsored premiums by about 6%. Another study released last week by the state found that the number of people gaming the "individual mandate"—buying insurance only when they are about to incur major medical costs, then dumping coverage—has quadrupled since 2006.

Liberals write off such consequences as unimportant under the revisionist history that the plan was never meant to reduce costs but only to cover the uninsured. Yet Mr. Romney wrote in these pages shortly after his plan became law that every resident "will soon have affordable health insurance and the costs of health care will be reduced."

You can't beat the science of economics......read it all here.

Words and Their Lack of Meaning: DOJ sues Arizona

2010-07-06T17:30:00.003-05:00

As reported here, BHO's Dept of Justice with Eric Holder is suing the state of Arizona and its governor Janet Brewer for, get this, the Justice Department claims the federal government has "preeminent authority" on immigration enforcement and that the Arizona law "disrupts" that balance.

Upsets the balance of the Fed's authority on immigration? Darn Good Thing!

Because the Federal policy forever has been for open borders on the south and north. Arizona is merely trying to do what the Fed's won't do.

Stay tuned for lots more to be sure!

Harboring Illegal Immigrants: not priceless, $113B per year

2010-07-06T11:52:00.003-05:00

This recently published study contends that harboring illegal immigrants in the US cost $113B or as the study says, an average of $1,117 for every “native-headed” household in America -- according to a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).

The study, a copy of which was provided to FoxNews.com, “is the first and most detailed look at the costs of illegal immigration ever done,” says Bob Dane, director of communications at FAIR, a conservative organization that seeks to end almost all immigration to the U.S.

Read it all here.

Off Topic: Never Enough

2010-07-06T11:29:00.002-05:00

Hat Tip: Susan R

Garbage In, Garbage Out: too many brains, too little common sense

2010-07-06T06:43:00.002-05:00

You just gotta love the New York Times! Just when you think things can't get any stupider, when no one will have the guts to just publish something so stupid as to make you outwardly laugh, there is the NYT to rescue your day.

In the midst of the worst economic and political crisis of the last 100 years, what does the New York Times publish for us to contemplate?

More government of course! For example, it could create a program to restructure consumer debt. Although rates on 10-year Treasury bonds are only about 3 percent, many consumers still carry tens of thousands of dollars of credit card debt at 20 percent or more. This burden has been a continuing drag on spending. The federal government could reduce it by borrowing at 3 percent and lending to consumers at 8 percent under a one-time debt-restructuring plan. Get that, "a one time plan",,,,,yeah, right!

Hold on to your lunch, this one is the best: Another useful measure would be a carbon tax — or its approximate equivalent, a cap-and-trade system — scheduled for a gradual phase-in after the economy has again reached full employment. This would stimulate an immediate, huge jump in private investment without the government having to spend a penny.

Still scratching your head on that one? The Cap & Tax would make every car, machine, and appliance obsolete; thus all the research needed to design and build new ones would [magically] so stimulate the economy that gold would run in the streets.

I am sure glad they were kidding when they published this!