Barney Frank: “Pole-Pot”

The parallels are uncanny!  Barney Frank supports and votes for a similar ideology to that of a certain Cambodian dictator, and he was caught with his pole-smoking partner, who was growing and probably smoking marijuana (but Barney swears he didn’t inhale).

So, does this mean we should start calling Barney Frank “Pole-Pot?”

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http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/barney-frank-present-during-marijuana-bust

 

Barney Frank present during marijuana bust

Updated: Saturday, 07 Nov 2009, 10:25 PM EST
Published : Friday, 06 Nov 2009, 5:59 PM EST

Alison Bologna

BOSTON (FOX25, myfoxboston) – FOX25 has learned that Congressman Barney Frank was present during a marijuana arrest at James Ready’s home in Ogunquit, Maine. Ready is well-known for his relationship with Congressman Frank.

According to a police report, police charged Ready with marijuana possession, cultivation and use of drug paraphernalia in August of 2007. Ready admitted to civil possession and paid a fine. The remaining charges were dismissed in 2008.

Sources tell FOX25 that when Frank was questioned he told police that he did not live in the house and that he only smoked cigars.

Congressman Frank tells FOX25 that he was surprised and disappointed with what police found. He also tells us that he wouldn’t recognize a marijuana plant if he saw one because he is, “not a great outdoorsman,” and ,”wouldn’t recognize most plants.” ( Listen to Congressman Frank’s full audio to the left.)

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Between Us and Tyranny? The Senate

Nancy Pelosi, the Botox Bolshevik Bimbo herself, succeeded in strong-arming just enough of the democrat representatives, plus one traitorous republican Joseph Cao of Louisiana, into selling America into slavery.

I encourage you, and as many people as you can stir into action, to fax, write, call, and e-mail these deluded anti-Americans their “pink slips.”  They need to know that if we are in their district, we will vote against them.  They need to know that if we don’t live in their district that we will donate money to their challengers, work for their opponent’s campaign, make phone calls, put up signs, e-mail people, and do ANYTHING within our power to ensure that their tenure in Washington is OVER.  They also need to know that we are not doing this ALONE.  We MUST do this as a united front to sweep these people from office.  If we don’t, we are finished.  Their power will be complete, the districts will be restructured to elect who THEY want, and nothing that we say will matter in the slightest anymore (not that it matters much to them now).

Our last line of defense protecting us from total tyranny now is the senate.  We must PREEMPTIVELY do the same with them as I mentioned above.  If cooler heads do not prevail, and this sprint towards communism and the indentured servitude of all Americans isn’t stopped, I fear that the consequences for America will be violent and bloody.

Why do I say this?  I hear things.  Ask yourself how much will you let your government take from you before you snap?  They tax away so much of your income that you can’t make your house payment, can’t afford to buy enough food to eat every day of the week, get your car repossessed because you can’t make that payment, and can’t send your kids to college, how will you react?  When you’re sick, or worse you’re children are sick and there is a 3 week to 1 month wait to see a doctor, what will you do?  Two weeks into the wait for that doctor visit, your child has pneumonia, can’t breath, is turning blue, yet you can’t see a doctor, what will you do?  Is there a point at which enough of your liberty has been taken from you that you will actually get mad enough to forcefully try to get it back, or die trying? Nearly every day I hear people who UNDERSTAND liberty discussing that very question.  These are things that probably haven’t been discussed by rational people in this country since the 1700’s.  This is a scary time.  Again, I must be clear that I am NOT advocating any sort of revolution or violence.  I’m just telling you what I hear.  People are scared.  The “American Way” is about to be destroyed, and some of us aren’t ready to see that happen.

That is why I’m BEGGING you to do everything you can to help staunch the political bleeding and help convince our elected officials to act rationally.  They can’t continue to spend and tax the way they are while also destroying the economic engine that makes tax revenue available.  They can’t continue to destroy the lives and freedom of Americans and assume that there will be no consequence.  Most importantly, they can’t do all of this to us and be excluded from the repercussions.

Below is a chart from The Liberty Counsel that compares where several of the various health care bills stand on hot button issues.  So far, ALL of the democrat proposed versions STINK ON ICE.  You be the judge.  Do you like the idea of paying penalties for not buying the government mandated insurance?  Do you think it’s fair that illegal aliens won’t have to pay that penalty?  Do you like the idea of the national health care identification cards?  Sounds kind of like the mark of the beast to me.  Do you like the fact that EVERY VERSION THUS FAR calls for RATIONING OF HEALTH CARE?  If none of this seems to bother you, then take the blue pill and go back to sleep.

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Nov 8, 2009: Gallows Humor

Sometimes, if you don’t look at all the bad stuff going on around you with a little sense of humor, you start screaming “LA, LA, LA, LA!” and you freak out and shoot 40 people at an Army base.

Cartoons by Glenn Foden.

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Immigration Update: More Doubts About the Origins of Barack ‘Bongo’ Obama

And still, O’Bongo hides behind the lawyers he is paying millions of dollars to conceal the proof of his REAL citizenship.  It’s kind of like a street urchin returning to the orphanage with his pockets full of candy, and because he knows he has hit the jackpot he will not share the source of his bounty with the other kids.

Since obfuscation is a way of life for Barack O’bongo, I bet he has a birthmark that reads something like ((724-58+825)/18*9.3+1583-87-0.35*675+1.9-1044+42968)/66=x
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http://www.sonorannews.com/archives/2009/091021/FrntPgObama.html

Archived articles surface, refer to “Kenyan-born Obama”

By Linda Bentley | October 21, 2009

A June 2004 article from the archives of the East African Standard referred to then Senator Barack Obama as “Kenyan-born,” while an article published in the Oct. 11, 2009 edition refers to Obama becoming President of the United States “via a sleepy village in Kenya called Nyang’oma K’Ogelo.”

Last week, an archived article from the Sunday, June 27, 2004 edition of the East African Standard headlined: “Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate” was unearthed.

The article began, “Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.”

The uncovering of this archive went viral on the Internet and could be found on blogs from coast to coast.

Another archived article surfaced last week from the Nov. 4, 2008 edition of the Nigerian Observer titled: “US Presidential Polls: Obama, McCain slug it out today.”

The article, by Soloman Osowata with Agency Reports, stated, “The Kenyan-born Senator will, however, face stiff competition from his Republican counterpart, John McCain who has taken the presidential battle to the finishing line with vigorous campaign strategies.”

More recently, the Oct. 11, 2009 edition of the Standard published an article questioning whether or not Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.

The opening sentence in that article stated, “It seems Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America (via a sleepy village in Kenya called Nyang’oma K’Ogelo) can do no wrong.”

In light of these recent discoveries, Snopes.com has been surprisingly silent on the matter, as have other fact-checking websites. Snopes.com has aggressively debunked any and all questions about Obama’s birthplace, even going so far as to change archived information when the very left-leaning couple that runs Snopes.com realized certain posts contradicted other posts on their own website.

The November 2008 edition of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Newsletter contained an editorial by Monica-Wanambisi Mwesel, a literature professor at the University of Nairobi, titled: “What Kenyans think about an Obama win.”

According to its website, the OAH, founded in 1907 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, “is the largest professional organization for the investigation, study and teaching of American History. It serves a membership of 11,000 college and university professors, high school teachers, students, archivists, public historians, and institutional subscribers such as libraries, museums, and history societies, as well as individual and institutional foreign members.”

The article, obviously published before the Nov. 4, 2008 election, stated, “Most Kenyans feel that, should Obama win, their lives will definitely improve … Many assume that by being connected to Kenya, Obama would be empowered to send vast amounts of U.S. aid to their country. Since graft and corruption are common to both the Islamic and the Democratic parties (I assume she is referring to Kenya, although the same applies in the US), certainly most of this money would go to the promotion of an Islamic state and then financing the conversion of other African states to Islam. Many assume that Obama will channel resources that will go a long way in improving the lives of the people.”

Mwesel mentions schools were renamed after Obama prior to his most recent visit with the hope of attracting funding, since it would be considered “a shame that a school named for a great American should be so dilapidated.”

She went on to say, “A widespread assumption is that, being a Kenyan, Obama understands the problems Kenyans face. Hence they expect more foreign aid from him. They wonder why they should stay poor while they have a Kenyan president of the U.S.”

Close to half of Kenyans, Mwesel said, dreaded the prospects of an Obama presidency and were fractured along ethnic lines, citing the Kikuyu tribe feared an Obama victory would boost the chances of Raila Odinga, a Luoccai like Obama, to ascend to the presidency.

Mwesel concluded, “It is therefore very clear that Senator Obama draws frenzied support from the Luo ethnic group of his ancestors, while many members of the rival Kikuyu group do not support him.”

In fact, Mwesel said the majority of the Kikuyu favored New York Senator Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries.

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Obama’s Words ALL have Expiration Dates – 10% and Climbing

Does anyone remember the snake oil salesman pitch for the “stimulus” plan?

He told us that if we would just pass his bill, unemployment would not exceed 8 percent in 2009.  Status of that promise? EXPIRED.

“This plan will save or create over 3 million jobs.”  Status of that promise? EXPIRED.

Now unemployment is over 10%, so Chairman Maobama must have simply misspoken when he promised 8% tops, right?

Maybe he was talking about creating GOVERNMENT jobs.  After all, he is trying to take over every aspect of our economy.  I guess Obama was outside smoking with Bill Ayers or Jeremiah Wright when he was supposed to be in class learning basic economics.  It seems he has “forgotten” that government jobs by definition can’t create wealth or generate revenue.  But you say “government employees pay taxes.”  Right, you are.  But they are paying taxes on money that was already taken from taxpayers to begin with.

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Summary of Broken Promises

http://thepoliticizer.com/2009/08/10/meyer-obamas-broken-promises/

MEYER: Obama’s Broken Promises

Cynthia Meyer, Staff Writer
Ideology: Conservative | Writing from: Austin, TX

The top five broken promises of the Obama Administration.

It is now over six months into President Obama’s term. Has he lived up to the hype? Is he everything America needed and more? Not quite. It turns out that Obama, who campaigned so heavily against the unethical ways of Washington, is just another sleazy Chicago politician. Surprised? Republicans aren’t. He says what he needs to say in order to get elected. He makes promises that he knows he cannot keep, and even though the adoring media is always on his side, there are only so many broken promises that we, the people, (and apparently his beloved teleprompter) can take before we break down and say enough is enough.

#1: READ MY LIPS– NO NEW TAXES

Promise: Obama promised many times on the campaign trail that the middle class would not see higher taxes in any form.

Reality: There is no way we could pay for all of Obama’s expensive proposals without raising taxes on the middle class. (Even if Pelosi and her pals were forced to give up their private jets!) Officials from the Obama administration have admitted themselves that they cannot take it off of the table for the healthcare bill.This isn’t even including the cap-and-trade mess, which would raise prices for everybody, regardless of class. It is not just a tax on the rich– it is a tax on every American family that uses energy. Also, other taxes that hit the middle class– such as the cigarette tax– are being snuck into our everyday lives by these power-hungry, big-government Democrats.

During the election, Republicans were skeptical of Obama’s unsubstantiated promise of not “raising taxes on families making less than $250,000 per year.” We said that because of his big spending proposals, it simply could not be done, but the media ignored Republicans and took Obama’s word as divine truth– and look at where we are now. The numbers don’t add up, and this is not new news. Both Republicans and Democrats knew this all along. How would Obama have gotten elected if he campaigned on raising taxes on the middle class?

#2: TRANSPARENCY

Promise: Obama promised that he would bring ethics to the Washington “culture of corruption”, with transparency and openness in government.

Reality: Obama has broken this promise many times. We will start with some of his first broken transparency promises, such as the “five-day-pledge”. During the campaign, he promised that he would “not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.” But just nine days after Obama was sworn into office, he signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act–and didn’t post the bill online for public viewing until after it became law.

Here’s another early foul: Remember before the stimulus bill passed, Obama promised that there would be no earmarks or pet projects included? Again, we all knew this promise could never be kept with this current Congress. Regardless of Obama’s insistent reassurance, there was in fact loads of pork jammed into this massive spending bill. Oops!

In addition to bills being rushed through Congress and hidden from our viewing, information is withheld from the public still after the bills become law. We don’t even know what the money for these massive spending bills is exactly being used for. The stimulus package money seems to have been filtered through senators and congressman, and then disappeared, with nothing to show for it. Transparency in regards to the TARP money is exceptionally poor. Also, what about the withheld data from the cash-for-clunkers program? Unfortunately, we have less control over our tax money than Joe Biden has over his big mouth.

But Obama sure has a knack for picking ethical appointees for his vision of an ethical Washington, right? Oh, except for Ron Kirk, Tom Daschle, Timothy Geithner, Bill Richardson, Nancy Killefer, Linda Solis, and Kathleen Sebelius… to name a few. But at least we know he would never let a filthy Washington lobbyist into his administration! Well, for the most part…

But here’s one of my favorites: Obama constantly criticized President Bush for his “secret meetings”. In 2006, he said “When big oil companies are invited into the White House for secret energy meetings, it’s no wonder they end up with billions in tax breaks.” But Obama refuses to release information about his own secret meetings with oil executives or health care executives at the White House.

Possibly one of the most dangerous violations of his promise is the lack of transparency and openness about healthcare. He promised that we would have televised, open debate on this issue, yet his meetings are kept secret and the other side is shut out and intimidated.

#3: BIPARTISANSHIP

Promise: Obama promised that he would reach across the isle on issues, include Republican opinions, and promote bipartisanship in legislation.

Reality: Who were we kidding–he only said that because he was running against the Maverick of the year. He had no choice.

In the past six months, Obama has been a pro at shutting out Republicans. The only thing “bipartisan” about his cap-and-trade, healthcare, and spending packages is that his own party won’t even have it.

#4: PASS MY STIMULUS

Promise: Obama made it seem that his stimulus bill was absolutely necessary for the economy to recover. In order to highlight the need for urgency, he laid out the prospective unemployment rates that would result with and without his spending package. In this analysis, he concluded that if we passed the stimulus bill, unemployment would not exceed 8 percent in 2009.

Reality: In July, unemployment hit 9.5 percent—and that’s with the stimulus bill. (See graph)

#5: HEALTHCARE LIES

Promise: “If you like your health plan, you can keep it” and there will be competition in the industry with the “public option”.

Reality: By mandating employers to provide healthcare, this “public option” will be an incentive for employers to drop their current private coverage and adopt the government plan. This will force others to do the same to maintain a competitive edge. We will not see this freedom of choice that Obama projects. This government-run plan will have a huge advantage over private companies, and will drive out competition, not promote it.

In addition to driving private insurance out of the industry, this universal healthcare bill will use taxpayer money to fund abortions. (Wait–didn’t Obama say he wanted to reduce abortions in this country?)

Obama’s approval ratings are sinking. His healthcare plans are falling apart. His spending packages that were supposed to save the economy have been revealed as merely big-government power grabs. After 2010, President Obama will not have the luxury of a Congress dominated by Democrats. The American people might have been foolish enough to fall for the flowery rhetoric of an inexperienced, big-government liberal, but they are keen enough to realize that what we have is not working. We need checks and balances. Midterm elections, here we come.

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US Military Aerial Demonstration Teams Under Obama’s “Leadership”

This will be what our aerial demonstration teams the United States Air Force Thunderbirds, and the Navy’s Blue Angels will be reduced to when Obama is finished dismantling the military.

Once Obama and the commu-crats are finished with the military, a row boat full of Mexican Girl Scouts with switch blade knives will be able to invade Southern California and be able to hold it with even less opposition than they face now.

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Nov 7, 2009: Today Our Government Chooses to Either Defend or Oppress Us

To the members of Congress, especially the “Blue Dogs:”

NANCY PELOSI DOESN’T CARE ABOUT YOU!

She is willing to throw you and your career under the bus to grab power.

The current health care proposals from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid…

• Push state-run health care
• Unconstitutionally mandate that private citizens purchase government products
• Uses taxpayer funds to pay for abortions
• Raise taxes
• Destroy jobs
• DRAMATICALLY increase the size of government
• Reduce the availability of health care
• Increase the cost of health care
• Reduce the quality of health care
• Do nothing to address the REAL reasons that health care is more expensive than it should be
• Will do all of the above for the purpose of “making health care more affordable,” which it will not do

Instead of punishing 95% of Americans to help 5% or less, if you really want to make health care more affordable, you have to reduce the COST, not just the PRICE.  There is a big difference.

One of the biggest reasons health care is so expensive is because doctors have to spend vast sums of money defending themselves from frivolous lawsuits, and when damages are awarded they are exorbitant.  Tort reform and limiting or capping medical liability to eliminate “jackpot justice” would dramatically reduce costs of health care.

Next you need to increase competition in insurance, but not with government in the competition.  Allow competition across state lines.  These few things along with portable medical savings accounts, allowing patients to pay a cash price for services would truly make health care more affordable WITHOUT COSTING TAXPAYERS MORE MONEY,  DESTROYING A SOLID HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, OR INCREASING THE SIZE OF GOVERNMENT.

LISTEN TO AMERICA!

We do not want government takeover of our health care, or anything else.  The government has stolen too much of our freedom and choice already.

Voting for this bill, or anything resembling it will ensure that your career in Washington is over.  You will be voted from office, recalled, impeached, or removed by whatever mechanism your state has in place to remove you.  I and legions like me will vote against you, campaign against you, donate funds to candidates who oppose you, and do all that it takes to make sure your career is over sooner rather than later.  Don’t let Nancy’s ambition come at your expense.

SAY “NO” TO PELOSI, REID, AND OBAMA

OR

WE WILL SAY “NO” TO YOU.

 

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Obama, WE Noticed, so YOU TAKE NOTICE

Reportedly written by Sherry Hackett, the widow of Buddy Hackett.

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“WE NOTICED”

President Obama:

Today I read of your administration’s plan to re-define September 11 as a National Service Day. Sir, it’s time we had a talk………

During your campaign, Americans watched as you made mockery of our tradition of standing and crossing your heart when the Pledge of Allegiance was spoken. You, out of four people on the stage, were the only one not honoring our tradition.

YES, “We noticed.”

During one of your many speeches, Americans heard you say that you intended to visit all 57 states. We all know that Islam, not America has 57 states.

YES, “We noticed.”

When President Bush leaned over at Ground Zero and gently placed a flower on the memorial, while you nonchalantly tossed your flower onto the pile without leaning over.

YES, “We noticed.”

Every time you apologized to other countries for America’s position on an issue we have wondered why you don’t share our pride in this great country. When you have heard foreign leaders berate our country and our beliefs, you have not defended us. In fact, you insulted the British Crown beyond belief.

YES, “We noticed.”

When your pastor of 20 years, “God-damned America” and said that 9/11 was “America’s chickens coming home to roost” and you denied having heard recriminations of that nature, we wondered how that could be. You later disassociated yourself from that church and Pastor Wright because it was politically expedient to do so.

YES, “We noticed.”

When you announced that you would transform America, we wondered why. With all her faults, America is the greatest country on earth. Sir, KEEP THIS IN MIND, “if not for America and the people who built her, you wouldn’t be sitting in the White House now.” Prior to your election to the highest office in this Country, you were a senator from Illinois and from what we can glean from the records available, not a very remarkable one.

YES, “We noticed.”

All through your campaign and even now, you have surrounded yourself with individuals who are basically unqualified for the positions for which you appointed them. Worse than that, the majority of them are people who, like you, bear no special allegiance, respect, or affection for this country and her traditions.

YES, “We noticed.”

You are 9 months into your term and every morning millions of Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us by you. You seek to saddle working Americans with a health care/insurance reform package that, along with cap and trade , will bankrupt this nation.

YES, “We noticed.”

We seek, by protesting, to let our representatives know that we are not in favor of these crippling expenditures and we are labeled “un-American”, “racist”, “mob”. We wonder how we are supposed to let you know how frustrated we are. You have attempted to make our protests seem isolated and insignificant. Until your appointment, Americans had the right to speak out.

YES, “We noticed.”

On September 11, 2001 there were no Republicans or Democrats, only Americans. And we all grieved together and helped each other in whatever way we could. The attack on 9/11 was carried out because we are Americans.

YES, “We noticed.”

There were many of us who prayed that as a black president you could help unite this nation. In six months you have done more to destroy this nation than the attack on 9/11. You have failed us.

YES, “We noticed.”

September 11 is a day of remembrance for all Americans. You propose to make 9/11 a “National Service Day”. While we know that you don’t share our reverence for 9/11, we pray that history will report your proposal as what it is…a disgrace.

YES, “We noticed.”

You have made a mockery of our Constitution and the office that you hold. You have embarrassed and slighted us in foreign visits and policy.

YES, “We noticed.”

We have noticed all these things. We will deal with you. When Americans come together again, it will be to remove you from office.

Take notice.

Psa 118:8-9 NIV  It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.  (9)  It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.

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(Another) Declaration of War on America Goes Unanswered

No more kid gloves.  No more political correctness.  No more pulled punches.  (i)slam is the enemy of the rest of the world, and muslims can’t be trusted.  They have proven this both by their actions and their inaction.

It has happened AGAIN today.  A mUSLIM convert in the U.S. Army opened fire on soldiers at Ft. Hood, Texas who were getting ready to deploy to the middle east.  This mUSLIM killed 12 and wounded 31 in what was described as a calm, calculated attack.  Sadly, the swine testicle is still alive.

I overheard comments from a liberal blogger who was whining that “this wasn’t an act of terrorism.  Terrorism targets innocent civilians, while this attack, the attack on the USS Cole, the attack on the Beirut barracks, and the shooting of two soldiers walking out of a Little Rock recruiting center were attacks on military targets.“  You don’t even know how right you are, you liberal, anti-American, piece of human excrement.  This is more than terrorism, it is ANOTHER act of WAR.

The koran, quran, or whatever these evil people call the collection of satanic verses that direct them to HATE and KILL ME just because I am not one of them, directs muslims to befriend infidels (of which I am a proud one), and convert them to islam or kill them if they will not convert.  (m)uslims first allegiance is to their religion, not to their country.  Do you trust or want to be a part of a religion that teaches you to hate and kill, or one that teaches you to love and seek peace?  Do you trust people who will strap bombs to their women and children and march them into market places full of innocent people to kill as many as possible?  Golda Meir was right.  Until they love their children more than they hate us, there can never be peace.  Before you uninformed idiots out there start trying to misquote the Bible in an effort to use this argument against me, don’t bother.  We have turned the other cheek.  Look at the list below.  We have turned the other cheek more times that we should have.  It’s passed time to say “no more.”

It was muslims who attempted to blow up the World Trade Center the first time, and it was muslims who finally brought it down killing 3,000 some odd people.  It was muslims who highjacked the other airplanes, successfully flying one into the Pentagon.  It was muslims who were plotting to attack Ft. Dix, NJ and kill American soldiers.  It was (Iranian) muslims led by their current president who took over our embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.  It was muslims who attacked the USS Cole.  It was muslims that blew up the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.  It was muslims who blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 243 innocent people.  The list is endless.  Anywhere there is violence in the world today, muslims are at the center of it.  Have muslims who are supposedly not “radical” spoken out against any of this?  Not a peep.  In fact, the first reaction after one of these cowardly murderous attacks is for the various muslim organizations to preemptively complain about how muslims will be discriminated against.  You don’t want me to distrust you and “discriminate” against you?  Then stand beside me, loudly denounce islam, and help me defeat the enemy who is trying to kill me and my children.  Until then, I don’t trust you.  You write on your blogs about how “heroic” these evil swine-bred-with-female-dogs are (http://forums.islamicawakening.com, mujahid_moonsighter – “reports now are saying that the shooter was a convert(revert) to Islam, a Major(officer) in the army Allahu akbar insha Allah he be shaheed, what a brave mujahid; omar247 – “One who defends the honour of his brother, Allah keeps the fire of hell away from his face on the Day of Judgment.”).  In your muslim neighborhoods (which are muslim because you will not assimilate with Americans or the citizens of any other country that you infest) and muslim stores, and on your muslim radio and television stations RIGHT HERE IN AMERICA, you cheer when events like this take place.  You are despicable.  You are pork excrement for condoning the murder of innocent people.

Following the shooting today, Octobama wrapped his tentacles around the teleprompter long enough to issue condolences to those involved in the shooting.  Mr. Obama, whether or not you are legally the president, you do currently occupy the office.  The job title is “Commander-in-Chief,” which is a military title.  You are not simply the consoler-in-chief, and you are supposed to be more than the campaigner-in-chief.  You have a duty to America to quit sympathizing with our enemies and PROTECT THIS NATION.  But I doubt that will EVER happen.

Whether or not our muslim-sympathizing comrade-in-chief, or our spineless congress have the courage to admit that we are indeed at war with islam, the fact remains that a state of war exists.  All patriotic Americans will defend this nation against this threat with or without the help of our muslim president, or our impotent government.  (i)slam is incompatible with America and the rest of the world.

p.s.:  Yes, I know “islam” and “muslim” are supposed to be capitalized.  To do so would convey some measure of respect that is not deserved.

Ford Had a Better Idea: No Bailout

Government dependence breeds mediocrity.  Ford made the right choice by refusing the bailout, and instead chose to address the root cause of their problem by improving how their company was managed.  They aren’t perfect, and they still have a union problem, but they are turning a profit WITHOUT GOVERNMENT HELP.

Our country might have a chance of surviving if we can keep from adopting the ugly baby of democrat healthcare reform, prevent the destruction of our sovereignty with the signing, ratification, and adoption of the Copenhagen Treaty or any other cap-and-trade scheme, and if we can turn back what’s left of the first “stimulus” and prevent a second.

That’s just to prevent financial ruin.  Don’t forget about the right to keep and bear arms, and freedom of speech.  They are all under assault, and they all relate to one another.

If you pound your guns into plowshares, you will plow for those who didn’t.  And you will do it in silence or be shot.

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http://www.businessandmedia.org/printer/2009/20091104140137.aspx

 

As U.S. car manufacturer ’stuns’ Wall Street with 3Q profits, some media forget to report Ford didn’t take government cash.

By Julia A. Seymour
Business & Media Institute
11/4/2009 3:16:04 PM

Ford Motor Company took everyone by “surprise” Nov. 2, when it announced nearly a billion dollars in profit for the third quarter of 2009. The company also said it would be “solidly profitable” by 2011.

CNN repeated the announcement on Nov. 3 “American Morning,” saying, “Turning now to the Big Three in Detroit, Chrysler extends its buyout offer to more than 20,000 employees while General Motors is still trying to restructure spending billions of bailout dollars, but Ford – which didn’t take any cash from Uncle Sam – is back in the green again, posting a profit of nearly $1 billion for the third quarter.”

The announcement was big news, but what should have caught more journalists’ attention was the fact that Ford managed to turn things around without the help of a federal bailout – the very bailout reporters promoted in 2008 and 2009.

Yet, several shows including all three networks’ morning programs, CBS “Evening News,” CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” and MSNBC News Live all left out that crucial piece of information Nov. 2.  (Now there’s a surprise.  Do you really think the media formerly known as mainstream would ever eat crow admitting they were wrong, especially about something that cast shadows on their liberal agenda or that of Obama?  If you think they’re that honest and objective, you’re smoking crack.)

But that Nov. 2 report, the “Evening News” found room to include union complaints against Ford, quoting UAW’s Gary Walkowicz: “I think people are angry and fed up with concessions. We’ve dealt with concessions year after year for the last five years. I people – think people got to the point of saying, ‘Enough is enough that’s it.’”  (Again, liberal Obama agenda.  Ever since the Obama coronation there has been one union payoff after another.  Aside from poor management, the UAW is the single biggest reason that American auto manufacturers have lost their competitive edge.  They have bled the auto companies dry without adding a commensurate amount of value to the process.  It was very telling when Government Motors and Chrysler shut down production for an extra couple of weeks over Christmas.  It cost them more to produce the product they are in business to produce than it did to produce nothing at all.)

One year ago, the network news media avidly supported a federal bailout for the Big Three U.S. auto companies and ignored union responsibility for lack of competitiveness.

“GM may not make it without help, and others may have to merge,” declared “Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams in November 2008. “If just one of the Big Three were to fail, an estimated two and a half million jobs might be lost.”

ABC correspondent Chris Bury suggested on Nov. 11, 2008 that it was a matter of fairness, after all, the banks had already been bailed out: “After riding to Wall Street’s rescue can the government just say no to American automakers that are bleeding cash by the billions.”  (Yes they could have said “no,” and they should have said “no.”  They should not have bailed out the banks either.  By rewarding poor performance and bad behavior, you do not get better performance and good behavior.  You get government dependence and lack of competition.)

Between Nov. 1 and Nov. 18, 2008 the morning and evening shows of ABC, CBS and NBC aired 31 stories with a pro-bailout tone, which was almost three times as many positive stories as balanced stories – only 12. Only one story, on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” presented an overall anti-bailout tone.  (More proof of the liberal Obama media bias.)

According to Reuters, GM and Chrysler received “roughly $64 billion in direct aid” from the government. Since then both companies have struggled. Chrysler saw sales fall 30 percent in October 2009, while GM saw a slight “bump” in sales of 4.7 percent the same month.

The media promotion of an auto bailout did not reflect public opinion. Back then 49 percent of Americans were opposed to an auto industry bailout and 47 percent were in favor, according to Gallup.

But according to Rick Newman, chief business correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, anti-bailout sentiment might have been exactly what helped Ford rise to profitability.

“[T]hey’ve taken market share from GM and Chrysler. Clearly a lot of people who wanna buy a domestic car, but were disgusted by the auto bailouts went over to Ford,” Newman told CNN’s “American Morning” Nov. 3.

NBC “Nightly News” and “World News” also indicated Nov. 3 that Ford’s decision not to take the bailout improved the public’s perception of the company and “richly rewarded” them.

Cash for Clunkers gets credit, Mullaly rarely gets rebuttal

Nine network and cable mentions of Ford’s successful quarter all credited the government’s Cash for Clunkers (CARS) program, but 77 percent of those reports (seven of nine) didn’t include Ford’s rebuttal that the company would have seen third quarter profits even without the trade-in program.  (…more bias.)

CEO Alan Mullaly said that the company would “absolutely” have profited even without cash for clunkers. “It was a good stimulus,” Mulally told Automotive News after Ford announced a $997 million quarterly net profit. “But the real strength of the third quarter is based on the strength of our product line improving.”

Automotive News reported, “CFO Lewis Booth said the federal government’s clunkers rebate program didn’t lead to an increase in Ford’s third-quarter wholesale sales. Instead, Ford ran dealer stocks down.”

But broadcast and cable news gave credit to the CARS program anyway, keeping its theme of promoting the government giveaway.

In August 2009, all three broadcast networks lauded the program calling it “wildly popular,” “too successful” and a “victim of its own success.” The networks also cited proponents of CARS nearly three times as often as critics in stories citing experts.

The $1 billion trade-in scheme burned through its entire 14-week budget in one week’s time, prompting the Senate to allocate another $2 billion in taxpayer dollars. Still, networks heaped praise on the clunker program. CBS “Evening News” anchor Katie Couric teased on Aug. 3, “[S]ales reports out today show the Cash for Clunkers program gave U.S. automakers a much-needed jumpstart.”

Union Dues

One major problem facing all three domestic car companies is the auto unions and their legacy costs.

When the networks were busy promoting a bailout of the auto industry in 2008, reporters were also conveniently ignoring unions as one of the reasons the industry was in trouble. Union contracts have put U.S. manufacturers at a distinct disadvantage compared to foreign auto companies that build cars in the U.S. But out of 44 stories in November 2008, only 4 pointed out the union problem.

Instead of blaming the unions, reporters blamed the overall U.S. economy for slumping auto sales.  (The economy contributed, but like the airlines after 9/11, the auto-maker’s poor management is the primary reason they were not in a financial position to weather the economic storm.)

“With sales plunging 35 percent in October alone, the auto industry is reeling from the nation’s biggest financial crisis since the 1930s,” CNBC’s Trish Regan said on the Nov. 8 NBC “Nightly News.”

But Daniel Ikenson pointed out on the Cato Institute’s Web site that unions are probably more responsible for Detroit’s problems than the media’s scapegoat of a generally bad economy. Those foreign nameplate manufacturers that sell in the United States “face the same contracting demand for automobiles as does the Big Three,” Ikenson wrote. “The difference is that these [foreign] companies have a better track record of making products Americans want to consume and are not seeking federal assistance.” (And there lies the primary difference.  The disparity will only increase as Gov-ment Motors is forced to make the cars that Obama wants instead of what consumers want.  Communism.  Marxism.)

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Orwellian Democrat Double-Speak: A Tax is Not a Tax

This is just Nancy, the Botox Bolshevik, Pelosi in another form.  She said that raising taxes wasn’t a “tax increase.”  She said it was just eliminating a tax cut that had been put in place.  George Orwell was right, he was just 20 years too early.  Now you have the state of California playing another shell game with taxpayer money.  They are increasing the withholding by 10% and saying that it is not a tax increase.

Here’s where the “tax experts” are lying to you.  The difference is what you could do or the interest you could earn with that money if you had it over that period of time instead of the government.  The government will not compensate you for the lost earning potential of that money for the time they withhold it from you.  They are depriving you of the opportunity to make a given amount of money, and that amounts to a tax.  They call it a “cash advance.”  Every place I know of that will give you a cash advance calls it a loan and charges you interest.  Are the taxpayers going to be able to charge the government interest on this “cash advance?”  When pigs fly.

Could this practice spread to other states?  I’d be surprised if it didn’t.

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http://www.sacbee.com/politics/v-print/story/2295363.html

State’s tax withholding bump-up starts today

mglover@sacbee.com
Published Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009

Some call it California’s cash advance.

Effective today, the amount of state income taxes withheld from California workers’ paychecks will increase 10 percent.

That might sound like a tax increase, but state officials insist that’s not the case.

Tax experts agree, saying this bump up in withholding taxes gives the state some wiggle room in managing California’s treasury in a year that saw a titanic political battle to get a handle on the state’s budget.

The increased withholding comes on top of a 0.25 percent state income tax increase and a reduction in the dependent credit, also enacted as part of the state budget.

Essentially, the accelerated withholding program does not generate additional tax revenue. Instead, it front-loads it, bringing cash in more quickly in an effort to keep the state treasury stocked with funds, which is where the “cash advance” tag comes in.

State officials have estimated that the move will generate an additional $1.7 billion in the current fiscal year.

(Read complete article HERE)

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Cap-and-Trade Stealth Attack

Sen. Barbara Boxer is trying to pull a fast one!

She wants to force her outrageous Boxer-Kerry cap-and-trade energy rationing and taxing scheme through the Senate Environment and Public Workers Committee this week, while the country is focused on health care. Sen. Boxer is even trying to force it through without the official EPA analysis of what’s in the bill and how much it will cost.

It’s bad enough to try to pass the biggest tax hike in history, hidden in what’s supposed to be an environmental bill. But slamming it through a committee when it hasn’t even been analyzed by the EPA is wrong. The public has a right to know what’s in the bill and what the EPA thinks it will cost.

Committee votes matter, because once a senator supports something in committee it’s very hard for them to change their mind on later votes. That makes it even more outrageous that the first votes could be cast while much of the bill-and its sky-high costs for regular Americans-remain secret.

Below is the letter I faxed to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee members, and e-mailed to various news outlets. I’ve also provided a list of the members of that committee.

Senate Majority Committee Members
Barbara Boxer (Chairman)
Max Baucus
Thomas R. Carper
Frank R. Lautenberg
Benjamin L. Cardin
Bernard Sanders
Amy Klobuchar
Sheldon Whitehouse
Tom Udall
Jeff Merkley
Kirsten Gillibrand
Arlen Specter

Senate Minority Committee Members
James M. Inhofe
George V. Voinovich
David Vitter
John Barrasso
Mike Crapo
Christopher S. Bond
Lamar Alexander

 

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From:    xxxxxxxxx
Nov 04, 2009

Subj:      Cap-and-Trade

To:          Senators of the Environment and Public Works Committee

Cc:          Various news organizations and private citizens

Senators,

It has come to my attention that while most of America is focused on the health care debate, the Boxer-Kerry cap-and-trade bill is about to be forced through your committee this week.  As I understand it, the bill has not yet been scored by the CBO or analyzed by the EPA.  What is the big rush?

There are so many reasons why this bill, the Copenhagen Treaty, or any form of cape-and-trade/tax is/are bad for America.  I’ll try to list a few of the most important.

• Surrender of American sovereignty
• Rule and taxation by foreign powers
• Loss of freedom for American citizens
• Destruction of American jobs
• Destruction of the American economy
• Other emerging industrial nations such as China and India have already said they will not go along with this, which would make us the only major industrialized power reducing carbon emissions and submitting our wealth to the new global government
• America alone can’t significantly influence the amount of carbon production on the planet
• Carbon dioxide has not been proven to be a significant factor in global warming/climate change
• Global warming is not happening.  Scientists have actually proven that the earth has actually been cooling for the last decade.
• Previous warming trends on earth coincided with warming trends on Mars and other neighboring planets, supporting the evidence that the amount of solar activity is the major factor driving global warming or cooling.
• Scientists have proven that a rise in global temperature is not tied to a rise in CO₂.
• CO₂ IS PLANT FOOD! Think back to your elementary school, high school, and college science courses.  CO₂ is not a poison, but is in fact a necessary element for life on earth.  Plants cannot survive without CO₂.
• Without CO2, there could not be a “Green Movement.”  The earth would be brown, plants, animals, humans would be dead.

A vote for any type of cap-and-trade is a vote AGAINST America.  A vote for an idea that is based on faulty science that would effectively destroy the American economy is foolishness.  Allowing such a measure to pass would back Americans into a corner from which there would be only one way out.  I implore you not to drive America down that road.

Sincerely Concerned Citizen,

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Planned Parenthood Director Quits After Watching Abortion on Ultrasound

News Flash: God STILL on His Throne, STILL in Control

God is good, all the time.  God does indeed answer prayer.  Even though the answer may not be what we wanted or expected, He answers.  To put it in a secular perspective, if you’ve heard the Garth Brooks song “Unanswered Prayers,” you understand that sometimes we pray for the wrong things, and God in His wisdom doesn’t give us what we ask for.

Scripture further illustrates this in John 15:7 which says “If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. (NIV)“

What I believe God is saying here is that if we are “in tune” with Him, we’re going to ask for the right things (what God wants), and those things will be given to us.

In the case of Ms. Johnson, prayers were indeed answered.  God does not want lives to be destroyed. (Jer 29:11 NIV  For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.)

We have to look around and wake up.  Our nation was founded by people who worshiped and feared God.  The closer our nation remained to Him, the more we prospered.  Now we have strayed from God, and now look to other “kings” to guide and save us.  We’re not doing so well right now, are we?  Where have we seen this before? (1Sa 12:13-15 NASB  “Now therefore, here is the king whom you have chosen, whom you have asked for, and behold, the LORD has set a king over you.  (14)  “If you will fear the LORD and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel against the command of the LORD, then both you and also the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God.  (15)  “If you will not listen to the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the command of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you, as it was against your fathers.)

I believe prophecy may be unfolding before us.  I won’t pretend to know when “the end” will occur (1Th 5:2 NASB  For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.), but the signs say that it is getting closer.  So, rather than giving up and sitting around waiting for what might happen 10 seconds or 10,000 years from now, we need to set our individual lives and and the course of our nation back on the path of God.  We can let our nation pass into history now, or fight to preserve it and return God’s favor to it.

I’m not ready to be a footnote in history yet.  God, please do not hide your face from America.  Please forgive us and show us your grace and mercy in abundance.  Amen.

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http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=502

MIRACLE: Planned Parenthood director converts!

November 3rd, 2009 by admin

“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” — Matthew 19:26

I’ve known about this for the past few weeks, but now I can finally share the HUGE NEWS!

The director of the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Bryan/College Station, Texas — where 40 Days for Life first began — has resigned her job, experienced a profound conversion, and joined our pro-life efforts.

AMAZING!

Here’s what happened …

Abby Johnson worked at Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas for eight years. She was there when the first-ever 40 Days for Life campaign was conducted outside of her workplace in the Bryan/College Station community in 2004.

She was there for the next 40 Days for Life effort as well — the one that helped to launch the first nationally coordinated 40 Days for Life campaign in the fall of 2007.

And she was there for the one after that, and the one after that, and the one after that — and the one after that!

In fact, Abby was able to look out the window of Planned Parenthood and see 40 Days for Life campaigns on six different occasions — as well as the regular year-round prayer presence organized by the local Coalition for Life, under the leadership of our own 40 Days for Life campaign director Shawn Carney.

For all those years, people outside the clinic prayed for Abby.

And with all those prayers, Abby finally had a change of heart. (Listen for the small, still voice) She said, “Over the past few months I had seen a change in motivation regarding the financial impact of abortions,” she said, “and I reached my breaking point after witnessing a particular kind of abortion on an ultrasound.”  (For those still blindly supporting this murderous destruction of life, have you ever witnessed one of these procedures in person?)

She quit her job and went across the street to the headquarters of the Coalition for Life where Shawn has been helping her over these last few weeks.

Fox News just reported on Abby’s conversion, stating:

Planned Parenthood Director Quits After Watching Abortion on Ultrasound

Monday , November 02, 2009

Joseph Abrams

The former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in southeast Texas says she had a “change of heart” after watching an abortion last month — and she quit her job and joined a pro-life group in praying outside the facility.

Abby Johnson, 29, used to escort women from their cars to the clinic in the eight years she volunteered and worked for Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas. But she says she knew it was time to leave after she watched a fetus “crumple” as it was vacuumed out of a patient’s uterus in September.

‘When I was working at Planned Parenthood I was extremely pro-choice,” Johnson told FoxNews.com. But after seeing the internal workings of the procedure for the first time on an ultrasound monitor, “I would say there was a definite conversion in my heart … a spiritual conversion.”

Johnson said she became disillusioned with her job after her bosses pressured her for months to increase profits by performing more and more abortions, which cost patients between $505 and $695.  (To advance his Marxist agenda Barack Obama told a blatant lie about doctors performing thousands of unnecessary surgeries and amputations just for the money.  He conveniently omitted Planned Parenthood and other murderers from that series of comments.)

“Every meeting that we had was, ‘We don’t have enough money, we don’t have enough money — we’ve got to keep these abortions coming,’” Johnson told FoxNews.com. “It’s a very lucrative business and that’s why they want to increase numbers.”

A spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood told FoxNews.com that it offers a range of services at it 850 health centers nationwide, providing pregnancy tests, vaccinations and women’s health services, “including wellness exams, breast and cervical cancer screenings, contraception, and STD testing and treatment.”

“Planned Parenthood’s focus is on prevention,” wrote Diane Quest, the group’s National Media Director. “Nationwide, more than 90% of the health care Planned Parenthood affiliates provide is preventive in nature,” explaining that a “core component the organization’s mission is to help women plan healthy pregnancies and prevent unintended pregnancies.”  (The founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a Nazi sympathizer and proponent of eugenics, which roughly translates as “good breeding.” The goal of these people was to get rid of “human weeds,” specifically listed by them as black people, poor/homeless people, mentally retarded, etc. They encourage the murder of innocent children under the banner of “free choice.” The fact that Barack Obama is simply alive, much less the President of the United States, means that Sanger’s vision has failed, or at least not yet succeeded. If it’s left to someone else to decide whose genes are good enough to breed, do you think you would be allowed to procreate, or be “chlorinated from the gene pool?” That should be a sobering thought.)

But Johnson said her bosses told her to change her “priorities” and focus on abortions, which she said made money for the office at a time when the recession has left them hurting.

“For them there’s not a lot of money in education,” she said. “There’s not as much money in family planning as there is abortion.”

Without a doctor in residence, she said, her clinic offered abortions only two days a month, but the doctor could perform 30 to 40 procedures on each day he was there. Johnson estimated that each abortion could net the branch about $350, adding up to more than $10,000 a month.

“The majority of the money was going to the facility,” she said.

Johnson said she never got any orders to increase profits in e-mails or letters, and had no way to prove her allegations about practices at the Bryan branch. She told FoxNews.com that pressure came in personal interactions with her regional manager from the larger Houston office.

But she said she got involved with the clinic “to help women and … [do] the right thing,” and the idea of raking in cash seemed to go against what she felt was the mission of the 93-year-old organization.

“Ideally my goal as the facility’s director is that your abortion numbers don’t increase,” because “you’re providing so much family planning and so much education that there is not a demand for abortion services.

“But that was not their goal,” she said.

A spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood refused to answer questions about Johnson’s accusations, but released a statement noting that a district court had issued a temporary restraining order against the former branch director and against the Coalition for Life, an anti-abortion group with which Johnson is now affiliated.

“We regret being forced to turn to the courts to protect the safety and confidentiality of our clients and staff, however, in this instance it is absolutely necessary,” said spokeswoman Rochelle Tafolla.  (Shades of ACORN…)

It is unclear what made Planned Parenthood seek the restraining order. Johnson said she did not intend to release any sensitive information about her former patients at the clinic.

A hearing is set for Nov. 10 to determine whether a judge will order an injunction against Johnson and the Coalition for Life, which has led protests outside the clinic and joined her in a prayer vigil there last month.

Johnson hasn’t found a job since she quit on Oct. 6, but she said she’s enjoying the time off to be with her 3-year-old daughter.

“It’s been great just to spend some time at home and get a break,” she said.

Read the whole story (and see Shawn with Abby) at:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571215,00.html

Abby finally saw the truth. The truth which Planned Parenthood often tries to hide — even from its very own management staff.

She left on good terms, and says that Planned Parenthood tried to offer her more money to stay. “But this was not about money or me being angry,” she said. “It was about my change of heart on abortion.”

Planned Parenthood has responded by going to court to seek a restraining order against both Abby and the Coalition for Life. The requested court action warns against disclosing any “confidential information.” An initial court hearing is set for November 10, so please keep Abby, Shawn, and the Coalition for Life in your prayers.

Seeing is believing, so here’s the local news report aired by KBTX-TV in Bryan/College Station:

done

Abby’s amazing conversion demonstrates the importance of a constant, persistent, peaceful prayer presence in front of abortion facilities.

From that first campaign in 2004, we’ve prayed for Abby — and for all abortion workers — that they would come to see what abortion really is, and that they would leave the deadly business. In this case, those prayers have been answered.

We are so proud of Abby’s courage to leave the abortion industry and publicly announce her reasons for leaving.

And now a familiar face has been seen praying outside Planned Parenthood in Bryan/College Station during the final days of this fall’s 40 Days for Life — yes, Abby Johnson.

God can and will do amazing things — if only we ask!

We must continue to pray and fast for more conversions just like Abby’s.

In fact, we WILL continue.

In the days ahead, you’ll learn how — together — we will keep this amazing momentum growing.

In all, eight clinic workers left their jobs during the 40 Days for Life campaign that just ended — and reports are still pouring in from across the 212 participating cities, so it could be even more!

I have another updated total for you as well. The number of babies (and their moms) spared from abortion during this campaign is now up to …

542!

Praise God for ALL these miracles!

For Life,

David Bereit
National Director
40 Days for Life

P.S.- Please keep Abby in your prayers this week. She goes on the Laura Ingraham radio show to tell her story in a few hours, and is scheduled to be on the O’Reilly Factor on Friday. May God use her testimony to change many hearts and minds!

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Surprise: NY Times Runs Cover Article in Support of R.O.T.C.

Quite surprising indeed.  The attitudes from the very same Ivy League schools that spawned Barack Obama have been notably anti-military, and anti-free speech (read that anti-conservative speech).  They are still using the “don’t ask, don’t tell” thing as a cop out.  For either the Times or any of the campus rags to say anything positive about the military is startling in the least.
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http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2009/20091103030718.aspx?print=on

Surprise: Times Runs Cover Article in Support of R.O.T.C.

By: Clay Waters

November 03, 2009 14:01 ET

There was a  surprise on the cover of the special Education Life section of Sunday’s paper: A 3,000-word story by Michael Winerip, “The Ivy Corps and the R.O.T.C. Ban,” that offered a supportive view of ROTC on Ivy League campuses.

Winerip sympathetically examined the trials faced by a Harvard student enrolled in the Reserve Officers Training Corps program:

In a speech last year, Drew Faust, the president of Harvard, congratulated seniors who had gone the extra mile to get their R.O.T.C. training. She meant it literally, and the extra miles they had gone were the least of it.

Harvard has not had a Reserve Officers Training Corps program on campus since antiwar protests in the 1960s shut it down. The handful of Harvard students determined enough to join R.O.T.C. must travel to Boston University and across Cambridge to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for their training, under a system developed by the military that allows host universities to serve nearby campuses.

For the last four school years, several times a week, Daniel West, Joe Kristol and Dom Pellegrini, all training to become United States Marine Corps officers, had to get to M.I.T. or B.U. by 5:45 a.m. It was so early the subway wasn’t running yet.

“I’d be up at 4:45 to shave first,” Mr. Kristol said.

Sometimes, when they had the energy and the weather wasn’t too frigid, the three ran the half-hour to B.U. in the predawn darkness. Some days, Mr. Kristol drove them — he says that was the only reason he kept a car, which cost him $250 to $300 a month to park and maintain.

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This is the 40th anniversary of the antiwar protests that led to the ban of R.O.T.C. at some of the nation’s most elite universities — Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Stanford, the University of Chicago, Tufts. And yet, the attitude on these campuses today is hardly antimilitary. There are numerous signs of genuine respect for the soldiers who serve. An editorial last May in the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, which for decades attacked R.O.T.C., praised classmates who had joined the program. “They demonstrate a commitment to service that should be admired and followed by the rest of the student body,” The Crimson said. The Yale, Columbia and Brown student papers have all published editorials in the recent past calling for the return of R.O.T.C. to their campuses.

Winerip pointed out that even our liberal president thinks the Ivy ban on R.O.T.C. is a bad idea:

During a campaign visit to Columbia University, Barack Obama, a favorite on the Ivy campuses, called the R.O.T.C. ban there wrong. (R.O.T.C. students at Columbia, in Manhattan, go to Fordham University or Manhattan College, both in the Bronx, for training). “The notion that young people here at Columbia, or anywhere, in any university, aren’t offered the choice, the option of participating in military service, I think is a mistake,” Mr. Obama said.

Winerip found a liberal excuse — the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell,” policy, which excludes open homosexuals from military service — but also relayed suggestions that citing that as a reason for the continuing R.O.T.C. ban was mere window-dressing to justify knee-jerk anti-military views.

 

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Health Care Bill from House Creates 111 New Bureaucracies

Here is the “hope and change” from the enemy that was mistakenly elected (with the help of ACORN stuffing ballot boxes).  Obama and his henchmen have broken every promise they campaigned on.  Wake up, America!  Stop this abortion now, or it will be too late.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/02/house-republicans-new-bureaucracies-health-care/

FOXNews.com
- November 02, 2009

House Republicans Find 111 New ‘Bureaucracies’ in Health Care Bill

In its latest attempt to portray Democrats’ reform package as an unwieldy expansion of federal government in the health care sector, the House Republican Conference circulated what it called a list of “new boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs” created in the House health care bill.

House Republicans claimed Monday that the health care reform bill pushed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi would create a whopping 111 new “federal bureaucracies.”

In its latest attempt to portray the Democrats’ reform package as an unwieldy expansion of federal government in the health care sector, the House Republican Conference circulated what it called a list of “new boards, bureaucracies, commissions and programs” created in the House health care bill.

Among some off the new agencies, the list cites a Health Insurance Exchange; the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation; the Public Health Investment Fund; the Public Health Workforce Corps; an Assistant Secretary for Health Information; the Food and Drug Administration Office of Women’s Health; grant programs for alternative medical liability laws, infant mortality programs and other issues; and about 100 other government-sponsored creations.

“That ought to tell you all that we need to know, that we’re going to have 1,990 pages of legislation,” House Minority Leader John Boehner said in an interview Sunday. “The word ’shall’ exists in this bill 3,345 times.” (That means “not optional,” or “mandatory.”)

The list underscores the GOP complaint that the health care reform bill over-burdens taxpayers and the government itself. Republicans said Monday they plan to read aloud the massive bill — in the space of four hours — on the House floor Tuesday.

A Democratic source dismissed the list of “bureaucracies” as an exaggeration, calling them “demonstration projects” instead.  (Democrats also call “fat” “gravitationally challenged,” they call “short” “vertically impaired,” and they call “liberal” about 10 different things like “progressive” just to hide the fact that they are liberals.  Make no mistake, this bill will EXPLODE the size of government.)

“The programs and demonstration projects they list aren’t new agencies but rather new projects,” the source told Fox News. “And they’re sensible ways to test new policies before more broadly implementing them. … Many of the programs and demonstration projects are things that Republicans themselves have called for and supported.”  (Just because the republicans who supported these programs are just as WRONG as you are, does that make it OK?)

Republicans, for instance, have called for medical malpractice reform, which is referenced in the list of new government agencies. The Democratic source said offices like “ombudsman” and “inspector general” are just individual offices in “existing agencies” and not new bureaucracies.  (Riiiiiggggghhhhhtttt!)

House Democrats unveiled their unified bill last week, which was estimated to cost $1.055 trillion over 10 years. House lawmakers are expected to begin debate this week, but Republicans — vastly outnumbered in the House — continue to push back hard.  (The media still will not report the FACT that Pelosi LOCKED REPUBLICANS OUT of all the meetings.  She complains that republicans aren’t offering any solutions when the FACT is that SHE REFUSES TO LISTEN TO ANY OF THEM.)

Boehner said Sunday that Republicans are preparing an alternative health care reform plan. However, pressed by FoxNews.com on Monday, Boehner’s office and the House Republican Conference committee provided few details of that plan.

“Rather than a trillion dollar government takeover, it’s going to be a step-by-step reform of the current system,” said Boehner spokesman Michael Steel, adding only that there will be no so-called public option in the GOP plan.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/02/raw-data-gop-list-new-bureaucracies-house-health-care/

FOXNews.com
- November 02, 2009

RAW DATA: GOP List of New ‘Bureaucracies’ in House Health Care Bill

The following is a list of the “new federal bureaucracies” that the House Republican Conference claims are created in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health care reform bill.

1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61)

2. Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section 112, p. 62)

3. Grant program for State health access programs (Section 114, p. 72)

4. Program of administrative simplification (Section 115, p. 76)

5. Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 223, p. 111)

6. Health Choices Administration (Section 241, p. 131)

7. Qualified Health Benefits Plan Ombudsman (Section 244, p. 138)

8. Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 155)

9. Program for technical assistance to employees of small businesses buying Exchange coverage (Section 305(h), p. 191)

10. Mechanism for insurance risk pooling to be established by Health Choices Commissioner (Section 306(b), p. 194)

11. Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund (Section 307, p. 195)

12. State-based Health Insurance Exchanges (Section 308, p. 197)

13. Grant program for health insurance cooperatives (Section 310, p. 206)

14. “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 321, p. 211)

15. Ombudsman for “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 321(d), p. 213)

16. Account for receipts and disbursements for “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 322(b), p. 215)

17. Telehealth Advisory Committee (Section 1191 (b), p. 589)

18. Demonstration program providing reimbursement for “culturally and linguistically appropriate services” (Section 1222, p. 617)

19. Demonstration program for shared decision making using patient decision aids (Section 1236, p. 648)

20. Accountable Care Organization pilot program under Medicare (Section 1301, p. 653)

21. Independent patient-centered medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302, p. 672)

22. Community-based medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302(d), p. 681)

23. Independence at home demonstration program (Section 1312, p. 718)

24. Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (Section 1401(a), p. 734)

25. Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission (Section 1401(a), p. 738)

26. Patient ombudsman for comparative effectiveness research (Section 1401(a), p. 753)

27. Quality assurance and performance improvement program for skilled nursing facilities (Section 1412(b)(1), p. 784)

28. Quality assurance and performance improvement program for nursing facilities (Section 1412 (b)(2), p. 786)

29. Special focus facility program for skilled nursing facilities (Section 1413(a)(3), p. 796)

30. Special focus facility program for nursing facilities (Section 1413(b)(3), p. 804)

31. National independent monitor pilot program for skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities (Section 1422, p. 859)

32. Demonstration program for approved teaching health centers with respect to Medicare GME (Section 1502(d), p. 933)

33. Pilot program to develop anti-fraud compliance systems for Medicare providers (Section 1635, p. 978)

34. Special Inspector General for the Health Insurance Exchange (Section 1647, p. 1000)

35. Medical home pilot program under Medicaid (Section 1722, p. 1058)

36. Accountable Care Organization pilot program under Medicaid (Section 1730A, p. 1073)

37. Nursing facility supplemental payment program (Section 1745, p. 1106)

38. Demonstration program for Medicaid coverage to stabilize emergency medical conditions in institutions for mental diseases (Section 1787, p. 1149)

39. Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund (Section 1802, p. 1162)

40. “Identifiable office or program” within CMS to “provide for improved coordination between Medicare and Medicaid in the case of dual eligibles” (Section 1905, p. 1191)

41. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Section 1907, p. 1198)

42. Public Health Investment Fund (Section 2002, p. 1214)

43. Scholarships for service in health professional needs areas (Section 2211, p. 1224)

44. Program for training medical residents in community-based settings (Section 2214, p. 1236)

45. Grant program for training in dentistry programs (Section 2215, p. 1240)

46. Public Health Workforce Corps (Section 2231, p. 1253)

47. Public health workforce scholarship program (Section 2231, p. 1254)

48. Public health workforce loan forgiveness program (Section 2231, p. 1258)

49. Grant program for innovations in interdisciplinary care (Section 2252, p. 1272)

50. Advisory Committee on Health Workforce Evaluation and Assessment (Section 2261, p. 1275)

51. Prevention and Wellness Trust (Section 2301, p. 1286)

52. Clinical Prevention Stakeholders Board (Section 2301, p. 1295)

53. Community Prevention Stakeholders Board (Section 2301, p. 1301)

54. Grant program for community prevention and wellness research (Section 2301, p. 1305)

55. Grant program for research and demonstration projects related to wellness incentives (Section 2301, p. 1305)

56. Grant program for community prevention and wellness services (Section 2301, p. 1308)

57. Grant program for public health infrastructure (Section 2301, p. 1313)

58. Center for Quality Improvement (Section 2401, p. 1322)

59. Assistant Secretary for Health Information (Section 2402, p. 1330)

60. Grant program to support the operation of school-based health clinics (Section 2511, p. 1352)

61. Grant program for nurse-managed health centers (Section 2512, p. 1361)

62. Grants for labor-management programs for nursing training (Section 2521, p. 1372)

63. Grant program for interdisciplinary mental and behavioral health training (Section 2522, p. 1382)

64. “No Child Left Unimmunized Against Influenza” demonstration grant program (Section 2524, p. 1391)

65. Healthy Teen Initiative grant program regarding teen pregnancy (Section 2526, p. 1398)

66. Grant program for interdisciplinary training, education, and services for individuals with autism (Section 2527(a), p. 1402)

67. University centers for excellence in developmental disabilities education (Section 2527(b), p. 1410)

68. Grant program to implement medication therapy management services (Section 2528, p. 1412)

69. Grant program to promote positive health behaviors in underserved communities (Section 2530, p. 1422)

70. Grant program for State alternative medical liability laws (Section 2531, p. 1431)

71. Grant program to develop infant mortality programs (Section 2532, p. 1433)

72. Grant program to prepare secondary school students for careers in health professions (Section 2533, p. 1437)

73. Grant program for community-based collaborative care (Section 2534, p. 1440)

74. Grant program for community-based overweight and obesity prevention (Section 2535, p. 1457)

75. Grant program for reducing the student-to-school nurse ratio in primary and secondary schools (Section 2536, p. 1462)

76. Demonstration project of grants to medical-legal partnerships (Section 2537, p. 1464)

77. Center for Emergency Care under the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (Section 2552, p. 1478)

78. Council for Emergency Care (Section 2552, p 1479)

79. Grant program to support demonstration programs that design and implement regionalized emergency care systems (Section 2553, p. 1480)

80. Grant program to assist veterans who wish to become emergency medical technicians upon discharge (Section 2554, p. 1487)

81. Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (Section 2562, p. 1494)

82. National Medical Device Registry (Section 2571, p. 1501)

83. CLASS Independence Fund (Section 2581, p. 1597)

84. CLASS Independence Fund Board of Trustees (Section 2581, p. 1598)

85. CLASS Independence Advisory Council (Section 2581, p. 1602)

86. Health and Human Services Coordinating Committee on Women’s Health (Section 2588, p. 1610)

87. National Women’s Health Information Center (Section 2588, p. 1611)

88. Centers for Disease Control Office of Women’s Health (Section 2588, p. 1614)

89. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Office of Women’s Health and Gender-Based Research (Section 2588, p. 1617)

90. Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Women’s Health (Section 2588, p. 1618)

91. Food and Drug Administration Office of Women’s Health (Section 2588, p. 1621)

92. Personal Care Attendant Workforce Advisory Panel (Section 2589(a)(2), p. 1624)

93. Grant program for national health workforce online training (Section 2591, p. 1629)

94. Grant program to disseminate best practices on implementing health workforce investment programs (Section 2591, p. 1632)

95. Demonstration program for chronic shortages of health professionals (Section 3101, p. 1717)

96. Demonstration program for substance abuse counselor educational curricula (Section 3101, p. 1719)

97. Program of Indian community education on mental illness (Section 3101, p. 1722)

98. Intergovernmental Task Force on Indian environmental and nuclear hazards (Section 3101, p. 1754)

99. Office of Indian Men’s Health (Section 3101, p. 1765)

100. Indian Health facilities appropriation advisory board (Section 3101, p. 1774)

101. Indian Health facilities needs assessment workgroup (Section 3101, p. 1775)

102. Indian Health Service tribal facilities joint venture demonstration projects (Section 3101, p. 1809)

103. Urban youth treatment center demonstration project (Section 3101, p. 1873)

104. Grants to Urban Indian Organizations for diabetes prevention (Section 3101, p. 1874)

105. Grants to Urban Indian Organizations for health IT adoption (Section 3101, p. 1877)

106. Mental health technician training program (Section 3101, p. 1898)

107. Indian youth telemental health demonstration project (Section 3101, p. 1909)

108. Program for treatment of child sexual abuse victims and perpetrators (Section 3101, p. 1925)

109. Program for treatment of domestic violence and sexual abuse (Section 3101, p. 1927)

110. Native American Health and Wellness Foundation (Section 3103, p. 1966)

111. Committee for the Establishment of the Native American Health and Wellness Foundation (Section 3103, p. 1968)

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Conservatives vs. GOP

For those who haven’t been following the NY23 congressional election, here’s the Cliff’s Notes.  There WERE three candidates in the race:  democrat Bill Owens, “republican” Dede Scozzafava, who was more liberal than her democrat opponent, and Conservative Party Candidate Doug Hoffman, who is not a big time politician, but rather a CPA who decided to take a stand.  Initially many of the republican party leadership, and prominent republicans like Newt Gingrich threw their endorsements to Scozzafava, along with thousands of dollars.  However, CONSERVATIVES including Sarah Palin and others endorsed Doug Hoffman.  The fact that Scozzafava was indeed a liberal, and that many GOP officials were supporting her, began to erode support for her and bolster Hoffman.  Eventually Scozzafava’s numbers dropped so far that she finally dropped out of the race.  The thing to notice is that when she dropped out, SHE ENDORSED THE LIBERAL DEMOCRAT, thus exposing herself beyond any shadow of a doubt as a RINO.

The media formerly known as mainstream is using this event to attack the GOP, claiming “civil war,” “infighting,” “exclusion of differing opinions,” and so on.  They are ignoring what’s really going on.

Americans are tired of not having their American values represented.  The GOP USED TO largely represent conservative, traditional American values, but strayed away from that in recent years to become the “democrat-lite” party.  The GOP because of their non-conservative spending and other non-traditional American behavior got their collective assets handed to them in 2006 and again in 2008.  Why?  Because Americans want CONSERVATIVES, not republicans.  Americans are sending a message to the GOP: Get RIGHT, or get left.  Either return to your conservative roots, or become irrelevant.

So, are the republicans “purging” RINO’s?  Are they packing up the “big tent?”  Is there a “civil war” in the republican party?  If it means that the GOP is waking up and returning to it’s conservative roots which the majority of Americans support, then that’s great.  If the GOP chooses to continue its pursuit of mediocrity, which means choosing irrelevance, then the GOP will be history and a new conservative party will rise up to take its place.

Here are some articles of interest which illustrate how the left is simply trying to divide and destroy the opposition.

Gibson Frets: ‘Liberal Republican Gets Forced Out, What Happened to the Big Tent?’

Hardball: GOP Russian-Like ‘Purge’ of RINOs Leading to ‘Crack Cocaine of Reduced Republicanism’

CBS’s Smith: Will Conservative Turn in NY-23 Race ‘Kill’ GOP?

NYT’s Frank Rich: ‘The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York’

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Spins Hoffman Race as a GOP ‘Civil War’

Ted Danson, Joy Behar: Uneducated Bias

Behar, being the “un-biased journalist” she is, leads Danson on a bashing tour of American conservatism.  Danson insults the nearly 80% of Americans who profess to be Christians.  They insult whoever they wish at will, and act as if THEY are the ones attacked when the real victims of their slander get angry.

I am a peace loving individual, but idiot “children” like this sometimes drive me to the point where I’m about to lose control and just beat the crap out of one of them to make an example.  Then they should be sent to their rooms with not microphone privileges.

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Ted Danson: Rush Limbaugh, Religious Right ‘Really Piss Me Off’

By Jeff Poor

Created 2009-11-03 07:01

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There’s no better example than political commentary from a Hollywood elite to demonstrate how low some conservatives are regarded. According to actor Ted Danson, some conservatives just being manipulated by Rush Limbaugh and organized religion because they’re not smart to formulate their own beliefs.  (If you don’t spout the liberal line, people like Danson, Behar, Nancy Pelosi, etc. think you are not capable of independent, rational thought.  These condescending pseudo-intellectuals think they are smarter and more intelligent than we are, therefore they should be able to dictate our fate.  Bah!  It will be a cold day in Hell before I follow people like them anywhere.)

Danson, who has starred in both “Becker” and “Cheers,” (and that’s ALL he ever did worthwhile) appeared on HLN’s Nov. 2 “The Joy Behar Show” [1] and was asked to respond to Rush Limbaugh’s criticism of Barack Obama on Nov. 1 “Fox News Sunday.” [1] Danson questioned the notion that Limbaugh, who is a self-made success, is really “one of the people.” Instead, he accused him playing on people’s fears and anger to make money, which he didn’t like.  (Where is he when Pelosi, Reid, and Obama are playing on our fears claiming “all of the children will die,” or “all of the polar bears will drown,” or “global temperatures will rise and we’ll all die?”  IF, and that’s a big IF, Rush is doing as Danson claims, he is entertaining and audiences listen to him because they agree with or enjoy what he is saying.  By contrast, when the liberals are doing it, it is to GAIN POWER and CONTROL over your money, wealth, possessions, freedom, and lives.  I’d say that’s one heck of a bid difference.  Hypocrites.)

“The people of the people, Rush, one of us, yeah,” Danson said. “Those are the people that really piss me off, to be honest. I totally understand people who are angry and are fearful. I understand people who church is a huge part of their life. I understand people not wanting their daughters to watch MTV. I understand and have empathy for all those people. (“Empathy?”  I doubt that.  “Sympathy” I might believe.) The people that come along and make use of those people’s fears and insecurities to make money or to make something, a position for them, you know, more palatable, those people are … shame, shame.”  (Again, I ask you, Ted.  What do you have to say about your liberal “friends” who are “fear-mongering” for far more nefarious purposes?  Hypocrite.)

Behar prodded Danson to name people that were guilty of his charge of playing on anger and fear, which he said not only Rush, but also the religious right.

“You know what – pretty much the religious right does that, by and large. You know?” Danson replied.  (Interpretation: So, all of you Christians and conservatives (said with disdain) out there are despicable fear-mongering snake-oil salesmen.)

Behar called them “extremists,” a suggestion Danson agreed with and got Danson to elaborate on how they play on people’s fears.  (Behar is planting leading, biased suggestions.  Why doesn’t the White House condemn her?)

“The people’s fears, you totally understand,” Danson said. “I understand that. I understand wanting to go to a mega-church because the rest of your life is tough. You know, I understand all of that, but then you come along and organize those people off of their fears and anger and I think that’s too bad.”  (Most of the “mega-churches” I’ve either attended, or watched several of their sermons tend to preach a “feel good,” “name-it-claim-it” theology that leaves out several important aspects of the Bible from their teachings.  Those who preach that if you do “x” you will be wealthy, or if you do “y” you will be happy in many cases are deceiving their congregations.  Christianity ISN’T about being wealthy or happy, it’s about following Christ and His teachings.  Christians are never promised that life will be easy, or that they will be happy. In fact they are promised that if they follow Christ, they will be attacked for their faith.  The evidence proves this to be true.  They are promised that if they are in the center of God’s will they will have JOY.  Happiness is temporary joy based on circumstances.  Joy is permanent happiness based on faith.  Danson displays not only his ignorance, but also his lack of salvation.)

Behar also accused those same people of being “encouraged” to vote against their interests and Danson alluded to opposition to a government option of health insurance, suggesting it was being opposed by people it would help.  (No, it’s being opposed by people whose hard earned wealth, freedom, and prosperity will be stripped from them by a power hungry government.)

“Who’s going to be able to get the government, what do you call it, with insurance, the government … the public option,” Danson said. “Right, only people who don’t have insurance. So people who don’t have insurance would rather not – they don’t want it.”

Behar’s explanation – those in power were in cahoots with big insurance.

“They don’t want to have too much competition for the insurance companies,” Behar said.  (The left has LIMITED competition for insurance companies by preventing them from competing across state lines and in other markets.  There would be more companies, more competition, and lower prices for consumers if THE GOVERNMENT weren’t ALREADY screwing up health care.)

 

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Source URL:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2009/11/03/ted-danson-rush-limbaugh-religious-right-really-piss-me

Links:
[1] http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2009/20091103061048.aspx

 

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CNN Headline: Glaciers disappearing from Kilimanjaro

But what they don’t tell you is there is a record amount of ice in Antarctica.  And, by the way, the earth has actually been COOLING for the last decade.  I guess these goobers didn’t get the memo.

Perhaps this is Mother Nature’s version of the Obama economic plan.  She is “redistributing the wealth” of the ice around the world.

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Glaciers disappearing from Kilimanjaro

By Azadeh Ansari, CNN

(CNN) — The ice and snow that cap majestic Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania are vanishing before our eyes.

If current conditions persist, climate change experts say, Kilimanjaro’s world-renowned glaciers, which have covered Africa’s highest peak for centuries, will be gone within the next two decades.

“In a very real sense, these glaciers are being decapitated from the surface down,” said Lonnie Thompson, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University. Thompson is co-author of a study on Kilimanjaro published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study’s authors blame the disappearing ice on increases in global temperatures and diminished snowfall at Kilimanjaro’s summit.  (Diminished snowfall I might buy, but as I mentioned above it would appear that the good professor either didn’t get or chose to ignore the memo that it has been PROVEN that global temperatures have actually been falling for the last decade.  But I’m sure the good professor won’t let a trivial thing like facts or truth stand in the way of his liberal agenda.)

(click link for complete article)

Transformer Halloween Costume

I usually don’t dress up for Halloween anymore, but with a costume this cool I might.

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Plagiarizer Jayson Blair to Speak on Media Ethics

This is just too ridiculous to even need to comment on.  This is like having the guy that just slapped you lecture you on how you should turn the other cheek.
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http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2009/20091029030633.aspx?print=on

No Joke: Mass Times Plagiarizer Jayson Blair to Speak on Media Ethics

By: Clay Waters

October 29, 2009 15:00 ET

This is not a parody: Disgraced serial fantasist (and former Times reporter) Jayson Blair will address the 48th Journalism Ethics Institute at Washington & Lee University tomorrow.

As recorded in a university press release reprinted by the Rock Bridge Weekly of Lexington, Va, Blair will be the featured speaker at Washington and Lee University’s 48th Journalism Ethics Institute on November 6.

From the release:

Blair resigned from the Times after an investigation found that he had plagiarized and fabricated major portions of stories that he had written during four years with the Times. Some of the stories that he covered in this manner were such major news events as the D.C. sniper case and the rescue of POW Jessica Lynch.

“Inviting Jayson Blair to keynote this institute was definitely a departure for us,” said Edward Wasserman, the Knight Professor of Journalism Ethics at W&L. “In the past, we’ve brought heroes to Lexington, people of great accomplishment and stature, such as Hodding Carter, Helen Thomas and Lowell Bergman, and people who stood up to pressure in the name of principled journalism, such as Matt Cooper and my W&L faculty colleague Toni Locy, both of whom faced jail time because they refused to give up the names of sources they had promised to protect.

Wasserman further explained: “My expectation is that he’ll talk not just about his own susceptibilities, but about the pressures and temptations that might induce ambitious and talented young journalists elsewhere in the business to do the wrong thing.”
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