Pres. Barak Obama’s omissions reveal his real agenda
By Richard Corbeil – The Apopka Chief – Founded in 1923
DECEMBER 31 – Every media outlet in the U.S. is picking their number one story of the year 2010, and they range from the Gulf Oil Spill, to Obamacare, to the tsunami TEA party overhaul of Congress and most of the state governments.
My own pick came from a piece by Chuck Norris (Yes, the black belt phenomenon who stars on TV as Texas Ranger extraordinaire), who is also a terrific syndicated columnist and devout Christian.
In this particular piece, he revealed seven stunning, recent occurrences where President Obama, in seven public pronouncements, omitted the words “by their Creator” when reciting this portion of the Declaration of Independence, one of our sacred, founding documents. All seven occurred in September and October.
This section states, “that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Norris quotes Obama in seven different addresses where he specifies the rights but ignores their “Source”.
The omissions began on September 10 and 11 in three locations:
-The first time at a presidential news conference September 10 at the White House.
-On September 11 at the Pentagon Memorial (for 9/11) in Arlington, Virginia, and then at a news conference regarding the mosque at Ground Zero
-On September 15 at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 33rd Annual Awards Gala in Washington.
-On September 22 at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee/OSCC dinner in New York.
-On October 17 at a reception for Ted Strickland in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
-On October 18 at a Democrat Senatorial Campaign dinner in Rockville, Maryland.
Although, Norris did not state specifically what he drew from this assault by a president on the “Declaration”, he did conclude that, “To me, it is not only what a man includes but also what he omits that tells you everything about him.”
As for myself, it is just another confirmation of Obama’s Muslim roots and beliefs, disdain for our great nation and its Founders and his obvious campaign to impoverish then render us as a third rate nation ripe for Sharia law. One, even two instances, could have been accidental, but the odds against seven would be trillions to one. This would be “misdemeanor” for an ACORN “community organizer”, but for a president it’s a “high crime”.
Obama ran for the presidency under the pretense that he was a Christian and that he had experience governing. Neither was truthful and the condition of our country economically disproves the second and his declarations in Muslim countries that ”The United States is no longer a Christian nation” certainly is admissible evidence to belief in a cult with an unending history of enslavement, hate, killing and conquest. Especially, when over 80 percent of our population declares they are Christians.
Obama’s abandonment of “by their Creator”, because it obviously refers to the God of the Bible, and the spread of Sharia law is, at least to me, proof of where this guy is coming from. And, worse still, where he wants to take us. As U.S. President, one does not give speeches eliminating the key word of our founding document unless drastic mischief is in the works.
A recent article by Gary Stearman, associate editor of Prophecy in the News magazine, details the spread of Sharia law in Europe and its initial assault in the U.S. Stearman wrote that Islamic law called Sharia, meaning “the pathway to be followed”, is already being applied to Islamic families in the British Isles … As Islam expands into the West and particularly into America, many are worried that it will begin to erode traditional Anglo-Saxon case law.
After viewing Germany’s recent rejection of the viability of Muslims and Germans living together, German Chancellor Angela Markel stated that it “has failed, utterly failed”.
Stearman wrote further that Oklahomans, looking toward Europe, placed the proposition on the ballot to prohibit Sharia law in their state, and the prohibition was approved by over 70 percent of the voters.
It is obvious that Islam’s pressure on Obama is having him move more and more into the open as he continues to use homegrown communists and their proven methods to pave the way for the ultimate dominating force of Islam.
Stearman reports, “On ABC Television, British Islamic Leader Anjem Choudary, when asked why people should not ne afraid of Islamic domination, responded, ‘We do believe as Muslims that the east and the west will be governed by the Sharia law. Indeed, we believe that one day the flag of Islam will fly over the White House. ‘” (Emphasis mine) Planning to vote him in for a second term, anyone?
To accomplish this, Israel must be destroyed in the process in order that the God of the Jews and Christians, the God of love, mercy and salvation will not continue to expose the god of Islam: Allah, the moon god of conquest, hate and subservience unto death and suicidal slaughter.
As Obama continues his drive to split Israel into an indefensible spot on the globe, it is no surprise that he has dropped reference to the “Creator”, which to our Founders was the Judeo-Christian God, Creator of all things.
“And I saw, and behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow, and a crown
was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.” Revelation 6:2.
Obama’s record number of executive orders will continue destruction
By Richard Corbeil –The Apopka Chief – Founded in 1923
DECEMBER 10 – Since the 2010 decade ends in three weeks, a discussion of some of our decade-ending problems is certainly in order.
One of those problems, which just won’t go away, is the Korean peninsula flare-up again with North Korea firing artillery rounds at South Korea and threatening all-out war once more.
The problem here for some 60 years are reflections of bad presidential decisions near the end of World War II, when Harry Truman allowed the Soviet Union to jump into our Asian conflict at the last minute and ended up dictating dividing Korea into two nations at the 38th parallel.
When commie North Korea inevitably attacked South Korea in 1950, General MacArthur led a U.N. force, largely American, and drove the commies back to the Red China border. The ChiComs then joined the fray and the war see-sawed for almost four years, and it has never really ended. We still have close to 30,000 troops there.
The main reason is that the man (Truman) who took over near the end WWII on Roosevelt’s death and ended that war with atomic strikes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, went chicken when MacArthur announced publicly that he could end the conflict with total victory by bombing the ChiCom supply dumps and reserve forces along the Yalu River, the ChiCom-North Korea border. Please note, that at this time we were the only nation with atomic weapons.
Truman fired MacArthur and the war, which cost over 36,000 American lives and 104, 000 wounded, went on hold, off and on, until this day.
This refusal to fight a war all out ala WWI and WWII, was repeated in Vietnam, but that time we lost the whole deal after 47,355 deaths, 153,303 wounded and our nation torn apart morally and ideologically. Fearless leaders at that time were Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.
This is being repeated in spades in Afghanistan where the rules of engagement rule out any possibility of victory and insure an unnecessary amount of American dead and wounded. How the armed forces recruit any combat troops with the psycho concern for civilian casualties during a war, is beyond my brain capacity. If this reasoning dominated WWII, the entire world would all be speaking Japanese or German.
On the home front, under President Obama the nightmares we faced in those 20th century wars and the ones in this century, are all coming true in the loss of freedom and a government hell-bent on rule by communism.
With a White House brimming with communist czars and a president with close supporters who have proclaimed one–world government as their final goal, please don’t think that this past mid-term elections will stop the direction we are heading in, especially with our Executive Branch grabbing more and more unconstitutional power everyday and no move to impeach him by Congress.
An article in the December issue of The American Spectator by the senior editorial writer of The Washington Times, Quin Hillyer, warns that Obama will use a record number of executive orders to bypass Congress, continuing an unprecedented, alarming number reported by the Heritage Foundation. Forty-three major new regulations were imposed by Washington with the total cost of the new rules topping $26.5 billion.
Typical of those cited was in the case of ethanol where Hillyer writes: “Even most environmentalists now concede that corn-based ethanol use is probably a net-minus ecologically (not to mention what it does to local prices and availability).
“Yet, in October, the EPA issued a new rule allowing/prompting gasoline companies to use a fuel mix of 15 percent ethanol instead of just 10 percent. As The Wall Street Journal explained, this is horrible on numerous levels: ‘Ethanol is highly corrosive and can damage engines … (and) is more expensive than gas, gets worse mileage than gas, (and) increases carbon emissions more than gas does.’”
Another area that points directly at Obama’s intentions of destroying the U.S. as a Republic in his pursuit of communism are the EPA proposal on strict emission limits on boilers at wood-burning plants. Hillyer’s article reports: “ “The Biomass Power Assoc. complains this would ‘endanger the entire renewable energy industry’ – exactly the form of industry environmentalists supposedly favor. Congressional opposition to the EPA proposal has been bi-partisan with 45 Democrats joining 61 Republicans signing a strong letter of protests.”
These are just two of many Obama attacks on our already dying economy, and if these don’t portray an individual trained to destroy a nation from within, I have no idea what would.
Additionally, the Obamacare nuclear missile, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, “creates 183 new agencies, commissions, panels and other bodies.”
Jonah Goldberg, syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services, recently reported a statement Obama made to Richard Wolfe, the author of Renegade: The Making of a President. The great one said to Wolfe, “You know, I actually believe my own bull ----.”
Contrast that with progressive, liberal adoration and ignorance of lurking danger by Newsweek editor Evan Thomas on Obama worshipper Chris Matthews’ “Cirque Du Soleil” Talk Show.
“Reagan was all about America, “ said Thomas. “Obama is ___ we’re above that now. We’re not just parochial; we’re not just chauvinistic; we’re not just provincial. We stand for something. I mean in a way, Obama’s standing above the country, above the world. He’s sort of God.”
Sorry, Thomas, there’s only one Most Holy One. Anything else is you know who, or his agent.
“I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
‘Yet thou shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.’” Isaiah14:14 and15.
What does Styrofoam have to do with global warming?
By Richard Corbeil – The Apopka Chief- Founded in 1923
DECEMBER 3 – They’re at it again! But, this time, with greatly diminished hopes and numbers of attendees, despite a meeting this week at an ultra luxurious resort in Cancun, Mexico.
A November 24 article by Reuters correspondent Alister Doyle stated, “Amid worries that the first climate treaty since 1992 may still be years away (Hallelujah!), the world (?) will seek to break the U.S.- China standoff and agree to modest steps to rein in global warming at U.N. talks next week in Mexico.”
I never thought I would laud Red China for anything, but their stand on the stupidity of global warming propaganda and refusal to damage their booming economy with drastic unnecessary carbon dioxide reduction programs will be a boon to their 1.4 billion people.
“I’m a little depressed about Cancun,” Doyle quoted former Vice President al-Gore. “The problem is not going away, it’s getting worse.”
This from the genius who, after making $millions, if not $billions, on the ethanol scam, now says it was a mistake, and, additionally, wasted our corn harvests , driving up prices and driving down surpluses for feeding the world’s poor.
Of course, he was busy building a multi-million dollar mansion in the Peoples’ Republic of California to match his 20,000 square foot shack in Tennessee which, most likely, will be part of Tipper’s divorce booty. He’s been keeping busy on the left coast hiring massage maidens to assuage his fears of greenhouse gases.
Despite the exposure of the world’s biggest ever fraud by last year’s “Climategate” fiasco, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) also claimed on November 25 (Happy Thanksgiving) that 2010 is on track to match the warmest year on record since the 19th century. Doesn’t that 100 plus-years gap of a previous record warm spell, with about 20% of today’s population, kind of kill the man-caused aspect of this warming nonsense.
Apparently, also, WMO missed the record 8 degrees below zero in Sioux Falls, S.D. a month before winter begins officially. And, two days before Thanksgiving , “Lallapelosi” got her IQ matched in San Francisco (her Congressional District) by a record low of 42; the lowest in over 100 years.
Of course, even more revealing of the sun being in complete charge of temperature in our solar system, per God’s plan, are the reports of rising temperatures on other planets over the last ten years. The science journal Nature reported that our Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft showed that Martian caps (made of CO2) had been shrinking since 1999.
Hawaii’s Keck Observatory in February 2005 announced a new thermal hot spot at Saturn’s south pole. This was confirmed by the Jet Propulsion Lab. in Pasadena, Calif.
In 1998, M.I.T., regarding the Voyager space probe and the Hubble Telescope, reported a warming trend on the surface of Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, causing parts of the frozen nitrogen surface to turn into gas.
Other agencies and labs have estimated 3.5 degrees warming on Pluto and as much as 10 degrees on parts of giant Jupiter. So, what do all these bodies have in common besides the sun?
How about no people, no zillions of animals breathing and with flatulence, no aircraft, no power plants, no cars, trucks or buses, no industrial plants, no vegetation, no water, no millions of homes heating and cooling, no forest fires, no armies or navies, etc., etc.—just the sun.
Is there any wonder that over 30,000 leading scientist have signed statements saying that there is no evidence or basis for the global warming scam.
In December of 2007, the founder of the Weather Channel, John Coleman, a world-recognized expert on weather, stated publicly that al-Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” is fraudulent and could be the object of a lawsuit.
It was revealed that the documentary contains supposed shots of huge icecaps that are actually Styrofoam creations from the science fiction flick “The Day After Tomorrow”; a complete violation of any production labeled as a documentary. Nobel Prize or Academy Award, anyone? Oh! And, England has banned the film from its schools for being a “Convenient Lie”.
The day following the Reuters’ article, German economist Mann Edenhoffer declared that climate change has nothing to do with science. “One must say clearly”, he stated, “that we will redistribute the world’s wealth by using climate change, and that the goal has always been one world government”. George Soros, call my office.
One must look on anything the U.N. concocts as sheer insanity. Look at the recent shelling of South Korea by North Korea with the U.N. and everyone going bonkers over the perps.
Yet over recent years, Israel has received over 11,000 rocket strikes from the Hamas in Gaza and Lebanon and the world says nothing, but jumps on Israel in condemnation if they defend themselves, even in a minimum way.
More madness recently when Al-Mutawaki Taha, deputy information Minister in the Palestinian Authority, issued a report asserting that the Western Wall in Jerusalem, that dates back to the foundation of the Second Temple and possibly even Solomon’s Temple some 2,000 or 3,000 years ago, is not Jewish. Jerusalem’s holiest site is not Jewish!
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called upon Palestinian leadership to renounce the insanity. Don’t hold your breath, Benjamin; the crazies are in charge of the world asylum.
North Korea, Hamas, Western Wall, global warming – just the tip of the Styrofoam iceberg. I’m going to stick with the One who was there at the beginning.
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8;32.
There are many reasons to give thanks – here’s a real good one
By Richard Corbeil – The Apopka Chief- Founded in 1923
NOVEMBER 26 – You’ll be reading this after Thanksgiving Day but, hopefully, not after thanksgiving, which I like to regard as a daily occurrence. Just as Christmas Day is not the end of celebrating Jesus’ birth, or July 4, the only day we express love of America and freedom, Thanksgiving is just the prime day of renewal. Right now, I am giving continuous thanks to a man named Bob Morley, who has authored a must-read book for all men and women, titled Unlocking God’s Secrets: Past, Present and Future.
This book is a piece of research wonder, jam-packed with revelations of indisputable prophecies on historic events that were predicted centuries, even millennia, before they occurred. The more than 300 prophecies on Jesus coming and crucifixion detailed centuries before, are just part of the thousands on man’s history that Morley enumerates.
The author, Morley, certainly didn’t do 13,000 hours of research and study because he was bored or needed the money. He is the founder and president of Christian Insurance Marketing, a nationwide personal insurance lines marketing company with agents in 32 states.
Typical revelation is the New Testament recount of the apostles fishing all night after Jesus’ crucifixion and coming up empty, until the resurrected Jesus called to them from the shore and told them to drop their net on the other side of the boat. They came up with a bursting full net of 153 fish. For millennia, brilliant scholars tried to figure out why the number 153 was specified (including Newton, Augustine and DaVinci).
Morley recounts that about 100 years ago, an army officer, Lt. Col. R. Roberts, following an inspiration, counted the number of people blessed by Jesus in the four Gospels from Matthew to John and came up with exactly153. Morley lists each chapter and verse and the number blessed – a total of 153.
Typical are the leper (1), Centurion and servant (2), Palsied man and bearers (5), etc. As Murray states, only an all-powerful God could arrange for the net to bring 153 fish to shore.
Although, I am only 13 chapters into the 43 chapter book as of this writing, I get flabbergasted, blessed and give thanks every few pages or less.
The most recent state of awe came on reaching Morley’s discussion of Hebrew and Greek letters which also represent numbers, with every name in the Greek New Testament used for Jesus forming a number that is divisible by 8.
To quote Morley: “Ask any mathematician and you will find this extremely incredible. The list of names translated into numbers is; Emmanuel = 25,600, which is 3,200 times 8, Christ = 1,480, or 185 times 8, Savior = 1,408, or 176 times 8, Messiah = 656, or 82 times 8, Son = 880, or 110 times 8, and Lord = 800, which is exactly 100 times 8.
“In contrast, let’s look at the names for Satan, and since Satan was present in the Old Testament times, we will first look at his Old Testament names that were written in Hebrew, which also uses letters for numbers.
“ The piercing serpent = 1,170, or 28 times 13, Beelzebub = 598, or 46 times 13, Belial = 78, or 6 times 13, and Satan = 364, or 28 times 13. Of course, Satan was around in New Testament times. In the Greek New Testament names, Satan = 2,197, which is 169 times 13, dragon = 975, or 75 times 13, and Serpent = 780, or 60 times 13.
“ Also interesting is the fact that when we look at the person Satan will inhabit during the tribulation, we find him called the man of sin = 1963. Or 151 times 13, as well as the son of perdition = 1,807, which is 139 times 13.
“Lest we think there is anything coincidental in all this, not a single one of those names listed for Satan is divisible by 8.”
Morley relates that a few years back, Science Speaks, published an article in which that revered secular publication looks at the possibility of one person’s life fulfilling eight of the prophecies that the life of Jesus fulfilled. They found that the chances of any one man’s life fulfilling just eight of the over 300 prophecies is one in ten to the seventeenth power which is 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000.
He states, “What I do know is that we have already explored 14 fulfilled prophecies (in 9 chapters) and we are just at the beginning. We are obviously way past one in a hundred zillion already!”
Morley cites another Christian scholar, Dr. Grant Jeffrey, who wrote in his book, The Signature of God, the answer for the chance of one man’s life fulfilling just 17 of such prophecies. He came up with the answer – one in 480 billion times a billion, times a trillion, and with over 283 to go!
“God is outside our time and space constraints,” Morley writes, “and the Word of God, like him, was written outside our time and space constraints as well. It was given to normal men to write, but the Words came from outside our time.”
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God …
And the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth.” John 1:1 and 14.
Columnist note: Morley’s book can be ordered through Long’s Christian Bookstore in Altamonte Springs. Price is $18.95. Call 407-339-0770.
The Obamanation’s reversal has to begin, in the same context as the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill
OCTOBER 15 – I remember when Johnny Carson’s final late night show was about to sign off permanently after years of being a success. Johnny looked into the camera and said quietly and sadly, “So, this is it.” (Fade to black). As Election Day, November 2, approaches that phrase is ringing in my head, but not in the sense of something pleasant or that which will be missed.
What must happen is that the Obamanation’s reversal has to begin, in the same context as the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill, signaling, without question, the restoration of our Constitution and Republic.
As one who predicted today’s morass and coming destruction of our freedoms in a column of December 15, 2006, when Barack Hussein Obama first appeared as a potential candidate for president, I feel qualified to complete the prophesy or prediction. Take your pick of nouns.
The second paragraph of that 2006 piece read: “Now, the liberal media, almost right after the mid-term elections, are trying to foist on us the ultimate doomsday instrument in the persona of a Harvard Law liberal posing as a moderate, promoting him as presidential material.”
After closely studying his every move and word for four years as campaigner and president, and parsing four biographical sketches from various resource groups, I have moved in my analysis of him from ultra-liberal to communist to a Muslim tool and operative. Although, his policies are right in line to impoverish our nation (the century-old basic communist strategy) before seizing all property, industry and power, his phony claims of being a Christian never were believable.
Surrounding himself with communist czars in the White House was almost a convincing note to his final objective, until I saw the interview with George Stephanopoulos and his statement ending with “according to my Muslim faith,” which “Georgy” quickly corrected to, “you mean your Christian faith.” “Right, my Christian faith,” aped Obama.
Virtually every conservative columnist, critic and talk show host is ranting about his stupidity inexperience and foolishness in economic policies that have virtually destroyed the Democrat Party and produced a fast approaching sinking of our economy, world standing, security, and national unity against Islamic terror.
The only one that has stated directly that he is a communist with evil intentions is Rush Limbaugh, under unceasing barrages from the leftist media.
But, harder evidence of his Muslim core can be found in his several years of adolescent education in Indonesia, during what are one’s most impressionable years, at a school that required being a Muslim. Additionally, bowing and scraping to leaders of Islam throughout the Mideast is not conduct of a Christian president. Nor is stating that the Muslim call to prayer is the most beautiful sound he has ever heard.
Knowing his ego-maniacal personality, intelligence, Columbia and Harvard education and Chicago record, it is obvious that his policies and the silly, almost laughable tomes he calls bills are meant to convince the communist that he is working for them, when he is really just using them to set us up for a takeover by Islam.
In his book, Dreams From My Father, please note that that he uses “from” and not “of” as an “in your face shot” that those dreams of a die-hard Muslim father have transferred to him.
I’m sure the principal dream of his father was the destruction of Israel, and Obama’s insulting treatment of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last spring was the worst display of non-diplomacy since the Cold War.
With the coming elections certain to dilute, if not kill, his power over Congress, his rush to crush Israel between Fatah, Hamas, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, has got to be almost laughable to former Israel Defense Force commando officer Netanyahu.
Obama’s almost secret White House meeting with Saudi Arabia’s king two months ago most likely had two prime areas of discussion; the destruction of Israel and the continued use of American communist traitors to bankrupt our nation.
Please note the step-up of terrorism in bombings and massacres worldwide, especially in Europe, the U.S. and the Mideast. I’m sure the Fort Hood massacre, the Christmas and Time’s Square bombers, and the refusal of Obama to secure our borders or let the states do it, are all some of the “dreams from his father” who hated the U.S. – most likely for providing him a free Ivy League education.
Also note the historical departure of White House high numbers of staff members with less than two years on the job. Maybe some caught Obama prostrate and praying toward Mecca.
When a president forces Congress to create 2,000-page plus bills that nobody has time to study or even read and are rushed through passage, what should it be labeled? When $trillions of debt are run up to doom future generations to poverty through taxation without representation, what should it be labeled?
How about “High Crimes or Misdemeanors”? Ditto for not allowing states to defend their borders, or sending troops into war with life-endangering rules of engagement.
It is vital that the mid-term Senate election produces at least a two-thirds “America first majority,” regardless of party, who will be ready to move as Obama rushes to rule tyrannically by executive orders. The fate of the nation will be determined in the next two years.
As Johnny would say, “So, this is it” – the new beginning or the end?
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
Proverbs3:5 and 6.
U.N. didn’t believe Israel would last 62 days, never mind 62 years
By Richard Corbeil – The Apopka Chief – Founded in 1923
OCTOBER 1—If anyone knows about economics, financial futures and stability of same, it is Switzerland’s world famous Institute of Management Development. Now, guess who they rank as the world’s most durable economy in the face of crises – Israel!
In a recent monthly publication of Levitt Letter, Jon Kraushar of FoxNews.com describes the tiny nation as a net lender rather than a borrower nation. His recommendation is that Obama emulate Israel and “make our economy grow and recover by letting people spend more of the money they earn instead of government confiscation of $862 billion of tax payers’ money for ‘stimulus’ and ‘recovery’ spending.
He credits the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (also Economic Strategy Minister) for directing Israel’s economic policies to favor free markets and supply side tax cuts.
While the Obamanation is moving constantly toward government ownership of private enterprise, Netanyahu has reduced Israel’s ownership of leading corporations from 80 percent to 20 percent, and still heading down.
Kraushar compares the Obamanation approach of government subsidies to “green” industries like solar and wind power, which are capable of producing a negligible amount of our gigantic energy needs, to Israel’s concentration on its high-tech industries. This wise Israeli approach has led to the production of (get ready) “more NASDAQ listed companies than all of Europe.”
These companies include telecommunications, microchips, biotechnology, software and medical devices.
The amazing part of all these accomplishments is that Israel has been in a constant state of war and internal combat against terrorism since 1948 when the tiny state (size of New Jersey) was established by mandate of the United Nations, and six heavily armed Arab nations attacked and were whipped by a bunch of civilians with pistols and rifles.
In retrospect, and considering the savage anti-Israel attitude of the U.N. since then, it seems likely that they voted for the establishment just to pacify the U.S., who was, and is, the main source of U.N. financing, expecting the Arabs’ planes, tanks and armies to wipe the Israelis off the map quickly; a desire still expressed in explicit language by most Mideast nations.
In discussing the ongoing farce of peace talks”, now entering their third decade, David Pryce-Jones makes a good point in the National Review, asking if Obama ever heard of Albert Einstein’s observation that doing the same thing over and over again in the expectation of getting different results is insanity?
And, adding emphasis to the insanity is the fact that Mahmoud Abbas, the supposed head of the Palestinians on the West Bank, is only titular in leadership. His position expired last year, Pryce-Jones recounts, and he stays in office by postponing elections. “So weak is his position.” he writes, “that he cannot even return to his home in Hamas-controlled Gaza, which has anyhow been sacked in his absence.
How many Americans know that Abbas’ term as president of the Palestinians expired last year? I’m sure Netanyahu knows. And, he also knows that Hamas, who have turned Gaza into a radical Islamic state under sharia law, hates Israel and will never stop rocket attacks no matter what Abbas and Netanyahu might agree to.
What Pryce-Jones poses as the impossible ending, is a “three-nation solution”, with Hamas controlling Gaza, Abba and Fatah in the West Bank, and a miniscule Israel squeezed between two mad killers.
Any question on why Netanyahu let the building ban expire in the West Bank or that he will never accept, or be allowed to accept, a three-nation solution?
Right now, 22 Arab/Muslim nations possess 650 times the territory of Israel. In population, the Arabs outnumber the Israelis 60 to 1. That’s 5.25 million square miles versus 8,000 and 330 million people versus seven million (one/fifth are Israeli/Arab citizens).
According to The New York Times correspondent Elraim Karsh, in a recent survey by the Al Arabiya television network, a supermajority (71 percent) of Arab respondents “have no interest in the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.”
Since 1948, the Arab states have sacrificed thousands of Palestinians as pawns in their deadly strategy of destroying Israel. Typical of this, as Karsh notes and I remember distinctly, was in 1970 when the throne of the “thoroughly Westernized King Hussein” of Jordan came under threat of PLO settlers in Jordan, he ordered the deaths of thousands of Palestinian refugees, in an event known as “Black September”.
Pryce-Jones summed up the stupidity of the Obama administration in continuing the assault on Einstein’s law of insane behavior. He concludes: “The end game of the two-state solution, then, is illusory, wishful thinking, out-dated, because there are now two incompatible Palestines (Fatah and Hamas), and with Israel, that makes three states. Three into two won’t go.”
If you are baffled by the mad intensity of the Muslim world to destroy this chosen people and their tiny spot of land, check out their embezzlement and corruption of Scripture, some 600 years after the King of Kings completed it. God into two won’t go!
“And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”
Genesis 12:2 and 3.
Keeping lid on Apocalyptic plague fits liberals agenda
By Richard Corbeil - The Apopka Chief – Founded in 1923
SEPTEMBER 24 – The September-October issue of HARVARD Magazine contained an update on HIV and AIDS in Africa (South Africa in particular), which contained some doomsday stats and prompted me to review the U.S. situation from the past few years. All In all, the situation demands a little more attention and financial aid than al-Gore’s global warming fiasco.
I was still a bit shocked when it was reported that in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province 39 percent of residents have HIV and also two-thirds of pregnant women in some areas of the province are infected .
The article further states that more than 300,000 South Africans die of AIDS each year and UNAIDS estimates that “the number of new infections is growing faster than the number of people initiating treatment.
The Harvard medical team in Durban, South Africa estimates that 5.7 million South Africans (12 percent of the population) are infected and 70,000 HIV-positive babies are born every year.
In November of 2006, a United Nations’ report estimated that 39.5 million people worldwide were HIV infected and that AIDS had claimed 2.9 million lives, with an additional 4.3 million joining the HIV ranks, most noticeably in East Asia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
As reported at that time by the Associated Press, Sub-Saharan Africa, with 63 percent (24.7 million) of the world’s infected people, has the highest numbers. And, there has been nearly a 70 percent increase in new infections from 2004-2006 in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Last December, the U.S. committed $120 million over a two-year period for AIDS treatment in South Africa with the most HIV infected population in the world. According to their health officials, there are 1.5 million AIDS orphans in South Africa.
In Tanzania, separated from South Africa by Mozambique, there is an infection rate of six percent and it is ranked among the 10 ten nations in annual HIV/AIDS deaths each year. The vast majority of Tanzanians with the disease do not even know that they are infected.
Back in 1994, Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Health Tommy Thompson, speaking in New Delhi, India, stated that, “We are losing this war.” He said 8,500 people worldwide die daily from HIV/AIDS. “That’s the same as 40 jumbo airliners crashing every day. And, 14,000 are coming down with AIDS every day.”
I would estimate that the world’s daily (emphasis added) deaths from HIV/AIDS now, in 2010, are equal to our total battle deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003.
Although, the U.S. has not seen such dramatic increases in recent years, the Center for Disease Control estimates that after peaking around 130,000 annually in the 1980s, the infection rate has drooped to about 50,000 per year for the 1990s, rising slightly to a range 0f 53,000 to 58,500 in the new century.
The CDC estimates that around 1.1 million adolescents and adults were living with HIV in the U.S.A. as of 2009, including those not yet diagnosed and those who have already progressed to AIDS.
In 2006, a CDC study confirmed that non-Hispanic blacks had an infection rate seven times as high as whites and Hispanics were three times as high as whites. In this study, whites accounted for 35 percent (19,500) estimated HIV infections in 2006. But, it is obvious that the rate of HIV among black men carries over into female infection with black women at 18 times (1,122 per 100,000), the rate for white women (63 per 100,000).
C,D.C. reports that the most severe impact is among homosexual and bisexual men of all races. These are classified as MSM (men who have sex with other men). MSM accounted for 53 percent (28,700) of estimated new HIV infections in 2006, following a historical trend of steady increase among MSM since the early 1990s.
In my own opinion, this is the result of the liberal media ducking the issue in fear that it would be a deterrent to the “don’t ask don’t tell” reversal and the “gay marriage” push, and their constant coverage of such moves such as in California, and the attempt to reverse the votes of 7 million citizens.
It should be noted that California and Florida were the states with the highest populations living with AIDS in 2007. California had 65,582repreenting 13.5 per 100,000 population and Florida had 48,059 representing 21.7 per 100,000 population. Strangely, or maybe not, the District of Columbia had 8,895 representing an astounding 148.1 per 100,000 population.
In 2006, the U.S. HIV population, tragically had 70 percent (770,000 people) between the ages of 25 and 49 , with 5 percent between the ages of 13 and 24.
It amazes me that with this raging fatal epidemic here and worldwide, and right under their feet in D.C., our government can pursue nonsense like Cap and Trade, global warming, trillions in stimuli spending, dozens of covert Marxist objectives, Obamacare deliriums and completely ignore an all-out fight against this killer plague. All the while, promoting fear with annual flu scares and dramatizing sicknesses that do not approach HIV/AIDS.
Typical, was a substantial article in last Tuesday’s Sentinel on the mosquito-borne West Nile flu virus around Florida, which has proven fatal to a few people. The article also reported that in 2003 (the most active year) 264 Americans died – 6 in Florida.
I appreciate the warning and the symptoms to look for, but by comparison to the danger to our young people, especially mothers and children, how about a full page once a month and some heavy TV coverage on a regular basis; or, at least the same amount of coverage as the Mideast conflict which has a tiny fraction of the casualties.
Also, instead of sex education and approval of high risk same sex relations in grammar schools, let’s concentrate on the paths to doomsday and how to avoid it.
“And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk.” Revelation 9:20.
Our obviously anti-Israel (quite likely Muslim) president is trying to force Israel
to shrink itself to an indefensible dot on the map
By Richard Corbeil - The Apopka Chief – Founded in 1923
SEPTEMBER 10 – It suddenly dawned on me why the U.S. has been Israel’s closest friend and ally until recently, despite their being so tiny and at such a great distance.
Our nation was founded on God’s Word of equality and freedom to become absolutely unique in the 18th century, and the Israelites, as God’s chosen people, recorded and preserved that sacred Word to the letter and “every jot and tittle” (Matthew 5:18), to bless us millennia later.
Is there any wonder that when the U.S. was about to vote against the re-founding of a Jewish state at the United Nations Security Council in 1948, that Harry Truman’s former Jewish partner in a Missouri haberdashery business visited at the White House and convinced him that the U.S. should vote “yes?”
Do you think God had anything to do with their being former business partners?
Today, as our obviously anti-Israel (quite likely Muslim) president is trying to force Israel to shrink itself to an indefensible dot on the map, coincidently (?) he is also trying to shrink our constitutional rights and render us indefensible against the power of a government no longer “of, by and for the people.”
In addition to the attack on our freedoms, Obama and his czars are also seeking to increase the ownership of land by the federal government, which already owns the equivalent of all the land east of the Mississippi River, some 1.3 million square miles.
Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin has exposed much of the land grab plans, recently describing quiet meetings between environmental groups and White House officials “to map out plans for acquiring millions of acres of public and private land.”
She also told of “a property usurping initiative exposed by GOP Rep. Robert Bishop and Sen. Jim DeMint earlier this year. According to an internal, 21-page Obama administration memo, 17 energy-rich areas in 11 states have been targeted as potential federal ‘monuments.’ ”
In the Middle East, Muslims with ownership and dictatorial control of millions of square miles, are in a frenzy to get Israel’s 8,019 square miles.
In the U.S., progressives, under the command of a Muslim president, want to drive the citizens into tiny, easily controllable enclaves and complete government dependence, by continued theft of land under the guise of preservation, when they have already breached the Constitution’s allowances by a nightmarish amount.
To protect us from the Obamas, Pelosis and Reids they knew would eventually show up, our Founders wrote in Article I, Section 8 of the founding document that the federal government is “to exercise exclusive legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such Districts (not exceeding ten square miles) as may by Cession of particular states and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States (the District of Columbia did not exist at this time), and to exercise like Authority over all place purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the State (emphasis mine) which the same shall be, for the Erection of Forts , Magazines, Dockyards and other needful buildings (emphasis mine). I certainly can’t read 1.3 million square miles (8.92 billion acres) into this by any stretch.
The present U.S. population must remove the financial slavery being imposed on our descendants (children and grandchildren) by turning portions of this fabulous real estate asset into cash and national bankruptcy relief. To get this nation-saving cash, progressive pols must be “cashiered” with all possible speed.
In many ways, as previously cited, the American people are facing the same doomsday attacks as Israel. Unfortunately, we have not had the blessing of an appearance by a leader like Benjamin Netanyahu.
One of my favorite columnists is George Will, who recently cited the presence of a photograph of Sir Winston Churchill in Netanyahu’s office, “who considered himself ‘one of the authors’ of Britain’s embrace of Zionism, through his promotion of the Balfour Declaration of 1917.”
This declaration favored the establishment in Palestine of a national homeland for the Jewish people. Is there any wonder why Obama’s first act upon occupying the White House was to ship the bust of Churchill back to England?
Will wrote further: “The prime minister (Netanyahu) honors Churchill who spoke of ‘the confirmed unteachability of mankind.’ Nevertheless, a display case in Netanyahu’s office could teach the Obama administration something about this leader. It contains a small signet stone that was part of a ring found near the Western Wall. It is about 2,800 years old. The ring was the seal of a Jewish official, whose name is inscribed on it: Netanyahu.
“No one is less a transnational progressive,” wrote Will, “less a post nationalist than Benjamin Netanyahu, whose first name is that of the son of Jacob, who lived perhaps 4,000 years ago. Netanyahu, a former commando, who no one has called coddly, once said to a U.S. diplomat 10 words that should warn U.S. policymakers who hope to make Netanyahu pliable. (Now, listen up, Hillary): ‘You live in Chevy Chase. Don’t play with our future’.”
In Hebrew, Benjamin means “son of the right hand,” as opposed to Barak, which means “lightning,” as in:
“And he (Jesus) said unto them, ‘I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.’” Luke 10:18.
Now, who sits at the right hand of God? Any odds on this confrontation?
The last thing we need now is the Neville Chamberlain solution
By Richard Corbeil - The Apopka Chief – Founded in 1923
AUGUST 27 – I can’t decide whether to label this past weekend “the beginning of the end” or “the end of the beginning”: doomsday, that is.
On Saturday, September 21, the Russians came up with 80 tons of processed atomic fuel and technicians to turn on Iran’s first nuclear reactor, and on Sunday, September 22, while New Yorkers were marching in protest of the Ground Zero mosque, nut job Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmajinedad introduced an unmanned bomber drone that carries four missiles with a supposed maximum missile range of 600 miles; so, they claim. Iran to Israel is about 1,000 miles.
The big hullabaloo by ”Iranuts” centered supposedly on the fact that it is a weapon manufactured domestically and not purchased from outside.
The present moment reminds me of when Adolph Hitler was massing forces on the French and Polish borders, or when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, China in 1937, then signed the Triparte Alliance with Nazi Germany and Mussolini’s Italy in 1940, while the free world just waited for the next move of maniacal minds when preemption would have saved millions of lives.
Ahmajinedad obviously enjoys satire as he named the missile drone “a messenger of honor and generosity” and then added it was also “a messenger of death for the enemies of humanity”. Hitler couldn’t have put it better about his Panzer tanks and later his V-1s and V-2s.
A recent release by FLAME (Facts and Logic About the Middle East) compares this present crisis for Israel to 1981, some 29 years ago.
At that time, “then prime minister of Israel Menachem Begin, being aware of Iraq’s nuclear ambitions and looming realization of those ambitions, decided that their nuclear reactor at Osiriq had to be destroyed and accomplished it in a daring raid.
“Iraq’s nuclear capability was eliminated in one stroke, never to rise up again. Israel had done the world an enormous service.”
It’s time for the for the U.S. , Europe and remaining, sane Middle East countries (If any) to return the favor. With Russia returning to the animosity and sneaky behavior of the Cold War, we cannot leave the only democracy in the Middle East to shoulder this doomsday threat all by itself.
And, there is no question now, with the Russians backing a maniac like Ahmajinedad, supplying of nuclear weapons is a good possibility of the next threat racheting up; especially, with thousands of nukes scattered around Russia. So much for President Obama’s handshakes and treaty signings with Putin and his KGB mindset.
FLAME recalls: “The terror, the destruction and the 60 million dead of World War II could have been prevented. But, the Allied powers, under the leadership of Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, opted for appeasement and for “peace in our time”. Thus beginning one of the bloodiest, most savage periods in human history.
If anything proves that “those who don’t study history are bound to repeat it”, just take a look at Obama’s attitude toward Iran and its madman leader. Not only does Obama want to have Benjamin Netanyahu lay down and play dead for Hamas (read surrender the West Bank and East Jerusalem), he’s still talking about sitting down with Ahmajinedad.
Obviously, the picture in his mind is one of him descending from Air Force I waving a piece of paper while driveling, “Peace, peace in our time”. Can you imagine Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy or Reagan ignoring the continued threats of a madman in pursuit of power and weapons of mass destruction that he calls “messengers of death.”
It’s a certainty that with Russia’s entry into an alliance with Iran, the clock is ticking down to Israel’s attack on Iran’s nuclear development facilities which their intelligence agents, the best in the world, have certainly pinpointed.
There are too many coincidences that foretell what is developing here now, the first being the world’s animosity towards Israel. How is it that the world’s smallest nation has received the most censures from the United Nations; amazingly, almost half of all censures the U.N. has ever issued? How is it that the present Jewish population of Israelis is virtually equal to the 6 million Jews lost in the Holocaust? How is it that what stimulated Nazi Germany was a pact with the Soviet Union (Russia) of non-aggression between them?
Again, Russia has just entered a pact with the Jews’ most vicious enemy, Iran, a nation who openly threatens another “Final Solution”. History lesson, anyone?
The Bible states that in the last days, every nation in the world would come against Israel. Until Obama’s election, the U.S. was the last and only nation standing with God’s chosen people.
Of course, when God is standing with you, there is no need for any allies and the number of your enemies doesn’t matter.
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it the valley of Hamon-gog.” Ezekiel 39:11.
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Freeze on number of Reps brought down the Republic
By Richard Corbeil – The Apopka Chief – Founded in 1923
JULY 30 – If anything has become apparent with startling clarity since the elections of 2006 and its topping off with Barak Obama in 2008, it’s the undeniable, empirical evidence that shows that a Republic no longer exists here.
This condition, of course, didn’t occur overnight, but if we’re going to be able to cure what looks now to be a terminal condition, we have to trace the lifeline back and see where the break began and how it led to ruining the Constitution.
The evidence shows the assault on the representative form of government was successful and produced the charade that we call the present-day Congress.
When the Constitution was written, mass media did not exist and could have no influence on the God-directed instincts of our Founders.. Consequently, when it came time to lay the foundation of our government, i.e., the House of Representatives, the drafters specified in Article I, Section 2, “The number of representatives shall not exceed one for every 30,000 (free persons).”
Some 150 years later, under the guise of a larger number being unworkable, Congress passed a law freezing the number in the House Of Representatives at 435. As a result, today, each member of the House “represents” some 700,000 people – over 20 times what the framers had decreed. Rather than having some 8,000 Representatives, we have 435 who have more than 19, 000 aides, assistants, consultants, etc.
Incidentally, 500 of these aides make over $150,000, and closing in on the members’ salaries. These are probably the ones who know all the dirty secrets.
Anyone who calls one House Representative per 700,000 constituents anywhere near the intention of our Framers is beyond redemption.
Right now, we are trying to “fix” the fast fading of freedom with term limit promises, Tea Party movements and calls to throw all the rascals out. Unfortunately, as the population keeps growing, especially with the threat of granting citizenship to 12 to 20 million illegal aliens with the number of Representatives remaining fixed, the cost of running for office will only intensify the power of special interest groups, with the importance of individual voters diminishing in direct proportion.
Somewhere, in mid century, a U.S House Representative will have a constituency larger than the original total population of the United States- and this coming only some 260 years after the Constitution became the Supreme law.
The planned mischief actually started 16 years earlier than 1929, when the 17th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1913 under the “Progressive” Woodrow Wilson, changing the election of U.S. Senators to a popular vote. The original carefully thought out Constitutional procedure of their election to a six-year term was by a vote of the state legislative body.
It is simple to see how many good men and women in the last 90 odd years could have stood for election to the Senate with little or no cost or selling their souls to special interests. Today, its mostly only a few multi-millionaires or paid for stooges who can afford a massive multi-million dollar Senate campaign.
Because of the wording in the Constitution, “shall not exceed one for every 30,000,” our “public servants” were able to avoid the Amendment process and destroy the foundation of the Republic by what, I am sure, was a very quietly passed law for freezing the number of House Representatives at 435.
Once the basis of guaranteed, ever-expanding fiefdoms was established, enter the career politicians, and the rest, as they say, is history. When the greedy attack, they start, of course, with the foundation.
The Founders regarded this as so vital to the life of our Republic that they placed it in Article I of our Constitution and included the first makeup of the House: … “but each state shall have at least one representative; and until such enumeration (census) shall be made, the state of New Hampshire shall be entitled to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantation one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.”
This gives a definite look at the individual population make-up of our original states with an initial count of 65 Representatives.
What was done in 1929 in the name of manageability has now become completely unmanageable as the recent deficits in the $trillions illustrate so vividly and painfully. As the specter of Obamacare, stimulus waste, government takeovers of the private sector, a deluge of illegal aliens etc. etc., overwhelm an unrepresented people, who, by vast majorities, oppose everyone of them, it’s obvious that it can only get worse.
Perhaps a House base today of 30,000 citizens might be a little unrealistic, but certainly not 250,000. We have the office space filled with all those high-priced aides and assistants, and the chump change of $200 million or thereabouts to build a new chamber, so 1200 reps could really duke out these issues as the Founders desired.
One thing is absolutely certain. As these Congressional District populations continue to expand, the nooses around our necks will only tighten.
“Bread of deceit is sweet to man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.” Proverbs 20:17
Dollar’s death by December designated doomsday device
By Richard Corbeil – The Apopka Chief – Founded in 1923
JULY 23 – It’s absolutely treasonous how major stories about the goings-on in our economy are slid below the horizon in national news or, at best get a few inches of print or seconds in broadcast media.
Economist Larry Kudlow, whose commentaries are primarily confined to conservative media, recently reported on a major legislative victory by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who defeated the Dem majority assembly’s attempt to override his veto on a millionaire tax.
Remember, Christie is the Tea Party inspired candidate who beat the incumbent, Wall Street multi-millionaire left-winger Jon Corzine.
Needing two-thirds of the assembly vote to override Christie’s veto of what Kudlow labels the “Move to Florida Tax”, the Dems failed to corral the Republicans they needed for the veto. Essentially, it would have been a tax on income over $1million, hitting 16,000 families with a rate of 10.75 percent. Kudlow stated that it would have killed any job creation besides starting another exodus from the Garden State.
What stunned me was his revelation that this millionaire tax would have represented the state’s 116th tax increase (emphasis mine) in the last eight years, and begs the obvious question, “if the first 115 tax increases failed to balance the state budget, why on earth did they think the 116th would?”
It is an irrefutable fact that tax increases have never improved the economy except in those rare virtually non-existent instances when they were accompanied by spending cuts.
And, on the other side of the ledger, tax cuts have always produced solid growth in the economy. Typical in the era of taxation as instituted by the Dems and Woodrow Wilson was Calvin Coolidge who produced the “Roaring 20s” with frugality of spending and tax cuts and unemployment dropped to one percent as the stock market soared.
John F, Kennedy cut taxes before being assassinated and that financed the Lyndon Johnson pile-on of Medicare, welfare expansion and Social Security perks. Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts, even with a Dem Congress, reversed the “Jimmy Carter Crash”, doubled government income, won the “Cold War” and started 25 years of unprecedented prosperity.
And, finally, the Bush tax cuts, which Obama will kill on January 1, 2011, powered seven years of tremendous growth with full employment and a Dow-Jones over 14,000. Unfortunately, the 2006 mid-term elections produced a “Progressive” Congress and, what was too much spending under “W”, became a rushing river under Pelosi and Reid, then a torrent in 2009 and 2010 with Obama at the helm.
Consequently, on the National Debt Clock at noon on July 4, what normally would be Independence Day, the federal debt hit $13,189,792,856,331.50. That 13 figure, folks, is $trillions.
But, that’s only the good news. A growing list of leading economists and publications are zeroing in on what will be the doomsday device – the death of the dollar. Here are some of them:
Neithercorps – “The behavior of the Fed, along with that of the IMF, seems to suggest that they are preparing for a focused collapse, peaking within weeks or months instead of years, and the most certain fall of the dollar.”
Webbots- “July and onward, things get very strange. Revolution. Dollar dead by November 2010.”
LEAP 20/20 – 2010 outlook from group of 25 European economists with a 90 percent accuracy rating. “Despite zero-cost money, the system has failed. It is slowly rolling over into the next big wave which in Elliott Wave terminology will be a Super Cycle Wave Three, or in common language, WHERE WE ALL GO OVER THE FALLS TOGETHER.”
Peter Schiff (3/13/2010) – “My gut is that the dollar sell-off will be sharp and swift. Once the dollar decisively breaks below last year’s lows, many of the traders who jumped ship in the recent rally will look to re-establish their positions. This will accelerate the dollar’s descent and refocus everyone’s attention back on the financial train-wreck unfolding in the United States.”
For me, the scariest prediction came from analyst Bob Chapman (the source of which is alleged to be from an insider at Fed meetings).
Says Chapman – “The Fed will act unilaterally for its own survival irrespective of any political implications. In the last quarter of the year, we could even see Martial Law (emphasis mine). The FDIC will collapse in September 2010. The dollar will be devalued by the end of 2010.”
In view of the continued intentional drunken spending by Obama, his czars and stooges in Congress, Chapman’s picture of the last quarter and Martial Law does not seem too far-fetched.
Of course, we know what will also occur in the last quarter – the Mid-Term Elections. With the nation under Martial Law, it’s certain that there would be no elections and the powerless Congress would retain its insane “Progressive”, destructive alignment to accept an “Obamanation.”
Combined with the crash of the dollar, the poverty and riotous society conditions always required for communistic takeovers would be firmly in place.
Jesus said, “When these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
Luke 21:28.
Obama’s ‘Gone With The Wind II’ is set in ‘Civil War II’
By Richard Corbeil – The Apopka Chief – Founded in 1923
JUNE 25 – It’s amazing to me how environmental extremists fantasize about renewable energy as if it’s anywhere near being a rational possibility in the foreseeable future, if ever within their lifetimes.
With this BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, they have ramped up God’s gift of oil into the arch-villain of the ages, spouting nonsense about wind farms and solar energy. These two dream schemes are poised to make the ethanol failure as an auto fuel enhancer and success as a crop wrecker almost look like a winner.
Estimates from realists on wind farm energy capability state that it would require a wind farm the size of Connecticut to supply electrical power to the city of New York with its five boroughs. That would be a wind farm of 5,543 square miles for a city of 8,214,426 people. Is there any wonder the Dutch got rid of their windmill-powered society over a century ago, and were able to move from wooden to leather shoes.
For wind farms to have any real effect on U.S. energy needs, it would require hundreds of thousands of square miles of land, primarily fairly level land in the Midwest and western U.S., that is now used for the bulk of our crop growing and massive herds of livestock.
And, hey, you environmental wackos, how about the many millions of birds you would kill when they fly into those giant choppers - especially in the dark. Not to mention the zillions of wild animals like gophers, squirrels, groundhogs, deer, wolves, foxes, reptiles, insects etc., whose natural habitats would be plowed under for millions of windmills space. I thought you were animal lovers and tree huggers.
Solar panels will have the same problem with massive land grabbing and flattening requirements in vast spaces open to the sun.
Yesterday, Sunday, June 20, a tornado in Montana, ripped the roof off a “massive entertainment complex”. The tornadoes that have ripped across the Midwest and Southwest this year have destroyed a brand new high school , manufacturing plants, solid homes and many strong buildings. Can you imagine those huge propellers soaring through the air at 200 mph plus? Ditto for the huge shards of solar panels flying around.
Another tremendous, if not unacceptable, drawback of both of these monstrosities is their complete inability to store any energy they may produce. They are completely dependent on highly unpredictable wind and sun.
Oil, gas, and coal, on the other hand, are under the complete control of energy providers at all times, who can increase or decrease output as needed by the population.
While the environmental wackos are cursing oil, they avoid like the plague the facts that oil is the source of many essential products. To just name a few: gasoline, plastics, naptha, kerosene, lubricants, waxes, asphalt, coke and many chemicals.
An Associated Press article, by Brad Foss, which appeared in the September 6, 2006, issue of The Orlando Sentinel, enthusiastically detailed the find of a vast pool of oil in the Gulf of Mexico more than 20,000 feet below the sea floor of 7,000 feet for a total depth of 28,175 feet – some 5 and 1/3 miles down. The test well by a trio of companies, led by Chevron, located 175 miles off the Louisiana coast, could hold 3 billion to 15 billion barrels of oil and increase the U.S. reserves by 50 percent.
It is obvious that the Chevron accomplishment, at a much greater depth than the BP well, could indicate a serious error or shortcut snafu on BP’s part four years later. In any event, until now, the oil operations in the gulf have been virtually perfect in spite of some of the worst hurricane seasons in history.
But, because of tree-hugger ignorance, the oil companies have been forced out to these crazy depths when there is plenty of oil in shallow water and inshore, where a BP type blowout would not occur, and where any blowout could be fixed in a matter of hours or days.
A bill was passed in the Utah House of Representatives on February 25 allowing Utah to use eminent domain to seize land the Federal Government controls and has long kept from much needed development of natural resources.
These are specifically (1) national forest land north of Salt Lake City, (2) a proposed wilderness area in the southwestern corner of the state and (3) a stretch of desert (emphasis mine) outside Arches National Park. The “Obamagang” has declared all three off limits to oil and gas development. I suppose hundreds of miles of wind farms will really beautify Utah and other western states, like the ocean off Cape Cod.
Already, in a show of deep discontent with federal dictatorship, eight other state legislatures have passed resolutions asserting the sovereignty of their states. They hope to bring this to the Supreme Court for a decision that would rearrange the balance of power between states and the federal government.
Let’s pray that the Supremes see it that way. If they don’t, would anyone like to join Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and me in investing in wooden shoe manufacturing?
“ And of Asher he (Moses) said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren,
and let him dip his foot in oil.” Deuteronomy 33:24.
Southwest U. S. under siege from without, within and D. C. - By Richard Corbeil
After President Obama announced the sending of National Guard troops to Arizona’s border with Mexico, the president of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, who apparently has usurped the border issue from Obama, declared that he does not object to U.S. troops along the border, as long as the soldiers do not arrest Mexicans trying to get into the United States. I’m assuming that our president will bow from the waist to Calderon, while humbly acquiescing.
This blurb, tucked into the inside pages of the local metropolitan daily, reaffirms the treasonous behavior and surrender of our sovereignty to this arrogant and antagonistic neighbor, whose leader stood next to our president (?) and harshly criticized our fellow citizens in Arizona for trying to protect themselves from murderous Mexican drug and human traffickers.
This latest from a man recently wined and dined and honored in the people’s White House in a manner that would have befitted Sir Winston Churchill, Lady Margaret Thatcher or the Queen of England.
Meanwhile, the leader of our staunchest Mideast ally, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, is virtually kicked out of the White House because he wants to build some housing in his capital city, Jerusalem, and keep Muslims with 4 million square miles from wiping out his 7,000 square miles.
I recently viewed some video of Obama’s speechifying in the Muslim world, video, incidentally that has been blocked from Fox, in which Obama claims the tremendous influence of Islam on his religious beliefs and with him raising up Islam nations as one of the greatest contributors to mankind’s progress and well being in history.
Between Mexico and the Islamic nations, Obama has, without exception, really stuck us between the rock and the hard place, and this has prompted me to do a little research on reality.
I thought a tell-all area of comparison would be the last century in Nobel Prizes since their inception in 1901, except for economic sciences, which did not begin until 1969.
For Nobel Peace Prizes 1901-2008, we have U.S.A 18, Mexico 1, out of 47 (emphasis mine) Muslim Nations 2.
For Physiology and Medicine 1901-2008 – U.S.A. 84, Mexico 0, Muslim Nations 0.
For Economic Sciences first given in 1968 to 2008 – U.S.A. 42, Mexico 0, Muslim Nations 0.
For Chemistry 1901-2008 – U.S.A. 59, Mexico 0, Muslim Nations 0.
For Physics 1901-2008 – U.S.A. 83, Mexico 0, Muslim Nations 1.
For Literature 1901-2008—U.S.A 11, Mexico 1, Muslim Nations 5.
Total Nobel Prizes awarded 1901-2008 U.S.A. 297, Mexico 2, Muslim Nations 8.
Muslim Nations considered are those with more than 50 percent Muslim populations up to Saudi Arabia’s 100 percent. Now, add to this the some 600,000 battle deaths of American forces from WWI up to the present in defending and establishing freedom.
These statistics are all from the 2010 New York Times Atlas so don’t think they have been slanted by conservatives.
So, what’s with these Obama apology and Muslim admiration tours, bowing and scraping and diminishment of American History all about? Prior to Calderon’s un-resisted invasion of D.C. and Arizona, here are a few quotes from Mexican nationals, Hispanic-American leaders and educators.
“Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock! Get out! We are the future. Go on, we have beaten you. Leave like beaten rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die … through love of having children, we are going to take over!” Augustin Cebada, Brown Berets.
“They’re afraid we’re going to take over the governmental institutions. They’re right. We will take them over … We are here to stay.” Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council.
“The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the Jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot.” Excelsior, The National Newspaper of Mexico. (Not without the full compliance of Obama and his Congress.)
“We have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion of our population, I love it. They are sh------ in their pants. I love it.” Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas.
“Remember 187 – proposition to deny the taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens – was the last gasp of white America in California” Art Torres, Chairman of California Democrat Party.
“We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country… I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, ’I’m going out there and vote because I want to pay them back.’” Gloria Molina, Los Angeles County Supervisor.
“California is going to be a Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn’t like it, should leave.” Marco Obledo, Calif. Coalition of Hispanics and former State Sec. of Health, Education and Welfare under Gov. Jerry Brown. Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom under “Slick Willie” Clinton.
“We are practicing ‘La Reconquista’ in California.” Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General.
“We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos.” Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University.
Wake up, America! After centuries of them wrecking their own country and contributing nothing to the world, our nation is now in their crosshairs.
“The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.” Proverbs 10:29.
Honduras fiasco coming soon to a government near you
So, why have the United Nations, Organization of American States (OAS), Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, the Castro brothers and Barack Obama got their collective noses stuck in a legal, constitutional transfer of the presidency in Honduras?
What our government is doing in joining this group of tyranny-loving individuals and organizations is a sure indication of where Obama wants to bring us.
Consider that the ejected president of Honduras, Jose Zelaya, a protégé of Hugo Chavez, attempted to eliminate his country’s constitutional one-term rule on the presidency, and when their Congress and Supreme Court rejected his actions, they had the military peacefully remove him and put him on a plane to Costa Rica for exile.
In violation of the Honduras Constitution, he tried to ram through a referendum without congressional authorization that would allow him to run for unlimited numbers of terms, beginning this fall. The ballots for this unconstitutional coup were printed surreptitiously in co-conspirator Hugo Valdez’s Venezuela and snuck into Honduras.
Mary O’Grady of The Wall Street Journal described this aspect of the conspiracy as follows. “ A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by the Congress. But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chavez ship him the ballots from Venezuela.”
The country’s Supreme Court had no other course but to order Zelaya arrested and deported to avoid violence. This was certainly no coup, much less a “military coup” as our leftist, liberal media has been slavishly and foolishly reporting.
It was, however, definitely an attempted coup by Chavez to use Zelaya in expanding tyranny in Latin America.
It’s been just 10 years since Honduras was hit and devastated by Hurricane Mitch, which killed some 7,000 people, rendered 600,000 homeless and destroyed 70 percent of their crops. For a country the size of Tennessee, with a population of 6.5 million, this was a major blow, but recovery was achieved through U.S.-led aid and some debt forgiveness.
It was only nine months earlier, in 1999, that their legislature voted to place the military under complete control of the civilian authority. Obviously the military was acting under civilian orders to deport the erstwhile “dictator in the bud”. If that’s a military coup, Webster’s will have to re-define the term completely.
Commenting on the coup nonsense, Roberto Micheletti, the next legislator in line, who was named by the Congress to serve out Zelaya’s term, which ends this year, stated, “We have established a democratic government and we will not cede to pressure from anyone. We are a sovereign country.”
Syndicated columnist and TV commentator Pat Buchanan stated, “ Unlike Tehran, where hundreds of thousands protested the election, the streets of Tegucigalpa (the capital) have remained calm. No one has been shot, beaten with clubs or run down by thugs on motorcycles. Just whose side is Barack on in Latin America?”
Pat, I don’t think there can be any doubt about which side Obama is on. At the recent OAS meeting, Barack and Hugo were palsy-walsy , and he sat for an hour while killer Daniel Ortega slammed the U.S. on trumped-up nonsense.. Any loyal U.S. citizen, never mind the president, would have walked out of the room while thumbing his nose at Ortega. Can you imagine Reagan or George W. listening to this bird trample on our flag.
Coincidentally, the OAS gang recently lifted its ban on Cuban member ship, which gives the Castros a seat at the table. I’ve no doubt that there were a few quiet meetings recently, that included Obama, on Zelaya’s planned hijacking of the Honduran presidency, a la Chavez Docrine.
So, where was our president when Zelaya led a mob to storm the military base where the Venezuela-printed illegal ballots were being held.
Try Moscow, Russia in subservient meetings with ex KGB boss Vladimir Putin. I’m sure the U.S. alignment with Zelaya’s coming hijacking of the Honduran presidency was a sizeable part of their talks in the Kremlin.
Consider that 45.7percent of Honduras’ exports are purchased by us. It came as no surprise yesterday, Monday, July 20, when Obamatron Secretary of State Hillary Clinton momentarily interrupted her Apology Tour in India to threaten Honduras with export sale curtailment if they did not reinstate erstwhile dictator Chavez … Oops! Zelaya.
According to a recent Associated Press release, “U.S. officials have promoted talks in Costa Rica’s capital (San Jose), hoping to ease Zelaya back into the presidency without violence while resolving the concerns of Honduras’ Supreme Court, Congress and military, which say they legally removed the president for violating the constitution.”
So, how long will it be before the Barack Brigade reverses our Constitution’s Amendment 22 limiting U.S. presidents to two terms, thus lining up with the Chavez-Castro Doctrine.
“He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.”
Proverbs 28: 9.
If speck of dust has world upside down, guess who’s in charge?
JUNE 12 – On Sunday, June 14, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu gave a half-hour speech outlining his position vis-a-vis Palestinian and Islamic schemes to destroy Israel in conjunction with President Obama’s hidden agenda siding with the schemers.
On Monday, the local metropolitan daily posted a page-wide headline screaming , “Netanyahu shifts, backs two states”. Even more humorous was the opening paragraph allowing that Netanyahu had acted under U.S. (Obama) pressure.
I believe that one could say, without fear of contradiction, that Netanyahu has forgotten more about dealing with Israel’s deadliest, sworn enemies than our president will ever know.
As a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a former IDF commando officer, and prime minister of Israel in the late 1990s, “ Bibi” has breathed the scent of Muslim treachery since his birth, and to think that a ward boss from our most corrupt city could pressure him into endangering his nation by complying with stupid, ridiculous and deadly demands, only highlights the self-centered character of the worst administration in our history.
This was made clear in the in the news reports’ second paragraph, which stated that the Palestinians immediately rejected Netanyahu’s terms for a peace accord. Surprise! Surprise!.
Netanyahu said that a two state solution would have to include:
- A demilitarized Palestinian state.
- The Palestinian Authority to give up claims to Jerusalem as a future capital.
- Recognition of Israel as the Jewish state with no returning of 6 million descendants of those who left in 1948..
- Imposition of law and order on the Hamas militants (Jimmy Carter’s paymasters) who run Gaza.
He also rebuffed Obama’s demand for a halt to the growth of Jewish settlements
in the West Bank which were included demands in Obama’s speech in Cairo.
For me, that speech was proof that our president is still a Muslim and ready to abandon the truth to further the ambition and goals of an Islamic world dominance.
Two outright lies confirmed this in his claims that that the U.S., with a Muslim population of less than two million, is a “major Muslim nation”, and that Muslims had made major contributions to the world throughout history.
The first lie coming after he had stated that we “were no longer a Christian nation”, despite 80 percent of our population espousing Christianity, and the second false claim of major contributions in the Cairo speech despite verifiable facts to the contrary.
In one area alone, Nobel prizes, their place as God’s chosen people is more than apparent. In the Jewish worldwide population of a scant 14 million, which is one one-hundreth of the Muslim world (according to scholar, author and lecturer Dave Hunt) there are 165 Nobel prize winners since 1901: 51 for Medicine, 45 for Physics, 27 for Chemistry, 22 for Economics, 11 for Literature and 9 for Peace.
To quote Hunt: “ The Arabs have the oil, but the Jews have the brains. In the Arab/Muslim world of 1.4 billion people (emphasis mine), there have 6 Nobel winners in history, 3 for Peace and one each for Chemistry, Physics and Literature.” Is it any wonder that this little speck of dust in the Mideast land and population mass could have stood off dedicated, savage killers for 61 years?
Probably illustrating even greater proof of their status as “ God’s chosen people” is the tiny 8,019 sq.mi. (about the size of Vermont) being surrounded by Arab/Muslim nations, five of which alone (Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia) occupy 1,885,874 sq.mi. This about the size of the U.S. west of the Mississippi River.
In the center of this boiling pot, guess who shows up on the West Bank to further the cause of terrorism and trouble for Israel? Can you say, Jimmy “The Wimp” Carter. After stating that was there to listen, he took off for Gaza and from there, requested that the U.N. and U.S. remove the Hamas killers from the Terrorists List.
It doesn’t bother The Wimp that since Hamas grabbed control of the Gaza three years ago, they have fired over 10,000 rockets into southern Israel, killing scores of innocent people and have pledged to join Iran in wiping out all the Jews in the Mideast
Will the U.N. comply? Consider that, according to Hunt, from 1967-1989, 526 out of 865 Security Council and General Assembly resolutions were against the speck of dust surrounded by a couple hundred million Muslims.
This must have been the only highlight of Carter’s miserable single term as president (1976-1980), and it obviously motivated him to pursue his anti-Israel career ever since. The world against a speck of dust; he liked those odds.
I’m putting my money on Israel and its warrior leader Benjamin (Son of my right hand) Netanyahu (To give to the Lord)
“ And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them … And they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.” Amos 9:14and 15.
Are public housing, free degrees, government jobs really qualifiers?
JUNE 5 – If as Sonia Sotomayor states that “ the richness of life’s experiences” , more often than not, lead them (Latina women) to a better conclusion in the Supreme Court, I must say that the U.S. missed a fabulous Supreme Court Justice in my late father, Fernand C. Corbeil Sr.
Unlike Sotomayor, who had the benefit of living in public (taxpayer donated) housing, my dad’s parents, French-Canadian immigrants from Quebec, payed rent for a tenement, while grandfather worked for the Peperrel Textile Mills in Biddeford/Saco, Maine. Public housing was far in the future.
My grandmother cooked for several restaurants until child-bearing and the raising of seven children (my dad was the eldest) captured most of her time.
Grandfather Corbeil was a mechanical genius and provided Peperrel with some marvelous loom improvements for which they paid him a little extra money, while they patented them and made $zillions; eventually moving all operations to our southern states.
But, it did provide him enough extra cash to buy a piece of land and the material to personally build a home sufficient for his family during the highly limited hours away from the mill over several years. Needless to say, there was no Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac assistance.
With parents who spoke only French, my dad taught himself English and graduated from high school top of his class, with a special award for typing over 100 w.p.m. on the then primitive ribbon typewriter.
After graduation, he got a job as clerk in a small pharmacy in Ogunquit, Me., whose owner also owned a drugstore in Brookline, Mass. near Boston. Those were the days well before educational scholarships, but the owner was so impressed with dad’s drive that he offered him a deal. Come to Brookline and work days and weekends and he would help get him into night courses at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.
Arriving in Boston from Biddeford on the Boston and Maine Railroad with a suitcase, he spent four years clerking and studying , finally becoming a registered pharmacist in 1929.
No golden, full living expense scholarships to Princeton or Yale Law, but what the heck, “gender and national origin affect a person’s judgment (says Sonia), and he hoped that a wise white male with the richness of his experience, would more often than not, reach a better conclusion than a Latina woman who hadn’t lived that life.”
Through family relations in Salem, he met my mother, Miss Old Orchard Beach 1927, and one of her more better-off uncles was so impressed with dad’s drive that he lent him the money to open a small corner drugstore in Peabody, Mass. in 1931, just in time for Roosevelt’s “Great Depression.”
That’s when the real fun began. Unable to afford another pharmacist , the shallow white male that was my father began eight years of work, 8 a.m-11 p.m, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, assisted only by my mother and part-time clerks.
Fortunately, we managed to rent the lower floor of a two-family house directly behind the store and the clerks would cover for him to rum home, eat and grab a15-minute nap sitting up in a chair. He would either skip lunch or grab a milk shake from the soda fountain.
Under the law, you could not have a drugstore open without a registered pharmacist on duty. Finally, in 1940, he had developed sufficient volume to hire another pharmacist and managed to take some time off, but still putting in 60 hours plus a week.
My two older brothers and I all started working janitors duties and jerking sodas at the age of eight. The area we serviced consisted of primarily single and multi-family homes, inhabited by mostly first- and second-generation Americans; Irish, Polish, Portuguese were predominant. We were one of four French-Canadian besides tree Jewish families, plus a handful of Scotch Irish.
We all went to school together, played together and got along.
The white male, who obviously, “hadn’t lived the rich life experiences of a Sotomayor”, became a community leader, voluntarily chairing for decades various drives such as the March of Dimes, leading the Chamber of Commerce and becoming every mayor’s pick for Chairman of Parks and Recreation. . Over 30 years he saw to the renovation of neglected parks and the building of new ones as the city grew from 29,000 to 50,000 in the post-WW II era and building one of the first Little League fields in the country.
All without financial compensation and still running his drugstore with one other pharmacist. Today Corbeil Park in the western portion of the city stands as his only memorial.
The small estate he left is testimony to the countless prescriptions he gave away during the depression and war, and the many families he helped financially throughout his life.
When the surviving drugstore cowboys returned from WW II, unemployment was rampant and many did not have jobs. They belonged to the $42.50 a month club where the government would send them that amount each month until they found jobs.
My dad had us keep a notebook page on each one, allowing them to have their cokes, ice cream sodas, milk shakes, cigarettes, toiletries, etc., as we entered them for credit until their checks arrived. Nothing was too much for his heroes, and he beat VISA by decades.
Racism is not so much disdain for people of other races, but, as in Sonia’s case, having, a feeling of superiority over them. The Supreme Court sure missed a great member when the presidents of years gone by passed over my father.
“ He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.” Proverbs 19: 17.
When one goes from dunce to genius, you know who is involved
FEBRUARY 13 – This past Saturday, TNT television presented the closest thing to solving public education’s failure in educating tens of millions of young Americans, when it presented “ Gifted Hands” , the true life story of Dr. Ben Carson.
Carson, a black American, has been the head of neurology and brain surgery at John Hopkins Medical Center for close to three decades. He and an older brother were raised by an illiterate single mother in Detroit, Michigan, For most of his early schooling, he was considered a dunce, earning mostly F grades and an occasional D.
Unlike today, when the computers and cell phones have been added to the television as a major free time distraction, Ben and his brother spent most of their “homework” hours watching shows like “Father Knows Best” and other situation comedies on black and white TV,
The “Gifted Hands” TV scenario of Dr. Carson’s life differs somewhat in the eventual path to intellectual and spiritual salvation from the personal testimony I saw over 15 years ago, when he appeared on “The 700 Club” with host Pat Robertson.
The movie version, which featured Cuba Gooding Jr. as Carson, was excellent, but did diminish somewhat the role of God and Scripture in turning Ben from a bubblehead loser with no self-confidence or self-respect, into an academic whiz and pursuer of knowledge.
I can see where and why Dr. Carson conceded to Hollywood’s desire to only acknowledge a bit of faith in his re-birth, in order to get his story told to all young people who need wisdom and the love of knowledge to rise above their dead end paths. And, I’m sure that there remains a substantial element of truth in the portrayal of a hard-working mother cutting down their TV time and insisting on daily trips to the library, reading two books a week and reporting to her on them.
This led eventually to a build up of pressure and bad temper, putting him at odds with his mother, but then, bringing him to his knees praying to God with a Bible in his hands for deliverance from the temper. From this, Carson was blessed with peace and a love of reading and knowledge that led to class leadership, scholarships and a degree in medicine. Of the 120 applicants for internships at John Hopkins that year, only two were to be granted acceptance. Carson was one of them.
According to the testimony I heard direct from him years ago on “The 700 Club”, Carson’s grandmother, who assisted in his upbringing, made him read from the Book of Proverbs everyday, and after several months, this propelled him to a love of reading and study that raised him from the bottom to the top of his class
Consider that the author of Proverbs, King Solomon, is considered to be the wisest man who ever lived. In I Kings 12, God replies to Solomon’s request for, “an understanding heart to judge thy people..”
“ Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and understanding heart: so that there is none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.”
My own feelings are that I would have named the story “Gifted Spirit” in keeping with I Kings 12, but the hands of Dr. Carson did become the most skilled in the world when it comes to brain surgery, especially with children.
The surgical highlight of the film is the separation of German-born twins, who are joined at the side of their heads, and, unless separated, will spend the rest of their lives in bed.
After visiting them in Germany, Dr. Carson asks for four months delay so he can develop a solution to the separation without losing one. No separation of Siamese twins, joined at the head, had ever been performed without losing one.
I won’t reveal the solution, but suffice it to say that God’s wisdom through Solomon’s Proverbs preparation of him decades before was the path for the large team of brain-surgeons, heart specialists, plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses Carson assembled and directed for over 35 hours in the operating room.
I believe the bottom line here is that sure, there are armies of smart people all over the world, but the key word here is “wisdom”; the quality that no amount of education or study can give without the blessing of God, and that blessing only available from the Word.
All you have to do is study the history of man which has led us to the cliff’s edge upon which the world is now perched after the literal slaughter of hundreds of millions of people through the centuries. Were a lot of “smart” people in charge throughout the whole mess? Are a lot of smart people in charge now?
In slightly more than two centuries. We have gone from a nation founded by men using God’s grace and wisdom to leadership by smart people using methods and principles that have always failed worldwide. I can remember when in President Eisenhower’s last year in 1959, the federal budget reached $100 billion with the press screaming in disbelief. This, just 15 years after World War II and seven years after the Korean War, while we were still helping rebuild the war-torn world and holding off the Soviets in the Cold War.
Today, the smart media and liberal pols talk $trillions shouting with glee. Obviously, there’s no wisdom involved.
For today’s leaders, wisdom is power; for Dr. Carson, power is wisdom.
”He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.”
Proverbs 28: 26.
If we wanted House of Lords, we would have skipped Revolution
JANUARY 16 – If you wanted to find the roots of the Governor “Lightning” Rod Blagojewich fiasco, you would have to go back 95 years to 1913, when the God-given wisdom of our founding fathers was polluted with Amendment 17 of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Recognizing the easily corruptible power that two individuals from each state would wield in the Legislative Branch’s Senate, as opposed to those in the House representing small districts, the framers specified that senators would be elected by the members of their states’ legislatures and not (emphasis mine) by direct popular vote.
Exemplifying that wisdom, “The members of the first senate group were given a two-year term of office, those in the second group a four-year term and those in the third group a six-year term. After these terms ended, all senators were given a six-year term. This was done so that two-thirds of the Senate would always be made up of members with experience in the Senate, and means that every two years, one-third of the Senate comes up for election.” (Excerpt from The Constitution Explained by Floyd G. Gullop).
Now, the kicker is that the state governor was given the power to make temporary appointments to fill a vacancy, if the state legislature was not in session, but at its next session, they were to elect a new U.S. Senator. Please remember that relatively primitive travel and communication was a problem back then.
This provision was carried over into Amendment 17, with one proviso added. The governor of that state may make a temporary appointment to fill the vacancy, if he has the permission of the state legislature to do so (emphasis mine) or a special, popular election may be called.
Right now, we have the Blago Boondoggle in Illinois (“Crook” County actually) and the Caroline Kennedy Entitlement Escapade in New York; don’t you know? The Kennedy heir apparent said “you know” over 100 times in a 30-minute press conference.
In either case, both state legislators are in session, and although the Illinois one has finally snared “Lightning” Rod with its impeachment vote, there has been no report from New York on whether Governor David Paterson has received the permission of the state legislature to appoint a temporary senator, or whether this part of Amendment 17 has been ignored so long that it’s forgotten.
I still find it hard to believe that a constitutional amendment requiring approval by two-thirds of the state legislatures, wresting the power from them of following the wisdom of our founding fathers, could have met the approval of two-thirds of them.
For, what has it given us? Dynasties of senators wielding egotistical power from decades in office, with campaigns requiring $tens of millions in large populous states; the campaign funds coming from influence seeking power groups, who end up controlling the “Senators.”
The founders certainly didn’t envision or want the adult life spans in the Senate of the likes of Teddy “Bare” Kennedy, Robert “KKK” Byrd, Joe “Gaffer” Biden, Chris “Fannie Mae” Dodd, Patrick “Leaky” Leahy, etc., etc.
Certainly what the framers envisioned was Senate service of one or two terms as determined by their state legislatures, with no fund raising to influence a public vote and non-stop campaigning consuming months of time. This was to be, in their desire, a great debating body, with no campaign indebtedness to deep pockets and empty promises to the public.
Not content with this mischief, and under cover of the stock market crash in 1929, supposedly to keep the House of Representatives from growing too large to work well, Congress passed a law limiting the number of members from one for about 30,000 people to a limit of 435 members.
This has given us 79 years of non-representation areas now at over 700,000 people each, with three and four district office locations , campaigns in the $millions and government by lobbyist. And, please notice how this has guaranteed the smooth operation of the House, especially since “Lallapelosi” , in office since 1988, took over House leadership in 2006. Can anyone say “Bailouts”?
Another fiasco that the Obama election is perpetrating on our besieged Senate is the replacement of Senator “Gaffer” Biden. The governor of Delaware, obviously without the permission of the state legislature as required by Amendment 17, is appointing an unknown Biden stooge named Edward Kaufmann to keep the Senate seat warm until the Biden heir apparent returns from Iraq in two years to claim his father’s throne in the U.S. House of Lords, uh, Senate.
I like the way syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer portrays the heir apparent Senate evolution. “ True, the British did it this way for centuries, but with characteristic honesty. They established a house in Parliament exclusively for highborn twits and esconced them there for life. There they chatter away in supreme irrelevance deep into their dotage. Problem is that the U.S. Senate retains House of Commons powers even as it develops House of Lords membership.”
So, whose next – Lord Teddy Bare Jr.?
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.” Proverbs 29: 2.
Prophetically speaking, Gaza firestorm was a dead certainty
JANUARY 9 – Columnist note: It just took a few months over 3 years, but my prediction on Gaza’s inevitable explosion has come about, just as the many others on Israel I have predicted in columns over the past 19 years. The man who set up this scenario in 2005, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, fell into a deep coma shortly thereafter, and is still in it. As Israel’s most brilliant general in its many battles for survival since 1948, his sudden surrender of Gaza, shocked the world, but anyone familiar with Scripture did not accept the face value of this then shattering development. Apparently, Sharon’s timing for the next move, didn’t coincide with God’s, so he remains asleep. The headline on my Aug. 26, 2005 column was, “Ariel Sharon – Is he a duped pol or a brilliant general?”
AUGUST 26, 2005 -- For all practical purposes, the Gaza Strip is now Judenrein (free of Jews), an expression coined by the Nazis, but this time, it was Jewish soldiers and police doing the dirty work on the some 20 settlements containing more than 8,000 Israelis.
One of those driven out by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s surrender strategy was Yoau Elul, a commercial grower of plump heads of cabbage and organically-grown red peppers.
Another was produce grower Schlomo Wassertel. Both men each owned several acres of greenhouses that not only fed thousands, but also employed many Arabs in an area famous for 70 percent unemployment.
I was not surprised when the final legal moment for Israelis to be in Gaza was declared to expire at midnight August 14, with Judenrein action to begin in the morning. In the Jewish calendar of this year, August 14 fell on Tisha B’av, which means the Ninth Day of Av. Throughout the millennia of Jewish history, the greatest tragedies have befallen the Jewish people and their nation exactly on Tisha B’av. Not one day later, not one day sooner.
These include:
1. The return of Moses’ spies from the Promised Land with their sinful reports of giants, frightening the people into rebellion and 40 years of wandering in the desert.
2. Destruction of Solomon’s Temple.
3. Destruction of the second temple.
4. The defeat of Bar Kochba by the Romans.
5. The subsequent razing of Jerusalem and Herod’s Temple a year later.
6. The declaration of the Crusades in 1095 A.D., which led to the death of tens-of-thousands of Jews.
7. The burning of the Talmud day in 1242 A.D.
8. The 1290 A.D. edict compelling the Jews to leave England.
9. The expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
10. The first day of World War I, a global conflagration that led directly to the rise of Adolph Hitler and the following Holocaust.
As the Ninth of Av moves within a two-week time span each year, the odds of even the three temples being destroyed on the same date centuries apart, would be trillions to one. Ten national tragedies occurring on the same date thousands of years apart, would have odds followed by almost countless zeros.
Now, adding the Gaza tragedy as number 11 renders the odds further beyond human calculation into the realm of the eternal and infinite.
It should also be noted, that the first time in 29 centuries, when Israel split into two nations after the death of Solomon, Jews are assailing other Jews, with settlers claiming Divine right and the opposition government worshipping the golden calf duo of false peace promises and world opinion.
The most puzzling aspect of the entire Gaza scenario is Sharon’s 180-degree reversal from his previous claim to fame of originating the settlement concept as a major defense strategy, to being principal architect of their destruction.
What is being gained for Israel shrinking from a postage stamp size to a pinpoint on a map with each passing day?
Consider the PLO mob boss Mahmoud Abbas stated that the Israeli pullout in Gaza came as a result of “sacrifices” and “patience” (suicide bombers!?), while promising further “Israeli retreats from the West Bank and East Jerusalem.”
The only rational conclusion I can draw is that Sharon, who is one of modern Israel’s most famed and brilliant military generals, is creating a strategy which will justify a full armed assault, possibly even nuclear, on the Muslim capitals and military strongholds.
If Muslim demands for more of the “pinpoint” t continue to shrink it, with accompanying missile and mortar attacks on what is now a “no warning” perimeter, General Sharon will go to DefCon 5 and open up.
Consider that in this 11th Tisha B’av tragedy, the leader of Israel has a name that is full of prophecy.
Not only does Ariel mean “Lion of God”, but it is also a symbolic name for Jerusalem. Sharon has its Hebraic roots in “to vie with a rival” and “to blaze up”.
In the August 29, 2005 issue of National Review, David Pryce Jones sums up his article on Sharon’s “bold move” and possible Palestinian future moves.
“In theory,” Jones writes, “the Palestinians ought to put up a statue of Sharon in the middle of Gaza City. He is foisting (emphasis mine) on them the system they have demanded … Objectively, there’s every reason for them to make something of it, and so eventually extend it to include the West Bank. But, in this situation, the safest prediction is that emotion drives out all such logic.”
While everyone is predicting, I will predict that this will be the last Ninth of Av tragedy, and the emotional Muslims will “vie” with “The Lion of God” in Jerusalem.” And, he will “blaze up” and consume them.
“The burden of Damascus. Behold. Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.” Isaiah 17: 1.
False trail markers only leading us deeper into the woods
NOVEMBER 14 – In many ways, today’s financial dilemma has all the aspects of a hunting trip I experienced with my late brother Ralph and three friends, to the Gaspe’ Peninsula in Quebec Province back in the mid-1950s.
Midway through it, we somehow got lost in the deep woods, and with an overcast sky blocking the sun, we could not determine east, west, north or south, and no one had a compass. Yet, three in our group were sure of the directions we should go in, and all were different.
Finally, I decided to climb a tall tree and spotted a small town several miles away on the shore of the St. Lawrence River, pinpointing the direction north. If we had taken two of the other “sure”
directions, we might still be walking.
Our experts, today, are in a sour notes chorus with politicians, media, financial gurus and many other historically ignorant types stirring a stew of misdirection based upon false hyperbole about the “worst economy since the Great Depression” (GD).
Nothing could be further from the truth, and to use this lie as a direction finder out of the woods is only asking for a diet of worms and bugs and cold nights under the stars instead of a roof.
A recent article by syndicated columnist Paul Greenberg, editor of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, detailed the GD’s bonding at the hip with today’s economy that can only be labeled as outright lies.
Greenberg wrote as follows: “ On July 9, 1932, the Dow Jones Industrials ended the day at 41.63 – a loss of 91 percent since the year of the Crash, 1929.
“ In 1929, a total of 659 banks went under; in 1930,
1352 banks, and in 1931, 2,294 banks.
“ By the last quarter of 1930, industrial production was down by half of the previous year. The next year,1931, industrial employment was down by more than a third.”
In March of 1933, one in four Americans (25 percent) were out of a job.
Until the Dems, led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, took over control of Congress two years ago, unemployment was at a fabulously low 4.5 percent, and
even today, it’s only 6.1 percent.
I just bought gasoline at the same price per gallon that I paid on the day Pelosi-Reid and Co. began the drive up to $4.50 per gallon. Obama said he didn’t mind that gas went over $4.00; just that it went up there a little too quick.
We still haven’t qualified as a recession with two successive quarters of gross domestic product showing negative growth. Every quarter of President Bush’s terms since the Clinton hand-off recession, have been on the plus side with just a small minus 0.3 in the third quarter of this year, following a very healthy plus 3.0 in the April-June quarter.
Recent hysterics with the media and the “ Obamatrons”
decry the worst unemployment in 14 years. That would be 1994, after two years of Slick Willie’s leadership and tax hikes. Before the GOP saved the economy in 1995, Slick was projecting $200 billion annual deficits “as far as the eye can see!”
With Obama headed for the Oval Office, I’m hearing the same thing on misdirection that I heard in the Quebec woods. Some are sure that’s the way, others say, it’s the other way, but all are basing their proposed path to safety on hysterical nonsense meant to numb the public’s brains and exert control of their lives through induced fear and phony promises.
A good indicator of this is the first appointment by the president–elect of Rahm “ Rahmbo” Emanuel as chief of staff, whose reputation as being trained, “like Obama, as a Chicago thug” (per Bill Clinton), is a prime marker on the path to nowhere. Rhambo is a former aide to President Slick, who he later appointed to Freddie Mac’s board of directors, where he received some $297,000 in fees. (hush money?)
Along with other Freddie Mac Democrat gang members, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, etc., Rahm was “directing”
when Freddie Mac falsified its earnings by $5 billion for 2000-02.
If you’re getting used to $billions being easily overlooked as drops in the bucket, consider that $5 billion is 5,000 $millions and bigger than the government income of many small nations. For instance, in 2004, the total income of Obama’s beloved Kenya government was $2.9 billion and they spent $3.4 billion.
For any one to say that the present economy is the worst since the GD is sheer demagoguery or ignorance.
Until Lalapelosi and Hustler Harry Reid took over Congress in 2006, the Bush years had witnessed the creation of more millionaires in our history for a six-year period. Florida’s unemployment rate then was under 4 percent.
To get back on the right trail, one has only to climb a tall tree and look back at JFK, Reagan and President Bush; cut taxes on capital gains, incomes, inheritance and make Bush’s tax cuts permanent. It’s too simple.
Barney Frank wants to cut Defense by 25 percent and turn “Obamerika” into a terrorist paradise. Can any one say Slick Willie, Jimmy “The Wimp” or 9/11?
Inasmuch as, he has been the Congressional watchdog over Freddie Mac, who just declared another third quarter loss of $29 billion, I think he should get tested for insanity; along with anyone who agrees with him on monetary or national security matters.
“For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? I Corinthians 1: 19 and 20.
When character doesn’t count, the U.S. goes down for the count
OCTOBER 10 – In the final month of what has been, undoubtedly, the longest presidential campaign in our history, it is really time for the voters to concentrate on character and forget the promises and trying to determine whether they be empty or genuine.
The only thing that has preserved this nation through 232 years of internal and external turmoil has been the character of some of our leaders when the chips were down. With the rise of what will be our deadliest enemies to date, Islamic fascist terrorists, there is absolutely no wiggle room. As president Bush has said, “We have to be right 100 percent of the time. They only have to be right once.” From here on out, that includes our vote.
The last time our country and the whole world faced such a deadly threat was during World War II, as the Axis powers moved to take over the planet, killing over 100 million people in a few years
Even though I was just a young boy at that time, I remember it like it was yesterday. My companions and I spent a lot of our time collecting scrap metal and rubber for the war effort. At school, we spent part of our meager allowances to buy Liberty Stamps for 10 cents each, pasting them in a booklet, which, upon reaching $18, could be exchanged for a War Bond.
Living on the coast of Massachusetts, everyone had to have blackout curtains, auto headlights were painted black on the upper half and streetlights had rims attached directing their light straight down. This was all to prevent the nighttime outlining of Europe-bound convoys from German U-Boats lying submerged off the coast. Air raid wardens made sure of the blackout.
Additional civilian war sacrifices were gas rationing and food rationing coupon books. Until synthetic rubber came on the scene, balding tires kept speeds down to a crawl as compared to today’s ” zoom, zoom, zooming”. Fish and chicken were the main diet with just about all beef going to the troops.
This, of course was followed by 45 years of Soviet Cold War nuclear threats, bomb shelter building and U.S. largesse in rebuilding most of the “civilized” world in return for “Ugly American” labeling and “Hate America” from without and within.
Which brings us to the silliest period in U.S. history, with a large portion of our young and hands-out generations enamored of what is the most unqualified, character-lacking and highly suspect candidate ever – Barack Hussein Obama.
Being touted as a community organizer (We called them “cell leaders” for 50 years), this short-term, do nothing senator from Corrupt Cook County has been covered up by what is being labeled as the “Moron Mass Media”. Where’s Sen. Joe McCarthy when you need him?
The principal cover-up is coming, incredibly, in the area of Obama’s longtime relationship with the founder and leader of the terrorist bombing group, Weather Underground, commonly known as the Weathermen, who terrorized our nation in the 1960s and 1970s.
Now a “professor” at the University of Illinois, Chicago, William Ayers was released from prison and prosecution, because some liberal judge found the FBI guilty of surveillance without proper warrants.
In reviewing Ayers’ 2001 book, Fugitive Days, which contains absolutely no repentance for numerous bombings, historian Michael Kazin stated that, “The book shows how idealism can be contorted into madness.”
In the New American, William Norton Grigg called Ayers, “ a homegrown terrorist – an important part of the World Communist movement’s terrorist fifth column within the United States.” Can anyone say, “ community organizer?”
Grigg asserts that because of the failure of our government to prosecute Ayers then that, “The FBI cannot now investigate until after the bomb goes off.”
Obama’s pal is also famous for urging children to kill their parents and rich people. And, on the morning of 9/11, a New York Times article quoted Ayers as saying, “ I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
B. Hussein Obama claims he hardly knows the communist “Mad Bomber” ; that he’s just an accidental neighbor, and the Moron Mass Media just wont dig down for the truth.
Columnist Tony Blankley recently revealed that during two of Obama’s years at New York’s Columbia University in the early 1980s, he lived a quarter-mile from Bill Ayers, and both later ended up cozily as neighbors in Chicago, as well as fellow directors of the Woods Foundation for three years of quarterly meeting and funneling cash to his radical allies. Now, that’s coincidence.
Blankely asks, “ How did honest Obama rise in the famously sordid Chicago political machine with the full support of Boss Daley “? The answers, of course, are in the likes of his tutors William Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, convicted felon Tony Rezko and the ACORN Army.
If the Moron Mass Media army would unleash half the number of troops on B. Hussein as they have on American patriot Sarah Palin, we would have the answers by tomorrow, thus freeing Obama up to return to his community organizing in Kenya and helping his brother George, who is living there in a 6-by-9 foot shack on a buck a month.
A president’s character isn’t anything, it’s everything! And, we know where McCain’s comes from.
“ Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city,
the watchman waketh but in vain.” Psalm 127:1.
How come real estate is base of all finance except 'We the People’?
SEPTEMBER 26 – The first time I hit this issue was over eight years ago in 2000 and again in 2005. I was going to give up on it, but last week’s Wall Street meltdown and proposed government bailout got me cranked up again with the perfect solution to our government’s supposed monetary woes.
First, let me paint a simile between the government and a debt-ridden citizen. The government, that’s the people constitutionally speaking (you and me), has a debt of some $9 trillion and commitments of entitlements, defense, infrastructure needs, payroll, etc., which grow like weeds and defy controls of any kind.
Imagine a family living in a paid up million dollar home on 5,000 acres of land valued at $100,000 an acre. They have run up credit card and lavish living debt of $1,500,000 and can’t control the interest and cost of living growth on their income. The plan is to put an initial mortgage of $250,000 on the house and increase it every year to stave off debt and rising living costs.
Last week’s fiasco at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch with the government going to loan money it doesn’t have, puts we taxpayers squarely in the cross hairs of an additional $700 billion mortgage on our lives and futures, adding almost 10 percent to the national debt in one fell swoop.
For the last several days, I have been listening to self-proclaimed financial experts criticizing both parties for creating these dire conditions, which doesn’t do anything solution-wise to relieve the taxpayer.
As I have stated before, this nonsense is easily solved, just as easily as it would be for the debt-ridden family and their 5,000 acres of debt free land with a value of $500 million.
Over the past two centuries, the federal government has taken ownership of a huge portion of U.S. land. Of the 3,675,031 (that’s millions) square miles of land in the U.S., the federal leviathan has unconstitutionally gobbled up more than 1,400,000 square miles of it.
Consider that they have usurped more than an area bigger than four states of Texas’ size, or two Alaskas, or more than all the land east of the Mississippi River; much of it supremely rich in minerals, timber, oil, gas, coal and other natural resources, as well as having a high potential for development. With only 10 percent of U.S. land having been built upon, this leaves over 3 million square miles vacant.
Typical was Bill Clinton’s grabbing of Utah’s Escalante Staircase as a national park, despite its proven reserves of over a billion tons of badly needed clean burning coal. Energy problems, anyone?
According to Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution, the federal government is to “ exercise exclusive Legislation in all cases, whatsoever, over such Districts (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may by Cession of particular states and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States (the District of Columbia did not exist at this time), and to exercise like Authority over all places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State (emphasis mine) which the same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other needful Buildings.”
Now, does that sound like a license to grab over one third of all our state lands. This gobbling has made them hungrier for control of our lives as demonstrated in their leaping from the 3-mile coastal limit for defensive purposes to literal control of the ocean hundreds of miles out to the continental shelf, increasing our financial hardship through the denial of oil and gas resources. Can anyone say dictatorial lust?
If you added in this control of Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the Gulf of Mexico, you could easily increase the land grab by a million square miles or more.
Additionally, with the states counties, cities and towns gobbling up more land every day, the amount of private land ownership is probably down to less than a third of the nation and shrinking as you read this.
Even placing a ridiculously low estimate of say $20 million per square mile, the market value of the 1.4 million square miles of U.S. land would be in the “ gazillions”. Selling off just 10 percent to private interests would not only retire the national debt, including the latest $700 billion heist, but also eliminate the income tax for decades, repay the “ empty” Social Security” trust fund” and create the greatest economic boom and wave of personal freedom in world history.
When are we going to find and elect leaders who will stop pretending that the U.S (that’s us) is saddled with debt and needs confiscatory income taxes and bailouts to operate with. When are we going to start following the Constitution and stop the pols from stealing our land treasure without “ the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be.”
Right now, we have been diverted again with phony energy disputes and are rightfully insisting on,“ Drill, Drill, Drill!” But, rather than accept more $ trillions of endless mortgages on our future, let’s also, “ Sell, Sell, Sell!"
“ It is better to put trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. It is better to put trust in the
LORD than to put confidence in princes.” Psalm 118:8 and 9.
Columnist note: For what it’s worth, Psalm 118 verse 8 is the exact center of the Bible, with equal numbers of verses on either side.
PBS Set to Give the Bible ‘Fiction of the Ages’ Award
AUGUST 15, 2008 – With Charlton Heston’s recent death in April and in what were his final scenes, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) figured this would be a great opportunity to debunk Moses, Exodus and the rest of that best seller fiction tome, known universally as the Holy Bible!
I don’t know whether Heston’s legacy as head of the National Rifle Association and a leading gun rights advocate goaded the leftist PBS into this assault on Moses and “The Ten Commandments,” but the timing of their coming Nova program, “Buried Secrets,” on November 18, looks a little dicey.
Obviously “Moses” will be in no condition to thunder down on them from Mount Sinai. The PBS biblical assault says the Bible was written in the sixth Century B.C. by hundreds of ancient scholars, and that the first five books, the very foundation, known as the Torah – the law, came together during the Babylonian captivity and exile some 1,000 years after Moses actually wrote them under Divine inspiration. This is according to “Buried Secrets” producer Gary Glassman
Biblical scholars attribute the books to Moses, dating the Torah between 1445 and 1405 B.C. It contains both Genesis and Exodus – the very foundation of Scripture.
Now, I have no objection to publicly financing a radio and TV network with tax money as long as they remain balanced and are not used to project the liberal agenda and, in this case, anti-Semitic propaganda, in pursuit of Islamic objectives.
According to Hal Boedecker, Orlando Sentinel TV critic, who previewed the “documentary” (?), a professor of religion at Duke University, Carol Meyers, states that Abraham, Sarah and their offspring (that’s Isaac, Jacob and 12 tribal heads for openers) didn’t exist! (Emphasis mine)
If you’re going to desecrate the entire race of God’s chosen people and their Promised Land, might as well axe the foundation for openers. I think I’m correct in assuming this anti-Israel nonsense was financed by the Saudis, Iranians and other Islamic Mid-east entities as a denial of Israel’s right to its tiny 7,000 square miles in the midst of the Muslims’ 3 million plus. What really scares them is David and Solomon’s kingdom stretching from the Euphrates River to the River of Egypt (Nile)
- circa 1,000 B.C.
Along that line of assumption, the program denies that the Israelites came from the Exodus out of Egypt, or anywhere else, into the land of Canaan. According to producer Paula Aspell, “The film shows that they were Canaanites.”
Well, if the film shows it, I guess, that’s the way it was. Forget about the tens of thousands of scholars for the past three thousand years that confirmed the truth of scriptural history. Forget the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1948, that contain at least a fragment of every book of the Old Testament, except the Book of Ruth, with the complete Book of Isaiah on a copper scroll and on display in Jerusalem.
Of course, what the Greek Aristotle wrote in the fourth century B. C. must be attributed to him. Ditto for Aristides, Plato, Homer, etc., etc. No questioning of Greek history or sources is allowed.
And, without a doubt, Rome’s historians were completely accurate from the third century B.C.. Except for Flavius Josephus, of course, who detailed the time of Jesus and the original apostles in the first century A.D. Although, he was a Jew, he was governor of Galilee and became a Roman citizen. The New American Encyclopedia states that “his histories of the Jews are masterpieces of Jewish literature.”
In a demonstration of the LORD’s miraculous timing, archeologist Lennart Moller has just released an updated version of his best seller of several years ago, The Exodus Case. Its 448 pages contain 131 pages of new research, along with several hundred new color photographs and charts.
Reviewed by Bob Ulrich in the August 2008 issue of Prophecy in the News magazine, he states, “There are pictures of ancient chariot wheels and human bones lying on the bottom of the Red Sea. You will see pictures of the six-story massive rock in the desert that quenched the thirst of two million Israelites. According to Josephus, the water that came from the rock in the desert was like a rushing river.”
Ulrich writes, “His photos of the blackened, melted granite on top of Mount Sinai are startling. It is shocking to see the altar of the golden calf still standing – photographic evidence of an archeological cover-up.
“Many of the historical sites from the Exodus are fenced off and surrounded by barbed wire, armed guards and “No Trespassing” signs. The Saudi government has no desire to corroborate the historical veracity of Hebrew Scripture,” Ulrich states.
Now, tell me that the Saudis aren’t the principal backers of the upcoming PBS biblical smear job.
“Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh
persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.”
--Galatians 4: 28 and 29.
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‘Obama Manifesto’ perfect for Lenin’s tomb, not Berlin Wall
AUGUST 1 -What the drive-by, 0bama-adoring media forgot to tell you about their messiah’s speech in Berlin with the big crowd of young people, was that there were two popular rock bands as openers for Barack Obama, or B. Hussein Obama as Ann Coulter would say.
Fox News andconservative talk radio, led by Rush Limbaugh, were the only ones to note the free rock band enticements. Historically speaking, neither presidents John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan had show-biz openers for their Cold War Berlin speeches.
I don’t know where B. Hussein got his education in modern German history, but his statements on the fall of the Berlin Wall is pure fiction. “People of the world – look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.” (“Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains.” Karl Marx).
The wall came down because a brave conservative named Ronald Reagan defied European cowards and put Pershing missiles in Germany despite massive demonstrations across Europe, and pushed a poker-faced bluff called Space Defense Initiative (SDI), leading the Soviets to bankruptcy trying to contend with it.
The “world that stands as one” didn’t, does not and never will exist. Shortly after that wall came down, the Balkans exploded in years of massacres and bloody conflicts, the first World Trade Center attack hit us, Israel became subject to unending infitada in suicide bombings and daily missile attacks, Iraq and Iran went after each other for eight years and Africa and Asia have had nothing but murderous conflicts. Millions have died.
Nevertheless, B. Hussein states to a dimwitted, cheering rock crowd, “ But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together.”
More fiction, fantasy and fear are delivered with, “ As we speak, cars in Boston and factories in Beijing are melting the ice caps in the Artic, shrinking coastlines in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya.”
So, what’s growing the ice cap in the Antarctic and flooding Iowa, Kansas and overflowing the banks of the Mississippi River? And, the drought in Kenya is undoubtedly as valid as “the shrinking coastline in the Atlantic” – like at Daytona, New Smyrna, Cocoa, Melbourne and Miami?
“None of us can deny these threats” !!? Well, B. Hussein, some 19,000 scientists worldwide have signed a statement denying this nonsense.
The messiah gives the clue to his true political convictions and objectives when he states, “ Partnership and cooperation among nations is not a choice; it is the one way, the only way (emphasis mine), to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.”
The number one rated liberal of the100 U.S. Senators, who, even as a local Illinois pol, opposed our fighting Saddam Hussein’s Mid-east threat and establishing a democracy in the then torture chamber known as Iraq, is now pitching “common” security and “common” humanity.
Obviously, the Marx-Lenin pitch can be seen in his blatant use of the root word for communism – “common”.
In truth, the United States has nothing in “ common” with most other nations of the world. The freedom and opportunity here are so unique, that the dream of millions everywhere is somehow to get in here, even if illegal entry is the only way.
We, on the other hand, have no one except a few ultra-rich, brainwashed liberals and sicko Hollywood actors who threaten to leave if a conservative president is elected, but never do it – shucks! Alec Baldwin, call my office!
But, this is the one that really typifies this messiah as a flagrant liar or psycho surrealist. “At the height of the Cold War, my father decided like so many others in the forgotten (forgotten by who?) corners of the world, that his yearning – his dream required the freedom and opportunity promised (offered, not promised) by the West. And, so, he wrote letter after letter to universities all across America, until somebody answered his prayer for a better life.”
Apparently, that better life involved impregnating an 18-year-old Kansas girl living in Hawaii, then dumping her when B. Hussein was two years old, to go to Harvard on a scholarship, before hightailing it back to Kenya for a job as a government planner – “ his yearning, his dream”, per Barrack’s Berlin Blather.
Obviously, the “planner” didn’t do that well for the Kenyans with a reported per capita gross domestic product in 2004 of $1,000. The U.S. per capita G.D.P. for that year was $41,100.
I can just imagine what the Kenya per capita was back in the 1960s when Obama Sr. did his solo rush back from Harvard to join the government mob –uh- administration. I mean, talk about opportunity.
I don’t know about you, but I’m against being a global citizen or citizen of the world. It’s sort of like “A man without a country”; and besides, it’s against the Constitution.
B. Hussein doesn’t agree. He ended his Berlin Blather with, “Let us build our common history, and seize our common destiny, and once again engage in that noble struggle to bring justice and peace to our world.”
Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin couldn’t have said it better.
“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” I Thessalonians 5: 3.
Columnist note: For the complete” Obama Manifesto” go to http:edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/24/obama.words.
Aim of al-Gore’s global warming – frying our freedoms
JULY 18 - For those of you who think al-Gore’s propaganda film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, was the big kick-off of his Global Warming crusade, you’re at least a decade or more off the mark.
In September of 1992, at the height of the initial Slick Willie/al-Gore run for the White House, syndicated columnist and TV panelist George Will, wrote a column declaring that Gore’s then recently published book, Earth in the Balance, “is a powerful reason not to elect him to high office”, and, “clearly is wastebasket worthy.”
In his wastebasket wanderings, Will said the then vice-presidential candidate, “labeled our civilization a dysfunctional family, favored a wrenching transformation of society, and the altering of the very foundation of our civilization.” Is this nut anti-American or what?
What’s with these Dem candidates with their “change” everything campaigns?
Will was appalled at Gore’s false claim in his wastebasket tome that the world scientific community is in consensus about global warming, when he knew that his former Harvard mentor, Roger Revelle, who died just a year earlier, had stated that the scientific base for global warming was too uncertain at that time to justify drastic action.
Will also points out that a widely publicized Gallup Poll of scientists in global science research showed that 53 percent did not believe warming has occurred, and another 30 percent were uncertain.
Not surprisingly, some 12 years later, the February 2004 issue of Environment and Climate News, contained an article by S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, debunking virtually all of the global warming nonsense.
Singer states that, “ weather satellites measuring atmospheric temperatures day in and day out from pole to pole,” report only a minute rise that extrapolates to about a half-a-degree Centigrade by the year 2100.” (emphasis mine).
Singer also wrote that economist say that a moderate warming would be better for the economy and lead to a higher GNP and higher living standards worldwide.
What’s more important and fatal to the Gore gobbledegook on the warming source is the fact that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant, but an essential component of our atmosphere. Combined with sunshine and trace ingredients, Singer wrote, plants turn CO2 into food and fiber – the more CO2 (carbon footprint), the better growth of crops and trees.
Professor Singer is also president of the non-profit Science and Environmental Policy Project in Arlington, Virginia.
Columnist Will put his finger directly on the al-Gore motivation for this unsubstantiated insanity which has been expanded to include an attack on the U.S. economy with carbon footprints, greenhouse gas, holes in the ozone and other traditional terror tactics aimed at frightening the ill informed.
Will wrote in 1992, “Gore, who has spent most of his life in Washington’s governing circle, overflows with the central characteristics of that circle. He knows the future and knows exactly what it requires; which turns out to be an unprecedented expansion of government – spending, regulating, evaluating technologies and transferring wealth abroad.”
If that doesn’t describe the primary thrust of our (uh, their) government for the past 16 years, I’ve got a hole in my ozone!
In typical big government self-esteem, this class of buffoons, who fail at education programs, budget balancing, superstructure maintenance, medical care, border control, energy supply, etc., etc., wants to go global.
It only figures that the carbon footprint promoter owns a mansion in Tennessee that uses 20 times the energy of the average U.S. home, and he follows in the footsteps of his late U.S. Senator father in utilizing energy schemes for personal gain.
The mansion and fortune his father created were derived from oil deal participation with J. Paul Getty and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the Cold War. If you’ve been wondering how the Democrat pols got so anti-drilling, anti-nuclear plants, anti-gas and anti-coal development on U.S. soil for the past three decades or more, the transition from Cold War to “Warming War” might shed some light.
A prime illustration of al-Gore’s true beneficence and charity toward needy Americans was revealed in his 1995 income tax return. On a gross income exceeding $500,000, his contributions to charity were $400. Now, that’s an Inconvenient Truth!
It’s amazing that George Will’s analysis of al-Gore 16 years ago, can be shifted virtually intact to Barrack Hussein Obama (Change?) to describe another destroyer posing as a would-be and totally unnecessary messiah in the “Gore footprint”.
“But what is dismaying,” Will concluded, “ is the way he trades in ideas, uncritically embracing extremisms that seem to justify vast expansions of his righteousness and of the power of the government he seeks to lead”
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing,
but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Matthew 7: 15.
Left says Harvard’s Business School dumb, Harvard Law smart
JULY 11—After President Bush met recently with a small group of opinion writers, conservative-leaning Kathleen Parker wrote that, “Despite his insistence that ‘he is sprinting toward the finish’, Bush seems weary, if also characteristically optimistic. “Is he completely out of touch with reality, as Bush-bashers insist? Or, does he know something the rest of us don’t?”
Based on the evolving successes in Iraq, the complete prevention of terrorists’ attacks in the U.S. since 9/11 and the Dems’ nomination of the emptiest suit to ever run for president, I would say Parker’s last question was the right one.
Also, her observation that he was ‘characteristically optimistic”, certainly fits a man with a winning record throughout his life. Quite the opposite of Jimmy Carter’s “ennui” years and “Sexy Willie’s” distracted foul-up of the first World Trade Center hit that set up the 9/11 tragedy and his tainted terms.
As I have stated previously, the drive-by, leftist media choose to ignore a Harvard Business School degree capability, the smarts to reverse a losing Texas Rangers ball club’s fortunes, success in the wildcat oil drilling field, and two highly successful terms as governor of our third most populous state.
A sidebar would be the capability to fly a supersonic jet fighter plane for the Texas Air National Guard; a feat which less than a tiny fraction of our population is capable of duplicating. In comparing reaction time required, jet pilot Bush exceeded John Kerry’s “Swift Boat’s” top speed as he was taxiing to the runway.
While, the Dems and their media stooges have spent almost five years trying to force a defeat in Iraq, Bush’s unwavering support in what would be a classic Harvard B. School case study, is producing the first Mid-east democracy outside of Israel.
Iraq is back to full oil production, a working parliament and restored diplomatic relations with former alienated nations such as Jordan and Kuwait, among others. And just last week, the United Arab Emirates forgave Iraq $8.5 billion in foreign aid debt.
Although, the Dems and their media pals have tried to paint the Iraqi transition from Saddam Hussein’s tyranny to a free government as a long, impossible dead end, by comparison to our own 14 years of dispute between revolt against England and the finalizing of the Constitution, the five years of Iraqi transition, fraught with religious disputes and al-Qaeda terrorism, has been miraculously swift by any historical standards.
In more recent times, from the defeat of Nazi Germany to the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of a free German Republic took 45 years, with U.S troops in constant occupation and countering communist aggression, it engaged the policies and actions of eight U.S. presidents – four Democrats and four Republicans. It was the U.S.’ tenacity, funding and vision that held on for decades and finally brought freedom to both Eastern and Western Europe and an end to the Cold War
And, this was after a worldwide “hot war” that produced 291,551 U.S. battle deaths and 670,846 wounded in three-and-a-half years. Consider that after 5 years, U.S. battle deaths are 3,352 in Iraq and 468 in Afghanistan. But, the seed of freedom is sprouting in the Islamic world.
When it comes to the transition of nations from tyranny to freedom, the American public has got to stop buying the fast-food concepts of Dems and their uneducated, uncaring media mates.
One of the biggest attacks on President Bush since Hussein was ousted and al-Qaeda initiated their murder campaigns, claims that he lied about the necessity for the war based on evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Our friends on the left have consistently ignored the claims of Bill Clinton in 1998 and 1999 of intelligence reports on Hussein’s mass-destruction weapons caches and which were passed on to the Bush administration. Also ignored were the verified air- surveillance reports of long truck convoys from Iraq into Syria in the weeks preceding Operation Iraqi Freedom.
I’m sure that last year’s Israeli air attack on Syrian targets had something to do with those convoys as well as North Korean nuclear work in that region. Hussein’s record of gassing thousands of Kurdish civilians certainly affirms his reputation of being a possessor of weapons of mass destruction. I mean, how many thousands do the Dems consider as mass?!
If anyone recalls the Joe Wilson-Valerie Plame Game, whereby another distraction was created to hide Hussein’s purchase of yellowcake from Africa’s Niger, it was confirmed this week.
A report by the Associated Press stated: “The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program – a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium – reached a Canadian port Saturday (July 5) to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
“The removal of about 600 TONS (Emphasis mine) of yellowcake – the seed material for high-grade nuclear enrichment - was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam’s nuclear legacy.”
Combine this with the massive truck convoys to Syria, Iran’s refusal to stop nuclear bomb development and their unending pledge to destroy Israel and the “Great Satan” – America, and what do you determine about Barack Hussein Obama’s opposition to our moves against Saddam Hussein from the get-go.
Now, who has the answers here – the Harvard Law School or the Harvard Business School? – the jet fighter pilot or the gutter ball bowler? – the free world’s leader or the neighborhood organizer? – the two-term Texas governor or the Chicago pol? – the media’s messiah or the Messiah’s mediator?
“A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.” Proverbs: 12: 23.
As Cross Rises, Darwin Sinks Into The Primeval Ooze
JUNE 20 – An age-old saying that contained, in a few words, the controversy between evolution and creationism, was the question, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?”
As the argument has progressed in the some 150 years since Charles Darwin set forth his poorly aging Theory of Evolution, the “Theory” has remained a theory, still lacking the scientific proof method of repeatable observation, while, Creationism has been moved by its proponents, into the realm known as ” Intelligent Design.”
As the proof of Intelligent Design (ID) continues to build, the Darwinists in control of the academic community have resorted to open warfare on their ID colleagues as exposed in the documentary film, “Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed”.
Produced by actor, pundit, economist, lecturer and lawyer Ben Stein (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”), the film details scientists and researchers who acknowledge the evidence for the intelligent design of life, and, as a result, have been ostracized or denied tenure strictly because of their position on ID.
Stein has been taking a barrage of hits for producing the film, which not only interviews ID proponents, but also leading opponents such as Oxford’s famed atheist Richard Dawkins.
Personally, I feel that a study of the human body and its relation to an immeasurable universe settles the matter on the side of ID without question.
Many points for the case of ID have been placed on a 40-minute DVD by Louie Giglio, director of the Passion Conferences in Atlanta. The DVD, “How Great Is Our God” is reviewed by Bob Ulrich in the June issue of Prophecy in the News magazine, and contains some startling information.
Ulrich’s review relates that the Hubble Telescope, in scanning the Whirlpool Galaxy some 31 million light years away, found a swirling, mysterious black hole in the center of the galaxy that is in the exact shape of a cross (Emphasis mine).
Incidentally, one light year at 186,000 miles per second adds up to 5.88 trillion miles. Then, you have to multiply that by 31 million to get to the Whirlpool Galaxy; and, it’s one of the closer ones.
In our own galaxy, Giglio describes other Hubble discoveries, such as the planets of Betelgeuse, Mucehpei and Canis Majoris. He relates that ”If, by comparison, Earth were a golf ball, then Betelgeuse would be the size of six Empire State buildings stacked on top of one another, Mucehpei would be the length of the Golden Gate Bridge and Canis Majoris would be the size of Mount Everest.” This would make our giant Jupiter a basketball next to them.
Now, it’s quite feasible that when all this came into existence, there could have been a “Big Bang,” but with no one except God to hear it, what would have been the purpose of a bang?”
As the old question goes, “If a tree falls in the forest with no one to hear it, is there any sound?”
It’s in the human body that Giglio really examines the wonders of ID, with God stretching out a million nerve endings from the optic center of the brain to find a million optic nerves ending in the eye.
The relatively recent discovery of DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) is one of the clinchers of Ulrich’s review of Giglio’s DVD.
“Our bodies contain 75 trillion cells,” he writes, “and if we wanted to stack our DNA (one person’s) end to end, you could travel back and forth to the moon 170,000 times! And, all that came from one cell from mom and one cell from dad!”
Is it any wonder that the evolutionists need billions of years to construct their
science-fiction man. No wonder “slime plus time” comprises the oozy foundation of their “theory.” Of course, anything built on ooze will inevitably sink.
The final grand slam of Giglio’s DVD is the description of a substance in human bodies that is called laminin, which is a cell adhesion protein molecule. Laminin, he states, is the glue that holds us all together, similar to the rebar steel within a slab of concrete.
Laminin, which appears in our DNA trillions of times, has a molecular structure IN THE SHAPE OF A CROSS!
“And he (Jesus) is before all things, and by him all things consist.” Colossians 1: 17
Prophecy’s Associate Editor Gary Stearman explains why it is called laminin: “This fibrous protein is present between the thin plates or stacked layers of tissue, called ‘lamina’ from the Latin meaning ‘thin parallel layers.’ In English, we have the words ‘laminar’ or ‘laminate,’ meaning ‘layered.
“As an extended objective truth, the Cross has been preached the world over. But to see it as an internal truth, vital to life itself, is to bring Christ to a whole new level in human dialogue.
“Among other things, it addresses the current heated dialogue about ‘intelligent design.’ Darwin could never have envisioned the microscopic perfection that characterizes life at the cellular level.”
The next time you are asked for your ID, tell them Jesus sent you; after he made you, of course.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him:
male and female created he them.
--Genesis 1: 27.
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Holy cow! From ‘The Gipper’ to ‘The Gaffer’ in only 20 years
JUNE 13 -- If Barak Hussein Obama had to pass the standard citizenship exam, he would probably flunk. Campaigning in Oregon, he stated, “I’ve been in 57 states, I think. One left to go.”
Imagine electing a neophyte Chicago pol as U.S. president who thinks the country is comprised of 58 states. You think Ronald Reagan knew that there were 50 states when elected president in 1980.
Of course, it only follows that this Columbia U. and Harvard Law grad, and junior Senator from Illinois, thinks the Senate passes bills on the majority vote out of 116 Senators.
When we characterized the courage and will power of Reagan by nicknaming him “The Gipper” for his movie role of the Notre Dame gridiron great, George Gipp, little did we realize that we might have to continue the custom with “The Gaffer” for Obama. He’s beginning to make Jimmy “The Wimp” Carter look like Thomas Jefferson.
Next thing you know, he’ll be campaigning in Canada, Bermuda or Iceland as part of “The 58”. Geography and U.S History, obviously are not strong suits of The Rev. Wright disciple, Tony Rezko sidekick or buddy of mad bomber and Underground Weatherman William Ayers.
When he was in Sunrise, Florida, he greeted the folks with, “How’s it going in Sunshine?”
He defended his defeat by Hillary in Kentucky with the claim that “I’m not very well known in that part of the country. Senator Clinton is much better known , I think, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas.”
Hello, Barry. Kentucky abuts your home state of Illinois on its southern border, and is a lot closer than Arkansas.
“The Gaffer” started early in his campaign, in May 2007, citing that recent tornadoes in Kansas killed 10,000 people: actual count, 12 people.
In Rush Limbaugh’s hometown of Cape Giradeau, Mo., last month, he decried the shortage of U.S. Army Arabic translators in Afghanistan because of heavy deployment in Iraq. Obama, they don’t speak Arabic in Afghanistan.
Remember years ago when Republican Dan Quayle spelled potato as “potatoe” . The leftist, liberal, looney media carried on for months, mashing it, baking it, French-frying it ad um infinitum, yet, there’s barely a peep from them about The Gaffer’s unending, stupid, uninformed attempts at coherence and knowledge whenever he dares to stray from the scripted “Change” and “Hope” meaningless malarkey message. This was highlighted when Limbaugh matched Obama’s ” Change” speech almost flawlessly to a speech by “DEM-agogue” Mario Cuomo some 30 years ago. I suppose going backward is a change to leftist idiots.
No wonder he reacted so vehemently against President Bush’s criticism of appeasement such as the Chamberlain/Hitler farce in the 1930s that led to WW II.. The past is the communist time of triumph with Marx and Lenin, and it’s where they want to bring us again; this time, using green instead of red.
On that score, locally, he told The Orlando Sentinel that he would meet with communist dictator wannabe, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, to discuss “his fermentation of anti-American sentiment in Latin America, his support of commie FARC terrorists in Colombia and other issues he (Chavez) would want to talk about.
The next day, closer to the problem down in Miami, he took a hard stance (obviously sucking up to a more Latin audience) he demanded that countries supporting FARC (Chavez gave them $200 million plus arms) should be subject to “regional isolation”.
Hugo must think his Marxist pal Obama is a shoo-in for U.S. president, as he changed his tone and script on cue, denouncing FARC and any other terrorist (he said, “rebellious”) groups in South America just last week; at least until after the first Tuesday in November.
The most ludicrous aspect of this “58-stater”, who obviously can’t count, is his pretended belief that we’re in a recession.
Actually, since the recovery started in 2001, every quarter, including the last two, has posted economic growth. The recent unemployment figures for May, show a small increase from 5 percent to 5.5 percent, which is still virtually full employment to the rest of the world, and half of “The Wimp” Carter’s 11 percent. This is the month when students flood the market and cause a slight bump.
The Gaffer wants to wants to repeat the worst presidency in modern history using The Wimp’s “malaise” methodology of high taxes and entitlement expansion that produced 12 percent annual inflation, 18 to 21 percent first mortgage rates and mile-long lines at the gas pumps. Not to mention the real Obama/Wright/Ayers goal; a repeat of communist expansion worldwide under the “Jimmy Jabber” pretending to be foreign policy.
Obama’s intention to quickly eliminate the Bush tax cuts will, he “Hopes”, have dire consequences on our economy. Please note that from 2003 to 2007, in constant dollars, total U.S. Treasury revenue increased 20 percent (Emphasis mine).
Both Iraq and Afghanistan have made tremendous progress and there was a huge sideline benefit always forgotten by the Dems and their lapdog press pals.
When we plowed Saddam Hussein under in six weeks, it knocked some common sense into Col. Muammar (Pan Am 103) al-Quaddafi of Mid-east troublemaker Libya. Almost immediately, Libya announced it would stop all biological, chemical and nuclear weapons development, opened up to inspectors and signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. How’s that for a policy of no talking with terrorist leaders, Barry?
Obama labels a McCain presidency as a Bush third term. Yea, man! Bring it on!
Better than a second term for The Wimp, or worse still, Nikita Krushchev.
“He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be the servant of the wise at heart.”
Proverbs 11: 29.
Never a Dem yellow-dog, always a Dem yellow-dog – Huh!?
MAY 16 – Did you know that the first slave-holder of a black man in the American Colonies in the mid-17th century was a black slave-holder, and the first anti-slavery protest came from a white man?
Did you know that prior to that slave, John Casor, the only type of unpaid servants in America, both black or white, male or female, were indentured servants, who committed to seven years of unpaid labor in exchange for transportation here from Europe or Africa?
Did you know that of 10,689 free blacks who lived in New Orleans in 1830, more than 3,000 of them were slave masters?
I’m embarrassed to admit that I didn’t know this, and I’m an Ivy League product with more than 50 years of added study, reading and political research. Thank the LORD, a close friend of the past two decades, the Rev. Ben Kinchlow, sent me his latest book last week, and I couldn’t put down Black Yellowdogs , which is chock full of documented, referenced facts on slavery, segregation and their source, presenting the absolute lunacy of the yellow-dog vote by black Americans for their historic Democrat persecutors.
Kinchlow, a Black American, is a minister, broadcaster, author, public speaker, known worldwide as the long-time former co-host of The 700 Club and host of the International Edition of The 700 Club as seen in over 80 countries. He is also founder and CEO of “The African-American Political Awareness Coalition” to encourage votes based on principle not party. Additionally, he is a VP and board member of Kids Against Hunger, a worldwide feeding program for starving children.
He is to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright what Ronald Reagan was to Mikhail Gorbachev, and this page turner, mind burner has enough truthful, fully documented facts to prove to even the most hard-headed yellow-dog Black voter that they have been duped , doped and deluded for almost 70 years by the Dems; robbed of their most precious possession: their votes and the futures of their children.
For instance, “According to the Tuskegee Institute figures, between the years 1882 and 1951, 4,730 people were lynched in the United States by the Ku Klux Klan – 3,437 black and 1,293 white (Emphasis mine).” The Whites lynched were primarily Republicans who were fighting for the rights of the Blacks.
It is to be noted that Democrat legislators in Congress “lynched” every anti-lynching bill, either by filibuster or committee, that were brought by Republicans in 1922, 1937 and 1940. In the presidential election of 1876, at the height of Reconstruction, there was a heavy Black voter turnout and they voted 99 percent Republican. Now, Kinchlow reports that the circa 90 percent of the Black vote is so predictable, they are no longer considered to be voters, but simply Democrat voters.
He further documents that unknown to most black Americans, the Republican Party , remaining true to its origin, facilitated most of the civil rights gains of the 1960s, with a Republican Congress passing the first Civil Rights Act since Reconstruction signed by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957. “Ike” was the first president since Reconstruction to use federal troops to support African-American rights, beginning with the Little Rock, Ark. school desegregation.
Actually, in voting for the 1964 Civil Rights Act under Lyndon Johnson and a Dem Congress, Senate Republicans bested the Dems’ vote 82 percent to 80 percent and topped the Dems’ House vote 80 percent to 61 percent.
Similarly, in the 1964 vote for the Voting Rights Act, GOP Senators bested their Dem peers 97 percent to 74 percent with 85 to 80 percent in the House. Naturally, in all this, Al Gore’s father, then U.S. Senator from Tennessee, voted against both of these vital measures for black Americans’ equality and freedom.
Almost beyond belief, Black Americans strongly support virtually everything that Dems oppose, and that by large percentages: school prayer 80 percent, education vouchers 73 percent, faith based initiatives 74 percent, English as official language 84 percent, death penalty 64 percent.
Conversely, African-Americans oppose by large margins policies Dems initiated and promote. They oppose race-based preference (affirmative action) 86 percent, legalization of pot 75 percent, same sex marriage 71 percent; all also opposed by the Republican Party.
Kinchlow poses the quandary. “So, let me get this straight; Blacks embrace conservative values, but vote liberal values!”
When a Dem-packed Supreme Court declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 as “unconstitutional”, it opened the door for the so-called “Redeemer” governments across the South, writes Kinchlow. “With the “redeemer” (anti-civil rights Democrat) governments firmly in place throughout the South, not one piece of civil rights legislation was passed until 1954 (under “Ike” and a Republican Congress).
“How vastly different America would have been had the Democrats provided even token support for existing legislation.:”
I have only touched the surface of a deep well of enlightenment through the myriad of historical facts that this book contains. Most important, is the Rev. Kinchlow’s conclusion after a lifetime of firsthand experience when he states, “The most dangerous citizen is not armed, but uninformed.”
This book is a must read for those who are free and who wish to ensure that freedom. It ends with Dr. Martin Luther King’s Washington speech and final words. “Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”
“Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding is it established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.” Proverbs 24: 3 and 4
When will black Americans drop the party of segregation?
APRIL 18 - Since B. Hussein Obama and “Billary” have dropped the race bomb on us since the last round of primaries, most conservative pundits and talk radio stars have noted that in the Dems’ nomination battle, it was there all the time.
Black conservative columnist Larry Elder recently wrote, “American Blacks live in a post-slavery, post-Jim Crow world, with a thriving black middle class. We live in a country where, for the most part, hard work, focus, ability and some luck determine success. Why then, the contrived anger, negativity and finger pointing, in a country to which much of the world – if it could – would happily relocate?”
Elder quotes Booker T. Washington’s 1901 book Up From Slavery, wherein he stated, “In later years, I confess that I do not envy the white boy as I once did. I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. Looked at from this standpoint, I almost reach the conclusion that often the Negro boy’s birth and connection with an unpopular race is an advantage, so far as real life is concerned” (Emphasis mine).
One of the main obstacles Washington was looking at, I’m sire, was acquiring knowledge and education in an era several decades before widespread public schooling, segregated or non-segregated.
Now, one would think that some 107 years after Washington’s masterpiece of reconciliation and forgiveness, that the race thing would be buried. And, it would have been, had not the Democrat Party wiped out the victory of the Civil War and established segregation as their unifying bond and power base.
In the April issue of The American Spectator, the CEO and founder of QubeTV and Reagan White House political director Jeffery Lord details a history of the Democrats through the mid-20th century, which, thanks to the National Education Association, never reaches the public schools of this nation or most of the liberal-controlled colleges.
In exposing the Democrats’ long history of bigotry, Lord lays the foundation that of 42 national platforms since the party’s founding, 25 defended slavery, with many others demanding loyalty to segregation or expressing hostility to the 15th Amendment (1870 – voting rights of blacks), opposing anti-lynching laws and abolition of the poll tax.
Carrying this expose’ into modern history, he states the 1924 Dems’ National Convention in New York “was so infested with Ku Klux Klansmen, it was dubbed the ‘Klan Bake.’”
Lord does a nice job on party icons Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt, which, considering the long reign of segregation, should not come as a surprise. My only surprise is that black leaders (?) have never educated their followers as to the source of their persecution, or to the fact that the Republican Party was established primarily to fight slavery before and during the Civil War.
Lord cites just a few examples of the ways in which Dem President Cleveland in 1894 shredded the remains of the Republicans’ post-Civil War civil rights bill—as well as examples of ways in which “progressive” Woodrow Wilson implemented a government-wide segregation of the federal government. The last presidential segregationist, FDR, has the greatest list of sordid examples, including the following:
--Exclusion of large portion of blacks from Social Security coverage.
--Ignored Republican pleas to support anti-lynching legislation
--Joined Cleveland and Wilson in appointing flagrant racists and Klan members to
Supreme Court and Cabinet positions.
--Banned blacks from White House press conferences and segregated his Warm
Springs, Ga. retreat.
Not to accuse the Dems of favoritism, ten of their early 20th century platforms were anti-Chinese and “Asiatic” immigration. The cappers are that Bull Connor was a member of the Democrat National Committee “at the same time he was unleashing police dogs and fire hoses on blacks marching in Birmingham.” And, of the Klan, FDR once said that they were “among his best friends and supporters.”
You can bet the farm that one of the major objectives of NEA-controlled public education was to cover the Dems’ leading role in segregation, and their success is evident in the Dems’ garnering 90 percent of the black vote time after time.
This is tantamount to descendants of Soviet Gulag victims enthusiastically voting for communist leadership decade after decade.
As Lord sums it up, “Plainly put, the progressive history of the modern Democrat Party was purchased at the expense – the violent expense – of black America. In addition to the brutality of slavery and the inhumanity of segregation, there was the horrific violence of thousands of lynchings for which there are records only between 1882 and 1968.”
With a nightmarish, surely planned, below 50 percent national high school graduation rate, even lower for black kids, and leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton selling out to the Pelosis, Schumers, Kennedys and Robert “KKK” Byrds, the chances of truth prevailing are slim to none.
Still, with the flood of knowledge and information through the Internet increasing exponentially every day, I still have hope that the words of Martin Luther King Jr. will someday come to reality – Free from the Democrats. “Free at last!”
Jesus said, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
- John 8: 32.
Too Many Christians Are Throwing the Word Under the Bus
APRIL 11 - I find it quite disconcerting that in all the polling about the rankings of major issues in the minds of voters, with the economy and the war on terror dominating the list, the issue most important to our Creator, the slaughter of the unborn, doesn’t even make the list.
The issue that dominated the elections in the 70s, 80s and even into the 90s, has now become a yawner, even among the Evangelicals, and, except for an occasional blurb by a conservative columnist, the silence is equal to the missing cries of some 50 million aborted babies.
It should be noted that Martin Luther King Jr. was anti-abortion, and I sincerely believe that if he were alive today, he would be among the 10 percent of blacks who vote Republican. I don’t believe he gave his life so that tens of millions of black children would never see the light of day.
Barack Hussein Obama is certainly not in line with King’s moral thinking on this topic or on the subject of same-sex marriage.
Columnist Terence Jeffrey recently reported on an Obama Sunday event in Nelsonville, Ohio, where he explained why he favors legalized abortion.
“He implicitly conceded,” Jefferson wrote, “that there is something wrong with abortion, which he said has ‘a moral element.’ But, he concluded, ‘in the end, I think women, in consultation with their pastors, and doctors, and their family, are in a better position to make these decisions than some bureaucrats in Washington.’”
Jeffrey remarks, “That is like saying segregation has a ‘real moral element’ but in the end it should have been left up to the states, local communities and businesses.”
Apparently, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church doesn’t use Scripture for moral guidance except to refer to tithing.
Gentlemen, may I point out that Jesus said, “Suffer little children: and forbid them not, to come unto me (alive); for of such is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 19:14). Also, he said, “Thou shalt do no murder” (Matthew 19:18).
Relative to same-sex issues, Jeffrey quotes an open letter of February 28, from Obama to the “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community” in which he states, “I support the complete repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. As your president, I will use the bully pulpit to urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws.”
Obviously, these “Christian leaders” are not influenced by the Apostle Paul, when under the Holy Spirit, he writes this: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections; for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust toward one another” (Romans 1: 26 and 27a).
I can’t see how these scriptures (and, there are many others) could be any clearer and uncompromising on these issues, and as far as I can see, Obama and Clinton, who take the same position on these two issues, are jousting over economic direction and national safety while removing God’s protection by promoting murder and sodomy.
Of the 50 million killed since 1973, probably some 35 million would have been eligible to vote this year. Do you have any doubt as to which way they would vote on abortion and defense of marriage? The votes of the next 50 million are in our hands.
Typical of one saved from the assassins is Tim Tebow, All American-Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Florida, whom his mother’s physicians wanted to abort because of suspected defects.
It’s beyond my comprehension how black, white, brown or yellow Christians can throw Jesus under the bus and support the party of child-slaying and revere its candidates as messiahs of hope and change, when our only hope for change is to turn away from evil and Scripture-condemned actions.
The situation with Obama is artfully described by Hoover Institute member Thomas Sowell, a black scholar who wrote, “His voting record in the U.S. Senate is the furthest left of any senator. There is a remarkable consistency (far left) in what Obama has done over the years, despite inconsistencies in what he says.
“The irony is that Obama’s sudden rise politically, to the level of being a leading contender, has required him to project an entirely different persona. The ease with which he has accomplished this chameleon-like change, and entranced both white and black Democrats, is a tribute to the man’s talent and a warning about his reliability (emphasis mine).
The last thing our nation needs in these perilous times are window dummies pretending to be Christians, promising hope and change in meaningless chants that lack specifics or truth.
Referring to Obama, one pundit quoted the legendary George Burns on acting when he said, “Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
I would expand that to include a large church crowd segment, who have thrown the Word under the bus in favor of their pocketbooks.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God … And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us….” ( John 1: 1 and 14a).
So, you think that Kyoto was really about global warming
MARCH 28 – Columnist note: Let’s see. We’ve got the mayor of Orange County, the mayor of Orlando and the governor of Florida, and who knows how many other pols pushing this crazy “greenie” thing, which is not only certain to wreck our economy, but attack our freedoms as well. Thanks to a proven prophet named David Smith, I saw this coming 15 years ago. I can’t remember whether I repeated this prophesy since then, but it really can’t be repeated too often or discounted. The column headline on May 7, 1993, read, “Green as in Global, Gorby, Gore, Godless.”
I always admire people who can make a call years before, then have it come off exactly as predicted--and so off-the-wall in its details that it leaves you flabbergasted.
One such instance involves a man named David Smith, who is head of the Church of God Evangelistic Association and editor of Newswatch magazine. The secular world and some segments of the religious world dismiss him as a “conspiracy nut.”
Smith happens to have a weekly half-hour program on Christian television, and in June of 1991, he was making some comments regarding a recent economic crash of the iron curtain countries and the obvious upheaval approaching in what was then the Soviet Union. The coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was still two months away.
Noting that communism and socialism were now in disgrace as failed political, economical and philosophical systems, Smith predicted that the elaborate subversive apparatus they had assembled throughout the free world would move into the environmental movement and continue toward the goal of world domination through crippling regulations on industry and societies.
Being a “conspiracy nut” myself, I sat up as he said, “What was red, will now become green.”
Now, when a person who is a media darling with international stature does something with global consequences, it should appear on the network news. If it doesn’t, it’s a journalistic oversight, maybe. When, however, three such people participate in such an activity and receive this degree of non-coverage, then, it’s a conspiracy.
A miniscule, three-inch story on page 25 of TIME magazine had a small headline that stopped me cold: “From Red to Green.” Smith’s words of 23 months ago were now a reality.
Apparently, completely wrecking the environment of Eastern Europe and the USSR qualifies a person to be put in charge of an entity called the International Green Cross. Our old friend Gorbachev was made president of the “new environmental organization that hopes to do for man-made disasters what the Red Cross does for the natural kind.” I guess wars are now considered natural disasters.
The installation took place in Kyoto, Japan last week (makes sense) and included former United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar (Peru) and Mother Theresa as Green Cross directors. Dan Rather, call your office.
Naturally, the support organization of all this is something called the “Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival” from the Sodom on the Hudson, a.k.a. New York City.
A phone call there got me a voluminous fax with a lot of new age proposals and stated goals of wiping out consumerism and getting the human race to radically “change” its values.
A funding statement included the U.N., the governments of Canada, Finland, Holland, Norway and Sweden, and the Ford, Rockefeller and McArthur foundations (autos, oil, insurance and other such non-consumerism industries). Japan’s Center for Global Action was also listed. I thought World War II was over.
Gorby’s acceptance speech in Kyoto was pure socialism wrapped in environmental newspeak. A good example was, “Traditional forms of ideology (read democracy) including religious ideology (read Christianity) have not been able to unite the masses (Marx’s and Lenin’s favorite word--emphasis mine) of people in order to find a way out of the (environmental) crisis. Too often, modern nations (read United States) satisfying their selfish, narrow aims, undermine the global conditions of life on earth.”
Another release from the Kyoto Global Forum read like the Wicca Handbook for Witches in Training, concluding with, “We need to root us in enduring values and to connect us back to nature, the source of all our values.”
Now that Gorby is ensconced as Big Brother of all these “Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders,” why do I feel so wary of all these greenhouse gasses coming from Kyoto and enveloping the tattered remnants of the U.S. Constitution.
Not surprisingly, at the bottom of a long list of Global Forum socialist big wigs is Executive Committee Member and Mr. Greenjeans himself, the “honorable” U.S. Vice President Albert Gore, in happy servitude as Big Red becomes Big Green for the Big Showdown.
David Smith, call my office.
“The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth; and the third part of trees was burnt up. And all green grass was burnt up.” --Revelation 8: 7
How come ‘greenie’ popguns always beat big oil’s $billions?
MARCH 21 - Who has the most money to influence government policy; environmentalists (greenies) or petroleum companies? Who has the most money to buy public opinion through the media; greenies or the oil giants?
The answer is, of course, as obvious as the $100 plus price on a barrel of oil or the $3 plus price of gasoline at the pump.
And yet, when these ever-increasing burdens on the American people have obvious, readily available solutions in proven reserves in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, the greenies fire their popguns and win every battle with the pols.
Just last week, when Alaska’s U.S. Senators declared that the oil situation and our foreign dependence demanded a move into drilling in the ANWAR where at least 10 billion barrels are located, the greenies’ leaders opened up with their popguns in defense of the mosquito swarms and moose, and were sure of victory.
And, despite a Red China and Commie Cuba oil drilling partnership 50 miles off Key West in the Florida Straits, it looks like future years will see millions of tourists unable to afford the drive to our sacrosanct, pristine beaches, thanks to $5 a gallon gas.
Why? Because, of all the industrialized nations of the world, ours is the only one controlling oil exploration to such an extreme extent, by companies who actually taught the rest of the world how to do it and now, those students are leaving us in their rearview mirrors.
Ditto for natural gas drilling, atomic energy plants and automotive manufacturing.
Is this the result of an overwhelming desire of we free people to be green and hang the cost, or is it that the oil companies with their $trillions can’t buy political influence or public opinion? Yeah, sure.
Or, is it that they are paying to guarantee shortage of a high demand product, justifying spiraling, zooming prices from foreign suppliers and their own wells?
Please notice how our pols are always screaming about obscene oil and gasoline profits and threatening to confiscate those profits, but it never happens? Can anyone say, ‘smoke screen’”?
In order to accept the oil depletion story, we must be made to believe that oil is a fossil fuel; I.e., the multi-million-year accumulation of animal and vegetable remains and thus, eventually exhaustible. Supposedly, these organic remains (fossils) were buried by deposits of soil in an oxygen free environment and over eons of time, became oil.
I always had a problem with this, when you consider the trillions of animals and zillion tons of vegetation required for such a slow process over infinite amounts of time; especially to form huge oil deposits widely scattered beneath the earth’s surface. It’s truly a fantasy mostly designed to support the theory of evolution. Far fetched would not be an unreasonable tag.
Associate Editor Gary Stearman of Prophecy In The News magazine wrote an article in the March issue titled “And God Created Oil…” in which he relates that scientists, based on new observations in recent years, are credibly advancing the theory that oil is constantly being manufactured by natural processes deep within the earth and is not a fossil (animal-vegetable) fuel.
Considers that trees (wood) were the only source of energy for heat and cooking for thousands of years, as well as still being that same prime source in Africa and large areas of Asia, and keeps on renewing itself. Before oil, coal fired the industrial revolution of the 19th and 20th centuries, and prior to Edwin Drake drilling the first oil well in Pennsylvania in 1859, the big fear was that coal supplies would run out, and yet, they are still going on endlessly, even though the world population has gone from one billion to 6.5 billion since coal was discovered.
Stearman’s article describes a discovery in the North Atlantic “where deep sea explorers found a field of volcanic vents that formed beautiful, white carbonate towers between 50 and 200 feet in height. They named the area ‘Lost City’”.
“A group of scientists, headed by Giora Proskurowski of the University of Washington, have published their findings in the prestigious academic journal, Science.
“Published on February 1, 2008, it is titled “Abiogenic Hydrocarbon Production at Lost City Hydrothermal Field”.
The Science article asserts that oil is being produced by mineral (not animal or vegetable) processes. “Oil is apparently being continuously manufactured.” Additionally, Stearman relates that European scientists observed this abiotic production of hydrocarbons (the basis of oil) on one of Saturn’s moons, named Titan; no animals or vegetation there.
And speaking of European scientists, it was common knowledge that Germany had plenty of coal but not much oil for their World War II adventure. They used a process of converting coal to fuels that, by 1944, was producing 6.5 million tons of liquid fuels per year, mostly gasoline, for their war machine. Please notice they didn’t use food supplies, corn, etc.,, but coal. Aren’t there starving billions across the globe who need this corn?
The article is too extensive for total coverage here, but it does point out that under “Creationism” , the end of a fossil fuel oil would not be in the plan of a loving God and that “new evidence suggests that oil and gas are being produced in mass quantities by a synthetic process … and will continue to be long after the Kingdom has been established.”
“And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.” Deuteronomy 33:24.
"World to U.S. --World to U.S.--Come in--It's the Taxes, stupid!"
MARCH 7 - Most of the world is going in a different direction from the United States, and I don't mean politically, except that it's in the direction of Reaganomics 2.0, as detailed in the February issue of The American Spectator.
Nothing proves the sheer selfishness and power-mongering of our political class more than their position on personal and corporate taxes despite what is occurring around the world in formerly dead, dying and hopeless economies.
Arthur Laffer is president of the financial firm Laffer Associates, and Stephen Moore is senior economics writer for the Wall Street Journal editorial page. In summarizing the effect of Reaganomics 2.0 from January 1, 1982, through January 2007, they point out that in the U.S., 48.5 million jobs were created (some 100,000 per month for 27 years) versus 24 million for Europe, with a larger population. Did the world notice this? You bet they did, even though our politicians on the left, and some on the right, seem oblivious to this miracle and still fight against tax reductions with all the false rhetoric they can muster.
Typical is Poland, which is dropping most taxes and will have a flat tax of 15 percent by next year. And Bulgaria (Yes, I said Bulgaria) has already instituted a 10 percent flat tax.
The former big boys of global communism, Russia and China, weren't dozing either, eliminating death taxes and going to low flat taxes to inspire unprecedented economic growth and living standards.
Laffer and Moore point out that "under Reagan, U.S. tax rates went from 70 to 28 percent and the inflation rate from 13 percent to 3 percent. About $1.5 trillion more in investment came into the U.S than left, from 1982 to 2002. That meant two decades of new factories, technological investment, low-priced imports and rising wages and living standards."
Another bonus was the doubling of federal revenues during Reagan’s terms.
With Sweden (the socialists' dreamland) and Russia eliminating estate taxes, but America taxing death at 45 percent, they ask, "What's wrong with this picture?"
It's obvious that the overwhelming success of Reaganomics frightened the rest of the world out of their wits. When countries saw the end of several decades of economic up-and-down and mediocrity in liberal-led U.S. domestic policy, the napping giant had woken up.
Coupled with the demise of the Soviet Union and the flood of worldwide information via the internet and satellite media transmission, most of the world's leaders realized the jig was up if they let the gap between themselves and the U.S. continue to widen. Not surprising, was Red China's and India's gallop into the 21st century where, the United Nations reports, much of the globe's massive poverty reduction has occurred as a result of their moves to lower taxes, open markets and capitalism. Cited in The Spectator was a WSJ article from 1997 entitled "The Great Tax Cut of China" that had generated an average 10 percent real growth annually for 19 years, attributing this "incredible performance to massive sustained tax reduction." Moving from the massive to the microscopic, they cite Iceland, where tax slashes and the resultant move to privatized industry made the economy soar, the inflation rate fall from 100 percent per annum to 3 percent, and itsy-bitsy Iceland (population 300,000) went from one of the poorest countries in Europe to one of the richest in less than a decade.
And, back to Russia, where the 13 percent flat tax initiated by Vladimir Putin's regime is generating more revenue for the government than the old confiscatory rate of over 50 percent.
It's more than obvious that Democrat candidates at all levels, led by socialists Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama, want to move in the opposite direction from these soaring followers of Reaganomics around the world. Does it matter to them that Germany has slashed its
52 percent top corporate income tax down to 19.8 percent? No, it doesn't. And, for that, coupled with the rest of the above, the probability of them getting your vote should spiral down to zero percent. That goes for all the R.I.N.O.s (Republicans In Name Only) as well. Space does not allow detailing all the other exemplary governments who are prospering from some
version of Reaganomics--Spain, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, etc. The winner of the Vietnam War has finally been decided - CAPITALISM. They want to attract foreign investment.
Holding out through all this has been Castro's Cuba where wages average $12 a month and U.S cars from the 1950s are horse drawn. Venezuela's leader idiot, Hugo Chavez, believes his oil reserves can save him in the quest for his rerun version of the Cuban nightmare. Hugo, think Soviet Union with 50+ billion barrels of crude oil reserves. You're probably getting close to that with 64 billion barrels back in 1996.
The message to Americans couldn't be clearer. While the genius of our 40th U.S. President is being employed by the rest of the world to strip us of our leadership role, our so-called representatives ignore Reagan's words and follow the lead of Hugo Chavez and his ilk, on the road to mediocrity at best, disaster at worst. We really have just one recourse on the only issue that will matter. Time for talking is over. "Turn the rascals out!"
"Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words." --Proverbs 23: 9.
We'll Never Fix Education If We Don't Stop “Monkeying” With It
FEBRUARY 15 - The local metropolitan daily stated that Florida's public schools could have a lot of empty seats next year, if the State Board of Education votes on February 19 to adopt controversial science
standards requiring teaching only Darwin's theory of evolution in the state's public schools.
Private schools everywhere are licking their chops. The rationale (?) they are using, that evolution is one of the 18 "big ideas" students must understand by graduation time, is an obvious reach by the
secularists trying to foist this "theory" as a law of science or even as a scientific area. One doesn't have to be a scientist to know that Galileo's telescopic, repetitious (Emphasis mine) observations of the movements of the planets in relation to the sun, led to the indisputable fact that the sun was the center of our solar system and that the other bodies revolved around it, and not vice-versa. Incidentally this was some three centuries before Darwin postulated his "theory." Ditto for Sir Isaac Newton's (1642-1726) repeat observations of falling apples that led to the "Law of Gravity". Neither of these brilliant men, nor the thousands of others who preceded or came after Darwin's mid-19th century "Theory of Evolution", needed it for their invaluable contributions to real science. For anyone to state that this is one of the "18 big ideas that today's students must understand by graduation time" is simply an attempt to cut off
Creationism and Intelligent Design from analysis by young developing minds.
I can remember when I was a young developing high school graduate, who had studied physics, algebra, geometry, biology, etc., as well as history, English, Latin and two foreign languages; the furthest thing from my intellectual needs and further development levels was Darwin's "theory." The daily doesn't say specifically who at the State Board of Education made the "big ideas" statement, but it continued in the claim that that "evolution is the fundamental concept underlying all of biology, supported by multi-forms of scientific evidence." In reality, ever since Darwin's supposition, thousands of scientists have denounced evolution as a claim that could never be proven by repeatable observation (the scientific method), and this has not changed. It is still just a theory.
In the February issue of The American Spectator, Senior Editor Tom Bethel reviews a new documentary film release due in April, wherein writer, actor, pundit, economist, lecturer and lawyer Ben Stein interviews leading proponents and opponents of Darwinism worldwide. The film, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," Bethel writes, is about "scientists and researchers who acknowledge the evidence for the intelligent design of life and who have been ostracized or denied tenure as a result. In a word, they have been 'expelled' from the academy." In addition to scientific proponents of Intelligent
Design and Creationism, Stein interviews the leading opponents led by Oxford's famed Richard Dawkins, and he admits to Stein that science knows nothing about the origins of life and that, yes, Darwinism is
antithetical to religion. But, he allows that if life was designed, it was done by intelligent beings
elsewhere in the cosmos, who evolved by naturalistic means and, somehow, transported their design to Earth. Holy Milky Way cow!! These guys will go to any length to deny the existence of God or the truth of His Word. Why don't they just admit that despite more than 100 years of digging and moving millions of tons of dirt, sand, rocks, etc., no transitional fossil of animal to human has ever been found; although, a number of them have been faked by desperate "scientists"--beginning with the "Peking Man" early in the 20th century.
An even bigger nonsensical claim by the state board members in support of the Darwin "Sci-Fi" work (please remember that this era was at the beginning of the novel appearing in European literature) that not teaching this as the only truth, is the reason Florida is falling behind the rest of the nation and world in science testing and technology. What nonsense! I am holding in my "formerly
nicotine-stained fingers" a tremendous volume by Dr, Walt Brown titled In the Beginning - Compelling
Evidence for Creation and the Flood (seventh edition). Dr. Brown has a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow, and he is a West Point graduate and retired Air Force Colonel who has taught college courses in physics, mathematics and computer science. He is also a former Army ranger and paratrooper. Other military assignments included these: Director of Benet Research, Development, and Engineering Laboratories in
Albany, N.Y.; tenured associate professor at the Air Force Academy; and Chief of Science and Technology Studies at the Air War College. Dr. Brown presents hard evidence in direct transcripts
from the works of over 100 leading scientists on most of the major aspects of the origins of life and proof
of the flood and its aftermath. To quote Dr. Brown from his Introduction: "Yes, today,
evolutionists generally control education, science journals and the media, but the scientific evidence
overwhelmingly supports creation and a global flood." I would strongly suggest to the State Board of
Education do the following: 1. Read Dr. Brown's book. 2. See Ben Stein's documentary. 3. Don't vote on this until you do. Education in Florida has enough problems.
"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts,
and creeping things." --Romans 1:22 & 23.
His name may be Kennedy, but that’s where it ends
FEBRUARY 1 – Well, Barack Hussein Obama got the endorsement of the second-longest serving U.S. Senator (46 years) when Teddy “Bare” Kennedy sniffed the wind after the South Carolina primary.
What he obviously smelled in the 55 percent Obama victory, which was more than the combined total of Hillary and Edwards, was a seismic shift in the Democrat Party away from “Clintonamania” , to race and gender based voting motives.
Let’s face it, the guy who rode his older brother’s presidential coat tails into a senate seat at age 30 in 1962, certainly isn’t abandoning the Clinton machine on a long shot guess.
My own assessment is that he is positioning himself for a possible Obama win as candidate for president, while quietly assuring the Clintons that he will campaign vigorously for her, with some hefty financial contributions as well, if she should pull it out.
As he did at Chappaquidick, a walk, a swim and a few hours of phoning while Mary Jo Kopechne was sinking in the car, got him a slap on the wrist and the second-longest Senate seat in modern history; only exceeded, incidentally, by Robert “KKK” Byrd of West Virginia (50 years). You can bet, he’s pre-arranged the slap on the wrist from the Clintons if Hillary prevails.
Teddy “Bare” hasn’t differed his modus operandi that much since I was a student at Harvard with him in the early 1950s. Actually, he started two years ahead of me, but when he paid a fellow classmate to take a French exam for him, and got caught, Harvard made him take a two-year leave-of-absence in the Army (wrist slap). Consequently, he did his last two years in conjunction with mine.
After observing Ted’s machinations for more than a half-century, I would surmise that, as he enters his 46th year in the Senate, the man who failed so miserably in following his brother’s footsteps to the presidency, is either thinking of retirement or maybe a glamorous finish in an ambassador job like his father. Joseph Kennedy, after all, was Roosevelt’s ambassador to England during the run-up to World War II, 1937-1940. The oldest son, Joe Jr., who was the father’s choice for president, was killed in the war.
And, brother Robert was well on his way to the Democrat nomination for president when he was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968, the day he won the primary there.
Always the bet-hedger, Ted made sure that in his endorsement of Obama, he included a pledge of full support to whomever of the candidates eventually got the nomination.
When it comes to character and resolve, the differences between these brothers are monumental. In ocean adventures, Ted’s history of a sinking Oldsmobile off Martha’s Vineyard can’t compare to JFK’s wartime exploits in the Pacific as the PT109 commander. And, there’s nothing in his background that equals Bobby Kennedy’s roles as head counsel for Sen. Joe McCarthy in the hearings on communist infiltration, or his stint as JFK’s attorney general, when he sent labor leader Jimmy Hoffa to prison for three years.
By today’s standards of political philosophy, both of Ted’s older brothers would fit the criteria of Republican leaders without changing a thing. Both Ronald Reagan and George Bush learned from JFK that tax cuts increase the amount of federal revenue by huge amounts and in his words, “ arising tide, lifts all boats.”
In his endorsement of Barack Hussein Obama (Ted once referred to him as bin-Laden), the senior senator from Massachusetts has declared himself an opponent of the war on terror, opening the door for more 9/11 type attacks, and a proponent of immediate, announced withdrawal from battle with al-Qeada on their turf.
Contrast this wobbly-kneed condition with JFK’s firm resolve in the Cold War and facing off against Nikita Krushchev’s wild Cuban missile crisis. Equally as tragic, this endorsement brings the Chappaquidick Chump down squarely on the side of abortion and the continued slaughter of the unborn in the U.S., now closing in on the 50 million mark. Oh, well. Like the 9/11 victims, they’re just defenseless Americans – only more so.
Although, I’m almost sure that JFK would never have approved of unrestricted abortion chambers, I’m positive that Bobby and wife Ethel, with their large family and solid values, would have opposed this murder of the unborn with the same vigor he used in pursuit of corruption in the labor movement.
In thinking back over the past 46 years, the only thing I can attribute to Teddy is the enormous mess called the “The Big Dig” in Boston, where gigantic corruption and incompetence of oversight increased the original budget from $2.5 billion to $15 billion, with the federal share going from $2 billion to $12 billion for a still leaking, deadly tunnel.
Possibly, we can look forward with anxiety to this endorsement of bin-Laden (oops) Obama as Big Dig II – America’s Grave.
I wonder who Mary Jo Kopechne would endorse?
“As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.” Proverbs 26:11 and 12.
Martin Luther King knew who Ed Brooke was, but do you?
JANUARY 25 - Columnist’s note: This week our nation honored the late Martin Luther King Jr. Preceding Dr. King, my black-American hero was a man who became the first U.S. Senator since Reconstruction, and who has been ignored ever since, primarily because of his party affiliation. I recently had a conversation with a gentleman in his mid-40s, well educated, who had never heard of Senator Ed Brooke of Massachusetts, a Republican. I would wager that 99 percent of Americans under 45 also have never heard of U.S. Senator Ed Brooke. Think this has anything to do with the education system or the pre-Internet, liberal controlled media? In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I am repeating a column I wrote April 8, 1994 titled, "Those who like to create racial voting districts should study former U.S. Senator Ed Brooke.” I remember in my hunting days, the rule was, 'If you get lost in the woods, always backtrack first'.
"There is a lot of hullabaloo taking place in the courts regarding the shape and makeup of certain Congressional districts which have been gerrymandered to create racial majorities and guarantee the election of minority candidates. The United States Supreme Court will rule on this soon as a result of lawsuits brought in Louisiana and North Carolina. Another suit has been brought in Florida concerning the third district. Shaped like a fishhook, District 3 wanders from Jacksonville to Orlando through several counties, zigging and zagging, and widening in order to literally vacuum up black population centers in a 170-mile meandering corridor.
For a guy who voted for black American Ed Brooke to be the U.S. senator from Massachusetts some 28 years ago and state attorney general before that, I have a hard time with rigged elections for people who are not excellent enough to win the voters' confidence on their own merits.
You'll never convince me that the people of Massachusetts were so enlightened that long ago, or that Brooke, a Republican running in a state two-to-one deep in registered Democrats, didn’t win the attorney general and Senate seats based on his character and abilities. That's why, when I got this news release from U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown's "five office" dominion, talking about the "civil rights crisis in the 90s," the sheer demagoguery of the language was beyond contempt, for me. "Rev. Jesse Jackson joins U.S. Representative Corrine Brown in Jacksonville today. The Civil Rights struggle continues," the headline ranted. Naturally, when you cross one demagogue with another, the result is sheer lunacy. According to Brown, the new districts were drawn to correct years of violations of the Voting Rights Act throughout the South. And, here I thought all these years that gerrymandering districts was to give one political party an unfair advantage over another. But then, history, according to Jesse and Corinne, is just a lump of crazy dough to be reshaped according to whim and the necessities of propaganda.
I read a lot of material and releases during Black History Month, but I didn't ever recall seeing a word about Senator Ed Brooke of Massachusetts. Black leaders, who make a nice living out of the "Civil Rights struggle" don't like Brooke all that much.
After all, here was a black man elected attorney general of a major northeastern state even before the civil rights bill of 1965, and in 1966, the first black U.S. Senator since Reconstruction. He was also a Republican and a conservative who believed in traditional values.
Ed Brooke made it the hard way, convincing the electorate of an entire state that he should be their senator. He was well educated (hard work, articulate (hard work), sincere (sacrifice), and had a genuine, million dollar smile.
Of course, Brooke didn't have all the advantages that Jackson likes to see garnered in great quantities for minorities: welfare, affirmative action, quotas, sex education, free condoms, alternative sex styles, abortions, public housing, and all the other "Federal Plantation" goodies that create obedient robots ... all the things Brooke opposed.
The news release from Brown's office announced that Jacksonville meeting as a commemoration of the 26th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King with the Rev. Jackson remarks addressing the civil rights crisis of the 1990s ... the court challenges of redistricting.
The question is, did King give his life for Rep. Brown's concept of elections, representation and achievement, or for those of Senator Ed Brooke?"
"For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness: and from the prophet to the priest everyone dealeth falsely." Jeremiah 6:13.
Quick ‘change’ champs obviously see us as chumps
JANUARY 11 – Most people regard the term “chump change’ as defining a small amount of money compared to a generous amount. In terms of the Democrats’ leading contenders in the presidential primaries, if you believe that these socialists can bring change that would improve your safety, prosperity and health, without further ruining our nation, you are a “chump” Remember, Stalin, Mao and Castro, just to name a few, brought dramatic “change” while over 100 million died, and more are still dying or suffering from the changes they foisted on their countries and others. Typical of this change “thingee” are virtually all African nations and some Latin American nations like Venezuela, where Hugo Chavez’s drive toward socialism has slashed the per capita gross domestic product from $9,300 in 1997 to $5,800 in 2004, and still falling – this despite proven oil reserves that are among the world’s largest.
During the past half-century, America’s most successful presidents for the economy and safety of both citizens and military, have been Republicans who were anti-socialist and anti-communist, beginning with Eisenhower, then Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II. The worst economically was Jimmie “The Wimp” Carter with 22 percent first mortgage rates, 10+ percent unemployment and 12 percent annual inflation.
Between Korea and Vietnam, Dems Truman and Johnson had over 80,000 battle deaths combined..
The unending liberal media push for a recession has not worked, even in the face of a flood of illegals, a war on terror and a slowed real estate market that is
still miles ahead of the Carter Cave-in.
But, as economist Larry Kudlow states, “The Bush boom just celebrated its sixth anniversary. The current expansion is now in its 74th month – 17 months larger than the average 57-month business cycle since World War II.
“The latest job report says that America is still working, with 94,000 new corporate payrolls in November and a rolling average of 103,000 job increases for the past three months. Even the household job count, which picks up small businesses, surged 609,000 in November, with a 303,000 average gain over the past three months.”
Kudlow adds,” University of Michigan Professor Mark Perry reports that household wealth has increased 43 percent in the past five years, despite $100 oil, $3
gasoline and sub-prime mortgage infections.”
Isn’t it absolutely amazing what a Harvard Business School degree and a tax cut can do?!!!
So, the liberal push polls say you want Barack Hussein Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton, with their non-existent economic backgrounds, to “change” the
Bush Boom? To turn tax cut generated record federal revenues back to your having empty pockets and increased deficits for the government? Being able to
get fat book deals for oneself does not a president make.
On the wall above my desk, I keep a picture of the second jet-liner about to crash into the World Trade Center on 9/11, as the first building hit belches fire
and smoke just prior to collapsing. I’m sure our socialist “quick change artists” will “change” the zero homeland casualty figure achieved since that fateful day with the awarding of U.S. Constitutional rights to all terrorists here and abroad, while abandoning the war on terror that keeps them pinned down on their own turf. Can you just imagine Barack Hussein Obama, who was always against bringing the fight to the enemy after the 2001 version of Pearl Harbor, being able to protect us from these murderous maniacs and their suicide bomber approach. Sorry, Barack Hussein, legal briefs just won’t cut it. Just picture “ Silly Hillie”, who didn’t even have the courage to leave the biggest serial lover since Casanova, holding the job and duties of a wartime commander-in-chief. Anyone remember the Balkans Bungle or the Haiti Hooplah?
And, guess what president and “adviser” (buy one, get one free) spent eight years slashing their “loathed” military, so that today’s reserves and national guards have to do multiple tours now in the Mid-east? Frankly, if I were a woman, the worst thing I would want is “ Silly Hillie” as our first woman president. This loser is no Margaret Thatcher or Indira Ghandi, and will, without a doubt, be manipulated by the “First Ladies Man”, Slick Willie, to her eventual failure and disgrace.
The biggest farce of all these quick-change artists is ignoring the fact that today’s presidents can’t really do anything except gauge the winds and try to steer the ship of state on a reasonably safe and prosperous course. The mechanics of drastic change and presidential power to do so was kidnapped by the Legislative Branch early in the last century. Prior to 1913, the Constitution mandated that U.S. Senators be elected by the members of their state’s legislature. The wisdom of the founding fathers was hijacked to be replaced with the direct popular elections that can run to over $20-30 million in some larger states. And, money, instead of peer assessment and respect, guarantees us mediocre and incompetent U.S. Senators for lifetime terms. A year later, supposedly with the ratification of two-thirds of the states, the Income Tax was foisted upon our backs in an open-ended mess that now consumes over 40,000 pages of law.
Then, in 1929, when the stock market crash had everyone’s mind clouded with fear, another Congressional hammer fell with the limiting of House Representatives to 435 members. Where prior constitutional limits were one per 30,000 population, we now have one rep per 700,000 and growing toward one million people districts. Amnesty for illegals, anyone?
We call them representatives and senators. They used to call them barons and dukes. Anyone running on a platform of “Change”, claiming major changes can be accomplished in anything less than a generation, without a socialist or communist revolution, is just assuming we are chumps.
“A prudent man concealeth knowledge; but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.”
Proverbs 12: 23.
When fallen soldiers speak, everyone should listen
JANUARY 4 - Columnist note: I am relinquishing this space to one of our fallen soldiers, Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, age 22, who died in Iraq, September 19, 2007. A loving husband, brother, son and talented writer, his words should be read by all Americans. If they don’t touch your heart, you haven’t got one. If you don’t see the truth in them, you don’t know what truth is. And, if they don’t make you proud to be an American, you’re living a lie in the wrong country. Eddie titled his piece, Hope Rides Alone.
“I stare out into the darkness from my post, and I watch the city burn to the ground. I smell the familiar smells, I walk through the familiar rubble, and I look at the frightened faces that watch me pass down the streets of their neighborhoods. My nerves hardly rest; yet, my hands are steady on the device that has been given to me from my
government for the purpose of taking the lives of others.
I sweat and I am tired. My back aches from the loads I carry. Young American boys look to me to direct them in a manner that will someday allow them to see their families again…and yet, I too, am just a boy…my age not but a few years more than of the ones I lead. I am stressed, I am scared, and I am paranoid…because death is everywhere. It waits for me, it calls to me from around street corners and windows, and it is always there.
And to think, I volunteered for this. And, I am ignorant to the rest of the world, or so I thought. But, even thousands of miles away in Ramadi, Iraq, the cries and complaints of the ungrateful reach me.
In a year, I will be thrust back into society from a life and mentality that doesn’t fit your average man. And then, I will be alone. And then, I will walk down the streets of America, and see the yellow ribbon stickers on the cars of the same people who compare our President to Hitler.
I will watch the television and see the Cindy Sheehans and the Al Frankens, and the rest of the ignorant sheep of America, spout off their mouths about a subject they know nothing about. It is their right, however, and it is a right that is defended by hundreds of thousands of boys and girls scattered across the world, far from home. I use the words boys and girls, because that’s what they are. In the Army, the average age of the infantryman is 19. The average rank of soldiers killed in action is Private First Class.
People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least, I hope they are. They don’t realize its affects on this war. In the war, there are no Geneva Conventions, no cease-fires. Medics and chaplains are not spared the enemy’s brutality because it’s against the rule. I can only imagine the horrors a chaplain would experience at the hands of the enemy. The enemy slinks in the shadows and fights a coward’s war against us.
It is effective, though, as many have died since the start of this war. And, the memory of their service to America is tainted by the inconsiderate remarks on our nation’s news outlets. And, every day the enemy changes. Only now, the enemy is transitioning from Muslim extremists to Americans. The enemy is becoming the very people whom we defend with our lives. And, they do not realize it.
But, in denouncing our actions, our leaders, the war we live and fight, they are isolating the military from society… and, they are becoming our enemy.
Democrats and peace activists like to toss the word ”quagmire” around and compare this war to Vietnam. In a way, they are right, this war is becoming like Vietnam.
Not the actual war, but in the isolation of country and military. America is not a nation at war; they are a nation with its military at war. Like it or not, we are here; some of us for our second or third time; some even for their fourth. Americans are now so concerned with politics, that it is interfering with our war.
Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the Internet, and there is no outrage. But, an American soldier kills and Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and, sometimes, soldiers are even jailed … for doing their job.
It is absolutely sickening to me to think that our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we have done is thrown in their faces?
When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq? Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed?
It’s all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that he was right. America has lost its will to fight. It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world. The craziest thing of all is that the American people have not even been asked to sacrifice a single thing. It’s not like World War II, where people rationed food, gasoline and turned in cars to made into metal for tanks. Unless, you are in the military or the family member of one serving, it’s life as usual … the war doesn’t affect you.
But, it affects us. And, when it’s over and the troops come home and they try to piece together what’s left of their lives, where will the detractors be then? Where will the Cindy Sheehans be to and talk to soldiers and help them sort out the last couple of years of their lives? … most of which was spent dodging death and wading through the death
of their friends.
We are the hope of the Iraqi people. They want a country that is safe to raise their children in. Not a place where their children will be abducted, raped and murdered if they don’t comply with terrorists’ demands. They want to live on, rebuild and prosper. And, America has given them the opportunity, but only if we stay true to the cause, and see it
to its end. But, the country must unite in this endeavor. We cannot place the burden on our military alone.
Right now, the burden is all on the American soldiers. Right now, hope rides alone. But, it can change… it must change. Because, there is only failure and darkness ahead for us as a country, as a people, if it doesn’t. Let’s stop all the political nonsense, let’s stop all the bickering, let’s stop all the bad news. And, let’s stand and fight.”
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:13.
Sergeant Edmund John Jeffers – R.I.P.
