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17 Trillion Obamacare Costs Discovered
http://news.yahoo.com/another-17-trillion-surprise-found-obamacare-133210667.html Put simply, this insane spending bill must be repealed by the Congress and better and smaller bills passed. This 2700 page legislation brings disaster. If we elect a new Senate this Fall and the new Senators are committed to repealing Obama care entirely and then starting over to sanely approach our nation’s medical care needs, we will be better off as a country. The downfall of the USSR was because they could no longer afford the enormous expenses of the cold war, of a large standing military and the wasteful communist economic system. Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland, although much smaller countries suffered from over spending and without massive outside help would have destroyed their economies. There is no one, not even the Chinese, who will help the USA get out of the tens of trillions of spending under Obama care. So, add it all up and the end of USA is near, not in an apocalyptic earthquake but in an economic self-destruction. Since the gridlock in the USA is caused by a Senate leadership that refuses to allow the Republican House of Representative to pass a budget, and since the leader of the Senate has consistently declared all Republican sponsored solutions to the nation’s needs to be “dead on arrival,” we need to give the Republican party a majority in the Senate in order to get out of the do nothing state of affairs caused by a President who says that he wants to rule without the consent of Congress and a Senate that blocks all Republican attempts to solve our nation’s problems. By the way, the House of Representative defeated the Presidents proposed budget for the fourth time. The latest vote was 414 against. That says a lot about the foolishness of Obama’s proposal and the sincerity of the House of Representatives. The Senate also consistently turned down the Obama proposed Budgets. But the Senate also has consistently turned down House budgets. The bottleneck to progress seems to be the White House and the Senate.
No Obama Outrage over Islamic Stonings
http://news.yahoo.com/iraq-militia-stone-youths-death-emo-style-171115804.html Granted at the outset that this story deals with the sovereign state of Iraq. Also granted that essentially these murders are none of our business. Lastly, granted that the President of the USA cannot comment upon everything that happens in our world. Yet this story is very shocking because it comes out of Iraq. It is remembered that we lost the lives of several thousand of the best of USA youth in order to secure the freedom of this Moslem Nation. It is also remembered that ten thousand of USA youth were maimed in the war to “free” the Iraqi people. Therefore, to read that this type if Islamo/nazi radicalism is once again prominent in Iraq is disheartening.
Taking all of the above items into consideration, this writer is disappointed that the President of the USA displays a very pro Islamic orientation. He apologizes for an accidental burning of a mere book, namely the Quran. Hey, it is not our problem that Moslems cannot cope with the burning of their scripture. I am a Christian and my church discards dozens of holy Scriptures yearly. The printed books are worn, or weathered, or yellowed or their covers are destroyed. As a Christian, our holy Bible is a book. It is the content and the message of the content that is holy and not the pages on which the words are printed. And while I can accept the President’s statement that he apologized in order to save lives, nonetheless, I do not hear him protesting the incident here described nor do I hear him decrying the continued genocidal bombing by Moslems of Christian churches in Nigeria.
Why is this important? This writer believes that the job of the President of the USA is to uphold the Constitution, to defend the nation against its enemies, foreign and domestic and to extend the interests of the nation worldwide. However, President Obama seems more intent on apologizing for the nation, and taking a defensive position concerning the international interests of USA.
Is USA Becoming Like Israel?
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-kills-more-gaza-gunmen-rockets-fired-israel-103107234.html
I will try to write more about this, but for now, read the article and ask the questions:
Is Israel’s blowing up the car of anti Israel militants, the same as our using drones against identified terrorists?
If the new rules of war allow such behavior, then what about armed conflict between nations? There are rules, you know!
If Newark was a nation inside of NJ how could it function?
If the nation of Newark blasted rockets over its border and killed people in Paterson, what would be an appropriate response?
What are we supposed to do concerning the lingering idea of pre emptive aggression? Pre emptive aggression is now called, as it was by Hitler and Stalin, pre emptive defense. It is the primitive notion that might makes right. Therefore, if I think you are going to hurt me and I know that you have a gun, then I am justified to go to your house and burn it down in order to prevent you from hurting me.
Obama goes Backwards
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-america-coming-back-012139891.html
The sad part of this article is President Obama himself. He had the chance for greatness when he became President. Instead he did not trust the American people. He apologized for us before the international community which effectively renounced our efforts in WWI and WW II and under the Marshall Plan, and during the Cold War and even during Kennedy’s confrontation with the Soviet Union in Cuba.
Almost at the same time, he instigated the so-called “Arab Spring” by his inaugural speeches in North Africa and his support of CIA supported insurgencies in the countries of our ally Egypt and in Libya, a country to which we had made expansive national promises; which promises Obama quickly and brutally denied. The result was the disgraceful NATO invasion and decimation of the sovereign State of Libya under a bogus “protect the civilians” United Nations resolution 1973. A nasty business deal between Sarkozy, Cameron and Obama which ended with the brutal, illegal and ugly murder of the legal Leader of the Revolution, Moamar Gaddafi. Essentially, it is the same regicide that occurred under Kennedy against Diem in Vietnam. And very sadly, regicide is a heinous crime that never leaves its perpetrators unaccountable. As I have stated in previous articles, I believe that the NATO actions against Libya are criminal aggression, and crimes against humanity. We should not yawn and go on our way but we should, like we did with Milosevic, require accountability from Sarkozy, Cameron, Obama and Rasmussen.
I stated at the beginning that the sad part of this article is Obama, himself. Why? Because, of instead of holding forth his positions in terms of health care, (really all he has) maybe even his withdrawal of troops from Iraq as instigated by President Bush, he instead attempts to blame everything, (except maybe the weather!) on his predecessor, President Bush.
Essentially, this seemingly benign speech is an indictment of the citizens of the USA. Ultimately, it is they who are President Obama’s target and ultimately, he is blaming them. Why? Because in free and fair elections the people elected President Bush and the Democrat Congress and ultimately they are themselves to blame for the results. It is remarkable that his hearers do not realize that whenever President Obama blames President Bush, he is actually blaming the people who are listening to him.
I am reminded, and I tremble to make this association, but it must be done. I am reminded of Adolf Hitler, who at the end of his brutal and genocidal regime blamed the German people for everything that happened. It was because they were not worthy of him.
Amazing but true. He and his generals held onto this absurdity until Hitler committed suicide in the underground bunker, rather than face the fact of a ravaged and destroyed Germany.
And before everybody goes crazy and accuses me of saying that President Obama is Hitler. That is absolutely not true. And if the President were to ask me to the White House, I would dress in a suit and tie and call him Sir and feel very privileged that the elected President of the USA had allowed me to meet him. None the less, the analogy stands.
So where is all of this going? Essentially, I am a Bush and Romney man. However, I think that President Obama has missed his “greatness” moments and the cited article reinforces the notion that he intends to run his 2012 campaign against President George W. Bush instead of against Governor George Romney.
Sad. Really! Because, although not a Obama man, I feel that he had and perhaps still has, enormous potential for greatness. Why do I care? I love the USA. Obama is the President of the USA and may be again. Because he does not fully understand the greatness to which we the people have elected him, substituting instead accusations against us, and therefore against himself, he fails. And his failure hurts us. Why? Because we need his greatness. And his refusal to be great on our terms, deciding instead to lower himself to Democrat versus Republican partisan bickering, he has refused the greatness which may have been his destiny and was certainly the electorates intention.
Presidemt Obama needs to retire. But he will not, And like all men who have missed their moment of greatness, he will bicker and recriminate and we will all suffer. Better to leave and build a library to your ideas. That is the more noble path, Sir.
Conservatives will Hand the 2012 Election to Obama
The Conservative movement is looking for a Messiah. This person must be 100 % conservative and he/she must please the following people completely: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and the staff at Newsmax. Plus this conservative Messiah needs to have been pure and wholly conservative from conception. There is no room today for a person to move toward Conservative from a more liberal position. All such persons are immediately suspect and to be opposed by every true Conservative.
Such a Conservative Messiah will be a perfect combination of Rubio, Gingrich,Santorum,Perry,Daniels, and sadly, a plethora of “other than Romney” types. It is incredible that such intelligent people cannot see through the fog of their mythical dreams and wishful thinking. Rather, they persist in fighting forcefully against a Romney victory, albeit, professing otherwise. Steve Hayes on Fox News panel even went so far as to suggest that if this Conservative Messiah is not found in time that Conservatives may just stay home and not even vote. Such a suggestion that Conservatives may stay home and pout instead of engaging in the public election is evidence of a sadly myopic concept of Conservatism.
The above comments are the way I am seeing it these days, whether it is Steve Hayes on Fox News panel, or any other self-proclaimed conservative blue blood who is speaking. All are convinced that somewhere there is a Conservative Messiah who will magically appear and save the Republican party from Governor Mitt Romney.
The Conservative movement within the Republican party, and the populist movement called the Tea party, will sink the Republican party before it gets to the election. Why? Because the rhetoric of the Conservatives is divisive of Republican party unity and no last moment rally to the flag will undo the months of consistent and persistent Conservative punditry against Romney. Indeed, it seems from my side line view that Romney’s success is itself enough to turn the Conservative radio commentators into frontrunners for Obama.
Granted, a writer must take the speck out of his own eye before he attempts to take the log out of his neighbors eye, and it is that spirit that I offer this personal viewpoint.
Are Gay Couples the Same as Hetero
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/9131683/Gay-actor-and-City-high-flier-fight-over-separation-payout.html This is a very interesting article out of United Kingdom (UK) about what happens when gay couples get divorced. It neatly presents a unique perspective that is one being debated in USA. Namely, are gay couples who get married the same as heterosexual couples who get married? Read the interesting arguments of both parties to this divorce suit. It is very informative to the continuing argument going on here in USA.
Advertisers Fail Their True Buyers Except Quicken Loans
Some companies indicate they’ll be sticking with Rush, though. “While we do not condone or agree with Limbaugh’s statements regarding Sandra Fluke, we respect his right to express his views, as well as those who disagree with him,” Quicken Loans spokeswoman Paula Silver said in an emailed statement. “As an advertiser, our goal is to reach a broad audience, which we accomplish by placing ads on a number of programs across the country representing diverse views.”
Congratulations to a true freedom loving, constitution respecting, American company and to spokes person Paula Silver for clearly stating what should be obvious to all namely “….we respect his right to express his views as well as those who disagree with him…As an Advertiser (see above)..”
Who are the callers to sleep Eze and the other advertisers who stopped advertisements or affiliation with the hugely popular Rush Limbaugh show. I very much doubt they are regular listeners to his three-hour program. I suggest instead that these are what are known today as “political drones” who are paid to complain or if not actually paid, they are people who sit before their computer screen eight or more hours a day in order to attack their political, social, or religious opponents.”
The existence of these kind of chronic E mail hacks, is known by just about everybody, except those advertisers who do not have the native intelligence nor the Internet savvy to understand that the so-called “firestorm” of protest about the Limbaugh comments was generated by people who never listen to his program and therefore would not buy their products anyway. The mere fact that the news reports indicate that all Limbaugh advertisers received the same deluge of E mail complaints and telephone protests tells us that this was merely a coordinated sociopolitical motivated attempt at intimidation. That even the Speaker of the House of Representative Mr. Boehner was subjected to this obviously organized barrage and that he responded to it tells this writer that the so-called outrage is phony. Also the idea that President Barrack Hussein Obama called her to thank her for standing up for women’s rights is a clear indication that this supposed spontaneous public outcry is a sham.
Why do I care? Actually, I do not know this woman. I do not care what she does with her life. I do not care if this makes her famous, like Joe the Plumber or not. However, I do care that major USA corporations are so ill-informed concerning the American principles of freedom of speech and freedom of religion, and yes, freedom to have sex or not to have sex, that they easily fall victim and become accomplices to those who would change our social/religious/political values by Internet intimidation. That is worrisome.
Mary Queen of Scots wrote to Pope About her death
A very interesting article about English history and the relations between politic leaders of their day. At least in USA we just refuse to elect those we don’t want. Yet, it very noteworthy that Elizabeth I had grave reservations about “..taking off the head of a Queen anointed by God.” The crime was called regicide and considered especially heinous at the time.
Southern Baptist Leader Right About No Religion Test for President
I found this article distressing and I disagree with the analysis that Mormon Christianity is not Christianity at all. And I disagree with the idea that the book of Mormon is the same as the Quran. However, I do agree that there is not a “religion” test for the Presidency of the USA. In fact a Hindu, Confucian, Shinto, Moslem, or “no religion at all” person could become President under the Constitution. The key word in the above sentence is “Constitution”. The USA is a constitutional Republic and not a Christian State. Essentially, the USA is a secular government under the prescription that it must respect the freedom of religion opinions of its citizens. There is also the proscription that the government cannot impose itself upon, regulate, or attempt to destroy the practice of religions by its citizens.
That being affirmed, the opinions of the leader of the Southern Baptist Convention are really the affairs of that denomination of Christianity. His viewpoint is allowed in USA. He is even allowed to make it public and to defend his position. That is our right under the first amendment regarding freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Unlike, the grossly stated falsehood that the Constitution protects the government from the influences of religiously informed opinions, the Bill of rights, which is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, protects people of religion from the power of the government and the prejudices of people opposed to religion. That is to say, that you are not required to agree with my religion nor my opinions as informed by my religion but the law guarantees me the liberty to hold and express such opinions. And while IRS regulations threaten to revoke a congregations 501.3C status if the leaders use the pulpit to preach for or against any political candidate, that is merely an IRS regulation and does not forbid preachers of any type from preaching politically motivated sermons. Admittedly, sermons such as those of Jeremiah Wright, Senator Obama’s Christian Pastor, in which he damned America and not blessed America, are repugnant to and repudiated by the 99.9 % of Christians, nonetheless, he is allowed to preach that. (Please, note that no one needs to listen to his rants, and that a Senator of the USA should belong to Rev. Wright’s congregation for ten or more years, is disturbing but not illegal.)
Finally, to the doctrinal theology that informs the SBC speaker. It is a judgement made because Mormonism supplements the 66 books of the historic Christian Bible with the book of Mormon. Some Christians regard this as an addition to the Holy Scriptures and therefore as antithetical to Christian teaching that the only authoritative scripture is the 66 book Bible. In this regard, some Christians would claim that Roman Catholic Christianity is also not true Christianity because they include the Apocryphal books to their publication of the Bible. And even though Roman Catholic Christians are informed that the Apocryphal books are not regarded as Holy Scripture, nonetheless, their detractors say that publishing them inside of the covers of a Bible is itself condemnatory.
Friends, these are matters of internal Christian denominational belief and although we can go on, this writer will again state, as he has repeatedly, that Mormonism is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and that its doctrines regarding the essentials of the Christian faith make it another, albeit disputed, Christian denomination.
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