Who's Your Daddy?

This is Scary.

I had to post this article from Red State's morning briefing.

Read it for yourself:

White House vetting prayers said before Obama events

Out: Vetting cabinet appointees for tax problems. In: Vetting preachers for Jesus problems! No wonder Daschle slipped through the cracks.

Though invocations have long been commonplace at presidential inaugurations and certain events like graduations or religious services at which presidents are guests, the practice of commissioning and vetting prayers for presidential rallies is unprecedented in modern history, according to religion and politics experts…

“If a similar thing had been done by President Bush’s White House, I guarantee you there would have been a lot of people crying foul,” says Bill Wichterman, deputy director of the Office of Public Liaison under President George W. Bush. “Democrats can do this with immunity, but when Republicans do it, it becomes controversial.”…

[M]any church/state experts are unfamiliar with the program. “The only thing worse than having these prayers in the first place is to have them vetted, because it entangles the White House in core theological matters,” Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said upon learning of the Obama invocations…

James Bing, the pastor of the Friendship Baptist Church in Fort Myers, Fla., said he chose to self-censor his prayer. “For some strange reason, the word Jesus is like pouring gasoline on fire for some people in this country,” he said. “You learn how to work around that.

Pardon me, but a true-blue Christian wouldn't be monitoring prayers said at his events. True Christians aren't afraid of saying Jesus and standing behind their convictions. Need I say more?

This is one step away from full-blown persecution of Christians, you know the ones who aren't afraid to say JESUS!

See Ya...In a Week.

I'm going out of town to visit my sister in Odessa, TX for the next 4 days. I won't be posting during that time, but I'll be back with a vengeance next week.

Take care and stay informed.

Blessings,
Michael

Double Standard, OMGosh I'm Tired of Having to Say That.

Once again, the liberals have a double standard going on. Read this Red State Posting, for a better understanding of what is going on right now.

Liberals will howl and scream and say that all those cartoons mocking conservatives and Republicans are satire and comedy as they always do. As they did to justify attacking Sarah Palin and others. Like the Red State columnist says, "...where is the anger from Reverend Al Sharpton when cartoonists were attacking Condolezza Rice?"

Another example of how liberals want it both ways. What would they say if we told them, "We'll give this President the same respect you gave Bush?"

Rewriting History.

I paid a visit to the Official White House website recently and came upon a section devoted to the Presidential Pets since World War II. Well guess what I found, apparently George W. Bush's pets don't make the cut. If you didn't know, and depended on this section of the website for information, you would think that Bill Clinton was the last President before Obama. This is an outrage and a disservice to GWB's distinguished eight years of service.

Check it out here.

What's Next? Paper Cups at State Dinners?

Look at this official White House photo. Notice anything out of place?



How about the water bottles sitting on the antique table in the Blue Room. Appalling! The White House besides being a sacred place in the US, is also a National Monument and deserves to be treated as such. I don't have a problem with the President needing a sip of water but hide the bottles! I have a feeling that this was staged to make Obama look like an "Ordinary Joe" but it looks so incredibly staged and phony that it just drives the point home even further that he is an elitist!

Supposedly the Obamas are going to return glamour to the White House, but this ain't it.

Don't Tread on Me...and My Beliefs

Well it's official, Sean Penn, cue card reader extraordinaire...er I mean critically acclaimed actor, has won the Best Actor Oscar for his work in "Milk".
I recorded the Oscars this year since I had to work, and later when watching it, fast-forwarded through his speech. Then I heard from a friend (thanks Sus) that his speech was about equality for all, so I went back and watched it on YouTube and posted it here for you to hear it as well.



Do you know that if Gay marriage is made legal that Christians will no longer be able to go to their church and hear sermons on the issue? Making Gay Marriage legal will not only strip of us of our ability to preach against something that is biblically wrong but will make it a hate crime to do so! That is infringing on my civil rights and I don't appreciate it.

Gay people are always complaining about how they as people are more than the acts they perform in their bedroom, so why would you want to advertise that you are now married to someone of the same sex? Human nature being what it is, the first thing a lot of people will think of, when confronted with that, is what these people are doing in their bedrooms. I despise labels and I firmly believe that people can do as they please within their own homes but when Christians are branded as hate-mongers for expressing their perspective so some others can deluge us and our children with sinful lifestyles, I say ENOUGH!

Parry and Thrust.

This Tuesday night, Obama will give what is traditionally called, "The State of the Union" but is called "Address to the Nation" when it is the President's first such address. Although I'm interestd to see what he says, the part I'm really looking forward to is the Republican response. It will be delivered by Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) Louisiana, a rising star in the Republican party who is also a TRUE CONSERVATIVE!!!

I would encourage everyone to tune in and watch the whole thing Tuesday night. I will be blogging the whole thing that evening as well.

New Poll.

Check out my new poll for this week. Remember the poll is not scientific but is simply a gauge of reader opinion.

Thanks
Michael

Look at All the Pretty Pictures.

This is definitely something you won't see unless you live in Phoenix. Although the liberal MSM won't show stuff like this, I have to give kudos to ABC15, Channel 12 and the Arizona Republic for showing us a little bit of the protests.

These pictures however are courtesy of the Sticker Patch Blog. Check the pics out HERE. Thanks Peg for alerting me to this blog posting!

And They Say No One Sends Out Thank-You Cards Anymore...

I borrowed this blog post from another conservative blog here in Arizona, Sticker Patch.

Congratulations Barack Hussein Obama:

1. For bringing Chicago-style political corruption and intimidation to a national level.
2. For raising untold millions of illegal foreign and domestic campaign contributions through a system without even modest levels of controls.
3. For effectively hiding your complete disregard for the Constitution and its irrelevance as written by old, white, European males centuries ago.
4. For calling for a "fundamental transformation" of America and effectively labeling it, "change", while really pedaling an old and discredited Marxist agenda of wealth redistribution and a political philosophy that government should manage its citizenry by taking from each according to his ability and distributing to each according to his needs.
5. For insisting that the Bill of Rights was a modest first step and that a second Bill of Rights is needed to guarantee that all Americans are beneficiaries of certain goods and services regardless of whether they were earned and regardless of whether they must be confiscated from others.
6. For proving that dishonesty and corruption can, at least sometimes, overcome honor and integrity.
7. For proving that symbolism can prevail over substance and competence.
8. For proving that playing the 'race card' can still be an effective strategy in the 21st century.
9. For pinpointing a defining moment in history where American exceptionalism has peaked.
10. For preparing the world for America's unilateral disarmament.
11. For proving the Founding Fathers wrong in their belief that a free press would not be collectively corrupt.
12. For proving the Founding Fathers right in their grave concerns about the "tyranny of the majority'.
13. For demonstrating that we really don't need to be our brother's keeper, or our aunt's or our half-brother's.
14. For demonstrating that charitable giving need not be an individual choice but done through government with the requisite government surcharge, of course.
15. For demonstrating that class-warfare can be an effective political strategy.

Here's an Idea....

I got this in my email tonight and wanted to share it with you.

AFTER THE VOTE IN WASHINGTON D.C. TONIGHT I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO SERIOUSLY CONSIDER. IT IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING BETTER THAN THE STIMULUS PACKAGE.

Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, Obama supporters, et al:

We have stuck together since the late 1950's, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile, slate it up to irreconcilable differences, and go on our own ways.

Here is a model dissolution agreement:

Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.

We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.

Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O'Donnell (you are however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move them).

We'll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies, and illegal aliens. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's, and rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood .

You can make nice with Iran , Palestine and France and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protestors. When our allies or way of life are under assault, we'll provide them job security.

We'll keep our Judeo-Christian Values. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, humanism, and Shirley McClain. You can have the U.N. But we will no longer be paying the bill. We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find.

You can give everyone healthcare, if you can find any practicing doctors (that is practicing, Howard Dean) who will follow to your turf (sic). We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right.

We'll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and The National Anthem. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, KumBaYa or We Are the World.

We'll practice trickle down economics and you can give trickle up poverty its best shot.

Since it often so offends you we'll keep our History, our Name, and our Flag.

Would you agree to this? If so please pass it along to other likeminded patriots and if you do not agree just hit delete and hang on.

In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you ANWAR on who will need whose help in 15 years.

Signed, an American

P.S. Please take Barbra Streisand.

I LOVE this letter and I agree with every word. It was sent to me by a high school friend, Patricia. Thanks Patricia!

If liberals were forced to live in the world in their own country, they would see what a miserable failure liberalism, socialism and communism are. But we continue to support them as they barely tolerate us.

What's GWB been up to?

Jeb Bush had the following to say about his brother:



I cannot wait until Jeb Bush announces that he will run for President. Go Bush!

White House says, "You may be mad as hell but you're going to take it for as long as we say you will"

White House Gas Bag...er I mean Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs denounced CNBC's Rick Santelli's rant, that has gone viral on YouTube.



So Obama gets to decide which homeowners "...played by the rules..."? Well then lets sit back and watch all the people who don't pay taxes or work get their houses for free. This is the most pathetic home rescue program EVER! But I'm not surprised. Obama promised Joe the Plumber that he would "...spread the wealth around..." and true to his promise he is doing just that.

We're Mad as Hell and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore!

Be sure and watch this video to the end. CNBC's Rick Santelli has some really AWESOME points!

Liberal's Failure is America's Success!

A group of history professors recently ranked GWB as seventh-to-last on a ranking of all former US Presidents. Being ranked as one of the worst by a group of liberal history professors really means he is one of the best Presidents. Colorado College political scientist, Thomas Cronin, is the driving force behind GWB's low ranking.

I guess I'm confused, GWB had to fight liberals, terrorists, and so many hate-filled books about himself, that Barnes and Noble had to start an "I Hate Bush" section, and he's the failure? To me a failure is someone who aspired to be a legitimate scholar but ends up as an obscure lecturer and political scientist at Colorado College.

President Obama by contrast is signing legislation that provides help for people who knowingly bought houses that they couldn't afford, leaving responsible homeowners holding the bag. He gives tax breaks to people who don't pay taxes and in some cases don't even work and he's hailed as the second coming? His speeches are self-congratulatory, while demeaning conservative politicians and the citizens who voted for them. Wow!

Dubya, We Lubya!

Whose Opinion is More Important? Ours or the Rest of the Worlds?

Obama ran on a campaign of caring what the rest of world thinks about the US. I say who cares what they think? I say that now, I've said it before and I'll continue to say it. The liberals in power are so concerned about what terrorists and terrorist-sympathizing countries think about us, that we will not be able to effectively strike back when we or our interests are attacked next, because we'll be afraid of changing their opinion to us.

I wanted to share Bill O'Reilly's latest weekly column with you.

Testing Obama

By Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Joseph Biden is a prophet. On October 19, 2008, the now-Vice President said, "Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy."

Forget about six months; the foreign affairs insults arrived within three weeks of Obama's presidency. And with the economy dominating the news cycle, very little attention has been paid.

Let's take them one by one.

By far, the most important insult to the Obama administration came this week. Shortly after Obama's envoy, Richard Holbrooke, visited Pakistan, that country surrendered to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, putting the entire world in danger.

In a shocking abdication of responsibility, the Pakistani government now says the Taliban has the authority to impose sharia law in the northern part of that country. That means the Pakistani government is allowing these terrorists to do whatever they want, and that will include continuing their attacks on American forces in neighboring Afghanistan.

This is huge, and President Obama would be wise to respond quickly and punish the Pakistani government. They have thrown in with terror killers; the USA cannot accept that, nor should any responsible country.

Insult two: The government of Kyrgyzstan is closing the big U.S. air base on its soil. That air base supplies NATO forces in Afghanistan. Again, this is huge.

The reason the base is being closed is because the Russian tyrant, Putin, doesn't like America assisting nations like Poland and the Ukraine in their defense strategies. So Putin, who the Kyrgyzstan government fears, has succeeded in hurting NATO's war against the Taliban. Nice.

The third insult comes from Iran. No surprise here. While the mullahs yak about talking with President Obama, they continue to fast-track nuclear weapons. A report by the Institute for Science and International Security says that Iran could have weapons-grade nuclear material this year. So there is now an urgency to the situation and Obama must respond quickly or the nuke genie will be out of the bottle.

And finally, insult four: Crazy Kim Jong-Il, the leader of North Korea, celebrated his 67th birthday this week by threatening a nuclear missile test.

Again, because of the terrible economy, many Americans have no idea all of this stuff is going on, but there is no question Barack Obama is being tested and the villains are watching closely to see what he will do.

In his speech last October, Joseph Biden also told Americans to "gird [their] loins." I'm not exactly sure what that means vis-à-vis foreign policy, but it doesn't sound good. I also don't know whether President Obama is "girding" right now, but he had better be doing something.

It's almost here...

The Amazon Kindle 2.0, is being released next Tuesday and I've got one pre-ordered. As soon as I get mine up and running and have some books ordered, I'm going to review it for you here!

Look for the post during the week of March 1st.

Thanks,
Michael

Point, and Counterpoint.

I am always on the lookout for things that I think my blog audience would be interested in. So in the spirit of real bi-partisanship, NOT the bastardized version happening in Washington, I'm going to have a liberal write a guest post here on the blog about once per quarter and maybe more often. They'll play the Colmes to my Hannity. I have already chosen the first guest and I'm trying to figure out the format, but if you're interested in guest posting, please comment to this post and let me know! I'm also open to having an occasional conservative guest as well. Your comments will help me gauge interest in this potential new feature.

Thanks,
Michael

Back to the Future Post.

I found this post regarding that supposedly unscripted question and answer session in Obama's first national press conference from a couple of weeks ago.

SCREENING OBAMA
One wouldn't know it from reading the Washington Post or New York Times, but some inside the White House don't think that President Barack Obama hit a home run with his first national press conference last week.

"It looked scripted beyond the scripted part, the speech," says one former communications adviser, who has been feeding notes and suggestions to the White House team and worked with them on the inauguration. "Every president has gone into one of these things knowing that there were some pre-arranged questions or journalists to be called on, but this one was pretty ham-handed."

To that end, he says, the White House is looking to install a small video or computer screen into the podium used by the president for press conferences and events in the White House. "It would make it easier for the comms guys to pass along information without being obvious about it," says the adviser.

The screen would indicate whom to call on, seat placement for journalists, pass along notes or points to hit, and so forth, says the adviser.

Using a screen is nothing new for Obama; almost nothing he said in supposedly unscripted townhall events during the presidential campaign was unscripted, down to many of the questions and the answers to those questions. Teleprompter screens at the events scrolled not only his opening remarks, but also statistics and information he could use to answer questions.

"It would be the same idea with the podium," says the adviser.

Obama had a teleprompter set up for his remarks last week, before taking questions, but the White House couldn't use the teleprompter for anything but the remarks, because the journalists were so close to the screens. Further complicating matters, teleprompter copy can't be easily updated in real time, in a setting like a White House press conference.

I remember when liberals were protesting GWB's use of wireless earphones during press conferences, but this definitely trumps that. It's like I said, polished and practiced has now replaced truth and reality!

Words to Live By.

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened!"

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."


--Margaret Thatcher

Reality Bites!

Reading Is Fundamental.

I've just been perusing the web looking for things to blog about here on my blog and I noticed a flurry of new posts on my favorite conservative blog, Red State (www.redstate.com) There is so much information that has been posted just in the few hours since I went to sleep this morning that I would have to blog all day just to cover it. I'm encouraging my readers to go over there and read the posts.

There is a bunch of scary scary info about how ethically challenged the Democrats are and also about how the Obama administration and the liberal congress are going to go under the radar and really stick it to conservatives.

I'm going to post some other important items tonight, but I IMPLORE you to get over to Red State in the meantime.

Thanks
Michael

This is for the Little People.

With all this talk lately about "spreading the wealth" and socialism, I thought I would devote a post comparing how much or how little our political leaders give to charity in order to help the poor. Read on:

In 2006 and 2007 the Obamas gave 5.8 and 6.1 percent of their income to charity. (1)
The Bidens gave 0.15 and 0.31 percent(2) while during the same two years, John and Cindy McCain gave a whopping 27.3 percent in 2006 and 28.6 percent in 2007.(3)

Now the natural response to the McCain's charitable giving is that McCain has a wife who is a multi-millionaire. Well so does John Kerry and in 1995 he gave NOTHING to charity, which was down from what he gave in 1994, a total of $2,039. Now hold on to the chair you're sitting on because in 1993, he gave a generous $175.00.(4)
But, wait I almost forgot, in 1995 John Kerry did spend $500,000 to buy a painting for the wall of one of his houses. Talk about self-fulfillment.

Al Gore in 1998 gave a whopping $353.00 while pulling in a salary of $197,729.00 and when Senator Edward Kennedy (D) Massachusetts released his tax returns in the 1970's it was proven that he gave less than 1% of his income to charity. Senator Kennedy was worth in excess of $100 million in 2006. (5)

George Bush regularly gave in excess of 10% of his income away during the eight years as president. During those same years when Obama was making three times the amount that George W. Bush was, he gave away less than 2% to charitable causes.(6)

The big winner though has to be VP Dick Cheney who during 2005 gave 77% of his income to charity. (7)

These figures were really eye-opening and led me to a startling conclusion, that liberals just want to give OUR MONEY and not theirs, to the poor.


Sources:
(1),(2)and(3): TaxProf blog. http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2008/09/biden-releases.html.
(4): Peter Schweizer, Movers and Takers
(5): http://www.mcclatchydc.com/100/story/36890.html
(6), and (7): Peter Schweizer, Movers and Takers p. 58-62

The End of the Road.

The late Dr. Adrian Rogers (1931-2005), pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis Tennesse and founder of the "Love Worth Finding" ministry, offered the following observation several years ago and it bears poignant significance today:

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the rich out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply the wealth by dividing it.”

Thanks Lisa, for sharing the above quote with me.

New Poll

Be sure and answer my new poll question. This week I've given each person the ability to select multiple answers.

Thanks!

The Truth About Socialism.

My friend Peg, recently sent me an email where she included an article describing what socialism is exactly. I'm going to post it and I hope everyone reads it thoroughly in order to understand the horrific plan the liberals have for this country.

Henry Lamb: Is Obama a socialist?
Posted: October 18, 2008
1:00 am Eastern
© 2009

Socialism, according to Karl Marx, is the transition between capitalism and communism. To achieve communism, Marx says, there must be continuing revolution in which the fundamental principal is: The end justifies the means.

For more than half a century, capitalism in the United States has taken a beating from the socialist revolution. Despite the best efforts of conservatives since the Roosevelt era, socialists have made great strides toward converting the nation to socialism. Apparently, the majority of Americans either fail to recognize the transition, or welcome it. The enthusiastic support for Barack Obama, especially among young people, is abundant evidence.

Obama has declared that he believes every person has a "right" to health care. The Socialist Party USA believes every person has a "right" to health care.

Obama believes that labor unions should be allowed to organize without a secret ballot. The Socialist Party USA calls for unions to be recognized without a secret ballot.

The Socialist Party USA recognizes the "right" of adequate housing for everyone. Obama trained ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) workers to secure mortgages for unqualified people in sufficient numbers to collapse the housing and home-financing industries.

The Socialist Party USA believes that "capitalism is fundamentally incompatible" with socialism. For years, Obama worked in Chicago through the Annenberg Challenge, along with Bill Ayers, to funnel more than $50 million to anti-capitalist education projects. In November 2006, Ayers traveled to Venezuela to speak at Hugo Chavez's Education Forum where he railed against "the failings of capitalist education," and praised the "Bolivarian Revolution and the profound reforms in education made by Hugo Chavez."

The Socialist Party USA believes in open borders and six-months residency as the only requirement for U.S. citizenship. Obama marched with illegal aliens in Chicago in support of "comprehensive" immigration reform. Listen to Obama's promises to La Raza in 2007.

The Socialist Party USA calls for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Obama says, "I will end this war," with never a reference to "winning" or "victory."

The Socialist Party USA calls for the "unconditional disarmament" by the United States. Obama has promised to dramatically reduce defense spending. Listen to his words here.

The Socialist Party USA calls for a "livable guaranteed annual income." Obama trained ACORN members to conduct "Living Wage" campaigns in cities around the country.

The Socialist Party USA calls for a "steeply graduated" tax policy to redistribute wealth. Obama has promised to increase the tax burden on the rich to redistribute wealth to the poor. He revealed his philosophy when answering a question from Joe the plumber, who complained that he was being taxed for his success. Obama said:

It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.

This list of comparisons could be quite long. This is sufficient to reveal an unmistakable similarity between Obama's political beliefs and the beliefs of the Socialist Party USA. The tragedy is that Obama's supporters don't care. In fact, many of his supporters are delighted that he promises to usher in a new era of socialism, and push the memory of capitalism further into history.

Socialists, who are in perpetual revolution, who believe that the end justifies the means, have worked through educational institutions, non-government organizations such as ACORN and by electing socialists to public office to silence teaching the virtues of free enterprise, capitalism, private property, individual responsibility and personal achievement. For nearly two generations, students have been fed a steady diet of socialism under a variety of disguises, including Outcome Based Education, No Child Left Behind, School-to-Work and a host of other "feel good" slogans.

Students and young adults no longer know why capitalism is better than socialism. Like Obama, young people really believe that when government redistributes wealth, "it's good for everybody." They do not realize that wealth redistribution is no substitute for wealth creation. They are never taught that the only way to create wealth is for an individual to combine his energy and intellect with resources to produce a product that improves his life, or for which someone else is willing to pay.

Private property, the accumulation of personal prosperity and individual achievement are anathema to socialism. Socialism sees the individual as nothing more than a cog in a government-run machine designed to ensure equity for all.

Capitalism seeks prosperity; socialism seeks equity. Freedom increases as prosperity increases. In a socialist system, there can be neither.


What an awesome article. Thanks Peg!

The Debilitating Cost of the Stimulus...

Governor Mark Sanford (R) South Carolina has this to say about the gigantic STINKULUS bill that was passed in Congress with a total of THREE Reublican votes and is headed to President Obama's desk for signature:

"Crunching the president’s numbers, the Heritage Foundation came up with a startling figure: For every job the bill creates, American taxpayers will spend $223,000. If we add the cost of this bill to the previous efforts of the federal government to deal with the financial crisis, the American taxpayer is on the hook for $9.7 trillion."

Or, as Bloomberg News recently pointed out, “enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages"

Only 11% of this monstrous bill is tax cuts and 100% of those go to people who make less than $40,000. Senator Chuck Schumer (D) New York thinks that the $8.00 per week tax cuts in this bill will allow people to buy and go out to eat and will stimulate this economy.

Oh, Ok. So if being able to afford two more gallons of milk per week is going to stimulate this economy, then why didn't Obama just push Americans to go grocery shopping more often? Oh wait because then you no longer have the $8.00 per week to go eat out with. This is ridiculous.

Would the Real President Please Stand Up?

New allegations are coming to light that Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff is the real power broker in the White House. Several sources allege that Emanuel is the actual person making the controversial cabinet picks. These tax cheats and ethically challenged cabinet picks along with the massive STINKULUS bill, really make me question the competence level of the new administration. Can there really be people out there that are stupid enough to think that Obama is making good decisions? Oh wait, yeah there are...the 64 million misinformed citizens who voted for him.

Playing Both Sides of the Fence.

This is a great blog post from red state blog.

Obama pledges to fix the economy by passing a monstrous stinkulus bill, that provides tax cuts for people who don't pay taxes, heck tax cuts for people who don't even work, and that makes reseeding the National Mall a priority. A bill which saddles families who do pay taxes with $9400 in additional tax debt, and gives $1 Billion to one of the most corrupt organizations in the world, ACORN. A massive stimulus bill that provides $50 million dollars to put art in schools, that bans religious study and worship in publicly funded buildings, and then he turns around and wants to pretend that he is fiscally resonsible???

What a blatant abuse of power!

It is Finished.

Well the STINKULUS has passed the Senate, 60-38 and is headed to President Obama's desk for his signature. Once this bill has passed we will be officially be living in a socialist country. I never thought I would say that last sentence.

The founding fathers notion of how our country should be run is now history.

I predict soon that the new liberal federal government will denounce Israel and make being a Christian illegal. Christ's return is right around the corner so we should all be ready to be swept away in the rapture.

Christians remember this:
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
—Matthew 5:10-12

I'm looking up to Heaven as I write this. Come quickly Lord Jesus.

Another Broken Promise. Big Surprise.

Here's an article from Red State blog regarding Obama's pledge for more transparency.

Transparency, which was one of the MAIN tenets of Obama's campaign just doesn't exist in this administration. It is yet another LIE that was committed in order to get votes and get elected. Obama is more unethical than any President that I've ever seen, and that goes for big business AND President of the US. He lied about his association with Bill Ayers, and said he never heard his pastor preach American/White hatred in 20 years of sitting in the pew.

Politifact.com keeps track of the 500 campaign promises that are either being kept or being broken here.

One month in and so many lies, and we still have 3 years and 11 months more of this crap!

Scandal Is Not Just an 80's Rock Band.

THANK YOU OBAMA! WE'VE HAD MORE SCANDAL IN THE FIRST WEEK THAN BUSH HAD IN 8 YEARS!!!!!!

Bet You Didn't Know This..

So as part of the continuing drama of the bailing out of banks, a new condition has been implemented. Any company or bank taking bailout funds cannot lobby agains the new card-check legislation. In case you didn't know, the card-check legislation will allow employees to form labor unions more easily. Labor unions are criminal organizations that take taxpayers money and force business to give up their competitive edge. Labor Unions won't let business fire or discipline employees. Huge labor unions will mean the death of the US business innovation.

Figure 8, Not So Great.

Well the GOP can thank eight Republican Senators for being traitorus, turncoats for voting to pass the stimulus bill in the Senate. I don't know who the eight are yet, but I'll post their names here as soon as I do...

The ACORN doesn't fall far from the tree.

Did you know that the ridiculous STIMULUS Bill includes $1 billion for ACORN? The organization that committed massive voter fraud in the 2008 election and tilts proudly toward liberalism. Is this the type of organization that you want your taxes to fund?

We still have time. We need to bombard the following three Republican senators with calls to say, "Do not vote in favor of this monstrous bill"

Sen. Arlen Specter [PA]: 202-224-4254
Sen. Olympia Snowe [ME]: 202-224-5344
Sen. Susan Collins [ME]: 202-224-2523

Do it before it is too late.

This is Pathetic.

Democrats Protect Illegal Aliens, Leave American Citizens in the Cold.

Guess Michelle's going shopping.

Last year when President Bush announced that all taxpayers were going to receive a $600 rebate check from the government, Michelle Obama mocked Bush when she said, "You're getting $600. What can you do with that?...You go out and you buy a pair of earrings."

Well this year, her husband is proposing a tax cut of $13 per week which comes out to $676 per year. But since it is only for people making less than $40,000 per year, most of which don't pay taxes, and it is only $13 per week instead of a check, I don't exactly see a run on Tiffany's.

Liberals will probably say that when Michelle Obama was mocking Bush's rebate that it was satire and comedy. That is after all how the double-standard liberal hypocrites justify the mocking of Sarah Palin.

Stimulus at What Price?

Karl Rove's latest article, describes how Obama with his "my way or the highway" attitude towards congressional Republicans, will pay a high political price for getting the stimulus bill passed.

I think that Obama is re-energizing the Republican party and I can't wait for the day when we win seats in Congress back and Obama is forced to do business with us. I wonder if we will venomously spit out lines like, "...we won and that trumps you everytime..." or if we will actually try and work with the administration for the good of the country. I'm betting the latter.

Don't Spend it All in One Place.

Remember that big tax break Obama talked about on the campaign trail, the one for 95% of all Americans? You remember, the one that would save us from this tough economic time? Well, the details are finally released and now it's pretty clear why they didn't release the details before the election. $13 per week is what people who qualify are getting. That is $676 bucks for the year! Don't get too excited though, because next year it drops to $8 per week.

How Stimulating.

Ann Coulter wrote a column this week on the bloated stimulus bill that will not create real jobs but will create a huge federal government.
Here's an excerpt:

At every other workplace in the nation -- even Wal-Mart! -- workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.

or how about this:

The stimulus bill goes a long way toward repealing the work requirement of the 1996 Republican Welfare Reform bill and rewards states that increase their welfare caseloads by paying unwed mothers to sit home doing nothing.

Here's the full article.
I just want to close by saying Thank you to, Nancy "I-speak-for-all-those-Americans-who-agree-with-me" Pelosi, and Harry "Never-met-a-welfare-recipient-I-didn't-like" Reid, and President Barack Hussein Obama. Looks like the only people benefitting from the stimulus are government employees who can't be fired anyway.

Insanity-Doing the same thing year after year and expecting different results.

How many times are the Democrats going to run a campaign of change? Circa 1984:


Change again? These Democrats can't stop running their mouths like a bunch of robots, "change, change, change, change." I guess they think if they say it enough someday it will stick.

Change? Obama nominates three tax cheats so far, all of whom he continued to support until the public outcry became so great that he could no longer ignore it.

Change? Nominating and hiring a number of Clinton has-beens.

Change? Supporting a socialistic agenda that has been a resounding failure in all the other countries that have implemented it.

Change? Choosing a Vice-President who has run several failed presidential campaigns.

Change? Obama blatantly ignoring the representation of the 63 million people who voted against him by lording his win over the Republicans in Congress.

Change? Maybe the one thing that has actually changed is how bitter and divisive the partisanship has become. I'm totally willing to give Obama credit for that!

My advice to you? Don't fall for the mantra of change anymore because it's just more of the same dirty liberal lies.

Don't you love the hypocrisy?

Liberals are such hypocrites. I posted an item about Obama calling reporters in a certain order yet trying to look random at his recent press conference ,and how every answer was rehearsed ahead of time, and how he still won't give specific examples of how reseeding the National Mall is supposed to create jobs, or how pledging $50 million to put art in the schools stimulates the economy, and I'm accused of spreading dissent not based on fact. Well what about all the liberals who screamed when Bush was elected that he stole the election. Or how about when liberals vowed to leave the country when Bush became President. Or what about when liberal Hollywood wackjobs got on tv and said, "Bush isn't my President". I've yet to hear a prominent conservative stand up and say any of those things about Obama. Example after example was given how ACORN falsified voter information, but I'm creating dissent and spreading divisiveness? NO! I'm tired of the double standard.

The Women's Media Center recently said that Bill O'Reilly was making fun of Helen Thomas by calling her a witch. NO, if you watch the tapes, he said her voice sounded like the "Wicked Witch of the East". Amazing how no liberal women stepped forward in Sarah Palin's defense when week after week, Tina Fey MOCKED her voice and her mannerisms. HYPOCRITES! Where was all the outrage from NAACP or Jesse Jackson when people threw OREO cookies at Michael Steele for being a black conservative?

Now in the most recent issue of TV Guide we have lesbian star, Cherry Jones who plays the President in the most recent season of 24 saying that she doesn't want the majority of voters in California deciding that gay marriage is illegal for the minority. WHAT???? That is the whole premise of voting. You go to the polls and the majority votes wins.

These liberals MAKE ME SICK. If I call out Obama for not giving specifics and using fear to build support for his stimulus, I'm within my rights whether I do so in public or on my blog. That is called freedom of the press! Liberals are destroying this country from the inside out, but I'm considered evil and divisive for speaking my opinion. I CALL BS!

SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED...

Boy, talk about a staged event. In his neverending quest to dupe, er I mean convince voters that his stimulus package is the answer to all the world's evils, Obama had a huge major press conference last night. Despite his best efforts to make the press conference seem "off the cuff", and "unrehearsed", it came off looking like a well-greased wheel.

Here's a taste in case you UH missed it.



Once again slick, polished and planned has replaced straightforwardness, genuineness, and UH the truth

Helen Thomas, Like Your Wise Old Aunt, but Not Really.

My facebook AND college friend, Tom Tillman had this to say about the veteran AP reporter, Helen Thomas.
"Did Helen Thomas actually ask the President if there are "so called terrorists " in Pakistan?!?! What planet does this lady live on? She then asks if he thinks there are WMD's in the middle east? Poor Helen. Been covering every President since John Adams, so maybe she's just getting confused."

Fear is a Powerful Motivator.

For the entire eight wonderful years of the George W. Bush presidency, the liberal commentators, pundits, and bloggers were always consistent in their criticism of him. They always accused GWB of using fear to win elections, use military force, etc, and blah, blah, blah. Well now I'm going to turn the tables.

President Obama is using fear of a national economic slump, worse than the Great Depression if you believe him, to build support for his massive economic STINKULUS plan. The plan put forward by liberal Democrats and a few TURNCOAT moderate Republicans, creates work not jobs. Let me explain the difference. If the federal government creates positions to work on highways and bridges, those jobs are on a contract basis, meaning the position will end at some point when the work is finished. Jobs by contrast are created by small businesses and large corporations to be long-term and mean that the company is growing.

The President would have you believe that unless the government is allowed to dig deeply into each of our pockets at tax time, that this country is on the cliff overlooking failure. This is his justification for our "march to socialism". I do not believe in paying more taxes so that those who don't pay taxes because they make less than $40,000, can live the high life while we suffer. It is important to remember that President Obama's definition of "rich" is those who make more than $75,000 per year. If you've read my blog for any length of time you know that I don't agree. $75,000 supporting a family of four does not allow for too many indulgences.

So what can we do? Well for starters we cannot allow ourselves to be taken in by the fear of failure that the our liberal Democratic leaders feel is imminent. Continue to work hard at whatever job you have, continue to educate yourself for a better job, continue to raise your families with strong values and convictions. Continue to call your senators and reps when you feel that they are not representing our core values. If we lose our voice during this time, then the vision of America as a "shining city on the hill" will have to be revised as the "drab, grey, crumbling, socialistic, European-looking city sinking in a cesspool."

New Feature!

You'll notice on the right side of my blog, a poll question. I will feature a new question every Sunday night and you will have until the following Saturday to cast your vote. This isn't a scientific poll, it is just to gauge some opinion.

I encourage all my readers to vote in the poll!

Change We Can Believe In. HA!

Well it has been two weeks living under a liberal federal government and I don't quite get the change argument. The President campaigned on change in Washington. What change? The partisanship has never been more bitter and more pronounced. The Obama administration nominates tax cheat after tax cheat. Liberal Senator Barbara Boxer mocks Republican speeches. Perhaps my favorite story of the week is how the MSM goes after Ann Coulter for voting irregularities. That is the height of hypocrisy.

Thanks to ACORN, there was a level of fraud committed in the 2008 election on a scale not seen in dictatorships and communist countries! It makes me puke to hear liberals say, "Well at least the Republicans didn't steal this election." ACORN, Moveon.org and the Democratic party itself stole this election through massive voter fraud.

A generation of young people who want everything to be warm and fuzzy with no punishment, confrontation, or competition are robbing the tradition and competitive edge of this country. Their attitude of "management" by committtee and "mob rules" democracy is sickening.

The mantra is "Spread the Wealth around" but the borderline communists who swept this government into power, need to remember that in order to take from the rich, the rich have to pay their taxes. Republican rich people are robbed by taxes while Rich Democrats shirk their duty!

I don't see the change. Everyone screamed and howled about Bush and his cronies. I have seen more cronyism from the Obama administration. Clintonista has-beens are given plum jobs and tax cheats are heralded as "the best person for the job"

If this is change, then I don't want it.

Sarah Palin: What a Gal!

The overwhelming sentiment about Sarah Palin in liberal circles is that she is the worse thing that could possible happen for women. Liberals hate Sarah Palin because she is a woman who does not believe in abortion. Liberals would much rather have seen her abort her Down-syndrome child than carry him to term and love him like a "normal" child.

Liberals will defend the rights of those who seek to destroy innocent Americans and our way of life, but they believe in mercilessly killing innocent babies, because a reckless mother was unable to resist the urge to sleep around. Abortion is not birth control. If you choose to live a dissolute lifestyle and have multiple partners and don't use contraceptives, then you MUST raise your child or give it up for adoption. It is not the child's fault that their mother is a slut and the child doesn't deserve to be killed for the mother's indiscretions.

My hope is that Sarah Palin rises from the ashes of the McCain campaign and goes on to win higher and higher public office. She would be a heck of lot better than Nancy "I-support-Labor-Unions-to-gain-votes-but-refuse-to-let-my-own-employees-unionize" Pelosi.

Tax Cuts for People Who Don't Pay Taxes

I received the following from Susan, "* Provide a Making Work Pay Tax Cut for America's Working Families: President Obama and Vice President Biden will restore fairness to the tax code and provide 150 million workers the tax relief they need. Obama and Biden will create a new "Making Work Pay" tax credit of up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family. The Making Work Pay tax credit will completely eliminate income taxes for 10 million Americans." Susan has a different political affiliation from me, but I've read her blog and actually happen to think she makes some good points about government ineptitude, and levels of bureaucracy that benefit no one. However, I vehemently disagree with the statement above that she left as part of a comment.

A payroll tax credit of $500 amounts to $20 per paycheck over a years time. It does nothing to the tax rate. Plus the Making Work Pay tax credit eliminates income taxes for people who DON'T PAY TAXES AS IT IS. I'm tired of people who choose not to put anything into our country, receiving tax break after tax break. I make between $87,000 and $100,000 per year and I am SADDLED with taxes. I don't want to give my money to people who don't deserve it. What a lot of liberals refuse to accept about America is that you get out of this country what you put in. That is the basis of capitalism. If you don't want to put any effort into your education or finding a higher paying job, then don't but don't expect me or my family or friends who actually WORK for a living to bail you out.

Everything Goin' on But the Rent.

What is it with Democrats and taxes? Now it seems that Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff, did not declare living rent-free for five years while he was in Congress. He bunked at the home of Congresswoman DeLauro rent-free and never declared it on his income taxes.

DeLauro is also married to a pollster who is the head of a polling company that has the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as one its clients.

Emanuel is claiming that House colleagues can offer hospitality between each other. Once again, if this were someone serving in the Bush administration or a Republican administration, they would be heavily punished and probably even sent to prison. I'm sick and tired of the double standard. Liberals get away with everything, while everyone else has consequences. Liberals should be punished just like the rest of the law-abiding citizens of this country.

Blah, Blah, Blah

Here is the latest "Weekly Presidential Address" from YouTube. Obama lists all the things that he wants and hopes to be accomplished with regard to the economy. But, just as he did on the campaign, he never once talks about HOW we will do these things. Goals are good but why should I believe him when he won't tell us what his plan is for meeting those goals.



I can't believe that 63 million voters fell for his slick tongue and condescending tone. Well the proof is in the pudding as they say. We shall see...

Fairness Doctrine? It's not fair.

Listen to this audio recording. In it, Sean Hannity, conservative commentator blasts Michigan Senator Stabenow, for bringing up the idea of holding hearings about resurrecting The Fairness Doctrine. The goal of the Fairness Doctrine, which was killed under Ronald Reagan relates to silencing Conservative talk radio by forcing radio stations to also air liberal talk radio. Since no one listens to liberal talk radio, the loss in advertising dollars would force many conservative stations off the air, thereby killing conservative talk radio.

Enjoy!

TRAITORS!

Senators Arlen Specter (R) Pennsylvania, Olympia Snowe (R) Maine and Susan Collins (R) Maine are the three turncoats that the Democrats in the Senate need to gain 60 votes to pass Obama's stimulus bill. These three are dead to me and I want these Benedict Arnolds run out of the Senate AND the Republican party, on a rail.

Thanks for committing the ultimate Republican capitulation. Socialism, here we come.

Ridicule.

At a democratic retreat in Williamsburg, VA, President Obama ridiculed Republican criticism of his massive "stinkulus" er I mean stimulus bill. "We can't embrace the losing formula that says only tax cuts will work for every problem we face; that ignores critical challenges like our addiction to foreign oil, or the soaring cost of health care, or falling schools and crumbling bridges and roads and levees. I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV -- if you're headed for a cliff, you've got to change direction," Obama said.

I'm encouraging all my readers to go to www.zogby.com and sign up to get Zogby polls delivered to your inbox. The latest Zogby poll is in regards to the stimulus bill. Sign up today and take this poll and send a CLEAR message to Obama and his entourage of liberal wackos that we WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS BILL!

Put Their Feet to the Fire!

So far, the massive phone campaign from you to your senators is working. Obama's stimulus is not going to pass. Keep up the pressure and insist that this bill full of money that WILL NOT AVERT A RECESSION, not be passed. Let's send a powerful message to Obama that says, "You may have won, but DON'T IGNORE US!"

And Now a Few Words for Senator Barbara Boxer (D)-CA. SHUT UP!

I love Lindsay Graham telling that blowhard liberal Senator from California Barbara Boxer, to stop telling him how to act. This woman is one of the most moronic women I've ever had the displeasure to watch. She is one of Obama's many minions. You wind her up and she spouts the liberal Democratic party pap that we're all tired of, and she rails on and on against conservatives, Condoleeza Rice, and Bush. ENOUGH!

And They Say Bush was a Bad Speaker?

Get a load of this video. Jake Tapper of ABC News wipes the floor with the stammering, stuttering, hemming-and-hawing gas bag who is the President's spokesman, Robert Gibbs. How you like the MSM now Obama?

BWAH HA HA. Mom you owe me a new keyboard.

A Woman with the world's biggest boobs:

Holy Ethics Complaint, Batman!

Well this is getting really annoying now. ANOTHER of Obama's cabinet picks has ethics issues. Presumptive nominee for Secretary of Labor, Wanda Solis, apparently was a lobbyist at the same time that she was a representative in the House.

In addition to breaking House ethics rules, she has been discovered to have changed paperwork relating to her lobbying activities.

So how exactly is the Obama administration choosing these people? Do they invite a Congressional Page over to the White House every Friday night, get him drunk, blindfold him, and have him play pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey on glossy 8x10's of scandal-ridden federal government has-beens, as White House staffers scream with laughter?

I'm starting to wonder...

Who's That Girl?

President Obama’s nominee to chief performance officer for the federal government, Nancy Killefer, has withdrawn her name from consideration.

Apparently she failed to pay unemployment insurance on household help and the District of Columbia filed a $900 lien on her home. What's interesting is that while Obama was singing the praises of Daschle who failed to pay $128,000 in back taxes, he threw the female under the bus.

Tax cheat after tax cheat and the President supports them all as the "best person for the job". My friend Peg commented on this and in case you missed her comment, here it is.

"What's new! If this were Republican tax evaders we would already have a special prosecutor looking for ways to send them to the gallows. With Democrats it's just an 'honest' mistake!"

Thanks Peg!

Keep reading.

Name that Tax Cheat...

Can you guess who said this:

“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.”

Here's a hint. Tom Daschle, who as of this writing has withdrawn his name from consideration from the HHS Secretary Cabinet post. What amazes me even further is that even when it came out, President Obama STILL backed the guy.

Well we can celebrate at least one tax cheat getting some of what is due them.

Now we know why it is so easy for Democrats to scream about tax hikes for the wealthy, because Dems just don't pay taxes period!

And the Walls Come Tumbling Down!

A part of the upcoming stimulus bill says that public buildings that get used for "Religious" activities will not be modernized or rebuilt, or remodeled or well read that section for yourself:

This bill will “prohibit” modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities:

1. used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or
2. In which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission

I believe that this will lead to the Boy Scouts being completely banned from public schools or other public buildings. I also think it will ban church groups that meet in schools or any other Christian study groups that rent or use any kind of public school building.

It is imperative that Christians call their Senators and get this bill killed NOW!

Wells Fargo goes on Vegas Vacation

After taking $25 Billion in TARP money from the American taxpayer, Wells Fargo Bank's top executives are taking a series of "recognition" trips to Vegas. The execs are staying at the Wynn hotel. The lowest price I could find for a room at the Wynn is about $700 per night and you just know that Wells Fargo travel isn't using HOTELS.com to book these rooms.

Most other big banks have canceled all such trips but Wells Fargo will not. A former Wells Fargo employee says this about past trips, "I was amazed with just how lavish it was," said Debra Rickard, from Colorado who attended the events regularly until she left the company in 2004. "We stayed in top hotels, the entertainment was just unbelievable, and there were awards -- you got plaques or trophies."

If we sit idly by and just let these companies do this, we are the suckers. Pull your business out of Wells Fargo. Can we take lavish vacations when we're being laid off? NO! Don't stand for this.

Taking a Break!

I am politic'ed OUT! So I thought I would post a really cool video.

ENJOY!


wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

I'll be back soon....