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Peter Schiff on Paying the Chinese Back

Federal Payment for Abortion now a Serious Focus for Independents and Conservatives

From Fox News:

Let Me Live! I Have Rights Too!

The Providence Journal reports on its Web site Sunday that Kennedy said in an interview that Bishop Thomas Tobin issued the order during discussions with the Democratic lawmaker, further escalating a simmering ideological dispute between the two men…The dispute between the two men began in October when Kennedy in an interview on CNSNews.com criticized the nation’s Catholic bishops for threatening to oppose a massive expansion of the nation’s health care system unless it included tighter restrictions on federally funded abortion.”

More and more priests and pastors are starting to rise from their pulpits against abortion. Furthermore, American priests and pastors are directing their congregations toward a more traditional moral premise within their private and spiritual lives and toward the political arena.

Whether you agree with this or not, it is happening all across America and the tension is just starting to build. The Far Socialist or Progressive Left and the Obama Administration are forgetting the most basic lessons of the American Revolution. A local pastor stood on Lexington Green and other pastors went to revolution with their flocks against what they understood as tyranny. The lesson the Left is forgetting is when you lose the Religious Leaders, you lose America. And the recent building tension between America’s Religious Leaders is over what they distinguish as a barefaced flouting of Traditional Standard Morals and Virtues, with Abortion quickly becoming the lynch-pin of the argument.

Still, it is interesting to ask, why now?

Hypocrisy is the only answer here. Duplicity and pretense also play a crucial roll as well. The American Religious Pulpit is now waking up and smelling some very ugly rats at its doorstep. Could it be the Democrats and their Far Left agenda have reared their ugly socialist engineering ‘Head’ and America’s Religious Leaders are finally seeing what it really looks like? Me thinks that might be the case. And within the coming political arena, both local and national politics are going to see a very ugly landscape in the coming months. The battle lines will cross every known barrier and even barriers previously left untouched.

I have never understood how an individual can support the right for a woman to choose to kill her baby, just because it interferes with her current life situation or plans, while protesting so rigorously to ‘save the whales’ or ‘save the starving children of Africa’.

I have never understood how an individual can support the use of a suction-tube to suck out a living baby out of a mother’s womb while donating legal fees for a court injunction to save some desert pool guppy against the lives of farmers who need the water for their crops.

I have never understood how someone can support abortion and stand appalled when their own ‘constitutional rights’ are threatened. Does the ‘Pursuit of Happiness’ enter here anywhere?

I have never understood how an individual can support the use of partial abortion and then rigorously fight for universal health care reform for everyone?

I have never understood how anyone can stand against any racial, ethnic, or sexist discrimination, yet show such shameless and lethal discrimination against an unborn baby.    Where is the sense of that?

Now the Abortion Mills are pushing hard for more women to come in and have their babies killed and jerked from their protective wombs, at $500.00 a pop. Just twenty women brings in $10,000 Grand a day and the human leftovers are sold for even more money to research clinics and university labs. Maybe these Aborted Women should be asking for a doggy bag as the Abortion Doctor is obviously making huge money off of their guilty pleasures and unwanted little blessings.   But, if the coming Federal Socialist Government is going to pay for ‘OOPS’ that comes with having free love and wanton sex, the good doctor will most likely not consider doggy bags.  The Feds will only pay so much and the Abortionist will still consider it his right to sell the baby’s left-overs to the highest bidder, just as he does today.

But its all in the language you know.
Winter Solstice is in place of Christmas.
Gay is preferred socially rather than Homosexual.
Fetus has replaced “We’re going to have a Baby, honey!”
How many young couples croon forth, “We’re going to have a fetus, everyone!”
America’s Priests and Pastors are finally growing fed up with this social re-engineering and many are re-entering the political arena with both religious barrels primed for action…..

Given the situation he came from, I wonder if Mr. Obama every thanked his lucky stars he was not aborted……

The New Louisiana Purchace

Change We can believe in!

 

Well, you better all call your Senator’s office today and inform them of your desired vote, (for all the good it will do you).

Its Saturday Morning Cartoons again, with Harry, The Reid, and his French Connection running the show today. Today’s sell out is that bargain hunting contestant, Senator Mary Landrieu from the great State of Louisiana. And she is getting the bargain of the century!

“Come On Down, Mary! You have won a 100 Million Dollars in the New Harry, the Reid, Senatorial Sell Out Sweepstakes! All you have to do is vote, YES, to Harry’s Health Care Ration-Plan, AND ITS ALL YOURS!”

“Is that Obama money?”
“Yes, dear, its Obama’s money, fresh from the American Taxpayer’s Pockets!”


Philosophical Question of the Day

I don’t really like social issues, I generally don’t touch them so I also generally flip back and forth between the different sides.

Today I was pondering what my belief should be on gay marriage. I thought to myself, if the “straight” Christian majority can impose their will on gays regarding what they can or can not do, shouldn’t they also support the ability of low and middle class people to impose their will on the rich majority (say by making their taxes 90% via their elected representatives) ?

A Stolen Democracy And The Need For Term Limits

John Murtha (D-PA), Enemy At Large

If there are any questions regarding the need for term limits, this will answer it.

Ten HUT!

At Ease.

Now, I want you to remember – that no football player ever won a game – by taking one for his team. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard take one for HIS team.

Men – all this stuff you’ve heard about Gamecocks not being able to win – destined to be mediocre – is a lot of horse dung. Gamecocks – traditionally love to fight and win. All real Gamecocks love the sting of battle.

When you were kids – you all admired the best video game player – the fastest runner, big league ball players, the toughest boxers.

Gamecocks love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.

CONTINUE…

Conservatives Don’t Care About the Constitution

Why muddle a good conversation of Arab bashing with such a purposeless document?

Apparently Napolitano, a distinguished judge and constitutional scholar, isn’t aware of our war with 1 billion people.

Sarah Palin Demonized while Obama Walks on Water

How the Moonbats on the left view Sarah Palin


What could be more nuttier and dumber than liberals voting for Obama? For the left, that would be the right voting Palin for President of the United States. Yet, the left cannot begin to quantify the reasons why. All they know is something is wrong with it, while Obama and his definitive and destructive policies get a pass.

Continued…

Barack Sanford?

Remember when South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford wanted to use $700 million in federal “stimulus” monies to pay down the state’s debt?

And, remember how he was villified by Democrats nationally and a host of state officials, saying he was gonna put teachers and prisoners on the street because the money … sob! … won’t be there … wail! … to pay salaries …. moan! … and keep criminals in jail .;.. boo hoooooooo! ?

Remember?

Continue…

A Simple Blue Ribbon

I’ll start this post by admitting what most already know – I support Dutch Fork High School Civics/History teacher Kelly Payne in her campaign for State Superintendent of Education. I’m not alone and my endorsement is pretty meaningless, but this isn’t so for all of those who prefer Ms. Payne in this race.

For instance, there is a 69-year old Mt. Pleasant, SC resident has endorsed Kelly Payne

So?

I have never met James Livingston, but this I know – when he speaks, I will listen.

CONTINUE…

Barack Obama — Empty Vessel or Dud or Both?

3c29_12In past articles here I have called President Obama a Dud of the 1st Rank. Well, it seems that S.E. Cupp, in an article for FoxNews.com, has some insight into something close to the same thing. It is so good, so brilliant in its analysis, its a must see for everyone who comes here. However, as you read this, remember that Cupp’s insight is bringing to us all a possible danger that even we did not see…..

Barack Obama — Empty Vessel
by S.E. Cupp
- FOXNews.com
- November 03, 2009

Despite the insistence by the left that Obama somehow transcends politics, he is simply a politician. Nothing more, nothing less.

Reuters
A year after electing Barack Obama president, and five years after his star turn at the Democratic National Convention, we are still trying to figure him out.
Is he a left-wing radical or is he a crowd-pleasing moderate? Is he a uniter? Is he actually religious? Is he a socialist? Does he hate America? And, in light of the confidence he projects, why can’t he seem to take criticism?
But we could, of course, write that first sentence another way: Only a year after electing Barack Obama president, and we are already trying to figure him out.
Rather than it being kind of late to attempt a rigorous analysis of President Obama’s psyche, his political philosophy and his managerial style, perhaps it’s a little too soon. Presidential personalities, after all, develop over time. And the famous saying is true that great leaders aren’t born, but made.
Nonetheless, because I’m too young for caution, and too old for fear, I’m more than happy to take a stab at it.
Let me first assuage the fears of many of my conservative friends and colleagues: Barack Obama is not a left-wing radical. He is not a socialist, a communist or a Marxist, and he’s not a black liberation theologist. He’s not un-American, he’s not an atheist, and he’s not a racist.
He is none of those things, because all would require Barack Obama to have a belief system, a worldview, a set of convictions about political philosophy, theology, and socioeconomics that he simply doesn’t have. He is, instead, empty. He is an empty vessel.
This will shock and offend his legion of admirers on the left, as it stands in stark contrast to the breathless, leg-thrilling declarations by liberal America that Obama is a deep-thinking, complex, contemplative scholar of soaring intellect, a new kind of leader, exquisitely built for a changing world, who knows the war isn’t between good and evil, but between silence and diplomacy, and for whom indecision is a mark of judicious caution.
But he’d done nothing to deserve those early accolades, of course. So all of that was pre-ordained and pre-packaged, the result of a coordinated and deliberate campaign by a coalition of marketers, politicos, and members of the press to brand Barack Obama as “hope and change” before anyone even knew what his selling points were, or if he actually had any.
The proof of his ideological emptiness is practically undeniable. He has been, over the short course of his political career, the great abandoner, ever-willing to denounce those ideals that were previously sold to his constituents as “his convictions.”
After 20 years in Reverend Wright’s church, he simply got up and left. The man who baptized his children, who was marketed (to black voters in particular) as Obama’s spiritual adviser, who was so integral in shaping Barack Obama’s adult life, that he publicly denounced him, and left his church altogether. And he also denounced black liberation theology, despite giving numerous interviews about the ways in which it had helped shape his religious worldview. After initially defending Rev. Wright, suddenly he and his brand of religion were chucked out the window of a moving campaign bus. He has yet to find a replacement, unsurprisingly, but his interest in evangelicals like Rick Warren and Carey Cash means he is open to the theological polar opposite of Rev. Wright.
The same sort of dance occurred with other politically inconvenient allies, like domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, Wright apologist Father Michael Pfleger, and convicted felon Tony Rezko. Obama distanced himself from all of them and then eventually dumped them altogether when it became politically necessary. Van Jones was merely a post-election victim of Obama’s willing abandonment. And there have been others.
So would a real radical disown his radical mentors and protégés? Would a real extremist and true-believer insist with a straight face that he didn’t really believe all that stuff? Would a real ideologue be persuaded by a public opinion poll to abandon whole ideology?
Actual radicals like Wright and Ayers and Jones defend their beliefs, regardless of the pushback and potential fallout. What Obama did, in contrast, was purely political. Because, despite the insistence by the left that Obama somehow transcends politics, that’s what he is – a politician. Nothing more, nothing less.
We can also look at the shift in his policy positions over the past few years. He was once quoted as saying that he supported a single-payer health care system. The best political decision now, however, was to abandon that for a more docile public option. Once that failed to garner the groundswell of support his advisers thought it would, he appeared altogether indifferent to it. If he were really a radical, he’d be rallying us around universal health care right now, not some watered-down 1990-page bureaucratic hodge-podge that is neither revolutionary nor practical.
His impassioned pledges to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” close Gitmo, bring troops home, end military tribunals, and myriad other promises, suddenly seem less like the stuff of real political conviction, and more like political headaches that require a clever exit strategy.
And his reaction to any kind of opposition – from the right, from the citizenry, from Fox News – is equally telling. If Obama’s agenda were based on conviction instead of political expedience and an unquenchable thirst for popularity, criticism would bounce right off him. Instead he seems frighteningly flappable. That’s because leadership without convictions is leadership of empty rhetoric. Convictions can be defended against criticism. Empty rhetoric cannot.
So why all the radical friends and the radical proposals and the radical rhetoric if he’s not himself a radical? Because his lack of conviction and his inability to forge his own philosophical and theological identity, have made him incredibly susceptible to external influence and pressure. He is easily led. He is, as such, the perfect prospect for someone like Bill Ayers or Reverend Wright, whose radical agendas require vulnerable recruits who are malleable and willing.
I don’t know if President Obama is a man of conviction, if he is a man of faith, or if he is the intellectual giant the left really wants him to be. He very well may be all of those things. But I haven’t seen proof of any of it yet, and neither have you, because there hasn’t been any.
The only thing we do know for sure, one year after anointing this relative unknown the forty-fourth president of the United States, is that he’s a politician, pure and simple. Calling him a radical gives him way too much credit.

What America Needs Now Is Job Creation

The Administration is using a faulty model

The Obama Administration can talk about saving jobs until they are blue in the face. They can tell us they created a million new jobs – no wait, why not tell us it’s five million, it doesn’t matter what the number is. As someone I admire once said, “Facts are stubborn things,” 10.2% vs. the promised 7.8%. Phony job creation claims do not improve the unemployment numbers. I don’t know about you, but I am nearly depressed every time I see the latest unemployment figures. 10.2% only counts those actively looking for work. The situation is so desperate that many people are simply too depressed and despondent to continue looking. They’re still unemployed but they are no longer counted in the official statistics. Arriving at the true unemployment numbers can be a bit of an art rather than pure science. According to the New York Times, true unemployment now stands at 17.5%, nearly a half percent higher than the previous record set in 1982. And there is no sign the trend has reversed. It will likely climb ever higher.

– READ ON –

George W. Bush Was Responsible For The Ft. Hood Shootings

Yes, you read the title correctly.

It’s a new theory out there which advances the preposterous notion that President Bush is responsible for the Fort Hood massacre.

The advocate of this brave idea begins by citing the case of poor communication between various agencies which is supposed to be the center of blame for 9/11. The theory continues with President Bush’s “failure” to remedy the situation which has been allowed to fester to the point where the Fort Hood massacre couldn’t be stopped even though the proper authorities knew about it. The author then posits that “Bush didn’t do his job” and hopes that “Obama will recognize this as a high priority and do something.”

horseShit

What a pile of horse shit.

This post continues here. In it, you will read about charges that the Obama White House intervened to keep Congressman Peter Hoekstra from obtaining critical information regarding the Fort Hood murders.

You will also learn how Able Danger identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers, but because of policies and law established by Democrats, a full-fledged intelligence-collection operation could not be mounted against them a full year before 9/11.

Obama should be cutting taxes, not raising them.

IWantYourMoney
Obama’s health care bill threatens businesses and working individuals with a new battery of taxes but taxes won’t be enough to help offset its costs. To help offset costs, the bill takes away tax incentives designed to encourage businesses to invest into the economy in certain ways, such as investing in solar cell technologies.

As if this weren’t bad enough, the Cap and Trade bill looms on the horizon. If passed into law it will further tax industry. Economics 101 tells us that tax burden will be passed to the consumer.

At this point it would appear America is on the verge of being taxed to death and suggests President Obama’s tax and spend policies will continue to exacerbate America’s anemic economy even further.

Continued …

David Hamilton, Another Radical Labeled Moderate

hamiltonLast April President Obama nominated Judge David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit. Most Americans simply are not interested, however, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed once out, “[The] Court of Appeals is where policy is made.” Today Harry Reid is pushing to seal his confirmation. But should he be confirmed?

Perhaps, there’s no stopping his confirmation but people should be aware of what Democrats and the media are calling “moderate” these days.

– READ ON –

Jobs-Jobs-Jobs-Get Your Jobs Here! Tarp Money right here, Come and Get it!

3c29_12President Obama is doing just what he promised long ago, to hold a Jobs Summit this December at the His White House. Seems the Job Market Nationwide is not doing to well. So he is going to invite CEOs (who know nothing about creating jobs), small business owners (finally, but which ones?), economists (really? and what does an economist know about hiring people and creating jobs?), and representatives from labor unions (this really means SEIU, inspiring, isn’t it?) around the country to the White House next month to “work together to create jobs.” Oh, yes, and he must invite the major Non-Profits to that table too (like they know how to create jobs, Yuk-Yuk-Yuk!). Maybe Acorn will finally save Obama’s burnt bacon!

This man is a Dud. sorry, boys, but you really got a royal dud for a President and Commander in Chief. This man is so stupid about anything about this country or how it works. Lets face it, Obama knows crap about crap, and the drivel coming out of his mouth is finally waking some folks up.

This man is on the public dole, just like his appointed Czars, his university economists, and his business killing union idiots (who don’t want to pay taxes on their own Cadillac Health Plans).

But wait —This Presidential Dud now wants Tarp Money to save American Jobs. Say, what? I thought that was what he was doing all along? But no, now he wants to spend some of those unfunded, hastily printed up dollars which are collecting dust, and which have nothing to back them up, to help small business? Who is this man kidding?

“Change We can Believe in!”

Hows that ‘Change’ working for you now?

Rand Paul to Meet with McConnell

After a stunning poll that put Paul ahead of ex-Clinton delegate Trey Grayson, the GOP leadership might have to take notice. Paul’s campaign, which is running mostly on fiscal issues such as a pledge to not vote for an unbalanced budget, seems to be picking up steam. National party members held a fundraiser for Grayson earlier this year. But even so, Paul is to meet face to face with senior senator Mitch McConnell.

Local source.

The Jenny Factor: Part 2

A couple of months ago, in asking if and to what effect a Jenny Sanford political endorsement would manifest, I wrote:

It is no secret – nor should it be – that South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford’s estranged wife, Jenny, is a very smart woman and the person most responsible for his political career. Better than smart, she’s bright, wise and has a precise understanding of people, issues and values.

For reasons we all know, she is the most admired woman in South Carolina and certainly at the top of the national list. Strong, resolute and unashamedly committed to her ideals and religious convictions, she is another in a long list of women that demolishes the notion that women don’t have a place in politics.

Jenny Sanford is South Carolina’s Wonder Woman and she wields a powerful lasso of truth.

Today, Jenny Sanford endorsed Lexington State Representative Nikki Haley for Governor. Nothing about this surprises me. A woman of unquestioned principles, Ms. Sanford no doubt sees in Haley similarities in political and family value commitments. Both are purposeful women highly respected in a very male environment.

CONTINUE…

There Is No War on Islam

We are not at War with Islam…

President Obama and his White House Staff has said so. So it must be true?

No, it seems today that we are only concerned with those few misbegotten mentally ill villains who subscribe to some far off Middle Eastern fanaticism. All so-called terrorists are mentally ill, right? We just need to help them understand their illness. There is no War on Terrorism, anywhere….

But wait! What about those shifty Mormons who spend a dragon horde of money to alter the political landscape? What about those methodical Methodists who are planning a secret new world order behind their stained glass windows where no one can openly see them? And you better not let your eyes wonder away from those pesky Baptist assassins that are everywhere, ready to strike in the name of God, even within our government! And who can stomach those suicidal Christian Scientists who will stop at nothing, even fighting the government within its own courts! Even the Catholics are now recruiting a new army of dissidents from the Evangelical Church of England, married Priests and all!  But the worst of the lot is the Scientologists who are truly fanatics and will stop at nothing to enlist the horrible rich demons of Hollywood.   Last, but not least, are the suicidal Atheists who will stop at nothing to prove that God does not exist, yelling “God Is Dead!”, just before they click the trigger.

Still, the real elitist groups are in your own communities, in small local cells that recruit locally, you know, the little innocent looking Protestant Church on the hill or down the street, viewed from your own back yard. There, the true seeds of revolution and war are being hatched! Oh, they may look harmless, but don’t turn your back on them or they just might invite you to church too…….

Happy Birthday, Marines!

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