Wednesday, February 27, 2013

How to stop a massacre


In the aftermath of the Aurora , Colorado Batman movie theater shooting, a surveillance video has surfaced that shows the simple, obvious answer to the question on everybody's mind: How do we stop a massacre?

The answer is revealed in the stunning short video shown below. This remarkable solution:

• Requires no police.
• Costs the taxpayers no money.
• Requires no up-front paperwork.
• Protects innocent lives.
• Is deployed in as little as FIVE seconds.
• Works everywhere.
• Deters violent crime.
• Makes bad guys flee immediately.
• Is easy to learn.
• Functions at the local level.
• Does not require control or intervention by the United Nations or any government entity.

Watch the 75-sec video here.

All You Need Is 1,000 Points


            A man dies and is met at the gates of Heaven by St. Peter. 

“You’ll need 1,000 points to be admitted,” St. Peter told him.  “The charity and goodness of your life will determine your points.”

The man replied, “I went to Confession every month and to Mass every Sunday.”

St. Peter said, “That will be 50 points.”

“And I contributed to my parish and gave to charities as generously as I could.”

St. Peter said, “That’s wonderful!  That’s another 25 points.”

The man started to feel desperate, realizing he had only 75 points.  “I prayed the rosary daily, and I was a devoted Companion of St. Anthony,” he continued.

“Oh yes, that’s excellent!” St. Peter responded.  “Another 25 points.”

By now the man was frantic.  “You know,” he sighed, “at this rate, the only way I’ll get into Heaven is by the grace of God.”

St. Peter smiled broadly.  “That’s 900 points!  Welcome to Heaven.”

Who is US President Harrison J. Bounel?


February 15, 2013
President Harrison J. Bounel
Bob Livingston

Who is Harrison J. Bounel? According to the 2009 tax return submitted by President Barack Obama, he’s the President of the United States. All nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices are scheduled to discuss this anomaly today.

The case in question is Edward Noonan, et al v. Deborah Bowen, California Secretary of State, and the Justices are finally looking at it thanks to the dogged determination of Orly Taitz. The case calls into question many of the documents Obama (Bounel, Soetoro, Soebarkah, etc.) has used and/or released as authentic since he came on the national scene. The case contends that the documents — birth certificate, Social Security number, Selective Service registration, etc. — are fakes or forgeries. If that’s the case, Obama should not have been on the California ballot in 2008 and, therefore, should not have received the State’s electoral votes.

Four of the nine Justices must vote to move the case forward. We’ll see.

Meantime, on Feb. 4, Kathleen O’Leary, presiding judge of the 4th District Court of Appeal, reinstated the appeal of Taitz v. Obama et al filed by Taitz when she ran for Senate. That case involves evidence of 1.5 million invalid voter registrations in the State of California. The appeal also involves Obama’s lack of legitimacy to hold the office of President based on his forged IDs, stolen Connecticut Social Security number, the fact the last name he’s using is not legally his and his fraudulent claim to be the U.S. citizen.
Evidence in the case includes:
  • A certified copy of the passport records of Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, showing her son’s legal last name to be Soebarkah, not Obama.
  • Obama’s school records from Indonesia, showing his citizenship to be Indonesian.
  • Sworn affidavits of top law enforcement experts and investigators, showing Obama’s birth certificate and Selective Service certificate are forgeries and that the Social Security number used by Obama on his 2009 tax returns as posted on WhiteHouse.gov was fraudulent. (The SSN failed when checked through both E-Verify and the Social Security Number Verification Service.)





Amusing Video on Choosing a New Pope (from Funny Lutherans)


Amusing video on choosing a new Pope
And it’s from Lutherans.
Funny Lutherans!  Who would have guessed.
But they sure nailed it with their take on our modern culture.

Why London is not the City of London


Did you know that the City of London is not the city named London?

The (Secret) City of London, Part 1: History

Monday, February 25, 2013

Newtown Killer Admired Norwegian Killer


With such lunatics on the loose, you would think parents would demand that schools implement concealed carry by school teachers and staffs.

Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza may have admired Norwegian killer

Investigators have a theory that Adam Lanza’s interest in Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik might have led to the Dec. 14 massacre that left 20 children and six adults dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

The theory is based in part on several news articles about Breivik that investigators found in Lanza’s bedroom at the Newtown home where he lived with his mother, Nancy Lanza, according to law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation.

The sources emphasized that an interest in Breivik is just one theory. They said Connecticut law enforcement officials traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to brief unidentified federal authorities on the status of the investigation and discussed the possible Breivik connection.

The gunman who carried out the Newtown school massacre was inspired by violent video games — and was trying to outdo a Norwegian mass murderer who killed 77 people, it was reported today. Adam Lanza believed he was in ghoulish competition with Anders Breivik, who carried out a bloodbath at two locations in July 2011, law enforcement sources told CBS News.

Breivik, a paranoid ultra nationalist, fatally shot 69 people at a summer camp after murdering eight others in downtown Oslo. Lanza wanted to exceed Breivik’s death toll, according to investigators.

Disarm the DHS Now! (AKA: Obama's Private Army)


 DISARM THE D.H.S NOW!   (AKA OBAMA'S PRIVATE ARMY)
A CIVILIAN AGENCY ARMING ITSELF TO THIS EXTENT IS *UNPRECEDENTED* IN U.S HISTORY!

► Obama speaking OPENLY about the need for creating a "Civilian National Security Force" just as powerful as the military:
http://www.youtu.be/_fO-usAlqak

► Obama arming DHS to the teeth: 450 Million rounds of hollow-point bullets and another 175 million .223 caliber rifle ammo massive ammunition purchase:
http://bit.ly/Hvu7Ik
(UPDATE: Now up to 2 BILLION rounds... for perspective: we only shot 5.5 million rounds/month during the Iraq war. 2 Billion = 24 year "Iraq War". Update story:http://bit.ly/Vrc5gf).

► DHS Buys 7000 assault rifles:
http://exm.nr/VoRRRj

► DHS Buys 2500 armored fighting vehicles:
http://bit.ly/PtCtDG

► DHS Buys millions of dollars’ worth of target practice posters with pictures of armed civilians (including: pregnant women, elderly, children etc.) from a company named "Law Enforcement Training, Inc.":
http://bit.ly/13asFp8
http://bit.ly/W91hAC

I don't care if you're the most die-hard Obama sycophant. You cannot deny the disturbing pattern that's emerging here. Take the Obama blinders off and wake up to the real agenda that's behind all those fancy speeches. If not for your own sake, for your children, and your children's children.

If you're an Obama voter, Obama doesn't care about you. He used you to get in power in order enact his sinister agenda, just like many other Marxist demagogues before him throughout recent history (look at Cuba, Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia etc., almost exactly the same pattern, and exactly the same outcome). There's no shame in admitting you were duped, as long as you wake up before it's too late. This isn't about republicans vs democrats, liberals vs conservatives, or left vs right. This is about ALL our futures! Obama is toiling hard to destabilize and CRASH the US economy, so that from its ashes he can "fundamentally transform" the United States of America just like he always said he was planning to do (only you thought it meant something else). Since coming into office, Obama has more than DOUBLED Bush's deficits after promising to cut them in half by the end of his 1st term; and with no slowdown in sight. No one is THAT incompetent unless they're seeking to intentionally derail the US economy. Pay attention to what this man DOES not what he SAYS. This will affect all of us, regardless of political affiliation. We have to stop the bickering and start focusing on our common enemy and our common interests. Will you keep being in denial about all of this until it's too late? Or are you willing to consider the possibility and start thinking for yourself instead of having someone else tell you what to believe?

CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE:
http://on.fb.me/XQVnDV

Why dogs live less than humans. Answer of a 6-year-old


This story Melt My heart I wanna Share it ! Must read .

Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle.

I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family we couldn’t do anything for Belker, and offered to perform the euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their home.

As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought it would be good for six-year-old Shane to observe the procedure. They felt as though Shane might learn something from the experience.

The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker ‘s family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away.


The little boy seemed to accept Belker’s transition without any difficulty or confusion. We sat together for a while after Belker’s Death, wondering aloud about the sad fact that animal lives are shorter than human lives.
Shane, who had been listening quietly, piped up, ”I know why.”

Startled, we all turned to him. What came out of his mouth next stunned me. I’d never heard a more comforting explanation. It has changed the way I try and live.

He said,”People are born so that they can learn how to live a good life — like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?” The Six-year-old continued,

”Well, dogs already know how to do that, so they don’t have to stay as long.”

Live simply.

Love generously.

Care deeply.

Speak kindly.

Remember, if a dog was the teacher you would learn things like:

When loved ones come home, always run to greet them.

Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.

Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure Ecstasy.

Take naps.

Stretch before rising.

Run, romp, and play daily.

Thrive on attention and let people touch you.

Avoid biting when a simple growl will do.

On warm days, stop to lie on your back on the grass.

On hot days, drink lots of water and lie under a shady tree.

When you’re happy, dance around and wag your entire body.

Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.

Be loyal.

Never pretend to be something you’re not.

If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.

When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by, and nuzzle them gently.

ENJOY EVERY MOMENT OF EVERY DAY!

We The People Stimulus Package


This may be the best six minutes invested in your future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=jeYscnFpEyA

Do You Remember 1987?


Do You Remember 1987...

I had forgotten all of this.
Do you remember when the senators were giving
Ollie North such a bad time?
This brings it all into perspective doesn't it?


Do
you remember 1987...


Thought you might be interested in this forgotten bit of information...



It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video
of Lt. Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings
during the Reagan Administration.

There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree,
but what he said was stunning!

He was being drilled by a senator,
'Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?'

Ollie replied, 'Yes, I did, Sir.'

The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience,
'Isn't that just a little excessive?'

'No, sir,' continued Ollie.
'No? And why not?' the senator asked.

'Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir.'

'Threatened? By whom?' the senator questioned.

'By a Muslim terrorist, sir,' Ollie answered.

'Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?'

'His name is Osama bin Laden, sir,' Ollie replied.


At this point the senator tried to repeat the name,
but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't.
A couple of people laughed at the attempt.
Then the senator
 continued...

Why are you so afraid of this man?' the senator asked.

'Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of,' Ollie answered,
'and the Muslims are trying to take over America
and destroy it from the inside out
and putting their people into our political offices.'

'And what do you recommend we do about him?' asked the senator.

'Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team
be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth.'

The senator
 disagreed with this approach,
and that was all that was shown of the clip.

By the way, that senator was Al Gore!


Also:

Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in
Israel in 1986.
The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him.
As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993,
Israel had to agree to release so-called 'political prisoners.'

However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands.
The American President at the time, Bill Clinton,
and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher,
'insisted' that all prisoners be released.

Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked us
by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center .
This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time
that the terrorists were first identified.

It was censored in the US from all later reports.


If you agree that the American public
should be made aware of this fact,
pass this on.

Do Not Break - It is 12 years strong.


This has not been broken since 9/11/01,
please keep it going...

This has been kept alive and moving since 9/11.
In memory of all those who perished that morning;
the passengers and the pilots on the United Air and AA flights,
the workers in the World   Trade Center  and the Pentagon,
and all the innocent bystanders...
Our prayers go out to the friends
and families of the deceased.



Have a great day!
&
Don't forget to laugh often!

An Open Letter to "Gay" Teens by Matt Barber


PULLING NO PUNCHEs – should be mandatory reading for all teenagerS
An open letter to 'gay' teens
by Matt Barber – www.wnd.com
Exclusive: Matt Barber shares what he'd say to his son if he 'came out' homosexual
Who am I? I’m a husband and a father. More importantly, and by the grace of God, I’m a follower of Jesus Christ.
This is what motivates me to write you.
You don’t have to read on, but I pray you will.
What I write I write with the purest of aims and with your well-being in mind – physical, emotional and spiritual well-being, both now and for eternity.
You will read truth here, not because I say it’s true – I’m nobody – but, rather, because the Creator of the universe, the very God Who wove you together in your mother’s womb made it true.
His truths never change.
I have three kids, a boy and two girls. My son will soon enter his teenage years. I’ve had many people ask me what I’d say to my children if one of them came to me and declared: “Dad, I’m gay.”
Here’s what I’d say. I’d tell them exactly what I’m about to tell you.
I love you. I neither judge you nor condemn you. I accept you and I would die for you.
But you are not “gay.”
Yes, you may be physically attracted to people of the same sex, but how you act on those attractions is entirely your choice. Who you are – your identity – is not defined by your sexual feelings, temptations or behaviors. The difference between who you are and what you feel or do is as the difference between night and day.
Here is who you are: You are a wonderful, beautiful, precious human being created in the image and likeness of the one righteous and Holy God of the universe.
You are priceless.
But you are flawed – you are a sinner.
I am flawed – I am a sinner.
We are all flawed sinners – corrupted beings in a corrupted world. We are all tempted by sin.
Those temptations manifest themselves in different ways for each of us. We are all on equal footing, however, as to how we react to those temptations.
Homosexual behavior is always wrong – demonstrably and absolutely wrong.  Period.
Every major world religion, thousands of years of history and uncompromising human biology declare this objective reality from the rooftops.
Though your heart may deceive you, something deep within you knows this to be true. Scripture says, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. …” (Jeremiah 17:9)
Some say, “But Jesus never mentioned homosexuality.” First, we don’t know this. We have no record in Scripture of Him specifically addressing homosexual sin, but neither do we have a record of His addressing incest, bestiality or other sexual sins.
Jesus was clear. He condemned all sexual immorality as detailed within the moral law. He was clear that any sexual activity outside the bonds of marriage between husband and wife is sexual immorality – sin.
In fact, homosexual sin is expressly identified in both the Old and New Testaments as being among the list of sins that, if committed without repentance, will prevent you from “inheriting the kingdom of God.”
That is to say, yes; unrepentant homosexual behavior is disobedience to God. If we rebel against God and refuse to repent and ask His forgiveness, then we have chosen our own fate – we have chosen to disqualify ourselves from heaven.
We have chosen hell.
I know, it’s not easy. Temptation is not easy.
To sin, however, is easy.
Still, to endure the consequences of that sin, both here and throughout eternity, will be more difficult than our limited minds can fathom.
Romans 6:23 admonishes: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Sin can lead to physical death; but it also leads to emotional and spiritual death.
If you are caught up in homosexual sin, you know – intuitively you know – that such conduct is wrong, that it is both immoral and unnatural behavior.
Truth is truth, even though we may deny it.
God has written His law on your heart. You are a physical being; but, more importantly, you are a spiritual being. When we sin, we create separation between ourselves and God.
God’s word also says that when we sin sexually, it’s particularly egregious because our bodies are the temple of Christ. This separation from God – a natural result of sexual sin – can lead to depression and even despair.
If you feel such despair, know this: it is not “homophobia” causing it, as adult enablers might tell you, but, rather, it is the sin itself that causes it (or struggling alone, absent Christ, with the temptation to sin).
You are being used. Adult homosexual activists with a political agenda are using you as a pawn to achieve selfish goals in a dangerous political game.
You’re just a means to an end.
They may have convinced themselves otherwise, but they don’t care about you. They don’t love you. They can’t. Their version of “love” is built on lies. It’s devoid of truth.
Love without truth is hate.
If you continue down this wide, empty path, make no mistake: it will not “get better.”
It gets much, much worse.
Consider, for instance, that according to the CDC this path will lead you, boys, to a one-in-five chance of contracting HIV/AIDS. The CDC also found that 64 percent of all syphilis cases strike “gay” males and that homosexual behavior leads to astronomical risk of nearly all other forms of STD.
Even more startling is the fact that, according to the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE), “[L]ife expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men.”
Unnatural behaviors beget natural consequences. “The wages of sin is death.”
But there is hope.
Jesus loves you with a love that no human can fully grasp. This is true not because of your so-called “sexual orientation,” but, rather, it is true in spite of it.
Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)
Kids, take your sexual confusion – your struggle with sin – to Christ.
No one else can give you rest.

On this day in 1945


February 23:  On this day in 1945, Marines from 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment, 5th Division of the United States Marines Corps raised the American flag on the summit of the 500′ high Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.

A second flag was later raised and photographed.

22,000 Japanese defended Iwo Jimo. Only 200 were taken alive.  6000 Marines died and 17000 were wounded.

Friday, February 22, 2013

Facts About the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting


Here are some facts about the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history with 32 fatalities.

- The shooter used two handguns; a 15-round 9mm Glock and a 10-round P22 target pistol.
- The shooter changed ammunition clips more than 20 times over a period of 20 minutes as he walked from classroom to classroom shooting people in the head.
- The shooter returned to classrooms on multiple occasions, killing additional people who were hiding under desks.
- Police did not arrive at the scene until right before the shooter took his own life.

Still think limiting high capacity magazines will do any good?
Still think allowing teachers and administrators to carry concealed weapons is a stupid idea?

Why you should eat Shrimp Tempura today


This is Ember Week in Lent.  During the week after the 1st Sunday of Lent we observe the Ember Days of Lent.  

“Ember” derives from Anglo-Saxon ymbren, “a circuit or revolution (from ymb, “around”, and rennen, “to run”), the annual wheel of the sun.”

Winter, spring, summer and autumn all had their Ember Days under the Catholic Missal until 1962.   Now, Embertides are only observed by the most traditional of Catholics and Anglo-Saxons. 

In Latin we call the Ember Days the Quatuor Tempora, or "four times" of the year.  This Latin term gave rise to a form of food which we think of as a Japanese creation.

In the 16th Century. Spanish and Portuguese missionaries settled in Nagasaki, Japan.  From their interest in inculturation and out of sensitivity for the ways of the people, they tried to make meatless meals for Embertide, which is a fast time.  They started deep-frying shrimp.  The Japanese ran with and developed it to perfection.  This is “tempura,” again from the Latin term for the Ember Days "Quatuor Tempora". 


Learn more about Embertides:  http://www.fisheaters.com/emberdays.html

Wishing You a Happy Spring Embertide


Wishing You a Happy Spring Embertide

History:  Four times a year, the Catholic Church sets aside three days (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday) to focus on God through His marvelous creation.

These quarterly periods take place around the beginnings of the four natural seasons.

Ember Days are days favored for first Communions, alms-giving and other penitential and charitable acts, and prayer for the souls in Purgatory.

Medieval lore says that during Embertides, the souls in Purgatory are allowed to appear visibly to those on earth who pray for them.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8:
All things have their season,
and in their times all things pass under heaven.
A time to be born and a time to die.
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
A time to kill, and a time to heal.
A time to destroy, and a time to build.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh.
A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather.
A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
A time to get, and a time to lose.
A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
A time to rend, and a time to sew.
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
A time of war, and a time of peace.




Obama Says To Eat The Rich


Obama and the Pirates
By Peter Ferrara
American Spectator

“ . . .President Obama still thinks “the rich,” a crass term implying low class social envy, do not pay their “fair share.” He has been barnstorming America saying precisely that for his more than four years in office now. But the indisputable facts from official government sources say otherwise.

The IRS data also shows that in 2009 the middle class, as represented by the middle 20% of income earners, paid just 2.7% of all federal income taxes as a group on net, while earning 15% of the national income. As a result, the top 1% paid almost 15 times as much in federal income taxes as the entire middle 20%, even though the middle 20% earned more income.

With the expiration of the Bush tax cuts only for “the rich,” and the Obamacare tax increases going into effect, top federal income tax rates on the rich rose nearly 20%, the tax rate on capital gains rose nearly 60%, the tax rate on dividends rose nearly 60%, the Medicare payroll tax rate rose 62%, and the death tax was permanently restored.

Moreover, the bottom 40% of income earners as a group on net, instead of paying some taxes to support government programs, services and benefits, were paid cash by the IRS in 2009 equal to 10% of all federal income taxes that year.

The official IRS data also shows that in 2009 the top 20% of income earners, which included those earning more than $74,000, paid 94% of federal individual income taxes. That was 85% more than the share of national income they earned, almost double. The selfish bastards in that top 20% earned just over half of all the income in the country at 51%. Is it fair that they earn so much more than the bottom 20%, which earned almost nothing? Well, I guess that’s what happens when the top 20% includes nearly 6 times as many full time workers as the bottom 20%.

Marxist Principles
Any normal American would say that such an income tax system is more than fair, or that “the rich” actually pay more than their fair share. So what is wrong with President Obama? Why does he keep saying that the rich do not pay their fair share? Is he ignorant? Wouldn’t somebody in his Administration tell him that his own Administration’s data show otherwise?

President Obama’s belief that “the rich” still do not pay their fair share can only be explained on the basis of Marxist principles. To a Marxist, the top 1% earning anything more than the middle class is not fair, no matter how they earned it, fairly or not. So “the rich” are not paying their fair share as long as they are left with more than they “need,” as in a true communist system. This is the only logical explanation of Obama’s rhetoric, and it is fully consistent with Obama’s entire background, and his own published writings.

Notice that Obama kept saying that “the rich” don’t need the Bush tax cuts. That rhetoric follows the most basic Marxist principle, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

For anyone who insists that Obama is only a liberal, and not a Marxist, what is your explanation of why Obama persists in saying that “the rich” do not pay their fair share, in the face of the overwhelming official data to the contrary? Are you saying he is stupid?

The best that can be said for Obama is that anyone who thinks we should increase federal income taxes on “the rich” still more is maybe a pirate rather than a Marxist. Perhaps the Obama logo should be replaced by a skull and crossbones, with a tri-corner pirate hat on top.”


Thursday, February 21, 2013

Another Fractured Fairy Tale by Barack Obama


“President Obama persists in spreading the dishonest falsehood that billionaires pay lower tax rates than their secretaries. That is based on a cartoon version of our tax code.

CBO reports to the contrary that in 2009:
the top 1% paid an average federal tax rate of 29%,
while the middle 20% paid an average federal tax rate of only 11.1%,
and the bottom 20% paid an average federal tax rate of 1%.

. . . the rich already pay far more than their fair share.  

Official IRS data show that the top 1% of income earners pay 39% of all federal income taxes, while earning only 13% of the income.
The middle 20% of income earners, the true middle class, pays only 2.7% of all federal income taxes, while earning 15% of the income.

So the top 1% pays 15 times as much federal income tax as the entire middle 20%, or middle class, even though the middle 20% earns more in income.

The bottom 40% of income earners rather than paying any taxes to support the government actually receives payments from the IRS equal to about 10% of all federal income tax revenues.

And this was before the $2 trillion in tax rate increases on the rich, in the fiscal cliff deal.

We need a law that would hold President Obama personally liable when he uses the trappings of office to spread outright fairy tales.

By Peter Ferrara
American Spectator

Obama Lies Again About Who Is Cutting Medicare


If his lips are moving, he is lying . . .

Remember:  “ . . .only President Obama and the Democrats have slashed Medicare, when they passed Obamacare in 2010, which cut trillions actually in future Medicare spending, by adopting payment formulas that would pay the doctors and hospitals that are expected to provide the health care to seniors even less than Medicaid pays to doctors and hospitals for health care for the poor.

The Republicans have not cut Medicare by a single dime. Remember the last time they had Congressional majorities in both houses, they enacted the Medicare prescription drug plan, Medicare Part D.

That may not have been a good idea, but the point here is that every time Obama talks about Republicans cutting Medicare, he is talking out of all three sides of his mouth.”

By Peter Ferrara
American Spectator

Obama Caught In Bald-Faced Lie Again


Greta Van Susteren played a montage of political statements on the sequester.
From the video, it is clear that the sequester cuts were a product of the White House.
It is also clear that Obama continues to get away with a bald-faced lie that the idea was something Congress proposed.

Here’s the proof:



What Obama Doesn't Want You To Know About The Sequester


What Obama Doesn’t Want You to Know:

“The supposedly draconian sequester will reportedly cut that by $85 billion, which is just 2%. In fact, as Mark Levin pointed out last night, the actual cuts for this year from that level are $44 billion, which is 1% of the budget.

Even after the fearsome sequester, federal discretionary spending will still be $60 billion more than in 2008.

The government’s own Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified $125 billion in government waste that can be cut without hurting anybody.

The Republicans, however, have done their job. The House passed a bill designating $1.2 trillion in rationalized cuts over 10 years to replace the more arbitrary sequester cuts weeks ago. If President Obama and the Democrats disagreed with the Republican cuts, it was their job to pass what they wanted instead through the Senate.

And the sequester will help the economy, not hurt it. The sequester means the federal government will not drain another $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years out of the market economy, but leave it in the market to contribute to higher production. How does the federal government borrowing or taxing that money out of production in the private sector and using it to hire more bureaucrats, or to spend on more welfare for people who are not working and not producing, contribute to more jobs, more hiring, more economic growth, and more prosperity? It doesn’t, which is why Keynesian economics never works.

But this is the President again playing you, because he thinks you are too stupid and uninformed to pay attention to what has been going on.

What Obama is saying here is that most Americans agree that cutting spending hurts the economy, but raising taxes doesn’t. And if you do agree, and willingly allow Obama to play you like that, it is you who are stupid.”

By Peter Ferrara
American Spectator

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Obama on the Pope’s Resignation: It’s all about me!


Obama on the Pope’s Resignation: It’s all about me!
By Ben Johnson

President Barack Obama has released a statement on the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and, as usual, it’s all about himself. In three spartan sentences, he manages to use the word “I” four times.

The use of the first-person singular is Obama’s own Holy Tradition, a hallmark of both his rhetoric and his governing style. His administration is a Magisterium of one.

Nonetheless, one line is particularly galling: “Michelle and I warmly remember our meeting with the Holy Father in 2009, and I have appreciated our work together over these last four years.”  

That mutual work has consisted of:
  • Stripping the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops of federal grants to fight sex trafficking, because the USCCB would not refer patients for abortion;
  • Forcing Catholic non-profits and laity to violate their faith by financing abortifacients at home and abortion around the world;
  • Publicly advocating the redefinition of the family, something the pope said just last month threatens “the future of humanity”;
  • Trying to have the government decide who is a “minister,” a ploy with far-reaching implications that the Supreme Court unanimously struck down;
  • Reducing the “freedom of religion” to a mere “freedom of worship”; and
  • Generally trying to shoehorn people of faith into a tiny, hermetically sealed box as far removed from the public square as possible.
In other words, Obama thanked himself for a four-year relationship that has been purely adversarial.

As Bill Clinton might say, that takes a lot of brass.

One is tempted to interpret Obama’s strange show of appreciation as a sign of good sportsmanship, rather like opposing teams shaking hands after a basketball game. One could also detect an oblique sense of gloating, as he congratulates himself on outflanking the Church in the United States, often with the active aid and participation of the Catholic laity and ordained.

Compare Obama’s statement with that of House Speaker John Boehner, who is Catholic:
The prayers and gratitude of American Catholics are with Pope Benedict XVI today. The Holy Father’s decision displays extraordinary humility and love for the Church, two things that have been the hallmarks of his service. Americans were inspired by his visit to the United States in 2008, and by his quiet, steady leadership of the Church in uncertain times. People of all nations have been blessed by the sacrifices he has made to sow the seeds of hope, justice, and compassion throughout the world in the name of Our Lord and Savior.

Note the reverence, the attention to the good the other person has done, the beneficial impact someone else’s actions have had, and the reference to a Higher Being. 

Obama essentially read the pontiff out of his own statement, indulging him only insofar as the pope happened to coincide with his interests and those of the coalition that elected him.
Note to Speaker Boehner: This is how the conservative grassroots expect you to “work together” with President Obama in his second term.

“I have appreciated our work together over these last four years.”

Riiiiight.

http://therightswriter.com/2013/02/obama-on-popes-resignation-i-have-appreciated-our-work-together-over-these-last-four-years/

NARAL: Where did all our supporters go?


"One of the nation's most prominent abortion rights groups is working to remake its image in response to concern that it may be overtaken by a growing cadre of young anti-abortion activists," Roll Call reports. "Its message: This is not your mother's NARAL."

That's undoubtedly true. If you're under 40, NARAL's efforts make it much likelier that your mother didn't even have children. There's something both poignant and funny about a group devoted to abortion puzzling over its difficulty in finding young people to support it.

By JAMES TARANTO

Wall Street Journal

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The River Analogy


The River

I'll never forget the first time I drove along the river's banks. I had to look up at the passing ships because in some places, the bed of the river is so high, it's above the surrounding land. It can be kept confined to its channel only by dikes. If the dikes were not there, the river would flow out across the surrounding land and destroy everything.

Year after year, decade after decade, the bed of the river rises, and the government responds by raising the dikes. What causes the bed to rise?   .......The dikes......

Here's why…
 
In college during the mid-1960s, I took a geology course. The professor used the Mississippi as an example of what happens when government "experts" try to improve on natural systems.

The Mississippi is America's largest, most important river, which means its behavior affects millions of voters. In the 1800s, some of these voters built their farms and towns on the river's floodplains.

I once heard another geologist ask angrily, "Why do you think we call it a floodplain?!" In the 1800s, some of the voters decided the government should do something about the flooding. Did the politicians say no? Of course not. They said, give us more money and power, and we will fix your problem. They started building dikes.

My geology professor explained that when a river is confined to its channel, it has no place to dump its silt except in the channel. This raises the bottom of the river, until the river overtops the dikes. Did the politicians admit that building dikes was a bonehead idea? Absolutely not. They said, these worsening floods are a huge problem, but give us more money and power… and we will build the dikes even higher.

And so it has gone for more than a century. The dikes are raised, which lifts the bed of the river, causing more flooding, plus more demands for higher dikes. All the while, the cities on the floodplains grow larger.

In 1883, the great river pilot Mark Twain warned that efforts to control the river were futile. "10 thousand river commissions" could not do it. As you can see on the TV news, he was certainly right.

My professor 46 years ago said it was well understood among geologists that this addiction to dikes, piling mistake on top of mistake, would eventually lead to catastrophe. No one listened, and the government kept on "fixing" the flood problem until here we are today, with a river that is above the surrounding land.

As an aside, it's interesting to note…
 
… another word for dike is levee, which is the French word "levee," meaning "to lift."

Lots of rivers have levees – mistakes piled on top of mistakes. In 2008, hydrologist Robert Criss showed that the bed of the Mississippi is now so high that over the previous 25 years, Twain's hometown, Hannibal, Mo., had been hit by 10 floods, including one 200-year flood and one 500-year flood.

The insane attempt to improve on a natural system was begun by an Army engineer named Andrew Humphreys (1810-1883). This is the same General Humphreys who led thousands of troops to their deaths in the Civil War, then wrote that he enjoyed battle so much "I felt more like a god than a man." After 1865, Humphreys continued his pursuit of godlike sensations by declaring war on the river.

I'm sure it is not an accident…
 
… that this attempt to control every inch of America's greatest river system became a hot project during the era the socialism of Karl Marx was on the rise. Socialism is about control, and just as the democratic and republican politicians have controlled the Mississippi into chaos, they've controlled the rest of the economy into chaos, too.

We are ruled by an idiocracy. (Idiocy + bureaucracy.)

It is often said of socialism, and its offspring Keynesianism, that control breeds more control. This can be seen nowhere more clearly than in the idiocracy's attempt to regulate the Mississippi. All of east Europe, Africa, and Asia have been through the socialist meat grinder.

This is why the first word that comes to mind when we think of these areas is not "wealthy," despite their abundance of oil, gold, and other natural riches. West Europe, too. The debacle with the euro and European Union is more of the inevitable disintegration. Don't expect the repeated bailouts and other stopgap measures to accomplish much. It's just more variations of robbing Peter to subsidize Paul.

Again, the government's management of the Mississippi is a good cross section of the idiocracy's management of the whole economy. All the farms, towns, and cities on the river's floodplains are mal-investment caused by the government's efforts to improve the river. They are another example of what I mean when I say the political meddling in the natural economy is so great that I believe there are whole cities in the wrong places doing the wrong things.

The news media refer to Mississippi floods as natural disasters, but the floods are really…

… political disasters
 
The socialized Mississippi system is a kissing cousin to socialized schools, transportation, monetary system, medical structure, financial framework, and on and on. They all show the same characteristics. Each "fix" creates more problems that need more fixes until it all falls down, which is apparently where we are now.

  No one can predict exactly when the boondoggle will come crashing down, but we know it will. Conditions at Hannibal and many other places seem to be saying the end is near. For the economy as a whole, I think the end is near.

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