A Soldier's Christmas

Wolffe Should Feel Sheepish

This time Sarah Palin was not caught off guard when asked what books she reads, this time by noted Leftist and Palin hater Barbara Walters.

One of the authors Palin mentioned, she turns to for inspiration is CS Lewis. Lewis may be the most accomplished and noted of modern era Christian philosophers, theologians, and apologists. He wrote children’s books too, recognizing the importance of bringing these ideas to kids in a way they could appreciate and understand.

In an interview knucklehead MSNBC commentator Richard Wolffe mocked Palin for reading Lewis for “divine inspiration”. Wolffe “…Divine inspiration from a series of kid’s books…” Even Chris Matthews was taken aback by this particular expression of idiocy.

Apparently Wolffe was only aware Lewis wrote “a series of kids’ books.”

Wolffe makes a living doing commentary? Ummmmm…..

New "Chronicles of Narnia" Movie Meets PC

I respect actors for their craft. I most especially respect Liam Neeson. They just should shut up for the most part and only utter the words given them. It goes back to the observation that it’s better to be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

CS Lewis, arguably the best Christian philosopher, theologian and apologist in modern times, wrote a lot of fiction, one of the most notable being “The Chronicles of Narnia”. It’s a glaringly in your face Christian tale, overflowing with Christian thoughts, metaphors, allusions and symbolism. The third movie of the franchise, "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, is opening this weekend, and some actors and such are opening their mouths and removing all doubt.

Oh no! There’s a controversy! Well, not so much, just an actor saying stupid things. Liam Neeson, the voice of Alsan the lion, says of his character, “Aslan symbolizes a Christlike figure, but he also symbolizes for me Mohammed, Buddha and all the great spiritual leaders and prophets over the centuries." Aslan is resurrected, and is the representation of the crucified and resurrected Christ. CS Lewis left no doubt in this series.

From “Dawn Treader":

“Please Aslan, before we go, will you tell us when we can come back to Narnia again? Please. And oh, do, do, do, make it soon."

"Dearest," said Aslan very gently, "you and your brother will never come back to Narnia."

"Oh, Aslan!!" said Edmund and Lucy both together in despairing voices.

"You are too old, children," said Aslan, "and you must begin to come close to your own world now."

"It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?"

"But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.

"Are — are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.

"I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there."    

Only one spiritual master was resurrected from the dead. Not Mohammed, not Buddha, only Jesus and no one else. Producer Mark Johnson certainly doesn't know his history or theology, saying, "resurrection exists in so many different religions in one form or another, so it's hardly exclusively Christian."  Bet he can’t name one.

Lewis on the Lion:

‘He is an invention giving an imaginary answer to the question, “What might Christ become like if there really were a world like Narnia, and He chose to be incarnate and die and rise again in that world as He actually has done in ours?”’ Jesus is sometimes referred to as “The Lion of Judah”.

I’m surprised Neeson would say this. Some of the overwrought criticisms and denunciations of Neeson are just as dumb as what he said.  It is puzzling though. Neeson is, from what I’ve been able to gather, a practicing Catholic. He grew up in Northern Ireland and was named after the family priest. A couple years ago he produced with some priests a CD of meditations for Lent.  

It certainly doesn’t put Neeson in a very good light. Was he just being PC, and if so why? Is he ashamed of his faith? Is he afraid of Hollywood groupthink backlash? If he is, then that’s sure a cowardly thing. Nor does it put some of the Christian commentators like William Oddie, for example, a fomer editor of  The Catholic Herald saying Neeson’s comments were ‘a betrayal of Lewis’s intention and a shameful distortion’ in a very good light. Just dumb. 

 

Becky Kelley - "Where's the Line to See Jesus"

Just a lovely Christmas song

Should Be in the Guinness Book of Records

This November just passed broke a record…$150.4 billion additional debt; in just thirty days.

The Jurassic Press is saying that if the Obama tax hikes aren’t passed (usually referred to as Bush tax cuts) it will cost the government $855 billion over two years. Bush tax rates were passed in two bills, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (JGTRRA). Just taking the 2003 cuts, using the Jurassic Press’ calculations, that means the US government lost $855 billion in 2003-04, another $855 billion 05-06, another $855 billion 07-08, and another $855 billion 09-10. Yikes! That’s like three and a half $trillion those poor politicians couldn’t get their hands on. Those poor deprived souls.

Does anyone actually believe that $3 trillion plus would really have been spent to reduce debt? That would have been wisely spent? Sadly, there are. Geeeeez.

Glad We Live In a Post Partisan Presidency

The post partisan president that was going to be a unifier comparing Republicans to hostage takers.

“It’s tempting not to negoitate with hostage takers unless the hostage gets harmed… In this case, the hostage was the American people.”

Same guy that thinks the money you earn belongs to the government, and they'll decide who gets to keep how much. Who's holding the American people hostage Barry? 

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
13th Century Plainsong, arranged by Darmon Meader


http://www.carlfischer.com/partbypart/2010/mix/CM9191_O_COME_O_COME_EMMANUEL.mp3


This is really hard hard hard to sing. We're performing this at our concert this coming Sunday. 

Bristol Derangement Syndrome

We have the daughter of a famous politician constantly being attacked by the compassionate, caring, understanding, tolerant Left. The Left constantly harangues all to leave politicians' kids alone. Of course the Obama’s bring their kids into all sorts of issues, “Did you plug the hole yet daddy?” and Ms Obama talking about her kid’s BMI as she pushes for $billions to have the government to control what we eat.

Bristol Palin goes dancing and the Left has a fit of outrage and stupidity. The disgusting and vile alleged comedian Kathy Griffin at a USO show for the troops mock Bristol for being fat, "She's the only contestant in the history of ["Dancing with the Stars"] to actually gain weight." "She's like the white Precious." We were happy to hear the troops booing her.

Then there’s the low life bottom sucking scumbag Keith Olbermann (I suppose this is acceptable language to identify him since he had no problem calling Michele Malkin a mashed up bag of meat) that got all over this twenty year old woman for being Candie's Foundation's abstinence spokesperson. We love Bristol’s response (on Facebook):

“What Mr. Olbermann lacks in originality he makes up for with insincere incredulity. Mr. Olbermann fails to understand that in order to have credibility as a spokesperson, it sometimes takes a person who has made mistakes. Parents warn their children about the mistakes they made so they are not repeated. Former gang members travel to schools to educate teenagers about the risks of gang life. Recovered addicts lecture to others about the risks of alcohol and drug abuse. And yes, a teen mother talks about the benefits of preventing teen pregnancy.

I have never claimed to be perfect. If that makes me the "worst person in the world" to Mr. Olbermann, then I must apologize for not being absolutely faultless like he undoubtedly must be.”

 Alleged comedian Margaret Cho had this to say about Bristol on Dancing with the Stars:  

“I heard from someone who really should know (really should seriously know the dirt really really) that the only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced her to do it.

“Sarah supposedly blames Bristol harshly and openly (in the circles that I heard it from) for not winning the election, and so she told Bristol she ‘owed’ it to her to do DWTS so that ‘America would fall in love with her again’ and make it possible for Sarah Palin to run in 2012 with America behind her all the way. Instead of being supposedly ‘handicapped’ by the presence of her teen mom daughter, now Bristol is going to be an ‘asset’—a celebrity beloved for her dancing.”

It’s all made up BS.

Bristol’s response (on Facebook):

“I met so many interesting people on Dancing With The Stars. It was an incredible experience that I will cherish the rest of my life. I have explained my own motivations for accepting the invitation to dance, which included the simple fact that I was ready to get out of my comfort zone and try something new and challenging. I thought dancing would also be a great way to exercise–and it was. I thought it would boost my confidence–and it did. Notably absent from this calculus were political considerations. You want to talk politics, talk to my mom. You want to talk rumba, waltz and the beautiful Spanish paso doble, I’m your girl (but if you want to talk to the expert, call Mark).

So with this in mind I was somewhat taken aback to read about me in a blog by my friend and fellow contestant, Margaret Cho. In a post she called “Pistol Whipped” she wrote that “the only reason Bristol was on the show was because Sarah Palin forced her to do it. Sarah supposedly blames Bristol harshly and openly . . . for not winning the election,and so she told Bristol she “owed” it to her to do DWTS . . . .” Let me shamelessly steal from Saturday Night Live: “Really, Margaret? Really?”

I will give my friend credit for creativity, and extra points for getting so many “facts” wrong in so few sentences. Let me be blunt: my mom did not “force” me to go on DWTS. She did not ask me either. The show approached me. I thought about it. I made the decision. After first worrying for me in terms of being exposed to those who hate us for what we believe in, both my mom and my dad became my number one supporters. Anyone who watched the show could tell I performed better, and I felt better about myself, when they were in the audience. I wanted to make them both proud, but politics had nothing to do with it. Loving my parents had everything to do with it.

It saddens me that people would think that my mom would “blame” me for anything that occurred in the 2008 election–much less “harshly” and “openly.” I think that canard (there, I said it again), has been floating around since then also. I will set the record straight, though my mom already did in her bestselling book “Going Rogue”; there were a number of reasons President Obama won in 2008, but the primary reason was that the economy was starting to falter and the majority of voters thought Obama could do a better job than my mom and John McCain. It turns out, two years later, the majority of voters were wrong, but we can talk about that another time. The point is, I seriously doubt anyone who considers herself a student of American politics truly believes I impacted even one vote in that election.

There you have it. Why do I want to set the record straight? Because it is this type of hurtful and false narrative that people promote to make my mom look bad. For 20 years my mom had my back–and for the rest of my life I will have hers.

To my friend Margaret Cho, if you ever have a question, call me girlfriend. Don’t ever rely on “sources” who claim to know me or my family. You will be taken every time. And we need to talk. You say you “don’t agree with the family’s politics at all” but I say, if you understood that commonsense conservative values supports the right of individuals like you, like all of us, to live our lives with less government interference and more independence, you would embrace us faster than KD Lang at an Indigo Girls concert.

P.S. If you want to baby-sit Tripp, I could use a night off.

Bristol Palin

 Because these responses are on Facebook, it has been a “news” item in the Jurassic Press asking if Bristol Palin has a ghost writer. Stupid fat girl couldn’t possibly come up with that kind of in your face counter attack on alleged entertainers and “news” people. Plus, the FCC has gotten complaints about members of the vast right wing conspiracy corrupting the competition.

Here’s some deranged quotes about Dancing with the Stars:

From a Pittsburg viewer:

 “…fixed by extreme supporters of the Tea Party and Radical Right-Wing. I find that it has become a political platform for Sarah Palin to improve her image and ooze her political slime.”… “Bristol is not a star, what did she do, she had sex and got pregnant. Lets reward her…I made several calls to ABC’s complaint line and I hope that their phone lines melt. It has become a political movement, with Tea Party websites instructing on how to vote for Bristol. Ridiculousness!”

…and when a judge hugged Bristol:

“…no other dancer was called over for a hug,” (it was a) “signal for the GOP/Tea Party supporters of Sarah Palin to ‘stuff’ the vote for Bristol Palin, who on both dates had to be dragged over the dance floor.”…“My 96 year old Mother-in-Law can dance better than Ms. Palin...I want my Government to protect me the viewer from deceptive practices.”

Then there was the knucklehead that blew his TV away with a shotgun he was so outraged by Bristol Palin.

I heard that Bristol flipped the bird to the deranged and stupid attackers of her and her mother. If true, I say, well done Bristol.  

Candlelight - The Maccabeats - Hanukkah

A little late, but brings a smile.

Atheists, Boycotts, and Christmas

 Is it wise to boycott or even engage atheists anymore in their annual attack on Christianity during the Christmas season?

The Fort Worth chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is beginning a boycott of the buses of the Ft Worth transit authority because of signs from an atheist group with the message, “Millions of Americans are Good Without God" they are putting on the buses.

I don’t know how effective this boycott will be since most bus riders are of limited means, and the bus system is all they’ve got to get around. There’s also counter campaign signage going on the buses, “Jesus is the Reason for the Season”. That should suffice.

I heard on a talk show some atheist putting up billboards denouncing the Season and Christianity’s celebration of the birth of the baby Jesus. He was challenged to show some courage and go to Muslim communities and put up anti Muslim and anti Allah billboards. Of course he won’t because he and his fellow bigots are cowards. Islamophobes.   

Regarding the atheists’ idea of being good without God, where do they think the values of fair and loving treatment of all people come from, all the values of truth, fidelity, not stealing, not murdering and all the rest? The Judaic-Christian value system. All the things atheists value as good are faith based, religion based. This annual attack has little to do with Christianity, it has a lot do with something lacking in their own lives, and rather than being responsible for their own state of beliefs, they lash out, attack and try and make themselves victims.

Neo-atheism is about expressing intolerance and bigotry, about establishing victimhood. One of the women on TMZ went on a rant about hating the season, that it shouldn’t exist, that she would rather work on Christmas Day, that she shouldn’t get paid for having that day off and some other stupid stuff. She attacks the culture and its celebration, rather than taking responsibility for her own actions. She can work that day. She writes for an entertainment online magazine and TV show, and she can still be home and write. She can go work at a homeless shelter that day, or any other charity that’s open then. She can take her pay and give it to someone in need; she doesn’t have to accept the pay. It’s obvious she’s a Statist anti-Christian bigot; she should just own up to it, and take responsibility for her own actions during the Christmas season rather than attacking and wanting to end what brings millions of people love, happiness, family, sharing and joy.

That should be true of all atheists. Traditional atheists have it right. They don’t believe in God. That’s it. They’re done. This using non-belief to attack a cultural and religious tradition is about something else altogether. They need to look to what’s in their own hearts. 

Charity, Church, Stimulus Bill, Faith Based Initiative- An Unholy Alliance Between Church and State

GW Bush began the faith based initiative and I was dubious that it was a good idea. I’ve come to the conclusion it must be banned. Remove the legislation. We must not let the government have any say, none, in how religious institutions take care of people. Money from the government comes with strings. The strings are connected to hellish legislation, rules and controls.

Those create corruption. We don’t want secular State corruption infecting the Church. Some of the (non) “stimulus” money went to churches; they took it for themselves and not for charity works.  Castleton United Methodist Church in Indianapolis got “stimulus” and “faith based” money and bought a new heating and cooling system for their church. The Church of St. Laurence O'Toole in Laramie, WY, bought new windows for a school it runs. About $140 million has gone to religious organizations that can be accounted for.

Catholic Charities USA has received about $50 million so far. According to Recovery.gov, Catholic organizations and churches have received about $90 million, Protestant organizations and churches about $45 million, and Jewish synagogues and organizations about $6 million. Do any of these organizations think the government putting taxpayer money in will not come back to bite them?

There still are some conservatives saying, as they did when faith based legislation was introduced, they are afraid there would be religious discrimination that would send money to secular charities in disproportionate amounts. Not an issue. Religious organizations do get an equal share, and secular governmental controls come with it. That’s a threat to freedom of religion.

Some rules: If getting government dollars religious organizations may not force recipients to participate in explicit religious activity. I thought one of the primary missions of the Church was to introduce and bring people to God. If one teaches and talks about God, Christ, the Church, it must be done separately from the charity service. I’m sure there are other rules sitting quietly on the guidelines for more government control in the future. The only religious leaders I’m finding supporting all this are Liberals. This is a scary day when I have to agree with the Statist, Secularist, anti Christian bigot leader of  Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Barry Lynn, though for different reasons. He’s anti religion (even though he claims to be a minister) and pro government, and is against this because it violates his separation of Church and State misunderstanding.

I’m against the Faith Based Initiative and using “stimulus” money in religious organizations because the government will use it to control. A lot of the money from this is being funneled through various government environmental agencies for “green projects”; weather proofing churches and community environmental programs. What does this have to do with reaching out to the poor, to prisoners, the sick and dying? Nothing, except to get religious organizations to do the bidding of the State.

We get tax free status from the government. That should be the financial basis, along with tithing, for charitable works. Billions of dollars here at home and abroad help billions of the suffering. Anytime government gets involved we will get all the controls and corruption that comes with it. We have enough sin in our own house to deal with; we don’t need government intervention to exacerbate that reality. 

Straight No Chaser: The 12 Days of Christmas (2008 Version)

Possibly the most fun Christmas song ever.

Protecting His Legacy

The Two Faces of Eco-Fascists and the Jurassic Press

"The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won't be posted here."--New York Times, on the Climategate emails, Nov. 20, 2009

"The articles published today and in coming days are based on thousands of United States embassy cables, the daily reports from the field intended for the eyes of senior policy makers in Washington. . . . The Times believes that the documents serve an important public interest, illuminating the goals, successes, compromises and frustrations of American diplomacy in a way that other accounts cannot match."--New York Times, on the WikiLeaks documents, Nov. 29, 2010  

Different tune being played here, and this view runs through all the Jurassic Press. The Statist push for both national and international legislation is just a control device to shake down "developed" countries and redistribute the wealth they have earned, to countries that reject social and economic policies that creates health, wealth, and comfort. 

The Gaia worshippers have been meeting in Cancun, flying in on private jets, driving around in SUV’s and limo’s, staying in five star hotels, and telling the world that successful countries must pay up $trillions to poorer countries. There’s a knucklehead economist from Germany, Ottmar Edenhofer:

"Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War. ... First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole." 

 Oops, sometimes these Statists let slip what their real intentions are. Ol’ Ottmar is, by the way, co-chair of the ‘UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change’. Guess there has to be co-chairs to heft the long pretentious title around.

The Jurassic Press didn't have a problem either with Sarah Palin's personal email account hacked and published. 

The Jurassic Press didn't have a problem when some Democrat operatives in Florida recorded a private conversation between Newt Gringrich and some of the Republican House leadership members, which was released by the Democrat leadership in violation of Federal Law. The congressman nor the operatives were prosecuted.

The Jurassic Press is for the violation of privacy and the law when it suits their Statist purposes. 

Christmas Food Court Hallelujah Chorus

Three (Young) Tenors

A DeLIGHTful Winter and Christmas Home for the Holidays

Merry Christmas!

Marine Gives Voice What They Do and Believe

This is a response to the Dixie Chicks "Not Ready to Make Nice". Sung by active duty Marine Cpl David Thibodeaux, combat vet of both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Communication Breakdown and Control

This appears to be another step for the Obama administration to gain control of the internet. Homeland Security is beginning to shut down websites without notice claiming they are violating copyright laws. The excuse is that the sites are helping visitors download music, vids and other stuff illegally. There are laws and enforcement mechanisms to address this already. Why is ICE involved? 

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the division responsible for the shut downs. Truly? The immigration enforcement people that don’t enforce border law, or round up illegal’s so much, don’t prosecute employers that hire illegals, turn a blind eye to ‘sanctuary cities’ that defy federal law, are enforcing cyber copyright law? Say what?

Can you imagine the hue and cry of  Dems and other Statists if there were a Republican president enforcing this? The same people that objected to the government looking at what some bad guys were checking out of the library or buying at the bookstore, or listening to known terrorists' international calls to the US, or their international bank accounts monitored, have nothing to say or are in support of websites being shut down without due process or even notice. They support or have nothing to say about the violation of the forth amendment against unlawful search and seizures by the Obama administration and its enforcement arm the TSA.

They’ve been failing trying to get the “Fairness Doctrine” reinstated, which would effectively shut down conservative talk radio, and haven’t been able to get “Net Neutrality” passed. So they try other underhanded stuff.

 (Net neutrality is not, of course, about neutrality - it’s about having government control and monitor what carriers are allowed to transmit, to whom, and at what rates with specific and immediate benefits to bandwidth hogs like youtube and specific and immediate limitations on premium services contracts like those Apple put in place with AT&T to give their iPhone a performance advantage.) Full article here.

 The next election can’t get here fast enough to stop this Stalinist attempt to control communication and free speech.

Time for Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to Hit the Road

 Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele is up for reelection, and his time is up. He rode the TEA Party wave to huge Republican wins nation wide, and acts like he was instrumental in it.  Republicans gained 63 House seats with one race still being counted, six Senate seats, ten governorships, and control of several additional state and local houses, senates, councils, mayors and the rest. It happened in spite of him.

Steele has run up expenses, maxing out the $15 million he was given to work with. He started his term with a $23 million surplus, all if it gone and now the RNC is in the hole. There was $79 million raised between election cycles and that’s gone too. A lot of political donations this past cycle went to TEA Party’s, directly to the candidates themselves and conservative third party groups such as Freedomworks and Prosperity for Americans.

I had no objections to him initially, but when he backed down on Jurassic Press attacks and lies on Rush Limbaugh, and his whining about how tough he has it because of his race, he lost me. There were several interviews where he accepted the Liberal premise of questions. That’s weak. Bash ‘em back, show them for the biased, intolerant, liars they are.

He’s played fast and loose with money raising laws for political campaigns making it look like more money was donated than actually was. In Michigan for example, he got the State GOP to donate to the National GOP but gave the money back to the State GOP. Apparently more money can be given to the National level, but the National folks can put however much they want into to local level, or something like that; all to make it look like more money was raised there than was. I’d try and explain it better, but I can’t get my mind around such deviousness. I want an RNC chairman that is able to raise money without deviousness.

Then there was the sex club scandal. RNC operatives using RNC campaign money to visit a strip club, and had to fire his chief of staff when caught. Then it turns out that his “special assistant for finance”, Neil Alpert, was using the RNC debit card on lots of other stuff too. The Republicans attempt to behave according to a moral compass, and when they don’t it’s glaring, and gives the political opposition, that has no moral compass, to be able to cry “hypocrites!”.

There was his interview on “Good Morning America” where he said he and Obama have it tough because they’re black. This was part of his reasoning for attacks on him regarding the (poor) job he was doing as RNC chair. Even the puffy pasty dough boy, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, had it right when he said at the time, “I think Michael Steele’s problem isn’t the race card; it’s the credit card.”

Not only have the Republican base reduced their donations to the RNC, but major donors have too. According the Federal Election Commission, eight or more big time donors in the year leading up to this last election have been giving directly to candidates or third party conservative groups.

Blowing a surplus budget plus all donated money to the RNC, staff spending money on stuff they shouldn’t be, him flying around in private jets and being chauffeured in limos, staying at five star hotels, not defending strong conservative voices, weakly accepting the stupid lying alleged reporters attack questions, and more, all speak the reason why this guy most go.

The RNC needs a spokesman that can generate donations, bash the Jurassic Press and expose them for what they are, control his/her and staff’s spending, and clearly explain conservative principals and programs.   

Thanksgiving

George Washington's Proclamation of the First Thanksgiving:

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; and

Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness:"

Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other trangressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best.

Another Shut Up and ....... Moment

The fabulously wealthy and famous Angelina Jolie believes Thanksgiving is a tale of murder and oppression, the subjugation of one culture by another.

Jolie is a “B” movie actor, a female version of Tom Cruise that has made a bundle making second rate movies with second rate talent. Yet she uses her platform as a nominal actress to bash the country that has supported her. The idea that Thanksgiving is a tale of murder is ridiculous beyond measure. She’s even made sure she’s going to be out of the country.

Maybe she should stay out of the country; give back whatever percentage of her domestic movie sales since this country is so venal. Any future movies she makes should only be released in foreign markets.

Truly, people in the arts just need to shut up and ply their craft. In Jolie’s case, she can read a little history and find out what really happened in the early years of this country, and perhaps read George Washington’s proclamation about Thanksgiving. Get a clue and be thankful. Good grief.

I’ve only seen a couple of her movies, the “Tomb Raider” ones just because it’s a cartoon of mindless mayhem and kinda fun. I don’t think were she to accidentally make a good movie, I’d be inclined to see it. On this Thanksgiving, on of the things I’m thankful for is that I haven’t wasted much time and money on her movies. 

When Does Nuance Meld Into Stupidity?

Huge ignorance, huge ego, huge stupidity.


Stuck on stupid or invincible ignorance?

TSA Strip Search's Little Boy

Yet TSA chief John Pistole says:

“I see flying as a privilege. That is public safety issue so the government has a role in providing public safety and we need to do everything we can in partnership with the public to inform them about what their options are.”  “Passengers have a number of options as you go through screening. Bottom line is if someone decides they don’t want to have screening, they don’t have a right to get on the plane.”

Recognize this?

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Can you imagine the outrage that would be expressed by the Dems and Jurassic Press if this were going on by a Republican President? Look at the brouhaha created over the library stuff in the Patriot Act, or listening to calls between suspected terrorists overseas and people here, or the tracking of terrorists money in banks. That was with a Republican president. Yet not a word, or support and justification for the sexual harassment for the sick, elderly, disabled and children. But this is under a Democrat president.

I heard a caller on a talk show asking where the men are. Men are allowing the mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and children to be molested. Don't know that anyone can do something at the sites of the harassment; the penalties are prison and up to $11,000 dollar fine. If you go into the groping area, and decide you'd rather not go through with it and not fly, you will be arrested.

I heard another caller, that was in Iraq serving in the military, that said when they screened travelers there, they were much more respectful of them that what's she seeing American citizens being treated like here in their own country. And they were in a war zone!

NY City Mosque of Triumph Developers Apply for American Citizens' Money for the Insult

The New York Mosque of Triumph terrorist supporters, against the wishes of an overwhelming majority of American citizens, are still pushing for the insult to America to be built at ground zero. They have applied for money from the US government, our money, to do so. $5 million. Of your money. 

There’s a program administered by the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation (LMDC) than disburses money since 9/11 for community development in the area. It’s been well chronicled that Imam Feisal who is the face of the project and developer Sharif El-Gamal have ties to Islamofacist terrorist organizations.

Feisal goes on and on about his understanding and empathy for the feelings of the American people, but continues on with his plans when the citizens are against this. Now he has applied of the citizens own money to build the monument of triumph over the West.

We find out now why these Islamofacists have been emphasizing the YMCA nature of the structure, not its core religious purpose. To qualify for funding under this program, “… the request is for a facility or portion of a facility that is dedicated to non-religious activities or uses.” 

There’s a lot of criteria to be met, such as this grant money is usually used to help existing projects toward completion or several HUD rules and regulations.

These are people who’s primary purpose is the destruction of the West, the subjugation of everyone to Islamic rule, and they are using our freedoms and money to do this. They know that our political correctness and Liberal induced weaknesses are just the way to go, and get their goals accomplished with no sacrifice on their part. Thank you Barack Obama. Thank you Mayor Bloomberg. Thank you Democrats. Thank you all for your PCness, obedience to and promotion of Islamofacism.  

   

Civilian Security Force?

TSA anyone?

Really?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Crippled Water Foul [sic]

Naming the congressional session or presidential term after crippled water fowl when they are between terms, or headed out of office, goes back to England. A lame duck was originally a businessman that couldn’t pay his debts, and in the 1800’s started being used to identify politicians after elections and in between terms or sessions.

In 1933 the 20^th amendment moved the starting of new sessions and terms for congress and president from March to January. This was done to close a power vacuum between administrations and congresses, and to reduce the chance of politicians to do even more harm to the country since they had nothing to lose, having already lost.

Historically lame duck congresses have not met, the thinking being, correctly, that if they had been voted out of power, they shouldn’t be passing legislation. Dems are more likely to do this, as they did in 1980 when pro-PLO and Hamas supporter and anti-Semite Jimmy Carter and the Dem congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 in December before the new congress and Reagan came to power.

The controlling, greedy, power mad current congress, having been tossed out on their tin ears, are going to try and get their rejected agenda through in these last weeks of the year. Not surprised since they passed ObamaCare against the will of the people around midnight on Christmas Eve last year. Stealth legislation in the dead of night. This from the Administration that came to power stating they would drain the swamp, and have open and transparent governance.  

The cowardly Dems closed congress before passing any economic legislation before the election. They didn’t even pass a budget as required by law. The rest of their Statist agenda was left pending. Still, the Dems will become a dumb duck session trying to pass all this stuff. “Don’t ask don’t tell” which is just a stupid debate. Who cares who you’re poking, just shut up about, anywhere, in or out of the military, and do your damn job. Then there’s the budget, which should have been done months ago, and related to that is whether to let the Bush tax cuts expire. Truly, it should be called the Obama tax increase. Then there’s the “Dream Act” which is a nightmare. Truly, we want illegal immigrants to pay in state tuition when our own citizens can’t afford college?

Then there’s ratification of the START treaty. I hope at least some of these congress critters have read it (unlike most legislation), and it should be put off anyway until the next session. These guys have been sitting on their collective asses on this, so it can wait. Let’s see, we have environmental legislation, part of which makes the gas you exhale while breathing illegal. These are the same knuckleheads saying we of the great unwashed ignore and are ignorant of science.

What else do they want to pass legislation on? Chinese currency and trade policy, food safety, which they tell us what we can eat and child nutrition policy telling us what we can feed kids, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization (after education has received $billions of ‘stimulus’ money), passing a renewable electricity standard and yet more stuff. About twenty bills total they want to address. In less than eight weeks.

Many of these congress critters have been fired. This is like an incompetent employee being fired and still coming to work. We need to amend the 20^th amendment to state that congress shall not meet after elections unless it’s a national emergency that requires their attention. Even then it would be better to keep them out of Washington DC. If these dumb ducks cared about the citizens like they say, they should embrace the chance to stay home in their districts with the folks for a couple months. Especially during the holiday season.        

Simple Yet Fun Explanation of US Monetary Policy

This is the best explanation of Fed monetary policy I've come across yet. Funny yet sad. Makes me happysad.

My Favorite Movies

On Facebook a friend ask to name top 15 movies, which I did, but couldn't stop. Here's the rest I could think of:

The Big Sleep ~ Bogart

Farewell, My Lovely ~ Bogart

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Miller’s Crossing

The Godfather

Citizen Kane

The Searchers

Lawrence of Arabia

Star Wars (original)

Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Year of Living Dangerously

Bullitt

Ben Hur

High Noon

Nevada Smith

Winchester ‘73

Comes a Horseman

Midnight Cowboy

The Crying Game

Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)

Groundhog Day

The Jazz Singer

Planet of the Apes (original)

Goodfellas

Rocky (original)

My Fair Lady

Camelot

The Music Man

A Clockwork Orange

Terms of Endearment

The Deer Hunter

Once We Were Warriors

Stop Making Sense

A Man for All Seasons

Network

The Violent Men

The Great Escape

Blazing Saddles

Double Indemnity

Judgment at Nuremburg

Fantasia

When Harry Met Sally

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Brief Encounters of the Third Kind

Shane

The Seven Samurai

It’s a Wonderful Life

The Nightmare Before Christmas

2001: A Space Odyssey

Aliens

Annie Hall

The Big Chill

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Cool Hand Luke

Easy Rider

Apocalypse Now

Hud

Rashomon

The Third Man

Casablanca

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The French Connection

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Where'd the Stimulus Money Go Anyway?

The Stimulus Package. It stimulated government just fine. There’s been a 20% increase in the size of government since Obama assumed power.

Where’d it go? It was supposed to go to the private sector to create jobs. Seen any new private sector jobs lately?

A huge chunk, most, went to education. You know, those union people that don’t teach our kids and whine they don’t get enough money for schools and salaries.  More than two thirds of the 594,754.3 jobs the Dems and RHINO’s take credit for, were in the education sector. There are more public sector union members than there are private sector. A third of those jobs are in education.

Stimulus money got some fat pay raises for government employees too. USA Today: “The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded.”  “When the recession started, the Transportation Department had only one person earning a salary of $170,000 or more. Eighteen months later, 1,690 employees had salaries above $170,000.” Just a couple examples.

There was the “Cash for Clunkers” that blew through a billion dollars funding in a week, and then received an additional two billion from Congress. Three $billion spent for old cars by taxpayers, and no more cars were sold for the year than ordinarily. The rest of us couldn’t afford new cars because we’re paying for all that government largess for others to buy new cars. Then there was that issue too of Obama and the Dems closing down all those car dealerships; all but one of them being owned by Republicans.

So the package only benefited government employees, Democrat car dealership owners, unions and the Democrat Party. That money going to the unions by the way, your tax money, was used to finance Democrat politicians running for office in the last election. The circle of Statist life…take money from the citizens and give it to public union supporters to pay for your election so you can raise more taxes to give to the unions to pay off your political campaigns and life styles so you can raise more taxes to give more money to the unions to….

The collective personal wealth of congressional members increased by more than 16 percent between 2008 and 2009. Members of the House saw their median wealth move from $765,010 in 2008, to $645,503 in 2009 and Senators moved from $2.27 million to $2.38 million.

Looks like politicians, some Wall Street fat cats, government bureaucrats, and public sector union members did just fine with the stimulus package. Our Leftist friends think all this is fine and dandy. The citizens don't need none of their stinkin' money they earned. The money you earn belongs to the government in the first place, and they'll tell you how much of it you get to keep.