Friday, November 7
Real hope and change brighten dark days ...
Less than 48 hours after the darkest day, there already is news of real hope and change!
Conservative leaders met in Virginia Thursday to begin planning the opposition to President-elect Barack Obama's liberal agenda -- an effort they say will be made with or without the Republican Party.
Among those on hand were L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council; Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform; Al Regnery, publisher of the American Spectator; longtime conservative activist Richard Viguerie and conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway, according to CNSNews.com.
The leaders expect to battle Obama, Democratic-dominated Congress and even moderate Republicans on taxes, sanctity of life, marriage, judicial nominations, secret ballots for union organizing and the Fairness Doctrine, which threatens freedom of speech on the radio.
Bozell said the group sees the election was not a defeat to conservative ideas and principles but to a Republican Party that mistakenly shunned these principles: “This was a campaign between the moderate wing of the Republican Party and the Democrats.” To which Viguerie said, “Conservatism did not lose – big-government Republicanism lost.”
Conservatives solutions are just as viable as ever. So we need to do a much better job of selling the benefits. “Information is the currency of democracy,” as Thomas Jefferson used to say. So we've got to increase the quality and extent of our communication.
As a conservative my fear is that the people won't understand. But I take heart in the fact liberals are afraid the people WILL understand and thus support conservative solutions to our nation's problems.
It's urgent we spread the good news before empowered liberals transform American into a socialist nation.
Socialism, and its penchant for redistributing wealth, is nothing new. It was old stuff back in Winston Churchill's day, leading him to say: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
And over time its axiom is this: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Say, isn't that the definition of crazy: repeatedly doing the same thing, expecting a different result?
The wise Mr. Jefferson also stated: "Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
To those who advocate socialism, I say show us just one successful example. But it's likely they'd arrogantly answer, "Well, WE haven't tried yet."
See if you don't agree Dean Koontz correctly pegged Democrat elitists like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean:
"Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it," Koontz said. "They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite."
Americans misguidedly bought into the benefits of socialism on election Day. Now they need to quickly be brought up to speed on its detriments. Many have no idea how Obama's half-baked ideas have been tried over and over elsewhere and repeatedly led to disaster.
Liberals excitedly see the way clear to make progress with their agenda. If, however, you're on the wrong road to begin with, true progress necessitates an about-face to get back to the right road. Until then, every step makes it worse.
We, as conservatives, thus must get this vital message out to America's grass roots and generate support for our leaders in exile as they map the road back to sanity. Tell friends and family. Speak up when possible. Direct everyone to sources that tell the truth about conservatism and socialism.
Conservative leaders met in Virginia Thursday to begin planning the opposition to President-elect Barack Obama's liberal agenda -- an effort they say will be made with or without the Republican Party.
Among those on hand were L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center; Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council; Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform; Al Regnery, publisher of the American Spectator; longtime conservative activist Richard Viguerie and conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway, according to CNSNews.com.
The leaders expect to battle Obama, Democratic-dominated Congress and even moderate Republicans on taxes, sanctity of life, marriage, judicial nominations, secret ballots for union organizing and the Fairness Doctrine, which threatens freedom of speech on the radio.
Bozell said the group sees the election was not a defeat to conservative ideas and principles but to a Republican Party that mistakenly shunned these principles: “This was a campaign between the moderate wing of the Republican Party and the Democrats.” To which Viguerie said, “Conservatism did not lose – big-government Republicanism lost.”
Conservatives solutions are just as viable as ever. So we need to do a much better job of selling the benefits. “Information is the currency of democracy,” as Thomas Jefferson used to say. So we've got to increase the quality and extent of our communication.
As a conservative my fear is that the people won't understand. But I take heart in the fact liberals are afraid the people WILL understand and thus support conservative solutions to our nation's problems.
It's urgent we spread the good news before empowered liberals transform American into a socialist nation.
Socialism, and its penchant for redistributing wealth, is nothing new. It was old stuff back in Winston Churchill's day, leading him to say: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
And over time its axiom is this: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Say, isn't that the definition of crazy: repeatedly doing the same thing, expecting a different result?
The wise Mr. Jefferson also stated: "Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”
To those who advocate socialism, I say show us just one successful example. But it's likely they'd arrogantly answer, "Well, WE haven't tried yet."
See if you don't agree Dean Koontz correctly pegged Democrat elitists like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean:
"Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it," Koontz said. "They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite."
Americans misguidedly bought into the benefits of socialism on election Day. Now they need to quickly be brought up to speed on its detriments. Many have no idea how Obama's half-baked ideas have been tried over and over elsewhere and repeatedly led to disaster.
Liberals excitedly see the way clear to make progress with their agenda. If, however, you're on the wrong road to begin with, true progress necessitates an about-face to get back to the right road. Until then, every step makes it worse.
We, as conservatives, thus must get this vital message out to America's grass roots and generate support for our leaders in exile as they map the road back to sanity. Tell friends and family. Speak up when possible. Direct everyone to sources that tell the truth about conservatism and socialism.
Thursday, November 6
Are you shocked by post-election rioting ...
Alarmed by news reports of violent rioting that followed the election? Shocked by footage of burning buildings, looted store windows and overturned cars, of armored police lines marching against rock-throwing voters disgruntled by Tuesday's outcome?
Of course you aren't. Nothing of the sort happened!
But had Sen. John McCain prevailed, well, I wonder.
Note the difference between the attitudes of Democrats in 2000 and 2004 and that of Republicans after the 2008 election. Supporters of Al Gore and John Kerry despised George W. Bush so much they failed to respect the office of President. And our nation has suffered as a result of the hateful precedent.
No exaggeration, no slander, no insult was beneath them. Democrats didn't care if their bashes of Bush even came close to the truth, they just had to ridicule America's Commander in Chief every way possible before the world during a time of war.
But the disrespect didn't end there. Senate Democrats, out of their minds under Bush, showed no respect for the U.S. Constitution and insisted on filibustering judicial nominees, requiring an unlawful number of votes for approval.
Until then, America had been the marvel of the world for its peaceful transitions in government leadership. For more than two centuries, the losing side swallowed its pride and rightly stepped aside, knowing the people had spoken.
Republicans apparently are intent on ending the "sore loser" streak. Say what you will about President Bush, but he is showing a great deal of class in helping Obama and the Democrats smoothly take over the reins.
Could what's in the best interests of the United States trump petty partisan politics? Could Republicans be practicing the Golden Rule and doing unto others as should have been done unto them?
I seriously doubt if miffed members of the departing administration are going to loot or vandalize Capital offices or remove the "O" from keyboards like Clintonistas did with the "W."
And I'm pretty sure the 55 million voters disappointed by Tuesday's outcome will return respect to the office of the presidency. We may not agree with or support what the new President wants, but we're not going to hatefully ridicule Obama because our man didn't win.
Of course you aren't. Nothing of the sort happened!
But had Sen. John McCain prevailed, well, I wonder.
Note the difference between the attitudes of Democrats in 2000 and 2004 and that of Republicans after the 2008 election. Supporters of Al Gore and John Kerry despised George W. Bush so much they failed to respect the office of President. And our nation has suffered as a result of the hateful precedent.
No exaggeration, no slander, no insult was beneath them. Democrats didn't care if their bashes of Bush even came close to the truth, they just had to ridicule America's Commander in Chief every way possible before the world during a time of war.
But the disrespect didn't end there. Senate Democrats, out of their minds under Bush, showed no respect for the U.S. Constitution and insisted on filibustering judicial nominees, requiring an unlawful number of votes for approval.
Until then, America had been the marvel of the world for its peaceful transitions in government leadership. For more than two centuries, the losing side swallowed its pride and rightly stepped aside, knowing the people had spoken.
Republicans apparently are intent on ending the "sore loser" streak. Say what you will about President Bush, but he is showing a great deal of class in helping Obama and the Democrats smoothly take over the reins.
Could what's in the best interests of the United States trump petty partisan politics? Could Republicans be practicing the Golden Rule and doing unto others as should have been done unto them?
I seriously doubt if miffed members of the departing administration are going to loot or vandalize Capital offices or remove the "O" from keyboards like Clintonistas did with the "W."
And I'm pretty sure the 55 million voters disappointed by Tuesday's outcome will return respect to the office of the presidency. We may not agree with or support what the new President wants, but we're not going to hatefully ridicule Obama because our man didn't win.
The fight has just begun -- let's get it right ...
The not-so-Grand Old Party is in such disarray that a complete overhaul is mandatory for survival. Because America thrives when the GOP champions conservative ideals and ethical reform, Republicans must reach deep down to their faithful grass roots, get back in touch with the party's right-minded base and then boldly build from the ground up to again have a chance to win back the Oval Office and regain control of Congress.
One factor may well provide that opportunity. As Clintonian Democrats used to say: "It's the economy, stupid." How ironic that the main reason the electorate tilted toward Barack Obama is the main reason why he won't be able to have his Marxist way with the land we love.
As Dick Morris rightly points out, Obama will serve more as "a trustee or conservator of a bankrupt company" than as President backed by an obedient Congress. Obama has little maneuverability because right behind the mortgage crisis looms the credit-card crisis, then the student-loan crisis and the car-loan crisis.
"Sweating this mess out of the system will take two years of zero growth or contraction," Morris wrote in his Thursday column. "We won't have a Great Depression, for the government will irrigate our economy with money. But we'll have stagnation, followed by inflation."
So the economic crisis likely will keep the most liberal man ever in the White House from indulging his anti-capitalism and unAmerican ideologies. A faltering economy should stop Obama from redistributing wealth and hiking our taxes for the massive money needed to make his envisioned socialist state a reality.
And that should buy time for the tattered conservative movement to mend and be reborn as an effective opposition party to recapture the support of right-minded America. So should Obama attempt to move the country too far left, that will only help reunite conservatives.
Not only that, but while Democrats tend not to learn from history, 1994's sting of being run out of power is fresh in many memories. So even though Obama has House and Senate majorities similar to what President Bill Clinton enjoyed, many Democrats -- including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- are anxious to avoid the same heavy-handed mistakes that previously swept them out of office.
"The country must be governed from the middle," Pelosi told reporters Wednesday. "You have to bring people together to reach consensus on solutions that are sustainable and acceptable to the American people."
That, too, if true, may also provide conservatives an opportunity to regroup. But who will lead the way? The hunt is on for the next Ronald Reagan, for Mr. Right. Or perhaps Mrs. Right?
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin looms as one of many people to influence Republican comeback strategy. Beloved by talk radio, she's a proven reformer who has successfully implemented conservative solutions to her state's problems.
Grover Norquist, a leading conservative and president of Americans for Tax Reform, called her "one of five or six people who is a plausible candidate for president in 2012," along with familiar names like Mike Huckabee, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
The media, always wrong, will again urge us to move to the left and become more like the Democratic Party. However, Republicans win by running on President Ronald Reagan’s ideas and lose when we move left. Instead, let's hammer a stake through the hard heart of big-government Republicanism and quickly put that blood-sucking vilain to death.
“The conservative movement will rise again," promises Phyllis Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum. But the veteran conservative activist warns the movement needs to start over again -– from the beginning.
“The conservative movement knows how to rise from the ashes, and we need to pick up the pieces of the movement, which was so badly dismantled and put in disarray by the George W. Bush administration. But we can do it. And we’ve got to get started immediately,” she said.
Democrats expect Republicans to raise the white flag and admit that our principles of freedom, responsibility and smaller government no longer hold the answer to America's myriad problems. The guys in the black hats want us to abandon our principles, stand aside and give Obama and a Democratic-dominant Congress free rein.
That must not happen! And I don't think it will.
God's people, of course, must come to their senses. And quickly! Far too many were shamefully duped by the wolf in sheep's clothing, allowing Obama to lure away a significant number of "religious voters" who historically side with Republican presidential candidates. Exit polls show him winning a strong majority of both Catholic and Protestant Hispanics to go with nearly all black Protestants.
Remember this: Obama couldn't be more pro-abortion. This homosexual activist doesn't believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life or that those who reject Christ are headed for hell. What's worse, now that the President elect has fooled enough Christians to grab power as a false prophet, he will be coming after us to silence the truth we would speak against his ultra-liberal agenda for America.
Sen. John McCain's loss was NOT a defeat for conservatism. I believe McCain lost because he strayed far from the principles that made the old party grand.
The fight really has only just begun. God is still with us. This time, let's get it right!
One factor may well provide that opportunity. As Clintonian Democrats used to say: "It's the economy, stupid." How ironic that the main reason the electorate tilted toward Barack Obama is the main reason why he won't be able to have his Marxist way with the land we love.
As Dick Morris rightly points out, Obama will serve more as "a trustee or conservator of a bankrupt company" than as President backed by an obedient Congress. Obama has little maneuverability because right behind the mortgage crisis looms the credit-card crisis, then the student-loan crisis and the car-loan crisis.
"Sweating this mess out of the system will take two years of zero growth or contraction," Morris wrote in his Thursday column. "We won't have a Great Depression, for the government will irrigate our economy with money. But we'll have stagnation, followed by inflation."
So the economic crisis likely will keep the most liberal man ever in the White House from indulging his anti-capitalism and unAmerican ideologies. A faltering economy should stop Obama from redistributing wealth and hiking our taxes for the massive money needed to make his envisioned socialist state a reality.
And that should buy time for the tattered conservative movement to mend and be reborn as an effective opposition party to recapture the support of right-minded America. So should Obama attempt to move the country too far left, that will only help reunite conservatives.
Not only that, but while Democrats tend not to learn from history, 1994's sting of being run out of power is fresh in many memories. So even though Obama has House and Senate majorities similar to what President Bill Clinton enjoyed, many Democrats -- including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- are anxious to avoid the same heavy-handed mistakes that previously swept them out of office.
"The country must be governed from the middle," Pelosi told reporters Wednesday. "You have to bring people together to reach consensus on solutions that are sustainable and acceptable to the American people."
That, too, if true, may also provide conservatives an opportunity to regroup. But who will lead the way? The hunt is on for the next Ronald Reagan, for Mr. Right. Or perhaps Mrs. Right?
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin looms as one of many people to influence Republican comeback strategy. Beloved by talk radio, she's a proven reformer who has successfully implemented conservative solutions to her state's problems.
Grover Norquist, a leading conservative and president of Americans for Tax Reform, called her "one of five or six people who is a plausible candidate for president in 2012," along with familiar names like Mike Huckabee, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
The media, always wrong, will again urge us to move to the left and become more like the Democratic Party. However, Republicans win by running on President Ronald Reagan’s ideas and lose when we move left. Instead, let's hammer a stake through the hard heart of big-government Republicanism and quickly put that blood-sucking vilain to death.
“The conservative movement will rise again," promises Phyllis Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum. But the veteran conservative activist warns the movement needs to start over again -– from the beginning.
“The conservative movement knows how to rise from the ashes, and we need to pick up the pieces of the movement, which was so badly dismantled and put in disarray by the George W. Bush administration. But we can do it. And we’ve got to get started immediately,” she said.
Democrats expect Republicans to raise the white flag and admit that our principles of freedom, responsibility and smaller government no longer hold the answer to America's myriad problems. The guys in the black hats want us to abandon our principles, stand aside and give Obama and a Democratic-dominant Congress free rein.
That must not happen! And I don't think it will.
God's people, of course, must come to their senses. And quickly! Far too many were shamefully duped by the wolf in sheep's clothing, allowing Obama to lure away a significant number of "religious voters" who historically side with Republican presidential candidates. Exit polls show him winning a strong majority of both Catholic and Protestant Hispanics to go with nearly all black Protestants.
Remember this: Obama couldn't be more pro-abortion. This homosexual activist doesn't believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life or that those who reject Christ are headed for hell. What's worse, now that the President elect has fooled enough Christians to grab power as a false prophet, he will be coming after us to silence the truth we would speak against his ultra-liberal agenda for America.
Sen. John McCain's loss was NOT a defeat for conservatism. I believe McCain lost because he strayed far from the principles that made the old party grand.
The fight really has only just begun. God is still with us. This time, let's get it right!
California voters "get it right" on marriage ...
Not all was doom and gloom on election night. In a major triumph for what's good and right, California voters convincingly passed a constitutional amendment reaffirming marriage as the time-honored definition of one man and one woman.
The Associated Press, making its arch-liberal bias easy to see, called the vote a ban against homosexuals and began its report by terming the outcome "a heartbreaking defeat for the gay-rights movement."
Let's get it right: The vote wasn't against homosexuality, as perverted and disgusting as its sexual practices are. Californians simply stood up for the rightful definition of marriage in order to override their state Supreme Court's outrageous ruling. The vote doesn't mean homosexuals can't have legal unions. It's just that such living arrangements can't legally be called marriages.
The AP should have reported the outcome as a clear-cut majority of Californians opposing rogue judges who legislated from the bench to legalize and honor sodomy with undeserved status not otherwise possible. But once again the wire service severely slanted a story.
Thirty states now have successfully defended marriage. Arizona and Florida also upheld the traditional definition Tuesday night with 57 percent and 62 percent landslides, respectively, while Arkansas voters approved a measure that keeps unmarried couples from serving as adoptive or foster parents.
Gay activists of course didn't waste any time challenging California's affirmed definition, vowing to resist any effort to invalidate the 18,000 same-sex "marriages" that occurred after the court's ruling. The ACLU, totally missing the point while confusing apples with oranges, contends the will of the people cannot be used to undermine one group's access to rights enjoyed by other citizens. Twisted and so sad -- but that's the anti-Christian ACLU.
God loooong ago defined marriage, and our society, like almost all others throughout time, recognizes and honors the union of a man and woman with rights. That's the age-old definition, and there's no need for society to change, because homosexuality is a choice that can be changed. Tens of thousands of former homosexuals attest to the transforming power of Jesus.
Of course, you won't hear this fact in mainstream media, and gays shout down the voices of those who prove there's a better way. Homosexuals and their liberal supporters absolutely must silence the truth that Christ transforms anyone out of any detrimental lifestyle. That proven fact means society doesn’t need to change, that all the money spent, time invested and progress achieved so far toward legalizing sodomy is in vain.
Nevertheless, with Massachusetts and Connecticut the only states left allowing same-sex marriage, the homosexual movement is looking for new battlegrounds for its well-financed and -supported compulsion to transform American culture to accommodate their lusts. So watch out in your backyard.
Here's why: statistics show one in seven boys is molested by males before age 18, with the unwanted experience greatly contributing to a wrong choice of lifestyle. Granting special rights to homosexuals will enable and encourage more incorrect choices while silencing opposition to this predatory practice.
Legalizing gay marriages, as well as approving and even promoting the homosexual lifestyle, like many schools do in the name of "diversity," adds to the odds that impressionable children will be duped.
But, thank God, right-minded majorities in California, Arizona and Florida got it right!
The Associated Press, making its arch-liberal bias easy to see, called the vote a ban against homosexuals and began its report by terming the outcome "a heartbreaking defeat for the gay-rights movement."
Let's get it right: The vote wasn't against homosexuality, as perverted and disgusting as its sexual practices are. Californians simply stood up for the rightful definition of marriage in order to override their state Supreme Court's outrageous ruling. The vote doesn't mean homosexuals can't have legal unions. It's just that such living arrangements can't legally be called marriages.
The AP should have reported the outcome as a clear-cut majority of Californians opposing rogue judges who legislated from the bench to legalize and honor sodomy with undeserved status not otherwise possible. But once again the wire service severely slanted a story.
Thirty states now have successfully defended marriage. Arizona and Florida also upheld the traditional definition Tuesday night with 57 percent and 62 percent landslides, respectively, while Arkansas voters approved a measure that keeps unmarried couples from serving as adoptive or foster parents.
Gay activists of course didn't waste any time challenging California's affirmed definition, vowing to resist any effort to invalidate the 18,000 same-sex "marriages" that occurred after the court's ruling. The ACLU, totally missing the point while confusing apples with oranges, contends the will of the people cannot be used to undermine one group's access to rights enjoyed by other citizens. Twisted and so sad -- but that's the anti-Christian ACLU.
God loooong ago defined marriage, and our society, like almost all others throughout time, recognizes and honors the union of a man and woman with rights. That's the age-old definition, and there's no need for society to change, because homosexuality is a choice that can be changed. Tens of thousands of former homosexuals attest to the transforming power of Jesus.
Of course, you won't hear this fact in mainstream media, and gays shout down the voices of those who prove there's a better way. Homosexuals and their liberal supporters absolutely must silence the truth that Christ transforms anyone out of any detrimental lifestyle. That proven fact means society doesn’t need to change, that all the money spent, time invested and progress achieved so far toward legalizing sodomy is in vain.
Nevertheless, with Massachusetts and Connecticut the only states left allowing same-sex marriage, the homosexual movement is looking for new battlegrounds for its well-financed and -supported compulsion to transform American culture to accommodate their lusts. So watch out in your backyard.
Here's why: statistics show one in seven boys is molested by males before age 18, with the unwanted experience greatly contributing to a wrong choice of lifestyle. Granting special rights to homosexuals will enable and encourage more incorrect choices while silencing opposition to this predatory practice.
Legalizing gay marriages, as well as approving and even promoting the homosexual lifestyle, like many schools do in the name of "diversity," adds to the odds that impressionable children will be duped.
But, thank God, right-minded majorities in California, Arizona and Florida got it right!
Wednesday, November 5
Please join me in this prayer ...
God, You we praise and thank and worship as the ...
==> Almighty Creator, who made everything, knows everything, sees everything and is present everywhere;
==> Ancient "I Am" of the Bible, who has always been and always will be -- the Living God, with us here and now, the same who spoke from the burning bush, who parted the Red Sea. You always hear us and are always there for us;
==> Awesome Trinity, the three in one, the loving Father and saving Son and inspiring Spirit;
==> Amazing Power of the universe, all that's good and right. Your power, holy and separate, lights this world of darkness. It is undefeated and unbeatable;
==> Astounding Redeemer, who loves us despite our sinful selves, forgives and forgets our inequities, who abounds in mercy and kindness, overflows in grace and goodness, and showers us with undeserved blessings. You lovingly discipline and guide us, teach and improve us, sanctify and set us apart to know and do Your will.
We thus know You are in total control. You have plans for each of us and for America. So speak to us, your people. Correct our minds and adjust our hearts for difficult days ahead. We ask for Your wisdom and for Your words to speak, for patience to wait upon Your timing and courage when the oportunity comes.
Help us to live moment by moment in the Spirit and be salt and light, helping and not hurting the cause of Christ, so all that we say and do correctly reflects You, Jesus, to the glory of the Father. Amen.
==> Almighty Creator, who made everything, knows everything, sees everything and is present everywhere;
==> Ancient "I Am" of the Bible, who has always been and always will be -- the Living God, with us here and now, the same who spoke from the burning bush, who parted the Red Sea. You always hear us and are always there for us;
==> Awesome Trinity, the three in one, the loving Father and saving Son and inspiring Spirit;
==> Amazing Power of the universe, all that's good and right. Your power, holy and separate, lights this world of darkness. It is undefeated and unbeatable;
==> Astounding Redeemer, who loves us despite our sinful selves, forgives and forgets our inequities, who abounds in mercy and kindness, overflows in grace and goodness, and showers us with undeserved blessings. You lovingly discipline and guide us, teach and improve us, sanctify and set us apart to know and do Your will.
We thus know You are in total control. You have plans for each of us and for America. So speak to us, your people. Correct our minds and adjust our hearts for difficult days ahead. We ask for Your wisdom and for Your words to speak, for patience to wait upon Your timing and courage when the oportunity comes.
Help us to live moment by moment in the Spirit and be salt and light, helping and not hurting the cause of Christ, so all that we say and do correctly reflects You, Jesus, to the glory of the Father. Amen.
Tuesday, November 4
Palin exonerated -- again! Does media care?
Once again eonerated, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin officially is ruled the victim of a Democrat-inspired smear by prosecutor Steve Branchflower, according to an independent investigator hired by the Alaska Personnel Board.
In a report released Monday, the investigator said Branchflower miscontrued evidence and applied the wrong state laws in order to claim Palin abused her office by firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. The report provides last-minute vindication for Gov. Palin, who had claimed that Branchflower's investigation had been motivated by partisan politics.
With voters casting ballots Tuesday, the board decided to release the normally secret findings after the governor waived her privacy rights.
Although the first investigation found Palin violated no laws and was within her right to dismiss the state employee, Branchflower made it appear she abused her position as governor. Of course, the media was glad to run with the abuse-of-power smear.
The question is: will mainstream media have the guts tonight to admit the truth, even if voting is mostly over by time for the evening news to air. If the exoneration was for the Obama campaign on a similar issue, the networks eagerly would have broken into daytime programming, right? Did they for Palin?
In a report released Monday, the investigator said Branchflower miscontrued evidence and applied the wrong state laws in order to claim Palin abused her office by firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. The report provides last-minute vindication for Gov. Palin, who had claimed that Branchflower's investigation had been motivated by partisan politics.
With voters casting ballots Tuesday, the board decided to release the normally secret findings after the governor waived her privacy rights.
Although the first investigation found Palin violated no laws and was within her right to dismiss the state employee, Branchflower made it appear she abused her position as governor. Of course, the media was glad to run with the abuse-of-power smear.
The question is: will mainstream media have the guts tonight to admit the truth, even if voting is mostly over by time for the evening news to air. If the exoneration was for the Obama campaign on a similar issue, the networks eagerly would have broken into daytime programming, right? Did they for Palin?
So long, Rush! See ya, Sean! Bye, Bill ...
With mainstream media deep in their back pocket, Democrats are setting their sights on perhaps the last bastion of the truth -- conservative talk radio! No doubt John Kerry would be in the White House if not for Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill Bennett and the like at the mike, boldly reporting the facts purposefully overlooked by liberal-dominated media. And, of course, the pajama-clad patriots who took their cues and helped get the word out to grassroots America via the Internet.
Count on liberals seeking to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine," designed to make conservative talk radio unlistenable. But don't take my word for it. See for yourself as New York Sen. Chuck Schumer likens Rush to porn:
Count on liberals seeking to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine," designed to make conservative talk radio unlistenable. But don't take my word for it. See for yourself as New York Sen. Chuck Schumer likens Rush to porn:
Campaign twists like science-fiction flick ...
I couldn't agree more with James Hirsen, who wrote today in his The Left Coast Report email: "To me, it feels as if we’ve been unwittingly cast in a surreal science-fiction flick.
"> A presidential hopeful runs on a 'brother’s keeper' slogan while his own brother lives in a Kenya shack and his auntie abides in a Boston slum.
"> The right to choose extends to denying even a Band-Aid for a baby brutalized by a botched abortion while compassion gets redefined as a tax rebate in every pot.
"> A citizen plumber gets the Roto-Rooter treatment while VIP medical records are quarantined and birth certificates are deep-sixed.
"> The elite media twiddle their thumbs as a vice presidential candidate is hung in effigy and 'Halloween art' is the explanation.
"> A former 'SNL' jokester runs for a Senate seat while his current 'SNL' pals hit the ratings jackpot with one-sided mockery.
"> A ballot from a cartoon character barely raises an eyebrow while a ballot from a soldier is pored over with a magnifying glass.
"> Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is given a halo while Justices Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia are handed horns and pitchforks.
"> Reporters are booted from planes and anchors reprimanded for asking questions while the Rev. Jeremiah Wright lands a book deal.
"> Infomercials get free rein while commercials get censored.
"> Networks declare races over while encouraging viewers to tune in for the final tallies."
Thanks, James. One clear case after another of calling bad good and good bad. Hey, isn't that biblical?
"> A presidential hopeful runs on a 'brother’s keeper' slogan while his own brother lives in a Kenya shack and his auntie abides in a Boston slum.
"> The right to choose extends to denying even a Band-Aid for a baby brutalized by a botched abortion while compassion gets redefined as a tax rebate in every pot.
"> A citizen plumber gets the Roto-Rooter treatment while VIP medical records are quarantined and birth certificates are deep-sixed.
"> The elite media twiddle their thumbs as a vice presidential candidate is hung in effigy and 'Halloween art' is the explanation.
"> A former 'SNL' jokester runs for a Senate seat while his current 'SNL' pals hit the ratings jackpot with one-sided mockery.
"> A ballot from a cartoon character barely raises an eyebrow while a ballot from a soldier is pored over with a magnifying glass.
"> Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is given a halo while Justices Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia are handed horns and pitchforks.
"> Reporters are booted from planes and anchors reprimanded for asking questions while the Rev. Jeremiah Wright lands a book deal.
"> Infomercials get free rein while commercials get censored.
"> Networks declare races over while encouraging viewers to tune in for the final tallies."
Thanks, James. One clear case after another of calling bad good and good bad. Hey, isn't that biblical?
May God's will be done in America ...
My wife of 37 years and I both had rough nights medically, but we were up early and were finished voting before 7 a.m. in our little Virginia community. Now the election is in God's hands.
Who can deny America deserves God's discipline. But of course we beg for his mercy and grace like Abraham did with Sodom. Some of those who've studied Revelation say they don't see the United States at the final confrontation. If true, I've long wondered what takes us out of the picture -- a massive terrorist attack, a total economic collapse, Barack Obama, all of the above?
It's true: God's people haven't responded well since 9/11. We talked a good game but really didn't follow through. We deserve what comes.
You see, government isn't the answer to helping people through tough times. God's answer is His people acting in sacrificial love, sharing what they have in the name of Jesus to prove God is real in a way that will transform lives.
Jesus is the answer to every problem our nation faces. Yet we as Christians often turn to Him last when faced with difficulties. Jesus can and will transform anyone out of any detrimental lifestyle, including homosexuality. Thousands of former homosexuals attest to that truth. But the church in America has yet to lovingly show gays the way. Until we do, the church won't be seen as relevant to today's society, because it's true: Jesus is Lord of all or not at all.
I am confident false prophet Obama will come after Christians as any good Marxist does when in power. But persecution may well be what God's people need to get serious about seeking and doing His will regardless of the cost.
Throughout the ages, the enemy has done his very worst to snuff the church, but persecution only causes God's influence to grow.
So unless McCain pulls off an upset tonight as God undeservedly sheds His mercy on America, I look forward to seeing painful -- but beneficial -- pressure applied to the church to see how God will eventually bless our nation for true Christians' perseverance and obedience.
Who can deny America deserves God's discipline. But of course we beg for his mercy and grace like Abraham did with Sodom. Some of those who've studied Revelation say they don't see the United States at the final confrontation. If true, I've long wondered what takes us out of the picture -- a massive terrorist attack, a total economic collapse, Barack Obama, all of the above?
It's true: God's people haven't responded well since 9/11. We talked a good game but really didn't follow through. We deserve what comes.
You see, government isn't the answer to helping people through tough times. God's answer is His people acting in sacrificial love, sharing what they have in the name of Jesus to prove God is real in a way that will transform lives.
Jesus is the answer to every problem our nation faces. Yet we as Christians often turn to Him last when faced with difficulties. Jesus can and will transform anyone out of any detrimental lifestyle, including homosexuality. Thousands of former homosexuals attest to that truth. But the church in America has yet to lovingly show gays the way. Until we do, the church won't be seen as relevant to today's society, because it's true: Jesus is Lord of all or not at all.
I am confident false prophet Obama will come after Christians as any good Marxist does when in power. But persecution may well be what God's people need to get serious about seeking and doing His will regardless of the cost.
Throughout the ages, the enemy has done his very worst to snuff the church, but persecution only causes God's influence to grow.
So unless McCain pulls off an upset tonight as God undeservedly sheds His mercy on America, I look forward to seeing painful -- but beneficial -- pressure applied to the church to see how God will eventually bless our nation for true Christians' perseverance and obedience.
Monday, November 3
Obama hiding truth of U.S. citizenship ...
Reasons abound why inexperienced Barack Obama shouldn't be Commander in Chief, but there are those who say the freshman senator isn't even a U.S. citizen -- an issue that Obama absolutely refuses to clear up before Election Day.
Considerable evidence shows Barack was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii. And that's extremely important because if it's really Kenya, then Obama doesn't qualify as a presidential candidate, according to the U.S. Constitution, which sets the rules.
Gov. Linda Lingle instructed the Hawaii Department of Health to make sure the original doctor-generated and hospital-released birth certificate on file would be released to the press ONLY if Obama so requested –- and to date he has made no such request.
The governor left ambiguous whether the birth certificate on file was originally generated by a Hawaii doctor after giving birth to Obama in Hawaii, or generated in Kenya and subsequently registered by the Obama family in Hawaii.
Obama obviously wants to keep a lid on this potentially disqualifying truth until after Tuesday. Then he hopes it will get buried daily news of under his transformation of the Unitd States into a socialoist nation. But does Obama really think he is so star-crossed that he can forever hide the truth? Or will the fact he is not a valid U.S. citizen pop his presiddntial bubble before Inauguration Day?
The question is what honest reason keeps Obama from giving permission to release his birth certificate? This is one issue the "annointed one" can dispell with a nod. Yet he repeatedly refuses.
Barack must be hiding the fact he is not eligible to be President. As long as he refuses, what else are we to think?
Considerable evidence shows Barack was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii. And that's extremely important because if it's really Kenya, then Obama doesn't qualify as a presidential candidate, according to the U.S. Constitution, which sets the rules.
Gov. Linda Lingle instructed the Hawaii Department of Health to make sure the original doctor-generated and hospital-released birth certificate on file would be released to the press ONLY if Obama so requested –- and to date he has made no such request.
The governor left ambiguous whether the birth certificate on file was originally generated by a Hawaii doctor after giving birth to Obama in Hawaii, or generated in Kenya and subsequently registered by the Obama family in Hawaii.
Obama obviously wants to keep a lid on this potentially disqualifying truth until after Tuesday. Then he hopes it will get buried daily news of under his transformation of the Unitd States into a socialoist nation. But does Obama really think he is so star-crossed that he can forever hide the truth? Or will the fact he is not a valid U.S. citizen pop his presiddntial bubble before Inauguration Day?
The question is what honest reason keeps Obama from giving permission to release his birth certificate? This is one issue the "annointed one" can dispell with a nod. Yet he repeatedly refuses.
Barack must be hiding the fact he is not eligible to be President. As long as he refuses, what else are we to think?
What -- you, too, Associated Press ...
As a former "stringer" of news stories to the Associated Press in my younger years, I learned the news organization's ethical ropes.
Because back then stories had to be fair and balanced, I remember a couple of times being asked to complete my story with the other side's comments, or to leave my personal view out and just report the facts. I took no offense because I understood the AP was the supplier of straight news. No spin alllowed.
My, how times have changed. Not only are newspapers and TV news departments almost all pro-Obama [and anti-God for that matter], but the most spun "reporting" is coming from the AP, intent on convincing McCain supporters to abandon all hope down the stretch.
Consider this lead from an AP disatch...
WASHINGTON – That smiling guy walking down the street? Odds are he's a Barack Obama backer. The grouchy looking one? Don't ask, and don't necessarily count on him to vote next week, either.
The New York Times, sure, but not the Associated Press. Yet its partisan efforts make the AP the rotted cherry atop the cess pool that is mainstream media in America.
Read P.J. Gladnick's column at NewsBusters.com for the FULL story!
Because back then stories had to be fair and balanced, I remember a couple of times being asked to complete my story with the other side's comments, or to leave my personal view out and just report the facts. I took no offense because I understood the AP was the supplier of straight news. No spin alllowed.
My, how times have changed. Not only are newspapers and TV news departments almost all pro-Obama [and anti-God for that matter], but the most spun "reporting" is coming from the AP, intent on convincing McCain supporters to abandon all hope down the stretch.
Consider this lead from an AP disatch...
WASHINGTON – That smiling guy walking down the street? Odds are he's a Barack Obama backer. The grouchy looking one? Don't ask, and don't necessarily count on him to vote next week, either.
The New York Times, sure, but not the Associated Press. Yet its partisan efforts make the AP the rotted cherry atop the cess pool that is mainstream media in America.
Read P.J. Gladnick's column at NewsBusters.com for the FULL story!
Obama promises to bankrupt coal industry...
An audio of an Obama interview with the San Francisco Chronicle has hust surfaced from earlier this year. The Chronicle published an interview with Obama in January 2008, but omitted any references in its story to Obama’s pledge to “bankrupt” the coal industry.
Here's the transcript of the audio portion:
"Let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there.
"I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.
"That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.
"The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them."
CLICK HERE to hear it for yourself!
Here's the transcript of the audio portion:
"Let me sort of describe my overall policy. What I’ve said is that we would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else’s out there.
"I was the first to call for a 100% auction on the cap and trade system, which means that every unit of carbon or greenhouse gases emitted would be charged to the polluter. That will create a market in which whatever technologies are out there that are being presented, whatever power plants that are being built, that they would have to meet the rigors of that market and the ratcheted down caps that are being placed, imposed every year.
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it’s just that it will bankrupt them because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted.
"That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches.
"The only thing I’ve said with respect to coal, I haven’t been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.
"So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them."
CLICK HERE to hear it for yourself!
John's apearance on Saturday Night Live ...
Does Barack Obama have the courage, confidence and wit to go into the lions' den and make them ROFL:
Sunday, November 2
Obama's ties to Farrakhan run deep ...
Some say this presidential election has been going on far too long. But when it comes to unearthing the truth about Barack Obama more time is needed.
For example, Kenneth R. Timmerman's article Saturday at Newsmax.com. was an eye-opener about Obama's long association with Louis Farrakhan. Timmerman quotes a former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan saying Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.
“Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn’t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,” said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
White, who broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor at the University of Central Florida, said Obama was “part of the Chicago scene” where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other’s events and support each other’s causes.
Timmerman points out the Anti-Defamation League has called the Nation of Islam as a “hate group” and denounced Farrakhan for calling Jews “bloodsuckers,” “satanic” and accusing them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as “degenerates.”
While Obama was careful to “denounce” Farrakhan’s comments, he did not come down hard on his friend. And Barack's criticism came only after Sen. Hillary Clinton called him out during the primaries for benefiting from Farrakhan’s support.
Farrakhan endorsed Obama in a videotaped speech to his followers at Mosque Miryam in Chicago in February. “You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth,” Farrakhan said:
Obama was less than candid when he said Farrakhan had been praising him as “an African-American who seems to be bringing the country together." "I obviously can't censor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we’re not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with Minister Farrakhan.”
Less than candid because in 1995 Obama “took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October’s Million Man March in Washington, D.C.,” according to a profile of Obama that appeared in the Chicago Reader .
Obama spoke at length with the Chicago newspaper upon his return from the Million Man March. “What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society," he said. “These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ’em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress,” Obama said.
In 1984, Rev. Wright accompanied Farrakhan on his much-criticized trip to meet Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, at a time when Gadhafi was considered an enemy of the United States. Yet in Feburary this year Obama insisted his pastor and mentor “does not have a close relationship with Louis Farrakhan,” after Wright’s Trumpet magazine gave Farrakhan its Lifetime Achievement award.
White told Newsmax that the Trumpeter Award, honoring Farrakhan for “truly epitomized greatness,” was the fruit of a long and deep relationship between the two men.
For example, Kenneth R. Timmerman's article Saturday at Newsmax.com. was an eye-opener about Obama's long association with Louis Farrakhan. Timmerman quotes a former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan saying Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.
“Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn’t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,” said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.
White, who broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor at the University of Central Florida, said Obama was “part of the Chicago scene” where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other’s events and support each other’s causes.
Timmerman points out the Anti-Defamation League has called the Nation of Islam as a “hate group” and denounced Farrakhan for calling Jews “bloodsuckers,” “satanic” and accusing them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as “degenerates.”
While Obama was careful to “denounce” Farrakhan’s comments, he did not come down hard on his friend. And Barack's criticism came only after Sen. Hillary Clinton called him out during the primaries for benefiting from Farrakhan’s support.
Farrakhan endorsed Obama in a videotaped speech to his followers at Mosque Miryam in Chicago in February. “You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth,” Farrakhan said:
Obama was less than candid when he said Farrakhan had been praising him as “an African-American who seems to be bringing the country together." "I obviously can't censor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we’re not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with Minister Farrakhan.”
Less than candid because in 1995 Obama “took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October’s Million Man March in Washington, D.C.,” according to a profile of Obama that appeared in the Chicago Reader .
Obama spoke at length with the Chicago newspaper upon his return from the Million Man March. “What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society," he said. “These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ’em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress,” Obama said.
In 1984, Rev. Wright accompanied Farrakhan on his much-criticized trip to meet Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, at a time when Gadhafi was considered an enemy of the United States. Yet in Feburary this year Obama insisted his pastor and mentor “does not have a close relationship with Louis Farrakhan,” after Wright’s Trumpet magazine gave Farrakhan its Lifetime Achievement award.
White told Newsmax that the Trumpeter Award, honoring Farrakhan for “truly epitomized greatness,” was the fruit of a long and deep relationship between the two men.
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