Those Out Of Work

As I ponder those in my company that lost their jobs on 12/4/09 and the many friends that are out of work, what is the government doing?

They are working on everything but job creation it seems like. Instead of attempting to make the economy better, they seem to be bent on destroying it.

Lets all remember those that are out of work this Christmas Season and pray for them.

Thank you.

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America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away

By: Kitty Werthmann

What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or will ever read in history books.

I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide – 98% of the vote. I’ve never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.

In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates.

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs.. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about 30 daily.

The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted.

We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany , where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise.. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.

We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.

After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.

Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.

Hitler Targets Education – Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children: Our education was nationalized.

I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang “Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,” and had physical education.

Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.

My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun – no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.

Equal Rights Hits Home:

In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.

Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys.. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.

Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare:

When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.

Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls:

Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.

As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.

We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities.. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.

We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.

“Mercy Killing” Redefined:

In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps .. The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.

As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia..

The Final Steps - Gun Laws:

Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.

No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.

Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.

After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria. Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn't’t destroy, they burned. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't’t, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account.

“It’s true….those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away

"After America , There is No Place to Go"

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950

"Here is a math problem for you:

Assume that the legislation establishing government control of medical care is passed and that it 'brings down the cost of medical care.'

You pay $500 a year less for your medical care, but the new costs put on employers is passed on to consumers, so that you pay $300 a year more for groceries and $200 a year more for gasoline, while the new mandates put on insurance companies raise your premiums by $300 a year, how much money have you saved?" --economist Thomas Sowell

Kitty Werthmann

For the Argus Leader

published: 3/11/2003

Kitty Werthmann, 77, of Pierre, is president of the South Dakota Eagle Forum. She lobbies the state Legislature on family issues. She has lived in the United States since 1950 and has been a U.S. citizen since 1962.

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Christmas Humor

Yep, I had to have a naughty Christmas post. The following were just too funny to pass on......


OMG!!!!! Not the Santa I remember!!!

Yes, you can get it in packages now after all.

Let's not forget our tree hugging brothers and sisters this season.

And lastly comrades, can't leave out the socialists who want to kill all individual freedom in this great land.

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Cartoons Again To Enjoy

Just Plain Thankful

FOR THE WIFE WHO SAYS IT'S HOT DOGS TONIGHT, BECAUSE SHE IS HOME WITH ME, AND NOT OUT WITH SOMEONE ELSE.

FOR THE HUSBAND WHO IS ON THE SOFA BEING A COUCH POTATO, BECAUSE HE IS HOME WITH ME AND NOT OUT AT THE BARS.

FOR THE TEENAGER WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT DOING DISHES BECAUSE IT MEANS SHE IS AT HOME, NOT ON THE STREETS.

FOR THE TAXES I PAY BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM EMPLOYED .

FOR THE MESS TO CLEAN AFTER A PARTY BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE BEEN SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS.

FOR THE CLOTHES THAT FIT A LITTLE TOO SNUG BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE ENOUGH TO EAT.

FOR MY SHADOW THAT WATCHES ME WORK BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM OUT IN THE SUNSHINE.

FOR A LAWN THAT NEEDS MOWING, WINDOWS THAT NEED CLEANING, AND GUTTERS THAT NEED FIXING BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE A HOME .

FOR ALL THE COMPLAINING I HEAR ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE IT MEANS WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

FOR THE PARKING SPOT I FIND AT THE FAR END OF THE PARKING LOT BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM CAPABLE OF WALKING AND I HAVE BEEN BLESSED WITH TRANSPORTATION .

FOR MY HUGE HEATING BILL BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM WARM.

FOR THE LADY BEHIND ME IN CHURCH WHO SINGS OFF KEY BECAUSE IT MEANS I CAN HEAR.

FOR THE PILE OF LAUNDRY AND IRONING BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE CLOTHES TO WEAR.

FOR WEARINESS AND ACHING MUSCLES AT THE END OF THE DAY BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE BEEN CAPABLE OF WORKING HARD.

FOR THE ALARM THAT GOES OFF IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS BECAUSE IT MEANS I AM ALIVE.

AND FINALLY, FOR TOO MUCH E-MAIL BECAUSE IT MEANS I HAVE FRIENDS WHO ARE THINKING OF ME.

Live well, Laugh often, & Love with all of your heart!

Merry Christmas!

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Congressional Christmas Holiday

Damn, I am glad I am not a member of Congress. Their Christmas Holiday starts soon and they go back to the people they represent, or is it oppress. From what I have seen in the news (not the commie mainstream news), some of them are going home to very angry constituents.

I think some of them are going to get a real buttocks beating in the upcoming elections in 2010. I also think some others are going to be thinking - thank God I am not up for re-election. That is if they even believe in God.

We shall see what direction this country is going to take. Do we want to be free or do we want to be socialist drones.

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The Crashers

Yep, Tareq and Michaele Salahi crashed the State Dinner and had a great time. Lucky SOB's. I sure did not get invited. Nor did I have the means to crash the party. Not that I would want to attend an Obama State Dinner. Only China has more commies than the number in attendance that evening.

I only wish this is what was really said. But we all know it was not. But it is still funny and I really enjoyed the email that it came from.

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Fort Hood Shooting Video Tribute

I am told this was reportedly put together by a police officer in Burnett County. You just have to watch and listen.

I don’t care what the liberal anti-American mainstream media says. This was a terrorist attack on our soldiers from within. To call it anything else is grossly naive and stupid. I just wonder when we are going to wake up and find the courage that built this nation. How many more will have to die before everyone sees these actions for what they are.

So watch, listen, reflect.

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Pumpkin Pie Creation

You learn something new everyday. I remember Grandma making Pumpkin Pies but not like this.

Is this how they are made for stores??? One has to wonder.

Anyway, could not resist the photo.

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The Bower in Chief

What is with our President???? He bows to the Saudi King, he bows to the Japanese Emperor, he bows to the Chinese. What the hell is up with this guy??? Isn't he the leader of the most powerful nation on earth and leader of the free world????

We all know Debbie Did Dallas. Now we know Obama Does The World.

I have been alive for 10 Presidents now and have never seen such behavior from a President. Even that whack job Carter never did this crap.

Oh, our enemies must be having the time of their lives now.
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Cartoons To Enjoy

A Tale of Two Americas

Two and a half minutes to watch this comparison between George Bush's visit to the Marines vs. Obama's recent trip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHz5tevLAw

Semper Fi.

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Fiscal Sanity

I don't know about you, but as I continue to hear about companies filling for bankruptcy and asking for more of my taxpayer money, it seems to me things are way out of control.

Or am I wrong and everything is okay under the current administration???

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Will Turkey Lead A Revived Islamic Empire?

The only thing I have to say is, the Ottoman Empire lasted a long time.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113602

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King Of The Deficits

Never saw this coming. Have not seen the movie this cartoon was based on but I can tell you we are all going to be the stars in the real life movie playing out now with the economy. In fact, the games have already begun. This will be a long road it is only going to get worse.

But hey, we do have a new king.

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Memories

I just love this photo. It reminds of me of the stands I used to see growing up in the Midwest. It was always fun to visit these at night as everything was lit up. Of course the night air was cold but inside the stand it was warm. Everything was full of awe and wonder. Where I live now they do not have these kind of stands unless you travel way out of the metropolis. Such wish my kiddo could have these kind of memories.

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My First Kidney Stone

Before I begin, this is not my kidney stone.

This last weekend I had my first kidney stone. What an experience of pain and fear. I thought for sure I was dying. I sure felt like I was dying.

Friday night I was sitting on the sofa watching a taped episode of Survivor with my kiddo. We had just finished eating KFC ( until later I thought they had tried to kill me ). All of a sudden I got this very sharp, intense, stabbing pain in my lower left side just above my hip and below my waistline. It felt like I had been jabbed with a knife. I stood straight up and almost fell forward over the coffee table. I told the kiddo to keep watching the program and I went into the restroom. My thought was that if this is food poisoning, it may just work itself out.

Well it did not. The pain now radiated into my lower back and into my groin. I was sure I was going to die now. I tried sitting in different positions and lying in my bed. The pain was constant. It became so unbearable that I could hardly breathe. I knew it was time to seek medical attention ( I only waited an hour and a half ).

Even though I was half crazed with pain, I thought, I don’t want the cost of an ambulance. So with kiddo in tow, I drove myself the few miles to the emergency room. Everyone could not believe that I did. Let me tell you, it was not easy. When we parked at the hospital, I told the kiddo, “Run in there and tell them your Dad needs help!” She did and as I was slowly making my way to the door, a policeman arrived with a wheelchair. Amazingly, he made the right call when he said it was probably a kidney stone ( I still thought KFC tried to kill me ).

I was wheeled into a room and got hooked up. Before you could say jab me with another needle, they had taken blood and started an IV. Just to let you know the kind of pain I was in, I did not even feel the needles for blood or the IV, and I am a real wuss when it comes to needles in my arm. Yea, I can pass out at the drop of a hat.

Got my first hit of morphine ever in my life. Damn, that was fast and the pain went right away. Trouble was, so did all the clear thinking. I was told a bunch of stuff that I still have trouble remembering. I know I got two hits of morphine. I know I was told it was a kidney stone. I know friends had to come pick me and the kiddo up ( wife out of town ). I know I went to the restroom after they were releasing me and I sure hope I passed that nasty kidney stone. I was told it could be stuck – oh great. And I was told to see an urologist, which I now have an appointment to see.

I am getting a lot of sympathy as just about everyone I have talked to has had one or knows of someone that has had a kidney stone. It is also universal knowledge that this is a very painful event and just about everyone I talked to that had one, went to the emergency room like I did.

The ladies I talked to, told me now I know what labor feels like, only worse. Goodness, only worse! I came to the conclusion that if men way back when had babies and felt this pain, there would be no more humans after that first delivery. The guys would all be dead and the survivors would not have children. No wonder ladies want drugs during child birth. Guys, if you are a first time father and have never had a kidney stone, make sure the Mommy gets whatever she needs.

The event hopefully is over for now. There is medicine at home in case pain comes back. I have been sore the last couple of days and have to take a drug called Flomax. Yep, I drink and then I flow.

One of the strange things about all of this is that I am not a coffee drinker and I drink lots of water at work. I do drink a can of Pepsi everyday though. I guess the urologist will investigate what I eat and do. I am the first person in my family to have a kidney stone. I don’t mind being first, but I sure wish it could have been something else like going to college, or Europe, or whatever.

I am now on a new adventure as I walk through life.

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The Nobel Peace Prize????

Well, we knew it was not worth much when Yassar Arafat got it years ago. But then they seemed to give it to worthy people until Al Gore came along.

But giving it to Obama!!!! He has not done anything. The idiots that award it stated they knew there was no accomplishment. They gave it to him because of the "hope" he inspires. Lots of people can give you hope. Situations can give you hope. Faith will give you hope. Promise of reward will give you hope. Lots of things can give you hope.

I am so amazed that this once great award is now is a junk award. It means nothing anymore. You don't have to have any accomplishments to win it. You just have to inspire "hope". I can do that to, so can you. I guess a good speech and a flashy smile are move valuable then actually doing something to end conflict.

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Nostalgia

Yep, I am longing for the good ole days. Days before the economy was wrecked by the current commies. Days when our enemies feared and respected us - for the most part. Days when people were proud to Americans. You get the point.

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Monster Mash

That's right folks, a new JibJab video for you!!!

Crack up the sound and enjoy.........

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/4eyUB0uzUzYkOApc

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Talking to Iran

I can see Iran wanting to participate in multi-nation talks or not. Either way, they are working around the clock big time to get their bomb. With all the inaction going on, they just keep plodding away.

Will be interesting to see how this all plays out. I personally don't know what to think. How can Israel or anyone feel safe with Iran having nuclear tipped missiles in their inventory??? But apparently the West in general can live with this.
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I am so not kidding!

Obama and the West really have the Iranians scared now. Bah ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!

Watch the news and you will see how really scared they are.
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Poll: Racism on Rise!

Talk about a bunch of horseshit. I cannot believe the stuff I am hearing from ex-presidents, ex-politicians, and the media.

So if any white person opposes anything "Messiah" Obama says, they are racist. Hmmm. What if you are black and oppose a policy of Obama's? Are you racist? What if you are Asian? What if you are Hispanic? What if you are Native American? By opposing Obama, does that make them racist? So far it's only white people that are pent up with racism.

What about all of us being Americans instead of races??? This country needs to grow up. We are still ( maybe not for long ) a republic with democratic ideas and principles. We discuss our problems. We debate our issues. We vote ( well, some of us do ). Just because I or anyone disagrees with the current administration's policies does not mean I or they am a racist. There were plenty of things I disagreed with Bush about.

You know, that's the way socialist regimes work. Label and shut down any opposition to what they are trying to do. Only their view is the correct view. I guess as Americans we need to decide if we will continue to debate our issues or be told what are issues and views are. We will be the United States of America or the Soviet States of America.

But if you come up to me with this racist crap, get ready for an ear full.
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Obama's Lasting Impression At The UN

If you really read the news, not just the mainline crap, but free press and international news, you can see the point of this cartoon. Obama really bombed at the UN.

I guess the cartoon says it all. Our enemies want him to be president forever and yet ridicule him. To our enemies, he is a dream come true. You could not ask for a better president if you hate America.

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Jimmy Boy Still On A Rampage

Jimmy Carter's latest thing is that if you disagree with President Obama on ANYTHING, you are a racist.

Now this is the pot calling the kettle black. If you look at all the anti-Israel remarks Carter has made over the last 30 years - google them if you don't believe me - you will see the face of a real racist and anti-Semite.

Another thing you will see, sad as it is, a former President that clearly is ashamed of his country and makes you wonder why he loathes America so much. I think it's because he tried to be the big Middle East peace maker and failed at it. Now he blames Israel and to a certain extent, America. He also hates America because he was such a lousy president and he was pitched out of office after one term. If you are like me that lived through and remembers the Carter Presidency, his whole crew sucked.

I believe Jimmy Boy is just transferring what he feels onto all those out there that dare to disagree with Obama (and him). If you look at where he is from and his age, and read history, you know how racist that part of the South was (I grew up in the North). I think he has a guilt thing going.

But yet, Carter finds new ways to be a burden not only on Israel, but on America.

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Too late to stop Tehran , Obama aims to stifle an Israeli Attack.

Here is a very interesting article by a journalist whom is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on the Middle East. You know eventually this will come to a head. But at what cost? Anyone who knows history and has lived life, knows if you don't take care of problems when they are small, they will grow. And the problem with problems growing is the effort/cost to solve them - if they can be.

DEBKAfile Special Analysis

September 26, 2009

Maestro Barack Obama's histrionics in New York and Pittsburgh Thursday and Friday, Sept. 24-25 - and his threat of "confrontation" for Iran 's concealment of its nuclear capabilities - were water off a duck's back for Tehran , whose nuclear weapons program has gone too far to stop by words or even sanctions.

The Islamic regime only responded with more defiance, announcing that its second uranium enrichment plant near Qom would become operational soon.

The US president's tough words and willingness to step out of his axiomatic insistence on dialogue and turn to economic warfare against Iran may be impressive but it is no longer effective. Tehran is too close to its goal of a nuclear weapons capability to be deterred by offers of engagement or economic penalties.

Obama certainly knows this. He also understands that Iran is now unstoppable except by force. His performance was therefore directed at another target: Israel , whom he is determined to dissuade from resorting to military action against Iran 's nuclear installations.

Defense secretary Robert Gates hit the nail on the head when he said Friday: "The reality is there is no military option that does anything more than buy time. The estimates are one to three years or so."

Iran was allowed to reach the point defined by Gates thanks to the permissiveness of two US presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton and two Israeli prime ministers, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert. They had no illusions about the deterrent value of the three sets of UN Security sanctions imposed to punish Iran , but held back from pre-emptive action on the pretext that there was still plenty of time before Iran was in a position to destroy Israel .

In any case, Israeli leaders argued, Iran 's nuclear ambitions were a threat to the whole world and it was therefore incumbent on the "international community" to take care of them.

This of course did not happen. Iran carried on exploiting international inaction, finally capitalizing on Obama's foot-dragging in his first nine months in office.

By now, Iran has used the gift of time to process enough enriched uranium to fuel two nuclear bombs and is able to produce another two per year.

Its advanced medium-range missiles will be ready to deliver nuclear warheads by next year.

Detonators for nuclear bombs are in production at two secret sites.

And finally, a second secret uranium enrichment plant - subject of the stern warning issued collectively in Pittsburgh Friday by Obama, French president Nicolas Sarkozy and British premier Gordon Brown - has come to light, buried under a mountain near Qom . Its discovery doubles - at least - all previous estimates of Iran 's nuclear capabilities.

Caught red-handed yet again in massive deceit, the Iranian president Mahdmoud Ahmadinejad had only more defiance to offer. America owes his government an apology, he told interviewers in New York Friday, because the new plant would not be operational for 18 months, and Tehran had therefore not violated International Atomic Energy Agency rules requiring notification.

He was soon caught in another lie.

Saturday, the Iranian news agency was informed by an aide of supreme leader Ali Khamenei that "the new plant would become operational soon."

Iran 's published concealment's and deceptions are disquieting enough. But a whole lot more are undoubtedly buried in fat intelligence dossiers on Iran 's nuclear program - plutonium production, for instance. The progress made in its plutonium-based weapons program was never mentioned in the stern condemnations of the last few days, except indirectly in a quiet comment from an anonymous Israeli official Friday night.

He said Iran operates on two hourglasses and both were running out fast. He was referring obliquely to the enriched uranium and the plutonium tracks.

Sarkozy was clearly thinking about those undiscovered Iranian secrets and evasions when he declared in Pittsburgh :

"Everything - everything must be put on the table now" (at the October 1 meeting of the Six Powers with Iranian negotiators). Obama too urged Iran "to come clean."

All the powers concerned - the US, Russia, France, Germany the UK and even China - have the same information as Israel and are fully aware that Iran has already crossed a number of red lines this year and will cross more in 2010. The more time allowed for diplomacy and engagement, the greater Tehran 's defiance. Meanwhile, world powers will argue - not over futile sanctions, but on how to stop Israel , so wasting several more months.

DEBKAfile's sources note that the Gates assessment and the cooling note he injected into the US president's oratory came after Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak visited the Pentagon. The visit clearly did not change Gates' view that the Iranian nuclear program was now too advanced to stop, while the use of force would only gain an interval of up to three years, after which Tehran would pick itself up and start again. Therefore, according to Gates, diplomacy remained the only viable option.

The answer to this argument is simple: It is exactly this approach which gave Iran 11 quiet years to develop its weapons capacity. For Israel and Middle East, a three-year setback is a very long time, a security boon worth great risk, because a) It would be a happy respite from the dark clouds hanging over the country from Iran and also cut back Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist capabilities, and b) In the volatile Middle East anything can happen in 36 months.

But the US defense secretary believes Israel , like the rest of the world, must accept life under the shadow of a nuclear-armed Iran and make the best of it.

This view is shared by the Kremlin. It was advanced by prime minister Vladimir Putin to Binyamin Netanyahu during his secret trip to Moscow on Sept. 7.

According to DEBKAfile's Russian sources, when the Israeli prime minister tried to counter Putin's thesis and explain what restraint meant for Israel , the Russian prime minster became impatient and told his guest to leave.

After that interview, the Israeli government can no longer avoid appreciating that Gates and Putin talk the real talk for Washington and Moscow , while their leaders' moralistic condemnations of Iran are mainly hot air for public consumption and for maneuvering Israel into a position where a military strike would be hard to conceive.

Netanyahu's Sphinx-like silence on the nuclear to-do in the US this week was apt. But it is hard to tell what he is hiding. Will he succumb to the world powers' pressure to sit tight while Iran goes all the way to a military nuclear capability - or face up to it and act?

This is the most important decision of Netanyahu's political life as two-time prime minister of Israel . It will also determine Israel 's future.

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[Stay healthy and stay tuned. You don't want to miss the coming 12 to 18 months. df]


Dan Friedman

NYC

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PM Netanyahu's Address To The UN

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,

Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland.

I stand here today as the Prime Minister of Israel, the Jewish state, and I speak to you on behalf of my country and my people.

The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the recurrence of such horrendous events.

Nothing has undermined that central mission more than the systematic assault on the truth. Yesterday the President of Iran stood at this very podium, spewing his latest anti-Semitic rants. Just a few days earlier, he again claimed that the Holocaust is a lie.

Last month, I went to a villa in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee. There, on January 20, 1942 , after a hearty meal, senior Nazi officials met and decided how to exterminate the Jewish people. The detailed minutes of that meeting have been preserved by successive German governments. Here is a copy of those minutes, in which the Nazis issued precise instructions on how to carry out the extermination of the Jews. Is this a lie?

A day before I was in Wannsee, I was given in Berlin the original construction plans for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Those plans are signed by Hitler's deputy, Heinrich Himmler himself. Here is a copy of the plans for Auschwitz-Birkenau, where one million Jews were murdered. Is this too a lie?

This June, President Obama visited the Buchenwald concentration camp. Did President Obama pay tribute to a lie?

And what of the Auschwitz survivors whose arms still bear the tattooed numbers branded on them by the Nazis? Are those tattoos a lie? One-third of all Jews perished in the conflagration. Nearly every Jewish family was affected, including my own. My wife's grandparents, her father's two sisters and three brothers, and all the aunts, uncles and cousins were all murdered by the Nazis. Is that also a lie?

Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium. To those who refused to come here and to those who left this room in protest, I commend you. You stood up for moral clarity and you brought honor to your countries.

But to those who gave this Holocaust-denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency?

A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies that the murder of six million Jews took place and pledges to wipe out the Jewish state.

What a disgrace! What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations! Perhaps some of you think that this man and his odious regime threaten only the Jews. You're wrong.

History has shown us time and again that what starts with attacks on the Jews eventually ends up engulfing many others.

This Iranian regime is fueled by an extreme fundamentalism that burst onto the world scene three decades ago after lying dormant for centuries. In the past thirty years, this fanaticism has swept the globe with a murderous violence and cold-blooded impartiality in its choice of victims. It has callously slaughtered Moslems and Christians, Jews and Hindus, and many others. Though it is comprised of different offshoots, the adherents of this unforgiving creed seek to return humanity to medieval times.

Wherever they can, they impose a backward regimented society where women, minorities, gays or anyone not deemed to be a true believer is brutally subjugated. The struggle against this fanaticism does not pit faith against faith nor civilization against civilization.

It pits civilization against barbarism, the 21st century against the 9th century, those who sanctify life against those who glorify death.

The primitivism of the 9th century ought to be no match for the progress of the 21st century. The allure of freedom, the power of technology, the reach of communications should surely win the day. Ultimately, the past cannot triumph over the future. And the future offers all nations magnificent bounties of hope. The pace of progress is growing exponentially.

It took us centuries to get from the printing press to the telephone, decades to get from the telephone to the personal computer, and only a few years to get from the personal computer to the internet.

What seemed impossible a few years ago is already outdated, and we can scarcely fathom the changes that are yet to come. We will crack the genetic code. We will cure the incurable. We will lengthen our lives. We will find a cheap alternative to fossil fuels and clean up the planet.

I am proud that my country Israel is at the forefront of these advances - by leading innovations in science and technology, medicine and biology, agriculture and water, energy and the environment. These innovations the world over offer humanity a sunlit future of unimagined promise.

But if the most primitive fanaticism can acquire the most deadly weapons, the march of history could be reversed for a time. And like the belated victory over the Nazis, the forces of progress and freedom will prevail only after an horrific toll of blood and fortune has been exacted from mankind. That is why the greatest threat facing the world today is the marriage between religious fanaticism and the weapons of mass destruction.

The most urgent challenge facing this body is to prevent the tyrants of Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Are the member states of the United Nations up to that challenge? Will the international community confront a despotism that terrorizes its own people as they bravely stand up for freedom?

Will it take action against the dictators who stole an election in broad daylight and gunned down Iranian protesters who died in the streets choking in their own blood? Will the international community thwart the world's most pernicious sponsors and practitioners of terrorism?

Above all, will the international community stop the terrorist regime of Iran from developing atomic weapons, thereby endangering the peace of the entire world?

The people of Iran are courageously standing up to this regime. People of goodwill around the world stand with them, as do the thousands who have been protesting outside this hall. Will the United Nations stand by their side?

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The jury is still out on the United Nations, and recent signs are not encouraging. Rather than condemning the terrorists and their Iranian patrons, some here have condemned their victims. That is exactly what a recent UN report on Gaza did, falsely equating the terrorists with those they targeted.

For eight long years, Hamas fired from Gaza thousands of missiles, mortars and rockets on nearby Israeli cities. Year after year, as these missiles were deliberately hurled at our civilians, not a single UN resolution was passed condemning those criminal attacks. We heard nothing - absolutely nothing - from the UN Human Rights Council, a misnamed institution if there ever was one.

In 2005, hoping to advance peace, Israel unilaterally withdrew from every inch of Gaza . It dismantled 21 settlements and uprooted over 8,000 Israelis. We didn't get peace. Instead we got an Iranian backed terror base fifty miles from Tel Aviv. Life in Israeli towns and cities next to Gaza became a nightmare. You see, the Hamas rocket attacks not only continued, they increased tenfold. Again, the UN was silent.

Finally, after eight years of this unremitting assault, Israel was finally forced to respond. But how should we have responded? Well, there is only one example in history of thousands of rockets being fired on a country's civilian population. It happened when the Nazis rocketed British cities during World War II. During that war, the allies leveled German cities, causing hundreds of thousands of casualties. Israel chose to respond differently. Faced with an enemy committing a double war crime of firing on civilians while hiding behind civilians - Israel sought to conduct surgical strikes against the rocket launchers.

That was no easy task because the terrorists were firing missiles from homes and schools, using mosques as weapons depots and ferreting explosives in ambulances. Israel , by contrast, tried to minimize casualties by urging Palestinian civilians to vacate the targeted areas.

We dropped countless flyers over their homes, sent thousands of text messages and called thousands of cell phones asking people to leave. Never has a country gone to such extraordinary lengths to remove the enemy's civilian population from harm's way.

Yet faced with such a clear case of aggressor and victim, who did the UN Human Rights Council decide to condemn? Israel . A democracy legitimately defending itself against terror is morally hanged, drawn and quartered, and given an unfair trial to boot.

By these twisted standards, the UN Human Rights Council would have dragged Roosevelt and Churchill to the dock as war criminals. What a perversion of truth. What a perversion of justice.

Delegates of the United Nations,

Will you accept this farce?

Because if you do, the United Nations would revert to its darkest days, when the worst violators of human rights sat in judgment against the law-abiding democracies, when Zionism was equated with racism and when an automatic majority could declare that the earth is flat.

If this body does not reject this report, it would send a message to terrorists everywhere: Terror pays; if you launch your attacks from densely populated areas, you will win immunity. And in condemning Israel , this body would also deal a mortal blow to peace. Here's why.

When Israel left Gaza , many hoped that the missile attacks would stop. Others believed that at the very least, Israel would have international legitimacy to exercise its right of self-defense. What legitimacy? What self-defense?

The same UN that cheered Israel as it left Gaza and promised to back our right of self-defense now accuses us -my people, my country - of war crimes? And for what? For acting responsibly in self-defense. What a travesty!

Israel justly defended itself against terror. This biased and unjust report is a clear-cut test for all governments. Will you stand with Israel or will you stand with the terrorists?

We must know the answer to that question now. Now and not later. Because if Israel is again asked to take more risks for peace, we must know today that you will stand with us tomorrow. Only if we have the confidence that we can defend ourselves can we take further risks for peace.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

All of Israel wants peace.

Any time an Arab leader genuinely wanted peace with us, we made peace. We made peace with Egypt led by Anwar Sadat. We made peace with Jordan led by King Hussein. And if the Palestinians truly want peace, I and my government, and the people of Israel , will make peace. But we want a genuine peace, a defensible peace, a permanent peace. In 1947, this body voted to establish two states for two peoples - a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jews accepted that resolution. The Arabs rejected it.

We ask the Palestinians to finally do what they have refused to do for 62 years: Say yes to a Jewish state. Just as we are asked to recognize a nation-state for the Palestinian people, the Palestinians must be asked to recognize the nation state of the Jewish people. The Jewish people are not foreign conquerors in the Land of Israel . This is the land of our forefathers.

Inscribed on the walls outside this building is the great Biblical vision of peace: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. They shall learn war no more." These words were spoken by the Jewish prophet Isaiah 2,800 years ago as he walked in my country, in my city, in the hills of Judea and in the streets of Jerusalem .

We are not strangers to this land. It is our homeland. As deeply connected as we are to this land, we recognize that the Palestinians also live there and want a home of their own. We want to live side by side with them, two free peoples living in peace, prosperity and dignity.

But we must have security. The Palestinians should have all the powers to govern themselves except those handful of powers that could endanger Israel .

That is why a Palestinian state must be effectively demilitarized. We don't want another Gaza , another Iranian backed terror base abutting Jerusalem and perched on the hills a few kilometers from Tel Aviv.

We want peace.

I believe such a peace can be achieved. But only if we roll back the forces of terror, led by Iran , that seek to destroy peace, eliminate Israel and overthrow the world order. The question facing the international community is whether it is prepared to confront those forces or accommodate them.

Over seventy years ago, Winston Churchill lamented what he called the "confirmed unteachability of mankind," the unfortunate habit of civilized societies to sleep until danger nearly overtakes them.

Churchill bemoaned what he called the "want of foresight, the unwillingness to act when action will be simple and effective, the lack of clear thinking, the confusion of counsel until emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong."

I speak here today in the hope that Churchill's assessment of the "unteachibility of mankind" is for once proven wrong.

I speak here today in the hope that we can learn from history -- that we can prevent danger in time.

In the spirit of the timeless words spoken to Joshua over 3,000 years ago, let us be strong and of good courage. Let us confront this peril, secure our future and, God willing, forge an enduring peace for generations to come.

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Ahmadinejad

What can you say about Iran's notorious leader. He hates the USA. He hates Israel. He denies the Holocaust ever happened. He calls the USA the Great Satan and Israel the Little Satan. He has promised to wipe both of us off the map. He probably has or is real close to having nuclear weapons. He is allowed in the USA to visit the UN and issue forth with more hatred. He probably hates his own mother.

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War President

He says he is not a war President, but if it looks like a war and smells like a war, it probably is a war. The commanding general over there is saying we need more troops over there. One can only wonder where this will end.

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My JIBJAB Dances

Okay, friends have laughed hysterically at the 4 JIBJAB Video's I have starred in. So therefore, I have decided to present them here in one place that you may enjoy. I know there are some of you out there that have not seen any of them yet.

Well turn up the sound and blast off.........

Steve Gets Down With Hilary Clinton

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/z820kwTUBBPfZSmO

My Posse Dances For You

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/cXOCiqRfzOes3DVN

Jowels and HM3

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/I3Bvpj6PpBcwWUIo

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/iYS1IKIItCgsXZ6e

And when I do another one, I will add it.
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Steve Gets Down With Hilary Clinton

Remember Soul Train???? Well get ready to ride the train once again........

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/z820kwTUBBPfZSmO

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Is another 9/11 set to unfold?

I posted this on my other active blog and am posting here since this one gets more traffic. It's a real news story. Don't know how credible the dude interviewed in the story is. I guess we shall see. Here is the story......


Is another 9/11 set to unfold?

By Lee Benson

Deseret News

Published: Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009 9:32 p.m. MDT

Earlier this year, quite by happenstance, I read a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James B. Stewart.

"Heart of a Soldier" tells the story of two men who, well before it happened, foretold not only of the terrorist attack of 9/11 but also the 1993 bombing in the World Trade Center parking garage that preceded it.

One of the men, Rick Rescorla, was chief of security for Morgan Stanley with an office in the World Trade Center. He died on 9/11, but not before he shepherded all but six of Morgan Stanley's 2,700 employees to safety because of a well-prepared and well-executed evacuation plan. He'd have made it out, too, had he not gone back in the building looking for those six.

The other man, Daniel J. Hill, is still alive.

With another Sept. 11 approaching I wanted to talk to The Man Who Predicted 9/11.

Although the primary focus in Stewart's book is on Rescorla — a bona fide hero for his actions on 9/11 — I found Hill to be an even more fascinating character.

It was Hill who converted to Islam as a young U.S. Army paratrooper stationed in Beirut in 1958. It was Hill who learned fluent Arabic. It was Hill who joined the Mujahedeen Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan and fought the Soviet invasion there in the 1980s. It was Hill who personally met Osama bin Laden. It was Hill who used information from Islamic extremists to warn Rescorla that terrorists would use the underground parking garage for a car bomb attack on the World Trade Center. It was Hill who asked the U.S. government to assist him in an assassination attempt on bin Laden in 1998 (the request was rejected). And it was Hill who warned the FBI just weeks before Sept. 11, 2001, that his Mideast contacts told him "something big" was about to happen in the United States, in New York, Washington, D.C., or Philadelphia — maybe all three.

Through the Internet I managed to contact Hill at his home in Florida. He's 71 now. I asked him if his reputation as a terrorism prognosticator without parallel has changed his life much.

"Oh, that blew over pretty fast," he said. "Most of the people even in my hometown don't know any of that stuff."

He didn't want to talk about the past. He wanted to talk about the future.

The very near future.

The man who predicted 9/11 is worried that its sequel is imminent.

"Muslims that I talk to say things like, 'America thinks they're safe now. They've forgotten about 9/11. But watch, Daniel. Stay near your TV. It's going to be bigger than 9/11,' " he said.

Hill said the next terrorist attack will involve suitcase nuclear bombs that will be detonated in small, low-flying two-seater private airplanes manned by men hanging onto the belief that, like the 9/11 hijackers, they are about to die as martyrs and enter paradise.

He is not alone in suggesting such a scenario. A 2007 book, "The Day of Islam," spells out the details, as do any number of Internet sites about a plot called "American Hiroshima."

The nukes, he said, will be detonated over New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Miami, Houston, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

I asked Hill, "Why now?"

"Eight years from 1993 to 2001, eight years from that 9/11 to this 9/11," he said. "Symbolism. They're big on symbolism."

"Ramadan started two weeks ago Saturday," he said, referring to the Muslim holy month of fasting. "It always hits around Ramadan."

Eight years ago, Hill predicted the attack would come on Oct. 16 — almost in the middle of that year's Ramadan (the timing of Ramadan varies from year to year). He was about a month off.

"I don't know the second, hour or day. I just know they have the means, will, motivation and desire to do it," he said, noting that it's believed that years ago the suitcase nukes, acquired from former USSR operatives, were smuggled into America across the Mexican border.

Hill said he has warned the FBI, the CIA and others in government. For the past two years, he's sent out proposals for a book on the subject. All he's gotten back are rejections.

"To most people, I am a deviant personality," he said.

But there's no arguing his credentials.

"I'm a Muslim," he says. "I'm a special ops expert, I'm a terrorist and I've lived among Muslims. I fought the Russians with the same guys we're now fighting in Afghanistan. I met Osama. I volunteered to assassinate him. I know (the enemy) so well because I've worked, slept and prayed alongside them for years. I've become one of them. I know their nature, I know their culture, I know how they think. I can quote the Koran like a Southern Baptist minister can quote the New Testament. I know these are people who do not tire, who do not quit. There are odds this won't happen, but they aren't big odds."

"I hope you're wrong," I told him.

"Yeah. I hope so, too," he said.

Lee Benson's column runs Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Please send e-mail to benson@desnews.com.

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Afghanistan's New Town Names

I heard the Germans want to pull out now. They have been lecturing the United States on how we kill civilians and don't know how to do air strikes properly. Well now they up and killed a whole bunch civilians when a couple of their fuel trucks got hijacked. They called in an air strike. Of course everyone now is dumping on them. Questions of overkill for a couple of trucks.

As I watch the news from many sources, it is clear the current administration may be at a loss as to what to do in Afghanistan. As for the campaign promises of getting out quick, it appears this is turning into a giant sinkhole. Pakistan is helping only to a point. I really don't see any clear exit strategy or progress being made. It's kind of like just holding the line. A general did say publicly that we need a new game plan over there or it will get worse.

From one that watched the Vietnam war on TV every night as a child (it was always the first news story on the evening news), I see a lot of the same stuff happening. Only this time the media does not air it. I wonder if this will turn into another forgotten war like Korea did.

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Abortion and Religion

The question for the graph is “should abortion should be legal in all cases / most cases vs illegal in all cases / most cases. It is taken from Patheos and U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, June 2008.

Where do you fall on this graph? What do you believe? The above results are very interesting indeed. It really tells a lot about the state of religion in America doesn't it. The graph is surprising and then perhaps, maybe not so surprising.

It is interesting to note that Mainline Churches are dying and losing members faster than rats bailing off a sinking ship. And Evangelical Church membership is exploding. In fact, most of America's mega-churches (10,000 plus members) are not Mainline Churches. Don't know how the Catholic Church is doing on numbers. Anyone that knows should respond. The Mormon Church continues to grow as well.

The Jewish part really surprised me to say the least. I would have thought it would have been the exact opposite of what it is. Anyone who knows the numbers on membership should post.

The others are no surprise to me. I feel they don't value life to begin with so why should they have a problem with abortion. And if you feel they value life to the utmost, please explain all the stuff that goes on in Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist countries. I sure would really like to know.

So there we have it. A snapshot on how "Religious America" views abortion. My bet is that in every category over the next few years, the gap widens for each group.

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Teddy

Now I don't pretend to know who will be in Heaven and who won't. But one thing I do know, the legacy you leave is history and it can follow you to the grave.

Teddy let Mary Jo Kopechne die. He did not even try to save her. He even made jokes about it the rest of his life.

So there you have it, he has a legacy. Something I am sure he and God have now discussed in great length.

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So Who Is The Real Idiot????

The media and others are still harping on how Bush ruined the country and did this and that. Well, consider this...........

If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent"Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May (Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?

Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 5 months -- so you'll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.

Good Luck.....

Lot's of good points. You know half of this stuff would never have been tolerated during the Bush years.

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The Hole

What can I say??? It just keeps getting more and more out of control. You can really see why this nation is in a boat load of trouble.

You know there is a day of reckoning coming.

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Senator Ted Kennedy

It's another end of an era. Another page of American history has been turned. One of the great celebrities of the Left has passed. The media is in agony. Senator Kennedy's passing will not be as big as a story like Michael Jackson passing, but it is still a huge story. He is being heralding as a great American Hero.

While I feel empathy for the family of Senator Kennedy and my prayers go out to them, let's not forgot the real legacy of this great American Hero.

1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.

2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. Oops! The man can't count to four! His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a step up from bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada during prohibition), pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea , where a war was raging. No preferential treatment for him! (like he charged that President Bush received).

3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a person of his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of Private!

4. While attending law school at the University of Virginia, he was cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off after dark.. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked. Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959. Amazing!

5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash and hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The results of those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed. Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did we?

6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts . At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his Oldsmobile limousine and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond.

7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party passing several houses and a fire station. Two friends then returned with him to the scene of the accident. According to their later testimony, they told him what he already knew - that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities. Instead Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car. The Kennedy family began "calling in favors", ensuring that any inquiry would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water trying to rescue Kopechne and he didn't call police because he was in a state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem overnight. Since the accident Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick. He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS. Kopechne's family received a small payout from the Kennedy's insurance policy and never sued. There was later an effort to have her body exhumed and autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this in court, and Kennedy's family paid their attorney's bills.... a "token of friendship"?

8. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years, but considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He authored or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights, increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for the indigent, funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors, and is widely held as the "standard-bearer for liberalism". In his very first Senate roll he was the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S. immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate for immigrants from third world countries.

9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every expansion of an increase in immigration up to and including the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he was the standard bearer for the nation in matters of "what is right" What a pompous ass!

10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous, and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than "great American". "A blond in every pond" is his motto.

These 10 points were forwarded by a friend. Before we consider Senator Kennedy one of the greatest Americans ever, lets remember to consider the whole story.

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