Saturday, October 27, 2012

First, they will come for the Catholics


What to expect if the Obama administration is re-elected:
  • Catholic institutions will have to pay for their employees’ birth control or cease to offer health insurance. This means that thousands of such enterprises (colleges, schools, publishers, broadcasters) will likely have to close.
  • Medical institutions will suffer the worst. Catholic hospitals will be taken over by secular corporations or the government. They will then perform abortions, sterilizations, and sex change operations—and weigh the cost of treating patients against their “quality of life.”
  • Dying Catholics in those hospitals will have less ready access to priests. So many will be deprived of the last sacraments.
  • Prolife nurses will have fewer places where they can work—and the “conscience” clause that protects women from assisting at such procedures will surely be next on the ever-expanding agenda of an intolerant, growing government.
  • Prolife doctors will have fewer hospitals where they can serve as residents—imperiling their careers if they refuse to take part in abortions.
If the Feds get away with this, hundreds of subsequent dominos will fall—too many to mention. We will soon end up like Catholics in England, whose Catholic adoption agencies had to shut down for flouting mandated gay adoption. How long will it be till churches of any kind that refuse to hold gay “weddings” are sued and regulated into compliance? (That’s starting to happen in the U.K.) Or until schools that defend traditional marriage are labeled “hate academies” and deprived first of their tax exemptions, and then of their accreditation?

“Should any institution, anywhere in society, be allowed to resist public opinion? Or should the federal government step in and make it conform? Do you want to live in a free, diverse America, or one where the state co-opts and crushes civil society, and steam-rollers over the consciences of minorities? Is there some issue—any issue—where you disagree with the federal government, the NY Times, or NPR? Well if the Feds get away with doing this, you can kiss your rights goodbye. You’re next, my friend.”

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/john-zmirak/first-they-came-for-the-catholics#ixzz2AWOYrLGK

Who am I?


 I've pushed for the extension of food stamps and unemployment benefits ... so the poor and unemployed will vote for me.
I removed the work to welfare requirement ... so people who don't want to work will vote for me.
I've thrown billions of dollars at green energy programs and vetoed the keystone pipeline ... so enviros will vote for me.
I signed an executive order granting amnesty for illegals ... so more Latinos will vote for me.
I evolved into supporting gay marriage ... so gays will vote for me.

I said the government will pay for women’s birth control, clinic visits, and abortions ... so more women will vote for me.
I bailed out the UAW and am expanding government ... so union members across the country will vote for me.
I took credit for the elimination of Bin Laden ... because I thought it would bolster my re-election chances.

Advice for Leftists


Here’s a little advice for disenchanted lefties …

I urge you to consider the following alternatives to President Obama.
You’ve got a number of good choices here and should be able to find someone who is strongly aligned with your world view.

Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala – Green Party
Stewart Alexander and Alex Mendoza – Socialist USA
Roseanne Barr and Cindy Sheehan – Peace and Freedom Party

James Harris and Alyson Kennedy – Socialist Workers Party
Gloria La Riva and Filberto Ramirez Jr. – Socialism and Liberation
Jerry White and Phyllis Scherrer – Socialist Equity Party

Why this Election is Eddie Haskell versus Ward Clever



In Campaign 2012, Leave it to Beaver comes to life.

From the moment Mitt Romney became the presumptive Republican candidate, this election took on the trappings of a contest between Ward Cleaver (played by Mitt Romney) and Eddie Haskell (played by Barack Obama). The comparison was easy at a superficial level: Romney bears an almost uncanny resemblance to Ward Cleaver, complete with commanding height, combed-back black hair, square jaw, and fatherly meme. Obama, too, is Eddie Haskell’s double since he shares the youthful face, lanky body, and manipulative, hustler’s demeanor.

If one digs beneath the superficial similarities, it’s uncanny how Mitt and Obama still stay close to the Ward and Eddie characters. Let me count the ways…


In case you missed this...


In case you missed this...Obama's election eve deal

This was also on FOX News this morning (10.20.2012)

Here is the ALERT email:

Desperation in bloom--what is next? 

This is no drill, this is for real. Get the word out to everyone you know.    Last Thursday, WND broke the stunning news that Barack Obama’s administration offered a secret election-eve deal to Iran that would result in reduced sanctions in exchange for a phony diplomatic coup designed to bolster his vote Nov. 6.The report is based on hard intelligence gathered by Reza Kahlili, the highly esteemed former CIA spy inside the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and counterterrorism expert. It was a big story – one the major media, and even most of the so-called alternative media, ignored. Of course, hundreds of thousands of Americans read the report in WND – which may be enough to ensure Obama cannot get away with an “October Surprise” in which he announces dramatically that his administration has successfully persuaded Iran to suspend uranium enrichment in its effort to develop a nuclear weapons arsenal. On the other hand, given the tacit response of the major media, Obama may indeed gamble, roll the dice and go for the deal anyway – under the assumption that most Americans won’t see through the gambit exposed in advance by WND.

Note the details contained in the story – names, dates, places. There’s no question this deal was offered. Here it is in its brazen essence. Obama sent a representative to Qatar to meet with a representative of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with an offer: If Iran suspends uranium enrichment for even just two weeks before the election, this would greatly benefit Obama’s political situation, resulting in a reduction of sanctions currently imposed on Iran because of its nuclear weapons program. Obama’s representative even warned that Iran would have a much easier time dealing with Obama in a second term than with Mitt Romney. In other words, this move was all about Obama’s re-election bid, his personal political objectives, not U.S. national security. It’s a shocker. It’s a scandal of epic proportions. It’s the kind of development that demonstrates so clearly why Obama represents a clear and present danger to U.S. national security.

He will do anything and say anything to win re-election at any cost. To Obama, Republicans represent a bigger threat than a nuclear Iran. People took great risks to bring this news to the American people, but only a tiny percentage of U.S. voters are aware of it because of the media’s unwillingness to share it – or explore it for themselves if they don’t believe WND’s detailed report based on credible sourcing. In other words, this despicable plot could have been blown out of the water had the media seized on it, explored it and revealed the evidence to the American electorate. But they chose not to do so for their own reasons.

I want you to remember this report; because now there’s a chance this deal could still work for Obama. It could be his October Surprise. He could still gamble that since most Americans never saw this report, he can get away with fooling the vast majority into believing he actually achieved a breakthrough with Iran. What can we do about that at this point? I need your help in spreading this report virally so that millions of Americans will be on guard if that October Surprise actually occurs. This could be a political game-changer – one way or the other. Obama is desperate now, especially after his pathetic debate performance. He evidently has a deal in place with Iran. The relevant details are published. If and when he makes the announcement of a diplomatic achievement with Iran, Americans must be alerted to how and why that deal was made. We obviously can’t count on the media. They didn’t think it was a story when it broke. As we know from past experience, they are unlikely to give credit to WND after the fact – even when the evidence becomes overwhelming.


"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote" Benjamin Franklin


President Obama on MTV


            President Obama was on MTV today.    What a perfect venue for a president who acts like a petulant teenager on a TV station for petulant teenagers.

            This follows his appearance on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show.

            Meanwhile, our diplomats in Libya are murdered and denied assistance during their 7 hour struggle against Islamic terrorists.

        Are you not outraged?

Meet Maine 's New Governor


Meet Maine 's New Governor - - - In case you haven't heard about this guy before, his name will stick in your mind!
              The new Maine Governor, Paul LePage is making New Jersey 's Chris Christie look like an enabler.He isn't afraid to say what he thinks.  Judging by the comments, every time he opens his mouth, his popularity goes up.
  
            He brought down the house at his inauguration when he shook his fist toward the media box and said, "You're on notice! I've inherited a financially troubled State to run. Observe . . . cover what we do . . . but don't whine if I don't waste time responding to your every whim just for your amusement."

            During his campaign for Governor, he was talking to commercial fishermen who are struggling because of federal fisheries rules.  They complained that Obama brought his family to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park for a long Labor Day holiday and found time to meet with union leaders, but wouldn't talk to the fishermen.  LePage replied, "I'd tell him to go to hell and get out of my State." The Lame Stream Media crucified LePage, but he jumped 6 points in the pre-election poll.

            The Martin Luther King incident was a political sandbag, which brought him National exposure. The 'lame stream' media crucified him, but word on the street is very positive. The NAACP specifically asked LePage to spend MLK Day visiting black inmates at the Maine State Prison.  He told them that he would meet with ALL inmates, regardless of race, if he were to visit the prison.  The NAACP balked and then put out a news release claiming falsely that he refused to participate in any MLK events.  He read it in the paper for the first time the next morning while being driven to an event and went ballistic because none of the reporters had called him for comment before running the NAACP release.

             He arrived at that event and said in front of a TV camera, "If they want to play the race card on me they can kiss my ass!", and he reminded them that he has an adopted black son from Jamaica and that he attended the local MLK Breakfast every year that he was mayor of Waterville.  (He started his morning there on MLK Day.)
  
            He then stated that there's a right way and a wrong way to meet with the Governor, and he put all special interests on notice that press releases, media leaks, and all demonstrations would prove to be the wrong way.  He said any other group, which acted like the NAACP could expect to be at the bottom of the Governor's priority list!
   
            He then did the following, and judging from local radio talk show callers, his popularity increased even more: The State employees union complained because he waited until 3 P.M. before closing State offices and facilities and sending non-emergency personnel home during the last blizzard.  The prior Governor would often close offices for the day with just a forecast before the first flakes.  (Each time the State closes for snow, it costs the taxpayers about $1 million in wages for no work in return.)

              LePage was CEO of the Marden's chain of discount family bargain retail stores before election as governor.  He noted that State employees getting off work early could still find lots of retail stores open to shop.  So, he put the State employees on notice by announcing:  "If Marden's is open, Maine is open!"
    
            He told State employees: "We live in Maine in the winter, for heaven's sake, and should know how to drive in it.  Otherwise, apply for a State job in Florida !"
             Governor LePage symbolizes what America needs! Refreshing politicians who aren't self-serving and who exhibit common sense.
  
   THE LAW IS THE LAW!
  
            I really love this one!!

       This is one of the best e-mails I have received in a long time! I hope this makes its way around the USA several times over!!!!!  HERE IS WHAT Governor LaPage said,
  
            "THE LAW IS THE LAW So "if" the U.S. government determines that it is against the law for the words "under God" to be on our money, then, so be it.
  
            And "if" that same government decides that the "Ten Commandments" are not to be used in or on a government installation, then, so be it.

            I say, "so be it," because I would like to be a law- abiding U.S. citizen

            I say, "so be it," because I would like to think that smarter people than I are in positions to make good decisions.

              I would like to think that those people have the American public's best interests at heart.

              BUT, he said, "YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I'D LIKE?
    
            Since we can't pray to God, can't Trust in God and cannot post His Commandments in Government buildings, I don't believe Government (Federal, State and Local) and its employees should participate in Easter and Christmas celebrations which honor the God that our government is eliminating from many facets of American life.

  
            I'd like my mail delivered on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving and Easter. After all, it's just another day.

  
            I'd like the" U.S. Supreme Court to be in session on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving and Easter as well as Sundays." After all, it's just another day.
  
  I'd like the Senate and the House of Representatives to not have to worry about getting home for the "Christmas Break." After all it's just another day.
  
            I'm thinking a lot of my taxpayer dollars could be saved, if all government offices and services would work on Christmas, Good Friday and Easter.  It shouldn't cost any overtime since those would be just like any other day of the week to a government that is trying to be "politically correct."

   
            In fact.... I think our government should work on Sundays (initially set aside for worshipping God . . .) because, after all, our government says that it should be just another day . . ."


            What do you all think????  If this idea gets to enough people, maybe our elected officials will stop giving in to the "minority opinions" and begin, once again, to represent the "majority" of ALL of the American people!!
  
            SO BE IT........... Please, Dear Lord, Give us the help needed to keep you in our country! 'Amen' and 'Amen'!

If this gets around the country a few times, perhaps we will see a better day!!!


A Little Bible Study


Terms "Left" and "Right": A little Bible study

Remember what Jesus said: 'Goats on the left,
sheep on the right'.
To Peter, 'if you want to catch fish do it from the
right side of the boat. They did and filled the boat.



Left & Right...
Origin of Left & Right...

I have often wondered why it is that Conservatives are called the "right" and Liberals are called the "left.
By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible:
        "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)
        Thus sayeth the Lord. Amen.

Can't get any simpler than that.

Spelling Lesson
The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican........I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
End of lesson.
Test to follow in November, 2012

Remember, November is to be set aside as rodent removal month.

What Romney should have said


Here are some zippy comebacks that Romney should have said to Obama during the third debate:

Barack Obama said. "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.”
The perfect comeback would have been: "Oh yeah? Well, the ocean called, and they're running out of US Navy ships!" 

Obama said to Romney: "You seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s."
Romney:  So, I’m Reagan, Eisenhower and Coolidge all rolled into one? Sounds way too good to be true; but, thanks for the compliment, you petulant punk!



Sell your House and See the World


The Let's-Sell-Our-House- And-See-the-World Retirement
How one couple walked away from all they owned and are putting down new roots— one country at a time.


Tonight Show Humor


The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

So far for Halloween, sales of Obama masks are 30 percent higher than the sales of Mitt Romney masks.

That makes sense. I mean, what's scarier than four more years of this economy? 

Senior citizen's joke


BEST EVER SENIOR CITIZEN JOKE 

A little silver-haired lady calls her neighbor and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get started."

Her neighbor asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?"

The little silver haired lady says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a rooster."

Her neighbor decides to go over and help with the puzzle.

She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table.

He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says,

"First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a rooster."

He takes her hand and says, "Secondly, I want you to relax. Let's have a nice cup of tea, and then," he said with a deep sigh ............



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 "Let's put all the Corn Flakes back in the box."

Newsweek Expose' ... and the death of Newsweek


Finally, Matt Patterson and Newsweek speak out about Obama. This is timely and tough. As many of you know, Newsweek has a reputation for being extremely liberal. The fact that their editor saw fit to print the following article about Obama and the one that appears in the latest Newsweek,  makes this a truly amazing event, and a news story in and of itself. At last, the truth about our President and his agenda are starting to trickle through the “protective wall” built around him by the liberal media.

___________________________

I Too Have Become Disillusioned.

By Matt Patterson ( columnist – opinion writer)

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League, despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer;" a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.

He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin.

Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn't racism, then nothing is.

And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.

What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people – conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed.

The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that's when he has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that  has failed over and over again for 100 years.(An example is his 2012 campaign speeches which are almost word for word his 2008 speeches)

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles.Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. Remember, he wanted the job, campaigned for the task. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. (The other day he actually came out and said no one could have done anything to get our economy and country back on track.) But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
… AND ….


NEWSWEEK IS DEAD … LONG LIVE FOX NEWS.

Denver Post Endorsement Critique by Mike Rosen


As expected, the liberal Denver Post has endorsed Barack Obama in this election.
Denver’s popular radio host, Mike Rosen, has rebutted elements of the Denver Post editorial that announced that endorsement.  Here are some extracts from his rebuttals:

Rosen:   The endorsement is loaded with left-handed compliments.  Barack Obama is the worst president in our history.  This guy is aggressively bad as a president because he is leading the country in the wrong direction.  Four more years of Barack Obama, and he will set in place irreversible programs and create such a level of government dependency from which we will never recover. You will not recognize this country after four more years of him.  His agenda is simply wrong.   Other presidents have been accused of running an imperial presidency, such as Nixon, but none exceed Barack Obama’s abuse of executive orders, and his refusal to include Republicans in this major passage of health care reform.  He is the most arrogant, naracisstic president I can ever recall, and his foreign policy is absolutetly terrible. 

Post:  There have been notable accomplishments.  He rescued the auto industry.
Rosen:  He did not rescue the nations’s auto industry.   Much of the nations auto industry, with the exception of GM and Chrysler, have been doing relatively well, and done relatively well without being plagued by the auto workers unions and their contract.  Had GM and Chrylser been allowed to go into a normal, traditional bankruptcy, they weould have recoverd from that bankruptcy in a muych stronger position than they are right now without sacrificying the bond holders who lost their investments while the unions were protected and are still a huge financial problem for the companies.

Post:  Passing comprehensive (though contentious) health care reform.
Rosen:   It was not only contentious, it was wrong.

Post:  Obama is responsible for taking out Osama Bin Laden.
Rosen:  All the people and procedures that were responsible for taking out Bin Laden were in place before Obama took office.

Post:  Less impressive are his efforts to tackle the debt and deficit, reducing unemployment, and bolstering the housing market.  A largely intrasagent Republican Party shares in the blame however such as in the Jobs Act.
Rosen:    The so called Jobs Act was not a jobs act.  It was more of the same kind of deficit spending stimulus program that produced produced crappy results the first time around.   I don’t call the Republicans as intransigent.  I describe them as the loyal opposition, and thank you loyal opposition for preventing Barack Obama from making things worse.

Post:  Romney has not shown that he is the kind of leader who will bring his party to the center at a time fwhen  that is what the country needs.
Rosen:  It is Barack Obama who moved his party way too far to the left and needs to come to the center from his far left positions.   I don’t see the Post calling on Obama to come to the center as Bill Clinton did  after the 1994 election when the Republicans took control of Congress because the body politic thought he had moved too far left.   Barack Obama didn’t move to the center after the 2010 election cost him his Democrat majority in the US House.    But the Denver Post has moved so far left that it thinks Mitt Romney is too conservative.    You may recall that the Post called Paul Ryan “radical.”   That is absurd!   Paul Ryan is a mainstream conservative.  Barack Obama is much further left of center than Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are right of center. 

Post:   Obama has shown throughout his term that he is a steady leader who keeps a broad array of Americans in mind.
Rosen:  Baloney!  Steady leader, my foot.  If there is one thing he is not, he is not a leader. 

Post:  From running to the far right on immigration and women’s health issues in his campaign and saddling his campaingn with Paul Ryan’s extreme  and unrealistic budget, the Romney nominated in this election is not the Romney elected governor of Massachusetts.
Rosen:   First, “far right” is not a term that applies to Mitt Romney, and why doesn’t the Denver Post use the term “far left” to describe Obama?  Because the Denver Post is left of center.   Just because the Post is left of center doesn’t mean that Paul Ryan is far right.    Ryan’s plan is not extreme.  In fact, he has been criticized by a conservative group, Club For Growth, because Ryan’s plan doesn’t balance the budget anytime within the next 10 years. 

Post:  Romney’s plan is for tax cuts for all.
Rosen:  No!   It is for tax rate cuts.    There is a huge difference.   Whoever wrote this endorsement editorial is either woefully ignornant or so committed to Obama as to stretch the truth.

Mike Rosen website:

   

Watch much TV as a kid?

BABY BOOMER GAME
MEMORY TEST!
(Have a paper and pencil handy to record your answers.. Your mind isn't
as sharp as it once was!)
This is NOT a pushover test. It's a Baby Boomer era test!

There are
20 questions. Average score is 12.
This one will be difficult for the
younger set. (DUDE!)

Have fun, but no peeking!

When you forward this to your
friends/family,
Put your
score in the subject line and let them
know your
score.
Good luck, youngsters,
1. What builds strong bodies 12 ways?
A. Flintstones vitamins
B. The Buttmaster
C. Spaghetti
D. Wonder Bread
E. Orange Juice
F. Milk
G. Cod Liver Oil

2. Before he was Muhammed Ali, he was...
A. Sugar Ray Robinson.
B. Roy Orbison..
C. Gene Autry.
D. Rudolph Valentino.
E. Fabian.
F. Mickey Mantle.
G. Cassius Clay.

3. ! Pogo, the comic strip character said, 'We have met the enemy and....
A. It's you.
B. He is us.
C. It's the Grinch.
D. He wasn't home.
E. He's really me and you.
F. We quit.
G. He surrendered.

4. Good night, David.
A.. Good night, Chet
B. Sleep well.
C. Good night, Irene.
D.. Good night, Gracie.
E. See you later, alligator.
F. Until tomorrow.
G. Good night, Steve..

5. You'll wonder where the yellow went...
A. When you use Tide
B. When you lose your crayons.
C. When you clean your tub.
D. If you paint the room blue.
E. If you buy a soft water tank.
F. When you use Lady Clairol.
G. When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent.

6. Before he was the Skipper's Little Buddy, Bob Denver was Dobie's
friend...
A. Stuart Whitman.
B Randolph Scott.
C. Steve Reeves..
D. Maynard G. Krebs.
E. Corky B. Dork.
F. Dave the Whale.
G. Zippy Zoo.

7. Liar, liar...
A. You're a liar.
B. Your nose is growing.
C. Pants on fire.
D. Join the choir
E. Jump up higher.
F. On the wire.
G. I'm telling Mom.

8. Meanwhile, back in Metropolis, Superman fights a never ending battle
for truth, justice and.....
A. Wheaties.
B. Lois Lane ..
C. TV ratings.
D. World peace.
E. Red tights.
F. The American way.
G. News headlines.

9. Hey kids! What time is it?
A. It's time for Yogi Bear.
B It's time to do your homework.
C. It's Howdy Doody Time.
D. It's time for Romper Room.
E. It's bedtime.
F... The Mighty Mouse Hour..
G. Scoopy Doo Time..

10. Lions and tigers and bears..! ...
A. Yikes.
B. Oh, no..
C. Gee whiz.
D. I'm scared...
E. Oh my.
F. Help! Help!
G. Let's run.

11. Bob Dylan advised us never to trust anyone....
A. Over 40.
B. Wearing a uniform.
C.. Carrying a briefcase.
D. Over 30.
E You don't know.
F. Who says, 'Trust me'..
G. Who eats tofu.

12. NFL quarterback who appeared in a television commercial wearing women's
stockings...
A. Troy Aikman
B. Kenny Stabler
C. Joe Namath
D. Roger Staubach
E. Joe Montana
F. Steve Young
G. John Elway

13. Brylcream...
A. Smear it on.
B. You'll smell great.
C. Tame that cowlick.
D. Grease ball heaven.
E. It's a dream.
F. We're your team.
G. A little dab'll do ya.

14. I found my thrill...
A. In Blueberry muffins.
B. With my man, Bill.
C. Down at the mill.
D. Over the windowsill.
E. With thyme and dill.
F. Too late to enjoy.
G. On Blueberry Hill.

15.. Before Robin Williams, Peter Pan was played by...
A. Clark Gable.
B. Mary Martin.
C. Doris Day.
D. Errol Flynn.
E. Sally Fields.
F. Jim Carrey.
G. Jay Leno.

16. Name the Beatles...
A. John, Steve, George, Ringo
B. John, Paul, George, Roscoe
C. John, Paul, Stacey, Ringo
D. Jay, Paul, George, Ringo
E. Lewis, Peter, George, Ringo
F. Jason, Betty, Skipper, Hazel
G. John, Paul, George, Ringo

17. I wonder, wonder, who.
A. Who ate the leftovers?
B. Who did the laundry?
C. Was it you?
D. Who wrote the book of love?
E. Who I am?
F. Passed the test?
G. Knocked on the door?

18. I'm strong to the finish...
A. Cause I eats my broccoli.
B. Cause I eats me spinach.
C. Cause I lift weights.
D. Cause I'm the hero.
E. And don't you for get it.
F. Cause Olive Oyl loves me.
G. To outlast Bruto.

19. When it's least expected, you're elected, you're the star today.
A. Smile, you're on Candid Camera.
B. Smile, you're on Star Search.
C. Smile, you won the lottery.
D. Smile, we're watching you.
E. Smile, the world sees you.
F. Smile, you're a hit.
G. Smile, you're on TV.

20. What do M & M's do?
A. Make your tummy happy.!
B. Melt in your mouth, not in your pocket.
C Make you fat.
D.. Melt your heart.
E... Make you popular.
F. Melt in your mouth, not in your hand.





Below are the right answers:
1. D - Wonder Bread
2. G - Cassius Clay
3. B - He Is us
4. A - Good night, Chet
5. G - When you brush your teeth with Pepsodent
6. D - Maynard G. Krebs
7. C - Pants on fire
8. F - The American Way
9. C - It's Howdy Doody Time
10. E - Oh my
11. D - Over 30
12. C - Joe Namath
13. G - A little dab'll do ya
14. G - On Blueberry Hill
15. B - Mary Martin
16. G - John, Paul, George, Ringo
17. D - Who wrote the book of Love
18. B - Cause I eats me spinach
19. A - Smile, you're on Candid Camera
20.. F - Melt in your mouth not in your hand

An Open Letter to Obama Voters


Did you vote for Barack Obama in 2008? A lot of people did – obviously.

What a time. There’s still room for improvement, but what a testimony to just how far we as a nation have come in terms of racial harmony, tolerance and diversity.

Only decades earlier a man like Barack Obama – a black man – couldn’t even drink from the same water fountain as a white man, let alone become president of the United States. A hundred years prior to that, and he may well have been counted another man’s property.
On Nov. 4, 2008, millions gathered at the ballot box to prove, once and for all, that, in large measure, we as a nation have healed from our disgraceful, self-inflicted wounds of racial abuse, bias and division.

That we could elect an African-American to lead the free world is indeed a very good thing.
We just happened to elect the wrong African-American.

In life, we sometimes find that the idea of a thing is far better than the thing itself. As a boy, I once ordered, from a comic book, a pair of X-ray glasses that promised to allow me to see the bones beneath my hand (my motives were a bit more ignoble). The two weeks it took for the glasses to arrive seemed like an eternity.

Once they did arrive, I ripped into the package and put them on, darting my head to-and-fro. It’s difficult to express my level of disappointment. As I quickly discovered, the glasses merely formed a halo effect around objects, creating the illusion of transparency. I felt embarrassed. I got took.

Barack Obama’s presidency has been a halo effect. Like I did so many years ago, in 2008 America fell victim to false advertising. As the past four years have demonstrated beyond any serious debate, the idea of President Obama was far better than the reality of President Obama. We were promised the world. We were promised transparency; but we were sold an illusion. We got took.

Indeed, during the 2008 campaign, a then-Sen. Barack Obama promised us that, if elected, we would look back upon the moment he took office and “tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth.”

That was the idea of President Obama. That was what many good, well-meaning people voted for. That was the hope offered and the change promised.

That was not what we got.

Though it’s certainly not a comprehensive analysis, during the second presidential debate, Mitt Romney, in response to Mr. Obama’s attempts to gloss over his mounting leadership failures, summarized a few of the big ones. While addressing an audience member who, perhaps like you, voted for Obama in 2008, Romney observed, in part, the following:

I think you know better. I think you know that these last four years haven’t been so good as the president just described and that you don’t feel like you’re confident that the next four years are going to be much better either. …

He said that, by now, we’d have unemployment at 5.4 percent. The difference between where it is and 5.4 percent is 9 million Americans without work. …

He said he would have, by now, put forward a plan to reform Medicare and Social Security, because he pointed out they’re on the road to bankruptcy. He would reform them. He’d get that done. He hasn’t even made a proposal on either one.

He said in his first year he’d put out an immigration plan that would deal with our immigration challenges. Didn’t even file it.

This is a president who has not been able to do what he said he’d do. He said that he’d cut in half the deficit. He hasn’t done that either. In fact, he doubled it.

He said that by now middle-income families would have a reduction in their health insurance premiums by $2,500 a year. It’s gone up by $2,500 a year. And if Obamacare is implemented fully, it’ll be another $2,500.

The middle class is getting crushed under the policies of a president who has not understood what it takes to get the economy working again. … [T]he number of people who are still looking for work is still 23 million Americans.

There are more people in poverty, one out of six people in poverty.

How about food stamps? When he took office, 32 million people were on food stamps. Today, 47 million people are on food stamps. How about the growth of the economy? It’s growing more slowly this year than last year – and more slowly last year than the year before. …

The president has tried, but his policies haven’t worked.

Recently, my wife and I attended an outdoor festival in central Virginia. Although the event was not political, there were people from both the Obama and Romney camps handing out campaign stickers and other items. I suspect that if a poll were taken, liberals out-numbered conservatives by about two-to-one.

That’s why I was so taken aback. Although we saw dozens of people wearing Romney stickers, we only saw one man wearing an Obama sticker.

We walked up to a fellow with a gray pony tail, John Lennon glasses and Birkenstocks. He was wearing a Romney sticker.

“Mind if I ask why you’re voting for Mitt Romney?” I asked. “I assume you are.”

His reply – and these were his words, not mine – was short and to the point: “Because I refuse to be that stupid twice.”

Changing one’s mind doesn’t always reveal a tendency toward indecision. Sometimes, changing one’s mind reveals a tendency toward wisdom.

Matt Barber (@jmattbarber on Twitter) is an attorney concentrating in constitutional law. He serves as Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action. (This information is provided for identification purposes only.)



Saturday, October 20, 2012

It just occurred to me---


It just occurred to me: Money.

It just occurred to me; with all the noise the media is making about Romney's wealth, I don't recall such bluster and hand-wringing over the Kennedy fortune. Or, for that matter, John Kerry.
Or the fact that John Kerry gave virtually nothing to charity while Romney gave something on the order of $4 million, in addition to his entire inheritance from his father.

Biden gave less than 1.5% of his income to charity.
And Obama pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. Buffett Rule?

Oh. wait, I just remembered. Romney is Republican. Kerry and the Kennedys are Democrats.
Also, Romney worked for his money.
Kennedy inherited his.
Kerry married his.
And Obama spends yours on vacations.

Never mind. Nothing to see here folks. 

More Hope and Change


Is there an echo in here???  Click below to hear it.

Navy SEALs - short and to the point


HARRY CLAY GINTZER III
Captain, US Navy, Retired

You're welcome to review my career at:
http://navy.togetherweserved.com/profile/523460


 This 32 second video says it all - Bow to no one !!!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/agUx79yG1Lo?rel=0

Whoopi Plays the Mormon Card


Whoopi attempts a “gotcha” by wrongly saying Mormonism forbids military service:


Obama's Great Gaffe


By Charles Krauthammer

. .  . “Obama declared himself offended by the suggestion that anyone in his administration, including the U.N. ambassador, would “mislead” the country on Libya.
This bluster — unchallenged by Romney — helped Obama slither out of the Libya question unscathed. Unfortunately for Obama, there is one more debate — next week, entirely on foreign policy. The burning issue will be Libya and the scandalous parade of fictions told by this administration to explain away the debacle . . .

Romney will be ready Monday.
You are offended by this accusation, Mr. President? The country is offended that your press secretary, your U.N. ambassador and you yourself have repeatedly misled the nation about the origin and nature of the Benghazi attack.
The problem wasn’t the video, the problem was policies for which you say you now accept responsibility. Then accept it, Mr. President. You were asked in the last debate why more security was denied our people in Libya despite the fact that they begged for it. You never answered that question, Mr. President. Or will you blame your secretary of state?

Esprit d’escalier (“wit of the staircase”) is the French term for the devastating riposte that one should have given at dinner but comes up with only on the way out at the bottom of the staircase. It’s Romney’s fortune that he’s invited to one more dinner. If he gets it right this time, Obama’s narrow victory in debate No. 2, salvaged by the mock umbrage that anyone could accuse him of misleading, will cost him dearly.

It was a huge gaffe. It is indelibly on the record. It will prove a very expensive expedient.”

Let's Vote Like It's 1980


President Obama sounds more like Jimmy Carter every day. The "Obama Carter Comparison" PolitiZoid presents a compilation of sound bites from Obama and President Jimmy Carter's speeches in their own words. The resemblance is uncanny.


Let's Vote Like It's 1980!

History repeated?

I hope you find the time to read this. It's interesting. Please read it with the open mind rather than immediately breaking it down into left or right, but rather look at it from the neutral viewpoint of right or wrong. It's like the line below says, "what if he is right?"

Take the three minutes to read this. Maybe he is wrong, but what if he’s right?


David Kaiser is a respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947, the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities: Washington D.C., Albany, New York, and Dakar, Senegal .. He attendedHarvard University , graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. in history. He then spent several years more atHarvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in 1976.. He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to 1976

He is a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War College . He has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College, and Harvard University . Kaiser's latest book, The Road to Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by Harvard University Press.

Dr. David Kaiser

History Unfolding
I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus..

Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.

We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?

We learned just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.

We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy... Why?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?

We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?

Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It is potentially 1929 x ten...And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn, cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.

And finally, we have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never run so much as aDairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla , Alaska ... All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)

Mr. Obama's winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change. Why?

I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.

This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.

And that is only the beginning..

As a serious student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers" read it right now.

And there were the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did - regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression. Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were required to do so. No Jews of course,

How did he get people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, acrossEurope , and across the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and .... . ... change. And the people surely got what they voted for.

If you think I am exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history books.

So read your history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world came to regret that he was not listened to.

Do not forget that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in Europe . It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors.. All with the best of intentions, of course.. The road to Hell is paved with them.

As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me..

I choose to believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree, perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next elections.

David Kaiser
Jamestown , Rhode Island
United States


By passing this along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening of America as to where we are headed.