Saturday, March 28, 2015

A Red Sea Nightmare

Houthi (Shiite) Rebels Under Iranian Control Seize Yemen – the first step toward seizing (Sunni) Saudi Arabia

From the perspective of the West, Yemen has always been a remote and uninteresting country. It is the poorest country in the Arab world, with a primitive economy, massive unemployment and a very high level (60 percent) of illiteracy. Of the 27 million citizens, two-thirds are Sunni Muslims and one-third are Shiite.

"The ayatollahs of Iran seek to take control of the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb so they can determine who can cross the Red Sea to the Suez Canal," says Dr. Yasser bin Hilal, a political science lecturer at the University of Sana'a, who traveled to Washington in an attempt to shake up the administration and the intelligence agencies.

"If they are successful, it will also affect the movement of ships sailing with goods from the Far East to the port of Ashdod in Israel.

Try to picture the nightmare scenario – fighters in the uniforms of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards directing maritime traffic, boarding cargo ships, checking the cargoes and crew, and blocking passage to anything that doesn't serve their interests."


The Second Plan

You have to wonder why Obama is assisting Iran???

Iran’s Plan to Seize the Holy Sites of Saudi Arabia and Control the Middle East

Saudi Arabia is issuing statements that could have been written in Jerusalem. "Iran is an aggressive state that is intervening and operating forces in the Arab world," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said this week at a joint press conference with his British counterpart, Philip Hammond. "Its nuclear weapons are a threat to the Gulf and the entire world."

He then went on to convey a message to the Obama administration, saying: "Striking a deal that Iran doesn't deserve is not right. Think, too, about the dangerous ramifications of the Iranians' 'second plan.'"

This "second plan", about which Israeli intelligence officials have been warning for the past five years, involves Iran's desire for Shiite control over the Arab world, with the ultimate objective being control over the Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia – Mecca and Medina.

"We're dealing with two parallel courses of action," says influential Saudi media pundit Jamal Khashoggi. "If they halt the nuclear program by means of military force or a diplomatic move, as the Americans are currently trying to do, the Iranians will still be left with the threatening alternative of 'creeping progress' on the ground, throughout the Arab world.

"They are goal-oriented. They have a map of objectives to achieve on the road to Saudi Arabia."


Two Thought-provoking Questions

I thought this was very interesting!

 
Question 1:
If you knew a woman who was pregnant,
Who had 8 kids already,
Three who were deaf,
Two who were blind,
One mentally retarded,
And she had syphilis,
Would you recommend that she undergoes an abortion?
Read the next question before looking at the response for Question one.

Question 2:
It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts..
Here are the facts about the three candidates.

Candidate A:
Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologists.
He's had two mistresses.
He also chain smokes
And drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B:
He was kicked out of office twice,
Sleeps until noon,
Used opium in college
And drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

Candidate C:
He is a decorated war hero,
He's a vegetarian,
Doesn't smoke,
Drinks an occasional beer
And never committed adultery.

Which of these candidates would be your choice?
Decide first ... No peeking, and then scroll down for the response.

Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.

And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question:
If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn't it?
Makes a person think before judging someone.

Remember:
Amateurs ... Built the ark.
Professionals ... Built the Titanic


Friday, March 27, 2015

Are You Grilling Today?

Nice weather.   Are you grilling today?


Serenity Now

I only watched this once, but....   it DID work!!! 
I feel so much better!


A little something to ease the pain....Try it.....
  

Don't Believe the Lying Headlines

“Indiana Businesses Can Now Refuse Gay Customers.”
But it isn’t true. There is nothing in the law about shoe stores refusing to sell shoes based on the business-owners views on the morality of the customer. No one is refusing to serve practicing homosexuals at restaurants. (And again, even if the government recognized that freedom rather than suppressing it, few or no business owners would exercise it because no one wants to turn away customers if they can help it.)
The law is not about refusing customers but about refusing to pretend that there is some such thing as “gay marriage.” There isn’t. It doesn’t exist. And, if you want to indulge in a mock marriage ceremony to assert otherwise, you are going to have to go to businesses that share in your belief or else don’t care about it one way or another.
Christianity teaches that marriage is heterosexual (not that it ought to be heterosexual but that it is). Whether they are wrong or not, from the perspective of a secular person, is irrelevant. The point is that Christianity has not been outlawed in this country, so Christians are no more required to take part in a “gay marriage” then a Jew is required to eat non-kosher meat.
Everyone is acting outraged because this bill “allows discrimination.” But then we see these same people embrace discrimination.
Some groups that hold conventions there say they may reconsider their plans to do so. The bill signing comes just more than a week before NCAA men’s Final Four games at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis; the NCAA says “we are examining the details of this bill … the NCAA national office is committed to an inclusive environment where all individuals enjoy equal access to events.”
What’s that? You are going to discriminate against an entire state because you don’t like their morality? That’s an odd practice for people who are “committed to an inclusive environment”! But I completely support your right to do it in a free country. And if you have the right to exclude an entire state, then I think we are on safe ground to say that Indiana business owners have the right to not participate in mock marriages (as they see it, if you will). If you get to discriminate, then so do they.
It is called equality before the law.


Monday, March 23, 2015

Vivaldi's Storm

This will sound familiar . . .

Vivaldi’s Storm (AKA:  “Summer” from “The Four Seasons”)




The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi.  Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The texture of each concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season.  For example, "Winter" is peppered with silvery staccato notes from the high strings, calling to mind icy rain, whereas "Summer" evokes a thunderstorm in its final movement, which is why the movement is often dubbed "Storm."
(source: wikipedia)

Just Stay

Think about it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just Stay
A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.

"Your son is here," she said to the old man.

She had to repeat the words several times before the patient's eyes opened.

Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the 
young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached
out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's 
limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.


The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed.All 
through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted
ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of love and 
strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away
and rest awhile.
He refused. Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious 
of her and of the night noises of the hospital - the clanking of
the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging 
greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients.
Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said 
nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.

Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless 
hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did
what she had to do, he waited.

Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the 
Marine interrupted her.

"Who was that man?" he asked. The nurse was startled, "He was your 
father," she answered. "No, he wasn't," the Marine
replied. "I never saw him before in my life."

"Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?"

"I knew right away there had been a mistake,
but I also knew he needed his son, and his
son just wasn't here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell 
whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I
stayed."
I came here tonight to find a Mr. William Grey.
His son was Killed in Iraq today, and I was sent to inform him. What was 
this Gentleman's Name?
The Nurse with Tears in her Eyes Answered, Mr. William Grey.............

The next time someone needs you ... just be there. Stay. 
WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.

WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY HUMAN EXPERIENCE.


Jesuit Pope Francis Creating Mass Confusion & Fear

Obama tries to fundamentally transform the USA while Pope Francis tries to fundamentally transform the Catholic Church.    Confusion and Fear Results.
Hundreds of Priests in England and Wales urge Vatican Synod to end confusion over Marriage and Sexuality 

In a dramatic turn of events, nearly 500 priests from England and Wales have written a letter in defence of the ‘traditional teaching on marriage and human sexuality’ in anticipation of the forthcoming Vatican Synod on the family. This letter comes at a time when a growing number of Catholics are concerned that the gathering of Church leaders in Rome, scheduled for October 2015, will seek to re-think Gospel teaching on marriage, sexuality, repentance and grace. Some Cardinals, particularly from Germany, have suggested that Holy Communion could be received by those in second and non-marital unions, or that active homosexual relationships could receive some positive recognition.
Despite the official channels of representation set up by the dioceses of England and Wales, a high proportion of the country’s priests felt the need to make their voices heard by an extra-ordinary open letter, which speaks of a climate ‘of moral confusion’ created by media coverage of the Synod and a lack of clarity from official church leaders in stating the settled teaching of the Catholic Church.
The large number of signatories is surprising since the initiative came from increasingly concerned laity and is not officially supported by any ecclesiastical body. One priest, who asked to remain anonymous, said that there ‘has been a certain amount of pressure not to sign the letter and indeed a degree of intimidation from some senior churchmen’.

Another priest, when asked why such a large number of priests are so keen to sign the letter, said, ‘It’s a matter of pastoral concern and fidelity to the Gospel. Mercy requires both love and truth. There’s a lot at stake. Not all priests would be comfortable expressing themselves in an open letter, but I’d be very worried if there were priests who disagreed with the sentiments it contains’. The letter calls for fidelity to Catholic teaching, and that practice should remain ‘inseparably in harmony’ with doctrine. The priests state that they remain committed to helping ‘those who struggle to follow the Gospel in an increasingly secular society’, but imply that those couples and families who have remained faithful are not being adequately supported or encouraged.

There is a growing suspicion that the Synod will unleash division in the Church by attempting to re-shape Catholic teaching and practice to accommodate modern ways of living and thinking about relationships and sexuality. When asked whether this letter was reactionary or merely extreme traditionalism, one pastor responded, ‘Were Saints Thomas More and John Fisher obscurantist conservatives? No. They gave their lives in defence of the indissolubility of marriage. Catholics at the time of Henry VIII were willing to give up a thousand years of Catholic life and culture to defend the inconvenient but timeless truth. Now is our time to give witness’.

Theologians, philosophers, canon lawyers, well-known educators and evangelists are amongst the priests who have signed this appeal. Their letter urges those who will be present at the Synod to defend doctrine and put an end to confusion.


Sunday, March 22, 2015

For the SHOCK of your life, take 1 minute to comprehend this

> During our lifetimes, all Presidents have issued Executive Orders. For  various reasons,
>  some have issued more than others. These things will  directly affect us all in years to come.
>
> Question is: Do YOU care enough to send this 'shocking info' to people you love?
>
> Ike - 2 in 8 years
>
> Kennedy - 4 in 3 years
>
> LBJ - 4 in 5 years
>
> Nixon - 1 in 6 years
>
> Ford - 3 in 2 years
>
> Carter - 3 in 4 years
>
> Reagan - 5 in 8 years
>
> Bush - 3 in 4 years
>
> Clinton - 15 in 8 years
>
> George W. Bush - 62 in 8 years
>
> OBAMA - 923 IN 3 1/2 YEARS! MORE THAN 1000+ AND COUNTING EXECUTIVE ORDERS IN 6 Years...
> Read some of them below - unbelievable!
>
> NEXT STEP -DICTATORSHIP. (LOOKS LIKE WE ARE THERE ALREADY!).
>
> If you don't get the implications, you're not paying attention. How come all the other presidents in the past 100

years have not found it necessary to INCREASE GOVERNMENT'S POWER OVER THE PEOPLE with more
> than 1,000 Executive Orders? This is really very scary.
>
> And most Americans have absolutely no idea what is happening.
>
> "YES, THERE IS A REASON THAT THIS PRESIDENT IS DETERMINED TO TAKE CONTROL
> AWAY FROM THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE.
>
> Even some Democrats in the House have turned on him, plus a small number of
> Democrat Senators have questioned him. Rightfully so. -
>
> WHAT IS OBAMA REALLY TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH????
>
> Remember what he told Russia 's Putin: "I'll be more flexible after I'm  re-elected." Now look at these:
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 -- allows the government to take over all modes of
> transportation and control of highways and seaports.
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 -- allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 -- allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 -- allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. (I wonder if he will take our 7 acres of farmland.)
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 -- allows the government to mobilize civilians into  work brigades under government supervision.
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 -- allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare function
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 -- designates the registration of all persons.  Postmaster General to operate a national registration.
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 -- allows the government to take over all airports and  aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 -- allows the Housing and Finance Authority to  relocate communities, build new housing with public funds,
> designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 -- allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities (What do
> storage facilities have to do with railroads and waterways?)
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 -- assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative
> Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 -- specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all
> Executive Orders into  effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 -- grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute
> industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and
> to advise and assist the President.
>
> EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 -- allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to  develop plans to establish control
> over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of
> money in U.S. Financial institution in any undefined national emergency.  It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared
> by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.
>
>
> Feel free to verify the "executive orders" at will.....and these are just the major ones.
>
> I'm sure you've all heard the tale of the "Frog in the Pot"... Watch Obama's actions, not his words! By his actions he will show you
> where America is headed.
>
> Obama has issued executive orders that seek to "harmonize" U.S. Economic regulations with the rest of the world. These
> executive orders are  yet another incremental step that is pushing us closer to a North American Union and a one world economic system.
>
> Obama used the stage at the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's I have a dream speech to announce two new executive orders
> infringing on your second amendment rights..
>
> The first bans the importation of antique military firearms for sale to  sportsman and collectors.. He intentionally mislabels them
> military grade weapons to deceive the sheeple, but make no mistake . . . the order was written specifically to ban the importation of surplus M1
> carbines, M1  Garands, 1903 Springfields and other antiques coveted by collectors and  sport shooters.
>
> This order is the death knell for the Civilian Marksmanship Program.
>
> Congress had previously passed the sportsman protection act in 1986 which among other things guaranteed that the importation of the
> historic relics for collectors and the CMP would not be impeded by unreasonable regulations.
>
> Unfortunately, most Americans have absolutely no idea what is happening.
>
> The American people need to understand that Barack Obama is constantly looking for ways to integrate the United States more deeply
> with the rest of the world.
>
> The globalization of the world economy has accelerated under Obama, and this latest executive order represents a fundamental change in
> U.S.  economic policy. Now federal regulators will be required to "harmonize"  their work with the international community.
>
> IF THIS IS DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE, THEN PROVE TO YOURSELF IT'S WRONG - GOOGLE  IT. !!!
>
>
> Links:
> ------
>  http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-order

Islamism is Nazism - ISIS is now the Fourth Reich

An article from London’s Daily Mail worth reading . . .

A grotesque love of propaganda. Unspeakable barbarity. The loathing of Jews - and a hunger for world domination.
In this stunning intervention, literary colossus V.S. NAIPAUL says ISIS is now the Fourth Reich

The Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul has warned that Islamic State are the most potent threat to the world since the Nazis.

In a hard-hitting article in today’s Mail on Sunday, the revered novelist brands the extremist Muslim organisation as the Fourth Reich, saying it is comparable to Adolf Hitler’s regime in its fanaticism and barbarity.

Calling for its ‘military annihilation,’ the Trinidadian-born British writer says IS is ‘dedicated to a contemporary holocaust’, has a belief in its own ‘racial superiority,’ and produces propaganda that Goebbels would be proud of. 

A long-term critic of Islam as a global threat, he also challenges those who say the extremists have nothing to do with the real religion of Islam, suggesting that the simplicity of some interpretations of the faith have a strong appeal to a minority.

The author of A House For Mr Biswas, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, is known for his sharp views.

He has likened Tony Blair to a pirate whose socialist revolution had imposed a ‘plebeian culture’ on Britain and found himself embroiled in controversy in 2001 by comparing Islam to colonialism, saying the faith ‘has had a calamitous effect’ as converts must deny their heritage. . .


Blessing of the Beer

Traditionally, monks brewed beer to supplement their often meager diets, particular during times like Lent, when they ate no meat. They sometimes sold the beer and branded it after patron saints of their monasteries — a tradition that lives on today, with several brands of beer named after saints.

The blessing is written in the official rites of the Catholic Church. The traditional blessing dates back to Gambrinus, often referred to as "the patron saint of beers," in modern day France around the year 800.

"Bless, o Lord, this creature beer, which by your power has been produced from kernels of grain. May it be a healthful beverage to mankind. And grant that through the invoking of your holy name, all who drink hereof may find it a help in body and soul."



Saturday, March 21, 2015

American POWs Tortured By Cubans

While Obama embraces the communists in Cuba, let us remember how Cubans tortured and murdered some of our POW's captured during the Vietnam War . . .


This column was originally published at www.aim.org

Whatever one thinks of President Barack Obama’s overtures to Cuba and the accompanying prisoner exchange, an important consideration in need of immediate attention is an accounting of our servicemen captured in the Vietnam War and imprisoned in Cuban-operated POW camps. Of utmost importance is an accounting of the 17 American airmen captured in North Vietnam and then taken to Cuba for medical experiments in torture techniques.

Most Americans are unaware that Cuba was deeply involved in the Vietnam War. In fact they had an engineering battalion called the “Girón Brigade,” that was maintaining Route Nine, a major enemy supply line into South Vietnam. Their facilities included a POW camp and field hospital very near the DMZ, just inside North Vietnam. Meanwhile Cuban interrogators worked in Hanoi at a prison known as the Zoo. We know of these operations and some of what happened to our servicemen after some managed to survive and be repatriated in the winter of 1973, during Operation Homecoming.

Following his release Major Jack Bomar, a Zoo survivor, described the brutal beating of Captain Earl G. Cobeil, an F-105F electronics warfare officer, by Cuban Major Fernando Vecino Alegret, known by the POWs as “Fidel.” Regarding Captain Cobeil, Bomar related, “he was completely catatonic. … His body was ripped and torn everywhere…Hell cuffs appeared almost to have severed his wrists…Slivers of bamboo were imbedded in his bloodied shins, he was bleeding from everywhere, terribly swollen, a dirty yellowish black and purple [countenance] from head to toe.”

In an effort to force Cobeil to talk “Fidel smashed a fist into the man’s face, driving him against the wall. Then he was brought to the center of the room and made to get down onto his knees. Screaming in rage, Fidel took a length of rubber hose from a guard and lashed it as hard as he could into the man’s face. The prisoner did not react; he did not cry out or even blink an eye. Again and again, a dozen times, [Fidel] smashed the man’s face with the hose.”

Because of his grotesque physical condition Captain Cobeil was not repatriated but instead was listed as “died in captivity,” with his remains returned in 1974. (Miami Herald, August, 22 1999, and Benge, Michael D. “The Cuban Torture Program, Testimony before the House International Relations Committee, Chaired by the Honorable Benjamin A. Gilman, November 4, 1999.) Incredibly, Fidel’s torture of Major James Kasler is well known as he somehow managed to survive the Cuban’s torture.

Much less is known about our 17 captured airmen taken to Cuba for “experimentation in torture techniques.” They were held in Havana’s Los Maristas, a secret Cuban prison run by Castro’s G-2 Intelligence service. A few were held in the Mazorra (Psychiatric) Hospital and served as human guinea pigs used to develop improved methods of extracting information through “torture and drugs to induce [American] prisoners to cooperate.”

After being shot down in April of 1972, U.S. Navy F-4 pilot, Lt. Clemmie McKinney, an African-American, was imprisoned near the Cuban compound called Work Site Five. His capture occurred while then-Cuban president Fidel Castro was visiting the nearby Cuban field hospital. Although listed as killed in the crash by DOD, his photograph standing with Castro, was later published in a classified CIA document.

More than 13 years later, on August 14, 1985, the North Vietnamese returned Lt. McKinney’s remains, reporting that he died in November 1972. However, a U.S, Army forensic anthropologist established the “time of death as not earlier than 1975 and probably several years later.” The report speculated that he had been a guest at Havana’s Los Maristas prison, with his remains returned to Vietnam for repatriation. (We also paid big money for the remains—delivered in stacks of green dollars to Hanoi aboard an AF C-141 from Travis AFB, California.) Unfortunately, our servicemen held in the Cuban POW camp near Work Site Five (Cong Truong Five), along with those in two other Cuban run camps were never acknowledged nor accounted for and the prisoners simply disappeared.

If our honor code of “Duty, Honor, Country,” and our national policy of “No man left behind,” are more than meaningless slogans, then before our relations with Cuba can be normalized, their murderous leadership must account for our POWs—especially the 17 airmen taken to Cuba. The civilized world and American veterans demand it.

Additional research on this topic, by John Lowery, is below:

Cuba’s Vietnam War Involvement


Research by John Lowery

References:

“Torture of American Prisoners by Cuban Agents,” Juan O. Tamayo, Miami Herald, August 22, 1999. www.aiipowmia.com/testimony/cubanews5.html

“ Cuban War Crimes Against American POWs,” Michael D. Benge, Cuba Program Research Paper, October 4, 1999. www.vvof.org/cuba_res.htm

“The Cuban Torture Program …Torture of American Prisoners by Cuban Agents,” Testimony of Michael D. Benge, before the House International Relations Committee Chaired by the Honorable Benjamin A. Gilman. November 4, 1999. www.aiipowmia.com/testimony/cuba_benge.html.

“Cuban War Crimes Against American POWs During the Vietnam War,” Mike Benge, National Alliance of Families, www.nationalalliance.org/cuba/benge2.htm (Undated)

“The Evidence is Clear,” POW/MIA Freedom Fighters, www.powmiaff.org/evidence.htm, May 23, 2006.

“ Benge, Michael Dennis, Bio” Loss/Capture report, 31 January 1968.





Black Female Reporter's Opinion of the Obama's

The below summary of Barack and Michelle Obama's 6-    year reign in the White House is by far the best I've ever read as it squarely hits the nail on the head.
   
And it took a black female reporter writing it to make it as effective as it is.            A white man's account would be instantly criticized by the liberal media as pure racism. But, how can anyone scream Racist when an exacting description of the Obamas is penned by a well- known journalist of color?

 
BEST SUMMATION OF BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA EVER!
 
(Mychal Massie is a respected writer and talk show host in Los Angeles ..)

  The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn't like the Obamas. Specifically I was asked: "I have to ask, why do you hate the Obamas? It seems personal, not policy related. You even dissed (disrespect) their Christmas family picture."

  The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation. I've made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don't like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state.

  I don't hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America . They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same, Michelle Obama's raw contempt for white America is transpicuous.
 
I don't like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no I demand respect, for the Office of President, and a love of our country and her citizens, from the leader entrusted with the governance of same.
 
President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people. The Reagans made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish.
 
Obama's  arrogance by appointing 32 leftist czars and constantly bypassing Congress is impeachable. Eric Holder is probably the MOST incompetent and arrogant DOJ head to ever hold the job. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs?
 
Presidents are politicians, and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie.   But even using that low standard,   the Obamas have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths.   They are verbally abusive to the citizenry, and they display an animus for civility.
 
I do not like them because they both display bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to now being able to be proud of America.  I view that statement and that mind set as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world.
 
Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do that. I have a saying, that "the only reason a person hides things is because they have something to hide." No President in history has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed. (AND THE 'SILENT MAJORITY' REMAIN SILENT!)
 
And what the two of them have shared has been proven to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother's death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family.  He has lied about his father's military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nausea.  He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address.
 
He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today.   (DON'T FORGET THE 'DEVOTED MUSLIMS' HE'S PLACED IN GOV'T)   He opposed rulings that protected women and children that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support.  He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel.
 
His wife treats being the First Lady as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world).  I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement - as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare.
 
I don't like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority.
 
Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin; it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their constantly playing the race card.
 
I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the media for refusing to investigate them, as they did President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what they truly are.   There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white President and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people, as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.
 
As I wrote in a syndicated column titled, "Nero In The White House" - "Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader.  He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his Presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequaled.  Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood.
 
Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected President, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a First Lady who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation, and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders.  He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement - while America 's people go homeless, hungry and unemployed.
 
Please resend to all your address book.
 

America has to wake up before it is too late! 

Obama's Goal: Restoring the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic Caliphate

The Coming Turkish-Led Caliphate
By Joel Richardson

Several years ago, I began publicly stating that the world will witness the rise of a Neo-Ottoman Caliphate.

The first thing that the West must understand concerning the concept of the caliphate is that it is somewhat of a blank canvas for Muslims. To the Muslim socialist, it is through the concept of the caliphate that a socialist utopia will become a reality. For the moderate Muslim, it is in the idea of the caliphate that a tolerant Muslim empire will arise. For the radical Muslim, the caliphate is the means by which Islam will arise to supremacy in the earth. The point is that the dream of reviving a caliphate is a wide-ranging vision and is certainly not restricted to the radicals.

Second, the West must come to terms with the tectonic shift that has only recently taken place in the Middle East, beginning in 2003 in Turkey.

But first, let's define the old order of the region. This old order saw the Middle East divided up primarily between the Arab block and the Iranian block.

Understand the significance of the Muslim's Mahdi 'messiah' in Joel Richardson's book, The Islamic Antichrist: The Shocking Truth about the Real Nature of the Beast.

Imagine a random Arab Sunni Muslim (Sunnis comprise 85-90 percent of Muslims) who has long desired to see the unification of the Islamic world under a caliphate. In yearning for someone to rise up and lead the Islamic world, this Sunni Muslim first turns his eyes toward the leaders of the Arab block (Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt). On one hand, he identifies with the fact that they are both Sunni and Arab. But they are also either corrupt monarchies or dictatorial autocrats and hopelessly compromised through their relationship with Israel and/or the United States. To the average Muslim, these nations are led by MINOs (Muslims in name only). Frustrated, this Muslim shifts his attention to Iran. On one hand, the Iranians are seen as courageous, bold and assertive. They thumb their noses at Israel, the United States and any who would defy them. This is admired, but there is still the gaping sectarian divide. In other words, being Shia, they are essentially heretical. Without hope, this Sunni Muslim lets out a long sigh and prays that Allah will soon raise up a genuine Muslim leader capable of reviving Islam's former glory.

This was the old order of the Middle East for the past 30 years.

But suddenly, this has all begun to change. Through the rise of the Turkish AK party over the past several years, the Middle East has experienced a political shift of tectonic proportions.

Let's briefly summarize what Prime Minister Erdogan's Islamist party has achieved in just the past few years. First, they were able to gain control of both the presidency and the seat of prime minister. They also gained a large majority in the parliament. After they win the elections on June 12, they are set to pass a bill authorizing them to literally rewrite the Turkish Constitution. This will give them far greater control over both the judiciary and the military, the two entities that have historically served as the greatest check against an Islamist takeover of government. Not surprisingly then, through two manufactured conspiracies, the ruling AK party has effectively decapitated the secularist leadership of the Turkish military, arresting nearly 200 top military officials. Instead of a military coup to remove the Islamist party, the Islamist AK party has successfully taken over the military. And they were masterfully successful.

Erdogan has also filled the courts with his own judges. Over 70 percent of the police are also Islamists. And finally, the Islamists have gone after the media. Erdogan's son now runs one outlet, while a second company was hit with a $2.3 billion fine. There are more Turkish journalists in prison than any other nation in the world.

We are now nearing the conclusion of a perfectly executed plan to purge Turkey of its secular Kemalist system and ensconce the Islamists in power indefinitely. In the name of democracy, the Islamists have toppled what was once a shining beacon of hope for the Middle East. And behind it all is the architect, Prime Minister Erdogan, who once projected, "Democracy is like a streetcar. You use it to get you where you wish to go, and then you get off."

Today, Turkey has a thriving economy as well as the largest army in the region. And of course, only Turkey has a proven track record of ruling the Middle East. Now place yourself back in the shoes of the Sunni Muslim. None of these facts are missed by those who have been looking for a viable Islamist strong horse to get behind. And it is precisely for this reason that Erdogan is now the single most popular leader in the region. The starry-eyed Islamists of the Muslim world have solidly fixed their hopes on Turkey.

Finally, it is absolutely essential to understand Turkish Islamist methodology. Since 9/11, Ankara has been all too willing to portray themselves as the most natural counterbalance and answer to al-Qaida and radical Islamism globally. For the past decade, the Turks have pursued the methodology of the world's most powerful Islamist group, the Fethullah Gulen Movement, of which Prime Minister Erdogan and President Gul are both students. The goal of the Gulen movement is quite simple really. They want to be endorsed. Through the use of outreach, they have successfully branded themselves as paragons of religious tolerance. While radical groups such as al-Qaida have utilized terror to achieve their goal of a caliphate, Turkish Islam has championed the approach of presenting itself in a form specifically custom-tailored to win the hearty approval of the West. But their ultimate goal is the same: the unification of the Islamic world, the revival of the caliphate. And to date, we have fully fallen for their ploy.

The Turkish goal of regional influence has progressed steadily and deliberately. Seven years ago, only myself and a few others were warning of these realities. And when we suggested such, we were mocked. Seven years from now, we'll all be looking back, asking ourselves how we could have been so blind not to have seen it sooner.



200-year-old Desk

200 YEAR OLD DESK. This is an amazing work of art.

Watch this. You will not believe it....Talk about craftsmanship and beauty....here it is...

200 YEAR OLD GERMAN DESK And to think the guy who made this over two hundred years ago did it with hand tools.

The user’s guide must have been a challenge to read.

Click here-----> MKikHxKeodA-rel=0

America's Newest Religion: MTD Church

Have you heard about this new religion which is now followed by most Americans?

Most Americans now belong to a religious faith called Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.

The dogma of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism includes:
God exists, and desires that people are good, nice, and fair to one another.
God can be called upon to assure happiness and to resolve crises.
Being good, nice, and fair assures eternal salvation in heaven. (My church?  I belong to the Church of Nice.)
Attendance at churches is not required. (I’m spiritual but not religious.)
Faith in the redeeming power of Jesus Christ is not required in this religion.  (Jesus was a nice man with some good things to say.) 
Charity to others is not essential as that is the government’s responsibility.
Moral relativism is central to the dogma.  (Whom am I to judge or criticize another’s actions?)

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is the “grand reduction” of religious thought and practice to a set of sentimental and affirming principles.
It does not have the presence of a transcendent, personal, and transformative God.
It is a religious faith of mediocrity, of insularity, and of loneliness.
It requires no greatness of soul.
And it engenders no virtue, no charity, and no heroism.

Christianity is not Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.
Christianity is the faith of unmerited greatness—the faith of heroic virtue, unsurpassed hope, and unbounded charity.
The Christian life elevates humanity in the great sanctifying process of theosis.
By our very baptism, in fact, we are given the capacity to love precisely as God loves.
And at the core of the Christian life is a transformative religious relationship with a living person—Jesus Christ.



Christian Smith is a sociologist at the University of Notre Dame. He’s conducted extensive research on the religious beliefs of young Americans from every major faith group. And he’s concluded that regardless of their religious affiliation, young Americans tend to subscribe to a faith he calls Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.

Friday, March 20, 2015

Awesome Machines

A lot of these answer the question “how do they do that” . 

These are some truly awesome machines...




Vincent Van Gogh’s Family Tree

His dizzy aunt -------------------------------------------------- Verti Gogh
The brother who ate prunes-------------------------------  Gotta Gogh 
The brother who worked at a convenience store --- Stop N Gogh 
Grandfather from Yugoslavia ------------------------------ Hugh Gogh 
His magician uncle --------------------------------- Where-diddy Gogh 
The nephew who drove a stage coach ------------- Wells-far Gogh  
Gambling sister’s downfall -----------------------------------Bing Gogh
Ballroom dancing aunt --------------------------------------- Tang Gogh 
The bird lover uncle ---------------------------------------- Flamin Gogh 
The fruit-loving cousin ---------------------------------------- Man Gogh 
Aunt who taught positive thinking ---------------------- Way-to-Gogh 
The little bouncy nephew ------------------------------------- Poe Gogh 
A sister who danced disco ------------------------------------- Go Gogh 
Poor niece who lived in her RV ------------------- Winnie Bay Gogh 
His constipated uncle ---------------------------------------- Can’t Gogh
Mexican cousin ---------------------------------------------- A Mee Gogh
Mexican cousin’s American half-brother ----------------Gring Gogh

Did you like that? . . . there Ya Gogh!

Dancing priests become Internet sensation

This one is fun!


Senior Citizens Memory Test

1. In the 1950s, if you had a flat rear tire, you often had to remove the?
a. Necker knob
b. Curb feeler
c. Fender skirt 

2. What color flash bulbs did Dad use for color film?
a. Blue
b. Pink
c. Plaid 

3. What was the parking brake called when you were a kid?
a. Emergency brake
b. Pull Stop
c. Breaker. Breaker. 

4. Way before Air Jordan, what was a kids shoe of choice?
a. Buster Brown
b. PF Flyers
c. Old Stinkers 

5. In what year did Dewey Defeat Truman according to the Chicago Tribune?
a. 1946
b. 1948
c. 1952 

6.. Before the Orkin Man, what technology was part of most home bug deterrence?
a. Shoe Fly
b. Fly paper
c. 50 mm Phlit gun 

7. Dixie cups had what printed on their tops?
a. Secret decoders
b. Movie stars
c. WW II propaganda slogans 

8. What was the prevailing method of birth control in the 50s?
a. Heavy lifting and cold showers
b. Fear
c. Girdles and crinoline petticoats 

9. Jimmy Durante said what at the end of every show?
a. Aloha, my friends.
b. Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
c. Remember, wherever you go, my nose will get there first. 

10. Popeye the sailor man; Popeye the sailor man. I'm strong to the finish, _ _ _ _ _ , Popeye the sailor man.
a. cause I eats me spinach
b. my dad was big and Finnish
c. the music a bit tinnish? 

11. In the quaint greasy spoon jargon of yore, what did knock the horns off one, and drag it through the garden mean?
a. 86 the customer, then kick him out the back door
b. Rare hamburger or steak with tomato and lettuce
c. Cooties 

12. Lincoln Logs were for what use?
a. A diary of the presidency
b. Keep track of fat cats who sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom
c. Building toy structures 

13. Ward and June bring what to mind?
a. A popular TV series called Leave it to Beaver
b. A Chicago family of butchers and knife sharpeners called The Cleavers
c. Inventors of the clicker, Jack Ward and Ernest June 

14. Cops and Robbers, Cowboys and Indians, and Zorro are all forms of what?
a. Alcoholic beverages
b. Capitalism
c. Childrens play 

15. What was the cheapest way to turn a bicycle into a motorcycle?
a. Baseball cards in the spokes
b. Rig an electric motor with a very long cord
c. Turning left into the path of a Harley 

16. Tinker toys date back to when?
a. 1914
b. 1949
c. 1967 

17. In grade school, what was the worst thing that could happen to you when being picked for a team?
a. Getting picked last
b. Getting your uniform dirty
c. Not having the team tattoo 

18. If we dared to swear and our parents heard us, we immediately found out what _ _ _ tasted like.
a. Meatballs
b. Soap
c. Sarsaparilla 

19. What was one thing the Lone Ranger and Roy Rogers would never do?
a. Kill someone
b. Shot a squirrel
c. Eat lima beans 

20. What convertible offered an optional radio that automatically increased its volume as the car accelerated?
a. 1912 Franklin
b. 1943 Jeep
c. 1957 Ford Thunderbird 


Scroll down for answers......... 








ANSWERS
1. c) Fender skirts, attached to the rear fenders, covered fully half the wheel streamlining the car.
2. a) Blue
3. a) Emergency brake. We grew up in much more dramatic times. [i still call it that, do you too?]
4. b) PF Flyers.
BF Goodrich patented the Posture Foundation insole, an innovation in comfort and performance, and began adding the new technology to its action shoes. Goodrich shoes with Posture Foundation became known simply as PF in 1937. Fashion trends in the Forties and Fifties saw PF Flyers escaping gyms and ball fields to become fashionable active footwear for everyone. Everything you do is more fun with PF read one 1947 magazine ad. In 2001, New Balance acquired the rights to the brand. 

5. b) It was November 3,1948, when Truman upset Republican Thomas Dewey in the first postwar presidential election. Trib publisher Col. Robt. R. McCormick got the news late. 

6. b) Sticky fly paper hanging from kitchen ceilings was common in American homes until insecticides like Flit became available in 40s. 

7. b) Movie Stars
Most people over 55 recall with nostalgia the Dixie Cup ice cream picture lids that appeared all over America from 1930 to 1954. In the final year, the lids were in 3D, full color, and styled in left and right action poses.
These were used in stereo card viewers for the 3D effect. [ 
http://www.go-star.com/antiquing/dixiecup.htm


8. c) This is a tough one, but the answer is girdles and crinoline petticoats. 


9. b) Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are. 


10. a) cause I eats me spinach 


11. b) Rare hamburger or steak with tomato and lettuce.
Other examples:
Axle grease: butter;
Blowout patches: pancakes;
Bowwow, barks, or groundhog: “hot dog;
Baled hay: shredded wheat;
Bessie: roast beef;
Bessie in a bow:l stew;
Cackle berries: eggs;
Rabbit food: salad;
Sinkers donuts;
and
Sweep the kitchen: hash. 


12. c) Building toy structures. 


13. a) A popular TV series called Leave it to Beaver, perhaps the most unrealistic, misleading and shallow depiction of family life ever produced for TV. 


14. c) Childrens play. 


15. a) Baseball cards in the spokes. Who among you never did this? 


16. a) 1914 Good then, 1935 Good now, 2000 Good always, read the back cover of a 1935 Toy Tinkers catalog.
Charles H. Pajeau and Robert Pettit, the founders of The Toy Tinkers of Evanston, Illinois, and the creators of the TINKER TOY construction set, knew that the Thousand Wonder Builder would continue to inspire the imaginations
of children because of its easy-to-use, yet versatile construction system. They are still made today, now by Hasbro. 


17. a) Getting picked last.
As an expert on this particular humiliation, I assure you that getting picked last was far better than not getting picked at all. 


18. b) Soap.
Was this a regional thing?
Where I grew up, spanking was the generally preferred method for punishing any childhood misdemeanor.
We wouldn't have known a time out to save our lives. 


19. a) Kill someone.
I cant remember ever seeing the Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers or other cowboy heroes actually kill someone.
They would just shoot the gun out of the bad guys hand.
There was no blood, no violence, just folks wondering who that masked man was. 


20. c) 1957 Ford Thunderbird.
Hard one but, lets face it, easy answer. The option was available only that year. 


SCORING 
17-20 correct: 
You are not only older than dirt, but obviously gifted with mind bloat.
12-16 correct: Not quite dirt yet, but your mind is definitely muddy, ready to muck up others.
0-11 correct: You are one sad excuse of a geezer.