Barack's Boo-Boos

QUOTE OF THE WEEK


Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), via his Twitter account, lashing out at Obama for traveling abroad while legislators were left working on Obama?s health care plan over the weekend: "Pres Obama while u sightseeing in Paris u said 'time to delivr on healthcare' When you are a 'hammer' u think evrything is NAIL I'm no NAIL."

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We're hearing today that all but one of the Republican senators on the Finance Committee shot down the idea of Obama's public health care plan, which means that he will have to reconsider his dreams of bipartisanship. Democrats are also divided, making negotiations about the controversial legislation even more iffy. Obama is pushing lawmakers to finish health care reform before the summer. We're hoping that this latest news will stall it forever.

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We're also glad to hear that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has stalled the sale of Chrysler to Fiat after multiple lawsuits were launched by Indiana state pension and construction funds, as well as from consumer groups. The major complaint is that the deal favors unsecured stakeholders as opposed to secured debt holders, and the constitutionality of the company's assistance from the the bailout money. Justice Ginsberg ruled that these suits have merit, so negotiators will have to rethink the ownership redistribution of Chrysler. Obama can't be happy about this move, since he admitted that he owes the unions for helping him get reelected, and the unions were getting a sweetheart deal in the bankruptcy reconfiguring.

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Obama keeps saying that all of this government spending will create and/or save hundreds of thousands of jobs. The Department of Labor reported that 345,000 jobs were lost in May. Maybe Obama needs a new calculator, because something isn't adding up.

Unhealthy Government

Ever wonder how the government is accounting for the trillions of dollars --OUR dollars--that they're throwing around? Never fear--the Federal Reserve is here! Check out the mind-boggling video link below:

http://www.dailybail.com/home/there-are-no-words-to-describe-the-following-part-ii.html

Here's more on the government's healthcare plan. While the plan is very depressing, there may be a silver lining -- perhaps Obamacare will help increase our faith as we are all driven to our knees to plead with God that we don't get sick.

http://keithhennessey.com/2009/06/08/kennedy-health-bill/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124442772329993085.html#mod=djemEditorialPage

Did Anyone Get the License Plate of the Bus?

Why is it that every time Barack Obama goes overseas, Americans are left feeling like they were just run over by a bus? His now-famous apology tour was the first time he spoke to Europeans after his coronation in January. Many of us were left wondering why we have to apologize to people whose lives (or, at least the lives of their ancestors) have been literally saved by Americans several times. They would all be speaking German right now if the Americans hadn't shown up to help them during World War II.

Now Obama is in the middle east telling them that it's not America's place to dictate to them how they live their lives and, for now on, we will stop dictating and start listening. What is it that we will be hearing in this listening mode? More planes flying into buildings? Suicide bombers exploding in crowded market places?

Evidently the end of America's "dictating" will apply to everyone but Israel. As Charles Krauthammer explains: "Israel is ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: 'a stop to settlements -- not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions.'"

The Obama bus: never saw an American or Jew it didn't want to run over.

Here are two excellent articles with more information:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/can-there-be-peace-through-weakness/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/04/AR2009060403811.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

Really Reel

Today is movie day, so grab your popcorn, sit back, and enjoy the movies.

The first movie is about our new political hero, a mayor in Canada, and it is entitled Welcome to Mississauga.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY79KbCptTo

Part of the second movie was shown on Bill O'Reilly last night. It is entitled Young Con Anthem. It is a rap performed by two students at Dartmouth College who call themselves The Young Conservatives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkeZ2P4SiY8

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL (and a little politics, too)

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

John Hawkins has written an article entitled 5 Character Flaws That Are Destroying America's Future. This article hits the nail on the head. There are segments of our society who have become whiny, self-centered victims with an attitude of entitlement. If we are to have any hope of turning this country back to its roots, we need to weed out these attitudes.
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/06/02/5_character_flaws_that_are_destroying_americas_future?page=full&comments=true

Several TV and radio personalities have made the comparison between the media coverage of the murder of Dr. Tiller, the abortionist, and shootings of two Arkansas military recruiters--one died from his wounds and the other was seriously injured. There is such an obvious double standard in media coverage between the media controlled and funded by liberals as opposed to the conservative leaning media. Ironically, the media that leans to the right is doing far better in the polls than the other medias. For more on the media double standard, click on the link below.

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/06/03/climate_of_hate,_world_of_double_standards?page=full&comments=true

And finally, today is Paul's birthday (Sandy's son). Happy 33rd birthday!

33 Years in Pictures

Newborn - June 3, 1976

Robin Hood

Major league material...

...or maybe the NFL.

Wedded bliss

First-time daddy

If We Are the Sheeple, Who's Our Shepherd?

A Russian journalist wrote an article for Pravda, a Russian magazine/newspaper, about Americans becoming Marxists. He called the American people "sheeple" for blindly following without even a whimper a government that is rapidly leading them to Marxism. Is this the change that Obama voters wanted? When Obama and his supporters talked about changing the way other nations looked at America (because we were supposedly hated by most other countries), did anyone think that would include other nations looking down on us or laughing at us (like China did yesterday at Tim Geithner)? So who prefers being mocked, scorned, and kicked around by other nations over being the world's leader who is feared by other nations? Seems like a no-brainer, but liberals will vote for being the kicking post.

The American people need to fight against the tyranny coming from Washington, D.C. Of course, if you are like us, you are writing and calling your federal representatives to no avail. We feel like we are voicing our opinion, only to not be heard. We may have to start joining the rallies and even marching in Washington, peaceably of course, to make our voices heard. We're sure that we aren't alone in not wanting to lose our right to choose for ourselves. And we are sure that if we do lose our right to choose, we will not stand blameless before God.

Perhaps the rest of the world should also take note of our government. What makes them think that our tyranny won't spread to them? If oppressors and bullies can control one country, then why not the world?

Below is a link to Glenn Beck's comments on the Pravda article and he includes a link to Pravda:
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/26037/

Tender Mercies

Last week a 24-year-old woman was kidnapped and brutally raped at a Tennessee cabin. In a strange move by her captor, he decided to have pizza delivered to the home. The cabin was thirty miles away from the pizza place, but the manager of the restaurant decided to deliver the pizza anyway, even though the distance was usually out of their delivery zone. The delivery man's wife accompanied him on the trip and waited in the van while the pizza was delivered. As the kidnapper/rapist turned his back to sign the credit card slip, the woman sat up to look over the back of the sofa that had been concealing her and quietly showed her bound hands to the delivery man while mouthing "Call 911." The delivery man returned to the van and told his wife that they needed to find a phone, since their cell phones were out of range. The police came, rescued the woman, and arrested the kidnapper. http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/05/30/pizzaman0530.html

While it's obviously very sad that this woman had to suffer through a kidnapping and rape, it's also gratifying to know that God does know of our troubles and will intervene on our behalf. The kidnapper was either stupid or arrogant in not considering the idiocy of having pizza delivered to a crime scene -- especially when he was the one committing the crime. Then the pizza restaurant decided to deliver to a home out of their normal delivery area. Fortunately, the pizza guy was smart enough to catch on to the situation and keep his cool. Several tender mercies came together to save this young woman's life and release her from bondage.

"We should not underestimate or overlook the power of the Lord’s tender mercies. The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live. When words cannot provide the solace we need or express the joy we feel, when it is simply futile to attempt to explain that which is unexplainable, when logic and reason cannot yield adequate understanding about the injustices and inequities of life, when mortal experience and evaluation are insufficient to produce a desired outcome, and when it seems that perhaps we are so totally alone, truly we are blessed by the tender mercies of the Lord and made mighty even unto the power of deliverance." Elder David Bednar