Thursday, September 20, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
"A teacher went into her classroom about fifteen minutes before the class was supposed to begin and caught a bunch of boys in a huddle on their knees in the corner of the room. She asked what they were doing, and one of them shouted back, "We are shooting craps." She replied, "That’s all right. I was afraid you were praying.""
This is very disturbing. The parallels with today are striking. Yet this was written during the 1930s. Take a look and see if you grasp how far down the slope we have slipped. I invite Chuck Comstock and A J A.j. Skurdal to look at this. This is a cartoon summarizing a famous book..Road to Serfdom
This move by the fed is going to make the rich richer and impoverish the middle class and make the poor poorer. I would blame Obama...but this is the fed's doing. He gets a pass...kinda. Nothing to worry about however, this injection of H...See More
This was part of a special section in the Wall Street Journal today. It's prime message in the whole section was more solar, more wind power, less coal and get ready to put up with intermittent power in your home. This is the result of th
e dark ages conspiracy that has been thrust upon us by misguided people with no vision. This has to be turned around and it begins with us. Oops gotta go, power just went off...Just kidding, but that will be a reality is we don't' stop these people.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Libya commemorates 9/11 By: Ann Coulter
9/12/2012
When President Obama intervened in Libya last year, he claimed that “it’s in our national interest to act” to remove a tyrant who — in response to Bush’s invasion of Iraq — had just given up his weapons of mass destruction and pledged to be America’s BFF.
Apparently Gadhafi neglected to also tell Obama, “I’ve got your back.”
Obama said: “We must stand alongside those who believe in the same core principles that have guided us through many storms … our support for a set of universal rights, including the freedom for people to express themselves and choose their leaders; our support for the governments that are ultimately responsive to the aspirations of the people.”
The Libyan mob was the equivalent of our founding fathers! (If you overlook the part about it being a murderous Islamic mob.)
Meanwhile, Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA’s Bin Laden unit, said: “The people we are fighting for in Libya, the backbone of that movement, are former mujahedeen from around the world.” We are “enabling people who may not be formally aligned with al-Qaida but who want the same things to grasp ever closer to power.”
Scheuer said the media had taken “a few English-speaking Arabs who are pro-democracy and a few Facebook pages out of the Middle East and extrapolated that to a region-wide love of secular democracy,” adding, “It is as insane a situation as I’ve ever encountered in my life.”
No wonder Obama’s running for re-election on his foreign policy expertise!
Among Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum all called for aggressive action against Gadhafi, including enforcement of a no-fly zone.
Santorum cited Reagan’s 1986 bombing of Libya (after Gadhafi had killed American servicemen in Berlin), saying, “If you want to be Reaganesque, it seems the path is pretty clear.”
Gingrich took all sides, first demanding: “Exercise a no-fly zone this evening. We don’t need to have the United Nations. All we have to say is that we think that slaughtering your own citizens is unacceptable and that we’re intervening. This is a moment to get rid of him. Do it. Get it over with.”
Then, two weeks later, he said: “I would not have intervened.”
Only Mitt Romney and Haley Barbour resisted calling for aggressive action against Gadhafi, with Romney merely criticizing Obama’s deer-in-the-headlights response, and Barbour stating more directly, “I don’t think it’s our mission to make Libya look like Luxembourg.” No offense, he said, “but it is not ever going to look like what we’d like.”
The New York Times’ Thomas Friedman exulted that the Arab peoples “have come up with their own answer to violent extremism and the abusive regimes we’ve been propping up. … It’s called democracy.”
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius praised Obama’s major shift in strategy in seeing the Libyan uprising as a “positive development” and refusing to provide aid to the embattled dictator. “My own instinct,” he said, “is that Obama is right.”
French liberal blowhard Bernard-Henri Levy announced that “Libya will go down in history as the anti-Iraq. Iraq was a democracy parachuted in by a foreign power in a country which hadn’t asked for it. Libya was a rebellion which demanded help from an international coalition.”
The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette editorialized: “Most of the world is rejoicing because of the historic success in Libya. We’re glad it was accomplished by Libya’s people, not by a U.S. invasion ordered by right-wing American politicians.”
I note that the American ambassador in Iraq has not been murdered and his corpse dragged through the streets. I also recall that, a few years ago, when Muslims around the globe erupted in rioting over some Dutch cartoons, one Muslim country remained utterly pacific: George W. Bush’s Iraq.
Apparently U.S. invasions ordered by right-wing American politicians are the only ones that work in the Middle East. Fake uprisings orchestrated by Muslim fanatics are less propitious.
Learn your history, Americans. The American Revolution was not the revolt of a mob. It was a carefully thought-out plan for a republic, based on ideas painstakingly argued by serious men in the process of creating what would become the freest, most prosperous nation in world history.
The much-ballyhooed “Arab Spring,” with mobs of men gang-raping American reporters, firing guns in the air and murdering their erstwhile dictators, is more akin to the pointless bloodletting of the French Revolution.
That godless antithesis to the founding of America is the primogenitor of the horrors of the Bolshevik Revolution, Hitler’s Nazi Party, Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot’s slaughter and America’s periodic mob uprisings, from Shays’ Rebellion to today’s union thugs in Madison, Wis., and Occupy Wall Street.
Americans did win freedom and greater individual rights with their revolution. By contrast, the French Revolution resulted in bestial savagery, a slaughter of all the revolution’s leaders, followed by Napoleon’s dictatorship, followed by another monarchy, and then finally something resembling an actual republic 80 years later.
Violent mob uprisings have never led to a functioning democratic republic.
Disgrace in Benghazi - Mark Steyn
In a rare appearance on a non-showbiz outlet, President Obama, winging it on Telemundo, told his host that Egypt was neither an ally nor an enemy. I can understand why it can be difficult to figure out, but here’s an easy way to tell: Bernard Lewis, the great scholar of Islam, said some years ago that America risked being seen as harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend. At the Benghazi consulate, the looters stole “sensitive” papers revealing the names of Libyans who’ve cooperated with the United States. Oh, well. As the president would say, obviously our hearts are with you.
Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the local doctor who fingered bin Laden to the Americans sits in jail. In other words, while America’s clod vice president staggers around pimping limply that only Obama had the guts to take the toughest decision anyone’s ever had to take, the poor schlub who actually did have the guts, who actually took the tough decision in a part of the world where taking tough decisions can get you killed, languishes in a cell because Washington would not lift a finger to help him.
Like I said, no novelist would contrast Chris Stevens on the streets of Benghazi and Barack Obama on stage in Vegas. Too crude, too telling, too devastating.
Disgrace in Benghazi - Mark Steyn - National Review Online
Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the local doctor who fingered bin Laden to the Americans sits in jail. In other words, while America’s clod vice president staggers around pimping limply that only Obama had the guts to take the toughest decision anyone’s ever had to take, the poor schlub who actually did have the guts, who actually took the tough decision in a part of the world where taking tough decisions can get you killed, languishes in a cell because Washington would not lift a finger to help him.
Like I said, no novelist would contrast Chris Stevens on the streets of Benghazi and Barack Obama on stage in Vegas. Too crude, too telling, too devastating.
Disgrace in Benghazi - Mark Steyn - National Review Online
We have lost our way - I didn't write this but it's good
I am afraid for our country. There seems to be an escalation, an acceleration of Islamist aggression in many of our cities, and not just via prayer-protest but also via lawsuit. Even now, the United Nations is preparing a truly racist document against the Jews, (Durban II), and yet it’s being promoted as an “anti-racist’ document. Why is the mainstream media so silent about all this? Why are the intelligentsia silent, why do they once again make common cause with totalitarians and fascists? What will it take to connect the dots?
When it becomes more important to be seen on the “chic” side of an issue, rather than on the principled side of an issue, we have lost our way.
When it becomes more important to care about how we look to our “New friends”, than how we stand by our ideals, we have lost our way.
When it becomes more “hip” to slander our country than to protect it from slander, then we have lost our way.
When we become convinced that being erudite means that we are narrow-minded and reactionary against any opinions but those acceptable to “academia”, we have lost our way.
When we become peer pressured into silence against rabid Jew hating, and it is more important that we are liked because we hold the “correct” opinions …than it is to say “Never Again”, we have lost our way.
When it is more important to ignore the hatred of Jewish existence, culture and statehood, than it is to embrace them, then we have lost our way.
When it is more important to be accepted by our leftist friends, than it is to be honorable about our country, our countrymen and our alliance with Israel, then we have lost our way.
When leftist ideology goes bad, when it leaves the path upon which we first so fervently believed in it…our choice is put before us. Is it more important to remain on a bad path so that people we know won’t condemn us, or is it more important to blaze a new path, so that years from now, looking back, …we will not condemn ourselves.
When it becomes more important to be seen on the “chic” side of an issue, rather than on the principled side of an issue, we have lost our way.
When it becomes more important to care about how we look to our “New friends”, than how we stand by our ideals, we have lost our way.
When it becomes more “hip” to slander our country than to protect it from slander, then we have lost our way.
When we become convinced that being erudite means that we are narrow-minded and reactionary against any opinions but those acceptable to “academia”, we have lost our way.
When we become peer pressured into silence against rabid Jew hating, and it is more important that we are liked because we hold the “correct” opinions …than it is to say “Never Again”, we have lost our way.
When it is more important to ignore the hatred of Jewish existence, culture and statehood, than it is to embrace them, then we have lost our way.
When it is more important to be accepted by our leftist friends, than it is to be honorable about our country, our countrymen and our alliance with Israel, then we have lost our way.
When leftist ideology goes bad, when it leaves the path upon which we first so fervently believed in it…our choice is put before us. Is it more important to remain on a bad path so that people we know won’t condemn us, or is it more important to blaze a new path, so that years from now, looking back, …we will not condemn ourselves.
When we questioned Obama's motives we were told by the State Run Media...it doesn't matter
Written anonymously, not my hand:
1)We asked about the association with Frank Marshall Davis, the angry and bitter mentor with CPUSA ties, and they completely ignored us, telling us it didn’t matter.
2)We found out by ourselves, without them lifting a finger, about Jeremiah Wright and his frothing diatribes against America and Israel. When we asked them to look into this, they completely ignore us and told us it didn’t matter.
3)When Wright screeched for God to damn America, that the white man had invented AIDS to kill black people, that Louis Farrakhan was a hero and a role model, we asked them again to help us reveal items of importance, and again they ignored us and told us it didn’t matter.
4)So we looked up James M. Cone’s liberation theopolitics ourselves and found that it is based on Marxist principles, that they have threatened their deity…if their deity doesn’t hate whites, they will kill him. And we asked them to use their resources to help us understand why anyone would follow such a line of thinking and they ignored us and told us it didn’t matter.
5)Then we saw another dear friend, Michael Pfleger…acting out a bizarre minstrel show, raging against white people and their grandfathers and 401k’s. And we asked them to help us understand the attraction to such a buffoon, and they ignored us and said it didn’t matter.
6)So we trudged off to dig again on our own for when these folks became “dear friends” and “spiritual guides” and “mentors” and we found a basic history of mediocre to poor grades at Occidental College, certainly nothing of distinction or honors level…somehow translating into an acceptance at Columbia University. We asked how that could occur, given the extremely stringent entrance requirements, and they ignored us and said it didn’t matter.
7)Not only did the lack of scholarly achievement gain entrance to Columbia, it held fast throughout the stay there. There is not an ounce of record or shred of documentation that shows mere attendance, much less achievement. And yet, upon this ghost of a resume, acceptance into Harvard Law School, an institution with notoriously improbable statistics for gaining entry for those who score at the top of their class. We asked for an explanation, and we were ignored and told it didn’t matter.
8)During these Columbia years, we came to find that a co-conspirator in the mass murder of innocent Americans lived within walking distance. We also learned of some Socialist meeting halls at some Cooper place. We asked for details on all of this and we were told none would be forthcoming, because it didn’t matter.
9) This Ayers and his wife Dohrn hold such extremist radical views, they…unlike Wright, did not ask for God to damn America…they sought to embrace enemies who would incinerate it here on earth. Ayers apparently masterminded an indoctrination of schoolchildren plot, that was hidden behind stealth words and code names. He handpicked operatives to field general his master plan and we asked for help in uncovering his lifelong plan of overthrow of the government. We were told it didn’t matter, he was a “respected” professor among his fellow travelers in academia and the entrenched media…so it really, really didn’t matter.
10)One of the handpicked operatives is a guy named Michael Klonsky. This fellow was a chief blogger on the campaign welcome wagon and a Maoist who met with the Communist Chinese in an effort to prop up Maoism here at home. Klonsky, something called the New Party, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Students for a Democratic Society, the Weathermen…all seemed to overlap much like a clear plastic layout where one additional layer adds to the picture of the last. We asked about connecting the dots with all these elements, and we were told no, go away and quit asking questions…it just doesn’t matter.
11)So, as we wondered how in the world these extremists were funded, we came upon a couple of boards of “charitable” organizations where Ayers once again popped up. Apparently millions and millions of dollars would be ground up like sausage, so as not to be recognizable and then would funnel through to various extremist ideological fronts. Apparently other board members were kept in the dark, or only served in yawning rote rubber stamp positions while this was being plotted right under their noses. Nobody knows, because nobody has asked them…because, we are told…it didn’t matter.
12)One of the fundings went to this guy named Rashid Khalidi. He was an apologist for Arafat and a defender of suicide bombers of innocent children and women. He was feted at some dinner and they got a copy of the tape of this dinner, we asked them to see it and they said the source (perhaps Ali Abuminah, but maybe not) was more important than the truth. We said it was important to know what was on that tape and they told us our opinion doesn’t matter.
13)So Stanley Kurtz went digging for himself into how the Woods Foundation worked and the CAC was inter-related, and he went to a public university and to a public library to do the digging that they would not. And he was told that he would be refused access. We asked them to come to the aid of free speech, public access to documents, to help repel the coverup of information that is vital to our liberties as a nation. They sat on their hands and said it didn’t matter.
14)Joe the Plumber was approached at his home, seeking neither attention nor even leaving his property to invite it, and he said that the increase in taxation on certain folks sounded unfair to him. He did not a single thing more, and he was attacked viciously, not for the question, but because of a part of the answer. In fact, his privacy was invaded and illegally used as a campaign tool to continue the vicious attack. We asked that they engage in the condemnation of such vile usage of power and they sat on their hands and told us it didn’t matter.
15)Three of their brethren journalists have been eliminated from the plane as we approach the finish line, and coincidentally, all three who have been thrown off…are the ones who endorsed the opposing candidate. In asking them if that should be the future conduct as it applies to them, they sat on their hands and said it didn’t matter.
And, now…in the final days…Stanley Kurtz, Joe the Plumber, and fair minded and reasonable people everywhere are asking the last couple of questions.
Since all of the above have gone completely without a shred of investigation on your part, what if this candidate indeed shares those views of radical extremism? The methodologies of “boiling the frog” one degree at a time? Perhaps it is far fetched….and yes, we anticipate your accusations of tin foil hat paranoia…but, simply answer the question. Because, you don’t know…and neither do we. You never asked the question. So, now…what if?
And the answer they gave is this…if it is true and he is already elected, by the time we find out for real…it’s not going to matter.
And for the first time, in a long time…I believed them.
Your FAITH IS UNWORKABLE if the Government says so...
The Obama administration today argued in court that the government can make a requirement that violates religious beliefs and that a company cannot reflect the religious faith of its owners.
The administration’s statements came in a court filing that asserts the federal government has the authority to order private companies to provide abortifacients for their employees.
A case against the order was brought by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of Legatus, the nation’s largest organization of top Catholic business leaders, and Weingartz Supply and its owner.
The plaintiffs argue that the federal order conflicts with the U.S. Constitution by requiring them to violate their religious faith.
The Michigan case is just one of dozens nationwide that raise similar issues.
The federal attorneys contend that allowing employers to direct the activities of their entities with a respect for their own religious faith would be unworkable.
The administration’s statements came in a court filing that asserts the federal government has the authority to order private companies to provide abortifacients for their employees.
A case against the order was brought by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of Legatus, the nation’s largest organization of top Catholic business leaders, and Weingartz Supply and its owner.
The plaintiffs argue that the federal order conflicts with the U.S. Constitution by requiring them to violate their religious faith.
The Michigan case is just one of dozens nationwide that raise similar issues.
The federal attorneys contend that allowing employers to direct the activities of their entities with a respect for their own religious faith would be unworkable.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Looking forward to Obama's Second Term
Here are some things I am certain we will see in the next four years...unless Obama is defeated by some miracle
1) America's credit rating slides further: Under Barack Obama's leadership, America lost its AAA credit rating for the first time since 1917. That means our country is now more of a gamble to loan money to than Microsoft. Given that Barack Obama has shown zero inclination to get spending under control or seriously tackle entitlement reform, our rating would be practically guaranteed to drop at least another notch. In other words, this country would soon have the same S&P rating as Qatar and the Czech Republic.
2) The middle class will see massive tax increases: Congress has been at an impasse because Republicans want to cut spending and Democrats want to raise taxes. Despite all the talk you hear about the "Buffet Rule," it would produce a comparatively small amount of actual revenue because the rich are close to tapped out. The real money is in the middle class. If we're not going to cut our escalating spending, then taxes on the middle class will have to soar like an eagle fired out of a cannon.
3) Gas and energy prices will be dramatically higher: Obama once said, "Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." His Energy Secretary Steven Chu added, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." Is it any wonder that Obama won't drill ANWR, has blocked the Keystone Pipeline, and has slow-walked offshore drilling? Obama views sky high energy prices as a feature, not a bug and if he doesn't have to face the voters again, expect to see energy prices lift off like the manned space shuttles Obama permanently grounded.
4) Obamacare goes into effect: If the GOP controls the House, the Senate, and the White House, it should be able to gut Obamacare and keep it from ever going into effect. On the other hand if Obama is reelected, there's a better chance of the NAACP endorsing Mitt Romney than there is that health care reform will ever be repealed.
5) The Supreme Court moves to the left: Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 79, Antonin Scalia is 76, Anthony Kennedy is 75, and Stephen Breyer is 73. Replacing Ginsburg or Breyer with 50 year old liberals would be bad enough, but imagine Obama selecting a replacement for Scalia or Kennedy. If that happens, Obama would have five guaranteed votes on the Supreme Court for anything he wants to do. Once we get to that point, the Constitution might as well not even exist.
6) Open borders: Barack Obama has already bypassed Congress to implement the DREAM ACT by fiat, he's planning to break the law to hand out work permits to illegal aliens, he's openly proclaimed that ICE won't pick up many of the illegals detained by Arizona, and illegals are now being released by the border patrol sans proof if they claim they went to high school here. We're very close to having an open border policy right now for any illegal alien who hasn't committed a felony here and in an Obama second term, it's fair to assume that the primary qualification for citizenship would be the ability to sneak into the country.
7) Gun control: Barack Obama filled out a "questionnaire in which he called for banning 'the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns'" and he let everyone know what he thought about gun owners even before he was elected with his notorious "bitter clingers" quip. His campaign website doesn't even have a section addressing 2nd Amendment issues, perhaps because Obama would have to admit that he's already calling for a reinstatement of the Assault Weapons Ban. Without an election to keep him in check, expect Barack Obama to "evolve" on gun control the same way he did on gay marriage.
That doesn't include the open marriage act, mandated abortion and a dozen other abominations.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
A tale of two young men...one a loser, one a winner
In Paul Ryan's speech he talked about young men who live in their mid 20s who are living in their parent's house in the bedroom they grew up in. The fading Obama poster is still on their wall.
I have two stories.
One is about a young man named Brian. He's a nice man. I know him. He has a masters degree in Bus Administration. He has a teaching certificate. He wants a job. He is convinced there are none out there. He is waiting right now to teach High School on a substitute basis for a hundred buck a day. He frankly is lost. Will never get out of this conundrum until he breaks lose from the idea that the world owes him a living because he went a long time to college. He is deep in debt from his college education. A hundred grand. He will NEVER see daylight. He is a victim of a sad lie told him by a college government conspiracy that will rob him of his future. It's all over for him.
The other young man is Adam. My nephew. The son of my brother and his wife. He went to work at a Shipping Company for what was not much more than minimum wage thru a temporary agency. Now he has been there two years. He has become a full time employee. He has a business degree. He has some 3ducation debt. YET. He took a crappy job to get in the door.
Two years later he is about to double his income by being excellent. He has moved up. Not because of his education, because he became an expert at what he was doing.
He will soon be in in six figures.
Brian could do this, but he needs to get out of his parents bedroom and starve until he is hungry enough to get there. Motivation is everything. Education is nothing.
I have watched this tale take place before my very eyes. It's very sad. One is a permanent loser and one a winner on the way....
Who's fault is it???
I have two stories.
One is about a young man named Brian. He's a nice man. I know him. He has a masters degree in Bus Administration. He has a teaching certificate. He wants a job. He is convinced there are none out there. He is waiting right now to teach High School on a substitute basis for a hundred buck a day. He frankly is lost. Will never get out of this conundrum until he breaks lose from the idea that the world owes him a living because he went a long time to college. He is deep in debt from his college education. A hundred grand. He will NEVER see daylight. He is a victim of a sad lie told him by a college government conspiracy that will rob him of his future. It's all over for him.
The other young man is Adam. My nephew. The son of my brother and his wife. He went to work at a Shipping Company for what was not much more than minimum wage thru a temporary agency. Now he has been there two years. He has become a full time employee. He has a business degree. He has some 3ducation debt. YET. He took a crappy job to get in the door.
Two years later he is about to double his income by being excellent. He has moved up. Not because of his education, because he became an expert at what he was doing.
He will soon be in in six figures.
Brian could do this, but he needs to get out of his parents bedroom and starve until he is hungry enough to get there. Motivation is everything. Education is nothing.
I have watched this tale take place before my very eyes. It's very sad. One is a permanent loser and one a winner on the way....
Who's fault is it???
Monday, September 10, 2012
Would he Encourage the murder of his OWN Grandchild? OR did I misunderstand
This has been haunting me. I hope you won't be offended. But words mean things.
When I think of the comment about Obama's girls he made where he said, “if my daughter makes a mistake I don't want her punished with a baby”
That means that IF one of his girls gets pregnant, it makes sense to him to have his daughter murder his grandchild.
Do I have that right?
When I think of the comment about Obama's girls he made where he said, “if my daughter makes a mistake I don't want her punished with a baby”
That means that IF one of his girls gets pregnant, it makes sense to him to have his daughter murder his grandchild.
Do I have that right?
Sunday, September 09, 2012
Money, Twisted: Caught in the Devil's Bargain
In this world, what isn't lacking, somewhere, though?
Sometimes it's this, or that: here what's missing's gold.
- Goethe, Faust, Part II, translated by A.S. Kline
Paul Krugman, in his New York Times column of August 24, "Galt, Gold and God," rails against an interest in the gold standard, which he attributes to Paul Ryan. Krugman lambastes Ryan, ironically enough, for an observation the latter made paraphrasing Keynes: "'There is nothing more insidious that a country can do to its citizens,' he intoned, 'than debase its currency.'"
Rather than alluding to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, however, Krugman would do well to dig into a classic: Goethe's Faust, Part II. Scott Minerd, chief investment officer at Guggenheim, writing in the Financial Times recently, brilliantly called contemporary monetary policy "the ultimate Faustian bargain."
Paper money comes straight from Mephistopheles. The History of Money by Jack Weatherford recounts the story.
Faust and Mephistopheles visit the court of the emperor during the pre-Lentin carnival season of masquerades and tricks. The emperor is besieged by his treasurer and stewards reporting the lack of funds and the need to pay the wages of the soldiers and servants. His moneylenders demand payment on debts, and even the wine bill has come due.The perversity? Monetary shenanigans represent a short-term fix but the long-term cause of economic, social, and political woe. Thus do Neo-Keynesian economists such as Krugman enlist in the Devil's Party. "Easy money" advocates propound QEs and Twists and other weird devices to generate a brief relief for the economy. They ignore the seeds of destruction thereby sown.
Mephistopheles offers the emperor a way out of his financial mess. He has found the key to making gold, the secret that all alchemists had sought for centuries. He obtains from the emperor permission to print paper money-"the heaven-sent leaf."
Faust comes to the emperor's carnival ball dressed appropriately as Plutus, the god of wealth, and through magic, he and Mephistopheles show the emperor the riches he can have by printing money. ... He has based the value of his money on the future mining of gold, the untapped treasures still buried in the earth. ... The new money has been unleashed to the great joy of creditors, debtors, soldiers, and other citizens. Already people are ordering new clothes, and business booms for the butcher and baker. Wine is flowing freely in the taverns, and even the dice roll more easily. Priests and prostitutes scurry about their business with greater enthusiasm because of the new money, and even the moneylenders are enjoying a brisk new business.
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At first, the spread of Faust's new money brings happiness and improvement, but soon the hidden costs begin bubbling to the surface. ... Soon social unrest in the newly enriched nation leads to rebellion, and a new anti-emperor rises to challenge the old one.
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Saturday, September 08, 2012
DO I HONOR AND RESPECT THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA?
For those of you who think I am constantly down by disrespecting the President, I would invite you to review every post I have made in the last several weeks on my wall if you have the time or the temperament to do so. I am very careful NOT to do so. I have NOTHING against the man, his wife, his children. I have nothing against the office of the Presidency. With me it's not personal.
Those who think they are doing a good thing by "Having his Back" are not truly understanding what this is all about. I am very much against policies that this administration (not the man, the group) have put into place. I am against the godless pro death homosexual agenda philosophy of the Democrat party. I am against people who lie and use raw deceit to lure people into voting against their better interests.
IF you see that on my wall and think it is abusive, measure it against what I say and then ask yourself this; am I defending a man and his very compelling personality at the expense of policies that in my innermost being I know are wrong? Many will be deceived in that day, even the very elect. I'm afraid many spiritual leaders have checked their common sense and spiritual principles at the door as they enter into a dark place they didn't comprehend before they arrived. This will not be winked at by a Righteous God. I wouldn't even have to be a prophet to say this with authority. Since I am one, I will add that authority to what I have just said.
Now that you know the truth, what are you going to do about it?
Those who think they are doing a good thing by "Having his Back" are not truly understanding what this is all about. I am very much against policies that this administration (not the man, the group) have put into place. I am against the godless pro death homosexual agenda philosophy of the Democrat party. I am against people who lie and use raw deceit to lure people into voting against their better interests.
IF you see that on my wall and think it is abusive, measure it against what I say and then ask yourself this; am I defending a man and his very compelling personality at the expense of policies that in my innermost being I know are wrong? Many will be deceived in that day, even the very elect. I'm afraid many spiritual leaders have checked their common sense and spiritual principles at the door as they enter into a dark place they didn't comprehend before they arrived. This will not be winked at by a Righteous God. I wouldn't even have to be a prophet to say this with authority. Since I am one, I will add that authority to what I have just said.
Now that you know the truth, what are you going to do about it?
HOW TO HAVE A GREAT MINISTRY
If you have dreamed of being used mightily in the kingdom of God, bringing life to people, having the anointing of God flowing thru you in Power, I will give you the secret, free of charge. This is only known by a few. The few who have actually practiced this truth. The few who have found this to be THE WAY. Here is the secret to having a great and powerful ministry.
It's a lot like learning to drive a car. You remember. You were young. When you first got behind the wheel, maybe with mom or dad sweating in the right hand seat, you were given the keys. It was herky jerky to start. You almost crashed a few times. Dad or mom had to yell stop or turn left. Then after a bit you were allowed to try on your own. If you were like me at all, it felt great. You drove too fast. I loved BIG ENGINES. LOTS OF NOISE. LOTS OF POWER. SQUEALING TIRES. The rush was fabulous. And boy did the girls love me. Noise. Power. Speed. The RUSH.
Then after a few crashes and mishaps I became smarter. Slowed down. Learned discretion. Used power sparingly. Took my time.
What was once a rush became a routine. I used to have white knuckles while I drove. Sweat was present on my forehead.
Later I talked on my cell phone, ate a sandwich, drank a 44 oz big gulp, listened to talk radio and drove with my knees sometimes.
It became easy. Casual. I did it with aplomb.
As I get older I am more and more aware of the still lurking dangers. Deer jumping from the ditch. Drivers who don't look. Traffic issues. Road conditions. Once again I am more careful. I drive with intention. I make each outing matter. I am now the powerful effective driver I always wanted to become. I also know that my days of driving probably have a good till date on them. Insurance companies know this too. They give me very much better rates then I got when I was 20 and full of vim and vigor.
The parallels between Ministry and life as a driver are amazing.
People learn to do ministry by ministering.
We become effective by doing, not study, not rank or ordination.
We are pretty ambitions loving the power and perhaps reckless when we are young.
We have a few smack ups in ministry..it's a good thing. Teaches us to drive more carefully.
We all want a bigger car, until we figure out what we want is a good car that functions.
Then the day comes when as one who ministers you are so busy ministering doing what God called you to do you no longer think about what the car looks like, how fast it will go.
I have been blessed to be called as a Prophet of God and out of that call have been able to bless thousands of others. Several are friends on facebook. YET. I have not been pastor of a Church (except for a brief time), I have not written many books, I have not put on a conference, I have seldom been the keynote speaker at a conference, i am not often invited to speak, I am invited to come bring the word of the Lord to others and that's good. YET, the Lord makes a way. He opens the RIGHT doors. I now have learned to drive more carefully.
Most of the most effective ministry friends I have are not often publishing about their next big event. They are the event with the anointing of God all over them. I would call them by name, but that would be wrong. They know who they are. Small groups, reaching the poor, mining knew depths, finding the richness and sharing it with others, serving seldom in a church but serving.
Great ministries are created FIRST by ministering. Nothing else really works.
It's a lot like learning to drive a car. You remember. You were young. When you first got behind the wheel, maybe with mom or dad sweating in the right hand seat, you were given the keys. It was herky jerky to start. You almost crashed a few times. Dad or mom had to yell stop or turn left. Then after a bit you were allowed to try on your own. If you were like me at all, it felt great. You drove too fast. I loved BIG ENGINES. LOTS OF NOISE. LOTS OF POWER. SQUEALING TIRES. The rush was fabulous. And boy did the girls love me. Noise. Power. Speed. The RUSH.
Then after a few crashes and mishaps I became smarter. Slowed down. Learned discretion. Used power sparingly. Took my time.
What was once a rush became a routine. I used to have white knuckles while I drove. Sweat was present on my forehead.
Later I talked on my cell phone, ate a sandwich, drank a 44 oz big gulp, listened to talk radio and drove with my knees sometimes.
It became easy. Casual. I did it with aplomb.
As I get older I am more and more aware of the still lurking dangers. Deer jumping from the ditch. Drivers who don't look. Traffic issues. Road conditions. Once again I am more careful. I drive with intention. I make each outing matter. I am now the powerful effective driver I always wanted to become. I also know that my days of driving probably have a good till date on them. Insurance companies know this too. They give me very much better rates then I got when I was 20 and full of vim and vigor.
The parallels between Ministry and life as a driver are amazing.
People learn to do ministry by ministering.
We become effective by doing, not study, not rank or ordination.
We are pretty ambitions loving the power and perhaps reckless when we are young.
We have a few smack ups in ministry..it's a good thing. Teaches us to drive more carefully.
We all want a bigger car, until we figure out what we want is a good car that functions.
Then the day comes when as one who ministers you are so busy ministering doing what God called you to do you no longer think about what the car looks like, how fast it will go.
I have been blessed to be called as a Prophet of God and out of that call have been able to bless thousands of others. Several are friends on facebook. YET. I have not been pastor of a Church (except for a brief time), I have not written many books, I have not put on a conference, I have seldom been the keynote speaker at a conference, i am not often invited to speak, I am invited to come bring the word of the Lord to others and that's good. YET, the Lord makes a way. He opens the RIGHT doors. I now have learned to drive more carefully.
Most of the most effective ministry friends I have are not often publishing about their next big event. They are the event with the anointing of God all over them. I would call them by name, but that would be wrong. They know who they are. Small groups, reaching the poor, mining knew depths, finding the richness and sharing it with others, serving seldom in a church but serving.
Great ministries are created FIRST by ministering. Nothing else really works.
HOW TO KNOW IF IT'S TIME TO GET OUT OF YOUR CHURCH!
worth·less/ˈwÉ™rTHlis/
Adjective:
Having no real value or use.
(of a person) Having no good qualities; deserving contempt.
IF that's how your church or fellowship treats you, if they don't see you as having value, if they don't see your gift as worthwhile, if there is contempt for what you bring, then it's time to find somewhere where you are celebrated, not tolerated. The Kingdom of God is too big for you to be treated as small change by people without vision. I'm not in favor of people jumping church, but you must not let people consider you worthless (other than to stand up, sit down, shut up, clap and pay your tithe). We have FAR TOO MUCH of that in churchianity. Find your place and bloom.
There are three things to consider before jumping ship:
RELIGION has always rejected men and women of true worth:
Acts 4:11 He is the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the Cornerstone.
1 Samuel 10:27 But certain worthless fellows said, "How shall this man save us?" They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
1 Samuel 25:25 Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your handmaid, didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
YET GOD REBUKES THE TRULY WORTHLESS
Proverbs 6:12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth
Galatians 4:9 Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?
Romans 1:28 And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.
Hebrews 6:8 But if it only yields a mass of thorns and briers, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be destroyed by fire.
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless. James 1:26
THERE ARE CAUTIONS IN BEING OF WORTH
Therefore this is what the LORD says: "If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve me; if you utter worthy, not worthless, words, you will be my spokesman. Let this people turn to you, but you must not turn to them. Jeremiah 15:19
Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word. Psalm 119:37
But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. Jeremiah 7:8
"The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise; he knows they are worthless." 1 Corinthians 3:20
Stay true to God, stay away from worthless theories and words. Wisdom is found only in Him. Stay in that and you will have worth not matter what the Pharisees say.
Adjective:
Having no real value or use.
(of a person) Having no good qualities; deserving contempt.
IF that's how your church or fellowship treats you, if they don't see you as having value, if they don't see your gift as worthwhile, if there is contempt for what you bring, then it's time to find somewhere where you are celebrated, not tolerated. The Kingdom of God is too big for you to be treated as small change by people without vision. I'm not in favor of people jumping church, but you must not let people consider you worthless (other than to stand up, sit down, shut up, clap and pay your tithe). We have FAR TOO MUCH of that in churchianity. Find your place and bloom.
There are three things to consider before jumping ship:
RELIGION has always rejected men and women of true worth:
Acts 4:11 He is the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the Cornerstone.
1 Samuel 10:27 But certain worthless fellows said, "How shall this man save us?" They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
1 Samuel 25:25 Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your handmaid, didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.
YET GOD REBUKES THE TRULY WORTHLESS
Proverbs 6:12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth
Galatians 4:9 Now, however, having come to know God--or rather to be known by Him--how is it you are again turning back to weak and worthless rudimentary notions to which you are once more willing to be enslaved?
Romans 1:28 And just as they had refused to continue to have a full knowledge of God, so it was to utterly worthless minds that God gave them up, for them to do things which should not be done.
Hebrews 6:8 But if it only yields a mass of thorns and briers, it is considered worthless, and is in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be destroyed by fire.
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man's religion is worthless. James 1:26
THERE ARE CAUTIONS IN BEING OF WORTH
Therefore this is what the LORD says: "If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve me; if you utter worthy, not worthless, words, you will be my spokesman. Let this people turn to you, but you must not turn to them. Jeremiah 15:19
Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word. Psalm 119:37
But look, you are trusting in deceptive words that are worthless. Jeremiah 7:8
"The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise; he knows they are worthless." 1 Corinthians 3:20
Stay true to God, stay away from worthless theories and words. Wisdom is found only in Him. Stay in that and you will have worth not matter what the Pharisees say.
Friday, September 07, 2012
Before you believe the DNC speakers who keep touting that this administration has "CREATED" 4.5 million jobs. It's simply not true. NO matter how you cut it, it's a phony number. No less than CNN which is no friend of conservatives and ti
lts often TOWARD the administration had to admit in fact checking this statistic that the REAL number of new jobs created is 300,000. A very much smaller number than the 4.5 million published. I am not saying anyone lies...I am saying that you don't dare believe everything everyone says at face value...Republican or Democrat. This is one number NOT to believe.
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