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Obama: A sudden catastrophe

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, December 26, 2009 5:48:27 AM

Obama: A sudden catastrophe


If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity. - Daniel Webster
During this Christmas season, America should be reminded that President Barack Obama has perpetrated more vicious attacks against the Christian faith than any other president in the history of America. Therefore, I ask: Is Obama's ascendancy a sudden catastrophe?
Even many of Obama's most ardent supporters agree that his first year in office has been a catastrophe:
Increasing the national debt from $10 trillion in eight years under GWB to over $14 tillion;
Nationalizing private corporations like GM, Chrysler, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
;
Bowing before murderous dictator nations like Saudi Arabia and China;
Undeservedly receiving the Nobel Peace Prize after only two weeks in office, and;
Appointing the basest of men (and women) to Cabinet-level positions and as czars to propagate the most anti-constitutional and hurtful policies against America.
One of America's greatest statesmen, Daniel Webster, a congressman, a senator and the secretary of state under three different presidents, said almost 200 years ago, "If there is anything in my thoughts or style to commend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures." Webster warned us that a "sudden catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity" if we didn't "abide by the principles taught in the Bible."
Even America 150 years ago, during her most wicked and notorious period of slavery, does not compare with where we are today with abortion on demand, with the corpses of 50 million innocent babies we collectively killed, without even a tombstone memorial. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120097
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U.N. get your gun yet?

Posted by Diocuore on Saturday, December 26, 2009 5:47:51 AM

U.N. get your gun yet?


''Does anyone want to trust the U.N.'s Human Rights Council to tell Americans how to shape civil-rights laws? Public officials and political leaders in the U.S. have an obligation to oppose further erosion of American sovereignty in the face of U.N. designs and ambitions.''

If you think the Obama administration doesn't need help in dreaming up new schemes to reinterpret the Constitution and add new restrictions on our freedom, think again.
Arms-control bureaucrats at the United Nations and dozens of allied NGOs (that's non-governmental organizations in non-bureaucratic lingo) have been busy for two decades talking and negotiating among themselves to produce an international treaty regulating the sale of small arms. A U.N. resolution adopted in October calls upon member nations to negotiate the matter and finish writing a treaty by 2012. The United States voted for the resolution, which was adopted almost unanimously.
President Bush, for all his mistakes and miscalculations, never allowed his U.N. representatives to participate in such negotiations. But Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reversed course and agreed to join the negotiations.
Secretary of State Clinton announced in October that the U.S. would join the negotiations "if they are based on consensus," implying that the U.S. could exercise a veto if negotiations went off course. That implies that the U.S. would reject any treaty that violates our Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. The problem is she can't make that promise or guarantee that outcome.
The truth is it is very dangerous for the U.S. to go down this road no matter how many assurances are given by Obama and his minions. Once committed to the "process of negotiations," it is hard to reject a product based on "international consensus."
There are good reasons why the U.S. ought to stay out of such negotiations, and many good reasons to be wary of any international treaty on the subject.
To put this whole matter in perspective, ask yourself how well existing arms-control agreements are working and how well international agencies are enforcing those agreements. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120083
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CAIR admits fundraising for convicted terror group

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 6:00:31 PM

CAIR admits fundraising for convicted terror group


"After 9/11, as rescue workers were still pulling bodies from Ground Zero, CAIR tricked visitors to its Web site into contributing to the charitable front by telling them their donations would benefit World Trade Center victims – including New York firefighters"

While the Council on American-Islamic Relations has contended its designation by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a major terror-finance case is unjustified, the group has admitted in a legal brief it solicited donations in the wake of the 9/11 attacks for the Holy Land Foundation, the convicted American fundraising arm for the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas.
The admission – a previously unnoticed declaration in talk-radio host Michael Savage's lawsuit against CAIR – was attached to a brief filed this week in the Muslim group's suit against a father and son who carried out a six-month undercover investigation in which they obtained 12,000 pages of incriminating documents and made secret audio and video recordings. Lawyers for P. David Gaubatz and Chris Gaubatz filed a motion to dismiss the case this week that contends CAIR has no claim because it does not legally exist.
Gaubatz lawyer Daniel Horowitz, who also represented Savage, attached a copy of CAIR's admission with the filing of his motion this week.
In the Savage case, Horowitz asserted CAIR "exploited 9/11 as it put on its website a picture of the World Trade Center in flames and below it a call for donations that was linked to the Holy Land Foundation website."
Get the book that exposed CAIR from the inside out – from WND's Superstore!
CAIR's Northern California branch, while denying the organization "exploited" 9/11, admitted on page 15 of its reply that its national office "offered a link to websites for Muslim and non-Muslim organizations collecting donations for 9/11 survivors, including Holy Land Foundation's website." http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120013
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Can America be saved, is there time?

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 5:59:51 PM

Can America be saved, is there time?


''The year 2010 will be like no other in American history. It is not just another Carter era of sheer stupidity and incompetence. This is the real thing. This is what progressives have been working toward since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. We are living through a major historical time that may very well shape the destiny of the human race for centuries to come – or bring about its final demise.'' (and January 2013 could very well be the time that all the vultures come home to roost - MD)

In a 2008 radio interview, Barack Obama said:
" … the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties."
I tell you, life isn't fair. Why hasn't the Supreme Court ever ventured into the matter of "redistributive wealth?" And what in the world were the Founding Fathers thinking about when they failed to broach the subject?
Surely it was an oversight that they never addressed the issue of taking your assets and giving them to your neighbor. Or perhaps it's just an indication that George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and James Madison were cold, calloused individuals who enjoyed watching people suffer.
In the same interview, Chairman Obama went on to say that the Constitution "[says] what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf, and that hasn't shifted … and one of the … tragedies of the civil rights movement was … because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change."
Excuse me? Do on your behalf? Those stupid Founding Fathers again. They didn't even think to put in the Constitution what the government must do on your behalf. And what a tragedy it was that the civil rights movement didn't put together the coalition of powers that could bring about "redistributive change."
Forget the fact that the Constitution never mentions the redistribution of anything. After all, the debate is over: We all know that redistribution of wealth is the only moral way to operate a country, right? http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120009
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Al Gore's traveling green tent show

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 5:59:15 PM

Al Gore's traveling green tent show


''I wonder if Pope Benedict is aware that a core part of the green plan "to solve" environmental issues involves population control, birth control, abortions, family size restrictions and other moral intrusions.
He wasn't properly briefed and that's a sin.''

The world is ending! We're killing every thing and each other.
Ice is melting. Oceans rising. Islands inundated. Species disappearing.
Then again, drought sears the earth – probably in places that the melted glacier water can't reach.
Oh well.
Crops fail and people starve.
It's the growing threat of climate change and global warming while people around the globe are hip deep in ice and snow.
We're all going to die.
Merry Christmas, everyone, and Happy New Year.

Oops. Sorry. I guess I'm getting good wishes mixed up with all the political, environmental, scientific and now religious people hogging headlines with gloom and doom. It's hard to decide whether to smile or frown – or perhaps just lock myself in a closet and scream.
Then again, If I have to hear Al Gore read his paean to doom again, as he ventures into poetry, I really will scream – and never mind the closet!
If he wins a poetry or other dramatic prize for his compilation of nonsense – Neptune's dissolving bones, indeed – I'll know for certain there's no justice and everything is a farce.
It's really disgusting that we have to put up with his sanctimonious posturings while state media pander to his ego and all the while the flim-flam man gets richer and richer but we're forced to change our lives to suit his environmental religion.
Have no doubt, it is a religion. Gaia is Mother Earth, and the rest of us have to worship at her green shrine.
That media treat Gore's nonsense seriously shows that the elevation of extreme environmentalism to religious consequence is real. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120058
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Another chance to choose - choose wisely

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 4:05:17 PM

Another chance to choose - choose wisely


''God, in His mercy, is allowing Americans a chance to redeem ourselves, and is calling us to action against this diabolical onslaught from the far Left. He can’t provoke us to action if there is nothing to fight against.''

The fight we are engaged in, involving the radical liberal agenda, and core conservative values, is necessary in order for people to choose which side they are on. As Conservatives, it’s time out for living in our world, while allowing the passage of insidious legislation, coupled with the outlandish textbooks permeating our cities and schools. Sure, it’s wonderful to come home to a great neighborhood at the end of the day, but don’t be so far removed from the issues that plague the social order, that you lose the instinct to contest the far-Left liberal agenda that reeks of tyranny, socialism, perversion, and ultimately, the undoing of America.
Conservatives have a powerful weapon, among many, in our arsenal: virtue. Virtue clearly separates the conservatives from the radical liberals. There are some who consider themselves liberal, as well as virtuous. I find that hard to comprehend because the liberal agenda is bent on total control of society, and its inhabitants, no matter the cost. Therefore, virtues such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are redefined in the mind of most liberals as the total opposite:
- Life=death (abortion, euthanasia, suicide), - Liberty=tyranny (total government intrusion and control), and, - The pursuit of happiness=the pursuit of unhappiness, (destruction of traditional families; suppressing capitalism).
A liberal might go through the motions of appearing to value life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but if that were true, he or she wouldn’t support the destruction of the pillars of America, namely the Constitution. Such a person would, in all reality, be a conservative. http://www.newswithviews.com/Selena/owens105.htm
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...By 2013 the Columbia is no more...if

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 4:04:36 PM

...By 2013 the Columbia is no more...if


''We are just moments and one horrible piece of corrupted law from facing that choice. The people who will determine this nation’s fate are neither in uniform nor in plush power soaked suites on Capital Hill. They are you and live in your communities.''

We have been constant witnesses to the mutated process that is called government in Washington and in many of our states as well. Layer upon layer of bureaucrats have taught each other the ropes in a game of how much can we do to the citizens before they roll over in their fast food haze of stupidity and pass some gas. Real pretty picture isn’t it?And up on that flag staff? Fifty stars have fallen onto the dirt and the red and white stripes have entwined themselves into a sickly anemic pink more to the liking of the sodomizers among us than men and women who still believe that the “stars and stripes” have promise and mean something more virtuous than a sold out America battered by lecherous politicians writing demonic law and calling it “change we can live with.”It is far too late in the game to cover the reasons why we are where we are. If you don’t know, then find out. If you don’t care, then get out of my way. As Sam Adams said, “……let posterity know that you were never my countryman.” Be gone, be silent and hide. You will not fair well in what is coming. Abortionists deserve what they give out to the innocent. Sodomizers need radical surgery where it counts. Politicians deserve a bunk in a FEMA camp. Bankers need 20 years of living in a dumpster. Corrupt business leaders require 12 hours a day in the heat of the south picking strawberries while the former mistreated workers relax in the Virgin Islands.
To some, what I have described is NBC’s version of a “right wing fanatic and his rantings that are a danger to this socialized basterd democracy.” To millions of freshly educated, formerly dead on their *ss liberals and entitlement vampires, truth just went up a notch or two. http://www.newswithviews.com/Evensen/greg147.htm
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America's shame and horror on Christmas Eve

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 4:02:29 PM

America's shame and horror on Christmas Eve


''The last time the US Senate voted on anything on Christmas Eve was in 1895 regarding the military. SHAME ON ALL SENATORS WHO VOTED YES ON THIS BILL AND BETRAYED THEIR COUNTRY!''
Now this bill will bounce back to the House after the Holiday break for the final series of discussions, slicing and dicing, then on to the teleprompter President for a signature. The constitutional betrayal is almost official, just in time for Obama’s speech coming soon to a theatre near you.
Don’t give up. Scream at your political leaders. Make sure your Senators and congressmen hear from all of you over this break in town halls, faxes, emails and phone calls. THIS BILL IS NOT HEALTH CARE REFORM, BUT IN TRUTH:
They can call it what they want, hiding behind emotional and special words but I and tons of Americans get it! I have a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, so I get the President’s emotional, reform words and it is nothing but LIES, CONTROL AND BETRAYAL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Here is what is coming on this trail of reform folks. Here is what will really happen, NOT, what they say!
Seniors will die in droves due to long lines and rationed health care. This is a smooth way of getting rid of the growing masses of seniors we have that cost money. SHAME!
This is a way of killing more babies and forcing Doctors and Hospitals to join in on the murders. SHAME!... http://www.newswithviews.com/Roth/laurie195.htm
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Obama's year-end prophecy report

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 4:01:37 PM

Obama's year-end prophecy report

''Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time.''


''"Paradise Lost," in which John Milton has Satan, the fallen angel, explain his own puzzling motivation by stating: "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." (And that's it. The United States is in a pre-view to hell, a triad branched government that has become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. We were warned in 2001 but did not see or understand the warning. - MD)

Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod have the same contempt for the electorate that con men and three-card monte hucksters have for their gullible marks. And, what's more, they've every right to do so. After all, they took a left-wing radical out of Chicago, the corruption capital of America, mixed in a dash of "hope and change" malarkey, and convinced 64 million suckers to vote for him.
I'm well aware that a great many Americans are currently suffering from buyer's remorse, but that doesn't excuse them. I mean, it's not as if all the evidence weren't readily available prior to the 2008 election. Unless a person had spent the previous year vacationing on the moon, he should have been well aware that all of Obama's friends, associates and spiritual advisers were crooks, racists or communists.
Why weren't they paying attention when Obama admitted that his cap-and-trade policy would send our energy bills soaring through the roof, when he declared war on the coal industry and when he told Joe the Plumber that he advocated the redistribution of wealth?
Why did they think electing a guy who had been a community organizer – an obvious euphemism for being a left-wing activist – was a good thing?
And, finally, in a nation that has yet to elect a woman, a Jew, a Latino, a Mormon, an Asian or even, so far as I know, an atheist or an agnostic, why did so many people think they had earned a pass to heaven for no other reason than that they'd voted for a guy who was partially black?
The folks who chose to overlook all the obvious evidence and stick the rest of us with Obama remind me of those ditzy women who ignore all the telltale signs, and turn a deaf ear to the warnings of concerned friends and relatives, and wind up marrying wife beaters. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119908
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Before CHRISTmas became X-mas

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 4:00:51 PM

Before CHRISTmas became X-mas


A notable note: Bob Clark, director of this magical movie, and his son, were killed by an illegal alien. This says as much about modern-day America as does the dissolution of the prototypical family unit depicted so magnificently in "A Christmas Story."

Set in the 1940s, "A Christmas Story" depicts a series of family vignettes through the eyes of 9-year-old Ralphie Parker, who yearns for that gift of all gifts: the Daisy Red Ryder BB gun. This was boyhood before "bang-bang you're dead" was banned. Family life prior to "One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads," and Christmas without the ACLU.
If children could choose their families, most would opt for the kind depicted in this film, where mother is a homemaker, father is a regular working stiff, and between them they have zero repertoire of psychobabble to rub together.
Although clearly adored, Ralphie is not encouraged to express his feelings. Instead, he is urged to show restraint and is disciplined when naughty. And horrors: The little boy even has his mouth washed out with soap and water for uttering the "F" expletive. ("My personal preference was for Lux," reveals Ralphie. "But I found Palmolive had a nice piquant after-dinner flavor – heady but with just a touch of mellow smoothness.") When he refuses his food, Ralphie is also guilt-tripped about starving Biafrans.
Such parenting would fail every progressive commandment. By today's standards, the delightful, unprecocious protagonist of "A Christmas Story" would be doomed to an emotional abyss – and certainly to heavy doses of Ritalin for day-dreaming in class and for being all boy in general...While America's founders intended for the family to be left untouched as "the major source of an orderly and free society" – Dr. Allan Carlson's words – politicians and justices decided to the contrary. What was once the economic and social backbone of American society has been inestimably weakened by both the welfare state and the Supreme Court – what with the latter's radical interpretations of what constitutes a family and marriage, and the former's incremental steps to trounce parents as the child's primary socialization agent. Contemporary America's familial fragmentation – sky-high divorce rates and illegitimacy – have translated into juvenile crime, drug abuse
and illiteracy.
Yet despite all the state has done to "free" children from the strictures of the traditional family, ask any "emancipated" child and he'll tell you that more than anything he yearns for a family like Ralphie's.
Lucky is the little boy who has such a family. Luckier still is the lad who has both such a family and … a BB gun. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=120008
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A health care promise to believe in

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 9:40:47 AM

A health care promise to believe in


I appreciate, more than I can express, Dr. Keyes optimism and hope but I must add that before the light of Jesus' coming appears it will be absolutely dark in men's hearts - we are not at that point yet. - MD

''Though the birth of Christ inspires our goodwill to unite in forgiveness and love, it has a very different effect on those preoccupied with consolidating human power. They know that Christ's birth represents a threat to their vaulting ambition. They respond to that threat with an effort to slay all innocence to put down the hope of innocent life Christ offers to all humanity.''


Because it is the day on which we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, Christmas is a time of great joy that we mark with a special spirit of generosity as we seek to honor with our gifts the generous gift of life represented to the world by the birth of Jesus Christ. It is a time when we strive with more than usual intensity to follow the advice of the apostle, to put off all
… anger, wrath, malice, slander and foul talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices; and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts.
– Colossians 3:8-15
In this good counsel we see epitomized all that our gifts and ornaments, our special Christmas acts of charity, forgiveness and love are meant to express. We see the Christ in Christmas...This Christmastide I am praying that the true spirit of Christmas will prevail in the counsels of our nation. I am praying that, despite the bribes and threats of those who give top priority to murder, the heart of Christ will truly be born again in the hearts of enough representatives in Congress to put a halt to the charade of evil which claims to serve our nation's health but aims in fact to destroy its healthy conscience and goodwill. With such courage, they will offer their nation a gift truly in keeping with the gift of God we celebrate: the birth of the one whose triumph over death renews, despite all evil human willing, God's offer of more abundant life for all. That's a health-care promise to believe in. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119999
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Left Turn: Bill Press: Take this Poll and Shove It!

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 9:39:35 AM

Left Turn: Bill Press: Take this Poll and Shove It!

("The following is the most juvenile, worn out, liberal propaganda I've read this year. Use it as a template to easily spot progressive, bovine fecal splat. It will be especially use full while watching 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann'. - MD)
''Any intelligent person must know that polls prove nothing except that if you spread lies loud and long enough, a lot of people will believe you. The overwhelming majority of Americans wants our broken-down, exorbitantly expensive health-care system fixed. Low poll numbers only show that they're still suckers for the lies about "death panels" or "socialized medicine" spread by right-wing talk radio and Fox News.''

My New Year's resolution is simple: Let's get rid of all public opinion polls.
Seriously! We've become a nation fixated on polls. On any topic. As if they mean anything. But they don't. They mean nothing. Nada. Zip. Yet every news outlet today uses them as a substitute for serious journalism. The easiest and most inane way to fill space on any program is to debate the "meaning" of the latest poll.
Last week, for example, I appeared as a member of a panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." As I arrived on the set, President Obama was stepping up to the podium at the United Nations Climate Talks in Copenhagen, urging representatives of 193 nations to agree on a plan to combat global warming. "It is better for us to act than to talk," he told delegates, "it's better to choose action over inaction, the future over the past."
It was a powerful moment. After years of stalling, the United States was finally accepting responsibility as the planet's No. 1 emitter of greenhouse gases. After eight years of neglect by the Bush administration, America was taking the lead in forging a global strategy on climate change. The secretary of energy, the secretary of state, the speaker of the House, Sen. John Kerry, and the president himself were present to seal the deal.
A historic moment, indeed. But the first question posed to our panel, immediately following the president's speech, was about poll results appearing in the Washington Post that morning. According to the survey, only 45 percent of Americans approve of the president's handling of global warming, down from 61 percent in April. Only 29 percent trust scientists on the issue, while 40 percent distrust them.
Who cares? The only conclusion to draw from that survey is that Americans are even more ignorant on the issue of global warming than we feared. No matter if 95 percent of Americans disapprove, Obama should still take the lead in steps to reduce global warming. It would be irresponsible and suicidal for the planet not to. And if Americans don't trust scientists on a question of science, whom do they trust? The poll doesn't tell us. Politicians? Their preacher? The plumber? http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119909
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Investing in the blind liberal trust?

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 7:59:38 AM

Investing in the blind liberal trust?


''Yet liberals trust only those people bearing undeserved gifts. They follow politicians like children followed the bad lady, caring not about the liberal politicians' motives but only about the free goodies they may receive. They haven't grown intellectually to a point where they will question the motives behind the gifts. Nowhere is this more evident than the congressional hearings with automobile company executives. Prime Minister Nancy Pelosi vilified the executives for flying to Washington in private jets. For the first time in history I found myself partially agreeing with her. After all, they were in Washington for bailouts, and it certainly seemed inappropriate to flaunt their elitism.''

I am always amazed by the absolute trust accorded elected officials by liberals. As long as the elected officials espouse a liberal ideology, it seems hardwired in the liberal's mind to believe that politicians are benevolent caretakers. This seems to be the case no matter how much evidence there is to the contrary. If a politician is liberal, fellow liberals will overlook any character flaw and any reprehensible action and will consider that politician a pillar of society and the protector of the poor.
Of course, it doesn't matter if the liberal politician is exceedingly wealthy. Such politicians are considered deserving of their wealth because of their apparent work for the poor. It doesn't matter if the history of that politician includes illegal dealings or even bribery. Nothing matters except the ideology. In the 2000 presidential election, liberals claimed George W. Bush stole the election because he won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote. During the 2008 primary, Hillary Rodham Clinton was trying to court the super delegates. Had she been able to win based upon the vote of a large number of super delegates, no one would have batted an eye at the disenfranchisement...http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119910
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Jesus is with us, that's what counts

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 7:59:00 AM

Jesus is with us, that's what counts


''If a Christian wants to take a day to celebrate the birth of our Savior, let him and leave him alone. If he is esteeming it unto the Lord, the Lord said He would bless it. If you don't want to do Christmas, that is fine, too. But God is not impressed by your arrogance and pride.''

Dan White and other "Bible scholars" are a little too stuck on themselves and take their Ph.D.s a little too seriously. Who really cares when Jesus was born? My faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior does not depend on the precise day He was born. Nor does it depend on the precise day He died and arose from the grave.
The only important truth of all of it is that Jesus was born, as the Scriptures say. He died, as the Scriptures say. He arose on the third day, as the Scriptures say. And I believe the Scriptures, and called upon Him to save me from my sins. These events could have been at any time of year, and it would be irrelevant unless the Scriptures specifically stated the date.
If you want to consider me a weaker Christian because I enjoy celebrating Christmas, fine and dandy, but Romans 14:1 says, "Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations." That means, get off my back. I am no less a Christian than you.
Romans 14:5-6 goes on to say, "One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks."
If a Christian wants to take a day to celebrate the birth of our Savior, let him and leave him alone. If he is esteeming it unto the Lord, the Lord said He would bless it. If you don't want to do Christmas, that is fine, too. But God is not impressed by your arrogance and pride.
I can understand dispelling the lies of Santa, but don't get wrapped around the axle over what day the Lord was born. It is just like trying to predict what day the Lord will return. We have no business making such predictions, and only fools do it. The only important thing to take away from that discussion is that the Lord will return, and it may be at any time. Are you prepared?
So take a little breather from your Ph.D. this Christmas season and just learn to enjoy the Lord and His people. Rather than chastising everyone who does not meet your definition of a "true believer," how about inviting someone over to the house for some egg nog and gingerbread. You don't have to exchange presents. You don't have to sing carols. But I'll bet if you pray and read the Bible together, the Lord will bless you.
Jeff Greeson
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Merry Christmas from Snowy New Hampshire

Posted by Diocuore on Friday, December 25, 2009 7:58:25 AM

Merry Christmas from Snowy New Hampshire

Merry Christmas! from my snowy New Hampshire
God Bless you all - Miguel Diocuore
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