Required Listening

For more information, visit Natural Born Citizen, Texas Darlin or Citizen Wells. Why is this not being reported ANYWHERE in the mainstream media? Good question. And why are blogs that are posting this information suddenly disappearing and being blacklisted from Google? Another good question.

Thankfully, this letter will be appearing in Obama's hometown paper this coming week. If nothing else, maybe people will start asking questions - while they still can.

Thankful

Today, when most of us are gathered together with our families and loved ones, please remember to be thankful for those who are making the sacrifice to give us these precious freedoms.

Happy Thanksgiving

Uh-oh Christian moms ... they're on to us!

We Christian ladies get a pretty bad rap, especially around the blogosphere. We're too submissive (*snort!*), too perky, too happy. And yes, my faith brings me joy. However, according Rev. Ed Young from Texas, there may be another reason ...

From Tucker Carlson on The Daily Beast:



A Texas pastor has come up with one of the best public policy proposals of the decade: have more sex.

Let’s concede right up front that you hate evangelicals. Most affluent, educated people do. Where I live, they're the most unpopular group there is. How do I know this? Because of the reaction to a story that ran in yesterday’s New York Times.

Earlier this month, the Rev. Ed Young, a 47-year-old megachurch pastor in Texas, urged his married congregants to have sex as much as possible with their spouses; if possible, every day for a week. Sex improves marriage, Young argued. God wants you to have more of it. “If you've said, ‘I do,’ do it,” he told the Times.

Read the whole story here. And when people ask you why you're in such a good mood, just tell 'em you're part of a sexperiment at church. That oughta raise a few eyebrows!

Things heard in my house over the past week:

"How come my throw up bucket is smaller than his?"

"You never let us buy ANYTHING when it's close to Christmas!"

"Will the snowplow run over the pumpkins?"

"A new transmission is HOW much?"


Good times ....

Instead of "Sharing the Wealth" ....

... how about "Sharing the Guilt"? Now that sounds like a plan to me! (H/T Hoopy Frood Dude)

Making the email circuit this week:

End of White Guilt....

For over a century, the millstone of white guilt hung around our necks, retribution for slave-owning predecessors. In the 60s, American liberals began yanking that millstone while sticking a fork in the eye of black Americans, exacerbating the racial divide to extort a socialist solution. But if a black man can become President, exactly what significant barrier is left? The election of Barak Obama absolutely destroys the entire validation of liberal white guilt. The dragon is hereby slain.

So today, I'm feeling a little "uppity," if you will. From this day forward, my tolerance level for having my skin color hustled is now exactly ZERO. And it's time to clean house. No more Reverend Wright's "God Damn America ," Al Sharpton's Church of Perpetual Victimization , or Jesse Jackson's rainbow racism. Cornell West? You're a fraud. Go home. All those "black studies" programs that taught kids to hate whitey? You must now thank Whitey. And I want that on the final.

Congressional Black Caucus? Irrelevant. Maxine Waters? Shut up. ACORN? Outlawed. Black Panthers? Go home and pet your kitty. Black separatists? Find another nation that offers better dreams. Go ahead. I'm waiting.

Gangsta rappers? Start praising America . Begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. And please … no more ebonics. Speak English, and who knows where you might end up? Oh, yeah…pull up your pants. Your underwear is showing. You look stupid.

To those Eurosnots who forged entire careers hating America ? I'm still waiting for the first black French President.

And let me offer an equal opportunity whupping. I've always despised lazy white people. Now, I can talk smack about lazy black people. You're poor because you quit school, did drugs, had three kids with three different fathers, and refuse to work. So when you plop your Colt 45-swilling, Oprah watchin' butt on the couch and complain"Da Man is keepin' me down," allow me to inform you: Da Man is now black. You have no excuses.

No more quotas. No more handouts. No more stealing my money because someones great-great-great-great grandparents suffered actual pain and misery at the hands of people I have no relation to, and personally revile.

It's time to toss that massive, obsolete race-hustle machine upon the heap of the other stupid 60s ideas. Drag it over there, by wife swapping, next to dope-smoking. Plenty of room right between free love and cop-killing. Careful … don't trip on streaking. There ya go, don't be gentle. Just dump it. Wash your hands. It's filthy.

In fact, Obama's ascension created a gargantuan irony. How can you sell class envy and American unfairness when you and your black wife went to Ivy League schools, got high-paying jobs, became millionaires, bought a mansion, and got elected President? How unfair is that??? Now, like a delicious O'Henry tale, Obama's spread-the-wealth campaign rendered itself moot by it's own victory! America is officially a meritocracy. Obama's election has validated American conservatism!

So, listen carefully … Wham!!!

That's the sound of my foot kicking the door shut on the era of white guilt. The rites have been muttered, the carcass lowered, dirt shoveled, and tombstone erected. White guilt is dead and buried.

However, despite my glee, there's apparently one small, rabid bastion of American racism remaining. Black Americans voted 96% for Barak Obama. Hmmm. In a color-blind world, shouldn't that be 50-50? Tonight, every black person should ask forgiveness for their apparent racism and prejudice towards white people. Maybe it's time to start spreading the guilt around.

Somewhere, Al Sharpton is crying.

Yep, that's what I'd call a landslide

Just probably not the kind of landslide the Obamabots would have you believe. It would be a shame if we had some sort of massive coastal tidal wave before the next election, dontcha think? You know, an intellectual "thinning of the herd" sort of thing? Now, now ... I'm just kidding.

Mostly.

Stupid or just ill-informed? You be the judge.

This has been making its way around the blogosphere today, but just in case you haven't seen it ... oh my.

From John Ziegler's study posted at HowObamaGotElected.com:

On November 4th, 2008 millions of Americans were shocked that a man of Barack Obama's limited experience, extreme liberal positions and radical political alliances could be elected President of the United States. For many of these Americans, the explanation was rather simple... the news media, completely enamored with Obama, simply refused to do their job.

On Election day twelve Obama voters were interviewed extensively right after they voted to learn how the news media impacted their knowledge of what occurred during the campaign. These voters were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience.

That's just scary. {shudder}

Because it worked so well the first time

What's that they say about the definition of insanity? Just sayin'....

Just for Fun

Something Wicked This Way Comes

From a comment on a post at Pat Dollard (H/T to Atlas Shrugs):

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Will you please take the time to read this, and if you think it worthwhile, pass it along to your email list, and ask them to read it? Even if they voted, with all good intentions, for Mr. Obama?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: change.

Why?

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

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

And that is only the beginning.

And I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office, a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side?He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.

He did it with a compliant media–did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and . . . change. And the people surely got what they voted for.

(Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)

Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.

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

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

Some people scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe–and why I believe it.

I pray I am wrong. I do not think I am.

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It doesn't have to be this way for us, for America. We are not doomed to repeat history, because we are aware. Click over to the original post at Pat Dollard, read and listen.

LEARN

BE AWARE

SPEAK OUT

SHARE THE WEALTH OF INFORMATION

All the information is out there! Just because the nightly news is not informing you does not mean that you cannot be informed. If you don't know where to look, leave me a message in the comments or email me and I will gladly share my reader list with you. If we do not stop this tide now, it will quickly drown us. Obama did not just "burst onto the scene" or any such nonsense. This was and is a planned attack, and we are complacently allowing it under a veil of "change". Six years is all it took for Germany to be taken over from within. How long do you think it will take America with a leader like Barack Obama?

In six years, my oldest child will be 17. What do you think Mr. Obama will have planned for him?

Six years ...

On Missing the Boat of Opportunity

(H/T to Grizzly Groundswell Blog Network)






If this isn't the heart of the democrat mentality, I don't know what is. It's not about this great philanthropic hope and change for the good of others or the nation, it's about "what is the government going to do for ME?" And so much so, that they're missing the endless opportunities for self-advancement right in front of their noses. Let's settle for a little for nothing, rather than work for the opportunity for more than we can imagine.

We have our Saul

A MESSAGE FROM PASTOR DUTCH SHEETS

November 6, 2008

I feel certain that many in my stream of the Church want a statement from me concerning Tuesday’s presidential election. I will be frank in my remarks but I do not, however, intend to vent anger or attack anyone. I have read several statements from friends and colleagues I respect very much. Their thoughts are well stated and, for the most part, insightful. None of them, however, seem to want to say some things that I believe need to be said. I do not claim infallibility or to have the final word, but my convictions run deep and I believe I bear a God-given responsibility to share them.

Was This God’s Will?

Was what happened Tuesday God’s will? I am quite confident it was not. America was offered a very clear choice between moving further toward protecting the unborn or further away; between a Supreme Court that would move toward honoring God, life and morality or away from it. The stakes couldn’t have been higher nor the cost greater. As a nation we put on blinders concerning Barak Obama’s background, associations, beliefs and practices, and set these causes back years, possibly decades. And in doing so we took another step away from God and His plans for America, and another step toward judgment.

Judgment Will Increase

This is not a fire and brimstone warning from an angry, legalistic preacher. In fact, I feel more sadness and grief than anything else. Perhaps I feel what Jesus felt as He wept for Jerusalem while announcing its judgment. I am not hoping for judgment; I am saying it is inevitable. I don’t know where the unbiblical belief comes from that says a nation can live any way it pleases, can reject God and His ways—even mock Him—and not receive His judgments. Nor do I know when the belief came that it is always mean-spirited or judgmental to warn of these things. To the contrary, I believe it is our responsibility.

In warning of judgment, I am not suggesting that God is going to intentially and directly hurt people. Much judgment is simply the absence of God’s protection and provision, caused by a rejection of His laws and ways. We have been experiencing some forms of judgment in America for years, but God in His incredible patience and mercy has kept us from the level we’ve deserved. I believe this will change to a degree and judgment will now increase:

• For those in the Church who aligned themselves with pro-abortion forces, I believe judgment will result.
  
• For leaders in the Body of Christ who refused to take a stand for fear of losing people, money, and tax-exempt status—I believe there will be a degree of judgment.
  
• For those, both within the Church and without, who voted money over morality—a potential raise or better health insurance over the life of a baby—there will be judgment. (The irony is that this decision to base one’s vote on the hopes of a better economy won’t produce the hoped for result anyway. The scriptures teach that it is righteousness which exalts a nation and that the nation is blessed whose God is the Lord.)

I have heard the argument that God cares as much about social justice issues (such as poverty and racism) as He does abortion, making a vote for Obama OK. I certainly believe God puts a very high priority on caring for the poor and I, too, have wanted to see equality demonstrated through a “minority” president. But to equate having a better income or the desire for a first black president, regardless of his positions on abortion and morality, to the issue of killing 50 million babies is not justice—it is a gross distortion of justice and great deception. I fear that we have been desensitized to this issue of abortion. I believe it kills babies and takes innocent life. I also believe it is blood sacrifice that empowers demons. Let’s not forget this in our noble attempts to be kind and conciliatory. For African Americans I can easily see how it could bring healing to have a first black president, just as it would be for Native Americans to achieve this or for women if a woman were elected president. Again, I have wanted to see justice in this way. I am only saddened that the price for this healing ended up being Barak Obama, a man that will set the cause of life and, most-likely, our God-given destiny as a nation back so drastically. (I also realize there are some who interpret any criticism of Obama as racism. Racism is so NOT what I am about nor what I live, that I will not even dignify any such accusations with a response.)

What Can We Expect?

What are some of the judgments we can expect on our nation from this election?

• More economic woes
  
• More violence in an already violent nation
  
• Disease and death (satan, who is responsible for these things will have greater inroads to our nation.)
  
• Natural disasters (weather—tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, drought; fires; earthquakes; etc.)
  
• Terrorism (they will fear us much less now)
  
• War, perhaps on our own soil
  
• Judgments relating to the Court. The stacking of the Supreme Court against the sanctity of life and God’s influence on America will occur, which will in turn cause the shedding of more innocent blood, more rejection of God’s laws and the stealing from us of our godly heritage—all of which will perpetuate a cycle of even more judgment.

How Did This Happen?

I’ve been asked if this could have been averted had there been more prayer. I’m not sure. I believe there was a remnant of Christians fervently praying over these elections—I don’t think there was anything more they could have done. Others, obviously, should have done more. The complacency and lack of discernment concerning our real condition in America—especially by the Church—is both appalling and horrifying. America is in serious trouble and it seems no one wants to say it. Fewer still are willing to do anything to change it.

Though I understand our reasons, we must be careful in our attempts to placate our feelings and calm our fears through religious phrases like “God is still on the throne” or “God has a plan”. He was on His throne 35 years and 50 million babies ago. And He had a plan back then. The problem is, it was us. I understand our reasons for waving high the banner of God’s sovereignty at times like these—it gives us hope. I will wave it, as well. But please be careful with this. Too much emphasis on God’s sovereignty and we’re worthless; too little and we’re hopeless. Maybe we should say, “we lost a critical battle but God will give us strategy to win the war.” Then find the strategy.

But still yet, since God is usually willing to work through a remnant, I thought we had enough prayer. Obviously, God decided otherwise. There comes a time when He will not forgive or bless the majority based on the prayers or actions of only a few. America rejected God and asked for a king; I believe we now have our Saul (see 1 Samuel 8:5-7)—a man who does not have God’s heart for America but his own. Like Israel in scripture, our nation believes it can turn from God and still be blessed. In His mercy and justice He will show us otherwise.

Like many, believing I had many promises and confirmations that God would “grace” us with a pro-life president in this election, I failed to consider strongly enough that all promises—even scripture—are conditional 99.9% of the time. Though I never prophesied or made guarantees that McCain-Palin would win, failing to factor this principle in strongly enough no doubt caused me to share my optimism with others inappropriately. If this caused any harm or confusion, I apologize.

Has the fact that my prayers weren’t answered shaken my faith? No. I’m a little confused and discouraged. I’m also somewhat angry at the nation in general and much of the Church. Mostly I’m grieving over the nation and what this will cost us. I am not, however, angry with God and do not question His justice. And it is not true that we wasted our time, energy and money in our efforts anymore than it is a waste when we share the gospel with people who don’t get saved. We must keep in the forefront of our thinking the fact that ultimately we are doing this for Him and that He will reward us for our faithfulness. And who knows, perhaps He will store up all those prayers for the next battle (Revelation 5:8, 8:3-5).

A friend and fellow warrior said it well,

“We did ‘give it our all.’ I know the Lord was pleased with that. A coach wants to know one thing at the end of a heartbreaking sports loss: ‘Did you leave it all on the field?’ (your passion, your commitment, your strength, your courage, etc.) I know that we ‘left it all on the field.’ We didn’t hold anything back until the game ended. Tragically, it ended in defeat. We will rise for another day because Jesus is worthy.”

Where Do We Go from Here?

Does this election outcome shake my faith that we can see a great awakening and ultimately reformation in America? Absolutely not (and it strengthens my resolve). We will simply get there through greater pain and loss. Even my passion to see the Supreme Court shift is not from a presupposition that there can be no spiritual awakening without it. It is simply due to my deep conviction that their decisions bring so much death, destruction, curses and judgment to America; and because our full destiny as a natio n is unquestionably linked to their decisions. So, yes, we will get an awakening and reformation; but the reality is that this reformation of the nation will reform the Supreme Court (and government, in general), not vice-versa. My faith has never been in people or a political party; my faith is in the God who works through them.

I’ve been asked if my feelings about Sarah Palin have changed. They have not. I believe she is an Esther, a Deborah, with a huge mantle from God for reformation. God has a great destiny for her
related to this nation if she chooses to continue down this path.

So, in conclusion, we must re-group as an apostolic, praying church and advance. We must maintain an immovable faith in God, His plans for America and His mercy. And we must move beyond simply asking God for a spiritual awakening and ask Him for strategy to produce reformation, as well. I, for one, am just getting started!

For God and this great nation, Dutch Sheets (Dutch Sheets is the Senior Pastor of Freedom Church, Colorado Springs, CO More information may be obtained at http://www.dutchsheets.org/)

The days of chasing chickens are over

Every so often, I like to highlight some of my favorite blogs and today I'd like to point you over to America's Right, written by Jeff Schreiber. Jeff is a law student with a dead-on perspective of the election, what it means to conservatives (not necessarily Republicans), and post-election strategy. It's a rare day that I disagree with his analysis and commentary, and am sure you will enjoy it as well.

Last week, Jeff's post entitled "In Search of Apollo Creed" was the first laugh-inducing post I'd read since the election.

"At the beginning of the third installment of the Rocky franchise, Rocky Balboa was fat and happy, having successfully defended his heavyweight belt against a bunch of nobodies. He took for granted the hard work and sacrifice, the blood, bruises and sweat he originally put forth to get the belt in the first place, and was surprised by upstart Lang, who effortlessly got the better of the slower, more traditional, more distracted veteran in their first match. For the re-match, Balboa needed help, and he got that help from a longtime rival, Apollo Creed.

The days of chasing Mickey's chickens to gain speed were over. Creed--The Master of Disaster! The King of Sting! The Dancing Destroyer! The Count of Monte Fisto!--taught a reluctant Rocky the merits of balance and footwork and did so the old-fashioned way, through hard work, sacrifice, and the need to step outside the comfort zone.

It wasn't easy. Rocky couldn't move like Creed, he couldn't dance his way around the ring. In the past, he had relied solely on his power, his stubbornness and his high threshold for pain, but in order to have even a remote chance of beating Clubber Lang in the rematch, he needed more. Creed spent hours working Rocky over in the gym, jumping rope and hopping around in various ways. They ran on the beach, with Creed easily out-sprinting Balboa at first. Finally, after the musical training montage was almost over, Rocky beat Creed in the slow-motion footrace and the two shared a Barney Frank-type moment in the frothy surf."

Head to America's Right to read the entire post, and check back to read more of Jeff often. I'm certain you'll appreciate his efforts as much as I do.

Freddie Kruger has nothing on these guys

The stuff nightmares are made of ....

(From WSJ)

"Asked what Barack Obama was elected to do, and what legislation he’s likely to find on his Oval Office desk soonest, Mr. Emanuel didn’t hesitate. 'Bucket one would have children’s health care, Schip,” he said. “It has bipartisan agreement in the House and Senate. It’s something President-elect Obama expects to see. Second would be [ending current restrictions on federally funded] stem-cell research. And third would be an economic recovery package focused on the two principles of job creation and tax relief for middle-class families'.”…

... "Barney Frank wants to slash Defense spending by 25%. Charles Rangel wants to bring back the draft. John Conyers, who has called for slavery reparations, is also sympathetic to Europeans who want to indict Bush administration officials for war crimes. And Henry Waxman is angling for steep energy taxes to combat global warming."

I may never sleep again....

The new Obama slogan

"Yeah ... that's not gonna happen."

I think we're going to be hearing that a lot over the next couple of years. What? It's already started? No kidding. Surpise, surprise, surprise. G'head and read it, I'll wait.

My reaction to that, after I stopped laughing, was "Thank GOD!" See, here's the thing: I don't want our troops in Iraq any longer than they have to be either. Nobody does. But if you start withdrawing them, and redeploying them, AND cutting defense spending, all that's going to do is leave the guys that are still there sitting with a huge neon target on their backs with no means to defend themselves. The human cost of that will be more than we can imagine - and for nothing.

The disillusionment is just beginning. And I can't wait.

If you don't like the "Yeah ... that's not gonna happen" for a new slogan, how about, in the words of the mighty Bill Engvall:

"Here's Your Sign"

Service to the Crown ** UPDATED **

I have to stop blogging in the evenings. Seriously, I start writing and reading and twittering, and then can't shut down my brain enough to get any sleep. If you think yesterday's post is what kept me awake, you'd actually be wrong. I almost made myself physically ill searching for the picture for that post, as well as the link to what the process entails - but it is too freakin' easy for people to agree with an issue or an ideology when they don't have to face what it actually means. But no, that's not what did it last night.

No, last night my husband and I went to bed discussing the ramifications of this little bit of hope and change from Barack Hussein Obama's president-elect site:

The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start. (emphasis mine)

(H/T to Gateway Pundit)

I'm sorry, what? REQUIRED community service for my children - my oldest of which will be in middle school next year and hardly has enough time to even play with his friends because he works so hard already? My children already DO community service - primarily to their family. It's called CHORES. I am Lizzi, the family community organizer.


When they feel called to help out at their school or church (allbeit maybe with a suggestion or two from me, but still - it's their choice, for now at least), they ususally do so with gusto. That's how you foster the call to service, by making it available - and voluntary. Otherwise, guess what? It's not community service, it's forced labor, jackass.


But I guess when you're trying to build a Marxist Youth Corps, you've gotta start somewhere. Somehow this doesn't conflict with our current child labor laws.

So here's where I am somewhat ignorant in the process of things. And any of you Obamatrons and Momocrats out there are free to fill me in on how exactly this might work. That above boldfaced sentence? I have a giant OR WHAT that I want to add to that. If we, as a child's parents, do not comply with dear leader's demands for forced labor ... then what? We get fined? Is it jail time so that our children get raised by someone more suited to my government's liking? Or do you just go completely balls-out and punish the children themselves?

And you can bet your sweet patootie that those community service hours are going to include some sort of indoctrination training.



The time my kids already spend serving at church? What if that doesn't count? We should give that up, or maybe just suck it up and give up other things - like family vacations. Or dinner together. None of those things are important anyway for family unity. And who decides what is and isn't "community service"? What if the places our family thinks are worthwhile to serve for doesn't quite jive with that of Obama the Great?



Hope and change, folks. Hope and change. You wanted it, and you're getting it.

** UPDATE **

It appears that there has been enough outcry over this issue, that Obama's change.gov site has already changed the wording. Here are the revisions. I have no problem with this kind of change.

THIS is what you have advocated in this election (Graphic - you have been warned)

An aborted 22 week old baby - BABY! Not FETUS! This is murder, not "hope."

Oh, and my son was not too much older than this when he was born. He is eleven now.

So here's to all the much praised Hope and Change we'll have when Barack Obama goes forward with FOCA. Here's to The One who will make our world a better place. So you can have all your "woo-hoo" parties and wave your signs. Me? I will cry for the death of millions more lives lost for an ideology. Woo hoo.

But, hey ... that's just me being ignorant and intolerant and all.

And the Change begins

From FoxNews.com:


Republican Conference Leader Steps Down After House Losses

House Republican Conference Chairman Adam Putnam will not seek re-election to be the third-highest ranking GOP leader in the House.

President-elect Barack Obama's promise to deliver change has already come -- to the House Republican leadership.

House Republican Conference Chairman Adam Putnam of Florida will not seek re-election to be the third-highest ranking GOP leader in the House, FOX News learned late Tuesday.

In a letter written to his GOP colleagues shortly after John McCain was soundly defeated by Obama and Democrats fattened their control in both chambers of Congress, Putnam said, "It is time to step off the leadership ladder."

"Upon becoming Chairman, I endeavored to make (the) conference an agile, expert and real-time communications and legislative arm, one that would serve our members and drive our message both inside and outside the Beltway. I am confident that (the) conference will be well-positioned to win a vigorous debate with congressional Democrats under our next chairman," he wrote.

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, will run for Putnam's position and intends to seek his support, FOX News has learned.

Embattled Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, intends to run again as party leader, key GOP sources indicated to FOX News.

The McCain loss was so overwhelming that it hurt GOP House candidates "and you can't blame that on John Boehner," one source told FOX News, indicating that if McCain had had a better showing, some Republicans might have be more interested in showing Boehner the door after large GOP losses.

As for Boehner, he appeared ready to continue the congressional wrangling.

"The party of Lincoln stands together with all Americans tonight in heralding this historic achievement for freedom, and also in thanking Senator John McCain for his decades of patriotism and service to our nation.

"It is in the same spirit -- that of promoting and defending American freedom -- that Republicans will approach the policies of our new president. President-elect Obama has sketched a troubling policy roadmap that will be run through a Congress that was purchased by powerful liberal special interests. The American people want and deserve accountability from Washington Democrats, and Republicans will stand on principle to ensure they get it," he said in a written statement.

Things that make you go "hmmmmm....."

Found this over at HillBuzz today. For quite some time now, I've been wondering this exact same thing about Bill Clinton and some of the amazingly (even for him) bizarre things that have come out of his mouth, but John Murtha? Hmmmm.


Is John Murtha a true American hero who sacrificed himself to defeat Obama?



NOTE: This is truly one of the most interesting things we have ever read — because we never once considered this for a moment, until we saw it in this post. John Murtha’s behavior in Pennsylvania the last few weeks has been so truly bizarre that we actually started to think he might have early stages of Alzheimers or conditions linked to dementia or senility. The things that have been coming out of his mouth have been so bad for Obama that if you didn’t know any better, you’d think Murtha was deliberately trying to throw the Keystone State to John McCain.

That’s John McCain, fellow military man. John McCain, who would keep America strong and not reduce or marginaize our military. Unlike Obama.

Is Murtha really wily enough to, as put below, “throw himself on a grenade” to keep a socialist like Obama from winning the White House?

If so, Murtha would be the most effective secret PUMA out there. The guy would instantly become King Sabertooth in our book (sorry Big Dawg).

VIA a truly great post over at NoQuarter: McCain May Catch a Case of Pennsylvania

In 2004 Kerry won Allegheny, and outlying counties, by slim margins:
Allegheny: 96,987

Beaver: 2,230
Washington: 552
Fayette: 4,075
That’s 103,844 votes. Leaving a margin of 40,044 votes in the 2004 totals.

There is one reason and one reason only that Kerry took these counties: Tereza Heinz-Kerry. Knowing this, Obama tried to trot her out in the run-up to the Pennsylvania primary. Her lack of enthusiasm for the candidate was pretty obvious. Obama has no such connection. In fact, the one thing he had going for him in the area, John Murtha, decided to pick the scab off the bitter/cling incident by calling his constituents racists, and then rednecks. Personally I think Murtha fell on a grenade, potentially ending his political career to prevent Obama from getting into the White House. Between that, Joe the Plumber, Bittergate, the Hillary/PUMA effect and Obama’s ever shrinking tax break income threshold (it used to be $250,000…now his ads say $200,000….his VP says $150,000….Bill Richardson says $120,000….we know it’s really around $42-50,000…middle class, get ready for the mugging) chances are McCain is going to win all four of those counties.

Another Kerry stronghold was Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties. Margins were not that wide there either.
Lackawanna County (Scranton is County Seat): 14,807
Luzerne County: 4,620

I believe that it is the PUMA effect that will have the greatest impact in drawing Democrats away from Obama. Forget Biden’s connection to Scranton. He hasn’t had any there in decades. No one is seeing his appearance there as a homecoming. It’s a hey I used to be from here vote for me kind of feeling. When Democrats for McCain and Harriet Christian are leading PUMAs on major canvassing safaris, reminding everyone what Obama and the DNC did to Hillary, the candidate they still love, what Obama said about them, etc. I see both counties in play big time. Thank you all for your hard work and dedication up there!

Joe the Plumber will also pull in votes in Allentown, and Erie. We hear time and time again that working class voters are “values voters,” meaning that they vote with the candidate whom they feel represents their beliefs, even if they are voting against their economic interests. In 2008 the McCain/Palin ticket not only speaks to them more, especially with a woman who comes directly from the working class, but will better serve their economic interests by not taxing them into the poor house, or taxing their employers into laying them off (and with those ever lowering tax thresholds that is exactly what is going to happen).

How clueless can one man be?

Ok. Let me get this straight.

Barack Obama did not know that his pastor of twenty years, Jeremiah Wright, was preaching a radical black liberation theology.

Barack Obama did not know that his neighbor, babysitter, business associate, and host of his campaign kick-off party, William Ayers, was an unrepentant and unreformed terrorist.

Barack Obama did not know that his friend and neighbor, Rashid Khalidi, was a Palestinian activist and PLO spokesman.

Barack Obama did not know that his aunt was in this country illegally.

Anybody else see a pattern here? Just checking.

Pre-Election Blog Burst: NObama 08

As we count down to the remaining hours of this election, Social Sense urges its readers who have not yet voted to continue listening to what the candidates are saying; feel free to question their rhetoric.

If it is true that most Americans are worried about the economy, then there is no reason to vote for Barack Obama. None. If readers need a quick review, they will find an excellent crib-sheet of the Obama/McCain platforms at Jus’ Sayin'; check it out.

Ultimately, American voters and the Electoral College will make the final decision as to which candidate will serve as our next president. This is not the time to be lulled into accepting false promises and sugar coated solutions to serious challenges. We hope (and pray) Americans will select the one candidate who will best serve the interests of our Nation. Choose wisely, America.

Participants: Always on Watch; And Rightly So; Big Girl Pants; Cheese In My Shoe; Chuck Thinks Right; Confessions of a Closet Republican; Defending Crusader; Farmer’s Letters; Fore Left; GeeeeeZ; Has Everyone Gone Nuts?; Learn Something Today; Long Range; Palace for a Princess; Papa Frank; Mind of a Misfit; Paleocon Command Center; Political Yin and Yang; Pondering Penguin; Praesidium Respublicae; Right Truth; Social Sense; The Amboy Times; The Bitten Word; The Crank Files; The Jungle Hut; The Logic Lifeline; The Merry Widow; TSOFAH

If only he WOULD be clear!

From American Princess:

Mary Katherine Ham, bless her heart, spent hours toiling over the videotaped filth that has flown from Obama’s mouth over the last few months and found that, when you put it all in one place and organize it in a linear fashion, it makes you want to harm yourself more than he normally does. In fact, its flat out amazing the flip-flops, outright lies, and insane comments that Barack Obama has managed to get away with over the course of this long election cycle.

Prepare to vomit.

7 Reasons Why Barack Obama Is Not a Christian

I know I promised a discussion on the disguise of Obama's alleged middle class tax cuts, but with a rather intense work week and then Halloween (plus trying to wade through everything in my reader), I just ran out of hours in the day.

I wasn't even going to post at all today, but came across something this morning that I found extremely valuable, and think you will too.

Having a Christian in the White House is important to me. Honestly, that was the only thing holding me back with Romney. I think he probably would have made an amazing president, but the whole Mormon thing made me think twice. Is that ignorance and bias on my part? Probably. I tried researching the LDS faith, but wasn't overly happy with what I found. That being said, I think Mitt is an honorable man with conservative, common sense values and, more than likely, I would have been able to get past it.

Barack Obama's faith gets brought up every now and then in the media, allbeit with a pretty soft foot, if you ask me. The whole Rev. Wright thing seems to be a road bump in his campaign rather than the giant Yield sign I think it should be. I've posted before what I think about his stance on infanticide, and that continues to be a no-brainer for me.

And then I found a website that sums up all of the missing links in the chain of Obama's faith. According to the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission:

There is a spiritual emergency in America.

Barack Obama is in the process of trying to recreate the Christian faith in his own, very liberal and unorthodox image.

Built on a foundation of radical Black Liberation Theology, theological liberalism and post-modernism, Obama is undermining historic, biblical Christianity while claiming his is a Christian. In the process, he is defaming the Christian faith.

By declaring he is a Christian, yet denying Christianities most essential truths and traditional morality, Obama is associating Christ with some of the most wicked practices imaginable, all of which are condemned in the Bible.

By any historic or biblical standard, Barack Obama is not a Christian.

With his incredible celebrity status, Obama's ideas about spiritual matters have become very significant, and they are very dangerous.

Now, more than ever, Christianity is under attack from without and within. We need your help to stand for Christ. ...

... It is critical that we spread the truth about Obama's fake Christianity so that Christians can defend the truth.

Our concern is only spiritual and we pray for Barack Obama to repent and turn to Christ and His Word.

As I believe the majority of my readers are also of the Christian faith, I urge you to go to the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission's "7 Reasons Why Barack Obama Is Not a Christian" and view the video series. They are short and to the point, but I need to warn you that there are several graphic images - especially in the ones about abortion. I firmly believe, however, if more people saw images like these, abortion would be harder for some to brush off as a simple "choice."

On this particular Sunday, when many of us are headed off or returning home from worship, when much of our focus is on our Creator and everything we have been blessed with, we need to ask ourselves:

What does the person I want to elect to this most important office believe?

It's so very important to remember that it's not just the office of the president that we need to be concerned about. The next president will most likely be appointing three new justices to the supreme court - the results of which will be felt by our children's children and possibly beyond.

The Obama campaign likes to tout the phrase "Vote like your life depends on it, because it does." Amen to that. Yet I would add "and so do the lives of our grandchildren."

She Wants to be President Someday

Got this in my email yesterday, and am still laughing about it. Sadly, it really is just this simple...

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I asked my friend's little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day.

Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, "If you were President what would be the first thing you would do?"

She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."

"Wow...what a worthy goal." I told her, "you don't have to wait until you're President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50. - Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house."

She thought that over for a few seconds while her Mom glared at me, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?"

I said, "Welcome to the Republican Party."

Her folks still aren't talking to me.