Taking Advantage of Every Opportunity for Obeisance

In the immortal words of Ed Grimley, "we're as doomed as doomed can be."

Hat tip to the good folks at Lucianne.com for this defining photo-shop!

"Jesus the Capitalist"

This one gets my vote for best weekend read. It's not something you would normally find on Drudge, and in fact, I didn't. It's from the hard working news junkies and reconnoiter artists at Pajamasmedia and the piece is titled, Jesus the Capitalist.

Many on the left often "scripture shop" to argue their opinion that Christ and the first Christians practiced socialism. Nay, nay collectivist breath! They did pool their assets in order to prolong their time together after the first Pentecost, but after a time, they returned to their communities. They didn't become collectivists, nor did anyone force anybody to sell personal property for the sake of others. If they did give, it was always a free-will offering.

If you have any curiosity whatsoever as to the real socio-economic recommendations set forth throughout the Bible, give this succinct article a few minutes of your attention. This guy obviously reads the Book and backs it up with footnotes.

Here are a couple of paragraphs:

A farmer had some crops that needed to be harvested and he hired day laborers, agreeing to pay them $100 for working a 12-hour shift. The farmer was in a hurry to get his crops harvested, so he went out again two hours into the shift and hired more workers. He continued to look for laborers throughout the day, bringing in more laborers every hour. Finally, at seven o’clock, one hour before sunset, he brought in a dozen more workers to help finish the job.

He then lined the workers up to give them their pay and he paid first the workers who had only worked an hour. Those who stood, sweat dripping from their bodies from a 12-hour shift, smiled when they saw the one-hour hires get $100. They figured that meant they’d get paid extra. But to their horror, the farmer also paid them only $100.

They confronted the capitalist with the charges of favoritism and unjust discrimination. Rather than offering arbitration, the farmer responded, “I’m not doing you any wrong. Didn’t you agree to work for $100? Take your money and leave. I’ll pay the people who worked an hour the same as I paid you. Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want with my own money?”

Who is this capitalist exploiter of workers who thinks he can pay people whatever he wants?

Most theologians will tell you this landowner represents none other than Christ himself. The names, currencies, and exact quotes have been changed, but the essence of the story Christ told in Matthew 20 hasn’t. It’s a helpful story to remember when Michael Moore is out telling us that capitalism is anti-Jesus.

There are many other fine points the author points out in the Old and New Testaments which encourage capitalism and the free market.

Read the entire piece, it's just a couple of pages in length. Then, you might as well dust off the family Bible and start reading it...a few chapters a day and you can easily knock it out in 6 months or so. Do it! You'll be glad you did.

What's He Thinking?

Is this just a lack of protocol; a lack of experience or an in your face display of anti-American arrogance? We could ask, what's going on with this president and his administration, but it's all too obvious, isn't it?

Photo taken from Lucianne.com.

Alexis de Tocqueville Quote of the Day

Alexis de Tocqueville knew people and politics. He greatly admired what America represented and he knew what would happen to this once great nation when we strayed from the values that made us great. One quote can never capture all of his great wisdom but one quote can spur thought.

Behold de Tocqueville's quote and think:

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Kind of makes you ponder what's going on right here and now, doesn't it?

14 Murders, Not 13

This sad fact has been mostly unreported but there was a 14th victim at the Ft. Hood terrorist attact; it was an unborn child. Will Hasan be prosecuted for that murder as well as the 13 others under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act?

Political Correctness: The Unindicted Co-conspirator

From the observant wit of Michael Ramirez.

The American Spectator: "The Man Who Despises America"

Today's must read: a very powerful piece from The American Spectator: The Man Who Despises America. Here are a few of the money paragraphs:

In May, Obama immediately issued a statement that he was "shocked and outraged by the murder" of a Kansas doctor specializing in partial-birth abortions. He called it a "heinous act of violence." Attorney-General Holder mobilized U.S. Marshals nationwide to provide protection to abortion clinics.

But Obama remained silent the very next day when two U.S. soldiers were gunned down by a Muslim extremist outside a Little Rock recruiting station. After repeated prodding for a presidential comment, the White House faxed an after-hours statement to select media outlets two days later offering a tepid remark that Obama was "saddened" without even mentioning the soldiers were murdered.

Five months later, another Muslim fanatic gunned down nearly four dozen Americans, killing 13, at the Ft. Hood army base. It was an act that demanded the most serious demeanor of the military's Commander-in-Chief. Yet, Obama referenced the massacre in the most insincere fashion just seconds after a jocular shout-out to an audience member during a public speaking engagement. It was the equivalent of attending a funeral in swimwear while en route to the beach.

How's that hope and change working for you so far?

"Our Favorite Surviving Veteran" revisited

Our family tribute to Veterans on this their day is a tribute to my father-in-law, William A. Norrod which I posted 2 years ago. It's a good story; check it out: Our Favorite Surviving Veteran.

Classrooms Then and Now!

Prescient Abe Lincoln Quote of the Day

President Abraham Lincoln said this and Mark Levin recorded it on page 93 of his book, Liberty and Tyranny:

Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

What is going on in Washington DC right now is completely antithetical to what Lincoln believed and more importantly, what the Constitution stands for.

What's going on in Washington is contra-constitutional and counter revolutionary to everything on which this once great country was founded.

20 Years Ago Today

Unless you listen to Big Talk Radio or watch FoxNews, you didn't see or hear the great Ronald Reagan's demand to Gorbachov to take down "the wall." See it right hear. They're not making presidents like this anymore. In fact the leftists in the media and in Washington can't even bring themselves to mention this historical moment. Think about that!

Sad Truths about our President

Long neck clink to Mike over at Let's Think About That for this:



It kills me that we are at the place where our president is more amiable toward our enemies than to our own allies. He apologizes for America wherever he goes and kisses up to Islamofascists and 3d world thugocracies and shuns our allies.

America is in a very dangerous place because we have a president who is not looking out for our best interests...quite the opposite is the case!

Ft. Hood Tribute

Our thoughts and prayers go out for those who were involved in the terrorist attack on unarmed soldiers and various other personnel at Ft. Hood last week. Here's one of many tributes that have been put together:

Mark Levin Quote of the Day

Hat tip to CNSNews.com for capturing this quote from Mark Levin:

Congressmen who want to force Americans to buy health insurance--as both House and Senate versions of the health care plan would do--are saying 'the hell with the Constitution.'

You can see Levin's speech on the Capitol steps right here:

Stop Taxpayer Funding of Abortion!

God Bless America

I think I've posted this outstanding song before; it certainly deserves being posted again. In any case, enjoy it. It's the best rendition I've ever heard. Please, God, listen up!

CSPAN: What Happened on the Capitol Steps Today

Watch it here. You won't see it anywhere else in its entirety.

Watch it!

Kill The Bill!!!

Planned Parenthood Attempting to Silence Ex-Director

Abby Johnson was an abortion center director for Planned Parenthood for a number of years in Bryan, TX and recently resigned from her position after viewing an ultrasound of an abortion procedure. She said she could no longer work there after what she witnessed. Now, Planned Parenthood is attempting to silence her for fear she will make public that which they don't want to be made public:

Bryan, TX (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood is attempting to silence a former abortion center director who quit working for the abortion business after seeing an ultrasound of an abortion procedure. Officials with the group are pushing a request for a restraining order on Abby Johnson and a pro-life group that helped her conversion.

Johnson had been the director of the Planned Parenthood center in this southeast Texas city that is home to Texas A&M University.

She turned in her resignation on October 6 after years of a local pro-life group helping her see the problem with abortion. After the ultrasound, she decided to leave.
"I just thought I can't do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that's it," she said.

Now, Planned Parenthood officials have hit both Johnson and the Coalition for Life with restraining orders requiring them not to disclose information about the abortions done at its facility.

They don't want Johnson to release any records or confidential information from her eight-year stint at the Planned Parenthood abortion business, even though she has already told media outlets she will not do so.

District Judge J.D. Langley signed the request for a temporary injunction on Friday and a followup hearing is scheduled for November 10. The injunction prevents Johnson from releasing any information she obtained from Planned Parenthood -- at least until the hearing.

Coalition Director Shawn Carney called Planned Parenthood's actions unnecessary and an overreaction and said there is no effort to release confidential records.

But Planned Parenthood attorneys claim Johnson was seen copying confidential files and records shortly before her resignation and the former director told The Eagle newspaper that she hasn't given any documents to the pro-life group.

"I didn't provide any because I don't have any," she said.

Johnson told The Eagle that Planned Parenthood is likely worried about how she could expose the profit motive behind the abortion industry.

"Definitely the most lucrative part of their business was abortions," she said. "One of the things that kept coming up was how family planning services were really dragging down the budget, and family planning services include education about contraceptives. It was a drain on the budget, but abortion services were really running up the budget and that was keeping the center afloat."

But Planned Parenthood claims a nurse practitioner at the abortion center says Johnson gave the pro-life group a document with her name and phone number on it.

Johnson has also said she was told to bring in more women for abortions -- something that contradicted her Episcopalian upbringing.

"I feel so pure in heart (since leaving). I don't have this guilt, I don't have this burden on me anymore that's how I know this conversion was a spiritual conversion," she said.

Johnson said she will now work with the Coalition For Life and has been meeting with Carney and been seen outside the Planned Parenthood helping women find alternatives.

Revealing New Video of Obama’s Pastor

Hat tip to the folks at AIM for these. Rush played them today and posted them at his site as well.

Keep in mind that Obama sat in Pastor Wright's pews for 20 years, but claimed he never knew that he believed such things. Rush emphasized today repeatedly in his own inimitable way:

"Reverand Wright Praises Marxism (And Obama IS Reverand Wright"

Here are the 3 parts beginning with Part I:







You can't blame Obama for throwing this guy under the bus but it was just for show; his administration is chock full of others who share the same radicalism.

Change indeed!

Sarah Palin: "Quit Making Things Up, DNC!"

Sarah Palin posted this today at FaceBook.

Spontaneous Musical Interlude with Diana Krall

More often than not, you just have to break away from the world's madness and envelope one's self in good tunes. Diana Krall envelopes me like few others...musically speaking, of course. Enjoy!

Republican Scozzafava Endorses Democrat After Exiting N.Y.

Well, isn't this special! The extremely liberal republican Dede Scozzafava has dropped out of the race and endorsed the democrat instead of the conservative, Doug Hoffman, who has been endorse by Sarah Palin and most of Big Talk Radio:

Republican Dede Scozzafava endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday in the race for an upstate New York congressional seat, shaking up the contest for the second day in a row after exiting the race Saturday.

Scozzafava dropped out after Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman experienced a late-in-the-game surge. The move was expected to consolidate GOP voters behind Hoffman on Tuesday.

But on Sunday, Scozzafava issued a written statement in which she backed Democrat Bill Owens.

Newt Gingrich, among others in the republican party, endorsed the liberal Scozzafava over the conservative Hoffman. Who will Gingrich and the liberal republicans endorse now...the democrat who Scozzafava has thrown her support to, or the conservative. This will be a very interesting race.

Stay tuned!

Obfuscation of the Day?

I don't get to say this nearly as often as I'd like, but this is really rich:

From Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller
Taking what officials call an "unprecedented" step in transparency, the White House released visitor logs today showing some popular names: William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, R. Kelly, and Malik Shabazz visiting the White House.

But, no – those are not who you think they are, official say; these famous people never really visited the White House – these are other people with the same name.

"There’s an important lesson here as well," Norm Eisen, special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform writes in a blog posting on the White House website, "This unprecedented level of transparency can sometimes be confusing rather than providing clear information. A lot of people visit the White House, up to 100,000 each month, with many of those folks coming to tour the buildings. Given this large amount of data, the records we are publishing today include a few "false positives" – names that make you think of a well-known person, but are actually someone else."

I'm surprised the Clintons didn't use this reasoning when they were having to explain their questionable visitors when they resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Weekly Standard headline of the day: Annual Medicare Fraud: $60 Billion; Annual Profits of Top Ten Insurance Companies: $8 billion

Kudos to The Weekly Standard for making this important contrast. Big Govt has always been fraught with unmeasurable fraud, if for no other reason, because of its immensity, yet it demands to be even larger.

Ironically (it's not really ironic) the largest 10 Big Insurance companies posted profits which are a fraction of the Medicare fraud; and that's just one Big Govt bureaucracy. What about fraud in every other burgeoning bureaucracy?

The above linked piece is short and is reposted here in its entirety:

As 60 Minutes reported last week, Medicare fraud is rampant and has now replaced the cocaine (ahem) business as the major criminal activity in South Florida. Both 60 Minutes and the Washington Post report that Medicare fraud now costs American taxpayers roughly $60 billion a year. That may sound like a lot of money, but surely it pales next to the extraordinary profits of private insurance companies, right?

Well, let's see.... Last year, the profits of the ten largest insurance companies in America were just over $8 billion -- combined. No single insurance company made even five percent of what Medicare reportedly loses in fraud.

While we're making comparisons, in its real first ten years (2014-23), the Senate Finance Committee bill would cost $1.7 trillion. At the rate of last year's profits, the combined ten-year profits of America's ten largest insurance companies would be $83 billion -- five percent of the costs of the Senate Finance Committee bill. Eighty-three billion dollars may not buy you much in comparison with BaucusCare, but -- on the bright side -- that ten-year tally is somewhat more than what Medicare loses each year in fraud.

So, the next time someone alleges that government-run health care is cheaper because of "lower administrative costs" -- a truly preposterous claim on its surface -- these numbers would be good ones to have at the ready: $60 billion in annual Medicare fraud, $8 billion in combined annual profits for America's ten largest insurance companies.

Obama has said he would go after the Medicare fraud when his health care bill passed, which begs the question, why not do that right away?

(photo from EverythingHealth Blog)

2000 new or saved green jobs for China

Great news for China! President Obama's green jobs program will be a shot in the arm for China's ailing economy. More than 2000 jobs will be "created or saved" in China because of a new contract between China's largest wind turbine manufacturer and the soon to be largest wind turbine development located on 36,000 acres in West Texas:

Clean tech has seen a boost as the U.S. pours government funding into renewable energy, and China looks set to reap much of the benefits. Latest example: a Chinese wind-turbine company has just become the exclusive supplier for one of the largest wind-farm developments in the U.S.

The Shenyang Power Group has signed on to supply 240 of its massive 2.5-megawatt wind turbines to a 36,000-acre development in West Texas. The Wall Street Journal reports that the wind farm is also slated to receive $1.5 billion in financing from the Export-Import Bank of China.

Technology, Jeremy Hsu, energy, environment, renewable energy, Shenyang, wind farms, wind power, wind turbines
This comes as the U.S. has increasingly out-sourced much of its wind turbine development. Less than a quarter of wind turbine components installed in the U.S. came from domestic production, and Europe currently holds the lion's share of turbine manufacturing. A Norwegian firm launched the world's first full-scale floating wind turbine this September.

As a reflection of this, just 15 percent of the 2,800 new jobs from the new wind-turbine development will take the form of U.S. jobs. The U.S. government has tried to help the nation's renewable energy industry with $500 million in grants -- but it will likely take a while for U.S. wind power manufacturers to play catch-up after struggling with an uneven market.

This will be fabulous news for the 10 to 15% of America's work force who are out of work.

NOT!!!

Golf is Hell

Investors.com has the very best Editorial Cartoonist in the country; Michael Ramirez.

Quote of the Day

Rush Limbaugh said it today:

"The economic heart of America's engine is its people; not Barack Obama. The intellectual heart of this nation is our people; not Barack Obama. And the last best hope of this nation is our people; not Barack Obama."

How to Scare the Hell out of a Leftist

Just show them this mask! It's guaranteed to have the same effect as a cross or a strand of garlic would have on a vampire; leftists will most certainly recoil at this sight!



Where else but Lucianne.com could you find such a scary mask?

Democrats Vote To Give ACORN Regulatory Authority Over Financial Institutions

I know what you're thinking; you're thinking that because of all the ACORN corruption which was caught on video from coast to coast by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles that ACORN has been declared completely ineligible from future govt aid. You were thinking that, weren't you.

Well, what in the world were you thinking? The dems have voted to give ACORN regulatory authority over financial institutions! That's right friends! ACORN barely got a rap on the wrist for it's overt corruption. In fact, in leftist democrat parlance, the corruption probably enhanced their worthiness to receive a regulatory role in our financial institutions.

Read it for yourself and weep for this country:

WASHINGTON - During consideration of H.R. 3126, legislation to establish a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee voted to pass an amendment offered by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) that will make ACORN eligible to play a role in setting regulations for financial institutions.

The Waters amendment adds to the CFPA Oversight Board 5 representatives from the fields of "consumer protection, fair lending and civil rights, representatives of depository institutions that primarily serve underserved communities, or representatives of communities that have been significantly impacted by higher-priced mortgages" to join Federal banking regulators in advising the Director on the consistency of proposed regulations, and strategies and policies that the Director should undertake to enforce its rules.

By making representatives of ACORN and other consumer activist organizations eligible to serve on the Oversight Board, the amendment creates a potentially enormous government sanctioned conflict of interest. ACORN-type organizations will have an advisory role on regulating the very financial institutions from which they receive millions of dollars annually in direct corporate contributions and benefit from other financial partnerships and arrangements. These are the same organizations that pressured banks to make subprime mortgage loans and thus bear a major responsibility for the collapse of the housing market.

In light of recent evidence linking ACORN to possible criminal activity, Democrats took an unprecedented step today to give ACORN a potential role alongside bank regulators in overseeing financial institutions. This is contrary to recent actions taken by the Senate and House to block federal funds to ACORN.

A recent inquiry into bank funding of ACORN activities by three House Committees found that institutions that would be regulated by the CFPA have provided millions of dollars to the organization in the form of direct donations, lines of credit, cash, and other assets over the last 15 years.

The Waters amendment passed on a vote of 35-33.

Be sure to go to the above link and click on the link so you can see who voted for it and who voted against it.

Have you heard much about this on any news outlet?

Everything You Need to Know about Govt Run Health Care

Even after the president declared a national emergency because of the Swine Flu, Big Govt still is unable to deliver the vaccine to those who think they need it. Why would even unthinking people believe that nationalized health care would be more efficient than the simple distribution of a vaccine?

That's all you need to know to be able to decide whether or not Big Gov't is able to satisfactorily be in charge of your health care.

Can You Do This in Congress?

Hat tip to DRUDGE for this pic.

It is NOT a resume' enhancement when the democrat majority leader in the senate has to resort to praying. Would a republican be censured for striking such a prayerful pose? If so, one must wonder just who Senator Reid was praying to. Hmm...

With such tumult going on with the congressional democrats, I don't think this photo is going to get Sen. Reid any extra favor (although it might be an effort to reach out to the republicans).

The Socialist Mop

From the creative brilliance of S. Weasel.

He's so unpopular that...

Here's a good one from Jodi Miller and the news junkies at Big Hollywood & NewsBusters:

Today's Essential Read: Dismantling America by Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell succinctly lays out how President Obama and his unelected czars along with history's most left wing congress are dismantling America before our very eyes. Here are a few paragraphs:

Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?

Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?

Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called "experts" deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?

Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?

Does any of this sound like America?

How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.

How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.

We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.

How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.

Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to "change the United States of America," the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.

This is an important piece. Please hit the above link and read the rest of Dr. Sowell's article.

Worthless Watchdogs

Hat tip to the always on top of it news junkies at Lucianne.com.

Michael Fumento: The swine flu pandemic is purely political

I heard Michael Fumento on the Dennis Prager show today talking about the "dreaded" swine flu. It was no surprise to me that he said it was a contrived political mechanism to panic people into demanding Big Govt do something...ANYthing to save us. When will the ignorant masses see the light? But I digress...

Here are a couple of the money paragraphs from Fumento's latest piece on the swine flu which we've been dutifully instructed to call the H1N1:

As evidence continues to mount that swine flu is more of a piglet than a raging razorback, why isn’t curiosity mounting as to why the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic? And definitions aside, why does the agency continue to insist we’re going to get hammered? The answers have far less to do with world health than with redistribution of world wealth.

Medically, the pandemic moniker is unjustifiable. When the sacrosanct World Health Organization (WHO) made its official declaration in June, we were 11 weeks into the outbreak, and swine flu had only killed 144 people worldwide — the same number who die of seasonal flu worldwide every few hours. The mildest pandemics of the 20th century killed at least a million people worldwide. And even after six months, swine flu has killed about as many people as the seasonal flu does every six days.

So how could WHO make such an outrageous claim?

Simple. It rewrote the definition of "pandemic."

A previous official definition (and widely used unofficial one) required “simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness.” Severity — that is, the number — is crucial, because seasonal flu always causes worldwide simultaneous epidemics. But one promulgated in April just days before the announcement of the swine flu outbreak, simply eliminated severity as a factor.

That’s also how we can have a "pandemic" when six months of epidemiological data show swine flu to be far milder than the seasonal variety. New York City statistics show it to be perhaps a 10th as lethal.

Okay, now go to his website and read the rest of his piece and don't be taken in by all the crappola Big Govt spews forth. You just can't believe any of it because they have ulterior motives...sinister ulterior motives!

7 Lies in 2 Minutes

Hat tip to Mike at Let's Think About That for this one:

How to Spot An Emotional Vampire

I've been thinking about narcissism for the last few months and have read some good articles on the subject. Tonight I stumbled upon this Narcissism Symptoms Checklist, which will help you spot an emotional vampire. Think you might know a narcissist? Ya think there might be some of them in government? Ya think one might be in the White House?

Here's an official check list:

THE SMARTEST, MOST TALENTED, ALL-AROUND BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD TEST:

True or false? Score one point for each true answer.

1. THIS PERSON HAS ACHIEVED MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE HIS OR HER AGE.

2. THIS PERSON IS FIRMLY CONVINCED THAT HE OR SHE IS BETTER, SMARTER, OR MORE TALENTED THAN OTHER PEOPLE.

3. THIS PERSON LOVES COMPETITION, BUT IS A POOR LOSER.

4. THIS PERSON HAS FANTASIES OF DOING SOMETHING GREAT OR BEING FAMOUS, AND OFTEN EXPECTS TO BE TREATED AS IF THESE FANTASIES HAD ALREADY COME TRUE.

5. THIS PERSON HAS VERY LITTLE INTEREST IN WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE THINKING OR FEELING, UNLESS HE OR SHE WANTS SOMETHING FROM THEM.

6. THIS PERSON IS A NAME DROPPER.

7. TO THIS PERSON IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO LIVE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND ASSOCIATE WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE.

8. THIS PERSON TAKES ADVANTAGE OF OTHER PEOPLE TO ACHIEVE HIS OR HER OWN GOALS.

9. THIS PERSON USUALLY MANAGES TO BE IN A CATEGORY BY HIM OR HERSELF.

10. THIS PERSON OFTEN FEELS PUT UPON WHEN ASKED TO TAKE CARE OF HIS OR HER RESPONSIBILITIES TO FAMILY, FRIENDS, OR WORK GROUP.

11. THIS PERSON REGULARLY DISREGARDS RULES OR EXPECTS THEM TO BE CHANGED BECAUSE HE OR SHE IS IN SOME WAY SPECIAL.

12. THIS PERSON BECOMES IRRITATED WHEN OTHER PEOPLE DON'T AUTOMATICALLY DO WHAT HE OR SHE WANTS THEM TO DO, EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE A GOOD REASON FOR NOT COMPLYING.

13. THIS PERSON REVIEWS SPORTS, ART, AND LITERATURE BY TELLING YOU WHAT HE OR SHE WOULD HAVE DONE INSTEAD.

14. THIS PERSON THINKS MOST CRITICISMS OF HIM OR HER ARE MOTIVATED BY JEALOUSY.

15. THIS PERSON REGARDS ANYTHING SHORT OF WORSHIP TO BE REJECTION.

16. THIS PERSON SUFFERS FROM A CONGENITAL INABILITY TO RECOGNIZE HIS OR HER OWN MISTAKES. ON THE RARE OCCASIONS THAT THIS PERSON DOES RECOGNIZE A MISTAKE, EVEN THE SLIGHTEST ERROR CAN PRECIPITATE A MAJOR DEPRESSION.

17. THIS PERSON OFTEN EXPLAINS WHY PEOPLE WHO ARE BETTER KNOWN THAN HE OR SHE IS NOT REALLY ALL THAT GREAT.

18. THIS PERSON OFTEN COMPLAINS OF BEING MISTREATED OR MISUNDERSTOOD.

19. PEOPLE EITHER LOVE OR HATE THIS PERSON.

20. DESPITE THIS PERSON'S OVERLY HIGH OPINION OF HIM OR HERSELF, HE OR SHE IS REALLY QUITE INTELLIGENT AND TALENTED.

Scoring: Five or more true answers qualifies the person as a Narcissistic Emotional Vampire, though not necessarily for a diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality. If the person scores higher than ten, and is not a member of the royal family, be careful that you aren't mistaken for one of the servants.

By ALBERT J. BERNSTEIN, Ph.D.

Not all politicians are creeps

Hear what Michigan Congressman Mike Rogers has to say about Obamacare:

Will Obama Sign our Sovereignty Away in Copenhagen?

Chances are you probably haven't heard all that much about the upcoming meeting in Copenhagen where President Obama will, no doubt, sign a treaty on climate change. Here's what The Future blog has to say about it:

This upcoming December, U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to sign a treaty on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark. The former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says that he has read the treaty and that it explicitly says that a world government is going to be created. Is Barack Obama about to blatantly violate the U.S. Constitution by signing a document that gives up U.S. sovereignty without any debate or input from the people of the United States?

For a long time the global elite have viewed the threat of "global warming" as a way to get all the nations of the world to agree to increased "global governance". This new treaty takes this wacky global environmental agenda to frightening new levels.

On October 14th, Lord Christopher Monckton gave a presentation at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota during which he issued a dire warning regarding this "United Nations Climate Change Treaty". An excerpt of a portion of his remarks as reported by Canada Free Press is posted below. Remember, he is a former member of the Thatcher administration in the U.K. Monckton is absolutely convinced from his reading of this treaty that it says that a world government will be created.....

Make haste to read the rest of the article linked above.

Here is the YouTube video of Lord Monckton's plea to Americans. Please watch it!

Quote for the Spirit of our Times

George Orwell said it:

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”

El Rushbo Profundity of the Day

Rush succinctly summed up the entire global warming scam in just a few sentences yesterday:

"All mammals exhale carbon dioxide, but yet somehow only man's carbon dioxide is destroying the planet; only man, particularly capitalist man. Now, why does the left think this?"

The leftist point of view is that animals are good, man is bad. But not all men are bad. It is those of the Judeao-Christian persuasion/heritage who are particularly bad because we worship the Creator God who wouldn't have made man or beasts which exhaled destructive gases. It is those who know God who are quickly able to see the folly in vacuous whacked out environmental policies which only serve to steal our personal property and distribute it to 3d and 4th world nations.

Which is why the left hates the Judeao-Christian God and seeks to remove Him from all of our institutions:

"The first thing they do in any communist country is wipe God and religion out of everybody's mind. The left, in order to ultimately succeed, has to end our understanding of God's existence and purpose."

Mark Levin Quote of the Day

Today Mark Levin rightly said:

The most extreme person in the Obama administration is ... Obama

Doug Giles: "10 Reasons Why Pastors Avoid the Culture War"

If you love Ann Coulter, you'll love Doug Giles. His most recent column is at Breitbart's Big Hollywood and it's titled, 10 Reasons Why Pastors Avoid the Culture War and it's brilliant. Whether or not you're a church goer, you should be able to see the light when he shines it on the pussilanymous pastors across the fruited plain.

This is really an important piece, especially if you attend a church which shys away from involvement in politics and community affairs.

Here are a few of the money paragraphs:

1. Fear of Man: If you purport to be a man of God then your regard for God and His opinion must trump the trepidation of the creature God created from spit and mud. Come on, man of God, don’t fear the crowd . . . we’re peons with cell phones who’ll shoot Botox into our foreheads. We’re weird and fickle weather vanes of what’s en vogue. You’ve got to lead us. Therefore, move into the Moses mode and command us to be and do what is holy, just and good. The grinning, mild, subtle Oprah approach doesn’t seem to be stemming the current flood of cultural filth.

2. Ignorance: Most people are not bold in areas in which they are ignorant . . . always excepting Janeane Garofalo, of course. I know keeping up with all the pressing political issues is maddening, but that’s life, brother, and if you want to be a voice in society and not just an echo, you have got to be in the know. Staying briefed is par for the course for the hardy world changer.

3. Division: Y’know, I hate the current non-essential divisions in the church as much as the next acerbic Christian columnist. Squabbling over the color of the carpet, who’ll play the organ next Sunday or who is the Beast of Revelation, is stupidity squared. That being said, there’s a time and place for a holy throw-down and an ecclesiastical split from political policies and parties. For a minister to seek unity with secularists when they are trashing and rewriting Scripture with impunity is to side with vice and to allow darkness to succeed.

4. Last Days Madness: Many ministers do not get involved in political issues because they believe that “it simply doesn’t matter” since “the end has come.” These defeatists believe that any change in the jet stream, war, earthquakes, a warming globe, the success of a corrupt politician—or even a new Shakira video—are “proof” that God is getting really, really ticked off and that His only recourse is to have Christ physically return and kick some major butt. Attempting to right culture is, in the defeatists’ eyes, equivalent to polishing brass on a sinking ship; therefore, they are content to simply pass out gospel tracts, tramp from Christian rock concert to Christian rock concert, eat fatty foods and stare at Christian TV.

There are 6 more knock-out points that you need to see in Giles' column. Your pastor needs to see them too. Why not pass this piece along to him and all your Christian friends. I passed this along to one of my favorite pastors, not because he needed it but because he's one of the few pastor's I know that is out there telling it like it is (without getting in any body's face).

Be sure to read the rest of Giles' piece. He's always entertaining and never uninformed, and he has no problem at all getting in any one's face.

By the way, you can hear my favorite pastor, Ron Dart, at Born To Win Radio Archives or you can scroll down on the right hand column of this blog and click on the BTW icon to hear him.

Christians and Christian pastors everywhere need to get with the program and start "standing in the gap" with the courage and effectiveness of those in Big Talk Radio. Right now, Talk Radio is the only entity "standing in the gap" between right and wrong. Deal with it!

Scarily, the Bible warns us that if we can't handle the job he has commissioned us to do, He can and may have to raise up stones to do what He would have us do.

Doug Giles might ask, "do we have the 'stones' to do what God wants us to do?' or is He going to have to resort to plan B?

Barack Obama's Top 10 broken promises.

You have to go outside our borders to get accurate news about our president and his administration in these days of the propaganda press. Obama's top 10 broken promises are found in The Telegraph:

1.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama said he would "not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days". But the "sunlight before signing" promise has already fallen by the wayside with Mr Obama signing three major bills without public scrutiny.

2.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama repeatedly said he would negotiate health care reform in televised sessions broadcast on C-SPAN, the public service network. Instead, he his approach has been no different from his predecessors, holding talks behind closed doors at the White House and Congress.

3.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama solemnly pledged that "no political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years". In practice, Mr Obama has granted several waivers to this rule, allowing lobbyists to serve in the top reaches of his administration.

I won't steal all their thunder, but make it a point to hit the link and see the rest of the list.

"And the winner is...."

Hat tip to the brilliant Michael Ramirez and Investors.com for this.

George Washington Quote of the Day

From the Father of our country:

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

Reagan quote of the Day

The beloved Ronald Reagan so wisely stated:

"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."

I soooooo miss the Great Ronaldus Magnus!

It's even coming to the point that I miss George Bush, with all of his needless govt growth and spending. It's nearing the time that I'm beginning to miss the amoral Bill Clinton, and I fear we are rapidly approaching the point when the worst president of all time, the anti-Semitic Jimmy Carter, will look good in comparison to Barack Hussein Obama (Umm umm umm).

What an unbelievable scenario!

UPDATE: Obama Has the Inside Track on Becoming Worst President Ever

Prager University: The American Trinity

Dennis Prager is a national treasure. His latest 5 minute installment of Prager University features one of his most astute observations about the uniqueness of America. You won't get this information anywhere else as succinctly as Prager presents it.

Most people may not even know what the American Trinity is, but it's what made America great...and unique among nations. Enjoy!



Sadly, it seems that our current president may not even believe in any of the components of this trinity of values which have been our national ballast. The dismissal of these values will be the end of America as we have known it.