The Passing of Robert Schindler

We received the sad news that Bob Schindler, father of
Terri Schiavo, passed away early this morning:

The family of Robert Schindler, Sr. releases the following
statement: Robert S. Schindler, Sr., of Gulfport, Florida,
father of the late Terri Schindler Schiavo, passed away
August 29, 2009 from heart failure at Northside Hospital
n St. Petersburg, Florida.

Robert fought valiantly to save the life of his brain- injured
daughter Terri in the landmark right to life case that
culminated in her imposed death by court-ordered starvation
and thirst on March 31, 2005. After Terri's death, along with
his wife Mary, daughter Suzanne (Schindler) Vitadamo and
son Bobby Schindler, he founded the Terri Schindler Schiavo
Foundation in St. Petersburg dedicated to supporting other
families faced with the same need to fight for the rights of
their disabled or otherwise vulnerable loved ones.

Robert was born in Philadelphia on October 23, 1937 and
was 71 years of age. Proceeded in death by his daughter
Theresa Schindler. He is survived by his wife Mary, daughter
Suzanne Vitadamo (Michael), son Bobby Schindler and
granddaughter Alexandra.

A Mass of Christian burial with visitation preceding will
be scheduled to take place in Philadelphia, PA. Times and
location will be announced at a later date.

Memorials may be made to the
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation,
5562 Central Avenue, Suite 2,
Saint Petersburg, FL 33707,
phone (727) 490-7603

We are quite thankful for the courageous stand Bob Schindler
look against euthanasia on behalf of his daughter and the
disabled. He did not seek the limelight or controversy but
responded by virtue of his love for his daughter an
understanding of truth and justice.

Join me in praying for his family as they grieve the loss of their father.

Government (And Car Dealers) Screw You Again!

This is hilarious

But many of those cashing in on the clunkers program are surprised
when they get to the treasurer's office windows. That's because the
government's rebate of up to $4500 dollars for every clunker is taxable.

"They didn't realize that would be taxable. A lot of people don't
realize that. So they're not happy and kind of surprised when
they find that out," Nelson said. The amusement here is how
most (if not all) states compute sales tax (charged when you
register the vehicle.)

When you buy a new car you pay tax on the difference between the
new car's purchase price and the trade-in you present to the dealer.
This is an intentional distortion in the law that is intended to favor
dealers over private-party used car sales; if you sell your used car
privately the new buyer pays sales tax but you do not get the offset
on the purchase of your replacement vehicle - the only way to get
that is to trade the car.

Dealers use this, of course, in negotiations, effectively pocketing
the sales tax - and why not? It's a real difference to you!

But the "cash for clunkers" is not a trade-in. That's a $4,500 check
from the government, basically.So you get nailed at least once and
possibly twice. Specifically, you pay sales tax on the full vehicle
price (effectively paying sales tax on the $4,500!) and what's
worse those states that tax income (that would be most of them!)
might wind up counting this as income for state income tax
purposes too, effectively taxing you twice.

I should have probably done a Ticker on this originally, but I
(naively) believed that most people understood how the tax system
works when it comes to new and used car transactions.

Apparently, from the referenced news article, this is not the case,
and I bet the car dealers, incredibly ethical people that they are,
were fully informing their suckers, er, clients of this little "feature"
of that government handout too.

PS: I have also received several emails informing me that dealers
had customers so giddy over the "free cash" that they were selling
cars at full sticker price besides - effectively, in many cases,
turning the entire "cash for clunkers" money into pure dealership
profit and managing to charge you tax (twice) on it as well. Ain't
car dealers grand (several grand out of your pocket, that is!)

Related article:Whoops!
Cash For Clunkers Payments Are Taxable!
http://tinyurl.com/lb94eg

The Power of Suggestion

http://www.wimp.com/invisibleline/

Rothschild and Obama...Texe Marrs Shocker

Dear Friends,

I wanted to write and tell you about Texe Marrs' and Power of
Prophecy's astonishing new video, Rothschild's Choice: Barack
Obama and the Hidden Cartel Behind the Plot to Murder
America as well as tell you about our radio program and this
month's feature article that we now have online on our homepage,
http://www.texemarrs.com/.

Rothschild's Choice documents the astonishing rise of a young
Communist adept named Barack Obama who won Rothschild's
favor and was rewarded for his slavish devotion to the sinister
elite Agenda. Discover the horrible truth and dangerous
predicament now brutally confronting us. We are all in dire
jeopardy.

Texe Marrs' radio program this week is really exciting. The
title is Stalin's Ghost —I s Barack Obama the Reincarnation
of the Soviet Communist Dictator? Tune in and hear Texe as
he exposes the parallels of Stalin and Lenin to Rothschild's
Zionist frontman Barack Obama. The resemblance is
frightening!

Was Barack Obama America's choice? Did he win based on
merit? Or was he chosen long long before most Americans
had ever heard of Barack Obama? Is Obama the first
jewish President?

The answers to these questions, and more can be discovered
in this month's feature article, Rothschild's Choice.

All God's Best,

http://www.texemarrs.com/

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

"Eight years ago next month, Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists in two
fuel-laden jetliners crashed into and collapsed the twin towers
of the World Trade Center in New York City. Another jet wit
a full fuel load tore into the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth
crashed in a field in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, believed
to have been brought down by brave passengers who refused
to let terrorist bastards hit another Washington target.

Nearly 3,000 men, women and children died. Many were
incinerated and vaporized in the infernos. And the U.S. DOJ
now is actively considering prosecuting CIA employees and
those with whom the CIA contracted -- for scaring terrorist
suspects.

God forbid that those charged with bringing the 9/11 terrorists
and those involved in other terrorist acts -- to justice and/or
with eliciting information about future terrorist plans might
have used necessarily nasty tactics to do so. Attorney General
Eric Holder, who would rather prosecute those defending
America than, say, New Black Panther Party members
intimidating voters with clubs in Philadelphia, vows that no
information will be made public that would compromise the
work of the CIA.

There, don't you feel better? Never mind the chilling effect
of prosecuting those who did the job they were charged to do.
Perhaps the Obama administration would like to take terrorist
suspects to Starbucks for, what the heck, a nice Caffe Misto.

God help these fools. God help the U.S.A."
--Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Thank You Mr. President

This about says it all.
Simple, isn’t it?

Seen near Durham, NC, on US Hwy 15-501

at Lamm’s Grove intersection.

Micah 5:4~He shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord.

Christ's reign in his Church is that of a shepherd-king. He has supremacy, but it is the superiority of a wise and tender shepherd over his needy and loving flock; he commands and receives obedience, but it is the willing obedience of the well-cared-for sheep, rendered joyfully to their beloved Shepherd, whose voice they know so well. He rules by the force of love and the energy of goodness.

His reign is practical in its character. It is said, He shall stand and feed. The great Head of the Church is actively engaged in providing for his people. He does not sit down upon the throne in empty state, or hold a sceptre without wielding it in government. No, he stands and feeds. The expression feed, in the original, is like an analogous one in the Greek, which means to shepherdize, to do everything expected of a shepherd: to guide, to watch, to preserve, to restore, to tend, as well as to feed.

His reign is continual in its duration. It is said, He shall stand and feed; not He shall feed now and then, and leave his position; not, He shall one day grant a revival, and then next day leave his Church to barrenness. His eyes never slumber, and his hands never rest; his heart never ceases to beat with love, and his shoulders are never weary of carrying his people's burdens.

His reign is effectually powerful in its action; He shall feed in the strength of Jehovah. Wherever Christ is, there is God; and whatever Christ does is the act of the Most High. Oh! it is a joyful truth to consider that he who stands to-day representing the interests of his people is very God of very God, to whom every knee shall bow. Happy are we who belong to such a shepherd, whose humanity communes with us, and whose divinity protects us. Let us worship and bow down before him as the people of his pasture.

Obama's Money Pile Has Not Helped The Economy

"[W]ith respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for
that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that
neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly
contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age..."
--Thomas Jefferson


"Meanwhile, in Brazil, India, China, Japan and much of Continental
Europe the recession has ended. In the second quarter this year,
both the French and German economies grew by 0.3 percent, while
the U.S. economy shrank by 1 percent. How can that be? Unlike
America, France and Germany had no government stimulus worth
speaking of, the Germans declining to go the Obama route on the
quaint grounds that they couldn't afford it. And yet their
recession has gone away. Of the world's biggest economies, only
the U.S., Britain and Italy are still contracting. All three are
big stimulators, though Gordon Brown and Silvio Berlusconi can't
compete with Obama's $800 billion porkapalooza.

The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect
than anybody on the planet. Actually, when I say 'to less effect,
that's not strictly true: Due to Obama, one of the least
indebted developed nations is now one of the most indebted
and getting ever more so. We've become the third most deb
-ridden country, after Japan and Italy. According to last
month's IMF report, general government debt as a percentage
of GDP will rise from 63 percent in 2007 to 88.8 percent this
ear and to 99.8 percent of GDP next year.

Of course, the president retains his formidable political skills,
artfully distracting attention from his stimulus debacle with
his health care debacle. But there are diminishing returns to
his serial thousand-page, trillion-dollar boondoggles.

They may be too long for your representatives to bother reading
before passing into law, but, whatever the intricacies of
Section 417(a) xii on page 938, people are beginning to spot
what all this stuff has in common: He's spending your future.
And by 'future' I don't mean 2070, 2060, 2040, but the day
after tomorrow."
--columnist Mark Steyn

Advice From Maxine

I was in the pub yesterday when
I suddenly realized I desperately needed to fart.

The music was really, really loud,
so I timed my farts with the beat.

After a couple of songs,
I started to feel better.

I finished my pint and noticed
that everybody was staring at me.

Then I suddenly remembered that
I was listening to my iPod.

Jeremiah 51:51~Strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord's house.

In this account the faces of the Lord's people were covered with shame, for it was a terrible thing that men should intrude into the Holy Place reserved for the priests alone. Everywhere about us we see like cause for sorrow. How many ungodly men are now educating with the view of entering into the ministry! What a crying sin is that solemn lie by which our whole population is nominally comprehended in a National Church! How fearful it is that ordinances should be pressed upon the unconverted, and that among the more enlightened churches of our land there should be such laxity of discipline. If the thousands who will read this portion shall all take this matter before the Lord Jesus this day, he will interfere and avert the evil which else will come upon his Church. To adulterate the Church is to pollute a well, to pour water upon fire, to sow a fertile field with stones. May we all have grace to maintain in our own proper way the purity of the Church, as being an assembly of believers, and not a nation, an unsaved community of unconverted men.

Our zeal must, however, begin at home. Let us examine ourselves as to our right to eat at the Lord's table. Let us see to it that we have on our wedding garment, lest we ourselves be intruders in the Lord's sanctuaries. Many are called, but few are chosen; the way is narrow, and the gate is strait. O for grace to come to Jesus aright, with the faith of God's elect. He who smote Uzzah for touching the ark is very jealous of his two ordinances; as a true believer I may approach them freely, as an alien I must not touch them lest I die. Heart searching is the duty of all who are baptized or come to the Lord's table. Search me, O God, and know my way, try me and know my heart.

Alaskan Fisherman talks about Sarah Palin

By Dewie Whetsell
As posted in comments on Greta’s article referencing the MOVEON
ad about Sarah Palin

The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing
town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood
national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking
point: Neither side of the Palin controversy gets it…It’s not
about persona, style, rhetoric, it’s about doing things. Even
Palin supporters never mention the things that I’m about to
mention here.

1- Democrats forget when Palin was the Darling of the Democrats,
because as soon as Palin took the Governor’s office away from a
fellow Republican and tough SOB, Frank Murkowski, she tore into
the Republican’s “Corrupt Bastards Club” (CBC) and sent them
packing. Many of them are now residing in State housing and
wearing orange jump suits. The Democrats reacted by skipping
around the yard, throwing confetti and singing “la la la la”
(well, you know how they are). Name another governor in this
country that has ever done anything similar. But while you’re
thinking, I’ll continue.

2- Now with the CBC gone, there were fewer Alaskan politicians
to protect the huge, giant oil companies here. So, she constructed
and enacted a new system of splitting the oil profits called “ACES”.
Exxon (the biggest corporation in the world) protested and Sarah
old them “don’t let the door hit you in the stern on your way out.”
They stayed, and Alaska residents went from being merely wealthy
to being filthy rich. Of course the other huge international oil
companies meekly fell in line. Again, give me the name of any
other governor in the country that has done anything similar.

3- The other thing she did when she walked into the governor’s
office is she got the list of State requests for federal funding
for projects, known as “pork”. She went through the list, took
85% of them and placed them in the “when-hell-freezes-over”
stack. She let locals know that if we need something built,
we’ll pay for it ourselves. Maybe she figured she could use the
money she got from selling the previous governor’s jet because
it was extravagant. Maybe she could use the money she saved by
dismissing the governor’s cook, remarking that she could cook
for her own family, giving back the State vehicle issued to
her, maintaining that she already had a car, and dismissing
her State provided security force. I’m still waiting to hear
the names of those other governors.

4- Now, even with her much-ridiculed “gosh and golly” mannerism,
she also managed to put together a totally new approach to getting
a natural gas pipeline built which will be the biggest private
construction project in the history of North America. No one else
could do it although they tried. If that doesn’t impress you, then
you’re trying too hard to be unimpressed while watching her do
things like this while baking up a batch of brownies with her othe
hand.

5- For 30 years, Exxon held a lease to do exploratory drilling at
a place called Point Thompson. They made excuses the entire time
why they couldn’t start drilling. In truth they were holding it
like an investment. No governor for 30 years could make them get
started. This summer, she told them she was revoking their lease
and kicking them out. They protested and threatened court action.
She shrugged and reminded them that she knew the way to the
court house. Alaska won again.

6- President Obama wants the nation to be on 25% renewable
resources for electricity by 2025. Sarah went to the legislature
and submitted her plan for Alaska to be at 50% renewables by
2025. We are already at 25%. I can give you more specifics
about things done, as opposed to style and persona. Everybody
wants to be cool, sound cool, look cool. But that’s just a
cover up. I’m still waiting to hear from liberals the names
of other governor who can match what mine has done in two and
a half years. I won’t be holding my breath.

By the way, she was content to to return to AK after the national
election and go to work, but the haters wouldn’t let her. Now
these adolescent screechers are obviously not scuba divers. And
no one ever told them what happens when you continually jab
and pester a barracuda. Without warning, it will spin around and
tear your face off. Shoulda known better.

Women's Revenge

WOMAN'S PERFECT BREAKFAST
She's sitting at the table with her gourmet coffee.
Her son is on the cover of Newsweek.
Her daughter is on the cover of Business Week.
Her boyfriend is on the cover of Playgirl.
And her husband is on the back of the milk carton.

WOMEN'S REVENGE
'Cash, check or charge?'
I asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase.
As she fumbled for her wallet. I noticed a remote control
for a television set in her purse. 'So, do you always carry
your TV remote?' I asked. No,' she replied, 'but my husband
refused to come shopping with me, and I figured this was
the most evil thing I could do to him legally.'

UNDERSTANDING WOMEN
(A MAN'S PERSPECTIVE)
I know I'm not going to understand women.
I'll never understand how you can take boiling hot wax,
pour it onto your upper thigh, rip the hair out by the
root, and still be afraid of a spider.

CIGARETTES AND TAMPONS
A man walks into a pharmacy and wanders up and down
the aisles. The sales girl notices him and asks him
if she can help him. He answers that he is looking
or a box of tampons for his wife.. She directs him
down the correct aisle. A few minutes later, he
deposits a huge bag of cotton balls and a ball of
string on the counter. She says, confused, 'Sir,
I thought you were looking for some tampons for your
wife? He answers, 'You see, it's like this, yesterday,
I sent my wife to the store, To get me a carton of
cigarettes, and she came back with a tin of tobacco
And some rolling papersclaiming it's Sooo much cheaper.
So, I figure if I have to Roll my own So does she.
(I figure this guy is the one on the milk carton!)

Psalm 92:4~Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work.

Do you believe that your sins are forgiven, and that Christ has made a full atonement for them? Then what a joyful Christian you ought to be! How you should live above the common trials and troubles of the world! Since sin is forgiven, can it matter what happens to you now? Luther said, Smite, Lord, smite, for my sin is forgiven; if thou hast but forgiven me, smite as hard as thou wilt; and in a similar spirit you may say, Send sickness, poverty, losses, crosses, persecution, what thou wilt, thou hast forgiven me, and my soul is glad. Christian, if thou art thus saved, whilst thou art glad, be grateful and loving. Cling to that cross which took thy sin away; serve thou him who served thee. I beseech you therefore, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Let not your zeal evaporate in some little ebullition of song. Show your love in expressive tokens. Love the brethren of him who loved you. If there be a Mephibosheth anywhere who is lame or halt, help him for Jonathan's sake. If there be a poor tried believer, weep with him, and bear his cross for the sake of him who wept for thee and carried thy sins. Since thou art thus forgiven freely for Christ's sake, go and tell to others the joyful news of pardoning mercy. Be not contented with this unspeakable blessing for thyself alone, but publish abroad the story of the cross. Holy gladness and holy boldness will make you a good preacher, and all the world will be a pulpit for you to preach in. Cheerful holiness is the most forcible of sermons, but the Lord must give it you. Seek it this morning before you go into the world. When it is the Lord's work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

UFO NEWS LINKS

Three Reports Of Multiple UFOs In The Skies Over Ohio August 15Examiner.com
http://tinyurl.com/qr76je

Britain Publishes UFO Files, Few Answers13abc.com
http://tinyurl.com/mtaoht

Britain's National Archives To Release File On 1980 UFO Sighting
Fort Worth Star Telegram
http://www.star-telegram.com/279/story/1540856.html

UFO Sightings Increase After Television Shows About Aliens Times
http://tinyurl.com/ovsfcl

UFO Sightings Up Five-Fold. A Mulder And Scully Mystery Daily Mail
http://tinyurl.com/qz39te

Wales News Return To Space Mountain Wales Online
http://tinyurl.com/lu2tyg

UFO And Paranormal Movies You Might Want To See Examiner.com
http://tinyurl.com/no27nk

From 'The Norm':Yukon UFO 1996 (Video)
http://tinyurl.com/qsl57c

Quote From Website "A great concise video detailing the events
of December 11th 1996 in the Yukon territory in which 31+
witnesses saw a giant UFO. This video from a Canadian program
called NEDAA was made by and for the Native American
population of the area. It discusses the incident in great detail
as well as suggesting how the spoken history of creation told
in the local tribes can be viewed from the UFO/Visitor perspective."

Can You Tell Which Is The Front Side Of A Tree?

YOU DON'T NEED A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA TO TELL THE FRONT OF
A TREE THE FRONT OF A TREE DO YOU KNOW THE FRONT FROM THE
BACK OF A TREE??

REDNECK FROM GEORGIA DECIDES TO TRAVEL ACROSS THE SOUTH
TO VIRGINIA TO SEE THE COUNTRY. WHEN HE GETS TO FRANKLIN,
HE LIKES THE PLACE SO MUCH THAT HE DECIDES TO STAY. BUT
FIRST HE MUST FIND A JOB!!!!

HE WALKS INTO THE INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY OFFICE AND
FILLS OUT AN APPLICATION AS AN EXPERIENCED LOG INSPECTOR.
IT'S HIS LUCKY DAY!

THEY JUST HAPPEN TO BE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE, BUT FIRST,
THE LOG FOREMAN TAKES HIM FOR A RIDE INTO THE FOREST IN
THE COMPANY PICKUP TRUCK TO SEE HOW MUCH HE KNOWS.

THE FOREMAN STOPS THE TRUCK ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND
POINTS AT A TREE. "SEE THAT TREE OVER THERE? I WANT YOU
TO TELL ME WHAT SPECIES IT IS AND HOW MANY BOARD FEET
OF LUMBER IT CONTAINS."

THE REDNECK PROMPTLY ANSWERS,"THAT THAR'S A WHITE PINE,
383 BOARD FEET OF LUMBER IN 'ER."

THE FOREMAN IS IMPRESSED! HE PUTS THE TRUCK IN MOTION AND
STOPS ABOUT A MILE DOWN THE ROAD. HE POINTS AT ANOTHER
TREE THROUGH THE PASSENGER WINDOW AND ASKS THE SAME
QUESTION. THIS TIME, IT'S A BIGGER TREE OF A DIFFERENT
CLASS.

"THAT THERE BE LOBLOLLY PINE AND SHE'S GOT ABOUT 456 CLEAR
BOARD FEET."

THE FOREMAN IS REALLY IMPRESSED WITH THE GOOD OL' BOY, HE
HAS BEEN QUICK AND GOT THE ANSWERS RIGHT WITHOUT USING A
CALCULATOR!

ONE MORE TEST. THEY DRIVE A LITTLE FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD
AND THE FOREMAN STOPS AGAIN. THIS TIME, HE POINTS ACROSS
THE ROAD THROUGH HIS DRIVER SIDE WINDOW AND SAYS, "AND
WHAT ABOUT THAT ONE?"

BEFORE THE FOREMAN FINISHES POINTING, THE REDNECK SAYS IT'S
"WHITE OAK, 242 BOARD FEET AT BEST." THE FOREMAN SPINS THE
TRUCK AROUND AND HEADS BACK TO THE OFFICE A LITTLE TICKED
OFF BECAUSE HE THINKS THE RED NECK IS SMARTER THAN HE IS.

AS THEY NEAR THE OFFICE, THE FOREMAN STOPS THE TRUCK AND
ASKS BUBBA TO STEP OUTSIDE. HE HANDS HIM A PIECE OF CHALK
AND TELLS HIM, "SEE THAT TREE OVER THERE?" "I WANT YOU TO
MARK AN X ON THE FRONT OF THAT TREE!"

THE FOREMAN THINKS TO HIMSELF, "IDIOT, HOW WOULD HE KNOW
WHICH IS THE FRONT OF THE TREE?"

WHEN BUBBA REACHES THE TREE, HE GOES AROUND IT IN A CIRCLE
WHILE LOOKING AT THE GROUND. HE THEN REACHES UP AND
PLACES A WHITE X ON THE TRUNK. HE WALKS BACK TO THE
FOREMAN AND HANDS HIM THE CHALK. "THAT THAR'S THE FRONT,"
THE REDNECK SAYS.

THE FOREMAN LAUGHS TO HIMSELF AND ASKS SARCASTICALLY,
"HOW IN THE HELL DO YOU KNOW THAT'S THE FRONT OF THE TREE?

THE GOOD OL' BOY LOOKS DOWN AT HIS FEET, WHILE RUBBING THE
TOE OF HIS LEFT BOOT CLEANING IT IN THE GRAVEL AND REPLIES,
"CUZ SOMEBODY TOOK A CRAP BEHIND IT.

HE GOT THE JOB AND IS NOW THE FOREMAN.

Psalm 104:16 ~ The cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted.

Lebanon's cedars are emblematic of the Christian, in that they owe their planting entirely to the Lord. This is quite true of every child of God. He is not man-planted, nor self-planted, but God-planted. The mysterious hand of the divine Spirit dropped the living seed into a heart which he had himself prepared for its reception. Every true heir of heaven owns the great Husbandman as his planter. Moreove r, the cedars of Lebanon are not dependent upon man for their watering; they stand on the lofty rock, unmoistened by human irrigation; and yet our heavenly Father supplieth them. Thus it is with the Christian who has learned to live by faith. He is independent of man, even in temporal things; for his continued maintenance he looks to the Lord his God, and to him alone. The dew of heaven is his portion, and the God of heaven is his fountain. Again, the cedars of Lebanon are not protected by any mortal power. They owe nothing to man for their preservation from stormy wind and tempest.

They are God's trees, kept and preserved by him, and by him alone. It is precisely the same with the Christian. He is not a hot-house plant, sheltered from temptation; he stands in the most exposed position; he has no shelter, no protection, except this, that the broad wings of the eternal God always cover the cedars which he himself has planted. Like cedars, believers are full of sap, having vitality en ough to be ever green, even amid winter's snows. Lastly, the flourishing and majestic condition of the cedar is to the praise of God only. The Lord, even the Lord alone hath been everything unto the cedars, and, therefore David very sweetly puts it in one of the psalms, Praise ye the Lord, fruitful trees and all cedars. In the believer there is nothing that can magnify man; he is planted, nourished, and protected by the Lord's own hand, and to him let all the glory be ascribed.

7 Don'ts After A Meal

* Don't smoke experiments from experts proves that smoking
a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes.
(chances of cancer is higher.)

* Don't eat fruits immediately. Immediately eating fruits after
meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore
take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1 hr before meal.

* Don't drink tea - Because tea leaves contain a high content
of acid. This substance will cause the Protein content in the
food we consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest.

* Don't loosen your belt. Loosening the belt after a meal will
easily cause the intestine to be twisted &blocked.

* Don't bathe. Bathing will cause the increase of blood flow
to the hands, legs, and body thus the amount of blood being
sent around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will
weaken the digestive system in our stomach.

* Don't take a walk. Many people believe that a walk after
eating helps the digestive system. But in truth, walking will
cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition
from the food we intake.

* Don't sleep immediately. The food we intake will not be
able to digestproperly. Thus will lead to gastric & in fection
in our intestine.

Obamacare Top 10 Signs your company has switched health plans

10. Employees given do-it-yourself heart bypass kits.

9. Must now schedule doctor appointments through the DMV.

8. As you're wheeled in for surgery you’re greeted by Dr. Phil.

7. You're given end-of-life counseling, but you've only got a hangnail.

6. Creepy guy in the mailroom now in charge of gynecological exams.

5. Baby delivery only done in drive-through line.

4. When you ask for a raise, boss gives you Viagra.

3. Employee of the month program changed to amputee of the month.

2. When you call to make a doctor appointment, person answering
phone laughs uncontrollably.

And the number one sign your company health plan has
switched to Obamacare.

1. Regardless of what's wrong with you, you're told to take
two aspirin and call back in the morning.

"The bow shall be seen in the cloud." Genesis 9:14

The rainbow, the symbol of the covenant with Noah, is typical of our Lord Jesus, who is the Lord's witness to the people. When may we expect to see the token of the covenant? The rainbow is only to be seen painted upon a cloud. When the sinner's conscience is dark with clouds, when he remembers his past sin, and mourneth and lamenteth before God, Jesus Christ is revealed to him as the covenant Rainbow, displaying all the glorious hues of the divine character and betokening peace. To the believer, when his trials and temptations surround him, it is sweet to behold the person of our Lord Jesus Christ-to see Him bleeding, living, rising, and pleading for us. God's rainbow is hung over the cloud of our sins, our sorrows, and our woes, to prophesy deliverance. Nor does a cloud alone give a rainbow, there must be the crystal drops to reflect the light of the sun. So, our sorrows must not only threaten, but they must really fall upon us. There had been no Christ for us if the vengeance of God had been merely a threatening cloud: punishment must fall in terrible drops upon the Surety. Until there is a real anguish in the sinner's conscience, there is no Christ for him; until the chastisement which he feels becomes grievous, he cannot see Jesus. But there must also be a sun; for clouds and drops of rain make not rainbows unless the sun shineth. Beloved, our God, who is as the sun to us, always shines, but we do not always see Him-clouds hide His face; but no matter what drops may be falling, or what clouds may be threatening, if He does but shine there will be a rainbow at once. It is said that when we see the rainbow the shower is over. Certain it is, that when Christ comes, our troubles remove; when we behold Jesus, our sins vanish, and our doubts and fears subside. When Jesus walks the waters of the sea, how profound the calm!

Insight

"How did it happen? How did our national government grow
from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master
with virtually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled.

There are occasions when we have elevated men and political
parties to power that promised to restore limited government
and then proceeded, after their election, to expand the
activities of government.

But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are
not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are.

All too often we have put men in office who have suggested
spending a little more on this, a little more on that, who
have proposed a new welfare program, who have thought of
another variety of 'security.'

We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another
day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our
constitutional system."

--U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)

"Oh that I were as in months past." - Job 29:2

Numbers of Christians can view the past with pleasure, but regard the present with dissatisfaction; they look back upon the days which they have passed in communing with the Lord as being the sweetest and the best they have ever known, but as to the present, it is clad in a sable garb of gloom and dreariness. Once they lived near to Jesus, but now they feel that they have wandered from Him, and they say, "O that I were as in months past!" They complain that they have lost their evidences, or that they have not present peace of mind, or that they have no enjoyment in the means of grace, or that conscience is not so tender, or that they have not so much zeal for God's glory. The causes of this mournful state of things are manifold. It may arise through a comparative neglect of prayer, for a neglected closet is the beginning of all spiritual decline. Or it may be the result of idolatry. The heart has been occupied with something else, more than with God; the affections have been set on the things of earth, instead of the things of heaven. A jealous God will not be content with a divided heart; He must be loved first and best. He will withdraw the sunshine of His presence from a cold, wandering heart. Or the cause may be found in self-confidence and self-righteousness. Pride is busy in the heart, and self is exalted instead of lying low at the foot of the cross. Christian, if you are not now as you "were in months past," do not rest satisfied with wishing for a return of former happiness, but go at once to seek your Master, and tell Him your sad state. Ask His grace and strength to help you to walk more closely with Him; humble yourself before Him, and He will lift you up, and give you yet again to enjoy the light of His countenance. Do not sit down to sigh and lament; while the beloved Physician lives there is hope, nay there is a certainty of recovery for the worst cases.

America's Most Over-Rated Tourist Attractions

The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas

We all know the feeling: Bound by a lemming-like sense of
obligation, drag ourselves to an important tourist attraction,
stand in its for a few moments, then (if all goes well) leave
as quickly as possible. Sometimes we’re pleasantly surprised;
we linger and learn something new. But lots of times, we don’t.

Some of the places on my list are well-known tourist traps,
but not all tourist traps are a waste of time, the Empire
State Building Mount Rushmore and are all well worth a
look. Regardless, the following spots have left me either
underwhelmed or exhausted for no good reason. I’m sure you
have a similar list.

Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco
It’s very easy to have an enjoyable, fulfilling stay in
San Francisco without ever touching foot in this awful
place, which has all the appeal of a run donw and yet
somehow very expensive amusement park. If you are forced
to visit, however, I recommend the Musee Mecanique, a
wonderfully eerie collection of vintage penny arcade
games located at Pier 45.

Petrified Forest National Park Holbrook, Ariz.
Petrified Forest National Park is located off of Interstate
40 between Holbrook and Navajo. From the north entrance of
the park off of Interstate 40, a roughly 25-mile driving
route meanders south among a spare expanse of rocks and
sand, until you find yourself on Highway 180. Then you
drive back up to Interstate 40 and continue on your way,
in hour closer to the grave.

Wall Street New York City
Wall Street could easily be described as a dark, narrow
alley full of traffic pylons, heavily armed police officers,
harried office workers and lots of tourists taking pictures
of a street sign. Federal Hall, where Washington gave his
inaugural address, consists of a mostly empty rotunda with
a few exhibits, and the New York Stock Exchange is strictly
off-limits these days.

Plymouth Rock Plymouth, Mass.
Plymouth Rock sits inside a Greek Temple-like structure
along a pleasant promenade in Plymouth Harbor, Mass.
The rock is gray and worn, and roughly the size of a car
engine, with the year 1620 stamped across its side. It
marks the precise spot where William Bradford and the
Mayflower pilgrims set foot in the New World, except for
the fact that this actually happened in Provincetown.

The Alamo San Antonio, Texas
The Alamo, otherwise known as Mission San Antonio de Valero
sits on roughly four acres in downtown San Antonio, a short
distance from the River Walk. Much of the original structure
is no more, and what remains are a few small stone buildings
and some neatly trimmed lawns. he audio tour concludes in
an exceedingly well-provisioned gift shop.

Hollywood Los Angeles
Enjoy a concert at the Hollywood Bowl, watch the sunset from
the Griffith Observatory, or take a stroll in Canyon Park.
But don’t go looking for “Hollywood,” because you’re liable
to wind up on the Walk of Fame being harassed by a
Charlie Chaplin impersonator.

Bourbon Street New Orleans
Everyone should make an effort to visit New Orleans, and
the romance of the French Quarter is still alive and well
in places such as Jackson Square and Decatur Street.
But for the sake of your dignity, avoid Bourbon Street if
you can. All the charming cast-iron balconies in the world
can’t save this stretch of sadness.

RMS Queen Mary Long Beach, Calif.
What do you get when you cross a Ramada Inn with a rusty
old ship? The RMS Queen Mary, the once-proud jewel of the
Cunard Line, which now lies permanently docked in Long Beach
as a hotel, convention center and floating haunted house
(paranormal tours are available).
They should have given poor old Mary an honorable burial
at sea.

A blond in the Southern Baptist Church

An Alabama preacher said to his congregation, 'Someone in this
Congregation has spread a rumor that I belong to the Ku Klux Klan.
This is a horrible lie and one which a Christian community cannot
tolerate. am embarrassed and do not intend to accept this.
Now, I want the party Who did this to stand and ask forgiveness
from God and this Christian Family.'

No one moved. The preacher continued, Do you have the nerve
to face me And admit this is a falsehood? Remember, you will
be forgiven and in your heart. You will feel glory.

"Now stand and confess your transgression!"

Again all was quiet.

Then slowly, a drop-dead gorgeous blonde with a body that
would Stop traffic rose from the third pew. Her head was
bowed and her voice quivered as she spoke, 'Reverend there
has been a terrible misunderstanding. I never said you were
a member of the Ku klux Klan. I simply told a couple of my
friends that you were a wizard under the sheets."

The preacher fell to his knees, his wife fainted, and the
congregation roared.

"Christ, who is our life." - Colossians 3:4

Paul's marvellously rich expression indicates, that Christ is the source of our life. "You hath He quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins." That same voice which brought Lazarus out of the tomb raised us to newness of life. He is now the substance of our spiritual life. It is by His life that we live; He is in us, the hope of glory, the spring of our actions, the central thought which moves every other thought. Christ is the sustenance of our life. What can the Christian feed upon but Jesus' flesh and blood? "This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die."

O wayworn pilgrims in this wilderness of sin, you never get a morsel to satisfy the hunger of your spirits, except ye find it in Him! Christ is the solace of our life. All our true joys come from Him; and in times of trouble, His presence is our consolation. There is nothing worth living for but Him; and His lovingkindness is better than life! Christ is the object of our life. As speeds the ship towards the port, so hastes the believer towards the haven of his Saviour's bosom. As flies the arrow to its goal, so flies the Christian towards the perfecting of his fellowship with Christ Jesus.

As the soldier fights for his captain, and is crowned in his captain's victory, so the believer contends for Christ, and gets his triumph out of the triumphs of his Master. "For him to live is Christ." Christ is the exemplar of our life. Where there is the same life within, there will, there must be, to a great extent, the same developments without; and if we live in near fellowship with the Lord Jesus we shall grow like Him. We shall set Him before us as our Divine copy, and we shall seek to tread in His footsteps, until He shall become the crown of our life in glory. Oh! how safe, how honoured, how happy is the Christian, since Christ is our life!

Poll Finds Voters Against Obamacare, as Trust in Democrats Drops

August 14, 2009 03:59 PM ET
By Peter Roff, Thomas Jefferson Street blog

The summer congressional recess brings with it a bit of good news for the GOP. Pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that, "for the first time in over two years of polling, voters trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats on the handling of the issue of healthcare," 44 percent to 41 percent.

For a party that was considered in many quarters to be irrelevant after the November 2008 election, and given the full court press in which the White House and its allies are currently engaged, the shift is nothing less than amazing.

According to Rasmussen, "Democrats held a four-point lead on the issue last month and a 10-point lead in June. For most of the past two years, more than 50 percent of voters said they trusted Democrats on healthcare. The latest results mark the lowest level of support measured for the party on the now-contentious issue.

"Voters also don't like the specifics of the healthcare reform plan Congress is currently working on, also with the backing of the White House. Support for it has fallen "to a new low," with just 42 percent of U.S. voters now in favor of it. That represents a five-point decline in support just in the two weeks since the recess began.

Consider it not just a victory for the folks raising a ruckus at congressional town hall meetings but proof that the complaints being heard do not merely represent "astroturf lobbying" directed by conservative groups from Washington. If it were, it is reasonable to assume the numbers would not have dropped so far, so fast because all the sound and fury being expressed by constituents at their members of Congress would not be reflective of the national mood.

The shift in the numbers Rasmussen documents indicates quite clearly that the more the voters learn about Obamacare, the less they like it.

Obama's Senior Moment

Why the elderly are right to worry when the government rations medical care.

Elderly Americans are turning out in droves to fight ObamaCare,
and President Obama is arguing back that they have nothing
to worry about.

Allow us to referee. While claims about euthanasia and
"death panels" are over the top, senior fears have exposed a
fundamental truth about what Mr. Obama is proposing: Namely,
once health care is nationalized, or mostly nationalized,
rationing care is inevitable, and those who have lived the
longest will find their care the most restricted.

***Far from being a scare tactic, this is a logical conclusion
based on experience and common-sense. Once health care is a
"free good" that government pays for, demand will soar and
government costs will soar too. When the public finally reaches
its taxing limit, something will have to give on the care and
spending side. In a word, care will be rationed by politics.

Mr. Obama's reply is that private insurance companies already
ration, by deciding which treatments are covered and which
aren't. However, there's an ocean of difference between coverage
decisions made under millions of voluntary private contracts and
rationing via government. An Atlantic Ocean, in fact. Virtually
every European government with "universal" health care restricts
access in one way or another to control costs, and it isn't pretty.

The British system is most restrictive, using a black-box actuarial
formula known as "quality-adjusted life years," or QALYs, that
determines who can receive what care. If a treatment isn't deemed
to be cost-effective for specific populations, particularly the
elderly, the National Health Service simply doesn't pay for it.

Even France—which has a mix of public and private medicine—has
fixed reimbursement rates since the 1970s and strictly controls the
use of specialists and the introduction of new medical technologies
such as CT scans and MRIs.

Yes, the U.S. "rations" by ability to pay
(though in the end no one is denied actual care).
This is true of every good or service in a free economy and
a world of finite resources but infinite wants.

Yet no one would say we "ration" houses or gasoline because
those goods are allocated by prices. The problem is that
governments ration through brute force—either explicitly
restricting the use of medicine or owering payments below
market rates. Both methods lead to waiting lines,
lower quality, or less innovation—and usually all three.

A lot of talk has centered on what Sarah Palin inelegantly
called "death panels." Of course rationing to save the federal
fisc will be subtler than a bureaucratic decision to
"pull the plug on grandma," as Mr. Obama put it.

But Mrs. Palin has also exposed a basic truth.
A substantial portion of Medicare spending is incurred
in the last six months of life.

From the point of view of politicians with a limited budget,
is it worth spending a lot on, say, a patient with late-stage
cancer where the odds of remission are long? Or should they
spend to improve quality, not length, of life? Or pay for a
hip or knee replacement for seniors, when palliative care
might cost less? And who decides?

In Britain, the NHS decides, and under its QALYs metric it
generally won't pay more than $22,000 for treatments to
extend a life six months. "Money for the NHS isn't limitless,"
as one NHS official recently put it in response to American
criticism, "so we need to make sure the money we have goes on
things which offer more than the care we'll have to forgo to
pay for them."

Before he got defensive, Mr. Obama was open about this political
calculation. He often invokes the experience of his own
grandmother, musing whether it was wise for her to receive a
hip replacement after a terminal cancer diagnosis. In an April
interview with the New York Times, he wondered whether this
represented a "sustainable model" for society. He seems to
believe these medical issues are all justifiably political
questions that government or some panel of philosopher kings
can and should decide. No wonder so many seniors rebel at such
judgments that they know they could do little to influence,
much less change.

Mr. Obama has also said many times that the growth of Medicare
spending must be restrained, and his budget director Peter Orszag
has made it nearly his life's cause. We agree, but then why does
Mr. Obama want to add to our fiscal burdens a new Medicare-
like program for everyone under 65 too? Medicare already rations
care, refusing, for example, to pay for virtual colonoscopies and
has payment policies or directives to curtail the use of certain
cancer drugs, diagnostic tools, asthma medications and many
others. Seniors routinely buy supplemental insurance (Medigap)
to patch Medicare's holes—and Medicare is still growing by 11%
this year.

The political and fiscal pressure to further ration Medicare would
increase exponentially if government is paying for most everyone's
care. The better way to slow the growth of Medicare is to give
seniors more control over their own health care and the incentives
to spend wisely, by offering competitive insurance plans.
But this would mean less control for government, not more.***

It's striking that even the AARP—which is run by liberals who
favor national health care—has been backing away from support
for Mr. Obama's version. The AARP leadership's Democratic
sympathies will probably prevail in the end, perhaps after
some price-control sweeteners are added for prescription drugs.
But AARP is out of touch with its own members, who have figured
out that their own health and lives are at stake in this debate
over ObamaCare. They know that when medical discretion clashes
with limited government budgets, medicine loses.

"Everlasting consolation." - 2 Thessalonians 2:16

"Consolation." There is music in the word: like David's harp, it charms away the evil spirit of melancholy. It was a distinguished I honour to Barnabas to be called "the son of consolation"; nay, it is one of the illustrious names of a greater than Barnabas, for the Lord Jesus is "the consolation of Israel." "Everlasting consolation" - here is the cream of all, for the eternity of comfort is the crown and glory of it. What is this "everlasting consolation"? It includes a sense of pardoned sin. A Christian man has received in his heart the witness of the Spirit that his iniquities are put away like a cloud, and his transgressions like a thick cloud. If sin be pardoned, is not that an everlasting consolation? Next, the Lord gives His people an abiding sense of acceptance in Christ. The Christian knows that God looks upon him as standing in union with Jesus. Union to the risen Lord is a consolation of the most abiding order; it is, in fact, everlasting. Let sickness prostrate us, have we not seen hundreds of believers as happy in the weakness of disease as they would have been in the strength of hale and blooming health? Let death's arrows pierce us to the heart, our comfort dies not, for have not our ears full often heard the songs of saints as they have rejoiced because the living love of God was shed abroad in their hearts in dying moments? Yes, a sense of acceptance in the Beloved is an everlasting consolation. Moreover, the Christian has a conviction of his security. God has promised to save those who trust in Christ: the Christian does trust in Christ, and he believes that God will be as good as His word, and will save him. He feels that he is safe by virtue of his being bound up with the person and work of Jesus.

Dancing In Antwerp

This video was made in the Antwerp, Belgium Central (Train)
Station on the 23rd of March 2009.. . . with no warning to
the passengers passing through the station, at 08:00 am a
recording of Julie Andrews singing 'Do, Re, Mi' begins to
play on the public address system. As the bemused passengers
watch in amazement, some 200 dancers begin to appear from
the crowd and station entrances. They created this amazing
stunt with just two rehearsals! Can you imagine what it
would be like to see this in Grand Central Station?

Quate Of The Day

Judge Judy to prostitute:
'So when did you actually realize you'd been raped?'

Crack Ho':
'When his dam check bounced.

"They weave the spider's web." - Isaiah 59:5

See the spider's web, and behold in it a most suggestive picture of the hypocrite's religion. It is meant to catch his prey: the spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily entrapped by the loud professions of pretenders, and even the more judicious cannot always escape. Philip baptized Simon Magus, whose guileful declaration of faith was so soon exploded by the stern rebuke of Peter. Custom, reputation, praise, advancement, and other flies, are the small game which hypocrites take in their nets.

A spider's web is a marvel of skill: look at it and admire the cunning hunter's wiles. Is not a deceiver's religion equally wonderful? How does he make so barefaced a lie appear to be a truth? How can he make his tinsel answer so well the purpose of gold? A spider's web comes all from the creature's own bowels. The bee gathers her wax from flowers, the spider sucks no flowers, and yet she spins out her material to any length.

Even so hypocrites find their trust and hope within themselves; their anchor was forged on their own anvil, and their cable twisted by their own hands. They lay their own foundation, and hew out the pillars of their own house, disdaining to be debtors to the sovereign grace of God. But a spider's web is very frail. It is curiously wrought, but not enduringly manufactured. It is no match for the servant's broom, or the traveller's staff.

The hypocrite needs no battery of Armstrongs to blow his hope to pieces, a mere puff of wind will do it. Hypocritical cobwebs will soon come down when the besom of destruction begins its purifying work. Which reminds us of one more thought, viz., that such cobwebs are not to be endured in the Lord's house: He will see to it that they and those who spin them shall be destroyed for ever. O my soul, be thou resting on something better than a spider's web. Be the Lord Jesus thine eternal hiding-place.

Cold Enough To Freeze The Balls Off A Brass Monkey

Do you know where that expression originated from?

NO!

OK, class is now in session.

It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the
cannon on old war ships.

But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem.

The best storage method devised was to stack them as a square
based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on
nine, which rested on sixteen.

Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small
area right next to the cannon.

There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer
from sliding/rolling from under the others.

The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called,
for reasons unknown, a Monkey.

But if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly
rust to it.

The solution to the rusting problem was to make them of brass
- hence, Brass Monkeys.

Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much
faster than iron when chilled.

Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass
indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls
would come right off the monkey.

Thus, it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls
off a brass monkey.

What where you thinking?

Bet, you thought that was just a vulgar expression, didn't you?

Class Dismissed

Praying For Leroy

"Anyone with needs to be prayed over, come forward,
to the front at the altar," the Preacher says.

Leroy gets in line, and when it's his turn, the preacher asks:
"Leroy, what do you want me to pray about for you.

"Leroy replies: "Preacher, I need you to pray for my hearing."

The preacher puts one finger in Leroy's ear, and he places the
other hand on top of Leroy's head and prays, and prays, and
prays,he prays a blue streak for Leroy.

After a few minutes, the Preacher removes his hands,
stands back and asks,"Leroy, how is your hearing now?"

Leroy says, "I don't know, Reverend, it ain't til next Wednesday!"

"The upright love Thee" - Song of Solomon 1:4

Believers love Jesus with a deeper affection then they dare to give to any other being. They would sooner lose father and mother then part with Christ. They hold all earthly comforts with a loose hand, but they carry Him fast locked in their bosoms. They voluntarily deny themselves for His sake, but they are not to be driven to deny Him.

It is scant love which the fire of persecution can dry up; the true believer's love is a deeper stream than this. Men have laboured to divide the faithful from their Master, but their attempts have been fruitless in every age. Neither crowns of honour, now frowns of anger, have untied this more than Gordian knot. This is no every-day attachment which the world's power may at length dissolve. Neither man nor devil have found a key which opens this lock.

Never has the craft of Satan been more at fault than when he has exercised it in seeking to rend in sunder this union of two divinely welded hearts. It is written, and nothing can blot out the sentence, "The upright love Thee."

The intensity of the love of the upright, however, is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough. Would that our hearts were capable of holding more, and reaching further. Like Samuel Rutherford, we sigh and cry, "Oh, for as much love as would go round about the earth, and over heaven-yea, the heaven of heavens, and ten thousand worlds-that I might let all out upon fair, fair, only fair Christ."

Alas! our longest reach is but a span of love, and our affection is but as a drop of a bucket compared with His deserts. Measure our love by our intentions, and it is high indeed; 'tis thus, we trust, our Lord doth judge of it. Oh, that we could give all the love in all hearts in one great mass, a gathering together of all loves to Him who is altogether lovely!

Are We In America Or Amerika?

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Public Debate: Democrats, bloodied over their attempt to force health care "reform" on Americans, are looking more unreasonable and hysterical by the day. This isn't healthy for the republic.

Their increasing anxiety and fear of failure are typified in the words of the leader of their party, who wants Republicans to keep their mouths shut while he "fixes" health care.

"I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking," the president said Thursday at a political rally in Virginia. "I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess."

So much for the promises of bipartisan lawmaking. So much for open discussion. So much for understanding who really caused the "mess" in the first place. Like Al Gore claiming the debate about global warming is over, the White House simply wants to shut down dialogue over who
controls more than one-seventh of the economy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has yet to come out in favor of repressing speech. But she's inclined to ignore it. The San Francisco Democrat vowed Thursday in Denver that the swelling public opposition to government-run health care would not persuade party leaders to back down.

"The plan for August is to have a discussion, to listen carefully to what people are saying, what ideas they may have to improve the legislation as it affects them," Pelosi said. In other words, Americans can suggest changes, but the elitists in Washington will not withdraw plans to take over the best health care system in the world.

Earlier in the week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid walked the same line as Pelosi, making it clear that the Democratic leadership had no intention of listening to fed-up voters.

"In spite of the loud, shrill voices trying to interrupt town hall meetings and just throw a monkey wrench into everything," he said, "we're going to continue to be positive and work hard."

By Thursday, Reid was saying that protesters were trying to "sabotage" the democratic process, which apparently in his world is a place where there is no opposition to the Democrats' process of invading every corner of private life.

On the same day, Sen. Blanche Lincoln, Democrat of Arkansas, said she thought the protests against government health care at lawmakers' town hall meetings were "un-American and disrespectful." Hours later, she retracted the statement, probably less concerned about the inaccuracy of her statement than mindful of the fact that she had just insulted a large group of voters who can unseat her.

Truth is, there's nothing more American than revolting against heavy-handed authority, be it a long train of abuses from a king or the lawmaking of elected officials with strong authoritarian urges. This is a nation founded on independence, and there is a large portion of it that wants to retain that priceless heritage.

This seems to confuse some lawmakers. Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., can't understand that what he's watching is a freedom movement. In his eyes, the protesters are Nazis — or almost.

"What we're seeing right now is close to brownshirt tactics," Baird said Wednesday, by way of explaining why he was refusing to face his constituents directly in town hall meetings and would instead hold telephone town halls.

Voters' deep anger is justifiable. They have every right to disrupt and shout down public figures who, as the protesters can be heard chanting, work for them. At dispute is not a mere difference of opinion that can and should be discussed in a civil manner, but a fundamental question of who is in charge of peoples' lives.

We are not advocating violence, though coercive government is at its core violent as the state is
required to resort to force to ensure that its directives aren't violated.

But we do support our fellow citizens' right to express their rage at an injustice, particularly if it makes lawmakers uncomfortable. Shouldn't Americans bristle when their independence is threatened, when a federal official, in this case White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina, says party leaders "will punch back twice as hard" when voters merely show their displeasure?

The freedom the protesters are defending can sometimes be messy and imperfect. A lack of freedom, however, is eternally oppressive. It is an unrelenting prison that poisons the human spirit, even when cloaked in allegedly humane programs such as government-run health care.

Elderly Swing Against Obama Plan

The most ominous signal yet for the Obama health care plan emerged in the poll by Scott Rasmussen released today. While public support for the plan fell to a new low (42% support, 53% oppose -- down five points in two weeks), the elderly emerged as the strongest opposition group. Those over 65 rejected the plan by 39-56 while almost half -- 46% -- said they were "strongly opposed" to it.

The group that supports the plan most strongly is those likely to be least affected, voters under the age of thirty, 67% of whom support the proposals.

The Democratic Senators and Congressmen can well choose to ignore polls. Polls go up. Polls go down. They may figure that the public will have moved on by the time they run for re-election, particularly those Senators who are not up in 2010. With four or six years to go in their terms, they can afford a relaxed view of polling data.

But the Democratic Party as a whole cannot afford to ignore a massive defection in the ranks of the elderly, one of its key building blocks. Ever since the New Deal coalition was cobbled together by FDR, the elderly have been a major component. Worried about Republican designs on their Social Security, they vote overwhelmingly Democratic.

But the Obama proposals, which many see correctly as a major cut in Medicare, might be seminal in driving them en masse away from the Democrats.

The Democratic Party is built on six pillars -- blacks, Latinos, single women, young people, union members, and the elderly. If legislation threatens one of those pillars, it threatens the stability of the entire partisan structure. And Obama's health care reform seems to do just that.

With 40% of the savings in medical spending coming from Medicare, the senior citizens of America are coming to see the Obama proposals as an assault on their health care system. Since their needs are fully met by Medicare, they see no need for monkeying with the system and are highly suspicious of any changes. When they watch as their fellow seniors attend town meetings to protest to their Congressmen about these cuts and are labeled "un-American" for their pains, their alienation from the Democrats just grows.

The fissure Obama is driving between his party and the elderly will not soon heal. When the elderly change their voting habits, they tend to do so for a very, very long time. Even Senators who are up in 2012 or 2014 should worry that their votes for the Obama plan could doom their ability to attract elderly support.

As to the young people who back the plan, once they learn that they will have to pay steep premiums for health care coverage, whether they want to or not, their support is likely to cool. Under the bill, for example, those making $30,000 a year would have to pay up to 7% of their income in health insurance premiums before they could get a government subsidy. A $2,100 bill for such a young person might seem affordable to Obama, but perhaps not to them. Thus, the legislation may well come to be seen as a tax on the young, another of the key constituencies of the Democratic Party.

The cost of Obama's health care changes just keeps growing -- financially and politically.

Let me see if I've got this right.

After being interviewed by the school administration, the prospective teacher said:

'Let me see if I've got this right.

You want me to go into that room with all those kids, correct their disruptive behavior, observe them for signs of abuse, monitor their dress habits, censor their T-shirt messages, and instill in them a love for learning.

'You want me to check their backpacks for weapons, wage war on drugs and sexually transmitted diseases, and raise their sense of self esteem and personal pride.

'You want me to teach them patriotism and good citizenship, sportsmanship and fair play, and how to register to vote, balance a checkbook, and apply for a job.

'You want me to check their heads for lice, recognize signs of antisocial behavior, and make sure that they all pass the final exams.

'You also want me to provide them with an equal education regardless of their handicaps, and communicate regularly with their parents in English, Spanish or any other language, by letter, telephone, newsletter, and report card.

'You want me to do all this with a piece of chalk, a blackboard, a bulletin board, a few books, a big smile, and a starting salary that qualifies me for food stamps.

'You want me to do all this and then you tell me...... I CAN'T PRAY?

Way To Go Marines!

Israeli Psychologist View On Obama

Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism

Israeli Psychologist View On ObamaDr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism
Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was impressed by Sen.Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident - a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never a politician in this land had such quasi "religious" impact on so many people. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, make s this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man.. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects."
Obama's language, posture and demeanor are clear indicators, says VakninBarack Obama is a narcissist

Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist." Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens.

Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their mi nds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late. One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse."

Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin. "Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia , a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a stepfather. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white)grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995".

One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention.

If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. The "present" vote is a safe vote. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him. Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations.

The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father.

Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month.

A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent to power.

A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election is like no other in the history of America. The issues are insignificant compared to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world? I hate to sound alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others...They are simply self serving and selfish.

Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined. This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.

Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have also decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple. The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites.

The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites.

The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I predict th at in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960's.

Obama will set the clock back decades... America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America, and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.

It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House.

America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.

Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? Numbers 32:6

Kindred has its obligations. The Reubenites and Gadites would have been unbrotherly if they had claimed the land which had been conquered, and had left the rest of the people to fight for their portions alone. We have received much by means of the efforts and sufferings of the saints in years gone by, and if we do not make some return to the church of Christ by giving her our best energies, we are unworthy to be enrolled in her ranks. Others are combating the errors of the age manfully, or excavating perishing ones from amid the ruins of the fall, and if we fold our hands in idleness we had need be warned, lest the curse of Meroz fall upon us. The Master of the vineyard saith, Why stand ye here all the day idle? What is the idler's excuse? Personal service of Jesus becomes all the more the duty of all because it is cheerfully and abundantly rendered by some. The toils of devoted missionaries and fervent ministers shame us if we sit still in indolence. Shrinking from trial is the temptation of those who are at ease in Zion: they would fain escape the cross and yet wear the crown; to them the question for this evening's meditation is very applicable. If the most precious are tried in the fire, are we to escape the crucible? If the diamond must be vexed upon the wheel, are we to be made perfect without suffering? Who hath commanded the wind to cease from blowing because our bark is on the deep? Why and wherefore should we be treated better than our Lord? The firstborn felt the rod, and why not the younger brethren? It is a cowardly pride which would choose a downy pillow and a silken couch for a soldier of the cross. Wiser far is he who, being first resigned to the divine will, groweth by the energy of grace to be pleased with it, and so learns to gather lilies at the cross foot, and, like Samson, to find honey in the lion.

A Mothers Love

Normally I don't post a lot of these, but even by my
standards, it was a bit touching. I want all of my
friends to feel what I felt when I read it. Hope it
touches your heart like it did mine.

This is so beautiful.....

A little boy said to his mother,
"Mommy, how come I'm black and you're white?"
His mother replied, "Don't even go there Barack!

From what I can remember about that party,
you're damn lucky you don't bark!"

America's Queen

I was able to check most of this out on Snopes

She did get a 200 seat jet as the small one was
not good enough for her. And she had the gall to
complain about the auto executives using their
own planes to come to a meeting.

The rest of the story is also on Snopes!

Just a little more to make us wonder--What next??

Newt Gingrich, a Republican, served in the House from
Georgia from 1978 and as House Minority Whip in 1989.
He was Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999. During
that time he never made use of military air craft.

Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from California,
current Speaker of the House.

The Pentagon provides the House speaker with an
Air Force plane large enough to accommodate her staff,
family, supporters, and members of the California
delegation when she travels around the country. But,
Pelosi wanted routine access to a larger plane.
It includes 42 business class seats, a fully-enclosed
state room, an entertainment center, a private bed,
state-of-the-art communications system, and a crew of 16.

Pelosi wanted "carte blanche for an aircraft any time,
including weekend trips home to San Francisco.
Pretty nice but very expensive perk! Her Air Force C-32
costs approximately $15,000 an hour or approximately
$300,000 per trip home.


And she has the guts to confront the Big Three CEOs
for flying their corporate jets to Washington!

YOU WOULD THINK SHE, ALONG WITH A HUSBAND WORTH
AN ESTIMATED BILLION DOLLARS, WOULD LEASE OR
BUY AND FLY THEIR OWN PLANE, OR FLY FIRST CLASS
ON COMMERCIAL AIRLINES LIKE OTHER RICH PEOPLE.

NANCY PELOSI FACTS:

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's home district
includes San Francisco. Star-Kist Tuna's
headquarters are in San Francisco, Pelosi's home
district. Star-Kist is owned by Del Monte Foods
and is a major contributor to Pelosi.

Star-Kist is the major employer in American Samoa
employing 75% of the Samoan workforce.

Paul Pelosi, Nancy 's husband, owns $17 million
of Star-Kist stock. In January, 2007 when the
minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25,
Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the
increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the
higher wage. This would make Del Monte products
less expensive than their competition's.

Last week when the huge bailout bill was passed,
Pelosi added an earmark to the final bill adding
$33 million for an 'economic development credit
in American Samoa.'

Pelosi has called the Bush Administration "CORRUPT"!

How do you spell "HYPOCRISY" ?

EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD GET THIS E-MAIL.
IT SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO MAKE ALL OF US ANGRY
NOUGH TO THROW THEM ALL OUT ON THEIR BEHINDS.

"MUST BE A DEMOCRATIC THING I DON'T UNDERSTAND"
BUT DO KNOW IT IS TIME FOR AMERICANS TO TOSS OUT
THE TRASH THAT IS IN DC -
GET RID OF THE JUNK! CLEAN UP WASHINGTON DC.

So she gleaned in the field until even. Ruth 2:17

Let me learn from Ruth, the gleaner. As she went out to gather the ears of corn, so must I go forth into the fields of prayer, meditation, the ordinances, and hearing the word to gather spiritual food. The gleaner gathers her portion ear by ear; her gains are little by little: so must I be content to search for single truths, if there be no greater plenty of them. Every ear helps to make a bundle, and every gospel lesson assists in making us wise unto salvation. The gleaner keeps her eyes open: if she stumbled among the stubble in a dream, she would have no load to carry home rejoicingly at eventide. I must be watchful in religious exercises lest they become unprofitable to me; I fear I have lost much already--O that I may rightly estimate my opportunities, and glean with greater diligence. The gleaner stoops for all she finds, and so must I. High spirits criticize and object, but lowly minds glean and receive benefit. A humble heart is a great help towards profitably hearing the gospel. The engrafted soul-saving word is not received except with meekness. A stiff back makes a bad gleaner; down, master pride, thou art a vile robber, not to be endured for a moment. What the gleaner gathers she holds: if she dropped one ear to find another, the result of her day's work would be but scant; she is as careful to retain as to obtain, and so at last her gains are great. How often do I forget all that I hear; the second truth pushes the first out of my head, and so my reading and hearing end in much ado about nothing! Do I feel duly the importance of storing up the truth? A hungry belly makes the gleaner wise; if there be no corn in her hand, there will be no bread on her table; she labours under the sense of necessity, and hence her tread is nimble and her grasp is firm; I have even a greater necessity, Lord, help me to feel it, that it may urge me onward to glean in fields which yield so plenteous a reward to diligence.

When Presidents Served With Honor

Harry Truman was a different kind of President.

He probably made as many important decisions regarding our
nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents. However,
a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he
left the White House.

The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in,
which was in Independence Missouri . His wife had inherited
the house from her mother and other than their years in the
White House, they lived their entire lives there.When he
retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension
reported to have been $13,507.72 a year.

Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally
licking them, granted him an "allowance" and, later, a retroactive
pension of $25,000 per year.

After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess
drove home to Missouri by themselves. There were no Secret
Service following them.

When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined,
stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President,
and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people
and it's not for sale.

"Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award
him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept
it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should
be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."

As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.

Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in
on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in
Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while
enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale.

Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices
in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a
politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!

I say dig him up and clone him!!

Is This What America Really Wants?

On The Campaign Trail

Then A Change Occured

And Unless We Wake Up........

'Beer Summit' Should Have Been About Freedom

Barack Obama billed his White House beer summit Thursday
to discuss the altercation between the black Harvard professor
and the white policeman as a "teachable moment."

But, unfortunately, I'd doubt that the real lesson to be learned
ever came up over those beers and pretzels.

Can we appreciate that what seems to be an endless
conversation about race in America is really a conversation
about America, period?

I wish I could believe that the conversation in the White House
garden was about the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the Unite States. That they talked about
"self evident" truths and that the role of government, as our
founders laid out so clearly, is to protect individual freedom.

Or that they discussed the struggles we've had because when
America's founders signed those documents containing those
great truths, 20 percent of our population was black slaves.

The civil rights movement was supposed to be about the
proper inclusion, once and for all, of blacks in this great
arrangement. The sad irony was and is that the movement
transformed into a proponent of expanding the very
arbitrary political power that we are supposed to be
protecting ourselves from. And Professor Gates has been
actively involved in this process.

A black law student quoted in a Wall Street Journal story
about the meeting touched the heart of the matter. She
correctly called it a "trivialization," reducing it all to
personal relations rather than being "about abuses of power."

One would be hard pressed to find a black American who
is not concerned, often from personal experience, about
being personally violated as result of arbitrarily exercised
authority and power.

Read the Declaration of Independence. Protecting individual
liberty against such arbitrary power was and is what it's all
about.

So why do blacks, who have more personal experience than
any other group in this nation with abuses of such power,
consistently support expanding it?

Why is Professor Gates freaked out by the policeman standing
on his porch but not by the intrusive expansion of government
into his life and the lives of every other American, white or
black?

Why does he hate a policeman entering his living room, but
he'll support government stepping inside his family, and every
American family, and taxing their estate, so that parents cannot
pass the wealth that they worked all their lives to accumulate
freely on to their children?

Why is he not freaked out by government telling parents where
hey can send their child to school, government determining
what that child will learn, and government transmitting to
young children in school politically defined values about life,
family, and sexual behavior?

And why is Professor Gates not appalled that politicians can
huddle in Washington and arbitrarily decide whose property
they will tax or take for the purposes of their own political
objectives?

The purpose of the press conference where Obama was
asked about the incident in Cambridge was about his
answering questions regarding the massive government
takeover of private American lives he is engineering with his
health care proposal. A proposal where government will
dictate how we get our health care, what health care we will
get, and putting life and death in the hands of bureaucrats.

Christian theologian R.C. Sproul has warned against statis
in which "government is viewed not only as the final ruling
authority but as the ultimate agency of redemption."

Blacks and all Americans must be concerned about
government arbitrarily violating their freedom. Whether
on Professor Gates' porch or in Washington, DC.

By Star Parker
August 3, 2009

Way To Go L.A.

You might not expect liberal Los Angeles, of all
places, to be ground zero for anti-Obama
sentiment, but that appears to be the case
with a new, apparently grassroots campaign in
the city. Posters have been spotted on
utility poles and walls around town, depicting
the president made up grotesquely as The Joker,
the infamous Heath Ledger character in
"The Dark Knight," with white face paint, dark
eye shadow and smudged red lipstick. The word
"socialism" is printed in bold, dark letters under
he image of his face.

Nobody has come forward yet to claim responsibility for the posters, which, of course, only adds to the mystery and fuels Internet speculation.

The poster has also gone viral online, crashing the Web
site that first posted images of it and rising to the top
of Google's "Today's Hot Trends" list.

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Whoever is behind the posters has to be thrilled by the sudden
media attention and especially the breast-beating over reaction
by certain Democrats.

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari
Hutchinson was especially melodramatic: "Depicting the president
as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery," says
Hutchinson. "It is mean-spirited and dangerous."

"We have issued a public challenge to the person or group that
put up the poster to come forth and publicly tell why they have
used this offensive depiction to ridicule President Obama.

"For some reason Hutchinson wasn't nearly so upset when President
George W. Bush was depicted with devil horns.

A bigger question than who's responsible for the poster is what does
The Joker have to do with socialism? Isn't he more of an anarchist?

Related: Rush Limbaugh Attacks: Obama, the Joker and Me