Thursday, September 18, 2008
the decline of britain
when you think about the long and storied history that the british empire has painted across the world, it's somewhat sad to see a once great nation hollowed out by and left listless at sea by a secular humanist agenda being forced on the people. the young lions are but mangy cats headed to a unremarkable ending with the path they have taken.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3522
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3522
latest offerings from the religion of peace..
Latest Offerings from the Religion of Peace
"He who fights that Islam should be superior fights in Allah's cause"
9/17/2008 (Sanaa, Yemen) - Women and children are among the casualties when al-Qaeda militants stage a coordinated attack on the US embassy.
9/17/2008 (Yala, Thailand) - A father and son are brutally gunned down by Religion of Peace militants.
9/17/2008 (Mindanao, Philippines) - Moro Islamists attack a group of local soldiers, killing one.
9/17/2008 (Magas, Ingushetia) - Four local security personnel are ambushed and killed by Muslim radicals.
9/17/2008 (Srinagar, India) - Fifteen pedestrians are injured when Islamic terrorists toss a grenade into the street outside a shopping center.
9/16/2008 (Ain el-Helweh, Lebanon) - Four people are killed when Sunnis and Shia clash over their differences.
"He who fights that Islam should be superior fights in Allah's cause"
9/17/2008 (Sanaa, Yemen) - Women and children are among the casualties when al-Qaeda militants stage a coordinated attack on the US embassy.
9/17/2008 (Yala, Thailand) - A father and son are brutally gunned down by Religion of Peace militants.
9/17/2008 (Mindanao, Philippines) - Moro Islamists attack a group of local soldiers, killing one.
9/17/2008 (Magas, Ingushetia) - Four local security personnel are ambushed and killed by Muslim radicals.
9/17/2008 (Srinagar, India) - Fifteen pedestrians are injured when Islamic terrorists toss a grenade into the street outside a shopping center.
9/16/2008 (Ain el-Helweh, Lebanon) - Four people are killed when Sunnis and Shia clash over their differences.
red state economic conditions far better than blue states..
ever wonder how well the economy will work under democratic policy and control.. look no further than the differences between red and blue states.
from tom blumer:
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Baseball may be the national pastime, but the national obsession, at least among our media and political elite, is declaring that we’re either on the brink of a recession or in one. Never mind the evidence.
Politicians, pundits, and prognosticators galore have gotten into the act, some for several years:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack “Talk and Tax the Economy Down” Obama declared that there was “little doubt we’ve moved into recession” in July. Obama is one of the three Democratic architects of our current tax-threatened, oil-starved POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) economy.
After the first-quarter economy grew a bit, MarketWatch’s Rex Nutting, seemingly disappointed, told us that we could have a recession even if growth never goes negative.
As if to trump Nutting, after adjusted second-quarter economic growth came in at an annualized 3.3%, David Wyss, chief economist with Standard & Poor’s, told a CNNMoney.com writer that the recession “started in the fourth quarter of 2007.”
The CNN writer himself brazenly added that “several economists say they are certain the United States is in recession, and that no one should be fooled into thinking otherwise by a strong second-quarter GDP report.”
Associated Press writers have penned dozens of economic articles with references to an imminent or already-existing recession during 2007 and 2008. Some “downturn” references go back to 2005 and 2006, years in which growth came in at 2.9% and 2.8%, respectively. The all-time topper was AP reporter Jeannine Aversa’s April 5 assertion that “it’s no longer a question of recession or not. Now it’s how deep and how long.”
Trend Macroanalytics Chief Investment Officer Don Luskin had the perfect response to the recession obsession in Sunday’s Washington Post (reproduced at his blog), when he noted that second-quarter growth was “virtually the same as the 3.4 percent average growth rate since — yes — the Great Depression.” He also added, based on a working paper by UCLA economist Edward Leamer, that:
Anyone who says we’re in a recession, or heading into one — especially the worst one since the Great Depression — is making up his own private definition of “recession.” And probably for his own political purposes.
But for the moment, let’s humor the critics and allow for the possibility that the economy as a whole has somehow slipped into recession during the current quarter. If so, where have the stumbles occurred?
Certainly not in red states Texas, Florida, or Arizona (though the Grand Canyon State has a Democratic governor, it went solidly for Bush in 2004, and has relatively conservative GOP legislative majorities). As Phil Gramm and Mike Solon noted in their weekend Wall Street Journal column (HT to Alo at Brain Shavings for the heads-up), those states created one-third of all U.S. jobs in the past 10 years, and their per-capita income growth far outpaced the national averages.
Most other red states have until very recently done very well. Some are still doing just fine. For example, the seasonally adjusted July unemployment rates in Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Nebraska, and Oklahoma averaged well below 4%.
If you’re looking for troubling times, visit the blue states. You’ll find plenty.
Looking for high unemployment?
First, go to California (Kerry by 10% in 2004, Democrat-dominated legislature, and might-as-well-be-Democratic governor). Its seasonally adjusted August unemployment rate was 7.3%, up from just 5.4% a year ago.
Then go east to Michigan, where things have gone from bad to really bad during Democrat Jennifer Granholm’s tenure. Wolverine State July unemployment was 8.5%.
Move on to Ohio, which went from pseudo-red under Bob Taft toblue in 2006, with the election of a Democratic governor, who has been aided and abetted by a mostly complacent GOP legislature. July unemployment: 7.2%.
Finally, skip over red state Indiana, which is still holding its own, and you’ll get to Obama’s home state of Illinois, whose Democratic governor, legislature, big-city mayor, and U.S. senators have all played a part in creating the Land of Lincoln’s 7.3% July unemployment rate.
For decidedly Democrat-driven government bailout situations like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae — referred to as “Barney’s Rubble” in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal — visit true-blue Metro DC.
To find brokers, bankers, and insurers taking unjustified risks with depositors’ and others’ money, go to the blue-state triumvirate of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and its Democrat-heavy investment banking industry.
Within certain states, the red-blue contrast is stark. In Ohio, if you want out-of-control foreclosures and general economic doldrums, visit bluer-than-blue Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Youngstown, Toledo, and Dayton. If you want areas that are largely holding their own, stick with Cincinnati and Columbus, especially the GOP-dominated rings around each city. The same holds for economically distressed southeastern Michigan vs. the rest of that state, and Chicagoland vs. most of the rest of Illinois.
So if there is indeed a recession taking place, blame it on the blue states and blue regions, with their high-tax, high-regulation, high-giveaway environments. The lower-tax, more economically free red states and the red regions within otherwise blue states are certainly not the culprits.
from tom blumer:
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Baseball may be the national pastime, but the national obsession, at least among our media and political elite, is declaring that we’re either on the brink of a recession or in one. Never mind the evidence.
Politicians, pundits, and prognosticators galore have gotten into the act, some for several years:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack “Talk and Tax the Economy Down” Obama declared that there was “little doubt we’ve moved into recession” in July. Obama is one of the three Democratic architects of our current tax-threatened, oil-starved POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid) economy.
After the first-quarter economy grew a bit, MarketWatch’s Rex Nutting, seemingly disappointed, told us that we could have a recession even if growth never goes negative.
As if to trump Nutting, after adjusted second-quarter economic growth came in at an annualized 3.3%, David Wyss, chief economist with Standard & Poor’s, told a CNNMoney.com writer that the recession “started in the fourth quarter of 2007.”
The CNN writer himself brazenly added that “several economists say they are certain the United States is in recession, and that no one should be fooled into thinking otherwise by a strong second-quarter GDP report.”
Associated Press writers have penned dozens of economic articles with references to an imminent or already-existing recession during 2007 and 2008. Some “downturn” references go back to 2005 and 2006, years in which growth came in at 2.9% and 2.8%, respectively. The all-time topper was AP reporter Jeannine Aversa’s April 5 assertion that “it’s no longer a question of recession or not. Now it’s how deep and how long.”
Trend Macroanalytics Chief Investment Officer Don Luskin had the perfect response to the recession obsession in Sunday’s Washington Post (reproduced at his blog), when he noted that second-quarter growth was “virtually the same as the 3.4 percent average growth rate since — yes — the Great Depression.” He also added, based on a working paper by UCLA economist Edward Leamer, that:
Anyone who says we’re in a recession, or heading into one — especially the worst one since the Great Depression — is making up his own private definition of “recession.” And probably for his own political purposes.
But for the moment, let’s humor the critics and allow for the possibility that the economy as a whole has somehow slipped into recession during the current quarter. If so, where have the stumbles occurred?
Certainly not in red states Texas, Florida, or Arizona (though the Grand Canyon State has a Democratic governor, it went solidly for Bush in 2004, and has relatively conservative GOP legislative majorities). As Phil Gramm and Mike Solon noted in their weekend Wall Street Journal column (HT to Alo at Brain Shavings for the heads-up), those states created one-third of all U.S. jobs in the past 10 years, and their per-capita income growth far outpaced the national averages.
Most other red states have until very recently done very well. Some are still doing just fine. For example, the seasonally adjusted July unemployment rates in Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Idaho, Nebraska, and Oklahoma averaged well below 4%.
If you’re looking for troubling times, visit the blue states. You’ll find plenty.
Looking for high unemployment?
First, go to California (Kerry by 10% in 2004, Democrat-dominated legislature, and might-as-well-be-Democratic governor). Its seasonally adjusted August unemployment rate was 7.3%, up from just 5.4% a year ago.
Then go east to Michigan, where things have gone from bad to really bad during Democrat Jennifer Granholm’s tenure. Wolverine State July unemployment was 8.5%.
Move on to Ohio, which went from pseudo-red under Bob Taft toblue in 2006, with the election of a Democratic governor, who has been aided and abetted by a mostly complacent GOP legislature. July unemployment: 7.2%.
Finally, skip over red state Indiana, which is still holding its own, and you’ll get to Obama’s home state of Illinois, whose Democratic governor, legislature, big-city mayor, and U.S. senators have all played a part in creating the Land of Lincoln’s 7.3% July unemployment rate.
For decidedly Democrat-driven government bailout situations like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae — referred to as “Barney’s Rubble” in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal — visit true-blue Metro DC.
To find brokers, bankers, and insurers taking unjustified risks with depositors’ and others’ money, go to the blue-state triumvirate of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and its Democrat-heavy investment banking industry.
Within certain states, the red-blue contrast is stark. In Ohio, if you want out-of-control foreclosures and general economic doldrums, visit bluer-than-blue Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Youngstown, Toledo, and Dayton. If you want areas that are largely holding their own, stick with Cincinnati and Columbus, especially the GOP-dominated rings around each city. The same holds for economically distressed southeastern Michigan vs. the rest of that state, and Chicagoland vs. most of the rest of Illinois.
So if there is indeed a recession taking place, blame it on the blue states and blue regions, with their high-tax, high-regulation, high-giveaway environments. The lower-tax, more economically free red states and the red regions within otherwise blue states are certainly not the culprits.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
gawker publishes sarah palin's e-mail
so hacking e-mail an acceptable journalistic practice ?? palin derangement syndrome has reached new levels. seriously, hacking a vp candidate's e-mail, posting the contact list and personal e-mails is a certain sign of panic on the left.
black hats everywhere.. i'd love to see anonymous hack obama's e-mail. i'm sure that would be far more damning than 'we're praying for you sarah.'
the link
black hats everywhere.. i'd love to see anonymous hack obama's e-mail. i'm sure that would be far more damning than 'we're praying for you sarah.'
the link
josh howard does politics
it's difficult to imagine such intellect from a basketball player, but we must respect greatness when we see it.
obama '08 and all that shat..
financial collapse tied to obama ??
looks like he had plenty of dirty money funding his campaign - this is in from ed morrissey @ hot air..
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Open Secrets has the list of Congressmen who have benefited from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac largesse since 1989 (inclusive). Remarkably, after only serving less than four of those 20 years, Barack Obama has vaulted to the #2 position on Capitol Hill. Only Dodd outstripped him. He took more than six times the amount that McCain received in a 20-year period.
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mccain actuall tried to fix fannie mae and freddie mac in 2005
more from ed morrissey:
In this speech, McCain managed to predict the entire collapse that has forced the government to eat Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with Bear Stearns and AIG. He hammers the falsification of financial records to benefit executives, including Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, both of whom have worked as advisers to Barack Obama this year. McCain also noted the power of their lobbying efforts to forestall oversight over their business practices. He finishes with the warning that proved all too prescient over the past few days and weeks.
what happened to the bill ??
It never made it out of committee. Chris Dodd, then the ranking member of the Banking Committee and now its chair, was in the middle of receiving preferential loan treatment from Countrywide Mortgage, one of the companies gaming the system in the credit crisis. Meanwhile, Barack Obama took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the lobbyists McCain mentions in this speech, making him the #2 recipient of Fannie/Freddie money
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Open Secrets has the list of Congressmen who have benefited from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac largesse since 1989 (inclusive). Remarkably, after only serving less than four of those 20 years, Barack Obama has vaulted to the #2 position on Capitol Hill. Only Dodd outstripped him. He took more than six times the amount that McCain received in a 20-year period.
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mccain actuall tried to fix fannie mae and freddie mac in 2005
more from ed morrissey:
In this speech, McCain managed to predict the entire collapse that has forced the government to eat Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with Bear Stearns and AIG. He hammers the falsification of financial records to benefit executives, including Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, both of whom have worked as advisers to Barack Obama this year. McCain also noted the power of their lobbying efforts to forestall oversight over their business practices. He finishes with the warning that proved all too prescient over the past few days and weeks.
what happened to the bill ??
It never made it out of committee. Chris Dodd, then the ranking member of the Banking Committee and now its chair, was in the middle of receiving preferential loan treatment from Countrywide Mortgage, one of the companies gaming the system in the credit crisis. Meanwhile, Barack Obama took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the lobbyists McCain mentions in this speech, making him the #2 recipient of Fannie/Freddie money
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Monday, September 15, 2008
change you can believe in.....?
it looks like fannie mae and freddie mac had a lot of 'change' on hand... and they gave a lot of that change to barack obama... to the tune of $126k of political money from the failed institutions.
When the federal government announced two months ago that it would prop up mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, CRP looked at how much money members of Congress had collected since 1989 from the companies. On Sunday the government completely took over the two government-sponsored enterprises, and we've returned to our data to bring you the updates, this time providing a list of all 354 lawmakers who have gotten money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (in July we posted the top 25). These totals are based on data released electronically from the FEC on Sept. 2 and include contributions to lawmakers' leadership PACs and candidate committees from the floundering companies' PACs and employees. Current members of Congress have received a total of $4.8 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with Democrats collecting 57 percent of that. This week we also wrote about how much money lawmakers had invested of their own money in the companies last year--a total of up to $1.7 million.
All Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008
1. Dodd, Christopher J S CT D $165,400
2. Obama, Barack S IL D $126,349
For those of you not aware, obama was elected to the senate in 2004. so, in 4 years, he's racked up the 2nd most money taken from those failed institutions of anyone in the last 10 years. you do the math.
the link
UPDATE
from politico:
Obama has raised a full $395,574 from employees and PACs of the now-bankrupt Lehman brothers, second only to Hillary Clinton.
Chris Dodd and Chuck Schumer did quite nicely, too; McCain is seventh among the firm's favorite pols (though its favorite Republican), having raised $145,100, according to OpenSecrets.org.
When the federal government announced two months ago that it would prop up mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, CRP looked at how much money members of Congress had collected since 1989 from the companies. On Sunday the government completely took over the two government-sponsored enterprises, and we've returned to our data to bring you the updates, this time providing a list of all 354 lawmakers who have gotten money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (in July we posted the top 25). These totals are based on data released electronically from the FEC on Sept. 2 and include contributions to lawmakers' leadership PACs and candidate committees from the floundering companies' PACs and employees. Current members of Congress have received a total of $4.8 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with Democrats collecting 57 percent of that. This week we also wrote about how much money lawmakers had invested of their own money in the companies last year--a total of up to $1.7 million.
All Recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Campaign Contributions, 1989-2008
1. Dodd, Christopher J S CT D $165,400
2. Obama, Barack S IL D $126,349
For those of you not aware, obama was elected to the senate in 2004. so, in 4 years, he's racked up the 2nd most money taken from those failed institutions of anyone in the last 10 years. you do the math.
the link
UPDATE
from politico:
Obama has raised a full $395,574 from employees and PACs of the now-bankrupt Lehman brothers, second only to Hillary Clinton.
Chris Dodd and Chuck Schumer did quite nicely, too; McCain is seventh among the firm's favorite pols (though its favorite Republican), having raised $145,100, according to OpenSecrets.org.
God bless sarah palin
one sure sign i know she'll be great ?? i can tell by the people who don't like her...
so far, we have the likes of matt damon, critical thinker.
randy rhodes,, north and south pole savvy
chevy chase, the 'decimator'
frank rich, stage IV palin derangement syndrome
bill maher, erudite oracle
ABC news, who edited out key parts of the interview to make her look less flattering..
US magazine, the deliberate deceivers..
now we have lindsey lohan, beacon of insight.
adding: roger ebert, master debater on all things film
i know there are more, this is just a quick list of the best and brightest the left has to offer... i love watching the bleeding hearts melt!
so far, we have the likes of matt damon, critical thinker.
randy rhodes,, north and south pole savvy
chevy chase, the 'decimator'
frank rich, stage IV palin derangement syndrome
bill maher, erudite oracle
ABC news, who edited out key parts of the interview to make her look less flattering..
US magazine, the deliberate deceivers..
now we have lindsey lohan, beacon of insight.
adding: roger ebert, master debater on all things film
i know there are more, this is just a quick list of the best and brightest the left has to offer... i love watching the bleeding hearts melt!
Friday, September 12, 2008
newt gingrich makes another speech
this is from hot air - but it is very well written by ed morrissey
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The former Speaker and current American Solutions chair Newt Gingrich received the most enthusiastic welcome of the conference. He started off by attacking Charles Gibson for his rather dumb question about Sarah Palin’s reference to God’s will, the second speaker to do so today. Gingrich uses it to make an argument about how disengaged from American culture the mainstream media has become.
Gingrich talked about the fundamental ties between the idea of a Creator and individual, inalienable freedoms. He also recalled the words of John Kennedy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in tying liberty to a faith in God. Gingrich asked the crowd how the media would react if Palin merely quoted Kennedy in his exhortation to America that we strive to do God’s will, or his emphasis that our liberties come “from the hand of God”. Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address also emphasized the role of God 14 times and quotes the Bible — twice.
Imagine doing that today.
Why have the media lost that fundamental understanding? Gingrich blames it on educators who have attempted to minimize the role of faith in the formation of the nation and its Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It would take a Harvard professor, Gingrich says, to take God out of history.
Somewhere in the 1960s, the Left took a turn away from American tradition, rejecting the cultural norms and attempted to eliminate them. That’s why they have attacked Palin so savagely, Gingrich says. “It’s as though McCain traveled to Mars and brought back an alien.” They have lost touch with mainstream America to the point where they can no longer relate to most of their own countrymen.
Gingrich gave another example of how badly the Left understands religion in the lives of Americans. The Democratic Representative who stood on the House floor and compared Barack Obama to Jesus Christ had no idea how offensive that statement would be to Christians. He probably doesn’t realize that the comparison of Palin to Pontius Pilate is less offensive.
Palin poses two threats to the Left. The first is existential; she shatters the ability of hard-Left political feminism to define the boundaries of women in the public sphere. The second comes from Obama’s decision to go for Joe Biden rather than Hillary Clinton. He showed he could be intimidated, first by the Clintons, and now by Palin herself. Obama blew off 18 million voters because the Clintons threatened his status as party leader.
Gingrich sounded much more positive about this election than at any time over the past two years. He has been sounding a bit Cassandra-ish, but the Palin selection — and the Obama collapse — has him energized.
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The former Speaker and current American Solutions chair Newt Gingrich received the most enthusiastic welcome of the conference. He started off by attacking Charles Gibson for his rather dumb question about Sarah Palin’s reference to God’s will, the second speaker to do so today. Gingrich uses it to make an argument about how disengaged from American culture the mainstream media has become.
Gingrich talked about the fundamental ties between the idea of a Creator and individual, inalienable freedoms. He also recalled the words of John Kennedy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in tying liberty to a faith in God. Gingrich asked the crowd how the media would react if Palin merely quoted Kennedy in his exhortation to America that we strive to do God’s will, or his emphasis that our liberties come “from the hand of God”. Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address also emphasized the role of God 14 times and quotes the Bible — twice.
Imagine doing that today.
Why have the media lost that fundamental understanding? Gingrich blames it on educators who have attempted to minimize the role of faith in the formation of the nation and its Declaration of Independence and Constitution. It would take a Harvard professor, Gingrich says, to take God out of history.
Somewhere in the 1960s, the Left took a turn away from American tradition, rejecting the cultural norms and attempted to eliminate them. That’s why they have attacked Palin so savagely, Gingrich says. “It’s as though McCain traveled to Mars and brought back an alien.” They have lost touch with mainstream America to the point where they can no longer relate to most of their own countrymen.
Gingrich gave another example of how badly the Left understands religion in the lives of Americans. The Democratic Representative who stood on the House floor and compared Barack Obama to Jesus Christ had no idea how offensive that statement would be to Christians. He probably doesn’t realize that the comparison of Palin to Pontius Pilate is less offensive.
Palin poses two threats to the Left. The first is existential; she shatters the ability of hard-Left political feminism to define the boundaries of women in the public sphere. The second comes from Obama’s decision to go for Joe Biden rather than Hillary Clinton. He showed he could be intimidated, first by the Clintons, and now by Palin herself. Obama blew off 18 million voters because the Clintons threatened his status as party leader.
Gingrich sounded much more positive about this election than at any time over the past two years. He has been sounding a bit Cassandra-ish, but the Palin selection — and the Obama collapse — has him energized.
ike thinks galveston is tina..
ALL NEIGHBORHOODS... AND POSSIBLY ENTIRE COASTAL COMMUNITIES... WILL BE INUNDATED DURING THE PERIOD OF PEAK STORM TIDE. PERSONS NOT HEEDING EVACUATION ORDERS IN SINGLE FAMILY ONE OR TWO STORY HOMES WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH. MANY RESIDENCES OF AVERAGE CONSTRUCTION DIRECTLY ON THE COAST WILL BE DESTROYED. WIDESPREAD AND DEVASTATING PERSONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LIKELY ELSEWHERE. VEHICLES LEFT BEHIND WILL LIKELY BE SWEPT AWAY. NUMEROUS ROADS WILL BE SWAMPED...SOME MAY BE WASHED AWAY BY THE WATER. ENTIRE FLOOD PRONE COASTAL COMMUNITIES WILL BE CUTOFF. WATER LEVELS MAY EXCEED 9 FEET FOR MORE THAN A MILE INLAND. COASTAL RESIDENTS IN MULTI-STORY FACILITIES RISK BEING CUTOFF. CONDITIONS WILL BE WORSENED BY BATTERING WAVES. SUCH WAVES WILL EXACERBATE PROPERTY DAMAGE... WITH MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF HOMES...INCLUDING THOSE OF BLOCK CONSTRUCTION. DAMAGE FROM BEACH EROSION COULD TAKE YEARS TO REPAIR.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
church of oprah...?
i just got wind of this yesterday.. i'm sure you are shocked that i am not an oprah watcher/reader/participator. but this, production value aside, was eye opening to me. i will grant you that the producers have tricked this up a little bit to sell a book, but aside from that - listen to what oprah says. listen up, because it is very important.
oprah is dangerous when she says she is a Christian and then goes on to say there are many paths to 'god.' to be certain, ALL roads end up at the feet of Jesus. remember - ever knee shall bow and every mouth confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. you will want to make sure you are at his feet during the bema seat conversation and not during the white throne judgement.
oprah is selling eternal death in shiny packaging today.. she is telling you that there is no sin, therefore there is no need for salvation. this is terribly dangerous.. there is only one path to salvation - that is through the blood of Jesus Christ.
this reminds me of one of my favorite verses in the Bible from 2 Timothy..
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. - 2 Timothy 4:3-4
looming wmd attack on us
on the heels of my last post, newsmax has an article today discussing the prospects of a wmd attack on the us. marvin j. cetron says that an attack using a wmd is inevitable during the next 4-5 years. his estimation is that the attack could come in as little as 2.5 - 3 years from now.
Cetron, who startled and embarrassed the intelligence community with his study
“Terror 2000,” has let the genie out of the bottle again with his latest report,
“55 Trends Now Shaping the Future of Terrorism.”
When Newsmax asked how the expert and founder of Forecasting International Inc. (FI) can be so sure of the impending disasters, he said he needed to guard his classified sources. “Let me put it this way: We have so many good sources of signals intelligence and human intelligence that lets us know what doesn’t show up in the press,” he said.
FI, which produced “55 Trends” has conducted an ongoing study of the
forces changing our world for almost half a century in support of clients
ranging from General Motors to the YMCA, and from the Central Intelligence
Agency to the White House.
“Terror 2000,” another FI project that was done for the Department of Defense in 1994, warned that terrorists were planning to use commercial aircraft as guided bombs to strike against a major landmark in the New York City area. It also warned that terrorists could hijack a commercial airliner, fly it down the Potomac, and crash it into the Pentagon. Tragically, the report was filed and forgotten.
remember 9-11-01
while many in this country argue to not show the images of 9-11, i think it's critically important to remember the feeling of that day. our country has come a long way from the mantras of 'remember the alamo' and 'remember pearl harbor.' today, we seem to want to forget 9-11 and stick our heads in the sand when it comes to the reality of that day. since 9-11, we have spent plenty of time talking about who was responsible.. was it an inside job..? was it the jews.. ? the 'smart' people want to blame the united states for bringing this on ourselves. the hysterical delusionists want you to believe it was george bush who did this.. the dumbest president of all time pulled off the biggest consipracy of all time. yes, excellent.
this nation will forget 9-11 at it's own peril. treating terrorists as criminals to be handled via the legal system is a recipe for disaster. as newt gingrich said.. one day, we will wake up and we will have lost a city. all of the bleeding hearts who cry a river over the patriot act will see their civil rights absolved overnight if this were to happen. the best defense against terror is a committed, sustained offense which strikes at its core around the world. if one day we awake to find a city or two gone in a nuclear terror attack, all bets are off. the paradigm will have shifted beyond what we will be capable of dealing with with our current governmental structure.
the next president will be tested..
do we want a corrupt community organizer who has to turn from his mentor and friends due to their corrupt, anti-american viewpoints or do we want a war hero with the experience and courage to make tough decisions.
obama can't show good judgement on the simple issues such as friendship. if he can't make good decisions with the simple stuff, he will be a disaster with the important stuff
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Monday, September 8, 2008
obama's muslim faith..
it looks like barry is having a hard time dealing with not being ahead in the polls. do i think barack is a muslim? no. as far as i can tell, he doesn't seem to be interested in submitting to that allah guy.. his wife and daughters are way too immodest.. i mean, really.. i'm pretty sure muslim women aren't supposed to speak at all. i don't see him facing east 5 times a day, but i don't watch him that much. one thing is for sure, obama appears to be wilting under the pressure of the campaign.. he's a great front runner, lets see what happens when he's not fulfilling the role of ordained secular messiah. it should be a fun fall
UPDATE: from newsmax "iranians hoping for 'muslim' obama victory..
Iran’s leadership has expressed “great pleasure” at the prospect of a Barack Obama victory in November, according to Menashe Amir, the Iranian-born head of Radio Israel’s Persian language service.
But Iranian President Ahmadinejad has said he doubts that the American establishment “will allow” Obama to win.
“One of the Iranian religious leaders said if Obama will enter the White House, then Islam will conquer the heart of the American nation,” Amir told Isracast.com.
The Iranian leadership likes Obama “mainly because he is a Muslim,” according to Amir. His first name, Barack, comes from “al-baraq,” which is the name of the horse that Muslims believe Muhammad rode on his way to paradise.
His middle name Hussein is also a Muslim name, and he was “born in a Muslim family,” said Amir.
In fact, Obama is a Christian. His deceased father was a Muslim, and though Obama attended a Muslim school in Indonesia, he never pursued the Muslim faith of his early childhood. While some commentators have suggested that this qualifies him as an apostate — a “crime” punishable by death according to Islamic sharia law — Menashe Amir disagreed.
“If he wins the election, Muslims will be very proud of such a conquest, such a win. He didn’t convert [to Christianity] after he was 18. It happened much, much before,” so the sharia law judgment does not apply.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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