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The Change is Here, the Hope is Gone...

Healthcare only works in Canada because they have a free market system right next door.  When we go socialist, Canadians lose all hope.  Another result of CHANGE.  Ahh, the Audacity of Fraud.  Has the stench of the Big B.O. reached your nostrils yet?

If George Bush...

I received it, I pass it on to you...

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, 
would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and 
incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and 
historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos 
of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and 
tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have 
approved?

If George W. Bush had visited  Austria  and made reference to the non-existent 
"Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people 
who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have 
approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to "Cinco de 
Cuatro" in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May 
(Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you 
have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word advice would you have hammered 
him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as "proof" of what a dunce 
he is?
0AIf George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a 
single tree on "Earth Day", would you have concluded he's a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush's administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over 
millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown  Manhattan  causing 
widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually "get" what 
happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter 
installed to be ab le to get through a press conference, would you have 
laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is 
really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout 
the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in  New Orleans , 
would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of 
racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, 
even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have 
approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken 
more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have Approved?

If George W.. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 
years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan's holdings of GM stock by 
90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush h
ad spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in 
NYC, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and 
impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 5 
months -- so you'll have three years and seven months to come up with an 
answer.

The Majority Has a Right to be Heard

Nancy Gets the S.H.O.E. (Stupidest Human On Earth) Award

This is currently the most difficult award to win for the Democrats because there are so many vying for the honor.  Obama himself was heavy nomination, but both Reid and Pelosi edged him out because of their formidable experience.

Students File Federal Lawsuit After College Threatens Expulsion for Prayer

City: Alameda, CA
October 7, 2008

Two students at publicly-funded College of Alameda filed a federal lawsuit Monday after school officials threatened to expel them for praying.

Last December, student Kandy Kyriacou visited an instructor to give her a Christmas gift. Kandy found the instructor alone in her shared office. When the instructor indicated she was ill, Kandy offered to pray for her. The instructor bowed her head, and Kandy began to pray - until she was interrupted by another faculty member, Derek Piazza who walked in and said, "You can't be doing that in here!" Kandy quickly left and rejoined her friend and fellow student Ojoma Omaga. Piazza followed Kandy outside and repeated his rebuke.

The students were surprised by Piazza's intimidating behavior, but they were stunned when, three days before Christmas, both received letters notifying them of the College's retroactive "intent to suspend" them. In violation of the school's own policies, the letters stated no factual bases for the charges, vaguely alleging that the students had engaged in "disruptive or insulting behavior, willful disobedience . . . persistent abuse of, college employees." Then, in guilty-until-proven-innocent administrative hearings, it became clear that the College considered Kandy's get-well prayer - which her instructor seemed to welcome - worthy of discipline. The College even threatened suspension or expulsion for further infractions - apparently other public prayers.

The students turned to Pacific Justice Institute. PJI staff attorneys, baffled by the school's stance, attempted to resolve the situation through demand letters. The College did not respond. PJI local affiliate attorneys Steven N. H. Wood and Christopher Schweickert, of the Walnut Creek firm Bergquist, Wood & Anderson, LLP, made a final demand that College officials rescind the disciplinary letters and acknowledge the students' right to pray. The College refused. On Monday, Wood, Schweickert, and PJI staff attorneys filed a federal lawsuit to remove the cloud of intimidation hanging over the students.

"It's outrageous," PJI President Brad Dacus stated. "Since when does praying for a sick teacher to get well - with her consent - earn a suspension? This is not just a constitutional violation; it is a complete lack of common sense. These students were not looking for a fight, but since the school to this day insists that it can expel them if they pray again, we will have to resolve it in federal court."

The assault on religion now has governmental support.  We have elected a legislative branch and now an administrative branch who will look the other way as the judicial branch twists the constitution into a legal M16 aimed at our most precious freedoms of speech and religion.

Think that's extreme?  Then you fail to see the big picture.  The election of Obama is one giant step for Liberalkind in their war against Christianity.

"Oh, but Les, Obama is a Christian!  He says so!"

"Yes.  Well, ...Have you ever heard of the Golden Gate Bridge?  Well, I can get you a really great deal..."

Bleeder of the Free World

The strategy of former President Obama for economic recovery so far has been to punish those who have worked hard to achieve success in this Land of Opportunity by sacrificing and saving and swallowing their pride again and again in order to invest honest sweat into future reward, and give the fruit of their hard labor to the leeches, the lazy, the indolent, and, yes, the stupid.

It is difficult to envision how such a long-range strategy would work.  The thinking seems to go this way; “Let’s take everything that has made the United States a world leader in innovation, production, and benevolence, trash it, and replace it with an economic system that has failed repeatedly and miserably in numerous countries around the world.”

Yeah!  That should work!

You can hate big business and free markets all you want, and there’s no denying that greed and corruption abound, but without them there would be no jobs and no middle class at all.  There would be no wealth for ANYONE.  These are the guys that hire, and they can’t hire when they’re taxed out of business.

In my short 57 years on this planet I’ve known rich people and poor people from all over the world and my experience has been that some of the poorest have been the greediest, and some of the richest have been the most generous.  I spent a lot of my youth hating rich people until one day, in a rare moment of lucidity, I sat down and asked myself, “Why?”

I couldn’t think of a single reason that would apply across the board.  The closest I could come was that I just knew that the “rich” were a bunch of a**holes, except for the ones that I knew personally.  Those were the exceptions and they were O.K.  Most of the ones that I knew to be jerks were not jerks because they were rich, they would have been jerks no matter what their family’s income.

We have this concept of the “spoiled rich kid” who never had to work for a thing in his life and believes that the world owes him whatever he wants.  Well, through the Liberals’ creeping socialism which now has been given voice in the highest office of our land we now have created the “spoiled poor kid” who never has to work for a thing in his life and believes that the world owes him whatever he wants.

How did we move from the idea that grew a nation, “He who does not work does not eat,” to the bizarre notion that every good thing in life is now a “right?”

I have a right to a job with a living wage?  I have a right to own my own home?  I have a right to the best medical care in the world?  No you don’t.  As much as I wish at least the last of those were true, NO YOU DON’T.

What you have is an inalienable right as a human being to the same opportunities to climb the ladder of success as every other human being.  Did you get that all you shiftless sponging parasites sitting in your grass-induced daze staring blankly your new high-def plasma big screen television paid for by the sweat of someone else’s honest labor?  You have the right to CLIMB the ladder; you do NOT have an inalienable right to drape your coat over the top rung.

What America has always promised and has always delivered is the right to climb that ladder.  When that right was denied because of sex, WE CHANGED THE LAWS.  When that right was denied because of race, WE CHANGED THE LAWS.  America went from being like every other country in the world in suppression of women, to being the leader in the liberation of women.  We went from being like every other country in the history of the world in slave labor, to leading the world in the eradication of slavery.

What former president Obama and his thug-ridden administration have yet to learn is that you can’t make the poor rich by making the rich poor.  It has been tried and retried and it has always failed, and it will always fail.  The Big B.O. promised not to continue Bush’s failed policies (without of course showing how those policies had actually failed, since many were overwhelmingly successful) and instead to promote policies that have failed on a world-wide scale.  If that’s not a Liberal plan, what is?

I have been already corrected, by the way, for calling our Beloved Bleeder “former President Obama.”  I make no apologies, but I must explain that referring thusly to His Travesty gives me a modicum of hope for the future.  It’s all the hope I’ve got right now.  It is my "Audacity of Hope," and THAT, I trust, even he would understand.

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Obama, Thy Name Is Genius

With Time magazine comparing Obama to Jesus, I guess we should be relieved that, this week, liberals are only comparing him to Abraham Lincoln.

The one thing every liberal on TV seems to know about Lincoln is that he put rivals in his cabinet, as subtly indicated in the title to historian and plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin's book: "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln." Like Lincoln, Goodwin is always open to contributions from her rivals, although Lincoln was better at crediting their words.

And hasn't Obama talked to former rival Hillary about becoming his secretary of state? Hasn't he had a sit-down with Sen. John McCain? Did I imagine this, or is he even now brokering peace talks between Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck?

Ergo: Obama is a genius.

Indeed, historians have just named Obama the best president-elect ever.

I don't recall the media swooning when President George W. Bush reached out to rivals, such as Sen. Teddy Kennedy, who was asked to co-write Bush's education bill. In fact, the way I remember it, Bush is liberals' most hated president ever (only because they can't remember George Washington or they'd hate him, too).

And yet no modern president has ever done more to bridge partisan divides and show respect to his opponents than George W. Bush. I do not say this with admiration; it is simply a fact.

Throughout the year and again in his convention speech during the 2000 presidential campaign, Gov. Bush bragged that he had "no stake in the bitter arguments of the last few years. I want to change the tone of Washington to one of civility and respect."

(As a side note: Bush would never have been elected president if not for the "bitter arguments of the last few years," in which Republicans exposed and impeached Bill Clinton, which then killed Al Gore's presidential ambitions. So you're welcome.)

But the point is: Bush was massively chummy with his enemies -- Democrats, communists and the Congressional Black Caucus. So chummy that even they began to wonder if he was a little daft.

In his first few weeks in office, Bush met with more than 150 members of Congress, half of them Democrats -- including five events with America's leading liberal menace, Sen. Teddy Kennedy.

Bush's very first social event at the White House was movie night with the Kennedy family to watch "Thirteen Days," a falsely heroic portrayal of JFK's disastrous handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This suggests to me that Obama's first social move as president will have to be to invite Lindsey Graham over to a screening of "Larry the Cable Guy Saves Christmas."

Naturally, Bush also had primary rival John McCain and his wife, Cindy, over to dinner at the White House.

Bush was the first president in memory to attend the congressional retreats of the opposing party. After two weeks in office, a Wall Street Journal column noted that Bush's charm offensive was "disorienting the local Hatfields and McCoys." (Again: You're welcome.)

Bush even made a special point to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus upon taking office, which -- given their feelings toward Bush -- would be the equivalent of Obama holding a special meet-and-greet session with the upper management of the Ku Klux Klan.

Bush invited the Democratic black mayor of the District of Columbia to the White House, attended a majority black District church service and appointed the first black secretary of state.

And that was all before Feb. 1, 2001. (By the end of his presidency, he would have appointed the first two black secretaries of state.)

Though it was small potatoes after all that palling around with Teddy Kennedy, this is the same George W. Bush who had Muslim "spiritual leaders" to the White House a week after 9/11.

Bush also famously said of then-Russian president, former KGB agent Vladimir Putin, that he looked him in the eye and "was able to get a sense of his soul."

(This made Bush's critics almost as apoplectic as if he had said, "I looked into Putin's eyes and, frankly, I just don't trust the guy." No matter what Bush did, liberals were incensed.)

As president, Bush scuttled the playing of "Hail to the Chief" in his honor and repeatedly reminded his staff to act humbly.

This is as opposed to Obama, who I believe is the first president-elect in history to have his own "Office of the President-elect" seal commissioned.

Like I always say, even if you don't like the current president-elect, you should still have some respect for the office of the presidency-elect.

by Ann Coulter

Think what you want about Ann Coulter.  This blog is dedicated to ferreting out the Truth that has been purposely obscured by those who demand their rights to your soul.  Excerpts would not have done the job.

I Will Not Have an Emperor

I am angry.  Not hateful.  Angry.  Before you read any further, make sure you understand the  difference.  Anger is an emotion common to man.  It is part of our survival instinct.  Hate is anger that has been cultivated and nurtured into a permanent state.  Big difference.

There was a time, I truly believe, when in the realm of the human psyche, the heart was ruled by emotion, and the mind was ruled by reason.  The election of Barack Obama to the presidency, in spite of every conceivable appeal to reason, proves that our country has descended to such an abysmal state that now both heart and mind fall under the purview of emotion alone.  Reason has become passe.  To that degree, men become fools.

I have been advised, by more than one source, including my pastor, that, now that America has spoken, we need to unite behind Obama as the holder of the office, as the number one representative of the free world.  He is now our leader, and we must show the world solidarity by getting on board and backing him.

Can’t do it.

Want to, yes.  I have always done so in every other election, whether my guy won or lost (my guy almost always loses).  I had determined that was exactly what I was going to do in this one as well.  I certainly did not want to emulate the mindless, idiotic Bush-haters with their moronic chants of “Bush lied, kids died!”  So I decided that I would grit my teeth, lower my head, batten down, and hope for the best for the next four years.

Can’t do it.

I can’t do it because of the underhanded, duplicitous, and condescending way he extorted the election process.  Promising to be a “man of the people” he vowed to accept only public funding.  He reneged on his word.  McCain did not.  The liar won, predictably.  But only barely.  The integrity of the people showed through in the fact that, despite outspending McCain better than 4 to 1, his election was not the run-away that such spending should have produced.  Had it been an honest and forthright election, McCain would have prevailed, not because of any particular virtue of his, but because he is so much more experienced and qualified.  That’s the kind of person sane voters put in this most important office.  Emotion and a usurped media stood in the way of both reason and sanity.  To add insult to injury, McCain's campaign contributions will be audited.  Obama's will not, despite the evidence that he accepted donations from foreign countries; a federal offense.  I'm supposed to support a felon in the oval office?

I can’t do it because he remains determined to undermine the most basic of American rights, freedom of speech, and the press.  His campaign threatened radio stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio with losing their FCC licenses if they ran an NRA ad opining against his positions on gun control.  Currently, while pretending to oppose the Democrats’ “Fairness Doctrine,” Obama again feints to the right while dealing a death blow from the left.  His deception is to use a little-known rule called “localism” to mortally wound talk radio and conservative broadcasting.  All opponents of his policies are severely dealt with while he retains his squeaky clean appearance.  So it is with his suppression of free speech.

I can’t do it because he intends to repeal the secret ballot from union elections.  How much American blood has been spilled throughout history to ensure our right to the anonymous ballot?  Can there be anything more Marxist than this undermining of our most basic of freedoms?  He moves one step at a time toward Big Brother domination of every aspect of life.  I’m supposed to get on board with this?

I can’t do it because he completely ignores the will of the majority of Americans who favor restrictions on abortions by claiming that one of his first priorities will be to sign into law legislation that will strip away ALL restrictions.  How then can he claim to represent an America whom he so audaciously ignores?  How can he claim to back a Christian world view and yet brazenly ignore the most basic value of the sacredness of human life?  And how is it “fair” (Obama’s favorite word) to pander to the minority and treat the majority as insignificant?  This is the act of a dictator, not an executive administrator.

I do not expect my president to agree with me on every issue, or even a majority of them.  I do expect him to protect me and my freedom to speak and to pursue happiness and success in life as my Constitution guarantees.  When he refuses to carry out his sworn duty in this regard, how can I then be expected to support my own oppression?

I refuse to join the moronic ranks of those who hate Obama.  I have no personal animosity like that shown toward Bush, where no matter what good he did, the idiots hated him anyway.  What I ask from Obama, and what he has not shown inclination to do, is that he carry out his duty to protect.  This is what President Bush did.  He didn’t care who hated him.  He was sworn to protect this country and he succeeded admirably. 

Hate is the path to insanity.  Not going there.

But after Deification Day, January 20, 2009, I will have no President.  Nor will I be tuned in to his historical Deification Address.  I prefer to follow reason and evidence over charisma and hollow rhetoric.  I believe in the rule of law, not of personality.  That is an American attitude, it is what I expect of my President, and it is not the face that Obama has shown us.  Yet.

When he does; when he shows evidence that America, and not the “World”, is his first, second, and third priorities, I will consider him worthy of the office.  Until then,

Can’t do it.

The Obama Legacy

Imagine you are in your Sunday church service.  The musicians have just finished worship.  Heads are bowed.  The pastor is up front praying for the country; praying for the new President.  There seem to be a lot of visitors in today's service.  That's encouraging.

Suddenly, as if on signal, the visitors get to their feet.  They are peppered throughout the congregation.  They start shouting, "Jesus was gay" and a variety of obscenities.  Someone pulls a fire alarm.  From outside comes the unnerving sounds of beating drums and screaming.

The disruptors begin throwing condoms, glitter, and confetti, littering the people, pews, and aisles.  They rush the platform and two of them, both women, begin making out.  They drape a rainbow flag from the balcony that says, "It's O.K. to be gay!  Bash Back!"

Several of them run across the pews confronting you and the other worshipers, trying to goad you into defending yourself so they can capture your "violent acts" on video.  It goes on and on.

Where?  Mount Hope Church in Lansing Michigan.  When?  This last Sunday, November 9.  Why?  The perpetrators have "found" the church's members guilty of the "institutionalization" of transphobia and homophobia.  Apparently the church takes a stand against gay marriage and lifestyle.

In the marketplace of ideas, liberals have the monopoly.  You must not speak against them.  You must not annoy them.  You must not make them angry.  They will come after you.  They will destroy you.  And most disturbing of all:

No one will stop them.

There were no arrests, and the media refuses to cover the story.  They don't consider it news.  That's Obama's legacy.  And that's the point here.  The election of Obama encourages this kind of behavior from the left.  And the same news media that favored and supported him, the same news media that defeated the McCain campaign through lies and misdirection, through fear and intimidation, now continues to operate in concert with his agenda.  Obama doesn't support this sort of behavior.  He doesn't have to.  The grunge work is done for him by cells like these.  It's no coincidence that this group hails from Chicago, the same background that laid the foundation for Obama's political philosophy.  He is not a Democrat, he is not even a liberal.  He is a radical, a revolutionary, a socialist, a Marxist, and everything he says and does is blatant evidence of this.  Evidence that the blind continue to ignore.

You thought you elected a President.  You elected much more than that.  These are not extremist statements.  These are observations of a growing reality.  If you think differently than he does, in any area, his agents will be coming for you.  Just like this story is silenced, like the attempts to silence Joe the Plumber, like the plan to silence talk radio, like the concerted media destruction of Sarah Palin, if you are labeled a threat, you will be silenced.  Your church will be silenced.

Watch for more efforts on the part of media to ignore attacks on Christians, and to slant stories to make Christians appear responsible for hate crimes.  Watch for the label "Hate Speech" to be applied to churches and sermons.  Watch for Obama's push to pass hate speech laws that result in exactly that.

Your thoughts and beliefs are about to be codified as disruptive to an open and peaceful society.  With the infrastructure now in place, it won't take four years to accomplish.

And for crying out loud, read "1984" so you understand what liberals are trying to do.  The degree of illiteracy in this country is partially responsible for letting it get this far.

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