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An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had just failed an entire class. -------------------------------------------- That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that. Budget chief: Doctors fees not paid for in Obama bill... "Halfway into 2009, Americans have turned more control of their lives over to government and politicians than ever before in history. This proposed health care reform, through subsidies and expansion of Medicaid, would put tens of millions of new Americans on welfare. The result is predictable. Many more citizens with incentives to stay poor and dependent The rest of us will transfer a major part of our freedom to manage our own private lives over to bureaucrats." *--columnist Star Parker* Obama: African Americans 'More Fundamentally Rooted in the American Experience'... "[S]ome members of Congress ... intend, as the New York Times puts it, 'to reinvent the nation's health care system.' Let that sink in. A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business actually think they can reinvent the health care system." *--columnist John Stossel* White House misses deadline on spending cuts report... … delays Guantanamo report... UPDATE: Administration Delays Key Budget Report... "The president's good friend, Al Gore, who stands to clean up, thanks to the Cap and Trade bill, has long campaigned for the greening of America . How long will it take people to wake up to the fact that his major concern is the greening of Al Gore? For good measure, the greedy oaf recently compared the battle over global warming to the war against the Nazis. And, to think, some folks thought PETA was over the top when they compared a chicken farm to Auschwitz ." --columnist Burt Prelutsky Hillary Apologizes to India for Global Warming India 'rejects key scientific findings on global warming' -- vows not to cut emissions... Thinking Clearly about Economic Inequality The public discussion of inequality in the United States , and no doubt elsewhere, is marked by a lack of clarity and precision. Few commentators — even those who are professional economists — speak clearly about what the various measures of economic inequality do and do not tell us. In a new study, Cato scholar Will Wilkinson challenges many common assumptions about equality and political morality that appear again and again in textbooks, media reports, and public discussions. Wilkinson’s study was profiled by online writers for *The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Economist,* National Review and more. Wilkinson writes: Income inequality can indeed be reduced in a stroke by taxing the wealthy more heavily. It was, very likely, reduced in a stroke by the recent financial collapse. But just as there is no point in wanting less income inequality just for its own sake, there’s no point in cheering when the income gap narrows, since the income gap was never the problem. The problem is that too many people in our society do not have reason to be glad that they live under these institutions rather than others. Too many Americans struggle to find decent work, and struggle to raise their families without a toxic sense of physical and economic insecurity. Too many Americans are held captive by the state for acts that should not be crimes. Too many migrant workers are abused because our laws leave them vulnerable to abuse. Too many live in fear of losing what they have achieved by courageously venturing far from home to find opportunity. Too many children are denied the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills and habits of mind necessary to take advantage of the stupendous variety of opportunities that would otherwise be available to them. This is not okay. And it is not okay for intellectuals and policymakers to waste time and energy worrying that some people, who have had the opportunity to make the most of our institutions, have done too well. It doesn’t help. Nor does it help to encourage people to concentrate on differences in income, or to resent them. Demoralization and resentment are not what people need. Obama Targets Wealthy With Huge Tax Bomb Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records. In but another example of the left using the constituion when it suits them: Obama is pleading the fifth amendment... refusing to provide answers as such would be self incriminating... game set and match... classic left wing hypocrites the constitution applies only when it suits them. Obama Health Plan to Cover 12 Million Illegals This whole comment underscores one of the things that bothers us most about Obama. He says that slavery is "relevant" to today's humanitarian crises in places like Darfur and Congo . For the sake of argument, let's accept that this is true. What are we supposed to do? Well, we're supposed to "never forget" slavery, to "think about it," to improve "the way it's taught," to "widen the lens," to "make sure we're all reflecting." Oh, and he wants "every child to think about" it. By Obama's lights, then, it would seem that understanding slavery is important because it yields an endless supply of endless abstractions with which to respond ineffectually to contemporary humanitarian crisis. While every child is thinking about this stuff, is the president of the United States doing anything? What the other obits won't tell you about Cronkite 'Most trusted' newsman pushed radical agenda --WND Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ..... During the Carter Administration? Anybody? Anything? No? Bottom line ... We've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency ...the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember. It was very simple .. And at the time everybody thought it very appropriate... The 'Department of Energy' was instituted on 8-04-1977 TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL. So how did this government bureaucracy work out? NOW IT'S 2009, 32 YEARS LATER .. THE BUDGET FOR THIS DEPARTMENT IS $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE! THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?' Ah, yes, good old bureaucracy... And NOW _ we are going to turn the Banking System, Health Care & the Auto Industry over to government? May G o d Help Us !!! U.S. demands halt to Jerusalem building project Netanyahu: 'Imagine if someone suggested Jews cannot live in New York' --WND In an article in the “Harvard Business Review,” Frederick D. Randall points to the fact that businesses often look about and compete for creative talent, while overlooking the virtually untapped asset of the natural creativity of the average executive, who may well be trapped by a system that suppresses it. He says that, “While it is true that some individuals have shown great creative capacity, it is also true that every person has creative potential.” He adds that, “The vast creative force does not really need to be developed, because it is already there; it only needs an atmosphere in which it may freely emerge.” …The one supreme fact of the universe is that it is the nature of the Infinite to create; it is the nature of humans to be creative. We are creative because each of us is an expression of Creative Mind. By ourselves, we create nothing; we are actually co-creators with God, simply letting a Creative Process flow through us. Professor Alfred North Whitehead* reached this conclusion: “God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. This Creative Principle is everywhere...the creation is a continuing process. … Insofar as man partakes of this Creative Process does he partake of the Divine of God, and that participation is his immortality, reducing the question of whether his individuality survives the death of the body to the point of irrelevancy. His true destiny as co-creator in the universe is his dignity and his grandeur.” … Humankind does not really create anything. All that has been achieved came out of Creative Mind. You are an identity in that Creative Mind and a channel through which it may express. But, at any time along life’s way, when people have achieved some tremendous thing they simply had a need and attuned their minds to Divine Ideas. The Universe teems with life and action and is prolific with ideas. We outline the need, and the Creative Process fills it Maybe our problem is that we don’t always know what the need is, and we do not have a consciousness of the Divine All-Sufficiency to fulfill it. Therefore, we do not make the commitment or have the discipline to tie the two together. The Creative Process is the means by which all things are done that have been done…all things. It matters not whether this Process is engaged in solving a problem of mathematics, creating miniature electronic circuits, working with wood, organizing inspiring sequences of words, phrases, and sentences, or the enjoining of certain mixed tonal sequences, the function for each is precisely the same. Therefore, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Edison, Michelangelo have all used the same faculties of Creative Thought, the same potential for Creative Thought, that is within you and within me. The media were different in each of them, and they may be different in terms of your need and my need, but we all become creative as we get into the Flow of Creativity. … Much of our creativity is inhibited because we don't think what we want to think. We don’t have the daring to open our minds and think originally. We may want to be successful, to achieve a particular goal, but we are conditioned to failure because of the facts of our experience—because of the habit patterns of consciousness. And that word “consciousness” is important. This is the key. You may be one with Creative Mind, and limitless potential may be waiting to be released through you. But you will only experience the Flow of Creativity to the degree that you can accept It through your faith, your vision, and your consciousness. “Within you is the unborn possibility of limitless experience, but yours is the privilege, and the responsibility, of giving birth to it.” *- Eric Butterworth* The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is spending $60,000 of its stimulus money to post road signs stating that these projects were funded by the federal stimulus money. There are some very easy private sector options that could be tried before the government takes the whole ball of wax over .... and if you want just a few easy examples, here you go: Allow insurance companies to tailor health care policies to the specific needs of the customers. I, for instance, do not need maternity protection or coverage for alcohol rehab. Allow consumers to purchase health insurance companies across state lines. Widen the availability of medical savings accounts. Allow consumers to deduct the cost of insurance from their taxable income. Allow doctors, nurses and medical suppliers to take a credit against any income taxes due for the market value of services provided free to those living at or below the poverty level. There ... that took about 30 seconds. All viable private-sector options, yet none are on the table for the Democrats in Washington . This isn't about improving our health care. This is all about taking OVER your health care and making you that much more dependent on government. Housing complex votes to ban smoking ... inside homes 'As long as tobacco is a legal product, people should be allowed' --Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Wisconsin And speaking of businesses .. the House Democrat plan also plans to impose a penalty of 8% of payroll if employers do not offer health insurance. This will be the case for all but the smallest of businesses. According to this editorial in the Miami Herald, a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) found that 20 percent of its respondents would simply shut down if they were faced with this choice. They couldn't afford it. One out of four said they would replace full-time workers with part-time workers in order to avoid having to pay anything. Now this is change you can believe in! Remember, folks. Elections have consequences. VIEW star Whoopi Goldberg questions moon landing... Do you need any more evidence that Whoopi Goldberg is a demented moonbat? "It's about time we constitutionally mandate the Federal Government to do what every American family must do, and that is balance its budget. That doesn't mean taking more out of your pocket by raising taxes. ... We the people, deserve to know that our jobs, paychecks, homes, and pensions are safe from the taxers and regulators of big government." --Ronald Reagan Veteran psychiatrist calls liberals mentally ill Publishes extensive study on 'Psychological Causes of Political Madness' --WND Engaged to Be ‘Married’ The Jerusalem Post has an interview with a member of the Basij, the teen militia that enforces the Iranian regime’s will. Even with what we knew about the Basij’s brutality, this is shocking: He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I was given the ‘honor’ to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death.” In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a “wedding” ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard--essentially raped by her “husband.” “I regret that, even though the marriages were legal,” he said. Why the regret, if the marriages were “legal?” ”Because,” he went on, “I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their ‘wedding’ night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die. ”I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over,” he said. “I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her.” When President Obama asks the Iranian regime for “engagement,” does he understand its concept of “marriage”? Agriculture Sec. Vilsack: 'Purchased 760,000 Lbs of ham at cost of approximately $1.50 per pound'... FOOD LION PRICE: $.79 Lb... FED STUDY SPIKED: Dangers of cell phone use by drivers great, growing; States should consider ban... WASHINGTON -- The watchdog overseeing the federal government financial bailout says the government's maximum exposure to financial institutions since 2007 could total nearly $24 trillion, or about $80,000 for every American. The teachers unions in New York City want parents to stop hiring private assistants to help with their child's education. You can guess why .... 'Health care' is not 'medical care' Thomas Sowell spotlights political rhetoric that smothers facts in reform debate --WND Obamacare side effect: Medical travel James Lewis: Underground economy overseas will be happy to provide us services --The American Thinker Our insight does not render us capable of judging current happenings as to whether they are good or not good. We tend to pick out things that strike us wrong as isolated, unreasonable happenings. But things work together to formulate a pattern that ultimately unfolds in our lives. Looking back, we can pick out things that have gone together to create a beneficial situation. At the time they happened, it is very difficult to see any Cosmic Pattern forming. Yet pieced together and evolving, these things may have a tremendous result, which we can hardly foresee at the beginning or even imagine at the time. Seeds of blessing are hidden in all that can be described as crises or catastrophes—seeds of blessing. In the most trying, even tragic, experience there is the possibility of good as an outworking, and the end result of course depends upon our attitude, upon the way we deal with it. Insisting that a situation is “simply awful,” as we so often do, and holding to the attitude that “this is terrible,” thwarts the seed of blessing and quite often points the way to the negative thing that we continue to see it as being. But, acknowledging the truth about it, insisting that good is present in all things and situations, will tune in your consciousness, your mind, your whole thought process to the Divine Activity of unfoldment. … In every person’s life there have been instances that seem completely hopeless and shattering and at the time It takes a lot of perception and patience to see blessings and gains in such experiences. But we can learn to see hidden values in what appears to be useless, negative, even forbidding and ugly. You see, we are creatures of choice. We are free to go down into defeat, if we permit ourselves to do so, or we are free to transform the seemingly unwanted experience into something good, simply by holding to the realization that “All Things Work Together for Good,” and that we attract only that which we can turn into a blessing. *… Our need is to know that life is good—not made up of good and* evil, happiness and unhappiness, joy and grief, but simply, LIFE IS GOOD. There certainly is a great deal of immediate factual truth in such comments as, “Well, you can’t win `em all,” or “Into every life some rain must fall.” But the deep fundamental truth is that life is good and that all things—all things, even seeming loss and failure and pain and darkness—all things are about the means of leading you to the greater awareness that life is good…and you only have to open your eyes. One of the most important lessons in life is the realization that it is not the adversity experienced or the crisis encountered or the disappointments or the heartaches met that determine what life becomes to us, but it is the attitude with which we meet these things. Eric Butterworth N.O.'s Nagin Wants Census Credit for Ex-Residents "A new report by the Lewin Group (commissioned by the Heritage Foundation) finds that the House Democrats' health care bill would shift more than 83.4 million Americans from private health care coverage to the government plan. To put that in perspective, that would mean that nearly half (48.4 percent) would lose their private health coverage." YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK FDA can't figure out its own budget 'We have to be able to talk about the funds we need, and how we're using the money' --Associated Press Thomas Sowell asks: Is there a coherent argument for government-controlled medical care or are slogans and hysteria considered sufficient? Looks like some Democrats are feeling the heat for their support of this government-run healthcare scheme. Maryland Senator Ben Cardin hosted a townhall meeting the other night on healthcare. When one particular audience member got upset about this healthcare bill stepping on our ... freedoms ... Senator Cardin's response was, "I just think the overriding public interest is to require you and everyone in this country to have health insurance." So there you go. Now our Senator's are voting based on what they believe would be best for the "public's interest." Don't you just love it when some political hack uses the word "require?" I'll tell you what the federal government ought to require. It ought to require that every person respect the rights of every other person, and to desist from the use of force or fraud in any attempt to violate another person's right to life, liberty or property. Beyond that, butt out. Census: Voter Turnout in 2008 Lowest in 12 Years ELECTION 2008 Voting rate dips as older whites stay home About 64% of nation's eligible voters cast ballots in November --Associated Press Dumbing down at the Naval Academy The U.S. Naval Academy's PowerPoint display explains diversity by saying, "Diversity is all the different characteristics and attributes of individual sailors and civilians which enhance the mission readiness of the Navy," adding that: "Diversity is more than equal opportunity, race, gender or religion. Diversity is the understanding of how each of us brings different skills, talents and experiences to the fight – and valuing those differences. Leveraging diversity creates an environment of excellence and continuous improvement to remove artificial achievement barriers and value the contribution of all participants." Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of Naval Operations, says that "diversity is the No. 1 priority" at the academy.** Diversity at the Naval Academy , as at most academic institutions, is not about equal opportunity but a race and sex spoils system to achieve what the Navy brass see as a pleasing race and sex mix. They accomplish that vision by the removal of "artificial achievement barriers." Let's go over what the Naval Academy sees as an artificial achievement barrier. A black candidate with B and C grades, with no particular leadership qualities, and 500 on both portions of the SAT, is virtually guaranteed admittance. A white student, who's not an athlete, with such scores is deemed not qualified. Many black students are admitted to the Naval Academy through remedial training at the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) in Newport , R.I. , which is a one-year post-secondary school. Finishing the year with a 2.0 GPA, a C average, almost guarantees admission to the academy. A C average for remedial work is nothing to write home about. Occasionally, when students don't make the 2.0 GPA target, the target is renegotiated downward. Minority applicants with SAT scores down to the 300s and with Cs and Ds grades (and no particular leadership or athletics) are also admitted after a remedial year at the Naval Academy Preparatory School . Bruce Fleming, an English professor at the academy for 22 years, teaches a remedial English class and finds that in his spring 2009 class, most of NAPS's students earn Cs and Ds and many are on probation. About seven years ago, professor Fleming was on the admissions board, where the standing instruction is not to write anything down because "everything is 'FOI'able" – meaning it can be demanded under the Freedom of Information Act. Such an instruction highlights the dishonesty of race preferences. The dishonesty doesn't stop there. The academy will go to great lengths to retain black students. When Fleming charged a black student with plagiarism, he was not properly informed of the hearing and subsequently the student's peer group found him not guilty. Honor violations by black students are usually "remediated." I suspected that the Naval Academy 's diversity agenda would give rise to resentments, so I asked professor Fleming about it. He said there are two levels of resentment. Some black students, who were admitted to the academy meritoriously on the same basis as white students, resent the idea of being seen as having the same academic qualities as blacks who were given preferential treatment, in other words being dumb. Another level of resentment comes from white students who see blacks as being admitted and retained at lower levels of academic performance and being treated with kid gloves. If these whites openly complained about the unequal treatment, they would run the risk of being labeled as racists. This is one of the unappreciated aspects of preferential treatment. It runs the risk of creating racist attitudes, and possibly feelings of racial superiority, among whites and others who were formerly racially neutral. Colleges and universities with racially preferential admittance policies are doing a great disservice to blacks in another, mostly ignored, way. By admitting poorly prepared blacks, they are helping to conceal the grossly fraudulent education the blacks receive at the K through 12 grades. Walter E. Williams, Ph.D., Here's another statistic for you. By the end of this fiscal year, Sept. 30, 2009, our federal government will have spent $11 billion every day. ... and you wonder why I am worried about the future of this country. *THOSE EVIL, PROFIT-MAKING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS* By Neal Boortz If it were up to the Democrats, financial institutions receiving bailout money should be chastised for making a profit. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't we be rooting and cheering for companies like Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan to succeed? Barack Obama's National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers wants to make real sure that these financial institutions know who to thank for making a profit. He says, "Prudent financial institutions will recognize that the profits they're enjoying are in part a reflection of the commitment government and the broader society have made to the financial system that has enabled them to enjoy those profits." That's right .. you companies better enjoy those profits and remember that if it wasn't for the government you would be nothing! All hail the Imperial Federal Government of the United States ! Whatever you become in life you own to your beneficent government! Katie Couric compares self to Cronkite CBS anchor describes 'grief from both sides' of aisle --Newsbusters "Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong THE DISCIPLINE OF RIGHT PLANTING IN THE FIELD OF POSSIBILITIES – There is a legend about a man who dreamed of himself standing in a field with no boundaries. He asked an approaching stranger, “What is this field called?” and he was answered, “Why, it is the Field of Possibilities, called that because it is possible for all things to grow in it. There is no evil so terrible nor good so great that cannot be grown here, no sorrow so cruel, no joy so entrancing that cannot be harvested from this field, no poverty so overwhelming, no riches so grand that have not been garnered here.” So said the stranger about this field of possibilities. Looking around him, the man saw men and women everywhere, some were burdened by great sorrows and troubles, others were free and joyous, some suffered from dreadful pain, others were radiant with health. So the man asked the stranger, again, “Why is it that some gather good from this field, and others gather evil?” and the reply was, “You see my friend, each reaps according to the seed he has planted. Each seed yields a harvest after it’s own kind. The field called the Field of Possibilities, is also called the Field of Life.” Yes, all about us lays this Field of Life. It has unlimited possibilities. Our life is always in the process of bearing harvest. Life is energy, life is power, it must yield, it must produce. We are immersed in it and we cannot prevent it from producing, but we can determine by our actions what it will bring forth, good or evil, joy or sorrow, life or death. This is God’s privilege conferred upon us in the statement, “—concerning the work of my hands command ye me.” [Isaiah 45:11] A pencil may be used to draw a figure that is ugly, and the same pencil may be used to draw a figure that is beautiful. It is merely a question of how the pencil is used. So it is with our thought, with our consciousness. We are called to the discipline of right thinking and right speaking — the right use of the Law of Mind at all times, to call forth the positive out of the Field of Infinite Possibilities. Before you and your life stretch the limitless possibilities of good in every direction, and you can unfold them according to your consciousness, as you will. If you think positive thoughts, you’re going to begin to see the positive influence along your life’s way. If you think negative thoughts, there will be a negative influence. You have the choice and you’re constantly exercising it in one way or another. All about us lies this great Field of Life— the Infinite, Unlimited Possibilities of experience. What are we going to do with it? *© Eric Butterworth* Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as Population Growth Solutions... "Today, we're spending like we're Paris Hilton, regulating like we're Ralph Nader, nationalizing like we're Hugo Chavez, printing money like we're the Weimar Republic and taxing like we're, well, the Democratic Congress." --former Georgia Democrat Sen. Zell Miller Bernanke says Fed can take on supercop role... F. L. Lawson once wrote: “If the weathervane points north, it does not bring the north wind, it is a sign that the wind is already blowing”. In the same way, our praying does not bring God’s action—it is proof that God is already moving in and through us. The very act of prayer is the Activity of God. Prayer is simply letting God be God in you. *© Eric Butterworth* GOVERNMENT MOTORS sales fall 22%... *ACORN Sues to Overturn Pa. Voter Fraud Law* PITTSBURGH -- The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a federal lawsuit in Pittsburgh seeking to strike down a Pennsylvania law used to prosecute former voter-registration workers. Wednesday's lawsuit names Attorney General Tom Corbett and county District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. as defendants. In May, Zappala charged five fired ACORN workers and two other people with collecting or submitting bogus forms so workers could meet an alleged daily quota. All seven defendants are awaiting trial. ACORN officials have denied using quotas and say the state law penalizes them for using performance standards. © 2009 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed REPORT: Feds have spent $79 billion on global warming policies,research... Cronkite: Jimmy Carter 'Smartest President' The real legacy Cronkite leaves behind in American journalism is not likely to be discussed or even admitted to by his acolytes. It is the legacy of a journalist who abandoned his obligation to report the facts and instead injected himself and his opinions into every story. He editorialized the news, and created a sad standard that is now emulated by network news anchors, cable news reporters, and newspapers across the country. The truth is now subjective. As Walter would say, "And that's the way it is." But that's not the way it should be. *WorldNetDaily* *Exclusive* Mr. President, we have a problem Obama recalls Apollo 11 splashdown in Hawaii – while he lived in Indonesia --WND All the problems with the American health care system come from government intervention, so naturally the Democrats' idea for fixing it is more government intervention This is like trying to sober up by having another drink. *By Ann Coulter* … You see, one of the basic tenants of Truth study is that each person is the living embodiment of his or her inner conviction of life. Every such conviction or idea contains within itself an embryo, so to speak, of all the conditions that are required to manifest it. So when it is manifest, it is a faithful reproduction of the primary ideas the person has entertained. The reproductive process has been successful. In other words, the person has successfully embodied his or her idea. Now, this is true of all of us. Our lives show forth that which we feel life really is. We may protest that this is not so, but, as Jesus says, “Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” [Matt. 7:20] One of the most important things to keep in mind is that the process of creation functions for us all the time—it is continuously active. It responds directly to the impress of our thinking. And since our thinking is virtually continuous, its response also is continuous. Regardless of the direction in which we aim our thoughts and regardless of character of our deep seated convictions, the act of thinking—entertaining such convictions—sets the Creative Process in motion to produce the object of our thought, and in this we are successful. We make effective use of the Creative Power of the Universe and achieve faithful results. You see, if we can understand this, a rich person and a poor person are really alike. They both are successful. Because they both have successfully embodied their inner convictions in their experiences. For that matter, the same is true of a healthy person and an ailing person, or a happy person and an unhappy person, of a high executive and a laborer, of a worker and a loafer. Each one, certainly unconsciously, has called on the Universal Power that has faithfully responded to the directed impress of his or her basic thinking. … The Creative Process will never produce a result that is opposite to an idea which is impressed on it Jesus had this in mind when he said, “Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?” [Matt. 7:16] In other words, there is only one way to control the workings of this power It is to control the means by which it is directed: our thinking process. As we revise, alter, and uplift the trend of our habitual thought, the action of the Creative Process alters correspondingly…and it is as simple as that. … If you do not like the conditions in your world, then I say, change them! Make a new world for yourself. You can do it because your world is the manifestation of your own thoughts, change these and you have changed your world. If only you would impress this fact on yourself: through your thought, you create. *©Eric Butterworth* *WorldNetDaily* *Exclusive* Obamacare for old folks: Just 'cut your life short' Health plan provision demands 'end-of-life' counseling --WND Did you know that one of Barack Obama's campaign promises was to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2011? Yeah, that'll really work wonders for our economy. But advocates for the minimum wage increases love to use this phrase "the working poor." I'm sorry, folks but nobody in their right mind should expect for you to raise a family earning minimum wage. If you do, you are a low-life. You are a failure. "The working poor" is just a fancy way of masking that reality. But with this minimum wage increase, it looks like we are going to have less "working poor" people to worry about and more plain 'po people. Probably good news for the Democrats. Millions in India are excited about the solar eclipse. Its all they're talking about.... Which makes tomorrow the worst possible day to need tech support. --Jimmy Fallon The climate industry is costing taxpayers $79 billion and counting. What a scam. *AND WHAT OF THE UNINSURED?* By Neal Boortz What's the number we hear tossed around? Let's settle on 47 million. OK, a few questions: How many of the uninsured are illegal aliens. Answer ... about 25% of them. They came here illegally, they stay here illegally, they work here illegally ... and we're supposed to be upset that they can't afford health insurance? If they get hurt patch them up and send them home. How many of the uninsured are young and just not buying health insurance because they think they're pretty much bulletproof right now? I've seen estimates as high as 20 million .. almost one-half of the uninsured. Hey, they made their choice ... let them suffer the consequences. Why do I have to sacrifice my health care freedom because some nimrods decide it is more important to pay for that new BMW and the flat screen TV than it is to take care of their health needs. How many of the uninsured are eligible for Medicaid or Medicare and just haven't signed up for it? Millions. So ... sign them up? Instead of taking over our health care, get these people signed up and take care of them under the programs we already have. And how many of the uninsured are in a transitional state ... moving from one job to another and waiting for the new policy to kick in. Millions more. We're going to turn out health care system over the government because of people changing jobs? How about just passing some laws that make health care insurance more portable? Remember .. there are solutions out there. The only solution acceptable to the Democrats is one that makes government more powerful. *BORN IN THE USA ?* Lou Dobbs: Hawaii destroyed Obama birth certificate 'They say the state government discarded the original document ... some 8 years ago' --CNN Dems: Military will be 'dragged into conflict if global climate change goes unchecked'... Justice: Investigations of Thee, but Not of Me The Justice Department has summarily dumped charges of voter intimidation against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members related to their acts of voter intimidation on Election Day 2008 in Philadelphia . The Bush Justice Department filed a civil complaint against the three men, one of whom was brandishing a nightstick, while they stood in front of a polling station spouting racist remarks and threatening people who were trying to go inside Witnesses, including civil rights lawyer Bartle Bull, called it blatant voter intimidation. But Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have allowed the case to disappear. All that came of it was a measure that bars the nightstick wielding Malik Zulu Shabazz, a virulent racist Nation of Islam lieutenant, from being within 100 feet of a polling place for three years -- meaning he can be back, nightstick in hand, for Obama's re-election bid in 2012. All-too-often, what is held to be thinking is simply the act of rearranging our prejudices. *©Eric Butterworth* DOCTOR'S ORDERS WorldNetDaily Exclusive Why won't Congress enroll in gov't health care? Democrats exempt themselves from own 'reform' --WND One day a florist wentto a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'Icannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this week.' The florist was pleased and left the shop. When the barber went toopen his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door. Later, a cop comes infor a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you , I'm doing community service this week.' The cop was happy and left theshop. The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door. Then a Congressman came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.' The Congressman was very happy and left the shop. The next morning, whenthe barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut. And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it. Looters take from producers for the benefit of the moochers who vote for the looters. Faith and Family: ABC Normalizes Perversity ABC's "Primetime Family Secrets" aired Tuesday night, featuring a family in which the father went through a sex change. Though Ted Prince became "Chloe" last year, his wife stayed with him. The couple's two sons, age seven and six, are learning to deal with the change. ABC's Juju Chang addressed the affects on the boys, saying, "Now, developmental psychologists will tell you that if you have honest, open, frank and age-appropriate conversations, the boys will be just fine." How "fine" are the boys? One boy explained, "She had a girl inside her and so she went on a surgery to get, get it out." Pointing to a family photo, he added, "And this is our other mom that used to be a dad." Sure, the boys "will be just fine." How sad that because of their father's narcissistic gender-disorientation pathology, these boys will grow up without a father. And shame on ABC for glorifying and attempting to normalize it. *WorldNetDaily* Obama czar pick: 'Raving animal rights nut' Nominee advocated hunting ban, giving creatures right to file lawsuits --WND Constitutional historian Kevin R.C. Gutzman summed it up: "[F]ederal officials don't care about a good historical argument concerning the meaning of the Constitution. Their view is that the states exist for the administrative convenience of the federal government, and so of course any conflict between state and federal policy must be resolved in favor of the latter. This is another way of saying that the 10th Amendment is not binding on the federal government." Americans who value liberty will have to do more than hope for change. The Michigan Democratic Party is considering asking voters to raise the state's minimum wage to $10 an hour. That'll work out real well for their economy. My God. Are these people really that stupid? Obama Knocks News Cycle, Then Controls it President Barack Obama may knock the so-called “news cycle,” but he has also manipulated it and ridden on its bandwagon more than any other president. During their first four months in office, Bill Clinton gave 11 interviews and George W. Bush gave 18. Meanwhile, Obama chalked up a whopping 43, according to a report in the New York Times. In fact, Obama’s “exclusive” interviews have come so fast and furiously that he once dished out “exclusive” interviews to Jim Lehrer of PBS, Katie Couric of NBC in just four days. Overall, in comparable points in their terms, Obama has divvied out three times as many interviews as George W. Bush and held four times as many prime-time news conferences as Bill Clinton. We get the leadership we deserve Exclusive: Steve Deace indicts the church, GOP for helping give us Barry Soetoro --WND SHOWDOWN: TEXAS MAY REJECT NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE... *'Scofflaw' Obama Grudge Against Cambridge Police?* One reason Barack Obama may think the Cambridge Police Department is "stupid" is that he has a grudge against the law enforcement agency. Obama, who attended Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991, lived in Cambridge , and apparently didn't like the fact he was frequently hit with parking tickets. In all Obama received 17 tickets for parking violations -- and never paid 15 of them until he was exposed by a local Massachusetts newspaper as a scofflaw. According to a 2007 Associated Press story, Obama was a parking ticket deadbeat for more than a decade -- and only felt the need to pay the 15 outstanding parking tickets as his presidential campaign began in earnest in 2007.

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had just failed an entire class.
--------------------------------------------

That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D!

No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering,
blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that.

Budget chief: Doctors fees not paid for in Obama bill...

"Halfway into 2009, Americans have turned more control of their lives over to government and politicians than ever before in history.

This proposed health care reform, through subsidies and expansion of Medicaid, would put tens of millions of new Americans on welfare.

The result is predictable. Many more citizens with incentives to stay poor and dependent

The rest of us will transfer a major part of our freedom to manage our own private lives over to bureaucrats."

--columnist Star Parker

Obama: African Americans 'More Fundamentally Rooted in the American Experience'...

"[S]ome members of Congress ... intend, as the New York Times puts it,

'to reinvent the nation's health care system.'

Let that sink in.

A handful of people who probably never even ran a small business

actually think they can reinvent the health care system."

--columnist John Stossel

White House misses deadline on spending cuts report...

… delays Guantanamo report...
UPDATE: Administration Delays Key Budget Report...

"The president's good friend, Al Gore, who stands to clean up, thanks to the Cap and Trade bill, has long campaigned for the greening of America .

How long will it take people to wake up to the fact that his major concern is the greening of Al Gore?

For good measure, the greedy oaf recently compared the battle over global warming to the war against the Nazis.

And, to think, some folks thought PETA was over the top when they compared a chicken farm to Auschwitz ."

--columnist Burt Prelutsky

Hillary Apologizes to India for Global Warming

India 'rejects key scientific findings on global warming' -- vows not to cut emissions...

Thinking Clearly about Economic Inequality

The public discussion of inequality in the United States , and no doubt elsewhere, is marked by a lack of clarity and precision. Few commentators — even those who are professional economists — speak clearly about what the various measures of economic inequality do and do not tell us. In a new study, Cato scholar Will Wilkinson challenges many common assumptions about equality and political morality that appear again and again in textbooks, media reports, and public discussions. Wilkinson’s study was profiled by online writers for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Economist, National Review and more.
Wilkinson writes:
Income inequality can indeed be reduced in a stroke by taxing the wealthy more heavily. It was, very likely, reduced in a stroke by the recent financial collapse. But just as there is no point in wanting less income inequality just for its own sake, there’s no point in cheering when the income gap narrows, since the income gap was never the problem.
The problem is that too many people in our society do not have reason to be glad that they live under these institutions rather than others. Too many Americans struggle to find decent work, and struggle to raise their families without a toxic sense of physical and economic insecurity. Too many Americans are held captive by the state for acts that should not be crimes. Too many migrant workers are abused because our laws leave them vulnerable to abuse. Too many live in fear of losing what they have achieved by courageously venturing far from home to find opportunity. Too many children are denied the opportunity to develop the intellectual skills and habits of mind necessary to take advantage of the stupendous variety of opportunities that would otherwise be available to them.
This is not okay. And it is not okay for intellectuals and policymakers to waste time and energy worrying that some people, who have had the opportunity to make the most of our institutions, have done too well. It doesn’t help. Nor does it help to encourage people to concentrate on differences in income, or to resent them. Demoralization and resentment are not what people need.

Obama Targets Wealthy With Huge Tax Bomb

Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending.

This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records.
In but another example of the left using the constituion when it suits them:
Obama is pleading the fifth amendment... refusing to provide answers as such would be self incriminating... game set and match... classic left wing hypocrites the constitution applies only when it suits them.

Obama Health Plan to Cover 12 Million Illegals

This whole comment underscores one of the things that bothers us most about Obama. He says that slavery is "relevant" to today's humanitarian crises in places like Darfur and Congo . For the sake of argument, let's accept that this is true. What are we supposed to do?
Well, we're supposed to "never forget" slavery, to "think about it," to improve "the way it's taught," to "widen the lens," to "make sure we're all reflecting." Oh, and he wants "every child to think about" it.
By Obama's lights, then, it would seem that understanding slavery is important because it yields an endless supply of endless abstractions with which to respond ineffectually to contemporary humanitarian crisis. While every child is thinking about this stuff, is the president of the United States doing anything?

What the other obits won't tell you about Cronkite
'Most trusted' newsman pushed radical agenda
--WND

Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
..... During the Carter Administration? Anybody? Anything? No?
Bottom line ... We've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency ...the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember.
It was very simple .. And at the time everybody thought it very appropriate... The 'Department of Energy' was instituted on 8-04-1977
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
So how did this government bureaucracy work out?
NOW IT'S 2009, 32 YEARS LATER .. THE BUDGET FOR THIS DEPARTMENT IS $24.2 BILLION A YEAR.
IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES
AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'

Ah, yes, good old bureaucracy...

And NOW _ we are going to turn the Banking System, Health Care & the Auto Industry over to government?

May G o d Help Us !!!

U.S. demands halt to Jerusalem building project
Netanyahu: 'Imagine if someone suggested Jews cannot live in New York'
--WND

In an article in the “Harvard Business Review,” Frederick D. Randall points to the fact that businesses often look about and compete for creative talent, while overlooking the virtually untapped asset of the natural creativity of the average executive, who may well be trapped by a system that suppresses it. He says that, “While it is true that some individuals have shown great creative capacity, it is also true that every person has creative potential.” He adds that, “The vast creative force does not really need to be developed, because it is already there; it only needs an atmosphere in which it may freely emerge.”
…The one supreme fact of the universe is that it is the nature of the Infinite to create; it is the nature of humans to be creative. We are creative because each of us is an expression of Creative Mind. By ourselves, we create nothing; we are actually co-creators with God, simply letting a Creative Process flow through us. Professor Alfred North Whitehead* reached this conclusion: “God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. This Creative Principle is everywhere...the creation is a continuing process. … Insofar as man partakes of this Creative Process does he partake of the Divine of God, and that participation is his immortality, reducing the question of whether his individuality survives the death of the body to the point of irrelevancy. His true destiny as co-creator in the universe is his dignity and his grandeur.”
… Humankind does not really create anything. All that has been achieved came out of Creative Mind. You are an identity in that Creative Mind and a channel through which it may express. But, at any time along life’s way, when people have achieved some tremendous thing they simply had a need and attuned their minds to Divine Ideas. The Universe teems with life and action and is prolific with ideas. We outline the need, and the Creative Process fills it Maybe our problem is that we don’t always know what the need is, and we do not have a consciousness of the Divine All-Sufficiency to fulfill it. Therefore, we do not make the commitment or have the discipline to tie the two together. The Creative Process is the means by which all things are done that have been done…all things. It matters not whether this Process is engaged in solving a problem of mathematics, creating miniature electronic circuits, working with wood, organizing inspiring sequences of words, phrases, and sentences, or the enjoining of certain mixed tonal sequences, the function for each is precisely the same. Therefore, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Edison, Michelangelo have all used the same faculties of Creative Thought, the same potential for Creative Thought, that is within you and within me. The media were different in each of them, and they may be different in terms of your need and my need, but we all become creative as we get into the Flow of Creativity.
… Much of our creativity is inhibited because we don't think what we want to think. We don’t have the daring to open our minds and think originally. We may want to be successful, to achieve a particular goal, but we are conditioned to failure because of the facts of our experience—because of the habit patterns of consciousness. And that word “consciousness” is important. This is the key. You may be one with Creative Mind, and limitless potential may be waiting to be released through you. But you will only experience the Flow of Creativity to the degree that you can accept It through your faith, your vision, and your consciousness.
“Within you is the unborn possibility of limitless experience, but yours is the privilege, and the responsibility, of giving birth to it.”
- Eric Butterworth

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is spending $60,000 of its stimulus money

to post road signs stating that these projects were funded by the federal stimulus money.

There are some very easy private sector options that could be tried before the government takes the whole ball of wax over .... and if you want just a few easy examples, here you go:

Allow insurance companies to tailor health care policies to the specific needs of the customers. I, for instance, do not need maternity protection or coverage for alcohol rehab.

Allow consumers to purchase health insurance companies across state lines.
Widen the availability of medical savings accounts.
Allow consumers to deduct the cost of insurance from their taxable income.
Allow doctors, nurses and medical suppliers to take a credit against any income taxes due for the market value of services provided free to those living at or below the poverty level.

There ... that took about 30 seconds. All viable private-sector options, yet none are on the table for the Democrats in Washington .

This isn't about improving our health care.

This is all about taking OVER your health care and making you that much more dependent on government.

Housing complex votes to ban smoking ... inside homes
'As long as tobacco is a legal product, people should be allowed'
--Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, Wisconsin

And speaking of businesses .. the House Democrat plan also plans to impose a penalty of 8% of payroll if employers do not offer health insurance.
This will be the case for all but the smallest of businesses.
According to this editorial in the Miami Herald, a survey by the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) found that 20 percent of its respondents would simply shut down if they were faced with this choice. They couldn't afford it. One out of four said they would replace full-time workers with part-time workers in order to avoid having to pay anything.
Now this is change you can believe in! Remember, folks. Elections have consequences.

VIEW star Whoopi Goldberg questions moon landing...

Do you need any more evidence that Whoopi Goldberg is a demented moonbat?

"It's about time we constitutionally mandate the Federal Government to do what every American family must do, and that is balance its budget.

That doesn't mean taking more out of your pocket by raising taxes. ...

We the people, deserve to know that our jobs, paychecks, homes, and pensions are safe from the taxers and regulators of big government."

--Ronald Reagan

Veteran psychiatrist calls liberals mentally ill
Publishes extensive study on 'Psychological Causes of Political Madness'
--WND

Engaged to Be ‘Married’
The Jerusalem Post has an interview with a member of the Basij, the teen militia that enforces the Iranian regime’s will. Even with what we knew about the Basij’s brutality, this is shocking:
He said he had been a highly regarded member of the force, and had so “impressed my superiors” that, at 18, “I was given the ‘honor’ to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death.”
In the Islamic Republic it is illegal to execute a young woman, regardless of her crime, if she is a virgin, he explained. Therefore a “wedding” ceremony is conducted the night before the execution: The young girl is forced to have sexual intercourse with a prison guard--essentially raped by her “husband.”

“I regret that, even though the marriages were legal,” he said.

Why the regret, if the marriages were “legal?”

”Because,” he went on, “I could tell that the girls were more afraid of their ‘wedding’ night than of the execution that awaited them in the morning. And they would always fight back, so we would have to put sleeping pills in their food. By morning the girls would have an empty expression; it seemed like they were ready or wanted to die.

”I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over,” he said. “I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her.”
When President Obama asks the Iranian regime for “engagement,” does he understand its concept of “marriage”?

Agriculture Sec. Vilsack: 'Purchased 760,000 Lbs of ham at cost of approximately $1.50 per pound'...

FOOD LION PRICE: $.79 Lb...

FED STUDY SPIKED: Dangers of cell phone use by drivers great, growing; States should consider ban...

WASHINGTON -- The watchdog overseeing the federal government financial bailout

says the government's maximum exposure to financial institutions since 2007

could total nearly $24 trillion, or about $80,000 for every American.

The teachers unions in New York City want parents to stop hiring private assistants

to help with their child's education.

You can guess why ....

'Health care' is not 'medical care'
Thomas Sowell spotlights political rhetoric that smothers facts in reform debate
--WND

Obamacare side effect: Medical travel
James Lewis: Underground economy overseas will be happy to provide us services
--The American Thinker

Our insight does not render us capable of judging current happenings as to whether they are good or not good. We tend to pick out things that strike us wrong as isolated, unreasonable happenings. But things work together to formulate a pattern that ultimately unfolds in our lives. Looking back, we can pick out things that have gone together to create a beneficial situation. At the time they happened, it is very difficult to see any Cosmic Pattern forming. Yet pieced together and evolving, these things may have a tremendous result, which we can hardly foresee at the beginning or even imagine at the time.
Seeds of blessing are hidden in all that can be described as crises or catastrophes—seeds of blessing. In the most trying, even tragic, experience there is the possibility of good as an outworking, and the end result of course depends upon our attitude, upon the way we deal with it. Insisting that a situation is “simply awful,” as we so often do, and holding to the attitude that “this is terrible,” thwarts the seed of blessing and quite often points the way to the negative thing that we continue to see it as being. But, acknowledging the truth about it, insisting that good is present in all things and situations, will tune in your consciousness, your mind, your whole thought process to the Divine Activity of unfoldment.
… In every person’s life there have been instances that seem completely hopeless and shattering and at the time It takes a lot of perception and patience to see blessings and gains in such experiences. But we can learn to see hidden values in what appears to be useless, negative, even forbidding and ugly. You see, we are creatures of choice. We are free to go down into defeat, if we permit ourselves to do so, or we are free to transform the seemingly unwanted experience into something good, simply by holding to the realization that “All Things Work Together for Good,” and that we attract only that which we can turn into a blessing.
… Our need is to know that life is good—not made up of good and evil, happiness and unhappiness, joy and grief, but simply, LIFE IS GOOD. There certainly is a great deal of immediate factual truth in such comments as, “Well, you can’t win `em all,” or “Into every life some rain must fall.” But the deep fundamental truth is that life is good and that all things—all things, even seeming loss and failure and pain and darkness—all things are about the means of leading you to the greater awareness that life is good…and you only have to open your eyes.
One of the most important lessons in life is the realization that it is not the adversity experienced or the crisis encountered or the disappointments or the heartaches met that determine what life becomes to us, but it is the attitude with which we meet these things.
Eric Butterworth

N.O.'s Nagin Wants Census Credit for Ex-Residents

"A new report by the Lewin Group (commissioned by the Heritage Foundation)
finds that the House Democrats' health care bill would shift more than 83.4 million Americans
from private health care coverage to the government plan.
To put that in perspective, that would mean that nearly half (48.4 percent) would lose their private health coverage."

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
FDA can't figure out its own budget
'We have to be able to talk about the funds we need, and how we're using the money'
--Associated Press

Thomas Sowell asks:

Is there a coherent argument for government-controlled medical care

or are slogans and hysteria considered sufficient?

Looks like some Democrats are feeling the heat for their support of this government-run healthcare scheme. Maryland Senator Ben Cardin hosted a townhall meeting the other night on healthcare. When one particular audience member got upset about this healthcare bill stepping on our ... freedoms ... Senator Cardin's response was,
"I just think the overriding public interest is to require you and everyone in this country to have health insurance."
So there you go. Now our Senator's are voting based on what they believe would be best for the "public's interest."
Don't you just love it when some political hack uses the word "require?" I'll tell you what the federal government ought to require.
It ought to require that every person respect the rights of every other person, and to desist from the use of force or fraud in any attempt to violate another person's right to life, liberty or property.
Beyond that, butt out.

Census: Voter Turnout in 2008 Lowest in 12 Years

ELECTION 2008
Voting rate dips as older whites stay home
About 64% of nation's eligible voters cast ballots in November
--Associated Press

Dumbing down at the Naval Academy

The U.S. Naval Academy's PowerPoint display explains diversity by saying, "Diversity is all the different characteristics and attributes of individual sailors and civilians which enhance the mission readiness of the Navy," adding that: "Diversity is more than equal opportunity, race, gender or religion. Diversity is the understanding of how each of us brings different skills, talents and experiences to the fight – and valuing those differences. Leveraging diversity creates an environment of excellence and continuous improvement to remove artificial achievement barriers and value the contribution of all participants." Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of Naval Operations, says that "diversity is the No. 1 priority" at the academy.
Diversity at the Naval Academy , as at most academic institutions, is not about equal opportunity but a race and sex spoils system to achieve what the Navy brass see as a pleasing race and sex mix. They accomplish that vision by the removal of "artificial achievement barriers." Let's go over what the Naval Academy sees as an artificial achievement barrier. A black candidate with B and C grades, with no particular leadership qualities, and 500 on both portions of the SAT, is virtually guaranteed admittance. A white student, who's not an athlete, with such scores is deemed not qualified.
Many black students are admitted to the Naval Academy through remedial training at the Naval Academy Preparatory School (NAPS) in Newport , R.I. , which is a one-year post-secondary school. Finishing the year with a 2.0 GPA, a C average, almost guarantees admission to the academy. A C average for remedial work is nothing to write home about. Occasionally, when students don't make the 2.0 GPA target, the target is renegotiated downward. Minority applicants with SAT scores down to the 300s and with Cs and Ds grades (and no particular leadership or athletics) are also admitted after a remedial year at the Naval Academy Preparatory School .
Bruce Fleming, an English professor at the academy for 22 years, teaches a remedial English class and finds that in his spring 2009 class, most of NAPS's students earn Cs and Ds and many are on probation. About seven years ago, professor Fleming was on the admissions board, where the standing instruction is not to write anything down because "everything is 'FOI'able" – meaning it can be demanded under the Freedom of Information Act. Such an instruction highlights the dishonesty of race preferences. The dishonesty doesn't stop there. The academy will go to great lengths to retain black students. When Fleming charged a black student with plagiarism, he was not properly informed of the hearing and subsequently the student's peer group found him not guilty. Honor violations by black students are usually "remediated."
I suspected that the Naval Academy 's diversity agenda would give rise to resentments, so I asked professor Fleming about it. He said there are two levels of resentment. Some black students, who were admitted to the academy meritoriously on the same basis as white students, resent the idea of being seen as having the same academic qualities as blacks who were given preferential treatment, in other words being dumb. Another level of resentment comes from white students who see blacks as being admitted and retained at lower levels of academic performance and being treated with kid gloves. If these whites openly complained about the unequal treatment, they would run the risk of being labeled as racists. This is one of the unappreciated aspects of preferential treatment. It runs the risk of creating racist attitudes, and possibly feelings of racial superiority, among whites and others who were formerly racially neutral.
Colleges and universities with racially preferential admittance policies are doing a great disservice to blacks in another, mostly ignored, way. By admitting poorly prepared blacks, they are helping to conceal the grossly fraudulent education the blacks receive at the K through 12 grades.
Walter E. Williams, Ph.D.,

Here's another statistic for you.
By the end of this fiscal year, Sept. 30, 2009, our federal government will have spent $11 billion every day.
... and you wonder why I am worried about the future of this country.

THOSE EVIL, PROFIT-MAKING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS By Neal Boortz

If it were up to the Democrats, financial institutions receiving bailout money should be chastised for making a profit. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Shouldn't we be rooting and cheering for companies like Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan to succeed?
Barack Obama's National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers wants to make real sure that these financial institutions know who to thank for making a profit. He says, "Prudent financial institutions will recognize that the profits they're enjoying are in part a reflection of the commitment government and the broader society have made to the financial system that has enabled them to enjoy those profits."
That's right .. you companies better enjoy those profits and remember that if it wasn't for the government you would be nothing!
All hail the Imperial Federal Government of the United States ! Whatever you become in life you own to your beneficent government!

Katie Couric compares self to Cronkite
CBS anchor describes 'grief from both sides' of aisle
--Newsbusters

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
- Lance Armstrong

THE DISCIPLINE OF RIGHT PLANTING IN THE FIELD OF POSSIBILITIES – There is a legend about a man who dreamed of himself standing in a field with no boundaries. He asked an approaching stranger, “What is this field called?” and he was answered, “Why, it is the Field of Possibilities, called that because it is possible for all things to grow in it. There is no evil so terrible nor good so great that cannot be grown here, no sorrow so cruel, no joy so entrancing that cannot be harvested from this field, no poverty so overwhelming, no riches so grand that have not been garnered here.” So said the stranger about this field of possibilities. Looking around him, the man saw men and women everywhere, some were burdened by great sorrows and troubles, others were free and joyous, some suffered from dreadful pain, others were radiant with health.
So the man asked the stranger, again, “Why is it that some gather good from this field, and others gather evil?” and the reply was, “You see my friend, each reaps according to the seed he has planted. Each seed yields a harvest after it’s own kind. The field called the Field of Possibilities, is also called the Field of Life.”
Yes, all about us lays this Field of Life. It has unlimited possibilities. Our life is always in the process of bearing harvest. Life is energy, life is power, it must yield, it must produce. We are immersed in it and we cannot prevent it from producing, but we can determine by our actions what it will bring forth, good or evil, joy or sorrow, life or death. This is God’s privilege conferred upon us in the statement, “—concerning the work of my hands command ye me.” [Isaiah 45:11]
A pencil may be used to draw a figure that is ugly, and the same pencil may be used to draw a figure that is beautiful. It is merely a question of how the pencil is used. So it is with our thought, with our consciousness. We are called to the discipline of right thinking and right speaking — the right use of the Law of Mind at all times, to call forth the positive out of the Field of Infinite Possibilities. Before you and your life stretch the limitless possibilities of good in every direction, and you can unfold them according to your consciousness, as you will. If you think positive thoughts, you’re going to begin to see the positive influence along your life’s way. If you think negative thoughts, there will be a negative influence. You have the choice and you’re constantly exercising it in one way or another. All about us lies this great Field of Life— the Infinite, Unlimited Possibilities of experience. What are we going to do with it?
© Eric Butterworth

Obama's Science Czar Considered Forced Abortions, Sterilization as Population Growth Solutions...

"Today, we're spending like we're Paris Hilton,

regulating like we're Ralph Nader,

nationalizing like we're Hugo Chavez,

printing money like we're the Weimar Republic

and taxing like we're, well, the Democratic Congress."

--former Georgia Democrat Sen. Zell Miller

Bernanke says Fed can take on supercop role...

F. L. Lawson once wrote:
“If the weathervane points north, it does not bring the north wind, it is a sign that the wind is already blowing”.
In the same way, our praying does not bring God’s action—it is proof that God is already moving in and through us.
The very act of prayer is the Activity of God. Prayer is simply letting God be God in you.
© Eric Butterworth

GOVERNMENT MOTORS sales fall 22%...

ACORN Sues to Overturn Pa. Voter Fraud Law
PITTSBURGH -- The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now and the American Civil Liberties Union have filed a federal lawsuit in Pittsburgh seeking to strike down a Pennsylvania law used to prosecute former voter-registration workers.
Wednesday's lawsuit names Attorney General Tom Corbett and county District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. as defendants.
In May, Zappala charged five fired ACORN workers and two other people with collecting or submitting bogus forms so workers could meet an alleged daily quota. All seven defendants are awaiting trial.
ACORN officials have denied using quotas and say the state law penalizes them for using performance standards.
© 2009 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed

REPORT: Feds have spent $79 billion on global warming policies,research...

Cronkite: Jimmy Carter 'Smartest President'

The real legacy Cronkite leaves behind in American journalism is not likely to be discussed or even admitted to by his acolytes.
It is the legacy of a journalist who abandoned his obligation to report the facts and instead injected himself and his opinions into every story.
He editorialized the news, and created a sad standard that is now emulated by network news anchors, cable news reporters, and newspapers across the country.
The truth is now subjective. As Walter would say, "And that's the way it is." But that's not the way it should be.

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Mr. President, we have a problem
Obama recalls Apollo 11 splashdown in Hawaii – while he lived in Indonesia
--WND

All the problems with the American health care system

come from government intervention,

so naturally the Democrats' idea for fixing it is more government intervention

This is like trying to sober up by having another drink.

By Ann Coulter

… You see, one of the basic tenants of Truth study is that each person is the living embodiment of his or her inner conviction of life. Every such conviction or idea contains within itself an embryo, so to speak, of all the conditions that are required to manifest it. So when it is manifest, it is a faithful reproduction of the primary ideas the person has entertained. The reproductive process has been successful. In other words, the person has successfully embodied his or her idea. Now, this is true of all of us. Our lives show forth that which we feel life really is. We may protest that this is not so, but, as Jesus says, “Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.” [Matt. 7:20]
One of the most important things to keep in mind is that the process of creation functions for us all the time—it is continuously active. It responds directly to the impress of our thinking. And since our thinking is virtually continuous, its response also is continuous. Regardless of the direction in which we aim our thoughts and regardless of character of our deep seated convictions, the act of thinking—entertaining such convictions—sets the Creative Process in motion to produce the object of our thought, and in this we are successful. We make effective use of the Creative Power of the Universe and achieve faithful results. You see, if we can understand this, a rich person and a poor person are really alike. They both are successful. Because they both have successfully embodied their inner convictions in their experiences. For that matter, the same is true of a healthy person and an ailing person, or a happy person and an unhappy person, of a high executive and a laborer, of a worker and a loafer. Each one, certainly unconsciously, has called on the Universal Power that has faithfully responded to the directed impress of his or her basic thinking.
… The Creative Process will never produce a result that is opposite to an idea which is impressed on it Jesus had this in mind when he said, “Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles?” [Matt. 7:16] In other words, there is only one way to control the workings of this power It is to control the means by which it is directed: our thinking process. As we revise, alter, and uplift the trend of our habitual thought, the action of the Creative Process alters correspondingly…and it is as simple as that.
… If you do not like the conditions in your world, then I say, change them! Make a new world for yourself. You can do it because your world is the manifestation of your own thoughts, change these and you have changed your world. If only you would impress this fact on yourself: through your thought, you create.
©Eric Butterworth

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Obamacare for old folks: Just 'cut your life short'
Health plan provision demands 'end-of-life' counseling
--WND

Did you know that one of Barack Obama's campaign promises was to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2011? Yeah, that'll really work wonders for our economy.
But advocates for the minimum wage increases love to use this phrase "the working poor." I'm sorry, folks but nobody in their right mind should expect for you to raise a family earning minimum wage. If you do, you are a low-life. You are a failure. "The working poor" is just a fancy way of masking that reality. But with this minimum wage increase, it looks like we are going to have less "working poor" people to worry about and more plain 'po people.
Probably good news for the Democrats.

Millions in India are excited about the solar eclipse. Its all they're talking about....

Which makes tomorrow the worst possible day to need tech support.

--Jimmy Fallon

The climate industry is costing taxpayers $79 billion and counting. What a scam.

AND WHAT OF THE UNINSURED? By Neal Boortz

What's the number we hear tossed around? Let's settle on 47 million. OK, a few questions:
How many of the uninsured are illegal aliens. Answer ... about 25% of them. They came here illegally, they stay here illegally, they work here illegally ... and we're supposed to be upset that they can't afford health insurance? If they get hurt patch them up and send them home.
How many of the uninsured are young and just not buying health insurance because they think they're pretty much bulletproof right now? I've seen estimates as high as 20 million .. almost one-half of the uninsured. Hey, they made their choice ... let them suffer the consequences. Why do I have to sacrifice my health care freedom because some nimrods decide it is more important to pay for that new BMW and the flat screen TV than it is to take care of their health needs.
How many of the uninsured are eligible for Medicaid or Medicare and just haven't signed up for it? Millions. So ... sign them up? Instead of taking over our health care, get these people signed up and take care of them under the programs we already have.
And how many of the uninsured are in a transitional state ... moving from one job to another and waiting for the new policy to kick in. Millions more. We're going to turn out health care system over the government because of people changing jobs? How about just passing some laws that make health care insurance more portable?
Remember .. there are solutions out there. The only solution acceptable to the Democrats is one that makes government more powerful.

BORN IN THE USA ?
Lou Dobbs: Hawaii destroyed Obama birth certificate
'They say the state government discarded the original document ... some 8 years ago'
--CNN

Dems: Military will be 'dragged into conflict if global climate change goes unchecked'...

Justice: Investigations of Thee, but Not of Me

The Justice Department has summarily dumped charges of voter intimidation against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members related to their acts of voter intimidation on Election Day 2008 in Philadelphia .
The Bush Justice Department filed a civil complaint against the three men, one of whom was brandishing a nightstick, while they stood in front of a polling station spouting racist remarks and threatening people who were trying to go inside
Witnesses, including civil rights lawyer Bartle Bull, called it blatant voter intimidation.
But Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have allowed the case to disappear.
All that came of it was a measure that bars the nightstick wielding Malik Zulu Shabazz, a virulent racist Nation of Islam lieutenant, from being within 100 feet of a polling place for three years -- meaning he can be back, nightstick in hand, for Obama's re-election bid in 2012.

All-too-often, what is held to be thinking is simply the act of rearranging our prejudices.
©Eric Butterworth

DOCTOR'S ORDERS
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Why won't Congress enroll in gov't health care?
Democrats exempt themselves from own 'reform'
--WND

One day a florist wentto a barber for a haircut.

After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'Icannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this week.' The florist was pleased and left the shop.

When the barber went toopen his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.

Later, a cop comes infor a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you , I'm doing community service this week.' The cop was happy and left theshop.

The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.

Then a Congressman came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.' The Congressman was very happy and left the shop.

The next morning, whenthe barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.

And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.

Looters take from producers

for the benefit of the moochers

who vote for the looters.

Faith and Family: ABC Normalizes Perversity

ABC's "Primetime Family Secrets" aired Tuesday night, featuring a family in which the father went through a sex change. Though Ted Prince became "Chloe" last year, his wife stayed with him. The couple's two sons, age seven and six, are learning to deal with the change.
ABC's Juju Chang addressed the affects on the boys, saying, "Now, developmental psychologists will tell you that if you have honest, open, frank and age-appropriate conversations, the boys will be just fine."
How "fine" are the boys? One boy explained, "She had a girl inside her and so she went on a surgery to get, get it out." Pointing to a family photo, he added, "And this is our other mom that used to be a dad."
Sure, the boys "will be just fine."
How sad that because of their father's narcissistic gender-disorientation pathology, these boys will grow up without a father.
And shame on ABC for glorifying and attempting to normalize it.

WorldNetDaily
Obama czar pick: 'Raving animal rights nut'
Nominee advocated hunting ban, giving creatures right to file lawsuits
--WND

Constitutional historian Kevin R.C. Gutzman summed it up:
"[F]ederal officials don't care about a good historical argument concerning the meaning of the Constitution.
Their view is that the states exist for the administrative convenience of the federal government, and so of course any conflict between state and federal policy must be resolved in favor of the latter.
This is another way of saying that the 10th Amendment is not binding on the federal government." Americans who value liberty will have to do more than hope for change.

The Michigan Democratic Party is considering asking voters to raise the state's minimum wage to $10 an hour.

That'll work out real well for their economy.

My God. Are these people really that stupid?

Obama Knocks News Cycle, Then Controls it
President Barack Obama may knock the so-called “news cycle,” but he has also manipulated it and ridden on its bandwagon more than any other president.
During their first four months in office, Bill Clinton gave 11 interviews and George W. Bush gave 18. Meanwhile, Obama chalked up a whopping 43, according to a report in the New York Times. In fact, Obama’s “exclusive” interviews have come so fast and furiously that he once dished out “exclusive” interviews to Jim Lehrer of PBS, Katie Couric of NBC in just four days.
Overall, in comparable points in their terms, Obama has divvied out three times as many interviews as George W. Bush and held four times as many prime-time news conferences as Bill Clinton.

We get the leadership we deserve
Exclusive: Steve Deace indicts the church, GOP for helping give us Barry Soetoro
--WND

SHOWDOWN: TEXAS MAY REJECT NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE...

'Scofflaw' Obama Grudge Against Cambridge Police?

One reason Barack Obama may think the Cambridge Police Department is "stupid" is that he has a grudge against the law enforcement agency.
Obama, who attended Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991, lived in Cambridge , and apparently didn't like the fact he was frequently hit with parking tickets.
In all Obama received 17 tickets for parking violations -- and never paid 15 of them until he was exposed by a local Massachusetts newspaper as a scofflaw.
According to a 2007 Associated Press story, Obama was a parking ticket deadbeat for more than a decade -- and only felt the need to pay the 15 outstanding parking tickets as his presidential campaign began in earnest in 2007.

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