Political Commentary -- February 2012
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misdirection speaking simple words of misdirection discussions, part 3 expressions #186. Copyright © 2012 by Ken Gilbert. All rights reserved.
Religious
Persecution America was founded upon the principle of religious freedom by groups of people who put their lives and fortunes at risk coming to a new world where they were free to worship any way they wanted to, where the state had no say in the matter. It was upon this solid foundation of religious freedom that our founding fathers stood when they penned the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. Amendment 1 of the Constitution starts out with “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; …” Amendment 1 states that Congress cannot make any laws that favor one religion over another. We know from letters and articles written by the founders that they feared the intrusion of a state sponsored religion, as was prevalent throughout Europe at the time. Amendment 1 also states that Congress cannot prevent the exercise of any religion, or prevent the practice of any specific religious tenet. The intent of this provision seems clear to us now, that the people of America were to be left alone to carry out the individual tenets of their religion, without interference from the federal government. As with any provision in a legal document, there are always loopholes left for creative people to skirt the provision as intended. For example, the Amendment does not offer any limitations or exclusions to how religion is practiced. This is where the federal and Supreme courts have helped over the years by closing the loopholes left by our founders. One such example of a loophole might be the carrying out of a murder in the name of a specific religious tenet. Is it lawful, for example, to murder someone just because one of the religious tenets says murder is required if another of the tenets is broken? Of course not! My point is that we have many examples in the history of our country where moral conscience dictates that the secular law must override a specific religious tenet, like murder. So why then the big fuss over Obama’s mandate that religious organizations must include abortion and contraception in the federally mandated health insurance provided to their employees? This is no big deal! Right? Wrong! According to the Catholic religious tenets, abortion and contraception are the equivalent of the murdering of an unborn or yet to be conceived child; and many other religions agree with this tenet. Here we have the federal government arguing religious freedom means allowing women healthcare access to abortion and contraception, even when the religious tenets say otherwise. To put it into the proper perspective, we have the federal government wanting to force the Catholic church, and other religious organizations, to allow their employees church sponsored and church funded access to abortion and contraception, which the church considers the equivalent of murdering an unborn or yet to be conceived child. This is bizarre! We have our amoral federal government arguing morality on behalf murder, even when a morally conscious religious organization says it goes against their religious tenets to murder. This sounds like something out of Chairman Mao’s little red book. He’s the one who said “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Well in our country political power hasn’t grown out of the barrel of a gun, but out of the tearing down of the intentions of our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution of the United States of America. This double think, where our government is arguing that murder is allowed in the name of religious freedom when it comes to abortion and contraception, but not when it comes to beheadings and revenge murders, is the result of a bloodless revolution carried out in the United States of America over the last century by the progressive amoral left. When will America wake up, and say ‘Enough is enough?’ When will we set aside our complacency and begin to fight for what we believe in? We need to fight against every leftist politician in office, and seeking office. It’s time to throw them and their progressive amoral leftist agenda out of office. It’s time to make our morality heard loudly and clearly in the public forum. Speak up now, before it’s too late. blessings,
Breitbart at CPAC Posted February 11, 2012 This is a great video of Andrew Breitbart on Obama and the progressive left at CPAC.
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blessings,
Obama Doublespeak Yesterday Obama announced his fiscal year 2013 budget proposal at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale Virginia, where he floated the idea that not raising taxes is a form of government spending. Is it just me, or does this also strike you as some sort of political Orwellian doublespeak? Up is down, left is right, good is evil, and spending more gets you out of debt. Obama’s fundamental premise in thinking that not taxing someone, we the people, is considered spending exposes his true motives when it comes to our money, the money we work very hard and long to earn. He believes that the money we the people earn is already his, the government’s, money and that not taking it from us in the form of taxes is the very same as spending it on us. This is absolutely absurd! It’s not his, or the government’s, money. It’s ours; we earned it; and if he thinks of it as his, what’s to stop him from wanting to take it all one day, and give us a little food and broken down shelter and tattered clothes in return? This is the same thinking that permeated the central committee in Russia under communism. They took all the money, the best housing, the best food, and the best clothes and left the dregs for the common people. They didn’t care about the people, only about what they could squeeze out of the corrupt system for themselves. Does anyone out there notice the similarities between communist Russia then and what’s happening in the United States of America now? Fortunately, communism didn’t survive Reagan. He spent them to death trying to maintain in the cold war armament game. Although, then the communists didn’t know they had large reserves of oil, which could generate large reserves of cash to spend on newer and better armaments. And we continue the ‘spend till you drop’ mentality under Bush 43 and Obama; and then to add insult to injury, we stopped the drilling for and production of our own oil reserves. You know the rest of the story. We’re currently over 15 trillion dollars in debt, and Obama’s latest budget proposal calls for adding another 1 trillion dollars to the debt this year, and adding another 1.33 trillion dollars next year, in fiscal year 2013. But then, WOW, he promises to reduce the debt by 4 trillion dollars by 2022, which, according to the CBO, is already projected to be in excess of 25 trillion dollars by then. What a magnanimous hero this Obama! That means that by 2022 the national debt will only be in excess of 21 trillion dollars. Let’s all celebrate in the streets! It’s time for we the people to wake up and smell the garbage doublespeak of Obama and his progressive amoral leftist cronies. They are going to spend us into oblivion if we don’t rise up and stop them. Edmund Burke said “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Please don’t let evil triumph. Speak up now in the public forum. Make your voice heard. Before it’s too late. blessings,
Geithner Obfuscation Posted February 17, 2012 Geithner tries to circumvent and obfuscate the truth about Obama's America killing budget when questioned by Paul Ryan. Geithner admits that the administration has no plan to reduce the deficit, but he does admit that they do not like Ryan's plan.
blessings,
President’s Day
Today is President’s Day, a day set aside to celebrate the lives and contributions of all past presidents of this once great nation. I say ‘once great nation’ because today it appears as though one seeks the office of President of the United States of America for personal ambition, power, and monetary gain. In contrast, George Washington did not seek the office at all; he was sought after by his countrymen, and fellow founders of the greatest republican experiment of all times, to run for the office. Washington would have preferred to remain in Virginia managing Mount Vernon and his other farms, in retirement after leading the Revolutionary army to success during the long drawn out war for independence with Great Britain. Washington’s motives, clearly represented in his surviving letters, and especially in his Farewell Address of 1796, show us that he neither wanted the office, nor wanted to continue after his first term, but was willing to set aside his own personal desires to serve his fledgling nation in order to guarantee that it got off on the right foot, and continued to navigate the external threats of the time. Washington selflessly gave himself to the service of his country in order to ensure it survived infancy. Without his selfless contribution the new nation would have torn itself apart politically over the diverse interests of the northern and southern states, or over the war-provoking behavior of the European monarchs on the open seas. This is why George Washington becomes the epitome of, and the poster child for, the holiday we lovingly call President’s Day. It would be nice to see this kind of selfless sacrifice in the land of the living, in the behavior and attitudes of our current President, and in those Republicans seeking the nomination for the office. But alas, there doesn’t appear to be one in the whole lot who is willing to put the needs and issues of the entire country ahead of their own personal ambition, power, and monetary gain, or even ahead of their own political party. The days of selfless service are over. Please pray for our nation, and that God would raise up leaders cut from the same cloth as George Washington. Our nation is only as great as the people who serve it. blessings,
Santorum on Santorum Posted February 21, 2012 Santorum, in an interview with Hannity, addresses the current attacks on his statement that Obama’s environmental values represent a phony theology.
Here Santorum discusses his views on the forced contraception mandate by the Obama administration, saying that it is an attack on freedom of religion.
blessings,
King Obama In addition to taking a page out of the conservative Republican playbook by offering up lower corporate tax rates, which will never pass in the Democrat led Senate, and which will only drive up our national debt faster without offsetting spending cuts, Obama said yesterday “When Congress refuses to act, Joe and I are going to act.” Obama continued, saying “In the months to come, wherever we have an opportunity, we’re going to take steps on our own to keep this economy moving.” Then he said “With or without Congress, I’m going to continue to fight for them (the middle class). I do hope Congress joins me instead of spending the coming months in a lot of phony political debates focusing on the next election.” With these statements he announced his intention to expand the federal government’s purchase of bio-products, to promote rural job creation efforts, and to develop a rural healthcare IT based workforce. One can only wonder who he’s paying off, whose votes he is buying, with these three presidential projects. While these ideas appear to be admirable on the surface, they represent yet another attempt by the Executive Branch to usurp power from the Legislative Branch, ignoring the checks and balances set forth in the Constitution of the United States of America. These statements represent an ongoing attitude by Obama and his administration to do whatever he alone thinks is right for the people and the country without any concern for what the people and their duly elected representatives want. He has done this from the beginning of his term by setting up job killing regulations via his czars at the EPA and NLRB, to mention two, that illegally implement costly cap and trade policies and destroy non-union job opportunities for Americans wanting to work, all without Legislative approval. With his rhetoric Obama is setting himself above the political fray that has been the backbone of our federal republic from the beginning. Obama is saying that he and his ideas are more important than the political process set up by our Constitution, that the President’s power is more important than that of the Legislature and the Judiciary, and that the will of the people is of no concern to him. This man thinks like a monarch, talks like a monarch, and acts like a monarch. All he needs now is the title of a monarch. Well I’m here to say that this monarch has no clothes! His actions and statements are a transparent roadmap to the thoughts and desires of his heart. It’s time for the great people of this once great country to rise up in opposition to the direction Obama and his progressive minions are taking us. The Constitution states very clearly that Obama works for us, we the people, and if we are dissatisfied with his performance on our behalf then we have the right, and the responsibility, to throw him out of office and replace him with someone who has our best interests at heart. Obama, as President, is supposed to serve the people of the United States of America, not the other way around. Public office is intended to be public service, not bleeding the public dry of all their money and resources, not getting rich and powerful at the public’s expense. The only one Obama serves is himself and his progressive minions. It’s time to fight back! It’s time to speak up loudly in the public forum. Our nation is only as great as the people who serve it. blessings,
unsuspecting life overwhelms us at sundry times
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