Todd Akin needs to go.
He's embarrassed himself and the GOP with his thoughtless and reckless comments. He has until the end of the day to make up his mind and get out before there are further complications. If he leaves by Tuesday at midnight, the GOP can pick a successor to run for Claire McCaskill's seat. If not, he would either stay in the race or if he withdrew later, would need a judge's settlement to put another person on the ballot.
So Representative Todd Akin-- you want to beat Claire McCaskill, one of the worst Senators of the last six years? Well, you still have a good chance-- if you're out of the race. The Missouri GOP can take it from here.
Todd Akin needs to go.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
LIFE IN THE ASYLUM
A NATION AT WAR WITH ITSELF
We have been involved in numerous wars during our long history. The Civil War literally pitted brother against brother. Later, and with varying degrees of fanfare, Lyndon Johnson declared us to be in a "War on Poverty," a "war" that continues to this day; Richard Nixon declared us to be in a "War on Crime," also an ongoing war that later became known as the "War on Drugs;" George W. Bush declared us to be in a "War on Terror;" Barack Obama recently declared us to be in a "War on Women," even as he bumbles on in a seemingly endless shooting war in Afghanistan.
But the war that will ultimately prove most destructive is the war that gets the least recognition. We have brought this one on ourselves by allowing the burgeoning, metastasizing growth of the administrative, regulatory state. In this way we have turned ourselves into A Nation At War With Itself, a war that, by design, will have no end.
Take the War on Poverty. In some mysterious fashion, despite having poured Trillions of dollars into this War over some forty-eight years, we are told that the number of people now living in poverty is at an all-time record. How can this be? For the government, easy:
At its inception, we took great liberties with the definition of "poverty," declaring it to mean a condition wherein one's "income," not material wealth, is below a certain percentage of everyone else's income. Further, income means a paycheck (if one gets a paycheck). It does not include numerous government assistance checks, allowances, debit cards, etc. So today, when billions of people in Kenya and other "developing" nations live in shacks with dirt floors and burn animal dung for cooking, the third world definition of "poverty" is still much what it was in 1964, while our definition includes people with air conditioned single family homes, flat-panel TV's, cell phones, and one or more cars.
Yet the war on poverty grinds on, with all of the "essential" agencies, bureaus, commissions, and departments, state and federal, and the enormous number of well-salaried and pensioned employee cubicle-fillers, with the furniture, computers, telephones, and more than a few fleets of motor vehicles "required" to process the taxpayers' dollars, filtering them down to a fraction of their initial worth before passing them on to our "poverty" population in their debit cards.
One clue to the intended permanency of these wars is that in 1964 President Johnson requested Congress to make the Food Stamp Program permanent, and an obliging congress did so. The Department of Agriculture, with the typical accuracy of a government agency, "estimated that participation in a national FSP would eventually reach 4 million, at a cost of $360 million annually." Today "participation" has reached 47 million, and now costs us about $82 Billion a year.
Whether or not there was a serious hunger problem in 1964 to necessitate such a program, we are now told that "the nation’s most serious nutritional problem” is obesity, which is "especially rampant in low-income neighborhoods." Could there be a connection here? And now, believe it or not, we the taxpayers are paying for professional advertising to induce more people into the Food Stamp Program.
N.Y. Mayor Bloomberg, as annoying as he normally is, requested permission from U.S.D.A. to bar food stamps for purchase of "soda and other sugary drinks." U.S.D.A. said . . . anyone? No! Not surprising, since they had previously denied Minnesota permission to prevent food stamp recipients from buying junk food. U.S.D.A. is persuaded by the argument that fighting obesity requires us to "increase the purchasing power of low-income residents so that they can buy food that is more nutritious." In other words, they would be able to afford the hugely expensive good things like fruits and vegetables instead of having to subsist on the dirt-cheap potato chips and junk food.
So, instead of agreeing to a few sensible restrictions on the fattening-up program, stay tuned for the official establishment and enormous staffing of a federal anti-obesity bureau.
The same scenario applies with the other "wars" mentioned above, although the wars on drugs and terror have the additional effect of very directly diminishing our liberties. We must now carefully weigh every word we put in our emails, lest the authorities are eavesdropping; and no knock SWAT team raids replace ringing someone's doorbell to inquire about a past-due education loan.
According to a June 6, 2012 FEMA report, "Since 2001, federal, state and local governments have built a network of specialized teams capable of interdicting and disrupting a variety of imminent threats. . ." including, inter alia, 5,400 SWAT teams. Since the war on crime was launched more than 25 years before, with billions of taxpayer dollars pouring from federal to state and local coffers for crime fighting, it is fair to assume that there were already quite a few SWAT teams before the building of the next 5,400 began in 2001.
Obama now says the essential next step for economic recovery is for state and local governments to hire lots more "first responders." And the FAA has approved the plan whereby the defense department will give state and local law enforcement tens of thousands of aerial drones, to silently patrol the skies over all 50 states.
While the wars discussed above were meant to be metaphorical "wars," we seem to be arming our administrative and civilian agencies to the teeth in order to perform their various ministrations. Would it occur to anyone that the Department of Education would need a SWAT Team? Would it make any sensible person feel better to be told that the SWAT Team was officially fielded by the Department of Education's Office of Inspector General?
Our "Justice Department" does not have the resources to find out who has been leaking highly classified security information to the New York Times, putting U.S. defense assets at serious risk, but they have all the resources they need to spend years pursuing Roger Clemens for allegedly obstructing Congress on details of his stellar baseball career. And despite the money and manpower poured into the Clemens case, the elite prosecution team did not get an all-star result: the first time they actually managed to get their case to a jury, ordinary citizens quickly acquitted Clemens on all six counts.
Finally, in another wartime skirmish, the Forest Service battles the Border Patrol: In 2011 in Olympia National Forest, a Forest Service officer came upon a Hispanic couple who appeared to be illegally harvesting plants. He soon discovered that they didn't speak English, and since he didn't speak Spanish, he did a terrible thing: he called the Border Patrol for backup and translating.
Strangely enough, the Department of Agriculture, the parent entity of the Forest Service, went after its own employee. After a protracted "hearing" produced a wide-ranging 40-page "ruling," it was determined that the Forest Service officer had violated the Hispanic couple's civil rights. Despite a formal agreement between Forest Service and Border Patrol to back each other up, and the obvious fact that Spanish language skills are much easier to come by in the Border Patrol, this sort of atrocity will no longer be tolerated.
The Border Patrol has not yet decided what to do about the absurd "ruling." But we would seem to be left with only three choices: 1) Throw up our hands and declare open borders; 2) require every employee of every federal agency to become fluent in Spanish; or 3) stay tuned for the official establishment and enormous staffing of a federal language-translation bureau.
Unfortunately one can only touch the surface of this topic. No wonder our congresspersons do not even pretend to read the multi-thousand page bills they churn out.
MO Atty
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Of Biblical Proportions
By John Brentlinger
One of the phrases used by newspapers, (what's that?) satirists, pundits and TV (what's that?) commentators is the line: "of Biblical Proportions." In the context in which it is used, it is always wrong, it is never right, and it always falls woefully short of being truly descriptive of actual events. And it is being used more and more in politics and other fairy tales.
Say it rains in some town or borough, oh, ten inches in a twelve hour period. "Oh, we are getting rain in biblical proportions." Maybe 30 inches of snow in one day, "Oh, the sky is falling, we are getting snow in biblical proportions."
Nonsense, and it is time someone called it for what it is, nonsense. A biblical proportion of rain is enough to cover the entire earth, higher than the highest mountain, deeper than the deepest sea, killing everyone except those in the ark with Noah, displacing animals, fossils, flora and fauna; that is a flood of Biblical proportions.
This year, the only thing that even comes close to anything of biblical proportions is the nation wide, internet wide, televison wide, newspaper wide, (I know, what are those?) county shopper wide, bill board wide, magazine wide flood of pictures of Barry Soetoro. And I might add, they always get his name wrong. No one knows what his name really is.
Barry himself probably gets mixed up.
If this arrogant, self important narcissistist got a a nickel for everytime his brazen picture was posted around the country daily, he could have used that Five Trillion dollars to pay off those who put him in office, instead of relying on the good folks at Crane paper to keep the U.S. Treasury printing counterfeit Barry dollars and charging the American people.
We're not going to find out his real name until his new book comes out in 2013, "How I Scammed Everyone, You Can Do It Too." In that epic, he will reveal all the things the country
really wanted to know, but were tired of asking.
You know, where was he really born, where did he really work, where did he really go to college, how did he really win any election in Illinois, why did Rod Blagojevich really go to jail for 14 years; why wouldn't the government allow all the tapes of his conversation to be played; what did Barry really do in Chicago, the friends, the deaths, the clubs, the "church," and etcetera, ad infintum?
Anyway, the biblical proportion thing is, as that mental giant Joe Biden would say, is "literally," not out of line when it comes to Barry's grinning mug being plastered every-
where and anywhere on anything that will stand still long enough to be tattooed. And frankly, I am terminal and exhausted of seeing that arrogant grin every time I see anything that slightly resembles media.
Problem for Barry is, it gives him face recognition, but not name recognition. Is it Barry, Barak, Barack, Davis, Dunham, Soetoro, Smith, Jones, who knows? Got to be very confusing
for all non-thinking Democrats, especially those with no ID's.
What do you want to bet that the Democrats try to put his face on the ballot this November, instead of his alias, thus saving time and thought for those who are obtuse enough to vote Democratic? That is, if there is a November this year.
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One of the phrases used by newspapers, (what's that?) satirists, pundits and TV (what's that?) commentators is the line: "of Biblical Proportions." In the context in which it is used, it is always wrong, it is never right, and it always falls woefully short of being truly descriptive of actual events. And it is being used more and more in politics and other fairy tales.
Say it rains in some town or borough, oh, ten inches in a twelve hour period. "Oh, we are getting rain in biblical proportions." Maybe 30 inches of snow in one day, "Oh, the sky is falling, we are getting snow in biblical proportions."
Nonsense, and it is time someone called it for what it is, nonsense. A biblical proportion of rain is enough to cover the entire earth, higher than the highest mountain, deeper than the deepest sea, killing everyone except those in the ark with Noah, displacing animals, fossils, flora and fauna; that is a flood of Biblical proportions.
This year, the only thing that even comes close to anything of biblical proportions is the nation wide, internet wide, televison wide, newspaper wide, (I know, what are those?) county shopper wide, bill board wide, magazine wide flood of pictures of Barry Soetoro. And I might add, they always get his name wrong. No one knows what his name really is.
Barry himself probably gets mixed up.
If this arrogant, self important narcissistist got a a nickel for everytime his brazen picture was posted around the country daily, he could have used that Five Trillion dollars to pay off those who put him in office, instead of relying on the good folks at Crane paper to keep the U.S. Treasury printing counterfeit Barry dollars and charging the American people.
We're not going to find out his real name until his new book comes out in 2013, "How I Scammed Everyone, You Can Do It Too." In that epic, he will reveal all the things the country
really wanted to know, but were tired of asking.
You know, where was he really born, where did he really work, where did he really go to college, how did he really win any election in Illinois, why did Rod Blagojevich really go to jail for 14 years; why wouldn't the government allow all the tapes of his conversation to be played; what did Barry really do in Chicago, the friends, the deaths, the clubs, the "church," and etcetera, ad infintum?
Anyway, the biblical proportion thing is, as that mental giant Joe Biden would say, is "literally," not out of line when it comes to Barry's grinning mug being plastered every-
where and anywhere on anything that will stand still long enough to be tattooed. And frankly, I am terminal and exhausted of seeing that arrogant grin every time I see anything that slightly resembles media.
Problem for Barry is, it gives him face recognition, but not name recognition. Is it Barry, Barak, Barack, Davis, Dunham, Soetoro, Smith, Jones, who knows? Got to be very confusing
for all non-thinking Democrats, especially those with no ID's.
What do you want to bet that the Democrats try to put his face on the ballot this November, instead of his alias, thus saving time and thought for those who are obtuse enough to vote Democratic? That is, if there is a November this year.
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With Apologies to Carl Sandburg
By John Brentlinger
Chicago
Thug smuggler for the country
Power maker, Den of Thieves;
Player with politics and the nation's future,
Slimy, Skinny, Lying,
City of the naked shoulders.
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them,
for I have seen your effeminate men luring each
other to evil,
They tell me you are crooked and I answer yes,
it is true, I have seen your politicians lie and cheat
and steal and murder, and stay in office to do it
again,
They tell me you are brutal and my reply is, on
the blank faces of your opposition, I have seen
fear and scandal, as they are sent to prison.
And having answered so I turn once more to those
afraid to speak out, and I say to them:
Speak out now, do not allow criminals to run our
city, our offices, our streets and our neighborhoods.
Spouting lies and curses amid the passing out of jobs
and federal money, here is a tall dark villian going
after every power he can get his hands on,
Fierce as a junkyard dog craving the blood of his
enemies, using the powers of the gun to savage
those who oppose him.
Evil eyed
Sniveling
Destroying
Swearing
Stealing
Tearing down and not rebuilding,
In the smoke filled rooms, white powder and smoke
everywhere, laughing with yellow teeth,
Ruining the destiny of a great country, sneering as
a young braggart sneers,
Grinning like an ignorant fighter who knows the fight
is fixed,
Bragging and laughing that in his heart he has no
care for the people
Blaming
Blaming the rest of the country with the blame of a
lying tongue, half naked, cheating, proud to be thug
smuggler for the country, power maker, den of thieves,
player with politics and the nation's future, slimy,
skinny, panhandling, city of the naked shoulders.
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Chicago
Thug smuggler for the country
Power maker, Den of Thieves;
Player with politics and the nation's future,
Slimy, Skinny, Lying,
City of the naked shoulders.
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them,
for I have seen your effeminate men luring each
other to evil,
They tell me you are crooked and I answer yes,
it is true, I have seen your politicians lie and cheat
and steal and murder, and stay in office to do it
again,
They tell me you are brutal and my reply is, on
the blank faces of your opposition, I have seen
fear and scandal, as they are sent to prison.
And having answered so I turn once more to those
afraid to speak out, and I say to them:
Speak out now, do not allow criminals to run our
city, our offices, our streets and our neighborhoods.
Spouting lies and curses amid the passing out of jobs
and federal money, here is a tall dark villian going
after every power he can get his hands on,
Fierce as a junkyard dog craving the blood of his
enemies, using the powers of the gun to savage
those who oppose him.
Evil eyed
Sniveling
Destroying
Swearing
Stealing
Tearing down and not rebuilding,
In the smoke filled rooms, white powder and smoke
everywhere, laughing with yellow teeth,
Ruining the destiny of a great country, sneering as
a young braggart sneers,
Grinning like an ignorant fighter who knows the fight
is fixed,
Bragging and laughing that in his heart he has no
care for the people
Blaming
Blaming the rest of the country with the blame of a
lying tongue, half naked, cheating, proud to be thug
smuggler for the country, power maker, den of thieves,
player with politics and the nation's future, slimy,
skinny, panhandling, city of the naked shoulders.
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Monday, May 07, 2012
Monday Morning Warning: The Composite in Chief
By John Brentlinger
Fasten your seatbelts kids, the 2012 campaign is about to get fairy-tale-interesting, no pun
intended. Bill Ayers and Barry's speechwriters are about to create, ex nihilo, out of nothing,
some great re-election propaganda. Let the composite compositions begin.
We are about to learn so many great things about Barry that by the time November rolls
around, we'll all want to give him another Nobel Peace Prize, let alone re-elect him for
four more of the most miserable years this country has never seen, culminating in another
war between the states, say, about 2015.
First, we're about to find out that he had girlfriends, not just one, but a multitude of real,
red blooded American, well, some of them, girls. Today, they're referred to by the hoi
polloi as blow up dolls, but to Barry, they were "composites."
Next, we'll learn that he has been a conservative all his honorable life, slightly to the right of Atilla the Hunster. Seriously, he would have voted for Goldwater, his namesake (Barry) given the time frame and the chance. And George Wallace; Barry would have been right there with him. And he actually was a fiscal conservative, there will be proof on the internet.
And, then they'll tell us that he wanted to join the United States Marines, but had a fallen arch, or tinnitus, or Rin Tin Tin syndrome. In the alternative, he wanted to be a fighter pilot, or perhaps he wanted to be all he could be in the U.S. Army. Absent any public acceptance of those theories, he will come out in October and admit that he really was a member of the Special Forces, just under a different name, something like, John Rambo.
We're about to find out that he did hold real jobs. No, really, real "man jobs." He once worked as a longshoreman, he was a logger in Oregon, worked in Texas as a wildcatter on a huge oil rig, sailed for years in the Merchant Marine, and was a welder topping out the beams in the tallest buildings in the world. Really wanted to be an astronaut, but there was that Rin Tin Tin thing.
And, as the curtain rolls back on Barry Soetoro Davis, our composite-in-chief, we're going to find out that he was truly a great student. Proof of great term papers will be presented, grand lectures about our great capitalistic society; and if technology allows it, we will be treated in late October to a great video of his Valedictorian speech at Ohio State, err...Notre Dame,
err, uhh Stanford, or Harvard, Yale, or where-ever.
For the composite cherry on the composite sundae, featuring our composite-in-chief, we will be treated to old home videos with little Barry on the front porch swing, playing with his pet Miniature Schnauzer, sitting with Mommie and Daddie. The idylic, all American family scene will be cut short though, they'll have to leave out the scene where his Daddie barbecues the family pet and serves it up with ugali and fish.
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Fasten your seatbelts kids, the 2012 campaign is about to get fairy-tale-interesting, no pun
intended. Bill Ayers and Barry's speechwriters are about to create, ex nihilo, out of nothing,
some great re-election propaganda. Let the composite compositions begin.
We are about to learn so many great things about Barry that by the time November rolls
around, we'll all want to give him another Nobel Peace Prize, let alone re-elect him for
four more of the most miserable years this country has never seen, culminating in another
war between the states, say, about 2015.
First, we're about to find out that he had girlfriends, not just one, but a multitude of real,
red blooded American, well, some of them, girls. Today, they're referred to by the hoi
polloi as blow up dolls, but to Barry, they were "composites."
Next, we'll learn that he has been a conservative all his honorable life, slightly to the right of Atilla the Hunster. Seriously, he would have voted for Goldwater, his namesake (Barry) given the time frame and the chance. And George Wallace; Barry would have been right there with him. And he actually was a fiscal conservative, there will be proof on the internet.
And, then they'll tell us that he wanted to join the United States Marines, but had a fallen arch, or tinnitus, or Rin Tin Tin syndrome. In the alternative, he wanted to be a fighter pilot, or perhaps he wanted to be all he could be in the U.S. Army. Absent any public acceptance of those theories, he will come out in October and admit that he really was a member of the Special Forces, just under a different name, something like, John Rambo.
We're about to find out that he did hold real jobs. No, really, real "man jobs." He once worked as a longshoreman, he was a logger in Oregon, worked in Texas as a wildcatter on a huge oil rig, sailed for years in the Merchant Marine, and was a welder topping out the beams in the tallest buildings in the world. Really wanted to be an astronaut, but there was that Rin Tin Tin thing.
And, as the curtain rolls back on Barry Soetoro Davis, our composite-in-chief, we're going to find out that he was truly a great student. Proof of great term papers will be presented, grand lectures about our great capitalistic society; and if technology allows it, we will be treated in late October to a great video of his Valedictorian speech at Ohio State, err...Notre Dame,
err, uhh Stanford, or Harvard, Yale, or where-ever.
For the composite cherry on the composite sundae, featuring our composite-in-chief, we will be treated to old home videos with little Barry on the front porch swing, playing with his pet Miniature Schnauzer, sitting with Mommie and Daddie. The idylic, all American family scene will be cut short though, they'll have to leave out the scene where his Daddie barbecues the family pet and serves it up with ugali and fish.
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Sunday, May 06, 2012
Sunday Morning Bible Story
You can Learn a Lot in the Belly of a Whale
By John Brentlinger
Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai saying, Get up, go to
Nineveh that great city and cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. Jonah 1:1-3
The real subject in the book of Jonah is not the whale. The real question in this passage is: "What sort of men does God use?"
So, here is Jonah. He wasn't the brightest bulb in the box. He thought he could actually get away from God. You know, that is some pretty shortsighted thinking, but that's just what he did. So he made it to the port city of Joppa, bought a ticket on a ocean liner, thinking he was smarter than God.
Now, as a brief aside, in theology there is the term: Omnipotence; it is used to describe an attribute of God, and it means that He can do whatever He wills to do. Why? H-e-l-l-o - because He is God. Having created all things after the counsel of His own will, He has the power over all things; remember the potter
and the clay? Oh yeah, that's still in effect. But Jonah apparently didn't know about that one, or he thought he had a free will to do as he pleased, and we can see how that idea worked out.
So, he gets on the boat, they set sail, and what do you know, God was out in the ocean. And it says that God sent out a great wind into the sea, and you know the rest of the story. Big storm, sailors were horribly frightened, they tried to
lighten the ship, meanwhile, our hero Jonah was down in a hammock, listening to Bon Jovi on his Ipod, well, he was sleeping like a baby.
The sailors woke him up, asked him how he could sleep, they took a vote, and threw Jonah overboard. The wind stopped, the sea was calm, the ship made for Tarshish, and then the story gets really good.
It says that God had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. Omnipotence, remember? If God can create the world and all things in it, is should come as no surprise that he can start a typhoon, still the wind, or talk to a fish. That stuff
seems pretty simple compared to creating say, a leaf, the sun, a duck billed Platypus, a snow- drop anemone, a Tasmanian devil, or Emily
Dickinson.
As creator of all things He can do whatever he wants, and that is what He does. So, the big fish swallows our hero, our hero is in the belly of the fish for three
days and three nights. At last, a real life account of someone being lower than whale dung. And in the belly of the great fish, he couldn't use his cell phone,
couldn't text, tweet, couldn't watch UFC or baseball, do the crossword or Sudoku. All he could do was think and pray, especially pray. (see Psalm 42 & 88)
And so God spoke to the fish, and the fish -- (Remember? Even the winds, sea and fish obey him.) vomited Jonah onto dry land, by this time, wiser, and I might add, somewhat smellier, his eyes probably burned, and I'll wager he had no appetite. Ever seen the inside of a fish? Not pretty.
So God says again to Jonah, get up, go to Nineveh and preach. And this time, he does what God tells him to do. Jonah is proof that you can learn a lot in the belly of a whale. So he preaches, the city repents, and God does as He pleases, omnipotence, remember?
So, what qualifications did Jonah have to be a preacher? If he had received that message from God today, he would grab a ticket for an aeroplane, wouldn't have time for a fast train; he would have left immediately for the nearest cemetery, err, seminary, sorry, I get them confused; where he would have learned ermeneutics, homiletics and church polity, how to lead music, how to be a team
player, and et cetera. And he still wouldn't know how to preach. Why? Because you don't learn that from a textbook. You learn it in the desert, in a jail cell,
or in the belly of a whale.
What qualifications did he have? Lets see, stubbornness, rebellion, ignorance are at the top of the list. What could we possibly learn from the belly of a whale:
When God chose leaders and preachers in the Old Testament, and when Jesus chose disciples in the New Testament, he took rough, tough, unlearned men and equipped them to do his work. Education and other character flaws, especially the Apostle Paul, God used the circumstances of life to grind it out of them. He had to empty them of themselves and their self will before He could use them. He had to make
room in their lives for the truth, and they learned to tell the truth through shipwreck, stonings, beatings, in great perils, thrown in jail, hunger, being hunted by presidents, I mean kings; the truth is this:
Jonah is an example of the kind of person God uses, just a normal, stubborn, average guy. God did not look for some silver tongued, musically inclined,
good looking, seminary trained, golfing buddy, robot team player. No, He uses people just like you and I, not too smart, not too great, just normal, Jonah-like
people. And that is a good thing. Can I get an Amen?
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By John Brentlinger
Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai saying, Get up, go to
Nineveh that great city and cry against it, for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. Jonah 1:1-3
The real subject in the book of Jonah is not the whale. The real question in this passage is: "What sort of men does God use?"
So, here is Jonah. He wasn't the brightest bulb in the box. He thought he could actually get away from God. You know, that is some pretty shortsighted thinking, but that's just what he did. So he made it to the port city of Joppa, bought a ticket on a ocean liner, thinking he was smarter than God.
Now, as a brief aside, in theology there is the term: Omnipotence; it is used to describe an attribute of God, and it means that He can do whatever He wills to do. Why? H-e-l-l-o - because He is God. Having created all things after the counsel of His own will, He has the power over all things; remember the potter
and the clay? Oh yeah, that's still in effect. But Jonah apparently didn't know about that one, or he thought he had a free will to do as he pleased, and we can see how that idea worked out.
So, he gets on the boat, they set sail, and what do you know, God was out in the ocean. And it says that God sent out a great wind into the sea, and you know the rest of the story. Big storm, sailors were horribly frightened, they tried to
lighten the ship, meanwhile, our hero Jonah was down in a hammock, listening to Bon Jovi on his Ipod, well, he was sleeping like a baby.
The sailors woke him up, asked him how he could sleep, they took a vote, and threw Jonah overboard. The wind stopped, the sea was calm, the ship made for Tarshish, and then the story gets really good.
It says that God had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. Omnipotence, remember? If God can create the world and all things in it, is should come as no surprise that he can start a typhoon, still the wind, or talk to a fish. That stuff
seems pretty simple compared to creating say, a leaf, the sun, a duck billed Platypus, a snow- drop anemone, a Tasmanian devil, or Emily
Dickinson.
As creator of all things He can do whatever he wants, and that is what He does. So, the big fish swallows our hero, our hero is in the belly of the fish for three
days and three nights. At last, a real life account of someone being lower than whale dung. And in the belly of the great fish, he couldn't use his cell phone,
couldn't text, tweet, couldn't watch UFC or baseball, do the crossword or Sudoku. All he could do was think and pray, especially pray. (see Psalm 42 & 88)
And so God spoke to the fish, and the fish -- (Remember? Even the winds, sea and fish obey him.) vomited Jonah onto dry land, by this time, wiser, and I might add, somewhat smellier, his eyes probably burned, and I'll wager he had no appetite. Ever seen the inside of a fish? Not pretty.
So God says again to Jonah, get up, go to Nineveh and preach. And this time, he does what God tells him to do. Jonah is proof that you can learn a lot in the belly of a whale. So he preaches, the city repents, and God does as He pleases, omnipotence, remember?
So, what qualifications did Jonah have to be a preacher? If he had received that message from God today, he would grab a ticket for an aeroplane, wouldn't have time for a fast train; he would have left immediately for the nearest cemetery, err, seminary, sorry, I get them confused; where he would have learned ermeneutics, homiletics and church polity, how to lead music, how to be a team
player, and et cetera. And he still wouldn't know how to preach. Why? Because you don't learn that from a textbook. You learn it in the desert, in a jail cell,
or in the belly of a whale.
What qualifications did he have? Lets see, stubbornness, rebellion, ignorance are at the top of the list. What could we possibly learn from the belly of a whale:
When God chose leaders and preachers in the Old Testament, and when Jesus chose disciples in the New Testament, he took rough, tough, unlearned men and equipped them to do his work. Education and other character flaws, especially the Apostle Paul, God used the circumstances of life to grind it out of them. He had to empty them of themselves and their self will before He could use them. He had to make
room in their lives for the truth, and they learned to tell the truth through shipwreck, stonings, beatings, in great perils, thrown in jail, hunger, being hunted by presidents, I mean kings; the truth is this:
Jonah is an example of the kind of person God uses, just a normal, stubborn, average guy. God did not look for some silver tongued, musically inclined,
good looking, seminary trained, golfing buddy, robot team player. No, He uses people just like you and I, not too smart, not too great, just normal, Jonah-like
people. And that is a good thing. Can I get an Amen?
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Saturday, May 05, 2012
Secret Punishment for the Secret Service
By John Brentlinger
By now we have all heard about the fandango in Cartagena with the prostitutas, well, most
of us have heard some of it. No big news there...yet...none of them have written a book.
However it looks like there is some punishment yet to be meted out. In this case, should the
punishment fit the crime, here is how it should go: everyone, thats right, everyone of those
hard working; put your life on the line for the guy calling himself by some honorific title he
has no constitutional right to; career agents; should be re-hired, with back pay.
And with a sizable bonus for the indignities proffered by an un-deserving White House,
I hasten to add. The hypocrisy emanating from this White House is astounding.....What?
Spending an evening with prostitutas? Say it ain't so! Lets have a full inquiry to see how
far this really goes. Has it happened before? Call a Congressional hearing, put Barney Frank
and his like-minded, uhh, government uhh,office holders in charge of getting to the
bottom of this. And if this is a "cover-up," maybe we could include some testimony
from the now locked up and hushed up and very serious threat to Barry and Rahm, Rod Blagojevich?
Why, this sort of thing can't happen around Barry, what is the world coming to? Why, he could have been compromised. Seriously?
That's a laugh. This could make the White House look bad. Again, seriously? What could possibly happen to make this impostor look any worse?
Firstly and lastly, I am willing to bet a sack of quarters that, uhh, lets see, that this
is not the first time anyone in government ever sacked up with a strumpet, prostituta, hoer,
randi, pokpok or hure. And probably not the first time anyone in the Secret Service was guilty of a similar tryst. Maybe some presidents have even been guilty, just sayin'. Oh my,
that can't be true, perish the evil thought. Just seems kind of hypocritical to fire worker
bees for what royalty gets away with, don't it?
Anyway, here is the punishment, and it will last probably about thirty-some years, give or take,
depending on Barry's lifestyle choices: take the "guilty" ones, and put them on the Barry watch, after he loses by a landslide in November, that is, if he lets the thing go to a vote. Let them be the ones that must follow him everywhere, drive him everywhere, (that will be book material) make sure he is protected 24/7 for the rest of his life, that should be punishment enough.
Or, in the alternative, give them a really horrible job, make them protect, with their lives, the ex- first lady.
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By now we have all heard about the fandango in Cartagena with the prostitutas, well, most
of us have heard some of it. No big news there...yet...none of them have written a book.
However it looks like there is some punishment yet to be meted out. In this case, should the
punishment fit the crime, here is how it should go: everyone, thats right, everyone of those
hard working; put your life on the line for the guy calling himself by some honorific title he
has no constitutional right to; career agents; should be re-hired, with back pay.
And with a sizable bonus for the indignities proffered by an un-deserving White House,
I hasten to add. The hypocrisy emanating from this White House is astounding.....What?
Spending an evening with prostitutas? Say it ain't so! Lets have a full inquiry to see how
far this really goes. Has it happened before? Call a Congressional hearing, put Barney Frank
and his like-minded, uhh, government uhh,office holders in charge of getting to the
bottom of this. And if this is a "cover-up," maybe we could include some testimony
from the now locked up and hushed up and very serious threat to Barry and Rahm, Rod Blagojevich?
Why, this sort of thing can't happen around Barry, what is the world coming to? Why, he could have been compromised. Seriously?
That's a laugh. This could make the White House look bad. Again, seriously? What could possibly happen to make this impostor look any worse?
Firstly and lastly, I am willing to bet a sack of quarters that, uhh, lets see, that this
is not the first time anyone in government ever sacked up with a strumpet, prostituta, hoer,
randi, pokpok or hure. And probably not the first time anyone in the Secret Service was guilty of a similar tryst. Maybe some presidents have even been guilty, just sayin'. Oh my,
that can't be true, perish the evil thought. Just seems kind of hypocritical to fire worker
bees for what royalty gets away with, don't it?
Anyway, here is the punishment, and it will last probably about thirty-some years, give or take,
depending on Barry's lifestyle choices: take the "guilty" ones, and put them on the Barry watch, after he loses by a landslide in November, that is, if he lets the thing go to a vote. Let them be the ones that must follow him everywhere, drive him everywhere, (that will be book material) make sure he is protected 24/7 for the rest of his life, that should be punishment enough.
Or, in the alternative, give them a really horrible job, make them protect, with their lives, the ex- first lady.
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Friday, May 04, 2012
Ain't That a Hole in the Boat?
By John Brentlinger
Just for a moment, lets discuss a hypothetical. Lets suppose some facts not in evidence, that are not true, but we should consider what the effect would be, had they been true:
What if George W Bush could not have produced a legimate copy of his birth certificate?
What if George W would not release any grade school records, any medical records, any birth records, any passport records?
What if George W would not release any high school, any college records, or a copy of his college thesis?
What if he had used a number of aliases; what if he had an Indonesian name, and changed it to George W Bush?
What if he had no record of any student loans? And what if he said he just paid them off eight years ago? Can I get an Amen?
What if he was a lawyer and his wife was a lawyer and they both were not allowed to practice law in the state of Texas?
What if George W had not submitted his Selective Service record until 2008, then doctored it to give it apparent age?
What if George W had not one, but sixteen (16) Social Security numbers connected to his name, registered in over a dozen states? What if he had 40 some different addresses tied to his name?
What if Bill Ayers had ghostwritten two books about him, filled with lies, half truths, quarter truths, poorly written fiction and then offered them to the public for campaign fodder?
What if George W belonged to the "Down Low Club" at Jeremiah Wrights' mess he calls a church?
What if he had been a member of a bath house in Chicago called Man's Country?
What if George W had forty-nine (49) separate lawsuits filed against him concerning his birth records?
And hypothetically speaking, what if George W had spent over one and a half million dollars, ($1,500,00) to hide all the records of everything he had ever done? And then, what if he had pulled all that low life, lying deceit and then tried to run for president?
Not only would he not have gotten one vote, he would have been indicted, dragged before a grand jury, received a true bill, gone to trial, lost his case after being found guilty of more felonies than Barry Soetoro had social security numbers, and he would be in prison for the rest of his life.
Thankfully, that is all hypothetical - - - for Mr. Bush.
But for Barry Soetoro Davis alias Barack Hussein Obama, that friends--is real life, and believe it or not, he is in the White House, well, some of the time, and as Dean Martin used to say, "Ain't that a hole in the boat?"
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Just for a moment, lets discuss a hypothetical. Lets suppose some facts not in evidence, that are not true, but we should consider what the effect would be, had they been true:
What if George W Bush could not have produced a legimate copy of his birth certificate?
What if George W would not release any grade school records, any medical records, any birth records, any passport records?
What if George W would not release any high school, any college records, or a copy of his college thesis?
What if he had used a number of aliases; what if he had an Indonesian name, and changed it to George W Bush?
What if he had no record of any student loans? And what if he said he just paid them off eight years ago? Can I get an Amen?
What if he was a lawyer and his wife was a lawyer and they both were not allowed to practice law in the state of Texas?
What if George W had not submitted his Selective Service record until 2008, then doctored it to give it apparent age?
What if George W had not one, but sixteen (16) Social Security numbers connected to his name, registered in over a dozen states? What if he had 40 some different addresses tied to his name?
What if Bill Ayers had ghostwritten two books about him, filled with lies, half truths, quarter truths, poorly written fiction and then offered them to the public for campaign fodder?
What if George W belonged to the "Down Low Club" at Jeremiah Wrights' mess he calls a church?
What if he had been a member of a bath house in Chicago called Man's Country?
What if George W had forty-nine (49) separate lawsuits filed against him concerning his birth records?
And hypothetically speaking, what if George W had spent over one and a half million dollars, ($1,500,00) to hide all the records of everything he had ever done? And then, what if he had pulled all that low life, lying deceit and then tried to run for president?
Not only would he not have gotten one vote, he would have been indicted, dragged before a grand jury, received a true bill, gone to trial, lost his case after being found guilty of more felonies than Barry Soetoro had social security numbers, and he would be in prison for the rest of his life.
Thankfully, that is all hypothetical - - - for Mr. Bush.
But for Barry Soetoro Davis alias Barack Hussein Obama, that friends--is real life, and believe it or not, he is in the White House, well, some of the time, and as Dean Martin used to say, "Ain't that a hole in the boat?"
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Thursday, May 03, 2012
Ship of Fools
Or Party of Idiots
By John Brenlinger
Having just now viewed the cornucopia of intellectually empty, commonsense-less nitwits in DC at their annual lovefest, called by some, "The White House Correspondents Dinner," there is one thing that Barry Soetoro Davis is good at -- reading speeches prepared by other people. Sans that talent, he is brainless, lights are on but no one home, just plain, teleprompter stupid. The only thing necessary to be at the party is some ridiculous attempts at writing trashy humor, some half wits to read it, and an audience dumb enough and rich enough to be invited.
All Barry Soetoro Davis (I am through referring to him as President Obama, his true alias) is good at is mocking the American way of life, making fun of the people who do the working, giving, living, and the dying for freedom, the actual stuff which keeps a free society growing and thriving. The only thing Soetoro-Davis has to offer is twisted, evil, degenerate decisions, no, I meant opinions on everything which for 380 years now, the free people in America have come to trust.
How in the name of common sense and decency this classless dummy could ever have been elected to anything in this country is enough to mess with the windmills of your mind.
Cook County, the most evil, deceitful, crooked county in Illinios, the most crooked, deceitful, evil, politically dishonest state in America--how could a lazy, indolent, pot smoking, member of the Down Low Club in the "church" of Jeremiah Wright, member of the Man's Country bathhouse in Chicago -- how could a man, well, uhh, person of this low caliber and reputation ever, ever, ever be elected to the highest human
office in the world?
If the crookedest county in the crookedest state won't even allow him or his vacuous partner to practice law, isn't it about time we stop referring to
the both of them as "lawyers?" For that matter, is there any reliable record of him being a "law professor?" No? Thank you.
And if the rest of the stooges in Congress, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, mostly, almost all, "lawyers," will not stand in unison and denounce Barry Soetoro
Davis as an imposter of the criminal sort, what does that say about them? In real law that is referred to as "aiding and abetting," "complicity, participation in
guilt," and yes, that old standby, "co-conspirators, a confederacy between two or more nitwits, sorry, persons, formed for the purpose of committing, by their joint efforts, an unlawful or criminal act." Well, I guess that about sums it up. This makes the Watergate Conspiracy look like a Sunday School Picnic of the Methodist variety.
My personal poll of the election this year, if Barry Soetoro Davis allows us to have one, is that he will lose in a horrible landslide. My further prognostication is that Rahm Emanuel won't want him back in Chicago, except at the Down Low Club and the Man's Country Bathhouse thing, so he'll end up buying a condo next to the Clintons, where he'll begin his official memoirs, entitled, "How
I Defrauded the American People, Got Rich -- And You Can Do it Too." Or, in the alternative, he might just get a job at a shoe store in NYC and specialize
in loafers.
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By John Brenlinger
Having just now viewed the cornucopia of intellectually empty, commonsense-less nitwits in DC at their annual lovefest, called by some, "The White House Correspondents Dinner," there is one thing that Barry Soetoro Davis is good at -- reading speeches prepared by other people. Sans that talent, he is brainless, lights are on but no one home, just plain, teleprompter stupid. The only thing necessary to be at the party is some ridiculous attempts at writing trashy humor, some half wits to read it, and an audience dumb enough and rich enough to be invited.
All Barry Soetoro Davis (I am through referring to him as President Obama, his true alias) is good at is mocking the American way of life, making fun of the people who do the working, giving, living, and the dying for freedom, the actual stuff which keeps a free society growing and thriving. The only thing Soetoro-Davis has to offer is twisted, evil, degenerate decisions, no, I meant opinions on everything which for 380 years now, the free people in America have come to trust.
How in the name of common sense and decency this classless dummy could ever have been elected to anything in this country is enough to mess with the windmills of your mind.
Cook County, the most evil, deceitful, crooked county in Illinios, the most crooked, deceitful, evil, politically dishonest state in America--how could a lazy, indolent, pot smoking, member of the Down Low Club in the "church" of Jeremiah Wright, member of the Man's Country bathhouse in Chicago -- how could a man, well, uhh, person of this low caliber and reputation ever, ever, ever be elected to the highest human
office in the world?
If the crookedest county in the crookedest state won't even allow him or his vacuous partner to practice law, isn't it about time we stop referring to
the both of them as "lawyers?" For that matter, is there any reliable record of him being a "law professor?" No? Thank you.
And if the rest of the stooges in Congress, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, mostly, almost all, "lawyers," will not stand in unison and denounce Barry Soetoro
Davis as an imposter of the criminal sort, what does that say about them? In real law that is referred to as "aiding and abetting," "complicity, participation in
guilt," and yes, that old standby, "co-conspirators, a confederacy between two or more nitwits, sorry, persons, formed for the purpose of committing, by their joint efforts, an unlawful or criminal act." Well, I guess that about sums it up. This makes the Watergate Conspiracy look like a Sunday School Picnic of the Methodist variety.
My personal poll of the election this year, if Barry Soetoro Davis allows us to have one, is that he will lose in a horrible landslide. My further prognostication is that Rahm Emanuel won't want him back in Chicago, except at the Down Low Club and the Man's Country Bathhouse thing, so he'll end up buying a condo next to the Clintons, where he'll begin his official memoirs, entitled, "How
I Defrauded the American People, Got Rich -- And You Can Do it Too." Or, in the alternative, he might just get a job at a shoe store in NYC and specialize
in loafers.
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Five Things We Can Learn From Joel Osteen
By John Brentlinger
1. How You Look is More Important Than What You Say
Appearance is everything. The GQ look in suits, shirts and ties; the suave manner of speaking and gesturing; the co-pastor, errr, wife, is that in the Bible, right? Co-pastor? Isn't it in there right after it says, "If a man (man) desire the office of a bishop..." It's not? Really?
Joel Osteen is merely a gummed up country fried steak, turned by his own ego into a TV dinner gospel: a lot of plastic and no nutrients. But he's got the look man, its the look. Youth, the golf tan, and the hair, John Edwards would pay $600 for that haircut. (Speaking of plastic guys.) It shouts, "I am relevant, I am young, I am hip and I appeal to the TV generation -- ergo - I must be doing something
right! Check me out - I mean, have you seen me? Whoever said it gets lonely at the top obviously doesn't know me!"
2. If you don't take a stand on anything, you can fill a football stadium.
A glib tongue, a cool appearance, the neutrality on every issue, oh wait, is this Barry Soetoro Davis, the self proclaimed light of the world? Oh no, that's the
other plastic guy, sorry. Anyway, the blasphemy of never taking a stand on anything, does away with most of the Bible, well, all the Bible, but apparently
Joel isn't worried about that?
Can you see Joel Osteen as David? "Hey Goliath, I got some wine, got some cheese, lets sit down and talk about this deal. I'm sure the god of the Philistines
is the God of Judah, bring your peeps and lets have church."
How about Joel Osteen as Elijah, with the prophets of Baal? "Hey guys, whats up? Look, I don't want to argue, I think we both want the same thing. What say we just marinate these ox and get on with the picnic?" Maybe 40,000 people bowing down to Joel, sorry, meant Baal, just might not be the answer either.
Oh well, maybe that thing about "strait is the gate and narrow is the way" is for some other, smaller church.
3. Everybody goin' to Heaven
You know, if you never read the Bible; if you never heard of the Bible; if you never heard that the Son of God came to earth as a man and died on a cross for
sinners, and that faith in his atonement is necessary for entrance into the kingdom of heaven; then you might just believe that heaven is for everyone, that
believers and unbelievers will share the same eternal presence with God. If you never saw a Bible I guess you would have some tiny reason for being spiritually
ignorant -- but if you actually carry a Bible to the pulpit and open it -- and you still think everyone is a Christian, this is not merely stupid, this is galactically stupid.
4. If you pass the plate to 40,000 people, you can really rake in the cash.
And, when you hit up 40,000 people for a lot of money, you can talk about the prosperity gospel, you know, that's where you're supposed to give as much as you
can to the Osteen Family Enterprise (daddie's church, remember?) and you will receive so many blessings in money and things, you won't have room for them all,
so, you'll have to have a bigger house, newer car, bigger barns -- oh wait, maybe that's not in the Bible either.
5. It does not matter what you believe --just believe something.
There comes a time when everyone of us must give an account of what we have done, and especially to those who teach others, and especially those who are
supposed to teach biblical truth to others, there is something in the Bible about that, yes, I'm sure I've read it; something like, "My brethren, many of you
should not become teachers, knowing that we shall receive stricter judgement." Yes, that's it. You know, maybe this 40,000 person stadium filler, TV, say
nothing book thing is not really a good thing, in the long run.
Wonder what John the Baptist would have thunk?
Can you see Osteen as John the Baptist? "Hey ya'll, don't ya'll worry about that repentance thang, ya'all'll be just fine. If you feel like repenting you
can, but its not really necessary."
Wonder what Jesus thinks? Oh wait, that's in the Bible too.
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1. How You Look is More Important Than What You Say
Appearance is everything. The GQ look in suits, shirts and ties; the suave manner of speaking and gesturing; the co-pastor, errr, wife, is that in the Bible, right? Co-pastor? Isn't it in there right after it says, "If a man (man) desire the office of a bishop..." It's not? Really?
Joel Osteen is merely a gummed up country fried steak, turned by his own ego into a TV dinner gospel: a lot of plastic and no nutrients. But he's got the look man, its the look. Youth, the golf tan, and the hair, John Edwards would pay $600 for that haircut. (Speaking of plastic guys.) It shouts, "I am relevant, I am young, I am hip and I appeal to the TV generation -- ergo - I must be doing something
right! Check me out - I mean, have you seen me? Whoever said it gets lonely at the top obviously doesn't know me!"
2. If you don't take a stand on anything, you can fill a football stadium.
A glib tongue, a cool appearance, the neutrality on every issue, oh wait, is this Barry Soetoro Davis, the self proclaimed light of the world? Oh no, that's the
other plastic guy, sorry. Anyway, the blasphemy of never taking a stand on anything, does away with most of the Bible, well, all the Bible, but apparently
Joel isn't worried about that?
Can you see Joel Osteen as David? "Hey Goliath, I got some wine, got some cheese, lets sit down and talk about this deal. I'm sure the god of the Philistines
is the God of Judah, bring your peeps and lets have church."
How about Joel Osteen as Elijah, with the prophets of Baal? "Hey guys, whats up? Look, I don't want to argue, I think we both want the same thing. What say we just marinate these ox and get on with the picnic?" Maybe 40,000 people bowing down to Joel, sorry, meant Baal, just might not be the answer either.
Oh well, maybe that thing about "strait is the gate and narrow is the way" is for some other, smaller church.
3. Everybody goin' to Heaven
You know, if you never read the Bible; if you never heard of the Bible; if you never heard that the Son of God came to earth as a man and died on a cross for
sinners, and that faith in his atonement is necessary for entrance into the kingdom of heaven; then you might just believe that heaven is for everyone, that
believers and unbelievers will share the same eternal presence with God. If you never saw a Bible I guess you would have some tiny reason for being spiritually
ignorant -- but if you actually carry a Bible to the pulpit and open it -- and you still think everyone is a Christian, this is not merely stupid, this is galactically stupid.
4. If you pass the plate to 40,000 people, you can really rake in the cash.
And, when you hit up 40,000 people for a lot of money, you can talk about the prosperity gospel, you know, that's where you're supposed to give as much as you
can to the Osteen Family Enterprise (daddie's church, remember?) and you will receive so many blessings in money and things, you won't have room for them all,
so, you'll have to have a bigger house, newer car, bigger barns -- oh wait, maybe that's not in the Bible either.
5. It does not matter what you believe --just believe something.
There comes a time when everyone of us must give an account of what we have done, and especially to those who teach others, and especially those who are
supposed to teach biblical truth to others, there is something in the Bible about that, yes, I'm sure I've read it; something like, "My brethren, many of you
should not become teachers, knowing that we shall receive stricter judgement." Yes, that's it. You know, maybe this 40,000 person stadium filler, TV, say
nothing book thing is not really a good thing, in the long run.
Wonder what John the Baptist would have thunk?
Can you see Osteen as John the Baptist? "Hey ya'll, don't ya'll worry about that repentance thang, ya'all'll be just fine. If you feel like repenting you
can, but its not really necessary."
Wonder what Jesus thinks? Oh wait, that's in the Bible too.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Cartagena or Carte Blanche
By John Brentlinger
So it appears that what happens in Cartagena does not stay in Cartagena. "Now what?" says the staff at the White House? You know, the staff that knows
too much? Who will be next -- the kitchen staff? The ones who change the sheets? White House security?
Anyone who has ever served in the military, anyone who has spent a term or two in politics knows how these things work. When the emperor has no clothes, someone on the payroll always finds out he is naked.
And that someone who could really damage the emperor, has to go. In any hierarchy, here's how it works: someone writes the scenario; someone generates a mess, figures out who should be let go, creates where that should take place, then someone has to make sure the deed is carried out. And it is usually the "faithful few," the ones loyal to the death, who are tasked with the job.
And when the emperor is caught by some staffer, usually security, in something which smells to high heaven, the "faithful few" go to work. Lets see, where should we do this? Somewhere far away, how about Columbia? No one goes there. Good call,
5,000 miles away, some foreign speaking country, everything will be hard to track. Chop some heads.
Who gets chopped? Those who know too much.
Round up the usual suspects, make it look like they've done something wrong. force them to retire, or let them volunteer to retire.
Now what? Uhhh, lets see, swear them to secrecy. Let them know what will happen if they talk. Remind them that we know where their wives work and where
their kids go to school. Tell them they'll get their pension checks only if they keep their lips zipped. Remind them about Vince Foster and Ron Brown.
So the usual suspects have been rounded up, the right ones have been fired.... dilly dallying around with prostitutes, oh my, how could that have happened around this president? How terrible, why, we'll make sure this never happens again. Circle the wagons, shoot low boys, they're riding Shetland ponies. Have Carney say that the White House and staff didn't know a thing about this, make sure none of this sticks to the president,why...he's a family man.
What is that sound coming from the White House? It is the sound of an administration imploding; the sound of a regime collapsing under its own weight; it is the sound of a narcissistic leader who is succumbing under the burden of the figment of his own imagination.
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So it appears that what happens in Cartagena does not stay in Cartagena. "Now what?" says the staff at the White House? You know, the staff that knows
too much? Who will be next -- the kitchen staff? The ones who change the sheets? White House security?
Anyone who has ever served in the military, anyone who has spent a term or two in politics knows how these things work. When the emperor has no clothes, someone on the payroll always finds out he is naked.
And that someone who could really damage the emperor, has to go. In any hierarchy, here's how it works: someone writes the scenario; someone generates a mess, figures out who should be let go, creates where that should take place, then someone has to make sure the deed is carried out. And it is usually the "faithful few," the ones loyal to the death, who are tasked with the job.
And when the emperor is caught by some staffer, usually security, in something which smells to high heaven, the "faithful few" go to work. Lets see, where should we do this? Somewhere far away, how about Columbia? No one goes there. Good call,
5,000 miles away, some foreign speaking country, everything will be hard to track. Chop some heads.
Who gets chopped? Those who know too much.
Round up the usual suspects, make it look like they've done something wrong. force them to retire, or let them volunteer to retire.
Now what? Uhhh, lets see, swear them to secrecy. Let them know what will happen if they talk. Remind them that we know where their wives work and where
their kids go to school. Tell them they'll get their pension checks only if they keep their lips zipped. Remind them about Vince Foster and Ron Brown.
So the usual suspects have been rounded up, the right ones have been fired.... dilly dallying around with prostitutes, oh my, how could that have happened around this president? How terrible, why, we'll make sure this never happens again. Circle the wagons, shoot low boys, they're riding Shetland ponies. Have Carney say that the White House and staff didn't know a thing about this, make sure none of this sticks to the president,why...he's a family man.
What is that sound coming from the White House? It is the sound of an administration imploding; the sound of a regime collapsing under its own weight; it is the sound of a narcissistic leader who is succumbing under the burden of the figment of his own imagination.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
Monday Morning Breaking News Alert: Occupy What?
By John Brentlinger
So the do nothing, be nothing, responsible for nothing, lazy, ne'r do wells, bums, hobos, crack addicts, pot smoking, rabble rousers that are being gathered by the leftists in the federal government are getting organized for an "occupy day" across America on May the fifth. Maybe it is time to call this one what it really is: a trial run at botching the presidential election in November.
Really! They have chosen 120 cities across the land to obstruct progress, hurt the economy, get in the way of those who work for a living, but that is not the real reason for this evil debacle. It is simply to see if they have the power to make enough of a mess to cause a cancellation of the election so that barry barack hussein obama dunham davis can make
himself king for life.
Someone needs to inform his highness that a simple lawful method, an easier method would be to do as this country has done for the last two hundred years: just hold an election and accept the results. That way, the American way of life could go on, you know, where we work, raise a family, buy groceries, live in houses, go to schools, teach kids to work, you know, those things -- those American things.
What we as Americans do not want to do is live in huts, eat dog meat, have no purpose in life, sit around waiting for the next delivery of guvment cheese, hold up signs saying "Will work for German Shepherd Steak."
We do not want the way of life about to be unleashed on us by some pedantic, reckless, lying, deceiving, cheating, low life scoundrel who hates working for a living and doesn't like the fact of us living off the fruits of our labor.
This useless community organizer has no qualms about living off the fruits of our labor. Matter of factoid, this degenerate makes a public display of using the wealth of the American people, makes a mockery of giving the wages of those who did not vote for him, to those who did, and to those he hopes will jury-rig the elections for him in November, if he cannot count on the Occupyers to do their Occupying.
The real question is: what has our elected representation come to that not one of the incumbent scoundrels has the cajones to make this a federal case. No, they are all too busy feathering their own nest, can't take a chance on being singled out by some lamebrain community organizer
acting like he is president. What, are they afraid of -- his goon squad? What kind of cowardly, self-serving idiots have we elected? Is this what we have voted for for the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years? Are we just sheep being led to the slaughter by the pied piper from Indonesia/Kenya/Cook County?
Actually, I wonder what really went on in Cartajena? We have to ask, what goes on at the highest reaches of power on these "State Missions" that would cause career Secret Service Agents to think they could get away with setting up "secret" rendevous'es with sex partners? Could
there be some "secret" we do not know yet? Will we have to wait for a book ghost written by some "rogue agent" whose fate is "death from natural causes?"
Just sayin'.
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So the do nothing, be nothing, responsible for nothing, lazy, ne'r do wells, bums, hobos, crack addicts, pot smoking, rabble rousers that are being gathered by the leftists in the federal government are getting organized for an "occupy day" across America on May the fifth. Maybe it is time to call this one what it really is: a trial run at botching the presidential election in November.
Really! They have chosen 120 cities across the land to obstruct progress, hurt the economy, get in the way of those who work for a living, but that is not the real reason for this evil debacle. It is simply to see if they have the power to make enough of a mess to cause a cancellation of the election so that barry barack hussein obama dunham davis can make
himself king for life.
Someone needs to inform his highness that a simple lawful method, an easier method would be to do as this country has done for the last two hundred years: just hold an election and accept the results. That way, the American way of life could go on, you know, where we work, raise a family, buy groceries, live in houses, go to schools, teach kids to work, you know, those things -- those American things.
What we as Americans do not want to do is live in huts, eat dog meat, have no purpose in life, sit around waiting for the next delivery of guvment cheese, hold up signs saying "Will work for German Shepherd Steak."
We do not want the way of life about to be unleashed on us by some pedantic, reckless, lying, deceiving, cheating, low life scoundrel who hates working for a living and doesn't like the fact of us living off the fruits of our labor.
This useless community organizer has no qualms about living off the fruits of our labor. Matter of factoid, this degenerate makes a public display of using the wealth of the American people, makes a mockery of giving the wages of those who did not vote for him, to those who did, and to those he hopes will jury-rig the elections for him in November, if he cannot count on the Occupyers to do their Occupying.
The real question is: what has our elected representation come to that not one of the incumbent scoundrels has the cajones to make this a federal case. No, they are all too busy feathering their own nest, can't take a chance on being singled out by some lamebrain community organizer
acting like he is president. What, are they afraid of -- his goon squad? What kind of cowardly, self-serving idiots have we elected? Is this what we have voted for for the last 20, 30, 40, 50 years? Are we just sheep being led to the slaughter by the pied piper from Indonesia/Kenya/Cook County?
Actually, I wonder what really went on in Cartajena? We have to ask, what goes on at the highest reaches of power on these "State Missions" that would cause career Secret Service Agents to think they could get away with setting up "secret" rendevous'es with sex partners? Could
there be some "secret" we do not know yet? Will we have to wait for a book ghost written by some "rogue agent" whose fate is "death from natural causes?"
Just sayin'.
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Friday, April 27, 2012
Joke of United States
By John Brentlinger
If many a truth is spoken in jest, perhaps it is time to accurately depict the jester in the White House as JOTUS, the joke of the United States. The biggest joke he has played on our country is the fact that he is not qualified to hold an office, any office in our country, by reason of the constitutional qualifications
which have been in place for, oh, about two hundred years now. Since every thinking American knows that we are a nation of laws, not men, only a person with
a complete disdain for law would even attempt such a travesty.
The second biggest joke he has foisted on our country is the installment of Chicago style corruption on a national scale. Threats, lies, murder, deception, force, and an intentional ignorance of right and wrong, or I should say, business as ususal in Chicago, has become the order of the day in the White House which used to belong to the American people. The Clintons abused the office, but with nowhere near the crude foreign hatred shown by the immigrants who live there part- time now.
The third biggest joke is the laughing-stock he has made of turning the office of the President into a vacation for himself and his "family." The vacation is only interrupted by the ridiculous photo ops, the more ridiculous basketball games, the weekly golf dates, the stupid appearing on idiotic tv shows with the low IQ "comedians;" the state dinners, the parties; if not for those diversions, the court jester would never show up for work. Oh wait, he never held a real job, no wonder this one-time, four year vacation appeals to his baser instincts.
But the worst joke of all is that he used the crime of Chicago politics, the lies of a professional liar, the intrusion into a country where we have toilet paper, roads and ESPN, the real system of laws: he used all that against the American
people to steal a presidential election from the only country in the world where he could have done it. Usurpation of authority in other countries is usually dealt without a ballot. Only in our freedom loving America could he have pulled this chicanery off and lived to vacation, laugh, steal, cheat, lie, mock, and worst of all: publicly despise, yes hate the American way of life, yet grab all the benefits of freedom for himself and his scumbag cronies.
He has made of no consequence the balance of power at the highest levels of our American government. His abuse of the Constitution, the Congress, and his childish rebuke of the Supreme Court simply show him for who he is, an adolescent who, when he can't get his own way, throws a temper tantrum, cries, laughs and screams and swears until a cowering adult gives him what he wants.
The only joke he has not pulled yet is using the TSA to guard the election process, oh wait, ACORN is in charge of that.
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If many a truth is spoken in jest, perhaps it is time to accurately depict the jester in the White House as JOTUS, the joke of the United States. The biggest joke he has played on our country is the fact that he is not qualified to hold an office, any office in our country, by reason of the constitutional qualifications
which have been in place for, oh, about two hundred years now. Since every thinking American knows that we are a nation of laws, not men, only a person with
a complete disdain for law would even attempt such a travesty.
The second biggest joke he has foisted on our country is the installment of Chicago style corruption on a national scale. Threats, lies, murder, deception, force, and an intentional ignorance of right and wrong, or I should say, business as ususal in Chicago, has become the order of the day in the White House which used to belong to the American people. The Clintons abused the office, but with nowhere near the crude foreign hatred shown by the immigrants who live there part- time now.
The third biggest joke is the laughing-stock he has made of turning the office of the President into a vacation for himself and his "family." The vacation is only interrupted by the ridiculous photo ops, the more ridiculous basketball games, the weekly golf dates, the stupid appearing on idiotic tv shows with the low IQ "comedians;" the state dinners, the parties; if not for those diversions, the court jester would never show up for work. Oh wait, he never held a real job, no wonder this one-time, four year vacation appeals to his baser instincts.
But the worst joke of all is that he used the crime of Chicago politics, the lies of a professional liar, the intrusion into a country where we have toilet paper, roads and ESPN, the real system of laws: he used all that against the American
people to steal a presidential election from the only country in the world where he could have done it. Usurpation of authority in other countries is usually dealt without a ballot. Only in our freedom loving America could he have pulled this chicanery off and lived to vacation, laugh, steal, cheat, lie, mock, and worst of all: publicly despise, yes hate the American way of life, yet grab all the benefits of freedom for himself and his scumbag cronies.
He has made of no consequence the balance of power at the highest levels of our American government. His abuse of the Constitution, the Congress, and his childish rebuke of the Supreme Court simply show him for who he is, an adolescent who, when he can't get his own way, throws a temper tantrum, cries, laughs and screams and swears until a cowering adult gives him what he wants.
The only joke he has not pulled yet is using the TSA to guard the election process, oh wait, ACORN is in charge of that.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Jon Lovitz for President
By John Brentlinger
Sometimes the news really is funny. And we allvknow that Bill Shakespeare was right, many a truth is spoken in jest. And we also know that when these comedians tell these jokes about the joke-in-chief in the White House, they are not joking. Obama has gone way beyond humor, and has entered the realm of "I am not funny any longer, but I am still a joke."
Speaking of funny news, it is all over the internet this week that because of the economic jokes that Obama has played now for three years, people from Mexico are going back to their own country. Can you imagine how Jimmie Carter must feel, now that he gets to spend all his time at the layberry? Obama makes Carter look like Albert Einstein. And Carter makes Obama look like
Alfred E. Neuman.
Here's Obama, you know, the light of the world: "Hey, let me be perfectly clear -- I botched up the economy so bad, even the Mexicans left the country. But, not to worry, I still gots my golf, Michelle still gots her fine clothes, I finally got my student loans paid off, and
me and the fam are going to spend Christmas in Cartegena this year, where I will be studying the Cuban revolution, where is Che' when I need him?"
Obama now is not just the worst president in the history of forever. He has ascended to the ranks of the worst student, the worst law student, the worst law professor, the worst liar, the worst thief, the worst illegal immigrant in the history of our country. If there was ever a time to impeach and remove someone masquerding as an American citizen, and as an American president, it is today. Can I get an Amen?
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Sometimes the news really is funny. And we allvknow that Bill Shakespeare was right, many a truth is spoken in jest. And we also know that when these comedians tell these jokes about the joke-in-chief in the White House, they are not joking. Obama has gone way beyond humor, and has entered the realm of "I am not funny any longer, but I am still a joke."
Speaking of funny news, it is all over the internet this week that because of the economic jokes that Obama has played now for three years, people from Mexico are going back to their own country. Can you imagine how Jimmie Carter must feel, now that he gets to spend all his time at the layberry? Obama makes Carter look like Albert Einstein. And Carter makes Obama look like
Alfred E. Neuman.
Here's Obama, you know, the light of the world: "Hey, let me be perfectly clear -- I botched up the economy so bad, even the Mexicans left the country. But, not to worry, I still gots my golf, Michelle still gots her fine clothes, I finally got my student loans paid off, and
me and the fam are going to spend Christmas in Cartegena this year, where I will be studying the Cuban revolution, where is Che' when I need him?"
Obama now is not just the worst president in the history of forever. He has ascended to the ranks of the worst student, the worst law student, the worst law professor, the worst liar, the worst thief, the worst illegal immigrant in the history of our country. If there was ever a time to impeach and remove someone masquerding as an American citizen, and as an American president, it is today. Can I get an Amen?
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Monday, April 23, 2012
The Board of Elections
By John Brentlinger
The Board of Elections
or,
All the Fraud is not in the Voting
Not sure how it is done in other states, but here in Ohio, there is a method to the madness of how a Board of Elections controls the voting process. And
when I say "madness," I don't mean the peaceful, sober, honest process of a free and fair election. It is not peaceful, sober, honest, free or fair. I am
a lifelong Republican, and I have seen as much fraud from the R's as well as the D's. So just because you're in a Republican county, don't think that there is no manipulation at the voting booth, before election day. Sad truth? There is as much fraud before, during and after an election as there ever is at the voting booth. And usually, the out- come has been pretty much decided way before election day.
The employees at the board of elections, in Ohio, are made up of an equal number of D's and R's. They take turns with all the various duties, and almost to
the paper clips, everything is split right down the middle. I assume it is the same around the rest of the country, with the exception of Cook County,
Illinois.
What about the third party people?, you ask. Good question, they have no say, no presence, and no seat at the table, although third party candidates have been around since 1832. That is 180 years of stone- walling by the two party system. Stonewalling: that is where the parties in power don't have to be held
accountable. Why? Because they are in power. Like Richard Nixon used to say, "When the president does it, it's not illegal."
The greatest single obstacle to free and fair elections in America is the two party system. The two party system is the first, best and oldest form of vote fraud.
The perps at the local boards say, almost in unison, "Hey, if they just had a national party, they could join in." Heh, heh, yeah right. For at least the last twenty or so years, there have been "Independent" candidates by the droves -- do you think they are allowed to participate at the board of elections? Actually, a
representative from the I's must, by law, get permission from the R's or D's if they simply wish to observe the process on election night.
We don't even need to discuss the fraud in setting up state voting districts. Anyone who doesn't recognize that fraudlent process is on the side that gets to divvy everything up.
Who gets on the ballot? Generally speaking, only the ones the board of elections wants on the ballot. How do they keep them off the ballot? Election laws, which are so long and complicated, they don't even print them up anymore, "check the internet," they say. The laws for petitions, from numbers of names necessary, a minimum and a maximum; too many, you're off the ballot; too few, you're out again.
how the names are written down; who passes out the petitions, when and where they are signed; the bottom line is that there are enough complicated restrictions that your petitions can be thrown out because of too many signatures, too few signatures, whether the address is absolutely correct, whether they signed in cursive or printed, and to an "i" being dotted or a "t" not crossed; in short, the board of elections culls the participants every time there is an election, just to make sure the two parties stay in power. Certainly there are
exceptions, but right offhand, I don't know any. BTW, the no good, liberal, lying leftists, crackpot, tinpot, pot smoking, evil doing fruits and nuts in ACORN are aware of all this two party fraud. And they know that Secretaries of States do NOT keep public records of voter fraud, except in completely egregious cases. So when they disrupt the voting process, they think they are doing the same thing the two party system is doing. Throwing a presidential election is nothing new, remember 1876; Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden? Remember 1960; Kennedy and Nixon?
It will be nothing new when his majesty at 1600 Pennsylvania does it again this year.
The only thing keeping the elections process going in this country is the faith of the American people. Finding out the whole thing is corrupt would be like finding out our pennies are zinc, our nickles are copper, our silver coins are worthless
alloys, and our paper money is not worth the Crane paper it is printed on. It would be like finding out that the wars killing and maiming our best and brightest boys and girls are all for nothing.
The only thing in America keeping all of our systems going is the faith, hope, dedication and beliefs of the American people, who right now are hoping for the best and preparing for the worst, because the truth is beginning to out. The only thing saving us now is the 2nd ammendment, praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition!
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The Board of Elections
or,
All the Fraud is not in the Voting
Not sure how it is done in other states, but here in Ohio, there is a method to the madness of how a Board of Elections controls the voting process. And
when I say "madness," I don't mean the peaceful, sober, honest process of a free and fair election. It is not peaceful, sober, honest, free or fair. I am
a lifelong Republican, and I have seen as much fraud from the R's as well as the D's. So just because you're in a Republican county, don't think that there is no manipulation at the voting booth, before election day. Sad truth? There is as much fraud before, during and after an election as there ever is at the voting booth. And usually, the out- come has been pretty much decided way before election day.
The employees at the board of elections, in Ohio, are made up of an equal number of D's and R's. They take turns with all the various duties, and almost to
the paper clips, everything is split right down the middle. I assume it is the same around the rest of the country, with the exception of Cook County,
Illinois.
What about the third party people?, you ask. Good question, they have no say, no presence, and no seat at the table, although third party candidates have been around since 1832. That is 180 years of stone- walling by the two party system. Stonewalling: that is where the parties in power don't have to be held
accountable. Why? Because they are in power. Like Richard Nixon used to say, "When the president does it, it's not illegal."
The greatest single obstacle to free and fair elections in America is the two party system. The two party system is the first, best and oldest form of vote fraud.
The perps at the local boards say, almost in unison, "Hey, if they just had a national party, they could join in." Heh, heh, yeah right. For at least the last twenty or so years, there have been "Independent" candidates by the droves -- do you think they are allowed to participate at the board of elections? Actually, a
representative from the I's must, by law, get permission from the R's or D's if they simply wish to observe the process on election night.
We don't even need to discuss the fraud in setting up state voting districts. Anyone who doesn't recognize that fraudlent process is on the side that gets to divvy everything up.
Who gets on the ballot? Generally speaking, only the ones the board of elections wants on the ballot. How do they keep them off the ballot? Election laws, which are so long and complicated, they don't even print them up anymore, "check the internet," they say. The laws for petitions, from numbers of names necessary, a minimum and a maximum; too many, you're off the ballot; too few, you're out again.
how the names are written down; who passes out the petitions, when and where they are signed; the bottom line is that there are enough complicated restrictions that your petitions can be thrown out because of too many signatures, too few signatures, whether the address is absolutely correct, whether they signed in cursive or printed, and to an "i" being dotted or a "t" not crossed; in short, the board of elections culls the participants every time there is an election, just to make sure the two parties stay in power. Certainly there are
exceptions, but right offhand, I don't know any. BTW, the no good, liberal, lying leftists, crackpot, tinpot, pot smoking, evil doing fruits and nuts in ACORN are aware of all this two party fraud. And they know that Secretaries of States do NOT keep public records of voter fraud, except in completely egregious cases. So when they disrupt the voting process, they think they are doing the same thing the two party system is doing. Throwing a presidential election is nothing new, remember 1876; Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden? Remember 1960; Kennedy and Nixon?
It will be nothing new when his majesty at 1600 Pennsylvania does it again this year.
The only thing keeping the elections process going in this country is the faith of the American people. Finding out the whole thing is corrupt would be like finding out our pennies are zinc, our nickles are copper, our silver coins are worthless
alloys, and our paper money is not worth the Crane paper it is printed on. It would be like finding out that the wars killing and maiming our best and brightest boys and girls are all for nothing.
The only thing in America keeping all of our systems going is the faith, hope, dedication and beliefs of the American people, who right now are hoping for the best and preparing for the worst, because the truth is beginning to out. The only thing saving us now is the 2nd ammendment, praise the Lord and
pass the ammunition!
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
LIFE IN THE ASYLUM
Chapter 1: BARACK OBAMA IS A NICE GUY!
Chapter 2: BARBARA BOXER, HARRY REID ARE NICE GUYS!
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You did know that, didn't you? If not, you have our now
all-but-certified presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, to
thank for enlightening you. Now you can rest easy. If
our all-but-certified presidential candidate, Mitt Romney,
doesn't happen to win the election in November, at least
we know that the man who will then retain control of the
executive branch for (at least) the next four years will
never intentionally do anything to harm this country, its
Constitution, or its people. Nice guys simply don't do
things like that.
You can also thank God that we have found an all-but-certified presidential candidate who has the good sense and judgment to select such a powerful campaign theme. Listen to the ring of it: "Barack Obama is a nice guy!" What can go wrong? Especially when we have such recent evidence of the sure-fire winner such an approach is certain to be [see John McCain campaign, circa 2008; John McCain endorsement and advice, circa 2012]. You can also thank God for the Establishment Republicans, who gave us John McCain and Mitt Romney, and who now control the House of Representatives, despite the tireless efforts of such as the Tea Party.
Chapter 2: BARBARA BOXER, HARRY REID ARE NICE GUYS!
You also knew that, didn't you? And so if you are a Republican member of the House, and you receive a bill from the Senate that has been heavily promoted by such nice guys as Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid, you would certainly want to rubber stamp it and get it out the door for the immediate signature of the salivating nice guy Barack Obama, right?
Let's talk a little about this bill. It bears the informative sobriquet "MAP-21", which stands for, believe it or not, the ‘Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act’. If knowing that the bill is heavily promoted by Barbara Boxer and Harry Reid doesn't make you comfortable about immediately rubber stamping it, one glance at the full title should tell you all you need to know. Who can possibly be against one iota of "moving ahead for progress in the 21st century"?
The bill weighs in at a slender, for these days, 1,676 pages. You can bet, of course, that every member of the House will read this bill in its entirety before casting a vote. We should be thankful that after Congress got away with the 2,700 page monstrosity of Obamacare, they did not decree 2,700 pages to be the minimum for all future bills.
The actual bill can be found in .pdf here. The official title is "AN
ACT To reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction
programs, and for other purposes". The "and for other purposes" part tells us everything we need to know, and we should just rubber stamp the bill, right?
Wait: one of the "other purposes" provides that the IRS can cancel the passport of an American citizen on the mere allegation of the IRS that the citizen owes $50,000 in taxes. No proof, no hearing, no court review, and you cannot leave the country until the IRS says so. As bad as this provision is in itself, and as unrelated as it is to highway construction, you can ponder at least two things: (1) how often will friends of the "Nice Guys" mentioned above be subjected to this provision?; and (2) how many intriguing "other purposes" is such a bill stuffed with?
One other purpose getting attention from people not in Congress is the “Mandatory Event Data Recorders” provision. These "black boxes" have been around for many years, and it is doubtful if a single new car is sold in the country without one. So what, exactly, is the need to suddenly make them "mandatory"?
Perhaps the answer lies in numerous other provisions that have nothing to do with highway construction, including, among many others, use of cell phones, coercing states on the issuance of drivers licenses, and a provision providing research money for "in-vehicle alcohol detection device research", presumably including the "trans-dermal sensor technology" that would allow the steering wheel of your car to test your skin for evidence of alcohol, and, if the sensor is not satisfied, turning off your car or preventing it from starting.
The bill is a cornucopia of such things, but don't worry - your data will be safe, until "the Secretary" wants it. The Secretary is permitted to “require an interoperable data access port to facilitate
universal accessibility and analysis”. In case you don't know it, such data ports are quite frequently wireless. In other words, every conceivable thing taking place during your use of your car will be instantly available to "the Secretary" or his designees.
MO Atty does not pretend to have made more than a scratch in the surface of MAP-21. The terrible thing is that he may already know more about it than will the several hundred House members, including many Republicans, as they rubber stamp this thing. But again, don't worry: we can certainly trust anyone who is a "Nice Guy".
MO Atty
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
What Does it Mean to be a Leader?
By John Brentlinger
Guess if we really want to know, we should check with a real leader. Don't know many, but I do know one.
So Jesus called his disciples together and said: "You know how the leaders of the nations exert dominance over their people and how the great ones domineer over them; but - it shall not be so among you; whoever of you would be great, let him become your servant." Matthew 20:25-26
So what does it truly mean to be a leader? Seems from this passage that you can be a leader, a ruler, and be as far from great as the east is from the west, or as far as the Cleveland Browns are from the Super Bowl. But, I digress.
What is leadership? Is it accepting the benefits of the office, running around to parties, grinning like a wino on a three week drunk everytime there is a camera in
sight? Is it golfing every weekend, playing the big shot, acting out fantasies of personal power, using money taken by wrongful taxation of the people to jet around
the world, always in search of another vacation spot? Is it signing bills and passing laws that have no moral, ethical or righteous justification? Does it mean that when you take the reigns of leadership that there is no longer a difference between right and wrong?
Lest you get the idea that the above paragraph speaks only to the pseudo resident in the white house, think again. Name one person in Congress, the Senate, the White House, the czars, the heads of state, in either party, who does not fit those characteristics.
An old Chinese proverb says: "If you would know a man, give him authority." Well, they have been given authority, and now we know them. To a man, to a woman, and to
the in-between, we know them, and in the area of true leadership, they are abject failures. If it wasn't for using the power of the office for personal gain, individual aggrandizement, and daily jousting for more power, they would have nothing to do.
True leadership, as spoken by a true leader, is to be a servant to those in your care. What means that? It means that the needs of those in your care are more important than your own needs. It means as a leader, you do not come first. Your people do. It means that your time and life are not your own. Your priorities are supposed to be greater than that. Your purpose as a leader is to only do good for those whom you represent. Your duties as a leader have nothing to do with what you want, or what you want to become. Dominance and ruling over are not leading. A servant then, is the only person who is qualified to be a great leader.
Our country is full of great leaders; fathers who serve their families, putting the needs of their families before their own needs; mothers who serve their families, placing their own wants and needs on hold for oh, twenty years at least, just to make sure their children receive a good foundation for life; parents who work together for the good of the family; brothers and sisters who of necessity become surrogate parents to younger siblings.
Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen who serve their country, with precious little recognition, and from the media nitwits, mostly negative at that. Millions more
are serving daily, no newspaper gives them space, no television network highlights them, that is not why they serve. They serve because they have a servant's heart.
Knowing they are helping others is reward enough for them.
It is those true leaders, who by the millions are looking askance at the misfits in local, state and federal government who are not leaders and who are not leading, but simply playing the game with money earned by the real leaders in our country. Is it any wonder why most of us are soured on our government?
Great Sovereign God of the earth and the universe-- please send us some leaders.
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Guess if we really want to know, we should check with a real leader. Don't know many, but I do know one.
So Jesus called his disciples together and said: "You know how the leaders of the nations exert dominance over their people and how the great ones domineer over them; but - it shall not be so among you; whoever of you would be great, let him become your servant." Matthew 20:25-26
So what does it truly mean to be a leader? Seems from this passage that you can be a leader, a ruler, and be as far from great as the east is from the west, or as far as the Cleveland Browns are from the Super Bowl. But, I digress.
What is leadership? Is it accepting the benefits of the office, running around to parties, grinning like a wino on a three week drunk everytime there is a camera in
sight? Is it golfing every weekend, playing the big shot, acting out fantasies of personal power, using money taken by wrongful taxation of the people to jet around
the world, always in search of another vacation spot? Is it signing bills and passing laws that have no moral, ethical or righteous justification? Does it mean that when you take the reigns of leadership that there is no longer a difference between right and wrong?
Lest you get the idea that the above paragraph speaks only to the pseudo resident in the white house, think again. Name one person in Congress, the Senate, the White House, the czars, the heads of state, in either party, who does not fit those characteristics.
An old Chinese proverb says: "If you would know a man, give him authority." Well, they have been given authority, and now we know them. To a man, to a woman, and to
the in-between, we know them, and in the area of true leadership, they are abject failures. If it wasn't for using the power of the office for personal gain, individual aggrandizement, and daily jousting for more power, they would have nothing to do.
True leadership, as spoken by a true leader, is to be a servant to those in your care. What means that? It means that the needs of those in your care are more important than your own needs. It means as a leader, you do not come first. Your people do. It means that your time and life are not your own. Your priorities are supposed to be greater than that. Your purpose as a leader is to only do good for those whom you represent. Your duties as a leader have nothing to do with what you want, or what you want to become. Dominance and ruling over are not leading. A servant then, is the only person who is qualified to be a great leader.
Our country is full of great leaders; fathers who serve their families, putting the needs of their families before their own needs; mothers who serve their families, placing their own wants and needs on hold for oh, twenty years at least, just to make sure their children receive a good foundation for life; parents who work together for the good of the family; brothers and sisters who of necessity become surrogate parents to younger siblings.
Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen who serve their country, with precious little recognition, and from the media nitwits, mostly negative at that. Millions more
are serving daily, no newspaper gives them space, no television network highlights them, that is not why they serve. They serve because they have a servant's heart.
Knowing they are helping others is reward enough for them.
It is those true leaders, who by the millions are looking askance at the misfits in local, state and federal government who are not leaders and who are not leading, but simply playing the game with money earned by the real leaders in our country. Is it any wonder why most of us are soured on our government?
Great Sovereign God of the earth and the universe-- please send us some leaders.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Obamianic References to Scripture
By John Brentlinger
It is becoming readily apparent that there isn't going to be a free and fair presidential election this year, if there is an election at all. By public design
the campaign staff must give way now to Queen Michelle, who is using messianic scripture: this president has brought us out of darkness and into light, while King Barry sits there grinning like a wino with half a bottle of Ripple. Since they are both kicking up the idea that he is a king, it might be a good time to refresh the subject with another nitwit in history who thought he was king of the world, namely -- Nebuchadnezzar. This guy was so vain, he would have made Warren Beatty blush.
It is true that as a Babylonian king, he had great power and authority, although his means to attain the crown were suspect. He fought with everyone who opposed
him, and conquered them. His life was characterized by pride, violence and fury, directed, of course, at those who dared to defy him.
His policy in war was to remove the inhabitants of the lands which he conquered, and move them to other parts of his empire; sort of gives new meaning to the immigration of foreigners. And of course the punishment for his enemies was death. He had to continually war to keep control of Washington D.C., sorry, meant Jerusalem. By the way, he did build the hanging gardens of Babylon, for his wife, Michelle, oh wait, his wife Amuhia, because it would remind her of where she had been born, uhh, Chicago?
Nebuchadnezzar, which is Mesopatamian slang for Barack, was so filled with pride, that he had some slaves build for him an golden idol, ninety feet high and eighteen feet wide, and of course Republicans, Tea Partyers and other commoners
had to bow down to it. And of course the idol and the bowing was accompanied by rap music. Penalty for not bowing? Death by fire. This guy was so vain.
There came a day when Barack, sorry, Nebuchadnezzar was strolling in the White House, sorry, gardens of Babylon, when he was heard by the White House correspondents to say: "Is not this great Babylon which I have built, by my power
and my majesty?" And before he could stick in his thumb, pull out a plum and say, what a good boy am I, there came a voice from heaven saying--"Your kingdom is departed from you. Why don't you go out in the field and eat grass like a cow."
Historians say that he was stricken with a malady called lycanthropy, in which he fancied himself an animal and acted as such. Sweet, to see the "I am king of the world guy" on all fours eating grass, mooing and wallowing in cow dung. Bet that one will make You-tube.
Queen Michelle might want to remember the verse in Proverbs, "Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall."
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It is becoming readily apparent that there isn't going to be a free and fair presidential election this year, if there is an election at all. By public design
the campaign staff must give way now to Queen Michelle, who is using messianic scripture: this president has brought us out of darkness and into light, while King Barry sits there grinning like a wino with half a bottle of Ripple. Since they are both kicking up the idea that he is a king, it might be a good time to refresh the subject with another nitwit in history who thought he was king of the world, namely -- Nebuchadnezzar. This guy was so vain, he would have made Warren Beatty blush.
It is true that as a Babylonian king, he had great power and authority, although his means to attain the crown were suspect. He fought with everyone who opposed
him, and conquered them. His life was characterized by pride, violence and fury, directed, of course, at those who dared to defy him.
His policy in war was to remove the inhabitants of the lands which he conquered, and move them to other parts of his empire; sort of gives new meaning to the immigration of foreigners. And of course the punishment for his enemies was death. He had to continually war to keep control of Washington D.C., sorry, meant Jerusalem. By the way, he did build the hanging gardens of Babylon, for his wife, Michelle, oh wait, his wife Amuhia, because it would remind her of where she had been born, uhh, Chicago?
Nebuchadnezzar, which is Mesopatamian slang for Barack, was so filled with pride, that he had some slaves build for him an golden idol, ninety feet high and eighteen feet wide, and of course Republicans, Tea Partyers and other commoners
had to bow down to it. And of course the idol and the bowing was accompanied by rap music. Penalty for not bowing? Death by fire. This guy was so vain.
There came a day when Barack, sorry, Nebuchadnezzar was strolling in the White House, sorry, gardens of Babylon, when he was heard by the White House correspondents to say: "Is not this great Babylon which I have built, by my power
and my majesty?" And before he could stick in his thumb, pull out a plum and say, what a good boy am I, there came a voice from heaven saying--"Your kingdom is departed from you. Why don't you go out in the field and eat grass like a cow."
Historians say that he was stricken with a malady called lycanthropy, in which he fancied himself an animal and acted as such. Sweet, to see the "I am king of the world guy" on all fours eating grass, mooing and wallowing in cow dung. Bet that one will make You-tube.
Queen Michelle might want to remember the verse in Proverbs, "Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall."
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
L 'Important, C'est le Gun Show
By John Brentlinger
'Twas reading the other day that Homeland Security has just ordered 450 million (million) rounds of .223 ammo. In addition to that paltry sum, they went ahead and ordered several hundred million (million) rounds of 9mm, possibly supposing that if they run out of rifle ammo, they can just take up pistols and finish the job at hand. Which job, you postulate? Well, it's not the army, so it is probably not for some foreign police action. Maybe they are expecting domestic problems?
Oh, and then I read yesterday about the camps for "belligerents," that the narcissistic nitwit residing in 1600 Pennsylvania avenue wants to build under the name of, get this, The National Defense Authorization Act, which being interpreted means: "detention and imprisonment of "belligerents and terrorists;" which again, being interpreted means any U.S. citizen who won't bow down to this pompous community organizer. (Btw, he hasn't seen community organizing until he sends his goons to round up those who don't bow down to him.)
I see immediate problems with these several scenarios. First of all, 650 million rounds of ammo is not going to be enough to subjugate any group of Americans who have enjoyed liberty for almost 400 years. Remember, 1620 is the target date, and for that long, we have been enjoying doing what we want, going where we please, without having to bow to a tyrant for the privilege. And oh, by the way, who is going to guard all that ammo? Where are they going to keep it? They think we don't know how to forage off the enemy? LOL, this is not our first rodeo.
Secondly, the interrment camps. Many problems exist here. Signed into "law" by the skinny golfer/basketball player/vacationing so called leader of the free world in December 2011, masquerading as NDAA 2012, the "law" has provisions which include building prisons for those who oppose the regime. Problems are many and immediate. Who will build them? Who will man them? Who will protect them? Who will keep family, friends and neighbors from tearing them down as they are being built? How will they feed the belligerent prisoners? How will they keep them from rising up and destroying them? But, the biggest problem I see is, Where will they build them?
Several suggestions come to mind. How about next to the fairgrounds in each county? You know, the fairgrounds where they hold the gun shows once a month. Great idea, that way, they could herd the "belligerents" directly from the gun show right smack into the interrment camps, and they could do it every month, till all of us were "rounded up." Because if there was ever a group of "belligerents" gathered together, it would be at one of our gun shows. Because at the gun show, if there is one name taken in vain, spat out, cursed and used in a derrogatory manner, it is that halfwit masquerading as our president, and almost everyone at the gun show feels the same way.
Oh wait, there might be a problem. The guns, I forgot about the guns. And the beliefs, I forgot about the beliefs. The beliefs you see, are more important than the guns. The beliefs mean that as free Americans, most of our immediate fathers, and their fathers and their fathers fought wars with guns, to insure that their children, that would be us, could live freely and do freely. And since we are fathers who fought wars with guns, and we now have children and grandchildren who we want to live free, we are not about to give up that freedom to anyone, foreign or domestic, oh wait, he's a foreigner. That would explain why he doesn't understand the old adage, Live Free or Die. But is the beliefs he should fear, not the guns. All the guns will do is lend credence to our firmly held belief that we will not be ruled over by a tyrant who wants to make us slaves.
Or, they could build the interrment camps next to a church. That's right, next to a church. Don't mean a mosque, I mean a church. You know, where "belligerents" gather together once a week to worship God freely, without fear of interference by any government radicals checking to see what they believe, or objecting to any interpretation of the Bible. Churches you see, are full of "belligerents." They are full of free Americans who bow only to God. Not to a man, not to a woman, not to a local, state or federal government, and certainly not to any earthly ruler. There is a higher law you see, and if that makes us "belligerents," then we are proud to be classed as a belligerent. Oh wait again, I forgot about the beliefs. And these beliefs which don't mean much to a foreigner, are deeper than the beliefs about the Second Amendment. And if the second ammendment beliefs are serious enough to die for, foreigners have no idea what we will do for our belief in a God who really rules the world.
Or, they could build the camps next to a high school. Then on Friday nights, at the ball games, football or basketball would be the nights when most of the "belligerents" gather, they could round up the usual "belligerents" and escort them directly to the temporary prison camps. But then, here is where the foreigners will really run into a problem. Because now, they won't just be dealing with men who carry guns. Now they will have to deal with mothers of children, mothers who believe in freedom just like their husbands do. And these mothers believe that anyone who touches their child deserves to die, immediately, and painfully. That battle will really make you-tube.
The truth is, the same men and women who go to the gun shows go to church, and they go to the high school ball games. It is the same crowd and they all feel the same way. Four hundred years of freedom, thirteen generations of free people, countless millions of free people for whom freedom is as natural as breathing -- that freedom is not about to be taken away just because some despotic government tinpot dictator decides it is time to enslave everyone, feed them government cheese, make them watch stupid sticoms with canned laughter and stupider national news with canned distress. We may be belligerent, but we are not that stupid.
So, you people at so-called Homeland Security might want to go ahead and double up on your ammuntion orders, and start looking for contractors to build your interrment camps. And you might want to start now to get some security to protect both the camps and the ammo dumps. This one may not be as easy as some of you pompous jackasses in D.C. are thinking. You can talk all you want about belling the cat, but when the day comes, it probably won't be as easy as you think. We may be belligerent, but we're not that dumbed down yet.
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'Twas reading the other day that Homeland Security has just ordered 450 million (million) rounds of .223 ammo. In addition to that paltry sum, they went ahead and ordered several hundred million (million) rounds of 9mm, possibly supposing that if they run out of rifle ammo, they can just take up pistols and finish the job at hand. Which job, you postulate? Well, it's not the army, so it is probably not for some foreign police action. Maybe they are expecting domestic problems?
Oh, and then I read yesterday about the camps for "belligerents," that the narcissistic nitwit residing in 1600 Pennsylvania avenue wants to build under the name of, get this, The National Defense Authorization Act, which being interpreted means: "detention and imprisonment of "belligerents and terrorists;" which again, being interpreted means any U.S. citizen who won't bow down to this pompous community organizer. (Btw, he hasn't seen community organizing until he sends his goons to round up those who don't bow down to him.)
I see immediate problems with these several scenarios. First of all, 650 million rounds of ammo is not going to be enough to subjugate any group of Americans who have enjoyed liberty for almost 400 years. Remember, 1620 is the target date, and for that long, we have been enjoying doing what we want, going where we please, without having to bow to a tyrant for the privilege. And oh, by the way, who is going to guard all that ammo? Where are they going to keep it? They think we don't know how to forage off the enemy? LOL, this is not our first rodeo.
Secondly, the interrment camps. Many problems exist here. Signed into "law" by the skinny golfer/basketball player/vacationing so called leader of the free world in December 2011, masquerading as NDAA 2012, the "law" has provisions which include building prisons for those who oppose the regime. Problems are many and immediate. Who will build them? Who will man them? Who will protect them? Who will keep family, friends and neighbors from tearing them down as they are being built? How will they feed the belligerent prisoners? How will they keep them from rising up and destroying them? But, the biggest problem I see is, Where will they build them?
Several suggestions come to mind. How about next to the fairgrounds in each county? You know, the fairgrounds where they hold the gun shows once a month. Great idea, that way, they could herd the "belligerents" directly from the gun show right smack into the interrment camps, and they could do it every month, till all of us were "rounded up." Because if there was ever a group of "belligerents" gathered together, it would be at one of our gun shows. Because at the gun show, if there is one name taken in vain, spat out, cursed and used in a derrogatory manner, it is that halfwit masquerading as our president, and almost everyone at the gun show feels the same way.
Oh wait, there might be a problem. The guns, I forgot about the guns. And the beliefs, I forgot about the beliefs. The beliefs you see, are more important than the guns. The beliefs mean that as free Americans, most of our immediate fathers, and their fathers and their fathers fought wars with guns, to insure that their children, that would be us, could live freely and do freely. And since we are fathers who fought wars with guns, and we now have children and grandchildren who we want to live free, we are not about to give up that freedom to anyone, foreign or domestic, oh wait, he's a foreigner. That would explain why he doesn't understand the old adage, Live Free or Die. But is the beliefs he should fear, not the guns. All the guns will do is lend credence to our firmly held belief that we will not be ruled over by a tyrant who wants to make us slaves.
Or, they could build the interrment camps next to a church. That's right, next to a church. Don't mean a mosque, I mean a church. You know, where "belligerents" gather together once a week to worship God freely, without fear of interference by any government radicals checking to see what they believe, or objecting to any interpretation of the Bible. Churches you see, are full of "belligerents." They are full of free Americans who bow only to God. Not to a man, not to a woman, not to a local, state or federal government, and certainly not to any earthly ruler. There is a higher law you see, and if that makes us "belligerents," then we are proud to be classed as a belligerent. Oh wait again, I forgot about the beliefs. And these beliefs which don't mean much to a foreigner, are deeper than the beliefs about the Second Amendment. And if the second ammendment beliefs are serious enough to die for, foreigners have no idea what we will do for our belief in a God who really rules the world.
Or, they could build the camps next to a high school. Then on Friday nights, at the ball games, football or basketball would be the nights when most of the "belligerents" gather, they could round up the usual "belligerents" and escort them directly to the temporary prison camps. But then, here is where the foreigners will really run into a problem. Because now, they won't just be dealing with men who carry guns. Now they will have to deal with mothers of children, mothers who believe in freedom just like their husbands do. And these mothers believe that anyone who touches their child deserves to die, immediately, and painfully. That battle will really make you-tube.
The truth is, the same men and women who go to the gun shows go to church, and they go to the high school ball games. It is the same crowd and they all feel the same way. Four hundred years of freedom, thirteen generations of free people, countless millions of free people for whom freedom is as natural as breathing -- that freedom is not about to be taken away just because some despotic government tinpot dictator decides it is time to enslave everyone, feed them government cheese, make them watch stupid sticoms with canned laughter and stupider national news with canned distress. We may be belligerent, but we are not that stupid.
So, you people at so-called Homeland Security might want to go ahead and double up on your ammuntion orders, and start looking for contractors to build your interrment camps. And you might want to start now to get some security to protect both the camps and the ammo dumps. This one may not be as easy as some of you pompous jackasses in D.C. are thinking. You can talk all you want about belling the cat, but when the day comes, it probably won't be as easy as you think. We may be belligerent, but we're not that dumbed down yet.
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Saturday, April 07, 2012
LIFE IN THE ASYLUM
TRAYVON: Report No. 2,304,xxx,xxx,etc.
As the entire world knows, Trayvon Martin was shot and killed on February 26, 2012. Since that date, our media and our political "leaders" have deluged us with massive amounts of heat, but shamelessly little light. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) poured this not untypical bit of soothing balm on the troubled waters: "Trayvon was hunted down like a rabid dog! He was shot in the street! He was racially profiled!" President Obama exponentially increased our knowledge of the facts by noting that if he had had a son, "he'd look like Trayvon".
Our media, tirelessly employing their investigative skills and reporting 'round the clock without the slightest hint of agenda, induced hundreds of thousands of armchair detectives and attorneys to sign a petition declaring, in their best legal judgment, that George Zimmerman must be immediately arrested.
Media biggie NBC displayed its investigative skills by editing out an important part of the first 911-call audio tape. On the original tape there was no mention of race until the dispatcher asked Zimmerman to specify:
NBC chose to present the tape edited as follows:
Two, merely a question for our armchair detectives: Skittles and Tea. When Trayvon was killed, the spot was very quickly cordoned off as a crime scene. A commentator on another website recently raised an interesting issue:
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As the entire world knows, Trayvon Martin was shot and killed on February 26, 2012. Since that date, our media and our political "leaders" have deluged us with massive amounts of heat, but shamelessly little light. Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) poured this not untypical bit of soothing balm on the troubled waters: "Trayvon was hunted down like a rabid dog! He was shot in the street! He was racially profiled!" President Obama exponentially increased our knowledge of the facts by noting that if he had had a son, "he'd look like Trayvon".
Our media, tirelessly employing their investigative skills and reporting 'round the clock without the slightest hint of agenda, induced hundreds of thousands of armchair detectives and attorneys to sign a petition declaring, in their best legal judgment, that George Zimmerman must be immediately arrested.
Media biggie NBC displayed its investigative skills by editing out an important part of the first 911-call audio tape. On the original tape there was no mention of race until the dispatcher asked Zimmerman to specify:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on
drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or
Hispanic?
Zimmerman: He looks black.
NBC chose to present the tape edited as follows:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks
black.
It was, of course, pure coincidence that the edited version made Zimmerman appear far more race conscious, and negatively so, than anything he had actually said. When confronted with this journalistic outrage, NBC claimed there would be an "internal investigation".
Not to be outdone, rival Media biggie ABC
upped the ante. Having obtained a police department video of Zimmerman
being brought into the Sanford Police Department, ABC processed the video to
remove image detail, then presented it on the air to show that there were no
cuts on the back of Zimmerman’s head. When confronted on their own outrage, ABC
was more creative than announcing a mere “internal investigation”. They claimed
that, having realized on their own that there was a problem, they later brought
in a video expert to “process” the fuzzy version they had aired to “enhance” it
until it actually did show the cuts on Zimmerman’s head.
In an unusual follow-up, NBC’s executives may have finally
remembered the “fake but accurate” fiasco of 2004 [in which the acclaimed Dan
Rather presented openly forged documents as “proof” that George W. Bush had not
performed his duties in the Air National Guard]. Fox News recently reported
that it heard from the New York Times, which has reported that it heard from
anonymous sources at NBC, that the unnamed offending editor of the audio tape
has been fired. NBC has refused to comment. Got that?
A couple of other points. One, did George Zimmerman
go to a hospital or not? Did he have a broken nose or not? It is hard to
imagine that the same media who can, seemingly any time they want, gain access
to the nations most highly classified information, could not get someone at a
nearby hospital to divulge whether one of the most recognizable faces in the
country recently walked into the place, and/or received treatment there.
See: They are laughing at us. Skittles and Tea are druggie slang for
Coricidin Cough and Cold Tablets (dextromethorphan) and marijuana.
Of course few of us on the political right get the joke, which is not
a bad thing.
Was a package of actual Skittles and/or a container of
actual tea found at the scene, or anywhere nearby? Merely a question. With the
nation’s devastating fiscal problems, along with those of Europe, the prospect
of turmoil, maybe even nuclear war, in the Middle East, and gas prices bouncing
off $5.00 a gallon long before summer
driving season, we will rivet ourselves to the crucial Trayvon questions. The
media will see to it.
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