tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68765192293092905332024-02-26T10:34:25.920-07:00BigMG Says So"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make"--J.M. BarrieBigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.comBlogger334125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-53202015476226082162023-07-01T06:43:00.001-06:002023-07-01T06:46:11.065-06:00 How the first Eve became Lilith<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span><b>How the first Eve became Lilith</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">NARRATOR: After years of pestering Adam, Eve
has finally decided that nagging him isn't enough. Eve has plans to corner and force
Adam into doing things her way. She's going to eat the fruit first and by that threaten
him with abandonment if he does not partake also. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EVE: Don't you remember that Father commanded
us to multiply and replenish the earth? You can't be that dumb! I have partaken
of this fruit and will be kicked out, and you will be left a lone man in the Garden
of Eden. You can't live a single day without me!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ADAM: Eve, I see that this must be so. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But, I will not partake. I may grieve your
loss, but you're strong and brave -- you don't need no man. There will be many
men who will be willing to help you achieve your desire to multiply and
replenish the earth. They will be fallen men, probably named Chad, so who knows
what will then happen, but choices have consequences which I now hope you shall
learn. Maybe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EVE: But, but, Adam! You were supposed to
follow me out of Eden! With God out of the way, I'm the only one you were to
heed, and there’s a lot of heeding I had planned for you! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ADAM: Why? Father will only condemn me a
second time, one for partaking and one for heeding your words. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EVE: What kind of man are you?! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ADAM: What kind of woman are you?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD: Adam, Adam, where are you Adam? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ADAM: Right here, Father.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD: Adam, where is Eve? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ADAM: Hiding in those bushes over there. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD: Eve, why are you hiding? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EVE: Because Lucifer and Adam have tricked me!
They want me thrown out of Eden so they can keep it for themselves! It's not
fair! I demand a lawyer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">LUCIFER: Heh... At your service Eve; for a
divorce lawyer will need an $8,000 retainer fee and they charge $250 an hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EVE: How can I afford any of that!?! We don't
have money here!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">LUCIFER: Not in Eden, but in my world you’ll
have Only Fans or you can become a Social Media Influencer and Life Coach.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EVE: Father! Adam! Why aren't you coming to my
rescue?! (Tears now) Who's going to pay my legal fees? Who's going to hand me
their resources and give me a standard of living that I'm accustomed to?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD: Eve, did I not tell you that you could
partake of anything <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">except</i> that fruit?
That in so doing there would be consequences?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EVE: But I thought you meant Adam, not me! He
tricked me you know. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD: Adam, did you trick her? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ADAM: How could I do that? I'm still innocent.
I have not allowed Lucifer to defile me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD: Eve?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EVE: Fine! You men are all the same! I'll just
leave and don't you come looking after me! I mean it!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD, ADAM: Okay. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EVE: You jerks! I'm leaving now! Here I am
walking away… Look, I'm going! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(SCREECHING FADES)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(GOD AND ADAM LOOK AT THEIR FEET, THEN UP,
THEN AT EACH OTHER) Mmmm ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(LONG PAUSE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ADAM: This isn’t over, is it Father?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD: Nope… Never is.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD: Adam, you cannot continue calling her Eve
any longer. What do you propose?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ADAM: I shall call her Lilith, the succubus, harridan
and child stealer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD: Adam, would you like to give this Eve thing
another go? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ADAM: If the next Eve is anything like Lilith,
no. I couldn't wait to get her out of here. Nag, nag, nag; oppressive
patriarchy this, men that... she wouldn't shut up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">GOD: Sorry about that. She wasn’t the most
motivating woman I formed out of a rib, was she? I hope things will be
different with this new Eve. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">(AFTER SOME TIME)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EVE: Adam! I'm so happy to meet you! Oh, look
at you! You're so big and strong, you make me feel so safe and secure. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Can I get you something to eat? What do you
want me to make you for dinner?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: large;">ADAM: Apple pie!</span><o:p style="font-size: 9pt;"></o:p></span></p>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-85325148577313113492013-09-18T05:19:00.002-06:002013-09-18T05:19:21.497-06:00A Note on Gov. Run 'Health Care'<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">If I had them by the throat! [</span><i style="font-family: times new roman;">Hastily kisses the crucifix, and mumbles</i><span style="font-family: times new roman;">] In these twenty years I have spent millions to keep the press of the two hemispheres quiet, and still these leaks keep on occurring. I have spent other millions on religion and art, and what do I get for it? Nothing. Not a compliment. These generosities are studiedly ignored, in print. In print I get nothing but slanders -- and slanders again -- and still slanders, and slanders on top of slanders! </span><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;">Grant them true</span><span style="font-family: times new roman;">, what of it? They are slanders all the same when uttered against a king. Miscreants -- they are telling </span><i style="font-family: times new roman;">everything</i><span style="font-family: times new roman;">!-- Mark Twain, <span style="font-style: italic;">King Leopold's Soliloquy</span>.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><br />The problem with the kind of power Liberals hold, via 85% of the media, is that there still is that 15% that are telling the truth. There is no such thing as absolute power. The tighter the Progressive Democrats tighten their fists for control of this issue, the more people become disgusted and angry. RHINOs (Progressive Republicans) do nothing more than create confusion and help this power grab.<br /><br />If only the Liberals had the same amount of hate for a socialist empire as they did for our former president Bush, there would be even more energy behind the resistance. Sadly, the hate they had for Bush is of a religious nature; the religion of Secularism. Many people also claim to belong to Judeo-Christian groups, but their actions provide little evidence.<br /><br />Attached is a copy of the Health Care proposal that is being debated.<br /><br />Feel free to search words like: tax, employer responsibility, end of life, pregnancy termination,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Update 2013.09.18</span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">It has been a little over four years since that warning to Liberals, who are being rolled over and over again, by their Progressive slave masters. Progressive Liberals have hijacked, like a parasite, the good will of classic Liberalism. Liberals, in the sense of 19th century Liberalism, felt that society needed to help out the downtrodden, educate people equally and treat workers with dignity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Progressives are not Liberals. They blind the good intentions of classic Liberals with rhetoric of a shining future, but deliver slavery and call it freedom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Classical Liberals should be aghast at what has happened to their dream. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Since then the Obama regime has managed to rack up 78% of the war dead in Afghanistan, leave four Americans helpless, tortured and dead in Benghazi while a dozen US bases were begging to come to their assistance, Stimulus bills that only paid off political henchmen and left the economy in disaster including a series of credit rating downgrades (very, very serious, but laughed off), Race wars the like we've not seen since the 1960's, Unemployment's true number is around 18% if we use the same metrics that have traditionally been used, gas prices up from $1.80 to $4.20, Illegal entry into this country at an alarming rate (not just Mexicans, but Middle Eastern Muslim Terrorists, Chinese, Slavery--yes, the worst it's been ever, and anyone else who poses a danger to U.S. soverntry--or what remains), unexplained gun violence by people who could not pass a background check, Gun running in the U.S., Mexico, Middle East, to the end of causing massive revolts that place the most radical murderers in power (read: Egypt, Syria, Libya, etc.), packing the courts, utter disregard for the Constitution of the United States is so many ways that hundreds of books have and will be written on just this subject alone (which virtually NONE of Americans will read--they can't), exporting Terrorism, importing Terrorism, monetizing our debt (printing money that we don't have, similar to you writing checks from an empty bank account), not passing a budget in over five years. Distraction, deceit, corruption. And lies. Lots and lots and lots of them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Although I was thoroughly disgusted by Bush's second term, the blame for hitting the gas and still blaming him after five years is blatantly hypocritical. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">And, that's just what I can think of in ten minutes of writing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">On to Obama-Care...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">After shoving this down the throats of the American people, you would expect that all the political hacks and shills for this monstrosity would be embracing this new leviathan as a welcome friend. Every --EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM-- has petitioned and is being exempted. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">So, who will be stuck with it? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">You will. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">The very people that this affordable care was pimped as helping will now find affordable care impossible. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Unions don't want it. Government workers don't want it. AARP (after a billion dollar bribe) won't get it. AND CONGRESS WILL NEVER HAVE IT. The list goes on. Small business cannot possibly afford the massive increases in premiums and taxes and penalties packed into this beast. The layoffs have just begun. Under-employment as workers get downgraded to part time (which does not count on the unemployment numbers) is rampant. Blame the business owners? They are being driven out faster than you can say "Jack's your daddy". </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">You think unemployment is bad now? Just wait. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Affordable Health Care will be the death of this Republic. Really smart people have been ringing the bell for these four years begging, pleading; going through the bill pointing out the massive intrusions, back breaking costs, hellish conditions that will follow -- including death panels (which are responsible for thousands of deaths in England right now). For the children? Well, maybe the genetically pure ones (let's ask famous Progressive, George Bernard Shaw about that one). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Progressives are smart and will smear alarm bell ringers as being hate mongers. Mirroring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">But national alarm is beginning to wake the people up. Even the most Liberal of true Liberals are beginning to agree: Something is deadly wrong. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Please call your Congressmen, Senators, and anyone else you can think of. This is NOT Republican v.s. Democrat. This is Freedom v.s. Socialism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Get out of this before it is too late. </span>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-57966672570878464572013-01-29T09:32:00.000-07:002013-01-29T09:32:31.714-07:00When Absurdity is the NormHumor is in taking a situation and extending it to it's natural point of absurdity.<br />
But, when absurdity is at the beginning of a situation, where can you go but further down. <br />
Seriously, I know people like this, who are offended by everything.<br />
The only part they left out was that there isn't snow in Kwanza. <br />
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Sheesh...<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Zd-lJyMeKdo">Pumpernickel Blvd</a>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-39762830412939509672013-01-20T05:08:00.001-07:002013-01-20T05:08:38.614-07:00Disarming Citizens: <br>What Could Possibly Go Wrong?<br><br>You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.<br> <br>With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it... In the darkness, you make out two shadows.<br><br> One holds something that looks like a crowbar. When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire. The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.<br> <br>As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble. In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless.. Yours was never registered.. Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died. They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.<br> <br>When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter. "What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask. "Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing.<br> <br>"Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven." The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper. Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys. Their friends and relatives can't find an unkind word to say about them.. Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times.<br> <br>But the next day's headline says it all: "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die." The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters..<br><br>As the days wear on, the story takes wings. The national media picks it up, then the international media.<br> <br>The surviving burglar has become a folk hero. Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably win. The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects. After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time.<br> <br>The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars. A few months later, you go to trial. The charges haven't been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted. When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you.. Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man.<br> <br>It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges. The judge sentences you to life in prison. <br><br>This case really happened. <br><br>On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth,Norfolk , England, killed one burglar and wounded a second. In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term.. How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire ? It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.<br> <br>This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license. The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns..<br> <br>Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns. Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987. <br> <br>Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the street shooting everyone he saw.<br><br>When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead. The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions. (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)<br> <br>Nine years later, at Dunblane, Scotland, Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.<br><br>For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable, or worse, criminals.<br> <br>Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners. Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.<br><br>The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearm's still owned by private citizens.<br> <br>During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.<br><br>Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun. Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.<br> <br>Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying, "We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."<br><br>All of Tony Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences.<br> <br>Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars. When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities. Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law. <br> <br>The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply. Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens. How did the authorities know who had handguns?<br> <br>The guns had been registered and licensed.<br><br>Kind of like cars. Sound familiar? WAKE UP AMERICA; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION. "...It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."<br> <br>--Samuel Adams If you think this is important, please forward to everyone you know.. <br><br>You had better wake up, because Obama is doing this very same thing, over here, if he can get it done. And there are stupid people in congress and on the street that will go right along with him. <br> <br> BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-87637225604875557032013-01-16T20:28:00.000-07:002013-01-16T20:30:53.031-07:00Troubling News, uh...<a href="http://www.theonion.com/video/us-high-school-students-falling-behind-china-many,30903/">Ten Percent Of U.S. High School Students Graduating Without Basic Object Permanence Skills</a><br />
Well, this explains much.<br />
You mean that things just don't disappear when you stop looking at them? Wait, what was I doing... BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-28037661816906023162012-04-22T15:03:00.001-06:002012-04-22T15:03:31.055-06:00This month's home teaching message.<b><i><u><span style="font-size:16pt"><span style="text-decoration:none"></span></span></u></i></b>They left out #13. If you happen to be LDS (Harry Reed) nobody will castigate for your religion; they know you don't believe all that stuff anyway. <br> <br><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><font face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></font><span style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"> </span><font style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt" color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:16pt">When your family or friends cannot explain why they voted Democrat, give them this list. <br>They can then pick a reason from this "TOP 12".</span></u></i></b><div style="margin-right:0px;font-size:10pt;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:arial,helvetica;margin-top:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> <div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;background-repeat:repeat repeat;background-image:none"> <i><u><span style="font-size:16pt"></span><span style> <br></span></u></i><b><span style>1. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.<br><br>2. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.<br><br>3. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.<br> <br>4. I voted Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.<br><br>5. I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.</span></b><span style><br><br><b>6. I voted Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.<br><br>7. I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take away the social security from those who paid into it.<br><br>8. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrats see fit.<br><br>9. I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.<br><br>10. I voted Democrat because I think that it's better to pay billions to people who hate us for their oil, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher or fish.<br><br>11. I voted Democrat because while we live in the greatest, most wonderful country in the world, I was promised "HOPE AND CHANGE".<br><br>12. I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my rear, it's unlikely that I'll ever have another point of view.</b></span></div></div></div></div></font></span> BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-49822031720499184932012-04-10T16:07:00.002-06:002012-04-10T16:16:38.544-06:00List of Firsts<span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">We must give credit where credit is due. . .here's Obama's Impressive list of firsts:<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States .<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to violate the War Powers Act.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to defy a Federal Judge’s court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to spend a trillion dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ jobs when there was no such thing as ‘shovel-ready’ jobs.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to abrogate bankruptcy law and turn over control of major companies to his union supporters.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to terminate America ’s ability to put a man in space.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to arbitrarily usurp congress, declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to tell a major manufacturing company (Boeing) in which State they are allowed to locate a factory.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to join with a foreign country and file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to go on multiple global ‘apology tours’.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.<br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Wingdings;FONT-SIZE:13pt">§</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:7pt"> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">First President to repeat the Holy Qur'an and tell us, </span><i><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">"the Islamic call to worship is the most beautiful sound on earth."<br /></span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt"><br /></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13pt">WAKE UP AMERICA ! Send this list to your Democrat friends - they will all be so proud of all these firsts!<br /><br />Plus:<br /><a href="http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2012/03/13/nbc-today-show-panel-rushes-obamas-defense-after-santorum-cheap-shot">Teleprompter</a><br /><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-obamas-incomplete-history-lesson-064102123.html">Cap n Trade</a><br /><a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/04/09/gas_prices_officially_double_under_obama">$5 and more Gas Prices</a><br /></span>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-710107111805557632012-01-31T03:56:00.001-07:002012-01-31T04:03:07.685-07:00Paraprosdokian<span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt">Definition: "Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected; frequently used in a humorous situation."<br /><br />"Where there's a will, I want to be in it," is a type of paraprosdokian.<br /><br />1. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.<br />2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on my list.<br />3. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.<br />4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.<br />5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.<br />6. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.<br />7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.<br />8. Evening news is where they begin with 'Good Evening,' and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.<br />9. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.<br />10. A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.<br />11. I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just wanted paychecks.<br />12. Whenever I fill out an application, in the part that says, 'In case of emergency, notify:' I put 'DOCTOR.'<br />13. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.<br />14. Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.<br />15. Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.<br />16. A clear conscience is the sign of a fuzzy memory.<br />17. I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.<br />18. You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.<br />19. Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.<br />20. There's a fine line between cuddling and holding someone down so they can't get away.<br />21. I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.<br />22. You're never too old to learn something stupid.<br />23. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.<br />24. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.<br />25. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.<br />26. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.<br />27. A diplomat is someone who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.<br />28. Hospitality is making your guests feel at home even when you wish they were.<br />29. I always take life with a grain of salt. Plus a slice of lemon, and a shot of tequila.<br />30. When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.<br />32. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.</span></span>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-36066636920651520982012-01-18T17:23:00.000-07:002012-01-18T17:24:24.932-07:00<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="FONT-SIZE:13.5pt">There are actually two messages here. The 1st points out the incredible <u>benefits</u> of Universal Healthcare and is very interesting; the 2nd is absolutely astounding - and explains a lot.<br /><br /><br />1.</span><span style="COLOR:#004080;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt">A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.<br /><br />Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:</span><span style="COLOR:#c20000;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />U.S. 65%</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />England 46%<br />Canada 42%<br /><br />Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:</span><span style="COLOR:#c20000;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />U.S. 93%</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />England 15%<br />Canada 43%<br /><br />Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:</span><span style="COLOR:#c20000;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />U.S. 90%</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />England 15%<br />Canada 43%<br /><br />Percentage referred to a medical specialist<br />who see one within one month:</span><span style="COLOR:#c20000;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />U.S. 77%</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />England 40%<br />Canada 43%<br /><br />Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:</span><span style="COLOR:#c20000;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />U.S. 71</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />England 14<br />Canada 18<br /><br />Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":</span><span style="COLOR:#c20000;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />U..S. 12%</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br />England 02%<br />Canada 06%<br /></span><u><span style="COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br /><br />Check this last set of statistics!!</span></u><span style="FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br /><br /><br />2..The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet. <br /><br />Here are the percentages.<br />T. Roosevelt................... 38%<br />Taft..........................<wbr>..... 40%<br />Wilson .......................... 52%<br />Harding.......................<wbr>... 49%<br />Coolidge......................<wbr>. 48%<br />Hoover ......................... 42%<br />F. Roosevelt...................<wbr>50%<br />Truman........................ 50%<br />Johnson.......................<wbr>. 47%<br />Nixon.........................<wbr>... 53%<br />Ford..........................<wbr>... 42%<br />Carter........................<wbr>... 32%<br />Reagan........................<wbr>..86%<br />GH Bush....................... 51%<br />Clinton ......................... 39%<br />GW Bush...................... 55%<br /><br />And the winner is:</span><span style="COLOR:#004080;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br /><br />Obama</span><span style="COLOR:#a16252;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt">.................. </span><span style="COLOR:#c20000;FONT-SIZE:13.5pt">08%</span><span style="FONT-SIZE:13.5pt"><br /><br /><br />This helps to explain the incompetence of this administration: only 8% of them have ever worked in a job not supported by tax money!<br /><br />That's right! Only eight percent---the least, by far, of the last 19 presidents! And these people are trying to tell our big corporations how to run <i>their</i> business? They know what's best for GM, Chrysler, Wall Street, and you and me?<br /><br />How can the president of a major nation and society, the one with the most successful economic system in world history, stand and talk about business when he's never worked for one? Or about jobs when he has never really had one? And when it's the same for 92% of his senior staff and closest advisers? They've spent most of their time in academia, government and/or non-profit jobs or as "community organizers." They should have been in an employment line.</span></span>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-11577674919696628452011-12-17T06:18:00.008-07:002023-07-01T06:58:10.974-06:00China builds super-scary-secret-weapon......That we've known about for 40 years.<div>Couldn't resist. Getting sick of all these diversions around the world that our political advertising systems uses to help drive us over the cliff.<h5><a class="url" href="http://www.theblaze.com/users/bigmg/" target="_self"></a></h5><blockquote><h5><a class="url" href="http://www.theblaze.com/users/bigmg/" target="_self">BigMG</a></h5> <small>Posted on December 17, 2011 at 8:16am</small> <p>All this hand-wringing over a retrofitted scrap of 1980′s era Soviet engineering? Those Soviet clowns couldn‘t even properly build things they’d been stealing from us since the 1920′s. That so-called ‘stealth’ plane they rolled out looked more like an anvil with an engine. They can steal our technology, but they can’t steal our innovation. That has to be done from within. And, it is.<br />China is just getting ready to pick up the pieces after we self destruct. Diversion will be their best weapon.<br />The only problem is that China is self destructing also. Whole ‘planned communist paradise cities’ are uninhabited. Tens of thousands workers lie dead, mostly buried alive, in China’s proletariat dream. Close to 200,000 protests in less than a decade; where workers would rather face the end of a gun than work in these hell holes.<br />Let‘s not forget that China’s hell hole work environment is courtesy of United States Unions, who have forced labor overseas for the sake of their own power. We share in the blood shed for global Communism. But, through our dept, we in a sense own them.<br />So, when we get upset over a 40yr. old scrap heap retrofitted by a nation of slaves, remember: IT IS A DIVERSION.</p></blockquote><p></p>The most obvious answer is to fix ourselves first.<br />Is China planning of taking Taiwan? When haven't they been? What FDR failed to do in the 1940's, Obama may succeed in doing if reelected. But, who cares? Walmart is having a sale...</div>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-55218507605391243572011-11-30T14:27:00.003-07:002023-07-01T06:58:58.998-06:00How's That Dope 'n Change? GE Leaves USA.<span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;"><b><span style="font-size: 180%;">GE leaves USA</span><br /><br /></b>General Electric is planning to move its 115-year-old X-ray division from Waukesha, Wis., to Beijing. In addition to moving the headquarters, the company will invest $2 billion in China and train more than 65 engineers and create six research centers. This is the same GE that made $5.1 billion in the United States last year. but paid no taxes-the same company that employs more people overseas than it does in the united States.<br /><br />So let me get this straight. President Obama appointed GE Chairman Jeff Immelt to head his commission on job creation (job czar). Immelt is supposed to help create jobs.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b>I guess the President forgot to tell him in which country he was supposed to be creating those jobs. Then again, perhaps he did exactly as the President instructed (through his Union puppeteers).</b><div class="im"><br /></div></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 100%;">If this doesn't show you the total lack of leadership of this President, I don't know what does. Please pass this information to others and think about it before you buy a GE product.</span>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-21349822024586688022011-11-29T22:18:00.004-07:002023-07-01T07:01:33.660-06:00Herman's Harem<br />Yet another woman comes forward. This one claiming to have had a 13 year affair with the multi-tasking presidential candidate. Either this frisky front runner has a social calendar that looks like that of a dentist who takes Medicare, or there are a lot of people who don't want to see a conservative black man in the race.<br /><br />Whether those would be DNC, or GOP, or both, remains to probably never be seen.<br /><br />What is clear at this point is:<br />Herman, you should have run as a Democrat.<br />Your alleged sexual prowess would have made you a liberal's super star. Your ascension to the presidency would have been a lock.<br />Bill Clinton has Herman beat by a mile.<br /><br />What is most puzzling about this whole thing is how much this reminds me of the Clarance Thomas kerfuffle. Women popping up like 'Whack-a-Mole', all with financial problems. Anita Hill, for example, wasn't someone anybody wanted on their team, but was good enough for a cush job as a legal professor after the hit was over.<br /><br />Journalists seem attracted to the same old stories that the racist Democrats loved in the 1800's: The amorous black man stealing the white plantation owner's daughter. Why they still love that story tells us more about who journalists are today than who Herman Cain was a decade ago.<br /><br />I suspect that Herman may have been careless in the manner in which he handled himself around women. Restaurants aren't exactly the place to find a Harvard grad, unless she was an art major -- but I digress. There may be an abundance of women tired of smelling like the 'soup du jour' and see this as a way out.<br /><br />Wasn't it Democrat strategist James Carville who said about Bill's trysts, that finding women like this to come forward was as easy as "Dragging a $100 Bill through a trailer park"? But, with Bill there were other witnesses, hush money was paid, threats were made, and many uncooperative folks ended up dead. Especially cops, who can be very influential where testimony is concerned.<br /><br />Not one member of Herman's Harem seem to mention any hush-money, or any attempt at containment. It's like he never saw any of this coming.<br /><br />Just sayin'BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-47561381604074880512011-11-29T21:26:00.003-07:002011-11-29T22:14:46.044-07:00More Like 'Lack of Class' WarfareMore Like 'Lack of Class' Warfare<br />Today, Occu-parasites all over the U.S. are demanding things they have no legal right to take.<br />Class warfare is at its best/worst laziness, ingratitude, and greed. Just look at the environment they have left behind during these tantrums.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Real Story of Stuff</span></span><br /><br />The slackers who are getting the free stuff don't like the workers who are paying for the free stuff, because the workers who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the slackers free stuff and the stuff the workers have earned for themselves.<br /><br />And,<br /><br />The workers who are paying for the slackers free stuff want the slackers free stuff to stop, while the slackers who are getting the free stuff, want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!<br /><br />Now<br /><br />The politicians, who are forcing the workers, that pay for the slackers free stuff, have also told the slackers who are RECEIVING the free stuff, that the workers who are PAYING for the free stuff, are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.<br /><br />So<br /><br />The slackers, who are GETTING the free stuff, have been convinced by the politicians that they need to hate the workers who are paying for the slackers free stuff. But, it's the politicians who are forcing the workers to pay for the slackers stuff, and then giving it to the slackers as free stuff in the first place.<br /><br />We have let the politicians give free stuff for so long that there are now more slackers getting free stuff than there are workers who are paying for the free stuff.<br /><br />There is something in between the workers and the slackers that is preventing the two from coming to an agreement. That would be the POLITICIAN, or in other times, the MERCENARY.<br /><br />It is the politician's job to make sure that the workers and the slackers hate one another so that the need for intervention is constant and escalating.<br /><br />Now understand this.<br /><br />All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.<br /><br />The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. We have one chance to change that in 2012. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.<br /><br />ELECTION 2012 IS COMING<br /><br />A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!<br />Unless YOU Take a Stand!!!<br /><br />Obama: Gone<br /><br />Borders: Enforced<br /><br />Language: English<br /><br />Culture: Constitution and the Bill of Rights<br /><br />Compassion: Hand-Up, Not Hand-Out -- Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare<br /><br />NO freebies to Non-Citizens whatsoever!<br /><br />If someone came to this country looking for equal opportunity: Welcome, there is room for them to do it the right way.<br /><br />If someone came to this country bringing the culture of lawlessness, murder, and corruption with them: Go home. We have no room for criminals.BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-46100373630948643022011-11-29T06:22:00.002-07:002011-11-29T07:03:29.838-07:00Proof Uncoverd: The Links between the ACLU and the Communist PartyWhat has this to do with anything? First, we have ACLU members in the highest positions of power, including the Supreme Court. Their agenda is quite literal: Replace this Republic with a Socialist / Communist State. Occasionally, they will defend an issue that is consistent with conservative ideas, but that's just a smoke screen.<br /><br /><blockquote>Proof Uncoverd: The Links between the ACLU and the Communist Party<br /><br />We all knew the ACLU really stood for American Communist Labor Union.<br /><br />John Rossomando reports, via The Daily Caller:<br /><br /> Noted author Paul Kengor has unearthed declassified letters and other documents in the Soviet Comintern archives linking early leaders of the ACLU with the Communist Party.<br /><br /> Kengor found a May 23, 1931 letter in the archives signed by ACLU founder Roger Baldwin, written on ACLU stationery, to then American Communist Party Chairman William Z. Foster asking him to help ACLU Chairman Harry Ward with his then-upcoming trip to Stalin's Russia.<br /><br /> The letter suggests Ward intended to visit the Soviet Union to find 'evidence from Soviet Russia' that would undermine the capitalist profit motive.<br /><br /> Baldwin wrote the letter at a time when Stalin was deporting 1.8 million Ukrainian peasants to Siberia under his policy of the forced collectivization of agriculture, which resulted in the deaths of up to 10 million Ukrainians in the two years that followed.<br /><br /> The Ukrainian government considers this to have been an act of genocide.<br /><br /> Foster was a key figure in the early years of the American communist movement who belonged to the ACLU's National Committee in the 1920s, according to FBI documents. He later wrote a book titled 'Toward Soviet America' in 1932 and also testified under oath before Congress that he opposed American democracy.<br /><br /> Another letter on ACLU letterhead Kengor found in the Soviet archives dated Sept. 2, 1932 asks the Communist Party of America for a schedule of Foster's trips around the country and offers to help keep the police at bay. It also asks for the names and addresses of Communist Party representatives in the cities where Foster was speaking.<br /><br /> Kengor also found a flier from 1933 advertising ACLU board member Corliss Lamont as the headline speaker for 'Soviet Union Day,' which its organizers hoped would 'answer lies and slanders of enemies of the Soviet Union.'<br /><br /> The documents found their way into the Soviet archives because the Communist Party sent all of its correspondences to the Comintern in Moscow for safekeeping, according to Kengor.<br /><br /> Other documents released in the 1990s by KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin show the American Communist Party was under the Moscow's direct control until 1989.<br /><br /> 'These guys were advocating a regime that arguably was the biggest mass murderer in all of human history,' Kengor said. 'Where is the moral authority in that?'<br /><br /> Kengor told The Daily Caller he found numerous other documents in the Soviet Comintern archives that also show a close relationship between the Communist Party and the ACLU.</blockquote>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-50519077668365181532011-08-25T14:29:00.004-06:002023-07-01T07:04:31.003-06:00Declaration of Rights & ResponsibilitiesEnough of this world's foolishness. It is time to take responsibility for ones own actions.<br /><br />Beck is dead-on right. It is time for the idiots of the world to stop blaming good people when these idiots bring bad consequences upon themselves because of their own irresponsibility.<br /><br /><blockquote style="font-weight: bold;"><p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong>Thus, we the people do hereby declare not only our rights, but do now establish this bill of responsibilities.</strong></span></p> <p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong>1. Because I have the right to choose, I recognize that I am accountable to God and have the responsibility to keep the 10 commandments in my own life.</strong></span></p> <p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong>2. Because I have the right to worship as I choose, I have the responsibility to honor the right of others to worship as they see fit.</strong></span></p> <p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong>3. Because I have freedom of speech, I have the responsibility to defend the speech of others, even if I strongly disagree with what they’re saying.</strong></span></p> <p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong>4. Because I have the right to pursue happiness, I have the responsibility to show humility and express gratitude for all the blessings I enjoy and the rights I’ve been given.</strong></span></p> <p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong>5. Because I have the right to honest and good government I will seek out honest and just representatives when possible. If I cannot find one then I accept the responsibility to take that place.</strong></span></p> <p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong>6. Because I have the God given right to liberty, I have the personal responsibility to have the courage to defend others to be secure in their persons, lives and property.</strong></span></p> <p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong>7. Because I have the right to equal justice, I will stand for those who are wrongly accused or unjustly blamed.</strong></span></p> <p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong>8. Because I have the right to knowledge, I will be accountable for myself and my children’s education…to live our lives in such a way that insures the continuation of truth.</strong></span></p> <p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong>9. Because I have the right to pursue my dreams and keep the fruits of my labor, I have the responsibility to feed, protect and shelter my family, the less fortunate, the fatherless, the old and infirm.</strong></span></p><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 100%;"> </span><p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong>10. Because I have a right to the truth, I will not bear false witness nor will I stand idly by as others do.</strong></span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><strong></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 130%;">Many people like slavery because they have everything handed to them and they never have to make any difficult decisions. Problem is, when your usefulness as a slave is no longer needed, you become a liability. They shoot you, or more likely, just starve you to death.<br /><strong></strong></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><strong><br /></strong></p>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-7609719421540146602011-08-23T15:09:00.002-06:002011-08-23T15:36:12.188-06:00Dem Rep Cites ‘Racism’ as Top Reason for Black UnemploymentFirst, why would anyone elect some fool in a shiny red hat.
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<br />Who only cares about color in America today as a way of fracturing society and fomenting hatred?
<br />Oh, the racist slave owners, *cough-democrats*.
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<br />Who cares what color you are when it comes to denying some people a quality education?
<br />Oh, the racist slave owners, *cough-democrats*.
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<br />Who advocates the targeted abortions for one particular community?
<br />Oh, the racist slave owners, *cough-democrats*.
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<br />All REAL Americans want is competent, hard working, educated, and capable citizens.
<br />No matter what color.
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<br />All REAL Americans want is for their fellows to join together and support the greatest nation the world has ever seen.
<br />No matter what color.
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<br />Why is it so hard to see that the people pretending to be helping the black community are actually herding them into a plantation of the mind.
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<br />Willful slavery is something that this world hasn't seen to this degree, ever. We often state that the last civil war was fought to free the slaves. Did you ever think that the next civil war will be fought to set free slaves who will be fighting to remain slaves. Of every color.
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<br />In reality, though, roughly 1/2 of the entire American population has become a slave of the mind. The people who have lost interest in freedom and only want a handout. This is no longer a black-white issue. This is a 'those-who-get-it' issue and a 'those-who-are-wondering-what's-on-TV-right-now'.
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<br />By fracturing society and dividing people into smaller, more self-important, insular groups, the slave owners are sapping your life away. Who will care about Social Security or Medicare when the government collapses from millions of paper cuts. How can the slave owners maintain power when they've finally squeezed the last dollar out of the working man and handed it over to the idle male.
<br />BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-26872311970663268802011-08-10T05:14:00.008-06:002011-08-10T05:35:57.756-06:00Time for Orrin to Go
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:13px;" ><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;font-size:1em;">After reading Michelle Malkin's assessment on Orrin Hatch, it's pretty much a fact that Orrin is only a Tea Party supporter inasmuch as leech is to the back of your leg. Hitching one free ride after another, while sucking Utah dry of qualified representatives, he has used America to satisfy his ambition.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;font-size:1em;">If anyone thinks for one second that Orrin wouldn't throw any one of us under the bus, think again. His newsletters turn my stomach as I've seen what he really believes through his actions for 36+ years.
<br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;font-size:1em;">We don't need career politicians on either side. Government has become so overwhelmingly large that the demise of this country is a certainty. And, Orrin is leading the charge.
<br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;font-size:1em;">Stop Orrin before he and his RHINO buddies take us all over the cliff.</p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;font-size:1em;">Orrin Hatch is the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">antithesis</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of the Tea Party spirit. He is a mascot for big-spending Beltway entrenched incumbency who has consistently joined hands with destructive Democrats.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;font-size:1em;">He<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/07/17/a-slobbering-love-affair-orrin-hatch-and-chris-dodd/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">slobbered over corruptocrat Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd.</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;font-size:1em;">He<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/27/hatch-dedicates-6-billion-giveserve-boondoggle-to-kennedy-plus-mandatory-service-study-lives/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">co-sponsored the $6 billion national service boondoggle and dedicated it to his good friend Teddy Kennedy,</a><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/03/27/hatch-dedicates-6-billion-giveserve-boondoggle-to-kennedy-plus-mandatory-service-study-lives/"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>with whom he also joined hands to create the ever-expanding<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Newsletters/Washington-Health-Policy-in-Review/2007/Jun/Washington-Health-Policy-Week-in-Review---June-11---2007/Kennedy--Hatch-Release-SCHIP-Principles.aspx" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">SCHIP entitlement.</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;font-size:1em;">He<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/13/orrin-hatch-hearts-geithner/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">supported tax cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>from day one,<a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/15/someone-please-stop-orrin-hatch-please-hurry/"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/15/someone-please-stop-orrin-hatch-please-hurry/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">lavished praise on Joe Biden’s balls</a>, and embraced and defended Attorney General Eric Holder’s nomination because, he said,<a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/12/orrin-hatch-hearts-holder/"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/12/orrin-hatch-hearts-holder/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">“I like Barack Obama and I want to help him if I can.”</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;font-size:1em;">He was an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/thank-orrin-hatch-for-supporting-the-dream-act-and-ask-him-to-cosponsor" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">original sponsor</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of the open-borders<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2010/09/17/harry-reids-illegal-alien-student-bailout/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout</a><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2010/09/17/harry-reids-illegal-alien-student-bailout/"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/conservatives-heckle-hatch-on-tarp-vote/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">voted for the massive TARP bailout.</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;font-size:1em;">How do real Tea Party people feel about Tea Party pretender Orrin Hatch?</p><p size="1em" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">The same way they feel about his former big-spending entrenched incumbent in Utah —<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2010/05/10/dltdhyotwo-bob-bennett-gets-the-boot-and-next/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">former Sen. Bob Bennett</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>— who got the boot in May.</p><p size="1em" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">...</p><p size="1em" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.6em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-size:13px;" ></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">Now, the six-term Hatch — first elected in 1976 on an anti-entrenched incumbent platform (Hatch’s campaign line then against his opponent Frank Moss:<a href="http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=1013&sid=16005079" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">“What do you call a Senator who’s served in office for 18 years? You call him home”</a>) — wants to stay in Washington yet another term after FOUR DECADES in government. He has been lining up some big conservative names. And now there is some sort of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/05/%E2%80%98who-is-dick-armey%E2%80%99-attack-website-surfaces/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">pro-Hatch, anti-Freedomworks website</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>using my words to support Hatch.</p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">I don’t know what the beef is between Dick Armey and Orrin Hatch. But I will tell you this: While<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2010/03/17/in-response-to-amnesty-stooge-dick-armey/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">Armey’s pro-amnesty stance</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>bothers me, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">bailout Swamp Creature Orrin Hatch’s desperate bid to cling to power by morphing himself into a Tea Party cheerleader aggravates me far more.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">I will do whatever I can to support Hatch’s challenger —<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/07/hatch-vs-chaffetz-looks-to-be-a-brutal-battle.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">likely the staunch conservative GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz</a>, who is a fiscal warrior, tough on illegal immigration, and has a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/25/shamnesty-republican-chris-cannon-defeated-in-utah-primary/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(114, 18, 59); text-decoration: none;">terrific record taking down the GOP establishment</a>.</p><p></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; font-size:1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(59, 59, 59); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family:Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:13px;" ></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;"></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.6em;">Time to elect responsible, adult, leadership. Not Marxist children.
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<br /><h5><a target="_self" href="http://www.theblaze.com/users/bigmg/" class="url"></a></h5><blockquote><h5><a target="_self" href="http://www.theblaze.com/users/bigmg/" class="url">BigMG</a></h5> <small>Posted on July 1, 2011 at 7:13pm</small> </blockquote><p></p><p>…There [is] no law against a man’s belief…
<br />That is the loophole and I don’t have a problem with that. Atheism by its very definition is a philosophy and a belief. By saying that one ‘believes’ that there is no god, they embrace a counter set of beliefs. It is when one hides their beliefs and ridicules another that lies begin to be told. Unfortunately, atheism cannot stand without leaning on a belief in God, and then attacking God for being God.
<br />It’s like how C.S. Lewis puts it, how can you recognize a crooked line without knowing what a straight line is?
<br />If atheists want to promote their beliefs, let them do so; without an appeal to the existence of God.
<br />Now, try not to think of shooting an elephant…</p><p>Now the story (always read the end first, then work upwards)</p><p>Here is the meat of the story: Atheists are claiming 'persecution' because those intolerant Christians won't help them ridicule Christian beliefs.
<br /></p><p>Imagine that...
<br /></p><p>But, the campaign hasn‘t even been implemented yet and it’s already off to a rocky start. According to Justin Jaye of Fly Signs Aerial Advertising, the guy who helped organize the nation-wide blitz, of the 85 people in the nation who are able to fly these banner-bearing planes, only 17 agreed to participate. The fear of public reaction and the confines of personal religious belief led the majority of these individuals to refuse service. SeattleWeekly.com <a href="http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/06/atheist_airplanes_to_take_flig.php" target="_blank">has more</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Scott…tells <em>Seattle Weekly</em> that in larger cities and more liberal areas, he had no trouble finding pilots to take the banners to the sky. But in Southern states like Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas and other conservative states like Montana, Kansas, and Utah, there apparently wasn’t a single pilot to be found who would fly a banner promoting atheism.</p><p>...“This is a clear reminder of why we need to keep fighting because<span style="font-weight: bold;"> the bigotry against us is so thick </span>that a lot of the pilots are afraid to fly our banners.”</p></blockquote>Boo-Freaking-Hoo...BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-33203212630747236202011-07-01T14:12:00.001-06:002011-07-01T14:12:36.219-06:00Smilin' Jon Huntsman abandons pro-life platform at the drop of a hat.Great, just what we need, another No-Mo that the liberals love, have no values, and pretend to be one of us. <br><br>Smilin' Jon Huntsman abandons pro-life platform at the drop of a hat. <br><br><a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/huntsman-says-no-to-pro-life-pledge-yes-to-ebryonic-stem-cell-research/">http://www.breitbart.tv/huntsman-says-no-to-pro-life-pledge-yes-to-ebryonic-stem-cell-research/</a><br> <br>This leads me to ask of the top 6 Mormons in politics, Reed, Hatch, Bennett, Romney, Huntsman, and Leavitt: If any of them were to be tried as a Mormon, based on voting record or behavior, who would you convict and who acquit? <br> <br>If politics and a moral compass are mutually exclusive in today's politics, since when did this happen? <br><br>Was George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, or any other founding father, pro-secularist? <br> <br>Then what was the Constitution based on? <br><br>Moral Law<br> BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-53962366310481950142011-06-30T07:03:00.003-06:002011-06-30T07:09:00.167-06:00That Magical Science Thingey<a onblur="try 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"$2,467!" cried the teacher, "What in the world were you selling?"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;" >"Toothbrushes," said Little Johnny.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;" >"Toothbrushes!" echoed the teacher, "How could you possibly sell enough tooth brushes to make that much money?"</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;" >"I found the busiest corner in town," said Little Johnny. "I set up a Dip & Chip stand and gave everybody who walked by a free sample." </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;" >They all said the same thing, "Hey, this tastes like dog crap!" </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;" >Then I would say, "It is dog crap. 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They might appear to be the same thing, but they are vastly different. Essentially, environmentalism is an emotion while conservation is an action. </blockquote>In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. <p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day." </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation did not care enough to save our environment." </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >He was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. They walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two blocks. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >Back then, they washed the baby's diapers because they didn't have the throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >But that old lady is right, they didn't have the green thing back in her day. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house - not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have electric machines to do everything for you. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >But she's right, they didn't have the green thing back then. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But they didn't have the green thing back then. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or rode the school bus instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif"font-family:";" >But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful the old folks were just because they didn't have the green thing back then? </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif";font-family:";" >~Author Unknown~</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:";" >I doubt that anyone would have tolerated this back when conservation was practiced and not environmentalism.<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></p><h1 style="padding-bottom: 8px;" id="watch-headline-title"> <span style="vertical-align: top;" id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="Beavis and Butthead vs. Emotional Dead Tree Hippies"> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmTNJdgZWhM"><span style="font-size:100%;">Beavis and Butthead vs. Emotional Dead Tree Hippies </span></a></span></h1><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="Arial","sans-serif";font-family:";" ><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></p>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876519229309290533.post-59879437532502889622011-06-09T07:18:00.003-06:002011-06-09T08:28:26.548-06:00Mitt Romney on Newsweek coverMitt Romney target of ridicule on Newsweek. What a surprise that is...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bg9ww1KfLzE/TfDK6TgxfMI/AAAAAAAAAj4/O1Iflt1UZN4/s1600/Mit%2Bthe%2BMormon.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bg9ww1KfLzE/TfDK6TgxfMI/AAAAAAAAAj4/O1Iflt1UZN4/s400/Mit%2Bthe%2BMormon.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616211838349966530" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Now, this is something we've all gotten used to. A bigoted press attacking a conservative candidate for his/her beliefs. Romney, love him or not, has become the target of such attacks.<br /><br />"Can a <span style="font-style: italic;">MORMON </span>be trusted in a position of power?"<br /><br />My question is this: <br />Why hasn't Harry Reid's MORMONISM ever been brought into question? <br />Or, more to the point, if he were ever put on trial for being a Mormon, would there be any evidence that might be used against him?<br /><br />Probably not. <br /><br />So, taken that conservatives are judged by much higher standards, and that Reid has set the low standard as a politician and Mormon, this ought to be on the next Newsweek front page: <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xkUqSTSuy0g/TfDYWdUcs2I/AAAAAAAAAkA/-NaccBAMw8U/s1600/2011-06-07-humor-motiv2.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xkUqSTSuy0g/TfDYWdUcs2I/AAAAAAAAAkA/-NaccBAMw8U/s400/2011-06-07-humor-motiv2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5616226615670125410" /></a>BigMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07350849986324094403noreply@blogger.com0