When I read this column, there wasn't a thing that I could disagree with. Patrice has it exactly right, and I like her thinking. The timing of this column could not have better, either, with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders running around promising free tuition or a government pay-off of all student loans.
So to all you college cupcakes, if you really want to make yourself employable, skip the social justice warrior route and instead spend your time cultivating the intangible but valuable skills all employers seek: a strong work ethic, discipline, self-control, a dedication to your commitments, the ability to arrive on time, to perform a task without complaint and (after training) without supervision, the ability to write coherently instead of like a texting monkey, the ability to speak clearly without saying “like” or use an expletive every fourth word, and other indefinable skills that raise you head and shoulders above the crowd.
After you read this column, you will see the fallacy of the Democrats' vision of free college education. For those students that have worked hard and sacrificed to get through college, it would be the ultimate stab in the back for the nanny state to make it possible to saturate the job market with a much higher supply than there is a demand for college graduates. All that will do is lower everybody's wages when they go into the work force.
And believe me, having a college education doesn't guarantee a good paying job. But, even more compelling is that Patrice pointed out the fact that many people can get into the trades and make a great income, and a military stint can greatly increase the skills of the kids along with helping to pay for further education.
The social justice whiners just don't get it! Do they really think that ANYONE voting next November will vote for a candidate with a plan to educate even more kids with a major in whining for a living? Not a chance. Just sayin'...
I'll admit my college days are long behind me. I was an undergrad from 1980-1984 and a graduate student from 1993-1995. What do I know of modern campus concerns? So call me an old fuddy-duddy, but it sure seems college students are becoming dumber and dumber. First there's the serious issue of studying utterly useless subjects.…
Exclusive: Patrice Lewis reveals what habit makes her family 'domestic terrorists'
Okay, am I the only one that notices a paradox here? I hope not, because it should at least make you wonder about what Patrice is saying, and that she is saying it in a public forum. To me, it seems to be a contradiction to have a phobia about being tracked and controlled by the government, but then write a column that may get the attention of those in the government that track and control people. Just sayin'... How to be subversive
Sssshhhhhh. I have a secret, something I can't let the government know about. It's something incredibly subversive, certainly seditious, possibly traitorous, and maybe soon to be illegal. Ready? Here's my secret: We use ... gasp ... cash for almost all our transactions. Shocking, I know. Oddly enough, the trigger for our rapid transition to an all-cash…
Exclusive: Patrice Lewis says only solution is to 'divvy up our land mass into 2 nations'
But miracles, by definition, are not the norm. Consider these immortal words, stated by Daniel Webster in a Fourth of July speech in 1802:
We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in 6,000 years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.
The point that Patrice makes in this column is quite extraordinary: We must keep Daniel Webster's immortal words in mind. "Revolution and tumult, riot and despotism" could get awfully ugly in this day of age.
Patrice Lewis explains why GOP Presidential candidates like Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson, and Carly Fiorina are doing so well. They are not politicians. And even "mavericks" like Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) - proclaiming to be Socialist, but running as a Democrat - are trending high in their respective parties as viable candidates. Why? As Patrice points out, the voter anger is directed at the politics of the ordained candidates of the Establishment.
"The problem," I complained to my patient husband, "is I am sick and tired of politics. Absolutely sick of it."
"So write about that," he urged. "You can't possibly be the only one."
Well, that patient husband of Patrice was absolutely correct. Patrice isn't the only one that's sick of it. In fact, I am so sick of it, here I am writing about it on a holiday weekend... for whatever reason! Just sayin'...
Why I Hate Politics
It was 8 p.m. on Thursday night. This column is due Friday at noon, and I didn't have the faintest clue what to write about. Oh sure, there was plenty of stuff in the news. I could have addressed any number of serious, important and immediate issues. But nothing was "gelling" in my mind. "The problem,"…
You may be wondering why my effort to keep this blog fluid has dwindled down to a trickle, to the point where I only added one post in July, and only this one so far in August. I want to address that issue before I get to the subject of this WIFLI Briefing of extraordinary importance.
Call it a sabbatical. I've been working on several projects that has been keeping me busy. I've started a new Facebook page, called johnny2k's America, that is doing very well. Part of the content of the page is from videos that I have uploaded to the page, which tends to take a lot of time. The other project that I have taken on is that I'm very active on my friend's group, Politics and Other Daily Bull. Yes, there are some very rewarding benefits to being active on the social networks like Facebook. The viral affect always seems to be exponential. The more we do for others seems to always come back to increase the results of our own efforts. Yes, that is the way it works. It didn't take a government agency or project to teach me that principle of success. So, Mr. President, that is where you are wrong.
There has been no doubt in my mind that building social networks is crucial when it comes to developing the credibility to attract more viewers. With limited time on my hands, I've found that it is a good thing to have Twitter andFacebook accounts that are active. Most of my efforts lately were directed toward the potential that I have found with Facebook and Twitter activity.
I really felt the need to explain my recent absence on this blog. The last thing that I want anyone to think is that I've decided to call it quits. No way! I've only just begun! Because of my understanding of the social networks, I'm discovering the true magic of multiplying our time by finding like-minded friends, and finding out that they virally proliferate the message that we are "collectively" trying to spread!
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By now, I'm pretty sure you want to know what this edition is all about. Hopefully, you haven't lost your interest quite yet... Oh, good. You're still here... Because, folks, there is that question that we must keep right on top of our agenda that we talk about everyday: "Who's in the White House?"
The truth is, I had most of the content for this column picked out and ready to post several weeks ago. But something held me back. I wasn't sure that it would be wise to bring up the "Is Obama Constitutionally eligible to be President" question at this time. It almost sounded like a desperate attempt to salvage what may have seemed like the presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, wasn't able to win without something that would make Barack Obama look bad.
No matter what comes out about Obama and eligibility between now and election time, it will have very little influence on the final results. You have seen how the "birthers" have been disparaged in the media. Their (the "birthers") objectives to protect the Constitution seems to have been ignored and berated. I really didn't want to fall into the trap, their trap, to make the bloggers that mention the eligibility questions and looking like a conspiracy theorist somewhere out on the extreme right-wing fringe. And of course, from there, the rhetoric would devolve into the "birthers" being labeled as racists because we brought up something bad about the first Black President.
Mitt's choice for VP:
REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI)
But, now? It has all changed! Something happened this last weekend that told the Conservative base of the Republican Party that Mitt Romney was not just another milquetoast GOP establishment candidate. Mitt wants to win! He really is serious about wanting to win! Mitt Romney made a courageous choice for who his Vice President will be. And Mitt Romney has now defined the difference between the two parties and their candidates.
It did not take long for Conservatives to realize the bold choice that Romney made in picking Paul Ryan. I was sensing the gigantic, giga-watt spark it seemed to provide those of us that were feeling very little optimism about a GOP win so we could fire the Obamaniac.
Yes, it has all changed over the weekend. And I could sense the major panic among the Leftist supporters of the Obama regime. The Democrat/Obama minions, his operatives, like Debbie Wassername Schultz, came out of the woodwork to say that they were happy about the Paul Ryan pick for the VP side of the GOP ticket. They were saying that it shows how extreme the GOP ticket will be. That's truly a sign of their desperation at this moment.
And then it hit me. As bad as it is getting already, with the Democrat sliming machine running at full throttle now, how bad could it get if it is close to election time, and the Romney/Ryan GOP team has a chance to win? Is it possible that Obama would be so desperate to remain in power that he would do something very sinister, such as to create a crisis so that there is an excuse to postpone the election? What would happen if the Constitution of the United States was thrown under the bus in order for Obama to remain in power?
To what length would Barack go to stay in power?
And in this edition of the WIFLI Briefing, we must ask ourselves to what length that We the People should go in order to stay free? I'm just sayin'...
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Welcome to this edition of Time 2 Escape WIFLI Briefing!
What is WIFLI?
You may be wondering what the acronym "WIFLI" means. I started out by calling these issues the Time 2 Escape Daily, but that didn't work out very well. I quickly learned that putting these issues together on a daily basis was a task I was unable to accomplish. To replace "Daily" in the title, I borrowed the acronym WIFLI, which literally means "When I Feel Like It." Putting together a post on this blog WIFLI works much better for my schedule, and for the higher quality of each issue that is eventually published!
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The lead story that you will see below may not have seemed plausible before, which was most of the reason I held up posting this WIFLI edition. However, it now makes sense to ask who is in the White House. It may be time to ask ourselves who Obama will ultimately give his allegiance to: We the People? I think not!
I had to include this story, as I have had questions about what the President would do if it looked like he was going to lose, long before Doug Hagmann's column was written back in July. And being that it is looking more and more like Israel will end up in a military conflict with Iran and her allies, a crisis beyond our comprehension that could commence at any time, and very possibly before November 6.
My source looked at me and posed a question I did not expect: "Do you know who is in the White House?” I was uncertain if he meant who was present there now, or if he was talking in a more general sense knowing that he has followed my research on Barry Soetoro (a/k/a Barack Hussein Obama II), so I asked him for clarification. I thought it was a fair request. With that, he became visibly agitated and had a look in his eyes I’ve never seen before. “You can’t answer that [expletive deleted] question. Trust me, few can, and those who can won’t, because they’re either part of the ‘royal round table’ or they’re gutless [expletive deleted].”
Based on his agitated state, I was careful with what I said next. I told him that we’ve covered this matter very comprehensively, adding that Obama’s dog’s papers are more valid than Obama. I told him that he was correct in that we both know that we do not know Obama’s legal name or his actual parental lineage I began to verbally list the various inconsistencies with his identify, at which point he stopped me with a raise of his hand.
“Enough,” he stated and apologized for his previous outburst. “We both know the guy is a an imposter, a ‘Manchurian Candidate,’ and he’s there to do a job, implement a very specific agenda. And he’s not planning to leave until that job is done, the agenda completed,” stated my source. “It’s no accident, his lack of history, lack of bona fides. It’s all about his lack of allegiance to our country and the Constitution that ‘43’ called just a ‘G-d damned piece of paper.' And Bush was an American President, at least on paper. Where does Obama call home? Where does his allegiance lie? That’s what the eligibility brouhaha is all about and why it’s so important, but 'hardly anybody gets it.' When he said he was a citizen of the world, those were not just words, but an admission of sorts. And fundamental change and transformation, that’s what it’s all about.”
... Jumping forward ...
The Plan
“Look,” stated my source, “I’ve been told that the people with the real power are using the guy in the White House to implement the whole globalist power structure thing. They made certain that they had someone in the White House to go along and implement certain things by executive order, appointments, and other methods to bring about the deconstruction of the U.S., and making our Constitution irrelevant, or at least subservient to international law. I can’t say I know this for sure because it’s all second hand, but it makes sense from my perspective at DHS,” he added.
“Remember when I told you about DHS planning a response for chaos, civil war, rioting, insurrection or whatever you want to call it? Well, that’s not happening fast enough, and there are people who don’t think it can be accomplished in one term. That’s why a second term is critical, and that’s why there’s desperation sinking in. Napolitano is corresponding a lot with the White House, to Valerie Jarrett, to the Secret Service, and to others I won’t name. But there is some plan in place to assure the reelection of this guy so he can finish the job he was given,” he said.
“We’re talking about something taking place to make sure that Obama stays in office. I’ve been privy to ‘contingency plans’ ordered by Jarrett for one that defines the protocol for DHS response to the ‘temporary suspension of U.S. elections due to international and domestic crisis.’ It’s a real document, ordered by Jarrett and contains plans for travel restrictions, gun possession ban by citizens, and in general, ‘martial law.’”
“You know, I heard rumors about the same thing under Bush and laughed, calling it conspiracy nonsense. Now I’m not so sure, and think that maybe it was just too early and the wrong person. Anyway, I’m not laughing anymore.”
Remember these words: "It's not about what he has DONE. It's about what he's going to do NEXT." You will understand why those words are so important when you see the video trailer for the new book, "Fool Me Twice," below.
A video trailer released yesterday on Youtube.com and spreading across the Internet introduces an explosive election book that will reveal President Obama’s specific, devastating plans for the next four years.
“[The Borg] operate toward the fulfillment of one purpose: to ‘add the biological and technological distinctiveness of other species to “their” own’ in pursuit of ‘perfection.’ The concept of perfection is the unifying idea at the core of the Borg. … This is achieved through forced assimilation, a process which takes individuals and technology, enhancing and controlling them.” [Emphasis added.]
It isn't just political rhetoric when it comes to explaining difference between the two political sides; Republicans vs Democrats, or really, more like Conservatives vs Progressives. It is all about eliminating the existing ignorance about what each side wants, that we must keep the contrast in the forefront of the debate prior to the election. And who better to define their sides better than the candidates? They are both doing well in that department. Here is a story about Barack Obama's plan for us:
It was Saturday night. The air was hot and sticky, and my husband was covered with sawdust and sweat after a long day of working in our wood shop. It’s the busy season for our home woodcraft business, and putting in 70-hour work weeks isn’t unusual.
That kind of work schedule is why he became spitting mad at something he heard on the radio. “President Obama made a speech in which he said, ‘If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. … If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen’!”
This is NOT the kind of thing a self-employed man needs to hear after a 14-hour workday.
The gist of the speech, we learned, is that no business owner can take credit for his or her successful enterprise. We must remember the teachers who influenced us; and more importantly, we must give credit to the government that built the roads and bridges and the Internet and other infrastructure that made any success possible.
Now, don’t get me wrong – I don’t know a single business owner who isn’t grateful for the support structure underneath him. We’ve all had people who have positively influenced our business efforts: parents, teachers, friends, mentors, bosses. … But we’ve also had those who have detracted from our business endeavors: tax collectors, bureaucrats, regulators, pencil-pushers and administrators (almost every one of them from the government) whose sole purpose is to make our business accomplishments more complicated, expensive and difficult.
Obama – a man who has never started a business or made payroll or taken entrepreneurial risks – dares to claim that without government infrastructure beneath our feet, we could not achieve success. His attitude is typical of progressives who insist that The Village must be given credit for anyone’s individual accomplishments.
In the following column, David Limbaugh amplifies on the message in the Patrice Lewis column above, when he reflects on the anti-business nature of Barack Obama:
Obama has few people with business experience in his administration. He has no former CEOs in his Cabinet, and there is almost no top-level private-sector experience among his inner circle of advisers. Time magazine’s Fareed Zakaria, a liberal and a big fan of Obama’s, admits that even the business leaders who voted for Obama believe he is, “at his core, anti-business.”
George Buckley, CEO of 3M, said: “We know what his instincts are. … He is anti-business.” Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts, said: “This administration is the greatest wet blanket to business and progress and job creation in my lifetime. And I can prove it. … Everybody complains about how much money is on the side in America.”
Even Obama’s attacks against Romney are mostly grounded in Obama’s antipathy toward Romney’s success in business and Obama’s innate hostility toward the private sector.
Obama’s punitively anti-business policies have made it very difficult for businesses to flourish and for job growth to occur. His anti-business attitude and rhetoric have poisoned the market that much more.
If and when Obama is defeated in November, we should anticipate an explosion in business and entrepreneurial activity among ordinary Americans who realize they’re about to be liberated from the most anti-business president in our history.
"President Obama, I feel your pain. You were in way over your head when you essentially became the CEO of the largest economy in the world.
You had less business experience than a seven-year-old girl running a front-yard lemonade stand."
In this piece, Michael Reagan expounds on Obama's constant demonization of the rich business owners, giving new meaning to, "There you go again." Could the class warfare strategy be something that completely backfires for Obama's re-election effort? Let's hope so.
There you go again, Mr. Obama -- again and again and again, engaging in class warfare.
Trying to make voters think Mitt Romney cares more about the offshore bank accounts of the wealthy than the pocketbooks of the middle class.
Proving for the umpteenth time that you know nothing about economics, how wealth and jobs are created or why businesses and rich people are moving themselves or their money overseas to escape the taxes you think aren't high enough.
"There you go again, Mr. Obama."
That's what my father would have said to the president's latest dumb idea to punish rich and successful Americans by raising their taxes.
"Mitt Romney got rich because he is smart and he works hard. That makes him pretty darn cool, in my book. Those of you who resent the rich: Get over it and study how they did it. Along the way, you’ll discover that the rich not only pay most of the taxes, but in all likelihood they pay your paycheck, too." ~ Herman Cain
And Herman has it right. It seems like Obama and his minions on the left not only refuse to give those that built their businesses any credit, they are making sure that entrepreneurs are being chained down by taxes and regulations, and potentially the Obamacare monstrosity. I think that Herman Cain did very well to disclose the perfect storm that will face our economy with four more years of Obama.
Rich is cool Herman Cain: Stop resenting wealthy people, and figure out how they became that way From WND Commentary ~ By Herman Cain ~ Published Jul 22, 2012
HERMAN CAIN
He's rich, and he's cool!
If the polls are any indication, it hasn’t worked, but the Obama campaign spent big money over the last month attacking Mitt Romney for what it apparently believes is the worst sin imaginable: He is rich.
And as we know now (not that it was a big surprise), President Obama’s disdain for those who have earned substantial wealth runs deep. He doesn’t like you having all that money (unless you contribute it to his campaign), and he really doesn’t like you taking credit for having earned it. That’s why he said the following:
“Look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there.
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.”
As far as Obama is concerned, anyone who is successful got that way because of the system, by which he means the government. Democrats sometimes refer to the rich as “the winners in life’s lottery,” which is to say they merely got lucky in a game of chance – and that’s why they need to fork over so much of their wealth in taxes, so Democrats can “spread the wealth around” to all those other smart, hardworking people, who just didn’t happen to win life’s lottery.
What a load of cr-p. To listen to these people, you’d think being rich was the worst thing anyone could do.
I want to show you my new friend's video to conclude this WIFLI edition. Virginia Prodan, as you will read and see below, knows what it was like to live in a country that allowed no freedom to express her religious beliefs.
And you see, I am one that is beginning to believe that the United States of America is quickly headed in a direction - a "transformation" - that should the desires of Obama and his supporters (followers) be realized, in four more years, we certainly could be living in the same kind of nightmare that Virginia had to endure.
Virginia Prodan was an attorney in Communist Romania under the rule of Nicolae Ceausescu. She became a target of the Securitate, Romania's secret police, when she became a Christian and began fighting religious persecution in that country. She was granted political asylum by the Reagan Administration in 1988, and currently practices law in Dallas, Texas.
Assuming that we do have an election in November, I am hoping that you will be informed by then, and be aware of the differences between the candidates. Don't even try to tell me, ever, that there is a fuzzy line between the parties and candidates. No, the line is extremely vivid, more than it has ever been in the last few decades (since Reagan vs Carter).
By November 5th, it would be frightening should any one pull a lever for a candidate without realizing the importance in determining how we will live in America in the near future. You know, like financial freedom where you determine what you do, or financial "security"where the government is the nanny that decides how you will live.
And please understand that I know I'm not supposed to say anything like this, but I will anyway: I have this feeling, deep inside me, that the present administration will resent the thought of losing power enough that anything goes. Martial law, including the elimination of people that are willing to fight for freedom. Some of us are going to desire to live free, or die. If I ever do "disappear," it won't because I wanted to. I'm just sayin'....
What is WIFLI?
You may be wondering what the acronym "WIFLI" means. I started out by calling these issues the Time 2 Escape Daily, but that didn't work out very well. I quickly learned that putting these issues together on a daily basis was a task I was unable to accomplish. To replace "Daily" in the title, I coined the acronym WIFLI, which literally means "When I Feel Like It." Putting together a post on this blog WIFLI works much better for my schedule, and for the higher quality of each issue that is eventually published!
Based on the final piece that I included in this WIFLI edition in the OUTSIDE of the BOX section, I could probably be called insane, or at least, on my way there because of what I read and post. I posted several commentaries today that might seem to mean that I don't trust government. No, I'm totally sane; I'm just the messenger that is telling you about all those lunatics out there that are saying that our government is becoming a tyranny. Just don't tell anyone that I am buying into the message. Shhhh....
But, I have to wonder, will I be considered to also be insane if I said that we can defeat tyranny and stop the assassination attempt on our freedom? Is an optimistic viewpoint now a sign of insanity because we now have no chance of saving America? Is the desire for maintaining liberty in this country so futile that having any hope and taking action would be considered as a mental disorder? I hope that is not the case. But ... do you wonder if it could happen to you, too?
If I happen to disappear, you'll know why after you read this issue. I'm just sayin'...
Santorum gave a very inspirational speech today at CPAC, putting into focus what this election is really about. He says that while this election is about jobs, it’s really about something even bigger – the country we will leave behind for our children and grandchildren.
WASHINGTON – Iranian nuclear experts have completed the component for a nuclear bomb trigger, overcoming a major obstacle in obtaining the bomb, according to sources within Iran.
As reported last May, the Iranian nuclear and military industries, under the order of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were to weaponize at least two warheads with a nuclear payload no later than next month.
Sources within the Revolutionary Guards reveal that the work on the trigger is taking place covertly under the control of the Guards in the cities of Darkhovin and Isfahan.
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the main brain behind the Iranian nuclear bomb program, is guiding the project. Fakhrizadeh reportedly reports directly to Khamenei and is under tight security because of the assassination of other Iranian nuclear scientists.
Lately I’ve been feeling quite depressed about the state of our nation. I guess I’m suffering from political burnout.
That’s an amazing thing when you consider I haven’t exactly immersed myself in politics. We don’t have television reception, and so I haven’t seen any televised debates. Nor have I made any real effort to listen to any of the candidates. It’s gotten to the point where I just don’t care.
This week I’ve been re-reading portions of Harry Browne’s excellent book “Why Government Doesn’t Work.” Harry Browne was the Libertarian Party candidate for president in 1996 and 2000. Naturally he never even got close to winning because he had the audacity to suggest that government, in its current incarnation, doesn’t work. Sheesh, no wonder he was never elected.
Several of the Republican candidates have said that the 2012 elections are the most important elections in our lifetime. They are. The current powers in Washington, most of the media, as well as academia, want the nation to abandon, or at least to reinterpret, the U.S. Constitution to justify the Marxist idea that government should manage society. These folks are winning the battle.
They’re winning because they’ve been working at it for a century. “They” are the progressives, like Barack Hussein Obama, who actually believe that government is a better manager of society and the economy than are free people in a free market. Obama apparently believes that his position endows him with the wisdom to make right decisions, regardless of the fact that he has had no real-life experience at anything other than organizing street protests.
His ACORN training produced a professional politician with the skills to win every confrontation with complete confidence that the ends justify any means that may be required. Obama’s history of public service is a history of leaving Chicago’s streets bloody with the losses of people who never knew what hit them. In the Illinois Senate, he voted “present” 129 times in route to the U.S. Senate, where his most important job was to ridicule and embarrass the Bush administration. What a job he did on Bush in 2006 when the debt ceiling had to be raised.
Most Americans are opposed to the federal government requiring them to buy a health insurance policy in which the terms of coverage will be dictated by the government and the cost will be dictated by the health insurance companies. But this dictate is the culmination of a trend of government dictates that has been building for years.
Liberty-loving Americans have allowed this creeping growth of government, and we are not better off because of it.
The prayer Jesus taught includes the plea, “Give us this day our daily bread.” Obama’s scientists want that bread to be government approved. Too much salt in the free-market bread, you know.
In California, the Air Quality Board has promulgated standards for bakeries that require scrubbers on the exhausts from ovens to protect us from air pollution caused by the smell of baking bread.
Obama’s experts also want to brand sugar a toxin, and the exhaled breath of every living creature on the planet a pollutant.
In these and thousands of other ways, governments – local, state and federal – have intensified their nanny state intrusions into every nook and cranny of our lives. The ruling elites sincerely believe there is no human activity that couldn’t be made better and safer by government regulation.
Barack Obama is a not only an abortion zealot, he’s also a fascist control freak – determined to make government the ultimate arbiter of morality on all matters political and economic.
That’s the only conclusion one can reach from his efforts to force individuals like me, institutions like the Catholic Church, insurance companies and employers nationwide to provide “free” abortions, “free” sterilizations and “free” contraception to those who are part of any health insurance program in the U.S.
It’s a natural manifestation of Obamacare – and something advocates of the legislation assured would never happen as a result of passage.
It didn’t take very long to reveal the administration’s deceit.
There’s no compromising with this hideous plan.
Last week, in an effort to defuse what has become a constitutional crisis prompted by the administration’s edicts, Obama suggested no one’s moral compass would need to be adjusted from true north because he would simply require insurance companies to pay for the taking of innocent human life rather than religious institutions.
This misses the point of the objections by 180 degrees.
This past Sunday, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum hit the political shows as candidates often do. Did the hosts focus on the pressing issues of jobs and the economy, the debt or the deficit? No. The focus was clearly on Santorum's positions as a social conservative. With Santorum's views established, the hosts at NBC and ABC tried to paint him as some sort of extremist. Their questions and efforts were nothing short of pathetic.
Just watch the video below in which NBC's "Meet the Press" host David Gregory actually asks Santorum if only single woman without children would be welcomed to work in a Santorum administration:
Santorum cracks a smile and provides an explanation to Gregory's outrageous question, but I sure wish a candidate or any other conservative would simply call these left-wingers out. That question was 1) stupid, 2) insulting, and 3) senseless. Santorum should have called him on it. Why do conservatives even go on these shows? The fact that Gregory asked it is enough to get the idea out there that Santorum may hold "extremist" positions. Ask the question... let the candidate deny the obvious. Mission accomplished: the question has been asked.
As noted in The Blaze, the idiocy was not confined to NBC. When Santorum moved over to ABC to speak on "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, guess what Santorum was asked? He faced some standard election questions, then he was asked "what he would say to those who think his comments on radical feminism alienate women and make him an easier candidate to beat in the general election."
It was a great Superbowl today. I enjoyed it, though I never picked which team I wanted to win or thought would win. Even with the last play of the game, the hail Mary into the end zone, I didn't care if it won the game or not. The good news is, the two teams did care about the outcome of that play. If they didn't, if they felt like I did, it never would have been much of a game to begin with.
At any rate, the game helped to take our minds off all that is going on in the world for a little while. Again, to start out with, you're being offered the opportunity to see what is going on with Iran lately, and what it may mean to the world in a very short amount of time. The possibilities of what could happen because of Iran's latest actions are numerous, and it could have a drastic affect on our lives. Let's just hope that things don't come to a climactic end like Superbowl XLVI (46) had. And we should hope that our government doesn't wait until it will take a Hail Mary to keep us safe.
The U.S. and Israel are publicly disagreeing over timing for a potential attack on Iran’s disputed nuclear facilities, as that nation’s leader said it won’t back down.
The U.S. and Israel have a “significant analytic difference” over estimates of how close Iran is to shielding its nuclear program from attack, Aaron David Miller, a former Mideast peace negotiator in the Clinton administration, said today.
“There’s a growing concern -- more than a concern -- that the Israelis, in order to protect themselves, might launch a strike without approval, warning or even foreknowledge,” he said in an interview.
The differing views were underscored by public comments this week by senior Israeli and U.S. defense officials.
JERUSALEM – According to a senior Egyptian security official speaking to WND, Iran offered China a deal to purchase oil at a cheaper price in exchange for vetoing a U.N. resolution today that called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign.
Assad’s regime has been facing a violent insurgency. The Syrian president’s security forces were accused of a massacre today shelling the insurgent stronghold of Homs, reportedly the bloodiest single day in the 11-month uprising.
Syrian officials, however, say well-armed Islamic extremists have been shooting at their forces and deliberately drawing retaliatory fire into civilian populations.
Russia and China torpedoed today’s resolution at the U.N. Security Council that endorsed an Arab League plan for Assad to hand power to a deputy to make way for a transition towards democracy.
It was the tweet heard round the world. A young British couple on their way to America to sightsee tweeted to some friends that they were going to “destroy” America. Destroy in current British slang means party.
And for that unpardonable breech of etiquette, the couple was arrested, jailed, deported and banned from visiting our diverse and tolerant nation.
It doesn’t matter that our borders are porous and our elected officials ignore millions of undocumented aliens. It doesn’t matter that we have untold numbers of enemies in this country who have sworn (and sometimes carried out) death and destruction, and whose threats we disregard in the name of tolerance and diversity. But let a couple of kids tell their friends their intent to party in America and they’re sent packing. I’ll bet we taught them a lesson, by jingo.
When my husband first told me about this British couple, my question was, “How did the tweet come to the attention of the feds? Did one of their friends turn them in?”
President Obama and his radical-feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It’s about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who’s next?
This weekend, Catholic bishops informed parishioners of the recent White House edict forcing religious hospitals, schools, charities, and other health and social-service providers to provide “free” abortifacient pills, sterilizations, and contraception on demand in their insurance plans — even if it violates their moral consciences and the teachings of their churches.
NARAL, NOW, Ms. magazine, and the Feminist Majority Foundation all cheered the administration’s abuse of the Obamacare law to ram abortion down pro-life medical professionals’ throats. Femme dinosaur Eleanor Smeal gloated over the news that the administration had rejected church officials’ pleas for compromises: “At last,” she exulted, the Left’s goal of “no-cost birth control” for all had been achieved.
Many people are convinced that this President has done more to destroy the United States in three years than all the other presidents combined. The only hope of preventing another four years of even more drastic destructive policies is the election of one of the four remaining Republican candidates. The two frontrunners are using their time and resources, even on national television where they can be seen by the public, arguing over whether Newt's consulting contract with Freddie Mac is "lobbying," or whether Mitt is a moderate. Wake up gentlemen; the target is Obama!
There are only a few fleeting months before people will go to the polls to choose America's next leader. The candidates should not waste a moment trying to tear each other down. The target is Obama. People need to know about his destructive policies and how they are destroying America.
They need to know that Obama speaks in a highly specialized language of deceit and misdirection. For example, his EPA has been studying the Keystone Pipeline project for three years. It could have been approved at least two years ago, or rejected, were identified and documented flaws found. But no, Obama decided to put off a decision until after the 2012 election in an effort to appease both his environmental and union friends. This action blocked as many as 20,000 well-paying private-sector jobs that could begin immediately, and produce another 100,000 jobs as the pipeline began operation.
This action follows months of Obama telling the American people that his first priority is jobs, jobs, jobs.
Achievement flows from the inside out. To experience an exceptional life on the outside, you must nurture exceptionally positive values on the inside.
You cannot be angry, resentful, envious or cynical on the inside and expect to achieve anything of value. No matter where you might attempt to direct it, your negativity hurts you more than anyone else.
The great thing is, you can experience an outstanding life if you will constantly and persistently envision an outstanding life. That positive vision will itself drive your actions to ensure its own fulfillment.
There is great and unique beauty living within you. Connect with it, acknowledge it, express it and watch as your actions create corresponding beauty in the world around you.
Thanks to Patrice Lewis for the motivating words she wrote in her column on Friday, I was in the mood, or as I'm now saying, in the WIFLI mode, today. Yesterday... umm... not so much.
While in the WIFLI mode today, I found the columns of both Patrice Lewis and Henry Lamb. I felt the need to explain the relationship between the two. It took me awhile before I discovered the treasure right in front of me.
And the BIG story is right in front of us ALL!
I probably hit the nail right on the head in my previous rant two days ago when I talked about how the media discusses the art of destroying a wonderful individual because of his core beliefs. The poster boy of being able to deflect or absorb personal attacks, of course, would be Tim Tebow. And, in the mean time, we have this conflict going on in the Republican Party for a 2012 nominee, where it seems the only answer to political aggression is an aggressive counter-attack.
Don't you wish GOP candidates - or, at least... one of them - had the commitment and tenacity of a guy like Tim Tebow? (Or Herman Cain awhile back?)
I am very afraid of what this coming election in November 2012 will bring us. Can any of the remaining GOP candidates survive an onslaught of attacks from each other, along with from the media?
Yes, today was one of those WIFLI days. But I understand how Patrice Lewis feels when nothing is providing a spark to write SOMETHING. But while credit can be given to Tim Tebow and Patrice Lewis for getting me to write today, they were just the tools God used to get us motivated at this time. I'm just sayin'...
After seemingly captivating the nation with his magical performance in last week’s wild-card win over the Pittsburgh Steelers, Broncos QB Tim Tebow wasn’t a factor on this night... READ MORE
Was this any more of a stupid story than this related article?
Several of the Republican candidates have said that the 2012 elections are the most important elections in our lifetime. They are. The current powers in Washington, most of the media, as well as academia, want the nation to abandon, or at least, to reinterpret the U.S. Constitution to justify the Marxist idea that government should manage society. These folks are winning the battle.
They're winning because they've been working at it for a century. "They" are the progressives, like Barack Hussein Obama, who actually believe that government is a better manager of society and the economy than are free people in a free market. Obama apparently believes that his position endows him with the wisdom to make right decisions, regardless of the fact that he has had no real-life experience at anything other than organizing street protests. READ MORE
And here is another profound excerpt from Henry's great commentary that I am emphasizing:
His adoring press amplified Obama's criticism of the Republican-controlled House for not approving his jobs bill, which included a healthy tax increase. "We can't wait," was his cry to the public. He failed to mention that the Republican House had passed more than 20 jobs bills that the Democrat-controlled Senate refused to even consider. He failed to mention that more than 20,000 jobs were left awaiting only his approval on the Keystone Pipeline project — studied for more than three years by the EPA.
Sometimes it’s hard to write a column every single week. Sometimes an idea “sings” to me and I can pound out a column in an hour. Other times it’s like pulling teeth.
This week it was pulling teeth. I had a couple of concepts, but nothing that “sang” to me enough to put it on paper and make logical sense of it.
Then late Thursday night I read an article about Tim Tebow, the Denver Bronco’s quarterback, and I knew I had my subject.READ MORE
(Hey, Patrice, I know the feeling about writing on a regular basis, especially on a set schedule! The ideas don't always come to me, either. That was why I had to change the name of my posts from "Time 2 Escape Daily" to "Time 2 Escape WIFLI". I found it more honest to call my posts "When IFeel Like It!" ... Oh, and by the way, I wonder if the article about Tim Tebow that Patrice saw was this one? I included that one in my WIFLI on Friday. Or, perhaps it is the blog that I am including below?)
In the Babylon of Daniel the prophet, worshiping the wrong God openly got you a one-way ticket to the Lion's Den. The same offense today gets you thrown into America's leftist media Termite Mound. Bill Maher, Bill Press and their ilk are to our social fabric what the termite is to architecture. The two Bills spearheaded the recent vicious attacks on Tim Tebow. His crime, he openly loves Jesus. READ MORE
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UPDATE: Wait, there is one last thing I need to add to this WIFLI!
Open your eyes, open your heart, and see the miracle that is today. Feel how good and powerful it feels to be alive.
You don’t have to wait for some distant, imagined time before you can relish the sweet, profound experience of being fully alive. Because right now, today, in this place, in this situation, the miracle of your life is here for you to live. READ MORE
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