Haven’t Blogged on Here in a While

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Bavolet (Cynthia)

I haven’t used my blogsterfiles account in a while – actually in a very long while!  But I’m going to try to get back into the habit again.  School is basically over and done, so I’ll have more time this summer.

I’m still concerned about the way our country is going and even more so since the healthcare debacle was passed in March.  Now we’re watching as the administration demonizes a state (Arizona) that passed a bill to protect itself because the feds seem to have no will to do so.  No, Obama is more concerned with the illegals than with the citizens.  He will rue that day!  And come November, we will help him begin in long, slow, painful journey to join Jimmy Carter in the town of Former-Presidents-Who-Don’t-Matter.

Other than that, I don’t have much to say today, because what else is there to say at this point.  ;-)

So, till later!

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Rattlesnakes versus Boa Constrictors

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Bavolet (Cynthia)

By now most people know that back in revolutionary times the rattlesnake became a symbol of Americans in their fight against Great Britain.  There were two reasons for this:  (1) the rattlesnake is native to North America and (2) it doesn’t initiate the fight but will certainly defend itself when necessary and gives plenty of warning that the enemy is getting way to close.  That warning comes from the rattle which, interestingly enough, only makes the sound by the COMBINATION of all those separate rattles working together.  So, this animal was a logical choice.  Don’t tread on me became a warning to the British, and a promise by the Americans that they wanted to be left alone and as long as the British were willing to do that they wouldn’t get bit.

Well, we know how well the British took that warning.  That’s why we don’t talk with funny accents and our judges and lawyers in our courts don’t wear those silly powdered wigs 200 years after they went out of style.

There’s another snake that is very different from a rattler and that is a boa.  It doesn’t strike out to kill its prey or protect itself but instead wraps its body around the unfortunate animal it wishes to kill.  It constricts its body, slowly squeezing and as the prey exhales it squeezes more tightly so no breath can be drawn by its meal, eventually suffocating the poor creature.  Then the constrictor opens its mouth wide and swallows the entire thing whole.  Then it lies useless while it digests its big meal – unable to really move or defend itself, it gets very defenseless.

Boas can be very long snakes – 15 feet and in some cases even longer.  Rattlesnakes are much much shorter, but pack a whallop in their venom.

These days, Americans are again looking more like the rattlesnake, this time warning our own government not to tread on them.

And the government?  Well, it’s become a big fat boa constrictor, living off the citizens of this country, eating huge meals of our rights, our money, and our future well-being as a country.  It’s huge and lethargic after consuming everything in front of it – and as such, this is the perfect time for the rattlesnakes to strike and kill the boa.  Right now it’s fat, happy, and satisfied – but it will soon want even more from us.  Let’s not give it the satisfaction of one more meal courtesy of the citizens of this great country.

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In Other Words – Sit Down, Shut Up and Pay Your Taxes? Is That What You’re Saying Mr. President?

Posted on August 8, 2009 by Bavolet (Cynthia)

Yes, you will actually hear the following quote:  “But I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.”

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No, I’m not surprised by this bit of hubris.  We all know that every far left lib just wants each of us who doesn’t agree with them to sit down and shut up.  How dare we say a thing again their god?  How dare we disagree?  After all, he was elected President.  They won.

But what exactly did America as a whole win?  Uniting, as this person said he would do when elected?  I’ve seen none.  In fact he and his minions have gone out of their way to categorize anyone who does march lockstep with them as right wing extremists/terrorists.  Now, these same “extremists/terrorists”, who are using their GOD-given right to free speech and opinion, are targets of this very same “uniter” and his minions of goons and thugs who wrap themselves in flags known as ACORN and SEIU.

In 1921 a man formed his own private army.  The name of the army was the Sturm Abteilung (SA; translates Storm Section).  In English they were known as the stormtroopers or brownshirts, after the khaki colored shirts they wore.  During this time their main job was to DISRUPT MEETINGS OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS.  Secondarily they were to protect this man.

The way it worked was this man would go to a rally, give a political speech and ENCOURAGE his SA to go out and commit acts of violence against his opponents.  First these guys went to gatherings and disrupted.  Eventually these guys went to private homes, business, and places of worship and caused widespread destruction.  One particularly vicious night was known as KristalNacht – night of the broken glass is how it is often translated into English.

Eventually, it wasn’t necessarily political opponents who were persecuted by the SA.  It was Jews (just because they were Jews).  Gypsies didn’t fare too well either.  Neither did the mentally disabled and mentally ill.  They were among the first of the deaths that came be to known under the broader heading of the Holocaust.  Why these groups?  They weren’t pure Aryans for one thing.  For another, what could they contribute to society?  Of course you know the man who I’m talking about here – his name doesn’t even have to be mentioned.

During the days of the Soviet empire, people would report on their neighbors, friends, and even family if somebody said something that the Politburo didn’t agree with.  Children might even turn in their own families, especially after a day spent in the government-run schools that indoctrinated them in history and society as only the Soviets saw it.

We all know that Obama has talked about starting another army that would “protect” the U.S.  An army of civilians.  However, you work with what you have, and just as the core of the SA was the Freikorps (a group of private armies that was around after WWI), so it looks like Obama’s new army will have, at its core, ACORN and the SEIU.  Who else?  Other union groups?  Fringe groups?  The Black Panthers, who have already “protected” polling places.

We also know that the White House has asked others to be reported if they make “fishy” statements about the healthcare bill.  Hurriedly trying to rationalize what they “really” meant now, we all know that no matter what the meaning, this is an unconstitutional infringement of free thought and speech – at the very least they are breaking every privacy law on the books.  Break on law, break them all – it’s still WRONG and you are committing “high crimes and misdemeanors” Mr. President – something well within range of getting yourself impeached (if the Congress had the balls back that Nancy Pelosi has collected).

No, Mr. President, I will not go gentle into that good night.  I will do as Dylan Thomas said in that same poem – I will not go quietly as I see my beloved country die under your ministrations.  I will not stand idly by as you and your minions and thugs try to turn my country into a police state that will abide no dissent, no differing opinions.  Whether it is the healthcare bill, cap and trade, or the implementation of re-education camps (yes, I believe that will come if we let it) I will continue to speak out when I think it is warranted, and yes, I will die for my beliefs if it comes to that.  There is nothing on this earth that frightens me more than a loss of my liberties – to the extent that death would be preferable to living in a fascist, totalitarian state.

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends tofight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable–and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace– but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

—–Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

And to those of you who would like to report me for my exercise of free speech, please remember that the email address is flag@whitehouse.gov.  There are a few of you out there that I can believe are already filling up your dance card that way.  But that’s okay, I forgive you – mind control is a terrible thing.

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Sound Science vs. Not Sound Science – the “Expert” Speaks

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Bavolet (Cynthia)

Well, little Barry Soetero, world-reknown physicist, chemist, climatologist, biologist guy, has declared that the Yucca Mountain project is “not sound science.”  Yucca Mountain, if you’re not aware, is the place where it was decided that all spent nuclear rods should be housed.  It’s been studied for geological purposes and storage has been developed that is virtually indestructible (among other activities) over the past twenty years.  Yet the science is not sound.

Of course, the science is absolutely, 1000% sound on a theory expounded by yet another scientific genius, Al “The Whale Blubber” Gore.  This is so sound that half the signers of a bogus petition stating that global warming was a fact have now disavowed it.  Gore will tell you he’s been worried about it for 30 years – so show me the citations that prove that statement because I haven’t found it in all the many academic/scholarly journals and newspapers I have access to through over one hundred databases where I work.  No grey lit on the Internet – except that by noted climatologists who disagree with the whole man-made global warming religion.  Yet that, according to Barry Soetero, is great science.  It’s a done deal.  No more studying needed.

Well, you know what I think about anything that Barry says.  If his mouth is moving he’s lying and if his mouth isn’t moving he’s thinking about the next lie he’ll be telling.

Below is an editorial on this subject that says it better than I can.  It’s also followed by today’s Michael Ramirez cartoon that shows what I’ve long suspected about Harry Reid – when you see people whispering in his ear it’s obviously because they love the sound of their own voice echoing back at them – and why, when someone does say something to him, he has such a vapid-looking moronic look about him.

Death Knell For Nuclear Power?

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, August 03, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Energy: A Senate vote to kill funding for the spent fuel repository in Nevada shows the Democratic Party and this administration aren’t serious about energy independence, economic growth or environmental protection.

Killing the storage facility for the spent fuel rods produced by the nation’s nuclear power industry has long been a dream of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Obama. Last week, the Senate granted their wish, voting to deny the resources needed to complete a review necessary for Yucca Mountain to open.

“This is a major victory for Nevada,” said Reid, who is up for re-election next year. “I am pleased that President Obama has lived up to his promise to me and to all Nevadans by working with me to kill the Yucca Mountain project.”

During a presidential campaign forum in Las Vegas last year, then-candidate Obama said of the site, “I will end the notion of Yucca Mountain because it has not been based on the sort of sound science that can assure the people of Nevada that they’re going to be safe.”

And what about the rest of the country? Reid may not want it in his backyard, but he doesn’t mind keeping America’s nuclear waste where it is right now — in everybody else’s backyard.

Vast numbers of spent nuclear fuel rods are currently being stored at more than 130 above-ground facilities in 39 states. About 161 million Americans live within 75 miles of these existing sites. Don’t they want to feel safe?

Celebrating his victory, Reid says he’s “convinced that for the foreseeable future, for the next 50 to 100 years, we’ll simply store the spent fuel rods on-site. You don’t have to worry about transportation because that’s where it gets dangerous.”

He is quite simply wrong, ignoring that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission-approved casks that the “waste” will be transported in are virtually indestructible. Tests carried out at the Sandia National Laboratories included an 18-wheeler carrying a transport cask being smashed into a 700-ton brick wall at a speed of 81 mph; testers dropping a cask from 2,000 feet onto hard ground; and a 120-ton locomotive train ramming a cask at 80 mph.

President Obama is also wrong when he says Yucca Mountain is not based on sound science.

The Department of Energy has long studied the rock at the planned repository to assess how the repository would perform over tens of thousands of years. After 20 years and $9 billion, DOE found Yucca Mountain to be quite stable and safe.

DOE’s Web site says that after two decades “of carefully planned and reviewed scientific field work, the Department of Energy has found that a repository at Yucca Mountain brings together the location, natural barriers, and design elements most likely to protect the health and safety of the public, including those Americans living in the immediate vicinity, now and long into the future.”

We need the jobs nuclear power can provide, and we need the energy. The Energy Information Agency projects that by 2030, U.S. electricity demand will increase by 45%. Since nuclear power currently supplies 20%, the U.S. will need to have 35 additional nuclear power plants just to meet future demand. But without Yucca Mountain it won’t happen.

Yucca Mountain is not a “dump” and what would be stored there is not “waste.” It is in fact our country’s best renewable resource. Used nuclear fuel retains upwards of 90% of its original energy.

Since beginning operations, France’s La Hague facility has safely reprocessed over 23,000 tons of used fuel — enough to power France, which gets 80% of its electricity from nukes, for 14 years.

America’s 104 nuclear reactors have prevented the emission of billions of tons of greenhouse gases.

It is green energy producing green jobs. Without it, America has a bleak energy and economic future. Besides, just what are we going to plug all those electric clown cars into?

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Michelle Malkin Column on White House Thuggery

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Bavolet (Cynthia)

A Brief History Of White House Thuggery

By MICHELLE MALKIN | Posted Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Six months into the Obama administration, it should now be clear to all Americans: Hope and Change came to the White House wrapped in brass knuckles.

Ask the Congressional Budget Office. Last week, President Obama spilled the beans on the “Today Show” that he had met with CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf — just as the number crunchers were casting ruinous doubt on White House cost-saving claims. Yes, question the timing.

The CBO is supposed to be a neutral scorekeeper — not a water boy for the White House. But when the meeting failed to stop the CBO from issuing more analysis undercutting the health care savings claims, Obama’s budget director Peter Orszag played the heavy.

Orszag warned the CBO in a public letter that it risked feeding the perception that it was “exaggerating costs and underestimating savings.” Message: Leave the number fudging to the boss. Capiche?

Obama issued an even more explicit order to unleash the hounds on Blue Dog Democrats during his health care press conference. “Keep up the heat” translated into Organizing for America/Democratic National Committee attack ads on moderate Democrats who have revolted against Obamacare’s high costs and expansive government powers over medical decisions.

Looks like there won’t be a health care beer summit anytime soon.

The CBO and the Blue Dogs got off easy compared to inspectors general targeted by Team Obama goons. Former AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin was slimed as mentally incompetent (“confused” and “disoriented”) after blowing the whistle on several cases of community service tax fraud, including the case of Obama crony Kevin Johnson.

Johnson is the NBA star turned Sacramento mayor who ran a federally funded nonprofit group employing AmeriCorps volunteers, who were exploited to perform campaign work for Johnson and to provide personal services (car washes, errands) to Johnson and his staff.

Walpin filed suit last week to get his job back — and to defend the integrity and independence of inspectors general systemwide. But he faces hardball tactics from both the West Wing and the East Wing, where first lady Michelle Obama has been intimately involved in personnel decisions at AmeriCorps, according to youth service program insiders.

At the Environmental Protection Agency, top Obama officials muzzled veteran researcher Alan Carlin, who dared to question the conventional wisdom on global warming. The economist with a physics degree was trashed as a nonscientist know-nothing.

Obama Treasury officials forced banks to take TARP bailout money they didn’t want and obstructed banks that wanted to pay back TARP money from doing so.

The administration strong-armed Chrysler creditors and Chrysler dealers using politicized tactics that united both House Democrats and Republicans, who passed an amendment last week reversing Obama on the closure of nearly 800 Chrysler dealerships and more than 2,000 GM dealerships.

At the Justice Department, Obama lawyers are now blocking a House inquiry into the suspicious decision to dismiss default judgments against radical New Black Panther Party activists who intimidated voters and poll workers on Election Day in Philadelphia.

The DOJ is preventing Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., from meeting with the trial team in the case. Wolf has been pressing for answers on what communications Attorney General Eric Holder and his deputies conducted with third-party interest groups and other political appointees about the case. So far: Radio silence.

In the mafia culture, bully boys depend on a code of silence and allegiance — omerta — not only among their brethren, but also from the victims. The victims of Obama thugocracy are no longer cooperating. Perhaps it won’t be long until some of the enforcers start to sing, too.

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Even God Gives Us a Choice

Posted on July 25, 2009 by Bavolet (Cynthia)

To me, one of the most awesome hallmarks of God is that he has given us free will and the right to choose – whether we choose for the right or for the wrong is an issue most of us struggle with on a daily basis.  Non-believers make the choice too.  All of us have that – it’s a part of the human condition to have a choice.  Most of us want to have our choice of jobs, a choice of food, a choice of where to live, a choice of which movie to see on a Saturday night.  Some choices are minor, others are life-changing.

The thing that most irks me about the entire healthcare debate is that what I’m seeing is my choice in the matter being taken away from me.  All the talk I’ve heard about the plan is that I will be forced to have a plan whether I want one (or deserve one) or not.  It’s so funny, pro-choice people scream and yell how it’s okay to kill babies – it’s a CHOICE.  Yet in the healthcare debate choice is the last thing we’ll get.

Don’t get me wrong.  I want healthcare.  But I already have healthcare.  I’m one of the 85% of Americans who have healthcare insurance and like the plans they have.  So, again, 85% of Americans are going to be forced into something they don’t like because 15% of Americans don’t have anything.

And just who are these Americans?  First of all, there are some who simply opt not to have the health insurance.  Sometimes these people are covered under another policy – say the spouse has a better family plan that what is offered to the other spouse.  Why carry two if one will do for the entire family?  Other people just don’t want to bother with it for whatever reason.  It’s their CHOICE!

Another large group are the young.  You know, the age of indestructibility.  Of course, these are kids more likely to die or in accidents so they need it just as badly, but they figure the chances are slim it will happen to them.  Throw of the dice.  Luck of the draw.  It’s their CHOICE!

Some people who are uninsured are that way because they are between jobs.  They can opt for COBRA coverage, so that’s not entirely an issue, except yeah, that can be pricy.  Some opt to forego coverage until they get a job, especially if they feel confident there is one to be had.  But again, if they are uninsured, because of the COBRA, it is a CHOICE!

Another group of uninsured are children.   Guess what?  They’re uninsured because Mom & Pop haven’t signed them up for SCHIP.  Yeah, you get it.  CHOICE.

Then there are those people who choose to be on the fringes of society for whatever reason.  Gang members, drug dealers, and other criminals who are making a living off the rest of us aren’t going to worry too much about health insurance and it’s certainly not going to be an option as part of their employment (though I guess some really organized groups could certainly do it).  Whatever reason they are living on the fringe, at some point in time they made a CHOICE that has put them there.

Then of course, there are the many illegal aliens among us who neither deserve to be in this country, much less getting “free” healthcare.  Sorry, but we all know they are using our hospitals as clinics anyway and getting taken care of for free.  Why would they even WANT to worry about healthcare?  They made a CHOICE to be here illegally and still have more benefits than most of us who are natural-born citizens.

However, our government, the guys and gals we employ, are now telling us we will have no choice – we will have to get healthcare, whether public or private.  It will have to be at least this much coverage and some group in DC will sit and decide what treatment we can actually have for the amount of money we will be paying.  For those of us over a certain age they may decide that we don’t deserve anymore treatment because, well, an illegal alien with an illegitimate vote sold to them by ACORN will be more likely vote for a liberal than we are.  Or, because they’re so busying trying to save the planet from mythical global warming they’ll just turn the rest of us into soylent green to feed the rest of the puppet masses.

Oh, and if you think that the government is going to give up their own cushy insurance and go on the plans they are putting together for the rest of us you are smoking something illegal.  These people will no more put themselves under what they are writing than the man on the moon – yet they, our EMPLOYEES, are going to tell us that we have to do what they say.  There’s a union mentality if ever I saw one.

So, while the U.S. government ignores the majority of American who are saying no to the healthcare bills in front of Congress we who are insured look toward days of less quality healthcare and less that will actually pay for what we might need now or in the future.  We are also looking at more debt being held in escrow for descendents who have yet to be born.

One of these days, the revisionist historians will be able to slowly take out the following phrase from the declaration…”life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”  Life won’t be necessary, because the government will have the ultimate say on whether we live or die, so why bother with that.  Liberty, already in a fast and furious death spiral.  Pursuit of happiness – won’t be necessary because the state will tell us what we need to be happy, thus once and for all eliminating our need for CHOICE.

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Another Reason We Don’t Need a Judge Who “Feels” More Than Thinks

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Bavolet (Cynthia)

Sotomayor Vs. The Death Penalty

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Justice: Sonia Sotomayor says the death penalty disproportionately impacts minorities. A question for her: Death sentences are meted out most often to (a) blacks, (b) whites, (c) Hispanics or (d) the guilty.

A recently unearthed memo not disclosed on the questionnaire filed with the Senate Judiciary Committee shows that the empathy that the Supreme Court nominee feels is more for the predators among us than their victims. It also shows that some of the reasons this self-proclaimed “wise Latina” has for opposing capital punishment are bogus and flawed.

In her Senate questionnaire, Sotomayor accurately reported that from 1980 to 1982 she worked for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. She also truthfully included an April 19, 1981, letter from the PRLDEF to then-New York Gov. Hugh Carey opposing the reinstatement of the death penalty in that state. That letter was not signed by Sotomayor.

What Sotomayor did sign was a March 24, 1981, memo she and two other members of a PRLDEF task force sent to the PRLDEF board listing reasons for opposing the death penalty. Wendy Long, counsel for the Judicial Confirmation Network, sent a letter Friday to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., noting it was missing from Sotomayor’s document dump.

“There are many legitimate arguments against the death penalty, but her memo acts like there’s not even a single argument for it,” Log observed. Our reading shows that her opposition appears to be, well, just plain goofy.

One of the eight reasons Sotomayor et al. give for opposing capital punishment is that it “creates inhuman psychological burdens for the offender and his/her family.” So what about the trauma inflicted on the families of his/her victims? What about the children orphaned, the wives widowed? This is empathy gone terribly wrong.

The Sotomayor memo also says: “The problem of crime and society is so complex, it is unreasonable to think that capital punishment will result in preventing it or diminishing it.” If Sotomayor doesn’t think the death penalty is a deterrent, just ask the family of a prison guard murdered in a state without it. Without the death penalty, such a crime is possible.

Without the death penalty, the clerk of a convenience store being robbed is likelier to be murdered, eliminating the only witness to a crime. In many crimes, if the predator faced the ultimate penalty, the victim might not.

As researcher John Lott Jr. reports: “Generally, the studies over the last decade that examined how the murder rates in each state changed as they changed their execution rate found that each execution saved the lives of roughly 15 to 18 potential murder victims.”

Then there’s the Sotomayor kicker: “Capital punishment is associated with evident racism in our society. The number of minorities and the poor executed or awaiting execution is out of proportion to their numbers in the population.”

Fact is, murders and victims don’t fall in neat demographic columns. Black people represented an estimated 13% of the U.S. population in 2005 but were the victims of 49% of all murders. According to the FBI Uniform Crime Report, 2007, 90.2% of black murder victims were murdered by other blacks. Do we care more about black murderers or black victims?

Empathy for predators is not new. Cop killers like Mumia Abu-Jamal, despite his obvious and proven guilt in the murder of Philadelphia police officer Danny Faulkner, and the recently executed Hollywood favorite, Tookie Williams, have became poster children for the left as symbols of racial bias in the justice system.

To us, they are symptoms of well-executed justice. They are also symbols from which the Supreme Court and Sonia Sotomayor should help to protect all of us — black, white or whatever.

 

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Apologist versus A Liar – Why Obama is the Latter and Not the Former

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Bavolet (Cynthia)

With his Apology Tour II nearly over, a lot of people are beginning to call Obama President Apologist.

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That is not an accurate use of the word apologist, a term more well-known in Christian theological circles than anywhere else. So what is an apologist? The Chambers 21st Century Dictionary defines it as: noun: someone who formally defends a belief or cause, something quite different from an apology. Christian apologists include great minds (certainly much greater minds than Barack Hussein Obama) such as C.S. Lewis, Bruce Metzger, St. Augustin, R.C. Sproul, Frances Schaeffer, and Josh McDowell. As apologists they present the evidence for Christianity in order to show people that it is the way to salvation. For many people who tend to more logical and rational thought these are the men who can give convincing arguments that speak to those types of personalities. Josh McDowell, who started out to disprove Christianity came to a scientific, rational conclusion that it was indeed the way, the truth, and the life and ended up writing the classic book Evidence That Demands a Verdict – I personally know one person who was basically an agnostic when he went off to Stanford University in 1975 – and during that time he had read McDowell’s book which reached his very scientific mind – and became a born again Christian. So, apologists are, in a way, cheerleaders for their particular beliefs. I don’t think that Barack Obama could ever be considered a cheerleader for anything in the U.S. – except maybe himself. No, instead of being an apologist for America he is just an apologizer. Not only is he apologizing, he is lying while doing it. Major lie number one: America is not a Christian nation. This statement is not borne out by statistics or any other reality that is part of the United States.  Polls are run periodically on this very question, and it always shows that the vast majority of Americans consider themselves Christian.  Of course, saying you are a Christian and making it your lifestyle are complete different, but more Americans identify with Christianity than with any other religion and that’s important to know. Every time Obama spouts this untrue statement he is perpetuating a lie.  Which makes him President Liar.

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His second major lie:  overinflating the number of Muslims in the USA – the point that, according to President Liar of course, we are the number one Muslim country in the world.  I think this major faux pas has been covered enough that even the libs realize that this is not the truth.  At best we rank anywhere from 34-38 (I’ve heard both numbers and those in between).  Obviously, nowhere near number 1 – and frankly I think this is one time most Americans don’t want to be number one.  Why is her trying to convince people that we are full of Muslims in this country?  Probably no one answer to that question:  he’s obliquely giving his real religion a boost, he’s sucking up to the Arabs while he continues to show Israel as the villain, he’s an idiot and and a liar who thinks we are stupid.  Third major lie:  they have no intention of nationalizing American companies, just helping them out. I think this was shown to be a lie as soon as Obama took it upon himself to fire GM’s CEO and appoint his own.  Nope, not going through the GM Board of Directors.  Doing it at the government level – before it was even officially a government business.  We’re all heard about the alleged threats against banks around the country who want to give back TARP funds they didn’t want to begin with, and creditors that were forced to accept cents on the dollar instead of being paid back as contract law says they should be paid back – it’s like a government version of the Mafia making you a deal you can’t refuse (or Chicago thug politics at the very least).

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Other major lies:  Truly, we know there’s not enough cyberspace to put down all of Obama’s lies, even just since he was formally inaugurated.   His citizenship is still in question and he keeps putting up roadblocks to keep the truth from coming out – and he’s being supported in this by Congress and the media who refuse to investigate.   He tacitly supports others equally adept at lying – Nancy Pelosi being the prime example.  However, many of us see through the lies.  We see him as an anti-American and the only apologist aspect to his personality is to the behavior of militant Islamic jihad fascists and he hates all those who in the past have died for this country and all that it stands for.  

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You Just Have To Laugh At This

Posted on June 5, 2009 by Bavolet (Cynthia)

Cheney and Pelosi Have Poor Ratings in Common
Pelosi’s ratings down, while Cheney’s improved from record lowby Lydia Saad

PRINCETON, NJ — Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Dick Cheney have little in common politically, but they receive almost identical image ratings from the American public. According to a May 29-31 Gallup Poll, 37% of Americans have a favorable view of Cheney and 34% have a favorable view of Pelosi. Both Cheney and Pelosi are viewed unfavorably by at least half of Americans.

The similarity between Cheney’s and Pelosi’s ratings is notable given that the two have emerged as the leading voices on either side of this year’s debate over whether the government’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” against terrorist suspects constitutes torture.

Cheney came out of his brief vice presidential retirement in March to publicly defend the Bush administration’s support of CIA interrogation policies, and on May 21 went head-to-head with President Barack Obama on the issue in separate national security speeches. Pelosi has condemned “waterboarding” and earlier this year supported a call to investigate Bush administration officials who authorized it; however, she recently fell into a public battle with the CIA over whether she was previously briefed on the agency’s use of the coercive technique.

Trends

Pelosi’s current image rating is more negative than positive by a 16 percentage point margin: 34% favorable and 50% unfavorable. Six months ago about equal percentages held favorable and unfavorable views of her.

While still negative, Cheney’s image today (with 37% viewing him favorably and 54% unfavorably) is improved compared with his ratings in March of this year. At that time, only 30% viewed him favorably and 63% unfavorably, his worst ratings on balance since he was nominated as George W. Bush’s vice presidential candidate in July 2000 (although his ratings were nearly as bad when previously measured in 2007).

Cheney’s improved ratings are mainly due to the views of independents: the percentage viewing him favorably rose from 21% in March to 37% today. There was also a slight increase in his favorable rating from Republicans, from 64% to 70%.

Pelosi’s decline since last fall is seen equally in her ratings from Republicans and independents, with little change in the views of Democrats. The percentage of Republicans viewing her favorably fell 12 points, from 21% to 9%; the same drop in favorability was seen among independents, from 37% to 25%. Sixty-two percent of Democrats now view her favorably, down just slightly from 66% in November.

A Polarizing Pair

As a result of the changes, both Cheney and Pelosi are now positioned as highly polarizing figures on the political landscape; both are viewed favorably by the large majority of their own party members, and unfavorably by most members of the opposing party.

To the extent either one influences voters’ views about the two major political parties, particularly looking ahead to the 2010 midterm elections, Cheney may be less problematic for his party than Pelosi might be for hers. He currently has a slight edge in intra-party popularity: 70% of Republicans view him favorably compared with 62% of Democrats viewing Pelosi favorably. Also, more independents view Cheney favorably than view Pelosi favorably: 37% vs. 25%.

Bottom Line

After President Obama, Pelosi and Cheney are arguably the next most prominent political figures active in the two major parties today. Both have attracted significant news coverage in the mainstream press this year, most recently for their positions on the government’s interrogation policies for suspected terrorists.

That coverage appears to have helped Cheney — at least modestly — in the image department. Given Americans’ concern about closing Guantanamo Bay, his improved ratings since March are arguably related to his ongoing outspokenness on waterboarding, tying it in with U.S. national security.

Pelosi has had a major, high profile role in the legislative agenda of Congress all year, most notably with passage of Obama’s economic stimulus package in January; however the recent controversy over her possible knowledge of waterboarding — and her claim that the CIA misled Congress about briefing her — may have more to do with her depressed favorable ratings, which are down eight points since November.

Survey Methods

Results are based on telephone interviews with 1,015 national adults, aged 18 and older, conducted May 29-31, 2009. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points.

Interviews are conducted with respondents on land-line telephones (for respondents with a land-line telephone) and cellular phones (for respondents who are cell-phone only).

In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.

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To The Libs Who Say We Aren’t Headed Toward Socialism – Hugo Chavez Disagrees With You

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Bavolet (Cynthia)
From Investor’s Business Daily: http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=328920348102250 

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Socialism: Is Hugo Chavez emerging as a sort of tropical Greek chorus for the Democrats’ ongoing redistribution schemes? It says something that he cheers every time a new act of socialism is performed in the U.S

Rest assured, Venezuela’s self-described Communist commandante does not wish us well. But Obama’s administration has managed to awe him with its takeover of General Motors.

“Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more and nothing less than General Motors. Comrade Obama!” Chavez cheered on Venezuelan TV Tuesday. He gushingly added that he and Cuba’s Fidel Castro would now have to work harder just to keep up.

It underlines two things: just how closely the Venezuelan strongman watches what’s happening in the U.S and just how badly it resembles his own war on private property.

Unlike Cuba’s Fidel Castro, who shot his way into a Marxist dictatorship, Chavez has achieved his “socialist revolution” by manipulating institutions, particularly legal ones.

He’s been at it for 10 years, picking off companies one by one, using legal technicalities unrelated to his true aim of state ownership for all means of production. It ought to worry people that what’s happening at GM is perfectly recognizable in Caracas.

In 2004, Chavez began by expropriating cattle ranches in Venezuela, saying he only wanted to clarify property rights, not confiscate land. End result: Virtually all productive land now is in his hands, redistributed to his loyalists in serfdom.

After that, he went after the U.S. oil industry, snagging prizes like Exxon Mobil’s $1 billion heavy-oil complex on the Orinoco River in 2007, citing a different legal issue: tax disputes.

He did similar expropriations with steel, cement, ports, banks, sugar, rice, pretty much any industry that was viable.

Running out of companies to steal, he now persecutes private media — not, he claims, to stifle dissent, but to protect children from smut, his pretense for shutting down RCTV in 2007.

For the last remaining nonstate TV station, his concern is now environmental desecration, with Chavistas using the pretense of some old antlers on the wall of a Globovision executive following an open-ended state raid as the excuse to shut down the TV station.

Whatever Chavez’s legal concerns are, the punishment is always the same: expropriation and more power to the state, the two pillars of socialism.

The GM case is in this league and should give Democrats pause, because they also are using legal pretenses to justify a takeover.

Obama administration officials invented a right for themselves to muscle in on existing company owners, using bailout cash as an instrument of expropriation over the rights of bondholders.

They also used bailout cash as a green light to distribute gravy to their United Auto Workers union cronies, handing them a disproportionate stake in the company, illegally favoring unsecured debts over secured debts.

In so doing, they expropriated property without compensation, broke 150 years of contract law, and made Chavez proud.

Make no mistake: The Venezuelan dictator does not wish us well. He’d like to see all of our institutions crash to the ground and put the U.S. into the same socialist morass he’s in.

He knows that one act after another on this GM model in the U.S. will end in state socialism, with all the poverty, misery, shortages, noninvestment and lack of freedom that now plague Venezuela.

The Obama administration officials involved in the GM takeover may not think their action will harm the system, but they’re wrong.

Chavez is watching closely and will follow their example, hitting more American companies on similar pretenses abroad.

Unlike them, he thinks private property is itself the enemy and now has a new tool. Exxon officials have pointed out convincingly that the continuous vilification of oil companies by Congress helped to embolden Chavez to steal Exxon’s assets abroad.

One hopes the Obama administration thinks hard about what Chavez is telling them: “They’re criticizing him because they say he’s moving toward socialism — come Obama, ally with us on the path to socialism, it’s the only road,” Chavez declared on Venezuelan state TV in March. “Imagine a socialist revolution in the U.S.! Nothing is impossible.”

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