He was born in an obscure village, the son of a peasant woman.
He grew up in another village, where He worked in a carpenter's shop until He was about thirty. Then for three years He became a wandering preacher.
He never wrote a book. He never sought an office. He never had a family nor owned a house. He didn't go to college. He never visited a big city. He never travelled two hundred miles from the place where He was born. He did none of those things one usually associates with greatness.
He had no credentials but Himself.
He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned against Him. His friends all ran away. He was turned over to His enemies and went through a mockery of a trial. He was executed by the state. While He was dying, His executioners gambled for His clothing, the only property He had on earth. When He was dead, He was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Twenty centuries have come and gone, and today He is still the central figure of the human race and the leader of mankind's progress. All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of mankind on this earth as much as that One Solitary Life.
"For God so completely loved the world of mankind that He gave up His uniquely-begotten Son, in order that whoever trusts in Him should not perish like rubbish, but rather be having everlasting Life."
Merry Christmas, one and all!
How Do You Spell "Thug?"
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Merry Xmas from Your Senators
Just when I wa looking forward to a wonderful Christmas with family and friends, at 4:00 am PST, the Senate passed the largest swindle in the history of shell games and three-card Monte.
Sure, it's called "Patient Protection and Affordable Care" act, or, as it actually reads:
"To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes."
An accurate descriptive title, is it not? And every word thereafter is pure and unmitigated, ummm, Bovine Substance. Only the dullest tool in the shed actually believes that this monstrosity is about "healthcare reform." It is NOT "reform," unless you also believe that Dr. Frankenstein's creature was intended to "reform" the medicine of his day. It is about controlling YOU!!
You will now be forced by law to obtain medical insurance "acceptable" to a Federal commission, or pay a rather hefty fine on threat of imprisonment.
This law can neither be amended nor abolished by future Legislatures. I particularly like that particular Reid-inserted, Constitution-shredding paragraph more than the ones guaranteeing $300 million of YOUR money to Louisiana, $500 million to Massachussetts, $100 million of YOUR money to both Nebraska and Connecticut. You have such a generous nature! An egomaniacal slimeball running a den of thieves.
Best of all, after you pay the $7,500 annual premiums, you'll have to WAIT FOUR YEARS to get a dime's worth of "benefit." And your state taxes will balloon upward faster than the Federal taxes which will be added on at a more deceptive rate.
So, Merry Christmas, American Taxpayer, Obama-Reid-Pelosi just ho-ho-hosed you, and your kids, and their kids, and their kids, and their kids, and....
Welcome, comrades, to the new UNITED SOVIET STATES OF AMERIKA, the USSA!!
Here's your brown shirt and your shovel, and we HOPE you weren't expecting anything more than chump-CHANGE as take-home pay.
Tar, check. Feathers, check. 4x4 wooden rail, check. Senators, check. E-Z assembly required.
Sure, it's called "Patient Protection and Affordable Care" act, or, as it actually reads:
"To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes."
An accurate descriptive title, is it not? And every word thereafter is pure and unmitigated, ummm, Bovine Substance. Only the dullest tool in the shed actually believes that this monstrosity is about "healthcare reform." It is NOT "reform," unless you also believe that Dr. Frankenstein's creature was intended to "reform" the medicine of his day. It is about controlling YOU!!
You will now be forced by law to obtain medical insurance "acceptable" to a Federal commission, or pay a rather hefty fine on threat of imprisonment.
This law can neither be amended nor abolished by future Legislatures. I particularly like that particular Reid-inserted, Constitution-shredding paragraph more than the ones guaranteeing $300 million of YOUR money to Louisiana, $500 million to Massachussetts, $100 million of YOUR money to both Nebraska and Connecticut. You have such a generous nature! An egomaniacal slimeball running a den of thieves.
Best of all, after you pay the $7,500 annual premiums, you'll have to WAIT FOUR YEARS to get a dime's worth of "benefit." And your state taxes will balloon upward faster than the Federal taxes which will be added on at a more deceptive rate.
So, Merry Christmas, American Taxpayer, Obama-Reid-Pelosi just ho-ho-hosed you, and your kids, and their kids, and their kids, and their kids, and....
Welcome, comrades, to the new UNITED SOVIET STATES OF AMERIKA, the USSA!!
Here's your brown shirt and your shovel, and we HOPE you weren't expecting anything more than chump-CHANGE as take-home pay.
Tar, check. Feathers, check. 4x4 wooden rail, check. Senators, check. E-Z assembly required.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Christmas in D.C.
To Senators Wyden and Merkley:
You guys just aren't getting with the program: Ms. Landrieu got $300 million for her vote, Mr. Lincoln (no, definitely NOT Abe) got $100 million for his vote, even Mr. Dodd got another hundred million, and you guys got zip-zilch-nada, not so much as a lump of carbon-intensive coal, even though you consistently follow Party dogma. Surely you two can do better. After all, it's not really a "bribe" if it's called a "request for bipartisan unity."
Oregon could sure use a few hundred million BarryBucks (so called since the Dollar's demise appears all but imminent) for "healthcare:" think of all the "healthy" things some of that cash could do: the "green" bicycle paths (that would be paved with recycled asphalt, of course, and painted with recycled, eco-friendly paint), or the eco-friendly pedestrian bridges across the Columbia and Willamette rivers (using recycled pieces from the apparently antiquated I-5 and obviously dilapidated Sellwood bridges which are only a few billion dollars short of being "improved," or some gilt-edged "eco-exercise facility" which could be added onto every state office building, thus insuring health and longevity for our public servants, and thereby saving excessive recruitment and training costs to the taxpayers, or perhaps even more BarryBucks for the "greening" of all Federal buildings in Oregon by covering the exteriors with moss and ivy, you know, the local biota formerly regarded as "invasive" and "destructive," but now regarded as "eco-chic," and it all could be built by a cadre of "BarryOBots," the all-volunteer domestic security force propounded by the Great and Terrible Oz, er, Mr. Obama during one of his seemingly endless campaign appearances.
So, Gentlemen, Senators, as we approach this Post-Christian Winter Holiday Break from your Solonic duties, put aside your personal ethics and send Oregon a little multi-million-dollar gift in the spirit of the season, keeping the "X" in "Xmas" of course, and remember, it's the "little things" that count.
You guys just aren't getting with the program: Ms. Landrieu got $300 million for her vote, Mr. Lincoln (no, definitely NOT Abe) got $100 million for his vote, even Mr. Dodd got another hundred million, and you guys got zip-zilch-nada, not so much as a lump of carbon-intensive coal, even though you consistently follow Party dogma. Surely you two can do better. After all, it's not really a "bribe" if it's called a "request for bipartisan unity."
Oregon could sure use a few hundred million BarryBucks (so called since the Dollar's demise appears all but imminent) for "healthcare:" think of all the "healthy" things some of that cash could do: the "green" bicycle paths (that would be paved with recycled asphalt, of course, and painted with recycled, eco-friendly paint), or the eco-friendly pedestrian bridges across the Columbia and Willamette rivers (using recycled pieces from the apparently antiquated I-5 and obviously dilapidated Sellwood bridges which are only a few billion dollars short of being "improved," or some gilt-edged "eco-exercise facility" which could be added onto every state office building, thus insuring health and longevity for our public servants, and thereby saving excessive recruitment and training costs to the taxpayers, or perhaps even more BarryBucks for the "greening" of all Federal buildings in Oregon by covering the exteriors with moss and ivy, you know, the local biota formerly regarded as "invasive" and "destructive," but now regarded as "eco-chic," and it all could be built by a cadre of "BarryOBots," the all-volunteer domestic security force propounded by the Great and Terrible Oz, er, Mr. Obama during one of his seemingly endless campaign appearances.
So, Gentlemen, Senators, as we approach this Post-
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Monday, December 21, 2009
Will Rogers' Thought for Today
"There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators." ~Will Rogers
What's in a Word?
The Preamble to the Constitution calls for "the more perfect Union" to "promote the general welfare" of said Union. It does NOT say "provide the general welfare," to the entire country as our electees in D.C. would have us believe.
That subtle difference is going to cost even more trillions of borrowed dollars and more billions of your new tax dollars as this Congress and Adninistration continue their Disney-worldly push toward a New Soviet Union, already seen to be so successful in, umm, in, ah,err...well, in all the books my PoliSci profs made me read.
Reid, Obama et al, check. Tar, check. Feathers, check Wooden rail, check E-Z assembly required.
That subtle difference is going to cost even more trillions of borrowed dollars and more billions of your new tax dollars as this Congress and Adninistration continue their Disney-worldly push toward a New Soviet Union, already seen to be so successful in, umm, in, ah,err...well, in all the books my PoliSci profs made me read.
Reid, Obama et al, check. Tar, check. Feathers, check Wooden rail, check E-Z assembly required.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Character vs. Chicanery
Ready for a sardonic laugh of the day? Here it is, as YOUR Senators "debate" the establishment of the United Soviet States of Amerika (USSA) by using "Health care Reform as a hammer and sickle:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God." -text of the Congressional Oath of Office, given by EVERY U.S. Senator and 1/3 of the House at the beginning of each new congress.
So, Mrs. Landrieu, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Reid, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Wyden, et al: how's that oathy-sweary-by-God-y thing workin' for ya? Especially that pesky "defend the Constitution" clause...you know, that antiquated Document signed by the founders of this country? Darn scrap of paper keeps gettting in the way of real progress, don't it?
I find it ironic that the Constitution uses a mere 4,400 words to establish the greatest country on earth, and Senator Reid's "Obamacare" bill needs 40,000 to destroy it.
Are there no rails, feathers and tar in D.C.?
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God." -text of the Congressional Oath of Office, given by EVERY U.S. Senator and 1/3 of the House at the beginning of each new congress.
So, Mrs. Landrieu, Mr. Nelson, Mr. Reid, Mr. Merkley, Mr. Wyden, et al: how's that oathy-sweary-by-God-y thing workin' for ya? Especially that pesky "defend the Constitution" clause...you know, that antiquated Document signed by the founders of this country? Darn scrap of paper keeps gettting in the way of real progress, don't it?
I find it ironic that the Constitution uses a mere 4,400 words to establish the greatest country on earth, and Senator Reid's "Obamacare" bill needs 40,000 to destroy it.
Are there no rails, feathers and tar in D.C.?
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