Because I Needed a Chuckle

I'm really not much of a hunter, but I am a gun owner/NRA member, and I confess the sin of covetousness...

Probably only humorous to Oregonians who remember how the timber industry was vilified and driven out of business by the enviro-nazis of bygone days, but I laughed at this:

"And I Quote..."

"Health reform is an income shift. It is a shift, a leveling, to help lower income, middle income Americans."  Senator Max Baucus, Democrat.

"This [Obamacare] is a form of redistribution." Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean.

"I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody." Barack Hussein Obama, 2008.


Karl Marx  proposed that his new (communist) economic system, which called for redistribution of wealth, was more equitable.

If it TALKS like a duck, and it WALKS like a duck, and it FLIES like a duck, and it LOOKS like....well, I'm sure that even my liberal readers can connect the dots here.  but just in case:

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When the Music Stopped

(For those who are unaware: At all military base theaters, the National Anthem is played before the movie begins.)
"I recently attended a showing of 'Superman 3' here at LSA Anaconda. We have a large auditorium we use for movies, as well as memorial services and other large gatherings. As is the custom at all military bases, we stood to attention when the National Anthem began before the main feature. All was going well until three-quarters of the way through The National Anthem, the music stopped.

Now, what would happen if this occurred with 1,000 18-22 year-olds back in the States? I imagine there would be hoots, catcalls, laughter, a few rude comments, and everyone would sit down and yell for the movie to begin. Of course, that is, if they had stood for the National Anthem in the first place.

Here in Iraq , 1,000 Soldiers continued to stand at attention, eyes fixed forward. The music started again and the Soldiers continued to quietly stand at attention. But again, at the same point, the music stopped. What would you expect 1000 Soldiers standing at attention to do ?? Frankly, I expected some laughter, and everyone would eventually sit down and wait for the movie to start.

But No!!... You could have heard a pin drop, while every Soldier continued to stand at attention. Suddenly, there was a lone voice from the front of the auditorium, then a dozen voices, and soon the room was filled with the voices of a thousand soldiers, finishing where the recording left off: 'And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.'

It was the most inspiring moment I have had in Iraq and I wanted you to know what kind of Soldiers are serving you. Remember them as they fight for us!"

Written by Chaplain Jim Higgins.  LSA Anaconda is at the Balad Airport in Iraq , north of Baghdad

Hat Tip: MSgt. J.O.G., USMC, Ret.

LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL !!

The Congress and the Obama administration are gloating over "162,000 NEW FULL-TIME JOBS" created in the first quarter of this year as "obvious proof" that the Economic Restoration and Recovery Act, also known as "Porkzilla 1," is "working."  Oh, really?  Shall we delve into this pristine pool of information a bit?
Of the jobs "created,"  92,000 (or 70 percent for those of you who learned math in a public school) are in education, and are all taxpayer-supported.  Another 15,000  (9&1/4%)   are in governments, from local to federal, all taxpayer-supported.  No figures on how many were created in the State Employment/Unemployment Offices.
The Harry Reid "good news" is that construction industries LOST another 104,000 full-time jobs this quarter, production jobs lost another 36,000, and financial services laid off  another 58,000 full-time employees.
Now, if you take 198,000 jobs lost in just THREE SECTORS of the economy away from the 162,000 jobs "created or saved" by Spendzilla, you get, let me see here,  a "Negative Gain" of 36,000 jobs, Correct?    Even better news, the country is still employing  nearly 5 million fewer people than just two years ago.
Unless you learned math in D.C.'s parallel-universe bookkeeping system, we're STILL in a receding economy.  And as a bonus, you now get to pick up the tab for healthcare insurance for five or six other people via O'Care taxation. 

How's that "Hopey-Changey" thing workin' out for ya so far?


Source:  Federal Reserve Bank, St. louis

News From Corinth

But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.

And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.   More than that, we are then found to be false witnesses about God, for we have testified about God that He raised Christ from the dead!  But He did not raise him if in fact the dead are not raised. 
For if the dead are not raised, then Christ has not been raised either.  And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.
Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.   If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.


But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead: the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive!



Have a Blessed Resurrection Day !!