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Taliban, ISIS, NAACP. What’s the difference? A Limerick.

As the Taliban, ISIS are doers.

NAACP are hem-and-hoers.

“Destroy history! Blast!”

“And forget our past,”

and repeat it as doomsdaying wooers.

The pictures tell the stories.:

Top: Taliban destroys ancient Buddha carvings.

Next: ISIS destroys the Muslim Tomb of Jonah, not

the Jewish tomb of Jonah.

Next: MLK day in Columbia, South Carolina 2011.

Prominent at that location is a large bronze statue of George Washington. That year, the NAACP constructed a “box” to conceal the Father of His Country from view so that participants would not be offended by his presence.

Bottom picture: NAACP proposes to sand blast the carvings of President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson from Stone Mountain.

What is the difference? The means and ideology are different,

but the thought process the same.

Will we ever learn?

Verse 46 of the Obama Impeachment song. No crackdown on sanctuary cities until amnesty.

After a very emotional hearing in Congress from families who had loved ones murdered by illegal aliens it boggles my mind how Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldaña can be so cold and callous about it by saying they won’t do anything until Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform, which is basically code for amnesty. Sanctuary cities.

A quote: Sen. David Vitter: “This has been going on for years and you still are not prepared to say that there is ever going to be any negative consequence to those [sanctuary] jurisdictions. When is that going to change?”

Saldaña: “I presume when you all address comprehensive immigration reform; perhaps it can be addressed there.”

Which leads to Verse 46 of the Obama Impeachment song (as if sung by Obama to the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)

Sanctuary Cities – good.

It shields my comrades in the hood.

I have done all that I could

with help from the Muslim Brotherhood.

And here is the whole impeachment song: https://lenbilen.com/2015/02/25/the-complete-obama-impeachment-song/

The wall of separation between church and state. A Limerick.

“Separation of Church and the State”

is not “Of the Church from the State.”

Let our freedom hold sway

in the politics’ fray.

It is part of our Founders Estate.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton are leading the fight to change our constitutional right of “Freedom of Religion” to “Freedom of Worship” and even “Freedom From Religion.” But from the beginning it was not so.

It is no exaggeration to say that on Sundays in Washington during the administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) and of James Madison (1809-1817) the state became the church. Within a year of his inauguration, Jefferson began attending church services in the House of Representatives. Madison followed Jefferson’s example, although unlike Jefferson, who rode on horseback to church in the Capitol, Madison came in a coach and four. Worship services in the House–a practice that continued until after the Civil War–were acceptable to Jefferson because they were nondiscriminatory and voluntary. Preachers of every Protestant denomination appeared. (Catholic priests began officiating in 1826.) As early as January 1806 a female evangelist, Dorothy Ripley, delivered a camp meeting-style exhortation in the House to Jefferson, Vice President Aaron Burr, and a “crowded audience.” Throughout his administration Jefferson permitted church services in executive branch buildings. The Gospel was also preached in the Supreme Court chambers.

Jefferson’s actions may seem surprising because his attitude toward the relation between religion and government is usually thought to have been embodied in his recommendation that there exist “a wall of separation between church and state.” In that statement, Jefferson was apparently declaring his opposition, as Madison had done in introducing the Bill of Rights, to a “national” religion. In attending church services on public property, Jefferson and Madison consciously and deliberately were offering symbolic support to religion as a prop for republican government.

Thomas Jefferson’s reply of January 1, 1802, to an address of congratulations from the Danbury (Connecticut) Baptist Association contains a phrase familiar in today’s political and judicial circles: “a wall of separation between church and state.” Many in the United States, including the courts, have used this phrase to interpret the Founders’ intentions regarding the relationship between government and religion, as set down by the First Amendment to the Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion . . . .” However, the meaning of this clause has been the subject of passionate dispute for the past fifty years.

Verse 45 of the Obama impeachment song. U.N. approves the Iran treaty without Congress approval.

Verse 45 of the Obama impeachment song (as if sung by Obama to the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)

U.N. must decide our fate.

Congress always acts to late.

On this deal I took the bait.

It’s World War III soon, I cannot wait.

And here is the whole impeachment song: https://lenbilen.com/2015/02/25/the-complete-obama-impeachment-song/

Verse 44 of the Obama impeachment song. Tragic Circumstance in Chattanooga.

Verse 44 of the Obama impeachment song (as if sung by Obama to the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)

“Tragic Circumstance” I see

in Chattanooga murder spree.

Radical Islam – Can’t be.

Islam, it means peace. Just look at me.

And here is the whole impeachment song: https://lenbilen.com/2015/02/25/the-complete-obama-impeachment-song/

Obama the God-father in jail. A Limerick.

President Obama commuted the sentence of 46 convicted drug offenders July 13. He then went to Oklahoma July 15 to visit a Federal Prison and talk about the incarcerated people. “When they describe their youth and their childhood, these are young people who made mistakes that aren’t that different than the mistakes I made,” Obama said.

From Breitbart: Since President Obama commuted the life sentence of Jason Hernandez, the former inmate says he feels like he has been reborn.

“I was practically a dead man walking and President Obama gave me my life back,” Hernandez said in an interview with KFOR News. “I see him like a father now. Like any son, you want to make your father proud, and that’s what my aim is.”

Which leads to this Limerick:

Obama is going to jail

to make all the drug dealers hail:

“May Obama long live!

Our allegiance we give.”

He’s Godfather Drug-lord for sale.

The Confederate flag. Hate – or History? A Limerick.

I am the Confederate flag

Of me all the South used to brag.

Now the Democrats shame

of their old claim to fame.

Abolish my past – I’m a drag.

How soon we forget:

Confederate flag wavers meet Obama in Oklahoma:

The Clintons and the Islamic Republic of Iran. A Limerick.

“It is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of [its president in 1997]. (It is) the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote in the six elections…In every single election, the guys I identify with got two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote. There is no other country in the world that I can say that about, certainly not my own.” Davos, Switzerland, Feb.2005.

The person that said it is William Jefferson Clinton, former President of the United States of America, and the country he is referring to is the Islamic Republic of Iran. He said it in an interview with PBS Charlie Rose.

His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton has a similar admiration for Iran, and is wholly in with the “Nuclear arms agreement”. She is a shoe-in for the Democrat Party Presidential nomination.

Is this really what U.S wants?

Islamic Republic of Nation Iran

Bill Clinton admires as much as he can.

They are so progressive

What we call oppressive

Is freedom to nuke our friends; that’s their plan.

Verse 41 of the Obama impeachment song. (Hundred Billions for Iran.)

Verse 41 of the Obama impeachment song (as if sung by Obama to the tune of “Please release me, let me go”)

Picture: Iranians celebrate Iran’s victory in the nuclear deal.

Hundred Billions for Iran

I give away, because I can

this completes my mid-east plan

Mephistopheles, I am your man.

And here is the whole impeachment song: https://lenbilen.com/2015/02/25/the-complete-obama-impeachment-song/

The fiscal status of all fifty states according to party rule.

The Mercatus Center of George Mason University has come out with a study of which states are most fiscally solvent as of fiscal year 2013. These are their rankings of all 50 states. The best fiscal status in enjoyed by states ruled by a Republican governor, Republican legislature. There are 25 of these with an average score of 0.87

1. Alaska 8.26

2. North Dakota 2.97

3. South Dakota 2.84

4. Nebraska 2.75

5. Florida 2.74

6. Wyoming 2.67

7. Ohio 1.30

8. Tennessee 1.10

9. Oklahoma 0.99

11. Utah 0.95

12. Nevada 0.62

13. Alabama 0.60

15. Idaho 0.32

16. Indiana 0.07

17. South Carolina – 0.03

19. Texas – 0.12

24. Kansas – 0.48

26. Georgia – 0.58

27. North Carolina – 0.63

28. Wisconsin – 0.64

29. Arkansas – 0.66

32. Arizona – 0.78

33. Mississippi – 0.78

34. Michigan – 0.80

35. Louisiana – 0.85

Slightly negative for fiscal responsibility is to have a Democrat Governor, Republican Legislature. There are 6 of these with an average score of – 0.20

10. Montana 0.98

14. Missouri 0.49

20. New Hampshire – 0.13

21 Virginia – 0.21

41. Pennsylvania – 1.14

43. West Virginia – 1.20

Now we are getting into real negative territory for fiscal solvency. We start with a Republican Governor, Split Legislature. There are six of those with an average score of – 1.01

18. Iowa – 0.04

22. Colorado – 0.27

36. New Mexico – 0.92

42. Maine – 1.15

48. Massachusetts – 1.84

50. Illinois – 1.86

Equally bad is to have a Democrat Governor, split Legislature. There are four of them with an average 0f – 1.01

23. Washington – 0.43

31. Minnesota – 0,70

45. Kentucky – 1.42

46. New York – 1.49

Worse still is to have a Democrat Governor, Democrat Legislature. The seven of them have an average score of – 1.09

25. Oregon – 0.50

30. Delaware – 0.69

38. Rhode Island – 1.06

39. Vermont – 1.08

40. Hawaii – 1.08

44. California – 1.41

47. Connecticut – 1.83

And finally, worst of all is to have a Republican Governor, Democrat Legislature. There are two of those with an average

of – 1.42.

37. Maryland – 0.98

49. New Jersey – 1.86

This helps to explain why Democrats want the Federal Government to handle everything for them since their states are hopelessly irresponsible with their states affairs, while Republicans as a rule tend to want to have every state handle their own affairs as they see best fit.

One further startling observation is that New Jersey under Governor Chris Christie came in next to last. This helps to explain the reluctance of the more conservative (or fiscally responsible states) to endorse him for President.

On the other hand, Alaska came in first, not in small part due to the heroic efforts of Sarah Palin during her 31.7 month reign as Governor, where she managed to get the Credit Rating for her state to go from AA to AA+ and then raised again to AAA shortly after her resignation. She accomplished more in this short time than most governors do in two terms.

This also helps in part to explain the irrational hatred for Sarah Palin. She did clean up the graft and corruption in Alaska, and they are afraid she would do the same on a national level should she become President.