Left: The old logo Right: The new logo
The Missile Defense Agents gave us a present;
Designed the Obamic Islamic new Crescent.
Is this their new vision?
We’re held in derision.
Gone is our freedom like lights incandescent.
Down left: The Iranian space agency logo. Down right: A composite picture.
The wormlight is good for us I have been told.
Soon it’s the only light left to be sold.
Our future seems stark
We’re held in the dark.
With no more of drilling we’re left in the cold.
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Complain ‘bout the loo-flush was what he did do,
Others chimed in, “ours don’t work well too”
But Paul was unfazed
Eyebrows were raised
For he dared to say: You dumb bureaucrats, Boo!
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Feb 15 on Eric Bolling’s final show on Fox Business that if the GOP primary/caucus season ended in a brokered convention and she were summoned to serve, she would answer the call.
She has been working tirelessly for a brokered convention ever since she spoke well of Santorum before Iowa, stayed out of New Hampshire, spoke well of Newt Gingrich before South Carolina, stayed out of Florida and let Mitt and Newt destroy themselves in negative ads and comments, then admonishing them to be positive and encourage Santorum again in the caucuses, putting in a good word for Ron Paul every now and then.
She is running all right. As she prophetically said “This is going to be a campaign the likes of which we have never seen before” or words to that effect.
She has only four things to overcome: The republican establishment, the Media, the Democrat opposition and the career central bureaucrats. All she has in her corner is the people.
So far it is going her way: Run, Sarah, Run!
“Jesus would back my tax-the-rich policy.”
President Obama really did say that at the recent National Prayer Breakfast.
He went on to say that his understanding of the Bible is his basis for his economic policies.
So the question is: Which Governmental authority was Jesus so supportive of?
We have four choices: The Pharisees, The Sadducees, The local government, represented by Herod the Tetrarch, or the Roman government under Caesar Tiberius, represented by Pontius Pilate?
We all know his opinion of the Pharisees and Sadducees: Matthew 23:27
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.”
This would be his opinion of Congress: Luke 11:46
And he said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.”
On Herod: Mark 8:15
And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”
Acts 12:1
[ James Killed and Peter Imprisoned ] About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church.
Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone’s opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances. Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. And Jesus said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” When they heard it, they marvelled. And they left him and went away.
The tax mentioned was really a “tribute” and refers to a poll, or head tax, paid directly to the emperor by the subject peoples of the empire.
By His enigmatic response, did Jesus really mean for His followers to provide financial support (willingly or unwillingly) to Tiberius Caesar – a man, who, in his personal life, was a pedophile, a sexual deviant, and a murderer and who, as emperor, claimed to be a god and oppressed and enslaved millions of people, including Jesus’ own? The answer, of course, is: the traditional, pro-tax interpretation of the Tribute Episode is simply wrong. Jesus never meant for His answer to be interpreted as an endorsement of Caesar’s tribute or any taxes.
Instead of jumping into the political discussion, though, Jesus curiously requests to see the coin of the tribute. It is not necessary that Jesus possess the coin to answer their question. He could certainly respond without seeing the coin. That He requests to see the coin suggests that there is something meaningful about the coin itself.
In the Tribute Episode, the questioners produce a denarius. The denarius was approximately 1/10 of a troy ounce of silver and roughly worth a day’s wages for a common laborer. It carried the image of Tiberius, and Tiberius was so jealous of his image that Tiberius even made it a capital crime to carry any coin stamped with his image into a bathroom or a brothel.
Jesus then asks the counter question “Whose image is on the coin? They answer Caesar’s. But that is not all. The inscription also says “Tiberius Caesar, Worshipful Son of the God, Augustus.” And on the other side it says “Pontif Maxim,” which means High Priest.
It was at tha point Jesus says “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s. “
It really had nothing to do with the lawfulness of paying taxes, but an admonition to keep their priorities straight.
So what is Jesus attitude towards collective duty versus individual responsibility?
An answer can be found in the parable of the ten talents: Matthew 25:14-30 “For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them. 15 To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey. 16 Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents. 17 In the same manner the one who had received the two talents gained two more. 18 But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.
19 “Now after a long time the master of those slaves *came and * settled accounts with them. 20 The one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, ‘Master, you entrusted five talents to me. See, I have gained five more talents.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’
22 “Also the one who had received the two )talents came up and said, ‘Master, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more talents.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.’
24 “And the one also who had received the one (L)talent came up and said, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you scattered no seed. 25 And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’
26 “But his master answered and said to him, ‘You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed. 27 Then you ought to have put my money ]in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest. 28 Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’
29 “For to everyone who has, more shall be given, and he will have an abundance; but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. 30 Throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
If that doesn’t speak of individual responsibility before God, I do not know what will.
Oh, and with Jesus saying you should have put the talent in the bank, so I would have received my money back with usury he preempted Sharia Law which forbids interest payment on loans. Therefore Sharia Law is not of God.
“After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending,” Nancy Pelosi said in her inaugural address from the speaker’s podium. “Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.”
How well did she do, and is all of this the fault of George W. Bush?
Let us look at the numbers.
When Bush was sworn in on January 20, 2001, the national debt was $5,727,776,738,304.64. Dennis Hastert was the speaker of the house.
When Pelosi was sworn in on January 4, 2007, the national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04.
When Bush left office on January 20, 2009, the national debt was $10,626,877,048,913.08.
When Pelosi left office on January 24, 2011, the national debt was $14,014,049,043,294.41.
The estimated National debt Feb 12, 2012 is $15,368,215,367,669.46.
The average debt added per day during Bush/Hastert 2175 days was $1.353 billion
The average debt added per day during Bush/Pelosi 741 days was $ 2.640 billion
The average debt added per day during Obama/Pelosi 714 days was $ 4.744 billion.
The average debt added per day during Obama/Boehner so far is about 3.52 billion.
In short: Republican President and Republican house is horrendous. Republican President and Democrat house is horrendous times two. Democrat President and Democrat house is horrendous times three and a half. Democrat President and Republican house has failed so far to make a dent in the increase. I am pinning my hope on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. So far she has not entered the race. If there is a brokered convention anything can happen.
Sarah Palin vetoed over 500 million dollars of legislation during her term as Governor of Alaska in a time of revenue surplus. Even with that she enjoyed an approval rating of over 80%, earning her the title “The most popular Governor in America”.
The President spoke and put Biden to sleep.
“Reduce tax expenses”* a promise to keep.
He calls them a cut,
They are anything but.
It’s a tax hike for all who pay taxes, …you Creep!
* “Tax expenditures”, doublespeak for deductions.
Can people get cancer from taking the pill?
Both they and their partners most surely will.
Synthetic estrogen
Acts as carcinogen.
Obamacare soon will go in for the kill!
Researchers recently studied the link between prostate cancer incidence and mortality and the use of birth control pills. The authors of the study, published in 2011 in the British Medical Journal, hypothesized that birth control pills may lead to environmental estrogen contamination, causing increased rates of prostate illness in men.
The researchers correlated prostate cancer statistics with contraception use and found that oral contraceptive use was significantly associated with prostate cancer incidence and mortality in individual nations worldwide.
Other forms of contraception (IUDs, condoms, or vaginal barriers) were not correlated with prostate cancer incidence or mortality. The scientists concluded: “A significant association between oral contraceptives and prostate cancer has been shown.”
From my days of Chromatography I was made aware that an electron capture detector does not react to natural estrogen, but synthetic estrogen in all its forms do. Natural and synthetic estrogen does not act the same in the body, and unintended consequences are therefore to be expected.
Birth control pills should be avoided as they utilize synthetic hormones and have been shown to increase the risk of breast cancer. This new evidence suggests that they increase the risk of prostate cancer as well. Using a synthetic hormone reminds me of Forrest Gump’s motto: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year-old rancher, who’s hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.
Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his role as our president. The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Obama is a “Post Turtle”. Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him, what a “Post Turtle” was. The old rancher said, “when you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a “post turtle”.
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor’s face so he continued to explain. “you know he didn’t get up there by himself, he doesn’t belong up there, he doesn’t know what to do while he’s up there, he’s elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb @$$ put him up there to begin with.”
Post turtle, post turtle, why are you there?
Soros is evil and he put me here.
I have to come down’
I am but a clown,
for I don’t belong in the stratosphere.
His budget is like a campaign manifesto.
Its death on arrival will Congress attest to.
It’s delayed by a week.
Our future looks bleak
Unless we defeat him, and that must go presto.
The truth about rats and lemmings.
Everybody have heard about lemming years, when a large number of lemmings follow each other over a cliff, falls down into the sea below and drown. Political analogies abound, and so this has become common knowledge: That’s what lemmings do. But why? By the way, 2011 was a lemming year in Northern Sweden, it repeats itself every 20 years or so. To explain why, there is an even better example with rats. When food is plentiful they multiply fast and after about 4 years there are far too many rats for the food supply. No, they do not die of starvation, virtually all the rats get stressed out and die, all in short order, and the cycle starts anew. It used to be a fairly limited supply of food for the rats, people ate what the land produced, and the number of rats were kept below the stress level. Enter modern day landfills. There is an overabundance of food in a very limited area, so rats congregate there and multiply. Eventually they will hit the stress level die out and the cycle is renewed. Enter the division of rodent control. In their wisdom they put out rat poison to keep the population down. In so doing they manage to keep the rat population just below the stress level, thereby ensuring that every year is a year of plenty of rats rather than every fourth year.
I refrain from tempting political analogies.
Here is a video of lemmings from BBC Nature
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOs8MaR1YM
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