Tell Sarah to bring me iced tea.
Queen Hillary issued decree.
Sarah Palin replied:
“Yes maam, sure, Much obliged.
Let’s party like it’s 1773.”
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Tell Sarah to bring me iced tea. A Limerick.
The ACLU no longer supports religious freedom. A Limerick.
News headline: ACLU: We’re Not Defending RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act) Anymore
The ACLU just reported:
Religious freedom supported
is a thing of the past.
I say: This must not last!
Our freedoms must not be aborted!
The ten most attractive countries to invest in, and the ten worst.
Daniel Altman’s 2015 list of investment attractiveness by country is out. The ranking is based on an index for baseline profitability that assumes that three factors affect the ultimate success of a foreign investment: how much the value of an asset grows; the preservation of that value while the asset is owned; and the ease of repatriation of proceeds from selling the asset. The index combines measures for each of these factors into a summary statistic that conveys a country’s basic attractiveness for investment. Daniel Altman is the creator of the index and an Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, in the Foreign Policy magazine.
How did it go? India jumped from number 6 to first, and Hong Kong, the 2014 leader slumped to the 11th position.
The list of the top ten is surprising, at least to a person unaccustomed to foreign investing.
1. India.
2. Qatar
3. Botswana.
4. Singapore.
5. Ghana.
6 Malaysia.
7. Mongolia.
8. Rwanda.
9. Zambia.
10. Sri Lanka.
How did the U.S.A. do? it came in as number 50 dropping 24 positions from 2014, when it came in as number 26.
China dropped to number 65, down from number 60 in 2014.
And who are the ten worst countries to invest in? (The list only has 110 countries, so Iran, Cuba and North Korea among others are not included.)
101. Nigeria.
102. Belarus.
103. Italy.
104. Papua New Guinea.
105. Russia.
106. Lebanon.
107. Angola.
108. Dem. Rep. of Congo.
109. Argentina.
110. Venezuela.
The Hindu Digest added a nice picture to brag about the great progress India has made since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister.
Ted Cruz and AP, Sarah Palin and the left media. Different strokes for different folks. A Limerick.
Ted Cruz with a gun to his head
AP shows its hate, wants him dead.
Sarah Palin was framed
for a cross-hair ad shamed
A blood libel blame-shift instead.
This is the ad that AP released,
claiming they had no intention to
portray Ted Cruz in a negative light:
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This is the ad that gave Sarah Palin the blame
for the tragedy in Arizona, when on January 8, 2011,
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen
others were shot during a constituent meeting held in
a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in the
Tucson metropolitan area. Six people died, including
federal District Court Chief Judge John Roll; Within hours
the liberal press blamed Sarah Palin for the massacre
because of this campaign ad.
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Never mind the left had their own bulls-eyes..
And we should not forget CNN with their Cross-fire:
Now of course the Daily Kos site had this to say about Gabrielle Giffords:
But this was quickly taken down by the Daily Kos after the massacre: Hypocrisy, or something more sinister?
Forgive, the life changing message.
The folks that forgive here on Earth
have treasures of heavenly worth.
For as Christ did forgive
on the Cross, they might live.
In His death, He proclaimed the new birth!
And this, my dear friends is why the Cross, Jesus Christ, His death, burial and resurrection is an offense to the non-believer.
They refuse to acknowledge sin, and cannot grasp the Christian concept of forgiveness: Because He forgave us, we too must forgive, and in so doing become more like Christ.
It was in Antioch, Syria they were first called Christians. It was meant as a derogatory term, but the believers were it proudly, and it took. It survived through the early persecutions through love and forgiveness. Many were martyred for their beliefs, but through their testimonies the Church grew stronger.
The times of persecutions have returned. There are now more people martyred yearly then at any time in history. We are seeing it in so many ways. Yet, true Christians forgive. We have been given many examples of true Christian forgiveness. Let me mention just two:
On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing five, and wounded the rest, some very severely, before committing suicide in the schoolhouse. It received worldwide attention, and press and TV reporters descended on the small community. The Amish responded like they always do, mostly silence. The wife of the murderer was invited and went to the funeral of at least one of the girls. The Amish message was consistent, forgive and choose to not remember the offense. To that effect the one room schoolhouse was torn down, the privys and the fence removed and the ground plowed. A week later there was no indication there ever was a schoolhouse there. Another schoolhouse was built nearby. This act of forgiveness was broadcast over the whole world. It even reached the Kurds of Iraq. A pastor, a couple of Amish believers and a Christian psycho therapist were invited to Iraq to speak with the Governor and some doctors about this concept of forgiveness. They were then invited to teach about the healing effect of forgiveness to a multitude of health care professionals. Their message was given, and accepted by the Kurds. Only in Christ can we find forgiveness and be able to forgive. The Kurdish doctors accepted their message with awe, this forgiveness is unknown in Islam.
At the bond hearing June 17, 2015 of Dylann Roof, the murderer of 9 in Emanuel AME Church in Charleston S.C. something very unusual occurred. One after another of the family members of the victims stood up and proclaimed their deep sorrow for what had happened, but they forgave him in Christ, prayed for his soul and asked him to repent and turn to Christ. This was Christian living in action.
No such forgiveness exists among the secular people, nor can it be found in any other religion, especially not in Islam. They still have not got over the loss of Spain. Yet the Christian message of forgiveness has survived nearly two thousand years, from Christ’s words on the Cross “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do” to Stephens exclamation “Lord, do not hold this sin against them” when he was stoned to death as the first Martyr. This message will be victorious even in the coming battle.
Some thoughts on the horrendous murders in a historic church in Charleston, S.C.
After the horrendous murders at the historical Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina 17 June, President Obama said early the next day at the White House. “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this kind of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”
Not to be outdone Hillary Clinton said at the beginning of scheduled remarks at the annual National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference in Las Vegas: “We have to face hard truths about race, violence, guns and division,” and then continued: “How many innocent people in our country from little children, church members to movie theater attendees, how many people do we need to see cut down before we act?”
The Nordic countries have very strict gun-laws, and the murder rate from guns is much lower than in the U.S. Yet , they have had their fair share of mass murders,
Scotland, population 5.1 million.
Shortly after 9 a.m. on March 13, 1996, Thomas Hamilton, a 43-year-old former Scout leader, burst into the gymnasium of a primary school in the tranquil Scottish town of Dunblane.
Within minutes 15 children aged five and six had died in a hail of bullets. One died later in hospital. Their teacher, Gwen Mayor, a 44-year-old mother of two, died in the attack, reportedly while trying to shield her pupils. Two other teachers were also seriously injured while heroically trying to protect children. Hamilton turned one of his four handguns on himself and was found dead at the scene.
Norway, population 5.1 million
OSLO — A lone political extremist bombed the government center here on Friday, killing 7 people, the police said, before heading to an island summer camp for young members of the governing Labor Party and killing at least 80 people. The police arrested a 32-year-old Norwegian man, Anders Behring Breivik, in connection with both attacks, the deadliest on Norwegian soil since World War II. Breivik was at first accused of being a fundamentalist Christian, but as the investigation started it was established he was bent on reestablishing Nordic Pride including the Nordic Gods and the time-old traditions.
Finland, population 5.3 million.
on November 7, 2007, at Jokela High School in the municipality of Tuusula, Finland, a gunman, 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen, entered the school armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He killed eight people and wounded one person in the toe before shooting himself in the head; eleven others were also injured by flying shattered glass. Auvinen died later that evening in a Helsinki hospital.
He described himself as “a cynical existentialist, antihuman humanist, antisocial social darwinist [sic], realistic idealist and godlike atheist”
A year later, on September 23, 2008, at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences[4] in Western Finland, a gunman, 22-year-old student Matti Juhani Saari, shot and fatally injured ten people with a Walther P22 semi-automatic pistol, before shooting himself in the head. He died a few hours later in Tampere (Tammerfors) University Hospital. One woman was injured.
Here are 4 horrendous shooting murders in very civilized and advanced countries in less than 20 years. The population of U.S. is 20 times larger than the combined population of Scotland, Norway and Finland. To have the same frequency of horrendous murders the U.S. should expect 80 mass murders in 20 years, of about 4 a year.
The common thread of these mass murders is that they occur in gun-free environments. Obama’s assertion is therefore false, Hillary’s call for action is even worse: Removing legal gun ownership, but ignoring the multitude of illegal firearms, expanding gun-free zones to include whole high crime districts, leaving the illegal weapons possessors to rule those areas.
(The picture to the right shows the perpetrator, Dylann Roof with a jacket with the insignia of apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia, from his Facebook page, now taken down. Warning: The patches may be photo-shopped. One never know those things anymore.)
What is the solution?
Governor Sarah Palin had a fantastic link on her Facebook page : Prayers for Charleston: http://www.ijreview.com/2015/06/347576-the-only-comment-on-dylann-roof-s-facebook-profile-photo-will-bring-you-to-tears/
Trust me, it will bring you to tears. Pray!
Congress stands up to Obama on Trans-Pacific trade deal. A Limerick.
REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
The bill on the trade Trans-Pacific
defeated in Congress: Terrific.
It was more like a pact
to lose freedoms – a fact.
Obama as leader – Horrific.
The Veterans Administration, a model for Government Healthcare? Obama promised so in 2008. A Limerick.
The Veterans waiting lists grow.
Obama can no longer crow
about healthcare reform.
Wait for months is the norm
for some it is six feet below…..
Remember that Obama was going to reform VA and make it a model of health care so that when Obamacare failed he could point to the perfect system and transition everybody into “People’s Healthcare Administration”.
This is a statement from Obama in 2008:
“Make the VA a leader of national health care reform. … This includes efforts to improve electronic records interoperability, expand effectiveness research, promote wellness programs, and instill more accountability for performance and quality improvement initiatives.”
The U.S. economy shrank by 0.7% in first quarter due to lack of Global Warming. A Limerick.
The U.S. economy shrank by 0.7 in the first quarter of 2015 as harsh weather dampened consumer spending and energy companies struggling with low prices slashed spending.
Gross domestic product contracted at a 0.7% percent annual rate, the Commerce Department said Thursday, coming dangerously close to a recession. That was a big step down from the fourth quarter’s 2.2 percent rise and does not bode well for the rest of the year.
This winter’s cold Climate Disruption
has caused a big growth interruption.
When it’s warm it is good
makes the plants grow more food.
This CO2 scare: Just corruption.
CO2 concentration has increased from about 280 ppm in pre-industrial times to over 400 ppm today, and is increasing at a rate of 2 ppm per year. We are way past the point of no return, 350 ppm which would lead to a temperature catastrophe. But instead, something rather interesting is occurring. The earth is getting greener! This 40 % increase in CO2 the last 250 years has led to a more than 30 % increase in agricultural production all by itself without adding fertilizer or using higher yielding seeds. Thanks to this we can now feed an additional two billion people on earth without starvation. The news are so good, that the per capita food production is increasing, even as the population is increasing.
Look at it this way. The value of basic agricultural products is more than 1.5 trillion dollars worldwide. 30% of that is due to increased CO2. That means that the CO2 emitted is worth 450 billion dollars, spread out over all farmers and ranchers worldwide. This wealth transfer is occurring right now, and knows no national boundary. It is a gift from the developed countries to the rest of the world. Who could be against that?
It turns out that this wealth transfer occurs without global governance. The leaders of the world will not have their say in who gets the wealth transfer, the U.N. bureaucrats will not get their cut, and politicians cannot get a campaign issue since it occurs without their involvement.
The support for this argument: https://lenbilen.com/2014/02/22/co2-the-life-giving-gas-not-carbon-pollution-a-limerick-and-explanation/
Hillary Clinton as a nursery rhyme.
Hillary Clinton as a nursery rhyme.
Hillary, Hillary, where have you been?
“It’s none of your business, for I am the queen.”
Hillary, Hillary, what did you see?
“I saw heads of states so that they would fund me.”
Hillary, Hillary, what did you do?
“No evidence found that there was quid pro quo.”
Hillary, Hillary, what did you say?
“It’s old news by now, won’t you please go away.”
Hillary, Hillary, when did you lie?
“Benghazi for starters, I have a supply.”
Hillary, Hillary, what did you write?
“Deleted my e-mails to give you my spite.”
Hillary, Hillary, why do you run?
“Entitled I am, it’s my turn in the sun.”
Hillary, Hillary, what do you eat?
“Genetically modified food ’til I bleat.”
Hillary, Hillary, what’s with your hair?
“Blond coloring hides I’m an old, graying mare.”
Hillary, Hillary, why did you speak?
“To take all the cash from the poor and the weak.”
Hillary, Hillary, do you love life?
“Not if they’re unborn, abort with a knife.”
Hillary, Hillary, why UBS?
“They paid the best, now excuse my B.S.”
Hillary, Hillary, why did you cry?
“I was broke and in debt, it was hard to get by.”
Hillary, Hillary, what was your fee?
“For the students, two millions, I’m cheap, don’t you see?”
Hillary, Hillary, what was the deal?
“Our Uranium to Russia, Bill had a great spiel.”
Hillary, Hillary, why the State Fair?
“Iowa food, that’s the truth, I do swear.”
Hillary, Hillary, why all the lies?
“Maybe, just maybe, I’m Lord of the flies.”
Hillary, Hillary, what is the day?
“Bloody Monday it is. I’m a witch. Hip, Hooray!!”
Hillary, Hillary, what’s classified?
“I really don’t know, I have nothing to hide.”
Hillary, Hillary, are you contrite?
“If I say ‘I’m Sorry’, it makes all wrongs right.”
Hillary, Hillary, are you for real?
“My focus group gives me that warm, homespun feel.”
Hillary, Hillary, why the long breaks?
“I’ll sit on the throne for as long as it takes.”
Hillary, Hillary, are aliens here? (1)
“Yes, many, I think, we must welcome and cheer.”
Hillary, Hillary, are Spirits for real? (2)
“Yes, Eleanor Roosevelt sure was, I did feel.”
Hillary, Hillary, are you a felon? (3)
“In a dream that the right wing conspirators dwell on.”
Hillary, Hillary, are you immune? (4)
“I’m too big to jail, what do you impugn?”
Hillary, Hillary, are you insane? (5)
“My rat poison clot drugs play tricks with my brain.”
Hillary, Hillary, what’s wrong with coal? …(6)
“I’m clean, I’m green, no coal is my goal.”
Hillary, Hillary, do you remember? (7)
“We lost no one in Libya, not one single member.”
Hillary, Hillary, my health care’s sky high!
“I know best, so obey and pay up, you gadfly! (8)
Hillary, Hillary, have you been hacked?
“Indeed, I’ve been hacked, code cracked and bushwhacked.” (9)
Hillary, Hillary, are the borders secure?
“As secure as my server, of that I am sure.” (10)
Hillary, Hillary, can you tell truth?
“I’m better at lies, I have lied since my youth.”
Hillary, Hillary, what is top secret?
“I’m too dumb to know if it hasn’t been marked yet.” (11)
Hillary, Hillary, are you a crook?
“I make the rules and couldn’t care less, it’s not in MY book.” (12)
Hillary, Hillary, does love trump hate?
“It’s Bills and mine perverted
LOVE
Trumps’
Hate” (13)
Hillary, Hillary, what’s your foundation?
“A charity fraud; a Clinton creation.” (14)
Hillary, Hillary, what? Go to where?
“When are they going to get those f—ing ree-tards out of here?!” (15)
Hillary, Hillary, are you corrupt?
“As corrupt as they go. Go away, don’t disrupt!” (16)
Hillary, Hillary, did FBI call?
“I cannot recall, I’ve had a great fall.” (17)
Hillary, Hillary, why do you lie?
“To conceal my true aim, and so Congress can’t spy!” (18)
Hillary, Hillary, are you untouchable?
“Obama told FBI and Loretta: Not culpable.” (19)
Hillary, Hillary, what’s classified?
“Have no idea. I’ve nothing to hide.”
Hillary, Hillary, nothing to hide?
“Only the personal, nothing beside.”
Hillary, Hillary, no secret e-mail?
None that were marked, it’s the hackers tall tail.”
Hillary, Hillary, will you go free?
“Absolutely! It’s only a vast right wing conspiracy.” (20)
Hillary, Hillary, what’s FBI?
“Speaking of witch. I can lie, I can sigh, I can fly!”(21)
Hillary, Hillary, do black lives matter?
“Not if they’re unborn, serve their heads on a platter.”(22)
Hillary, Hillary, do you love dogs?
“Like Muslims I hate them. Get that Fu****g dog away from me!” (23)
Hillary, Hillary, do you short-circuit?
“When tell truth is duty, I always will shirk it.” (24)
Hillary, Hillary, can you climb stairs?
“I am weak, I am frail, I’m unstable, who cares?” (25)
Hillary, Hillary, do you wear diapers?
“It’s the least of my problems, I have to dodge snipers.” (26)
Hillary, Hillary, what’s your disease?
“It’s Parkinson’s. That’s why there’s “no flashes, please.” (27)
Hillary, Hillary, are you THE threat?
“I’m the most careless, don’t you forget!” (28)
Hillary, Hillary, can your recall?
“I can’t, my memory’s shot since I had my blood-clot.” (29)
Hillary, Hillary, how was your concussion?
“That’s sexist and bigoted, end of discussion.” (30)
Hillary, Hillary, why do you cough?
“I’m allergic to Trump. Now will you buzz off!” (31)
Hillary, Hillary, lost your devices?
“Who? Me? It depends. What do you devise a device is?” (32)
Hillary, Hillary, laundering money?
“I wipe it untraceable, isn’t it funny?” (33)
Hillary, Hillary, were you sedated?
“After the week I had, I felt deflated.” (34)
Hillary, Hillary, what’s with your eyes?
“Oh, nothing compared to my failures and lies.”(35)
Hillary, Hillary, will you be in jail?
“I always escape. I will not fail.”(36)
Hillary, Hillary, is your goose cooked?
“I’m too big to jail, for the White House I’m booked.” (37)
Hillary, Hillary, why so alone?
“Lost election and friends, I am bad to the bone.” (38)
Hillary, Hillary, who do you blame?
“The FBI, James Coney, the Russians, Vladimir Putin, ‘Anti-American forces’, low information voters, voters wanting change, Obama winning two terms, people assuming I’d win, misogynists, racists, homophobics, suburban white women, anti women’s reproductive rights groups, Christians still believing God’s word, misleading polling numbers, the vast right wing conspiracy paper ‘The New York Times’, television executives showing right wing bias, cable news, the right wing documentaries of netflix, democrats not making progressive documentaries, Facebook, Twitter, Wikileaks, Fake News, ‘Content farms in Macedonia’, hostile local news reporters, the Republican Party, the Democrat Party, and the DNC being so broke that I personally had to inject funds to get their full cooperation,
but not me, and not Trump, that’s a shame.”
(1) https://lenbilen.com/2016/01/05/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-aliens-aliens/
(2) https://lenbilen.com/2016/01/05/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-spirits-alive/
(6) https://lenbilen.com/2016/03/15/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-closing-the-coal-mines/
(7) https://lenbilen.com/2016/03/15/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillarys-memory/
(9) https://lenbilen.com/2016/03/18/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-hillary-hacked/
(10) https://lenbilen.com/2016/03/18/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-secure-borders/
(12) https://lenbilen.com/2016/04/18/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-crooked-hillary/
(13) https://lenbilen.com/2016/04/29/love-trumps-hate-one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme/
(15) https://lenbilen.com/2016/05/21/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-clinton-nursery-rhyme-losing-it/
(17) https://lenbilen.com/2016/05/23/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-the-fbi-men-cometh/
(18) https://lenbilen.com/2016/05/30/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillary-the-liar/
(19) https://lenbilen.com/2016/06/14/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillary-untouchable/
(21) https://lenbilen.com/2016/07/02/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-the-fbi-interview/
(22) https://lenbilen.com/2016/07/17/do-black-lives-matter-one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme/
(23) https://lenbilen.com/2016/08/03/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-her-love-for-dogs/
(24) https://lenbilen.com/2016/08/06/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillary-short-circuits/
(25) https://lenbilen.com/2016/08/08/5256/
(26) https://lenbilen.com/2016/08/18/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-is-is-wikileaks/
(27) https://lenbilen.com/2016/08/21/5317/
(31) https://lenbilen.com/2016/09/05/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-cough-cough/
(34) https://lenbilen.com/2016/09/18/5453/
(36) https://lenbilen.com/2016/10/10/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-jail-for-hillary/
(37) https://lenbilen.com/2016/10/29/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-cooked-goose/
(38) https://lenbilen.com/2017/01/01/one-more-verse-to-the-hillary-nursery-rhyme-hillary-left-alone/
The whole nursery rhyme: https://lenbilen.com/2015/05/17/hillary-clinton-as-a-nursery-rhyme/
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