Instead of Merry Christmas, happy holidays can be heard all across the nation. How sad for a nation that, as George Washington said, was “created by Divine Providence.”
For myself and my family this is the Christmas season where we celebrate the birth of Christ Jesus, the Anointed One of God, the Prince of Peace, the Rose of Sharon, the Savior of the World, the Son of God.
From Ronald Reagan,
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
“It was once wrong to use community groups such as ACORN to steal an election.” Herb London
Well not anymore! The late, great United States. Once a Constitutional Republic, goverened by the rule of law and statesmen that truly represented the people, is sliding into a socialist democracy where politicians steal their way into office.
From Mark Perry of Daily Markets - 22 Pounds Of UAW Work Rules And Regulations
Mark Perry has links to the actual documents. If you want to do some heavy reading click on the link. Frankly, I think the picture speaks for itself.
Complying to 22 Pounds of documents and UAW extortion amounts to $2000.00 addition cost for every vehicle that leaves a UAW controlled factory.
I was a member of the UAW for a period of time and from what I saw Union Dues just bought lots of trips to Atlantic City for the leaders of the Local UAW Union.
Watch the Tango smoke the Sexy Telsa - but man! Is it ugly?
Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia won by a 15% margin, Why? Chambliss: Republicans should return to Reaganism
The lesson for Republicans from his triumph is to return to Ronald Reagan’s basics. “And that is Republicans stand for, smaller government, fiscal responsibility, more individual rights and freedoms, and lower taxes. And we’ve got to get back to those fundamentals,” Chambliss said on Fox News Channel. “That’s what we talked about on the campaign trail and, obviously, it resonated with our constituents here.”
The reason I have considered myself an orphan, the country club Republicans think that moving toward the Democrats will win more votes. Wrong!
Congressman Louie Gohmert from Texas has a great idea for a Economic Stimulus package. A 2 month tax holiday where you keep your entire paycheck. No Income Tax, FICA or Medicare deducted from your pay check.
This is a GREAT idea! Contact your Congressional Representative and urge them to support this bill. If every American called, wrote, e-mailed their representative and asked that they support this effort they would have to get it done. We need new ideas. Not the old worn out ideas of the past. This is fresh and it would work.
Help me spread the word!
CONVERT PAULSON’S LAST $350 BILLION INTO TAX HOLIDAY, SAYS U.S. CONGRESSMAN
He stated, “By instating a temporary tax holiday, we could electrify the American economy and provide overwhelming relief to taxpayers, all for less than the cost of the current failed Paulson-Pelosi bailout system.”
“We need to give this money to the people who earned it. I am sick of Washington millionaires trying to decide which of their cronies should get the next wad of taxpayer money,” Rep. Louie Gohmert continued. “Think about how much you would have if you didn’t have any social security or income tax withheld from your pay check, or if you didn’t have to pay those taxes for January and February! Americans could take and invest their own money where they believe it should go - to paying down mortgages, buying a new car, making credit card payments. The economy would get relief where it is needed the most. Why try to decide how to prevent foreclosures? Just give taxpayers their own money to catch up on their payments. Those in lower income brackets who are hit the hardest by the FICA tax would see huge money back, and then THEY could choose who should benefit from their hard earned money. Even the self-employed and small business owners would receive a fantastic amount of their own much-needed money, and they will be able to invest that back into their businesses and even create the ability to hire more people.”
Gohmert is currently preparing a bill to declare the tax holiday for January and February of 2009 and is also gathering support at the same time. He said, “We can save more home mortgages, increase employment, and boost economic growth for a lower price tag with this plan than with any centralized bureaucratic program, all by giving the power back to the taxpayers. I am demanding that not another penny goes to executive bailouts, but these billions of taxpayer dollars should go to the taxpayers who earned them.”
Today is Lou Rawls birthday. When I was a young man Lou Rawls was playing on every juke box and radio station in town. He was an incredible talent and truly enjoyed his craft. This is Lou at his best…
There were 2 positive stories on American Soldiers in the blogsphere this week.
From Joshuapundit, American Warriors In Afghanistan Through French Eyes
Here’s a first hand account of our warriors in Afghanistan, written by a French OMLT (Operational Mentoring Liaison Teams) infantryman serving with them:
“And they are impressive warriors ! We have not come across bad ones, as strange at it may seem to you when you know how critical French people can be. Even if some of them are a bit on the heavy side, all of them provide us everyday with lessons in infantry know-how. Beyond the wearing of a combat kit that never seem to discomfort them (helmet strap, helmet, combat goggles, rifles etc.) the long hours of watch at the outpost never seem to annoy them in the slightest. On the one square meter wooden tower above the perimeter wall they stand the five consecutive hours in full battle rattle and night vision goggles on top, their sight unmoving in the directions of likely danger. No distractions, no pauses, they are like statues nights and days. At night, all movements are performed in the dark - only a handful of subdued red lights indicate the occasional presence of a soldier on the move. Same with the vehicles whose lights are covered - everything happens in pitch dark even filling the fuel tanks with the Japy pump.
And combat ? If you have seen Rambo you have seen it all - always coming to the rescue when one of our teams gets in trouble, and always in the shortest delay. That is one of their tricks : they switch from T-shirt and sandals to combat ready in three minutes. Arriving in contact with the ennemy, the way they fight is simple and disconcerting : they just charge ! They disembark and assault in stride, they bomb first and ask questions later - which cuts any pussyfooting short.”
Another from Powerline, A Good Day for the Marine Corps
The biggest thing to take from that day is what Marines can accomplish when they’re given the opportunity to fight,” the sniper said. “A small group of Marines met a numerically superior force and embarrassed them in their own backyard. The insurgents told the townspeople that they were stronger than the Americans, and that day we showed them they were wrong.”
During the battle, the designated marksman single handedly thwarted a company-sized enemy RPG and machinegun ambush by reportedly killing 20 enemy fighters with his devastatingly accurate precision fire. He selflessly exposed himself time and again to intense enemy fire during a critical point in the eight-hour battle for Shewan in order to kill any enemy combatants who attempted to engage or maneuver on the Marines in the kill zone. What made his actions even more impressive was the fact that he didn’t miss any shots, despite the enemies’ rounds impacting within a foot of his fighting position.
“I was in my own little world,” the young corporal said. “I wasn’t even aware of a lot of the rounds impacting near my position, because I was concentrating so hard on making sure my rounds were on target.”
After calling for close-air support, the small group of Marines pushed forward and broke the enemies’ spirit as many of them dropped their weapons and fled the battlefield. At the end of the battle, the Marines had reduced an enemy stronghold, killed more than 50 insurgents and wounded several more.
“I didn’t realize how many bad guys there were until we had broken through the enemies’ lines and forced them to retreat. It was roughly 250 insurgents against 30 of us,” the corporal said. “It was a good day for the Marine Corps. We killed a lot of bad guys, and none of our guys were seriously injured.
Don’t rely on Lamestream Media to report any of this. They won’t!
Looks like the sky is the limit. Throw the doors open and let’s plunder the US Treasury.
More money for Citibank, U.S. brings support, but not clarity, to Citibank
Only a week after Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr. said that the government bailouts had stabilized the most important financial institutions, plunging stock prices forced it to step in again, both to make another direct investment and to guarantee that losses would be contained from $306 billion in possibly toxic assets on Citigroup balance sheet.
The government injected an additional $20 billion into Citigroup, on top of the $25 billion it invested in the bank a few weeks ago.
It also said that it would cover 90 percent of the losses on those $306 billion in securities after Citigroup suffers the first $29 billion of losses.
Oh wait there’s more! Democrats’ Stimulus Plan May Reach $700 Billion
That amount, more than the nation has spent over the past six years in Iraq, would rival the sum Congress committed last month to rescuing the country’s financial system. It would also be one of the biggest public spending programs aimed at jolting the economy since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Obama seems to think the economy needs a jolt. Where will it end?
WOW
Gas from $1.34 to $1.37
A Gallon
The cheepest places in the US to buy gas were Webster TX, Independence, MO and Graniteville, SC
From almost $4.00 to $1.34 a gallon once the election was over. Was oil manipulated to destroy the United States economy in the run up to the election. I am highly supicious.
A long time ago a group of “plumbers” broke into a Washington hotel to get some dirt on another politician, they received jail time and a President resigned. Ohio officials illegally reveal information about an American citizen and they get a 2 - 4 week vacation. If they were Republicans the press would still be demanding justice.
See National Review Online, 4 More Punished over ‘Joe the Plumber’ Searches, sorry, no criminal charges and everybody keeps their job.
From my history lessons, the Soviet Union wanted its satellite states to be a buffer against another Blitzkrieg attack on Russia from Europe. Condi Rice is really pushing the envelope when she wants to place anti missile systems in countries bordering Russia. It’s one thing to try to contain the bear but it’s really not a good idea to poke the bear and expect to escape unscathed. In the Reuters story. “Russia rejects U.S. missile proposals” the bear responds.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said last week he planned to deploy missile systems near Poland’s border in retaliation for U.S. plans to install elements of the proposed missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
It goes on…
Washington says the shield is needed to protect the United States against missile strikes from what it calls rogue states, specifically Iran.
“We’ve been very clear with regards to the intent and purpose of the missile defense site in Europe and what it’s designed for and have offered any number of ways and means to mitigate some of the Russian concerns,” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters
He said Iran’s announcement on Wednesday that it had test-fired a new generation of surface-to-surface missile was another reminder of the importance of establishing the shield, “to defend the U.S. and Europe against a threat that is developing in Iran.”
Do you think Iran would be so stupid to launch a missile against the United States or Europe? If Iran attacks us it will be a bomb on a ship, truck or airplane in a major US city, certainly not by a missile that can be tracked back to Iran.
Update - Related Stories
Russia to Help Venezuela Develop Nuclear Energy
Chavez Says Russian Warships Arriving Soon
Russian Warships Approach Venezuela Under US Gaze
US to Watch Russian-Venezuelan Maneuvers ‘Very Closely’
Has Cold War II started as Russia pushes further into the Western Hemisphere? Chavez is the new Cuba and we are on the way to a new crisis on our Southern Border.
I had seen this a while back and thought it was a great idea. Now it will be a reality in a few years. If you have ever seen the land fill on the Florida Turnpike near Ft. Lauderdale this is an incredible technology. It’s a plant that consumes garbage and produces enough electricity to power 50,000 homes. When the process is complete the garbage is consumed and the only thing left is a glass block which could probably be used for construction. Mike Chino at Inhabitat has the details. “Plasma Plants Will Vaporize Trash While Generating Energy”
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The Democrat and Republicans In Name Only, (RINO)s, have lost touch with the American People. They have become the political elite and We the People have become "fly-over country." I am not a Nazi, a terrorist, a member of the KKK, a racist, or a member of an angry mob. I'm not a birther, teabagger, truther or astroturfer. I do, however believe in the original intent of the Founding Fathers, the United States Constituton and the rule of law. I believe that Government should serve the People, not the other way around. I’m an American and conservative to my very core.
I feel like an orphan.
An American Political Orphan.
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