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A Fun Political Quiz…how savvy are you? …

Listed below are 10 actual quotes. Try to guess which politician said them.

The choices are: Former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, Former Vice President, Dan Quayle, Current President, Barack Obama, Former President, George W. Bush  …

Ready? Here we go!

1) “Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s.” A. Barack Obama – B. Dan Quayle – C. Sarah Palin – D. George W. Bush

2) “I’ve now been in 57 states I think one left to go.” A. Barack Obama – B. Dan Quayle – C. Sarah Palin – D. George W. Bush


3) “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today.” A. Barack Obama – B. Dan Quayle – C. Sarah Palin – D. George W. Bush

4) “What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money, ‘but you know what? It would cost about the same as what we would spend. Over thecourse of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us. (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to. It. It would cost us about the
same as it would cost for about hold on one second. I can’t hear
myself. But I’m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad.”
A. Barack Obama – B. Dan Quayle – C. Sarah Palin – D. George W. Bush

5) “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.” A. Barack Obama – B. Dan Quayle – C. Sarah Palin – D. George W. Bush

6) “I bowled a 129. It’s like – it was like the Special Olympics, or something. A. Barack Obama – B. Dan Quayle – C. Sarah Palin – D. George W. Bush

7) “Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our
Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than
selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest court
are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who
appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying
principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most
difficult questions of our time.”
A. Barack Obama – B. Dan Quayle – C. Sarah Palin – D. George W. Bush

8) “Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the
emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking
up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave
them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a
breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven’t had much
sleep in the last 48 hours.”
A. Barack Obama – B. Dan Quayle – C. Sarah Palin – D. George W. Bush

9) “It was interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is
not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of I
don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing.”

A. Barack Obama – B. Dan Quayle – C. Sarah Palin – D. George W. Bush

10) “I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.” A. Barack Obama – B. Dan Quayle – C. Sarah Palin – D. George W. Bush

Each correct answer is the same person, ‘A’. Yes, all these quotes are directly out of the brain and through the lips of President Barack Obama. So now, we know why he brings his tele-prompter with him everywhere he goes … even when talking to a 6th grade class. And yet some members of the media continue to insist that he is, “The smartest man ever elected to the Presidency”. HA! HA! HA!

If Obama had such good grades, since he is so ‘brilliant’, why doesn’t he show us his academic transcripts? UMMM….

The race card…

???????????????????????????????I don’t like Obama, but that does not make me a ‘racist’. 

Obama and his lying, conning, Leviathan spinning minions need to stop using the race card. It’s been continually played, over-played and it is redundant, lowly and despicable. People like Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, ‘Rev’. Wright (Ha! …a
Reverend, really?)are sick in the head and make their living off of racism and hate. They continually project their own mind set onto every issue to incite and it’s for their gain, agenda and benefit. What are they, but … ‘ Racist Reverends’ who promote hate?…

I like some white people and don’t like some. I like some black people and don’t like others… and that is true for all races, nationalities and people.

Now ‘they’ are turning it on the white race. We are being targeted, harassed, bullied, lynched, vilified by the racist blacks…as political correctness and curtailment of free speech are used to eradicate freedom of choice and being used to beat us up and into submission. 

This despicable game where the race card is played over and over again, well, it’s time is up. Obama and his racist, bigoted agenda are taking us back to the dark ages.

Does anyone agree? Well, let me hear it…

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First President to…

 34 Month report Card; by Rich Carroll

Mr. ‘Hope and Change’ wants to create a nation humbled; humiliated, casting-aside capitalism and individual freedoms for one where we the people are government controlled. This would be a system that genuflects mediocrity, steals personal aspiration and opportunity, and punishes those who strive to succeed.


A gallon of regular gasoline the day Obama was inaugurated was $1.79 on average in the U.S. Today that price is $3.59, a 100.6% increase. The number of food stamp recipients has risen since Obama took office from 31,983,716 to 43,200,878, a 35.1% jump. Long term unemployment soared 146.2% during the same 34 month period from 2,600,000 to 6,400,000. Staggering hope and change isn’t it?

American citizens living in poverty have risen 9.5% from 39,800,000 to 43,600,000, and the number of unemployed has jumped almost 25% from 11,616,000 to 14,485,000 as of August 31, 2011. The number of unemployed blacks has risen from 12.6% at the end of George Bush’s term to 15.8% today, a 25.4% increase, and finally, our national debt is up 43.2% from 10.627 trillion to 15,022 trillion.

Keep these figures in mind as we recount the number of firsts for this presidency:

First President to refuse to show a valid birth certificate.
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit rating of the United States.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
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First President to defy a Federal Judges court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on shovel-ready jobs and later admit there was no such thing as shovel-ready jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions
.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
First President to encourage racial discrimination and intimidation at polling places.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly speak-out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state they are allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 Czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office.
First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to coddle American enemies while alienating Americas allies.
First President to go on multiple global apology tours.
First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends, paid for by the taxpayer.
First President to refuse to wear the U.S. Flag lapel pin.
First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000.00 a year at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Qur’an tells us, and openly admit the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

Remember that 34 months of Obama, we the people have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our nation’s entire history, as the Obama’s plan their next extravagant vacation to the Indonesian Island nation of Bali.
 
Remember, we hold a great deal of power…WE CAN VOTE and take America back to what it was meant to be and what our forefathers set forth..


Is what Obama is doing what you want for America and your life?
 
It’s time to STOP this destruction and corruption. Agree or not?… 

Do you see this happening?…

???????????????????????????????When you see that in order to produce you

need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money flows to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft then by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you…….you may know that your society is doomed.” Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged

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What is the definition of evil?…

???????????????????????????????A dictionary definition of evil is “morally reprehensible, sinful, wicked.” The definition of evil in the Bible falls into two categories: evil against one another (murder, theft, adultery) and evil against God (unbelief, idolatry, blasphemy). From the prohibition against eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:9), to the destruction of Babylon the Great, the embodiment of evil to come (Revelation 18:2), the Bible speaks of evil.

For many centuries Christians have struggled with both the existence and the nature of evil. Most people would acknowledge that evil is real and has always had devastating effects on our world. From the sexual abuse of children to the horrific terrorist attacks on 9/11, evil continues to rear its ugly head in our own time. Many people are left wondering what exactly is evil and why does it exist.

The existence of evil has been used as a weapon by opponents of theism-and Christian theism in particular-for some time. The so called “problem of evil” has been the subject of various arguments by atheists in an attempt to demonstrate that a God who is good simply cannot exist. By implying that God must be the creator of evil, God’s holy character has been called into question. There have been many arguments used to indict God as the cause of evil. Here is one of them:

1) God is the creator of everything that exists.
2) Evil exists.
3) Therefore, God is the creator of evil.

The logic of this syllogism is sound. The conclusion follows logically from the premises. But does this syllogism demonstrate that God is the creator of evil? The problem with this argument is its second premise, that evil is something. For evil is not a thing; it is a lack or privation of a good thing that God made.

As Christian philosopher J.P. Moreland has noted, “Evil is a lack of goodness. It is goodness spoiled. You can have good without evil, but you cannot have evil without good.”

Goodness has existed as an attribute of God from all eternity. While God is perfectly holy and just, He is also perfectly good. Just as God has always existed, so too has goodness as it is a facet of God’s holy character.

The same cannot be said for evil. Evil came into being with the rebellion of Satan and subsequently entered the physical universe with the fall of Adam. As Christian apologist Greg Koukl has said, “Human freedom was used in such a way as to diminish goodness in the world, and that diminution, that lack of goodness, that is what we call evil.”

When God created Adam, He created him good, and He also created him free.

However, in creating Adam free, God indirectly created the possibility of evil, while not creating evil itself. When Adam chose to disobey God, he made this possibility a reality. The same scenario had previously played out when Satan fell by failing to serve and obey God. So it turns out that evil is not a direct creation of God; rather, evil is the result of persons (both angelic and human) exercising their freedom wrongly.

While evil is certainly real, it is important to recognize that evil does not have existence in and of itself. Rather, it only exists as a privation (or a parasite) on the good. It exists in the same way that a wound exists on an arm or as rust exists on a car. The rust cannot exist on its own any more than cold can exist without the existence of heat or darkness can exist without the existence of light.

Despite the horrible effects of evil on our world, the Christian believer can take comfort in the words of the Lord Jesus Christ recorded for us in the Gospel of John, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). More importantly, we look forward with great anticipation to our home in heaven where the ultimate evil, death, will finally be destroyed along with the “mourning, crying and pain” which it inevitably produces (Revelation 21:4).

Friday April 13…watch…

To hear about what it is like to live under the rule of communism… forced to flee in fear of your life and to find freedom…
 
I was on the show with a longtime friend from Russia who has lived in America for 20 years. She shared her experience as did many others who came from communist, dictator- ruled countries. You will find their stories captivating… 

I was one of the few born in America on the show. I used to feel safe in America, but now I am feeling as the people shared on the show about how they felt in the countries that they left.

Our freedoms are being diminished daily, government control is taking over our lives. There is class warfare, race warfare, our media is corrupt. It’s agenda-filled and full of propaganda. We have no journalism. Our children are being brainwashed in school… they are being taught to believe in government and what they are told, instead of how to think for themselves. Capitalism is being vilified. Those who worked for and have success are being vilified.

People are being pented against one another… morals, values and standards being diminished. God is being diminished. Anti-Christ sentiments are infiltrating everything, privacy lost, freedom of speech controlled and agendafied…. all this and more is how a country is taken over with all individual rights taken and all freedoms are destroyed…

Nothing is really redistributed to the people. That is a fallacy that they ‘use’ to con. It is kept under the control of the ‘government’ and those who rule.

Truth is lie and lie is truth…for the purpose of rule, dominate and control by those who are in power….

An exceptional show… full of clear insights, information, and warnings as to what they experienced, and why they escaped to America… and sadly what they see is happening in America right now…

If America falls to socialism/communism… under the rule of a dictatorship… where else is there to go?

The show is Friday, April 13th, 4:00 central time on www.GBTV.com

It’s a must see and a good show to be viewed by those who can’t, won’t, or who are unable to see the truth in all the lies.

What is the ultimate betrayal?

cru6Is it if your husband, or wife has an affair? Is it if your sister has an affair with your husband?

Is it a President lying to the people and selling a country out? Is it a parent sexually abusing a child?  Is it any adult abusing a child?

Is it any lie?

Is it pretending to be something you aren’t  in order, to get, or to take something from someone?

Is it a husband gambling away all the family’s money? Is it a man fathering a child and denying its existence? Is it a mother having child after child with no knowledge of who their fathers are to gain money from the government? Is it a woman telling a man that she is pregnant to force him to marry her?

Is it killing another human being? Is it not wanting to hear the truth because then you would have to do something about the lie?  Is any lie a betrayal?

Is it telling someone that you love them for your own gain? Is it marrying someone for money? Is it saying the words, “I love you” to get sex?

Some definitions of betrayal:

1. a. To give aid or information to an enemy of; commit treason against: betray one’s country. b. To deliver into the hands of an enemy in violation of a trust or allegiance: betrayed Christ to the Romans.
2. To be false or disloyal to: betrayed their cause; betray one’s better nature.
3. To divulge in a breach of confidence: betray a secret.
4. To make known unintentionally: Her hollow laugh betrayed her contempt for the idea.
5. To reveal against one’s desire or will.
6. To lead astray; deceive.Is the ultimate betrayal, any evil, that intentionally hides itself in good?

So what, in your opinion, is the ultimate betrayal?…

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My beloved Dad died April 6th, 2012…

“Children observe who you really are, your actions and behaviors, not who you tell them that you are … observation is what molds them. Actions must back up words … or words become empty and meaningless…” Ann Dillard

My father does what he says. He leads mostly by example, but also by his words.  His words most always match his actions. He is not perfect, but he is someone to be admired for his accomplishments, his integrity, his persistence, his power to overcome obstacles and his faith. He has arrogance tempered with humility and a deep love for his family. He has a code of honor, and ethics and is a provider. As a young child, he recalls the depression and waiting in food lines.
 
At sixteen, he was recruited out of high school by the White Soxs to be a pitcher.
This gave him the financial resources to buy his parents a nice house. 

He went into the Navy, was injured and given a military discharge. He attended college, but after being in the service, was eager to get into the working world, so took an engineering exam and tested out higher than those with advanced degrees. He married my Mother and started his own company that did engineering work around the world.

As hobbies and investments, he has had planes, flown them, had ranches, raised cattle, had show horses, yachts, real-estate and much more. His mind, interests, curiosity and enthusiasm exposed his four daughters and three grandchildren to much. He has attained and enjoys the finest and instilled this in me.

He was married to my Mom for 55 years, until her death10 years ago. Watching my parents dance made my heart smile. He truly loved my Mother and this is so important for children to observe. They were truly soulmates. Dad, at the age of 16, saw her while on a train and told his friends that this was the girl that he would marry. And after three proposals, marry her he did.

There have been times that I got so angry at my Dad that I hated him. I screamed at him. I felt he was so hard on me. I am the first born and it seemed like I got the brunt of everything. He talked to me like a son. He would take me to school and tell me his plans and talk business. Little did I understand then that the wisdom that was being conveyed and instilled in me was imprinted in my character, and now, I am so grateful for those times and memories.

My Dad made all his plans happen and dreams come true. He said. “Stick with me babe and you will wear diamonds the size of acorns.” He accomplished all he set out to do.

He worked hard even with his back issues. He crossed picket lines in Alaska. I recall seeing him put on a gun to leave the house for the trip. At one time, he rolled the dice in Vegas to make his company payroll. He put his employees before himself, as a family, we did without, as his company grew and until there was an abundance of success.

He put a red bow on a Mustang at Christmas for me, when I was sixteen, then gave me a list of all the errands that I must do to help Mother out with my younger sisters. Mother admonished him, ‘let her enjoy her gift without all your demands and rules.’

When Mother was angry at me, she would state. “You are just like your father! A head as hard as a rock.” I replied back like a smarty pants teenager. “Thanks Mom!.”  Then she’d say in her fury.  “You are just like your Dad, amazing I was even involved in it.”

Dad and I butt heads alot because we are so much alike… I do have traits of my Mom, but mostly I am a Daddy’s girl…

The hard head that I got from my Dad, many times, has saved my life and given me the will to endure during all my life’s trials.

A few years back, I was engaged to a man whom my Dad really liked. He told this man that ‘I always tell the truth and that I am always right’, then the man told me. Hearing this blew me away, in that, Dad and I have times, when we argue lots, and I usually feel like he is trying to prove me wrong. 

Thank you Daddy for being my father, in all of whom you are, the good, and the bad examples and for instilling in me your strength, giving me your support, your traits and linage and for sharing the angel on your shoulder when I need it.

My Dad, a man of 6’2”  strong and fit… now, in his eighties and because of his back situation is in a wheel chair, but even being in a wheelchair, he is as tall and strong as he ever was as the essence of his character flows through him. 

Dad always says, “Your life can change in a moment, so don’t be down for long. Be happy!”

Daddy! I love you so very much….

Happy Father’s Day to all!

Fathers, everything that you are is your message and gift to your children…

Did you know?…

DidyouknAs you walk up the steps to the building, which Houses the U.S. Supreme Court, you can see near the top of the building a row of the world’s law givers, and each one is facing the one in the middle, who is facing forward with a full frontal view …

It is Moses and he is holding the
Ten Commandments!

Didyoukn1

DID YOU KNOW?

As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door.

Didyoukn2DID YOU KNOW?

As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court Judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!


Didyoukn3DID YOU KNOW?

There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington , D.C.

That is our real homeland security….

DID YOU KNOW?

James Madison, the fourth president, known as Didyoukn4‘The Father of Our Constitution’…Made the Following statement: We have staked the whole of all our political Institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to Govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to The Ten Commandments of God.”

Didyoukn5DID YOU KNOW?

Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.

DID YOU KNOW?

Fifty-two of the fifty-five founders of the Constitution were Members of the established Orthodox churches in the colonies.

DID YOU KNOW?
Didyoukn6Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would ‘overstep’ their authority, and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law an oligarchy: the rule of few over many.

How then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this Country is now suddenly wrong and Unconstitutional?

 Didyoukn8

This great country was built on The Holy Bible and belief in GOD!