Obama and Muslim Faith

I think it's important we understand where Oama is coming from when it concerns faith.  We, those that believe in Christianity and the excellence of the United States, must find a way to minimize his affect on the American culture for the next two and a half years.  Though I'd like to see him impeached and gone tomorrow it won't happen.  The Republicans are so fearful that any criticism of Obama will backfire on them that it virtually makes Obama into an untouchable holy man.

Following is an Obama quote made to a group of Muslims last Sunday in the White House.  It's taken from the MadWorldNews blog:

As Muslims throughout the United States and around the world celebrate Eid-al-Fitr, Michelle and I extend our warmest wishes to them and their families.  This last month has been a time of fasting, reflection, spiritual renewal, and service to the less fortunate.  While Eid marks the completion of Ramadan, it also celebrates the common values that unite us in our humanity and reinforces the obligations that people of all faiths have to each other, especially those impacted by poverty, conflict, and disease.

In the United States, Eid also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.  That is why we stand with people of all faiths, here at home and around the world, to protect and advance their rights to prosper, and we welcome their commitment to giving back to their communities.  On behalf of the Administration, we wish Muslims in the United States and around the world a blessed and joyous celebration.  Eid Mubarak.”

Following is an editorial comment by MadWorldNews:

Since he’s taken office, Obama has made it a tradition to annually celebrate Ramadan at the White House and has increased the focus on the Muslim faith, while downplaying the Christian faith. For a man that claims he is a Christian, why would he go out of his way to celebrate another religion’s main holy day?

We’re all used to the continual pandering and glorification of Islam by this man. But to actually say that Muslims have built the fabric of our nation is absolutely preposterous. 

I would further suggest that Obama provide proof of contributions the Muslim faith has made to the United States of America.

ISIS

Amazing!

I find it utterly mind boggling that a terrorist group like ISIS can over run and dominate one-third of Iraq, a large country, in three weeks and threatens the capitol city, Bagdad..  Yet,  the United States with all its military supremacy and diplomatic acumen was unable to control Iraq after ten years of warfare.  ISIS is not a nation.  It has no formal government.  It has no diplomatic corps.  It has no relations with the United Nations.

So, what's going on here?

Why Government Must Be Run by Republicans

Why must our government be run by Republicans?

Because, the news media, the Fourth Estate, is so liberal and so in the pockets of the liberal Democrats that they are lapdogs that parrot whatever is the liberal Democrat Party line.  Thus, the citizens get only the bias of the Democrat spin on issues and policies, and never the actual truth of the matter.

Whereas, if the Republican Party is in control of all branches of government the liberal news media would be all over them on every issue, every policy, every dereliction of duty, every scandal and every everything, thus they could never get by with anything.  So, the citizens would know about every tidbit of malfeasance of government committed by the Republicans.  This would keep the Republicans and thus the government in line.  The Republican run government would be paranoid with fear the news media would eviscerate them if they even vaguely attempted to do something unseemly.  Thus, they would be honest and truthful.

I should live so long.

NFL Player Beating Up Girl Friend

Am I out of step with the times, or what?

A hotel security camera showed NFL player Ray Rice beating up his girl friend in an elevator and dragging her out the door.  The NFL gives him a slap on the wrist.  Coach Harbaugh says its no big deal.  The news media goes into a frenzy.

Now don't get me wrong.  I don't approve of beating up women in elevators, or elsewhere.  But, the young lady has since married good old Ray.  Obviously, she doesn't think it is such a big deal else she wouldn't have married the guy.  So why is the news media bent into a pretzel over it?  Aren't there more important things to get excited about?

Illegal Immigrant Children

Today on FoxNews  the liberal voice, Kirsten Powers, said the illegal immigrant children are refugees and are being placed with families already here, and therefore are not a cost to the American taxpayers.

Kirsten is so open-minded her brains have fallen out.  Those families already here are for the most part illegal immigrants themselves and most are on some form of welfare.  Adding additional members to the already here families is just more mouths to be fed by the taxpayers.

Yesterday while driving to Bryan/College Station my wife and I heard on the radio that in Dallas only 2 of the scheduled 20 illegal immigrant children showed up in court for their hearing.  What does that tell us?

Truth in High Demand

So, today Obama meets with the "presidents" of Honduras, San Salvador, and Guatemala.  I wonder how many more $millions he will promise them to "call off the dogs?"  I also wonder just exactly where will all those $millions go and for what?  Obama is well known for his loose play with the truth, so I wonder if he will actually deliver?  Also, will they deliver?  I think we're on shaky ground here with one that plays fast and loose with the truth and those that ignore or twist the truth to suit they own particular needs.

Truth today is in short supply, and according to the laws of supply and demand there is an excessively high demand for the truth.

Lies, and then more lies

The problem with lying is you then have to lie to cover up the lie, and then lie more to cover those lies.  After a while it becomes impossible to remember which lie is which and which lie was to cover what lie.  You are soon caught up in a web of lies with no way out as the spider lurks on the outer edge.

Trust suffers when government lies, and when trust is at risk it becomes very difficult to govern effectively.  Our government is loosing creditability daily because it has become so caught up in a plethora of lies it can no longer govern in a manner that serves the nation's best interests.  Our "friends" at the IRS are so caught up in their web of lies they may some day be forced by legal action to tell the truth.

The best policy is to tell the truth, thus you don't have to remember all your lies.

James Garner

In my lifetime I've had two memorable brushes with Hollywood celebrities.  One was with James Garner and the other Jane Mansfield which is another story.

It was with some sad note that I read about the death of James Garner at age 86.  He is only eight months older than I am.  My only encounter with him was early in life before he was a movie star and then only for a number of brief intense moments for about an hour during a football game played in Norman, Oklahoma, in the Fall of 1945.

James Bumgarner (James Garner) played football for Norman High School.  I played football for Classen High School which was in the same conference with Norman.  James played guard.  I played guard.  In those days according to the rules we played both offense and defense which means James and I butted heads a number of times during the game.  I recall that he was a lanky hard-hitting guy with a big mouth.  There has always been a certain amount of "conversation" on the playing field among the opposing players, but James carried it to a higher level.  I also had a few choice words for him as we looked eyeball-to-eyeball across the scrimmage line.

All the news account I read Saturday said he quit high school at age16 and joined the Merchant Marine.  That would have been in 1944.  But, he didn't last long because of a susceptibility to sea sickness.  I was beginning to think maybe my memory of playing against him was wrong until I ran across this blurb on one of the Internet websites:

At seventeen, he joined his father in Los Angeles and enrolled at Hollywood High School, where he was voted the most popular student.  A high school gym teacher recommended him for a job modeling Jantzen bathing suits.  It paid $25 an hour, but in his first interview for the Archives of American Television, he said he hated modeling; he soon quit and returned to Norman.  There he played football and basketball for Norman High School.

James became age seventeen April 7, 1945.  Since he returned to Norman and played football it had to be the Fall of 1945.  It was James Bumgarner I played against.

He played in a number of movies and television programs, the most notable being the Rockford Files.  I always liked James Garner.  He had a unique style that you couldn't help but like him.  I wish I could have known him in later life and reminisced with him about our youthful days playing football.  He is sorely missed.  He was one of a kind, one you seldom ever meet.  Unlike most movie stars he was married to the same woman 55 years.

Farewell, my friend.  Maybe we'll soon see each other over there.



 

Lincoln's most relevant quote

Today I watched a Ken Burns Civil War documentary on PBS-TV.   During one of the segments a narrator stated that In April 1862, a low point for the Union campaign, Lincoln was being besieged by numerous individuals seeking appointment to various lucrative positions within the administration.  One day in frustration Lincoln said, "There's too many pigs for the tits."

I believe that is just as relevant today as it was in 1862, if not more so.  The sow has just so many tits.

When I was 12 years old I was in 4-H.  My dad gave me an old sow hog for my 4-H project.  She had 12 piglets.  Too many.  She ate four of them and raised eight, a more reasonable number for the available number of tits.

I believe the time has come when the old sow (federal government) needs to eat several of the piglets to get to a number more in keeping with the number of available tits.  

The difference between Putin and Obama

The big difference between Putin and Obama is Putin is no moron.  Gov. Perry of Texas may well have had it right when he said, "Obama is either inept or he has some other intent in mind."  I think it is a full measure of both.

Putin fully understands power politics and how it is  effectively exercised by the use of military might.  Obama doesn't have the slightest clue about power politics and how it is effectively utilized through military strength.  Therefore, he dithers and talks, and talks, and, talks.  Or, rather, he mostly blandly reads what is on the teleprompter.  In Texas we have an expression for someone that is all talk.  We say, "He is all hat."  The way to tell a true Texas cattleman is to look at his boot heels.  If you see traces of cow manure he is for real.  Obama steps in it a lot, but it isn't cow manure.  It is of his own making.

Fundraiser-in-Chief

Every time there is a crisis Obama dashes off to a fundraiser.  Benghazi and the next day he went to Las Vegas for a fundraiser.  Immigration crisis on the southern border and he goes to a fundraiser in Texas.  A commercial airplane with 23 Americans on board is shot down over Ukraine by a missile and he went to a fundraiser in New York.  He has gone to 395 fundraisers during the 6 years he has been in office.  Thats a fundraiser about every 6 days on average.  Small wonder he never has time to govern.  He loves the adulation.  He loves the sound of his voice.  He dithers.  A lady pundit on TV this evening said he doesn't act until gangrene sets in.  So true.  

Utter Astonishment and Woeful Distress

I find it utterly astonishing and woefully distressing that the supposedly strongest nation in the world is hamstrung as it helplessly wrings its hands and dithers while the drug cartels openly control what happens along our southern border.

Something is wrong with this picture.  Is something sinister going in our own backyard on that we don't know about?

So, what's changed?

When I was 15 years old I got my first job where I actually got a paycheck.  I was paid the then minimum wage of 40 cents an hour.  Previously, I had worked only at miscellaneous jobs where I was paid the full amount.  I was shocked when I received my first weekly paycheck.  It was not the full amount.  I had worked 40 hours at 40 cents an hour and expected my check to be $16.00.  But, much to my chagrin it was something less.  My first experience with income tax and FICA deductions.

At the time gasoline was 20 cents (actually 19.9) a gallon.  I had to work an hour to buy two gallons of gasoline.  Today, the minimum wage is $7.25.  A gallon of gasoline is about $3.50 a gallon.  A person working at the minimum wage has to work an hour to buy two gallons of gasoline.

So, what has changed?  INFLATION.

Our government continues to print money to pay its ever increasing insatiable diet for spending for ever increasing social programs for ever increasing numbers of people on government dependency.  We are now $17 trillion in debt and digging a deeper hole by the day.  What will the minimum wage be 50 years from now and what will a gallon of gasoline cost?   I shudder to think.

Invasion by an army of kids

We're being invaded by a foreign power.  Not by soldiers, but by thousands of kids.  We have no idea where these kids come from.  You can rest assured that regardless of where they come from they have been  thoroughly schooled in the proper answers to questions asked by the American authorities.  Rest assured many are from Mexico but have been told to say San Salvador or Guatemala.  Many look to be older but rest assured they have been told to say they are age sixteen. They've been told to say they are homeless refugees.  Some adults some where have been behind the transport of these kids to the border.  Four or five year old kids just don't travel on their own 1200 miles from San Salvador, across the full breath of Mexico, and then find their way across the Rio Grande.

These kids did not just suddenly show up.  There has been a well organized effort going on for some time to organize and execute a series of plans to inundate and overwhelm the American authorities on the border with these kids, and I suspect the Obama administration is behind it.  It's right out of the Saul Alinsky game plan book.

Talk is Cheap

I was tearing old newspapers into strips to wad up and use to start a charcoal fire to grill a nice T-bone for our 4th of July dinner.  A front page headline in the December 17, 2012 issue of the local newspaper caught my eye.  It read, "Obama grieves, promises to use power to help."  The Newtown, Conn. (AP) article went on to report President Barack Obama declared Sunday he will use whatever power he has to prevent shootings like the Connecticut school massacre.  The article continued, "What choice do we have?" Obama said at an evening vigil in the shattered community of Newtown, Conn.  "Are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard?".

Fast forward a year and seven months to July, 2014.  Honestly, is there anything the most powerful man in the world with his pen and his cellphone has done to alleviate the problem?

He's all hat!

Illegal Mass Immigration and Diseases

In my life time (85 years) we in the United States have virtually wiped out many common diseases.  When I was a 6 year old kid I had a painful smallpox vaccination in my left arm.  I bear a scar from that to this day.  Today smallpox is unheard of.  I recall that a few years ago a foreign seaman on a foreign flag ship docked in the Houston ship channel.  The man was deathly ill and taken to a local hospital.  None of the staff could determine the nature of his illness.  It was only when an old time doctor looked at the man and instantly diagnosed it as smallpox.  The disease has been so controlled that it is no longer a health threat to Americans.  But, Wait!!  That is about to change, and not for the good.

These mass illegal immigrations of children and young people across the Southern Border being dispersed all over the country without proper and adequate health and medical screening is tantamount to a foreign enemy loosing germ warfare on our nation.  This will be a long term health issue that will cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives over the next 85 years.  These kids, like most kids, are little walking germ incubators and those with illnesses will spread various communicable diseases across the nation infecting our legal citizens, especially the children.

Who and what kind of person would let loose such a hazard to the citizens of our nation?  Thanks, Barack Hussein Obama!  It will take a long time to recover from the havoc you have unleashed on this wonderful nation called The United States of America.

Following is a link that further describes the impending hazards of this illegal immigration to our national health and well being.

http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/savage-media-hiding-illegal-alien-disease-threat/ 

Contraceptives and Body Control

I have a lot of trouble getting my head wrapped around the notion that taxpayer paid contraceptives gives a woman control of her body.  Seems to me control would be the ability to say, "No!"