Filioque—what separates the Eastern and Western churches

The Roman Catholic catechism has a 2 paragraph footnote in the explanation of the Trinity, (Article 1, Paragraph 2,  243, )which explains the rift between the Eastern and Western churches.

245 The apostolic faith concerning the Spirit was confessed by the second ecumenical council at Constantinople (381): "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father." By this confession, the Church recognizes the Father as "the source and origin of the whole divinity". But the eternal origin of the Spirit is not unconnected with the Son's origin: "The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is God, one and equal with the Father and the Son, of the same substance and also of the same nature... Yet he is not called the Spirit of the Father alone,... but the Spirit of both the Father and the Son." The Creed of the Church from the Council of Constantinople confesses: "With the Father and the Son, he is worshipped and glorified."

246 The Latin tradition of the Creed confesses that the Spirit "proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque)". The Council of Florence in 1438 explains: "The Holy Spirit is eternally from Father and Son; He has his nature and subsistence at once (simul) from the Father and the Son. He proceeds eternally from both as from one principle and through one spiration. ... And, since the Father has through generation given to the only-begotten Son everything that belongs to the Father, except being Father, the Son has also eternally from the Father, from whom he is eternally born, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son."

247 The affirmation of the filioque does not appear in the Creed confessed in 381 at Constantinople. But Pope St. Leo I, following an ancient Latin and Alexandrian tradition, had already confessed it dogmatically in 447, even before Rome, in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon, came to recognize and receive the Symbol of 381. The use of this formula in the Creed was gradually admitted into the Latin liturgy (between the eighth and eleventh centuries). The introduction of the filioque into the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed by the Latin liturgy constitutes moreover, even today, a point of disagreement with the Orthodox Churches.

248 At the outset the Eastern tradition expresses the Father's character as first origin of the Spirit. By confessing the Spirit as he "who proceeds from the Father", it affirms that he comes from the Father through the Son. The Western tradition expresses first the consubstantial communion between Father and Son, by saying that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque). It says this, "legitimately and with good reason", for the eternal order of the divine persons in their consubstantial communion implies that the Father, as "the principle without principle", is the first origin of the Spirit, but also that as Father of the only Son, he is, with the Son, the single principle from which the Holy Spirit proceeds. This legitimate complementarity, provided it does not become rigid, does not affect the identity of faith in the reality of the same mystery confessed.

I hope that’s clear. . . because it split the church forever, and all Protestants (who use the Nicene creed) follow the Western tradition. Even the most devout Christian has difficulty explaining the Trinity, and this makes it even more difficult. If you’re looking for age (tradition), then that would be the Eastern church, but the Magisterium would decide for filioque.

 

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From a great Republican

Did anyone in America fall for this?

President Obama sent Susan Rice out to defend his false story about a spontaneous mob reacting to a video so he could cover up that his battle against al-qaeda is not being won, and that the CIA was moving arms to Syria from Libya.  When word came out that she might become Secretary of State, and people obviously remember what she did in September, of course there’s grumbling. Hero Obama to the rescue.

“Don’t pick on the little lady.

Wednesday, President Obama bizarrely cast the U.N. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, as some delicate flower the boys should stop picking on for her dissembling claims on five Sunday talk shows following the killing of 4 Americans in Benghazi. But, there is no damsel in distress and Obama’s paternalistic bravado in defense of a top administration official is going to come back to haunt him.”

Kirsten Powers

Deflect, evade, sneer, whine, blame.  It’s getting very old. Can’t this man ever act (pretend) presidential? Even people (some who read this blog) who voted for him realize what is going on.

Thursday Thirteen—what I uncovered in my office

Today we’re having new carpet installed in my home office and the stairs to the upper level and the lower level and the upstairs hall (same pattern).  But everything had to be moved out of the office (not things on the wall shelves).  To move the desk, everything had to be taken out of the drawers and I found a rolling 25 gallon tub for that. To move a 3 shelf unit for photo albums, all had to be moved.  The computer, modem, wifi, phone, etc. had to relocated temporarily. It’s just amazing what turns up in a move—even a move from the office to the dining room.

1.  A birthday letter to me from my mother from 1996.  She died in 2000, and I didn’t pack away that letter, but wasn’t real sure where it was.   Like having her here to tell me about the day of my birth and why my nickname was “Peachy.” 

2.  Lots of homemade cards from my friend Lynne.  We’ve been friends since high school.  I have a scrap book for her cards and poetry, but somehow a little sack of them stayed behind in my desk.

3.  A box of note cards with a Frank Lloyd Wright design, plus lots of miscellaneous cards, many as mementoes from museums and travels, from the days when I did less e-mail and more personal notes.

4.  A little stamp with my name on it from when I was a Slavic language cataloger at the University of Illinois library. I think the main entry card was stamped with the cataloger’s name in case there was a problem.

5.  A set of weights my daughter gave me for Christmas 2 years ago, 3 lb.., 5 lb., 8 lb.  Almost like new.  They were hard to move.

6.  The first issue of George magazine.  I collect first issues of serials, and this one didn’t get into the storage box when I rearranged my collection 2 years ago.

7.  Scissors for crafts.  Zig zag, shaped patterns, etc.  I’m not crafty, so not sure why I bought them. It was probably either a good deal or I had a flash of ambition that dissipated before I got home.

8.  Pennies, twisty ties,paper clips, mystery keys to suitcases I no longer have and rubber bands too brittle to use.

9.  A letter with the last 41 cent postage stamp on it (I’d made a note on the envelope).

10. A photo of my sister and me from 2002 printed from my computer, but I don’t seem to have either a digital copy or print of it.

11. Lots of carefully saved instructions, guarantees, warranties, for digital stuff I almost never use or have replaced.

12. A very nice, never used color coded notebook with 3 x 5 cards. 

13. A faded poem on yellow lined paper from my husband written in 1960 on the anniversary of our first date.  It was probably in the desk because I repacked that box of memorabilia when we moved here, and so it surfaced 11 years later.

If you’d like to play Thursday Thirteen, or read along, you can join in.

Warming has stopped—but not the debates

“The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week.

The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.

This means that the ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996. Before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years. “

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html#ixzz2CIeSq5l4

Climate change was not an issue during the campaign, for either candidate, but we can expect Obama to dust off the issue, even with the reports that warming has stopped. He needs to grovel for his base left.

Questions I’d like to have answered by the Congressional investigation

‎1) Who denied the help, 2) who started the spin about the video, 3) who benefits from the cover up, and 4) why is the CIA in Libya funneling weapons to Syria? These are questions I'd like to have answered by the investigation, but I know they won't be, and even if they were, Obama would find a way to blame someone else.  The only time this man wants to be out of the spotlight is when the buck is trying to stop.  The sex story of Petraeus, Broadwell, Kelly, Allen, Kelly’s sister, and the FBI guy is complicated and morphing—it perhaps needs a different investigation.  And this isn’t for the investigation, but are they showing “fat” photos of Hillary, or has she really gained that much weight? Maybe she needs fewer parties and more attention to what her people are doing?

How to lose the race

If you're competing in a horse race, and one of the horses has a better record, better sire and dam, better trainer, and is stronger, it's only fair to the other horses and owners to put him in hobbles to run the race. If Obama owns the track.

The cover up may involve sex, and it looks like national security too

Too bad there is no journalist or TV reporter who could look into the implications. Jill’s twin sister, Natalie and her child custody case,is really one of the more interesting sub-texts of this mess, which no one on reality TV or the Soaps would even attempt. http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/14/jill-ted-petraeus-scandal-infographic/

And you thought the battle would end with recognizing gay marriage?

Our church is no longer a member of ELCA, but when we pulled out, it wasn’t exactly about “gay marriage” because that hasn’t yet been voted on.  The issue which had been voted down since 1988, but approved in 2008, was that three ordained and licensed homosexual pastors wanted to be open about their partners, but when they signed on they had agreed to be celibate.  There are very naïve Christians out there who think if we just make a concession that only love and personal commitment matter, then we can get on with the business of the Gospel.  However, it’s not quite that simple, because other groups like polygamists, man/boy love and incest groups are waiting in the wings also asking for the church to give them its blessing, because really, doesn’t God just care about love, not the gender, the age, or the number?

Today at Dear Prudence (Slate) I read one I’d simply never thought of:  twin gay brothers in a committed homosexual relationship with each other.  The advice columnist saw no problem, nor did their counselor, because even the men thought it was a little odd, and hadn’t told their parents, who knew they were gay but wondered why they hadn’t found a permanent partner.

This, dear Christian brothers and sisters, is where you are heading. 

Stocks slumping, layoffs jumping

All because businesses preferred Romney.

Layoffs can be found at dailyjobcuts.com, which is updated daily, and unless you were watching before Nov.6 it might be hard to gauge. However, we know many employers were waiting to see if Romney could kill Obamacare, and thus save jobs. But one I saw I think predates the election, or at least there were rumors. and that's layoffs at Southern Illinois University. Many colleges are over staffed, and have whopping pensions to pay off. Illinois is in deep doo-doo with all gov't associated programs and unions, and we've elected one of them to mess up the rest of the states.

http://thesouthern.com/news/local/siu-layoffs-possible-in-january/article_46eccbae-2ee5-11e2-997c-001a4bcf887a.html

SIU is facing the prospect of covering more employee pension costs under a deal Gov. Pat Quinn wants finished by early January. In addition, sequestration measures that might happen if the federal government pitches over the “fiscal cliff” could severely cripple research and student aid funding.

Did she hid them In her socks?

“The FBI found a substantial amount of classified information improperly secured on the personal computer of disgraced CIA director Gen. David Petraeus’ mistress, sources said yesterday.

The files were discovered on a machine removed from Paula Broadwell’s Charlotte, NC, home as the feds investigated her sordid affair with the military commander whose biography she co-wrote.

Investigators also found documents Broadwell admitted taking from secure government buildings, a source told ABC News, adding the government demanded that they all be returned.”

How did this man ever manage something as complicated as the “surge” if he can’t stay out of messes like this?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/paula_had_top_secrets_WukhCN61iSxyauU5ErBAtK

Remember David Gergen of the Clinton WH said Sandy Berger hiding classified documents in his socks was innocent, too.

Imagine if we had a press corps like Bush had !

The Libya mess expands and morphs

The White House (Jarrett, Obama, Clinton, Rice, etc.) decided to go into Libya without Congressional approval or knowledge. It blew up in their faces. Now they lie, cover up and play musical chairs with positions close to the president. I’m looking for a story link about how effective representative government is during an Obama term.  Have you got any? One?

The minority Republican says . . .

“I can understand the peoples support for the Democrat Party. Much of what they say they stand for sounds moral and compassionate, especially concerning the poor and minority populations. Yet, my convictions and research eventually led me to reject the Democrat ideology, preferring to side with people and political parties more aligned with the morals and values consistent with my Christian faith.

I used to be a Democrat, but I am no longer. I am a registered Republican. Not because I thought the Republican Party was so righteous, but because there came a time in my life as a Democrat, that I could no longer reconcile my politics and my faith.”

“. . . The primary reasons why I reject the Democrat platform is because it has within it the most immoral and ungodly principles to guide this nation. Our preference for this course for our nation is a sure sign that we as a nation have not rejected the Republican Party, per se, but we have rejected God. Just like in the days of Samuel, when the Israelites demanded that Samuel “appoint them a king,” God told Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me.”

. . . “But the reason I choose not to vote Democrat has little to do with the fact that they are the party of Jim Crow and the KKK, but that today they are on the wrong side of the EVERY ISSUE that matters to me most. “Choice,” “Reproductive Rights,” “Marriage Equality,” “Fair Share,” are all repackaged code names for the same age old sins: “child-killing,” “sodomy,” and “covetousness.” Nothing new under the sun.

http://minorityrepublican.com/2012/11/11/post-election-rant/    You might enjoy reading her entire essay. . . or maybe not.  If you want to write to her about being a hater, racist, homophobe, etc., you’ll have  to register.

This chart scares 50% of the electorate

The other 50% are Obama voters.  Good luck, Boomers.

Still covering for a man

Compromise

Listening to the Great Divider give first news conference in 8 months

It's tragic that so many Americans fall for the line--"tax the rich," not to help the country, but because it's "fair."  The richest already pay much more—and they are the job creators.  Obama wants that money.  Today he was just defensive and nasty especially about Susan Rice and her deception about the video. I turned it off after about 15 minutes.  Obama whips up class envy. He's a divider, not a unifier. We do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. The only years that match 2012 are those of 2011 and 2010—all Obama.    If you've ever had a problem with a budget, didn't you cut up the credit cards and cut back on extras?  But that's not how the federal government does it.  It recruits more people for food stamps and adds expensive programs like Obamacare and adds regulations that destroy jobs so more people can become dependent on the government.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/11/14/live-blog-the-obama-press-conference/

More war on women revealed—after the election

“The federal government has cut the size of its police force in Indian country, reduced financing for law enforcement and begun fewer investigations of violent felony crime, even as rates of murder and rape there have increased to more than 20 times the national average, according to data.”

New York Times

Why would tribal crime rates go up under Democrats? 

I think I’ll pass on this one

A “hoodie” sweatshirt from my alma mater—Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

I read those show trial books from the 1930s USSR

We know what we know. We know Obama knew about Benghazi and he knew about Petraeus (whether he knew about all those other crazies, is anyone's guess). What we don't know is what he has promised/threatened Gen. Petraeus. What Petraeus gets to keep of his reputation, rank, wealth, etc. if he goes along with the administration's version of Benghazi in the testimony, which has been set up to satisfy all those right wing nuts in Congress and on the internet.  If you believe it, that’s your business, you now own this mess. 

The problem is. . .

"[T]he key point about Barack Obama is not that he's a secret Muslim Kenyan Commie or whatever. Whether he was born in Honolulu or Mombasa or Stockholm or up on Planet Zongo, what matters ... is that in his general worldview he is entirely typical and perfectly representative of tens upon tens of millions of Americans. Tuesday's majority confirmed that. They don't need a 'conspiracy': They agree with him. That's the problem." --columnist Mark Steyn

And you know who you are.  Shame on you.  Abortion—54 million since Roe v. Wade and he takes $15 million from the largest provider to get elected; deficit—a trillion a year since taking office; black unemployment 14.3%;  cover-ups since September 11, 2012—too many to count.

If a black man posts on Facebook. . .

“Beware people, you have all just seen happen was the the dirtiest and most corrupt election of our time. Voter fraud, diversion from his failed policies, plans to eliminate our military strength, and creating the biggest national debt of all prior presidents combined.”

Is he a racist?

Newsninja2012

If you build it, they will come

Fat Cat Obama supporter is cutting workforce in medical devices

"Stryker Corporation has announced that it will close its facility in Orchard Park, New York, eliminating 96 jobs next month. It will also counter the medical device tax in Obamacare by eliminating 5% of their global workforce, an estimated 1,170 positions. Jon Stryker was one of the top 5 donors to Obama's campaign. . .   Stryker contributed millions to help Democrat candidates in his home state of Michigan. He also gave nearly $250 million to groups supporting gay rights, transgenderism, and funds social justice projects." 

Is anyone organizing protests?

Really? For Secretary of Defense?

Wouldn’t you just feel so safe?  Do you have any doubts that Obama is attempting to destroy the country?

Kerry in his winter soldier speech said the U.S. shouldn’t be involved in a civil war.  Yet the leader of his party has interfered in about 5 civil wars (aka Arab Spring) to support those Muslim parties with which he agrees. If Obama is right, then LBJ must have been, too.

Did I miss anyone?

The Head of the CIA, the FBI, the military, the Secret Service, the Head of the Department of Defense, the Attorney General, our U.N. Ambassador, the Secretary of State, the Senate--have I missed anyone? Oh yes, our Secretary of the Treasury. Is there anyone else that Obama appointed or touched or commended who hasn't been made to look like our country is run by the Katzenjammer Kids? He has made us the laughing stock of the world.

It just wouldn’t do for there to be any heroes as he drags the country down.

Update: I missed one. Last week, during an Election Day event supporting President Barack Obama in Fountain, Colorado, U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar threatened a local reporter following a seemingly routine interview and said, “If you set me up like this again, I’ll punch you out,”

Hostess lay offs. Can they save the Twinkies?

My husband’s favorite junk food—Twinkies.  Nothing else comes close.  Unions have destroyed a lot of businesses.  And usually it is the higher paid ones.

                       

“Hostess Brands Inc. is permanently closing three bakeries following a nationwide strike by its bakers union.

The maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread said Monday that the strike has prevented it from producing and delivering products, and it is closing bakeries in Seattle, St. Louis and Cincinnati. The facilities employ 627 workers.

Hostess, based in Irving, Texas, operates 36 bakeries nationwide and has about 18,300 employees. It warned earlier this month that the strike, by about 30 percent of its workforce, could lead to bakery closures.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/11/13/twinkies-maker-hostess-closing-3-bakeries-after-strike/#ixzz2C8smZqwL

Thank you, Mr. President

    Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
    “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
    and before you were born I consecrated you;
    I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
(Jeremiah 1:4-5 ESV)

Paula Priesse says Conservatism works and Liberalism fails

“1) If for the past 25 years California had lower taxes, balanced budgets & tighter immigration would CA residents be better or worse off today?

2) If for these same 25 years Michigan had been a right-to-work state, promoted school choice and developed true enterprise zones, would Detroit be better or worse off today?

3) If 25 years ago we began real entitlement reform would future generations be better or worse off today?

These DC dolts wanting conservatives to be more liberal have never understood two things: 1) Conservatism works 2) Liberalism fails. P”

Only one week after 50% gave him a second term (although that number is being questioned)*

                 

The President is thinking of appointing the veteran who threw away his Vietnam War medals and accused our soldiers of war crimes as our next Secretary of Defense, and the woman that lied to us for weeks saying a "video" caused the Benghazi embassy attacks will probably replace Hillary Clinton as our next Secretary of State.

And here we thought last Wednesday through Friday couldn’t be topped.

*100 precincts in Ohio gave Obama over 99% of the vote—not even Chavez or Saddam Hussein could pull that off.

The Volt vs. the Cruze

“The $40,000 Volt is basically a $17,000 Cruze - with a 500 lb., 25-mile range, eight-hour-to-charge battery. Which is toxic when spent - and costs somewhere between $8,000 and$15,000 to replace. . .

We the Taxpayers own 26% of GM’s stock - and are poised to lose more than $40 billion on the auto bailout.

In no small part because GM - the company in which we are conscripted investors - is wasting tens of millions - and the Feds billions more - tilting at Volt windmills.”   Seton Motley

It isn't the sex, it's the blackmail potential and the cover up.

If you haven't watched this story line on TV or movies, it's standard fare for affairs. And David Petraeus, military hero and head of the CIA, was blackmailed--but by the White House. Or attempted blackmail--it looks like he wouldn't play along--although the Benghazi story just keeps growing. Let's see if he'll testify, or if they have something even bigger on him. Meanwhile, you can count on our media to only investigate the sex story.

I've heard 2 interviews today with Newt Gingrich about his new book, but since he was a candidate earlier in the year, he's asked about the current scandal with Petraeus and now another guy (I'm losing track) also connected to one of the women with 30,000 pages of e-mail. I wanted to yell POT KETTLE (Newt is a serial philanderer and had to have 2 marriages annulled to marry his current wife), but I also realize this is not about sex despite how the media plays it. It's about blackmail and a huge cover up and a president who is unfaithful to the people who elected him.

Do I think the Petraeus affair if known before the election would have changed things? No. 1) The general electorate hadn't even heard about Benghazi so they would have said, big deal, some guy was unfaithful to his wife. 2) Nothing would stop an Obama supporter from voting. 3) A Petraeus affair wouldn't get the Christians and Republicans to the polls who already believed it wouldn't matter. What's important is Obama apparently thought it would matter, and he did yet another cover up.

Since Sept. 11, 2012 no one in the administration has told us the truth. But they practiced for 4 years to get it right. Half of the electorate will follow him anywhere.

It’s still about Benghazi, not sex

It has come out that the White House knew about Petraeus’ affair before he was appointed head of the CIA, Sept. 6, 2011.    If Obama didn’t know then who on his team is doing the vetting and why wouldn’t they tell him, since so many people seemed to know?  And e-mail?  What could possibly go wrong?  Why did they need something hanging over him and what plans did they have for the CIA?

This cover up has more layers than a rotting onion. 

Should Republicans become Democrat-lite to get more votes, or should more Republicans vote?

I’ve been listening to the various excuses the media and conservative talkers are making for the Republican loss, and they range everywhere from women want abortions to Hurricane Sandy. But the most logical ones in my opinion are Republicans lost the 18-29 demographic which has a higher opinion of socialism than capitalism according to a Pew Report, and we lost the minority vote even though they are more likely to have traditional values, and many Republicans, particularly Christians, just didn’t vote.

Here’s the problem. Republicans can’t promise more free stuff—Democrats have that plan covered, and we know that when Reagan passed amnesty in 1986 (IRCA), it actually decreased the number of Hispanics voting Republican. We’ve learned that blacks will vote by party and race, no matter the black candidate or his record.

Black Republicans lost races to far less capable white Democrats with Obama money backing them. Also, those races won by Republicans for Congress or at the state level were won by the conservatives, not the traditional moderate Republicans, who are doing the hand wringing and saying Republicans need to be more like Democrats.

Yes, Rush, Democrats do discuss changing their spots when they lose—Monday Memories

I recall listening to a panel in 2004 moaning about John Kerry losing the presidency. I think Ohio's Ted Strickland, a former Methodist pastor, was on the panel. You know what they came up with? Democrats need to go after the "values" voters, Republican territory. And they did. They went after Evangelicals with that "hope" message in 2008, got Rick Warren and other evangelical pastors even the Vineyard appearing with Obama and surrogates, supported traditional marriage, didn't mention abortion, put Soros funding in the right places and they won.

What has Obama done for blacks?

After the election results showed 95% of blacks voted right down racial lines for Obama, someone observed, "But he hasn't done anything for the black community!" Oh, but he has. What do blacks with an unemployment rate of over 14% need most? A job, or course. What has he done for them? Given them free stuff and guaranteed they will be right where he needs them to be while he's off partying with black celebrities at the tippy top of the 1%.

What is harder to imagine is what has he done for evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics.  And yet, many voted for him.  Maybe 50% of Catholics.  They are voting to destroy the finest social system in the world with a network of schools, hospitals, training programs, social workers  through the tearing down of the first amendment rights of all Americans.

Not only have we become America, the land of the takers, but even the givers won’t be allowed to help those in need. The government wants all the power, all the control, all the values.  It’s name is statism.

God is pro-choice . . . pro right choice

A New York priest, Father Rutler of Church of our Savior, writes his parish letter without heat and power after the storm, after the election:

"Those who oppose Christ have their day, but it does not last long, and soon they also have their night, when they shrink away into dark corners. In the great challenge of our culture, we are free to choose light or darkness. God is pro-choice: He has given us a free will. But He is only pro right choice. The exercise of choice is not self-justifying. Only the choice of the light of Christ can save us from the darkness of Satan. And what better authority can we have for this than our holy God Himself? “I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19)."

http://www.oursaviournyc.org/pastors-corner/from-the-pastor-1

Welcome to the economy of Obama’s second term

“A number of groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, expect a rush of new regulations now that President Obama has won a second term:
CEI expects the EPA to move ahead on delayed rules on everything from greenhouse gas emissions to ozone standards. “Rules from the health care bill and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill will also likely make themselves known in the weeks to come," the group said on its website”

A lot was put on the shelf the last two years, frustrating Obama’s leftist base, but as he told the Russians, after his reelection he would have more flexibility.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/6125-proposed-regulations-and-notifications-posted-last-90-days-average-68-day

List of job losses since Obama’s reelection

Obamacare is the law of the land—John Boehner says so. If companies lay off workers, cut hours, don’t expand or close, Oh Well.  It’s the will of the people. At least 50% of them. 

November 10 , 2012

Update: DuPont Co in Richmond VA - 64

TMX Group Ltd. - 100

Penn Refrigeration - 40

Wilkes-Barre PA - Layoffs Possible

Standard Bank Group Ltd. - up to 15% of Staff

The Art Gallery of Windsor ( International ) - 12

American Coal - 54

New Energy Corp. Indiana - Idles 40

November 9 , 2012

Mills Manufacturing NC - 68

TECO Coal Corporation - 90

Energizer Holdings Inc - 1,500

Update: Exide Technologies in Laureldale - 150

Southeastern Container - 15

Update: UtahAmerican Energy Inc - 102

The SCA plant in Barton - Plans Staff Reductions

Plexus Corp - Contract Loss Could = Layoffs

Yakima Regional Medical Center Washington - 10+

Crouse Hospital Syracuse NY - 70 Jobs

November 8 , 2012

Eagle-Tribune in North Andover - 21

Ameridose LLC - up to 650 Layoffs

EMD Millipore St. Charles - Some Layoffs

Groupon - 80

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne - 100

Slidell La. - Warns of Possible Layoffs

Westinghouse Anniston - 50

Research in Motion Ltd. HQ - 200

Lightyear Network Solutions - 12+

The Providence Journal Co. - 23

Hawker Beechcraft - 240 Layoffs + Facility Closings

November 7 , 2012

Boeing - 30% of Executives at Defense Unit

CVPH Medical Center - 17 Pink Slips

U.S. Cellular - 980

Commerzbank ( German ) - up to 6,000 Layoffs Possible.

Spanish airline Iberia - up to 7,000 Possible

Momentive Performance Materials - 150 Temp, Layoffs

Brake Parts LLC - 75

Gameforge Berlin - 20

Vestas Wind Systems - 3,000 More Job Cuts

Husqvarna AB - 600

ING - 2,350

Ericsson ( Sweden) - 1,550

SRA International Inc - 222 in Arlington Va.

PerkinElmer - 66 Layoffs During 3rd Quarter

Majestic Star Casino and Hotel - About 80

Center for Hospice / Palliative Care NY - 40 Temp. Layoffs

Expect more global warmists fear mongering

            

Sandy was a terrible tragedy for many.  Lives. Property. Memories.  The climate will be blamed for “changing,” but not the federal government which has encouraged wealthy home owners to build in areas that need to remain barriers for normal outcomes of bad storms.  The poor aren’t the only ones addicted to government hand outs.

I’ve looked over the maps of Lake Erie going back hundreds of years  where we have our summer home, and right now the lake is very low.  But when we first vacationed there in the 1970s it was so high it was eating up many vacation homes built close to the water.  Artificial barriers were built to hold back the water.  That worked well—simply gouged out the beaches behind the barriers.

Historically, insurance companies have been wary of offering flood insurance to homeowners because the risks associated with flood insurance are difficult to forecast, so any private insurance that had been offered was prohibitively expensive for average homeowners.

But in the 1960s, frequent flooding of the Mississippi River was driving up the costs of federal disaster-relief programs. In an effort to reduce these costs, Congress set up the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to provide flood insurance to the general public and promote effective floodplain management. Under the program, homeowners in certain areas of the U.S. are required to buy flood insurance, and communities that hope to benefit from the program have to enforce city-planning regulations set out by FEMA, which manages NFIP.

Read more: http://business.time.com/2012/10/30/should-the-federal-government-be-subsidizing-flood-insurance/#ixzz2BwvKGIty

Al Gore has made millions on his climate scam, and Sandy will only encourage him. In 1502 Columbus warned the Governor of Hispanola of a coming storm, and he was ignored. Within two days the storm struck in the Mona Passage between Hispanola and Puerto Rico, and sank 21 of his 30 ships, and killed approximately 500 sailors. Nasty stuff, that global warming.

Check out this site for the listing of the terrible hurricanes of the 1950s-1970s http://www.raptureready.com/time/Hurricane.html

Some Twits don't understand economics

It seems there is a discussion on Twitter that some Twits are upset that restaurants might have to consider lay offs because of Obamacare.  Libs think that is “punishing” people because of the election results.  Really?  I guess if there is $80,000-$100,000 less in the budget, they should just expand anyway, or keep giving raises?

“Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter was hammered with Twitter abuse after informing shareholders and franchisees in August that implementing Obamacare would necessarily increase costs of running the business.” 

Doh!  Didn’t Nancy Pelosi promise this when she said we’d have to wait to find out what was in the bill?  Some bold Twits are calling for a boycott.  Now that should really help restaurant employees, but that’s what liberals know about economics.

Sunday morning news

Watching  EWTN this morning and Bishop Fulton Sheen talk about scientific research advances--in 1956. It's in B&W and his hair was still dark. He's trying to make it interesting by joking about how dull the subject is. He must have launched a hundred religious TV preachers, but I don't think anyone has matched him. Conclusion: scientists don't invent, they discover. God does the inventing. God has put all the laws out there. But he was right--it was rather dull. Psalms say the same thing.

Switched to the national news—two weeks after Sandy and the people in New Jersey and New York are practically rioting.  It’s a good thing Obama put in an appearance the day after the storm.  It certainly helped, didn’t it?  This will all be used for his new regulations to stem climate change.  See item above—especially Psalms.

Hmm.  Long lists of lay offs are coming out. I feel badly for the workers; they not only lose income, but their social support, especially women who are more likely than men to depend on work friends. But hey, they’ve got free birth control for voting with their lady parts instead of their check book. This will be Obama’s legacy—same as the first term.  Higher unemployment,  more on food stamps, and the poor getting the shaft with Obamacare.  Yes, this is what America, or 50% of us, voted for. In 2009 eligible people were signing up for SNAP benefits at an average rate of 20,000 a day. This year, the rate increased to 22,000 a day. Why is that since according to the chief, jobs are coming back and unemployment is believe 8%. I think it may be because more people were hired with ARRA money to recruit recipients.

And General Petraeus’ lover got nasty with some other woman and that’s how the investigation got started?  Did she drive somewhere wearing a diaper?  What makes lovers/mistresses think they have more rights than wives? Hey, he’s already been proven unfaithful.   We’ll never know about his testimony on Benghazi.  It will be behind closed doors, and our ever vigilant press won’t be able to find a single leaker.  When his tell all book comes out, Americans will be busy watching the latest White House reality TV show, Dancing with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Big explosion in Indianapolis destroyed 14 homes, and 2 dead.  I’ll have to check with the relatives.

Will the media cover the Petraeus story for the sex/gossip angle?

This commenter on Krauthammer makes a lot of sense—both about the media and the so called “legacy” angle that some people think will moderate Obama’s behavior the next 4 years.

“Obama and the media today do not play by the rules of the past. Obama is not going to be cowed by concerns for his legacy -- he's already loved by those who voted for him and he's not going to get more love from them by trying to win anyone else over. In addition, he's a hard-core ideologue, despite his pretensions otherwise, and he knows there's more legacy benefit in pushing the ideology button than doing what's good for the country or the public as a whole. He's playing the Rushmore Annex card here, looking to get a spot next to FDR.

As for the media, likewise they do not play by the rules of the past. To prove this, you need look no further than how the media, largely en masse, has ignored Benghazi, which is, by any measure, a huge, juicy scandal. So, I do not believe that the media will cover this story unless Petraeus drops a nuclear bomb on the administration in his upcoming testimony. But then, his testimony -- if it even happens -- is behind closed doors, so again, that's unlikely.”

Massive layoffs begin

I wonder how many of the employees of these companies voted for their own pink slip?  I’ve seen lists longer than this one.

http://nation.foxnews.com/2012-presidential-election/2012/11/09/obama-reelection-triggers-massive-layoffs-across-america

The biggest losers in Obamacare are the poor

“The biggest losers are Medicaid and the poor. Very quietly, the Affordable Care Act introduced a revolutionary change: All poor people in America would get Medicaid. The new law would have extended Medicaid to everyone with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line ($23,050 a year for a family of four). Aren’t the poor already covered? That depends on where they live. In New York, most adults up to 150 percent of the poverty line are covered; in Texas, Medicaid reaches only to 26 percent of the poverty line — a family of four is not eligible if they earn, say, $9,000 a year. The court ruled that Congress may not require states to expand Medicaid. States can stick to their old Medicaid programs. Stingy states may choose to stay stingy. That part of the decision flew under the media radar. But it is a significant blow to liberals who had a simple way to grow benefits by expanding programs.”  James Morone, Seven consequences of the health care ruling. New York Times

Ohio’s bills will be going up, Indiana and Michigan’s bills will go down.

For my troll named Dave

You need some new lines, Dave.  Are they in macro ready to plop?  Do you grace all conservative bloggers with your words of wisdom, or am I special?  Until you can actually counter my facts with your facts, you won’t be published in my comments. You’re beginning to sound like the broken record you are.

Here’s one comment from my Facebook page messaging feature a few minutes ago:

“Ever since the election I have read almost everyone of your posts and am listening to Rush more often. Just so you know that you posts are being read.”

Profiting from poverty—the alliance between the federal government, banks and corporations

Banks and retailers make a lot of money from poverty, but not in the way you might think. The unemployment figure is not that much higher than four years ago, but under Obama SNAP was $72 billion in 2011, up from $30 billion just four years before. Banks which manage the cards charge the poor fees just like they charge us. The Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) reports:

"SNAP benefits are accessed via an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card that is processed using electronic funds transfer technology. EBT cards look and operate like bank-issued debit cards. SNAP benefits are accessed by swiping the EBT card on a point-of-sale (POS) terminal at an FNS retailer location and entering a personal identification number (PIN)."

It's a sweet deal. The poor go to the polls to reelect their savior believing he's helping them, and the corporations that make money from poverty funnel money into his campaign to keep them poor.  Ignore the fact that this report I cite is anti-big business and successful retailer like Wal-Mart.  The problem is the government, not capitalism, which is supposed to make a profit.

http://www.eatdrinkpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/FoodStampsFollowtheMoneySimon.pdf

There are 210,000 SNAP-authorized retailers nationwide, ranging from liquor stores to superstores to farmers markets. But there are rules--yes, you buy the food with the EBT card, and the alcohol and cigarettes with cash.  They may be poor, but they certainly aren’t stupid.  And as long as a liquor store also sells appropriate food items, it can accept EBT cards.

As unemployment decreased during the recession (which actually ended in June 2009), food stamp enrollment (SNAP) increased. From 2010 to 2011, enrollment jumped from 40.3 million to 44.7 million.

Free stuff. Works. It buys votes.

Pro-Choice? That’s a laugh—or a good cry

"Choice" is a bad joke for about 60% of the girls/women who find out they are pregnant. They are pressured into abortions by boyfriends, husbands, parents and peers. "That night, I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and he was not happy at all. He cussed me up and down and repeatedly said I should have an abortion. I had just turned 17 and really didn’t know much about abortions, except for what it meant would happen to the baby. I told him I wouldn’t have one, that he could leave me, but I was having the baby with or without him." . . . Then her dad who had raised her kicked her out. . .

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/04/gift-of-life-teen-mom-chooses-adoption-over-abortion/

The battle people my age will lose

Obamacare’s victory sets off a stiff competition for taxpayer dollars between Obamacare, Medicaid, and Medicare. It’s a battle that the elderly, in particular, are likely to lose.

I wonder if those 18-29 year olds who voted for Obama and his massive health care package are prepared to stay home and take of Mom and Dad?  Or Mom and step-dad and Dad and significant other?

http://blogs-images.forbes.com/aroy/files/2012/11/obamacare-vs-legacy.png

It’s only been 4 days and it’s amazing what has been revealed, uncovered, sniffed out since Nov. 6

A number of lay offs in major corporations, told to keep silent until after Nov.6

Iran shot down one of our drones (and how many others since this is Obama’s way to expand the wars) earlier in November.

Major failures by FEMA not reported  in depth until Nov. 7 by the lapdog media, after Obama already benefitted from the photo ops after Sandy.

General Petraeus told not to tell what he knows about Benghazi or Obama would tell what he knows about his affair, so Petraeus took away his power over him by telling, embarrassing both his wife and mistress.

Secretary Clinton decides she doesn’t want to be an Obama toady anymore and would rather go back to being a bootlicker to another president.

Attorney General Holder decides he’s had enough of keeping his stories straight about fast and furious gun running to Mexico so he resigns, too (or plans to).

Students celebrate Obama’s reelection shouting Karl Marx and Obamaphone outside the White House

Although I suspect they are drunk, stoned and acting like kids, I do hope I’m not paying for their college loans.

Congratulations Democrats, you won, now you own it

There are a number of versions of this floating around e-mail and the internet blogs, some add the name of the state, or the United States at the end.  This one added a reference to GW Bush at the end.

Congratulations to the Democrats and Young People! You now own it.

The next terrorist attack you own it.

Can't get a job after graduation, you own it.

Sky rocketing energy prices due to Obama's EPA shutting down the energy producing states, you own it.

A nuclear Iran, you own it.

Bowing to the Soviet Union , you own it.

Another severe recession, you own it.

A volatile border with Mexico , you own it.

Trouble getting good health care, you own it.

Higher heath insurance costs and health care costs, you own it.

No budget, you own it.

Our allies’ mistrust, you own it.

Another trillion of debt, you own it.

More Benghazi situations, you own it.

No one willing to join the military, you own it.

Trouble getting a loan to buy a home, you own it.

More dependency on food stamps, you own it.

Trouble finding good employment, you own it.

Several part time jobs instead of a good job, you own it.

A World Government, you own it.

The UN governing the United States instead of ourselves, you own it.

A Senate that will not bring any legislation to the table rather it is "Dead on Arrival", you own it.

China controlling our world trade trampling all over us, you own it.

Loss of our freedoms as we have known it in the past, you own it.

A dictatorship instead of a democracy that follows the Constitution, you own it.

Less take home pay and higher living costs, you own it.

Driving a car that looks like a toy, you own it.

More government corruption and lies, you own it.

More toleration of extreme and fanatical Islamist, you own it.

Terrorist attacks called work place incidents, you own it.

Your revenge instead of love of country, you own it.

President George Bush is out of it now, and there is not another good man for you to vilify and lie about. In a way I am relieved that another good man will not be blamed when it was impossible to clean up this mess you voted for.

Have a good day. God bless the United States !!! God is our only hope now.

http://sonoranalliance.com/2012/11/08/congratulations-to-the-democrats-hispanics-and-young-people-that-voted-for-obama/

Election thoughts for Christians who read this blog

The election is history, and who knows if we’ll be around for the 2016 edition. The whole process begins at the grass roots level, or used to, and to even influence the county committees is virtually impossible, or so I’m told by people who’ve tried to make a difference about who gets on the ballot. Even so, at the national level, it’s now all about technology and who has the right smart phone apps, the databases of who lives where and of course, the PAC money for internet ads. Here in Ohio where we get nothing but political ads for 6 months, it’s hard to believe that millions fewer voted this week than in 2008. Most of the loss in people believing voting mattered was Obama voters, but he won anyway because of the 18-29 year olds and the Hispanics.

But the big loss is the American people. If I vote in 2016, will there be anything or anyone I recognize? Will California belong to Mexico as LaRaza believes the whole southwest should? Will Louisiana secede? Will 75% of the people be dependent on government instead of 50%? Will we be like the Roman masses in pre-Christian days of Europe satisfied with games and goodies just as long as it is fun and someone else pays? Who knows, but the Democrats have been taken over by the ugliest big government philosophy--whether you think that’s socialism or progressivism or crony capitalism, it makes no difference. The Republican party as it exists now will probably expire in a gasping death, the party of Lincoln who desperately wanted to keep the country together, now seems to be factions of RINOs, Libertarians, Christians and patriot groups who barely speak to each other because the other isn‘t pure enough.

People who read my blog and Facebook entries seem evenly divided between believing I’m a modern day prophet calling people to wake up and see the evil of abortion and statism, and those who think I am evil and don’t represent anything they recognize as Christian or prophetic.

I choose to think that if you had lived in the 1850s you would have been helping with the underground railroad even if you had to be silent with your neighbors or at the market as you assisted fleeing slaves get to Canada. Even if you couldn’t look at a black woman in rags and see yourself, I hope you would have seen her humanity. I like to think you might have marched with the suffragettes, or tried to close down the saloons that were causing workmen to drink their pay and their children to starve. I choose to think that if you had lived in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, you would have told your children that they shouldn’t hate their Jewish classmates as told in school, or that you would have given money to help those whose businesses had been destroyed by the state, even as you grieved for sons and brothers lost in the battle for the Fatherland. I will continue to believe that if you had overheard plans to bomb a black church in Mississippi, you would have found a way to warn people, even if the sheriff was your friend and would not stop it.

Every generation faces social problems that can only be addressed by the clear word of the Lord. I have chosen abortion and those who support it, fund it, ignore it, and who try to silence me as the one I tackle. The pebble thrown in the pond has huge rings, and there is an all encompassing view of life and creation that over arches my views that goes far beyond the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. I know my views are not popular or even common among most Christians today, and that some are extreme, like believing a child conceived in incest or rape still is a citizen and a child of God. But I am not going to be quiet. While I still have first amendment rights as an American citizen, I will speak out. I have God’s written and living word on which to stand. And You?

Liberals push Agenda 21—and they are pushing to get rid of people like me

The transformation of America

Race baiting Democrats

Last week the leftwing media was writing about the homophobic, racist, sexist Americans--even Clinton called the military that--because the polls showed 49 to 49 for the candidates. This week, not a peep about how awful Americans are. The fact that minorities voted overwhelmingly for Obama doesn't make THEM race based voters. But 10 million Americans who voted for Obama in 2008 didn't vote for him in 2012. They didn't vote for Romney either, I guess they stayed home, but did they lose faith in Obama's race or his policies?

Americans, especially minorities and the 18-29 white voters,  showed in this election that they want European style socialism, where no one can work if not a member of the union, and the takers outnumber the workers.  Good luck sustaining that model.

Women want to depend on Uncle Sam--relationships are too hard

“Single women, who went 67 percent to Obama this week, have been sold a bill of goods by the Left since the 90s. Women have been told that empowerment comes from sex, and that we have a “right” to things like birth control. Television models the Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle of shoes and parties and sex without consequence. Meanwhile, America wonders why women walking around with iPhones and Kate Spade bags at Ivy League colleges are demanding that we pay for birth control they could acquire at WalMart for $4 a month.”

http://townhall.com/columnists/tabithahale/2012/11/09/dc_cannot_save_america_hollywood_can

Do numbers matter?

In the 16th through the 19th centuries Arab Muslims captured and sold black Africans to European slavers who then shipped them to the “new world” for resale in the various colonies of Spain, Portugal, France and England.

"By the end of the seventeenth century, slavery and the products of slave labor comprised the single largest economic enterprise on earth. Over the course of more than two hundred years, European carriers -- British, Spanish, French, and Portuguese -- had shipped more than 2 million Africans across the Atlantic in chains. But that was just the beginning. Spurred by an explod­ing European demand for sugar, traffic in slaves surged, and in the eighteenth century alone more than 6 million Africans were taken from their homeland to plantations in Brazil, the Caribbean, and, to a much smaller extent, British North America. ... Sons of Providence by Charles Rappleye

Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, estimates 54,559,615 abortions since Roe v. Wade in 1973, and about 40% of those are black. Life Site News

Abortion is legal and approved by the state and federal governments of the United States, and has been a plank in the Democrat party political platform for decades.  Legal abortion  has killed more blacks than four centuries of the Atlantic slave trade.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, whose organization invested $15 million in the election, was overjoyed by the results of Tuesday’s election of a pro-abortion president, as was NARAL President Nancy Keenan.

The level playing field

Early in the morning (dawn usually) I'm on the road to a coffee shop within a mile or two of my home. This morning at the first stop light I was noticing all the service people out there long before me, delivering, stocking, cleaning, preparing, etc. and wondering about those households sleeping in receiving about $60,000 in government benefits who are NOT working. How many of these people taking care of our basic needs for food, goods and services will ever make $60,000, and why do Democrats say it's never enough? Tell me again, Mr. President, about that playing field you want to level.

                         

It fits, but just barely

Our son has bought a restored 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 convertible.  He brought it by today to show me. What a boat!  You forget what a door slam in a 40 year old car sounds like. He says he has 2” clearance in his garage to close the door. He will keep his other 2 cars; one he drives to work, and the other, a BMW, is driven only occasionally.  The new one gets 8 miles/gallon and he’s already run out of gas once because he misjudged how far he could go on $10.

How to be a guest at any blog—but especially mine. Thursday Thirteen November 8

                    

1.  Don’t attack your host. Think of your visit as standing in the hall or on the porch and you’re passing out political literature you want her to read.  Do you start out by accusing the owner of hatred and vitriol because she disagrees with you? 

2.  If you disagree with an idea or a citation, please supply the information.  I’m smart and I cite my sources of those writers who are smarter, but I’m not a mind reader about what you call “hate.’

3.  If you’ve got more than a paragraph, please start your own blog.  It’s not difficult and many sites are free. Or hit publish and make a second comment.  Looks better on my site meter.

4.  You can skip the name calling--homophobic, racist, sexist, etc.  That dog won’t hunt here.  Plus your mother taught you better.

5.  Please pay attention to quote marks and citations.  I’ve been attacked as homophobic for quoting gay bloggers and journalists! 

6.  Just because your president is black, doesn’t mean his policies are good for black people, minorities, churches, or the economy. If what he touches becomes untouchable for bloggers because of his race, how will you ever know what he’s doing?  The media won’t tell you.

7.  If you don’t like the cartoons or graphics, you should see the ones I’ve rejected as disrespectful or nasty.

8.  I’ve been blogging for nine years.  And you?

9.  I’m a one issue (pro-life) voter, writer, woman.  Start to finish, Genesis to Revelation, womb to tomb.  Yes, I think rape is awful, but it’s not worse than murdering the innocent child that results from the violent act. Incest is icky, but in my genealogy I’m my own 6th cousin, so who do you want to eliminate?

10. I’m an evangelical Christian (Lutheran) who loves many of the documents of the Reformation and the early church before it split up. I perfectly understand your main line Christian views because I was one (UCC, Church of the Brethren), and I know the cafeteria Catholic outlook well from all my Catholic friends who use contraception.  How well do you know the documents of evangelicalism?

11.  Not only do I blog, but I’m on Facebook, and several e-mail discussion groups. I’m also a published author.  And what have you researched and published?  You can cite it here and get some free publicity. I’ll not call you names.

12. How recently did you read the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence or the Northwest Ordinance? I do it about once a year, but I’m also old enough to know the Democrats invented Jim Crow and LBJ fought civil rights all the way until he figured out he could capture the loyalty of blacks for 200 years if he switched sides.

13. FDR locked up about a million Americans, German, Italian and Japanese, in 1942.  I guess he thought they were disloyal or dangerous.  And you?  Do you read much about the heroes of American history? Write a blog—I’ll come and visit and not call you names.

If you’d like to participate in Thursday Thirteen, try this site.

No Good Sam law for architects in New York

200 responses were received from architects willing to survey affected neighborhoods damaged by the super storm Sandy. “Their job would be to help the city evaluate uninhabited buildings, a kind of architectural triage: green stickers are placed on buildings that can be inhabited immediately, yellow on buildings that can be inhabited after remediation, and red on buildings that cannot be made safe.” Lance Jay Brown, a professor of architecture at the City University of New York (CUNY) refers to it as “second-responder work.”

But. . . there is no good sam law in New York for architects.

“According to Brown and others, architects are prevented from performing damage assessment—as volunteers—by the absence of a law to protect them from future liability. About half the states have “good Samaritan” laws that cover architects, allowing them to do volunteer work in emergencies without fear of lawsuits. But New York is without such protection. “Legislation exists, but it just hasn’t been passed,” says Brown, who has been involved in the fight for a “good sam” law since 2004, as has the state AIA office in Albany. “We lobby for it constantly, but lawyers lobby against it,” Azaroff explains, adding, “As a Brooklyn architect, I should be able to walk across the street and help a neighbor. This is something that would promote a better society.”

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2012/11/121108-Architects-Respond-to-a-Call-for-Post-Sandy-Aid.asp

Start talking.

The legacy?

"Barack Obama wasted no time getting busy destroying American sovereignty after defeating Mitt Romney Tuesday night and winning a 2nd term. Mere hours after the deciding votes were cast, the administration got to work supporting the U.N. and their effort to install a global gun restriction treaty." Glenn Beck

Obama was very cagey about announcing his agenda for the next 4 years. The first move doesn't make me feel good about his intentions. Those of you hoping he'd go "moderate" in order to create a "legacy" don't seem to understand this man. He's a statist and globalist.

Should Democrats set the Republican agenda

Juan Williams (Fox News) wants Republicans to reach out to single women and blacks. With what? Democrats give them free contraception and bill boards advertising abortions. What else would appeal? They don't care much about jobs, as they demonstrated Tuesday.

People of little or no faith more likely to vote for Obama

Religious/faith people voted for Romney if they were white evangelicals, but not enough voted, period. It's one of the flaws of being a conservative. Let someone else do it. Or, God will take care of it. Black Christians overwhelmingly voted for Obama, even with all his failures and inattention to them these last 4 years.  (Unemployment in October was 14.3% for blacks.)  "Other" and "unaffiliated" voted overwhelmingly for Obama.

And now the finger waggers are saying the Republicans (remember the ones who didn't boo God?) are too religious. I'd say the weren't religious enough if they didn't vote their values. Cafeteria Catholics went for Obama.

Pew Forum on Religion

How are they getting around Obamacare?

“Americans are already finding ways around Obamacare. The M.D. VIP program offers individuals unfettered access to a network of doctors with limited numbers of patients for around $1500/year. That is certainly less than the cost of Obamacare. I believe we will see a bifurcated healthcare system that still offers choice, because the best doctors prefer to work in programs like M.D. VIP. And the states that refuse to implement the Obamacare Medicaid provisions will be where the businesses go. The intransigent states like California, Illinois, and New York will continue to bleed companies and middle-class voters, leaving only the very rich and people who are addicted to entitlements. Ultimately, the law will be chipped away or ignored because it is poorly written.”  Mark Macina

Oh, and good luck finding a doctor if you’re about to sign up for Medicare.  Doctors are choosing to retire rather than get stuck with the abominable electronic record system required especially if they have small offices. This was just a boon to IT lobbyists, since no one can even guess if it will improve care, and it certainly won’t lower costs.  Others just won’t take Medicare—payment reimbursement is too low.

Note to trolls:  please pay attention to quotation marks. That means it is someone else’s work.

Tell me again about the Nobel Peace Prize

“Obama has tripled the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, escalated the nightmare of drone bombings in Pakistan, and started a war with Libya that his administration claimed even Congress had no power to stop. Despite his occasional lip service to free markets, peace, and the rule of law, Obama has pushed for the radical expansion of state power in virtually every area he could. “ Anthony Gregory

And he’s running a pipeline of weapons from Libya to Syria.  Some peace prize he is.  I wonder if they’ll ever do that again—award a prize on the basis of nothing.  Zip. Nada. Zilch.

            

Tips for Republicans from liberals

Juan Williams (Fox News) wants Republicans to reach out to single women and blacks. With what? Democrats give them free contraception and bill boards advertising abortions. What else would appeal? They don't care much about jobs, as they demonstrated Tuesday.

Is there a single give-away or law remake that Republicans could do that Obama wouldn’t up the ante the next day?

If Republicans (registered) had shown up to vote, they could have beaten Obama.  There are more people who won’t vote for a Mormon than who won’t vote for a black.  If the dead Democrats stayed home, that might have helped too. 

Obama needs more photo ops with Sandy victims—it will warm their hearts

Bipartisanship is what got us to the cliff

“With the threat of the fiscal cliff hanging over the economy and American jobs, House majority speaker Boehner calls for bipartisan agreement to tackle the impending danger.”  U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Why does Obama continue to blame Bush? Because (fill in the blank)

Ratios of deficit to GDP for the past five presidents:

Ronald Reagan
1981-88 4.2 %
1982-89 4.2
Average 4.2

George H. W. Bush
1989-92 4.0
1990-93 4.3
Average 4.2

Bill Clinton
1993-2000 0.8
1994-2001 0.1
Average 0.5

George W. Bush 

2001-08 2.0
2002-09 3.4
Average 2.7

Barack Obama
2009-12* 9.1
2010-12 8.7
Average 8.9
*fiscal 2012 ends Sept. 30, 2012, so this figure is estimated

Forbes

Hollywood Casino, Columbus, Ohio

Our new casino in Columbus opened a month ago and has sucked about $18.3 million in profits from local gamblers. Table: $28,472,059; Slot:$136,648,985. I guess voters aren't the only ones attracted to "free stuff," but it's wildly expensive to get it this way. Gamblers' Anonymous meetings must be packed.

http://casinocontrol.ohio.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ajrbvarBPiA%3d&tabid=101

Glenn Beck probably won’t expand his business

Glenn Beck probably won't be hiring, he said last night. So you hate Glenn Beck even if you've never heard him or watched his TV show or listened to his radio show or read his books or worn his clothes? But he is a small businessman--a publisher and owner of a TV production company and a clothing business, plus some other stuff. Anyway, he'd like to expand and hire more people. In the Obameconomy he can't, plus he'll probably be fined because he provides his employees better benefits than Obama thinks is right and fair (although probably not as good as federal employees get).

Even if you don't like Beck, this is the sort of shrinking economy you voted for on Tuesday, which means he'll have to transfer more of your money to support all those government programs—you know, the free stuff.

http://www.theblaze.com/tv/

Good for Chris Matthews

He manned up and admitted he was stupid and wrong on election night when he said he was glad for the storm Sandy because it helped Obama win. He'll keep his job, of course, but if Republicans apologize for being stupid, they lose their jobs. I recall years ago Rush Limbaugh made a comment about a black football player that was true, but he was removed as a Monday night football commentator. Matthews could have made his apology to his fans stronger by not explaining twice how tired he was and caught up in political numbers.

Truthfully, I don't think he said HE was stupid and wrong, but that his comment was. Did Senator Akin try that?