Time for a change

Binding up the old memories

This morning I gathered up the pieces of my 1978 Upper Arlington Lutheran Church photo directory and took them to Staples (thank you, Mitt Romney, for helping that company get a start) along with some “new member inserts” and had it spiral bound with clear acrylic covers.  It had been on a shelf with a huge metal clip.  It cost me less than $3.50, and I don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner.  Looking through it I see many saints who have gone to their reward, and also many families who are no longer together.  One widow, Mary Brenner, smiled out at me.  We met in 1978 and she died in 2005.  I wrote up a few memories of her after attending her funeral.

http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2005/03/881-saying-good-bye-to-mary-she-was.html

Watergate vs. Benghazigate

People under 60 probably don't remember that in 1972 the press chair wasn't empty--NYT, Time and Washington Post were on the ball then because they hated President Nixon who was covering up a burglary that didn't even help his campaign. He hid his involvement and was reelected in a landslide. Later in 1973 when the cover up was revealed (after the election), he resigned. Obama won't be that patriotic, but eventually his cover up will be revealed. No one died in Watergate.

Bill Maher insults African Americans with racist language and stereotypes

Really?  A white, male one percenter speaks for black Democrats?  Bill Maher on HBO's Real Time Friday said, "If you're thinking about voting for Mitt Romney, I would like to make this one plea: black people know who you are and they will come after you." So he's depicting blacks as knuckle dragging, vicious, violent trouble makers?  Add that to booing God and Jerusalem, and the Democrat spokespeople like Maher are a real piece of work.

Is this the fundamental change you wanted in 2008?

We've got more debt and expanded wars, more pay offs to unions,  more crony capitalism, less transparency, a shadow president (Valerie Jarrett) much more dangerous than Rove and now another big FEMA fiasco, Sandy, with cold, hungry and powerless people after 6 days.  Medicare and Medicaid are still riddled with fraud and waste and many doctors are retiring early or changing careers. We’re facing a huge tax increase come January.  NCLB has morphed to an even bigger federal program RTTT and Social Security hasn't been fixed.  The DoJ is running guns to Mexico, and the CIA to Syria. It won’t be in time for the election but there WILL BE an investigation of Obama and Clinton’s politically based decisions and behavior on September 11, 2012, that will dwarf Watergate.  . 

So those of you who wanted fundamental change  in 2008, is this what you had in mind?

Benghazi truth straggles in despite White House cover-up

The news and documents and e-mails about Benghazi and the weeks leading up to it just keep dribbling in. Neither Obama nor Clinton look good. Someone is either incompetent or a traitor. Personally, I'm not a fan of Hillary, but I don't think it is she, and I hope this time she doesn't stand by her man.

Whatever they knew and when, they went with the YouTube story with no intelligence to back them up and repeated it to the press, TV and UN and even paid for a filmed apology to play in Pakistan; now we have reams of intelligence and they have no story. Zip, nada, zilch.

And then after a good night’s rest,  he went on the road to party with Jay-Z and Beyonce on September 12.

The fog of Benghazi

Media favors Obama—what a surprise!

MSNBC’s coverage of Mitt Romney was far more negative than Fox News’ coverage of President Barack Obama during the period of Aug. 27 through Oct. 21, according to a study from Pew Research Center.

During that time, 71 percent of MSNBC's coverage of Romney was negative, compared to 46 percent negative coverage of Obama by Fox. The News Corp. network also beat MSNBC on the positive side. Fox gave Obama 6 percent positive coverage, while MSNBC gave Romney only 3 percent positive coverage.

Overall, the mainstream media evidenced a bias toward Obama, the study shows. Coverage of Obama was 19 percent positive, 30 percent negative, and 51 percent mixed. For Romney, the totals were 15 percent positive, 38 percent negative, and 47 percent mixed.

http://www.newsmax.com/US/obama-romney-media-coverage/2012/11/02/id/462565

Please pass the Kool-Aid

James Taranto reports in today’s Wall St. Journal:

Bill Clinton may be the only person who's more enthusiastic about Obama than in 2008, but that doesn't mean the creepy cult around Obama has disappeared. The Weekly Standard notes that Mike Synan of Orlando's WOFL-TV reported yesterday on Twitter: "Crowd for #FLOTUS [Michelle Obama] event in Daytona now chanting 'Hail Obama.' "

Mrs. Obama's husband was in North Las Vegas, Nev., yesterday, and Yahoo! News reports that "about an hour before [Mr.] Obama spoke, the band played the gospel worship song 'All Around,' replacing the parts where the singer usually says 'Lord' with 'Obama.' "

Journalists pursue a story—Sheehan and Woods

Stand down, non-union utility crews--Sandy survivors don’t need you.

The President isn’t the only one who can give orders to "stand down."

"Derrick Moore, who works for Decatur Utilities in Decatur, Ala., told WAFF-TV in Huntsville that crews in Seaside Heights, N.J. turned him and his crewmates away, saying they couldn’t do any work there because they’re not union employees."

“Electric repair work for public utilities in New Jersey is dominated by the International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers, a unit of the politically powerful AFL-CIO.

Many parts of coastal New Jersey are projected to be without electric power for at least seven to 10 more days.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/02/new-jersey-town-to-ala-volunteer-utility-crew-dont-help-with-sandy-unless-youre-unionized/#ixzz2B4AHkkU5

Let’s see if  Gov. Christie can stand up to this union, or if it is true that it is impossible to stand up to them.

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics. To take on the public sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefit system that was headed to bankruptcy. (Republican Convention, 2012, speech)

Barack’s timeline for disasters

All saints day, November 1

Reading Exodus

Our church (Upper Arlington Lutheran Church) has been using the resource The Story (Zondervan) for morning worship, group studies and Sunday School. One can always find today’s diary or newspaper or evening news in the Old Testament. We’ll take a pause during Advent and also for All Saints Sunday.  I thought Pink’s’ assessment of Exodus explains it well.

One thing that impresses the writer more and more in his studies in and meditations upon the contents of this book of Exodus is the wonderful variety and the comprehensive range of truth covered by its typical teachings. Not only do its leading events and prominent characters foreshadow that which is spiritual and Divine, but even the smallest details have a profound significance. Moses is a type of Christ, Pharaoh of Satan, Egypt of the world. Israel groaning in bondage pictures the sinner in his native misery. Israel delivered from their cruel task-masters speaks of our redemption. Their journey across the wilderness points to the path of faith and trial which we are called on to walk. And now we are to see that the history of Israel also adumbrated the conflict between the two natures in the believer.

Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)

Obama moves quickly when an election is pending

but we all remember it took Barack Obama fourteen days to visit the gulf coast after the BP oil spill.

"On April 20, 2010 BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and commencing months of oil leaking unrestrained into the ocean. Efforts to manage the spill with controlled burning, dispersants and plugging the leak were unsuccessful until BP capped the well in mid-July, temporarily halting the flow of oil into the Gulf. The well was then successfully plugged and declared "effectively dead" on September 19." Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/louisiana-oil-spill-2010_n_558287.html
* May 2, 2010 / U.S. pressures BP over oil spill as Obama visits Gulf: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/05/02/us-usa-rig-leak-idUSN0121519420100502
* May 2, 2010 / Obama goes to La. to address oil spill: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-05-02-obama-spill_N.htm
* Obama Administration Rejected Help with Oil Spill Cleanup: http://www.fortliberty.org/obama-administration-rejected-help-with-oil-spill-cleanup.html

Nanette White, FB page.

Whatever he is, it’s not good for America

“I have never entertained the idea that Obama was a Muslim and always believed he was a socialist. But Obama's behavior over the last four years regarding Islam has convinced me that Obama has a Socialist/Islamic centered worldview -- a combination that is not uncommon in many parts of the Muslim world. . .

“Both Sharia and socialism are united in their envy of Western society and need to change it. That is why Obama has become the savior of both Islam and socialism. He embodies both ideologies. The claim that Obama is a Christian was a silly joke, but a necessary lie for the greater cause of changing America to fit the goals of both creeds.”

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/obamas_taqqiya_unravels.html#ixzz2B1HHnMfA

We leave nobody behind?

Peoria Bishop explains Catholic life issue

"Today, Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord," Jenky added. "They are objectively guilty of grave sin." . . .

"Again, I am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against," he said. "But I am saying that you need to think and pray very carefully about your vote, because a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy."

Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky

Media parrots

Big Bird

Birth Control

Binders

Bayonets

Benghazi NOT

Blogger.com tracks my blog visits and page views, but I usually forget to look

Page views last month (October, 2012)   20,440

Highest day, October 26, Cue balls Joe Biden, 368

Because it didn’t have this feature when I started blogging in October, 2003, the total is off at 390,632.   Site Meter shows that at 515,840.

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