The War on Poverty has created dependency which in turn creates poverty which creates. . .

War on Poverty began January 1964.   Birth control pills were  introduced in the early 1960s which increased the need for abortion which became legal in 1973. 

Let’s make it easier for military to vote; harder for dead and illegals.

“Military members and their spouses have long faced challenges when they vote. Unlike many Americans, military families are constantly on the go moving from one duty location to another. The frequency and unexpected nature of these moves have increased as our men and women in uniform have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. For most military families, if they have any hope of voting, they are forced to navigate a confusing state absentee ballot process.

Unfortunately, most military families do not successfully navigate this process—a fact repeatedly evidenced in recent elections. In 2008, for example, less than 20 percent of 2.5 million military voters were able to request and return their absentee ballots and have that ballot counted. In 2010, that number dipped to 4.6 percent.”

http://www.heroesvote.org/

Family Friday Photo—Third Cousins once removed

About a decade ago Jeanie decided to research her roots, and discovered the George family of Pennsylvania from which I am also descended.  Her great-great grandfather Cornelius and my great grandfather David were brothers and both settled in Illinois.  Their sister Mary Anne lived in Iowa in the mid-19th century,  and in the 1990s her granddaughter wrote a huge family genealogy.  Jeanie’s family wasn’t in it, we think because her grandmother married outside the culture, and we knew nothing about her branch of the family tree.  But we’re all connected now, in part because of the internet which makes things much easier.  I had some family memorabilia from Cornelius’ family (the woven blanket, pottery from the 1840s, 1850s) and a pastry wheel from the early 19th c.  that was made for Mary Knopp George, a Danner descendent, the brothers’ mother.  So I gave them to Jeanie and she has two small museums in mind for them. We had such a delightful day together looking over old photos and comparing notes.  She’s a much more determined genealogist than I am and actually goes to historical sites, cemeteries, and court houses—and to distant cousins several states removed.

The Food Stamp King

The 1996 Welfare Reform was working. More people had jobs; the government got more taxes; families had more hope. BUT. That made fewer people depending on the government, and for Obama that was bad, so he changed the definition of work. The Congressional Research Service, not Fox News, not Rush Limbaugh, found that the number of able-bodied Americans on food stamps exploded following changes to the work requirement by the Obama administration.

Thank you, Mitt Romney, for drawing attention to the culture of dependency. Romney's 47% comments offended some conservatives because those on Social Security and Medicare have already paid for those benefits, but the fact remains, the direction we're going is unsustainable.

What did you do to fight for America?

David Webb writes:  “Someday my child may ask me ... Dad what did you do to fight for America? My answer will begin with, I took a stand, I took action as best I could, I brought others to our righteous cause, I wanted to be able to answer your question.

             

What’s a little crime among Democrats?

TEN-TERM Congresswoman Maxine Waters? Her ethics charges are being dropped by the Democratic leadership of the HOUSE. She didn't MEAN ANY HARM WHEN SHE WENT DIRECTLY TO THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT to advocate for loans for the bank where her husband is on the BOARD OF DIRECTORS. But her Chief of Staff, who is also her grandson, might be in a little trouble.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444032404578010142825845284.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

The Ethics Committee paid the lawyer $1.3 million—that’s our money.  If a Republican has his foot over the line in the men’s room, he’s history.  She gets to steal . . .

We could use Calvin Coolidge today

Obama demeans and criticizes the successful—except the crony capitalists and celebrities who are contributing to his campaign.

Liberals can mock Mormons, not Muslims

Why the double standard? It's OK to mock Mormons, to even attend the play, but Muslims need TLC?

The Book of Mormon—a performance of which Hillary Clinton attended last year, without registering a complaint—comes to mind as the administration falls over itself denouncing Innocence of Muslims. This is a film that may or may not exist; whose makers are likely not who they say they are; whose actors cl aim to have known neither the plot nor purpose of the film; and which has never been seen by any member of the public except as a video clip on the Internet. No matter. The film, the administration says, is hateful and offensive (Susan Rice), reprehensible and disgusting (Jay Carney) and, in a twist, disgusting and reprehensible (Hillary Clinton).

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304388004577528931414701856.html?mod=opinion_newsreel

Vote for Mitt

And you are serious about voting for this?

The creepy cultic Obama flag

I’m not going to post a scan of this flag.  It’s too insulting, too narcissistic to be believed.  There’s no penalty for no patriotism, no common sense, no decency.

The United States Flag Code, which clearly states in part:

The United States Flag Code establishes advisory rules for display and care of the flag of the United States. It is Chapter 1 of Title 4 of the United States Code (4 U.S.C. § 1 et seq). This is a U.S. federal law, but there is no penalty for failure to comply with it. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that punitive enforcement would conflict with the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.[1]

This etiquette is as applied within U.S. jurisdiction. In other countries and places, local etiquette applies.

The flag must not be marked with any insignia, letter, word, signature, picture or drawing [like the Obama logo].

I’ve seen one photo which uses the bloody fingerprints on the wall of the Libya murders against the stripes of this flag. Sickening.

The 47% flap

“According to an informal, unscientific, online poll (enough qualifiers?) on the mainstream outlet CNBC, 76% actually agree with Mitt Romney’s comment, and are not shocked in the least about its import. We can’t draw too many conclusions from just this one online poll, but it backs up the initial reaction of some that the left’s initiation of this debate is actually a good thing.”

http://www.ijreview.com/2012/09/16633-cnbc-poll-75-agree-with-romneys-47-comment/

Swoon

Democrats, please respond

One billion in false claims?

After the housing collapse some of the same "community" organizations that pushed unqualified people into unsafe loans and took a cut from the top, then got government grants to help the same people with preforeclosure and refinancing. This article doesn't give enough information, but remember little ACORNs continue to grow under new names.

Washington Post story here.

Some ACORN members were encouraged to stay in their foreclosed homes. http://socialistworker.org/2009/02/05/taking-on-foreclosures

http://www.guidetolenders.com/adjustable_rate_mortgage/articles/foreclosure_help_mortgage_lenders_join_forces_with_non_profit_groups.jsp

http://www.acgov.org/cda/hcd/documents/mls_foreclosure_resources_for_homeowners.pdf

I’ll do what I can to clean up Obama’s mess

because I love you!

Real help for the poor is on the way!

"The American system of limited government and free enterprise has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. We don't want to replace that. We want to renew and revitalize that." Paul Ryan

A good summary of Democratic voters

On September 5, Namaste an African American blogger I've been following for years decided to look at some liberal blogs after watching the convention. Sounds like the Romney tape that Jimmy Carter's grandson turned up. "As Americans, we're gonna just have to agree to disagree. The victims, the saviors, the martyrs and the entitled citizens on the left are so deeply entrenched in their beliefs about this country, all I can say is God bless. No speech, no editorial, no news story is going to make a smidgen of difference between now and November."

It’s the “saviors” that drive me whacko.  They don’t even see how they are hurting people.  Just as long as they get their jollies—that’s all that matters.

http://myvoiceonthewingsofchange.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-race-is-on.html

Abby Johnson, pro-life advocate talks to a pastor

She’s a former Planned Parenthood worker, now trying to lead other women out of this cesspool. She wonders why more is not said in churches about life issues.  I’ve been a member of our church since 1976 and have never heard a word about abortion.

Abby: I grew up in a pro-life Christian home, but I never once heard my preacher talk about abortion.
Pastor: I preach about abortion every year during Respect Life month and the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade.
Abby: It’s not enough. About 70% of women who have abortions come from the church.
Pastor: But Abby...really...how often do you think I should be preaching about abortion?
Abby: I don’t know, but I will say that when I worked at Planned Parenthood, it was not uncommon for a woman to be holding a rosary or Bible in her hands while she laid on the abortion table. So you tell me, how often should you preach about abortion?

From her FaceBook page.

Does the term "drinking the Kool-aid" come to mind?

I guess we know who Democrats are listening to--the MSM and their echo chamber friends on FaceBook. It worked with youth in 2008.  Pew Report:  "Just 15% of Democrats say recent economic news is mostly bad, down from 31% a month ago and among the lowest percentages over the last four years. Six-in-ten Republicans (60%) say news about the economy is mostly bad, as do 36% of independents."

What happened in just a month?  The lies told in Charlotte is the only thing I can think of.  None of the numbers have changed.

http://www.people-press.org/files/legacy-pdf/9-11-12%20Econ%20News%20release.pdf

Holder needs to go . . . forward his mail, too.

“Internal Department of Justice emails obtained by The Daily Caller show Attorney General Eric Holder’s communications staff has collaborated with the left-wing advocacy group Media Matters for America in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals plaguing Holder and America’s top law enforcement agency.

Dozens of pages of emails between DOJ Office of Public Affairs Director Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters staffers show Schmaler, Holder’s top press defender, working with Media Matters to attack reporters covering DOJ scandals. TheDC obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act request.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/18/emails-reveal-justice-dept-regularly-enlists-media-matters-to-spin-press/#ixzz26x3PyciY

The choice is clear, redistribution of your wealth or free enterprise

George Soros donates millions to Obama’s cause to bring down our nation

Soros, who spent $27 million trying to defeat President Bush in 2004, has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets – including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, NBC and ABC--that could account for what you Democrats are believing—your  news sources are screwed up.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/05/08/george_soros_hes_all_in_for_obama_in_2012

The brown savior with Muslim ties in 2008 is being burned in effigy in 2012

Man of the World

“Flash forward to 2012, and his brown face is being incinerated in effigy on several continents, while mobs of hysterical Muslims shout death to his African name. George W. Bush never saw such an outbreak of fury. If an Iraqi once threw a shoe at President Bush, this is an entire store full of footwear. The man of the world found the world turned against him. What in the world had gone wrong?

What could and did was foretold in his 2008 speech in Berlin, when he told the hysterical crowds in attendance that the Wall had come down when (and because) "the world stood as one." But the world was never as one, then or ever: The world was as two, and the Wall had come down because one world (that led by the United States and the Atlantic Alliance) had, through force, threats of force and several hair-raising near-clashes, forced the communist world to its knees.

It was in the failure of this man of the world to embrace his role as the leader of one part of the world against the more dangerous other that the seeds of his failure were planted. Instead of raising the West, he has tried to merge the two sides and make them seem equal, stressing the flaws of the West and its allies, not taking democracy's side.”

Truth—it’s tough for the media to parse

Romney told the truth about the 47% who would not be reached by a message about increasing taxes, and the media pounced.  How dare he point to an empty chair which so many love and will vote for.

And it was President Carter’s grandson who worked so hard mining search terms on the internet to find it.  Grandpa is so proud.  I don’t think the Fourth has a job, but he can sit in his jammies and dig stuff up.

A war against women led by the king of food stamps

You want fair? This is fair?

A tower of champagne bottles

Wonder how many poor children 800 bottles of $350 champagne could have fed?  Oh well, they were probably just poor black children—the ones who got away from the abortion clinics.

The Middle East is going up in flames, and like Nero Obama grins and laughs while celebs pay the bills.  He pulled in $6 million at Jay-Z’s event.  How many campaign events since 9/11 when the middle east riots started?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/beyonce_jay_host_ny_bam_ba_5wud17kNBMEiV8wim9YYJK

Didn’t he say he’d be accountable? Another lie?

If there are socialists in the teachers’ unions

there are socialists in the classrooms teaching the kids of Chicago.

“. . .socialist factions of the union blasted union president Karen Lewis for failing to disclose the full deal to members. A socialist leaflet distributed on Sunday accusing her of issuing a “package” summary of the deal to sell it to ignorant members.

The socialist statement accused the union leadership of conceding too much to the school system, allowing, for example, evaluations that “victimize teachers.””

http://freebeacon.com/socialists-stall-contract-agreement-in-chicago/

This is recovery?

Since Obama took office: 692,000 more women are  unemployed; 321,000 more young Americans are unemployed;  293,000 more Hispanic Americans are unemployed ;  329,000 more African-Americans are unemployed.

Didn’t he promise a one term presidency if he couldn’t turn things around?  Let’s help him keep at least one promise. Send him back home to Chicago.

Forward his mail after the election.

Only Israel

I have visited Israel.  Have you? Compare the freedom the Israeli Palestinians have there to what Palestinians have in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria or Egypt.  Even if born in those countries—even if their grandparents were—they are not citizens, can’t work, can’t vote, can’t own property.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/world/middleeast/05iht-m05-lebanon-camp.html?pagewanted=all

http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/8643

http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/expert-guides/palestinian-refugees-in-egypt/fmo028.pdf

Where are you getting your news?

A friend writes:  “I just returned from the UK last night; turned on the 5:30 news - flipping back & forth between MSNBC and FOX to see how they were covering things. MSNBC spent it's time criticizing Romney nearly exclusively, FOX covered the events unfolding. “

So, I don't have a paper copy of the Washington Post, just on-line. I see 2 stories about how Romney has messed up his message and is floundering, but nothing about Obama's mistakes which are critical to our security. Hey guys, which one is the president? Really, the MSM is beyond lapdog stuff, they have sunk to puppy pads.

Media in full attack mode, but. . .

Jennifer Rubin of Right Turn at the Washington Post:  “Yesterday, virtually the entire liberal media and some on the right as well made the story of the day not about the murder of our diplomats, not about why we did not prepare for a potential assault, not about whether President Obama’s halting policies had come home to roost, but about why Mitt Romney, after a day of silence from the White House following an atrocious apology issued in Cairo (we now know issued without authorization), spoke out when he did.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/whos-to-blame-for-the-original-cairo-apology/2012/09/12/8aecf7ca-fd26-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_blog.html

Blacks are on the move

They are moving to the suburbs and they are moving to the sun belt, to the south where their grandparents lived and left early in the 20th century.  The big cities of the north have failed them, the Democratic power house, big liberal, keep ‘em in the projects, cities run by the Democrat machines. Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and New York are losing college educated, middle class, two parent black families to warmer, friendlier, economically freer climes. And those not headed south are moving to the suburbs.  Blacks are about 13% of the voting population, they have about 40% of the abortions, and voted 95% for the first black president, first American president ever supported by Planned Parenthood and NARAL.

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_3_great-remigration.html

Joe Pags plays the national anthem

Joe Pags occasionally substitutes for Glenn Beck.  Interesting guy.

Our puppy pad media—all they can soak up

Oh gosh, don’t you feel so sorry for him!

A spin journalist for WaPo reported:

President Obama went through with a campaign appearance in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening and, after laboring to quiet an exuberant crowd, began his speech with a somber tribute to the four Americans killed Tuesday in Libya.

I wonder what sort of day the family members had finding out the ambassador was raped, or that bloody hand prints were found on walls as 4 Americans were dragged to their death.

And our glorious president couldn’t even be respectful enough to stick around Washington to see if anyone else was in danger (they were, as it turned out).  I think he could get more “undecided” votes by being presidential.

The Story, Chapter 4, Deliverance

Our church is using “The Story,” a retelling of the famous stories of the Bible from Creation to Redemption to Resurrection.  There are several opportunities during the week to participate in a small group using this resource. Today we were on Exodus 3 and Moses.   In today’s sermon by Pastor Paul we heard about Moses--and God's plan of deliverance.  Pastor Buff says this is the center piece—the story of how God will save and rescue through the shed blood  (door posts).  Lots of sub-texts, like how a Pharaoh who didn't know about Joseph decided the population of the Hebrew slaves was becoming too great, so he killed their babies to limit their population growth.  Obama isn't the first (or last) ruler to take population control into his own hands. The government wasn't greater than God then either.

                                 

Under Obama our credit rating continues to fall

Ratings agency Egan-Jones on Friday downgraded the U.S. country rating to AA-minus from AA, citing the Federal Reserve's latest stimulus program to boost the sluggish economy.

The Fed on Thursday said it would pump $40 billion into the U.S. economy each month until it saw a sustained upturn in the weak jobs market.

"(The) Fed's QE3 will stoke the stock market and commodity prices but in our opinion (it) will hurt the U.S. economy and, by extension, credit quality," Egan-Jones said in a statement about the latest quantitative easing program.

"The increased cost of commodities will pressure profitability of businesses, and increase the costs of consumers thereby reducing consumer purchasing power."

Moody's Investors Service currently rates the United States Aaa, Fitch rates the country AAA, and Standard & Poor's rates the country AA-plus. All three of those ratings have a negative outlook.

Source

Biden and Ryan—the debate

Some are rubbing palms to see this debate. And two Catholics? Unlike Protestants (I’m a Lutheran in a new synod, but have been a member of two other denominations), who get stuck with boring, endless, everyday sin--fornication, gossip, stealing--they get to have levels and degrees of sin. And there's a difference between tolerating sin and promoting sin, says this author:

"Biden promotes (and does not merely advocate toleration of) things the Church considers to be intrinsic evils, something no Catholic can in any circumstances do. And he tolerates things no government ought ever to tolerate without the loss of legitimacy. Ryan, on the other hand, has never, so far as I know, advanced or promoted something the Church considers an intrinsic evil. There are two such areas that might be pointed out: abortion and homosexual "marriage."

This article contains full quotes from both candidates.

http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=47443

I thought Hillary was doing a pretty good job

until she came up with this question:

Today, many Americans are asking – indeed, I asked myself – how could this happen? How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction? This question reflects just how complicated and, at times, how confounding the world can be.

Really?  Is that what we were asking? Does anyone outside the delegates in Charlotte who screamed to take God out of the party and hand over Jerusalem really think what the world got after Arab Spring (fundamentalist Muslim tyrants) was better than what it had before (secular Muslim tyrants)?

Complicated?  It was the anniversary of 9/11.  You guys had been reviewing gleefully the death of Osama bin Laden as the high point of a flat presidency.

Don’t go all girly on us, Hil.

From Paul Ryan

“We don't need sugar high economics. We don't need synthetic money creation. We need economic growth. We want wealth creation. We don't want to print money. We want opportunity and growth.”

Can’t say for sure, but I assume he’s talking about QE3, the fed’s plan to print more money to goose Obama’s campaign with artificially high profits for investments in the next 2 months, then of course, the plunge. Printing money makes the stock market look good and some crony capitalists might make a profit, but it doesn’t create solid jobs. Today a good friend confided her fears for the economy—she’s a single, professional woman and very scared.

Valerie Jarrett has better protection . . .

“The consulate in Benghazi was an interim facility, with only a standard door lock for security, and worse, Ambassador Stevens was traveling with only a light security detail, rather than in the heavily armed convoys our diplomats in the region usually employ. The attack on the Benghazi was no mere target of opportunity spurred by reaction to the “Innocence of Muslims” film; the film is just a pretext. The killing of Ambassador  Stevens was a premeditated hit, planned and carried out as retaliation for the recent drone strike that killed the number two Al Qaida operative in Afghanistan recently. The vulnerability of Stevens at the Benghazi compound was scouted out carefully. All the other embassy protest activity is just covering theater.”

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/09/chaos-at-the-state-dept.php

Obama’s supporters, not his detractors, are hurting him

“Before he became president, people were already naming their kids after him. Songs and poems were written about him. Women dreamed about being with him. Black men and children spoke about finally having a role model to look up to. Once he became president, a few public schools even changed their names to include Obama’s name. He was to be not just the Commander in Chief, but the Unifier of the World. Not even a year in his presidency and with no major accomplishment under his belt, he was handed the Nobel Peace Prize. The supernaturally high expectation trap for him was set not by his detractors, but by those who were too gullible to realize that he was just a politician.

With the economy’s continuous slide downward, the Obama fan base has acted more like stage hands for cheap magic show in Vegas. No president is perfect. But because they (the fan base) already set the tone for his term as nothing less than perfection, they have used every excuse in the book to cover up his imperfections. Bad economy? It’s the Tea Party’s fault. High unemployment numbers? Blame business owners for not hiring. Middle East policy utterly fails? Blame Romney for criticizing Obama.

When Obama went to the Middle East not too long ago to apologize and to lecture those world leaders how to basically conduct themselves, his fan base gave him every accolade out there. Later, he was praised for his “leadership” in helping to create what they called “The Arab Spring”.”

From Duane at BlackInformant.com

And the Good News is . . .

This is great. He plans to be breaking out of his tomb. Me too. Don't know when, but for Christians, that's our hope--"We know that the same God who raised our Lord Jesus will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself along with you. . . so we don't look at the troubles we can see right now; rather, we look forward to what we have not yet seen." Paul writing to the Christians living in Corinth in the 1st century A.D.

Will Obama go after other parts of the first amendment—he’s already taken out religion with the HHS Mandate

The president believes in free speech.  He didn't do anything about Dave Letterman making sexual remarks about Palin's young daughter; he didn't do anything about Bill Maher's film that insults Jews, Christians, AND Muslims; he enjoys sexist, racist hip hop music.  So really, is he going to go after a YouTube film?  Hmmm. That depends if it is politically expedient.

In Sydney, Australia, police used pepper spray against the protesters, who chanted "Obama, Obama, we love Osama" and waved placards saying "Behead all those who insult the Prophet."

And look who just last week was bragging about taking out Osama. And not giving Bush any of the blame.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/protests-anti-islam-film-spread-australia-200-clash-police-u-s-consulate-sydney-article-1.1160356#ixzz26Z2CetMv

Will Obama now give back PAC money from donor who insulted Islam in a film?

Bill Maher made a film that mocked Christianity and Islam. Bill Maher also contributed $1 million to a pro-Obama super PAC. Will Obama now give it back since the administration is blaming a youtube video that's been out for months for violence on 9/11?

Maher's film "Religulous" grossed over $13 million after having a production budget of $2.5 million. As of 2012, it's 15th among the highest grossing documentaries in the US and was the highest grossing documentary of 2008. [Wikipedia] "He takes shots at the three major monotheistic religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Religulous also mocks the more bizarre elements of Scientology and Mormonism. Eastern religions like Buddhism and Hinduism get a free pass." [Purple state of mind]

A Jew ridiculing Islam? That would have provoked a riot, if that's what this mess in the Middle East  is about.  But there’s always free speech for the Democrat. Just not for others.

Let’s blame an obscure film instead of the 9/11 anniversary and a careless President

The "producer" of the offensive internet film about Islam which has spurred violence in Mid-East? Created by a 55-year old man, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, convicted on bank fraud charges and banned from the INTERNET as part of his sentence.  Oh yes, that should stop it.

But then, the violence would have happened anyway. It was 9/11 and guess who had just finished several days in Charlotte celebrating the death of Osama, killed by Obama?  And who would ever think that even a small group would want to retaliate and pick that date.