Who is responsible for the current economic malaise? If you ask Bill Whittle, it's Obama's pals like David Axelrod, Harry Reid and Tim Geithner, some of the many Merchants of Despair. These merchants are costing taxpayers trillions and creating deep national divides based on class and race. Will the despair continue for another four years?

With thanks to Godfather Politics:

Barack Obama still claims to be a Christian, even though his track record is the most anti Bible record of any president or administration.  Time and time again, he has attacked the Bible and Bible believing Christians and repeatedly removes any vestiges of the Bible from the government, military and society in general.  If he doesn't do it directly, he does it through administrative policies.

If you don't believe me, then look at the following list of times that the pseudo president and/or his administration has said or taken action against the Bible, biblical principles and those that believe in the Bible:

April 2008 - Obama is demeaning of Christians when he said they "cling to guns or religion" and have an "antipathy to people who aren't like them."

January 2009 - Obama decides to use US taxpayer funds to start paying for abortions and abortion counseling in other countries.

January 2009 - James B Steinberg, Obama's nominee for Deputy Secretary of State declares that limiting abortion funding is unconstitutional thus requiring taxpayers to pay for abortions.

February 2009 - Obama takes aim at health workers who use conscience protection to refuse to take part in any medical actions that are against their faith by announcing that the protection will be revoked.  (It was revoked in Feb 2011)

March 2009 - The White House sponsors a health care summit and prohibits pro-life groups from attending.

March 2009 - Obama reverses former President Bush's ban on embryonic stem cell research and provides taxpayer funding for more research.

March 2009 - Obama provides $50 M for the United Nations population control agency (UNFPA) which is involved with the compulsory abortions and sterilizations in China.

April 2009 - Obama makes speech at Georgetown University and insists that a Jesus symbol be covered up while he is speaking.

April 2009 - Obama intentionally nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican who immediately rejected the nominees.

May 2009 - Obama breaks White House tradition by refusing to host the National Prayer Day services.  However, the White House does host the Islamic fast-breaking dinner of Ramadan known as Iftar.

May 2009 - Obama's budget cuts all funding for 176 abstinence only educational programs in favor of more liberal sex education programs that statistically result in more teen pregnancies and abortions.

May 2009 - Obama administration defines pro-life advocates as violent, racist and involved in criminal activities in their new terrorism dictionary.

July 2009 - Obama violated the federal Defense of Marriage Act by extending benefits to same-sex partners of employees of the Executive Branch along with those in the Foreign Service division.

September 16, 2009 - Chai Feldblum is appointed commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  Feldblum says that no personal beliefs that are negative to homosexuality should be tolerated in America and that gay sex is morally good.

2010 - The White House purposely refrains from making any official proclamations or statements involving biblical holidays while at the same time acknowledges and celebrates Muslims holidays such as Ramadan (Islamic month of fasting), Eid-ul-Fitr (marks the end of Ramadan) and Eid-ul-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice).

April 2010 - The Obama led Pentagon cancelled the invitation to Rev. Franklin Graham (son of Rev Billy Graham) to participate in their National Day of Prayer due to complaints from Muslims.

April 2010 - The Obama administration appeases Muslims by removing offensive terms such as jihad, jihadist, terrorists, radical Islamic, from government documents and vocabulary.

July 2010 - Obama violates federal law by using federal funding to force his homeland of Kenya to make abortion part of its constitution.

August 2010 - Obama makes a speech where he praised Islam and demeans Christianity.

August 2010 - Obama speaks in favor of the proposal to build a mosque at Ground Zero but says nothing about the Christian church that was denied plans to rebuild at the same site.

September 2010 - Ignoring the order of a federal judge to stop federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, the Obama administration instructs researchers to carry on with their work.

October 19, 2010 - Obama intentionally avoids the phrase 'the Creator' when he quotes the Declaration of Independence.  To date, this has occurred a total of seven times.

November 2010 - Obama purposely quotes National Motto as 'E pluribus unum' (out of many, one), instead of 'In God We Trust' which was established by Congress in 1956.

February 2011 - Obama relents to pressure from Congress and public, finally fills post of Religious Freedom Ambassador in the State Department after the post was intentionally left vacant for two years.

February 2011 - Obama defies federal law by instructing the Department of Justice to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act.

March 2011 - Obama administration is presented with videos of illegal practices of Planned Parenthood that help sex traffickers obtain abortions for victimized underage girls and they refuse to take any action on the matter.

April 2011 - Obama pushes a law to force all religious groups to use federal rules for hiring regardless if such practice causes them to hire against their religious beliefs.

June 2011 - References to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery are forbidden by the Department of Veteran Affairs.

July 2011 - Obama forces military to allow gays to openly serve, ending a policy initially established by then General George Washington in 1778.

August 2011 - Air Force officers being trained in California are no longer taught the 'Just War' theory which has been taught by most civilized nations.  The theory is based upon the teachings and philosophy by St Augustine, a noted Christian leader back in the third century.

August 2011 - Obama administration removes religious conscience protection for all medical personnel concerning abortion and contraception.

September 2011 - Obama appointed Air Force Chief of Staff orders all commanders to no longer notify members of the Air Force of any services or programs conducted by chaplains.

September 2011 - Army instructs Walter Reed Medical Center to halt anyone from giving away Bibles, religious reading materials or any other religious items during visitation.

September 2011 - Pentagon follows White House directive and orders all military chaplains to violate the Defense of Marriage Act and perform same-sex marriages if asked, regardless of their religious beliefs.

October 2011 - Obama follows advice from Muslim advisors and denies Christians from the Middle East from gaining access to the White House.

October 2011 - Obama administration punishes US Conference of Catholic Bishops by blocking federal grants used to aid victims of human trafficking, due to the anti-abortion position of the Catholic Church.

November 2011 - US Air Force Academy stops supporting Operation Christmas Child because it is run by a Christian charity.  The Operation supplies gifts to underprivileged children throughout the world.

November 2011 - US Air Force Academy used $80,000 of taxpayer funds to erect a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans.

November 2011 - Obama breaks presidential tradition by purposely not making any references to the religious aspects of the holiday.  Instead, his speech was all about him.

December 2011 - Obama and his administration condemn other nations' religious beliefs and claims they are impediments to the acceptance of homosexual rights.

January 2012 - Obama administration declares that churches and synagogues are not protected in their hiring of ministers and rabbis by the First Amendment.

February 2012 - Obama administration announces program to forgive student loans in exchange for public service provided that service has no religious connection.

February 2012 - Obama apologizes to Muslims worldwide for the accidental burning of Korans (which were defaced by radical Muslims in detention) by US soldiers but said nothing about the Bibles that were burned at the same time.

February 2012 - U. S. Military Academy at West Point revokes invitation of Retired Lieutenant General William Boykin, a decorated war hero, to speak at an Academy event because of his outspoken Christian views.

February 2012 - Air Force removes 'Dei' (Latin for God) from Rapid Capabilities Office patch.  The old patch logo read 'Opus Dei Cum Pecunia Alienum Efficemus' (Doing God's Work with Other People's Money).  The new logo reads 'Miraculi Cum Pecunia Alienum Efficemus' (Doing Miracles with Other People's Money).

February 2012 - Obama administration has Army forbid Catholic chaplains from reading letter from Archbishop Timothy Broglio from the pulpits.  The letter was an instruction to Catholic chaplains to resist the Obamacare edict requiring religious institutions to provide contraceptives, sterilization and abortifacients.

I realize the list is long, and it is undoubtedly not a complete list.  Worse yet is that the list of his pro-Muslim statements and activities are equally as long.  He may claim to be a Christian, but his actions seem to be 100% pro-Muslim and 100% anti-Bible.

I think I may have stumbled across (my brain is actually quite good at stumbling) a way to make inroads into the black vote so heavily hooked into voting for Democrats.

Blacks are overwhelmingly socially conservative.  Something like 70+% are against abortion, gay marriage, etc.  Why do conservatives not point out that there are roughly 300,000 black babies murdered every year by being aborted.  Since 1973 when the Supreme Court made the controversial ruling Roe v Wade that allowed abortion, more than 11 million black babies have been killed.  That's almost twice the number of innocent lives lost than during The Holocaust.

This from the on-line dictionary:  genocide |ˈjenəˌsīd|
noun
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

If 300,000 blacks being murdered each year isn't genocide, then maybe we need a new definition.  It's not Republicans or conservatives that are in favor of this.  In fact, Margaret Sanger, a Democrat and founder of Planned Parenthood, had as her sole purpose of founding the organization the "thinning of the herd" of blacks in this country.  She appealed to groups like the KKK.

"I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered." (Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, P.366)

And who supports Planned Parenthood today?  Why that would be the Democrat Party.  The same party that formed the KKK, passed Jim Crow laws and seceded from the Union because slavery was being threatened.  Maybe it's time we told the truth about Democrats. 

Maybe we can convince some black Americans that they're being taken for a ride...and to the ovens.

Barack Hussein Obama's father was a Muslim.  His step-father was Muslim and President Dude attended Muslim schools in Indonesia where he lived with mommie dearest and her second beau.  However the prevaricator-in-chief claims to never have been a Muslim.  Strange that he would then claim that the sound of the Islamic call to prayers was "one of the prettiest sounds on earth."  This from an interview with then-Senator Obama in the NY Times (not exactly the bastion of conservatism:) 

"I was a little Jakarta street kid," he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office [...]. He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics -- and more likely to be aware of their nationalism -- if he once studied the Koran with them.

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."

According to sharia (Islamic Law) and the prophet and pedophile Muhammed, there are two types of apostates.

The first type is murtad milli, one who converted to Islam and later renounced the faith. The second, and most egregious, type is murtad fitri. It refers to a person born of a Muslim father who renounces his birthright. Two recent examples of the latter are Magdi Allam (a male Egyptian who converted to Catholicism in Italy) and Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somali-born woman who's now an atheist). Both now face death threats. (Source:  Christian Science Monitor.)

According to Islamic jurisprudence, children of a Muslim father - even an apparently nonpracticing one, such as Obama's father, and irrespective of the mother's faith - are automatically Muslims. Most Muslims around the world agree: A child of a Muslim father is a Muslim. Period.

Most Muslim clerics agree that apostates must be killed.  They make no bones about it either.  They have issued many fatwas against those who convert to Christianity from the religion of peace.

So why hasn't any devout Muslim tried to kill Obama?  Taqiyya (found in sharia law): Refers to permissible lying in Islam. Taqiyya is generally allowable if it is done for the purpose of masking a Muslim's identity as such, or in waging conflict with an enemy. The aim is to mislead the enemy about the true nature, goals, or strength of Islam.

So, again, why hasn't any devout Muslim tried to kill Obama?

I'm just askin'.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. ~Sir Winston Churchill

So in a clear Q.E.D. of Churchill's prophetic statement on the 'equal sharing of misery', the Wall Street Journal article titled "In New High, Spain's Jobless Rate Nears 23% " (source: http://hrng.us/yZgGJ0) also tells us that unemployment for those under 25 years of age is at 49.%. Yes, nearly half the people of Spain 25 and can not find a job!

Why?

Collectivized and stateist policies continue to wring jobs out of the Spanish economy by rigid regulations, mandating generous spiraling benefit payouts and high dismissal costs. And for many employers the high dismissal costs are the single greatest disincentive to hiring.  The dismissal cost is a penalty the employer must pay to discharge any employee. It penalty is set by the Worker's Charter  promulgated into law in 1980 and an 'unfair dismal' can equate to at least 42 months of Salary! The Worker's Charter board rarely decides with the employer for reasons for termination thus leaving the Employer - on the hook for indeterminate financial liability! (source: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inst/download/dp210_2011.pdf)

The lesson here is that - the Spanish government has forgotten the real purpose of business and instead thinks that purpose is to give people jobs.

Regrettably this seems to be the model our own government is too willing to embrace.

I want to vote for you.  I really do.  I believe that your executive experience, both in the public and private sectors, makes you uniquely qualified to lead our nation out of this economic morass that we let ourselves be led into by progressives in both parties. 

 

But I'm afraid.  I'm afraid that you don't have the gravitas to jump into the ring and go toe-to-toe in a bloody slugfest with a dirty street fighter who will stop at nothing to get re-elected.

 

You see, you've said several times that President Obama is just "in over his head."  That implies that he's either stupid or incompetent.  Neither of which is true.  He knows exactly what he is doing.  He and his cabal are systematically going about the destruction of the United States of America with a distinct purpose.   He said he will "fundamentally transform The United States of America."  He is.

 

His plan is two-fold.  First, destroy our economy.  He is doing a masterful job of that, having incurred more than $5 trillion in debt in three years.  Unemployment has held steady at Depression-era numbers for more than two years and everything he does inhibits job creators from hiring.  With the help of the Federal Reserve, our money is fast becoming worthless.  In addition, he has done everything possible to deny the American people's access to domestic energy sources thereby insuring our dependence on our nation's enemies for our energy supplies and high prices for all goods and services.

 

Second, he wants a massive reduction in forces and to cut $1 trillion from our defense budget.  At a time of increasing hostility towards America, and enemies threatening us from all points on the globe, this is folly.  Unless, of course, you want America to become a third-rate military power and incapable of defending herself.

 

At best, Barack Obama is a socialist.  At worst, he is a communist.  But whatever he really is, he is out to take America down.  I believe that has always been his plan.  And he is succeeding.

 

Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War:  "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

 

Until you are ready to acknowledge who Barack Obama really is, you will never defeat him.

Rudy Giuliani To Newt Gingrich:

'What The Hell Are You Doing?'

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The political economist Frederic Bastiat tried to warn us - over 160 years ago - in his work "The Law" that there would be those who would wish to plunder our persons, liberty and property AND limit our ability to protect & defend ourselves by supplanting  our natural rights with the laws of the their own aims. To affect this legal pillage, they would use (and change when necessary)the Laws of Government to allow the state to sanction common force against the individual . When the Government's common force is perverted, the individual's right to self-defense is set aside - set aside in favor of an another more preferred or favored group.

Now, it seems as if the radical Islamists and their willing dhimmis have taken a tactic from the plunderers playbook exposed in "The Law"-  to use Government force in favor of Islam at the expense of all other ideologies.  Yes, it is abundantly clear that according to the Koran, Islam is more than a theology it is a complex sociological and governmental life system whose ideology is incompatible with Western Civilization.

The startling thing about the article "Black Day for Austria"  (not Australia as I first read) http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2702/sabaditsch-wolff-appeal  excerpted below ...

An Austrian appellate court has upheld the conviction of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a Viennese housewife and anti-Jihad activist, for "denigrating religious beliefs" after giving a series of seminars about the dangers of radical Islam.

The December 20 ruling shows that while Judaism and Christianity can be disparaged with impunity in postmodern multicultural Austria, speaking the truth about Islam is subject to swift and hefty legal penalties.

Although the case has major implications for freedom of speech in Austria, as well as in Europe as a whole, it has received virtually no press coverage in the American mainstream media.

...is NOT the lack of press coverage; but, the complete lack of concern to where this long dark road really leads!

Lest there be any doubt, this road leads to a place where few in the western world could imagine today ... a hole of intellectual darkness so vast and deep: that not only can women not drive - they have nothing unless it is deemed so by their husband, father or brother; where most men not only do not read or think, they are know only the 6346 verses of Koran; a place where technology does not function, instead it is magic that must be exorcized ... a place so dark where what once was known slips back in to the unknowable, where enlightenment is obscure and heretics are beheaded.