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Subject: FW: Fwd: FW: Christian Humor!!!
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:30:55 -0400
From: Dave Decker
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 11:11 AM
Subject: FW: Fwd: FW: Christian Humor!!!
A Little Christian Humor
This is one of the best clean jokes I've seen in a while!
Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally fed up, God said, 'THAT'S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job.'
So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused.
They faxed.
They e-mailed.
They e-mailed with attachments.
They downloaded..
They did spreadsheets!
They wrote reports.
They created labels and cards..
They created charts and graphs..
They did some genealogy reports .
They did every job known to man.
Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell.
Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off..
Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld.
Jesus just sighed..
Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming:
'It's gone! It's all GONE! 'I lost everything when the power went out!'
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work.
Satan observed this and became irate.
'Wait!' he screamed. 'That's not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don't have any?'
God just shrugged and said,
JESUS SAVES....
AMEN!!!!!
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Army preps for Tea Party Terrorists- Thanks Alma!
Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2010/04/29/army-preps-for-tea-party-terrorists/
Alexander's Essay – April 29, 2010
Army Preps for Tea Party 'Terrorists'
"The duty imposed upon [the president] to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people." --Justice Joseph Story
A few months back, the commander in chief or our Armed Forces, that erstwhile community organizer Barack Hussein Obama, denigrated a large cross section of Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement -- those who advocate for Essential Liberty and Rule of Law.
Obama identified them as malcontents, "waving their little tea bags."
Since then, the Obama administration and their Leftmedia sycophants have endeavored to characterize Tea Party attendees as rude, radical, racist, redneck, enemies of the state.
In fact, Americans who attend Tea Party rallies are from all walks of life, as noted in the Patriot Declaration, Patriots who are peacefully and constitutionally petitioning their government for redress.
As I noted in my tax-day essay, Tea Parties are "not a call for revolution but for restoration -- a call to undertake whatever measures are dictated by prudence and necessity to restore constitutional Rule of Law."
However, Obama's words do have consequences.
This week, I was contacted by a number of military personnel, enlisted and officer ranks, who expressed concern about a military exercise underway at Ft. Knox, the U.S. Bullion Depository. As with most such exercises, the Ft. Knox alert occurred in stages, as if real time intelligence was being provided at various intervals.
The first intel advisory was issued on Friday, 23 April 2010, and identifies the terrorist threat adversaries as "Local Militia Groups / Anti-Government Protesters / TEA Party."
You read that right: "TEA Party"!
The alert states that plans for the demonstration may have been interrupted by "Federal and local law enforcement" raids on a "White Supremacists Organization," but "TEA Party organizers have stated that they will protest at the Gold Vault at a future date."
Further, the intel advisory states, "Anti-Government - Health Care Protesters have stated that they would join the TEA Party as a sign of solidarity."
In accordance with the exercise, Ft. Knox post security is placed on high alert because, "these groups are armed, have combative training and some are former Military Snipers. Some may have explosives training / experience," and "a rally at their compound / training area is scheduled."
Another intel update was issued on Monday, 26 April 2010, noting that the "rally at the Militia compound occurred," and "Viable threats ... have been made." The intel on the rally notes, "Many members were extremely agitated at what they referred to as Government intervention and over taxation in their lives. Alcohol use 'fanned the flames.' Many military grade firearms were openly carried. An ad hoc 'shoot the government agent' event was held with prizes (alcohol) given for the best shot placement."
The report states further, "Components of bomb making are reported to have been on the site. Some members have criminal records relating to explosive and weapons violations."
In response to the "immediate threat," the exercise stipulates, "local detention centers are being made ready for mass arrests." Both the "QRF I and QRF II" are placed on two hour recall, and the "5-15 CAV" was ordered to "draw weapons from holder and store in most available arms room," and "coordinate with MASA for immediate ammunition draw; have equipment readied for immediate use, i.e. vehicles staged and loaded IAW 5-15 CAV SOP; LMR's charged."
QRF refers to Quick Reaction Force. QRF I is the 16th Cavalry Regiment. QRF II is the 194th Armored Brigade.
The 26 April order gives specific instructions for the 5-15 CAV (a 16th Cavalry battalion) to have weapons, ammo, vehicles and communications at ready, and it places the other 2,200 members of the units on two-hour recall. In other words, these orders are to gear up for defending Ft. Knox against Tea Party folks and their co-conspirators who oppose nationalization of our health care sector.
Now, for almost 30 years I have participated in the development and implementation of small and large scale military exercises within the U.S. and around the world.
Such exercises are critical to the readiness of our forces, and the standard for the real time intel reports in these drills requires thinly veiled references to assets of existing or collateral threat vectors such as communist regimes such as China and real terrorist networks such as al-Qa'ida, etc.
Perhaps the writers of such exercises today should focus on response plans for, say, an Islamic terrorist who attacks a post. (See Ft. Hood / Major Nidal Malik Hasan.)
The Ft. Knox exercise is not only amateurish in its construct, but also sets an ominous political precedent.
The military officers and enlisted personnel with whom I spoke are all dedicated uniformed Patriots who are loyal, first and foremost, to their oath to "support and defend" our Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
Their concerns about this exercise mirrored my own. As one put it, the exercise "misrepresents freedom loving Americans as drunken, violent racists -- the opponents of Obama's policies have been made the enemy of the U.S. Army."
They were equally concerned that command staff at Ft. Knox had signed off on this exercise, noting, "it has been issued and owned by field grade officers who lead our battalions and brigades," which is to say many Lieutenant Colonels saw this order before it was implemented.
It's not likely that Ft. Knox Commanding General James Milano or Deputy Commander Col. David Teeples, or even the regimental and brigade commanders for the 16th Cav and 194th AB, actually read the exercise scenario, but that doesn't absolve responsibility for such an egregious example of political exploitation of U.S. forces.
One officer insisted, "The American people should require greater accountability of their commissioned officers, that they abide by their oath and never allow politically motivated propaganda like this exercise on any post or base again."
Another observed, "Whether this is complacency by officers who do not see such orders as a problem, or worse, officers who recognize the problem but do not insist the orders are changed, this is a serious problem. We are discussing the training of American citizen soldiers in the use of potentially deadly force against a specific group of political dissenters. There is never a time in an officer's career in which he does not have a duty to apply critical thought to the orders he is given and asked to give. It is my opinion that any officer that has allowed these orders to persist, to reach the level of junior officers and soldiers, has demonstrated a lack of judgment or apathy towards what his duty requires of him. Either way, we should demand more of the commissioned officers, who we as a nation empower to lead our sons and daughters into battle."
Indeed, and at best, the blatant malfeasance on the part of the individuals who composed this exercise reflects poorly on the uniformed services.
The antidote to this patent misrepresentation of peaceable Patriots is to expose it with the Light of Truth. As our motto Veritas vos Liberabit affirms, the Truth shall set you Free!
(Note: To report examples of politically motivated "exercises" in either the civilian or military sectors of our federal government, please contact us -- NewsTip@PatriotPost.US)
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Alexander's Essay – April 29, 2010
Army Preps for Tea Party 'Terrorists'
"The duty imposed upon [the president] to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people." --Justice Joseph Story
A few months back, the commander in chief or our Armed Forces, that erstwhile community organizer Barack Hussein Obama, denigrated a large cross section of Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement -- those who advocate for Essential Liberty and Rule of Law.
Obama identified them as malcontents, "waving their little tea bags."
Since then, the Obama administration and their Leftmedia sycophants have endeavored to characterize Tea Party attendees as rude, radical, racist, redneck, enemies of the state.
In fact, Americans who attend Tea Party rallies are from all walks of life, as noted in the Patriot Declaration, Patriots who are peacefully and constitutionally petitioning their government for redress.
As I noted in my tax-day essay, Tea Parties are "not a call for revolution but for restoration -- a call to undertake whatever measures are dictated by prudence and necessity to restore constitutional Rule of Law."
However, Obama's words do have consequences.
This week, I was contacted by a number of military personnel, enlisted and officer ranks, who expressed concern about a military exercise underway at Ft. Knox, the U.S. Bullion Depository. As with most such exercises, the Ft. Knox alert occurred in stages, as if real time intelligence was being provided at various intervals.
The first intel advisory was issued on Friday, 23 April 2010, and identifies the terrorist threat adversaries as "Local Militia Groups / Anti-Government Protesters / TEA Party."
You read that right: "TEA Party"!
The alert states that plans for the demonstration may have been interrupted by "Federal and local law enforcement" raids on a "White Supremacists Organization," but "TEA Party organizers have stated that they will protest at the Gold Vault at a future date."
Further, the intel advisory states, "Anti-Government - Health Care Protesters have stated that they would join the TEA Party as a sign of solidarity."
In accordance with the exercise, Ft. Knox post security is placed on high alert because, "these groups are armed, have combative training and some are former Military Snipers. Some may have explosives training / experience," and "a rally at their compound / training area is scheduled."
Another intel update was issued on Monday, 26 April 2010, noting that the "rally at the Militia compound occurred," and "Viable threats ... have been made." The intel on the rally notes, "Many members were extremely agitated at what they referred to as Government intervention and over taxation in their lives. Alcohol use 'fanned the flames.' Many military grade firearms were openly carried. An ad hoc 'shoot the government agent' event was held with prizes (alcohol) given for the best shot placement."
The report states further, "Components of bomb making are reported to have been on the site. Some members have criminal records relating to explosive and weapons violations."
In response to the "immediate threat," the exercise stipulates, "local detention centers are being made ready for mass arrests." Both the "QRF I and QRF II" are placed on two hour recall, and the "5-15 CAV" was ordered to "draw weapons from holder and store in most available arms room," and "coordinate with MASA for immediate ammunition draw; have equipment readied for immediate use, i.e. vehicles staged and loaded IAW 5-15 CAV SOP; LMR's charged."
QRF refers to Quick Reaction Force. QRF I is the 16th Cavalry Regiment. QRF II is the 194th Armored Brigade.
The 26 April order gives specific instructions for the 5-15 CAV (a 16th Cavalry battalion) to have weapons, ammo, vehicles and communications at ready, and it places the other 2,200 members of the units on two-hour recall. In other words, these orders are to gear up for defending Ft. Knox against Tea Party folks and their co-conspirators who oppose nationalization of our health care sector.
Now, for almost 30 years I have participated in the development and implementation of small and large scale military exercises within the U.S. and around the world.
Such exercises are critical to the readiness of our forces, and the standard for the real time intel reports in these drills requires thinly veiled references to assets of existing or collateral threat vectors such as communist regimes such as China and real terrorist networks such as al-Qa'ida, etc.
Perhaps the writers of such exercises today should focus on response plans for, say, an Islamic terrorist who attacks a post. (See Ft. Hood / Major Nidal Malik Hasan.)
The Ft. Knox exercise is not only amateurish in its construct, but also sets an ominous political precedent.
The military officers and enlisted personnel with whom I spoke are all dedicated uniformed Patriots who are loyal, first and foremost, to their oath to "support and defend" our Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic."
Their concerns about this exercise mirrored my own. As one put it, the exercise "misrepresents freedom loving Americans as drunken, violent racists -- the opponents of Obama's policies have been made the enemy of the U.S. Army."
They were equally concerned that command staff at Ft. Knox had signed off on this exercise, noting, "it has been issued and owned by field grade officers who lead our battalions and brigades," which is to say many Lieutenant Colonels saw this order before it was implemented.
It's not likely that Ft. Knox Commanding General James Milano or Deputy Commander Col. David Teeples, or even the regimental and brigade commanders for the 16th Cav and 194th AB, actually read the exercise scenario, but that doesn't absolve responsibility for such an egregious example of political exploitation of U.S. forces.
One officer insisted, "The American people should require greater accountability of their commissioned officers, that they abide by their oath and never allow politically motivated propaganda like this exercise on any post or base again."
Another observed, "Whether this is complacency by officers who do not see such orders as a problem, or worse, officers who recognize the problem but do not insist the orders are changed, this is a serious problem. We are discussing the training of American citizen soldiers in the use of potentially deadly force against a specific group of political dissenters. There is never a time in an officer's career in which he does not have a duty to apply critical thought to the orders he is given and asked to give. It is my opinion that any officer that has allowed these orders to persist, to reach the level of junior officers and soldiers, has demonstrated a lack of judgment or apathy towards what his duty requires of him. Either way, we should demand more of the commissioned officers, who we as a nation empower to lead our sons and daughters into battle."
Indeed, and at best, the blatant malfeasance on the part of the individuals who composed this exercise reflects poorly on the uniformed services.
The antidote to this patent misrepresentation of peaceable Patriots is to expose it with the Light of Truth. As our motto Veritas vos Liberabit affirms, the Truth shall set you Free!
(Note: To report examples of politically motivated "exercises" in either the civilian or military sectors of our federal government, please contact us -- NewsTip@PatriotPost.US)
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Mark Alexander
Publisher, PatriotPost.US
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TEA Party Movement
Find supplies for your local TEA party here from founding documents to stickers, flags and much more!
(To submit reader comments click here.)
*****
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
More than I ever dreamed of ... Softball
This may be somewhat controversial in this world of diversity. My naivette must show here. I played softball until I was becoming 75 two years ago. I was never aware of a gay player for or against any of the teams I was affiliated with. Oh well, read the fololowing at your own risk:
"The Homo Quota"—Inside The World Of Gay Softball
Earlier we wrote about three bisexual men suing the Gay World Series for excluding them because they "weren't gay enough." Let's examine the lengths organizers will go to to keep the sport gay, and how teams get around the rules.
The North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance has been the governing body for gay softball for the past 33 years, and the hard and fast rule is that each team can have a maximum of two heterosexual players on their roster. (According to the NAGAAA rules, heterosexual means "having a predominant sexual interest in a member or members of the opposite sex.")
The exemption exists for two reasons, says "Mike," a straight player for an Ohio team. "A lot of teams are concerned that they might not be able to field a full roster with just gays. It's easy enough to find a gay right fielder, but if you're in a smaller area, finding a pitcher or catcher who qualifies can be tougher. It just makes sense that if you've got seven guys who'd like to field a team, not to penalize them for not being able to find two more gay men."
And the second reason? It preemptively heads off claims of discrimination.
"They don't want to be sued," Mike says. "With this, they can say 'we let anyone play.'"
Because they're a private organization, the NAGAAA doesn't have to open membership to everyone. It's like Augusta National barring women until a few years ago, or, yes, like the Boy Scouts of America banning gay scoutmasters. But that's not an absolute defense, as lawsuits against Augusta, the Boy Scouts, and this week the NAGAAA, have shown.
Players have a love/hate relationship with the Homo Quota, as they call it. On one hand, they're happy to have a league for themselves, where they can comfortably be as out as they want to be. On the other hand, it seriously limits the talent pool. Those two "straight spots" are often used as ringers, and the more competitive teams will do whatever they can to find two great straight players — and occasionally more.
"We ended up losing one of our straight players because he got a girl pregnant," says "Rob," a gay player from Florida. "So I asked one of my straight friends to join our team and play outfield. After my team evaluated his performance they told me he could permanently join our team, but since he was only 'good,' but not 'really good,' he would have to 'be gay' in the eyes of the league because we didn't want to waste one of our straight spots on the roster on a straight player who is only pretty good."
Disguising straight ringers as gay men is fairly common practice in gay softball. According to the opposing team that filed the protest that led to the Seattle lawsuit, the three plaintiffs are actually heterosexual, and only claimed to be bisexual to skirt the two-player limit.
Teams will go to great lengths to cover up their players' heterosexuality, says Rob. "Each week, my other friend who doesn't play, shows up to the games as [the straight player's] 'boyfriend.' He is banned from my team of showing any signs of heterosexuality in public and even goes to a gay bar with me from time to time just to make an appearance."
The Homo Quota leads to gamesmanship, not only in smuggling straights onto your roster, but questioning players on other teams.
"After I'd played most of the teams," says Rob, "I found out from our team captain that the other teams were going to protest our wins because they thought that I was straight. I would have put us over the straight quota. So I wanted to know how exactly do I need to prove that I'm gay? Do I need to dance at a certain level, do I need to actually make out with men in front of a committee? I don't know what he ended up saying to stop them from protesting but they didn't go through with it."
Mike says that he's never been asked to pose as gay to free up a straight spot, but it's fairly common knowledge that a number of teams in his league pull that trick.
"It's not worth complaining," he says. "Some of my gay teammates know what it's like to be excluded because of who they are. How could they sleep at night if they turned around and did that to someone else?
"We're all just here to play softball with our friends."
Reasons the NAGAAA would discriminate against bisexuals?
a) switch-hitting
b) taking pitches the opposite way with power
c) drag bunting
d) beating out infield dribblers
e) double-headers
Softballing must not require such fundamentals. Reply
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Hit Bull Win Steak 04/23/10
There's an easy way to prove this. Just put them on the unpleasant side of a glory hole. Reply
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CaliCheeseSucks 04/23/10
I don't even think the true issue is the gay quota. It's that they won't allow bisexual players to play, essentially telling them, "Listen, you're either gay or you're straight."
"..how exactly do I need to prove that I'm gay? Do I need to dance at a certain level, do I need to actually make out with men in front of a committee?"
-Rawy Torres, 1989 Reply
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DirkToberFest 04/23/10
I think stories about gay people are hilarious.
Not because I enjoy laughing at gay people; I love gay people. But not like love love them like I'm gay or something.
Oh dear. I've really made a mess of this. Reply
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We Are All Lance Uppercut 04/23/10
It's easy enough to find a gay right fielder, but if you're in a smaller area, finding a pitcher or catcher who qualifies can be tougher.
Yeah, but if you're pitching it means you're not gay. Reply
OchentaYcinco 04/23/10
@We Are All Lance Uppercut: Just a bit too quick for me. On the other hand, how that joke went unmade for almost an hour is completely beyond me. Reply We Are All Lance Uppercut promoted this comment
We Are All Lance Uppercut 04/23/10
@OchentaYcinco: Right? It's like finding money on the sidewalk. Reply
OchentaYcinco 04/23/10
@We Are All Lance Uppercut: Exactly. You just need to be careful of your surroundings if you're gonna bend down to pick it up. Reply
See 3 replies Hide 3 replies bevraj of choice 04/23/10
What happens to gay men when they enter the realm of sports? You'd never see them missing a loophole in the fashion industry.
/Double checks for Freudian slips.
//Clicks 'Share' Reply
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Hatey McLife 04/23/10
This is a really sad story. Hopefully in a few years we won't have these divisions based on sexual preference.
With the promise of stem cell therapy, we can cure these people once and for all. Reply
DirkToberFest 04/23/10
@Hatey McLife: After that, we can work on the French. Reply
See 1 reply Hide 1 reply dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac 04/23/10
Let's examine the lengths organizers will go to to keep the sport gay Reply
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LatestBy 04/23/10
You're with me, Leatherdaddy. Reply
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FavreFAIL 04/23/10
I didn't realize they leaked the script to the next Bad News Bears film Reply
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MattinglysSideburns 04/23/10
"We're all just here to play softball with our friends."
- David J. Lesar on Halliburton's Iraq negotiations, 2002. Reply
Charisma 04/23/10
@MattinglysSideburns: Nice. Reply
See 1 reply Hide 1 reply Lionel Osbourne 04/23/10
I work hard and play hard for the Peter PanSexuals. Reply
Edited by Lionel Osbourne at 04/23/10 2:20 PM
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StuScott Booyahs 04/23/10
This would make a great movie starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. Reply
saltwatertaffy 04/23/10
@StuScott Booyahs: "The Switch Hitter". tagline: "Steppin' up to the plate just got complicated". Reply
StuScott Booyahs 04/23/10
@saltwatertaffy: Excellent. Reply
See 2 replies Hide 2 replies roland_t_flakfizer 04/23/10
...even goes to a gay bar with me from time to time just to make an appearance...
"This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit! Enjoy your deathtrap, ladies!" Reply
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BullfightsOnAcid 04/23/10
I thought Gay Softball was called Cricket. Reply
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Steve U 04/23/10
The Homo Quota
OK, so maybe I overuse the phrase "Bunburying." I hardly see any reason to call me out over it. Reply
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BullfightsOnAcid 04/23/10
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Choire 04/23/10
@BullfightsOnAcid: YAYS!!! *CLAPS HANDS* Reply
See 1 reply Hide 1 reply Choire 04/23/10
I only clicked through on this post for pictures. And there are none? WTF PEOPLE. Reply
BullfightsOnAcid 04/23/10
@Choire: Reply
Choire 04/23/10
@BullfightsOnAcid: WHEE!!! Reply
See 2 replies Hide 2 replies Gilbert Publicly Funded Arenas 04/23/10
not to penalize them for not being able to find two more gay men
The RIAA used this same logic when awarding a platinum record to the Village People after only the 999,998th album sold. Reply
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UkraineNotWeak 04/23/10
How do they keep score with so many balls in play? Reply
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rulesboy 04/23/10
It's easy enough to find a gay right fielder
Most commonly at Log Cabin Republican meetings. Reply
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Katni 04/23/10
This is just like the time I had to pretend to like Animal Collective in order to fill in on my friend's kickball team. Reply
ScientificMapp 04/23/10
@Katni: Nice. Reply
See 1 reply Hide 1 reply Dandy Koufax 04/23/10
NAGAAA, please. Reply
ArkansasFred 04/23/10
@Dandy Koufax: Awesome. Reply
Steve U 04/23/10
@Dandy Koufax: +1 Reply
bevraj of choice 04/23/10
@Dandy Koufax: Excellent +1 Reply
Gamboa Constrictor 04/23/10
@Dandy Koufax: This gave me that confused- look- that- slowly- turned- into- knowing- smile- and- slow- clap reaction that Conan is so fond of (I'm not that smart).Well done. Reply
ScientificMapp 04/23/10
@Gamboa Constrictor: Ditto Reply
See 5 replies Hide 5 replies Civil Negligence 04/23/10
Could you imagine the havoc A-Rod would wreck on this league should he decide to join? Reply
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"The Homo Quota"—Inside The World Of Gay Softball
Earlier we wrote about three bisexual men suing the Gay World Series for excluding them because they "weren't gay enough." Let's examine the lengths organizers will go to to keep the sport gay, and how teams get around the rules.
The North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance has been the governing body for gay softball for the past 33 years, and the hard and fast rule is that each team can have a maximum of two heterosexual players on their roster. (According to the NAGAAA rules, heterosexual means "having a predominant sexual interest in a member or members of the opposite sex.")
The exemption exists for two reasons, says "Mike," a straight player for an Ohio team. "A lot of teams are concerned that they might not be able to field a full roster with just gays. It's easy enough to find a gay right fielder, but if you're in a smaller area, finding a pitcher or catcher who qualifies can be tougher. It just makes sense that if you've got seven guys who'd like to field a team, not to penalize them for not being able to find two more gay men."
And the second reason? It preemptively heads off claims of discrimination.
"They don't want to be sued," Mike says. "With this, they can say 'we let anyone play.'"
Because they're a private organization, the NAGAAA doesn't have to open membership to everyone. It's like Augusta National barring women until a few years ago, or, yes, like the Boy Scouts of America banning gay scoutmasters. But that's not an absolute defense, as lawsuits against Augusta, the Boy Scouts, and this week the NAGAAA, have shown.
Players have a love/hate relationship with the Homo Quota, as they call it. On one hand, they're happy to have a league for themselves, where they can comfortably be as out as they want to be. On the other hand, it seriously limits the talent pool. Those two "straight spots" are often used as ringers, and the more competitive teams will do whatever they can to find two great straight players — and occasionally more.
"We ended up losing one of our straight players because he got a girl pregnant," says "Rob," a gay player from Florida. "So I asked one of my straight friends to join our team and play outfield. After my team evaluated his performance they told me he could permanently join our team, but since he was only 'good,' but not 'really good,' he would have to 'be gay' in the eyes of the league because we didn't want to waste one of our straight spots on the roster on a straight player who is only pretty good."
Disguising straight ringers as gay men is fairly common practice in gay softball. According to the opposing team that filed the protest that led to the Seattle lawsuit, the three plaintiffs are actually heterosexual, and only claimed to be bisexual to skirt the two-player limit.
Teams will go to great lengths to cover up their players' heterosexuality, says Rob. "Each week, my other friend who doesn't play, shows up to the games as [the straight player's] 'boyfriend.' He is banned from my team of showing any signs of heterosexuality in public and even goes to a gay bar with me from time to time just to make an appearance."
The Homo Quota leads to gamesmanship, not only in smuggling straights onto your roster, but questioning players on other teams.
"After I'd played most of the teams," says Rob, "I found out from our team captain that the other teams were going to protest our wins because they thought that I was straight. I would have put us over the straight quota. So I wanted to know how exactly do I need to prove that I'm gay? Do I need to dance at a certain level, do I need to actually make out with men in front of a committee? I don't know what he ended up saying to stop them from protesting but they didn't go through with it."
Mike says that he's never been asked to pose as gay to free up a straight spot, but it's fairly common knowledge that a number of teams in his league pull that trick.
"It's not worth complaining," he says. "Some of my gay teammates know what it's like to be excluded because of who they are. How could they sleep at night if they turned around and did that to someone else?
"We're all just here to play softball with our friends."
Reasons the NAGAAA would discriminate against bisexuals?
a) switch-hitting
b) taking pitches the opposite way with power
c) drag bunting
d) beating out infield dribblers
e) double-headers
Softballing must not require such fundamentals. Reply
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Hit Bull Win Steak 04/23/10
There's an easy way to prove this. Just put them on the unpleasant side of a glory hole. Reply
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CaliCheeseSucks 04/23/10
I don't even think the true issue is the gay quota. It's that they won't allow bisexual players to play, essentially telling them, "Listen, you're either gay or you're straight."
"..how exactly do I need to prove that I'm gay? Do I need to dance at a certain level, do I need to actually make out with men in front of a committee?"
-Rawy Torres, 1989 Reply
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DirkToberFest 04/23/10
I think stories about gay people are hilarious.
Not because I enjoy laughing at gay people; I love gay people. But not like love love them like I'm gay or something.
Oh dear. I've really made a mess of this. Reply
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We Are All Lance Uppercut 04/23/10
It's easy enough to find a gay right fielder, but if you're in a smaller area, finding a pitcher or catcher who qualifies can be tougher.
Yeah, but if you're pitching it means you're not gay. Reply
OchentaYcinco 04/23/10
@We Are All Lance Uppercut: Just a bit too quick for me. On the other hand, how that joke went unmade for almost an hour is completely beyond me. Reply We Are All Lance Uppercut promoted this comment
We Are All Lance Uppercut 04/23/10
@OchentaYcinco: Right? It's like finding money on the sidewalk. Reply
OchentaYcinco 04/23/10
@We Are All Lance Uppercut: Exactly. You just need to be careful of your surroundings if you're gonna bend down to pick it up. Reply
See 3 replies Hide 3 replies bevraj of choice 04/23/10
What happens to gay men when they enter the realm of sports? You'd never see them missing a loophole in the fashion industry.
/Double checks for Freudian slips.
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Hatey McLife 04/23/10
This is a really sad story. Hopefully in a few years we won't have these divisions based on sexual preference.
With the promise of stem cell therapy, we can cure these people once and for all. Reply
DirkToberFest 04/23/10
@Hatey McLife: After that, we can work on the French. Reply
See 1 reply Hide 1 reply dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac 04/23/10
Let's examine the lengths organizers will go to to keep the sport gay Reply
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LatestBy 04/23/10
You're with me, Leatherdaddy. Reply
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FavreFAIL 04/23/10
I didn't realize they leaked the script to the next Bad News Bears film Reply
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MattinglysSideburns 04/23/10
"We're all just here to play softball with our friends."
- David J. Lesar on Halliburton's Iraq negotiations, 2002. Reply
Charisma 04/23/10
@MattinglysSideburns: Nice. Reply
See 1 reply Hide 1 reply Lionel Osbourne 04/23/10
I work hard and play hard for the Peter PanSexuals. Reply
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StuScott Booyahs 04/23/10
This would make a great movie starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. Reply
saltwatertaffy 04/23/10
@StuScott Booyahs: "The Switch Hitter". tagline: "Steppin' up to the plate just got complicated". Reply
StuScott Booyahs 04/23/10
@saltwatertaffy: Excellent. Reply
See 2 replies Hide 2 replies roland_t_flakfizer 04/23/10
...even goes to a gay bar with me from time to time just to make an appearance...
"This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire exit! Enjoy your deathtrap, ladies!" Reply
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BullfightsOnAcid 04/23/10
I thought Gay Softball was called Cricket. Reply
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Steve U 04/23/10
The Homo Quota
OK, so maybe I overuse the phrase "Bunburying." I hardly see any reason to call me out over it. Reply
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Choire 04/23/10
@BullfightsOnAcid: YAYS!!! *CLAPS HANDS* Reply
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I only clicked through on this post for pictures. And there are none? WTF PEOPLE. Reply
BullfightsOnAcid 04/23/10
@Choire: Reply
Choire 04/23/10
@BullfightsOnAcid: WHEE!!! Reply
See 2 replies Hide 2 replies Gilbert Publicly Funded Arenas 04/23/10
not to penalize them for not being able to find two more gay men
The RIAA used this same logic when awarding a platinum record to the Village People after only the 999,998th album sold. Reply
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UkraineNotWeak 04/23/10
How do they keep score with so many balls in play? Reply
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rulesboy 04/23/10
It's easy enough to find a gay right fielder
Most commonly at Log Cabin Republican meetings. Reply
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Katni 04/23/10
This is just like the time I had to pretend to like Animal Collective in order to fill in on my friend's kickball team. Reply
ScientificMapp 04/23/10
@Katni: Nice. Reply
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NAGAAA, please. Reply
ArkansasFred 04/23/10
@Dandy Koufax: Awesome. Reply
Steve U 04/23/10
@Dandy Koufax: +1 Reply
bevraj of choice 04/23/10
@Dandy Koufax: Excellent +1 Reply
Gamboa Constrictor 04/23/10
@Dandy Koufax: This gave me that confused- look- that- slowly- turned- into- knowing- smile- and- slow- clap reaction that Conan is so fond of (I'm not that smart).Well done. Reply
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@Gamboa Constrictor: Ditto Reply
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Could you imagine the havoc A-Rod would wreck on this league should he decide to join? Reply
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Thanks Jackie Brown- PHS 55 I think.
This one is a little different... .
Two Different Versions......................
Two Different Morals
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OLD
VERSION
(The way it should be.)
The ant works
hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the
winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away...
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MODERN
VERSION
(The liberal/Progressive way today.)
The ant works
hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer
long, building his house and laying up supplies for
the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls
a press conference and demands to know why
the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC
show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next
to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
Liberal America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this
poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and
everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house
where the news stations film the group singing,"We shall overcome." Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President
Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the
Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry
King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equality & Pro Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the
summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number
of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green
Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the
grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen
again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood..
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote in 2010.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I've
sent this to you because I believe that you are
an ant -
not a grasshopper!
Make sure that you pass this on to
other ants.
Don't bother sending it on to any
grasshoppers because
they wouldn't understand it,
anyway.
Two Different Versions......................
Two Different Morals
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OLD
VERSION
(The way it should be.)
The ant works
hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
his house and laying up supplies for the
winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away...
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MODERN
VERSION
(The liberal/Progressive way today.)
The ant works
hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer
long, building his house and laying up supplies for
the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls
a press conference and demands to know why
the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC
show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next
to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
Liberal America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this
poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and
everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house
where the news stations film the group singing,"We shall overcome." Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President
Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the
Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry
King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equality & Pro Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the
summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number
of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green
Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the
grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen
again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood..
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be careful how you vote in 2010.
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I've
sent this to you because I believe that you are
an ant -
not a grasshopper!
Make sure that you pass this on to
other ants.
Don't bother sending it on to any
grasshoppers because
they wouldn't understand it,
anyway.
Test- Terri Kushner CSCC Math Instructor
I passed the tst, Terri. thanks!
I wuz wr'd that, at 77, I may be rrroppchg Al Z Heimers.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Theresa Kusner
ime
Subj: Fw: Test ! YES
I don't know the validity of this thing, but it's fun...
A Short Neurological Test
1- Find the C below.. Please do not use any cursor help.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOO
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
2- If you already found the C, now find the 6 below.
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99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
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69999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
3 - Now find the N below. It's a little more difficult.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
This is NOT a joke. If you were able to pass these 3 tests, you can cancel your annual visit to your neurologist. Your brain is great and you're far from having a close relationship with Alzheimer.
Congratulations!
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eonvrye that can raed this rsaie your hnad.
To my 'selected' strange-minded friends:
If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends and the person that sent it to you with 'yes' in the subject line.
Only great minds can read this
This is weird, but interesting!
If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid too
Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it
FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT
(how did you do?)
I wuz wr'd that, at 77, I may be rrroppchg Al Z Heimers.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Theresa Kusner
ime
Subj: Fw: Test ! YES
I don't know the validity of this thing, but it's fun...
A Short Neurological Test
1- Find the C below.. Please do not use any cursor help.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
2- If you already found the C, now find the 6 below.
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
69999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
3 - Now find the N below. It's a little more difficult.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
This is NOT a joke. If you were able to pass these 3 tests, you can cancel your annual visit to your neurologist. Your brain is great and you're far from having a close relationship with Alzheimer.
Congratulations!
-------
eonvrye that can raed this rsaie your hnad.
To my 'selected' strange-minded friends:
If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends and the person that sent it to you with 'yes' in the subject line.
Only great minds can read this
This is weird, but interesting!
If you can raed this, you have a sgtrane mnid too
Can you raed this? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in what oerdr the ltteres in a word are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is that the frsit and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it whotuit a pboerlm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! If you can raed this forwrad it
FORWARD ONLY IF YOU CAN READ IT
(how did you do?)
"Why Jews are basically liberal" JWR
I am far from becoming a Jew in religion; however, I find the following an interesting article, which actually wonders that the Jewish vote is leberal:
Jewish World Review
The real reason why Jews are liberals
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson
A few reflections on the politics of freedom that answer the most frequently asked question this site receives
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Now that even the New York Times has acknowledged Barack Obama's confrontational stance toward the State of Israel, one might wonder why American Jews have yet to demonstrate even a hint of buyer's remorse over their ardent support for the president in the last general election. Long-time Commentary Magazine editor Norman Podhoretz wondered the same thing in a Wall Street Journal editorial last September, in which he posed the title question, "Why are Jews Liberals?"
The article — then a teaser for the author's new book by the same name — never got around to answering its own question. Indeed, Mr. Podhoretz seemed distinctly less interested in contemplating why Jews are liberal than in pontificating about why they should be more conservative.
He has a point. For over three thousand years, Jewish society has promoted what today are called "traditional values," those social mores that came to define "tradition" precisely because they were universally held by so many for so long. The sanctity of life, of family, of sexuality, of charity, and of prayer — all these find their origins in Torah Judaism. Moreover, throughout the Biblical and Talmudic eras the structure of the Jewish socioeconomic community was essentially capitalistic, with the free market determining business activity and the social safety net for the poor and the weak provided (successfully) by individual responsibility within a framework of communal obligation.
Why then, asked Mr. Podhoretz, have American Jews indulged their love affair with liberalism since Franklin Roosevelt (who demurred from even a token act of intervention on behalf of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis)? Why did American Jews disregard John McCain's long record of support for Israel and Barack Obama's open association with known anti-Semites to vote for Mr. Obama by a margin of almost five-to-one? (And why, I might add, if the vote were held today, would the likely results be just about the same?)
Good questions. And although Mr. Podhoretz sidestepped any effort to answer them, there is an answer.
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
As much as all conservative values trace their origins to Jewish tradition, liberal values trace their origins to the same source — to exactly the same degree.
No one has articulated this better than the non-Jewish historian Paul Johnson: "To [the Jews] we owe the idea of equality before the law, both divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of human person; of the individual conscience and so a personal redemption; of collective conscience and so of social responsibility; of peace as an abstract ideal and love as the foundation of justice, and many other items which constitute the basic moral furniture of the human mind." In other words, Judaism is an ideology devoted to the betterment of the human condition based upon values and goals that are fundamentally liberal.
That being said, it may be the greatest misconception of the modern ideological divide that conservatism and liberalism must be mutually exclusive. Conservative traditionalism emphasizes the necessity of building upon the past, while liberal idealism focuses upon the responsibility to shape the future. Conservatism without forward thinking becomes calcified and reactionary. Liberalism without respect for tradition mutates into caricature and absurdity.
The corruption of modern liberalism is evident across the spectrum of political ideology. The sanctity of life has devolved into the rejection of capital punishment while simultaneously negating both the value and the rights of the unborn. The dignity of human person has been distorted to support euthanasia for both unwanted infants and the elderly infirm. Equality before the law has become a bludgeon in the hands of criminals and a straightjacket to constrain victims. Collective conscience has become the underpinning of nonjudgmentalism, whereby every form of perversion gains acceptance as an "alternative lifestyle." The notion of divinity has vanished altogether, replaced by the self-worship of secular humanism.
Oblivious to these resounding contradictions, secular Jews have rallied to modern liberalism under the banner of tikkun olam, literally "the rectification of the world." In its new, common usage, however, tikkun olam means something very different from what it meant when the concept was first articulated over 32 centuries ago.
TO REPAIR THE WORLD
Advocacy for saving the rainforests and for saving the whales, for developing renewable resources and for leaving a smaller carbon footprint — these are just some of the enterprises gathered by pop-Jewish philosophy under the umbrella of tikkun olam. According to the ancient wisdom of the Torah, however, every human being is a microcosm of Creation, a world — or olam — unto himself. Yes, it is important for human beings to act as responsible custodians of the Almighty's world, but the rectification of the universe is a process that ultimately begins and ends within oneself.
How does an individual repair himself and thereby bring his world a step closer to perfection? By cultivating moral behavior and spiritual sensitivity based upon traditional values through acts of kindness, charity, and spiritual self-discipline. When I change myself, I change the world around me, and I do so far more substantially than by trying to change others while I remain the same. My own mandate to repair the world rests upon me alone and can be delegated to no one else.
Modern liberalism has adopted the belief that change depends upon governmental and judicial activism. Ironically, by shifting responsibility for social justice from the individual to the state, modern liberals have abdicated their own responsibility to address the very injustices they yearn to change. And with the abdication of social responsibility, it requires only a short step before even the most basic moral and spiritual axioms are similarly discarded. Finally, with no moral compass to guide it, modern liberalism has embraced the amorality of ancient Greece and the bacchanalia of ancient Rome not only as lifestyles but as models in the image of which contemporary society should be remade.
In truth, the liberal impulse is not only healthy but integral to human existence in general and to the mission of the Jewish people in particular. That impulse proves beneficial, however, only when guided by fealty toward the traditional values that have become associated with conservatism. By cutting themselves off from their spiritual moorings, secular Jews have indeed become the most exuberant seekers of causes for social and environmental justice as they seek any available ism to replace the calling of their ancestral heritage. But their headlong stampede toward utopianism more often resembles the frantic race of lemmings to the sea than an effective campaign for global reconstruction.
Mr. Podhoretz wonders at the alliance of American Jews with the liberal apologists who level every imaginable indictment against the country that granted them the freedom to achieve unprecedented prosperity. In the aftermath of the Passover holiday, it is worth reflecting upon the Jewish concept of freedom. To be truly free, we have to define morality not according to passing fads and fancies but according to the precepts that determine who we are and from where we have come. Only when we fully understand and commit ourselves to the principles that have sustained us since the dawn of civilization can we truly repair the world.
Jewish World Review
The real reason why Jews are liberals
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson
A few reflections on the politics of freedom that answer the most frequently asked question this site receives
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Now that even the New York Times has acknowledged Barack Obama's confrontational stance toward the State of Israel, one might wonder why American Jews have yet to demonstrate even a hint of buyer's remorse over their ardent support for the president in the last general election. Long-time Commentary Magazine editor Norman Podhoretz wondered the same thing in a Wall Street Journal editorial last September, in which he posed the title question, "Why are Jews Liberals?"
The article — then a teaser for the author's new book by the same name — never got around to answering its own question. Indeed, Mr. Podhoretz seemed distinctly less interested in contemplating why Jews are liberal than in pontificating about why they should be more conservative.
He has a point. For over three thousand years, Jewish society has promoted what today are called "traditional values," those social mores that came to define "tradition" precisely because they were universally held by so many for so long. The sanctity of life, of family, of sexuality, of charity, and of prayer — all these find their origins in Torah Judaism. Moreover, throughout the Biblical and Talmudic eras the structure of the Jewish socioeconomic community was essentially capitalistic, with the free market determining business activity and the social safety net for the poor and the weak provided (successfully) by individual responsibility within a framework of communal obligation.
Why then, asked Mr. Podhoretz, have American Jews indulged their love affair with liberalism since Franklin Roosevelt (who demurred from even a token act of intervention on behalf of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis)? Why did American Jews disregard John McCain's long record of support for Israel and Barack Obama's open association with known anti-Semites to vote for Mr. Obama by a margin of almost five-to-one? (And why, I might add, if the vote were held today, would the likely results be just about the same?)
Good questions. And although Mr. Podhoretz sidestepped any effort to answer them, there is an answer.
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
As much as all conservative values trace their origins to Jewish tradition, liberal values trace their origins to the same source — to exactly the same degree.
No one has articulated this better than the non-Jewish historian Paul Johnson: "To [the Jews] we owe the idea of equality before the law, both divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of human person; of the individual conscience and so a personal redemption; of collective conscience and so of social responsibility; of peace as an abstract ideal and love as the foundation of justice, and many other items which constitute the basic moral furniture of the human mind." In other words, Judaism is an ideology devoted to the betterment of the human condition based upon values and goals that are fundamentally liberal.
That being said, it may be the greatest misconception of the modern ideological divide that conservatism and liberalism must be mutually exclusive. Conservative traditionalism emphasizes the necessity of building upon the past, while liberal idealism focuses upon the responsibility to shape the future. Conservatism without forward thinking becomes calcified and reactionary. Liberalism without respect for tradition mutates into caricature and absurdity.
The corruption of modern liberalism is evident across the spectrum of political ideology. The sanctity of life has devolved into the rejection of capital punishment while simultaneously negating both the value and the rights of the unborn. The dignity of human person has been distorted to support euthanasia for both unwanted infants and the elderly infirm. Equality before the law has become a bludgeon in the hands of criminals and a straightjacket to constrain victims. Collective conscience has become the underpinning of nonjudgmentalism, whereby every form of perversion gains acceptance as an "alternative lifestyle." The notion of divinity has vanished altogether, replaced by the self-worship of secular humanism.
Oblivious to these resounding contradictions, secular Jews have rallied to modern liberalism under the banner of tikkun olam, literally "the rectification of the world." In its new, common usage, however, tikkun olam means something very different from what it meant when the concept was first articulated over 32 centuries ago.
TO REPAIR THE WORLD
Advocacy for saving the rainforests and for saving the whales, for developing renewable resources and for leaving a smaller carbon footprint — these are just some of the enterprises gathered by pop-Jewish philosophy under the umbrella of tikkun olam. According to the ancient wisdom of the Torah, however, every human being is a microcosm of Creation, a world — or olam — unto himself. Yes, it is important for human beings to act as responsible custodians of the Almighty's world, but the rectification of the universe is a process that ultimately begins and ends within oneself.
How does an individual repair himself and thereby bring his world a step closer to perfection? By cultivating moral behavior and spiritual sensitivity based upon traditional values through acts of kindness, charity, and spiritual self-discipline. When I change myself, I change the world around me, and I do so far more substantially than by trying to change others while I remain the same. My own mandate to repair the world rests upon me alone and can be delegated to no one else.
Modern liberalism has adopted the belief that change depends upon governmental and judicial activism. Ironically, by shifting responsibility for social justice from the individual to the state, modern liberals have abdicated their own responsibility to address the very injustices they yearn to change. And with the abdication of social responsibility, it requires only a short step before even the most basic moral and spiritual axioms are similarly discarded. Finally, with no moral compass to guide it, modern liberalism has embraced the amorality of ancient Greece and the bacchanalia of ancient Rome not only as lifestyles but as models in the image of which contemporary society should be remade.
In truth, the liberal impulse is not only healthy but integral to human existence in general and to the mission of the Jewish people in particular. That impulse proves beneficial, however, only when guided by fealty toward the traditional values that have become associated with conservatism. By cutting themselves off from their spiritual moorings, secular Jews have indeed become the most exuberant seekers of causes for social and environmental justice as they seek any available ism to replace the calling of their ancestral heritage. But their headlong stampede toward utopianism more often resembles the frantic race of lemmings to the sea than an effective campaign for global reconstruction.
Mr. Podhoretz wonders at the alliance of American Jews with the liberal apologists who level every imaginable indictment against the country that granted them the freedom to achieve unprecedented prosperity. In the aftermath of the Passover holiday, it is worth reflecting upon the Jewish concept of freedom. To be truly free, we have to define morality not according to passing fads and fancies but according to the precepts that determine who we are and from where we have come. Only when we fully understand and commit ourselves to the principles that have sustained us since the dawn of civilization can we truly repair the world.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
o and the supposed Muslim heritage in America
----- Original Message -----
From: Joyce Smallwood
From: Terry Minch
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 1:30 PM
Subject: FW: An answer to Obama.......
This isn't bashing the President because of his political party, but it's historically accurate about our history and his remarks concerning the history of our country.
I don't like what he said, and I doubt if very many Americans agreed with his remarks regardless of their political affiliation.
Terry
Ain't it the truth!
I personally DO respect everyone's right to freely pray their faith. I don't respect those whose faith leads them to kill others who don't share their particular faith.
Our glorious President visited the Muslim world and told them how much the United States has been enriched by our Muslim Heritage. Evidently Mr. Wonderful hit a raw nerve with one fellow American that seems to know more about our nation's History than our President, (son of a non-American Kenyan).
I don't know who wrote the following, but he copied just about everybody including our Florida representatives and all the media outlets. Read on.
Barack OBAMA, during his Cairo speech, said: "I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America 's story."
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S RESPONSE:
Mr. Obama:
Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed? Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians.
Were those Muslims that celebrated the first Thanksgiving day? Sorry again, those were Pilgrims and Native American Indians.
Can you show me one Muslim signature on the United States Constitution?
Declaration of Independence ?
Bill of Rights?
Didn't think so.
Did Muslims fight for this country's freedom from England ? No..
Did Muslims fight during the Civil War to free the slaves in America ? No, they did not. In fact, Muslims to this day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery. Your own half brother, a devout Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even though Muslims of Arabic descent refer to black Muslims as "pug nosed slaves." Says a lot of what the Muslim world really thinks of your family's "rich Islamic heritage," doesn't it Mr. Obama?
Where were Muslims during the Civil Rights era of this country? Not present.
There are no pictures or media accounts of Muslims walking side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or helping to advance the cause of Civil Rights.
Where were Muslims during this country's Woman's Suffrage era? Again, not present. In fact, devout Muslims demand that women are subservient to men in the Islamic culture. So much so, that often they are beaten for not wearing the 'hajib' or for talking to a man who is not a direct family member or their husband. Yep, the Muslims are all for women's rights, aren't they?
Where were Muslims during World War II? They were aligned with Adolf Hitler. The Muslim grand mufti himself met with Adolf Hitler, reviewed the troops and accepted support from the Nazi's in killing Jews.
Finally, Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on Sept. 11th, 2001? If they weren't flying planes into the World Trade Center , the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people on our own soil, they were rejoicing in the Middle East . No one can dispute the pictures shown from all parts of the Muslim world celebrating on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other cable news network’s that day. Strangely, the very "moderate" Muslims who's asses you bent over backwards to kiss in Cairo , Egypt on June 4th were stone cold silent post 9-11. To many Americans, their silence has meant approval for the acts of that day.
And THAT, Mr. Obama, is the "rich heritage" Muslims have here in America .
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to mention the Barbary Pirates. They were Muslim.
And now we can add November 5, 2009 - the slaughter of American soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a doctor and a psychiatrist who was supposed to be counseling soldiers returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan .
That, Mr. Obama is the "Muslim heritage" in America .
EVERY AMERICAN MUST
READ THIS !!
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From: Joyce Smallwood
From: Terry Minch
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 1:30 PM
Subject: FW: An answer to Obama.......
This isn't bashing the President because of his political party, but it's historically accurate about our history and his remarks concerning the history of our country.
I don't like what he said, and I doubt if very many Americans agreed with his remarks regardless of their political affiliation.
Terry
Ain't it the truth!
I personally DO respect everyone's right to freely pray their faith. I don't respect those whose faith leads them to kill others who don't share their particular faith.
Our glorious President visited the Muslim world and told them how much the United States has been enriched by our Muslim Heritage. Evidently Mr. Wonderful hit a raw nerve with one fellow American that seems to know more about our nation's History than our President, (son of a non-American Kenyan).
I don't know who wrote the following, but he copied just about everybody including our Florida representatives and all the media outlets. Read on.
Barack OBAMA, during his Cairo speech, said: "I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America 's story."
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S RESPONSE:
Mr. Obama:
Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed? Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians.
Were those Muslims that celebrated the first Thanksgiving day? Sorry again, those were Pilgrims and Native American Indians.
Can you show me one Muslim signature on the United States Constitution?
Declaration of Independence ?
Bill of Rights?
Didn't think so.
Did Muslims fight for this country's freedom from England ? No..
Did Muslims fight during the Civil War to free the slaves in America ? No, they did not. In fact, Muslims to this day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery. Your own half brother, a devout Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even though Muslims of Arabic descent refer to black Muslims as "pug nosed slaves." Says a lot of what the Muslim world really thinks of your family's "rich Islamic heritage," doesn't it Mr. Obama?
Where were Muslims during the Civil Rights era of this country? Not present.
There are no pictures or media accounts of Muslims walking side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or helping to advance the cause of Civil Rights.
Where were Muslims during this country's Woman's Suffrage era? Again, not present. In fact, devout Muslims demand that women are subservient to men in the Islamic culture. So much so, that often they are beaten for not wearing the 'hajib' or for talking to a man who is not a direct family member or their husband. Yep, the Muslims are all for women's rights, aren't they?
Where were Muslims during World War II? They were aligned with Adolf Hitler. The Muslim grand mufti himself met with Adolf Hitler, reviewed the troops and accepted support from the Nazi's in killing Jews.
Finally, Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on Sept. 11th, 2001? If they weren't flying planes into the World Trade Center , the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people on our own soil, they were rejoicing in the Middle East . No one can dispute the pictures shown from all parts of the Muslim world celebrating on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other cable news network’s that day. Strangely, the very "moderate" Muslims who's asses you bent over backwards to kiss in Cairo , Egypt on June 4th were stone cold silent post 9-11. To many Americans, their silence has meant approval for the acts of that day.
And THAT, Mr. Obama, is the "rich heritage" Muslims have here in America .
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to mention the Barbary Pirates. They were Muslim.
And now we can add November 5, 2009 - the slaughter of American soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a doctor and a psychiatrist who was supposed to be counseling soldiers returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan .
That, Mr. Obama is the "Muslim heritage" in America .
EVERY AMERICAN MUST
READ THIS !!
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Mercy America- Murtha?
Thanks Alma!
From someone who has served in the military regarding the naming of a ship after Murtha . . .
John Murtha might have been in the Marine Corps but he was never a marine.
He was a self serving scumbag of a politician.
He would do or say anything to advance himself.
He did great damage to the Armed services.
He was an unindicted coconspirator
in the ABSCAM investigation.
He arranged for an airport to be named after himself.
That is far more than he deserved. What he should have received was a nice 20 years in a Federal prison.
The idea of naming a ship after this scumbag makes me sick.
I am not at all surprised that the current leadership would consider this idea at all.
Lynn E. Hanover
US Navy AO-3 59-63
From someone who has served in the military regarding the naming of a ship after Murtha . . .
John Murtha might have been in the Marine Corps but he was never a marine.
He was a self serving scumbag of a politician.
He would do or say anything to advance himself.
He did great damage to the Armed services.
He was an unindicted coconspirator
in the ABSCAM investigation.
He arranged for an airport to be named after himself.
That is far more than he deserved. What he should have received was a nice 20 years in a Federal prison.
The idea of naming a ship after this scumbag makes me sick.
I am not at all surprised that the current leadership would consider this idea at all.
Lynn E. Hanover
US Navy AO-3 59-63
Excerpts from JWR
I am Christian, not Jewish; however, I find some very interesting items in the Jewish World Review, which my friend, Judi Cole, began sending me recently. The USA and Israel are tightly bound in this difficult world and that bond should not be broken. I like these ditties:
* 1939, Powell Crosley produces America's first miniature or "bantam"
car. The Crosley was a foot shorter and 100 pounds lighter than the
pre-war Volkswagen Bug, and far smaller than anything manufactured by
American companies.
At a $800 sticker price, Crosley was unable to convince consumers to
purchase a miniature car when they could buy a full-size car for a few
hundred dollars more. He was soon out of business
* 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara
Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee
the country
* 1952, war with Japan officially ended as a treaty that had been signed
by the United States and 47 other nations took effect. Also: Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, one of the most highly regarded American generals of
World War II, steps down as supreme commander of the combined land and
air forces of NATO. He does this in order to run for president. In
November 1952, "Ike" wins a resounding victory in the presidential
elections, and in 1956, is reelected by a landslide
* 1939, Powell Crosley produces America's first miniature or "bantam"
car. The Crosley was a foot shorter and 100 pounds lighter than the
pre-war Volkswagen Bug, and far smaller than anything manufactured by
American companies.
At a $800 sticker price, Crosley was unable to convince consumers to
purchase a miniature car when they could buy a full-size car for a few
hundred dollars more. He was soon out of business
* 1945, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara
Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans as they attempted to flee
the country
* 1952, war with Japan officially ended as a treaty that had been signed
by the United States and 47 other nations took effect. Also: Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, one of the most highly regarded American generals of
World War II, steps down as supreme commander of the combined land and
air forces of NATO. He does this in order to run for president. In
November 1952, "Ike" wins a resounding victory in the presidential
elections, and in 1956, is reelected by a landslide
Thanks Linda!
April 28, 2010
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April 26, 2010
Black Republican Rebukes Steele
By Lloyd Marcus
RNC Chairman Michael Steele said that the GOP has not given blacks a reason to vote Republican. As a black conservative Republican, I ask, what is the GOP suppose to do -- serve soul food at Republican events?
In other words, I reject the concept of dividing Americans into victimized groups and pandering to them. Besides, the Democrats are masters of insulting the intelligence of Americans by playing the old and tattered victim, race, and class envy cards. The GOP does not need to go down the same shameful, disgusting road.
Brother Steele, how about the GOP showing a little respect for the American people by standing up for conservative values and principles? If you do this, they will come. Right-minded Americans of all stripes will join our cause.
So how do you, Chairman Steele, think the GOP should attract more blacks? Do we adopt "liberal lite" policies? Do Republicans prove that they are "down with the brothers" by embracing a lighter version of the lie promoted by the race-exploiting Democrats, by saying that racism is still somewhat of a problem for blacks in America today?
Chairman Steele, you said, "The Republican Party had a hand in forming the NAACP, and yet we have mistreated that relationship." What the heck are you talking about? When President Obama addressed the NAACP and said that racism is still a problem for blacks in America, the audience cheered as if at a baseball game where someone on their team hit a home run. They loved the affirmation of their victim status.
The once-great NAACP has deteriorated into a negative for black America. The organization sold its soul for a seat of power at the liberal Democratic Party table, betraying blacks by keeping them thinking like victims so they will continue voting monolithically Democrat. Why on earth should the Republicans pander to this organization of disgusting race-exploiters?
I am so done with "identity politics." We are all Americans. Why can't politicians simply relate to us as such rather than dividing us into victimized groups which they promise special concessions?
Remember how Superman stood for truth, justice, and the American Way? Oh, for a political party with the courage and values of the man who disguised himself as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent -- no special concessions for any group, but truth, justice, and the American Way for all.
As a high-profile black member of the Tea Party Movement, I am constantly being asked by reporters, "Why isn't the movement doing more to attract minorities?" I say that the movement is doing exactly what it should be doing: standing up for conservative principles and values. Over time, this will attract all right-thinking Americans.
Entitlement-minded losers will be repulsed by our message, but that is OK. We are seeking to attract the kind of Americans who have made America great -- folks who still believe in American exceptionalism, who still see America as a shining city on a hill.
After traveling across America on three Tea Party Express tours, I am seeing more and more blacks at the rallies. I have begun interviewing them. They are mostly entrepreneurs or ex-military who have witnessed the negative consequences of socialism abroad. These blacks also display an air of pride, dignity, and self-confidence which comes from personal achievement. These blacks are cast from the same mold as former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the kind of blacks hated by the NAACP.
Obama has appointed Al Sharpton as his "go-to guy" in getting his message to the black community. This is more "identity politics." Does this also imply that we blacks are too stupid to understand Obama and need Sharpton to interpret?
Admittedly, there are issues which are devastating the black community: high numbers of out-of-wedlock births, epidemic school dropout rates, and 50% of black babies aborted (blackgenocide.org). But these problems should not be dealt with from the standard Democrat "white folks don't care" or "it's whitey's fault" or "let's throw more money at it" point of view. The mess in the black community is proof of the utter failure of Democrat-enforced liberalism and not holding people accountable.
Blacks must be challenged to take responsibility for their lives. For crying out loud, this is America! A high school education is free. There is no reason other than a moral and parental breakdown for blacks not to graduate high school.
Chairman Steele, my bottom line is that the GOP does not need to pander to race, sex, or any other nonsense to win votes. Just stand up for what is right for all Americans. While I am not suggesting that you adorn yourself in a leotard, red briefs, and a cape, standing up for conservatism could make you America's Superman.
- Lloyd Marcus, (black) Unhyphenated American
lloydmarcus.com
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Black Republican Rebukes Steele
By Lloyd Marcus
RNC Chairman Michael Steele said that the GOP has not given blacks a reason to vote Republican. As a black conservative Republican, I ask, what is the GOP suppose to do -- serve soul food at Republican events?
In other words, I reject the concept of dividing Americans into victimized groups and pandering to them. Besides, the Democrats are masters of insulting the intelligence of Americans by playing the old and tattered victim, race, and class envy cards. The GOP does not need to go down the same shameful, disgusting road.
Brother Steele, how about the GOP showing a little respect for the American people by standing up for conservative values and principles? If you do this, they will come. Right-minded Americans of all stripes will join our cause.
So how do you, Chairman Steele, think the GOP should attract more blacks? Do we adopt "liberal lite" policies? Do Republicans prove that they are "down with the brothers" by embracing a lighter version of the lie promoted by the race-exploiting Democrats, by saying that racism is still somewhat of a problem for blacks in America today?
Chairman Steele, you said, "The Republican Party had a hand in forming the NAACP, and yet we have mistreated that relationship." What the heck are you talking about? When President Obama addressed the NAACP and said that racism is still a problem for blacks in America, the audience cheered as if at a baseball game where someone on their team hit a home run. They loved the affirmation of their victim status.
The once-great NAACP has deteriorated into a negative for black America. The organization sold its soul for a seat of power at the liberal Democratic Party table, betraying blacks by keeping them thinking like victims so they will continue voting monolithically Democrat. Why on earth should the Republicans pander to this organization of disgusting race-exploiters?
I am so done with "identity politics." We are all Americans. Why can't politicians simply relate to us as such rather than dividing us into victimized groups which they promise special concessions?
Remember how Superman stood for truth, justice, and the American Way? Oh, for a political party with the courage and values of the man who disguised himself as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent -- no special concessions for any group, but truth, justice, and the American Way for all.
As a high-profile black member of the Tea Party Movement, I am constantly being asked by reporters, "Why isn't the movement doing more to attract minorities?" I say that the movement is doing exactly what it should be doing: standing up for conservative principles and values. Over time, this will attract all right-thinking Americans.
Entitlement-minded losers will be repulsed by our message, but that is OK. We are seeking to attract the kind of Americans who have made America great -- folks who still believe in American exceptionalism, who still see America as a shining city on a hill.
After traveling across America on three Tea Party Express tours, I am seeing more and more blacks at the rallies. I have begun interviewing them. They are mostly entrepreneurs or ex-military who have witnessed the negative consequences of socialism abroad. These blacks also display an air of pride, dignity, and self-confidence which comes from personal achievement. These blacks are cast from the same mold as former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the kind of blacks hated by the NAACP.
Obama has appointed Al Sharpton as his "go-to guy" in getting his message to the black community. This is more "identity politics." Does this also imply that we blacks are too stupid to understand Obama and need Sharpton to interpret?
Admittedly, there are issues which are devastating the black community: high numbers of out-of-wedlock births, epidemic school dropout rates, and 50% of black babies aborted (blackgenocide.org). But these problems should not be dealt with from the standard Democrat "white folks don't care" or "it's whitey's fault" or "let's throw more money at it" point of view. The mess in the black community is proof of the utter failure of Democrat-enforced liberalism and not holding people accountable.
Blacks must be challenged to take responsibility for their lives. For crying out loud, this is America! A high school education is free. There is no reason other than a moral and parental breakdown for blacks not to graduate high school.
Chairman Steele, my bottom line is that the GOP does not need to pander to race, sex, or any other nonsense to win votes. Just stand up for what is right for all Americans. While I am not suggesting that you adorn yourself in a leotard, red briefs, and a cape, standing up for conservatism could make you America's Superman.
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Thanks Clay Vice!
This is a must read.
Subject: The Chicken Plucker
A DREAMER AND HIS DREAM
Let me tell you, Jesse hated this job. And you would too, I imagine, if
You had to do it. Jesse was a chicken plucker. That's right.
He stood on a line in a chicken factory and spent his days pulling
the feathers off dead chickens so the rest of us wouldn't have to.
It wasn't much of a job.
But at the time, Jesse didn't think he was much of a person.
His father was a brute of a man.
His dad was actually thought to be mentally ill
and
treated Jesse rough all of his life.
Jesse's older brother wasn't much better.
He was always picking on Jesse and beating him up.
Yes, Jesse grew up in a very rough home in West Virginia .
Life was anything but easy.
And he thought life didn't hold much hope for him.
That's why he was standing in this chicken line, doing a job that darn few
people wanted.
In addition to all the rough treatment at home, it seems that Jesse was
always sick.
Sometimes it was real physical illness, but way too often it was all in
his head. He was a small child, skinny and meek.
That sure didn't help the situation any.
When he started to school, he was the object of every bully on the
playground.
He was a hypochondriac of the first order.
For Jesse, tomorrow was not always something to be looked forward to.
But, he had dreams.
He wanted to be a ventriloquist.
He found books on ventriloquism.
He practiced with sock puppets and saved his hard earned dollars until he
could get a real ventriloquist dummy.
When he got old enough, he joined the military.
And even though many of his hypochondriac symptoms persisted, the
military did recognize his talents and put him in the entertainment corp.
That was when his world changed.
He gained confidence.
He found that he had a talent for making people laugh, and laugh so hard
they often had tears in their eyes.
Yes, little Jesse had found himself.
You know, folks, the history books are full of people who overcame a
handicap to go on and make a success of themselves, but Jesse is one of
the few I know of who didn't overcome it.
Instead he used his paranoia to make a million dollars, and become one of
the best-loved characters of all time in doing it!
Yes, that little paranoid hypochondriac, who transferred his nervousness
into a successful career, still holds the record for the most Emmy's given
in a single category.
The wonderful, gifted, talented, and nervous comedian who brought us
Barney Fife
was
Jesse Don Knotts.
NOW YOU KNOW, "THE REST OF THE STORY"
Subject: The Chicken Plucker
A DREAMER AND HIS DREAM
Let me tell you, Jesse hated this job. And you would too, I imagine, if
You had to do it. Jesse was a chicken plucker. That's right.
He stood on a line in a chicken factory and spent his days pulling
the feathers off dead chickens so the rest of us wouldn't have to.
It wasn't much of a job.
But at the time, Jesse didn't think he was much of a person.
His father was a brute of a man.
His dad was actually thought to be mentally ill
and
treated Jesse rough all of his life.
Jesse's older brother wasn't much better.
He was always picking on Jesse and beating him up.
Yes, Jesse grew up in a very rough home in West Virginia .
Life was anything but easy.
And he thought life didn't hold much hope for him.
That's why he was standing in this chicken line, doing a job that darn few
people wanted.
In addition to all the rough treatment at home, it seems that Jesse was
always sick.
Sometimes it was real physical illness, but way too often it was all in
his head. He was a small child, skinny and meek.
That sure didn't help the situation any.
When he started to school, he was the object of every bully on the
playground.
He was a hypochondriac of the first order.
For Jesse, tomorrow was not always something to be looked forward to.
But, he had dreams.
He wanted to be a ventriloquist.
He found books on ventriloquism.
He practiced with sock puppets and saved his hard earned dollars until he
could get a real ventriloquist dummy.
When he got old enough, he joined the military.
And even though many of his hypochondriac symptoms persisted, the
military did recognize his talents and put him in the entertainment corp.
That was when his world changed.
He gained confidence.
He found that he had a talent for making people laugh, and laugh so hard
they often had tears in their eyes.
Yes, little Jesse had found himself.
You know, folks, the history books are full of people who overcame a
handicap to go on and make a success of themselves, but Jesse is one of
the few I know of who didn't overcome it.
Instead he used his paranoia to make a million dollars, and become one of
the best-loved characters of all time in doing it!
Yes, that little paranoid hypochondriac, who transferred his nervousness
into a successful career, still holds the record for the most Emmy's given
in a single category.
The wonderful, gifted, talented, and nervous comedian who brought us
Barney Fife
was
Jesse Don Knotts.
NOW YOU KNOW, "THE REST OF THE STORY"
Thanks Lyle and Martha- through John DeCarlo
Gentle Thoughts for Today -
Birds of a feather flock together . . . .and then shit on your car.
A penny saved is a government oversight.
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat have gotten to be really good friends.
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
He who hesitates is probably right.
Did you ever notice: The Roman Numerals for forty (40) are XL.
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble..
Did you ever notice: When you put the 2 words 'The' and 'IRS' together it spells 'Theirs...'
Aging: Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.
When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, think of Algebra.
You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young. Ah, being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth . . .. . . . . AMEN!
Birds of a feather flock together . . . .and then shit on your car.
A penny saved is a government oversight.
The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat have gotten to be really good friends.
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
He who hesitates is probably right.
Did you ever notice: The Roman Numerals for forty (40) are XL.
If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble..
Did you ever notice: When you put the 2 words 'The' and 'IRS' together it spells 'Theirs...'
Aging: Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know 'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.
When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, think of Algebra.
You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.
One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young. Ah, being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth . . .. . . . . AMEN!
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Shovers- Liberal politicians destroying America
PLEASE READ AND PASS ON!!!
From a friend: This is from my wife’s niece who lives in Ohio and was there.
Subject: Republican dinner last night
Just thought I would share with you a little bit of what we heard at last night's Republican dinner here in Crawford County Ohio. John Kasich (running for Gov. of Ohio) was the keynote speaker. Also present were many politicians, most notably, Bob Latta, our U.S. Congressman. Mike and I walked up to Bob and thanked him for his conservative voting record and voiced our concern about what is going on in Washington . He made some funny botox remarks about Pelosi and then agreed with us that we have every reason to be concerned. As there were others waiting to talk to him, our time was brief. Although what took place later that evening should make chills run up and down everyone's spine to hear.
He had asked to speak a few words at the end of the night and went up on stage. He proceeded to tell the crowd how bad things really are in Washington . He said he only had a few minutes to speak, but if he could tell us even half of what the agenda is and what this administration plans to do to our country we couldn't sleep at night. He said he only gets about 4- 4 1/2 hours of sleep a night and worries constantly about what they want to do to this country. He said that Pelosi, Reid and Obama have to be stopped. He said, "You know, you always hear this is the most impt. election blah blah blah, but I am telling you people...whatever you have to do to wake people up you need to do!
We have got to vote them out in 2010 or with the things they have planned for this country we won't even be a country by 2020! Ten years. You could see the look of almost desperation on his face. He talked about the huge debt. He talked about how the CBO gets their "figures". He sits on the finance committee of some sort and listens to the ramblings of Geitner and Bernanke. He said "If you think that the Chinese won't hold this over us with all our debt, you have another think coming. Our children will have nothing. I don't care if you have to go out door to door, tell at least 10 people who will then tell 10 people. We have to do this. This is the single most important election ever in the history of this country. The change that Obama promised us is NOT the change people thought he meant." Chilling.
From a friend: This is from my wife’s niece who lives in Ohio and was there.
Subject: Republican dinner last night
Just thought I would share with you a little bit of what we heard at last night's Republican dinner here in Crawford County Ohio. John Kasich (running for Gov. of Ohio) was the keynote speaker. Also present were many politicians, most notably, Bob Latta, our U.S. Congressman. Mike and I walked up to Bob and thanked him for his conservative voting record and voiced our concern about what is going on in Washington . He made some funny botox remarks about Pelosi and then agreed with us that we have every reason to be concerned. As there were others waiting to talk to him, our time was brief. Although what took place later that evening should make chills run up and down everyone's spine to hear.
He had asked to speak a few words at the end of the night and went up on stage. He proceeded to tell the crowd how bad things really are in Washington . He said he only had a few minutes to speak, but if he could tell us even half of what the agenda is and what this administration plans to do to our country we couldn't sleep at night. He said he only gets about 4- 4 1/2 hours of sleep a night and worries constantly about what they want to do to this country. He said that Pelosi, Reid and Obama have to be stopped. He said, "You know, you always hear this is the most impt. election blah blah blah, but I am telling you people...whatever you have to do to wake people up you need to do!
We have got to vote them out in 2010 or with the things they have planned for this country we won't even be a country by 2020! Ten years. You could see the look of almost desperation on his face. He talked about the huge debt. He talked about how the CBO gets their "figures". He sits on the finance committee of some sort and listens to the ramblings of Geitner and Bernanke. He said "If you think that the Chinese won't hold this over us with all our debt, you have another think coming. Our children will have nothing. I don't care if you have to go out door to door, tell at least 10 people who will then tell 10 people. We have to do this. This is the single most important election ever in the history of this country. The change that Obama promised us is NOT the change people thought he meant." Chilling.
Thanks Alma!
----- Original Message -----
From: Holl, Alma J
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 07:42
Subject: You have seen this before, but it is a reminder . . . .
Illegal aliens are breaking the law . . . . cheating the taxpayer . . .
Why are we surprised that the liberals side with these illegals? Illegals burden the taxpayers (enslavement of citizens) and illegals will become voting democrats (enslavement of true elections). Why are we surprised that liberals would believe in breaking the law? We shouldn’t be . . . they believe breaking the moral law of murder by the brutal and barbaric killing of the unborn innocents . . . why then, should their solution to this illegal alien problem surprise us?
Just One State - be sure and read the last part..
This is only one State.................If this doesn't open eyes, nothing will!
>From the L. A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes.
This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7... The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8 Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L.. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.. (There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County )
(All 10 of the above facts were published in the Los Angeles Times)
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare . Over 70% of the United States ' annual population growth(and over 90% of California , Florida , and New York ) results from immigration. 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens .
We are fools for letting this continue
HOW CAN YOU HELP ?
Send copies of this letter to at least two other people. 100 would be even better.
This is only one State...............
If this doesn't open your eyes nothing will, and you wonder why Nancy Pelosi wants them to become voters!
*************************************
LET'S IMPEACH HER NOW BEFORE SHE DOES FURTHER DAMAGE!! WHAT AN IDIOT!!
IF YOU DON'T AGREE JUST DELETE--IF YOU DO--PASS IT ON!! WHERE DO WE GET THESE MORONS?
Windfall Tax on Retirement Income
Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That's what the Speaker of the House is saying. Read below...............
Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren't going to believe this.
Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds!
Alas, it is true - all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!
This woman is frightening.
She quotes...' We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Marx say something like this?), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.' (I am not rich, are you?)
When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:
'We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as 'Americans'.'
(Read that quote again and again and let it sink in.) 'Lower your retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it'.
Send it on to your friends. I just did!! This lady is out of her mind and she is the speaker of the house!
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From: Holl, Alma J
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 07:42
Subject: You have seen this before, but it is a reminder . . . .
Illegal aliens are breaking the law . . . . cheating the taxpayer . . .
Why are we surprised that the liberals side with these illegals? Illegals burden the taxpayers (enslavement of citizens) and illegals will become voting democrats (enslavement of true elections). Why are we surprised that liberals would believe in breaking the law? We shouldn’t be . . . they believe breaking the moral law of murder by the brutal and barbaric killing of the unborn innocents . . . why then, should their solution to this illegal alien problem surprise us?
Just One State - be sure and read the last part..
This is only one State.................If this doesn't open eyes, nothing will!
>From the L. A. Times
1. 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes.
This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7... The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8 Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L.. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.. (There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County )
(All 10 of the above facts were published in the Los Angeles Times)
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare . Over 70% of the United States ' annual population growth(and over 90% of California , Florida , and New York ) results from immigration. 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens .
We are fools for letting this continue
HOW CAN YOU HELP ?
Send copies of this letter to at least two other people. 100 would be even better.
This is only one State...............
If this doesn't open your eyes nothing will, and you wonder why Nancy Pelosi wants them to become voters!
*************************************
LET'S IMPEACH HER NOW BEFORE SHE DOES FURTHER DAMAGE!! WHAT AN IDIOT!!
IF YOU DON'T AGREE JUST DELETE--IF YOU DO--PASS IT ON!! WHERE DO WE GET THESE MORONS?
Windfall Tax on Retirement Income
Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That's what the Speaker of the House is saying. Read below...............
Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren't going to believe this.
Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds!
Alas, it is true - all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!
This woman is frightening.
She quotes...' We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Marx say something like this?), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.' (I am not rich, are you?)
When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:
'We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as 'Americans'.'
(Read that quote again and again and let it sink in.) 'Lower your retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it'.
Send it on to your friends. I just did!! This lady is out of her mind and she is the speaker of the house!
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The message was checked by ESET Smart Security.
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From "The American Jewish Review"
April 27, 2010
Michael Feldberg: How the credo of American Jewry took hold
Caroline B. Glick: Barreling on, regardless
April 26, 2010
The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Perform, Then Pay, Part II: Additional pitfalls to watch out for when using incentives in the workplace
George Will: Japanese American heroes, bereft of bitterness
April 23, 2010
Rabbi Reuven Drucker: How not to be holy
Caroline B. Glick: The Strategic Foundations of the US-Israel Alliance (MUST READ!)
April 22, 2010
Cal Thomas: Prayer and State
Maria L. La Ganga: Severely disabled, is she still a mom?
April 21, 2010
Steven Emerson: Meet the pollster who works behind the scenes with radical Islamist groups to enhance their standing in the presidential council's activities
Paul Greenberg: Who Are We Now?
April 20, 2010
Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg: Why this rabbi didn't vote for Obama — and why I made the correct decision (MUST READ!)
Dennis Prager: Obama, Israel and the Genesis Prediction
April 19, 2010
Michael Doyle: Supreme Court takes up religious group's rights on campus
Jonathan Tobin: The New York Times Makes It Official: Obama Has Shifted U.S. Policy Against Israel
April 16, 2010
Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: A PROFOUND meditation for thinking students of theology addressing a common misconception
Wesley Pruden: Surrendering an ally is no strategy at all
Caroline B. Glick: Far Left Israeli paper manufactures spy scandal to harm Jewish State
April 15, 2010
Brent Jones: Foster mother rejected for not serving pork, claims complaint
Meg James: Meet the tree-hugging, Berkeley educated, liberal Jew of the Fox Business Channel
April 14, 2010
The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Perform, Then Pay
Lori Borgman: Warning: Soul gazing can save your marriage!
Jewish World Review
How the credo of American Jewry took hold
By Michael Feldberg
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | "All who preserve a single soul . . .it is as if he preserved an entire world." — The Babylonian Talmud
The earliest collective action by American Jews on behalf of their overseas brethren came in 1840, in response to a false "blood libel" charge in Damascus. That spring, in the ancient capital of Syria, an Italian friar and his Muslim servant mysteriously disappeared. The Capuchin order of monks charged that Jews had kidnapped and ritually murdered the two men to fulfill a supposed Jewish injunction that non-Jewish blood be used in making Passover matzoh. Under torture, two "witnesses" named several prominent Damascus Jews as the "killers." The accused were arrested, tortured and sentenced to death. Knowing the suggestibility of child witnesses, local officials then seized 63 Jewish children to compel them to "reveal" where the blood was hidden.
Word of these outrages reached the United States in the summer of 1840. American Jews were dismayed that the ancient blood libel — the charge that Jews were ritual murderers — had reared its ugly head. What was American Jewry, so few in number and weak in international influence, to do? While the English and French Jewish communities sent delegations to the Ottoman Sultan protesting the treatment of Damascus's Jews, American Jewry — numbering no more than 15,000 individuals scattered across a vast nation — had no national organization or recognized leader to speak for it. American Jewry had no experience at presenting a united front on any issue of national or international moment.
Rabbi Isaac Leeser of Philadelphia, America's leading traditionalist rabbi, joined by communal leaders from other major American cities, filled the breach. Leeser helped organize public rallies, meetings of synagogue congregations and committees of correspondence in New York, Philadelphia, Richmond and Cincinnati, among other cities. The rallies called on President Martin Van Buren to intervene on behalf of the Jews of Damascus.
The American Jewish petitions argued that "the moral influence of the Chief Magistrate of the United States would be, under Heaven, the best aid we could invoke for the protection of our persecuted brethren under the Mohammedan domain." The New York protesters did "most emphatically and solemnly deny as well in our own name as in that of the whole Jewish people, that murder was ever committed by the Jews of Damascus, or those of any other part of the world, for the purpose of using the blood or any part of a human being in the ceremonies of our religion."
Van Buren ordered American diplomats in Constantinople and Alexandria to inform Ottoman officials of the "horror" felt by all Americans at the "extravagant charges strikingly similar to those which, in less enlightened ages, were made pretexts for the persecution and spoliation of these unfortunate people." Van Buren cited America's liberal institutions, which "place upon the same footing, the worshipers of G-d, of every faith and form." American values compelled him to protest "in behalf of an oppressed and persecuted race, among whose kindred are found some of the most worthy and patriotic of [American] citizens."
Bowing to pressure from the governments of the United States, Britain and France, Pasha Muhammed Ali, Ottoman overlord of Syria, ordered an end to the torture and confinement of Jewish prisoners and instructed Damascus officials to protect the city's Jewish community. The American ambassador helped Sir Moses Montefiore secure from the Ottoman Sultan an imperial decree in November declaring that the blood libel had "not the least foundation in truth" and that Jews "shall possess the same advantages and enjoy the same privileges" as his other subjects, especially the free exercise of their religion.
American Jewry had experienced its first taste of successful united action on behalf of its brethren overseas. Rabbi Leeser expressed the thinking of many American Jews of that time, as well as the spirit of the Babylonian Talmud, when he observed: "As citizens we belong to the country we live in; but as believers in one G-d, as the faithful adorers of the Creator, as the inheritors of the law, the Jews [of other lands] are no aliens among us, and we hail the Israelite as brother, no matter whether his home be the torrid zone, or where the poles encircle the earth with impenetrable fetters of icy coldness." These words remain the credo of American Jewry to the present day.
Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes inspiring articles. Sign up for our daily update. It's free. Just click here.
Michael Feldberg is Director of Research for the American Jewish Historical Society. Comment by clicking here.
Previously:
Lincoln's fight for Jewish chaplains
Meet the Orthodox Jew who laid groundwork for scientific development of ordnance that undergirds America's current world leadership
Meet Paul Revere's pal, the Orthodox Jew who played a key role in laying Boston's cultural and business infrastructure
An all but forgotten Colonial doctor who put his Jewish values before his life
‘I am a Jew, I am a Republican and I am poor’
Vindication of an American Jewish Patriot
Mordecai Sheftall and the Wages of War
Haym Salomon: The rest of the story
Francis Salvador: Martyr of the American Revolution
How Hebrew came to Yale
The Making of a Jewish Citizen
© 2006, Michael Feldberg
Michael Feldberg: How the credo of American Jewry took hold
Caroline B. Glick: Barreling on, regardless
April 26, 2010
The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Perform, Then Pay, Part II: Additional pitfalls to watch out for when using incentives in the workplace
George Will: Japanese American heroes, bereft of bitterness
April 23, 2010
Rabbi Reuven Drucker: How not to be holy
Caroline B. Glick: The Strategic Foundations of the US-Israel Alliance (MUST READ!)
April 22, 2010
Cal Thomas: Prayer and State
Maria L. La Ganga: Severely disabled, is she still a mom?
April 21, 2010
Steven Emerson: Meet the pollster who works behind the scenes with radical Islamist groups to enhance their standing in the presidential council's activities
Paul Greenberg: Who Are We Now?
April 20, 2010
Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg: Why this rabbi didn't vote for Obama — and why I made the correct decision (MUST READ!)
Dennis Prager: Obama, Israel and the Genesis Prediction
April 19, 2010
Michael Doyle: Supreme Court takes up religious group's rights on campus
Jonathan Tobin: The New York Times Makes It Official: Obama Has Shifted U.S. Policy Against Israel
April 16, 2010
Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: A PROFOUND meditation for thinking students of theology addressing a common misconception
Wesley Pruden: Surrendering an ally is no strategy at all
Caroline B. Glick: Far Left Israeli paper manufactures spy scandal to harm Jewish State
April 15, 2010
Brent Jones: Foster mother rejected for not serving pork, claims complaint
Meg James: Meet the tree-hugging, Berkeley educated, liberal Jew of the Fox Business Channel
April 14, 2010
The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Perform, Then Pay
Lori Borgman: Warning: Soul gazing can save your marriage!
Jewish World Review
How the credo of American Jewry took hold
By Michael Feldberg
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | "All who preserve a single soul . . .it is as if he preserved an entire world." — The Babylonian Talmud
The earliest collective action by American Jews on behalf of their overseas brethren came in 1840, in response to a false "blood libel" charge in Damascus. That spring, in the ancient capital of Syria, an Italian friar and his Muslim servant mysteriously disappeared. The Capuchin order of monks charged that Jews had kidnapped and ritually murdered the two men to fulfill a supposed Jewish injunction that non-Jewish blood be used in making Passover matzoh. Under torture, two "witnesses" named several prominent Damascus Jews as the "killers." The accused were arrested, tortured and sentenced to death. Knowing the suggestibility of child witnesses, local officials then seized 63 Jewish children to compel them to "reveal" where the blood was hidden.
Word of these outrages reached the United States in the summer of 1840. American Jews were dismayed that the ancient blood libel — the charge that Jews were ritual murderers — had reared its ugly head. What was American Jewry, so few in number and weak in international influence, to do? While the English and French Jewish communities sent delegations to the Ottoman Sultan protesting the treatment of Damascus's Jews, American Jewry — numbering no more than 15,000 individuals scattered across a vast nation — had no national organization or recognized leader to speak for it. American Jewry had no experience at presenting a united front on any issue of national or international moment.
Rabbi Isaac Leeser of Philadelphia, America's leading traditionalist rabbi, joined by communal leaders from other major American cities, filled the breach. Leeser helped organize public rallies, meetings of synagogue congregations and committees of correspondence in New York, Philadelphia, Richmond and Cincinnati, among other cities. The rallies called on President Martin Van Buren to intervene on behalf of the Jews of Damascus.
The American Jewish petitions argued that "the moral influence of the Chief Magistrate of the United States would be, under Heaven, the best aid we could invoke for the protection of our persecuted brethren under the Mohammedan domain." The New York protesters did "most emphatically and solemnly deny as well in our own name as in that of the whole Jewish people, that murder was ever committed by the Jews of Damascus, or those of any other part of the world, for the purpose of using the blood or any part of a human being in the ceremonies of our religion."
Van Buren ordered American diplomats in Constantinople and Alexandria to inform Ottoman officials of the "horror" felt by all Americans at the "extravagant charges strikingly similar to those which, in less enlightened ages, were made pretexts for the persecution and spoliation of these unfortunate people." Van Buren cited America's liberal institutions, which "place upon the same footing, the worshipers of G-d, of every faith and form." American values compelled him to protest "in behalf of an oppressed and persecuted race, among whose kindred are found some of the most worthy and patriotic of [American] citizens."
Bowing to pressure from the governments of the United States, Britain and France, Pasha Muhammed Ali, Ottoman overlord of Syria, ordered an end to the torture and confinement of Jewish prisoners and instructed Damascus officials to protect the city's Jewish community. The American ambassador helped Sir Moses Montefiore secure from the Ottoman Sultan an imperial decree in November declaring that the blood libel had "not the least foundation in truth" and that Jews "shall possess the same advantages and enjoy the same privileges" as his other subjects, especially the free exercise of their religion.
American Jewry had experienced its first taste of successful united action on behalf of its brethren overseas. Rabbi Leeser expressed the thinking of many American Jews of that time, as well as the spirit of the Babylonian Talmud, when he observed: "As citizens we belong to the country we live in; but as believers in one G-d, as the faithful adorers of the Creator, as the inheritors of the law, the Jews [of other lands] are no aliens among us, and we hail the Israelite as brother, no matter whether his home be the torrid zone, or where the poles encircle the earth with impenetrable fetters of icy coldness." These words remain the credo of American Jewry to the present day.
Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes inspiring articles. Sign up for our daily update. It's free. Just click here.
Michael Feldberg is Director of Research for the American Jewish Historical Society. Comment by clicking here.
Previously:
Lincoln's fight for Jewish chaplains
Meet the Orthodox Jew who laid groundwork for scientific development of ordnance that undergirds America's current world leadership
Meet Paul Revere's pal, the Orthodox Jew who played a key role in laying Boston's cultural and business infrastructure
An all but forgotten Colonial doctor who put his Jewish values before his life
‘I am a Jew, I am a Republican and I am poor’
Vindication of an American Jewish Patriot
Mordecai Sheftall and the Wages of War
Haym Salomon: The rest of the story
Francis Salvador: Martyr of the American Revolution
How Hebrew came to Yale
The Making of a Jewish Citizen
© 2006, Michael Feldberg
God's cake- Thanks Tom & Carolyn (Rowson) Lynch!
If any follow my blog, you have noticed that it is mainly email forwards from friends who are so gracious to share with me. Most of them don't mind that I add these messages to my blog.
As a Christian conservative and Tea Party follower myself, many may not share those thoughts, but I apologize for sending political things to them. When you click on this blog, you expect such things and enter on your own free will. We have a country which permits this as of right now ...
God's cake
God's Cake???
This is about the best thing I've ever read as an explanation. ?We all wonder many many many times over WHY?
Sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why did God have to do this to me?" Here is a wonderful explanation! A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away.
Meanwhile, her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a snack, and the daughter says, "Absolutely Mom, I love your cake."
"Here, have some cooking oil," her Mother offers.
"Yuck" says her daughter.
"How about a couple raw eggs?" "Gross, Mom!"
"Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?"
"Mom, those are all yucky!"
To which the mother replies: "Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake! "
God works the same way. Many times we wonder why He would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful!
God is crazy about you. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.
Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.
If you like this, send this on to the people you really care about.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance..
As a Christian conservative and Tea Party follower myself, many may not share those thoughts, but I apologize for sending political things to them. When you click on this blog, you expect such things and enter on your own free will. We have a country which permits this as of right now ...
God's cake
God's Cake???
This is about the best thing I've ever read as an explanation. ?We all wonder many many many times over WHY?
Sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why did God have to do this to me?" Here is a wonderful explanation! A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away.
Meanwhile, her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a snack, and the daughter says, "Absolutely Mom, I love your cake."
"Here, have some cooking oil," her Mother offers.
"Yuck" says her daughter.
"How about a couple raw eggs?" "Gross, Mom!"
"Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?"
"Mom, those are all yucky!"
To which the mother replies: "Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake! "
God works the same way. Many times we wonder why He would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful!
God is crazy about you. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.
Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.
If you like this, send this on to the people you really care about.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance..
Thanks Judi cole! George Will- Japanese American Heroes ...
Thanks Judi!
I lived among Japanese in 1953 and 1954 in Tokyo while in the Army. They are an industrious people. I am copying my great Jewish friend, Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld, and I hope she enjoys this article as I have. Of course, I also send it to a few special email friends on my bcc list. It will also go into my blog now.
You are good, Judi!
Sam
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From: judith Cole
To: sam kegley ; Betty Lasota ; margaret farley
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 23:05
Subject: George Will article
Japanese American heroes, bereft of bitterness
By George Will
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Hearing about a shortage of farm laborers in California, the couple who would become Susumu Ito's parents moved from Hiroshima to become sharecroppers near Stockton. Thus began a saga that recently brought Ito, 91, to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, where he and 119 former comrades in arms were honored, during the annual Days of Remembrance, as liberators of Nazi concentration camps. While his Japanese American Army unit was succoring survivors of Dachau, near Munich, his parents and two sisters were interned in a camp in Arkansas.
Ito attended one-room schools, graduated from high school at 16 and was accepted at Berkeley. His parents, however, believed that Japanese Americans could not rise in the professions — even the civil service — for which the university would prepare him. So he attended community college, studying auto mechanics, although he could not join the mechanics union.
In 1940, Congress passed conscription, and Ito was content to be drafted, thinking the military would be an adventure. He got that right.
Although he was nearsighted and "my feet were flat as boards," he and five other Japanese Americans from around Stockton were inducted in February 1941. Because "Japanese revered their sons being in the military," the Japanese American community threw a farewell banquet for them and gave each $35. After Pearl Harbor, the Army "took our rifles away."
Soon, while he was in training at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, his parents and sisters were interned as security threats, first at a California racetrack where they slept in horse stalls on straw mattresses, later in Arkansas. Bored by life as a military mechanic and "gung-ho about going to war," he volunteered to be a forward spotter seeking targets for the artillery, a job with a high casualty rate and a short life expectancy. Soon he was in Mississippi, from where he, wearing his country's uniform, could occasionally visit his family behind barbed wire in Arkansas.
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In Mississippi, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, composed of Japanese Americans, trained before being shipped to Europe. It included Daniel Inouye, now 85, who lost an arm while earning a Medal of Honor. He is now in his eighth term as a U.S. senator.
After experiencing combat in Italy, the unit moved up through France and to the famous rescue of the "lost battalion" of the 36th Texas Division, which was cut off by Germans. The 442nd, which suffered 1,000 casualties rescuing 175 surviving Texans, became the most decorated unit for its size in American history.
By March 1945, the 442nd was in southern Germany. Soon it was at Dachau. Eddie Ichiyama of Santa Clara, Calif., who also was here recently, says that "even right now" he can smell the stench. The ovens were still warm. On a nearby railroad flatbed car, what looked to be a supply of cordwood was actually stacked corpses.
Nelson Akagi of Salt Lake City remembers an officer "adopting" Larry Lubetzky, a liberated Lithuanian Jew, as an interpreter. After the war, prisoner No. 82123 went from Germany to Jerusalem to Canada to Mexico City, from where Akagi received a call in 1992. Akagi will search the Holocaust Memorial Museum archives for fresh information about Lubetzky.
After the war, Ito rejoined his loved ones, who had lost everything. He became a professor of cell biology and anatomy at Harvard Medical School. He retired in 1990 but still goes to the lab several days a week.
Such cheerful men, who helped to lop 988 years off the Thousand Year Reich, are serene reproaches to a nation now simmering with grievance groups that nurse their cherished resentments. The culture of complaint gets no nourishment from men like these who served their country so well while it was treating their families so ignobly. Yet it is a high tribute to this country that it is so loved by men such as these.
The Holocaust museum draws almost 2 million visitors a year, four times more than were anticipated when it opened 17 years ago. A museum official says dryly, "Human nature has been an enormous help." She means that atrocious behavior, a constant component of the human story, continually reminds people of the museum's relevance. It is, therefore, grand that the museum also honors those, like Ito, Akagi and Ichiyama, who exemplify the rest, and best, of that story.
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I lived among Japanese in 1953 and 1954 in Tokyo while in the Army. They are an industrious people. I am copying my great Jewish friend, Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld, and I hope she enjoys this article as I have. Of course, I also send it to a few special email friends on my bcc list. It will also go into my blog now.
You are good, Judi!
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: judith Cole
To: sam kegley ; Betty Lasota ; margaret farley
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 23:05
Subject: George Will article
Japanese American heroes, bereft of bitterness
By George Will
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Hearing about a shortage of farm laborers in California, the couple who would become Susumu Ito's parents moved from Hiroshima to become sharecroppers near Stockton. Thus began a saga that recently brought Ito, 91, to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, where he and 119 former comrades in arms were honored, during the annual Days of Remembrance, as liberators of Nazi concentration camps. While his Japanese American Army unit was succoring survivors of Dachau, near Munich, his parents and two sisters were interned in a camp in Arkansas.
Ito attended one-room schools, graduated from high school at 16 and was accepted at Berkeley. His parents, however, believed that Japanese Americans could not rise in the professions — even the civil service — for which the university would prepare him. So he attended community college, studying auto mechanics, although he could not join the mechanics union.
In 1940, Congress passed conscription, and Ito was content to be drafted, thinking the military would be an adventure. He got that right.
Although he was nearsighted and "my feet were flat as boards," he and five other Japanese Americans from around Stockton were inducted in February 1941. Because "Japanese revered their sons being in the military," the Japanese American community threw a farewell banquet for them and gave each $35. After Pearl Harbor, the Army "took our rifles away."
Soon, while he was in training at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, his parents and sisters were interned as security threats, first at a California racetrack where they slept in horse stalls on straw mattresses, later in Arkansas. Bored by life as a military mechanic and "gung-ho about going to war," he volunteered to be a forward spotter seeking targets for the artillery, a job with a high casualty rate and a short life expectancy. Soon he was in Mississippi, from where he, wearing his country's uniform, could occasionally visit his family behind barbed wire in Arkansas.
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In Mississippi, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, composed of Japanese Americans, trained before being shipped to Europe. It included Daniel Inouye, now 85, who lost an arm while earning a Medal of Honor. He is now in his eighth term as a U.S. senator.
After experiencing combat in Italy, the unit moved up through France and to the famous rescue of the "lost battalion" of the 36th Texas Division, which was cut off by Germans. The 442nd, which suffered 1,000 casualties rescuing 175 surviving Texans, became the most decorated unit for its size in American history.
By March 1945, the 442nd was in southern Germany. Soon it was at Dachau. Eddie Ichiyama of Santa Clara, Calif., who also was here recently, says that "even right now" he can smell the stench. The ovens were still warm. On a nearby railroad flatbed car, what looked to be a supply of cordwood was actually stacked corpses.
Nelson Akagi of Salt Lake City remembers an officer "adopting" Larry Lubetzky, a liberated Lithuanian Jew, as an interpreter. After the war, prisoner No. 82123 went from Germany to Jerusalem to Canada to Mexico City, from where Akagi received a call in 1992. Akagi will search the Holocaust Memorial Museum archives for fresh information about Lubetzky.
After the war, Ito rejoined his loved ones, who had lost everything. He became a professor of cell biology and anatomy at Harvard Medical School. He retired in 1990 but still goes to the lab several days a week.
Such cheerful men, who helped to lop 988 years off the Thousand Year Reich, are serene reproaches to a nation now simmering with grievance groups that nurse their cherished resentments. The culture of complaint gets no nourishment from men like these who served their country so well while it was treating their families so ignobly. Yet it is a high tribute to this country that it is so loved by men such as these.
The Holocaust museum draws almost 2 million visitors a year, four times more than were anticipated when it opened 17 years ago. A museum official says dryly, "Human nature has been an enormous help." She means that atrocious behavior, a constant component of the human story, continually reminds people of the museum's relevance. It is, therefore, grand that the museum also honors those, like Ito, Akagi and Ichiyama, who exemplify the rest, and best, of that story.
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Monday, April 26, 2010
Happy Trails- Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Jeanie had to have a Cat Scan this morning and I took the book Happy Trails with me to read. I began it at 9:30 this morning and finished it about 7:45 this evening. Roy and Dale were in their eighties when the book was published in 1994. They are each deceased now.
I have never been a fast reader, but I didn't have so many occasions to go back over paragraphs and I did take an hour nap and we spent a little while on our food I picked up from Wendy's.
I picked up the phone and called my good friend, Smokey Gibson. Smokey is in my "Excellence in Athletics in the Portsmouth Area" book.
Coach Gibson had fished with Roy Rogers' uncle Hono Sly in the Ohio River at Portsmouth. I shared with Smokey that I had lended the book to Bob and Sarah Lyles just before Bob's death a few years ago and his hospice nurse would read portions of it to him before he passed on.
Coach seemed glad I called. He is in his later eighties now, but sounds good. His wife, Alice, says he hasn't been really well due to a cold hanging on.
I will have more to say about the book later on,
but I will be retiring very soon now for the evening.
I have even more respect for the King of the Cowboys and his wife and their family. It is good that Roy shares membership in the unofficial Cultural Center of Our Universe.
I have never been a fast reader, but I didn't have so many occasions to go back over paragraphs and I did take an hour nap and we spent a little while on our food I picked up from Wendy's.
I picked up the phone and called my good friend, Smokey Gibson. Smokey is in my "Excellence in Athletics in the Portsmouth Area" book.
Coach Gibson had fished with Roy Rogers' uncle Hono Sly in the Ohio River at Portsmouth. I shared with Smokey that I had lended the book to Bob and Sarah Lyles just before Bob's death a few years ago and his hospice nurse would read portions of it to him before he passed on.
Coach seemed glad I called. He is in his later eighties now, but sounds good. His wife, Alice, says he hasn't been really well due to a cold hanging on.
I will have more to say about the book later on,
but I will be retiring very soon now for the evening.
I have even more respect for the King of the Cowboys and his wife and their family. It is good that Roy shares membership in the unofficial Cultural Center of Our Universe.
Thanks good friend, Ron Walters!
Fully recyclble and it did take guts, Ron! There are more Americans with guts than little o and his fellow traveling liberals realize. ----- Original Message ----- From: ronald walters Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 11:47 Subject: Fwd: Fw: Fwd: This took Guts
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This took Guts (although it shouldn't have) This is absolutely great ! ! !
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A Pastor with GUTS!
Thought you might enjoy this interesting Prayer given in Kansas at The opening session of their Senate. It seems Prayer still upsets some People.. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open The new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is
What they heard:
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek your direction and Guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those Who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we Have done.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed Our values.
We have exploited the poor and called it The lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it Welfare..
We have killed our unborn and called it Choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it Justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our Children and called it Building self esteem....
We have abused power and called it Politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions And called it Ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and Pornography and called it Freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values Of our forefathers and called it Enlightenment.
Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts Today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!
The response was immediate. A number of Legislators walked out during the prayer in Protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than
5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls Responding negatively. The church is now receiving International requests for copies of this prayer From India , Africa and Korea .
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on His radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,'and Received a larger response to this program than any Other he has ever aired.
With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep Over our nation and wholeheartedly become our Desire so that we again can be called 'one nation under God.'
If possible, please pass this prayer on to Your friends.... 'If you don't stand for something, You will fall for everything.'
Think about this: If you forward this Prayer to everyone on your E-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be Heard by the world.
How many people in your address book will Not receive this prayer..... Do you have the guts to pass it on?
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This took Guts (although it shouldn't have) This is absolutely great ! ! !
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A Pastor with GUTS!
Thought you might enjoy this interesting Prayer given in Kansas at The opening session of their Senate. It seems Prayer still upsets some People.. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open The new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is
What they heard:
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek your direction and Guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those Who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we Have done.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed Our values.
We have exploited the poor and called it The lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it Welfare..
We have killed our unborn and called it Choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it Justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our Children and called it Building self esteem....
We have abused power and called it Politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions And called it Ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and Pornography and called it Freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values Of our forefathers and called it Enlightenment.
Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts Today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!
The response was immediate. A number of Legislators walked out during the prayer in Protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than
5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls Responding negatively. The church is now receiving International requests for copies of this prayer From India , Africa and Korea .
Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on His radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,'and Received a larger response to this program than any Other he has ever aired.
With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep Over our nation and wholeheartedly become our Desire so that we again can be called 'one nation under God.'
If possible, please pass this prayer on to Your friends.... 'If you don't stand for something, You will fall for everything.'
Think about this: If you forward this Prayer to everyone on your E-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be Heard by the world.
How many people in your address book will Not receive this prayer..... Do you have the guts to pass it on?
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Who am I? Thanks again, John Massey!
Try and Guess WHO I AM?
I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in another
country. I was not his only child . He fathered several children with numerous women.
I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me.
My mother died at an early age from cancer. Later in life, questions arose over my real name.
My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate .
I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my
country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs & didn't follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.
I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them..
That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career.
I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I
had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.
I became active in local politics in my 30's then with help behind the scenes, I literally
burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office in my 40s..
They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything.. That reinforced my conceit.
I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization.
Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn > to me as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks. I drew incredibly
large crowds during my public appearances. This bolstered my ego.
At first, my political campaign focused on my country's foreign policy. I was very critical of
my country in the last war and seized every opportunity to bash my country.
But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country's economy. I
pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better and every poor
person would be fed & housed for free.
I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess. It was the free market, banks
& corporations. I decided to start making citizens hate them and
if they were envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight.
I called mine "A People's Campaign" and that sounded good to all people.
I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of
politics & was able to gain widespread popular support.
I knew that, if I merely offered the people 'hope' , together we could change our country and the world.
So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant
to include "persecuted minorities" like the Jews. My true views were not widely known and I needed to keep them unknown, until after I
became my nation's leader.
I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed,
if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with.
I'm glad they didn't. Then I became the most powerful man in the world.
And the world learned the truth.
Who am I?
I am ADOLF HITLER
WHO WERE YOU THINKING OF?
Scary isn't it?
John & Yvette Massey
1988 Marblecliff Crossing Court, Columbus, Ohio 43204-4966.
Telephone: 614-486-7102; E-mail:.
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I was born in one country, raised in another. My father was born in another
country. I was not his only child . He fathered several children with numerous women.
I became very close to my mother, as my father showed no interest in me.
My mother died at an early age from cancer. Later in life, questions arose over my real name.
My birth records were sketchy and no one was able to produce a legitimate, reliable birth certificate .
I grew up practicing one faith but converted to Christianity, as it was widely accepted in my
country, but I practiced non-traditional beliefs & didn't follow Christianity, except in the public eye under scrutiny.
I worked and lived among lower-class people as a young adult, disguising myself as someone who really cared about them..
That was before I decided it was time to get serious about my life and I embarked on a new career.
I wrote a book about my struggles growing up. It was clear to those who read my memoirs that I
had difficulties accepting that my father abandoned me as a child.
I became active in local politics in my 30's then with help behind the scenes, I literally
burst onto the scene as a candidate for national office in my 40s..
They said I had a golden tongue and could talk anyone into anything.. That reinforced my conceit.
I had a virtually non-existent resume, little work history, and no experience in leading a single organization.
Yet I was a powerful speaker and citizens were drawn > to me as though I were a magnet and they were small roofing tacks. I drew incredibly
large crowds during my public appearances. This bolstered my ego.
At first, my political campaign focused on my country's foreign policy. I was very critical of
my country in the last war and seized every opportunity to bash my country.
But what launched my rise to national prominence were my views on the country's economy. I
pretended to have a really good plan on how we could do better and every poor
person would be fed & housed for free.
I knew which group was responsible for getting us into this mess. It was the free market, banks
& corporations. I decided to start making citizens hate them and
if they were envious of others who did well, the plan was clinched tight.
I called mine "A People's Campaign" and that sounded good to all people.
I was the surprise candidate because I emerged from outside the traditional path of
politics & was able to gain widespread popular support.
I knew that, if I merely offered the people 'hope' , together we could change our country and the world.
So, I started to make my speeches sound like they were on behalf of the downtrodden, poor, ignorant
to include "persecuted minorities" like the Jews. My true views were not widely known and I needed to keep them unknown, until after I
became my nation's leader.
I had to carefully guard reality, as anybody could have easily found out what I really believed,
if they had simply read my writings and examined those people I associated with.
I'm glad they didn't. Then I became the most powerful man in the world.
And the world learned the truth.
Who am I?
I am ADOLF HITLER
WHO WERE YOU THINKING OF?
Scary isn't it?
John & Yvette Massey
1988 Marblecliff Crossing Court, Columbus, Ohio 43204-4966.
Telephone: 614-486-7102; E-mail:
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Thanks John Massey! ... Illusions of American Liberals
The Grand Illusions of America's Liberals
By Edward Bernard Glick
American Thinker
April 20, 2010
America's liberals are consumed with guilt. If not soon purged from our society, their guilt will kill us all.
Bent on rewriting history, or else entirely ignorant of it, they deny that the United States has brought more freedom and well-being to more people most of the time than any other nation in history. They also accuse our country of racism and imperialism.
Indeed, we Americans are so racist that only five percent of the blacks forced out of Africa were shipped to British North America, and later to the United States. Less than a century after their independence, our ancestors fought a bloody civil war to end slavery.
We Americans are so racist that ours is the only white-majority nation that has tried to make amends for slavery and its aftermath by means of Constitutional amendments, congressional legislation, and executive actions. Affirmative action is an example.
We Americans are so racist that in 2008, we elected the first black president of the United States. We hailed two of President Barack Obama's predecessors when they appointed the first black to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the first black to be national security advisor, and the first black to be Secretary of State.
We Americans are so racist that there is one African-American on the Supreme Court and there are 42 African-Americans in Congress. Two Jews serve on the Supreme Court, and 45 Jews serve in Congress.
We Americans are so racist that we force foreigners to flock to our embassies and consulates and make them beg for visas. We Americans are so racist that we have allowed millions of non-whites and non-Europeans -- people from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East -- to immigrate here and become part of the American Dream.
As for our so-called imperialism, our liberals are deluded about that, as well.
The truth is that there are imperial aspects to America's past. The United States did take land from North America's native peoples. But so did the French, the British, and the Canadians. So, too, did the Spaniards and the Portuguese in Latin America and elsewhere. So, too, did the Australians and New Zealanders in the South Seas. So, too, did the Chinese, Japanese, and Russians in Asia and Europe.
Great Britain never asked the Scots, the Welsh, and the Catholics of Northern Ireland if they wanted to become part of the kingdom. Nor did China ask the Tibetans if they wanted be absorbed into the Communist Paradise.
It is true that America, influenced by the sea-power teachings of Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, conquered the Philippine Islands and Puerto Rico in the 1898 Spanish-American War. But we granted the Filipinos independence in 1946, and we have promised statehood or independence to the Puerto Ricans whenever they decide to abandon their present commonwealth status within the American union.
It is true that President Theodore Roosevelt took advantage of a local revolt against Colombia and acquired the Panama Canal Zone in 1903. It is also true that America completed the Panama Canal in 1914. But President Jimmy Carter returned both the zone and the canal to Panama in 1977.
In 1945, President Harry Truman created the Age of the Nuclear Weapon when he ordered the Army Air Force to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thus ending Japan's participation in the Second World War. For a few years, we possessed the only nuclear weapons on the planet. Yet Mr. Truman blackmailed no one. Nor did he take any land from our erstwhile enemies. All America got in the post-war period were the graves of its soldiers who died in Europe. By contrast, the Soviet Union incorporated huge swaths of Poland and Germany.
America's liberals have never learned to look at life through the prisms of contrast, comparison, and context. If they would honestly compare our country to ancient Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome, or to Ottoman Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Russia, Britain, and France, then they would have to conclude that America was and is the least imperialistic power in recorded history.
Despite President Obama's rhetoric and body language, the United States has little to be ashamed of. It has even less to apologize for. In the words of President Abraham Lincoln, who emancipated the slaves from what he called unfreedom, America is still "the last best hope of earth
John & Yvette Massey
1988 Marblecliff Crossing Court, Columbus, Ohio 43204-4966.
Telephone: 614-486-7102; E-mail:.
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By Edward Bernard Glick
American Thinker
April 20, 2010
America's liberals are consumed with guilt. If not soon purged from our society, their guilt will kill us all.
Bent on rewriting history, or else entirely ignorant of it, they deny that the United States has brought more freedom and well-being to more people most of the time than any other nation in history. They also accuse our country of racism and imperialism.
Indeed, we Americans are so racist that only five percent of the blacks forced out of Africa were shipped to British North America, and later to the United States. Less than a century after their independence, our ancestors fought a bloody civil war to end slavery.
We Americans are so racist that ours is the only white-majority nation that has tried to make amends for slavery and its aftermath by means of Constitutional amendments, congressional legislation, and executive actions. Affirmative action is an example.
We Americans are so racist that in 2008, we elected the first black president of the United States. We hailed two of President Barack Obama's predecessors when they appointed the first black to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the first black to be national security advisor, and the first black to be Secretary of State.
We Americans are so racist that there is one African-American on the Supreme Court and there are 42 African-Americans in Congress. Two Jews serve on the Supreme Court, and 45 Jews serve in Congress.
We Americans are so racist that we force foreigners to flock to our embassies and consulates and make them beg for visas. We Americans are so racist that we have allowed millions of non-whites and non-Europeans -- people from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East -- to immigrate here and become part of the American Dream.
As for our so-called imperialism, our liberals are deluded about that, as well.
The truth is that there are imperial aspects to America's past. The United States did take land from North America's native peoples. But so did the French, the British, and the Canadians. So, too, did the Spaniards and the Portuguese in Latin America and elsewhere. So, too, did the Australians and New Zealanders in the South Seas. So, too, did the Chinese, Japanese, and Russians in Asia and Europe.
Great Britain never asked the Scots, the Welsh, and the Catholics of Northern Ireland if they wanted to become part of the kingdom. Nor did China ask the Tibetans if they wanted be absorbed into the Communist Paradise.
It is true that America, influenced by the sea-power teachings of Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, conquered the Philippine Islands and Puerto Rico in the 1898 Spanish-American War. But we granted the Filipinos independence in 1946, and we have promised statehood or independence to the Puerto Ricans whenever they decide to abandon their present commonwealth status within the American union.
It is true that President Theodore Roosevelt took advantage of a local revolt against Colombia and acquired the Panama Canal Zone in 1903. It is also true that America completed the Panama Canal in 1914. But President Jimmy Carter returned both the zone and the canal to Panama in 1977.
In 1945, President Harry Truman created the Age of the Nuclear Weapon when he ordered the Army Air Force to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thus ending Japan's participation in the Second World War. For a few years, we possessed the only nuclear weapons on the planet. Yet Mr. Truman blackmailed no one. Nor did he take any land from our erstwhile enemies. All America got in the post-war period were the graves of its soldiers who died in Europe. By contrast, the Soviet Union incorporated huge swaths of Poland and Germany.
America's liberals have never learned to look at life through the prisms of contrast, comparison, and context. If they would honestly compare our country to ancient Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome, or to Ottoman Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Russia, Britain, and France, then they would have to conclude that America was and is the least imperialistic power in recorded history.
Despite President Obama's rhetoric and body language, the United States has little to be ashamed of. It has even less to apologize for. In the words of President Abraham Lincoln, who emancipated the slaves from what he called unfreedom, America is still "the last best hope of earth
John & Yvette Massey
1988 Marblecliff Crossing Court, Columbus, Ohio 43204-4966.
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Setting Boxer straight- Great re-cycle Lou!
a fine letter
This was sent to me by a close friend.
This letter was sent to me by a friend of mine who is a retired USAF General.
THIS IS WORTH READING.
Do you remember the scene? The Senate. Barbara Boxer hearing from a Brigadier General? Silly General! He addresses Barbara as "Ma'm", and she CORRECTS him, telling him she's "worked SO hard to earn the title, "Senator", so please to use that when speaking to her.
Get a load of this letter!
Read the letter sent to Sen. Barbara Boxer from an Alaskan Airlines pilot below.
Many of us witnessed the arrogance of Barbara Boxer on June 18, 2009 as she admonished Brigadier General Michael Walsh because he addressed her as "ma'am" and not "Senator" before a Senate hearing..
This letter is from a National Guard aviator and Captain for Alaska Airlines named Jim Hill. I wonder what he would have said if he were really angry. Long fly Alaska !!!!!
Babs:
You were so right on when you scolded the general on TV for using the term, "ma'am," instead of "Senator". After all, in the military, "ma'am" is a term of respect when addressing a female of superior rank or position. The general was totally wrong. You are not a person of superior rank or position. You are a member of one of the world's most corrupt organizations, the U.S. Senate, equaled only by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Congress is a cesspool of liars, thieves, inside traders, traitors, drunks (one who killed a staffer, yet is still revered), criminals, and other low level swine who, as individuals (not all, but many), will do anything to enhance their lives, fortunes and power, all at the expense of the People of the United States and its Constitution, in order to be continually re-elected. Many democrats even want American troops killed by releasing photographs. How many of you could honestly say, "We pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor"? None? One? Two?
Your reaction to the general shows several things. First is your abysmal ignorance of all things military. Your treatment of the general shows you to be an elitist of the worst kind. When the general entered the military (as most of us who served) he wrote the government a blank check, offering his life to protect your derriere, now safely and comfortably ensconced in a 20 thousand dollar leather chair, paid for by the general's taxes. You repaid him for this by humiliating him in front of millions.
Second is your puerile character, lack of sophistication, and arrogance, which borders on the hubristic. This display of brattish behavior shows you to be a virago, termagant, harridan, nag, scold or shrew, unfit for your position, regardless of the support of the unwashed, uneducated masses who have made California into the laughing stock of the nation.
What I am writing, are the same thoughts countless millions of Americans have toward Congress, but who lack the energy, ability or time to convey them. Regardless of their thoughts, most realize that politicians are pretty much the same, and will vote for the one who will bring home the most bacon, even if they do consider how corrupt that person is. Lord Acton (1834 - 1902) so aptly charged, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Unbeknownst to you and your colleagues, "Mr. Power" has had his way with all of you, and we are all the worse for it.
Finally Senator, I, too, have a title. It is "Right Wing Extremist Potential Terrorist Threat." It is not of my choosing, but was given to me by your Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. And you were offended by "ma'am"?
Have a fine day. Cheers!
Jim Hill
16808 - 103rd Avenue Court East
South Hill , WA 98374
If you care about the way our Country is heading, Please circulate this to remind every voter that the "cesspools" MUST be pumped out when we go to the polls in November, 2010.
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This was sent to me by a close friend.
This letter was sent to me by a friend of mine who is a retired USAF General.
THIS IS WORTH READING.
Do you remember the scene? The Senate. Barbara Boxer hearing from a Brigadier General? Silly General! He addresses Barbara as "Ma'm", and she CORRECTS him, telling him she's "worked SO hard to earn the title, "Senator", so please to use that when speaking to her.
Get a load of this letter!
Read the letter sent to Sen. Barbara Boxer from an Alaskan Airlines pilot below.
Many of us witnessed the arrogance of Barbara Boxer on June 18, 2009 as she admonished Brigadier General Michael Walsh because he addressed her as "ma'am" and not "Senator" before a Senate hearing..
This letter is from a National Guard aviator and Captain for Alaska Airlines named Jim Hill. I wonder what he would have said if he were really angry. Long fly Alaska !!!!!
Babs:
You were so right on when you scolded the general on TV for using the term, "ma'am," instead of "Senator". After all, in the military, "ma'am" is a term of respect when addressing a female of superior rank or position. The general was totally wrong. You are not a person of superior rank or position. You are a member of one of the world's most corrupt organizations, the U.S. Senate, equaled only by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Congress is a cesspool of liars, thieves, inside traders, traitors, drunks (one who killed a staffer, yet is still revered), criminals, and other low level swine who, as individuals (not all, but many), will do anything to enhance their lives, fortunes and power, all at the expense of the People of the United States and its Constitution, in order to be continually re-elected. Many democrats even want American troops killed by releasing photographs. How many of you could honestly say, "We pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor"? None? One? Two?
Your reaction to the general shows several things. First is your abysmal ignorance of all things military. Your treatment of the general shows you to be an elitist of the worst kind. When the general entered the military (as most of us who served) he wrote the government a blank check, offering his life to protect your derriere, now safely and comfortably ensconced in a 20 thousand dollar leather chair, paid for by the general's taxes. You repaid him for this by humiliating him in front of millions.
Second is your puerile character, lack of sophistication, and arrogance, which borders on the hubristic. This display of brattish behavior shows you to be a virago, termagant, harridan, nag, scold or shrew, unfit for your position, regardless of the support of the unwashed, uneducated masses who have made California into the laughing stock of the nation.
What I am writing, are the same thoughts countless millions of Americans have toward Congress, but who lack the energy, ability or time to convey them. Regardless of their thoughts, most realize that politicians are pretty much the same, and will vote for the one who will bring home the most bacon, even if they do consider how corrupt that person is. Lord Acton (1834 - 1902) so aptly charged, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Unbeknownst to you and your colleagues, "Mr. Power" has had his way with all of you, and we are all the worse for it.
Finally Senator, I, too, have a title. It is "Right Wing Extremist Potential Terrorist Threat." It is not of my choosing, but was given to me by your Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano. And you were offended by "ma'am"?
Have a fine day. Cheers!
Jim Hill
16808 - 103rd Avenue Court East
South Hill , WA 98374
If you care about the way our Country is heading, Please circulate this to remind every voter that the "cesspools" MUST be pumped out when we go to the polls in November, 2010.
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The message was checked by ESET Smart Security.
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