The old priest ... Thanks Anon Ymous!

I know I promised to stop sending out political messages, but sometimes I just can’t help myself.

In Washington, D.C. . an old priest lay dying in the hospital. For years, he had faithfully served the people

of the nation's capital and was well known among the elected officials. He motioned for his nurse to come near.

Yes, Father?" said the nurse.

"I would really like to see President Obama and Senator Reid before I die," whispered the priest.

"I'll see what I can do, Father", replied the nurse.

The nurse sent the request to The President and Congress and waited for a response.

Soon the word arrived; President Obama and Harry Reid would be delighted to visit the priest.

As they went to the hospital, Obama commented to Reid, "I don't know why the old priest wants to see us, but it will certainly help our images." Reid agreed that it was a good thing.

When they arrived at the priest's room, the priest took Obama's hand in his right hand and Reid's hand in his left hand...There was silence and a look of serenity on the old priest's face..

Finally President Obama spoke. "Father, of all the people you could have chosen, why did you choose us to be with you as you near the end?"

The old priest slowly replied, "I have always tried to pattern my life after our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."

"Amen", said Obama. "Amen", said Reid.

The old priest continued, "Jesus died between two lying thieves; I would like to do the same."

"IN GOD WE TRUST"

What died in Auschwitz ... Thanks Pidge F!

Here's an interesting viewpoint.

The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez and published in a Spanish newspaper on January 15, 2011.

It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe - and possibly to the rest of the world.

EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ

By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez

I walked down the street in Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz.

We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent.

We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.

These are the people we burned.

And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.

They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.

And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.

We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.

What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.

A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to themselves.

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet.

However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving in to it.

It is now more than sixty years after the Second World War in Europe ended.

This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, twenty million Russians, ten million Christians, and nineteen-hundred Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated.'

Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth', it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

This e-mail is intended to reach 400 million people. Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world.

How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States?

If our Judeo-Christian heritage is offensive to Muslims, they should pack up and move to Iran, Iraq, or some other Muslim country.

Please do not just delete this message; it will take only a minute to pass this along. We must wake up America before it's too late

Sr. Incentives- Into the big lying mouth! Thx Sarah R and Keith B!

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Social issues are distinct ... Thanks Jonah Goldberg!

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Just because things can be put on the same list doesn’t mean they necessarily are similar. My attic contains within it thousands of comic books, an inflatable bed, some jigsaw puzzles, some family pictures and a Frampton Comes Alive! album. These things are, roughly speaking, in the same location, but they’re hardly of equal value, importance or function.
I bring this up for the simple reason that we’re hearing a lot about how the GOP must deal with “abortion and gay marriage,” as if they are almost the same issue.
Well, in my house, I hear about my dog and my mortgage a lot.
They’re both important, and complicated in their own ways, but they aren’t all that similar.
I think some liberals and some conservatives like to lump all social issues together, at least in part because they find their opponents’ positions on them so unfathomable. It’s like if an alien showed you a fnerk, a thrampahorn and a zizzenbozzle, you’d be forgiven for assuming they’re all somehow related to each other.
In fact, for a long time the shorthand for social issues was “God, guns and gays.” And a lot of analysts thought they would move all together. It turns out that various social issues stand or fall on their own.
If you’d predicted in the late 1980s that the country would become more pro-life, more pro-gun and more pro-gay, the experts would’ve laughed at you.
It drives some older liberals crazy that some young liberals are insufficiently pro-choice and it vexes some older conservatives that some young conservatives are insufficiently anti-gay-marriage.
I myself have grown both more pro-life and more sympathetic to gay marriage.
I’ve been in favor of civil unions for more than a decade — back when it was considered a left-wing position, not a fallback right-wing one. And I’d probably still prefer civil unions if we had settled on some arrangement that conferred the economic and legal benefits of traditional marriage without calling it marriage. Still, gays have an entirely understandable reluctance to settle for that and, besides, I think the argument over whether or not to call civil unions “marriage” has been all but lost, though there’s a glimmer of hope the decision might eventually be left to the states (which I favor).
As for abortion, my migration has less to do with religious arguments and more to do with my growing distrust of the government. Who is and who isn’t a human being with unalienable rights is just about the biggest question there is. And the fact that the answer usually is obvious — that guy, not that fly — only makes it more important.
The government has an obligation to protect the life and liberty of the subset of human beings we call Americans. If you commit a crime that obligation changes, of course, since the government also has an obligation to protect the rest of us from those who would do us harm.
Well, I consider a fetus a human being. It has done no harm, nor has it committed a crime punishable by death. More important, I don’t like it when governments start getting clever about who counts as full human beings and who doesn’t (See: Slavery, U.S., or Holocaust, Nazi). There are few areas where a bright line is more vital or necessary. I’d bet it won’t be very long before science is able to tell us whether some fetuses will grow up to be gay or not. The politics of abortion will suddenly get more interesting, I suspect.
But once you’re born and, hopefully, properly raised, the government’s chief obligation is to stay out of your way, whether you’re straight or gay, so you can pursue happiness as you define it — not how, say, Michael Bloomberg or Pat Robertson define it.
Which brings me back to gay marriage. Opponents of same-sex marriage insist gays have the same right as anyone else to marry a person of the opposite sex. It’s a clever line, but it overlooks the fact that romantic love has been the paramount reason for marriage for quite some time. Telling people they’re free to be unhappy isn’t all that persuasive.
The whole point of the American way is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. So, come to think of it, maybe gay marriage and abortion have more in common than I thought.
Jonah Goldberg is editor at large of National Review Online.
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Problems we face ... God bless Dr. Thomas Sowell!

“The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are out numbered by the people that vote for a living.”

-Dr. Thomas Sowell

God bless Thomas Sowell!

“The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are out numbered by the people that vote for a living.”

-Dr. Thomas Sowell

History lesson that may surprise ... Thanks Anon Ymous!

Here is a history lesson that needs to be heard. 
 

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