Today was a milestone in my life. Today, gas prices hit four dollars a gallon. I had hoped that this day was not coming in the near future. In fact, it shouldn’t have.
If gas prices kept even with inflation, we should see a four percent growth in prices from year to year. Instead, we have seen 36% increases in single years.
What makes this so infuriating is that it was preventable. Most of us are on a shoestring budget after the latest round of energy price increases. The sad part is that idiots like John McCain and Barack Obama still don’t get it. They are pushing for more legislation that breaks the backs of normal Americans. I guess that’s easy to do when the feds give senators a blank check for their gas expenditures.
For my house, gas prices have been cutting into our savings in a major way. Its getting to the point where we are seriously having to cut back on driving.
It should have been different. We are sitting on more energy than most countries can imagine. Yet we do nothing. Nancy Pelosi is playing the fiddle while our economy tanks. Are there any good politicians out there?
This is no longer a political issue. It is a moral issue. I don’t say this lightly, but forget about your stupid tree hugger legislation. Tree hugging is not something we can afford right now. People are losing their lives, their liberty, and their ability to pursue happiness.
Our congress has failed us. It is time to elect new ones. Lets begin to ask for their resignations! Many republicans and democrats alike should be fired for their gross negligence. If they were running a business, they would be thrown in jail for their misuse of funds. Perhaps we should give congress a taste of their own medicine. They hold “trials” on the house floor, maybe we should put them on trial as well.
In victory for Ten Commandments posted in Kentucky, court criticizes ACLU for misusing concept that is outside of the Constitution Tuesday, December 20, 2005, 1:20 PM (MST) |
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CINCINNATI - In a ruling handed down today affirming as constitutional a Ten Commandments display in Mercer County, Ken., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit declared, “The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state.” The court also criticized the ACLU’s repeated reference to the construct, calling it “tiresome” and “extra-constitutional.”
“For years, the Alliance Defense Fund has argued against claims by the ACLU and its allies that their interpretation of the Establishment Clause is a correct interpretation. The good news for Americans is that today’s ruling says the ACLU’s interpretation is outside the Constitution. This is a dramatic rollback of the far-left’s misguided legal agenda,” said ADF Senior Counsel Gary McCaleb.
In American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky v. Mercer County, the court wrote that “the ACLU makes repeated reference to ‘the separation of church and state.’ This extra-constitutional construct has grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state.”
The court went on to note that the ACLU’s argument that the Ten Commandments are religious does not answer the question of whether the display actually endorses religion. The court stated that the ACLU “erroneously-though perhaps intentionally” equates merely recognizing religion as government endorsement of religion. “To endorse is necessarily to recognize, but the converse does not follow,” the court wrote.
The full text of the court’s opinion can be read at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/ACLUvMCopinion.pdf. ADF attorneys had no role in the appeal, but attorney and ally Frank Manion, with the assistance of a friend-of-the-court brief funded by ADF, was successful in his efforts to have the lawsuit dismissed prior to the ACLU’s appeal of the dismissal to the 6th Circuit.
ADF is a legal alliance defending America’s first liberty–religious freedom–through strategy, training, funding, and litigation. ADF President Alan Sears is co-author with Craig Osten of the new book The ACLU vs. America (www.acluvsamerica.com).
Barack Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, has been scrutinized a lot lately for his political activism from the pulpit. The IRS has been investigating his church (Trinity United Church of Christ) for being used as a political advocacy group rather than a place of worship.
A more pertinent issue for voters is “What sort of political influence did Barack Obama’s pastor have on Barack?” Tudra Politics has found an article that Jeremiah Wright distributed to his congregation on January 21, 2008.
The article shows the immense hate for America, and the deep rooted anti-white racism, that is found in Barack Obama’s Church. Jeremiah Wright’s article is laced with inflammatory rhetoric, outright lies, and various forms of socialistic political speech.
You can read the entire text below:
WHAT’S GOIN’ ON?
Marvin Gaye’s powerful “message song” is a song that made him famous because it went against the “Motown entertainment rule.” It raised serious questions about the culture, the country and governmental policy.
His song raised questions about Black-on-Black violence, about drugs, about war and about the way in which we were living (or not living) in a very difficult period of history.
I use his words today on the third Sunday of a New Year to keep before you the painful truth of who we are and where it is we are in this racist United States of America! What’s goin’ on?
We have lost over 3,000 boys and girls in an illegal and unjust war, and the media is on a feeding frenzy about Barack Obama’s church. Where is the outrage about the 3,000 dead American military personnel and the 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians who are dead for no reason other than greed and ego? What’s goin’ on?
This past Wednesday, January 17th, the House of Representatives deliberated on a bill to cut interest rates on federally subsidized student loans. On Thursday, January 18th, the House of Representatives considered legislation that would repeal some royalties and tax incentives from the oil and gas industries and redistribute that money to alternative and renewable energy such as bio-fuels.
The media, however, is not covering that news. The media wants to know about Barack Obama’s pastor. What’s goin’ on?
On the weekend leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, the House of Representatives passed a bill requiring the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate drug prices for the Medicare program. The President who is “staying the course” and sending 21,500 more troops to their death has issued a veto threat against the
measure and there is no public outcry and no media outrage. What’s goin’ on?
The President’s “New Plan” (more troops, more death and more war) promises an insane escalation — in Iraq, Iran and beyond! With the torture of Abu Ghraib, the complete destructions of cities like Fallujah and over 600,000 deaths due to collateral damage, the President complained in his speech that there had been “too many restrictions” on the actions of the United States Forces in the Iraq war.
Am I the only one who heard that? What’s goin’ on?
I celebrate forty years of ordained ministry this weekend. I bask in the 40-year glow of God’s Grace, God’s forgiveness and God’s lessons about humility.
The e-mails that I have been getting this week, the news clippings that I am being sent and the racist blogs that are flooding the Internet make me know, however, that even as I bask, the work ahead for the church of Jesus Christ is just as serious and difficult today (if not more so) as it was forty years ago when I was ordained during the Vietnamese War!
The President tries to frame the justification for his insanity by using language describing the debate in this country over the war as “a great struggle between those who believe in freedom in moderation and extremists who kill the innocent.”
The reality, however, is that the entire war in Iraq and the larger “war on terror” have been based on lies, half-truths and distortions to serve the agenda of the United States imperialism. Where is the public outcry? Where is the outrage? What’s goin’ on?
There is more focus on what the Bears may or may not do as they play a football game against New Orleans than there is on the 3,000 homeless who are still living or displaced in the real life game called “New Orleans.”
Those poor Black and white displaced citizens of New Orleans (not imported team members playing for New Orleans), who have no place to
go and no place to live because of this administration’s illegal war and its billions of dollars wasted on prosecuting that war, join with me in asking, “What’s goin’ on?”
Excuse me! The victims of Hurricane Katrina are no longer on the radar screen of the media. Only Barack, his church, his pastor and white arrogance!
I invite your sincere prayers this weekend. The generation of ministers behind me has its work cut out for them in some incredible and overwhelming ways!
One of the largest local newspaper chains in the Twin Cities seems to be engaged in a little bit of biased censorship. Many times newspaper outfits think of themselves as gatekeepers to all the important information within a specific community.
The bias of editors sometimes gets in the way of free and open thought. These editors will hand pick letters that portray their specific political views more prominently than others.
Terry Pearson has a good post on his site about the tax increases. He sent a letter to the editor, but they refused to publish it. He is trying to get his letter out anyway, through the alternative media. He has given permission for anyone to copy his post and use it however they feel appropriate.
The text of his post is below:
I sent the following letter to the editor of my local newspaper (MN Sun Newspaper - South St. Paul, West St. Paul, Inver Grove Heights, and Mendota Heights). Unfortunately, they chose not to publish it. They never actually gave a reason why they refused to publish it, but it was interesting that the only opinion on the Minnesota Tax Increases was published by a Democrat from the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Fortunately, I can go around MNSun’s censorship and publish this on my blog. Feel free to copy any or all of this letter and get the word out on this.
Dear Editor,
I do not think that I have ever been as disappointed in our state government as I am today. Today, our representative, Joe Atkins, along with many others in the Minnesota House and Senate voted to impose one of the largest tax increases in Minnesota history.
While nobody likes to have their money taken from them, it especially hurts when you know that just one year ago the state of Minnesota had a multi billion dollar surplus. Instead of being frugal in the good years, our state representatives squandered that surplus on various pork projects throughout the state in order to give favors to supporters.
Due to the tremendous growth in spending last year, along with a stuttering economy, we find ourselves in a major deficit. This is a problem that could have been avoided if our leadership had planned for the long run. Even the week before the vote on the tax increase, Democrats were not trying to find ways responsibly cut spending. Instead, they were giving away money to every earmark project they could think of. I suppose this was to ensure the need for a tax increase.
Today, we are faced with higher fuel prices, increased unemployment, and a weak dollar. With our economy running on fumes, the DFL proposed the worst solution to the problem. They thought that the best course of action would be to take more money from the working middle class families of Minnesota.
The tax increases that were passed by the Senate and House include a gas tax, a sales tax, and a vehicle registration fee increase. It’s funny, because I thought that the DFL said that they were going to go after the rich. Instead, they proposed increasing taxes where it would hurt the middle class the most. Contractors, couriers, even commuters will be hurt by these increases.
I know that Representative Atkins followed the lead of his party when he voted for the tax increases, but it would have been nice if he chose to do what is best for his community instead. I think that it is time that we push for a change in leadership in the Minnesota House and Senate. It is time that we elect people who put our community, and its families, before the DFL party platform.
Tundra Politics has started a petition that we are hoping will be a Referendum on liberalism in the Republican Party. John McCain has destroyed his party platform for a populist agenda.
He has stood for illegal immigration, assaults on free speech, new taxes, and a bill that would force us to sacrifice jobs in the name of global environmentalism.
We need a strong conservative congress to fight against the agenda of anyone of the three liberal candidates for president (McCain, Clinton, or Obama).
If we grow our conservative representation in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate , we can survive the four years of Liberal leadership and then put a conservative in the White house in 2012.
I have heard it time and time again: “John McCain is good for the war… John McCain is good for the soldiers…”
Let me assure you that John McCain will be bad for our troops, our long term military success, and and future of America. If all a nation required was military success, we would be in a much different world. We need a leader that can provide a package of great foreign policies, smart economic policies, and domestic policies that are mindful of the future and the present.
John McCain seems to thrive on a single issue, his foreign policy. Unfortunately, we know that a strong military can only last as long as you have the funds to support the military. We can see the example of this in the Soviet Union. As the United States grew their economy, they built a strong and innovative military. The U.S. outspent and out-innovated the Soviets and ultimately caused us to succeed.
Economic policies are where John McCain is maybe the weakest. What good is it for our soldiers to fight for our freedom, only to come home to our economy in the gutter? When our leaders sign treaties and make policies that subdue our nation’s economy, we end up putting our people in a place where we are subservient to other nations.
At home, McCain has been responsible for limiting some of the most important freedoms that are guaranteed in our constitution. He has fought to regulate and limit free political speech in his infamous McCain-Feingold legislation. McCain also chose to place heaps of restrictions upon hard working Americans, authoring a bill (McCain-Lieberman) that would over regulate and artificially inflate the price of heating our homes and power our cars. I don’t know about you, but my heating bill went through the roof last year. The last thing I need is additional expenses to satisfy Senator McCain’s “Green” agenda.
McCain’s policies will cause us to lose our military superiority through a painfully slow decline in our economic superiority, tax and spend the competitiveness out of our workers, and enslave our nation to foreign economies.
John McCain is bad for America, and bad for our future. Be sure to attend caucuses on Tuesday, February 5 and vote for Romney for a better America!
Vets for Freedom just published a press release condemning the city of Berkley, CA for kicking Marine Recruiters off of public land. Furthermore, the city said that the United States Marine Corps were “uninvited, unwelcome intruders.”
In response, Pete Hegseth of Vets for Freedom responded “Clearly, the elected officials of Berkley, California see the Constitution as a mere roadblock in their radical left-wing agenda. What these fanatics fail to realize is that the fantasy world that they live in exists under the very cloak of freedom provided by the sacrifices of the men and women who serve in the Armed Forces.”
Senator Jim DeMint is proposing a bill that would rescind all Federal money from the city of Berkley. It would send a clear message that going around our constitution to play political games will not be tolerated.
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