Cost-Cutting Measures for the Family

From the genius of Dem-Queen Pelosi comes the brilliant revelation that society can avoid untold expenses if it only increases its abortion practices.  You see, those awful little things (aka children) become a tremendous drain on our society, what with their ceaseless and costly needs.  Just imagine how great things would be if we stopped the madness, and stopped child-birth!  Why, we'd become the most prosperous nation in the world, like...China!

Wait...whassat?  Fetuses grow up to become voters and tax-payers?  Whoa, then let us not be so hasty here!  Quick, somebody sanction a financial impact study.  We must get to the bottom of whether the burden of children might be outweighed by their future benefits.  Let's get someone from Planned Parenthood and the ACLU on this, right away.  Time is of the essence here!  ...And maybe we can even identify the gene that predetermines a fetus as a Democrat, so we can know which ones to keep.

Color-full Times

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

How many people can honestly say that the excitement and interest that they feel about today's inauguration is not driven primarily by the fact that Obama will be the nation's first black president? And how many can say that they truly know the content of his character? If you have these factors out of proper balance, then you're not honoring the core of what MLK stood for. You've hi-jacked his cause and perverted it into what he spoke against...just like the radical Muslims who have perverted their religion to justify their murderous ways.

It's not about being pro-black, nor anti-black; it's about being color blind! It doesn't matter what color is his skin. What matters is what he stands for and how he intends to go about governing this land.

Without getting into the arguments about what he will or will not do as president, and all of the other endless points of disagreement, just stop and ask yourself whether you honestly and sufficiently know the content of his character. Is it that knowledge that has you so excited for today...or is it the shallow pride of witnessing the first black president being sworn in?

Care about what matters.

O'Reilly Spins a Survey

On the O'Reilly Factor last night, Bill offered up his newest survey question on his website, which asks whether the respondent is "rooting for Obama to succeed."  Clearly, this poll is pointed at Bill's conservative listeners, seeking to determine whether they're able to put aside their 'druthers and support the man who won the election.  This is the same wording that Hannity has been using as his cautious support of the POTUS-elect.  That Bill would lift Sean's syntax for his own poll is rather cheap, but the intent of the question is still a worthy one.  But the wording of the question is troublesome, and hinges on the definition of "succeed."  If one were to answer "Yes", does this then mean that the respondent hopes Obama is successful in implementing all of the policies that he put forth as campaign promises.  Even many Democrats would not like to see that, most of them being less Liberal than Obama, by record.  And if one were to answer "No", does that mean that the respondent is an intractible ideologue who can't let go of what shoud've been?  Or worse, unpatriotic for not supporting the President?  While I wouldn't accuse O'Reilly of purposely creating a set-up, he clearly doesn't know a poorly worded question when he creates one, which is quite disappointing for such a veteran investigative reporter.  What did you intend to ask, Bill?

Unqualified Management, Indeed!

The honorable Congressman Dodd went before the Press recently to express his belief that top management of the auto companies do not deserve to keep their positions in light of a rescue package, because they are the people who are responsible for the current dire situation that those companies find themselves in. Yet it was Congress who ruined the Housing industry, by imposing their ideas of who should have mortgages regardless of affordability, which ruined the Credit industry, which the Auto industry is crucially dependent upon -even for the least expensive of their products, which led to the sudden collapse of auto sales and the looming failure of those companies. So Congressman Dodd, along with all who think as he does, is either unbelievably stupid not to see this, or he is flat out corrupt to his bones...or both. Regardless, he is undeniably unqualified to manage even a side-walk lemonade stand, let alone his congressional office or the Auto industry. Do us all and yourself a favor, Congressman, follow the example of Gov. Blago and step down!

A Measure of Greatness

I propose the following unambiguous indicators as a test of Obama's success as POTUS. Feel free to offer up your own. The test is whether he earns a "No" on even just 6 of my 10 questions. If he does, I'll give him a passing grade, eventhough that would only amount to a D.

1. Did my taxes go up even one dime during his tenure? He promised they wouldn't, repeatedly.
2. Did the U.S. get hit by another terrorist attack during his tenure, after he slashes military spending and dismantles our nukes as he promised to do?
3. Is my Retirement account still below its peak value, even including my on-going contributions to it?
4. Are home mortgage rates higher than my current percentage, which I got one year ago, at 6.25%?
5. Do we still have any military presence in Iraq after his second year in offfice? I'm giving him more time than he said he would take.
6. Is the Dollar still weaker than the Euro?
7. Is the National Debt higher than when he took office?
8. Is our Trade Deficit higher than when he took office?
9. Is there still anyone left without Health Care coverage?
10. Is the Coal industry still operating in the U.S.? He promised to bankrupt it.

I threw in a couple easy ones for him, just to give him a jump start.

I'm looking forward to seeing what he does in his second year of office when it dawns on him that there's not any higher office that he needs to start campaigning for, and that he has to actually stick this one out. Talk about historic firsts!

Obama Confusion

Earlier this week, pushing back against the growing impression that he's a Socialist, Obama chided that McCain might next accuse him of being a Communist because he shared his childhood toys with friends. But this "defense" is either a blatant effort to obfuscate, or it's evidence that Obama hasn't a clue about the definition of these terms.

When you freely choose to share your property with others whom you select, that's called Charity. The key is that it's voluntary choosing on your part; choosing whether to share, choosing what to share, and choosing with whom to share. Such is what Christ prescribed.

When a government tells you that you must share your property with others, and you have no say in whether, what and with whom, it is Socialism/Communism. It can in no way be equated with Charity. It is the antithesis of Charity. Such is what Karl Marx prescribed...and Barack Obama.

The Campaign of Irony

First, Obama got a polls bump in the financial debacle, presumably because McCain is part of the failed establishment, while Obama is Mr. Change...which is incredibly ironic because it was Obama's fellow Dems who choreographed this colossal failure and obstructed McCain's (and others') warnings. It's doubly ironic given that Obama provided no leadership to help avert the situation! Yet he's the one who benefits from it.

Now we have more stunning irony. Colin Powell has thrown in with Obama. But wasn't he the one individual most influential in bringing us the Iraq War, by his speech at the U.N.? The very same war Obama says we never should have gotten into in the first place? Now Obama gladly accepts this man's endorsement, returning praise and honor to him for his great service to this country, and a promise to place him into the administration after the inevitable coronation.

Wouldn't Powell be the one most capable of explaining to Obama that the Iraq War and its justifications were not total fabrications of the Bush administration? Wouldn't he be the best person to set history straight again? But just for grins, let's just say that it all really was just a fraud perpetrated on the American people. Wouldn't that then make Powell the lowest of slime for his pivotal part in bringing the war upon us? If it was all just Bush lies, wasn't Powell the chief deliverer of those lies?

Apparently, Powell is forgiven for being satan's mouth-piece, perhaps under the notion that he was sympathetically under the spell of the evil W. And he certainly can't be faulted for being a good soldier and following orders, right? Perhaps such are the very traits that most appeal to Obama: a lack of connection to reality, a willingness to deceive for the team and cause...a willingness to be deceived himself.

At this point, it appears that we will have as Commander-in-Chief a man who could not qualify for a position in the same Secret Service that will be protecting him; has not clarified his own citizenship status; has built his entire campaign on a slogan that is entirely absent from his record; faults his opponent for choosing a running mate having no executive experience, while he himself has actually less than her; is defeating a proven war hero while having a past littered with Marxism.

We are witnessing the most unbelievable and improbable of scenarios.