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First, read this:
From http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/01/obama-defends-natural-disaster-experience/
Obama defends natural disaster experience
Posted: 07:10 PM ET

(CNN) — Barack Obama defended his experience in dealing with natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, and took a swipe at newly minted GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Now, here are my two things:

1. Notice how Obamanation compares his “experience” of running his campaign with Sarah Palin’s management as mayor of the town of Wasilla, Al, not with her experience as Governor of Alaska. Can you try and stack the deck any more?

2. Is Obamanation running against Sarah Palin, or John McCain?

I guess when you see your grab for power slipping through your fingers, you’ll start to try anything.

Copied in its entirety from

http://www.grantcunningham.com/blog_files/b91e1e7e6db256349d93093093b7b034-417.html

..why the United States doesn’t dominate Olympic shooting? Note that I didn’t say “do better in”, I said “dominate.” You’d think, given the high penetration of firearms ownership in this country, that we’d make a far better showing than we usually do. With so many shooters, we should have at least a couple of medals in darn near every event!

Yes, we’ve done pretty well in the shotgun events (of the six medals at this Olympics, four of them came from shotgunners), but outside of clay birds, medals are few and far between. Given the circumstances, that’s a pretty sad showing.

What makes the situation even more galling is that a disproportionate number of shooting medals are awarded to competitors who live in intensely anti-gun countries. Some of those countries prohibit the private ownership of firearms altogether, yet their athletes are winning medals. At the risk of being labeled as rabidly jingoistic, those are medals which, logically, should be going to the people who are most familiar with shooting: Americans.

As it happens, the source of the problem may be right under our noses. Let me tell you a little story….

A number of years ago, a bright fellow got the bright idea that perhaps some of our best competitive shooters - people who have competed in venues other than Olympic shooting - might be called upon to join our Olympic team. The concept was simple: pinpoint a specific shooting event, figure out what other shooting discipline might require similar skills, then recruit the best shooters available in that discipline and see if they could adapt to the Olympic event. (Hey, it worked for basketball!)

The event picked for this experiment was the Rapid Fire pistol course, where we’ve struggled even to make a showing. Olympic Rapid Fire involves shooting 5 tiny targets at 25 meters with a .22 Short pistol, in very short periods of time. It’s a demanding event, requiring speed, accuracy, and phenomenal consistency. Now, just who might be able to do that kind of shooting?

It was decided to recruit our best “action” pistol shooters, people who were used to shooting handguns quickly and accurately, and have them practice for the Rapid Fire. People like Doug Koenig, Mickey Fowler, Rob Leatham, Todd Jarret (the whole list reads like a “Who’s Who” of pistol shooting) were invited to a training camp with our Olympic team, where they’d see if their skills would transfer over to the Rapid Fire event.

According to someone who was actually there, the week-long camp proved that these professional shooters were quite capable of competing in Rapid Fire. They performed better than anyone had hoped, and they even demonstrated that their skills, forged by decades of practice and tempered by competition at the highest levels, held promise for several other Olympic disciplines. This was shaping up to be something great.

Then the bomb dropped.

(At this point I’ll pause to explain that our Olympic shooting teams are the exclusive province of USA Shooting, which is the national governing body for the Olympic shooting sports. You can’t get on our shooting team without going through USA Shooting. Period.)

Back to the story…at the end of that week, enthusiasm was high. The participants, both the recruits and their Olympic team hosts, were excited at the prospect of a shooting “dream team”. The experiment had been a success, and it seemed as though nothing was standing between them and multiple medals in the Rapid Fire event.

Nothing, that was, except USA Shooting.

As the week was winding down, the Executive Director of USA Shooting stepped up to the podium and declared that the “new shooters” weren’t of Olympic caliber. He said that these people - who between them had won a dizzying number of national and international titles - “lacked focus and discipline.” No one would be able to get on our Olympic shooting team, the Director continued, unless they came up through the USA Shooting farm system.

According to my source, the speech went downhill from there. No “outsiders” were going to be allowed on “his” team, no matter how good they might be. And these guys were very good.

That, folks, is why we again failed to medal in the Rapid Fire event this year. And every other year. And in many other Olympic shooting events, as well.

The country most steeped in firearms use, the home of the “gun culture”, isn’t able to field a whole team of shooters that can truly take on the rest of the world. Not because of a lack of talent - because of an entrenched bureaucracy that steadfastly refuses to believe that anyone not in their clique could possibly be any good.

As it happens, last week - flush with Olympic enthusiasm - I had actually decided to write a check to USA Shooting for the support of our team. That is, until I learned what you just learned. I didn’t send that check, and I’m not going to.

When USA Shooting drops their nose-in-the-air exclusivity, I’ll give them money. Not before. I hope you’ll join me by telling them the same thing.

If enough of us do that, maybe they’ll get the message that we expect our shooting team to represent the United States, not the local country club. When that happens, perhaps we’ll start cleaning up in Olympic shooting.

Just as we should.

From Rush Limbaugh’s radio show yesterday…..

Hey, folks, you want to tweak the Drive-By Media with me right now?
You are aware, probably, that Barack Obama lost his bearings recently and said that he was going to campaign in all 57 states.
You heard this? And everybody chalked it up to, ‘Well, he’s tired.’
You know, this is a Dan Quayle moment. I mean, Dan Quayle goes out there and misspells ‘potato,’ and we still hear jokes about it.
Barack Obama says he’s gonna go out and campaign in 57 states, he was just tired, you know, it’s been such a long campaign, he’s been so many places,he probably thinks there are 57 states.
Well, I have here a printout from a web site called the International Humanist and Ethical Union .
And here is how the second paragraph of an article on that website begins.

So did Obama just lose his bearings, or was this a more telling slip, ladies and gentlemen?

Now that’s scary.

Regarding the Mexican government not wanting the state of Texas to execute some of the criminals that have crawled over the border, consider this from The Other Side of Kim:

You commit murder in the state of Texas, we’ll give you a fair trial, and then execute you. Regardless of race, creed or country of origin.

And especially for Mexico: when you accept our Second Amendment as a valid defense for being in possession of a gun in Mexico, we’ll (maybe) listen to you about the death penalty. Deal?

Well said! But I think he’s being a little generous…..

Copied from Musings of the GeekwithA45
and reprinted in its entirety. Well said!

Dick Heller Doubles Down.

You sir, are a hero. No doubt about it.

It has taken me a little time to spin down after the SCOTUS decision that was just rendered.

The “ruling” on the 2nd Amendment to the constitution was a travesty. It should have been an easy 9-0 decision. Instead, we apparently have 4 “SC Justices” that can’t read.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

I don’t see any wiggle room there. The rest of the 1st 8 amendments deal with LIMITING THE GOVERNMENT IN DEALING WITH INDIVIDUALS. This has been ruled on by the SCOTUS many times before.

Why is the 2nd amendment singled out for a group?

And what really takes the cake is :In his dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority “would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.” He said such evidence “is nowhere to be found.”

Are you kidding me? That is PRECISELY what the framers had in mind. Limiting the government,i.e. elected officials, attempts to disarm the populace. And we have someone who took an oath of office to uphold and protect the Constitution saying there is no evidence for this….. PLEASE .

5-4 decision? May God have mercy on us all.

. . . . Remember the election in 2006?
Thought you might like to read the following:
A little over one and a half years ago:

1) Consumer confidence stood at a 2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19 a gallon;
3) The unemployment rate was 4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we have seen:

1) Consumer confidence plummet;
2) The cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3.50 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate (stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change in 2006, and we got it!

Part 2:
Taxes…Whether Democrat or a Republican you will find these statistics enlightening and amazing.
www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html

All Democratic candidates will return to higher tax rates

PART 3:

Read this:
Boy am I confused. I have been told that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.

I hope the following 14 reasons are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I
have included the URL’s for verification of all the following facts.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments. Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens. Verify at: http://www.cis..org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies. Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers. Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.’ Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
Verify at: http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States.’ Verify at: http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

Cost of Iraq war nearly $2b a week = $104 Billion a year, Verify at http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/09/28/cost_of_iraq_war_nearly_2b_a_week/

So what is bankrupting the country? The war in Iraq, or illegal aliens?

And don’t even get me started on the sorry Democratic record on drilling offshore and in ANWR. And the INSANE solution of “Nationalizing” refineries. This from the same people that have jacked up every thing they have touched.

And taxing the oil companies MORE for their “excessive” profits? Who do you think will ultimately pay the cost of more taxes on oil companies? If you said the consumer, give yourself an “A”. I read this on another blog the other day, I would attribute it to them if I could remember…..

If I make 10 cents on 1$ — then that’s OK.

If I make $10 on $100 — then that’s OK.

If I make $100,000 on $1,000,000 then maybe that’s OK.

But, If I make $40 Billion on $430 Billion, then that’s “excessive” And I still have to pay $26 Billion in taxes.

Most businesses I know about won’t try anything that won’t return at least 22% profit, so we should be praising the oil companies for the work they are doing. And BTW, the oil companies are “making” about 9 cents a gallon. Guess who’s getting 18.4 cents a gallon FOR DOING NOTHING? The Federal Government. And most of the states are getting another 20 cents per gallon for doing nothing also. So, Congress, if you want to tax the oil companies, then how about taxing the government and states proportionally? I guess that wouldn’t make sense, but it would be more fair.

I must go breathe air now.

U.S. says exercise by Israel seemed directed at Iran

Aren’t exercises supposed to be what prepares you for later events? And who posed the biggest threat (openly) to Israel at this time?

Sounds like a sound plan to me.

Mike S. Adams at Townhall.com wrote this back in 2004. It needs to be read to our people again and again. Here it is….

For good and ill, the Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an issue. On the one hand, right thinking Americans will abhor the stupidity of the actions while on the other hand, political glee will take control and fashion this minor event into some modern day massacre.

I humbly offer my opinion here:I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and sacrificed the blood of our youth; it was in the defense of Muslims ( Bosnia , Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait , etc.)

I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists came after 9/11.I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Islamic Arabs.

I am sorry that most Arabs and Muslims have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships.

I am sorry that their leaders squander their wealth.I am sorry that their governments breed hate for the US in their religious schools, mosques, and government-controlled media.

I am sorry that Yasser Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country and high-jacked the Palestinian ’cause.’

I am sorry that no other Arab country will take in or offer more than a token amount of financial help to those same Palestinians.

I am sorry that the U. S. A. has to step in and be the biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely wealthy Arabs blame the USA for all their problems.

I am sorry that our own left wing, our media, and our own brainwashed masses do not understand any of this (from the misleading vocal elements of our society like radical professors, CNN and the NY TIMES).

I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out of the ‘food for oil’ money so they could get rich while the common folk suffered.

I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers upon their death

I am sorry that those same bombers are brainwashed thinking they will receive 72 virgins in ‘paradise.’

I am sorry that the homicide bombers think pregnant women, babies, children, the elderly and other noncombatant civilians are legitimate targets.

I am sorry that our troops die to free more Arabs from the gang rape rooms and the filling of mass graves of dissidents of their own making.

I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group.

I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state.

I am sorry we don’t drop a few dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah.

I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient ‘Holy Site.’

I am sorry they didn’t apologize for driving a jet into the World Trade Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church - one of our Holy Sites.

I am sorry they didn’t apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, the murders and beheadings of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl, etc….etc!

I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized village in Africa

America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those responsible because that is what we do.

I am sorry the Barack Hussein Obama may be elected president of the United States when he doesn’t have a clue on how to be a strong Commander-in-chief in a world filled with Muslim extremists who will do whatever it needs to do to destroy the lives of civilized people while killing innocent men, women and children in order to bring a change that is beneficial to all Islamic terrorists worldwide.

I am sorry that voters on the left don’t understand the frightening changes that are taking place in the Muslim world and what these changes will do to this world in which we live.

I am sorry that the Democratic Party has been high jacked by Socialists and Communists right under the very noses of those who take pride in calling themselves democrats.

We hang out our dirty laundry for the entire world to see. We move on. That’s one of the reasons we are hated so much. We don’t hide this stuff like all those Arab countries that are now demanding an apology.

Deep down inside, when most Americans saw this reported in the news, we were like - so what? We lost hundreds and made fun of a few prisoners. Sure, it was wrong, sure, it dramatically hurts our cause, but until captured we were trying to kill these same prisoners. Now we’re supposed to wring our hands because a few were humiliated?

Our compassion is tempered with the vivid memories of our own people killed, mutilated and burnt amongst a joyous crowd of celebrating Fallujahans.

If you want an apology from this American, you’re going to have a long wait! You have a better chance of finding those seventy-two virgins.

Steve H. over at “Hog on Ice” has been writing some wonderful, insightful stuff…..

Here is a link to one, with selected quotes below:

I like to think our current hardships are a labor pain, to remind us of the horrors that lie ahead as the second coming approaches. Human beings increasingly accept the conceit that they run the world and that they can solve their own problems. In reality, God runs everything. If we have good harvests, if we have oil, if we have economic strength, it isn’t because Americans are superior. It’s because God chose to give these things to us. And He can take them away in a heartbeat. Maybe God is giving us a little prod to remind us that we can’t celebrate sexual perversion and let Israel down and indulge in idolatry and generally offend Him without losing our blessings. Lately we’ve been becoming more like Godless Europe. So it’s only natural that we should get a taste of their economic inferiority.

Some people say conservation is the answer. Some say increased production is the answer. Fundamentally, refraining from offending God is the answer. The world is too complicated for man to run. Without help from above, we can expect nothing but defeat. One of the big lessons I’ve learned over the last few years is that when things go badly for me, the way to start fixing them is to examine my own behavior and attitudes. Generally, that’s where the cause lies. And the same applies to Americans as a whole.

I can’t say I disagree…

We’ve drifted so far from our founding fathers roots. I’m not about to go repeating “Rev. Wright” about America, mind you, but how much longer can God turn a blind eye to the cesspool into which this nation has descended. I’m not sure Sodom and Gomorrah could hold a candle to us today.

We all want to cling to 2nd Chronicles 7:14 : ” If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. ”

But let’s look at that. Are we humble? Not that I can see. Do we pray? Nope, banned most places now. Do we seek God’s face? Nope, I don’t see evidence of that either. Are we turning from our wicked ways? I see evidence to the contrary there also.

So, to quote something I hear quite often : ” if we keep doing what we’ve done, we’ll keep getting what we’ve got”.

We need to change. Not that fake Obamination change, but change who we are and what we allow to happen in this nation. The “silent majority” is either still asleep, or dead. Whatever the case, people that believe in God need to stand up and do something. Stop waiting on someone else to do things, because they’re not getting done that way. How about James 4:17 “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin”