Clintons for Obama......

Obama and the Clintons are banding together....you must have heard Clinton's new ad for Obama recently.  Suddenly, the hard feelings are gone and they're UNITED BIG TIME.  Here's a bit from the linked article:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Once a tense rivalry, the relationship between President Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has evolved into a genuine political and policy partnership. Both sides have a strong incentive in making the alliance work, especially in an election year.

For Obama, Bill Clinton is a fundraising juggernaut, a powerful reminder to voters that a Democrat ran the White House the last time the economy was thriving. For the spotlight-loving former president, stronger ties with the White House and campaign headquarters mean he gets a hand in shaping the future of the party he led for nearly a decade.

Obama's re-election campaign has put Bill Clinton on notice that he will be used as a top surrogate, further evidence of how far the two camps have come since the bitter days of the 2008 Democratic primary between Obama and Hillary Clinton, now his secretary of state.

Here's the most important bit:

"It makes absolutely clear that, to the extent that there were different wings of the Democratic party, there is now one wing of the Democratic party," said Chris Lehane, a Clinton backer. "And it's the president's party."

Yup.........meanwhile, Conservatives are suggesting Gary Johnson or some guy from The Constitution Party named Virgil Goode should run and really good Conservatives will write their names in or something?

Republicans think, Republicans examine, Republicans weigh....and then they eat their young.  Even in a year when they KNOW their vote will put Obama back in the White House and further solidify America's slide.  Even when they know that the Supreme Court's in peril.....They even think America deserves that!  
Democrats will not criticize each other in public, they come together.......winning is everything to them.

It needs to be that for us, too.  Particularly this year.  I don't really want another "I'm voting my conscience and you aren't" conversation here, please..I think there's not much more that can be said here about that, we GET IT...please..........What I am curious about is this:

Is this unholy alliance between the Clintons who seemed to despise the Obamas in 2008 (and the feeling was mutual) all about Hillary in 2016?   Or just Democrat ideology and that it MUST come out ahead no matter who's in charge?  And how effective do you think Bill Clinton's campaigning for his new best friend will be?

Z

Imagine?

You can fly a flag, or you can........................... :-)

z

Sunday Faith Blog

"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty.  I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.  I can do everything through Him who strengthens me."  Philippians 4:12,13

What would you say is a great KEY TO BEING CONTENT?

 Have a blessed Sunday....
Z

The President's big stick :-)

Yup.  Ol' Joe Biden said "The president has a BIG STICK" at a speech recently.  He apparently didn't notice that the audience started giggling, because he just hunkered down, looking so serious, and says "I promise you."  (a very badly worded take on the Teddy Roosevelt line)...
It's on video, but when I tried to embed it here, it said EMBEDDING DISABLED BY REQUEST.
Request of whom?  the White House?   I'd have thought so!

HERE is the link....you will CRACK UP, I promise!
By the way....with Biden around,  one might say "The president has a BIG BOOB," too! 

Have a good Saturday....
z

Raise the BAIL? WHY?

Did you read where the judge in the George Zimmerman case is considering raising the bail he'd set at $150,000 because a website has raised $200,000 for his defense?   HERE is the article.
I have no experience with bail, but it seems to me that the people who sent in money want Zimmerman's DEFENSE bills paid with their donations, not for some judge to come back with "OH, you have more MONEY!  Well, then let's raise the bail and take ALL you've got."

What am I reading wrong?   It sounds so unconscientious on the judge's part.

z

Sometimes, it's hard to believe your ears.......

A FEW THINGS TODAY:
My stepson, let's call him Max, told me that, just before he left Munich for his 3 months here with me, a Muslim male came on German television, face completely covered, and said that Germans are stupid.  He told Germans that his people are using them and they'll continue to use them as long as they keep paying for them, excusing their behavior, and remaining politically correct. He said Germany will someday soon not be Germany anymore.  He said they were chumps and how glad he was of this.    My stepson tells me commentary reactions on liberal blogs applauded this guy for his 'honesty' and 'courage' and how that isn't at all threatening or upsetting...........conservative blogs talked about how Germany needs to wake up, particularly when the people taking them over are warning about it.


In Sweden, a preschool wants to get rid of gender names and have tiny tots refer to others as 'friends' and, not 'him' or 'her'.........they say that's 'gender bias' :-)  THIS ARTICLE includes that "They read books featuring gay and lesbian couples, single parents and adopted children, instead of fairy tales such as “Cinderella” or “Snow White,” which are rife with gender stereotypes."  Isn't that precious?  :-)  Think children have a chance anymore?

Think this will all come here some day?  YOU BET.

By the way, on a lighter note, a Black guy approached "Max" on Hollywood Boulevard 3 weeks ago asking him to buy CD's from him.  Max said he wasn't interested so the guy called him racist.  My stepson, with a German accent, came back with "Don't play the RACE CARD with ME!"   I still giggle at this guy hearing such American vernacular coming from a German!  Max said the guy looked stunned and walked to the next 'victim'!  :-)

z

America may fail....here's why

This is an amazing video.  Sadly, it starts with "If I wanted America to fail.."  I say 'sadly' because some of you will think it's the Paul Harvey email many of us received lately and you won't watch this.  It is NOT THAT...it's MUCH more poignant and much more clear about what is happening in America today and how we are doing exactly what could cause our great country to finally fail,  viz. the Left's policies and sentiments.

I'll also add that my leftwingie commenters need not watch the video...it lasts a few minutes and I'm honestly not sure you will see what he's saying...because you're probably going to think exactly what he predicts you will, at the end of the video, when he suggests there are those who'll actually think "it's all for the common good."  YOU can believe that, most of us do not.

Oddly enough, my good buddy Mustang just sent me the following information that seemed to go so well with the thoughts above so I decided to add it on to my post:

“A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves.  The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land.  Under the rules, children under 18 could no longer work “in the storing, marketing and transporting of farm product raw materials.”
“Prohibited places of employment,” a Department press release read, “would include country grain elevators, grain bins, silos, feed lots, stockyards, livestock exchanges and livestock auctions.”
The new regulations, first proposed August 31 by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, would also revoke the government’s approval of safety training and certification taught by independent groups like 4-H and FFA, replacing them instead with a 90-hour federal government training course.  Rossie Blinson, a 21-year-old college student from Buis Creek, N.C., told The Daily Caller that the federal government’s plan will do far more harm than good.  “The main concern I have is that it would prevent kids from doing 4-H and FFA projects if they’re not at their parents’ house,” said Blinson.

Yes, our government has to prohibit farm kids from growing up doing what their folks need them to do, and maybe hurting 4-H would help, too.  After all, it's a little too wholesome for America these days, don't you think?  If you wanted to hurt America you'd have the government actually tell grown farmers what their kids can and can't do...and convince them all that "it's all for the common good." 

Now commenter/friend Fair Witness has sent me THIS..........my God, I suppose if I didn't post this original post and video at the top, I'd be adding 1000 different examples of what the video's saying.  And, we're ALL supposed to just think this is business as usual and all "for the common good!"  

Unreal.

Thanks, FairWitness...for sending me this.
z

Sex and Tebow.........

Has American society really come to THIS? 

".....controversial website AshleyMadison.com apparently wants to challenge one of Tebow’s core beliefs. They’re offering up big money to any woman who can prove she has slept with the NFL sensation.
CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell tweeted the rumblings of a $1 million bounty late Monday."

This offer stands for Tebow's whole first year in NY.... The blogger says nobody can survive New York City without succumbing to premarital sex.  

I think this is indecent, but I'm not sure that kind of word, 'indecent' is even allowed anymore, is it?  Can we as a society ever recover from having been at a place where someone can even suggest something this low, so debauched and unseemly?   We've really come to where if a young man wants to abstain from sex before marriage he's mocked like this?

z

Don Lemon...CNN's guy says WHAT?!!

I've always kind of liked Don Lemon;   most of the time he even seems slightly even-handed, for CNN, but his "No Talking Points" above really blew my mind.   I don't agree with it all, but I agree with the essence of his disappointment with Obama, and I think any fair-thinking person will, too.  And, of course, it's stunning to hear anything remotely like this (even REMOTELY) on CNN.  From anyone there.  Ever.  Not there.  Not if you listen enough.  Not if....  wait, have I covered that enough?  Ya. :-)
They may not keep him now...look for him on FOX :-)
z

The Armenian Genocide

Please NEVER FORGET.....1.5 million Armenians killed by the Turks.

Today is the Day of Remembrance......... a relative of mine built the Monument here in California...a very dear relative I'd rather not name, but who I loved very much.  God bless all who died and their families who never saw them again.
z

Trayvon and Tyrone......you draw your conclusions

So, we have another Black/White vicious murder, but this time the rape of an elderly White woman is involved.  HERE is the information.  A young Black man rapes and kills woman and badly beats her husband.  But does the media care? 

I'll just leave you here with the last two paragraphs from Doug Giles' article linked above:

I wonder if President Obama is going to lecture the nation on this despicable act and tell us something similar to what he said regarding Trayvon’s shooting, namely:
“It is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together—federal, state and local—to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened. I think all of us have to do some soul searching to ask ourselves how does something like this happen? And that means that we examine the laws, the context for what happened, as well as the specifics of the incident.”
Will Spike Lee and the New Black Panther Party tweet Tyrone’s address and put out a bounty on the remaining pieces of crap who have yet to be arrested for killing Nancy and brutally beating Bob? Spike and his ilk are all about “justice,” correct? Or is it more about “just us”?

Z reader;  What do you think of this?

By the way.  HERE is the page that opens when I Googled the name TYRONE WOODFORK (the guy who did this crime).   Anything from the NY Times on this?  No, of course not.  But it's covered by plenty of Conservative Black and White blogs who think this is horrible and both the crime and the media and Obama hypocrisy should be addressed.
In comparison,  I Googled the name TRAYVON MARTIN and got THIS result.   Sure...NY Times, ABC.News, USATODAY, Washington Post...ALL the big ones, you know the drill.  OUTRAGE that a "White" Hispanic (remember how the NYTimes played it till they had to retract that description?) might have killed an innocent Black kid, but zip on a nice old couple like this:

-The Straits just celebrated their 65^th wedding anniversary.

-Bob served in the 101st Airborne Division in WWII.

-Bob loved woodworking, and Nancy loved quilting.

-The couple used to sit on their porch and play the guitar and sing together during the warm summer evenings.

Happy anniversary, Bob...we're so sorry you lost your beloved wife in such a brutal manner and we hope you live through your injuries.  Your family matters to most good Americans, too.  God bless you and your family, who is probably grieving at least as much as the Martins are.   Just sayin'. 

z

Z's version of Blogging for (really smart, wonderful) "Dummies"!

(First, let me just say I had no idea there was a book called Blogging for Dummies until I took a chance and 'imaged' it!....so, my post below is now my adjunct to the book, Z's version, if you'll permit me...)


There are SO many truly wonderful blogs in what I call "our corner of the blogosphere".  And, if you're reading this post, you are a member of this corner :-)    I'm not going to name any blogs here because I'll overlook someone terrific and I don't want to do that, but we have many writers who write really passionately (even angrily) on politics, some who write a little less passionately and more 'bemusedly' about politics (is that a word?!), some who write about personal situations in their lives like family, jobs, etc.,  some who write on hobbies,  some who talk faith, sciences, and some who write 'all of the above'....they're all very good.  Honestly, there isn't a bad one in the bunch.  You know that.  But, maybe you don't, so.........

....check them out!  Click on my commenters and the avatars of commenters at the other sites you visit and you'll be so glad you did.  There seem to be some wonderful new commenters (and some of them blog, too) and I thank them for coming by and I encourage  them to not only read geeeZ on a daily basis (a little plug doesn't hurt, right?!) but to visit the other blogs you see on comment threads.  You will not be disappointed by any of them.  I give you my personal promise on that.

To you new bloggers who'd like more visitors..just a tiny bit of advice: when you gets comments, COMMENT BACK.  You will start a conversation going that will gratify you and encourage commenters to come back. The biggest drawback to any of the terrific blogs I visit is when the blogger doesn't respond to commenters. And I believe they have less traffic for that reason.  DO respond!  That's the most fun part of blogging! 

Another really important thing (especially this election year) is that we DO NOT keep our information to our own little blogging corner.  When you see wonderful articles that have been reprinted on our blogs, or original articles written by us bloggers, or compelling videos, don't just comment and leave,  send the blog address to friends/ family so they can learn what you did ....   WE know we're in trouble because of Obama, right?  Others have to know what we know.  And they ARE NOT GETTING IT FROM THE MEDIA.  The media's a shill now and so it's up to US to get information out there.     However, be careful what you send (and what you print, for that matter).  I know Snopes is a shill, too, but do a fact check first from whatever fact check you find reliable and honest.  (good luck on that, by the way).   And, publishing or sending on stories from Free Republic or WND doesn't always fly.  That's as nutty as relying on moveon.org or Dem Underground or MSNBC for evenhanded, fact-filled information.  Sure, FP and WND have absolutely good information sometimes, but please check it out first.   Do the homework, don't let people write you off as an unreliable source.  Leftwingers will disrupt, insult, and name call.  Most of them, anyhow.  New bloggers need only to address them if they want to or go on Comment Moderation.  Most of us watch and read right and leftwing news....We all already KNOW what they seem to think they're informing us with, and why they are.  If they're sane, informative, have links and don't insult, engage.  If they don't, delete or just ignore.

This year is maybe our MOST IMPORTANT BLOGGING YEAR EVER.  Please make the most of it.  Welcome the new bloggers by visiting their sites, send good information to those you know who don't read blogs, respond to your commenters so you get readers coming back and learning more and you'll enjoy that, too!

Fight on, everyone..........reveal, expose, illuminate, joke, cry...whatever it takes.   And don't write off the faith blogs or the science blogs or the personal interest blogs just because they're not about politics .... take a while every day and visit them for a delicious break!

Thanks for reading this far........I just felt compelled to do this.   Also, let me thank my wonderful commenters and fellow bloggers for your loyalty to GeeeZ while I'm at it.   None of us could do any of this without all of us, right?  We have a country to save.

xxx Z

Sunday Faith Blog

Things are tough for us all as we see what goes on every day, politically, culturally, morally...I think it's important we keep our eyes on what's really important and I thought the following song helps in that endeavor!  These were wonderful lyrics and I wanted to share them, and the music, with you this Sunday:

BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD ABOVE

Before the throne of God above
I have a strong, a perfect plea
A great High Priest whose name is Love
Who ever lives and pleads for me
My name is graven on His hands
My name is written on His heart
I know that while in heaven He stands
No tongue can bid me thence depart
No tongue can bid me thence depart

When satan tempts me to despair
And tells me of the guilt within
Upward I look and see Him there
Who made an end to all my sin
Because the sinless Savior died
my sinful soul is counted free
For God, the just, is satisfied
To look on Him and pardon me
To look on Him and pardon me

Behold him there, the risen Lamb
My perfect, spotless righteousness
The great unchangeable I AM
The King of glory and of grace
One with Himself, I cannot die
My soul is purchased by His blood
My life is hid with Christ on high
With Christ, my Savior and my God
With Christ, my Savior and my God

Selah


"But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy.  He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior."  Titus3:4-6

Have a beautiful day.

Z

Vote for WHO? And WHY?

"[I]f Mitt wins the nomination, as seems very likely, I will enthusiastically support his candidacy.

For my friends who have hesitation on that score, I'd just ask you to keep four things in mind:  Justice Scalia just turned 78, Justice Kennedy will turn 78 later this year,  Justice Breyer will be 76 in August, and Justice Ginsburg turned 81 about a week ago. We wish them all well, of course, but the brute fact is that whoever  we elect as president in November is almost certainly going to choose at least  one and maybe more new members of the Supreme Court -- in addition to hundreds  of other life-tenured federal judges, all of whom will be making momentous decisions about our lives for decades to come.

 If you don't think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, I think you're smokin' something dangerous ." 

-columnist Andrew McCarthy

Z:  Think what you will about Romney, he won't be appointing Elena Kagan types of judges, that's for sure.

z

Quote of the Week?

"Apparently, I'm supposed to be more outraged by what Mitt Romney does with his money, than by what Barack Obama does with mine."

thanks, Bubba..!

z

A favorite of mine is dead...

The Band's LEVON HELM has died of cancer.  I'm an enormous BAND fan and use any excuse to blog one of their tunes.  This one's for Levon, the only American in The Band.

The message below, in italics, was already on the YouTube under THE WEIGHT(the song above):  (it was posted 2 hours before I got there....and before I clicked off the "Dinner with Obama" that Google has plastered on YouTube videos until you click them off.  Which I did. Immediately.)

He was my bosom buddy friend to the end, one of the last true great spirits of my or any other generation. This is just so sad to talk about. I still can remember the first day I met him and the last day I saw him. We go back pretty far and had been through some trials together. I'm going to miss him, as I'm sure a whole lot of others will too.
Bob Dylan

I sure will.   God bless and keep you, Levon....thanks for the music.  "Take a load off.."
Z

Clinton and Colombia.....did you make the connection?

About four friends sent me this so I figured you've probably already seen it too, but I couldn't resist; in case you haven't.   Hilarious!
Z

WHO IS "SOMEBODY?" We've been asking for years!

I just noticed THIS ARTICLE about how Obama took a swipe at Romney...imagine slamming someone because they were born to money as if it's a sin?  What a horribly stupid and bigoted thing to do....here's the info that really caught me:

 

President Barack Obama took a hard-to-miss shot at presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday, declaring "I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth" as he defended his economic policies in Ohio.

Obama didn't name Romney. He didn't need to. The president and his campaign have worked to make the former Massachusetts governor and millionaire investor's personal finances an issue in the election even as they hammer his economic proposals as giveaways to the rich financed by cutting services to everyone else—like financial aid for college students.

"Somebody gave me an education. I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Michelle wasn't. But somebody gave us a chance," Obama said in a speech at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio. "Right now we have two competing visions of our future, and the choice could not be clearer," said the president. "Should we settle for an economy where a few people do really well and then a growing number are struggling to get by?"

Think he'll EVER TELL US WHO GAVE HIM THAT EDUCATION? $$$$   Boy, he won't tell us, but he sure uses the fact, huh?

WOW.

"that's all, folks!"

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call The Twilight Zone.

—Rod Serling

And now that TWILIGHT ZONE is in American prisons, where all prisoners can't eat pork anymore because Muslims don't want it served.  Check this THIS article out, in which you'll find the paragraphs below:

"In a federal lawsuit, death row inmate Abdul Awkal complains that the state is restraining his religious freedoms by not providing meals prepared according to Islamic law, known as halal, while at the same time supplying Jewish prisoners with kosher meals. The Quran, the holy book of Islam, prohibits Muslims from eating pork.
Awkal, joined by a second inmate not on death row, says the vegetarian and non-pork options aren’t good enough. The inmates say food must be prepared in specific fashion, such as ensuring that an animal is butchered by slitting its throat and draining its blood, to conform to Islamic beliefs.
Prison guidelines for Muslim inmates already provided that meals will be “free of all pork and products containing or derived from pork.”

So, if Jews get Kosher food, why can't Muslims get their Halal food?  The Jews are happy eating their kosher meals, apparently......they don't have such a problem that they have to remove ALL PORK which apparently "assures religious practices aren’t jeopardized by pork coming into contact with other food during preparation."

Does it strike you odd that a Muslim has convinced ALL OHIO PRISONS that they can't serve pork anymore at all because HE won't eat it?     Now, this isn't a huge deal, but it does seem like The Twilight Zone when, IN AMERICA, ALL people have to give up something because MUSLIMS won't eat it...what's up with that?

Is this KOSHER to YOU?

geeeeeeeeeeeZ!!

z

How to get rich quickly.........

May this music never really stop........

When the Music Stopped

When the Music Stopped...
(For those who are unaware: At all military base theaters, the National Anthem is played before the movie begins.)

This is written from a Chaplain in Iraq :
 
I recently attended a showing of 'Superman 3' here at LSA Anaconda. We have a large auditorium we use for movies, as well as memorial services and

other large gatherings. As is the custom at all military bases, we stood to attention when the National Anthem began before the main feature. All was

going well until three-quarters of the way through The National Anthem, the music stopped.

Now, what would happen if this occurred with 1,000 18-22 year-olds back in the States? I imagine there would be hoots, catcalls, laughter, a few rude

comments, and everyone would sit down and yell for the movie to begin. Of course, that is, if they had stood for the National Anthem in the first place.

Here in Iraq , 1,000 Soldiers continued to stand at attention, eyes fixed forward. The music started again and the Soldiers continued to quietly stand

at attention. But again, at the same point, the music stopped. What would you expect 1000 Soldiers standing at attention to do?? Frankly, I expected some laughter, and everyone would eventually sit down and wait for the movie to start.

But No!!... You could have heard a pin  drop, while every Soldier continued to stand at attention.

Suddenly, there was a lone voice from the front of the auditorium, then a dozen voices, and soon the room was filled with the voices of a thousand soldiers, finishing where the recording left off:
 
"And the rockets' red glare,
the bombs bursting in air,
gave proof through the night
that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave,
o'er the land of the free,
and the home of the brave."

It was the most inspiring moment I have had in Iraq and I wanted you to know what kind of Soldiers are serving you. Remember them as they fight for us!

Pass this along as a reminder to others to be ever in prayer  for all our soldiers serving us  here at home and abroad.  Many have already paid the ultimate

price.

Written by Chaplain Jim Higgins.
LSA Anaconda is at the   Ballad Airport in Iraq , north of Baghdad .

Please share only if you are so inclined.  God Bless America and all of our troops serving throughout the world.

Taxmageddon

Morning Bell: Beware the Taxmageddon

Mike Brownfield

April 5, 2012 at 9:03 am

 
Brace yourself. In a mere 271 days, you and your fellow Americans will be hit with a tax hike the likes of which this country has never seen. The Washington Post aptly called the unprecedented $494 billion tax hike “Taxmageddon,” and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke described it as a “massive fiscal cliff.” Whatever your preferred imagery, it’s a really big deal.
Despite all the warnings, President Barack Obama has kept his silence while Congress has made no apparent effort to prevent this impending calamity to families and the economy. The prevailing wisdom is that “something will get done” in a lame duck session of Congress after the election. But why wait? And why after the election?
Here’s why you should be worried. For starters, remember that this is the same President who in 2009 promised, “if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime.” That’s a vow he’s broken, and in 2013, things are going to get even worse if this year Obama doesn’t lead and Congress doesn’t act. Katy, bar the door, there’s big trouble in store.
The tax man won’t draw his billions from the American taxpayer with just one big needle — the massive tax increase will be the product of tax policies expiring in seven different categories, on top of five new Obamacare tax hikes taking effect. In a new paper, Taxmageddon: Massive Tax Increase Coming in 2013, Heritage’s Curtis Dubay details the tax hikes that will occur if President Obama and Congress do not act before the end of the year:

Almost 34 percent of the tax increase from Taxmageddon comes from the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts. These cuts are best known for reducing marginal income tax rates, but they also reduced the marriage penalty, increased the Child Tax Credit and the adoption credit, and increased tax breaks for education costs and dependent care costs.
Another 25 percent of Taxmageddon comes from the expiration of the once-temporary payroll tax cut. The expiration of the patch on the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) — which would raise the income threshold over which families qualify for the AMT to prevent middle-income families from paying this tax that is only supposed to impact “the rich” — accounts for 24 percent of the total potential 2013 tax increase.

The balance of the tax hikes comes in part from new taxes under Obamacare, the expiration of tax cuts in the 2009 stimulus, the expiration of a group of policies known as “tax extenders,” changes in the current policy on the death tax (in 2013, it will rise from 35 percent today to 55 percent and the exemption will fall from $5 million to $3.5 million), and the expiration of businesses’ ability to fully expense new capital investments.
This $494 billion in higher taxes will certainly hit families and business hard in 2013, but their effects are already being felt. Dubay explains that Americans must plan for tomorrow, and the tremendous uncertainty about tax policy makes the future much more uncertain, thus discouraging the investments and other actions needed to spur the economy to create jobs faster today.
So while the President and Congress appear content to put off ’til the 11th hour what they can and should do today, those who will have to pay the higher tax burden are waiting to see what the future holds. Dubay says that this is “slowing job creation and stopping many of the millions of unemployed Americans from going back to work.”
Early on in his presidency, Barack Obama said he knew about the impact of taxes. Back in 2009, on a visit to Elkhart, Indiana, Obama emphatically stated his belief that raising taxes in a recession is a bad idea. Though America is not in recession today, it still struggles with very high unemployment, and so the President’s logic applies with equal force — raising taxes is a drag on job creation. Unfortunately, in a speech in Washington on Tuesday, President Obama unabashedly revealed that preventing tax hikes is not his priority. In fact, he wants to see even more taxes imposed on the American people and on job creators all in the name of “fairness” — may of which are in his budget. That’s a political doctrine, not an economic policy, and it’s a proven recipe for economic disaster.
If the President doesn’t work with Congress to take action soon to prevent a 2013 Taxmageddon, his brand of “fairness” will result in the biggest tax increase in the nation’s history. And that storm will wreak even more damage on America’s already fragile economy. Congress shouldn’t wait for Obama to take the lead in preventing a policy nightmare he might actually favor. Instead, it should act now to prevent these tax hikes from crushing America’s families and our economy.

Z;   So what do we do now?  Wait and suffer for his inactivity?   Believe the lies?  Conjure what a beautiful world redistribution will be....until the rich don't have anything left to redistribute?
WHAT?
P.S.  If you're interested in the GOOGLE BIG BROTHER SITUATION, make sure you read below!
z 

Google FINED...but really?

Some of you have given up your Google accounts so I hoped you'd seen this and thought all my readers ought to know about THIS.

SAN FRANCISCO — When Google first revealed in 2010 that cars it was using to map streets were also sweeping up sensitive personal information from wireless home networks, it called the data collection a mistake. On Saturday, federal regulators charged that Google had “deliberately impeded and delayed” an investigation into the data collection and ordered a $25,000 fine on the search giant.

The finding, by the Federal Communications Commission, and the exasperated tone of the report were in marked contrast to the resolution of a separate inquiry two years ago. That investigation, by the Federal Trade Commission, accepted Google’s explanation that it was “mortified by what happened” while collecting information for its Street View project, and its promise to impose internal controls."   Read the rest at your own risk;  it's pretty amazing to see how much Google has got away with.

 Check this out  "When the commission asked Google to identify those responsible for the program, Google “unilaterally determined that to do so would ‘serve no useful purpose,’ ” according to the F.C.C. report."

Really? First Google said it was "a mistake" and now it's basically "none of your damned business." When a commission decides, a company can say they don't think so?  :-)

The whole article shows a terrific lack of respect for the commission, Americans, and the rules.  Google apparently writes their own?  And the fines imposed are so small Google wouldn't even notice.  

What do you think?  

z

SUNDAY FAITH BLOG......a question

 Mark 9: ¹⁵ As soon as all the people saw Jesus, they were overwhelmed with wonder and ran to greet him.    ¹⁶ “What are you arguing with them about?” he asked.
 ¹⁷ A man in the crowd answered, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who is possessed by a spirit that has robbed him of speech. ¹⁸ Whenever it seizes him, it throws him to the ground. He foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive out the spirit, but they could not.”
   ¹⁹ “You unbelieving generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy to me.”
 ²⁰ So they brought him. When the spirit saw Jesus, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He fell to the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
 ²¹ Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has he been like this?”
   “From childhood,” he answered. ²² “It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us.”
   ²³ “‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
 ²⁴ Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”
 ²⁵ When Jesus saw that a crowd was running to the scene, he rebuked the impure spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” he said, “I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”
 ²⁶ The spirit shrieked, convulsed him violently and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He’s dead.” ²⁷ But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him to his feet, and he stood up.
 ²⁸ After Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”
 ²⁹ He replied, “This kind can come out only by prayer.^[a]”

What does the boy's father mean?   Can we believe and yet have unbelief?   If you experience occasional or frequent unbelief, as most of us do, how do you cope with it?  What turns you back, over and over again?

Have a wonderful Sunday!

z 

Obama ..1 classroom credit

Check THIS out.  Charles Ogletree at Harvard will be teaching a class about President Obama.   Yes, THAT Ogletree, the one who hid videos of Obama (read the link) which would still not have been exposed had Breitbart not revealed them.

SO, the class description is this:  It's called UNDERSTANDING OBAMA

Return to Course Catalog

Professor Charles Ogletree

Spring 2013 Reading Group , Section 1

1 classroom credits

This reading group will focus on the way in which race, religion, and politics have impacted the development of President Obama as a leader. We will explore his views as a biracial child, his time as a student at Harvard Law School, the successes and failures of his political campaigns, and the way religion and his views on faith nearly derailed his campaign*. Finally, time will be spent analyzing the challenges he faces as President of the United States in establishing both his domestic and global policies

*REALLY?

want to take the class? :-)

z

This hurts, but it's compelling

This is a video the likes of which I never thought I'd EVER post....but the Black man talking shares something in common with so many of us who feel that some people in Black America are using the Trayvon case to their advantage.  Please try to overlook his word choices...they bothered me so much I got a little teary-eyed, to tell you the truth.  On the other hand, it also is tear-provoking in a very good way to see that this man is an American who wants to tell his truth.  I applaud him for that. (I just listened to it again after I'd written this post and felt even worse and more shocked at his choice of words than I was before, but I'm using it.....it hurts, but I think it's important.  You can see he's very clearly very angry.)  Let me add that the reason I posted this is because I SO STRONGLY BELIEVE that Black America's 'leaders' should all be at least as upset when Black on Black crime happens, when young Black kids are KILLED by their fellow Black kids, as they are in a case like Trayvon's. 

Tell me honestly what you think.  Should I have posted this?  Ya, it's risky, but we're all adults and I think it's important we see all points of view and stop thinking that all of ANY group blindly follows the Al Sharptons of the world.
Thanks.
z

WAR WAR WAR..............vote Obama!

There's an even creepier tone at the White House these days.  There are wars for about as many things as there are czars, have you noticed?   I've got a short list below (feel free to add on to it) and I've added the Leftwinger remarks we hear on each subject  (remember, the remarks in italics aren't mine, they're what we've all heard on each WAR subject from the Left):

WAR ON WOMEN....."Democrats care, Republicans don't like women.  Republicans don't like contraception.  Republicans don't realize it costs $3,000 a year for contraception for some women but they know most women can get it for $9.99 a month at a free clinic.  Republicans don't want women to get equal pay for equal work. Republicans think no women should work!  Republicans think it's probably a good idea to marry before having children for the sake of the children and the woman.  Republicans believe that if a woman wants to become a man, she ought to pay for it, not them.  Republicans just plain hate women.  Okay, half of Republicans ARE women, but...........you know."

Have I covered the Leftwinger nonsense?   Add to it, if you can, please.

CLASS WARFARE ... "The rich hate the poor.  Republicans are the rich ones no matter what the statistics show...don't believe statistics, heck, we don't even believe videos we see with our own eyes if we don't like the message!  Republicans might give more in charity but that's just their guilt for having more :-)  Republicans want you poor and all Republicans are rich.  Republicans want your grandparents to die painful deaths because they can't afford the insurance they need.  Republicans won't close tax loopholes.  Republicans don't want to pay any taxes.  Republicans think it's better to give a person a fishing pole than a fish.  Republicans are elitists."

Have I covered the Leftwinger nonsense on that subject?  Please add.......

RACE WARFARE..."White people will always shoot without asking...they hate black people, they just lvoe guns, dontchaknow.  Republicans want to keep blacks down because they're racist...okay, they would have voted for Cain and did elect Alan West, they like J C Watt, they adore Thomas Sowell and Walt Williams and Michael Meyers (a particular fave of that awful Conservative blogger, Z) but that's just another little detail you need to forget, all the people mentioned here are just Uncle Toms, that's why Republicans like them..  Republicans might have finally got civil rights passed, but we've screwed with our kids' heads in school so badly that they'd never believe that, so never give in.  Margaret Sanger did want to prevent more black babies from coming into the world and Republicans think that's hideous, but the same rule about how our kids are indoctrinated applies here, too, they'll never believe it, and they're too dumb to Google, so never give in.  We need to band together and VOTE OBAMA because those white Americans just won't give you the freebies he will."

THIS IS THE KIND OF THING WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ARTICULATELY FIGHT BEFORE THE COMING ELECTION.  And is there a kind of thing happening here that we had damned well better open our eyes to?   Will a media person come forward and expose the wars our White House is engineering that seem to be dividing Americans in such unhealthy and threatening ways?  It's all about THE VOTE, isn't it. 

I thought the Lefties don't like WAR, "War is not the answer!"  right?  (by the way, what was the question?)   So, what do you think;  will this creation of ridiculous wars and outlandish, hackneyed anti-Republican slurs get Mr. Obama more voters or lose him voters?


(Odd, the one war he doesn't seem to like to fight wholeheartedly is the WAR ON TERROR)


Z

This is funny! Muslim Women and Barbara Walters.....and a land mine of a statement, too!

A WOMEN'S PLACE

Barbara Walters, of 20/20, did a story on gender roles in Kabul ,
Afghanistan , several years before the Afghan conflict.

She noted that women customarily walked five paces behind their husbands.

She recently returned to Kabul and observed that women still walk behind
their husbands. Despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban regime,

the women now seem happy to maintain the old custom.

Ms Walters approached one of the Afghani women and asked,

'Why do you now seem happy with an old custom that you once

tried so desperately to change?'

The woman looked Ms Walters straight in the eyes, and without

hesitation said, “Land mines.”

Moral of the story is (no matter what language you speak or where you go):

BEHIND EVERY MAN, THERE'S A SMART WOMAN

Z: (there's probably no bit of truth to this, but it IS funny!)...

ALMOST as funny as Barbara Walters saying newscasters don't show their political preferences! 
SHE DID!  Read the link :-)
z 

Racism, Race baiting.....where's this race lead America? Net Observer

This post was an email to me sent by our fellow commenter and longtime blogging friend, Net Observer, in response to a lot of comments on THIS POST I did on the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman situation.  The comments got fairly heated, very interesting, and Net Observer and I hoped we could continue the conversation with these words from him, a Black American:

"Sometimes I hear people classify Rush Limbaugh as "racist". as much as he irritates me, I would never say that. However, I get where people might think that, to a point.

I think there's a difference between "racism", "race hustlers", "race baiters" and "racial prejudice". and there are varying degrees in all of those.

In my opinion, most decent people harbor some level of racial prejudice even if it's very little or totally innocuous. I also think most decent people detest actual, undeniable racism. (e.g.,  "stormfront", "new black panther party")

However, race-hustling/baiting is trickier. A lot of media and  media-driven personalities are guilty of this, even if they don't see themselves as doing anything wrong.  I think Jesse Jackson and Sharpton "hustle". I think Rush and the Drudge Report "bait". and I think they all do it, in part, for self-aggrandizing reasons.

Unfortunately, these "media people" influence public thought, conversation, perception, etc., as much as anything. Jesse Jackson's "hustling" unnecessarily ticks off a lot of fair-minded white people. Conversely, Drudge making "headline news"  of the most stupid young black male crime/flashmobs/etc., in the  minds of most blacks, often serves as evidence of "white-rightist" bigotry.

I prefer that we all talk through these issues in depth, logically, honestly, seriously, and, without assuming defensive stances.  it's a far more logical path to understanding and reconciliation. (end of Net's email to me)

Z:  SO, I think Net and I'd like to know what you think of what he wrote.  Do you agree?  Disagree?


SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN MY ORIGINAL POST AND NET OBSERVER'S EMAIL TO ME IS THE JOHN DERBYSHIRE FIRING FROM NATIONAL REVIEW FOR HIS HAVING PUBLISHED THIS AT ANOTHER MAGAZINE....

HERE IS A FASCINATING REBUTTAL TO HIS FIRING BY MARK STEYN WHICH I HOPE YOU'LL WANT TO READ.  THIS IS A MATTER WORTH TAKING SOME TIME, FOLKS....


What do you think of that situation?   And .....Do you think things are better since Obama or worse and why?  (and how?)   Do you think most Americans are not racists?

I want to thank Net for this and thank you for your comments.

Z 

Voter Fraud before your very EYES

James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has done it again. In this unbelievable video, a young man goes to Eric Holder’s voting precinct and simply asks, “Do you have an Eric Holder at [Holder's address]?”

Not only does the poll worker confirm that there is, he prepares the ballot for the man (who never claims to be Eric Holder).

This comes as the Attorney General claims there isn’t voter fraud occurring where voter ID is not required. He said it is “a problem that doesn’t exist.”


Add these instances alone (who knows how many more O'Keefe will reveal?...oh, and get insulted for it, by the way) with the fraud I've seen and reported on here in the past, and let me know if YOU think there's no voter fraud going on. In this country where people wouldn't have dreamed of committing voter fraud in the days we had respect for truth and privacy, now we have this........and an Attorney General who thinks it's "a problem that doesn't exist.

How do we solve this?  EVERY American should be absolutely up at ARMS about this, don't you think??  This is UNAMERICAN to the SQUARE!   And how can Americans see what's really going on with a media which will not only not share this information but insult O'Keefe if he tries to get it out there?

z

Mustang Sends.....

My guest is the distinguished blogger and friend, Mustang, who has honored this blog again with another piece for his column "Mustang Sends" ... After reading, you, too, will be wishing Mustang would reopen his blogs! 

SO, tell Mustang and me what you think.....agree? disagree?  Let's talk about this:

Charles Krauthammer wrote an interesting commentary a few days ago, entitled Obama v. SCOTUS.  It is worth a few moments of your time, and I think Krauthammer is mostly right when he tells us, “The fundamental deviation from custom and practice is not the legal challenge to Obamacare but the very manner of its enactment.”

President Barack Obama is nothing if not disingenuous when he tells the American people the Supreme Court has no business ruling on a law overwhelmingly passed by Congress.  The facts are otherwise.  This ridiculous usurpation of the United States Constitution, the purpose of which is to limit the power of the federal government, was finally passed by seven (7) votes.  Seven cannot be described as “overwhelming,” no —not even when you are a Chicago politician.

What does the United States Constitution say about this law?  The Constitution says what the Supreme Court says that it says.  We will find about this later on in the year.  Meanwhile, all of us waiting for the Supreme Court announcement should be anxious.  If the court upholds this atrocity, then the federal government will have successfully achieved absolute power over a free people.  Need we remind the American people that this is exactly why colonists revolted against the English parliament’s “intolerable acts”? 

By voting to install a communist president and a tsarist cabinet, the American people abrogated their right to remain a free and independent people.  This is nothing short of stunning, and if it turns out that the Supreme Court upholds the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obama Care), it will signal the end our federalist republic.  Why?  Because, if the federal government can force Americans to buy a health product, they can force Americans to do anything at all.  And here is the bottom line: it will mean the United States of America has joined the same family of socialist nations we find in China and the former Soviet Union.

There are two important postscripts to this odious turn of events: the first is that Barack Obama is not to blame for what has happened.  The blame rests squarely on the shoulders of the millions of American people incapable of critical thinking before voting for an avowed communist*.  The second postscript is that we are at least fortunate Hillary Clinton wasn’t elected, instead. (end of article)

*I'm told that (SURPRISE!) some of the sources have been deleted from the net.

So, weigh in, everybody........tell Mustang what you think!

z

Breitbart's Children

THE BREITBART CHILDREN'S TRUST:
Please help Andrew's wife Susie and his 4 beautiful children Samson (12) Mia (9) charlie (7) and Will (5). Join many in preserving Andrew's legacy by protecting his children's futures:

The Breitbart Children's Trust
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Los Angeles, CA 90049

Even if you can only send $10, please consider it........and if you can send more, please do.

We owe it to Andrew and how hard he fought for truth.

Thanks so much.

Z

It's EASTER SUNDAY!

He died for our sins and we rejoice for this....particularly on Easter Sunday....

I know my Christian readers believe those words in John, above..........which make this Sunday that much more special.  If you'd like to listen to a really special Easter praise song, please see the video below!

"Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there." Clarence W. Hall

Have a beautiful Easter....and please enjoy the bunnies, eggs, and lilies and chocolates, too!...some say they're too secular, but they're joyful and I believe that's how Jesus wants us to be on Easter and always.........joyful for all he gives us now, including his comfort when things aren't feeling too comfortable, and joyful for his promises of eternal life with Him.  I hope you enjoy the quotes below, I sure do.

"All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!"
Lucy Van Pelt in Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

"The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice."  Henry Knox Sherrill

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead ... 1 Peter 1:3

Praise, indeed!!  Loosen up!  Call it Resurrection Sunday if you must, but it's " Happy Easter" to my friends at Geeez and your families, from me and mine.

Blessings, Z