Today, Dinghy Harry Reid plans to lead his Senatorial minions in a procedural vote on a bill which would end the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.  If passed, it would be a huge victory for President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), the Far Left, and the strident Homosexual Activist Lobby.

If at least 60 senators vote to advance the bill, the repeal, which passed the House this week, could become a law by late afternoon.

This was one of Obama’s campaign promises that he made during his campaign in 2008. The Dems, the Nutroots, and the Homosexual Activists Lobby are pushing hard to get this done before the new Congress comes in and their chance for getting this social experiment passed diminishes to that of a snowball in July.

Advocates have been pushing hard to get this passed, even to the point of a Homosexual Activist Group vowing to sit in silent protest in the Senate gallery until the repeal is passed.

Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, said:

We simply cannot let the clock run out and lose this historic opportunity.

If DADT is repealed, it would mean that gays could publicly acknowledge their sexual orientation in our Armed Forces without fear of being kicked out.

If the bill passes, and with this bunch it looks like it will, the president, the defense secretary, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,are required to certify to Congress that lifting the ban won’t hurt troops’ ability to fight.  Once they make the certification, 60 days must pass before any changes go into effect.

The House gave its approval to this social experiment earlier in the week by a 250-174 vote.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), thinks that now is not the time to be experimenting with our Best and Brightest:

We send these young people into combat. We think they’re mature enough to fight and die. I think they’re mature enough to make a judgment on who they want to serve with and the impact on their battle effectiveness.

The administration’s push for the repeal of DADT was facilitated by a Pentagon study (Who runs the Pentagon?) that claimed that gays could serve openly without any effect on our troops in combat. The study by the Pentagon under the Obama Administration claims that two-thirds of troops predicted little impact if the law is repealed.

Of course, Obama’s employees,the Pentagon’s top leadership, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff backed the findings of the study.

Are the findings by this administration’s Pentagon politically manipulated?  You betcha.

Per marinecorpstimes.com:

Nowhere in the Pentagon’s 103-question survey about gays in the military did troops get an opportunity to offer a direct opinion on the underlying issue: Do you want to see “don’t ask, don’t tell” repealed?

In the article, also posted at navytimes.com, it is reported that Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., asked a very good question at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing:

Were you troubled at the answer we might have received, if we had simply asked them, in addition to all the other questions. … ‘Do you think the law should be changed?’

The chiefs of the Army and Marine Corps told Congress that a repeal could seriously affect troops if the law is overturned when troops are still fighting in Afghanistan.

Gen. James Amos, the head of the Marine Corps, has become the most outspoken opponent and claims letting gay troops serve openly could cost lives.

Gen. Amos, said:

We asked for their opinions, and they gave them to us. Their message to me is that the potential exists for disruption to the successful execution of our current combat mission should repeal be implemented at this time.

Obama’s employees, Gates and Mullen, dismissed the fears of Gen. Amos. They stand by the Obama Pentagon’s claim that 92 percent of troops who believe they have served with a gay person saw no impact on their units’ morale or effectiveness.

What they didn’t talk about is the fact that, according to the study by Obama’s Pentagon, 23 percent of Marines said that they would quit if DADT is repealed and another 15 percent said that they would consider leaving the Corps sooner.

Why is it that Liberals view our Best and Brightest as nothing but a collection of  lab rats, to be experimented on as the subjects of social engineering?  It’s bad enough that politicians have subjected our nation’s warriors to the whims of political expediency in the past, or, simply used them as cannon fodder. 

But, to possibly undermine the effectiveness of the world’s greatest fighting force, simply to appease the wishes of a small Activist group, consisting of a small percentage of  a larger group of still only 5 % of the U.S. population, or to appease an uncertain percentage of the 18% of Americans who self-identify as Liberal, is an act of placing politics and ideology over the safety of Americans to fulfill a campaign promise.

Gay men and women are currently serving now, subject to the same rules and discipline, the same as any other member of our Armed Forces.  And may God bless them for it.

This is not a “Civil Rights” issue.  This is another “frog in the pot of boiling water” moment brought by those intent on rebuilding our nation’s foundation on shifting sands.

Unless you’re a news junkie, you probably have not heard much about two explosions occurring on a crowded street in central Stockholm, Sweden yesterday. If you heard about the incident at all, you heard that the suspects were unidentified.

Just as everyone thought, police have now confirmed that it was a suicide bombing, which left the bomber dead and two people injured. It would be the first such attack ever recorded in Sweden. Police have refused to comment on the motive.

However,a Swedish news agency broke the politically-correct Cone of Silence. They reported that they received an e-mail threat right before the attack. The sender said that he had visited the Middle East “for jihad,” referring to the country’s soldiers in Afghanistan and a cartoon of Muhammad that torqued off the Muslim world.

Sweden has not raised its terror threat alert, however, police are investigating the attacks as “a crime of terror,” according to spokesman Anders Thornberg:

When we go through the existing criteria and the series of events that occurred it fits well within the description of a terror crime.

Thornberg would not confirm local media reports that the dead murderer had explosives strapped to his body. He also refused to say that the man was a suspected suicide bomber, but he did say that police have “a totally clear picture about that” but were not sharing the information.

He said that, so far, were no indications so far that other people were involved.

I wonder if he’s a relative of New York City Mayor Bloomberg?  The rhetoric’s sure the same.

The attack consisted of a car exploding near the shop-lined pedestrian-only Drottninggatan street. Then, a second explosion hit higher up on the same street. According to witnesses, a man was seen lying on the ground afterward with blood appearing to come from his abdomen.

The exploded car contained gas canisters, per rescue workers.

Ten minutes before the blasts, Swedish news agency TT received an e-mail saying “the time has come to take action.” According to the news agency, the e-mail referred to Sweden’s silence surrounding artist Lars Vilks’ 2007 drawing of Muhammad as a dog and to its presence in Afghanistan, where it has about 500 soldiers in the NATO force.

The e-mail read:

Now your children, daughters and sisters shall die like our brothers and sisters and children are dying.

The man said he visited the Middle East “for jihad,” but that he could not tell his wife or child about it:

I never went to the Middle East to work or to earn money, I went there for jihad.

Vilks’ drawing in a local Swedish newspaper infuriated Muslims. In May, somebody unsuccessfully tried to burn down his home in southern Sweden after he showed a film about Islam and homosexuality during a lecture at Uppsala University.

And how is the Obama Administration trying to protect us from these “man-caused disasters”?

In a speech Friday night,  Attorney General Eric Holder basically said that our government will not start profiling Muslims anytime soon.

During a speech to Muslim Advocates, based out of San Francisco,(of course) Holder informed them that he’s heard from many Muslim and Arab Americans who feel uneasy and singled out by law enforcement.

Yeah, but they sure won’t speak out against Terrorism very much, will they?

Muslim Advocates is one of several groups complaining about hate crimes, alleged rights violations at the hands of law enforcement and the tactics used in anti-terrorism cases.

Recent sting operations by the FBI and Justice Department have thwarted plots against a Portland, Ore., Christmas celebration, Dallas skyscrapers, Washington subways, a Chicago nightclub and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Undercover agents in these cases have let suspects make clear they wanted to carry out an attack and gave them a chance to change their mind, according to the government.

Holder told the group of Muslims and their supporters that he would make “no apologies” for the the way his people handled the case against Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born Muslim accused of plotting to set off a bomb in Oregon.

Those who characterize the FBI’s activities in this case as ‘entrapment’ simply do not have their facts straight or do not have a full understanding of the law.”

Mohamud has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder of federal officers and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. After his arrest, an Islamic center where he occasionally worshipped was set on fire.

Critics have called the stings entrapment of people who otherwise couldn’t have carried out an attack and said the government has been enticing Muslims into terrorism.

Muslim Advocates executive director Farhana Khera, who invited Holder to speak to the group, said:

We have very serious concerns about FBI surveillance tactics that are used. We believe that law enforcement has an important job to protect us as a country but they should do so mindful of the rules of justice and fairness that are at the core of our criminal justice system.

Americans are seriously concerned about the Holy Jihad that members of your religion have declared against our country, Farhana.

Holder received thunderous applause and a standing ovation at the conclusion of his speech. Muslims and their supporters attending said they felt reassured by his remarks on protecting the civil liberties of Muslim Americans.

Because, Lord knows, it’s the ugly, barbaric Christian Americans that are to blame for the Terrorist attacks around the world.  Gimme a break.

I remember it as if it was yesterday.  Daddy and I were sitting on the hardwood floor of the living room, playing with the Rock ’em Sock ’em Robots that Santa had brought me.   He was still in his gray Sears uniform with the round red Sears emblem, having come home from work. Some of my aunts and uncles were sitting around, watching us play.  The Christmas tree was standing there, in all of its silver aluminum majesty, alternating between red, yellow, blue, and green, as the color wheel spun around.

That’s just one of a number of great Christmas memories that God has blessed me with over the years.

Some children, up in Chicago, have had some of their future Christmas memories stolen from them.

Thugs set fire to a van on the South Side of Chicago last month belonging to the charity Kidz Korna.  Each Christmas, the charity gives away thousands of presents to hundreds of area children.

The charity helps children who’ve been exposed to violence and child abuse.

Volunteers now worry they won’t be able to get enough gifts for children in need.  They are hoping someone steps forward before it’s too late.

Chicago mayoral hopeful Dock Walls said:

If someone has a van, one van, two vans, it doesn’t matter. They have a huge, huge, huge heart and they can deliver to a lot of kids if we enable them to do that. Christmas is more than just a holiday, it’s a tradition that services children and gives them hope.

Kidz Korna has been helping children in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood since 1995.

It’s not just the criminals among us that seem to have a Grinch-like spirit within them this Christmas.

According to star-telegram.com, Chase Bank has told a  Southlake, Texas businessman to remove the Christmas tree he donated to a local branch because it might offend people.

Antonio Morales, who owns the Bellagio Day Spa in Southlake, had taken the time to put together and decorate a 9-foot-tall tree in the lobby of the Chase Bank branch at 1700 E. Southlake Boulevard.performing a favor for the branch manager, one of his clients.

The tree stayed  in the bank lobby from the Monday before Thanksgiving until last Tuesday.   According to Morales, his friend called him Wednesday and told him the tree had to go.  She had him come to the branch and showed him an e-mail from JPMorgan Chase.  Chase proclaimed that the tree had to be removed because some people were offended by it.

When the Star-Telegram asked the branch what the big deal was, the bank referred questions to their corporate offices.

According to Greg Hassell, a JPMorgan Chase spokesman, the company’s policy isn’t anti-Christmas:

People wish their customers merry Christmas when it’s appropriate.

Uh huh.  And a Bah, Humbug to you, too, sir.

He went on to say that, to ensure that everyone who visits Chase branches feels welcome and comfortable, the bank’s policy is to use only decorations supplied by the company.

Hassell said:

We appreciate the thoughtful gesture from Mr. Morales.  Unfortunately, we’re unable to keep it [the tree] on display for the remainder of the holiday season.   According to this politically correct individual, JPMorgan Chase ensures that decorations are “something everyone is comfortable with, regardless of how they celebrate the season”.

What’s Christmas without a tree?

The spokeswoman for Trinity Bank in Fort Worth, Texas said it has had a tree in its lobby since the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Linda Robinson, Assistant Vice-President for the bank, said:

I’ve been in this business more than 30 years, and every place I’ve worked we’ve put up a Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.

Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis for the American Family Association, called Chase’s decision absurd:

According to Advertising Age, 91 percent of American people celebrate Christmas.  That means that the single most inoffensive thing you can do at this time of year is wish someone a merry Christmas.

Fischer said that companies that have gotten away from acknowledging Christmas claim that they do it because they want to be inclusive:

The most inclusive thing you can do is wish someone merry Christmas.  This means that Chase is running the risk of offending far more people by disrespecting Christmas than they are by honoring it.

Hassell said that the Southlake branch was supplied with stickers that resemble Christmas lights. Company-supplied decorations vary at other branches, he said:

Normally they’re small, not intrusive. I’m not sure this [Morales’] Christmas tree was intrusive. That’s not really the issue here. It isn’t a company-supplied decoration.

Yeah, right, Ebenezer.

According to Hassell, the policy has been around for a few years, and that decorations change every year.

Morales loves Christmas.  In fact, he enjoys the Christmas season so much that he decorated 35 trees at his home.

He said:

I’m known for my Christmas trees

In fact, Morales even decorated his plastic surgeon’s office.

According to Senor Navidad:

I put a tree up in his office. It doesn’t offend him, and he’s Jewish.

Isn’t Mr. Morales great?  I hope more Americans get the Christmas Spirit this year like he has.  The politically correct Progressives and the bitter, maladjusted thugs seem determined to ruin Christmas in America.  What these tremendously lost individuals do not seem to understand is that Christmas is not just a holiday designed to grow the coffers of retailers or satisfy avarice.  It is way more than that.  What is Christmas all about?  Allow me to present a video featuring an expert.  Merry Christmas! 

I’m 52 years old today.  It has been a remarkable journey.   Some years have passed by much too quickly.  Others have been as slow and painful as the Rosie O’Donnell Variety Show.   Some of the lessons that God has taught me have been more painful than others.  But, through it all, His Grace has been sufficient for my every need.

I’ve always had a big mouth.  One of the most painful lessons I’ve had to learn is when to keep it shut.  However, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve noticed that those who seek to impose their will on us, as a free nation, appear to be doing and saying whatever outrageous, hurtful, treasonous, and unpatriotic things that they want to, counting on all of us average, Christian Americans (75% of the population, per Gallup) to keep our collective mouths shut.

Well, you know what?  I’m 52 and I’m fed up.

I’m fed up with less than 10 % of our population being so self-involved and bitter in their belief that all of this fantastic Universe around us just happened, that they try to make Christians as bitter as they are.  Especially, this time of year as we celebrate the birth of our Saviour. 

These learned individuals completely ignore the writings of brilliant men, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, who said:

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

or G. K. Chesterton, who said:

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing.  They believe in anything.

I’m fed up with a bunch of amoral, treasonous hyenas controlling the entertainment industry.  These are the brilliant individuals who have brought us such cinematic masterpieces as Redacted and The Golden Compass and such high brow television entertainment like My Dad Says @#$% ! 

In the music industry, the song  @#$% You! (which is being sung on Glee as Forget You!) is being honored for an industry award. 

I can remember when The Rolling Stones had to change the words to their hit, Let’s Spend the Night Together to Let’s Spend Some Time Together on The Ed Sullivan Show because of the CBS Censors.

I’m fed up with spoiled, crybaby professional athletes.  Some idiot the other day tweeted (that’s a whole other subject) that he was mad at God for making him drop a pass.  That crybaby should get on his knees and thank God every day for allowing him to make obscene amounts of money, playing a game that most of us are restricted to playing with family and friends in our front yard.

New York Giants Safety Andrel Rolle told the media that the fans should not be booing them for being a lousy football team, because they’re like American soldiers reeturning from Iraq…or something.

Gimme a break.

I’m fed up with the Liberal Media and Conservatives, too, who ought to know better after suffering all these years, unmercifully attacking Sarah Palin two years away from a Presidential Election that she hasn’t even announced her intentions for, yet.

There was story on Fox and Friends this morning about folks who camped out overnight  at one of her book signings.  She really does connect with a lot of average Americans.

By the way, has Mitt Romney endorsed anyone in the 2010 Midterm Elections, yet?

I’m fed up with the Obama’s, and the pinheaded bureaucrats and academicians in their administration who believe that they have the right to tell us how to raise and what to feed our children.  San Francisco has voted to take the toys out of kids’ McDonald’s Happy Meals! 

These are our children and grandchildren.  We will raise them as we see fit.

Not only do they want to tell us what we can feed to our children, they want to control what we eat.  In New York City, Mayor Bloomberg wants to ban salt from restaurants.  What?  Banning Trans Fat and making french fries, potato chips, and popcorn taste different wasn’t enough?

I’m 52 years old. If I want to have Popeye’s Fried Chicken with mashed potatoes, fried okra, and biscuits, it’s none of your dadblamed business, Michelle (ma belle).  People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.  Have you surveyed your own Southern flank lately?

Finally, I’m fed up with Obama, his administration, his political party, and Congress.  These people are so riddled with self-importance, and so intellectually constricted by their self-imposed boundaries of the Beltway Elite society that they live in, that they have completely lost touch with the citizens of the country that they are supposed to represent.  They somehow believe that it is in their best interests to govern on behalf of the 18 % of Americans who identify themselves as being Liberals.  And those that don’t really believe in this Liberal/Progressive/Marxist ideology, don’t seem to possess the intestinal fortitude to man up and actually serve the people who elected them.

One would have thought that the Political Massacre on November 2nd would have gotten their attention.  However, judging from their actions since they got back to work Monday, this oblivious pack of political scavengers seem bound and determined to gnaw as much meat off of the bones of the American Dream as they can before the Big Dog of American Conservatism returns to Washington in January.

However, as fed up as I am, I always have hope.  My hope springs not from any political figure or political ideology, but from the One who created me and loves me, in spite of all my shortcomings.  This video of one of my favorite songs sums up what I’ve been trying to say.   God is good.  All the time.  May God bless you all.

As I was trying to choose what to write about this morning, a hard, cold fact struck my simple mind:  We are living in a country that has been suffering under the tyranny of a minority. 

Not a racial minority, mind you, but an ideological one.

Allow me to throw some numbers at you:

75 % of Americans self-identify as being Christians.

This country was founded by a group of Christians, seeking freedom from a state-run religion and the tyranny of a massive and oppressive Regime that was overtaxing them to the point of annihilation.  Sound familiar?

I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus.

Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson, as Vice-President, signed legislation authorizing the use of the new Capitol building as a church.

Did you know that the United States Capitol regularly served as a church building?  The practice began even before Congress officially moved into the building and lasted until well after the Civil War.

Please take the time to watch this informative 8-minute video:

54 % of Americans are politically Conservative.

This poll was taken by Gallup, right before the Midterm Elections.  It shows that the majority of Americans believe in the Conservative principles of limited government, and American self-determination.

36 % identify themselves as Republicans,  34.7% as Democrats.  This is the first Republican lead ever. 

Rasmussen Reports published this yesterday.  I believe that the gap is actually wider than that.  The move to the Far Left by the Democrat Party has completely removed them from the ideological stance of the average American.

67% of Americans believe that this country is heading in the wrong direction.  88 % of The Beltway Elite believe just the opposite.

Just listen to President Barack Hussein Obama and all his minions.  You would think everything is just peachy.

58% of Americans want Obamacare repealed.

When Nancy Pelosi said:

 We have to pass the bill so that we’ll know what is in it. 

Did anybody else want to kick their television?

This was crammed down the throats of Americans, as if we were too stupid to know what we wanted, as a country

And now, somehow, some of the Republican Congresscritters have gotten it in their heads that there needs to be a compromise on some parts of this Obamanation, instead of defending, repealing, and replacing it.

Pay attention, boys,  You can be voted out, too.

44.7% was Obama’s Job Approval Rating for Obama’s 7th Quarter of his Presidency.  This was a new all-time low, according to Gallup.

And yet, this Alinsky-ite continues to keep the pedal to the metal, forsaking our American Heritage in order to achieve his Socialist Utopian Dream of radically changing the greatest country in the world.

He has intentionally misconstrued the results of the Midterms to mean that Americans want our politicians to work together to pass all of his ideologically driven legislation.

Far from it, Scooter.  Americans just want them to stop you in your quest to turn the Shining City on a Hill into a Third-World Barrio.

The good news is that you’ll have more time to work on your golf game in 2 years. 

57% of Americans say that they are happy.

It’s simple.  The happiness of Americans does not come from the Nanny-state, out-of-control Federal Government of President Barack Hussein Obama.  Americans’ happiness originates from the same Creator that endowed each and every one of us with our inalienable rights.  He has given us, as Americans, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  Americans, through His grace, and the love and support of our families and friends, are working to achieve and enjoy those rights everyday. 

When those in power seek to be the Creator of those inalienable rights, they are doomed to failure.  Please reference the Roman Empire and the U.S.S.R. as examples.

The majority of Americans have a great deal in common, Ties That Bind, if you will.  As our external enemies discovered after their cowardly attack on September 11th, 2001, Americans will come together when our neighbors and families are being harmed and our freedom is at stake.

The tyrannical minority who have been ruling with impunity saw a small sampling of Americans’ independent spirit and resolve to remain free on November 2nd, 2010.  So far, they seem blinded by their ideology and own self-importance.

They underestimate Americans.  The tyrannical always have.

In 1621, a small group of Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared a feast celebrating the autumn harvest. This is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. Then, in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.

Here are some Fantastic Food Facts about Thanksgiving:

242 million

The number of turkeys raised in the United States in 2010. That’s down 2 percent from the number raised during 2009. The turkeys produced in 2009 together weighed 7.1 billion pounds and were valued at $3.6 billion.

47 million

The preliminary estimate of turkeys Minnesota expected to raise in 2010. The Gopher State was tops in turkey production, followed by North Carolina (31.0 million), Arkansas (28.0 million), Missouri (17.5 million), Indiana (16.0 million) and Virginia (15.5 million). These six states together would probably account for about two-thirds of U.S. turkeys produced in 2010.

735 million pounds

The forecast for U.S. cranberry production in 2010. Wisconsin is expected to lead all states in the production of cranberries, with 435 million pounds, followed by Massachusetts (195 million). New Jersey, Oregon and Washington are also expected to have substantial production, ranging from 14 million to 53 million pounds.

1.9 billion pounds

The total weight of sweet potatoes — another popular Thanksgiving side dish — produced by major sweet potato producing states in 2009. North Carolina (940 million pounds) produced more sweet potatoes than any other state. It was followed by California (592 million pounds) and Louisiana (162 million pounds).

931 million pounds

Total production of pumpkins produced in the major pumpkin-producing states in 2009. Illinois led the country by producing 429 million pounds of the vined orange gourd. Pumpkin patches in California and Ohio also provided lots of pumpkins: Each state produced at least 100 million pounds. The value of all pumpkins produced by major pumpkin-producing states was $103 million.

If you prefer cherry pie, you will be pleased to learn that the nation’s forecasted tart cherry production for 2010 totals 195 million pounds, albeit 46 percent below 2009’s forecasted total. Of this 2010 total, the overwhelming majority (140 million) will be produced in Michigan.

2.2 billion bushels

The total volume of wheat — the essential ingredient of bread, rolls and pie crust — produced in the United States in 2010. North Dakota and Kansas accounted for 33 percent of the nation’s wheat production.

736,680 tons

The 2010 contracted production of snap (green) beans in major snap (green) bean-producing states. Of this total, Wisconsin led all states (326,900 tons). Many Americans consider green bean casserole a traditional Thanksgiving dish.

While you and your family prepare for your annual Thanksgiving feast today, one in six Americans are at risk of going hungry, including a quarter of all children in the country.

Globally, 925 million people, or a little less than 15 percent of the world population, don’t have enough to eat. And, according to analysts, Washington’s efforts to alleviate hunger abroad may be more successful than at home.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture released an estimate last week that 49 million U.S. residents, including 17 million children, lacked adequate food at some point during 2009.

Currently about 42 million people, more than one in eight Americans, participate each month in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly called food stamps). This figure is projected to rise to 43.3 million in 2011.

So, as you are finishing up your cooking, I’m asking you to remember your family and friends who are struggling under the weight of this horrible economy and the burdens of life and invite them to your Thanksgiving table.

Because, as we are reminded:

To whom much is given, much is required. – Luke 12:48

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons. –  Jeremy Taylor

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good… – Psalm 100:4, 5a

Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men, but be careful that you do not take the day and leave out the gratitude. – E.P. Powell

Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! -Henry Ward Beecher

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. – W.J. Cameron

God bless you all and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Newsweek’s latest edition has an image of President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) as the Hindu god Shiva, leading to cries of blasphemy from American East India practitioners of that religion.

The cover of the 2-reader magazine depicts Obama with several arms holding policy issues while balancing on one leg. Its headline: “God of All Things” with the apologetic subtitle, “Why the Modern Presidency May be too Much for One Person to Handle.”

Shiva is one of three pre-eminent gods in the Hindu religion along with Brahma and Vishnu. The figure is considered the destroyer of the world, which must end in order to be reborn as a more universalistic place. However, the god’s purpose is not to predict the apocalypse.

Shiva is often seen as Lord Nataraja, who has multiple arms and balances on one leg, and is viewed as dancing in a representation of the rhythm and harmony of life.

The 75 % of America’s population that identify themselves as Christians can sympathize with the Hindus.  But, where were these Hindus when the sycophantic Main Stream Media and Progressive idiots began referring to this jackwagon of a professional politician as “the Messiah”?

On February 19, 2008, Columnist Sally Quinn wrote the following in her feature “On Faith” in The Washington Post:

Is Obama the Messiah? People are asking these days and it’s not so hard to understand why: the desperate throngs, the tears, the great awakening of a slumbering demographic. All that larger symbolism.

The emotional landscape of many American voters is calamitous of late — frightened by our Babylonian war, unhappy with our President and depressed by the cleansing crush of the credit crunch — so it’s not surprising that the coming presidential election would take on a certain biblical coloring.

The Messiah question is a loud one coming from all corners. Even a blogger for Mother Jones, the hot heart of the far left, worries that the Obama-passion will be used for nefarious purposes by right-wingers, he himself writes “Barack Obama has a messiah complex and no one will convince me otherwise.”

The salty 62-year old Chris Matthews of MSNBC puts the phenomenon of Obama on the good book scale, telling the NY Observer that “I’ve been following politics since I was about 5. I’ve never seen anything like this. This is bigger than Kennedy. [Obama] comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament. This is surprising.”

Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan proclaimed Obama as”The Messiah”.   Addressing a large crowd behind a podium Feb. 24 with a Nation of Islam Saviours’ Day 2008 sign, Farrakhan said:

You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the Messiah speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.

Where was the outrage when”Little Chrissie” Matthews and Louis Farrakhan made their proclamations?  Or when Obama himself said this:

Those are the words of a leader?  These are the words of a Uniter?  These are the words of an American President?  Barack Hussein Obama is  a god?  a messiah?  Hardly. 

When Christian Conservatives have brought up these points in the past, we have been called narrow-minded  raaaciiists, ignorant rednecks, or simply out of touch.  Now, following the refudiation of Obama on November 2nd, more and more Americans of every faith and political ideology seem to be coming to the painful realization that President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) ain’t all that and a bag of chips.  

In fact, just a cursory search using the Bing search engine, researching the prompt “Obama a failure”,  brings up 48 articles, highlighting his failures on such issues as the START Treaty, the New York City Islamic Terrorist Trial, and his recent economic summits in Asia and Europe. 

With his recent tone-deaf stances regarding the Midterm Elections and the nekkid scanning and groping of American citizens by the TSA, as approved by his administration, Obama’s rigid adherence to his Socialist, big Government ideology has become the instrument of his own demise.

You want to hear some good news?  Take a look at the electoral map from the Midterm Elections.  With the exception of a small area of the Northeast (you know exactly where) and the infamous left coast, America is awash in a sea of Red.  Americans are united.  Not by, as Rush Limbaugh says, a phony baloney plastic banana good time rock ‘n roll politician, but by a renewed sense of American pride and a reflexive reaction to two years of being told that their country is no better than any other country in the world,  that the rights of those who have illegally entered our country supersede those of our own, and that we, as American citizens, have no rights, other than those granted by our government, composed of those who are supposed to be our servants.

By the way, since I’m speaking of those inalienable rights, endowed by Our Creator, no matter what you may read on the internet, the fact of the matter is that America was founded on a Judeo-Christian belief system.  For more information on our Founding Fathers and what they believed, allow me to recommend wallbuilders.com. 

November 2nd was a shot heard around the world.  It signalled the beginning of the reclaiming of the American dream by the citizens of this country.  America has never been the socialist nation that Obama dreams about, and judging from the world’s reaction to Obama in Asia and Europe economic trips since then, they’re rejecting his socialist philosophy as well.

His dwindling cadre of supporters will continue to make excuses for Obama’s failures, but nobody’s buying it, here or abroad.  Obama has stubbornly set himself on his own flight path and the next two years promise to be the longest kamikaze flight on record.

Last night, my bride and I were watching television.  We were catching up on episodes of Blue Bloods, a series about a family of New york City policemen , in which Tom Selleck portrays the NYC Police Commissioner.  One thing that struck me last night was that, no matter how busy their lives got, they always had Sunday dinner together as a family:  Grandpa, In-laws, fiances’, the children…everybody.  And even if they’re just having a small dinner, they say Grace.  It reminded me of Home Improvement, where Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor and his family always said Grace around the table. 

The writers of these series get it.  America is made up of a wonderful people…a resilient people.  75% of which are unashamed to proclaim their Christianity.  54 % of which, according to gallup.com, in a poll taken right before the Midterm Election, indentify their political ideology as Conservative.

Now, I’m not a Pollyanna.  I realize that there are also dark forces at work in our  country.  Just the other day, 13 year old Cody Alicea of Denair, California, was told that he could not fly the American flag from the back of his bicycle to and from school for his own safety.  Cody had been flying the flag in honor of his Grandpa and all other American military verterans.  He was told by the school superintendent, Edward Parazz, that certain students were complaining.

Certain students.  As in illegal certain students?  What is the world has happened to California?  After viewing the way the Midterms played out, one could ask about the status of certain parts of the Northeast as well.

The overwhelming majority of the electoral map was awash in a sea of red, indicating an embracing of Conservative American values by the majority of its citizens, or, at least, a growing intolerance for the Progressives and their ideology that have put our country in the economic distress that it is in.

Cody’s problem is a shining example of this ignorant ideology.  Instead of being worried that they were not appropriately teaching civics and American history to the illegals, they were more worried about the illegals’ non-existant right to demand that Cody remove the flag of the country that they are currently trespassing in. 

After being deluged by e-mails, phone calls, and unwanted national attention, the powers that be acquiesced and said that Cody would be allowed to fly the flag of his country on the back of his bicycle.

This week was an appropriate sequal to the story of November 2nd, 2010, where Americans stood up on their hind legs and began the process of taking back their country.

What has been fun to watch since that day is all the clueless Libs, in the MSM and the New Media, trying to figure out what happened that night.  Their excuses have been ranging from ineffectual communication by the administration and the Democratic Congress about all ther wonderful things that they’ve accomplished since Scooter ascended to the Throne of the Regime,  to just outright blaming it on the ignorance of the American people. 

Fox News analysts, and old fashioned Democrats, Pat Cadell and Doug Schoen, warned their estranged political party that a Political Massacre on November 2nd was coming, but the smartest people in the room did not listen to them.

So now, the Dems are trying to regroup, and it is hilarious.  Nancy Pelosi has decreed herself the new Minority Leader of the House, and there hasn’t even been a Congressional Election yet.  Obama got the heck out of Dodge (using our money), taking a 9 day trip to Asia, and it’s turned out to be a complete and utter failure.  And this morning, I’ve read that he wants the Lame Duck Congress to push through the START Nuclear Arms Treaty with Russia. 

The START treaty, which has been pending in the Senate for months,would reduce the limit on strategic warheads to 1,550 for each country from the current ceiling of 2,200. It also would set up new procedures to allow both countries to inspect each other’s arsenals to verify compliance.

Scooter and his minions do not seem to have paid much attention to what American voters said in excercising their vote on November 2nd.  These Progressives are so out of step with the wishes of the American people, they remind me of Gomer Pyle trying to keep up with the rest of his platoon as they march, and Americans are playing the role of Sgt. Carter.

If the Progressives continue to turn a deaf ear to the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Americans, in the Presidential Elections of 2012, they will experience a second Political Massacre the equivalent of the Eskimos putting Grandpa out on a ice floe and pushing it away from shore.

To leave you with one more television-driven analogy, America’s situation is kind of like that of Arthur Fonzarelli.  In a great moment from the TV series Happy Days, Fonzie is sitting by the bed of his best friend Richie Cunningham, who is in a coma.  Fonzie had let Richie borrow his motorcycle and go riding with his girlfriend, Lori.  They got in an accident, and Fonzie, naturally, blamed himself.  Fonzie wasn’t a religious guy, but he reached out to God, pleading for the life of his best friend.  Richie wakes up from his coma.  Fonzie looks up to God, flashes that famous teeth-filled smile, gives a thumbs up and says Heyyyy! 

Americans know where our inalienable rights and our country’s blessings come from…and we are grateful.

Asia Bibi, a mother of two in her thirties, has lived a simple life, working as a field laborer in Pakistan.  However, now, she has gained unwanted notoriety by becoming the first woman in Pakistan to be sentenced to death for blasphemy.  The sentence  was decreed by a court of sessions in Punjab province on Sunday evening.

Her crime?  Sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The charge stems from her actions in the village of Ittanwali during a heated discussion about religion in June last year.

Some of the women workers had been trying to get Bibi to renounce her Christian faith and accept Islam. During the discussion, Bibi responded by telling the Muslim women how Jesus had died on the cross for the sins of mankind and asking them what Muhammad had done for them.

The Muslim women got ticked off by Asia’s witnessing to them and beat her.  She was then locked in a room by some men.  Then, according to partners of Release International, a mob reportedly formed and “violently abused” her and her children.

Release International, a charity which supports persecuted Christians, said that blasphemy charges had been brought against Bibi as a result of pressure from local Muslim leaders.

Release International’s chief executive, Andy Dipper, was shocked at Sunday’s ruling.

He said:

Pakistan has crossed a line in passing the death sentence on a woman for blasphemy.

In addition to the death sentence, The representatives of the religion of peace also fined Bibi more than £700. That is approximately two and a half years’ wages for an unskilled worker.

The charity’s partners in Pakistan say the sentence has dealt a crushing blow to Bibi, who had been hoping to be acquitted and return to her husband and children:

Although Asia has great courage, her dreams of release have vanished now. Please pray for her encouragement, strength and protection.

They are planning to visit Bibi in prison as soon as they are permitted to.

Release has launched a petition against Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. It fears that the passing of the death sentence against Bibi could set a harmful precedent in other blasphemy cases.

Another Christian woman, Martha Bibi , no relation to Asia Bibi, is presently on trial in Lahore for blasphemy. She was accused of committing blasphemy after a dispute with builders in Kasur who refused to return equipment belonging to her.

Mr. Dipper said Pakistan’s blasphemy laws were “wide open to abuse” and that Christians and other minorities were often accused of committing blasphemy by Muslims as a “vengeful way of settling scores”.

Dipper warned:

In effect Asia has been sentenced to death for sharing her Christian faith. In previous cases, the death sentence has not been carried out. But this could well mean a life sentence for Asia in appalling conditions on death row.

Release’s online petition can be found at:  www.releaseinternational.org/current

There is a history of violence in pakistan by Muslims against Christians.  In June of 2009, A Christian man was beaten to death in Pakistan’s Punjab province for drinking from a tea-cup “designated for Muslims”.

August 1, 2009, the following story ran on christianpost.com:

Hundreds of Muslim extremists continued to burn Christian homes after some members of the Sipah-e-Sahaba group accused Christians of desecrating the Quran on Thursday. Among the six Christians killed were four women.

Pakistan Christian Post reported that the Muslim mob pulled the Christian woman out of their homes and killed them execution style.

The sectarian riot began Thursday when thousands of Muslims raided a Christian village called Korian in Punjab province in eastern Pakistan and destroyed about 60 homes and two churches.

From jihadwatch.org 12/17/2009:

A Christian sanitation worker was struggling for his life Wednesday, December 16, in a hospital of Pakistan’s Punjab province after two Christian co-workers already died because Muslim employers apparently poisoned them, police and family confirmed.

The father of the three workers, Yousaf Masih, said the incident happened Monday, December 14, in a banquet and wedding hall where his sons demanded wages owed to them.

Masih said the Muslim managers of the facility were angry that Christians dared to ask for payment.

“My sons were apparently forced to consume some kind of poisoned drink, or a drug…They were left there to die,” he said, adding that their bosses also made abusive remarks about Christianity.

These are only a few stories.  There are many more.  Like, for instance, Faisal, the Times Square Bomber,who grew up and trained to be a Terrorist in Pakistan.

On November 8th, United States President Barack Hussein Obama, while attempting to answer a student’s question at St. Xavier College in Mumbai, India, said that our approach toward Pakistan on the issue of terrorism has been

…to be honest and forthright … to say we are your friend, this is a problem and we will help you with, but the problem has to be addressed.

That’s wonderful speechifying there, Scooter.  But when Muslims in Pakistan are killing their own citizenry for the crime of being a Christian, how to you expect any help from that country in finding Bin Laden or with any other aspect of the Global War on Terror?  You may as well take a Cobra home as a pet and expect it not to bite you.

Obama, his administration, CAIR, and so-called Moderate Islamic representatives keep telling the American people about how the majority of Muslims are a peace-loving people.  I truly want to believe that.  However, they need to step up their efforts in speaking out about the murderers that share their faith.  For a faith with millions of members, the relative silence is deafening.

As I write today’s blog, President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) and Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono are appearing in a joint press conference in Jakarta.  Obama is scheduled to be in the country possessing the highest Muslim population in the world through tomorrow.  However, his trip may be cut short due to the danger of volcanic ash from multiple eruptions of Mount Merapi, the world’s most active volcano.  And,  just now, according to Fox News,  a 5.1 earthquake has been reported in Indonesia, close to where the president is speaking.  Hmmmm.

This is the second leg of the president’s 9 day trip, which is turning out to be another Muslim outreach mission.  Imagine that.

Tomorrow, Scooter is supposed to visit the Istiqlal Mosque, the national mosque of Indonesia and the largest mosque in Southeast Asia.  He will then deliver a speech at the University of Indonesia.  Following that he will lay a wreath at Heroes Cemetary.  Wednesday is an Indonesian holiday named National Heroes Day.

Funny, the last two years he hasn’t gone to Arlington to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider on America’s Veterans Day.  He’s had VP Biden do it.  But I digress…

While Obama was in India, a couple of interesting stories  hit the wires.  The president was a St. Xavier’s College on Sunday morning, answering questions from the yutes.

Answering a student’s question about his feelings concerning jihad, he said that he regretted that the “great religion” of Islam has been distorted by a few extremists to justify violence towards innocent people and called for isolating these elements.

Scooter also said that people will have to fundamentally reject the notion that violence is the way to mediate differences among them:

I think all of us have to fundamentally reject the notion that violence is the way to mediate our differences.

I think all of us recognise that this great religion (Islam) in the hands of a few extremists has been distorted to justify violence towards innocent people that is never justified.

So, one of the challenges the world faces is how to “isolate” those who have these distorted notions of religious war…and reaffirm those who see faces of all sorts whether you are a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian and a Jew or any other religion that we can all treat each other with respect and mutual dignity.

Why does Obama always dance around questions concerning Muslim Terrorism? Why did he originally have his minions begin referring to acts of  jihad as “man-caused disasters”?  

Perhaps it all goes back to his time in Jakarta. From ages six to 10, Barack Obama, Jr., attended a private school for well-off families in Jakarta. While there, Obama attended Muslim prayer sessions with his classmates against the wishes of his mother.

Scooter’s former third grade teacher said that “Barry”, who attended the Menteng One school in Jakarta, studied the Koran and went to classes on Islam, despite the objections of Ann Dunham, a Catholic and “professional” activist.

His teacher, Effendi, taught at Menteng One for 29 years. She remembers Barry as a “fat, curly-haired, curious boy”. The school served an international mix of pupils, including Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims.

Our present POTUS attended classes on Islam while the Christians attended classes on Christianity, said Effendi. Barry, he said, was alone among the pupils in that he insisted on attending both.

According to Effendi:

His mother did not like him learning Islam, although his father was a Muslim. Sometimes she came to the school; she was angry with the religious teacher and said ‘Why did you teach him the Koran?’

 But he kept going to the classes because he was interested in Islam. He would also join the other pupils for Muslim prayers.

That would explain this reaction that CBS got from Muslims in Great Britain shortly about Obama’s Election:

But, why were Muslims happy, if Obama was raised in a Christian home, as he said to Larry King in July of 2008?

Presently, the number of Americans who believe that Obama is a Muslim has risen to one out of five.

As a Christian man, I would never even consider participating in a Muslim prayer service.  I would be respectful, but I would not participate.  Muhammad is not my Lord and Savior.  Nor, would I have sat for over 20 years under the teachings of a racist theologian teaching that Jesus Christ was a revolutionary like Che’ and singing the praises of collective salvation and social justice.

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 was not just an overwhelming smackdown of Obama’s failed economic policies, it also clearly demonstrated a dissatisfaction with his foreign initiatives as well.  The clear fact is, after 2 years of this nightmare of a presidency, Americans still do not exactly who this guy is.  But, we’re getting more clues every day.