Well, Obama is doing it again. Since he can’t play the “blame Bush” card every day, he occasionally pulls his “Republicans are the party of no,” card from the bottom of the deck…

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Excitement flows through the land. Maybe this time, Helpful Hillary will accomplish what nobody ever succeeded in before, a peace treaty between the Israelis and Palestinians. At the expense of sounding like Lt. Columbo, please indulge me as I ask a few simple, child like questions.

1) When two countries sign a treaty, aren’t they both supposed to make concessions?  Israel is always asked to give up land. What have the Palestinians EVER been asked to give?  All they do is promise to stop killing Jews in exchange for land. And then, a day or two after the promise, terrorist attacks occur anyway. Sometimes they don’t even wait that long.  Hamas just shot four Jews this week on the eve of the “peace talks.”

Have you ever noticed that when a person tells you their position on one controversial issue, you immediately know their position on just about every other newsworthy topic as well?  Eventually they tell you anyway, but the truth is, they don’t need to tell you. All you need to hear is one opinion and you automatically know all opinions.

Let me share some examples: A person who believes in gay marriage also takes the side of the Palestinians over Israel.  Now what on earth would one issue have to do with another?  They would seem to have nothing to do with each other. As a matter of fact, they are completely unrelated, save for the fact that our Politically Correct friends have a list of items we darn well better believe in.

On Tuesday, August 17, Nancy Pelosi mouthed off about the Ground Zero mosque to San Francisco’s KCBS radio,

“There is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some,” she said in that gentle, self righteous, patronizing voice. Pelosi then went on to make clear that she joins “those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded.”

Are you doing a double take about now? Yes, you read it correctly.  Our wise Speaker-Of The-House is not calling for an investigation into the funding of the mosque, but rather those who fund the protest of the mosque!

When Obama was running for president, he promised:

“Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” -Barack Obama– September 12th 2008

Then, while trying to pass his “health care reform,” Obama came under attack from Republicans who insisted that the fees people and companies would have to pay for not having health care, or the health care premiums themselves, were nothing less than a tax.  Our president went ballistic and defended himself to George Stephanopoulos, on ABC News’ This Week.

Join me, as we break through the boundaries of time and space to visit newspaper headlines 20 years in the future. The first thing we discover is that there are no more newspapers, but their electronic counterparts do still have headlines, such as,

“Supreme Court Rules The Entire Constitution To Be Unconstitutional”

“Animal Rights Activists Demand Permission To Marry Pets As Equal Protection Under The Law”

“Joy Behar Calls Canada A Racist Country For Not Allowing People From Meximerica To Cross Over Borders Illegally”

“Muslims Claim That Jewish Neighborhoods In New York Are Really Palestinian Lands Taken Over By Israel’s Illegal Occupation”

So, you think those stimulus bills were a waste of time? Well, that just means you can’t handle a black president and his compassionate, fiscally wise congress.

Listed below, is a sampling of these economy booster shots, courtesy of the Washington Examiner: Aug. 3, 2010.  My own commentary follows each description.

-$2 million earmarked for swine odor research in Iowa. I think we already knew that pigs stink. I’m not sure if anyone cares why. I do care that $2 million was spent on this “pork.”

At first the people of California passed a law stating that marriage would be defined as a union between a man and a woman.  Then, a court overturned the law, claiming it was unconstitutional. So, later on, in 2008, after seven million people passed Proposition 8, the California constitution was actually changed. I went on the radio at this point predicting that somebody would find the amended constitution unconstitutional. I said it in a way that sounded sarcastic but I was also dead serious. Well, today, that is just exactly what happened. A federal judge has found the California constitution to be unconstitutional, that is, in serious conflict with the federal constitution, which, incidentally, says that our independent states have a right to make their own constitutions.

From The Hollywood Reporter, July 26, 2010

NEW YORK – The Anti-Defamation League on Monday slammed filmmaker Oliver Stone for comments he made to the Sunday Times in the U.K., calling them anti-Semitic.

Abraham Foxman, ADL national director, said: “Oliver Stone has once again shown his conspiratorial colors with his comments about ‘Jewish domination of the media’ and control over U.S. foreign policy. His words conjure up some of the most stereotypical and conspiratorial notions of undue Jewish power and influence.”

A word of comfort for my fellow Conservatives: Are you worried that despite conventional wisdom, Republicans will NOT take back the House and Senate this fall?

In an interview with This Week, Vice-President Joe Biden said, “We’re going to win the House and we’re going to win the Senate. We’re not going to lose either one of those bodies.”

New York City’s latest $100 million project in the wings is a thirteen story Muslim Mosque that would loom proudly in the vicinity of Ground Zero, actually replacing a building that was ruined during the horrific attack.

The justifications for this latest round of sheer stupidity and indecency toward the families of some three-thousand 9/11 victims murdered in cold blood would be funny if they were not so tragic.  Here’s my favorite: “Building a mosque on this site might help improve relations between Muslims and Americans.”

One of my favorite film comedies is the 1968 hit, Support Your Local Sheriff, with the affable James Garner. In one series of scenes, several hired gunslingers in a row try to gun Garner (the sheriff) down unsuccessfully. One bright, chipper morning, when Garner sees yet another gunman coming, he says in frustration and annoyance, “I sure am getting sick of all this.”

Lately, those words have reflected my own sentiment toward the double standards plaguing, not only our country, but our churches as well: The former is expected. The latter is inexcusable. But they both make me ill.

Scott Brown, along with two other Republican senators broke ranks and voted for that big turkey financial reform bill. Some 533 new regulations will now start to strangle what’s left of our financial institutions. But then, Chris Dodd says that (like the health care bill) we will not understand everything this new law accomplishes until it is enacted. I’ll just bet the unions are a little more excited than the banks.

In a previous article for SD Rostra, I expressed concern about Scott Brown. I did not trust him, and although I was certainly happy to see a Republican elected from Massachusetts of all places, my gratitude was only cautiously optimistic.

From Fox News: July 6, 2010: “In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims. J. Christian Adams, testifying Tuesday before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, said that “over and over and over again,” the department showed “hostility” toward those cases. He described the Black Panther case as one example of that — he defended the legitimacy of the suit and said his “blood boiled” when he heard a Justice official claim the case wasn’t solid.”

From Fox News, July 1, 2010

“Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program, “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.

Talking to reporters, the House speaker was defending a jobless benefits extension against those who say it gives recipients little incentive to work. By her reasoning, those checks are helping give somebody a job.

“It injects demand into the economy,” Pelosi said, arguing that when families have money to spend it keeps the economy churning. “It creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.”

Bill Crystal, editor of The Weekly Standard, was the first of many Conservatives to call for the resignation of GOP Chairman, Michael Steele, who, during a fundraiser in Noank, Connecticut, not only claimed that Obama should get out of Afghanistan, but that Afghanistan was Obama’s war.

Now men, we sent you to Afghanistan to fight a war and each of you have been issued a gun, however (and this is very important) under no circumstances are you to actually use that gun to fire upon the enemy unless the following conditions are obeyed:

1) If the enemy is in a mosque, you may not fire because that shows disrespect to their incredibly peaceful religion.

2) If the enemy is surrounded by civilians, you may not fire. NOTE: Since these are terrorists and not soldiers, chances are, they will be surrounded by civilians. Heck, many of them may actually be the civilians, but while we are on the subject of terrorists…

A while ago, I wrote in one of my blogs that groups once persecuted who come into power are never satisfied with mere equality. Feminists, for instance, began with the proper assertion that women were equal to men, but today radical feminists insist they are superior to men.

In that vein, I predicted the day would come when militant gay activists would abandon the mere idea that homosexuals are every bit as normal as heterosexuals and instead teach that they are healthier. The day is dawning:

From CNN June 7th, 2010.

From Pajamas Media  June 13, 2010 regarding PBS pundit Travis Smiley’s interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Madrid, Spain banned Israel from participating in their gay pride parade out of protest over the Gaza flotilla raid.

I’m not a believer in gay pride parades anyway. Be that as it may, a few pertinent facts are called for in order to set the record straight. (No pun intended.)

-These ships were intercepted because they were carrying weapons bent on the destruction of Israel.

-Gazan authorities execute homosexuals. I’m not sure much more needs to be said except that in Israel, homosexuals are given the exact same legal standing as all other citizens.

Once again, the United Nations has condemned Israel. These condemnations carry so much credibility from an organization that once had Syria on its security council and Libya on its human rights council. Iran was also nominated for their human rights council.

Why anyone would care about the opinion of a morally bankrupt United Nations, I’m sure I don’t know. The prophet Isaiah warned against calling good “evil” and evil “good,” so I will concern myself with the opinion of God, not the opinion of an institution that would better serve our fair planet if it were turned itself into a public toilet.

Well it finally happened. And I guess we shouldn’t be surprised. At long last, the Obama administration has come out and admitted in so many words that we are not really at war with radical Islam. This is no surprise to anyone who watched Obama’s magical, mystery, apology tour last year, in which he went out of his way to criticize America in front of a Muslim audience in Egypt. And just a couple of weeks ago, Eric Holder was not able to bring himself to admit that the attempted car bomber, Faisal Shahzad, was a Muslim extremist even though his ties with Al Queda had already been proven. And who could forget when the Muslim motivations of Fort Hood murderer, Nidal Malik Hasan were virtually ignored even though the man shouted “Allah Akbar” while shooting 13 people?