When someone said that no occupant of the White House had ever been able to walk on water, liberals rushed in to correct us: no previous occupant of the White House has been able to walk on water.

Barack Obama was going to be different.  He was going to be the Messiah who replaced God with Government, and would be anointed as the Savior of the world.

Obama told us:

“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal… This was the moment — this was the time — when we came together to remake this great nation …”

I mean, wow.  It’s not like he didn’t promise the world, well, the world or anything.

Statements like that help you understand why liberals like Spike Lee went just a little bit beyond absolutely insane:

“It means that this is a whole new world. I think…I’ve been saying this before. You can divide history. BB Before Barack. AB After Barack.”

And why people like Nation of Islam racist demagogue Louis Farrakhan proclaimed Obama as The Messiah:

“You are the instruments that God is gonna 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.”

But something happened to Captain Amazing after he actually took office: a fundamental inability to even begin to walk his talk.

We all remember Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for his two signature accomplishments of Jack and Squat.  And that Nobel Prize for Accomplishing Nothing may be the symbol of the Obama administration.

We tend to forget about how he promised his stimulus would prevent unemployment from reaching 8% (it’s now 10.2% and rising), or how pathologically pathetic his administration has since been in fabricating statistics to show his $3.27 trillion porkulus has been anything other than an abject failure.

Obama can’t even pretend his useless policies work without spectacularly screwing up.  As ABC puts it:

Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.

There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.  And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.

Oh, there’s more “there” there.  A lot more.  More dishonest butchery of employment statistics than you could ever hope to shake a stick at.

It turned out that not only was he basically not able to do anything to create jobs, but he couldn’t even do nothing right.  As Charles Krauthammer put it:

“When they speak seriously about this and how precise all of this is – 640,329 jobs saved -  comical precision.  And then it turns out a lot of these are fictional jobs in fictional districts, what happens is an administration that has already been satirized by Saturday Night Live as “do-nothing,” is now going to be seen as an administration that cannot even do nothing competently.”

Conservatives predicted his partisan stimulus slush fund would fail to deliver jobs.  And now liberals are finally recognizing it too:

NAACP, La Raza, AFL-CIO Tell Obama Stimulus Failed

With unemployment among blacks at more than 15 percent, the N.A.A.C.P. will join several other groups on Tuesday to call on President Obama to do more to create jobs.

The organizations — including the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group— will make clear that they believe the president’s $787 billion stimulus program has not gone far enough to fight unemployment.

They will call for increased spending for schools and roads, billions of dollars in fiscal relief to state and local governments to forestall more layoffs and a direct government jobs program, “especially in distressed communities facing severe unemployment.”

Reminds me of an article title I had way back in May: “Obama Stimulus Robin Hood In Reverse: Poor Get Poorer.”

Obama passed off a pretty clever (though blatantly fallacious) load of hooey onto an equally dishonest and ideological lamestream media when he ginned up the bogus “created or saved jobs” statistic.  As Allan Meltzer, professor at Carnegie Mellon University put it, “One can search economic textbooks forever without finding a concept called ‘jobs saved’.”

But since then, his self-justifying  fabrications have been increasingly absurd and asinine.

To those brainwashed liberals who insist that the economy would have been worse if Obama hadn’t passed the stimulus, let me put it this way: the economy would have been worse if George W. Bush hadn’t done everything he did, too.  I mean, one load of baloney deserves another.

Obama has watched the American death toll in Afghanistan double from George Bush’s last year in office.  And his dithering over making the obvious decision to send the troops his own general requested has turned any momentum we may have been able to create into abject failure.  Both friend and foe alike should question Obama’s commitment, along with his competence.

Then we’ve had the mindboggling exhibition of incompetence in the Obama administration’s bungling of the H1N1 vaccine.  Lower the level of the oceans?  Obama can’t even raise the level of the flu doses!

And now even the liberals in Europe are turning on Obama as a colossal fraud and impostor.  As the German der Spiegel put it:

Barack Obama cast himself as a “citizen of the world” when he delivered his well-received campaign speech in Berlin in the summer of 2008. But the US president has now betrayed this claim. In his Berlin speech, he was dishonest with Europe. Since then, Obama has neglected the single most important issue for an American president who likes to imagine himself as a world citizen, namely, his country’s addiction to fossil fuels and the risks of unchecked climate change. Health-care reform and other domestic issues were more important to him than global environmental threats. He was either unwilling or unable to convince skeptics in his own ranks and potential defectors from the ranks of the Republicans to support him, for example, by promising alternative investments as a compensation for states with large coal reserves.

The Democrat-controlled Senate put off Obama’s cap-growth-and-tax-prosperity climate agenda until Spring (and good luck passing that economy killing monstrosity then!); and world leaders just said, “Better luck next time” with their climate change treaty.

Personally I cannot for the life of me understand why Obama’s plan -

“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

- failed.  I mean, who wouldn’t want shockingly high energy prices? Who doesn’t want to freeze in the dark?

Sorry, Barry Hussein.  If you want to live up to your promise to lower the oceans and heal the planet, I guess you’ll just have to start doing a lot more shutting the hell up and saving the planet from all your useless hot air.  Because other than that, you did squat.

Meet Saul, the first king of the nation of Israel. He always had a spear in his hand. Was he evil? Insane? Both?

Saul’s actions were so over-the-top that it’s a struggle to even relate to him as more than a two-dimensional character—much as we might struggle to understand some of the evil world leaders alive today. But, like them, Saul is not a two-dimensional cartoon. His soul still exists. Just as theirs exist. And he once walked on this earth. Just as leaders of other nations walk on the earth now.

And the reality of Saul’s existence has the potential to stay with you another way, as well: his story is recorded in the Bible, for generations to read and consider. It’s a story that can shape your thinking about leaders and their individual relationships with God. As you ponder the actions of leaders of nations—both alive and long dead—there will be Saul, sitting with his spear in his hand… in the back of your mind.

There were so many opportunities for Saul to do better, to turn away from evil.

Instead, step by deliberate step, he walked down a path that led to his permanent destruction. God was only one step away for so long. But one day, Saul took too many steps away.

A quest to understand Saul is a quest to understand how world leaders today who are following in his unfortunate footsteps could stop, turn, and walk a better path. To understand why God allows evil national rulers—the kind that cause horrors of human suffering—to be established, and how he uses them. And to understand why God has focused you on this issue… what he wants from you, once confronted with this reality.

It’s too late for Saul. But it’s not too late to learn from his life.

Copyright 2009. All rights reserved.

As FOX fake news blasts Obama for bowing in Japan, and brags that Cheney never bent over, they forget about this: Bush practically frenched the Saudi King!  Talk about someone who kissed ass! 15 of 19 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia – so Bush/cheney chose to bomb Iraq! FOX, your anchors are the assclowns of the news!  So easy to condemn, but forget that Google can bring the reality of the past!

02/06/2002 - Updated 06:29 AM ET Official: 15 of 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were SaudiRIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia acknowledged for the first time that 15 of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers were Saudi citizens, but said Wednesday that the oil-rich kingdom bears no responsibility for their actions. America on alert • Full coverage index Previously, Saudi Arabia had said the citizenship of 15 of the 19 hijackers was in doubt despite U.S. insistence they were Saudis. But Interior Minister Prince Nayef told The Associated Press that Saudi leaders were shocked to learn 15 of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

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On the upcoming first week of December world leaders gather in Copenhagen, Denmark to tackle climate change. There are expected major decisions to make on what sort of rules will follow the Kyoto Protocol’s first commitment period due to end in 2012.

Two parallel sets of talks are part of the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen. From December 7^th to 18^th leaders of 192 countries backing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are appointed to deal with further worldwide effort to cut carbon emissions and lasting agreements on economic policy. The aim is to foster strategies within nations to efficiently tackle the global warming.

But both are deals that are not yet sure to be backed for all the leaders attending the summit. And it is a worry shared by many. Amid those is US President Barack Obama who recently urged the support of a legally binding treaty as part of his speech at the Great Hall of People, in Beijing.

Whilst worries are still bouncing here and there, for climate change campaigners sake there are some time to lobby an agreement either before but certainly during the COP15. And surely as long as the date approaches, more fuss is likely to be known.

But what should really concern the public is what is all about COP15. Well, here some clues.

As cutting emissions are the first target, economic policy is the second.

It is known that the United States is calling for replacing the  economy-wide targets that are internationally binding with a ‘pledge and review’ approach as the Kyoto protocol alike. The proposal is that each nation would pledge national actions that are open to some degree of measurement, reporting and verification by other countries to combine all of them afterwards to create a global total.

However, such total may or may not add up to what science demands, and pledging countries would not be internationally bound to adhere to any targets.

So far, the will in almost all developed countries is to merge the two negotiating tracks leading to a single new agreement. It is seems like a dual-track strategy is seen as the correct way to both amend the Kyoto Protocol and create a new agreement to make sure that Kyoto Protocol’s more environmentally rigorous targets and multilateral compliance would stay as paramount.

Although developed countries currently backing the protocol are legally bound to agree new targets for a second commitment period that begins in 2013, the call for deeper cuts is yet to be one of the hardest discussion. Developed nations have proposed targets only up to 16-23 per cent, whilst to the least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS) demand an overall target of cutting emissions to 45 per cent below their 1990 levels by 2020.

Major COP15 expected agreements on:

• Targets from developed countries to cut their emissions by 2020.
• Pledges from emerging economies to restrain their emissions.
• Finance from the rich to the poor countries to assist the control of their gas emissions and to accomodate the effects of the climate change.
• Set a governing body to deliver the above.
• A single new legally binding agreement (Copenhagen Protocol) that replaces the Kyoto Protocol and includes other issues such as adaptation to climate change impacts. Such an agreement could include mitigation commitments for the United States, plus actions for major developing nations.
• Two protocols. An amended Kyoto Protocol that improves on what has already been negotiated plus a new legally binding agreement as described above. Most developing nations want this.

Denmark has formally invited the leaders of United Nations member countries to the U.N. conference in Copenhagen in December that will try to clinch a new global climate deal, the government said on Thursday.

Copenhagan

The invitations are sent by letter from Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen to the heads of state and government of the other 191 U.N. member states.

The Copenhagen talks were originally meant for environment and climate ministers but the United Nations said last week that about 40 leaders have indicated plans to attend, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and leaders of nations in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.

The front page of the NYTimes today (11/09/09) has a picture of Nelson Mandela “in twilight at 91.” Twilight, according to the American Heritage dictionary, is “a condition of dim or diffused illumination.” But the picture, which was taken last May, shows a laughing, well-dressed, vigorous-faced man with white hair who hardly seems in a state of “diffused illumination.”

When Henry and I were traveling in South Africa, we visited Nelson Mandela’s home in  Johannesburg, a neat, small house in one of the poorer sections of the city where he spent part of his childhood. It had obviously been refurbished and stood, in all its modest simplicity, as a monument to this great South African leader.

Before I begin, let me state again that I like Barack Obama. I voted for him. I’d do it again if he was running against an old man and crazy woman…again. With that said, I think he’s done a poor job as President of the United States so far. I’ll state my reasons for thinking so in a conveniently organized numerical order.

1 – We’re still in Iraq

2 – The Economy still sucks

3- The Job Market still sucks

4 – Osama Bin Laden is still alive

5 – He rolled over on the Public Option, and now His congressional retards have to try and get it done

6 – Cap and Trade

7 – NOT having Eric Holder go after Bush Administration officials

8 – Throwing a crappy first pitch at the All-Star Game

9 – Going on TV too much to talk about crap that nobody cares about instead of doing his job and fixing our busted ass country

10 – Sonia Sotomayor

11 – Blocking the release of detainee abuse/torture photos

12 – Not being more agressive

13 – Waffling on pretty much everything he promised us

14 – Giving Wall Street billions of dollars and giving the general public nothing but a middle finger while banks up everybody’s credit card interest rates

15 – Overselling the production of the H1N1 vaccine

16 – Tim Geithner

17 – Not taking a rusty axe to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid’s junk last Thursday like he should have

18 – Kicking the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell down the road

19 – Hiring nobody for his administration except for tax dodgers

20 – Not making the FCC go bust Faux News’ ass

There you have it. 20 reasons why Barack Obama should be ashamed of himself. I like the guy, but if he wants to be  a two term President, or if nothing else one that won’t go down as the Black Jimmy Carter, he needs to man up and do what we sent him to Washington to do, and that’s not suck.

It’s been a whirlwind in Australian and worldwide political and modern culture that this feverent new junkie didn’t have enough time to jot down my random thoughts about what’s been laden to us in the news.

Completely disregarding ‘Ute-gate’ as it’s so last week (excepting Turnbull’s popularity dropped from his legal-eagle evidence gathering skills) it’s become customary to and I wanted to pay respects to both the late Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. Both epitomised their respective cultures and became icons of their times. Despite controversies and illnesses, neither will be forgotten.

Last night on Rove, Bruno aka alias of comedian Sacha Baron Cohen made an interesting comment about our Prime Minster Kevin Rudd. He called him ‘cute.’ It got me thinking about the power of looks in politics and I’ve compiled my top 5of past and present leaders I think are attarctive. Like them or loathe them, in my opinion they have that je ne sais quoi which is attractive.

5. José Socrates – Portugal
Firstly, his name is Socrates, which is cool and secondly he looks like a young Dustin H from ‘Graduate’ era. Kind of McDreamy.

4. Nicholas Sarkozy
He’s French, mais oui. And I’m not going to act all British and hold that against him. He also pulled Carla Bruni (but then who hasn’t?)

3. Henry VIII of England
Not only has he been portrayed by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, but the man broke away from conventional religion and formed his own faith and imperialistic rule based on his own desires. A man with a strong will is hot.

2. Barack Obama
Perhaps I’ll appear to be a bit la-la if I say that this guys woos with his words like men should. His books are well written and his rhetoric and presence is compelling.

1. Vladimir Putin
Russian gangster who makes his own rules plus voted Russia’s Best Looking Man which is remarkable for that part of the world.

President H.W. Bush, borrowing a phrase from an earlier era, popularized the term “New World Order” (NWO) in the early 1990s. But while the New World Order has legitimate roots, it has come to be associated with little more than paranoid conspiracy.

Given what we’ve witnessed in recent times, however, is it wise to continue to dismiss the notion out-of-hand?

The following metaphor, Friedmanesque but nevertheless useful in view of the controversial nature of this topic, paints a picture of what political and economic progress may look like as the 21st Century progresses — and why a NWO may not be as far-fetched as so many of us are inclined to believe.

Imagine a smattering of raindrops hitting the pavement. Each raindrop represents the relative isolation and sovereignty of each nation. As those raindrops increase in number — meaning more countries climb aboard the international trade bandwagon — they connect like dots.

With enough rain — overlapping treaties and trade agreements — pools of water form (commonwealths operating under a shared constitution and/or currency). This is a natural evolution of the free trade process.

The European Union is but one such trade and currency pool, and it is not at all out of the question that more are to come. In Asia, in fact, The Wall Street Journal reported October 12, 2009 that an “Asean Plus Six” proposal seeks to integrate the 10 member nations of the Association of Southeast Asian nations as well as Japan, China, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand.

Much like a succession of raindrops merging to form large swaths of water, boundaries between nations may become less distinct in the years to come. Such a progression inevitably begs the question: Is national sovereignty passé? And in even longer-range terms, will ethnic, language and cultural distinctions begin to dissolve too?

While far-sighted, these questions are just that: Legitimate questions.

When people say that the prospect for a North American Union is little more than a conspiracy, they are, in effect, saying that they know the future beyond a reasonable doubt. What this denies in the here-and-now is an appreciation for the reality that a World Federalist Movement (WFM) has been afoot for decades. The mainstream media may not give these long-ranging issues press time, but world federalist organizations do, in fact, exist in the United States, Canada and elsewhere in the developed world — and they run websites replete with historical timelines that anyone can verify for themselves.

This much we know of modern times: Peacetime economies are evolving toward tighter integration for the sake of shared prosperity. Debates over whether this is incidental or intentional detract from the point: The logical extension of removing conflicting trade laws and legal barriers may well be a set of conditions wherein borders are intact on maps, but members function more like states in a global confederation (interregionalism).

Some say we may even see this convergence culminate within our lifetimes.

In a speech then-president-elect Barack Obama gave in Berlin, he had this to say:

No doubt there will be differences in opinon. But the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together.

A change of leadership in Washington will not lift this burden.

In this new century Americans and Europeans alike will be required to do more, not less.

Partnership and cooperation between nations is not a choice. It is the only way. The one way to protect our common security and advance our common humanity.

President Obama’s message? This isn’t personal. This isn’t partisan. This “burden” is the future. And no, we do not have a choice.

President Obama, to be clear, is but one of several American presidents in recent years to share a globalized vision — hence his statement that a “change in Washington” will not deviate world leaders from a transnational progressive path:

SERIOUS QUESTIONS FOR SERIOUS TIMES

• Does a shift toward increasingly large and impersonal centralized governance bode well for freedom to exclude oneself or one’s nation from a one-size-fits-all policy? Or will freedom to opt out be the one guarantee regional integration proponents — world federalists — can’t promise?
• Is it in keeping with human history and human psychology to share a collective vision without breaking rank? How does world federalism propose to respond to “agitators” and civil unrest within its Utopian framework?
• Does consolidation of legal and political powers represent a net gain or is it offset by the potential for corruption and abuse at the hands of a powerful few whose legislative reach has gone global?
• At an economic level, can or will world federalism deliver on its promise of peace and prosperity for all world citizens? Or does it violate the all-eggs-in-one-basket principle: posing, instead, a dangerous level of economic and international codependency that will hold individuals and markets alike captive to the weakest link within the whole?

How do you feel about the path we are apparently headed down?

President Obama is, as has been widely reported in the media, well educated.  He attended Occidental College, and subsequently graduated from Columbia University.  He later attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude.  He has refused to release any school records, so we don’t know what subjects he studied or what grades he received in those courses.  However, we can deduce that he has a number of other educational credentials—accomplishments rarely mentioned in most media accounts.

An obscure educational accomplishment is occasionally referenced in a few newspapers and news channels.  Barack Obama is a graduate of the Cook County Richard Daly School of Political Warfare, and his record of political maneuvers strongly suggests that he must be an honored graduate.

There is one bit of Obama’s education that we get to see him put into practice almost every day.   He is obviously a magna cum laude graduate of the Joseph Goebbels School of Truth.  Although there has been some amount of criticism of the vetting process for the President’s senior administration officials, each candidate’s Joseph Goebbels school education is surely verified without fail.  These officials also consistently and faithfully practice what they learned at the School of Truth.

Another of the President’s accomplishments is occasionally mentioned, but he rarely gets full credit in the media.  Not only is Barak Obama an honored graduate of the Saul Alinsky College of Radical Extremism, it is widely believed that he can quote most of Alinsky’s Rules and Alinsky’s Ethics, even without a teleprompter.  This learning is also a primary requisite for all Obama Administration candidates.

On the Internet, and in a few media commentators’ sound bytes, are numerous references to another area of Barack Obama’s education—as well as references contained in his two books of memoirs.  The President is well schooled in Karl Marx’ economics (“Das Kapital”) and Marx’ political prescriptions (“The Communist Manifesto”).  A number of the President’s advisors publicly and proudly refer to their own Marx education and knowledge.

It is believed that President Obama is most proud of his graduation from the Neville Chamberlain School of Appeasement.  It is certain that rulers of several countries of the world also most appreciate this particular facet of Obama’s education.

Another of President Obama’s achievements is his mastery of the techniques taught at the Heinrich Himmler Institute of Administrative Management.  Obama’s Chief of Staff appears to be supremely qualified to teach at the Himmler Institute.

There is a small amount of disagreement as to whether Obama actually graduated from the Al Capone Institute of Advanced Behavioral Modification or just audited the course.  It matters little, though, because his Chief of Staff is the national authority in this area.

It is quite possible that Barack Obama’s personal favorite among his educational accomplishments is his graduation from the Abraham Lincoln College of Constitutional Evasion.  Obama mentions Lincoln often, and it is probably this aspect of Lincoln’s record that he is referring to.

We may still have reservations about Barack Obama’s presidency, and possibly nagging concerns about the country’s well being.  But we can be sure the President is educationally prepared to perform at the level of famous world leaders in history such as Caligula of Rome, Ivan IV of Russia, or Vlad III of Romania.  It remains to be seen if he can create the opportunities for such greatness and if the masses in the United States will continue accepting  him as what he is.

I just watched ‘LOOSE CHANGE 9/11 An American Coup’ a couple of times, and I suggest you watch it too, (and you ought to watch ‘ZEITGEIST,’ also).

GET PISSED OFF!

With all the hype over Obama, he only made it #15 on the Hottest Heads of State list, haha.

Top 5:

• Yulia Tymoshenko – Prime Minister of Ukraine.
• Jens Stoltenberg – Prime Minister of Norway.
• Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck – King of Brutan.
• Joseph Kabila – President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Christina Ferandez de Kirchner – President of Argentina.

Bottom 5:

• Kim Jong-il – Chairman of the National Defense Commission of North Korea.
• Pope Benedict XVI – Sovereign of Vatican City.
• Hamad bin Khalifa – Emir of Qatar.
• Raul Castro – President of Cuba.
• Robert Mugabe – President of Zimbabwe.

Maureen Dowd didn’t go far enough this morning, she didn’t mention that Karl Rove who fed us that dumbass Bush on a platter is now dishing up Liz Cheney to prepare her as the new face of the GOP scare tactics force.  This new neo-con group called, “Keep America Safe ” -
One wonders when Liz runs for president, will her father name himself as VIP like he did for Bush? It won’t matter, he will be the brains behind the operation anyway, we can count on that.
Like Maureen said, Liz is trying hard to reshape her father’s legacy, she is a good daughter hating to see her father villanized. She is a dedicated to daddy, she is obsessed by how daddy thinks and talks. She is happy to keep torture and war and secrecy as part of her agenda, it’s ingrained.
And what’s with Mr. “I am responsible for pushing the invasion and occupation of Iraq” Bill Kristol? You mean he has not learned anything from his own failure of vision? Are the GOP so hard headed that they will never acknowledge a blunder in judgment because the idiots were Republicans?
Hey, they could have picked McCain and Ms. Rogue. Do they not see that while the world is still dangerous as hell, most of our allies are glad to consider us number one again — we actually have respect!
I see my GOP friends sitting home, loaded guns at their sides, watching FOX news, listening to Glenn Beck waiting for either invasion or the Rapture – to them Obama is already a failure, even though someone pointed out Obama has kept us safer longer than Bush so far.  I know all that could change in an instant, but are we as bad off as Liz Cheney, FOX Noise and the GOP minions want us to think? Am I missing something, should I not be happy or laugh?
Look at Liz, her face is stone cold sober just like that constant scowl on her fathers’ mug, and he is a corrupt man for outing a CIA agent, we know he will not stop at anything if Dick wants something, Dick… WAIT – I JUST HAD AN EPIPHANY – THAT’S IT!!!! Dick wants something, his Project For A New American Century has only netted Iraq, Dick wants to finish his bucket list before that battery in his ticker stops providing his heart with juice! Rove and Cheney, Bill Kristol and the neo-cons are back conspiring again, waiting for the opportunity to get back into office again and finish their dirty work and who better to use than young and impressionable Liz!
Who’s next Dick? You wanted Syria, Lebanon – which is the place we will spend billions on failure? Iran I bet!
Kristol’s PNAC co-founder, Robert Kagan stated, “”The United States Is, and Should Be, an Empire“. I guess that sums it up.,

Look at the stats from Iraq this morning, 85,000 dead from 2004-2008, plus there are a million Iraqi’s displaced who would not be scattered if we had not interfered and occupied, billions of dollars would still be in the treasury. But hey, this was a great money maker for Halliburton, KBR and whatever other subsidiaries of Halliburton that needed government big money contracts. They can thank Cheney who from day one of his co-presidency on the invasion of Iraq, he saw those dollar signs helping fund his pension! Wait! If Dick insisted from day one that he wanted Saddam, doesn’t that make him guilty of pre-meditated murder? Oh, and don’t forget China owns our debt thanks to Bush and Cheney, somehow the GOP always forgets that fact unless it pertains to Obama. (Hey, Dow up to 9981 as I write)
But back to the epiphany, the Bucket List apparently means using Liz as the vessel for PNAC to continue – yep, start a new foundation or group, give it a new face and familiar family name with America in the title and the GOP fall right into line. Do they even know the odds for war with this group at the helm? Anyone named Bush or Cheney is doomed to go to war, it’s genetics, and that’s 100 percent sure!
Bucket List of failures, is that what Liz wants for her father? Because when you look at what he has accomplished, it looks shady and ‘dictatorish’. But

“daughter of Dick” wants to be used if it will further the daddy cause, so the question is, should the Bucket List of Dick Cheney and Keep America Safe be the way forward, be the light and the future? Should War, aggression and occupation be the GOP mantra for our next president? Look at what Bush/Cheney left us with, unresolved Iraq and Afghanistan and now Liz is on a quest for Iran I bet, I would say Liz, become your own person, grow your own set of balls, quit riding his coat tails to make your money.
Your dad’s legacy and his Bucket List vision is not worth the toll it will take on America.
AND BIG props up to Chris Matthews yesterday when laughing at the one word associations during the recent Rush Limpballs interview.
Giving himself one word, “Rush Limbaugh”, Chris blurted out, “phone sex”… LOVE YA CHRIS!   

The conditioned mind reacts and dismisses anything it deems as preposterous or different; it is imprisoned whilst it thinks it’s free.

What we’re conditioned to believe and what is really happening may be completely different.

Our earth may recycle itself much as it resets itself with hurricanes, typhoons, and earthquakes, and it could recycle itself with the precession of the equinoxes, the ‘Great Year,’ or NIBIRU . . . who the hell knows. Perhaps if we could access the information under the Sphinx, we would know a lot more. The Sphinx may have been remodeled by pharaohs, but it and the Pyramids of Giza are surely messages to us by those who have gone before.

Let’s say the earth has reset and recycled itself for millions of years, because more and more evidence points to it, and the human race has this time frame . . . Well, who’s to say there haven’t been previous dominant life forces on this planet in the past which evolved enough to get the hell off the earth before another ‘reset’ or ‘recycle’ took place? Would they come back? Would they try to rule us?

(Please access Youtube and watch it all.)

And what of Hollow Earth? My next book is about ALL of this stuff.

“Pointing a gun at a child, threatening to shoot him,” Swanson recollects. “I was 25 years old at the time, and it has weighed pretty heavy on me ever since then.” Gunnar Swanson

The question is, are we gaining anything over in Afghanistan and Iraq? When you read that General McChrystal wants 40K extra troops, it feels like – here we go again, more lives and money wasted and what is our real gain? How many years must we stay to stabilize either place?
With our presence comes some positive changes in schools being built, (though apparently some of them quite shoddy) – Read below Christian Science Monitor article.
Education is the key to gaining minds and hearts to a new way of thinking, but even though we build schools, will the education itself and will girls ever be elevated to “human” status in both Iraq and Afghanistan?
We are occupiers – we have also created a class of new haters by our presence. It would take a couple hundred thousand troops, at least fifty years and a big overthrow in the middle east to get real control and peace over there.
Bush and Cheney exploited our surplus on this war folly of theirs. We have lost

billions to corruption over in Iraq. According to wiki-answers, it costs $720 million a day for war.

Now they want more of the same over there. The GOP especially want more money, more troops, more death, more contracts to be abused. When is it enough for them? When will they admit this is a sham and we are tired of their propping up Bush and Cheney and trying to save GOP face, let’s face reality! When we have to challenge kids as the insurgency because the terrorists cowards need bodies, that’s when we know they are weakest!
The article about Gunnar Swanson who started War Kids Relief, is about
a man who served 12 months in Iraq and saw how the kids at first reacted to our soldiers, they loved taking candy and were happy to see Americans. Then things changed.  According to article in October 5th, 2009 Christian Science Monitor:  “as violence increased and insurgent activity escalated, more and more Iraqi children were coerced, sometimes threatened, into joining insurgent groups, who then used them against the American soldiers. With kids now representing a potentially dangerous or deadly distraction, all contacts with children were ordered to stop…”
So how do we take a step forward over there and then get pushed two steps back  all the time? What’s the point when the Taliban rule? We are fueling the insurgency and the Iraqi and Afghan army that we train drop out and disappear. This is an unending money pit! Stability in both regions is fragile at best, the warlords own Afghanistan and Iraq might go to anyone after we leave, democracy and voting is a concept that can easily be manipulated, look at the recent fraud in the Afghan voting. Karzai was originally put in by Bush because Karzai was an oil man. And recently, BP and China’s CNPC  made a huge 20 year deal with Iraq for al-Rumeila oil field, one of the largest oil fields in the world.  Saddam could have done that himself, did we need to waste all that money just for BP and China to dominate the oil over there?
What is the answer? Let go of Iraq first, send the troops over to Afghanistan and whittle them down, get us out of this quagmire by Spring and that is my opinion. This is wrong, we only create more terrorists and they are always using children as lethal decoys, even Swanson just hated pointing his weapons at kids and threatening to shoot them. Does Vietnam ring a bell because that’s what we are fighting, a losing war. Bush and Cheney should be have their pensions raided and should be paying the American treasury back for this blunder of theirs. They gave all those damn contracts to be exploited. They hired Blackwater who shot innocent civilians.  Lets close up shop and leave. Save that $720 million a day for our own failing infrastructure and lost jobs, we need help in our own economic war zone right here. The terrorists are mostly in Pakistan with al-qaeda, let the drones smack em without us losing lives. This is a money maker only for the defense industry, deploy the troops elsewhere , but bring our money home now, this is where is should be spent first! And people like Gunnar Swanson should be acknowledged for their efforts for peace.

More about Gunnar from Christian Science Monitor:

War Kids Relief (WKR), a nonprofit organization in Northfield, Minn., that works on behalf of children in Iraq and Afghanistan who have been deeply affected by war. Economic opportunities there are extremely limited, even for those few lucky enough to graduate from high school, making young people easy targets for the Taliban.

With his bald Yul Brynner pate, warm personality, and 100-watt smile, Swanson is a big hit with children. In Cameron, Mo., 16 grade-school children at the YMCA respond enthusiastically as they learn the names of far-off cities like Baghdad, Kirkuk, and Sulaymaniyah. He tells them his first name has nothing to do with being in the military: He was named for his great-grandfather. (Gunnar is a Scandinavian name that means “brave soldier.”) The children seem pleasantly surprised to discover that children in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite their severe hardships, also play soccer and computer games.

After a short talk, Swanson and Fesler pass out paper, pens, and art supplies, and the children write letters to their peers in the two war-torn countries. “A kid over in Iraq or Afghanistan who has received a letter from a kid in the United States will probably hold onto that letter for the rest of his life,” Swanson tells them.

In all, 2,700 letters were collected and will be distributed sometime next year. “…we could really showcase why we are doing this and how we want children in America brought into this.”

Money raised by WKR will go to building a rehabilitation and job-skills training center in Mosul, Iraq, and a vocational training center in Khost, Afghanistan. WKR partners with local groups in both countries.

Swanson’s 1,000-mile walk and his encounters with children were also intended to inspire the children to undertake their own fundraising. Along the way, all manner of lemonade stands, bake sales, carwashes, and other efforts sprang up, contributing to WKR’s project.

As more funds come in, Swanson hopes that construction can begin on the projects. “[The children] can feel like they’re building the youth center in Iraq and the vocational center in Afghanistan,

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from the June 28, 2004 edition – http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0628/p01s02-woiq.html Quick school fixes won few Iraqi hearts By Dan Murphy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor BAGHDAD – The US government lists renovations done on 2,356 Iraqi schools in a $70 million effort as one of its major accomplishments. The idea behind it was to meet a pressing Iraqi need and quickly win goodwill from a wide swath of the population. But many Iraqis, like Mustafa Ibrahim al-Jubari, weren’t won over. Mr. Jubari is the deputy principal of the Zam Zam elementary school (named after a sacred freshwater well in Mecca). His two-story building in northern Baghdad smells far from fresh. Jubari points to a four-month-old paint job already peeling, a roof that was caulked but leaks, and new porcelain toilet bowls installed on top of backed-up sewage lines. “You’re lucky that school has been out for a few weeks,” he says. “When they’re here, the whole place stinks.” Though a tiny piece of the more than $18.6 billion committed by the US to Iraq, the money spent on Iraqi schools, and their poor state, ties together much that’s gone wrong here, past and present, as the June 30 handover approaches. Critics of US-led reconstruction efforts say it has been slow to come, poorly targeted, and occasionally littered with waste. To be sure, the real problems at Zam Zam, built in the early 1960s, aren’t America’s fault. Like almost every other piece of domestic infrastructure, the school suffered decades of neglect under Saddam Hussein, who diverted resources to fight two destructive foreign wars and to cronies to shore up his regime. Bechtel Corp., which oversaw the work at Zam Zam and about 1,300 other schools, points out that its contract, part of a larger $1 billion contract to fix Iraqi infrastructure, didn’t include money for long-term problems like sewage. Yet amid a construction program focused on the long-term, the schools program was one of the few designed to touch many Iraqi lives quickly. Education under Mr. Hussein was undermined by indoctrination, so it was a perfect symbol of the US program to transform Iraq’s present and future. But few Iraqis ended up appreciating the effort. “My kids are still on rickety desks in a broken-down school,” says Uday Jabbar Mahmoud, the father of three who works as a security guard in Baghdad. “We’re not seeing any reconstruction. We hear that millions have been spent, but nothing we can touch.” Thanoon Hussein, an engineer at the Education Ministry who checked the work at Zam Zam, says no documents were filed with the ministry on the school by Bechtel or its subcontractor, Al-Assem. He says the average amount Bechtel spent per school was $40,000. “I’d be amazed if $10,000 was spent at Zam Zam.” “We’re grateful that the US and Bechtel tried to help us,” says Nazar Mikhael, the ministry’s chief engineer. “But they didn’t coordinate with us.” Mr. Mikhael says about half of the schools worked on by Bechtel suffer from shoddy work. “The contracting process was scandalous to say the least – some of these things are subcontracted six times,” says Isam al-Khafaji, a former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) reconstruction adviser who runs Iraq Revenue Watch, a nonprofit that tracks spending here. In a press release, Bechtel says that of 52 formal complaints, only 27 schools have required additional work, 2 percent of the schools it renovated. The company says complaints it didn’t consult with Iraqis are unfair: the relevant Iraqi institutions were “not yet operational because their facilities had been looted and their personnel dispersed by the conflict” when it started work last year. Whatever the extent of the problems with the school renovation program, they illustrate one of the fundamental philosophical dilemmas to confront US administrators here. Spending money fast tends to breed waste. Going slow is safer, but progress is less apparent. “There was a great plan for the war but they failed to plan for the peace,” says Sean O’Sullivan, who runs Jumpstart, a nongovernmental organization that employs about 3,000 Iraqis to demolish war-damaged government buildings and build public housing. He says the US should have focused on short-term projects to get lots of Iraqis back to work and make identifiable progress.

President Obama awarded the Nobel Peace Prize…

All that comes to mind with this “he’s got the potential to maybe someday earn this” award is that the world is rather taken with our President…

I’m sickened that many pavement pounding peace activists were overlooked.  I’m sure these tireless laborers never aim to win the Peace Prize, but to see it handed to a rhetorician who hasn’t established peace anywhere on the planet and who continues as the commander-in-chief of at least one war and numerous military actions…well…I’m sure they just wonder…

The aftermath of this awarding is what I’m most interested in.  Some political pundits are saying it’ll hurt him, that it magnifies his inability to actually create peace.  I’m not so sure, though…I think this will help raise him in the eyes of the world.  I think he will be better esteemed in those countries that have sat on the fence, Obama-ically speaking.  World leaders who’ve chuckled at our freshman president may sit a bit taller in his presence.  And then there are those who already love and believe in him: now they have something to hang their hat on, something to point to.  European politicians, African power wielders and multitudes of masses are standing and applauding.  They maybe trust in someone many Americans are not so quick to trust in–he is one of us, afterall, and a politician with little more than empty words for display.  Although, now I wouldn’t be surprised if congress all of a sudden opts to actively work with his domestic and foreign agendas, so that he (and, by close association, Americans) can live up to this high honor…a congressional save the President’s face move…yes, twill be interesting to see what the fallout is from this award.

OK, back to Obama and the rest of the planet: I think Americans need to pay attention to the Global Obama Movement…it isn’t official, but it is present.  Nobel judges may be echoing the hearts and minds of the peoples of the world…if we shrug this off we may miss it…

Obama and Nobel laureates aside, I’m grateful for the One who brings true Peace.  Jesus, our Prince of Peace will never win the Nobel Peace Prize, but I think He is OK with that…He’s never been into gaining the favor of the masses, just into saving one soul at a time…souls who are then imbued with His Peace, the Peace that passes all understanding.  Yep, no peace activist can touch Him…not even Obama…thank God!

(Contemplative prayer update: well, I’m praying about half the days of the week.  It is a dry prayer time, generally speaking…feels like a closed lid on top of my head…BAD for contemplative prayer.  Praying He’ll work in and through me anyway and somehow meet me in the deepest places of which I have no awareness of.)

Obama got Nobel Peace Prize? The conservatives must be fuming! It’s for sure not one person in the GOP party will give our president a word of congrats and I bet when George W. Bush was told by Laura this morning he bee-lined for the liquor cabinet and poured himself a stiff belt or two.   He must be feeling miserable and he deserves that, he made our lives fuckin’ miserable by so many boneheaded moves. In fact, I hope he is introspective as he drinks and feels tremendous guilt that he even ran for the presidency in the first place knowing he was as qualified as Sarah Palin! But enough of my trash talk, here’s the scoop. You must know I am as liberal as they come, Russ Feingold is tops on my list, well I think Obama getting this prestigious award is way premature. It’s based on idealistic goals, and while the goals are admirable, anyone can say what Obama has said. It’s when these goals are utilized, then give him the award.
There are so many caring groups out there who have risked life and limb to feed and perform miraculous help for war torn people in Africa and around the globe. And how about  a group of individuals with Comet-ME, a group of Israeli activists and scientists who have taken it upon themselves to provide electricity via solar panels and wind turbines for poverty striken Palestinians in a dismal village on the West Bank who use a polluting diesel generator to get their electric?
When you read the article below, you see that this is how you hope people would think, by tossing out politics and sharing resources and providing people with basic necessities, this is the path to peace.
Comet-ME has to be commended for taking a stand that is so unselfish and for promoting good relations between two people who normally have high tensions between them. This is what peace is about, ignoring the politics and doing what is right when people need help. Our world is armed with nuclear capabilities to kill ourselves off in a couple blasts, yet we keep arming, why can’t these asinine world leaders look through fresh eyes at what is best for their people and not their own selfish egos!
All people need education, the ability to have shelter, food, medical help and a way to make money so no one has to suffer, that’s what makes us peaceful, and it seems Comet-ME has taken one step to helping provide a service unselfishly and with “green” technology. If you ask me, Comet ME should have taken the Nobel Peace Prize this year. A SHOUT OUT TO A DESERVING TEAM AT COMET-ME!!!!
P/S  How about Doctors Without Borders, now there’s worthy cause!

Proverbs 7 and 8 were on the docket today; the last day of a double feature for the time being.  Both chapters were about wisdom and understanding, though I don’t feel like I have either.  Maybe later?

Today’s quote is Proverbs 7: 4-5

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding a close relative.

So have wisdom and understanding.  Hmm.  Maybe this message is for another day?  Or maybe I’m missing something?  Probably the latter.

Dear Heavenly Father,

I come to You in prayer today to say thank You for the day.  It may be raining outside, but another day on the planet with my health and family is a pretty good day in my books.

Please continue to pour out Your blessings upon us.

I say these things in the name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ,

Amen

The second scripture for today is Proverbs 8:15-16:

Kings reign by means of me, and potentates decree righteousness; by me princes rule, as well as nobles and all righteous judges.

This made me remember a sermon I heard not too long ago about the Lord being in charge, and how nothing is a shock to him.  He is behind every ruler in the land being exactly where and when they are.

Dear Heavenly Father,

I come to You to ask You to continue blessing the leaders of our world.  Bless them with the wisdom and understanding that they need to make the decisions that will benefit all of us.  Bless them that they will see that they are no more important than anyone else, and that they are nothing and insignificant without You in their lives.  In fact, bless us all with that knowledge, please.

I say these things in the name of Thy Son, Jesus Christ,

Amen

Written by Thilde Vesterby

The UN has gained forces with George Clooney and joined the social media world. With these videos they encourage you to speak to the world’s leaders through a YouTube video

If you had a chance to speak to the world leaders, what would you say?