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Bubby
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| | Posted on Friday, June 11, 2010 - 04:53 pm: | 
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A Shrink Asks: What's Wrong with Obama?
By Robin of Berkeley
So what is the matter with Obama? Conservatives have been asking this question for some time. I've written a number of articles trying to solve the mystery.
Even some liberals are starting to wonder. James Carville railed about Obama's blasé attitude after the catastrophic oil spill. The New York Times' Maureen Dowd revamped Obama's "Yes We Can" motto into "Will We Ever?"
The liberal women of the TV show "The View" have expressed sympathy for Michelle Obama's living with a man so out of touch. Peggy Noonan, hardly a vehement Obama foe, recently pronounced him disconnected.
Obama's odd mannerisms intrigue a psychotherapist like me. He also presents a serious diagnostic challenge.
For one, Obama's teleprompter and the men behind the Blackberry keep him well-scripted. We know so little about the facts of his life.
But it's more than just a lack of information. Obama himself is a strange bird. He doesn't fit easily into any diagnostic category.
Many people attribute Obama's oddness to his narcissism. True, Obama has a gargantuan ego, and he is notoriously thin-skinned.
Yet a personality disorder like narcissism does not explain Obama's strangeness: his giggling while being asked about the economy; his continuing a shout-out rather than announcing the Ft. Hood shootings; or his vacations, golfing, partying and fundraising during the calamitous oil spill.
Take also Obama's declaring on the "Today Show" that he wants to know whose a$$ to kick. Consummate narcissists would never stoop to this vulgar display of adolescent machismo.
Obama is flat when passion is needed; he's aggressive when savvy is required. What's most worrisome is that Obama doesn't even realize that his behavior is inappropriate.
So if it's not just simple narcissism, what is wrong with Obama? Since I've never evaluated him, I can't say for sure. But I can hazard some educated guesses.
If I saw a client as disconnected as him, the first thing I would wonder: Is something wrong with his brain? And I'd consider the following theoretical diagnostic possibilities.
--Physical problems: There are a multitude of physiological conditions that can cause people to act strangely. For instance: head injuries, endocrine disturbances, epilepsy, and toxic chemical exposure.
It makes me wonder: Did Obama ever have a head injury? His stepfather in Indonesia was purportedly an alcoholic abuser. Was Obama subject to any physical abuse?
-- Drugs and alcohol: Damage to the brain from drugs and alcohol can also cause significant cognitive impairments. Obama once said that there were 57 states -- and didn't correct himself. Memory problems can be caused by both illicit and prescription drug use.
Obama admits to a history of drug use in his youth. Did his usage cause some damage? Does Obama still use?
--Asperger's Syndrome: Also known as high-functioning autism, Asperger's causes deficits in social skills. A person with Asperger's can't read social cues. Consequently, he can be insensitive and hurtful without even knowing it.
Could Obama have Asperger's? He might have some mild traits, but certainly not the full-blown disorder. In contrast to Obama, those with Asperger's get fixated on some behavior, like programming computers. Obama lacks this kind of passion and zeal.
--Mental Illness: Obama's family tree is replete with the unbalanced. His maternal great-grandmother committed suicide. His grandfather, Stanley Dunham, was particularly unhinged: He was expelled from high school for punching his principal; named his daughter Stanley because he wanted a boy; and exposed young Barry to not just drunken trash talk, but unrestricted visits with alleged pedophile Frank Marshall Davis (who might or might not be Obama's biological father). Barack Sr. was an abusive, alcoholic bigamist.
Since mental illness runs in the family, does Obama have any signs? Yes and no. No, he is not a schizophrenic babbling about Martians. But there are red flags for some other conditions.
While Obama doesn't appear to hallucinate, he seems to have delusions. His believing he has a Messiah-like special gift smacks of grandiose delusions. His externalizing all blame to conservatives, George W. Bush, or the "racist" bogeyman hints at persecutory delusions.
Along with a delusional disorder, Obama may fit for a mild psychotic disorder called schizotypal disorder. It may explain some of Obama's oddness.
People with schizotypal disorder hold bizarre beliefs, are suspicious and paranoid, and have inappropriate and constricted affect. They have few close friends and are socially awkward. A schizotypal is someone like your strange cousin Becky who is addicted to astrology, believes she is psychic, and is the oddball at social gatherings.
Schizotypal Disorder does ring some bells vis-à-vis Obama. One way the diagnosis doesn't fit, however, is that schizotypals are generally harmless, odd ducks. Not so with Obama.
--Trauma: My gut tells me that Obama was seriously traumatized in childhood. His mother disregarded his basic needs, dragged him all over the place, and ultimately abandoned him.
But I think there may be something even more insidious in his family background. While I can't prove it, the degree of Obama's disconnect reminds me of my sexually abused clients.
With serious sexual abuse, the brain chemistry may change. The child dissociates -- that is, disconnects from his being -- in order to cope. Many adult survivors still dissociate, from occasional trances to the most extreme cases of multiple personality disorder.
Apparently, young Barry was left in the care of Communist Frank Marshall Davis, who admitted to molesting a 13-year-old girl. As a teenager, Obama wrote a disturbing poem, "Pop," that evoked images of sexual abuse -- for instance, describing dual amber stains on both his and "Pop's" shorts.
Would trauma explain Obama's disconnect? In many ways, yes. A damaged and unattached child may develop a "false self." To compensate for the enormous deficits in identity and attachment, the child invents his own personality. For Obama, it may have been as a special, gifted person.
Let's return now to my original question: What is wrong with Obama? My guess is a great deal. The answer is complex and likely includes some combination of the above.
Along with the brain issues are personality disorders: narcissism, paranoia, passive-aggressiveness. There's even the possibility of the most destructive character defect of all, an antisocial personality. Untreated abuse can foster antisocial traits, especially among boys.
If my assessment is accurate, what does this mean?
It means that liberals need to wake up and spit out the Kool-Aid...and that conservatives should put aside differences, band together, and elect as many Republicans as possible.
Because Obama will not change. He will not learn from his mistakes. He will not grow and mature from on-the-job experience. In fact, over time, Obama will likely become a more ferocious version of who he is today.
Why? Because this is a damaged person. Obama's fate was sealed years ago growing up in his strange and poisonous family. Later on, his empty vessel was filled with the hateful bile of men like Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers.
Obama will not evolve; he will not rise to the occasion; he will not become the man he was meant to be. This is for one reason and one reason alone:
He is not capable of it.
A frequent AT contributor, Robin is a psychotherapist in Berkeley and a recovering liberal. You can e-mail Robin at robinofberkeley@hotmail.com. She regrets that she may not be able to acknowledge your e-mail.
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Bubby
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| | Posted on Sunday, June 20, 2010 - 08:24 am: |
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Obama's Plan Reduces Carbon By Destroying Economy: $7 Per Gallon Gas
One forgotten part of the financial crisis that began in late 2008 was the "straw that broke the camel's back," the price of oil. Sure there were too many people who had mortgages beyond their means, and of course some mortgages with flexible interest rates jumped so high that once affordable home loans were pushed out of reach, but the needle that popped the mortgage bubble was gasoline prices that were nearing $5 per gallon. Those gas prices drove inflation in all sorts of staple items, not only for the mortgage payer, but for the loaner driving up those flexible interest rates.
Seeing what $5 a gallon gas did to the economy, just imagine the collapse a $7 price tab would cause. According to a study conducted by the Kennedy School at Harvard, that is the dollar figure President Obama is working toward.
Months ago Obama and his cap and trade team in congress began work re-branding his economy killing environmental plan:
...downplaying the global-warming rationale and claiming that it was really a jobs bill (the so-called green jobs were supposed to spring from the new clean-energy economy) and an energy-independence bill (that will somehow stick it to OPEC)
Unfortunately for the POTUS, Americans are not as stupid as he things. Most of us did not buy the green-jobs hype. Americans saw what was going on throughout the world.
...In Spain, for example, green jobs have been an expensive bust, with each position created requiring, on average, $774,000 in government subsidies. And the logic of getting us off oil imports via a unilateral measure that punishes American coal, oil and natural gas never made any sense at all.
The Oval Office speech represented another repackaging of the cap and trade scam, as a long-term solution to the oil spill. But the repackaging is simply lipstick on a pig, a huge energy tax that will raise the cost of gasoline and electricity high enough so that we're forced to use less.
The logic linking cap-and-trade to the spill in the Gulf should frighten anyone who owns a car or truck. Such measures force up the price at the pump -- Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs thinks it "may require gas prices greater than $7 a gallon by 2020" to meet Obama's stated goal of reducing emissions 14 percent from the transportation sector.
The study (summarized below) is a bad omen of what the future will bring should President Obama get the environmental bill he is looking for:
Bottom Lines
Harder Than it Looks. Reducing oil consumption and carbon emissions from transportation is a much greater challenge than conventional wisdom assumes. It will require substantially higher fuel prices, ideally in combination with more stringent regulation.
Higher Gasoline Prices Essential. Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the transportation sector 14% below 2005 levels by 2020 may require gas prices greater than $7/gallon by 2020.
Tax Credits Expensive. While relying on subsidies for electric or hybrid vehicles is politically seductive, it is extremely expensive and an ineffective way to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the near term.
Climate and Economy Not a Zero Sum Game. Aggressive climate change policy need not bring the economy to a halt. Even under high-fuels-tax, high-carbon price scenarios, losses in annual GDP, relative to business-as-usual, are less than 1%, and the economy is still projected to grow at 2.1-3.7% per year assuming a portion of the revenues collected are recycled to taxpayers.
Oil security and the threat of climate disruption have focused attention on the transportation sector, which consumes 70% of the oil used in the United States.
This study explores several policy scenarios for reducing oil imports and greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.
Business as usual (based on the Department of Energy's 2009 Annual Energy Outlook).
An economy-wide CO2 tax, with prices starting at $30/t of CO2 in 2010 and escalating to $60/t in 2030. (This tax serves as a surrogate for a cap-and-trade system like that proposed in the pending American Clean Energy and Security Act.) Tax revenue is returned to consumers through income tax reductions.
The economy-wide CO2 tax, plus a strong gasoline and diesel tax. ($0.50/gal in 2010 and increasing 10% per year, relative to the previous year and in real terms, resulting in a $3.36/gal tax in 2030.)
The economy-wide CO2 tax, plus improved Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards during 2020-2030, reaching a new standard of 43.7 mpg in 2030.
The economy-wide CO2 tax plus aggressive performance-based tax credits for alternative motor vehicles.
The United States adopts all of these policies.
These scenarios were analyzed using the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS), an energy-economic equilibrium model of energy markets in the United States, maintained by the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA). OnLocation Inc. of Vienna, VA assisted with modifications to the NEMS model required to implement our policy scenarios and also ran the model. EIA itself did not provide any support or analysis for this study. As with any modeling exercise, the results rely on the assumptions built into the model and thus should be interpreted as an indication of the direction and magnitude of potential policy impacts rather than an exact prediction.
Results
Present efforts to keep fuel prices low while simultaneously trying to significantly reduce oil imports and greenhouse gas emissions are inconsistent. Taxing transportation fuels stimulates the greatest reductions in oil consumption and CO2 emissions and is a necessary complement to strong vehicle efficiency standards. Fuel efficiency standards affect only new vehicles and are subject to the rebound effect, in which some of the efficiency gain is offset by the increased use due to lower operating costs. Higher fuel costs are the only policy option modeled that curtails the growth in vehicle-miles traveled.
An economy-wide carbon price of $30-$60/t CO2 alone would do little to curb emissions from cars, trucks, and the rest of the transportation sector. Instead, most of the emission reductions would occur in the electric utilities — specifically, those that rely heavily on coal. Note that prices in the range of $30–$60/t CO2 are higher than the levels considered in Congress in the summer of 2009.
While increasing CAFE standards will reduce CO2 emissions, the benefits of this approach take time to accrue and decrease as people increase the number of miles they drive. This phenomenon becomes most pronounced in the 2020–2030 time period as population and incomes rise. Tax credits for hybrid and alternative vehicles are expensive and not particularly effective at reducing CO2 emissions, at least in the near term. Moreover, artificially increasing the popularity of alternative motor vehicles under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards has the unintended effect of decreasing new conventional vehicle fuel economy. Because of these issues, the combined scenario does not achieve the greatest reductions in CO2 emissions and oil imports, and is the most expensive scenario in terms of GDP loss relative to business-as-usual.
The macroeconomic impacts of reducing greenhouse gas emissions are small, even with our relatively aggressive policy scenarios. GDP is projected to grow at 2.1-3.7% per year through 2030 under all of our scenarios, with losses in annual GDP, relative to business-as-usual, less than 1% for all scenarios. For the purpose of this report, we assumed that economy-wide CO2 tax revenue was fully returned to U.S. consumers as reduced income taxes, an assumption that certainly contributes to the low economic impacts. Revenue from the fuel taxes was not recycled directly to consumers, though it could be in reality. Note that the American Clean Energy and Security Act does not recycle the revenues to consumers in the early years.
Insights for Policymakers
Even individual policies that seem radical in the present U.S. political context do not meet targets set by the Obama administration or proposed in the American Clean Energy and Security Act without significant use of offsets. This is a challenge, since there is no agreement on the structure of a workable offset policy.
A fundamental insight from this study is that if one wishes to reduce U.S. CO2 emissions or net petroleum imports from the transportation sector during 2010–2030, consumers cannot continue to drive more and more each year. The EIA currently projects that vehicle-miles traveled will grow more than 30% between 2010 and 2030 as a result of the increase in household incomes and population. In this study, higher fuel prices are the mechanism to reduce vehicle-miles traveled. Higher transportation costs are also closely linked to land-use policy and development of mass-transit systems.
The strengthened Energy Independence and Security Act CAFE standards, or continued increases in new vehicle fuel economy past 2020, are also unlikely to prevent significant growth in U.S. transportation-sector greenhouse gas emissions and oil imports by 2030. These policies will, however, prevent even larger growth from occurring. The reason is that the U.S. economy will continue to grow over this period increasing personal incomes and consumption, including increased vehicle purchases and increased driving.
The impact of energy and climate policies depends on the underlying world oil prices from now to 2030. If oil prices are $198 per barrel by 2030, reductions in net oil imports on the order of 5.7 million barrels per day in 2030 are projected for business-as-usual. With high fuels taxes this can be reduced another 1.1 million barrels per day, though gasoline prices are above $8 per gallon. If, however, the underlying world oil prices are below $90 per barrel during the next two decades, then none of the policy scenarios modeled achieves the desired targets for annual U.S. CO2 emissions.
Conclusion
An economy-wide CO2 price combined with transportation sector-specific policies can reduce total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels — a significant reduction from business-as-usual projections. However, options now being discussed in Congress cannot by themselves achieve the significant reductions in the transportation sector needed to meet the Obama administration's targets for total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. The most effective policy for reducing CO2 emissions and oil imports from transportation is to spur the development and sale of more efficient vehicles with strict efficiency standards while increasing the cost of driving with strong fuel taxes. Without addressing both, CO2 emissions from the U.S. transportation sector will continue to grow.
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02l
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| | Posted on Tuesday, July 06, 2010 - 11:30 am: |
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Run for the hills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Run for the hills!!!!!!!! We are doomed!!!!!!!!!!
Doomed I say!!!!!!!!!! The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fear, fear, fear, fear!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you believe EVERYTHING the Republicians and Conservatives write Sir Bubs? I thought you were smarter than that, guess I was wrong.
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Bubby
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| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 06:13 am: |
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see the rhetoric above? I rest my case on your drivle....its the same inane little chicken response.You are the one spouting the whining and crying routine repeatedly..keep it up and you may eventually believe your self.I thought you were smarter than the average fifth grader..guess I was wrong..
.....and Mr Obama, why is it a bad idea for United States National Guard, Arizona Police, or any other protective arm of our country to check the legal status of any person in this country? It is done all over the world...you must have and be ready to present your passport and ID papers in every other country in the world. I think we've ridden the "Freedom" horse for too long. Freedom comes at a price, always has. One must be ready and willing to pay that price. My Dad did in WWII, my Grandfather in WWI, and I have friends who went to Vietnam believing they too were fighting for freedom, and friends whose sons and daughters have been back and forth to the middle east for 8 years risking their lives for George Bush's "Freedom". Seems everyone wants their piece of the freedom our country's best and finest earned over 200 years ago and the millions have died to preserve since.
Do you really believe we need to support those who sneak in looking to join the welfare rolls? Bring our troops home. Let them defend our borders instead of some foreign country's borders.
By the way, Mr Obama, do you have your passport? Can you prove you are a US citizen? Or are you an illegal alien yourself?
check it out...and remember, MAJORITY RULES! Vote for your favorite...Keith Olberman needs your help...
http://world-news.newsvine.com/_question/2010/05/12/4274124-do-you-support-arizo nas-tough-new-law-on-illegal-immigration
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02l
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| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 02:34 pm: |
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If you really think that is a good idea, why don't you move to one of those counties then? If I have done nothing wrong, no one, NO ONE, has the right to question me. That is freedom my misguided friend. I have relation as well that served in WWI and WWII, hell, my one great uncle was captured at the battle of the Bulge in 1944 and was a prisoner of war till it's end. I also know people who were in Korea and Vietnam, hell, my own sister served in West Berlin when the iron curtain still existed. Do not give me that better than thou attitude my friend, you may get away with that at church, but not with me. My sister said how horrible it was when she would get to go into East Berlin, she and her army buddies were constantly stoped and told to show identification. After checking them, she said, they would then stop someone else and do the same, not because of suspicion, but because they had the power to do so.......If that is what you want here, my friend, you are surly blinded by whatever motivation you are cursed with and should be deported with all the illegals here now. I can see that you, like your supposed holy roller republicians, seek nothing more than to control those who oppose you. Keep thinking that way dude, you just might get what you wish for........ |
Bubby
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| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 02:34 pm: |
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Here Timmy...here is your hero's at work..'
Why haven't national media outlets reported on the vile and violent rants of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) thugs whose 2008 voter intimidation tactics got a pass from the Obama administration? Simple: Radical black racism doesn't fit the Hope and Change narrative. There's no way to shoehorn Bush-bashing into the story. And, let's face it, exposing the inflammatory rhetoric of the left does nothing to help liberal editors and reporters fulfill their true calling -- embarrassing the right.
This week, Justice Department whistleblower J. Christian Adams came forward with damning public testimony about how Obama officials believe "civil rights law should not be enforced in a race-neutral manner, and should never be enforced against blacks or other national minorities." In the wake of Adams' expose on how the Obama DOJ abandoned default judgments against the NBPP bullies for the sake of politically correct racial politics, a shocking video clip of one of the lead defendants in the Philadelphia voter intimidation case resurfaced on the Internet. It shows bloodthirsty King Samir Shabazz during a 2009 National Geographic documentary interview spewing:
"You want freedom? You're gonna have to kill some crackers! You're gonna have to kill some of their babies!"
These NBPP death threats and white-bashing diatribes are nothing new to those who have tracked the black supremacy movement. In August 2009, nearly a year ago, I reported on a sign on display outside NBPP defendant (and elected member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee) Jerry Jackson's home. It reads: "COLORED ONLY: No Whites Allowed." In July 2009, I interviewed poll watcher/witness Christopher Hill, whom Shabazz and Jackson called "cracker" several times while Shabazz brandished his baton.
"They physically attempted to block me," Hill recounted. He also saw a group of elderly ladies walk away from the polling site without voting while the duo preened in front of the entrance. "If you're a poll watcher, you shouldn't be dressed in paramilitary garb," Hill said, as he wondered aloud at what would have happened if he had showed up in the same sort of costume.
In May 2009, I reported on the affidavit of civil rights attorney and poll watcher Bartle Bull, who witnessed the NBPP thuggery in Philadelphia and reported on billy club-wielding Shabazz's election day boast: "You're about to be ruled by the black man, cracker."
In the fall of 2008, just days before he showed up to hector white poll workers, Shabazz told the Philadelphia Inquirer:
"I'm about the total destruction of white people. I'm about the total liberation of black people. I hate white people. I hate my enemy... The only thing the cracker understands is violence... The only thing the cracker understands is gunpowder. You got to take violence to violence."
The desire to kill, subordinate and demonize white people is a staple of NBPP propaganda. An NBPP Trenton, N.J., chapter "block party" music video posted on YouTube calls on black followers to "bang for freedom," "put the bang right into a cracker's face," and "if you're going to bang, bang for black power ... hang a cracker ... if you're going to bang, bang on the white devil ... burying him near the river bank with the right shovel ... community revolution in progress ... banging for crackers to go to hell, we don't need em."
Chanting "Black Power," Minister Najee Muhammad, national field marshal for the New Black Panther Party, and Uhuru Shakur, local chairman of the Atlanta NBPP chapter, issued a pre-Election Day 2008 threat to "racists and other angry whites who are upset over an impending Barack Obama presidential victory." Said Muhammad: "Most certainly, we cannot allow these racist forces to slaughter our babies or commit other acts of violence against the black population, nor our black president."
That's rich, given that the only racists talking about slaughtering babies are the ones with New Black Panther Party patches on their puffed chests.
If a Tea Party activist threatened to kill the babies of his political opponents, it wouldn't just be front-page news. It would be the subject of Democrat-led congressional investigations, a series of terrified New York Times columns about the perilous "climate of hate," a Justice Department probe by Attorney General Eric Holder, a domestic terror alert from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and another Important Teachable Moment Speech/Summit from Healer-in-Chief Barack Obama.
But with the racism shoe on the other foot, Team Obama and its media water-carriers are exhibiting the very racial cowardice Holder once purported to condemn. Thanks to Obama's feckless Department of Injustice, these black supremacist brutes are free to show up on the next national Election Day at polling places in full paramilitary regalia with nightsticks, hurling racist, anti-American epithets at those exercising their right to vote and at those protecting the integrity of the electoral process.
The reaction of our national media watchdogs: Shhhhhhhh. |
02l
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| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 02:48 pm: |
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You really believe this BS?.....do you really? Keep bowing down to your heavenly republician party, sir bubs, let them tell you what and how to think, maybe they will let you lick their feet. |
Bubby
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| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 04:02 pm: |
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ohhh I love it when you say "Heavenly Republican" party....that explains everything about you and your beliefs..time to get your freak on,dude. |
Dawa
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| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 06:17 pm: |
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the loudest noise comes from the empty can...
and the vacancy of a canyon speaks but in echoes...
moon spirit
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Bubby
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| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 06:44 pm: |
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ahhh that sounds like a Cherokee saying.When my cans are empty,I crush them and recycle,and when my vacant canyon echoes, it is Mother Earth calling me to dinner..has the oil washed ashore in Florida yet? |
Bubby
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| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 07:00 pm: |
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My Black Dad & Obama by Lloyd Marcus
I am a black tea party patriot faced with a serious problem concerning my 83 year old father. Dad is an extraordinary man whose life epitomizes the greatness of America.
In the 50s, married with a wife, three kids and employed as a laborer, dad was among the first blacks to break the color barrier into the Baltimore Fire Dept. The white firefighters treated dad like scum and boldly displayed their displeasure with having a “n” in their firehouse.
Dad was the young associate pastor of a storefront church. He treated his 'haters' with love and strove to be the best Christian and firefighter he could be. Dad won “Firefighter of the Year” two times and eventually the respect and admiration of his white fellow firefighters. A white firefighter who once threatened to punch dad in his “black nose” risked his life by going back into a burn building and saved dad's life. The two firefighters became lifelong friends.
While married with a wife and five kids, working as a firefighter and an associate pastor, dad attended college part-time until he graduated. Dad later earned his doctorate degree, which led to him pastoring large churches and authoring a book. Dad also became Chaplain of the Baltimore Fire Dept. Dad's from “laborer with a wife and children to a doctorate degree” success story is the result of his character, faith in Christ and hard work. Dad earned every achievement; no liberal democrat demanded government lowered standards or entitlement programs.
Now, here is my problem I mentioned. Dad loves Barack Obama, a man whose philosophy goes against everything I thought my dad stood for. Despite my attempts to convince dad otherwise, based on my personal experiences attending over 200 tea parties across America traveling on Tea Party Express, dad persists in believing the rallies are racist. Dad believes all criticism of Obama and his agenda is racist. It appears no amount of truth will penetrate the wall of affection dad has for the historic figure he never imagined would exist in his lifetime.
Out of respect, I have not confronted dad, my hero, regarding his irrational support for a president whose agenda so radically goes against his Christian faith; gay marriage, abortion, the murderous partial birth abortion and etc. I also thought, “Dad still bears emotional scars from the horrible racism he experienced in his youth. So perhaps I should be a good son, give the old man a pass and let him enjoy his black president.”
But witnessing the growing tyranny of the Obama regime and his American death march to socialism, I have come to realize it is my patriotic duty to confront my father with the facts about Obama. The stakes are far too high to simply let the old black man enjoy worshiping his first black president. No! America is at risk.
Though in his 80s, dad's is still sharp and pastors four churches. He is bright, articulate and most importantly come November, a voter with influence. Whether dad chooses to accept them on not, I must inform him of the facts about Obama's agenda. Then, when dad goes behind the curtain of the voting booth, he will have to choose between pulling the lever for Godly principles or skin color.
Most of dad's idolatry for president Obama is centered around his skin color. Racism and idolatry are wrong, even when committed by my beloved dad.
I have faith that still surviving deep within dad's “Obama Zombie” brain is the wise, wonderful, righteous and Christian man I have known all of my life.
Disapproving relatives have expressed fear for my safety warning, “Lloyd is foolishly putting his head on the chopping block!”
Think about that folks. My black relatives fear I may suffer physical harm from fellow blacks for daring to disagree with our black president. Meanwhile, whites are afraid to speak out against our black president for fear of being called racist. Dear Lord, what is going on in our country?
Patriot brothers and sisters, the bottom line is while I am not advocating rudeness or bad behavior, it is time we stand up and be more confrontational for our freedoms, liberty and culture. Prayerfully ask God for wisdom regarding the proper timing and approach. But we must start confronting Obama-ites with the truth. We cannot allow ourselves to be silenced for fear of being called racist and other threats.
Admittedly, this will be uncomfortable. But many before us have sacrificed all for America. America is worth a little discomfort. My prayers, love and support are with you. God bless.
Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American. |
Dawa
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| | Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 - 07:13 pm: |
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yup...oil is here...
hopin' the hurricane season is kind to us...
moon spirit
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Bubby
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| | Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2010 - 08:57 am: |
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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37958 |
02l
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| | Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 04:37 pm: |
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Did Jesus Christ try and change Jewish law in his time? Did Christ turn political in the name of God? Was Christ a hypocrite? NO....NO....NO. You follow man's religon my friend, soon this country will be a religous state like the moslem ones you consistantly whine about. I follow Christ, who resides in my heart and soul and I do not need any minister to tell me that.....or how to worship him.....do you really think Chirst cares how you worship him.....do you really think he is that vain?......that's a good little peasant bubs, keep letting man's religon and the republicians think for you........ |
Bubby
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| | Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2010 - 05:17 pm: |
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"soon this country will be a religous state like the moslem ones you consistantly whine about."
So you believe it too...at least that is one thing we agree on..and I am proud to be a peasant of the Lords...I just don't want the dimmies telling me who to worship and how...apparently you have no problem with that..
So,how did you find out about Christ in order to have Him jump into your heart? Did He just one day jump into your heart and say:"Here I am Tim"? Or was it a Pastor or Priest or a Minister that told you about Him?
Since you condemn man's religion,then you condemn His religion,because man is made in His image,and we all fall short of His glory.
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02l
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| | Posted on Friday, July 16, 2010 - 05:22 pm: |
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Man's IMAGE.....not his mannerisms or greed or ambition......That is man's religion. My father told me about Christ so there.....what do you think I have been trying to tell you all this time?????....you soon won't have a choice who or how to worship........back to the 11th century when the Pope ruled the christian world.......everything you did was centered around religion.......they controlled and corrupted it, jumping to the 15th century with the reformation.......others finally got the right to worship as they pleased...as long as the ruler worshiped that way at least...you were then forced to the religion the ruler of the land wanted....God's religion was lost centuries ago....man replaced it with his own political and controlling one......which religion will win out when the bloodbath in this century is complete?.....catholic....Baptist.....lutherenism...methodist.....are you any of them?....I am none. Go ahead and follow man's corrupt, ambitious and political religon my friend, your blindness and need for power suits them well.....you will make the perfect sacrificial lamb my friend.........religion has no place in government...again I say look to the ORIGINAL pledge of alliegence to the flag. Religon was, is and should always be PERSONAL CHOICE....not popular vote or majority or government influenced or the law of the land. |
Bubby
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| | Posted on Friday, July 16, 2010 - 05:38 pm: |
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Thats your opinion and you have the right to think that way.It doesn't mean its the truth,all it means, is that is your own personal opinion.No one is asking you to be a Christian.You left out one religion...Islam. Did you do that intentionally?Afraid of a confrontation or getting your head chopped off? You have watched too many movies.If you believe Hollywood,you will believe anything. |
02l
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| | Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 11:17 am: |
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I did not even consider islam because it is not the major religion in this country.
What I am trying to tell you is that christianity will be in this country what islam is in their countries, something ALL will have to follow.....Movies.....I don't watch too many movies so I guess your theory is shot to hell my friend.....If YOU believe the republicians, you MUST believe anything......with all this BS you post here my friend, I would say you make a great republician lapdog.......I volunteered to be a christian.....I do not like what christians have become today....more concerned about politics and power than God's word....."Give unto Rome which is Rome's, give unto God which is God's"...or as I translate it...."Live in man's world but follow the Lord".....back in the day Rome was the known world so.......getting my head chopped off for what?...Saying ISLAM?....I personally believe live and let live dude, if that is what they want to believe, fine by me.....I believe what I want to after all....you are so worried to the point of being paranoid of islam.....I wonder why......oh yea, the republicians are telling you to be......Sorry Sir Bubs, I forgot you can't think for yourself....I am an independent thinker as well as an independent voter..... |
02l
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| | Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 11:23 am: |
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P.S.
Christianity's history is established facts my friend.....read up on it....oh yea, I know you won't because then you MIGHT agree with me. Supposed celibate popes having bastard children and making them cardinals......read up on it my friend....it will amaze you....and your opinion is just the same...your opinion...and that doesn't make it fact either....Question more and believe less my friend, stop looking through that tunnel in front of you... |
Bubby
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| | Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 01:21 pm: |
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I have read up on Christianitys history.You just read a different version than mine.I know there is child abuse in the catholic church.That's one reason i'm not a catholic. That tunnel I look through is well lit my friend. Shalom |
02l
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| | Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 08:15 pm: |
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......well lit by your own igornance.... |
Bubby
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| | Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 09:07 pm: |
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I can't help it if you wear blinders.Most donkeys wear them because they don't know where they are going. Just like your hero president. |
02l
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| | Posted on Monday, July 19, 2010 - 12:00 pm: |
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...once again, more insults and no plan.....is that all you and your party can do bubs? |
Bubby
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| | Posted on Monday, July 19, 2010 - 02:21 pm: |
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Oh I have a plan Timbo,but it doesn't include you... |
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