Tuesday, November 27, 2012

PARTY OF WEENIES

PARTY OF WEENIES


 
   The Republican Party is a party of weenies.  They keep allowing the socialist Democrats to tell the Republicans how to talk, how to act, what to do, when to do it, etc.  I am sick of Yankee weenies running the Republican Party.
   Here's the latest deal:  suddenly after the general election of 2012, the United States of America is faced with a fiscal cliff.  All of a sudden, there is too much spending and not enough revenue.  Does anyone in America remember how the first four years were under President Messiah Obama?  There was always so much drama.  One crisis after the other that had to have a bunch of money thrown at it right then.  Am I really the only smart person in America?  Why does no one remember all the drama?
   The first four years of drama brought us Solyndra and other "economic stimulus" schemes.  Every day we were hearing the Messiah calling for Congress to "pass this bill now".  He wanted to throw more and more taxpayer money down the toilet and he didn't want to wait long enough for thinking Americans to look at what he was doing.
   Here is a post from the Natural News.com from Janurary 21, 2012:

"Sharyl Attkisson from CBS News writes that, besides Solyndra, four other green energy companies that received taxpayer stimulus funds have filed for bankruptcy in recent days, and many others are on the brink. These include Beacon Power, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, and Eastern Energy, a subsidiary of AES.

According to Attkisson's analysis, Beacon Power, for instance, was already known to have had a dismally low bond rating before the government decided to hand over $43 million in taxpayer money. Standard & Poor (S&P) had allegedly given the company a confidential rating of "CCC-plus," which is the equivalent of a "junk" bond.

Another company, Nevada Geothermal, had indicated potential defaults in US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings long before the Energy Department decided to give the company nearly $100 million in taxpayer money -- so why was it chosen to receive this cash infusion?

And First Solar, a company that BusinessWeek says was the "worst performer" on the S&P 500 Index in 2011, was awarded a whopping $3 billion in taxpayer money. A producer of thin-film solar panels, First Solar dropped 73 percent on the S&P index throughout the year, and also had to let its CEO go -- but the company reportedly spent millions lobbying the Obama administration prior to receiving its exorbitant grants.

All this mismanagement of taxpayer dollars, of course, can be traced directly back to the Obama administration's Energy Department, which not only carelessly invested the people's money without properly assessing the viability of the companies involved, but is also now neglecting to take responsibility for these behemoth failures that have ransacked the public purse."
   Which brings us to the current "fiscal cliff", which did not exist on November 5, 2012.  It wasn't until the Messiah was re-elected that all of a sudden America was having a crisis.  Well, maybe the weenie Republicans need to drag their heels and allow the Messiah to come up with a workable plan to fix the problem that he created.  Why would the House of Representatives step up to the plate and propose budgets that the Democrats will never agree to?
   I say the weenies need to go to Disney World and allow the Democrats to fix the problem that they created.  What are your thoughts?


Monday, November 19, 2012

THANKSGIVING OBSERVATION

THANKSGIVING OBSERVATION

   It was September 1620.  One hundred two passengers left Plymouth, England, seeking religious freedom and the promise of prosperity and land ownership.  They encountered a brutal winter, mostly remaining on board the ship.  By Spring, there were only about a half of them left due to exposure and disease.  A member of the Pawtuxet Tribe,  Squanto, taught the malnourished Pilgrims, also weakened by disease, how to cultivate corn.  He taught them how to extract syrup from Maple trees, how to catch fish, and how to avoid poisonous plants.  Squanto also helped the Settlers forge an alliance with the Wampanoag Tribe, which endured for more than 50 years.
   In November 1621, Governor William Bradford organized a celebration to commemorate the first successful corn harvest.  The feast, which was shared with the several Native American allies, including the chief of the  Wampanoag Tribe,  lasted three days.
    The Pilgrims held their second Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 to mark the end of a long drought that had threatened the year’s harvest and prompted Governor Bradford to call for a religious fast. Days of fasting and thanksgiving on an annual or occasional basis became common practice in other New England settlements as well. During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress designated one or more days of thanksgiving a year, and in 1789, George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation by the national government of the United States; in it, he called upon Americans to express their gratitude for the happy conclusion to the country’s war of independence and the successful ratification of the U.S. Constitution. His successors John Adams and James Madison also designated days of thanks during their presidencies.
    In 1827, the noted magazine editor and prolific writer Sarah Josepha Hale—author, among countless other things, of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb”—launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. For 36 years, she published numerous editorials and sent scores of letters to governors, senators, presidents and other politicians. 
 
Abraham Lincoln finally heeded her request in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, in a proclamation entreating all Americans to ask God to “commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife” and to “heal the wounds of the nation.” He scheduled Thanksgiving for the final Thursday in November.

   While most of us celebrate Thanksgiving by large meals with family and friends, shopping, or watching football, the holiday began as a tribute to the Lord for the success of the harvest.  The Festival of the Harvest goes back to the Book of Exodus.  This Thanksgiving, let us give thanks to the Lord of all creation and pray for His forgiveness and mercy on our nation.  Let us pray and fast and return to the Lord.