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Of, Engineers, technicians and mechanics.

isobareng — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:00:24 +0000

If you have played Sudoko then this allegory might make you smile.

An engineer is like the designer of a sudoko game setting up the difficulty
level and determining the pattern in a manner that based on logic.

A technician is the person who fills in the boxes using logic to figure out the puzzle.

A mechanic is the one who comes in and fixes the errors that the engineer and the technician have committed after they have found that logic is a really good
way to be wrong with confidence.

Too Good not to Share

isobareng — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:49:27 +0000

http://www.greatdanepro.com/Pray%20For%20America/index.htm

More Censorship from the ACLU

isobareng — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:40:48 +0000

HAVRE, MT – The ACLU of Montana is asking the state Board of Regents to investigate whether the invocation and benediction given during the Montana State University-Northern graduation ceremony unconstitutionally promoted Christianity.
Betsy Griffing, the group’s legal director, said it received complaints from faculty members that Pastor Tim Zerger of the Community Alliance Church repeatedly referred to Jesus as a personal savior during the graduation on May 8.
Zerger said Wednesday that he had not seen the ACLU complaint, but acknowledged that as a Christian minister, his invocation and benediction were Christian prayers. (DUH… This isn’t the Soviet Union Freedom of Speech means you will be offended from time to time do we really want to lose this right for political correctness?)
Leslie Taylor, chief legal counsel for Montana State University in Bozeman, said campus administrators are looking into the issue.

The World is going broke

isobareng — Sat, 29 May 2010 01:22:30 +0000

I found this great article and hope you find it very interesting.

Worldwide markets will soon close out a brutal month, thanks to a realization
among traders and economists that spending by governments across the globe has
threatened many economies with running out of cash.
What started as a cautious eye toward problems in a marginally important
economy in Greece became a full-blown crisis, when ratings firms cut debt outlooks for fellow eurozone economies Spain and Portugal. There were
concerns that the euro itself would collapse, or at least break into pieces,
either because Greece was thrown out or more stable economies like Germany
pulled out.
But it isn’t just a European problem. Spending in the U.S. threatens to
leverage the domestic economy so much that it faces, within just a few years, a
debt level that represents the country’s entire gross domestic product. And,
since the U.S. is a relatively strong world economy, even with unemployment
near 10% and uneven signs of recovery, American taxpayers have been forced to
dig deep to help out the rest of the world.
Indeed, the bailout of Greece couldn’t happen without two American
contributions: the U.S.’s funding of nearly 20% of the International Monetary Fund, which is helping to keep Greece afloat, and the
move by the Federal Reserve to swap dollars for euros, thus helping prop up
European banks.
So how did we get here? It is a combination of factors, but boils down to five
main themes.
Is the World Broke?
Entitlements. Worldwide, governments have made commitments they cannot keep. In
the U.S., 19% of wages are paid by the government, according to the Bureau of
Economic Analysis. Government job growth has outpaced that from the private
sector. Many European governments already have bloated bureaucracies and
government-spending rates that are well ahead of those here.
And the government in the U.S. is taking on broader responsibilities for health
care, as well as seemingly endless extensions of jobless benefits – once
designed to be merely temporary stopgaps until people found work.
Overseas, the entitlement culture has rotted some economies from within.
Spain’s 20% unemployment rate, for instance, is tolerated because of the public
benefits the unemployed receive, thereby killing incentives to find new work.
Unions. “Austerity measures” is the new catchphrase in Europe nowadays, as
governments scramble to get their fiscal houses in some semblance of order. But
labor unions – notably the public ones – have reacted by holding massive
protests. They have become regular events on the streets of Athens – even the
Greek Air Force at one point was hit by a pilot sick-out.
Same issues domestically. In the U.S., New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has faced
the toughest resistance to his own budget cuts from the teachers unions, who
have largely fought calls to make contributions to their own retirement and
health-care plans.
Spending. Government debt and deficits have been driven by over-spending for
years, but, lately, that has accelerated. In fact, it’s part of the plan: the
way to get out of a crisis built on spending has been to spend even more now,
with the promise that more responsibility will come later. Indeed, White House economic advisor Christina Romer said in Europe this past week that
governments still have “fiscal room” to spend to reduce unemployment. Indeed,
she has warned that cutting back now will hurt, not help.
“It would be penny wise but pound foolish to deal with our long-term problems
by significantly tightening fiscal policy immediately or foregoing additional
spending to reduce unemployment,” she told the Organisation forEconomic Co-operation and Development 2010 Forum in Paris. “Immediate fiscal
contraction would inevitably nip the nascent economic recovery in the bud.”
Corruption and Lack of Ethics. As Greece gets its house in order, some
startling revelations are coming to light. Widespread tax evasion costs the
country an estimated $27 billion annually, and it is happening even among the
government officials charged with being stewards of its economy. Greece’s
Finance Ministry, has found 70
government tax officials who make about $70,000 on average a year, but own
millions of dollars in real estate.
Another 234 tax workers
never filed taxes for 2007 to 2008. The Ministry is also investigating 50
complaints brought against tax workers in 41 government offices, alleging
bribery, forgery, and corruption. One out of 7 people in Greece paid a bribe,
and a quarter of all taxes owed in Greece goes unpaid, versus an average 7%
here in the U.S.
Breaking the rules is common throughout Europe. All 16 eurozone countries have
just two requirements: keep debt to 60% of gross domestic product and keep
budget deficits to 3% of GDP. Turns out, the track record was never so good.
Overall, according to an analysis by Bloomberg News, countries only met the
requirements 57% of the time. Greece never met the requirements in all nine
years it was in the eurozone. Belgium and Italy missed one or both requirements
in all 11 years. Only Finland and Luxembourg met the goals every year.
Over-regulation and Over-taxation. The response among some governments, most
notably that in the U.S., has been to increase regulation and taxes. The big
highlight has been the financial-services regulatory revamp that passed the
Senate, and now faces negotiations with the House. An estimate by Goldman Sachs suggests the bill would take 19% of profits out of the banking system, because of new rules and restrictions against certain business activities. Europe is considering new bank rules and, notably, a new banking tax. The European Commission on Wednesday proposed that each European Union government assess a special tax on banks to create a fund dedicated to ensuring the “orderly failure” of troubled banks.
And, no matter where there’s a budget problem, a common solution has emerged:
tax the rich. On Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said wealthy
Americans don’t pay enough taxes. “The rich are not paying their fair share in
any nation that is facing the kind of employment issues [America currently
does] — whether it’s individual, corporate or whatever [form of] taxation
forms,” Clinton told an audience at the Brookings Institution.
The numbers don’t bear out that hypothesis: The top 1% of tax returns paid
40.4% of all federal individual income taxes and earned 22.8% of adjusted gross
income. Going down the list, the top fifth of households made 56% of pre-tax
income but paid 86% of all individual income tax revenue collected, according
to the Congressional Budget Office. According to the Tax Policy Center, about
45% of Americans pay no federal income taxes at all.
It’s worldwide, at all levels of government. In Spain, José Luis Rodríguez
Zapatero, Spain’s Socialist prime minister, said the government planned a new
tax on the rich as part of a campaign to reduce the budget deficit. Democrats
in New York and New Jersey have floated a special tax on earners making more
than $1 million a year. And the UK’s new government is trying to push through a
new capital gains tax.

Rosary beads ”could be an identifier of gangs”

isobareng — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:13:39 +0000

The ACLJ has taken on a critically important case protecting the First Amendment rights of a 13-year-old public school student who was suspended by school officials for wearing a rosary to school. In this case, the action taken by the Schenectady City School District – suspending a middle school student for wearing a religious artifact, a rosary – is insulting and inappropriate. More than that, it shows blatant disregard for the First Amendment rights of students.

A school district spokesperson told a local newspaper that the rosary beads ”could be an identifier of gangs” and needed to be removed ”for safety reasons.”

Jordan appeared on CBN News to discuss the implications of this case as well as the First Amendment rights of students nationwide.

It’s a troubling trend in America’s public schools – trampling on the First Amendment rights of students in the name of political correctness.

Your money well spent

isobareng — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:48:44 +0000

Did President Obama’s 2009 stimulus do anything to create jobs? Not according to a survey of business economists. 73% said that the stimulus has had no impact on employment to date.

Army disinvites Rev. Franklin Graham to Pentagon Prayer Day

isobareng — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:15:48 +0000

Ok I don’t get it. Graham criticized Islam even though what he said was true… an inconvenient truth?

Devout Muslims have a sacred responsibility, according to the command of Allah through his prophet Muhammad, to “slay the idolaters wherever you find them (Sura 9:5).” Over 100 verses in the Koran call for the death of infidel Christians and Jews. We have seen the tragic fruit of this ideology both on 9/11 and at Fort Hood. Islam is not, in fact, a religion of peace but of violence, death and war.
Islam, through the example of Muhammad, sanctions the marriage of girls who are but children. Muhammad himself began having sex with his youngest wife Aisha when she was just nine years old (Bukhari, Vol. 8). Just last week, a 12-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia went to court to divorce her 80-year-old husband. In the West, these are acts of pedophilia and utterly at odds with the Christian principle that the sexual purity of young females is to be protected until they are mature enough to voluntarily and freely enter into marriage.
Christians are granted only second class status under Islam, and are given only three choices where Islam reigns: conversion, submission or death. Conversion from Islam to Christianity remains a capital offense in many Muslim countries. In supposedly free Egypt, Coptic Christians are even today routinely harassed, persecuted and killed by Islamic fundamentalists. Freedom of religion, a profoundly American value, is utterly absent in Islam. Further, this practice is directly at variance with the fundamental concept in American jurisprudence that we are all, everyone of us, equal under the law.
Women under the iron fist of Islam are given “horrid” treatment. In many Islamic countries, women are not allowed to receive an education or even show their faces in public. Husbands are taught in the Koran that they may literally beat their wives into submission, completely contrary to the Christian admonition that husbands are to “love their wives as Christ loved the church.” The blatant and deadly sexism in Islam is contrary to the fundamental Christian precept that men and women are full equals before the true God in spiritual worth, value and significance.
The practice of honor killings is widespread in the Islamic world. According to the U.N., over 5,000 women a year are brutally murdered under the flag of Islam, in many cases because they have brought “dishonor” to their families by becoming the tragic victims of rape. The “horrid” practice of honor killings sadly has come to the U.S. A Muslim husband decapitated his wife in New York, while a Muslim father in Texas shot his two teenage daughters to death in the back of a taxi cab and another Muslim father in Arizona ran his daughter down with the family SUV. The crime in the latter two cases was that their daughters had become too “Westernized.” This practice is utterly at odds with the Christian teaching that fathers are to nurture and protect their children

This sure is fitting

isobareng — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:42:28 +0000

Polls

isobareng — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:09:03 +0000

Poll after poll after poll repeats that people feel America is on the wrong track. Out of control greed, broken families, non stop perversion, political correctness to the point of lunacy, children and teens that act worse then animals. Yet all of these troubles have the same root and that root is a foundation of morals. We Americans are a stiff necked lot. We want our cake and eat it too. We want the immediate gratification of our wants. Yet many of these things we chase after hurt us and those around us before much time has passed. We look to politicians to fix our problems and they throw money and more money after band aids that never fix the problems and usually erode the freedoms we once cherished. I am old enough to remember a moral America at least one that was dramatically more stable then the place we live in now. Back then there were those that lived in ways that suited only themselves but they were much less in number and due to their smaller numbers did not have the devastating effect on the country as we see today. Today the majority wants subjective morals. That’s kind of like having a subjective speed limit or a subjective education standard. You might think that this article is headed for the more laws route but you couldn’t be further from the truth. This article is a challenge to each individual reading it. It is a double dog dare to the individual to see what absolute morals have been given to us in the scriptures and to see if you as an individual are tough enough to live by them. Our grand parents were that tough.

Got Money?

isobareng — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:08:57 +0000

$32,000 per household. That’s how much President Obama spends in his new budget. How does President Obama plan on paying for it? It looks like a value added tax (read: “National Sales Tax”) could be in the works.

United Soviet States part 3

isobareng — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:39:42 +0000

Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), champion of Obamacare, said of health care that “It takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.”

A new One Trillion dollar program

isobareng — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:22:53 +0000

HOW MUCH IS A TRILLION? Think of it in seconds… One million seconds ago was last week. One billion seconds ago was 1972. One trillion seconds ago was 3000 BC.

Green Jobs

isobareng — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:51:32 +0000

In Spain, for every “green job” created with solar subsidies, 2.2. jobs in other sectors were destroyed. And each of those green jobs cost $758,471 to create. Shockingly, President Obama points to Spain as a model for America.

Los Angeles Community College Bully

isobareng — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:32:14 +0000

Jonathan Lopez, A student in the Los Angeles Community College had an assignment in a public speaking class and was required to give an informative speech on any topic. (ADF) attorney David Hacker tells OneNewsNow that Lopez chose to speak about his Christian beliefs. “And during that speech, when he mentioned that marriage is between a man and a woman according to his Christian beliefs, the professor called him this horrible name, refused to let him finish the assignment, and told other students in the class, ‘If you’re offended, you can leave,’” Hacker explains.
When no students left, the professor dismissed the class. Hacker adds that Lopez is an “A” student — “but the problem is he never got a grade on that informative speech, and in fact, the professor wrote on his evaluation form, ‘Ask God what your grade is.’”

Turn this around and substitute “Christian belief” in this story with any other topic such as race, environmentalism, homosexuality or even Islam and imagine how this incident would play out in the public forum.

Peaceful Muslims

isobareng — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:28:02 +0000

DOGO NAHAWA, Nigeria – The killers showed no mercy: They didn’t spare women and children, or even a 4-day-old baby, from their machetes. On Monday, Nigerian women wailed in the streets as a dump truck carried dozens of bodies past burned-out homes toward a mass grave.
At least 200 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday, according to residents, aid groups and journalists. The local government gave a figure more than twice that amount, but offered no casualty list or other information to substantiate it.
The Rev. Pandang Yamsat, the president of a local Christian group, said he has urged his congregation not to respond violently to Muslims. However, he said he believes Muslims in the area want to control the region and that any peace talks would only give Muslims “time to conquer territory with swords.”

United Soviet States part 2

isobareng — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:21:53 +0000

When I was in the military they warned us that this would happen if the Soviets won……..

DALLAS – A Dallas church that has held Sunday worship service at a public housing apartment complex for the elderly for 14 years has been ordered to stop.
Dallas Housing Authority president MaryAnn Russ told the Dallas Morning News that the church services violate separation of church and state and the agency’s contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which funds public housing programs.

England redeems itself Part 4

isobareng — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:04:23 +0000

(CNN) — Weeks after a firefight in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Province, a story has emerged of a British pilot who was struck in the head by a bullet and still managed to safely land a helicopter full of casualties, medical personnel and troops.

British TV host Mike Brewer says he was onboard the Chinook that day as Flight Lt. Ian Fortune, 28, was shot in the helmet, just above his eyes.

I have been pretty harsh on the British lately as they have been making news that would have made the Greats from that land roll over in their graves but this story come as a wonderful redemption to the wackiness that has dominated the news from England.

United Soviet States?

isobareng — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:27:55 +0000

When I was in the military they warned us that this would happen if the Soviets won……..

A judge in Montana has ruled against a high school valedictorian who wasn’t allowed to speak at her graduation ceremony because she wanted to give God credit for her success.
Rennee Griffith was asked, as were the other valedictorians, to speak about what helped them get through school. Some people wanted to thank the football coach or the track coach or their uncle or a particular teacher, and they were permitted to do that,” explains Griffith’s attorney, Bill O’Connor. “The only thing they would not permit, by their own admission, was…her to attribute any achievements to her belief in God.”

Her attorney reports that Griffith wanted to mention Christ once and God once in her speech, something he believes was well within her rights. “She was not doing what was forbidden by the Supreme Court or the Constitution, which is proselytizing,” he argues. “She wasn’t asking people to join her in her beliefs, and she wasn’t praying, she wasn’t asking people to join her in prayer.”

To Good not to share

isobareng — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:37:22 +0000

I received this by email and did not write any of it but it is too good not to share……

Heaven as written by a 17 Year Old Boy

17-year-old Brian Moore had only a short time to write something for a class. The subject was what Heaven was like. “I wowed ‘em,” he later told his father, Bruce. It’s a killer. It’s the bomb. It’s the best thing I ever wrote.” It also was the last.
Brian’s parents had forgotten about the essay when a cousin found it while cleaning out the teenager’s locker at Teays Valley High School in Pickaway County

Brian had been dead only hours, but his parents desperately wanted every piece of his life near them, notes from classmates and teachers, and his homework. Only two months before, he had handwritten the essay about encountering Jesus in a file room full of cards detailing every moment of the teen’s life. But it was only after Brian’s death that Beth and Bruce Moore realized that their son had described his view of heaven.
It makes such an impact that people want to share it. “You feel like you are there,” Mr. Moore said. Brian Moore died May 27, 1997, the day after Memorial Day. He was driving home from a friend’s house when his car went off Bulen-Pierce Road in Pickaway County and struck a utility pole. He emerged from the wreck unharmed but stepped on a downed power line and was electrocuted.

The Moore ‘s framed a copy of Brian’s essay and hung it among the family portraits in the living room. “I think God used him to make a point. I think we were meant to find it and make something out of it,” Mrs. Moore said of the essay. She and her husband want to share their son’s vision of life after death. “I’m happy for Brian.. I know he’s in heaven. I know I’ll see him.

Here is Brian’s essay entitled
“The Room.”
Page 1
In that place between wakefulness and dreams, I found myself in the room. There were no distinguishing features except for the one wall covered with small index card files. They were like the ones in libraries that list titles by author or subject in alphabetical order. But these files, which stretched from floor to ceiling and seemingly endless in either direction, had very different headings.
As I drew near the wall of files, the first to catch my attention was one that read “Girls I have liked.” I opened it and began flipping through the cards.. I quickly shut it, shocked to realize that I recognized the names written on each one. And then without being told, I knew exactly where I was. This lifeless room with its small files was a crude catalog system for my life. Here were written the actions of my every moment, big and small, in a detail my memory couldn’t match. A sense of wonder and curiosity, coupled with horror, stirred within me as I began randomly opening files and exploring their content. Some brought joy and sweet memories; others a sense of shame and regret so intense that I would look over my shoulder to see if anyone was watching.

A file named “Friends” was next to one marked “Friends I have betrayed.” The titles ranged from the mundane to the outright weird. “Books I Have Read,” “Lies I Have Told,” “Comfort I have Given,” “Jokes I Have Laughed at.”

Some were almost hilarious in their exactness: “Things I’ve yelled at my brothers.” Others I couldn’t laugh at: “Things I Have Done in My Anger”, “Things I Have Muttered Under My Breath at My Parents .” I never ceased to be surprised by the contents Often there were many more cards than expected. Sometimes fewer than I hoped. I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of the life I had lived….

Could it be possible that I had the time in my years to fill each of these thousands or even millions of cards? But each card confirmed this truth. Each was written in my own handwriting.. Each signed with my signature.

When I pulled out the file marked “TV Shows I have watched,” I realized the files grew to contain their contents. The cards were packed tightly, and yet after two or three yards, I hadn’t found the end of the file. I shut it, shamed, not so much by the quality of shows but more by the vast time I knew that file represented.

When I came to a file marked “Lustful Thoughts,” I felt a chill run through my body. I pulled the file out only an inch, not willing to test its size, and drew out a card. I shuddered at its detailed content. I felt sick to think that such a moment had been recorded. An almost animal rage broke on me.

One thought dominated my mind: No one must ever see these cards! No one must ever see this room! I have to destroy them!” In insane frenzy I yanked the file out. Its size didn’t matter now. I had to empty it and burn the cards.
But as I took it at one end and began pounding it on the floor, I could not dislodge a single card. I became desperate and pulled out a card, only to find it as strong as steel when I tried to tear it. Defeated and utterly helpless, I returned the file to its slot. Leaning my forehead against the wall, I let out a long, self-pitying sigh.

And then I saw it. The title bore “People I Have Shared the Gospel With.” The handle was brighter than those around it, newer, almost unused. I pulled on its handle and a small box not more than three inches long fell into my hands. I could count the cards it contained on one hand..
And then the tears came. I began to weep. Sobs so deep that they hurt. They started in my stomach and shook through me. I fell on my knees and cried. I cried out of shame, from the overwhelming shame of it all. The rows of file shelves swirled in my tear-filled eyes. No one must ever, ever know of this room. I must lock it up and hide the key. But then as I pushed away the tears, I saw Him.

No, please not Him… Not here. Oh, anyone but Jesus. I watched helplessly as He began to open the files and read the cards. I couldn’t bear to watch His response.. And in the moments I could bring myself to look at His face, I saw a sorrow deeper than my own. He seemed to intuitively go to the worst boxes.
Why did He have to read every one? Finally He turned and looked at me from across the room. He looked at me with pity in His eyes. But this was a pity that didn’t anger me. I dropped my head, covered my face with my hands and began to cry again. He walked over and put His arm around me. He could have said so many things. But He didn’t say a word. He just cried with me.

Then He got up and walked back to the wall of files. Starting at one end of the room, He took out a file and, one by one, began to sign His name over mine on each card. “No!” I shouted rushing to Him. All I could find to say was “No, no,” as I pulled the card from Him. His name shouldn’t be on these cards. But there it was, written in red so rich, so dark, and so alive.
The name of Jesus covered mine. It was written with His blood. He gently took the card back He smiled a sad smile and began to sign the cards. I don’t think I’ll ever understand how He did it so quickly, but the next instant it seemed I heard Him close the last file and walk back to my side. He placed His hand on my shoulder and said, “It is finished.”

I stood up, and He led me out of the room. There was no lock on its door. There were still cards to be written.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16

Trouble in Greece

isobareng — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:13:06 +0000

That did not take long. Last year in October the people in Greece voted in a real true to life socialist government and in my post last year I made fun of them because they are a country rich with history but don’t seem to be able to learn from it. Now today Greece is in HUGE financial trouble. Look at what they plan to do. Raise taxes from 19% to 21% that ought to help… Not !!!!

Greece has announced a new austerity plan worth euro4.8 billion ($6.5 billion) in savings to deal with the country’s unprecedented financial crisis.

Government spokesman Giorgos Petalotis says the measures are split with euro2.4 billion ($3.3 billion) in new revenues like taxes and another euro2.4 billion in spending cuts.

He said Wednesday the measures include trimming civil servants’ annual salaries with a 30 percent cut in their holiday bonuses, freezing pensions and imposing further cuts on stipends and bonuses.

Greece also increased the sales tax from 19 percent to 21 percent AND hiked taxes on alcohol, cigarettes, luxury cars, yachts, precious stones and leather goods.

NCAA censorship

isobareng — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:14:12 +0000

A picture only based ad features a father holding his young son and saying, “All I want for my son is for him to grow up knowing how to do the right thing.”
The tag line: “Celebrate Family. Celebrate Life.”
This Focus on the Family ad, believe it or not, has been yanked by the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)
The NCAA, apparently believes only in selective diversity – “Christians need not apply”
It seems pretty odd in our day of out of control perversion, cheating, stealing, and the tragic epidemic of single parenthood that the NCAA would censor the one group of folks who stand for the old fashioned values this country was founded on.

IRS Wife Sues Pilots wife

isobareng — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:39:12 +0000

The widow of an Internal Revenue Service employee killed when a disgruntled taxpayer flew his plane into a seven-story building in Austin, Texas, last week is suing the pilot’s wife, according to court documents.
Valerie Hunter, the wife of Vernon Hunter, is accusing Sheryl Stack, wife of Andrew Joseph “Joe” Stack III, of negligence, alleging she knew or should have known that her husband was a threat to others and, thus, could have prevented the attack,

If I were the owner of a McDonald’s restaurant near the home or work of Valerie Hunter I would refuse to sell her a hot cup of coffee.
Hopefully a judge will through this case out of court for the horrible path it could set. The Nazis and The Soviets used to demand that family members turn each other in.

Obama Screws our energy future

isobareng — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:24:14 +0000

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will propose eliminating funding for the Yucca Mountain Project in a new budget he will submit to Congress today,
Also, White House officials said they will take steps “in the near future” to withdraw a pending license application to build the long-planned nuclear waste repository, which could be a decisive move in ending the government’s 23-year focus on developing the Nevada site for radioactive waste storage and disposal. Since the middle of a desert isn’t where Obama wants to store radioactive waste perhaps in his great mind will chose a more fitting place. Once again Obama does a good job of making Bush look like a rocket scientist.

Too good not to share

isobareng — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:30:49 +0000

Here we go again!

isobareng — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:18:30 +0000

Brace yourself – the health care game on Capitol Hill just took a dangerous turn.

It appears the President and Democrat leadership in the House and Senate have decided to change the rules … disregard the U.S. Constitution … and ram their flawed health care through at any cost.

Congress has now vowed to utilize a one-sided, Democrat-controlled legislative maneuver called “reconciliation” to get the votes they desperately need on health care.

And that’s not all. President Obama has released his own pro-abortion version of the bill … also side-stepping the legislative process – a move that raises serious constitutional concerns. Our nation’s legislative branch writes our laws, NOT the President.

Stinky Airline passengers

isobareng — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:27:53 +0000

A new low may just have been reached for weary road warriors: The overwhelmingly smelly passenger.
A man on Jazz Air, a regional airline in Canada that also serves U.S. cities, was reportedly kicked off a plane earlier this month because of his strong body odor.

So its not only the minimum wage passenger service that stinks these days!!!!!

Elton John says Jesus was gay

isobareng — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:48:09 +0000

British pop superstar Elton John stirred controversy in an US magazine interview Friday when he claimed that Jesus Christ was “gay.”

Its easy to attack those who following Jesus teaching and who are not to strike back or seek revenge but I would double dog dare Elton John to say the same thing about Mohamed

Alabama professor’s lawyer regrets calling her ‘wacko’

isobareng — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:09:20 +0000

Alabama professor’s lawyer regrets calling her ‘wacko’

(CNN) — The defense attorney appointed to represent an Alabama professor accused of shooting her colleagues said Friday he regrets describing her as “wacko.”

Well it has been my experience that a measurable percentage of collage and university professors are wackos it’s one of those self evident parts of American higher education.
There is no shortage of old hippies that never left school, they simply went on to teach there. Thus we have no shortage of wackos

Obama “I love Vegas”

isobareng — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:56:32 +0000

Obama on Friday declared he loves Las Vegas while trying to play down the negative advertising he has used to hurt the city.
Obama continued what some are calling the “Save the Senators” tour, opening his latest town hall meeting out West by praising Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, He will have a tough time as most of the folks I have chatted with can’t stand him. Along with that there are many anti- Harry Reid bumper stickers around.
The entire Vegas area is hurting bad these days and its just not the “sin city” part of Vegas. This area was gearing up for the flood of relocating retires that will soon have to move to escape repressive state taxes in their home states. Then the building industry came to a collapse with the mortgage crises. Unemployment here went through the roof. as an example there is an area next to Las Vegas located in the foot hills just east of the strip that is spectacular at Lake Las Vegas. A beautiful Italian village with restaurants and shops. The Ritz Carlton and the Monte Lago are located here as well. Most of the area is now abandoned and empty the Ritz is closing in May, the shops are mostly closed, the restaurants are not far behind. with a loss of nearly 500 jobs in the Lake Las Vegas area. Needless to say when Obama was spewing out negative advertising for Las Vegas these folks were plenty angry.

Friends didn’t see pilot’s passion for IRS feud

isobareng — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:35:16 +0000

Joe Stack felt the federal government — especially its tax code — robbed him of his savings and destroyed his career while allowing corrupt executives to walk away with millions. His bitter feud with the Internal Revenue Service was his passion — one so deeply held it apparently drove him to commit suicide Thursday by slamming his single-engine Piper PA-28 into an Austin office building that houses the IRS.

It is sad that it came down to this for Mr. Stack. While violence may solve some things it will not solve these types of things. One of the great aspects about our nation is change can come without bloodshed. Change can come and it will come from the world view perspective of the individual. When there are enough individuals with a small government, Ronald Reagan style, individual responsibility world view then and only then can the socialist controlling ways our current government is chasing after that never has worked for any goverenment in history will be reversed and done so without bloodshed.

12 year old arrested for writing I Love my Friends

isobareng — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:45:40 +0000

(CNN) — There was no profanity, no hate. Just the words, “I love my friends Abby and Faith. Lex was here 2/1/10 ” scrawled on the classroom desk with a green marker.
Alexa Gonzalez, an outgoing 12-year-old who likes to dance and draw, expected a lecture or maybe detention for her doodles earlier this month. Instead, the principal of the Junior High School in Forest Hills, New York, called police, and the seventh-grader was taken across the street to the police precinct.
Alexa’s hands were cuffed behind her back, and tears gushed as she was escorted from school in front of teachers and — the worst audience of all for a preadolescent girl — her classmates.

If this wasn’t so pathetic it would be funny

New Land Grab

isobareng — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:50:51 +0000

Large sections of land some larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined, are under consideration by the Obama administration to become America’s newest National Monuments — a decision the administration can make unilaterally without local input or congressional approval. This unprecedented land grab and the other befuddling actions by this administration read just like a bad science fiction novel about the beginnings of a totalitarian state. these lands are used by ranchers and other valid users and would be banned from using these lands as they have for decades.

here is my reference

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/18/obama-eyeing-millions-wild-acres-national-monuments/

Obama tries to screw NASA

isobareng — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:01:08 +0000

Administration Plan to Terminate Constellation Contract Without Congressional Approval in Violation of Law

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bill Posey released the following statement in response to the Obama Administration’s notice today that it is cancelling Kennedy Space Center’s Exploration Ground Launch Services (EGLS) contract:

“Administration’s unilateral decision to cancel contracts associated with the Constellation program, absent Congressional consent is a direct violation of the law and of Congressional intent,” said Congressman Posey.

“The President’s budget request represents a significant retreat from human space flight and a departure from his promise to close the gap and keep the United States first in space. The President’s budget has not been approved by the Congress. Congress has not directed the Administration to cancel the Constellation program in fact it has done just the opposite in recent legislation.

Obamas world of bail out those who don’t need bail outs and reckless spending he starves humanity’s expansion to the stars. Once again Obama is good at one thing and that is making Bush look like a rocket scientist.

God Speed Nodar Kumaritashvili

isobareng — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:26:21 +0000

The death of Nodar Kumaritashvili hung over the usually festive first day of the games
With hours to go before the opening ceremony, a luger from the nation of Georgia was killed after he lost control of his sled on the infamously fast track at Whistler and crashed into a steel pole.

Condolence for your family and friends and God Speed on your new path.

Joe Biden vs Joe Fool

isobareng — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:52:25 +0000

As senators, Barack Obama and Joe Biden both opposed the troop surge in Iraq — and Biden even wanted to divide the country into three sections.

But NOW as vice president, Biden is taking credit for success in Iraq.

“I am very optimistic about Iraq,” he said. “I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration

Is this guy for real? The media just gives him a free ride while they butchered Quaile, and Chaney

England Part 3

isobareng — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:00:47 +0000

LONDON – Britain was forced by an appeals court Wednesday to reveal a long-secret description of how a former terrorism suspect was beaten, shackled and deprived of sleep during interrogations by U.S. agents.

These folks want you, me and all of western civilization dead. As an added bonus for the environmentalists they will if they have the means irradiate entire regions to pursue their goal of trying to kill you. Here is England trying to counter our attempt to stop it.

Sham, Hide and Spend

isobareng — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:36:19 +0000

A new Web site targeting the tea parties is a part of a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country’s biggest labor unions and trickling slowly into political slush funds for Democratic activists.
A close look reveals the APPC’s place in a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country’s biggest labor unions into political slush funds for Democratic activists.
Here’s how it works: What appears like a local groundswell is in fact the creation of two men — Craig Varoga and George Rakis, Democratic Party strategists who have set up a number of so-called 527 groups, the non-profit election organizations that hammer on contentious issues.
Varoga and Rakis keep a central mailing address in Washington, pulling in soft money contributions from unions and other well-padded sources to engage in what amounts to a legal laundering system. The money — tens of millions of dollars — gets circulated around to different states by the 527s, which pay for TV ads, Internet campaigns and lobbyist salaries, all while keeping the hands of the unions clean — for the most part.
The system helps hide the true sources of funding, giving the appearance of locally bred opposition in states from Oklahoma to New Jersey, or in the case of the Tea Party Web site, in Illinois.

Perhaps the 3 stooges had a better name for these folks Dewy, Cheatem and How
Here is the original article

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/09/anti-tea-party-web-site-scheme-funnel-funds/

Feb 25th health care compromise

isobareng — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:54:36 +0000

President Obama has invited Republican leaders to join their Democratic counterparts at a televised White House meeting on Feb. 25 to discuss possible compromises on health care legislation

I would put money that this is a chess move to set up bad PR on the Republicans. Once again the mainstream media will play it out for their idealogs to make a mockery of any counter plan or opinion.

Toyota Recall

isobareng — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:21:49 +0000

GMC and its divisions have 130 current recalls on its vehicles found at the site below. Why is it that Toyota is making front page news and not a word is spoken about the company that is now owned by the U.S. Government and is Toyotas main competitor?

http://www.internetautoguide.com/auto-recalls/index.html

Toyota could have a hundred recalls and their product would still be better then GM, Ford or Chrysler. If the American automakers would get their act together and stop producing crap vehicles they would get their market share back. The 3 chevys 1 jeep and 4 fords I have owned in the last 30 years were worn out at 100K miles while my friends Toyotas and Hondas were at half life at that point.

Whats up with England? Part 2

isobareng — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:14:53 +0000

British teacher was fired from his job after complaining that some of his Muslim students were celebrating the Sept. 11 hijackers as “heroes,” the Daily Mail reported.

Nicholas Kafouris, 40, who taught at East London’s Bigland Green Primary School for 12 years, is suing the school for racial discrimination after he was allegedly forced from his post because he would not tolerate the remarks of his students.

Kafouris claims members of his class, some as young as eight years old, openly praised Islamic extremists in his classroom, hailing the terrorists behind the attacks of Sept. 11 as “martyrs,” the Daily Mail reported.

Kafouris alleges the students told him they “want to be Islamic bombers when we grow up,” and “the Christians and Jews are our enemies, you too because you’re a Christian,” according to the Daily Mail.

I guess England is as whacked with PC as we are

$3.8 trillion

isobareng — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:03:23 +0000

Congressional aides are preparing to slog through an expected record $3.8 trillion in spending to be proposed by President Obama on Monday when his fiscal year 2011 budget is delivered to Capitol Hill.

One thing is for sure Obama makes Bush look like a rocket scientist. Cash for clunkers, bank bail outs that are repaid in a couple months, wasted money on useless projects, acorn funding, does it ever stop?

Whats up with England Part 1

isobareng — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:57:42 +0000

One of Britain’s most dangerous gangsters has been using Face book to threaten and intimidate his enemies from a maximum security prison.
Colin Gunn, an underworld godfather who ordered the execution of two grandparents, has been able to correspond freely with up to 565 “friends” on the social networking site for the past two months.
Gunn, who is serving a 35-year sentence for conspiracy to murder, is said to be still running his drugs and organized crime cartel from jail. He claims he was allowed to set up a Facebook account by prison governors, suggesting it was his legal right.
Critics believe the authorities may have turned a blind eye out of fear of receiving a legal challenge on human rights grounds.

Wow England is afraid of unplugging this guys computer because they fear it might violate his human rights? I bet Churchill and all other honorable Britt’s from the past are rolling over in their graves due to the wussies that are running the show there these days.

Obamas attempt to screw the military

isobareng — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:44:39 +0000

President Obama said in his first State of the Union address Wednesday night that he would work with Congress and the Pentagon this year to repeal the law that prohibits military members from acknowledging openly that they are gay.
At least one member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — Gen. James Conway, commandant of the Marine Corps — has expressed reservations in the past about repealing the law.
In November, Conway said through a spokesman: “Our Marines are currently engaged in two fights, and our focus should not be drawn away from those priorities.”
Some Congressional opposition already is clear. Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, a former Navy pilot, released a statement after Wednesday night’s State of the Union address saying “it would be a mistake” to repeal the law.
“This successful policy has been in effect for over 15 years, and it is well understood and predominantly supported by our military at all levels,” McCain’s statement said, later adding: “At a time when our Armed Forces are fighting and sacrificing on the battlefield, now is not the time to abandon the policy.”

The United States Military is not a social experiment. It is not a democratic entity. Its a force designed to protect our country by being a deterrent in peace time and a killing machine in war. This President and the social talking heads need to leave the military alone to manage its internal arrangements itself.

Fact Check

isobareng — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:23:42 +0000

This link is to the Fact check by the Associated Press on The Presidents State of the Union speech. You owe yourself and your family to know this.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_fact_check

Toyota

isobareng — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:57:49 +0000

Toyota US sales halt deals blow to image, earnings

“AP – Toyota’s suspension of U.S. sales on an unprecedented scale to fix faulty gas pedals deals a blow to the automaker’s reputation for quality and came amid intense pressure from the Obama administration.”

Could it be that the Obama administration now is the owner of GM?

How to fix Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 Flash player

isobareng — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:20:07 +0000

How to fix Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8 when it keeps asking you for Flash Player from Adobe. First At the time of this writing there is no flash player for the 64 bit available. The good news is internet explorer 8 doesn’t need it.

I kept getting this message on my lap top and it wouldn’t play “you tube” movies or any kind of interactive portions of web sites. But my desk top with internet explorer 8 worked just fine. So here is the fix.

1. First go to a computer with Internet explorer 8 that is working properly go to any web site You Tube would be a good choice

2. Drag and drop from the sites address at the top of the page on to a thumb drive.

3. Put your thumb drive into the computer that has the Flash drive problem and drag and drop the link you created from the thumb drive to the desk top.

4. Double click on the desk top link you just created and launch the web site.

5. From your tools menu select internet options select use current for your home page.

6. If you have a short cut to the internet pined to the bottom of your desk top unpin it.

7. Now pin the link you created from your thumb drive to the bottom of your desk top.

8. Launch internet explorer from your desk top and it should work.

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Never in a million years

isobareng — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:33:20 +0000

I would have never guessed in a million years that the democratic strong hold of Massachusetts, entrenched in left wing world views would have had the fortitude to slap the Congress and administration hard enough to change the political landscape. I applaud them. The health care reforms are too important to be rushed through in secret committees. Pushed on a time agenda instead of a quality agenda. A strong and good protest against their traditional party for the way that its leaders have done more harm then good and as of lately acted dramatically worse then the party they replaced in January 09. We truly have a great Country when political reality checks can be done with out violence. Thank you Massachusetts for stepping up to the plate and making your voice heard.

Healthcare solution?

isobareng — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:43:01 +0000

Have you noticed that people of faith typically give 10% of their income to Charities? They don’t receive any more from their employers to make this donation nor is there any government law requiring them to do so. What if… there were tax incentives for the health care industry to do something similar. For doctors to give 10% of their time and hospitals to give 10% of their resources? Would we still have the health care crisis we see today? Would not a minor tweak in the tax code be all that was require to handle the bulk of what is wrong with health care? Is there not a lawmaker with the wisdom to write tax code that effects and regulates those that give and receive this 10%?

Un – Natural Disasters??????

isobareng — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:31:20 +0000

I ran across this gem of knowledge written by Isaiah approximately 2780 years ago.
I make no claim to have the wisdom to know if this is applicable to the recent disasters we have witnessed but with all knowledge it is beneficial for an open mind to consider all possibilities for any topic.
Isaiah wrote in paragraph 26 vrs 5,9 and10

He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust. My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. When your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness. Though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the Lord.

Abortion vs The Declaration of Independence

isobareng — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:34:20 +0000

The Declaration of Independence of the United States Of America has this text in it.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are LIFE, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Roe Vs Wade violates this. What has a baby done to forfeit its unalienable right to life?