Merry Christmas! From Me and Mine, To You And Yours!

 

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

Cross posted at An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings 

Idiot of the Week

This genius is my nominee for idiot of the week. Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski is the co-host and news reader on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. There was a discussion about the church shootings in Colorado, where the brave security guard shot the psycho gunman, even-though she only wounded him and he wound up taking his own life, defiantly saved many lives. After she gives her spin on the story, Joe Scarborough, the host of the show, makes the statement that one person with a gun can make a difference. To which she responded “…no, no, no, no, no – no no no no no no” and then follows with “You know, that is the most inane statement I have ever heard.” Here is a link to the video.

http://newsbusters.org/people/jeanne-assam

How can she say that one person with a gun can not make a difference? If the security guard had no taken action, this psycho would have killed many more people.

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Germany Wants to Ban Scientology

Originally posted at Right Truth

‘ll be the first to admit that Scientology is a scam, but would anyone consider banning Islam? Heads would roll. From Wikipedia:

Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices initially developed by L. Ron Hubbard in 1952 as an outgrowth of his earlier self-help system, Dianetics.[1] Hubbard later characterized Scientology as an “applied religious philosophy” and the basis for a new religion.[1] Scientology encompasses a spiritual rehabilitation philosophy and techniques, and covers topics such as morals, ethics, detoxification, education and management. The first Church of Scientology was founded in 1953.

In truth, Scientology is a money-making industry. The only good I’ve ever heard coming from Scientology is their detox program, which many Hollywood-types have taken advantage of — for a price.

Germany could be asked to ban the U.S.-based Church of Scientology under a Hamburg security official’s proposal that contends the group violates human rights.Hamburg’s secretary of the interior, Udo Nagel, plans to seek a nationwide ban of Scientology at this week’s meeting of top German security officials, spokeswoman Ulrike Sweden said Monday.

The German government considers Scientology a commercial enterprise that takes advantage of vulnerable people. During the summer, it initially refused to allow the producers of a movie starring Scientology member Tom Cruise as Germany’s most famous anti-Hitler plotter to film at the site where the hero was executed, although it did not expressly state Scientology as its reason.

If all 16 states agree to the proposal to ban Scientology, German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble would be asked to initiate proceedings against it, Sweden said, confirming a report by Focus magazine.

The report quotes Nagel saying that Scientology pursues “anti-constitutional goals in an aggressively fierce” manner that run counter to human rights and dignity.

A spokeswoman for Scientology, Sabine Weber, called Nagel’s proposal “more than incomprehensible” and pointed out that the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of Scientology when Russia denied its application to register as a religious community.

The United States has said that Germany discriminates against some religious groups, including Scientology, that Germany does not recognize as a religion. (SFGate)

Conte’s Cash Crash?

Posted by Truman : Truman’s Take

For Immediate Release: December 3, 2007

For Further Information, Contact:

Nicole Williams, (615) 383-6431, Ext. 1003

editor@tennesseepolicy.org

Conte Dishonest about Governor’s Mansion Renovation Costs
Tennessee Center for Policy Research exposes true price of project

NASHVILLE – A State Building Commission document obtained by the Tennessee Center for Policy Research shows that Tennessee’s First Lady Andrea Conte deceived Tennesseans about the cost and funding sources related to renovations of the Governor’s Mansion.

Initially, renovating the Governor’s Mansion and bringing the house into compliance with provisions of the Americans With Disabilities Act was to cost less than $10 million. Today, the price tag has ballooned to $19.2 million, over 20 times the $900,100 appraised value of the house.

Despite the First Lady’s pledge that she would “raise 60 percent to 80 percent of the total cost privately,” state taxpayers are on the hook for $12.8 million, according to the State Building Commission document. Only a third of the cost of the project has been raised privately.

“The First Lady has turned the Governor’s Mansion into a house of horrors for taxpayers,” said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. “Tennesseans have already been tapped for nearly $13 million to renovate the Mansion and I have a feeling that the First Lady isn’t finished raiding our pockets.”

In November 2005, Conte declared that $6.7 million had already been privately raised for the renovation. Now, State Building Commission documents show that she only raised $6.4 million in private funds—even less than she claimed to have in-hand two years ago.

To make matters worse for taxpayers, Conte has added an underground entertainment facility to her wish list of projects for the mansion. The total cost of the party bunker is not fully included on the State Building Commission document and is likely to cost millions in additional public funds.

“If this bunker is built, it will become an underground fundraising Mecca for incumbent governors and their political parties,” Johnson said. “It will go down as the single most inappropriate use of tax dollars in the history of Tennessee.”

Despite their eagerness to spend tax dollars on the Governor’s Mansion, Conte and her husband, Gov. Phil Bredesen, do not actually live there, preferring instead to reside in their own mansion in the Forest Hills area of Nashville.

A PDF of the State Building Commission document outlining the cost of the renovation of the Governor’s Mansion can be found at: http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/files/pdf/SBC.pdf

 

Please go away

Granted, I’ve never been a fan of Bill Clinton’s prevaricating, but I’m starting to see a big problem (or at least potential problem) of political dynasties . . . it is harder to let a former president fade into respectable posterity when he’s doing the whole campaigning thing. Bill Clinton Flatly Asserts He Opposed War at Start – New York Times:

“During a campaign swing for his wife, former President Bill Clinton said flatly yesterday that he opposed the war in Iraq “from the beginning” — a statement that is more absolute than his comments before the invasion in March 2003.”

Cross-posted at WisdomisVindicated.

Women reduce carbon footprint by having abortions

From Debbie At Right Truth

You read that title correctly, women are having abortions to save the planet. I couldn’t make this up in my wildest imagination. Women are not just having abortions, but having themselves sterilized permanently. I think these women are CRAZY. What kind of world would this be without HUMANS??? Didn’t God make the world FOR his ultimate creation — mankind? I doubt these women (and men) even have any faith in something higher than themselves.

Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers – and a voice calling her Mummy.But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.

Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.

Desperate measures: Toni Vernelli was steralised at age 27 to reduce her carbon footprint

Incredibly, so determined was she that the terrible “mistake” of pregnancy should never happen again, that she begged the doctor who performed the abortion to sterilise her at the same time.

He refused, but Toni – who works for an environmental charity – “relentlessly hunted down a doctor who would perform the irreversible surgery.

Finally, eight years ago, Toni got her way.

At the age of 27 this young woman at the height of her reproductive years was sterilised to “protect the planet”.

Incredibly, instead of mourning the loss of a family that never was, her boyfriend (now husband) presented her with a congratulations card.

While some might think it strange to celebrate the reversal of nature and denial of motherhood, Toni relishes her decision with an almost religious zeal.

“Having children is selfish. It’s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet,” says Toni, 35.

“Every person who is born uses more food, more water, more land, more fossil fuels, more trees and produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases, and adds to the problem of over-population.” (continue reading at The Daily Mail)

This makes me shudder in horror, not the fact that the earth may be warming a degree or two in the next hundred or thousand years.

According to polls, the public believes global warming is a hoax.

Treasonous talk

I don’t know about you, but I am sick and tired of this type of rhetoric (“Chavez: Only a ‘Traitor’ Will Vote No”):

“President Hugo Chavez warned his supporters on Friday that anyone voting against his proposed constitutional changes would be a ‘traitor,’ rallying his political base before a referendum that would let him seek unlimited re-election in 2012 and beyond.

. . . .

‘He who says he supports Chavez but votes ‘no’ is a traitor, a true traitor,’ the president told an arena packed with red-clad supporters. ‘He’s against me, against the revolution and against the people.’”

Cross-posted at WisdomisVindicated.