If Christ was raised from the dead, then nothing else matters; if he wasn't raised from the dead, well, nothing else matters.

Palin a hypocrite ??? I don't think so.

<<<<   Karl Rove and his henchmen at FoxNews can disgrace Sarah Palin all they want,  but she is not going away,  and is more determined than ever to do what she can to help get this country back on track.  

The Daily Beast sees a problem.  

We see the Beast completely misrepresenting the debate issue.  

Sarah railed against the status quo and those who would destroy the America as we know,  you know,  the country centered on the US Constitution.  She does not care about dollars donated to stop the Progressive march to the complete restructuring of this nation. 

Never forget the purpose Obama has in mind: 

May of 2008 -  MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

There is nothing good in this statement of purpose,  period  . . . . .   unless,  of course,  you are an European Socialist.  

The following lede and story,  misrepresents the point of Sarah Palin's political angst.  The Left has rejected the notion of America's greatness regardless of their rhetorical deceit.  They think it "unfair" that we are the only super-power in the world,  and Obama is that point in history when this reality is being reversed in ways ,  demonstrable,  as has never been seen before.  The fact that conservative politicians take money from Palin is a silly retort.  The fact that the patriot nation benefits from Palin and is being crushed by the likes of John McCain and Karl Rove, is the point of the Palin Campaign.  There is no "embarrassment," here,  only another ridiculous fantasy coming from the Windmills of the Left,  hot air and all.   

Palin’s SarahPAC Embarrassment: Consultants Are Cashing In

by John Avlon Mar 29, 2013 4:00 AM EDT

The ex-governor and VP pick railed against political consultants at CPAC. But her latest FEC filings show they took millions of dollars from her in the last election cycle.

20 years of global "cooling" is just now making its way into the mainstream news cycle. Global temperatures have been flat for two decades while carbon emissions have increased . . . not a good thing for the global redistributionists among us.

The following comments come from The Australian,  the "mainstream" news source in Australia.  Understand that The Australian supports the premise of global warming,  but has come to a point in time,  after two decades,  in which it is forced to admit that there is a problem with Leftist's warming declarations.  Understand that "global warming mania"  is all about the redistribution of wealth on a nation scale.  It is part of the Utopian fantasy that has infected the minds of otherwise intelligent beings.  

When you read the following,  keep in mind the bias of The Australian,  and the undeniable facts embedded in its reporting.  

From the Australian:  

DEBATE about the reality of a two-decade pause in global warming and what it means has made its way from the skeptical fringe to the mainstream.

In a lengthy article this week, The Economist magazine said if climate scientists were credit-rating agencies, then climate sensitivity - the way climate reacts to changes in carbon-dioxide levels - would be on negative watch but not yet downgraded.  

Another paper published by leading climate scientist James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (does he still work for NASA?  News to me  -  blog editor), says the lower than expected temperature rise between 2000 and the present could be explained by increased emissions from burning coal.  (of course it could,  but Occam's Razor demands the simplest answer,  that the warmest's are wrong !!).  

For Hansen the pause (i.e. the slowdown in global warming) is a fact, but it's good news that probably won't last.  (really?  "They denied the slowdown at 8 years,  then 10,  then 16 years and, now,  at the 20 year mark).  

International Panel on Climate Change chairman Rajendra Pachauri recently told The Weekend Australian the hiatus would have to last 30 to 40 years "at least" to break the long-term warming trend.  (well,  are more than half way to that point in time,  aren't we).  

But the fact that global surface temperatures have not followed the expected global warming pattern is now widely accepted.

Research by Ed Hawkins of University of Reading shows surface temperatures since 2005 are already at the low end of the range projections derived from 20 climate models and if they remain flat, they will fall outside the models' range within a few years.

"The global temperature standstill shows that climate models are diverging from observations," says David Whitehouse of the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

"If we have not passed it already, we are on the threshold of global observations becoming incompatible with the consensus theory of climate change," he says.

[David] Whitehouse argues that whatever has happened to make temperatures remain constant requires an explanation because the pause in temperature rise has occurred despite a sharp increase in global carbon emissions.

The Economist says the world has added roughly 100 billion tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere between 2000 and 2010, about one-quarter of all the carbon dioxide put there by humans since 1750. This mismatch between rising greenhouse gas emissions and not-rising temperatures is among the biggest puzzles in climate science just now, The Economist article says.  (go to The Australian for the full article.)  

Palin, the star of the recent CPAC gathering, is throwing her support

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Proof that the WH is playing games with its Sequester Scare strategy.

The story below,  documents nearly one billion dollars spent on one of the most wasteful programs imaginable.  Turns out that the WH and B Obama would rather spend $880,000 on something that holds no existential benefit for anyone,  than take that money and fund years and years of White House access for our children.  Obama has lost this battle,  but arrogantly continues with the strategy,  convinced that he can pull this moronic and hateful strategy out of the dumpster.  Ain’t going to happen.  

Feds Spending $880,000 to Study Benefits of Snail Sex

The National Science Foundation has given a grant that could wind up totaling almost a million dollars to a University of Iowa study researching which is better for New Zealand mud snails: reproducing sexually or asexually.The grant (your tax dollars or future debt), awarded in 2011 to last until 2015, has already cost $502,357, and could wind up costing taxpayers $876,752 before all is said and done. But there is no money for White House tours and military support of Air Shows are grounded. CNS News has the story 

Bill O'Reilly is confronted as he pretends to be THE authority on matters religious and moral.

A couple of days ago,  the convoluted Bill O’Reilly,  got it wrong,  again.  Earlier last week,  O’Reilly spoke out against a “real” devil,  citing himself as the authority on the matter and asserting that “Satan” is only a metaphor.  

Whether or not that is true,  O’Reilly failed to make his case using the Bible while making his opinion, the standard for making a decision on this matter.  

Just days later,  he followed that up with the moronic opinion that those who oppose gay marriage,  do so because they are simple minded “bible thumpers.” 

Mark Levin took exception with that characterization: 

  

“Didn’t he write a book called ‘Culture Warriors,’ or something like that?” Levin said. “… I assume you’re talking about morality. I assume you’re talking about faith. I assume you’re talking about tradition. Well, those people in your audience who you put down as bible-thumpers —  I bet a lot of them fell misled by you and your books and your monologues. They’re not Bible-thumpers.”  

And this editor (that would be me)  adds this to the argument:  

there are two very good reasons for opposing gay marriage as a legal solution. 

1. With the “legalization” of gay marriage,  will come the institutionalization of that new found liberty and its teachings in our schools,  beginning with the youngest of our children.  Proof of what I am saying is this:  such talk is already in some of our schools.  Soon it will be standard fare. 

 2. With the legalization of gay marriage,  will come the criminalization of anti-gay speech.  That has already happened in France and Canada.  It will happen here,  as well. 

“Legalizing” gay marriage does not have to include the above,  but such is part of the larger agenda of the godless Left.  Sooner than you think,  we all will be speaking European,  regardless of whatever the Bill O’Reilly’s of the world have to say.  

My first post of the day? Phil Mickleson hitting a golf ball over the head of an on-looker standing three feet from the champion golfer !!

The Moronic Media (also known as the Liberal Media) does it again -- commits to something very stupid, all under the Utopian guise of protecting the children.

<<<<     Once again,  the Moron Media offers aid and assistance to the violent collective in our nation,  thinking,  somehow,  that good is being accomplished.  This map,  an interactive map at one time,  gave the school name,  its address and its rating as to on campus security.  This map was published on Wednesday in the Des Moines Register.  The map has been taken down,  but the question remains,  "Why was it posted in the first place?"  

Schools with no security guard – Red Dots

Schools with a security guard –  Green Dots

Schools that did not respond  - Grey Dots

Warren thinks 22 bucks is fine for a minimum wage, but will start with $10.20 and go from there. She has no clue what business "profits" fund and is not asking.

It is hard to believe that the people of Massachusetts would have so little commonsense or disregard for moral character as to elect Elizabeth Warren to any position of leadership.  This is a woman who literally lied her way into Harvard,  and has qualified herself to speak on business issue by avoiding hard labor in the private sector business community.  She knows nothing but what she has learned as academic theory and from reading Marx and Engels.  As a freshman Senator,  she recently made these statements concerning minimum wage levels:

"'If we started in 1960, and we said [that] as productivity goes up...then the minimum wage was going to go up the same...if that were the case, the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour,' the senator said."   . . . . . .  "The current minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. 'What happened to the other $14.75?' 'It sure didn't go to the worker.'"

She went on to claim that the cost of a seven dollar meal at McDonalds,  would increase just four cents if we instituted a minimum wage of $10.20 over the course of the next three years.  (Obama campaigned on an 11 dollar minimum wage back in 2008,  but has not mentioned this bit of political stupidity since  -  not even once in a serious way). 

In answer to her question, “What happened to the other $14.75,”  it went to fund the salaries of the remaining skilled labor force,  a collective that demands far more than minimum wage.  It went to pay the increased employment taxes,  when wages are increased.  It went to sustain increased health care costs demanded by the government and the three trillion per year the business community has to pay for regulatory compliance.  It went to cover litigation insurance costs and judgments.  We should not forget the benefit packages of the full time and skilled labor force and the increased costs of those packages.  What about vacation pay and pregnancy pay,  and forced sensitivity forums?  Then there is the rising costs of inventory and the demand to reward business owners and inventors and patent owners  -  a class of labor Ms Sitting Full of Bull Warren despises.   

Warren believes the whole world is about the unskilled labor force working at McDonalds,  a labor collective that moves out of “minimum wage” limitations precisely because of “minimum wage.”  Want more money?  Learn a trade !!  It is that simple. 

Warren’s own philosophy works against her "concerned" pretense.  When you pile on regulation over regulation,  when you demand less time spent in labor for higher wages,  when you demand a free ride for those who do not work but live off the profits of the business community,  what happens?  Business’s hire more and more part time labor,  work fewer people over-all,  reduce benefit packages and often go broke.  That is the world the Marxist Warrens of this world are creating right before our eyes.  

When same sex folks can "marry," the door is open for man/child marriages and weddings involving you and your favorite postage stamp. Disagree? How 'bout giving us a reason in logic?

When the standard  for marriage is changed,  a standard that has served all civilizations since the beginning of civilized time, there no longer remains a metaphysical reason for marriage.  If two of the same sex can marry,  three or four or ten can do so.  If the number of partners can be changed,  why not the type of partner, to a dog or cat or a favorite postage stamp?  If the type of partner can be changed,  why not the age,  to include a “willing” child? Why marriage at all.  Shouldn’t marital benefits be extended to all men and women?  Must we force them to marry to be treated “fairly.” 

When the bozo in the video says he cannot imagine why folks would oppose the gay marriage,  well,  obviously,  he is not thinking.  

Want to start a real civil war? Put Bush and Cheney on trial for war crimes and see what happens, next.

<<< Here is a list of "war criminals"  CNN radicals and associates want prosecuted for "crimes against humanity." 

A CNN headline during Tuesday's 11 a.m. hour of Newsroom asked, "Should Bush officials be tried for war crimes?" CNN legal analyst Lisa Bloom argued that the U.S. should submit to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court for the mass murder of Iraqis that far exceeded the 9/11 atrocities.  Bloom added this gem about Bush being held accountable for "murdering" Iraqis: "If someone [and "someone" certainly includes Bush and Cheney] invaded our country based on false premises and murdered 100,000 to a million of our people, as we are accused of doing in Iraq, depending on whose estimate you believe, would we be so sanguine? Would we be so forgiving? Or would we demand some accountability?" 

Editor’s notes:  of course this Ignorant has no clue what she is talking about.  The killing of terrorist targets was very concise.  When in neighborhoods,  terrorists were killed at long distance by airborne gun shops.  Some were killed hiding in houses, and collateral deaths,  were recorded in those cases.  There were no collateral deaths recorded in open battlefield assaults.  We killed more than 40,000 actual terrorist fighting forces and no more than 4,000 unintended deaths.  The 100,000 to 1 million deaths,  this wingnut refers to,  is an estimate that includes all deaths during the war,  including the 100,000 to 1 million Iraqis killed by Muslim jihadists.  The Left blames Bush because “Muslims would not have  killed Muslims if the US had not invaded that country.” 

Bush had legal and congressional permission to invade Iraq. He had UN permission,  as well.   He took 14 months to enter the country from the time he first warned Saddam to cease and desist. He was told of the WMD’s by Bill Clinton and Clinton’s own CIA,  not to mention all other intelligence agencies in the world and Saddam,  himself.   Gen. Colin Powell,  while admitting the absence of WMD’s,  has always insisted that such was not a lie.   Obama’s time frame for getting out of that country,  was,  in reality,  the Bush plan.  

This is not the first time, but MSNBC is breaking with the Adminstration . . . . no more Utopian Obama and the radicals are fuming.

Senate Majority Header Harry Reid (D-Nev.) disgustingly implied on Tuesday that a freak explosion killing seven Marines during a training exercise in Nevada happened because of sequester cuts. While MSNBC reported Reid's comments and the "strong exception" taken to them by the Marine Corps, CNN made no mention of them at all on Tuesday and Wednesday morning, just like CBS, ABC, AND  NBC.  (Media Research Center) .  

Of course,  Fox also made mention of Reid's ridiculous claim,  a number of times. The real surprise is the reporting of MSNBC.  That network has led the pack in criticism of the Right and in defense of the both the Left and Obama.  It is clear that in the decision to move away from defending Reid,  MSNBC has sent word that it is willing to oppose the Administration as it,  the Administration,  becomes more political and less Utopian.  

In fact,  last week,  I watched Rachel Maddow,  MSNBC's super star,  spend a half hour,  dissecting B. Obama's decision to kill American's without due process.  She cheered Rand Paul's filibuster and opposed Obama's decision to kill Americans without due process.  Added to my surprise,  as I listened to Maddow and double-checked to see if I was on the right channel,  was her insistence that Obama's was wrong on Constitutional grounds !!  

Many on the Far Left have secretly "fallen out of love" with their Liberal Champion.  Turns out he is pro-war,  pro-corporation,  pro-lobbysts, pro-earmarks, pro-GITMO, and anti-poor in terms of the consequences of his domestic policies. 

I am saying that not even God can fix what the federal government is to doing to its own economy.

Reuters is reporting a plan to “spare”  a European meltdown beginning in Cyprus.  

Swiftly backed by euro zone finance ministers, the plan will spare the Mediterranean island a financial meltdown by winding down the largely state-owned Popular Bank of Cyprus, also known as Laiki, and shifting deposits below 100,000 euros to the Bank of Cyprus to create a "good bank".

Deposits above 100,000 euros in both banks, which are not guaranteed under EU law, will be frozen and used to resolve Laiki's debts and recapitalize [the] Bank of Cyprus through a deposit/equity conversion.

The raid on uninsured Laiki depositors is expected to raise 4.2 billion euros, Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijssebloem said.

The problem,  as I see it,  is this:  the over-riding circumstance is not the immediacy of the debt crisis in Europe.  Rather,  it is the fact that stealing money for within the EU community is a closed system “solution”  that brings in no “outside” capital.  The EU economy as expressed in GDP is the real issue.  Europe is not producing enough profit to cover its expenses.  If the “family” is in dire straits,  stealing from the children solves nothing.  Sending the children out to earn more money is the solution. 

And the United States is involved in the same incestral practice;  it prints its own money and then “buys” it out of the economy to “pay” debt.    In fact,  Bernanke is creating 84 billion in new money,  each and every month,  weakening the dollar with every printed dollar,  and praying for some sort of miracle that is not going to happen.  Yes,  I am saying that not even God can fix what the federal government is to doing to its own economy.  

Obama has lost his political advantage after winning the past election. What does this mean for those who are desperately swimming toward safety before the undertow takes them all out to sea ?

This may come as a surprise to some of you,  but the running gun battle that Obama has decided works to his advantage,  has backfired on him,  putting all that he hoped to do  -  what I call his “incidental agenda” – on the ropes.  And I say “incidental”  for this reason:  gun control,  as an example,  is only a populace phenom,  drawing its energy from the sad circumstance at Sandy Hook Elementary.  Before Sandy Hook,  Obama had a “F” rating from the anti-gun lobby and the Brady Campaign,  an “F” that included his non-stance on any kind of weapons ban and/or background checks, universal or otherwise.  He didn't support any of this.   But Sandy Hook happened,  and Obama immediately politicized the event.  As time has dragged on,  however,  his once strong popular opinion on gun control,  has evaporated.  In this event,  his losing effort (to date) with gun control,  Obama is dealing with a negative “spin off”  as to public opinion on his handling of the economy and his continued support of ObamaCare.  Good news for the hapless GOP.  If current trends continue,  popular opinion might give the GOP an advantage with the midterm elections,  just a little over 18 months from now.    

Understand that the economy continues to be stuck on or at “zero”  with no real change in sight before the coming elections.  Further,  nearly all of ObamaCare’s negatives will have come to the light,  as well,  during the months remaining before November of 2014.  The Democrats loaded the cheap benefits of this program,  at the front of its legislative effect:  covering pre-existing health problems (which are being limited according to recent news releases) ,  adding 2 years to the insurance age of children (from 22 to 24  - whoopty do), and,  insuring the fantasy that you will be able to keep your doctor of choice  (we all now understand that this is not true).  All the “good stuff” in ObamaCare  has already happened.  What is left,  is the ugly truth (not yet fully known or written)  and the effect of ObamaCare tax after tax after tax  -  700 billion dollars in new taxes effecting everyone from the poor working class,  to well-to-do middle class and the rich.  Unless repealed,  this law,  all by its lonesome,  will change this nation’s work dynamic.  We are being told that within the decade,  40 percent of all jobs will be free lance, including the self employed and/or  part-time.  Add to this fact, the reality that another 15% will move into the underground economy,  thus avoiding taxes they cannot afford to pay,  and you have a very new "work dynamic" that results in a lower standard of living in perpetuity, for more than half the nation's population  and a loss of tax/revenues that cannot be replaced without doing more damage to an economy that is not advanced via ever increasing taxation.  

The tide has changed for Obama.  Since we all are adrift in the same sea of circumstance,  will this changing tide take us all down before we see and move to change what is happening?  

Governor Palin speaks out against Obama's long standing middlle east policy of sheer naivety.

<<<<<    Sarah looking good at a recent NBA basketball game.  Beauty and brains  -  no wonder her "5 minutes of fame" has moved into the a testament to the survival of the fittest.  She is here to stay,  folks.  RINO Herd,  take note !!!  

Sarah Palin’s Facebook. As always, she nails it in ways Obama refuses to do so:  

As always, one must listen carefully to what leadership says, or fails to say, in analyzing current affairs. During his trip to Israel, President Obama said, “It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own.” Of course, as people of good will we would like everyone to have the right of self-determination and God-given liberty, but we also have to ask ourselves what has been done to establish the circumstances necessary for that. It’s been observed that a Palestinian child cannot grow up “in a state of her own” because of Palestinian leaders’ decisions.

There seems to be nothing on the horizon to change the mindset of those who would raise Palestinian children to hate and be intolerant of Jews, Christians, and other “infidels.” Bottom line: until that changes and until the Palestinian people become genuine partners in peace with Israel, little movement towards peace can be made. This is tragic for all, including those Palestinian children being indoctrinated. I hope our President understands this and . . .  acknowledge[s]  it so the public could better understand the conflict. We can’t be naive to the causes of this centuries-old plight, and . . .   fail to ignore the one-sided effort to finally bring peace to Israel.

In the meantime, pray for peace in the Holy Land.

- Sarah Palin

Michelle is considered "royalty; Biden just spent 585,000 for a one night hotel stand; Obama parades himself around as if he were King. Aren't we all very tired of this elitist over-indulgence?

<<<<   Michelle Obama has been crowned fashion royalty by Britain’s Sunday Times Style Magazine, which ranked the first lady at the top of its best-dressed list.

As it turns out, Vice President Joe Biden's London stay in February was not the most expensive part of his trip. A government document released on February 14, 2013 shows that the contract for the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand came in at $585,000.50.

The White House “endless party” mentality,  has cost the American taxpayer nearly two billion dollars in “after hour” parties with another 1.4 billion for Michelle’s 18 vacations during the first four years as  . . . . . . . .  ah,  whatever it is she thinks to be.  Add to this,  the 116 trips to the golf course.  

Understand that if there are 22 days in a working month,  Obama just spent nearly half a year,  having fun on the golf course.  In his first 12 months,  he spent more than 9 months doing nothing but flying around and making public speeches,  726 appearances in all,  for 2009.  

On one occasion,  Obama was asked why his insurance was so much better than the average American's,  to which he answered,  "Because I am the president."  

I could go on:  Obama's pretend "CEO" game,  has cost the American taxpayer more than 7 billion dollars in lost (forever) revenues.  Then there are the campaign trips he made,  across the nation,  the American taxpayer coughing up more than a billion dollars in travel expense while Obama manipulated the opportunity and got himself re-elected.  Who knows what Fast and Furious cost,  that value on the loss of life at the Benghazi Embassy, the billions, spent in Iraq to win that war only to watch a idealistic 8th grader,  pull all our troops out of that county,  making it ripe as a terrorist training haven with Iran as its partner.  

The Administration sham that is being called, "The Sequester," now includes the lies about air-controller layoffs and control tower shut downs. The truth? the control towers were on a "shut down list" already and flight controllers will be "laid off" two days a month.

We find this headline in Bloomberg.com:

FAA to Close 149 U.S. Airport Towers After Budget Cuts

One immediately thinks of “sequester.” 

Two things to consider,  here:  first,  the article blames the Administration,  not the Sequester,  per se.  In other words,  Obama is the big loser in all this talk about Sequester cuts.  

Secondly,  within the article itself,  we learn that most of the nation’s small airports,  nearly 5,000 in total,  do not have flight control towers, at all . . . . . never did. 

Planes, including airliners, can continue to fly to airports without towers. Most of the roughly 5,000 U.S. public airports don’t have towers. Instead of being guided by controllers, pilots radio each other to coordinate landings and takeoffs, according to FAA procedures.

In addition to the above,  you will be hearing about flight controller “lay offs,”  with the Administration blaming the Sequester,  something (the Sequester) the Administration dreamed up on its own,  without bipartisan help,  and promised to embarrass the GOP if they did not vote for the legislation. 

Just remember that when you start hearing about these “lay offs,” they are talking two days a month,  with the money being refunded to the controllers at the end of the lay off period. 

The air traffic control tower at St. Louis Regional Airport in Bethalto, Ill.
is targeted for closure on April 1. (KMOX/Brad Choat