The Role Model has now won the Nobel Peace Prize!

What are they thinking?

I think that if groveling at the feet of dictators and terrorists is making us more likeable in the world then I want no part of it. It's like going into a prison and telling the inmates that you are ashamed of the justice system and think we should do away with it.

We need to show strength in this world or we will be run by the ideology of those countries, which I for one have no desire to do. When you try to appease those with which you don't agree, you end up giving in to them. We are losing the battles here in the states by giving into those who don't like "God" or prayer and many more moral issues because we want to appease these people and "get along" with them.

Sometimes you just have to stand up and fight for your beliefs, even if they aren't popular or what the world likes. I for one think that this is a totally politically motivated move to bring the US closer to a socialist nation that embraces ideologies that we have so long fought against. They are trying to "force" the President into making decisions on the wars we are currently in. IMHO

What a Role Model!

President Obama made history this week! He spoke to the kids about staying in school and getting an education! Wow, what a guy! The liberals were touting this as a history-making event. No President has ever done this before...

I started thinking about the things that make this man a role model.

He's always late. It doesn't matter if the nation is waiting for one of his "important" speeches or events. He always makes sure that everyone is on the edge of their seats with anticipation, awaiting for him to make his appearance. I was always taught that it's bad manners to make people wait on you.

He smokes. Of course he's trying to quit. Now that's a good role model for kids to follow. And he's preaching about health care...

He surrounds himself with liars, thieves, tax cheats, and terrorists for friends. Aren't we always preaching to our kids that the people you hang around shows the type of person you are?

He insists that religious markings are covered before he will speak at a podium. He doesn't have a National Day of Prayer. He can't decide on the Church he should attend. This speaks for itself, doesn't it?

He brags about being on food stamps and other programs. Shouldn't we be teaching our kids not to even consider this unless it's the last resort? And should we be proud that we have done it? I think self-reliance is more important.

Just these few items suggest to me that Obama is not a good role model for children or for that matter, adults!

Can you believe it?

Here is an "exchange" I had with someone named Jacqueline (her text is in red) on Facebook

I whole heartedly agree Lisa! This country's love of money and "prosperity" has done it in. Our beloved nation is so hung up on money and our "quality of life", that it can't see the way out.I recall from the New Testament Jesus telling the wealthy man that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get to heaven.

Jacqueline, I also recall that the Bible told us to be responsible for ourselves and not expect others to do everything for us. It also teaches that we give service and charity to others and not give our money to the government and have the government take those roles from us. Give your money to the poor, not to the tax man.

*It also teaches that we give service and charity to others and not give our money to the government and have the government take those roles from us*Have you ever read Matthew 22:17-21? Jesus tells the Pharisees & Herodians to give to Caesar what is Caesar's... ie: give to your government what they ask of you, as it is them who gave you your currency. From verse 20: And He said to them,"Whose image and inscription is this?" Our past presidents are on our money, our govt. has their inscriptions all over it... therefore, no matter how it pains us to do so, we are to send the money that they ask for. If you/we do not like a law, then we can be vocal and work to change it, but we are not to break laws, including not paying taxes, in our attempt to change it, in the name of God.

It says render unto Ceassr that which is Ceasars... Is the sweat from your brow earning your money, Ceasars? You talk about the Pres. on our money - those Presidents would roll over in their graves if they knew about taxing our income - which did not become an amendment until 1913. I have a pic of a horse on my checks - does that mean he is responsible for the funds to back up my checks? I give 10% of my earnings to my Church and donate to charities that I support. I also give my time - I have been the event chair for our Relay for Life, a Make A Wish grantor, and volunteer for several other community organizations - none of which I earn any income from - in fact I donate to these. I don't think it's the governments role to tax my income so that someone in Washington can decide who is worthy of my hard earned dollars. That should be my decision.The role of government should be to protect the citizens, not to baby them.

What's the rush?

For a guy who took over four months to decide on a dog, and still hasn't made a decision on a Church to attend he sure is in a hurry to push through his agenda.

Push, push, push! Let's push through more stimulus money. Let's push those Gitmo prisoners out into the world. Let's get Sotomayor pushed through. Push through more czars! Push GM into government takeover mode. Let's push through a universal health care plan.

What's the rush Prez Obama? If you can't decide on how to worship God, then why do we have to be rushed into accepting your agenda? These are important issues with huge pieces of legislation that needs to be read, discussed and voted on properly. What's the rush? Are you worried that someone might actually pay attention if you slow this down a bit?

Practice what you preach

We visited with a young family recently that are very big Al Gore fans. They argued that we all need to limit the size of vehicles, homes, etc. to help the planet go green. And, that the oil industry is a major pollutant of the planet. All the while we were debating these issues they had two vehicles sitting out front of a very nice home, a mini-van and a 4-door full sized pickup truck, which happened to be furnished by his oil field company which pays him big bucks!

I fully agree that we all need to become good stewards of this planet but swallowing Al Gore's hoax hook, line, and sinker is completely ludicrous. Especially since Al Gore owns something like 4 homes that suck down large amounts of power and natural gas. It's reported that his main home consumes more power in one month than an average home does in a year. And his pool uses $500 worth of natural gas a month!

Come on people. If you preach and truly believe, shouldn't you practice it as well?

Are you scared yet?

Come on, even if you voted for Obama, you must admit that you must be getting a little bit scared about the direction he is taking this country!

The first sign of a true dictator is to tell people what's really good for them because we probably aren't as smart as he is and he knows better. Green is good for us. Taking over private business is good for us. Cap and trade is good for us. Taking control of health care is good for us. Telling us what size car is good for us. Telling farmers what to plant is good for us. Telling us that we need to pay for abortions and birth control in other countries is good for us. Telling us to stay away from Vegas and not fly in private jets is good for us. Unions are good for us. Telling profitable businesses that they must close their doors is good for us. The list goes on and on and is getting longer every day!

Well, we can vote him out in four years, right? The day of free and fair elections is gone here in the good ole USA. The dems are making sure that illegals will have the "right" to vote and ACORN will continue in their arrogant ways. "Obama is good for us. We love Obama. Obama is good for us." Remember that clip?

We all need to pay more taxes on just about everything he can think of: cows emitting gas, cell phones provided by our employer, driving too many miles in our car, this list too, goes on and on. What are these taxes going for? Well, for Queen Pelosi to jet back and forth. For a Pres that can't stay in DC for more than 24 hours. For a "date night". For Barney Frank to hand out favors to his gay little friends.

Do I sound angry? You damn right. And are we going to do anything about this guy? This guy that says we are too arrogant, that we wave our little tea bags, and that we need to be more like Europe? Let's take our country back people!

It's time to de-throne Queen Pelosi

How much more can this woman get away with? Her prima-donna ways and lying is getting way too much. Nancy Pelosi thinks she is some kind of queen and expects everyone to give her a pass no what she says or does.

She lives on a double standard. This woman thinks she can tell corporate executives (and no I am not defending their excessiveness) that they should not be allowed to have corporate jets at their disposal but she can have do so at the taxpayers expense! Corporate America usually have offices throughout the country and world and several officers that utilize their jets. Time is money in corporate America.

Queen Pelosi thinks she is above traveling on commercial airlines and insists on having her own jet. And, she insists on having one of the most expensive jets the government uses. I could go on for hours on her excessiveness using tax payers money.

Now she is outright lying about her knowledge of "enhanced interrogation techniques". This woman has changed her story so many times about this one issue. It's not the first time she has lied but hopefully this time she has her feet held to the fire. This wouldn't even be an issue but she has been the one making such a big deal about the "torture" of those poor Gitmo detainees and has pushed to have the Bush adminstration prosecuted for doing the things that she knew about.

It's time to de-throne this liberal, money sucking, arrogant queen!

Retirement, what's that?

Well, if you work for, or have worked for, the big three car companies you have your retirement. As long as the unions keep sucking the life out of the car industry to pay retirement and health care benefits to everyone who ever worked for them for the rest of their lives they will need to keep stealing the taxpayers money to keep them solvent.

It's amazing to me that I have lost more than half of my retirement funds lately but these guys are guaranteed theirs and they made 3 times the wages of the ordinary American worker to top things off. Now our tax money has to keep bailing them out of trouble. Makes you sick doesn't it?

Why doesn't the government give the American taxpayer a big stimulus check ($15,000 or so) and let us go buy a new car if we want one? It's not solving the problem to just keep giving money to the car companies if no one is able to buy a new car! I would bet that the percentage of people that would buy a new car with a large stimulus check would be very high.

Common sense... Something Obama and the rest need a little more of, instead of tax money!

It's My Money and I Want It NOW!

If I were a citizen of California or Kansas I think that's what I would be yelling today. These states have overspent their budgets and guess who gets to pay for it? Of course, the taxpayers. Which is normal, right? But not in this circumstance it shouldn't be.

We have always been told that if you owe the government taxes then it is NOT your money to spend. If you do and can't pay your taxes then you can be prosecuted by the law. We have been in the position where we couldn't always pay our bills but do you think we could have used our income tax money to pay them? Nope.

Does this money belong to the State? No. It belongs to those people who have overpaid their taxes and deserve a refund. Wouldn't we be prosecuted if we tried to keep money that belonged to someone else?

I think if I lived in a State that did this I would do what most illegals do, put 9 dependants on my I9! That's how they get out of paying taxes on their income.

And that brings up the point that maybe California is suffering so much because of all of the illegals in their state. Some would claim that they pay taxes when they work. I beg to differ on that point. Most will claim 6 to 9 dependants, even 18 year olds! So therefore they don't pay any taxes but they qualify for all of the government assistance programs available and they know how to get it!

One little, two little, three little...

I love kids just as much as the next mom but I sure wonder about this woman! A single woman, who has filed bankruptcy, who has lived off of disability, and who lives with her parents has just had octuplets through invitro. Her other six kids were also invitro. Why? She loves babies... I would think that if you loved and wanted lots of kids then maybe adoption would have been a better option.

But, this doesn't all bug me as much as the the thought of who is going to pay for all of this? That's pretty well a no-brainer. The tax payer of course. I think she was hoping for lots of offers from baby companies, etc but they have kept their distance on this one.

Is she capable of giving these kids a good home? Sure, I know a family from Mud Lake that raised a huge family in a two bedroom basement home and they all turned out well. They had both parents and even though they didn't have much you never felt like the kids were neglected. I'm also pretty sure that the parents didn't expect handouts for their family.

I think that if a woman expects the government to pay for her kids then maybe there should be a limit. She can have as many as she wants but there should be a cutoff of payments for more than four kids or something like that. Too many women are making a "career" of having kids and then living off of welfare. It's just too bad that the kids are the ones that suffer from these situations. Where is personal accountability from these people?

I guess that as long as we are a society that feels guilty for every supposed wrong that someone flings at us we won't figure out that giving handouts is not the way to salve our conscience.

I hate to say I told you so...

They haven't even crowned Obama King yet and already I am seriously scared for our nation. As I have listened to family and friends say they want to give him a chance it makes my blood run cold. A chance to do what? To turn this nation into a liberal, socialist society? Well folks, it's headed there!
Obama wants to create 600,000 new government jobs. I say Viva La France to that one!
All abortions will soon become legal...
As well as liberal judges overturning the votes of the people on the definition of marriage.
We now have a global warming post. I guess they haven't noticed this is one of the coldest winters on record for some places.
Most of the "criminals" in the news have one person in common - Obama.
I could go on and on about his choices for different posts but the one that truly frightens me is Cass Sunstein to run the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is will be chief regulatory czar. And, he is a dedicated animal "rights" zealot!!!
He stated in his book that "Animals should be permitted to bring suit, with human beings as their representatives."
So the next time you decide you want to ride your horse, someone might see you and decide that your big fat butt is too heavy and bring a lawsuit against you for your horse! Think it's crazy? Well, some people thought that being told coffee is hot was too.
Hunting will not be allowed. Medical research, forget it if it involves lab rats. Steak suppers will be replaced with tofu. Seeing eye dogs are considered slaves.
This man has made it known that he thinks animals have rights and he will soon be in the position to enforce those rights!
Thanks Obama!