Who Are You Kidding?

Hey Michael, cut President Obama some slack. Give him a chance.

Your number 1 guy of all times - started out by being the son of a virgin. How many people could live that down today? He grew up being the son of a carpenter and a carpenter himself.

When his father died, Jesus would have been the first born son and inherited Joseph's carpenter business, fortune and responsibilities.

Instead, at the age of 30 he was baptized and started his ministry, leaving his family and going out with the fishermen.

we read that Jesus walked all over the countryside with fishermen claiming to the people and the Pharisees and Scribes that He and God were one and he was the Messiah!

He deliberately stirred trouble up with the Pharisees and Scribes and the Roman authority. AT the time of Jesus, The Jews were being taxed and ruled by the Romans. The Jews were waiting for this Messiah to come and save them from the Roman Empire.

Jesus talked about saving the people, but didn't lift a finger to save them from the Roman empire. What a disappointment that was to the Jews.

It wasn't till after Jesus was crucified that the disciples began teaching what Jesus was all about and how He would save the world. Even then, the people thought that Jesus would return in their time and save them from the anti-Christ with this Rapture.

Okay, so Jack Van Impe said that President Obama is liked by all the nations around the world and even said the world would follow Obama. He also stated that Obama would usher in the One World Order, which started years ago but was spoke publicly of by President George Bush Sr..

Our country is the super power of the world so it will more than likely be where the Anti-Christ comes from. It may even be where He rules until he moves his office to Jerusalem. It's true that if China called in our debt to them, they would own us. It has also been proven that when a country was in debt to another country, the indebted country just went to war with the county that owned them and defeated them, making the debt void because they owned the other country after they defeated them.

The U.S. has enough nuclear weapons on each nuclear submarine that we own and operate all over the world, to destroy the whole northern hemisphere. Of course, that would no doubt destroy the whole world, just like a huge meteor crashing into earth.

If, like you say, the year 2012, will usher in...?, then I would say it would be the beginning of the One World Order.

President Bush gave a stimulus package to the Finance world to bail them out, but they are still foreclosing on the people who have to pay the money back.

Obama is fixing to do the same thing. Why bail out the auto industries when we the people won't be able to buy the cars that they will be able to make with their fortunes? Or will they spend the money for vacations, retirement for top executives or company jets?

SO they are going to give us on Social Security $250. how is that going to help me when my groceries have doubled, water bill has gone up and Duck River charged me $450 this month for the same power I use every month. I think not! They are charging me for their clean up and extra oil they have to buy to furnish the power. Isn't that their problem?

Oh well, don't get me started on monopolies and businesses that provide a necessity, like the Propane Gas Company who wanted to go from $250 for a tank of gas to over $800. I made them come and get their tank last year. You should be able to look at me and tell I wasn't born yesterday. Oops, I did it again.

Let President Obama, do whatever it is he has to do. Time will tell.

God has foretold the end times from the beginning!

Isaiah 46:9-11

9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

Oh brother, here we go again Michael. Thought you weren't going to use politics to gain any religious influence. (Not that you have by what you stated) double yawn!!! Can't do it on your own huh! Good luck with that...

I agree , and I do pray for him, but his meteoric rise to fame worries me.

"They get blamed for everything that happens and the media doesn't let up."-- Posted by Unique-Lies on Sat, Feb 21, 2009, at 11:03 PM

If they have an "R" after their name that is true, but so far the media hasn't questioned anything about THE OBAMA. Instead they tell us about the tingly feeling that runs up their leg while in his presence.

I hope the MSM does come to it's senses, because the majority of Americans are asleep at the wheel and are easily contented with the bread and circuses of the left. I wonder if what's left of the country will be worth saving after this administration is done with it.

I really don't think anyone can trully call him a hero. However, a lot of young people of color now have a role model other than MLK. That is a good thing in many respects.

The real kicker to the whole thing is that he is only half black (African Descent) and half white (caucasian), and the correct english word for this first generational genetic combination is "MULATTO". I hope this doesn't offend anyone, it is just a racial fact.

Americans regardless of skin color or genetic make-up should respect his position as our Commander in Chief. He is only one of many sitting in Washington trying to solve our many problems. On his own He can do nothing! Many people have to sign off on anything He wants to do. His hands are really tied to our laws and our Congress as a whole. Anything he says can be over ridden by acts of Congress.

Lets just hope He can be a true figure-head for our country in such a manner that he may be called a hero.

Don't forget that for everyone living in a tiny little disconnected town there is one living in a disconnected ivory tower.

-- Posted by devan on Sun, Feb 22, 2009, at 7:53 AM

Christian? Please. You're the furthest from it.

According to Proverbs 3:5 we are to trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean NOT unto thine own understanding. That goes for interpeting the bible and to things that occur in your life.

Pray for the President and let the Lord lead him, and God will hold him accountable to the decisions he makes. We can't change what God has planned for each of us in our life. We are going to go through some terrible times ahead but we have to trust the Lord will lead us through them.

God not the government will take care of you.

what about the "kingdom of GOD " that is mentioned in our LORD"S prayer ? Let thy kingdom come , thy will be done ? Surely "HIS" kingdom is just around the corner to take care of all these problems When it comes to the path of life--- adults are like children. They are not capable of guiding their own steps. This was pointed out long ago by Jeremiah: "O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps."--Jer. 10:23, AS.

This fact is evident from the state of this world. Because it has rejected the wise guidance of God's Word it is a confused muddle. It is eaten through by corruption and torn by violence. This is the result of man's foolish effort to direct his own steps on the path of life. It is a folly that began ages ago when Eve wanted to decide for herself what is right and what is wrong instead of following the guidance of God.

So trust in GOD, lean not on self, or Obama .He is there because God allows him to be ..... for now .

Acknowledge GOD in this matter, and he will direct your path.--Prov. 3:5, 6; Matt. 7:16-20.

Yeah, quietmike, that's about the craziest thing I've read on the t-g today. When he gets done with it? Looks like we're already a sinking ship. We've got an illegal war George W. lied to get us into, we've got record amounts of debt (from George paying all of his military contractor buddies), we've got lots of white collar-crime with tons of financial fraud that was totally unregulated... and you have the nerve to say when Obama gets done? Wake up. Living in a tiny little disconnected town sure does show, doesn't it?

-- Posted by in the garden on Sun, Feb 22, 2009, at 3:16 AM

assuming we take all you've said on face value as truth, what is THE MOST HOLY AND ANOINTED ONE trying to do to solve any of it?

Illegal war?-Just vowed to send 17,000 more to Afghanistan.

Record debt?- Passed a 800 billion dollar "stimulus package" that will give the average American $8-$13 more a week. WOOOHOOO Now I can pay off my mortgage and help this country get on it's feet. (btw-frisbee golf courses in Texas might help too)

Unregulated white collar crime?-Kind of oxymoronic don't you think? If it's unregulated how do you know its a crime?

I do think it's funny the same folks who were swooning over Obama like teenage girls on the front row at an Elvis concert are starting to realize the kool-aid has a bad aftertaste.

Don't forget that for everyone living in a tiny little disconnected town there is one living in a disconnected ivory tower.

-- Posted by devan on Sun, Feb 22, 2009, at 7:53 AM

Christian? Please. You're the furthest from it.

-- Posted by nascarfanatic on Sun, Feb 22, 2009, at 9:03 AM

Care to elaborate? Don't see how that is even connected to the comment.

Thank you EM. You are an exceptional interpreter.

devan,

give me a ring 931-536-1279, I got something funny to talk to you about.

(waves to flat creek girl)

Now,that makes sense.

The President might think differently if he's citified but down-home folks (from never connected places like flat creek,new herman,wheel or raus) might keep a low profile until their deeds spoke eloquently for them rather than raise outlandish expectations that would have to be backed up with hard won reality.

As Walter Brennan once said:"No brag. Just fact."

When the honeymoon period is over,the Obama detractors will likely find him far less threatening while the rabid fans will be less impressed than they are now.

I'd wager they'd all find him pretty human.

But,we aren't that fond of reality.

The people a blatantly genuine God led out of bondage preferred a graven image they knew had no independent power or substance.

That was its whole appeal.

The icons we create we can destroy,control and manipulate.

The ones that can act,speak and think on their own are bound to disappoint.

The sooner Obama is revealed as a man instead of a concept,the sooner the blind adulation will stop (or be transferred to someone else.)

The President may be identifying with a certain famous leading man.

A man said to him:"I wish *I* could be Cary Grant!"

Archibald Leach (who,as Grant,had won acclaim and the adoration of thousands of fans) murmured fervently: "So do I. So do I!"

quietmike:

I'm sure as the great "american" you propose to be and obviously one totally against the stimulus package, you plan to refuse ANY part of the pk that affects you. YEH RIGHT ! Talk is cheap, just say no thanks. WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!!

-- Posted by up north on Sun, Feb 22, 2009, at 12:54 PM

Show me where to sign to opt out and I'll be glad to do so. Unfortunately I, and my children, would still have to pay for this folly.I have neither seen nor heard anything from this administration that I want any part of.

Cuba and China already have socialist governments in place if that's your cup of tea. No thanks.

I'd love to hear a RATIONAL explanation of how you believe it's illegal- I know the Bush Derangement Syndrome version, but I'd like to hear one based in facts.

-- Posted by quietmike on Sun, Feb 22, 2009, at 7:52 PM

Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House)

HJ 114 EH

107th CONGRESS

2d Session

H. J. RES. 114

JOINT RESOLUTION

To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.

.......

(2) acting pursuant to this joint resolution is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorist and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.

As has been discovered and proven, Iraq had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the 9/11 attacks.

There are numerous "rationale" reasons why it illegal, but getting that through an irrational skull seems to prove just as ineffective as the war itself.

You might want to brush over diagramming sentences again so you will be able to understand their meaning more clearly. The portion of the sentence after the double forward slash can be removed and still keep the full meaning of the sentence.

"(2) acting pursuant to this joint resolution is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorist and terrorist organizations, //including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001."

Iraq did commit terrorist acts by gassing the Kurds, and invading Kuwait. Iraq did have WMDs. Iraq did violate the terms of the cease fire numerous times. We were well justified to go back into Iraq, because they did not abide by the terms of the cease fire and ignored several warnings by the U.S. and several members of the U.N. Therefore it IS NOT an illegal war.

Quietmike, its a 2 year package of unprecedented extra spending. You expect them to just dump it all on everyone right now? Governments and localities have to get prepared and figure out what projects are going to start, reorganize to hire hundreds of people, and create whole new departments to even deal with it.-- Posted by in the garden on Sun, Feb 22, 2009, at 11:37 PM

The idea that the U.S. can be saved by hiring a bunch more beaurocrats , so they can plan a bunch more government projects, is absurd. Government is a parasite feeding off the producers of the country and Obama is giving it steroids.

If you were laid-off and were looking at foreclosure and bankruptcy, would you decide it was the perfect time to go on a missive shopping spree?

That is exactly what congress and Obama have done.

"It also begs the question of "Why are we attacking Iraq for terrorism when they gassed the Kurds years ago?" I don't think you've an answer for that, either."-- Posted by in the garden on Mon, Feb 23, 2009, at 1:43 AM

This Iraq war is a continuation of the war in '91. In between times we had a president who was more interested in interns than in enforcing the terms of the cease fire.

It is not specifically for them gassing the Kurds, but that is one example of the Hussein regime's willingness to use terrorist tactics.

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but 9/11 lowered the threshold of America's tolerance in regards to terrorism.

Hussein and his three sons were terrorists. They were even Terrorists in their own country, raping, torturing and killing their own people just to watch them suffer and/or die in agony.

Good riddance! I was glad to see us go in and take them out.

However, the main Terrorists were eliminated so it's time to get out and let the Middle East take care of their own.

If we are going to stay, then I would think we should at least remove all the weapons from the civilians over there so we can do whatever it is we are suppose to do in Iraq. That is the first thing they do here, in our country, is to remove any weapons "FIRST" for everyone's safety.

These people in Iraq won't even let the contractors rebuild their cities or buildings without killing them or kidnapping them. We can't keep the peace in a country that has civilians walking around day and night with rocket launchers and ground to air missiles strapped on their arms. They don't even aim them. They just stick them around the corner of a building and pull the trigger. Where the missile lands and/or destroys... they don't care. It's like little kids playing war.

It's time to pull out and let the cards fall were they may instead of our fathers, mothers, sons and daughters who are serving over there.

The stimulus package is a joke, and a very bad one. It will only help big corporations and the people who need the help will have to pay back the debt, not the corporations who get the big bucks.

If everyone in America got $1,000, it wouldn't be enough money to stop or even slow down a foreclosure. A tax free $1,000 isn't going to buy the unemployed a job.

Jobs is what is needed but road work and bridges? Come on now! We already have road construction workers who every year in late summer get to go out and repair perfectly good roads just to use up the budget money so they can get the same amount or more the following year. Nothing really big happens until just before the fiscal year comes up, then they resurface a good road again that uses up the last of the budget money in a hurry.

The State resurfaced the 1-24 Interstate south from Bedford a few years ago. When they were done, it was the worse resurface job I'd ever seen. I actually quit taking the Interstate south. It was suppose to be a quick way to use up the money in the budget. It no doubt cost them more in the long run.

By spending this money on roads and bridges, it will only hire a few new people because most people can't take the heat. It will give a lot of overtime to the many road and bridge workers.

Of course, that will make the roads and bridges a lot safer for all the new cars the Auto Industry will be able to put out with their bail out money, even if the people can't afford to buy new cars for several years to come, unless they get a job working on roads and bridges.

Pride and covetousness got us in most of the pickle we are in now.... we wanted something more, something "fancy", something the "Somebodies had"! And we forfeited our time, our families, our country to do just that!

Take a look at the rural areas of our country where people work hard and are not at all influenced by the materials things of wealth. They drive old cars and trucks that may not look like a shiney new penny, but get them where they are going. And most of them are American made. They eat at local mom & pop diners, and buy groceries from the store "in town".

When we became "citified", we wanted those fast fancy foreign cars that made us look like a million bucks. We wanted to drive 30 miles to go eat at a "fancy" restaurant, and go to the grocery and buy "organic". More, more, more. Now those fast fancy foreign car builders are raking in money that we can't pay the bank for... and I would venture to guess that not much of it is stimulating the economy in the good ole USA either!

The "New Deal" was the name that United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave to a sequence of central economic planning and economic stimulus programs he initiated between 1933 and 1938 with the goal of giving work (relief) to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and recovery of the economy during The Great Depression. The enactment of New Deal policies lasted from 1933 through 1938.

FDR and the Federal Reserve came up with these proclamations;

Executive Proclamations 2038, 2039, 2040 and the War Powers Act of October 6, 1917 (a/k/a The Trading with the Enemy Act)This is where President declared a banking holiday and made it a crime to hoard Gold; He declared the president could do anything he wanted to without the consent of congress, anytime this country was in a state of emergency; He then declared a State of Emergency because of the banking holiday and the depression, so he could confiscate the Gold and Gold Certificates from the people.

The Trading with the Enemy Act was amended to give the president the right to do whatever he wanted to without Congress's consent.

"The actions, regulations, rules, licenses, orders and proclamations heretofore or hereafter taken, promulgated, made, or issued by the President of the United States or the Secretary of the Treasury since March the 4th, 1933, pursuant to the authority conferred by Subsection (b) of Section 5 of the Act of October 6th, 1917, as amended [12 USCS Sec. 95a], are hereby approved and confirmed. (Mar. 9, 1933, c. 1,Title 1, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 1]".

The "First New Deal" of 1933 was aimed at short-term recovery programs for all groups. The Roosevelt administration promoted or implemented banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, agricultural programs, and industrial reform (the National Recovery Administration, NRA), and the end of the gold standard and Prohibition.

He took the Gold and Gold Certificates away from the American people and exchanged it with the Federal Reserve Notes which are ONLY redeemable for another Federal Reserve Note. Our money is "Fiat Money" and only valued at face value regardless of what the metal it is made out of is worth.

Half of our country look at FDR as a hero, while the other half of us think of him as selling us out to the Bankers who now own our country and everything we possess. Our money is backed by the United States and the productivity of the American People.

Only Gold or Silver coins can be made as legal tender in our country. So when we use a Federal Reserve Note, we are not paying our debt nor paying for what we buy. We are only creating another debt (adding it to the U.S. deficit) for the United States to pay when it's debt is called in. The United States is Bankrupt and has no money to pay its debt so the banks own our property etc.. By using the Federal Reserve Notes, we become co-signers with the United States Government and must pay back their loan with our productivity (or property).

These new Stimulus Packages only add to the free money Congress gets from the Federal Reserve (payable with interest when called in by the bankers). We are even indebted to China also.

All that money Congress gives to the President for wars, state of emergencies, stimulus packages, etc. just goes onto the bottom of the debt the U.S. owes the rich Bankers.

That is where your Tax dollars go. You tax dollars don't go into roads and programs to help our country. It all goes to the International Monetary Fund which isn't even a U.S. owned company.

Hopefully President Barack Obama won't go to such length as FDR did!

in the garden- do you live in the "tiny little disconnected town" of Shelbyville? Just wondering

This should be quite interesting :)))

Geez, I am going to bed and read it tommorrow.

in the garden,

Sorry, I was watching Dr. G and Medical Mysteries and ER shows.

Here it is:

Article I, Section 10, clause 1 of the United States Constitution!

No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit;

-> make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.

http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html...

Unique-Lies reveals yet another "Unique Lie" with proof!

If you read Article I, Section 8, clauses 1-17 you will find that the Central Government only has jurisdiction over all the people in 5 or 6 matters maybe 7.

We the people are the Sovereignty in this country, not the US Gov. The only powers the US Gov has over the people are listed in Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1-16.

These are the rights that were given to the Government by the Constitution.

Next, the States get all the rights that are left unless the constitution forbids them to the States.

What rights do the US Constitution forbid to the states? All the rights that are our rights which are guaranteed to us are forbidden to the States, unless we give the States our rights.

This is where you must know what your rights are or you lose them to the States or the US Gov. If you don't know what your rights are, You don't have any!

bearsmommy,

It is because he has no life and feels it makes his manhood larger.

Sharon22,

"We Piddle Around"! That is a nice phrase for what the scums are doing with the money!

I saw on TV tonight where another of the Big Finance Companies had a Huge Party with some of the money they got.

I feel like that is FRAUD and they should face criminal charges for spending the money that we have to pay back, because they won't be in business long enough to pay back their share of the ill gotten fiat money.

That is just as bad as scam artists stealing the life savings from the Senior Citizens or from anyone as far as that goes.

I lost everything I worked for when I was 40 including a foreclosure because there wasn't any Bailout money for the poor white trash back then. I had to start over again from nothing.

I moved to Tennessee because I couldn't afford to live in Florida any longer. I bought a lot on land contract and built my own home with out of pocket money (Cash left over from my paychecks). I don't owe anyone anything on my home. It is completely paid off and debt free with no leans, loans nor mortgages. It took me and my son 20 years to do it, but we did it.

michael bell,

Car 54, where are you?

Hope everything is going okay.

You have gotten quite and it makes me worry about you Bro.

You did not get electrocuted with a toaster, did you?

michael,

Have you been following the Jerusalem Post recently? Any interesting articles?

I wanted to tell you that I am almost through with Galatians in the Ancient Christian Writers Commentaries. I have been more than pleased with the book. Although Galatians remained Galatians as expected it was exciting and insightful to read the commentaries of many of the first, second and third century writers.

I have read several other commentaries on Galatians including the wonderful 14th century works of Martin Luther and modern day commentator John MacArthur but this was the best for me.

Look forward to your next blog. Glad you are feeling better.

Are you going to post more on that topic later? Sounds interesting.

Shame on you for just posting the teasing highlights. :)))

You will have me up all night just wondering what you have researched.