(2007-08-29) — On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama today blamed some storm survivors for “shattering the faith that millions of innocent people had in the power of government.”
“These people who have organized their own relief and rebuilding efforts have done more to hurt the poor, dependent folks of this country than anything in recent memory,” said Sen. Obama, D-IL. “Instead of waiting like good people of faith, these over-achievers have callously taken their future into their own hands. As a result, they gained an unfair advantage over others, and cast doubt on the ability of government to solve people’s problems.”
Sen. Obama said private-sector initiatives which have rebuilt many neighborhoods, churches and businesses were “little more than a cynical ploy by unbelievers to destroy the childlike trust of rest of us.”
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1 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 29, 2007 at 8:16 am
God Bless America
2 camojack // Aug 29, 2007 at 8:26 am
Sen. Obama said private-sector initiatives which have rebuilt many neighborhoods, churches and businesses were “little more than a cynical ploy by unbelievers to destroy the childlike trust of rest of us.”
Unbelievers in the “nanny” state, that is…
3 boberinyetagain // Aug 29, 2007 at 8:28 am
And East Timor (they deserve God’s blessing as much as we do)
2 years later and living in trailers, private/government/lack of initiative all around…whatever. It’s ludicrous!
4 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 29, 2007 at 8:37 am
I find it somewhat curious that a person who hates Almighty God would actually say a prayer for anyone-but, of course, I know the intent is to ridicule…..
5 boberinyetagain // Aug 29, 2007 at 9:12 am
I don’t hate God a bit. My God is far different from yours (He shares a multitude of similarities as well but you would deny this, much as He said you would, no worries)
I do not believe that mine or yours like America better than anywhere else, quite the contrary. What on earth have we done to deserve that? 5% of the population using 25% of the resources, producing 25% of the pollution. God made the world and he’s not pleased by what we are doing to it.
6 Darthmeister // Aug 29, 2007 at 9:25 am
bober, that “5% of the population using 25% of the resources producing 25% of the pollution” (and I would dispute some of those numbers) has created an unprecedent global prosperity and rise in overall living standards in the civilized world. Apparently the Muslim world and other Third World Marxist states are still living in the 12th Century, but I suppose you’ll find a way to blame America for that, too.
You can negatively spin the American juggernaut all you want but what you’ve just spewed comes straight from left-wing Marxist talking points.
7 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 29, 2007 at 9:35 am
As I said, the goal is simply to ridicule (and read minds and judge hearts and predict the future)…..
Oh, and LIE…..
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9 beekabok2 // Aug 29, 2007 at 9:54 am
God made the world and he’s not pleased by what we are doing to it
wow! perhaps bober should change his name to Moses since he seems to be speaking for God now. No wait, Moses didn’t really want the job at first did he?
“since I speak with faltering lips “
10 Shelly // Aug 29, 2007 at 10:04 am
I wonder if God is also displeased by the millions of people Americans have liberated or the billions and billions of dollars America gives to so many other countries. Or the American Universities that try to bring education to places that need it. Or the American Red Cross. Or the medical innovations. Or the agricultural ones. Maybe He at least likes the Peace Corps?
11 tomg // Aug 29, 2007 at 10:15 am
Maybe the government is just conserving power, being a good citizen, saving for the future. And trying to save NOLA with some ethanol or a hydrogen mine.
12 boberinyetagain // Aug 29, 2007 at 10:33 am
ah, I do love a good rationalization session. It makes one feel so clean when completed.
yep, we are the best thing that ever happened to the planet and, as a result, God loves us much, much better than any other country.
And He giggles mightily (at the mere concept of country, at the bragging, at the notion that good works could compensate for gluttony, a whole plethora of things)
Yeah, verily, God loves us best because we are the best, we deserve it! See y’all in hell
13 Roguet55 // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:00 am
BOBBERIN… SO MUCH HATE AND LOATHING, WHERE IN THE WORLD DOES THAT ALL COME FROM?
CAN’T WE ALL JUST …. OH NEVER MIND!
14 Fred Sinclair // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:01 am
Boberinyetagain -You may be right He doesn’t like what we’re doing to the earth, however I suspect He is even more displeased by scam artists selling phoney “carbon footprint credits” to idiots stupid enough to buy the manmade global warming fiasco (disaster, catastrophe, debacle, shambles, farce, mess, wreck; informal flop, washout, snafu). Another thing I’m sure He’s very unhappy about.
From WSJ The Opinion Journal -
These missing Americans
• There are 19,748,000 Democrats who are not with us today. (49.37 percent of 40 million).
• There are 13,900,000 Republican who are not with us today. (34.75 percent of 40 million).
• By comparison, then, the Democrats have lost 5,848,000 more voters than the Republicans have.
These Missing Americans-and particularly the millions of Missing Voters-when compounded over time are of enormous political consequence:
Missing voters by political party, 2000 general election
Republican
2,096,406
Independent
958,086
Democrat
2,978,605
Total
6,033,097
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15 SGT USMC 1ea // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:01 am
Wow bob,
Getting awfully emotional are we not. I really hope you do not intend to go to hell.
Is there something wrong with asking Gods’ blessing upon your nation or family or world?
Anyhow I suppose I am one of those people who interfered with Obamas nanny state although I did get reimbursed for the generator I purchased.
Jesu est Semper Fidelis
16 Shelly // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:10 am
Rogue55, it’s not just the hate and loathing, it’s the continued lie that anyone on this site has ever even suggested that God favors the US over other countries. Praising the efforts of troops, scientists, educators and philanthropists is not to be tolerated, even if that means making false accusations against people who choose to thank many who deserve thanks, simply because those contributors are American. America can never be good, and if you suggest it is then you are making outrageous claims about God. It’s distorted logic at best, but it’s all he’s got. I guess we used too many resources delivering food, clothing, blankets and medicine to the tsunami victims. Shame on us.
17 boberinyetagain // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:11 am
Nothing wrong with asking SGT. But there is precious little asking that’s done imho.
It has more of an “assumption” or “entitled” feel to it than a request.
And, again, He giggles at the thought of “country”, there is no such thing to Him.
He will not/does not favor one country over another. Will not/does not favor one sports team over another. Will not/does not favor one side of a war over another. For the first 2 examples He giggles, for the last example He merely weeps.
And so it goes…
18 beekabok2 // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:24 am
And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace Romans 11:6(NIV)
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) Ephesians 2:5 (KJV)
It is my belief that once we accept Jesus as our Saviour, we will all make it to heaven. My hope for you, Bober, would be that you too accept Him as your saviour and you won’t go to hell. While I can understand some of your worries about what Man has done to Earth, I can’t see how complaining about it without solutions would ever be constructive.
my 2 cents
19 gafisher // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:35 am
Fred re: #14 — Remember that millions of Democrat votes in each election are cast by the dead, and they STILL can’t win a legitimate victory. I’m not one to say the Almighty is on one “side” or the other, but …
20 conserve-a-tips // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:37 am
Sorry to make this so long guys, but I couldn’t let Boberin off so easy -
Boberin:
I have to tell you that you remind me of the deists who think that God created the universe and then stepped back into his little realm of glory and disappeared to leave everything up to man to control. How utterly against the Biblical scripture! To think that man has any control over the circumstances of nature is absurd. I can see the people back in Noah’s day, as those first raindrops fell, saying, “Oh no. We need to stop making so many cooking fires. We can stop this if we don’t put so much CO² into the atmosphere! Look at that stupid Noah. He’s loading that boat with nothing but methane producers! We need to put a tax on him for leaving such a huge carbon footprint! Now stop eating and put out those fires!” The rain put the fires out for them.
To those who would worry their petty (sic intended) little heads over climate change, I would direct them to Psalms 131: My heart is not proud, O Lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I have stilled and quieted my soul like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, put your hope in the Lord both now and forevermore.
To those who arrogantly think that man can affect the natural forces, I would guide them to Psalm 107: Others went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters. They saw the works of the Lord, his wonderful deeds in the deep. For he spoke and stirred up a tempest that lifted high the waves. They mounted up to the heavens and went down to the depths; in their peril their courage melted away. They reeled and staggered like drunken men; they were at their wit’s end. Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress. He stilled the storm to a whisper; the waves of the sea were hushed.
To those who place man’s destiny into man’s hands, I take them to Job 38: Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm. He said: “Who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man’ I will question you and you shall answer me. Where wer you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimension? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set or who laid its cornersotne - while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed LIMITS for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, ‘This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt’? Have YOU ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place, that it might take the earth by the edges and shake the wicked out of it?”
And to those who say that it’s hotter now than ever before, that man is responsible and that our food sources are going to be destroyed, I take you to Genesis and beg you to read the account of Joseph in Egypt where the Lord told him that there would be 7 good years to use to prepare for the 7 years of horrible famine that would cover the earth. That was not of man’s doing either and a warning to us to prepare in these times of plenty for the times of want.
And finally, to those who think that our nation is not under God, I would remind them that ALL nations are under God and that “The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance. From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind; from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth - he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do. No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength it cannot save. But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.” Psalm 33
So Boberin, where is your hope? Is it in the Lord or in the “best laid plans of mice and men??”
21 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:41 am
Fee-lings, whoa, oh, oh, fee-lings…..
I guess those are as good a reason as any to spew lies and venom…..
Not that someone who fully intends on going to hell needs a reason to hate Almighty God…..
22 conserve-a-tips // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:55 am
Sen. Obama said private-sector initiatives which have rebuilt many neighborhoods, churches and businesses were “little more than a cynical ploy by unbelievers to destroy the childlike trust of rest of us.”
Sometimes, Scott, you cut so deeply that there is nothing left to expose. This one statement has such a ‘wow’ factor. Childlike faith - not a bad thing - but in what and who?
23 Tinman // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:57 am
Whoa! Folks. You let Boberin take over the blog with his idiotic nonsense.
Excellent job Scott. The point is hard to miss.
24 conserve-a-tips // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:02 pm
#22 - That should be “whom” - ’scuse me grammar hounds.
25 Shelly // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:03 pm
“He giggles at the thought of ‘country’, there is no such thing to Him.”
Have you ever actually read any of the Bible, boberin? Pick one up, go to the Concordance and look up the word “Nations.” Or “Israel.” Or “Egypt.” Or “Babylon.” Maybe “Philistine.”
26 Shelly // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:08 pm
By the way, fellow Scrapplers, this heart-warming tribute to our finest is a must read.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/
Hat tip to mig.
27 beekabok2 // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:21 pm
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28 fabledsage // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Hey boberinyetagain:
You are (shock) mistaken. You should use your bible for more than just a booster seat.
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.” Gen 15:18-21
God does favor a nation, Israel, and He also favors any nation that helps Israel.
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.” Gen 12:3
29 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:38 pm
wow, late to the dinner table again. Bober, does God love you more than He does the rest of us Americans. In that case He must just adore Algore and his many minions.
How much does God love me-this much (but you have to use your imagination to see Jesus’s arms spread out on the cross)
30 boberinyetagain // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:39 pm
cat, I don’t believe I mentioned man vs earth or mans effect thereupon. The earth will be fine no matter what.
No matter
I do scoff at most folks notion of God though (as does He). I’ll add religion to the list of things He finds amusing.
And, with that, I’m gone, annoying folks too much
31 mig // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:44 pm
We can now start substituting Katrina victims with the Greeks, there gov’t is $4000 right away to victims of fire. Like those debit cards that were issued. And then squandered. Greeks are saying that it isn’t enough. Interchange the Katrina victims with Greeks. Now I am going out on a limb here but are they thinking thier government expects them to rebiuld with $4000 or did they just say, this is for starters. Like- go get some food and maybe a change of clothes and a place to stay while everybody processes what just happened.
I would just like to extend my greatest Thanks to fire fighters every where for service.
32 conserve-a-tips // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Boberin: When you start talking resource use and pollution, then you are talking man’s effect on this earth.
33 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Liar
34 mig // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:51 pm
PS boober-
Becareful about that judging… You’ll be measured by your own yardstick. Scoff scoff.
35 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Great camping weather for the unknownfest
http://www.wunderground.com/help/?topic=1&question=6#answer
Go to the upper right hand corner and paste in zip code 15501
36 mig // Aug 29, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Speaking of G-d and all, Vick found Jesus! He’s such a card! He’s got the race card and the religon card.
Go fish!
37 Maggie // Aug 29, 2007 at 1:52 pm
SHELLY!!!!!!!!
Did you receive any of emails I sent your way?
38 Fred Sinclair // Aug 29, 2007 at 1:54 pm
boberinyetagain - I asked one of your relatives what he thought of your ideas about God, He told me he wasn’t your relative but he had a talk awhile back with a couple of his relatives about this. - Waxless Fred
Three Monkeys.
Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree, discussing things as they’re said to be.
Said one to the others, “Now listen, you two, There’s a certain rumour that can’t be true.
That man descends from our noble race; the very idea is a shocking disgrace.
No monkey ever deserted his wife, or starved her babies, and ruined her life,
and you’ve never known a mother monk, to leave her babies with others to bunk,
or pass them on, from one to another, till they scarcely know, who is their mother.
“Here’s another thing a monk won’t do, go out at night and get in a stew;
Or use a gun or club or knife, to take some other monkey’s life.
“And another thing you’ll never see, a monkey build a fence ’round a coconut tree
and let the coconuts go to waste, forbidding all other monks a taste.
Why if I put a fence around this tree, starvation would force you to steal from me.
Yes, man descended, the ornery cuss,
“but brother he didn’t descend from us”
39 Just Ranting // Aug 29, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Bober,
Sorry, this is a long one…
You may want to spend some time in the scriptures if you want to understand the mind and will of God. The god you have created in your mind is not the one true God. To believe that way directly opposes the commandments. God does not bend to become the image of what we want Him to be. C.S. Lewis said, “There are two kinds of people in the end; those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” And the consequences are eternal.
God does judge each nation as he does each person.
Leviticus 26:3-8
“If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land. I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land. But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword; five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.”
No, America is not perfect. No one here would argue it is. Countries are imperfect because their leaders are imperfect as well as those they lead. But God has blessed this country because generations before us (and many in this time) believed in Him and called on him in times of need, and haved thanked Him in times of plenty. It is by following in faith the God who gave us the commandments that we, as individuals, are saved. And the more of us that are gathered in faith and follow His will, the more blessed we are and the land in which we live.
40 Deerslayer // Aug 29, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Let’s see…we could cut 2% of national fuel consumption used by agriculture (not enough farmers to worry about at election time). That could lead to starvation of millions of the world’s inhabitants. We produce far more machinery and drugs than we need. We could really save allot of resources by not producing that excess instead of sending all of the excess to better life in other countries. Come to think of it, we could limit all of our vehicles to 10 miles per day travel. Might take 4 days to get to work but what the hey there won’t be any work after we get there anyway. I guess we could open the doors and windows and let the temperatures get down to 0 degrees or perhaps up to 100. Guess the fact that we produce far more than 25% of the world’s good things with only 25% of the energy means we’re doing far to much producing. Starting to sound like a liberal’s excuse for more days off. less work, more time to play (within the 10 mile limit). No it’s just boberin logic.
41 conserve-a-tips // Aug 29, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Just Ranting: That was beautifully said.
Deerslayer - I am reading a book right now called, “Pioneer Women-Voices from the Kansas Frontier” and am finding it fascinating to see where we have come in just 100-120 years. Perhaps the liberals would prefer that we go back to the 1880’s and literally just take care of/provide for ourselves and forget about the rest of the world.
42 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 29, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Shoot, Richard Jewell just died. Now the conspiracy freaks will have no where to turn.
God rest his soul-and just who did the bombing those many years ago.
43 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 29, 2007 at 3:44 pm
From the UPI
“Senator Larry Craig has agreed to comply with Leadership’s request that he temporarily step down as the top Republican on the Veteran Affairs Committee, Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, and Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. This is not a decision we take lightly but we believe this is in the best interest of the Senate until this situation is resolved by the Ethics Committee,” they said in a statement.
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Funny, I thought gay people were good at controlling things like the birds and creeks and all that stuff which effects the quality of life.
I guess only gay people who are not gay people who are Democrats, but not straight Democrats are good at controlling the environment.
Oh, I’m so confused. Please someone help me out. I can’t even figure out what the guy did but McCain can since he is screaming the loudest for Larry Craig to resign
Plus if the Islamics can do their thing at Minneapolis airports why can’t un-gay Republicans. And just who is behind this witch hunt.
Questions, questions, questions. I bet Richard Jewell knew the answer
44 Just Ranting // Aug 29, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Who said “Where do I go to get my reputation back?” Was it Richard Jewell or Sen. Larry Craig?
How does one solicit gay sex in a mens room between stalls with ones shoe? Do you switch to high heals and whistle show tunes?
45 bRight & Early » Two Years After Katrina // Aug 29, 2007 at 4:51 pm
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46 bRight & Early » Two Years After Katrina // Aug 29, 2007 at 4:51 pm
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47 Liger // Aug 29, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Hey suckers,
Great days to be in the grand ol’ party, eh. David Vitter, Ted Stevens, and now Larry Craig. Good Golly, what a bunch of hippocrites.
Love always,
Liger
48 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 29, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Somehow I knew the wicked witch of the north would blow in
49 SnakeDoctor // Aug 29, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Just Ranting #44,
high heels and show tunes… very funny.
re: the boberinyetagain kerfuffle,
While I appreciate the sentiment of wishing for or asking God’s blessing on America, I fear that it is, ultimately, an exercise in futility. Short of that, I suppose it depends on your definition of blessing.
The reason I believe that it may be an exercise in futility is because I believe that currently, America is under the wrath of God. Several years ago I was listening to a tape sermon by John MacArthur (pastor since 1969 of Grace Community Church in suburban Los Angeles) about the wrath of God. One aspect of God’s wrath is abandonment where He essentially becomes the god that the deists (wrongfully) claim He is and leaves us to our own devices.
When you look at the seemingly intractable problems that beset America,
Drug abuse - the war on drugs hasn’t seemed to work,
I doubt that legalization would work much better.
Education - Miss Teen South Carolina, need I say more.
The Congress - deficit spending of our tax dollars, much like drunken sailors and whoring just like drunken sailors.
Pornography -
Abortion -
Welfare State -
Corporate Crime -
Murder -
Greed -
Covetousness -
Divorce -
and this is just a short list, I can’t help but believe that as a nation we are under God’s wrath and it is the wrath of abandonment. I also believe that God abandoned us when we, as a nation officially abandoned Him in 1963.
[Madeline Murray O’Hair (Murray v Curlett), Supreme Court 8-1 Decision.] Just my opinion but it seems more than coincidental that nearly all the pathologies that plauge us as a country got worse in the last 40 or so years.
Does that mean that God cannot bless us, either individually or corporately? Of course not. As we all know, God can do whatever He chooses, whenever He chooses. I do believe, however, that if we truly desire
God’s blessing on America we must first make sure that we are right with him (I realize that I am saying some things that have already been said).
If those of us who claim to be Christians would act like what we profess (and I put myself at the top of the list of those who all too often fail at doing just that) perhaps God would have mercy on us, heal our nation and then truly bless us.
Just one man’s opinion.
50 conserve-a-tips // Aug 29, 2007 at 6:05 pm
SnakeDoctor, that is why Liger doesn’t get it…I mean, why Craig must go if he has done what he has been accused. It has nothing to do with hypocricy of a party or of Christians…it has to do with the accountability of one man. “To whom much has been given, much is expected.” To be placed in the seat of honor of the Senate, that is to be given much. If one does dishonor to that, then it is taken away. For us in this nation, with whatever we Christians allign, we must make sure that it is pleasing to God and gives him glory and honor.
51 SGT USMC 1ea // Aug 29, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Oh my this had looked like a troll free zone. What is a hippo crite anyhow, a large amphibious mammal that claims to be cute and benign while actually being responsible for more deaths than crocs and sharks combined? Maybe it is a variation of the Greek mathamaticians name.
Craig is an emberassment. What did he do? Put a cameraphone under a stall door? If he did not commit a lewd act how could honor allow him to make a statement saying he did? Send him away.
52 egospeak // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Well Liger, hypocrisy is something you would know about as your party is equally, if not more intimately, acquainted with it. Need I mention Ted Kennedy (death of Mary Jo Kopechne), Barney Frank (a gay prostitution ring being run out of his house), William Jefferson (100k bribe in his refrigerator in New Orleans, Nancy Pelosi (the tuna deal), Harry Reid (the land deal), John Murtha (Abscam) all still serving in the most ethical/ congress ever. What about Gerry Studds (having gay sex with a congressional page), or Dan Rostenkowski (convicted of corruption after the 1994 elections)? I’m sure there are plenty more Dems that I’ve just forgotten.
I’m not defending Republicans, just reminding you that hypocrisy is not restricted to one party… if that simple truth can penetrate you peabrain.
Regards,
53 SGT USMC 1ea // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:10 pm
spelling emberassment wrong is….
54 egospeak // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Well Liger,
Hypocrisy is something you would know about as your party is equally, if not more intimately, acquainted with it.
Need I mention Ted Kennedy (responsible for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne), Barney Frank (a gay prostitution ring being run out of his house, and he didn’t know a thing about it. Uh huh.), William Jefferson (100k bribe in his refrigerator in New Orleans), John Murtha (Abscam), Nancy Pelosi (the tuna deal), Harry Reid (the land deal), all still serving in the most “ethical” Congress ever?
What about Gerry Studds (having gay sex with an underage congressional page), or Dan Rostenkowski (convicted of corruption after the 1994 elections)? I’m sure there are plenty more Dems that I’ve just forgotten.
I’m not defending Republicans, just reminding you that hypocrisy is not restricted to one party… if that simple truth can possibly penetrate your peabrain.
Regards,
55 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:43 pm
When I say God Bless America, I’m not making a demand, I’m not stating a fact, I’m not even making a request and I’m certainly not suggesting that the USA (or the western hemisphere) deserves to be blessed any more than any other country, continent or hemisphere.
When I say God Bless America, I am acknowledging to Almighty God that I recognize the desperate need we have for Him, I am acknowledging to Him that I recognize that to Him and Him alone is the Power and the Glory forever, I am honoring and worshiping Him.
When I say God Bless America, I do so because I know that the children of Almighty God who also frequent this wonderful site understand these things, that their voices join mine in saying, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done,” that they know (as I do) that no one “deserves” a single, solitary thing from Almighty God, that we-the children of God-know for a fact that Almighty God hears us and we don’t forget that our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ said, “For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.”
There is another reason or two why I try to say God Bless America at the top of the comments here at ScrappleFace but this is long enough already.
56 EXT // Aug 29, 2007 at 7:54 pm
So here’s the way it works:
Hillary gets the Democrap nomination.
The nation recoils in horror; elects an extremely conservative Republican as president with a Congress just slightly to the right of Reagan.
The symbol of The Republican Party, being the long-memories elephant, the witch-hunt for even the most slightly soiled Democraps starts right after the invocation on the first day of the new Congress.
PBS declines to cover the hordes of hearings.
ABC, CBS, NBC smell the wind and decline to cover them but also cower from denigrating them.
Fox News zooms to the top of the ratings with live coverage of the drawing and quartering of Democraps as a reliable means of securing their “heartfelt” confessions.
57 SnakeDoctor // Aug 29, 2007 at 8:20 pm
JL3 re: 55
Well said. All I can add is Amen!!
58 SGT USMC 1ea // Aug 29, 2007 at 8:32 pm
So anyhow that generator I purchased was 5500 Watts and cost $754 and when I applied to FEMA for reimbursement they repaid me $717 dollars for the expense. I never have used the generator since I took the family up to Gatlinburg TN for a vacation as soon as one of the state banks got power and I could get ahold of some money two days afterwards. Just wanted to get my little ones out of the way. All of my property reclamation was done by myself and a few neighbors whom I helped as well. Sorry Obama…Scott Ott is right.
We do not need your nanny state!
Jesu est Semper Fidelis
59 SGT USMC 1ea // Aug 29, 2007 at 8:51 pm
JL3,
All Blessings can only be requested not demanded. Blessings are a gift. On the other hand promises can be demanded. Try to keep your hip unsmitten while doing so.
Deus est Semper Fidelis
60 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 29, 2007 at 9:44 pm
RE: #59~~
SGT USMC 1ea~~
Thank you for reminding me of Genesis 32 because it reminded me (and I needed to remember) of what I had read years ago in Calvin’s commentary on Genesis 32:24 which in turn reminded me of this:
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”~~Jeremiah 29:11
61 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 29, 2007 at 10:18 pm
THE SKUNK LAKE LABOR DAY CHURCH PICNIC
Across the Northern Plains, Labor Day signifies the end of summer. Winter looms beyond the colorful hues of autumn and when you live in the Northland, every waking moment is spent concerning oneself with winter’s onslaught.
http://shellyscafe.blogspot.com/
62 Darthmeister // Aug 29, 2007 at 10:44 pm
A Muslim-themed school supported by tax dollars will soon open in New York to the applause of “enlightened” liberal educators. Hmmmmmm, I wonder when those Christian-themed schools supported by tax dollars will begin opening?
Don’t you love it when left-wing nutbags try to smear all conservatives when someone fails to live up to their standards which are often higher than the liberals? I seem to remember Democrats Mel Reynolds, Barney Frank, Daniel Inouye, Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, Gus Savage, Wayne Hays, Gerry Studds, Brock Adams, Fred Richmond, James Traficant, and William Jefferson being returned to office my liberal Donk voters even after they’ve been charged with a federal crime in some cases! Says a lot about liberal voters.
If Larry Craig actually did what was alleged, then the good Republican voters of Idaho will deal with him in a way in which liberal Demoncrap voters are unwilling to deal with their child molesters, rapists, gay prostitution ring leaders, bribe takers, and an irresponsible drunk who drowned a woman who represent them in Congress. But it appears Republican leaders are already pressuring Senator Craig to resign, something that wasn’t asked of all the Democrats listed above by Demoncrap leadership. Now we are witnessing the typical double-standard harangues by left-wing partisan hacks who if they were honest to their God-forsaken cultural agenda would normally be applauding Senator Craig’s hubris if he were a Democrat.
63 Effeminem // Aug 29, 2007 at 11:17 pm
.. Gay prostitution ringleaders? Seriously. If any of those exist, then they are doing a public service.
64 mig // Aug 30, 2007 at 5:42 am
Public Christian themed school? Heck we can’t even read a bible in there!
65 mig // Aug 30, 2007 at 5:55 am
Heck even the Boy Scouts aren’t allowed:
http://www.theacru.org/blog/2007/08/open_letter_to_the_guilford_county_school_board/
66 Darthmeister // Aug 30, 2007 at 8:23 am
Alberto Gonzales was flawed, but he was no Janet Reno.
84 incinerated Americans at the Branch Davidian compound are mute testimony to this reality.
67 Darthmeister // Aug 30, 2007 at 8:26 am
More Demoncrap corruption the liberal media will sweep under the rug.
68 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 30, 2007 at 9:38 am
Again, I insist that Hillary Clinton resign. Oh, wait, I forgot: Morals and ethics do not apply to the Democrat party; in fact, the lack thereof is applauded, encouraged and rewarded by them.
She gets about 100,000 suspicious dollars from a convicted fugitive felon, decides that if she claims to have given 23,000 of it to some “charity” she’s off the hook.
How much do you want to bet that they deduct the $23,000 as a charitable donation? Why is she keeping the other $77,000? How is it that only 23% of the total that she received from a convicted fugitive criminal is tainted? How is it she is getting away with aiding and abetting a fugitive?
I know there are others in the Democrat party who have also received funds from this convicted fugitive criminal, I ask the same questions of them and insist on the following:
They should all resign their positions (whatever they are, public/private) immediately, they should also immediately remove themselves from the race for president, immediately turn themselves in to the authorities and be vilified for all eternity.
69 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 30, 2007 at 9:45 am
Ah, well, of course, no sooner than I hit the submit button I get this which corrects the numbers I was using:
Change 100,000 to 1,000,000
Change 23% to 2.3%
Sorry about that.
70 mig // Aug 30, 2007 at 10:21 am
from lgf…
http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/blog/link/like-a-suppository-only-stronger
71 Darthmeister // Aug 30, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Ya know, third generation welfare families should shatter the faith of left-wing collectivists who bought into FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s war on poverty.
My youngest son is taking some sociology classes and almost all the professors are raving Marxists who harangue the students hours on end about the eeeeeevils of capitalism and the wonderful benefits of socialism. This last week my son raised his hand and asked the professor why is it he continued to believe in a failed Marxist socialist economic system as the cure for all mankind’s ills when it failed the Soviet Union so miserably over a period of time. He essentially concluded: “So, aren’t American socialists essentially saying the Russian (or Cubans, or Chinese, or Vietnamese) people were too stupid to make such a grand political theory work to the benefit of all? Or is it that American socialists think they are so smart that they can make pigs fly?”
Touché!
72 conserve-a-tips // Aug 30, 2007 at 2:04 pm
Heh, all of you who are going to the Scrapple Jamboree, have fun! I assume that most will be leaving tomorrow and I just wanted to wish you all safe travel and a grand time. Perhaps the rest of us can join you next year. Take pictures and write down stories so you can share them with us! Bon apetit’ !!!
73 Harry Daschle // Aug 30, 2007 at 2:12 pm
I just can’t seem to make myself listen to anything Obama says after the, “-10,000 people were killed in Kansas-”, “—my favorite show is C-Span-”, and, “—the President of Canada-” comments that came out of this moron’s mouth!
Keep in mind that even our own party and Fox News let these comments die after a few airings, while almost 20 years after Dan Quale (sp?) made his “potatoe” gaff, libs still laugh at him. The same libs that consider Obama the Moron a viable choice for President!
I hate to say it but, Sharpton has more intelligence than this guy! Not much more, but more!
74 its-just-me // Aug 30, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Re #71 -
I’m back in school myself.
It’s not just sociology profs who “are raving Marxists who harangue the students hours on end about the eeeeeevils of capitalism and the wonderful benefits of socialism.”
It’s virtually across the board.
So much for “academic freedom.”
You get the same line of b-s- in almost every class.
75 Just Ranting // Aug 30, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Scrapplers,
In case I don’t get a chance to say so later, have a great time at Scrapplestock (or whatever you decide to call it). Party responsibly, ’cause we can’t afford to lose anyone from the Scott Ott School for Advanced Conservative Satire. (Hope Limbaugh didn’t tradmark that one.)
76 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 30, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Q. Why did the armidillo cross the road
A. To prove it could be done
Q. Why did the scrapplers meet in Pennsyvania
A. To prove it could be done
77 mig // Aug 30, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I with you all in heart and spirit. Pictures Pictures Pictures!!!
78 onlineanalyst // Aug 30, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Woo hoo!
I just picked up the tee shirts late this afternoon, and they look co-o-o-o-o-l!
What do they say? With striking red and black lettering on a white shirt L or XL):
ScrappleFace (in the blog’s typeface)
Scott Ott©
FACE 2 FACE (Thanks to whoever suggested that idea.)
RALLY ‘07
We will really miss those unable to attend. I can send you a souvenir shirt should you so desire.
Let’s roll!
What was just a fantasy last March seems to be coming together. Special surprise: Our fearless leader promises to join us on Sunday afternoon. Double co-o-o-o-o-l!
79 conserve-a-tips // Aug 30, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Well, Onlineanalyst, I want me one of them thar cool t-shirts. Just because I can’t be there, doesn’t mean I can’t look cool too. Post the cost and let us know.
80 onlineanalyst // Aug 30, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Back on topic: At The American Spectator today, columnist Jeffrey Lord wrote a letter in response to another of the journal’s columnists about New Orleans post Katrina. The money paragraphs:
“Conservatives are right, however, to raise serious policy issues as the rebuilding of New Orleans proceeds. The failure laid bare in New Orleans with Katrina was not, and is not, limited to, much less unique to, New Orleans. Decades of liberal policy proscriptions for America’s cities — cities run almost exclusively by Democrats — have categorically proved themselves to be failures. Much is made, by Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and many others, of the post-Katrina problems of New Orleans’ 9th Ward.
“The conservative question should be: Where were these people like Mr. Edwards BEFORE Katrina? And why was the 9th Ward in such bad shape to begin with? The answer to these questions can be found in other cities in America — like Barack Obama’s Chicago or here in my own state of Pennsylvania in sections of Philadelphia or any number of other urban areas, including the city of Washington, D.C., outside the sections dominated by the federal government and the monuments. Millions were squandered on so-called “housing developments” that became squalid infestations of crime and drug addiction. The public education system was/is held hostage to greedy unions and mediocrity, millions of taxpayer dollars producing badly educated kids. Corruption among bureaucratic officials, occasionally reaching right into various city halls, was/is rampant. And always the answer is to raise taxes higher, the money getting wasted on more bad policy almost as soon as it arrives in the coffers of big city X.
“Although I’ve made no endorsement of any GOP presidential nominee, it’s easy to see why former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is doing so well in the run-up to 2008 for just his pre-9/11 New York record alone. He rarely flinched in challenging the liberal conventional wisdom of how to govern a city, and the results are now remarkably clear. Anyone who was familiar with, to take one famous example, the condition of Times Square pre-Giuliani and post-Giuliani can see a difference as stark as used to be seen between what was once East Berlin and West Berlin. And for precisely the same reasons.”
81 Darthmeister // Aug 30, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Harry Daschle,
You mean there weren’t 10,000 bloated corpses in Kansas like there were in New Orleans? I see the Bu$Hitler/Cheney/RoveHimmler/Haliburton/Exxon junta is getting better at hiding the bodies before the lamestream media gets there. Dang that Rovian Weather Control Machine … but I sure like our cool August weather here in flyover country! Thanks, Karl.
82 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 30, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I got three and a half rolls of Kodachrome and my trusty Nikon. Yes, my dear friends there will be pictures.
Five loaves of homemade bread a ton of cookies and homemade buttermilk pancake mix coming from the bunker.
Upnorth
Your pecans will be enjoyed at the event.
83 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 30, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Don’t forget to read my Labor Picnic story at the cafe. I think the notice got lost in the rumble.
http://shellyscafe.blogspot.com/
84 Maggie // Aug 30, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Dear Scrapplers,
Here’s hoping you have a wonderful time at the Face2Face Fest. Please post comments if you can and keep us informed.Eat a wfccc for me.
Online,
Put me down for a t-shirt.I’ll email you .
85 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 30, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Just for grins, I’d like to know how many accountants the GAO has stationed in Iraq.
86 da Bunny // Aug 30, 2007 at 8:16 pm
I’ll be with you all in spirit at the “Rally ‘07.” I’m so disappointed that I won’t be there to meet our fearless leader. And, as for the t-shirt…I’d like one, too!!
87 onlineanalyst // Aug 30, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Tee shirts are $11.50 apiece plus postage and handling. (I am absorbing the graphics business set-up fee for the specs. Now that the design is in the hopper, I can order as many shirts as we want for the price above.)
We can work out details and addresses via email next week, and I will post your souvenirs ASAP then.
JLIII: Exactly!
88 Effeminem // Aug 30, 2007 at 11:20 pm
O/T, Here’s some positive news from the ground in Iraq. It’s anecdotal, but it’s in line with everything else I’ve heard.
Most of the negative comments are true as well. The US as a whole doesn’t have the attention span to stand by our commitments, and we still have a few years left before the insurgency dies out. I think Bush et al. still have enough tricks up their sleeve to maintain force at pre-surge levels through 2008, but no one wants to increase the size of the Army to make a sustainable occupation possible.
P.S. …the military is not in shambles.
89 camojack // Aug 31, 2007 at 12:32 am
I like the “ScrappleFace to Face” idea…but I’ve still not seen any evidence that “ScrappleFest” is copyrighted.
Whatever. How ’bout ScrappleFolk Festival?
90 mig // Aug 31, 2007 at 5:35 am
One tee for me peeze.
91 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 31, 2007 at 7:26 am
camojack
we will discuss that at supper tonight!
92 Pirate’s Cove » >>Americans Never Quit » Aside: Where's Cold Cash? // Aug 31, 2007 at 8:18 am
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93 Darthmeister // Aug 31, 2007 at 9:15 am
Demoncrats are Idaho Dreamin’.
94 MargeinMI // Aug 31, 2007 at 9:18 am
I’m in for a tee, too. In fact, I’d pay a little extra to have it signed by the participants! Even a message such as ‘Marge is a bad girl for not being here’ or ’shame on you.’ Please don’t be too cruel.
There in my heart…
95 camojack // Aug 31, 2007 at 1:24 pm
camojack
we will discuss that at supper tonight!
Comment by Ms RightWing, Ink — August 31, 2007 @ 7:26 am
Sounds like a plan. On my way…
96 EXT // Aug 31, 2007 at 9:44 pm
More and more it seems that the Democrap party is down to just one active troll.
Possibly a full-time employee?
Or are there a few who are unable to ad lib around the talking points script they decode from 12 classified ads in The NYT each AM?
Perhaps they are not allowed to ad lib anymore?
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