Want to see where our permissive and amoral society is heading? America take a look at your next demented generation! Not only do most of them admit to being liars and cheats they think that they can be thieves, liars and cheats and still be people of good character and ethics. It also reminds me of another article I recently read that says that 20 percent of the people in the U.S. have a mental disorder and over one half are using drugs. Over one quarter of the people who took the survey said they even cheated on this survey. Meaning the figures are even higher. So someone tell me how this nation can survive the next “demented generation” when it cannot even survive our present “me generation”?

American teens lie, steal, cheat at ‘alarming’ rates: study

American teenagers lie, steal and cheat more
at “alarming rates,” a study of nearly 30,000 high school students
concluded Monday.

“Despite these high levels of dishonesty, these same kids have a high self-image when it comes to ethics.”

Some 93 percent of students indicated satisfaction with their own character and ethics, with 77 percent saying that “when it comes to doing what is right, I am better than most people I know.”

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This article uniquely lays out the whole argument against Obama for those with eyes to see. It is not just about Obama being a Manchurian candidate. It is about Americans departing from God to provide their needs and instead expecting government to provide their wants by taking it from others. Those who covet their neighbors goods produce the class-warfare philosophies of Marxism/Communism/Socialism. The people who do this end up destroying those who make wealth and put themselves into a life of poverty and slavery to the very tyrants that they put in power. They get the leader and the government that they asked for and deserve. Will the majority of America’s take the Left path that has brought down many nations? It certainly now looks that way.

Yes, Barack Obama really is a Manchurian candidate

Obama, the Manchurian candidate

In the classic 1962 movie thriller “The Manchurian Candidate,” a man was programmed by communist handlers, and then emerged into the public arena as a hero, with a largely manufactured history, large parts of which were either obscured or changed. Then he was planted into a position of great influence, having been programmed to usher in tremendous change at the appointed time.

Barack Obama was programmed for years by his atheist, Muslim father, by the communist sex pervert Frank Marshall Davis, by con man Tony Rezko, by domestic terrorist Bill Ayers and others – most of all by black liberation theology screamer Jeremiah Wright. Obama’s resume is largely manufactured. There is a total blackout on his college years. His campaign obscures what he did as a “community organizer.” All his radical associations are denied or minimized. His miserable legislative record (voting “present” over 100 times to avoid taking a stand), his lack of achievement, his radical views and so on – all have been laundered through the magic of public relations into the near-sacred saga of “The One” who has been sent to serve, and to save, America.

Yet, as I have documented previously, John McCain rendered more genuine service to his country each and every day of those five-and-a-half years he endured in a North Vietnamese prison than Barack Obama has in his entire life.

In “The Manchurian Candidate,” several war heroes came back to America from abroad. But one of them harbored a dark agenda, lying in wait, secretly, until it could emerge and transform America.

America has a choice Tuesday between a genuine war hero and a genuine Manchurian candidate.

Choose well.

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From the list below you should see that if we were to go into a severe economic downturn it would not be like it was in the 1930’s when most people remained law abiding. Today it would either be Mad Max complete anarchy or total Martial law.

I do disagree in this list that most families had one car. Most families had no car and I do not believe there was any insurance or registration requirements in those days.

Christian Worldview Network – Brannon Howse – Letter Re: The Depression of the 1930s–Why No Societal Collapse

Consider the Attributes of America in the 1930s :

A largely agrarian and self-sufficient society. (Now, just 1% of the population operating farms and ranches feed the other 99%.)

Not heavily dependent on computing and communications, technology, grid power, and petroleum-based fuels.

Shorter chains of supply. Most food was grown within 100 miles of where people lived.

A very small underclass that was dependent on charity or public welfare.

Lower property tax rates and lower (or nonexistent) license fees, vehicle registration fees, et cetera.

The majority of workers lived near their work.

Most displaced workers were willing to accept lower-paying jobs–even doing hard physical labor.

The entire nation was economically self-sufficient and could carry on without many imports.

Far greater self-sufficiency at the household level (domestic water wells, windmills, wood burning stoves, home vegetable gardens, home canning, and so forth)

A much lower level of indebtedness (public and private). At the outset of the Depression most families had cash savings. (We are now a nation of debtors.)

A sound currency, still backed by specie. (Although FDR’s administration seized most privately-held gold in 1933, the currency was at least still fully redeemable in silver coinage until 1964.)

Lower percentage of corporate employment–so there were less risk of huge layoffs that would devastate communities

A significantly more moral society that still had compunctions and a prevalently law-abiding attitude.

A homogeneous population that largely shared common Judeo-Christian values. A much larger portion of society attended church regularly

A simpler, less extravagant lifestyle, with tastes in cooking and entertainment that did not require large outlays of cash.

Most families owned only one car (with proportionately lower registration and insurance costs), and they lived in smaller homes that were less expensive to heat.

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It is not like forefathers did not warn that we would lose the nation if we turned from God and His ways. Now the God for many in America is an idol. He is a false prophet, a puppet creation of the God hating, American hating Far Left. His only achievements were handed to him and his only skill is reading words from a teleprompter. We will reap the consequences if America votes for their American idol. Like another great man said “a nation will get a leader it deserves” We are seeing that being played out during every election.

The big picture: Loss of a republic?

At the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, it’s reported that a lady approached the venerable Benjamin Franklin and asked, “Well, Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”

And the grand old man responded gravely, “A republic – if you can keep it.”

You may have heard that quote before, but have you asked yourself just what Ben Franklin was getting at? Well, the long, tiresome and often contentious convention had almost ended with nothing, with members going back to their home states angry and bitter. In the midst of apparent breakdown and failure, it was Franklin himself who stood up and proposed that starting the next morning, the convention should open with prayer and a sermon, because it was obvious that their momentous objective could not be achieved without the direct intervention of God, the One all the attendees credited with their very existence.

And starting from the very next day, after the morning prayers and sermons, the Constitution was brought to final form and agreed to. It was unlike any document in history, purporting to guarantee every citizen equality, possibility, security and liberty. There would be no monarch, no despot, no ruling cabal; no segment of American society would be able to impose its will unchecked. The freedom to worship, to speak freely, to dissent or to promote would be available to all; the elected would govern with the consent of the governed. And this whole mighty enterprise would be held together by respect for, and obedience to, law – law based on the Constitution itself and managed by the collective will of the people.
The word for that fabulous concept is “republic.”

But Franklin had a sober regard for how fragile the concept could be. He said himself, “Only a moral and virtuous people are capable of freedom; the more corrupt and vicious a society becomes, the more it has need of masters.”

His dear friend and compatriot John Adams concurred. “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Virtually all our Founding Fathers realized that the whole idea of liberty hinged on the personal morality and responsibility of all citizens, that devious and unscrupulous men could find ways to use freedoms for their own selfish purposes and undermine the concept of republic, eventually corrupting and destroying it.

George Washington had declared, “Religion and morality are the twin pillars of freedom.”

Not many years later, President Thomas Jefferson warned: “The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.” He came to regard judicial over-reach that way in his second term; even before then, he said: “God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.”

Do you see what these men were getting at? Do you understand why Ben Franklin said, “A republic – if you can keep it”? They realized they were staking the whole future of this magnificent experiment on the supposition that Americans would demand, of themselves and their government, a continued reliance on the guidance of Bible-rooted principles and the very hand of God Himself. If the populace and their representatives forsook those specific guidelines, the structure would crumble and the house would fall.

Well, look around. If you haven’t noticed, the structure isn’t just crumbling – it’s being hacked to pieces, right before our eyes.

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Government “state-ordained truth” memory police are telling writers that they can only write the politically correct version of historical facts even if it is a lie.

Timothy Garton Ash: The freedom of historical debate is under attack by the memory police | Comment is free | The Guardian

Among the ways in which freedom is being chipped away in Europe, one of the less obvious is the legislation of memory. More and more countries have laws saying you must remember and describe this or that historical event in a certain way, sometimes on pain of criminal prosecution if you give the wrong answer. What the wrong answer is depends on where you are. In Switzerland, you get prosecuted for saying that the terrible thing that happened to the Armenians in the last years of the Ottoman empire was not a genocide. In Turkey, you get prosecuted for saying it was. What is state-ordained truth in the Alps is state-ordained falsehood in Anatolia.

Let me be clear. I believe it is very important that nations, states, peoples and other groups (not to mention individuals) should face up, solemnly and publicly, to the bad things done by them or in their name. The West German leader Willy Brandt falling silently to his knees in Warsaw before a monument to the victims and heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto is, for me, one of the noblest images of postwar European history. For people to face up to these things, they have to know about them in the first place. So these subjects must be taught in schools as well as publicly commemorated.

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Joe Farah gives a book review in this article on “Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America”, by Chuck Norris. It sounds like a greatly needed and timely book by a very astute Christian champion. I hope many will read it, get educated and join the cultural revolution to reawaken America. Then in 2012 maybe we need to put an American patriot like Chuck Norris in the White House instead of the usual politician.

I’m with Chuck Norris

Don’t even think for a moment you won’t learn anything in a book by “an actor” or a “martial arts master.”

He sets out with a clear vision of the problems besetting us:

* Americans have forgotten their heritage, their history, the uniqueness of the founding documents that set the country apart;

* Americans have lost their sense of fiscal responsibility, resulting in mountains of debt – both public and private; (What a timely lesson this is!)

* Americans have permitted their borders to get out of control, allowed their elected officials to get away with non-enforcement of immigration laws, and tolerated a breakdown in national sovereignty that is leading to “the possible creation of a North American Union”;

* Americans have lost their moral compass;

* Americans no longer believe in the sanctity of human life;

* Americans are robbing their children of their innocence and their futures;

* Americans have participated in the destruction of the family;

* Americans are getting fat and lazy.

Chuck Norris also recognizes the solutions to these problems and restoration of America’s greatness will not come in the political arena alone – not by a long shot. It won’t come because we elect the right politician to be president. It won’t even come by electing a good Congress.

He sees a long battle ahead – a cultural revolution.

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Not to be outdone by Oregon, California not only has physician assisted suicide they now have nurse-assisted suicide and apparently these physician assistants and nurses without sufficient diagnoses training can decide when you are terminal and pressure depressed people to be drugged into unconsciousness where they will be denied basic life-sustaining necessities such as food and water and die.

Just when you think California can not get any more demented they always prove you wrong. This is just another small step in the elitist world socialist fascist program to eliminate the useless eaters. The bottom-line is always the reason for these things. The California government does not want to pay for their medical care. When you get state controlled socialized medicine, bureaucratic aids will be deciding who lives and who dies just like in Great Great Britain today. This is just another move toward that end.

California approves nurse-assisted suicide

SACRAMENTO – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has officially approved an assisted suicide measure allowing nurses to sedate, dehydrate and starve depressed or confused individuals they consider to be “terminally ill.”

“AB 2747 pushes suicide through the back door at the hands of non-physicians taking advantage of depressed patients,” he said in a statement. “AB 2747 cheapens the value of human life by endorsing suicide as an option.”

The measure allows physician assistants and nurses to decide whether a person is “terminally ill” and deprive them of basic life-sustaining necessities such as food and water.

“Depressed patients who succumb to this pressure will be drugged unconscious and die from dehydration, usually within five to 10 days,” Thomasson said. “Nothing in the bill prohibits this horror.”

Thomasson said Berg “deceptively changed” the bill to appear that “voluntarily stopping of eating and drinking” and “palliative sedation” no longer were on a list of “symptom management” options.

“The bill does not otherwise attempt to expressly define terminal illness that each of these health care professionals would have to diagnose to trigger the offer of counseling end of life option,” Tran said. “It is not clear why nurse practitioners and physician assistants could make such a significant diagnosis. It is further not clear from the bill how making such significant diagnoses on a case-by-case basis can be done by such practitioners and assistants based on so-called ’standardized procedures and protocols’ not further defined by the bill. The potential effect of AB 2747 is extremely broad and could cause irrevocable harm.”

He said the legislation was sponsored by a group called Compassion and Choices, which formerly was known as the Hemlock Society and has advocated for physician-assisted suicide legislation in the past. A founder of the group has praised Dr. Jack Kevorkian for helping more than 100 people die.

Dozens of individuals and groups representing cancer patients, minority rights groups, members of religious communities and hospitals spoke before the Senate Health Committee in opposition to the idea. Also, numerous hospitals and other organizations opposed the measure, includeing California Disability Alliance, California Family Council, California Nurses for Ethical Standards, Mercy San Juan Medical Center, Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital and St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco.

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Dr. Ted Baehr wrote a good movie review of Bill Maher’s new demented move called “Religulous”. What should anyone expect from Bill Maher. Anyone who has ever listened to Bill Maher ought to know that He is one demented demonic sick puppy who cannot help but let everyone know about it.

Why would anyone think a demented mind mocker like Maher could know anything about Christianity or religion? Bill Maher is a prime example of a demonic person full of their own self enlightenment. The only thing this move will prove is that some people will watch anything in the theaters these days. Of course Bill Maher richly deserves my Demented Delusional or Dumb Club award for his unique contribution to foolishness.

Christian Worldview Network – Brannon Howse – Arrogant, Irrational Hypocrisy: Humanist Comedian Bill Maher’s New Movie Is Full of Falsehoods, Bigotry, Ignorance, and Hypocrisy

Arrogant, Irrational Hypocrisy: Humanist Comedian Bill Maher’s New Movie Is Full of Falsehoods, Bigotry, Ignorance, and Hypocrisy
By Dr. Ted Baehr, Publisher of MOVIEGUIDE®, and Dr. Tom Snyder, Editor

“Religulous,” comedian Bill Maher’s new movie attacking Christianity and religion, is full of lies, half-truths, false assumptions, logical contradictions and fallacies, distortions, intolerance, prejudice, bigotry, arrogance, ignorance, and hypocrisy. Opening Oct. 3, the movie is a pathetic propaganda piece that will warp the hearts and minds of the gullible and the ignorant. It is also very poorly researched and argued.

At the end, Maher launches into a diatribe comparing all religious leaders and believers, including President George Bush, to evil and ignorant Muslim terrorists. After making that overbroad generalization, Maher angrily denounces people of faith for being too certain and too judgmental. He then tells them that it is actually more “humble” to acknowledge doubts and belief in God and religion, like he does.

It is telling that none of the Christians Maher talks to in “Religulous,” not even Father Coyne, actually makes their living as professional biblical scholars or history scholars, much less as professional Christian debaters. Thus, all the alleged evidence that Maher summons against Christianity and religious faith in his movie is about as empirically and logically one-sided and invalid as you can possible get!

Of course, at the same time Maher accuses his opponents of these nasty things, he is doing the same things that he just accused them of doing. Maher’s tirade is not only logically self-contradictory, and, hence, irrational, it is also hypocritical. Instead of pointing fingers at religious people, especially Christians, Maher needs to look at himself in the mirror!

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Here is another view of the movie and some implications, by Ray Comfort

I suppose you have heard about the trillion dollar bailout of bad debt and now hear the politicians on TV telling people that lack of government oversight and greed is to blame for the problem and how we now need bailouts and more federal government regulation to cure the problem.

Most of the same politicians talking today are the same politicians that supported the oversight conditions that created this crises in the first place. They were the ones who put the pressure on lending institutions to ease their rules so that just about any bad risk could get a loan.

They put great pressure on the mortgage lenders to establish easy lending programs for the poor and for  poor risks. But they are now passing the buck and saying the lenders were irresponsible and greedy. Sure, there was fraud and greed by the leaders but when you have government officials who are supposed to be in a position of oversight being the enablers of the greedy and making their practices the norm what should we expect?

It was government that eased the regulations on banks and brokers so that would not have to keep funds in reserve to weather a storm such as this and government allowed them to take those funds to the derivative casinos thanks to the policies of former Fed Chairman Greenspan.

These falsely optimistic idealistic liberals thought everything would just keep getting better and that there would be no more major downturns. These are the same people in government and business who never plan for recessions in their out year budgets. They live in some fantasyland or else they want to deceive the public that the out years will be better than any person living in reality could expect.

Some fools even thought we were post recessions because they thought the government now knew how to keep the economy expanding indefinitely. Ha ha. Nevertheless, we always had recessions and will again. These “financial wizards” are a good part of the reason why we always have budget deficits because they never plan for future economic downturns in their long term budgets. Most multinational corporations and local governments are doing the same thing and that is why when a down cycle comes they are in crises and need taxpayer bailouts.

Here are a couple of articles that explain some of what is going on.

The first article by David Limbaugh, talks about how the liberal politicians got us into the mess that we find ourselves in. They now think more of the same of the liberal big government polices will get us out of it. Ha ha.

The second article is by Pat Buchanan It gets into the stupidity of foolish and incompetent financiers and politicians. Pat gives some some history of past bailouts and our nation’s increasing debt burden in the future partly because of bailouts and partly because government and everyone else keeps spending more than they have.

Its getting close to Halloween and I know you all want to read a good scare story. Well learn what the banks and investment firms have been doing with your money and you will know why Washington and the banks are in a cold sweat panic and saying if the government does not bring stability the whole house of cards is going to come crashing down into the second great depression.

For a house of cards to fall it has to be a house of cards to begin with and this article about derivatives will take you on a tour of the house. After you read this article you will not only know everything you need to know about derivatives. You will also know why everyone in the know is turning white with fear long before Halloween.

There simply is no reason why a sub-prime crises would cause all these investment bank failures unless they have been doing something with your money that is very risky. Turns out they have. Instead of making sound investments with your money they have been gambling at the Derivatives Casinos. All these firms are now so leveraged on their next bet that any loss at the wheel of fortune makes them unable to pay their bills and if they cannot pay their bills other banks that are levered to the teeth because of their own gambling habits also cannot pay their bills and if they cannot pay their bills none of the others can pay their bills either and if none of the others can pay their bills there is no money to borrow for anyone in the nation.

Read about it for yourself but anyone who thinks the crises is over is not paying attention. Also take note that the following article was written before the announcement of the really frighting government bailout that was announced today to bail out all the derivative gamblers bad debts. Yeah, the government has to do this taxpayer bailout because all the gamblers were not gambling with their own money they were gambling with your retirement, insurance and investment incomes and everything else.

Next years Halloween fright night will be about the coming rapid hyperinflation that will bring you green toilet paper.

OpEdNews » It’s the Derivatives, Stupid! Why Fannie, Freddie and AIG Had to Be Bailed Out

Until recently, most people had never even heard of derivatives; but in terms of money traded, these investments represent the biggest financial market in the world. Derivatives are financial instruments that have no intrinsic value but derive their value from something else. Basically, they are just bets. You can “hedge your bet” that something you own will go up by placing a side bet that it will go down. “Hedge funds” hedge bets in the derivatives market. Bets can be placed on anything, from the price of tea in China to the movements of specific markets.

“The point everyone misses,” wrote economist Robert Chapman a decade ago, “is that buying derivatives is not investing. It is gambling, insurance and high stakes bookmaking. Derivatives create nothing.”1 They not only create nothing, but they serve to enrich non-producers at the expense of the people who do create real goods and services. In congressional hearings in the early 1990s, derivatives trading was challenged as being an illegal form of gambling. But the practice was legitimized by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who not only lent legal and regulatory support to the trade but actively promoted derivatives as a way to improve “risk management.” Partly, this was to boost the flagging profits of the banks; and at the larger banks and dealers, it worked. But the cost was an increase in risk to the financial system as a whole.2

Since then, derivative trades have grown exponentially, until now they are larger than the entire global economy. The Bank for International Settlements recently reported that total derivatives trades exceeded one quadrillion dollars – that’s 1,000 trillion dollars.3 How is that figure even possible? The gross domestic product of all the countries in the world is only about 60 trillion dollars. The answer is that gamblers can bet as much as they want. They can bet money they don’t have, and that is where the huge increase in risk comes in.

Credit default swaps (CDS) are the most widely traded form of credit derivative. CDS are bets between two parties on whether or not a company will default on its bonds. In a typical default swap, the “protection buyer” gets a large payoff from the “protection seller” if the company defaults within a certain period of time, while the “protection seller” collects periodic payments from the “protection buyer” for assuming the risk of default. CDS thus resemble insurance policies, but there is no requirement to actually hold any asset or suffer any loss, so CDS are widely used just to increase profits by gambling on market changes. In one blogger’s example, a hedge fund could sit back and collect $320,000 a year in premiums just for selling “protection” on a risky BBB junk bond. The premiums are “free” money – free until the bond actually goes into default, when the hedge fund could be on the hook for $100 million in claims.

And there’s the catch: what if the hedge fund doesn’t have the $100 million? The fund’s corporate shell or limited partnership is put into bankruptcy; but both parties are claiming the derivative as an asset on their books, which they now have to write down. Players who have “hedged their bets” by betting both ways cannot collect on their winning bets; and that means they cannot afford to pay their losing bets, causing other players to also default on their bets.

The dominos go down in a cascade of cross-defaults that infects the whole banking industry and jeopardizes the global pyramid scheme. The potential for this sort of nuclear reaction was what prompted billionaire investor Warren Buffett to call derivatives “weapons of financial mass destruction.” It is also why the banking system cannot let a major derivatives player go down, and it is the banking system that calls the shots. The Federal Reserve is literally owned by a conglomerate of banks; and Hank Paulson, who heads the U.S. Treasury, entered that position through the revolving door of investment bank Goldman Sachs, where he was formerly CEO.

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