I think “Catholicism for Dummies” book is much needed and way overdue. Maybe they could dumb it down so even Pelosi, Kennedy, and Biden could understand it. That might require that each point of the faith be said in ten words or less. Then if they still do not believe it they can go to Hell.

Most Catholics today believe anything they want and they either do not know or do not care what the Catholic Church teaches (mostly the latter). Pope Pelosi tries to redefine Catholic doctrine by claiming to know more about Catholicism than the Pope and Bishops.

Someone ought to write a book about why Catholics still go to to Mass, communion and confession when they believe nothing at all about what their church teaches. It is not like they got further enlightened by other Christian faiths either. They know nothing of Christianity period. In fact, if the Catholic Church did the discipline that their own doctrine requires of them more than half of the Catholic Church would now be excommunicated. Now you know why they do almost nothing.

Pelosi denies that Catholicism condemns abortion (OneNewsNow.com)

WASHINGTON - In an appearance on the NBC program Meet the Press on Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a self-professed Catholic, denied that the Catholic Church condemns abortion.

Pelosi again side-stepped the question, suggesting that the Catholic Church’s current position is only a recent position and that “over the history of the church, this is an issue of controversy.”

The president of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue, responded to Pelosi’s statements on Meet the Press, observing that the Catholic Church’s position on abortion is clear beyond any doubt. “Here is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: ‘Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.’”

He continued, “It also says, ‘Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.’ Looks like Pelosi didn’t study the subject long enough. But not to worry: We are sending her a copy of Catholicism for Dummies today.”

Pelosi concluded her appearance by contradicting another doctrine of the Catholic Church by advocating contraception. Contraception is officially condemned by the Catholic Church as “intrinsically evil.”

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Why is this nation allowing this demented subversive group of people called by the deceptive name of “Planned Parenthood” to victimize our nations youth? I think you have to blame that on the liberal congress that you elect, on the permissive society that you allow, and on the federal and local judges elected or appointed by the amoral people that you also elect. It is time for many to look in the mirror for the blame why Planned Parenthood is allowed to plan immoral sex indoctrination of our youth and plan and promote a culture of death to the unborn. Elect a Democrat and I can assure you it will continue and even grow worse. But what do you care, most of you are demented, delusional or dumb “O” clones?

Don’t hold your breath waiting for an apology from Planned Parenthood. In their own demented and delusional way they believe in what they are doing. The real problem is that the majority of Americans do not believe enough in what they claim to believe about morals to be doing anything about it.

Planned Parenthood promotes casual sex to kids on website

A website sponsored by Planned Parenthood, the biggest player in America’s billion dollar abortion industry, is promoting oral sex and casual encounters in the name of encouraging the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, critics say.

“This website is engineered to reach the youth of America and undoubtedly will be featured in their health curriculum that is in many of our public school systems,” warned Rev. Clenard H. Childress Jr., of the Life Education And Resource Network.

The organization specifically cited a video that appears to have a black youth performing oral sex on a white youth, under the supervision of a white guidance counselor.

“It is obvious the deliberate depravation and systemic racism of Planned Parenthood continues to reach new levels of disgust,” he said.

Critics said it is time that the corporation is held accountable for the videos.

“This can’t go on,” added Damon Owens, founder of Joy Filled Marriage in West Orange, N.J.

The Planned Parenthood website is called “Take Care Down There.”

Childress said his organization also is calling on the Rainbow Coalition, led by Jesse Jackson, to demand a national boycott of Planned Parenthood and an apology for its practices.

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Janet Folger has the national issues right in this article. Maybe you should take some time to watch the “Nobama Girl” on YouTube that she is raving about. The link is in the article.

Where the battle is hottest

we must get the word out about what an Obama administration would mean for our country. One of the best ways I’ve seen is the new Nobama Girl video on YouTube. Have you seen it? The “Nobama Girl” music video released last week has already been called “the best video on YouTube,” by viewers.

I agree.

The Nobama Girl, Jannique Stewart, provides an answer to the Obama Girl’s “crush,” with a call to “crush” Obama’s campaign with the truth.

“Many Americans are buying empty rhetoric of ‘change,’ without knowing the horrific policies behind that change that their vote would establish,” said Stewart in a recent press release. “This video is intended to bring the hidden things to light.”

It exposes the facts of Obama’s policies of:

* abortion on demand and infanticide
* his “respect” and support of the California Supreme Court decision to abolish marriage between one man and one woman
* amnesty
* gun control
* support for “hate crime” legislation that would criminalize Christian and pro-family views

Unlike the sleazy counterpart, the Nobama Girl video is one the whole family can watch and become informed. I give it two thumbs up. Rarely is exposing the evil positions of a candidate this much fun.

I guess it should not surprise us that birds of a feather flock together. Just don’t confuse yourself or anyone else by calling yourself an Evangelical Christian. Christians should know what heretical bird brains these people really are, if not they will soon find out.

Brian McLaren: Emissary for Barack Obama to Evangelicals - CWN

I am not a Republican. I am a Christian, and no Republican or Democrat who wars against God’s moral law and defends gay marriage, child killing or using human embryos for experimentation will get my vote. You can take that to the bank. McLaren has no moral compass because he rejects God’s Word as his only standard. You will notice a distinct correlation between those who reject God’s Word and their support for pro-death, pro-gay marriage candidates, and every other cause that is a revolt against heaven. That’s why the emerging church leaders and followers are up to their armpits in Obama campaign materials. When God’s Word gets thrown out, it affects every aspect of our lives and ethics. Ideas have practical consequences for men and nations.

Joe Farah is under attack by “People for the American Way” for saying that Obama is not a Christian. Farah gives good reasons why he is not. Not to even mention Obama’s stand on abortion and homosexuality.

Is Obama really a Christian?

In an amazing coincidence, several other pundits and columnists discovered this 4-year-old interview in the Chicago Sun-Times after I wrote about it. I know it was a coincidence because none of them cited my column for bringing this information to their attention after all these years.

But, I digress.

The interview reveals Obama, who calls himself a Christian, has no concept of what it means to be a follower of Jesus.

He states, for instance, that he has no idea of what will happen to him when he dies.

He suggests his eternal destination has something to do with being a “good father” to his children and transferring values he got from his atheist mother.

He says there are many paths to heaven.

In other words, he doesn’t have a clue as to what it means to be a Christian. That, of course, is not surprising given the only church experience he has had in his life has come in that hate-filled, racist, neo-Marxist, liberation theology-based Trinity United Church of Christ. There “Christianity” is used to sell other religions altogether – anti-Americanism, black victimization, socialism.

This article is certainly worth the read and I agree with about 90 percent of what Jim Schwiesow says in this article. But America cannot fulfill Revelation 18:7-8.

He is correct that there is no remedy for the downfall of the U.S. Because the majority of people in this nation simply wish to believe the demented lies of the amoral ungodly who have taken over the realms of power in this nation.

People in this nation will get what they want and what they deserve. Maybe they will come back to their senses one day after their human savior fails them and they find themselves on a sinking ship in dire straits. But then again I would not bet on American’s repenting and I think that all the kings men will not be able to put Humpty-Dumpty back together again.

The demise of America is inevitable unless there is some divine intervention that shakes this nation to its core.

Jim R. Schwiesow — Scarlet is Our Color

Time is fleeting and every second, minute, hour and day hurtles this nation closer to a time of retribution, a time so horrific that the mind cannot comprehend the magnitude of the fiery fury that will descend upon this nation and the people in it. The Eternal is moving against this country with purpose and terrible resolve, like small fingers of flame the preliminary pestilences signal a rapidly advancing holocaust.

The worst of heathen have come to possess the offices of our government, the halls of our institutions and the minds of our people. The land is in the terminal stages of a great spiritual disease. We are an adulterous people and a scarlet A has been emblazoned upon our land.

With regularity one hears it parroted that God’s blessings are upon this nation, those who give lip service only to the God of all creation continually wring their hands in despair over the removal of God from our coins, prayer from our schools and the Ten Commandments from our public institutions. One can only wonder where these same people were when sexual perversity and the teaching of social filthiness invaded our schools. Where were they when derelict and avaricious politicians and government agents incrementally and systematically dismantled the Constitution and destroyed the individual liberties of the people? Under what rock were they hiding when the killing of live babies was sanctioned and a host of soul killing perversions were institutionalized?

Why would a supposed God-fearing people allow such to come to pass? The truth is that the more than one-half of the people of this country who call themselves Christian, a great majority of which are ashamed to utter the name of Jesus Christ in public, have done more spiritual damage than the totality of the non-religious, the atheists and the agnostics who reside in the country.

The unrighteousness of our people, the moral degradation upon the nation, the rebellion against Almighty God and the rejection of His rule have brought us to the cusp of absolute destruction. Repent is not in our vocabulary and humility does not inhabit our soul, foolishness is forever on our lips and pride and arrogance mark our character.

The ignorance of our leaders and the delusion upon the people has made way for the institution of the elements of our own destruction.

Many have written to me and bewailed what they see as a failure by me and other columnists with NewsWithViews.com to provide solutions to the problems that we describe. They concede that we have accurately identified the degradation that it upon our nation, but they want someone to provide the answers that will deliver the nation from a seemingly imminent demise. The truth is that there are no secular solutions that will deliver this nation. No resolution other than a nationwide confession of sin and repentance thereof will save this nation.

Those who rant about the war in Iraq might consider the domestic war in the U.S. It is far more destructive.

War on 2 fronts: Abroad … and at home

Eminent historians Will and Ariel Durant said, “The family is the nucleus of civilization.” As bad as the Iraq war and its costs are, the battles here on our own soil are worse. And costlier.

We’d better call for an all-out “surge” in this domestic war, while we still have the resources, courage – and liberty – to do it.

Here lies the problem of communism, socialism, liberalism or whatever else you may wish to call it. It takes from those who are responsible to subsidize those who choose to live irresponsibly. Pretty soon for obvious reasons the number of the irresponsible are increasing and the responsible are decreasing. By the next generation their are enough irresponsible people to vote in irresponsible leaders who spend far beyond the means of the nation for the continuing increasing benefits of the irresponsible citizens. After another generation or two the nation is totally bankrupt and it fails. We are very near that point now in the U.S. The life span of socialism in a republic can only be a few generations.

Subsidize what kills you?

Contemporary
America puts a high value on personal moral license – so much, in fact,
that government subsidizes the results of our behavior. The public
costs associated with treating and preventing sexually transmitted
diseases are hard to fathom, let alone the millions in taxpayer dollars
devoted to abortion. And those are just two examples of many.

That’s the trouble with a citizenry that seeks a government solution to every problem. Income redistribution is simply a catalyst for punishing one taxpayer for the poor choices of another (assuming the other even pays taxes). A young man who waits to have sex until he is able to support a wife and child is penalized in favor of his friend who chooses the path of loose living.

Take health care as another example. Government-run care, and the inevitable tax increases associated with it, would have the effect of punishing the healthy since those who exercise and eat right could pay out significant amounts but receive fewer services than couch potatoes and fast food aficionados. Government subsidies always encourage the activity being subsidized.

America is swiftly drowning in a sea of decadence, and taxpayer dollars are paying the way for many of the worst offenders. Such a system can’t endure for long. We’re concerned with rising gas prices and a falling dollar, and rightly so, but what about tax policies that promote cultural decay?

What is really strange is how all these “Christians” in the Bush administration that claim to have Bible studies and prayer meetings in the White House can then be observed to take positions on critical issues that are totally against what the Bible teaches.

Condoleezza Rice is a very strange and scary person but so is John McCain. McCain and Rice could run on the platform “Scary People for Scary Times”.

My ‘mild’ opposition to Condi Rice for VP

Seems Rice is so anxious to recognize homosexual “marriages” that she can’t even wait for her radical homosexual U.N. efforts to take effect. Maybe she’d do better at Obama headquarters.

Not to mention her “road map for peace,” which has “mildly” negative consequences for the survival of Israel, forcing the Jewish state to give up even more strategically significant land for promises of “peace” from “mild-mannered” terrorists and their mildly fanatical pursuit of world domination and the eradication of Israel from existence.

On my radio program yesterday, I was questioned about exposing the secretary of state’s position without first going to her directly. Oh, I’ve already done that. I asked her to re-examine her radical abortion-on-demand position when I saw her at the inaugural ball back in 2001. I didn’t have time to get to the rest.

Let me just summarize it for you: I am categorically, vehemently, emphatically and intensely opposed to Condoleezza Rice for vice president … to put it “mildly.”

A am waiting for the The liberally twisted red letter Bible to come out. It will be all red.

Democratic Scripture twisting

Forget Islamic radicals blowing up bodies when we have leaders and media who think it is hateful and wrong to defend and protect our children from sexual indoctrination, sexual agendas and false history. We blow their minds up already well before their bodies might blow up due to an Islamic-radical attack. At least if some of the anti-God and anti-American thugs can get our kids’ minds twisted in time, our children can fall apart with a well-funded STD. Hillary and Obama will make sure our diseased children are cared for. That is, the kids who have survived through the sea of abortions. I’m certain there must be Scriptures supporting abortion with Obama and Hillary’s Bible bak-masking machine.

Amen to what this black man says about the Obama’s that nobody is allowed to criticize just because they are black. Yet, you will not hear a peep out of these same people when it does not serve there own black instructs.

Our next Teflon president?

Where is the outrage by blacks who feign insult and cry racism when Barack Obama, the potential next president, pledges his uncompromised support of abortion – and thus tangential support of Planned Parenthood?Planned Parenthood is the progeny of Margaret Sanger, who said there was an “ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.” Sanger also wrote, “We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population” – a job Planned Parenthood is accomplishing to the tune of approximately 1,500 unborn black children a day.

Where is the outrage against a black presidential candidate who has fiercely supported the systematic extermination of the black unborn his entire career – who in so doing also supports the entity that has built 80 percent of its abortion clinics in low-income minority neighborhoods to specifically target black women? This is the same Planned Parenthood that supports said racist ideology and was recently recorded acknowledging that whites wanting fewer blacks born is understandable.

The potential next president and first lady deserve the harshest ridicule and condemnation – not because they’re black – but because of their over the top extreme liberalism, because they are bad for America, and more specifically, because they are death dealers to unborn blacks.

Damn Obama, read the context, you do not know what you are talking about. The Sermon on the Mount was telling the children of God how they are to treat others in the Kingdom, it was not telling the children of God how they should treat all the sinners in the world. But what should we expect from a heretical universalist who thinks that everyone will be saved? There also is nothing obscure about that passage in Romans and similar words about homosexuals are found in other places in scripture. The scriptures clearly indicate that those who continue flaunting these sins showing that they will not repent of them will not inherit the kingdom of heaven.

ewsmax.com - Obama: Sermon on Mount OKs Same-Sex Unions

Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him “less Christian.”"I don’t think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state,” said Obama. “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans.” (See video here) St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans condemns homosexual acts as unnatural and sinful.

Lets not forget that the ancient killing of the babies for Moloch and the modern practice of abortion have the same abominable results. Why would this generation not reap the consequences? They will.

If the babies had not been killed the ratios of younger workers to older folks on Social Security would be much higher than it will be. Those who had abortions can blame themselves when their surviving young will not support them when they are old.

Modern-Day Moloch - Tom Brewton - Feb 26, 08

Liberal-progressive-socialist politicians, intent upon buying votes of the masses, deliberately ignore the ongoing sacrifice of young, working people on the materialistic altar of mandated welfare-state spending for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. As with the Carthagenian ruling councils, it’s all about near-term political success, without a scruple over immolating our children.The ratio of younger workers to older folks on Social Security and Medicare-Medicaid is rapidly declining. FICA taxes have risen relentlessly. One of two things must occur over the next couple of decades. Either taxes on future young workers will rise to devastating levels, or today’s young workers will not receive the welfare handouts for which they now labor.

I wish the American people would get educated before it is too late. Obama has the most Leftist voting record of any member of the Senate. What should that tell you? It tells you if Obama gets elected with the most liberal congress of all times to support him his Leftist agenda will get passed. That means you will soon be living in the Peoples Republic of America.

If they taught you any real world history in school at all you should know that where-ever Communist socialism was tried it was a failure. Now why would you want to destroy a system that has been working and has made the most prosperous nation on earth for a system that has proved that it cannot work? If the young people and the naive in this country do not soon get educated on the facts about Obama they will be living America’s worse nightmare.

A nice smile and positive talking does not make for sound ideas and sound governmental polices. Find out where your black Messiah plans to take this country before you help destroy your own nation. We know why the socialist elite want to destroy America. They want a “workers paradise” with themselves in charge of the peons, but why do you want to destroy America by voting in socialism?

Here is just a small sample of what will happen under Obama:

A national depression or run away inflation

More abortion

Mass taxation and give away programs that takes from those that produce and gives to those who do nothing,

Gun control laws that will put everyone under the control of government and criminals 

Hate speech laws that will not even allow Christians to proselytize

Brainwashing of your children in all schools

Thought police 

A Nanny State that will control every aspect of your life and your children’s lives

Huge carbon taxes to fund the world government

If Obama stays on course it will bring civil insurrections and the break up of the Union.  Mark my words!  I told you beforehand.

When the Communist Party gets behind a candidate, it’s not just words on a newspaper. The party dispatches apparatchiks to work hard for the candidate. It occurs to me we may very well have seen a couple of those workers of the world inside Obama’s Houston office - those ladies flying the Cuban flags emblazoned with images of Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

Think about this now.

Barack Obama is pummeling Hillary in the polls. He is cleaning her clock in the primaries and caucuses. He is leading John McCain in head-to-head matchups with the Republican standard bearer by 14 points!

This guy could actually become the president of the United States.

If he does, it won’t be like the Manchurian Candidate backing into the highest office in the land. If Barack Obama wins the White House, the Communists will have gotten their man the conventional way - through an actual election, working through the system.

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Taxpayers are helping to fund rape of children because the government helps fund Planned Parenthood who will not report those who rape children as required by all state laws.

clipped from www.onenewsnow.com While speaking at the Blogs for Life Conference at the Family Research Council, Kline noted that Planned Parenthood admits in its own studies that it is servicing 13-year-old children — who have, on average, 22-year-old male sexual partners — who are predominantly in coercive sexual relationships. “[Planned Parenthood's] idea of treatment, of course, is to allow [that] relationship to continue,” explains Kline, “by either helping cover up the crime through an abortion, or providing birth control that will help conceal something later from revealing the crime.”

I think Ann Colter has McCain figured out. I wonder why many conservative Republicans have not caught on?

clipped from www.worldnetdaily.com John McCain is Bob Dole minus the charm, conservatism and youth. Like McCain, pollsters assured us that Dole was the most “electable” Republican. Unlike McCain, Dole didn’t lie all the time while claiming to engage in Straight Talk.Of course, I might lie constantly too, if I were seeking the Republican presidential nomination after enthusiastically promoting amnesty for illegal aliens, Social Security credit for illegal aliens, criminal trials for terrorists, stem-cell research on human embryos, crackpot global warming legislation and free speech-crushing campaign-finance laws. I might lie too, if I had opposed the Bush tax cuts, a marriage amendment to the Constitution, waterboarding terrorists and drilling in Alaska.

You would think that people would learn about his beliefs his voting record and what he plans to do if elected President before they Just vote for someone with a winning smile. He will bring in deadly and costly social activism.

clipped from http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59612 “Senator Obama doesn’t care that abortion has obliterated the rights of more than 15 million black children since 1973,” Gardner said in a statement. “He doesn’t care that abortion is the No. 1 killer of African-Americans surpassing deaths caused by accidents, heart disease, stroke, crimes, HIV-AIDS and all other deaths – combined! “He won’t make one of his powerful speeches decrying the injustice of abortion providers as they plant killing centers firmly in black communities – making it easier to kill black children. Instead, he actually applauds their efforts! These children are denied their most basic human right, which is the right to life, a right which our ancestors so proudly worked for, marched for and many of them died for.”

Huckabee angers some Catholics Reuters: “One Catholic blogger said while Huckabee was an eloquent spokesman for the ‘culture of life’ — code for the anti-abortion cause — his visit to ‘a church pastored by a raving anti-Catholic bigot’ was deeply troubling.”

What many Catholic do not understand is that it is not bigotry to question the history and the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church any more than it is bigotry to question Mormons or any religion about their own Christian claims. One problem with the Catholics is that think their church is uniquely above criticism among religions. For Catholics to call Evangelicals bigots is worse than the pot calling the kettle black. Protestants only separated from the Roman Catholic Church because the Roman church would not change their views after they departed from scripture in many ways. How do Evangelicals express how the Catholics are off the mark without offending the religiosity of some in it?

For the record, most Evangelicals believe that the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrine is a gospel of salvation by works theology and that their convoluted doctrine of salvation makes it difficult for people to find salvation. Most also acknowledge that within the Catholic Church there are some who have found salvation. We might say the same thing about other Protestant denominations that have a gospel of salvation through good works or through obedience to their church. Evangelicals know that church denominations and doctrines save no one.

One is only saved by trusting in the mercy of the righteous Savior to save them from their sins. If you are trusting in your own good works and your own righteousness to go to heaven you are not saved regardless of your denomination. Therefore, it is not bigotry to present these issues. Love requires that we tell people the truth. Some just want everyone to stay out of their own religious business and let them go to hell without any outside interference but that is not what the Bible teaches Christians to do.

The American Spectator: “So there you have it. Even in noting Thompson’s many strengths, I sort of hedged my bets. But here’s the deal: As Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee savage each other about immigration, abortion, religion and everything else under the sun, Thompson just keeps plugging away while being poised to pick up the pieces. And as Huckabee finally receives the long-overdue scrutiny for his bad record on clemencies (see my colleague Philip Klein’s excellent piece) and ethics (as reported most recently by NBC’s Lisa Myers), the Arkansas governor’s lead in Iowa is likely to fade. Now, just who is it, polls already were showing even before Wednesday’s debate, who was the second choice of the largest percentage of Huckabee’s tentative supporters? None other than Fred Thompson.”

When you look at the conservative issues. Fred Thompson is the only front runner who has the right answers. I don’t know why he took a nap, maybe it is the hare and tortoise thing.

Catholic voters warned on abortion - - The Washington Times, America’s Newspaper: “BALTIMORE (AP) — Roman Catholic voters and lawmakers must heed church teaching on abortion or risk losing their eternal salvation, U.S. bishops said yesterday.”

Most Catholics I know vote Liberal and the people they vote for are pro choice. So the Catholic Church is saying if you don’t repent you will all be going to hell.

I on the other hand, would say that the reason you vote Liberal on these sin issues is that you most likely have never been saved to start with. If you were born of God you would know that abortion and sex perversions are abominations and you would not be supporting those who force this on the nations.

I also know that most Catholics will not care what the church says on this because they only believe the parts of Catholicism that they want to believe. Mainly the religious ritualism and the practices that gives them absolution from their guilt.

The church now tells them they risk losing their eternal salvation but this church never guarantees them eternal salvation anyway unless they continue to follow the path to salvation that this church defines. Since most know that they do not do that, losing what they already suspect they do not have is not a big issue with most Catholics. Therefore, telling them they will go to hell will not influence their voting at all.

My Way News - Congress Aims to Put Out CigarettesWASHINGTON (AP) - Congress is taking new whacks at the cigarette industry, banning tobacco sales in Senate buildings and - more importantly - seeking a significant federal tax increase on cigarettes. The industry, once a lobbying behemoth, is quietly working against the tax bill. But it lacks the clout it once wielded. Several key lawmakers said they have had no recent contacts with tobacco lobbyists. And both houses have signaled a willingness to raise the cigarette tax if other provisions of a children’s health bill can be resolved. “I think the industry has tried to do things more quietly, largely because they obviously know how popular a tobacco tax is,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. The health advocacy group supports a proposed $35 billion increase in the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which a higher cigarette tax would finance. House and Senate negotiators are trying to craft a veto-proof version of the bill. President Bush says he would veto it because it calls for a 61 cents-per-pack increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes, taking it to $1.

I don’t smoke cigarettes but I know this is not right. Federal taxes, state taxes, local taxes and lawsuits will push cigarettes to over $5 a pack. What right does government have to fund programs which have nothing to do with smoking on the backs of cigarette smokers? They are doing it because they can get away with it. Next, they will start ratcheting up taxes on CO2 or something else to pay for their socialized programs.

What will be the result of $4 a pack Federal and local cigarette taxes? People will just find more and more ways to get around the taxes through illegal activity making more criminal activity and abetting organized crime. Most poor people who are addicted to tobacco will chose cigarettes over things they really need for themselves or their family every time. So these tax laws are actually impacting the children of smokers by taking one to two hundred dollars each month from the family income. Money that they might use for food clothes and medical care.

In one way or another people who are addicted to tobacco are going to get their tobacco fix even if they have to grow it themselves. If the high taxes on cigarettes actually succeeded in reducing the number of smokers the government would not be able to fully fund these programs and they would continually have to raise taxes until they priced tobacco out of the legal market. After that the taxpayers would have to pick up the cost of the socialized programs that the tobacco taxes funded. In other words this is really a back door attempt to bring in a government socialized medicine plan by incrementation.

We don’t need a nanny state that robs from people to pay for socialized programs and that creates more criminal activity. We already have the highest incarceration rate in the world mainly due to jailing people who traffic substances that other citizens use. Taxpayers pick up the bill for all that. We don’t need to find ways to create more criminals. If government really must tax things that have negative consequences on society they might start with taxing porn, abortion and the people who pass these destructive laws.

Pat Robertson Sells-Out The Christian Conservative Movement - Dave Gibson - Nov 08, 07: “It would be a gross understatement to say that it is hypocritical of the conservative Robertson to endorse Giuliani, who while Mayor of New York marched in the Gay Pride Parade every year, turned New York into a sanctuary city for illegal aliens, and constantly espoused his pro-choice position on abortion. The sudden endorsement has conservatives puzzled and angry. Even RINO Sen. John McCain said of the endorsement: ‘Every once in a while, I’m left speechless. This is one of those times.’ Take a look at the following positions Rudy Giuliani has held and what Robertson has had to say in the past about those issues and you decide if something smells fishy….”

Pat Robertson Endorses Giuliani - The Fix: “Pat Robertson Endorses Giuliani Pat Robertson, one of the most influential figures in the social conservative movement, announced his support for Rudy Giuliani’s presidential bid this morning at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Robertson’s endorsement of Giuliani is a significant blow to Mitt Romney, who has worked hard to court evangelical leaders. Above, Robertson speaks to the Christian Coalition in 1999. Robertson’s support was coveted by several of the leading Republican candidates and provides Giuliani with a major boost as the former New York City mayor seeks to convince social conservatives that, despite his positions on abortion and gay rights, he is an acceptable choice as the GOP nominee.”

How can a leader of Christian social conservatives endorse a social liberal? What Christ do those who endorse abortion and sexual immorality follow? Most in the national leadership of Evangelicals no longer speaks for true Bible believers. They need to be replaced, they are an embarrassment to the Church. Does anyone think that true Christians will be influenced by the views of Pat Robertson anymore? The man claims to hear many things from God and he tells the world things he heard from God that have not come true. Now he also shows the Church that in addition to having no vision from God he leads Christians astray.

WorldNetDaily: Mega-deception at mega-clinics!: “The Weitz Co., a nationwide construction entity hired to build Planned Parenthood’s newest mega-abortion clinic in Denver, has listed United Airlines as the property owner on city permits for work on the 52,000-square-foot project, documents assembled by pro-life activists reveal”

“Planned Parenthood CEOs in both Denver and Chicago have stated they kept PP’s name out of the construction process as long as possible to keep pro-lifers from interfering,” Stanek wrote. “But does that give them license to lie on permit documents? And what about the right of subcontractors and workers to make the ‘choice’ not to help build this abortion monstrosity?”