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The Won Percent

totalterry — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:39:20 +0000

Via Instapundit – the hypocrisy of the Left is shining so bright for everyone but themselves to see. In the past month we’ve seen Morgan Freeman accuse the conservative Tea Party of being racist, only to have Herman Cain rise to the topof the TP presidential candidate list.

And the Occupy Wall Street crowd is demanding their fair share from the evil 1% while supporting The Won, himself a standing member of the 1%.

In the comments at exurbanleague: “You forgot that he has gotten more money from Wall Street than any other politician ever.”

Everyone is hypocritical at some time and to various degrees. But these examples of excess are stunning, along with MSM’s willingness to pretend it doesn’t exist.

clipped from www.exurbanleague.com

American Press Gone Soft

totalterry — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:32:59 +0000

The only thing that’s gotten soft in America is press coverage of Democrat politicians. This guy was given a free ride, both during his campaign and after the election, by the MSM that is only now coming to grips with their mistake. For an institution that claims to be the “Forth Estate” these people were soundly asleep at the wheel.

clipped from abcnews.go.com

Obama: U.S. Had “Gotten a Little Soft” in Last Couple Decades, Lost Competitiveness

In an interview with an Orlando TV station Thursday, President Obama said that the U.S. had “gotten a little soft” in the last couple decades, losing its competitiveness.

“The way I think about it is, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft and we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades,” he said. “We need to get back on track.”

Mother of All Mothers

totalterry — Mon, 02 May 2011 19:34:31 +0000

Capturing bin Laden ‘would unleash hell’

Yes, yes… we’ve heard it all before. Now will come the mother of all “mother-of-all” threats. Watch us shake in our freedom.

Seriously… not particularly joyful about OBL’s death but let’s talk some truth about this Islamic culture – it sucks.

They’re always angry about something, whether it’s pork, or cartoons, or the Koran, or women not entirely covered in sheets.

Worst. Culture. Ever.

Osama Bin Laden, 1957-2011

totalterry — Mon, 02 May 2011 19:05:17 +0000

Death of a Terrorist

This is the work of a terrorist…

Their day will come.

DHS Got Your Back – Again

totalterry — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:37:48 +0000

Napolitano Visits Devastated Alabama Neighborhoods – FoxNews.com

Stupid question… what does the Dept of Homeland Security have to do with a community digging out from a natural disaster? Am I reading this wrong – wouldn’t DHS be more appropriate for a terrorist incident?

I think the same question was asked about them shutting down internet sites suspected of illegally sharing music files.

The Destruction of Economic Facts – BusinessWeek

totalterry — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:06:57 +0000

The Destruction of Economic Facts – BusinessWeek

This is huge and well worth reading… titled “The Destruction of Economic Fact”, this article is about how financial rules have been changed to circumnavigate the truth in order to gain short term profit. The end result is not just uncertainty, but an erosion of stability that previously attracted so much worldwide investment into the US economy.

Money quote:

…businesses are left to figure out reality on the basis of connections, influence, and private information. Just like we do in developing and former communist countries.

Obama Birth Certificate

totalterry — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:15:52 +0000

Obama’s got a birth certificate problem… connect the dots:

Since before his election the question was asked whether he is a natural US citizen – a qualification for any US president. His campaign successfully reduced this question to being a ridiculous exercise reserved for the wacko fringe element.
Even after his election, mainstream (supposedly not wacko) people continued with the questioning. See Mike Huckabee, who attempts to pull himself out of the wacko fringe element by saying he “misspoke”.
Neil Abercrombie, current DEMOCRAT governor of Hawaii, decides to take on the wacko fringe element and summon the vast powers of his island domain to prove Obama was indeed born in Hawaii.
Neil Abercombie, current DEMOCRAT governor of Hawaii, comes to the conclusion that his vast powers are not enough to prove Obama was indeed born in Hawaii… it’s a privacy thing so don’t even ask about it.
Donald Trump jumps into the fray, willing to be cast among the wacko fringe elements, and claims Obama has no birth certificate.

Look, it’s pretty simple. Either there’s a real problem and the president has run out of political tricks to hide it, or there isn’t a problem and conclusive evidence will prove all of his critics are frothing idiots.

In any case momentum is growing around this issue and simply calling others lunatics because they ask a question isn’t going to suffice much longer.

UPDATE: Then there’s this regarding Jerome Corsi’s book, Where’s the Birth Certificate?: The Case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President on Amazon.com. In hardcover no less…

Change Is Constant

totalterry — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:05:15 +0000

This was exceptional… an excellent look at how much w resist growth and change and how much more God wants both of those things in our lives.

This quote TOTALLY sums up my life experience:

We’d like to manage life elegantly and smoothly. We’d like the time to consider every challenge and decision carefully, weigh the odds, and then act calmly and deliberately. God doesn’t seem to want that to happen. He keeps throwing us into the deep end of the pool when we still aren’t sure we can swim without water wings; he wants us out in the Tour de France when we still miss our training wheels.

Here’s the sum of it all:

The answer that Christianity gives to the ancient problem of why a good God allows evil to exist really comes down to three things. The first is that God plays for keeps. He creates for real. When he chose to make beings with free will he accepted this meant he would let their choices stand. For better or worse, we are co-creators of the world with God and what we do and what we choose counts. Our acts have real consequences.

Second: God wants us to grow. God throws us into deep rivers with swift currents because he wants us to learn to swim. He hasn’t created humanity to be a troupe of harmless lambs gamboling across sunny pastures. We are made in God’s image and intended to grow into beings greater, more capable, more far seeing, more loving and more true than we can imagine today. He pits us against real challenges with real consequences, natural and historical — the wrath of volcanoes and the upheavals in the economy — to bring us closer to the fulness of being he intends us to reach.

And finally, says the Holy Week story, God shares. He rides Hell’s roller coaster of personal, political and economic uncertainty with us. He knows the failure and the pain that comes with real life in a real world. He does not answer our questions about evil and suffering with a series of propositions. He answers us with a presence, his, in the middle of it all.

Regulating the Internet

totalterry — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:52:58 +0000

Instapundit » Blog Archive » READER MARTIN MURCEK ON THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S INTERNET ID POLICY: “So, I need to give my ‘real…

Oh this is too good…

Reader Kevin Greene snarks: “I’d be more than happy to present the government a copy of my original long-form birth certificate in order to use the internet. And I’ll do that the day Barack Obama shows me his.”

Truth vs. Intellectualism

totalterry — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:15:53 +0000

Instapundit » Blog Archive » A DEFENSE OF “ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM:” Part of the problem is that the American distrust of intelle…

This just spells it out so clearly… we’re in the midst of dealing with an “intellectualism” that really is bending the truth to fit political goals (global warming, diversity, environmentalism, etc.) while claiming to be so much smarter than those who would disagree.

I’m all for the truth. Even when it hurts, most people respond enormously when they face the truth. And it doesn’t take an Ivy League degree to recognize the difference between right and wrong.

All it takes is a willingness to admit you might be wrong.