Black Tongued Liars

I was once told to be careful about what I said or my tongue would turn black implying that I was about to lie or that I had already spoken it.

How many have heard that if a dog has a black spot on its tongue that it’s part Chowchow? My Golden Retriever, Tyler, had black spots on his tongue and I don’t think he was part Chowchow. Maybe I was mistaken.

A lot of folks these days are running around with black tongues from the President to Senator Chris Dodd and many others in Washington. It’s amazing what happens when you bring “change” to DC isn’t it? Perhaps all the black tongued government officials are Chowchows or Golden Retrievers or just plain old liars?

The double-speaking, lying, conniving, spin doctors are working double time with their outrage over the AIG bonus payment incident. The major media isn’t telling the American taxpayer that the Administration and the Congress have known about the AIG bonuses since last November.

The Obama administration says they didn’t know anything about the bonuses that were paid last Friday until a couple of weeks ago. AIG has received about $170 billion in bailout funds and paid out $165 million in retention awards to keep employees

The truth is, for months, the Obama administration and members of Congress have known that insurance giant AIG was getting ready to pay huge bonuses while living off government bailouts. It wasn't until the money was flowing and news was trickling out to the public that official Washington rose up in anger and vowed to yank the money back.

So far, the administration has been unable to match its actions to Obama's tough rhetoric on executive compensation. And Congress has been unable or unwilling to restrict bonuses for bailout recipients, despite some lawmakers' repeated efforts to do so.

It was our ole buddy Democratic Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut who heads the Senate Banking Committee, who added to the economic recovery package an amendment that cracked down on bonuses at companies getting bailout money, but exempted bonuses protected by contracts, like AIG’s. Under pressure by Republicans, Mr. Dodd stated this week that the AIG exemption actually had been inserted at the insistence of the Treasury during Congress’s final legislative negotiations.

While the administration has been mostly on the defensive, the competing outrage in Congress belies the fact that a few Democrats had tried to draw attention to the A.I.G. retention bonuses since last November.

Proverbs 6:17 - 19

There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him:

• a lying tongue,
• a heart that devises wicked schemes,
• feet that are quick to rush into evil,
• a false witness who pours out lies
• and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

Our President needs our prayers.

This is the Dawning of the Age of Aquaris

While thinking about writing this blog the following words keep swarming around in my head and they just wouldn’t go away. If you are old enough you will remember the following words to the hit song by The 5th Dimension.

When the moon is in the Seventh House, and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then peace will guide the planets, and love will steer the stars. This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, the Age of Aquarius. Aquarius! Aquarius! Harmony and understanding, sympathy and trust abounding, no more falsehoods or derision's. Golden living dreams of visions, mystic crystal revelation, and the mind's true liberation. Aquarius! Aquarius!

It is said that in astrology*, the Age of Aquarius is one of the twelve astrological ages. According to astrologers, it is either the next age to come, or else it is the current age. Since the election of President Barack Hussein Obama you would think we were in the Age of Aquarius by his followers.

During the Campaign we heard over and over again that he was going to bring "change." The only “change” we have seen so far is all of the leftist have come out of the shadows looking for jobs in the new administration, tons of spending, control of the banking, insurance, and auto industries, hugh deficits, class warfare, and victimization of the President.

Perfect alignment of the stars will be possible in the next four to eight years if the President has the opportunity to select new Supreme Court judges. With the Democratic Party in power in both Houses of Congress and the White House, it won’t be long before the left will control all three branches of the government and voila the stars will be in perfect alignment and the true Age of Aquarius will have arrived.

The left are feeling their power and they are flexing their muscles. President Obama has signed the Trojan Horse Stimulus Package with all of its hidden amendments and funding sources for organizations like ACORN, he has practically nationalized the banking system, taken over Wall street and now Main Street with a mortgage financing package, control extends to the Detroit Three, and who knows who else will bow to the Federal Behemoth by feeding at the public trough on taxpayer dollars.

This is the greatest power grab in American history at the expense of the American taxpayer which will result in higher taxes, the mortgaging of future generations, the loss of freedom and rights, dictating how you will live, and the misuse of the Constitution (Passage of a clearly unconstitutional bill giving DC statehood status with a voting member in the House and two Senators).

It is interesting that many of Obama’s appointees like to spend taxpayer money, but don’t like to pay their fair share. I think it was Vice President Biden who said it was patriotic to pay taxes. I guess we have a number of non-patriots leading our government. It seems each week more and more leftist tax cheats are exposed through the vetting process. But that is okay with the Administration and the media since they are "progressives" who are trying to lead us and help us get out of the mess we are in.

The flexing of the leftist muscle will become more emboldened in time over issues like trying to neutralize conservative talk radio, bills calling for unrestricted abortion, nationalization of health care, euthanasia of the elderly, and this is only the beginning. With the Supreme Court on their side they will be able to pass laws with no threat of a veto and have the Court back them up. It indeed will be the Age of Aquarius for the leftist leaning mind.

According to the Monday, February 16th issue of USA Today our financial problems are only beginning with State and local governments in big trouble with no set-asides to fund medical benefits for retired civil servants as the Baby Boomers start to retire. The bill has now grown to over $1 trillion or more. Since they can’t print money they have to raise taxes and/or cut benefits.

President Obama has made it a big deal not to raise taxes on families making $250,000 a year or less. What about the economic impact of taxing those who already pay most of the taxes? When he signed the SCHIP expansion into law, he also signed a significant increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes which will be paid mostly by those earning less than $250,000 per year.

The America’s Marxist movement has never been so bold since the days of FDR and Woodrow Wilson. The leftist were elected, they are flexing their muscle and they see the stars aligning in their favor.

In many of life's situations there is a "king," a President, a Speaker of the House, a Senate Majority Leader, or a Committee Chairman, the gatekeeper. That's the one whose permission is needed. That's the one who's in a position to decide whether this is a yes or a no.


And here's what God tells us about those people in Proverbs 21:1, "The king's heart" (the most powerful guy around). "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; He directs it like a watercourse wherever He pleases." Even if he's far from God, even if he's the most powerful man in the world.

So one of the most powerful prayers you can pray is, "Lord, change his/her heart." Through fervent, consistent prayer, focus all of God's unlimited power on the heart of the "king.” Like a skilled heart surgeon, God has the ability to open up a heart - to move an unmovable heart, to change a stubborn heart.

So exercise the authority you have in prayer - the authority to enter the throne room from which billions of galaxies are governed and to aim God's power at one heart on earth. It is amazing the difference the Master Heart Surgeon can make when He changes a heart that no one on earth could move.

A changed heart could cause the star’s realignment for the good of America. Please pray for America and our leaders.

*As a Christian I do not endorse or recommend astrology. Our faith is to be placed in the Creator of the universe, in Him and Him alone.

The Porker of All Porkers -"Here Pig Pig Pig"

How would you like to take you credit card and go on a spending spree to get yourself out of debt? Wouldn’t it be great to take one of those check offers that comes in the mail from the credit card company to eliminate all of your debt. It is a unique concept to borrow oneself out of debt.

It is hyper borrowing and spending that got us into this mess in the first place and now our government has proposed massive spending that is to reverse the contraction of our economy. As the Scripture says, “We reap what we sow”

Last week the US House of Representatives passed the so called (Speaker Nancy Pelosi created)“Economic Stimulus Plan,” a plan to borrow $1.7 trillion dollars in bloated pork goodies with less than 5 per cent of the funds going to repair America’s deteriorating infrastructure.

Neither one Republican nor 11 Democrats voted in favor of the “stimulus bill” that is nothing more than a massive irresponsible bloated spending spree that further in debts our nation. Create more debt to get out of debt.

Every problem plaguing our economy can be traced directly to some government policy or lack of government over site. Centrally managed economies like those in socialist style governments in Europe don’t work. Economic planning like the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 have failed over and over again.

This bill is not about creating new jobs. It is about one party’s pork-barrel earmarks that will further in debt our nation. Here are a few of the non-job creating provisions of the bill:

• Illegal aliens eligible for federal cash up to $1000 with taxpayer identification number (TIN).
• $4 billion for neighborhood stabilization activities-feeding trough for ACORN.
• $50 million for the National Endowment of the Arts-remember the “Piss Christ” paid for by taxpayer money.
• $335 million to help prevent sexually transmitted diseases.
• $600 million for ‘climate change” research.
• $2 billion for subsidized child care.
• $75 million to fund programs to help people stop smoking. (What happened to all of that money the government got when they settled with the tobacco industry?)
• $650 million in coupons to help consumers convert their TV’s to receive digital signals.
• $2.4 billion to show how carbon gases can be removed from the atmosphere.
• $1 billion to further subsidize the loser Amtrak who hasn’t earned a profit in 40 years.
• $400 million for research into global weather change.
• $600 million to buy new cars and trucks for federal employees. (What are we going to do with all of those used vehicles?)
• $21 million to re-sod the National Mall that got mauled during the Inauguration and to help pay DC for cleaning up the tons of garbage the city was buried under.
• $2.25 billion for national parks. (Our national parks are in bad shape and have been underfunded.)
• $87 billion for Medicaid.
• $53 billion for a “smart electricity grid.”
• $20 billion for an additional food stamp plan.
• $13 billion to weatherize public housing, help the homeless, repair foreclosed homes.
• $54 billion for science facilities, high speed Internet, and energy programs.
  

The above is only some of the non-job creating programs the bill contains and does not include all of the 32 new federal funded programs. When you add the interest ($347 billion) to the $819 billion pork barrel bill you will find it will cost approximately $1.17 trillion. What has been portrayed as a stimulus bill is nothing than a bloated spending bill. Most of the spending doesn’t occur until election years 2010 and 2012. Are you surprised!

Now the bill is in the senate so make a difference by contacting your US Senators and let them know you mean business by telling them to vote “NO” to this over sized pork bill (S.1) by going to the following web page and sending them an e-mail which you can customize if you like. It is easy to do and doesn’t take that much time.

I urge you to send a powerful message to your U.S. Senators today that you oppose this bloated, ill-conceived, pork plan!.

Here "pig, pig, pig, suee, suee!"

If you click on the above and it doesn't take you to the Council For Citizens Against Government Waste then copy the following into your browser and send your e-mail to your Senators today!

https://secure2.convio.net/cagw/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=553


Exodus 23:1-2
1 Do not spread false reports.
2 Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong.