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White House boycott of National Day of Prayer?

Posted by Billy on Monday, May 04, 2009 12:55:29 PM
Organizers of this week's National Day of Prayer still don't know whether the White House will participate.

 

 

The event's evangelical character earned it a White House welcome during President George W. Bush's eight years in office. But Brian Toon, vice chairman of the National Day of Prayer Task Force, says to date, there's been no mention of a White House observance being held this year.

According to an article this past week in the Colorado Springs Gazette, advocacy groups for so-called inclusive dialogue on faith in America are "trying to break what they perceive as the organization's monopoly on the event."

 

The newspaper went on to say that the "Interfaith Alliance and Jews on First sent a letter this month to President Barack Obama asking him to declare that the National Day of Prayer is for Americans of all faiths - and even for nonbelievers."
(Ok no matter what faith you are you can pray. However if you have no faith who do you pray to a tree? This would be silly  but because of other things this White House has done I question if they are to anything of  God and God's people. I also am starting to think Obama and those with him just used faith to get votes. Read more on this issue- White House boycott of National Day of Prayer? )
 
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'No more Reagan' says Bush after two Bushes

Posted by Billy on Monday, May 04, 2009 12:37:36 PM

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday that it's time for the Republican Party to give up its "nostalgia" for the heyday of the Reagan era and look forward, even if it means stealing the winning strategy deployed by Democrats in the 2008 election.  (  'No more Reagan' says Bush after two Bushes  )
"You can't beat something with nothing, and the other side has something. I don't like it, but they have it, and we have to be respectful and mindful of that," Mr. Bush said.
 
"From the conservative side, it's time for us to listen first, to learn a little bit, to upgrade our message a little bit, to not be nostalgic about the past because, you know, things do ebb and flow."
 
(Ok some of what Bush said is ok. I believe the GOP needs to reach out more. However they  should never stop preaching the true Reagan message of  less government and a strong America. If they step away from that the short gains they make will be nothing compared to the long term loses they will have.)
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'Kemp would be alive today' if it Wasn't for GOP

Posted by Billy on Monday, May 04, 2009 12:22:09 PM
Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Democrat, said part of the reason that he left the Republican Party last week was disillusionment with its health-care priorities, and suggested that had the Republicans taken a more moderate track, Jack Kemp may have won his battle with cancer.
If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine."
( This is another reason   why Republicans  should be thrilled that Mr. Specter has left them. Jack Kemp was truly on the right and a class act. Too bad the same I can't be said  about Sen. Specter. I hope none of Kemps family  heard the non class words of  Mr. Specter. For more on this story Sen. Specter hints 'Kemp would be alive today' if GOP had more moderate agenda.)
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Jack Kemp, football star and politician, dies

Posted by Billy on Monday, May 04, 2009 11:55:49 AM



Jack Kemp, the former pro quarterback who turned fame on the gridiron into a career in national politics and a crusade for lower taxes, has died of cancer at age 73. ( Jack Kemp, football star and politician, dies    )
Family spokeswoman Marci Robinson said Kemp died shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday, surrounded by his family. Kemp died at his home in Bethesda, Md., in the Washington suburbs, friends said.
Kemp, a former quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, represented western New York for nine terms in Congress, leaving the House for an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988.

Eight years later, after serving a term as President George H.W. Bush's housing secretary, he made it onto the national ticket as Bob Dole's running-mate.
With that loss, the Republican bowed out of political office, but not out of politics. In speaking engagements and a syndicated column, he continued to advocate for the tax reform and supply-side policies - the idea that the more taxes are cut the more the economy will grow - that he pioneered.
His style didn't win over everyone. In his memoirs, former Vice President Dan Quayle wrote that at Cabinet meetings, Bush would be irked by Kemp's habit of going off on tangents and not making "any discernible point."
(Jack Kemp will be missed. He truly was  on the right. We need more people in politics like him.Please keep his family in your  prayers.)







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Today, Friday Posts (Have a Great weekend)

Posted by Billy on Friday, May 01, 2009 9:37:35 PM
 
 
 
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Half of US adults have switched religions

Posted by Billy on Friday, May 01, 2009 9:10:53 PM

 About half of all Americans have switched religions at least once, according to the most in-depth survey on the topic, released Monday. The reasons people give for changing their religion — or leaving religion altogether — differ widely:

To read  more  on this issue along with my thoughts on what  our churches should do please check out the posting I just did on my faith based blog, Half of US adults have switched religions.

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TOUGH QUESTIONS AWAIT WARREN BUFFETT ON WORST-EVER YEAR...

Posted by Billy on Friday, May 01, 2009 8:33:01 PM

 Warren Buffett will be under pressure at Saturday’s annual gathering of faithful shareholders to explain his worst year ever, with the usually adoring crowd set to probe the legendary investor on his bargain-hunting strategy, succession plans and views of the crisis.
(  TOUGH QUESTIONS AWAIT WARREN BUFFETT ON WORST-EVER YEAR...   )

Buffett-watchers say this year’s meeting of shareholders in Berkshire Hathaway, his candies-to-insurance group, will depart from the usual pattern of deferential questions and folksy answers and witness some criticism of the billionaire investor.

“The hard questions will be asked this year,” said James Altucher, a hedge fund manager and author of Trade Like Warren Buffett. “There will be people who always stand by him and others who will ask: ‘Have you lost your way?’”.

(Mr. Buffett is from the left. I wonder years from now if Buffett will blame  President Obama's  tax and spend   policy  if things don't improve here in America. Don't hold your breath.)

 

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Arlen Specter: Good Riddance

Posted by Billy on Friday, May 01, 2009 8:14:47 PM
The return of Sen. Arlen Specter to the Democratic Party (he flipped in 1965 from "Kennedy Democrat" to Republican) is something that should be celebrated by Republicans, at least those who are proud to call themselves conservatives. Specter is a career politician whose first priority is himself.
Specter, whose predictable lament that the GOP is not the "big tent" he had been led to believe it was, now embraces a Democratic Party that is an even smaller tent. How many pro-life Democrats exercise any influence in that party? How many opponents to same-sex marriage are in the Democratic leadership? Smaller government? Lower taxes? No leading Democrat, inside or outside Congress, subscribes to such things. And yet the big media and many pundits continue the fiction that Republicans are in electoral trouble because they do not tolerate liberal ideas.
(The above is from a column Cal Thomas wrote. Read more of  what Cal wrote below.)

The Republican Party, much to the consternation of conservatives, saved Specter's bacon in the 2004 election. Part of Karl Rove's strategy was to re-elect Republicans, no matter how liberal. Specter won that election thanks to the efforts of the Bush White House and gobs of Republican National Committee money that was poured into his race. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless politician.

Specter switched parties because of the serious primary challenge he faced from conservative Pat Toomey. As recently as six weeks ago, Specter told The Hill newspaper that he would not become a Democrat because the country needs a vibrant two-party system. What happened?

The Republican Party is better off without Specter who, along with other "moderates," has weakened the party. These RINOs (Republicans in name only) have kept the party from renewing its conservative roots and contrasting itself with the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.

Liberals do not win elections for Republicans. Conservatives win elections.

 
 (Cal is right this switch might just be a good move for the GOP. As I posted yesterday  Specter was a Democrat in his heart along time ago. Read the whole column by Cal Thomas Arlen Specter: Good Riddance.)
 
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Tony Bennett: US Should Give Obama 'All Out Support for Anything He Wants to Do'...

Posted by Billy on Friday, May 01, 2009 1:03:04 PM
Grammy-award winning musician Tony Bennett told CNSNews.com he “loves everything” Barack Obama has done in his first 100 days as president and thinks every American should “give him all-out support for anything he wants to do.”
 
“I love everything he’s done and everything he’s doing,” Bennett said of Obama. “I think we should give him all-out support for anything he wants to do. We should all help. He’s giving our country back to us, and that’s the laws of the land – the citizens own the country.”
When asked if there is anything specific Obama has done that he likes, Bennett noted Obama’s speaking skills.
 
(I wonder did Mr. Bennett think this  when  President Bush  was our leader. Far as a leader being great because he can speak. Well didn't  Hitler have great speaking skills? I am not comparing Obama to Hitler but my point is we should look at the core values of a leader not if they can speak well. Read more of this story right here.)
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JUSTICE SOUTER RETIRING... DEVELOPING...

Posted by Billy on Friday, May 01, 2009 12:34:03 PM
 
Supreme Court Justice David Souter is planning to retire at the end of the current court term.

The vacancy will give President Obama his first chance to name a member of the high court and begin to shape its future direction.

At 69, Souter is nowhere near the oldest member of the court. In fact, he is in the younger half of the court's age range, with five justices older and just three younger. So far as anyone knows, he is in good health. But he has made clear to friends for some time that he wanted to leave Washington, a city he has never liked, and return to his native New Hampshire.
Souter was a Republican appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990, largely on the recommendation of New Hampshire's former Gov. John Sununu, who had become the first President Bush's chief of staff. But Souter surprised Bush and other Republicans by joining the court's more liberal wing.
(Look for Obama to name a radical judge who will rule from the left and try to make laws instead of following the rule of law. Read more on this story JUSTICE SOUTER RETIRING... DEVELOPING.)
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