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Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:43:17 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Obama signs 'hate crimes' bill - Christian broadcasters concerned

Rush Limbaugh was really done in by his own words

Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar'

Castro's sister: She helped CIA against Cuban leaders

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Thursday Blogging

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:35:12 PM

Blogging on Thursday will be  later in the afternoon or may not be until evening. I have to work in the morning  and then in the afternoon I need to take my mom to the doctor. Thanks so much for understanding.

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Democrats struggle to find unity on health plan...

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:30:26 PM
Democrats are struggling to bridge differences among their rank and file to push health overhaul legislation through Congress and fulfill President Barack Obama's goal of signing a bill this year.
In the wake of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's announcement that the Democratic bill would include the option of a government insurance plan, moderates in his own party lost no time in voicing their displeasure. The Nevada Democrat needs every Democrat to break the filibusters that Republicans are vowing to mount. But some of the moderates refuse to say whether they'll stick with their leader on procedural votes, let alone those on the merits of the bill.
"Until I've seen everything, I'm not for anything," moderate Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., told home-state reporters in a conference call Wednesday. He said he was undecided on Reid's bill, and would prefer an approach where states could opt into a government insurance plan, instead of being permitted to opt out, as Reid would allow.
 

 

But, "I'm keeping an open mind," Nelson said. "Doing nothing is not one of the things that we can consider."

In the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been laboring to finalize a consensus health care bill amid disagreements among Democrats.
(We the voters and tax payers of this nation need to be watching and hold people like Sen. Nelson to the promise of  looking out for the America people. We don't need government health care. Yes the health care system needs to change but it is still the best health care in the world. If it is not why do people come from around the world to be treated. Read more of the above story  Democrats struggle to find unity on health plan...)
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Obama signs 'hate crimes' bill - Christian broadcasters concerned

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 8:13:57 PM
The "hate crimes" bill approved recently by Congress could be a problem for broadcasters -- most importantly, Christian broadcasters -- now that it has been signed into law.

 

 

President Barack Obama has signed into law a measure that adds to the list of federal hate crimes attacks on people based on their sexual orientation.
Congress approved the legislation last week as part of the $680-billion FY 2010 Defense Authorization bill. Appended to the hate crimes amendment was a statement ensuring that a religious leader or any other person cannot be prosecuted on the bases if his or her speech, beliefs, or association.
 
But Craig Parshall, chief counsel for National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), discounts that statement, pointing out that such laws in other countries have been used to silence people of faith. He believes the law approved by Congress is potentially dangerous as it relates to comments made about homosexuality or another religion.
 
"Under the criminal law of incitement, if something is said in a broadcast that another person uses as a motivation to go out and commit an act of what they call 'bodily injury' in the statute, then a broadcaster could be held criminally liable," he explains. ( Obama signs 'hate crimes' bill - Christian broadcasters concerned  )
 
(Look out. I even heard yesterday a lady who wrote something against a gay rights march over in England  has gotten in to trouble. So could that happen here in the good old USA with laws like this  one  look out.)
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Rush Limbaugh was really done in by his own words

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:27:03 PM

As it began to look as though his past, um, let’s say “racial indelicacies” would cost Rush Limbaugh a shot at partial ownership of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams, the right-wing radio hustler offered this interpretation:

“This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative. Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we are going to have.”
 
(The above is part of a column written by Tom Teepen. More of the column is below.)

Limbaugh was done in by Limbaugh. And it wasn’t his conservatism that tipped him up. 

“The NFL,” Limbaugh has said, “too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips ... ”

For my sins — which considering the punishment must be great and grave — I often listen to Limbaugh when I’m out and about in my car. This self-flagellation goes back more than a decade, and if I have ever heard him speak of any African-American figure with other than contempt and dismissal, and usually with a fillip of mockery, I can’t remember when.

The First Amendment’s right to free speech and press works well thanks in good part to the fact that while it protects writers and publishers, speakers and broadcasters from government interference, it doesn’t exempt them from the social consequences of their utterances.


 
(I want to know is Mr. Teepen also going to write a column against Jesse Jackson, and others who are part of the radical left. Far as what Rush said about players in the NFL looking like the  Bloods and the Crips look sadly at how many NFL players have gotten in trouble. Rush was punished for his political views. So next time Fox news hires somebody they should not hire those on the left and they have the right not to. If that happens look out for people like Mr. Teepen to have a cow. Read more of the above column  Rush Limbaugh was really done in by his own words.)
 
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Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar'

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:03:44 PM

Rocco Landesman is President Obama's handpicked chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Last week he gave the keynote address to the 2009 Grantmakers in the Arts Conference. Those of us concerned about the politicization of life and art in the Age of Obama will not be consoled by a reading of Landesman's speech. The speech bears examination in its entirety, but Landesman's tribute to Obama is especially worth a look:

This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln. If you accept the premise, and I do, that the United States is the most powerful country in the world, then Barack Obama is the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar. That has to be good for American artists.

Landesman compares Obama favorably with Julius Caesar as "a powerful writer." Landesman is not referring to Obama's skills as a writer, but rather to the power he holds by virtue of his office. Some might think that the literary comparison sells Obama short. Caesar was something of a self-promoter and propagandist in his writing.

Yet Landesman knows Obama is like Caesar, somehow -- a friend asks, is it in the transformation of a republic into an empire with a divine ruler? Perhaps if Landesman had his wits about him, he would note instead that Obama is the most powerful speaker since the other JC.
 
(To be honest with you I don't care if some person can write great or not I care about who they are and in the case of a leader I care about how they lead. Some say Hitler was a great writer but was he a great leader no he was an evil leader. For the record I am not comparing Obama and Hitler I am just making a point. I wonder if Obama had cut the NEA from his spending plan if  Landesman would be talking about how great he was, I don't think he would be. Read more on this issue right here.) 
 
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Castro's sister: She helped CIA against Cuban leaders

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:41:15 AM
Juanita Castro, the younger sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, worked for the CIA during some crucial years of the Cold War, she says in her new memoir.

Juanita Castro, originally a supporter of the Cuban revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959, said she became disillusioned by growing injustice.

"They wanted to talk to me because they had interesting things to tell me, and interesting things to ask of me, such as if I was willing to take that risk, if I was ready to listen to them. I was semi-shocked, but I said yes anyway," she told CNN affiliate Univision-Noticias 23 in Miami, Florida.
Univision's interviewer, journalist Maria Antonieta Collins, co-wrote the book. "My Brothers Fidel and Raul, the Secret History" was released Monday
Castro wrote that she agreed to help on the condition that she would not do anything violent against her brothers. She also refused payment when it was offered, she said.
 
(I have no idea what this lady must have gone through to have a brother who is an evil leader and wanting the Cuba people to be freed but at the same time not wanting her brothers to be hurt. Good for her and God Bless her. Pray for the people of Cuba and that they will soon have freedom. Read more of the above story Castro's sister: She helped CIA against Cuban leaders )
 
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Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:58:33 PM
 
 
 
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Congregations parting ways with Presbyterian denomination

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:53:45 PM
Three congregations in California are breaking with the Presbyterian Church (USA) because of disagreements over the Bible and homosexuality.

 

 

Fowler Presbyterian Church, Trinity Presbyterian Church in Clovis, and First Presbyterian Church in Fresno all decided this month to join the conservative Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
 
(Good for these churches. It is a blessing to see churches which put the Lordship of God and his word first. May they be blessed by God. In the Bible it says you can't serve God and the world. Too many places of worship are trying to please the world instead of pleasing the Lord. Read more on this issue Congregations parting ways with Presbyterian denomination.)
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Girl returns to Ohio to face Muslim parents

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:41:43 PM
 Rifqa Bary is back in Ohio after running away to Florida because she said she feared her father would harm or kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity.

(Rifqa returns to Ohio to face Muslim parents  ) 

The Florida Department of Children and Families says 17-year-old Bary arrived in Columbus Tuesday accompanied by a state social worker and a Florida police officer. She is now in the custody of Franklin County Children Services, which was given control of her case earlier this month pending her arrival back in Ohio. Bary will stay with a foster family and undergo counseling.
(Pray for this young lady. Again as I wrote in a post awhile back the courts need to look at what the Islam faith teachings. There is a thing in Islam called honor killings and the faith teaches anyone who leaves Islam to follow another faith should be killed.)

 

 

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Without Fidel’ — Hollywood’s Useful Idiots Go to Cuba

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:34:09 PM
 

In October 2008, Raul Castro granted his first interview as president of Cuba – and one of the very few he has ever given. The lucky recipient was not one of the dozen accredited reporters based in Havana. Nor was it a journalist who has covered the Miami/Havana beat, nor one of the hundreds of requests from representatives from media organizations and academia who have filed requests with the Foreign Ministry. Rather, Raul Castro’s first interlocutor would be the actor/director, Sean Penn, who periodically weighs in on politics.

Penn had just winged in on a Venezuelan military jet from Isla Margarita, the picturesque island near Caracas, having had spent two days with a convivial Hugo Chavez. With him were the writer Christopher Hitchens and historian Douglas Brinkley, whom Penn had invited to accompany him, presumably to lend gravitas to his efforts. The three had hoped to reprise their luck with Raul Castro and, according to Penn, seemed to have been promised as much. (  ‘Without Fidel’ — Hollywood’s Useful Idiots Go to Cuba)

But the gods – in the form of Fidel, who orchestrated the event, chose only the movie star. Penn had met the Comandante in 2005 and the two quickly took a shine to each other. Moreover, Penn became fast friends with Chavez, of whom he was wont to say, “Chávez may not be a good man, but he may well be a great one.” Penn was now eager for an interview with [Raúl] the new president,” according to his account of the trip published in the left-leaning journal, The Nation.

(I might care more about what Penn wrote in filmed about Cuba and her evil leaders if Penn had talked to people who left Cuba so they could enjoy freedom or if he would report on the souls who have been killed or forced in to prisons because they spoke up against the evil government of Cuba or wanted to follow their faith.)
 
 
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Lieberman says he'll filibuster Reid plan...

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 8:17:00 PM

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.

 

Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health care bill that includes a government-run insurance program — even if it includes a provision allowing states to opt out of the program, as Reid has said the Senate bill will.

 

"We're trying to do too much at once," Lieberman said. “To put this government-created insurance company on top of everything else is just asking for trouble for the taxpayers, for the premium payers and for the national debt. I don’t think we need it now.
 
(Good for Sen. Lieberman. President Obama and those on the left are trying to do too much a lot of want they want to do will hurt our nation. Read more on this issue  by clicking right here.)

 
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