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33 Pastors defy IRS ban on political interference

Posted by Casper on Monday, September 29, 2008 11:25:57 AM
In a move to prompt the IRS to sue over a 1954 ban that prohibits tax exempt organizations of worship from endorsing or interfering in any political campaign, 33 pastors across the nation orchestrated a movement from their pulpits to challenge the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama.

The role of the church is to lead their congregation down the path of righteousness.  Their sole aim is to teach and guide Christians young and old on how to live their lives not on how they should vote.  For the sake of clarity let me also add that these pastors oppose Barack Obama because of his stance on gay rights and abortion.  So they want to educate their church members on where the candidates stand relative to the teachings of the bible.

The point that I want to make however, is this.  How is this any different than what the Reverend Jeremiah Wright or Father Pfleger do in their churches each and every Sunday? Anti-Republican vitriol is spoken from the pulpit of black churches all across this country, from sea to shining sea.  They incite their members by telling them that George Bush wants them and their babies to starve.  That the Republicans want to turn them into second class citizens again by taking away their rights as American citizens.  They claim, as Whoopi Goldberg does that John McCain wants to return them to slavery because he wants to appoint judges that are strict constitutionalists.  All of this could not be further from the truth but the IRS does nothing to challenge the rights of black (democrat) preachers to spout their political lies and half-truths.

The IRS has yet to decide what action to take.  They will watch the events and decide accordingly.  The point must be made that the freedom of speech belongs to all Americans, not just those who want to vote for Obama.
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DEMOCRATS FIDDLED WHILE ROME BURNED

Posted by Casper on Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:51:23 AM
President Bush just handed Congress a $700 billion buyout plan to save our crumbling economy and perhaps millions of jobs.

Yesterday afternoon it seemed the bill was dead on the hill.

Last night just before the President addressed the nation, Democrats stepped forward and said that the two parties had finally come to an agreement on the principles of a bailout bill, despite growing public sentiment against the plan.

What happened?

Simple.  Political posturing.  The President showed leadership on this issue while the Democrats were left waiting for the leader in the White House to show them the way.  The Democrats could not make Bush out to look like the winner on this issue (this issue could very well win them the White House as well as both Houses in Congress).  So they stomped around the hill, calling the bill "unacceptable" and all of a sudden Democrats had a difficult time spending the tax payer's money when they've been so good at it for more than forty years.  They knew all along that the bill would be signed.  They would sign it because the economy will tank if they don't.  The financial crisis on Wall Street will soon creep up onto the porches on Main Street.

Democrats played the political games while President Bush (finally) showed leadership.  He could take the Congress to task for their failures to have oversight of Fannie and Freddie Mac but he accepted the responsibility of the crisis and explained his plan to fix it to the American people.  The blame game can be played out on the playing fields of the election but if this crisis is adverted, President Bush will escape the moniker of the 21st Century's version of Herbert Hoover.
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Answer to Our Troubled Economy:"Fair Tax"

Posted by Casper on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:12:48 PM
In today's political environment "fairness" is a term bandied about by liberals who see the world through the eyes of a five year old child.  "That's not fair."  or "You're being mean to me, that's just not fair."

So in the context of fairness I present to you the "fair tax" plan.  

The current tax code is difficult to understand and is holding back our economy.  Should Congress pass and the President sign a fair tax plan the old days of complicated tax filing would finally be behind us all.

A "fair tax" treats all federal tax payers equally.  Eliminating the unfair tax code that soaks the top fifty per cent while the bottom fifty per cent are a load and a burden to the rest.

A fair tax would create a tax rate of less than 20%.  This plan would eliminate loop holes such as deductions the wealthy and the rest of us use to hide money from the federal government, but it would also eliminate penalties on investments.  The days of double taxation would be over.  The capital gains tax, the "death tax" would be gone.

If Congress signed a federal tax reform act tomorrow the economy would see an immediate growth of $5 trillion.  This is a modest estimate as some predict a $13 trillion growth.  I believe the number to be around$7 trillion, right in the middle.  With this extra cash we could lower the federal deficit, fix social security, and bail out medicare and medicaid (both are as broke as our financial institutions). 

This is the only true, fair tax plan.  The fair tax is a good plan for all us.  It is good for business, it is good for families in every economic strata.  It just makes good sense and better yet, all but eliminate the IRS.  Its a win for all of America.
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America Stands on the Brink of Collapse

Posted by Casper on Monday, September 22, 2008 11:17:10 AM
As a Conservative Republican you might think I would be against such a large federal buyout of debts owned by free market companies.  You might think that, but you couldn't be more wrong. Ideology has its place and it is an important one but every right thinking person on this planet must at some point recognize the limits of their ideology.  Mine reached its limit when the Bush administration decided it would provide a huge check to the troubled financial industry.

The $105 billion injection of liquid funds into the stock market was a good idea because (at least for now) it prevented an economic meltdown the size of the 1929 stock market crash that sent the world spiraling into a ten year great depression.  We thought it couldn't happen to us again. Well guess what it almost did.  The market, some experts analyzed was a mere 500 trades away from a 22 % drop.

The move by the feds prevented a catastrophe on Wall Street and on Main Street.  Why?  The constriction of commercial paper.  These are the loans given to small businesses and large businesses just to keep the doors open.  Without those loans businesses both large and small would have shut their doors and millions (potentially) would have lost their jobs.

America stands on the brink of a total collapse.  We are teetering on the edge and the slightest blow is all it might take to knock us into the abyss.  That blow might very well come from AlQaeda.  The terrorist group is notorious for its attempts to influence elections and many in our intelligence community fear that Al Qaeda will have an October surprise.  America has evaded a terrorist strike on our own soil since Sept 11, 2001 but the Bush administration claims several plots were thwarted before they were carried out.  America is still in danger from another attack.  Only this time they won't have to knock down our buildings to bring us to our knees. 
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Vermonter running for Atty General makes campaign promise to prosecute Bush for War Crimes

Posted by Casper on Friday, September 19, 2008 10:41:33 AM


In another example of Liberal left-wing fanaticism I give to you Charlotte Dennett.  Dennett, a Progressive party candidate running for Attorney General in Vermont, promises to prosecute George W. Bush for murder if she is elected to the position.  She claims to have jurisdiction in Iraq and she wants to bring Bush to justice for the murders he committed during the war.  Essentially she wants him charged on war crimes.

Maybe it's just me but these crazy people on the left have just about gone off the deep end with their vitriol toward this man.  You can disagree with his policies but this crosses the line of politics to pure unfiltered hatred.  I didn't agree with over 99% of the Clinton Administration policies but I never hated him.

Democrats in their criticism of the Republican Party often cite hate mongering among the Conservative right-wingers.  The hate-mongering they speak of is nothing more than a spirited debate over policies with which we differ greatly.  Liberals feel that if you attack their bad ideas that you must be silenced so they call us names.  They fling personal attacks and threats at Conservatives calling us racists, bigots, and homophobes.  Based on this crazy woman's ideas I have a few insults to fling of my own.  How about imbecilic, ignorant, stupid, and most of all dangerous and deadly to the American way of life.
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Higher Taxes Patriotic?

Posted by Casper on Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:02:46 AM
According to Joe Biden it is.  In a speech Thursday Biden claimed that paying higher taxes was the patriotic thing to do.  It's time to jump in and help America get out of the rut.

It's time to jump in?  Are you kidding me?

The top one 1% in this country already pay 39% of all federal income taxes.  The top 25% pay 86% and the top 50% pay 97% of all income taxes.

I think the rich are paying thier fair share.  I think it's time for the poor to pay their fair share. It's time for the lower 50% to actually start paying some taxes and start contributing to society. Such rhetoric won't get anyone elected these days.  So to remedy this let's pass a law that says if you don't pay taxes you have not earned the right to vote.

That sounds plenty fair to me.

All Americans whether you are poor, rich, white or black should pay their share of the tax burden in this country.  Look at this way:  50% of the country are helping to make decisions in a government they don't contribute to.

Obama's plan to punish the wealthy with higher taxes will only serve to widen this gap even further.  Since when did success become a crime in this country?  This is socialism.  We are taking resources from the "priviledged few" and parsing it out to everyone else who did nothing to earn it.  Sure punish the rich, we say.  They have plenty.  Great idea just better hope you aren't successful, the target will be on you then.
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Race War in America if Obama loses?

Posted by Casper on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Fatimah Ali is at it again.  I just finished reading her latest column'Race War' in America in which she makes the claim that the race war she wrote about in her last column is already here. She cites several examples of hateful emails she received after the publication of her first column and like most liberals she makes the stereotypical claim that all "right-wingers" are hate filled bigots who don't want to vote for Barack Obama because he is a black man.

This is why Obama must be defeated.  He is dangerous.  Any criticism of the man and you are called a racist.  When it looks as if he might lose the election, they claim a "race war" is brewing in America.  

I disagree with Obama because he is liberal democrat in favor of raising my taxes and extending the reach and control of the federal government.  He will never put spending under control and the deficit will continue to grow larger.  I disagree with Obama because he is dangerous to this country, not because he is black but because he is a Marxist.

Conservative Republicans don't hate blacks.  We love them as fellow Americans and we honor their sacrifices for this country.  Without their help in the Revolutionary War and in the War Between the States this country would not be the great shining city on the hill that it is today.

There will always be the ignorant fools who spout racial hatred.  They are angry and they just look to target their anger at anyone who is different from them.  Those who lump Conservatives into this group are just as ignorant as those who spout racial hatred.  Conservatives are as diverse as America itself.  We see America as the greatest land of all time, we don't hate it because of the sins of its past. America, like all human beings, has the right of redemption. Americans fight injustice where ever we find it, even if we find it here.

So stop the racial rhetoric.  The racism in this country, in large part, falls into the lap of the African-American community.  Remember the Reverand Jeremiah Wright?  How about James David Manning?  

African Americans are angry in this country because their voice isn't heard. Every four years politicians promise them more and more and then never deliver.  Perhaps that is why they think Obama will be different.  You have pinned your hopes and dreams on the Democratic Party and for the forty years they were in power they did nothing.  Reverand Jackson and Sharpton still complain about the same problems in the black community they complained about forty years ago.  

Did doing nothing for forty years really earn them your vote?  Maybe its time for the black community to try a different route, maybe this time you will see a different result.
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America's Next Great Depression

Posted by Casper on Monday, September 15, 2008 12:00:00 AM
They are calling it "Black Sunday" the day when Merrill Lynch is bought out by Bank of America for $50 billion (1/2 what it was worth last year) and Lehman Brothers files Chapter 11.  This time the government refused to bail out the two companies as they did with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last week and Bear Stearn only a few months ago.  Finally it would seem that the Federal Government is willing to let the free market make its own corrections.  

Good for them!  Finally glad you made it to the party along with the rest of us.

Obama claims that this is part of the failed policies of the past.  Anyone else as tired of hearing that as I am?

The financial crisis in this country has nothign to do with the government.  Sure the government has a role but these companies are failing because of bad loans and poor real estate investments. 

America will feel the sting of these losses but as always this great country will arise and stand stronger than we were before if we allow the free market to correct itself and learn from its mistakes.
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