Saturday, December 14, 2013

Obama, Pied Piper of Entitlement, Equal Outcome and Redistribution Written on Saturday, December 14, 2013 by Sean Aland

emper fidelis – Always Faithful- is forever connected to the US Marine Corps. Semper Paratus – Always Prepared- is forever connected to the US Coast Guard. In no time Semper inscribitur – Always Entitled – will be forever connected to the Obama administration and the progressive Democrats.  As part of the fundamental change the president promised, he has gone out of his way to ensure that everyone gets a trophy and that outcomes are the same.  It appears that Democrats feel we still need to work on getting closer to equal outcomes in the US.  With his redistribution drive to ensure that everyone gets their “Fair share” and that the “Playing field is evened out” we see the Pied Piper of entitlements luring Americans into dependency on the new government plantation.  The Pied Piper is gathering his serfs in his quest to become the world’s Entitlement King. But let’s set the record straight.
We have never been a nation of “Equal Entitlement” or “Equal Outcome,” but have always been a land of equal opportunity.  Many on the left will lament that it’s not equal for minorities and blacks specifically.  Well if that were so how did Obama get elected twice?  Can you explain that, unless the answer really is that the election was twice stolen.  But I don’t think that’s true, stolen once but not twice.  The first time was stupidity.
So in the quest for equal outcome we see entry level employees who can’t be happy with a job period,  wanting $15.00 an hour for flipping burgers because someone better educated has a better job that pays more than the minimum wage.  The problem with the left and progressives is that even if they got $15.00 an hour it’s still not good enough, next they will want $20.00 an hour because someone else is getting that.
The ridiculous part of this whole equal entitlement or equal outcome culture is that nothing else in our society is geared that way.  Take sports for example, if we apply their logic to sports, then every competition from here on needs to end in a tie.  That is the only fair way for everyone to get the same share.  The BCS standings would be easy because everyone is a winner with the same records.  No Bowls required.   For the Olympics the podium would need to be expanded because everyone would get the gold, or maybe we could change that to a nice ribbon to ensure that there was no monetary value to the award that would make their net worth more valuable than anyone else in the world.  We would also have to open the Olympics to everyone so that anyone with an Olympic dream could compete, not just those world class athletes who have trained so hard for years.  After all everyone is entitled to equal outcomes right?  Same scores and rewards for everyone, and all watered down to lowest common denominator.   No one could be physically superior, and doctors would be required to make the same mistake they made on one person on everyone else to ensure that no one was physically sounder.  In fact we would need to march every healthy American to the doctor’s office to start surgeries to ensure that everyone has the same repaired defects.  Maybe that is how they will fund Obamacare.
If someone loses a limb it would not be fair for them to have less so we would need to start amputations to be fair and ensure everyone else is the same.   Let’s all meet at the finish line and break the ribbon together.   The insanity could continue in multiple directions, but the point is different people have different talents, were not all the same.  In the real world there are winners and losers, rich and poor, successful and unsuccessful, and that is just the way it is. Some people work harder than others and see things differently. Some succeed through dumb luck and some are better prepared for an opportunity when they see it.  That is what makes our diverse society great.  Understand, life is not fair, get used to it. Things don’t always work out the way they should or for the good of everyone.  Need proof, just look at the last six years and the numbers of lies told and broken promises made by this administration.  Look at where they have taken this country and there is no doubt that unfairness exist.  Entitlements, exemptions, payoffs, special deals, rule the roost in DC.  Our elected officials screaming for equal everything don’t even send their kids to the same schools everyone in DC has to use, but they preach equality.  If equality and equal entitlement and outcome are so important to the DC elites, why don’t they send their kids to the public schools in DC?  The answer is because even in their world things are not equal.
This is not just a one party problem since there are progressive elites in both parties; it just appears that most reside on the left.  The Republicans in their chameleon quest to attract more people would rather character assassinate their base of conservatives and tea party members than stand for strong core values and good work ethic.  So they compromise time and time again, much to the delight of the current administration and their minions.   Today there are three major parties in DC, the Democrats, Republicans and the get re-elected party.   Unfortunately it appears that the majority of politicians belong to the get re-elected party and could not care less about issues or constituents.  So instead of fixing the problems that exist through sound legislation, they will continue to unfairly administer our nation and compromise their values.   And under Obama’s tutelage both will continue using government entitlements and handing out as much as possible in exchange for votes in the next election.

Colorado Shooter “Opinionated Socialist” and “Keynesian”

Colorado Shooter “Opinionated Socialist” and “Keynesian”

131213225153-01-karl-pierson-1213-horizontal-galleryDon’t expect Mark Potok to get on MSNBC and dissect the ideological background of the latest high school shooter. It turns out Karl Halverson Pierson, the teenager who wounded two Colorado high schools students and then killed himself, was a dyed-in-the-wool liberal. Not only did Pierson have “strong beliefs about gun laws and stuff,” according a student who attended a class with him, but the teenager was a “very opinionated Socialist,” News.com.au reports. From the Denver Post: In one Facebook post, Pierson attacks the philosophies of economist Adam Smith, who through his invisible-hand theory pushed the notion that the free market was self-regulating. In another post, he describes himself as “Keynesian.” He also attacked Republicans for their stance on Obamacare, climate change, and gun violence. In short, he was a staunch Obama liberal. The Southern Poverty Law Center and other liberal groups invariably try to place the blame for many shootings on patriot groups and libertarian and constitutionalist political ideologies. In November, they claimed the LAX shooter, Paul Ciancia, was driven by a New World Order and Federal Reserve conspiracy. Other liberals jumped on the bandwagon. The liberal website Raw Story, for instance, linked “New World Order” to a “conspiracy-minded right” and, more specifically, media figures Alex Jones and Glenn Beck. It stopped short of directly blaming Jones and Beck for inciting a murder committed by a mentally disturbed individual who threatened to commit suicide prior to the attack. If the anti-Second Amendment left bothered to follow through on its own faulty logic, the SPLC and talking heads at MSNBC would cite John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx and Frederich Engels as inspiration for Pierson’s attack. This, of course, would be nonsense. Individuals alone are responsible for committing murder, not political ideology or supposed lax gun laws. Info Wars

Progressive Democrats Demand Obama Rule As A Dictator

More than two dozen House Democrats wrote a letter to President Obama urging him to use executive authority to provide amnesty for the country’s 11 million illegal immigrants.
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White House Forcing Out Celebrated Marine General

White House Forcing Out Celebrated Marine General

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According to Tom Ricks at Foreign Policy, the Obama administration is pushing out celebrated Marine General James Mattis from CENTCOM early because of internal battles over the White House’s Middle East strategy:
Why the hurry? Pentagon insiders say that he rubbed civilian officials the wrong way — not because he went all “mad dog,” which is his public image, and the view at the White House, but rather because he pushed the civilians so hard on considering the second- and third-order consequences of military action against Iran. Some of those questions apparently were uncomfortable. Like, what do you do with Iran once the nuclear issue is resolved and it remains a foe? What do you do if Iran then develops conventional capabilities that could make it hazardous for U.S. Navy ships to operate in the Persian Gulf? He kept saying, “And then what?”
National Security Advisor Tom Donilon in particular was irked by Mattis’s insistence on being heard. I cringe when I hear about civilians shutting down strategic discussions.
The Mattis-Donilon disagreements weren’t just about Iran. Other issues on which Mattis was pushing the White House to think deeper and harder, I am told, were “Afghanistan, concerns about Pakistani stability, [and] response to the Arab spring.”
It does not bode well for the country when the administration is set on eliminating our brightest and best leaders from the military.

Report: Gen. Mattis Forced Out of CENTCOM for Questioning Obama's Advisers

Report: Gen. Mattis Forced Out of CENTCOM for Questioning Obama's Advisers

Reports indicate that Marine General James Mattis is being forced out of CENTCOM for questioning certain aspects of the Obama administration's Middle East policy.

In particular, it appears his questions surrounding the U.S. response to Iran's nuclear ambitions drew the ire of civilian military and security advisers.
These civilians were apparently upset by the way Mattis pushed them to "consider second and third-order consequences of military action against Iran." Nor did they appreciate the way he pushed them to think long term and consider what the U.S. will do if Iran develops non-nuclear weapons that can be used to keep U.S. ships out of the Persian Gulf.
Mattis also expressed concern over the consequences of certain aspects of the U.S. approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan. It seems this line of reasoning didn't sit well with National Security Adviser Tom Donilon.

Secret Obamacare handbook the feds don’t want you to see is online

Secret Obamacare handbook the feds don’t want you to see is online

A confidential training manual for Obamacare navigators that threatens prosecution for unauthorized dissemination is on the Internet for the world to see.
The 217-page manual reads like a primer for Amway or novice car salesmen, offering sales advice on how to disarm potential customers who could be lured into purchasing insurance through exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act.
Section headers include “Smile: Maintain a Positive Demeanor,” “Make the Customers Feel Welcome,” “Listen” and — in what must  now seem ironic given Barack Obama’s troubles with over-promising — “Build Trust: Be True to Your Word.”
The handbook also delves into the more serious topics of “Identifying Personally Identifiable Information,” “IRS Data Safeguards” and “Preventing Fraud.”
Nothing in the manual seems to rise to the level of a state secret — raising questions about why the federal government felt it necessary to classify information that has no reason to be classified.
“It’s a conditioned reflex aimed at preventing agency embarrassment,” said Chris Farrell, a director with Judicial Watch, a nonprofit aimed at rooting out secret government documents. “The federal government routinely overclassifies documents and withholds information the public is owed.”
Farrell said the most ludicrous example he encountered happened after 9/11.
“An egregious example that comes to mind is the FBI redacting the name of Osama bin Laden from press reports, and then saying they were protecting his privacy,” Farrell said.
The Department of Health and Human Services hasn’t encountered issues as death-defying as the FBI, but still takes its “confidential” information just as seriously. A disclaimer at the bottom of each page of the manual is headlined in bold: “INFORMATION NOT RELEASABLE TO THE PUBLIC UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY LAW.”
“This information has not been publicly disclosed and may be privileged and confidential,” the warning reads. “It is for internal government use only and must not be disseminated, distributed, or copied to persons not authorized to receive the information. Unauthorized disclosure may result in prosecution to the full extent of the law.”
A New Jersey woman who stumbled upon the document was so alarmed that she called the feds to report it. But her concerns fell on deaf ears.
“I immediately sent an email through the White House web site that these documents are on the web for all to see. I got no response,” said Tammy Duffy, a radiation health physicist who was signing up for Obamacare. “I also called the White House yesterday and spoke to a volunteer (and said) these restricted documents are on web. I have heard from no one. I also sent it to a friend who works at the Department of Defense and said, ‘Get this taken down.’ It’s still up there.”
Duffy first learned of the document when she was talking to Obamacare navigators who referred to the manual online because they could not answer her questions regarding coverage for a self-employed person.
“I asked the nice ladies for a copy and they said I could not have it because it was a government document not for the public,” Duffy said. “So I thought maybe there is an outline or shorter version that is for the public. I went to Google and typed in ‘healthcare insurance marketplace navigator SOP.’”
To her surprise, the document popped up. She found other training materials as well.
Labeling the manual “confidential” just makes the feds look silly — something they should be used to, Farrell said.
“They are their own worst enemy,” he added.
Contact Tori Richards at tori@watchdog.org
Published with permission from Watchdog.org

Billy Graham near death, ‘close to going home to be with the Lord’

Billy Graham near death, ‘close to going home to be with the Lord’


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The Rev. Billy Graham is near death, and it won’t be much longer before he succumbs to old age and goes “home to be with the Lord,” his grandson, Will Graham, said this week.
“I wish [God] would give him strength, but I don’t think he needs strength anymore,” Mr. Graham said, to the Christian news site, Assist News Service. “It’s time to go home.”
Mr. Graham, who’s spread the gospel around the world — and to the highest political offices in the nation — just turned 95 on Nov. 7, celebrating with a North Carolina party that included more than 1,000 notable guests, Newsmax reported. He’s been ill for years, fighting off Parkinson’s disease, pneumonia, prostate cancer and pulmonary problems, and has also been plagued by issues from his broken hips.
Now, “old age has caught up to him and is sucking the life out of him,” said Will Graham, who is also the son of Franklin Graham. Just this week, Franklin Graham appealed to the world to pray for his father, saying in an online post at Charismanews.com, that “our family would appreciate your prayers for him that the Lord would strengthen him.”
Meanwhile, grandson Will said God’s protected his grandfather throughout the years, giving him “supernatural strength and now, the only thing left is for him to come home. God has removed his hand of protection and old age has set in,” Newsmax reported.

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The Next Phase of America's Change

The Next Phase of America's Change
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     During the month of April I watched a couple broadcasts of The Believer's Voice of Victory on television. Gloria Copeland was talking with Billye Brim on the show, and they were discussing God's plans to give America a spiritual awakening. Billye spoke about how the Lord had shown her that both Oral Roberts and Billy Graham had to die at specific points in history, and she basically suggested that the passings of these two preachers would both be prophetic signs from Heaven. The deaths of them each would signify that the Holy Spirit was moving to fulfill His prophecies about the revival He has been indicating will come.
     Billye mentioned that in 2008 the Lord had given her the prophetic word, “One thing will save America...and it is an awakening to God.” Then she said that she believed this awakening would begin in the midst of groups that are devoted to prayer. As I see it, that already happened following the death of Oral Roberts.
     Oral died in December 2009, and that month the International House of Prayer in Kansas City held it annual “Onething Conference.” Here I.H.O.P. shared the anointing from its university's “student awakening” with about 20,000 people. It was from this conference that GOD TV first began to broadcast these renewal meetings from the heart of America to over 200 nations, inspiring prayer warriors worldwide.
     Wes Hall, the main leader of the IHOP Awakening, spoke on Wednesday the 5th (of May) about how he feels certain that this current outpouring is only a small taste of what is to come to the United States. He likened this movement to the cloud the size of a man's hand that Elijah was told about in 1 Kings 18:44, which foreshadowed a mighty downpour of rain. I believe this means the entire country is soon to experience mighty a move of God. The praying church is simply being given a sample of it now.
     If it is true that Billy Graham's passing will mark the release of Christ's power as Oral Robert's did, then this means the next phase of this great awakening will begin near that time! Let us pray and believe, full of confident faith, that our Father is giving us the moral revolution that our land so desperately needs. A new level of miracles, salvations, and the weight of God's presence is soon to come!
Investigate more revelations about this growing awakening, from:
Cindy Jacobs (and the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders)
and myself.