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Preet Bharara: not quite the knight in shining armor...

You want to keep your eye on the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York regardless of who holds the position. Today, the news is everywhere that President Trump asked the office's present occupant, Preet Bharara, to resign and at least earlier today, Bharara was refusing. Bharara did Harvard Law and has made quite a name for himself by avoiding the prosecution of any of the Masters of the Universe who caused the Great Recession while making a big splash by taking down lots of other financial criminals as well as statehouse guys like Sheldon Silver. Bharara has long been known to have in his sights what he refers to as the "three-men-in-the-room" governance he says dominates New York's statehouse.

The hate-Trump-always media are hissy-fitting over President Trump asking for the resignations of 46 U.S. Attorneys who served under President Obama. They don't mention President Clinton cleaned house on all the U.S. Attorneys himself, nor that Bharara is best-buds with Charlie Schumer... 


Love letters written to oneself...

While driving to a funeral the other day, I listened to a talk show host make fun of this new trend of people marrying themselves. Self-love is the center of our empire of desire, and it's the cultural elite who lead us.

Take President Obama, for instance; as he leaves office, he takes this opportunity to send out across the nation a love song to himself. He's cut "our deficits by nearly two-thirds." His Affordable Care Act "prevented an estimated 87,000 deaths." His administration has been great. The country is great. The lives of all his subjects are great. His Own Eminence is great.

President-elect Trump tells us he's great, too. He says he'll make America great again, but the egotism of The Donald is so bodacious it's hard not to laugh. He's a buffoon and he knows it.

The one thing President Obama knows beyond the slightest doubt is that he himself is...


President Obama: the very worst sexist...

I’ve got two daughters. Nine years old and six years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. - President Barack Obama

Mr. Romney wants to get rid of funding for Planned Parenthood. I think that’s a bad idea. I’ve got two daughters. I want them to control their own health care choices. - President Barack Obama

Headlines all over the place right before the election read, "Obama says men are sexist if they support Trump over Clinton."

Right.

President Obama says he's opposed to sexism, yet he opposes getting rid of funding for Planned Parenthood and here's how he explains it: "I think that’s a bad idea. I’ve got two daughters. I want them to control their own health care choices." President Obama preens himself over his opposition to other men's sexism while he himself is the sort of father who would solicit his daughter to murder the unborn baby quietly sleeping in her womb.

If that isn't sexism, what is? The woman must murder her unborn child to cover for the men in her life who refuse to take responsibility...


First Lady Obama's hypocrisy: what's this "we" white woman...

Following Paul Ryan’s tepid endorsement, it didn’t take long for Donald Trump to have Ryan wishing he hadn’t. Trump continues to do his worst to divide us along Anglo/Hispanic lines and the latest was his attack on Federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel, the presiding judge over the Trump University debacle. Trump said Judge Curiel has “conflicts of interest” which render him incapable of judicial objectivity and he wants him off the case: “He’s a Mexican. We’re building a wall between here and Mexico."

Trump’s bombast in service of his churlishness is an uncapped fire hydrant. Maybe the best reason not to vote for him is careful consideration of what the world would look like with this blowhard jumping into the steaming cauldron of Ki Jinping, Duterte, Kim Jong-un, Khamenei, ISIS, Netanyahu, and Putin—four of them with nuclear triggers and two others close.

Which brings me to the woman who includes you and me in her imperial “we." First Lady Michelle Obama claims to speak for all of us when she says Donald Trump “is not who we are." "We don’t build up walls to keep people out.” Mrs. Obama continues, "I have seen how leaders [who] dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer.” She concludes, "that is not who we are. ...no we’re all in this together. We always have been.”

What Mrs. Obama hides and members of the press are too bathed in the bloodshed of their own children to reveal is that... 


President Obama crashes the ladies room...

Giving a news conference in London this past Friday, President Obama told Londoners he opposes North Carolina's law forbidding men who dress up as women from using women's bathrooms. President Obama said laws protecting women from being harassed by men in our nation's restrooms "are wrong and should be overturned." 

President Carter scheduled the White House tennis courts. President Obama supervises our nation’s bathrooms. You can sort of excuse President Carter because he loved to play tennis, but what is President Obama’s excuse for spending his time on bathrooms? 

The whole world’s watching. Listen to the soldiers of ISIS talking about it. They can’t figure out why Americans send their women over to fight men in Afghanistan while here at home men fight to use the women’s bathroom...


Cruzin for a bruisin...

For what it's worth, my prognostication is that The Donald sews up the Republican nomination for President in Indiana, today. Carly Fiorina was a finger-in-the-dike move that went against type. It got Senator Cruz nothing and he's now toast, so come November, it's going to be The Rodham against The Donald.

When President Bill Clinton was in his first term as president, the New Yorker ran a piece reporting that the talk in the White House was about First Lady Rodham Clinton (as she was then known) succeeding her husband, and from that time on I've believed Hillary would be president someday.

The Donald may surprise us, for sure. It would be interesting if two men the likes of supercilious Barack Obama and macho Donald Trump were the ones who frustrated Hillary's shrewish ambition. Senator Rodham Clinton is about as unappetizing a candidate as I've seen in my lifetime...


His Imperial Highness knows us better than we know ourselves...

Our current emporer seems to think it's his prerogative to crown our next one. News sites are quoting The Obama saying, "Mr. Trump is not succeeding me."

Would someone who knows the man personally kindly inform him it's still "We, the people" who choose our president? Also, that many of us would consider The Donald a massive upgrade over the violations of the rule of law emanating from His Imperial Highness these past eight years? But he should not think this is because we are positive about The Donald. Rather, it's because we are repulsed by him and his fellow Harvard snobsters casting their supercilious glances down on working men who loved Merle Haggard.

Joe Sobran used to say if voting did anything it would be illegal. I wouldn't put it past President Obama to sign the legislation outlawing it, while assuring himself he was only doing what was best for his fellow countrymen. After all, they might abuse their electoral privilege as badly this November as they did eight years ago.

I'm so ready for this man to vacate the White House. So very, very ready. I'll take a loudmouth huckster over a supercilious drone any day.


President Obama: sin, cowardice, and corruption...

From Jeff Goldberg's 20,000 word piece on President Obama titled "The Obama Doctrine" just published in the Atlantic:

Those who speak with Obama about jihadist thought say that he possesses a no-illusions understanding of the forces that drive apocalyptic violence among radical Muslims, but he has been careful about articulating that publicly, out of concern that he will exacerbate anti-Muslim xenophobia. He has a tragic realist’s understanding of sin, cowardice, and corruption, and a Hobbesian appreciation of how fear shapes human behavior. And yet he consistently, and with apparent sincerity, professes optimism that the world is bending toward justice. He is, in a way, a Hobbesian optimist.


Pope Francis: Apostolic preaching?

The teaching of the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) holds that the Pope is the Successor of Peter and therefore an Apostle. Looking at the recent visit of Pope Francis, let's ask whether his preaching was Apostolic? Did his preaching and the results his preaching had in our national life bear the marks of the Apostles' preaching recorded in the New Testament? And in particular, was it like the Apostle Peter's preaching?

To answer that question, let's look at the Apostle Peter's sermon on the Day of Pentecost...


Why won't Scott Walker say that President Obama is a Christian?

This is the headline being run by various media rabble rousers. They're incensed that Gov. Walker won't simply accede to President Obama's religious self-definition. As they see it, a man has the freedom to choose his sex without regard to his body parts, so clearly a man has the freedom to choose his religion without regard to his denial of the religion's God.

So what's wrong with Gov. Walker? President Obama says he's a Christian and that's the end of it.

Questioned, Gov. Walker responded: 

As someone who is a believer myself, I don’t presume to know someone’s beliefs about whether they follow Christ or not, unless I’ve actually talked with him.

We can all speak to President Obama personally, or we can take him at his word...


Independence Day...

If you’re a Christian and a patriot mourning this week over the unjust weights and balances of our nation’s highest law court, now’s a good time to remember there is one kingdom that will be left standing after all others fall. 

Take comfort this Independence Day in the inevitable, the irrepressible, the inexorable, the indomitable, and the interminable rule of Christ promised us in Psalm 2 (versified for singing by some of our Clearnote musicians).

Listen and be wise…

With thanks to Phil, Jake, Nathan, and Nate

[Download the audio free at Noisetrade]


Heartwarming...

This pic warmed my heart.


Nat Hentoff says impeach President Obama...

The old liberal warhorse, Nat Hentoff, has called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama. It would make my heart sing.

Hentoff's anger is focussed on President Obama's refusal to honor the Constitutional limits of his authority as president. Thing is, no one cares about the Constitution any more. Start with our Supreme Court justices. They are lawless hypocrites. Imagine finding a right to kill little babies in the Constitution written by our Colonial forefathers! It's preposterous.

Then follow their hypocrisy as they build upon that base, declaring sodomy good and nationalized health care a tax, and constitutional.

Shameless these men and women are.

So were I going to call for the impeachment of anyone, it would be our...


President Barack Obama, our First Victim...

President Obama lied to distance himself from his uncle. They're selling it as something less, but come on. A couple years ago when his uncle was arrested for drunken driving, the president's spokesman assured the press that their boss had never met the man. No sir, never met the man.

Now though, two years later, it comes out the president did know the man. In fact, the president lived with the man. Barack Obama moved to a Boston suburb to start studying at some law school near MIT, and when he hit Cambridge town, his uncle, Onyango Obama, was kind enough to take him into his home.

Boston's a small town and Cambridge is smaller...


ObamaCare: What you need to know (Part 7): Samaritan Ministries and accountability...

This comment under a recent post about Christian health sharing ministries raises a very good point which should be addressed in greater detail. Here's the full comment:

The point I would stress here is that there seems to be a strange exception to the normal vetting process that occurs in dealing with these "ministries".

If a member of your church came to you for advice, and said they had been watching a televangelist with big hair at 2 a.m. on cable TV asking for money, and they had decided to send him $300 per month, you would raise an eyebrow, and politely start asking vetting questions about how the oversight board is appointed, actuarial audits, who is being paid how much, etc. These "health-sharing ministries" tend to get a free pass. Try getting real data, not summary un-audited financials--good luck. They shouldn't get less scrutiny than the company that insures your house, for pete's sake. The new law gives a break--finally!--to large families. Go to healthsherpa.org or kaiser subsidy calculator.org, and see for yourself.

"They shouldn't get less scrutiny than the company that insures your house" is right on, and that's why I decided to place a call to Samaritan Ministries...


ObamaCare: What you need to know... (Part 3)

For the last few days, I have been on a quest to figure out how to calculate the cost of an ObamaCare health plan. Today, I gave up. At the end of the day, the only way to really find out what the cost of an ObamaCare plan will be to your family is to sign up for one, use it for a year, and then pay your taxes... in 2015. Practically speaking, Americans electing to sign up for an ObamaCare plan must simply submit their application to their exchange to see what plans will be available to them and at what cost. It will be an estimated cost, of course, because the total cost won't be settled until they file their 2014 taxes in April of 2015.

If you're interested in the details, keep reading...


ObamaCare: What you need to know... (Part 2)

A recent comment from Denver Todd on this post is very helpful, and so I'm promoting it to a full blog post:

Just some extra information to help people make decisions about signing up for Obamacare. I am numbering them out of convenience, not in order of importance...

  1. All plans in America that are Obamacare compliant, no matter how they come to you, through an exchange or employer, fund abortions and contraceptives for other insurance customers. The only people who can get around this are church workers, and even then, Obama has narrowly defined what a church is, so that fewer and fewer will qualify for this exemption. A Christian ministry probably doesn't qualify, and neither does a Christian school.
  2. There are a number of lawsuits out there, most notably by Hobby Lobby, that are taking up the issue of business owners funding abortions and other contraceptives through employee health plans.

ObamaCare: What you need to know...

On January 1, 2014, all Americans will be required to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty. With the deadline less than a month away, it's natural that ObamaCare (officially known as the Affordable Care Act) has been much in the news. On top of the many questions that are to be expected with rolling out such a program, the nation has lived through a government shutdown and the train wreck known as HealthCare.gov.

Despite all the hullabaloo, and at the end of the day, Americans are still left with the task of figuring out what to do. As I began my journey to figure out what to do about ObamaCare, I first wanted to see what the ObamaCare plans entailed. How much did they cost? What did they cover? How did they work?

Answering those questions is not necessarily straight-forward...


Supreme Court accepts Hobby Lobby appeal...

The Supreme Court has accepted an appeal of the requirement by President Obama's nationalized medicine that corporations pay for the murder of unborn children. The appeal filed by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Mennonite woodworking company, is based on the companies' religious opposition to providing their employees abortifacient drugs such as "Plan B."

So now we'll see if Chief Justice Roberts has "grown" into lying about the First as well as the Tenth Amendment. Also whether he sees baby-slaughter as no big deal.

Reporting on SCOTUS agreeing to the review, USA Today...


The Seventh Circuit Court rules for religious freedom...

We praise God that, this past week, the Seventh Circuit ruled that owners of two closely held corporations (one in Indiana, the other in Illinois) could assert religious freedom rights against nationalized healthcare's contraception mandate. The Seventh Circuit entered preliminary injunctions against the federal government imposing any enforcement penalties against these two companies.

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