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Report: Obama is giving up and buying a retirement house in Hawaii

Normally, I take this stories for what they are worth. So, your normal disclaimers and Caveats are to be followed here; considering the sources of this report. In other words, if this turns out to be a load of baloney, just remember; it is just speculation.

This comes via Pat Dollard and it is being reported over at Joseph Farah’s WorldNetDaily.com: (I will always call it that, this WND.com business is a bunch of baloney! 😉 )

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Are Obama insiders secretly making retirement plans for the Obamas with the expectation the president will lose his bid for re-election in November?

Very quietly, Obama’s chief financier, Penny Pritzker, has entered the Hawaii housing market to buy a retirement home for the president and his family that will be available not in 2016, but in January 2013, according to a confidential source within Pritzker’s Chicago organization

Pritzker, a wealthy Chicago business executive and heiress to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, served as national finance chairman for Obama’s 2008 campaign and is the co-chairman of his 2012 effort.

The source told WND that highly confidential internal polls conducted by the Obama campaign indicate Obama cannot win re-election, despite public surveys that show him in the lead.

“The public polls are mostly political,” the source argued. “Obama radicals want Romney supporters to feel discouraged and give up. Truth is that Romney’s winning.”

Seems to me that someone, who claims to be “of the people” would not be living in a place that really is “of the wealthy.” Now, before anyone says it, I do not fault Obama for being wealthy. I just fault him and the Democrats for straight up lying to the American people and saying that he is struggling with us. Yeah, like He and Michelle are really struggling! 🙄 Just look at the picture on your left!

Only thing Barack Obama is struggling with is how many rounds of golf that he will want to play everyday, when he hits the greens, after he retires.

However, as much as I want to believe this story. Something tells me that it is a good deal of wishful thinking by many people; including those up at WND.COM. Because I believe that the Democrats are going to do anything they can; including voter fraud and ballot stuffing, to keep Obama in the White House for another term. Because Obama is all the Democrats have left. After that, it is chaos in that party.

Either way, it will be interesting to see if whether Jerome Corsi is right about this story or not.

 

Follow up: Jack Schaap, Former Pastor of First Baptist Church, could get 10 years for affair with a minor

You remember the story about Jack Schaap, the Pastor of First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana?

Well, Mr. Schaap has signed a plea agreement with the Federal Government. The Christian Post has more:

Jack Schaap, former pastor of First Baptist Church of Hammond in Indiana, has signed a plea agreement in the U.S. District Court in Hammond admitting his relationship with a young woman when she was just 16. Schaap was charged with inappropriate behavior and taking a minor across state lines for the purpose of sex, and may be facing up to 10 years in prison.

“I have agreed, as set forth in a separate filing with the Court, to wave my right to Indictment by a federal Grand Jury with respect to the charge of transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and to plead guilty to that charge,” reads Schaap’s plea agreement in court documents obtained by The Christian Post.

The court document also states that the expected sentence for such a crime could be up to 120 months, or 10 years incarceration

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…First Baptist Church of Hammond relieved the pastor of his duties last month after a deacon apparently found a text message on his cell phone that showed the pastor and the girl kissing.

In the plea agreement, Schaap revealed that the relationship with the girl lasted two months, and that he had taken her from Indiana to Illinois and Michigan to have sex with her, the documents show.

The 54-year-old pastor, who served the 15,000-member Hammond church for 11 years and had been trying to reconcile his marriage with his wife, may have to give up a number of items prosecutors believe he used in his communications with the teenage girl, including an iPad and iPhone, a digital camera and voice recorder, and two computer flash drives. According to records, Schaap had been counseling the girl when their relationship began.

I hate to be the one to say it about this man, but, it is the truth; the Man brought the whole thing on himself.  There are some who believe that this man was simply carrying on the tradition of his Father-in-Law, Jack Hyles. However, the thing that these people have to prove this little accusation is hearsay and accusations from disgruntled former members of the Church.  However, I have listened to this mans preaching in the past and there were things that bothered me. So, the fact that this man was brought up on charges, does not surprise me at all.

Again, it is a sad thing to behold; but, the Church is making it still and doing well. I pray for this man and his family.

 

Sad News: Church van crash kills two Baptists in TN

So sad to get news like this:

Two people were killed and 12 others injured Sunday morning when a van carrying youth from Cedar Grove Baptist Church in Maryville, Tenn., collided head-on with an SUV while returning from a weekend retreat in Gatlinburg.

The driver of the van, Jeff Trussell, and teenager Courteney Kaliszewski were killed. Ten passengers ranging from middle school to college age were transported to the University of Tennessee Medical Center. Two of those were transferred to Children’s Hospital. According to local media, at least two Lifestar helicopters and three ambulances transported the victims.

The driver of the SUV, 21-year-old Tyler J. Schaeffer of Seymour, Tenn., crossed the center line of Chapman Highway in Sevier County and struck the van head on, causing it to catch fire. Strangers stopped to help rescue passengers in the church van and offer aid until emergency vehicles arrived.

via ABP: Church van crash kills two

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Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. — (Psalms 116:15 KJV)

May they rest in peace.

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Videos: Liberal rag Mother Jones delivers another nothing-burger on Mitt Romney, this time, on Israel and the middle east

Here we go again, a follow-up to the earlier nothing-burger that the liberals seem to believe will destroy Mitt Romney. Here comes another nothing-burger.

Via liberal rag Mother Jones:

On the Middle East Conflict:

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I’m torn by two perspectives in this regard. One is the one which I’ve had for some time, which is that the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace, and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish. Now why do I say that? Some might say, well, let’s let the Palestinians have the West Bank, and have security, and set up a separate nation for the Palestinians. And then come a couple of thorny questions. And I don’t have a map here to look at the geography, but the border between Israel and the West Bank is obviously right there, right next to Tel Aviv, which is the financial capital, the industrial capital of Israel, the center of Israel. It’s—what the border would be? Maybe seven miles from Tel Aviv to what would be the West Bank…The other side of the West Bank, the other side of what would be this new Palestinian state would either be Syria at one point, or Jordan. And of course the Iranians would want to do through the West Bank exactly what they did through Lebanon, what they did near Gaza. Which is that the Iranians would want to bring missiles and armament into the West Bank and potentially threaten Israel. So Israel of course would have to say, “That can’t happen. We’ve got to keep the Iranians from bringing weaponry into the West Bank.” Well, that means that—who? The Israelis are going to patrol the border between Jordan, Syria, and this new Palestinian nation? Well, the Palestinians would say, “Uh, no way! We’re an independent country. You can’t, you know, guard our border with other Arab nations.” And now how about the airport? How about flying into this Palestinian nation? Are we gonna allow military aircraft to come in and weaponry to come in? And if not, who’s going to keep it from coming in? Well, the Israelis. Well, the Palestinians are gonna say, “We’re not an independent nation if Israel is able to come in and tell us what can land in our airport.” These are problems—these are very hard to solve, all right? And I look at the Palestinians not wanting to see peace anyway, for political purposes, committed to the destruction and elimination of Israel, and these thorny issues, and I say, “There’s just no way.” And so what you do is you say, “You move things along the best way you can.” You hope for some degree of stability, but you recognize that this is going to remain an unsolved problem. We live with that in China and Taiwan. All right, we have a potentially volatile situation but we sort of live with it, and we kick the ball down the field and hope that ultimately, somehow, something will happen and resolve it. We don’t go to war to try and resolve it imminently. On the other hand, I got a call from a former secretary of state. I won’t mention which one it was, but this individual said to me, you know, I think there’s a prospect for a settlement between the Palestinians and the Israelis after the Palestinian elections. I said, “Really?” And, you know, his answer was, “Yes, I think there’s some prospect.” And I didn’t delve into it.

He is speaking the truth here. The Palestinians do NOT want a two-State solution. They want Israel pushed into the sea. They have said this a thousand times. Besides that, that land is Israel’s land, it says that in the Bible and that should be the end of the discussion; as for as this writer is concerned.

On Iraq and Nukes:

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If I were Iran, if I were Iran—a crazed fanatic, I’d say let’s get a little fissile material to Hezbollah, have them carry it to Chicago or some other place, and then if anything goes wrong, or America starts acting up, we’ll just say, “Guess what? Unless you stand down, why, we’re going to let off a dirty bomb.” I mean this is where we have—where America could be held up and blackmailed by Iran, by the mullahs, by crazy people. So we really don’t have any option but to keep Iran from having a nuclear weapon.

This is a classic foreign policy position that President himself also supports. In the case of Iran, it is totally warranted.

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The president’s foreign policy, in my opinion, is formed in part by a perception he has that his magnetism, and his charm, and his persuasiveness is so compelling that he can sit down with people like Putin and Chávez and Ahmadinejad, and that they’ll find that we’re such wonderful people that they’ll go on with us, and they’ll stop doing bad things. And it’s an extraordinarily naive perception.

Again, this is true; the recent events have proven that many times over.

Once again, Mother Jones has proven itself incapable of bringing any sort of “real” dirt out on Governor Romney. The only thing that they have; is the Governor speaking honestly about President Obama, his foreign policy and Israel. Now it seems that Mother Jones is now focusing on the private life of the person that hosted the fundraiser. This very thing, ought to show you what it is, that we are dealing with here.

It is called desperation.

Gulp: Egypt cleric issues fatwa against cast and crew of ‘Innocence of Muslims’ movie

Wow… 😯 Despite that the cast and crew of this movie are coming out and saying that they were deceived; this cleric is calling for their necks.

The Story:

WASHINGTON: A Salafist cleric in Egypt is calling for the deaths of all those involved in the making of an anti-Muslim film that has outraged the Islamic world, SITE Intelligence Group said on Monday.

In a statement, the terrorism monitoring service said Ahmad Fouad Ashoush issued his fatwa, or religious edict, against the cast and crew of ” Innocence of Muslims” via jihadist internet forums over the weekend.

“Those bastards who did this film are belligerent disbelievers,” Ashoush said, according to SITE’s translation of the lengthy Arabic statement.

“I issue a fatwa and call on the Muslim youth in America and Europe to do this duty, which is to kill the director, the producer and the actors and everyone who helped and promoted the film,” he said.

“So, hurry, hurry, O Muslim youth in America and Europe, and teach those filthy lowly ones a lesson that all the monkeys and pigs in America and Europe will understand. May Allah guide you and grant you success.”

via Egypt cleric issues fatwa against ‘Innocence of Muslims’ cast, crew – The Times of India.

Whoa boy… This situation just from bad to like, “oh crap!” in like a few days. It is usually standard procedure to go into hiding, when these get issued. If I were these cast members, I would be finding me a secret place, among friends to like hide out, for like a few years. I know that years ago, that AllahPundit over at HotAir.com had one of these issued against him. To this day; from what I am told, these people are still looking for AP. In fact, I have seen them here, searching my archives for any information on the guy.

Some on the right are dismissing this, or at least not taking it very seriously. Well, let me tell you; that is wrong way to take this; because I am here to tell you all — these people do not play at all. When one of these comes down, they usually mean business.  So, for the right to blow this off, is the wrong way to be looking it this.

Needless to say; If I were one of those cast members and crew, I would be worried, very worried about my personal safety. I also would be looking for somewhere to go, that was quite heavily armed and fortified; and I would tell no one, outside of those who I knew I would trust — where I was located at.

While it might be tempting to have a Blasé attitude about terrorism and radical, and not-so radical Islam this many years after 9/11. However, let me give you some cold, hard reality: Nothing and I mean, nothing has changed about the way Muslims feel about this Country and its Christian heritage. They hate us for it, and when something, like this happens. It stirs up all that hatred again. So, needless to say; this is some serious stuff and I would not downplay it one bit.

Just my thoughts.

Others: Maggie’s Notebook, Weasel Zippers, Datechguy’s Blog, Jihad Watch and Wake up America, L.A. NOW and The Other McCain. (Via Memeorandum)

Video: Leftist rag Mother Jones releases an absolute nothing-burger on Mitt Romney

Update: Here’s Romney’s Presser on the subject.

If it were not for the fact that this story was so darned funny; it would actually be pretty sad.

Mother Jones the crypt keeper of all things liberal, comes up with some really super secret video of Mitt Romney telling the absolute truth about the Obama voting people.

Here are the videos:

On Obama voters:

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On Treating Obama gingerly, because he does not want to lose the independent voter:

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On his consultants:

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On the fact that most people couldn’t give a rip about politics; that they care about bread and butter issues:

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On Obama and Wall Street; and if Mitt Romney wins, Wall Street will improve:

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In this idiotic article, the author makes a false claim:

(Note: Obama did not promise his policies would keep unemployment under 8 percent,and 50 percent of college graduates are not unemployed.)

Well, um, actually —- Via Washington Examiner:

Mother Jones reporter David Corn claims the line about Obama promising to get unemployment under eight percent is not true.

Corn is wrong: Two of Obama’s economic advisers released a report in January 2009 arguing that the economic stimulus bill would have unemployment under 6 percent by now.

Also too The Astute Bloggers reminds us of the following:

From the Economic Collapse Blog:

The following are 16 statistics which show that the number of Americans dependent on the government is at an all-time high….

#1 According to the Census Bureau, 49 percent of all Americans live in a home that gets direct monetary benefits from the federal government.  Back in 1983, less than a third of all Americans lived in a home that received direct monetary benefits from the federal government.

#2 The amount of money that the federal government gives directly to Americans has increased by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House.

#3 The number of Americans receiving Social Security disability benefits has increased by 10 percent since Barack Obama first took office.

#4 Back in 1990, the federal government accounted for 32 percent of all health care spending in America. Today, that figure is up to 45 percent and it is projected to surpass 50 percent very shortly.

#5 The number of Americans on food stamps recently hit a new all-time high. It has increased by 3 million since this time last year and by more than 14 million since Barack Obama first entered the White House.

#6 Today, one out of every seven Americans is on food stamps and one out of every four American children is on food stamps. This is unprecedented in American history.

#7 In 2010, 42 percent of all single mothers in the United States were on food stamps.

#8 Back in 1980, government transfer payments accounted for just 11.7% of all income. In 2010, government transfer payments accounted for 18.4% of all income, which was a new all-time high.

#9 By the end of 2011, approximately 55 million Americans received a total of approximately 727 billion dollars in Social Security benefits. As the retirement crisis becomes much worse, that dollar figure is projected to absolutely skyrocket.

#10 According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Social Security system paid out more in benefits than it received in payroll taxes in 2010. That was not supposed to happen until at least 2016.

#11 Back in 1965, only one out of every 50 Americans was on Medicaid. Today, one out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid, and things are about to get a whole lot worse. It is being projected that Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.

#12 The U.S. government now says that the Medicare trust fund will run out five years faster than previously anticipated.

#13 The total cost of just three federal government programs – the Department of Defense, Social Security and Medicare – exceeded the total amount of taxes brought in during fiscal 2010by 10 billion dollars.

#14 It is being projected that entitlement spending by the federal government will nearly double by the year 2050.

#15 Right now, spending by the federal government accounts for about 24 percent of GDP.  Back in 2001, it accounted for just 18 percent.

#16 When you total it all up, American households are now receiving more money directly from the federal government than they are paying to the government in taxes.

So, in other words, Romney told the truth about the left and now they are having a collective (Something they do well, collectivism!)  heart attack about it. Two words lefties: Oh well. Truth hurts don’t it?

Others: Hot Air,  The Daily Caller, American Glob — Plus, Round up of liberal idiots having a collective heart attack over the comments Via Memeorandum

Video: This is what happens when people decide that gays have “rights”

(Via CNN)

Disgusting. 😡 If I had the money, I would buy the property myself; just to keep those queers out of it. This is nothing more than an attempt by these tools to extort money out of the Roman Catholic Church and make a mockery of the Christian world as a whole.

I am not a Catholic; not even close. But this sort of nonsense gets up my nose. This is nothing more than an attempt to defame the Roman Catholic Church and more broadly Christianity itself. If I were Bill Donohue, I would be all over this; in fact, I forwarded his organization the link to the video itself. Hopefully the Catholic League steps up to the plate and does its job.

It is a sign of the times; and it is not a good one either. 🙁

 

Iraq News: Suicide car bomber near Baghdad’s Green Zone kills four

What we’ve created in Iraq — Chaos:

(Reuters) – A suicide car bomber killed four Iraqis and wounded 11 others close to an entrance to Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, where several Western embassies are located, three police sources said on Monday.

The central area, known officially as the International Zone, houses diplomatic missions including the U.S. embassy.

The blast was near Baghdad’s July 14th suspension bridge which leads into the zone. Two of the four killed were soldiers, the sources said.

“Cars were lining up waiting to be searched at the checkpoint that leads to the Green Zone and suddenly a speeding car exploded nearby,” said one police source whose patrol was stationed near the scene of the attack scene.

via Suicide car bomber near Baghdad’s Green Zone kills four | Reuters.

If we would have just stayed out of that Country, none of this would be going on. But, lessons are not always learned the proper way. I am sure the Wilsonian Conservative crowd will try and tie this one to Obama too; like they have done all the rest of this stuff. Should be interesting.