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I came across a video that left me shaking with fear and outrage: If this footage doesn't disturb you to your very core, I don't even know what to say. We have here a militarized group of young men being steeped in not only political ideology, but in literal cult worship of Barack Obama. This was going on before the election. I still remember the video featuring a glassy-eyed girl singing, “We’re gonna spread happiness! We’re gonna spread freeeeedom! Obama’s gonna change it, Obama’s gonna lead ‘em…” The cult mindset continued into his inauguration, with a creepy "Kids' Inaugural." That...

Senior executives (banks)on both sides of the Atlantic on Friday warned of an exodus of talent from some of the biggest names in US finance, saying the “anti-American” measures smacked of “a McCarthy witch-hunt” that would send the country “back to the stone age”. “Finance is one of America’s great industries, and they’re destroying it,”The banker added: “It’s like a McCarthy witch-hunt . . . This is the most profoundly anti- American thing I’ve ever seen.” In Frankfurt one employee at a US investment bank said the new tax measures would “send [the US] back to the stone age”. “Commodity traders are already moving...

<p>Mary Katharine Ham and her favorite songwriter, Jon S. Ham, dream of a world in which a guardian angel Obama tells everyone what to do and what not to.</p>

A big jump in foreign sales of long-term U.S. securities raised concerns Monday that the U.S., in the midst of a massive debt issuance to fund its economic revival plans, may run into trouble getting other countries to finance its deficit.

Quoth Jim Treacher a few hours ago, “I’ve never cared much about Jim Cramer, but it’s ‘funny’ how he didn’t become a problem for Jon Stewart until he became a problem for Obama.” And lo and behold, just across from Tapper at ABC: He wasn’t sure if the president caught Mr. Stewart’s bloodletting of the host of “Mad Money,” but he himself gave the show a thumbs up. “I enjoyed it thoroughly,” Gibbs said at his daily briefing… Gibbs today said Stewart “asked a lot of tough questions” and that he wasn’t “surprised that CNBC hasn’t put the video on...

TALLAHASSEE - The debate over Florida's public campaign financing program turned ugly Thursday when Republican Sen. Ronda Storms mocked President Barack Obama as "The Messiah" and a Democratic colleague made a vulgar retort. It didn't escalate beyond that, and they agreed that voters should be able to decide whether to get rid of the program that gave statewide candidates more than $11 million in taxpayer money during 2006 elections. The Senate Transportation and Economic Development Appropriations Committee unanimously approved putting a proposal to repeal the public campaign financing program on the 2010 ballot.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The debate over Florida's public campaign finance system turned ugly as a Republican insulted President Barack Obama and a Democrat gave a vulgar retort. A senate committee on Thursday unanimously approved giving voters a chance to get rid of public campaign financing, but not before the chairman had to admonish two members for their choice of words. Republicans let the debate turn into a discussion on Obama's decision not to accept public campaign financing after initially saying he would. Sen. Ronda Storms said, "They don't want to talk about the messiah having a flaw, but actually it...

The left loves to argue that the idolatry of Obama is a figment of the right's collective imagination. We point out the altar from which he preached in Denver. We point out the reverential tone with which members of the media use when discussing him, whether that tone includes a tingle up the leg or otherwise. We say that he's no Messiah, and they love to counter that they never said he was. Well, you know who disagrees? Mr. Obama himself. Seems that he sees himself as quite the hero, and he's willing to call himself just that on his...

This to me is confusing. How will Jews and Christians reconcile a leader who comes on scene as a *Messianic Leader* for the Jewish People? Messianic Idea in Judaism: Belief in the eventual coming of the moshiach is a basic and fundamental part of traditional Judaism. It is part of Rambam's 13 Principles of Faith, the minimum requirements of Jewish belief. In the Shemoneh Esrei prayer, recited three times daily, we pray for all of the elements of the coming of the moshiach: ingathering of the exiles; restoration of the religious courts of justice; an end of wickedness, sin and...

“I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword.” — Jesus; Matthew 10:34 “I didn’t come here to do the same thing we’ve been doing or take small steps forward. I came here to provide sweeping change.” - Barack Obama, March 1, 2009. I’m anything but a Christian scholar, but when, watching Morning Joe today, I heard Barack Obama in his weekly address this past weekend making the statement above, it rang a New Testament bell with me. A bit of Googling revealed the words set forth from the Gospel of Matthew. View video.

The leaders of the European Union gathered Sunday in Brussels for an emergency summit meeting designed to tamp down the centrifugal forces unleashed by the global economic crisis that threaten to spin the bloc - and its single currency - apart.

Is Barack Obama "A Face in the Crowd"? By Mark Stuart ELLISON On Saturday, June 14, I watched the 1957 Elia Kazan film "A Face in the Crowd" on Turner Classic Movies. I had seen most of it before but was strangely drawn to it again. Instinct told me that the movie had special relevance to the 2008 presidential election, although I didn't know exactly how. After a second viewing, I understood. "A Face in the Crowd" is eerily similar to Barack Obama's candidacy. Although I came to this conclusion on my own, I am not the first person to...

One of the prominent and rising archbishops in the Catholic Church is warning against a "spirit of adulation" towards President Obama, who was portrayed repeatedly during his campaign with messianic images. WND reported during the campaign on a website called Obamamessiah which still holds images portraying the president in a "transfiguration" pose, with various haloes around his head, and the cover of a book, "Barack Obama, Son of Promise, Child of Hope." But in a message at St. Basil's Church in Toronto recently, Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput warned against following blindly. "President Obama is a man of intelligence and some...

A carnival float depicting a flying U.S. President Obama with Europe being dragged along is seen during the traditional carnival parade in Duesseldorf, Germany, on Monday...

I’ll admit I have way too much time. However feeling a little down over the passage of the “Stimulus“ bill, I decided to cheer myself up a bit. Not being a drinker, my vice was an anagram generator I found on the web. So using only the letters found in “President Obama”, what would be the most satisfying anagram? The exercise resulted in 1000’s of anagrams some of which were spot on and others that were just plain funny. Beware they’re lots of anagrams to be derived from President Obama, and much time to waste. Here’s mine in no particular...

I have decided to start a thread focusing on edible weeds. Many of the common plants we see everyday are edible, and while most are not hugely palatable or nutritious, a few are truly very good. If you would like to post a recipe, please post recipes related to these plants only. As always, an extreme amount of caution is advised. It's probably true that 90 percent or so of plants are actually edible, there is a small percentage that if you eat them, you WON'T have to worry about eating again! Oleander comes to mind, it would take less...

I must confess I was not impressed by Sen. Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident – a wholesome presidential package. It is so instinctive for most people to want to see blacks succeed. It is as if all humanity is carrying a collective guilt for what the ancestors of blacks endured. However, despite my initial interest in him, I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness...

Hundreds queue for tickets to Obama event in Fla. FORT MYERS -- Several dozen people set up camping chairs and blankets outside the downtown convention center in Fort Myers, two days ahead of President Barack Obama's town hall meeting Tuesday. First in line: Roy Hendrix, a formerly homeless man who showed up at 9:30 a.m. Sunday to secure his free ticket -- one of 1,500 being given away. ''I get to see the president of the United States, in my town,'' said Hendrix, 51. ``That's better than any rock concert or the World Series.'' Jodi Sasloe of Fort Myers sat...

In his Williamsburg speech, Obama also gave his most concise answer yet to the question of whether the stimulus bill will really stimulate the economy. His answer: if it's spending, it's stimulus. And if it's full of earmarks, well, stuff happens: THE PRESIDENT: Then there's the argument, well, this is full of pet projects. When was the last time that we saw a bill of this magnitude move out with no earmarks in it? Not one. (Applause.) And when you start asking, well, what is it exactly that is such a problem that you're seeing, where's all this waste and...

By now, it's clear to everyone that we have inherited an economic crisis as deep and dire as any since the days of the Great Depression. Millions of jobs that Americans relied on just a year ago are gone; millions more of the nest eggs families worked so hard to build have vanished. People everywhere are worried about what tomorrow will bring. What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives -- action that's swift, bold and wise enough for us to climb out of this crisis. Because each day we wait...

Many folks have pointed out that Barack Obama has been treated by his supporters in and out of the media like a new messiah, the savior, the chosen one. Many other folks, including me, thought that this was not only sacrilegious but a case of downright overblown rhetorical politics. Now I'm not so sure. After witnessing some of the inaugural high-jinks -- including the shabby treatment of George W. Bush -- I tried to be magnanimous, remembering the relief I felt when the reign of Bill Clinton ended and the GOP had regained the White House. Then I recalled how...

"Network" (1976) Howard Beale - "The Mad Prophet" Speech (Any similarities with real life characters are purely coincidental)

These foolish drops do something drown my manly spirit. – Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” I had neither planned nor expected to cry. If it’s true, as some maintain, that men who cry are pantywaists, then I stand condemned. Not being one of those whose tear-production is either quick or voluminous, I was amazed at how many times, watching the all-day spectacle, I lost it. And it wasn’t just at the easy times like, say, during a sudden close-up of a tear-streaked elderly black face in the crowd, but also at moments that were just plain “for the country.” “Historic”...

Bring Change Yourselves, America The parties are fun, the new president is exciting, but he'll need help to fix our problems BY MITCH ALBOM • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • January 20, 2009 Today America will erupt in celebration. But an outsider might ask: What are we so happy about? For most, this is the worst economy of our lives. People are losing houses. People are losing jobs. We are in two wars, and the Middle East is again simmering with violence. What are we so happy about? Our schools are in disarray. Our stock market is sick. Our environment...

Celebs letting Obama know he is not alone in his fight for what's right. The video appears on the left margin on the MSN.com web page.

Somewhere out there in the fruited plains of America are 59,934,786 million souls, many of whom must be down on this day of all days: Inauguration Day for a president who will try to turn a proud 232-year-old Democracy into a Socialist State. How is it even possible that people the world over are looking to a crass Chicago politician to put meaning into their empty lives? A fawning mainstream media, Hollywood, advertising, hype and cash to pay for it all from American taxpayers.

Song parody of Eric Carmen's "All By Myself". The mainstream media is so infatuated with Barack Obama that they are running "news" features on his Blackberry cell phone! What's next, a live report on what salad dressing he chose with lunch?

I was watching the local news with my wife the other day. The anchor was interviewing a man who was attending the inauguration. The anchor asked something to the effect of, “What do you expect of Obama?” The man answered with, now get this, “Peace on Earth, all I want is him to bring peace on Earth.” If any of you doubted the messiah complex this man has, and has infected his followers with… Look, this has simply gone too far. Christ is the only one capable of bringing peace to this earth. No man, no president, no king, no...

The Talk Shows Sunday, January 18th, 2009 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Robert Gibbs, Obama's choice for press secretary.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rahm Emanuel, Obama's choice for chief of staff.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Lawrence Summers, Obama's choice for director of the National Economic Council.THIS WEEK (ABC): David Axelrod, senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama.LATE EDITION (CNN) : President-elect Barack Obama; Axelrod; Dana Perino, press secretary to President George W. Bush; Bush White House counselor Ed Gillespie.

I've been around for a while but have never seen anything like the anticipation, the adoration and the fascination of the masses with the looming presidency of Barack Obama. Never. In talking about this phenomenon with others, some make the case that John F. Kennedy evoked a similar passion among his enthusiasts. But memory tells me that really didn't take off until after his assassination. There were shrines to JFK in a lot of American homes - Catholic homes, that is - but they were a result of their hero's martyrdom, not of worshiping him before he was sworn into...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Throngs of well-wishers are expected to line the tracks as President-elect Barack Obama travels by train from Philadelphia to Washington the weekend before his swearing-in as the 44th president, prompting heightened security along the rails. The 137-mile route will be manned by thousands of police officers from the 40 jurisdictions in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Washington, D.C., that Obama's train will pass through, officials with Amtrak said Thursday as it outlined security plans for the inauguration. Crowds are expected to gather at numerous spots, including overpasses, parking lots and commuter train stations, as Obama retraces the journey...

I started thinking about this glut of lawyers at the top of the federal government and realized that the next four years is going to be even worse that I originally thought. President - lawyer Vice President - lawyer First Lady - lawyer Sec State - lawyer Attorney General - lawyer (of course) Sec Interior - lawyer Agriculture - lawyer Homeland Security - lawyer Trade Representative - lawyer Senate Majority Leader - lawyer Plus the other ~ 60 lawyers in the senate and the ~ 130 lawyers in the House. And then there are all the lawyers that are on...

Obama Visits Marine Corps Base for Christmas December 26, 2008 8:34 AM FROM ABC NEWS' SUNLEN MILLER IN HAWAII: President-elect Obama stopped by the Marine Corps base in Hawaii Kaneche Bay where servicemen and -women were eating Christmas dinner in Kailua Thursday evening. “Just wanted to say hi, hey guys,” Obama said as he walked into the Anderson dining hall which was decked out in Christmas decorations. The diners represented seven military units -- Marine and Navy -- some of whom were joined by their families for Christmas dinner. As Obama entered the room, it was absent of the regular...

Iowahawk has followed up his great ad from Congressional Motors with the first nearly four minute commercial.

The massive government bailouts will continue for those who are "too big to fail", as the government continues to paint itself as the hero on the white horse. The amount of these bailouts, the source of the money, the actual recipients of ...

Is Oprah Winfrey going to be part of Barack Obama's kitchen cabinet? Or is she just looking to buy her own kitchen cabinets? The talk show titan is reportedly looking at ultra-luxury properties in Washington, DC; something suitable for, say, possible consultations with the President of the United States.

Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to perform the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is drawing fierce challenges from a gay rights movement that – in the wake of a gay marriage ban in California – is looking for a fight. Rick Warren, the senior pastor of Saddleback Church in southern California, opposes abortion rights but has taken more liberal stances on the government role in fighting poverty, and backed away from other evangelicals’ staunch support for economic conservatism. But it’s his support for the...

Jewish inspirational speaker Rebbetzin Jungreis is warning the world is now experiencing the birth pangs that are to herald the coming of the Messiah, and there is just a limited amount of time in which to avert the cataclysmic events that have been foretold to take place during the tribulation period. In a recent interview for Arutz 7, Jungreis said that God is bringing the world closer to redemption, through a process called 'chevlei Mashiach' - the labour pains of the arrival of the Messiah. Citing several ancient Jewish sages and scholars, Jungreis points to a number of signs which...

May you all be blessed by this song.Oh Bethlehem A Son

Bipolar sufferers often have difficulty with normal levels of stress. A politician--especially a Chicago politician--might very well become psychologically debilitated from excessive stress. Politicians do have real enemies, after all, and many occasions of feeling pressured, unappreciated, slighted. All this would be exacerbated with bipolar disorder. The Fitzgerald affadavit indicates that Blagojevich no longer had much interest in being Illinois governor. He was looking for something more interesting with more money. (Bipolar sufferers often have difficulty with money.) This, too, would fit with bipolar. Most people would not find the job of state governor to be boring. A person with...

Two Messiahs Birth In Question Even though the U.S. Supreme Court turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man (who says the President-Elect is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth), serious doubt and legitimate concerns continue regarding the actual birthplace of the Chosen One, Barack Hussein Obama.At the time of his birth, his mother (the Virgin Ann), was American and his Kenyan father at the time was a British subject. There appears to be evidence that the President-Elect was indeed born in Kenya, then moved to Hawaii. Other reports indicate that...

The story that put the lie to the No-O & Blogo Meeting was found yesterday and disappeared down the memory hole at News : KHQA.

MUMBAI - Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole surviving member of the 10-man team of Pakistani gunmen that left hundreds dead or wounded after a bloody three day rampage in Mumbai, today blamed the mayhem on an "email mixup" that left him and his colleagues unaware that Barack Obama had won election as President of the United States. "What? Oh bloody hell, now you tell me," said Kasab, as he was led away in handcuffs by Indian security forces. Kasab, 21, apologized to Indian President Pratibha Patil, explaining that no one in his group had known about the recent U.S. election...

Did God play a role in the election of Barack Obama, and could the Democrat even be God's sovereign choice for our next president? The answers to those questions vary widely, depending on who is doing the answering. Among those praising the heavens for Obama's victory was Larry Younginer of suburban Atlanta, who the Chicago Tribune reports kneeling at his church and praying the day after Obama's victory. "Lord, we have again come to you," Younginger prayed, "and you have heard our cries from heaven, and you have sent us again from the state called Illinois a man called Barack...

Harry Reid told the Detroit Free Press that he expects comprehensive immigration reform to be passed relatively early in the next Congress: Q. With more Democrats in the Senate and the House and a Democrat in the White House, how do you see congressional efforts playing out on such issues as health care and immigration? A: On immigration, there's been an agreement between (President-elect Barack) Obama and (Arizona Republican Sen. John) McCain to move forward on that. ... We'll do that. We have to get this economy stuff figured out first, so I think we'll have a shot at doing...

Obama Names Bill Clinton to Presidential Post WASHINGTON DC - Ending weeks of speculation and rumors, President-Elect Barack Obama today named Bill Clinton to join his incoming administration as President of the United States, where he will head the federal government's executive branch. "I am pleased that Bill Clinton has agreed to come out of retirement to head up this crucial post in my administration," said Obama. "He brings a lifetime of previous executive experience as Governor of Arkansas and President of the United States, and has worked closely with most of the members of my Cabinet." Clinton said he...

President-elect Barack Obama's image looms larger than ever in the media these days, but now his face has been rendered in 3-D portraits smaller than a grain of salt, using nanotechnology. The mini-Barack Obamas were made by John Hart, an engineering professor at the University of Michigan, who dubbed them "nanobamas." Each nanobama contains about 150 million carbon nanotubes stacked vertically like trees in a forest. A carbon nanotube is an extraordinarily strong hollow cylinder about 1/50,000th the width of a human hair. (Excerpted, go to link to read...)

Perhaps most significantly, the sages tell us that the messianic era will arrive b'hesik haDa'as — when no one expects it. In an age when human resilience is strained beyond all natural limits by the tribulations of a world gone mad, when no one has attention for anything other than survival, when hopelessness has descended upon every corner of civilization, at that moment the ultimate redemption will turn the tables on the pundits who prophesy imminent disaster and total devastation.

Link only - Obama slept here: Tourism trail rises around President-elect