Questions for WE Christians

Christians go to great lengths to work in food kitchens, help out in disaster areas rebuiling or cleaning or in some way helping out the victims. Christians even go to 3^rd world countries and volunteer as missionaries to help those folks out.

BUT why is it that Christians do not go out of their way to “fix” the morals and values of the country they live in. The entertainment industry has filled the airways with filth and trash which has played a big part if tearing our country down. We Christians are not willing to stop watching our TV shows or movies or to write the networks to complain about the content of the tv shows/movies they put on the air. Or whatever. . . .

Gibson: Feds Want Guitar Woodwork Done by Foreign Labor

Gibson: Feds Want Guitar Woodwork Done by Foreign Labor

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/02/gibson-feds-want-guitar-woodwork-done-by-foreign-labor/#ixzz1WtgWlOiT

Gibson Guitar Corp. is claiming the Obama administration wants more of its woodwork done overseas, as a bizarre battle heats up between the government and one of the country's most renowned guitar makers.

The dispute started in 2009, when federal agents raided the company over suspect wood shipments from Madagascar. Gibson took that case to court but has denounced the administration with a vengeance after agents returned late last month to raid several Gibson factories -- this time out of concern that Indian export laws had been violated.

Though some reports on the dispute have cited environmental concerns, court documents suggest the latest battle boils down to a simple, non-environmental question -- which country is working on the wood?

Gibson's CEO has said repeatedly that the only reason his company is in trouble is because U.S. workers are completing work on guitar fingerboards in the United States. In an interview earlier this week, CEO Henry Juszkiewicz claimed that the U.S. government even suggested Gibson's troubles would disappear if the company used foreign labor.

The Justice Department is hamstrung from talking about the case because it's an ongoing investigation. Justice spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle told FoxNews.com only that agents were looking for evidence of "possible violations" of a law governing imports of plants and wildlife.

Hornbuckle also confirmed that no charges have yet been filed in either of the two cases.

Court documents help explain the root of the tree dispute. According to search warrants associated with the latest raid, federal agents in June intercepted a shipment of Indian ebony apparently bound for Gibson in Tennessee. The documents noted that Indian law "prohibits the export of sawn wood," which can be used for fingerboards -- but does not prohibit the export of "veneers," which are sheets of woods that have already been worked on.

The search warrants alleged that the intercepted shipment was "falsely declared" as veneer, something that would have been legal. However, the documents said the ebony was in fact unfinished "sawn wood," supposedly illegal.

This led to the raid on Gibson facilities late last month.

Juszkiewicz said in a statement that the U.S. government has effectively suggested "that the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal, not because of U.S. law, but because it is the Justice Department's interpretation of a law in India."

A representative at the Indian Embassy in Washington could not be reached for comment.

But Juszkiewicz has since claimed that his company's wood exports do in fact comply with Indian law, even if American workers are doing some of the work.

In an interview on the company website, Juszkiewicz said Gibson "for decades" has purchased fingerboard wood that is two-thirds finished.

"The fact that American workers are completing the work in the United States makes it illegal," he said, citing the government's position.

Juszkiewicz maintains Gibson is still complying with the law.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/02/gibson-feds-want-guitar-woodwork-done-by-foreign-labor/#ixzz1WtgWlOiT

Important Political Headlines

Perry now clear frontrunner after latest national poll.

ZeroBama: for the first time since 1945, economy adds exactly ZERO jobs.

Poll: 8 in 10 Americans Disapprove of Obama on job creation.

White House finally admits economy won’t be much better in 2012

Liberal Warren Buffett

If liberals are going to be hypocrites, the one thing you can say for them, at least they do it big.

Famed liberal Warren Buffett recently made news when he claimed the government should be taxing the wealthy more.

Oops.  Turns out Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway owes over $1 billion in back taxes.

The Obama Bus Tour : deceit

Obama did not ride the bus on his big bus tour. He flew on Air Force One between stops and then rode a couple of miles pretending to ride the bus through America.

An AP reporter said that Obama might have ridden these expensive buses only one mile at each stop. Therefore, it wasn’t really a “BUS TOUR”! Obama spent most of the “BUS TOUR” on an airplane traveling between stops. It looks like Obama has scammed the American people again……..with the help of the liberal media.

And so the duplicity that props this guy up continues.

How in hell anyone can trust a damned thing reported by the MSM is beyond me.

Political Humor

Q: How do you starve an Obama supporter?

A: Hide his food stamps under his work boots.

Is the Obama Regime politicizing the music business?

Is the Obama Regime politicizing the music business?

• Posted by Judson Phillips on August 28, 2011 at 9:06am in Tea Party Nation Forum

If you live in Nashville, AKA Music City, as I do, any thing that affects the music industry is big news.  The Feds have made a big splash recently in the music business.  But, is politics behind this?

On August 24^th, Federal Agents raided the Gibson Guitar facilities in both Nashville and Memphis. Gibson makes guitars and I am told very good ones.  Since my musical efforts generally violate someone’s Eighth Amendment rights against cruel and unusual punishments, I simply take the word of musician friends that Gibson is a very good guitar.

This was the second raid in two years on Gibson.  The issue is a violation of an obscure law called the Lacey Act.  The Lacey act which dates from the 1900’s requires a person to declare every flora or fauna being brought into the country and you must fill out the paperwork correctly.  This is one of the few applications of law that has what is called “strict liability.”  In most instances, if you are accused of violating the law, there is a “Mens Rea” element.  In plain, non-lawyer, English, that means you had to have a mental intent.  If you think of premeditation in murder you are in the ballpark.  With crimes that require a “Mens Rea” element, there are all kinds of defenses.  In a strict liability crime such as this one, either the paper work is right or not.  If it is wrong, you are on the hook, even if it was an innocent mistake.

The most recent raid seems to have been triggered by an alleged violation of an obscure Indian law about the exporting of non-finished wood.  Gibson imported some of its wood from India and uses American workers to finish the wood.  Yet the Obama regime’s interpretation of the export of unfinished wood as a violation of the laws of India seems to be the basis for this raid.

Interestingly enough, Martin Guitars (C.F. Martin & Company) uses some of the same wood that Gibson uses.  How many times has Martin been raided?  Zero.

That may be interesting but there are other facts that build a more interesting and sinister circumstantial case for politics being involved.

The CEO of Gibson is Henry Jusziewicz.   Among other things, he gave $2,000 to Congressman Marsha Blackburn, (R-TN) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN)  He as also donated to a Consumer Electronics Pac that favors Republicans over Democrats.

Chris Martin, of Martin Guitars, on the other hand is a long time Democrat.  Over the last four years, he has given over $35,000 to Democratic Candidates and the DNC.

Given the blatant politicization of everything by the Obama regime and their habit of using government to support their friends and harass their opponents, it is perfectly plausible that someone in DOJ is helping a friend of BO.

When conservatives take over in 2013, there need to be a lot of investigations of the Obama regime and the people in it.  The GOP has a bad habit of just letting bygones be bygones.

Not this time.

Obama: Raises for me, no job for thee!

Raises for me, no job for thee!

• Posted by Judson Phillips on August 28, 2011 at 6:46am in Tea Party Nation Forum

The Obama regime is now presiding over the Second Great Depression.  But, you would not know that by looking at the White House.  Not only are Barack Obama and Michelle Obama taking vacation every other day, on the taxpayer’s dime, but while millions of Americans are out of work, those who are doing their best to wreck the American economy are getting raises!

From Gawker:

The White House released its annual salary report last week, and as usual, it's nice to work for Barack Obama: Most staffers who were there for more than a year got a salary bump. A bigger one than you did.

The last time we checked in on White House salaries, we found that an astonishing 75% of continuing staffers got raises from 2009 to 2010—a huge number given the fact that, according to compensation experts, most companies had skipped routine raises that year in reaction to the economic crisis that the White House was busy failing to solve. This time around—from 2010 to 2011—the ratio is a little less dramatic. Of the 270 White House staffers who have been there for more than a year, 146—or 54%—received raises. The average salary increase was 8%. If you look at only staffers who got raises, the average increase was twice that.

That's a much bigger raise than the average white-collar worker got. According to a survey conducted last year by the human resources consulting firm Mercer, most firms were projecting a 3% increase in base pay for executives. White House workers did nearly three times as well. Overall, it should be noted, the White House's salary budget contracted slightly, from $38.8 million to $37.1 million, largely because the number of staffers fell. The average salary also dropped from $82,721, or 65% above the median household income, to $81,765—or 65% above the median household income.

If Barack Obama were the CEO of a company, the board of directors would sack him for such an incredibly poor performance.  His staff would be fired too.

Unfortunately we cannot fire them until 2012.

But maybe we can make them feel the economic pain that we are all feeling.  When Congress returns, they must finish the budget authorizations for the fiscal year that begins on October 1.   The budget must be cut and the best place to start is the White House.    Tell Congress let’s cut the White House budget by 50%.  Does Michelle Obama really need the staff that she has?  She is not an elected official.    She has a staff of twenty, including a chief of staff who makes almost $200,000 a year.

How about grounding Air Force One, except for overseas trips?  Obama will be using it as his campaign jet in the next few months.  While the exact operating costs for Air Force One are classified, the estimates are around $300 million a year.   If Obama wants a campaign jet, let his campaign lease one.  He says he is going to raise $1 billion for his reelection campaign.

He can even have his own logo on the plane. 

Can we have separation of socialism and state?

Can we have separation of socialism and state?

• Posted by Judson Phillips on August 26, 2011 at 7:28am in Tea Party Nation Forum

Every four years, we have a ritual; the left wing media goes nuts over the religious beliefs of conservative candidates.    If you listen to the left wing fruits that run the editorial pages of many of the major news outlets, like the New York Times, you would think that people like Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee and even Rick Santorum are members of some secretive Christian version of the Taliban.

Every four years, we see this.  The drive-by media, which has no clue about life in “fly over” America, writes about conservatives as if they are a part of some evil religious cabal, bent on taking America back to the middle ages.

We get ominous warnings about the separation of church and state, from these people who probably cannot even cite where that statement comes from or what it truly means.  Of course, warnings of separation of church and state are a one-way street for the left.

Liberals never have these issues.  In 1976, the left wing media made “born again Christian” a popular wave in support of Jimmy Carter, even convincing a large number of evangelicals to vote for him.  Of course, Carter was a hard-core leftist, worshiping at the altar of socialism.

In 1992 and after that, we got a regular diet of how Bill and Hillary Clinton were Christians.   We got regular news reports about them going to church, complete with video of them walking, hand in hand, holding their bibles.    Of course, everything we know about the Clintons tells us their trips to church were just another political prop, like almost everything else in their lives.

In 2008, we were constantly told that Barack Obama was a Christian.   Of course, there was an almost total media embargo about his church.   Obama’s church preached a radical version of Marxist theology.  In Obama’s church, hating America, Western civilization and liberty were dogma.     While photos of the Clintons and even the Carters in church were fairly common, including photos of Carter teaching Sunday school, has anyone seen any photos of Obama at Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church?

The left screeches about Michele Bachmann and her beliefs.  Is there even a photo of her attending church?  If there is, they are hard to find.  There are some photos of Rick Perry at the prayer event he recently participated in and at some other events, but none of him just going to church.

For most conservatives, faith is an indivisible part of what and who we are.  For most conservatives, some form of faith motivates them.  For liberals, faith is simply another tool to advance socialism.

The first commandment of socialists is they cannot have any other Gods before the god of socialism.   Liberals love to trot out “faith leaders” to support the goals of big government, but once they are no longer needed for that, the “faith leaders” are expected to sit down, shut up and stay out of the way until they are needed again.

Socialism is a very jealous religion.  It tolerates no dissent or disagreement.  In some ways, it is the fundamentalist religion that the left wing media is always railing against.   Socialism demands absolute devotion to the truth and demands destruction of anyone or anything that disagrees with the socialist fundamentalist orthodoxy.

Conservatism is just the opposite.  Conservatism allows disagreement because conservatism believes in liberty and freedom.  Conservatism believes in the free market of ideas, which is why dissenting opinions do not faze conservatives.  We believe the ideas will compete and the best ideas will emerge.

As this presidential election unfolds, expect the left to continue to project the failings of socialism on conservative candidates.  Expect to keep hearing about how dangerous the religious beliefs of Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry are.   Of course these are the beliefs of tens of millions of Americans, but why let inconvenient facts confuse the left.

While the left wing media elites are busy denigrating the beliefs a majority of Americans hold, don’t expect to hear a word about the American hating religion of Barack Obama.

The Michael Bloomberg OUTRAGE!

Outrage!

• Posted by Judson Phillips on August 24, 2011 at 5:17pm in Tea Party Nation Forum

We are three weeks away from the 10^th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.  Now, you will not believe what has happened.  It is Orwellian.  The good guys are the bad guys now and the bad guys are perfectly welcome.

What is going on?

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decreed there will be no clergy at the 9/11 memorial.

You heard that right.  No Clergy!

Let’s start with the basics.  Bloomberg is simply nuts.  At the same time he is saying no clergy at the 9/11 memorial service, he is also saying that he has no problem with the 9/11 victory mosque being built two blocks away.

Islamists attacked America on 9/11 based on their religious hatred of America.  All types of Americans died on that day.  Many were religious people.  One of the fatalities that day was Father Mychal Judge, a chaplain with the NYFD who went into the towers with the fire fighters and perished with them.

While Michael Bloomberg lobbies for taxpayer funds to help build the 9/11 victory mosque, there is another casualty of 9/11 that everyone seems to have forgotten about.

Little St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church had stood since 1916.   It had been a refuge for New Yorkers and others seeking escape and a brief peaceful interlude during their hectic days in the New York business world.  It was the spiritual home to many of the Greek Orthodox faithful of New York.  The Sons of St. Nicholas served in World War 1, World War 2, Korea, Vietnam and even up to Desert Storm.

When the towers were destroyed, St. Nicholas was destroyed.  The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese has asked, discussed, begged, pleaded, cajoled and done everything in its power to get little St. Nicholas rebuilt.  All to no avail.  The Archdiocese has now had to file suit.

Mean while Bloomberg, who truly meets Lenin’s definition of a useful idiot, is doing everything he can to make certain a victory mosque is built as close to the site of the 9/11 attacks as possible.

George Bush used to say that Islam had been hijacked.  No, what we saw on 9/11 was pretty consistent with Islam since its creation.  What we are seeing is 9/11 being hijacked.

Instead of a proper memorial for the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, we are instead fed a line of politically correct bovine scatology.

Enough!

9/11 was a national trauma.  We all remember where we were when we first heard about the attack.  The tenth anniversary activities are a national disgrace.

My suggestion is this. Our government refuses to identify our enemies as our enemies, treats our citizens as enemies and refuses to take meaningful steps to protect us or protect liberty.  9/11 falls on a Sunday this year.  Let’s go to our churches on 9/11 (or synagogues on 9/10) and let real Americans remember the attacks.  Let’s have remembrances at our local Tea Party events and Liberty events.  Let’s do a memorial at our local Republican Party meetings or out our local Boy Scout meetings.

We cannot make these fools go away by ignoring them, but by holding our own services, where the clergy are welcome; they will have a much harder time pouring salt in our wounds.