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I just found a new website at EXPOSEOBAMA.COM and wanted to share this site with you. I have not had an opportunity to read every link and article on the site yet but what I have read has not been discussed in the “Main Street Media”.

Here are two things from this site for your review:

The Shepard’s Crook of Christianity

Sunday, April 20, 2008
The Shepard’s Crook of Christianity
Ebola is to humans what Black Liberation Theology is to the church.

Ebola was popularized in the movie “Outbreak” and the book, “Hot Zone.” The virus is what they call a Level 4 pathogen that causes severe hemorrhaging and rapid death through the massive destruction of the liver. But, unfortunately, for those in favor of reducing the number of people on the planet, it also kills animals. The strains of the virus have eerie sounding names – Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, Ebola Reston, Ebola Tai and Marburg.

Amazingly, the Ebola virus under an electron microscope looks a little like a sheep herder’s staff, hence the name, “Shepard’s Crook.” If it happens to show up in your blood, or in that of your pet monkey, there is a nine out of 10 chance of death.

Black Liberation Theology (BLT) is the Shepard’s Crook of Christianity and one of its prophets is Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Without one of his flock running for President of the United States, Wright’s message would probably not have hit front page news. But since Obama, unifying-man-for-all-seasons and candidate-for-Hope-and-Change, is running for the top job it only makes sense that all of his background examined. Ooops. Bad timing for him, Wright, and BLT.

Obama is now in triage, a political casualty of Wright’s BLT-inspired raving rants.

Glenn Beck interviewed former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell on March 20, 2008. Blackwell, a black man, said, “The proponents of liberation theology like Reverend Wright say that God commands us to form government that will supervise our economy to create government subsidized jobs under central government planning, guaranteed healthcare and education by having government control both.”

In other words, liberation theology is socialism wrapped in Christianity. BLT’s contribution to the gift is a racial ribbon and bow.

BLT consists of 12 primary points and a few sub-points. They are available for review on the Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago) website. According to TUCC, “These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered.”

Most have explanations following them and, unfortunately, the explanation sometimes makes the palatable much less, and the less than palatable much worse. An example is the first one, “Commitment to God.” Normally, I would applaud anyone urging this affirmation. But, when the explanation includes racially charged words like, “Black Christian Activists,” and “soldiers for Black freedom,” I am less inclined.

1. Commitment to God.
2. Commitment to the Black Community.
3. Commitment to the Black Family.
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education.
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence.
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic.
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect.
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.”
9. Pledge to Make the Fruits of All Developing and Acquired Skills Available to the Black Community.
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions.
11. Pledge Allegiance to All Black Leadership Who Espouse and Embrace the Black Value System.
12. Personal Commitment to Embracement of the Black Value System.

A Find and Replace of “Black” for “White” illustrates how abhorrent the principals actually are – Imagine if your local AG, Presbyterian or Baptist church had a value system kicking off with Commitment to God and the White Community. Meanwhile, a Find and Delete of “Black,” with some minor grammatical edits, illustrates how noble they could be. (The exception that you can’t put a positive spin on is the disavowal of “Middleclassness,” which is a tone ringing similar to, “Revolution of the Proletariat.”)

With this as a value system, it is no wonder Wright has said the things he has, while what is to be wondered is how much Obama actually believes.

There is some good news though. Blackwell, in the same interview with Glenn Beck, also observed that Obama’s home church does not express the “dominant view” of the African-American Christian community.

For Obama it isn’t so much that he attended Wright’s church, but that he remained there for so long. He was recruited there, indoctrinated there, got married there, saw his children baptized there, has stayed there for 20 years, and apparently is planning on staying for that much longer. The disconcerting explanations for his sojourn might be that either Obama had BLT before he arrived, or that Wright’s message was the means for infection. In either case not many incubators could culture BLT better than TUCC.

There is another possibility. Senator Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., may be the one in 10 that is immune. If he ends up as President let’s hope so.

Your are invited to a special Meet and Greet event for Tom Casperson Saturday, April 26, 2008 from 3:30 to 6:30 in L’Anse.  The event will be held at a home of Jim and Jean Westrom, 329 N. Main Street. L’Anse. Tom Casperson is running for the Congress. All are welcome to come and meet Tom.  Light snacks and drinks will be available.  People attending will have a chance to talk to Tom and ask any questions about his race and issues concerning them. We hope you can come and bring your friends and neighbors Please forward this information to others who may be interested in attending.

For further information or directions please call

Keith Almli
906-524-2248

  Many people are running from Michigan everyday because they may lose their jobs. 

210 Days until Election Day

MORNING UPDATE:

Granholm signs tax credits and rebates to attract “movie making jobs” to Michigan. Maybe the Governor has learned an important lesson and will help make ALL of Michigan’s businesses “the most competitive” in the country and help attract real jobs back to Michigan. Wishful thinking…no Hollywood stars in factories?

Democrat Andy Dillon’s “blockers” are harassing recall petition signature collectors…this is outrageous. See the news story…where is the ACLU when you really need them? This could backfire on them as citizens “revolt” and sign the petitions.

State Rep. Jack Hoogendyk is in the middle of his petition collection efforts. There are only 5 weeks left…we need your help. If you would like to help, please sign up at his web site at:

http://www.jackformichigan.org/

http://jackformichigan.org/petitions/

We want to thank each person for the help they have given to Jack’s campaign! The race still needs your help – Jack needs 20,000 signatures by May 13 to get his name on the ballot. Please check out instructions on how to download and distribute a petition formhere . Thank you!

223 Days until Election Day

MORNING UPDATE:

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the state could not create or disseminate information identifying voter participation in the Republican and Democrat primaries on Jan. 15. We would argue therefore the list should be available to anyone who requests them.

The budget process continues to work its way through the state Senate. The Governor’s proposed budget is too expensive in some areas and shortchanges others. She is clearly playing games with the budget…again. This could be setting us up for another “revenue enhancement”…i.e. tax increase.

Frustration with the governor and Democrats is one of the main reasons folks are talking about enacting a constitutional amendment requiring a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature to raise taxes. This maybe the only way to avoid another tax increase from being rammed down Michigan taxpayer’s throats.

I taped “Michigan Matters” yesterday with Carol Cain which will air this weekend. “Michigan Matters” airs Saturday on CBS—WWJTV Detroit at 11 a.m. and will repeat on Sunday on CW 50 (Channel 50) at 11:30 a.m.

BECOME A PRECINCT DELEGATE!

Fill out and return the Affidavit of Identity to your county clerk or send it to the state party…we’ll handle the filings. Link to form. Many folks have asked…what does a precinct delegate do?  Here is some basic information about how we try and organize our precinct delegates to be part of our “political machine” to help elect Republicans.

State Rep. Jack Hoogendyk has started his petition collection efforts. If you would like to help, please sign up at his Web site at: http://www.jackformichigan.org/

I posted this over at Grizzly Groundswell and thought I should share this with my fellow First Districters. It is not First District related, but it is about Free Speech and I think free speech is interest of everyone.

This is a question I have been asking myself in the past few weeks to a month. Most of my life I have heard about “freedom of speech.” I never really knew what this was. I had always been led to believe this was some sort of liberal rhetoric. But only recently have I figured out that this is the complete opposite. The liberals do believe in freedom of speech, only when it suits their needs. They don’t want to hear anything that doesn’t jive with their agendas.

A few case in points could be alleged “hate crimes.” They have no problem with gay day parades, where people dress up in all kinds of funny outfits and degrading Jesus and Christianity. But if pastors, priests or rabbis speak out against homosexuality, it is a “hate crime” even when they are reciting from religious books. Then of course you have the alleged “Fairness Doctrine” where they want to regulate what is broadcast on the radio. When Conservatives and Christians speak out about Islam and/or Islamic terrorism the libs accuse them of Islamophobia.

Since I started blogging this was a thought that was in the back of my mind, but I never really payed much attention to it. I started out blogging about the presidential election and not much about free speech issues. Most of my current information I get is from conservative sources, whether that be online news or other blogs, or talk radio. Usually when I have the TV on it is for background noise.

When I was blogging the ‘08 race bloggers who would be for a specific candidate would get upset if someone from an online news source would say something negative about their candidate and not only would they refuse to read that persons writings, but also boycott the entire news page. They would feel the same way about a well known person from TV or religion. They would rally people to write in to these people and tell them to not say anything bad about their candidate. I have nothing against supporters getting upset about someone saying anything bad about their candidate. I understand where they are coming from. At the same time, I have learned to just let it roll, like water off a ducks back.

When I hear or read something said by someone who I normally read or listen to say something I don’t agree with I just figure that that is that person’s opinion. I get scared of people who agree with everything a certain personality says. Many libs out there say that all Conservatives and Republicans blindly follow Rush Limbaugh. They claim that we allow Rush to do our thinking. There may be some people out there who do that. But they are idiots. Most people who listen to Rush already have their own beliefs before listening to him. They might get some of their info from Rush, but they don’t let him think for them. I for one listen to Rush and others, Glenn Beck is my fave. When I hear something I did not know from these guys, I research more about the issue discussed, if it peaks my interest. After finding out about the issue, I then form my own opinion. Most times I find myself agreeing, but not always. Most Conservatives I know are like this.

The reason for this post is that about very early morning on that transition between Monday night and Tuesday morning I had found a quick snippet from Radio Praha Online, an online Czech news service. The snippet was about the National Party in the Czech Republic is offering to show Geert Wilders fifteen minute film about Islam and the Koran.

In case you have not been following, Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch parliament who produced a documentary claiming that Islam and the Koran is fascist. No other details about the film has been released. But everyone is afraid to allow him to show the film. Dutch officials are afraid it could spark violence, so he will not be able to show it in theaters. He was going to show it on a website, but the server has banned him from showing it. He has received many death threats. I had posted about recent protests in Amsterdam, Holland on Michigan Redneck II.

On Glenn Beck’s Tuesday program he talked to Brad Thor, author of “The Last Patriot,” about the server Network Solutions that pulled Mr. Wilders’ ad announcing the movie, Fitna. Glenn offered to show the movie on his show. In the Czech article I mentioned above the Czech National Party believes that this is a film that all Europeans need to see. That is why they offering to show Mr. Wilders’ film on their website, plus offer him asylum in an undisclosed area in the Czech Republic. I am proud of the National Party. It shows that not all Europeans are flaming liberals. Plus, while my loyalties are to the U.S., I consider Czechs my European cousins, as I have ancestry there.

When I posted about the protests I received a comment from a blogger that was for the protests. This person didn’t say anything except for leaving a link to his post on this issue. I checked out his post. He and others are calling Mr. Wilders a Nazi and facist. On his post he had images that were negative against Mr. Wilders. Since he was not calling for violence, I did allow his comment to post. Like I said I believe in free speech. I believe that everyone has the right to speak about what is on their mind, regardless if I agree with what they say or if it is even wrong.

My thoughts on the protesting and calling for bans on the film are that if these people have the right to protest and say what they think, then Mr. Wilders has the right to show his film. For those who are upset, they need to wait for the film to come out. If what he says about Islam is wrong, then the Muslims can point out what he said is wrong and show proof. The truth will prevail. If it is all a lie, what is the problem. Possibly the protesters are afraid that he will reveal truths that they won’t like.

For Dutch officials to not allow him to show the movie in theaters is fear. They should not allow this fear to dictate. I understand their fear, but when one lets fear not take you forward that’s when society goes backward. When the good people cower in fear, the bad people take over. That’s when things will get really bad. Europeans, and everyone the world over, need to stand up for what is right. We need to show the bad people that we will not allow them to dictate what we do or say.

I have talked about free speech and will continue to, be it in support of Geert Wilders, support of the Danish cartoons or support of Tibet.

While the issue of Geert Wilders’ film that inspired me to right about free speech and it is “something that is far away” that kind of thinking reminds me of the post World War II poem;

First They Came for the Jews

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Pastor Martin Niemölle
[source]

THIS EDITORIAL IS IN THE PAPERS THIS WEEK

Over the past couple of weeks I have been watching an important story unfold as the truth is finally let out. You may not know that the Granholm-Cherry Inaugural Committee is in trouble with the IRS.

The committee owes the Federal Government $19,535 as of 10-09-2006, according to the IRS “Notice of Federal Tax Lien” dated and signed on Feb. 7, 2008, The Granholm-Cherry Committee claims it had no idea and issued the statement

“The Inaugural Committee was established to limit taxpayer expenses related to the 2003 inauguration. Our accountants filed tax returns with the IRS. The Committee was dissolved in 2005. The first we heard of the lien was yesterday [Wednesday, March 5^th] accountants are obtaining information from the IRS concerning the basis of the lien. We will take all appropriate measures to resolve this issue”

I do know for sure the media in the Lower Peninsula has this story covered. This makes me wonder why it is not covered by the media in the Upper Peninsula.

I have contacted various media outlet throughout the state with no response. In my opinion, it seems very obvious…someone doesn’t want you to know.

If this concerns you as a resident of Michigan, I urge you to find out more and contact your state legislators demanding an answer.

If you would like to research this topic please go to Google and type in “Granholm-Cherry Tax Lien”.

Keith Almli

L’Anse

906-524-2248

225 Days until Election Day

MORNING UPDATE:

State budget battles start…Governor Granholm and the Democrats want to spend money we don’t have…again. Does someone see a pattern?

The Governor and her Democrat cronies are proposing to “borrow” if needed, and once again put Michigan taxpayers at risk. NO reforms, NO cuts, NO living within ones’ means??? Taxpayers…are you listening? Why are we losing jobs? Why are people leaving our state? Why are college graduates (our future) looking elsewhere for work?

With an approximately $44 BILLION dollar budget and just following the largest tax increase in Michigan’s history…Democrats are at it again.

Congressman Bart Stupak’s vulnerability grows as another Republican enters the race for Congress. Linda Goldthorpe joins Tom Casperson in challenging Stupak, whose politics have shifted toward his leader, San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi.

For more info: http://www.goldthorpeforcongress.com/

IRAQ: one of the most dangerous cities in the world, Ramadi, has seen huge strides in their political and security situation. Please read more below.

I had a series of questions how the “optional flat tax” or “Fair Tax” would work. Here are two sites that give you more explanation:

http://migop.blogs.com/blog/2008/03/optional-flat-t.html

http://www.fairtaxmi.org/

Jack Hoogendyk has started his petition collection efforts. If you would like to help, please sign up at his website at: http://www.jackformichigan.org/

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