Will we see the end of Israel? I guess it comes down to which side of Obama will win out: his Christian side or his Muslim side. Israelis are nervous, even considering the above picture of the President on “the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an “insult” to Israel.”

They saw the incident as somewhat akin to an incident last year, when the Iraqi reporter threw a shoe at President Bush in Baghdad.

It is considered an insult in the Arab world to show the sole of your shoe to someone. It is not a Jewish custom necessarily, but Israel feels enough a part of the Middle East after 60 years to be insulted too.

Was there a subliminal message intended from the White House to Netanyahu in Jerusalem, who is publicly resisting attempts by Mr. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to force Israel to stop any kind of settlement activity in occupied territories once and forever?

Whether or not it is true, it shows the mood in Israel. They feel cornered. The reactions out of Israel reflect that feeling.

Besides showing a lack of respect for the Presidency (the leader of the free world looks like a stock broker), is the President showing the soles of his shoes sending a message to Israel? His Muslim side along with the Muslim world understand it’s significance.

But that’s the least of Israel’s problems. Dick Morris:

From Caroline Glick, deputy editor and op-ed writer for the Jerusalem Post, comes alarming news. An expert on Arab-Israeli relations with excellent sources deep inside Netanyahu’s government, she reports that CIA chief Leon Panetta, who recently took time out from his day job (feuding with Nancy Pelosi) to travel to Israel “read the riot act” to the government warning against an attack on Iran.

More ominously, Glick reports (likely from sources high up in the Israeli government) that the Obama administration has all but accepted as irreversible and unavoidable fact that Iran will soon develop nuclear weapons. She writes, “…we have learned that the [Obama] administration has made its peace with Iran’s nuclear aspirations. Senior administration officials acknowledge as much in off-record briefings. It is true, they say, that Iran may exploit its future talks with the US to run down the clock before they test a nuclear weapon. But, they add, if that happens, the US will simply have to live with a nuclear-armed mullocracy.”

Have you heard the new “talk” from the Obama Administration? The new thing is that Iran should be able to build nuclear power for energy. This is Obama-speak that it will not lift a finger to stop Iran from developing nuclear weaponry.

The consequences of Obama’s “let’s let Iran have nukes” policy? Dick Morris continues:

All this means is that Israel’s life is in danger. If Iran gets the bomb, it will use it to kill six million Jews. No threat of retaliation will make the slightest difference. One cannot deter a suicide bomber with the threat of death. Nor can one deter a theocracy bent on meriting admission to heaven and its virgins by one glorious act of violence. Iran would probably not launch the bomb itself, anyway, but would give it to its puppet terrorists to send to Israel so it could deny responsibility. Obama, bent on appeasement, would likely not retaliate with nuclear weapons. And Israel will be dead and gone…

…Obama may have held the first White House cedar, but he’s not planning to spend next year in Jerusalem.

Joe Biden has been a gaffe machine – but this comment by him is right on the mark: “Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy [Obama]…I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate.”

I can also give you a scenario where it might originate.

The Republican Party is in the midst of finding itself again. There is of course disagreement as to how to get there, and that can be a good thing. The primary struggle is whether to reaffirm it’s conservative soul or to meander into the middle of things. But there is also disagreement among conservatives as to what defines conservatism.

The Reagan coalition of traditional social issues, limited government, and a strong military is in danger of unraveling. There is a push within the conservative camp to drop social issues like abortion and gay marriage.

Maura Flynn is one such person who has made a Republican case for gay marriage featured on Big Hollywood. This is in response to her argument. I ask you to also read it – to give her a just hearing.

Maura introduces this issue:

One need only read the comments on this site to know that there are two fundamental schools of thought here. Some of us believe that to be conservative is to defend freedom, preserve individual liberty, and keep government small. Others believe that being conservative is about electing a government that will defend and enforce “traditional” values.

For our purposes here, a list of those values isn’t relevant.

Now, that’s quite a statement! I wonder what Maura would have felt about controversial issues like slavery, woman’s suffrage, and civil rights?

I am always cautious of folks who try to define people and I find her definitions a little offensive. You see, I am one of those “traditional values” conservatives. I believe in defending our freedoms and liberties that are so rare in the world today. My parents escaped from communist Hungary while my mother was three months pregnant with me, wanting to insure that I had a future in THE land of freedom – of which I am in deep gratitude.

To keep the light of freedom strong we must “defend freedom, preserve individual liberty, and keep government small.” But I am also committed that these same individual liberties must apply to all Americans including the unborn, that the traditional family is the building block of society and is essential in preserving our national liberty, and care for the poor and those in need which promotes individual liberty without slavery to the State.

What I don’t think Maura understands is that while she is not in the “traditional values” camp, it doesn’t mean her position is without the “values” label. In her support of gay marriage, she is in fact a non-traditional values supporter. There is a value, ethic, or morality in every decision, action, or piece of legislation. It’s not whether or not “values,” everyone is in a “values” camp – it just matters what camp they are in.

So, what is Maura’s case for gay marriage? The summation of her argument is this:

Looked at from this perspective, gay marriage isn’t a complex issue. Science aside, one needn’t believe that homosexuality is moral in order to understand that nowhere does the Constitution give the federal government the right to regulate marriage.

I know she misses the point that there are already government restrictions on marriage. We know that a person who marries people must be registered with the state, and it is very much involved in the matters of divorce.

But let me say that overall, I agree with Maura – and her position will be the number one point in my case for traditional marriage!

Please also understand that my intention is the support of the institution of traditional marriage, and not in anyway reflective of the gay community itself.

1) Nowhere does the Constitution give the federal government the right to regulate marriage

Thank you Maura! I strongly affirm that the government doesn’t have the right to regulate marriage, which also includes redefining marriage. Marriage has always been defined as a relationship between a man and a women, in all times, cultures, and all places. It is not up to the State to control and redefine our social institutions.

Maura states that conservatives should defend freedom and preserve individual liberty, but never states the basis of this freedom and liberty, and who is the granter of them. This makes all the difference in the world: and all the difference in our approach for a Republican case for traditional marriage.

Which takes us to point two.

2) The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God

Our freedoms are the fruit of Western Civilization, which determined that God is above the State, therefore freedoms are granted by God and not the State. Jefferson penned in the Declaration of Independence that the justification “for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle[d] them.”

Jefferson’s appeal to Natural Law and Nature’s God is the foundational reason for our existence, the understanding of ourselves and our freedoms.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

This same Natural Law and Nature’s God who is the granter of our freedoms also defines that marriage itself is between a man and a woman, and along with the fruit of that relationship (children), is the foundation of the family in every culture, everywhere, and at all times.

3) The traditional family is the foundation of our society and therefore our freedoms – it needs our support now more than ever

In order to foster and maintain our freedoms, the traditional family must be the building block of our society. Only the traditional family has the ability to foster children and perpetuate itself. But there is more: the greatest solution to poverty and therefore self reliance is – the family! A loving and stable marriage is the greatest gift that you can give to your children. The instillation of religious faith, the provision of love and discipline, the teaching of what is right and wrong, modeling a strong work ethic, and the development of integrity and character – will give children advantages that money can never buy.

But children need both a father and a mother. It take two to make a child, it also takes two to raise a child. A child’s self esteem is tied directly to a father’s love and acceptance, and a mother’s love and nurture.

But it does go further than that: a stable and loving family is also a great deterrent to dependence and encroachment of the State within our culture. This is the reason why those who want to advocate the State within our culture, advocate policies that break down the traditional family.

4) Legalizing gay marriage will result in tyranny

This doesn’t mean the gay community will be the source of this tyranny. But there will be those (like the ACLU) who will use gay marriage as the issue in their attacks against churches, synagogues, and mosques.

As we have already seen in Massachusetts, the Catholic Church is no longer involved in adopting needy children to loving families because of their position on gay marriage. This will continue, and there will come a time when churches, synagogues and mosques will be forced to recognize gay marriage or pay the price.

4) Legalizing gay marriage will result in the ever declining spiral of redefining marriage

In the years and decades to come, there will be a declining spiral in the redefinition of marriage. There are already polygamist organizations lobbying that if gay marriage is legal, why not polygamy? I firmly believe that polygamy will be legal in states like Nevada and Utah – and why not? If you can redefine marriage, who then controls the definitions?

There will come a time that any grouping of people can be considered a “marriage,” until it will become absolutely meaningless.

5) The traditional family is a winning issue!

Support for the traditional family as the definition of marriage is overwhelming. In every state that put the issue up for ballot, it has won – even in California. Conversely, in every state where gay marriage is legal, it was the result of judicial decisions or legislation.

Barack Obama of course is a very savvy politician – and he supports traditional marriage.

So why are there conservatives so willing to surrender on this issue? I know there are many reasons, but I think there is one that stands tall from all the rest: they simply do not want to go through the wrath that Carrie Prejean and Sarah Palin for that matter – had to endure.

I have learned from Ronald Reagan that to be a conservative is not just having the right ideas, it’s having the courage to act on those ideas. I encourage my fellow conservatives to do the same. I hope that I will never have to say – “I never left the Republican Party – it left me.”

When I think of President Obama’s path for our country I am reminded of the movie, The Matrix. You know the story: computers are in control. The sky is scorched because of the struggle between humanity and the machines, and the only sustainable energy the machines can use to stay alive (alive?), is to use people as human batteries from the womb to the grave.

How do they keep the masses in control? Their minds are controlled by a computer program (the Matrix), making them believe that they are living normal lives. So while they are in captivity and servitude, the reality they perceive is otherwise.

Liberal and progressive elites must be in control. They honestly believe that we can’t live without them. But instead of using ideas to influence others, they rather shove legislation down our throats to achieve that control through the State.

Why does Obama need control of health care in his road to serfdom ( and unrestricted abortion for that matter)?

The State must sustain itself. It must have votes in order to stay alive, so it must make as many people dependent on it as possible. Thus the creation of a dependent class, whether through welfare, social security, medicare and now – nationalized health care.

National health care accomplishes two things:

1) it creates another dependent class, and therefore secures votes to sustain the State.

2) it provides the State a way to control the number of enrollments on health care. Let’s face it: the State can’t afford everyone. So, if a person is unable to contribute to the State, and if their health care is too costly – they simply will not receive health care.

The State must also have unrestricted abortion. This also accomplishes three things:

1) abortion helps to control population growth and the costs of entitlements.

2) in the end, elites want to make sure that minorities will remain minorities. Just take a look at the presence of Planned Parenthood in minority neighborhoods. Thus, while utilizing victimization that ensure votes, abortion provides that minorities remain victims.

Event though the Democrats view illegals from Mexico as future Democratic votes, they will take steps to keep the Hispanic population as a minority with the promotion of abortion.

3) contraception and abortion promotes sex outside of marriage, and therefore devalues marriage. 80% of those in poverty are single parents and children living in single parent homes. The poor will remain poor. Thus providing a permanent dependent class that ensure votes.

We need health care reform. The U.S. has the highest quality health care in the world, and customers are highly satisfied with it. But we need to have that excellent health care available to everyone.

But reform must never come between the doctor and the patient, and the government must never have the authority to decide who receives what operation. There must be a free cooperation of patients, health care providers, the free market and government.

Obama’s health care plan will take no prisoners – it will be designed to eliminate competition to wage total control from womb to the tomb. In the end, everyone loses. The federal government is wasteful, inefficient, intrusive, and impersonal. It will decide who will receive care and when, but it will also decide who will not.

Do we want the likes of a Pelosi, Reed, Frank or Dodd make our health care decisions for us?

Check out this website and share with others – Listen to the real-life stories of the victims of government-run health care

UPDATE! 6/12

The Public Plan Deception:

UPDATE! 5/31 – Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry

Let’s have some fun. Imagine if Sarah Palin was Secretary of State, and she is in Hillary’s place on her trip to Europe. She is at a conference in Brussels, and during her speech, she comments as Hillary did – “Clinton told young Europeans at the European Parliament that global economic turmoil provided a fresh opening. “Never waste a good crisis … Don’t waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.”

Now I wonder…how would the media respond to that comment, if it was Sarah who gave it? I mean admitting that she would use a “crisis” as an advantage, instead of getting people on board with an intelligent plan. (Of course her boss is doing that now). Never waste a good crisis, Clinton says on climate

As Sarah is answering questions, she responds as Hillary – “when she answered questions in front of 500 young Europeans at the European Parliament, where she was the highest-ranking U.S. visitor since the late U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1985.

She also dubbed European Commission External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner as “Benito.”

Hillary represents the most powerful democracy in the world, and yet she is totally unaware of the history of democracy! (That is pretty telling in itself, isn’t it?). But then to admit that she doesn’t understand Europe’s multi-party system – you’re the Secretary of State! I know Hillary is supposed to be really smart and all, but how would folks respond if it was Sarah who admitted this ignorance? Remember Katie Couric?

And then call poor Benita – Bonito: does she look like Mussolini to you?
Tongue-tied Clinton gets warm EU welcome

The President has just been embarrassed by Russian leadership, by not only exposing a secret letter sent by Obama, but disregarding it entirely. It would be up to Sarah not only represent the United States with dignity, but follow this slight with competence and professionalism.

She wants to start off the meeting with a gift as did Hillary – “Note to self: When trying to improve ties with a former Cold War-era foe, check a dictionary.

“You got it wrong,” Lavrov said. “This says ‘peregruzka,’ which means overcharged.”

Again, I know that Hillary is supposed to be really smart and all, and is supposed to have all this experience that she could be president: but can’t she get one word right? She is representing the United States of America – not the PTA!

May I ask – does it have to be Russia? Again I ask: of all countries, does it have to be Russia?

And what about the gift itself? It looks like something made in a middle school shop class – even a memento from the Elvis museum would have been better.

I am sitting back and wondering: how would this blunder appear if it was Sarah? What would the network media, cable media, left-wing blogoshere, late night guys and liberal funny people do
with all this information? I can assure you they wouldn’t be spending all this time on Rush Limbaugh.

From Rick Santelli on the Chicago Trading floor to Tea Party events springing up around the country – we are seeing signs of a good old fashion, American protest against tyranny.

When a government uses fear tactics, and closed debate in order to shove legislation down our throats – this is tyranny. When a government saddles our children and grand-children with debt they didn’t ask for and cannot possibly pay – this is tyranny. And when a few decide to “change” our way of life, in order to bring about socialism – this is tyranny!

But the issue really comes down to this: what will you do? Will you just sit back, and stare into the abyss of your TV? Will you wait while a few hijack our country – watching your freedoms and your livelihood drain away? Or will you do something?

There is a window of opportunity – there is time before Obama’s road to serfdom is fully in place. We must determine to act now, and make our voices known.

What can we do?

1) Be well informed about the issues, and find news and information sources that you can trust. Hint: it is not the “mainstream” media!

2) Become a news source!

Start a blog, use Myspace, FaceBook, Twitter, etc.to inform your friends of pertinent news and information.

But take it to the next step: ask yourself – what do I really get into? Is it theology, family, politics, social issues, writing, the entertainment industry, music, art, gardening, etc? Become an expert of what you love, and then make it a point to use your expertise and influence in behalf of others.

3) Bring on the heat – contact your elected officials and express your opinion. (That is an experience in itself!)

4) Become involved in the political process.

Run for office, help find good candidates, become part of a political campaign. Changing the House of Representatives in 2010, is the significant first step in protecting our freedoms and our children’s future.

5) Keep up with Tea Party News, attend Tea Party Events, and encourage others to do the same.

May I suggest Michelle Malkin as one of your sources? She has become a focal point in the Tea party Movement, and will keep you informed throughout the day regarding Obama’s road to serfdom.

Here are some other resources:

#TCOT Report
New American Tea Party
Tax Day Tea Party
Re-TeaParty

Please stand up. Make a difference. Start throwing some tea overboard.

Well, it not just you. It’s all of those late night guys and the liberal funny people. I just don’t get it. Everybody in America knows that if it was Bush who hit his head, or walking up to a window instead of a door, it would be funny fodder for years, that’s right – funny fodder.

Mr. President, “Duck!” I know, not Freeman too!

Look, I am not a comedian, but I do know that this is “the stuff dreams are made of,” for even liberal funny people.

Come on, this picture is funny! Krissy came by and was reminded of the saying, “If God closes the door, He opens a window…well, I guess not”

What about Obama calling the capitol of Canada, Iowa? Well, I guess Iowa does sound like Ottawa.

I am sorry Mr. President, but America did not invent the car! My, my, my – what will the Germans think?

Politico has reported that, “President Barack Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his TelePrompter. The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.” This is a good thing.

Well, I’ll leave this picture alone…no, really, I mean it…see me, I am walking away…

The purpose of this blog is not to ridicule: we get enough of that from the Left. Just look at their little plot against Rush Limbaugh. They have a hard time debating ideas – so ridicule is the next best thing.

The purpose of this blog?

1) The hypocrisy and double standard of the Left. If it was George Bush in the pictures above, or the gaffs mentioned, it would be everywhere. The Late Night Guys and the liberal funny people would run with this material – for who knows how long.

Let me ask you a question: does the above material indicate that Obama is mentally challenged?

2) Humor is a great leveler of mankind. It humbles us as we learn to laugh at ourselves.

3) It’s a great medicine for the messiah complex!

Let’s relax – it’s OK to laugh at Obama.

Check out – Late Night Wimps Still Won’t Mock Obama by Tim Slagle at Big Hollywood, as he reviews the late night and other liberal funny people.

More fun with Barack!

Let’s see, other name for enemy combatants. Maybe “terrorist challenged?”Obama to re-brand “enemy combatants” By Michelle Malkin

Can you imagine if George Bush said that he would talk to the moderates of the Taliban? Analysts to Obama: There are no Taliban “moderates,” you nitwit

Is someone protesting too much! Obama actually called the NYT back to make sure they knew that he was not a socialist! I am not a socialist! Obama makes Oval Office call to reporters – Washington Times