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arrested for hanging Obama effigy on Ky. campus. Well isn’t that
interesting?

The co-chair of Barack Obama’s Transition Team, Valerie Jarrett,
appeared on Meet the Press this weekend and used, shall we say, an
interesting word to described what she thinks Barack Obama will be doing
in January when he’s officially sworn into office. She told Tom Brokaw
that Obama will be ready to "rule" on day one. It’s a word that reflects
the worst fears that people have for Obama the "arrogant," the
"messiah," that imagines he’s here to "rule" instead of govern.

Jarret told Brokaw that "given the daunting challenges that we face,
it’s important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take
power and begin to rule day one."

He’s
ready to use that power! I hope you weren’t getting used to lower
gas prices.

He’ll reverse the Bush executive orders that opened public lands to oil
drilling, the co-chair of his transition team said Sunday.

John Podesta, co-chair of Barack Obama’s transition team, indicated on
Sunday that the president-elect would quickly use executive powers to
reverse several Bush-era administrative rules, a few of which would have
an immediate impact on U.S. environmental policy. Appearing on Fox News
Sunday, Podesta, the Former chief of staff to Bill Clinton said,
“There’s a lot the president can do using his executive authority
without waiting for congressional action, and I think we’ll see the
president do that.”

According to the Washington Post, a team of about 50 Obama advisers have
worked for months identifying some 200 Bush policies as possible targets
for reversal.

If you thought the auto industry was suffering today, just
wait until January 21 (the day after the celebration).

The president-elect has said, for example, that he intends to quickly
reverse the Bush administration’s decision last December to deny
California the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from
automobiles. "Effectively tackling global warming demands bold and
innovative solutions, and given the failure of this administration to
act, California should be allowed to pioneer," Obama said last January.

California had sought permission from the Environmental Protection
Agency to require that greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles be cut by
30 percent between 2009 and 2016, effectively mandating that cars
achieve a fuel economy standard of at least 36 miles per gallon within
eight years. Seventeen other states had promised to adopt California’s
rules, representing in total 45 percent of the nation’s automobile
market.

Remember Jimmy Carter? Add even more socialistic programs and limits on
your free speech and you’ve got Obama. But you asked for it so now you
have to live with it.

GOOD LUCK!

The United States cannot save the world. It will be fortunate to save
itself. President Bush’s proposed bailout is not simply a socialist
measure. It is an attempt to avoid a return to correct valuations. It is
an ignorant attempt, in effect, to extend the damage that has already
been done.

Further:

“There is no use in interfering by means of a new credit expansion,”
wrote Mises. “This would at best only interrupt, disturb, and prolong
the curative process of the depression, if not bring about a new boom
with all its inevitable consequences.” When Bill O’Reilly says that the
disaster is too great, that despite his support for the free market he
sees no alternative to the government bailout plan, he is denying the
healing power of a depression. He is denying the fundamental lesson of
economics. The damage to the economic system has already occurred during
the period of false prosperity.

Our government officials are lying to themselves and to us. The false
economy and false "boom" that is created by taking money from taxpayers
and giving it away to businesses that should be allowed to fail because
they are not viable only causes an extension of the pain. Worse yet it
could cause our children to bear our pain in the name of saving our own
hides. What kind of parent does that to their children?

I believe that President Bush means well. I believe that Senator Obama
means well. They both don’t want our nation to be in the financial pain
that it’s in, but they are wrong to take away the pain without allowing
the wound to heal. The economy is damaged already by too much government
interference in markets and private enterprise. Keeping values falsely
inflated doesn’t allow the corrections needed to bring about a truly
stable economy.

Read the rest of this
article and think it over.

So many of our people, those who ensure our safety, security and freedom
every day are still in harms way keep us safe and making sure that we
can celebrate in peace in any way we please if we so choose. They ensure
that if we don’t want to celebrate any religious holiday we have that
freedom as well. They give up so much of their own freedom and even
their individualism to join their brothers and sisters in harms way to
protect those they love and those they have never met. That’s called
dedication. That’s called Patriotism. This, my friends, is true love.
Love of family. Love of country. Love of freedom. May they always be
safe and ALWAYS feel the appreciation that we have for them. God Bless
them all. To every member of the Armed Forces of the United States of
America: Thank You!

In case you haven’t heard it, here is Soldier’s
Silent Night.

Not this Southern Boy. I’ll stick with the nice warm weather
of the Southland. It’s supposed to hit 60F Christmas Day!

Merry Christmas anyway!

Now they want the President Bush to take someone’s property using
eminent domain so that they can have their 2,500
acre memorial site. The expansion of eminent domain use continues to
amaze me and this is just the latest case.

Don’t make your local government official mad or you may find yourself
looking for another place to hang your hat.

The only people who want a "hand" are the ones who have always been
waiting with their hands out for a handout from the government. The rest
of us, the majority of working Americans simply want the
government to keep its hand out of our pockets and allow us to control
our own destiny. Of course those in government have to try to be part of
the solution instead of simply doing the logical thing and getting out
of the way so that we can get ourselves moving again.

I don’t know the answer to getting the economy back on track, but I do
know that taking money from those who have earned it isn’t going to
work. It never has.

I’m afraid that the coming socialization of America is going to have to
get into full swing before the dumbmasses figure out that’s what it is,
socialism. By then it just might be too late to change it, but I don’t
see the vast majority of people in America being awake enough to what’s
going on to see it for what it is until it’s too late.

Propelled by his strong Christian principles, Millard Fuller used
Habitat to develop a system of using donated money and material, and
voluntary labor, to build homes for low-income families. The homes are
sold without profit, and buyers pay no interest. Buyers are required to
help build their houses, contributing what Fuller called sweat equity.

Locally we have a pretty good little Habitat build in the spring every
year. You can volunteer to help here.
We’ll start signing people up in the near future, so be sure to check
our website for more details. If you’d like to donate money or gifts in
kind, feel free to email me.

Minimum wage was one step in this direction, now you have another cap on
top. Now you know what you are allowed to earn or at least you will when
the new Chavez of the US is done.

This should be setting off everyone’s alarm, but most people don’t see
it as a problem since they think that it won’t directly affect them.
I’ll let you in on a little secret. It will affect everyone in America
and everyone in the world. The income tax started off with the same
promises. "Oh, only the richest people will have to pay this new fangled
income tax, so don’t you worry your little head about it." Now everyone
pays taxes on their income (is supposed to anyway).

This is what happens when you give one group complete control over your
government. They don’t have to respond to the needs of the people and
they have lost track of the way government is supposed to work.
Government in America isn’t intended to tell the people what they can
and can’t do. It’s the other way around. We were supposed to tell them
what they had the power to do, but they have taken that away and
educated the children of America to believe that this is the way it’s
supposed to be.

Socialism. The new standard for American government. Get used to it or
do something about it. Time is short. You won’t have the legal right to
complain about it if we keep heading in the direction we are going in.