RAISE THE DEBT CEILING---WE CAN AFFORD IT! SURE WE CAN!

Long ago I got my first credit card, a Visa card!

"That's so cool," I said. "Now I don't have to pay for things, I just put them on my credit card!

Little did I know that there would be a day of reconning.

The bill came due.

Then I had a couple of choices.

I could pay a minimum payment, I could pay more than a minimum payment but less than the total due (continuing to finance the rest) or I could pay the whole thing off at the end of every month.

I chose the minimum payment, because then I could continue spending, using my credit card so I could buy more stuff.

I had lots of stuff...but I wanted more.

All of a sudden there came a day when I had "maxed-out" my credit card.

No store would allow me to buy more stuff, because my card was maxed out!

What to do! What to do!

So I made the only decision that made sense to me.

I got another credit card! This time I got a Master Card!

Oh joy! Now I could buy more stuff!

Of course I now had two minimum payments to make, but that's still less than paying both cards off at the end of the month.

And look at all the suff I now could proudly brag about.

Before long, the limit of my second card was reached.

Once agiain I made the only fiscal decision I could make.

I got yet another credit card, this time a Discover Card (after all, I get money back with Discover Card).

So I went on my merry way, making minimum payments on what was now three credit cards.

Nobody had pointed out to me that making minimum payments would leave me in debt to the credit card companies for the next 60 years!

As a matter of fact, I ended up having to declare bankruptcy. I lost everything except my car and my house.

My credit is in shambles and I can't buy stuff with my cards any more.

I wish I had never accepted that first credit card, let alone the other two.

Lucky for me, the above scenario was only a dream.

I don't use credit cards...period.

If I can't pay for it, I don't buy it...except for my house.

(Yes, even my cars I saved up for and paid cash...can you imagine such an archaic concept?)

When the government discusses "raising the debt ceiling," they are doing exactly the same thing I did.

They are just getting another credit card.

Some of you actually think that is a good thing.

Short-sighted fools.

The same thing will happen to our government that happened to me in my dream.

One day, China will call in our debt, and then, as the add says, we will work for them.

Is that what you want?

Really?

I'LL BE GOING IN TO THE HOSPITAL WEDNESDAY TO HAVE THIS DONE

LINDSEY GRAHAM AND THE KORAN (Quor'an-If You Will)

I first saw these videos over at Woman Honor Thyself, although I'm certain they have been blogged elsewhere.

Her name is Ann Barnhardt.

She is bright, articulate, a little salty and not a little angry.

Warning to those with short attention spans: This is 24 minutes and 23 seconds of video. You may not be intelligent enough to stick it out. But do so anyway. You, of all people, need to see it.





I am not at all interested in your opinion of Ann Barnhardt unless you have watched both videos. You won't know what you are talking about. 

I AM interested in whether or not the passages she read in the second video are accurate.

What I want to know is whether or not you can authoritatively refute anything she reads from Quor'an.

If so, please do so in the comments section.

If you've never read Quor'an (I have, BTW), do so. And please tell me your impressions of it.

Does it or does it not allow: the beating of women; the beheading of infidels; the engaging in sex with boys; forcing oneself on women; engaging a prostitute and the other acts Ann Barnhardt claims.

If you are Muslim, please feel free to set the record straight about this book that inspired the beheading of at least two people after an obscure American pastor burned it.

Reveal to me the passages that would override or supersede the ones she read and why they would do so.

Please don't misrepresent it...remember (see above) I HAVE read it myself.

SUNDAY RESPITE -Sandi Patty - Via Dolorosa

DEMS GOT "THEIR WAY" - REPUBLICANS CAVE

It is 3:00 AM on this Saturday, April 9, 2011.

I am sitting here experiencing one of my frequent reactions to a drug called Niaspan. It feels as though someone has sprinkled cyan pepper all over my body, from my toes to the top of my bald head.

I have just learned that the government will not shut down.

Too bad.

I have read a couple of synopses of the "agreement," and all I can say is Republicans caved.

Of what use is a majority if a minority can still decide what you can and cannot do?

It certainly didn't happen when the Democrats had control of the house.

They effectively precluded Republicans from taking part in almost all discussions, they passed a very unpopular health care bill, they did pretty much as they pleased.

So when Republicans give them a shellacking in the mid-term elections, the shoe is on the other foot...or so one might think.

Not so.

See, Democrats in DC are ruthless, mean, hard line, unyielding (insert your favorite term of derision here), while Republicans are "gentlemanly," "civilized," calm and foolish.

In short, Republicans are what they have been for the last 10 years: Lilly-Livered, Yellow-Bellied Sapsuckers.

Some may say the Republicans bowed to public pressure.

Well, that just goes to further prove my point.

President BO did not bow to public pressure over the health care bill...neither did Democrats.

Neither gives a flying hoot about what the public wants.

So lots of folks who thought they would get a paid (if only retroactively) day or two off, won't.

Parks and Recreation workers will have to open their parks and help people recreate.

Education department workers will have to report to work Monday and see how much more they can mess up education in the US.

And our troops will get their paychecks on time. (This is a good thing, but it probably would have happened anyway, had the government shut down, in spite of what MSM would have you believe.)

And so it goes.

Democrats got their way and the Neanderthalic Republicans got their cave.

SO, THEN, YOU GIVE IN...NO, YOU GIVE IN...NO, YOU...ARGH!

As I sit here watching the news, I see that we still have no agreement regarding a government shut-down.

Harry Reid says we shouldnt be quibbling over such a minor thing as Planned Parenhood's part of the federal budget.

He says Rebuplicans should be ready to compromise.

(If it's such a minor thing, Mr. Reid, why don't you just give it up?)

One MainStream Media person quipped, "If Republicans think they can run a government without compromise, they have another think coming."

Another said, "All of this over birth control pills." (If PP were the issue, it wouldn't be over birth control pills, it would be over federal funding for the #1 abortion provider in the nation.)

I agree, Mr. MSM person.

So why don't Harry Reid and his cohorts just compromise and drop Planned Parenthood from the budget?

I'll tell you why.

It's because Democrats' idea of compromise (and I include President BO, the House and the Senate as well as all liberal/progressives) is: DO IT OUR WAY OR HIT THE ROAD, JACK.

Aw....who cares?

Just shut the thing down!!

PRESIDENTIAL PERK: IGNORE ACTUAL FACTS...JUST DO WHAT YOU WANT

So now we know.

In spite of the fact that his administration's own selected investigator proves that the DC Oppertunity Scholarship Program (school choice) is effective, President BO declares that it is not.

He is so very much smarter than everybody else, don't you think?