Only In America

This came from a blogger, who is a nobody, but thinks clearly... Regardless of your political persuasion, the logic is inescapable!!!!!

1. Only in America could politicians talk about "the greed of the rich" at a $35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.



2. Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans, when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce is black, while only 12% of the population is black.



3. Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, (Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), when BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.



4. Only in America can we have terrorists kill people "in the name of Allah" and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.



5. Only in America would we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally to just become American citizens thru amnesty.



6. Only in America could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists".



7. Only in America could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.



8. Only in America could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public--because the price of gas went up, when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).



9. Only in America could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history; still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending of $7 million PER MINUTE, and then complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money, so insist they need to raise taxes !!!



10. Only in America could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all!!!


I'm going to add one to go in conjuction with #8.


11. Only in America could the federal goverment say that "Big Oil" is being greedy, while "Big Oil" gets 4% of the profits for all the work they do and the federal goverment gets 11% of the profits in taxes for doing nothing!!!


I'd also like to add...


12. Only in America could a current sitting President say that our unemployment rate has gone down because he no longer counts those who are unemployed and not looking for work.



13. Only in America could you be called a racist/biggot simply because you don't agree with the President's political views.

Sacred beliefs in Afghanistan and America

Sacred beliefs in Afghanistan and America
by Newt Gingrich

Dear Fellow Conservative,

The Obama administration may have adopted a formula that will come back to haunt it.

In an effort to appease religious elements in Afghanistan it has established a standard that could become a major defeat for secular extremists here in America.

In response to Afghan outrage over the inadvertent Koran burnings by the U.S. Military in February, the Obama Defense Department created a mandatory training for military service members in the region. It is entitled, "Proper handling and disposal of Islamic Religious Materials: Service Members/Civilian Training."

You can read the 11 slides in the briefing here.

The most fascinating slide is the last one. There the Obama administration asserts: "We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others."

Apparently to President Obama, the sacred beliefs of Islam in Afghanistan must be held sacred by the U.S. government, but Christianity in America is a nuisance to be reshaped by ObamaCare, the courts and the bureaucracy with no regard for its beliefs.

Americans are noticing. Consider this protest from a Catholic group as reported to me by my friend and co-author Bill Forstchen:

"Without doubt the most powerful ad, aimed straight at Catholics, to take a political stand based upon our most basic beliefs. This one is incredible and you know I rarely forward such things."

You can see the video here.

The ObamaCare war against religious liberty extends far beyond Catholics. As the president of Louisiana College, a Baptist college dedicated to right-to-life principles told me, "If Obamacare forces us to violate our religious beliefs we will close the college."

Let's challenge President Obama's assertion that "We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others".

If we must hold sacred Korans being used by Afghan terrorists to pass messages back and forth, then certainly we can hold sacred religious symbols held sacred by law-abiding Americans here in the United States. We can put back up the crosses and the Ten Commandments courts have forced us to take down--right?