On to Michell Malkin’s Culture of Corruption, Chapter 1 ONWS: OBAMA NOMINEE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME:

Tom Daschle, Secretary-designate of Health and Human Services, withdrew on February 3, 2009 due to “ethical scandal, conflicts of interest, and tax avoidance.” This happened just after an investigation into New Mexico’s Governor Bill Richardson which resulted in his stepping down from the Commerce Secretary nomination. Even Senator Judd Gregg (replacement nominee for Richardson) had to withdraw over “fiscal policy disagreements”.

Then Treasury Secretary Geithner’s “tax goofs”, where he failed to pay $43,000 in federal self-employment taxes for “4 separate years” came to light. Another one bites the dust.

That’s already four bad apples out of more to come in Obama’s first 100 days in office. “President Clinton had six major nominee dropouts during his eight-year presidency; George W. Bush had two; George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter had one each, according to National Journal.”

Michelle lists them all in this first chapter which include: Nancy Killefer, Performance Czar; Jon Cannon, EPA Deputy Nominee; Charles Freeman, Director of the National Intelligence Council.

To give you a flavor of Ms. Malkin’s work, I would like to share some of what she found out about Charles Freeman:

He was the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and in late February of 2009 Obama nominated him to the post of directorship of the National Intelligence Council. This position “is not for the thin-skinned, paranoid, or ethics compromised.” His responsibilities would be to prepare National Intelligence Estimates about potential threats to our national security. There were those opposed to his baggage both on the right and on the left.

On one hand, Freeman had too much conflict of interest for this position: “…served for four years on the board of the China National Offshore Oil Corp, a company owned by the Chinese communist government. The state-owned firm has invested in Sudan and Iran. He also led the Middle East Policy Council, a Washington, D.C.-based group funded by the Saudi government. Washington Times reporter Eli Lake also disclosed that Freeman chaired Projects International, a consulting firm that has worked with foreign companies and governments.”

On the other hand, there were ethical issues with his idealology: “Freeman was a Jew-basher and tyrant-coddler with a Blame America axe to grind. Liberal writer Jonathan Chait called Freeman an ‘ideological fanatic’ of the realist school blinded to morality. Freeman endorsed hyperbolic attacks on ‘Zionist political influence’ and wrote in a leaked e-mail obtained by the Weekly Standard that China’s problem in handling the Tiananmen Square Massacre was that it was too restrained.” IS THIS SOMEONE THAT ANY GOD-FEARING PATRIOTIC AMERICAN WOULD EVEN CONSIDER FOR THIS POSITION?! Mr. Barack Obama did not have any qualms with him, until truth was found out. It should concern every American citizen that we have a President who surrounds himself with these types of people. It should come as no surprise that he is pushing his socialized medicine as the beginning of socializing our great country.

Ms. Malkin states all the facts about these botched nominations, in her straight-forward manner, and has proof to back them up. She reveals the reasons behind them in the boldness that is needed to bring out the truth. Her book has brought out a righteous indignation beyond measure in my heart. I guess when we have a man that really has most of his experience based in “Community Organizing” as President, it stands to reason that he would surround himself with these types of people (now look what we know about ACORN-amazing how two young American citizens revealed what most of us already knew because our liberal-biased mainstream media ignored it-next up SEIU?). Since he cannot seem to nominate those who would pass the vetting process, he has to appoint czars that do no have to be vetted. God help us!

Chapter 2 BITTER HALF FIRST CRONY MICHELLE OBAMA – “Behind the glamorous exterior and soft-focus lens is a hardened influence-peddler on par with Obama’s dropouts. Lucky for Mrs. Obama, first ladies don’t require Senate confirmation.”

I believe I have given you a taste of what you can expect from this very revealing read. I think you should buy or borrow the book and read it for yourselves. You will get more out of it. It is worth the time and investment.

Peter advises us to be prepared – I Peter 3:15-17 – NKJV “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.”

Peter uses the Greek word apologia for answer in this scripture. The word may sound like apology, but do not be fooled. What do we have to apologize for when we are sharing God’s word? Absolutely nothing! The word apologia actually means to layout a verbal defense.

There are people who do have true questions. There may be just one thing that the devil has used to put up a wall in one’s mind for years. When we give them God-given answers, it is like that wall has been knocked down and they can see the truth for the first time; like a light has been turned on. But, of course, that is not always the case. With others, as soon as you give them their first answer, they fire more at you like – ‘But why…?, What about…? Are you really saying that…?’ and so on. Those people do not really want your answers. They want to get you frustrated and side-track you. We must, at all cost, be in and leaning on the Holy Spirit to stay calm and on track.

A while back I joined a social site that I thought would be a fun place to share with and befriend other moms. Being who I am, I posted a journal on my page about taking a stand for my beliefs; namely on the churches of today preaching tolerance to the sin of homosexuality. I quoted the scripture in Leviticus 18:22.

There was an immediate barrage of hateful attacks accusing me, for one thing, of forcing my religion on them. No one was forcing them to come to my journal and read my post; they made that choice. Some said that being homosexual is as natural as breathing, and that more and more people are accepting of the homosexual lifestyle. One actually stated that the Bible is outdated and should be re-written. This went on and on for hundreds of posts. I had to delete and block some lesbians that were vulgar and abusive. They could comment without using vulgarity and hate, but they chose not to. At one point, I found myself being distracted from my main topic and had to delete some of my own responses.

There were only 3 Christian moms who stood with me to combat the evilness that was present there. (I know there were more than those 3 on the site, but they had been there longer than I, and were aware of this certain group of pagans who follow Christian posts and come out of the woodwork to bash them.) The four of us quoted scripture after scripture in response to their attacks, just as Jesus did in the wilderness when Satan tempted Him. It became quite obvious that they did not want to know the truth; it convicted them. I decided not to continue to ‘cast my pearls before swine’ and moved on to other subjects. As long as my subjects were not controversial, I never heard from them.

It was a devastating eye-opener for me to learn of these mothers that are into pagan witchcraft, atheism and a new-age Christianity and they believe anything goes; “Just leave everyone alone and we all do our own thing”. It is very scary to know that they are raising a part of our future generation.

I came to the conclusion that I did not want to be a part of that community where everyone is nice as long as you do not hold anyone accountable or try to get the truth out. I still call some of the sweet-spirited moms that I met there friends, but for the most part, I keep that place in my prayers.

Our Social Security

Franklin Delano Roosevelt – 32nd President, Democrat – Term of Office: March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945 – introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1.) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary,

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program,

3.) That the money the participants elected to put Into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,

4.) That the money the participants put into the Independent “Trust Fund” rather than into the General Operating Fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other government program, and

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the federal government to “Put Away” — you may be interested in the following:

Dwight David Eisenhower – 34th President, Republican, Term Of Office: January 20, 1953 to January 20, 1961

Insert by Vincent Peter Render,

If I recall correctly, 1958 is the first year that Congress voted to remove funds from Social Security and put it into the General Fund for Congress to spend.

If I recall correctly, it was a Democratically Controlled Congress.

From what I understand, Congress’s logic at that time was that there was so much money in Our Social Security Fund that it would never run out/be used up for the purpose it was intended/set aside for.

Lyndon Baines Johnson – 36th President, Democrat – Term Of Office: November 22, 1963 to January 20, 1969

Question: Which Political Party took Social Security from the Independent “Trust Fund” and put it into the General Fund so that Congress could spend it?

Answer: It was Lyndon B. Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Question: Which political party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

Answer: The Democratic Party.

William Jefferson Clinton (Bill Clinton), 42nd President, Democrat – Term of Office: January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001

Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. (Al Gore), 45th Vice President, Democrat – Term of Office: January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001

Question: Which political party started taxing Social Security Annuities?

Answer: The Democratic Party, with Albert Arnold Gore,  Jr. casting the “tie-breaking” deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US .

James Earl Carter, Jr (Jimmy Carter), 39th President, Democrat – Term of Office: January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981

Question: Which political party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

Answer: That’s right! James Earl Carter

Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

In addition, the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!

If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully sure of what is not so.

AND CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES 100% RETIREMENT FOR ONLY SERVING ONE TERM!

Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President, Democrat – Term of Office: January 20, 1801 to January 20, 1809

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have..”

- Thomas Jefferson

I challenge everyone out there who has not done so for too long, to go to Exodus, Chapter 20 and really spend some quiet time just reading through these verses. I bet you, God’s love will be revealed to you in a way you never imagined. He just wants to protect us from ourselves, and from harming others.

God Bless You All