This morning on the Today Show, Matt Lauer interviewed one of the  wives of one of the Navy Seals killed this weekend. He asked her what she  would say to her children about their dad and how she would want them to  remember him... She said, and I quote, "His love for Christ" and then  continued with a few other things. Throughout the day and on MSN  homepage -  when the story is replayed they have edited the "Love of Christ" part  out.  Why? Because using the word Christ might offend someone. Well, I am a  Christian and I am offended! Offended that they would edit it out.  Offended that we as Christians are asked to tread lightly so as not to offend  someone of another religion. I think anyone who missed the original broadcast  this morning should know what NBC has done. This man loved his country and  loved his God and gave his life for both, just as Christ gave His life for  him...  Please feel free to copy this and forward it to everyone on your email  list.. There are e-mails that go around saying, "If you believe in God"  then forward this... well, I am starting one... right here, right now... I am  not ashamed of God but I am becoming more ashamed of my country... It is time  to take a stand.        Please GOD, have mercy on us and help us all.

The Other Consequences of Fast and Furious

The Other Consequences of Fast and Furious

   The Hooker      An Illegal Immigrant picks up a hooker. ·       "Hey, how much you charge for da hour, sister?" he asks. "$100" she replies. In broken English, he says, "Do you do immigrant style? "No"   she says. "I pay you $200 to do immigrant style."    "No," she says, not knowing what immigrant style is. "I pay you $300." "No,"  she says.   "I pay you $400. "No,"  she says. So finally he says, "OK, I pay $1,000 to Do immigrant style."   She thinks, "Well, I've been in the game for over 10 years now. I've had every kind of request from weirdoes  from every part of the world. How bad could immigrant style be? So she agrees and has sex with him. Finally, they finish. Exhausted, the hooker turns to him and says,  "Hey, I was expecting something  perverted and disgusting. But that was ok.  So, what exactly is immigrant style?"   The illegal immigrant replies, "You send bill to Government."      AND THAT MY FRIENDLY TAXPAYER, IS EXACTLY WHAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE DOING TO US!

McGurn: Community Organizers Sue Obama What Chicago would be like with the contraceptive mandate—and without Catholic Charities. Saul Alinsky may have dedicated his "Rules for Radicals" to Lucifer. Even so, the father of community organizing knew that his efforts would have gone nowhere in his hometown of Chicago without the help of an institution that had been serving the city's poorest communities long before he arrived: the Catholic Church. In 1939, Alinsky famously worked with the church to organize the "Back of the Yards" slum on the edge of the Chicago stockyards. Nearly 50 years later, a young Columbia graduate named Barack Obama followed in his footsteps. From an office in the rectory of Holy Rosary Church on the city's South Side, the future president began his career as a community organizer. Now the one-time allies are at loggerheads. On Monday, Catholic Charities of Chicago—the social-welfare arm of the archdiocese—joined other Illinois Catholic organizations to file a lawsuit against the Obama administration's mandate that would force these Catholic groups to offer free contraceptives through their insurance, in violation of church teaching. The suit's message is direct: Mr. President, your mandate will make it impossible for us to do our jobs. Judging from how President Obama now sounds like George W. Bush when he talks about the Catholic Church, the president appreciates the political harm his mandate is doing. At a campaign stop last Thursday in Ohio, he repeated what has become a stock line: "When I first got my job as an organizer for the Catholic churches in Chicago . . . they taught me that no government program can replace good neighbors and people who care deeply about their communities [and] who are fighting on their behalf." In terms of religious liberty, the new lawsuit breaks no new legal ground. What it does is offer a window into how much the decency of daily American life depends on churches using their free-exercise rights. Our nation's third-largest city provides an especially compelling example. Chicago's Catholic Charities employs 2,700 full- and part-time staffers delivering relief aimed at helping people achieve self-sufficiency. They do everything from stocking food pantries to helping people with HIV/AIDS, resettling refugees, housing seniors, and training people for jobs. Last year alone, that translated into 19 million meals in the form of groceries for single moms, another 2.5 million meals served to the hungry or homeless, 458,000 nights of shelter for families and children, and 897,481 hours of homemaker services for seniors. And these numbers don't include the thousands of inner-city children served by the archdiocese's Catholic schools but not on the Catholic Charities budget. When you ask the Rev. Michael Boland, president and CEO of Catholic Charities, what percentage of those he serves are Catholic, he answers that he doesn't know, because they don't ask. The Obama administration's mandate would change that. Particularly galling, he says, is the charge that his church is engaged in a "war on women"—when 80% of those his organization serves are women and children. As the lawsuit puts it: Enforcing the mandate could soon require Catholic Charities to "stop providing educational opportunities to non-Catholics, stop serving non-Catholics, and fire non-Catholic employees—actions that would betray their religious commitment to serving all in need without regard to religion." Yes, the bulk of the Catholic Charities budget these days comes from government funding. There's a perfectly legitimate public question about what accepting that funding means for both society and the church. It's not, however, the only public question. Another important one is this: Will our society rely on civic institutions or the government to deliver these services? Does anyone really believe we would be better off turning over the work of Catholic Charities to states or the feds—with their higher costs, greater bureaucracy, and loss in efficiency? In a recent report, Catholic Charities notes that it costs Medicaid (read: taxpayers) $43,000 per year for every senior in a nursing home. By contrast, Catholic Charities provides day care for seniors at $6,461 per year, home-delivered meals at $1,188 and services such as housecleaning for $4,028. Any one of these services can keep an elderly citizen in his own house instead of being sent to a nursing home (one of the great drivers of Medicaid's escalating costs). Overall, 92 cents of every Catholic Charities dollar goes to recipients, which is one reason Catholic Charities is so often chosen for contracts. The church can provide such value because for every staffer, it has nearly seven volunteers. That works out to a volunteer army of 17,000 people, larger than Chicago's police force. It's worth asking what Chicago might look like if these religious volunteers were limited to employing and serving only those who share their faith. And not just Chicago. Across America, volunteers with other faith groups are also reclaiming lives and neighborhoods in a way that even Mr. Obama says is far superior to any government program. Something he might want to mention to his secretary of health and human services. Write to MainStreet@wsj.com

Unemployment Rate Dropped In Every State That Elected A Republican Gov. In 2010   In 2010, influenced by the Tea Party and its focus on fiscal issues, 17 states elected Republican governors. And, according to an Examiner.com analysis, every one of those states saw a drop in their unemployment rates since January of 2011. Furthermore, the average drop in the unemployment rate in these states was 1.35%, compared to the national decline of .9%, which means, according to the analysis, that the job market in these Republican states is improving 50% faster than the national rate. Hello OBAMITES...CHANGE YOU CAN REALY COUNT ON!

Paul LePage, Maine Governor, Blasts Obamacare, Calls IRS 'The New Gestapo' Maine Governor Paul LePage blasted the Supreme Court's health care ruling on Saturday, saying the "decision has made America less free." "We the people have been told there is no choice," LePage said in his weekly radio address. "You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo -- the I.R.S." He specifically targeted the individual mandate, calling its classification as a tax the most "disturbing" portion of the ruling. “Now that Congress can use the taxation power of the federal government to compel behavior or lack thereof, what’s next?" LePage asked. "More taxes if we don’t drive Toyota Priuses or if we eat too much junk food or maybe even pea soup?” LePage has a history of making controversial remarks. During his 2010 run for governor, the Tea Party-backed Republican turned heads at a GOP forum by vowing he would tell President Barack Obama to "go to hell." After winning the 2010 election, LePage chose not to attend a January 2011 NAACP event honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day. When asked why, he said he would not be held "held hostage" by special interests, and that the organization could "kiss my butt." At Maine's 2012 GOP convention, LePage took on welfare, telling able-bodied recipients to "get off the couch and get yourself a job." Those words drew a standing ovation from the crowd.

While you were sleeping .............! Dear Patriots, While many of us were "sleeping," our country is being transformed into a dictatorship presidency. Read this excellent information to understand what is taking place. If you see that this information is important and has merit, I would ask that you pass it along to all people on your email list. It is urgent that all registered voters understand what is going on. Together we can make a difference by spreading this message and by voting and getting every conservative to vote in November. God bless you and may we, as a country, deserve God's blessings again. Sara Owid Obama's Second Term Transformation Plans    The 2012 election has often been described as the most pivotal since 1860.This statement is not hyperbole. If Barack Obama is re-elected the United States will never be the same, nor will it be able to re-capture its once lofty status as the most dominant nation in the history of mankind.    The overwhelming majority of Americans do not understand that Obama's first term was dedicated to putting in place executive power to enable him and the administration to fulfill the campaign promise of "transforming America" in his second term regardless of which political party controls Congress. That is why his re-election team is virtually ignoring the plight of incumbent or prospective Democratic Party office holders.    The most significant accomplishment of Obama's first term is to make Congress irrelevant. Under the myopic and blindly loyal leadership of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats have succeeded in creating an imperial and, in a second term, a potential dictatorial presidency.    During the first two years of the Obama administration when the Democrats overwhelming controlled both Houses of Congress and the media was in an Obama worshipping stupor, a myriad of laws were passed and actions taken which transferred virtually unlimited power to the executive branch.    The birth of multi-thousand page laws was not an aberration. This tactic was adopted so the bureaucracy controlled by Obama appointees would have sole discretion in interpreting vaguely written laws and enforcing thousands of pages of regulations they and not Congress would subsequently write.     For example, in the 2,700 pages of ObamaCare there are more than 2,500 references to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. There are more than 700 instances when he or she is instructed that they "shall" do something and more than 200 times when they "may" take at their sole discretion some form of regulatory action. On 139 occasions, the law mentions that the "Secretary determines." In essence one person, appointed by and reporting to the president, will be in charge of the health care of 310 million Americans once ObamaCare is fully operational in 2014.    The same is true in the 2,319 pages of the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Actwhich confers nearly unlimited power on various agencies to control by fiat the nation's financial, banking and investment sectors. The bill also creates new agencies, such as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, not subject to any oversight by Congress. This overall process was repeated numerous times with other legislation all with the intent of granting unfettered power to the executive branch controlled Barack Obama and his radical associates.    Additionally, the Obama administration has, through its unilaterally determined rule making and regulatory powers, created laws out of whole cloth. The Environmental Protection Agency on a near daily basis issues new regulations clearly out of their purview in order to modify and change environmental laws previously passed and to impose a radical green agenda never approved by Congress. The same is true of the Energy and Interior Departments among many others.     None of these extra-constitutional actions have been challenged by Congress.The left in America knows this usurpation of power is nearly impossible to reverse unless stopped in its early stages.    It is clearly the mindset of this administration and its appointees that Congress is merely a nuisance and can be ignored after they were able to take full advantage of the useful idiots in the Democrat controlled House and Senate in 2009-2010 and the Democrat Senate in the current Congress.     Additionally, Barack Obama knows after his re-election a Republican controlled House and Senate will not be able to enact any legislation to roll back the power previously granted to the Executive Branch or usurped by them. His veto will not be overridden as there will always be at least 145 Democratic members of the House or 34 in the Senate in agreement with or intimidated by an administration more than willing to use Chicago style political tactics.    The stalemate between the Executive and Legislative Branches will inure to the benefit of Barack Obama and his fellow leftists.    The most significant power Congress has is the control of the purse-strings as all spending must be approved by them. However, once re-elected, Barack Obama, as confirmed by his willingness to do or say anything and his unscrupulous re-election tactics, would not only threaten government shutdowns but would deliberately withhold payments to those dependent on government support as a means of intimidating and forcing a Republican controlled Congress to surrender to his demands, thus neutering their ability to control the administration through spending constraints.     Further, this administration has shown contempt for the courts by ignoring various court orders, e.g. the Gulf of Mexico oil drilling moratorium, as well as stonewalling subpoenas and requests issued by Congress. The Eric Holder Justice Department has become the epitome of corruption as part of the most dishonest and deceitful administration in American history. In a second term the arrogance of Barack Obama and his minions will become more blatant as he will not have to be concerned with re-election.     Who will be there to enforce the rule of law, a Supreme Court ruling or the Constitution? No one. Barack Obama and his fellow-travelers will be unchallenged as they run roughshod over the American people.    Many Republicans and conservatives dissatisfied with the prospect of Mitt Romney as the nominee for president are instead focused on re-taking the House and Senate. That goal, while worthy and necessary, is meaningless unless Barack Obama is defeated. The nation is not dealing with a person of character and integrity but someone of single-minded purpose and overwhelming narcissism. Judging by his actions, words and deeds during his first term, he does not intend to work with Congress either Republican or Democrat in his second term but rather to force his radical agenda on the American people through the power he has usurped or been granted.    The governmental structure of the United States was set up by the foundersin the hope that over the years only those people of high moral character and integrity would assume the reins of power. However, knowing that was not always possible, they dispersed power over three distinct and independent branches as a check on each other.    What they could not imagine is the surrender and abdication of its constitutional duty by the preeminent governmental branch, the Congress, toa chief executive devoid of any character or integrity coupled with a judiciary essentially powerless to enforce the law when the chief executive ignores them  Conservatives, Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney must come to grips with this moment in time and their historical role in denying Barack Obama and his minions their ultimate goal. All resources must be directed at that end-game and not merely controlling Congress and the various committee chairmanships.   Steve McCann  May 12, 2012    I would add but 6 words to those above mentioned, Conservatives, Libertarians, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney, to say "and we the American people also", must come to grips with this moment in time and our role in denying Barack Obama his life long goal of "transforming" us into his slaves working on his government plantation. Please forward this to all you can, maybe together we can save America for ourselves and those who will follow after us.                          GOD BLESS AMERICA