The nations conspire…the kings of the earth take their stand…against the Lord… (Psalm 2:1-2)
Left to right: Obama, Solana (EU), Ban Ki-moon (UN), Ahmadinejad (Iran), Netanyahu
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Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes? He’s now 82 years old and has a new book, ‘Where Have All The Leaders Gone?’.
Lee Iacocca Says:
‘Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder! We’ve got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, ‘Stay the course.’
Stay the course? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned, ‘Titanic’. I’ll give you a sound bite: ‘Throw all the bums out!’
You might think I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.
The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we’re fiddling in Iraq , the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving ‘pom-poms’ instead of asking hard questions. That’s not the promise of the ‘America’ my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I’ve had enough. How about you?
I’ll go a step further. You can’t call yourself a patriot if you’re not outraged. This is a fight I’m ready and willing to have. The Biggest ‘C’ is Crisis! (Iacocca elaborates on nine C’s of leadership, with crisis being the first.)
Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It’s easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else’s kids off to war when you’ve never seen a battlefield yourself. It’s another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.
On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A hell of a mess, so here’s where we stand.
We’re immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving.
We’re running the biggest deficit in the history of the country.
We’re losing the manufacturing edge to Asia, while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs.
Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy. Our schools are in trouble.
Our borders are like sieves.
The middle class is being squeezed every which way.
These are times that cry out for leadership.
But when you look around, you’ve got to ask: ‘Where have all the leaders gone?’ Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.
Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?
We’ve spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.
Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm.
Everyone’s hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn’t happen again. Now, that’s just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you’re going to do the next time.
Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when ‘The Big Three’ referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it?
Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debit, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.
I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn’t elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on Fox News will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don’t you guys show some spine for a change?
Had Enough? Hey, I’m not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I’m trying to light a fire. I’m speaking out because I have hope – I believe in America. In my lifetime, I’ve had the privilege of living through some of America ’s greatest moments. I’ve also experienced some of our worst crises: The ‘Great Depression,’ ‘World War II,’ the ‘Korean War,’ the ‘Kennedy Assassination,’ the ‘Vietnam War,’ the 1970’s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11.
If I’ve learned one thing, it’s this: ‘You don’t get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it’s building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play. That’s the challenge I’m raising in this book. It’s a “Call to Action” for people who, like me, believe in America’. It’s not too late, but it’s getting pretty close. So let’s shake off the crap and go to work. Let’s tell ‘em all we’ve had ‘enough.’
Make your own contribution by sending this to everyone you know and care about. It’s our country, folks, and it’s our future. Our future is at stake!!
Well, is everyone enjoying the new “higher taxes day” holiday? You folks who live in Ontario, Canada probably know it better as “Family Day”. Let me run the numbers for you. This is important stuff. Whenever the government introduces a new holiday, it is actually introducing a new tax on the people through industry. Here’s a practical example of the most extreme case:
Transalta pays its employees forty three dollars an hour in Sarnia, On. That is the regular pay rate. That is the rate the employees used to get. Now, when an employee works on “Family Day”, he or she gets triple time for a twelve hour shift. That equates to fifteen hundred dollars, five hundred of which goes right into the government coffers. Does everyone get the math? Transalta is a power generating facility that never shuts down. These people have to be there and the government knows it. “Family Day” was just another power grabbing oportunity for big government and that’s all it is.
Not only that but it forces industry to pay people to do absolutely nothing. It is welfare, plain and simple. It is also legalized robbery. People can expect someone to give them something for nothing and they have the force of government to back them up. The classic Robin Hood syndrome; socialism at its most forceful ugliness. The reward for laziness magically produced to ensure the results of the next election.
Look at GM for example. It has become a retirement home which just happens to make cars. In 2005, General Motors payed out almost thirty million dollars for, get this now, erectile disfunction piils. This according to Paul Harvey news and comment. Now, isn’t that amazing? Where is GM now? Well, there’s talk of chapter 11 bankruptcy isn’t there.
Listen, folks. The encroachment of persons interested in taking over your life is all but complete. Enjoy family day.
Well, it’s finally here. The anniversary of the incarnation of the perpetrator of the greatest intellectual meltdown ever. None other than Charles Darwin. Not only was it an assault on intelligence and reason, but also a full frontal attack on the known laws of physics which govern the universe foundationally. By taking a proverbial sledgehammer to the foundation pillars, Darwin set in motion the shock waves that led to the holocaust, abortion, and the list goes on and on. Teaching kids the theory of evolution is the single greatest act of child abuse ever thrust upon humanity.
I know I’m a day late here but it was with purpose that I delayed so that the occasion would get no recognition from me on the twelth. If you are celebrating the event in festive form you are identifying yourself with barbarians; human beings reaching down to identify with animals instead of reaching up to identify with God. You are religious in the most negative sense of the word possible. You’ve swallowed a lie and called it truth. You’ve believed a myth because it tickled your ears.
It is utterly amazing to me that anyone, in today’s age of scientific enlightenment, would continue to hold the false evolution dogma as truth in the face of overwhelming evidence against it. I’ve written books about this and I’ve debated scientists from around the world and the only solid psychological conclusion to be reached is a flat out denial of the facts to support such barbaric ideology can only be the result of mental illness. May God help us to find a cure.
I know, I know. The earth worshippers have changed the language of the dialogue to say “climate change” rather than “Global Warming” but Al Gore is still out there with his “Back to the stone age or die” message. Really, now. With record snow falls in N. America as well as England and record cold temps in the northern hemisphere is there anyone left with any intelligence (and without profit motive) who still believes in man made global warming?
Nominee for Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, admitted to being “careless” and “unintentional” in his personal financial dealings according to the Associated Press. Did this information come to the front in screening for the job of dog catcher in Indianapolis? NO! He is nominated to be TREASURY SECRETARY for the United States Treasury Department! Just another grand pick by the Obama-meister. Read all about it here…
Obama Day? That’s the headline that caught my eye with this article. Obama Day? Well, whatever. I personally don’t believe in Obama Day but here are seven hundred pictures taken on “Obama Day”. Enjoy…
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