"THE INVISIBLE HAND . . ."

OBAMA THE SHOE-THROWER . . . INSULTS ISRAEL

PRESIDENTIAL SHOE-THROWER OBAMA

How does a President throw a shoe?  Taking off your shoe and throwing it at someone like Netanyahu would be un-presidential, kind of like giving 25 DVD's of U.S. version to a foreign head of state.  No, if I want to be coy and insult someone with the bottom of my shoe, I would release a photo of the bottom of my shoe while I am on the phone with that person.  That is how a president throws a shoe.  This is also the smoking gun, this is the one piece of evidence I needed to prove Barack Hussein Obama is 100% Muslim.  This photo is the smoking gun, this is all I need to prove that Hussein Obama is not a Christian as he says, but a Muslim.  

In January of this year I spent two weeks with Muslim Bedouins in Egypt.  I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner with them in the desert.  While sitting on the floor or on the sand, I always made sure the soles of my shoes were not visible and likewise the Bedouins did the same.  Obama releases a photo of the bottom of the soles of his shoes while he is talking to Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu,  this is a pure calculated and presidential insult that a true Muslim would appreciate.  Israel you are right, this is what Obama thinks of the Jewish People.

Here is an article from a namesake Al Tompkins, I always want to promote "No H in Tompkins," so here is Al Tompkins' post from Poynter Online:

Why Photo of Obama Talking to Israeli Prime Minister is Insulting to Israelis

Posted by Al Tompkins at 3:27 PM on Jun. 10, 2009

To many, the photo of President Barack Obama sitting with his feet propped on his desk while on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems innocent enough. To some Israelis, however, the photo is offensive and an "insult" to Israel.

As CBS News pointed out:

"It is considered an insult in the Arab world to show the sole of your shoe to someone. It is not a Jewish custom necessarily, but Israel feels enough a part of the Middle East after 60 years to be insulted too."

The issue calls to mind the incident last December involving an Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at former president George Bush. At the time, the BBC pointed out:

"In Arab culture it's considered rude even to display the sole of one's shoe to a fellow human being.

"Certainly, crossing one's legs ankle-on-knee style should never be done in a public place for fear of offending the person next to you.

"The sensitivity is related to the fact that shoes are considered ritually unclean in the Muslim faith.

"In addition to ritual ablutions before prayer, Muslims must take off their shoes to pray, and wearing shoes inside a mosque is forbidden.

"Shoes should either be left at the door of the mosque, or carried (preferably in the left hand with the soles pressed together)."

Time explained:

"Shoes, and feet in general, get a bad rap in Arab culture. The language is peppered with insults referring to feet. To say that someone or something is "like my foot" or "like my shoe" means that the person or object is of no importance and beneath you. Sitting cross-legged in a manner in which the sole of a foot is pointing toward an Arab is also a grave insult. U.S. troops in Iraq are often lectured on the importance of not exposing the soles of their shoes in public."

-LEX REX, a.k.a Tim no H Tompkins

CREATE OR SAVE JOBS IS PLAIN OBAMA NEWSPEAK

"I WILL SAVE 600,000 JOBS BY THE END OF SUMMER"

Obama repackaged old promises today, of creating/saving 600,000 jobs by summers end.  Funny thing, the stimulus package that passed in February was to create/save 3.5 million jobs, but even with the huge bailouts and mighty government spending unemployment is rising.  Obama sensing that the American people are starting to show their anguish by dropping approval ratings, Obama continues the newspeak.   

Newspeak defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary:

new•speak (’nü-”spEk, ‘nyü-), noun, Usage: often capitalized. : propagandistic language marked by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings. Etymology: Newspeak, a language “designed to diminish the range of thought,” in the novel 1984 (1949) by George Orwell. Date: 1950

Create/save, is like having it both ways, Obama cannot lose.  Why you ask?  Because job creation can be measured at a specific point in time, but job saving sounds good but is unmeasurable.

On February 19, 2009, Greg Mankiw a economics professor at Harvard University wrote in his blog the seminal article on "Create and Save."

Mr. Mankiw starts the discussion with a question that Obama answered at his own press conference on February 9 his thinking then is still apropos to today's Obama's newspeak in regard to saving jobs:

Question: The American people have seen hundreds of billions of dollars spent already, and still the economy continues to free-fall. Beyond avoiding the national catastrophe that you've warned about, once all the legs of your stool are in place, how can the American people gage whether or not your programs are working? Can they — should they be looking at the metric of the stock market, home foreclosures, unemployment? What metric should they use? When? And how will they know if it's working, or whether or not we need to go to a plan B?

Answer: I think my initial measure of success is creating or saving 4 million jobs. That's bottom line No. 1, because if people are working, then they've got enough confidence to make purchases, to make investments. Businesses start seeing that consumers are out there with a little more confidence, and they start making investments, which means they start hiring workers. So step No. 1, job creation.

The expression "create or save," which has been used regularly by the President and his economic team, is an act of political genius. You can measure how many jobs are created between two points in time. But there is no way to measure how many jobs are saved. Even if things get much, much worse, the President can say that there would have been 4 million fewer jobs without the stimulus.

Political genius indeed or newspeak genius, Obama is having it both ways when he says he is saving jobs even though thousands upon thousands of Americans have lost their job.   The newspeak continues . . .

-LEX REX

The Relative TRUTH ABOUT OBAMA'S FAITH

THE RELATIVE TRUTH ISAAC OR ISHMAEL?

"What is truth?"  the question asked by Pontius Pilate to Jesus.  The Premier University which educated our President, "the truth shall set you free," Harvard's motto veritas, latin for "TRUTH."

But what is truth?  There are two schools of thought in our culture on "what is truth?", on one hand there are absolutes or absolute truth, there is truth and it can be known.  On the other hand and this school prevails in our culture is that there are no absolutes and truth is relative.  Guess which school of thought President Obama sides with?  Well he was Harvard educated and the basis of a Harvard education is that there are no absolutes and all truth is relative.  This is why Obama can look at himself in the mirror every morning, because even though he contradicts or lies one day and says the complete opposite the next day, it is all truth because it is relative to the situation at hand.  

In the past few days, Obama has embraced his Muslim roots of his father, who miraculously was an agnostic during the campaign and now has been converted to be a faithful follower of Mohamed.  This all happened given the fact Obama's biological father died in 1982.  So the question being asked is what is the truth about Obama's faith?  If you are trying to become President in a nation that was established on Christian principles, it is a good idea to say that you are a Christian.  This is what Obama did through out the campaign, in fact, he even put his little testimony on his presidential campaign website under FIGHT THE SMEARS.

I am not sure if being sworn into the senate on a family Bible and attending church regularly qualifies as admittance into the Kingdom of God, I guess God will have to judge that standard, but the point is Obama is now playing the relative truth game.  Now he is embracing his Muslim roots:  Today we find out his father Barack Obama Senior was indeed a Muslim.

Jake Tapper reported:

During a conference call in preparation for President Obama's trip to Cairo, Egypt, where he will address the Muslim world, deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Denis McDonough said "the President himself experienced Islam on three continents before he was able to -- or before he's been able to visit, really, the heart of the Islamic world -- you know, growing up in Indonesia, having a Muslim father -- obviously Muslim Americans (are) a key part of Illinois and Chicago."

One thing Obama has shown the American people, is that, his truth changes, it is not fixed upon absolutes, but Obama's words will flow in different directions depending on the given situation.  It all depends upon the meaning of "IS."

-LEX REX

Obama Stays the Night on Historic Route 66 at Beverly Hills Hilton

Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica, California

Today my family and I arrived to the western end of Old Route 66 the Santa Monica Pier and the Will Rogers Plaque. As we should all practice it is not about the destination, but the journey. Just as Will Rogers showed us, his life was one journey after another and so our lives should be lived in the moment enjoying and learning from the journey.

Our Route 66 journey started from Springfield, Missouri and today began at the first McDonalds, which is located in San Bernadino, California on "E" street which at one point was Route 66.

One thing Route 66 taught me is that Route 66 carved a deep imprint into America's culture that extends pass the pavement of the hiway. Route 66 gave us Commerce, Oklahoma and Mickey Mantle, Will Rogers, McDonalds, marketing ( Free 72oz Steak, Burma Shave), and many more, but the most important thing Route 66 gave to USA is hope for a better future.
This is the theme or inspiration of our journey.

And Route 66 suprized me again, an encounter with President Obama. Around 3:00 pm today on the Historic Route 66 on Santa Monica Blvd. in Beverly Hills, we passed the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel and a handful of protesters. The protesters were mainly people that I assume voted for Obama, because they were protesting California's marriage between a man and a woman amendment and also Obama's stance on releasing more torture photographs. As I saw all the police and secret service I thought even the ones on the left are upset with Obama.

As I drove past the Beverly Hills Hilton, I wondered if Obama knows he is spending the night on the Historic Route 66? My guess, probably not. You see President Obama has different view of America that gave us Route 66. Route 66 is based on the individual, hard work, small towns and faith, and Obama by his actions despises all of the above. My advice, stay in a Teepee and read Will Rogers.

-Lex Rex

Texola to Tucumcari . . . The Places that Do the MOST Living & Dying

Tucumcari, New Mexico

Thirteen miles of original Route 66 Portland concrete that is what you hit after driving through the ghost town of Texola, Oklahoma. The Texas state line and the thump, ka-thump of concrete to the journey. After seeing Texola, a town that looks deserted after Interstate 40 was built to the north of Route 66 and Texola. I immediately think back to a line George Bailey said in the movie "It's a Wonderful Life," this is not exact, "it is the small town people that do the most living and dying.".

George Bailey is right, the small town is the heart of our republic and sometimes eventhough it is America's heart, politicians and especially President Obama ignore and legislate laws and policy that impact or destroy small towns. By getting off the interstate and driving the old Route 66 you see the best in America like family, faith, community and work ethic. I also noticed how many Chrysler, Dodge & jeep dealers are in these small communities along with Ford and Chevrolet. I do not have the Chrysler dealership closing list at hand, but I must assume most of these dealers will close or adapt. The impact of the largest business in a small town closing could eventually turn that town into a ghost town.

This is not a gloom and doom post because one thing about those that call small towns home is that they are rugged individualists that work hard and the super majority will adapt. That is the flip side to the problem of over government intrusion into our lives, when government legislates in the name of progress, you must adapt.
When the Interstate system was built it bypassed hundreds of small towns, but only a few died. The reason, the towns adapted, changed focus, so that they would survive and thrive, and this leads me to Tucumcari, New Mexico.

"TUCUMCARI TONITE and On Historic Route 66!" is their slogan and the town has adapted to tourists travelling Route 66.
The town has a handful of 40's and 50's style motels, the oldest is the Blue Swallow Motel built in the 1940's from surplus WW II cabins, but the one I stayed the night is the Motel Safari, just down and across from the Blue Swallow.
The motel is a classic motel that you would expect on Route 66, but it has been updated to modern standards. Wi-FI, flat screen TVs, pillow top mattresses, speakman showerheads, plush towels, & all with small town hospitality. The motel is American owned and is a must stay on Route 66.

Here, is a town and here is a motel that is thriving because they wanted to live, so they adapted, they changed and now they have inspired me, because the point is:

myself, you as an individual, the business owner of Motel Safari, and residents of small towns have more control over their destiny than President Obama has or the government has, we the people do the most living and dying and yes we control our destiny and our lives not the government.

-Lex Rex

FLIP-FLOP, THE OBAMA'S KEY WORD IN BEING A PRESIDENT

THE WORD OF THE DAY:  OBAMA FLIP-FLOP

"America, What a country?"  the Russian comedian Yakov Smirnoff would always say.  Well, today many people trying to learn english as a second language are saying, "English, What a language?'  Take for instance the simple word flip-flop.  That is easy, it is a noun and refers to a type a shoe, more specifically a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe.  On to the next word, but wait not so fast, flip=flop can again be used as a noun and mean:  a decision to reverse an earlier decision.  And again, as a noun, flip-flop is a backward somersault.  Flip-flop can also be used as a verb, for example, Obama flip-flops.  The point, I am trying to make is that the English language can be very tough to learn as a new language, there are so many nuances to even simple words, not to mention slang and geographic usage.  This also introduces an article by Karl Rove that appears in the Wall Street Journal, "Flip-Flops and Governance, Our President isn't quite as Advertised." 

The point of Karl Rove's opinion piece is not that the favorite footwear of the president is a backless sandal, but that the President Obama has backtracked and reversed earlier decisions or has don the opposite of what Mr. Obama campaigned.  In either case, Karl Rove does an excellent job of highlighting the Flip-Flops.  He ends his article with this great conclusion:

Mr. Obama's appealing campaign images turned out to have been fleeting. He ran hard to the left on national security to win the nomination, only to discover the campaign commitments he made were shallow and at odds with America's security interests.

Mr. Obama ran hard to the center on economic issues to win the general election. He has since discovered his campaign commitments were obstacles to ramming through the most ideologically liberal economic agenda since the Great Society.

Mr. Obama either had very little grasp of what governing would involve or, if he did, he used words meant to mislead the public. Neither option is particularly encouraging. America now has a president quite different from the person who advertised himself for the job last year. Over time, those things can catch up to a politician.In my little experience, the reason a man flip-flops on decisions, as much as, Mr. Obama, is the fact the man is very unprincipled, in that, the person does not have a firm grasp on what they believe-in or what principles to base their lives upon.  In other words, Mr. Obama lacks the discipline and principles to effectively lead  this nation.
-Lex Rex

ISRAEL & THE LAND ARE ONE AND THE SAME . . . CUTTING AWAY ITS LAND WILL DESTROY ISRAEL

CAN ANY NATION SURVIVE WHILE NEGOTIATING AWAY THE CRADLE OF ITS HISTORY?

For Israel a two state solution for peace in the middle east is not an option, the solution which the Europeans and Obama administration are pressuring the Israeli's to yield the land acquired by the Six Day War in 1967.  The area is known as the West Bank, but it is actually the ancient and historical area of Judea in the South and Samaria in the North. 

The cradle of Jewish history, from Hebron in the South to Jerusalem in the middle and Nablus to the North, this area is the root of all Jewish History and if Israel cuts the root, Israel will not survive.

This area has never fully known peace and in regards to the Arab-Israeli conflict peace will not come with the cutting away from Israel the root of Israel.  

The former ambassador of Israel Yoram Ettinger recently explained the significance of this territorial stretch to students at Herbert W. Armstrong College.  "Judea and Samaria is the heartland of the Jewish people, and a strategic necessity for preserving the independence of a Jewish state."

Judea and Samaria consist of the spine of Israel a continuous mountain range known as the mountains of Israel that provide a natural barrier and ideal strategic vantage point for the nation of Israel.

Many are aware of the Golan Heights to the North above the Sea of Galilee and how the Golan is a protective barrier and strategic high country that helps Israel control the Sea of Galilee and the waters of the Jordan river.  Well, the mountains of Judea and Samaria are the golan heights of Jerusalem and the national and financial security of Israel.  Eighty percent of Israel's population lives and the bulk of Israel's finance, economy and transportation arteries and industry exist in the coastal plain, and it is the hills of Judea and Samaria that provide security and a natural barrier.

Have you ever wondered why it took so long for Jerusalem to fall from the hands of the Turks?  The reason Jerusalem is so hard to conquer is because of the Judea Mountains.  General Allenby succeeded in World War I and conquered Jerusalem because he was aware of the territory and Biblical passageways that he was able to overcome the natural barrier of the Judea Mountains.  General Allenby conquered Jerusalem were many had come before only to be defeated.

The key to Israel's security and existence is not a two-state solution, but Israel in control of its land and controlling Judea and Samaria, the root of Israel.

-Lex Rex

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE USA? DESTRUCTION FROM WITHIN . . . OBAMA THE DESTROYER

 

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE USA?

What lies beneath the statue?  The clue to the destruction of freedom and liberty of the once great Republic built upon Unalienable Rights.  I am not talking about the four-toed statue on LOST, but the head of the Statue of Liberty from the last scene of Planet of the Apes.  Is this a picture of America's future?  If it is, it will not be by nuclear destruction or an outside force, but will be brought to ruin from within.  Today, Quin Hillyer focused his article on Obama the Destroyer.

He begins his article with the quote, "if somebody was deliberately trying to undermine the very fabric of these United States, he would first vow not to change its policies but to completely "change America," and then would do just about everything Barack Obama already has begun to do as president."  HERE ARE THOSE THINGS IN NUMBERED FORMAT:

1. ATTACK THE ESSENTIAL SANCTITY OF CONTRACTS

2. DENIGRATE EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW, A JUDGE IS NOT A NEUTRAL UMPIRE

3. RELEASE ONLY THAT INTELLIGENCE MEMOS THAT MAKE USA LOOK BAD

4. PRESIDENT WOULD TRIPLE SPENDING AND CUT OUR DEFENSE FORCES

5. STOP PAYING FOR MISSILE DEFENSE

6. STOP PLANNING FOR FORCES STRONG ENOUGH TO HANDLE TWO WAR TIME FRONTS

7. INSULT OUR CLOSEST ALLY REPEATEDLY

8. KOTOW TO OUR ENEMIES, IRAN, VENEZUELA, & CUBA

9. TRAVEL THE WORLD AND APOLOGIZE FOR THE USA'S PAST ACTIONS

10. ELIMINATE FUNDING THAT PROTECTS USA

11. NOMINATE AS U.S. ATTORNEY, A MAN THAT MOCKS THE LEGAL UNDERPINNINGS OF USA'S SOVEREIGNTY

12. RAISING TAXES ON CORPORATIONS, SMALL BUSINESS, INVESTORS, FAMILIES THAT USE PUBLIC ENERGY AND DRINK SOFT DRINKS

13. USE PARLIAMENTARY MANEUVER CALLED "reconciliation" TO TAKE CONTROL OF USA'S HEALTH CARE

14. THROW OUT TWO CENTURIES OF CAPITALISM IN FAVOR OF COMMUNISTIC SOCIALISM

This is just the first four months of Barack Obama's presidency, these are the signs of an America that is overly government-ally controlled, overburdened with taxes and debt and unable to stand and defend against outside aggression.  If you happen upon this post in some archive, and you wondered about the Green Statue of the Lady holding the flame.  That was a once mighty symbol of United States, known as the Lady Liberty.  The reason the Statue is half gone and on the beach is because of an enemy from within.  On January 20, 2009, the enemy of the USA, an American took control of our highest office and dismantled piece by piece the fabric of our Republic and the flame of liberty was destroyed, it was destroyed by Barack Hussein Obama, the enemy from within.

-LEX REX

"WE CAN'T KEEP BORROWING" OBAMA THE CONFIDENCE MAN CRIED

"WE CAN'T KEEP BORROWING"  OBAMA SAYS

The rhetoric of President Obama is the complete opposite of his actions.  If the USA was a Christian nation we would call the president a good old fashion HYPOCRITE, however, since that is no longer the case, the president is a lip server that is full of deception.  President Obama will say anything to match the mood of the moment, even if it contradicts everything he has done or that he will do.  He is a confidence man, he gets you right where he wants you and then takes you for everything you have.  

In the town hall meeting today Obama spoke the Truth:

From Bloomberg News:

President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending "unsustainable," warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.

"We can’t keep on just borrowing from China," Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, N.M., outside Albuquerque. "We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt."

Holders of U.S. debt will eventually "get tired" of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto loans to home mortgages to increase, Obama said. "It will have a dampening effect on our economy."

He’s right on all counts. The day of

reckoning is fast approaching, so the

question is Mr. President, why have you

increased our deficit by nearly a trillion dollars in one year?  If this is

 unsustainable why are you doing what you are doing?   Why do you continue

 down the path of unsustainable debt?

Just wait, tomorrow he will say one thing and do another, this is the

 character of a man who says one thing and does another, a good old fashioned 

hypocrite, I mean CONFIDENCE MAN.

-LEX REX

To Be a HONEST MAN & BE THE VOICE OF REASON CHENEY SHOULD BE CAREFUL

"He'd better be careful. It's dangerous to be a honest man. "

-MICHAEL CORLEONE

On Sunday May 10, 2009, former Vice-President Cheney again laid down the gauntlet, being the voice of reason and speaking the truth.  President Obama is making the USA WEAK & VULNERABLE to terrorist attack, this is the TRUTH. In the words of Dick Cheney, he continued his verbal attack against President Obama, saying that the country is more vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack since the Obama administration took power.

Mr. Cheney said that administration's dismantling of many of the policies and protections instituted by President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — including the planned closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba and halting controversial prisoner interrogation techniques — have made the country more vulnerable to future attacks.

"That's my belief," Mr. Cheney said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "I think to the extent that those [Bush-era] policies were responsible for saving lives, that the administration is now trying to cancel those policies … means in the future we're not going to have the same safeguards we've had for the last eight years."

Mr. Cheney, watch your back, there is a new GODFATHER in town and "It's dangerous to be a honest man."

-Lex Rex