FRC Conference: Updated

I listening to some of the speeches by presidential candidates and others and so far the most powerful and best speakers have been Star Parker and Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Toward Tradition. I have enjoyed reading Rabbi Lapin many times but had never heard him speak and wow is he good, humor, powerful imagery, highly intellectual and charismatic. He talks about America rooted in the Bible and how our founders all knew Hebrew so they could read the Bible in its original language, it seems ancient Israel played an important role in our very foundations as a Nations. I would go to Synogogue just to hear him speak, far better than any sermon I have heard in church.

Star Parker is a dynamo with a compelling life story, from the dregs of multiple abortions, drugs, crime and welfare to speak here on God the Bible and life issues. As a black women that has been there and done that she now works to restore the black family and save her people from the fate she once suffered.

Update: Mitt Romney just got done speaking and got far more applause than McCain, Fred Thompson and Ron Paul combined, the only other candidates I heard though I hear Tancredo gave a barnburner, and almost coronation type music at the close. This was Mitt's element talking God, country and family and the crowd ate it up, he was on with every line getting cheers and applause and came across as concerned but upbeat and positive, Fred and John were subdued and downbeat, and Ron Paul was great till he got to the war effort. I like alot of what Dr. Paul has to say, he is just so backwards on what I don't like, like the war effort and I think the crowd agreed with me.

Must Read/View

My bogger platoon leader Amy Procter has a fantastic post up, she is a must visit and add on to your favorites list. Good things are happening in Iraq at a very deep level.


Go visit and see the other videos in this post.
Hey Amy , you keep Rocking!!! We got your back!

Parshat Lech-Lecha

This is one of my favourite parshiot, Lech-Lecha. This week's parsha begins with G-d's commands to Avraham (known at this time as Avram) Lech-Lecha: 'Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse; and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.' (Genesis 12:1-3)

Without even knowing the destination, only 'the land that I will show thee', Avraham left his birthplace of Haran at Hashem's command to live in Canaan. Avraham, at the age of 3 had recognized Hashem's presence in this word and begun to tell people that the son, the moon nor any other object was divine and that G-d alone was to be worshipped.

Avraham’s father, Terach, owned an idol workshop. Terach, traveling on business, left Avraham in charge of his factory. Avraham, fuming with disgust at the idols that his father worshipped, took a hammer and smashed all of them except for the biggest one. He placed the hammer in its hand and an offering before it. When Terach returned, he asked Avraham in a rage what had happened to his gods. Avraham calmly answered that he had placed an offering before the idols and the biggest one had destroyed all of the smaller ones in order to get it. Terach pounded his fist angrily on the desk and exclaimed, “You are lying! Idols cannot move or eat!” Then Avraham said, “How could you be so senseless as to worship and idol which cannot even save himself? How could he hear your prayers? How have you forgotten G-d who created you?”

Terach rushed to Nimrod’s palace to tell him that Avraham had revolted against the state religion. Nimrod gathered all of the princes and governors of the neighbouring lands and tried Avraham before them. He ordered that Avraham be thrown into a furnace and burned alive for his blasphemy. Three days later, when Nimrod’s servants opened the furnace to take out the criminal’s charred body, they saw that Avraham was still alive. He explained, “The G-d of heaven and earth, in whom I trust and who owns everything, rescued me from the fire”.

After G-d promises Avraham the entire land of Canaan eternally for his descendants, Avraham asked G-d, "0 Lord God, what will You give me, since I am going childless, and the steward of my household is Eliezer of Damascus?" And Abram said, "Behold, You have given me no seed, and behold, one of my household will inherit me." And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, "This one will not inherit you, but the one who will spring from your innards-he will inherit you." And He took him outside, and He said, "Please look heavenward and count the stars, if you are able to count them." And He said to him, "So will be your seed." (Genesis 15:2-5)

G-d says to Avraham habeit, look towards the heavens. Habeit in Hebrew denotes looking downward. Rashi explains on this verse "And He took him outside" according to its midrashic interpretation, He said to him,“Go out of your astrology,” for you have seen in the signs of the zodiac that you are not destined to have a son. Indeed, Abram will have no son, but Abraham will have a son. Similarly, Sarai will not give birth, but Sarah will give birth. I will give you another name, and your destiny will change (Ned. 32a, Gen. Rabbah 44:10). Another explanation: He took him out of the terrestrial sphere and lifted him above the stars. This explains the expression of הַבָּטָה, looking down from above (Gen. Rabbah 44:12). This is Jewish history in a nutshell- we are outside of the Zodiac. G-d lifts the Jewish people out of reality, out of logic, of realism. Logically, the Jewish people should have died out like any other ancient people. Martk Twain wrote of the Jews, "The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then . . . passed away. The Greek and the Roman followed. The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts. … All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?" The secret of our immortality is that Israel is not confined to the terrestrial sphere but that we surpass and overcome it. Neither exile, pogrom, expulsion, Crusade, Inquisition, Holocaust or jihad can destroy us.

Finally, after all of the events that transpire after Avraham's departure from Haran, G-d said to him "I am the Lord, Who brought you forth from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it." And he said, "0 Lord God, how will I know that I will inherit it?" And He said to him, "Take for Me three heifers and three goats and three rams, and a turtle dove and a young bird." And he took for Him all these, and he divided them in the middle, and he placed each part opposite its mate, but he did not divide the birds. And the birds of prey descended upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. Now the sun was ready to set, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and behold, a fright, a great darkness was falling upon him. And He said to Abram, "You shall surely know that your seed will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will enslave them and oppress them, for four hundred years. And also the nation that they will serve will I judge, and afterwards they will go forth with great possessions. But you will come to your forefathers in peace; you will be buried in a good old age. And the fourth generation will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites will not be complete until then." Now it came to pass that the sun had set, and it was dark, and behold, a smoking furnace and a fire brand, which passed between these parts. On that day, the Lord formed a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt until the great river, the Euphrates river. The Kenites, the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Rephaim, And the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites and the Jebusites." (Genesis 15:8-20)

Rashi comments on the verse "but he did not divide the birds" Since the idol-worshipping nations are likened to bulls, rams, and goats, as it is said (Ps. 22:13): “Many bulls surrounded me, etc.,” and Scripture states (Dan. 8:20): “The ram that you saw, the one with horns, represents the kings of Media and Persia,” and Scripture states (ibid. verse 21): “And the he-goat is the king of Greece.” And the Israelites are likened to young doves, as it is said (Song of Songs 2:14): “My dove, in the clefts of the rock.” Therefore, he divided the animals, as an allusion that the nations will gradually perish. “But he did not divide the bird,” as an allusion that Israel will exist forever. [from Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer , ch. 28; Targum. Ps. 22: 13] The birds of prey sought to descend upon the carcasses, upon Israel and to devour it but Avraham drove them away. In the same way that the birds of prey were driven away, so will the wicked nations that try to destroy the Eternal Nation. G-d's people have His promise of protection and that they will inherit the land. Despite all of the troubles in the world today, rest assured that all of Nasrallahs, Ahmadinejads, all of the EUs, UNs, Condies and Bushes cannot overule G-d's promise to Avraham. We will overcome our enemies and inherit the land of Israel. The nations that hate Israel will perish but Israel will exist forever.

But My people did not heed My voice; Israel did not want [to listen to] Me. So I sent them away for the willfulness of their heart, for following their [evil] design. If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would only walk in My ways, then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and turn My hand against their oppressors. Those who hate the Lord would shrivel before Him, and the time [of their retribution] shall be forever. I would feed him [Israel] with the finest of wheat, and sate you with honey from the rock. (Psalm 81:12-17) Speedily in our days, Hashem, speedily in our days.

Cross-posted to For Zion's Sake

Evangelicals For Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney had a great week picking up three huge endorsements from major Evangelical leaders, Bob Jones III,another from a Dean of of Bob Jones University and Dr. Wayne Grudem, plus James Bopp is already part of the campaign and Al Mohler has good things to say about him. A snip from Dr. Grudem's endorcement today in Townhall. Read the whole thing if you are still on the fence about supporting Mitt and you will see why I have for years.

The situation as it looks today: Apart from Romney, I don’t think there is any other solidly conservative candidate who can beat Giuliani in the primaries. As for McCain and Thompson, they are not reliably conservative. Among the “second-tier” candidates, there are some good men with solid positions, but they have not generated much support. With the early primary schedule nearly upon us it isn’t reasonable to hope that one of them will suddenly “take off.” There is not enough time now to build sufficient funding and a large enough support structure before January.

So it seems to me that if evangelicals don’t support Romney in a significant way, Giuliani will be the Republican candidate. So then we will have a pro-abortion, pro-gay rights candidate who is on his third marriage and had a messy affair prior to his divorce from his second wife. Then we will lose any high moral ground and the enthusiasm of the evangelical vote (many of whom will just sit it out), and the difference between Giuliani and Clinton will be only one of degrees as he shifts leftward in the general election to appeal to the “middle.” So then if we lose, we lose, and even if we win, we lose on the crucial moral issues of abortion and protection of marriage. Romney is a much better choice. But he needs evangelical support now if he is going to win.

Tax Money For A Hippie Museum

Several bloggers are pointing to this Bob Novak article on some of the nutty earmarks coming out of Congress as they mark up appropriation bills. Why does the billionair founder of the Woodstock hippie museum need a million bucks from the taxpayers for? Oh because he has given heavily to the Democrats and donated the max to Madame Hillary the earmark's sponsor.

Would the Democratic-controlled Senate approve a $1 million earmark to celebrate Woodstock-era baby boomers, carved out of a bill funding health care and education? It would because it is sponsored by New York's influential senators, Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer. It would because they promote the pet project of a big-time Democratic campaign contributor.

Nevertheless, as the Senate began consideration Wednesday of the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma proposed an amendment to eliminate the earmark. The $1 million goes to the performing arts center of the Bethel Museum in Liberty, N.Y., the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Festival. Coburn argues that a "taxpayer-funded Woodstock flashback" cuts into the government's Education for Homeless Children and Youth grants.

GOP prospects for '08 are looking better and better with an 11% approval rating for the hypercorrupt Dem led Congress and the supracorrupt Hillary Clinton as their leader for POTUS. The GOP is beating them like a drum on important votes and seems to be returning to its roots as the adult party after the display this week by the Democrats on the Schip votes. The Dems aren't the party for the children they are the party of whiney spoiled children.

Broadcast Far and Wide: Update

We must make it viral !!!

Update: Seven things to know about the Clintons.

Update: More Democrat fund raisers indicted for fraud and bribery.

Update: Gateway Pundit has more on the Peter Paul case.

Update: Why are Edwards and Obama scared of Hillary?

Interesting

I like this post from another Jewish friend of the Barnyard, this a great story as Yehudi tells it, miracles are real.

One soldier, a kibbutznik and a lawyer in civilian life, relayed an incredible miracle. A group of soldiers were gathered in anempty house in a Lebanese village when one of them forgetfully lit a cigarette. Hezbollah terrorists immediately noticed the light and fired an anti-tank missile at the house. Coincidentally, two horses from the village ran in front of the house and were hit and killed. The missile, deflected by the horses, veered away from the house, landing elsewhere. Incredibly, the horses miraculously saved the soldiers inside the house.

Bad News: Deaths Drop Cemetary Workers Hardest Hit

I swear the MSM or in this case McClatchy can't report good news without a negative tilt to it. Is this nutty article they lament that cemetary and morgue workers are losing their jobs as the death toll continues to drop in Iraq.

By Jay Price and Qasim Zein, McClatchy Newspapers
Tue Oct 16, 2:40 PM ET

NAJAF, Iraq — At what's believed to be the world's largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn't good.

A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at least one-third in the past six months, and that's cut the pay of thousands of workers who make their living digging graves, washing corpses or selling burial shrouds.

Government Healthcare

Rudy Guilliani recently joked in a debate that if we were to impose Hillarycare/singlepayer government controlled healthcare "Where would the Canadiens go for treatment?" Well it is closer to the truth than many supporters of socialist medicine would ever admit besides its enormous cost to taxpayers it doesn't work. Yea we have our problems but most of them could be solved with tort reform, billing transparency and reducing regulations and mandates on insurance companies, free market reforms not bigger less efficient government take over. I mean look what its done for our public schools. This little video clip will give you an idea how bad it is in Canada with its rationed care and I could dig up dozens of articles about Britain's and France's system as well.

Hattip: Hot Air and Michelle Malkin

Lots more at Free Market Cure the video's producer.

A Must Read

This is from one of my coblogger Bar's friends in Israel and is a beautiful powerful post.

The long history of a people that sprouts from a single family, thirty seven centuries ago, is not free from the onslaught of recurrent threats to its very existence. The great paradox of its survival, the Jewish People is instructed not to rely on miracles, yet survives through a permanent miracle.

Within the scope of memory, a memory of witnesses and protagonists still alive as these lines are being written, two major instances have defied the survival of the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: the Holocaust, and Assimilation. These two palpable realities sum up the two necessary elements necessary for Jewish survival: the physical and the spiritual realms.

The Hillary Video She Doesn't Want You To See: Bumped For Good Reason Spread it Far And Wide!!!

Update: This is bumped up from yesterday so scroll down for new posts. Is this what we want to return to in the Whitehouse?


This is the video linked in this mornings post on the biggest fundraising scandle in history, she deserves some jail time for this million dollar fraud.
Go here if link doesn't work with your player or for a larger screen version.
Update: Here is the post from yesterday morning with more links for research.
Gateway Pudit has more on the Peter Paul vs Hillary dust up with video and proof of her involvement in illegal fundraising.

* Number close to the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 44
* Number of convictions during his administration: 33
* Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
* Number of imprisonments: 14
* Number of presidential impeachments: 1
* Number of independent counsel investigations: 7
* Number of congressional witnesses pleading the 5th Amendment: 72
* Number of witnesses fleeing the country to avoid testifying: 17
* Number of foreign witnesses who have declined interviews by investigative bodies: 19

The Clinton machine now holds the record for the administration with:

* The most number of convictions and guilty pleas
* The most number of cabinet members to come under criminal investigation
* The most number of witnesses to flee the country or refuse to testify
* The most number of key witnesses to die suddenly
* The greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
* The greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad.

Lots more here.
Update: Welcome Dragon Lady readers.

Mike Yon On Basra

My blogger platoon leader Amy Procter has the CNN video interview with Mike.

An Unholy Alliance

I have written before about the anti-war moonbats and their support for the jihadi scum. Walid Phares has a great piece about just that, and the way the islamists are using those useful idiots to further their campaign against Western values.

The oddest of all factional relationships is the open alliance between the Jihadists and the so-called "antiwar" neo-Left movement in the West. The jumble of causes thrown together is mind-bending: globalization hobnobs with the caliphate, class struggle with Wahabism, proletariat with infidels, and North Korea with Palestine.

While still shedding each others' blood, the Reds (neo-Left) and the Dark Greens (Islamists) are conducting a joint offensive against both democracy-pushing America and the democracy-craving Middle East. They are not letting old or new grudges get in their way

Chicken Lady Clinton

Thats what Jeff Lord over at American Spectator has dubbed her as he writes about what a Clinton presidency could look like with a livid GOP armed with Democrat precedent on Judges and US attornies. He is right we would make her time in the Whitehouse a living hell of investigations and calls for impeachment. I hope to mahe life for her on the campaign trail a living hell before she ever gets that far.

OK, she wins.

Let's follow all the conventional wisdom of the moment. Hillary sweeps the primaries, then goes on to rout Rudy or Mitt or McCain or Fred. It is now January 21, 2009, one day after she is inaugurated as the first woman president of the United States. President Hillary Rodham Clinton sits down behind the big desk in the Oval Office, relishing the moment. In walks her chief of staff, looking clearly disturbed. The traditional presidential honeymoon is, he or she says, not to be.

Why?

For the first time a new realization dawns. The Bush payback has begun.

President Hillary's first task, once unthinkably routine for all new presidents, is to replace every U.S. Attorney in the country. The Constitution says clearly that she has every right to do so. But up on Capitol Hill, the pent-up fury of Republicans at the precedents set by Democrats during the Bush years has finally boiled over. The Republican Senate leader has sent word that a single firing of any Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney anywhere in the land will be received with cries of scandal.

Lets Play Make Believe

In what has to be one of the strangest stories ever on a non-story, moonbat talker on Air America, Randi Rhoads, trips and falls down walking her dog and an on air collegue turns it into a mugging hate crime by a right winger. I have seen the story blogged a few places but Michelle Malkin has the most posted about it and posts some komments by the Kos Kidz.

Air America radio host Randi Rhodes is temporarily off the air, but claims she was brutally attacked near her Manhattan apartment are bogus, her lawyer and a police source said today.
Fellow host Jon Elliott claimed on the liberal radio network that Rhodes had been mugged while walking her dog, Simon, on Sunday night. Elliot, who said Rhodes lost several teeth in the attack, waxed about a possible conspiracy.
“Is this an attempt by the right-wing, hate machine to silence one of our own?” he asked on the air, according to Talking Radio, a blog. “Are we threatening them? Are they afraid that we’re winning? Are they trying to silence intimidate us?”
A police source said Rhodes never filed a report and never claimed to be the victim of a mugging. Cops from Manhattan’s 17th Precinct called her attorney, who told them Rhodes was not a victim of a crime, the source said.
Rhodes’ lawyer told the Daily News she was injured in a fall while walking her dog.

Hillary And George Sitting In A Tree

Well not quite but they did spend election night '04 together, Clinton attended Soros' party at his apartment that night to watch Kerry lose to Bush. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall to watch that as exit polls came out showing Kerry the winner only to have it snatched away from them once again once the real polls came out.

Absolutely Amazing

From MKH at Towhall comes this incredible guy who paints with an old typewriter.

Crosby Stills Nash and Dumb

Thanks MKH and Townhall

I Wish

I wish my body was not already broken so I could join the Marines. I am watching Gen. Conway on Cspan at the moment. I can't fight for them on the ground so I will fight for them here! Semper Fidelis!!!!!!

Oh Happy Happy Joy Joy

I have to go for jury selection in the morning, if it sounds interesting I will answer for the lawyers, if it sounds boring I will answer for me by telling them I will blog the trial. I will blog it one way or the other since I am fascinated by the court system anyway. I hope it is an interesting case at least since they will only pay me about $17.00 bucks a day, forced labor, you betcha, I make four times that in the private sector an hour. Maybe I will get an illegal immigrant rape or murder trial, that would be sweet if I can cage my responses correctly. If I am selected I am going to be the biggest pain in the neck they ever wanted as I will blog the trial day by day and leak all the juice.