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I couldn’t agree more!  

Chilling Letter from Proctor & Gamble to Obama by Lou Pritchett, Procter & Gamble (Confirmed true by Snopes.com)

A LETTER FROM A PROCTER AND GAMBLE EXECUTIVE TO THE PRESIDENT

Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America ’s true living legends – an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world’s highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management.

Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as “partnering.” Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike Any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don’t understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and ‘class’, always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the ‘blame America’ crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer ‘wind mills’ to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use ‘extortion’ tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaugh’s, Hannity’s, O’Reilly’s and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

This letter was sent to the NY Times but they never acknowledged it. Big surprise. Since it hit the Internet, however, it has had over 500,000 hits.

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=326971849&mt=8

California’s Proposition 8 forbidding gay marriage was overturned last week by Judge Walker.

Today the Appeals Court rescinded her order until further determination. Homosexual marriages are on hold, no longer allowed in California for now.

But, how long is “for now”?

Obama approves a mosque at Ground Zero in New York. Why doesn’t this idiotic and insensitive decision of his not surprise me?

http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/president-obama-supports-ground-zero-mosque/19593492

Why this and other blunders could make Obama a one-term president, written by Roger Simon in Politico.

Obama health-care policy leaves opening for abortion funding, says Congressional report

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has issued a memo indicating that an executive order by President Barack Obama does not fully resolve the issue of abortion funding in the new health-care bill. The CRS memo has prompted a group of Republican members of the US Senate to call for more effective safeguards against taxpayer funding of abortion. . . .

For the whole article: http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=7039

Newt Gingrich, new convert from Baptist to Catholic, on the idea of building a Muslim Mosque at Ground Zero in New York where Muslims killed over 3,000 Americans.

http://www.torenewamerica.com/gingrich-ground-zero-mosque

Since I am in the Philippines where most all are “cradle Catholics” — meaning they were born Catholics and never had to think about it, I thought of a helpful illustration to explain why “cradle Catholics” are often unable to explain and defend the Catholic faith. The example has its weaknesses, but it does help get the point across.

As an American I asked myself this question: if some one trained to attack America intellectually approached me on the street and challenged my country, would I be ready and able to defend the USA? Would I know all the historical details, dates, and facts?

Do I know the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court rulings or even the ancient documents that preceded the birth of our nation—the documents and events that formed the foundation for our government?

The answer is simple: “No, I would not be prepared.”

But I am an American. I love my country. I was born here and believe in the principles and love the freedom that are American. I know my country has many problems and I do not love everything that is American. But I would be unprepared to explain and defend the details and documents of my nation even though I love the USA and would readily stay an American citizen rather than join another country.

This is much the same as a “cradle Catholic.” They are often ashamed that they cannot defend the faith, but they are like me as an American. I was born American and never have been in a situation where I had to defend my country in a rigorous intellectual debate with an anti-American.

Cradle Catholics, those born into a Catholic family, have been Catholics from birth. They have never had to research it, defend it or struggle to get here. They usually love their faith, the Lord Jesus, the Bible, Mary, the Rosary, the Eucharist and the Catholic Church. But for years they have “just been” Catholics and never needed to “defend” it. They only needed to love it and practice it.

But now the wolves are approaching and making great inroads devouring the flock. The attack comes not only from cults and sects, New Age religions, and more, but also from modernism and relativism and materialism. They are pursued from every side. They are pushed to leave the Church, to join the cults and sects or to pursue pleasure, money, and sin.

Just like I would I need to take the time and energy to study my country and its history, so Catholics are now required to learn their faith in a new and enegetic way to defend the faith and their children. The time for comfort is over.

The time to study and learn is here. No longer can the Catholics—or anyone who has been born and raised Catholic—sit back and take the faith for granted. It is time for war! It is time for defense! It is time to get to work!

I do not criticize “cradle Catholics” for not knowing their faith. I understand the situation. But now we must begin rigorous study and learning—our children and our faith and our Western culture are at stake. We have no time to to waste. We are called to re-evangelize and defend Mother Church! God bless us all as we serve our Lord.

FILIPINOS, it is now time to defend your family, your Church and your nation. Rise up and take the challenge. Learn to defend and fight for what is important!

CBS is running a poll on rating Obama on different aspects of his presidency such as energy, health care, etc. This is CBS, a liberal station running this poll. Please take a moment and take this very short poll. Here’s a chance to speak up!

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/19/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6116297.shtml?tag=

Supreme Court rules against Christian student group that ‘discriminated’ against gays
In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled on June 28 that the University of California Hastings College of the Law may deny recognition to a Christian organization that does not permit gays and lesbians to hold leadership positions. . . .

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6784

This quote was translated into English from an article appearing in the Czech Republic as published in the Prager Zeitung of 28 April 2010. It has obviously not been been “filtered” by the well intensioned but soft headed folks who control thought and information in America.

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.”

“The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.

The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool.
It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

US government study finds $1 billion in federal support for abortion advocates

American taxpayers have provided about $1 billion in funding for organizations that promote legal abortion in the US and abroad, according to official statistics furnished by the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO). . . .

Are you an American that happens to be Catholic? or, Are you a Catholic that happens to be an American?

If you are a citizen of another country, the same question applies.

Paul wrote, “But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Philippians 3:20, NAB)

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.”

Benjamin Franklin

Catholic U’s new president: Law school dean who awarded honorary degree to abortion proponent
John H. Garvey, the dean of Boston College Law School, has been named president of Catholic University of America. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Law School, Mr. Garvey served as assistant to the Solicitor General during the Reagan administration. He has written numerous articles on legal issues, concentrating on the First Amendment. . . .

Most Americans are assuming that British Petroleum (BP) is 100% liable (1) for the oil-well explosion of April 20, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, and (2) for ALL damages associated with this on-going oil-well disaster.

However, an objective investigation of this disaster has NOT yet taken place. And any objective investigation will need to answer the following 10 questions:

(1) Who owns the LAND where this deep-water drilling took place … ?
(2) Who owns the OIL that has been gushing from this deep-water well … ?
(3) Who approved ALL the drilling proposals and specifications … ?
(4) Who approved ALL the drilling equipment and procedures … ?
(5) Who REGULATED each step in the drilling operation … ?
(6) Who granted waiver after waiver to the drillers of this oil well … ?
(7) Who is ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE for protecting the US Gulf coast and US Gulf waters … ?
(8) Who should have required the existence of a VIABLE DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN before any deep-water drilling took place, in order to avoid the current “trial and error spectacle” … ?
(9) Who has chronically failed to require VIABLE DISASTER RECOVERY PLANS for deep-water drilling in the Gulf … ?
(10) Who is ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE for coordinating a comprehensive response to a major disaster involving the US Gulf coast and US Gulf waters … ?

CONCLUSION: The honest answer to each of the above 10 questions is … the US Government. Therefore, the US Government (Obama) must also be held FINANCIALLY LIABLE and CRIMINALLY LIABLE for this oil-well disaster.

So, why is Obama getting a pass by the media? (from Joe Kozuh at jkozuh@austin.rr.com)

President Obama designates June as LGBT Pride month
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6508
US President Barack Obama has issued a proclamation that June 2010 will be “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” The proclamation expresses “our commitment to the struggle for equal rights for LGBT Americans and to ending prejudice and injustice wherever it exists.”

This immoral and perverted lifestyle is something our country should be proud of? And Obama wants ME to celebrate it?!?! What an idiot!! Our Founding Fathers and the great moral throngs who built this great land would roll over in their graves with such as preposterous, immoral and stupid proclamation!

US bishops withdraw from coalition that backs Kagan for Supreme Court
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6381
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has withdrawn its membership in the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 organizations.

President Obama severly opposed the Arizona immigration law. Now we know why. He will never be able to visit the state again.

UPDATE: After 15.5 hours in the air on two flights, we are almost home!

UPDATE – SATURDAY, 4/17/10: We are now boarding our alternate flight home. Glad to have a flight direct to Atlanta and avoiding the lava cloud.

There is a huge volcano in Iceland spewing a unbelievable plume of volcanic ash into the air. It has canceled thousands of flights as European airports are shut down. We were to leave Israel tonight, via Amsterdam, but our flight was canceled since the huge Amsterdam airport is completely shut down.

(Pictures: Volcanic plume above the clouds over Iceland.)

We were lucky to grab a flight on Saturday evening direct from Tel Aviv to Atlanta and then to Detroit. It pays to be Diamond Medallion with Delta — and to have Corporate Travel taking care of your travel arrangements! I especially compliment Kim Bedford for her exceptional efforts!

My question though — why doesn’t Obama pass a law against such things? Doesn’t he know that this will cause more “carbon emissions”, and damage our environment more than all the cars and corporations in the USA will do for years to come? Why has the Obama-Messiah let us down like this?

For more info on this volcano, click here.

After the Pro-life Democrat betrayed America and the unborn to support Obama’s “health care” bill which will end up killing the unborn and the elderly, he is now resigning. Read more here.

He was hit so hard for his stupid vote that he knows he will lose his re-election and again decides to be a coward and quit. But his quitting is GOOD for Michigan, GOOD for America and GOOD for the unborn.

It is impossible to be Democratic and pro-life and Stupak proved it. Other Democrats (and all liberal, anti-life, pro-Obama health care politicians) better take note.

Stupak should have never cowered to Obama and Pelosi. He could have been an American hero but instead he will now go down in history as a traitor and a manipulated coward and panderer.

Americans are not going to tolerate the take-over of their country nor the abandonment of the unborn. Rise up America!

Yawn! Can’t wait for this to end!

US bishops reemphasize opposition to ‘profoundly flawed’ health care law

As President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23, the bishops of the United States issued a statement reemphasizing their opposition to the “profoundly flawed” legislation despite “whatever good this law achieves or intends.”

Wisconsin bishop chastises CHA, Network for dissent on health care
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5855
Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin, has taken to task the leaders of the Catholic Health Association and the liberal lobby Network for their outspoken support of President Obama’s heath-care reform bill. Bishop Morlino was particularly critical of the groups for saying that the US bishops were taking the wrong position. ” The Lord Jesus Christ, unworthy though the bishops are, called the bishops to lead the people in faith; He did not call anybody in the Catholic Health Association and he did not call any of the Sisters in Network,” the bishop said.

Newt Gingrich was a Baptist — but last year converted to the Catholic Church. I like his perspective on the Health Care Vote. You can read his article here.

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States line up to file suit against ObamaCare
Stupak shoots down pro-life amendment
Archbishop rips CHA for supporting health bill
Poll: 1/3 of doctors may quit if bill passes
Peggy Noonan: Obama an embarrassment

Archbishop Chaput denounces Catholic groups that supported Senate bill
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=5811
Denver’s Archbishop Charles Chaput has charged that the political actions of groups like Catholics United– and, even more seriously, the Catholic Health Association– did serious damage to the pro-life cause by supporting the Senate version of the health-care reform bill, which allowed for funding of abortions. The legislation, he said, “remains unethical and defective on all of the issues pressed by the U.S. bishops and prolife groups for the past seven months.”

You might want to check on how your congressman voted on the Health-care bill (the Senate bill which passed the House last night).

Remember how they voted as you prepare for the elections in November!

And remember that the Stupak (picture of the crony Stupak making his pro-abort boss smile big) compromise is a phony compromise which will almost certainly be overturned by the courts, thus allowing our tax money to pay for abortions (and all the other bad policies in this bill).

He was playing games and grandstanding and now he needs to pay for his betrayal.

This link shows how our congressmen voted: http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/111/house/2/165

Stupak Shoots Down Last Chance to Protect Life

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With the support of a bloc of “pro-life” Democrats led by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-MI, the House passed a massive health care bill on Sunday night. The U.S. bishops conference and pro-life leaders denounced the bill, saying it will lead to government-funded abortion. Read more. Deal Hudson: Stupak failed us.

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Schlafly: Health Care Vote Set to Expose the Myth of the ‘Pro-Life Democrat’

“Any formerly pro-life Democrat who casts a ‘Yes’ vote for this Senate health care bill tonight will be forever remembered as being among the deciding votes which facilitated the largest expansion of abortion services since Roe v. Wade.”  For the whole letter, click here.

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Stupak decision ‘Unconscionable’ — Simple demand to have pro-life protections in law abandoned

CHICAGO –  Brian Burch, President of CatholicVote.org, issued the following statement in reaction to the Stupak-Obama agreement:

“The decision by Rep. Stupak to accept an Executive Order to solve the abortion issues in the health care legislation is unconscionable. The Executive Order fix is a band-aid solution that fails to solve the fundamental problems in this bill, and can be repealed at any time, for any reason, by the President or future presidents.  The Order is likely to be challenged by pro-abortion groups, and could be struck down by the courts.

Regrettably, Rep. Stupak has abandoned those who have stood by him during the recent weeks and months.

The Catholic Bishops along with CatholicVote.org and every major pro-life organization oppose this ‘fix.’  We have defended Rep. Stupak for months, but today we stand in protest of his decision.

For the whole letter, click here http://catholicvoteaction.org/blog/cva/index.php?p=1144

Life affirming legislation?  — a bill that has provisions for free government abortion?

Praying to St. Joseph to pass this bill?  — a bill that is an abomination to life and freedom?

Appealing to a Catholic Saint?  — What about you much toted separation of Church and State Pelosi?

Quoting dissident “sisters”? –  Sisters from Notre Dame who taught her  — probably why she is so screwed up to this day!

Come on Pelosi — get real! How did a woman like this get so much power in our country?

Watch this video of her press conference and get nauseated.

90 second explanation of the new health care bill — hold on to your hats.