Thank You, Whitney

An Angel of God

Oh, my.  Oh, my.  As the last notes of Whitney’s funeral surround me as I write, I am moved to say, “Thank you, Whitney.”  Not for your voice.  Not for your fame.  Not for your beauty.  No, but for your love of Jesus.  I never knew that you loved the Lord so much.  I never knew how much faith you put in Jesus.  I never knew how you leaned on him in all your troubles.  I never knew you had a bible called, “Raggety”- so torn, crinkled and written upon.  But today, on your death, you brought the entire world to church.  And you caused the greatest witness to the glory & might of our Father & Jesus in modern times.  Who knew?  I never intended to watch your funeral.  I was mad that no body seemed to care about you in your life and yet were so public in their grief when you died.  The last thing I wanted was to listen to people I thought were just there to further their own careers.  But my goodness, Whitney.  The people around you are lovers of God, just as you are.  You inspired so many around you.  You died alone, but today the angels of God and all the sons of God are with you.   Only in your death do we see the true purpose of your life, which came in this one beautiful, brilliant moment.  Your love of Christ, never known to man, is evident today in the most beautiful service I have ever seen.  Tears stream down my face as I listen to your beautiful song, “I will always love you.”

All people who love Jesus and our Father in heaven are together in this one glorious moment.  And we have your life, your death, to thank for that.  You know that now.  Did you ever imagine that all your pain & sorrow would result in this kind of glory for our Father?  You strived your whole life to bring Him to the world- and it seemed as if you failed, my friend.  I know you were sad.  You were alone when you died.  But now you know, don’t you?  Your moment has come.  It is clear.  You were an angel.  And you have given the world a great gift today.

So, I thank you, sweet lady.  You were marvelous.

Rebel Caught In Rare Northwest Snow Storm!

Rebel is indeed socked into her house with her husband, three kids, dog and new kitten. She is lovin’ it. Rebel realizes there are those that hate snow, but she is not one of them. It is too rare in this locale to detest. It’s rarity makes it precious.  To my faithful readers, I am not MIA.  I am wrapping up my new fine jewelry collection.  Those who might be curious how Rebel spends her non-politically obsessed time can check out her art jewelry at www.limstudio.com.  My Water Garden collection is based on my water garden which is featured below.   This is how Rebel & family are spending these lovely days:

Snow clouds on their way!

Snow clouds on their way!

The snow begins..

Two hours later

My favorite pine bonsai- Next step is to get it into a shallow pot...

My maple bosai covered in snow- a rare treat for me- if only it would branch a little more this spring...

Rose arbor

I wonder how the koi are doing?

Everything's better with snow..

Rebel trades her jewelry for art- one great perk of being an artist..

Times like these make me feel like a success as a mother..

Rebel's source of joy..

The apple of my eye...

Rebel's Pitiful Pooch

Water garden that Rebel's new jewelry collection is based on..

Americans Slumber While Obama Takes Over Internet & Embraces Muslim Brotherhood

If you watched the news today, you might wonder what those little blips between Republican campaign reporting were.  They were so short, and yet so unbelievable, that you might think you dreamed them.  They were so outrageous that you might think it was actually a nightmare.  But then, thank goodness, the smiling reporter returns to scenes of balloons, flags & glitter- the campaign trail!- and you feel much better.  Reassured that none of it was what you thought you heard.

Take over the Internet?  Make Eric Holder (Mr. Fast ‘n Furious) the new Internet Czar?  Control the last bastion of truly open communication in the United States?  Censorship like they have in China?

Impossible!

Make new alliances with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Libya?  With a self admitted terrorist group bent on our country’s destruction?  A group dedicated to extremist Islamic Jihad against not only us, but on Israel?

Impossible!

No, it must have been a dream.  A fit brought on by too much coffee and too much cream cheese on you bagel….

Wake up, Americans!  Obama and the Progressives are hard at work- and treachery is their goal.  They are putting into place a complete lockdown of information.  They have already taken over ALL American media.  They are poised to fast track act. S. 968 PROTECT IP ACT OF 2011 this week in order to shut down any site they wish without requiring one shed of evidence that the site is participating in piracy.  There is no legal recourse for shut down sites.  Trust powerful, ambitious men to use this power sparingly?  Ha!  Now THAT is the dream!

The Progressives are taking down our dollar by printing it up via ‘quantitative easing’, by unionizing the few companies still in America, by crippling us with massive debt to china in order to ‘pay’ for crippling entitlements that we simply can’t afford, and by creating even more massive legislation and restrictions on American businesses via environmental reforms.  They are ‘managing the decline of the U.S. dollar’, as George Soros so proudly proclaimed in his infamous video clip.

Despite all logic and without providing a single reason that clearly benefited America, they ousted two secular pro-American governments in Egypt and Libya in favor of the theocracy based, Sharia-loving terrorist organization named The Muslim Brotherhood.  What they hope we all forget is how Clinton actually had ‘talks’ with the Muslim Brotherhood even before the Egyptian revolution ousted Mubarrak!  What, exactly, was ‘talked’ about back in June?

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And now they are shrugging their shoulders and creating official channels of diplomacy with the Muslim Brotherhood and saying it is ‘just political reality’. Something that ‘just happened’ and now we need to legitimize them even further than we did in June 2011! Who cares if their stated mission is to destroy us and our way of life?  Burka’s anyone?

The tradegy is not watching these things being done without a shred of support from either party or from the American public.  The tragedy is watching Americans sitting on the sidelines, stuffing buttered corn into their mouths, with dumb, happy & vacant smiles on their bloated faces as they watch it unfold before their eyes.

A Review of Short Little Rebel For 2011

Thank you to everyone who helped make Short Little Rebel a screaming success last year.  A special thanks to my top commentors:  Denise, Generic White Male, Marriage Coach & Sara.  I began this blog in May, 2011.  That was a mere 7 months ago!  Since then, you all have viewed my blog over 26,000 times and left over 1,500 comments (not including spam or comments that broke commenting rules).  Short Little Rebel is now carried by Constitution Club, Rat & Rebel Are Right, Project Shining City and Smart Girl Politics.  It has been shared on over 700 blog posts throughout the world.  We have come a long way in a short seven months.  For that, I want to send a glorious ‘Thank you!’ to all of you.  Even you liberals & atheists.  No matter how you cut the cake, communication is valuable- even if we disagree.  We are all Americans, my friends.  Most of us, given a chance, would agree on most things.  We need to remember that as we go into 2012, a most important election year.  We will not all agree on what should happen this year.  In fact, we may disagree vehemently.  But let us not become a broken People over it.  That is what the Progressives want most of all- to weaken our national cohesion.  From one patriot to another, let us continue the conversation- even the debate.  Let us allow the heat to dissipate and still find ourselves one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 26,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

The Fourth of July & Syrian Independence

Syria's Future Fourth of July?

What does July 4th mean to Americans?  One thing and one thing only:  the day we took control of our own destinies.  It is a thing to be proud of.  Though we are fast friends with England, we still celebrate our bloody war to separate us from it.   We celebrate the day that marked the beginning of one of the greatest loss of American lives in our history.   One must ask why so much bloodshed and violence is a thing for parades, cotton candy, flag waving and remembrance.  Isn’t everything bloody and vicious ‘bad’?

Of course not.  The thing is, some things are worth dying for.  Freedom is one of those things.

Just as the ’killings’ in Syria & Libya & Egypt are not (were not) necessarily bad.  The People of those nations are disgusted with their tyrants.  They have been abused for far longer than the fledgling American Colonies were before we decided on rebellion.  They know, just as we knew, that the blood of patriots would undoubtedly be shed.  We never asked for international aid (we asked for money) in the form of military intervention.  We hunkered down and decided on brilliant new tactics- both on land and at sea.  We bled & died.  We died in much greater numbers than any of these new rebellions have ever produced.  But eventually we won.  As will any people who simply refuse to be ruled.  If the entire people will not be governed, there is little the leadership can do.  After all, there are more people than governors.  They can’t kill everyone.  Cohesion of intent is really all that is needed.

While there are evil forces at work attempting to co-opt these populace movements, I have no doubt that there is real heart involved.  There are several questions we, and they, must ask.  First, do the people of these rebellions have cohesion of vision?  Do they know where they are going?  Second, are they wise enough to avoid the evil forces that would love to use their rebellion to further their own cause? Third, is it anyone’s proper business to interfere with what must be a self earned independence?

The first three questions need to truly be answered by the People of these nations.  The last needs to be asked by the rest of the world, especially the United States.  And the answer is, unequivocably, no.  Each of these People need to win their own independence.  It is critical to their own national pride and to their ability to be truly sovereign in the future.  Nothing in this world is free.  ‘Help’ from other nations always comes with iron strings attached.  Political favors in the form of political infiltration doom the fledgling governments from the get go.  The new nation simply becomes the pawn in other nations’ (and Movements’) games.  These Peoples can do it themselves.  They must do it themselves if they are ever to have a real future.

The only reason that other nations involve themselves (including the United States) is to further their own needs.  The press, owned & operated by the Progressives, is attempting to paint the usual victim picture of the Syrian people.  The purpose is to give greedy nations or movements a chance to stick their fingers in the Syrian pie.   The Muslim Brotherhood and the Progressives would like nothing more than to topple yet another secular government in the Middle East and install Sharia and the Muslim version of socialism/dictatorship.   Good for the Muslim Brotherhood, good for the Progressives.

We need to let the Syrian People decide their fate.  I believe the People in Syria yearn for true democracy and freedom- not a theocracy/dictatorship.  I believe that by ‘helping’ them, we only help their enemies and our enemies.  If the Syrian People are serious about freedom, they will win.  They will shed blood.  They will die in droves, but  someday, they will have parades, cotton candy, and flag waving to remember the day they truly become independent.

What Do Fred Flintstone and the Occult Have In Common?

Fred & Barney back from a meeting at the Loyal Order of the Buffalo's Lodge 32

My father sent me an email recently in response to a theoretical question I had concerning the Messiah for whom the Jews are waiting.   I was wondering if they knowingly rejected Christ or if they truly still thought that God would send a great king with armies as their Messiah.  I mean, if Jesus is the Messiah (and he is), then it should be evident to all who seek him, right?    Being the son of God is no small thing.  The son of God would have a presence that would be undeniable.  And Jesus’ presence is undeniable.  (Hence, the hate he and God draw from so-called unbelievers.  You never see them hating on Mohammad, do you?)  And being so self-evident, if the Jews reject him, then they are rejecting God.

He told me that many people believe that the illuminati (the über rich elite who own everything- including politicians) have blood ties to the ancient jewish Pharisees and Sadducees that were the original persecutors of Christ.  Also, that these illuminati are invested in satan worship via organizations such as the Free Masons.  Being me, I wanted proof- genealogical charts showing this.  Not that it was really relevant- but I would find that bit of proof to be very amazing indeed.

Germany Doesn’t Need WWIII To Conquer Europe- It’s Already Bought It

David Cameron standing strong, but beginning to waffle...

BRUSSELS— The European Union said Friday that 26 of its 27 member countries are open to joining a new treaty tying their finances together to solve the euro crisis. Only Britain remains opposed, creating a deep rift in the union.  In marathon overnight talks, the 17 countries that use the euro gradually persuaded nearly all the others to consider joining the new treaty they would create. Some of those countries may face parliamentary opposition to the treaty, which would allow for unprecedented oversight of national budgets.”

Germany has nearly accomplished its lifelong goal of conquering Europe.  And nary a shot has been fired.  Turns out that all they needed to do was buy it.  I happened to be in Germany working as a contractor when the Euro was being shoved down Europe’s throat.  No one trusted it.  They all thought that they would lose their individual identities and freedoms.  But no, they were told, this would never be so!  Because this was only MONEY.  Not government and not culture.  Only money.  See?  And guess who championed this brilliant coups d’état?  Guess who pushed and pushed and pushed the idea?  Guess who bribed even the weakest nations to join in this ‘new coalition’ against the might of the American dollar?

When God Gives You a Miracle, You Share It- And So I Am

My new church: a humble place where miracles happen...

Many so-called atheists love to compare my belief in God to a belief in something silly, like unicorns.  But their anger always belies their smugness.  They know the truth.  And it makes them mad.

In several articles, I have disparaged the atheist ‘scientific’ mindset in its blatant contradictory belief in super intelligent aliens, but not in the possibility of God.  Isn’t he, technically, a super intelligent alien?   A being, not of this world, that is so much more intelligent than us that we cannot comprehend him?  I also like to point out the self contradiction of atheist scientists who are, even now, creating life in test tubes and yet, find it impossible that we might be the creation of another life form’s test tube. 

Senate Moves To Allow Military To Intern Americans Without Trial

The Progressive Takeover is Almost Complete

By Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, November 28, 2011

The Senate is set to vote on a bill today that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.

“The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself,” writes Chris Anders of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.

When Your Countrymen Let You Down

My neighbor's house looks like this...

I have a friend, a neighbor, who told me the other day that she just couldn’t wait for Christmas to be over with.  Now, to put this comment into perspective, you have to understand this woman.  If Christmas could be wrapped and packaged into the shape of a woman, it would be her.  Every year, she opens her home to all her family members (distant and close), her neighbors and friends.  The tree is up and fabulously decorated before Thanksgiving because she always throws a Thanksgiving shin-dig-blow-out with armies of platters packed with delectables.  Her table decor just makes you wonder.  Her neat, tidy home sparkles in the neighborhood and warmly beckons a drop by visit.  She is always stocked with cleverly selected wines which will surely end up in your hand should you choose to accept the unspoken invitation.

Israel Ready To Bomb Iran- Good for Them!

"If the United States Won't Do It, We Will Have To."

Good for Israel.  They have had enough and can no longer wait for Captain-Wait-Until-It’s-Too-Late.  They are ready to preemptively strike Iran’s nuclear facilities.  And who can blame them?  If anything, one must wonder why they have waited this long.  Personally, I believe they waited this long because they love peace and have been waiting to see if Obama & the United States would work diplomatically to protect Israel.  The reverse has been the result of Obama’s foreign policy.

"We love peace, but we're getting a nuke together for fun..."

1)  Obama has actively sought to dismantle the leadership of every pro-American Arab Muslim nation in the Middle East:  Mubarak in Egypt, Qaddafi in Libya, Saleh in Yemen, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz in Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah II of Jordan.  Each of these nations had or have leaders friendly to the interests of the United States.  None were a threat to us.  While he has rattled his saber at Iran and Syria, two nations who have actively and proudly supported terrorist activity against the United States, our European allies and Israel, Obama had effectively encouraged them to increase their influence in the Middle East.  The result of toppling the pro-American leaderships in the Middle East has been nothing less than the consolidation of power for the Muslim Brotherhood, the only organized political there.  The Muslim Brotherhood’s official stated goal is to destroy our long time, traditional ally Israel.

Arab Spring in Libya Produces Mass Grave of Qaddafi Loyalists

Ahhh, don’t you just love democracy?  Winners live and losers get executed, right? Why?  Because the majority of the people wanted it so!  Isn’t that what Democracy is?  Thank GOD we don’t have it in this country.  Thank God above that the founding fathers had the wisdom to set up a Democratic Republic!   And that thing, that precious thing- that Constitution!  Honor it today, Americans, because it prevented this horror from happening on American soil.  Barbarism.  That is the Muslim way.  Apparently.

Am I The Next American Enemy Combatant To Be Killed?

"I'll tell you what, I'll give you security in exhange for your liberties, ok?"

The day that I agree with the ACLU is the day that confirms my belief that the world has truly turned upside down.  That day is today.  The ACLU is demanding transparency & legal justification for the killing of American born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, his teen age son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki (a U.S. citizen who was born in Denver in 1995), and his 17-year-old Yemeni cousin that were killed in a U.S. military drone strike that left nine people dead in southeastern Yemen.

Obama claims this Colorado boy was Al Qaida and needed to die.

While the death of Anwar al-Awlaki seems perfectly legal & just (as he was actively participating in war against his own country), the question remains open about his young son, another unnamed US citizen & his 17-year-old cousin (not to mention the nine possibly innocent Yemenis citizens) that were killed along with him.  Just when does the life of one bad man start providing perfect justification for the killing of children & innocents?  In our nation today, if a gang member decides to kill an enemy, but carelessly sprays the street with machine gun fire regardless of children and other innocent victims, we punish him even more strenuously than if he had simply killed his one sworn enemy.  I thought this was a standard notion in our nation.

Obama’s Doing: Is This What We Really Want?

Americans, this is the result of Obama’s crazy Middle East policies- brutal, shameful death.  Raw, raw, raw.  With gunfire & celebration.  This is what death looks like, people.  Every president before Obama has understood the need to keep the Middle East under control and as peaceful as possible.  Obama has systematically stuck his arrogant finger in the pie over there and stirred and agitated and stirred until the angry bees have streamed out of their nest in a murderous rage to kill.  Obama, the anti-war candidate, has made more war and has perpetrated more killing than any president in United States history.

He declared (with no Congressional backing, mind you), “Qaddafi must go!”, even though Qaddafi willingly gave up his nukes & chemical weapons after we invaded Iraq.  Qaddafi, while not a good man, was cooperating 100% with the international community in exchange for a peaceful recognition in the United Nations.  Is there no credit given when a dictator decides to change his ways?  Obama also promised, ‘no boots on the ground.’  Well, guess what?  We recently put boots on the ground in Libya.  And Wha-lah!  Here is Qaddafi’s body being stripped, kicked and bloodied.  Coincidence?

Anthony Watts Thrashes Al Gore’s Climate Change Experiment

Replicating Al Gore’s Climate 101 video experiment shows that his “high school physics” could never work as advertised

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Anthony Watts

Readers may recall my previous essay where I pointed out how Mr. Gore’s Climate 101 Video, used in his “24 hours of climate reality”, had some serious credibility issues with editing things to make it appear as if they had actually performed the experiment, when they clearly did not. It has taken me awhile to replicate the experiment. Delays were a combination of acquisition and shipping problems, combined with my availability since I had to do this on nights and weekends. I worked initially using the original techniques and equipment, and I’ve replicated the Climate 101 experiment in other ways using improved equipment. I’ve compiled several videos. My report follows.

First. as a refresher, here’s the Climate 101 video again:

I direct your attention to the 1 minute mark, lasting through 1:30, where the experiment is presented.

And here’s my critique of it: Video analysis and scene replication suggests that Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project fabricated their Climate 101 video “Simple Experiment”

The most egregious faked presentation in that video was the scene with the split screen thermometers, edited to appear as if the temperature in the jar of elevated CO2 level was rising faster than the jar without elevated CO2 level.

It turns out that the thermometers were never in the jar recording the temperature rise presented in the split screen and the entire presentation was nothing but stagecraft and editing.

Palestinians Vs. Israelis- Israelis Win The Morality Game Hands Down

Palestinian Prisoners Returning From Summer Camp

Please note the muscles on the arms of this Palestinian prisoner.  Look at the energy these guys have.  They are all standing, cheering, reaching out to loved ones and generally look like they are returning from a nice, long vacation- sun tans and all.  Not a skinny guy in the bunch.   The Geneva Convention expressly states that POWs must always be treated humanely- clearly, the Israelis understand this.  Note that these are the same non-uniformed guys who blew up a pizza joint, buses & markets full of innocent Israeli civilians- women, children & old people included.  All of whom are expressly forbidden by the Quran (and the Geneva Convention!) to be murdered.

Observe Greece, Americans, And See Your Future

“Give us more money!”- Protestors  “There ISN’T any more money!!!”- Cops

As Greece and the Euro zone enter into their final week of critical negotiations to save Greece and the Euro from implosion, the Socialist Unions in Greece are wreaking havoc to ensure that the same failed system they created remains in place.  Despite all logic and common sense, the socialists (better known as the Unions) in Greece are striking and threatening even more ominous strikes- all in order to squeeze money from a stone.  Unions have completely overrun the country- from the airline industry to the baking (yes, baking) industry.  Think about this:  the people who make the BREAD are threatening to strike.  Think, ‘Marie Antoinette’.  You don’t mess with people’s bread.  Mess with people’s bread and you get revolution.  But because the Greek unions have wound their evil tentacles into every facet of Greek life, they can ground flights and they can create hunger in the land.  Regardless of the fact that it was exactly the Unions that have driven Greece to bankruptcy with their crazy demands for more and more money and benefits for Greek workers which they never actually earned.

Muslim Violence Jan 1, 2011- June 29, 2011

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Politically Incorrect Assessment of Muslims

You know, sometimes the elephant in the room really smells bad.  And it’s big and noisy.  You try to ignore it and pay attention to your party guest- but it’s really hard, considering the buggery trunk twirling around in your hair.   At some point, you just want to scream, “People!  Really?  Doesn’t anyone else see this thing?”

I wrote about the incredible sexual appetite of the Prophet Muhammad a couple weeks ago and had some interesting conversations with a practicing Muslim.  It was compelling in that this person refuted every one of my accusations.  I claimed that Islam was sexist in its institution of plural marriage, that it forces premenstrual girls into marriage with much older men and generally treats women as chattel.  In addition, I was stunned by the amount of time dedicated in the Quran to the satisfaction of Muhammad’s sexual appetites for girls & women who were already married- how Allah’s will mirrored Muhammad’s sexual will rather too perfectly. 

Cry Baby Freeloaders Want Obama To Force Employers To Hire Them

TWO YEAR VACTION VICTIM WANTS HER JOB BACK!

The story just gets richer.  Unemployment benefits have reached the most ludicrous levels in our nation’s history.  People who lost their jobs two years ago have been able to sit pretty, collecting unemployment benefits without doing a stitch of work to justify their paycheck while the rest of us dummies slog through our day doing whatever jobs we can to pay our bills.  Irresponsible people who didn’t bother to read their home loan contracts, who played Russian roulette with their interest rates, have been given the incredible ability to simply re-write their loans at 2% fixed interest loans with partial debt forgiveness to boot!  People who simply don’t wish to pay their home loans (because it is not ‘worth it’) are allowed to walk away, scott free, from their homes after refusing to pay their mortgage for over a year.  With the money they saved by not paying their loans, they can move on and buy foreclosed homes for cash in auctions.   All while responsible, honorable people work hard everyday to pay their own way through life.  And credit scores?  Who cares!  Because in this climate created by the Obama administration, a good credit rating doesn’t offer one iota of help to the people who have done the right thing their whole lives.  Small business owners can’t get desperately needed loans for their businesses because the equity is gone from their homes and bailed-out banks were not required to increase loans to businesses.  Individuals can’t get a good, low (or no) interest credit card if their life depended on it- regardless of their credit scores (because the equity in their home has dried up).  The credit lenders just look at them and think, “Your debt outweighs the ready assets you have.”  So who cares about credit scores?  All that matters is each man for himself, I guess.