Christmas Eve Mass Beijing
Little Boy knelling at Christmas Eve Mass Beijing
Christmas Midnight Mass –The Light of the World
At Christmas, we should remember Christians who are persecuted for their faith.
More here Away in a Manger –National Review
Related: Pope Benedict XVI Thought for the Day –BBC
Christmas of Chinese Catholics, Despite Snow & Persecution –Asia News
Christians Face Rising Persecution –CNN
Rejected? That’s Great –Calvary United Methodist Church
H/T: Xiao-Mei Xiexie
Supporters on Christmas Eve in Hong Kong, carrying posts cards addressed to Chinese Imprisoned Political Dissident Liu Xiao-Bo
Supporters of Liu Xiao-Bo hold boxes containing post cards for the imprisoned Chinese dissident
On the 10 October I posted a video here subsequent to Liu Xiao-Bo winning of a Nobel Peace Prize
Last Christmas, Liu was sentenced to 11 years in prison for “inciting subversion of the state” after he helped launch Charter 8 a 2008 manifesto calling for Democratic reforms in China and an end to one party rule.
Related: Nobel Peace Prize: China’s 10 Most Prominent Dissidents –The Telegraph UK
Unsatisfied with the colossal amount of power that the Obama Administration Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius received under ObamaCare if it isn’t repealed, the Obama Regime HHS Secretary a 136 page “Rule” that will now give both her and her subordinates largely unchecked power to pass judgment on prices of health insurance throughout the United States—Notwithstanding, that 43 states already regulate and approve health insurance premiums.
Sebelius claims that the federal government needs even more power and centralized protection against the mean, old nasty insurers “unseemly profit motive” Marxists always have hated free market capitalism, enterprise and preserving the civil liberties of society.
More here from The Weekly Standard
Obama Economic Stimulus Sign
City of Los Angeles Public Works Dept–Lots of Supervising Going On
A report released on Tuesday by the California Bureau of State Audits found that state agencies and their sub-recipients did not accurately report jobs activity from Obama’s Economic Stimulus.
According to the California State Auditor review of the accuracy of the number of jobs created or saved (whatever a saved job is) by Obama’s $787 Billion Dollar actual $862 Billion Dollar Economic Stimulus, 617 non-existent full time jobs were reported to have been created.
The California Recovery Task Force recommendation to prevent future accounting irregularities states, “The Task Force should issue clarifying guidance to state agencies to ensure: Jobs are not triple counted…”
It may just be me but why is it necessary to instruct bureaucrats not to lie?
More here from California Watch
President Obama claims that the economy will be his singular focus over the next two years.
When have we heard that one before?
President Obama said following the election of Sen. Scott Brown, R-MA in January, that he intended to put a heavy focus on jobs and the economy so much for that promise.
Before taking his oath of office–President Obama pledged to put a renewed focus on jobs when the nations unemployment rate stood at 7.6% today the U.S. unemployment rate nationally is 9.8% marking the 19th month in a row that the nations unemployment rate has been over 9%–a post World War II record.
H/T: Drudge
The U.S. Govt fell even deeper into debt during 2010 with net liabilities grew to $2.080 Trillion Dollars for the fiscal year which ended on the 30 September
More here from Reuters
Related: Omnibus Spending bill printing costs more than $78,000 to print–Washington Times
Unemployed Jobless Benefit New York and Columbus, Ohio Free Yoga
Inscription on base of Memorial Carin–Arlington Natl Cemetery
Pan Am 103 Remembering–Never Forgetting 269 innocent victims and Andrea V. Rosenthal
“We have two branches of government, Congress and the Courts expressing grave concerns with our agency becoming increasing unmoored from our statutory authority. By seeking to regulate the Internet now, we exceed the authority Congress has given to us and justify those concerns.” –FCC Commissioner Meredith Atwell Baker
Should federal regulators in Washington set the rules for the Internet?
FCC to Vote on Internet Regs in Time for Christmas –Heritage Foundation
Related: Congress must Stop FCC Internet Regulation –Big Government
Tech at Night: Free Press, Net Neutrality, FCC, Google, Comcast, Amazon
Sen. Jay Rockefeller: FCC should take FOX News & MSNBC Off the Air
Pentagon Journalists with the popular Defense daily Stars and Stripes are prohibited from researching leaked cables Via WikiLeaks readily available on line, prompting charges of censorship.
Censorship—Global Internet Liberty Campaign
“The control of information and ideas circulated within a society has been a hallmark of dictatorships throughout history.”
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the Press and that cannot be limited without being lost.” –Thomas Jefferson
Herman Cain is everything that Barack Obama is not–a seasoned man of faith, patriotic conviction, an experienced business executive, a natural communicator that doesn’t need a teleprompter, a guy that doesn’t need to hide what he truly believes about America, the Constitution, the rule of law and limited government.
More here Draft Herman Cain for President 2012
Related: The Herminator Speaks –Katy’s Conservative Corner
Lame Duck Congress: Go Ahead, Make Our Day by Herman Cain –World Net Daily