Reflections From a Murky Pond

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There’s an odd but profound truth in this picture and its message. There’s nothing quite like placing the burden of decision into the hands of some outside agency to make one realize what it is that they truly desire the outcome to be.

You Suddenly Know What You Are Hoping For

Think about it. Try it out for yourself if you haven’t already done so. I’m willing to bet that you’ll find the same truth in this that I have.

All messiahs need prayers in their names in order for the adherents of their religions and/or cults to reaffirm their faith in those messianic figures. President Obama is, of course, no different from the others in this regard.

Of course this is still America and Americans have a strong tendency to fight against idolatry and often mock such examples of cultism. Hence, not all the prayers will  be such as Obama and followers might like. 😉

A case in point…

First Book Of Government – Psalm 2009

Obama is the shepherd I did not want.
He leadeth me beside the still factories.

He restoreth my faith in the Constitution.
He guideth me in the path of unemployment for his party’s sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the bread line,
I shall fear no hunger, for his bailouts are with me.

He has anointed my income with taxes
My expenses runneth over.

Surely, poverty and hard living will follow me
all the days of my life,
And I will live in a mortgaged home forever.

I am glad I am American, I am glad that I am free.
But I wish I were a dog …
And Obama was a tree.

It’s also amusing that President Obama has his own Prayer Team which is founded by members of his myrmidons, Organizing For America (OFA).

H/T to Christopher J. Gary at Cajun Conservatism

Gary Varvel’s cartoon from the December11, 2009 issue of the Indianapolis Star provides what the Hierophant of Global Warming has failed to give his cultists, the Warmist – a prayer.

Al Gore’s Cultists,The Warmists, Now Have A Prayer To Chant

This was really the only thing that the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) were still lacking. Al Gore’s apocalyptic cultists already have the blind faith, strict dogma, and holier-than-thou attitudes. All they were lacking was prayer.

Hellfire! They had even learned from the Catholics of bygone days and were setup to sell Indulgences in the form of Carbon Credits…. 😆

If you’ve paid any attention to the news – or rather the fawning, biased non-news spewed forth from Obama’s MSM media shills – you know that on December 10, 2009, President Obama took a short break from his duties as POTUS in order to fly to Oslo, Norway to accept his Nobel Peace Prize.

Even more than usual President Obama’s acceptance speech was a “wonder” to behold.

And The Nobel Prize For Irony Goes To… Barack Hussein Obama

Don’t get me wrong; I personally found very little that was glaringly inaccurate or offensive to America and Americans in President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. But it takes levels of narcissism, arrogance, and raw chutzpah that beggars the civilized man’s mind to use one’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech to justify two ongoing wars and to lecture the audience on the meaning of “just war” and that we won’t achieve peace in our lifetimes.

Two personal points – One, Obama’s linking of himself with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was naught but shameful, racialist pandering more suited to an ACORN operative than the POTUS.

Bringing up Gandhi was especially sweet! It was a beautiful dig at the Nobel Committee for fives times refusing to award Gandhi the Peace Prize because it would have Norway’s political relationship with England.

If there’s an issue with President Obama’s Nobel acceptance speech, it isn’t that its contents were untrue. It was that it was highly inappropriate for the circumstances, venue, and audience.  Some truths should not be spoken, at least not all the time and without concern. Look at what doing so did to President Bush’s international reputation 😉