the new year....

http://www.theyearsareshort.com/

the golden handcuffs of government benefits

The war on poverty:

The day the American welfare system first made it more desirable to stay on relief than to move up to just the next notch upward-that was the day that the Democrats truly declared war on America's poor.

from The American Thinker-29th December, 2011

Pelosi to quit...

from Hotair:

Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of House Minority Leader and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, told Big Government this week that her mother wants to leave Congress–and that she remains in Washington only at the behest of her campaign donors.

During a telephone interview, Ms. Pelosi–speaking from a friend’s home in New York City–described her mother’s predicament:

She would retire right now, if the donors she has didn’t want her to stay so badly. They know she wants to leave, though. They think she’s destined for the wilderness. She has very few days left. She’s 71, she wants to have a life, she’s done. It’s obligation, that’s all I’m saying.

Karl Rove predicted this morning that either she or Reid or both would quit the leadership in 2012. Does he know something? Exit question: Who’s Nancy going to get her stock tips from now?

there has to be a beginning...

waiting for the perfect opening post for the last few weeks has been somewhat maddening as there have been so many my mind spun trying to pick. so I unpacked my clothes and delayed.
so Fitzgerald from the Boston Herald piqued my interest:
"The hullabaloo over Tim Tebow's radiant faith says a lot more about is mockers that it does about him, for clearly this is a man quite comfortable in his own skin."
I'd say he's got that right. He goes on to say that today we seem to leave God out of it when adding up our successes, as if we were in total control of the outcomes.
The next paragraph I admit I was unfamiliar with:
In the midst of the Civil War that threatened to rupture this country, Abraham Lincoln urged Americans to get onto their knees, the way Tebow does today.

“We have forgotten God,” Lincoln lamented, “and vainly imagined that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.”

Imagine an American president saying that today?

So while we shop in the malls where "Merry Christmas" is verboten, we hear "O Little Town of Bethlehem" playing in the background. For a holiday called "Christmas" it is peculiar that we aren't not allowed to wish anyone joyous or happy or merry using the official name of the holiday?

So for me, I'm glad that Tebow, by his example, reminds us to be grateful. For as of the moment anyway, we are still "one nation, under God"

As for Tebow and his Broncos, I think it's time to relish the honor in defeat this week as they head to Boston to play my Patriots, who oddly enough have lost the last 5 of 6 times they've played them-Brady's bugaboo as it were. Not tomorrow.