Thursday, May 30, 2013

Seeing Yourself Biblically vs. as an I AM Imposter [Video link added!]



One of the reviews in the back of  Pastor Miles McPherson's new book, "God in the Mirror - Discovering Who You Were Created To Be." is written by Mark Driscoll, founding and preaching pastor, Mars Hill Church; NY Times bestselling author:

"In this helpful book, Pastor Miles shows us that unless we see ourselves biblically we will have a false identity that leads to a life of misery."

Since I am only on chapter 8, the following discussion does not cover the entirety of what you will learn from the book.  However, it is a brief discussion, including some analysis from Scripture, about the overall importance of what is discussed in chapter 2.


Pastor Miles writes:

Once you have adopted Satan's identity for yourself apart from God, you have to validate that identity by proving your value and importance. You become chained to earning acceptance and approval, always working to be something, to make something of yourself. The devil will be right in your face challenging your identity, like he challenged Jesus by demanding He prove Himself in Matthew 4: "If you're the Son of God, prove it! Do this, if you are the Son of God, do that." The devil will confront you in the same way.

Pastor Miles goes on to describe some of the bad or sinful ways that Satan will go about tempting you to "prove" yourself.

This section got me to thinking about all of the craziness, corruption, and chaos that people create in their own lives, which then affects other people and their lives.

Why?

 It all starts because they have "exchanged the truth for a lie."

I suggest reading the entirety of Romans 1.

The Romans 1:25 verse informs us:

Rom 1:25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

However, reading some of the prior verses as well as the verses following Romans 1:25, puts what Paul is talking about into more clarity:

  Professing to be wise, they became fools,

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

Rom 1:24
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,


The verses following Romans 1:25 tell us what RESULTS from uncleanness, lusts of the heart, and dishonoring their own bodies:




For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

 





 
Rom 1:27

 
Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

Homosexuality is being presented these days as "the new normal." But God's Word tells us differently. It isn't "the new normal" - it has always been an abomination and sin before God's eyes.

Note that Paul mentions "vile passions." This passage includes heterosexual sexual sins as well (like pornography, adultery, abortion, prostitution, bigamy, polygamy, bestiality etc.).

Paul goes on to write many other sins that people get involved in and how they are negatively affected by them. The I AM imposter is fervently fed by such things:


Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Rom 1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, [fn] wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,

Rom 1:30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Rom 1:31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, [fn] unmerciful;


We could all probably spend days, weeks, months and even years giving examples of those who have been caught up in such vile acts and actions. It is truly awful to see how debased minds in government, in the media, in Hollywood, in aberrant businesses, in liberal/progressive colleges, in public education, in heretical churches etc. have changed America - and not for the better!

So, what do we do about it?

I think that Pastor Miles book helps give us direction regarding such matters.

He writes:

"You could spend a lot of years manipulating people or fooling yourself into being a little god, an I Am imposter, whatever he (Satan) has convinced you to be. What a waste of time. Would you agree that Satan has been successful in wearing you out trying to prove yourself, to be someone that God never intended you to be? I know people who spend their entire lives trying to fulfill someone else's vision or expectations for their lives, when in fact they would have been so much more fulfilled sticking to God's plan for them."

Pastor Miles provides a chart that gives a comparison between your I AM factor and the characteristics God intended for your identity, and those associated with an I AM imposter identity. God intended for you to rest in who He made you to be. Satan's identity will result in nothing but restlessness and unnecessary striving.

God's truth to His image bearers:                               The devil's lies to
                                                                                         everyone:
You're My success. (Josh. 1:8)                                     You're a failure.

You're My winner. (Phil. 3:13-14)                               You're a loser.

You're unique in My family. (Ps. 139:12-14)             You're better than
                                                                                        others.
You're filled with My promises. (Heb. 6:12)              You're hopeless.

You can do all things through Me. (Phil. 4:13)          You can't do anything
                                                                                        right.
I am the Lord who heals you. (Ps. 103:3)                   You'll always be weak
                                                                                        and sick.
You are born for "such a time as this."                      You don't get the
(Esther 4:14)                                                                  breaks others do.
And will long enjoy the work of your hands.
(Isa. 65:22)

Everything under heaven is Mine. (Job 41:11)           I can give you the
                                                                                        world!
You're loved with an everlasting love.                        Nobody loves you.
(Jer. 31:3)

This is only the beginning, people. Much, much more in the book that will help you in regards to finding your true identity in Jesus Christ!

My prayer is the same as Pastor Miles:

My prayer is that God opens your eyes and reveals to you who you are and where your life is going so you will not allow it to be destroyed by Satan's lies.

Amen!





Video link update! View the 6-week series on God In The Mirror:

Pastor Miles McPherson: God In The Mirror

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

God In The Mirror - Discovering Who You Were Created To Be [Updated]




Pastor Miles McPherson has a new book out entitled, "God In The Mirror - Discovering Who You Were Created To Be."

Pastor Miles writes:

"Satan's plan is to turn God's image in you against God Himself by turning you into an I AM imposter. An I AM imposter is someone who has become his or her own god. Once the devil tricks you into changing your identity to be your own god, you'll start to think you can do fine without God, and that'll be the beginning of your self-destruction."


So far I have read seven chapters and it is an excellent book that reveals just what is meant by God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in Genesis 1:26 when They stated, "Let Us make man in our image."

A great review from the Amazon site:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read!, May 27, 2013

By Jeff Sullivan - See all my reviews This review is from: God in the Mirror: Discovering Who You Were Created to Be (Paperback)

Pastor Miles really breaks down how we are created to reflect God's glory, and how the enemy is hell bent on derailing us from God's special plans for our lives.
Attempting to take the place of God was what caused Lucifer's fall in the first place. Unfortunately, mankind is guilty of following in Lucifer's footsteps...even though some may not want to admit it.

God tells each of us what His special plan is for our individual lives through His Written Word, the Bible, His Living Word, Jesus Christ, and the Helper - the Holy Spirit. Ignoring or rejecting any one of these is a big reason why many are missing His message.

Satan influences your passion and your efforts to glorify yourself instead of God. This is all an attempt to redefine who you are.

Pastor Miles writes, "Satan knows self-glorification is the fastest and most direct path to self-destruction, because it is what destroyed him. The devil wants you to think that you can do what you want and, therefore, you can be like God --in control of your own life and independent of Him." 

The Bible tells us how important faith in God really is. 

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Pastor Miles writes:

Once you have adopted Satan's identity for yourself apart from God, you have to validate that identity by proving your value and importance.  You become chained to earning acceptance and approval, always working to be something, to make something of yourself.  The devil will be right in your face challenging your identity, like he challenged Jesus by demanding He prove Himself in Matthew 4:  "If you're the Son of God, prove it!  Do this, if you are the Son of God, do that."  The devil will confront you in the same way.
Pastor Miles goes on to describe some of the bad or sinful ways that Satan will go about tempting you to "prove" yourself. This section got me to thinking about all of the craziness and chaos that people create in their own lives, which then affects other people and their lives. Why? Because they have "exchanged the truth for a lie."

I suggest reading the entirety of Romans 1.

The Romans 1:25 verse informs us:

Rom 1:25   who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

However, reading some of the prior verses as well as the verses following Romans 1:25,  puts what Paul is talking about into more clarity:

Professing to be wise, they became fools,
 
and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
 Rom 1:24
Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,


The verses following Romans 1:25 tell us what RESULTS from uncleanness, lusts of the heart, and dishonoring their own bodies:


For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.
 Rom 1:27
Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
 
 
  
 
Homosexuality is being presented these days as "the new normal." But God's Word tells us differently. It isn't "the new normal" - it has always been an abomination and sin before God's eyes.

Note that Paul mentions "vile passions." This passage includes heterosexual sexual sins as well (like pornography, adultery, abortion, prostitution, bigamy, polygamy, bestiality etc.).

Paul goes on to write many other sins that people get involved in and how they affect them. The I AM imposter is fervently fed by such things:

Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Rom 1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, [fn] wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,

Rom 1:30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Rom 1:31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, [fn] unmerciful;

We could all probably spend days, weeks, months and even years giving examples of those who have been caught up in such vile acts and actions.  It is truly awful to see how debased minds in government, in the media, in Hollywood, in aberrant businesses, in liberal/progressive colleges, in public education, in heretical churches etc. have changed America - and not for the better!

So, what do we do about it? 

I think that Pastor Miles book helps give us direction regarding such matters.

He writes:

"You could spend a lot of years manipulating people or fooling yourself into being a little god, an I Am imposter, whatever he (Satan) has convinced you to be.  What a waste of time.  Would you agree that Satan has been successful in wearing you out trying to prove yourself, to be someone that God never intended you to be?  I know people who spend their entire lives trying to fulfill someone else's vision or expectations for their lives, when in fact they would have been so much more fulfilled sticking to God's plan for them."
Pastor Miles provides a chart that gives a comparison between your I AM factor and the characteristics God intended for your identity, and those associated with an I AM imposter identity. God intended for you to rest in who He made you to be. Satan's identity will result in nothing but restlessness and unnecessary striving.

God's truth to His image bearers:                              The devil's lies to
                                                                                        everyone:
You're My success. (Josh. 1:8)                                    You're a failure.

You're My winner.  (Phil. 3:13-14)                             You're a loser.

You're unique in My family. (Ps. 139:12-14)             You're better than
                                                                                         others.
You're filled with My promises. (Heb. 6:12)              You're hopeless.

You can do all things through Me. (Phil. 4:13)          You can't do anything
                                                                                         right.
I am the Lord who heals you. (Ps. 103:3)                   You'll always be weak
                                                                                         and sick.
You are born for "such a time as this."                      You don't get the
(Esther 4:14)                                                                  breaks others do.
And will long enjoy the work of your hands.
(Isa. 65:22)

Everything under heaven is Mine.  (Job 41:11)          I can give you the
                                                                                         world!
You're  loved  with an everlasting love.                     Nobody loves you.
(Jer. 31:3)

This is only the beginning, people.  Much, much more in the book that will help you in regards to finding your true identity in Jesus Christ!

My prayer is the same as Pastor Miles:

My prayer is that God opens your eyes and reveals to you who you war and where your life is going so you will not allow it to be destroyed by Satan's lies.

Amen!

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Exposing the Lie Behind the "Coexist" Movement

Each time I see a "coexist" bumper sticker on a car, I think about how naive such a person must be in order to think such a cohesion of views (some often being violent, threatening, and damaging to a person's spiritual destiny) would ever be possible to be achieved in this fallen world.  Don't get me wrong - perhaps the sentiment of the person posting such a message intends to mean well. 

But the truth of the matter regarding the obvious and continuous increase of sin, evil, and death in our current world (all of which, unfortunately, contains a plethora of views that tend to reject God, the Bible, and Jesus Christ) does not allow the "coexist" mantra to lead anyone to absolute truth, salvation of the soul, reconciliation with God, or eternity with our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ.

My blogging friend Neil over at Eternity Matters has a good post up and at the end of it I noticed the following graphic that explains the truth of the lie behind the "coexist" movement:




The graphic below and to the right, further explains the contradictions of the coexist movement. [Right click on graphic to enlarge.]


John 14:6 explains why they can't all be true:

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. - John 14:6 (NKJV)

Hat tip:

Eternity Matters

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

According to PJM - More Benghazi Whistleblowers With Info Devastating to Obama and Clinton

First, prayers go out to all of those who have lost loved ones and have been deeply affected by the awful tornadoes in Oklahoma.

Bible Prophecy is becoming more and more a reality with each passing year regarding all that is happening in the world the closer we get to the end times. (See Matthew 24)


Jesus has a plethora of messages to us in Matthew 24. However, the following portion of the prophecy has been ratcheted up over the past 5 years:

  Mat 24:9 "Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.

  Mat 24:10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,

  Mat 24:11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.

  Mat 24:12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,

  Mat 24:13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.

Yes!  God's ultimate plan for us will continue despite all of the attempts to thwart it.  As Christians, it is our DUTY to watch, WORK, and wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ on the clouds of heaven!  Part of that work is to warn others of the evil that is keeping them from being reconciled back unto God through Christ's sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary, His subsequent Resurrection from the dead, and ultimate Ascension into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father.

The Bible (NIV version) also informs us:



Mar 4:22 For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open.

  Mar 4:23 If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear."


And, please take heed of  this (NKJV):


  Luk 8:11 "Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

  Luk 8:12 "Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

  Luk 8:13 "But the ones on the rock [are those] who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, who believe for a while and in time of temptation fall away.

  Luk 8:14 "Now the ones [that] fell among thorns are those who, when they have heard, go out and are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

  Luk 8:15 "But the ones [that] fell on the good ground are those who, having heard the word with a noble and good heart, keep [it] and bear fruit with patience.

  Luk 8:16 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a vessel or puts [it] under a bed, but sets [it] on a lampstand, that those who enter may see the light.

  Luk 8:17 "For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor [anything] hidden that will not be known and come to light.

  Luk 8:18 "Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him [more] will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him."


Keeping such Scripture in mind, we now proceed with this post.


All of the distractions being thrown out there in Obama Confusionland, thankfully, aren't working to stop the ongoing deeper investigation into the Benghazi Cover-Up.  The following link provides exclusive information:

PJM EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama

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Obama Lie Du Jour: 'I'm Not Familiar' with Whistleblowers Being Threatened [Hat tip:  Commieblasters].

Copy of PJM Exclusive post:


More whistleblowers will emerge shortly in the escalating Benghazi scandal, according to two former U.S. diplomats who spoke with PJ Media Monday afternoon.

These whistleblowers, colleagues of the former diplomats, are currently securing legal counsel because they work in areas not fully protected by the Whistleblower law.

According to the diplomats, what these whistleblowers will say will be at least as explosive as what we have already learned about the scandal, including details about what really transpired in Benghazi that are potentially devastating to both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

The former diplomats inform PJM the new revelations concentrate in two areas — what Ambassador Chris Stevens was actually doing in Benghazi and the pressure put on General Carter Ham, then in command of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and therefore responsible for Libya, not to act to protect jeopardized U.S. personnel
.
Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.

Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”

This left Stevens in the position of having to clean up the scandalous enterprise when it became clear that the “insurgents” actually were al-Qaeda – indeed, in the view of one of the diplomats, the same group that attacked the consulate and ended up killing Stevens.

The former diplomat who spoke with PJ Media regarded the whole enterprise as totally amateurish and likened it to the Mike Nichols film Charlie Wilson’s War about a clueless congressman who supplies Stingers to the Afghan guerrillas. “It’s as if Hillary and the others just watched that movie and said ‘Hey, let’s do that!’” the diplomat said.

He added that he and his colleagues think the leaking of General David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell was timed to silence the former CIA chief on these matters.

Regarding General Ham, military contacts of the diplomats tell them that AFRICOM had Special Ops “assets in place that could have come to the aid of the Benghazi consulate immediately (not in six hours).”

Ham was told by the White House not to send the aid to the trapped men, but Ham decided to disobey and did so anyway, whereupon the White House “called his deputy and had the deputy threaten to relieve Ham of his command.”

The White House motivation in all this is as yet unclear, but it is known that Ham retired quietly in April 2013 as head of AFRICOM.

PJ Media recognizes this is largely hearsay, but the two diplomats sounded quite credible. One of them was in a position of responsibility in a dangerous area of Iraq in 2004.

We will report more as we learn it.

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Hat tips:
Blue Letter Bible
Politico
PJMedia.com

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Update:  My friend Donna sent the following information to me via email.  Hat tip:  http://raymmax.wordpress.com/  [Note:  It is a private blog site and permission needs to be granted by owner in order to see it.]



This is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary that was working in the region of Benghazi. These two poems highlighted in yellow seem to be his poetic statement of what happened. In the first one he mentions a very low frequency which some have speculated that maybe the military was communicating with the White House in something like Morse Code. The Queens Henchmen sounds a lot like Hillary, don’t you think?


It is very interesting……..

Benghazi-disciplined diplomat a prolific poet



Raymond Maxwell -- one of the four State Department officials disciplined over security lapses that led to the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year -- is also a prolific poet. And he's been publishing provocative verses since he was put on administrative leave December 18.

Raymond Maxwell

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Maghreb Region Raymond Maxwell during a visit to Algiers, in a photo taken sometime between November 2-5, 2011.

/ U.S. Embassy Algiers

Some of the poetry represents scathing commentary on the post-Benghazi fallout and implies that he feels like he's been made a scapegoat. In "Trapped in a purgatory of their own deceit," Maxwell writes in part: "The web of lies they weave / gets tighter and tighter / in its deceit / until it bottoms out - / at a very low frequency - / and implodes...Yet all the while, / the more they talk, / the more they lie, / and the deeper down the hole they go... Just wait.../ just wait and feed them the rope."

It's a bold and almost shocking verse from the 20-year foreign-service worker who was the well-respected deputy assistant secretary for Maghreb Affairs in the Near East Bureau and former Chief of Staff to the Ambassador in Baghdad. Fluent in Portuguese, Maxwell is also an ex-Navy "mustanger," which means he leapt from enlisted ranks to commissioned officer.

An African-American, Maxwell makes use of lynching imagery in his poem entitled "Invitation," a commentary about being put on administrative leave December 18th after the State Department's Accountability Review Board (ARB) criticized pre-attack security in Libya.


U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in terrorist attacks at U.S. missions in Benghazi. Poor security was faulted by the ARB review board. Former U.S. ambassador Thomas Pickering, who led the review, was quoted in the final, unclassified report as saying blame was fixed "at the assistant secretary level...where the decision-making in fact takes place, where...the rubber hits the road." The ARB, in essence, was seen to have cleared higher-ranking State Department officials, including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, of direct fault on the issue of inadequate security.

It's unclear as to exactly what Maxwell and the other disciplined managers allegedly did wrong or how they were chosen for discipline. Three are on paid administrative leave. When asked for more details, the State Department did not respond prior to publication of this report.

Maxwell declined an interview, saying his poetry best expresses what he has to say.

Raymond Maxwell: Former Deputy Asst Secretary Removed Over Benghazi Pens a Poem


In December 2012, the NYT reported [see: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/us/politics/3-state-dept-officials-resign-following-benghazi-report.html?_r=1&] that four State Department officials were removed from their posts after an independent panel criticized the “grossly inadequate” security at a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that was attacked on Sept. 11, leading to the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. According to the report, the four officials “have been placed on administrative leave pending further action” citing the State Department’s spokeswoman as source.

The same report included a quote from Thomas R. Pickering, a former ambassador (and former #3 at the State Department) who led the independent review who said this: “We fixed it at the assistant secretary level, which is, in our view, the appropriate place to look, where the decision-making in fact takes place, where, if you like, the rubber hits the road.

One of those four officials is Raymond Maxwell; he is also one of the three Deputy Assistant Secretaries who were thrown under the bus in the Benghazi fallout. He was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Maghreb (North Africa) Affairs at the Bureau of Near East Affairs from 2011-2012. He advised the Assistant Secretary on the Maghreb and oversaw development, coordination and implementation of USG policy in the region. Previous to that, he was the Director of the Office of Regional and Multilateral Affairs (RMA) also at the Bureau of Near East Affairs from 2009-2011. More here [http://raymmax.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/invitation/].

Mr. Maxwell is also a poet with hopes of becoming “a music and poetry librarian in his next life.” This past April, we became aware that he participated in the National Poetry Writing Month [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Poetry_Writing_Month] , an annual project in which participating poets attempt to write a poem a day for the entire month (see his blog http://raymmax.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/invitation/). We think one of his poems, “Invitation“is particularly striking. How can we not appreciate the dark humor of BYOB … “because of the continuing resolution?” Certainly, the poem is blunt and aims to shock but it also makes us think that as as long as one is the boss of words, one is not totally helpless. We received permission from Mr. Maxwell to republish the poem in this blog.

Invitation [http://raymmax.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/invitation/]


– Posted on April 1, 2013

© Raymond Maxwell

The Queen’s Henchmen
request the pleasure of your company
at a Lynching – to be held
at 23rd and C Streets NW
on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
just past sunset.

Dress: Formal, Masks and Hoods -
the four being lynched
must never know the identities
of their executioners, or what/
whose sin required their sacrifice.

A blood sacrifice –
to divert the hounds -
to appease the gods -
to cleanse our filth and
satisfy our guilty consciences.

Arrive promptly at sunset –
injustice will be swift.
there will be no trial,
no review of evidence,
no due process, and no
accountability.

Dress warmly -
a chilling effect will instantly
envelop Foggy Bottom.
Extrajudicial.
Total impunity.
A kangaroo court in
a banana republic.

B.Y.O.B.
Refreshments will not be served
because of the continuing resolution.

And the ones being lynched?
Who cares? They are pawns in a game.
Our game. All suckers, all fools,
all knaves who volunteered to serve -
Us. And the truth? The truth?
What difference at this point does it make?

In the event of inclement weather,
or the Queen’s incapacitation,
her Henchmen will carry out this lynching -
as ordered, as planned.

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Thanks to Raymond Maxwell for allowing us to republish Invitation in this blog.
 
Hat Tip: Diplo Pundit.com

Update: Apparently, Raymond Maxwell's blog has been removed. Was he threatened by the current corrupt ObaMARXIST BADministration? I wouldn't doubt it!!!
raymmax.wordpress.com is no longer available. The authors have deleted this site.

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The Blaze has an article about Raymond Maxwell:

The Blaze: Beat-Up Poet? One of the Men Punished Over Benghazi Security Failures Fights Back with…Scathing Verse

Copy of post:

Raymond Maxwell is one of the four State Department officials who was disciplined due to security lapses leading to the U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya, last year.

But after he was placed on paid administrative leave last Dec. 18, CBS News says that rather than sulk in silence and shame, Maxwell has been publishing poetry about his ordeal–often scathing verse–that can’t be making officials in Washington, D.C. applaud (or snap their fingers, whatever the case may be).
 
CBS News calls attention to his “Trapped in a purgatory of their own deceit.”
Here Maxwell writes in part:
 
“The web of lies they weave / gets tighter and tighter / in its deceit / until it bottoms out – / at a very low frequency – / and implodes…Yet all the while, / the more they talk, / the more they lie, / and the deeper down the hole they go… Just wait…/ just wait and feed them the rope.”
CBS News opines:
It’s a bold and almost shocking verse from the 20-year foreign-service worker who was the well-respected deputy assistant secretary for Maghreb Affairs in the Near East Bureau and former Chief of Staff to the Ambassador in Baghdad. Fluent in Portuguese, Maxwell is also an ex-Navy “mustanger,” which means he leapt from enlisted ranks to commissioned officer.
Maxwell uses lynching imagery in his “Invitation,” CBS News notes:
“The Queen’s Henchmen / request the pleasure of your company / at a Lynching – / to be held / at 23rd and C Streets NW [State Dept. building] / on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 / just past sunset. / Dress: Formal, Masks and Hoods- / the four being lynched / must never know the identities/ of their executioners, or what/ whose sin required their sacrifice./ A blood sacrifice- / to divert the hounds- / to appease the gods- / to cleanse our filth and /satisfy our guilty consciences…
You can check out more of Maxwell’s poetry on his blog. [blog has been deleted]
 
(H/T: Diplopundit)

Monday, May 20, 2013

Benghazi Is The Impeachable Offense In Current Trio of Scandals

In order to understand the current trifecta of scandals, and why the IRS one was "revealed" at the time it was made know via the press to the public, each American must familiarize themselves with the progressive propaganda machine.  Two methods often used by the ObaMAO regime are:

1.  Alinsky's Rules for Radicals - used to demonize the "other side" in politics and create a plethora of damage to our nation.

2.  Cloward and Piven Strategy to produce mayhem in order to get what progressives want done (i.e. Marxism, Islamism, Communism)  in order to destroy our Constitution and America. Most savvy conservative bloggers were onto such schemes way back in 2009. We all tried to warn the voters, but the combination of the media's slobbering love affair and their deceptive and corruption tactics enabled a horrid so-called "community organizer" to reach the highest level in our government. Well, the latest scandals have even one out of four democrats calling for Obama's impeachment! It is good to know that a majority of the people who were polled (see above link) in the WND article believe that Benghazi is the most egregious impeachable offense. Dr. Kates View blog has a post up entitled, "We Remember" As always, the post is excellent, but a LOT can be discerned about the Benghazi cover-up from some of the over 271 comments!

Here are just a few (with links to explore) that give us some "connect the dots" information that readers may not have considered or even heard about yet.

1.   Drew May 10, 2013 at 10:41 am
The Benghazi Investigation should determine the roles of Valerie Jarrett and David Axlerod in the quadruple murders and subsequent Obama admin. cover ups:
  
from – http://www.examiner.com/article/clinton-asked-for-more-security-benghazi-obama-said-no
Clinton asked for more security in Benghazi, Obama said no
By Christopher Collins – Examiner.com – October 25, 2012

Last night, it was revealed that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had ordered more security at the U.S. mission in Benghazi before it was attacked where four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens were murdered by Al-Qaeda but President Obama denied the request.

http://www.video.theblaze.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=25445923&source=THEBLAZE
The news broke on TheBlazeTV’s “Wilkow!” hosted by Andrew Wilkow, by best-selling author, Ed Klein (edwardklein.com) who said the legal counsel to Clinton had informed him of this information.
Klein also said that those same sources said that former President Bill Clinton has been “urging” his wife [Hillary] to release official State Department documents that prove she called for additional security at the compound in Libya, which would almost certainly result in President Obama losing the election.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ed-klein-bill-clinton-urging-hillary-to-release-benghazi-documents-that-would-exonerate-her-destroy-obamas-re-election-hopes/

Klein explained that everyone knew what was happening in Benghazi from the CIA to the National Security Agency and that there’s intelligence cables that have not been released.

Wilkow asked, “If everybody knew this including the White House, who would have given the order to go in and save the ambassador?”

Klein, “The President… he should have given the order to use the rapid reaction force…”
Wilkow, “Not Petraeus?”

Klein, “Well it has to come from the president.”

Wilkow also asked Klein about Valerie Jarrett who’s the Senior Advisor to Obama and Assistant to the President for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, and her role in this cover-up.

Klein said, “We don’t know but we can only assume that every action that the president takes, and he said so, he is on the record saying “I don’t take any actions without passing it by Valerie Jarrett”… so we have to assume that Valerie Jarrett whose also by the way, hooked into the Chicago campaign line… she has a direct line to David Axlerod, was a part of this whole cover-up in the White House.”

This latest news comes on the heels when the Paulding County Republican Examiner reported that former CIA officer, Clare Lopez was a guest on the Glenn Beck TV on Monday evening and told Beck, “They let our ambassador and others die. In real time, watching it happen, and they didn’t do anything about it.”

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Now, some people may not know much about Valerie Jarrett.  She is the "in the dark shadows of the regime" so-called 'advisor' of BHO.
 
See THIS POST for more information about Jarrett. She's an evil woman - to say the least!
Recall the following quote from Jarrett:



It may be difficult to read, on the graphic, so here's the quote:

QUOTE:

“After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.”

** Photo credit: Billy R. from Tea Party Community



Now class, please tell me who "everyone not with us" includes? 

The TEA Party? 

Pro-Life Advocates? 

Traditional marriage advocates? 

9/12 Project members? 

Christians? 

Oh yeah....and aren't these the very same groups that were harassed and targeted by the IRS?  Coincidence?  I don't think so!!!

But when we examine the trio of scandals rocking the ObaMARXIST BADministration right now, the IRS one (as bad as it is) still pales in comparison to the Benghazi cover-up.

Read what these commentators at Dr. Kate's View blog had to say:

Drew May 10, 2013 at 12:13 pm  

That Crazy Benghazi Conspiracy Theory? It Just Got Less Crazy

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2013/05/that-crazy-benghazi-conspiracy-theory.html
” Hostage swap … Under this operating theory, had all gone according to plan, the Obama administration would have secretly facilitated the capture of Ambassador Stevens. This would have permitted Obama to safely trade the Ambassador through the release of the Blind Sheikh. All of this would occur, of course, just before the election. Obama would take very public credit for Stevens’ safe return as well as a newly strengthened relationship with Egypt’s Morsi.”
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Benghazi-gate: Did two heroic SEALs ruin Obama’s October Surprise?

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/10/benghazi-gate-did-two-heroic-seals-ruin.html
” Not only did the president go to sleep after getting word of the attack, but it appears he also refused security briefings in the aftermath of the attack, instead simply departing for a fundraiser in Las Vegas. The theory being: the President didn’t need to stay awake after hearing of the attack. He didn’t need any briefings. He knew exactly what had happened.”

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drkateMay 10, 2013 at 1:45 pm
 
3 Reasons why Benghazi still matters…

 




email Comment from Charlite via h/t Joan Swirsky:
Study Chris Stevens carefully while recalling that this video was posted in its entirety by Al Jazeera, then picked up by cable and network outlets. It’s much longer than this one freeze frame, and it includes dozens of onlooker locals loudly proclaiming, “He’s ALIVE! He’s ALIVE! Allahu Akbar! He’s ALIVE!!!”

What is the significance of this? First, study Stevens. If he had already died, there would be no color in his face. It would be ashen. Furthermore, dead people cannot hold their heads up! He was dazed and semi-conscious. You can determine that from his blank stare, but there is no doubt whatsoever that Stevens was alive and that the onlookers were joyful. Why were they joyful? Why were they not tossing candies and sweets around while praising the ‘brave Ansar Al-Sharia Jihadists’ for having killed an American ambassador?……..Because those surrounding the facility knew and had known for some hours or days that Stevens was going to be kidnapped and then exchanged for Abu Rahman, one of the most ‘revered Islamic scholars’……..and a close friend and ‘hero’ to none other than fellow Egyptian Muhammad Morsi. The entire Jihadi underground knew all about what was going to happen on 9-11-12 in Benghazi.

This 9-11-12 stunt was pre-arranged at least since April of 2012 when Lady Macbeth signed her first of a half-dozen refusals to oblige Stevens and the facility in Benghazi with more security. Why was denial of security an essential element in this story, which was a heinous plot?………..because Hillary via Huma Abedin had guaranteed Morsi that Stevens would be an easy five minute smash and grab target. It was essential to Hillary’s plan that Stevens be totally unprotected. The surrounding crowd knew that. Only Stevens and the entire group of personnel in Tripoli and in Benghazi were unaware. Hence their increasingly frantic calls for extra security. Hence Hillary’s order to REMOVE twelve of the sixteen security personnel from Libya on August 12!! She not only refused an increase in security, which they were begging for, but less than one month before this arranged kidnapping plot, she left them with only FOUR security in Tripoli. Woods and Doherty were two of those four, and they both died because this treasonous regime continued to issue ‘Stand Down’ orders, or not to respond at all to their pleas for help. Three top generals and one admiral were FIRED within a day of 9-11-12 because they were preparing to disobey Soetoro’s ‘Stand down’ orders and to provide life saving help to their besieged fellow military people.

You heard Hicks tell the Issa committee on Wednesday that Stevens was at a hospital run by Ansar Al-Sharia. That’s correct. He was obviously taken there immediately after having been extracted from the safe room at the facility. The hospital staff worked for several hours trying to revive him! Why?…………..because Morsi via Abedin to Hillary had guaranteed the CIA and State Dept. conspirators that his Jihadis on the ground (Ansar Al-Sharia) would produce a LIVE HOSTAGE. Instead, they had to tell Morsi that Stevens had expired from smoke inhalation in the hospital. The ground team had set fire to the building when Stevens wasn’t located immediately, which Hillary had promised. They DID NOT KNOW that there was a safe room inside of the facility, nor that the safe room had no exit. They calculated (mistakenly) that if they started a fire, it would drive their intended hostage target out of the building and into their hands. That error in judgment explains this deadly SNAFU. It also explains the 4 to 6 hours during which Stevens’ whereabouts were unknown.

Once he had died in the hospital, and Morsi’s thugs saw that Woods and Doherty had come to rescue survivors and taken them to the annex, a truly deadly assault began on the annex because at that point the Morsi operatives were FURIOUS. They thought that they had been betrayed, so they attacked the annex for real……………..and all of this is what B. Hussein, Hillary and all of these deadly maggots are still trying to conceal. This is the true story. The Libyan version of Fast and Furious gun running is still true and still a scandal, but that’s NOT what this specific operation on 9-11-12 was about. It was a ‘one off’ operation to appease Muhammad Morsi who demanded that Rahman be freed and returned to Egypt. I’m amazed that no one has understood this even at the highest levels among conservative commentators, investigators, writers, radio talk show hosts, print and Internet journalists.

Now watch this 2 minute, 17 second video, but hit the STOP button at 29 seconds and ask yourself how a dead man would appear in this condition – no facial pallor, no slumping head, eyes glazed and unfocused indicating barely conscious, but certainly this is NOT a photo of a deceased Chrisopher Stevens. Incidentally, the original airing of the entire sequence from which this one freeze frame was taken shows several of the Libyan kidnappers passing Stevens through an open window. He is holding his head up, legs not dangling lifelessly while the crowd yells, “He’s ALIVE.” He was supposed to be alive! – a live hostage. Why isn’t this obvious?
Remember Lame Cherry was on this immediately in September 2012 when it happened…the 4 hours stevens was missing was when he was tortured and raped..smoke inhalation does not produce the gashes on his head and stains on his clothing and absence of clothing in other pictures. Did they throw him back into the hideout before the others found him or did it happen on the way to the hospital?…there was a double cross involved somehow…and the ambassador died not only from internal trauma but smoke inhalation.

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After what we learned via Greg Hicks and the other whistle blowers who testified at the House hearing last week, as well as the write-up from Charlite at Joan Swirsky's blog,  the "kidnapping of Stevens" theory makes more sense...doesn't it?

There are over 200 more comments that I could post here.  It might be worth your while to read them at Dr. Kate's blog.

Conclusion:

Even though there is embarrassment involved with the IRS scandal, it might be difficult to prove that ObaMARXIST had anything to do with it.  However, the Benghazi scandal whistleblowers have already revealed that Obummer, Hitlery, Biden, and others have LIED THEIR PANTS OFF in the Benghazi cover-up!  Of all the scandals, THAT is the one that could lead to Obama's impeachment and dismissal from office. 

They all belong in JAIL!!!


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Friday, May 17, 2013

Congressional Hearing: IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups

I'm watching the Congressional Hearing on the IRS targeting of Conservative groups on C-Span 2. They are now (at 8:00 a.m. PT) taking a 15 minute break so I thought that I would come on my blog and share some thoughts, comments, and links.

My first reaction at the time the break occurred was how UNBELIEVABLE this entire dog and pony show is becoming.  The witnesses being questioned are involved in stonewalling, evading, and trying to steer their answers away from any semblance of directness (or even respect for) to the Congressmen asking pertinent and direct questions that often only require a yes or no answer.

How outgoing IRS head Steven Miller could blatantly lie with a straight face that, "the actions were not politically motivated" is beyond comprehension!

The Fox News website certainly got it right when they wrote as the headline on the front page that ObaMAO's BADministration is guilty of being a "culture of cover-up."  I would add that it is a culture of corruption, too!

Fox News: Outgoing IRS chief apologizes for 'foolish' targeting, GOP rep calls program 'tip of the iceberg'

The members are heading back into the room so I will continue later.  However, I will also post additional links discussing this latest scandal.

Early this morning, I was listening to and watching the last portion of C-Span's interview with Representative Charles Boutsany When it was time for callers to weigh in on the discussion, a man from Ohio (I believe) stated that he and his family were audited and targeted because they home school their children. Apparently, the IRS agent that visited them for an audit told them that unless they could come up with a signature from someone (including a bus driver) at a local public school, they could not take the tax exemption for their home schooled children!! Is that absolutely outrageous or what??? We know that this BADministration is against homeschooling (see the case where the German family is being deported back to their country because homeschooling is illegal there) because they have always been against vouchers, charter schools, and homeschooling. Why? Because they want to indoctrinate all subsequent generations into their government run ideological prisons (see Common Core) and when parents take them out of the socialistic jails known as "public schools," the children will more likely reject such indoctrination being dumped into the minds of children who are being brainwashed (more like brain-dirtied) in such schools.  More about this in future posts.

Update:  According to Phyllis Schlafy, the dictators of Common Core will also infiltrate ALL kinds of schools!!!

Excerpt:

It's not only public schools that must obey the fed's dictates. Common Core will control the curriculum of charter schools, private schools, religious schools, Catholic schools and homeschooling.

Back to the topic.

I have just learned about the following article over at Red State.  The "connect the dots" information such as this article will eventually lead directly to the ObaMAO White House!!


Meet the Partisan Union Behind The Partisan Internal Revenue Service A union of government tax collectors that opposes small-government Conservatives & anti-tax Tea Parties--and Obama doesn't want a special prosecutor...Coincidence?



Excerpts:

The IRS & Executive Order 13522

In December 2009, during the first term of his presidency, in an effort to make the federal government more “union friendly,” President Obama issued Executive Order 13522.
 
In short, as noted in 2011, Executive Order 13522 establishes “labor-management forums” between union bosses (who may or may not be federal employees) and federal agency management.
As part of the directives under Executive Order 13522, agency heads are to engage union bosses in “pre-decisional discussions” before decisions are made–and those discussions are to be in secret and outside the purview of the Freedom of Information Act.
Pre-decisional discussions, by their nature, should be conducted confidentially among the parties to the discussions. This confidentiality is an essential ingredient in building the environment of mutual trust and respect necessary for the honest exchange of views and collaboration.
Coincidentally, among the agencies covered by Executive Order 13522 is the Internal Revenue Service, which is part of the Department of the Treasury, and whose agency employees are represented by the National Treasury Employees Union.

The fact that, under Executive Order 13522, federal agencies are being co-managed by union bosses and it appears that the perpetrators of the IRS scandal are likely to be members of the IRS union makes one wonder how coordinated the attacks were–especially as four of the alleged perpetrators are claiming their bosses made them do it.

More importantly, if their bosses made them engage in potentially illegal activities, why didn’t they go to their union to file a grievance?

No Need For Special Prosecutor?

That Barack Obama, his fellow Democrats and their union boss allies have demonized Conservatives and the Tea Party (in general) is not new. It’s been occurring since 2009 and has been especially vociferous since the 2010 mid-term elections.

However, given the quickness that Barack Obama stated there is no need for a special prosecutor in light of the IRS scandal–especially given the extent of known coordination that goes on between the White House and union bosses on messaging and election-year tactics–makes one wonder if there is more to the controversy than a few “rogue” IRS workers.

In fact, it seems that, given the power that an agency like the IRS has, as well as the extent of power union bosses have been given witinh federal agencies under Executive Order 13522, there is more need than ever to have a special prosecutor look for the root of the scandal.

Despite the fact that the President feels there is no need for a special prosecutor, as the IRS scandal continues to escalate, more questions will be raised than will be answered by Eric Holder’s Justice Department or through a Congressional inquiry.

The questions that should be asked and answered do not stop with the convenient scapegoating of one already-leaving agency head, and a few “rogue” employees.

It will take a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of it.

Read it all HERE.

Also see:


Noonan: This Is No Ordinary Scandal Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government.
15 minutes ago
 
 
IRS official won’t say who is responsible for scandal: ‘I don’t have names for you’
27 minutes ago
 
 
“IRS official who oversaw unit targeting Tea Party now heads ObamaCare office”
32 minutes ago
 
 
TOP IRS OFFICIAL STEVEN MILLER: “I Don’t Think Targeting Is Wrong” (Video)
1 hour ago
 
 
Jon Stewart Continues Piling on Scandal-Plagued Obama: He’s Either Nixon or Mr. Magoo
14 hours ago
 
 
Commieblaster provides even more outrageous background information and facts posted prior to today's hearing:
 
IRS STOLE 60 MILLION MEDICAL RECORDS!

Boehner: Who's Going to Jail?


Catholic Prof. Audited After Speaking Against Obama, IRS Wanted to Know Who Paid Her

Obama Campaign Attacked Romney with Leaked IRS Docs

Tea Party Group Sent IRS Copy of Constitution When Asked for Reading Materials

IG: 63% of Groups Withdrew Applications or Unresolved

IRS Wants You to Share Everything

Senate Dems Pressured IRS

Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) Wrote "Pressure Letters" to IRS

Obama Classmate: I Told You
GOV'T LIES DU JOUR

WH: 'No Reason' to Believe IRS Targeting Was Politically Motivated

IRS Chief Steven Miller Blames Two “Rogue” Agents in Cincinnati


In Response to Email Request: Holder Calls Issa "Shameful"


Sheila Jackson Lee Tried to Halt Hearing - Ruled Out of Order
 


IRS CRIMES

- Muslim Orgs Got Fast Lane Approvals
- IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Obamacare IRS Office

- IRS Rejected Group on Behalf of Planned Parenthood
- 2nd IRS Official Resigns - Actually Retiring
- Senate Dems Block IRS Condemnation
- IRS Can't be Trusted to Implement Obamacare
- Thrill Up Tingle's Leg Gone - Says Obama's Accountable
- MSNBC Blames White Supremacy


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IRS planted question at ABA mtg disclosing targeting of conservatives
William A. Jacobson at Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion - 3 minutes ago

When Lois Lerner was asked a question at an American Bar Association about complaints regarding treatment of conservative groups, and Lerner made the admission and apology, TPM noted IRS Official’s Admission Baffled Audience At Tax Panel: The fateful question came from a tax lawyer, in a room filled with dozens of them. It came at [...]
 

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