Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and John Cornyn (R-TX) — the top two Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate — announced yesterday that they will support “cloture” on the government funding bill, giving Harry Reid and the Democrats a procedural green light to fund Obamacare with only 50 votes. […] We knew Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn weren’t with us when they voted to fund Obamacare earlier this year. But then, under pressure from grassroots, they said they supported the effort to defund it. They even ran political ads in their home states to make voters think they were on their side.
But now, faced with the prospect of having to fight for the things they claim to believe, these Senate leaders have surrendered.
Mitch McConnell and John Cornyn have surrendered to Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and the Democrats. More importantly, they have surrendered to Obamacare — the biggest job killer in America. (link to do something about it)
It’s not an official Senate filibuster, because Harry Reid is using a procedural rules trick to strip the Obamacare defunding segment from the House Bill.    Ted Cruz is vowing to speak as long as possible to stop the “cloture” vote.
The “Cloture Vote”, is a pre-vote of sorts to enable Harry Reid to remove the Obamacare aspect with a simple 51 votes – Which Harry Reid has with Democrats alone.
Therefore anyone who votes for cloture is actually voting to support the Harry Reid process, and voting to support, ie. fund,  Obamacare.
This is where the Decepticons in the Republican ranks will show their manipulative faces.   They will vote for “cloture”, which relies on Republican support because the threshold is 61 votes affirming, then turn around and vote against the bill’s passage because their votes are not needed because the threshold drops to 51 votes (a simple majority) to pass.
So the Decepticons like Mitch McConnell will vote for cloture, then vote against the bill, and return to their campaign base claiming they voted against the bill.    The truth is they voted to support the bill, then voted against it only because after cloture it will pass without their support. (more…)

NEWSBUSTERS – Dare a top newspaper journalist to play connect-the-dots and chances are he’ll fail miserably – at least with drawing the line between Islam and terrorism.

In Nairobi, Kenya last weekend, Islamist militants took over a high-end shopping mall and began executing non-Muslims. In Pakistan, Islamist suicide bombers detonated at a Christian Church on Sunday.

Yet on Monday, September 23, 90 percent of the top ten (via circulation numbers) daily newspapers’ headlines in the United States censored the words “Islam” and Muslim” from Nairobi and Pakistan reports. One – the New York Daily News – didn’t even have a headline for the latest Islamic terrorist attacks. That’s journalism at its finest. (more…)

From cartoonist A.F. Branco.

Kenya – An off-duty member of the SAS emerged as a  hero of the Nairobi siege yesterday, after he was credited with saving up to 100  lives.
The soldier was having coffee at the Westgate  mall when it was attacked by Islamists on Saturday.
With a gun tucked into his waistband, he was  pictured helping two women from the complex.
He is said to have returned to the building  on a dozen occasions, despite intense gunfire.
A friend in Nairobi said: ‘What he did was so  heroic. He was having coffee with friends when it happened.
‘He went back in 12 times and saved 100  people. Imagine going back in when you knew what was going on  inside.’  (more…)

Their ruse is dependent upon you not knowing…..

Last week U.S. liberals coast to coast were proclaiming that Pope Francis was welcoming to Homosexuality, endorsing of Abortion rights, and darn near a Democrat.  They thought they had their Pope Heinous The Great…. 
Now this….
…..  [Telegraph]  From all of last week’s headlines saying that the Pope wants to forget this nonsense about abortion and gays, you’d imagine that Germaine Greer had been elected to run the Catholic Church. Actually what the Pope was saying was that he wants the Church to talk more about what it’s for than what it’s against. But that doesn’t mean it won’t still be against those things that contradict its teachings and traditions.
Just ask Greg Reynolds of Melbourne – a priest who appears to have been both defrocked and excommunicated because of his radical views on women clergy and gay marriage. From Australia’s The Age:
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From time to time folks ask me for references;  I provide them when possible, but I always qualify the referral should be independently queried for comfort – which brought me recently to an interesting conversation.…
Experience has taught me one of the easiest ways to avoid problems in life is to avoid Democrats as if they carry a horrific contagious infection.
It just makes life easier.
If you are going to an attorney ask their political identity.  If you are going to a doctor ask them who they voted for.   If you are hiring a person to provide any product or service in your life begin the interaction with simple question(s):   Are you a Democrat?
You would be amazed at what you will avoid, and how much better your life will be.
If you are buying a car, ask the salesperson.   If you are going to buy or sell your home ask the agent.    Considering a school, ask the teachers/professors and/or the Principal/Administration.    You son or daughter gets an invitation to a Birthday Party, ask the Mom or Dad who are hosting.   Anytime an opportunity presents itself, just ask. (more…)

I absolutely stole the HEADLINE from Biggie at iOTW…..

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

Stop me when you’ve heard this one before.   Three black teenagers punch a…..  [this should not be a surprise when you consider THIS]
NEW JERSEY – Three New Jersey boys, two age 13 and one 14, have been arrested and charged with killing a homeless man after allegedly stalking and killing him in what police are calling a game of ‘knockout.’
The teens are accused of following Ralph Santiago, 46, and punching him in the back of the head in broad daylight in Hoboken, New Jersey, on September 10.
He fell against a fence and snapped his neck, killing him. His body was left on the quiet residential street before it was discovered by a passerby.
The boys were taken into custody and charged on Friday after prosecutors released surveillance images of the suspects in the hopes of identifying whoever killed Mr Santiago. (more…)