Len Bilen's Blog

Obama Scolds Jan Brewer at arrival to Arizona. A Limerick.

lenbilen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:07:44 +0000

Obama did scold Mrs. Brewer.

She is head of State, respect due her.

Granted, she stood her ground,

And her reason is sound:

Defend her State’s rights when they sue her.

Warren Buffet profiting from working on the railroad.

lenbilen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:48:28 +0000

Warren Buffet profiting from working on the railroad.

Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC is among U.S. and Canadian railroads that stand to benefit from the Obama administration’s decision to reject TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone XL oil pipeline permit.

With modest expansion, railroads can handle all new oil produced in western Canada through 2030, according to an analysis of the Keystone proposal by the U.S. State Department.

I’ve been workin’ on Obama,

All the live long day.

And I told him without drama

Ship the oil my way.

Don’t you hear the hot air blowing?

Rise from the pundits every morn.

Don’t you hear the people shouting

“Sarah, won’t you run?”

Sarah, won’t you run,
Sarah, won’t you run,
Sarah, won’t you run the race for us?
Sarah, won’t you run,
Sarah, won’t you run,
Sarah, won’t you run the race?

Something big is cooking with Sarah.
Something is cooking up, I know.
Something big is cooking with Sarah
Strumming on the old banjo.

Fee, fie, fiddle-e-lies
Fee, fie, fiddle-my-Obama.
Fee, fie, fiddle-e-lies
Strumming on the old banjo.

On State of the Union speech Obama sounded like a broken record.

lenbilen — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:47:00 +0000

With sounds of a much broken record
Obama can’t stand on his record.
We are drowning in debt!
Not a promise he kept.
Each day our debt hits a record.

Sarah Palin mocks Obama’s 57 states, then gets cut off. A Limerick.

lenbilen — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:10:35 +0000

Obama: Our two score and seventeen states
A Freudian slip, that’s what the left hates.
U.S.A., OIC*
Not the same, not to me,
But Sarah pokes fun when Obama misstates.
*The Organisation of Islamic States, an organization with 57 member nations.

Is Obama a Christian? A Limerick.

lenbilen — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:30:33 +0000

Shahada, professing Obama’s belief
That makes him a Muslim, much to our grief
He keeps saying this:
A Christian he is.
Unless he is baptized, he lies like a thief.

In Feb 2008 Obama said: “Here are the simple facts. I am a Christian. I am a devout Christian. I have been a member of the same church for 20 years. I pray to Jesus every night.”
We’ve all heard by now that Obama became a Christian mostly to expedite his political career and that the Trinity United Church of Christ he joined, presided over by Reverend Jonathan Wright, was not exactly mainstream. We’ve heard about Wright’s damning of America and we know that the church was — and might still be — a hot bed of black nationalism. But what is not as well known is that no baptism is required, nor must Muslims renounce Islam to be accepted as full members in that church.
Obama mentioned his two children were baptized by Rev. Wright. He has as of today made no reference to his own baptism, nor does the media seem to be the least interested if he is or not.
On February 27th 2007, speaking to Kristof of The New York Times, Barack Hussein Obama said the Muslim call to prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, “with a first-class [Arabic] accent.”
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:

“Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet? ”

According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim’s complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam. Obama chanted it with pride and finesse.
Here is a call to prayer at sunset:

Do you think it is one of the prettiest sounds on earth?
So which Jesus does Obama pray to every night? Is it the Christian Jesus Christ as stated in the Apostles Creed?
I believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come again to judge the living and the dead.

Or is it: I believe in Jesus the Muslim, a great Prophet,
who was conceived by a decree from Allah,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was not crucified, did not die , and was never buried;
he descended not to the dead.
On the third day he did not rise again;
but ascended immediately into heaven,
Allah raised him up unto Himself,
and he will come again and deny he ever claimed divinity, he will defeat the anti-Christ, give witness that Muhammad is the supreme last and final Prophet, that all the world must convert to Islam or perish, and after that peace will come?

The Keystone XL pipeline decision: A view from Canada. Rebuttal from the Obama campaign.

lenbilen — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:12:17 +0000

From our neigbor in the North comes this unbiased opinion about the Keystone XL pipeline decision.

Here is the other side of the story, given to you by your friendly Obama/Biden 2012 campaign:

The Pope warns visiting U.S. bishops of Radical Secularism. A Limerick.

lenbilen — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:41:49 +0000

The Pope warned of Radical Secularism.
As bad as his youth was in Hitler’s Nazism.
Religious freedom
Gone from our czardom.
What remains is a Secular Humanism.
Pope Benedict XVI issued a solemn warning about the erosion of religious freedom in the United States, in a January 19 address to visiting American bishops.
He told the bishops that “it is imperative that the entire Catholic community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church’s public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres.” He added: “The seriousness of these threats needs to be clearly appreciated at every level of ecclesial life.”
The US should be a land thoroughly committed to religious freedom in light of its history and the fundamental principles of the nation’s founding, the Pope argued. He said:
“At the heart of every culture, whether perceived or not, is a consensus about the nature of reality and the moral good, and thus about the conditions for human flourishing. In America, that consensus, as enshrined in your nation’s founding documents, was grounded in a worldview shaped not only by faith but a commitment to certain ethical principles deriving from nature and nature’s God. Today that consensus has eroded significantly in the face of powerful new cultural currents which are not only directly opposed to core moral teachings of the Judeo-Christian tradition, but increasingly hostile to Christianity as such.”
The loss of religious freedom, the Pontiff warned, is “a threat not just to Christian faith, but also to humanity itself.” He explained: “When a culture attempts to suppress the dimension of ultimate mystery, and to close the doors to transcendent truth, it inevitably becomes impoverished and falls prey, as the late Pope John Paul II so clearly saw, to reductionist and totalitarian readings of the human person and the nature of society.”

Mitt Romney can’t go after Obama on Crony Capitalism, Sarah Palin can, A Limerick.

lenbilen — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:43:22 +0000

The croniest capitalism
Obama’s is sort of fascism
But Romney can’t say
He is out of the fray
So Run, Sarah Run, for we can’t have a schism.

Sarah Palin: Criminal penalty if vote traded for campaign contribution.
[The Alaska Senate watered down the 2007 ethics bill] The Senate’s action was politics-as-usual. We were determined to keep the pressure on.
That pressure paid off when legislators approved an omnibus ethics bill. It included my administration’s ethics proposal, as well as the House’s muscular amendment that imposed criminal penalties on lawmakers who traded votes for campaign contributions. Plus, any legislator convicted of a felony would forfeit his or her state pension.
We were pleased that no one could claim pride of authorship on this. Finally the Capitol had pulled together and passed a strong bill. A Democrat lawmaker noted: “This is one of the best pieces of work I’ve seen come out of the legislature because it came out as a policy document and not a political document.” It was music to my ears: POLICY, not politics.
From Going Rogue, by Sarah Palin, p.156

Obama and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Keystone XL pipeline decision.

lenbilen — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:19:37 +0000

The Obama administration announced Nov. 10 it would delay a politically explosive decision on the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline until after the 2012 elections. Congress corrected this dithering by forcing Obama to make a decision one way or another. He chose not to build it.
This decision was bad on so many levels it is hard to count them all.Let’s try to look at the ways:
Canada has oil sands and is exploiting the resources.
U.S. is dependent on importing a large portion of its crude oil.
The cheapest and most efficient way to transport crude oil is through a pipe line. It is also the safest and most reliable way of getting crude oil from point A to point B.
To not O.K. the pipeline increases the cost and makes us more dependent of crude oil from the Middle East and Nigeria, as well as Venezuela.
Canada really, really wanted this deal. It would help improve our relations. Now they are strained.
The unions really wanted the jobs. It would supply them with more than 20000 direct, well-paid jobs. In addition there is secondary business generated whenever a project of this magnitude is undertaken. Why not generate jobs?
The newly discovered oil fields in North Dakota and Montana could use the pipeline as well. Now they will have to go it alone or transport their oil on railroad or barge traffic instead, a more expensive and less safe option.
So why did Obama delay the decision? It was because of the environmentalists.
Let us examine why this decision was equally horrible from an environmentalist’s perspective.
Canada is a sovereign nation. They have the oil and will sell or use it one way or another.
The most energy conserving way is to transport it through a pipeline. Transport via train, truck or barge uses more energy (read more CO2), Canada will sell it’s oil to China if we don’t want it.
China has a well deserved reputation for producing a lot of pollution. The best environmental solution is for us to import this oil.
Nebraska protested there was a danger to damage their aquifer. The Keystone XL management offered to reroute the pipeline away from this sensitive aquifer, thereby solving that objection.
By not importing oil from Canada the total carbon footprint will increase. We lose, and Canada loses. (I am not concerned that the CO2 is increasing, but that a valuable natural resource is excessively depleted.)
Now it turns out that Canada has left the Kyoto Protocol, thereby being free to burn as much of its carbon as they want. Was that really what the environmentalists wanted?
So why did Obama first delay the decision until after the 2012 election, and then when forced deny the permit?
Here are five possibilities:
1. Obama is a true believer that ”this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”. As a true environmentalist his role can not be overestimated
.2. Obama is deliberately wrecking our economy, refuses to have an energy policy that will create jobs, but will support protest movements and foment unrest.
3. Obama is acting on orders from Global Governance people that do want U.S. to be totally dependent on international law and U.N. mandates.
4. Obama promised to be Brazil’s best customer from their deep sea oil drilling success, paid for by U.S. loan guarantees. He must be true to his promises.
5. Obama is half insane and surrounded by bad advisors.

This is the best I can do to explain the reasons for this decision.

With Romney the Republicans are content with Obamacare. A Limerick.

lenbilen — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:19:36 +0000

Sarah’s old motto: Repeal and replace.
Romneycare is Massachusetts disgrace.
“We must all have health-care.”
Republicans don’t dare
to challenge insane law: The Federal Maze.