Venezuela's Strict Gun Control, 18,960 Deaths Reported This Year.

• If they have no guns, what are they using?
• Firearms were used in 80% of deaths, knives and sharp objects for the remainder, according to the news report.
• I wonder what the death report is for Mexico?
• Proof that gun control does not stop killings.

Read more from EL UNIVERSAL, CARACAS by Maria Isoliett Iglesias, Deivis Ramirez Miranda.
Translated by Conchita Delgardo Rivas.

Sunday Psalm and Prayer

Psalm 1

Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel
   of the ungodly,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and
   night.
He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.

The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives
   away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
   judgement.
Nor sinners in the congregation of the
   righteous.
For the Lord knows the way of the
   righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

New King James Version 

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen

$25 Gun Tax In Chicago. Impedes Citizens' Self Defense. Gun Control Not Working.

• Chicago's killing count is near 500 this year, it will go over the mark this weekend.
• Bet on it.
• People want to protect themselves, so the tax makes it harder for them.
• You will find that arrests are never made.
• Gangs rule, police cannot deal with it.

An excerpt from the Fox News Report,

The new tax was sold to the public with the idea that it would offset the public cost of medical care for shooting victims.
According to Board President Toni Preckwinkle's own numbers, that cost was just shy of $35 million.
Yet the estimated revenue for the new tax will be roughly $600,000. 

• So it cannot be about funding medical seriously, it is about gun control, the Obama agenda.

Read the rest of the news from FOXNEWS.

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Jobs Galore for Skilled Workers In Canada's Energy Boom.

• This could happen in the USA if Obama and his Democrats release our vast potential which rivals Canada's.
• Obama wants to add jobs but only government jobs.
• I imagine this boom in Canada, is typical of the boom in North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Texas.
• Housing has been a problem in North Dakota.
• Here in my California, we have vast oil shale and offshore oil potential that rivals all our states.
• It sickens me to write about it, when our President and Governor has a purposeful strategy to foot drag on any project to bring jobs.

Read more from  FOX NEWS.

Accountability Is Lacking for Americans Murdered In Benghazi

• Fast and Furious murders, the blame never got to the person that ordered the murders. We have heard no more about this, and probably never will.
• Now we have this Benghazi crime!
• Secretary Clinton calls in sick!
• We are awash in sin and corruption.
• Will some brave soul come forth and tell all.

Read an excellent editorial on corruption in high places here at INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY

Chicago Celebrates Bloody Christmas Eve: Seven Shot In Gun Free City.

• Gun free city, but not for the gangsters.
• No arrests reported.
• Travel warning; avoid Chicago.
• Proof that gun control does not work.

Reported by BREIGHTBART BIG GOVERNMENT.

May the Truth of Christmas Be Upon Us.

Isaiah 7:14

"Therefore the Lord himself
shall give you a sign; Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a
son, and shall call his name 
Immanuel."

King James Version

Foretold 700 years before Christ's birth.

Gun Control Is Not Going to Make Our Kids Safer: Says NRA Wayne La Pierre.

• Gun control takes the weapons from good citizens, but the criminals or crazies keep theirs.
• Go back to the old way, if your judged crazy, you go to the asylum. 
• One armed person in the school could have stopped the killings.
• The leftists put on a face of loving children, but they are OK with millions aborted every year.

 Read the rest from WASHINGTON POST by Aaron Blake

Sunday Psalm and Prayer

Psalm 1

Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel
   of the ungodly,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and
   night.
He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.

The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives
   away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
   judgement.
Nor sinners in the congregation of the
   righteous.
For the Lord knows the way of the
   righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

New King James Version 

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen

NY Times Is Racist, Says Former Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain.

• The Times implies that blacks need welfare.
• What an insult to blacks.
• But will they protest?
• The Times is soon to be bankrupt.
• Martin Luther King Jr.,  we miss him.
• God help us.

More news and opinions from THE DAILY CALLER by Carolina May.

A Rise In NRA Membership After Conn. School Shooting.

• If the teachers had guns, the outcome would have been very different.
• I don't own a gun, but may join the NRA.
• Free speech is enforced by Amendment #2.
• Wish I had bought stock in Smith and Wesson a few years back.
• The Police come after the crime, they cannot prevent or protect.

Read more from FOX NEWS

Racist New York Times Says Black Republican Senator Is a Token.

• Does this mean there should be no blacks in the U.S. Senate?
• How many blacks in the U.S. Congress leadership of the Democrat party?
• There are none.
• There has been no black senator from the south since the 1880's.
• Have you ever wondered how these black Democrats feel about keeping them down on the plantation?

Read more from MEDIAITE by Noah Rothman.

Obama's Electric Cars Has No Resale Value, So Nobody Buys.

• Replace costly battery ($12,000), value plummets.
• What if you want to take a trip, 4 hours to recharge after 40 miles, a 400 mile trip to Las Vegas, would take 40 hours just charging the battery.
• Then you must have recharge stations all along the way. 
• They are not there and never will be.
• Cold weather influences battery efficiency.
• Heater or air conditioners if you dare use them, will take battery energy as well.
• What if there is a brown out or black out and you cannot charge your battery, you can go nowhere.
• Obama's futile venture is a failure.

This excellent report from PJ MEDIA by Seton Motley.

Teachers Union Asserts That Teachers Should Not Be Armed.

• What a stupid statement. Unbelievable!
• If the teachers or principals were armed, the outcome probably be no children murdered.
• If the teachers will not agree, relieve them and hire them that will.
• Unions, our nations greatest scourge.
• Gun free zones; but not for the criminals.
• Chicago, a gun free city, had 500 murders this year.

More from WASHINTON EXAMINER by Joel Gerhrke.

In Chicago's Gun Free City, On Friday Afternoon, 10 Wounded.

• Chicago, is more dangerous than Afghanistan.
• Marksmanship is missing here.
• Is anybody ever arrested?
• Does anyone care?

Read the rest from the CHICAGO SUN TIMES

Sick Today, Back Monday.

California Had a Net Loss of 100,000 People In 2011. Most Went to Texas.

• California, a nice climate and unsurpassed scenery; but has unsurpassed taxes, unreasonable environmental laws, out of control immigration and public and private unions.
• Only the rich can leave or those that are not  rich, but out of a job.
• The rich can pack up and leave in an hour.
• We that have a mortgage, love our home, city, friends, church, won't leave.
• We will pay a high price to stay.

 An excerpt from the editorial;

The Tax Foundation ranks California behind only New York and New Jersey as the worst state in its 2013 Business Tax Climate Index. It is the fourth worst state in which to make a living, according to Money Rates; has the fourth highest income tax burden, says the Tax Foundation; and has the third highest jobless rate.
As if the tax millstone weren't already heavy enough, the voters decided in November to approve Proposition 30, which increases the state sales and income taxes.

• The old saying, you have to hit bottom before going back up.
• Looks like California is hitting bottom and a hard lesson is ahead.

Read more of this excellent editorial from INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY

Michigan's Gov. Snyder Makes It the 24th Pro-Worker State, As Defined by the Governor.

• Brave Michigan legislatures stepped forward and got it done.
• Will they have to have police protection for them and their family from the labor thugs?
• A historical moment due to this state being well known as a labor union stronghold.
• Will others follow?
• Sure hope so.
• Would never happen in my California, sorry to say.
• Freedom to choose your work place without joining any organization, that's the American way.
• Make the right to choose a national agenda starting in the U.S.House Chamber.
• Government unions removed all competion in work rules, wages, pensions, whereas at least in private unions you at least had to bargain with a employer while the competion kept on working and producing. This weakens the strikers.

Read more from the DETROIT NEWS by Chad Livengood and Karen Bouffard.

Chicago Weekend Carnage: 2 Dead, 14 Injured.

• Once a great city. In olden times it was called The City That Works.
• When will these murders end?
• It is safer in Afghanistan.
• There should be travel warnings.
• Many good citizens should be protesting.

Read more about it in the CHICAGO TIMES . 

New High In Food Stamp Users is Now 47.7 Million.

• Is that 47.7 million voters for Obama?
• It used to be if you were on food stamps, you would be ashamed.
• The going trend these days; if you can work the system, go for it.
• Less than half of the U.S. has to pay for this.
• Obama says unemployment is down, then how can food stamps use be increasing?
• The media supports these cooked unemployment figures.

Read the rest of the story in the DAILY CALLER by Caroline May. 

Sunday Psalm and Prayer

Psalm 1

Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel
   of the ungodly,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and
   night.
He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.

The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives
   away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
   judgement.
Nor sinners in the congregation of the
   righteous.
For the Lord knows the way of the
   righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

New King James Version 

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen

Small Business, Major U.S. Employer, A Dour Forecast Is Record Low Hiring.

• Would Obamacare be a major factor?
• With more taxes and regulations forthcoming, why put up with it? Close the shop.

An excerpt from the news report,

Last month, 21% of small business owners said they expected to lower head count over the next six months — the highest percentage recorded by the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index since its launch in 2003. In July, the last time the data was compiled, just 10% of bosses said they planned to shrink employee ranks.

• Hope and Change. There is no hope: change is what we have already have had for 4 years.

More to read from the LA TIMES by Tiffany Hsu.

Right to Work Passes In Michigan.

• Good news!
• Next step, the judges.
• This is quite an achievement knowing that auto workers at one time were in control.
• Detroit, a dead city.
• Being converted into farmland.
• Now if right to work could happen in California, but no chance for that.

Read more from the PJ MEDIA by Bryan Preston

House GOP Proposed a Select Committee(Watergate Type) for Benghazi Apparent Cover-up.

• Four Americans dead and the scandal is being swept under the rug.
• Do the families of the deceased have to sue for justice?
• Will this go the same way and fast and furious?
• Too many questions remain unanswered.
• General Petraeus has hired an expensive attorney, so he is obviously in deep trouble.
• The General's book sales will cover his legal fees. Ha.
• Obama will pardon him if he takes the blame.

More from the WASHINGTON FREE BEACON by Adam Kredo.

Ethanol, a Failed Congressional Program, May Be Ending.

• Good news!
• Burning good food, that's immoral!
• Cost of all food will drop.
• When the government subsidizing ends, that ends the programs.
• What foolish plan will our congress go for next?
• Wind and solar government programs are subsidized, hopefully, these will end as well.

Read more from the WASHINGTON FREE BEACON by CJ Ciaramella. 

Windmills For the East Coast, but No Oil Leases Says Obama.

• Wind energy is not a proven energy source.
• Cannot operate without subsidizing from the government.
• UK and Spain are not increasing sites.
• If the subsidy money stops, so will the industry.
• Anybody with a brain realizes that the wind industry is a loser.

More from CNSNEWS by Susan Jones.

City Attorney of Bankrupt Calif. City After Loss of 80 Police Advises,' Lock Your Doors and Load Your Guns.'

• This report states that since 2011, the city has had a 50 percent increase in murders.
• Governor Brown's tax increase will save this city. Ha.
• Load your guns, first you have to get a permit and then afford to buy a gun.
• The police arrive after the crime, no prevention with this policy!
• Years ago, if you looked suspicious, the police would ask some questions.
• No more.
• Politically correctness rules.
• Once we could be proud to say we were from California.
• Now we are laughed at.

Read more from this excellent report of the DAILY CALLER by Jessica Stanton.

Sunday Psalm and Prayer

Psalm 1

Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel
   of the ungodly,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and
   night.
He shall be like a tree
Planted by the rivers of water,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither;
And whatever he does shall prosper.

The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives
   away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
   judgement.
Nor sinners in the congregation of the
   righteous.
For the Lord knows the way of the
   righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish.

New King James Version 

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen

Special Ethanol Blend E15 May Damage Vehicles Reports AAA, Who Wants E15 Removed.

• Does any normal person check to see if they are pumping fuel to ruin their vehicle?
• Obama's plan: All cars to finally be inoperative and be forced to run on solar. Ha.
• Leave it to the government to screw things up.

More to read from HUMAN EVENTS by Audrey Hudson.