Here Comes Uncle Sama Claus

Uncle Sama Claus was born at the second Occupy Eugene meeting of last year. I discribed myself as the Giving Socialist Saint of Secular Solutions. I had a Soviet flag on my back that served as my cape. I was a Super Hero of Government Give Away Program. S stands for Super Socialist – and Saint Sama Claus.

“I am everyone’s generous uncle! Free Cokes for everyone!” I declared.

In the last week, Republican Sore Losers are blaming Obama promising everyone who votes for him “free stuff” for their losses. Our Presdient must be reading my blog.

I walked about the Occupy camp dressed as Uncle Sama Claus, and the campus of the University of Oregon. I took a photo in front of the Big O with one of my Worthy Takers, a disabled Elf in a wheelchair. This O is in the background of College Game Day as I type.

GO DUCKS! HO HO HO!

It takes guts to stand up for what you believe in – least put on a costume and march around town. I believed the FREE STUFF issue would dominate our nation’s politics – a year before most voters heard of it. You can give thanks to Bill Cornwell, who convinced my daughter I was a “parasite”.

Hey Bill! Look who’s in the driver’s seat – for a long time to come!

Uncle Sama Claus will be adressing the idea that God has chosen secular and socialist soultions over the religious ones that Billy and Franklin Graham have promoteed – to no avail! This father and son back the Socialist Nation of Israel, that has Free Medical For All. The Grahams want the tax payer to keep giving FREE STUFF to Israel so they can do battle with God’s alleged enemies. I might be God’s No.1 Enemy, so, save your hard earned money.

One has to wonder why I am being honored on Jesus’ birthday. For this reason I am a great supporter of the Post Office that belongs to We the People, who come December use the Post Office as America’s collective church, we sending Holy Messages – and tons of Free Stuff – all over Christiandom. Why would Holy Republicans want to see the Post Offices, privatized, where a board of directors meet to see how many more pennies they can squeeze out of True Believers?

“Yes Vigrinia, there is a Uncle Sama Claus. Would you like some free food and condoms?”

Perhaps greedy corporate donators to the Republican cause should take over chruches in America to make sure they are well-oiled political donating machines come elections time.

Billy Graham took out an ad that says a vote for a Republican, is a vote for God. I say………Take! Take! Take! you loyal Americans, you jolly lovers of TRADITIONAL FREE STUFF, for tis the season to take! Send me a letter via your Congressman, and ask him or her to keep the keep the Post Office out of the greedy grasp of Corporate Parasites and Cayman Island Pirates!

Saint Uncle Sama Claus

Franklin Graham to Newsmax: ‘We Have Turned Our Backs on God’
Thursday, 15 Nov 2012 11:20 AM

By Todd Beamon and Kathleen Walter

The Rev. Franklin Graham charged in an exclusive Newsmax TV interview that America is in a deep economic quagmire because “we have turned our backs on God.”

“The more we turn our backs on God, the bigger our problem becomes,” Graham, the son of world-renowned evangelist Billy Graham, tells Newsmax in a wide-ranging interview. “I didn’t hear any of the candidates say that we needed to call our nation to prayer. I didn’t hear any of the candidates say that we needed to ask God for help.

Watch the exclusive interview here.

“We still think that we can work our way out of this problem – and I don’t think we can,” Graham added. “I don’t have confidence in the Republican Party right now, and I don’t have confidence in the Democratic Party.

“I don’t believe there is leadership in Washington that can solve this problem. We just deal with it as issues for the day, and it kicks the can further and further down the road. We need God’s help to solve this problem – we can’t go without God.”

Last week’s election results, which sent President Barack Obama back to the White House for another four years, put the nation further along a “path of destruction,” Graham said.

“There is no question that America has been a nation that has been blessed by almighty God. There is no other nation in the history of mankind that has done what his nation has done – and it’s because of God’s hand and his blessing.

“In the last four years, we have begun to turn our backs on God,” Graham reiterated. “We have taken God out of our education system. We have taken him out of government. You have lawyers that sue you every time you mention the name of Jesus Christ in any public forum.

“What has happened is we have allowed ourselves to take God out everything that we do – and I believe that God will judge our nation one day.”

And, “maybe God will have to bring our nation to our knees – to where that we just have a complete economic collapse” to do that, Graham said. “Maybe at that point, people will again call upon the name of almighty God.”

Graham is the president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. The association’s tax-exempt status is under threat from a complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

The foundation, based in Madison, Wis., contends that the Graham association’s “vote biblical values” ad campaign during the election season violated IRS rules regarding religious groups and political campaigning, according to news reports.

“It’s ridiculous,” Graham charged. “The African-American churches do this all the time. Candidates go to their churches and stand in the pulpits and give political messages and sermons. Why can’t we do the same?

“We didn’t tell anybody how to vote for a candidate. We told them how to choose candidates – and made that plural – who backed Biblical principles. There are a lot of Republicans, Tea Party people, Democrats that we focused these ads on.

“We wanted people to remember that, as they were going into the voting booth, that there were political decisions, no question, but there also were moral issues,” Graham added. “At every level, we need to think about who we are voting for and encourage Christians, especially, to vote for candidates who support biblical values.”

The move by the Wisconsin group, Graham said, reflected a broader push by the far left.

“They want to shut the mouths of evangelicals. They want to shut the mouths of Christians.

“One hundred years ago, political leaders in every community were the pastors. They were the voices that were heard. They were the voices that had the influence. Politicians know that and the government knows that – and they are trying to shut the mouths of especially evangelicals.

“I’m going to continue to speak out,” Graham vowed. “I’m not afraid. I’m not worried.”

While the US has as many as 35 million evangelicals, Graham said, “It’s hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It’s been diluted quite a bit. It is a powerful voting bloc, no question, but they’re liberal as well as conservative – and they’re made of Latinos, blacks, whites.

“It is a unique group of people and, this time, many of them did not vote,” he added. “They stayed away from the polls. I don’t agree that they turned out in record number. I don’t think they did.”

And they did not vote because “There was not a candidate that they just got excited about,” Graham said. He called GOP candidate Mitt Romney “a very good man, and I like the man very much – but I don’t think he was exciting or charismatic enough. And, of course, the Mormon issue was an issue for many people. Not for me, but for many people that was, unfortunately.”

And, now that Obama has another term in the White House, “I would encourage everyone to pray for the president,” Graham said. “That’s our duty. God commands that we’re to pray for those in authority. The election is now over. The president is our president. We need to get behind him. We need to rally behind him. We need to bathe him in prayer.

“Not that we have to support positions that would be immoral positions or wrong positions,” Graham cautioned. “I’m not saying that you have to agree with the position, but you have to understand that he is our leader, he’s our president – and God commands that we are to pray.

“I would recommend everyone to pray for this man. He needs our prayers.”

In other comments in his exclusive Newsmax interview, Graham said:

David Petraeus was right to step down as CIA director because of an extramarital affair. “He is a man of honor, a man of integrity. He made a great big mistake. He knows he did. He has not blamed anybody else. He has taken full responsibility, and he has stepped aside. That’s the honorable thing to do. I respect him for that.”
He hopes President Obama truly addresses Iran and its threat to Christianity in his next term. “In his speeches, he certainly has talked tough. But the Iranian people, they need to be free. They want to be free from these ayatollahs, from these fanatics. There are many wonderful Iranian people, but that country is being held prisoner by radical Islam.”
His father, the Rev. Billy Graham, turned 94 the day following the election. The elder Graham backed Romney. “He likes the president personally. But it’s the people around the president, and it’s the radical left, that have taken over the White House. This is a concern to my father – and we just prayed that, again, that God, the Lord, will work in the president’s heart and will change his heart on some of these issues.”

Franklin Graham blames Christians for not voting

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By Eric Black | 11/16/12
Evangelist Franklin Graham (son of Billy) told the Christian Broadcasting Network that Pres. Obama was re-elected because the majority of Christians didn’t vote.
 “We know that from of the statistics that I’ve heard that the majority of Christians in this country just did not vote for whatever reason. The vast majority of evangelicals did not go to the polls. God is in control, and if Christians are upset, they need to be upset at themselves. We need to do a better job of getting our people- the church to vote. Now, I’m not trying to tell you how to vote, you can vote, but vote, my goodness, and vote for candidates that stand for Biblical values.”
Graham didn’t exactly say that the vast majority of evangelicals not voting is the reason Pres. Obama was re-elected. Perhaps it’s implied, although one could just as easily infer from his statement that God is at fault, since God is “in charge.” Or perhaps God favored Obama? But that’s above my pay grade and way beyond my poor powers of reason.

On the other, if it matter at all, Graham seems to have his facts wrong. NBC has the breakdown. According to Pew Research Center, Evangelical Christians make up about 26 percent of eligible voters, and according to exit polls, they made up about 26 of the electorate last week. 
The two most surprising things to me are that a) Evangelicals don’t turn out in above-average numbers, since they are often portrayed as a highly motivated voting group and b) that Romney carried a larger share of the evangelical vote than McCain carried in 2008. What about all the talk of Protestant hostility to Mormons as something other than Christians.

Franklin Graham Warns Election Could Be ‘America’s Last Call’ Before Christ Returns

Oct. 31, 2012 –
Just days before the U.S. presidential election, evangelist Franklin Graham, son of the Rev. Billy Graham, has suggested that “this could be America’s last call” before the return of Christ, and has asked voters to pray for guidance.
Graham says that he and his father have taken a strong stand this year to support candidates who embrace biblical values.
Source: Christian Post

For the second time during the presidential campaign, a group of African-American ministers in North Carolina has criticized Franklin Graham for challenging the spiritual beliefs of President Barack Obama, accusing the evangelist Monday of promoting a narrow form of Christianity that supports a politically conservative point of view.
Meeting in Charlotte, the group read an open letter to Graham that comes in response to a series of full-page ads that bear a photograph of his father, Billy Graham, and ask voters to elect candidates who support “biblical principles.”
In comments to The Charlotte Observer last week, Graham said his 93-year-old father supported the message, which endorses candidates who support the nation of Israel, “the sanctity of life” and “the biblical definition of marriage.”
Franklin Graham went on to say that Obama’s support for gay marriage and abortion rights challenges “God’s standard” and says “it’s OK for people to sin.”

Graham has been outspoken against communism and supportive of US Cold War policy, including the Vietnam War. In a 1999 speech, Graham discussed his relationship with the late North Korean dictator Kim Il-Sung, praising him as a “different kind of communist” and “one of the great fighters for freedom in his country against the Japanese.” Graham went on to note that although he had never met Kim’s son and former North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, he had “exchanged gifts with him.”[49] Graham gave a globe surmounted with doves to the North Korean Friendship Museum.[46]
In March 1991, Graham said in reference to the Persian Gulf War, “As our President, President Bush, has said, it is not the people of Iraq we are at war with. It is some of the people in that regime. Pray for peace in the Middle East, a just peace.”[50] Graham had earlier said that “there come times when we have to fight for peace.” He went on to say that out of the war in the Gulf may “come a new peace and, as suggested by the President, a new world order.”[51]
[edit] Controversy
[edit] Discussion of Jews with Nixon
During the Watergate affair, there were suggestions that Graham had agreed with many of Nixon’s anti-Semitic opinions, but he denied them and stressed his efforts to build bridges to the Jews. In 2002, the controversy was renewed when declassified “Richard Nixon tapes” confirmed remarks made by Graham to President Nixon three decades earlier.[52] Captured on the tapes, Graham agreed with Nixon that Jews control the American media, calling it a “stranglehold” during a 1972 conversation with Nixon.[53] He went considerably beyond that in offensive remarks characterized as anti-Semitic by Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League[52] and evangelical author Richard Land.[54]
When the tapes were made public, Graham apologized [55][56] and said, “Although I have no memory of the occasion, I deeply regret comments I apparently made in an Oval Office conversation with President Nixon … some 30 years ago (…). They do not reflect my views and I sincerely apologize for any offense caused by the remarks.”[57] According to Newsweek magazine, “[T]he shock of the revelation was magnified because of Graham’s longtime support of Israel and his refusal to join in calls for conversion of the Jews.”[56]
In 2009, more Nixon tapes were released, in which Graham is heard in conversation with Nixon referring to Jews and “the synagogue of Satan.” A spokesman for Graham said that Graham has never been an anti-Semite and that the comparison (in accord with the context of the quotation in the Book of Revelation) was directed specifically at those claiming to be Jews, but not holding to traditional Jewish values.[58]

The meeting with Romney was particularly important, as the candidate’s Mormon faith has turned off some evangelicals and Christian pastors. While the majority of Mormons identify as Christian, most Christians, including evangelicals, view them differently. After Romney met with Graham, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association removed a page from its website that called Mormonism as a “cult,” along with Unitarians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Scientologists, Spiritists and people in the Unification Church.

Although the whole world celebrates Christmas as a “Christian” holiday, including millions of non-Christians, is Christmas really “Christian” at all? Consider this fact: Look high and low throughout the pages of the Bible, and you will find not ONE WORD of “Christmas” being celebrated by any of YEHOVAH’s people! It is not even mentioned once! Neither the Messiah nor any of his apostles ever observed this holiday, nor the New Testament Church!

Yet on the other hand the pagan, heathen world observed this day for thousands of years before the Messiah was even born!

Where did the mysterious rites and ceremonies that surround this day come from? What about the “Christmas tree” and the “Yule log” and the mistletoe and Holly wreaths? Are ANY of these customs truly “Christian” in origin? And what about fat and jolly old “Saint Nick” — or Santa Claus?

It’s high time we addressed these questions, and took a new look at “Christmas.” A church I was formerly a member of, which condemned Christmas observance as paganism, for almost sixty years, today has turned its back on its former beliefs, and encourages its members to observe this pagan mid-winter festival “in honor of Christ”! Many are doing so, heedless of the severe warnings in Scripture of what their eternal fate and destiny will be if they continue to embrace this ancient custom.

Is it wrong to celebrate “Christmas”? What is the truth about this popular and widespread holiday?

The Origin of Christmas

Before one gets carried away with Christmas worship, there are a few things you should know. Let’s take an honest and objective look at the origins of this holiday.

We read in Werner Keller’s book The Bible as History the following admission:

“December 25 is referred to in documents as Christmas Day in A.D. 324 for the first time. Under the Roman emperor Justinian [A.D. 527-565] it was recognized as an official holiday. An old Roman festival played a a major part in the choice of this particular day. December 25 in ancient Rome was the ‘Dies Natali Invictus,’ ‘the birthday of the unconquered,’ the day of the winter solstice and at the same time, in Rome, the last day of the Saturnalia, which had long since degenerated into a week of unbridled carnival…” (p. 331).