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Democrat Jim Cramer explains how Obamacare forces businesses to outsource

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CNBC’s Jim Cramer:  “This is — look, I think the debate is a fabulous one to have, but it has completely taken away from the fact that we are really going to have a hard time hiring once this plan is put in place. I’ve had a couple of CEOs come on just in the last few weeks. When you talk about whether they want to hire, this is what they bring up. Chipotle, look, use this as maybe one of the great job creators in this country and they pay a lot for their people. This is a company that is very forward. When I ask them, what does ObamaCare do for you? They just say well, nothing we hope because the Supreme Court has got to say no to it. I mean, this is at the front and center of what could derail the economy.”

MSNBC’s Joe Scarbarough: “You’re talking about health care reform?”

CNBC’s Jim Cramer:  “I’m just saying, look, the issue the Catholic charities issue, front and center, I want church and state separation, but whatever I want doesn’t matter as much as what I’m telling you. Business leaders fear this more than anything, they don’t want to hire, this is part of the underground economy. It’s gonna develop because no one wants people on the books because of ObamaCare and people have to recognize that this is a front and center issue for every CEO I deal with and another reason why they don’t want to hire here, they want to hire there. They want to put the jobs in Asia, they want to put the jobs in Mexico because they don’t want to think about how much more it’s going to cost to hire a new person. Don’t lose that debate. That is a major debate for the economy.”

Is Jim Cramer some sort of radical tea party conservative?

He wrote this in 2008:

What will New York look like a year from now? The answer: bad and probably worse, and perhaps downright catastrophic. Three degrees of awful. The first step was passing the bank-bailout legislation. Now that it’s done—and if it didn’t get done we would have been looking at a guaranteed economic collapse—the critical issue will be presidential leadership. And while any president will be an improvement over the current one, there is a growing belief on Wall Street that Barack Obama has the capacity to lead us out of this wilderness while John McCain does not. I’ll go a step further: Obama is a recession. McCain is a depression.

Cramer back Barack Obama for President and is a well-known Democrat.

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What do the British believe about God and Christianity?

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Calum Miller has a depressing analysis of a recent Ipos poll, over at Apologetics UK.

Excerpt:

What is the greatest threat to Christianity in the UK? Secularism? Growing atheism? Loss of Christian tradition? Less people identifying as Christians?

For me, it is none of these. To the contrary, I think the greatest threat to Christianity in the UK is the presence of a ‘Christian’ tradition. Let me explain what I mean.

Ipsos MORI have just released survey results, taken from those who say they were recorded as Christian in the 2011 census, or who would have put themselves down as Christian.

To begin with, there are a few problems with the study: the obvious one is that this is not actually a survey of people who identify as Christians. Rather, it is a survey of people who were recorded as Christian – a lot of the respondents said they would not have filled in “Christian” if they filled it in themselves. So the results are probably not as bad as they come across. But nevertheless, I think there is serious cause for concern here.

Calum links to the full survey results, and then lists some of the answers that concerned him. I put the right answer in BOLD.

Here’s one:

Q19. Which of the following statements best describes YOUR personal view of God?

I believe in God and I believe that Christianity is just one way of knowing him 37%
I believe in God and I believe that Christianity is the only true way of knowing him 17%
I think of God as being the laws of nature and everything in the universe 13%
I don’t believe in God but think there may be some kind of supernatural intelligence out there 10%
I think of God as being whatever caused the universe 9%
I don’t believe in God 6%
None of these 1%
Don’t know 4%
Prefer not to say 2%

And here’s another:

Q49. When it comes to right and wrong, which of the following, if any, do you MOST look to for guidance?

My own inner moral sense 54%
Parents, family or friends 25%
Religious teachings and beliefs 10%
Philosophy and reason 7%
None of the above 2%
Don’t know 1%
Prefer not to say 1%

And one more:

Q51. Which is the ONE statement that BEST describes what being a Christian means to you personally?

I try to be a good person 40%
It’s how I was brought up 24%
I have accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour 15%
I believe in the teachings of Jesus 7%
It’s a British tradition 4%
It gives me hope in an afterlife 3%
Something else 0%
Don’t know 2%
Prefer not to say 4%

I do think it is important for us, in the church, to connect Christianity as much as possible with the real world. We need to make sure that people in the pews understand that what is backing up all of these assertions about God and Jesus and the Bible is the real world, including history. We aren’t just defining our dogma and setting it up against their dogma. We have to communicate to people that what we believe is objectively true, and knowable, and that it can be tested logically and evidentially, at least in some areas where testing is possible. If pastors don’t connect the words they speak and the words they read from the Bible with the real world out there, then people will just get the impression that Christianity is just a cultural thing.

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Gay rights activists vandalize church for posting pro-marriage sign

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Anti-marriage gay activists vandalize church
Anti-marriage gay activists vandalize church

From the Newcastle Herald (Australia). (H/T Bill Muehlenberg)

Excerpt:

Vandals attacked Wallsend Presbyterian Church last night in response to a message criticising same-sex marriage displayed on the building’s outside notice board.

The church on Nelson Street had updated its message board last week to read “Even tradies know you need both male and female joints to make a marriage”.

The front of the 1867 building, which recently received a $12,000 makeover, was defaced with messages such as ‘‘sexuality is not a choice’’ and ‘‘love thy neighbour not hate gays’’.

Reverend Dr Ian Copland said the sign was a play on words and he wanted people to talk about the issue being raised in federal parliament.

He said he has no regrets despite the outcome.

‘‘This is not going to stop me,’’ he said.

Two bills to legalise same-sex marriage were introduced in Federal Parliament this week.

‘‘It’s obviously a reaction to the sign but I have no malice towards the vandals,’’ Rev Copland said.

‘‘It only takes one or two cowards you can’t blame the whole homosexual community. That would be wrong.’’

This is not the first time the church has been attacked regarding its stance on same-sex marriage.

The signboard was vandalised about six months ago when the reverend posted a similar message.

Don’t expect to see this story plastered on all the newspapers in the world for six months. It doesn’t fit the mainstream media’s secular leftist worldview.

Bill writes:

So this is how the tolerant brigade makes its case: by attacking and defacing and causing damage to a church. Yep, we sure do love how you guys do business. All that love and tolerance is just oozing out here. But if this were not bad enough, look closely at that photo again.

Did you see one of the bits of graffiti? It says this: “Tolerance is a virtue”. I kid you not. Look at it again! Don’t you just love how these guys demonstrate all their wonderful love of tolerance? They bend over backwards trying to be the most intolerant bunch in the country. And they are succeeding just fine.

As I mentioned, no commentary is really needed here. Just soak in the irony, the duplicity, the double standards and the hypocrisy. I love it when these guys make our case for us. I could never have done such a good enough job to demonstrate all this. So they kindly go and do it for me.

Thanks guys. Keep it up. We expect to see even more such cases of love, acceptance and tolerance in the near future. We know full well how you operate, and we look forward to more expressions of tolerance.

Click here for a sampling of anti-marriage vandalism, violence and harassment from anti-Prop 8 gay activists.

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