So, I am very disturbed. I have been observing and hearing things in these last few weeks that have really got me a little irked. Oh by the way, these past couple of weeks have been really crazy for me, because I have started my college classes, my baseball season is in full swing, and I just took the SAT last Saturday (1/23/10). So sorry for not posting, but I really had no time. Anyway, back to what is disturbing me.
It seems like people have an extremely warped perception of what a "right" is. So let me start by telling you what a right is. A right is something the you are entitled to. Something that you deserve to have just by living. Ok, now that we have that, allow me to read you all your rights.(no you are not under arrest)
You have the right to: life, meaning you have the right to live. Liberty, you are free to live your life, work, and worship however you wish. The Pursuit Of Happiness, you are free to pursue what you believe will make you happy. Those are your rights as Americans. These rights can be taken away though. If you break the laws that were put in place to ensure justice, then you forfeit your rights, sometimes temporarily and sometimes permanently.
So you got all that? Those are your rights. That is all there is in the world that you have a "right" to have. Not a house, not a phone, not a car, nothing else. Everything else is a privilege and a gift. For some reason though, people think that they have a right to a lot more than Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness. And they are wanting the government to give it to them. People want the government to give them health care, pay for their college, and even help them pay their electric bills.( Those are all things that people in my American Federal Government class said they wanted the government to do for them.) It's pretty sad isn't it? How did we get from Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness to Health care, college, electric bills and everything in between?
Let me add though that I am not against the acquiring of wealth and property. I am TOTALLY for it! I just don't want the government giving it to me or doing it for me. And you shouldn't either. Hard work, ingenuity, and self-reliance are things that should define us as Americans.
People thinking that they are entitled to all of these things and wanting the government to provide it for them only creates one thing: dependence. If you rely on the government to do everything for you, then you give them the authority to rule you. You can't call them dictators, because it's you who put them there in the first place. That's what we are doing as country.
Let me illustrate with something that is closer to home for most of you. Your parents provide for you, they shelter you, they clothe you and therefor they make the rules and they have authority for you. Right now, the government is acting as our parents and although I would not encourage this for teenagers under their parents authority I think it's about time we started being a little bit rebellious. It's time to take back our country and put the power back where it belongs: in our hands.
We can't do that though if we are trusting in politicians to save us. It's "In God We Trust" not "In congress we trust". We need to get back to our Christian roots, put God in his rightful place at the center of our country, and start working to better ourselves and our country. It's the only way out.
I know most of you reading this are Christians and this is nothing new to you, but you affect a lot of people you interact with, so start sharing these things with those people. Help them see the truth and show them how they can change. I think if we all did that we would see the America we used to know emerge from under the veil of corruption that is choking it.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Political Correctness
Political correctness, you gotta love it. If for nothing more than to laugh your head off at the absurdity of it all.
Political correctness is why the media calls Osama Bin Laden a "freedom fighter". Yeah, the man who is responsible for the deaths of over 2000 American citizens is a "freedom fighter". I'm sorry, wait no I'm not, but Osama Bin Laden is a radical Muslim terrorist. There is no other way to say it. He is a radical Muslim terrorist! How can the media even think of calling someone like that a "freedom fighter"?!?
Political correctness is also why the media calls the maniac that shot and killed 4 cops in Washington state "morally challenged" or an "unsavory character" instead of what he really is; a cold blooded murderer. But wait, think of how he would feel about being called a murderer. He has feelings too you know? I do not care. He is a murderer and there is no way that I would call anyone who kills 4 other people anything but a murderer! But God forbid we offend the man that killed 4 cops or the man responsible for the deaths of over 2000 Americans by calling them what they really are. No, no, we can't let that happen now can we? It's ridiculous!
Political correctness goes beyond these two examples. Oh yeah, these are just two of the millions of examples I could have used (they are also two of the ones that I find to be the most ridiculous and infuriating).
Let me talk about how political correctness is killing our country. There may have been one before I knew anything about politics, but for what I know, president Obama is the most politically correct president we have ever had. Have you noticed that he spent most of 2009 on a world apology tour? He went to something like 30 countries to apologize for the U.S. and how greedy and oppressing we are. Yes, we are all just a bunch of greedy, rich, oppressing warmongers and we are so sorry! No! We are the United States of America! The greatest country in the world and the greatest country the world has ever known! We are also the only truly free country in the world! No other country in the world enjoys the freedoms that we do! And you wanna know something else? Not a SINGLE natural disaster, war, or other kind of catastrophe happens ANYWHERE in the world that the U.S. is not there to help the country that is suffering out! Heck! we even help our enemies! So president Obama, stop apologizing! There is nothing we need to apologize for as a country and I sure never will apologize for being an American citizen!
There is nothing anyone can say or do to me that will ever make me be anything but proud to be an American. I hope it's the same for you. If you feel the same or even if you don't then let me ask you this: why is our president so obviously ashamed of being an American? This is the man who's wife said on the campaign trail that "for the first time in my life I feel proud to be an American". I have a problem with that statement. I don't know how you feel, but to me it doesn't matter who you are, what you do for a living, who your family is, or where you live in this country, if you are an American citizen then you should be proud of it! I don't care if you are a homeless person! The homeless in our country live better than 80 percent of the rest of the world anyway!
So why is our president going around the world apologizing for us? The answer is political correctness. Keep everyone happy, keep everyone appeased, and don't offend anyone. You can't call a spade a spade anymore! We have made it so that no matter what a person has done we can't bring ourselves to call them what they are and all because we do not want to offend them! It's the same thing with other countries, religions, and political systems. It doesn't matter what the country has done or what they stand for, we can't say anything about them that may be offensive, even if it's the truth! Religions are the same way. It doesn't matter if a religion's whole purpose is to exterminate another religion and rule the world *cough Radical Islam cough*, we can't say anything, whether it's true or not doesn't matter, that will offend them! Political systems; same old story. Even if a political system is completely un-biblical and proven to be a failure, we can't protest against it, because it would offend the people who believe in it.
So there you are, political correctness in a nutshell. Don't you love it? (That's a joke guys). I am about sick of it. How about you? Thanks for reading.
Political correctness is why the media calls Osama Bin Laden a "freedom fighter". Yeah, the man who is responsible for the deaths of over 2000 American citizens is a "freedom fighter". I'm sorry, wait no I'm not, but Osama Bin Laden is a radical Muslim terrorist. There is no other way to say it. He is a radical Muslim terrorist! How can the media even think of calling someone like that a "freedom fighter"?!?
Political correctness is also why the media calls the maniac that shot and killed 4 cops in Washington state "morally challenged" or an "unsavory character" instead of what he really is; a cold blooded murderer. But wait, think of how he would feel about being called a murderer. He has feelings too you know? I do not care. He is a murderer and there is no way that I would call anyone who kills 4 other people anything but a murderer! But God forbid we offend the man that killed 4 cops or the man responsible for the deaths of over 2000 Americans by calling them what they really are. No, no, we can't let that happen now can we? It's ridiculous!
Political correctness goes beyond these two examples. Oh yeah, these are just two of the millions of examples I could have used (they are also two of the ones that I find to be the most ridiculous and infuriating).
Let me talk about how political correctness is killing our country. There may have been one before I knew anything about politics, but for what I know, president Obama is the most politically correct president we have ever had. Have you noticed that he spent most of 2009 on a world apology tour? He went to something like 30 countries to apologize for the U.S. and how greedy and oppressing we are. Yes, we are all just a bunch of greedy, rich, oppressing warmongers and we are so sorry! No! We are the United States of America! The greatest country in the world and the greatest country the world has ever known! We are also the only truly free country in the world! No other country in the world enjoys the freedoms that we do! And you wanna know something else? Not a SINGLE natural disaster, war, or other kind of catastrophe happens ANYWHERE in the world that the U.S. is not there to help the country that is suffering out! Heck! we even help our enemies! So president Obama, stop apologizing! There is nothing we need to apologize for as a country and I sure never will apologize for being an American citizen!
There is nothing anyone can say or do to me that will ever make me be anything but proud to be an American. I hope it's the same for you. If you feel the same or even if you don't then let me ask you this: why is our president so obviously ashamed of being an American? This is the man who's wife said on the campaign trail that "for the first time in my life I feel proud to be an American". I have a problem with that statement. I don't know how you feel, but to me it doesn't matter who you are, what you do for a living, who your family is, or where you live in this country, if you are an American citizen then you should be proud of it! I don't care if you are a homeless person! The homeless in our country live better than 80 percent of the rest of the world anyway!
So why is our president going around the world apologizing for us? The answer is political correctness. Keep everyone happy, keep everyone appeased, and don't offend anyone. You can't call a spade a spade anymore! We have made it so that no matter what a person has done we can't bring ourselves to call them what they are and all because we do not want to offend them! It's the same thing with other countries, religions, and political systems. It doesn't matter what the country has done or what they stand for, we can't say anything about them that may be offensive, even if it's the truth! Religions are the same way. It doesn't matter if a religion's whole purpose is to exterminate another religion and rule the world *cough Radical Islam cough*, we can't say anything, whether it's true or not doesn't matter, that will offend them! Political systems; same old story. Even if a political system is completely un-biblical and proven to be a failure, we can't protest against it, because it would offend the people who believe in it.
So there you are, political correctness in a nutshell. Don't you love it? (That's a joke guys). I am about sick of it. How about you? Thanks for reading.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Socialism-Communism's Brother and Capitalisms Arch Enemy
This is something I just can't get my head around. Maybe you all can help me. As far as I know, we are still living in the United States of America. Correct me on that if I am wrong. I don't think I am wrong so I am going to proceed under the assumption that we are. If that is true, then there is something that is really hard for me to fathom. It is just this: How can the country that has spent every year from its formation fighting for freedom, justice, and the American way now be turning into the very things we fought so hard against?
I know the reasons why. We have become a humanistic self-centered country and culture. We have erased God from every part of our government and our own minds. I get the "why" we are turning into the very evil we have fought against. I am just asking "how". I know that the "why" kind of answers the "how", and that may be the only reasons for how we are turning into what we are turning into, but I just CAN NOT get over the fact that we are turning into the very things we have fought AGAINST for so long.
In the late 40's and into the 50's there was a time period called "the red scare". The people in our country were terrified by the thought of communism and what it would do to our system of Capitalism. It was a TOTALLY anti-communism time period. It was so anti-communism that it got a little bit out of control. People were being accused of being communists with really no real evidence against them to prove it and it led to "the red scare". People were afraid of communists infiltrating our government and people were afraid of being accused of being a communist themselves.
Now, although that time period was a little chaotic, it epitomizes what America's attitude toward communism is: we hate it and we don't want it here! We are for freedom, justice, and Capitalism. Communism is the opposite of ALL those things. I can not say everyone hates it though, because some of our politicians are dragging us into it. I will explain that in a moment.
The "red scare" was a little overkill, but I have to say that I would prefer a little over zealousness in making sure we do not become a communist nation rather than letting our country be dragged into socialism and communism. That is what has happened though. We have let our guard down and let progressive, left-wing, socialistic, and anti-capitalistic people run our government.
During the "red scare" the progressives saw that there was no way that they were just going to bring communism into America. They had to disguise it. Make it more subtle and harder to see. This is where socialism comes in handy. You see, Americans know that communism is bad. If you were alive back in the 50's and 60's you saw what it did to Russia and if you weren't alive back then, then you have probably read about it. The point is that American's would not just let communism come into our country and make itself at home. We know that it's a dead end.
Socialism on the other hand is not so black and white; not so cut and dry. Socialism sounds good (unless you have a working brain). It makes people think that everyone will be equal and everyone will enjoy all the same freedoms and liberties. And you will. Only the freedoms and liberties you enjoy will be chosen for you by the government. Gee, that doesn't exactly sound like freedom or liberty. Socialism says: "no more letting people who have worked hard for themselves reap the profit from their work. NO! Everyone, whether you deserve it or not, is getting an equal portion in EVERYTHING!" That's why I said it sounds good unless you have a working brain.
Socialism, as the title of this post says, is the brother of communism. Actually it is the "little brother" of communism. Because as socialism grows and matures it emulates it's older brother to the point where you can't tell them apart. Like TWINS!
Socialism is just one step away from communism, and we are heading that way. If this Health Care Bill passes, that will be the first step toward socialism and it will only get worse from their unless our country turns around in a dramatic way.
I know this sounds dismal, but my philosophy with this whole thing is "plan for the worst; hope and pray for the best". Keep praying. Pray for our leaders, especially our president. God knows that I do not care one bit for our president or almost ALL of our other government officials, but you can pray for them and still not agree with them. I do not agree with a single thing that Obama has done so far, but I still pray that God would change his heart. There is nothing wrong that. I encourage you to do it.
Also, stay active and aware. Help in whatever way you can to wake people up and let them see that we are headed down a bad road. Keep calling your senators and congressmen. Tell them what you want them to do. Tell them to start doing their jobs! They are our representatives. You think it's about time they started representing us? I do. Aside form a choice few, our senators and congressmen are ding nothing more than working to advance themselves, their careers, and their own personal agendas. It's time that they start doing their jobs and start earning those six figure salaries that WE are paying for!
I know this was all a bit heated and if you all have any concerns, questions, or comments, don't hesitate to let me know. If you are concerned for my sanity or sanctification, let me know. Also, if you think I am losing my mind or going off the deep end, let me know. I love the feedback and I need input, because I can get a little frustrated with this stuff sometimes and I can go a little crazy. Thanks for reading.
I know the reasons why. We have become a humanistic self-centered country and culture. We have erased God from every part of our government and our own minds. I get the "why" we are turning into the very evil we have fought against. I am just asking "how". I know that the "why" kind of answers the "how", and that may be the only reasons for how we are turning into what we are turning into, but I just CAN NOT get over the fact that we are turning into the very things we have fought AGAINST for so long.
In the late 40's and into the 50's there was a time period called "the red scare". The people in our country were terrified by the thought of communism and what it would do to our system of Capitalism. It was a TOTALLY anti-communism time period. It was so anti-communism that it got a little bit out of control. People were being accused of being communists with really no real evidence against them to prove it and it led to "the red scare". People were afraid of communists infiltrating our government and people were afraid of being accused of being a communist themselves.
Now, although that time period was a little chaotic, it epitomizes what America's attitude toward communism is: we hate it and we don't want it here! We are for freedom, justice, and Capitalism. Communism is the opposite of ALL those things. I can not say everyone hates it though, because some of our politicians are dragging us into it. I will explain that in a moment.
The "red scare" was a little overkill, but I have to say that I would prefer a little over zealousness in making sure we do not become a communist nation rather than letting our country be dragged into socialism and communism. That is what has happened though. We have let our guard down and let progressive, left-wing, socialistic, and anti-capitalistic people run our government.
During the "red scare" the progressives saw that there was no way that they were just going to bring communism into America. They had to disguise it. Make it more subtle and harder to see. This is where socialism comes in handy. You see, Americans know that communism is bad. If you were alive back in the 50's and 60's you saw what it did to Russia and if you weren't alive back then, then you have probably read about it. The point is that American's would not just let communism come into our country and make itself at home. We know that it's a dead end.
Socialism on the other hand is not so black and white; not so cut and dry. Socialism sounds good (unless you have a working brain). It makes people think that everyone will be equal and everyone will enjoy all the same freedoms and liberties. And you will. Only the freedoms and liberties you enjoy will be chosen for you by the government. Gee, that doesn't exactly sound like freedom or liberty. Socialism says: "no more letting people who have worked hard for themselves reap the profit from their work. NO! Everyone, whether you deserve it or not, is getting an equal portion in EVERYTHING!" That's why I said it sounds good unless you have a working brain.
Socialism, as the title of this post says, is the brother of communism. Actually it is the "little brother" of communism. Because as socialism grows and matures it emulates it's older brother to the point where you can't tell them apart. Like TWINS!
Socialism is just one step away from communism, and we are heading that way. If this Health Care Bill passes, that will be the first step toward socialism and it will only get worse from their unless our country turns around in a dramatic way.
I know this sounds dismal, but my philosophy with this whole thing is "plan for the worst; hope and pray for the best". Keep praying. Pray for our leaders, especially our president. God knows that I do not care one bit for our president or almost ALL of our other government officials, but you can pray for them and still not agree with them. I do not agree with a single thing that Obama has done so far, but I still pray that God would change his heart. There is nothing wrong that. I encourage you to do it.
Also, stay active and aware. Help in whatever way you can to wake people up and let them see that we are headed down a bad road. Keep calling your senators and congressmen. Tell them what you want them to do. Tell them to start doing their jobs! They are our representatives. You think it's about time they started representing us? I do. Aside form a choice few, our senators and congressmen are ding nothing more than working to advance themselves, their careers, and their own personal agendas. It's time that they start doing their jobs and start earning those six figure salaries that WE are paying for!
I know this was all a bit heated and if you all have any concerns, questions, or comments, don't hesitate to let me know. If you are concerned for my sanity or sanctification, let me know. Also, if you think I am losing my mind or going off the deep end, let me know. I love the feedback and I need input, because I can get a little frustrated with this stuff sometimes and I can go a little crazy. Thanks for reading.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Better Late Than Never Right?
So I feel like a total blogging loser right now, cause I didn't put up a "Merry Christmas" post. So here it is...just imagine I had this up since the day before yesterday.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Climate Change--The Eminent Crisis!
The Earth is heating up! We have to stop climate change! Blah...blah...blah. Personally I would welcome climate change if it were actually happening, cause if the Earth is heating up then we are probably getting closer to when the Lord returns.
Ok, that was my sarcastic and cynical side coming out. But seriously, climate change? First of all I would like you to realize that I titled this post "Climate Change-The Eminent Crisis", just so you all realize that I used the politically correct term. Yeah...not really, I just wanted to make it that much more ridiculous, because they are not calling it "Global Warming" any more cause they found out that portions of the Earth are actually getting cooler. "Uh-oh, that kind of throws a monkey wrench into our Global Warming scam....Wait! We can just call it climate change and scam people that way! Yes! The plan is saved!"
So yeah I was not trying to be politically correct when I named this post. I am actually sitting on a post about political correctness that I think will be the next one I post, but let me get back to this post for now.
As most of you, or some of you, know, our President, along with hundreds of other world leaders went to Copenhagen Denmark to discuss, debate, and try and solve the "climate change crisis". I personally think there is no such thing as a "climate change crisis", so I thought the meetings were totally pointless in the first place. If you are like me, then you probably think that same thing and I guess neither of us should be surprised by the ridiculous results of these meetings.
Well first off, climate change is just too out of control to not do anything about. I mean, have you seen those videos of the ice caps melting?!?!?! All of our precious ice is melting away! Yeah....whatever. Al Gore said that "over 40% of the North Polar ice cap has melted in the last few decades" and it may be totally gone in the next 10-15 years. Oh My Gosh! If that were true, it might get me concerned. It's not though, so you all can relax.
The next thing is that, get this, climate change isn't the biggest problem anymore....I know I just said it was, but I just can't keep up with which things are really the big problems, they change so fast! No actually the real problem is....overpopulation. Yeah, there are just too dawg gone many of us human beings. Really? There are too many human beings on planet Earth? Well maybe we should look for a new planet to inhabit since this one isn't big enough for us. That's my solution. What do you think?
You wanna hear their solution? That was a rhetorical questions guys, I'm going to tell you anyway. Well here is a solution that Canada's Financial Post published in it's newspaper a couple days ago. "A planetary law such as China's 'One-Child' policy is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days". Let you mind dwell on that a little bit... The only way to stop this so called overpopulation is to limit the amount of children we are allowed to have to one. That's their solution. All in favor of my solution please signify by saying "aye".
I know, it's ridiculous, but that's what they are coming up with. They are using these "crisis'" to gain more power.
Glenn Beck used an example in his one show, where he showed a visual illustration of where power comes from. He started way back before the United States was a nation, back when it was Kings, Queens, and the people. Back in those days the power came from God, to the Kings and Queens and then they told the people what to do.
Then our Country got started and our founders said "No, it shouldn't be like that". So they made it so that the power came from God, to the people, and the people told the government what to do. It was a radical idea, and it worked!
Then came, as Glenn Beck likes to call it, the Progressive Era. the progressives are all about changing our government, making it bigger, and gaining more power and more control. They couldn't just come in and do that though. One thing stood in their way....God. Yes, God was a problem for them, because they couldn't just come in start telling us what to do and take away our freedoms. We are endowed with our rights and freedoms from God. So they had to get rid of Him. And they did. You have seen it happen all over our country for the past 50 or so years. God came out of schools, out of our courts, and eventually out of our lives altogether. Now it is just the us telling the government what to do. But wait, that doesn't work, where do we get our power from, if not from God? But the government can't just tell us what to do, cause where do they get their power from if not from God?
Do you see the problem here? There has to be something, that is bigger than us, to give us power. The progressives needed to find something to replace God with. What do you think they decided to use?
If you guessed the Earth, then you are one hundred percent correct. Take God out, put the Earth in His place and you have something that gives the politicians power to tell us what to do. Because after all, they are only doing all this to "save the Earth". Yeah, whatever. It isn't about "saving the Earth" it's about power and control. That is all they want, and they will use whatever means possible to attain it.
Just so you all know, most of my information comes from watching Glenn Beck. I watch the little clips of Glenn Beck's show that Fox News puts up on their website so that is where I am getting most of my info. If you guys want more information, you could just stop reading my blog and watch his show; you'd get the same information, just from a more intelligent source.
In closing, let me say this: pray, ask God to change our nation's leaders' hearts. We need godly leaders. But don't just pray. Take action. I know most of you already do this, but take it to the next level. Call your congressmen, senators, governor, or any other official who holds a government office and tell them to start pulling their acts together in Washington. We tell them what to do! It is "WE THE PEOPLE" not "WE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT". It's the only way out. Thanks for reading.
Ok, that was my sarcastic and cynical side coming out. But seriously, climate change? First of all I would like you to realize that I titled this post "Climate Change-The Eminent Crisis", just so you all realize that I used the politically correct term. Yeah...not really, I just wanted to make it that much more ridiculous, because they are not calling it "Global Warming" any more cause they found out that portions of the Earth are actually getting cooler. "Uh-oh, that kind of throws a monkey wrench into our Global Warming scam....Wait! We can just call it climate change and scam people that way! Yes! The plan is saved!"
So yeah I was not trying to be politically correct when I named this post. I am actually sitting on a post about political correctness that I think will be the next one I post, but let me get back to this post for now.
As most of you, or some of you, know, our President, along with hundreds of other world leaders went to Copenhagen Denmark to discuss, debate, and try and solve the "climate change crisis". I personally think there is no such thing as a "climate change crisis", so I thought the meetings were totally pointless in the first place. If you are like me, then you probably think that same thing and I guess neither of us should be surprised by the ridiculous results of these meetings.
Well first off, climate change is just too out of control to not do anything about. I mean, have you seen those videos of the ice caps melting?!?!?! All of our precious ice is melting away! Yeah....whatever. Al Gore said that "over 40% of the North Polar ice cap has melted in the last few decades" and it may be totally gone in the next 10-15 years. Oh My Gosh! If that were true, it might get me concerned. It's not though, so you all can relax.
The next thing is that, get this, climate change isn't the biggest problem anymore....I know I just said it was, but I just can't keep up with which things are really the big problems, they change so fast! No actually the real problem is....overpopulation. Yeah, there are just too dawg gone many of us human beings. Really? There are too many human beings on planet Earth? Well maybe we should look for a new planet to inhabit since this one isn't big enough for us. That's my solution. What do you think?
You wanna hear their solution? That was a rhetorical questions guys, I'm going to tell you anyway. Well here is a solution that Canada's Financial Post published in it's newspaper a couple days ago. "A planetary law such as China's 'One-Child' policy is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days". Let you mind dwell on that a little bit... The only way to stop this so called overpopulation is to limit the amount of children we are allowed to have to one. That's their solution. All in favor of my solution please signify by saying "aye".
I know, it's ridiculous, but that's what they are coming up with. They are using these "crisis'" to gain more power.
Glenn Beck used an example in his one show, where he showed a visual illustration of where power comes from. He started way back before the United States was a nation, back when it was Kings, Queens, and the people. Back in those days the power came from God, to the Kings and Queens and then they told the people what to do.
Then our Country got started and our founders said "No, it shouldn't be like that". So they made it so that the power came from God, to the people, and the people told the government what to do. It was a radical idea, and it worked!
Then came, as Glenn Beck likes to call it, the Progressive Era. the progressives are all about changing our government, making it bigger, and gaining more power and more control. They couldn't just come in and do that though. One thing stood in their way....God. Yes, God was a problem for them, because they couldn't just come in start telling us what to do and take away our freedoms. We are endowed with our rights and freedoms from God. So they had to get rid of Him. And they did. You have seen it happen all over our country for the past 50 or so years. God came out of schools, out of our courts, and eventually out of our lives altogether. Now it is just the us telling the government what to do. But wait, that doesn't work, where do we get our power from, if not from God? But the government can't just tell us what to do, cause where do they get their power from if not from God?
Do you see the problem here? There has to be something, that is bigger than us, to give us power. The progressives needed to find something to replace God with. What do you think they decided to use?
If you guessed the Earth, then you are one hundred percent correct. Take God out, put the Earth in His place and you have something that gives the politicians power to tell us what to do. Because after all, they are only doing all this to "save the Earth". Yeah, whatever. It isn't about "saving the Earth" it's about power and control. That is all they want, and they will use whatever means possible to attain it.
Just so you all know, most of my information comes from watching Glenn Beck. I watch the little clips of Glenn Beck's show that Fox News puts up on their website so that is where I am getting most of my info. If you guys want more information, you could just stop reading my blog and watch his show; you'd get the same information, just from a more intelligent source.
In closing, let me say this: pray, ask God to change our nation's leaders' hearts. We need godly leaders. But don't just pray. Take action. I know most of you already do this, but take it to the next level. Call your congressmen, senators, governor, or any other official who holds a government office and tell them to start pulling their acts together in Washington. We tell them what to do! It is "WE THE PEOPLE" not "WE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT". It's the only way out. Thanks for reading.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
ACORN
Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now. That is what ACORN stands for. Ever heard of it? If this is the first time you heard about it then you probably think it's a good organization. I mean, what could be wrong with organizing our communities, right? They are just trying to help out the needy and "less privileged", there's nothing wrong with that, right? If you can't see the sarcasm in the words you are reading, then let me tell you that I was being COMPLETELY sarcastic.
ACORN was founded by a woman named Bertha Lewis in 1970. ACORN: "advocates for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, voter registration, health care, affordable housing, and other social issues." Doesn't sound bad, right? No, not a bad thing necessarily. Everyone needs a helping hand now and again. So why am I about to bust on this organization? Please, keep reading.
ACORN is an organization that, until recently, was receiving taxpayer dollars for it's funding. If you are an adult reading this (or a teenager who pays taxes) then that's your money that was being used to fund this organization. Well, there are lots of organizations that are government funded, what's so big about ACORN? Well, tell me if you think this is big.
A couple, posing as a prostitute and a pimp, went to an ACORN office to get advice on some "problems" they were facing. The couple was trying to start up a business, and they need some help getting the banks to loan them money. It seems that the banks aren't to quick to loan money to people who are trying to start a brothel. The employees explain that the couple can just launder the money the woman makes, so that the bank will give them a loan, and then they can purchase a house. Nothing wrong there, just money laundering. Who hasn't done some of that right? Not to mention that they only need to house to start a sex business. What's the big deal? (Sarcasm again). Keep reading, it gets worse.
They then tell the employees that they are trying to bring in underage girls from El Salvador to employ in their sex business, and they want to know how they can do that without being arrested. You would think that these employees would have just thrown them out right? No, they didn't, this gets worse. The employees proceed to tell them that they need to find a different name for their business, because they need to be able to find a code that they can use to file it under. Also because prostitution doesn't "look good" and it's illegal, who knew that? Prostitution is illegal, who knew? (Sarcasm...again). So they look through their book of codes trying to find a way to call prostitution something other than what it is. They finally come up with "Performing arts". Cause prostitution is kinda like a performing art, right? (I know, it's ridiculous, and that was more sarcasm). So now they can falsely file their business as something that it's not.
Then there is the issue of the underage girls that they are trying to bring in. The girls are all under the age of 16 so they can be claimed as "dependents" and then the couple can collect federal tax credits on the underage girls. But when the couple tells the employee that there are about 13 of the girls coming in, the employee tells them to only claim one or two, because if they put down "thirteen" that will "send up a flag". So there you go! You can bring 'em in, just lie about how many there are! It's simple, just break the law! You can also cheat on your taxes and collect the federal tax credits unlawfully! It's really not that big of a deal.....What?!?!? I know, it's unbelievable, but this is all true and it gets even worse.
What happens when the couple tells them employees that the girls are not even legal citizens? Surely that would be the last straw. They would never cross that line. Oh, but they do. Illegal citizens are ok too apparently, because underage girls that are trafficked in from El Salvador for the sex trade, are basically like "exchange students". That's all they are, "exchange students". Cause after all they're "performing artists". (Once again, sarcasm).
There are numerous other laws that the employees showed the couple how to break or get around, but I just want to see if you all are getting this. I mean, not only are they saying it's ok cheat on their taxes and bring illegal citizens, they are telling this couple that prostitution is a "performing art" and trafficking in underage girls for the sex trade is ok. It's hard to believe, but I'm sad to say that it is very true.
Now, I want to say that I don't like writing about this stuff. It's uncomfortable for me and it infuriates me, but this is absolutely atrocious and I feel like I need to make more people aware of what is happening (even if it is only the 10 people who read this blog). Just so you all don't think I somehow love writing about all these problems our government has.
Regardless of the fact that they are no longer receiving government funding, ACORN is still in business. After an internal investigation (emphasis on "internal") the investigators decided that there was nothing wrong with ACORN, but rather it was just those couple employees. Mike Flynn from BigGovernment.com says this:
"Well, ACORN retained a law firm to investigate its operations and, surprise, the law firm found that ACORN hadn’t done anything wrong in the undercover videos filmed by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. The review, overseen by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harschbarger, a long-time ally of ACORN, found that any problems within ACORN are, gosh darn it, simply because ACORN was too successful, i.e. grew too big and too fast. The problems are also mostly, conveniently, the result of people who are no longer employed by ACORN, i.e. Wade Rathke."
Well thank goodness this was just a problem with those couple employees, and not ACORN as an whole...it was just those employees right? No, actually there have been other incidents very similar to this one popping up all over. This is just the most prominent one. It seems ACORN has a few more bad nuts to deal with then the media says it does.
This is just one more thing that our government is seeing fit to excuse and sweep under the rug. Don't let them do that! Call your Senators, call your Congressmen, and tell them to get on this! We can not let this kind of corruption exist in any organization, let alone ones that are funded and/or endorsed by our government and our representatives. Thanks for reading.
ACORN was founded by a woman named Bertha Lewis in 1970. ACORN: "advocates for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, voter registration, health care, affordable housing, and other social issues." Doesn't sound bad, right? No, not a bad thing necessarily. Everyone needs a helping hand now and again. So why am I about to bust on this organization? Please, keep reading.
ACORN is an organization that, until recently, was receiving taxpayer dollars for it's funding. If you are an adult reading this (or a teenager who pays taxes) then that's your money that was being used to fund this organization. Well, there are lots of organizations that are government funded, what's so big about ACORN? Well, tell me if you think this is big.
A couple, posing as a prostitute and a pimp, went to an ACORN office to get advice on some "problems" they were facing. The couple was trying to start up a business, and they need some help getting the banks to loan them money. It seems that the banks aren't to quick to loan money to people who are trying to start a brothel. The employees explain that the couple can just launder the money the woman makes, so that the bank will give them a loan, and then they can purchase a house. Nothing wrong there, just money laundering. Who hasn't done some of that right? Not to mention that they only need to house to start a sex business. What's the big deal? (Sarcasm again). Keep reading, it gets worse.
They then tell the employees that they are trying to bring in underage girls from El Salvador to employ in their sex business, and they want to know how they can do that without being arrested. You would think that these employees would have just thrown them out right? No, they didn't, this gets worse. The employees proceed to tell them that they need to find a different name for their business, because they need to be able to find a code that they can use to file it under. Also because prostitution doesn't "look good" and it's illegal, who knew that? Prostitution is illegal, who knew? (Sarcasm...again). So they look through their book of codes trying to find a way to call prostitution something other than what it is. They finally come up with "Performing arts". Cause prostitution is kinda like a performing art, right? (I know, it's ridiculous, and that was more sarcasm). So now they can falsely file their business as something that it's not.
Then there is the issue of the underage girls that they are trying to bring in. The girls are all under the age of 16 so they can be claimed as "dependents" and then the couple can collect federal tax credits on the underage girls. But when the couple tells the employee that there are about 13 of the girls coming in, the employee tells them to only claim one or two, because if they put down "thirteen" that will "send up a flag". So there you go! You can bring 'em in, just lie about how many there are! It's simple, just break the law! You can also cheat on your taxes and collect the federal tax credits unlawfully! It's really not that big of a deal.....What?!?!? I know, it's unbelievable, but this is all true and it gets even worse.
What happens when the couple tells them employees that the girls are not even legal citizens? Surely that would be the last straw. They would never cross that line. Oh, but they do. Illegal citizens are ok too apparently, because underage girls that are trafficked in from El Salvador for the sex trade, are basically like "exchange students". That's all they are, "exchange students". Cause after all they're "performing artists". (Once again, sarcasm).
There are numerous other laws that the employees showed the couple how to break or get around, but I just want to see if you all are getting this. I mean, not only are they saying it's ok cheat on their taxes and bring illegal citizens, they are telling this couple that prostitution is a "performing art" and trafficking in underage girls for the sex trade is ok. It's hard to believe, but I'm sad to say that it is very true.
Now, I want to say that I don't like writing about this stuff. It's uncomfortable for me and it infuriates me, but this is absolutely atrocious and I feel like I need to make more people aware of what is happening (even if it is only the 10 people who read this blog). Just so you all don't think I somehow love writing about all these problems our government has.
Regardless of the fact that they are no longer receiving government funding, ACORN is still in business. After an internal investigation (emphasis on "internal") the investigators decided that there was nothing wrong with ACORN, but rather it was just those couple employees. Mike Flynn from BigGovernment.com says this:
"Well, ACORN retained a law firm to investigate its operations and, surprise, the law firm found that ACORN hadn’t done anything wrong in the undercover videos filmed by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. The review, overseen by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harschbarger, a long-time ally of ACORN, found that any problems within ACORN are, gosh darn it, simply because ACORN was too successful, i.e. grew too big and too fast. The problems are also mostly, conveniently, the result of people who are no longer employed by ACORN, i.e. Wade Rathke."
Well thank goodness this was just a problem with those couple employees, and not ACORN as an whole...it was just those employees right? No, actually there have been other incidents very similar to this one popping up all over. This is just the most prominent one. It seems ACORN has a few more bad nuts to deal with then the media says it does.
This is just one more thing that our government is seeing fit to excuse and sweep under the rug. Don't let them do that! Call your Senators, call your Congressmen, and tell them to get on this! We can not let this kind of corruption exist in any organization, let alone ones that are funded and/or endorsed by our government and our representatives. Thanks for reading.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
President Obama's West Point Speech
Did any of you get to see president Obama give his speech at West Point? Or at least read about it in the news? Or at least hear about it at all? I am guessing you probably have, but just in case you haven't I would advise you to go check it out.
President Obama's speech was really a surprise to me...wait, no it wasn't. Obama's speech at West Point only epitomized what he has been doing since before he took office and what he is now doing in office, and that is walking the line on important issues. From before he took office to this very day president Obama has always walked the line on major issues; trying to appease one side without losing the support of the other, and that is exactly what he did again when he spoke at West Point.
In his speech he announced that he would be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan in response to General McCrystal's request. Sounds good right? I mean, get them over there and lets end this thing! Well that would be a good thing, if General McCrystal had requested 30,000 troops. In reality though, he requested 60,000 troops with a minimum of 40,000. Obviously president Obama knows better than the General on the field, otherwise he wouldn't have ignored his request for 60,000 more troops, right? Wrong. All he is doing is playing his "keep everyone happy" game.
A lot of people want the president to pull our troops out of Afghanistan, they want our sons, husbands, wives, brothers, and other loved ones home (and rightfully so). But to pull out now would only give the Al Qaeda another chance to re-organize and launch more terrorist attacks, and so, there are other people who want president Obama to just send the troops over, end it now, and then get our boys back. I personally am not a fan of the first plan, because I think it would jeopardize our national security. President Obama though, decided he needed to play his game with this issue. He sends over half of the soldiers what General McCrystal requested, and then said that in 18 months we will pull our troops out. A perfect example of walking the line and keeping everyone happy.
Not everyone is happy though. Think of what this means for our soldiers. General McCrystal wanted those 60,000 troops to do a once and for all elimination of the Al Qaeda and other terrorist forces. When president Obama sends him only 30,000, how is he supposed to carry out his plan, when he had expected 60,000? All president Obama is doing is: hampering General McCrystal's plan, dragging out the war, and, ultimately, getting more of our troops killed. I can say that last part because every day that our troops spend over there is another day that they run the risk of dying. When you drag out the war like president Obama is doing, it increases the chances of getting more of our troops killed. All of that so that the president can "keep everyone happy". How do you think our troops feel about this? I will tell you what. If I was a soldier in Afghanistan or Iraq and I heard that the president had just done that I would not be happy at all. Now, I am not saying that president Obama is trying to get our troops killed, I do not think he would do that, but by only sending 30,000 troops and dragging out the war the chances of more troops being killed increases.
I just want to say one last thing. I believe pulling the troops out now would be a mistake. We have come this far, I think we should finish it. But, pulling them out now, I think, is a lot better of an idea than what he has decided to do. I think We should send the 60,000 troops and finish it once and for all, but I would pull them all our right now rather than drag it out and then not finish the job anyway. President Obama needs to start taking a side. Even if it it not the side that I personally agree with. It is impossible to win when the president plays the "keep everyone happy" game. Comments, questions, critiques, and corrections are welcome anytime. Thanks for reading.
President Obama's speech was really a surprise to me...wait, no it wasn't. Obama's speech at West Point only epitomized what he has been doing since before he took office and what he is now doing in office, and that is walking the line on important issues. From before he took office to this very day president Obama has always walked the line on major issues; trying to appease one side without losing the support of the other, and that is exactly what he did again when he spoke at West Point.
In his speech he announced that he would be sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan in response to General McCrystal's request. Sounds good right? I mean, get them over there and lets end this thing! Well that would be a good thing, if General McCrystal had requested 30,000 troops. In reality though, he requested 60,000 troops with a minimum of 40,000. Obviously president Obama knows better than the General on the field, otherwise he wouldn't have ignored his request for 60,000 more troops, right? Wrong. All he is doing is playing his "keep everyone happy" game.
A lot of people want the president to pull our troops out of Afghanistan, they want our sons, husbands, wives, brothers, and other loved ones home (and rightfully so). But to pull out now would only give the Al Qaeda another chance to re-organize and launch more terrorist attacks, and so, there are other people who want president Obama to just send the troops over, end it now, and then get our boys back. I personally am not a fan of the first plan, because I think it would jeopardize our national security. President Obama though, decided he needed to play his game with this issue. He sends over half of the soldiers what General McCrystal requested, and then said that in 18 months we will pull our troops out. A perfect example of walking the line and keeping everyone happy.
Not everyone is happy though. Think of what this means for our soldiers. General McCrystal wanted those 60,000 troops to do a once and for all elimination of the Al Qaeda and other terrorist forces. When president Obama sends him only 30,000, how is he supposed to carry out his plan, when he had expected 60,000? All president Obama is doing is: hampering General McCrystal's plan, dragging out the war, and, ultimately, getting more of our troops killed. I can say that last part because every day that our troops spend over there is another day that they run the risk of dying. When you drag out the war like president Obama is doing, it increases the chances of getting more of our troops killed. All of that so that the president can "keep everyone happy". How do you think our troops feel about this? I will tell you what. If I was a soldier in Afghanistan or Iraq and I heard that the president had just done that I would not be happy at all. Now, I am not saying that president Obama is trying to get our troops killed, I do not think he would do that, but by only sending 30,000 troops and dragging out the war the chances of more troops being killed increases.
I just want to say one last thing. I believe pulling the troops out now would be a mistake. We have come this far, I think we should finish it. But, pulling them out now, I think, is a lot better of an idea than what he has decided to do. I think We should send the 60,000 troops and finish it once and for all, but I would pull them all our right now rather than drag it out and then not finish the job anyway. President Obama needs to start taking a side. Even if it it not the side that I personally agree with. It is impossible to win when the president plays the "keep everyone happy" game. Comments, questions, critiques, and corrections are welcome anytime. Thanks for reading.
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