I believe I have a healthy dose of common sense and am very good at seeing the big picture of most topics. I am not very religious. However, I do not disbelieve. I am as much of a moral person as I am able to be due to my early exposure to religion and my inherent wish to learn and enjoy the benefits of all that is good and beautiful in this life. I know there is something greater than us and I hope for something better after this life. I know that we cannot each individually advance without striving to be the best we are able to be while ensuring we do not encroach on others. This is essentially what the American founding is all about, too.
I do not study religion. However, I believe that the Judeo-Christian philosophy is a necessary part of the advancement of man. I am only discussing Judeo-Christian philosophy because I have no direct experience with other peaceful religions. I know that the Bible is sort of a guidebook, if you will, to a happy life. It is an instruction guide, if followed, that would ensure people will deal with each other humanely in all of life's situations. Different interpretations of the Bible is where the problems, in a religious sense, have shown themselves. It is not the Bible or religion that is at fault, but people and their own interpretations that cause all of these problems. Yes, I mean ALL.
Of course, I look at things from an optimistic point of view. If you are naturally a pessimist, you will have a hard road in this life and it generally will show in all you do. If, however, you are able to see the big picture in all of life's events, you will see that MAN and their erroneous interpretations of the way things should be, is the cause of most suffering, not religion. Where we reach the Divine is when a person can look beyond themselves and really see how their actions affect themselves and others. The Bible gives us step-by-step guidance on how to reach the Divine in life, and possibly, thereafter. It is to the detriment of man-kind that we are allowing the Bible to be seen or ridiculed as a joke and as "uncool". Purging it from our educational system will ensure ignorance and, ultimately, destroy our country.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
The Shock is Over, Now What?
What seemed to me to be obvious, apparently, was less obvious to all who voted and who did not bother to vote. Yes, not voting was voting for Obama. How do all you lazy whiners feel now that America's worst nightmare is going to be installed into our White House for another FOUR years? I hope there is SOME remorse in your hearts.
Obama's job is not done, it seems. We all must suffer more economic pain and degradation before these final four years are up. What will this country look like then? I fear it will no longer be America.
While they debate raising income taxes, we all suffer the hidden tax of continuous money printing. Or, as government "intelligencia" like to call it, "Quantitative Easing". Devaluing our monetary system will decimate our economy and they want more income taxes, ON TOP OF THAT. Yes, go ahead, tax the rich. They won't pay. They will leave. They have the money and the mobility to escape it. Or, in the case of corporations, they will pass the additional tax on to the consumer. And, we the consumers will even pay those taxes, too! Yes, that is why so many people say that corporations DO NOT PAY TAXES!!! Get it? The ignorant or "low information voter" do not seem to understand that "Quantitative Easing" is stealthily taking away all of our welfare checks, our savings, our salaries, our retirement checks, our liberty, our everything. I guess 52% of the population enjoy this circumstance and $4.00 a gallon gasoline. Go figure!
Mitt Romney is a good man. It was a clear choice between good and evil. No, not perfect....GOOD. At least it was clear for people who actually had their eyes open. But, for many, it was preferable to sacrifice the good for the NON-EXISTENT perfect. Romney might not have done anything to end the Fed. However, he would have stopped the printing presses! You like the stealth tax we are all paying in the inflation that results by devaluing our dollar? Sure, just stay home and vote for Obama in absentia. The inflation is hidden, so far, if you don't look at gas prices. Some things I buy regularly keep their prices the same but reduce the size of their products. That will fool many. Or, the ignorant will blame the product manufacturer rather than the real culprit, the Federal Reserve and the Marxist government it is serving.
The people who stayed home sicken me more than the idiots who actually got off their couches and voted for the Marxist. The lazy and dissatisfied with Romney kept their votes from him KNOWING Obama would destroy this country. Most people who physically voted for Obama did so UNKNOWINGLY. They deserve our pity. The others, our contempt.
Now what? I don't know. Keep acting like this is still America and maybe we'll be able to teach American principles to the people around us. Keep fighting and teaching. It won't happen overnight, but good does always triumph over evil eventually. It might not happen in our lifetimes, but if we fight hard, maybe it will happen in our children's. Giving up is not the American way.
Obama's job is not done, it seems. We all must suffer more economic pain and degradation before these final four years are up. What will this country look like then? I fear it will no longer be America.
While they debate raising income taxes, we all suffer the hidden tax of continuous money printing. Or, as government "intelligencia" like to call it, "Quantitative Easing". Devaluing our monetary system will decimate our economy and they want more income taxes, ON TOP OF THAT. Yes, go ahead, tax the rich. They won't pay. They will leave. They have the money and the mobility to escape it. Or, in the case of corporations, they will pass the additional tax on to the consumer. And, we the consumers will even pay those taxes, too! Yes, that is why so many people say that corporations DO NOT PAY TAXES!!! Get it? The ignorant or "low information voter" do not seem to understand that "Quantitative Easing" is stealthily taking away all of our welfare checks, our savings, our salaries, our retirement checks, our liberty, our everything. I guess 52% of the population enjoy this circumstance and $4.00 a gallon gasoline. Go figure!
Mitt Romney is a good man. It was a clear choice between good and evil. No, not perfect....GOOD. At least it was clear for people who actually had their eyes open. But, for many, it was preferable to sacrifice the good for the NON-EXISTENT perfect. Romney might not have done anything to end the Fed. However, he would have stopped the printing presses! You like the stealth tax we are all paying in the inflation that results by devaluing our dollar? Sure, just stay home and vote for Obama in absentia. The inflation is hidden, so far, if you don't look at gas prices. Some things I buy regularly keep their prices the same but reduce the size of their products. That will fool many. Or, the ignorant will blame the product manufacturer rather than the real culprit, the Federal Reserve and the Marxist government it is serving.
The people who stayed home sicken me more than the idiots who actually got off their couches and voted for the Marxist. The lazy and dissatisfied with Romney kept their votes from him KNOWING Obama would destroy this country. Most people who physically voted for Obama did so UNKNOWINGLY. They deserve our pity. The others, our contempt.
Now what? I don't know. Keep acting like this is still America and maybe we'll be able to teach American principles to the people around us. Keep fighting and teaching. It won't happen overnight, but good does always triumph over evil eventually. It might not happen in our lifetimes, but if we fight hard, maybe it will happen in our children's. Giving up is not the American way.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Obama's Job is Done
With great fan-fare, Barack Obama was elected into office as the 44th President of the United States in November 2008. He thought his job was to "fundamentally transform" these United States. In a way, he was correct. His view of what the transformation should look like was not exactly what happened, however. Oh, yes, he did manage, without one Republican vote, to squeak through a step towards socialized medicine that is so full of bureaucratic nonsense. It is that one bit of horrendous legislation, and his single-minded devotion to it, that was the beginning of his undoing.
America has awakened. That was Barack Obama's job. That's it. He will be voted out in a landslide later today and Americans have had a proper 4 year lesson.
Hidden from view from all but the very discerning, the true nature of the Democrat Party has been exposed. For 4 relentless years we've been bombarded with the "civil rights" issue of gay "marriage", the "right" to kill unborn babies, the "truth" that all Republicans, Tea Partiers, and evangelicals are racist, even in the face of the truth that the people that keep bringing up skin color issues are the true racists. However, when they voted out God and references to Jeruselum from their platform at the convention, scrambled to put it back in at the protest of many people on the floor, they drove in the final nail. Digging into the grave, stirring up the maggot-ridden dirt, is Benghazi. No minor issue. But, let's not forget that Obama had to add, "voting is the best revenge".
Yes, America is awake and it is not lost on us the beauty of Romney's response, "vote for love of country".
America has awakened. That was Barack Obama's job. That's it. He will be voted out in a landslide later today and Americans have had a proper 4 year lesson.
Hidden from view from all but the very discerning, the true nature of the Democrat Party has been exposed. For 4 relentless years we've been bombarded with the "civil rights" issue of gay "marriage", the "right" to kill unborn babies, the "truth" that all Republicans, Tea Partiers, and evangelicals are racist, even in the face of the truth that the people that keep bringing up skin color issues are the true racists. However, when they voted out God and references to Jeruselum from their platform at the convention, scrambled to put it back in at the protest of many people on the floor, they drove in the final nail. Digging into the grave, stirring up the maggot-ridden dirt, is Benghazi. No minor issue. But, let's not forget that Obama had to add, "voting is the best revenge".
Yes, America is awake and it is not lost on us the beauty of Romney's response, "vote for love of country".
Friday, June 8, 2012
Liberals Threaten Not to Vote....Say it isn't so!
CBS News in Providence, Rhode Island has an article about the disappointment of Liberals in Obama's performance. It's not that he's done too much damage to this country by their measure. Oh, no. It's that he's not done enough! I kid you not. Read the article, it is just amazing the ignorance of these people. However, what made me laugh was the line, "The widespread belief in Obama’s message of hope and change turned to frustration as the president yielded to Republican pressure by devoting a significant portion of the 2009 stimulus package to tax cuts."
Say what? Leaving aside the lack of information on what constitutes "Hope" and "Change", don't these people have any idea that tax money doesn't come out of thin air? I mean really, the 2009 stimulous, almost a TRILLION dollars....where did this money come from? Do they think it grew on trees? Do you wish on a star and dollar bills fall from the sky? Or, how about looking in cabbage patches? I'm serious here, where do they really think this money actually comes from? How does a government PAY for a tax cut when the tax money that they are supposedly "giving" back to the people who earned it and the money stolen from the same taxpayers for a "stimulous" is EXACTLY the same source of funds? Oh, that's right, it must be Obama's stash! But, where did Obama get it since he's never held down a private sector job? Oh, that's right, he wrote TWO autobiographies before he was 40. Maybe he gypped Bill Ayers out of his ghost-writing fees?
Say what? Leaving aside the lack of information on what constitutes "Hope" and "Change", don't these people have any idea that tax money doesn't come out of thin air? I mean really, the 2009 stimulous, almost a TRILLION dollars....where did this money come from? Do they think it grew on trees? Do you wish on a star and dollar bills fall from the sky? Or, how about looking in cabbage patches? I'm serious here, where do they really think this money actually comes from? How does a government PAY for a tax cut when the tax money that they are supposedly "giving" back to the people who earned it and the money stolen from the same taxpayers for a "stimulous" is EXACTLY the same source of funds? Oh, that's right, it must be Obama's stash! But, where did Obama get it since he's never held down a private sector job? Oh, that's right, he wrote TWO autobiographies before he was 40. Maybe he gypped Bill Ayers out of his ghost-writing fees?
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Something Funny I Read Today
I ran across this article on the Reuters website today commenting on Florida's pending official reaction to the U.S. Justice Department's demand that the election commission or Secretary of State STOP removing the names of dead people (and illegal aliens) from their voting lists. This specific sentence made me stop reading with a laugh: "The warning issued this week by the head of the Justice Department's voting section said the effort appeared to violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which protects minorities."
I guess they are saying dead people are a minority, too? You could say, technically, that dead people are a minority because they don't have a voice, correct? However, this calls into question how far back in history are they counting the dead people? Maybe, if you are strict about it, you could say that the number of dead people on Florida's election roles will definitely constitute a minority. However, the fact that they are dead does give them a message and a voice, don't you think? The message being, "I am dead, and so, I cannot vote. Please stop using my name in vain and forcing my political reputation as a vote in ways I cannot contest and never intended." Wouldn't that be a great, and correct, way to interpret their voice? So, if they do have a voice, are they a minority? Well, if you want to be technical about who is a minority, the largest minority in the world is the individual. As a consequence, every individual's vote must mean something, and forcing the deceased names to remain on the roles so that many extra Democrats can vote multiple times removes all meaning from a living individual's effort to participate in our political process. So, yes, Florida's decision to remove dead people (and illegal aliens) from their voting roles IN NO WAY violates minority protections.
That Eric Holder and his Not-So-Blind-Justice Department......what a maroon.
I guess they are saying dead people are a minority, too? You could say, technically, that dead people are a minority because they don't have a voice, correct? However, this calls into question how far back in history are they counting the dead people? Maybe, if you are strict about it, you could say that the number of dead people on Florida's election roles will definitely constitute a minority. However, the fact that they are dead does give them a message and a voice, don't you think? The message being, "I am dead, and so, I cannot vote. Please stop using my name in vain and forcing my political reputation as a vote in ways I cannot contest and never intended." Wouldn't that be a great, and correct, way to interpret their voice? So, if they do have a voice, are they a minority? Well, if you want to be technical about who is a minority, the largest minority in the world is the individual. As a consequence, every individual's vote must mean something, and forcing the deceased names to remain on the roles so that many extra Democrats can vote multiple times removes all meaning from a living individual's effort to participate in our political process. So, yes, Florida's decision to remove dead people (and illegal aliens) from their voting roles IN NO WAY violates minority protections.
That Eric Holder and his Not-So-Blind-Justice Department......what a maroon.
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