Love from the left...

I am always amused with the Left.  They always preach against hate and how the right are a bunch of hate mongers that wish no good to anyone.  If you have not heard, Rush Limbaugh was sent to the hospital because of chest pains, and is now resting comfortably at a hospital. [Source: ABC]

To see how loving the left can be, I have started looking at blog posts, and find the comments from the liberals very loving in deed.

Comments from: http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2009/12/rush-limbaughthe-drug-addled-gasbag.html

• Here's hoping his heart does a Palin on him.
• Go to the light Rush!!!

Comments from: http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2009/12/rush-limbaughthe-drug-addled-gasbag.html

• Wouldn't THAT be a lovely ending to 2009?
• Doesn't he actually have to HAVE a heart, before it can be under attack!?! Yeah, I'll glady go to hell for saying this, "I hope the evil bastard DIES!"
• If I believed in God, I would hope he was calling the fat-ass home.
• Rush Limbaugh was an enemy of America (whether he himself understood that or not) and, in my opinion, anyone who hates America or harms my country deserves to die a slow and painful death.
• I thought Santa was delivering late this year, but sheesh, it's almost NYE!

Comments from: KSL - a local news company.

• Too much illegal Viagra that U.S. Customs & Border Protection didn't snag from him a few years after a trip to the D.R.! Now only if Glenn Beck and Sean Hanity would join him!
• Classic Addict Stunt: He's just pretending to have chest pains so they'll give him some controlled pain meds.  This guy has no shame. And should he die tonight, 2010 will be a little better for all of us.
• OH my gosh this is great news! The world will be a better place without this fat loser! Lets put god back on our nation and hold a national prayer night and pray for his passing.
• Hard to imagine anyone as righteous as Rush being struck down. There must be a god after all.
• Heard it's Swine flu, and they've taken him to a vetrenarian hospital for Pigs.

Comments from: http://www.bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2009/12/rush_limbaugh.html

• You know what'd be great? If he spent a couple of days in the hospital, made a big spectacle of getting a clean bill of health, then walked outside, stepped into the street and got hit by a bus.
• Sorry—I will extend no such kindness or compassion to Rush Limbaugh. He has caused too much pain for too many people for too long. - May he hasten to death's door.

Comments from: http://gawker.com/5437494/rush-limbaugh-rushed-to-hospital

• DIE FASTER!
• Come on 2009! The year of death can claim one more! Come on!!!!!
• Now that he's going to survive, I feel disappointed. And there you are.
• This year might end on a high note after all. Since christmas hasn't happened for my click yet , this might be our little miracle
  
• *****APPLAUSE*****
  
• Die, baby, die!!
  
• Best news I've heard all day. It's a festivus MIRACLE!
  

Comments from: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/12/30/liberal-twitter-users-rejoice-at-rush-limbaughs-hospitalization

• PLEASE USE HASHTAG #DIERUSHDIE IF YOU HOPE RUSH LIMBAUGH DIES. DONT BE ASHAMED, IT IS FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF AMERICA.
• Rush Limbaugh in the hospital with chest pains, please let this be the end of his reign!!! This would be a great end to the decade!!!
• FOR THE RECORD, UNIVERSE, IT WOULD BE FANTASTIC TO START THE NEW YEAR WITHOUT RUSH LIMBAUGH AROUND. JS.
• Rush Limbaugh rushed to hospital w/ chest pains. Santa actually listened this year.
• I hope this fat pig suffers -- I hope this fat pig suffers terribly and then dies. He can never make up for the damage of the lies and propaganda he has spouted for years to the drooling uninformed idiots.

Comments from: http://rawstory.com/2009/12/limbaugh-hospital-chest-pains/

• Die ******, Die!
• Die you bastard, die
• We could only be so lucky.
• I hope Drugbaugh's heart fails. I really do.
• What a shame. He lived.

Can anyone else feel the love and the tolerance from the left?   I sure don't feel it.  

One of the really FUNNY things I noticed on a lot of the posts were they were calling him a FAG, and talking about his cabana boys.  I also thought that the left was tolerant of homosexuality?

Psychopolitics (geo-politics) - Communism

Lavrentiy Pavlovic Beria (March 29, 1899 - December 23 1953) was a Soviet politician, and chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus under Stalin. By the end of the Great Purge he had become deputy head and subsequently head of the NKVD and carried out a purge of the NKVD itself. Beria was most influential during and after World War II, and immediately after Stalin's death in 1953, when as First Deputy Prime Minister he carried out a brief campaign of liberalization. He was briefly a part of the ruling "troika" with Georgy Malenkov and Vyacheslav Molotov. However, in that same year he was arrested and executed by his political rivals. He claimed to have poisoned Stalin, according to Molotov's memoirs. [Source: wikipedia]

Here is an address that was made by Beria to the American students at the Lenin University prior to 1936.

American student at the Lenin University, I welcome your attendance at these classes of Psychopolitics.


Psychopolitics is an important if less know division of Geo-politics. It is less know because it must necessarily deal with highly educated personnel, the very top strata of "mental healing."

By psychopolitics our chief goals are effectively carried forward. To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of the masses.

A psychopolitician must work hard to produce a maximum chaos in the fields of "mental healing." He must recruit and use all the agencies and facili- ties of "mental healing" until at last the entire field of mental science is entirely dominated by Communist principles and desires.

To achieve these goals the psychopolitician must crush every "home-grown" variety of mental healing in America. Actually teachings of James, Eddy and Pentecostal Bible faith healer amongst your misguided people must be swept aside. They must be discredited, defamed, arrested, stamped upon even by their own government until there is no credit in them and only Communist- oriented "healing" remains. You must work until every teacher of psychology unknowingly or knowingly teaches only Communist doctrine under the guise of  "psychology." You must labor until every doctor and psychiatrists is either a psycho-politician or an unwitting assistant to our aims.

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation. You must achieve such disrepute for the state of insanity and such authority over its pronouncement that not one statesman so labeled could again be given credence by his people. You must work until suicide arising from mental imbalance is common and calls for no general investigation or remark.

With the institutions for the insane you have in your country prisons which can hold a million persons and can hold them without civil rights or any hope of freedom. And upon these people can be practiced shock and surgery so that never again will they draw a sane breath. You must make these treatments common and accepted. And you must sweep aside any treatment or any group of persons seeking to treat by effective means.

You must dominate as respected men the fields of psychiatry and psychology. You must dominate the hospitals and universities. You must carry forward the myth that only a European doctor is competent in the field of insanity and thus excuse amongst you the high incidence of foreign birth and training. If and when we seize Vienna you shall have then a common ground of meeting and can come and take your instructions as worshipers of Freud along with other psychiatrists.

Psychoplitics is a solemn charge. With it you can erase our enemies insects. You can cripple the efficiency of leaders by striking insanity into their families through the use of drugs. You can wipe them away with testimony as to their insanity. By our technologies you can even bring about insanity itself when they seem to resistive.

You can change their loyalties by psychopolitics. Given a short time with a psychopolitician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.

However you labor under certain dangers. It may happen that remedies for our "treatments" may be discovered. It may occur that a public hue and cry may arise against "mental healing." It may thus occur that all mental healing might be placed in the hands of ministers and be taken out of the hands of our psychologists and psychiatrists. But the Capitalistic thirst for control, Capitalistic inhumanity and a general public terror of insani- ty can be brought to guard against these things. But should they occur, should independent researcher actually discover means to undo psychopolitical procedures, you must not rest, you must not eat or sleep, you must not stint one tiniest bit of available money to campaign against it, discredit it, strike it down and render it void. For by an effective means all our actions and researches could be undone.

In a Capitalistic state you are aided on all sides by the corruption of the philosophy of man and the times. You will discover that everything will aid you in your campaigns to seize, control and use all "mental healing" to spread our doctrine and rid us of our enemies within their own borders.

Use the courts, use the judges, use the Constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to further our ends. Do not sting in your labor in this direction. And when you have succeeded you will discover that you can now effect your own legislation at will and you can, by careful organization of healing societies, by constant campaign about the terrors of society, by pretense as to your effectiveness make your Capitalist himself, by his own appropriations, finance a large portion of the quiet Communist conquest of the nation.

By psychopolitics create chaos. Leave a nation leaderless. Kill your enemies. And bring to Earth, through Communism, the greatest peace Man has ever known.

Thank you.

So, then the question I have, is are the communists doing what they planned on doing?  "Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of the masses."  Is our country now experiencing chaos, distrust, economic depression, and scientific turmoil?   We are currently divided as a country (red, blue, democrat, republican) and in chaos?  Are we not in a state of distrust where we don't trust our politicians, or our leaders?  Are we not currently feeling the effect of economic woes?  Are we not in scientific turmoil (look at the global climate change debate)?

I think that the communists are doing what they planned on doing.  They are starting to make our country turn to-wards communism as a relief for what they see as bothering us.  The Health Care bill is a perfect example of this, the general population now sees a socialistic, or communistic policy as the ONLY solution for a problem.  We are turning to-wards communism just like Beria started.

Ezra Taft Benson was told by Khrushchev in 1959, “You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you’ll finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you’ll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.”

Have we allowed communism to enter our society over the past years?  Is it to late?  I would say No, it is not to late.  We need to create heroes for the younger generations and stand as people of character and of valor.  In every centry, the Lord has raised up a generation of Men of Valor to counter the evil growing in the world.  We just need to help the Lord and become the Men of Valor he needs us to be, and to raise our children so they can also be full of character and valor to carry on the fight.

"Leave a nation leaderless. Kill your enemies. And bring to Earth, through Communism, the greatest peace Man has ever known."  I find that someone who feels that communism is so great, and will bring peace to Man will refer to his enemies as insects and discuss how to ruin their minds, and bring them to insanity disturbing.

For a more detailed article on this topic, you may the article by Jeff Nyquist "Mission Bulletin of Strategic Crisis Center" a informative read.

What a pathetic waste!

In the book Men of Valor: The Powerful Impact of a Righteous Man by Robert L. Millet, and in the book Be Not Afraid: Turning to Christ in Times of Crisis by Ted Gibbons there is a story by Boyd K. Packer.  I would like to share that story in this post.

I recall on on occasion, when I was returning from seminary to my home for lunch, that as I drove in, my wife met me in the driveway.  I could tell by the expression on her face that something was wrong.  "Cliff has been killed," she said.  "They want you to come over."  As I hastened around the corner to where Cliff lived with his wife and four sons and his little daughter, I saw Cliff lying in the middle of the highway with a blanket over him.  The ambulance was just pulling away with little Colleen.  Cliff had been on his was out to the farm and had stopped to cross the street to take little Colleen to her mother who waited on the opposite curb.  But the child, as children will, broke from his father's hand and slipped into the street.  A large truck was coming.  Cliff jumped from the curb and pushed his little daughter from the path of the truck - but he wasn't soon enough.

A few days later I had the responsibility of taking at the funeral of Cliff and little Colleen.  Someone said "What a terrible waste.  Certainly he ought to have stayed don the curb.  He knew the child might have died.  But he had four sons and a wife to provide for.  What a pathetic waste!"  And I estimated that that individual never had had the experience of loving someone more than he loved himself.

Do you think that Cliff's actions were a pathetic waist.  I don't!  If I was in Cliff's situation, I would do everything I could do to make it so that one of my children could live a productive life.  It is the responsibility of parents to protect our children with everything.

Most of us will not have to protect our kids from a fast moving truck, but we do need to protect our children from the fast moving attacks that the world will throw at them.   How often do we sit on the side lines and watch as our children run out into the street of life?   We need to have enough character and valor to be willing to run out into the street and help them wade through the traffic of the modern world, and to push them out of the path of a moving truck.

Another thought that I had when reading this, was am I Cliff or and I the truck?  How many times have we been the truck that hit our children and damaged or killed part of their spiritual being?  How often have we damaged the sense of their Godly nature, and their sense of a noble self?  We need to strive to make our homes the same as the the other side of the street.  A place where our children will run to get to.  A place of comfort like the arms of a waiting mother.

One more thought that I had was of the mother.  She was sitting on the other side of the street watching as the events unfolded.  What do you think her thoughts and actions were?   The main thing I thought of was the roles each of the parents took.  The father was the protector, and ran to the aide of Colleen when she needed him.  It was not the mothers responsibility to push her out of the way of the truck, but the responsibility of the father.  How many homes do you know of where the mother is the moving force to protect the children from the effects of the world.  In our home, momzoo does a lot more to protect the kids from the evils of the world than I do.  This is something that I need to work a lot better on.  The father should be the one that pushes the children out of harms way with prayer, scripture study, and other religious protectors.

Within the Clasp of Your Arms

I am currently reading, (listening to) a book by Robert L. Millet "MEN of VALOR - The Powerful Impact of a Righteous Man".  (It as a Christmas gift from momzoo.)  In this book, he gives part of a talk by Jeffery R. Holland.  The talk is called "Within the Clasp of Your Arms".  In this talk Elder Holland tells a story about when he was in School and how he handled a situation with is 5 year old son Matt.   I would like to share this story here.

One evening I came home from long hours at school, feeling the proverbial weight of the world on my shoulders. Everything seemed to be especially demanding and discouraging and dark. I wondered if the dawn would ever come. Then, as I walked into our small student apartment, there was an unusual silence in the room.


“What’s the trouble?” I asked.

“Matthew has something he wants to tell you,” Pat said.

“Matt, what do you have to tell me?” He was quietly playing with his toys in the corner of the room, trying very hard not to hear me. “Matt,” I said a little louder, “do you have something to tell me?”

He stopped playing, but for a moment didn’t look up. Then these two enormous, tear-filled brown eyes turned toward me, and with the pain only a five-year-old can know, he said, “I didn’t mind Mommy tonight, and I spoke back to her.” With that he burst into tears, and his entire little body shook with grief. A childish indiscretion had been noted, a painful confession had been offered, the growth of a five-year-old was continuing, and loving reconciliation could have been wonderfully underway.

Everything might have been just terrific—except for me. If you can imagine such an idiotic thing, I lost my temper. It wasn’t that I lost it with Matt—it was with a hundred and one other things on my mind; but he didn’t know that, and I wasn’t disciplined enough to admit it. He got the whole load of bricks.

I told him how disappointed I was and how much more I thought I could have expected from him. I sounded like the parental pygmy I was. Then I did what I had never done before in his life—I told him that he was to go straight to bed and that I would not be in to say his prayers with him or to tell him a bedtime story. Muffling his sobs, he obediently went to his bedside, where he knelt—alone—to say his prayers. Then he stained his little pillow with tears his father should have been wiping away.

If you think the silence upon my arrival was heavy, you should have felt it now. Pat did not say a word. She didn’t have to. I felt terrible!

Later, as we knelt by our own bed, my feeble prayer for blessings upon my family fell back on my ears with a horrible, hollow ring. I wanted to get up off my knees right then and go to Matt and ask his forgiveness, but he was long since peacefully asleep.

My relief was not so soon coming; but finally I fell asleep and began to dream, which I seldom do. I dreamed Matt and I were packing two cars for a move. For some reason his mother and baby sister were not present. As we finished I turned to him and said, “Okay, Matt, you drive one car and I’ll drive the other.”

This five-year-old very obediently crawled up on the seat and tried to grasp the massive steering wheel. I walked over to the other car and started the motor. As I began to pull away, I looked to see how my son was doing. He was trying—oh, how he was trying. He tried to reach the pedals, but he couldn’t. He was also turning knobs and pushing buttons, trying to start the motor. He could scarcely be seen over the dashboard, but there staring out at me again were those same immense, tear-filled, beautiful brown eyes. As I pulled away, he cried out, “Daddy, don’t leave me. I don’t know how to do it. I am too little.” And I drove away.

A short time later, driving down that desert road in my dream, I suddenly realized in one stark, horrifying moment what I had done. I slammed my car to a stop, threw open the door, and started to run as fast as I could. I left car, keys, belongings, and all—and I ran. The pavement was so hot it burned my feet, and tears blinded my straining effort to see this child somewhere on the horizon. I kept running, praying, pleading to be forgiven and to find my boy safe and secure.

As I rounded a curve nearly ready to drop from physical and emotional exhaustion, I saw the unfamiliar car I had left Matt to drive. It was pulled carefully off to the side of the road, and he was laughing and playing nearby. An older man was with him, playing and responding to his games. Matt saw me and cried out something like, “Hi, Dad. We’re having fun.” Obviously he had already forgiven and forgotten my terrible transgression against him.

But I dreaded the older man’s gaze, which followed my every move. I tried to say “Thank you,” but his eyes were filled with sorrow and disappointment. I muttered an awkward apology and the stranger said simply, “You should not have left him alone to do this difficult thing. It would not have been asked of you.”

With that, the dream ended, and I shot upright in bed. My pillow was now stained, whether with perspiration or tears I do not know. I threw off the covers and ran to the little metal camp cot that was my son’s bed. There on my knees and through my tears I cradled him in my arms and spoke to him while he slept. I told him that every dad makes mistakes but that they don’t mean to. I told him it wasn’t his fault I had had a bad day. I told him that when boys are five or fifteen, dads sometimes forget and think they are fifty. I told him that I wanted him to be a small boy for a long, long time, because all too soon he would grow up and be a man and wouldn’t be playing on the floor with his toys when I came home. I told him that I loved him and his mother and his sister more than anything in the world and that whatever challenges we had in life we would face them together. I told him that never again would I withhold my affection or my forgiveness from him, and never, I prayed, would he withhold them from me. I told him I was honored to be his father and that I would try with all my heart to be worthy of such a great responsibility.

I had several thoughts come come to mind.  The first one was that his son Matt was raised so that not minding his parents and talking back to his mother was something he felt remorse for doing.   The second one was how can I become a better father so that when a situation like this arises, I will use it as an opportunity for growth and learning.  The third was the response of Pat, his wife.  He was in a position where she knew he would make things better, and she trusted him to do so.

What are your thoughts on this story?  What did it make you think about?

Hero or Idol?

I would like to share with you two definitions.

The first one is for the word Hero.  If you take several definitions of the word, you can form the definition: "An illustrious warrior, admired for his achievements and noble qualities that shows great courage."

Now, lets look at the word Idol.  If you do the same thing, and create a sentence from several definitions, you get: "A representation, symbol, or likeness of something, visible but without substance, that is an object of extreme devotion."

It is only fair to note, that both definitions contain "an object of extreme (admiration) devotion".  It would be interesting to see when Webster added the definition of idol under hero.

Which do you look up to?  Do you look up to Heroes, or Idols?   Do you look up to a Hero, that shows character (moral excellence and firmness), or an idol that is a false conception?

I think that our young people need more heroes instead of idols.  The world is generating a lot of shells for people to admire, but they lack character.  Society has gotten to the point that they no longer have heroes to look up to.  Instead of seeing people like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, they are turning to-wards fake characters.  Characters from movies, and actors that put on an aire of high visibility, but lack any substance.

The world needs to look for heroes of character and valor (strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness).  We need to help the younger generations pick heroes instead of idols.

Now for the next question, are you personally becoming a hero or an idol to the next generation?  Are you trying to be a person with strength of mind and spirit?  Are you trying to be someone that will encounter danger with firmness and moral excellence?

Just something to think about...  The world needs more people who have morals and stand strong to those morals.  These are the type of people that need to replace the idols of today.  We need to become the heroes for the next generation to look up to, not the idols that have no substance and are unwilling to fight for moral excellence.

Humor - Grandma in court

Lawyers should never ask a grandma a question if they aren't prepared for the answer.


In a trial, a small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked, 'Mrs. Jones, do you know me?'

She responded, 'Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a boy, and frankly, you've been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, and you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you'll never amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you.'

The lawyer was stunned. Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, 'Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?'

She again replied, ' Why yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster, too. He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem. He can't build a normal relationship with anyone, and his law practice is one of the worst in the entire state. Not to mention he cheated on his wife with three different women. One of them was your wife. Yes, I know him.'

The defense attorney nearly died.

The judge asked both counselors to approach the bench and, in a very quiet voice, said,

'If either of you idiots asks her if she knows me, I'll send you both to the electric chair.'

My top 5 Country Picks - Top 5 Country Songs that talked to me this year

I have started to listen to country music this year.  I have tried to not listen, by changing to a non country station, but find myself always going back to a country station within a few minutes.  Anyone that knows me knows that this is a BIG change.  I use to listen to what has been classified as "80's Hair Bands".  This is the list of the top 5 COUNTRY songs that I think influenced me in some way this year. (And yes, I know that these songs were not written in 2009, but they influenced me in 2009, so they make the list.  This is my BLOG, so I can change the rules.)

Number 5
Brad Paisley - I'm still a guy.

I picked this song because of what I see happening to America. The American Man is a thing of the past. This song sums it up pretty well. "These days there's dudes gettin' facials, manicured, waxed and botoxed. With deep spray-on tans and creamy lotiony hands, you can't grip a tackle box." "Oh, my eyebrows ain't plucked, there's a gun in my truck, Oh thank God, I'm still a guy." This year I have purchased several guns, which is a big deal. My Mother has always been anti-gun in the house, so I was not raised around guns. But now I have several .22 rifles, a 12 gauge shot gun, and want to buy a 9mm Hand Gun (Springfield XDM 9mm).  I even want to get my hunter safety taken so I can go hunting with my brother-in-laws, and get a concealed carry permit as well.

Number 4

Jason Aldean - She's Country.

I think this song gives a fairly good representation of what I would like my 4 little girls to grow up to be like.  (There are some of the song that I hope they don't emulate, but then again, most songs are like that.)  But I think the Chorus says it the best.  "Brother she's all country (shoot) from her cowboy boots to her down home roots.  She's country, from the song she plays to the prayer she prays.  thats the way she was born and raisee, she ain't afraid to stay country.  Nuthin' but country."   Everyone in the family, except for Momzoo, now has a cowboy hat.  She would also have one, if I could convince her that she does look good in one, and the she would wear it every once in a while.  We are trying to bring our family back to the basics, and live a country valued life.  And the song has a really good beat to it as well.

Number 3
Rodney Atkins - Watching You

Since I am a father of mostly girls (4 girls and 1 boy), I am very vigilant on trying to raise my son to be the best man he can be in the future.  This song really hits home.  My son watches me all the time, and thinks that anything I do is golden.  An example of that is when Momzoo was trying to get him to wear big boy under pants and stop using a diaper.  He refused to wear his new boxer-briefs, until Momzoo pointed out that they are just like dads.  At that point, he started wearing them, to be like his dad.  This song is a perfect example of that.  I like it because it illistrates how your children can pick up bad habbits that you may have, but then also pick up the good ones as well.  So even though you may not be perfect, you can give your children the things they need to make it in life and to be a responsible, contributing, adult.   "Cuse I've been watching you, dad ain't that cool? I'm your buckaroo, I want to be like you, and eat all my food, and grow as tall as you are.  We like fixin things, and holding moma's hand.  Yeah, we're just alike, hey, ain't we dad?  I want to do everything you do, so I've been watching you."

Number 2

Toby Keith - American Ride

This song makes me laugh every time I hear it.  He pokes fun a the current mind frame that most Americans have right now.  He talks about Global Warming, Reality TV, YouTube, and many other modern society concerns.  But the best line in the whole song is this, "Plasma gettin' bigger, jesus gettin smaller."   I think that is one of the main problems that modern teen age kids and society as a whole has.  There is little regard for Jesus and a belief in God.  Things have turned so that more people make fun of religious beliefs than uphold religious beliefs.  I think this songs makes that statement.

Number 1

Toby Keith - American Soldier

I like this song as a tribute to all American Soldiers that have fought and will fight for all of the things our country stands for.  I think we have taken the teeth out of our military, and as a result have lost a lot of them that we did not need to lose.  America is a great country, and these men and women keep us free and fight for justice around the world.  There are several other songs that I would of given number one, but feel that this song hits all the points.

"I'm just trying to be a father,

Raise a daughter and a son,
Be a lover to their mother,
Everything to everyone.
Up and at 'em bright and early,
I'm all business in my suit,
Yeah, I'm dressed for success from my head down to my boots,
I don't do it for money, there's still bills that I can't pay,
I don't do it for the glory, I just do it anyway,
Providing for our future's my responsibility,
Yeah I'm real good under pressure, being all that I can be,
And I can't call in sick on Mondays when the weekends been to strong,
I just work straight through the holidays,
And sometimes all night long.
You can bet that I stand ready when the wolf growls at the door,
Hey, I'm solid, hey I'm steady, hey I'm true down to the core,
And I will always do my duty, no matter what the price,
I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice,
Oh, and I don't want to die for you,
But if dying's asked of me,
I'll bear that cross with an honor,
'Cause freedom don't come free.
I'm an American soldier, an American,
Beside my brothers and my sisters I will proudly take a stand,
When liberty's in jeopardy I will always do what's right,
I'm out here on the front lines, so sleep in peace tonight."

There were two other songs that I thought about putting as Number one.   I think that Arlington by Trace Adkins is also a very good song, as well as Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American) by Toby Keith.

Line of the YEAR!

I have to mention one more song that does not get a number, but that has impacted me a lot this year.  This year was a year of growth.  I have had several issues that I have had to resolve.  I have also recovered from a major knee injury as well as food surgery.  At times, I just wanted to say, "Damn it all to hell, Im done".  And the song I Wanna Feel Something by Trace Adkins says it all.  The line of the year is from this song.  The line of the year is for Momzoo, my wife of 12 years (and yes, I do want a wife).  "I hate that I'm jaded and I make you cry, but still you sitck around me, only God knows why.  Damn it all to hell, I'm done.  Cuse I don't like what I've become.  So come here, baby come here, baby."   The song then continues...  "I just wanna feel somethin.  Somethin thats a real something, that moves me, that proves to me I'm still alive.  Run my fingers through your fingers, across your face and through your hair.  And close my eyes and breathe you in like air.  I just wanna feel somethin."

Parable of the Talents - A Progressive View

In the BIBLE, there is a parable that is called the "Parable of the Talents" it can be found in Matthew 25:14-25. I am also going to include the text here as well (as found in the King James version of the Bible).

14 For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.

15 And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.

16 Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.

17 And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.

18 But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.

19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.

20 And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.

21 His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

22 He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.

23 His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:

25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.

Now for the Current Liberal Progressive version of the Parable continues.....

26 The servant then went and told the governor about the injustice that the lord and the other servants had done to him. It was unfair that the lord had given more to the other servants that to him.

27 The governor then had the lord and the other servants brought before him.

28 He then took part of the lord’s talents as a tribute to himself.

29 He then took four talents from the first servant and gave them to the third servant.

30 He then took two talents from the second servant and gave them to the third servant.

31 The governor then said, it is not fair that the third servant was unable to produce the same as the other servants. I have therefore taken part of thy increase and have given it to the third servant.

32 And because your lord did not share equally, and because he is a greedy man that suffers from the love of talents, I have taken talents from him to help others that have less than he hath. It is not fair to the rest of the city that he hath more than the rest of thee.

33 The lord then collected his household and moved to a far country, where he could keep the talents that he earned.

34 The first servant went to work for another lord, and did not produce as much as he had before, because of the fear of the governor taking his talents.

35 The second servant seeing that he could do better by not trading his talents then hid them in the earth, to avoid having them taken by the governor. He was then given more talents by the governor

36 The third servant, after using the talents given to him from the governor, went back to the governor asking him for more talents.

37 The governor continued to take talents from those that had, and then gave them to those who did not have. He also made laws so that no one could have more talents than he felt they should have.

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I am reminded of one other scripture:

Genesis 3:19 "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. "

Obama - Speech on Job Creation

I need to put the disclaimer on this post....

DISCLAIMER: Notice this post was made by a Right-Wing Fanatic, Fear-Mongering, Conservative, Religious Zealot that sometimes worships at the Church of Glenn Beck. This post could contain anti-liberal, non-progressive content that may be classified as conservative drivel. You may also find references to the United States Constitution, God, and the US Founding Fathers. This post may also contain FACTS that may incite action, either in support, or in opposition. You have been warned.

In a recent speech the President Obama gave on "Job Creation and Economic Growth" he said:

"So one of the central goals of this administration is restoring fiscal responsibility. Even as we have had to spend our way out of this recession in the near term, we've begun to make the hard choices necessary to get our country on a more stable fiscal footing in the long run. So let me just be clear here. Despite what some have claimed, the cost of the Recovery Act is only a very small part of our current budget imbalance. In reality, the deficit had been building dramatically over the previous eight years. We have a structural gap between the money going out and the money coming in."

Now wait... You are saying we need to SPEND our WAY out of this recession. Really, and who's money are you using to SPEND our way out?

"Folks passed tax cuts and expansive entitlement programs without paying for any of it -- even as health care costs kept rising, year after year. As a result, the deficit had reached $1.3 trillion when we walked into the White House. And I'd note: These budget-busting tax cuts and spending programs were approved by many of the same people who are now waxing political about fiscal responsibility, while opposing our efforts to reduce deficits by getting health care costs under control. It's a sight to see."

So it is tax cuts and expansive entitlement programs that caused it. What is government MANDATED Health Care (if it is not an entitlement program)? Do you mean that tax cuts are bad, so we must have tax increases?

"The fact is we have refused to go along with business as usual; we are taking responsibility for every dollar we spend. We've done what some said was impossible: preventing wasteful spending on outdated weapons systems that even the Pentagon said it didn't want. We've combed the budget, cutting waste and excess wherever we could. I'm still committed to halving the deficit we inherited by the end of my first term -- cutting it in half. And I made clear from day one that I would not sign a health insurance reform bill if it raised the deficit by one dime -- and neither the House, nor the Senate bill does. We've begun not only changing policies in Washington, we've also begun to change the culture in Washington."

Responsible for every dollar we spend? RIGHT... We have seen how transparent and responsible you have been. Can anyone tell me what every penny of the 900 BILLION Recovery Act was spent on?

How is a Health Care bill that spends BILLIONS of dollars going to be deficit neutral? If you spend BILLIONS of dollars, you have to collect BILLIONS of dollars from some where. I guess that goes back to not doing the same. We are not going to reduce TAXES, because that caused the problem, so lets INCREASE taxes.

Here are the four things that Obama says we need to do:

1- "we're proposing a series of steps to help saml businesses grow and hire new staff. ... Building on the TAX CUTS in the Recover Act, we're proposing a complete elimination of capital gains taxes on small buinsess."

WHAT? I thought that tax cuts were what caused this problem. So why are we now cutting taxes for small businesses? (NOTE: I think that cutting taxes is a good thing, I am just pointing out that Obama in the same speech says they are BAD, and GOOD.)

2- "we're proposing a boost in investment in the nation's infrastructure beyond what was included in the Recover Act..."

So, where are we going to get the MONEY to invest? Just asking questions, if we want to be deficit neutral, how are we going to do this? Oh, that is right, we need to spend our way out of the recession.

3- "I'm calling on Congress to consider a new program to provide incentives for consumers who retrofit their homes to become more energy-efficient..."

OK, what incentives are we going to get? Rebate checks? Who will be paying for them? Or maybe more tax cuts? But wait, I thought tax cuts got us into this mess.

4- "Finally, as we are moving forward in these areas, we should also extend the relief in the Recovery Act, including emergency assistance to seniors, unemployment insurance benefits, COBRA, and relief to states and localities to prevent layoffs."

Oh goody.... More "expansive entitlement programs". Funny, but I thought that tax cuts and entitlement programs caused the issue that we now need to "spend our way out of".

I am so confused..... Do we raise taxes, and lower taxes? Do we increase or decrease entitlement programs?

Oh, wait, I get it now. We lower taxes for some, and raise taxes for others. We take money from some, and then give it to others in the form of entitlement programs. Sounds fair to me. Makes me want to work hard... No wait, if I work hard, they will take it from me and give it to someone else. Therefore, I need to not work hard, and then the government will give me tax breaks, and give me other peoples money. And we wonder why we are all getting FAT and LAZY.

You can read the entire speech at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-job-creation-and-economic-growth. But I am warning you, you will be more confused after you read it then before, I would even to as far as to say it will suck your will to live.

Yes, he can - UNFCCC Speech

OK, I was curious about this whole UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark or COP 15 as they call it. So I started looking at the agenda for today. I found a couple of speeches that I think needs to be highlighted. I would really like to actually get a copy of the speech.

There is speech by Ms. Naomi Goodman naomi.goodman@greenpeace.org called "Yes, he can! How Obama can deliver stronger emissions reductions." The summary of this one reads: "President Obama used the platform of his inauguration to speak publicly and passionately about the dangers of climate change, the urgent need for action and his commitment to restore science to its rightful place. Legal and policy experts will clearly lay out how President Obama even now can return the United States to a position of global leadership. Speakers: Mr. Kyle Ash, Ms. Kassie R Siegel and Kumi Naidoo. " [Source].

Ms. Kassie Siegle ksiegel@biologicaldiversity.org (Center for Biological Diversity or the CBD) will be giving a speech that is entitled "Yes, he can: President Obama's power to make an international climate commitment without waiting for congress." The summary of the speech says: "Ms. Kassie Siegel, Climate Law Institute Director, Center for Biological Diversity will discuss the degree to which existing U.S. domestic law, including the Clean Air Act, enables President Obama to commit to ambitious and science-based greenhouse gas reductions regardless of the fate of current U.S. legislative proposals." [Source]

You can download the entire speech from the Biological Diversity website.

[Note: I have emailed both of these people to see if I can get a copy of the speech]

And then we read in the news that the EPA has now declared that Green House Gases are a Danger. The ground work is being laid. Once the EPA has declared something dangerous, then they can start to regulate it and set policies/fines and standards for it. Even if we as people of the US don't support the Climate Change legislation that is being steam rolled through congress, they are setting up a way for the Executive Branch to do it without congress or the consent of the people.

The EPA keeps telling us (in the last couple of days), that they don't want to start pushing regulations because it will be more expensive on us than if congress does it.

This is one of the reasons why we should not be giving unelected groups of people power to make policies, set restrictions on our freedom, and tax us (even if it is in the form of a penalty). We are giving to much power to individuals that are not accountable to the American public.

It will be interesting to see how many other "Yes he can!" speeches will be given during the event.

Bush, Elizabeth, Vladimir

George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die and go to hell. While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is for. The devil tells them it is for calling back to Earth.

Putin asks to call Russia and talks for 5 minutes. When he was finished the devil informs him that the cost is a million dollars, so Putin writes him a check.

Next Queen Elizabeth call England and talks for 30 minutes. When she was finished the devil informs her that cost is 6 million dollars, so Queen Elizabeth wrotes him a check.

Finally George Bush gets his turn and talks for 4 hours. When he was finished the devil informed him that there would be no charge for the call and feel free to call the USA anytime. When Putin hears this he goes ballistic and asks the devil why Bush got to call the USA free.

The devil replied, since Obama became president of the USA, the country has gone to hell, so naturally it's a local call!!