BOOK BURNING

I don't have an opinion either way, concerning the burning of the Koran in Florida. BUT, I do have an opinion concerning the reactions to this intended burning.
There is much more to be gained by the publicity on this action, than rather by the act itself. Look, just what the heck does it matter what book is burned in your own back yard. Heck, I burn a lot of magazines and newspapers, and these media also have a lot of controversy in them. So, what is the hub - bub all about?
It would seem that the very act of burning a book isn't anything anyone cares about, but there does seem to be something of concern by telling everyone that you are going to burn a book. BUT, THAT still isn't the issue. The issue is why the heck do we care what others do in response to this book burning? Do you mean to tell me that I cannot perform a normal function of getting rid of trash, if there is some sort of disagreement with why I am doing it?
We even have a Military General stating his dissatisfaction with this event, as if what happens in Florida, in someones back yard, will affect what goes on in the Middle East. That is absolute bolderdash. If any individual or people collectively, reacting to this simple matter of getting rid of a book, can actually stop me or anyone else from burning that product, then they are the ones who we ought to be concerned with. Kooks like that who react violently to a simple act, are a real threat to not only themselves but anyone who they come into contact with. It is reasonable to consider these people dangerous, who have an agenda, and whom could care less about others. It is reasonable to believe, a country that cowers to these militants is in danger of giving in to them so much that we are in danger of losing our freedoms.
Where is the back bone of the good Ole USA?  Why do we now stand stooped over at the mere anger of militants? Where is the spine this country was built on? Doesn't all this just make you sick; sick that we are losing our country and our freedoms? Why does a book burning, make the leaders of the greatest country in the world, whimper?

WHY AMERICA DOESN'T GET IT

I cannot make this presentation better than its origin: Out of the book "War of Ideas" by Walid Phares (a world renowned terrorism and Middle East expert) I will quote excerpts from merely one page. The book is very informative and anyone will be enlightened who takes the time to read it. You too, will see why America cowers to the enemy..and why if nothing is done, we will lose to this enemy.  Elections matter; politicians can frame the future, but a better informed America is our best defense.

Page 194

"In the West, the central battlefields over the perception of the world remain academic and educational. As detailed earlier, at least three generations of graduates of oil-funded programs have been launched into the national market, and thereby into the media, government, and arts. Even if new waves of petrodollars were stopped today, the funding over the last two decades has created a self sustaining entity in Western, and particularly American, educational institutions. The penetration is too deep to be addressed in one generation. Three generations of scholars, researchers, and teachers have consolidated their positions, programs, and influence in about a thousand institutions. Even as the war with Jihadism is raging in the real world, and America is facing off with the most dangerous enemy infiltrations it has ever known, the bulk of its students are being educated today by an elite that refuses to teach the real history and politics of the jihadists. Post 9/11 politics and elections, regardless of the winners, will not affect this greater cultural crisis. Unless an intellectual revolution takes place and academic reform follows, it is unlikely that the United States will produce the talents needed for the current and future conflicts of ideas......."

We see the end of the "Mass Media" because of these very reasons...they are not telling Americans the truth. In fact, you can hear them siding with the enemy under the cloak of being "sensitive" to them. We don't want to offend the Middle Eastern people, now do we? All the while the Middle Easterners are demonstrating in-sensitivities to everyone who does not agree with them. Heck, it doesn't seem to bother our news outlets that Jihadists butcher anyone that offends them. No no no, instead we are supposed to understand that they were so incensed, that torturing and butchering is okay behavior for the offended.

I say, pull American troops out of every Middle Eastern country; shut down all foreign military bases and hunker down. Let those who do not want our help, sort out their own mess. Too many American soldiers have died for people who do not want civility, but Sharia law. We can't impose our beliefs on  anyone and are only hated for intervening in their domestic affairs. We had our own civil war, let them decide their own destiny, also.

WOW WHERE TO GO

What a week: A Rock singer jumping to his death off a cell phone tower; beautiful women in the UK getting breast enhancements and nose jobs and lip botox; and then there is the Mosque thing in New York. WHEW!!
Doesn't it seem like the world is moving faster and faster? How do we stop it? Can we?

Then Bill Orielly blindsides Glenn Beck with that troublesome gay question. After all, isn't it Glenn that wants the people of America to return to God and Biblical principles? Well, doesn't that include opposing the gay movement? DANG!! Why did he have to ask that question?

Look, regardless of what historians and current politicians say, we ARE a Christian nation, founded on Christian principles and indebted to God for divinely orchestrating the birth of this nation and the direction it is supposed to go in. Ronald Reagan called it a City on a Hill (after the assertion of Augustine), a guiding light for the rest of the world, and RR was not what most would call a Christian, after all his wife dabbled in the occult. None the less, even scripture tells us that God can use a rock, if He wanted to. So using RR was not a problem for Him.

But where did RR take this country? Are we better off than before him? Why didn't anything he do, last?

Now we are faced with a world wide enemy, not only of this great nation, but of the Creator God. Islam, from the Old Testament is the nation made through Abraham and Sarah's maid. Ishmael was the progeny of this illicit union, trying to help God fulfill the promise He made to Abraham to make him a father of many nations, all while his wife was way past the age of reproduction. So Abraham and Sarah decided that they needed to help God, not relying on the Creator who made the promise. Hey, He made all that is, and yet these two thought He was not capable of giving to them what He promised. Ergo, we are now dealing with what theologians refer to as the "spirit and the flesh". And it is even more interesting that Islam can and does trace its roots back to Abraham, just as the Christians do. And rightly so, because this world wide conflagration is all about those moments in history, when man did not trust that God could provide that which He promised.

Now the battle rages: whose is the nation spoken of by God in Genesis?

As Christians we know that the Devil is a deceiver and a liar. So we also know that Islam is a false promise or the out cropping of the flesh which is in a sinful state, utterly depraved; unable to please God. But the Holy Spirit, through Jesus Christ, has made the promise of God efficacious. And if that is so, then it is easy to understand why Islam is so determined to overcome the world: it is Satan trying to be equal to God.

Anyway, all wars were and are based on religion. This last one, that cannot be stopped, will involve the entire world, for real. Islam wants to be the world religion and is willing that 50% of its believers perish, in order to usher in the 12th Imam, the savior (I wish Christians had the same zeal and desire to defend what God has given them) so how do you reason or stop that kind of fanaticism?

A simple minded man needs only look at the facts and he will realize that there is no negotiation which can assuage Islam. There's is such a diabolical religion that there is no room for compromise. It has to be their way or the highway. All the talking in the world will not convince these people that theirs is not the Creator God. Allah, to them, is the Creator, and it only seems right (to them, Muslims) that all non-Muslims are enemies of Allah and have to be dealt with, which usually means be destroyed, because Islam cannot co-exist with any other religion. And if the Christian religion is correct, then what it speaks of is evidenced in Islam, as an enemy of God; A substitute. Now where is there room for compromise? Neither can give in, although Christianity is not the murderous religion that Islam is. And one has to ask himself why would God want Muslims or anyone else to kill people, if they do not believe the same way? Isn't The Creator capable of dealing with such rebellious, insubordinate people? The answer is YES, the Bible has story after story of how God did deal with sinners, and that is why Christians seem to be as complacent as they are: they are allowing God to do His will, and they know they might have to suffer in this diabolical age, but they trust that God will fulfill His promise and make Himself a Holy people, and will give His Son dominion over all the earth. Christians are waiting and praying for God to do His will, and to strengthen them while they wait, stand and trust in Him. But I'm afraid, it won't go that easy.

Christians have squandered what God has given them, and sin has permeated even Christian churches so that there is more confusion within the church than there should be. Why? Because we are all sinners. Depraved and totally rebellious against God. We want to control our own lives and we reason that God has given us the will to do so. This "will" has caused divisions amongst us to the extent we are as divided as we can be.

There are numerous sects of Christianity and "everyone" in America calls themselves Christians, but that is not the case. Only those of the promise, are children of God, and the Bible tells us that there remains a remnant; a small amount, and as God has chosen whom He has chosen, so too will He end this matter in a way that only He can. It will be a miraculous occasion, and the whole world will know that God has intervened where man thought he was capable of directing the affairs of mankind. Mankind is sick with sin, and lusts for power and money, and these are contrary to God. Even Muslims, desire the same; just look at Dubai.

America has had its chance, so to speak, and it is the last bastion of Christianity, for where else can anyone go to start a Christian nation again? And look at us. Fat, sassy and preoccupied with gadgets, money, entitlements, and power. We are not the nation God gave to the people who fought oppression. We have taken what He gave us and made it look like the rest of the world.

Oh, don't be dismayed. Even the Jews, who had prophets that God spoke to, to lead that nation, were not satisfied with just having God. No no no, they wanted a king; a man God said would enslave them with labor and taxation, yet that is what they wanted. They thought a king in the world of mankind would make them look regal, or meaningful; totally discounting that God spoke to their prophets mono a mono to direct that nation. Still .......they wanted a king. The Christians of America are no different. Truly they want King Jesus, but look at how they demean Him with bracelets that say WWJD (what would Jesus do?), as if HE were a neighbor, or something. There is no reverence for the living God and His only Son: no America wants Him to be their buddy, their pal, NOT their King of kings...isn't that ironic?

Well, buckle up, the show is about to begin. Could it be that we are in the last days?

LIVING OFF SOMEONE ELSE'S DIME

I know; all politicians do it, but I'm just not made that way. How about you?

You go out and beg people to send you money so you can advertise who you are and try to get people to vote for you; sounds familiar so far, right?

Well, now you are in office; you're a big shot, deciding legislation that directs this country. Then you want to go on vacation so what do you do? Well, like all good politicians you have your friends pay for it, and what's left over you merely charge the taxpayer for that.

I am not made of this mettle. I cannot for the life of me understand how people can do this, especially those of influence. What does it take to allow yourself to go to some foreign country, cause those people to move aside for you, eat some of the best food available and surround yourself with a multitude of friends and then have someone else pay for it? I just can't get there.

This country's first lady did just that, and she wasn't even elected. Instead she is vacating on her husbands reputation. Don't get me wrong she isn't alone, but the cost of her vacation is in the neighborhood of $65,000 dollars a day. WHAT?! how do you charge that much of people who are not even on vacation with you? Don't you even feel the least bit sleazy for doing it?

I'm sorry, but even after writing about it, I still can't get my head around that idea. And can you imagine how many politicians and their families and their friends others are paying for, and then finally the taxpayers? Doesn't anyone have any class any more? Can't they just go home or do something legitimate like pay for their own vacation. Why is it incumbent upon  friends and taxpayers to foot the bill?

I just don't get it!!!

IS THIS COUNTRY IN A TURNING ERA?

Yeah, it's been a while. I tell you, events and politicians just make keeping in touch, useless. If voters don't do
something different this November, I can only imagine where this country is headed. So, I returned to a book written in the 90's, depicting predictable historical outcomes based on actual events throughout our history.

The book is entitled, "The 4th Turning". The authors, Strauss and Lowe, show generations of Americans, as depicted within each generation, and they give them a name, like Nomad, or Boomers or 13ers.

They show what occured during each generation  and what time in history, with respect to its circa. Then, finally, they outline possibilities of what the next influential generation will do, regarding politics, society, their world view, taxes, entitlements, etc. 


While their work is interesting, it is also frightening. Regardless of what we think about Islam or Jihad or Iran, or President Obama, this coming generation will be faced with a load of taxes and entitlements they will not want to pay for. This coming generation (Millennial) which is the grandchildren of the Boomers, will redirect this country in ways Boomers can not understand. And the worse part of it is, that parents from each succeeding generation are responsible both for the thinking behind their children, and the blame for what their children will have to sort through. (I only want to say enough to get you to go buy the paper back and read it, especially from page 272 onward. If you are  not shocked, you aren't breathing.)

Then, you have to add into the mix, world events, which have not occurred in our life time.

Oh, for those good ole days. I can remember that I lived in a family of 8 kids, and we never locked our doors. We just came and went at will. The problem was that Progessives had already started their assault on the Constitution, but as a child, I was ignorant, and believed what I was being taught in school. My parents were not educated enough to guide us or direct us, so we actually believed that dinosaurs all gathered together to die somewhere in the earth so now, we could drill and extract the oil their decaying bodies provided; and that the Supreme Court only decided whether or not legislation was within the Constitution, not that it could actually make a law by not deciding constitutionality but they determined what the Congress could or couldn't do, then wrote law themselves, like Roe versus Wade.

I tell you, this next election will either redirect this country, or we will slide into a dictatorship before then end of Obama's term.

The Constitution has been shredded for over 100 years, starting with Wilson, and no one today cares to fix it. Senators even violated it themselves by giving themselves a raise every year, unless they vote against it....where do you find that in the Constitution?

This country does need new leadership, but I am cautious that my grandchildren can do the job, after all, their parents are the result of a drug induced generation of make love not war, and for making the Beatles a popular singing group from England, and then there is that Woodstock thing. Finally, those people who were anti-establishment, are now the leaders of this country. Go figure!!