ANOTHER DISPICABLE TRAGEDY !!

I know it's going to happen again; a demand for gun control, but the real problem is more subtle than that.

Once, this was considered a Christian nation, which made laws dictated by some of the Christian beliefs and philosophies. Even today, personal property rights, Holidays (those days federal employees do not have to work but still get paid to stay home), Thou shalt not kill, thou shall not commit adultery, equal pay for the same job, etc. find their tenets in the Christian religion and are now a part of the society of not only American but of other cultures around the world.

Christianity began in the middle east, spread throughout the then known world and then it was brought to America. Most of the rest of the world has "removed" Christianity from its societies and those societies embrace practically anything that feels right at the moment. And look at those societies; they are bankrupt, mired in morals charges filed against the highest members of those societies. Those countries seem to be floating in a world without anchors to guide their people. Societies that have no idea what the next day will bring, and whose people rebel for no other reason than to act out the anger they have because they are not living like they think they should, and who can  tell them they are wrong when there are no absolutes for them to live by?

America is finally feeling the "pinch" of what a country; what a society can do and is capable of doing, when there is no moral compass; no absolutes by which to live.

Take God out of a society and you remove absolute morality because it is God who gives us the idea that it is wrong to hurt or offend someone else; that a wrong is created by the fact that God is right. HE is the compass upon which everyone gauges personal and community behavior. It is God who tells us not to kill. It is God who tells us not to lust after another mans' wife. It is God who tells us not to lie. It is God who tells us we should not cheat a man. Societies take those commandments and turn them into laws to govern everyday people with, so there can be civility within a large mass of people. Those commandments also exact a penalty for being violated, but when a society removes God, and establishes their own sense of right and wrong, a society loses its anchor and begins to float around in a sea of ideas legislated upon a people by people who lack moral acuity, and a just punishment begins to soften and people look in other directions for the Godly solutions they can no longer find.

With the compass of a created people, gone, we begin to rule by feelings and sedation. The people of a society feels it is part of a cosmic togetherness that must allow for differences of opinions just because differences occur. A society begins to feel it is okay to sedate its youngest people because it makes them easier to handle, but what is not understood is that a brain does not fully develop until around age 25, and any medicinal manipulation can cause those brains to be altered, permanently. In cases like this one in Connecticut or Colorado, prescription drugs were fundamental in the behavior of the person bent on killing

With the compass of a created people gone, a society begins to feel it might not be right to disallow people of the same sex to be protected by laws made by and for couples heretofore called a man and a woman; morals established by the creator, God. Once God is taken out of the equation, what is left is people who find themselves in leadership positions, governing by their feelings of right and wrong....but no one considers whether the leader has a moral compass. Soon, you have a society governed by people who otherwise are condemned by God, such as homosexuals and lesbians, who naturally will legislate to further promote their beliefs.

The atrocities like what just occurred in the Newtown Connecticut school is directly related to the absence of God. An absence that allows people to determine what is right and wrong; an absence that allows children to be required to accumulate by the thousands into a place where the government and not the parents guide the teaching of these youngsters, and make these institutions easier targets for this kind of carnage; an absence that sedates a society against the possibilities of something like this happening, and when it does, the natural reaction is to blame inanimate objects for the carnage.

It is true, the improper use of guns can get people killed, but to then take this situation, caused by the efforts of a mankind bent on removing God from their moral judgements, and turn it into a need to remove a means of defense that the Creator has not only given us, but has judged we have a right to, is a clear case of moral and Godly abstinence. If logic is the determining factor for reaching a decision to ban fire arms because someone used them inappropriately, than logic dictates that same sex marriage should continue to be banned because such a union cannot produce offspring; logic dictates that cars should not be made to go faster than what can be determined to be a survival rate of a crash; logic dictates that the federal government should make tax payers provide birth control so its society can be as promiscuous as it wants; logic dictates that getting wealthy should be punishable by demanding more from those who work hard enough to become wealthy; logic dictates that immoral politicians have a problem when an extreme punishment needs to be doled out when an extreme violation occurs, a Godly punishment like an eye for an eye, or to put it another way, remove the vial depraved offender from a civil society so he will not be able to repeat his offense; but this action requires people to believe that a Creator does exist and has presented HIS creation with His own set of laws that does not allow individuals to dictate what outcomes should occur.

This event should not drive this American society further from God, but it should draw it closer to Him; it should makes us all realize sin and depravity does exist and that God has provided a way for us to live while doing what can be done to remove those who are so depraved; it should make us realize that self-serving politicians are not the ones to look to to re-direct this society. We need more of God and His principles which are not demanding and are meant for our good and betterment.

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN !

The 4th Turning I have referred to in some of my previous blogs depicts a change in the political arena in America during the Crisis period of the 4th Turning. Some suspect it has already changed and Obama is what this country will have as political leaders for the foreseeable future. I don't agree with that assesment because the 4th Turning also tells us that the next voting block will be the Millenials who are the children of the GenXer's (children of the Boomers). The current political landscape is made up of dinosaurs that don't know enough to fade into oblivion. These are the Yippee generation people who gave us the sexual revolution and the cultural revolution; their time is way past over; their ideas are those of the Utopian persuasion that no one any longer believes in, given the state of the world.

Politicians of today have such a distorted message it is amazing they don't trip over their tongues as they pass out the political pablum. Here's an example: The D's love unions and even the President stumps for them as he recently did in Michigan claiming a right to work state really means the state can get people to work for less money (the President should be brought up an incitement charges just for his last speech). But that is a stupid statement because a right to work state does not outlaw unions, instead it allows people to NOT belong to a union if they don't want to; something that was actually "outlawed" in the past. People have been made to belong to a union and the union was allowed to spend the dues collected in almost anyway the union leaders decided, without regard to those who were made to pay those dues.

But the counter argument for this distorted thinking is this; almost 50% of Americans do not pay taxes, but collect money from those who do; not directly but through federal programs which allow none payers to be the recipients of the payees. Isn't that just the opposite of the Presidents argument for right to work states? I mean how come people who get benefits (food stamps, medical coverage, schooling etc.) do not have to belong to the group that pays for those benefits?

And then we have the argument that since Republicans are the party against excessive taxation, why is Boehner and his colleagues willing to "close loopholes and write-offs" in order to increase the revenue into the treasury? And why is there such an uproar from the "Conservative" side of the party that is chastising Boehner for making such offers? Rush Limbaugh is riddled with concern that the closing of loopholes in the tax system is akin to raising taxes. But wait a minute; loopholes and write-offs have been voted on and have become part of legislation those rascally politicians enacted. Loopholes are NOT some deviant way a business man avoids paying taxes, no no, loopholes and write-offs are legal. They are part of the tax system designed to get businesses to invest more of their money, thereby creating more jobs. Farmers use loopholes to write-off capital investment in equipment needed to expand or increase crop or animal production; Google might use a write-off when it invests in moving to a foreign country, but these things are built into the tax system and are legal, so why is it a crime to eliminate them or reduce them? You and I can't write-off the cars we buy that are needed to get to work, but even in each household, there ARE write-offs and loopholes like the mortgage interest on our homes or tax deductible contributions to churches or other organizations know as 501 (c)(3)'s. So why do politicians try to make large corporations or small businesses look like they are cheating the system?

If there were a flat tax, there would not be ANY loopholes or write-offs for anyone. We would have more people paying into a system they expect to get something out of, and those rich people would necessarily pay more because they would spend more, which should satisfy everyone's crazy idea of "if you make more, you should pay more".

Part of the American Dream is to be able to achieve all that you can. Individuals put limits on themselves, but the opportunities to become wealthy or very wealthy is equal to every American citizen. There doesn't need to be a middle class. Heck why can't we all be rich? Well we can, if government will get out of the way and allow each of us to maximize our own potential. Microsoft made hundreds of millionaires, Google has also and is still making millionaires, and there are a lot of other company's making millionaires. Why do we want an America that limits our achievement and potential and income? Why are we willing to stay in the middle class, when we are the only one that can get us out of it? Why do you want to depend on what the federal government wants to give you, after it takes it away from others, instead of getting all you can and being all that you can be?

We need a new brand of politician that will unleash the potential of this great nation. Politicians that want to level the playing field, not through legislation, but by getting rid of legislation that hinders people who want to be productive and innovative. We need politicians whose lives are ahead of them, not behind them. Politicians who can live for tomorrow instead of reminiscing the good ole days.

Cotton tops, and those gray headed champions need to go home and give this country back to the future generations. Their work is done. For good or bad, they are done and we don't need them any longer....we need new blood with twenty first century thinking. Those hippies of the 60's and 70's managed to get themselves some mighty fine programs to take them into their nether years; drugged up and paid for by others...well, that kind of thinking is outdated, outmoded and those people who still think that way need to go home.

The Crisis period of the 4th Turning will usher in a new breed of leaders, who can legitimately work as a team and get done what needs to be done for the nation, not choosing winners and losers; not talking out of both sides of their mouths; not legislating one way of life for US and another for themselves, as if they are special or the elite. These kids that were raised on video games and computers and tweet-speak have learned to make decisions the rest of us are probably not even aware of. Their thinking is as different from ours as ours was to our parents when the rock and roll era came rolling in. The generational shift has begun. Look around. And while you're looking, pay attention to the next up and coming leaders of this nation. They are there, maybe you just are too stuck in the 70's to see them.

 

REMEMBER THE SUPER COMMITTEE?

A year ago, the country was asked to increase its national debt. Politicians decided, since an agreement couldn't be had, to form a Super Committee which would be afraid enough to not allow the country to either default or sink into greater debt, that no agreement would mean a drastic cut to the military budget by $500 billion dollars. Well, the military DID get its budget cut by $500 billion dollars because an agreement could not be made. The real solution to government spending was pushed further down the road to January 2013, after the general election, to what is referred to as the "Fiscal Cliff", but the issue at hand now is the "Bush tax cuts". Another one of those political indecisions has America looking at increasing taxes, because when tax cuts were implemented, they were only supposed to be temporary, and that temporary date, now 12 years later, has come due and a decision has to be made to either re-instate the tax rate for the rich to where they were before the cuts were made, or EVERYONE'S taxes will go up.

Remember when the cuts were proposed the Democrats called them a tax cut for the rich, and the average citizen would see their taxes cut by so little an amount they probably couldn't buy a muffler for their car with the savings, but NOW, we are told if the Republicans do not agree to Obama's desire to increase taxes on the rich, middle America will see a $3500.00 annual tax increase. How is that possible if the Bush tax cuts only gave cuts to the rich? Why should middle America see an increase; I mean where is the muffler idea now?

But the real gist of this "Fiscal Cliff" hanger is that Obama will win, no matter what the Republicans do. The Republicans have been outsmarted by the Dem's for a long time and this Fiscal Cliff thing shows just how much they were snookered: if nothing is done, taxes will be re-instated at the 2000 level and it will cripple the incomes of whatever Americans are working. If the Repub's agree with Obama and raise taxes on the rich, they will be violating one of their major tenets: lower taxes means a stronger economy.

But the truth of the matter is this: Obama does not want the R's to agree with him. Obama will try to sweeten the pot with irrational budget requests to cause the R's to not agree with him; so the country will go over the "Fiscal Cliff", and it will be the R's fault because "they are obstructionists and want to see Obama fail". Obama wants the additional tax revenue these tax increases will provide; Democrats always want more tax revenue. And perhaps a month or so after Americans see their taxes increase and their take home pay decrease the Democrats will publicize those unhappy people in ads and town hall speeches. They will then offer to give middle Americans a tax cut, which the R's cannot refuse, and Obama looks like the Savior. He will out-snooker the R's again, and engender more Americans to his side. A blind man can see this coming a mile away, but the establishment R's are politically ignorant. They have played into Obama, and Reid's hands for the last 4 years. This event will set the stage for the Democrats to pretty much get what they want for the next 4 years, with Americans behind them, because all those R's want to do is "try to stop Obama from succeeding", at least that is what we will be told.

Four years ago, Obama said he is attempting to fundamentally change America. With his National Health Care law, tax increases, endless debt ceiling, drastic reductions in the military and his appointment of Czars that have the authority to make law via regulations and rules within the departments they Czar over....America will never be what many of us remember her to be. America is on the verge of being fundamentally changed, forever, and it is being made possible because the establishment Republicans are willing participants.

I am nauseated at the prospect, but I can see it coming. How about you?

THEY'RE AT IT AGAIN !!

Those rascally Republicans just can't help but blame their loses on "Right Wingers"; those people that have given the House of Representatives to the "R" column, and added still more from this last election. No, their moderate views cannot possibly be the problem.

It started way back with Bob Dole, then the "Compassionate Conservative" Dubya, who would not have been re-elected if not for the war. He took this nation deeper into the liberal territory, and gave us boondoggles like unfunded national Prescription costs, one of the worst education bills ever, the attempt to get a moderate to the Supreme Court bench, the failure to veto McCain's election reform bill, then the no-budget, first Tarp bailout bill, and a lot of other liberal legislation. Then along came John McCain who would have won if he decided to let Sarah Palin be herself, and if he decided to actually differ with Barak Obama. But true to the "moderate" kind of branding, you couldn't tell the two apart in that election and the nation decided to vote for the real Mccoy, instead of the RHINO. Recently, Romney; a likable guy sure enough, but a moderate, non-the-less.....and didn't we make it clear enough that we didn't want this brand of politician to represent the Republican party? NO! the "establishment" and the money people just do not want conservatives to have a voice where it can matter. But, one day, we will prevail. With Ron Paul out of the picture in future elections, it might be possible for conservatives to rally around another true Conservative or a Libertarian. He'll start to emerge, and sooner rather than later. It might be Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, or someone still not heard of, who will draw people through his truthfulness, and his wanting to legal some things that currently are illegal for no reason other than to make business for the attorneys; drugs, alcohol at any age, abortion for any reason as long as the taxpayer does not have to pay for it, driving under the influence of anything (DUI laws have not made our roads any safer, what needs to be done is to prosecute those to the fullest extent of the law when they violate it, in any case....stop the plea bargaining, and the multiple sentences for similar offenses). Hey, some 40,000 people are killed in car accidents each and every year, but we still sell cars....because it's not the cars that kill, it's the people driving them (that's what they made insurance companies for). Here is a small list of leading killers of American citizens each year: Tobacco 529,000; Medical errors 195,000; Alcohol abuse over 107,000; Vehicular 42,000; Suicide over 29,000; Drug abuse over 25,000; Firearm homicide over 10,000...which would be the two top concerns for you if you were in the position to make legislation to protect and serve American citizens? Should we outlaw doctors?

The Republican party can go ahead and cater to the Latinos, or the promiscuous women who want taxpayers to fund their abortions or contraception, but they will still lose elections. Those are not the issues that will unite a party.

One of the biggest problems American politics has is the 2 party system. It is so entrenched in every state, a person must belong to one or the other in order to possibly win an election, even on the state level.

The Electoral College vote is another joke, obligating electors to vow to support the party they represent.

We need people who want to restore the meaning of the Constitution, at every level, and amend many of the changes that have been made in order to return the Constitution to its rightful place in our society, as a governing agent for the people. Why do we encourage voters to think they are actually voting for a President and a vice President, when in reality the personal votes tell the electors who to vote for and they are obligated to vote the party line. Why do we vote for a "ticket" (Pres. and V.P.) let's repeal the 12th amendment, the 16th amendment, the 26th amendment, and enforce the 27th amendment so they cannot automatically receive pay increases every year. How about those National Senators, aren't they supposed to be sent to Washington by the states (article I. sec.3.). Let's repeal the 17th amendment, so once again they are answerable to their respective states and not their party.

We do not need the money or the desires of the Republican party, and the people it wants to "make" us vote for. We do not need them to tell us we have to moderate our views and enlarge our tent by embracing illegal immigrants and society's  women of illrepute. No no, we need Libertarians or Conservatives to either lead the Republican back to its moors, or to get rid of it completely. Did you notice, in the state elections it is difficult to find a poster or sign that tells you the person running is a Republican.....they don't want to admit it. The Republican party does not represent many people anymore. Heck, 3 million less republicans voted in the recent general election than the last, yet "Tea Party" politicians continue to have a lot of successes. DUH! And Mitt Romney....a nice guy who no doubt would have helped to create millions of jobs, BUT you could tell he moderated his speeches as the election drew nearer. The "Establishment" wanted to be certain he didn't wander too far off the trail and make the voters expect more than he was going to be able to offer. ARRGHH!! Go away GOP.

John Kerry Secretary of Defense?!!

Folks, elections have consequences, and this one claims 3 million fewer Republican voters than in the last election. Did you vote, or is there something wrong with the statistics? Why didn't the Conservatives win more of the Senate seats?  Why are there districts that didn't get a single vote for Romney? Is that even possible?  And now, John Kerry is being considered for the Secretary of Defense even after he besmirched every soldier during the Vietnam war, threw his medals into the field and did everything he could to give comfort to the enemy: secretary of DEFENSE. Is there a soldier alive willing to have him as their leader? I don't know!


There is so much diversion and disinformation being doled out to the public, you have to wonder why a VERY decorated General would admit to committing adultery, and resign his office as director of the CIA. For most of us, this sort of thing would be humiliating, but for Liberals, who go on to get full pensions and medical coverage, and likely another influential appointment, these "falling on the swords" things are just a part of doing business; they have no remorse as long as they have been useful in furthering their agenda, and right now, we have no idea what that agenda is pertaining to the Benghazi attack, which is where this latest misconduct information finds its roots. Each individual is possible fodder, as long as the "Agenda" is forwarded. What grandiose devotion (wouldn't it be nice if Republicans could find just an inkling of this kind of devotion?).

But I think there is something more sinister afoot; something so depraved it alludes the common thinking of man, but it has its roots in religion. Benghazi was an event like all others, that have a religious purpose behind them, but since Americans cannot call terrorists, terrorists, and Americans refuse to acknowledge the differences in religious beliefs between us and Muslims, between Israelies and Muslims; we are not allowed to investigate the events and report on them as they are, instead we are told a variety of stories to avoid calling a spade, as spade. All wars, practically ALL combative aggressions, are based on a religious belief; or let me put it another way; differences in religious beliefs. There is no intelligent or logical reason for Muslims to want to totally destroy Israel, yet that is so imbedded in their hearts they can hardly function for want of and end to all Israelies. And those emotions are also directed at America; what they call the Great Satan. Muslims do not express the idea of wanting to get along with America nor with Israel; rather their only emotion is to totally destroy the aforementioned countries, and this is based on their religion.

As a devout Christian, let me try to explain this Biblically:  When Jesus Christ walked the earth, He told everyone that He was here to fulfill prophecy and to fulfill the law, to be the sacrifice for sinners; a propitiation that would reunite sinners to the Creator God; that He was the blameless lamb sent to take away sin. The Romans thought otherwise and wanted Him destroyed so He didn't cause a movement to overthrow the Roman government, because the Jewish people were looking for a King, and everyone thought Jesus was that King. It was sort of a strange thing that Gentiles (people who didn't know anything about the prophecy or the laws of God given to the Hebrews) were the ones who were converted to believe Jesus (Reformers refer to this as the Elect or Predestination). But that whole promise thing started way back when Abraham was "dealt" a dilemma; God told him he was to have a son in a year. Abraham mused that his wife Sarai was too old to give birth to children so Abraham decided to have sex with his Sarai's mistress to help God out with His promise to give him a child (which was a common thing then, in order to provide a man with enough offspring to manage a farm and its attendant livestock). This is where the battle begins; it is one of the flesh and the Spirit. God DID cause Sarai to become pregnant (a spiritual causation from God because of Sarai's age and Jesus Christ (the only begotten of the Father) would find His ancestry through Abraham and Sarai;), while Abraham caused her mistress Hagar to become pregnant; an event caused by the action of the flesh; Ishmael (Hagar's son) can find his ancestry through Abraham and Hagar. God blessed both births, but Hagar and her offspring were cast out of the Hebrew camp, to find a life somewhere else. This is probably the deepest tenet to the Christian faith; the battle between the flesh and the spirit. We fight this every day, trying to "submit our thoughts and actions to the leading of the Spirit...."Ye walk not in the flesh but in the Spirit".  And in the book to the Romans..." what I will to do I do not do but what I will not to do, I do...."   

Muslims trace their heritage back to Abraham, so do the Christians, although we do see all the way back to the Garden of Eden, but basically, the division of mankind can be traced back to Abraham making a baby with Hagar, and God providing a baby with Sarai, at about the same time. Both lineages (Ishmaelites and Israelites/Christians) can be traced back to Abraham, and that is what everything now hinges on. Muslims think of Jesus as a prophet, but go on to add Mohammed, another prophet to their schemes, but still relate to the birth of the child to Hagar and Abraham; Christians pledge their allegiance to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Savior of mankind, which was the lineage promised to Abraham through Sarai. Christians include anyone who believes in Jesus as they Savior; we do not restrict ANYONE  because of their nationality nor origin. Muslims (or as I like to refer to them as Ishmaelites), on the other hand pledge their allegiance to Allah, through the prophet Mohammed and do restrict who they include; in their world everyone has to become a Muslim or be a slave or be destroyed, but as for those of Israeli descent, they have to be utterly destroyed so no trace of them is left in the world.  Americans will have an option once the Muslims make their move to destroy us, but either way it doesn't matter to the Muslim religion, or the Nation of Islam, the thinking of Americans and their Christian views have to be wiped out. (Did you know the Bosnian war was about the Christians and the Muslims, and America sided with the Muslims? Did you know what is going on in Africa is about Christians and Muslims and America has sent "advisers" to assist the Muslims?)

So here we are today, Muslims trying to keep their homes, societies and the world as sinless as possible and anyone who disobeys their laws or tenets as laid down by the prophet Mohammed, need to be destroyed to insure the purity of those homes, communities and finally, the world. That is why Muslims have no problem killing their children, family members or members of their communities; it is done because people have disobeyed the law and it is absolutely the most important thing to keep those social networks pure. Death to a disobedient person is brought on by those who are disobedient; it is not the savage act of a Muslim, or at least that is what we are told; it is what they believe.

Now the question is,  How do you negotiate with people who think themselves above reproach, and who think you are so debased that your swift and determined death is the only thing that can keep their world pure? How do you negotiate with people that want to rule the world with their religious beliefs, which necessarily excludes all other beliefs? Yes, even those Hollywood actors and actresses will have to "submit to the will of Allah" as determined by the Muslim leaders know as Ayatollahs, yet some of those actors are what Christians call sinners who choose not to obey  The Only Creator, God, which is to their own demise; we have no intentions of harming them in any way. It is our hope they will one day understand and "see" they can be redeemed back into a loving relationship with the Creator, just as He wants; killing them would not please the God we serve, but to the Muslim, killing a disobedient, depraved violator of the law of Allah is necessary to purify a home.

Elections do have consequences. Those who we elect to "rule" over us may not even consider what is at stake but think so highly of themselves that they believe they can "bring the world together", when the rest of the world doesn't want to be brought together. OR, something more sinister and subversive is going on, and it may be this nation is being handed over as a gift to Allah. We are now at the point that we cannot trust our Military Generals, our CIA, or FBI  and it is rumored the President is considering appointing what some would call a traitor, to lead the Defense of our Nation. But we know, God is in control. Perhaps this nation and the world, is ready for the just wrath of God.