This Mosque thing is really pushing it for me now. People keep jumping up and down and throwing hissy fits about how we need to let the mosque be built… after all “freedom of religion” right?
I think it is funny how when a Christian wants to pray in the nations capital that isn’t allowed because it is supposed to be “separation of church and state” but when a Muslim wants to build a mosque it’s freedom of religion.
This Mosque issue is a classic example of my point. They have received all the permission/s or permits, and they have all the liberals eating out of their hands… (ok, ok MOST of the famous news making liberals) to build this mosque just a few blocks from ground zero of the WTC.
But there is a Greek orthodox church (read CHRISTIAN) that existed BEFORE THE ATTACKS OF 9-11, which was damaged beyond usefulness from the attacks and they cannot get the permits to rebuild. See there? It is a classic case of preferential treatment by the left. They twist the law and say they are in favor of freedom of religion, after all it is in the constitution, and yet they are doing all they can to stop another, Christian, church from building where they ought to have a perfect right to build based on already existing there.
The arguments used by these people to support why the mosque can or should be built would apply as easily to the Greek orthodox church… BUT THEY AREN’T.
IT is duplicitous.
Similarly also a recent news event, is the case of a Muslim woman who wants to wear her ceremonial headdress to work at Disney land. They say no, it isn‘t in the dress code and it doesn’t match with the uniforms (“Costumes“) of Disneyland* so she sues… “IT’S FREEDOM OF RELIGION, IT’S FREEDOM OF SPEECH.” yell the liberals, but if a Christian came in wearing a cross some of the same people who want to make Disney land accept the “religious” burden of this woman would scream about how AWFUL it is that this Christian is showing his or her faith, because “it’s separation of church and state.”
*there is actually even more to the story about the Muslim woman and her issue, apparently Disney went out of their way to try to find a solution including having the costume department design a headdress for her that would fit the uniform, placing her in an area where she could work where the uniform issue was not a problem or letting her take vacation time but she refused to accept any of their choices and insisted that she had to be allowed to do what she wanted and the employers, Disney, HAD to let her. Funny I always thought THE EMPLOYEE WORKED FOR THE COMPANY at the pleasure of the company’s bosses not vice a versa.
August 31, 2010
August 29, 2010
IT ISN’T ANECDOTE!
Sometimes I get so fed up with some liberals that it isn’t really funny.
Take for instance Wednesday night (8-11-10) usually I do not listen to a certain liberal Radio shock jock, and this particular evening I was reminded why.
He had on a guest who was a senator from Connecticut. She was a liberal and obviously so was he. They got to talking about the health care bill, and what she said was that republicans were against It for no good reason and the people were against it just because of the scare tactics by the republicans. The thing is that they would not have listened to me.
I AM not a republican! I am a conservative. I register as an independent and I like it that way because in my experience neither party is listening to me or anyone else and they sure have not been addressing my basic needs let alone wants.
Had this radio personality and his guest been willing to hear from me, I would have GLADLY told them why it is that I have a problem with this health care bill. And first and foremost the reason why I have a problem is because it does NOTHING for me but it takes a lot FROM me.
I am EXACTLY the kind of person that Obama is describing (or was) when he is talking about people wanting Health care but not affording it, and I am also someone who ends up having to use the ER as my primary care physician.
But NOTHING in the so called reform act will be of any benefit to me.
They covered the complaints that pundits have made on the conservative side against this bill.
Specifically they talked about…
The point that insurance rates will sky rocket, their view? “ they were going up anyway.”
The point that businesses were going to let people go (fire) due to the costs being put on them. The senator’s response? “ the businesses can get a lot of help from the government, up to a third of the costs incurred by the business the Government will cover, and if a business has fewer than 50 employees they are exempt. That STILL leaves an increase in cost to the non exempt business by the 2/3 not paid, and even if they are telling the truth about exempt status then the employees of those businesses are STILL screwed and without coverage.
This is an increase in costs. Their response? No this is a lessening of costs, right now all these people end up going to the ER as their primary care physician, once they have insurance they will instead go to a real doctor (like ER doctors are fakes) and they will get good preventative treatment so it doesn’t get so expensive. This is a bad one because it assumes… first it assumes that people will start going to a doctor every few months for checkups and the like. Second it assumes that there are doctors in the areas who will take the government backed insurance, re Medicare.
I am actually going to stop there, I got so totally frustrated with the program that is about where I shut it off anyway, (and it took me about half an hour to truly calm down again after wards.
But let me address this from my experience.
Rates might have been going up before but immediately after the passage of the health care package the insurance rates doubled or tripled! I have seen this kind of thing seeing what goes on in my place of work. My workplace had to let people go because of the increase in operating costs being put on them, particularly in a time of recession. I believe the DOUBLING of insurance can be counted as one of the costs they are dealing with.
I and many others like me are still going to have to use the ER as our primary care facilities. It does not matter if the government says I have to buy insurance or go to jail, I cannot buy insurance BECAUSE I CANNOT AFFORD IT.
All my money goes to the basics of life like Rent, clothes, food, gas, electric and water et al.
There is literally NO ROOM in my budget to add Health Insurance especially at the rates they have been driven to by this government interference. Also I would like to point out that when I was on Medicare for a while a few years ago, there was not a doctor within 30 miles of my home who was taking Medicare. So even if I was able to get it I still wouldn’t be able to see a doctor because there isn’t one near me.
The host, I know, would respond to what I have to say with the response, “ well that’s all anecdotal evidence.” I know because that is how he has always responded to this kind of point. “well that may be your experience but it’s really just anecdotal and doesn’t mean anything.” (Yes that IS a direct quote.)
He claims to be open minded but I have realized with this type of person what they really mean by open minded is. “ I will hear and believe any facts or anything you say/do AS LONG AS IT MATCHES WITH WHAT I BELIEVE OR WANT TO BELIEVE.” In other words, So open minded that he can’t hear the real facts of an issue and how they are affecting people, because they conflict with his belief system.
Take for instance Wednesday night (8-11-10) usually I do not listen to a certain liberal Radio shock jock, and this particular evening I was reminded why.
He had on a guest who was a senator from Connecticut. She was a liberal and obviously so was he. They got to talking about the health care bill, and what she said was that republicans were against It for no good reason and the people were against it just because of the scare tactics by the republicans. The thing is that they would not have listened to me.
I AM not a republican! I am a conservative. I register as an independent and I like it that way because in my experience neither party is listening to me or anyone else and they sure have not been addressing my basic needs let alone wants.
Had this radio personality and his guest been willing to hear from me, I would have GLADLY told them why it is that I have a problem with this health care bill. And first and foremost the reason why I have a problem is because it does NOTHING for me but it takes a lot FROM me.
I am EXACTLY the kind of person that Obama is describing (or was) when he is talking about people wanting Health care but not affording it, and I am also someone who ends up having to use the ER as my primary care physician.
But NOTHING in the so called reform act will be of any benefit to me.
They covered the complaints that pundits have made on the conservative side against this bill.
Specifically they talked about…
The point that insurance rates will sky rocket, their view? “ they were going up anyway.”
The point that businesses were going to let people go (fire) due to the costs being put on them. The senator’s response? “ the businesses can get a lot of help from the government, up to a third of the costs incurred by the business the Government will cover, and if a business has fewer than 50 employees they are exempt. That STILL leaves an increase in cost to the non exempt business by the 2/3 not paid, and even if they are telling the truth about exempt status then the employees of those businesses are STILL screwed and without coverage.
This is an increase in costs. Their response? No this is a lessening of costs, right now all these people end up going to the ER as their primary care physician, once they have insurance they will instead go to a real doctor (like ER doctors are fakes) and they will get good preventative treatment so it doesn’t get so expensive. This is a bad one because it assumes… first it assumes that people will start going to a doctor every few months for checkups and the like. Second it assumes that there are doctors in the areas who will take the government backed insurance, re Medicare.
I am actually going to stop there, I got so totally frustrated with the program that is about where I shut it off anyway, (and it took me about half an hour to truly calm down again after wards.
But let me address this from my experience.
Rates might have been going up before but immediately after the passage of the health care package the insurance rates doubled or tripled! I have seen this kind of thing seeing what goes on in my place of work. My workplace had to let people go because of the increase in operating costs being put on them, particularly in a time of recession. I believe the DOUBLING of insurance can be counted as one of the costs they are dealing with.
I and many others like me are still going to have to use the ER as our primary care facilities. It does not matter if the government says I have to buy insurance or go to jail, I cannot buy insurance BECAUSE I CANNOT AFFORD IT.
All my money goes to the basics of life like Rent, clothes, food, gas, electric and water et al.
There is literally NO ROOM in my budget to add Health Insurance especially at the rates they have been driven to by this government interference. Also I would like to point out that when I was on Medicare for a while a few years ago, there was not a doctor within 30 miles of my home who was taking Medicare. So even if I was able to get it I still wouldn’t be able to see a doctor because there isn’t one near me.
The host, I know, would respond to what I have to say with the response, “ well that’s all anecdotal evidence.” I know because that is how he has always responded to this kind of point. “well that may be your experience but it’s really just anecdotal and doesn’t mean anything.” (Yes that IS a direct quote.)
He claims to be open minded but I have realized with this type of person what they really mean by open minded is. “ I will hear and believe any facts or anything you say/do AS LONG AS IT MATCHES WITH WHAT I BELIEVE OR WANT TO BELIEVE.” In other words, So open minded that he can’t hear the real facts of an issue and how they are affecting people, because they conflict with his belief system.
August 26, 2010
I WISH THEY WOULD START AT HOME:
I have often heard it said that we “need to fix our problems at home before going out to fix the problems of the world.”
And I agree. The thing is that this goes even deeper. Here in America we seem to have a problem with looking to ourselves. We ALWAYS expect someone else to fix our problems while we run off to fix others.
I think that needs to change. But before it can, we need to elect into office men and women who will do that first and foremost in t heir own lives.
We need t o stop putting tax dodgers in charge of the tax code/s, we need to stop putting drug users in charge of stopping the drug trade and we need to stop putting people who hate the military in charge of running the military.
And when we elect someone to office he or she needs to be ready and willing to do the same as they want us to do. And they need to do it first!
For example, currently the men and women in congress want to foist on us a health care plan that they wouldn’t find acceptable for themselves. If they want us to participate they ought to jump in to it first and wholeheartedly.
In Social security/ Retirement; they need to be willing to pay into the system the same as everyone else and they need to have that as their automatic retirement deal not specialized retirement plans that are in place INSTEAD of social security. And when they start screaming that the rich need to pony up some dough to help out the poor and destitute, THEY need to open THEIR wallets, THEIR Pocketbooks and THEIR checking accounts and shoveling the money out to the poor FIRST BEFORE they go pushing it on everyone else.
Like John Kerry, married into the Heinz fortune, he is a millionaire. He is demanding higher taxes for all those poor people to benefit from, but he refuses to give his business to the American worker, and he finds every chance he can to keep from paying taxes on his stuff.
For example he wanted a yacht, he didn’t want to pay the business fees or taxes to have it built here so he has it built in NEW ZEALAND and then shipped here, when it gets here he decides the taxes in Massachusetts HIS OWN STATE THAT HE REPRESENTS IN CONGRESS, are too high and he doesn’t want to pay them so he keeps the yacht in A DIFFERENT STATE (I think it’s Rhode Island).
BUT he thinks the way to make all the other rich people pay and therefore stimulate our economy is to raise taxes and the other rich (not himself) people out there and have THEM pay the rates that HE REFUSES to.
Same with the President. The man has a million dollar mansion in Illinois. But I do not see him saying “hey let’s try to spend some of OUR money to help the needy and the poor.” Nope, in fact while he insists that everyone else in our country has to stop going to Vegas because of the gambling and cut back on expenses his wife goes on a huge shopping spree in Spain. (how is that tightening the belt? Next thing you know they will visit Monte Carlo since they‘re so close anyway.)
And this is true and has been true for a long time.
The Kennedy’s, John McCain, Yeah this is about the only “bipartisan” event in Washington today.
What we need in office are people who KNOW what it is like to operate on a small budget and who will start at home.
I have always thought and maintained that the best boss, the best LEADER is the one who will never ask anyone to do something that he himself isn’t willing to do.
And I still stand by that.
So this year we elect new people to congress. Let’s elect people who will show the nation how to do instead of people who say “do what I say not what I d o.” That will be a good start to the kind of leadership we need.
And I agree. The thing is that this goes even deeper. Here in America we seem to have a problem with looking to ourselves. We ALWAYS expect someone else to fix our problems while we run off to fix others.
I think that needs to change. But before it can, we need to elect into office men and women who will do that first and foremost in t heir own lives.
We need t o stop putting tax dodgers in charge of the tax code/s, we need to stop putting drug users in charge of stopping the drug trade and we need to stop putting people who hate the military in charge of running the military.
And when we elect someone to office he or she needs to be ready and willing to do the same as they want us to do. And they need to do it first!
For example, currently the men and women in congress want to foist on us a health care plan that they wouldn’t find acceptable for themselves. If they want us to participate they ought to jump in to it first and wholeheartedly.
In Social security/ Retirement; they need to be willing to pay into the system the same as everyone else and they need to have that as their automatic retirement deal not specialized retirement plans that are in place INSTEAD of social security. And when they start screaming that the rich need to pony up some dough to help out the poor and destitute, THEY need to open THEIR wallets, THEIR Pocketbooks and THEIR checking accounts and shoveling the money out to the poor FIRST BEFORE they go pushing it on everyone else.
Like John Kerry, married into the Heinz fortune, he is a millionaire. He is demanding higher taxes for all those poor people to benefit from, but he refuses to give his business to the American worker, and he finds every chance he can to keep from paying taxes on his stuff.
For example he wanted a yacht, he didn’t want to pay the business fees or taxes to have it built here so he has it built in NEW ZEALAND and then shipped here, when it gets here he decides the taxes in Massachusetts HIS OWN STATE THAT HE REPRESENTS IN CONGRESS, are too high and he doesn’t want to pay them so he keeps the yacht in A DIFFERENT STATE (I think it’s Rhode Island).
BUT he thinks the way to make all the other rich people pay and therefore stimulate our economy is to raise taxes and the other rich (not himself) people out there and have THEM pay the rates that HE REFUSES to.
Same with the President. The man has a million dollar mansion in Illinois. But I do not see him saying “hey let’s try to spend some of OUR money to help the needy and the poor.” Nope, in fact while he insists that everyone else in our country has to stop going to Vegas because of the gambling and cut back on expenses his wife goes on a huge shopping spree in Spain. (how is that tightening the belt? Next thing you know they will visit Monte Carlo since they‘re so close anyway.)
And this is true and has been true for a long time.
The Kennedy’s, John McCain, Yeah this is about the only “bipartisan” event in Washington today.
What we need in office are people who KNOW what it is like to operate on a small budget and who will start at home.
I have always thought and maintained that the best boss, the best LEADER is the one who will never ask anyone to do something that he himself isn’t willing to do.
And I still stand by that.
So this year we elect new people to congress. Let’s elect people who will show the nation how to do instead of people who say “do what I say not what I d o.” That will be a good start to the kind of leadership we need.
August 19, 2010
Mosque mosque mosque
The thing about the mosque in New York is the builders have declared they are doing this to ease the suffering of the people of America. A kind of “look we are all ok and we love and ought to love and forgive and heal the great wounds and divide.
The thing is if that was really how they felt then why is it that when the people who were hurting and suffering from the events of 9-11 said NO! We do not want that Mosque there, the builders said tough noogies we will build it because we can.
That is NOT a spirit of reconciliation, it is not a kind loving gesture, this is a ram it down the throat hateful hurtful approach to making those who lost loved ones suffer more.
This is the action/s of a conquering army saying we won now you have to suck it up as we do whatever we want.
This is how the Nazis acted when they took France this is how the Japanese acted when they took over China and this is how the English and the French acted when they conquered most of the world in their time.
That is why people have issue I think.
Of course there is the other side who insist that this is just a display of bigotry, or racism on the part of the American’s who are against the mosque.
Maybe we need to stop throwing accusations and really take a look around at the reality facing us today.
Those who want to claim that the only way to solve the issues facing us from Islamic extremists is to compromise or through diplomacy, do not understand what we are facing.
Let me explain what these people want.
They want you dead, they want me dead, they want our children DEAD. PERIOD end of discussion. There is no compromise because there cannot be any compromise if you are alive they are unhappy and they will not, CAN not rest until you are dead… and everyone else who does not believe like they do.
They have been fighting against every other religion, country, ideology or reality for hundreds of years.
They have blown up Buddha’s, they have taken over Synagogues, they have decimated churches all over the world.
There is no diplomacy that can exist with them. You can try to offer them appeasement by turning over the Jews, but they will simply kill the Jews and then hunt for you.
You can offer them the conservative right in America and they will kill every one of them then turn to kill you.
If you offer any opinion that is against their way of thinking then they HAVE to KILL you.
If you are Gay they have to kill you, if you are Jewish they have to kill you, if you are atheist they have to kill you if you are Christian they have to kill you, if you are communist they have to kill you.
The only thing they want is YOU DEAD. And that is the point that we have to get through our heads.
Don’t believe me?
What happened to all the statues of Buddha that USED to exist there(in Afghanistan)? They blew them all up.
What happened to the Jewish Synagogues and temples that existed in the former lands of Israel? All taken over by Muslims and converted to their wants, what happens RIGHT now in The Gaza strip and modern Israel? The Muslims are trying to kill all the Jews, What happened when a cartoonist drew a picture they found offensive? They put a bounty on his head and death threats against him. What happened here on 9-11-2001? Muslim extremists blew up the WTC, what happened to Russia when they were in Afghanistan? They were killed in droves and the same happens to us now. (ok ok they might have a bit of a point in the realm of self defense on that last one but we wouldn’t be there if they hadn’t come over here to attack us first.)
What happens in Turkey when a Muslim converts? TO ANY OTHER FAITH? I have seen the reports and I can tell you a convert from Islam is killed out of hand because that is an offense punishable by death.
Although here is an interesting thought, When is the last time you saw a Christian or a Jew or a Mormon or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Taoist act that way?
The thing is if that was really how they felt then why is it that when the people who were hurting and suffering from the events of 9-11 said NO! We do not want that Mosque there, the builders said tough noogies we will build it because we can.
That is NOT a spirit of reconciliation, it is not a kind loving gesture, this is a ram it down the throat hateful hurtful approach to making those who lost loved ones suffer more.
This is the action/s of a conquering army saying we won now you have to suck it up as we do whatever we want.
This is how the Nazis acted when they took France this is how the Japanese acted when they took over China and this is how the English and the French acted when they conquered most of the world in their time.
That is why people have issue I think.
Of course there is the other side who insist that this is just a display of bigotry, or racism on the part of the American’s who are against the mosque.
Maybe we need to stop throwing accusations and really take a look around at the reality facing us today.
Those who want to claim that the only way to solve the issues facing us from Islamic extremists is to compromise or through diplomacy, do not understand what we are facing.
Let me explain what these people want.
They want you dead, they want me dead, they want our children DEAD. PERIOD end of discussion. There is no compromise because there cannot be any compromise if you are alive they are unhappy and they will not, CAN not rest until you are dead… and everyone else who does not believe like they do.
They have been fighting against every other religion, country, ideology or reality for hundreds of years.
They have blown up Buddha’s, they have taken over Synagogues, they have decimated churches all over the world.
There is no diplomacy that can exist with them. You can try to offer them appeasement by turning over the Jews, but they will simply kill the Jews and then hunt for you.
You can offer them the conservative right in America and they will kill every one of them then turn to kill you.
If you offer any opinion that is against their way of thinking then they HAVE to KILL you.
If you are Gay they have to kill you, if you are Jewish they have to kill you, if you are atheist they have to kill you if you are Christian they have to kill you, if you are communist they have to kill you.
The only thing they want is YOU DEAD. And that is the point that we have to get through our heads.
Don’t believe me?
What happened to all the statues of Buddha that USED to exist there(in Afghanistan)? They blew them all up.
What happened to the Jewish Synagogues and temples that existed in the former lands of Israel? All taken over by Muslims and converted to their wants, what happens RIGHT now in The Gaza strip and modern Israel? The Muslims are trying to kill all the Jews, What happened when a cartoonist drew a picture they found offensive? They put a bounty on his head and death threats against him. What happened here on 9-11-2001? Muslim extremists blew up the WTC, what happened to Russia when they were in Afghanistan? They were killed in droves and the same happens to us now. (ok ok they might have a bit of a point in the realm of self defense on that last one but we wouldn’t be there if they hadn’t come over here to attack us first.)
What happens in Turkey when a Muslim converts? TO ANY OTHER FAITH? I have seen the reports and I can tell you a convert from Islam is killed out of hand because that is an offense punishable by death.
Although here is an interesting thought, When is the last time you saw a Christian or a Jew or a Mormon or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Taoist act that way?
August 13, 2010
THE POWER OF THE MEDIOCRE:
I find it fascinating to watch a society deliberately flush itself down the toilet.
WHAT???? Yes that’s right you heard me. It Amuses me no end to see a society try SOOOOOO HARD to drag itself down and tear itself apart.
Although I do have to admit that I find it a little disturbing when this is happening in MY society.
Why would I say that our society is trying to tear itself apart? Simple… LOOK AROUND YOU!
Once upon a time we had a country, a society which strove to excel. We had people in this country who were proud of their achievements. They were strong and capable and they lifted us all up with their capableness. (yes I am making up words)
Children today are being told that what they do doesn’t matter as long as they feel good, the thing is that they cannot feel good without the accomplishments that lift them up. But Our society has too many people who will as stand in their way and tell them… “no no no you can’t excel you can’t be strong you can’t be smart because if you are then those who are not will feel bad.
I liken it to the problem that was becoming very apparent when I was a child in public school. Anyone who showed that they were smarter or more capable intellectually were made fun of they were called geeks and nerds and they were regularly bullied.
The bullies couldn’t stand to look bad so they had to find some way that they could hold back the ones who were… well let’s face it Better.
There is a peculiar mindset out there in some people… a lot of people, that if they want to look better they have to drag others down. This is the lazy way out. Instead of trying to grow and improve themselves they try to drag back everyone else so they look better in comparison.
It’s kind of like in the movie big with Tom Hanks.
When he gets a job working on computers in the toy company he finds the work to be so easy that a child could zip through it in no time at all. But the guy in the next cubicle tells him to slow down, because [hank’s] is making him look bad. The man was lazy and didn’t want to improve himself, so instead he tells his coworkers to do worse than they were capable of so he would look better.
Well I think that what has really happened is those self same bullies, with those attitudes grew older but never grew UP. And those are the idiots who are now trying to tell us, and our children, “don’t worry about being good or doing good… just as long as you feel good.
This attitude started coming out in the 60’s and is still going strong. Just watch TV ads and you will see what I mean. in fact if you watch long enough you will see that our society has now accepted mediocrity as the new “standard of excellence”.
Today it starts with commercials like Nike’s “just do it” campaign or Calgon’s “take me away” theme which promoted/s the self over all else… look out for number one don’t worry about others, don’t try to make things better for everyone INCLUDING yourself, don’t excel!” just focus on you and yourself and try to make yourself feel better in other ways.
Now we have McDonald’s commercials and Pizza hut commercials declaring “it doesn’t matter if you fail you can still feel good abut yourself. Come and get__________” (fill in the blank).
Whether it is a happy meal or a personal pan pizza the message they are sending is, “don’t worry about succeeding or doing well at all, as long as you feel good it is ok.
This is another one of those points though.
The people of the United States didn’t gain their independence by feeling good about themselves they got their good feelings from gaining their independence.
The Allied forces in WW2 didn’t free the captives of the Axis powers by going around feeling better about themselves, they felt better about themselves by going in and freeing the people held captive.
So our society is in a downward spiral, apparently because of the greed and selfishness of small minded people who refuse to grow up or become greater than what they are. And that leads to mediocrity.
That’s the only conclusion I can come to, because otherwise it makes no sense. If our sense of self worth comes from within, and what we have within is all our abilities and strengths then to tell us to not try to exceed, not to use our strengths and abilities and have satisfaction in a job well done is to tell us to be miserable, to not excel is to be miserable! And that is what they are really teaching us.
Think about Helen Keller. Her nurse could have done like everyone else had done before and let the poor girl suffer in her little world shut off from all others. She could have said like so many do today and like so many did then for that matter, “why make her try to improve she will only get frustrated or angry or depressed.” But that nurse didn’t and because she was NOT afraid to work and excel and to cause Helen to excel that girl was able to become someone who had the self worth to do a lot of stuff.
And that, by the way, is the stuff of which legends are made.
Some other examples of people rising above and having a better sense of self worth for it?
Thomas Alva Edison,
Abraham Lincoln,
George Washington,
Louis Pasteur,
Rudy Rudiker,
Benjamin Franklin,
Elvis Presley,
Jim Morrison,
Tiger woods,
Basically if you have heard of them in a positive way… yeah that’s the point.
WHAT???? Yes that’s right you heard me. It Amuses me no end to see a society try SOOOOOO HARD to drag itself down and tear itself apart.
Although I do have to admit that I find it a little disturbing when this is happening in MY society.
Why would I say that our society is trying to tear itself apart? Simple… LOOK AROUND YOU!
Once upon a time we had a country, a society which strove to excel. We had people in this country who were proud of their achievements. They were strong and capable and they lifted us all up with their capableness. (yes I am making up words)
Children today are being told that what they do doesn’t matter as long as they feel good, the thing is that they cannot feel good without the accomplishments that lift them up. But Our society has too many people who will as stand in their way and tell them… “no no no you can’t excel you can’t be strong you can’t be smart because if you are then those who are not will feel bad.
I liken it to the problem that was becoming very apparent when I was a child in public school. Anyone who showed that they were smarter or more capable intellectually were made fun of they were called geeks and nerds and they were regularly bullied.
The bullies couldn’t stand to look bad so they had to find some way that they could hold back the ones who were… well let’s face it Better.
There is a peculiar mindset out there in some people… a lot of people, that if they want to look better they have to drag others down. This is the lazy way out. Instead of trying to grow and improve themselves they try to drag back everyone else so they look better in comparison.
It’s kind of like in the movie big with Tom Hanks.
When he gets a job working on computers in the toy company he finds the work to be so easy that a child could zip through it in no time at all. But the guy in the next cubicle tells him to slow down, because [hank’s] is making him look bad. The man was lazy and didn’t want to improve himself, so instead he tells his coworkers to do worse than they were capable of so he would look better.
Well I think that what has really happened is those self same bullies, with those attitudes grew older but never grew UP. And those are the idiots who are now trying to tell us, and our children, “don’t worry about being good or doing good… just as long as you feel good.
This attitude started coming out in the 60’s and is still going strong. Just watch TV ads and you will see what I mean. in fact if you watch long enough you will see that our society has now accepted mediocrity as the new “standard of excellence”.
Today it starts with commercials like Nike’s “just do it” campaign or Calgon’s “take me away” theme which promoted/s the self over all else… look out for number one don’t worry about others, don’t try to make things better for everyone INCLUDING yourself, don’t excel!” just focus on you and yourself and try to make yourself feel better in other ways.
Now we have McDonald’s commercials and Pizza hut commercials declaring “it doesn’t matter if you fail you can still feel good abut yourself. Come and get__________” (fill in the blank).
Whether it is a happy meal or a personal pan pizza the message they are sending is, “don’t worry about succeeding or doing well at all, as long as you feel good it is ok.
This is another one of those points though.
The people of the United States didn’t gain their independence by feeling good about themselves they got their good feelings from gaining their independence.
The Allied forces in WW2 didn’t free the captives of the Axis powers by going around feeling better about themselves, they felt better about themselves by going in and freeing the people held captive.
So our society is in a downward spiral, apparently because of the greed and selfishness of small minded people who refuse to grow up or become greater than what they are. And that leads to mediocrity.
That’s the only conclusion I can come to, because otherwise it makes no sense. If our sense of self worth comes from within, and what we have within is all our abilities and strengths then to tell us to not try to exceed, not to use our strengths and abilities and have satisfaction in a job well done is to tell us to be miserable, to not excel is to be miserable! And that is what they are really teaching us.
Think about Helen Keller. Her nurse could have done like everyone else had done before and let the poor girl suffer in her little world shut off from all others. She could have said like so many do today and like so many did then for that matter, “why make her try to improve she will only get frustrated or angry or depressed.” But that nurse didn’t and because she was NOT afraid to work and excel and to cause Helen to excel that girl was able to become someone who had the self worth to do a lot of stuff.
And that, by the way, is the stuff of which legends are made.
Some other examples of people rising above and having a better sense of self worth for it?
Thomas Alva Edison,
Abraham Lincoln,
George Washington,
Louis Pasteur,
Rudy Rudiker,
Benjamin Franklin,
Elvis Presley,
Jim Morrison,
Tiger woods,
Basically if you have heard of them in a positive way… yeah that’s the point.
August 12, 2010
ELECTION ‘08... AGAIN!?!
Apparently the POTUS has decided that the way he needs to start out with the campaigning for this year (2010) must be done ALA ‘08.
He showed up in Dallas TX, declaring that we need to move away from the Bush policies, that we need to stay with the democrats, and that all the problems we are facing are Bush’s fault.
Apparently he has forgotten that he has already won the election against George W Bush.
What I found funny was that there was not a single Democrat politician on hand to meet Air Force 1 when it landed. The President had to shake hands with the REPUBLICAN governor of Texas, and it ought to be noted that neither man was really comfortable with that.
The Governor was willing to put aside differences though and be a congenial host. Obama was a less than model guest… but I digress.
In a speech he gave IN texas following the fiasco at the airport he said “when you get in a car and want to go somewhere, what do you do? You put it in D…” the idea being D is for drive and R is for reverse and since the word Republican starts with R that means they will “drag us back” but Democrat starts with D and that means Drive and that means moving forward.
The problem is that when you are nose deep in a ditch, you NEED to put it in reverse or even call a tow truck to pull you out.
Continuing to floor the gas while stuck is only going to make the situation worse.
Although there is one point that recently came to my attention that makes me think Obama IS overcoming the partisanship of the American people. He recently complained about Liberal Bloggers giving him a bad image. On one of my favorite talk shows (conservative) the host had a liberal blogger who pointed out that what Obama is doing in this country is becoming equally troublesome and unwanted for them.
So he seems to be overcoming the hatred each party has for the other simply by offering up a common enemy. Interesting plan Mr. President.
He showed up in Dallas TX, declaring that we need to move away from the Bush policies, that we need to stay with the democrats, and that all the problems we are facing are Bush’s fault.
Apparently he has forgotten that he has already won the election against George W Bush.
What I found funny was that there was not a single Democrat politician on hand to meet Air Force 1 when it landed. The President had to shake hands with the REPUBLICAN governor of Texas, and it ought to be noted that neither man was really comfortable with that.
The Governor was willing to put aside differences though and be a congenial host. Obama was a less than model guest… but I digress.
In a speech he gave IN texas following the fiasco at the airport he said “when you get in a car and want to go somewhere, what do you do? You put it in D…” the idea being D is for drive and R is for reverse and since the word Republican starts with R that means they will “drag us back” but Democrat starts with D and that means Drive and that means moving forward.
The problem is that when you are nose deep in a ditch, you NEED to put it in reverse or even call a tow truck to pull you out.
Continuing to floor the gas while stuck is only going to make the situation worse.
Although there is one point that recently came to my attention that makes me think Obama IS overcoming the partisanship of the American people. He recently complained about Liberal Bloggers giving him a bad image. On one of my favorite talk shows (conservative) the host had a liberal blogger who pointed out that what Obama is doing in this country is becoming equally troublesome and unwanted for them.
So he seems to be overcoming the hatred each party has for the other simply by offering up a common enemy. Interesting plan Mr. President.
August 09, 2010
What does a broken record do?
So here we go again.
Time for a new warning! Now I do not love the current Administration in the White house, I have made that very clear.
Interestingly it would appear that all the ones who voted for him are also getting tired and sick of it.
All the polls have been lately (the past year and a half) have said he is getting very disliked, and he seems to have come up with a way that he thinks will fix his badly flagging numbers.
I have heard (and yes this is second hand so take it with a grain of salt) that he (Obama) plans to forgive part or all of the mortgages being held in Fanny may or Freddie mac. that's right in order to show how wonderful the Dem's are they plan to put us even further into debt paying the house loans off for all these people so that they will say "oh how wonderful he is!!!" and fall all over themselves again like they did in 2008. and that will lead, in the Dem's thinking, to people voting for the Dem's again.
Meanwhile in another part of the world... yes it is sounding like a bad "b" movie plot... Michele is on vacation... AGAIN spending $7,000 + of tax payers monies a day in Spain. and they (the Obama's) are planning a vacation together in the gulf next week or so.
I do not know how many vacations the current first family have taken, I lost count ages ago, but I would like the chance to have even a fraction of the chances to vacation like they do. they have been to Hawai'i and Spain and France and the Gulf of Mexico and Vermont and Colorado and... (wherever else) all in the space of a few years and ALL at our expense.
Last Sunday I heard a report from a talk show source that all of Obama's records have been lost or destroyed... HOW WEIRD IS THAT? he has NO life before showing up in office as a senator?
I have seen more information about the life and history of Jesus Christ then I have on Obama and to me that is weird.
He still insists on not releasing any of his records that DO still exist and I have to wonder why that would be, I mean honestly how fast could he shut up all his detractors just by saying "Oh yeah, here is my birth certificate, school records etc..." although someone has a picture purportedly of Obama with a childhood friend in Hawai'i when he claims he was in India. So all of this is adding up but he still doesn't show his records which means either he has something he is trying to hide or he is an idiot who refuses to be open even though he claims this is the most open Government we will ever have.
Is that it? is he an idiot? I hope not or maybe I do hope so because the alternative is that he is a malicious, cunning man with intent to destroy our country or alter it in way's that are destructive to our lives.
Not sure right now which is worse.
Time for a new warning! Now I do not love the current Administration in the White house, I have made that very clear.
Interestingly it would appear that all the ones who voted for him are also getting tired and sick of it.
All the polls have been lately (the past year and a half) have said he is getting very disliked, and he seems to have come up with a way that he thinks will fix his badly flagging numbers.
I have heard (and yes this is second hand so take it with a grain of salt) that he (Obama) plans to forgive part or all of the mortgages being held in Fanny may or Freddie mac. that's right in order to show how wonderful the Dem's are they plan to put us even further into debt paying the house loans off for all these people so that they will say "oh how wonderful he is!!!" and fall all over themselves again like they did in 2008. and that will lead, in the Dem's thinking, to people voting for the Dem's again.
Meanwhile in another part of the world... yes it is sounding like a bad "b" movie plot... Michele is on vacation... AGAIN spending $7,000 + of tax payers monies a day in Spain. and they (the Obama's) are planning a vacation together in the gulf next week or so.
I do not know how many vacations the current first family have taken, I lost count ages ago, but I would like the chance to have even a fraction of the chances to vacation like they do. they have been to Hawai'i and Spain and France and the Gulf of Mexico and Vermont and Colorado and... (wherever else) all in the space of a few years and ALL at our expense.
Last Sunday I heard a report from a talk show source that all of Obama's records have been lost or destroyed... HOW WEIRD IS THAT? he has NO life before showing up in office as a senator?
I have seen more information about the life and history of Jesus Christ then I have on Obama and to me that is weird.
He still insists on not releasing any of his records that DO still exist and I have to wonder why that would be, I mean honestly how fast could he shut up all his detractors just by saying "Oh yeah, here is my birth certificate, school records etc..." although someone has a picture purportedly of Obama with a childhood friend in Hawai'i when he claims he was in India. So all of this is adding up but he still doesn't show his records which means either he has something he is trying to hide or he is an idiot who refuses to be open even though he claims this is the most open Government we will ever have.
Is that it? is he an idiot? I hope not or maybe I do hope so because the alternative is that he is a malicious, cunning man with intent to destroy our country or alter it in way's that are destructive to our lives.
Not sure right now which is worse.
August 06, 2010
A new civil war???
Lately I have been a little concerned about some of the issues I have been seeing. They are really reminiscent of what led up to the Civil war of 150 years ago. As I was trying to explain what I was seeing to my wife she summed it up with the sentence, “It’s Never, always just one thing.”
Now out of context that sounds like a strange sentence... Even improper but it really does make sense!
Today if you ask anyone who has had a basic public school education what caused the civil war, or what was the point behind the civil war. The answer you will get is “it was to stop slavery.”
Now that statement was true… for SOME of the people involved/ when you think about John Brown and the underground railroad and so on yeah that does make a compelling argument.
My follow up Question though seems to be unanswerable by those same people.
If the reason the southern states seceded from the union was BECAUSE of the slavery issues than why did they secede BEFORE THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION CAME OUT???
Alternatively if Abraham Lincoln was so eager to take the battle to the south, was doing so because of slavery why did he WAIT through three years of war before signing the Emancipation proclamation?
See the Issue that led to the civil war was NOT JUST slavery, there were several reasons. The states that seceded listed state rights as their main grievance, NOT SLAVERY.
Today I am hearing the same cry for state rights being called for. And as we watch the federal government trample on state rights I am worried that we are going the same way.
What do I mean about state rights?
Here’s a laundry list…
The 10th amendment tells us that any right/s NOT EXPRESSLY GIVEN TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION remains a right for the state/s and or the people.
We have seen The federal Government tell the states that they HAVE to administer Obama’s health care program, but that is NOWHERE in the constitution.
The constitution does NOT give the federal government the right to mandate that people have to have health insurance, neither does it say the government can tell us that we have to purchase a private product at a price the private company chooses to levy.
The Accident in the gulf of Mexico resulting in the large spill of crude oil was handled poorly and one of he reasons that it became such a large disaster was because the Federal Government denied the states the means to fight the damage.
Now the federal government is suing a state because that state said "enough ,If you will not fulfill your obligation and stop the international crime spree that is pouring into this state WE WILL."
So to sum up… The federal Government has said to the states,
You have to force your citizens to buy this product because we say so.
You cannot stop an ecological disaster because we don’t want to see anyone able to fix it when we won’t.
You cannot protect yourself from being robbed, raped, murdered, or you can’t stop your kids from being molested or kidnapped or hooked on drugs or given STD’s, because we want to have illegal immigrants.
These are the reasons that there are issues going on here.
The other side are trying to make it a smaller issue though. They are belittling the arguments given there.
See liberals like to make it all about Emotions.
“you are just being racist.” “you are so cruel trying to deny people the freedoms you have.”
“these people aren’t causing all the crimes.”
I notice they can never cite any facts to support their side... but that is a small concern.
And yet at the same time that they try to make those arguments their actions show they know otherwise. If there is not, as they claim, a problem at the southern border with criminal activity from these “safe, poor migrants” then why do they have to post signs warning people to stay away because of the danger?
This week alone on four separate occasions I heard four different representatives of our Federal government declare something along the lines of “the federal government can do what it wants, no matter who is hurt, the states have no say and what the people want is immaterial.”
This was said in a democrat’s town hall meeting, the senator is who said it, this was said by a judge in California AND a judge in Arizona when they ruled on the laws put in place BY the people or states in question. And this was said by Robert Gibbs the press secretary for the president when he was questioned about the law passed in Missouri stating that the federal gov’t could not impose the health care debacle on it’s citizens.
I believe this attitude is dragging us to the next civil war. And that is something that I would not wish on my children… on the other hand I would prefer a civil war to the new slavery that this government is trying to place on my children, AND grandchildren.
Now out of context that sounds like a strange sentence... Even improper but it really does make sense!
Today if you ask anyone who has had a basic public school education what caused the civil war, or what was the point behind the civil war. The answer you will get is “it was to stop slavery.”
Now that statement was true… for SOME of the people involved/ when you think about John Brown and the underground railroad and so on yeah that does make a compelling argument.
My follow up Question though seems to be unanswerable by those same people.
If the reason the southern states seceded from the union was BECAUSE of the slavery issues than why did they secede BEFORE THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION CAME OUT???
Alternatively if Abraham Lincoln was so eager to take the battle to the south, was doing so because of slavery why did he WAIT through three years of war before signing the Emancipation proclamation?
See the Issue that led to the civil war was NOT JUST slavery, there were several reasons. The states that seceded listed state rights as their main grievance, NOT SLAVERY.
Today I am hearing the same cry for state rights being called for. And as we watch the federal government trample on state rights I am worried that we are going the same way.
What do I mean about state rights?
Here’s a laundry list…
The 10th amendment tells us that any right/s NOT EXPRESSLY GIVEN TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN THE CONSTITUTION remains a right for the state/s and or the people.
We have seen The federal Government tell the states that they HAVE to administer Obama’s health care program, but that is NOWHERE in the constitution.
The constitution does NOT give the federal government the right to mandate that people have to have health insurance, neither does it say the government can tell us that we have to purchase a private product at a price the private company chooses to levy.
The Accident in the gulf of Mexico resulting in the large spill of crude oil was handled poorly and one of he reasons that it became such a large disaster was because the Federal Government denied the states the means to fight the damage.
Now the federal government is suing a state because that state said "enough ,If you will not fulfill your obligation and stop the international crime spree that is pouring into this state WE WILL."
So to sum up… The federal Government has said to the states,
You have to force your citizens to buy this product because we say so.
You cannot stop an ecological disaster because we don’t want to see anyone able to fix it when we won’t.
You cannot protect yourself from being robbed, raped, murdered, or you can’t stop your kids from being molested or kidnapped or hooked on drugs or given STD’s, because we want to have illegal immigrants.
These are the reasons that there are issues going on here.
The other side are trying to make it a smaller issue though. They are belittling the arguments given there.
See liberals like to make it all about Emotions.
“you are just being racist.” “you are so cruel trying to deny people the freedoms you have.”
“these people aren’t causing all the crimes.”
I notice they can never cite any facts to support their side... but that is a small concern.
And yet at the same time that they try to make those arguments their actions show they know otherwise. If there is not, as they claim, a problem at the southern border with criminal activity from these “safe, poor migrants” then why do they have to post signs warning people to stay away because of the danger?
This week alone on four separate occasions I heard four different representatives of our Federal government declare something along the lines of “the federal government can do what it wants, no matter who is hurt, the states have no say and what the people want is immaterial.”
This was said in a democrat’s town hall meeting, the senator is who said it, this was said by a judge in California AND a judge in Arizona when they ruled on the laws put in place BY the people or states in question. And this was said by Robert Gibbs the press secretary for the president when he was questioned about the law passed in Missouri stating that the federal gov’t could not impose the health care debacle on it’s citizens.
I believe this attitude is dragging us to the next civil war. And that is something that I would not wish on my children… on the other hand I would prefer a civil war to the new slavery that this government is trying to place on my children, AND grandchildren.
August 03, 2010
Surprise surprise surprise
I think we can take a page from that lovable doofus named Gomer Pyle.
So in Gomer Pyle speak... This cheer is a silly gov’t.
Now I have come to the realization that I cannot believe a word that comes from the mouth of the Commander in chief.
Everything he says is a lie period.
If he told me water was wet I wouldn’t be able to believe him.
He lied about GITMO (though that is not a problem for me personally)
He lied about taxes
He lied about being different than Bush (at least with the negative points that Bush had)
He lied about the gulf oil spill
He lied about the “T.A.R.P.” funds
He lied about the war in Iraq
He lied about the war in Afghanistan
He lied about improving the economy
He lied about being ready to govern the nation
He lied about protecting our borders
He lied about protecting and defending the constitution
He's lied about the recession
He lied about being a reconciler for race issues…
And the list just goes on and on.
So when he stands up to speak anymore and I hear more lies come out of his mouth I am forced to remember Gomer Pyle’s usual statement… Surprrrriiiizzze surprise surprise.
That’s what he said when things happened that weren’t really a surprise or ought not to have been anyway.
So here is one for Mr. Pyle may we always remember the wisdom that is packed in those six syllables.
So in Gomer Pyle speak... This cheer is a silly gov’t.
Now I have come to the realization that I cannot believe a word that comes from the mouth of the Commander in chief.
Everything he says is a lie period.
If he told me water was wet I wouldn’t be able to believe him.
He lied about GITMO (though that is not a problem for me personally)
He lied about taxes
He lied about being different than Bush (at least with the negative points that Bush had)
He lied about the gulf oil spill
He lied about the “T.A.R.P.” funds
He lied about the war in Iraq
He lied about the war in Afghanistan
He lied about improving the economy
He lied about being ready to govern the nation
He lied about protecting our borders
He lied about protecting and defending the constitution
He's lied about the recession
He lied about being a reconciler for race issues…
And the list just goes on and on.
So when he stands up to speak anymore and I hear more lies come out of his mouth I am forced to remember Gomer Pyle’s usual statement… Surprrrriiiizzze surprise surprise.
That’s what he said when things happened that weren’t really a surprise or ought not to have been anyway.
So here is one for Mr. Pyle may we always remember the wisdom that is packed in those six syllables.
My new blog schedule
Hello all.
I am so sorry that I have not been following up on my blog/s. the good news is that I will be tring to do a better job of it. I think there will have to be a schedule though. For my general blog I will try to post three or four times a week. The politically incorrect and Christian blogs though will be a once a week option.
It seems that for me I get so caught up in things that I tend to forget these things. (or I get so tired of being online that I give up before I get to the blog/s. so I will try to change that up.
I also sometimes cannot think of anything g to post. So I will have to switch on my brain a little more often. But I do want to post regularly and in such a way that it is pertinent and of value to my readers.
Thank you for your patience as I get my self sorted out.
Your’s faithfully…
Colt!
I am so sorry that I have not been following up on my blog/s. the good news is that I will be tring to do a better job of it. I think there will have to be a schedule though. For my general blog I will try to post three or four times a week. The politically incorrect and Christian blogs though will be a once a week option.
It seems that for me I get so caught up in things that I tend to forget these things. (or I get so tired of being online that I give up before I get to the blog/s. so I will try to change that up.
I also sometimes cannot think of anything g to post. So I will have to switch on my brain a little more often. But I do want to post regularly and in such a way that it is pertinent and of value to my readers.
Thank you for your patience as I get my self sorted out.
Your’s faithfully…
Colt!
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