SOTU 2015

So, here's what President Obama said last night. 

The Union is good, despite my best efforts.  So here's what I'm going to do.  I'm going to veto anything congress passes, then demand that they work with me. 

Divide the Union!  Blame the Rich!  Let the Terrorists win!  Be a pussy on foreign affairs, and a beast to deal with at home!  Peace out Bitches!

Yeah, that's it.  The only thing he didn't say was "White people suck."  I'm not really sure why not. 

You know Einstein's definition of insanity?  Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  President Obama has proved that his policies don't work.  Said so in the midterms, also adding that people didn't like the policies.  But he is so damned arrogant he doesn't care.  He is the "do nothing" president.  That's what he set up last night.  He is going to do nothing for the next two years.

He'd rather burn the union to the ground than to do anything good or healthy for those he is supposed to be responsible for.  His pride is leading us to our fall.

Double downs and blaspheming

I hope everyone had a nice Easter.  Easter, in case you didn't know, is the holiday where Christians celebrate the fact that Jesus rose from the dead after dying for our sins.  He proved he was the son of God, and provided forgiveness for sins and hope of eternal life.

Unless you're Al Sharpton.  Al (I'm particularly using his first name as a sign of disrespect) has been up to no good.  After admitting to being an informant (which could be considered a violation of the "confessional" privacy, much like doctor-patient or lawyer-client confidentiality).  He was forced to be an informant because he tried to purchase crack, like an idiot.

But now he decided to add another charge to his file: blasphemy.  He said that President Obama "has been crucified and resurrected."  I know that some claim Obama is the new Messiah, but this is going a little too far, don't you think?  Especially on Easter?  Especially from a "reverend"?

I don't think Al Sharpton is worthy of reverence.



In the meantime, Harry Reid didn't want Al to have all of the attention.  He decided to call the ranchers and anyone that agreed with them "Domestic terrorists."  He repeated it a few time just make sure no one thought that he had spoken out of turn.

Nidal Hassan, who yelled "Allah Ackbar" before killing 13 people and injuring more than 30 more, was called "workplace violence," despite using the same cry suicide bombers use moments before their attacks. 

Mass murder?  That's sad.  Wanting your cows back?  Threat to our nation!  We should stomp out anyone who likes beef immediately! 

What? Who's racist? A history lesson

So, several Democrats made statements about racism.  Congressman Israel said that he believed "a significant portion of the Republican base" is racists. 

Let's do a little history lesson here.  Abraham Lincoln, signer of the Emancipation Proclamation, was a Republican.  Those that went against him?  Democrats.

When Dr. King was going around, Republican officials stood with them.  The people turning fire hoses on the crowds and arresting them?  Democrat governors.

Republicans believe that all men were created equal.  Democrats believe things like "Voter ID laws are discriminatory.  Minorities are incapable of passing the exam to get a driver's license, so they will be excluded."  They also believe that minorities are incapable of achieving greatness in our country without a boost from the white man.

The only time I ever threatened a man with violence was when a friend of mine used the "n" word.  I told him I'd kill him if he ever said it again.  I guess that makes me racist too.

Democrats are always the first to point out race.  "He's a black president."  "He's a black quarter back."  "She's a Latina musician."  Most of us don't see race.  We just see people.

Democrats are the ones who look at Col. Allen West and Dr. Benjamin Carson and say "You're traitors to your race" for stepping out of line and being conservative.  Why don't you tell them to move to the back of the bus while you're at it?

Democrats say immigration issues are race based.  For me, I'm not thinking of race.  I just am tired of all those Canadians coming down here to use our health care and steal our jobs.

There is a saying that I think applies to all these democrats: "Me thinks (s)he doth protest too much."  I think the reason they jump on everyone is because they assume everyone else is as racist as they are.

Think about that next time you watch Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, or so many others race bating.

From Green to Red (Special Thanks to Fox News' The Five)

Did you hear this one?  Probably not.  It was discovered that a hospital in the UK was shoveling children into the incinerator.  This wasn't cremation.  This was the incinerator used to heat the hospital.

The media isn't covering this, because they get money from groups like Planned Parenthood, and they don't want to "hurt" the business of murder.  I learned about this story from my favorite new show, Fox News' The Five, which features Five opinion people from across the political spectrum, who discuss the news.  They range from and advisor for Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter, to a W. press secretary to libertarians.  If you have access, watch it.  It has become one of my favorite shows.

Back to the topic, a woman had a miscarriage and asked for the body of her baby, to give him/her a proper burial.  She was informed that her baby would be thrown into the incinerator, "like the rest of the garbage."

I'm sorry, why is executing McVeigh or bin Laden evil, but an innocent child is garbage?  Why do we wonder while childhood suicide rates are so high while telling them they are garbage, to be burned like the box your Big Mac came in.  Wonderful. 

This is disgusting.  The hospital has vowed to stop the practice, but this is too little to late for me. 

They've turned Green to Red.

In trying to save the planet and use less electricity, they decided to burn unborn children.  This lady who lost her child would love nothing more than to have one, and other people kill theirs.  It's not just the practice that is disgusting.  It's the principle.  Somewhere people decided that what has become a false, cultish belief that human beings destroy the earth by existing, is more important than humanity.  They'd rather not kill a petunia, so let's kill a few million people instead. 

Hey, Auschwitz must have been really green!  Look at how many people they burned?

People who promote, profit from, and practice abortion have blood on their hands.  The Earth was created for us.  God told us to care for it.  He created this wonderful thing to show us Him.  Why worship the creation when we can worship the creator?  This is almost as if you liked a painting so much, you killed the artist.  That is insane.

So is burning innocent babies.  It's insane.  Detestable.  An abomination.  A real-life nightmare.

New job, same frustrations

So I started at a new church 2 months ago.  I already have a family that's pretty well going to leave.  Maybe more than one.  Ready to hear why?

I touched the chairs.

We had more than two chairs for every person.  I took it from 86 to 70.  And we average about 42.  Do we really need twice as many chairs as people?  Nope.  This is just dumb.

Think about it this way.  Rather than sit somewhere else in the same church, they'd rather go to a different church.

Which change is more drastic?  Which is harder?

My thinking is that if we give in on this, then they'll really hate it when I start really changing stuff.  I also wonder, what am I worshipping in church, my fat butt, or the God of the Universe?  I know my answer.  How about yours?

Syria

Let's look past rhetoric to some truth.

Truth #1: You should judge people by their words. Senator Obama would impeach President Obama for attacking Syria. Eating crow doesn't quite cover it.

Truth #2: For once there is bipartisan support for something in Washington. It's amazing how many in Congress think we should do something in Syria, despite surveys that say EIGHT-SEVEN PERCENT of American oppose action in Syria. This shows just how disconnected Washington is from the American people. We've got to kick these guys out and start over.

Truth #3: The international community won't back the play because of reports that say that groups within the rebels, actually Al Queda terrorsts and affiliates, took the weapons and killed their own people to force our involvement. Putin publicly said so, and the Obama administration responded "That's stupid." No facts, of course, just that they don't like the report.

Truth #4: Sun Tzu (the guy who LITERALLY wrote the manual on conducting warfare, called "The Art of War"), thinks this is a bad idea. He said that the loser attacks, and then determines the terms of victory. The winner decides terms of victory, then attacks. We have no objects, and innocent people will die by us dropping random bombs, then we may spark retaliation again Israel and other allies in the region, not to mention our own embassies. Oh wait. Obama's fine with those being attacked.

4b: Sun Tzu also said the deception and surprise were keys to success. We have neither. If we were going to do something, we should have done it first. It's easier to get forgiveness than permission, especially if the world thinks you are as weak as Obama.

Truth #5: We can't hope to win. The President of Syria is evil, but he's holding a greater evil at bay, just like Egypt and Libya. Hopefully we learned out lesson. If Al Queda wins in Syria, we lose, big time. If we go in and accomplish nothing, we've just ticked off the entire world for nothing. If we help the Syrian President, then we've added to the more than one hundred thousand deaths there already. Let's learn from history, and just keep our noses clean and mind our own business.

ObamaCare hits home

I hate to say "I told you so."  Especially when it's bad.  But I told you ObamaCare sucks.  It destroys jobs. 

My mom just found out yesterday (Monday) that she has a difficult decision.  She can either have Health Insurance, or a job.  That's right.  Because Obama's regulations, my mother's insurance has skyrocketed.  The school that she works for is voting Thursday to get rid of insurance for the teacher's aides.  She's been at that job for 27 years, and has been told she either has to retire before the vote on Thursday, or she has to go without insurance, knowing that she can't afford ObamaCare, which she is required by law to have.

That's right.  She has just entered government enforced poverty.  She either can have insurance or an income.  Her thought is she might be able to get an income, but she absolutely cannot get insurance.  So she has to leave a job which she loves to afford health insurance.

And she's not the only one effected.  Other aides that were hired after a certain date are not only losing their insurance, but also their hours.  Since ObamaCare not requires employers to provide insurance for those who have more than 30 hours, and companies still can't afford to provide benefits, then not only do these people not have insurance, but have less income.  That's what happens when idiot politicians like Obama and Pelosi who have never held a real job or done anything in real life make decisions for the rest of the country.  They had excellent intentions, but reality is simply different.  The road to hell, and national poverty, is paved with good intentions.

Warren family values

What the heck is wrong with people?  Rick and Kaye Warren are famous pastors, people of faith.  Now, I don't particularly like Rick.  I don't agree with him on some things, plus we just have personality differences.  But right now, my heart goes out to the Warren family.  This weekend, they experienced the worst loss someone can experience.  They lost a son.  Worse, they lost a son to suicide.

If you've never known someone who attempted suicide, you are lucky.  Even if unsuccessful, the attempt still leaves you with guilt and pain, always wondering if you could have done more.  Depression is a terrible, impossible thing to struggle with, and doubt will always remain. 

But, thanks to the wonderful world of the internet, the Warren family, while suffering, is under attack.  People are criticizing Rick for the Purpose Driven Life.  They are also saying he deserves to suffer because of his politics.  These cruel, twisted, evil people are crossing a line.  They need to knock it off.  Stop spitting on their son's grave before he's even in the ground.

In the mean time, Jesus said in the Beatitudes, "Blessed are those who mourn."  He also said, "Blessed are you when people hate you because of me."  The Warrens are double blessed.  It may not be a good idea to try to harm those that God has double blessed.  Just saying.

Leave us Alone

So there’s been a lot going on lately that I want to just say “Leave me alone.” There has been way too many people trying to get into my business.

For example, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is running ads in eight states, not New York, advocating people to call their Congressional Representatives and Senators to get them to pass gun control. Dude, you are the mayor of New York not the United States. You have gun control where you live. What I do, what those that represent me on a federal level do, is our business, not yours. Leave me alone. (I would also be remiss to fail to mention that the commercial featured some of the worst gun safety ever seen.)

Then former funny man Jim Carey released a video against guns, claiming Charlton Heston didn’t go to heaven because he liked guns. Didn’t mention that Heston was one of the early civil rights advocates in Hollywood, you know, before it was cool. The video also featured Ghandi, who once said one of the worst things England did to India was to deny them the right to bear arms. Think about this: Carey is famous for talking from his butt, literally, and for trying to make it illegal for me to vaccinate my kids, despite the fact that more people died from the mumps last year than guns. Hmm… Here’s an idea Jim, why don’t you try to get a career again, and keep your talking rear out of my business. Leave me alone.

Reverend Lyon of St. John’s Episcopal Church said that as a Christian, I have to be racist, pushing “blacks back to the back of the bus.” I hate to tell you, you idiotic psychopath, but it was DEMOCRAT governors that turned the fire hoses on people protesting for civil rights. Who were those protestors? CHRISTIANS!!! Even Dr. King was a Reverend. So stop trying to rewrite history and stop trying to tell me what I’m supposed to believe. Leave me alone.

A Princeton Alumnus sent a letter to all female students telling them that they needed to get married before they graduated. (In that letter, she also said that blue collar people are stupid. For one, some of the smartest people you’ll ever meet are blue collar. You want the guy who fixes you car to be smart. One of the smartest people you’ll meet is a construction worker, who needs to decided how many braces go into your ceiling and at what angles to keep your roof from collapsing when you get three feet of snow.) What is it any of your business when they marry, or who? Leave them alone.

Personally, I believe in freedom. I don’t want the government to tell me to buy Health Insurance, let alone require it after making it more expensive for me to do so. I don’t want overregulation for the sake of giving some government paper-pusher something to do. I’m an American. I want to be left alone, to seek to live my own life.

Debt talk

So, recently there's been some talk about the debt.  On one of the cable news shows, an Obama supporter came out to speak on the deficit.  He said, "the deficit is not out of control.  We just cut it back from one trillion to eight hundred billion.  So we're fine."

Let's look at this logically.  Last year I made about 35k.  Now just imagine for a second if I spent $100,000 more than I made, and put it all on a credit card getting 20% interest, compounded monthly.  Would you say I have a debt problem, spending 3 times over and above my income?  Of course you would.  Now if I cut it back to $80,000, would you say it's under control?  Of course not.  You would say that I have a MAJOR spending issue.

President Obama followed this up with another statement.  He said that $17 trillion is not a problem.  It won't be until we his $30 trillion in debt that we have a problem (which the way they spend our money sounds like a goal more than a limit).  Again, using the same example as above, if I was make $35k and was $1,700,000 in debt, would you say that I don't have a problem until I reach $3 million in debt?  No, you'd say I was in debt now.

Here's the think.  This is also a moral issue.  In Proverbs, the Bible says "The borrow is slave to the lender."  We're a slave to China.  We already see it as we're forced to bend the them in the UN and in other international issues.  We're a slave, so we have to do what they want.

Another reason this is a problem is because it is out of control, nearly unrecoverable.  Cyprus found out their debt is unrecoverable, so their solution is to close the banks and just take money from people's savings account.  Forget being responsible, just steal it.  This is a problem, and if we don't do something to fix our spending issues, we're going to become desperate as a nation and they will find a way to steal from us too.

Stop Digging-The Problems

There's an old saying.  When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.  You cannot get out of the hole by digging out the bottom.  That just puts you deeper into a hole.

We are in a sixteen trillion dollar hole.  That's a sixteen with TWELVE ZEROS behind it.  It's an addiction to spending.  When we have a trillion dollar deficit each year, not including interest on the debt, we have a problem.  Yet the infamously hypocritical and stupid Nancy Pelosi said that people are lying when they say we have a spending problem.

So I guess GSA execs spending tax dollars on clowns, gambling, and alcohol isn't a problem.  Hundreds of thousands of dollars spent to make an aquatic treadmill for shrimp (yes, I said shrimp) to run on so we can see what it looks like isn't a problem.  Paying bloated salaries to members of congress who don't even read the bills they pass isn't a problem.

According to a survey done over the weekend, 83% of Americans say we have a spending problem.  The 17% that don't must all work for the government.  We have record waste and fraud each year, and Nancy Pelosi has the gall to say that we don't have a problem.

President Obama will admit roughly that we have a problem.  His problem is he thinks the solution is to dig faster.  Spend money on bridges.  Spend money on special interests.  Spend more money.  He calls it a stimulus.

Only we've tried that.  Over.  And over.  And over.  Bush tried it, and Obama called it stupid.  Then Obama walked into office and said "Hey you know that thing that didn't work?  Let's try that."  That's INSANE!!!  Einstein said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."  Congrats to both Democrats and Republicans.  You are insane.  He's even said that he's going to raise the tax on gasoline to give us more spending.  Because, you know, paying more for gasoline really helps low income people like you and me.


On another note: the minimum wage.  I am big on social justice.  I want to help the poor.  But I'm also a pragmatist.  That means I do things that work.  Raising the minimum wage sounds good, in theory.  That's why we raised it $2.00 a few years ago.  That's why he wants to raise it $2.00 again. 

The problem is it doesn't work.  Yes, you bring home more money (unless you work for tips.  Or on commission.  Or on a salary.  Pretty much, it screws most people because we aren't hourly like the unions.).  But that tank of gas costs $2 more.  That trip to McDonalds with your family?  $2 more.  Everything from food to gas to utilities goes up, more than you raise did.  Plus, businesses don't hire as many workers.  That's just what we need right now, higher prices and less jobs.  Again, I love the idea behind the higher minimum wage, but in practicality it hurts those you are trying to help.  Ideals don't pay the rent here in the real world.  What actually works is if those few dollars we do bring home go further, but that involves reducing the debt.  Short term pain equals long term solutions, just like it does in personal finance.  But that's never going to happen, because those that work in Washington won't deign themselves to step foot in the real world.

Political Points

Allow me to make a few bullet points about current issues.

Why does it matter?
Hillary Clinton said during a recent congressional hearing "Four people are dead... What does it matter [who did it and why]?  We need to figure out what happened to keep it from happening again."

She answered her own question.  She took some unfair flack from the "What does it matter?" comment.  In context, it wasn't as bad as some tried to make it seem.  She wasn't saying that the four dead didn't matter, only that the false information linking it to a youtube video didn't matter.  The fact that they refused requests to provide more security didn't matter.  The fact that there was a CIA report and a separate military report saying that they were ordered to stand down didn't matter.

That said, she did answer her own question.  Why those things matter is because if it could have been stopped but wasn't because it was politically inconvenient matters.  The fact that it was deemed too dangerous to send in the FBI to investigate while the New York Times walked through the facility matters.  If there was neglegence on behalf of whoever and it lead to four dead it is the same as pulling the trigger.  It is murder.  And even ignoring that, you can't fix a problem you don't know about.  So covering up the problem doesn't help.

Debate?
President Obama said recently that we could have a reasonable debate if people would stop disagreeing with him.  I hate to tell you, but a debate it where people present two opposing viewpoints and defend them to each other.  In other words, you can't have a debate without people arguing with you! 

Higher taxes do not mean higher revenue.
Seems simple, right.  Raise the tax rate and you raise more money.  Fair share, and all that.  California has the highest rate of personal income and corporate taxes.  To alieve their financial problem, they're raising taxes again.  This means more revenue right?  Wrong.  Higher taxes means more people are moving their businesses to where taxes are less.  In Texas, more people paying in means much more revenue than higher taxes would bring.  It's exponential growth.  It's even simple multiplication.  Go back to high school and do some math.

Semi-automatics aren't what you think.
There is a push to ban semi-automatics.  This is because people don't know what they are.  Semi-automatic means that if you pull the trigger once, it sends one bullet (as opposed to revolvers, where you have to click the hammer back before you pull the trigger).  People are confusing semi-automatic with sub-machine gun.  A sub-machine gun is where you hold the trigger and it empties the clip.

Assault weapons aren't what you think.
Assault weapons aren't sub-machine guns.  The fact is, assault weapons don't include automatic weapons.  They include specialty weapons.  For example, a sub-machine gun is legal, but a sub-machine gun with a scope isn't.  A shotgun is legal, but a shotgun with a pistol grip isn't.  This is the same thing as the illegality of switch-blade knives.  Switch-blades aren't more dangerous than any other knife.  They aren't easier to conceal.  They just look scary.  So assault weapons are scary looking guns.

Assault weapons bans don't stop Newtown. 
No assault weapons were used at Sandyhook.  The guy used two pistols.  The proposed weapons ban doesn't stop that massacre.

The reason for the Second Amendment.
For right or wrong, whether you agree or not, our founding fathers put in the second amendment to defend the rest.  Freedom and security are opposites.  The point of the Bill or Rights, and that one in particular, is that government can easily take away the rights of the people.  Guns allow the people to defend themselves.  This is exactly what the Arab Spring was about.  People were throwing rocks while being shot at.  Dictators, whether solo or parlamentary, can easily arrise.  The founding fathers didn't want that, so they guarenteed us the right to defend ourselves from all threats, whether personal (like a break in) or national (like a rogue government or invading enemy).

Weapons bans don't work.
I know.  You've already got your mind made up about this one, but hear me out.  One of the fathers of the Sandyhook victims put it well today.  He said that by doing what he did, the madman was already breaking the law.  Adding a new law for them to break doesn't matter nearly as much as enforcement of current laws. 

By the way, I can't believe I have to explain this but I do.  The City of Chicago, the President's home base, has the strictest gun laws.  They also have the highest gun crime.  And their violent gun crime went up 18% last year, the only major city in the US to see an increase.  And Mayor Immanuel needs to butt out.  As soon as the massacre happened, he came out and said he was against putting armed police officers in each school.  In the mean time, he sends his kids to a private school with armed guards.  If he believed what he was selling, he'd send his kids to public school with yours.  He should smell what he's shovelling and leave the rest of us alone.  Because basically what he's saying is that he doesn't care about protecting your kids, because you are poor.

Unbiased media

The big three news organizations, NBC, ABC, and CBS, always claim to be unbiased.  And people believe them, right?

Their lack of partisanship was on display this week.  Did you see Al Roker from NBC go fanboy on the President and Vice President during the parade?  He never did that with Bush.  And to think, he is criticized for being not liberal enough by a guy on the same network, Matt Lauer. 

But that's not the real story.  CBS's political director, John Dickerson, wrote an article saying that Obama should "destroy" the Republican party.  "Go for the throat."  "Declare war."  He also wrote "This approach is not a path of gentle engagement."

Yesterday there was yet another shooting.  Is the idea of killing another party the best language to use?  I hate to say it as this is way overused, but this is similar language that was used in Germany in the 1930s and 40s.  This type of language led to "The Night of Broken Glass" on November 9th, 1938. 

I recently heard someone say that when a conservative disagrees with someone, they believe that person to be wrong.  When a leftist disagrees with someone, they believe that person to be evil.  And in case you're wondering where the Nazi's stood, Nazi is an abreviation for the "Nationalist Socialist Party."  That's right, Hitler was a socialist dictator. 

This media is not just biased, but actually encouraging violence in a culture that has far too much already.  I guess a failed bombing attack by OWS protestors and their general rape and rioting behavior was not enough violence.  I guess an attempted shooting at a pro-life organization isn't enough.  I guess neither was Sandy Hook, or yesterday's shooting near Houston.  You need more.

You know what Dickerson?  The next act of violence may be an activist bombing Chic-fil-A or a pro-life group or a coal mine or GOP headquarters.  If so, I hope you're proud of yourself and the inflamatory rhetoric you use.  Because the next one is on you.  So go ahead.  Keep your bias.  But tone down the talk before someone takes your words too literally.

Putting the X back in Christmas

A lot of people react out of ignorance to stupid things.  Like the unions' reaction to the right to work.

For example, saying "Happy Holidays" is a crime to some.  Saying "Merry Christmas" is a crime to others.  When I was a boy, "Happy Holidays" meant have a nice Christmas and New Years.  No big deal.  Now, it's the biggest deal in the world.  And saying Merry Christmas?  That's intolerant.  Of what?  Would you rather me walk around saying "I hope you have a miserable December 25th" to everyone that doesn't believe in Jesus?

The latest scandal is over "Merry X-mas," which has been a traditional way to say "Merry Christmas" for decades.  Now it's considered "taking the 'Christ' out of Christmas."

That's ignorant.  As someone who studied Greek when getting my B.A. degree at Johnson university, let me straighten people out who revolt over this.

The X is not an x.  It is a Greek letter that looks like an x.  It's actually the Greek letter for the 'Ch' (pronounched kee).  It is the first letter in the greek word Christ. 

In other words, it's not taking the Christ out of Christmas.  It's going back to the origional languages.

So stop throwing a fit over nothing and have a Merry X-mas!

President Obama and the debate

So, I DVRed the debate, and have not finished watching it yet, but allow me to point a few things out.

The President said low gas prices are a sign of a bad economy.  No wonder he acts so much like Jimmy Carter!  Well, if my being able to afford gas and groceries are the sign of a bad economy, then bring it on!

The president said he's against gender discrimination.  Yet two of his appointed positions were sued for gender discrimination and sexual harassment, with the lawsuits saying that they "ran things like a sorority."  Women are paid 18% less by the Obama administration.  They have disproportionately lost jobs under Obama.  When asked about that, he equated contraception to women's jobs.  Apparently, he views women as wombs for hire.

The president wants to raise taxes to raise revenue, but historically, higher taxes=less revenue and more spending.  So if they raise taxes, they will spend more and take less in.  Why?  Because that means more people out of work, and therefore less overall revenue.  Maybe, instead of looking "forward," he should read a book and look at how things work in the real world.

The President also claimed he cut taxes 18 times.  That's true, if you include cutting taxes on special interest groups and temporary measures which have expired.  He also raised taxes on the middle class through ObamaCare.  He also claimed ObamaCare would lower premiums, but they have raised more than he said they would lower.

Obama also lied about the Arizona law, which the Supreme Court upheld.  They cannot pull someone over because they "look illegal."  If they pull someone over on another violation, they have to present papers.  SO DO I.  I have to present a driver's license.  Don't you?  If they can't produce papers, then an investigation can begin as to whether they were here legally. 

Obama also said that he called Libya terrorism.  The Moderator backed him.  Then after the debate, she admitted SHE WAS WRONG.  He said terrorism would not be tolerated, but never said Libya was terrorism.  Too bad to Obama-supporting moderator didn't fact check before putting in her two cents.  Admitting fault later does little to undo the damage.

Lastly, Obama kept saying "That's not true.  That's not true."  They say that if you repeat a lie often enough, loud enough, it will be accepted as truth.  He's trying to paint Romney as a liar, but as Romney said in the first debate, "As president, you're entitled to your own house and your own plane, not your own facts."  Obama's record doesn't match his rhetoric. 

Einstein once said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result."  So do you really think four more years will yield a different result?

PC stupidity

The ACLU threatened to sue Rhode Island schools on behalf of a mother.  Why?  What had they done?  Had they supressed free speech?  No.  Religion?  Nuh-uh. 

They had annual dances.

OH NO!  That's terrible!

That's right, they were suing over the annual father-daughter and mother-son dances.  The schools, fearful of the lawsuit, cancelled the traditional dance.

The ACLU claims that it is disciminatory.  The mother is a single mom, and her daughter has no one to take her. 

By that logic, we should outlaw marriage, because I am single.  We should outlaw sex, because I'm a virgin.  We should outlaw the NBA, because I suck at basketball.  We should outlaw skinny people, because I am fat. 

This selfish stupidity is gonig way out of hand.  "It makes me sad because my daughter doesn't have a dad.  Therefore I'm going to make everyone ELSE miserable."  This is stupid.  And shame on RI for not fighting it.  And shame on the ACLU for supporting it.  How is this liberty?  Or did you forget what the "L" stands for?  This isn't Sharia Law.  No one is threatening the girl with harm.  An uncle, or trustworthy friend could take her.  Heck, she could go with one of her friend's dads, just to be able to dress up and go. 

Across the world, people are burned alive for their religous belief or their ethnicity.  Women are raped and murdered because they are seen as objects instead of people.  Maybe we should be more worried about that than dances and free birth control. 

Maybe, just maybe, all these idiots should spend a year overseas serving people who have real troubles.  Then maybe they would stop being so self-centered and start caring about things that really matter.

Embassy attacks

Mad yet?  You should be.  An embassy of any country counts as that countries sovereign territory.  So attacking a US embassy is the same as attacking the white house.  And worse, the first attacks were coordinated to take place on 9-11. 

There are several points to be made here.  First of all, a leaked statement came out after the attack in Cairo, apologizing for being there.  And while Obama has rightfully distanced himself from this idiocy, even if it was not his words, it IS his philosophy.  One of the first things he did was to go to Cairo and apologize for the war on terror.  We were ATTACKED.  We have been attacked now.  Apologizing for being attacked is the same as desecrating our own dead.

Second, I would like to point out that the attacks in Egypt and Libya come after we helped to dispose two men who were considered our allies.  Now let me be clear, by targeting civilians, both men showed a great evil.  If I were in Obama's shoes, I probably would have made similar calls in both cases.  However, this is a case of out of the frying pan, into the fire.  Mubarak and Qaddafi were both considered allies, barely, but they did keep the Muslim Brotherhood in check.  There is a saying, "Better the devil you know than the one you don't."  In this case, we replace the devils we knew with terrorists.

Third, I hate political responses.  "We condemn these attacks in the strongest terms."  No, you don't.  That is in effect saying "We thought long and hard about it and decided murder is bad."  That's stupid.  You should order Marines to guard embassies and our American flag with sniper rifles and machine guns.  The crowd gets out of line, you carefully select a few of the worst behaving and put them down like a rabid dog.  Maybe without instigators, the crowd will disperse. 

Fourth, and this is a question, why did we support the "Arab spring" against our allies, but not in Syria and Iran where it might actually do some good by overthrowing those who seek to kill us and our friend Israel, and have the means to do so?  Answer me that.  (further discussion coming later on this).

Fifth, Mitt Romney's response was dumb.  Even if what he said was correct, it was not appropriate.  Yes, the white house perhaps should have condemned the attacks BEFORE Mitt told them to do so, but still, you don't criticize the president while the attacks are happening.  He should have waited (not that the other side of the aisle did against Bush, but their misbehavior does not excuse his). 

Sixth, shame on the morons who blame us for getting attacked.  They did the same after 9-11.  "We provoked it."  Yes, we totally provoked 9-11 because the towers didn't fall when they were attacked in 1993.  That's entirely our fault for not rolling over and dying right then.  The Quran says to kill.  This is a violent religion.  If you say that those who do these attacks pervert a peaceful religion, you are ignorant.  Read the thing for yourself.  And read history, about Mohammed's attacks on others.  It was violent before it was peacefully.  This is a religion that teaches murder and terrorism.  They are taught to kill and enslave anyone who disagrees with them.  They will never be appeased.  If we were no longer a world superpower, they would still try to kill us because that is all they know.  It is not our fault, as evidence by the fact that they also kill each other.  It is simply their paradigm.  So all these people that call themselves "elite" and teach that we are the cause of people hating us are just plain STUPID.

Stupid

Republican Todd Akin, who is competing in Missouri's Senatorial race, must be so stupid, I'm amazed that he never choked to death on his own tongue.  He's so dumb, he's practically Joe Biden.

He said that abortion for rape should not be a consideration, because any woman who was a victim of "legitimate rape" could not get pregnant.  Apparently, his parents never told him about the birds and the bees.  Either that, or he endured some type of head trauma that caused him to have a total lobotomy. 

Mr. Akin, I assume you've never met a rape victim.  I have.  I've done counseling to rape victims.  So please, stop making wild conjectures and theories and speaking about things you are more than ignorant on.  Also, who ever spends time reminding this idiot to breathe, stop it.

Mr. Akin, I almost wish I lived in the "show me" state just so that I could not vote for you.

Who's the Hater?

So people keep calling Bible-believing Christians haters.  They say we hate people not like us.  Let me make a few clarifications.

1) Westboro Baptist Church do not count as Bible-believing.  In fact, Peter warned about them in the Bible.  2 Peter 3:15-16 (NIV) "Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. 16 He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."  They don't speak for us, because they are "ignorant and unstable."

2) There is an old saying in the Christian Church: "Love the sinner; hate the sin."  If I truly believe the Bible, (that all people are sinners (Romans 3:23), that God loves everyone (John 3:16) and sent his Son Jesus to take the punishment for our sin (Romans 6:23), that we are all equally guilt (James 2:10), and God wants to save everyone (2 Peter 3:9),) then I have a responsibility.  If we all either have to accept God's forgiveness by changing our ways and being obedient to him, or we have to suffer the punishment for our sins.  We are all the same.  One person described the way we Christians should be as "One beggar telling another beggar where to find bread."  Others have described it as throwing a life preserver to a drowning man.  This is our job, to love our fellow sinners enough to storm the very gates of hell itself to tell them of the same chance for rescue that we have.

The reason I point these things out is because I'm sick of being falsely labled.  But I also have something else to ask.

Are WE the ones that hate?

My sister was recently attacked for taking her infant daughter to get lunch and take it to "Dada."  Why was she attacked?  The lunch was chicken.  She was called ever foul thing these people could think of.  They should be embarrassed at their behavior.  And all just because her baby missed her daddy.

But the reason I particularly write this today is because of the news yesterday.  In our nation's capital, a man walked into a Christian organization and opened fire.  Why?  Because of their stance on family values. 

A few in the media are defending the man, who is likely to be charged with domestic terrorism.  They're calling this Christian organization a "hate group."

I'm sorry, but who had the gun?  Who was the one trying to kill people?  Why are THEY being accused of hate?  It seems to any reasonable person that the gunman is the hater. 

Here's an idea.  Instead of trying to defend his actions to support a political agenda, why not just call him a madman and be done with it.

Sick and Tired

Ok, so I just wrote a post on how I'm sick of racist crap after that skin head shot up the Sikh temple last week, you know?  Well, this morning, I turn on the news to see another racists comment.  From who?  Vice President Joe Biden.  (I still think the worst thing about the President is he seems to surround himself with idiots to make himself look smarter.)

Speaking to a group of African Americans, the Vice President said about Republicans, "They're gonna put y'all back in chains."

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?

Did Biden just say that Republicans want to make slaves again.  Last time I checked, Abraham Lincoln was A REPUBLICAN.  It was Southern Democrats (known as Dixie-crats) who were pro-slavery.  They started the War of Succession (known as the Civil War) over their desire to keep slaves. 

And now, democrats try to make race a divisive issue.  Just look at the way they treat Col. Allen West, calling him a traitor to his race for being a Republican.  I'm sorry, which party is the one saying "You!  You're black.  Get in line and do what we tell you."  THAT sounds more like slavery to me. 

So for the record, let me say it again.  I hate racism.  And I hate this racist fear-mongering from pigs like Biden.  But I guess what really upsets me is that this isn't coming from some nameless, faceless journalist or blogger (from either party).  This is coming from someone that we should be able to respect.

So, with all due respect Mr. Vice President. shut your mouth.  And please, Mr. President, PLEASE, find a running mate that isn't a complete moron.