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I am watching 2 documentaries on the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Some people might wonder why I would want to watch something like that. I know all about it, so why would I want to watch about it again. Well I watch about it to remind myself of what happened in the rise of the Third Reich, which was elected by the people. If we don't remind ourselves regularly of what can happen, it will happen again and we won't recognize it till it is too late to stop it. Nazi stood for National Socialists Party. Nazis and the Fascists of Italy were on the far left of the political spectrum. The current administration is also on the far left of the political spectrum and want to control us just like the Nazis and Fascists wanted to control Europe. Am I saying that Obama is Hitler? No, but I am saying that he and his party are socialists with socialist ideals and that if we don't remind ourselves of what happens when socialism runs amok it may be too late when we realize what our government has become.
•10:03 PM
How can Kathleen Sebelius throw Verizon under the bus when she knows that it is the webpage that is the problem, not the server? This administration seems more and more like a group of children every day.
•3:54 PM
I don't take credit for this one. It was pointed out to me yesterday by a wonderful man at our church.
Why does a public school say the Pledge of Allegiance, including "Under God", and then teach Evolution???
Why does a public school say the Pledge of Allegiance, including "Under God", and then teach Evolution???
•5:03 PM
This is one that has been asked by many people but I have yet to see an answer...If Obamacare is so great, why did the President and Congress exempt themselves????
•3:44 PM
Sometimes life gets in the way of what you want to do. That is what happened with this blog a few years ago. Thankfully life has toned down so I am going back to my political blog. I will try to have a daily Query of the day and discuss the issues that are important. My goal with this blog is to get people thinking and have civil discussions about the issues of the day.
What 3 things could we do at the Congressional level that would save the US trillions of dollars?
The first thing we can do is to pass the Enumerated Powers Act. For many years Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ), has proposed a bill which would require every bill put forth in Congress to include what Constitutional Enumerated Power allows them to do what they propose in the bill. This alone would keep trillions from being spent and if pushed to give that requirement to what the federal government already does then there are trillions more we can save.
The second thing is to pass the "Clean Bills Act" or as I like to call it the "Schoolhouse Rock Bill Act". Those of us who remember Schoolhouse Rocks "I'm Just A Bill" song will know that the bill trying to get to the President's desk was "School buses must stop at railroad crossings." Short, sweet, to the point. That is what the "Clean Bills Act" would require. Every bill only covers one issue. If the bill is about healthcare, it is only about healthcare, not student loans. If we could get this bill passed, this would get rid of earmarks...saving billions more.
The third thing that needs to be instituted is the "Read it yourself" act. This bill would require every congressman to personally read all bills before they vote for them. This does not mean that their staffers will read it, but that they will. This should slow down government which is always a good thing. This might cost some money because the congressmen wouldn't need the huge staffs they have and those employees would collect unemployment for a while, but I think we can live with that expense.
If these 3 simple bills were passed and signed into law, the federal government would shrink down to a manageable size which serves the people instead of the Leviathan that is it now and we would be able to keep much more of what we make.
•10:07 PM
How can anyone who has taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution vote to approve someone like Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court?
When she was asked what should be a simple question, she gave a long drawn out "legalese" answer.
Sen. Tom Corban basically asked if Congress could pass a law requiring Americans to eat fruits and vegetables. Kagan at first said "that would be a dumb law". She didn't get it. I don't know specifically why he asked her that question, but I have to think it was because a case will hit the Supreme Court in the next decade, unless Congress can repeal Obamacare in the next couple of years, where the question will be "Can Congress pass a law requiring Americans to buy health insurance?"
The answer should have been to both questions...No Way can Congress pass a law that will require Americans to buy ANY products. It would be a very unconstitutional law.
She didn't say that because I believe that she thinks that the courts should legislate from the bench and that government is there to control the populist. She is very wrong, but unfortunately will probably be on the Supreme Court for a long time.
•8:59 PM
Why is there such a celebration of July 4th, but barely a mention of September 17th? I am not saying that we shouldn't celebrate the day we declared our independence from Britain, but isn't the day we ratified our constitution just as important? Many people think that the declaration is what our government is based on, but it isn't. The declaration is just that a document telling King George III that we are no longer part of the British Empire and are separate and independent States. It is long because we were kind enough to tell him why we were leaving, but we didn't have to. The listing of evidence against the crown was more for the world than for us.
While the declaration is important and should be celebrated, the Constitution is what holds our country together and needs to be celebrated as well.
Here's a quick quiz for all Americans.
Identify what part of the Constitution gives the Federal Government the power to do the following:
1) Run the auto industry
2) Bail out private companies
3) Bail out the banks
4) Run the financial markets
5) Control the currency through the Federal Reserve
6) Regulate executive pay
7) Establish a minimum wage
8) Control Carbon Dioxide levels
9) Decide what kind of light bulbs you can have in your home
And
10) Take more than half of your income and strap your kids and grand kids with more debt than they can ever repay.
Please tell me where you find these powers laid out in the Constitution. Inquiring minds want to know.
Identify what part of the Constitution gives the Federal Government the power to do the following:
1) Run the auto industry
2) Bail out private companies
3) Bail out the banks
4) Run the financial markets
5) Control the currency through the Federal Reserve
6) Regulate executive pay
7) Establish a minimum wage
8) Control Carbon Dioxide levels
9) Decide what kind of light bulbs you can have in your home
And
10) Take more than half of your income and strap your kids and grand kids with more debt than they can ever repay.
Please tell me where you find these powers laid out in the Constitution. Inquiring minds want to know.
•3:53 PM
The other day I saw a very rare person...a toddler with Down's syndrome. There has been a huge decrease in the number of babies born in the US with Down's Syndrome. While most people would think that a decrease in babies being born with Down's is a good thing, it really isn't. I didn't say that there was a decrease in the number of babies being diagnosed with Down's, just the number of them being born. Because we have improved our ability to diagnose conditions in-utero, we are able to know if a child will have Down's early in a pregnancy. Due to this, up to 90% of babies with Down's are killed before they are born.
I don't have any children with Down's, but do have children with other special needs. I know that I wouldn't have ended their life if I had known before they were born, so I really don't understand how a woman can end a life just because they aren't perfect.
What is a perfect person? Does having physical and mental difficulties make you expendable? In our society it does. What will happen as we increase the number of conditions we can diagnose during pregnancy? Will ADD/ADHD or Autism be grounds for killing babies? What about the ones they miss? Do we kill them if they are diagnosed after birth?
Our society's fixation with perfection has lead us to exterminating people. The human race has done that before and it cost over 6 million people their lives in the gas chambers and another 60 million on the battlefields, towns and cities.
Are we headed down that road again? I hope not, but as I watch the euthanasia and abortion factions push for more deaths due to imperfection, and we speed towards rationed national healthcare, I don't see how we can avoid it.
I don't have any children with Down's, but do have children with other special needs. I know that I wouldn't have ended their life if I had known before they were born, so I really don't understand how a woman can end a life just because they aren't perfect.
What is a perfect person? Does having physical and mental difficulties make you expendable? In our society it does. What will happen as we increase the number of conditions we can diagnose during pregnancy? Will ADD/ADHD or Autism be grounds for killing babies? What about the ones they miss? Do we kill them if they are diagnosed after birth?
Our society's fixation with perfection has lead us to exterminating people. The human race has done that before and it cost over 6 million people their lives in the gas chambers and another 60 million on the battlefields, towns and cities.
Are we headed down that road again? I hope not, but as I watch the euthanasia and abortion factions push for more deaths due to imperfection, and we speed towards rationed national healthcare, I don't see how we can avoid it.
•11:03 AM
I know that a title like that may make folks wonder about my mental state, but I ask your indulgence.
When I was growing up my maternal grandfather lived with us. He was born in 1900 and would often start a conversation with "When I was a young man", then tell us about delivering ice in a horse drawn carriage or dealing with rations during the depression and WWII. He died in 1990 and when I look back on his life I am amazed at how much technology changed in just 90 years. That much change is expected in that long a period of time, but I think there has been more cultural change in my relatively short life than there was technological change in my grandfather's.
So how old am I? See if you can guess.
I remember when the majority of houses had moms in them after school.
I remember when those moms would watch out for all the kids in the neighborhood and report anything you did to your mom faster than you could run home.
I remember when kids came home from school, dropped their books, headed outside and told your mom you'd be home for dinner. This was without a cell phone and not having to worry about being abducted.
I remember when we had Christmas concerts at public school (not Winter concerts), we sang "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", "The Dreidel Song", "Jingle Bells" and "The Hallelujah Chorus" and no one complained.
I remember having 3 Christmas trees in the front foyer of the public school fully decorated with an angel on the top of each.
I remember when gay meant happy.
I remember when divorce was rare, and even rarer was unwed mothers.
I remember when we talked about God in school and no one had a fit about it, let alone filed a law suit.
I remember when kids had the same last name as both their parents and you didn't need a program to keep track of how many step relatives your friends had.
I remember when marriage didn't have to be defined. We all knew what it meant and most couples ended up married before they had children.
I remember when we didn't kill our own children. If you got pregnant, you had the baby and either kept it or gave it up for adoption.
I remember when you didn't have to show ID to get decongestants.
I remember when we tried socialism during the Carter administration and had the long gas lines and a misery index.
I remember when the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few and no one had a problem with that.
I remember when victims were people who were injured through no fault of their own, not people who didn't like the consequences of their own actions and wanted others to pay for their mistakes.
I remember when people were responsible for themselves and their families.
I remember when competion was a good thing.
I remember when being a patriot meant that you loved your country, supported the military and proudly displayed the American flag, not that you paid extra taxes, desicrated the flag and hated the military.
I remember when campaigns for president didn't start the day after the last election and go on forever and ever.
I remember when we learned about US History, dead white guys were the good guys. We got the whole story and could pass civics tests.
I remember when society at large was on the same side as the parents and parents could trust that when they turned on the TV, their kids weren't going to see shows that would be innappropriate. They knew that the school teachers were teaching things that were basically in line with what they believed.
I remember when you didn't have to explain oral sex to 9 year olds because the president was lying about it.
I remember when we were all created equal and endowed by our Creator with certain innallianable rights, not the elites and everyone else.
I remember when we were Americans without hypens.
Most of all, I remember when words had meaning and there was right and wrong. People didn't interpret things whatever way they chose. We all knew what the meaning of the word "is" was. We knew what it meant to be an American. We knew what the Preamble to the Constitution said (though most of us had to sing it). We were the United States of America, not the blue, red and purple states.
So how old am I??? 70? 65? 50? No, I am 43.
When I was growing up my maternal grandfather lived with us. He was born in 1900 and would often start a conversation with "When I was a young man", then tell us about delivering ice in a horse drawn carriage or dealing with rations during the depression and WWII. He died in 1990 and when I look back on his life I am amazed at how much technology changed in just 90 years. That much change is expected in that long a period of time, but I think there has been more cultural change in my relatively short life than there was technological change in my grandfather's.
So how old am I? See if you can guess.
I remember when the majority of houses had moms in them after school.
I remember when those moms would watch out for all the kids in the neighborhood and report anything you did to your mom faster than you could run home.
I remember when kids came home from school, dropped their books, headed outside and told your mom you'd be home for dinner. This was without a cell phone and not having to worry about being abducted.
I remember when we had Christmas concerts at public school (not Winter concerts), we sang "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", "The Dreidel Song", "Jingle Bells" and "The Hallelujah Chorus" and no one complained.
I remember having 3 Christmas trees in the front foyer of the public school fully decorated with an angel on the top of each.
I remember when gay meant happy.
I remember when divorce was rare, and even rarer was unwed mothers.
I remember when we talked about God in school and no one had a fit about it, let alone filed a law suit.
I remember when kids had the same last name as both their parents and you didn't need a program to keep track of how many step relatives your friends had.
I remember when marriage didn't have to be defined. We all knew what it meant and most couples ended up married before they had children.
I remember when we didn't kill our own children. If you got pregnant, you had the baby and either kept it or gave it up for adoption.
I remember when you didn't have to show ID to get decongestants.
I remember when we tried socialism during the Carter administration and had the long gas lines and a misery index.
I remember when the needs of the many outweighed the needs of the few and no one had a problem with that.
I remember when victims were people who were injured through no fault of their own, not people who didn't like the consequences of their own actions and wanted others to pay for their mistakes.
I remember when people were responsible for themselves and their families.
I remember when competion was a good thing.
I remember when being a patriot meant that you loved your country, supported the military and proudly displayed the American flag, not that you paid extra taxes, desicrated the flag and hated the military.
I remember when campaigns for president didn't start the day after the last election and go on forever and ever.
I remember when we learned about US History, dead white guys were the good guys. We got the whole story and could pass civics tests.
I remember when society at large was on the same side as the parents and parents could trust that when they turned on the TV, their kids weren't going to see shows that would be innappropriate. They knew that the school teachers were teaching things that were basically in line with what they believed.
I remember when you didn't have to explain oral sex to 9 year olds because the president was lying about it.
I remember when we were all created equal and endowed by our Creator with certain innallianable rights, not the elites and everyone else.
I remember when we were Americans without hypens.
Most of all, I remember when words had meaning and there was right and wrong. People didn't interpret things whatever way they chose. We all knew what the meaning of the word "is" was. We knew what it meant to be an American. We knew what the Preamble to the Constitution said (though most of us had to sing it). We were the United States of America, not the blue, red and purple states.
So how old am I??? 70? 65? 50? No, I am 43.
•1:57 PM
I was listening to my favorite morning show on the radio the other day and heard the newsman say that the UN was stepping up negotiations in this latest episode of Israeli aggression. I know that this newsman works very hard to do a good job, so I have to believe he was quoting the UN terminology.
Am I the only one who actually knows what aggression means? I was always under the impression that an aggression was the attacking of an innocent group by another group. If that is the accurate definition of aggression, then the UN thinks that Israel started firing rockets at the poor citizens in Gaza who were just there minding their own business. Nothing could be further from the truth. In 2005 Israel completely evacuated all of their citizens from Gaza in exchange for Hamas and the Palestinians leaving them alone. What Israel got for their effort was a steady stream of rockets being fired at their innocent citizens by Hamas.
After holding back returning fire, Israel finally fired back. As far as I am concerned, the only thing I want to know is: What took them so long?? It is about time that Israel stopped being the wimpy pansy to the playground bully and flattened the little twit.
I know that the situation in the Middle East is more serious than a playground bully, but the concept is the same. Israel has not attacked first since it was reformed in 1946, yet they have been consistantly attacked. What other country on the planet would allow it's neighbors to continually attack it without retaliating? None that I can think of, yet that is what Israel is expected to do.
If the UN wants to negotiate real peace in the region, they are going to have to clamp down on the arab nations and the terrorist groups and defend Israel.
The chances of that happening??? A snowball in a very hot place.
Am I the only one who actually knows what aggression means? I was always under the impression that an aggression was the attacking of an innocent group by another group. If that is the accurate definition of aggression, then the UN thinks that Israel started firing rockets at the poor citizens in Gaza who were just there minding their own business. Nothing could be further from the truth. In 2005 Israel completely evacuated all of their citizens from Gaza in exchange for Hamas and the Palestinians leaving them alone. What Israel got for their effort was a steady stream of rockets being fired at their innocent citizens by Hamas.
After holding back returning fire, Israel finally fired back. As far as I am concerned, the only thing I want to know is: What took them so long?? It is about time that Israel stopped being the wimpy pansy to the playground bully and flattened the little twit.
I know that the situation in the Middle East is more serious than a playground bully, but the concept is the same. Israel has not attacked first since it was reformed in 1946, yet they have been consistantly attacked. What other country on the planet would allow it's neighbors to continually attack it without retaliating? None that I can think of, yet that is what Israel is expected to do.
If the UN wants to negotiate real peace in the region, they are going to have to clamp down on the arab nations and the terrorist groups and defend Israel.
The chances of that happening??? A snowball in a very hot place.
•2:01 PM
I haven't written in this blog for a long time, but it wasn't because I haven't got opinions :-). My biggest concern lately has been with the three Presidential Candidates.
There isn't a conservative in the bunch!
McCain is the closest we get. He is at least pro-life and understands military issues.
Hillary is the more conservative of the two Democrats (isn't that a scary thought!). She has way too much baggage from Bill and company to win in November. I do see her stealing the nomination with the superdelegates.
Obama is just plain scary. Even if he didn't sit under a racist, America hating pastor or have friends who are terrorists who's big regret is that they didn't blow more things up, his ideology is totally socialists. He wants the government to run everything in our lives. That in and of itself should be enough to keep him out of the White House.
I have to laugh when I watch the Democrats deal with all their proportional delegate division and superdelegates. I keep hearing in the back of my mind "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". If you haven't read Animal Farm by George Orwell, do so soon. I also think that all kids should read it before graduating high school. I make all the students who take my Current Events class at our local co-op read it and compare it to the Russian revolution. Today's kids have no concept of communism and need to understand what happens when liberalism/socialism goes to it's logical conclusion so that we can make sure that they don't allow it to happen in our country.
There isn't a conservative in the bunch!
McCain is the closest we get. He is at least pro-life and understands military issues.
Hillary is the more conservative of the two Democrats (isn't that a scary thought!). She has way too much baggage from Bill and company to win in November. I do see her stealing the nomination with the superdelegates.
Obama is just plain scary. Even if he didn't sit under a racist, America hating pastor or have friends who are terrorists who's big regret is that they didn't blow more things up, his ideology is totally socialists. He wants the government to run everything in our lives. That in and of itself should be enough to keep him out of the White House.
I have to laugh when I watch the Democrats deal with all their proportional delegate division and superdelegates. I keep hearing in the back of my mind "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others". If you haven't read Animal Farm by George Orwell, do so soon. I also think that all kids should read it before graduating high school. I make all the students who take my Current Events class at our local co-op read it and compare it to the Russian revolution. Today's kids have no concept of communism and need to understand what happens when liberalism/socialism goes to it's logical conclusion so that we can make sure that they don't allow it to happen in our country.
•8:50 PM
Well, it is about time that the Supreme Court decided in favor of the American people's right to make our own laws. Today the Supremes (well 5 of them anyway) decided that a ban on killing a baby 3 inches before it is born, which went through the entire legislative process, is constitutional. There is a loophole for the life of the mother, but effectivly it is a complete ban on the procedure because, as the AMA, said it is never needed to save the life of the mother. As a woman who has given birth to 4 children I really can't see where a procedure that takes 3 days and almost delivers the baby full breach can be in the mother's best interest. Hopefully now we can work towards realizing that these are human beings that are being killed and that abortion isn't good for the woman either.
•8:30 PM
Before I quandry, I send our prayers for all the families that are suffering including the parents of the shooter.
The quandry is one that many people have written about...Why do we make schools gun free zones? Arming the teachers and administrators in public schools and allowing students and teachers at the universities to carry would make the likelihood of a blood bath from happening. It probably wouldn't stop a sick individual from going on a rampage, but I can bet it would stop him a lot faster, with a lot fewer innocent people killed.
The quandry is one that many people have written about...Why do we make schools gun free zones? Arming the teachers and administrators in public schools and allowing students and teachers at the universities to carry would make the likelihood of a blood bath from happening. It probably wouldn't stop a sick individual from going on a rampage, but I can bet it would stop him a lot faster, with a lot fewer innocent people killed.
•7:24 AM
I have to just sit and shake my head. In New Hampshire we have 2 very ironic things happening and I have to hope that I am not the only one who sees the irony in them.
Firstly, Dover school district asked the current Miss NH not to speak at the school about not smoking because she is being paid by RJ Reynolds. They believe, and I think rightly so, that the non-smoking message will be lame coming from a tobacco company. Yet these folks can't understand why parents might have a problem with people coming to talk about sex from Planned Parenthood, the world's largest abortion providers, which makes most of its money from abortions and dispenses the least effective birth control pills.
Secondly, we had a bill in the state house calling for the state to only buy eggs from producers that don't keep their chickens in small cages because "Every life, all life, should be treated in a humane way," (said the bill's sponsor). This bill is brought to you by the same folks who want to repeal the parental notification bill and make our state one that has no restrictions on abortion. I guess that a chicken being allowed to live, albeit in a small cage, is inhumane, but burning a human baby with saline or ripping it apart, is humane???
Please tell me I am not the only one who sees the HUGE irony in these 2 situations.
Firstly, Dover school district asked the current Miss NH not to speak at the school about not smoking because she is being paid by RJ Reynolds. They believe, and I think rightly so, that the non-smoking message will be lame coming from a tobacco company. Yet these folks can't understand why parents might have a problem with people coming to talk about sex from Planned Parenthood, the world's largest abortion providers, which makes most of its money from abortions and dispenses the least effective birth control pills.
Secondly, we had a bill in the state house calling for the state to only buy eggs from producers that don't keep their chickens in small cages because "Every life, all life, should be treated in a humane way," (said the bill's sponsor). This bill is brought to you by the same folks who want to repeal the parental notification bill and make our state one that has no restrictions on abortion. I guess that a chicken being allowed to live, albeit in a small cage, is inhumane, but burning a human baby with saline or ripping it apart, is humane???
Please tell me I am not the only one who sees the HUGE irony in these 2 situations.
•8:03 PM
Which will come first, abortion being illegal, or the abortion industry running out of doctors who will do the procedure?
•9:09 PM
Why does the 17 year old boy, who said to his girlfriend, "If you love me you will.", turns into the 42 year old father who says to his daughter, "Don't even think about giving into a guy until you have a wedding ring." ?
•4:28 PM
Why is someone who thinks homosexuality is a sin, but can agree to disagree considered intolerant, but someone who thinks homosexuality is fine and thinks anyone who doesn't agree is evil are considered tolerant?
•9:12 PM
Why does somebody who is getting off welfare lose all their benefits if they get a job that pays less than they were getting from welfare? Wouldn't it make more sense to pay the amount to supplement the difference between what they were getting and what they are making at the job until they get paid enough to not need help anymore?
