finaly someon asks the tough questions

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/23400/

If only more people would point out what is happening with these politicians 

Big Love thoughts

It seems more and more that I am seeing people of my faith (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - LDS) write different things about the upcoming Big Love TV episode which will feature some content that is showing sacred portions of LDS Ordinances.  

People continue to organize groups to boycott, Time Warner, HBO and AOL as a result.  They move to file complaints with the FCC, and just in general speak ill of the entire situation and all of the those that are involved.  I guess I can give my views on the whole issue however, I don't think that I am going to be of the same opinion as most of the other outspoken people.

Do I like that the HBO series "Big Love" is going to show things of a sacred nature?  No, of course I do not.  I am not saying that I condone the actions at all.  Do I like it when there are protesters parading around Temple Square in SLC during General Conference with Garments making a mockery of it?  No, of course I do not.  I however don't give them the satisfaction of a reaction from myself, which is the very same counsel the leaders of the LDS Church gives also.  We should treat all with kindness, and respect, and just because others don't do it to us, that does not mean that we should let go so quickly of our feelings.  

The Show "Big Love" is a popular show, yes.  However, it is not that popular.  Compare it to a show like American Idol, 24, Lost, 30 Rock, The Office, Monday Night Football and it does not even compare in viewers.  I am of the opinion to just let it go with them.  It will blow over and in 1 year no one will even talk about it or think about it.  They are not doing it to be malicious in nature, and I am not saying that one should support it.  I am just saying do as the Church Counseled its members.  Do nothing, and just let it be.  It will have no effect on the church and the Lords work here on the earth.  

When I first heard about this I was reminded of a story that was shared in a General conference by Gordon B. Hinckly about being slow to Anger which I will quote and then leave be.

Once a man who had been slandered by a newspaper came to Edward Everett asking what to do about it. 

Said Everett, “Do nothing! Half the people who bought the paper never saw the article. Half of those who saw it, did not read it. Half of those who read it, did not understand it. Half of those who understood it, did not believe it. Half of those who believed it are of no account anyway”

Conservatives in Hiding

It seems that I have become part the underground Conservative party.  I am part of a group of people that believe so many things that once were part of the foundation of our great country, but has now faded into that grey area that can be "adjusted" as we see fit.

As a conservative in hiding, I find that I must be careful what I say in public as I may be accused being and uneducated buffoon.  If I say what I think to people about what I see to be reality, and fact I am ridiculed, and told that I am a hateful person, that does not want to see people be the best that they can.  Well that could not be further from what I hold to be true.  In these times, I feel that the very core of Americas beliefs set forth by our founding fathers are being tried and tested.  

As a part of this post I want to do something that I did a long time ago, but I think needs to be re-done.  I am going to type my list of things that I believe, and here they are.

1. I believe that the "Pursuit of happiness" reads as it says, and not "the guarantee of happiness."

2. I believe that most people do not know what is is the constitution as they have not read it only once or twice in high school or not at all.

3. That it is a god given right to fail, and to fail really bad.  It is also a person right to get THEMSELVES up and go and win.

4. If we take someone right to fail away, as a result mans right to succeed is also taken from us.

5. Obama is a liar, and one of best the world has ever seen

6. Things must ALWAYS get worse before they can get better

7. Gay marriage is wrong no matter how they feel, there is nothing that is right about it

8. It is mans right to be stupid

9. It is mans right to be as smart as he can

10. It is a mans right to make people pay for services

11. NOTHING in life is free

12. Welfare is abused and Democrats use it as a tool to gain votes, and as a result that ones that really do need some sort of assistance are denied for it.

12. McCain was a bad choice as well as Obama

13. Obama is worse

14. Most of Obamas supporters don't have a clue

15. the fairness doctrine is censorship, contrary what the Democrats would have people think

16. President Obama, and the Democratic party, and CNN has on more than one occasion mad a mockery of the office of the presidency.

17. Obama made a bold faced lie about what kind of people he would elect to his cabinet

18. If a Republican made the same nominations the News networks would crucify him/her

19. I DON'T GIVE A FLIP THAT BARRAK IS BLACK.  IT DOES NOT MATTER TO ME!  Not because I am racist but because I am not racist, and if you don't get that I am not going to explain it.  

20. If govt spending was the key to a strong economy then we would have the strongest economy in the world

21. Fighting the Iraq war was the right thing to do.  

22. Bush made many mistake as all Presidents do, but I am Proud of the job that he did. 

23. If I met President Bush I would shake his hand and tell him that I never did not support him, I stood by him always.  (I hope that one day I get that honer)

24. I would shake President Obmamas hand out of respect only, and that is it

25. Obamamania makes me want to puke

26. I am sick of people thinking that President Obama is our saviour and the most glorious person ever to walk the earth

27. I am sick of Govt. hypocrisy. (from both sides)

28. Job Biden is not even remotely close to an Average Person, he doesn't have a clue.

29. No one in govt is like that.

30. I still don't understand how preventing the spread of STD's will help the economy

31. That woman who asked Obama for a house got a very different treatment because she was Democrat and appealing to progressive socialist ideals.  If she was a Republican I imagine much like Joe the Plumber.

32. Democrats are scared of Conservatives with opinions, and I think they want all of us to be silenced

33. Glenn Beck, Rush, and all the others I think are right on

34. Nancy Pelosi can't be our best choice for a speaker.  

35. People should speak English in this country

36. Universal Health care is a bad idea

37. Free Health care is not a right

38. Free Food is not a right

39. People should not be forced to help others

40. Guns should not be taken away from the people

41. The Constitution is NOT a living document.  The Lord inspired it, and I don't thin he was wrong

42. The day that we start removing God from society, and Govt. that is the day we begin preparing the destruction of our Country.

43. Terrorist do not have Rights

44. POW's don't have rights.  

45. Our Enemies are not playing by the same set of rules

46. We are at war right now, and it is a bigger more deadly war that most people realize

47. I am scared of what Obama and other Socialistic Govt leaders are going to do to our country

48. Obama is Wrong

49. It pains me to see people fail, and if I can I wan to help them.  However I want to see them fail so that they can get up and be better for it.

50. I have failed and I learned the most from the times that I was down.  Yea it was hard, and I don't want to do it again, but I never would want someone to Rob me of those experiences.

That is all for now.  Please feel free to add to this list in comments yourself.  God bless the USA, and May we all open our eyes and see what is right in front of us.

Check this link. Obama did not state Fact.

http://www.cato.org/special/stimulus09/alternate_version.html

check this site to see just exactly how many economist disagree with Obama

if I hear one more time. . .

not 20 days into this new administration, the Dems are trying to load the US with a $1.2 trillion+ (yes trillion, there is at least $300 billion in interest you must account for) stimulus package, that seems to resemble more like a Christmas wish list.  

If I hear a Democrat say that G.W. Bush was a bad president because of a the debt, or if I hear one say that the republicans got us into a massive amount of debt.  I will Punch them in the gut, I wont even warn them or say anything, I'll just do it.

This is really getting old, where Dems yell and scream about the wrongs of the republicans, then they do the same things themselves, only they do it all the way.  I have only seen more partisan efforts as a result of Obamas efforts. 

Obama has dropped from a 96%+ approval rating to a 70!  I think that people are starting to see it already.  And it is only 14 days!!  

I would have loved to see Obamas face when he got his first security briefing.

Obama:  You mean they are serious about trying to kill us?  They really do want to kill us?  I thought that they were just bluffing, and that you republicans were just making it all up to get ahead.  Crap, I gotta act like Bush and keep those wire taps!  *Thinks to himself: It's ok the media wont do anything about it, they still think I can walk on water he he he.

So Obama followers, I hope he does some better work in his next 100 days or he will meet Bushes approval rating in his first 100 days.  Oh not that wouldn't be good.

p.s. I still hope that I am wrong about Obama, and I hope that he does good things.  It is just not looking too good.  I don't want America to pay the price of Obama not doing a good job.

DC Weather Wimps

Wow! I agree with Obama 100% on something. He referred to DC Residents as "weather wimps" and I must say that I agree with his statement.

The fact that DC schools, and Offices close at the slightest bit of snow is absurd. As a former Chicago Resident myself I understand where Obama is coming from. Chicago is quite possibly one of the coldest places I have ever been. I know that EVERYONE says that about their state, and town, but unless you have gone trough an average Chicago winter you don't even know. A bad one would literally kill many people who are not from there.

in my 5 five year tenure there as a school attending resident I never once saw my school get canceled on account of weather. People here say it is because we are not equipped to handle the snow. Well that is not the reason at all. Chicago deals with it just the same as we do here, the people just know how to drive in it, and they are not wimps.

Picture 10 degree with a windchill that pushes it to -10 or more. (if you have never experience a -10 degree windchill, it is worse that 30 below) 3 feet of show with ice below it, and me standing at the bus stop to wait on the bus along with every other resident of Chicago. And yes, we still go out during recess when it is that cold. You just wear a coat. (and a good coat I might add)

Now picture this. 23 degrees and windchill at 19 degrees, 1/4 inch of ice with 1 inch of snow. and everyone is sitting at home and the whole city shuts down. by 10 am the roads are fine, and people still don't go anywhere.

well I knew that Obama and I had to agree on something, and here it is. DC residents are wimps compared to a Chicago one. (referring to winter)

bailout FACTS (not opinions)

Stimulus Quick Facts

 

  "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson

 

 Total Cost of Stimulus Legislation: $825 billion

•   How does this compare?

                  - In 1993, the unemployment was virtually the same as the rate today (around 7%). Yet, President Clinton’s proposed stimulus legislation *only* contained $16 billion in spending

 

                  - The total cost of this one piece of legislation is almost as much as the annual discretionary budget for the entire federal government.

 

                  - This legislation nears a trillion dollars. President Reagan said the best way to understand a trillion dollars is to imagine a crisp, new stack of $1000 bills. If you had a stack four inches high, you’d be a millionaire. A trillion-dollar stack of $1000 bills would measure just over 63 miles high.

 

                   - In $20 bills, a trillion dollar stack would be 3150 miles high. That’s about the distance between DC and Trujillo, Peru.  

• President-elect Obama has said that his proposed stimulus legislation will create or save 3 million jobs. This means that this legislation will spend about $275,000 per job. The average household income in the U.S. is $42,000 a year.

• This bill provides enough spending to give every man, woman, and child in America $2,700.

• This bill will cost each and every household $6,700 in additional debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren.

• Although this legislation has been billed and described as a transportation and infrastructure investment package, but only three percent ($30 billion) of this package is for road and highway spending.

• Much of the funding within the proposed stimulus package will go to programs which already have large, unexpended balances. For example, the draft bill provides $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), which already has $16 billion on hand. And, this year, Congress has plans to rescind $9 billion in highway funding that the states have not yet used. 

• Deficit spending will not expand the economy. If that were true, then the current $1.2 trillion deficit -- the largest in history -- would already be rescuing the economy. $800 billion more will not change that.

• Trade groups state that every $1 billion in highway “stimulus” can be spent creating 34,779 new construction jobs. But Congress must first borrow that $1 billion out of the private sector. The private sector then loses or forgoes roughly the same number of jobs.

• Japan responded to a 1990 recession by passing 10 “stimulus” bills over 8 years (building the largest national debt in the industrialized world). Their economy remained stagnant and their per capita income went from the second highest in the world to the tenth highest.