Fears about December 2012 Overblown
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From exploring on the internet recently, I have discovered that a lot of people are very anxious this year, mainly because it’s 2012 and there’s a great deal of fear concerning the Mayan calendar and the possibility that the end of the world is coming as the calendar runs out December the 21st.
Now I can’t tell anyone if the Mayan calendar is right or not and if the end of the world is coming, but I do know that having fear about such a thing is a waste of good energy and it doesn’t help anyone to allow their fears to manifest into something that is really tangible. For one thing, if it is true, then there is nothing any of us can do, so why spend any time worrying about it?
Some may go out and buy up a great deal of survival supplies such as food and water, batteries and flashlights and maybe some who can afford it will build themselves protective shelters in hopes that they can live through some kind of natural disaster, or even Armageddon. For all who would be interested to know, Armageddon is a biblical term and it isn’t about some natural disaster destroying the Earth but about good versus evil and a final battle. Read more…
With All the Evil in This World, Good Will Always Overcome
Many times throughout my life I have seen and heard of terrible things happening to good people. I remember from the time I was about nine years old I heard about John F. Kennedy being shot. It didn’t affect me too harshly at the time as I was so young but it was the first time that I understood that there were evil people in the world.
Since that time many bad things have happened. I grew up in Oklahoma City and now live here. Though at the time I didn’t live here, I well remember the day Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P. Murrah building. I was living in Los Angeles at the time but I was home that day and listened to the news all day long. I also cried for a very long time as I watched the rescue effort by police and fireman, especially a certain fireman carrying a small child from the debris and it looked as though his heart was breaking inside.
Of course since that day, September 11, 2001 came and even a more horrible tragedy with so many more lives taken by a group of evil men. Read more…
Constitutional Amendment Needed to Stop Unlimited Campaign Cash
I believe that both Democrats and Liberals, at least the reasonable ones in each party feel that the need to permanently fix our campaign financing system is an important step we need to take. The real question here is; how do we get our Congress to take up this matter and also carry it through?
Since the United Supreme Court overreached in Citizens United vs. FEC we have seen super pacs; independent political action organizations, take advantage of the fact that they can now accept unlimited contributions without even showing their donors until well after the damage is done. Big corporations are pouring endless cash into either defeating a candidate or supporting a candidate, without impunity. Our campaign system is being overtaken by Big Money and gaming the system in their favor. Read more…
The Republican Party: the Party of God and Money
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money” Matthew 6:24
The two major groups that make up the Republican Party are fiscal conservatives and social conservatives. Some of these two groups belong to both groups and are both fiscally and socially conservative. They probably would consider themselves “real conservatives” as they completely accept the Republican Party’s entire platform.
These are the basic platforms of the Republican Party; they’re for small government and low taxes. They’re against government spending, even for programs that help the neediest among us; they’re against abortion and gay marriage; they’re for gun rights and they’re against affirmative action. Along with this, many of them don’t believe that global warming is a threat and they’re against regulations when it comes to industrial pollutions and regulations on banks and financial institutions. These are the things they fight and stand for. Read more…
The upcoming Republican primary in South Carolina which former Governor Mitt Romney is leading in the polls, may well help send this man on to be the Republican nominee to face off with President Obama for the presidency in 2013.
Mitt Romney has been on the hot seat lately because of his reluctance to show his past tax returns. It would seem that to many of us he may be hiding something that he doesn’t want potential voters to see.
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He finally admitted that he probably pays about 15% on most of what he makes. He claims that most of his income comes from past investments and then he also mentioned that he makes some in speaking fees, “…but not very much.” Not very much is $374,327, which to me is quite a bit as I’m sure it is to most Americans as the average income is somewhere around $50,000 a year. The $374,327 figure is how much he made February 2010 to February 2011. Read more…
Newt Gingrich; Protector of Traditional Marriage
It looks like Newt has a chance to beat Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker who led Congressional Republicans back during the Clinton Administration, has surged in the polls due to former Governor Mitt Romney having a difficult time explaining why he has a problem showing voters his tax record.
So now the party of Christian values can have someone who is a defender of traditional marriage. Newt Gingrich has clearly spoken out against same-sex marriage by saying“I think we are drifting towards a terrible muddle which I think is going to be very, very difficult and painful to work our way out of, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. I think that’s what marriage ought to be and I would like to find ways to defend that view as legitimately and effectively as possible.”
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Yes, the man who married three times and whose second wife, Marianne Gingrich claimed that he wanted to have an “open marriage” believes that he should find ways to defend traditional marriage against those immoral gay people marrying each other.
I should also mention that Newt allegedly asked his second wife to agree to an open marriage while he was busy prosecuting President Clinton for his lying about an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
I think he would be the perfect candidate to debate Barack Obama when it comes to character, because he’s such a high upstanding example of Christian values. Barack Obama has had only one marriage and there’s no sign of him wanting anything else, so surely Newt Gingrich can dictate to him and the rest of us of what good Christian values are all about.
I do hope he wins the nomination; the party of God and Money deserves no one better.
The Thirst for Oil and Nuclear Annihilation
We’re now living again in a cold war but this time it’s with Iran and not Russia, though in the end game, Russia along with China could play an important part.
The United States along with several other countries have been playing this battle of wills over a waterway called the Strait of Hormuz. This waterway is a major vein for oil reserves from the Persian Gulf to reach other shores. It in fact is so vital to the economies and the available oil supplies for countries around the world that Iran is using it as a pawn and threatening to block it and the United States is determined to use whatever military might they need to protect it.
This whole episode brings us back to our need for oil and the stranglehold it has on us and the world. It is very important that we finally rid ourselves of the need for oil and thus ridding ourselves of the influence of the Middle East and its large oil supplies. Read more…
Capitalism without Socialism Brings Imbalance
Most Americans, both conservative and liberals realize that this is a capitalistic society. Most Americans also have no desire to change that fact; we all like the idea of having the opportunity to make however much money we’d like to make. The difference between conservatives and liberals is that conservatives portend to hate socialism as liberals accept that some socialistic programs, such as Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare are necessary in a free, capitalistic society. Conservatives like their socialistic programs, even if they’re in denial about them.
But most conservatives seem to buck against socialism, even though without it many of them would have a struggle when they grew old and likely many of them would not survive for long.
What has happened within the last several years is that Republican lawmakers have made socialism out to be some kind of evil that use to be connected with communism and an enemy to capitalism. This is not true in the least; socialism is instead a balance for capitalism and without it, our country would be a cold and uncaring place for many Americans. Read more…
Stop Mitt Romney!
The Republican Presidential campaign for this election cycle has been very entertaining for us outsiders. We’ve watched as the conservative base have chosen one of the “not Romney” characters; Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, only to end up throwing them all back for a new one. All along they’ve tried their best to keep Mitt Romney; the current frontrunner and likely winner of the nomination, from winning the nomination. They can’t stand him but they may have to hold their noses while he takes the nomination home.
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Two of the candidates, who are part of the rejected crowd, won’t take “no” for an answer; Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich. They’re both in attack mode, hoping that some way they can turn the tide towards themselves, or they’re doing it simply out of distaste and dislike for Romney. Truth is; if they’re able to stop Mitt Romney’s nomination, they will likely only turn the votes toward another candidate, like Ron Paul or maybe even Rick Santorum who doesn’t stand a chance in a General Election. Read more…
