been a while

I know it has been a while since I last posted anything. My laptop had a broken key board so I had to get that fixed.

As I'm sure most of you know I have had a number of thoughts about things going on. Did anyone notice the markets while the president was out of the country? Isn't it odd that they go up when he is quite or leaves the country? For someone who was elected because of the economy he sure is wrecking everything. But the part that gets me is when I talk to people who say either "the market isn't a good judge of what he is doing." or "I wish the market wouldn't do that." Well I wish it wouldn't too! I have money in it, but it isn't "the market" it is the people who are invested in it. The people who control the most money in the market know a lot more about the economy than I do, or than the president does. (Although I'm thinking I know more about it than he does based on his actions)

So now lets get to my real beef here. I was reviled and called all kinds of names, chief of which was raciest, during the election when I said that this man wanted to do the same kind of things that Stalin did in Russia. This is something I wish I could say I was wrong about, but sadly I have to say I told you so to anyone who attacked me for saying such things. The firing of GM's CEO and now the press to strip him of his rightful retirement, which includes differed salary, is just the latest in his moves. Stalin wanted to move Russia from being agricultural to being industrial and he didn't care the cost. Obama campaigned on, and now is working to achieve, the movement of our country from a free market oil based economy to a government ran green energy economy. To achieve his goal he is attacking "big business" (which I might point out employs most people in one way or another) and he is firing the people who know how to fix things but not the people who are breaking them, like the head of union. AIG employees who made the company money are now having their pay seized by the government, and are getting death threats from the mobs. GM has been taken over by the president, who has never ran a business in his life much less built cars, who now wants to reduce how many trucks and SUVs they make. Never mind that GM has 20 models that turn a profit and 11, or 55%, of them are trucks and SUVs. Why would you scrap the cars that make money? Well for the same reason he talked down the economy. I am afraid that he is trying to create such a crises that he will have cause, at least in his mind, to forgo elections in 4 years because "we don't have the money and after all he is the only one who can fix it." I hope I'm wrong, and I hope we can replace congress next year and stop him before he does suspend elections. He is taking our freedom away! Your freedom to pick your Dr, the freedom of Doctors to not murder children, our freedom to drive what we want where we want when we want, and the freedom for business to run their business as they see fit. These are the rights he has gone after so far and he hasn't even been there 90 days! What's next?? In my first predictions I said I didn't think he would have labor camps or gulags...but after the treatment of the banks I'm beginning to wonder if he might try. It is clear that Stalin is his hero, but what isn't clear is how far our nation will allow him to go. I believe that we should pray for the conversion of this man. If he was really trying to walk with Christ like he calmed during the campaign, you know the same one in which he said he didn't know what his pastor believed, then there is no way he would be doing any of this.

Well this is a long post, and one that I'm sure most of you knew already. But I have been thinking that we need to speak up now while we still can!

fear of the Lord part 1

I know it has been a while since I last posted anything, and for that I'm sorry. I have been thinking of how sad it is that America has no understanding of consequences. Proverbs says, "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." What dose this mean? Well I'm going to explore this, and I think it will take more than one post so that is why I named this one part 1. Let me start with this question, why should we be afraid of the Lord? The most obvious reason is that His justness makes it where all sinners are dammed to hell (yes I did just use both those words) and we are all sinners. You see the Lords standard is perfection and none of us are perfect. How ever for those of us who believe in Christ for salvation we don't have to worry about this because we have been giving a pardon for all our sins. So what is there to fear of the Lord for those of us who are believers? Well just because we don't go to hell doesn't mean that there is no consequences for our actions. After all Mossies was not allowed to enter the promise land. Let me bring this down to earth a little. We in America are taught by our schools that there no reason to behave in a moral way. We are taught that if we use a condom then there is no punishment for immoral actions. We now live in a time where families are falling apart right and left and everything from crime to disease are on the rise because of it. There are studies out there that show the the fear of rejections that comes from a broken home can lead to sickness in the children. Our rejections of His economic plan has caused a melt down in our economy that our government is now trying to fix by further rejecting His laws (which are also basic economics 101). Sadly our nations refuses to accept the existence of absolutes so we are willing to keep trying things that have failed over and over and over because maybe this time we are enlightened enough to make it work. The end result is that the wisdom of men is foolishness. In future posts I will go into more detail to show you how things are. as I say here.

Something to ponder

It is interesting how the people who have taken great strides to teach our culture that there are no absolutes are the same group of people who are now crying for the enforcement of laws based on the idea that there is such a thing as an absolute. Just think about it, when people believed that there were absolutes and there for a right and wrong you didn't have the problem of people pirating music, movies, or other media items. The NEA and Hollywood have made it their task to break down our belief in absolutes and now they are the ones crying their eyes out when people steal things through downloads, or act violent in schools, or any number of other things that they complain about. Many of the things they complain about are in fact wrong but they have been done such a good job teaching our children that there are no absolutes so "if it feels good, do it!" This is a sad reality that now we all have to live with. I spoke with a young man not too long ago who was boasting about the program he wrote to steal minutes for prepaid cell phones, and a virus he wrote to take over other people's computers to use for his own gain. When I confronted him about why he would do these things to people his answer was, "it's fun." Sadly as I spoke with him he felt that all the pain and headaches he was causing people and even the loss of revenue from the companies that he was stealing from was all ok because "having fun" gave him license to do these things. Sadly this young man is one of the "good kids" yet he has no problem ripping people off in these ways. He seemed shocked that I didn't download movies off the internet, copy other peoples free lunch coupons, or scam the blowing ally out of free games. He said, "It's all just fun, and cheap fun at that." What? Cheap fun?? What is he talking about? Driving down the stock prices of the companies you are cheating? Driving up the prices of goods and services for the rest of us? How is this "cheap fun"? Yet he seemed convinced that being fun somehow made it OK. He later was complaining about having to spend money on a date in order to get sex. When I ask him about moral reasons he might want to think of a date as something other than payment for sex he said, "Well, she's hot and it's fun." Then I ask him about the risks he was taking and he said it was ok because it was fun. So lets see here...being fun makes it worth getting an STD? This is crazy, yet this is the sad result of teaching our children that there is no absolutes. I don't know about the rest of the world, but I for one would rather earn my money, pay for the things I have, and treat others with respect in exchange for living a healthy life filled with real meaning beyond just having fun. I'm not saying I don't do anything wrong, but by admitting the existence of absolutes and finding that measure of absolutes in the Bible I know that while I may not be able to do everything right there is a redemptive plan available to us through Jesus Christ.

Santa is anti Christmas?

I know Christmas is over, but I've been having this nagging thought. See I was listening to a song about how you had better be good because Santa has a list and naughty people go on the list and don't get a gift. However, Christ came for the sinner (or the naughty) not the righteous. We are all sinners, so you could say we are all on the naughty list, but no amount of being good will get us off. The only way to get off the naughty list and on the good list (listed in the book of life) is to put our faith in Christ and his work on the cross, the real gift of Christmas. So it seems that Santa got it backwards from Christ, the One who's birthday we are observing. This is just one more reason we should look to the Bible which tells the story of the Christ of Christmas rather than to the media who just doesn't get it.

Thoughts on Christmas

How many movies and tv shows have you seen that claim to know the "real meaning of Christmas"? They then go on about how it's about family, friends, or giving. Is that the real meaning of Christmas? Well what is Christmas? Well we could look at the origin of the word. It is a combination of 2 words, Christ and Mas. Christ is the Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, the man who lived a perfect life and was crucified and rose again after 3 days. Mas is a Catholic service. So Christmas is a recognition of Jesus, in particular His birth. So next time you watch a nice show that tells you about the "true meaning of Christmas" or the "spirit of Christmas" think about how they missed it because they refues to even look at the word and find out what they are talking about. Just my thoughts as we head into Christmas week. Merry Christmas!

Why I blog

I'm a very opinionated guy. I have been around the world and have seen a lot for my short life. I'm going to blog about things that I think and about things that I have seen. Things you can expect to see from me will range from the political to the religious to the just everyday life thoughts. I don't spend much time in front of the computer so don't give up if I go a while without posting.