Thursday, February 25, 2010
One Nation Under God....Still
I hope that you’ll watch this wonderful, short history lesson given in congress by Congressman Randy Forbes in May of 2009. Our current president, Barack Hussein Obama, has stated publicly that the Unites States is not a Christian nation but a nation of many religions, making it even more obvious that his education of his country’s history is sorely lacking. (Or perhaps making it obvious that he has a distaste for it and that there may be even an underlying desire to eradicate that history and that faith in favor of a more ‘world view’ approach in changing our country to meet his socialist and apologetic standards.)
There is not one state constitution in this nation that does not thank God, honor God, or give credit to God for its freedoms, independence, statehood, and status. From the first foot set on a ship to head to the Americas, there was a desire to worship the one true God, and from the very inception of what we now know as the United States of America, our God was the cornerstone of every document, law, and process enacted. It was normal and common for sessions concerning our governance to be opened, guided, and closed with prayer. Our armed forces, our judicial branch, our national buildings, monuments, architecture, protocol, and everything this nation was built with, upon, and around, sought the guidance of, protection of, and acknowledged the sovereignty of our one true God; The God of the whole counsel of the Bible.
Christians coming here to worship freely never intended to force that faith, but to practice it in freedom from persecution. All citizens are given equal rights to worship freely. Unfortunately, as the world calendar is speeding toward the day of Christ’s return, we are seeing biblical predictions coming true, and in America, this last bastion of God’s light, Satan is fighting desperately and fiercely. Horrible perversions and evil “religions” are given free rein to vulnerable people and young minds, and Christians are becoming more and more persecuted and unpopular. Tolerance is no longer a two way street and is now used to describe allowing everything BUT the goodness and freedom in Christ to be shared.
In Timothy, chapter 3, Paul warns that the ‘last days’ will begin to be characterized by people “being lovers of themselves, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.”………..Sound familiar?! Certainly nobody but our God knows the time of his return, but He has given us the undeniable means to diagnose that we don’t have long. He has been patient, not wanting any to perish, but the clock is ticking.
God’s people in God’s blessed nation must put on His armor and fight! Get up and fight…….we are battling unseen forces and we must prove to the kingdom of hell that we will get up and prove faithful to our God! We must call upon the power of God and GET UP! This IS one nation under God that was and still is a beacon of freedom to the world and a testimony of His blessings for His people.
“Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your homes.” Nehemiah 4:14
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Great American Snow Job
How else could anyone describe one of the heaviest snowfalls in quite some time shutting down Washington D.C. amidst the efforts of the current administration trying to “snow” the American people by destroying their republic, as anything except divine justice?
And if that is not enough to make one take pause, the eco-billionaire himself, Al Gore, has gone strangely silent amidst the admissions of the scientists responsible for scamming the public with false information about our planet’s status. The latest fact released was that there has been NO global warming change for the last 15 years! The temperatures dropped so suddenly and deeply in parts of Florida that lizards grown cold were dropping from the trees.
All over this nation, the cold winter weather has been on beautifully brazen display. It seems even Punxsutawney Phil couldn’t be persuaded to join the global warming bandwagon.
For the last year, we’ve all been seeing ‘snow’ in the form of lies, deceptions, disregard, insults, and failure to fulfill the will of the American people by our seated President and congress. We’ve watched “leaders” bribe, extort, and hide in darkness to carry out hurtful and unwanted agendas. That this snow storm has peaked, literally, amidst the growing passion of the people to right a miscarriage of government, is oh so inspiring and refreshing! The tea party and the American people’s resolve to see change in this coming November’s mid-term congressional election is snowballing. One storm can be paralleled with the actual snow storm shutting down D.C.
Divine Justice? You betcha’…………..and I for one say “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!”
“Do not be deceived; God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” –Galatians 6:7
And if that is not enough to make one take pause, the eco-billionaire himself, Al Gore, has gone strangely silent amidst the admissions of the scientists responsible for scamming the public with false information about our planet’s status. The latest fact released was that there has been NO global warming change for the last 15 years! The temperatures dropped so suddenly and deeply in parts of Florida that lizards grown cold were dropping from the trees.
All over this nation, the cold winter weather has been on beautifully brazen display. It seems even Punxsutawney Phil couldn’t be persuaded to join the global warming bandwagon.
For the last year, we’ve all been seeing ‘snow’ in the form of lies, deceptions, disregard, insults, and failure to fulfill the will of the American people by our seated President and congress. We’ve watched “leaders” bribe, extort, and hide in darkness to carry out hurtful and unwanted agendas. That this snow storm has peaked, literally, amidst the growing passion of the people to right a miscarriage of government, is oh so inspiring and refreshing! The tea party and the American people’s resolve to see change in this coming November’s mid-term congressional election is snowballing. One storm can be paralleled with the actual snow storm shutting down D.C.
Divine Justice? You betcha’…………..and I for one say “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!”
“Do not be deceived; God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” –Galatians 6:7
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The Blame Game
“He did it!” “She did it first!” “It’s not my fault.”
If you’ve heard these words way too often, it’s probably because you’re a parent or work in some capacity with children. It takes a real strong measure of maturity to accept responsibility for one’s actions.
This is not a maturity we are seeing in our seated president. After a solid year in office, during which there has been staggering economic blows and record unemployment, other than his constant campaign speeches about how he is our answer for all our woes, there has been little to no evidence of answering to any of the problems this administration has created, and is still creating, other than to blame his predecessor, or the administration before him. If you listen to any White House representative on any news show or press conference, they are all quick to pull out the finger and point it backwards.
Unfortunately for those who try to deceive the interested and participating Americans, but fortunately for us, in this age of the internet and information technology, we don’t have to take anybody’s word for it. Oh, I know all too often, the tendency for the apathetic citizen waiting for “Big Brother” to come on, is to accept without hesitation or question that anything uttered by our highest officeholder on national media can’t be anything but true.
But I checked some facts and I’d like to share them with you……and also to encourage you to research your own information……….
Let’s start with the elephant in the room…..healthcare spending….. Private health care spending did grow an average of 6.3% from 2001 through 2008, HOWEVER private health spending actually grew faster BEFORE Bush took office. In Clinton’s last three years, it grew 7.9%, 7.1%, and 6.7% respectively. In the 1980’s, it grew roughly 11.3% per year and in the 1970’s, 12.1% per year. As for UNINSURED, that number has held at about 15% of the population for the last twenty years….no unusual or recent catastrophic growth. These uninsured census responders were NOT asked if they chose to remain uninsured for reasons other than affordability.(obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau)
Then, there’s the big deficit issue. Obama claims he inherited all this debt that Bush created. Well, according to “U.S. Statistical Abstract”, (Table 457), the deficits DECLINED from 2004-2007, which were the years reflecting budgets passed by Republican congresses. The average deficit over all of Bush’s eight years was 2% of GDP, which is BELOW THE PREVIOUS FOUR DECADE AVERAGE OF 2.2% of GDP. (Just an fyi….the 2009 deficit under Obama was 9.9% of GDP)…..Look it up folks.
Defense spending under George W. Bush was lower than any year between 1941 and 1994. Bush’s largest defense spending year was near Jimmy Carter’s LOWEST defense spending year. President Bush took it from a historically low 3% of GDP in 2000 to a still historically low of 4%.
As for the Deregulation accusations, Bush did sign into law the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate regulations, due largely in response to the Enron affair, which occurred during the presidency of Bill Clinton. According to statistical numbers, Bush added to the regulatory powers, but there are no specifics given to show that he “deregulated” anything. The Bush administration did push for the Treasury Department to regulate Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, but this proposed regulation was STOPPED by democrats in congress, including Barney Frank.
While President Bush did enact the prescription coverage provided now under Medicare, the Democratic party was against it only because it did not expand entitlements ENOUGH, and are now using this as another jab against the former president, while leaving out anything that might reflect their role in it. In other words, if they’d had their way, it would have been much larger, more encompassing, and included other entitlements as well.
Mr. Obama has tripled our deficit, raised our debt ceiling, chased after government takeover of healthcare while more Americans lost jobs, apologized to our enemies for our country, given terrorists the rights of our citizens, and spent most of his teleprompter exercise in blaming everyone in the past for his problems. When, oh when, will a real patriotic leader come along to lead this nation once again to its former greatness, and God-given glory?
“I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.”
Ezekiel 22: 30
(Some information and data also found at Americanthinker.com)
If you’ve heard these words way too often, it’s probably because you’re a parent or work in some capacity with children. It takes a real strong measure of maturity to accept responsibility for one’s actions.
This is not a maturity we are seeing in our seated president. After a solid year in office, during which there has been staggering economic blows and record unemployment, other than his constant campaign speeches about how he is our answer for all our woes, there has been little to no evidence of answering to any of the problems this administration has created, and is still creating, other than to blame his predecessor, or the administration before him. If you listen to any White House representative on any news show or press conference, they are all quick to pull out the finger and point it backwards.
Unfortunately for those who try to deceive the interested and participating Americans, but fortunately for us, in this age of the internet and information technology, we don’t have to take anybody’s word for it. Oh, I know all too often, the tendency for the apathetic citizen waiting for “Big Brother” to come on, is to accept without hesitation or question that anything uttered by our highest officeholder on national media can’t be anything but true.
But I checked some facts and I’d like to share them with you……and also to encourage you to research your own information……….
Let’s start with the elephant in the room…..healthcare spending….. Private health care spending did grow an average of 6.3% from 2001 through 2008, HOWEVER private health spending actually grew faster BEFORE Bush took office. In Clinton’s last three years, it grew 7.9%, 7.1%, and 6.7% respectively. In the 1980’s, it grew roughly 11.3% per year and in the 1970’s, 12.1% per year. As for UNINSURED, that number has held at about 15% of the population for the last twenty years….no unusual or recent catastrophic growth. These uninsured census responders were NOT asked if they chose to remain uninsured for reasons other than affordability.(obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau)
Then, there’s the big deficit issue. Obama claims he inherited all this debt that Bush created. Well, according to “U.S. Statistical Abstract”, (Table 457), the deficits DECLINED from 2004-2007, which were the years reflecting budgets passed by Republican congresses. The average deficit over all of Bush’s eight years was 2% of GDP, which is BELOW THE PREVIOUS FOUR DECADE AVERAGE OF 2.2% of GDP. (Just an fyi….the 2009 deficit under Obama was 9.9% of GDP)…..Look it up folks.
Defense spending under George W. Bush was lower than any year between 1941 and 1994. Bush’s largest defense spending year was near Jimmy Carter’s LOWEST defense spending year. President Bush took it from a historically low 3% of GDP in 2000 to a still historically low of 4%.
As for the Deregulation accusations, Bush did sign into law the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate regulations, due largely in response to the Enron affair, which occurred during the presidency of Bill Clinton. According to statistical numbers, Bush added to the regulatory powers, but there are no specifics given to show that he “deregulated” anything. The Bush administration did push for the Treasury Department to regulate Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, but this proposed regulation was STOPPED by democrats in congress, including Barney Frank.
While President Bush did enact the prescription coverage provided now under Medicare, the Democratic party was against it only because it did not expand entitlements ENOUGH, and are now using this as another jab against the former president, while leaving out anything that might reflect their role in it. In other words, if they’d had their way, it would have been much larger, more encompassing, and included other entitlements as well.
Mr. Obama has tripled our deficit, raised our debt ceiling, chased after government takeover of healthcare while more Americans lost jobs, apologized to our enemies for our country, given terrorists the rights of our citizens, and spent most of his teleprompter exercise in blaming everyone in the past for his problems. When, oh when, will a real patriotic leader come along to lead this nation once again to its former greatness, and God-given glory?
“I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.”
Ezekiel 22: 30
(Some information and data also found at Americanthinker.com)
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Where were you?
In November, 2008, a harvesting happened in America as a result of decades of sowing. The most progressive extremist of liberals was elected to the highest office in our nation. Nobody ever believed that America, one nation surely under God, would allow such a thing to happen, and yet it did. As a result of years of irresponsible, apathetic, and politically correct accommodation we’ve reaped the consequences. We’ve pushed God out of the schools, government, and allowed the wicked to party away our heritage. Our nation finds itself under the governance of a self-professed hater of capitalism, entrepreneurial spirit, and the pursuit of wealth. He has apologized for our greatness, rather than acknowledging that our nation is and always will be the ‘first responder’ for other nations in need. The general consensus is that the current political chaos, disrespect for our Constitution, and compromise of our moral compass has occurred due to very definite issues in the lives of Americans; which issue was yours?
APATHY……… There are too many self-absorbed citizens with their heads in the sand. A refrain I heard way too many times was… “It doesn’t matter what I do or say, it won’t make a difference”…..Then there are those that just don’t want to get involved. They’ve forgotten that their laziness and apathy was made possible by those Americans who fought, died, and sacrificed for that same freedom. Nevertheless, the apathetic and the lazy remained distant and allowed others to make decisions that they refrained from becoming involved in.
RACISM…… Always the elephant in the room, racism played perhaps the largest role, as many, many, many Americans voted for the color of the man rather than his substance, his beliefs, his patriotism, or his issues, and like the infamous O.J. Simpson, there are men and women that get away with more than the normal average person simply because of the support given them for their race. I can’t think of a more pure and visible display of racism at work than someone supporting and voting for a politician solely because of race.
GUILT……White liberals have been fed guilt for decades and they swallow it whole. The simple fact of life on the fallen, sinful planet Earth is that life is not fair, life is sometimes hard, bad things happen to good people, and we don’t control most of it. If you didn’t own a slave, and you were never a slave, it’s a non-issue, and unless and until we STOP THE MADNESS of allowing the guilt of past issues to dictate our present decisions, we will continue to repeat bad history. True equality can only happen when we take the measure of the individual man and hold it to the light of truth. We should never live in guilt as it obviously poisons our daily lives. For anyone claiming to want TRUE EQUALITY, they should not stand on the landfill of the past, but walk their present street of belief and action toward the future of their own making.
ANGER….. Many voted for disaster out of anger. Their reaction to job loss, fear, and upset with the economy left them feeling backed in a corner, choosing between what appeared to be more of the same, or a slim chance that the teleprompter may be telling a shred of truth…..and then they bought the hope- hook, line, and sinker. That hope has since died in the face of the realization that it was a charade, an act, and part of the grand plan to disassemble the America that we know and love. Thankfully, now those people are even angrier at being sold a bill of goods and are now speaking up and speaking out……….voting out the traitors in congress that have forgotten they work for their constituents. They are showing up at town hall meetings and rallies. They are calling their representatives and serving them notice that they are watching and that they will not tolerate being ignored.
And finally…….you may have been among the group that I found myself in. I knew in my soul and in my bones that this was not a good choice. Every one of us that read his policies, looked into his background, questioned his affiliations, was aware of his inexperience, and wary of his legitimacy knew that we were in for a reaping of America’s own making. Election day left me wary and disappointed, bracing for the fight I knew would have to come.
Too many Americans have lost the ideals that birthed this country. Too many Americans are more concerned with watching “The Biggest Loser” and “Oprah’s” latest book club installment to really care what happens to their children’s and grandchildren’s future. But guess what?! There are still those of us that believe in the one true Almighty God as our founders did. We believe that if God leads this nation again that we will be great again and be that home for all to live safely and successfully, under His blessings and guidance. We are still praying. We are still fighting. We are still hoping, questioning, speaking out, and holding our government officials accountable. I believe that God gave us the life that He knew we were strong enough, through Christ, to live.
2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land"... Join me in praying Psalm 109:8..”May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership”…
APATHY……… There are too many self-absorbed citizens with their heads in the sand. A refrain I heard way too many times was… “It doesn’t matter what I do or say, it won’t make a difference”…..Then there are those that just don’t want to get involved. They’ve forgotten that their laziness and apathy was made possible by those Americans who fought, died, and sacrificed for that same freedom. Nevertheless, the apathetic and the lazy remained distant and allowed others to make decisions that they refrained from becoming involved in.
RACISM…… Always the elephant in the room, racism played perhaps the largest role, as many, many, many Americans voted for the color of the man rather than his substance, his beliefs, his patriotism, or his issues, and like the infamous O.J. Simpson, there are men and women that get away with more than the normal average person simply because of the support given them for their race. I can’t think of a more pure and visible display of racism at work than someone supporting and voting for a politician solely because of race.
GUILT……White liberals have been fed guilt for decades and they swallow it whole. The simple fact of life on the fallen, sinful planet Earth is that life is not fair, life is sometimes hard, bad things happen to good people, and we don’t control most of it. If you didn’t own a slave, and you were never a slave, it’s a non-issue, and unless and until we STOP THE MADNESS of allowing the guilt of past issues to dictate our present decisions, we will continue to repeat bad history. True equality can only happen when we take the measure of the individual man and hold it to the light of truth. We should never live in guilt as it obviously poisons our daily lives. For anyone claiming to want TRUE EQUALITY, they should not stand on the landfill of the past, but walk their present street of belief and action toward the future of their own making.
ANGER….. Many voted for disaster out of anger. Their reaction to job loss, fear, and upset with the economy left them feeling backed in a corner, choosing between what appeared to be more of the same, or a slim chance that the teleprompter may be telling a shred of truth…..and then they bought the hope- hook, line, and sinker. That hope has since died in the face of the realization that it was a charade, an act, and part of the grand plan to disassemble the America that we know and love. Thankfully, now those people are even angrier at being sold a bill of goods and are now speaking up and speaking out……….voting out the traitors in congress that have forgotten they work for their constituents. They are showing up at town hall meetings and rallies. They are calling their representatives and serving them notice that they are watching and that they will not tolerate being ignored.
And finally…….you may have been among the group that I found myself in. I knew in my soul and in my bones that this was not a good choice. Every one of us that read his policies, looked into his background, questioned his affiliations, was aware of his inexperience, and wary of his legitimacy knew that we were in for a reaping of America’s own making. Election day left me wary and disappointed, bracing for the fight I knew would have to come.
Too many Americans have lost the ideals that birthed this country. Too many Americans are more concerned with watching “The Biggest Loser” and “Oprah’s” latest book club installment to really care what happens to their children’s and grandchildren’s future. But guess what?! There are still those of us that believe in the one true Almighty God as our founders did. We believe that if God leads this nation again that we will be great again and be that home for all to live safely and successfully, under His blessings and guidance. We are still praying. We are still fighting. We are still hoping, questioning, speaking out, and holding our government officials accountable. I believe that God gave us the life that He knew we were strong enough, through Christ, to live.
2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land"... Join me in praying Psalm 109:8..”May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership”…
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