Monday, March 30, 2009

The Cost of Things

Well President Obama has officially lost my support. It has nothing at all to do with the economy, nobody would have been a great candidate for this mess.I hear people blame G.W.Bush all the time, as much as I believe he will go down as the worst ever president, he is not alone at fault. It took four Presidents plus to create this mess.
President Obama has shown either extreme ignorance or willful behavior that is detrimental to the United States of America. Where to begin? How about his selection for Homeland Security, on the surface maybe a good selection? The truth is when being "politically correct" over-rides your ability to make a clear judgement call, you lose. Calling clearly terrorist acts " unnatural manmade disasters" is so over the top PC that it should make any clear thinking American very uncomfortable.
How about that wonderful video sent to Iran? Obama is so well studied in Middle eastern and Persian culture that he basically capitulated to the mullahs. Yes, when you extend an "olive branch" the assumption is both sides have the same outlook on what the outcome should be with compromise. When the response is what the new President received from Iran, which was basically , " yes its nice that you have seen the error of your ways and now you must change to suit us", ( my condensed and parsed view of the response) a response filled with self righteous accusations and demands ,showing no contrition you realize that there are very different expectations on both sides. Yes, in cultures in that region what President Obama did was surrender, thank you commander in CHEF, our goose is cooked.
How about bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia? I guess someone forgot to inform him that he was meeting his "peers", leaders of other nations. Since when does our President, the LEADER of this nation bow to ANYONE out of reverence, let alone someone who considers us the "Great Satan" (don't try to tell me that considering the USA the Great Satan is confined to Iran). My personal opinion now is that our President hates what this nation has stood for, I don't believe he is limiting his "corrections" to what GWB43 did. Our President hates America.
How about his choice for chief legal advisor at the State Department Harol Cho, in a speech he gave he seemed to be O.K with sharia law being applied in U.S courts, scary, very scary.
How about no more fire-arms for pilots in the cockpit of passenger jets? Yeah, that was done very quietly, and for what reason? Maybe we can continue to make little old ladies take off their shoes while young men of middle eastern decent are given a pass. Yeah I would hate to rely on my own judgement to stay alive.
How about while speaking in Turkey telling the people there that the EU SHOULD allow Turkey in. Obviously our President knows what's best for France and Germany and the rest of Europe more than those nations do themselves. I have to conclude that if he is O.K with listening to music that denigrates women he must be O.K with honor killings. Not mentioning that Turkey SHOULD recognize it's part in the Armenian genocide was even more telling. I like to call it "developing opinions through lies and half truths". Thus he was ignorant enough to inject his opinion into affairs he knows nothing about, remain silent about things that should be brought to light and address all things that are none of his business as though he were "the answer". It would be very interesting to find out what our Presidents "real" opinion is of himself. I have my suspicions.
So what is it going to cost us to have a President who either has no understanding of foreign affairs or is perfectly willing to sell out this nation to be "in vogue". Will people on US soil die? Will freedoms be sacrificed? Where will it end? Stay tuned....!

Monday, March 23, 2009

Looking for Work? Try the Self Serving Industry

If you are looking for work I have a great suggestion. There is an industry that is looking to grow. It is already huge. They claim they are going to need at least 200,000 more people over just the next few years. They claim they have had the same head count of employees since 1960, this definitely sounds like an industry ready to grow! Lets find out more about it!
QUESTION; What industry in the world spends more money then it has and stays in business? What industry produces absolutely nothing and remains viable? What industry sells off proprietary rights( sovereignty) and remains viable? What industry sells off it's future and continues to grow? What industry rewards crime and punishes honest hardworking citizens? At what industry can you get paid for poor arithmetic skills? Where can you get paid to write jibberish? Where can you get paid to steal from the poor and give to the rich.
ANSWER: Politics. This is the must have job of the future, albeit short term. You are paid and rewarded for being dysfunctional( not personally ,politically). It is amazing how so many well educated, enlightened people enjoy the dysfunction of politics. There are some great perks, cheap travel, free meals, good pay, lobbyists money, oops , I meant endorsements, fame or infamy if you prefer. Maybe you just love your country and are willing to sacrifice. Your sacrifice; not watching or manning the watchtowers, not managing the peoples money or business, lying, stealing from our children, being AWOL in times of crisis except to relieve the population of its' money. Telling illegal immigrants that they are true heroes when we have men in uniform dying overseas. Yes you can say anything and be sure since "you know better" that the lowly masses will never question your authority. This job has it all. Wealth. Your constituents are your cash flow, keep them believing and you will continue to see cash flow. Power. You can lord over all in your serfdom, force them to do your bidding if they want a cut of the pie. Sex. Young pages ambitious and eager to do whatever it takes to move up the food chain.
Yes there will be future employment in politics, short term , but profitable if you have no conscience. When you fail or get caught doing something illegal or immoral you can just say " I was just doing my job". You can hide ill gotten gain in your freezer and never go to jail, heck you will probably become head of the ethics committee.
That's the job plug for now. Usually I say if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Not in this case, if it sounds like your cup of tea, hook up with your local political party.
One more jewel of the industry, if you don't like the country you live in, politics crosses all borders. If you don't like it here, you can rip off the people of some other country! Just move there and become a citizen!
Seriously now though, I know not all politicians are bad. I know many really want to make a difference. Many come to politics with visions of helping their community,county, state and country. Unfortunately the machine of politics is greater and stronger than many men and women's ability to fight temptation. Power, money. Money, power . Greed. Truly the only really "good" men and women in politics get out. They find out politics is "just a job". The men and women that make a career out of politics see a well paying "job" with great perks and retirement. They don't have to produce anything. They don't have to succeed at anything. They don't have feel any obligation to the people. All they have to do is the time. They don't have any accountability and there is weak oversight. If there are shortfalls they scream to the people "Send more money!"
Now you know what job to get so get out there and get your career started, What are you waiting for?

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Women and islam

I have yet to figure out what it is that allows islam to escape scrutiny when it comes to its' holy book and the accompanying traditions. There is so much anger , hatred , violence and total intolerance in the "traditions" ( traditions that are needed to help explain their "holy" book, I guess allah cannot express himself clearly enough in his "holy" writings, the quran) and quran there really cannot be much "peace and love" to glean from it. What positive there is has been abrogated, meaning it is no longer of value to true muslims and need not be practiced or followed. Here are a few "traditions" pertaining to women. So where are all the women"s movements now? NOW?

Tabari IX:113
"Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur'an."

Tabari I:280
"Allah said, 'It is My obligation to make Eve bleed once every month as she made this tree bleed. I must also make Eve stupid, although I created her intelligent.' Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are stupid."

Qur'an 4:3
"If you fear that you shall not be able to deal justly with orphans, marry women of your choice who seem good to you, two or three or four; but if you fear that you shall not be able to do justice (to so many), then only one, or (a slave) that you possess, that will be more suitable. And give the women their dower as a free gift; but if they, of their own good pleasure, remit any part of it to you, eat it with enjoyment, take it with right good cheer and absorb it (in your wealth)."

Qur'an 4:11
"Allah directs you in regard of your Children's (inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females.... These are settled portions ordained by Allah."

Bukhari:V1B22N28
"The Prophet said: 'I was shown the Hell Fire and the majority of its dwellers were women who are disbelievers or ungrateful.' When asked what they were ungrateful for, the Prophet answered, 'All the favors done for them by their husbands.'"

Muslim:B1N142
"'O womenfolk, you should ask for forgiveness for I saw you in bulk amongst the dwellers of Hell.' A wise lady said: Why is it, Allah's Apostle, that women comprise the bulk of the inhabitants of Hell? The Prophet observed: 'You curse too much and are ungrateful to your spouses. You lack common sense, fail in religion and rob the wisdom of the wise.' Upon this the woman remarked: What is wrong with our common sense? The Prophet replied, 'Your lack of common sense can be determined from the fact that the evidence of two women is equal to one man. That is a proof.'"

Qur'an 4:43
"Believers, approach not prayers with a mind befogged or intoxicated until you understand what you utter. Nor when you are polluted, until after you have bathed. If you are ill, or on a journey, or come from answering the call of nature, or you have touched a woman, and you find no water, then take for yourselves clean dirt, and rub your faces and hands. Lo! Allah is Benign, Forgiving." [The Qur'an claims women are unclean and polluted - worse than dirt.]

Bukhari:V4B55N547
"The Prophet said, 'But for the Israelis, meat would not decay, and if it were not for Eve, wives would never betray their husbands.'"

Qur'an 33:59
"Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and all Muslim women to draw cloaks and veils all over their bodies (screening themselves completely except for one or two eyes to see the way). That will be better."

Qur'an 4:15
"If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death [by starvation] claims them."

Bukhari:V4B52N143
V5B59N523
"When we reached Khaybar, Muhammad said that Allah had enabled him to conquer them. It was then that the beauty of Safiyah was described to him. Her husband had been killed, so Allah's Apostle selected her for himself. He took her along with him till we reached a place called Sad where her menses were over and he took her for his wife, consummating his marriage to her, and forcing her to wear the veil.'"

Bukhari:V5B59N524
"The Muslims said among themselves, 'Will Safiyah be one of the Prophet's wives or just a lady captive and one of his possessions?'"
I
shaq:593
"From the captives of Hunayn, Allah's Messenger gave [his son-in-law] Ali a slave girl called Baytab and he gave [future Caliph] Uthman a slave girl called Zaynab and [future Caliph] Umar another."

Bukhari:V3B48N826
"The Prophet said, 'Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?' The women said, 'Yes.' He said, 'This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind.'"

Ishaq:584
"Tell the men with you who have wives: never trust a woman."

Ishaq:185
"In hell I saw women hanging by their breasts. They had fathered bastards."

Qur'an 24:31
"Say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty except what (must) appear; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display them except to their husbands..."

Qur'an 24:34
"Force not your slave-girls to whoredom (prostitution) if they desire chastity, that you may seek enjoyment of this life. [And here's the freedom-to-pimp card:] But if anyone forces them, then after such compulsion, Allah is oft-forgiving."

Ishaq:469
"The Apostle said, 'Every wailing woman lies except those who wept for Sa'd.'"

Tabari VIII:62
Ishaq:496
"Ali [Muhammad's adopted son, son-in-law, and future Caliph] said, 'Prophet, women are plentiful. You can get a replacement, easily changing one for another.'"

Ishaq:496
"Ask the slave girl; she will tell you the truth.' So the Apostle called Burayra to ask her. Ali got up and gave her a violent beating first, saying, 'Tell the Apostle the truth.'"

Qur'an 24:1
"(This is) a surah which We have revealed and made obligatory and in which We have revealed clear communications that you may be mindful. For the woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication, flog each of them with a hundred stripes. Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah. And let a party of the Believers witness their punishment."

Qur'an 24:6
"And for those who launch a charge against their wives, accusing them, but have no witnesses or evidence, except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing four times) by Allah that he is the one speaking the truth."

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Truth or Consequences?

So what is it going to be, truth or consequences? The answer is ...both. We will reap the consequences of our disregard of the truth, and then we will be confronted with the truth, like it or not. Those who have fervently denied the truth will find themselves wishing they had chosen to fight for the truth.
Lets start with the global warming group. These people have set upon people by using fear. They use half truths and full blown lies to set a scenario of doom that cannot be reversed without all the peoples of the world changing the way they live. I am not saying science is invalid. I am saying science can be manipulated into quite a profitable industry.
The funny thing about this group is that the people barnstorming the world to get the word out are doing exactly what they tell us we should not do. They fly in private planes, are transported in large caravans of gas guzzling SUVs, live in homes so large they could shelter many families. Yet they want to come to your community and tell you that your means of transportation to and from work is ruining the planet, your house is too big, you live a wasteful life that is ruining the earth. They talk about reducing YOUR “carbon footprint”, yet in just one of their crusades to enlighten the world they leave a carbon footprint larger than the average person will leave in years. Yes, they pollute excessively to make you feel guilty about polluting excessively. You see, they know what is best for all of us, how could people like you and I know what these lofty people know.
They say if we do not stop polluting it will lead to global warming. This statement in and of itself is a half truth. Yes our pollution will HELP lead to global warming, along with pollution produced naturally by volcanos, animal waste and gases and plant waste and gases etc.. The result will be something like the last mini ice age that started in 1315. Before that time Europe had warmed to temperatures that are warmer than they are now. England was producing wine that rivaled French wines, which angered the French because they were losing business. Populations boomed. Ice bergs melted. Glaciers melted. The result in the Atlantic ocean was that so much fresh water was released by ice bergs and glaciers it essentially stopped the gulf stream. The gulf stream is responsible for the temperate climate enjoyed by much of North America and Europe. The result, a mini ice age. Climates changed drastically , people and animals died. This is a REAL model of what could happen if things continue as they are, and they will.

Now let’s look at the gay and lesbians who scream that they are an oppressed minority because society at large cannot accept their desire to marry. Really. They claim to be an oppressed minority. If they were not so serious about the subject one could laugh. They claim that by not allowing them to “marry” their civil rights are being violated. As a believer my understanding of the institution of marriage is to “bless those married with children and prosperity”.
First of all I would like to know what they are REALLY trying to accomplish. If this really were about LOVE we wouldn’t be discussing this.If it were about the right to receive benefits like health insurance, or the right to visit their loved one in the hospital, or the right to claim each other for tax purposes, or the right to claim inheritance benefits, or the right to claim life insurance, or the right to prove their love to society ,wouldn’t they be happy to accept the term “civil union”? I am sure that will not do. They want it to be MARRIAGE. You see marriage would make them feel NORMAL, even though they keep saying they are and that there is nothing unnatural with being gay or lesbian, it’s normal, for the Gay and Lesbian lobbies to go through all of this you might think somewhere deep inside they still require that approval from non homosexuals. You have to admit, quite a game. On one hand there is nothing unnatural about being gay/lesbian, on the other hand they demand we accept their behavior without question as normal and natural. What choice do we have? O.Kayyy
Lets face it, this is not about NORMAL or LOVE as much as it is about CONTROL. They want everyone to accept deviant behavior as normal. No questions. No dialogue.No arguments. No decent. The peoples vote doesn’t matter. We want what we want. If any heterosexual brings a logical argument the Gay lobbys' only method of standing up to the test is to SHOUT IT DOWN or whine about human rights/civil rights abuses.
Sex has two functions, procreation and pleasure. As far as procreation goes gays and lesbians are a dead end, lets not argue about lesbians getting impregnated, whatever they say, they still need a male of the species to become pregnant, period( they might never see the male, but a male does provide the sperm). Gay men are the ultimate dead end as far as procreation. So the homosexual lobby has failed the procreation test. Homosexuality is not functional, so it is DYSFUNCTIONAL. What about pleasure, well, I guess pleasure is what you make of it and that is highly subjective, some people find pain pleasant, so I guess all of humanity fails this test or passes it depending on your outlook.
The homosexual lobbies attempt to use “victim status” in a civil rights forum is at best odious. There are real civil rights issues where real people are being hurt and killed. To force society to focus on the gay marriage issue and not on real issues of civil rights abuse is theft, it is irresponsible, it is irreconcilable. My guess is using the word “marriage” is a way to pay back a society, churches and religious people that have long treated homosexuals like less than humans. My personal take is that if a believer in the Savior and Messiah is treating homosexuals badly, he or she has missed the point our Savior was making. Gays and lesbians deserve kindness , respect , dignity and empathy from us not a beat down. This still does not excuse wasting societies resources for selfish reasons, and ultimately, forcing people to have to accept something that is none of their business to begin with. Yes , I know some heterosexuals can ignorant and cruel towards homosexuals, this is totally unacceptable My take is, be thankful that there are heterosexuals.

Next, this will be a quick one. “Politicians represent the people”. No politicians represent themselves, politics is a self serving industry. They say they need more money to help us and then they help themselves to as much of that money as they can. Private limousines, government planes, trips on the peoples expense, trips on lobbyists expense, new furniture for their office, photo ops at McDonalds and then off to the country club for champagne and caviar, affairs with interns and pages and lies upon lies to cover lies upon lies. The government is no longer really running the nation, money is. Does anyone believe G W Bush really cared about common people, I don’t. Does anyone believe Barack Obama cares about the common people, I don’t. Obama touted himself as the candidate of change, did he make any real changes? His administration is just a rehash of what got us to where we are now. Washington insiders, career politicians. People who know how the game is played.
Real change would have been picking people outside of the beltway people who really love this country. Real change would have been to state the truth, income tax is illegal( check the Supreme Court ruling of 1895). Real change would have been to tell the Federal Reserve “ we are done with you and we are not paying you back!” You see the Federal Reserve owns the United States money, which means the Federal Reserve owns the government which means the people are no longer the government, they are the means of “cash flow” for the wealthy bankers and bank conglomerates who ARE the Federal Reserve. These bankers do not have our nations best interest in mind.
Obama IS going to bring change, check that jingling in your pocket, that IS the change. To believe that there is any difference between the Republican party and the Democratic party is to believe pink elephants fly, money grows on trees and Hitler loved the Jewish people. Good luck with that. I am not trying to imply that politicians are monsters,they are human. I’m just saying ‘They are just doin’ their job”.

And now for more lunacy, how about this one. “Islam is a religion of peace”. I may as well start off with the end, good luck with that. First of all look at the behavior. Murder is glorified, honor killings, women are discriminated against, rampant racism and intolerance of other religions and beliefs, lying is honorable and acceptable. How is any of this “peaceful”? Lets face it folks, for 1400 years islam has been doing all of the above. How do you get a man or woman to strap bombs to their body and walk into a crowd of people with only one intention, murder? How do you saw another human beings head off because he does not believe as you do or in a woman’s case , dishonor the man? How can a mother say she is proud her child blew themselves up as a sacrifice for allah and islam? Doesn’t she understand the lesson of Abraham NOT sacrificing Isaac because our Creator DOESN’T want human sacrifice? How do you justify treating women as chattel? How do you explain open hatred of any people, let alone preaching it as some kind of spiritual sermon? How can anyone get upset enough to kill because of some cartoons? Muhammed was not GOD! Why can’t he and his religion/ideology be questioned in open debate? Their only response is to scream about all the violence in the Bible. They miss the part about all those killed in Canaan practiced human sacrifice, but why isn’t that surprising. Since 1979 islam has been responsible for more than 95% of all terrorist attacks. That kind of ruins their little theory about all the violent Christian and Jewish fundamentalists. They say they don’t kill innocent people, but their books tell them only muslims are innocent. Whoops, their spokes people forgot the second half of that. Just remember this, the religion of peace is perfectly willing to kill you to prove they are the religion of peace.

Finally, for now anyway, the media. “The Main Stream Media”.
In order for lies to work, you have to have a means by which to convey information, then the lies. Word of mouth would be one way. To get the information and news out en masse newspaper, television and radio have been the standard for a long time. The internet is new and flourishing, but I suspect( speculation on my part) anyone over 25 years old gets half their information from newspaper, TV or radio.
We all know newspapers,TV and radio stations have owners, owners who have opinions. Owners are beholden to advertisers who also have opinions. There is big money involved. What could possibly go wrong? The USA is a capitalism based, free market economy, so we don’t really care where the money comes from, IT’S MONEY! So lets add some wealthy people from other countries, other countries who may or may not have our best interests in mind. Lets have these people buy into newspapers, TV and radio stations, hire journalists who cleanse/edit/censor the news. This is done so as not to offend or put the wrong spotlight on all or particular people. The media are so used to misrepresenting the truth now, they don’t even really hide it. Maybe they don’t even realize they are doing it. Just two examples from recent headlines; “Youths destroying stores in a major Scandanavian city” or “ Dutch citizen stands trial for planting roadside bombs in Iraq”. Maybe I am just s a bit critical, but it seems to me, in my opinion, when just reading those headlines, on an NBC affiliate on the west coast I was having a hard time picturing large gangs of blonde hair blue eyed Nordic hooligans ( sorry for the stereotype)destroying seven grocery stores in one town. As far as the “Dutch” citizen planting roadside bombs in Iraq, I just can’t seem to picture the “little Dutch boy” with his finger in the dike planting roadside bombs in Iraq.
The United States main stream media don’t have “political correctness” down to the degree the media in Europe do, I have lived in Europe and have family there, but the US media is well on it’s way.
It is truly sad to see, I grew up watching Walter Cronkite and Huntley and Brinkley you kind of knew you could trust what they were telling you, so we thought anyway. Maybe that is how the young people of today see current news anchors and reporters.
One thing is certain today though, like it or not, believe or not, accept it or not, almost every bit of news you get today has been cleansed and censored of as much truth as the owner wants. OK maybe not the stock market reports , sports scores or the weather, it would be a little more difficult to half truth a winter storm, but boy howdy if they could!
So what’s it going to be? Truth or Consequences? The truth has its’ own consequences. Avoiding the truth usually has worse consequences. Standing for the truth takes courage, you have to be ready to fight, EVEN IF YOU DON’T REALLY WANT TO. Taking the other path and surrendering to lies and half truths is like surrendering your wife and virgin daughter to be raped, tortured and murdered before your very eyes. Liberty or death! Freedom of speech or war! Freedom of religion or war! Equality for all who wish to live peacefully under the rule of law! I am not advocating violence in any form against any group of people. I AM pointing out how important it is to see how serious the situation has become, IT IS THAT SERIOUS. There IS a reason we have been given judgement, intolerance is not ALWAYS bad. There is only one way, you must find your way back to the Creator .

Sunday, February 15, 2009

The People of the Valley

  For 1400 years now there has been a murdering, marauding, pillaging and raping folk running under their ideological banner of "spiritual struggle". The ideology was founded by a greedy, covetous man whose only purpose in life was to steal from those he perceived as having something he wanted, whether fortune, women or fame. He desperately wanted acceptance and approval from the "people of the mountain" and sought ways to counterfeit their religion, alas he was uneducated and unsophisticated in his attempt, but he managed to recruit a small group of bitter dregs from his society.  During the time when his following was small and weak he was continually rejected by the "kingdom of the mountain", he attempted to be peaceful and kind to win them over, but to no avail for they saw through his lies. Then one day he found that he had enough followers to take what he wanted by force, including those who had rejected him. So he offered the "people on the mountain" a chance to join him if only they give up all they had to him and accept him as their prophet. When they again rejected him, he slaughtered all the men and kept the women and children as slaves. That became the way for the "prophets " people, murder, rape, pillaging, lying, stealing. Forcing people to convert to his pathetic vision or die. The "people on the mountain" would have been happy to share in order to have peace, but the prophet was into profit and power, not peace. Oh he would lie when he did not have the upper hand and pretend to sue for peace, but it was a ploy to buy time until he had the upper hand , then all were killed or enslaved. The people of the valley hated the people on the mountain because the people on the mountain had true love and peace in their hearts, a gift from their creator. The people of the valley have been trying to steal this ever since, not knowing that if they stopped and examined their own heart they may find what they were looking for, but their prophet has taught them that everything they want and need is "out there somewhere". Therein lies the problem, the people of the valley have been taught to ignore their hearts and listen only to their carnal thoughts and give in to those desires. Greed and avarice are their spirituality, murder is their way to heaven, hatred, death and anger are their love. They are without hope and time and tradition are no excuse. Once the people of the valley have dispatched the people of the mountain they will turn on themselves until none are left, not even one tin soldier.