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President Obama and the Sisterhood of the Flying Seat-of-his-pants

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Friday, January 08, 2010 11:34:19 AM
One thing is clear, and it should have been an obvious expectation to everyone who witnessed the rise of Barak Obama: Outside of his textbook radicalism for public utopia, he doesn't know how to run or manage a thing. The good thing for him is that radicalizing societies into Communist or Socialist dictatorial utopias requires little to no expertise at management, economic understanding or competence in general. The bad thing is that America is made up of people who don't take kindly to the likes of Hugo Chavez or other thugs who give speeches without substance and then try to cram "what's good for you" down their throats. Americans will decide what's good for America.
 
The so-called healthcare bill is an example of the bull-headed approach to create Socialism in America against the people's will. So is the Cap and Trade tax to kill industry and redestribute wealth. So is the alledged stimulus money used to pay off political favors (ponzi scheme, anyone?). Of course, honesty and ethics are only terms to use as clubs against political opponents, they don't have any bearing on the ruling class. Such is the arrogance of the Democrats.
 
The problem, then, has revealed itself in a year that has seen more terror activity against America than in the 8 years of George Bush. Of course, most of those attacks were unreported or under-reported. A couple were outright dismissed as "extremists acting alone." The administrations incompentence is on display as they alternately say, "The system worked" and then admit they didn't connect the dots. The real problem is they aren't even looking at the dots and they have outlawed the pencils used to connect them! The administration has thrown their eggs in the basket of appeasement and contrition. President Obama has overestimated his appeal.
 
It is popular for American liberals to decry the racism in America and thus get mileage as Americans strive to prove this notion wrong. Mind you, no other country has this impulse for reverse racism in the name of reparations. While other countries like to pile on in the "America is racist" attack, Europe is far worse. Other countries are racist, too, and they don't really care. So, while they were excited for President Obama to be the first black American President, that's as far as it goes. The terrorists, for sure, don't care about Obama. In fact, they supported him because they knew he'd take weakness as a strong-point in securing America's safety (much like Clinton did). Apologize, then ignore the problem and hope your good will shores up some sympathy from those who want your country to fall and burn.
 
As a result, we have a string of "isolated extremists acting alone" who seem to have the same purpose, religion and methods. Oh, and they tend to e-mail each other and offer training and equipment.
 
The White House's response looks like what it is, flying by the seat of their pants. The apology tours didn't work, so they're left with talking tough. But tough-talk doesn't get results when no one really believes it. Thus, the Democrats are finally finding out that wanting to take the country to a utopia requires more than lofty political theories, it requires an understanding of facts on the ground and pragmatic decisions that will produce a favorable outcome. Unfortunately, ideologues without experience lack the resources to respond that way. Here's hoping for strong candidates for this year's election!
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How Intelligent is Intelligent Design?

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:10:23 AM
I recently heard a talk-show host refer to Intelligent Design in a glowing manner by distinguishing it from "young-earth creationism." The latter was given, to my ears, a slightly less favorable tone, which implied the hosts disdain for such lunacy.
 
Apparently, ID is hoping to gain credence among the mainstream science community by being as vague and illogical as the evolution crowd. Evolutionists, of course, believe that the complex universe, not to mention the tiniest cells and microbes simply came into being in some cosmic coincidental accident against all odds. Evolutionists claim that Creationists are delusional because they believe in God, the first, and only, un-caused cause (or for ID folks, the designer). Evolutionists believe it far more rational to believe in the un-caused existence of three basic gases that happened to collide to explode to create matter that violated the laws of physics and formed masses of rock with magnetic and gravitational fields which then held in a perfect orbit around a sun with a combination of moons of various sizes, placing only one planet in the proper place to support life. Additionally, Evolutionists, having the accurate scientific minds they do, have to keep changing the number of years for the universe and our planet in order to cobble together some semblance of possibility that life could spontaneously begin without God. From that astoundingly foolish premise the evolutionist must then explain how information, which is encoded in every living thing's DNA came into existence, when information is not something produced by matter.
 
In short, only obstinant people determined to deny God will embrace evolution.
 
Enter Intelligent Design. This movement simply states the obvious, which shouldn't give rise to any debate: Our universe, world, and the life in it, are too complex to have come about without a designer. This lobby does not seek to name the designer, just that there is one and that we can study nature better by recognizing there is a design and decoding it.
 
The premise is solid and helpful. After all, if evolution is to be given credence, how could there be any design or purpose from which we might derive cures or discover helpful things from the nature around us? Rather, if there is a design and a purpose, and we figure out how, for example, a harmful bacteria has a helpful purpose, we can turn it around and undo some illness. The evolutionist, by contrast, would say that the bacteria is a harmful agent that simply serves to eliminate weak organisms, case closed.
 
But claiming there's a designer, but then failing to identify the designer is dishonest. Everyone knows the designer would be a being greater than the universe, which means God. And where's the harm in coming out and saying it? By not naming God, one is simply being coy, not clever.
 
The harm, I suppose is then in the field of philosophy and theology. If we acknowledge a God, who is he and do we have any responsibility to this designer? If one accepts God's presence, he or she should then pick a religion (supposing they believe we have any obligation to this designer, I suppose).
 
If one picks Christianity, he or she should then accept the whole of the Bible, or pick a different religion. The Jewish and the Christian Bible state unequivocally that God created the world and the universe in six literal days. No one who reads the Bible would come away with an idea of anything else (the gap theory and the day-age theory all came about in an effort to bend to evolution, which is an illogical, even foolish endeavor). Further, the Bible lists genealogies that show the universe to be around 6,000 years old.
 
What is interesting is that every culture on the planet placed the earth at around that time for its beginning. The natural response is that those cultures were primitive and didn't have science as we do today. Yet the Egyptians and Incas had dating and engineering that is still superior to our technology.
 
Regardless of who is and is not right, or who may or may not have evidence, our origins are going to rest on faith, the evidence of things not seen. If proponents of Intelligent Design want to be taken seriously, I would like them to stop pandering to the evolutionists. If one believes in an intelligent designer, name that designer. From that point, it is up to each person to decide whether they believe God requires something of them, or not. Then, if so, they should determine which religion to which they'll assign their faith. But under no circumstance should a proponent of Intelligent Design dismiss those who are bold enough to name the designer and propose theories based on faith (a more plausible faith than the evolutionists, I might add).
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The American Way

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 11:22:36 AM
Once upon a time we knew a phrase that went like this: Truth, Justice and the American way. It was typically a sentence ascribed to Superman (who was from another planet, but was apparently naturalized in the USA by his adoptive parents). Until recent times, that phrase was recognized as a rallying cry for goodness in a troubled world. It represented the yearning of people everywhere. It served to remind us of the beacon that America represented, the ideals our country embodied.
 
No one in their right mind would say that America was, is or ever will be perfect. No country can or will be able to claim that. But like all heroes of folklore, it isn't perfection that defines us, but our vigilant effort to attain to the ideals we believe in.
 
As a Christian I believe that I've been created for a higher purpose than what my earthly impulses sometimes call me. This belief has sometimes been condensed to a bumper-sticker saying, "I'm not perfect, just forgiven." While quasi-accurate, it is not wholly descriptive of the Christian calling. Christians are, by definition, 'little' Christs. Put another way, we are to be Christ's ambassadors to this world. We should yearn to be more like Christ, but we fail. Yet we cling to the notion that, in addition to being forgiven, we are empowered to rise above our fallen nature and conquer our sin natures through Christ's power. In other words, we're not passive in our belief that we have a Godly mission, despite our earthly failings.
 
Similarly, America was founded on an ideal that our members have fought hard to realize, and should continue to strive for: All men are created equal and endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This mission will never be over, and I suspect our Founding Fathers knew that. They faced the dilemma of slavery, which they recognized was a problem. Even without official slavery, we have constant forms of human trafficking and subservience, both legal and illegal, private and governmental.
 
But inequality does not describe the American way. Rather, the American way seeks to destroy inequality and injustice through the furtherance of individual freedom. Since no other person can truly understand his or her neighbor to properly manage that person's life, it is incomprehensible that a Government could do a good job at such a task. The Founders knew this and thus set out to form a country on the ideal of freedom. Freedom has always resulted in economic and social booms. Government control has always resulted in economic and social stagnation.
 
It is time for Americans to reclaim the American Way and demand that our representatives in Washington recognize that our country is founded on the ideal of freedom, not government control.
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Health Care Reform to Slave Us All

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Tuesday, December 22, 2009 10:42:12 AM
Everyone knows someone who 'just knows better.' We can remember some well-meaning adult who believes he or she can administer peace among children by redistributing toys/games for the enjoyment of all. As a parent, I have to guard myself against this persistent dementia as I try to mediate fights among my 4 kids. The fact is, we often don't 'know better' and we cannot take from one and give to another and produce anything other than resentment and further conflict.
 
In the example of toys, if one child is playing with a toy and another comes to claim it, setting up time limits for each child to play with the toy produces neither peace nor enjoyment. With that program, both children 'play' with the toy with the knowledge that their time will be up. Alternately, they wait anxiously for their alloted time to play while the other miserably uses the toy. Soon, under that regime, both tire of the toy and find another one to fight over. The problem is with their heart, not their actions. In the end, no matter what the item is, if one wants what the other has, no one is going to be  happy. Even if the envious one gets everything, he or she will be miserable at the thought that another might come with greater ambition and take away the precious goods.
 
Any rational person must come to terms with the fact that we cannot and should not try to create equality in this world. The idea that one "knows better" comes from the idea that there is some balance that can be struck wherein everyone is happy. This delusion ignores that humans are not all equal in gifts and abilities, and we know it. To impose some unnatural form of equality produces more envy, jealousy and strife.
 
Oddly enough, by recognizing our various gifts and needs, humans, endowed by God with grace and compassion, will reach out voluntarily to those in need and assist them. Children, when given the respect of personal property and taught good manners, eventually learn to share without having time constraints or other false regulation on their play. In other words, freedom accompanied by morals produces the effect of happiness and charity.
 
The current batch of theives in Washington believe that they 'know better' than the country. They believe American prosperity is disproportionate to other countries and must be stifled in the name of fairness (under the hoax of Climate Change). President Obama is working hard to press through what he calls Healthcare Reform, which is actually a bureaucracy to control the populace via entitlement. The goal, while being masked by a well-meaning intent, is actually going to solidify an electorate base of slaves.
 
Ultimately, someone will have to pay the bill for this vast entitlement. While the program is propagandized to look like some form of 'insurance' it is not. The government has no need to balance the budget (as we are all well aware) or show a profit. If the government were a company, they'd have gone under a long, long time ago. The government does not produce a product for sale on the open market, and therefore no one competes with it. The State moves in and forces private industry out. Where private industry has to pay salaries and overhead off of their pricing, the government simply undercuts them, cuts their product, if need be, and assumes control.
 
That is why Social Security and Medicare are both bankrupt. But both have served their intent fabulously well: They both have created swaths of voters fearful of losing the entitlement and willing to vote for their 'masters.'
 
The healthcare bill is no different. While the rulers in Washington claim they know what's best, their intent is selfish. They know what is best for their political future. If this bill gets passed and rolled out, we will all be enslaved to these politicians like never before in America.
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The Enemy List

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Saturday, August 08, 2009 11:05:48 AM
While I might say, "I can't believe it," I completely do. It is not surprising to me that President Obama's White House is asking for Americans to inform on Americans. It is not surprising that his administration is interested in shutting down democratic dissent over his power grab policies. It is nothing new for the Democratic party to resort to name-calling and ad homonym attacks. Unfounded or simplistic slogans and demagoguery have been staples of the Democratic party since it sponsored slavery and segregation.

What really leaves me incredulous, however, is the appearance that many are so slow to realize the dangerous shift that happened when Barack Obama gained the White House. It baffled me that so many were so willingly blind to the fact that this man had nothing to recommend him outside of absurd boasts and a radical, government-funded, well organized grass-roots network. I don't doubt for a minute that the election would have been far closer if not for voter fraud that undoubtedly occurred and always favors the Democratic candidate. We in Minnesota know first hand how corrupt election officials and counties can skew results in favor of their candidate without batting an eye.

The playbook for the Democrats this time is no different than when President Clinton took office. Most may remember HillaryCare which went down in flames for the same reasons I hope ObamaCare will go down. These respective plans have nothing to do with the poor, downtrodden folks without healthcare. Rather, they are an effort to align power in a National Government steeped in Socialist principles.

In light of that fact, it does and it doesn't surprise me that Nancy Pelosi tried to say that opponents to the Healthcare take-over were carrying swastikas. It is absurd that one would compare free citizenry protesting a National Government power-grab with Nazis, but yet it makes sense, too. Psychologists call this projection. When someone is guilty of something, like say, having neighbors inform on other neighbors to create an enemy list or turning government's power against political opponents in ads that single out Conservatives by naming them as threats to the Homeland, he or she must project that obvious behavior on others.

The American people should take special notice of Obama and his cronies. The American people should remember the plans brought forward and the party that has tried to advance them. No one should think that they will benefit from these absurd government promises. The promises are nothing more than candy offered by a child molester: there is no real treat waiting for those who choose to accept it. 
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Torture me, please...

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Sunday, April 26, 2009 12:44:19 AM
The Obama Administration has done the absolute best job of living up to my expectations. Unlike the more charitable folks I hear on the radio and read in the press, I was not so willing to discount all the evidence of his radical upbringing to even entertain the thought that he would, as they liked to hope, govern from the center. He wouldn't and he isn't.

President Obama is following lock-step with the radical agenda that he had wanted all along: use the fear, crisis and turmoil to gin up enough confusion to expand a large, central government control on the country. While President Bush took the battle to the folks who wanted to do our country harm, Obama has become the enemy from within, turning his guns away from the terrorists and bad men and focusing the country he swore to serve.

The latest example, of course, is the decision to allow the former administration to be prosecuted regarding the enhanced interogation techniques. The Statist Left (also known as the Democrats) have given in-person apologies to the world for our strong stand against tyranny and our President just high-fived and brother-hand-gripped Hugo Chavez, a brutal dictator (who seems to be writing Obama's playbook for the years ahead). With the release of our supposed 'torture' memos, we've alerted our very real enemies that we do less than slap detainees. Where they chop off heads and desecrate bodies of the lucky ones they capture, we engage in psychological techniques like playing pop Christmas albums, books on tape, leave them in rooms with a catepillar, keep them awake for long periods of time (kind of like a college cram session, I'd say) or, in the most agregious cases (3) make them think they're drowning. Please note, pain is never an option. Unlike Jack Bauer of 24, we don't bust fingers off one by one, shoot detainees through the leg and then point the gun at the other knee-cap or even pretend to kill a person's family starting with the youngest. Also, our techniques are video-taped, documented, and reviewed to make sure they are not too harsh.

The only reason the enemy video-tapes the beheadings is to further their terrorist agenda and weaken our nation's resolve. Well, they can say mission accomplished. Our country, by hook or by crook, has elected a man who is unwilling or unable to stand up for one of the greatest countries of all time. He points the finger at our country, much like the pastor who was his 'spiritual mentor.' And in the process, he's shown our cards to the enemy.

Now we will live with two grave results, which are not even inclusive of the notion of criminalizing former administrations over interpretations of the law. What we have done is to let terrorists know that we will treat them better than our own citizens get treated in the average office cublicle culture (which is rife with psychological discomfort and pressure games). We've put them on notice that we might simply ask them what they intend to do to us, but then settle for offering them tea and crumpets if they won't tell. Second, we've put those charged with keeping us safe, the intelligence community and various law enforcement personnel on notice that if they do what they need to do to get vital information to protect innocent civilians, they might just get their jobs and/or livelihood handed to them for the trouble.

President Obama is Jimmy Carter 2.0. He's weak or deluded on foreign policy and national defense. He's either a central planner in denial of the obvious effects on any economy or he's devious and simply wants to grab more power for himself like a despot leader. He's indifferent to the country that has treated him well enough to elect him President. I'm not sure what is the greatest flaw in the whole mess that we have before us. My prayer is that, despite Obama's machinations with the economy, the natural industry of the American people will override the destruction he's heaping on us. We've done it before, we can do it again.

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Waiting to Exhale

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Friday, April 17, 2009 9:37:03 PM
According to the EPA, carbon dioxide is now a pollutant. I'm waiting for the agricultural society to sue on this one since plants everywhere will be starved if the EPA succeeds in regulating their food supply. Seriously, though, this has been coming. It is one of those things that slips by unnoticed by the populace at large.

For many, the goofy halogen light bulbs seemed to be a lower energy bulb that would just last longer, another product in a country of choices. Most don't know that the prices didn't magically come down on those bulbs, but rather were subsidized by our tax dollars to create the illusion that they're cost effective. Many don't know those bulbs need to be disposed of by a HAZMAT team. Many believe global warming is occurring, and that all these little things we can do to 'go green' will prevent some catastrophe from happening in the future. Most people don't get bogged down by asking themselves the obvious question of why the winters seem colder lately, or why the seasons continue year after year with no dramatic change. They don't stop to think why folks who are unable to give a reliable 7-day forecast think they'll be better at 100 or 1,000 year forecasts. They simply accept what the men in the white coats (for they certainly are not scientists) tell them is happening.

So, while people slumber to the noise on TV, radio and the millions of sources of propaganda and entertainment sources, a silent coup has been stealing ground. In the same manner that we surrendered our religious freedom in our public life and let the ludicrous idea that if someone is uncomfortable with the Ten Commandments they must be unconstitutional, we've allowed ourselves to be brainwashed with the implausible notion that we're going to heat up the planet and extinct ourselves. Just the idea of that is so silly. It would be akin to strangling yourself. If, indeed, we could heat up the planet by the number of people using cars, as they died, there would be less of the greenhouse gasses and the temperature would logically decline, right? I can speculate on this since, to enter the Global Warming debate you don't need a degree of any kind. Of course, I'm not truly allowed into the debate since, for one, it is over, according to Al Gore, and two, I have something the Global Warming advocates hate: common sense.

With society so fully accepting of the ideas of a future catastrophe that we can neither detect or predict through any semblance of real, observable science, those who drive this movement of power have declared that our exhale is bad and must be regulated. Let's just think for a moment how that might be regulated. Will we be required to hold our breath? No, more than likely a national system of letting the elderly die will be implemented (something that will go hand in hand with the health care rationing that will come with the government health care). Abortion will play into this as well. In the name of saving the planet the government will dictate first that child tax credits will be cut off for more than two children. Free abortions will be available for those on Welfare. Then, forced abortions for anyone wanting to have more than two children, followed by a reduction to one child.

I might be wrong about the Welfare recipients. The people who look for power want dependent children raised in the slums they create. Those are future voters. They will more than likely deem children of middle-class families a threat and force them down to two or one.

Many might see this blog as extremist, but it is coming. They've outlawed breathing. The only way to regulate is reduce the number of people breaking the law.

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Voter Fraud

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:59:35 PM
Since liberals are so anxious to label the 80s the "Decade of Greed" and so forth, it seems appropriate to give them a label that is, perhaps, a bit too real: the 08 election year could be the "Year of Fraud." Obama has defrauded the American people, either by omission or commission. He has possibly concealed a birth certificate that might invalidate him for his position. After having run as a radical in the primaries he did the most spectacular tack to the right to appear as a centrist for the general election, so much so that he hoodwinked so-called conservatives who really should have known better. All that qualifies for fraud, either of the soft variety, or the crook in the striped pajamas type.

Then we have Minnesota. The state of Mid-West values, right? You betcha! We get election results that show Senator Norm Coleman with a 700 vote margin of victory only to watch the creative math on the part of the election board and other appointed and/or elected (Democrat) officials re-work the results to favor the sad satirist Al Franken by a 1,000 vote swing.

I'm not a huge fan of Norm Coleman, though I did vote for him. But I do hope he appeals this travesty up to the Supreme Court, if necessary, so this type of theivery does not go unchecked.

I hope this sort of ACORN activism will show the need for I.D. requirements at the voting precints. Voting is a priviledge, not a right, and we should all get exactly one vote, not three, not four. And the candidates should be bound by the same rules for all votes, without the silly re-counting of rejected ballots, discovery of lost ballots, etc. If this doesn't go unchecked, we may end up with a Hugo Chaves leader in as little as 4 years.

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The Obama Youth

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Sunday, March 22, 2009 8:41:01 PM
I read a disturbing story that showed advancement of the "well funded" civilian security force that candidate Barak Obama promised, and President Obama appears to deliver. The bill is passing under the guise of "volunteer" work, but would be mandatory. The bill stipulates that middle-school children would be required 50 hours per year, high schoolers 100 hours per year, and so on through college. The program included uniforms that the children will wear. I ask, why not ad a spiffy arm band with, perhaps the Obama emblem for good measure. This program will also enlist adults on up to seniors. They will go to camps, which are re-named campuses in order to be trained, or re-educated as the case may be.

This bill has been touted as some form of commemoration of 9/11, a day of volunteer work to commemorate the tragedy of that day.

Someone needs to remind Barak Obama and the Socialists, I mean Democrats, that this is America, the land of the FREE. We do not serve our State. The government is of the people, by the people and for the people. In other words, the government WORKS FOR US.

Recently, we've seen the manufactured outrage at bonuses for executives of AIG. How terrible that executives who gave up salaries took some contractual bonuses. How dare they? This surprise coming from folks who embezzle and cheat on a daily basis. Then, Democrats have the bold-facedness to come out and tell us what they'd really like to do to all of us someday, tax us individually as punishment for making a paycheck. Who are these goons we have allegedly "representing" us? Since when does Congress have the right to indict, prosecute and penalize private industry or citizens? And most people, like zombies, responded to the outrage like they were reading from a teleprompter (we know of at least one person who actually WAS doing that).

Where does this end? It ends with our country being policed from within by radicals subscribing to a charismatic leader and following along, lock-step, controlled by mindblock ideology. We'll have money that is worth more in our fireplace to heat us (because we won't be able to afford energy with the Cap and Steal policy) and we'll have our children indoctrinated in Education Centers and incentivized to be informants on anyone who might dissent from Obama's thug regime.

Today Parade Magazine had the Top Ten Dictators listed. Interestingly, many of them have programs identical to what Obama proposes. I suppose, allowing a few years, Parade might be able to add Barak Obama to the list.

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Obama's Inheritance

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Monday, March 09, 2009 11:11:00 PM
We are never too long from hearing how President Obama has inherited the economy he now must fix. What has become abundantly clear in record time is that Barak has spent his inheritance faster than the prodigal son. In fact, I dare say, he's become Bush II in regard to the economy that crashed around us all in 2008. When President Bush came forward with bailout after bailout for companies that were deemed "too big to fail" I opposed it. I saw a grim hand writing terrible omens against America at that time. After all, if the Conservatives are espousing Socialist solutions, then what are the Liberals going to do?

I am very grateful for President Bush and the work he did in office. I admire him as a man of integrity and humility and grace. While he certainly had any number of critics with much harsher words than Rush Limbaugh has ever leveled against Mr. Obama, he never answered them back. In his eight years, George Bush showed gave us the security that a government can provide--safety from our foes. He was, perhaps, singularly focused on that task, much to the detriment of our economy.

While Mr. Bush's critics state that the war in Iraq was the source of our economic doom, that just doesn't make sense. Sure, we spent money there, but it was ultimately securing our safety and financial ruin that would follow if we failed. Unlike, say, volcano eruption research that is allegedly so iminent a threat we needed it put into our Emergency Stimulus Package.

What W did not do enough of was to get tough on the domestic terrorists like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. He operated in a live and let live manner and a grace that allowed him to reach out to folks like Ted Kennedy who would rather cut off his hand. While he recognized the wolves howling at our shores, he chose to ignore the ones wearing sheep's clothing in our Congress. And this allowed them to sow the seeds of financial ruin around him.

To the extent that folks are trying to say that the poor folks living in tents are living in Bushville (after Hooverville of the 1930s), I say they are living in Reidville or Pelosiville and now Obamaville. The Marxist ideology and Humanist leanings of Barak Obama will lead to the destruction of the good character of America. I don't for a second wish for Obama to fail, as is the bait that liberals enjoy tossing out. I know for certain that he IS failing. His policies are tailor-fit to destroy the free market in favor of a corrupt government central system. His reversal on stem-cell research funding is merely the shot across the bow from a man who favored a facecious answer to when life begins over giving his true belief that life doesn't matter, it's merely a financial cost or burden on the environment, society, whatever. He has made good on every negative ad that John McCain put on the air.

During the campaign, the media skewered anyone who would claim Obama wished to do so many liberal things to our country. In fact, he did want to, and his past was a glaring reminder of the sort of things he'd want to do, if given the chance. After the election, many who should have known better let Mr. Hope and Change cloud them into thinking he might actually govern from the "center." What was true was that he was going to govern from the center of the Communist Manifesto.

It would be interesting if they do finally release Barak Obama's sealed and secret birth certificate. It may reveal his middle name is actually 'Castro."

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Obama's Folly

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:14:20 PM
Governor Bobby Jindal faced a daunting task in responding to the folly of President Barak Obama. How can someone respond to a rookie who steps up and makes excuses for himself by looking back and being snarky at a man who filled the office for eight years and kept America safe from another terror attack and presided over a booming economy seven of those eight years. At the very least Obama was disingenuous about the deficit he "inherited." He took over a budget defecit and quadupled it in his first two months of office. He took our national deficit from 1.5 trillion to over 2 trillion in as little time. And he promises more.

It is also hard to argue with someone who proclaims the "ravages of climate change" as if it is some well-defined, terrible thing. This from the president who wants to bring "science" back to government. Aparently, in an effort to do that he forgot to bring common sense or logic. As Mr. Jindal pointed out, the "stimulus package" included 140 million for volcano observation.

Dutifully, the main stream media came to Obama's defense, outlining how "scientific" Obama is in wanting this funding, which, of course, the likes of Sarah Palin or George W. Bush would simply deride. They note in their spirited defense that such research would save lives and costs due to catastrophic volcano eruptions. Aparently, the thought of Mt. St. Helen's eruption in the 1980s looms as a graver concern to President Obama than the risk of terrorist being released from Guantanamo Bay and attacking us again. The reporters note that America is third in the number of active volcanoes in the world, with most active ones on an island in Hawaii, not in some populated city. So, as I understand it, President Obama is smarter for spending this critical money to stimulate the economy on a preemptive strike against the next volcanic eruption on U.S. soil. I'm sure that 140 million of debt couldn't possibly have been spent more efficiently by the private sector.

President Obama may be ambitious to cure cancer and eliminate trade with Canada, but he will be judged not on his spin, but on how well his pork plays in the market. So far it doesn't look like it will work too well.

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Obama's Bait and Switch Pledge

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:29:44 PM
President Obama recently made it his objective to cut the federal deficit in half. Interestingly, he failed to give notice of that intent prior to ballooning the deficit with his massive socialist overhaul of our economy in the name of doing something. But now, after saddling our budgets for years to come with increased spending that will not stimulate the economy, he vows to cut the deficit in half.

This position is akin to the high-priced retailers that hike their prices by 200% and then give a 75% "sale" for "this weekend only." President Obama may be in over his head with the job of Commander In Chief, and he may be an overall dummy when it comes to history or any other true intellectual persuit (logic, economics, basic math). But he is not stupid. He is an expert politician. Which is to say he is a smooth operator. He knows the words to say to get people thinking good things about him. For instance, when he declared about the terrorists that we "won't apologize for our way of life" and that "we will outlast you" and "we will defeat you." With what? Our limp wrists and jelly spines? Will we start reading them their rights (that they don't have) and start apologizing for having made some of them feel uncomfortable in order to save innocent American lives? How will we not apologize for our way of life? After we adopt the inefficient, costly, oppressive standard of living enjoyed by the Europeans where only the high ranking politicians get to keep, say, their Oval Office at tropic temperatures?

As our Mr. President was fond of saying, they're just words, just speaches. But he's smooth. He had many conservative commentators giving him props for saying what he did. My thought was, nice words, nice speech, now let's see with your actions, Mr. Obama. And so we have.

So, this promise of fiscal responsibility in light of his massive, rushed spending spree seems like another jolt to my senses. Will anyone believe this bafoon with such a bold-faced statement? Of course people will. There are many folks who bought, and continue to buy what Bill Clinton has said or is saying. Those same people believe George W. is a 'liar.' Mr. Bush should take that as a compliment in a backward sort of way.

Barak Obama, however, promises he'll accomplish this silly thing of cutting his extravigant debt that he made by 'scaling back' spending in Iraq, taxing the 'wealthiest' Americans (those poor saps), and, my favorite, streamlinging government. Now that he's enacted policy to make government a gorilla in the proverbial China shop, he's promised to attach a leash? And in an economy that cries out for increased opportunity, he's going to punish the achievers who would increase opportunity for the workers? And his plans for Iraq are like the newlywed couple who plans on having all sorts of extra money once the car payment is done, but forget that by that time they'll have car repairs, a child on the way, and possibly a change in insurance premiums and, ironically, tax increases. In other words, he's planning all other costs to remain as they are and simply reduce the spending in Iraq. Right. I'm sure it looks good on paper, with his crayon, perhaps, but it doesn't work in the real world. It doesn't work when one is trying to govern the most powerful country in the free world.

But, to his credit, since the bulk of the deficit is by his own design, he very well could make good on his promise. He could simply cut his own stimulus bill and say Mission Accomplished. Perhaps on an aircraft carrier, or something.

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Climate Change Worse Than Predicted

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Saturday, February 14, 2009 5:14:50 PM
A climatologist, also known as soothsayer or mystic, has declared that the global warming warnings are 'conservative' and that the threat we face is more dire than anyone thought. His whole assessment is based on the erroneous idea that CO2 (a natural gas that our plants breathe) is the culprit for global rise in temperatures (which has halted and reversed itself in the recent year and appears to be on a cooling trend). In fact, there is no consensus on the idea of CO2 being a 'pollutant' or that it is related to rising temperature on a global basis. In fact, many studies are showing that it is the opposite: CO2 increases after rising temperature as a byproduct. So, with falling temperatures, we'll see falling CO2 levels.

This sort of junk science is further evidence that we need to put the mainstream media out of business. The collective of media broadcasters and publishers seem to be in the business of fear mongering and propagandizing rather than reporting news.

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President Obama's Doubtful Benefit

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Saturday, February 14, 2009 9:34:34 AM
I grow tired of hearing pundits declare that President Obama has erred in being too lax in regard to the 'stimulus' bill that he is now marking as a major milestone. Yes, he allowed Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to write the bill. Yes, he apparently was more concerned with PR regarding the bill than defending it on substance. But, make no mistake, he is not opposed to any of the content that he has expertly attempted to keep hidden from the American people. He has vociferously defended Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid as proudly as one could in using the English language. He is in lock-step with them in regard to their socialist agenda, and this shouldn't surprise us.

I heard one pundit declare that the bill, had it been written by President Obama, would have looked much different. In what way? It has his 'tax cut' welfare program for the zero-tax liability working folks. It socializes medicine. It subsidizes illigitimacy through manditory welfare increases. It re-distributes wealth. Am I missing something here? Was there a campaign promise that he didn't fulfill in this scare-by-number bill?

President Obama is as radical as his associates. He endorsed this bill. He should not be given the benefit of the doubt. He's not held hostage by Nancy Pelosi et al. We are.

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Outrageous About Octuplets

Posted by Bryn T. Jones on Monday, February 09, 2009 9:20:05 PM
I am stunned by the vigor with which Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and others have attacked the woman who gave unnatural birth to eight babies. In principle, I agree that the woman is guilty of a lot of things, namely tampering with God's design and order. But she's not alone in her guilt. The doctors are guilty, too. And that argument has nothing to do with the fact that she has 14 babies in a small apartment. It would be as valid an argument if a woman had one child and had plenty of money and other worldly ideas of security to back up her desire to raise a child.

There are two issues that are astounding here: One, the idea that a child is doomed if he or she is born into poverty or difficult conditions, and two, that the crime here is the number of children the woman birthed.

First, as a Christian, I do not believe that someone's financial situation should dictate whether or not they should answer the call of our Creator to be fruitful and multiply. Plenty of loving families grew up on poverty, mine being one of them. Despite living below the poverty line, we ate food grown in our garden, pears grown in the back yard and pancakes on Saturday mornings--sometimes with hot dogs in lieu of sausage. Amazingly, I grew up and paid my own way through private college and am rising up the corporate ladder. My determination to succeed is perhaps driven by the fact that I didn't have priviledge and opportunity. Those 14 children are not doomed to lives of crime and villainy simply because of the sins of their mother. That should remain an argument of the social warfare left, not God-fearing conservatives.

Second, the problem we face is one where life is merely an experiment that we have the power to control. If someone isn't married or has trouble concieving, we simply manipulate cells and voila, we have a baby--and a number of frozen life-forms in storage. We've reduced humanity to seedlings that we can simply discard when they're no longer convenient or wanted. The design in which God made us where two will become one flesh in an intimate way that will allow them to produce offspring is all but destroyed. Sex has been turned into something like a personal drug to which some are adicted. Through science we've eliminated the chance for life, making sexual activity a simple choice of recreation with no fear of responsibility. Drugs allow men to remain 'in the game' long after  nature has taken their sexual stamina. Personal satisfaction is prime in our society while intimate oneness is shunned.

In this culture we shouldn't raise our eyebrows at the fact that in our government's current 'stimulus' package contraception is proposed to 'contain costs.' Yes, children are merely financial burdens that we should kill off if at all possible, or prevent while frolicking away in whatever lustful manner we please. And should we want a child, why, we can simply grow a few from the frozen bank of babies we have in sterile rooms.

What should strike fear in our hearts is the degree to which our society has grown cold in love for one another. Women are at war with men over so-called equality and men long for a time when their roles were revered. In the midsts of this conflict are children who have become burdens to bestow on day care centers and after school programs. Our divorce rate is an alarming 50% while children grow up jaded and cynical, committing suicide at the highest rate in history.

In such a bleak society we might argue that it is a crime to bring more children into the world. But that argument has been used for generations upon generations. On the contrary, we desperately need good men and women to rear large numbers of children to offset the darkness that threatens to smother our world. We need beacons of light to show goodness when our culture's values prove vile. And for this reason we need to celebrate life because it comes from God. We can condemn our culture's tampering with God's handiwork, but He allowed those eight children to live. We can trust God will work his purpose in their life, no matter how wacky the mother may or may not be.

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