Facing The Giants

   "So, Coach; how strong is Westview this year?"
   "A lot stronger than we are."
   "You already written Friday night down as a loss, Brock?"

      Like Brock in the movie Facing The Giants;
the Republican establishment has nearly written 2012 off as a loss. They see President Obama as a lot stronger than we are. So, like Brock; they want to simply go to the 30 yard line. They have no vision, no desire to do the hard things. They aren't interested in the economic future of America; only in their election to office. 


   We are told by the establishment that we can't select a strong conservative. That we must choose a moderate. We need someone who will appeal to independents; someone who will not cause any ripple in the pond of the status quo. We need to select Mitt Romney.


   Mitt Romney is not a conservative. In fact he's far from conservative. Let's take a listen to Mitt, shall we?

   Mitt Romney sounds a lot like a liberal Democrat, now doesn't he?  At least he used to. Now of course, he's Mr. Conservative.  Are we really going to settle for Diet Obama in 2012? Do we really think that we can slow the car down as it careens toward the cliff and everything will be OK? Will driving the car over the cliff at 55 MPH be any less destructive than driving it off at 110 MPH?


   Quite frankly, I'm more interested in someone who might actually do the crazy thing; someone who might actually consider using the brake pedal and the steering wheel.  Someone who's looking to turn the car around.  Someone like Sarah Palin.

   Sarah Palin is not afraid to call a spade a spade.  She's what we need in the White House.  She doesn't fear the giants in her way.  She's not afraid to tackle the problem head on.  She's willing to turn the car around.  She knows what she thinks, and thinks what she says.  Sarah Palin will not settle for making it to the 30 yard line. She'll leave it all on the field driving for the end zone.


   

The Bush, The Berry, and The Barracuda

 
 Once upon a time, there was a Bush who was President. This Bush was a good Bush, but sometimes he listened to bad advise. One day, the economy began to stall, so the well meaning Bush panicked and began to listen to advise from the liberal Bushes around him, not to mention allowing the thinking of the greatest enemies of the Bushes, the Berries, to infiltrate his decisions. He signed on to spending billions of dollars that had to be borrowed to "save the economy".

   Now, unfortunately for the Bushes, an election year was here. The Bushes had nominated a pathetic shrub for a candidate, but the opposing Berries had nominated the most clean, articulate Berry they could find. They nominated a Black Berry for President. Now, the volatile economic situation the nation found itself in, and the national weariness of the Bushes helped the Black Berry to storm through the election with big promises of hope and change, and the people were enthralled. The shrub chose, in a last ditch effort to make a wave in the election, a most unlikely running mate.

   The shrub picked The Barracuda. The Barracuda proceeded to light a fire of enthusiasm that rattled the Berries to the core. The decision was made by the Berries, with the help of a hostile media, to spear The Barracuda, to net The Barracuda, to destroy The Barracuda. The Berries, through malice, slander, and economic attack destroyed the Barracuda, or so they thought. After Black Berry won the election, the Berry attacks on The Barracuda continued, and in fact, a lot of self serving Bushes joined the Berries in their onslaught. The Barracuda was forced from her job by attempted bankruptcy. The shrub that had brought The Barracuda to everyone's attention even failed to defend her. The Berries and liberal Bushes celebrated their victory, but it was short lived. The Barracuda had been angered and began to work toward the defeat of both the liberal Bushes and especially the Berries.

   Now the next election is around the corner, and the Berries are suffering the results of their own actions, and Black Berry is not popular. The Bushes are gearing up to bring forth a newly crowned shrub to meet Black Berry on the field of electoral battle, but neither the Berries nor the Bushes are able to fully focus on the  task at hand. Somewhere out there, in the deep, lurks a predator. One that is hungry. One that is angry. One that is determined. Out there lurks The Barracuda.

What Are We Going To Do About It?

   My boys and I went to the annual rodeo that comes to our little neck of the woods every September. As I sat there watching the ladies' barrel racing competition, I couldn't help tearing up just a bit. The thundering sound of a sprinting steed under the steady hand of a capable rider just screams freedom.


   Unfortunately, freedom is under assault by insidious forces of darkness. Forces that would treat women as nothing more than chattel to be controlled and subjugated......

   
   ...forces hell bent on the confiscation of hard earned wealth for redistribution to those who did not earn it and do not appreciate it....

   ...forces that attack our sacred institutions....

   
   ...and our founding documents....

   ...forces of spiritual wickedness in high places.

     So, what are we going to do about it?

Know Thy Enemy

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama 


We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.
Sarah Palin 

   

Godspeed.

The Ponzi Scheme

   Bernie Madoff sits in a prison cell for running a ponzi scheme which bilked people out of millions of dollars. He offered people easy money on investment, not by investing, but by rewarding early investors with the investments of newer investors. There was never any money actually made; just rearrangement of the deck chairs. It finally caught up with Madoff.


   The crazy thing is; our government is also running a ponzi scheme. Our "leaders", with our encouragement, keep running the scheme, and we keep reelecting them to do so. We know it as Social Security. Ideally, in a program like Social Security, investment into the program should be held to draw interest for a length of time before withdrawal, like a savings account. The problem is that our elected officials have raided those accounts to spend that money on pork barrel projects and social programs that we didn't have money for, and replaced it with IOU's.



   Logically, Social Security should be like the triangle above. There should be a very large base of contributors at the bottom and a small contingent of beneficiaries at the top. The base should be significantly sustained by the entry young workers into the workforce. The beneficiaries at the top should be significantly smaller due simply to natural causes of death.

   The problem we face is that the structure of Social Security now looks like the trapezoid above. Due to significant advances in modern medicine, Americans are living longer lives. The contingent of beneficiaries at the top has now grown significantly. Ideally, this shouldn't be a problem if our base of new workers entering the workforce is also growing by the same percentage, but it hasn't. One of the main reasons, in my opinion, is that 53 million potential American workers will never enter the workforce because they were murdered in the womb. Another reason is that our tax policies encourage American business to relocate its manufacturing overseas. You simply cannot increase the level of beneficiaries in the program while at the same time eliminating new workers coming into the system both physically and economically.

   If something isn't done about Social Security, it will eventually look like the square above. This collapses. No one will be willing to work to simply support a Social Security beneficiary. Who is willing to expend their time, labor, and life to have it all taken for the benefit of another? When Social Security collapses and everyone invested loses everything, who joins Bernie Madoff in his prison cell?


Godspeed.

The Crucifixion of Sarah

I know that a lot of people will take offense at that title. It doesn't matter. Sarah Palin has been maligned and slandered more than anyone I've ever seen in my lifetime. She is hated by the left in this country. She is ostracized by the liberal right in this country. She is even blamed for inciting murder. I've asked myself why. It doesn't make sense. She's simply a woman who ran for office, won, and then was selected to run for Vice President. Why the blind, irrational hatred? The only thing I can think of is that she dared to disagree with Barack Obama.

She dared to call him out concerning his past associations. She dared to`question his socialist leanings. She dared to challenge his economic ideas. She dared to speak her mind. She became the enemy. She and McCain lost. She went back to Alaska.

She was content to go back to Juneau and be governor. She wasn't allowed to. They came after her. Clearly the object was to destroy her. They hamstrung her administration. She was having to waste her time and Alaska's money to defend herself. In office, she couldn't speak out. She was constrained by her position. Those who had chosen her as an enemy knew that. The goal was total destruction. I guess that she was to be the example. You don't question the machine. You sit back and allow yourself to be pillaged, and you keep your mouth shut about it.

They counted on Sarah Palin to be passive, they counted on her to shrivel and die, they counted wrong. She did the only thing she could have done. She resigned. They thought she was done. She wasn't.

She retreated, she fortified her position, she loaded her weapons, she performed a flanking maneuver, then she opened fire. She was immediately attacked. She counter-attacked. The left and the media closed ranks, but they soon discovered that this woman doesn't fight conventionally. She's a guerrilla. She fires on the run. She dodges from tree to rock to knoll. She moves right when they anticipate left. She darts left when they fire right. She's a ghost with a modem. A specter of the world wide web.

They throw everything at her, even charges of involuntary manslaughter. They cannot, will not, allow this woman to be President. I think they've missed the mark. She may run, but that's not the end goal. That's not the end all to be all. Sarah Palin is after more than the White House. She has set her eyes on the annihilation of the Marxist ideology seeking to infiltrate every aspect of American life. Her goal is freedom. Freedom to be free. Freedom to be. She's exposing the lily-livered media for what they are. She's exposing the President and Congress for what they are. She's Lysol to them. She has an uncanny ability to cut to the heart of matters, and it scares the Marxists in power to death. It rattles them to the core.

Sarah Palin may never be President. It will be to our shame. Nevertheless, she has done more for our future than most anyone I can think of. Thank you, Sarah. May God bless you, and may he bless The United States of America.

The Time Is Now

"There is no dignity
quite so impressive,
and no independence
quite so important,
as living within your means."
— Calvin Coolidge

$16,000,000,000,000 (Sixteen trillion dollars). 


   This is our national debt. It is equivalent to nearly $46,000 for every man, woman, and child in America. 


   Just how astronomical is $16,000,000,000,000? Well, let's think about it in terms of time. How long a period of time is 16,000,000,000,000 seconds?

   16,000,000,000,000 seconds = 266,666,666,666.667 minutes
   266,666,666,666.667 minutes = 4,444,444,444.445 hours
   4,444,444,444.445 hours = 185,185,185.18 days
   185,185,185.18 days = 26,455,026.46 weeks
   26,455,026.46 weeks = 508,750.5 years


16,000,000,000,000 seconds = 508,750.5 YEARS.


   Here's a list of the top ten countries by GDP as of 2010:

No.	Country	GDP (PPP)	Economy Value
1.	USA	$ 14,260,000 trillion
2.	China	$ 8,789,000 trillion	$1.33 trillion
3.	Japan	$ 4,137,000 trillion	$1.28 trillion
4.	India	$ 3,560,000 trillion
5.	Germany	$ 2,811,000 trillion
6.	United Kingdom	$ 2,149,000 trillion
7.	Russia	$ 2,116,000 trillion
8.	France	$ 2,110,000 trillion
9.	Brazil	$ 2,025,000 trillion
10.	Italy	$ 1,760,000 trillion

    Notice that America's debt is now exceeding her GDP. This is not good.
Notice also that America's debt is nearly twice the GDP of China.
It's nearly four times the GDP of Japan, five times that of India and Germany.


   President Obama's administration, along with the Democrat controlled Congress added the equivalent to the combined GDP's of Germany and the UK to America's national debt in less than three years, and the Congress has just approved raising the debt ceiling again in an amount comparable to the GDP of Russia.


   Now, ask yourself if your elected officials in Washington have had your best interests at heart. They've spent and borrowed this ungodly amount in your name. You are on the hook to repay this debt; but not only you, your children and grandchildren and their children after them. 


   It is time for a house cleaning in Washington, and not just a sweeping of the floor. Every nook and cranny needs to be exposed. Every chair overturned. Every vermin eradicated from the house. 


   Ecclesiastes chapter 3 tells us there is a time for everything. Now is the time for action. We cannot, and America cannot, afford to allow the status quo to continue. We must find the courage to stand up and demand accountability from our leaders. We have, up to this point, failed in our responsibilities. The time is at hand. If not now, when? If not us, who? It's time to get down to business.


Godspeed.