I love it! The Attorneys General for 13 states threatening legal action against the Health Care bill!

Did Obama Instill Confidence In You?

Okay, the President wasted little time in commenting on the incident involving Harvard professor Henry Gates, saying the police "acted stupidly". Even held an embarrassing "beer summit" about it. But then we have what could have potentially been the biggest terrorist attack on our soil since 9/11 and the President couldn't bring himself to say anything for three days, forget the fact that it took three hours for his crack team back in D.C. to notify him of the situation. And then when he did hit the cameras (I'm guessing it took time to get everything together for his teleprompter) he said his administration "will not rest" until those involved is tracked down. He claimed they will use "everything within our power".

Really? What does that mean, exactly, Mr. President?

So far, he's spent considerable time and jet fuel to go around the world and apologize for America. He's spent the same to stroke the Muslims. And his brilliant choice to head the Department of Homeland Security, Napolitano, initially claimed "the system worked". Of course, the truth actually won out and she later had to admit the opposite.

Given that the Obama Doctrine -- Apologize profusely to everyone in the world you can and hope that our would-be enemies will see our good intentions and new-found resistance to actually engage in any meaningful manner and simply stop hating us -- has a track record of complete and utter failure, what qualifies as "everything within our power"? Certainly not profiling...that's just unacceptably un-PC. Certainly not taking decisive action with deadly force...we might insult any host city or nation housing these terrorists.

Our President's policy is clearly demonstrated as reactionary-only. But it's much more sobering than that. He's so fearful of hurting someone's feelings, so scared to damage this illusory reset of international relations that even his "reactions" are so limp they have proven to the world -- and certainly our enemies -- that we impotent.

Now, in the spirit of fairness I can't lay the blame of the actual event on the President. That was the terrorists doing and those who helped him. And this flight originated overseas, so it's their security that was inexcusable. But how to respond to it is a result of the policies our President and his horrific administration have put into place.

Just how many more reasons do you need to get rid of these people in the next elections?

Senator Reid & The Art Of Compromise

Senator Harry Reid defended the disgusting backroom deals that his band of thieves and whores made to get the 60 votes needed to pass their version of FascistCare. He said," That’s what legislating is all about; it’s the art of compromise.”

Compromise, Senator, is about what you are willing to give up on either side to reach an agreement. It is not about what you'll pay the other person off with to get them to agree to your proposition. You, sir, are an fool. You think you can be flippant with a turn of phrase and the truly aware among us won't call you on it?

Also, there simply are some things that should never be compromised. There are some things that a truly principled person--particularly person who holds to a Biblical world view--should never back down on. If you look at what was purchased via these sweetheart deals, and what was dropped (although in most cases they are simply hidden), then you see that what's left is truly what this has been all about: POWER. Once they've transferred power to the federal government, they'll be able to mandate whatever else they want later.

If you can't see it, then I doubt your mental capacity.

Let's Call Them What They Are: WHORES

It's that simple, people. These so-called 'principled' Democrats who were holding out for what they told US were reasons we could agree with, were actually holding out for their price. Democrats don't have the corner marketed on this, but in this instance we're talking specifically about Dems. Senators Nelson and Mary Landrieu are chief among them. Whores, that's all they are. They could care less about truth, honor, integrity, morality....they simply were waiting for their price to be met. They sold their virtue for money, favors. I, for one, am sick of this. Every single politician who participates in this type of behavior should be booted out.

Nelson dared say the backlash was "orchestrated". Really? If it's liberals gathering a head of steam, it's grass-roots, but if it's conservatives it's "orchestrated". Senator Nelson, your words and your actions are puny-minded and amoral, lacking ethics or integrity. I pray you are ousted in the next election. The same with you, Senator Landrieu. Gone in 2010. We need TRUE conservatives, those who truly seek the wisdom of God in decision-making. Not serving their own SPECIAL INERESTS.

The Caving Of Sen Nelson of Nebraska

If you look at the details of what he received--millions of dollars in benefits, exemption from certain taxes/mandates, and much more--it's obvious Senator Nelson was NOT holding out on principle. In fact, I would contend that he, just like his mate from Louisiana, Mary Landrieu, was just another political whore. Yes, I said it. Selling yourself for money is exactly that. I'm not saying that most of the Republicans aren't above that--nay, they've been just as guilty. But it's so much more obvious and disastrous with so much socialism and fascism hanging over us like the Sword of Damocles.

The lie of what Sen. Nelson falls back on as what he calls a "victory" is the illusion that abortion is prohibited, that the bill doesn't create more deficit, that it doesn't increase our premiums, that it doesn't ultimately mean we will all be slaves to the federal government. What he obtained was some weak language, easily circumvented, to semi-exempt Nebraska from funding abortions. Funny math has made it look like it won't hurt Nebraskans, although the truth is it will, and worse, that it will negatively impact the rest of us.

Here's another tidbit that I don't think is hammered home nearly enough...we will be paying into this thing with dramatically higher costs and taxes for several years before actual "benefits" will be paid for by the government. This is part of how they claim it "saves" money. That's like you extorting money from your family to build up $10,000 toward a new $30,000 car, then purchasing it three years later and claiming the car only cost $20,000. It's a lie.

These fools are pushing through a mishmash bill that they prohibit you from seeing, prohibit most of Congress from seeing, throwing in so many ifs, ands or buts to win votes that no sane person could understand it. But, ultimately, the core pieces that are kept are the things that tax you, penalize you, and create mandates. They are the pieces that enslaves us until they can get the rest of the obscene pieces added back in.

What are you waiting for, America? I demand to know! I dare anyone to justify this!

The Movies "AVATAR": My Impressions

A number of us from church who are avid science fiction fans decided to go see "Avatar" on Friday. There's good news and bad news. The good news is that, for a 2.5 hour movie, it was entertaining enough to keep even you attentive even if you're watching the late showing. It is visually stunning, even in 2D (our theater doesn't have 3D, or stadium seating...heck, I'm happy they don't have the projector sitting on boards across a couple of rows of seats!). The moon of Pandora is exceptionally colorful and the details are so rich that you often forget it's CGI. The melding of the live-action parts and CGI is almost seamless...almost. The acting is generally good, but not as deep as I would like, but given the almost constant action it's difficult to allow much depth of character. I'm normally a Sigourney Weaver fan, but I was a bit disappointed in her performance. If you take the story on the most superficial of terms then you can't help but enjoy what would appear to be a good vs. evil core.

But now for the bad news. This story is loosely based on the story of Pocahontas. That's not necessarily bad. But James Cameron, whose last good movie in my opinion was "The Abyss", is clearly completely sold out to the anti-capitalist, GAIA-loving element. You don't have to scratch the surface of the storyline to see it's really a corporate-greed-plus-military-hating-might-makes-right plot. It also is very obvious that the "our planet is a living being and we are all connected" idea is practically rubbed in your face. I mean literally. The humanoid inhabitants of Pandora literally take their braided ponytails that have an odd mini-tendriled end and connect them to similarly endowed plants and animals to "share" entities with them. That's how they "bond" with them.

Of course, the bumbling military and the greedy corporate types don't "get it" and simply run roughshod over the territory, animals and indigenous sentients to get to the mineral they are there to mine. You learn to hate them more and more throughout the film right up to the inevitable battle royale the ensues at the climax of the film.

So, from that aspect of it, I was completely insulted by the story. James Cameron is a brilliant filmmaker but a doofus when it comes to pushing an agenda.

Also, as someone who actually has a brain and understands real science (unlike all your global-warming enthusiasts out there) I was frustrated by some pretty impossible things in the movie. First off, Pandora is a moon closely orbiting a gas giant planet similar to Jupiter. I have news for you...the gravitational forces alone would make a lush, life-supporting environment such as that virtually impossible. In fact, I can almost guarantee you that it would wreak tectonic havoc with Pandora and what you would see would be mostly earthquakes (Pandoraquakes?) and volcanoes galore. Then you have the "floating mountains". There is no explanation as to what would actually make huge chunks of rock and soil (and, naturally, the trees and foliage) float, nearly in static positions (there are tendrils of plant life that connect between many of these 'mountains') above the rest of the planet. Again, it made for visually amazing sequences, but you have to suspend any believe in geophysics whatsoever. And then there are the big, armed metal exoskeletons the Marines use. Remember the cargo lifter that Ripley battled the Alien Queen with in "Aliens"? Imagine something like that, but faster and more articulate. Again, some of the physics was just not believable -- like dropping six stories inside one and landing on the ground without damaging the machine. Yeah, right.

Okay, a couple of final negatives. THIS IS NOT A MOVIE FOR KIDS. The language is simply unacceptable. It's profuse through so much of the film and the Lord's name is taken in vain so many times, it's just ridiculous. It's not necessary to the plot. Period. And, although the inhabitants of Pandora are completely fictitious and computer-generated, it was like watching an episode of National Geographic. While not in-your-face obvious, the extremely simplistic native trinkets covering the breasts of the females left little to the imagination.

Final thought. I suppose I could make the case that the efforts of the main character, Jake Sully, to convince his Marine boss and the corporate types that they were ignorant and headed down the wrong path, one that would inevitably meet with disaster, is quite similar to the American people attempting to get Obama, Reid and Pelosi to quite screwing around with health care, stimulus, cap & trade, because THEY will inevitably lead to disaster. But, of course, they--and those who support them--ARE ignorant, and wouldn't see that in the film anyway, even if that was Cameron's agenda...which it isn't.

So, if you are an adult and can stomach the language, it's an entertaining film to see. Or if you are a Godless secularist who doesn't care what you pump into your kids, you can take them, too. You probably talk to your kids like that anyway.

Democrats, LISTEN TO ME! It is not your responsibility to create jobs! Stop it, NOW!

FIRE CONGRESS!

Folks, I have a challenge for you. I dare anyone who actually still supports the liberals in Congress and this President to make the case for us to NOT fire the whole lot of them in 2010. I have one condition: you must be able to make a coherent sentence that makes a logical point.

The U.S. Constitution states what the federal government is allowed to do. Everything else is left to the states. But what has the President and the Democrats done? They've behaved as if the federal government is required to do such things as control/own the financial industry, control/own the automotive industry, control/own the health care industry. You simply cannot deny that this is what has been happening. He, the Congress, and you supporters, no doubt, will predictably say that mean ol' capitalists are the problem and taking them over is the only thing that could be done. And that's preposterous. First off, in order to do ALL of that this administration has hung us with a level of debt that is geometrically above anything a previous administration has even dreamt of. This administration has said that the deficit is simply not important compared to the "need to create jobs". Again, show me in the Constitution where it's the federal government's job to create jobs. I have two points to make to supporters of this administration: It's not the federal government's job (or privilege, according to the Constitution), and the federal government has never successfully run programs.

Obama campaigned on hope and change. Yet the country has dramatically gotten worse. We've LOST thousands upon thousands of jobs, contrary to what Obama assured us would happen if we swallowed his line. Talk to your average person. Particularly, talk to those thousands who HAVE lost their jobs since Obama took office. Where is their hope? How about change? What exactly has changed, other than government getting many times more bloated than it did even under Bush? Allegedly we'd have the most transparent and ethical administration in history. Show me the proof of that...you can't. Congress has done so many things behind closed doors, they've continuously violated the promise to put proposed legislation up for 72 hours, they claim something is "bipartisan" when only two or three liberal Republicans voted in favor of this or that legislation. Obama said that lobbyists would have no foothold with him, yet some of the most anti-capitalist, ultra-liberal lobbyists you could name are actually part of his administration. Ethical? Tax-cheats abound in his administration and this Congress! People who are on record as being self-avowed socialists or communists. People who have pushed the homosexual agenda as far down as our grade schools. People who have explained how health care expenditures could be controlled by "grading" the value of a person based on their productivity, their worth to society.

The President is on record as planning to fully support the efforts of Planned Parenthood. As a result he quickly removed the ban on funding abortions overseas. Now the ban on funding abortions in D.C. has been removed. The proposed health care bill includes a way for funding the senseless murder of the unborn.

How about cap & trade? First off, the whole scam regarding "carbon credits" is one of the most disgusting liew ever told. It's all made up. Even Obama said that, as a result, energy costs would "skyrocket" (his word). Think about this. If the cost of energy is increased dramatically because of the new "carbon tax", where exactly do you think these costs will show up? They will show up at every step of the life cycle of any product or service you buy. I'll save you a more detailed description using an example of a common product, because it shouldn't take a degree in economics to understand it. I'll be happy to walk you through it, though, if you request.

One last thing about the health care "reform". It's all a lie. There is nothing, absolutely nothing reformatory about it. It is ALL about power. Just go back a few months and listen to what Obama and the Democrats were complaining about. It was all about health care costs. Then it went through a metamorphosis and became about the insurance companies. However, YouTube is a blessing and a curse. Video of Obama and the major Democratic Party players is proof of what they really want...a single-payer system, and the single payer is the government. I can say with absolute certainty that this Congress has done zero root cause analysis on health care. I dare anyone who is a Lean/Six Sigma black belt or higher to show me how the efforts of Obama and the Democrats demonstrates anything other than jumping to a "band-aid" to achieve an agenda. The following is an oversimplification of the needed approach, but hopefully you get the point:
Problem Statement: Millions of American citizens cannot afford health care.
Identify Performance Gaps: Costs of routine health care dissuade millions from seeking regular preventive treatment and costs of catastrophic treatment make them out of reach for millions more, resulting in routine illnesses being ignored and untreated and developing into more serious and costly conditions, as well as catastrophic illness causing people to go untreated or go bankrupt to afford treatment.
Set Improvement Target: Reduce health care costs to a level that citizens who seek it can afford it and can be postured to pay for more catastrophic treatments.
Root Cause Analysis: A number of tools should be used here. Two that immediately come to mind are what are called "fishbone diagram" and "5 Whys". I can just about guarantee that two things that will come up as being REAL issues will be malpractice suits and interstate insurance.
Develop Countermeasures: Once the root cause analysis has identified the obstacles to meeting the Improvement Targets, responses to those root causes must be identified.
See Countermeasures Through: This is the point at which an actual Action Plan is created. it is the firm, thoughtfully developed to assign SMART objectives with specifics as to who must accomplish the objectives and by when.
Confirm Results and Process: This would actually be the easiest part, since it will be pretty obvious if costs start to come down.
Standardize Successful Processes: Make these changes the ongoing, systemic way we operate.
I am certain Reid, Pelosi and Obama have NOT done any of this.

Unemployment continues to be horrible, costs across the board are rising, taxes are increasing, the marriage penalty is back, private industry is being taken over by government, your children are being indoctrinated into accepting abhorrent behavior, your personal and property rights are being attacked, and you're being told that it's your patriotic duty to spread the wealth. This Congress has consistently ignored you because they say they've "won, so deal with it".

It's time to fire them in 2010.

After four days of hard work we now have a serious stage lighting system installed at Grace Community Church!

So, care to guess where secularists will eventually take this?

Out of Copenhagen: population control can significantly cut CO2 emissions. Every $7 spent on fam planning can mean a ton in CO2.

This is disgusting: what on earth has Obama done to deserve a Nobel? They will give that thing to any ol' liberal.

Hey, Mr President! This is YOUR economy now, so shut your mouth about the GOP! More dirt comes out daily on you and your ilk.

The Senate voted to make YOU pay for abortions!

News for you: the funding for the murder of unborn is NOT a "necessary part of health care". It is COMPLETELY elective!

Mr. President, just STOP! You flat out do NOT know what you're doing and you've surrounded yourself with fools!

Obama thumbed his nose at Jesus at tree lighting ceremony. Mr President, there IS no Christmas without CHRIST!

ABC, NBC and CBS are all accessories to fraud on the global warning scandal.

I love it! Now some in Hollywood think Gore should give up his Oscar!

That creep Senator Boxer is trying to deflect the focus from the GLOBAL WARMING LIES to the hackers who exposed them!

So, who is invited to Obama's Jobs Summit? Donors to his campaign, of course.

What on earth is this President doing? Sticking his finger in the wind?