Apparently a washed up old rocker is not yet ready to endorse a half term governor and reality TV star as President of the United States of America. We'll keep you updated as the story evolves.
Everyone please say a prayer for the future of our country, because if this is news we've got some serious issues.
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Friday, January 7, 2011
Friday, February 19, 2010
What is Happening?
I read the news about the psycho pilot and got sick to my stomach. Then I read his "suicide note" and got frustrated. If that wasn't enough, today a significant number of Americans are praising him as a hero. I remember when Timothy McVeigh pulled a similar stunt in Oklahoma. The motive behind both of these attacks were identical. Try and guess who said which:
Taxes are a joke. Regardless of what a political candidate "promises," they will increase. More taxes are always the answer to government mismanagement. They mess up. We suffer. Taxes are reaching cataclysmic levels, with no slowdown in sight... Is a Civil War Imminent? Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn't come to that. But it might.
Isn't it ironic how far we've come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem;they just steal from the middle class (who doesn't have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it's "business as usual."
The actions of these people make me sick. The support that either one of them could ever be considered a hero makes me sick. It's funny how the same rhetoric just keeps popping up. Actually, it really makes me wonder why the same rhetoric keeps popping up, and where it is coming from. Is there truth in it?
I guess the only way I know how to answer that is from the old scriptural adage from Mathew:
16 Ye shall aknow them by their bfruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Taxes are a joke. Regardless of what a political candidate "promises," they will increase. More taxes are always the answer to government mismanagement. They mess up. We suffer. Taxes are reaching cataclysmic levels, with no slowdown in sight... Is a Civil War Imminent? Do we have to shed blood to reform the current system? I hope it doesn't come to that. But it might.
Isn't it ironic how far we've come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem;they just steal from the middle class (who doesn't have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it's "business as usual."
The actions of these people make me sick. The support that either one of them could ever be considered a hero makes me sick. It's funny how the same rhetoric just keeps popping up. Actually, it really makes me wonder why the same rhetoric keeps popping up, and where it is coming from. Is there truth in it?
I guess the only way I know how to answer that is from the old scriptural adage from Mathew:
16 Ye shall aknow them by their bfruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth agood bfruit; but a ccorrupt tree bringeth forth devil
Protest itself is not inherently evil. Some of the greatest progress comes from protest. For example, watch this video and pay attention to what the man says.
I hear peace and long-suffering. I hear hope and love. Most importantly I hear a trust in God. This from a people that had been lied to and cheated by the government.
Another group makes the same claim.
Here I hear contempt and anger. I hear fear and hatred. There is no godliness in this demonstration. Perhaps the intentions of these people started out as something good. In my opinion, it seems that somewhere along the path they started listening to the wrong voices.
In this life their are a multitude of voices competing for our attention, and competing against the voice of the spirit. From a talk by James E. Faust, "The adversary tries to smother this voice with a multitude of loud, persistent, persuasive, and appealing voices:
• Murmuring voices that conjure up perceived injustices.
• Whining voices that abhor challenge and work.
• Seductive voices that offer sensual enticements.
• Soothing voices that lull us into carnal security.
• Intellectual voices that profess sophistication and superiority.
• Proud voices that rely on the arm of flesh.
• Flattering voices that puff us up with pride.
• Cynical voices that destroy hope.
• Entertaining voices that promote pleasure seeking.
• Commercial voices that tempt us to “spend money for that which is of no worth, [and our] labor for that which cannot satisfy.”"
That's exactly how a feel about Tea Parties. It's how I feel about Glenn Beck, et al. Cynical voices that destroy hope. Murmuring voices that conjure up perceived injustices. Protest and demonstration has its place, and is an extremely powerful tool - one which can be used to prop up, or bring down governments. Heeding radical, godless voices lead us away from hope and peace, and lead us to taking up arms against our brothers. It leads us to blow up federal buildings, to crash planes into IRS buildings and into towers.
"Said Isaiah, “The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.”"
Protest itself is not inherently evil. Some of the greatest progress comes from protest. For example, watch this video and pay attention to what the man says.
I hear peace and long-suffering. I hear hope and love. Most importantly I hear a trust in God. This from a people that had been lied to and cheated by the government.
Another group makes the same claim.
Here I hear contempt and anger. I hear fear and hatred. There is no godliness in this demonstration. Perhaps the intentions of these people started out as something good. In my opinion, it seems that somewhere along the path they started listening to the wrong voices.
In this life their are a multitude of voices competing for our attention, and competing against the voice of the spirit. From a talk by James E. Faust, "The adversary tries to smother this voice with a multitude of loud, persistent, persuasive, and appealing voices:
• Murmuring voices that conjure up perceived injustices.
• Whining voices that abhor challenge and work.
• Seductive voices that offer sensual enticements.
• Soothing voices that lull us into carnal security.
• Intellectual voices that profess sophistication and superiority.
• Proud voices that rely on the arm of flesh.
• Flattering voices that puff us up with pride.
• Cynical voices that destroy hope.
• Entertaining voices that promote pleasure seeking.
• Commercial voices that tempt us to “spend money for that which is of no worth, [and our] labor for that which cannot satisfy.”"
That's exactly how a feel about Tea Parties. It's how I feel about Glenn Beck, et al. Cynical voices that destroy hope. Murmuring voices that conjure up perceived injustices. Protest and demonstration has its place, and is an extremely powerful tool - one which can be used to prop up, or bring down governments. Heeding radical, godless voices lead us away from hope and peace, and lead us to taking up arms against our brothers. It leads us to blow up federal buildings, to crash planes into IRS buildings and into towers.
"Said Isaiah, “The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.”"
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