What a GIANT flippin' mess.

Now that the coalition is busy destroying Libya, suddenly nobody wants to be in charge.  France says it isn't fighting a war, Germany backed out completely, Italy says if NATO isn't in charge it won't participate, the Ayatollah Obama said the United States is not in charge, the Arab League is going to withdraw it's support, so the ones left holding the bag seems to be Great Britain.  

I wonder if it is because the wind isn't blowing in the direction all these nations thought it would blow.  Citizens of these nations are wondering the same thing I've been wondering.  What was the point of this exercise?  Merely to show that we are stronger than Libya?  I don't get it. 

Now we learn that Al Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood are fighting to figure out who will come out as leaders after this is all over.  We big bad interfering countries aren't going to do anything but bomb bomb bomb, so someone has to take charge.  I wonder how much better off Libyans will be when they get the privilege of living Sharia law.  I wonder how we'll sleep at night knowing that we helped put those people under an even more repressive regime than they've had.  I, for one, thought this was a bad idea from the outset and I'm being proven correct.

 I wonder when we'll learn to follow the precepts taught in the scriptures.  If you are the aggressor, you will lose.  If you are simply defending your nation, family, and way of life, you will overcome.  Our nation needs to return to it's God fearing roots and get out of this socialist/communist leftism under which we are languishing. 

We need to get on our knees, repent of the stupid things we've done in the last 50 years and get back to our family based culture.  We need to study the Scriptures and pray to learn what they are trying to teach us.

Enough said.

For once I agree with some Democrats

Perhaps there ARE some Democrat politicians that have a brain cell left.  They are asking, "what is our objective in Libya?"  and, "at what point do we declare success?"

Some of them are asking why we are there in the first place, just as I asked.  Why ARE we there?  The Ayatollah Obama has embroiled us in a Civil War in which we can be nothing but losers.  The Libyan government doesn't want us there, nor does the populace.  We have no national interests there.  We have no business interfering in Libya's domestic struggles.   We cannot afford to be the world's policemen any longer.  Bad people will be bad.  Will the United States fall into the same paint?

Mr. Kucinich asks if these missile strikes are not impeachable offenses.  I also wonder.  We have let the United Nations again lead us blindly into an unsustainable position.  This week the Arab League will likely retract it's support for this action.  And then where will we be?  We were supposed to be helping to keep innocent citizens from being killed by Mr Quadaffi. Instead the coalition is doing it for him.  We need to get out now and stay out of any nation's domestic problems.  I imagine we would have felt the same if another nation would have interfered during the protests and riots  of the 60's.

Get out now.  Turn the ships and aircraft around and get out of Dodge.  This is pure insanity.

Enough said.

Libya: Interference is not good.

I wonder about current political thinking.  According to the current thinking, it appears that it is ok for the international community to interfere with domestic events in sovereign nations.  I wonder if it would be ok for the international community to interfere with events in the United States if  the citizens decided to raise up against the Ayatollah Barry Obama and the current political government.  Would they establish a no-fly zone here?  Would they determine that the United States was no longer a "democratic" society?

We are pretty arrogant in our thinking.

Of course Colonel Quadaffi is protecting his government just as our government would do in the United States.  What right do we have to prevent him from doing so?  At the same time, those who initiated the unrest in those nations in the Middle-East and Africa are also not citizens there.  They, and not the governments should be blamed for whatever violence the governments undertake to quell rebellion.  It is too much of a coincidence that so many nations are involved in domestic unrest at the same time.  Someone is coordinating all this.  It feels like a conspiracy to me.

While I think those regimes are repressive and should be overthrown, it is up to the native peoples to do so.  I don't recall much international involvement when the British Colonies in America decided to revolt and throw off the yoke of their masters.  They knew it would be bloody and would take courage.  We are the stronger as a result.  

If the native peoples of those nations are successful in throwing of their oppressors, they will be the stronger for it; but only if they do it without influence from new despots who just want power over the people much like those they are attempting to depose.

Enough said.

The end of the world?

Wars, rumors of wars, earthquakes, floods, disease are all mentioned in the Bible as prophesies pointing to the end of times.  We've always had these things, but it seems to me that we are experiencing them more and more often than did our ancestors.  Or perhaps we know about them more because of the "information highway".

My heart aches for the people of Japan, who are hurting today because of the devastation caused by earthquake, tsunami, and resulting damage to nuclear reactors.

My heart also aches for the peoples of the middle east where lives are being devastated by uprisings, terror, oppressive political/religious leaders, self hate and envy.  

My heart aches for the people of China who are not free to make personal choices.  

My heart aches for those who seek spiritual calm in the midst of chaos.

My heart aches for those who think hate and terror will resolve the issues that face the world today.

My heart aches for those who think personal wealth and political control will make them better people.

Mostly my heart just aches for the condition of civilization today. 

enough said.

America's energy solution

Since the Ayatollah Obama and our elected representatives can't seem to figure out how to reduce the size of government, and can't seem to get the cost of government under control, I've come up with a few things that might help.  There is a growing feeling amongst the populace that government is an assembly of non-producers that suck up resources but never produce anything but hate, discontent and unrest.  Here are some suggestions:

1.  Make the Department of Energy actually produce energy.  Make them discover, drill for, produce and refine oil.  Make them produce, install, and maintain electrical plants - and distribute the power produced.  Make them produce nuclear power plants, service them and distribute the power.  So far the Department of Energy has been pretty effective at preventing some of these things from happening.  My suggestion is, let them figure out how to do it on the budget they already have.

2.  Make the Department of Transportation produce, staff, manage and service all surface transportation in the United States.  They're pretty good at criticizing and controlling the current surface transportation system, so let them do a better job.  Right now they are choking trucking, barge, shipping, auto and rail transportation with their massive and unintelligible regulations.

3.  Make the FAA produce, staff, manage and service all air transportation.  Again here is a federal  agency that has never produced a thing, but it controls everything.  FAA should get the opportunity to actually do what they think they can do better than the airlines.

4.  Sell all property controlled by the Bureau of Land Management.  I'm pretty sure that would get the government out of debt.  Why in the world is the Government in the land business anyway.  I don't recall anything in the constitution that provides for anything but land required for actual government business.  Surely the framers didn't foresee ownership of vast lands.

5.  Close the Department of Education.  Never has produced anything, and it never will.  From my point of view the only purpose it has is to spend money we don't have.

I think that would go a long way in reducing the powerful suction of resources by our government and get it to begin actually producing the funds needed to run itself.  I'm betting it will  never happen.

Enough said.

The news can be disturbing

Unrest in Libya, unrest in Egypt, unrest in Yemen, Unrest in here and there, unrest everywhere. What do you think is causing such "spontaneous" unrest?  I have my own suspicions, but no proof. 

What if one wanted to take the world population's mind off of world financial woes?  What if one wanted to do as magicians do and misdirect our attention away from what causes us most trouble.  What if our world leaders hoped to subvert our sensibilities by causing us to be concerned elsewhere other than keeping our eye on the real prize.

What if peace and freedom was at risk, but our energies were focused on little feuds around the world?  What if civil wars in several countries were stimulated by evil men wanting to circumvent the rules of world order?   What if the "New World Order" is being brought about by  conspiring men through secret combinations against the will of the peoples of the world?  What if...what if.

We must stay close to our Heavenly Father.  I learned, in my youth, a little piece of wisdom.   I learned it in Seminary.  It is simply this: Search, Ponder and Pray.  Search out Heavenly Father's will for us by studying His dealings with His people in times past and by studying His prophet's teachings today.  Ponder what you have read and learned.  Then pray about it.  Ask Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, how what you have learned is to be applied to you directly.

I'll bet you'll learn things you didn't know before.  You might not be happy with what you learn.  After you have received your answer, pray again for confirmation that the answer is from Him.  Then act upon that answer and follow His plan for you.

I know you will be better for it.  If the peoples of the world would return to worshipping God instead of personal power and wealth there would be peace and prosperity for all.  Look at the City of Enoch.

Enough said.