Conservative Reflections and Observations

Ah, the abortion debate will not go away.  Monday, thousands marched on Washington for Life.   Monday, Obama and team announced that medical insurers must cover birth control measures.   Across the country one is either for it or against it.   Single unwed mothers are for it and Babies are against it.   Planned parenthood is for it of course, because that’s where they get most of their money. . . . from the feds.   Hmm, taxpayers.  Obama himself said that women have a “fundamental constitutional right” to abortion and to “continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”  Secular humanists say the blob inside is just a bunch of matter.   Christians know that life begins when the two cells come together and begin the life forming process.   Politicians care where their biggest support in votes and cash comes from.

The country is hurting.  The economy is on a drag.   Businesses are not expanding.   Prices are rising.  People are fearful.  Congress is at its lowest ever rating.   The debt is climbing.   Our energy needs are politically shambled.   We’re in a war for freedom.

And this is what Washington pushes through.   Mandating abortion freedom!  Free to the one desiring to abort a life.  No co-payment required,  just sign on the dotted line and you’ll be out of here in a few minutes free to exercise your whatever.   You and I will pick up the bill.  The taxpayers will pick up the bill.

That also means that hospitals must also perform birth control procedures even if the procedure violates their religious principles.   Those will have one year and a few months to get in line with the rest of the country.  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said  “I believe this proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services.” 

Just like Bill Clinton when he debated the definition of “is”.

Respect:  To feel or show deferential regard for; esteem.  To avoid violation of or interference with.  To relate or refer to; concern.

We the people could use a little bit of respect by the big wigs in Washington.  Most of us normal rational civil people across the fruited plains show respect for our neighbors by not interfering in their lives, respecting their property and personal business and expecting the same in return.  Do we care if the next door neighbor has an abortion?   Possibly, but they must deal with it and so we stay out of it.  It’s their decision.   It does not affect me and mine.  But if that same neighbor demanded that I help pay for that procedure, then forget it, I will not.   I’ll fight it.

Yes, it is true, various animals are blocking the Keystone pipeline route from Canada through Nebraska and into the Texas refineries that would help our National need for energy.   Obama has said No to the pipeline.  Environmentalists have said No to the pipeline.  And so the battle continues.

Deers, ducks and beetles.   Supposedly the pipeline will destroy their habitat forever and these creatures will be destroyed forever, never to return.    A live or die situation for the entire species in question.  If man is allowed to tromp on these habitats then these deer will have to go find another roaming area that may not have the richness of food nor the freedom from predatory animals.   Ducks, well they migrate in the air and they have found over the centuries of flying south and north that these areas are prime resting and feeding spots and now depend on them.  And those beetles just love the conditions favoring a good juicy meal: conditions where those not on the endangered list encounter a bit of bad luck and get killed or just die off because of old age.

But yet if one looks at the Alaskan pipeline one will see caribou are in abundance all around the above ground pipeline.   The 800 miles of the Alaskan pipeline was constructed in 1974-1977 and currently the animals appear to be thriving in and around the lines.  But, if the current environmentalists were as powerful then, said pipeline would never have been built and that oil from Prudehoe bay would have to have been routed by the more precarious sea barges and then the oceans may have seen more spills damaging the eco system of fish.  Or, roads could have been built enabling truckers hauling the oil over hundreds of miles of roads, but then . . .

Dammed if we do and dammed if we don’t because of the potential destruction of wildlife somewhere.   Gee, what if a terrorist would plant a bomb under the pipeline?  What if the pipeline rusted out and developed a leak?  What if an earthquake disrupted the path?  What if the workers forgot to tighten a bolt?

Kill a beetle in your backyard and feel guilty enough to stop using pesticides in your garden.   Kill a deer or a duck on a hunt and feel guilty enough to sell off your arms to the ATF or a drug runner.

How about mankind?

Genesis 1:28 “God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
²⁹ Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. ³⁰ And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.”

The following link is from a University of Michigan study of the environmental effects of the Alaskan pipeline.  As the conclusion it states:  There are numerous risks like potential terrorist attacks that needed to be researched as well.  In the mean time, the pipeline is one of the most economically efficient ways to transport oil and probably the most environmentally friendly method that exists today.

The following is as true as water is wet, snow is cold, and that most Americans are also sick and tired of being looked upon by the federal government as if each of us could not discern the value of a wooden nickle and an $2.00 bill.

It’s an e-mail going around that is attributed to legendary Bill Cosby, which is claimed by Truth or Fiction to have been written by someone else.   Whatever.   It don’t matter who wrote it, the article still hits a nerve in most of us average law abiding hard working silent and forgotten majority of American citizens.   Our country has become polarized by politicians, entertainers and the mainstream media pushing us all toward some utopian thing-a-ma-jig of government declared diversity and non-offensiveness multicultural equality immoral soup.   We are witnessing a decent of economy, which happens after the decent of morality.

 “I’m 76 and I’m Tired”

I’m 76. Except for brief period in the 50’s when I was doing my National Service, I’ve worked hard since I was 17. Except for some some serious health challenges, I put in 50-hour weeks, and didn’t call in sick in nearly 40 years. I made a reasonable salary, but I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, it looks as though retirement was a bad idea, and I’m tired. Very tired.

I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth” to people who don’t have my work ethic. I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.

I’m tired of being told that Islam is a “Religion of Peace,” when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family “honour”; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren’t “believers”; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for “adultery”; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur’an and Shari’a law tells them to.

I’m tired of being told that out of “tolerance for other cultures” we must let Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in Australia, New Zealand, UK, America and Canada, while no one from these countries are allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia or any other Arab country to teach love and tolerance..

I’m tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate.

I’m tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses or stick a needle in their arm while they tried to fight it off?

I’m tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of all parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.

I’m really tired of people who don’t take responsibility for their lives and actions. I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.

I’m also tired and fed up with seeing young men and women in their teens and early 20’s bedeck them selves in tattoos and face studs, thereby making themselves un-employable and claiming money from the Government.

Yes, I’m damn tired. But I’m also glad to be 76.. Because, mostly, I’m not going to have to see the world these people are making. I’m just sorry for my granddaughter and her children. Thank God I’m on the way out and not on the way in.

Personally, I could add a few more “I’m tired and fed up with . . . .”   And I’m sure you could too.   America has one last chance and it’s time is coming in November when BO must be sent back to Chicago, along with . . . . many other members of congress who for votes here and there will show a hate for American exceptionalism, free-enterprise, the rule of law, and a disrespect for the countries founding documents.   Sure, it’s not perfect, as individual people are not perfect and there never will be a perfect system of government until Jesus comes back to establish a Godly Kingdom.

Norman Lear, a Jew and the producer who brought us “All in the family” way back in the 70’s and so many other TV shows and movies to America and the world.  Somewhere along the path he went totally left-wing liberal activist.  Lear recently had the following to  say about our society right here between the seas.

“I want to suggest that we lefties start laying claim to what we see as ’sacred’ and serve it up proudly to the religious right — to the James Dobson, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Karl Rove … hatemongers, sheathed in sanctity, and to the Koch brothers, the types that fund them and use them so effectively for their own political power-grabbing purposes. Over the past several decades, the power-grabbing right has built a powerful infrastructure — radio and TV stations and networks. They’ve built think tanks, colleges and law schools.”

If only the powerful infrastructure Norman speaks of really is a constitutionally minded right-wing as he seems to think it has become.   Sure the silent majority has been awakened, evidenced by the activities of the Tea Parties, but the left-wing still control the air waves, the major news broadcasts and the entertainment industry, and Washington bureaucratic agencies.  The silent majority of America must still abide by the regulations imposed over the past decades by the leftists, the idealists, the elites, the utopians who wish to control the everyday behavior of the average.   Except for a few years over the past century, this liberal group has controlled the Washington political agenda.  They hope for changes that will transform America and the western culture into something they like to call a fair, equal and diverse politically correct culture of citizens who walk the line . . .  with their hands in their pockets, their mouths shut and their eyes on the prize of the ideology that all men have the same and think the same.

But, that is not and never will be reality.  We the people are too diverse for that.  We humans treasure our freedoms.

We all inherently know that too.  We also know that there are some things we’d change if we could, but we also inherently know that we don’t have the power to impose our wills over the idiot down the street who does not take care of his property running down the value of mine and the other neighbors.  So, we hope and pray that he/she would come to their senses someday, or perhaps just move out.   That’s the sum of it locally.  Locally here in Oklahoma, the rest of fly over country along with the local neighborhoods on the east coast and yes, liberal California too.  Everyone one of us wishes for a better tomorrow.  Everyone one of us hope and pray that this year will somehow turn out to be better than last year.   But there are still too many of us who just hope and pray and never think about the agendas, the corruption and self-serving maneuvers of the people we elect.   Far too many Americans do not bother.

If the we the people took the time to relate how we like local things to be governed with the way the feds govern, then America just might be running a fiscally solvent governmental budget that is balanced each year, where members of congress honor the constitution, the bill of rights and each other and treat the average citizen as their equal.  But locally, it is becoming more and more under the direct influence of those elites who wish to impose their idealistic utopian desires on all of us.  Norman Lear has it all wrong.   The religious right is the backbone of America, the silent majority, the tea party attendees, and we should stay away from the decadence of Hollywood productions.

The media is left-wing telecasting only sound-bite parts of news that draws attention.   Hollywood has been presenting America with immoral bedroom activity as the new expected norm.  Academia is ideologically left-wing progressively Darwin driven.  Our public school system is controlled by left-wing diversity monitors so that all children get no more than the lowest achievers.  The political make-up in Washington has been democratic left-wing for so many years passing so that a republican controlled congress for 4 years seems to be a real disaster, an impending doom, an end to their power forever and forever.   The democrats have held control of the House for 62 continuous years till the take over by republicans in ‘95 which ended without much restoration.

Thomas Jefferson said: “let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

If only that Constitution was revered by lawmakers.

Yep, the season of giving and getting is here again.  The malls are crowded.  We get pictures of the kiddies sitting on the knee of Santa at the Mall.  The Salvation Army is ringing their bells.  Cars have the streets jammed.   We’re all in a bustle and hustle to get it all done before the holiday from work comes.  Retailers depend on it.  The media blames our many woes upon the commercializing and find the poorest to exploit.   Politicians seek a microphone to tell you what you want to hear from them.  The churches will be at capacity.  We hope we can experience a flash mob at the mall singing carols.

Merry Christmas to all, and regardless of what the media and the powerful in our society claims, Christ continues to be Christmas.  Taking Christ out of the holiday season in various ways has been going on for hundreds of years.  Nothing new.  But still, what does Santa have to do with honoring the birth of Jesus?  What does stringing lights across the roofs of our homes have to do with promoting the birth of the Savior?  What does a lighted trimmed fresh cut evergreen have to do with the birth of the King of Kings?

And yet Christmas still remains to be a time to honor the long ago miracle birth of the one who came in the form of man to sacrifice himself to redeem us all from our wayward sinful ways.

And so, Merry Christmas to all.

Make it a joyful time together with your family and friends.