Obumer has the solution. Quickly everyone run out and buy a new Fuel-Efficient car and just ignore the gas prices!

Wait this isn’t this kinda like “Cash-for-Klunkers” and checking the tire pressure in your tires to save on gas right? BTW Obumer’s precious Chevy Volt… ya GM just announced that it is suspending the creation of these $43,000 electric cars ($8000 just to setup a charging station at your home) because no one wants them.

Oh Oh I got an idea that will top all of these. Everyone stop driving and start riding bicycles that way you don’t have to buy any gas and you can be more healthy. I think they should pass a law like that so that way we can FORCE American citizens to do what is good for them…

GET THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE AND LET ME LIVE IT AS A FREE MAN LIKE MY FOUNDERS INTENDED YOU ELITEST BUTT HOLES!

However, maybe I am wrong.

I would love the idea of having the United States once again become an independent nation and able to cut the umbilical cord from the rest of the world. Currently we are looking at a global finance collapse if the Euro looses all value. And to have China and Japan own the majority of our bonds, making us dependent on their loans, is REALLY unnerving.

President George Washington, one of my utmost heroes, said in his departing address:

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So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. 

As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public councils. Such an attachment of a small or weak towards a great and powerful nation dooms the former to be the satellite of the latter. 

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests. 

The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. 

Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. 

Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? 

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. 

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George Washington’s Farewell Address – 1796 @ Yale.edu (http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/washing.asp)

George Washington says in 1796 that we should not entangle ourselves with foreign governments do to foreign influence coming onto our shores. Well it would have been wise to follow this direction and I agree with him 100%. HOWEVER! We are a long way away from keeping that from happening. We have a completely different government and policies from when Washington was alive. We have been weak in this aspect starting just before the turn of the 1900s. The American culture is so inundated with foreign influence it would take me forever to list them all. There have been groups through out the past 100 years or so that say we should model American after Europe. That we should model ourselves after communism, fascism, socialism and here lately sharia law.

One has to wonder what our country would be like if we had followed Washington’s advice and stayed away from European influence. With it being “our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world”.

That utopia has far expired and it is fantasy to think we can turn back the clock on the world so that we may correct this colossal mistake of creating “permanent alliances” with foreign country(s) and having their influence inner twined with the American experiment.

There is a large group of people in our country that wants American to pull all troops from around the world and bring them home. To not be part of an influence that we have partaken in for over a 100 years. Roosevelt tried this during his presidency with isolationism in the 1930’s, up until Japan bombed Perl Harbor. If we were to truly learn from past mistakes it would be from this costly mistake of thinking we could just pull out of the global activity and shut ourselves off from it. To “bury our heads in the sand”. This allowed Hitler and his Nazis to slaughter millions of people (11,283,000 to be exact) with 6 million of those people being of Jewish decent. The rest where his own countrymen (men, woman, children) of all intellectual walks of life, ALL butchered with institutionalized killing. This does not include 5,200,000 German citizens and military war deaths. Nor does it include 28,736,000 that died in Europe trying to stop this mad man.

“How Do You Kill 11 Million People: Why The Truth Matters More Than You Think” by Andy Andrews (on Amazon.com)

So what now?

Isolationism does not work. It’s an invite for power hungry psychopathic sociopaths to start thinking that America has become weak and possibly invade our borders. America is not immune to this type of action. If you say to yourself, “Ah that will never happen, we are America!” then you a true fool sir. It CAN happen in our country and there is nothing stopping it from happening. Terrorist got a hold of 4 fully fueled commercial aircraft and ended up being pretty effective in killing thousands of Americans just wanting to go to work or get to their destination. By the way this was CIVILIAN casualties, not military.

It really sucks that we have to have our men and women deployed around the world and yes we are used as Global policeman. Do I like it? Not really. But its a reality from Washington DC’s bad policies.

Can we ever bring all of our military home? Tell you what, when you can get more than 10 million people to vote during a Federal election when there are over a 100 million registered voters, we might be able to change the course of this beautiful dream we hold on to called America. Until people start becoming more active in WHO is leading them then we are faced with the direction we are currently heading in.

I close with this last thought. When we were blessed to have George Washington as a leader the weapons used of his time were cannons and musket loaders to name a couple. I don’t think George Washington, as brilliant of a man that he was, would have imagined a Nuclear tipped ballistic missile that could annihilate an entire metropolitan area with one blow. I think he would say that our current foreign policy, needs improvement, but that we should keep an eye on the rest of the world.

Thanks for reading my rambling. God Bless

@RANGERP, I don’t know who you are or where you are today but from the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU for serving your country and taking care of us under your watch. God bless your family and good fortunes. Come home safe to us.

Over the past few days these words have had a huge impact on my life. Some events have occurred recently in my life where these words have come to my aid in my struggles in understanding what I am dealing with in life. I offer these words to everyone who are struggling with difficult times. God Bless

The Armor of God

12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

I started using this application on my Blackberry a couple of months ago and have found it indespensible for keeping up with my daily reading assignments for learning the Scripture. There are many different interfaces for this application so you DON’T have to have a mobile phone to use this. As a matter of fact the web interface is very easy to use and I have not run into any issues with it as of yet.

UPDATE: Just got an email as I was writing this post from YouVersion.com that stated that the application now being used by 9.1 million users. Just the month of August they saw record growth of 900,000 new mobile users. They say that September is expected to be much more.

Thank the Lord that people are are starting to seek His wisdom once again.

I find it astonishing how this book published in 1957 so closely reflects to today’s social issues. Please, if you have not done so either read or listen to this book.

Atlas Shrugged on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

Ayn Rand University: http://www.aynrand.org

I would really appreciate any feedback on this.

Deuteronomy 28:15-68 (New International Version)

Curses for Disobedience
15 However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

17 Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

18 The fruit of your womb will be cursed, and the crops of your land, and the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

19 You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

20 The Lord will send on you curses, confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking him. 21 The Lord will plague you with diseases until he has destroyed you from the land you are entering to possess. 22 The Lord will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish. 23 The sky over your head will be bronze, the ground beneath you iron.

24 The Lord will turn the rain of your country into dust and powder; it will come down from the skies until you are destroyed.

25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will come at them from one direction but flee from them in seven, and you will become a thing of horror to all the kingdoms on earth. 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors, festering sores and the itch, from which you cannot be cured. 28 The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness and confusion of mind.

29 At midday you will grope about like a blind man in the dark. You will be unsuccessful in everything you do; day after day you will be oppressed and robbed, with no one to rescue you.
30 You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and ravish her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will eat none of it. Your donkey will be forcibly taken from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them. 32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, and you will wear out your eyes watching for them day after day, powerless to lift a hand. 33 A people that you do not know will eat what your land and labor produce, and you will have nothing but cruel oppression all your days. 34 The sights you see will drive you mad.

35 The Lord will afflict your knees and legs with painful boils that cannot be cured, spreading from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

36 The Lord will drive you and the king you set over you to a nation unknown to you or your fathers. There you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone.

37 You will become a thing of horror and an object of scorn and ridicule to all the nations where the Lord will drive you.

38 You will sow much seed in the field but you will harvest little, because locusts will devour it. 39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. 40 You will have olive trees throughout your country but you will not use the oil, because the olives will drop off. 41 You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.

42 Swarms of locusts will take over all your trees and the crops of your land.

43 The alien who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

44 He will lend to you, but you will not lend to him. He will be the head, but you will be the tail.

45 All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God and observe the commands and decrees he gave you. 46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever. 47 Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity,

48 therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

49 The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the ends of the earth, like an eagle swooping down, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a fierce-looking nation without respect for the old or pity for the young. 51 They will devour the young of your livestock and the crops of your land until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine or oil, nor any calves of your herds or lambs of your flocks until you are ruined.

52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the Lord your God is giving you.

53 Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege, you will eat the fruit of the womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you. 54 Even the most gentle and sensitive man among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his surviving children, 55 and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating. It will be all he has left because of the suffering your enemy will inflict on you during the siege of all your cities. 56 The most gentle and sensitive woman among you—so sensitive and gentle that she would not venture to touch the ground with the sole of her foot—will begrudge the husband she loves and her own son or daughter

57 the afterbirth from her womb and the children she bears. For she intends to eat them secretly during the siege and in the distress that your enemy will inflict on you in your cities.

58 If you do not carefully follow all the words of this law, which are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome name—the Lord your God— 59 the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your descendants, harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. 60 He will bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will cling to you. 61 The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and disaster not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed. 62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

63 Just as it pleased the Lord to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

64 Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. 65 Among those nations you will find no repose, no resting place for the sole of your foot. There the Lord will give you an anxious mind, eyes weary with longing, and a despairing heart. 66 You will live in constant suspense, filled with dread both night and day, never sure of your life. 67 In the morning you will say, “If only it were evening!” and in the evening, “If only it were morning!”—because of the terror that will fill your hearts and the sights that your eyes will see.

68 The Lord will send you back in ships to Egypt on a journey I said you should never make again. There you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.