Political labels

It has actually been intellectually refreshing to purposely stay away from political news and ponder life in general instead. I can't believe that I can honestly say that I have a vague idea of Sarah Palin's resignation . . . no details . . . and I don't want them. Actually, I am itching to get back into what's happening in political news, but way too happy personally to bring myself down with it!

Can you relate? We really can't afford to bury our heads in the sand and hope the bad news will go away, we need to facilitate change in political business as usual . . .

One of the political conclusions I have recently come to is that I am severely conflicted as to what political label to affix myself to . . . or does it even matter anymore?

Seems to me that the political world has gone absolutely wacko and even those proudly wearing those political labels are confused at best. Everything is about the money anymore . . . greed drives politics . . . corporations actually own US politics, so it doesn't matter how many protest signs are waved and how many people are waving them.

Put your protest signs away and pick up your phone . . . bombard your political representatives with your views and opinions on how they are doing. The ultimate message happens at the voting booth and don't think they don't pay attention to those phone calls . . .

There is strength in numbers . . . let your voice be heard and get out to vote . . . in the end, that is what counts.

Listened briefly . . .

I'm sick of hearing how our fearless leader accepts criticism of this great country from the world . . . who take our military assistance when they need it and greedily take our money although they "hate" us. What I hate is having someone represent "me" who agrees with the world and loves to join the chorus of bashing the United States and everything we have stood for.

As is with anything, I try to see the other side. I understand the theory of "trying something different" since not dealing with the thugs of the world has seemingly brought on animosity. However, doesn't agreeing with them make us the weak loser and empower them . . . rationalize their warped thinking? A different approach is one thing, but bashing our country isn't acceptable to me.

I'll stop before I lose the euphoric feelings I've been experiencing from the reality of blossoming love in my life . . . the radio has once again been turned off.

This news junkie is burned out way beyond charred . . .

Are we living in the end times?

Those who have hated the United States had their week when the "chickens came home to roost" with President Obama apologizing to world about who "we" are. Not since Jimmy Carter running around the world criticizing the US . . . Richard Nixon with his deceptive ways and Bill Clinton with his sleazy ways have I been so ashamed of one of my leaders.

Didn't we get a clue of the Obama mentality when Michelle made the statement during the campaign that "this is the first time I'm proud of my country" . . . I will always remember this past week as the time President Obama trashed his presidency in my eyes. As a proud American, I accepted him as my president and had so much hope that he would be the one to get it right and make the appropriate changes necessary to bring us back. I was wrong . . . he wants to change the US into something we will not recognize . . . it is already foreign to me.

This mentality is very difficult for me to digest since I am not a liberal . . . for that matter, I'm not really a true conservative either . . . no matter, I'm trying to understand since this is the new reality of the United States . . . we have changed as a country, almost over night. I'm having a very hard time dealing with this . . .

I have somewhat dismissed the religious hype of a "one world government" . . . in many ways it concerns me, mainly because I'm a bible believing Christian and the book of Revelations is my least favorite. After this week, it is becoming clear to me that the political agenda is not one that is regional . . . it is of one world.

And I have laughed at Rush Limbaugh calling President Obama "the Messiah" . . . I'm not laughing today, I'm genuinely concerned.

I didn't listen to the news all weekend, enjoying music and my happy content mood. As I listened to Sean Hannity yesterday, it all started to hit me . . . after Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh today, I'm almost convinced that we are at the edge of the end times.

What is sad to me . . . there is not a politician out there who speaks for me . . . that voice died with Ronald Reagan . . .

Scumbag of the week

Levi Johnston got his 15 minutes of fame this week blabbing about his sex life with Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol.

First of all . . . Tyra Banks lost my respect with this one. I always held her in high esteem as a classy lady with so much going for her . . . now she has drug herself through the mud and is no better than having a tabloid trash talk show . . . step aside Jerry Springer . . . here comes Tyra to dish the dirt on celebrities.

At one time it was my opinion that her talk show was really credible, exposing who we are as a society. The show that really sticks in my mind had Tyra dressing up in a fat suit to show how society reacts to those unfortunate enough to have a weight problem.

She's sold out to the seedy side of society, dishing out trash talk that is no one's business. And this guy . . . what girl in her right mind would want to date this weasel after showing that he has absolutely no class at all? Didn't he think about that before he went on television for his 15 minutes of scumbag fame?

Back to the sexual content of the conversation being no one's business . . . is this what it takes to entertain us now? Have we become that bored and perverted as a society that we have to snoop into the intimate sexual details of celebrities? Is this what we want to watch on television? Haven't we gone too far as to what we think is acceptible?

The deterioration of our society continues . . . here is a clip of Tyra Banks' segment with the scumbag . . .

The "Good" Nuclear Country

Iran has confounded the world with its refusal to back down from its nuclear ambitions as intelligence analysts around the world warn that it may use its power plant in order to develop nuclear weapons.

While the U.S. and UN have imposed sanctions on Iran, America is also boosting another Persian Gulf country as a model for responsible use of nuclear power—the United Arab Emirates.

According to the Wall Street Journal, dozens of American engineers, lawyers, and businessmen have traveled to Abu Dhabi to jump start the country's plan to build its first nuclear-power program by 2017.

A senior White House official told the Journal that it sees the UAE's plan, which includes an agreement to buy nuclear fuel from abroad rather than enrich its own potentially weapons-grade material, as a "model for the world."

Source: The Daily Beast

While I'm an advocate for new technology and making life better . . . technology that holds "good and evil" in the wrong hands is subject for concern, no matter who it is. Last year at this time who would have thought that an American president would have the power to "fire" the CEO of one of the world's largest corporations? Seems like these "political" world situations can change over night.

Why does this make me so nervous? Today the UAE is seen as a "model for the world" . . . but what about tomorrow?

Remember Iran under the leadership of the Shah? Weren't they a "model for the world" . . . a democracy? This was within my lifetime.

I feel like I've slept for a year and woke up on another planet . . .

O'Reilly on Letterman

I love the way David Letterman was rendered speechless several times . . . I must say, I'm WAY partial . . . Bill O'Reilly is one of my heroes, although I really like David Letterman too, as an entertainer :-) This proves that entertainers need to stay out of politics . . . or so it seems to me.

The cable news king, Bill O'Reilly, made an appearance on Letterman last night to promote his 100th consecutive month as the #1 cable news show and Bill gave a spirited defense of Glenn and Rush that, at times left Letterman speechless. When Letterman asked about a line in the Times article, O'Reilly hit it spot on----solid stuff from 'The Factor' host. Source: Glenn Beck's newsletter

The blog is back . . .

A while back I shut down my "current events" blog because I didn't want to be political online . . . my thought on politics is that I am one person, my opinions won't change the world, so I opted to not write about anything controversial.

However, the world is rapidly changing and it bothers me. It is not my intent to be critical and partisan about current events. I could care less about the labels . . . but I do care about my personal freedom and have enjoyed living in a free country as I've known it.

I'm torn about the bailouts, but common sense tells me that failing businesses should be allowed to fail, just like individuals have to fail and start over again.

Many of those of the conservative persuasion disagree with the government dictating what these companies can and can't do, or decide if an executive needs to go . . . but I believe that if taxpayer dollars are running that business and they would be out of business otherwise, all bets are off and they no longer have "capitalist freedoms" until they pay the government loans back.

There has been one voice that is really speaking to me . . . his name is Glenn Beck. Love him or hate him . . . he has common sense and just about everything he says makes sense to me.

The New York Times did an article on Glenn Beck . . . click here to read the article.

Much more to come on Glenn Beck and some projects and philosophies to think about . . . in particular, the attitude we had on September 12 . . . what happened to it? We have all but forgotten how we felt on that day . . .