Congress and their "services to the people"

Recently I read an article on how congress had been caving in to right wing conservative groups. Being a right wing conservative I resent that. Apparently according to the latest election the majority of Americans are more conservative than the media would like you to think. Our downfall as a whole is that we have tried to think the best of poloticians and therefore lots of people didn't vote because they didn't think that they needed to. Now years later Congress and the courts have decided to take on the deeper issues of morality. This now becomes difficult because we have been teaching evolution in our schools for a couple decades now. The Bible has been forced out of public schools. In Vermont where I live, and I believe in many other states the Bible originally was the only textbook. As an educator you are only allowed to share your belief if it coincides with the administration of the school. The media and Hollywood has run unchecked for decades.

The result of all this is that we have a very skewed view of morality, God's involvment in our lives, and in general a very twisted view of what free speech means. To offend used to mean that we didn't use what everyone considered to foul language in public places. Now even the most "vulgar" language is flowing freely in every public place. It makes me think that we maybe are in some kind of regressive evolution or something. Humans are getting stupider.

How can our society and especially our government deem themselves worthy to be the judge over these moral issues. When you take away any basis for morality there becomes nothing immoral. When you open that can of worms, please tell me, where do you stop? Honestly, there is no stopping place. Sin is very regressive, the more you sin the deeper you must delve into sin if you don't check yourself. That is exactly where we are going. I know it and you, you know who you are, know it. I have(and still have) sin in my life. I have let it run rampant before and the end of it was more pain, until I made it right. If I allow my sins now to overcome me then I will be pulled deeper and deeper into sin.

My point in this rant is that the government should leave the deeper issues alone. The people have spoken their will and will continue to do so. Contrary to public opinion we live in a republic, a society governed by the rule of law. Lately we have been something else. Judges seem to know better than we do what law should be. Get this, a Nebraska Judge OVERTURNED A CONSTITUTIONAL AMMENDMENT!!! How on earth can one man be allowed to make that decision. The Constitution is supposed to be the highest law and the judges are supposed to interpret it. Gay are not given special priveleges in the constitution. If we look back to when all the constitutions were written we would find that the society then would definitely have never put any rights for them in the Constitution. I know here in Vermont that is true. 100 years ago the law wasn't very friendly to them.

We are allowing people with no standards to apply their own standards to their decisions. They need to look at the laws and base their decision soley off the laws. Not personal opinion.

The American people want Bush's nominees to have an up or down vote. Obviously we didn't want John Kerry putting his people in there or we would have voted him in. Thank you for your attention if you have made it to the end of this post.

Here's my house

Graduation

Yesterday was a day of wonder of knowledge and sore behinds. We sat on the benches for quite a while. Michelle has now officially graduated.

After that we went and played soccer. We are part of a soccer league with IBM. That is who I work for. Buy stuff from them. See I am advertising for my company. See if the google adsense picks that up.



Healthy Post

This will be a very unusual post but I must do it. I have added a link on the sidebar about your health. The web site is operated by a person I work with. You may not agree with all he says but I think that it can clearly be seen that our health has a lot to do with what we eat and our exercise habits. Enjoy Focus on Nutrition

Personal Stuff

Yes I am finally buying a house. It is a nice old house in a certain place. I am going to inspect it again this weekend and will have pictures of it to post. It is currently a 3 unit home. I will be turning it into a 4 unit home. My family and I will have someplace to stay when we go to Rutland other than my inlaws house. No more smoke filled rooms and smoke saturated clothing!!!
Hopefully my younger brother will be renting for a really good deal, a small closet to place himself in. I'll let him use the shower on a monthly basis.

Higher powers willing I will be closing on August 1, 2005. The partying will then begin!! Hope the tenents don't mind.

If that's how they want it.

I have always said we should start suing back. Halleluyah!!
Woman Prohibited From Reading Bible Sues School

Preacher politicians

Don't misunderstand me after this post. I believe that preachers, elders, pastors and other Church leaders need to speak out on moral issues and encourage congregations to vote in elections.

As the debate has turned some and now they are talking about changing the laws to allow preachers to talk about politics from the pulpit my thinking has changed. At first I was like, yes they should be able to talk about specific people, then as I have learned and observed, my mind has changed.

The only reason Republicans, of which I am one, want the change is because the politicians have realized that at this point it will benefit them. Winds of change blow by and it will benefit the other party. This also puts the power in the hands of a religious leader to manipulate un-educated(about politics), un-informed people.

Our system is supposed to work by people becoming educated about what the candidates believe, their convictions and their goals. It needs to stay that way. Like it or not people are sometimes blind followers.

Another simpler explanation is the fact that the law has been working well up till this time. LEAVE IT ALONE!! A change would bring about another change and before you know it Churches and other non-profits would not be tax-exempt. This would be devastating to our country.

This comment was prompted by this article on Foxnews.com

Stupidity!!

Give me a Break!! See what eveolution does to us!!!

Racial Profiling

First of all no offense is meant by this post to any person from any race. However if you are honest you will agree with me. This article to me shows that we are treating terrorism like the Emporer Who Wore No Clothes.

The peole who have done most(not all) have been middle eastern men. Would it not make sense to show them a little more attention than others? I don't mind being pulled out of a line to be searched and scritinized, but use some common sense here.

We just had one of our own soldiers who was a muslim kill people from his own company because they might kill some of his "muslim brothers". Surprise, Surprise he had a middle eastern name and is from middle eastern descent.

Human beings tend to try to defend themselves. We know what happened when we were fighting the Japanese. Crimes against them rose rapidly. This is not right. In my opinion any crime against any person no matter what the motivation deserves the same punishment and it should be harsh. I am talking about the people who would commit any crime against a middle eastern person, gay person, black person, white person, male, or female.

My point is that we know where the bulk of the attention should be applied yet we ignore it.

Homosexual "Marriage" Ban Banned

There is a quote in this article that caught my attention and it is a topic that has gnawed at me for a long time. Fox News
Democratic state Sen. Sheila Kuehl... predicted otherwise. "This is about America, the place where no civil rights movement has ever failed,"

She is absolutely right of course. If this were a civil rights movement it would not fail. Right now they are losing. A number of states have passes Gay Marriage Bans. It irks me to no end that there is not a discussion of whether or not this is a civil rights issue. The language has been adopted and people assume that it is. They listen to the rhetoric of one side and don't look any further. No study, from an un-biased group, has shown "being gay" to be a natural thing. We know it isn't because: 1st the Bible tells us it isn't, 2nd If it were natural you could not come out of the lifestyle. I could go on but you get my point. If we are to be honest and make good laws then we need to see if there is a need for it. If "gay" people were not born the way they are then this isn't a civil rights issue. Let's put that on the table.

Evolution again

You would thing that these "scientists" would attend hearings on evolution. If they have nothing to hide and evolution is true then they should be there. Evolution Hearings

Raising Kids

Want to see a good video about raising kids. Here's a pretty good one. Raising Kids(the joys)

The Beginning

I couldn't keep quiet any longer so I had to start doing this stuff. Check out the article Doubting Darwin - Newsweek I just can't believe the ignorance in this article. First of all I.D. has been the accepted "theory" for a very long time you didn't have to teach it. It was taught long before Darwin and will last till God comes back. I.D. is not new! A person who reads this article in ignorance would think this is a new controversy, this is exactly what they want you to think. The average un-educated, un-informed shmuck will believe this. More to come later.
A true reporter would be truthfull about the whole controversy.