Catch-Up

Having been unable to write yesterday, I must play catch-up today and write yesterday's blog. So here it is.

Wow! Today has been crazy. I knew I was going to have a lot of shipping so I started almost first thinin the morning. We have three POET rack systems to ship out and each one takes me from a hour and a half to two hours to pack up and ship. These just happened to be slightly larger systems and also the paperwork was incomplet for them so packing them up took extra time. I finished everything at about 4:45pm. UPS normally arrives at 4:30, but luckily he arrived a few minutes late and was patient as I finished up. So in the end I had packed up three POET systems and one random small box with an LCD display and some documentation. In all it made for a very busy, tiring day. Now I am home and am exhausted. I grabbed a $5 Litlle Caesar's Hot and Ready Pizza on my way home and the new Indiana Jones movie so we have just been vegging out and watching that. All in all this has been a very nice Friday evening. Riley is asleep now and we are about to head up and read for a while before going to sleep. I got a new Abraham Lincoln book from the library which I am excited to read. Life is good :-).

On Being "Pro Choice"

Professor Robert George of Princeton University on the Glenn Beck Program.
October 17, 2008

"Well, ['pro choice' is] a mistaken label because it pushes off stage the real issue that determines where a person stands on the question of abortion and that is the legitimacy of the choice. If abortion is, as I believe it is and as I believe you can prove it is very easily as a matter of scientific fact, the intentional killing of a living human being, a member of our species, one of our tiny brothers and sisters, then if you believe that that killing is a legitimate choice, whether you call yourself pro choice or not, you are favoring abortion. You are favoring the legitimacy of abortion. It's a legitimate choice. It's not an injustice. If you are on the other side, on the pro life side, then, of course, you are opposed to abortion. So it's not a question of choice. It's a question of whether we think the action is killing an innocent person, is a grave injustice, is an ill legitimate choice or not. If you think it's legitimate, then you are for it. If not, you are against it. Compare it with slavery. Just take another example, another moral issue. Compare it with slavery. There were plenty of people at the founding of the United States -- Thomas Jefferson was one -- who said, look, slavery is a bad thing. It's terrible that we have it. I prefer a world without slavery. But the world we have is one with which slavery is integrated into our economy and into our culture and there would be dire consequences for farms and businesses where slavery is used and for the society as a whole if we abolish slavery, therefore reluctantly I'm going to support the choice of people to have a slave. But that wasn't being pro choice on slavery. That was being pro slavery. It was treating slavery as a legitimate choice. Again the issue is, is it legitimate or is it a grave injustice. If it's legitimate, then you're for it, whether it's slavery or abortion. And if it's illegitimate, then you are against it."

I Am Tired

This day has been pretty wild. I have far more work than I can get done and I have been having to re-prioritize my day over and over. And then whenever I start doing something I am reminded by someone that they need something else done. Either way I keep filing all this away in my head or on my computer but the sheer volume of information descending on me is filling everything I have to the breaking point. My brain has been full since about 9:30 this morning so my body has taken to storing information in my appendix and belly button. Once they are full I am not sure what I am going to do because everything else in my body pretty much has a function already and probably can't deal with storing the extra information. Yes, that is me right now. I am tired and miss my beautiful girls.

Why Barack Hussein Obama is not only wrong, but terrifying

Barack and Friends: (Television Special)
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_HZMD97nMw
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1TAnDcQyjA
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y3U383Ffuk
Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7g__--BJ9I
Part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxCZzxEfUAs
Part 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxfQD4If7kk

On the Freedom of Choice Act: (Barack Supports 100% Freedom for Abortions and opposed parental notification for minors)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0__ctD48nfQ

On National Defense: (Barack is going to dramatically cut back our nation's defenses)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE

On Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac: (Obama received the 2nd most amount of money from both corrupt corporations)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-_HlpZ8azA

On Iraq Flip-Flopping: (He can't tell the same story twice)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHEIi4XKRmM

Glenn Beck: What Are The Odds? (Barack is either a liar or the most unlucky guy in the world)
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/16820/

On the "Born Alive Infant Protection Act": (Barack supports infanticide)
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/196/15318/

On Redistribution of Wealth: (This is called Marxism and was implements in the wonderful Soviet Union)
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10152008/news/politics/obama_fires_a_robin_hood_warning_shot_133685.htm

On ACORN: (Barack worked with ACORN and supported them financially)
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/16762/

On the Perception of Obama as a "new" or "different" kind of politician: (Barack used slimy methods to get into politics just like everyone else)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/obamas_alinsky_jujitsu.html

On Alleged Lies about his ethnicity:
http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/2008/02/barak-obama-questions-about-ethnic.html

Final McCain/Obama Debate

The debate ended a little bit ago and I have just been browsing the internet while listening to the post-debate analysis. It is very typical: "McCain was terrible... but Barack was great and presidential and so refreshingly different!!!" I thought the debate was better than the last two, but it was still pretty boring. McCain can not be tought, hard as he tries. The problem is that neither of the candidates are real leaders, so you just have two people with authority but no qualities of leadership. In the end the debates and campaigns just seem hollow. It is sad. Where is a leader? President Bush is a leader, Sarah Palin is a leader, Rick Santorum is a leader, Tom Delay is a leader, Newt Gingrich is a leader. But neither of the people we have running for President. I have been a reading a book by John MacArthur called The Book On Leadership and it is so depressing to read because I see how far our candidates fall from being true leaders. But at least McCain has some opinions than Barack and is not friends with racists and communists. I definitely hope McCain wins the election, but I am excited for the day when a true leader rises up (like Ronald Reagan) who posesses the true qualities of leadership and can inspire our nation to follow him. That will be a wonderful day.

How about those "Bitter Americans clinging to guns and religion"

Everyone Needs To See This

Oh The Joy of Manure :-)

My goodness it is beautiful outside! I left the Warehouse and was rolling back to the shop when I smelled the wonderfully refreshing smell of cow manure! I can't stand pig manure, but there is something nostalgic and wonderful about cow manure. I had the windows down when the smell hit, and it was about a perfect moment. I looked out one window at the beautiful trees with their leaves changing, and out another at a recently harvested field, I looked at the beautiful hill before me and the hills off in the distance on every other side... wow, I love this state :-). But I so wish we lived in a more rural area.

Historic Times

The incredibly historic events that are taking place right now force me to write. We are building our future... and it is not very pretty. We have seen our government move more over the last few weeks toward socialism than ever before in our country's history. Our government just decided now that it is going to nationalize many of the country's largest banks. So that basically means they are going to buy into the companies and then put a government representative on their boards. On top of socializing our banking system, they are now vowing to guarantee all loans made by banks! Do you remember what brought Fannie and Freddie down? The government guaranteed their money and as result they took unreasonable risks and made bad decisions and crumbled as a result! Of course leaving our government with the bill. Government guarantees cause people to make bad decisions because they know that the government will bail them out.

What is going on here?

Barack Obama, A Man Of Substance

Oh, It Has Been Too Long

My goodness it has been too long since I wrote a real entry in here. Life is just so incredibly full right now that I get frustrated trying to put it into a few words. The volumes I am sorting through my head this moment could take me the rest of my life if I tried to put them into words. So now here I am, vowing to write a post every day for the rest of the year on this blog, partly because I enjoy it, but mostly for posterity. I want my children to know about my life and the world I live in. Who knows what will have changed when they grow up? Just this last week we have seen the socialization of our country's mortgage industry, and now we are on the brink of socializing the entire banking system! Even though free markets in their pure form have been tossed aside years ago by our country, at least until now they have tried to hold on to it in some small way. But at this rate, within years my children will be living in a country with socialized banking, transportation and energy. The Higher Law upon which our country was created has been forgotten and the government now has total sovereignty. It makes no difference if we have "Under God" written on our worthless paper bills anymore because the whole concept of our nation being under God's Higher Law has been entirely forgotten and replaced with total government sovereignty. Our rights, freedoms and privacy are now at the mercy of our government. Now, don't get me wrong, I still advocate for keeping "Under God" on everything we can because, God Willing, there will be a revival among Americans and we will once again give God the rightful place He should have in our country. We still are "Under God" but our government has forgotten it. Well, we will just have to see what happens. At least we can rest in the knowledge that in the end, it is God Himself who appoints the rulers of this world. And though I might not understand it, He has His own reasons and I can trust in his sovereignty.

Letter to Representative Charlie Dent

I contacted your office twice to make my concerns known on the recent "bailout" bill. I was so proud when I heard that you initially voted against it, but then... YOU VOTED FOR IT! So they add $130,000,000,000 of pork and other entirely un-related and entirely socialist provisions (the foundation for a future carbon tax?) and THEN you decide you want to support it? So now we are going to "bail out" the people who made bad business decisions (unfortunately at own government's bidding) by further inflating the dollar or borrowing money from other countries. And this being when we pay thousands per each american's head yearly just for interest on our existing debt! What is going on here!?! I know the pressure was on to sign it, but now our government is bigger than ever and we have successfully socialised our entire banking system... thanks a lot... what were you thinking? It would seem the Republicans have lost their spine, and I previously thought you still had one. Either way, I am seriously considering voting for a "write-in" rather than yourself. Sam Bennet is an idiot but you have stabbed me in the back... what really can I do here? Please contact me and tell me I still have some reason to vote for you.

Respectfully,

Ryan