Let's Talk Solution

It is easy for the state to say there is no money for things and to start closing down services. We have the opportunity with these blogs to not only rant about what is wrong, but also to be the change with ideas.

Let's take one recent occurrence which is a cut in basic services, roadside Rest Stops. Okay there's no money for it right? I say wrong.

My solution:

Let's take those nice little homes at the Rest Stop throw in 6 bunkbeds and a security guard. Run 3 shifts with 2 inmate trustees to clean the facilities. The inmates need guards anyway. The inmates need housing anyway. And the inmates need to be able to acclimate back into society and start paying back society. The inmates will have more freedom. And travelers will have clean rest stops. I say it's a win win situation, but big government hasn't taken the initiative to look for solutions.

Let's take a look at our border problems. We need a wall on the border, and we need new prisons. We need to stop the flood of illegals crossing our border.

My solution:

Let's put new prisons ON THE BORDER. Maybe when the prisoners look out their windows at how bad it is in Mexico, they will think twice about how good they had it in America. You could make long skinny prisons so the walls make up the border fence. And hey if they escape into Mexico, big freakin' deal!! It's time the Mexicans get to have the worst of our society dump on them for awhile. As a matter of fact let's move every prison to the border. Also let's move the National Guard and Reserve base to the border. And hey wouldn't it be brilliant to have the Border Patrol facilities located ON THE BORDER! And the National Guard and Reserves are already getting paid, so why does the governor need the Feds to pay them to guard the border? Just let me do their training exercise ON THE BORDER. What a concept, the military doing real world exercises just like the work they would be doing in Iraq, only instead of pretending to be working they could actually earn their pay by working.

Do you have solutions?

Let's hear them. Just because Barry Soteros is trying to destroy our country is no reason to give up. Let's push back and get mad. Let's show the government that we aren't going to fall for the lame excues.

Finally the POTUS tells the truth

President Obama says the tea party movement is based on those who doubt his eligibility to occupy the Oval Office.

Asked in an interview on the "Today" show about the tea party opposition to his plans in Washington, Obama said, "I think that it is still a loose amalgam of forces. There is a part of the tea party movement that actually did exist before I was elected. We saw some of it leading up to my election.

"There are some folks who just aren't sure I was born in the United States, whether I was a socialist," he said.

"That's segment of it which I think is just dug in ideologically. That strain has existed in American politics for a long time," he said.

He said around that "core" in the tea party is a circle of people "who are concerned about the deficit, who are legitimately concerned that the federal government may be taking on too much."

He said the "emergency measures" he took over the last year to give taxpayer money to banking institutions and automobile companies "fed that sense that things are out of control."

"These are folks who have legitimate concerns," he said.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=134033

Thanks Barry Soteros for finally saying ONE true thing! And on those words I WILL stand opposed to it.

Arizona Ballot Initiative

We need a ballot initiative that will choke off the funds of the Federal Reserve since these bankers are the ones truly running the destruction of our country. I don't know if we have enough TEA Party members to make it happen since an initiative requires 153,365 signatures. And the initiative needs a penalty built into it so there is criminal and civil repercussions. I would word it like this:

"The reporting of income for taxation, and the paying of income taxes shall be illegal. Anyone reporting income for taxation purposes shall be guilty of a class 6 felony, and shall be civilly liable for not less than $10,000 to the person for whom income was reported for taxation purposes."

This initiative would end income tax payments from the state of Arizona, and would attract a bunch of businesses since income tax would be made illegal. This would end the stranglehold of the Fed and be a beginning to the end of unfair taxes in this country. Can it be written better? I'm sure there are plenty of liberals who would try to prevent it from getting passed since they want to preserve the EIC credits and other welfare provisions of the income tax, plus they would fearmonger that the government couldn't operate without income taxes even though 100% of income taxes paid go to the Federal Reserve Banks for paying off interest on America's loans. If every state in the union passed legislation like this then the IRS would have to be dissolved. Right now the Obamacare calls for 16,500 new IRS agents to enforce Obamacare.

Shroud of Turin

While talking to a colleague about a show he watched on the Shroud of Turin, I thought it would make an interesting topic. I discovered the following website on the subject: http://www.shroudstory.com which had a page on frequently asked questions: http://www.shroudstory.com/shroud-of-turin-faq.htm. The 3rd question and answer brought up an interesting moral conundrum:

Q. 3) Didn't a forger confess to a bishop in the mid-1300s?
The actual details are that in 1389, Pierre d'Arcis, the Bishop of Troyes wrote a draft of a memorandum to the Avignon Pope Clement VII. The memorandum was never sent. The account is second hand. Pierre claimed that his predecessor, Bishop Henri de Poitiers of Troyes conducted an inquest in which a painter had confessed to painting the Shroud. The painter is unnamed. The inquest is not in the historical records. At least eight other documents of the period challenge the accuracy of the d'Arcis Memorandum.

If I were an acclaimed painter/forger living at that time who converted to christianity and believing that the shroud were the genuine article, then I might choose to lie (moral dilemma) and say that I had faked the shroud (not to deminish it's authenticity), but to try to get it out of the hands of a people who collect relics and artifacts for worship. The last thing the church needs is more icons and I would hope that I could get the shroud into the hands of true believers who would protect it as a symbol of the resurrection we christians all hope for in Christ.

So am skeptical even if the forger did confess since I know nothing about the forger's faith. And plenty of bishops have been lied to throughout the history of the Catholic church to protect true christian worship.

N'est-ce pas?

Political Morality

I suppose these days Politics and Morals are juxtaposed. How is it that the two could possibly co-exist? They co-exist in the fabric of fantasy or perhaps opportunity. Whatever is politically advantageous becomes a perceived reality.

At one time perhaps politics and morality were not mutually exclusive. When good people choose to avoid conflict by disengaging themselves from the political process then there is a breakdown in morals and ethics, because good ethics require good people to ensure their survival.

We live in a culture of fear that chains the hopes of the best among us to a poverty of inaction. Lesser people in more fearsome times have risen to the challenge and martyred themselves for self convictions - but only when those convictions were based on a purpose beyond their world.

Only G-d is able to pull us up beyond ourselves and choose convictions over comfort. This world of Blogs seems innocent and humble, but many have lost their lives en-scribing their thoughts in print. So perhaps I can manage to grasp the Hand of G-d and yours at the same time and He can pull us all up out of our easy chair to a seat of honor few can sit in.

There is a seat reserved in hallowed halls not for whisperers or backbiters, but for far superior beings with loud bellows of "repent", "take up your cross" and "encourage one another". When the sweat and the ilk is wiped from the garment of our own souls, then we can begin to clean the the filth off those around us so they can finally see the world around them without their tainted fecal goggles.

There is my brothers and sisters hope in a dying world. He is Jesus. Only by embracing Him can we begin the journey, and unfetter the shackles of the cruel correctness gestapo.

Let us be truthful in Love and not correct in complicitness.