Tired of the Disaster we live in today

Where to start?  Who knows, the country is in such disarray, I don't know.
The President violates his oath of office with not even a thought.  I understand why the Democrats ignore it, but the Republicans?  Why are they not challenging him?  Why do they not demand that he follow the law?  I realize Eric Holder will do nothing about it, but they ought to at least have on record that they have censured the President for what he is doing.
He has figured out that he can just refuse to enforce the laws of the land or ignore them to remold this country in the image he would like to see.
Gay Marriage, Gun control, finances, now immigration.  There are more, but these are some of the most blatant violations by him.
His bumbling, all-over-the-map foreign policy has emboldened Vladimir Putin to move against Crimea and now Ukraine.
Now the middle east is melting down and he's directly responsible.  He foolishly believed that he could just shut down the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring the troops home--thought he'd be hailed as a hero and those places would just fade into the dusty books of history. 
The fools who voted him in for a second term are partly to blame for this, as well as the prideful 4 million voters who stayed home and refused to vote for Mitt Romney.  While Romney may not have been their 'dream' candidate, he at least would not have allowed the middle east to implode and he would not have let Putin run amok, rebuilding the USSR and HE would have been taking us OUT of a recession, not sending us back into one!
They say you get the country you deserve, well, I guess we deserve the hell in a handbasket we've got today.
Disgusted but feeling a little better after a nice good rant:)

Time to clean house in Utah's Republican Party

Apparently the long knives are out for Mike Lee from members of his own party here in Utah.  Some are not happy that he refuses to 'go along to get along' doing business as usual in Washington DC.  They think they can do a better job of being carbon copy cut outs of the typical Washington politician.  I guess they haven't gotten the message that "We, The People" are tired of their schtick.
As a Utah voter who is still registered as a "Republican" (which may well change), I'm making a list of some of Lee's critics within the party who've gone after Mike Lee--so I can remember to NOT support them in any positions of power or send them any money if they try to run for office.

A. Scott Anderson
Spencer Zwick
Ex Gov Mike Leavitt
Rich McKeown
Thomas Wright
Dan Lillenquist

John Price
Fred Lampropolous
Jon Huntsman (He's not really a Republican, just figures he can win if he runs as one)

Hopefully other Republican Conservatives will wake up as well and realize our Party and whatever we might have stood for was sacrificed on the altar of these men's egos and ambitions long ago.

America gets another wake up call

Something is wrong with our society.  The Newtown shooting, the Colorado Theatre shooting and now the Naval Yard shooting are not random acts of violence, they are the acting out by some disturbed young men who were raised in a society that preaches moral relativism and where few young people were schooled in any kind of religious beliefs or practices.  They were raised in a society where a nuclear intact family is rare and even discouraged.  They were raised on a media diet of violence and in a society that believes the value of human life is relative.
Since the 1960's our society has been falling apart at a steady rate and after a couple of generations raised under these circumstances, we are now reaping the consequences.

I realize that most people who carry out these kinds of massacres are mentally ill, but mental illness alone does not create mass murderers--more ingredients need to be added to the pot for a mass murderer to develop and be able to act.  I think society has been experimenting with some very damaging things and we are now seeing the result.

There IS something wrong with our society, but it can be fixed, if we want to.  Start by loving our family members, serving others, hard, honest work and returning to a belief in moral absolutes.  Putting the needs of others first would go a long way to turning this sinking ship around.  The Savior, Jesus Christ, was our God at one time--as a nation, whether they admitted it or not, people in general lived by his code--'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you' and love God as well as your fellowmen.  Over the years, we've left the churches that taught us how to be good people, we no longer read his word, and we have elevated the pursuit of pleasure, wealth and fame as our top priority. Our heroes are degenerate narcissists.  We drug ourselves with legal and illegal substances and distract from our day to day concernes with various forms of entertainment.  We put our own selfish desires above even our own children's needs.  And then, as a society, we are shocked and appalled to find that each successive generation raised under these circumstances is more screwed up than the last.

We're better than this.  We're Americans;  that used to mean something--if you want to know what it meant, study our Nation's history; we were indeed, 'exceptional'.  It is time for us as a nation to wake up and fix this mess....the first place to start is in our own lives and with our own families.  

A Republic on the edge of demise

The Prophet of the Restoration, Joseph Smith, warned of a time when there would be a very serious threat to our Constitutional Government and he also told us the remedy;

“Even this nation will be on the verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground and when the Constitution is on the brink of ruin this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.” (Joseph Smith Papers, LDS Church Historical Archives, Box 1, March 10, 1844.)

Through out the history of our Nation, there have been a number of times when the Constitution has been threatened and it has been saved by those who have banded together to voice strong public opinion or act politically to save it.

To a Representative Republic such as ours, Nationalized Healthcare, such as Obamacare, represents a clear deviation from our Constitution and will bind Americans down and remove many of our civil liberties. 

The grassroots effort to defund Obamacare is one of those times in history and it gives every American the chance to stand up and be counted in opposing and attempting to stop the destruction of our liberties.



 http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/?gclid=CMnW2bLe67gCFY4WMgod9noASg

Gay Marriage Ruling by the Supreme Court

So, the wait is over and the High Court has spoken.  No surprises there; after seeing John Roberts efforts to salvage Obamacare last year, I was certain the court was NOT going to vote against the President's desire for California's law to be struck down. The decision on DOMA was the one I expected from this court.  Never mind that the will of the voters is ignored in favor of a couple of judges.  It will be interesting to see how they take it--though I suspect that if there are enough 'bread and circuses' to keep them distracted, Californians won't make much of a fuss.

The President immediately went on record stating that he won't force churches to perform gay marriages.  I guess he thought this was supposed to allay fears, but it only proved to me that he will eventually manipulate laws and issue executive orders to 'force' or coerce (by hook or crook) till he gets churches to bow to his will.  The very FACT that he made that statement tells me that he believes he has the power and the right to force churches to perform gay marriages.  Some will fall in line, just as they did under Nazi Pressure during Hitler's reign of terror in Germany, but others will stand against him, firm to their principles and beliefs, though they will suffer for it.

Before he won his first Presidential election, Senator Obama told an adoring audience that he was one day away from 'fundamentally transforming this country'.  He's right on track for completing his objective--I'm just not sure the transformation is what the American people had in mind and frankly, when they finally wake up and take notice, I don't think they'll be happy with the change.  Unfortunately, it will be too late for the 'United' States of America.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-i-wont-make-churches-conduct-gay-marriages/article/2532418

Game of Thrones and the Gang of 8

I've been watching the Gang of  8 as they try to pass Immigration reform and realized why they are sewing the seeds of their own destruction--and it parallels what happened to the Starks in 'Game of Thrones'.  Spoiler alert for any who are watching or reading the series, but at the end of the 2013 season, we see the Stark family make a disastrous decision which ends in their destruction.
Through some decisions they made, they lost their Bannermen (those who supported and fought with them) and yet, they still want to continue fighting to take the throne.  They refuse to take the best and safest course of action and return home, regroup and live to fight another day--instead they choose to follow the only course of action open, but the one which involves the most risk for losing everything and is dependent on trusting a man they betrayed earlier.  They want so badly to believe that he is sincere in 'burying the hatchet' that they ignore the warnings and willingly walk into a trap where they are slaughtered.
Marco Rubio is making THE SAME mistake.  He is desperate to make a name for himself in immigration issues and desires to shore up his appeal with the hispanic vote and rather than be cautious and careful, he has made risky deals with those who have made it their quest to destroy his party and everything it stands for.  Rubio has shown his inexperience and naivety in this action.  Of course, if he's learned to play the game of Politics, this won't end as disastrously for Rubio as it did for the Starks. If it destroys his political career as a Republican, he can always switch parties.  Savvy Politicians always make sure they have a life raft and jacket so they don't 'go down with the ship'--the hopes and desires of the citizens who voted for them.

'Sit down and shut up'

Radio host Glenn Beck has said a number of times that this is the message of the Obama Administration to every request for 'transparency' on what is going on with the IRS targeting conservative groups, the AP phone tapping and the 9-11 attack on the Benghazi Embassy just for starters. 
Well, we just witnessed the first lady, Michelle Obama essentially say that to one of representatives of her husband's most ardent supporters, the LGBT community.  She was speaking at a Democrat fundraiser and a gay rights activist called out, asking when the President would sign an executive order to prevent discrimination against gays in the workplace.  Michelle turned on this woman and we saw the mask slip--and it was frightening.  She threatened to walk off the stage, rather than have to put up with someone speaking out of turn.
The audience immediately turned on the woman, one of their own, insisting that she leave.  These people are an example of what Lenin termed 'useful idiots'.  There were many from the gay community in attendance who gave a lot of money to get Obama reelected and I guess some, like the woman who spoke out, thought that earned them some right to speak out on what they wanted to see the President do with the four additional years they bought for him.  If any were under that delusion, they got a rude awakening.  The Obama Administration does as they please and if you question them you are told to 'sit down and shut up'. 
The message came through loud and clear:  'Give us your money and we'll tell you what rights you can have, don't you DARE question us!'