The Rusted Musket

Bush labeled North Korea as part of the axis of evil because it is possible that they are working towards getting nukes and because of their human rights violations. Are they really “evil” probably not, but their Government certainly isn”t friendly, not to its citizens and not to the western powers.

Reuters just published a story here about North Korea’s warm welcome to Barrack Obama’’s new presidency. The basis of the story is that North Korea just scrapped almost all of its agreements with South Korea, essentially a bit slap in the face for the USA diplomatically, but it could also be seen as an aggressive move by them. What interesting about this is it happened so soon after Obama became president. What kind of message does that send about him? Probably that North Korea thinks he will be a pushover. It”ll be interesting to see how he does deal with this…

I was listening to a student today despair over how one of her favorite Hillsong worship tunes was treated during chapel.  Boredom lurked behind tired eyes as knees sagged during the youth bands heart fought not so good rendition of the song.  She dreamed me back to a time at convention when this particular worship song brought about displays of hand raising and worship and mosh pit.  I felt like saying display doesn”t equal devotion but when my chance came to speak I fell silent.  I felt she might have been to moody at the moment to appreciate my quip about devotion not being measured by the height of the jump, rather, the straightness of walk when you land.

The Obama administration wants to make a few changes as is indicated in this article… If you read closely enough and think about what he wants to do you”ll realize that he is hitting the auto industry when it is down… But not only that, he is also a) hurting adoption of these vehicles and b) making it even more difficult for the regular person to get a car. How is that you say? Well it is because these “regulations” aren”t cheap, $2k to $10k per car to be passed onto the consumer… Yep sounds like a great plan considering people can barely afford their cars as it is.

I don’t have a problem with fuel efficient cars, heck my car is a honda civic that gets 35MPGs and I have CFL in most of my lights. But would I be willing to pay an extra $2000 to $10,000 for a few extra MPGs and a few less pounds of CO2 in the air?¹ No I don’t think so. Regardless of the environmental impact of this, the economic impact would be very damaging. You can’t just tell the car companies to magically make more efficient cars. It doesn”t work that way. Wake up Obama, you can”t just wish things to be true.

PS. I have absolutely no sympathy for the Big 3, they deserve to go away with all their mis-management and union crap. It is sickening that the Government bailed them out, very sickening…

Its a sad day when abortion is monetarily supported, but in my opinion its even sadder when we as voters don’t really get a say on how our tax payer dollars are distributed¹.

Obama strikes down Bush’s ban on funds going to international abortion supporting groups. First off its pretty sad that we are supporting groups that are promoting abortion in other parts of the World… Its our tax payer money, maybe it should stay here and go towards fixing our bridges… Secondly, I guess I’m not surprised that he did this, since he is “pro-abortion,” but what I do find surprising is how many of these executive orders he has been handing out in so short a period of time… Guess he was truthful when he said “change.”

Fine, close it, it’ll save us a bunch of money.  It would have been nice if the inmates could have saved us all the hassle by letting themselves get shot following Jihad in the first place.  I mean, when we release the rascals they seem to feel bad about that missed opportunity.  Also, we could ship them to an Afghan prison.  You know, those kinda prisons that don’t consider standing for the majority of the day a torture…

Found this interesting post, which originated as a uncredited chain email… But I thought it was interesting/funny (yet mostly truthful) enough to post…

1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.

2. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S. Nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and North Korean communists.

4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical documented changes in the earth’s climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV’s.

6. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.

7. You have to believe that the same teacher who can’t teach fourth graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.

8. You have to believe that hunters don’t care about nature, but loony activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.

9. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

10. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25 million of his own money to make The Passion of the Christ for financial gain only.

11. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

12. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

13. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and A.G. Bell.

14. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.

15. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and is a very nice person.

16. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried is because the right people haven’t been in charge.

17. You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and a sex offender belonged in the White House.

18. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

19. You have to believe that illegal Democratic Party funding by the Chinese Government is somehow in the best interest to the United States.

20. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right wing conspiracy.

21. You have to believe that it’s okay to give Federal workers off on Christmas Day but it’s not okay to say “Merry Christmas.”

Some of these things are a little over the top, and I’m sure there are a lot of Democrats that aren’t this crazy. But so much of it applies in some way, shape or form.

As I’m sure everyone knows driving is the most dangerous form of transportation. Why is it so dangerous? Are people just really bad drivers, or does everyone driver too fast? Who really knows, but lemme pose a thinker. If I am driving down the highway at 60MPH and the speed limit is 55MPH but everyone else is going 70MPH am I really being a safer driver? By going that much slower than everyone else I am holding up traffic and forcing people to change lanes and or slow down to get around me. Sure I am following the letter of the law, but in this case is it really the safest thing to do on the road. Just a interesting thought that I had but I’ll still be driving 60MPH because that is the right thing to do…  

The folding chairs cluttering National Mall for the inauguration haven’t even been put away but its already been decided that Obama will be carved into Mt Rushmore’s granite face within the next couple of years.  Matter of fact, rumor has it this might be one of the government work programs, of course, I jest:)

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You won’t be seeing any.  Why?  Because liberals are the annoying ones who like to get outside and yelp while conservatives prefer to not be annoying.  The big networks are sure going to enjoy this inauguration; no naysayers, a secular religious euphoria, and every big Hollywood name in attendance!!

Beheadings, killings, lawlessness, are we talking about Iraq or Afghanistan?  No, according to this article it appears we are now talking about our benign neighbor to the south, Mexico.  The very Mexico that our suburban church kids visit on missionary trips and the not so spiritual kids visit during spring break.  On one hand the article was especially horrid to me since I have good friends moving their family to Juarez, one of Mexico’s troubled hot spots, in order to be a part of missionary rebuilding projects.  Then on the other it was funny to think how Mexico and Iraqs polar cultural and societal opposites can still net the same dysfunctional end result of good people being terrorized, kidnappings, and the feeling that the police and military are unable to control the situation.  What’s Mexico’s solution to this?  Well the official response is there isn’t any problem.  Then at street level you have that one fellow towards the end of the article say the solution resides in America basically continuing to be a Mexican escape route for jobs that Mexico can’t provide it’s Mexicans and if America doesn’t have an open border America herself will be forcing Mexicans to become the drug runners.  I found it funny that the fellow didn’t say anything about his native homeland of Mexico improving Mexico’s lot.  Nope, his answer to Mexican problems is the American border crossing, keep that baby open please.  Grief, Mexico needs to understand that in the long run she can’t afford the escape hatch of northern migration or to give lackluster State responses to her citizens legitimate woes.  I mean, if Mexico goes nuts where are we supposed to safely vacation and do missionary work?