Back At It

4 weeks ago I accepted a new position at work and it has eaten a lot of my free time as I try and replace the legend who is retiring. Family concerns have been a big issue as well, blogging has been low on the list but now some things have settled and I can get back at it.
So many things have happened over the past few weeks that I don't know where to start. How about I just say what has been lately on my mind -

• I have a missionary buddy who is big into supporting gay marriage and he makes sure that everybody knows about it, especially on his Facebook pages. It makes me sad to see that, I really like him and he was a great missionary when we were out in the field - I don't know how his life has been since then. There is a state Senator here in Utah, Chris Buttars, who said some controversial things about the gay movement this last week and the gay community in Utah (yes, there is one) was up in arms. They held a protest up at the state capitol this weekend to show their solidarity and how wrong Sen. Buttars is. I agree with some of Sen. Buttar's comments but I disagree with part of them as well. He certainly has the right to say them and will bear the consequences of his words but nobody can deny him the right to think and say as he pleases. The gay movement, in general, seems to want to deny him the right to do that. If you don't agree with them then they want swift punishment like censure or removal from office. Where were the leaders of the gay community after the defeat of Prop 8 and the resulting violence against Mormons in Utah and California? Not very loud. I have never believed that the proponents of gay marriage actually want equal civil rights, they want society to accord them equal moral standing with traditional marriage. They want gay marriage to be the equivalent of traditional marriage morally. That can't and won't happen. Cleon Skousen, in his book The 5,000 Year Leap, explains the idea of the Founding Fathers that in order for the Constitution to survive it had to be upheld by a moral people. We are falling further into the abyss as the lowest common denominator gets lower and lower.
  
• Now the Democrats want Roland Burris, the Blagoevich pick from Illinois, to resign from the Senate? Hey Harry Reid, you are the bumbling fool who was determined to seat this guy and call him legit! Now Burris is changing his story, explaining how he went from no contact with the governor, to then talking to the governor's brother but refusing his pay-to-play demands, to now admitting that he promised to raise campaign funds for the governor while bugging him about the newly open Senate seat. This is awful. And now Roland Burris is playing the race card, getting black churches in Chicago to do a 'laying on of hands' for him at a photo op yesterday. He is telling Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, and all others involved to pack sand, he is not resigning. In fact, he announced that he is going to seek "reelection" to the seat in 2010. By the way, he voted twice for the stimulus bill, is there any clearer indication on why the Dems wanted him to be seated so quickly in the Senate?
• So we have a President who shoved a bailout through Congress, wants an multi-trillion dollar budget to pass, is committed to dragging through another $500 billion dollar pork-filled bill through Congress currently and has the audacity to tell Congress and America in his "State of the Union" speech last Tuesday that he plans on reducing the deficit by 1/2 by the end of his term? Huh? How do you spend do much and then claim to be wanting fiscal responsibility? You want to limit CEO pay when you are out spending billions and trillions of dollars? You can't spend to prosperity Mr. President.
  
• Like Rush Limbaugh, I want President Obama to fail. I want him to fail to set up his socialistic agenda that will spend and tax my family and I (through 3 generations) into oblivion with programs that I don't need nor does America need. I want him to fail to set up socialized health care. I want him to fail at setting up a North American Union. I want him to fail miserably at ignoring the Constitution and removing my rights. I want him to fail miserably at sending more troops to Afghanistan as he is bringing them out of Iraq. I want him to fail in supporting the UN and it's myriad of failed attempts to make one big happy world family. I love America and hate her enemies and I believe he is an enemy. The man himself may be a great father, a loving husband, and a great guy socially. But his policies are awful and his direction needs to change.

So, more later . . .