Island Settlement

Two men, Adam, Bob went for a sail. What was meant to be a short pleasure cruise turned into a fight for survival when their navigation system broke and a terrible storm stranded them on a deserted island.

The men knew that their number one priority would be to find a food source that could sustain them while they awaited rescue.

Adam set out picking up berries off the bushes around the camp. A little bitter, and in short supply, the berries would be a good start.

Bob, fashioned himself a spear from a branch and a knife from the boat. Knowing the sea would be the most plentiful supply of food they had, even if it was a more difficult task to get the food from it. He knew the rewards would be worth the effort.

After a few hours Adam had gathered all the berries on the ground. He piled them in a basket beside their camp and sat down to rest.

The sun dipped below the horizon as Bob walked up the beach with a fish in his arms.

"Let's split the food between the two of us. It's only fair." suggested Adam. He counted out 24 berries, half the number he collected and gave them to Chris. "There's half the berries, he said... in exchange for half a fish."

"Ok", Bob agreed, knowing the fish was much tastier, and healthier, but looking forward to at least a little variety in his meal.

"Perhaps tomorrow we can both go fishing, I think I am gettin the hang of it." Suggested Bob.

"No thanks," replied Adam. "We need a balanced diet, and besides, I dont know the first thing about fishing."

The next day, Bob set out bright and early to the beach to fish some more.

Adam, woke up a little past ten, when the sun was starting to make it uncomfortable to sleep.

He wandered the shoreline, looking for berries, but there were only 10 to be found.

That night the two men sat down to eat, and Bob revealed that he had caught two fish!

Adam counted out five berries and handed them to Bob. "Here you are, half of my berries", he snagged one of the fish... "for half of your fish. Split equally, it's only fair."

Bob, eyed him warily, but was too exhausted from his labors that day to argue.

"Perhaps tomorrow you can come fish with me, I can show you how. It's not easy, but I'm sure you can learn."

"No, I'm just not good at that kind of thing. Besides, I saw some bananas in a tree I am going to try to get those tomorrow."

The next morning, Bob awoke early and went off to fish.

Adam rolled out of bed and headed for the banana tree. Gosh they were high up there. Adam had never been much of the athlete, and try as he might he could not get up the tree.

Late in the afternoon, he saw Bob returning with 4 fish. "Bob" he called. "Come help me get these bananas."

So Bob went over to him. Adam gave Bob a boost, since Bob was a better climber, and he inched his way to the top, and knocked down the bunch of 10 bananas.

When the men got back to camp, Adam proceeded to dish out their portions, and gave 2 fish and 5 bananas to each. "Half of my bananas, for half of your fish."

"Wait a second..." said Bob exasperated. "I don't mind sharing, but what's this 'my bananas' business?"

"Well I found them."

"Yes but I did the work to get them."

"Oh come on, it's only fair that we split the food."

"Yes... 'fair'."

The next day it was more of the same. In the late afternoon, on his way back with 6 fish, Bob noticed Adam standing by the banana tree.

"Shall I give you a boost again?"

"Sure" Bob sighed and started to climb the tree.

When he was half way up, the tree gave way and Bob went crashing to the ground, breaking his arm.

"I'll never be able to fish in this condition!" Bob exclaimed.

Adam promptly took a rock and smashed his own leg. "It's only fair... if you can't work, then neither can I."

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Socialism is not about finding a cure for cancer, it's about giving cancer to everyone to make sure we are all equal.

The WhiteHouse has way too much B.O. in it these days.

A New Voting System?

I am so tired of watching our country spiral out of control because the electoral process turns into a race for prom queen. The winner is easy to spot because they are the belle of the ball... the most popular, the best speaker, the one with the commercial smile and the Hollywood charm. 

I think we should change the way we vote in this country. I think ballots should not have names on them at all, but simply list issues. The issues on the ballot should be debated upon and agreed upon by the two parties prior to election day, but on the day itself all voters see is the issues, and two check boxes with a detailed description of how that issue is going to be dealt with. 

After we vote on each issue, the results are tallied and the person who won the most issues is the new leader. But, that leader must, no doubt, take into consideration how the country as a whole feels about all the issues, including the ones he lost on. 

This takes the moron factor out of voting. It forces people to think about what they want from their leader, and to look beyond popularity, beyond the facade, and beyond superficial surfaces. 

My Concession Speech

Most of the country diagrees with me. I hope they are right and I was wrong.
I am going to make an honest effort to give President Elect Obama a chance. Lord knows he will need the support with a crumbling economy, rising unemployment, people all around the world that want to kill us in the name of Muhammad, and Russia, China, and Iran circling like sharks in the water as our democracy begins it's descent from a good and decent, if imperfect, world power.
I will afford him every acknowledgement of good dealings, legislation, and effort.
I hope with all my heart that I was blind and now I will see.

I will honestly try. However the good thing about the internet, or the bad thing I suppose, is that years from now I will be able to look back and see if I was right, or if they were right.

In 1747, Dr Alexander Tytler, a Scottish proffessor wrote the following:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage. "

Travis and I discussed this cycle about 6 years ago and came to the conclusion that we were likely in our Apathetic stage.

When I see multi billion dollar company's CEOs getting out of their coorporate jets with tin cups in their hand begging for money from the tax payers, I am afraid we have entered Dependence.
National debt 1994 - $4,500,000,000,000.00
National Debt October 2007 - $9,060,000,000,000.00
National Debt October 2008 - $10,300,000,000,000.00

God speed, President Obama, may you keep all of your campaign promises and still manage to reverse the cycle, I will gladly stand up and proclaim my eys are open.

Obama Baby!

WARNING: The following is a politically motivated blog posting.

Maybe you have been doing the same. I really don’t want to offend anyone with these questions but please help me understand how a Christian could support the following 3 items, regardless of your political views.

1. Obama voted against the following bill 3 times:

Public Law 107-207U.S. CodeTitle 1, Chapter 1: Rules of ConstructionSection 8.

''Person'', ''human being'', ''child'', and ''individual'' as including born-alive infant
(a) In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the words ''person'', ''human being'', ''child'', and ''individual'', shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development.
(b) As used in this section, the term ''born alive'', with respect to a member of the species homo sapiens, means the complete expulsion or extraction from his or her mother of that member, at any stage of development, who after such expulsion or extraction breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut, and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section, or induced abortion.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand, or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being ''born alive'' as defined in this section.

In other words, if an abortion isn’t successful and a baby is born alive and even healthy, Obama did not feel that another doctor should be called in to then do what doctors do: Everything medically necessary to maintain human life. The baby was unwanted, for whatever reason, and should be terminated. Obama’s reasoning was that it chipped away at Roe vs. Wade and he wouldn’t do anything that chipped away at that. If anyone agrees with this, please help me understand.


2. He also voted for partial birth abortion every time he had the opportunity. One method of partial birth abortion is the "brain suction" or "D&X" method. These are done after 4 or 5 months. 80% of babies are normal. Most babies are viable.
This is like a breech delivery. The entire infant is delivered except the head. Scissors are jammed into the base of the skull. A tube is inserted into the skull, and the brain is sucked out. The now-dead infant is pulled out. Please help yourself to find illustrations of this procedure online- I don’t even feel comfortable posting them on my blog- but you cannot fully comprehend this procedure until you see it for yourself. Some links are:
http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/diagram.html
http://www.priestsforlife.org/partialbirth.html

Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby's leg with forceps.

The baby's leg is pulled out into the birth canal.

The abortionist delivers the baby's entire body, except for the head.

The abortionist jams scissors into the baby's skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.

The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child's brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.
***If you are still not offended by this procedure, please see item 1 where if it fails and the baby is born alive, Obama would still vote against a doctor saving this:




Which 2 hours later looked like this:





3. I read a friend of a friend's blog, which shall go nameless.The blog was a very well written rationalization of how no candidate will line up in every way with our beliefs therefore if abortion is a lesser evil than say, greed, you should vote against greed. And I agree, but neither will any church service, pastor, family member or friend. So of course not every Christian will be a Republican. She also conveniently establishes her argument on the foundation of her “burning” which means if you disagree you are “judging” her. I see no reason why a person who votes for Obama will go to Hell any more than a person who votes for McCain will go to Heaven. So it’s a non point to the argument.

But she makes a huge mistake in her political philosophy (Even excluding the position Jesus might take on abortion) which is the core and fundamental difference between the parties. I actually think it a little arrogant that she believes she can be a bigger person than just a one issue voter and that all Christian Republicans are republicans because of just one issue. The difference is who’s responsible.

1) She said, “Jesus calls us to love and respect others and provide for those who cannot provide for themselves.” A great, accurate Biblical statement. However, Jesus never one time had a conversation with Caesar. He never one time appealed to the Romans to give tax money to the poor. He asked us to love and respect others. Paul asked us to care for the widows and orphans (James 1). He asked us to go out into the world, not the Feds. Jesus asks us for our lives, all of them. Voting for a person to govern the country based on the fact that he will determine who and how much we should give is a lazy excuse to feel good about the fact that we don’t do any of the things Jesus asked us to do. Christian republicans don’t ask the government to comfort our conscience, we know it’s on every man and women to provide from what they have to those who need. It is no more Christian to vote for a government that will take from the privileged and give to the needy than it is to just not give to the needy.
2) In case you are wondering what the Bible says about socialism…. which is what Obama stands for….read Acts chapter 2 for a lovely description of it. “So those that accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3000 people were added to them…..Now all the believers were together and had everything in common. So they sold their possessions and property and distributed the proceeds to all, as anyone had a need. And every day they devoted themselves to meeting…” Notice that the community in which the church was thriving numbered in the thousands, not the 340,000,000 range. Also notice that the burden was not on the rich in the church, but on everyone. Also notice that they met daily in devotion to God – which our government does not. Notice they were all believers. And be aware that it was also the first church to go broke and that Paul had to collect money from the gentiles to bring back to them and help. Socialism is beautiful – in small groups, with common faith in God, and a perfect society…. Please try and tell me that is where we live.


Webster on stealing: the act of a person who steals.

Webster on Steal: To take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force:

The Bible on stealing:
 Exodus 20:15"You shall not steal.Exodus 20:14-16 (in Context) Exodus 20 (Whole Chapter)
 Exodus 22:1[ Protection of Property ] "If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.Exodus 22:1-3 (in Context) Exodus 22 (Whole Chapter)
 Leviticus 19:11" 'Do not steal. " 'Do not lie. " 'Do not deceive one another.Leviticus 19:10-12 (in Context) Leviticus 19 (Whole Chapter)
 Deuteronomy 5:19"You shall not steal.Deuteronomy 5:18-20 (in Context) Deuteronomy 5 (Whole Chapter)
Mark 10:19You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.' "Mark 10:18-20 (in Context) Mark 10 (Whole Chapter)
Romans 2:21you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?Romans 2:20-22 (in Context) Romans 2 (Whole Chapter)

Obama on stealing:

Word for word in Obama’s “Emergency Economic Plan” is “TAKE THE EXCESS PROFITS OF OIL COMPANIES…” It goes on to say how the monies will be spent – helping the people with the rising costs of energy in the form of $500 and $1000 checks.

Maybe there is a clarification in the Bible about stealing if it is for a good cause – like being able to drive to the store and buy your new iPhone and not have to pay $4.00 a gallon…I haven’t found it but it’s probably somewhere in the back…

Interesting fact – Gas companies profit on 1 gallon of gas: 7.5 cents/ gallon. Federal tax ( Not to mention state and local) on a gallon of gas: 18.5 cents/ gallon.


Don’t get me wrong. I don’t like either candidate; I don’t like that fact that we have turned government into our provider, defender, moral determiner, judge, and salvation… those things are for God. But not liking either candidate does not absolve me from my duty to at least promote the candidate that is most like my beliefs. And one of them is much, much further away, on almost every issue.

Going on Record

Post By: Travis

I just wanted to point out that the media and the left are in transition... notice the subtle transition to the phrase "climate change" from "global warming"...

Since there is no science to prove that man has a significant impact on global warming, and the fact that the earth has actually been cooling since 1998 is beginning to have a negative affect on their scare tactics.

My prediction is that the dems are already changing their course, in the subtlest of ways by using a more generic term, in fear that as the public gains knowledge about this so called "crisis" they learn that the whole thing is a hoax.

The new term will allow them to change tact, and claim that the coming ice age will be the fault of the oil companies, auto makers, and other large "evil" corporations. It will be of course, up to the oh so knowledgeable leftists to save us poor, helpless citizens, and to keep the poor kangaroos from freezing to death by stopping all the drilling operations in Australia.

Barack 's Labyrinth

I've been trying for a while to figure out who Obama reminds me of... and it finally hit me today!


Just as charming, just as creepy, and just as untrustworthy!

(If you have not seen Pan's Labyrinth, it is a very interesting film.)


Of course... then there is:

Food Vs Fuel

Here's an article about what I have been saying for more than a year! Turning food into "alternative fuels" to help the "global warming crisis" is a BAD IDEA!

Fox News Article

The fact is that biofuels are a waste, as they result in increased food prices, decreased food supplies (go figure that whole supply and demand thing works) and creates fuels that are inefficient and hard on your engine.

Yet to pacify the green trend, gas companies tout it as a great thing for you.

Avoid any fuels that claim to contain E85 or any type of ethanol. Shell gasolines all contain this, so drive on to the next station if you please.