God Help America

(Note: I should have written this blog post in all caps, because if I were discussing it with you in person, I would not be using my "inside voice")


The other night my husband and I went to see the Movie "13 Hours", which is based on the true story of the six members of a security team who fought to defend the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi. The movie itself did not lean in any political direction..... It is simply an accurate portrayal of the hell on earth that took place in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. It is a powerful example of the courage of soldiers protecting Americans in a foreign land. I found myself shaking my head throughout the movie, stunned that such an event took place. It's unbelievable that with so many lives lost, no one is being held accountable for the negligence of how it unfolded both during and after the fact. I left the theater mad..... Really mad. It is unimaginable to me, that someone responsible for the mismanagement of such an event, would have the gall to not only minimalize it("at this point, what difference does it make?"), but also to lie about it and then ask the citizens of our nation to actually elect them to the highest office in the country. The whole idea is like a really bad Quentin Tarantino film.... It's absurd! But what is even more shocking is there are probably enough clueless Americans who would actually vote for her!!!!!! God help us all.... God help America


2 Chronicles 7:14
"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."

The Heart of the Problem

It was a beautiful day, so my husband and I headed to the woods to do some shooting. The targets of choice was 2 liter bottles filled with water and a target crudely drawn on a piece of sheet rock. I'm sure if the liberal politicians had seen our beat up pickup loaded with guns, ammo and water bottles they would have labeled us as terrorists. Actually we were out just having some fun. Since the election and with the Bush Tax Cuts expiring, health care cost rising, and small businesses in a virtual holding pattern,our income has taken a nose-dive. Sadly we don't see much hope in sight. The benefits meeting for the company I work for takes place later this month, and I literally get sick to my stomach thinking about it. As much as our President wants to pretend health care is going to get so much cheaper, anyone with half a brain knows that just can't be true. I used to work in a doctor's office, I'm still friends with my doctor and his staff, medical care is not going to get better or less expensive. The quality of care will be so watered down, it will be like having no health care at all... I really do believe this. So I guess those who voted for Hope and Change, better hope they don't get sick and pray they can keep what little change they had in their pocket before the election. Driving home from our shooting expedition we were discussing the gun control debate currently going on. Somewhere along the way my soapbox got pulled out and I stepped right up on it. My fear regarding our government is, we can no longer trust them. We have strayed so far from where our Founding Fathers ever intended us to be, have blindly followed along like sheep to the slaughter. Washington's  mentality is everything can be fixed with legislation and more taxes. The head of our government believe it is their responsibility to legislate and eliminate risk for the greater good. FYI, the greater good, is everyone but them! Yet the people they represent feel more and more hopeless and helpless to stop the hypocrisy being played out at the highest level of our nation. When we give them an inch, they will take the inch, and eventually expand the inch into a mile, until the common man feels powerless against the powers that be. Yes, killing of innocent people, regardless of the age, is a tragedy... Or so they say. Yet, everyday thousands of unborn children are slaughtered without conviction, thought or little more reason than they are inconvenient.... For the greater good? How can it be that the same people fighting to disarm the people are the same ones fighting for the rights to kill the unborn child?  When I wake up in the morning and my feet hit the floor, the Constitution of the United States, does not guarantee that I will face my day without difficulty or risk. Risk is a part of living in a fallen world. You cannot legislate risk from the lives of the human race. IT CAN NOT BE DONE. When a governing body believes they CAN legislate risk from the common man's lives, it's because they have developed a god-like status in their own eyes. I do not care what kind of laws you put on the books, how many laws you have on the books, or the penalties you put in place for breaking those laws, you will never eliminate crazy or evil people from doing crazy and evil things. Every mandate coming out of Washington is just a string attached to the wrist of law abiding citizen. Washington isn't aiming to make us safer, it's aiming to make us more dependent upon them, to turn us into nothing more than just puppets on a string, leading us as lambs to the slaughter. We've watched it play out in the history books, yet we have been lulled into a hypnotic trance that tells us, it could never happen to us. It can, it will, and it currently is if we don't wake up and take the rights given to us by God and the Constitution back and as a nation get back to the basics of life and mend the moral and spiritual fiber of ourselves, our homes, our towns, our counties, our cities, our states and our nation. The state of our society has nothing to do with guns, it runs much deeper than what we hold in our hands, it runs to the depth of our hearts and if we don't get to the heart of the problem we will continue to see our Nation crumble from within.

Start at the Top

During the last presidential campaign, I became engrossed in the debate to an unhealthy level. I read everything and listened to the commentary every second I wasn't at work. When I watched television I joined right in with the arguments, ranting and raving like a lunatic. I could literally feel my blood pressure shoot up. When my son came to visit he said... "Mom, you really shouldn't listen to that stuff, it's not good for you." I actually agreed with him. So, to a large degree I stepped away from the news after the election. I have watched it, but not to the point that I begin to have heart palpitations. Last week I was getting ready to mail the hefty speeding fine I got when I was vacationing oh so lazily in Colorado. It was a pretty good chunk of money,one that would definitely cramp my shopping for a while. I followed all of the troopers instructions and made a copy of the citation before mailing the original back to the courts. For just a split second in time, I thought to myself.... "What if I just decide not to pay this ticket? What would actually happen to me?" Sure they would probably put a warrant out for my arrest, but it's not likely that I'll be back in Colorado anytime soon, and even less likely I'd be driving while there so the chances of me being picked up and arrested for a warrant in Colorado is slim to none. There are criminal running all over the place with warrants out in there own communities, I could probably get away with it (except for my shadow, Murphy's Law). Immediately this train of thinking took me to civic responsibility. I'm a rule follower (unless I'm late for my son's rehearsal dinner). I pay my taxes, I follow the laws. Our city recently passed an ordinance about the time you could put your garbage container by the curb. No, I'm not kidding. You are only allowed to put the container by the curb the evening before pick up and it must be removed from the curb by the end of the day of pick up. If you leave your container at the curb during unauthorized times, you can be fined. Personally this chaps my cheeks, but it's a rule my husband and I adhere to without exception. There has been a lot going on in the news for a while regarding elected officials and/or their appointees just blatantly disregarding laws, skirting around regulations, and manipulating the system to their own benefit or their own agenda. It's nothing new, it's been going on across the board since the beginning of time, but either it's become more prevalent, more publicized or I'm just paying more attention, but it's starting to get on my nerves. I believe in America and I believe in our Constitution. I don't however, believe in the people elected or appointed to uphold the Constitution. Perhaps there was a time in our history when elected officials listened to those who put them in office, then they went back to Washington and spoke for the majority of those people, but that time is no more. When the people who are bound by oath to uphold the laws and constitution of this Country, no longer feel the slightest urge to do so, where does that leave the ordinary citizen? When those in leadership fail to pay their taxes, follow the laws, and conduct themselves in an examplary manner, how does that effect the ordinary citizen? It makes them think twice about mailing in the hefty fine they received for being overcome with anxiety about missing their sons rehearsal dinner... It's simple as that! If they don't have to follow the rules, why should I? Things need to change. America needs to clean house and just like on Saturdays when I clean my house... We need to start at the top. IMO