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I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Just a few thoughts of a Christian Rightist

It is my blog and I reserve the right to publish my list. I may not have the right much longer under the current administration.

Sam Kegley

Just a Few

Hopes and Dreams

of a Christian Rightist

My List- Any may add or detract

Executive:

Our administrator and representatives back off in supporting obamacare
Our government fully supports our military
National security is reinforced not challenged by the administration
Assure administration officials are qualified for office- natural birth, country loyalty, etc.
Admission of the USA’s Christian heritage by the administration
Less rock star showings and more substantial leadership by our president
Terminate all appointed czars
Terminate the Stimulous inititative in favor of more solvency
Move towards financial stability for the USA
No more apologies but no need to brag
Support our constitution



Legislative:

No new taxes- Do more with less but more effective things
One term limits for all elected offices
No legislative body may vote themselves raises
Elected officials receive security scrutiny as many citizens do before they assume jobs
End antagonistic efforts of elected officials towards the citizens of the USA- Be our representatives!
Freedom of all press and open speech assured
Keep government control of private businesses out of it- try support without ownership
Reinforce our Bill of Rights- do not weaken



Energy:

Full Governmental backing for new oil fields in the Dakotas and Alaska
Pool USA resources for energy independence
Utilize wind, coal, gas, electricity all to best advantage of each
Hybrid cars, hydrogen cars, water driven cars, whatever is best
Expect something and get it out of the Energy Department

Health:

Tort reform
Doctor, hospital, and government joint efforts to put Medicare and Medicaid and the entire health system (Non-governmentally controlled) in financial stability
No tax money for abortions
Put incentives into medical schools to train more and better professionals

Media:

More objective journalism schools
Evening out the media ownership
Keeping God references on our money in our schools and in our courts
Allowing prayers and Christian meetings in schools


I realize this would require miracles, but I believe that God remains in control of all things and therefore these things are possible.
America has been going the wrong direction for too long. We are not yet Soddom or Gomorrah or Corinth, but we have gone a long way wrong.

Paul said to the Church at Corinth: 1 Corinthians, 13:13-Faith, hope, and charity and the greatest of these is Charity.
This nation is at its best as a strong, but charitable, nation. We have been that throughout our existence, until very recently.

George Will- Afganistan- Get out now

Publication:The Columbus Dispatch; Date:Sep 1, 2009; Section:Forum; Page Number:A9


U.S. should rethink Afghanistan policy, get out

George F. Will writes for the Washington Post Writers Group. georgewill@washpost.com



“Yesterday,” reads the e-mail from Allen, a Marine in Afghanistan, “I gave blood because a Marine, while out on patrol, stepped on a (mine’s) pressure plate and lost both legs.” Then “another Marine with a bullet wound to the head was brought in. Both Marines died this morning.”

“I’m sorry about the drama,” writes Allen, an enthusiastic infantryman willing to die “so that each of you may grow old.” He says: “I put everything in God’s hands.”

Allen and others of America’s finest are also in Washington’s hands. This city should keep faith with them by rapidly reversing the trajectory of America’s involvement in Afghanistan.

U.S. strategy — protecting the population — is increasingly troopintensive while Americans are increasingly impatient about “deteriorating” (says Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) conditions. The war already is nearly 50 percent longer than the combined U.S. involvements in two world wars, and NATO assistance is reluctant and often risible.

U.S. strategy is “clear, hold and build.” Clear? Taliban forces can evaporate and then return, confident that U.S. forces will forever be too few to hold gains. Hence nationbuilding would be impossible even if we knew how, and even if Afghanistan were not the secondworst place to try: The Brookings Institution ranks Somalia as the only nation with a weaker state.

Military historian Max Hastings says Kabul controls only about a third of the country — control is an elastic concept — and “ ‘our’ Afghans may prove no more viable than were ‘our’ Vietnamese, the Saigon regime.” Just 4,000 Marines are contesting control of Helmand province, which is the size of West Virginia. The New York Times reports a Helmand official saying he has only “police officers who steal and a small group of Afghan soldiers who say they are here for ‘vacation.’ ”

Afghanistan’s $23 billion gross domestic product is the size of Boise’s. Counterinsurgency doctrine teaches, not very helpfully, that development depends on security, and that security depends on development. Three-quarters of Afghanistan’s poppy production for opium comes from Helmand. In what should be called Operation Sisyphus, U.S. officials are urging farmers to grow other crops. Endive, perhaps?

Even though violence exploded across Iraq after, and partly because of, three elections, Afghanistan’s recent elections were called “crucial.” To what? They came, they went, they altered no fundamentals, all of which militate against American “success,” whatever that might mean. Creation of an effective central government? Afghanistan has never had one. U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry hopes for a “renewal of trust” of the Afghan people in the government, but The Economist describes President Hamid Karzai’s government — his vice presidential running mate is a drug trafficker — as so “inept, corrupt and predatory” that people sometimes yearn for restoration of the warlords.

Adm. Mullen speaks of combating Afghanistan’s “culture of poverty.” But that took decades in just a few square miles of the South Bronx. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, U.S. commander in Afghanistan, thinks jobs programs and local government services might entice many “accidental guerrillas” to leave the Taliban. But before launching New Deal 2.0 in Afghanistan, the Obama administration should ask itself: If U.S. forces are there to prevent re-establishment of al-Qaida bases — evidently there are none now — must there be nation-building invasions of Somalia, Yemen and other sovereignty vacuums?

U.S. forces are being increased by 21,000 to 68,000, bringing the coalition total to 110,000. About 9,000 are from Britain, where support for the war is waning. Counterinsurgency theory concerning the time and the ratio of forces required to protect the population indicates that, nationwide, Afghanistan would need hundreds of thousands of coalition troops, perhaps for a decade or more. That is inconceivable.

So, instead, forces should be substantially reduced to serve a comprehensively revised policy: America should do only what can be done from offshore, using intelligence, drones, cruise missiles, airstrikes and small special-forces units, concentrating on the porous 1,500-mile border with Pakistan, a nation that actually matters.

Genius, said de Gaulle, recalling Bismarck’s decision to halt German forces short of Paris in 1870, sometimes consists of knowing when to stop. Genius is not required to recognize that in Afghanistan, when means now, before more American valor, such as Allen’s, is squandered.

GEORGE F. WILL

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