My Hiatus And My Take On Current Events

I have been laid up with a broken ankle, but I have not been out of the loop. I have been following all of the latest events and below is my take:

On BHO’s Cabinet appointments:

• Hillary Clinton: As immoral and corrupt as President and Senator Clinton are, I can sleep well at night knowing that a true American is the head of the State Department. Say what you want about the Clintons, but at the end of the day, they will do anything to secure personal power, but they will NOT do so at the expense of the Country (at least on purpose). Also, Hillary will likely stand up to BHO if his policy ideas will hurt the country. She is not afraid to speak her mind or pursue her own agenda, for better or worse.
• Retired General Shinseki: I have no problem with his appointment to Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He is a wounded warrior himself and therefore has personal experience to help him improve the VA and the lives of our Wounded Warriors.
• Tom Daschle: I really have no opinion, but from what I have seen and heard, both sides of the aisle are happy and comfortable with his appointment. He himself is also very happy with the appointment because that is his “dream post”. My one reservation is that since he is a Democrat, he may want to socialize our health care system. In the near term, that is not feasible due to the current economic situation; but, in the medium and long term, there is a higher risk of Mr. Daschle endorsing or pushing such a program. We shall wait and see.

On the Auto Industry:

• The bottom line is that the Auto Industry is broken and in trouble and if it fails, it may be catastrophic for the workers and the satellite industries and their workers. Either way, the economy will recover, but we shall not let the Auto Industry fail. Granted, this has been coming for a long time, and the Auto Industry should have acted a LONG time ago. I don’t think that Government is the answer, nor have I turned Democrat, but SOMEONE needs to hold these companies’ feet to the fire. Unfortunately, the government seems to be the only group that is willing to do so. This is what I think should be done:
o Give the auto makers a “bridge loan” so that there is still an American Auto Industry to save, but have many strings attached such as:
 Mandatory restructuring
 Limits on executive compensation
 Slash labour costs by cutting or shrinking unsustainable pension and benefit programs and reducing wages to the level of the foreign auto makers who have factories here in America. Unions must be willing to make these concessions.
 Mandatory modernization
 Implement streamlining programs such as AIRSPEED and/or Lean Six Sigma to cut manufacturing costs
 Some kind of oversight and accountability. Unfortunately, that may mean Government oversight unless the BIG 3 are willing to police themselves effectively. If oversight is provided by the Government, it must only be for the purpose of making sure that changes are actually being made and that those changes are effective. The Government MUST NOT take over decision making for the BIG 3.

On the situation in Washington State:

• To the atheists: If Christmas and other displays of religious devotion offend you and give you feelings that we are “pushing our religious beliefs down your throat,” I hate to break it to you but your offensive denouncement of our beliefs makes us Christians feel the same way. You are NOT tolerant and NOT open minded. You are hypocrites. You are guilty of the same crimes of which you accuse Christians. If you truly possessed the reason that you claim to possess, then you would see that, but you do not. This is the last straw. Christians will NOT sit idly by and let the Godless minority silence the Christian majority.
• We must contact Governor Gregoire and tell her that she needs to move that awful display to another part of the State House, away from any Christmas displays. Go to billoreilly.com to get her contact info.

Oprah, Obama, And The Occult

Last night I had some revelations while searching YouTube for anti-Obama videos. While watching these anti-Obama videos I kept seeing anti-Oprah videos show up in the “Related Videos” pane on the right side of my screen and one video in particular caught my attention. This one was titled “Oprah’s Religion – You Won’t Believe Your Ears”. For the last year or so I have seen Oprah’s New Age tilt, but the more videos I watched, the clearer that hunch became. She is now partnering with New Age author/guru Eckhart Tolle. Starting this past March, Oprah’s Book Club has been reading Mr. Tolle’s latest book “A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose” and holding online “classes” discussing the book, “spirituality”, and they have been meditating on the air. Incidentally, this new “church” is called A New Earth. This new “church” had over 300,000 people log in to its first sermon and it now claims over 25 MILLION adherents. This is HUGE.
My first encounter with Eckhart Tolle was at a customer’s house. This customer claims to be Jewish (she was born a Lutheran, but converted), but is deep into the occult (yoga, meditation, crystals, energy, etc). I am not very good at discerning spirits by any stretch, but this house gave me the heebie-jeebies. There were crystals everywhere (as a former pagan, that was my first indication) and in her bedroom were books by Eckhart Tolle, and upstairs she had a corner of her exercise room as a meditation area – complete with more crystals and stones and New Age meditation books. Then talking to her about all of this (she was open and honest with me) cemented my conclusions. Now, this customer is a wonderful person, but she is quite lost and needs lots of prayer to come back to Jesus.
As I delved a little deeper, I discovered that BHO may not be Muslim, after all. He may be a New Ager in the Church of Oprah. I watched one pastor picking apart Oprah’s class and pointing out her errors and the truth of the Bible. I watched what basically amounted multiple renditions of the same video promoting the book "Don’t Drink The Kool-Aid: Oprah, Obama, and the Occult" by Carrington Steele, and in those videos, I saw some clips of him basically proclaiming Oprah to be one of his spiritual advisors. Then I watched two videos from Prophet.tv, the prophetic media ministry of Don Paul. Mr. Paul’s videos really opened my eyes as to what is really going on – this election is not just about preventing the most Liberal Senator ever from becoming the President of the United States, but preventing the spirits and principalities of darkness from reigning supreme. This election is bigger than man – it may very well be a fight of Good vs. Evil.
One thing that struck me the very first time I saw Mr. Tolle (before I saw Prophet.tv ) was his eyes – they are windows into darkness. He is very soft-spoken and in most videos I could not hear what he was actually saying, but I could tell just from his eyes, and what little I knew about him, that he is a lost soul with a dark message candy-coated in feel-good “spiritualism”. Mr. Paul hit the nail on the head when he mentioned the darkness in Tolle’s eyes. I got excited that I was on the same page as one of God’s prophets. Please do not just take my word for it, go on YouTube and discover for yourself the sinister undercurrents of Oprah, BHO, and this election.

The Myth Of The Charismatic Leader

I just visited the Stephen Ministries website. In reading about leadership and the flaws of the Charismatic Leader Model, I have confirmed the fatal flaw in Barack Obama and offer a warning to John McCain and Sarah Palin. BHO may make flowery speeches and have a "commanding presence", but that in no way can carry him through a Presidential term (or an election). To quote Joseph A. Raelin, in the journal Training + Development (March 2003):

"Relying on a single charismatic leader to part the seas for us works as long as the leader can successfully diagnose the environment and make correct decisions. But what happens when this same leader errs? What happens when his or her followers realize that they have the maturity to make their own decisions? What happens when the environment becomes so complex that no single individual could possibly discern all of its elements?"

Each candidte must realise that they are but one person. Whoever becomes President must assemble an effective team (in the form of their Cabinet) in order to successfully lead this country. The President is important, but he is just the head. He needs the rest of the body (his Cabinet) to be effective. A head is useless without the rest of the body. BHO has a Messiah complex and those around him are easily drawn in -- much like some mega-churches and cults. This phenomenon is dangerous and ultimately counter-productive. We Conservatives must not elevate John McCain or Sarah Palin to the level that BHO elevates himself. If we do, we will set ourselves up for disappointment, much like BHO is doing to himself and his followers. No one is perfect but Jesus. As has been said before, it is better to agree with someone 60% of the time than to disagree with someone 100% of the time. Let this serve as a warning.

Thin Skin

Muslims around the world have a thin skin. They cannot take a joke. Why is that??? It is because they are taught to take everything as a personal challenge. The "Prophet" Muhammad also had a thin skin and took any and all criticism and jest as a personal indictment. The slightest negative comment sent him into a violent rage. He had a poet (the ancient equivalent of a journalist) killed because she dared to publish criticism of his actions and his religion. It also did not help that she was Jewish, but that is another story. Muslims can give it, but they cannot receive it. They say (and the Koran says) all sorts of perverse, hate-filled, and untrue things about Christians and Jews, but Muslims cannot accept the same from Christians and Jews. My advice: Get over it, hypocrite. It's your turn. Now you know how the rest of the world feels.
Now for the cartoonist and the newspaper. If one has paid any attention to world events of the last five years, one would know that there are certain things you just don't do. Seemingly innocent cartoons can turn into riots and people getting killed. Apparently the cartoonist and the newspaper did not think very far ahead when they decided to publish this cartoon. I think it was a stupid decision to publish the cartoon. The newspaper should have excercised better judgement and discresion when deciding whether to publish the cartoon.
The majority of the blame should rest with the Muslims. They ultimately have the choice whether to react violently or to go on with their lives.