Off on Spiritual Journey

By the grace of God, I am continuing my spiritual journey on a new and exciting path. This is something I want to give full attention to, so I will be scaling back my internet usage and specifically will put blogging on the back burner for awhile. When I come to a resting place in my new journey, I will give an update where I am at and where I think I am going.

The Rev. Warren B. Mueller

Unbelievable News Day

The level of insanity in this country and the world today is beyond my comprehension. I don't have the time to write commentary on it all, all I can do is point you in the direction of the stories and suggest you ask yourself this question: would I be comfortable inviting the people in these stories over to my house for coffee and pastries?

Strap in: here we go!!!!!

Want to know why we can't cut the deficit? The word is entitlements, read it all here.

How to lie like a pro: Nancy Pelosi demands a vote on the Obama Tax Cuts. What????? There are NO OBAMA TAX CUTS.....the vote is on extending the Bush tax cuts. But hey, Nancy never lets the facts get in the way, read it all here.

Little Kevin Jennings, the Obama Safe School Czar is back at it. Pushing the Gay-Lesbian agenda in our schools, read it all here.

Maybe you don't like your job, or your life. But look at the bright side, at least you don't have to go throught the hell that Michelle Obama does, her life is really hell on earth, according to her, read it all here.

Now, we all know that "rights" can spring up as fast as lillies in the spring, but here you go: prisoners who need safe tattoos; yeah the regular kind in prison are dangerous and so "advocates" are beating the drums for safter tattoos. Guess who will pay for those,,,,,read it all here.

And just to put out a little "I told you so", here is a story describing how former President Bush is starting to look better to folks, read it all here

Making her list: and checking it twice!

'As a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs—we knew that," President Obama said at his press conference Friday in response to a question about rising health spending.

Well, that wasn't his pitch when he was twisting arms to get ObamaCare passed. But hey, we are used to politicians "twisting" the truth.

But now, [w]itness Kathleen Sebelius's Thursday letter to America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry trade group—a thuggish message even by her standards. The Health and Human Services secretary wrote that some insurers have been attributing part of their 2011 premium increases to ObamaCare and warned that "there will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases."

Zero tolerence? Like in "I will punish you"? What does that mean?

What Ms. Sebelius really means is that the government will prohibit insurers from doing business if reality is not politically convenient for Democrats. ObamaCare includes a slew of mandated benefits for next year, such as allowing children to remain on their parents' plans until age 26 and "free" preventative care (i.e., no direct out-of-pocket cost sharing for consumers). The tone of Ms. Sebelius's letter suggests that she doesn't understand that money is exchanged for goods and services, and that if Congress mandates new benefits, premiums will rise.

These are Gestapo tactics. This is the "Chicago Way". Who will they use the Chicago Way against next? Look how easily the First Amendment is shredded!

Read it all here.

Caution: You may be entering the Twilight Zone!

The parents of a teenage boy are suing a Roman Catholic School for not granting a religous exemption so their son could attend the school without having received state mandated immunizations. Andrea and Paul Polydor, of Garden City, believe human bodies "should not be defiled by vaccines," according to a complaint filed in Nassau County Court against Kellenberg Memorial High School in Uniondale.

So, why don't they just go and find another school that fits their particular set of religous values?

Oh no, this is a perfect example of the "me generation". It's all about me, and my desires, and my wants, and who I am.

The "me generation" cannot and will not change: we all have to change to fit them.

LOL and grow up! Oh yes, read it all here.

County goes after criminal Farmer!!!

Be careful, this story could make your head explode.

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- DeKalb County is suing a local farmer for growing too many vegetables, but he said he will fight the charges in the ongoing battle neighbors call “Cabbagegate.” Read it all here.

Obviously the bureaucrats in DeKalb County don't have enough worthwhile work to do. Sounds like some government layoffs could be used to cut county expenses and get the geeks off the backs of everyday people trying to work hard and do well.

Gov. Christie continues to use the Weapon of Truth

Governor of New Jersey, Republican Chris Christie is making use of a special weapon that has not been wielded by nationally prominant politicans since Ronald Reagen. What is the name of that weapon? It's called THE TRUTH.

Watch all this video to see what the weapon looks like and how it is used.

I figure this guy needs to clean up NJ in a hurry so he can make a run as president.

ObamaCare Amnesia......remember the claims?

Hard to believe that just 6 short months the country was furiously embroilled in the ObamaCare debate. Public opinion polls showed that over 60% of Americans wanted nothing to do with it. Nonetheless, key members of the house extolled the list of fictional list of benefits, the Pharma industry joined the Whitehouse in selling the benefits, and finally the President called in House members one by one to offer the carrots and sticks necessary to bring votes into line. And at the last moment the plan was deemed to pass in its final form. Read it all here.

'They're betting that between now and November, you're going to come down with amnesia," President Obama told a Milwaukee crowd on Monday, vilifying the Republicans who "helped devastate our middle class." But it seems as if the real case of amnesia—or maybe post-traumatic stress disorder—has struck the Democrats, who are now doing everything they can to help voters forget ObamaCare.

This is a remarkable turn of events for Mr. Obama's major domestic achievement that was also supposed to be a political winner. Facing a grim November, Democrats are now running on another quarter-baked stimulus plan and the specter of John Boehner's perpetual tan, instead of the bill they spent more than a year debating and hailed as the liberal triumph of the century. Democrats now barely mention ObamaCare on the trail—unless they're trashing it.

Which goes to show, Americans didn't like having ObamaCare shoved down their throats, and the taste isn't any better today.

And here it starts! Open the cookie jar!!!!!!

Here come the cookies for everyone!! Now $110B for all those nasty business people, evil profiteers, to heat up the economy.

What happens when all those businesses start to hire people and then make big profits from all the new business. Will Prez Obama them demonize them for being profit driven? Will he then propose new taxes on those profits? The Govt giveth and the Govt taketh away!

Read it all here.

Are we this scared?

What has become of this country? We were attacked by radical Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001. Now a little bitty church in Florida plans to burn Korans to commemorate the 9-11 attacks.

And here we have the general in charge of our Afgan war declaring that such actions by the church might get his troops killed. Read it all here.

Are we, the most powerful nation on earth, ready to shut down a little church protest of an attack on OUR country, because we are too afraid of the people who attacked us?

Are we afraid to tell the people who attacked us "no you can't build your mosque on hallowed ground?"

What have we come to?

And here it starts! Stimulus II

"If we don't pass my stimulus plan right now, unemployment could go above 8%"

Well Mr. President, we passed that threshold a year ago. And it's still going up.

And now, you just happen to have the magic Elixer for the economy!!!!!

Wow!! Why didn't you bring it out and hawk it earlier???? Oh yeah, had to work on ObamaCare. Oh yeah, had to work on financial reform so no more downturns?

So this is the silver bullet, right? Read it all here.

Just one little question Mr. President? What democrat in congress up for re-election is going to vote for all this new deficit spending?

This is not going to pass, so why all this campaigning????

Is this just an attempt to fire up the languid looney left base? Must be, because this is going nowhere.

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"Hail Mary Pass Time": get your bullshit filter out!

In case you have not noticed, today is September 6, Labor Day. For many of us that is the last day of a nice, long 3 day weekend.

For the political ruling class it is the first day of the race toward the November elections. And despite all the deniles, the Democrats are in deep, deep do-do.

So, get ready, the Dem's in general and Lord Obama in particular are going to start rolling out a blizzard of proposals to both dazzle and confuse the electorate. Why confuse?

Well, they can't run on their miserable record, they can't debate real ideas because their ideology is both flawed and rejected by the electorate, so they have to use the oldest political trick in the playbook: go buy the votes.

Read some of it here.

Veep Biden: "We're Headed in the Right Direction!"

In case you don't remember the Veep's message, here is a reminder.

Let's take a look at the direction we have been headed in: see the following graphic display.

Yep, can't wait for November!!!!!

Physics trumps God?

Did God create the world and the universe as told in the Book of Genesis, or is that just a mythical tale used as a setting for the whole Canon of Scripture we call the Bible. Those faiths aligned with the monotheistic entity, God, have contended in one way or another that the Genesis account is a faithful rendition of worldly creation.

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has come out here with the opinion that God was not necessary for the movement of matter and energy as the laws of physics would shepherd us toward the creation which we know.

I suppose it has never occured to prof. Hawking to ask "where did the laws of physics come from"? As cartesian beings, we sense a three dimensional world with a one way arrow flow of time as a fourth dimension. Thus, for us, everything including our experience of our own lives has an immutable time dependence about it. Not only does this shape our world view but it also shapes our comprehension of the world and universe which we cannot directly view. This leads to theological speculations on the ontological nature of God based on our own nature. While that can be helpful, it does not constrain God to our speculative thoughts.

The theological conclusions about the nature of God and indeed scriptural witness strongly argues that God does not exist in time. To God, time is another orthogonal coordinate of the universe. This implies that the nature of God as a set of behaviors does not intersect with the set of time dependent natures of man and the world. That God can "invade" our space with His creative revelations is certainly his perogative. Our ability to move to His space apparantly only occuurs through His Son, Jesus Christ (Jn. 14:6).

Physics has a lot to say to us about how the univers works. It has nothing to say to us about why it (and we) are here. That is what God's word revealed in scripture is all about.

Pity poor Prof Hawking if he never comes to this place of faith.

What is a muslim moderate?

The proposed Mosque at Ground Zero has stirred up a fierce debate in this country over radical and moderate Islam and the dangers, perceived or otherwise.

This begs the question: what is a moderate Muslim?

From the Wall Street Journal there is this;

Don't Gloss Over The Violent Texts
By Tawfik Hamid

In regards to Islam, the words "moderate'" and "radical" are relative terms. Without defining them it is virtually impossible to defeat the latter or support the former.

Radical Islam is not limited to the act of terrorism; it also includes the embrace of teachings within the religion that promote hatred and ultimately breed terrorism. Those who limit the definition of radical Islam to terrorism are ignoring—and indirectly approving of—the Shariah teachings that permit killing apostates, violence against women and gays, and anti-Semitism.

Moderate Islam should be defined as a form of Islam that rejects these violent and discriminatory edicts. Furthermore, it must provide a strong theological refutation for the mainstream Islamic teaching that the Muslim umma (nation) must declare wars against non-Muslim nations, spreading the religion and giving non-Muslims the following options: convert, pay a humiliating tax, or be killed. This violent concept fuels jihadists, who take the teaching literally and accept responsibility for applying it to the modern world.

Moderate Islam must not be passive. It needs to actively reinterpret the violent parts of the religious text rather than simply cherry-picking the peaceful ones. Ignoring, rather than confronting or contextualizing, the violent texts leaves young Muslims vulnerable to such teachings at a later stage in their lives.

Finally, moderate Islam must powerfully reject the barbaric practices of jihadists. Ideally, this would mean Muslims demonstrating en masse all over the world against the violence carried out in the name of their religion.

Moderate Islam must be honest enough to admit that Islam has been used in a violent manner at several stages in history to seek domination over others. Insisting that all acts in Islamic history and all current Shariah teachings are peaceful is a form of deception that makes things worse by failing to acknowledge the existence of the problem.

Mr. Hamid, a former member of the Islamic radical group Jamma Islamiya, is an Islamic reformer and a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.

Beck: Restoring Honor Event

In case you have been living under a rock or perhaps in a cave for the last week, Glen Beck hosted a "Restoring Honor" event in Washington DC which drew perhaps 300,000 to 500,000 people. It was held at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, the anniversary of the Martin Luther King "I have a dream" speech.

Beck's stated purpose was to "turn the country back to God and to restore honor". Beck has been on a journey to try and understand the fundamental nature of the problems that have beset this country. He has transitioned from blaming democrats, to blaming Progressives, and now in effect blaming himself and all of us with the idea that we Americans need to turn around to God. In effect claiming that we should not ask whether God is on our side, but are we on God's side?

This is precisely the position that Abraham Lincoln was in during the Civil War and Beck has come to recognize his coming full circle to that same realization.

You might think that public soul searching of this sort would be generally applauded. But not in the current fractious atmosphere. Read here for example.

While the Progressive and Liberal press beats the drums for Islamic tolerance in America, these same camps seek to bludgeon anything that smacks of Christianity or real religion. The same folks who extol the endless virtues of Islam possibly haven't darkened the doors of a place of worship for a long time.

America's formation and history is inexorably connected with God's providential plan for mankind. As Beck accurately points out "if we don't turn back to God and get on his side, he'll find another bunch of people who will". The Old Testament of the Bible is full of stories to back Beck's statement.

From the NYT: Economy options dwindle

According to the NYT; "THE American economy is once again tilting toward danger. Despite an aggressive regimen of treatments from the conventional to the exotic — more than $800 billion in federal spending, and trillions of dollars worth of credit from the Federal Reserve — fears of a second recession are growing, along with worries that the country may face several more years of lean prospects."

Read it all here.

And they are right: the current Obama administration has tried everything THEY know how to do!!!!!!!

But folks we have been here before: it was called Jimmy Carter!

In 1979 we had high inflation, no growth, no jobs, high interest rates, and a demoralized country that was being told from the White House that "this may be as good as it gets".

Ronald Reagen came to office, let a wrenching economic correction take its course to wring out the inflation monster and then slashed marginal tax rates which unleashed the largest economic expansion in modern history. Oh, and by the way, he defeated the Soviet empire in his spare time!

But do not dispare......the current crowd is not out of ideas yet! They are going to let the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year. They still want ObamaCare to go forward, they still want Cap & Trade, and don't forget their debt commission that will no doubt call for a National VAT tax. Won't all those things do such great good for our economy??????

If we do not start major surgery this November, a couple years down the road we may look back at 2010 as a time of unparalleled prosperity!

Wouldn't that be a pathetic thing!

Good News on the Gun Front.......for now.....

The EPA has rejected a petition to ban lead from bullets and fishing lures, read it all here.

"EPA is taking action on many fronts to address major sources of lead in our society, such as eliminating childhood exposures to lead," the agency said in a written statement. "However, EPA was not and is not considering taking action on whether the lead content in hunting ammunition poses an undue threat to wildlife."

A coalition of conservation groups had filed its petition earlier this month arguing that the use of lead in ammo and tackle is poisoning the nation's lakes, ponds and forests and asking the EPA to ban the "manufacture, processing and distribution" of lead shot, bullets and fishing.

Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action, objected to the pettion, saying the conservationists were trying to circumvent this rule by suggesting that while ammunition itself is exempt from regulation, the chemical components of the ammo and fishing lures -- specifically, the lead -- can fall under the EPA's jurisdiction.

But environmental activists like Michael Fry of the American Bird Conservancy told FoxNews.com that the petitioners waited to submit their request until nontoxic alternatives such as steel, copper and alloy became readily available.

Stay tuned, the gun banners will not stop here.

Those darn "Little People"...

What is an elite leader to do? You enact everything you think the people need in order to live out your vision of a universal utopia and what do the thankless louts do? They protest! So how should you react? Charles Krauthammer nails the answer to that question right here.

And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking.

● Resistance to the vast expansion of government power, intrusiveness, and debt, as represented by the tea-party movement? Why, racist resentment toward a black president.

● Disgust and alarm with the federal government’s unwillingness to curb illegal immigration, as crystallized in the Arizona law? Nativism.

● Opposition to the most radical redefinition of marriage in human history, as expressed in Proposition 8 in California? Homophobia.

● Opposition to a 15-story Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero? Islamophobia.

Now we know why the country has become “ungovernable,” last year’s excuse for the Democrats’ failure of governance: Who can possibly govern a nation of racist, nativist, homophobic Islamophobes?

Note what connects these issues. In every one, liberals have lost the argument in the court of public opinion. Majorities — often lopsided majorities — oppose President Obama’s social-democratic agenda (e.g., the stimulus, Obamacare), support the Arizona law, oppose gay marriage, and reject a Ground Zero mosque.

And since the liberals have lost the battle of ideas, all they can fall back on are attacks such as these.

EPA: Ban Lead Bullets!

The EPA is proposing to ban the use of the metal Lead in bullets, read it all here.

While it is possible to read this as a move by the typical enviro-whacko groups to prevent lead poisoning in deer, more than likely this is a bigger part of the socialist agenda to disarm Americans.

After all, guns are of no use with out effective ammunition. So instead of tackling the Second Amendment head on and getting clobbered for it, the Gun-Banners may take the backdoor route through the EPA.

All patriots need to let the EPA hear from them.