I have been thinking about this a lot recently. And since I mentioned in a comment on another blog that I would write a blog about the Patriot Act, here it goes.  I think that the United States Patriot Act is one of the most tyrannical pieces of legislation ever passed in the history of the United States. Shortly after 9/11, a panicked Congress decided to pass the Patriot Act, and then reauthorized it in 2006.  This piece of legislation gives the FBI power to secretly invade the American people’s privacy - which actually violates the 4th Amendment of the Constitution. Read more

Yesterday, I was watching a Television show where they were talking with some of the people involved in polygamy.  Experts say that there are anywhere from 30,000 to 50,000 people living in some type of plural marriage family. Oprah did an interview with one of the families.  She was talking to each of the 3 wives, and none of them acted like it was any kind of big deal.  Between the 3 of them there are 23 people in the house, including the 3 wives, the 1 husband, and all the children.  I know at one time, that this was something the we believed in, only because it was a commandment given to the brethren at that time. 

But the things they were being said on the Oprah Winfrey Show, frustrated me so bad, that I had to blog about it and get some frustrations out.

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I don’t really know where to get started, but once I do, Mike and Denise will both have comments to make about what I say.

In case I have not mentioned before, I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  Today, in Sunday School, we had a lesson about righteous governments.  The lesson started off pretty well, and had some pretty good discussions.  However, as it progressed, some people said some things that made me think a little bit deeper. Somehow, it got to where someone mentioned that “as members of the church, we are in fact a minority”.  I thought about this, and thought that this is in fact very true.  Since I have been a member of the church my whole life, I have never given that much thought.

Then someone mentioned that there are two most hated groups in America.  He said the #1 hated group are Homosexuals.  And the #2 hated group is Mormons.  I don’t know if that is necessarily 100% true, but I think that we are up there.  This leads me to my next point that no matter what the issue is, whether good or bad, membership of the LDS Church or Mormon Church is brought up.  When Mitt Romney was still in the Presidential race, his religion was brought up all the time.  I don’t know what his beliefs or his church had to do with him running for office. Usually, that is not brought up with other candidates.  During other Presidential races, I have rarely heard anyone make a big deal about what religion they were.  However, just because Mitt Romney is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, then people don’t want him as President.

Normally in June there is not any snow.  However, as I speak, there is quite a bit of snow in Northern Idaho, and there is also snow with periods of whiteouts in Dead Man’s Pass near Pendleton, Oregon.  This phenomenon kind of also backs up one of my beliefs.

My belief is that I think Global Warning is one of the biggest pieces of cow manure that there is. I don’t believe that this whole “man-made climate change” is really true.  I think that global warming is officially over and done with. The movie done by Al Gore called “An Inconvenient Truth” was actually full of lies and should have been called “A Very Convenient Lie”.

Back to what I mentioned earlier, about the snow in June, I think that now people will start talking about how we are in a “Global Cooling.”  Over the last ten years, the temperature has been going down every year. And as far as Global Warming is concerned, I have not been able to find any kind of agreement in the scientific community that there is any kind of man-made climate change.

I meant to blog about this sooner, but just kept putting it off. After browsing Mike’s blog, I decided to finally put mine up. I am a big fan of Mitt Romney, and I am a little bit upset that he pulled out of the race for the Republican Party nomination.

Recently, I was hoping that I would find Romney as a Vice Presidential candidate for Sen. John McCain. Unfortunatley, I found out that he has decided not to join McCain’s team. Hopefully, we will see him on the Presidential ballet in 2012.

I have never really gotten into politics.  However, since I started blogging and especially since I started reading Mike’s Blogs, then I have started to get into politics more than I previously have been.  Thanks Mike, it has been fun and I hope to continue.

The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending your tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it’s releases. 

1. A billion seconds ago it was 1959. 
2. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. 
3. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. 
4. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet. 
5. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it. 

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If a bill that comes out of Congress in June ever passes and is signed into law, then a new federal bureaucracy would be formed to manage the complicated new tax called cap & trade.  This would be all to pacify the Global Warming pessimists here and abroad. And then to drastically raise taxes on gasoline. Can you say five to eight dollars a gallon? Does that sound like a plan to you?  I certainly don’t think so.

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I share this for two reasons.  The first, is because I served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Oklahoma. And the second reason, is just because I think it is a little bit weird.

In Muskogee, Oklahoma, a nineteen year old has been elected as the city’s new mayor.  This is probably the youngest mayor that I have ever seen or heard of.  Also in this town, the Mayor is an unpaid position.

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I saw this on Mike’s Blog, and I really liked it, so I thought I would also post it too.

“To be a conservative is, in my definition, is somebody that believes in the power of the individual, somebody that believes, please let me make my decisions, that I have a right to succeed and not be penalized for it. I have a right to fail and have no one run to me if I don’t want them to run to me. A conservative believes I have a right to manage my family, I have a right to discipline my family in the way I see fit, as long as it is not criminal. A conservative believes I have the right to worship God, I have a right to worship the God of my understanding, and I do not have the right to jam my version of God down anybody else’s throat or my version of no God down anybody’s throat. A conservative believes live and let live. That’s what a conservative believes. A conservative believes in the smallest amount of government, the smallest government you can get without anarchy. That’s what a conservative believes.”

Glenn Beck
May 13, 2008