I should be doing my history quiz

but I've found myself in a posting mood. And it'll only take me about five minutes to complete so I guess I'll make another post or two. I could probably find enough material to make ten posts about the new administration or things related to it but before I do another political post, I want to do something more lighthearted. I'm not a big fan of stand up comedy, but one of my favorite comedians would have to be Jonathan Winters. He has done some of the funniest stuff over the years and he might be my all time favorite comic. I don't really have much to say about him; I thought I'd let the videos do that.

Thoughts on the inauguration

I've given myself a couple days to process everything that happened in the inauguration even though I didn't watch one single minute of it. Even though I'm taking a political science class this semester (and my professor, who is a legend at my college, has met Obama personally) I decided I wasn't watching it a month or so ago. I also had a history class at that time so I didn't see the Lord Messiah inaugurated. Oh, but I've read about it... and seen it. This inauguration was full of flubs from the start. I guess we should've foreseen what was coming when Dianne Feinstein introduced Chief Justice John Roberts to administer of the oaf of office. And while I respect Chief Justice Roberts, he did mess up on the oath. However, Obama flubbed it just as bad as Roberts did. I just knew after I saw the oath on youtube that the media was going to make excuses for this and by jove! it didn't take long for them to start!! The excuse going around is that Obama had the oath memorized (which he well should have) but when Roberts screwed up Obama was waiting for him to correct himself. Nuh uh. Sorry. It didn't work that way. Obama started to repeat what Roberts said but faltered about halfway through. I guarantee you that if that had been George W. Bush instead of Obama they'd be all over him today. Bush is an incompetent idiot!!... This is our President?!? What a disgrace to the office he is... and other stuff like that. But enough on the oath, lets move on to the Messiah's speech. I didn't really hear anything but pure drivel in his speech... the crowd was lost. I mean, I was just listening to it and they didn't know what to do. And then we have the poem. That poem was just... sad in every since of the word. Is this what poetry has come to? No wonder there aren't many famous poets anymore. And to top it all off, was that really a prayer that Rev. Lowry delivered? I'm sorry, maybe its just me, but anything that has we ask You to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around; when yellow will be mellow; when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white would embrace what is right in a prayer is not a real prayer in my book. Prayer isn't meant to be funny.

I find it highly disrespectful that the crowd there A) booed George Bush and B) sang "Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye!" That is just infuriating to me. I don't like Obama, I never probably will, but I still respect the office he holds and I would not disgrace him in that way. My church is going to Washington next summer and if we would happen to be lucky enough to take a tour of the White House and if we happened to see Obama then I would still consider it an honor. Anyway, you may love him or you may hate him, but Bush held the toughest job for eight years to criticism that would strain a Vulcan's emotionless state. The media's portrayal of him has been classless and what those people did there were just as bad. I got on facebook after getting home from school earlier and I found a rare thing: a group thanking President Bush for what he did (for those who aren't familiar with facebook, a group is something that anybody with a facebook account can create and other people can join. And for an idea of what most George Bush groups are like, most are terribly disrespectful... ie George Bush is a f*****g idiot or something along those lines). I quickly joined and wrote on a comment thanking him for keeping us safe. I don't agree with everything the man did, but I respect him for the way he handled his job and his dedication to it. I've heard that he wants to write a book and I hope he does it soon because I'd love to read something from his point of view rather than the twisted, perverted view that the media gave (and will continue to give) us. If I had the opportunity to meet him someday then I would definitely make an attempt to.

We are now mere hours away...

from the Lord Messiah's crowning in Washington D.C. No, he will not simply be inaugurated President, he will be crowned as Emperor. Now, before you start to lecture me about how the United States is a democracy and on top of that not an empire (though some people argue that we are), let me explain. The term Emperor is a tongue in cheek reference to Obama's and the Democrat's ideas during the next few years. According to Dictionary.com, Emperor means "the male sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire." These two forces, combined together, are going to lead this nation into a deeper mess than its in now. For starters, Obama is going to start TRILLION dollar deficits next year. We're probably going to be getting national healthcare, higher taxes for another two examples. Add on the fact that we're going to bailout everything from car companies to the porn industry and its whoa... whatever happened to JFK's idea of "its not what the country can do for you, its what you can do for the country"??

Lets take the car companies as an example. Ever since the government started regulating cars the American companies have continually lost to the foreign market, particularly Japan. I have to hand it to them, they know how to make good cars that meet the stupid environmental standards in place. But if you take all the crappy regulations out of the way, who do you think wins there? I don't have the link at the moment, but there is proof that American cars outsell the Japanese cars in unregulated places (China is surprisingly one place). Another problem with the American companies is something called a labor union. Now don't get me wrong, labor unions have allowed the worker to not be cheated by the company. But you see, there is the problem. Because nobody is perfect and everyone is greedy, both sides can't get what they want. Hence you create the situation where either the company is able to make more money but the worker isn't necessarily being compensated for his work... or where the labor union has gotten too much power over the company, leading to the company not being able to make money. This is preciously why the American car companies (GM in particular) are going bankrupt... the UWA has wayy too much power. GM is currently paying far more people for simple retirement/healthcare than they are for people who are working (and this number is growing because these people are retiring in their 50's and often living twenty-thirty years this way). If you add in the fact that they also are paying over $10 more an hour for their workers than Toyota and it doesn't matter how many cars they sell, they'll never make a profit. I'm sorry to say this because I am a GM fan and I love Chevy to death but in order to fix this they A) need to go belly up or B) allow someone OTHER THAN THE GOVERNMENT to take control of them. Government intervention into the private sector is a failure every time.

Speaking of labor unions, why do you think all our jobs are being outsourced to other countries? Because the companies can get people to work for them cheaper than they can here because of the absence of a labor union or one that doesn't have much power. Labor unions in this country have too much power. One of FDR's attempts to get us out of the Great Depression was to give the labor unions more power. Nothing like telling a struggling company "here you have to pay each worker more now because we passed a law allowing labor unions to gain the upper hand over you." I'm sure that really helped create new jobs for everyone. And not to get on a rant, but FDR is given way too much credit for getting us out of the Great Depression. He threw almost everything but the kitchen sink at it, but we never really got out of it until we got involved in WWII. FDR is really one of the luckiest Presidents to have been President of our country... his Presidency had been pretty much a failure until WWII. But rather everybody remembers him as this great figure in history that saved us in our darkest hour (and don't get me wrong, he was a good wartime President and he did lead us through that dark tunnel... but not the Great Depression). Lets examine a few things about his Presidency. He introduced deficit spending, introduced us to socialism, gave us the idea that government will provide for you rather than yourself...

Hmm... does any of that sound familiar? This is exactly what Obama and company is going to do. Its amazing how much history repeats itself. Its one of the fascinating things about humans... even if we remember our past mistakes, we still make them over and over again (doesn't quite fit the old adage that we've all learned... that if we don't remember history then we're doomed to repeat it). There is almost nothing standing in the way of Obama and friends from doing whatever they want other than themselves bickering about it (which will happen at some point... they are sorta already doing it). But you're probably thinking that the Republicans can filibuster since the Democrats didn't get 60 seats right? Wrong. It won't happen and I'll tell you why. One, the Republicans are too wimpy to do something like a filibuster. Two, the Democrats don't need 60 seats to get the legislature they want passed... there are a lot of Republican moderates (paging John McCain, paging Lindsey Graham, you're wanted at the White House) that will vote with the Democratic policies. Stupid fools.

And so I return to my original point of the Messiah being crowned Emperor. All of this is why the Lord Barack will be for all intensive purposes an Emperor if all this happens. All the freedoms that we hopefully still hold near and dear to our heart are in danger. If he succeeds, then say goodnight to the US you once knew. The only thing conservatives like me can hope and pray for is that either he gets hit in the head tomorrow and forgets that he's a liberal (not likely) or that his Presidency is a complete failure. Which very well could happen. You wouldn't hear about it in the mainstream press because he has them in his back pocket, but it would still be there. The problem will be whether enough people see it themselves.