What would Reagan do?

It’s a shame that a clone of Ronald Reagan wasn’t on the ballot this year. I must admit, I felt like my vote was a waste regardless of the name I chose. If you have 20 minutes of downtown, here is the greatest inauguration address in history, preceeding the greatest president in history (and at least the foreseeable future). It’s long, but it’s good. Enjoy!

No new debt for America!!!

Sounds like a slogan for a picket sign or something. I’m not picketing anything, although I would like to be able to afford a fence for my yard. I am trying to spread a little information about the “wall street bailout” everybody is panicking about. I want you to check out the plan of the smartest guy I know not named Paul Jenkins: Dave Ramsey. Click here for his COMMON SENSE PLAN for solving this problem.

A couple things about the bailout and the current economic crisis:

• How much sense does it make to go nearly a trillion dollars in debt for nothing more than a band-aid? If you don’t fix the problem it will only come back. (i.e. plugging the whole in a dam with bubble gum)
• We are no where near a depression. Anybody telling you so on TV or in a paper is trying to scare you for political purposes and/or has no concept of economics.
• We aren’t even in a recession. A recession is defined as happening when the Gross Domestic Product is in the negatives for 2 or more consecutive quarters. That hasn’t happened.
• Love him or hate him, you cannot blame the situation on President Bush.* He can’t do much of anything without Congress (which is currently majority democrat). (Current Congress has like a 17 % approval rating, lowest in history by the way)
• If you feel the need to point blame at someone, point at the people who didn’t do anything about the crisis before it was a crisis.
• If you want a president to blame, President Clinton is the one who forced lenders to give loans to people they knew would not be able to handle them/pay them back. just sayin…

Blaming people never really helps anything though. Solutions are called solutions for a reason however. There is a much better solution that debt in our everyday lives, not unlike the current economic situation.

*By the way, the gas problem isn’t the president’s fault either. There are plenty of people to legitimately blame, but we’ll just leave it at supply and demand. Supply and demand is the most basic economical principle, but somehow nobody in politics or the media seem to understand it.

Your Vote Counts pt. 1

My political philosophy is Romans 13, specifically verse 1 in which Paul writes “…The authorities that exist have been established by God.” Words mean something, and what more important words are there than God’s Words? Therefore, I firmly believe there is purpose in every administration we have ever had. For some, it is hard for me to comprehend that, but I will just take Paul’s word for it.

However, we in America have the privilege of being able to vote, so I don’t walk around quoting Scripture and saying things like “Whatever happens happens,” or “Everything happens for a reason,” or some other cliche Christian slogan. I do think we are responsible as Americans to vote and it would be stupid to sit back and not be part of the outcome (since God has allowed us to for the time being in our nation) of presidential elections that will take enormous tolls on our country, our freedoms, and our neighbors (both nextdoor and abroad).

So I vote. I happen to vote conservative, and no I am not one of the brain-dead Republican Christians they stick on MSNBC (a joke of a network…) that seemingly has the I.Q. of stale pop-tarts and only cares about abortion. I DO however care a lot about this issue, and I believe ALL Christians should. This issue is responsible for millions of potential lives in the past and possibly millions more.

I believe people should know what Barrack Obama’s policy is about abortion, so that you can be informed. The mainstream news channels don’t share a lot of things that might be taken negative about him because they want him for President. That doesn’t take away his policy though because it is hidden. ***

• He supports a woman’s right to choose (she doesn’t have the right to choose to prostitute her body or use it to smuggle drugs…hmmm…)
• He supports Roe v/s Wade
• He supports abortion and partial birth abortion
• He voted against a ban on partial birth abortion
• He isn’t sure if life begins at conception
• He was rated 100% by NARAL on pro-choice votes in 2005, 2006, 2007 (NARAL is a Pro-Choice website which also happens to endorse Obama)
• Rated 0% by NRLC on pro-life votes (NRLC is a pro-life website

• He co-sponsored the “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA) which would virtually abolish ALL limitations on abortion
• He has voted against bills that would prohibit taxpayer dollars from being used to fund abortion

And the one that disturbs me the most, as a Senator he opposed the “Born-Alive Infant Protection Act” three times and spoke against it on the senate floor. This law proposed providing medical protection to babies born after surviving an abortion, equal to that of other newborns.

I think these things speak loud and clear without a bunch of words from me. The fact is, a fetus in the womb is the only PERSON on earth who cannot protect him/herself. Somebody needs to offer up protection and I plan on doing it with my vote and with the facts. Call me what you will, but my vote can’t go to anyone who would do more for the cause of abortion in America.

***Barrack Obama’s abortion facts taken from lots of different websites, including politico.com, weeklystandard.com, ontheissues.org, NRLC.org, nationalreview.com, NARAL.org. I tried to find some information on his website but I think it has been hidden in a corner somewhere.

“butt scratching and bass fishing”

This is a great article by THE MAN, Dave Ramsey, about a very real issue the media and politicians are trying to convince us is right: that rich people should pay more taxes to help support everyone else. That they should be penalized for making a lot of money.  You can read the article HERE.

Lectures from Intellectuals pt.1

Well, with all of the stupid things famous people say, I thought we could start a new section here at philbaucom.wordpress.com entitled “Lectures from Intellectuals.” For some reason, American media (in all of it’s extreme bias) swoons over famous people, and whenever they make a political statement it is treated as gospel. I really don’t understand why being famous makes you an expert on whatever you feel like talking about but it apparently does.

In our first installment, Ted Turner, one of the biggest anti-American losers of all time predicts that after global warming is allowed to run rampant over the next 30-40 years, we will all be eating each-other. So a guy with tons of money and completely uneducated on the elaborate hoax that is global warming is suddenly an expert up there with the likes of Sheryl Crow (who makes money off of custom Gibson guitars which take a ton of rare wood to make but says she won’t use toilet paper in order to do her part in conservation) and Al Gore (who flies around in jets that does more supposed harm to the environment than my little white truck in a year).

Take a look at the video and prepare yourself for the all-important question inevitably to come: white or dark meat?

Southern Gal?