BATES MOTEL --SO FAR-- Compelling mysteries!

Is anyone watching the BATES MOTEL series?
The movie of a young man's descent into insanity doesn't appeal to me --or so I thought, but they showed all 4 episodes thus far on Sat. night and I thought --"well, I'll just watch a little," and Jon and I were drawn in by compelling characters, actors, directing. It's quite a compelling drama! Fifth episode is tonight. I'm hoping this has a different ending than the later Hitchcock movies. I want artistic license to be redemptive! with triumph of good over evil! I like happy endings! Never was one for soap operas!

It appears that there are not any GOOD persons in the show except Norman's 2 girlfriends and Norman himself. Even his brother who has come home for lack of other options --and taken a turn for the better toward Norman and is befriending/protecting him (at last)-- told him to "go be a normal teen --go get laid at 17 with a pretty teen girl!" And the worldly audience probably found themselves agreeing that that's just what Norman needed! as he went off to visit the girlfriend --who invited him at night --a girl whose beloved father was mysteriously murdered by fire in his warehouse. Next we'll have a teen love triangle with the other girl who has cystic fibrosis --who also has a crush on him. Then maybe there'll be a pregnancy or an abortion--and goodness knows what from such lousy brotherly advice.

The story is contemporized --with teens texting on their phones and a sex-trafficking mystery involving Asian girls and a journal of drawings about their plight found by Norman under the carpets --after they removed the carpets for blood --because his likable mother murdered her rapist, a gross fellow who formerly owned the property and lost it in foreclosure. Norman caught him in the act, bonked him on the head, they handcuffed him to a table leg --and his mother went into a rage and stabbed the guy to death. We suspect mother caused an accidental death to her husband, too, Norman's father, for insurance money. That's another mystery. The estranged son, Norman's brother --was born to the mother when she was 17 to a man who left her --and that son never respected her (calls her Norma) --so she favored Norman. Her facial expressions are terrific --with a mix of kindly motherly affection for Norman and vulnerability to the disrespectful son. She seems neither crazy nor particularly inappropriate with her sons --so far.

The older brother gets a job, starts helping out at home. His job is guarding a big secret marijuana field --near which there is a cabin in the woods --featured in the Asian girl's drawings in her journal.

The police suspected Norma in the disappearance of her rapist -- she and Norman dumped him in the lake --and carpet fibers found on his recovered hand from his body matched the motel's carpet which they removed because of blood residue as the police arrived. They had stored him in a bathtub of one of the motel rooms --after murdering him in the kitchen. She chose not to report his rape of her and her understandable rage leading to his murder --it wasn't self-defense since they had him handcuffed and helpless. He had once claimed the police were his fishing buddies when she threatened to call the police on him for his threatening ways --so she figured the police would discount the rape, and she figured no one would want to visit a motel where there had been a murder. She already found out that a freeway was being put in on the other side of town which would hurt her business.

Another twist --the sheriffy's deputy has become Norman's mother's lover --as he found the dead man's belt under Norman's bed and promised to keep it and not tell on them. Norman had kept the belt as a memento of the event --and wonders why and what's wrong with him for doing so. Norman's mother apparently told him to get the belt back --so he goes to the deputy's house --and he finds, not the belt, but an Asian girl in the basement --apparently a sex slave. He tells his mother --and she looks in the basement when she is with the deputy at his place and he falls asleep --and there doesn't appear to be a girl there anymore.

So what's going on? Norman had a trance and black-out in the classroom thinking about the drawings in the journal. There is a scene in which the mother tells him to reclaim the dead man's belt from the deputy's house because he could use it as blackmail to get whatever he wanted from her --to make HER his sex slave. Yet, the deputy claims to love the mother --took Norman fishing --says he will protect them.

Everyone knows the dead man was a brute and had it in for his mother. Nevertheless, when they find the dead-man's fish-severed hand with watch and carpet fibers in the lake, they arrest Norman's mother. That's where the story takes up tonight.

Mystery: Norman's mother says she did NOT tell him to get that belt from the deputy's house, tells him he has been having delusions like this all his life, tells him there IS no Asian girl in the deputy's basement because she went down and looked. But the deputy could have moved her --because when deputy got home he found his vicious dog locked up in his bedroom --(by norman) and basement window was left open, too, from which Norman fled. So the deputy may have known someone had been in the house --and thus moved the girl. Or is Norman imagining the girl from the journal drawings? There is something fishy going on here --his CF girlfriend found Chinese writing under a bathroom sink in the motel --the figures spelled "Beautiful." But why would you write that word under a sink? Perhaps it is her name! And she was leaving evidence of her presence in that room.

Wow! Lot's of mystery --and no one to trust!

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

Open Letter to Bob Ferguson, Wash. State AG --on Persecution of Florist

Dear Mr. Ferguson: (Attorney General of Washington state)

We are told that people of religious conscience on the gay marriage issue have nothing to fear from the government if gay marriage is legalized. Thanks for proving this untrue before the Supreme Court rules on the issue. I hope they take note.

There is a lot of research that shows that the children who lack a father fill our jails, do poorly in school, and follow the footsteps of their parents, unable to remain married and sustain happy homes. Three researchers found that children raised by homosexuals are 35% more likely to fail a grade.

Functional homes with both mother and father intact produce the most children able to marry and parent normally --civilizing and educating the next generation --providing an economic safety net and a mental health center and good school for life for their children and grand-children. The homes which lack fathers tend to need a lot of gov't aid --and tend to produce similar, fatherless, poverty-status homes.

What your office has done is shameful --to tell private business people that homosexuals are the same as minority races --and thus those who fail to provide services for their weddings --or housing for their unions --are in violation of the civil rights of homosexuals.

There have always been limits on our sexual proclivities: illegal prostitution; illegal obscenity as porn; age restrictions; consent restrictions (no legal rape) ; restrictions on bigamy and polygamy; and restrictions on bestiality and incest --and re: GENDER!

Everyone has the same right --to marry --and marriage is the union of a man and wife --according to historical definition and nature, our physical design as procreative people. The age and fertility status (inability to procreate) does not prevent an adult couple from being role models of the natural order. Married heterosexual people do role- model the natural order as male with female. All else is problematic for our young people influenced by adults as role models; they are impressionable and not ready to make mature decisions about intimacy and procreation. Youth who start to sex-plore their gender roles, end up vulnerable to STD's, depression, and all the downsides of serial broken relationships. Older gays tend to be lonely due to the emphasis on youth and beauty in their community. They do commit 1/3 of the molestations between adults and youth --which is way more than their percentage of the population.

Our national encouragement should be to wait for marriage before having sex. Some people still do that, you know, believe it or not. And all people have a right to heterosexual marriage --there is no discrimination against people --just against immoral sexual inclinations, lust, and choices. We need to protect our children from the lie that is "homosexual happiness." Gays aren't typically gay. They are angry because they want their anal and oral sex to be respected. They tend to hate those who disagree with them --rather than receiving hatred from the religious. The argument now is to say that straights do it, too. I haven't found in my medical practice that ANY women are succumbing to anal sex --or that oral sex is an oft-practiced event for heterosexual couples. There are some real health concerns with sodomy. According to recent study of obituaries in gay-friendly San Francisco, only 20+% of homosexuals attain old age --compared to over 70% of heterosexuals.

If the Christians are right - if Jesus Christ did rise from the dead, we should consider His definition of marriage --man leaves parents and cleaves to his wife. St. Paul called homosexuality "exchanging the truth about God for a lie, " and "worship of creature more than Creator."

Don't ask this florist to violate her conscience, be it religious or moral concerns or both --by participating in gay weddings. Which is better, to serve God or man or money? Don't make this small business pay for refusing to help solemnize sodomy.

Sincerely,
Jonathan E. Rohrs, MD
Family Medicine

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

NOM on Barronelle Stutzman's Persecution by Wash. State' AG

SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2013
Dear Jonathan,
...the news this week [is]t hat Washington's Attorney General Bob Ferguson is using taxpayer funding to bring a lawsuit against a small Washington state florist named Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene's Flowers and Gifts. Stutzman's crime? Refusing to sell flowers for a gay wedding.

For this 'thought crime' against gay marriage, her whole livelihood is now put at the stake.

It was only a few months ago, before the November elections, when gay marriage advocates were sanctimoniously getting on television and reassuring voters that our claims of the religious persecution that comes hand in hand with redefining marriage were unfounded. Made up. Untrue. They knew at the time they were not telling the truth. Because now, just a few months later, the ACLU and a State Attorney General are the ones at the forefront of making sure that Christians who disagree with gay marriage pay a price for acting on their convictions.

Failure to tell the truth—call it a lie—arises from the fundamental lie: same-sex unions are not marriages because they cannot ever, under any circumstances, do the fundamental, key, and irreplaceable work that marriages do: bringing together under one home, in one family, the two great halves of humanity, male and female—to create homes in which children are known and loved by their own mother and father.
Not every marriage succeeds in creating the full range of goods that marriage aims at. But when marriages succeed in doing so, it's because they combine elements and circumstances that no same-sex couple can.

Suppressing the truth is what same-sex marriage advocates have to do to "win" the debate (temporarily, anyway).

How Truth is Suppressed

That's why, when a distinguished social scientist does an ordinary act like publishing his research in a major peer-reviewed journal—all pandemonium must break loose to discredit him. Not just disagree with him. Not just contextualize or re-contextualize his data—that would be normal scientific debate. But to smear him as a non-scientist and to ignore his work.

That's the crucible University of Texas Prof. Mark Regnerus has been going through and still is going through.

C-FAM's Austin Ruse recently pointed this out in his piece on Regnerus:
"Science Study Still Spooking Gay Advocates."

Ruse points to Dr. Susan Yoshihara, research director of C-FAM, who used the Regnerus study before the legislature in Rhode Island. So-called "fact-checkers" claimed her testimony was false:

Politifact, a self-styled watchdog of political truth, branded Yoshihara's claim as false. Yoshihara, however, says the Politifact piece itself backed up her claim when they quoted a "prudent scholar" who said the issue is not settled in the scientific literature, which was Yoshihara's claim in the first place.

Ruse also cites the recent claim by former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller, who said that "The study was pretty well demolished by peers."

But for me the worst was a claim in the LA Times that the Supreme Court was just silly to entertain the idea children do best with a mom and dad. Justice Scalia had made the assertion that "there's considerable disagreement" about whether "raising a child in a single-sex family is harmful or not," an assertion no doubt based in part on Regnerus's research.

"Those comments startled child development experts as well as advocates of gay marriage, because there is considerable research showing children of gay parents do not have more problems than others," the LA Times went on to report with a straight face…. '"There is a fundamental, scholarly consensus that children raised by same-sex couples do just fine,' said Stanford sociologist Michael J. Rosenfeld."

Yet I know of—and I'm no sociologist—at least 5 studies published in peer-reviewed journals whose results contest the "no difference claim": Mark Regnerus (2012), Loren Marks (2102), Douglas Allen (2012), Daniel Potter (2012), and Theresa Sirota (2009).

Listen, social science is not a "hard science," and I don't need to know from merely scientific evidence what I know in my heart from my own experience and the experience of so many children raised in fragmented families: children long for and need their mother and their father. But simply as a statement about the scientific literature, the claim there is now a "consensus" is untrue. The claim can be made only by ignoring the reputable scientists whose works disagree with that claim.

Truth matters to us, but it's not clear it matters to gay marriage advocates.
If you doubt me, listen to the voice of the extraordinary British writer Brendan O'Neill—a one-time Marxist, a man of the Left, who has spoken out repeatedly against the use of elite power to shut down the debate over same-sex marriage across the pond:

I have been doing or writing about political stuff for 20 years, since I was 18 years old, during which time I have got behind some pretty unpopular campaigns and kicked against some stifling consensuses. But I have never encountered an issue like gay marriage, an issue in which the space for dissent has shrunk so rapidly, and in which the consensus is not only stifling but choking. This is the only issue for which he has been not only booed but threatened with death.

"Is it a good thing, evidence that we had a heated debate on a new civil right and the civil rights side won?" O'Neill asks. And then he answers his own question:
I don't think so. I don't think we can even call this a 'consensus', since that would imply the voluntaristic coming together of different elements in concord. It's better described as conformism, the slow but sure sacrifice of critical thinking and dissenting opinion under pressure to accept that which has been defined as a good by the upper echelons of society: gay marriage. Indeed, the gay-marriage campaign provides a case study in conformism, a searing insight into how soft authoritarianism and peer pressure are applied in the modern age to sideline and eventually do away with any view considered overly judgmental, outdated, discriminatory, 'phobic', or otherwise beyond the pale.

"Gay marriage," he writes, "brilliantly shows how political narratives are forged these days, and how people are made to accept them."

Narrative is the relevant word here. Not hard truths uncovered, but stories created to whose allegiance people are held by threats, by bribes, and by conformist pressures.

The editor of First Things, Rusty Reno, has a similar set of concerns for what all this means for our democratic society. "If government can reshape marriage, it can reshape everything," his article explains:
Tyranny isn't just a situation in which the government is telling you what to do at every moment. It's also a society in which government says that, if necessary, it can. In this respect gay marriage reflects a dramatic enlargement of government. If legislatures and courts can redefine marriage, what can't it intervene to reshape and re-purpose?

The tyranny of the conformists, backed by government's coercive power, were on display in Washington State when the ACLU decided independently to sue the same florist the Attorney General is pursuing.

But first they sent this poor woman a letter:
Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed's lawyers, working with the legal powerhouse at the ACLU of Washington, sent a letter today to Arlene's Flowers owner Baronelle Stutzman saying she has two options: (1) She can vow to never again discriminate in her services for gay people, write an apology letter to be published in the Tri-City Herald, and contribute $5,000 to a local LGBT youth center, or (2) she can get sued for violating the Washington State Civil Rights Act.
Conform to our falsehood. Pretend you believe things you do not. Or face the consequences. George Orwell, call your office.

But here's the good news in all this: It's going to get bad, we already know this. But in the end truth has a power that no narrative, no story can compete with.
Our job is to remain firmly fixed on the truth about marriage, to speak up for it with love in in our heart, and with the courage to never bow before the false gods, the untruths, the made-up stories offered to us in place of reality.

I am so honored to be fighting shoulder to shoulder with you for God's truth about marriage. Thank you for making this enormous megaphone possible.
I treasure your friendship, your prayers, your words of encouragements, your sacrifices of time and treasure on behalf of this great cause.
Bless you!

Brian S. Brown
President
National Organization for Marriage

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

With Sympathy for Rick Warren's Family

Our prayers are with Rick Warren's family.  I googled and found there are those on the left who are unsympathetic --because of Rick Warren's evangelical stand against homosexual marriage. They erroneously believe that the Christian stand against homosexual relations is a primary cause of suicide among homosexuals --and they muse that Rick's son was probably gay.  

 In fact, the activities in the gay life are such that self-loathing and depression can result --without any doctrinal causes.    Nevertheless, in this case, the LEFT is proving itself to be like the misguided Westboro Church showing up at military funerals to say that America's homosexuality is causing our military deaths.  That church's view lacks any Biblical support concerning individual soldiers who die in war.  And likewise,  it is just as  cruel a  point of view to speculate that Matthew Warren's suicide is for any other reason than depression.  

I was just ONCE what you would call "clinically depressed;"  and this was 8 years or so after a wonderfully affirming spiritual experience --so I didn't lack assurance of salvation per se.  I was almost Matthew Warren's age at 26.   I was pregnant for the first time and the chemicals of the condition knocked me for a loop for several months  so that I just never felt good.  Like  post-partum depression, it has no rational cause.  You can't explain why the world looks grey, cold, impersonal and bleak and you feel overcome with dark thoughts--I had no complaint.  I just was overwhelmed with despair --and it wasn't because I didn't want my baby --or that I felt unloved --or anything I could put my finger on.  Chronic tiredness and nausea was part of it and is part of pregnancy sometimes. (I'm still easily "so tired.")   I would force myself to go to my aunt's or an acquaintance's house --to just not be alone in that mental state. (When Jon was at school.)  

I am so glad that my condition didn't seem to affect my wonderful first baby.  And I never had the condition to that extent again.   I heard that my grandfather and an uncle had bouts of such depression when in THEIR 20's. 

Depression is often alleviated today with medicines affecting our brain chemistry. 

I know some people recommend strongly that young adults live on their own to  experience rent and bills, etc.    In Matthew's case, being single,  perhaps he should've lived with his parents.   Did he have a career?  It would be hard to be the son of such a successful man --in today's economic market --when careers are hard to establish --and jobs hard to find --and you are going nowhere financially and don't have a girlfriend.  None was mentioned.

Our single son lives at home --and he stays busy and cheerful --and is an immense help to us and his grandmothers --and his church. He is an extension of his father in the care of his home, wife, mother, property --so that his father doesn't have to worry about those things.  With 2 college degrees, he works for his father at something he says will never be a career for him.  I don't appreciate those who advise that living alone would be a panacea to mature a person and jump start him into relationships, marriage, and career direction for need of money.  I do think a girlfriend/ wife  can help to focus the future --but living alone after college and without a career is an expensive option fraught with many time-wasting, ungodly temptations these days.  And no panacea against depression either.   I think Matt Warren went home to an empty house/apartment.

 But I also want to believe He went home to a merciful Heavenly Father with His sins covered by the atoning blood of Christ --who would have great compassion for the desperation of the depressed son of his servants, Pastor & Mrs. Rick Warren. Depression leading to suicide  is not usually the sin of arrogance and rebellion --but of despair.  I believe Christ was there to pick him up as he descended into the abyss that is death.  I imagine he asked God's forgiveness as he went --and received it.


."God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

About the Boy Scouts & Gays in their Ranks

A BLOGGER in a news forum --IN RESPONSE TO ME --THE ISSUE WAS ORIGINALLY ABOUT THE BOY SCOUTS AND THEIR DILEMMA ABOUT GAYS:

BLOGGER: Hey, I don't like this comment. Please remove it.

Nice job treating a group of humans as trash.

Superb example of "Christ's Love for All".

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The comment to which he objected --We were asked if our kids were gay, would we reject them? My answer at the time:
Barb  (January 30, 2013): I would grieve --love them, but grieve for the mess between their ears. For our failure to affirm their gender identity and moral and spiritual commitment to Christ. I would not attend their sham "weddings" or invite them to share a bedroom with partner under my roof. I would wonder what we could've done to prevent their confusion/sin --and their first association with other homosexuals such that they wanted those activities which are so frought with promiscuity and disease.  In medical research on HIV, 2  stranger-encounters (sex) per week were reported by average homosexual during height of AIDS crisis. The males suffer prostatitis, high rate of STD's, anal fissures and incontinence --potentially, eventually. Women are giving neck and head cancers from HPV to their oral sex partners of either sex. They won't give us grandchildren by any normal means. They won't know the joy of heterosexual love and parenting as God designed it to be. If they start into this, they become addicted --and may never repent of choosing this lifestyle instead of God's plan for their bodies, they may miss out on Heaven --without repentance. A time for parental grief all the way round.

My response to BLOGGER's private message to me at the top:

Thanks for bothering to write your feelings about my posts on the scouting issue. If you looked there, you would see a lot of my rationale on this gay issue.   [e.g. I don't believe in labeling boys or adolscents as gay nor excluding them from scouts, unless they are "out of the closet"  and think it's justifiable to have crushes on or pursue the other scouts or are known to be sexually active with other boys.  I would hope scouts would help them find a niche with heterosexual boys and men, such that they were affirmed by and  identified with normal guys --even in orientation.]  

  I don't know if you are homosexual --most objectors to what I write are. But I certainly won't remove it because it is an obligation to warn the uninitiated --and the homosexuals --of the physical and spiritual risks of settling for homosexual relations instead of growing up into God's design plan for man and woman.

We are made in the image of God as female for male. Our bodies are complementary. homosexuals know what each other likes sexually because they have the same bodies --but God didn't want us to short-circuit our potential there. Romans 1 is very clear --start with verse 18 --it is clear that homosexual proliferation today is part of the wickedness of these times --as in other times. A worship of creature more than Creator. Exchanging the truth about God for a lie --and receiving the recompense for their error in their bodies --such that God gives them up to lusting after their own sex. It almost suggests he gives up on them. But elsewhere in the NT it tells of former homosexuals and other converted sinners as part of Christ's church so there is hope in conversion.

How do you dignify the activities which are unsanitary, injurious, promiscuous usually, and simply not what our bodies are designed for? Even gay leaders like Andrew Sullivan admit that gay partners don't expect absolute fidelity like heteros do. God Himself is a jealous God --and wants no idolatry from us. He doesn't expect marriages to hold when one is unfaithful to the other. But homosexuals know that they are orgasm-focused (by early homosexual indulgence) and weak-willed as regards either fidelity to partners --or to God.


"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."

"If we say we have no sin, the truth is not in us."

Satan is a deceiver and the Father of Lies --his native language is lying --Jesus said.

Today
10:28am
BLOGGER

What if someone doesn't share your religious convictions? What moral basis do you have for your argument for people who do not share your faith?

1:18pm
Barb
If it's not a matter of religion, it is still a matter of role modeling to future generations about the purpose and design of gender. We know kids do better with both their original father and mother --not hindered by divorce and the deprivations common for single mothers and the kids when there is no man to share the load --or to role model masculinity to the boys. Someone needs to raise the children --and give us children. There is no societal need or call to the mutual pleasuring involved in homosexual relations.

1:24pm
Barb
As for religion--I was just telling some youngsters last night who brought up the tragedy of Syria --and wondered how anyone could do what they have done to babies and children. I told them about Pol Pot and his bayonets on the march of refugees from Cambodia --and Communists and Stalin killing 50 million --and the 6 million Jews and 5 million others murdered by Nazis --and the girl, in 8th grade, had just learned somewhere about the chemical showers in Nazi Germany.

I said atheism and Islam fuel horrendous atrocities --and America has an atrocity of its own in legal abortion. That it is the Judeo-Christian faith and the Bible that stand tallest and strongest against the cruelty and evil in the world. Saying "Thou shalt not murder." And "love your enemy" and "forgive 70 x7." It made America the best place, the most humane and generous place in the world to live.

And the weaker we are in our religious convictions, the more immoral we are, and the more hateful and violent we become. Watch homosexuals talk to Christians online --they HATE them and want to hound them out of the discussion and get them censored.

Some people hate gays--but I think it's more often the other way around. Christians don't want their children to consider that homosexuality is harmless and good --because it is neither. It is not the best. It short-circuits their potential to be happy as spouses and parents --and grandparents.  It is not cruel to deny them the legal status of "marriage" with their adverse role modeling and involvement with youth --putting gay sex ed into our public schools and requiring us to hire them in churches and admit them to religious schools as though they were a minority like RACE --ignoring the Bible.  We aren't working to deny them  their "weddings" or their lifestyles --e.g. in the Episcopalian  or other unbiblical churches --but legal recognition by such churches and gov't will doom this nation ultimately.

The people doing the most "breeding"  (rather than parenting) these days are men not making commitments to a wife and kids --and the result is the violence of a Chicago.  It is also the black youth who are the leading recipients of HIV/AIDS today --and their women are the 2nd most afflicted as new cases.   We need a restoration of the family to role-model normalcy to youth --and a reformation of tv --and thus, culture.  No more GLEE.   TV is the main culprit in changing culture for the the worse --such that young people are shameless in their shacking up with either sex.

 

LIBERALS THINK MAN IS GOOD, SINS & ALL

 Rant of the Day: I was reading Time's man of the year issue on Obama and saw all the teams of dems who helped his re-election--and it occured to me that a big difference between the parties is the Liberals' belief that mankind is essentially GOOD and IMPROVING, evidenced because they elected Obama and are winning in their belief that it's good to approve and encourage EVERYBODY'S lifestyle as a civil right --including the transgenders, gays, polygamists, promiscuous, prostitutes, drug-users, porn-makers and addicts.  This is seen as non-judgmental and progressive--even "Christian."

Thinking that anything is a sin is "judgmental."

And yet, the Religious and the Religious Right, who follow the Judeo-Christian Bible, know that we are desperately wicked in our inclinations --we are a sinful people --and we need knowledge of "right" and "wrong" that we may know what needs to be repented and changed in our behaviors and thinking. "Judge not lest ye be so judged" does NOT mean "approve all behaviors, traditionally viewed as sins; say nothing against any behavior lest you be wrongfully judging."

About the only thing most of us agree on, both right and left, would be that saving the planet is good (but how? and R we responsible for weather and disaster by our SINS, in the hands of an angry God, or by our carbon footprint? or are variations just normal for Earth-life?) 

We also agree that stopping gun violence is good but don't agree on how this should be done. We agree that helping the poor and elderly and ill is good.  Pedophilia, sex slavery, murder, theft, rape, etc. are still viewed as wrong. Yet, we don't seem to be getting fewer of these behaviors..and we have way too many poor because of their lifestyle choices and the legacy of THEIR parents.

We don't seem equally bothered about cheating/adultery on the Left as on the Right because the biggest, unbowed, unrepentant presidential cheater of all (as far as we know) is still the darling of the Left --Bill Clinton. It's considered mean, hateful and disrespectful that I would even mention him in this negative context. I'm not stoning him --I'm just suggesting that Jesus be the hero for forgiving --and not the adulterers celebrated in spite of their selfish, unrepented acts.

The Left won't agree that  abortion kills over a million people a year in a violent, painful procedure.  They won't agree that Hollywood and TV are causing cultural erosion and should be reigned in before all the kids are debauched; that porn is a world-wide blight instead of a first amendment "right," that TV shows glorifying shallowness and nasty dog-eat-dog behavior (as in The Bachelor/bachelorette/survivor shows) , pregnant teens, overweight children with unmarried hillbilly parents (poor Honey Boo Boo), pre- and extra-marital sex, shacking up,  foul language, nudity, polygamists, homosexual relations, transgendering, and brassieres should be discouraged by lack of sponsors.

Even Dr. Phil gets it wrong sometimes --encouraging "slutty dress" the other day as benign. Unwittingly setting up mothers and daughters against each other on the importance of dress and the message which dress really does convey. He called those who were wanting young women to dress respectfully and honorably "judges" of others. As mothers, do we not think there is a message conveyed by certain ways of dressing?? a message to men, in particular? a message that we ought not want to send? Should a good culture not TEACH its young right from wrong and encourage and celebrate the Right --instead of the wrong?

Democrats as Progressives? Not really! It's regression we observe in American culture today --led by the LEFT.

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

OPEN LETTER --WE SENT TO M/M OBAMA

The letter below is what I sent to the Obamas from my husband and me. I guess he did what I asked concerning taxes on the rich --starting at $400,000 (or was it $450,000?) instead of $250,000 which would have meant increasing taxes on  millions of  job-creating, small-business-people making less the uber rich--and yet well-off - like the bourgeoise (the middle class and business class) of Russia when Communists took over and pitted the proletariat (blue collar worker) against the bourgeoise, taking over their businesses, houses and lands for the state.)

November 9, 2012
President & First Lady of the United States
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President and Mrs. Obama:

We --and the Romney-supporters (half the country) really do want to like you with your nice smile, great charisma and lovely family. We want to be glad that you were re-elected. You can help us do that. We don’t want to think you have communistic sympathies or a colonialist view of the U.S. nor plans to disarm our country with promises to Putin.

You did say in your speech a few moments ago that the top 2 per cent of the nation make $250,000 or more and should be taxed more. Those include mostly the lower end of that income, the small business owners and various professionals --who live like “middle-class” --rather than the super-rich of the top 1/2 per cent like yourself and the ultimate uber rich like Romney and other million dollar -plus a year people. Those making high 5 figures, and 6 figures up to $250,000 are Marx's bourgeois --the middle class educated conservatives whom Communists destroyed. According to 2009 and Tax Payers Union, it was $344,000 that the top 1 per cent make. There aren’t very many uber-rich who make millions like Romney, Hollywood celebs, uni coaches and presidents and CEO's of big corporations --not enough of them to slow the deficit if you keep adding more people to the poverty rolls, approving pork and new billion dollar spending packages and sending tons of money to other nations' corrupt governments.

Please surprise the half of the country that supported Romney. We are scared to death of your agenda --what we perceive it to be--and the radical influences in your past. Please prove us wrong. Show that you can cut programs for which we should not borrow from China. We know --that means lost public sector jobs --but if China is paying them, they have to go. If they are valuable employees in a department we don’t really need, they will find work elsewhere in a more prosperous private sector --i.e. more prosperous if you don't tax them down.

We suggest you not raise taxes EXCEPT SLIGHTLY on the uber rich -- the top 1/2 per cent. You still want them to be inclined to invest, hire, spend and give. Learn from business people who know how to succeed at business and know how taxes impact growth. The Government needs way too much revenue because of the horrible level of spending. Let Big Bird support Public Broadcasting. He can do it. They can sell muppets. As for Public Radio, put Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion on every day and we’ll send them a donation. PBS is not neutral enough politically that they should deserve tax-payer support. They speak in their measured, neutral, unemotional tones --leaning WAY to the left --as far left as Fox News speaks excitedly with no pretense of neutrality, to the right. But Fox raises their own money. So can NPR. (Note: “fair and balanced” doesn’t mean neutral. Gov’t stations should be neutral.)

Planned Parenthood shouldn't get public funding if pro-life Pregnancy Centers and clinics don't. The poor women will still get healthcare using their medicaid cards and the public health clinics.

You must move toward the center if you would meet the Republicans half way and end the supposed gridlock. Your determination should be NO NEW SPENDING --and the elimination of all non-essential spending and departments that don’t directly impact the needy or the elderly or the ill. Send the education of the nation back to the locals. Shut down the federal department of education. Send the school breakfast program to the churches. Promote volunteer tutoring by the elderly in every public school. Note that Christian and parochial and home schools educate best on way less money.

And for goodness sakes, PLEASE deliver to the nation’s youth Santorum’s message from your bully pulpit. The 3things to do to avoid poverty: “Finish high school; get a job; get married before having children--( and stay married if possible. Stay faithful. ) If you do even the first 3 things on this list, 98% of you will be above poverty line; 77% will be above average in income.”

There really is a correlation between family stability and morality and the strength of communities and nations. You are for gay marriage, but ought not be, because children deserve a mother and father when possible. Gay marriage deprives them of one or the other by its very nature. Nor should gays share quarters with straights (or with each other) in military. It’s like putting men and women together in showers and barracks--completely distracting to the mission of military preparedness. Homosexuality does spread --from the experienced to the inexperienced, and like drugs, becomes addictive. No evidence yet that we are born homosexual. U. of Texas published a 2012 study that said the adult children of homosexual parent are among the most miserable and dysfunctional of all young adults.

Please be better than conservatives expect. Seriously try to understand the logic and reason behind conservatism and their criticism of your party and policies. Communism hasn’t been appreciated anywhere where it is tried. Socialism leads to the fiscal cliff --sliding like Greece--and you’ve got us on the edge. Surprise us --and do not push us over. Don’t tax us highly now or you will kill business and jobs. People are thinking of moving out of country for fear you will rob them of their pensions --either through confiscation of high taxes or bad economy, inflation, devaluing of the dollar, etc.

We are afraid of having our lives shortened by your Canada-style health care program. Let someone tweak that program! We don't want the long waits and rationing of Canadian healthcare! Canadians come HERE for procedures they can't get in a timely manner in Canada. Start with TORT REFORM. Doctors and insurance companies settle out of court for 100,000 rather than go to trial and risk jury’s compassion for miserable patients suing for a million dollars. Doctors rightly fear that the jury will consider only the patient’s misery, thinking it will cost no one if the insurance company pays the patient without proving malpractice. In fact, the costs of such suits and mal-practice insurance are a big cost in healthcare.

As for national security and disarming Americans, we hope you are just the fun-loving, congenial and kindly public servant, Barack Obama from Hawaii --and not a Stalin or Hitler in the making who was mentored by Communists and other radicals, as some suspect.

Seek good successful businessmen’s advice and not just socialists’ advice. They have never made any nation solvent. Put Romney on your cabinet! Because he does like to solve financial problems. Wow! That would be a uniting act. Listen to Ryan, too. We are in a mess. Let them try to help!

We shall pray for you daily--that you really ARE a Christian as you told Rick Warren --or will become one and that you will seek God’s guidance on all matters before you --not Marx’s advice, nor Alinsky’s, nor Ayers, nor Davis’s. Only Jesus rose from the grave. He is the only one worthy to save us for Eternity. Atheists can’t give you wise guidance like the Holy Spirit and the Word of God can. Your stands on abortion and homosexuality --and lukewarm relationship with Israel, are all 3 in contradiction to His Word and His Spirit and need to be reconsidered if the nation would be blessed. Separation of church and state doesn't mean God is not real --and has no say in the country's values which shape national culture and character.

Forgive us for any misjudgment of your character and intentions, and prove all the naysayers wrong.

Sincerely --wanting to admire you--
wanting your term to be successful
in the eyes of God and informed Americans,

Dr. & Mrs._______________

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Thoughts: Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. Psalm 33:12

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. Isaiah 5:2

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. II Chronicles 7:14

Generosity is to be voluntary, from the heart, not confiscated by dictators
to maintain power via the envious.

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

UPS ABANDONS THE BOY SCOUTS TODAY!

UPS announced today that they won't sponsor Boy Scouts of America because of their discrimination against homosexuals as members and scoutmasters.

Parents and Grandparents: Do you really think it will be ok to have the gay scoutmaster in the tent with your good looking 17 year old son? Would you have a man in a tent with the girls? 

The Boy Scouts would never bully or identify a boy as homosexual and keep him out because of his non-macho appearance, mannerisms, or interests --but only if he self-identified as homosexual.  If he identifies as homosexual, that justifies, in his mind,  his crushes on,  and pursuits of,  other boys in the organization. 

We need to regard the biological realities of libido (sex drive), orientation, opportunity, attraction and temptation. Young people can have gender identity confusion and orientation flexibility because of early sexual experiences --not to mention the potential for STD's.  

Corporate America needs to find a new cause celebre --how about Santorum's Big 3: tell the youth the truth:  If you 

Graduate h.s.

Get a job

Wait until marriage for sex and babies,

 98% of you will not be on gov't payroll and 77% of you will make an above average income. 

Now there's a good ad campaign!

Meanwhile,  write to:

Mr. D. Scott Davis,

CEO
UPS
55 Glenlake Parkway, NE
Atlanta, GA 30328
1- 404-828-7123 (Eastern Time)

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

Letter to Liberal Christian - Part 2 (who pays the income tax?)

  How do you determine the fair share of taxes?    Right now --take 100 people paying a total of $100 in income tax.  The top man pays $37.   The next 4 join him, paying $22 or 4.50 each.   That brings the total paid by the top 5 people  to  $59.   So the top 5 percent pay 59% of all the federal income tax.   Now the next 5 guys pay  $11 or over $2 a piece on average.   That means the top 10  people  (10 per cent) are paying $70 or 70 per cent of all the tax.   Now the next 15 guys pay $17 between them, an average of a little over $1 a piece --so that's 25 guys (25%)  paying $87 or 87% of all the federal income tax.   Now the next 25 guys pay $11 or an average of $.44  a piece.  And 98% of the tax has been covered by  the top 50 guys.  The bottom 50% pay $2.25 total out of the $100.  That's  4 !/2 cents a piece on average --and most of these pay nothing --and get an Earned Income Tax Credit if they work.

So I think it behooves the bottom 50% to be more grateful than resentful to the top 1%, 5% and 50% who pay ALL the federal tax for them --and live off of it.   The shame is that we spent the senior citizens S.S. instead of saving and investing it profitably --and thus we use Social security payments for various pork projects and the new obamacare.

So is it fair, that the richest 1 per cent pay 37 percent of all  the federal income tax?  All we heard  from democrats was how the top 1% weren’t paying their fair share.  Because “they didn’t build that.”  Obama goes on to explain that the GOV’T made it possible for the rich to be rich  (true for him) –but who made it possible for the gov’t to have money to do anything???  The taxpayers –NOT THE GOV’T. !    In fact, the gov’t is the entity at fault for letting their programs and people run amok.  They have failed to support waiting for marriage –as being a religious notion.  They have encouraged, via sex ed,  homosexuality.  And Obama’s adm. encourages gay marriage by not defending federal DOMA.  And they said it was just fine for homosexuals to share barracks and bathrooms with people to whom they are sexually attracted in the military.   They won’t restrain tv at all  or liberal sex ed which teaches our kids that “everybody does it” and “responsibility is a condom” and  “gay sex is fine.”  Right now, it’s the Obama adm. that has told schools to leave morals out of the sex ed program or lose funding.  (But really, who  needs funding to teach sex ed?  You need moral teachers and parents and churches to do that –and the message is FREE.)

I think Christians can debate these issues  without being insulting –but I find that the LEFT-thinkers don’t know how to do this without being insulting –making it personal.  Remember –like when you said I probably never worked, never had to do anything because I married wealth.   I think I explained to you then that I married a poor boy and never knew wealth –until after we’d been married with children a few years.   And if anyone deserves financial comfort, my husband does.  I might not, but he does. And I’m “entitled” to his living because we are a unit with separate roles –the Bible says so.   He’s the hardest working guy you’ll ever meet –and loves to give when he can.  But would he work as hard as he does if he were told he could make just as much money doing something much easier that didn’t require him to work so hard ?  Do you believe that everyone in healthcare should make the same money as the MD who took 11 to 15 years post high school of hard study and work and testing?  And still has to  study difficult stuff and be tested every 7 years or so for recertification.    In Canada, the doctor makes so much for so many hours, according to the gov’t.   And he quits after that.  Thus, the rationing and delays in services.   Here, if the dr. works his fanny off, he can do better than if he just puts in 40 hours.   You can say that doctors should do what they do just to help people –and because they love their work –but you know that people aren’t all that NICE to work for –and that it’s no fun to be threatened with lawsuits –and have people complain if your office runs late or if their illness doesn’t get better.   A doctor is a servant –and so far,  he is well paid as a compensation for the misery and difficulty  of becoming one and remaining one.  Few men want to sit with a 3 foot stack of charts and tests to survey every weekend all the way until Sunday midnight. Few want to be tested every 7 years like doctors --to maintain their ability to work.  It is great stress on my husband to prepare and take those tests.  And few want malpractice lawyers chasing them in order to make  THEIR  living by out-of-court settlements for nuisance suits that would cost more in risk and time for the doctor to fight.

There are many poor people –even on gov’t payroll –who vote Republican –for the moral principles, the religious freedom and religious moral values and the belief in free enterprise being a rising tide that floats the most boats.    The unis are teaching our kids  --and the party teaches the public -- that the Republicans are all the rich people who care nothing about the poor –who won’t help the poor.   Now, THAT’S a mis judgment.  And it was the over-arching lie of the Democratic campaign.  The 47% tape didn’t help—but  Mitt  was right about it.  He wouldn’t get the votes of those who paid no taxes –in most cases.  He actually did –because a lot of elderly (who paid into the system and may still pay taxes)  and poor DID vote for him –but the masses of people on gov’t checks  other than social security–those people weren’t going to vote for Romney –so he was challenging donors to give to him because he would work to keep taxes down, in spite of those who live   off  the labors of the taxpayers, not paying taxes themselves.  He probably was appealing to those who resent working for their incomes while others live off of their work.   It’s not right, to the extent that it has gone in this country.  We have way too many men shirking work because they don’t want to pay child support.  This is NOT an indictment of the truly poor who WANT to work and can’t find work or those who can NOT work for whatever reasons. It’s less an indictment of the single mothers than it is of the men who never married them and didn’t want to pay support so wouldn’t take a real job that could be garnished.

Some children riding on  a church bus with me  don’t read politics –but they watch tv commercials.  They insisted to me on the bus, after gloating about the Obama victory, that Mitt Romney would’ve taken away all food stamps and welfare.   I said, “No, he wouldn’t have.  He just wants more people to have good jobs so they won’t have to be on welfare and food stamps.”    They were sure I was wrong.   They saw the commercials.   The public had the mentality of 12 year olds and believed the lie that Romney wanted to kick everybody off entitlement programs.  I know a mother and son who voted for Obama because they are on entitlements and thought Romney would take them away.    They hated voting for gay marriage and abortion, but it was more important to vote for their checks –even though their checks weren’t being threatened.    I want her  son to find a good job.  I want MY son to find a good job.  It’s not going to happen with this president increasing business costs through Obamacare, I’m afraid.

But I’ll be delighted if the next four years are great –and you can then say in 2016  “I told you so!”    I do not want this president to fail.  But I do think Christians need to wake up –over the things he’s done so far –including his forcing the Catholic institutions and religious colleges to provide birth control and abortifacients –even for unmarried college students who aren’t supposed to be having sex, according to our Christian beliefs.  It’s unbelievable the way Sandra Fluke got to speak at the convention about women’s health care –meaning  Catholic Georgetown U. should provide birth control for their students.   It seems absolutely CRAZY to me that fornicating students expect their colleges’ health insurance to put them on the pill!!  WHAT ARE WE and the DEMOCRATS THINKING???     Obama also restored monies to overseas agencies to promote and provide abortions –rescinding the Mexico City policy which prevented us spending money to encourage or facilitate abortion overseas.  WE ARE BORROWING FROM CHINA TO ENCOURAGE ABORTION?  Let them do that –they are the ones who believe in it to the extreme.

Another example of an immoral culture –I saw an engagement announcement of 2 young people –which said they were living together at such and such a place –enjoying life with their dog –or something like that.  We didn’t use to announce that we were shacking up and unmarried –as though it were OK.  But that’s the change that Hollywood has wrought –and the church hasn’t prevailed against this culture-corruption being taught  by  the media –and public ed’s value-neutral sex ed.  There is no longer any shame for our immorality.  I would tell my kids that there would be NO wedding money if they moved in before the wedding. 

As a Christian, you need to ponder the fact that it is not the conservatives who are shutting down the Christian groups on college campuses –or removing them from the list of acceptable student associations; they didn’t try to forbid  manger scenes, Ten Commandment plaques,  and prayer and Christmas music to  on public school campuses and public places.   The liberals do that. The conservatives  oppose abortion generally (though most would allow in the law the choice for rape, incest, life of mother);  they define marriage the way the Bible does –by God’s creation of male and female for parenting.  They know that greed isn’t good for the rich when they are selfish—nor for the poor when they are eaten up with envy, and desire to have wealth redistributed to them without earning it as though they are entitled to the fruits of others’ labor.  These people will hit the streets in rage if inflation eats up their checks –and the checks no longer come in the mail –if  we are economically like Greece –no more money and no more borrowing power.  Then what happens?  Riots in the streets – crime as at Occupy Wall St.--like the Watts riots which you are probably too young to remember? And the looting –and the irrational, hyper-emotional, conduct of ignorant people whose schools were lousy because the barely parented entitlement kids acted like fools all their lives in the classroom  (or truant at home)–and Obama will declare martial law –and  if he IS a communist, he’ll tell me  that my house is no longer mine but the state’s. And we shall all be redistributed!    We don’t think it could happen here, but those nations where it happened in my lifetime didn’t expect what they got either.  I hope Barack is too lazy and self-indulgent to share any of his father’s dreams against the  “imperialist west” –or in favor of communism like his spiritual father, Communist poet-pornographer Frank Marshall Davis.    If we do go over the fiscal cliff with him, it will be a scary ride!   

Peace, my liberal friend.      And tell me again where my thinking isn’t right –but don’t tell me I just don’t understand the plight of the poor.  I do.  That’s why I’m there for some people.  But I also know we wouldn’t have so many poor people if more of us  did live by  Biblical standards of sexual morality –and if we could turn around our youth culture with the Gospel –before it’s too late to save this nation as the beacon of light it used to be to the world –despite its flaws.

The LEFT, is just the wrong direction.  We need to go RIGHT.   

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

Letter to a Liberal Christian - Part 1

You  think the Democratic party is the best.   And you are not alone among evangelicals who  think that.   However, it is perplexing to understand how Christians could support  the left.  Extreme left is Communist –depriving people of their freedoms, including religious freedom,  and the fruits of their labors –destroying individual initiative and motivation to create by destroying the right to private ownership and the initiative to increase one’s productivity and earnings.  Everything belongs to the State in a communistic nation.  No freedom.  Atheistic.  Constant surveillance by the KGB.  Redistribution of wealth occurred in Russia and in Cuba.  In my lifetime.   China’s thing was to stop all the birthing—and now some of their leaders realized they have way more boys than girls –and they still forcibly sterilize and abort their women –and put Christians in jail –in China.  North Korea is communistic and cruel to all.

A Paul Harvey radio speech http://holytube.de/gute-predigten/if-i-were-the-devil-paul-harvey-warning-for-a-nation/

 shows that in the 60’s  --when I was in high school -- conservatives had the same fears we have today that our liberal direction  is diabolical, weakening us, leading to socialism (mild communism) which leads to financial ruin.   The 60’s were the beginning of the hippie “free love” era :  “make love, not war” –and a rise in drug use encouraged even by liberal profs.     An issue back then was union abuse –the way they were thuggish in their strikes and protected truant and undiligent workers, shoddy products, bad teachers  and always voted for democrats.  

 My husband got a bad impression of all the auto workers wanting him to give them endless sick excuses  and to even get them on disability when they really weren’t  verifiably sick.  His uncle was a union boss and often met with mafia types.   I early on, growing up,  got the idea that the Democratic party was the greater evil of the 2 parties.     I grew up reading politics in Time and Life magazines –would read the letters to the editor, etc.  IT was great education to strain to understand grown-up writing. 

My parents, (lower middle class) taught me that people should take care of themselves, study in school to get ahead and be responsible for their own kin—and not expect the gov’t to do it for them by taking from those who work to give to those who don’t.   Of course, we all  DO believe in charity and gov’t aid  for those who cannot work, or cannot find work.  But when a family gets $600 a month or so on a food card, they do not want to give that up!  When they also get $700 at least per month for being “depressed,” as single mothers,  and have a health card –they don’t want to give that up for a job that pays  them no more than what their gov’t is giving them to not work.   Of course, entry-level jobs pay less than gov’t would for a single mom and 4 kids –so it seems  she is better off to stay on welfare until she gets them grown—(and I want them to have those checks and cards) but what happens?  Her kids do the same thing –and here come more babies into the house.  And so we go back to Uncle Sam and ask for more money.     We have too many people in this situation –and morals are the reason!   And gov’t enables.    It is the breakdown of marriage –and the complete lack of marriage today –that causes a lot of our poverty.  It’s not the rich being too tight-fisted.   It’s not the fault of husbands who are happy if their wives stay home.   In fact, more husbands today WANT their wives to work  outside the home and think they are lazy if they don’t.  Many men in black culture think it’s the wife’s duty to be the breadwinner with Uncle Sam –they just spread their seed and drop in from house to house and think the women should give THEM money.  I know people.

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

General Petraeus's Confession --WHY was it public?

It seems there is something fishy about the timing of General Petraeus's confession. Did O's people MAKE him confess and resign, in hopes he wouldn't have to testify? Did they threaten him with worse problems regarding prosecution and pension, etc., if he didn't step down before Benghazi hits the fan? Was either P or O hoping to distract from any errors of theirs re: Benghazi? Why is it ok for Clinton to skirt around but not a general? Clinton was Commander in chief, after all! Not that adultery isn't serious betrayal and risky for CIA as well as presidents, making them both vulnerable to blackmail-based decisions. But why is it a step-down offense for a general but not for the Commander in Chief? Why wouldn't the general just protect his wife as well as himself from the shame --and just quietly make up with his wife if he could --or quietly resign. Why the public confession? He seems genuinely contrite, but methinks somebody got to him --and it has to do with Benghazi. I think O's people wanted him to resign and want to imply eventually that any error in Benghazi was P's fault due to his distractions in the moral arena. Maybe someone put a million in an off shore bank account for P. Yes, I'm just speculating --but I smell a rat here! The public disclosure makes no sense.

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible

OPEN LETTER TO OBAMA

November 9, 2012

President of the United States

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW

Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

We --and the Romney-supporters (half the country) really do want to like you with your nice smile and great charisma and lovely family.  We want to be glad that you were re-elected.  You can help us do that.  We don’t want to think you have communistic sympathies or a colonialist view of the U.S.  nor  plans to disarm our country with promises to Putin.    

You did say in your speech a few moments ago that the top 2? per cent of the nation make $250,000 or more and should be taxed more. Those include mostly small business owners and various professionals --rather than the super-rich  of the top 1/2 per cent.  These are Marx's  bourgeois --the middle class conservatives whom Communists destroyed.    According to 2009 and Tax Payers Union,  it was $344,000 that the top 1 per cent make.     There aren’t very many uber-rich who make millions like Romney, Hollywood celebs, uni coaches and presidents and CEO's of big corporations --not enough to slow the deficit if you keep approving pork and  new billion dollar spending packages and sending tons of money to other nations' corrupt governments. 

Please surprise the half of the country that supported Romney.  We are scared to death of your agenda --what we perceive it to be--and the radical influences in your past.   Please prove us wrong.  Show that you can cut programs for which we should not borrow from China.  We know --that means lost public sector jobs --but if China is paying them, they have to go.   If they are valuable employees in a department we don’t really need, they will find work elsewhere in a more prosperous private sector --i.e. more prosperous if you don't tax them down.

We suggest you not raise taxes EXCEPT SLIGHTLY on the uber  rich -- the top 1/2 per cent.  You still want them to be inclined to invest, hire, spend and give.  Learn from business people who know how to succeed at business and know how taxes impact growth.  The Government needs way too much revenue because of the horrible level of spending.  Let Big Bird support Public Broadcasting.  He can do it.  They can sell muppets.  As for Public Radio, put Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion on every day and we’ll send them a donation.  PBS  is not neutral enough politically that they should deserve tax-payer support.  They speak in their measured, neutral, unemotional tones --leaning WAY to the left --as far left as Fox News speaks excitedly with no pretense of neutrality, to the right.  But Fox raises their own money.  So can NPR.  (note:  “fair and balanced”  doesn’t mean neutral.)

Planned Parenthood shouldn't get public funding if  pro-life Pregnancy Centers and clinics don't.  The poor women will still get healthcare using their medicaid cards and the public health clinics.

You must move toward the center if you would meet the Republicans half way and end the supposed gridlock.   Your determination should be NO NEW SPENDING --and the elimination of all non-essential spending and departments that don’t directly impact the needy or the elderly or the ill.    Send the education of the nation back to the locals. Shut down the federal department of education.   Send the school breakfast program to the churches.   Promote volunteer tutoring by the elderly in every public school. Note that Christian and parochial and home schools educate best on way less money. 

And for goodness sakes, PLEASE deliver to the nation’s youth Santorum’s message from your bully pulpit. The 3 things to do to avoid poverty:  “Finish high school; get a job; get married before having children--( and stay married if possible.  Stay faithful. ) If you do even the first 3 things on this list, 98% of you will be above poverty line; 77% will be above average in income.”

There really is a correlation between family stability and morality and the strength of communities and nations.  You are for gay marriage, but ought not be, because children deserve a mother and father when possible.  Gay marriage deprives them of one or the other by its very nature.   Nor should gays share quarters with straights (or with each other) in military.  It’s like putting men and women together in showers and barracks--completely distracting to the mission of military preparedness.  Homosexuality does spread --from the experienced to the inexperienced, and like drugs, becomes addictive.

Please be better than conservatives expect.   Seriously see the logic and reason behind conservatism and their criticism of your party and policies.    Communism hasn’t been appreciated anywhere where it is tried. Socialism leads to the fiscal cliff  --sliding like Greece--and you’ve got us on the edge.  Surprise us --and do not push us over.  Don’t tax us highly now or you will kill business and jobs.  People are thinking of moving out of country for fear you will rob them of their pensions --either through confiscation of high taxes or bad economy, inflation, devaluing of the dollar, etc.  We are afraid of having our lives shortened by your Canada-style health care program.  Let someone tweak that program!  We don't want the long waits and rationing of Canadian healthcare! Canadians come HERE for procedures they can't get in a timely manner in Canada.

As for national security and disarming Americans, we hope you are just Barack Obama from Hawaii --and not a Stalin in the making as some suspect.

Seek good successful businessmen’s advice and not just socialists’ advice.   They have never made any nation solvent.

Put Romney on your cabinet! Because he does like to solve  financial problems.   Wow!  That would be a uniting act.  Listen to Ryan, too.  We are in a mess.  Let them try to help! 

We shall pray for you daily--that you really ARE a Christian  as you told Rick Warren --or will become one and that you will seek God’s guidance on all matters before you --not Marx’s advice, nor Alinsky’s, nor Ayers, nor Davis’s.  Only Jesus rose from the grave.   He is the only one worthy to save us for Eternity.  Atheists can’t give you wise guidance like the Holy Spirit and the Word of God can.  Your stands on abortion and homosexuality --and lukewarm relationship with Israel,  are all 3 in contradiction to His Word and His Spirit and need to be reconsidered.   Separation of church and state doesn't mean God is not real --and has no say in the country's values which shape national culture and character. 

Forgive us for any misjudgment of your character and intentions, and prove all the naysayers wrong.

Sincerely --wanting to admire you,  

wanting your term to be successful in the eyes of  God and informed Americans,

Thoughts:  Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD. Psalm 33:12

 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. Isaiah 5:20

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.  II Chronicles 7:14

Generosity is to be voluntary, from the heart, not confiscated by dictators for the envious.

"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance and have eternal life."--the Bible