America Home Of The Down?

In the light of another Serbian General being tried (at the Hague, Mladic, Serbian General in the "Kosovo Affair"), the latest kill of Osama Bin Laden, an Iraq and Afghanistan War, and the Libyan War (that isn't not even considered a hostility, by the Obama Office), and the countless other things people may have a problem with the United States, as a whole. Whether a person is a Democrat, Republican, through the Liberatarian table, pro war to a dove, or if they have no politics what so ever, but are just participating in America, in the best way they know how, I am sure that everyone can agree, for every problem, atrocity, multi-billion dollar affair/corruption, and so on................

Please remember, we are a country of immigrants, who has done more in less amount of time, than any other country in the history of this world. Through that "power"/"strength"/"grace" (whatever one wishes to call it), America, Americans, have done more and have helped more than any country in the world. We are Americans first. We should celebrate this with such zeal, as aside from our most core belief (some of our faiths), America and what it stands for, is always there, with people to answer that call. The humanitarian aide, while not perfect, is donated and given multi-times over, through the last 100 years, showing that America and Americans are about pride, making those people with less have more, and above all there are more people wanting and trying to come to America, The United States, to settle and make these free shores theirs, as well.

Please celebrate our gifts, and above all be safe today, as there are so many who can't be with us today. Have fun, have pride, be thankful for those fighting for those here in America, and show why America is the country it is, regardless of what may have been problems, perceived and/or real, over the last three to twelve years. God Bless America, and it's people.

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PLEASE REMEMBER, ON OUR DAY OF CELEBRATION..........

"On this day of celebration, let's all take time to remember our loved ones, those who have come before us, the fight in Americans to bring our lives (if we so choose) to the next level, and NEVER forget our troops in combat, those back who have served, and those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our beloved land. Please be safe and remember what the holiday is all about." -----Me

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Vacilating Obama No Surprise, And IS U. S. Voter's Fault

President Obama is one of the very best orators, politicians, and one of the top five to ten most charismatic Presidents, in United States history. He is a bright man, period. These are all things that voters and the world knew, when he began (even before, with his two books and his meteoric rise to President). Yet, there are a lot of things that are not coming true, policy and primary statements that have both sides of the aisle not in the best of moods, and most of the American people act like this is a big surprise? When President Obama was a Senator in 2007, he voted and spoke very harshly about George W. Bush's attempt to raise the debt ceiling (a problem coming in the next month, again). Not only has President Obama raised the debt ceiling 9 times, since his stint in the Oval Office, but here is what he said in 2006-07: ............."The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally." The debt ceiling is one promise, flip flop, or change of mind (however, a person wishes to characterize it), it just one example. President Obama made these promises on the campaign trail (and keep in mind, these are just the policy/U. S. things he has changed on, or can't explain. There is no Rev. Wright, birth certificate stuff, or personal problems, John McCain was to gutless to go after him on, before that 2008 election): First words, "I will cut all of the taxes on those 2% of the rich, and resend the Bush Tax Cuts." Action, he extended the Bush Tax cuts, even for the wealthy 2% and Wall Street, for two years. Original stance, "I guarantee, when I am President, I will close GITMO!" Actual action, it is still open. "Those of you who will go under the government's plan to 'reform health care', will not have any changes in doctors, procedures, or see anything change." Actually, people have had doctors retire, not take Medicare/Medicaid people (I know, I am one), there has been massive cuts in what tests people can have done (like instead of my quarterly blood tests, I only get two now.), and finally he has given over 1000 actual 'waivers' to major companies (GE, almost all the car companies, banks, and all the unions, just to name a few). Then it has been said/ruled on, by multiple states and courts, the whole ObamaCare system is not Constitutional, but he will not fast track it (which would save millions, literally, of dollars in attorney and court expenses alone), and even Joe Biden has said it is going to have to be handled by the Supreme Court. Then, there is all of the debt and spending. To be fair, there is $1 billion a week (yes, a week), going to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. On the campaign trail and in his first year in office, Obama said, "I will bring or troops home from Iraq, in my first year of office! (actually banging his fist on the podium). Yet, there are still troops there, whether if they are fighting, or sitting in lawn/sand chairs. They are still there. These things do not even touch the trillion dollars of debts he racked up, in his first two years of office. Where he spent more money, straight from the playbook of people like Allinsky, Piven, and the progressives throughout history, wanting government to run the lives of the United States people, rather than the states and people taking care of their individual regions (which all vary). All of these things have transpired, but this is not a bash President Obama post. It is a "YOU SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED" post and it is nobody's fault, but the American people. Those who did not vote, did not pay attention, said "my vote won't make a difference," or actually voted for the man (even after all the problems with Rev. Wright, his voting "present" more times than "yes/no" in the Senate, the fact he was a Jr. senator, only serving for really two years (as he was traveling to get elected, the other two years of his senatorial stint), and everyone bought the "Hope and Change" slogan, "Hope and Change We Can Believe In." Well, we all got it. It is "change." We can believe in it, because look at the country, and how the democratic party (with a super majority, in all houses, and with a Dem. President), has spent more money than all the other President's, from Washington to President G.W. Bush. If the American people do not start caring, voting (even for school boards and alderman's, the most miniscule votes), and studying all of the candidates. Well, all that can be said is, "You will get more and more "Change", but it will have all the "Hope" gone out of it. American's should have known before Obama was elected, and if they do not know now, we all deserve whatever we get. Copyright. DMAN@TheThoughtSpigot.Com http://www.TheThoughtSpigot.Com

The XXX CHURCH And Pornography In The Mainstream

If you were out today, between 4:30-5 P. M. (CST)., then you may have then you may have heard two completely different and shocking things one the radio. On one channel, 96.5 "The Buzz" (on the "Lazlo Show, http://965thebuzz.com/) and then on 92.5 Bott Radio (on the Richard Land Show, http://bottradionetwork.com/), they were both talking about the exact same thing, but in completely different ways. They were both talking about "porn"/pornography and marriage, relationships, and outcomes from porn in the household. It would be up to the reader, here, to decide if you want to go and look at the pod cast, of either of these shows, there will be no shilling for either. Yet, there was some content that is striking.

From the online XXXChurch (http://xxxchurch.com/), there was a man who has been to the (two time a year) "Porn Show," and will also be attending this year, on the weekend of February 6 (http://xxxchurch.com/getinvolved/x3events/pornsunday.html). He was a pastor and has been going, with a couple of other pastors, and this year he will be going with the NFL's former quarterbacks John Kitna and Josh McNown, and on the site, Matt Hasselback (from the Seattle Seahawks) has a video clip. Having pastors and ministers going to a "Porn Show," for the last four years has brought a lot of different thoughts and feelings, from a lot of different faiths and Christian denominations. However, there is not any doubt, there is a huge problem with pornography in America. A $4 billion a year industry, it is touted from, "a marriage aid," to "keeping people with deviant/non-normal wants in the house, rather than acting out, in life."

(At the end of this, I feel the only way I can make this article credible, is to give a small sliver of my own story on this topic, as if I do not, I am just some "guy with an opinion.")

Moving on, the "keeping deviants in the basement and marriage aids" arguments is NOT going to be settled here. However, it is important for people to know the facts. Things as, the majority of married couples have sex less than 20 times a year, 58% (depending on the table/set of stats looked at) of marriages end with some kind of a pornography component, and more and more young men are having trouble (with the easy access, even free, in most cases, as more than 70% of men 18-34 have watched/viewed some kind of pornography, in the last WEEK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography#Statistics) actually forming real, loving, and treating women, as they are to be treated. This is leaving a whole generation, without the skills and knowing what is real in the bedroom.

There is a general knowledge of what is thought of, some people know some things, but as a rule, the majority of people (ESPECIALLY men, and young men) think this is just a "good time," is normal stuff, and just part of the mainstream now. However, here are just a handful of statistics and websites (as I am not the one who should research every single thing, sell anyone on what they should/shouldn't believe, but at the same time I do need to give every reader, friends in most cases, but those who are my blog readers across the world, the tools and places to see for themselves. Then they may make their own decision.

Yet, feeling like I am not above reproach on this issue, in any way, as I have seen and viewed porn, just like the majority of society. However, when I was 25 years old (I am 38 now), I decided that I was going to take a whole year off from sex and six months off from dating women, as I had not had the best of luck. The only thing I could see, as a common denominator, in my failings in finding a wife, was the sex involved. I also realized that I had only one "clean/pure relationship," which last for about two years and it was a "true love" situation, and there was no sex involved. Now I am not going to go into why that relationship did not work out, but I will say that is was not either my, or the woman's fault, at that time in our lives (being just 19). Moving on, that one relationship was clean/pure, like I said, there was no porn in my life, and everything I know about that relationship was what every relationship (in my opinion) should be based on. After that year, I began dating again, also I was still looking at porn videos and some magazines, nothing crazy, just the "run of the mill" (as I would describe it) sexual stuff. I continued on dating, but not having sex and yet there was a well defined problem, with the women I was seeing, as I would be refusing sex (sometimes after 5 dates, sometimes after a couple months). This always ended the relationships/dating with the women, and I was either labeled "weird" (as why would a guy not want to have sex with a really nice looking women?), or else I was labeled "gay/homosexual." This is pretty personal for me, but like I said, the only way to be credible is to sometime go out of your comfort zone, and speak up. I ended up being hurt and after a while, the whole time still watching porn, I quit dating altogether. However, I also re-dedicated my life back to a Christian life, taking things in order (like apologizing to friends for some things in the past, then quit lying, then working on my body, mind, and soul, then family issues, and finally I came to the "porn problem." I can honestly say, that with the exception of "chewing tobacco" (which I still have not conquered), my trying to eliminate all porn out of my life was the second hardest thing I have ever done. It took almost eight months, 4 years ago, to get it all gone.) Now, everything is in the trash, no Net porn, and I stay away from the Cinemax shows, late at night, as well. I have to stress, though, how hard this was, and I never planned it to be that hard. This is why I have written the article, given the web sites and stats, plus the story of what I heard on the radio today. I only hope this helps, whoever it is supposed to help, with no judgment in me at all. I just hope that it reaches one person, as this is so pervasive in the mainstream, from the music, television shows, movies, even when you let your kids watch NickToons, or those childrens channels (like Hannah Montana, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, even Harry Potter, watch, as parents, how many times the little girls, dip into the camera, just showing off enough skin, to make a difference. Look at the shows reality and game shows, and see how many women and men are there in tight clothes, or loose clothes leaning into the camera, just for that three to five seconds, in order for the man (who watches and looks for these things) to see that little extra skin, cleavage, whatever. IT IS EVERYWHERE!).

Here are some of the stats and web sites, which you may read and then check yourself. However, I highly recommend and look at this http://www.xxxchurch.com/, as it will be a valuable experience. The rest is also good, so here you go:

This is from the web site (a porn participant, those who have been in movies, web site http://www.thepinkcross.org/, a site which is both for straight, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender porn actors/actresses):

At the 2003 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a gathering of the nation’s divorce lawyers, attendees revealed that 58% of their divorces were a result of a spouse looking at excessive amounts of pornography online.

Child pornography is one of the fastest growing businesses online, and the content is becoming much worse.

In 2008, Internet Watch Foundation found 1,536 individual child abuse domains.
Of 1351 pastors surveyed, 54% had viewed Internet pornography within the last year.
There are 4.2 million pornographic web sites, 420 million pornographic web pages, and 68 million daily search engine requests.

From the web site BlazingGrace (http://www.blazinggrace.org/cms/bg/pornstats), which includes statistics from TIME, LA Time Magazine, and then some other religious statistic sites, as well:

* The U.S. Customs Service estimates that there are more than 100,000 web sites offering child pornography (which are illegal) worldwide. Red Herring Magazine, 1/18/02
* Hollywood currently releases 11,000 adult movies per year – more than 20 times the mainstream movie production. LA Times Magazine, 2002.
* 39 million homes receive the adult channels in scrambled form, while the number of children with potential exposure to such images is about 29 millionMorality Continues to Decay. Barna Research Group, November 3, 2003.
* One in 4 American adults surveyed in 2002 admitted to seeing an x-rated movie in the last year. National Opinion Research Letter 55%: Percentage of Porn movie rentals vs. non-porn movies in hotels in 2005. AVN News, State of the Adult Industry
* The average time a porn movie is watched in a hotel room is 12 minutes.Time.com, 3-29-05

Here is also a list of sites, in which you may go to, in order to find out more, as you may have time:
http://xxxchurch.com/, www.womansavers.com/infidelity-statistics.asp (a site which is for marriage, women, and what happens within the marriage bond, do to pornography), www.purehope.net/statisticspornography.asp, http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Pornography_Addiction, and http://www.wisechoice.net/porn-statistics/

Judeo-Christian/Christian Nation, But No Prayer At Memorial?

During this time of healing, listening, and heart felt needs, for the people, families and all United States Citizens, I do not think that it is very constructive to hammer any political party, blame anyone, but the shooter, for the horrific things that have happened in Arizona. I also do not think that talking about the President, his remarks, whether they were good, bad, or indifferent. As, this time and the time after, till people have been diagnosed with, or have made the recovery they will achieve thru Christ, and HIS blessings.

However, I will take the time to ask, how "P. C." (politically correct) does our country need to keep going, who makes these P. C. decisions, and what are they thinking, by alienating the majority of the country, which is CHRISTIAN, by having an "Indian Blessing," at the opening of a memorial service, for a congresswoman, who is still in a drug induced coma (in and out, now)? Are we that scared of our own history? The majority of our people's religious beliefs (I believe that 68% of America's people are/claim, some form, of Christianity as their belief system), and everything our country has been built on, from leaving the English Islands (to find this great land), to the Civil, Revolutionary, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq, Afghanistan, and all of the other uprisings (Kosovo, Dar fur, etc..etc...), not to mention all of the great things Americans (thru their beliefs, not all Christian, of course, but predominately), that we are not going to open up a memorial service, for a sitting Congresswoman, those killed and wounded in Arizona, with a Christian Prayer? I do not want to go into a huge article on this, but I do want to make sure to point out; If our country was good enough to be founded on the Judeo-Christian/Christian principles, then a Judeo-Christian Prayer is the correct opening, for a live, prime time, memorial service, where the President of the United States will speak. Also, at a memorial service for people who have died, could still die, and are recovering (no matter what field they are in, or who they are), there is no need for whistling, cat calls, and rampant cheering, in a situation, supposing to be a moment of respect and reverence, to those people. It is not a time to hollar, yell, whistle, and constantly interrupt. Where is the decorum, in all of this? I believe this is also part of the problem.

We must, as believers, look at the black and white, of certain things. Even though, there were multiple references to "The Bible" and direct quotes from Christian leaders, there was still no prayer to the "Christian God." I am taking nothing away from Carlos Gonzalez (a Mexican and Yaky Indian descendant), and his beliefs. I am sure that his belief system, as all other of the Religions of the World, are just as important to them, as Christianity is for me. However, we do not live in "just Arizona." We are Americans. America was founded on certain principles, that should always be followed, put first, and regardless of the "political correctness" (as if there would have been a Muslim, or a Christian prayer at opening, those certain people, would have had a fit about it) never be sidelined for any reason(s). I hope people take this for what it is worth, and this is against what I usually do (take 24 hours to think about something, BEFORE I write about it). I am just stating, I am shocked, as I have NEVER seen a memorial service, for any political figure, or American (unless they specifically asked for a certain kind of prayer, type of introduction), that did not start with a Judeo-Christian/Christian Prayer. At least, I had not, until tonight.

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