Rightly Opinionated

It has been 10 days since Lauren and Pat were on Santa Monica Beach in California.  Spring break is over and they are now studying and separated by several states.  Thought I'd post this tonight to take them back there in memory.

I'd like to take myself and the rest of you, if you'll go, back in memory to spring of 2008 when things in this country were so very bad that all we ever heard was how really bad it was and how terrible our president was.  Day after day we were bombarded with negativity.  I was able to overlook it then, since it was generally said by ignorant people who had been brainwashed by liberal professors and newsmen.  

But that very fall when a new president was put in office things started really looking bad,  fast.  Trillions of dollars have been thrown away in order to save us from that bad economy that now looks like a really good  economy. I'd go back in a jiffy.  Oh, that we could.  But alas, it won't be possible to right it quickly.  Too much damage has been done and is being done daily to  infringe upon our freedom, and to put a division between the races that should not be there.  Some are concentrating on putting a wall  between those who have and who strive to make jobs for  those of us who really need to work and make a living for our families, and those who have not, who often just don't care to work.  The dividers are trying also to pit women against men, and gays against 'straights'.

For those of us who recognize that history does repeat itself, this was taken from an email I recently received:  All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.

The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. We have one chance to change that in 2012. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.

Sad, but true.

Also tonight,  I'm asking that we all pray for a young pastor names Youcef Nadarkhani who was raised by Muslim parents, but who became a Christian at age 19. He is being  tried and in that country and could be  executed.  Please pray.