We Must Be Heard!

By now, we’re all aware of the horror of the secretly recorded Planned Parenthood videos taken by the Center for Medical Progress. Please tell me you’ve watched. Tell me you’re as disgusted as I am. I’m not even sure disgust covers it. Repulsed, outraged, heartbroken all in one mangled hurricane of emotion.

How does this happen? How can we all be so desensitized to human life that we see this and don’t all, with one voice, demand our government bar the doors and stop business at every single Planned Parenthood facility in this nation? How can videos like this be everywhere for all to see and the outcry not be louder than any nation’s outcry in history?

Our country has complacently allowed organizations like this to systematically murder over 50 million babies since abortion was legalized. Here, let me give that to you with zeros: 50,000,000. In addition, the statistics behind the murders actually point to much more callous reasoning, such as race. In a country where many couples try to have babies and cannot, a country where adoption is quite expensive and exhaustive, we allow scores of innocent lives to be terminated every single day. 3,300 on average to be exact.

Legal murder is still murder.

How can Sarah McLachlan singing while pictures of abused puppies scroll across our television, enrage us and make us cry while picking up the phone to donate, yet these videos don’t seem to garner the same outrage and concern? Sadly, these videos really shouldn’t have told us anything we didn’t know. Whether we hear and see other people joking, bartering and having a great time while murdering a young life, abortion is still abortion. It’s legalized murder.

We are a nation that has been completely conned into believing women’s “rights” include the murder of a life created by a voluntary action. Yes, I understand some women are impregnated by rapists but we’ll get there in a moment. In our country today, rather than tell someone to exercise self-control and educate them on the significance of sex, we tell them it is okay to murder the product of that very act. As if those young lives are mere inconveniences. Mere unwanted side effects of our lusts.

What the hell is wrong with us?

Over 500 million dollars of taxpayer money is funding the holocaust of our nation’s babies. Innocent babies that had no voice or choice in our selfish, murderous act. Taxpayer money. Not only is the slaughter house of Planned Parenthood allowed to operate lawfully but it’s also paid, with our money, to do so.

I’ll admit that I tend to lean conservative (Far right libertarian according to the political quadrant test); however, I try and remain at least civil in my disagreement with our president. I can’t do that here. The statement given by the White House press secretary, Josh Earnest in which he referred to the videos as “a tactic by extremists on the right” is beyond pathetic. It’s despicable. It’s an injustice to every single American. Every single person and every single branch of Planned Parenthood should be receiving a DOJ investigation and an IRS audit so thorough they go bankrupt attempting to comply. Too bad their schedule is booked investigating conservative organizations.

So let us recap: A woman’s right means she can have all the sex she wants, with whoever, whenever she pleases because it’s her body. Fair enough, until your actions create another body. But then that little body, those little organs that are apparently a hot commodity on the black market for all the reasons that life is life, is not a person. Kill it at will. Throw it in the trash. Forget it.

I’m no scientist but I feel safe in saying it took sperm to fertilize that woman’s egg in order to create that life. So, where’s the man’s right in the abortion debate? Yeah, he doesn’t have one. Let a man skip out on child support and a court will be all over him. Let his sexual partner murder a child he helped create and he’s out of luck. (I am staunchly opposed to and disgusted by deadbeats and my other blogs can attest to this) That’s the whole women’s right movement in terms of murdering babies, in a nutshell.

This is not a black or white, right or left, male or female issue. People, this is a human rights issue. There is nothing on this earth more precious than a human life, even more so when that human life is innocent.

We are complacently allowing murder, genocide even of our unborn.

The left always screams, what about rape? What about it? It’s terrible and those responsible should be punished to the full extent of the law. However, that innocent life had no say. That baby didn’t rape you. Perhaps we could use some of the half a billion dollars in taxpayer money for a shelter and care center for raped women who become pregnant. They can receive therapy and counsel as well as health care and when their child is born, if they just can’t handle it, there will be a line of families honored to adopt that child.

My fellow Christians, we must stand here. We must. My fellow Americans, we must rise up here. We must join in one voice that refuses to be silent in the name of each unborn baby that has been a murder victim in our nation. We are not civilized if we do not. If we are complacent in the face of this, we are an accomplice. We cannot let this go.

An organization founded by a racist, family hating, socialist, man-hater has been exposed. Planned Parenthood must be investigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Federal funding for this horrific abattoir must end immediately.

Let me end by saying this, if you are a woman reading this and you have had an abortion, this is not directed to you or your action. This is directed to the institutions, the fraud and often even encouragement that led you to make that choice. This is not meant to condemn you in any way as we are all guilty under God’s law. I pray you find peace, forgiveness and hope in Him.

The world didn’t need my voice on this. It didn’t need another blog, but I had to do this for me. Out of all the topics I choose to write about, sometimes with satire, oftentimes with blunt candidness and myriad other forms I had to put this in writing. I had to make my stand clear, even knowing it won’t be popular and it will most certainly attract attacks, outcry and rebuke from a certain element. Let them bring it. In comparison to the pool of broken, torn and bloody body parts and organs that cry out for a voice, I’ll face their wrath any day.

Unfortunately, Government Is A Reflection of It’s People

Who doesn’t love a good rant against our deeply divided, flawed and broken government? Exactly. We all do. It is very clear for all of us to see the disregard for the hard working, taxpaying citizens of our country. Blatant hypocrisy, borderline and often time clear criminal behavior, the lowest levels of integrity, self-preservation and self-promotion. You name it and our disgusting government has come to exemplify it.

It is quite disheartening and downright frustrating. To make matters worse, we have the exact government we deserve. Yes, you read that right. Government is a reflection of its people and ours is showing us the man in the mirror. We are exactly where we deserve to be. In the words of the American philosopher, Robert James Ritchie, “You get what you put in and people get what they deserve.”

Our elected officials are as divided as we are as a nation. Our elected officials are as arrogant and entitled as we are as a people. Our elected officials have lead our country down the path to the very same type of debt-laden finances as we the people are exhibiting in our very own private lives. Our elected officials have the very same flaws we all do. We all suffer the same conditions of the heart.

We’ve become a people easily manipulated, divided and controlled. Watch the news. Read your social media newsfeed. Read the local paper. Look at our congressmen and president.

No matter which side of the fence you sit on, the majority of Americans were sold on a president for “Hope and Change”. A president who would reach across party lines and work for the good of all. No one can honestly say that has happened. If you do, then you’re drunk on the party Kool-Aid and that’s not a surprise. Many of us are, on both sides.

We’re in the midst of 8 years of a president who has failed to deliver any hope and change and has even determined how his administration would enforce current federal law on matters of immigration. The IRS has become his personal enforcement arm. The American people can’t get an honest investigation into Hillary Clinton and 55,000 deleted emails that are legitimate government property yet the minute Planned Parenthood is exposed for the disgusting taxpayer funded organization that is now the face of our country’s turn a blind eye approach to the slaughter of over 50 million innocent lives then the organization behind the videos is rumored to be on the verge of investigation by the Department of Justice.

Now, conservatives, it’s your turn to take your medicine. I could write all day about similar instances in the 8 year administration prior to President Obama. This isn’t a new problem although it does seem to become more blatant with each administration.

The past two election cycles have the GOP voter base worked into a frenzy of passion and excitement over two of the biggest frauds to ever claim to be conservative or Republican. One man captured a vast majority of the white Christian conservative voter base in spite of being a Mormon himself. Yes, you read that right too. So called Christians popped up in droves to defend the faith of a Mormon yet decry the alleged Muslim sympathies of the opposition. These are the days we live in.

Fast forward to this looming election and we have so-called conservative voters proclaiming Donald Trump to be our nation’s savior. Lord, help us all. Despite his clear history of support and contribution to Democratic candidates, namely the very candidate who would be his primary opposition should he gain the nomination he seeks, he is now transformed into the great conservative hope. In the America we now live in a man who is pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-greed, thrice-divorced and feels he has no reason to ask God for any forgiveness and can blatantly disrespect a Vietnam veteran, POW and war hero with no apology is the candidate that the so-called “conservative” voters are fawning over. The candidate that Christian conservatives are fawning over. What’s wrong with this picture?

Lest, I leave you all depressed by this cold, hard slap into reality, let us all remember one thing. As of now, this is still OUR country. We are a democratic republic. There is hope.

A high percentage of voter turnout in our country for a presidential election is around 60 percent. This means only 6 out of 10 of us as eligible voters care enough about these problems to exude any effort and vote. That’s a “D” in grade school. Most other OECD countries exceed 70% and many are above 80%.

On the local level for mayoral elections many municipalities average as low as 10 percent voter turnout. This proves we get the government we deserve all the way down to the local level.

Non-presidential election cycles have a turnout of approximately 40%. Take into account this is a percentage of registered voters and also includes dead people who frequently vote in our elections along with those who happen to vote more than once, which unfortunately is not uncommon in our elections either. We the people don’t value our right to vote enough and have been easily defeated in this aspect.

To further clarify our dilemma, of the 60% who do vote, what percentage are informed? The above mentioned cases show that clearly voters are not educated and informed in regards to their choices. We too easily buy off on the advertising, propaganda and rhetoric we hear and are fed. It’s a beautiful thing (for the establishment) when two parties can so easily keep people divided for their own preservation. It assures things don’t change for themselves and those at the top.

Whatever the position, as a whole, we’re too quick and too easily swayed. Accuse someone of being Muslim or not having a birth certificate, they flock to the accuser. Accuse someone of “not caring about black people” despite the numerous black Americans in his cabinet, they flock to the other side or dig in and justify their previously held beliefs. We are granted the government we deserve.

Although this is a pie in the sky concept, I would offer that the change starts with each of us. As long as we are quick to judge, condemn, hate, divide, accuse, refuse to compromise and find middle ground, take on more private debt, lie, cheat, and steal then our government will absolutely reflect this. We vote for those we feel are most like us. What scares and angers us all the most is seeing firsthand what that actually looks like.

We have a sin condition, America. Let’s focus on that. “Seek first the kingdom…”

Rather than continue expending so much energy and passion into divisive issues, what if we spent that time, energy and passion committed to helping and loving our fellow man? What a world that would be. What a difference that would make. Imagine Christians determined to show the love of Christ to a dark and broken world, even a world that rejected them. Imagine the country where people like that have a government that is a reflection of those values.

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I Am Offended and the Government Should Stop It From Happening

I’m offended. I’ve been done an injustice. My very happiness has been threatened. To be fair, we were only granted rights that allowed for “the pursuit of happiness” and apparently that loophole makes being a judge fun. However, I’ll soon be taking my list of things that offend me to my city council, county commission, state representatives, congressman, senator and all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

My case needs to be heard. No one should be subject to these travesties in any progressive country that truly represents the well-being of its citizens. The following offenses by my fellow countrymen and many illegal aliens have been detrimental to my pursuit and directly infringed on my quality of life:

1) Use of glitter. This abomination, better known as Satan’s dandruff, has been creeping toward world domination for decades. Those who support the use of such a dangerous element in our society have been quietly launching a crusade to ingrain glitter into our culture under the guise of being “for the kids” and “art”. It has no place in our modern world. It is invasive and intrudes on my right to glitter free privacy. Not one veteran of our country has ever gone on record as having fought to defend the use of glitter, nor has one single veteran ever been on record as having personally been a user of glitter. It’s time we put a stop to this madness before not one spec of this promised land remains glitter free.

2) Poor eating habits. We are not a third world country so it’s time we quit eating like it. It is among my inalienable rights to be able to eat or socialize in public without the disgusting, distracting, despicable, reprehensible (ran out of “d” words), grotesque, annoying, and cringe-worthy eating habits found in the general populace. I firmly believe that laws should be enacted that among the first offense of smacking or talking with your mouth full in public a UFC trained law enforcement official punches you in the face. Second offense is incarceration. If I could only count the times I’ve had an otherwise pleasant movie or dinner outing ruined by some deplorable (Hah! Another “d” word!) and apparently starved Neanderthal whose excessive crunching, bits of food or cringe-worthy smacking made me want to scream and tase them with a couple trillion volts then, well, I’d be able to count really high.

3) Males in skinny jeans. Let’s just take a common sense approach here. What if a band of ISIS terrorists storm the beaches on either coast or even the Gulf of Mexico. If all the males have to take up arms immediately to offer resistance, what happens if a group of our armed men run up in skinny jeans? Yes, you guessed it. We lose the fight for several reasons. One, your fellow combatants are laughing too hard to fight. Two, the terrorists only abstain from laughing because terrorists only laugh evil laughs and not for fun so they’re still raging war. Three, our men in their skinny jeans can’t maneuver without being too constricted. Come on, you’ve never seen one combat hero accomplish anything in jeans that tight. Now, I know the case could be made for cowboys but their jeans allow for boots and with boots, well, they make all the difference. My conclusion here is that men wearing skinny jeans support ISIS and weaken our military. Man up, fellas and wear man pants rather than something that looks like you either got them from an egg-shaped canister or you’re trying out for Peter Pan. (As a side note, although Peter Pan is a male character he is often played by females. Why you ask? Because only females will wear those tights!)

4) Being offended. If we had been proactive and already established the Pansy Police we could have avoided so much of this. Stop being offended. We can disagree. It’s okay. People disagreeing does NOT make them a bigot (look it up). People being intolerant of the opinions and ideals of others are bigots. So, people who don’t agree with gay marriage aren’t bigots any more than those who do agree with it. Stop being offended that people actually believe in God and the Bible. Stop being offended that people don’t believe in God and the Bible. Stop being offended over a flag. Stop being offended that a flag was removed from state capitols where it had no business. Everyone get over yourselves. Unless something threatens you physically or otherwise violates your basic human rights (happiness not among them) then SUCK. IT. UP. There are too many of us with too many beliefs. We cannot all agree. You can speak out. You can voice your opinion. However, from here on out, you can no longer be offended. Alright, fair enough. This is impossible. Often offense is a natural reaction and one cannot help it. How about we put it this way: Your being offended means nothing. It gives you no rights and no one should have to alter their behavior due to your offense.

*As a side note to Christians: Our God is not in the least threatened by this or anything else this fallen world has to offer. He knew it was going to happen. You should have too. His Kingdom will still come. Want to know when people will really want to know our God? When we get busy doing and quit just talking. You have every right to state your position in love for God’s children but you do not have a right to be hateful and mean to people. Speak truth in love or it’s not really truth. (Mark 12:30-31)

5) Facebook. While I’m on a roll I may as well tackle this one. Facebook makes it difficult on a beginning blogger that isn’t willing to hand over their credit card number and agree to a daily promotion fee. I can share a blog on my personal page and have it liked and shared 20 times more than the actual The Weekley Blog page. This sucks. You, Facebook, can put ads wherever you want. Your entire premise began as a social network for individuals. Stop limiting my exposure in newsfeeds! So, this one is a tad selfish but I’m okay with that. It’s my right and you’re no longer able to be offended. Here’s how you the reader can help: Like, Share and Invite Friends who have lots of time on their hands, need to be offended or need someone to laugh at/with. Together, we’ll show Facebook Pages who’s boss.

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