Last night, I read a speech Mitt Romney gave on religion. Again, Mitt Romney understands the role that religion needs to play in America.

In his major speech during the primaries, he was criticized because he did not include atheists in his talk. At the time, he did not think that atheists should be in a talk on religion. On second thought, he said that atheists should be included in any talk of religion, because they are kind of a non-religion. In my opinion, they are really another religion that has man as its God, instead of the real God.

In Romney’s talk, he said that religion and freedom go together. There are countries today that are free and non-religious, that is true. But, freedom came from a country that was/is free and is religious. Also, that non-religious country can only remain free as long as America is free. If America ever falls from the ranks of freedom, the world will lose the force for good in the world and eventually all freedom loving countries will be overtaken by evil.

In a related article, I read that a lady from a former communist country was saying that we are not as free as we think we are. We have warnings on everything. We are afraid of doing things because we are afraid of being sued. We have many people that receive money from the government to not work. All of those are things she left behind in her former communist state. She believes that we need to move to more freedom. She sees us slipping towards the restrictions of her former communist country of Estonia. I can whole heartedly agree with that assessment. The news reporter that interviewed the lady was shocked at the answers she was receiving. Obviously the news reporter has a leftist viewpoint. Anyone on the right can see that we have slipped a long way down the road to communism. We can still be saved, but only if we have the will to do so. Unfortunately, I do not see many people that have the will power to return to the days of freedom. Freedom also means that we would have the freedom to fail as well as succeed. People today want the security of not being able to fail.

If you put these two articles together, you see we have a problem. On the one hand, we need freedom to truly have religion. If religion is imposed, it is not truly religion. A true religion is people are free to choose the religion they want. If force is involved in any way, then that is not a true religion. You see this mainly in Islam. If someone wants to leave Islam and join another because they believe that the other religion is the true religion, the Muslims will want to kill them. In Muslim countries, it is against the law to leave the Islamic faith and join another. Any religion that decrees that your life is forfeit by leaving it is not one that has any credibility in my book. God does not force someone to believe in Him. God wants us to love Him, but will not force us to do so.

With our slipping towards communism, you can see that there is a problem on the horizon. Right now, atheists are trying to impose their religion on America by removing all references to God from the public square. The courts are going along with this farce because Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to a church that stated there should be a wall of separation between religion and the government. There is nothing in the Constitution about a wall of separation, but this letter is all the atheists need to get judges to go along with their ideas. Soon religion itself will be against the law in the public square. Then, the atheists will have imposed their religion on America and we will have to worship at the altar of Humanism. This is all being done under the guise of not imposing religion on America. It is amazing how many people cannot see what is happening and take it to its logical conclusion.

We have now reached the stage where the two candidates have to select a Vice-Presidential candidate. The Democrats have the first convention, so they have to select their candidate first.

Barack Obama has a lot of holes in his resume. He needs to select someone that will fill some of the holes or will bring a state into play that would not ordinarily be in play. The Democrats believe that they will carry all the states that they won in 2004. So, they will try to capture a state they did not win. Barack Obama will select a Governor or Senator from either Ohio or Florida to fill out his ticket. Ohio is probably too close to Illinois, so that is unlikely. If he does not choose Ohio, he will probably pick someone from Virginia or North Carolina. Because of the Democrat litmus test, that person will be from the far left. Obama will not be able to select someone that will balance the ticket from an ideological standpoint.

John McCain will select next. A lot will depend on who the Democrats pick as their Vice-Presidential candidate. Because Obama is black, the Democrats will not select a woman or a Hispanic to fill out the ticket. That would be too much for the country to absorb at one time. Maybe that will happen in the future, but not right now. Obama is pretty much going to select a white male as his running mate in order to appease the Democrat leadership.

John McCain on the other hand can select any race or gender he chooses. My guess is that he would select a minority Governor or Senator or Representative who is also a true conservative. That would fill two slots in one selection. If McCain picks a Hispanic or other minority as his running mate, he will blunt much of the racism charge that the Democrats will throw at him. He may also charge up Hispanics to vote Republican in larger numbers than they normally do. In a normal election, Hispanics vote Republican about 25-40% of the time. If there is a Hispanic as Vice-President, he might even be able to get that percentage over 50%. That would completely devastate the Democrats in the race. They would not take any state with a heavy Hispanic population, which means almost every south western state, including California.

It will be interesting to see who is mentioned over the next couple of months. There will be a number of trial balloons before the real person is selected. That is generally the way things are done now a days. There will be a lot of false information given out between now and the conventions. They will try to keep the name secret until the last minute. I think it would be better to get the name out there as soon as possible and see if there are any flaws that will show up. If you float a name before the convention and it sinks, you can always say it was just a trial balloon. Waiting until the last minute and you may end up with the problem that George McGovern had. He selected one person only to find out that he had a medical problem, so he selected someone else. That really looked bad for the McGovern campaign.

As a political junkie, I love this time of the political season. All of the primaries are over and the nominees are selected. They have to wait until the convention before starting on the real campaign for the Presidency. This is where a lot of silly things happen that do affect the race. Stay tuned for more fun and games from the Presidential candidates.

Yesterday, the Democrat party held primaries in North Carolina and Indiana. Barack Obama won easily in North Carolina. Mrs. Clinton won narrowly in Indiana. That means that Barack Obama increased his delegate lead over Mrs. Clinton after the voting yesterday. Barring a major lightning strike, Barack Obama has secured the Democrat nomination for President. He will still need Super Delegates to actually get the nomination, but with the lead in real delegates he will get the Super Delegates.

What does that mean for the general election? We can expect to have six months of racial politics. Every criticism of Barack Obama by anybody will be racial. His supporters will be saying that anyone who does not support Barack Obama is a racist. I think that the majority of the population will be tired of this kind of talk by August. That is not the kind of talk that wins elections.

Another problem Barack Obama has is Michelle Obama. She is the most negative campaigner that I can remember. She has nothing good to say about America or Americans. She does tend to dress like a clown or at least in outlandish clothing. If she wants to be taken seriously, she needs to dress seriously. Cindy McCain dresses much more in line with what people expect of a first lady. She is also much more positive when talking about America and Americans. That will have an impact in the election. Positive campaigning wins over negative campaigns most of the time.

From now to the conventions we have to listen to the main stream media build up Barack Obama as something he is not. It is obvious that he is not what the main stream media think he is because that has been brought out by Mrs. Clinton. The drive by media will try to brush it under the rug and get people to forget what they know.

Barack Obama does have some potential bombshells waiting for him out there. The first is Tony Rezko. The trial of Tony Rezko is wrapping up next week. If Tony Rezko is found guilty and he is facing a long prison term, he may start to talk. If he talks, he could put a big hole right in the middle of the Obama campaign ship. We know that Rezko and Obama are friends. We know that Rezko and Obama did business deals together. We know that Rezko raised money for Obama in his campaigns. What we do not know is how all of that ties together. If Tony Rezko can swing a deal for less prison time he may talk and sink Obama.

The other problem for Barack Obama is Jeremiah Wright. The Reverend Wright is not a problem in the Democrat primaries because what he said is what Democrats believe about America. The problem comes in the general election. What Jeremiah Wright said as Obama’s minister was anti-American, racist and anti-Semitic. That will be a harder sell in the general election than it was in the primaries. In the primaries, a lot of the voters were black. They were going to vote for Barack Obama no matter what. In the general election black voters only make up 10% of the voting block. It is nice to know you have that 10% locked up before you even start, but it is only 10%. The majority of voters are white. Having a President that could not identify that his minister was preaching anti-American, racist and anti-Semitic sermons would be a problem. If he could not identify that, what problems would he have trouble with as President.

Obama supporters will cry racism whenever their candidate is criticized. That is not accurate. Criticism of Obama is not criticism of the person, it is criticism of the ideas that the person is advocating. If Barack Obama were supporting a conservative agenda, conservatives would vote for him in huge numbers. Barack Obama is a candidate farther to the left than any candidate in our nation’s history. He is so far to the left that he is almost in the communist category. I am not calling him a communist. I am just saying that many of his beliefs are very close to those of the communist party. That is why the communist party is not running a candidate this year. Both Clinton and Obama were so close to their position that they felt it better to support the Democrat candidate than nominate their own.

Now, McCain is not my preferred candidate. He is not even a good candidate. He just is so much better than Obama about the War against Islamo-Fascism and appointing judges. That is why I will be voting for McCain over Obama. I supported a number of other Republican candidates before McCain in the Republican primaries.

More and more articles are coming out about the cooling period we are currently in. The period started in 1999 and is predicted to end around 2015. The article I read today had a chart that showed the most current periods. It had a 30 year cooling period between 1940 and 1970. Then, there was a warming period between 1970 and 1998. Then, there is the cooling period from 1998 to 2015. All this shows is that the climate is variable and that there is no emergency.

The global warming people are claiming that the emergency is still there. They are ignoring the data that there is a cooling period. According to them the ice caps are at their lowest level ever (they both are currently 14-30% larger than ever recorded). They continue to say that the temperature is rising. The temperature of the earth has not risen at all, not even one tenth of a degree since 1999. The temperature has cooled between 2002 and today.

But, the goal of the global warming people is not to save the planet. The goal of the global warming people is to establish a single government over the entire earth run by them. The government would be run using communist rules and regulations, but be environmentally friendly. Of course, every environmentalist believes that he/she would be part of the ruling class and not subject to the rules and regulations that they would establish for the “common” people. That is the way they live their lives today. Look at most of the environmentally conscious people in Hollywood and you see people that talk like they are serious environmentalists.  Yet, those same Hollywood types use energy like it is water. They want the masses to conserve, not them.

The global warming movement has become more of a religion than a scientific endeavor. They talk like they are in a religion. When they talk about the environment or global warming, they talk about believers or non-believers. They have their “prophet”, Al Gore.

In science, things are or are not. There is no such thing as a believer or non-believer about a scientific principle. A non-believer in a scientific principle is one that is challenging part of the premise behind the principle, not usually the principle itself. Take evolution for example, evolution on a short time period has been proven to work. The easiest example is a butterfly in England that was always white with black spots. After the industrial revolution, the butterfly became black with white spots. Both genomes were contained in both populations, just one or the other became dominant. That is evolution of a population on a short term basis. The problem with evolution is that it does not explain the origin of life. People that believe in evolution try to use it to explain the origin of life and are having problems. When they get to the edge of the science, they try to make it a religion. There are other ideas that explain the origin of life better than the theory of evolution. They are having difficulty being heard because of the orthodoxy that is being enforced on scientists by those that believe in evolution.

Global warming debates always start out talking about science as that is where the global warming people want the debate to be. They like to think that the theory of global warming is a scientific endeavor. When their science breaks down, they fall back to talking about faith and believers. They have their “hell” where the earth becomes uninhabitable. They throw all that out to try to scare you into believing in global warming. But, their science is not there and never has been there. They have fooled a lot of people into believing the hoax by painting a pretty picture of the future. They have lots of computer models that show that global warming will become horrible in the next 30-50 years. The article I read said you could enter random numbers into their computer and it would still generate their future. In other words, the computer models are flawed. They are based on non-science or bad science. When you base your computer model on flawed ideas, you get bad information out. Scientists have written articles about the fact that since we do not know everything about the climate, we just leave out the parts we do not understand when generating computer models. That is asking for inaccurate computer models. The computer models make the global warming believer look like they have science on their side. The non-believers also have computer models, but they do not show disaster. Disaster is always more interesting than a non-disaster.

It is difficult as a believer in science to get the word out. More and more people are questioning the entire premise behind the global warming hoax. It is easier to find articles about how global warming is a myth. That is refreshing to see. Unfortunately, the major news media believes Al Gore. It will take a while for enough people to understand that Al Gore is a false prophet before people discard his message.

Dr. Adams from UNCW is challenging all those that do not believe that owing a gun is a deterrence to put up or shut up. He asks that everyone that believes guns do not deter crime to put a sign on their home that the home is a gun free zone. He also asks that everyone who has a gun to advertise that they have a gun in the home. Then after one year, he will send both groups of people a survey about whether the home was involved in a crime. Dr. Adams and I expect that the homes with a gun to have a significantly lower crime level than those that advertise that they do not have a gun.

Criminals do not want to get hurt. One of the reasons they do not like to break into a home when people are present is that they are afraid that the people in the house own guns. If you take away the fear of the owner owning guns, the home should suffer significantly higher crime statistics.

Deterrence is effective in controlling crime. If people suspect that you own a weapon, they will be less likely to target you as a crime victim. If they know that you do not have a weapon, you will then be easy pickings for the criminal. If the criminal has little chance on being hurt, the criminal has a greater chance of attacking the house in question.

There have been a couple of small towns that have required all homeowners to own weapons. After the ordinance was enacted the crime rate went down to almost zero. In areas where gun ownership is restricted, crime rates go up because criminals are less likely to be injured in the commission of the crime. That is just human nature. Anyone with a third grade education should be able to figure out that one.

Growing up, I had little trouble with people giving me guff. I give credit to the fact that I was always big for my age. I ended up being 6’4”. That has kept me out of a lot of trouble. Friends of mine who were smaller always got into more fights than I did. People were afraid of what would happen if I hit them. I did get into one fight and won after landing one punch.

Countries are the same way. If a country thinks that you are weak, they will be more likely to test you. If they expect to be destroyed when they attack, they would not attack. People do not attack bigger stronger foes. Having a weapon makes you a bigger stronger foe.

Liberals are always talking about how deterrence does not work. Liberal professors talk about how deterrence does not work. If you look at how they treat their students, you will see that they do not practice what they preach. They frequently have tough penalties built in for infractions of the code. That is a way of providing deterrence in an academic setting.

Liberals think that everyone is good. If you just talk to them you can get them to agree to be better. A conservative thinks that there are evil people in the world and you have to plan to take them out. In small groups, liberal thinking can work because most people are basically good. Liberals problems come when they come into contact with the truly evil people. Truly evil people will promise anything and work to undermine that promise. The old communists were truly evil. The terrorists are truly evil. Liberals cannot come to grasp with the fact that truly evil people exist in the world. Conservatives expect that there are truly evil people and plan for that fact.

This morning, I read an article by Joseph Farah that documents the fact that the Democrat party leadership is still as racist as ever. He uses as his main argument a speech by Chuck Schumer of New York. He made this speech in Buffalo.

Buffalo has very high unemployment, 17%. Black unemployment is much higher than that. In the speech, Chuck Schumer made the point that blacks should not have to worry because whites would be retiring from the unskilled positions. He inferred that the blacks did not have the intelligence to get higher education to get the higher paying positions. He undoubtedly thought that he was saying something that the black population would like to hear. It was demeaning.

Bill Clinton also has an office in Harlem. Harlem is a high black population area in New York City. Bill Clinton talks about this office frequently, but he is almost never there. Bill Clinton likes to be thought of as the first Black President, but he does not like to be around black people, particularly smart black people.

I also use the example of appointing blacks to positions within Presidential administrations. Democrat Presidents always appoint blacks to their cabinets. They appoint them to positions like Postmaster where they have no real authority. They get to act like a big shot, but have no power. The power positions are always held by people that are white.

The Democrats also will not allow anyone to talk about the only former member of the Ku Klux Klan in the Senate, Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Robert Byrd held a high position within the West Virginia KKK in the 1940’s and early 1950’s. He left the KKK when the Democrat party started to need the black vote to win elections. Robert Byrd still uses the n word frequently when referring to blacks. Robert Byrd is a high ranking member of the Democrat Senate leadership.

The KKK was formed in the late 1860’s to kill Republicans. In the south, being a Republican generally meant that you were black. Being convicted of being a Republican was enough to warrant a hanging. All members of the KKK were Democrats. In fact in the south, to be a Democrat meant that you had to belong to the KKK to hold any kind of elective office. It stayed that way until the Civil Rights movement came along in the 1950’s and 1960’s.

When the Civil Rights bill was first introduced, it was introduced by Dwight Eisenhower. It was written by Republicans. The Democrats in the House and Senate killed the bill. After Lyndon Johnson became President, the bill was reintroduced with minor changes. It was now a Democrat bill. When it passed the Senate, a higher percentage of Republicans voted for the bill than did Democrats. But, because the bill passed during a Democrat administration Democrats get the benefit of having passed the bill.

Today, the Democrats are a party that cannot get over racial politics. Everything they do has a racial component. When they select delegates to the convention, a certain percentage have to be of a certain race and gender. When Democrats select members of a cabinet, so many members have to be black. Republicans on the other hand are not concerned with race. They are concerned with quality. As a result, a higher number of blacks hold power positions in Republican administrations than have ever held them in Democrat administrations.

Why blacks stay with the Democrat party is beyond my comprehension. If I was treated as badly as blacks are treated by the Democrats, I would get the message and leave. I believe that blacks stay because the Democrat party has purchased the loyalty of a few black leaders and that is enough to keep the majority in line. It would also explain the anger and violence when a black becomes a conservative. Blacks have to be kept in line for the race baiters that are paid off to continue to be paid off. They have to deliver 90%+ of the black vote in every election. When your numbers have to be that high, even one defection can be costly.

Hispanics seem to be playing it better than blacks. Hispanics are not wedded to any one group. As a result, they have real power in the Republican Party and the Democrats are giving lip service to giving them power. If blacks played it that way, they would be much better off as a group.

Global warming believers have to come to grips with the fact that the planet has not warmed at all in over 6 years. The latest theory is that the oceans are cooler than expected and that is pulling the expected warming out of the air. They assure us that this cooling trend is only temporary.

When are global warming believers ever going to face facts. When their theory does not hold water, they just come up with some explanation that satisfies them. The fact that the explanation has no basis in fact does not bother them in the least. They were saying as late as last year that the warming in the oceans is causing the warming to increase. You have to remember that the cooling we are experiencing is despite the increase in the supposed greenhouse gas of Carbon Dioxide.

The complete theory behind global warming is wrong. Carbon dioxide is not the cause of the temperatures going up or down. Carbon dioxide is only 0.003% of the atmosphere. That is such a small percentage that it cannot be the driving cause of any temperature change. There are a lot of other candidates for the culprit. Carbon dioxide was never a good candidate. It was just one that was easily justified and controlled. The other candidates are not so easily controlled.

Water vapor would be the leading candidate for greenhouse gas. The global warming believers never talk about water vapor. Water vapor is the largest single factor of any of the potential greenhouse gasses. Why did the global warming people not use water vapor as the greenhouse gas? Because it is impossible to control how much water vapor is in the air. The oceans and lakes determine how much water vapor is in the air. Man has no contribution to water vapor at all, except for some minor locations. If you blame water vapor as the cause of the temperature going up, you cannot advocate government control over something you have no control over.

If you really want to locate the cause of global warming or cooling, just look up in the sky. The sun has more to do with whether the earth warms or cools than any greenhouse gas. If there are a lot of sun spots, the sun is hotter and the earth warms up. If there are few sun spots the sun is cooler and the earth cools down. In the past 6 years, there has only been one sun spot. In the previous 30 years, there were always 6-8 sun spots active at any given time. Of course the earth warmed during the past 30 years and of course it is cooling now.

Can you convince any global warming believer of the truth? Not right now. They are so sure that global warming is occurring that nothing can convince them of the truth. Even this cooling period is just a temporary setback. They do not see that their entire theory is wrong. We are not going to have a catastrophe in the next 50 years because of global warming. I do not know what the temperature will be like 50 years from now. I do know that the temperature will be changing constantly during that time period. There will be periods where the temperature will go up. There will be time periods where the temperature will go down. We may end up in a new ice age or we could boil away. I have no clue. I just know that the theory that man is causing global warming is completely false. This cooling period is proving it the longer it lasts.

Recently, I have read articles about the photo shoot by Miley Cyrus. She was photographed semi-nude by a celebrity photographer for use in a magazine. Her parents were at the photo shoot. Her father is the country singer, Billy Ray Cyrus.

Miley Cyrus is the star of the Disney show, Hannah Montana. That show is a big hit with girls age 9-17. It brings in a lot of money for Disney. The shows sell out minutes after opening the doors to sell tickets. The show is a wholesome routine and promotes wholesome values.

Much has been said about how it was bad for her to have the photos taken. She is only 15 years old. The photos would be much better if she was over age 18, but they would still be in bad taste. As Hannah Montana, she has to have a clean image. Anything that tarnishes the image of Hannah Montana will reduce the ability of Disney to sell out the concerts. If the concerts start having a problem selling out, the show would be cancelled. If the show were cancelled, Miley Cyrus would lose her job as Hannah Montana.

Maybe Miley Cyrus is tired of being Hannah Montana and the squeaky clean image that it requires. If so, she did the correct thing in getting the photos taken and published. If she is not tired of being Hannah Montana she should correct the way she is heading. The photos are relatively mild when you consider how bad she could be. Remember that her parents agreed to the shoot and were present at all times. They saw nothing wrong with the photos until the photos got out and people were offended. Then, they realized their mistake and have tried to distance themselves from the mistake ever since.

The problem in Miley Cyrus’ case is different than in most child stars cases. Miley Cyrus has a famous father. As a famous figure, he should have seen the potential problems for her. As a 15 year old, she is not expected to be able to see the problems before they occur. The problem with Billy Ray Cyrus is that this is the way that women in his world act. As far as he is concerned, women are supposed to expose themselves to the world for men to see. Having his daughter do the same thing is just fine with him. If he were a regular guy, he would have seen the problem in a nano-second. As an entertainer, he had his eyes blinded by the entertainment world and the perverse way that women act in that world.

If Miley Cyrus was not the alter ego of Hannah Montana, the photo shoot would not be much of a deal. Yes, the photos are in poor taste. But, they do not show anything. You see much more skin when you see any young female at the beach in today’s world. You do not see her breasts. The problem is that this is Hannah Montana. Hannah Montana has a squeaky clean image and Disney needs it to remain just that way.

If Miley Cyrus wants to travel the road to ruin that Britney Spears or Paris Hilton followed, she took a step along the way. She did not go so far that she cannot come back and regain her following. Everyone knows where the road that Britney Spears and Paris Hilton goes. It leads to brushes with the law and ruin. If she maintains a squeaky clean image, she would be different and be able to command multi-million dollar recording contracts. People would buy her records in great numbers. People are yearning for someone that is clean. I hope she learns from this brush with mistake and stops the bad behavior. Bad behavior may make your music more “real”, but a clean image means you make more money and you get to keep it longer.

President Bush had a press conference today in which he talked about energy. The Democrats responded with some comments of their own on the need for more government control over the energy companies instead of increasing energy.

The contrast between the two could not be more dramatic. The President is looking to the future and the demands that the future will bring. He sees that the country will need more energy and that we should be energy independent. The President then looks at what we can do now to help that vision of the future come to pass. We need to do a couple of things; increase our out put of oil and increase our ability to refine the oil we do find.

Increasing our output of oil is not going to be easy. The Arctic Wildlife refuge (ANWR) has some land set aside for energy production. There is enough oil there to greatly reduce our dependence on foreign oil for a number of years. We also have oil shale in the Rocky Mountains that has yet to be tapped for its oil. There are also known reserves in North and South Dakota that could be brought back into production. There is a lot of oil off the coast of Florida. It is about 23 miles away from the coast. Anyone standing on the coast would need a telescope to be able to see any of the oil rigs. That is about it as far as I know. It would achieve a measure of energy independence by greatly increasing our output. I do not know how long we could sustain the increased output, but it would last for 20+ years.

The second issue is refining capacity. We have not built an oil refinery in 30 years. The President is suggesting that we take some of the retired military bases and convert them into oil refineries. By building three or four new refineries, we could reduce the fluctuations in price that we get now.

Another way to improve our energy independence is to increase the use of nuclear power. We have not built a nuclear power plant in about 30 years. We need to build 25-30 to take the oil powered refineries off line. That would reduce the use of oil for uses other than for fuel. That should help in lowering the price of gasoline. I am not an economist so I am not sure how much.

The Democrats plan to reduce the cost of gasoline is to take some of the profits of the oil companies and use that to subsidize gasoline costs. That is more government. That will not work. It will mean higher gasoline prices in the future because the oil companies will not reinvest their profits into exploration. Our supply of oil will diminish and that will increase our dependence on foreign oil. The Democrat plan is a recipe for disaster. The Democrats only know how to play the wealth envy game and not how to run anything. This shows up whenever there is a real problem.

When there is a real problem, the Republicans come up with solutions to the problem and the Democrats come up with wealth envy government regulations to make the problem worse. The Republicans propose ways to solve real problems and the Democrats come up with ways to stop the problems from being solved. The Democrats blame the Republicans as being evil because they propose to drill an oil well where there is no wildlife. The Democrats claim that the wildlife will be severely damaged or destroyed when there is little or no wildlife there. Democrats claim that the Gulf of Mexico will be destroyed and visitors to Florida will be forced to look at oil wells off the coast. The wells will be so far away that it would require a high powered telescope to see them. The oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico now produce almost no pollution. The new ones would be more environmentally friendly than the ones currently in production.

To sum it all up: the Democrats will say that terrible things will happen when the experts know that what they are saying is not true. For example look at ANWR; the Democrats say that drilling in ANWR will severely destroy the refuge and prohibit its use by various types of wildlife. In reality, the drilling area in ANWR is so remote that nothing lives there. All of the wildlife the Democrats say will be displaced or damaged does not live in or near the area to be drilled. When the Democrats show pictures of ANWR they show pictures of high use wildlife areas. In reality the area in question is deserted 99.99% of the time. Also it has been discovered that in Alaska, wildlife thrive around the pipeline and other oil sites. This is because of the additional shelter provided and the additional warmth. Caribou populations have skyrocketed. We could probably expect something of the same from this area.

Where does this leave us? We are left with two options: a solution or adding to our problems disguised as soaking the rich. The uneducated may choose soaking the rich, but they are really soaking themselves. The people that own the oil companies are teacher’s unions and other groups that invest money for their members. People’s investments will grow slower under the Democrat plan and the energy problem will grow worse. Under the Republican plan the energy problem will probably not be solved, but it will be relieved to a great extent. It may even relieve our dependence on foreign oil enough that we can thumb our nose at Saudi Arabia. That would be a good thing to see.

The Reverend Wright made an appearance on TV yesterday and spoke at the Press Club today. He is making his case that the critics are wrong and he is right. Since he has not modified his opinions at all, it is clear that his speaking up will severely damage Barack Obama right before the Super Delegates have to make their decision.

In his statements last week, the Reverend Wright said that his comments had been taken out of context. So, Hugh Hewitt, among others, played large portions of his sermons on the radio and put links to the sermons on their web sites. When heard in context the meaning is absolutely clear, the Reverend Wright is a racist and an America hater. How Obama could stay in that church for 20+ years is a mystery to me. Either Obama did not attend and did not read the bulletin or he must agree with what the Reverend Wright has said. The statements we have were made over a 5 year span. But it is clear from the reaction of the congregation that they firmly believe what Reverend Wright is saying. They clap and generally let the listener know that they agree with what the Reverend Wright says. It is not known whether Barack Obama is in the audience at any of these specific speeches, but he would have known about them. They were obviously something that was discussed among church members before and after church.

There has been some speculation that Reverend Wright is trying to sabotage the campaign of Barack Obama. If he does derail the campaign, he would be able to raise money and be the new Al Sharpton. That would make him independently wealthy. He could claim that America was still racist because it had rejected the candidacy of Barack Obama. Then he could whip the black population into frenzy over the racism and be a power player in the black movement. He could be trying to replace Al Sharpton or maybe even Jesse Jackson. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are race baiters. Reverend Wright could be trying to be a race baiter in their mold.

The Super Delegates have a real dilemma. If they reject Barack Obama and select Mrs. Clinton half the party will be unhappy and probably not vote or even worse, vote Republican. If they select Barack Obama they will be sure that the party will be going down to defeat in November. If they select a third party to come in and save the party, it would still make the players that support Barack Obama and Mrs. Clinton unhappy. They worked all this time for a candidate only to have the party say that they are going to bring in a third untried candidate to run for the Presidency. Choosing a candidate other than Obama could mean defeat for the Super Delegate that does not support him.

The Democrat party brought all this upon itself. They set up the primary system with the Super Delegates built into it. They did it to prevent another George McGovern. In other words, they did it to prevent the will of the people in selecting a candidate. This is the time for them to step up and do what they set up the Super Delegates to do. Unfortunately for the Super Delegates, Barack Obama is black. By being black he has dominated in the black voting block. The blacks that have been surveyed have said that they will either stay home or vote Republican if Barack Obama is not selected. That would be a real problem for the Democrats. They have to have the black voters voting for Democrat candidates. If they started to vote Republican, the Democrats would be a minority party real quick.

This is the party of big government. They cannot even run their own party without having major problems. How can any reasonable person expect the Democrats to run the health of the country any better than they have run the primary election? In other words, they have a disaster in the primaries. You would expect that if they ran health care that it would be a disaster. This is an object lesson on how good the party of big government is at running big government.

A while back, I signed up for a contest that had a sponsor of the Democrat Party. As a result, I get emails from the Democrat party from time to time. That has been interesting over the past couple of years. Every now and then I get the idea that I should just call those emails, spam, but I stop because they give me an insight into the Democrat mind.

Since I know the Republican agenda and background, it is instructive on how the Democrat emails distort the Republican agenda. According to the emails, the Republicans are going to put blacks back into slavery by taking away all their benefits. Now, taking away all the benefits would be a good idea, but nobody has suggested any such thing. Also, the idea that we are trying to target blacks and make them second class citizens is also far from the truth. Republicans generally do not think of race at all. We are constantly surprised when someone calls us a racist for proposing that we free people to succeed or fail.

I also get emails from the Republican Party from the same type of source as the Democrat emails. The difference in tone is striking. The Republican emails do not suggest that the Democrat party is going to put any single group into bondage. The Republican emails generally hit the nail on the head when they suggest that the Democrat agenda will make us less safe and we will be fighting the terrorists on the streets of New York or Los Angeles, instead of Bagdad. It could be that my general agreement on the tone of the emails has clouded my judgment. I tend to doubt that as I am generally pretty objective in my thinking. I will poke holes in any argument whether from the left or right if they do not have their facts straight.

My training as a scientist has given me the ability to see how things are set up to make points. For example, there was a study on global warming recently published in the Arizona Republic. The authors of the study believe in global warming. The facts do not support their hypothesis that global warming is true. But, if you select a very narrow time period after 1998, you can prove that global warming exists. So, the authors chose a 5 year period after 1998 and then make the argument that it proves that global warming is worse in the west than in the rest of the US. When talking about global warming, you have to take the long view. A five year time period is much too small to prove anything when it comes to climate. Even selecting a 10 year period you are still working on something too narrow. If you go to a 30 year period, you can then make some judgments on trend. But the trend is only for short-term climate only. The best way to examine global warming is to look at data for hundreds of years or even thousands. Then you will know what the climate does on a regular basis. This 5 year study proves nothing and their analysis just muddies up the water for serious scientists.

So, looking at the emails from the Democrats and the Republicans one thing stands out loud and clear. The Democrat emails are designed to frighten the reader into some action. They are not meant to inform the reader on anything. The Republican emails are generally there to inform the reader on some topic. The author hopes that by informing the reader on the topic that the reader will be inspired to act. There is a huge difference in that approach. It shows the difference between the average voters in the two parties. The Democrat voter is not one that reads very much to inform. The Democrat voter is only interested in being scared into action. The Republican voter reads to inform. Then they act based on the information they have on hand. I like the Republican approach much better. It appeals to the intellectual in me.  

This morning, I read that some Democrat operative said that most racists vote Republican. I beg to differ with that Democrat. There are a number of reasons that the statement is not true.

First, all black racists will be voting Democrat. Since almost all blacks vote Democrat it just goes without saying that all black racists will be voting Democrat.

Second, all Hispanic racists will be voting Democrat. The number of Hispanics voting Democrat is not as high as for blacks, but still just over 50% do vote Democrat. Those Hispanic voters that vote Republican tend to be the type of voters that are concerned with issues that are important to Hispanics. Those that vote Democrat tend to vote because they are voting against Republicans. Also, the Hispanic groups that most identify with the illegal immigrants and want to grant them status are those that vote Democrat. That would put all the Hispanic racists in the Democrat block.

Third, Democrats are the party that is concerned with race. Republicans generally do not concern themselves with race at all. When they come up with policy ideas, they consider what will be best for America, not what will benefit any racial group. When Democrats call Republicans racists, the Republicans are generally taken by surprise. They did not consider race in any of the calculations that led to the statements they made, so being called a racist is totally a shock. Also, look at the Democrat race for President. There are a lot of Democrat voters that will not vote for a black candidate. Those are racist actions. Republicans would vote for a black Republican candidate in droves. If a black Republican candidate ran for President and was truly a conservative, he/she would win the nomination without anyone else having a shot. In the Democrat party, that is not the case. Look at what Republicans do when appointing blacks to positions of authority. Republicans appoint blacks to positions of authority based on talent and experience. They give them positions with real authority. Look at Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice as examples of how Republicans appoint blacks. Look at Democrat Presidential appointment of blacks; they appoint them to positions with no real authority. Look at the Democrat leadership and you will not find any black or Hispanic leaders with any real authority. Look at the Republicans and you will find Hispanics in prominent positions. When blacks try for those positions they generally get them, look at J.C. Watts in the House of Representatives.

Fourth, the Democrat party has always been the party that has tried to keep blacks down. This has continued up to the present day. They will let blacks say things or even appear to have authority. When it comes to reality, blacks need to be kept in their place. This is why the Democrat party is having problems with the candidacy of Barack Obama. He is black. That is enough to cause the party leadership heartburn. They will not be comfortable with a black in a leadership position. That means they will not work to get him elected President. They cannot have a black person appointing blacks to positions with real authority within the Democrat party. They know they can control the appointment of people in an administration, but not to the party.

In my opinion, Democrats are the party of racists. They are concerned with race all of the time. It is so tiring to hear that this or that comment is racist. Most people today are not racists. Most people today do not think of people in terms of race. The Democrats crying race all of the time causes people to think about race. This is tiring and insulting to the American people.

The Democrat operative is wrong. Most racists will be voting for Democrat candidates in the November election. There will be some white racists that will vote Republican. But, the vast majority of racists will be voting Democrat. I am sure that the Democrat operative is only considering the white racists in the racist grouping. Even there, I believe most of them will be voting Democrat in the fall elections. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!!!

Yesterday, I put forth the idea that it was time to end Operation Chaos. I still think that it is time to end Operation Chaos, but after the flap over the ad in North Carolina I am thinking that maybe we need to continue.

The ad in North Carolina links Barack Hussein Obama, Reverend Wright and the Democrat candidate for Governor. The ad is brilliant and let’s Reverend Wright spew forth his hate for all to hear. John McCain has asked the North Carolina Republican Party not to run the advertisement. The Democrats and the media are denouncing the North Carolina Republican Party as racist. There is nothing racist about the advertisement. The ad just points out that Obama is connected to Reverend Wright and that the Democrat candidate for Governor is also a Democrat. That is guilt by association. The Democrats do it all the time and nothing is said. Mrs. Clinton is running ads that are much worse than this one and she is not being called a racist.

The Leader of the Republican Party in North Carolina was on TV last night and stuck to her guns. She said they will run the ads and that they were not racist. That is courageous for her to do. We need more Republicans like her that have backbones. We do not need Republicans that do not have backbones. We have an overabundance of those in Washington right now. We need to weed out a large number. Unfortunately, to weed out the ones without backbones would replace them with Democrats without spines. That is even worse than a Republican without a spine.

Operation Chaos is getting the two Democrat candidates to cut each other up for the Republican nominee. I never thought that John McCain would be so squeamish about running ads about Democrats. We need to tell the truth about Democrats. We cannot go telling the Democrat lie about Democrats and expect to win. We have to be free to call Democrats exactly what they are. Too many Republicans think that we have to “play nice” with Democrats and then they will “play nice” with us. That will never happen. Democrats come with the long knives out all of the time. We are expected to put our knives in our scabbard and then take whatever the Democrat dishes out. We cannot win if we play the game the Democrats way. We have to be free to tell the truth wherever we find it.

The part of Operation Chaos that I think needs to be ended is the voting for Democrats. The fight between the two will continue until their convention in Denver. Neither candidate will withdraw. Both of them have a case to be made to the Super Delegates that they deserve the honor of the nomination. The Super Delegates are the ones with the problem. Having the Super Delegates was a hedge to prevent another George McGovern. With this election it has gotten out of hand. People can see the fallacy of having the Super Delegates at all. There is something to be said for having some slots for Governors, Senators and Congressmen. The problem is they have too many Super Delegates to be just the elected officials.

One thing this election has highlighted is that nobody wants a Democrat administration to have control over health care. If they cannot even run their own primary in a reasonable manner, how can they be expected to run 1/7^th of the economy with any effectiveness? The answer is they cannot run 1/7^th of the economy with any degree of effectiveness. They would run it less effective than they have run the primaries this election season. Democrats have failed to run any of their programs effectively. Every one they started has cost many times the original estimate. Every one is causing more problems in the economy than it was ever intended to solve. No Democrat program has ever solved anything. Even their most effective program, the Endangered Species Act, has been one giant problem for anyone unlucky enough to come into contact with it. It has helped some species of plant or animal survive and come back from the brink of extinction. But the cost to the economy and the environment has been tremendous. They are even trying to make it worse by including the Polar Bear which is not endangered and is increasing in number.

Operation Chaos has been a success. It resurrected the candidacy of Mrs. Clinton and produced the resulting destruction of both candidates. There are only a couple of primaries to go and they are relatively small. It is time to call of Operation Chaos. Nothing more can be gained except for some more wins by Mrs. Clinton. I am not sure that more wins by Mrs. Clinton is good.

Right now, the most damaged candidate in either party is Barack Hussein Obama. He is not sure where the next blow is going to come from. He has not held a press conference since Operation Chaos began. His debate skills, which were minimal to begin with, deserted him completely. His friends and long time allies are being brought into question and they are not the savory kind. Early this year, everything was turning up roses for Barack Obama. Now, everywhere he turns more disasters seem to occur. He probably wonders where the next disaster will come from. All of this is good news for John McCain.

Mrs. Clinton on the other hand has seen her campaign resurrected from the dead. Before Operation Chaos started, she was one loss from being out of the race. Now, with her win in Pennsylvania, she is sure to survive until Denver. There is no need to prop up her campaign any further. To prop it up further might just get her as the candidate in the election in November. Right now, she looks like the stronger of the two candidates. We already know that she lies. We already know that she has unsavory characters in her background. We already know that she helped destroy the military. We already know that she is a closet communist. What more could come out that could damage her? The answer is nothing. That is why Operation Chaos needs to be ended right now. It has achieved its purpose, which was to revive Mrs. Clinton’s campaign until Denver and get the two Democrats to start cutting themselves apart. That has been achieved and will continue until they get to Denver and probably even while they are in Denver.

Now we need to look at which candidate is the weaker candidate in November. Barack Obama is weak. His entire platform is built out of weakness. Mrs. Clinton on the other hand, is not weak. She is resilient and relentless. She never gives up. That is not the candidate you want running against you. You want the candidate that is weak and when confronted will withdraw. That is exactly the scenario that Barack Obama is exhibiting right now. Barack Obama may eventually grow a pair, but Mrs. Clinton keeps Bill’s in a box on the shelf. Barack Obama is a neophyte and will make rookie mistakes. Mrs. Clinton has been around the block a few times and will not make many unforced errors. She may stretch the truth a bit, but overall will make fewer errors than Barack.

If Mrs. Clinton wins the nomination, blacks will have a hard time accepting the fact that they won the race yet lost the prize. That will play to our favor. Mrs. Clinton’s supporters will be much more pragmatic about her loss. They rationalize that she has already lost and so there is no harm to support the winner. That leads us to choose Mrs. Clinton as the nominee. I still maintain that she will be the tougher nut to crack come November. His overall weakness and neophyte status will render him the easier candidate to make a Dukakis. Part of that is the fact that people do not really know who Barack Hussein Obama is. That will make it easier for John McCain to get him in a tank and have him look foolish like Dukakis.

I just read hughhewitt.com and was impressed by a list of Mark Robert’s identifications of where God wanted him to be at different times in his life. I too have had similar calls.

I went to the University of Northern Colorado to find God. Growing up in a home where God was expelled, I had no background in Religion. When I was a freshman at Northern Colorado, I joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It was one of the best decisions I ever made. During my time in Greeley, I took all the classes they offered. I grew in the church. I found my future wife and baptized her prior to my leaving on a mission.

I was sent to the England North Mission to find Sister Bird. She was about 63 years old when we found her. It was late in the day and my companion and I had agreed that we would only knock on one more door that day. She took a Book of Mormon and we set an appointment to come back. When we left, my companion said that she would never join the church and he was not going back. I enlisted the District Leader’s companion to go back with me. After talking to her, he said she was never going to join the church and was not going back. I then talked the District Leader into going with me. After meeting with her, he said she was not going to join the church and was not going back. I then talked the Zone Leader’s companion into going with me. After meeting with her, he said that she would never join the church and was never going back. I then talked the Zone Leader into going with me. Finally she agreed to be baptized. After her baptism, she brought at least 30 people into the church during the remainder of my mission. If I had not been there, she would not have been taught and baptized.

After my mission I got married and went to BYU. After a year and a half, we were short of money. We did not have enough funds to go one more semester. I joined the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department in Golden, Colorado. That got me police training that would be important later. A friend helped me get hired by the Federal Government in Bowman, North Dakota.

I was in Bowman because there were two 19 year old girls that liked the Osmond’s and wanted to know more about their church. We arrived in town just before the missionaries. We stayed in town just long enough to see the two girls be baptized and go off to college or get married. We were then transferred to Lakota, North Dakota.

Just after we arrived in Lakota, North Dakota the only policeman in town was shot. He was shot badly enough that he would not be able to recover. The town hired another policeman from one of the towns’ people. He had no police experience. I had made friends with the Sheriff who had an office next to mine. The sheriff recommended to the city that they hire me as a part-time police officer until the untrained officer could be certified by the state. I served as a part-time police officer for a short time and helped teach the new policeman some of the tricks of the trade to stay alive. After he returned from the academy, I was transferred to Cheyenne Wells, Colorado. While in Lakota, we adopted a Native American daughter.

In Cheyenne Wells, Colorado we were there long enough to help a road crew made up of LDS young people get through a job. Shortly after they completed their job, I was transferred to Chandler, AZ.

In Chandler, AZ I helped three Indian Reservations start Conservation Districts. The people that held my position before me had tried to help them start these districts for 20 years. We also adopted two children while in Chandler, one black and one Hispanic. After the districts were certified by the state and the adoptions were final, we were transferred to Lake Havasu, AZ.

While in Lake Havasu, we were asked to help an unwed mother until she could have her baby. We had just leased out an extra room to the LDS missionaries, so we found another family for the girl. The night she was in labor, I talked to the man who was going to adopt the baby. I told him that I did not know why I was saying this but, if anything happened and he could not adopt the baby he was to call us. Three months later, the mother of the family died. The court told him that he could not adopt the girl. He called us and we adopted the girl. After that was final, we were transferred back up to North Dakota in Dickinson.

We arrived in Dickinson just before the Branch President of the Dickinson Branch moved away. I was called to be the Branch President and served in that capacity for three years. When my job changed, I was called to the High Council. We then moved to Minot, ND.

In Minot, ND, I was wildly successful in my job. Just as I was going to achieve some national recognition and pump up my head, I had nasal surgery and it failed. I got a permanent headache out of the surgery. It meant that we had to move from Minot. We found a position for my wife in Winslow, AZ.

In Winslow, it got us back to AZ and closer to where my oldest son had moved. He moved to Chandler, AZ about the same time we moved to Winslow. After a couple of years in Winslow, my wife got a job in Phoenix. We are now in a location where all of our family can be close by. We may not be here for any great spiritual or other reason, but we can be close to our grand kids as we grow older. That means a lot to my wife and I.