Now the president is on the crusade, demanding Aung San Suu Kyi, be released in Burma, or else! What can he do with his demand, nothing, just like North Korea, when is he going to learn, they don't care about sanctions, when it comes to trying to control their movements.

So what's he do, after they have fired missiles, nothing? And Iran, what's he doing? They now got nuclear capability-nothing? Is the world safer today than when he took office? No. How about Cuba and our little prison over there, that has all the public opinion against us, and all those countries saying shut the doors, but when it comes to taking the killers, they shut their mouths. He wants to put them on the streets of America. And he gave everyone $250-dollars, that was nice, but Bush gave $600, he seems to run short at ever corner. And where are the troops, should they not be home as he promised? Nope.

They are taking from Peter and giving to Paul. Nothing has changed. He's given so much free money away to the rich corporations, that the executives can live like kings around the world. And the dollar isn't much better than when Bush was in office, and employment is not better, getting worse, as it is in China, Europe, and Japan and we can add Russia. Hang in there he says, he's on his way. He's for abortion and all these other things Christians are against, and he wants us to think he is a Christian, when he's against Christian concepts. I want to like this guy, but I find he is nothing but a balloon full of air that would have done anything to get into office.

And he wants the Israel to live in peace with the Arabs, and the Arabs want to destroy Israel, as indicated in their code, or credo; but yet, he wants to shove it down their throats, the only person that wants peace there is the Western Empires, for the oil, nobody else does.

Well, he learned one thing, it is not so easy to run a country, as he told everyone he was going to do, and in the process cut president Bush down, and now ends up doing the same thing, and eliminates the freedom to of checks and balances in the government.

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Two things he's done right in less than a week, this is unbelievable, but who knows maybe he's got more get up and go, more than I thought anyhow, more than I gave him credit for. He allowed American Armed forces to use deadly force in killing the abductors of an American Ship recently, to free the Captain, off the coast of Somalia, and goodbye to trash, three bagged and one in the coop.

Now he's done it again, he is not attending the UN meeting in Switzerland, and for a good reason, and every president before him should have done this long ago: boycott the meeting, everyone that takes any interest in United Nations' affairs, knows how deep the bigotry and discrimination is against Israel at the UN. To attend would be to sanction their prejudice, if anyone should know this, "The Congressional Black Caucus," should, but they are on the same path as the UN I guess. I have to ask the question, why hasn't a white president done this-I shouldn't say that, forbidden words, but how true they are? Oh well, out of sight, out of mind. Europe will not like this, they hate the Jews also, always have, but now they know where Obama stands, as long as he doesn't push the point, and try to force Israel to buy bunk beds for Palestine.

Hugo Chavez has fallen in love with our president, I should warn him, having more experience in this psychological field than he, Chavez has a duel personality, Mr. President, don't turn your back on him, unless you have a mirror; he perhaps is laughing, making funny faces, he's something else.

If only he could get our troops out of Iraq, as he said he would, and not send them over yonder, into another Middle East backyard. We'll need our hands free for North Korea soon. It should be interesting how he handles North Korea. I do think that the UN did right in its message to North Korea, now we need to tell North Korea: loud and clear, we can do to them what we did in Iraq and Afghanistan, and perhaps send over the 50,000 troops we are leaving in Iraq, to make a point, or perhaps point a few nukes at them, and let them take pictures, and see if they still hold the same intentions, which are to make South Korea into an infernal.

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I started writing my Obama letters a few days after he made president, and tried to keep up with the mess he's been creating, but I am happy to say, I am half proud of my president today. He has done three things correct since he's been in office, soon to be 90-days. One, he allowed an old black lady to get on the welfare line; two, he made an international speech to the college kids in Heidelberg, Germany, on leaving something behind with their skills and talents, instead of robbing your neighbors blind, and in the last day or two it occurred to him this stupid blockade with Cuba is silly. We've had it for fifty-years, and we don't even know why we have it.

I mean, we allow every other dictatorship in the world to carry on as usual, normal business with the USA, and we kick our neighbor in the ribs for doing the same thing.

Let's face it, China is no democracy, and look what they've done to Tibet; and they've got the guts to scorn Japan for their atrocities in WWII, and we opened the international trading door for them, brought them into the World Trade Organization as if they were our blood brothers, only to build more rockets and aim them at us. And I suppose I could crisscross the globe and pick out a dozen more countries, like Vietnam, and Burma, and so forth, but here we are chopping away at little Cuba.

Take the chains off and let's go have a party over yonder, under the Cuba sun: to have and have not, I heard that some place. And if the people want a dictatorship, let them have it. It's called the people's choice. They could change it if they had a heart to, we did. We get into this mode; we got to change everybody to fit into our box. Cultures, histories, economics, they all play a role in the way of life for a country.

As long as they are not building missiles and aiming them at us, let them alone, and let's open a door of friendship, like we did with our real enemies in Vietnam. Did you know they got a statue of liberty in Havana? They like us, and there are not a lot of folks out there that do; so Mr. President, with all respect, you've started to do something right for once. God bless you, and I hope I can soon write a letter and stipulate a forth thing you've done correct.

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Let's see what we find in the Obama box today. Turkey, he says is a much needed friend, one we can trust, and Christian and Muslim, works together. Perhaps there is some truth to this, but it stops at a very narrow corner I do believe. Our values are different, the Western World hasn't figured this out since the 11th Century, and how long does it take. Whatever friendship we build, and I have Muslim friends, the center is hollow. I know this and they know this, but for coexistence we also know, not to carry guns on our person when we say hello. Foolishness comes at a price.

On another note, related to the above slightly, is the only thing President Chavez of Venezuela had to say that was correct, that I ever heard come out of his mouth was Obama doesn't know what he's doing, and he is so right.

On North Korea: We stood by and watched North Korea send a rocket into the sky, soon it will be a nuke, we all know this, and we all scream to the high moon as if North Korea could care, they careless. It has taken us 50-years to figure this out, that we should have taken charge when we had a chance, back in 1954. Now they have big toys, I don't know what we are waiting for, perhaps for them to get the Nuke on the tip of that rocket, and nuke Japan or South Korea, so it would seem, and that will be their blackmailing gimmick soon. If I was one of those countries, I'd be building me some fast flying missiles, and aiming them directly at the one doing all the threatening. Perhaps the better choice here is for Japan to wakeup and smell he rotting roses, from their passive past, and be the great warriors they are known for. South Korea, simply doesn't believe their neighbors will butcher them, Kuwait, felt the same way with Iraq.

Heidelberg, Germany. President Obama, gave a lecture there the other day, and advised the young folks to leave something behind, for posterity sake. That is the best I can do Mr. President. It was a great speech.

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We have some real problems, we are warning everybody everywhere, and everyone is saying the paper tiger has spoken now let's do what we said we're going to do. We should do one of two things: shut up, or put up of fists.

Korea has been telling us for five-years, it is going to build a rocket that will reach the United States, and now they have, and now they are going to launch it, and we are warning them not to. What is a warning? It is only worth what you are willing to do. Bush proved his warnings were deadly. Obama, his warnings are like a paper tiger, and he have Hillary to speak on his behalf. And that is why Korea said, "We'll go to war?" Not sure who with, I suppose they mean the United States; if so, I think we better call Bush back.

They have been blackmailing Japan and South Korea for twenty-years, and the US for almost as long. The point is, now they will have the stuff to really do what they been saying for twenty years they'd like to do, blackmail and point their guns.

The Question is "Do we go to war?" Or let them do what they did on December 7, 1941. Bomb Peal Harbor; we keep thinking they will not, but have we forgotten 9/11; Iraq is over, let's move on, we got other business and interests, and we're dogged down there, so we're afraid to do anything elsewhere. We should readjust our thinking to those that can hurt us.

We want to build a shield in Europe, let the Europeans do it, not the tax paying folks in America, we've been paying their bills for sixty-years, when is enough, enough.

Back to Korea, let them start the war, blow their rocket out of the air, and if they do start a war, well this time let's finish it, and be done with it, and forget an armistice. But Obama, not knowing the military world, is at a party singing Happy Birthday to Kennedy, who was the character in the book "Dark Waters." And dark they are.

We are also warning Iran. What is all this warning business; let Israeli do what they do best, like Elvis would say, "Taking care of business."

We've been paying Israel to stand down, like a clown, while they build a nuclear plant, for power they say, when they got more oil than Exxon. Now let's stop kidding ourselves, they don't need it to warm their homes-it's hot enough over there, and they don't need it for gas, only half the population can drive, women are not allowed, and they don't need it for cooking, they need it for Israel. They said they want to obliterate Israel, and Obama thinks, talk therapy will work, that's only in the movies.

On the third subject here, I wish he'd stop spending all the tax money he hasn't collected yet. He's giving $160 billion to the international banking system, for a smile, to keep the rich from falling on their knees. And another one trillion to a stimulus program, his own party don't want a party to, but like ducks they are in line. And this is just the beginning. The Ice berg is deep, and if it comes up it will be like flooding all of Greenland.

The only thing I can say about Obama in his less than two months in office is, he gave a black lady a home, or some financial support, and that came out of the tax payer's pocket, not his. I think he forgot, money is earned, not grown.

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I see Obama is proudly standing his ground on sending the Iraqi troops home. Let me rephrase that. I see President Obama, is following basically the same plan President Bush set forward before Obama was president, and reneging on his word, that he was to bring home the boys. What does that mean? Well, you have to read between the lines, it means, he is going to leave in place, 50,000-troops, more than we have in Korea or Afghanistan, more than we have in Japan, what for?

Your guess is as good as mine. Being a soldier for 11-years I realize you just can't up and leave, and we are not, but if you leave 50,000 soldiers in a war zone, and they are basically, as they said, support, meaning, not much infantry, they are sitting ducks for the enemy. Strategically, we are in a good area in the world, surrounded by enemies, and if we leave a hole, it will be filled, but that will happen with 50,000 troops or 15,000 troops, not with 142,000 troops though. So it is best we leave them all there, or take them all out except a small contingent, say 5000 to 10,000, and to the extreme, 35,000, but not 50,000, that would be my guess. He wouldn't understand this though, not being a soldier that is why, he is on a merry-go-round, and he doesn't know how to get off it-yet he is listening to the people as he whirls and whirls and whirls around in his same circle!

How about a plan C? I bet he hasn't got one, so I'll give him one; do what you said you were going to do, that is what the people expect, not a modification after you get into office, it looks like you tricked us all. And maybe he did, that was the original plan, A, now he went to plan B, the Bush plan, and for Plan C, is going back to plan A.

We have to admit, that when you are standing outside of the White House looking in it is easy to point fingers, but one inside looking out, you come to understand, pointing fingers is easy, in comparison to doing what you said should be simple, lead the people to think so.

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The Entertainer ((Letter: 6) (2-20-2009))

If Obama does anything well, it is that he entertains me. He should be in line to take over the David Lettermen show when he retires; he'd do well on it. He has dropped 9-points, and he's only been President, one month. He is going to give financing for old mortgages to old mortgage holders, you know those that didn't pay their mortgage on time, went to Disneyland or Los Vegas; it's called in old fashion terms, rewarding the thief, while the hard worker pays on time. I know what he's going to say: everything's not perfect. I swear this guy is walking like a duck in circles. But he's a proud one, I sure can say that. I just hope no real big crisis happens, God help us all then. They say, two out of three American's have approved of his stimulus program, so that leaves 100-million unsatisfied customers. That may grow pretty soon; and if I was at the race track, I'd not place too much money on a horse with those odds, two out of three is a winning hand, but it tells you something: you can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time, but not all the people all of the time, and that is the corner I'm standing at, and soon he'll show up there I'm sure. American's voted for popularity, not change, or down to earth, politics, they voted for who could entertain them the best, and he was the best showmen in town, and it shows as he tries to figure out what he's going to do, and to be honest, he doesn't have clue. It's too early to say "I told you so," and I hope really I don't have to, but if the shoe fits, I will. On the other hand, I may owe a few people an apology, but I'd bet on that, I think I got a winning horse there, and I won't have to apologize.

He signs bills and doesn't know where he's going to but the killers in the Cuban prison; there is even talk about giving them citizenship, are we all going crazy? I'd say send them back to their countries, the ones that want to put them in the electric chair, or hang them, and be done with it. The last group of 400-prisoners that were set free because of all these rightwing, self-righteous, human rights people, 67 of them went out and killed more Americans, more British, more Iraqis families, don't the human rights works have a heart for the innocent, or only for the criminals. I was once a advocate, supporter in one of the groups, for prisoners worldwide, and the group asked me to send letters to get folks free, and I did, and I got a letter back from the Congress of the Phillipions, asking me if my group told me all about the fellow I was trying to get free. And I said, I think they did, and they sent me documentation, and he had killed three men, which no one told me about, and they had families, and so forth. And I confronted the issue, and it was explained to me: it was guerrilla warfare, against the government, again something I had to pull out of the man I was trying to free from prison. ´

Point here is, sometimes we just do things, out of emotions, thinking they are right, when we should do them out of thinking, investigation, and then proceed. I wrote the folks back and said, "I was never told the whole truth," and that was Amnesty International, the liars, I had confronted them, and said I'd not do their dirty work for them ever again, I worked for a Federal Branch of the American Government back then.

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I wrote four articles thus far on the new president, he is quite predictable, and everything has come to pass that I've written, and nothing has been for the good, except giving a black lady a home to stay in, and he didn't do it out of his pocket, rather, out of the tax payers of America's pocket, all the same it was a good gesture.

And now he is saying loud and clear and in so many words so is his beloved, CNN, and so are the White House Democratic Senators, the blind singing songs to the blind, they all must think American is some big fat donut.

It is all about the stimulus program, that it is right on track the Obama track that is, no one else's track, yet we got CNN and all these other folks on the Obama teams yelling: united we stand, the Democrats and Republicans, now how silly can one be. He's a Harvard man; he shouldn't play the public for being dumb even if most of us out there are dumb, because it is insulting; he forgot the old saying: 'What goes around comes around' and it will bite him in the behind, sooner or later, such foolishness always does.

He had three republicans go along with his program, and 11-Democrates walk away from it, what does that tell you. It tells me, his own people know better, don't agree with him. But we deserve what we get, and we will get it right where it hurts. We were all hyped up over a new hero-thinking he was Mighty Mouse or something, because he told us what we wanted to hear, and he threw a lot of salt in our soup, so it tastes good, but that is all we got for our time and money: salty soup.

I'm not negative, I'm a realist, like it or not. This is where we are at. In thirty years you can say, this is how it was...thirty years ago I remember a few presidents saying this and that, and the public going haywire over it all, and now what was considered foolishness then, is now...

I wish CNN, and the folks at the White House would stop calling it a 'win' it sounds like they were playing a game and won, and we all know it was already bought and paid for, long before he went and begged for the Republican vote, which he never got. It is like a boxing match, one that was fixed before the boxers even got into the stadium.

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Iran is doing exactly what Iran said they'd do, create a monster to destroy Israel, they now have launch capability. I worked with nuclear weapons, in Germany, it is one thing to have the nuclear fat boy, or the actual chemicals and trigger device to set into a big round encasing, holding a 280-megaton bomb, which we had 90-of them at one site, at one time, back in 1974, but we had no launch capability, thus, if Russia came over the hill, we would have had to bury them deep, and that was our mission. It was a scare mission, not a particle one, because we were playing the paper tiger, but nowadays, that will not work.

But Israel knows much more than I do, and they know launch capability, means in hard words, blackmail capability, or total destruction capability. And do you trust someone, who is un-trustable, and you know this? If you do than you are what they call, gullible. Hitler and Stalin worked on that premise. It is one thing to have the nuclear bomb on your side, or as it has been said, you got the gun. But when everyone has the gun, it don't mean a think that you have it also.

Iran has already said they would bury Israel in the desert sands, and we should take that statement seriously, too many Americans think the Islamic world simply talks for no reason, they do brag much more than they are capable of doing, but once they acquire the knowledge, and capability, they use it. All you need to do is ask the Kurds, and the chemicals they had to enduring by Saddam.

And need I say, they are closer to acquiring the real deal with nuclear blast than you'd like to believe.

Will they use it? That is like saying, did Stalin kill 40-millon of its own people, of course they will, and if their own people get in the way, they'll do what Stalin did, perhaps quicker.

The only reason Israel has not hit Iran thus far is because the United States has pulled them back, but this is not a smart think to do forever, and Obama, needs to reason this out, if indeed he's capable of seeing the trees in front of the forest. And that's questionable in my mind, although I know his generals see reality.

Israel on the other hand has to count the cost, if they do nothing, Russia will soon be their untouchable amigo, like white on rice, and if then they hit Iran, we are looking at a ripple effect. And Obama will have to bury his head like an ostrich, to hide from the mounting issues, I wouldn't want any president to have to deal with the after effects of a nuclear strike on Israel; Iraq will look like a Boy Scout picnic issue in comparisons.

Iran will have its nuclear bomb soon, they are grooming it this very minute, and now has its launch capability, and the devils tail is not far behind. Iran wants their rights, without responsibilities, and who knows, maybe they will get it.

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He is acting, instead of Reacting ((Letter: 3) (1-28-2009))

I see CNN, and a few other folks have evaluated Obama's first week in office, and therefore so shall I (and it looks to be there report more positive than mine). Someone said, he is doing a good balancing act. It is more like he is acting, not reacting, he has a good psychotherapist by his side, that takes practice.

Anyhow, how is he doing? To me, not very good, He is simply taking from Peter and giving to Paul, as far as the Middle East goes. And saying "Look! I did what I said I was going to do, and then makes an about turn, by sending 30,000 more American troops next door, to Afghanistan from Iraqi, and a lot more money to build their so called infrastructure, now that we've poured a trillion into Iraqi's. Thus, the balance in the Middle East is the same, even though it may look different.

Then there is an implication that he is going to congress and try to present his logic to the Republicans, for spending the $825-billion dollars. It has been said, he has enough democratic support, he really doesn't need the Republicans support, but like a good guy, he's going to go talk to them. Now listen up please, he is not going over there to change his agenda, he is going over there to try and persuade, and the word persuade, really means, in plain talk, manipulate, the Republicans, to march along with his tune, for the sake of unity, for what it looks like to the rest of the world. He already has his agenda set, matter of fact; he had modified Bush's old agenda for spending the money, which was made up by Republicans, so it is really more a slap in the face if anything. He would be better off not going at all; just do your thing.

He is like he has been from the beginning, secretive. In some countries that is called a man with no blood in his face, one who can look you in the eyes, and stab you in the back (figure of speech of course, for those folks who cannot read between he lines).

So no, not one thing worth while has taken place since he took office, worthy of acclaiming he is doing his job according to the wishes of the majority of the people in the United States. To the contrary.

The best I can say for him this past week is, he is not afraid to say he'll go after terrorists even if he has to cross boarders without permission. Although that is one thing I would have kept secret until after the action. I hope now, he doesn't say he's sorry for saying what he said. He's got to learn to shut his mouth some times, even though he loves to talk, and saying 'sorry' doesn't help either. And as far as Pakistan, I know they do not want our unarmed robots flying about their border, and there is a good reason for that, the terrorists are losing sleep, and their president wants our president to give them information where the enemy are sleeping so they can go wake them up, but we all know better don't we, you don't bite the hand that feeds you. In this case, America sends a lot of dollars, tax free to them, and the terrorists, pay in other ways, to the government, of Pakistan, so they got both pockets full, or two birds with one stone, and they are trying to find the weakest link in the chain, and keep boy pockets filled at the same time, but you can't keep feeding a dead duck. So they got to think.

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The Obama Syndrome

Everyone is on a high with President Obama, because he is the thing that will bring America if not the world change. I think the world is more in love with him than America to be frank, and they should be, he is what they want. With Bush, who made some big mistakes, made some good decisions also? Only two days in office and from what I see Obama is clueless, if not directionless. We don't need miracles, we need sound judgment.

In less than 48-hours here are the decisions he is making, and planning. The planning part is more conjecture at this moment, but from what has said and he didn't say, this might be pretty close to the truth.

First, he is going to release the prisoners at the Cuban, prison (Guantanamo) United States military facility, the one they just built a $500-million dollar addition to. Furthermore, he doesn't even know where he is going to put them, great planning, how about mainstream America? Where else? I hope not in my backyard though, perhaps his. The point being, you have terrorists there, and no one wants them here, these terrorists want rights, not responsibilities, but rights, perhaps the ones doing all the complaining, from Europe over to Mexico and down to South America and Asia, should take them in, house and feed them, send out the welcoming wagon (but on that subject they are silent like mice). There are no takers, just complainers. I understand, it makes America look bad, but perhaps we are a little hasty here, I mean, do we have to have them looking through our kitchen windows to make America look pretty to the rest of the world, this is dangerous, and when some American house wife gets stabbed to death by one of these fellows, then what?

The president needs to find a better solution, not one the World wants, but the American Citizen wants, and I say citizen, because the president of America works for us, not us for him; we sign his pay check.

Having said that let me address the abortion clause he is in the process of signing. There are not many Americans I know that want to pay for a strangers abortion counselling, or abortion per se, but Obama doesn't see it that way, so he is going to force feed us, like a baby, that neither is here or there, he will make some people happy by doing that, just as many mad. But the problem is, as it has always been, he kept it a secret until now, you know what I am talking about, those little deletions, generalizations, and distortions, we used to call them little white lies, because you didn't really lie, you just fibbed. How many more will pop up soon?

Let's go on here. I seem to be full of beans today writing all this on his second day in office, but he's been a busy president these last few days, so what can I say.

On top of the one-trillion dollars America is in debt for, he is going to put $825-billion dollars on that, trying to kick start a dead lion. It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion. That is about 16% of our annual GNP, this is not good. The Monopoly Game money will be worth more than our dollar soon, with that kind of forecasting of spending just brings the world into a fright. And let's hope, China and Japan, and Europe don't call in our debt, god help us all then, we'll have to all move to Peru, their money is a much higher value than the dollar at this moment.

Next, he is implying to overhaul our immigration, this may be another thorn in America's side. If he is thinking, and I think he is implying, about opening the floodgates for Mexico, and Asia, and the rest of the world, I'd send the Statue of Liberty back to France, it is too high a price to pay. The Statue of Liberty reads, and perhaps he should read the saying on it, and I shall paraphrase, it's been a while since I been out there, "...for the despaired..." not for the unemployed. In any other country, and I have been in 60, you do not demand citizenship because your government is to lazy to find a job for you, they don't want you there if you do not have money in the bank. We could learn from them.

Last but not least, now what do I expect in the near future? One thing I think is that the United Nations will want the United States to bend their knees a little more, I mean we give them $20-billion already, but they'd like to control more than our pocket books, and this president I think is willing to hand over more than the piggy bank, this will come soon. And let me add to that, the World Court, which we have in the past so solidly defied and not allowed our solders to be overmanned by, lest we be on trial day and night and the enemy would love that (as I predict the terrorist at the Cuban prison will soon). What I fear is what I think he'll do next, He will, I predict, hand us over to the wolves there. I hope I am wrong.

Another worthwhile note is, I feel the new president is being a little careless with the North Koreans, lifting the so called regime from the bad guy list, or terrorist list, when just a month ago, they told South Korea they would blow them off the map. I spent 11-years in the military, I realize we have a president who hasn't spent 11-days in it, and is making decisions that can be very costly for our alias in that area. He needs to stop and think his decisions: ask the question, "Who will my decisions hurt?" It's a simple question, not just go ahead and give the benefit of the doubt a secret society will come and hug you with open arms, that is a fairy tail way of thinking.

Well, that is enough for letter two, I did write one the other day, it is somewhere on the Internet.

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(Letter Two)

He says, President Obama, he will bring home the troops in 16-months from Iraq (I want to see this), he said that on 1-22-2009, and he said that during his march to the White House. That so far is the only practical, workable decision he has thus far made worthy of his office, and something tells me they will be there longer, seeing is believing: as they say. I hate to make fun of this guy but we really got a lemon wherever, and whoever found him. I don't need to look for things to criticize; he force feeds us to eat them raw.

We got a President here, who is just signing papers, orders, thinking he's Allah, or God and things will simply just fall in place because he's got a horde of people under his wings following him like a bunch of ducks, he's got to be a little more responsible.

1-23-2009, I am not sure if the President had Economics 101 at Harvard or not, but if he did, he didn't learn a thing. This guy is calling for America, telling them that we are going to go through a great crisis, one that has not been seen for 26-years, and what I plan to do is spend more money on Government cars, and grant programs, and updating federal buildings, and telling everyone to go out and borrow money to update their houses for winter, and summer cooling, and what exactly he is talking about is beyond me. He says unemployment is going to hit the high mark, so go spend, because that is what he's going to do himself, with our tax money, or perhaps it isn't tax money, just paper the Federal Reserve is printing up. We should, reverse all that, I knew he had no plan, but thought someone would clue him in at the last minute and not make a fool of himself, sorry to say, it didn't happen. I would tell the college students, to go home and help their families out, not to be part of the storm that is about to hit the United States, and beg for a free hand out. And tell the government employers, they can due with a two year old car for awhile, and tell the credit card people not to rob the public with 20% interest rates so people can afford to used their credit cards to stimulate the economy, and tell...oh well you know what I mean, talk sensible for once.

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Sometimes I just can't figure people out, that is to say, are they faking their stupidly, or are they really as stupid as they sound. And today's a good example of that, with the following statement, from CNN (which of course if you follow this most recent uprising between Israel and Hamas you will also see how one sided CNN is on who they prefer to be the winner of the war, or at least I see it that way), anyhow the statement reads: "Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday that the shelling of a U.N. relief agency's compound in Gaza City was "a grave mistake," the U.N. chief said." Let's look at this closer.

Can we not get a Secretary-General at the UN who is not pro Palestine ever? This guy Ban Ki-moon is from the moon. Rocket him back. I mean, do you really think Israel cares what Ki-moon says, and he says it like he is superman "a grave mistake," I repeat, what does that mean? I mean, what does he think he can do to Israel the UN has not already done?

First of all, the UN is and always has been for ages one sided, they are Jew haters, and everyone knows this who pays any attention to what is going on at the UN. I mean, the Jews can't even represent themselves at the UN. Can't walk down the halls where the Palatines, walk, it is worse there, than it was during the Civil War in the USA, with the Blacks. If it wasn't for the US veto power, the state of Israel would not exist.

If it was up to the UN, they would have Israel sit down quietly, and be targeted by Hamas, until every Jew in Israeli was dead. And that is not funny, but it is a fact. They are asking them to do what no country would do right at this moment, have asked them several times to lay down and die. If Mexico was sending over rockets into California, what to you think the response would be? And if Ki-moon said, "It would be a grave mistake to attack them back," what do you think the people of the United States would say? Remember Georgia and Russia a few months back, that is the response the US would give Mexico, and to the UN, well, since we give them $20-billion dollars a year they may not sound off too loud.

But the point here is this: the UN has no cards to play with Israel other than convincing he US to betray Israel, and with the new president coming into office, who knows what, we shall find out soon what side of the fence he prefers: and they will not condemn Hamas, face to face, and the citizens of Gaza are-and they already know they are-the sacrifice for the so called homeland (which in the back of their heads should be all of Israel, to include the Holy City). Their job is to keep Israel busy, warn down, until the Arab world unites into a confederation, and obliterates Israel, somewhere down the road; the code of the people.

In any war, you go to win not to put a bandage on a wound that needs an operation. Wake up Mr. Ki-moon; we're all not dummies out here, as you'd like us to be.

Last but not least, the question comes up, referring to the compound fired upon that belongs to the UN today, or perhaps over there it was yesterday. The UN assumed without investigation, Israel was at fault, and perhaps they were, but it is a 50 to 50, toss of the coin at the moment, meaning, perhaps the beloved Hamas, on their behalf, did the dirty deed, and if so I wonder if they will get their hands slapped by Mr. Ki-moon, which they could care less, but it would be interesting to see. Second, the UN must, or should try to realize it is in a war zone, not Disneyland.

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Weeds

For two days this week, I did yard work. Two sides of our house, the right side and the back had not been landscaped since we bought the house three years ago. Oh, I've kept the bushes trimmed, but never really given them the manicure they've needed. They've just been out of sight/out of mind. I've kept the front looking fairly well and the other side, that has all the air conditioner "stuff" in it, is hidden by a big bush, so all my efforts really had to go into caring for the right side and back, which, definitely had been neglected. To say these two places needed attention is an understatement. To say these two spaces were eye sores is the truth. I knew what I had to do, but didn't want to do it.

There's a difference between big weeds and little bitty weeds. With the little bitty weeds all I have to do is rub my hand over them, and they go away.

But with the bigger weeds, especially the ones that are illegal, I have to use the spade to uproot them and force them to come out. Yes it's illegal to have thistles growing in your yard, and the authorities (whoever they are) can make you pull them up as well as make you mow your yard when it's over nine inches tall.

Weeding is very painful to me. If I weed standing up, I have to bend way over, which hurts my back. If I weed sqwatting down it hurts my knees. If I try to weed sitting on a very small stool it does get me closer to the ground, but is not as effective as weeding on my knees. Even though it hurts me the most, I can see the weeds the clearest, which enables me to pull them the easiest. There is absolutely no position I can get into that's not painful.

It's repetitious. I get up, I move my stool. I sit down. I grab a weed and either pull it up or cut it down. If it's small it goes by quickly. If it's large, it takes more time. And then I do it again and again and again.

If I try to do less, the job still has to be done, the yard doesn't look any better and I know, it's going to be harder to do the next time, if I don't do it now.

If I leave the job undone, the weeds are going to take over.

Knowing what needs to be done, just doesn't cut it (no pun intended).

When I have sin in my life, I have to get rid of it. Yes, when Jesus died, he took away my sin (justification) once for all, but He also expects me to grow into His likeness, (sanctification) in order for the "beauty" of Christ to be seen in me. Obviously, sins are the weeds in my life. Some of them are big and some of them are little bitty. (I'm not talking about degrees here, but how difficult they are to get rid of.) Some of them can be taken care of almost instantly. While others, take a lifetime.

The damage sin causes is far reaching. Some people, cause so much damage to the people around them that they have to be completely removed, even imprisoned, like thistles, while others contaminate the people around them, like dandelions, while still others, disguise themselves as pure, like wild strawberrys. Each of these are in my yard and I have to deal with each because they're all weeds.

It's very hard for me to get rid of the sin in my life because I know the road ahead is going to be very painful. It's so much easier to do nothing, than to put forth the effort I know it's going to take. But, remaining in sin only makes its grow deeper. Some sins are hard to break and have to be forced out, while others can be easily removed and almost brushed away.

God has a way of humbling me. I can try to remain standing, which makes getting rid of the sin in my life, the hardest. I can bend, which still doesn't "cut it." I can half sit and half stand, which keeps me on the fence. I can sit near the earth, which is "His footstool" or I can get on my knees, to see the sin the clearest, so He can remove it, even though it's painful--to Him and to me.

Keeping myself free from sin is repititious. There are certain things God and I have to do everyday. He reaches down, to lift me up. He reaches down, to pull me up. He reaches down to give me strength to cut the sin out of my life. And it is an on-going process.

Removing sin is easier if I have the right equipment. Removing weeds, I had to use a spade, a knee pad, a stool, a lopper, a bucket, a trash can and a liner. With sin

I have to have the proper equipment to help me "stand my ground against Satan. Ephesians 6 tells me I need the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the

helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. The words "Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand." in the NIV reads "Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand." in the KJ version. The word for "in the evil day" comes from the word corrupted, which to me, represents the weeds in this analogy. In order to "stand my ground" today, I must not be corrupted. The ground I stand on, must be free from weeds.

How can I possibly do this with so much sin in my life, all my life?One day at a time. One bucket at a time. Filling a five gallon bucket was not difficult at all because I filled it a little at a time. However, if all I saw was the emptiness of the thirty-five gallon bucket, I would have probably felt defeated and never filled it up.

Now that I've gotten rid of the weeds, the landscaping is beautiful. And now I can plant flowers. Even though each of us is already beautiful in God's eyes, the more weeds we remove, the more we can smell the aroma of Christ. "We are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life."

Jesus Rose of Sharon, bloom with in my heart;

Beauties of Thy truth and holiness impart,

That where'er I go my life may shed abroad

Fragrance of the knowledge of the love of God.

Knowing I need to remove the weeds, just doesn't "cut it." It's only when I remove the "weeds" in my life that I can finally grow.

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Strange if not peculiar, everyone is on the bandwagon to punish Russia over the cliff for invading Georgia, which had cause to do so, now we find they used cluster bombs against their own kind, this is no-good news-history will report the truth after it is all said and done, it always does, and as I said before, we will be finding out more truths as time goes by, and the longer time goes by, the more guiltier Georgia is, and its trouble making president, that has brought the west to the onset of WWIII; everyone things Russia is kidding, when they say take our pick between hem and us. We are not playing any longer with a wild card in our packets, and Georgia is not worth the price everyone is paying, and if the folks of Georgia want to back up their president, let them do so, but now with American money, weapons or protection. I for own see no gain in it, only loss. And to be truthful, there is no moral victory here; it is a stain on us from the beginning. Why we are there I don't know.

Anyhow, so everyone in the west wants to punish Russia (or perhaps it is just Georgia and the United States) and no one is talking about punishing China who invaded Tibet, killed a million or two Tibetans, and had the world go to their Olympics. What kind of massage is that to the world, to Russia, to China? Perhaps the European side of the world is more important. Perhaps, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and all those other Asian countries could care less, Even South Korea says nothing. Perhaps China knows how to silence these countries, and therefore, shut America up. Whatever is the case, it is a double standard. They belong to the WTO, with the US's blessings, and we talk about stopping Russia, over a country with a ruler like the they got in Zimbabwe.

China is less of a friend than Russia, and may even end up in due time, at war with Russia, or comrades in a way against the West, they do have a long boarder with Russia, and think alike in many ways.

We should realize, Russia does not think like the west, it never has, and we all know it, yet we all try to wipe the stripes off its back.

When I want to make a friend out of someone, I allow them to be who they are, and except them for who they are. And deal with it from that perspective. You can't change people, or a people, you change yourself, to adjust, or get out of their town.

We were doing the best we could do, with a people half subdued, and that was pretty good. Now we are doing not so well, and soon doors once opened will be shut. There is another world out there besides America and Europe. South America once pro North American is leaning towards Asia and Russia and he Middle East. We will lose them soon also.

I'm sure there are many factors involved here, there always is, greed being number one, stability being in there someplace, and preventing the inevitable. Whatever the case is, we must feel better dealing with Russia, because we act braver with them than China, I mean, would America really go to war with China over Taiwan? I don't think so, unless we are crazier than they.

We may find out in future time, America is hoping to get out of that commitment I bet. Soon China will own that part of Asia, and then what? I think Russia has pulled back as much as it intends to do, and push into such countries more willing to support them, and keep the money flowing, countries like Venezuela, and Cuba, and Iran. They can do more for Russia, than little Georgia, and China can use their oil, they need it bad.

The big loser, Europe.


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