Pizza Prices are outrageous!!!!

On an island, not far from the United States, lives a family of 10 people. There are three generations of Libbies represented in this household. Their lifestyles, happiness, and desires are based upon the availability of pizza.

For years, the Libbies bought their pizza from distant lands. The cost started off modest, making investing in making their own crusts not so worthwhile. They loved their foreign pizza.

They had pizza from neighbors. Pizza from places that did not like the Libbies, but their pizza wasgood and plentiful, so money was the key to that relationship.

These places where the pizza was plentiful started getting more and more, and even more, customers. Suddenly, the modest price of each pizza started to climb higher and higher.

The Libbies grumbled, mumbled, and moaned over the rising price of their beloved pizza. Instead of $5 a pie, it prices soared to $12, then to $15, then to $19. Instead of doing something about the cost of their pizza, they cut back on other expenses. They cut out going to the movies, flights abroad, concerts, vacations, big screen TVs, and other spending. They needed their pizza.

Sadly, these people continued towards financial ruin. Even more upsetting is the fact that they had all the necessary ingredients to make their own, terrific pizzas. All they needed to do was invest in a new oven and get the rollers to roll out the dough, and they could live on all the pizza they could ever want and need.

The Libbies let neighborood wack-os claim that baking their own pizza would pollute the neighborhood. They claimed that the extra power they would use for making their own pizza would be too costly, both financially and to the environment.

The wack-os never complained about the other pizza places and their pizza producing techniques. They only held the Libbies back. The Libbies bought into this wild, unprovable theory of weather change, and let that theory be the cover for why they did not cook their own pizza.

The Libbies farm had a thousand head of cattle, whose milk could make the cheese for the pizzas. The Libbies farm had the ripest, sweetest tomatoes. They had the most nutritious, wholesome wheat and grain growing on their farm. Their pigs could produce the greatest sausage in the world.

All they need to do is invest in a new oven as well as the mixing and prep equipment to make their own pizza. The Libbies are smart, resourseful people. They have the ability and technology to create and use equipment in such a way that would virtually eliminate any environmental disturbances.

In fact, they could even prevent the smell of the fresh-baking pzzas from getting out into the neighborhood.

Not to mention the fact that as soon as it would be known that the Libbies are cooking their own pizza, the cost of pizza would freefall around the world. They wouldn't even need to be in production yet. The fact that they were moving toward their pizza inependence would cause a ripple effect.

If the Libbies would only make their own pizza, they would be able to restore their financial strength and independence. They would also strengthen their family security. They would also buy time to find an alternative food that would eventually replace pizza.

Its such a shame that the Libbies would rather see themselves starve than create their own pizza.

God Bless America this Memorial Day

What a beautiful day. The sun is shining. The birds are chirping. The sun is high in the sky, warming the world.

It is gorgeous out today.

While I enjoy the gentle breeze passing through, and admire the robins, cardinals, and other birds flying through the air, there is something I notice. There is something I realize.

I realize, and appreciate, that I am standing in Wytheville. I am in the Commonwealth state of Virginia. Therefore, I am standing safely within the borders of the greatest country God ever blessed with sovereignty.

I am, of course, referring to the most generous, decent, caring, forgiving, and strongest nation in the world today. The lone superpower left on the globe. The world leader.

The United States of America.

How did we get here, to Memorial Day 2008?

How did America become and remain so strong?

For over 250 years we have enlisted the most intelligent, decent, honest, prideful, respectable military personnel in the world. We have the brightest and the bravest wearing an American flag on their shoulder, and have had them for two and a half centuries. Our soldiers fight with honor, bravery, care, respect, and integrity. Our military strives to ensure the safety of the innocent while prosecuting the guilty. Our men and women in uniform are the best.

So, today, if you are working or if you are off for the three-day weekend, take some time to pray for the safety of our military. They give up so much for us to be free to stand on a small grassy knoll, take in a deep breath, enjoy the warmth of the sun, and not feel fear to walk outside. They give up so much for us, let us take today to thank God for them.

Please pray for God to continue to bless our soldiers with strength, intelligence, mercy, decency, proper judgement, and, most importantly, a safe return home after a successful mission.

God bless the United State of America. God bless its military for their decency and integrity. Thank God for all of our freedoms.

Happy Memorial Day!

If I Were Running for President, Part 5 of 5

The biggest problem facing Republicans in this election season is the lack of focus and planning. Republicans, or, really, all conservatives, are too busy trying to be all things to all people all the time. Instead, they need to come together and focus on their message and agenda.

In the last few blogs, I have investigated my agenda were I running for President in 2008. However, these blogs would also outline my agenda were I running for US or State Congress.

Yet, it is only mouthpieces like my blogs, conservative blogs throughout the world, and conservative radio like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity that are voicing such an agenda.

No one in the Republican Party is voicing an agenda or a focused plan. There is not one leader in the party that is defining what conservatives are going to be running on for 2008. There is not one leader in the party. Everyone is running in a thousand different directions.

This varied mindset and distracted party is why we have a psuedo-Democrat as our Presidential nominee. This is why Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson and other such conservatives are sitting this one out. The Republican party has weakened due to its strength. In 2004, Republicans had the world on a string...we could have done so much good the last four years, but we spent too much time working with the left that we drifted left.

If I were running for office, I would set forth a solid, focused, unmistakable agenda for my campiagn. I would make sure the world and the voting public knew what I stood for and what I planned to do in office. From the Presidential nominee all the way down to Atlanta City Dog Catcher, Republican candidates are in a murky mess as to what their campaigns are standing for.

For me, and anyone who is truly conservative, the agenda is the following. I would work toward these 5 goals:

1) We must become independent of other nations for our energy resources. We have our own abundant resources and it is time to invest time, money, and tax breaks to American companies to tap into those resources with the least amount of environmental impact.

2) We must continue to be on the offensive to continue to live in a safe and secure nation. We must WIN the war on terror.

3) We must secure our borders and make sure that people coming into this country are legal and have a right to be here. In that, we must work to clean out the current illegals in our nation.

4) We must make permanent the Bush Tax cuts and work toward the fair tax.

5) We must not allow judges to legislate from the bench on any court. Judges are appointed to interpret the laws of the land as they currently are, and not to create new meanings for laws for political reasons. We must appoint judges who will uphold the law, not create it.

Those are my five major platforms. Those platforms need to be the agenda for the Republican party if we have any hope in November. Not only do we need this hope for the Oval Office, but also for every elected office up for grabs this year.

Yet, Republicans are too quiet, too muttled, and too off-base to have a set of ideals. Time is winding down. Republicans are called the RIGHT wing for a reason...it is time we live up to it.

If I Were Running for President, Part 4 of 5

So, now, on to the biggest, world-wide hoax in the history of mankind.

GLOBAL WARMING!

For billions of years, there has been fluctuations in the Earth's worldwide climate. There have been hot periods. There have been cold periods. There have been times when the climate of an entire continent has changed. Yet, in just the last 100 years since automobiles and industry has entered world dominance, somehow we humans have done more damage to the Earth than 6 billion years of eruptions and wildfires.

There is no evidence of a Global Warming. Temperatures now are lower than they were in 1998. Scientists in Australia have predicted a global COOLING for the next 15-20 years. The ice caps are NOT melting. Ocean levels are NOT rising. Hurricane Katrina was not the tip of the hurricane iceberg. 2007 did set a record for hurricane activity...or should I say, 2007 set a record for hurrican/tropical storm INactivity.

Yet, Hillary Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama, and the Sherriff John McCain are all touting anti-global warming agendas. There is MORE science to DISprove global warming than there is to prove its possibility.

I am all for conserving resources, slowing the waste, recycling, slowing the amount of pollution in the air, water and soil. However, this propagandized phenomenon of global warming is a JOKE.
We have seen a decline in the amount of hurricane activity. The recent barrage of tornado activity is due to a huge COLD air mass over North America...yes, a COLD air mass.

Let us not forget that Arizona and New Mexico have not always been deserts. The Grand Canyon was caused during an Ice Age. Greenland used to be green and flourishing with plant life. Iceland used to be covered in ice. There are preserved bodies in the ice of Antartica and the North Pole, meaning life was at the poles at some time.

The Earth works in cycles. Over billions of years, climates rotate from land mass to land mass. Its happened since long before humans crawled out of the primordial swamp. It will happen long after we give up our control of the planet. Climate change is cyclical. We have very little control.
I am not saying we are not, and have not, damaging the Earth in some ways. However, weather and the animal eco-system are all designed to gradually wash away and eliminate much of that damage.

Besides, how do you damage and destroy the planet with a substance it already has and needs? Carbon Dioxide is a naturally occurring substance. How is it so deadly to the planet?

As a Presidential candidate, I would vow to encourage the development of better technologies to reduce the impact of industry and energy consumption. However, I would not allow the crippling of the world's economy by forcing and taxing companies and consumers who use energy.

I would fight to inform the world the TRUTH of the hoax of Global Warming. I would make sure that people had the option of resorting to more ecologically beneficial energy consumption, and not force it upon them. I would not try to create government revenue off of industrial energy usage. Why? Corporations do not pay taxes. Instead, they increase the cost of their goods because their taxes are part of their cost of operation, part of the cost of the goods they produce.

So, essentially, a tax on a corporation is a tax on the consumer.

As President, I would work to create energy alternatives. I would work to create more economically sound options to create less pollution. I think we should be good stewards of the planet and leave it in good shape for future generations. However, we have to keep our economies strong in order to survive. Forcing companies to follow guidelines and to pay extra taxes for using energy will cripple, if not kill, the world economy.

Senator McCain's "Cap and Trade" proposal recently is ludacris. He will kill the economy. I hope he picks an economically intelligent Vice President and cabinet to keep him in check.