SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS

Our country is really in a sad shape, political correctness is ramped and common sense out the window. Looking over the headlines today makes one nauseated!

Rifqa Bary, the 17 year old Muslim turned Christian was told today she will be returned to her Muslim parents in Ohio. The court has determined there is not threat to her life, possible honor killing. Well, I really hope and pray they are right. There are plenty of incidents of such things happening to sons and daughters when they convert to Christianity. I hope that her parents are being truthful and she is safe at home or that with the national publicity they will not carry out what the Koran says to do with Muslims that covert to other religions a.k.a. honor killings. I hope and pray we do not read of her demise after returning home.
Albany Oregon, an apartment complex is banning any flags to be on vehicles or the apartments, including our United States flag. If you do not comply, you will be evicted. The reason given, our flag may offend someone. If you have a flag decal on your car, or if like one father whose son is in Iraq has a flag on the back of his bike, they have to come off. Where do people get this, if you live in this country, and are a citizen, the flag should not offend you. If you are visiting, or here illegally, and the flag offends you, don’t let the door hit you in the behind on the way back to your country.

A six year old boy scout gets suspended from school, and assigned to a 45 day school for troubled children for taking his camping utility tool, like a dumbed down swiss army knife, has a spoon, fork and small knife blade that all fold out to school. He is new to scouting and was proud of his new tool. The school has zero tolerance of weapons, well what about ball bats, hockey sticks etc that can be used as weapons and be lethal? A very strong punishment for a six year old caught with it in his pocket, not open, not threatening anyone, not carving, and poking anything. On the same note, a 17 year old Eagle Scout, who attended Army basic this last summer, is suspended for 20 days for having a 2 inch pocket knife locked in his car. This on his record may keep him from going to West Point. Again, his school has zero tolerance for weapons on school grounds. He kept the pocket knife, food and other items in his car to be prepared for an emergency, like a good Eagle Scout should. Like the six year old, he was not threatening anyone, did not even have it on him, it was locked in his car. Of course like guns, you have to watch them, guns will jump up off of tables etc and shoot people, and knives will lunge off tables and slash people.

The White House is now fighting Fox News, it seems the White House cannot stand criticism. They are upset because Fox does not schmoose up to them like ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC. They are upset because the opinion shows like Hannity, Beck and others point out discrepancies and show video of what they say. They say Fox says things that are not true, but do not sight in detail the lie, probably because it is not a lie. It would seem if they want to fight someone, maybe they should put more effort into fighting the Taliban and Al Queda.

Last but not least, the Health Care Bill. The Democrats are dead set on passing this. I think it is interesting that President Obama calls this version passed by the Senate Finance Committee bipartisan because one republican Senator Snowe voted for it, ha! One republican votes for it and it is now bipartisan. This is a bad deal for America, please watch and listen to what they propose on the floor of the Senate, when they combine the different versions you can bet there will be taxes and higher costs. They are still not addressing TORT reform which will save money, we need no caps on coverage, no pre-existing conditions, interstate purchases of insurance. We do not need more agencies trying to govern us!!! Think about this, the President said the other day we should not worry about a law that mandates everyone buy health insurance, after all, if you own a care you are required to buy car insurance. Well the last I checked, we have the option to buy a car, not everyone owns a car, so if you do not own a car, you do not purchase car insurance. So how does that apply to health insurance, can we op not to be a person? Think about it! Maybe everyone should be forced to buy car insurance even if you don’t own a car, bet that would bring car insurance down.