Pages

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Assault on religion.

The works of those who set out to root out religious words deeply rooted in our history and tradition, such as “In God We Trust”, “One Nation Under God” , Christmas songs, represent a calculated assault on religion in public life, per statement of First Presidency of The Church of JESUS CHRIST of LDS in 1979.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Suppose Lincoln were President today.

In the heat of the Civil War Lincoln was visited by a group of ministers expressing their support for the North. They said, “We’re praying for the Lord to be on our side.” Lincoln responded, “I’m more concerned that we be on His side.” Can you imaging Barack Obama saying that to anyone? Does he ever talk in terms of humbly seeking God’s direction?

Contrast Lincoln with a president who announces to the world that America is no longer a Christian nation. Saudi, Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. may be Muslim nations but America is not a Christian nation . . . or at least not according to our president. With the Courts’ collusion he is turning separation of Church and state into rejection of church by state.

Benjamin Franklin said, “He who will introduce into affairs the principles of a primitive Christianity, will change the face of the world. I believe that he who will expunge from public affairs the spirit of Christianity will destroy the very fiber that enabled America to change the face of the world.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

What gay activists need to understand.

First, thinking people won’t buy the "haters" label they want to apply to anyone who doesn’t approve the gay lifestyle. To hate thievery is not to hate everyone who has ever committed a theft.
Second, there is absolutely no scientific evidence of different genes that make people gay, notwithstanding how fervently it is claimed.
Third, abundant studies evidence the substantial advantages enjoyed by children raised with a mother and a father, and serious risks to a child without at least a mother and a father figure in his/her life.
Fourth, Extending marriage protections, aids, and tax benefits to gays would seriously damage the families foundations of our country. It would denigrate the high status of marriage, give the message to our youth that gay pairing is just as desirable as marriage, and lead many of them to pursue gay feelings they would otherwise recognize as unhealthy.
Fifth, the gay lifestyle is statistically far more fraught with infidelity, multiple partners in sex, disease, depression and suicides.
Sixth, the Church of JESUS CHRIST of LDS teaches love and respect for all, including those who are gay; but it also seeks to help them mend the error of their ways as it does anyone who is living contrary to God’s plan of happiness.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Not to worry about national debt?

According to Nov. 10th Time magazine expert, national debt is not to worry. Interest is only 3% of Gross Domestic Product, and it’s been that high before.

On Nov 12th, at 9:20am the debt was stood at $13.7 trillion while Gross Domestic Product was at $14.6 trillion. Put in terms of your family budget, Time’s man says that if your gross income for the year is $80,000 you needn’t worry over household, un-secured debt that is $74,400. You don’t worry, and I know a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.

You also needn’t worry, that one fifth or $14,880 of your $80,000 income goes to pay interest on your un-secured debt. Why not worry? Because, says Time’s expert, you had just as bad imbalance in the past few years and the bear didn’t eat you then.

Common sense says this family must get rid of debts as soon as possible to keep from being eaten up by the interest. Time would have us believe it doesn’t matter because the bear didn’t eat us last year. Besides the U.S. can print its own money, as Mr. Bernanke did just this week to the tune of $800million, or was it billion? Pretty soon we’re talking real money.

So if one of your sons can print counterfeit bills and have other family member accept them for legal tender . . . problem solved? Not quite, because your creditors will not accept the bills in payment of your debts. Even if you are a huge family (the U.S .) and have millions of members who will accept the newly minted cash, as you print more and more and your creditors see it’s worth less and less, they will demand security, deny you credit and/or require payment in some more real value form. If they deny credit, i.e. refuse to buy U.S. bonds, then the government will be suddenly so deeply underwater that tinkering with military and entitlement items won’t begin to solve the problem.

Why don’t we do anything about this debt problem? Apparently because Obama, and Congress listen to blather such as this from Time’s expert.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

His House -- Reunion Place

REUNION PLACE

A soaring ceiling tops the room
filled full with those that we hold dear
all dressed in white as pure as him
whose house this is and who is here.

He takes these two in glow of youth
and through his proxy binds them to
the covenants of joy and light
that open heaven to their view.

We whisper here to reverence him,
and so the voice of spirit still
will not be lost in noisiness
nor drowned by other voices shrill.

And viewing mirrors' myriad forms
remind ourselves how once we knelt
where they now kneel and cov'nant make
how they will feel as we have felt.

How wise, how provident is he
who tells us only here in white
can we receive his promises
that point us upward to the light.

For this is his reunion place.
Where we secure and renew ties
that bind our family with his
for gathering beyond the skies.

© Edwin H. Beus

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

McDonald's Happy meals going! What's next?

So San Francisco moves to take the happy out of happy meals -- no more toys if the meal continues to be all that fatty fries and burger stuff. They really know to hurt a kid. [And these are the same folks who want to legalize marijuana??] But give 'em enough slack and time: they'll all together handle this parenting stuff for us.

Also, a little adult hypocrisy here? You know: "R rated movies, cigarettes, and liquor are forbidden to you. . . but they're OK for me."

KSL's Doug Wright supposed a space on report cards for the teacher to grade parents on their involvement.

Adding insult to injury (if you're a smoker) a Utah child advocate wants to make it a crime to smoke in your car if there are children present.

Sandy Police (and Sandy's no trend setters here) must report any striking of a family member if they are called in via 911; there follows, misdemeanor charges, a drag through court, and minimum six months probation. No more "Spare the rod and spoil the child." Use the rod and spoil the adult.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Partisan bickering or bad law?

President Obama says he’s sorry for the partisan bickering over his health care “reform” law. He still thinks the people wanted the law, and it cost him politically only because Republicans in Congress went on bickering about it. He doesn’t get it, does he. He’s a little like the kid who kicks sand in the big guy’s face, gets beat up, and blames the big guy for being quarrelsome.

Friday, November 5, 2010

THE GLORY DAYS HAVE COME AGAIN . . .NAUVOO

THE GLORY DAYS HAVE COME AGAIN

I see the white majestic walls
rising up where they did before.
I hear the chink of steel on stone --
their quarry work now lives once more.

To Nauvoo – city beautiful –
the glory days have come again.
Redeemed at last, their heritage
by great grandchildren grown to men.

No one who saw their harried haste,
their wretched flight that winter drear,
would guess their offspring would be back,
to dedicate a Temple here.

Though killed were servants of the Lord,
though mobs did rage and tyrants reign
though hundreds died in winter’s blasts,
to Nauvoo, home, we’ve come again.

Thursday, November 4, 2010

What is Man? A bundle of needs?

Some socical scientists, e. g. Maslow, view man as a bundle of needs – needs for food, water, shelter, sex, etc. A bundle found in a world of scarcity, inviting the view of others as competitors so you’d better get yours while the getting is good.

Contrast that with: You are a son or daughter of god with a bundle of talents in a world full of needs; your goal is to discipline your own wants and apply your talents to bless others and lead them back to your Father. What a difference the view makes!

Fact is, the body requires constant nourishment, but so does the spirit. If only the worldly needs are listed or recognized, then the spirit perishes, and the spirit is nourished more by giving rather than by taking. "Man does not live by bread alone."

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

But Pansies Flourish Under Snow

BUT PANSIES FLOURISH UNDER SNOW

Two straight and stately sapling ash
cling to their autumn cloak of red,
when the petunias down below
have left their blooms and gone to bed.

The honey locusts, asp and elm
have dropped their finery to the ground;
the daffodil, primrose and phlox
cast earlier their blossoms down.

The naked trees bereft of leaves,
the flowers’ now abandoned show,
could seem to signify the end,
but pansies flourish under snow.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Elephants & donkeys, tea & sympathy

Election day!

Republicans expect to win control of the House, dream of Senate – many of them are so-called tea-party candidates, conservatives who’ve displaced the regulars via primary defeats in several states. Sympathize with tea partyers -- that the profligate spending that has added $5 trillion to the Nat’l debt in two years threatens us all with likely runaway inflation and a bloated Federal Government.

Pres. Obama’s health “reform” bill promises to add to the debt. Worse, it violates the constitution in a)trampling freedom of contract -- forcing citizens to buy health insurance – even healthy people who don’t want/need it; and b) usurping to the Federal government health care management powers never granted it in the Constitution, which expressly reserves to the states the powers not enumerated for the Federal government.