This is really awesome. I wish I had known – I would have dressed up, too.
Archive for January 2008
I came across the following link while checking rates on expedia.com:
This is incredible usability! Now, if I could only email myself to the hotel…
I remember when President Kimball passed away. I was very young. He was the first prophet I had known. I revered and loved him and was moved by his death.
It will be the same way for my children with the passing of President Hinckley. He is the only prophet they have known. I am happy that he was the first prophet they knew. He set the bar high for those to follow.
As for me, I am at peace. He lived a full life and lead the church faithfully. The church will go on because it is God’s church and not President Hinckley’s. He will be missed. But, like Hannah said, he’s with his beloved wife now.
In his book, “The Five Thousand Year Leap”, Cleon Skousen describes our form of government as a three-headed eagle with each head representing a branch of our government; the judicial, executive and legislative branches. This separation of powers is nothing new. We’ve learned it from our youth, although most really don’t understand the details.
However, he carries the symbol a little further and describes simply and powerfully another principle of our government. He states that the two wings represent two forces at work in the government – the wing of problem solving and the wing of conservation. The wing of problem solving is the wing of compassion and seeing to the needs of the people. The wing of conservation is responsible for care of resources and individual freedoms. These two powers must be kept in balance in order for our form of government to operate successfully. Skousen gives the example of wing #1 wanting to solve all problems regardless of cost. If wing #2 cannot convince wing #1 to take a more realistic approach then the government swings towards tyranny. Anarchy lies at the opposite end of the spectrum.
These principles are so simply stated and understood. Share them with your friends and neighbors. Share them with people on the bus. Hand out pictures of the three headed eagle in the street and we will all rejoice in this simple knowledge.
(The Five Thousand Year Leap, Clean Skousen, p. 24-26)
Mitt Romney promised he would save Michigan. Not only is it illegal for the US Government to interfere in state affairs, it doesn’t work. GM has been subsidized by the US Government for years and what has it done for their business? It only enables GM to continue creating inferior products and still stay afloat in the market.
Five months ago I bought a 98 Chrysler Town & Country. We knew it had some electrical problems but we thought we were getting a deal so we bought it. On the very day we repaired the electrical issues, the transmission went. That was $2400 on the vehicle in one day. Then, before leaving on a Christmas vacation, the battery and alternator needed replacing – another $250. We thought we had finally ironed out all the bugs but then the service engine light came on and then the vehicle would only operate in second gear.
So I did what any intelligent, blue-blooded American would do – I traded it in for a Honda. Honda is not subsidized by the US Government. Honda must pay heavy tariffs to compete in our market. But they must compete to survive so they are ‘inspired’ to make a better vehicle. Chrysler has no such incentive. They can ship tin cans with wheels and still survive because they are subsidized.
Conclusion: If Mitt Romney really wants to help the Michigan then he should stop giving money to Detroit. It’s called tough love, baby. And it’s the only back to economic independence – as states and as a nation.
“Bush, flanked by economic advisers, said the nation’s economy is at risk for a downturn and Congress must act to head off trouble.”
Why must the President act to head off trouble? The real answers,
- So he will look like he’s doing something important and good.
- Because we have become a nation that doesn’t know how to save money and help ourselves and we’re totally dependent on our socialistic government to save us should even a slightly gray cloud appear on the horizon.
I say let the economy slump, please. Shake out all the misconceptions that we have about safety and the proper role of government. Let Countrywide fall into financial ruin (it’s their fault and the constitution doesn’t give the government power to spend my money on saving business that has no self-control and lends to anyone at ridiculous rates).
Let the open market control the open market. I don’t trust the government to have pure intentions. Bush’s plan probably includes hiring Haliburton to dig a million ditches to ‘stimulate’ the economy.
Quote (from CNN):
“I want to bring Michigan back,” Romney said Monday. “I’m not willing to sit back and say, ‘Too bad for Michigan. Too bad for the car industry. Too bad for the people who’ve lost their jobs; they’re gone forever.’
“That’s not the kind of pessimism I think that’ll make Michigan strong again. I will not rest, if I’m president of the United States, until Michigan is brought back.”
What Romney and the rest of the nation fail to realize is that Romney has inaccurately labeled non-intervention as pessimism. It’s not that we can’t do anything. It’s that the President of the United States doesn’t have the legal right to ‘help’ Michigan.