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One day, all the lies, BS and cover-ups will come to light.  The spin, maneuvering and ignorance will shine like the brightest star on the  darkest night for all to see. One day, people will look back on their country’s  history and choices and say things like: “What were they thinking? Why didn’t  somebody try to fix it? Was everybody stupid?”

Here are some of the things that will become part of the  Legends of Fall of the Stupid and Selfish America:

Believing that America is powerful and magical and safe  from extinction

Accepting, “Well they did it too!” as justification for  poor behavior

Thinking that power doesn’t corrupt isn’t capable of  Godless acts

Believing that individuals have real power with their  Government

Believing that convenience and comfort come at no cost

Not caring who pays the cost as long as it isn’t them

Promoting welfare for those who are capable of doing  without it

Believing that tax breaks and subsidies aren’t welfare

Creating artificial outcomes in order to make everyone  equal

Lack of Term Limits for ALL elected and appointed people

Lack of Line item legislation

Believing that the media isn’t biased and is for the people  and the nation

Believing that some media is different from other media

Believing that schools just need more money to solve the  problems

Believing that parents and their kids aren’t part of the  problem

Believing that education unions are helping the kids

Believing that Unions are for the good of the people and  nation

Trial lawyers creating a new type of career classification  for people

Debt fueled social engineering

Social engineering

Ensuring one feels good at the expense of many

Believing that tolerance is a good thing

Believing that by acting in a racist way will stop racism

Believing that you are not part of the problem

Believing in something other than God as truth

 

I will admit my faults, learn from my mistakes and fight  evil and corruption and ignorance at every opportunity. I will forgo comfort to  stand alone to identify and try to correct things when they aren’t right. I will  lose friends and power and money for the stand I take on these beliefs because  it is the right thing to do. In the end when I have failed to help this sinking  country, I will also be the one to say, “I told you so.”

Existing is not living. Today, America exists. The systems  and power brokers have been allowed and even have been encouraged to destroy a  beautiful opportunity for people to truly live and be free. I see my fellow  Americans in cages that they believe are equally necessary and immovable. Sadly,  most don’t see the cage at all. I see the power brokers supervising the welding  of those cages. I see those who are charged with ensuring our liberty standing  idly by while more personal prisons are built for the American people. I rage  against the true injustice that corrupt power delivers. I rage against the  helpless and hopeless who have no will to stand and fight for what is good for  all. I am saddened by those who were warned about cages and then help build  their own cages. I loathe those who were warned and then complain that they are  imprisoned and expect someone to get them out.

The corrupt do not have a monopoly on the absence of rules  and consequences. Do you think that just because you aren’t on a leash that you  should feel good about being in a cage? Do not expect. Demand! Words are lies;  actions are evidence of belief and intention. Take over, not back!

— R. A. Grier

March 29, 2012

Behavior Loathing

Did you know that is it ok to dislike/loathe a BEHAVIOR  without disliking or loathing the PERSON choosing that behavior? AND if a person  is offended that you dislike their behavior and that person globalizes it as  part of their demographic identity, then THEY ARE THE ONE THAT IS  “PROFILING”!!!!! I am sick of people hiding behind some FEDGOV created shield of  identity armor that makes them immune to criticism and consequences!!!!!!!!

Look folks, I will spell it out for you. The behaviors  like: lying, cheating, stealing, sponging, manipulating, TAKE TAKE TAKE, me me  me are grouped into a fast growing subculture of “societal leaches and sorry  folks who don’t want to be NOT SORRY”. I cannot tolerate or accept these  behaviors! AND I really get upset with the folks whose behaviors and choices  support this growing subculture of societal leaches. I am fighting poor choices,  NOT PEOPLE!!!! Get it? Do ya? Really?

A MISTAKE is a ONE TIME event. I have and I expect people  to make make mistakes and learn from them. That is called growing and growing  up! HOWEVER, the 2^nd or 3^rd 66^th time IS NOT A  MISTAKE!!!!! It is a way of life.

What I am talking about is the ever growing acceptance of  poor choices by a rapidly growing subculture of societal leaches. Those are the  folks that KNOW that they don’t have to do anything productive and can exist how  they please without ANY REGARD for the culture that is SUPPORTING the nation  that enables their sorry butts!

AND YES! I get it! There are folks who hate folks and hurt  folks because of some particular personal or group distinction like race. You know what? THAT IS WRONG! It is also  WRONG to use a particular identity like RACE as a shield of immunity from  consequences for poor choices!

I don’t dislike a color. I don’t dislike a gender. I LOVE  EVERY PERSON on this earth as God has commanded me to do so! I do and I will.  But, I don’t have to love their behaviors and choices and I will fight against  those behaviors and choices! Here is a little initialism that might help:  Q.T.I.P. — Quit Taking It Personally!!!

— R. A. Grier

July 12, 2012

Dear Friends,

As I carefully watch and listen to the debates of the day  with regard to political party and which candidate is right for the Presidency,  I cringe. Neither a man, nor parties are the leaders of this nation. The people  are the appointed and true leaders and the elected are the representatives for  us.

For FAR too long, we have shirked, ignored and avoided our  responsibility in leading this nation. Praise God that there are differences of  opinion! Praise God that we have people who have different skills, abilities and  ways of getting things done! That is part of the glory that is America. BUT, my  dear American friends, WE are the leaders. Absent of our vigilant voice of  oversight, the avarice of man will become drunk with the power of unbridled  action and will certainly end in destruction.

Please find no comfort or complacency in a candidate just  because they are of a party. I know it is becoming distasteful to some “progressives” who look only at the present and “forward”, but only an ignorant,  arrogant and conceited fool would so boldly blaze a path while actively  rejecting the maps and guidance of the past. I am so harsh because if you wish  to run blindly and fall off a cliff ALL BY YOURSELF, then charge forward!!  However, you want to take me with you and I say no! That is where your rights  end. The child that is still the American nation and its radical concept of  governance still needs care and protecting and a caring set of 300 million  parents. If you believe it is important to research things for your own  children, then that sage choice will certainly be good for our young nation. So  I beg you to look for wisdom of the many, many guides of the human past as well  as the most ancient, God, to provide the higher success probability for our  steps forward.

Far too many believe that the act of voting is the  important aspect of the right of being a citizen. My friends, marking and  casting that ballot isn’t the important part. The responsibility that is the  inseparable twin to the casting of a ballot is the heartbeat of that particular  right of the citizen. That responsibility should be an arduous, unpleasant,  uncomfortable and contentious task of vetting the candidate. The process of choosing the best path  for all is the critically important part. A vote with no personal knowledge and  understanding of the foundation for that vote is treason. That certainly is the  case if your vote is made for the “a, me rica” selfishness rather than for all  of the future generations of America.

With that, I will close by offering some wisdom from the  1600’s. Rene Descartes exemplified the notion to question everything that is or  is believed to be. Only in that pursuit are we able to get close to reality and  truth. Certainly, that is still wise to do in our day and age. I implore you not  to rest in what you hear from a glowing box called the TV, or from the community  organizers or even family and friends. Chances are great that the people and  organizations have a significant vested interest in luring you in to act as they  wish. You have a job to do and a  responsibility to keep that promises made in blood by our forefathers so many  years ago.

— R. A. Grier