Some observations about the past year. Understanding that
this day is an arbitrary mark in time, it is nice to have a traditional place
to stop, review, take stock, and think about what we need to accomplish in the
next twelvemonth. Looking back on the past year, it was not good, macro or
micro [my personal world].
I’ve put my personal life observations/experiences at the end. I think
much more important are the things at the national and international level
causing pain and destruction to millions of lives, which to me is pretty much the meme of the past year.
At the macro level, we must start with our President, whose
personal agenda has replaced the traditional role of the office. He has been
and is a force of destruction socially, politically and economically. The first year Obama took office the Bush
deficit was about $840 Billion which Obama said was irresponsible and
unpatriotic. The national debt as of this past Dec was $18 Trillion. That is up
$7.4 Trillion since Obama took office. Six years and a little over a $Trillion
a year added.
When Obama and his political party lost the midterm
elections in a landslide, from local to state to federal offices and
legislatures, he response was, “To
everyone who voted, I want you to know that I hear you. To the two-thirds of
voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you too.”
We see stupid. That those who didn’t vote, he assumes they would have voted for
him and his Party’s failed policies and totalitarian mindset. Some numbers on
that election. Republicans gained nine seats in the Senate, and picked up seats
in the House they already controlled. That House thing is the largest majority
since 1946. [BTW, that was a repudiation of the Democrats and FDR then. Not put
in history books is the FDR and Dems were seriously disliked by more than half
the country then; this country was as divided as much as it is now. One of the best-selling
books then was a repudiation and revealing of what really went on during the
FDR years; all the hypocrisy, lying, corruption and illegality. The Roosevelt Myth by John T Flynn.] Republicans
will hold 31 of 50 governorships, and hold both house and senate in 24 states.
Republicans are not so much liked or trusted either, but there ya go. Says much
about Obama and the Democrat party and how they are perceived.
Epic failures. ObamaCare became the law of the land in
October 2013. A billion dollar website crashed and no one could use it. It's still rotten.
The Veterans
Administration falsified data that caused extreme suffering for some vets and
their families and killed other vets through negligence.
Word went out to countries south of the border that the
border was open to children. Tens of thousands of unchaperoned kids flooded the
border causing a humanitarian crises. Hundreds of the “kids” were gang members.
I remember reading at the time leaked memos that this invasion was planned by
the Administration months in advance.
The IRS targeted conservative groups to silence any
effective campaigns for the 2012 elections. There were emails that proved this,
that were “lost” but recently found. A lying corrupt federal Leftist “judge”
recently ruled there was no law broken and there was no foul play since the
targeted groups were eventually granted their tax requests, and the investigations
that stopped their activity have been ended, and the emails were found. Even
though the emails proved illegal activity, they are to be ignored by court
order. I guess now getting away with breaking the law is okay according to Leftists as long at not caught at the time.
A major health threat to this country was created when Obama
and his Departments of Health, and Homeland Security, allowed people into the country
with the deadly disease, Ebola. Some of those refused to be guaranteed citing their
civil rights were being violated by being asked to remove themselves from the
general population. Put hundreds if not thousands at risk of probable death for personal feelings and comfort. The
Obama and his administration changed rules all over the place to cover up their
incompetence.
Obama and his political party claimed Al Qaeda on the run,
the war in the Middle East over, war on terror pretty much done. Syria had used
chemical weapons, Obama said this was unacceptable, and drew a “red line”. He
erased it when it came time to take action on it. He pulled troops out of the
Middle East against the advice of his generals, leaving a vacuum that is
filled by ISIS, now slaughtering thousands, and conquering land. The murder of
Christians by them is pretty much ignored by Obama; his disdain for them is
only exceeded by his disdain of Jews.
Putin re-lit the Cold War by taking over Crimea and
threatened to conquer Ukraine. Obama did not come out and support either
country, offer weapons or military tactics/training. Putin uses oil and gas energy as a political
weapon, both of which we have an abundance of and could have sent to undermine Putin and cool
Russia's heals.
Obama has aggressively attacked Israel and Prime Minister
Netanyahu personally. Two senior administration officials (names not given to the reporter for the Atlantic) called Netanyahu a “chickenshit”. If anyone has any knowledge of the man, that’s one thing he’s
not. Obama has tried to block, or spoken out against everything Israel has done
to protect itself from terrorist countries and organizations. Obama and the
Dems support in word and deed ($’s) Hamas, Iran, ISIS, PLO, and initially the
dictator of Syria that slaughtered thousands.
This is nothing less that the anti-Semitism of Obama and the
Democrat Party. (Remember at the Democrat convention they removed God and
support of Israel from the Party Platform until political backlash force them
to put those back in.) That Party and Leftist anti-Semitism is fueling the reemergence
of it here in the US, and it's getting more and more prevalent especially on
college campuses. This is supportive of the dangerously increasing anti-Semitism
in Europe, where Synagogues are being burnt down and Jews are being attacked
and murdered. Coming soon to a town near you?
Economically about 92 million people are out of work. Not
reported in the administration’s labor statistics because they are no longer
counted since their unemployment ran out. People on Food Stamps are highest
that any time in the history of the program. Bush 2 was excoriated in the
Jurassic Press when unemployment got over 5%. Now the “official” unemployment rate is 6% or
7%, and since the “new norm” at the beginning of Obama’s reign was 10%, this is
now a good thing. Actual unemployment is between 13% and 17%. Hard to tell
since Labor Statistics are controlled by the White House. I noticed that the month and weeks before the presidential and midterm elections, the unemployment rate dropped a couple percent and after those elections the Bureau of Labor statistics revised them back up.
Racism, along with anti-Semitism is hugely on the rise.
Whenever a Black man confronts the police and gets killed for his efforts there
are riots. Racist Attorney General and his racist boss gin up the Black
population to hate whites especially before elections as a get out the vote
tactic. The Leftist New York Post found this out during the Ferguson riots. An
accidental act of journalism. Still ignored are the hundreds of Black on Black murders, or Black on White murders, or the murder of police by Blacks.
I’ve gone on enough about this, thinking the point made. This
has been a terrible year for this country, and the head of the fish that stinks
is Obama and the Democrat Party. Anything done to protect America’s borders
stopped, anything to decrease unemployment stopped, to produce lower cost
energy stopped (anti fracking, anti-oil exploration, stopped Keystone pipeline,
drove away offshore drilling) [there’s a vid of him before his run for
president that he wanted to drive up the cost of energy, it was necessary].
Yet I keep going on about the macro stuff. It’s endless the
badness that’s happened in the past year. I don’t see it improving much in this
new year even with Republicans winning such a landslide election. They
badmouth, push to the margins Conservatives, the base, campaign against them harder
than they do against the Democrats. They are both incompetent and proving
themselves they earn and keep earning the moniker ‘the party of stupid’.
Now the personal. I know I have friends that read my postings, and I thank you
for your interest and support. At the micro level, my personal life, I have
much less to say. Work is okay, with the usual corporate hassles, but it does
provide, and I am able provide service through them, to customer service agents
and the customers of UPS. With that I missed a lot of work due to illness, more
of an affliction, vertigo. I’m amazed how many amateur doctors and healers
there are with advice how to deal with it, get rid of it. Specialists, my GP
and neurologist unable to do anything but help me maintain, but many still have
better health advice.
I had stopped attending my church for a while. Got caught up
in church politics, was personally attacked and was shown less than
appreciation for my contributions. There’s enough aggravation in life, I don’t
need it where I worship. After a couple/three months breather, I went back and
the love shown let me know this is the right place for corporate worship. I had
given a sermon on worship, and the theme was the unbroken connection between
corporate and personal worship. That was born out with my noting my diminished prayer
time and study of faith and religion. Worship, corporate and personal, is the
centerpiece of my life, and informs how I live. {If interested, my last sermon, "Road to Emmaus" can be seen at
fcclv.com>Webcast>and scroll down to sermons 6 months ago.}
Looking back at this year, which has been seriously ungood;
the goals are to get back to reading and studying more, writing more, praying
more. I’ve read less this year, and watched more vids. Mostly due
to it really being hard to read when the vertigo and other illnesses I have
make the Kindle move around, and/or nausea make the concentration necessary for
reading, or writing, pretty much impossible. The books and movies I’ve read and seen are on
the right of this blog. Noticeably fewer than years past, just as there are way
fewer posts to this blog than years past. I don’t list the vids I watch, but
the most entertaining for me this year were the series “Justified” (my fav) and
“Longmire” and “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives”. Lots of British produced mysteries with great
stories and acting.
I pray all a healthy happy holy coming year. We pray
God to start working to remove, through each of us, all the bigotry, hatred, lies,
deceit and violence that has marked this past year, and for us personally to stay
in a worshipful spirit and state of mind to effect in a loving and positive way,
those around us. It all starts with each of us, and our communion with God. He
must be what informs every aspect of our lives.
