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Steve H. over at “Hog on Ice” has been writing some wonderful, insightful stuff…..

Here is a link to one, with selected quotes below:

I like to think our current hardships are a labor pain, to remind us of the horrors that lie ahead as the second coming approaches. Human beings increasingly accept the conceit that they run the world and that they can solve their own problems. In reality, God runs everything. If we have good harvests, if we have oil, if we have economic strength, it isn’t because Americans are superior. It’s because God chose to give these things to us. And He can take them away in a heartbeat. Maybe God is giving us a little prod to remind us that we can’t celebrate sexual perversion and let Israel down and indulge in idolatry and generally offend Him without losing our blessings. Lately we’ve been becoming more like Godless Europe. So it’s only natural that we should get a taste of their economic inferiority.

Some people say conservation is the answer. Some say increased production is the answer. Fundamentally, refraining from offending God is the answer. The world is too complicated for man to run. Without help from above, we can expect nothing but defeat. One of the big lessons I’ve learned over the last few years is that when things go badly for me, the way to start fixing them is to examine my own behavior and attitudes. Generally, that’s where the cause lies. And the same applies to Americans as a whole.

I can’t say I disagree…

We’ve drifted so far from our founding fathers roots. I’m not about to go repeating “Rev. Wright” about America, mind you, but how much longer can God turn a blind eye to the cesspool into which this nation has descended. I’m not sure Sodom and Gomorrah could hold a candle to us today.

We all want to cling to 2nd Chronicles 7:14 : ” If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. ”

But let’s look at that. Are we humble? Not that I can see. Do we pray? Nope, banned most places now. Do we seek God’s face? Nope, I don’t see evidence of that either. Are we turning from our wicked ways? I see evidence to the contrary there also.

So, to quote something I hear quite often : ” if we keep doing what we’ve done, we’ll keep getting what we’ve got”.

We need to change. Not that fake Obamination change, but change who we are and what we allow to happen in this nation. The “silent majority” is either still asleep, or dead. Whatever the case, people that believe in God need to stand up and do something. Stop waiting on someone else to do things, because they’re not getting done that way. How about James 4:17 “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin”

Here’s a scenario:

My neighbor grows tomatoes. I like his tomatoes. I can go to the store and buy tomatoes. But they cost a little more, and I like his better anyway. A lot of other people like his tomatoes, so they’re buying his too, and he raises the price. Supply and demand, you know.

So I tell my neighbor to plant more tomato plants next year, because I want more, and want them cheaper.

What’s my neighbor going to say and do? He might, but he might not. If he says he won’t, or doesn’t , can I sue him?

I’d get laughed out of court, as well I should.

So this morning I read this:House passes bill to sue OPEC over oil prices

Do I think oil prices are too high? Yes. Do we have a right to sue them over non production? No. End of story.

And we wonder why we are in the shape we are in, with a congress of people who emulate their constituents entitlement mentality.

When the current president of the US makes a speech in Israel, and recounts some historical facts:

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” the President said to the country’s legislative body, “We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is –- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

(Now tell me those aren’t facts and I’ve got a bridge for sale….)

Did you see any names mentioned? I didn’t. But wait:

In a statement, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shot across the bow: “It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel’s independence to launch a false political attack.

Of course Clinton, Pelosi, Reid, et al have all weighed in denouncing the speech.

It’s all about them. It couldn’t have been about anyone else, because no one else matters.

In the words of Jay Leno — “Idiots!”.