January 24th, 2010: What Obama Needs

People on the right are arguing that Scott Brown won because Obama is trying to jam healthcare and other leftist policies down America’s throat and the American people are saying no thanks. People on the left are saying that Scott Brown won because the White House has a message problem, and that is the reason that Americans aren’t buying what they are selling.
 

The people aren’t buying Obama because Obama has been a loser. He has passed nothing. The economy is showing mixed messages at best. Only due to a malfunction in the bomb in jihadist underpants was a tragic terrorist adverted. Now, I am not blaming Obama for the terrorist problem, but it was a failure. The only thing Obama did win? The Nobel Peace Prize, which did not count because it did not pass the laugh test.
 

If you’re to be a successful leader, you have to have successes. Despite all the outrage you see on the TV, most people are not Tea Party advocates. They don’t hate the health care bill with every bone in their body. Still, most Americans are happy with their current health care, though they do have concerns with problems in it. Still, they are willing to listen to someone who is pissed who thinks it will hurt them. The last thing people want is a good system with problems to change into a horrible system, and that is what is being sold by the anti-health care advocates who have gotten their message out. It’s very similar to what Bush tried to do with Social Security.
 

So, Obama needs a win. He is not going to get a win with the current health care issue, so he needs to scrap it. The only win that will matter for 2010 is the economy. It’s not going to be fixed, but if the Democrats want any hope, they need unemployment to be clearly going down by November. Another possible win? Send the next terrorist we catch in the USA to a military prison, torture him for some information and then kill him. Just an idea.

January 17th, 2010: Domino’s New Pizza

When I order Pizza, it’s from Domino’s. Why? Well because its cheap and its at the end of my block. Plus, the domino’s near my place runs all kinds of local specials, such as a 1 topping large for $5.99, which just ended. The thing I get most often is the 3 medium 1 topping for $5.55 each, which they have all the time when a friend is over.
 

I used to tell pizza while the pizza is good, it’s not great. I don’t expect great, because I pay under $6 for a stinking pizza. Frankly, I think Papa John’s pizza stinks and it cost a lot more. Other places around here though have better pizzas for over $10, but its that, over $10.
 

Well Domino’s Pizza is still cheap, and now its great. They put this amazing topping over the crust, and it’s some of the best pizza I have ever had. It’s like going to McDonalds and getting a Sit-Down restaurant quality burger. So for my cheap fellow 20 something’s, go to Domino’s, its cheap and amazing. For you higher end pizza buys, get the new domino’s pizza, you will be surprised, a great pizza for well under $10.

January 15th, 2010: Rush and Robinson

First off, I want to say that my heart goes out to the people of Haiti and I pray for the those who are close to death even now, the friends and family of those who have died, for restoration to even what horrible lifestyle Haitians had before the Earthquake and lastly I pray that good comes from this and lives will be won over for Christ.
 

Rush Limbaugh out to be ashamed for suggesting to people not to send aid to Haiti via the White House because all it will do is make Obama look good and the money won’t get to the Haitians but rather stay in the coffers of the White House. This accusation is baseless, mean-spirited and in horribly poor taste in the midst of this tragedy.
 

It is well within ones right to suggest the government ought not to be spending money on foreign aid, even in a situation as dire as this. I don’t agree, I think Obama is doing the obvious right thing here and I approve of it. Still, its not un-American to take a position such as this, which is the feeling I get many in the mainstream press are trying to guilt the American people into.
 

This is not the position Rush was taking. He was saying not to give your private money. Rush, who I heard many times as a listener back in the day say that Americans are the most compassionate people on the planet, suggested that people ought not give because the Obama administration will benefit. Hopefully Rush clarifies his remarks at least, but his raking over the coals here is well deserved.
 

Pat Robinson has been being raked over the coals because he said the Haitian people are cursed because they formed a pact with the devil in order to free themselves from the French. All Robinson did was make a point that is often made when Christians do to Haiti on missions. I was told about this Haitian pack with the Devil and their Voodoo culture back when my campus minister want me to come on a short term missions trip to Haiti.
 

She wanted to go to Haiti more than any other country because of the poverty. I ended up not going but a team was slated to go back in 2004 but had to move the trip to Guatemala due to a coup d’état that happened shortly before their planned trip.
 

My point in bringing this up is that people who believe the whole pact with the devil thing don’t bring it up because they don’t want to help the Haitians. Actually it’s the exact opposite, they bring it up because they want to help. My campus minister brought it up to me when trying to persuade me to go to Haiti back in 2003, and Pat Robinson brought it up to try to persuade Christians in 2009. No one is noting that Pat Robinson brought up a number to donate right after he said these supposed horrible words.
 

This is just another case of it being ok and even PC to be a Christian, but if you actually believe it affects life today you are deemed some kind of a kook.