Final Thoughts

I'm sure you're all dying to know how I feel about the results of the election, and I think I'm finally ready to sum it all up and put it aside.

Quite frankly, I'm disappointed. I can't believe that there were so many people knowingly or unknowingly who would vote for a self-proclaimed Marxist. This is very indicative of where we're at as a country, and the good thing about this is now we know what we're up against. We really know what the majority of the country believes and now we can get to work changing people's hearts by first knowing exactly what you believe and why you believe it and then through honest and civil discussions with friends (which also means you have to make friends with people you don't agree with.)

This is not going to come by saying this is not my President, by saying the election was stolen (even though there is a lot of questions with ACORN), or by saying his birth certificate was forged. How often did you dismiss a persons argument when they said Bush stole the election? We lost a battle get over it. Honestly, who really wanted John McCain anyway? We knew there would be similar problems with him that we are now going to face with Obama. I would rather not fight those battles against someone who claims to be a conservative.

I know many of you who are frightened and disheartened by the threats from the opposition to Prop 8. I'm disgusted by it, and cannot believe the hypocrisy threaded throughout their "logic." I don't want to be anything like these people in crying foul when votes are cast by the majority of citizens to decide something different from what we believe. I don't want to be like the people who blame all their problems on the fact that Bush was elected. The ones gave that much power to Bush are the ones who view Obama as their savior and their only hope. I am in control of my fate, and no matter who is president I will continue to make my life what I want it to be.

Now let me say I'm done with parties. (Not real parties. You can still invite me to those. i.e. I really need some invites.) I'm done with political parties. Democrats and Republicans. I really believe the only thing they've accomplished as of late is to divide people who should be united. I saw a nasty comments fight on facebook about whether or not you can be a good Mormon and a democrat. It is horrible that we can be so disunited by a title when we should rather be united on principles. Let the Lord judge which principles we really uphold on an individual basis.

Finally, don't dismiss the writing on the wall. I believe a lot of the stuff we are currently are signs of the last days, but we shouldn't dwell on these entirely. Signs were given as a warning to get our lives in order and to remind us we need to share, and they aren't intended to scare us. We have a prophet to guide us. I love this quote from Pres. Monson.

"The past is behind--we must learn from it. The future is ahead--we must prepare for it. The present is now—we must live in it."

It's time to move forward, and I'm ready to move forward with hope for the future. I found this scripture and I realized it's not just hope, but a promise that we can go forward with.

"Wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world"

"Hope"

By Liz Lemon Swindle

(Oh and Palin/Jindal '12)

Hold on to Your Butts, I'm Ticked!

So I've been pretty mellow the past few weeks. I've refused to talk about the election because I've talked about the issues for 2 years, and if you don't know where I stand then you don't know me at all.

(Oh and before I forget the only slightly less well-known blunder than never going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line is this: Never go against Mindy in racquetball the night before an election when a democrat is favored to win.)

There is one issue however that pisses the h*** out of me, and I'm going to rant about it for a while. Hang on though because this is a more important issue than you think. (Sorry for those of you with short attention spans, i.e. me, but please read on.)

So I'm starting a new asthma study and it's one that will help get a generic brand of a drug on the market. I was talking with the study supervisor and I mentioned how the last time I got an inhaler they didn't have any of the generic brands and so instead of $7 it cost me $32 even with insurance.

She then asked me if they told me why and then she said it was because of they aren't allowed to use chlorofluorocarbons in the inhalers anymore and the generic brands will take a while to catch up with the name brands. Chlorofluorocarbons deplete the OZONE! My medicine cost almost 5 times as much because of GLOBAL WARMING policies. Not only does it cost more it is a smaller container and the chlorofluorocarbons were the propellant and whatever they replaced it with doesn't work as well.

So before you blow me off for griping about a couple of bucks, which I don't care that much about because fortunately I don't need to use my inhaler that often, let me tell you why this such a huge problem. (By the way, I'm actually against Bush's prescription drug program that got them to $7 but that's because I don't believe government should be involved at all in health care.)

One of the greatest benefits of having a free market society brought about by the US constitution are the medical advancements that have occurred in the past 200 years. These types of environmental policies will set these advancements back or at least hinder any future developments and innovations.

The ones making these policies claim to care about individuals. They claim to care about the poor, and yet they make policies that make it hard for other drug companies to compete and drive down the costs of medications. They say they care about the people without insurance, and yet if they kept their hands out of it a lot of people would be able to afford the medicine without it.

Also, you remember how people think the only reason for DDT was to take the spots of our apples, and we didn't care about those spots because we like birds and bees better? Well, DDT is also a cheap way to control malaria outbreaks in Africa, but that's still no reason to kill birds.

The whole point behind this is the people who ban these things and pass legislation based on faulty conclusions (and a lot of outright lies) about the most unpredictable of the sciences could cause disastrous results for everyone else especially the poor. There is really no way to accurately predict the weather past 10 days and it's arrogant for us to believe we can really change the weather by passing laws to limit chlorofluorocarbons in INHALERS.

It's atheistic by nature to believe that we can control the weather, and trying to do that at the expense of the well being of mankind is, in my belief, outright evil. The Lord commanded us to take can of the things we have stewardship over, but we cannot let others convince us that we should care more about the environment then God's children.

All things in the earth will pass away but we are eternal beings and I think we have more responsibilities to take care of each other than to worry about the sea levels that may or may not rise.

I actually disagree with both candidates on their views on this, both support a cap and trade tax on carbons, but it will be much worse under Obama, and he has proven he has an utter disregard for human life, and I don't believe McCain will pass legislation on the environment in a bad economy.

Bottom line is this is just another way to redistribute the wealth and we all know how I feel about that. Please choose wisely and choose the things that will keep people free to choose, and not just between generic and brand name drugs.

Oh this commercial ticks me off too. Talk about scare tactics. Ticked. Ticked. Ticked. Ticked.