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In the year of our Lord 1776, a Nation was constructed upon a foundation of Freedom. Freedom from Kings and Queens, Freedom of religion, and Freedom from unlawful taxation. In our Constitution our Fore Fathers stated that ” People” have certain unalienable rights. Rights that were given to us from our Creator, for all men and woman. This includes all Religions, Races and Creeds.

Our Nation was still is divided on this concept of Rights. Not even the Civil War was able to end the debate on Freedom of Religion, and Freedom for all Races and Creeds. Men and Women have sacrificed their lives to live Free. Joseph Smith for Religion, Martin Luther King Jr. for Race, and Woman activists for Gender. Still today we fight for Race, Religion, and Sexuality.

With all the Wars that have been fought, all the lives that have been taken, and all the hatred that permeates from leaders of our Religions, and Government. Tolerance seems to be an unachievable goal for a Nation built upon Freedom for all.  Why is there so much hatred and guile for our fellow men and woman, brothers and sisters, and Americans? If we knew the answer I think we would have a solution. Government passes laws to combat this turmoil, Religion quote passages of scripture in all denominations. Still there seems to be no ability to create Peace.

Is Peace just another term for faith, things hoped for with the evidence of things unseen? I believe it all stems from the universal sin of Pride. There is no need to be prideful. Confidence Yes, but not pride. Tolerance is not acceptance!! We must be tolerant of peoples choices, but we do not have to accept them for ourselves. Obviously when it comes to things criminal there is zero acceptance.  For Religious or Sexual preferance, we have the freedom to choose as long as the law allows us that choice.

As we come to end of another year let us all make number One on our list of New year Resolutions to be more tolerant of those you do not hold our same views in Religion, Politics and who to root for on any given Saturday or Sunday, and sometimes Monday. I know for myself I will be more tolerant of peoples choices and ideologies, that does not mean I have to incorperate them for myslef or my family. Let us all Stand a little taller and be filled with more love and kindness.

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In our lives certain events, occasions and tragedies help shape our personalities and attitudes. This past week an unforeseen tragedy struck our Family. My Aunt Ardene Ressler Bullard past away.  An Infection overtook her body and she was never able to recover. Few people leave a lasting mark in this world. Few leave this world better than they found it. Few show all those they come in contact with how to live life to the fullest. Few will ever be loved and missed like Ardene. Through tragedies like this, our minds are caught up to think about what is truly important in this life. Work, social status and other everyday worries and labors take a back seat. Family is brought together to remember their loved one. I love Ardene because she loved me first. Our feeble language will never be able to express the love that she poured out to all she came in contact with. Ardene left the world better than she found it. I am grateful to have known and conversed with such an extraordinary woman. As we now go forward let us remember what truley matters in this life, Family. The Family is the center of society and if all could serve half as much as Ardene did the world we be full of Love and Peace and not Hate and Chaos. Its times like these we learn the meaning of life. Let us not take till knocking on Heavens door to understand that this life is temporary and let us live like Ardene.

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Early in my Blogging adventures I Posted about Heath Care. I also wrote a paper for a Political Science class on Heath Care. Universal Heath care Does not and will not work. Obama wants us all to just get behind him on heath care reform, just because he took over the country during the worst economic time since 1929. Obama blames the previous administration for all of the countries problems. This blame game does two things for Obama.

First it allows him some room to borrow 1/3rd of the worth of our economy from China.  Second to use a scare tactic so that the American people will not question Obama’s policies. USA Today had an article this week about Universal Health Care and Massachusetts. For those who do not know, Massachusetts was the first to launch this policy. It covers the Pro’s and Con’s of only have 2.67% of the state uninsured. The Con’s include, Emergency rooms full to capacity and they have to turn patients away. Doctors not making as much. This is one issue that I see becoming the worst thing. We all know how understaffed the medical field is and to provide this huge influx could be detrimental.

I am not saying that the medical field is perfect. I work in this field and it is no where near. Capitalism has been and is always the answer.  Free markets are why despite our turmoil now our economy will rebound through innovation and productivity. Obama needs to consider all possibilities and not rush reformation, by using socialistic principle that time and time again show they don’t work.

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Oh here we go again another reason to dis on Mexico. Really, do we need any more reason than we already have? Is this going to cause a PR problem that the swine flu started with a Five year old Mexican Pig Farmer? I was watching Cspan and Admiral somebody and Sec. SO and SO from the CDC and the Department of Defense spoke before members of Congress about the Swine Flu and what actions are in motion to combat this Pandemic. Two Questions brought out in the report I would like to touch on. First, Sen. Collins R-Maine. Asked why are we not using thermo scanners at the border to detect persons with fever that could be sent to quarantine. Second, R. Sen. John Mcain asked what would warrant closing the border, if this pandemic does not? Adm. Anne Schuchat stated that since not all person carrying the flu virus have fevers thermo scanners not a good idea. Although Sen. Collins named 6 other countries that are using the scanners. So since Flu shots don’t perfectly vaccinate the nation from flu or deaths caused related to the flu, I vote no more shots. So since police don’t serve and protect every person in the nation from being a victim of rape, I say we not pay to have a police department. Really, you are a doctor and you really think that. Oh well Chemo doesn’t work for every one so I vote no more chemotherapy. Now is that real common sense? Better yet would the Medical field quit taking cancer patients money? NO, NO, H-NO. Now going on to our Republican Candidate for President question, Is there any situation that would warrant closing ports and borders? According to a Doctor someone who is in the military, an Admiral, and who has gone to at leas 8 years of school, NO, NO, H-NO.  Really there is no situation that would warrant closing the border. What is funny to me that Sen Mcain honestly thinks closing the border would actually stop immigration. You Idiot. How many illegal immigrants live in the U.S. oh ya 12 MILLION. 12 Million people have been able to swim, walk, run and dive over the border” Undetected”. So how is it possible to stop people crossing the border? IT’S NOT!!!! So what is the solution, the same as the solution for the Seasonal Flu, a Shot that may or may not work!!!!

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What Motivates us as a People? If we take a look at our lives, what is our motivation for doing our mundane and tedious activities? Fame or Fortune? I believe all motivation stems from these two factors. Every day I wake up and go to school or work or both, and the most frequently asked question by my three year old is, Why? Now of course the common answer would be ” to make money”, or for school it is “to one day have the chance to make more money”.  In the work place we are surrounded by, hard workers, workers, and not so hard workers. Every place of business has them the overachievers, those who do what is asked, and those who do just enough to keep their jobs. So back to my question, What is our Motivation? Most would say Money, others would say Fame. Now Fame can be “Britney Spears”,or just bieng popular at work. I feel it all revolves around Marketability! If we apply for a job what is the first thing we do? Write a resume! Our resume reflect our accomplishments. We tell about our Education, our Work history, our Skills, and we give names of people who if approached would be likely to lie for us and say how great we are. Resumes are the most common marketing tool that we use. Why do I go to College? The parties, panty raids, Girls. None of the above, for me anyway. I go so that I can put on my resume under Education: Bachlor’s in Business. This piece of paper is supposed to multiply my income by Two. A degree provides me with marketability. Why do I work 10 times harder than the next guy and 20 times harder than those who feel everthing is owed to them? I do it so that I have marketability. What is so great about marketability? It is the life force of the business world. If I am not going to make a company better just because I am hired then why would  any company want to pay me? We sell ourselves every day! If we work hard and show that we are accountable for our actions and take ownership of our jobs, then we will have a better chance for a raise or a promotion or just positive reinfrocement from a superior, or from Stewart Smally,” I”M Good enough, I’m Smart enough, and gosh darnit people like me”. Over the past 40 years the world has become fixated on what can I get for the least amount of effort or money? What is free? Nothing is free. Everything that we are able to receive has a price. Price could be money, effort, or knowledge.  For instance “Buy one get one Free”, you had to spend money the buy one, then after you buy one you get a second free. That is basically half off, NOT FREE. In the work force we get what we market ourselves for. If we have ambitition to want more than we have, then we must increase our Marketability! President Kennedy said it best” Ask not what my country can do for me, but what I can do for my country!!”

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   Salt Lake City National Airport has been selected along with about ten other Airports in the nation to use a new security tool.  A Body Scanner. This machine will take a digital image of your person and display it on a screen for a TSA worker to view.  The agent is in a separate room. This digital picture is like an X-ray, it penetrates through your clothes but not your skin.  Now the first question that should come to mind is, How many pixels does the scanner’s lens have? If not well don’t feel bad.  This is not like your digital camera that takes a Color and Crystal Clear picture of a naked body. The image that is viewable is like a X-ray photo. That same Black, blue photo. So you are not able to see in playboy detail a naked body. Also you would not be able to identify a person by the image. This scanner is able to see any objects that may be stashed in your clothes or in parts of the body that was made for an EXIT ONLY.  I think this is a great tool, Metal Detectors would become obsolete. The scanner would bring to view everything that is under your clothes. No more undressing for the security guards they will just be able to take an X-ray. This will save on time to get on your flight. Not to mention the safety one would feel knowing nothing is passing through security that would put your life in danger. As with any new technology there is opposition. The biggest concerns are, one, taking a naked digital picture. Two, are these pictures saved into a database? Three, will these pictures be sent out on the Internet? As previously stated the image is not like a photo for your album. TSA has stated these pictures are not saved. No upload capability to the Internet. Also the image is not identifiable. This scanner is the first tool that has been put into place that will provide the “Friendly Skies” atmosphere since 9-11.

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As a child I loved to play Monopoly. My Favorite role was to be the Banker. I love being in charge, and it was the easiest way to CHEAT. Yes I am going to come out and say that I used to Cheat at Monopoly. Aaron and Angela will never play that game with me again. So for who knows how long AIG and other banks have played monopoly during work and with real money. Now our Government is buying Wall St., AKA Boardwalk and Park Place. AIG pays retention bonus’ to 73 employees and this amounts to about 163 Million Dollars. Less than 1% of the Bailout money they have received. I think that congress is jealous of AIG big wigs getting bonus and that is why Congress is mad. Let it be known that the Bailout money was given with no limitations on how the money could be used. I don’t think it is worth all the attention this story has received. Personally a company who is going through the financial struggle they should be cutting back on bonus’. Intermountain cut our Christmas Bonus and our 401k match last year. It hurt my pocket book but it was better than layoffs. Congress feels cheated and so now they have to find a way to get the 163 Million back. Well how does Government make money. Taxes, so no Congress wants to tax these 73 people up to 95% of their bonus money. Well now that Congress is able to Tax who they and how much they want, what will keep them from doing it to us. I am so happy that the Democrats have control of the House and Senate. If Nancy Polosi would sell her private jet maybe our tax dollars for her salary would be better spent. The BIG THREE get hounded by Congress for traveling by private jet but it is OK for the Speaker of the House to do so. Our Government is throwing money around like it is monopoly money and our Economy is getting worse even with Trillions of dollars in Bailouts and Stimulus money. Not only that but our New Administration in the White House is lying to us. They just found out about the bonus, wait no we new about them all along, as Tim Gietner has stated. Just because of a Man Religious beliefs People would not vote for the only Candidate that has the knowledge to restructure and restore our Economy, Mitt Romney. He should be President, or have Tim Gietner’s Job. But NO. CHANGE we can Believe in is running the Show.

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Why do we hate? Hate has consumed our nation, our lives and our way of thinking. Hate is found in everyone. We know who is the author of hate and yet we spend hours, days, months, and years justifying our hatred. We justify hating Gay’s, Arabs, Mexicans and most of all Canadians. Why? Because they are different, Homosexuality is against Christian beliefs, Arabs caused 9 11. Well not the whole Arab race, But don’t we repeat history? We look at every Arab differently since 9 11. That is what they did in World War II with Japanese Concentration Camps. Japanese Americans sent to Camps just because they were of Japanese decent. We hate Mexicans for coming into this country illegally. Canadians say the word “about” weird.  I know I have said things on this blog that are a product of Hate. For that I am sorry. I Know that Homosexuality is Wrong. I also believe in the laws of this Nation. I also have deep feelings of disgust about the 9 11 attacks.  How many of us go to church every week and learn about being Christlike? Christ loves the Sinner not the sin. Christ is able to look past our outward appearances and actions. He forgives us of are wrongful acts. He Died so that our sins, sins of hate could be washed from us. Heavenly Father gave to us Agency, some use it for good and some for evil. This will always be apart of our lives. There must be opposition in all things. The cure for this world is LOVE. The Lord died for us because of Love. We live here on Earth because of Love. We Progress in this life because of Love. We are Blessed in this life because of Love. We are Saved By Love. The world is full of Hate. Let us spread the Good News, No Greater Love hath man then this, That a man layeth down his life for his Friend. I know that God Loves us! I know that Satan is the author of all Hate. I know that it is through the labor of Love that man may receive Exaltation.  Christ is the example, let us find his will for us and carry out his mission. To Bring to Pass the Eternal Life of Men. This can only be done with LOVE. Remember that Charity is the Pure Love of Christ. If we Love God, we must keep his commandments.  One of the lose is to Love thy neighbor as thyself!!

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In a Galaxy far far away, ( Italy). There is the potential that we here on Earth, ( Utah), will be receiving some Kryptonite that will defeat Superman,( Me). The Idea that has been placed before the evil Lex Luthor ( Utah Legislators ), of being paid 100 Million Dollars a year to store this Galaxy’s Kryptonite ( Nuclear Waste). Now in trying to overcome the demise of the Economy, this could be seen as some wanted and needed revenue to the State. I admit that to me 100 Million Dollars is a considerable amount of money. In relation to the State budget it is Pennies. Energy Solutions ( Emperor Zod ), has approached Mr. Luthor with this business proposition. The Kryptonite that could be brought in is classified as Grade A waste. This is not the top of the line as we associate with Grade A. It is of the lower grade of radiation. Storing this waste in Clive, Utah would most likley not harm Superman to the point of utter destruction and cause a Doomsday. The principle is that once we start selling our land for waste what else will Mr. Luthor do for money? Our Legislator is very corrupt, and Energy Solutions spends money to keep it that way. In Tooele we do have an army depot that stores and destroys biological weapons for the nation. It is possible that is more dangerous than the Kryptonite will be. How long will we allow Mr. Luthor to fill his pockets will money and have total disregard for the voice of Utahans. This Past election we had the opportunity to “Change” our leadership. We could have voted out Chris Buttars and other seat fillers whose ignorance and stupidity is more than anyone should have to bare. Utahans could not bare to vote Blue, or just against an incumbent. So will Superman be able to overcome the diabolical scheme that is taking place before it’s too late? Or will we just sit idly by as Mr. Luthor takes over the world. Utah does not need any more waste deposited here. It is bad enough. Per ca pita we have the most M.S. , Cancer and other diseases that have been caused by the Nuclear Testing of our Federal Government. Remember the old Bumper stickers ” Don’t Waste Utah” lets not allow any waste to be imported from Foreign countries and stored in our back yard. Magna is a great example of what could happen to the rest of the State if Energy Solutions has control of our Legislation.

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Well on Thursday night President Bush gave his farewell speech to the nation. It was a speech that sounded and followed a pattern and a form of some given previously. Bush stuck up for some of his decisions over the past eight years and he eluded to saying sorry for some mistakes as well. Because Bill Clinton was Bush’s direct predecessor. The eight years that Clinton spent in the White House has been said to be one of the greatest Administrations this nation has seen. I agree that the economy was great, growth was an every day occurrence. But how much of this is directly due to anything Clinton did? In times of war the economy will falter. During the Clinton years we were not at war. Clinton knew about Osama and left it to W. to handle. Clinton also started to deregulate the banks on wall street that caused a huge Drop in the Stock Market. This led to the Bailout Trend. But Clinton got out just in time. I don’t care that Clinton smoked a Cigar that Monica had sat on. I don’t even care that Monica shared the same space in the oval office that JFK jr. did a few decades before. The fact that he committed perjury and got away with it. When Democrats or liberals are faced with this issue, they say well at least the economy was good. That is what we as Americans really care about. We care more about our money than anything else. I would bet that if the economy was great, Bush would have an above 50% approval rating. I agree with the statement of Bush when he said that he was willing to make the tough decisions. The Presidency is a Damned if you do and Damned if you don’t job. If Bush had an ability to look into the future to see the outcome of some of his decisions I think they would have been different. All of us are Human all of us make mistakes. But the President of any elected official for the matter cannot be human. Any person who wants to be President should not be President. It is just like those who aspire to Bishop, most likely they should not be Bishop. But hey I say, ” You want to be Bishop then here you go”. We all should live worthy to serve in any calling the Lord may have for us, and we should aspire to be like Christ. As we reflect on the past Decade and look forward to change and adding some flare to the White House, let us remember how the liberals attacked Bush’s short comings and lets see how they sweep under rugs any short falls Obama may perform. I want Obama to succeed. My pocket book would like to be a little heavier. The Media got who they wanted let us pray and have faith that He was the right choice, and if not? The Second Coming is that much closer.

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