Will The Real Muslims Please Stand Up

The recent events in the Sudan, should be a warning to every liberal that believes Islam is another benign peaceful religion. If the behavior we in the West are seeing is not characteristic of true Muslims, "Will the real Muslims please stand up." And I'm not talking about Muslims living in Western Democracies. These people are Muslims in name and custom only.

For those of you that missed it, the following is a recap of the Associated Press article.

Gillian Gibbons, a British teacher, is being threatened with execution and 40 lashes for allowing her students to bestow the name Muhammad on a class teddy bear.

Several thousand Sudanese protested in central Khartoum on Friday against the teacher. Banners demanded "Punishment, Punishment, Punishment," as protesters chanted, "Kill her! Kill her by firing squad!" Gibbons, who was sentenced on Thursday (November 29, 2007) to 15 days in jail and deportation, was taken from her prison to a secret location to ensure her safety.

A Gathering Of "Fools"

On September 30, 2007, a large convention of atheist gathered in Virginia to proclaim their eagerness that GOD does not exist. What a gathering of fools. It never ceases to amaze me how so many well educated and intelligent people can so easily become "FOOLS". For it is written: "The fool says in his heart, there is no GOD. They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good." Psa 14:1 (NIV)


Personally, I don't need to add my comments, "Biblical Scriptures" say it much more emphatically and forcefully than I ever could when it comes to this perverse generation. Because it is also written: "The wrath of GOD is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about GOD is plain to them."

"For since the creation of the world GOD's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. For although they knew GOD, they neither glorified him as GOD nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened."

"Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal GOD for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore GOD gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another."

"They exchanged the truth of GOD for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, GOD gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exhanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."

"Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of GOD, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, GOD-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless."

"Although they know GOD's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." Rom 1:18-32 (NIV)

The 14,000 DowThe Death Knell For America's Economic System

"Fund Managers", "Stock Brokers" and "Wall Street Bankers" have been toying with the idea of pushing the "Dow Jones Industrial Average" above the 14,000 mark. These people obviously don't realize the world has entered a new Socio-Economic Era that can not support manufactured money for long.

The Federal Reserve needs to pull the plug on this wild speculation before it damages the economy and sends the entire "Western World" into an economic tailspin that it might not recover from for decades.

"Global Socio-Economic Interaction" is much more volatile and unpredictable than most "Economist", "Fund Managers", "Stock Brokers" and "Wall Street Bankers" realize. This intentional effort to keep inflating the price of already overpriced stocks and mutual funds will drive our economy and our nation into economic disaster.

America does not have enough internal industrial capacity to support a Dow Jones over 10,000, let alone 14,000 and relying on foreigners to support our irrational and irresponsible economic behavior is sheer madness. This country has been surviving for 20 years on borrowed time, low birth rates, borrowed money and by stealing money from the public in the form of billions of dollars in hidden taxes and fees.

Unlike the "Great Depression", the room for future economic growth and expansion will not be there. The world today is much more competitive and despite all the diplomatic pleasantries, Western and Eastern Europe, Great Britain, the Arabs, the Japanese, all of South America, Canada and the rest of the industrialized world no longer trust this country. The Russians definitely don't trust us and the Jihadist can't stand us. The Chinese are simply using us because our short-sighted and money-hungry corporate and government leaders have shown them we; as a nation, no longer have credible values, morals or ethics.

Our citizenry is more decadent, backward and functionally illiterate than during the "Cold War". The Democrats and the "Liberal Left" are a frightening bunch of socialist and the Republicans are greedy, self-centered unilateralist. The world will not let us plunder their resources like we have been doing since the end of World War II. The vast majority of the nations on this planet have largely recovered from the devastation of that war and competition for available natural resources and technological advantages will be immense.

The war against "Islamic Extremist" is costing us billions in borrowed money and even as big as America's economy is, there is a limit to the amount of money we can borrow. These debts must be repaid. If this country defaults on its debts, and it will, the rest of the industrialized world will feel the impact. Because the average American is a mindless consumer, when these millions of Americans can no longer "shop til they drop", major economies around the world will go into economic decline. The "European Common Market" will recover, but America won't.

Since more and more nations are capable of looking out for themselves, more countries will opt to invest in "Common Market" countries than in America. America's only edge right now is our superiority in weapons technology. At the rate the Chinese are growing and developing, we won't have this advantage for long. Heaven forbid, if they should ever decide to flex their economic muscle and demand payment on some of their loans.

Therefore, "Fund Managers", "Stock Brokers" and "Wall Street Bankers" should be very cautious about bidding up the price of stocks and mutual funds so they can line their pockets with the people's money. The worst thing our politicians ever did, was to allow the "Barons of Greed" to get their hands on the people's hard earned retirement money. Well..that's "par for the course" isn't it? Afterall, we do have the best group of political scoundrels money can buy.

Over Eating

There is little doubt that many Americans are over weight. The weight loss industry rakes in billions annually on programs and products that work for the few and not the many. Perhaps what most Americans need to do is turn off the television. A recent study done by Dr. Alan Hirsch found a connection between watching televsion and people's eating habits.

According to Dr. Hirsch, in an article written by Jennifer Kwan for Reuters, "people eat more when they are glued to the television." The more entertaining the program, the more they eat. "It seems that distracted brains do not notice what the mouth is doing", said Dr. Alan Hirsch, neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago.

Hirsch explored the impact of smell, taste and eating behaviors while watching TV by measuring potato chip consumption.

Forty-five volunteers ate as many chips as they wanted during five-minute intervals over three-week periods while they watched monologues by late-night talk show hosts David Letterman and Jay Leno.

They also were given chips to eat when the television was off.

Hirsch found people ate an average of 44 percent more chips while watching Letterman and 42 percent more while viewing Leno, than when they did not watch TV.

"If you can concentrate on how the food tastes, you'll eat less because you'll feel full faster," Hirsch said in an interview at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Toronto, Canada.

"So if that's the case, let's look at the opposite. What if you're distracted? If you're distracted, in theory, then you'd eat more."

Through his research at the foundation, Hirsch has helped people overcome the loss of sense and taste sensation, which typically results in weight gain because the brain does not know when it should stop eating.

The ventromedial nucleus in the hypothalamus, where the so-called satiety center is located, tells the body whether it is hungry or full. If it is inhibited or tricked, the result can be changes in eating patterns, he said.

"People who cook spaghetti all day don't feel like eating spaghetti at the end of the day," said Hirsch. "By being exposed to a smell all day long it's tricking the hypothalamus."

At each session, volunteers were asked to concentrate on the sensory characteristics of the food such as taste and smell. Researchers say these sensory clues, in addition to internal body changes, signal satiety.

But when distracted, a person does not pay attention to either the body's sensations of feeling full, or to the sensory characteristics of the food.

Many studies have linked obesity to watching television and that link is likely due to inactivity, Hirsch said. But perhaps entertaining shows are also contributing. Dr. Hirsch concluded, "if you want to lose weight, turn off the television or watch something boring".

President Bush, Now Is The Time To Be A Leader

Many in the media, the political and radical left, the ultra and moderate right; as well as President Bush's most vocal detractors have accused him of "Failed Leadership". From where I sit, President Bush has not led this nation since he was elected.

Bill Clinton wasn't a leader and neither is Hillary. Well, you say..Bill Clinton is still very popular...so was Adolf Hitler. In fact, only one of the current group of presidential candidates, has shown any real leadership ability..and that's Rudy Giuliani.

These 3 actualities are very obvious:

1. Managing government is a failed strategy.
2. The President's advisors and political cronies have failed him.
3. His standing in public opinion polls has no where to go but up.

Therefore, the timing is right for President Bush to become our national leader by words, deeds, actions and activities. He must take charge of every aspect of his administration and become the point man on all the major issues confronting America.

Before we can begin to understand why managing government is not leadership, it will be necessary to define what is meant by lead. Lead means to show the way, by going along with or in front of, or to guide. From this definition, we can deduce that a leader is someone who has taken the responsibility to show us the way or to guide us. Management is simply organizing and monitoring activity. Leadership is directing activity.

George W. Bush was elected President by a democratic process. Therefore, he has a duty, an obligation and a responsibility to lead America, not manage government. Underlings can do that. Leadership requires courage and instinct, and by it's very nature must be in some direction or toward the accomplishment of something. That something America is being led toward must be clearly defined and simply stated because this becomes the goal to be reached, the objective to be accomplished or the destination we are suppose to arrive at.

Once the goal has been defined and stated, President Bush, as our leader, must decide on a plan of action or set a course or direction that will reach the goal, accomplish the desired objective or get us to our destination. If it is determined that a course of action has failed or is failing to reach a desired objective, as America's leader, the President must be ready to change course and personnel if needed. Misguided loyalties can be devastating.

Now that we understand the nature of leadership, we can ask ourselves some questions: Where has President Bush's past and present management taken us? What has he really accomplished with it?...and if he has not accomplished anything, we need to know why? In addition, what has been the result of his administration's management philosophy? Is America better off, the same or worse?

It is time for President Bush to take the helm of the ship of state. It is obvious his captains can not read the political charts. When management fails, it is time to lead.

Are America's Government Leaders Mentally Fit To Serve?

A widely accepted definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Political polarization has never worked at any time in world history.

When the political process becomes polarized, gridlock results and the legislative process becomes stagnant and ineffective. Differences as to methods, policies, priorities and procedural implementation are acceptable among any sane and rational group of people.

However, when differences in the essential elements of the legislative process paralyzes, inhibits or prohibits government to act in the best interest of it's citizens, then those elected representatives are no longer acting with reason or rationality. Whenever elected representatives can not compromise or engage in open and honest debate concerning the needs of a nation, these people are exhibiting characteristics of mental illness, not mental fitness.

If an individual or a group of individuals put politics above citizenship or their personal interest above the national interest, we are looking at people that are not fit to hold public office. These people should be voted out of office or thrown out of office at the earliest opportunity.

The Next Level Of Municipal Leadership

The world's collective political and socio-economic experience is still firmly rooted in Western ideologies that began their evolution during the 14th Century and has continued until the present day. I believe the Modern Industrial Era will also conclude with economic decline and deadly diseases that will ravish the human population.

The emergence of Global Economic Interaction and high tech industrial capacity have rendered current political and socio-economic problem solving strategies obsolete. Any political or economic strategy that does not incorporate Global Economic interaction as its guiding principle is doomed to fail.

Past economic transitions were primarily single staged or dual staged, national or continental in their impact and scope. This new transition is multi-staged and global. Therefore, little or no empirical data exist that can accurately measure its effect on socio-economic or political systems. A global socio-economic transition of this magnitude has never occurred before in world history. Therefore, theorems must be discovered and developed, before they can be taught to others.

Political leaders and socio-economic planners who do not understand or realize the implications of Global Economic Interaction, could be promoting solution concepts and strategies that might have devastating long term consequences if they were enacted.

Major psychological and philosophical changes must be made in order to incorporate this new socio-economic development into our reality systems. Monumental intellectual adjustments must take place similar to one that had to occur when science proved the world is round; instead of flat.

"Flat Earth" conceptualizations immediately became obsolete. The same is true for socio-economic concepts developed during the Modern Industrial Era. The evidence is overwhelming that most municipal leaders are trying to solve multi-dimensional problems with antique solution strategies.

These strategies and concepts are based on the accumulated knowledge and experience of the past 600 years. They are hopelessly inadequate and powerless to deal with 21st Century socio-economic reality. Many municipal leaders do not realize 21st Century problems can not be solved with 19th or 20th Century strategies.

These problems require the development of a much more advanced socio-economic solution concept that is based on 21st Century Global Economic Interaction. Any attempt to ignore or diminish the importance of Global Economic Interaction will lead to disaster.

Therefore, in order to avoid certain catastrophy, municipal leaders must reach the next level of leadership; which is governing in the Age of Global Economic Interaction. This kind of interaction creates multi-dimensional problems that will defy traditional problem solving approaches and solution concepts. Integrated solutions are required to solve multi-dimensional problems.

Before integrated solution concepts can be developed and implemented, a transition must be made from passive, dictatorial or intrusive government to activist or cooperative government. This is the only way obsolete linear solution strategies can be replaced with multi-dimensional program solutions.

Different data gathering techniques must be used to accumulate more relevant information for problem solving purposes. Too many lives are at stake to do otherwise. Our cities and towns are on the verge of becoming battle grounds because most municipal leaders do not realize the traditional relationship between government, the people and the environment has changed.

Millions of dollars are currently being wasted on out dated program concepts that will not effect long term solutions. In fact, using obsolete concepts will actually aggravate socio-economic problems. In order to develop permanent cost effective solution concepts, municipal leaders must plug the entire community into the decision making process. Greater community involvement and participation is the most effective way to develop integrated or holistic solution strategies.

Dynamic Citizenship is necessary in order to build an organizational structure entire communities can work within effectively. It is virtually impossible to create, implement and manage integrated solution strategies without effective community organization. Initiating this process will create an active municipal government that is far more responsive and sensitive to community needs.

Mastering this process is the key that unlocks the door to the next level of municipal leadership. Integrated Socio-economics is a concept that best describes the cooperative relationhip between government, private enterprise and the community. In the Age of Global Economic Interaction and high tech industrial capacity, this holistic approach to solving municipal problems is the only long term solution strategy that will work.

By using holistic or integrated problem solving strategies, municipal leaders can establish the means by which more people can take advantage of wealth creation systems, increase overall productivity, stimulate their local economy, increase income for minority or impoverished residents, and develop cyclic revenue systems. With these strategies, individuals either alone, or collectively in groups, can acquire or create new businesses and opportunities where none currently exist.

Recycling revenue; combined with, cooperation from citizens, non government institutions, community action groups, associations, labor unions, the state legislature and the business community can dramatically reduce the need for Federal programs and/or subsidies.

Since this relationship is not static, it will be much more dynamic and effective. Once the unemployment problem has been addressed, the same coalition can tackle much more complicated social issues. Such problems as health care cost, crime prevention, substance abuse, infrastructure deterioration and reducing welfare expeditures can be handled far more efficiently and cost effectively through local coalitions than by cumbersome Federal bureaucracies.

Businesses, government and the community working together in harmony is the cornerstone of Integrated Socio-economics. Residents in America's towns and cities must stop looking to the Federal government to solve their municipal problems. In many instances, the human resource potential in each municipality has yet to be tapped. Through effective human resource utilization and management, people with limited or no business or marketing skills can be shown how to earn money, position income producing enterprises and use wealth creation strategies.

Integrated Socio-economics offers the best possible concept for resurrecting impoverished minority communities. Many of the nation's leading economist and financial experts are still bogged down in obsolete economic policies and concepts; which are hopelessly inadequate to deal with Global Economic Interaction. There is nothing in their backgrounds or education that could have prepared them for the Global Economic Age.

The institutions they have been apart of for years are slowly disintegrating before their eyes and they are having difficulty preventing further decline. Most economist do not yet understand the nature of the problems society is facing. Federal policies designed to stimulate the economy out of recession will have little or no impact in small to mid-sized towns and cities.

Pork barrel politicking at the state and/or national level, diverts available financial resources into areas and localities that benefit a small select group of people. Communites needing help the most, may never see any real financial aid. Well entrenched special interest can suck millions of dollars out of treasuries to benefit narrowly defined interests.

These interests may have nothing to do with real municipal needs. Many legislators do not have the political will to end PAC influence. Pleading to them is a waste of time. A small group of people can now manipulate world security markets and currency markets. Traditional economic indicators are no longer reliable. Economic decline is much worse than we imagine.

Therefore, community wide cyclic wealth creating systems must be developed. Most ethnic and racial groups have grown impatient with waiting for economic parity and equal opportunity in America's municipalities. There is no way to address this issue with out restructuring wealth creation and educating miniority communities.

In order to correct this problem, more citizens must get involved and participate in the solution seeking process. Coming together and working together is the only way we; as citizens, can save our communities and salvage a future for our children. Community involvement and participation is the essence of the next level citizenship.

Other basic community issues like education, crime prevention, unemployment, reducing the welfare roles and increasing individually and collectively overall community wealth, can all be addressed; if and when, the citizenry sincerely desires a solution.

The ultimate goal of Integrated Socioeconomics is to empower and encourage ordinary people to develop plans and methods to solve common community problems. It is the only solution concept that will involve the entire community.

Alternative strategies and concepts must be utilized and organized into a comprehensive systematic approach. Integrated Socio-economics combined with Dynamic Citizenship is the next level of community development.

Just as governing in a Global Economic environment is the next level of government leadership, living and working in a Global Economic environment is the next level of community development.

As citizens, we must hold ourselves and those we select and elect to lead us accountable for their actions or lack of action. We can not relinquish our responsibilities to our communities and our fellow citizens. We are each other's keeper. Therefore, in order to reclaim our communities and our children, we must embark, take bold action and break new ground in an old area, community development.