Violent Kids

The videos that are being broadcast all over the news are really getting to me. There are two now that I have viewed this week. The first was the video of the high school girls beating another girl while a couple of boys stood as lookouts. There is another one I saw tonight of a student beating a teacher in the classroom while the other students watched.
These videos were going to be posted on U-tube. What has society come to? How have we fallen so far that kids are doing this for fun? Is it just for the 15 minutes of fame? Has the line between right and wrong been erased so far that we allow or even condone this type of behavior? Why? Is it the desensitization for violence that comes from glorifying and repeated exposure to it? Or, could it be this new social-progressive view that right and wrong are in the eye of the beholder?
I hear now of college students that don't deny the Holocaust, but will not condemn it as an atrosity or even wrong. "I can't put myself in the frame of mind of the Nazis" is the general idea. Can we not, in America, call a spade a spade? Everybody can justify any behavior or even blame someone else for what they did.
Why has it come to this? I believe there are several reasons. First off is the fall of the family. There are so many parents who will not be parents. They want to be friends or not to be inconvenienced by having to raise a child. Women giving birth outside of marriage. Men running from the woman when he learns that she is pregnant. We were designed to have a mother and a father raising us. The family needs to be brought back in society.
Secondly, we need to bring God back into our nation. The laws of this country are based on the Bible. With the eradication of God, the eradication of the Biblical value of others is lost. The love and caring for others is replaced with love of self and one's own desires. This lends itself to the kinds of spur of the moment events that are in the news.
Lastly, the role models that these kids have leave a lot to be desired. Athletes, actors, musicians, you pick them. These are some of the most dysfunctional people we have in society. They are lauded and raised up on a pedestal as what we should strive for. Brittni Spears, Randy Moss, Snoop Dogg, this is who the kids look at.
I think that all three are tied together. We need the kids to have discipline and good role models. This starts at home with the parents. Parents need to be the role models that kids look up to. they need to set the example for kids to follow. the best way to do this is to model themselves after Jesus. Of course with the secular progressive movement in America, i suppose that this will be illegal soon as well.

The biggest Price Gougers in America

I have recently signed up to go back to college for the first time in more than a decade. Holy cow!!! I hear people complaining about the price of oil, but what about the American college system? The cost of schooling goes up by double digits every year, and there is no investigation about price gouging or profiteering? If anything else, food, clothing, anything other than taxes would go up like tuition has year after year, the federal government would hold televised hearings, to show that they are "doing something." How come these terms that apply to the public, such as usury, price gouging, profiteering, racketeering, etc. do not apply to the federal or state government? Just wondering.

Big-BAD-Oil?

So, congress was "drilling" big oil today. I have a slight problem with the notion that is widely accepted that big oil is to blame for all of the high energy prices that we have to pay. The EIA (Energy Information Association) says that oil companies make approximately $.10 per gallon of gas purchased. The federal tax per gallon is $.184 per gallon with state taxes from $.20 to $.60 per gallon. Who really makes out in the gasoline racket?
I think congress should be grilled on why they will not let the oil companies build refineries and drill for the oil we have here. We have not built a new refinery in over thirty years. The demand for gas keeps rising, but our production capabilities remain stagnate. In a free market, this causes prices to go up. We have more than enough oil here in the United States to pacify our needs, but the oil companies are not allowed to go and get it because of the environmentalists that stifle any progress we have towards energy independence.
When the prices of the goods we need go up because of the added cost of getting it to the market, the government and environmentalists are to blame, not big oil.

Al Gore for Prez 08

I hear Dems who want AlGore to run for Prez agian. Really? The guy who lies in a documentary and then touts it as truth? The guy who, in 87, said that any politician that lies to congress should be instantly fired then backed up Billy after he was impeached? The guy who says in Grist, May 9, 2006,

“Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem.

“Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous (global warming) is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”

So he lied in the movie? Isn't this the same thing that Bush is accused of? An over representation of facts? The same people who claim that Bush shoud be tried for the murder of US troops and thousands of Iraqis, want to elect a guy who, if his environmental policies pass, would kill millions in developing countries? Really?