As I listened to Sen. Obama's outrageous monologue, I had to hit my keys here and just at least write out the many reasons that Barack Obama is a complete novice when it comes to foreign policy-and why he is a complete and absolute whimp.  If anyone listened to this speech who has a clue about history, and the world as it is, they know that the problem in the world right now is I-R-A-N, plain and simple, without question.  First, Sen. Obama shows how 'tough' he is by stating, "I have never said I would talk to Hamas, Hezbollah, or Al Queda.  Really? Good for you.  But, he then states, "I would talk directly with Iran."  Here's the problem: HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH WORK FOR IRAN!  Someone might say, "Aha, I got you, how about Al Queda?"  Gee, haven't heard from them in awhile...oh, yea, that's because our military has them in some crag in Afghanistan wondering how they are going to stay relevant.   Meanwhile, Iranian rockets rained down on Askheldon yesterday and Iranian weapons are staging a military takeover of Israel's neighbor, Lebanon.  So, let's look at the scorecard folks-Iran funds Hezbollah's assault on Israel's northern neighbor, and the Iranian-funded Palestineans squeeze Israel's belt in the middle and fire rockets at it...and Sen. Obama has the audacity to say he'd have lunch with their boss? Not very becoming of an American president.

What I think is interesting also is how Sen. Obama is 'reacting' to the comments that drew a standing ovation at the Kenesset.  First off, he takes something that didn't even have his name in it, and puts his name in it.  "I will engage President Bush and John McCain in a debate about foreign policy anywhere, anytime, any place.  Bring it on."  Those are certainly fighting words, but it's obvious Barack Obama has never been in a fistfight in his life.  For those of us that have, we understand a fundamental principle-don't start stuff, and there won't be any stuff.   Sen Obama might as well have walked up to the Big Show and jumped in his face to talk trash.  The problem is, Sen Obama is weaker on this issue than any other, and would lose miserably to John McCain when it comes to foreign policy in the eyes of the American people.  People like myself who have been in a fistfight understand something--a bully needs a punch in the nose before he will listen to what you have to say.  I have many friends that I whacked a few times before they decided to find out I was a good guy.  Historically, this is what took place in our history--we whacked Britain around, and then they wanted to start trading cotton instead of cannonballs.  We whooped up on the Mexicans and Spanish and then they decided they would sign NAFTA and send workers over.  We wiped out both Germany and Japan, and now they are some of our strongest allies.  Common thread? We had to gain their respect and get rid of their psychotic leaders for them to understand who we were.  This has been the consistent foreign policy of this country, not going in and sitting down with our enemies first, and this is what Sen. Obama has said he would do.

So, does Sen. Obama really want this fight with those who have practiced the real constant foreign policy of the US--show the respect we deserve and then we'll talk?  I don't think he really wants that---he's just like the little guy on the playground who challenges the big guy to a fight and then gets whooped and tells everyone 'yea, I'm not afraid of him, see me fight him?," and this is exactly what he wants--to look like he can fight a war--against a lame duck president who never batted an eye when members of his party called the President 'A rogue Cowboy' and 'Practicing gunboat diplomacy', and the man who will be his opponent in the fall.  Only problem is, he keeps putting up his fists while trying to keep his nerd glasses on his nose. 

Obama calls what George Bush said 'the politics of fear."  My question is, who is really afraid?  I think I know, and he won't keep his rose-colored glasses on long if he decides to get into this fight--bring it on, wimp!

I am very happy to write today.  I saw something today that was a very special icing on the proverbial cake of my life. Tomorrow evening, Jews all around the world will begin the celebration of Pesach, or Passover as it is known in America.  I found out I was Jewish a little over three years ago, after years of being a Christian and a licensed minister.  This discovery in most homes would lead to a total existential meltdown in most households, but not here.  There's so much in the media and in society that highlights every and and difference between Judaism and Christianity. No doubt that there is a sorted and undeniable history that anyone who knows anything about the world must deal with, but much of those things were done in a previous or several previous generations ago.  Let me say again that anyone who used G_d as an excuse to kill is a murder of the worst sort, no matter what religious affiliation they mask it under, and those Christians who murdered Jews, said things against Jews, from Martin Luther to Jeremiah Wright--they sinned, plain and simple, and have brought a curse upon their congregations and those who follow them. 
Today was the opposite of those actions.  I watched the Pope attend Shabbos services at Park East Synagogue.   It was not only historic, but heartwarming and awesome, and I hope it fosters more and more cooperation between the two true faiths in the world--really, the one true faith

See, there is one God, as the Shema states, Shema Yisrael, Adonai Elohenyu, Adoni Ehad." Hear O Israel, the Lord G_d is one G_d, and he is our G_d.  This is the foundation of our faith, Jew, Christian, Muslim.  We all desire to serve the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob.   There is one way to serve him: follow his commands, or mitzvot as it is said in Hebrew.  Those are as simple as Yeshua(Jesus) said: Love the Lord G_d with all your Heart, Mind, Soul and Strength, and Love your Neighbor as yourself. 

This is the answer to all the questions.  How do we fight terrorism? How do we solve the global economic crisis? How do we help others?   See the text above.

In a day when radical Islam is the great threat to our world, global worship of G_d is the cure.  The secular world and those who want things to fall into chaos have a vested interest in separating the great religion.  Did you forget the S you say? No, not at all.

Jews and Christians worshipped in the same place for 300 years after Jesus' death--the Roman government separated us, not G_d or the dedicated believers. There is a synagogue in Jericho that was paid for by the apostle Peter's grandson.  My pastor has been there, I will see it myself this year in person.  Jesus never wanted to create a religion named after is Greek title, no, he wanted to be the Torah completed in the flesh, and his followers to do so.

Look at Acts Chapter 15 if you don't believe me:  James, the brother in law of Jesus and leader of the Jerusalem believers said of the new Gentiles coming in:  "The rest they will learn, for Moses is preached in the Synagogue every week."   This is what Jesus wanted, and his apostles practiced.   It was the pagan Constantine who separated us by the Edict of Milan in 323 AD, outlawing and changing the Sabbath day to Sunday--the day he worshipped his pagan god Apollo.  This was the deathblow for the original followers of Jesus---and the Catholic Church was born.

The rest, as they say, is history.

What is now however is the growing movement for Christians to get back to their Jewish Roots, for Jews to embrace their younger brothers and stand with them politically and spiritually against the perversion of Islam and the radical element's desire to wipe Israel off the map.

Like I said before, I found out I was a Jew three years ago.  I found that out because my church, and my pastor, preach the importance of the Jewish Roots of the faith.  This sparked my interest in my family's history anew.  I had knew that my Spanish family was offically 'Catholic', but that they never practiced Catholicism.  I began to see pictures and learn things from my grandmother.  Her grandfather wore the tallis, ate kosher, never worked on Saturday--she remembers candles being lit on Friday night.  

Long story short, my surname, Martinez, was a designation for the Conversios--Jews that were forced to convert to Catholicism in Spain during the Inquisition.  So it was offical...but it didn't change a thing.

I had already began eating Kosher, celebrating Shabbos, praying with the Tallit, giving Tsdekah.  Now it was a heritage, not just a faith.

Many Spanish families share my story...and many Christians are understanding our story.

Passover celebrates the formation of a people, the death of slavery, and the freedom given by a loving G_d who began a heritage, a people, a nation.   That nation, despite the devil's attempts to kill it, has survived.  Those who have touched the apple of his eye no longer exist.  

As I watched the coverage, I thought of the revolution beginning before our eyes--the uniting of the one true faith, the one of love, the one of goodness, the one of prosperity, and the one of power.

This is the greatest story, and it needs to be told to a world that is consumed by darkness so often.

He is one G_d, and He is our G_d.

Jimmy Carter is a former president, Peter Griffin is an obnoxious but funny character on the Fox Cartoon satire Family Guy, and the FLDS is a cult group that just got busted in San Angelo, Texas.

What could these three people/groups of people have in common?  Glad you asked!

As it has been well reported in the last few days, former president Carter is sitting down presumably having brunch right now with the leading terrorist in Hamas.  This disgusting scum of a man said last week that, "The Zionist and their supporters(namely the U.S.) will soon see the victory of the Islamic heroes(them, I guess).  Apparently, this is a comment worthy of the legitimacy of the highest political office(whether he's a former president or not makes no difference), in the world coming for a photo op!  Well, at least that's the idea that they have, which they've made very public and clear.  I guess the hair-filled ears of Jimmy boy never got that memo since he's going to find out something that none of us know: What Hamas wants.  Really? Does anyone not know this?  Apparently, the US State Department does, and so do most of the senate of either party, and so do the governments of France, Italy, the U.K., and Denmark(yes, Denmark, the most liberal post-modern state in the EU!).  Heck, even the UN, who doesn't seem to know anything at all, understands what Hamas wants! 

But no, not frmr. President Carter.  You see, despite the fact that it has been the foreign policy of this country that the current President of the United States decides on who we talk to and who we need not bother with, Jimmy Carter wants to live in an America where someone who's very life the American people now pay for can completely disregard this policy and talk to the leader of an organization who will not be reasoned with in their intense desire to kill everyone who does not believe it's okay to murder in the name of G_d.  He wants to willingly talk to our official enemies--he wants his own country within our country.  A former US commander did the same thing with our enemies during the Revolutionary War--his name was Capitian Benidict Arnold, and he was convicted of treason, which is exactly what would happen to Jimmy Carter if we really enforced our laws. 

This leads me to Peter Griffin.  I probably have seen more reruns of Family Guy than any man alive.  I saw another one last night early in the morning.  It happened to be the one where Peter finds out that his house was not officially part of the tax rolls of Quahog.  Peter's response? To succeed from America and found his own country, Petoria.  It's a pretty funny episode.  Stewie ends up in a diaper made of newspaper, Lois ends up teaching homeschool, and the whole deal ends when the army commences operation Bomb the Crap out of your House(sorry, the guy who makes up the names was on vacation), and Peter finally decides to become part of his own country again--and for his trouble, he ends up with nothing he didn't have before--the great fortune of being part of the USA and being able to raise a family how he sees fit.  Again, an individual who wants a country of their own within this country.

What's not so funny is the FLDS cult that has been busted in San Angelo, Texas.  This documented mess has been playing out before our eyes in the last week or so. over 400 children(all girls by the way, no boys--hmmm....)  all married or promised to be married to about 6 55 year old men with Rip Van Winkle beards and beer bellies.  Fox News gave the 'mothers' of this group the opportunity to tell their own story, which they took advantage of and used to make everyone listening feel guilty about the 'abuse of these people taking away our children.'   You feel for these poor women, knowing they're completely slaves to the will of their twisted husbands, but their request to get the children back and to have any chance of seeing them again is utterly ridiculous.  Why?
Simple, it is illegal in this country to marry more than one person in this country in any state.  Bigamy laws have been around since the early 1900s, and when I hear people, like one lawyer on the Fox program Studio B with Shepard Smith say, "Why are we forcing our values on these people, they shouldn't have us push our ideas on them, " I want to scream.  No matter what your religious, political, or moral views are, you cannot violate the laws of this country and live here without penalty.  I have experienced this on something as minor as speeding: I didn't pay my tickets, and I ended up spending three days in jail.  It was horrible, humiliating, a bit excessive I thought, but absolutely right. I live in the US, and in this country, if you don't pay your legal duty with your pocketbook(even though I could not afford it) you pay with your butt--in prison.  I recognize that, I live in the US, and love that I do. These people want to live in a country inside this country where you can marry and have sex with a girl who does not have the physical or emotional or legal maturity to do so.  The problem is that country does not exist, regardless of how 'sweet' or 'helpless' one may be.

Jimmy Carter and the FLDS could learn something from Peter Griffin: you might get away with it for awhile, but you cannot live in your own make-believe USA and the real USA at the same time.

Peter and Jimmy have one more thing in common:  The only support they have is from the Quadaffis, Jong-Ils, Castros, and Bin Ladens of the world.  Maybe Peter should have had Jimmy over to his pool party with all the despots.  I'll have to write Seth McFarlane and see if he'll draw him in there somewhere. 

I don't know what happened to TownHall.com this last week, but I could not get on to blog, and at a time I could have wrote a book on the events of the weekend!  I think everyone who might read this knows about the comments of everyone's favorite candidate, Barack Obama, and how everyone is 'bitter' because they lost their job and 'cling' to guns, religion, etc, etc...so basically you know you're a redneck in a red state(or small town according to Mr. Hope) when you go to church, have a gun rack, and don't like illegal immigrants taking jobs from legal(and hence better qualified) workers.  I guess that's the conspiracy in those small Penn. towns right? All the rednecks are getting together and declaring in their town hall/kkk venues, "We're bitter about everything....so we aren't gonna vote for that Obama feller--he wants us to actually have hope--but he's black, so we sure aren't voting for him...Heil Hitler!" 

It's amazing to me how these 'conspiracy theories' are certainly 100 percent accurate when a black senator says them....or when some jackanape like Alicia Keys comes out and says that Gansta Rap is a conspiracy to make black people kill each other made up by white people(including her mom I guess) and the government.  Especially in minority communities, where some of the most ignorant people are.(They choose to be ignorant by the way, I grew up there and chose to be educated) Rev. Wright said AIDS was devised(which if it was devised in a lab, why doesn't another lab devise a cure so they can make a worldwide profit that would make the oil companies look like my small business in comparison) by government scientists to kill blacks and hispanics.  Again, it's the white people's fault(again, including his mother--which is overlooked by everyone, all these conspiracy blacks are half white, just like most of us--I'm a bit of everything, so yes, I can say that), and that's real right? 

Yet, when Geraldine Ferraro comes out and says that Sen. Obama's campaign is successful is because he's black, she's a card-carrying member of the KKK if you believe the people who support Obama.  I am so sick of the fact that when a black person bumps his gums and says something ridiculous, it's fact, but when a white person says something, it's obviously because they are a closet racist and they want to let the world know---really?

Bob Johnson of BET came out yesterday and said the same thing that Ms. Ferraro said, and it's amazing how I have not heard a peep from Jesse(Jackson) or Al(Sharpton)--or really anyone.  It's hard to argue with a self-made billionaire...black, white, or indifferent.

There was a time when we ignored people who brought up ridiculous ideas like those above, but in the you tube era, it seems everyone's theory is true.

So what are the facts? Depends who you ask right?That's just the problem--we're so afraid to be wrong in this day in age, so quick to blame someone else for our problems, that we as a society have replaced fact and truth with conspiracy, of course, only if you're Black, or a Woman, or some other 'oppressed' minority.

The facts are this: Bob Johnson decided not to believe the conspiracy, along with so many others who aren't in the ghetto anymore, who rose above, who  decided to be better, not bitter.

The bitter ones are those who choose to be so.  Whether they cling to guns, or communism, or the idea that it's all 'the man's' fault.

Here's what I cling to, with no bitterness: G_d, the idea of real hope and change that I can make, and the truth of the fact that I live in a free country where I can change my life and others in the scope of one day. 

I know what's it's like to be down, to struggle, I'm doing it right now: but what I have learned from years of playing football is that the struggle is the practice for glory to come when success is made--the problem is, many of the liberal people in this country believe that the game is rigged.

They can keep believing that--I will go after my victory, and eventually, I will win. 

I know others will win with me, and they will cling to their victory, not bitterness.

I mentioned in my first entry that I am a huge sports fan.  Sports have been a huge part of my life, I've been playing football since I was 8, I still am playing arena football as a professional.  The life lessons sports has given to me are things I couldn't learn anywhere else.  Sports and politics seem to bleed into each other more and more, and I don't know that it's healthy for either genre.  I see this especially when I look at these media-hogging protesters who have this insane idea that if they somehow make the Olympic torch go out-China will say, "Oh my gosh, you're right, we're sorry for the last 50 years, well hello Dahali (Lama) !!!."  It's amazing how these people all of a sudden are bound and determined to end what is certainly a wrong-headed and brutal occupation of Tibet when it has been going on for more than 50 years.  I guess they think that China will bow to world pressure because they are hosting this event, since they're so responsive to the outside world.  
Two words to the protesters: GET BENT!


Furthermore, now Democratic politicians are finding a way to spin this to blame it on President Bush.  That would just be added to him being responsible for the Iraq War, Terrorism, Katrina, the Economy(but only now when it's been bad-not the good 6 years), Hurricanes in general, All diseases created to kill black people, the situation in Darfur, and oh yea, the decline in Starbucks' coffee's quality.


Hillary Clinton is calling on Bush to boycott the games, which is totally hypocritical.  She didn't have a problem with China when she went over there in 1998 to glad hand the Chinese premier during the UN's conference on human rights.  Then it was only smart policy to "Talk to the Chinese and let them know our concerns."  Of course, this is what the President has said he is going to do, but now it's an "endorsement of China's human rights policy."  
I guess this is what is called a 'political football'.  Only problem is, one who is supposed to be on our team is running toward our goalline, not the opponents.


Please don't get me wrong, I am not for China's brutal oppression.  They treat their own people like dogs, anyone remember Teninnamen Square?  This has gone on for years, and will go on, Olympics or not, protests or not.  Actually, the protests are a bad strategy if you know anything about Far Eastern culture standards.   The concept of Face is as important in China as the American concept of justice.  When you burn Chinese flags and attempt to run down the torch-bearer(who by the way, has nothing to do with China or helping them oppress Tibet), that makes the Chinese lose face, and not in a good way. 
The question that is more important however to me is this: Do these self-proclaimed reformists and revolutionaries actually care about the people of Tibet, or the rest of China, which is equally oppressed and starving?  Or, like I suspect, do they care more about the idea that they are part of a 'movement' that makes their pathetically selfish lives legitimate?  I tend to see the latter.
How can I say that? Well, again, I don't see them doing anything constructive.  Are they contributing to funds to help Tibet? Are they committing their time to anything to help Tibet other than making something that should be celebrated throughout our world-the Olympic games-like writing to our officials to take real, effective action against the wrongs of China?
How many products in their house are made in China?  Your pocketbook tells your priorities.   I don't have a German luxury car, and I never will.  As a Jew, I will not spend my money and give it to companies that helped the Nazis kill my ancestors. 

The biggest problem I have with these actions is this: These protesters obviously do not know their history, or how powerful a sporting events like the Olympics can be.  No one listens to protests that counts because of this reason: the same people who protest would protest anything if someone convinced them to--the protesters really aren't dedicated, disciplined, or powerful.  Athletes, however, people listen to, even if they don't deserve it, because they are(or should be) those very things.
Let's go back to 1936 and Jesse Owens.  He showed Hitler that he was a fool, even if it was for a brief moment.  Same with Joe Lewis--the 'white knight' that Hitler said would dominate the boxing competition was stopped in his tracks by the Brown Bomber, and this stunted any claims that Hitler's Aryan supremacy could possibly be legitimate.
On the other hand, the boycott by president Carter of the 1980 Olympics only lead to another boycott--and it had no effect on helping us rid the world of the scourge of Communist Russia.  Then they boycotted our games---a childish act that was provoked by our childish act. Far less impactful than our 1980 whooping of the Russians in the Miracle on Ice at the winter games.

This is my point: The Olympics may be hosted by China this year, but they are not Chinese. The torch has nothing to do with Freeing Tibet.  Let the Olympics go on, let President Bush be in China when everyone else in Western society is pulling out, he'll actually be listened to by the stubborn Communist Chinese.  Furthermore, let the athletes run without controversy, and let's see if the areas where the Chinese Olympic teams are normally dominant if the world does not send them a message--the whole world will be watching, and the actions and words of those athletes will be far more powerful than some college student who doesn't even know where Tibet really is trying to snuff out the eternal flame.   G_d knows that the Chinese will not win, because they are not right--but we must beat them in this world the right way- with determination, discipline, and passion--not another protest.

I woke up very late today, I felt terrible after a long night.  At around 3AM in the morning, storms rolled in a woke my wife and I up from a dead sleep.  We had not gotten to bed much earlier, but it still messed up my schedule.  After waking up and immediately being a little upset with some business matters, I turned on the television and saw the CNN broadcast from Memphis.  I was quickly reminded that today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  I watched a few minutes of the radio broadcast (Forgive me, I do not know the name of the radio show host--I'm sure if you're a liberal you'll label me a racist for not doing so--but you better hold on to your hat later in this blog, I'm going to punish you for that thought) and turned after I heard comedian Mo-Nique say, "Ya'll, I truly believe that equality can start when Barack Obama becomes the president."  I almost threw my computer at the TV.  My wife said to me with her amazing candor and insight, "And so this is what Dr. King died for."
Let me tell you what I know about Dr. King---more than you, period.  I know no one has read this blog yet(so the computer tells me) but for those of you who will, since this is the second entry on this blog, I will qualify that remark. 
I began to study Dr. King's work for the first time when I was 8 years old of my own volition.  We had one of those 2nd or 3rd grade reading projects about some figure in history, and I chose Dr. King.   I read whatever biography they had in the Alpharetta Elementary library, and began to ask my parents questions---a door I'm so very glad I opened, for it has been one of the most important discoveries of my life. I have given A+ reports on Dr. King in Jr. High, High School and College.  I have even given a speech in a black church(my church-where I received my license to the ministry) on Dr. King's birthday where I had people in my congregation tell me they did not know the things I said about him until I gave the speech.  Again, this goes back to my parents.
You see, my parents didn't just live at the time of the Civil Rights movement---they were inside the Civil Rights movement.  They were the Civil Rights movement.  My mother and father were a mixed race couple in Montgomery, Alabama and eventually Auburn, Alabama.  My father's family knew George C. Wallace and his whole family went to school with my mom and pop--the Wallace daughter had a crush on my uncle, who ironically for the idiot segregationist governor, was Hispanic.  Rosa Parks worked for my grandmother--NO BS--no exaggerations, I have the pictures.  My mother went to school and had Blacks and Whites asked her on a daily basis--"What the hell are you?"
The first black students in Alabama to integrate went to Sydney Lanier High School--with my mom and dad.  My father played with the first black football players at Auburn University-James Owens(LB) in 1969 from Fairview, AL and Thomas Garrison(S) from Birmingham--they came to Auburn of their own free will--they both got Graduate degrees and from all I know were or are successful young men--if you read this and are part of their families, I'd love to hear from you. My father and your fathers were good friends, and teammates.
Maybe that's why I am so passionate about this topic and putting it out there for what it really is.  I have been a football player since I was 8 years old also, and I've never, ever, even considered if my teammates were black or white.  All I've ever cared about is if they wore the same color uniform as I did.
Here's a secret America: All of us are on the same team--we all should be proud of wearing the same uniform--the uniform of the freest and most democratic country in the world.  Yet, what we see today, and what I heard from Mo-Nique, and other blacks in this nation, is not even close to Dr. King's dream.
I read another blog on townhall yesterday, the six things that are true about race we are afraid to say, and it was very on-point. So, the question today--of all days---is what is racism?  What makes you a racist? 
Here's what does not make you a racist
-If you are white(sorry, but many people think this is the first qualification--and it's as racist as ideas come)
-If you notice that people of different races talk, act, or think differently than you and you don't understand.
-If you are white or black and don't support Barack Obama--I'm sick and tired of this one-Mo-Nique, he's not the answer
-If you don't know every influential person in another's race's background or lore
-If you're a Republican--in fact--most Republicans are far less racist than Democrats

So what makes you a racist?  You make like not these qualifications, but with my background, I am qualified to make them:

-If you vote for a black, hispanic, asian, or any president solely because of their race, you are a racist.
-If you believe that 'acting white' or 'acting black' are viable terms, you're a racist
-If you call someone who doesn't agree with Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton's opinions an "Uncle Tom", you are a racist
-If you are Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farakahan, Henry Ford, Adolf Hitler, David Duke, Strom Thurmond, Maqmuhud Aminajhad, etc, etc---You are racist--without a doubt.
-If you look see a white kid with a black father or vice versa and have to take a second look-you're a racist


-Most importantly: If you would not let your daughter date or marry someone of another race because of their race: you are a racist.

Yes, I said that.  Don't like it? Well, you are what you are.

It stormed today in the south---it only passed by here in Texas--but the storm is pounding the deep south today, and that is not a coincidence--just like the fact that our worst hurricanes follow the tradewinds that brought the slave ships from Africa to the Southern US shores.  These curses must be broken-spiritually and physically.

The Bible puts it this way, "Anyone who says, "I walk in the light," but hates his brother, that person is a liar and still remains in darkness (1 John 2:9)

My pastor's version says it this way," You can't lift your hands and sing, I loooove you Looordd....but I hate that honkey(ni**er/spic/kike/guinea/yellow/etc---yes, all the ugly words are there...they are all equally ugly) next to me!!!"

Liar...not  from me...from God.  You stumble in the darkness, fall utterly.  Doesn't matter if you're black, white, etc...because you're still in Darkness.

So far, this political campaign has brought nothing but darkness in reference to Dr. King's dream--a majority of that coming from the candidate that supposedly is running on "Hope".

Dr. King would be appalled at how many times people have been called 'racist' by his campaign.  Especially with what he has said about whites in his book.  But such is the racism of this day.  Sen. Obama does it, my parents-in-law do it.  If you saw them in public, they'd never even hint to the fact they are racist...but if you saw them at home, you'd know. 
Not because they'd use an racial word, or wouldn't talk to a person of another race---but because they expect you to treat them differently because of their race.

This is racism, this is what Dr. King lost his life for.

Not for the KKK morons no one listens to....not for the Black Panther party who are the real "Uncle Toms" because they embrace the ideals of the very Islamic militants who began the slave trade...no...the masses of people who politely snub, talk down to, act differently, or won't go to church with those 'other' people.  These were who Dr. King was most angry at in his book.

Storms across the "Memphis Sky".. "Free at Last....They took your life...they could not, take your pride.....!!!!"

May we all take a hard look at ourselves, in the name of Love.




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Hello....
Anyone listening...?
Really listening...?
I hope someone is, it seems in this day and age everyone has a blog, from the nation's best and brightest to, well, those who are not.
I know former students who have blogs with a million hits, so I figure it can't be that hard, but then again, I'm not a popular senior in high school that is going to post racy photos.
So who am I and what am I doing here? (No, I'm not copying Ross Perot's vice presidential candidate, I'm sane, unlike he was)
Glad you asked, let me give you those answers.
I am a man, a real man, honest to goodness, red-blooded, non-metrosexual, red-meat loving, football playing, big, strong, hairy man.
If you are already offended, get ready to be really ticked in a bit!
I am an educated man, thank G_d,(Yes, I believe in him wholeheartedly, and no, I am not a brainwashed religious flake-far from, and if you thought that to begin with--I'm your worst nightmare.) but unlike so many in my generation, I don't define 'education' as blindly accepting the rantings of ivory tower professors who have never been anything but...well, Ivory tower professors.  My late father(may his name be of blessed memory) told me at a young age, "never let anyone tell you what something says, read it for yourself," and I was crazy enough to believe it.  That doesn't mean I'm anti-intellectual, or that I don't listen to the learned, I just don't think they are always people with certain prefixes attached to their name.  In fact, I've learned more about life from people who's first name (to me) are Coach, Pastor, and Rabbi(yes, both Pastor and Rabbi are in that sentence--more on that to come).
Maybe it's better to say I am informed.  I read, alot, and about many things....but I pay particular attention to what I'd call 'culture shapers'--you know what I mean--politics, sports, entertainment, art, and religion.  As one who is informed, I have an opinion. I know you don't have to be informed to have one of those, you only have to have a...well...you know, but that's what a bit different about me, my opinions are informed, strongly, and powerfully.  I wouldn't have it any other way.  
So, what am I informed about, and what has this information caused me to conclude?
1) I am a proud Christian and Jew(like I said, more about that at a later date), a licensed minister for that matter, as well as a very patriotic American(no, really, not some nut job who thinks it's okay to bash our country and claim to be a patriot), Southerner, Hispanic, White, African-American(Yes, I am mixed in the most dangerous way, the way that actually sees life without color first--just wait, you'll see) athlete and intellectual.
2) I am proudly conservative politically (yes, go ahead and label me--labels are supposed to let everyone else know what the product is--but if you label, you better be right) and I'm young! I know, all young people are card-carrying, Barack Obama obsessed, tree-hugging, Toyota Prius driving, Al Gore reading, The Hills watching far-left Liberal loons!  Wait...except ME and so many others who the media does not pay attention to.  What's better is I was a liberal, an atheist and I know all the arguments, all the spin, and LOVE to take on anyone who wants to see if I know my stuff!  Not because of some ego-driven wish to show off, but because so much of what my generation believes is PATENTLY FALSE and stupid, and it's because their parents were afraid to tell them how they got to where there are, my wife's background proves this. (Yes, I'll share sometime, have your kleenex ready).
3) I am TIRED of people who share my views who let those on the other side say and do anything at their expense and get away with it.  I'm a fighter( and at 6'0 and 320 pounds, I can do some damage) and I'm tired of screaming at my TV when I watch Fox News and hear some of these fools talk!  Give me an opportunity to punch back and I'll land the knockout blow! You'll see as we go on.
4) Believe it or not, I hate religion, brainwashing, and much of what the "Western" church teaches and practices.  Not because I don't believe, but because I know that the truth is not what we are pushing, and not what G_d would want...there is a better way that one group of people has kept since ancient days, and that is relevant for now(More later...yes...I know...said it before)
5) What else...oh yea, capitalist, Yankees fan, Cowboys fan, Mavericks fan, Stars Fan... aspiring arena football player(yes for real), big Star Wars fan, Lord of the Rings fan, The Matrix Fan. The movies have a lot to say to us if we'd look at them.
6) I love the study of history, and we are repeating it as we speak, dangerously so.  We don't know it because most of us(especially my generation) have never really looked at it.
7) I am a revolutionary, and I am writing this with every intention of drawing more recruits to my side...whatever it takes. 

Such is the Mad Bear.  Why Mad Bear?  Because people have described me as such since high school.   I 'm big, ugly, hairy, loud, strong, love to eat, and will slash my enemies to death if I need to(figuratively speaking of course.)

Expect strong opinions on this blog, and if you like them, great! If not, then let me know too, but if you want the bull(or in this case the bear) you'll get the horns(paws--you get the picture)

I will say things you've never heard before, and I hope you'll look into them for yourselves.

I will always be relevant.

I really am a loving person, and I will share my life with all who ask...what you'll see is that my journey has been rough, still is, but I know where I'm going, where G_d has me, and what I want to do.

I am concerned about the direction of this country.  If we really think that becoming Europe is the answer to our problems, or think that radical Islam is not a problem because most Muslims are not radical, or that electing a man who has less experience in running anything then I do knitting or dancing ballet, or that the solution to life is dependent on the government...well...we will be in bad shape in the next ten years.

Look at our history....it is 1939 all over again,  but most of the people I know don't understand what that means.

It's not as bad as the media would make you believe....in Real Estate, in our economy, in our cities, or towns. 

I won't let hate-mongers and psychos have a free pass here...I will call them what they are, and slap them in the face if I can so their message will go where it belongs...in the garbage.  My wife is working with me on not reacting 'emotionally' against somethings...but like I said...I am a man, so it will happen, because no one else will.

Bears are cute, you have to admit--so am I at times, or so I'm told.  I don't mean to be offensive sometimes, but sometimes I'll hopefully make you smile.

We will talk about race here...why? Because I am one of the few people in the US who is confident enough to do so...helps that I'm mixed race--really mixed---Puerto Rican, White, Cherokee Indian, Jewish, and African-American.  Guess what? You likely are too, you just don't know it.   I grew up in the Ghetto, went to college in the Country, and live in the City....no one will accuse me of racism here and be able to substantiate it? Why? Because I don't care if my son or daughter marries a black, white, red or brown person...and most of you do...which makes you more racist than me.  Not to accuse, but you will get it when we talk.

I hope I can bring light to the darkness in this world, for this is what G_d has made me for....I will just do it Mad Bear style...

Ya'll come back now, ya here? More to come!!!