--RPC, Houston, TX

--RPC, Houston, TX

--RPC, Houston, TX

--RPC, Houston, TX

--RPC, Houston, TX

--RPC, Houston, TX

(another book about Vlad Putin. this is the fifth in the CCLSC library)

The current FSB is more powerful and dangerous than the old KGB as Vlad is determined to make Russia the greatest power on Earth. So, beyond the scary stuff in this book, I have just one BIG question: Why have we been so STUPID as to essentially turn over the Space Station to them? We paid for 90% of the $85 billion to build it, we have no way to get to it now ourselves, and the Russians say they will probably let it fall and burn up in the atmosphere because they don't have the money to support it! They have decided that Space Tourism is the way to open up space development. They are right because tourism will develope space as a capitalist future. They have begun a program to build and launch some hotels in space. The Russians and the Chinese are smart enough to embrace capitalism while we are STUPID enough to embrace socialism (or islamo-facism or whatever this Democrat CRAP is). What we should do: We must build a booster system to get the Space Station to a much higher altitude, say 1,000 miles. There it will stay up for a hundred years. It is now orbiting at just over 200 miles altitude. Our Skylab orbited at over 300 miles altitude, and it came down about 5 years after we abandoned it. With the much larger size and area and lower altitude of this station, the ISS will probably come down less than 9 months after it is abandoned. We need enough politicians with more than two brain cells to understand this problem. We used to be the HEAD of all nations; we are rapidly becoming the TAIL (see Deuteronomy chapter 28 in The Bible).

-- RPC, Houston, TX

If you think Congress will pass a BBA, boy are you a fool. Yes, they will vote on it, but both Democrats and Republicans know that it will never pass in their chambers. Both parties have too much vested interests in bloated spending. That spending gives them JOB SECURITY as they BUY VOTES and raise campaign money from BIG COMPANY A and BIG INFLUENCE B. If the Republicans had been serious about this amendment, they should have demanded the wording say "a balanced budget amendment SHALL be sent to the states". Instead they only got an agreement to VOTE on one. After that vote is done and the bill is voted down, the matter will be over until the Republicans begin the next debt limit crisis and ramp us up again for "maximum effort", "pour it on with your phone calls", etc. We don't have time for this crap. We work. And we want a government that works smoothly in the background without tying up all our time with campaign hype, rallying the troops, and constant worry over the vote dramas we have to endure. We don't want to buy a new TV set every few months after we've thrown some heavy object into the previous one!

The real problem is that we CAN'T amend the Constitution! It has several MAJOR HOLES that need to be closed, but there is no way for 'we the people' to get any control of our government back from Congress. Why? Because Congress is the bottleneck when it comes to amending and upgrading the Constitution. Congress will NEVER send a term limits amendment to the states for example. Thus we have a PROFESSIONAL POLITICIAN CLASS. Congressman John Conyors has been in office for 39 years! Senator Byrd had the record for the longest serving Senator. In his last couple of years, he probably didn't know what planet he was on! Congress will also NEVER give us (or ALLOW us children) a balanced budget amendment. Printing TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS of increasingly worthless dollars suits their interests (democrats especially) just fine. You and I lose as we get poorer and poorer. And soon we will be no longer talking budgets in terms of TRILLIONS but in GAZILLIONS!

So what is the answer? Are we doomed to sink in the ashheap of history? Every pundit has written his or her book on "The 10-point plan to save America"/ NONE of them will work. All plans to lance the boils and bleed with leeches won't save the patient. The virus that is eating the patient must be killed first. And the virus that is killing us is the bottleneck of Congress. After getting our spiritual house in order as per my series of articles "Our Deuteronomy 28 Moment", I think there is really, politically, only ONE way to save the country. It is a way no one else has thought of. We need just ONE AMENDMENT, and we need to get it past the bottleneck of Congress somehow. We need an amendment that will allow amendments to the Constitution to be proposed by each State's legislature. Any State could send an amendment to all other States and, if 3/4ths of all States adopt it, then it will become part of the Constitution. This is the ONLY way we will EVER get term limits, balanced budgets, protection from world communist treaties, changes in the very structure of elections, a true definition of the role of courts, and any other problems that may be seen. If we can all get hyped up for just this one last massive campaign, we may not need to continue the seasonal hype-up drag again. Getting this one amendment passed (and I don't know exactly how to do it) should be the ONLY FOCUS of the tea party movement from now on. Whatever else the tea parties do will be just more waste of time and energy.

--RPC, Houston, TX Tues, August 2, 2011

Forget the two Republican women, Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, who could be the Republican nominee next year. I don't believe either has any chance against Obama. It's not because of their ideological position(s). Their conservative ratings are impecable and I love them both for that. The problem is is that a candidate for president must meet two requirements: 1) he or she must have what I will call "presidential persona", and 2) he or she must have adequate HEIGHT. Yes, you heard it here for the first time. HEIGHT is a characteristic that no-one else has considered. When comparing any two candidates for any position, the one who is taller has an automatic edge. Barack Obama is 6'- 3". John McCain was much shorter. Both had (have) "presidential persona", but I bet that Barack's height was even more of a subliminal factor in the voter's minds during the debates than was McCain's age as the conventional wisdom suggests.

Sarah Palin has the adequate height, but I believe that she lacks presidential persona. She has too many goofy facial expressions and mannerisms and a general overall persona of a kindergarten teacher talking playfully with her kids. She could overcome all this with some professional coaching, though. And there are some moments when she seems to have great control. But, for now, we will have to wait and see.

Michele Bachmann has presidential persona, but she has one major shortcoming: SHE's SHORT. She is 5'-1" tall. Barack is a full 14" taller than her! She almost borders on "midget" for a woman. Can you just see the debates next October 2012? Viewers won't hear a word either candidate says because their minds won't be able to get over the shocking difference in height between Barack and Michele. And no-one will want to vote for a president who will be so physically embarrasing to the world. She can serve best by staying in the House of Representatives.

Of the remaining men, only two who are now in and two who are not yet in have any chance of beating Barack. Rick Perry and Donald Trump probably have a slightly better than even chance to beat Barack if one of them is the Republican candidate. If Trump runs as an independent, though, we will probably have four more years of Barack. The other two men who could win are Mitt Romney and (surprise!) Tim Pawlenty. We all know the usual pundit coverage of Romney as the presumed front runer, while Pawlenty is dismissed as a dull, boring dud. But hold on about that. Pawlenty might be the emergent surprise candidate of the year. After the first Republican debate in May, most pundits agreed that two and only two debaters had "presidential personna". They were Herman Cain and, yes, wait for it. . . Tim Pawlenty. The second debate on June 13th, caused me to realize the major themes of this article. As we gazed along the line of the heads at their respective podiums, two candidates' physical characteristics were glaringly obvious: Michele Bachmann was by far the SHORTEST while the tallest was . . . Tim Pawlenty. Pawlenty is, I would guess, 5'- 2" and may be 5'- 3" which would make him equal in height to Obama. And, actually, his height may go a long way to explaining why he has done so well winning elections as a Republican in one of the most liberal states in the country. Romney appears to be about one inch shorter than Pawlenty. We had better not assume that this election will ride solely on ideology. People vote for sometimes the most FICKLE of reasons. They may have a SUBLIMINAL attraction to Barack because of his height and we'd better take that into account! All the other candidates are also too short to beat Obama in that October 2012 "swimsuit contest".

As it turned out, I was right when I pointed out Duncan Hunter last February 2008 as the only man who could have beaten Hillary (or Barack -- same thing).

Why don't we try WISE this time instead of naiivete?

--RPC, Houston, TX Saturday July 30, 2011

"The Political Side of Judgment" -- (cont'd)

Again, why did this (Obama's "election") happen to us?

Barack Obama is an enemy of The United States. He is a soldier of islam. Our situation today is as if we had elected some German General to be our President in 1944 while we waged war with his country! Are we the biggest fools who ever lived? And you actually believe that the best way to get rid of him is through elections? The self-deception is deep and wide! M. Scott Peck suggested in his book, The People of the Lie, that another form of evil can be defined as lying to oneself. A whole population can also, I believe, fall under this form of evil. When we, as a nation, fail to face up to evil and root it out, as we no longer fear God because of the worship of material substitutes, and as we fail to keep ALL of The 10 Commandments, we will see more and more buffeting by Satan and his demonic forces as our 'wall of protection' is gradually removed. You think you know terror? Wait till you see what Satan has planned for us! It's not God who is punishing us with 'Disasters of National Scale'. Rather, He is leaving us to Satan for a while until our preachers finally figure it out.

So, I find myself not watching much FOX News anymore. It has become the 'Sex and Murder Channel'. I record the shows on my computer so that I can breeze through them later in case there might be a rare segment worth watching. Sadly, the lament by Sean Hannity that "Journalism died in this country" has become just as true of FOX News as it has of the leftist media. God is slow to anger, but after 235 years for the life of this country, I fear His boiling point may have been reached!

Republicans in the House of Representatives should ignore liberal Senator's objections to spending cuts and just pass the best budget bill they can. The Constitution does NOT say that The Senate has any ENFORCEABLE say in budget matters. The budget is the ONE kind of bill that The House can pass alone. Read it in Article One, Section 7: "All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, but the Senate MAY (MAY -- MAY -- MAY [as in "MAY" not "MUST"]) PROPOSE (as in "NOTHING BINDING") or CONCUR WITH amendments as on other bills (does not mean this process is the SAME AS for other bills). Bringing The Senate in on original budgets is only a recent COURTESY.

So, Reps, just pass something and send it to the guy currently occupying The Oval Office (since you believe him to be president) and let him veto it. Then, if you have the votes, override his veto. The Senate, according to Article One, Section 7 would also have to have a 2/3 override which they would not do. So, if you can't override, then make some slight change to the budget and send the "new" one to The Oval Office. Continue this process every week, if neccessary for the next 17 months. You will expose Obama and democrats as the blocker of progress, or, at the least, you will force him to forego any more of his lavish vacations as well as the twice-a-week-campaign trips he takes (as Karl Rove pointed out) since if he leaves The Oval Office for too long (10 days), a bill would automatically become law. Of course, each bill must be presented to him IN PERSON ONLY IN THE OVAL OFFICE much as any attorney would do when serving papers on an opponent. Please Republicans, this may be the only way to save the country.