Epic Guide|Mostly Harmless

In a response to the majority of the world refusing to acknowledge a Hamas run Palestine, Hamas has refused to recognize Israel. The US is refusing to send aid money to Palestine unless it disarms its militant wing and changes its platform from the “death of Israel” to something more pleasant. Israel is sending its last care package of $54 million, which is a literal lifeline to the Palistine government. Under these circumstances, I can see two outcomes. One, Hamas will break under the lack of funds and give in to the demands of the world. Or two, Hamas will break under the lack of funds and attack the rest of the world with suicide bombers because they feel “oppressed”. If the second happens, Israel will probably go to war and eliminate Hamas. However, of the two choices, I would put my money on the first one. Sure Hamas may still hate Israel, but you can’t bite the hand that feeds you (I once had a dog that bit me when I fed it, the keyword is had). My bet is that Hamas will sell out in an attempt to keep power.

I have decided that most of this Middle East trouble is based in the fact that the Arabic tribes for millennium have been isolated and nomadic. I the last hundred years we have created cars and TVs. So all of a sudden, great wealth and world knowledge have been thrown at them. They have shown that they can’t handle either very well. They have created an extremely wealthy elite class while the masses are poor and with out help. And on the knowledge side, they take mass media as some sort of one way pulpit to preach from. The Middle East media bashes the world, while the world media gets bashed by the Middle East. So when you have a small insignificant European county post some cartoons of Muhammad, the whole Middle East riots (in there own countries)? What’s that all about? How many times have the Muslims threatened to kill all Jews and crush Israel, wiping them from the face of the earth? And they riot over some cartoons? I’m just tired of all of this chaos; I really think the Bible is right about the whole area being the end this world.

I’ve been doing some reading, and I’m just not sure why “we the people” are responsible for the failures of New Orleans. I am tired of seeing the media and the left blame Bush and the Federal government for the failure to rebuild New Orleans. It is not the Federal Governments fault that generations of people built a city under dikes. Insurance companies don’t insure in flood plains, that’s not dumb. And at what point does the Bush ask the Air Force to attack a storm or any other “act of God”?

I’d point my finger at an inept State government (letting a high school teacher run a government?), and certainly the leadership in New Orleans, who couldn’t even run a hotdog stand.

Mayor C. Ray Nagin - “I sincerely apologize to the people I offended in this city and throughout the country,” he said. “My comments in regard to race, religion, the uptown locale and our government were completely inappropriate.” - (NO KIDDING!!)

But, to tell you the truth, the white flag should be lifted over the city, because it was the French (the Masters of the Universe) who built the city.

Another fabulous French victory!

Google takes on China Communist China is a police state that controls their citizens subjects. But lets not turn on Google so fast. I’ve read a bunch about how “evil” Google’s decision to let the Chinese government censor it’s content, and how Google has let down the Chinese people, and I’m tired of it. I believe Google is the most powerful leading edge company of the 21st century, led by young, savvy and smart people. They have a big fish to fry, and its China. Yes, Google will make money now, but just wait and see how much money they make when they help bring down Communism. Remember it was money and technology that brought down the iron curtain. It will happen again, Google’s entrance into China is a victory for freedom and liberty. The vast amounts of knowledge available to the Chinese people now, even if its censored, is a time bomb for the communist party.

Every one know Google motto is “Do No Evil”, so I find it amusing when I see lines like this.

Perhaps in the 21st century, Google now believes the Wall Street film villain Gordon Gekko was right and “greed is good.” It is hard to come up with any other explanation given Google’s flexible definition of “evil.” - Editor and Publisher

The first glimmer of hope for China, found in the open markets of Google AdWords. I went to the Chinese Google and typed in “Chinese blogs” and found this. You should give it a try, it isn’t often you get to see the start of a revolution,

Free Blogs
No Censorship just freedom of press
Write whatever you want freely www.go2mojo.com

To start my blog right, I have decided to lay down the basic political beliefs that I hold. While there are many aspects that I combine to form my political stance, I feel that it would be better for me to lay the grounding of my beliefs one blog at a time. You, as the reader, may agree with some, you may disagree with others, I don’t care, so long as you know where I am coming from when I formulate my stance for or against certain issues. In order to know why you are arguing something, you need to know what your basic values are. With that being said, one of the most basic beliefs a person can hold is their stance on self-accountability. It is the difference between communism and democracy. Either you believe that man can take care of himself or man is nothing more than a wild animal that must be controlled by the government. There are many similarities between this debate and the debate over man being good or evil. But the bottom line is, do you believe man is civilized, self-sufficient and responsibly for himself? Or do you believe that man is an animal that must be controlled by government in order to achieve civic stability? Furthermore, do you believe that man should not be responsible for himself?

If you believe that man should not be held accountable, than you have two options: one, the uncompassionate choice, man must live in the wild with other animals. Two, the compassionate choice, man must be controlled by the government. The weak must be supported by the government because they have no responsibility for themselves. If you break the law, you will not be punished but rather rehabilitated, because without accountability you have no conscience. You have no rights, because without accountability you are owned and must be taken care of by the government. Ironically, in order for the system to work, if you are the strong, you support the government, because there is no one else to do so, therefore the strong are penalized by being strong and able.

If you believe that man is accountable for himself, as John Locke did, then you believe that governments only purpose is to serve man. Man has rights over his life, liberty and property. If a man wishes to achieve greatness, it is within his reach. If a man breaks the law, he must be penalized. With self-accountability the weak stay weak and the strong prosper, however, the decision is up to the man.

I choose self-accountability, I believe that you make your own bed, you build your own house and you reap what you sow. You have no responsibility to others and no one has responsibility to you. Youre responsibility lies with you and yours (your family or someone who is a dependent of you). True, I believe that there are circumstances in which a person cannot take care of himself and should be helped, however the situation is rare. If you are able to work, than you are responsible for yourself. I also believe that we are not entitled to anything but freedom and natural rights, services are mearly benifits that are provided by a community based on their level of prosperity. Please do not misinterpret my view of entitlement as absolutes, it has a grey zone. While I may lie far to the self-accountability side I do believe there are exceptions. The government should provide basic services such as a military and public schooling. However, while I do believe in providing public schooling to the community, I also believe that you are not entitled to an education, you have to work for it.

There is no such thing as a “Christian Nation.” True Christianity can’t be delegated from a body of government. It is an internal transformation of the spirit. A government could be founded on “Christian” values but that is up for interpretation. Is justice a Christian value, or is forgiveness? And which would the government appeal to? The politics of Jesus looked very different than that of the Moral Majority, or liberal Christian ethics.

“The kingdom (empire) of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree…” – Matt 13:31-32

The word “kingdom” in Greek can also be translated as “empire”. With that in mind, this parable can be seen as a comparison between Christianity and the Roman Empire which had imperialized Jesus’ people (the Jews). In this parable, Jesus is the mustard seed. His message of love and humility spreads, and pretty soon it (Christianity) is the most powerful “empire” – not the Roman Empire. We have no records of Jesus disobeying Roman law, nor did he ever try to change the laws of the land, or do away with a corrupt system of taxation. Jesus changed people, not laws. It’s the ultimate in grass roots politics. Christianity is not liberal or conservative, it’s personal.