Brand New Creation Museum Opening Memorial Day 2007

This place looks awesome, I had a chance to go see Ken Ham back in April at a Church Conference, I got to see some advance photos of the place.

Presidents From A to Z (from 1 to 41 actually)

First off, you don't have to tell me that there have been 43 presidents (actually 42, Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms), I know that, but I found the fact that William H. Harrison (9th president) died after one month in office made him hard to rank on performance.

But the other 41 have no excuse, so here goes (I have inserted quotes from each president, if there is any political bias it is intentional-sorry):



1) Ronald Reagan. "Evil is powerless when the good are unafraid."



2) Abraham Lincoln. "I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."



3) George Washington. "To be prepared for war is one of the most effectually means of preserving the peace."



4) Theodore Roosevelt. "The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious."



5) James Monroe. "If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood."



6) George W. Bush. "Great harm has been done to us. We have suffered great loss and in our grief and anger we have found our mission and our moment. Freedom and fear are at war."



7) Andrew Jackson. "One man with courage makes a majority."



8) Thomas Jefferson. "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."



9) Richard Nixon. "Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects."



10) James Madison. "It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."



11) Franklin Roosevelt. "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."



12) John Adams. "I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."



13) Calvin Coolidge. "The nation that forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."



14) George H. W. Bush. "I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most."



15) Dwight Eisenhower. "In war there is no substitute for victory."



16) James Polk. "No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure."



17) John Quincy Adams. "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."



18) William McKinley. "Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law."



19) John F. Kennedy. "We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system, except as it is hostile to freedom.



20) Gerald Ford. "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."

21) Andrew Johnson (The goal is to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

22) Harry Truman. "Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

23) Grover Cleveland. " Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people."

24) James Garfield. "A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down to the conflict, however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success."

25) Ulysses S. Grant. "My failures have been errors of judgement, not of intent."

26) Franklin Pierce. "You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength."

27) Chester A. Arthur. "Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and President of the United States is another."

28) Martin Van Buren. "It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."

29) Warren Harding. "It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God."

30) Rutherford B. Hayes. "I would honor the man who would give to his country a good newspaper."

31) Woodrow Wilson. "There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in on word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect."

32) Herbert Hoover. "Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die."

33) Benjamin Harrison. "It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class."

34) Millard Fillmore. "The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not fit for public trust."

35) John Tyler. "Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality."

36) William Clinton. "I don't suppose there's any public figure that's ever been subject to any more violent personal attacks that I have."

37) Lyndon Johnson. "Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it."

38) William Taft. "The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much."

39) Zachary Taylor. "It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe."

40) James Buchanan. "The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men."

41) James Carter. "Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread."


This list is not to be definitive it is simply the result of my own research into the matter, enjoy, feel free to disagree, but please concede # 41 at least.

Which Is Worse?

Which is worse: 1) to be the worst president in U.S. History? 2) to be accused of being the worst president in U.S. History by the worst president?

If you want the answer ask President Bush, the current administration has been called the "worst in history" by Jimmy Carter. I guess if any one would know about worst administrations it would be him. Carter, the president whose cabinet made Ulysses S. Grant's and Warren Harding's cabinets look like the a church committee.

The prime example of this is Carter's ex-Attorney General (Ramsey Clark) who was advisor to Saddam Hussein's defense team. Besides Clark all of Carter's cabinet was filled with cronies. Carter promised to raise the presidency above cronyism but half of Carter's cabinet had helped launder money through the Carter family business into good ol' Jimmy's campaign. But of course these people were "qualified" it didn't have anything to do with their illegal practices.

In light of this recent event I will be posting my take on the ranking of the presidents in my next blog.

Resign Away

Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty has announced his resignation from the Justice Department. Apparently all the heat that DoJ has been taking over the firing of 9 U.S. attorneys has gotten to him.

Charles Schumer (the senior senator from the lousy state of New York) was quoted as saying, "It seems ironic that Paul McNulty, who at least tried to level with the committee, goes while Gonzales, who stonewalled the committee, is still in charge." It seems that Schumer is as dumb as he is liberal (which is saying a lot). It should be obvious to everyone that McNulty's resignations, and the resignations of two other administration officials, is not because they, or anyone else for that matter, did something wrong, but because the press and congress has been blowing this way out of proportion and they don't want to be accused of something they didn't do.

The press jumps on Bush for the firing of 9 attorneys for "political purposes" and ignore the fact that Clinton, on assuming office, fired over 90 attorneys, but of course Bill Clinton wasn't a political animal, heck no, but George Bush sure is. Does anyone else sense a double standard?

One would think the press and congress would "build a bridge and get over it" by this time, but once Scooter Libby's trial was over they needed a new "scandal" and so now they're waiting for the next action, that could possibly be interpreted by them as a scandal, to happen.

While, I've come to expect this from the media it doesn't make me any less mad that only the Democrats can get away with anything, including murder. Right, Senator Kennedy?

A Savior For The World

In the 2006 film Superman Returns, Superman comes back to Earth after a 5-year trip to the remains of his home planet, Krypton. On his arrival he discovers that the world has largely forgotten him, so much in fact that his former girlfriend, Lois Lane, won a Pulitzer Prize for an article entitled "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." When he gets a chance to see Lois he asks her to come with him for a quick flight. He takes her up above the city and as they gaze down on the bright lights he asks her, "What do you hear?" (Just in case you don't know much about Superman, he has supersonic ears that can hear everything), Lois responds, "Nothing." He looks at her and says, "I hear everything. You wrote that the world doesn't need a savior but everyday I hear people crying for one." I always thought that line was quite deep and especially these last few days as I read the news headlines. Here are several from today: Deadly Earthquake Rocks Chile Roadside Bombs Kill Seven In Afghan Attacks Nine Killed In Weekend Violence in Philly Tornado Levels House In Texas Panhandle Suicide Bombings Around Iraq Kill 46

If ever the world needed a savior it's now. Unfortunately, we don't have a Superman to come swooping in and save us. But as a Christian I believe we have a Super God and He can save us from ourselves. But for Him to save us we need to cry out to Him. The world by and large has rejected God absolutely, its time we who haven't got up off of our butts and did something about it.

But we can't just explain to them that God can save them, we need to explain to them why they need God. The culture is saturated with violence and sex, but God is not allowed, which means this culture has no clue about who God is and what He can do for them. It's time for a change, and this means now!

The biggest story of this past week was of course the shooting at Va. Tech, "Why did it happen? people asked, are asking and will ask. The answer is because once God is taken out of the public mind human life is considered worthless, we abort babies everyday without thinking twice about it, euthanasia is everywhere, but we pretend that school shootings are more wrong than abortions. Who made the rules of right and wrong? God.

So if you don't believe in Him then there is no right and wrong, that means you can't call what happened at Va. Tech wrong, but everyone says it was and it is (I agree). But if there's a right and wrong then there is a right and wrong rule giver and He says that killing any human is wrong, whether that life is a college student or professor, an elderly person or a little defenseless baby.
Its time for the world to rethink its position, not on guns or nuclear weapons but on God. And the Christians need to help make it happen.

Ban guns? Are you out of your mind?

With the latest school shooting incident having ocurred on Monday, liberals are once again harping about gun control. Apparently liberals believe that gun control laws would stop this violence that has become all too common place in this country. This would have the exact opposite effect actually, gun crimes would escalate as gun laws became stricter. Why? For a very simple reason.
Criminals would feel free to attack more often if there wasn't a chance that the person they attacked wouldn't whip out a gun and shoot back. The thing about criminals is they don't mind breaking the law, I sincerely doubt the Va. Tech shooter was concerned about breaking any laws. What could have stopped the madman from his rampage? A bullet. If a Va. Tech student or faculty member had had a gun on his/her person the killer wouldn't have made it very far.
The fact that any student or faculty member might possibly have a gun might even have stopped this killer from attempting anything and the 32 victims might still be alive and well.
As Brad Stine (a Christian comedian) says if banning guns works so well, "Why stop there, I know, let's ban crime." Ridiculous isn't it folks? But so is this nonsense about gun control making our country safer.

"The Big Bad Rove"

How much do Democrats hate Karl Rove?

Sorry, I can't answer that question, there are no words in the English language that describe their level of hatred towards Karl Rove. Now they are going as far as to say that Rove has been purposefully deleting emails because of incriminating content about his role in the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys (unless you live in a hole in the ground I'm sure you've heard about this).

The Democrats are furious that they couldn't get him on the Valerie Plame charge and are scrambling to oust him (or at least make him resign). Eventually everything comes back to Karl Rove, if you listen to the Democrats for too long you might end up thinking the man is Satan himself (maybe that's who Muslims refer to when they say "The Great Satan." It's not America, it's one man in particular). Rove even masterminded Hurricane Katrina, he was down there smashing levees, etc. just to make sure the poor people drown.

Personally I don't think Rove deserves all that credit. Bush called him "the architect" after the 2004 election, but if he had been doing his job right it would have been a landslide, instead of just a victory, come election night there would have been no doubts. I don't think that Rove is as clever as everyone makes him out to be, however, if it keeps the Democrats happy so be it.

Returning to the email thing, I found it amusing that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said, "Those e-mails are there, they just don't want to produce them." Well, Mr. Leahy since you are omniscient (all knowing for those of you in Rio Linda-haha) maybe you could tell us where they are? It would save the RNC and the White House a lot of trouble.

Amazing Movie!

If you see one movie this month see "Amazing Grace". I recently went to see it and came away completely impressed. Hollywood can still make good movies, and "Amazing Grace" is one of them. The amazingly true story of William Wilberforce and his fight to end the English slave trade makes a movie like no other. But enough said, just go and see it...