My Letter to my Representatives in Congress

I'd like to take a moment to introduce myself.

I was raised in blue collar home, my dad was a union steward, my mom was a secretary. My parents divorced when I was six, and I grew up with all the typical pains of a child from a divorced family. I went to public school, and joined the military after graduation. I lost my stepfather in 1983 and went through a bout of depression that lasted almost 10 years. In the spirit of hard working blue collar Americans I picked myself up, and at 26 years old found myself starting at the bottom of a company, and I worked my way up from there. I've been there now for 16 years now, and am an Assistant Vice President. I put myself through college, and I make a decent living but nothing spectacular. I bought a home, the ugliest house on the block, which is a nice home now, but I had to do all the work myself to be able to afford it. I want you to understand that I have faced some challenges in my life, and I've never had a life of privilege, and I've worked for everything I have. In today's society I am just a run of the average middle class American.

Furthermore, I have never been overly political, until now. But the following issues currently before you have caused an outrage in me that I have not experienced before in my life. I now see everything I have labored for being threatened by an out-of-control Administration that has no regard for what real Americans need or want.

The Cap and Trade and the Health Reform bills that this Congress is trying to ram down the throat of America has caused me a great deal of anger. Both of these bills would be disastrous for this county, and I am appalled at your support of them. I cannot and do not approve of you selling out my future and turning my health over to the Federal Government. There is certainly a need for healthcare reform, but having our Federal Government run it is not the answer. Let me take a moment and remind you of some of the 'successes' of our other Government run enterprises:

Public Housing is appalling, Public Education is a disgrace, Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac are disasters that almost destroyed this nation's financial system. Medicare and Medicaid are broke, and Social Security is an oxymoron – it gives no security to this society. Add to this a level of corruption that makes Enron look like a model company. The US Government has proven itself to be inept at any business venture it has ever engaged in, and I cannot expect any reasonable person to believe that Health Care will get better if our Government runs it.

Please remember that you were elected to serve the people of this State, and not your political party. I want to know that you have a backbone, that you are an individual, and that this country is more important to you than Politics. I need to put this in the strongest terms; I am ADAMANT in my opposition to these two bills. If you continue your party line support of this form of National Suicide, I, as a Citizen if this country, will do whatever is necessary to defend this nation against you and have you removed from office. If it requires cashing in my Retirement so my children have a future, so be it. If I have to become a community organizer, and spend my evenings going door to door, so be it. It is your constitutional duty to be responsible for your actions and to represent your constituency. Please do your duty.

Man Made Global Warming?

And the earth was once flat too.

Science is the pursuit of the natural causes of things. It is not supposed to be based on assumptions, but rather on facts. We see a lot of things today going on under the name of science that are anything but science, they are the opinions of scientists. They use a "premise to proof" methodology, rather than a "proof to premise" method, which is what true scientific discovery is based on. The entire man made global warming farce is based on the premise that man's carbon output is the problem, and you are not allowed to challenge this presumption. But this point has never been proven. The few scientist that will brave being excommunicated from the scientific community, and having their public funding cut off, have let the facts drive their conclusions rather than a premise, and have discovered that increases in CO2 levels always follow increased temperatures, they do not lead it. Therefore, CO2 changes cannot be a cause of temperature change, but a symptom. We are racing to treat the runny nose, and not the rhinovirus.

Carbon Dioxide makes ups .54% of the Earth's atmosphere. Man contribution to Carbon Dioxide is .15% of the total CO2 in the atmosphere, which means mans Carbon footprint makes up .00081% of the atmosphere. Man cannot produce enough Co2 to make the changes that so many people are putting forward today. Furthermore, after the industrial revolution, when there we no emission controls on Factories, cars, or anything else, CO2 output from man was at an all time high, for some 40 years, and over that 40 years temperatures consistently went down.

The Oceans are the largest regulator of the amount of CO2, controlling over 80% of it. When the oceans warm up, they emit CO2, and when they cool down, they absorb it. They are the regulators of the Earth's atmosphere. There is only one body in our entire Solar System with enough power to change the temperature of the oceans: it is the sun. We are in a period of increased solar wind. That solar wind affects the creation of clouds and fewer clouds means more solar radiation on the oceans, causing them to warm. When the solar wind subsides, we develop more cloud cover, the oceans cool, and they begin to absorb CO2 instead of releasing it. There is a consistent correlation between solar activity and temperature. Solar activity is measured by how many sun spots can be seen, and astronomers have kept records for as long as we have had a telescope.

From a biblical perspective, God set the bounds of the earth, and everything moves at His decree. Our planet can naturally vary in temperature within His set parameters', and it does. Yes, because of sin man does make a mess of things (we are the only being on the earth that disobeys God), but God knew all that man would do before He even created the earth, and God will not fail to hold this thing together until He comes again.

Succat Patricus

Succat Patricus was born around 360AD at Dumbarton, Scotland. His father, Calpurnius, was a Roman civil officer, and a deacon in a Baptist church, who had been converted to Christ while on a business trip to Rome. In spite of being reared in a godly home, Succat was a wild and unruly youth, and at the age of seventeen, while working on his father's farm, he and several others were seized and carried away captive by a band of pirates. He was stripped of all he had, and was sold into slavery on an island country. Even his name was changed. It was during this dark period of his life that he remembered the Christian upbringing and bible teaching he had as a lad from his godly father, and was converted to Christ. At the age of twenty five, he escaped his captors and returned to his home in Scotland, only to find that his father had passed. He answered the call to the ministry, and set out on a missionary journey that took him right back to the island country that was the land of his captivity for eight years, to preach to his captors. In doing so he demonstrated the love only God could put in a man's heart for lost souls, and became the most famous Baptist missionary to that land in all recorded history. His writings still exist, and from them we know of his doctrine, faith, and practice, and that he held to the belief that the scriptures alone were the sole rule of all matters of faith and practice. He started well over 300 independent churches during his ministry and ordained as many pastors, and some of those churches still remained as late as 1635.

It was well after his death, some 1400 years in fact, that the most tragic event surrounding him transpired, when he was taken captive again. And just as before, his captors took away his identity. Perhaps you are more familiar with his "new" name? For this great missionary, Succat Patricus, in his post-mortem captivity, was renamed Patrick, and today is commonly known as St. Patrick of Ireland, and the greatest Baptist missionary in the history of Ireland is once again a captive. Only now you know the rest of the story.