Thomas Jefferson Quote on Lawyers

"I should apologize, perhaps, for the style of this bill. I dislike the verbose and intricate style of the English statutes... You, however, can easily correct the bill to the taste of my brother lawyers by making every other word a "said" or "aforesaid",and saying everything over two or three times, so that nobody but we of the craft can untwist the diction and find out what it means; and that, too, not so plainly but that we may conscientiously devide, one half on each side."

-Thomas Jefferson, The Real Thomas Jefferson

This quote makes me think of the 2,000 + page health care bill, and the fact that no one but a lawyer could understand it.

Pearl Harbor

Today is the 68th Anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Empire. Some were in Idaho during that time there was a young man who's life changed as did many others throughout the United States. Because of this attack, my grandpa fought in the biggest war in world history. This attack effected everything about the United States. War was declared on the Empire of Japan and in turn Germany declared war on the U.S. America had to stretch its military forces on both sides for protection. Millions died in this war where young men were sent to fight for their country. The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941 changed the lives of many including that of my grandpa's.

Obama's Afghan Decision

Wyoming Aunt and I had a conversation this evening about the way the United States is fighting the war in Afghanistan. Because Wyoming Aunt isn't going to blog about political type things, I will blog about some of the things we talked about.

President Obama finally made a decision on Afghanistan, but it wasn't a good one. Our president choose to make America's presence in Afghanistan similar to that of the Vietnam War. He will send more troops to fight, but in eighteen months they will be slowly pulled out. Neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives of this country should be happy with this decision. Soldiers in Afghanistan now have no real reason to be there. They will sacrifice their lives and die just to be pulled out in less than a year and only to allow Afghanistan to return to its previous chaos. President Obama would have made a better decision by either completely pulling American soldiers out or leaving them their to go and finish what was started. Instead Obama choose to allow soldiers to die for no real purpose. If I were a soldier at this time I would feel very resentful of the way politicians choose to use my patriotism.

What Is This World Coming To?

I just recently read on Fox News the story of three Navy Seals being charged with crimes against one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq. This terrorist is the one who was behind the brutal killings of four American Blackwater security guards. The three Seals are being charged with assault because one of them punched this killer in the face. I don't know about you, but I am surprised that a punch in the mouth is all this terrorist got. This world has come to the point were terrorists get off the hook while Americans, who did their duty in protection of their country, are punished.

"Sustain the Constitution"

"Sustain the constitution of the United States. The Lord himself has said that he raised up the very men who prepared it to the end that it might be an example to all the world. Do you beleive it? If you do then sustain it and don't let your voice be among those that shall deride and break down the things that are so important for us." -Elder George Albert Smith, 1935



Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints should be the first ones to stand up for the Constitution of the United States. You look at Harry Reid, who claims to be a LDS church member and you don't see him standing up for the Constitution. The Constitution is important to us, as members of the LDS church. Without it's great principles the LDS church and many other churches would not be allowed to practice what they believe and hold their meetings.

The fact that the Constitution was prepared by God to make this nation an example to the world is amazing. When people in this country are ashamed to be an American because other countries don't like us they don't realize that those countries are corrupt and sorrowful. Many of those Anti-American countries have communist, socialist, and opressive government systems. Those ashamed Americans don't realize that the rest of the world doesn't have even close to the values and privileges that the average American has under the Constitution.

Member's of this country and more specifically those Americans who are representatives of Jesus Christ, belonging to his church, should stand for the Constitution and its foreordained principles.

Presidential Priorities

I wonder were President Obama's priorities lie when it comes to Americans. It seems to me that with his slowness in deciding whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan, he would have more important things to do. Ohh! Maybe he could visit a bunch of Asian countries while throwing important issues dealing with Americans on the back-burner. I would think that the President of the United States of America would be more concerned about the safety of Americans than a tour of communist China. In fact I often wonder when the president isn't speaking somewere or on some type of a tour.

Veteran's Day

My grandpa was a veteran of World War Two. He volunteered for the army after returning prematurely from technical school. He figured that he wouldn't be able to get home sick in the army, so he decided to join on March 3, 1942. For some reason or another he choose to join the tank core. That decision may have saved his life. He was placed with the 77th division of the United States Army Reserve. His division was based out of New York City and was a very famous division in World War One for it's "Lost Battalion". He left the states and was sent to Hawaii were he trained and waited for deployment into battle. My grandpa fought in the Philippines, Guam, and Okinawa. He had many experiences were his life was spared and many that were too horrible to forget. He received two Purple Hearts, one for being wounded while on a troopship when a suicide Japanese submarine hit the ship and the other was during the battles on Okinawa.

Once the war was over he came back to the states married my grandma and had five kids one of which is my dad. He worked as a rancher for the remainder of his life and was always involved in politics.

To me my grandpa is a hero. Not because he earned metals, but because of the fact that he sacrificed time, pleasures, and risked his life in the service of his country. I am grateful for all of the veterans and those now serving to protect our country. I hope that we as citizens will make the United States worth fighting for just as it was when my grandpa served his country.