KSL Radio Doug Wright Has Jason Chaffetz All Wrong

Doug Wright for all his savvy can't understand Constitutional restraints on commissions and czars and how those unelected officials undermine democratic processes!

Congressman Chaffetz was against the 12-man commission of this newly hashed-out budget proposal, but couldn't get a word in edge-wise for Wright's blabber about if Congress can't get it done, then we should bring in the Big Guys.

No, we do NOT need more appointed elites deciding about our budgetary future!

These Tea Party junior Congressmen have held the Good Ole Boys' feet to the fire, made the process transparent, forced the debate into the open, into the public eye, and made a dictatorial president come to the table contrite instead of intransigent in his ideologue positions.

But what we don't need to do is put this process of dispensing of public funds into the hands of small group of appointed commissioners.

I can hear Obama's advisers now: Whatever you do, get it out of the hands of the people and into the hands od a commission - away from the public eye; get rid of this rigorous debate and of making Congress and the President vulnerable to open exposure to the electorate.

This shift of power from the Congress to commissions and appointed czars is a dangerous move away from exposure to The People!

The good that comes from all this haranguing is that The People have been more involved. The Elitist role in deciding everything has been diminished.

Jason Chaffetz was incredulous that Doug Wright couldn't understand where the real repository of power should reside - with We The People!

Come Listen to Prophets and Apostles! My Soul is Touched Deeply

Come listen to the soothing sounds of Living Water as spoken by Prophets and Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ!

http://lds.org/general-conference/watch/2011/04?lang=eng&vid=895226075001

Sheri Dew, Leather-bound Books to Score Big at Deseret Book

With the introduction of heirloom quality, leather-bound books, Deseret Book CEO Sheri Dew offers LDS Church members the chance to enshrine the best books of the apostles and prophets in their homes this Christmas season.

You run your hand over the richly bound books, eyeing the golden edges of acid-free pages and raise the tome to catch the faint telling scent of leather!

Sis. Dew has layed-out darkwood designer bookshelves from ceiling to floor, in the East Room of Deseret Book, filled with beautiful copies of Church History by Joseph Smith, The Messiah series by Bruce R. McConkie (incredibly on sale right now for half price), the 16 volume set of The Words of the Prophets, in addition to various single volumes of great interest to all members.

The numbered volumes are especially beautiful, but one can find unnumbered books among the lot just as beautiful at a lower rate.

The volume Covenant Hearts by Bruce Hafen clearly defends the proposition of a covenant marriage positioned in a stronger place than the mere contract of today's world. He defends covenant marriage against the onslaught of other social constructs.

President of Twelve Boyd K. Packer's beautifully etched volume Mine Errand from the Lord speaks clearly on various topics necessary for all members of the Church.

Her own volume thrown into the mix, Sheri Dew's God Wants a Powerful People outlines steps toward greater commitment to His Kingdom. Particularly poignant are her intimations about regular attendance to the Temple, her preferences in those solemn moments in that Holy Place, and the solice and strength to be found only there. Also lusciously bound is her If It Were Easy, It Wouldn't be Worth It.

Other bound copies include such authors as Parley P. Pratt, Elder Russell M. Nelson, Gerald Lund, Blaine Yorgeson, the English Biblical scholar Ferrell, and our prophet Thomas S. Monson.

The heirloom book section-chief told me that Pres. Monson's leather-bound copy of To the Rescue arrived today. Now we have the quality cover to match his message!

This Christmas Season, we should gather our remaining "gold and silver" and return to Jerusalem to obtain these beautiful leather books, in order to teach our children how priceless a possession is the wisdom of the prophets in these best books from Deseret Book!

Smashing Stories: Baseball and Writing

Smashing Stories: Baseball and Writing

Smashing Stories is a website of three up-and-coming women writers, who take turns churning out their thoughts, opines and dreams. Worth linking up to these three!

In England, an apartment is called a flat; an elevator, a lift; and, well, we from the United States are still affectionately called "colonists." Here in the States, we say someone is brilliant, if they do something extraordinary. In England they say (make sure you read this with a Brit accent): You're such a clever girl! [Director's notes: Elongate the "yoouu're" - nearly sing it, clip the "such," then, pause penultimately before punching "clever," and finally mulling deliciously the word "girl."]

And so it is with these three. They are clever young women forging a place for themselves in this age of electronic volubility. This blogger will always tell you of things and people, and now, of these three writers, who are, without question, of good report!

Traveling Down the Road to Serfdom: History of Socialism from Marx to Obama - Yuri N. Maltsev - Mises Media(MPEG-4 Video)

Traveling Down the Road to Serfdom: History of Socialism from Marx to Obama - Yuri N. Maltsev - Mises Media(MPEG-4 Video)

This foundational lecture on the evils of socialism by a former-Soviet economist is a must be seen by all Americans. This is one of those Best-Lectures that should inform our lives and voting decisions.
1 Socialism killed 160 million people to prove that it was a "workable" system.
2 Marx's writings were classified by Lenin in secret KGB files, they were so horrific! Recently declassified, a paper Marx wrote in 1888 in Bonn, Germany stated that there is a lot of "racial trash" in the world that should be killed - burned in the fire of socialist progress. Violence is the midwife of history.
3 Stalin said: "Death of one is tragedy; death of million is statistic." (Syntax intended.)
4 Lenin was tired of the Russian people not listening to his admonishments. His KGB director said: Take one or two out and shoot them publicly. They expanded that to 10s, then 100s, 1,000s and tens of thousands. That increased the Russian people's attention span!
5 During the 1930s, at the peak of Soviet economic expansion, the KGB were killing an average of 12,000 a day!
6 The United States people elected a Marxist-Leninist president. Obama was up-front about his politics in his book Dreams of My Father. Therein he states that his mentor was Frank Marshall Davis - a member of the American Communist Party. Davis was a close associate of Paul Robison, the singer, who was a Russian spy and was on the KGB payroll.
7 These men and others ascribed to the 1920s Communist tract: And Not a Shot was Fired, a how-to book on destroying the United States from within. Destroy the churches and the families of America!
8 George Bernard Shaw in a filmed interview stated that there many worthless people in the world, and called on science to come up with a gas that would get rid of those worthless millions. Science obliged with inventing Cylcon-B.
9 According to this former Russian economist, Michael Moore in his book Downsize This on page 27 states that the conservative writer William Safire would be raking manure in the society that Moore wants established. "We should take Moore's threat seriously."

You be very careful who you vote for and give power to in the 2010 Election.

Why We Do Some of the Things We Do

LDS.org - Ensign Article - Why We Do Some of the Things We Do

The church has a right to take action on moral issues, though some see them as political issues and apply a rubric too narrow and restrictive to these moral questions.

When a Loved One Struggles with Same-Sex Attraction

LDS.org - Ensign Article - When a Loved One Struggles with Same-Sex Attraction

A brief review of the research, and some ill-drawn conclusions, together with some loving suggestions for members.