Ted Cruz

The world has come to an end. But it’s not the one you were thinking of.

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I woke this morning to the sun shining and the birds singing.  I was surprised to wake up at all.  After the Supreme Court ruled yesterday that same sex couples could have the same right to marry as heterosexual couples all I heard from the religious right was that it was the end of times.  God was going to inflict his wrath on the evil Americans for doing such an abomination.  Well, maybe the rapture did come and I just don’t know it.  After all, anyone that knows me knows that there is a good chance that I would be left behind.  But I started seeing Facebook posts from my Christian friends so I figured that meant one of two things.  Either the rapture didn’t come or maybe they weren’t as God fearing as they thought.  Obviously it was the first option and there was no rapture and my friends are good God fearing Christians.

So, why no rapture?  Could it be that God is not as upset as they think?  After all the U.S. is the 21st country to make it legal.  If the first 20 didn’t piss off God why does anyone think that the 21st would?  Could it be that a lot of people think the world and the afterlife revolve around America?  America, a country residing on a continent that the people who wrote the Bible didn’t even know existed.  Yep, that America.

That being said people still think that homosexuality is the ultimate sin and will bring an end to this world.  Maybe not today but soon.  I’ve even seen people calling for Jesus to come soon and remove them from this hell that we call earth.  Yes, I know, those are the same people praying like crazy any time they are faced with a tough time or life threating issue and thanking God that they or any loved ones were not killed.  I guess they want the end of times but just on their time schedule.

This leads me to the big question.  Why do Christians think that Homosexuality will bring about the end of times while so many other horrific things that have happened on this planet have not brought about the end?

Mao Zedong had a reign of terror from 1949 to 1976 which led to between 49-78 million deaths.

Jozef Stalin’s reign last from 1922 to 1953 and he systematically killed 23 million people.

Adolf Hitler in the pursuit of the master race killed 17 million people between 1934 and 1945.  Nearly 6 million of those were Jewish people, Gods people.  Which made up 67% of the Jewish population.  67% of the population wiped out.

On August 1945 the United States dropped two nuclear bombs.  The first on Hiroshima, Japan killing 140,000 people and three days later dropped another one on Nagasaki, Japan killing 80,000 people.

None of these horrific events brought on God’s wrath.  And these are just events from the 20th century.  The world has a long history of horror and terror going back as far as any history book can depict.

Then you have Senator Ted Cruz, a Conservative Christian, who called the last 24 hours the worst 24 hours in United States history.  Think about that for a moment.  In the last 24 hours millions of Americans were allowed to keep their health insurance and also two people who love each other of the same sex can get married.  Please tell me how that could possibly be worse then 9/11 or Pearl Harbor? How?

If all of those acts of terror didn’t bring the end but letting two people love each other does?  How does that even make sense?

Then it occurred to me.  It’s not the actual world coming to an end that the Christians are talking about.  It’s their world coming to an end.  A world of privilege and prestige.  A world where all that they believe is the law of the land.  A world where they can look down on anyone that is different from them and put them back in their place.  A world where you must believe the exact same way as they do.  The thought that someone different than them is now, by law, treated equal to them spells the end.  The Supreme Court which for years and years ruled in their favor has now ruled against them and they can’t believe it.  They now dispute the Supreme Courts authority.

Now keep in mind this is by no way directed at all Christians.  In fact it is directed at a very small but very vocal segment.  Yesterday I saw a lot of churches and Christians acknowledge the event for what it was.  Progress and hope that maybe we are going in the right direction and recognizing that giving equal rights to all isn’t a bad thing at all.

So yes, the world has come to an end.  But what a better place it is going to be going forward.

Love wins.

Oh those pesky facts.

Ted Cruz and the horrible, awful, ugly executive order

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In an interview with Breitbart News Senator Ted Cruz said that if elected President one of his first actions will be to undo all of President Barack Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders.  Ted Cruz is the first of a long list of Republican Presidential hopefuls to throw his hat into the ring.  Others who may follow include: Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Fox News, and Carly Fiorina, just to name a few.  Ok, you got me, Fox News isn’t going to run.  I just wanted to make sure you were paying attention.

I’m going to give you the quote directly from Ted Cruz

“The next 20 months are going to be very dangerous because President Obama, unfortunately, seems to have decided to disregard the United States Congress and disregard the American people and instead is trying to force through as much of his extreme agenda as possible via unilateral executive actions-and I think we’re going to see that only accelerate through the end of 2016 with more and more unconstitutional executive orders, more regulatory abuse and more and more efforts to go to the United Nations and foreign war tribunals in an effort to end run Congress.  In January 2017 we will have a new president and if I am elected president, the very first thing I intend to do on the first day is rescind every single unconstitutional or illegal executive action from President Obama.”

Now, Executive orders have been used by all but one of the former Presidents of our country.  The one not to use it was our ninth President William Henry Harrison who was only in office for one month before his death.  Harrison was also the first President to die in office.  In fact prior to President Obama 15,052 executive orders had been issued.  The record holder for the most used is Franklin D. Roosevelt with 3,522.  In recent years Ronald Reagan used 381, George H Bush used 166, Bill Clinton used 364, and George W Bush used 291.

Barack Obama is currently sitting at 208.  Now by the time he has left office he may well surpass Ronald Reagan but I can’t blame him.  Look at the congress he has had to deal with.  When you are dealing with Congressmen who openly said it was there job to make sure you don’t get re-elected you know you aren’t going to get to much cooperation from them.  Congress, over the last 6 years, could go down in history as one of the most inept of all time and Ted Cruz has been right at the forefront of it.

Looking through the list of President Obama’s executive orders I’ve yet to find one that spells the end to the country as we know it.  I did see one that probably pissed the Republicans off.  It’s EO 13673 “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” -here is the link to see all of President Obama’s executive orders – https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-orders/barack-obama/2014

This got me thinking.  First, when did executive orders become illegal and unconstitutional?  I’m guessing that Ted Cruz would put that date at January 21, 2009.  Why that date you ask?  Well, that is the date when everything changed.  The good ole Old White Guy Club was crashed.  A Black man was inaugurated as President of the United States.  So, what was perfectly fine in the past had to know be illegal.  What used to be praised must now be viewed as an abuse of power.  You want to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants?  You want to try and negotiate with Iran and dismantle their nuclear arsenal?  You can’t do those things President Obama, only the white guys before you were allowed to do such a thing.  Now you want to use executive orders?  How dare you.  Who do you think you are? Hitler?

It just physically hurts sometimes reading the ignorance that comes out of most of these Republican Congressmen.

Secondly, Ted Cruz sees it as his mission if elected president to undo what President Obama has done with all his illegal executive orders.  How does Ted Cruz plan to do this you may ask?  With executive orders of course.  Now, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t see the irony in his actions.  But then again I’m sure he will see executive orders as being a legal and constitutionally sound way of getting things done now that a white man is back in the Presidency.

Those pesky facts.