Heroic Officer Saves Three from Fiery Death

Sometimes we are so focused on what is going on in life that we forget to stop and take a look at those who help in ways we often can not comprehend. That is why I am stopping and taking some time to notice Police Officers that do it right and save those in need.

Officer Roger Roseberry of Vinton, IA risked his life on April 23, 2008, when he came upon a 2 story house on fire. Officer Roseberry entered the ground level of the house and found two women trying to leave, the women told the officer that there was another person in the house, but the person was trapped on the second level (where the fire was the worst,) and could not get out.

The officer then went to the front lawn and talked to the man, and tried to encourage and convince the man to jump out of the window. The man refused and said that he could not do it, after many attempts to talk the guy out of the fire, the officer went to one of the neighbors and retrieved a ladder, climbed up to the man and then helped him down to safety.

Officer Roseberry said he was doing what any one would do with evident humility. If there was only enough people with dedication and honor to supply police forces nationwide!

The True Scandal Behind the AIG Bonuses!

Ok, so I am like everyone else, AIG is paying their people hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses, AIG took bailout money, should AIG give those bonuses, I say no, but should the Government tax an individual group for doing something it disagrees with? NO, it should stay out of the way, keep its hands off of business, and stick to making sure our borders (and everything in between,) is safe.

This is the problem with what is going on, the current administration is looking for a new boogieman to go after. AIG has a current contract (with the government,)  that they are allowed to pay the bonuses after accepting the HUGE CRAPULUS bill that was supposed to fix our economy.  Senator Chris Dodd, (D-Connecticut,) is the loudest one screaming about the bonuses, yet he is also the one that put the exclusion clause in the bail out contract. SO what is really going on?

The government is successfully distracting people from what is really important.

The United States has just monetized its debt, the estimate is that it will spend 1 trillion dollars to cover Securities and bonds. What does this mean? Well. . . It means that the U.S. Treasury is printing money (with no backing,) to cover our national debt. What is the immediate effect of this? Gold spiked 50 dollars an ounce when this was announced and then it jumped another 60 dollars today, and it is going to increase even more. The dollar is being destroyed by our elected representatives.

This is not the first time in history of the world that this has happened, the USSR did it, the National Socialist Party in Germany did it (NAZI PARTY,) and the most recent country to do this was Zimbabwe. Take some time and look at what is going on in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, and how it is effecting his people.  This type of action is a last ditch effort to stop the hemorrhaging of a country’s finances. The government has been spent into submission, Clinton, the Bushes, Obama, and congress is to blame. But not only them, we are to blame, we elected them in to office, and then we turned off our minds and turned on American Idol. We were told we can trust them, so we did, and that is what we get when we trust our government.

So what can we do now that we are standing on the edge of a cliff with a leash and collar on? We need to communicate. We need to tell people what is going on, not using fear, but using facts, we need to call our representatives and tell them to stop and start cutting the spending and taxes to encourage local spending. We need to tell the local news agencies to start reporting the news (all of it,) and to stop editorializing it with all the personal opinion.

Finally we need to vote in the next elections and remove the corrupt from congress, Democrat and Republican. Both sides are abusing their powers of representation, they have lost touch with the American by having their own heath care, security details, groupies, and benefits such as free gas for their cars in the basement of the Congressional Parking Facility. Rome fell because of the corruption with its senators, America is no different. When the government knows “better” than its own people, the people will suffer.

IF you feel the need to buy gold, then buy carefully, as during the great depression, FDR took all the gold that it could from the private citizenry. Should you go out and spend an enormous amount of money to buy food to store just in case? No, avoid debt, but buy a little extra every time you go to the store. Don’t get T.V. dinners, get something that will last, i.e. rice, beans, canned fruit and vegetables, or anything you can keep in a cupboard for years. Frito’s and Twinkies are not a good idea. Have a garden, seeds are available at local grocery stores, stop spending on credit cards, start pay off debt, if you are debt free, start saving money, start conserving and using less. By doing some simple steps you can make the next decade a little easier for yourself and family.

My Top Ten Fears,

I have to thank Bonnie for her great lists, (inventingmatilda.com) I didn’t even think about doing it this way, but it makes sense. Here is my top ten list of my fears. Once out I guess that I can work on them and be a better person.

1. I am afraid that my job is going to kill me and my family.

2. I am afraid that my job is going to kill my family and let me live.

3. For My Eternal Soul.

4. Not doing enough when I am called upon to help someone in need.

5. Selfishness.

6. Illness.

7. Being misunderstood (I should be over this one by now, but I’m not).

8. CAROL (You know you scare the crap out of me).

9. Shooting someone innocent.

10. Clowns, all of them.

Why my wife is wrong!

So as I was sitting here deleting all of the spam links, my wife said that I should stop writing in my blog. She said that it wasn’t for me, and that because I am not consistent in writing that I should give up entirely. Now as all wives do, she has a good point, however I do disagree with her.

Here is a good example of why she is wrong.

A few weeks ago I felt inspired to ask to speak in sacrament. I went to the missionaries and asked if they are OK with giving a talk one Sunday. Of course they said that they would gladly do it, and one of the future Missionaries that was accompanying them wanted in as well.
So. . . With volunteers in hand I went to the bishopric for a good date to talk. The Lord was guiding my path. Our First counselor said that he had a great Sunday in mind and that he had a problem with getting people to talk.

The Elders and the young man set up a musical relief of “How sweet the word,” and practice for weeks. We all divided the first chapter of “Preach My Gospel,” and prepared for the inevitable day.

Last night I was finishing my talk, I had all but one scripture set up and ready to go. I called my Brother in Utah for a little ecclesiastical help, he gave it and I was finished with a great talk.

This morning I woke up and went over the talk and put a few final touches into it. I went to Ward Counsel and added a few more things to my talk, all of which is normal when I prepare my talk to a subject. It is usually a fluid article in motion. As we opened sacrament the spirit whispered to me that I would not be giving the talk that I had prepared. Sometimes that happens, I am not an easy guy to scare, so I sat and pondered the talk. The first talk finished and I felt inspired to let one of the Elders know that he had diminished time and that he would have to cut it short. So I told him.

The second talk finished and the spirit whispered to me that I would stand up and tell the ward that I knew that I was going to speak in advance but to say that I had not prepared enough and that I am sorry and then to sit back down. At first I dismissed the revelation and tried to think about what I was going to talk about. The inspiration came again, and I decided that I should follow it. From the second talk to the third I received no revelation, during the relief hymn I leaned over and told the first counselor that I was going to confess that I was not prepared to talk and that he should do nothing about it. He said “OK,” but had a very worried look on his face. I felt the exact same way, I had not received any insperation on what to talk about, I felt as if the heavens where closed. We are new to the ward and I knew that when I did this and did not give a talk it would destroy our family’s reputation for years.

I got to the pulpit and began explaining that I had known that I needed to prepare a talk on missionary work, but I had chosen not to, and now I was sorry, but I did not have anything else to say. I went and sat down. As I sat down I started to receive what I was supposed to say in my talk. The spirit the told me to wait a few seconds and stand back up and give my talk.

I stood and immediately began to tell the ward that as uncomfortable as it was for me to do that and for them to wait to see what was next, it would be much worse at the judgment seat of The Lord. When we all stood face to face with our Savior and explained that we had received the calling but we had decided to not prepare and help those who are searching for the truth. We would have to explain to Jesus Christ why some of our neighbors and friends had to wait until someone else came along and told them about the purpose of life. That awkwardness that we felt in the chapel would be nothing compared to the despair of what we would feel at the feet of The Great and Eternal Advocate.

I went on to tell the ward that they were at a crossroad. On one side was greatness, on the other was destruction and weakness. I counseled that we needed to work with the missionaries, follow the promptings of the spirit and continue in the work as we know we should. The talk took the exact amount of time as needed, the blessing and warning were given, either to the damnation or salvation of my ward.

I am thankful for this learning opportunity. I learned that to trust in The Lord and all will be as it should. The only scripture I used in my entire talk was D&C 62:3. It was about how when we bare our testimony the angels in heaven make record of it and we are forgiven of our sins. It was the scripture my brother was able to produce. What great blessings we are given, if we just do as we are asked eventually it will work out.

SO. . . That is why this blog is going to stay up, this is a place that I can go with my feelings, my emotions, and my spiritual triumphs and share them with the ether of the internet. Even if no one reads this I will know that I have been uplifted and taught, and that is what really matters.

Memory Game

Here’s the drill (This one’s kind of interesting…)

Play along if you wish, the memory can be about Steve, Shea, our monkeys, or all of us!