Lies, Energy and More Lies

The truth about America's oil supply is that we have plenty, we should be producing much more than we are, we could even be a major exporter, and we can be energy independent, but the progressives and environmentalists want us to be poor and subservient. These lies are getting old. Too many people buy them, and do nothing to expose them. Their propagation is nothing short of evil.

Get the details here, and then write to your Senators and Representatives and tell them about it:

Setting the record straight on America’s oil

Deliberately Making Americans Poorer: Obama’s energy policies hit hardest below the poverty belt

The Big Energy Lie

The Big Energy Lie, Revisited: The truth behind all that 'The U.S. has only 2% of the world's oil reserves' malarkey.

And this:

Gas Prices Are High Because the Liberals Want It that Way

On The Demise of Osama bin Laden

Many in the country are celebrating the killing of Al Qaida leader and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, and this concerns me. Not that killing the man was wrong, he certainly was evil and deluded enough that we are completely justified (An excellent article on that subject was written by Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.) and he needed to be removed from this world and sent to God, but that people are celebrating it.

After the 9/11 attacks and the deaths of over 3000 people, we were appalled to see video of Palestinians and other Muslims dancing and cheering in the streets. We thought them sick and evil for rejoicing in such violence, tragedy and carnage. Now many of us are doing the same thing. We have allowed ourselves to be brought down to their level; allowed them to make monsters of us, as well. While I'm sure this does not sit well with those who are looking for an excuse to kill us and our freedoms, their vengeance isn't really the main reason for my concerns.

What really concerns me about these celebrations is the fact that more people have died, and thus have lost their opportunities to repent, and that some other person had to do it to them, and that act must abide in their souls forever. While I'm sure that justice was done (see Doctrine and Covenants 134:8,11), and that the military operatives who carried it out don't feel bad for it, the truth is that the taking of life has a cost, whether we see it now or not, and these acts dwell in our national conscience, as well.

Osama bin Laden was a deluded and evil man, and the cause of much evil, sorrow and trouble in the world. But he was also a son of God. To someone else, he was husband, to another, he was father, and to others, friend. And while these relationships don't justify his heinous acts, our recent acts still create heartache, sorrow and trouble for others of our Heavenly Father's children. And, it's very likely that at least one of those children will rise up to avenge his earthly father--we have not yet seen the end of this drama.

But, aside from all of these things, the Lord has told us:

"Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him." (Proverbs 24:17-18)

And:

"Now, I speak unto you concerning your families—if men will smite you, or your families, once, and ye bear it patiently and revile not against them, neither seek revenge, ye shall be rewarded;" (Doctrine and Covenants 98:23, see verses 23-48 for details)

I wonder what rewards we are sacrificing in celebration of our vengeance.

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Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? (Psalms 10:1)