A perfect storm...

Notice that I don't refer to it as the perfect storm. That's for other men to proclaim.

More on this in a moment, I need to churn my thoughts a bit...

I am an unapologetic Independent. The left side of the aisle has some good, the right side has some as well - and it pains me to say that since I feel as though they abandoned me so long ago. Ditched by the loud-mouth dogmatism of the conservatives.

By declaring publicly that I am independent, over Michael Medved's vocalized judgments, I realize that I stand alone. Frankly, that is when I do some of my best work - so I am fine with island politics.

This storm that is brewing, has my attention. And as a practicing member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I realize that some might be quick to jump to the conclusion that by storm, I mean signs of the times. To that I answer, well, I am not a prophet and moreover, I don't really dwell on the doom of things. My day to day life has enough slings and arrows and I don't really have the time to follow the rantings of Mr. Beck - Mormon or not (apologies to those whom I love dearly who, for their own benefit, worship Mr. Beck). So, signs or no, my storm is mine, I define it as I see it, quite subjectively.

I picked the word storm, because storms allow you to prepare, even if they come quickly. Storms are also temporary, some very damaging, but generally they are necessary to the growth/life-cycle of our planet - of our lives.

What portends this storm? Here are some of MY observations of the skies;

1. President Obama asked to expand the Consumer Product Safety Commission from 3 to 5 members and advanced a request to increase their budget by 55%. The CPSC keeps your kids from eating plastic. I think that it's my job to keep my kids from eating plastic. Not the Executive Branch of a Democratic Republic.

2. Health care reform is right around the corner with sweeping policies that will water down medical school training and establish panels or commissions who will decide on things like whether or not your treatment, age and condition warrant government/health care intervention. I believe it's my job to take care of my body. If, God forbid, I am dying, then I deserve the very best care that I can afford, and the treatments that work - regardless of what big pharma lobbies for legal and safe. There are medicinal practices that have been healing and saving long before the sophists in white coats and black robes gathered together and created a curriculum for job security and certification.

3. What caused the economic downturn was the willingness for good men and women to lie to get things that our parents had to work very hard to earn. And once our parents earned it, they stayed put, made do or did without. They strove to be good people, not to live in what was perceived to be the finest or safest neighborhoods (that was a shot over the bow of the boats that shipped out to a place called Surprise, Arizona). Now that they've been caught in the lie - when I say they - I mean anyone who lied - the Executive and Legislative branches of government have taken it upon themselves to solve it. I believe in correct principles and self-government. I believe that if I decide to cook a grenade when I've been told not to, I will live the consequences. If anyone argues "nobody told them the consequences" I just scratched you off my Christmas list. Nobody told me how to raise my kids, and in spite of how I was raised - maybe in some cases because of - my children are amazing.

4. My great grand children will pay taxes on the expansive nature of our government. Their liberties are being stripped away as their spirits reside with my Father in Heaven. Liberty is most sacred and I believe it is an eternal principle. Here's where I yell...AND WHEN MEN AND WOMEN, PEOPLE IN THE FLESH, PLAN AND IMPLEMENT POLICIES THAT USURP ETERNAL PRINCIPLES THEY ALIGN THEMSELVES WITH AN ORIGINAL PLAN TO MANDATE AND MANIPULATE PEOPLE INTO CHOOSING A PATH THAT THEY OTHERWISE MIGHT NEVER CHOOSE. DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR TO ANYONE - MOST ESPECIALLY MY FELLOW LDS? GOSH! NAPOLEON DYNAMITE GOSH! This means that the present governments, beginning 1918 (see the original Panic leading to a Depression) believe that we - middle-brow citizens - are incapable of walking and chewing gum. They think - they being both parties - that we can't fix this. WRONG ANSWER, THANKS FOR PLAYING, PLEASE RESIGN. We can. Just get out of the way, please. Seriously. Leave. You wicked wicked people - GET OUT.

YOU GOOD GOOD PEOPLE - in the words of the Spartans (yes Dallas, I know a thing or three about Spartans)- GET IN OR GET ON!

I've tried to take the time to think this post through. I realize by speaking out against the present elected officials, my conspiratorial theorist friends warn that my name is on a list. Look, I've been on lists my whole life. Mr. Hayes, former principal at Basalt Elementary can attest to this.

I want to make sure that I don't come off the slightest bit RushBeckiSean. Those permanent residents of Dou#(%@*#!*^an are cacophonous sirens in the moors of conservatism spewing talking points that their ghosts edit for personality. (that was pretty good wasn't it?)

I know that our lives are going to continue to change. I expect my Savior to come sooner rather than later and I look forward to it - I miss Him and I know He will unite us, because He loves us, in a way that will resolve and allow us to create - reach our potential.

A perfect storm is brewing. Please be prepared to love one another, to do battle willingly for these things we hold dear. Most especially for our families, our country, our God and our liberties. Be ready to clean up and move forward. Be obedient Jarret.

I smell rain...don't you love the smell of rain?

Storms are brilliant!