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I have successfully migrated/mirrored mikesoh.com to linuslive.com!

In the next few weeks, the two sites will look exactly similar…with the exception of the site name of course.  The articles will even be the same.  But I’m hoping by the end of July, the seperation will be complete and mikesoh.com will host my political and editorial blogs.

So why did I decided to seperate the two?  I didn’t want to confuse the message of Christ.

Many people in fact read my blog (even though they don’t leave comments, HINT HINT).  As I’ve gotten more active politically, I’m finding it important to seperate my political articles from my spiritual articles because they both have unique tones and focuses.  This is not to suggest that my political views aren’t shaped by my beliefs.  On the contrary, I have my political views BECAUSE of my beliefs.

The focus of linuslive.com is to be more personal and reflective, verses challenging and confronting.  I felt that those voices are best heard under different venues.

Take the time now to update your bookmarks.  If you enjoy reading my personal thoughts and my bi-weekly Christian essays (crosswords), please bookmark linuslive.com.  If you want to read my political editorials and essays, continue to visit mikesoh.com.  Or, if you want both, visit both!

Well, some of you know me as Mike.  Some of you know me as Linus.  Right now, there’s only one site: mikesoh.com

After much confusion, I’ve decided to split two sections of my site:

mikesoh.com will contain my political and editorial blogs.  My new site (website URL TBD) will host my personal blog entries, crossword articles, and pictures.  Both sites will run announcements.  The two sites will be incredibly different.  For one, mikesoh.com will probably run on blogger software instead of geeklog.

I’m hoping to make this change around June-July.  I’ve got to sift through a lot of articles.  I actually passed the 100 point!  Until the site is set up, please keep visiting mikesoh.com for everything!

With election season in full swing, it’s a good idea to have a refresher on the Constition.  Answers follow in the full article:

1. The President has the power to do all of these EXCEPT
   1. introduce a bill
   2. create a health care plan
   3. reduce taxes
   4. the President can’t do any of these things
2. Congress has the ability to
   1. dismantle the military
   2. borrow money
   3. decides who should be the next supreme court judge
   4. make the President to whatever they want
3. Politicians make promises that they know they can’t keep because
   1. it sounds good to people who don’t know any better
   2. they know they can blame someone else when they can’t live up to their promises
   3. "change" sounds good
   4. all of the above

 

Answers:

1. D
2. B
3. D

Surprised?  A lot of people are.  I would actually like to ask how many people have actually sat down and read the Constitution.  I’m guessing very few because of the large number of people who just believe everything that the candidates of saying!

The one that upsets me the most is "Mr. Change" Barack Obama.  Senator, as President, you won’t have the power to create health care.  You can’t.  You can’t "cut income taxes" for working families.  You can’t "reform bankruptcy laws."

The same goes for Mrs. "Health care for everyone so that I can tax them later" Hilary Clinton.  You don’t have the power to create health care.  You don’t now and you won’t if you become President.

Where do you guys get off?!  Yes, this all sounds good to the average person…but it’s only because you’re taking advantage of their stupidity!  Now, granted, there are a lot more stupid people in this country than there are smart educated people…which, I guess that’s why you want to appeal to them.

Hell, you should promise people a BMW in front of every house and a turkey on every table because your ability to do that is just as probable of you actually "changing" anything.

All a President can do is sign a bill, execute a bill, and manage the military.  (Obviously, this is over-simplified.)  The most you can do is ask Congress to create a bill; but that is no guarantee that you’ll get what you promised.  Well, I guess you know that you can always blame them for not doing what you wanted.

This past election, all these democratic candidates for the House and Senate promised "change" and to "withdraw" the troops.  They don’t advertise that their approval rating is WORSE than the Presidential approval rating.

Here’s the funny thing about both Barack and Clinton: They would have better power as legislators than as President to do what they propose.  As President, they would be stripped of this power!

Why is it America doesn’t get this?

When I was a sophomore in college, I had to learn how to cook, primarily because I had to at least once a week for my roommates.  The first meals I started to cook were based primarily on a recipe, especially ones with pictures.  I did this so that I could see if I were on the right track.

I’d get all my ingredients together, and start cooking.  For the first couple of months, I would be really nervous.  No matter what I cooked, and no matter how many times I had already cooked it previously, sometime within the middle of the cooking time, I would get worried because the dish cooking in the pot didn’t even remotely resemble the picture.  (One recipe in particular sticks my mind.  I don’t remember what I was cooking, but the cookbook showed the meal as being a bright reddish orange, while my pot was green and yellow.)

I kept telling myself, "It’s okay.  It’s okay.  You’re not done yet.  It will hopefully look right in the end."

I pressed forward in fear because I had to feed five people in 15 minutes and it was already too late to do anything else.

In the end, the meal turned out perfectly!

So why tell a story about cooking?  Frankly, I think our politicians can learn a thing or too from this story.There have been many debates about the war in Iraq.  I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard democrats saying, "The American people want an end to the war!"  I don’t know about everyone else, but I don’t!

Harry Reid, Hilary Clinton, John Kerry, et al…You do not speak for me!

Yes, I still support the war!  Yes, I still think we’re there for a good reason.  And yes, I still believe that we should have gone in when we did.

In the last month, there have been growing reports that the latest troop surge is working, that both civilian and military deaths have significantly decreased.  In fact, more and more reports are showing vast improvements about the conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan.  But democrats, even facing these reports, still demand that the troops be brought home because the Iraq war is wrong.

It occurred to me last night that democrats are like me when I’m cooking: they are stuck in the recipe with 15 minutes left and they are panicking because the meal doesn’t look like the pretty picture.

I’ve asked this before: why does it seem that the democrats can’t see pass the present?