The governor tried to correct this budget mess with California propositions.  Government employee unions and the voters rejected his propositions to control the budget.  Now, we have a mess.  Our governor does not even take a salary, because he believes in the State of California.  He is a real action hero in my eyes.  He is trying to do the right thing, but the career politicians in Sacramento will not cooperate.

Governor Schwarzenegger used the term Girlie Men in reference to politicians who could not stand and do the right thing.  He caught some heat over this remark, but pressed on.  Our governor can be entertaining sometimes.  Now, it is time to get down to business on the budget.A few years back, the governor called reluctant politicians Girlie Men.

The term was first used by Schwarzenegger in the 1988 Presidential election, accompanied by then Vice President George H.W. Bush. He was shown attacking Bush's opponents, saying “They all look like a bunch of girlie men, right?" He repeated it in the 1992 election, then campaigning for President Bush, again applying it to the Democratic candidates, as seen in the documentary Feed (1992) by Kevin Rafferty and James Ridgeway. He used the phrase again on July 17, 2004, where he stated "[i]f they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ...' if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men."[2] He would use the term twice in the speech.

United Church of Christ needs to be saved from itself.  The latest controversy regarding Trinity United Church of Christ has raised some serious internal problems. 

I am a member of United Church of Christ and have been for almost 20 years.  This being said, I plead ignorance to what was happening at Trinity.  Now, it is up to the faithful in the pews to stand up for what is just and call for the removal of Trinity from the United Church of Christ.

There should be no room in our denomination for Trinity's Black Liberation Theology and their relationship with Louis Farrakhan.  The following is part of our Statement of Faith.   We need to return to this model.

United Church of Christ Statement of Faith in the form of a doxology (In Part).

We believe in you, O God, Eternal Spirit, God of our Savior Jesus Christ and our God, and to your deeds we testify:

You call the worlds into being, create persons in your own image,and set before each one the ways of life and death.

Sen Obama has been at Trinity since 1991.  The theology at Trinity is different than most congregations in the United Church of Christ family.  This being said, Sen Obama has every right under our constitution to worship any place he wants.  Furthermore, I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state. 

On the other hand, Trinity has created a separatist type of spiritual and intellectual church organization.  Should Sen Obama be elected to represent all Americans, when he belongs to a separatist church that praises Louis Farrakhan?  I will report you decide.

In 1991, when Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, he pledged allegiance to something called the Black Value System, which is a code of non-Biblical ethics written by blacks, for blacks.

Overall, Sen McCain will make a better president than Sen Obama.  However, Sen. McCain must change his Iraq policy quickly.  Most Americans want our troops out of Iraq sooner not later.  So, his 2013 date for withdrawing most of the troops is off target.  Someone needs to tell Sen McCain that America wants to move more quickly to get the troops back home. 

I respect Sen McCain's dedicated service to America over the years.  However, he needs to be aware of American opinion on the Iraq War.  If he loses the Presidential election, his Iraq War stance will be the reason. 

Breaking News: McCain sees Iraq combat over, U.S. troops home before 2013

In a speech he's about to give shortly at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Ohio, Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, will for the first time talk about a specific date for when he envisions direct American military involvement to be over in Iraq.

It's January, 2013. By then, he says, American combat involvement will be over and most U.S. troops back home.

Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe for close to 30 years

Zimbabwe is a mess.  It cannot feed its people and the health care system has broken down.  No one wants to invest in this country.  This is sad.  Jimmy Carter should go to this country and try to bring about a positive change.  Since Carter is responsible for the current draconian leaders of Zimbabwe, it is time for Jimmy Carter to step up to the plate and broker the departure of Mugabe. 

According to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, Morgan Tsvangirai won 47.9% of the vote, with Robert Mugabe taking 43.2%