thaBadDawg’s Musings

If Paul Harvey was right on 10 years ago, how true is this today:

If I were the devil…

I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;

I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man’s effort, instead of God’s blessings;

I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around;

I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;

I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership;

I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies;

I would make it socially acceptable to take one’s own life, and invent machines to make it convenient;

I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that the life of animals are valued more than human beings;

I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was grounds for a lawsuit;

I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I would get sports heroes to advertise them;

I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the mind of every family member for my agenda;

I would attack the family, the backbone of any nation.

I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so does the nation;

I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movie screens, and I would call it art;

I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marveled;

I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agenda as politically correct;

I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, and the Bible is for the naive;

I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are optional;

I guess I would leave things pretty much the way they are.

I’m about ready to drop my allegiance to the Broncos. Three reasons…

1. 2 years of completely screwing the pooch when it comes to defense. Cutler was already some ridiculous number like 14 and 1 when his defense held the opponents under 21 points. That’s two straight years that Shannahan threw away perfectly good playoff teams by not upgrading the defense.
2. I can respect that Josh McDaniels wanted a shot at getting a QB he was already working well with. That being said, WHO THE EFF MESSES WITH THE HEAD OF ONE OF THE 10 BEST QBs IN THE LEAGUE?!?!?!?!?! Cutler can throw for 4k a year and you think that Cassel is an upgrade? WTF? As a side note to this point, I think that Cutler should have stopped being a whiny little bitch, but when you are one of the 10 best QBs in the league you’re allowed to go a little prima donna on your team.
3. Instead of doing everything possible to get Cutler happy again they traded him. I’m not under any kind of illusion that Cutler is better than Manning or Brady, but he’s definitely in the same league as the Choke Artist (better known as Jessica Simpson’s Boyfriend), Aaron Rodgers, Phillip Rivers or Eli Manning. I would say with who is the league right now… Cutler is definitely a top 5 QB. And Denver traded him. Denver finally got a QB they could build around and now they are back on the search. Sanchez is good (assuming he falls that far)  but he won’t be Jay Cutler. In 2 years when Cutler is really hitting his stride Denver might just barely be getting on solid footing. I’m pissed.

End result? I already like Urlacher. One of the scariest mofos in the league now that Ray Lewis is losing his step. The Bears had already signed Orlando Pace and he has at least another 5 good years on him. With a solid QB Chicago should be able to find at least one good wide out if not two, running backs are a dime a dozen, and there is no way that they don’t maintain the O line to keep Cutler safe. Peyton and Tom will age out of the system and Jay will be the man, and Chicago will be the team three-peating. I’m this close to being a Chicago fan instead of an effing Broncos fan.

Yesterday I listened to an address that talked about the addiction of debt and how we constantly are tempted to get things we can’t afford by offering to let us pay for them over time. Given the shakey economic climate that we are dealing with, (and this even applies in good economic times) debt should be a tool that is used sparingly because one shouldn’t be going into debt over every little want at the expense of squeezing things so tight it edges out their needs.

It is interesting to me that me and my wife had already decided to erradicate our debt before listening to this address and that it comes more as a confirmation that our plan has solid backing. We’re going to pay off our cars, pay off our credit cards, pay off any outstanding debts so that the only thing we have to pay on, on a consistent basis at least,  is a mortgage. We need to be building a surplus instead of running close to a defecit. Having a surplus of resources can never be a bad thing (when properly managed) Running a defecit… well, that’s how homelessness happens.