I hope that everyone will have a happy and fruitful New Year.

This person has it mostly wrong. The fair tax will be a disaster and he proves my point.

“Finally, remember that under the Fair Tax, you and I get a choice as to
when we get taxed. If we choose to save our money or buy a used item instead of a new one, there is no tax. If you buy a less expensive item, it has a lower amount of tax. Buying used clothing, used cars, used furniture, etc. can help the elderly avoid taxes in many instances as well. Many already make such frugal choices as it is and the fair tax would reward that.”

If people made the choice to buy used items or not buy at all their would be a massive depression in the US. Many people who choose to buy will buy from a black or gray market and the government would get nothing.

23 percent is really 30 percent if you do the math correctly and that will not even cover it. Now put state and local sales taxes on top of that 30 percent and you are talking about a 40 percent tax on everything you purchase. Like I said the Fair Tax is a recipe for a depression. Imagine buying a house, car, pill, groceries or anything else that suddenly costs 40 percent more.

I guess all Bible prophecy students would want to know what Chuck Missler has to say about where he thinks the world is heading. So here it is.

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Trying to keep three Blogs and a website going at the same time has been taking more hours a day then I have available. Typically I go through about 25 news and information websites taking about 8 hours each day to read, post and comment on material that I found. All the blogging only brings about 10 percent of the new visits to my website. I could accomplish the same increase to my website by writing 5 well thought out articles. So this much blogging is not the most productive use of my time.

So, as of today I will not be posting any more articles on Koenig’s Interesting Articles Blog and I will be deleting that Blog in a few months.

I will still post on this Blog and my Bible prophecy Blog but I will not be posting as many posts per day on this Blog. What I do post will be more selective.

I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!

NEW YORK – Lynne Spears’ book about parenting has been delayed indefinitely, her publisher said Wednesday. Lindsey Nobles, a spokeswoman for Christian book publisher Thomas Nelson Inc., said Wednesday that the memoir by the mother of Britney Spears was put on hold last week. She declined to comment on whether the delay was connected to the revelation that Spears’ 16-year-old daughter, Jamie Lynn, is pregnant.

What gets me in all this is that a major Christian publishing house wanted a book by the mother of Britney Spears. Did Thomas Nelson (who by the way owns the rights to the New King James Version of the Bible) really think that the mother of Britney, and now 16 year old pregnant Jamie Spears was the authority on parenting? Were is Dr. Spock when you need him? Thomas Nelson better do some very quick PR to clean-up this mess they got themselves in!

PARIS – Donors began committing funds from around the world Monday for the moribund Palestinian economy amid a renewed international push for a Palestinian state, with the European Union promising $650 million in 2008.
if Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is asking for $5.6 billion over three years. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the international community to fulfill the Palestinian needs and more.
“What we must do now is work together before the end of 2008 for the creation of an independent, democratic, viable Palestinian state,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the meeting’s host, said in a speech to representatives from nearly 90 donor countries and international organizations.
Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that he has ruled out dialogue with rival Islamic militant Hamas, and that without international support Gaza is “heading into disaster.”

And you still do not believe we are in the last days? The clock is ticking! Tick, Tick, Tick!

I am in the process of switching web hosts and domain registrar on my website so if you cannot get into it for a couple of days this is the reason why. It will not effect my three blogs.

FrontPage Magazine: “The last days of this session of Congress will feature, among other legislative spectacles, an effort to thrash out a bill that purports, at long last, to address what is arguably our nation’s most serious single problem: energy insecurity. Unfortunately, the product seems certain to be more of a grab-bag promoting favors for special interests and pet-rocks of senior lawmakers (many of which have nothing to do with reducing our consumption of petroleum imported from unfriendly places) than a program for quickly and cost-effectively ending the main source of that insecurity, namely our addiction to oil from dangerous places. This is all the more astounding – and outrageous – since an option for doing just that is at hand. Call it “fuel choice.””

WorldNetDaily: Ethanol policy – what a turkey: “Ethanol subsidies are raising our food prices – dubbed the ‘Thanksgiving Tax’ because it upped the cost we paid for Thanksgiving dinner. “

Ethanol is not a significant part of the answer. Short term (the next ten years) the main answer for energy independence is coal but misled environmentalists are fighting it. Long term the answer is solar. Breakthroughs in solar are coming that will make energy cheap in today’s prices within ten to 20 years.

WorldNetDaily: Fear exposed: Iran poised to destabilize Lebanon: “With the Annapolis summit scheduled to begin Tuesday, top Israeli government policy officials have expressed to WND concerns Iran is on the brink of destabilizing Lebanon. At issue is the stalemate over selecting a new president to succeed President Emil Lahoud, whose term expired last week. On Friday, Hezbollah blocked another parliamentary vote for a new president, forcing the U.S.-backed government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to exert emergency powers and assume the powers of the presidency. “

WorldNetDaily: Palestinians to become citizens of Jordan?: “Palestinians to become citizens of Jordan? New plan calls for dismantlement of ‘refugee camps,’ termination of Abbas’ rule”

That is what should be done. These people should be part of Jordan. Obviously they cannot rule themselves.

It is the Thanksgiving Holiday in the US so I wish that all that are celebrating this great day have a blessed time with their loved ones.

American Thinker Blog: Will the Democrats outlaw beer, Coca-Cola and Champagne?: “There you have it. The Global Warming Crowd are all but ready to outlaw the average citizen’s consumption of beer, Coca-Cola and Champagne. Those that are rich enough to pay for carbon credits may have no trouble dealing with a fine for carbonated drinks.”

They will just put a huge tax on carbonated drinks to pay for hot ice factories and then ship the hot ice to places that will not be under the treaty. Like for example, ship hot ice to Antarctica to keep the penguins comfortable.

Before long you will have to wear a gas bag on your butt and then pay to have it recycled. Or maybe they will just charge everyone a yearly living tax because we all exhale CO2.

Actually, there is so much hot air coming from Al Gore and his nitwits that I think that they alone are the cause of Global warming. Maybe we can launch them to Mars. The little green men need the hot air.

WorldNetDaily: The great mysteries of life: “There are certain arcane matters that I fully comprehend. Among them are baseball’s infield fly rule, how to read the Racing Form and even how to decipher the critical raves they run in ads for really rotten motion pictures. “