Democrat
Michael Skok
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January 1, 2024 Monday.
Happy New Year's Day!
I didn't do much celebrating when the calendar read January 1st. It was a quiet time for me. But I am still excited about what 2024 will bring.
For one thing, we will be having a total eclipse of the sun on April 8th.
Soon after that, I will be turning 75 years old -- 3/4 of a century. That's not really too wonderful, I don't think.
We have the presidential election campaigning that will be heating up; and then, God willing, we will see if we have an honest presidential election.
There is some apprehension down the road with Communist Red China threatening to attack Taiwan and take it by force.
Lastly, in a few days, my favorite football team the Buffalo Bills will be playing the Miami Dolphins to see who will be the AFC championship.
I hope everyone will have a safe and joyous New Year. God bless all of you!
December 25, 2023, Monday.
Happy Santa Claus Day!
November 23, 2023 Thursday.
Happy Thanksgiving Day to all in America and Canada!
October 8, 2023 Sunday.
Israel Under Attack
Israel came under attack yesterday, Saturday, October 7th, around 6:30 AM by Hamas, the militant Islamic terrorist organization that controls neighboring Gaza. They fired over 2,000 rockets inside Israel. They insisted that they fired 5,000 rockets at Israel. The total number of casualties so far are over 700 dead Israelis with over 2,100 injured. These are not military targets. One place that was attacked was a musical festival in which 260 people were killed. An Israeli hospital in Askelon was hit by a rocket. Israeli citizens within the Gaza strip and across the border in Israel were either shot at or taken prisoner. Thirty Israeli policemen were killed when their station was taken over by Hamas in the town of Sderot. About 100 Israeli soldiers and civilians are being held captive by Hamas. Some of those civilians are children and women in wheelchairs who were dragged from their homes.
The US government under the Biden Administration has pledged Israel its full support. We are to give Israel more anti-missile missiles for their Iron Dome defense system. We have sent over our largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford), and also some of its large destroyers to try to prevent an escalation of the war.
The barbarity of Hamas is beyond belief. Civilians were rounded up, tied up and burned to death. Hamas used auto tires as fuel for the fire. Young women were raped multiply times. The mere fact that innocent, defenseless civilians--including women, children and elderly people--were made targets by Hamas is incredibly shocking and inexcusable. There's no sense in negotiating with these people (Hamas and those like them) at all. They have no right to exist. Over 1,400 Israelis were killed. Over 3,000 of them were wounded. It's hard to believe this kind of savagery could happen in the 21st century; but it did.
Yet, after Israel has suffered such horrible attack with great loss and suffering, the world is calling on Israel to go easy on Hamas and to abide by the rules of war.
November 4, 2023 Saturday. POS, I mean, POTUS Joe Biden has advised and discouraged the leaders of Israel from occupying Gaza. But after what Israel experienced on October 7th, I don't see how they have any choice but to permanently occupy Gaza. They have to maintain some military presence in Gaza so that rockets and raids can never be launched from Gaza again.
Why did God let this happened? The people of Israel are known in the Bible as God's people. The promises of eternal life were made to the people of Israel. We Christians are regarded as spiritual Jews who have been grafted into the tree of Israel so that we may enjoy eternal life with them. How could God allow the Jewish people to suffer such a horrible attack as they experienced on October 3, 2023? In my opinion, some of the people in Israel were becoming debased. Israel was divided. There were protest demonstrations that Netanyahu was taking too much power away from Israel's Supreme Court. The demonstrators wanted more rights such as homosexual rights. Netanyahu and the executive branch of the Israeli government wanted the government to be a theocracy like ancient Israel in King's David's time.
There are no homosexual rights. To God, homosexuality is an abomination as it says in Leviticus 18:22. In the New Testament, God through the Apostle Paul says that no one will enter the Kingdom of God who is a homosexual. (I Corinthians 6:9-11). The people of Israel should know better. The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah which were destroyed for their wicked practice of homosexuality were located in southern Israel by the Dead Sea. God has used Sodom and Gomorrah as an example of what He will do to societies that accept homosexuality as a way of life.
After the October 3rd raid by Hamas, Israel became united. There were no longer two opposing forces in Israel. They were all members of one nation fighting for their lives.
(to be continued)
September 11, 2023 Monday.
Today is Patriot's Day, which commemorates the over 2,977 people who were killed by the hijackers of four airliners that slammed into the two World Trade Centers in New York City and also the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia near Washington DC. The CBS news show 60 Minutes presented a full hour yesterday of the events that took place 22 years ago. That day was filled with utter disbelief, shock, panic, horror, and death. People in the Twin Towers were trapped. They were begging for help. Some those in the Towers jumped to their deaths rather than be burned to a crisp by the raging fires. Brave NYC firefighters, 343 of them, gave their lives to save the many lives of those who were trapped in those two buildings. In the aftermath, there were cries for revenge. We were united in anger and fear of the Lord. We had to find the murderers who plotted and carried out this great evil. And so we attacked and occupied Afghanistan.
Today, it's a much different story. We have our own government blocking legal action the survivors of those 9/11 victims are trying to bring a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia. We have a president in the White House who refuses to be with the survivors on the anniversary of that dreadful day. Instead, he wants to be as far away from them as possible in Alaska.
Here are some otherrandom factx and thoughts about Islam and the Muslims:
* A few months ago, I went grocery shopping with my friends. I brought along a shopping bag with the words "Never Forget 9-11-01." I carried it around the store even though I didn't need it. One of the store guys with brown skin and black hair seemed very offended by it. I figured that he was a Muslim and that he didn't like what my shopping bag said. It's like a war cry just like "Remember the Alamo" or "Remember Pearl Harbor." I think that should be our battle cry: "Remember 9/11/01." They owe us something.
* After 9/11/01, the son of one of the hijackers, a little Muslim boy, said he wants to become a martyr just like his father. As it says in the Bible, "From an evil tree comes forth evil fruit." (Matthew 7:18-20)
* There's an old Roman proverb that says, "Know your enemy." 60 Minutes last Sunday helped us to know our heroes--the firefighters who helped saved hundreds of lives on 9/11/2001. But they scarely mentioned what our enemies are like. In a short sentence, these Muslims are mass murderers of innocent, defenseless people.
* On 9/11/2023, there was some jingo going on which was something like, "You can't change a belief (Islam) system." We don't know that because we haven't tried to. The Taliban who took over Afghanistan after POS Biden withdrew our troops from there are certainly trying. They will kill anyone who they find with Bible verses on their smartphones.
September 4, 2023 Monday.
Happy Labor Day.
Last year, I didn't bother to post a Labor Day message because I didn't think there is much of a Labor Day anymore with all the goods we import from Communist Red China. I still think that's true today. Whenever I watch a commercial on TV, I wonder how many of those goods that are sold for $19.99 are made in Communist Red China. Probably all of them. But there is good news that many of the jobs that were stolen by Communist Red China are returning back to the USA due to new trade laws and the employment of artificial intelligence. Let's hope and pray that Labor Day 2024 will be better and brighter for many more Americans.
Happy Birthday, America!
July 4, 2023 Tuesday. Today is the 247th birthday of the United States of America.
Last year, the national debt was over $30,558,000,000--over 30 trillion dollars. This year, the national debt is $31,460,000,000.
February 8, 2023 Wednesday.
State of the Union Address
Joe Biden gave his SOTU address yesterday. I didn't watch it. The only thing that matters is that the United State of America is one of greatest nations in the world. The downside is that Joe Biden is in the White House.
January 23, 2023 Monday.
Motivation Motivation.
Yesterday at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, NY, the Cincinnati Bengals ended the season for the Buffalo Bills with a 27-10 victory. The Bills were highly favored to win the game and to go on to meet probably the Kansas City Chiefs next week. The Bills were so heavily favored to beat the Bengals that one sportswriter said, "The Bengals have ZERO chance of winning the game." That is a very bold statement. I didn't read his article, but I wasn't as certain as he was that the Bills would beat the Bengals. After all, the Bengals were beating the Bills 7-3 on Monday Night Football before Damar Hamill got hurt which stopped the game. That statement is not only very bold, but also provocative. It is fuel for the Bengals to get all fired up.
This is not the first time the Cincinnati Bengals were motivated to beat the Bills. Back in the 1980s, Larry Felser, the sports editor for the Buffalo Evening News, wrote that Cincinnati should be a pushover. A copy of the article he wrote was pinned up on the bulletin board in the Bengals locker room. As Buffalo Bills fans, it was a painful game for my buddy and me to watch. Since then, sportswriters were careful about what they say so as not to give cause to fire up the Bills opponents.
Last night's game was painful to watch in more ways than one. The announcers who doing the play-by-play commentary didn't spare any praise or compliments for the Bengals. The Bengals were "great"! They were just GREAT! And during half time, we were shown former Bengals players Cris Collingsworth and Boomer Esiason. How many former Buffalo Bills did we see? None. During half time, we saw the beautiful modern buildings of downtown Cincinnati. What we saw in Buffalo were a group of Bills fans standing in front of ugly old City Hall.
Near the end of the game, the camera was on one Cincinnati Bengals fan with a sign that read, "Us Against the World." It's usually Buffalo that receives bad press coverage--us against the world.
January 29, 2023
Fake Football
In the back of my mind, I am still suspicious that the NFL games we see on TV are nothing more than an enactment of plays that has been scripted in advance. Some examples of fake plays are:
1) the sensational kickoff return and touchdown of Number 20 Dane Jackson of the Buffalo Bills against New England on the very first play of the game. It looked like he could have been tackled before he reached the end zone for a touchdown.
2) the scrambling ability of Josh Allen. With all the running he has done during the season, you would think his legs would have been broken in six different places.
3) the scoring drives of the Bengals against the Bills in the playoff game seemed as easy as pie. It would be as easy as pie if the defense allowed them to happen--which I think is the case.
4) A few Super Bowls ago (Feb. 3, 2019, when the New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams, it seemed like the LA Ram wide receiver could have easily caught a touchdown pass to tie the score 10-10. Instead, he simply let the ball drop to the ground without even trying to catch the ball.
When the Bills Will Finally Win The Super Bowl
I believe there is an unwritten verse in the Bible that goes like this: "When the Buffalo Bills win the Super Bowl, then shall the end come." The NFL is doing all they can to make sure that day never comes.
December 25, 2022 Sunday.
Christmas Day.
Today is the supposed birthday of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It's a day in which give presents to our loved ones--especially to our children.
Hopefully everyone is safe and warm in their homes. But this winter, in the Buffalo area, we were really hit hard with a blizzard that started last week Fridday, the 23rd, and is continuing on into what the weatherman says may end tomorrow (Monday). We finally got snow on Christmas Day, but it is more of a curse than a blessing. Many people are out on the road stranded in their cars. Already, seventeen people have lost their lives from the storm. May God be merciful to the rest of us. Love.
November 24, 2022 Thursday.
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
May God Bless America.
Buffalo Weather
November 20, 2022 Sunday.
Last week, starting Thursday night, a lot of snow came down in Western New York. In the southern part of Western New York, which we call The Snow Belt, several feet of snow fell to the ground.
As far as I know, Thursday, November 17th was our first day of snowfall. The month of October was surprisingly sunny and mild. Then later in the month and during the first few days of November, we were getting a lot of rain. When we get a lot of rain in the autumn, that means cold weather and snow is on the way in western New York. And that's what we got. The temperatures dropped below freezing. Unfortunately, the temperature of Lake Erie did not go below freezing. It was 53 degrees Fahrenheit one day. The next day, it was down to 51 degrees. When the temperature of the lake is that much warmer than the air above the lake, then we have lake effect snow. Not just lake effect snow, but lots and lots of lake effect snow. In the southtowns, like Hamburg NY, (where the hamburger was invented) which is in the snow belt, the amount of snow they received was measured in feet rather than inches. They had about 6.75 feet of snow. In Lancaster, we had about three feet of snow. All the cars were covered with lots of snow. I measured the snow on top my car with my hand span; and it measured 1 1/2 feet of snow.
Governor Kathy Hochul, a native of Buffalo, knew what was coming. She issued a state of emergency for the area. I'm not sure what that means. If it means ordering motorists off the roads and staying home, then that's good advice as well as sound action. It probably means that we are eligible for federal aid.
The storm proved quite challenging to me. I live in an apartment complex near the Lancaster Country Club. We are served by a snowplow truck which clears our driveway and parking lot. In the morning, I shoveled a path from our door to the parking lot. Then I helped a lady (Julie) whose car was buried in snow. She thought she wouldn't be able to drive her car until the next day. But in an hour, after we removed most of the snow, she was able to move her car to part of the parking lot where it had been cleared of snow. I also helped a guy (Rick) shovel the snow around his car so that he was able to move his car to a cleared space in the parking lot.
(t.b.c.)
9/11 Attacks
September 11, 2022 Sunday. America was under attack by Al-Qada on the morning of September 11, 2001, twenty-one years ago.
Since then. we have gone backwards. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, we were a united nation. We came to God. But today we are divided. Many of us don't want to believe in God. Our present president doesn't care to mention God. He didn't mention God on the National Day of Prayer. And he didn't mention God when expressing his sympathy to the Royal Family on Queen Elizabeth's passing--whereas former Pres. Trump did. Mr. Biden is not the "devoted Catholic" he claims to be. He is an irreligious, pro-abortion, pro-Islam, anti-Israel, flip flop, long-time politician.
Here are some of the many mistakes we have made since the 9/11 attacks:
* After overthrowing the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam Hussein in Iraq, we have allowed the Muslim clergy in those two countries (plus Kuwait after Desert Storm) to establish Islam in their national constitutions as their national religion. This is like Germany establishing Nazism as their national religion after World War II. It's the same thing. Both Nazism and Islam are anti-Jewish and anti-Christian. Also, they both want to conquer and control the world. Once the Muslims made Islam their national religion, our military involvement in the Middle East was a failure. It was doomed from that point on.
* Nation Building - Right after the 9/11 attacks, when we invaded Afghanistan, it was said that we were NOT going in Afghanistan with a policy of nation building. But when Joe Biden pulled our troops out of there, there were some top ranked officials in the military and/or the media who were saying that nation building does not work. They can't say that nation building doesn't work when we never tried it in the first place.
* The best plan for nation building came from Ann Coulter, who said, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war." I wish our government would have made her a member of a committee that would determine what our policy should be against Muslim countries.
* Instead, we have leaders like Barak Obama who imported Muslim immigrants into this country. And we had Hillary Clinton who said she would import five times more Muslim immigrants as Obama did if she became president. She also was for gun control. That sort of policy in which you bring your enemies into your country and rob your citizens of their ability to protect themselves is called NATIONAL SUICIDE.
Queen Elizabeth - April 21, 1926 to September 8, 2022.
Memories and Thoughts about Queen Elizabeth:
* She was the longest reigning monarch in Great Britain's history. It sure does seem that way. She reigned from February 6, 1952 to September 8, 2022; which is 70 years, 7 mouths, and 2 days. I've known her nearly all the days of my life up to last Thursday.
* She had four children: 1) Charles, 2)Anne, 3) Andrew, and 4) Edward.
* I often compared her family with my family. My mother's name was Elizabeth. She was born in 1914. She lived to be two weeks shy of her 94th birthday. Charles was born on November 15, 1948. He is only 5 months older than me.
* Prince Charles liked to clown around. He produced a TV skit in which he was fishing, and he was telling his viewers in his British accent that, "This is a very good sport. A very good sport." Then he catches a fish; and the fish pulls him into the ocean.
* Queen Elizabeth was a gracious host, and she welcomed many guests. One of her visitors was commedian Alan King. Queen Elizabeth said to Alan King, "How do you do, Mr. King?" And Alan King responded, "Fine, thank you. And how do you do, Mrs. Queen?"
Basket Of Deplorables, Part 2
September 3, 2022, Saturday. From Wikipedia: "Basket of deplorables" is a phrase from a 2016 presidential election campaign speech delivered by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on September 9, 2016, at a campaign fundraising event, which she used to describe half of the supporters of her opponent, Republican nominee Donald Trump saying "They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic". The next day, she expressed regret for "saying half", while insisting that Trump had deplorably amplified "hateful views and voices".
Similarly, last Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, Joe Biden said this in his speech, "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic." And how does Donald Trump do that? The first reason he gives is that Donald Trump does not accept the results of a free election that made Biden the new president of the USA while Trump became the loser. He accuses Trump of undermining democracy. Yet, Hillary often voiced that she was robbed of the presidency because she the popular votes while Trump won the most votes from the electoral college. Nobody accused Hillary of threatening the very foundations of the republic for questioning Trump's victory in 2016. (TBC)
The Raid On Trump's Home
August 12, 2022 Wednesday. Two days ago on Monday, Aug. 8th, FBI agents raided the home of former President Trump in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. One report says there were 100 FBI agents, while another reports says there were 30 agents. They claimed that Trump had taken Top Secret documents from the White House and kept them in his home in Florida.
The web site below tells us that this raid was nothing more than a political ploy to embarrass Donald Trump.
https://www.westernjournal.com/powerhouse-dem-lawyer-brags-really-really-big-reason-fbi-raid-blockbuster/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-WJ&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal&ats_es=1c95f13fcb1f5551cd70f5cd92f98706
The FBI is reported to have told Trump to shut off his cameras so they could not be seen what they were doing. This puts the FBI in a very suspicious position--they don't like anyone to know what's really going on.
A Banana Republic - That's what many conservatives say what the USA is becoming. The FBI acted against a former president. This has never happened before in our history. We use to have an FBI with agents that had spotless reputations. There even was a TV show on years ago called "The FBI" starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., in which the FBI were the good guys fighting all kinds of bad guys. But not anymore. The FBI has become a tool of the party now in power. We are becoming a nation of one-party rule that uses the FBI, the IRS, the CIA, the Far Left main stream media, and voter fraud to gain power and to remain in power. The Bible indicates that evil will dominate the world just before the Second Coming of Our Lord. We are seeing this prophecy being fulfilled in our time.
Nancy Pelosi's Trip To Taiwan
August 6, 2022 Saturday. Nancy Pelosi became the first high official of the USA to visit Taiwan in 30 years. She went there last Tuesday, August the 2nd.
The James Webb Space Telescope
July 12, 2022 Tuesday has come and gone as the day when the James Webb Space Telescope began taking magnificent pictures of the universe that we can all enjoy. It should increase our knowledge of the stars many times more then what it was before its first day on the job.
What will it find? Will it find God? It seems like just the opposite is happening. We are told that the James Webb Space Telescope is looking at light that has arrived from distant stars 3.4 billion years ago. How can that be? Didn't God create the universe in six days only less that 10 thousand years ago? Is God lying to us? Or is the James Webb Space Telescope telling us that there is no God? Or is the James Webb Space Telescope telling us that the God of the Bible is not the same God who created the universe 3.4 billion years ago?
The answer is somewhat complicated. We are told that light travels at the speed of 186,000 miles per second. We are also told that nothing can change that. But that's wrong. Light travels through water at 75% the speed it travels through a vacuum. Another mistaken notion is that time is constant. It is not. Gravity has an effect on time. Time high on a mountain top moves slightly slower than time down near the ocean. The closer we are to the center of gravity, the faster time moves. According to astronomers, the Milky Way Galaxy appears to be at the center of the universe. Which means we are very near the center of gravity of the universe where time is moving fast for us while it is moving slow for the rest of the universe.
Star Light In An Instant
My favorite theory for explaining the reason why the universe looks billions of year old instead of 6,000 years old is that light travels instantaneously in one direction. It travels 186,000 miles a second when it reflects off an object. So if light from a distant galaxy reaches us instantly, but we assume that it travels at a speed of 186,000 miles a second, then we would think that the galaxy is billions of light years away and billions of years old.
https://spaceaustralia.com/news/one-way-speed-light#:~:text=What%20they%20found%20is%20that%20even%20if%20light,one-way%20light%20speeds.%20Wait%2C%20what%3F%20Let%20me%20explain.
It is impossible to prove or disprove this theory. There is no way to measure the speed of light going in one direction.
There's a lot of things that are difficult to prove in outer space. That's because astronomy is not an exact science. The scientific method involves seeing, smelling, touching, weighing and experimenting. Astronomy deals only with light. We can magnify it with a telescope. We can analyze the light by comparing it with other light. But that's about it.
The Unknown Universe
(July 16, 2022) The universe as we know it is filled will billions and billions of galaxies. The current count is around 2 trillion. The larger and the better we build our telescopes, the more galaxies we will be able to see. Just how many more galaxies are there to be discovered? One astronomer used a mathematical equation that gave us this comparison: If the known universe were likened to the size of a light bulb, the unknown universe would be as large as the planet Pluto, which is half the size of the moon or the USA. It's a very big universe we live in.
Evidence Of A Young Universe
1) I read somewhere that most of the stars in the known universe are blue stars. A star goes through several stages in its life. It is first a white hot star; then it becomes a blue white star; then it becomes a blue star; then it becomes a yellow star; then it becomes an orange star; and then it becomes a red star. In its final stage, it becomes a brownish red star; and then it dies out. I haven't seen anything to back up my story on the Internet. I must have read about it in some book. The fact that most stars are blue stars shows us that the universe is young.
2) There are some negative reasons for the universe not starting out as a big bang. The Big Bang Theory starts out with the universe being one huge black star that exploded, and its remnants became the trillions of galaxies that we see with our telescopes. The one question we should ask is: What caused this big bang explosion? The gravity of this huge black star would be so enormous that nothing could escape from it. Nothing.
3) One star named Sirius is a bright white star that we see in our skies. According to ancient astronomers of 2,000 years ago, Sirius was a red star. This change from a red star to a white star should not have happened according to the Big Bang / Evolutionary Theory.
4) We see a lot of spiral galaxies in the universe with our telescopes. If the universe is billions of years old, the arms of these galaxies would have collapsed into its center. There would no spiral galaxies for us to see. Our own Milky Way Galaxy is a sprial galaxy with two arms.
https://creationtoday.org/evidence-for-a-young-universe.
Happy Birthday, America!
July 4, 2022 Monday. Today is the 246th birthday of the United States of America. We are in a period of crisis in which there is need for resolution and determination to keep what our Founding Fathers fought for. We must seek the help of God to drive out corruption from our government, and to restore integrity and honesty to the voting process.
I ususally mention the current national debt on July 4th. It is now over $30,558,000,000--over 30 trillion dollars. The good news is that a US senator, I think it was, Ron Paul of Kentucky, says we can end our national debt by the year 2027 if we reduce our spending.
The January 6, 2021 Riot Hearings
June 12, 2022 Sunday. The US House Select Committee has been holding hearings, since last week Thursday, on the riots that took place at the steps of the Capitol building in Washington DC. It is my opinion and that of many on the conservative right that these hearings are a waste of time and a waste of money. Like the Mueller Report which proved nothing, these hearings will probably cost the taxpayers millions of dollars and hundred of hours that could be spent on other worthwhile matters. It is also a distraction to cover up the failures of the Biden Administration with his open borders, high gasoline prices, and disasterous foreign policies (example: Afghanistan).
The video below shows the true purpose of the hearings:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jan-6-hearing-gabbard-blasts-cheney-kinzinger/vi-AAYkF6r
The video shows that both Liz Cheney and Chuck Schumer knew there was going to be a demonstration at the Capitol a day before it occurred. It also shows that Pres. Trump called up troops to be nearby in case Congress needed them. The troops were not called. Sean Hannity and Tulsi Gabbard say it's because Liz Cheny and the Democrats are Trump haters. They hate Trump because he refuses to send our armed forces to intervene in endless foreign wars.
That is some claim. Donald Trump even tells us that the billions of dollars that are being spent on weapons for Ukraine would never have happened if he were still in the White House.
It is my opinion that we need to take aggressive military action in places like Ukraine. The only question is: Is all that billions of dollars going to the aid of Ukraine, or is a lot of that money being channeled into someone's private bank account. There are reports that Joe Biden is holding up the supply of weapons to Ukraine for one reason or another. As the old Shakespearean saying goes--there's something rotten in Denmark.
The Second Amendment.
June 7, 2022 Tuesday. The Second Amendment to the Constitution says: A well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Is this amendment out of date? After all, what would our Founding Fathers say if they saw us moderns with our automatic weapons? All they had in those days were single shot muskets and pistols.
But they also had cannons. If our Founding Fathers were against weapons of mass destruction, wouldn't they have banned cannons? Wouldn't they have written in the Constitution--in the Second Amendment--"Except cannons. You must not own a cannon. You cannot keep a cannon in your barn."
In the War of 1812, the British bombarded Fort Henry with rockets. They had rockets back that could possibly destroy an entire town. Did our leaders thought it wise to ban rockets in our Constitution? They did not.
In 1836, the six-shooter pistol was invented. A man could kill people with one gun. With guns, he could kill 12 people. Did our leaders ban six-shooter pistol guns? They did not.
During the American Civil War, the Gatlin gun was introduced to the battlefield. It could wipe out an entire army. Versions of it are still in use today. Did our leaders ban the Gatlin gun ban the use of the Gatlin gun? They did not.
There is nothing wrong with the Second Amendment of the Constitution. Private citizens today should be allowed to own so-called assault rifles. The fault is in ourselves. Since 1963, thanks to the Supreme Court decision to ban Bible reading and prayer in our public schools, we have abandon God and our Christian principles. The Constitution was made for a Christian people. We are fast becoming an unchristian people.
July 8, 2022 Wednesday. Bible Creationists say all the ills we are suffering today is the result of rejecting God in favor of the false theory of Evolution. Divorce, abortion, murder, mass murder, homosexuality, drugs, profanity, rapes, and corruption--these are all just symptoms of the greater problem of forgetting God and His Commandments.
June 10, 2022 Friday. It is said that it takes the police about 20 minutes to respond to an emergency call. Within that time, a whole family could be wiped out; and the criminal(s) could be on their way to a clean getaway. We must never lose the 2nd Amendment. We Americans have the right to defend ourselves.
The Buffalo Massacre
May 15, 2022 Sunday. Prayers and condolences go out to the families of the 10 people who were killed by a mass murderer at Tops Supermarket in Buffalo NY. It heartbreaking enough when one loses a family member through natural causes (old age). Family members know that death is coming soon to a loved one whose time has come. It's far different, however, when death is from an accident, war, a fatal disease or a crime. Family members, relatives, friends, and neighbors are in shock and anguish. A loved one had gone to the supermarket to get today's dinner, some goodies, and a few other items only to be gunned down and never to return. What a crushing event they have experienced!
Thankfully, most of us have not suffered such a tragedy. My family almost did when I was struck by a car when I was 5 years old. When my mother saw me lying unconscious in the street, she cried out in anguish, "He's dead. He's dead." The closest time I experienced such a tragedy was when President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. He was dear to many of us. He was young. He was good looking. A lot of comedian/impressionists entertained us by imitating his Boston accent.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=vaughn+meader+impersonating+kennedy+video&view=detail&mid=8E4C78A413CE369350798E4C78A413CE36935079&FORM=VIRE
As one guy said, "It was like losing a member of the family." The Kennedy's had plans for Thanksgiving Day the following week. I am sure many of the victims, family members, relatives, and friends had plans for later in the day, the next day, and the next week. But now they have to take care funeral arrangements, the burial, and the gradual getting over of their loss, if that's possible.
Below is a song by Dion entitled "Abraham, Martin, and John." It is a memorial song to these three men plus Bobby Kennedy. May it also be a memorial song for the 10 who had fallen as innocent victims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwn8hIyiHvI
The State of the Union Address
March 2, 2022, Wednesday. Last night, the man in the White House Joe Biden gave his State of the Union Address before Congress. I did not watch it. Supposedly, his Vice President Kamala Harris, and the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi were standing behind him. I dislike all three of them. I am not interested in seeing Joe Biden nor hearing what he has to say. He is a crooked politician who is taking money from whoever he can. He's a liar and a flip flopper. Like his former boss (Obama), he treats our friends as his enemies and he treats our enemies as his friends. (t.b.c.)
The Invasion of Ukraine
February 25, 2022 Friday. Russian forces invaded the Ukraine last Thursday, the 24th. Ukraine does not have nuclear weapons. They gave them up after the Cold War. They had the word of Russia that they would not invade the Ukraine; and they had the word of the United States that we would respond to any invasion. Both the Russia and the United States have broken their word. Russia has invaded the Ukraine; and the United States will do nothing to defend the Ukraine. This is a sad page in the history of the United States. It is similar to what occurred during the Obama Administration. Obama would draw a line in the sand; but our enemies would ignore it and cross it with impunity. Our threats to our enemies and our promises to our friends mean nothing now as it did then.
To most Americans, this is just fine. We don't want to get involved in a war that is far removed from us. Some American commentators even say that the Ukraine is not worth fighting for. They claim that the Ukraine is not a democratic nation, but rather a corrupt nation.
I, for one, would like to see US and NATO forces sent to the UKraine and duke it out with the Russians. We have the A-1 Abrams tank that won the war in the Persian Gulf War. We also have the A-10 Warthog support plane that destroy Russian tanks.
More than likely, the US under POS Joe Biden will do nothing to oppose the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. The European nations will realize that American military support cannot be relied on to defend them.
In the early 1960s, one American general voiced his disapproval of removing nuclear weapons from Europe. He said it would make Europe safe for general warfare. This prediction has proven true in the Ukraine which has no nuclear weapons. It is also true because of a weak and compromised president in the White House. Europe will soon rise up to meet the threat of Russian ground forces at their door. This is in fulfillment of Bible prophecy concerning the Beast.
Betty White
January 3, 2022 Monday. (published Feb. 1, 2022) Actress Betty White passed away on the late day of the year on December 31, 2021. She was 17 days shy of celebrating her 100th birthday on January 17th. She reminds me of my mother, Elizabeth Skok, who also was called Betty by her friends. She passed away on December 2, 2008, 15 days before her 94th birthday.
I liked Betty White since the days when I was a young boy and watched her TV show, "Date With the Angels." That was long ago. The only thing I remember from that series is when her husband was sick in bed. She gave him a bell to call her whenever he needed anything. He rang the bell after she left the bedroom. When she came back in, she asked him, "Did you need something?" And he answered her, "Just testing."
She played the part of Spock's mother in the Star Trek episode, "Journey To Babel." She begged Spock to come to his father's aid who needed a blood transfusion. Spock was the only one on the ship who could give blood to his father. But duty required him to be on the bridge of the Enterprise while Captain Kirk was in sickbay with a knife wound, and while the ship was under attack. After Spock told his mother this, his mother gave him a hard slap in the face.
Booo! Betty White slapped Spock in the face! Booo! I hate that part of the story. I don't watch it whenever that episode is replayed on TV.
One of the last things Betty White said before she died was the secret of her longevity. She said we should stay away from greens. When I was in ECC (Erie Community College), I took a Nutritional course. The book we used showed a pyramid diagram in which it illustrated the most important foods we should eat. The most important foods that we should eat are the foods that were as the bottom of the pyramid which are green vegetables. At the top of the pyramid is the food we should eat the least which are meats and junk food.
New Year's Day
January 8, 2022 Saturday.
The nation toasted the brand new year last week. I don't know what for. Joe Biden is still in the White House and is supposedly still running the government. From what I've read, his polls are down in the tank. He had let the majority of the American people down with his disasterous pullout from Afghanistan, his welcoming of illegal immigrants across the border, and his mandate of forced vaccination. His own Democratic Party is divided and is heading for a major disaster in next November's election. Still, there is much concern that Joe Biden and his administration poses a threat to this country. Many of us on the conservative side feel that he, or whoever is behind him, is trying to destroy this country in order to set up a one-world government. It is my opinion that the past administration of Donald Trump slowed down the process. But now, with Biden in the White House, the process is once again being speeded up. I don't want to see my country destroyed. I hope, God willing, that the conservatives in Texas, Florida and the other red states will prevent that from happening.
The War Against Christmas
December 24, 2021.
I still hate Christmas. I hate the very word "Christmas." It is suppose to mean "Christ Mass," - the way the Catholics worship Jesus with a babe in the manager, with the same old boring Christmas carols, and with the endless repetition of meaningless prayers, and with Christmas trees that are supposed to represent the Blessed Trinity but which were invented in what is now Communist Red China. Most of our Christmas decorations come from Communist Red China--a country that determined to destroy us--our Number One Enemy. Almost all of our Christmas presents come from Communist Red China. If they're not from Communist Red China, then they are probably from another communist country like Vietnam or Cambodia, or else from an unfriendly, anti-Christian Muslim country like Indonesia, Malaysia, or Pakistan.
I remember when I was a Catholic attending Christmas Mass - the whole congregation had to stand for 10 whole minutes while the priest read the "gospel" which was Luke 1:1-80. That was very painful!
I remember when I was a Catholic attending Christmas Mass - the whole congregation had to stand for 10 whole minutes while the priest read the "gospel" which was Luke 1:1-80. That was very painful!
Saying "Merry Christmas" is a good way to get back at someone who has just sh-tted all over you or someone else. Several years ago, during the Christmas holidays, a lady from upstairs was complaining about a young homeless man who was sleeping in our hallway. She said he could be a mugger or a robber. I said to her, "Mer..." She interupted me. She said he might be carrying a disease; and that he should be taken by the police. I said to her, "Mer..." She interrupted me and said a few more nasty things about what could happen. I said, "Mer..." She interrupted me a third time and said a lot more nasty things about the guy which I don't remember. Finally, she let me say what I was going to say, which was, "Merry Christmas." She laughed.
There are two examples of the war on Christmas that I know about off hand. One is in which a high school banned not just Christmas decorations during the Christmas season but also anything green and red because since that would be a violation of the separation of Church and State. A more recent example would the burning of the Christmas tree this year at Fox News.
(to be continued)
Thanksgiving Day
November 25, 2021 Thursday.
Happy Thanksgiving Day.
Patriots Day September 11, 2021 Saturday.
Twenty years ago, America was struck by Islamic terrorists who called themselves al Quada. They hijacked four airliners and flew two of them into the World Trade Centers and one of them into the Pentagon. Nearly 3,000 lives were lost. They've also put America in a panic. Are there more attacks coming? Over night, tall buildings were declared off limits to the public for fear of a terrorist attack. People who worked in tall buildings were told to go home. The tallest building in Buffalo, which is the Marine Midland / HSBC / Seneca One Tower had its occupants sent home.
We were in fear for a little while, but we were also united. We were united for the sake of our very own lives. We were united in patriotism. We were united in love for God. All that gradually faded away. We are now deeply divided and quite irreligious. After 20 years, we are losing the war against terrorism and the terrorists. We are losing to Islam. We have just completed a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan in which we left billions of dollars of military equipment in the hands of our enemy the Taliban. Those who are keeping themselves informed about the conditions in Afghanistan are shocked at the beheadings and the beatings of innocent people there. We are still at war with Islam even though we have withdrawn our forces from Afghanistan. Their goal is our destruction and the capture of the world. They will just keeping fighting until they have achieved their goal. We are losing. We have no one to fight for us--certainly not the POS, I mean, POTUS in the White House.
Saudi Arabia got away with murder. They got away with mass murder of those who were killed on 9/11 from the collaspe of the Twin Towers in New York City. They got away with mass murder of those who were killed at the Pentagon in Washington DC. And they got away with mass murder of the passengers and crew of the four planes they've hijacked. They should pay compensation for the buildings that were lost, for the damage that was done to the Pentagon, for the four planes that were hijacked and destroyed, and for every one of the 2,977 people who lost their live. They should also pay for the cost of the clean up. May God give us leaders in Washington who have the strength and courage to demand Saudi Arabia pay what they owe us. Or else.
Labor Day September 6, 2021 Monday.
There's nothing happy about this year's Labor Day in the USA under Joe Biden. One source said we've lost 7 million jobs this year. We are probably are going to lose a lot more as the year goes on, and another year that goes on, and another year that goes on, and another year that goes on. I was going to call today "Slave Labor Day" because most of our manufactured goods are made in Communist Red China where the wages are extremely low or else they made by political prisoners for nothing.
To all the pregnant women who are about to bear their child today: Happy Labor Day!
AFEEGANISTAN
August 16, 2021 Monday. As the days go by, Afghanistan is quickly being overrun and being taken over by the Taliban. The Taliban are closely allied with Al Qada who are directly responsible for the 9/11 attacks. It is a humiliating defeat for the USA. It has lasted over 20 years. It has cost us $2 trillion and the lives of 2,600 American military men. And it was all for nothing.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/09/world/middleeast/afghanistan-war-cost.html
The war in Afghanistan was lost almost immediately after 9/11. President Bush declared that Islam is a peaceful religion. He did not blame Islam for the attacks on 9/11. He blamed people who misinterpreted the Koran, and who were not true practicing Muslims. When it was decided that Afghanistan was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, he had a few hundred US soldiers supervising the removal of the Taliban from Afghanistan by paying the Afghani warlords millions of dollars. When the constitution of Afghanistan was written, Islam was declared the national religion. This usually means that a portion of the taxes that are collected go in support of the mosques and imams who teach the followers of Islam to hate the Jews, Christians and other infidels. This is nothing but insane.
"Nation Building" - There was no such thing as "nation building" in Afghanistan. Yet, many commentators say there was, and that it failed miserably when the Taliban returned to power this week. Back in the days of the Bush Administration, Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld told everyone, "We don't want Afghanistan." In the days of the Obama Administration, the Muslim religion was revered by Mr. Obama. The Koran had to be handled carefully with kid gloves by our troops. Every military action in Afghanistan had to be approved by Obama himself. Our troops had to obey every little rule and regulation set by Obama so that fighting the enemy was almost impossible.
In one instance, a Muslim man raped a young Afghan boy just outside of a US Army camp. The Army could do nothing to help the little boy. That's because that's what they do in Afghanistan. That's how they live.
Yet we did change things for the better in Afghanistan during those 20 years. Women had more rights. They were struggling for equality. One woman was even mayor of a city in Afghanistan. Now, with the Taliban back in power, she is worried about her life being take from her. And who hasn't seen pictures of mobs of Afghanis clutching onto an Air Force plane as it was taking off? Why were they frantically trying to leave their own country?
In my mind, Afghanistan was a poor excuse for blaming the 9/11 attacks on. Of the 19 or 20 hijackers, none were Afghanis. Most of them (15) were Saudi Arabians; one was from Egypt; one was from the United Arab Emirates; and one was from Lebanon. The Report that came out on the 9/11 attacks blames Saudi Arabia for planning, financing, and carrying out the attacks. This war in Afghanistan was nothing more than a coverup. We should have gone to war with Saudi Arabia. We should have conquered it. And we should have occupied it until the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus.
Now we are leaving Afghanistan. Twenty (20) years is too much. Two billion ($2 billion) dollars is too much. Well, that's too bad. A nation that is responsible for a horrible attack on the United States--comparable to the attack on Pearl Harbor--should be annexed. The American flag should be flying over Afghanistan now and until the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus.
We can't expect such action to be taken by the Biden Administration. In fact, the opposite seems to have taken place. It is highly suspicious that much of the military equipment we supplied to the Afghan Army simply passed into the hands of the Taliban.
https://www.westernjournal.com/report-taliban-captured-2000-us-armored-vehicles-40-aircraft-machine-guns/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune&ats_es=1c95f13fcb1f5551cd70f5cd92f98706
The Biden Administration has often been called Obama's third term in the White House. Obama did everything he could to humiliate the USA. He went overseas and bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia. He bowed to the president of Communist Red China. He bowed down to several other leaders of Communist Red China. He apologized for America every chance he had. He was adored and admired by the black community as well and the main stream media. Yet, he didn't help them in any way. He actually caused division between the black community and the white community.
August 23, 2021 Monday. The web site below says that American soldiers in Kabul are confined to the airport while American citizens are being beaten by Taliban thugs as they try to make their way to the airport. On the other hand, British and French troops are going from house to house in search of their citizens to bring them safely home. If you are an American citizen like I am, this story should make your blood boil.
https://deepstatetribunal.com/the-u-s-restricts-troops-to-kabul-airport-as-british-french-and-germans-travel-out-to-rescue-their-citizens/
Repercussions and Ramifications
August 26, 2021 Thursday. Thanks to Joe Biden's wisdom and his concern for our financial future, Afghanistan is no longer a burden. No more spending $45 billion a year on Afghanistan. It is no longer a political burden. It may even be a political slogan - "Joe Biden: He got us out of Afghanistan."
But according to Communist Red China, it's a sign of weakness. They are circling around Taiwan like frenzy tiger sharks eager to devour it.
As for our friends. nations such as Britain and France have been publicly critical of Biden's hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan. They even equate it with surrender and defeat. A nation such as ours under Joe Biden surely cannot be trusted in the defense of freedom.
August 27, 2021 Friday. Thirteen Marines are dead in Afghanistan as the result of two suicide bomber attacks at the Kabul airport. This is not only sad, it is outrageous that our soldiers should be attacked while they are leaving the country.
We are told that the people who were responsible for these attacks were a splinter group of a splinter group of the Taliban. Not all of the Taliban are bad, we are told.
Lessons To Be Learned
One commentator said of the Afghanistan experience that we should learn that we cannot be the policeman of the world. That's what a lot of Americans think. If we just mind our own business and let the world worry about themselves, then everything will be just fine. This is the same attitude we took after World War I. We let Europe tend to their own squabbles. We still had the two oceans to protect us from our potential enemies. But that plan didn't work. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; and Nazi Germany was threatening to invade Great Britain. Not only that, we learn in our high school history class that Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany planned to divide up America between themselves once they got around to declaring war on us. The two oceans on either side of us no longer protect us from our enemies. There's nowhere to hide anymore.
After World War II, we again tried to withdraw from the world. We kept out of the civil war in China and let the communists take over. In Europe, we saw the Soviet Union eat up Eastern Europe and threaten Western Europe. We formed NATO which protected our Western European allies and gave them a long-lasting peace which they have enjoyed for over 75 years now. But we've still had problems in Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East.
The Enemy Within
Many have called Joe Biden's Administration - Obama Third Term. Obama's legacy is one of humiliating America every chance he got. He tried to destroy America as best as he could. He bowed to our enemies--the king of Saudi Arabia, the president of Communist Red China, other inferior leaders of Communist Read China. He drove our national debt into the bottomless pit--beyond the point of recovery. He did little or nothing to improve the lives of Black Americans. He divided blacks against whites instead of bringing us together. He has treated our veterans shamefully. He used to sit in the pews listening to his pastor Jeremiah Wright saying, "God damn America," for twenty years. He has replaced the good leaders in all areas of the federal government with Muslims. These include the FBI, the CIA, the Secret Service, and the military. He was pro-abortion to the point that he voted in favor of ending a baby's life that survived abortion.
Obama enjoyed a very good relationship with the press. He was treated like a god, or "The One." One newsman at CNN said he got a tingle up his leg whenever he heard Obama speak. In contrast, Donald Trump, who wanted to make America great again, was treated with contempt by the Main Stream Media. He was thought of as a buffoon who couldn't do anything right. Everything wrong in the world was blamed on Trump--it was all Trump's fault. Everything wrong in the world was blamed on Trump--it was all Trump's fault. Liberal news media like CNN would refer to Trump as a child while calling Biden an adult.
The below web site has to do with abortion. This may seem off topic in relationship to Afghanistan, but, as Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics, the anti-abortion group in Dallas, Texas, says, that those who favor abortion have no concern for the life that is in the womb - and they neither have concern for the life that is out of the womb. This in relevant in Afghanistan in the case of the Americans who are still stranded there. Joe Biden doesn't care about them.
https://freedomjournalist.com/archbishop-slams-catholics-joe-biden-nancy-pelosi-for-condemning-texas-abortion-law/
The Enemy Without
It is the policy of the Biden / Harris Administration to block out all news about Afghanistan. They will not answer any questions about Afghanistan. The whole Afghanistan matter is to be swept under the rug. Joe Biden would rather take a vacation in Delaware where he can consult with his supporters on how to wreck the Free World. This is typical of the anti-freedom Far Left. They would rather not hear about the atrocities their friends / our enemies are perpetuating. "Hear no evil; see no evil; and speak no evil," seems to be their motto. Well, in this space, I want to list all the nasty things the Taliban have done so far. Starting with the 9/11 attacks, the Taliban refused to hand over the members of al qada who were responsible for the destruction of the Twin Towers / World Trade Center in New York City, the damage they did to the Pentagon near Washington DC, and the loss of four airliners with their passengers. The Taliban are closely allied with Al qada who destroyed nearly 3,000 lives on September 11, 2001.
* Stranding Americans in Afghanistan. The Taliban goes door to door to hunt for Americans.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/09/american-stranded-in-afghanistan-says-taliban-is-going-door-to-door-hunting-for-americans
*The Taliban have sex with the dead.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/09/glazov-gang-copulating-with-corpses-the-taliban-exposed
*The Taliban kill folk singer days after banning music in Afghanistan, family says | Fox News
* September 21, 2021 Tuesday. Taliban deny women's rights. They won't let them attend school. Taliban is taking reprisals against former Afghan soldiers that fought for the US. They are parading their chopped heads in the streets.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2021/09/the-talibans-broken-promises-on-the-treatment-of-women
(t.b.c.)
THE CLEVELAND GUARDIANS
July 29, 2021 Thursday. Major League Basketball has decided to change the name of Cleveland's baseball team from the Cleveland Indians to Cleveland Guardians so as to remove any offense that this name may give to any of our Native American Indians. Also scheduled for a name change is the Washington Redskins for the same reason. However, according to one source of information (Jihad Watch), the Cleveland Indians were named in honor of a Native American Indian who played for their team. I think this is a tragedy and a dishonor to our Native American Indians. They were mostly friendly people who helped our European ancestors settle in this land. We, on the other hand, have on numerous occasions broken the treaties that we've made with them.
In this day when the terrible accusation of "racist" and "racism" is liberally made, these name changes, or purges, of the word "Indian" from our national sports teams is one of the most racist thing we could have ever done.
UNHAPPY THIRTHTEENTH OF JULY
July 13, 2021 Tuesday.
Our national debt since March 1, 2021 is over $28 trillion.
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY
July 4, 2021 Sunday
THE FIFTY FIRST STATE
April 24, 2021 Saturday. It has been reported that the House of Representatives in Congress has just passed a bill that would make the District of Columbia our 51st state. Such an event would tilt the balance of power permanently in favor of the Democrats.
My own opinion on this is that the District of Columbia should go back to the state of Maryland from whence it came. The southern part of Washington Square was returned to Virginia over a century and a half ago. So let the rest of Washington Square return to Maryland.
Another thought occurred to me. It seems that this move to make DC a state will open up a can of worms or become another Pandora's Box. If a little piece of real estate like DC can become a state and send two senators to Congress, then the big blue states can break up into many little states to send their senators to Congress. The problem with that is we won't be able to fit all those new stars on the USA flag. And we won't be able to fit all those thousands of new senators in the Capitol.
RUSH LIMBAUGH
February 11, 2021 Thursday. It has been announced only recently that conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh has terminal cancer. It saddens me because I share many of his views. Another thing we share is our age--almost. I am almost two years older than he is. We share a few differences. For one, he is in a much higher tax bracket than I am. He has had three marriages so far. I've had none.
It angers me that we still have patients who are dying from cancer. So I wish to make a suggestion. It's what I read in the book the class was using when I was taking the course "Aging, Dying, and Death," in Erie Community Collage in Amherst, NY. It had to do with a man who was hospitalized for cancer. He was unhappy in the hospital like all the other patients. He finally decided to do something about it. He had his wife bring him all the foods that he enjoys at home. His wife brought in their projector so that they could enjoy watching old films of his favorite comedian W. C. Fields. While the other patients were moaning and groaning in their misery, this man and his wife were laughing their heads off. In time, the man was release from the hospital because his cancer went into recession.
There is a verse in the Bible on how important a good attitute is for good health. Proverts 17:22 says, "A merry heart does good like a medicine. But a broken spirit dries the bones."
Another source in which the same idea was expressed is the book I mentioned in my video, "Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About," by Kevin Trudeau. He said that happy don't get sick while unhappy people do get sick.
I hope Rush Limbaugh will find himself a merry heart so that he will continue to gives us his insightful commentaries for many years to come.
CONDOLENCES to the family and friends of Rush Limbaugh who passed away on Ash Wednesday,February 17, 2021. Many of us loved him for his frankness and his boldness in speaking out against corruption. But there are many who curse him. If there's something wrong with America, it's these people who can't stop hating.
THE WASHINGTON RIOT
January 17, 2021 Sunday. It has been 10 days since the event of the demonstration in Washington DC that turned into a riot and cost the lives of five people. You would think this would be old news by now and not worth the time or effort to write anything more about it. But the Washington Riot is not going away. Inauguration Day will be here in a few short days, and the capital is preparing for the worst. About 25,000 troops have surrounded the Capitol and the White House to prevent a recurrence of what happened over a week ago.
Not only that, we've have had a second effort by the Democrats in Congress to blame the riot on President Trump, to have him impeached, and to put him on trial in hopes of convicting him for inciting a riot.
60 Minutes has done two segments on the Washington Riot. The first report was on January 10th--only four days after the riot. You would think a journalistic program like 60 Minutes would allow some time for the facts to come out and a true perspective can be had. But 60 Minutes goes right ahead blaming everything on Pres. Trump in their interview with Nancy Pelosi on Jan. 10.They were terrified of the mob and invaders who were banging on the the door while the staff hid under the tables for 2 1/2 hours. She says the mob was going according to a plan. For the evidence,they play a tape of President Trump saying:
"Go home in peace."
Those are really fighting words, Nancy. We are told that when Vice President Pence brought the House back to order, he was livid at the president. She says she believes it is imperative to remove Pres. Trump immediately because she feared he might us nuclear weapons. She wanted Vice President Pence to use the 25th Amendment to remove Mr. Trump from office. She says she wants to cooperate with the Republicans in the Biden Administration. But Leslie Stahl told her she didn't do that with the COVID19 relief package; she held it up for eight months. Nancy Pelosi's answer is that the relief package did showed no respect for our heroes, our healthcare workers, our police, our firemen, our sanitation, our teachers, and our nurses.
Yeah. Sure it did.
The demonstrators were being condemned as the reason for the riots which brought shame and disgrace to their cause--as well as bringing about a lot of damage. But there is word that the Trump demonstrators were not responsible. Here are some examples:
* A witness says that he recognized two of the rioters as members of Antifa.
* There is word that there was a whole busload of Antifa members. And that all the violence and rioting were committed by Antifa.
* There was a guy flying a Confederate flag in the demonstration. One witness says the guy who was with him was a member of Antifa.
* The security guards opened the gate to the Capitol, and then the rioters rushed in.
The hypocrisy of this segment is that it started out with Nancy Pelosi quoting the US Military Oath of Office.by saying, "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;..." Then she names who is the enemy of the United States. It's the man sitting in the White House -- President Donald Trump. She likens him to an enemy or THE enemy. Maybe she wouldn't mind it if we who voted for Trump think of her and her kind as the enemy,
60 Minutes and Nancy Pelosi showed us the building in Washington DC that housed the original Constitution. It is closed now. They told us the battle is between those who are for the Consitution and those who are for Donald Trump.
It is my opinion that Donald Trump upheld the Constitution as best as he could. It remains to be seen if Joe Biden can do the same. I have my doubts.
CHRISTMAS 2020 - NEW YEARS 2021
I hate Christmas. There's oxymoron proverb that goes like, "The less I see you, the more I like you." I feel the same way about Christmas. However, the Christmas lights that decorate many of the homes in my neighbor are very pretty. Nobody can doubt that. I have thought about buying Christmas lights and placing them around my windows. The main reason I don't is because they, along with almost everything else, are all made in Communist Red China which is trying to destroy us. From what I have read recently, Communist Red China is increasing and modernizing their nuclear weapons program. We must therefore spend more money to modernize and increase our nuclear weapons program. Merry Christmas.
In the coming year, we may have Joe Biden in the White House. He has strong connections to Communist Red China. He has stated that he plans to cut our defense budget. There is a proposal by the Trump Administration to place cruise missiles on our submarines. Joe Biden is opposed to such a plan. But he does want to increase our taxes and spend trillions of dollars on social programs. It does not look like we have a bright future with Joe Biden in the White House for the next four years.
On the lighter side, we finally got a white Christmas this year in Buffalo with plenty of snow to plow and shovel. It also snowed the day after Christmas.
THE NEW PRESIDENT?
December 14, 2020 Monday. It has been announced that Joe Biden, the Democratic Party candidate in the 2020 presidential elections is our new president. For pro-life supporters like me, this is a big let down. For many others, the new Joe Biden / Kamala Harris administration means the destruction of America. It means higher taxes which means a rapidly deteriorating economy. There are already signs of the bad times that are coming just around the corner. There are news reports of massive immigrants in Mexico heading for the US border. May God have mercy on those He loves.
SECESSION - Some leaders in Texas and other red states are talking about secession. This was brought about by the dismissal of a lawsuit from Texas against those swing states that illegally changed the voting rules in order to help Joe Biden win the election. There are also concerns that, as our next president, Joe Biden is a threat to our religious freedoms and other freedoms such as the right to bear arms.
MARTIAL LAW - There is another suggestion that martial law might be employed to determine who will be our next president. Obama, the former president, and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (for doing nothing, said that Navy SEALS should remove Donald Trump from the White House if he is not gone on January 20th. In in arguing for Trump, he might use military or, at least Federal forces, under the law which says that a foreign power (Communist Red China) has interfered with our elections.
FAITH - Jesus said in Luke 18:8, "When the Son of Man comes, shall He find faith on the earth?" When I was in the Armstrong religion, we were told that this "faith" Jesus spoke of not only included faith in God and faith in the Second Coming, but it also included faith in our institutions. We are starting to see that our election system is full of dishonesty and cheating. This cheating is not merely found in the Democratic Party, it is enforced by the Democratic Party. And it is even enforced by state troopers and the governor him/herself.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY!
November 26, 2020 Thursday. Today we celebrate all the good things God has blessed our nation with by indulging ourselves in Thanksgiving turkey dinner. We try to count our blessings, but there are a lot of problems we are faced with. Still, it is good that we take the time to thank God for all that He has given us.
Voter Fraud
November 9, 2020 Monday. It is almost a week since Election Day, yet we still don't know who will be in the White House on Inauguration Day, Wednesday, January 20, 2021. That is because there is a great deal of suspicion about voter fraud. Some say this is the fault of Donald Trump who won't accept the outcome of the elections. However, there is reasons to be doubtful about the honesty and integrity of ballot counters, especially when Joe Biden said this,
https://youtu.be/WGRnhBmHYN0
Joe Biden said this on what I think the date was October 24, 2020: "We have put together, I think, the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
We are so proud of you, Joe.
What did you say???!!! Did you really say that? Are you saying publicly that you are the most dishonest statesman in the history of the United States of America?
One commentator lamented about all the voting fraud that was going on. He could hardly believe that there were people who were allowing votes from dead people, allowing voters to vote more than once, allowing illegal aliens to vote, and allowing the votes for Trump to be discarded and thrown away. Well, all those things are bad, but that doesn't compare to a candidate who openly admits to being dishonest--to being a dirty politician.
December 3, 2020 Thursday. It is a month after the elections, and we still do not know for sure who will be taking the oath of office on Inauguration Day in January. Many believe that Joe Biden is the next president of the USA. The main stream media have declared it to be true. Many world leaders have sent their congraduations to Joe Biden for winning the election.
However, there have been many instances of possible voter fraud. Here are a few examples of such in only the past two days:
* December 2, 2020 Wednesday. Many witnesses to voter fraud are afraid to testify for fear of physical harm or that they might lose their jobs.
* December 2, 2020 Wednesday. Dominion Voting Systems received $400 million from a Swiss Bank with close links to Communist Red China less than a month before the election.
* December 2, 2020 Wednesday. Trump Team says 40,000 voters voted twice in Nevada.
* December 2, 2020 Wednesday. US Attorney General says there is no proof of voter fraud; yet UPS postal workers say up to 288,000 mail-in ballots went missing.
* December 3, 2020 Thursday. Batches of ballots in Michigan were being scanned 8 to 10 times.
* December 3, 2020 Thursday. Some witnesses to voter fraud are beaten up by Biden supporters and sent to the hospital. Some witnesses say they can’t testify against voter fraud because they’ve sign an affidavit promising not to say anything. This is according to Sidney Powell.
* December 3, 2020 Thursday. In Georgia, State Farm Arena workers witnessed poll observers being kicked out of the polling places. After that was done, there were boxes of ballots taken from underneath desks by voter counters.
These instances of voter fraud are nothing less than criminal gangsterism that you would find in a crime-controlled city like Chicago. It is a small sample of what is being uncovered in the swings states of Pennsylvania, George, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Michigan. If voter fraud is that bad in those states, what is it like in my state of New York where our Governor Andrew Cuomo was blasted by Tom Baulaughly on his WBEN radio show as one of the worst politicians in the nation not too long ago. I am wondering, as I'm sure many other voters are, if the candidate I voted for was counted as a vote for the candidate of my choice, or was it somehow instantly changed by some Dominion machine we've been hearing about to a vote for the other candidate.
Joseph Stalin of the old Soviet Union once said, "It's not who votes that counts; it's who counts the votes." We are just like the old Soviet Union where crooked politicians are no better - no more trustworthy - than the communists.
There are ways to prevent voter fraud according to David Horowitz and other concerned citizens:
1) Issue a voter photo ID to all registered voters subject to renewal every 6-8 years.
2) Prohibit mail-in ballots for federal elections. They are banned in the EU because they are prone to all sorts of fraud. Except for those serving in the military.
3) Absentee balloting should be limited to individuals who cannot vote in person. These ballots would require a witness signature and a copy of the voter’s photo ID accompanying the ballot.
4) All ballot harvesting should be banned. Any individuals eligible for absentee ballot must submit their own ballots. Nursing homes and other similar institutions would be exempted from the prohibition on third-party submissions, but would be subjected to strict rules and monitoring for the submission process.
We all want honest elections because we want our politicians to be honestly elected. One of the best ways to insure that we have honest elections with each voter having a photo voter ID card. There are, however, some people who object to photo voter ID cards. One of my own objection would be the cost. It cost money to have a photo ID driver’s license. But driving is a privilege, not a right, as in voting. If at all possible, photo voter ID cards should be free.
There are some people who are opposed to voter ID cards. Most of them are Democrats who want to cheat. They not only want to win the election by cheating, they even demand that Trump and his supporters accept his defeat by cheating graciously. They call any challenge of this cheating "embarrassing," and the legal challenges to this cheating is called, "the courts determining the elections."
"WE CHEATED YOU FAIRLY AND SQUARELY, MR. TRUMP. ACCEPT IT AND DEAL WITH IT."
We won't really know who will be the president of the United States until the electorial college votes casts their ballots sometime this month.
Who will it be? On the one hand, the Main Stream Media has already announced that Joe Biden is the president-elect. Some of the world leaders are congradulating Joe Biden on his victory. We also see articles saying that Trump intends to run again in 2024. Trump has even given Joe Biden permission to choose his administrative officers.
On the other hand, experts like Jim Rickards predict that Trump will be the winner of the 2020 election.
After that, we will be seeing the beginning of the rise of The Beast. Even if Trump wins the election. There are too many billionaires who are globalists.
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The Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates
October 18, 2020 Sunday. The first presidential debates took place September 29, 2020, Wednesday. Even though I didn't watch it, there are a few things I learned from it on the Internet. The first thing I saw was something I found hard to believe. I read (maybe it was a mistake) that Pres. Trump told Joe Biden to shut up, "Man." I could picture Donald Trump saying, "Shut up, man." Then I read that it was other way around. I was Joe Biden who was telling Donald Trump to, "Shut up, man."
The Vice Presidential Debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris was held on October 7, 2020, Wednesday. Again, this was a presentation that I missed. From what I've read about the debate, Mike Pence answered the questions intelligently and thoroughly while Kamala Harris was shaking her head and smirking.
In both debates, the moderator seemed to favor the Democratic Party candidates while they were against the Republican candidate.
I feel there is no need to view any presidential or vice presidential debates. These debates are not forums for serious and frank discussion of the issues. They are merely spectacles of mockery of the Republican candidates. They are really not necessary to determine each candidate stands for.
We know that Joe Biden wants to eliminate the tax cuts that Donald Trump and Congress gave to the American people. A large percentage (82%) have benefited from these tax cuts. A tax raise on the wealthy will only make the wealthy leave America or invest in businesses outside of America.
Joe Biden has stated that he wants to bring more Muslims into the government. In my opinion, the fewer Muslims like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib in the government the better.
Joe Biden has also stated he wants stronger ties to Communist Red China. Stronger ties with Communist Red China means for them to buy American companies and take our technology to use against us.
Joe Biden has also promised to make every American wear masks in our fight against the coronavirus when these masks have been proven to be worthless.
Besides those faults in Joe Biden's policies, there are also faults in his health and character that we should be worried about. He has demonstrated a lapse in his mental faculties. Sometimes he doesn't know what state he's in for example. A serious flaw in his character seems to be his overly fondness for women. There are reports that he has groped married as well as unmarried women in the breasts and in the buns as well as their hair.
There is also the threat Joe Biden made that if he is not elected, the riots we have witnessed this summer will continue.
I firmly believe that the election of Joe Biden to the Presidency will be the completion of the Barak Obama legacy. The completion of the Barak Obama legacy will be no less than the destruction of America.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020
September 21, 2020 Monday
Condolences to the families of Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away last Friday. Like Pres. Trump, I was jolted when I heard the news of her death. She had been fighting cancel for a long time. But it seemed like it wasn't going to keep her from her job in the Supreme Court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was pro-abortion while I am very much pro-life. It is very easy, therefore, to write something like, "I'm glad she's gone." That would be unchristen. The cancer she was afflicted with had spread throughout her body. Such a condition would bring a very painful death to her unless she was injected with morphine. I would not wish that on anyone.
However, the Left has no such restraints. According to Mark Levin of Fox News, the Left rejoice over the death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. They were hoping that in his place would be appointed a liberal judge who would be in favor of abortion.
Frankly, it is my hope, as well, that a conservative judge will be appointed in place of Justice Ginsburgh. But such is not always the case, even with a conservative president like George Bush in the White House. He nominated Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts who has disappointed the conservative part of the country numerous times.
Patriot's Day
September 11, 2020 Friday. It has been nineteen years since the 9/11 attacks which brought down the Twin Towers in New York City, costing almost 3,000 lives. It included damage to the Pentagon and the loss of four passenger air lines with its 265 passengers and crew.
UNHAPPY LABOR DAY
September 7, 2020 Monday. Today is Labor Day, a day when we honor hard-working Americans who build this country into the number one superpower that it is today. There will be picnics and barbecues across the country. Then, the next day, it will be back to school for our children (if there is any school), and many of our professional people will be back in their offices.
I am not to happy for our country on this Labor Day. Our national debt has soared past $26.5 trillion. When I watch television at night, I see a lot of commercials in which the product is selling for $19.99. That means it was made in Communist Red China. Another thing I am unhappy about is the amount of arms we selling to the Arab nations. I think such arms deals will haunt us in the not-too-distant future. May God be meriful to us and give us the wisdom to rule this country according to His will.
The Republican National Convention
August 31, 2020 Monday. I tried watching the Republican National Convention last week, but it wasn't on any of the local stations. The Public Broadcasting Service (WNED-TV, Channel 17) showed former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of NYC giving a speech in which he said that we have all the laws we need to control rioting. We just need to enforce those laws.
That's what it all boils down to--we need leaders who will enforce the laws not leaders who allow criminals to burn and loot.
The Democratic National Convention
August 24, 2020 Monday. I didn't bother to watch any of the Democratic Party National Convention. I thought it would be boring and a waste of time. My suspicions seemed to be correct. From what I've read about the convention, it was nothing but a Hate Trump fest with no solutions for solving any of the problems this country faces. It is my opinion that the only things that matters is Election Day in November. I believe Mr. Trump will win a second term to the White House. What remains to be seen is if he wins by a landslide. That is the feeling of many expert analysts. What is disturbing about the Democratic National Convention was that they struck out the words, "under God" from the pledge of allegiance. God-fearing Americans should take that into consideration when they go to the polls in November.
Robert Trump 1948-2020
August 19, 2020 Wednesday. Condolences to President Trump and the rest of the Trump Family on the loss of their brother, father, husband, and uncle Robert who passed away last Saturday. Robert would have been 72 near the end of this month. He was only several months older than me. It is uncomfortable knowing how close people my age are to death.
Happy Fourth of July 2020!
July 4, 2020 Saturday. I hope everybody has a pleasant Fourth of July, Independence Day, our 244th birthday.
The George Floyd Riots
June 23, 2020 Tuesday. Almost a month ago (March 25, 2020, Saturday) George Floyd was suffocated while in the process of being arrested in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was under the arresting policeman's knee for about eight minutes. No one can argue that this is nothing less than cruel and inhumane punishment. No one would have this done unto him. A simple lock of the wrists with handcuffs should have been sufficient enough to bring the situation under control.
Some believe that since George Lloyd was a repeat offender (a career criminal), that the police were putting an end to a public menace.
As a result of this killing of a suspect, riots occurred throughout the nation. They reminded me of the race riots of the '60s during the Lyndon Johnson administration. There were race riots in almost every city including Buffalo and Rochester. It didn't surprise me where in Buffalo those riots took place. They were in the core area of the city of the black neighborhoods which would be along Jefferson Avenue. This area of Buffalo is not safe to go in at anytime--day or night. I once rode my bicycle through there. Two black men rode by on a motorcycle. One of them shouted at me, "I'll kick your teeth."
Not every black person is an anti-white rioter. When the riots were taking place, I was downtown standing on the corner waiting for my father to pick me up. Several feet away was a black man standing by the street. He didn't bother me at all.
Another example of the situation as it exists in that area is: I once had an accident on Best and the expressway. I went to a black minister's house to ask him if I could use his phone. While I was using his phone, he kept looking around outside with scary eyes. Those people in that part of the city live in constant fear.
I once saw a black man walking in a black neighborhood. He was looking around and checking behind him. He was watching his back. That's what you have to do when you live in a black neighborhood. You have to watch your back so that nobody jumps you from behind.
Not too many people are aware of the term, "Polar Bear Hunting." It means a black man going up to a white man and throwing a sucker punch which renders the white man unconscious and even hospital bound.
The situation today much more dangerous than it was in the '60s. We have anti-white black groups like Black Lives Matter and ANTIFA that want to abolish the police department and destroy the US government. When they march in the streets, they sometimes chant, "Pigs in a blanket, fry like bacon."
One solution that was tried back in the '60s was to throw money at it. There were some improvements, but money alone did not stop the riots. In fact, in one instance, youths were given free passes to a movie theater. When the movie was over and they exited the theater, they started rioting.
What seems to be missing is a heavy dose of Christianity. Christianity can turn a person's life around. In one case about a hundred years ago, a British guy was asking a black native why he was carrying around a Bible. The British guy was a skeptic and didn't believe the Bible was worth bothering with. The black native said if it wasn't for the Bible, he (the British guy) would be in here. He pointed to his stomach. Christianity had turned that black native from a cannibal to caring, loving neighbor.
The Bible indicates that the world will turn away from the ways of peace and love, and, instead, will turn to the ways of hate and violence. Jesus said in Matthew 24:12, "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Jesus said in Matthew 24:37, "But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be." In Genesis 6:5, it says, "God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every magination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
And in verse 11, the Bible says, "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence." That's how it is today. There's not only individuals that are evil, corrupt and violent, there are entire religions and organizations like Islam and communism whose duty requires its members to hate and to do violence against Christians and Jews.
(t.b.c.)
THE CORONAVIRUS
March 5, 2020 Thursday. As you may have heard, the coronavirus, a disease that originated from the city of Wuhan deep in the heart of Communist Red China, is rapidly spreading throughout this country and the rest of the world. Over 80,000 people have contracted the coronavirus; and over 200 people have died from it. This has made the cornonavirus a dreaded disease almost as feared as cancer. In fact, it may even be worse than cancer. Cancer is not contagious, but the cornonavirus is very contagious. The disease seems to be out of control because our health centers are inept and even corrupt in some cases. The Center for Disease Control seems to be occupied with small projects. Fox News took a look at the World Health Organization and found them to be only interested in lavish vacations paid for by our tax dollars.
On top of being a contagious disease, the coronavirus is an insidious disease. It takes the virus 21 days to incubate in the body. There are no noticable symtoms until three weeks later. By that time, the carrier could travel to several different countries and infect thousands of people around the world.
Airport Insecurity
Ever since the 9/11 attacks, security at the airport terminals has been tight. Your luggage and your person are checked out to see if you are carrying any concealed weapons. No guns, bombs, and (hopefully) plastic knives are allowed on the airline. But it seems like the airport doesn't check for diseases of any kind. One fellow came aboard an airplane from China, disembarked in one of our cities' airport, and went on his merry way without going through any kind of medical checkup.
March 13, 2020 Friday. "The virus has killed over 4,200 people and sickened nearly 120,000 others globally. Some 1,200 cases have been reported in the U.S." according to American Patriot Forum.
Here are some suggestions that may help during the flu season / coronavirus epidemic:
* Vitamin C - One solution to the coronavirus problem is a dose of vitamin c that can be absorbed directly into the blood stream, which I think is a good idea. I have recently bought a bottle of 500 gram tablets of vitamin c. It's not a cure all, but it definitely helps. One needs to be careful how much and how often vitamin c is taken. I've heard if a person overdoses daily on vitamin c, the body builds up an immunity to it. Therefore, such a person would have to take even more vitamin c before he/she would receive any benefits. It is best to not to take more than 1 gram of vitamin c a day when you are healthy. When I am sick, that's when I start to overdose. I may take 6, 7, or more grams a day with orange juice and / or tea. One has to be careful after taking an overdose. Just because you feel good, you shouldn't go cold turkey on vitamin c. You have to gradually lower the dosage until you're down to one gram a day. Otherwise, you may suffer from vitamin c depletion and also experience a relapse.
* Keep warm - I am very susceptible to colds. I try to stay warm, especially my neck and throat. Keeping warm while sleeping at night is also very important to me.
When I come down with a cold, I lose my appetite. That's when I fast (except for the vitamin c). I try to stay away from cold drinks. I am surprised whenever I hear a person say they can't get rid of this cold they have; then the next thing they do is put money in the soda pop machine to buy and drink a cold can of soda pop.
We Americans are cursed with a very poor diet. It is loaded with sugar which, in most cases, is the refined sugar that is not good for you. We need to need foods with natural sugar and pure cane sugar.
Back to keeping warm, I remember a very stupid thing I did in which I got very sick and could have died. This was in the winter of 1979-1980 when I was a security guard at Buffalo Color. My post was outside the shed where the employees punch the time clock. I was in the shed with the other guard who was asking the names of the employees and checking the books. I was just sitting around not doing anything. I asked him what I'm suppose to do. He told me I'm suppose to be outside checking to see if anyone is carrying a gun, And he added, "but it's too cold out there," Wanting to be a good security guard who was doing his duty, I went outside in the cold weather wearing only a light jacket and carefully observing each individual as they entered the shed. None of them seem to carrying a gun. By the end of the shift, I felt very sick. I really had the chills. I was in such pain that I could only find comfort by filling up the bathtub and soaking in the hot water. I even did that in the middle of the night. Around 2 or 3 o'clock midnight, I would fill the tub with hot water and soak myself in the tub for about an hour. Lucky for me, neither of my parents had to use the bathroom. I was in such poor shape that I asked my mother to take me to Erie County Medical Center. She did that. But the discomfort I was feeling while in the waiting room was unbearable. One black patient was kind enough to let me go ahead of him to be treated. The doctors took some tests, which had me waiting--which was also unbearable. I wanted to be released so that I go home. The hospital released me. The doctors gave me a prescription to take. They apparently saw that I was fasting; so they told me I should drink, of all things, Gatorade. I went home and filled the tub with hot water where I was able to find relief from my chills. Eventually, I got over my cold. But if it wasn't for a bathtub with hot water, I don't think I would have made it.
* Fasting - Garner Ted Armstrong use to quote the old proverb concerning the common cold, "Feed a cold; starve a fever." He said that is incorrect. The correct phrase should be, "IF you feed a cold, you may have to starve a fever."
I remember when I starting using fasting as a weapon against the flu back when I was in my 20's. I was down with the flu for several days. I thought I was careful about what I ate. I ate no ice cream or anything cold--just normal, healthy food. Then the next day, I felt just as sick as the day before. This went on day after day after day. I simply got sick and tired of being sick. So I said to myself, "It's either me or the flu. One of us has got to go." I fasted from food and water until something did go. After one, two or three days, I felt a growl in my stomach. I knew then that my cold was gone.
While fasting, it's important to watch your weight. You don't want to lose so much weight that you kill yourself. But surprisingly, when you have a cold, you hardly lose any weight when you are fasting. That's one of the signs that you are healthy--when you start losing weight, you no longer have a cold. At least, that's the way I see it.
My mother was different. When she got a cold, she would be sick for a month, whereas I was sick only for a few days. I would tell her that she needs to fast to get rid of her cold. But she would eat a little bit and tell me that she needs to keep up her strength. So she would be sick for a whole month.
The scientific reason why fasting helps to fight a cold is that your stomach has to be empty before your immune system starts to fight the viruses and bad bacteria in your body.
Another time in which fasting helped me return to normal was when I was in the Armstrong Church. It was really scary. I was diarrheaing blood. I called up my minister Mr. Sell. He mailed me a piece of cloth. It is written in the Bible that the Apostle Paul performed miracles of healing through the simple touch of his clothing. Mr. Sell mailed me a piece of cloth about 2 inches by 2 inches that looked like gauze. He said the cloth will not heal me. It's God who will heal me. Well, I guess so. God gave me the wisdom to fast which allowed the internal bleeding to stop and for the wound to heal itself. My weight at that time was about 150 or 155 pounds. After I stopped fasting, my weight was down to 140 pounds. I was really skinny. My weight was probably more like 120 pounds--about what it was like during my high school years. I never had that ailment before nor since that time.
* Vitamin D - Another vitamin that is necessary for our health and for our immunity system is vitamin D. The greatest source of Vitamin D are the ultra violet rays we received from the sun. A second source of vitamin D are ultra violet lamps. Ultra violet lamps are said to kill 99.9% of germs. This is what we should (but don't) use in our schools, hospitals, and office buildings to protect ourselves from the cornavirus.
March 16, 2020 Monday.
“So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!” the President tweeted.
Yes, that's interesting, Mr. President. So it doesn't really matter if you get sick and die from the flue or if you get sick and die from coronavirus. The important thing is not to get sick so that you won't die.
BIOLOGICAL / GERM WARFARE
We know that the coronavirus came from Communist Red China. However, nobody is accusing Communist Red China of deliberately and purposely spreading this frightening sickness--except me. From the four or five books that I've read about Communist Red China, I have learned that their strategy for world conquest is avoid a direct confrontation with the United States unless they have superior strength. They try to probe us for any and every kind of weakness and then take advantage of us through those weaknesses.
CAPITALISM
The medical industry in the United States isn't what you may think it is or what you may want it to be. It is an institution that is mainly interested in its own survival. It's major enemy to its survival is The Cure. If every disease were conquered, most of the medical industry would vanish. With no sick patients, there would be no means of making a living.
Below is an almost nine-minute video explanation on what is going on in the fight against the dreaded disease we are now facing--the coronavirus epidemic. It was done by Laura Ingraham of Fox News on April 22, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RexUJeWmzSE
Laura has her own 1-hour show M-F 10PM-11PM EST.
Laura tells us that “Scientific study” is a term used to convey seriousness. The researches on patients must account for variables such as:
1) age
2) medical history
3) current disease progression
Research also must take into account the manner in which this data is organized, examined and reported to determine if the study is credible or not.
Fake Research
One biased study on hydroxychloroquine is shockingly irresponsible and very possibly agenda-driven. It claims:
1) hydroxycholoroquine shows no effective affect against coronavirus
2) may have harmful affects that will lead to even higher fatality rates--as reported by CNN.
The study was an observational study and not a clinical study, admits MSNBC, done on a small number of veterans who were in their 80s or 90s. The drug DOES work on middle-aged and younger veterans.
Laura Ingraham asks why is CNN and AP shouting out the negative report which is unscientific rather than other reports that show hydroxychloroquine to be promising and even effective. She’s opened to any theory about this mystery, but she has an answer to her own question. It’s because the other drugs that are being used to treat coronavirus are expensive while hydroxchloroquine is very cheap. “BIG PHARMA DOES NOT MAKE ITS MONEY ON CHEAP GENERICS.”
Masks
For protection from the coronavirus, we are required to wear surgical masks when we enter any public building. I am obedient to this rule, but I am skeptical that these masks really work; particularly, those cheap rectangular masks seem inadequate and inefficient. The top part of the mask by the top of the nose seems to allow bacteria and germs to be inhaled from the surrounding air.
There are other objections as stated in an email that I received last week Thursday (Sept. 24, 2020) from the Deep State Journal:
"Here Is the Scientific Truth About Masks, You Won’t Like It
I could very well be one of the top issues of the 2020 elections - mask or no mask.
And depending on the day of the week and which doctor or scientist you talk to, you could get a dozen or more different views.
But here is the scientific truth about masks, and you probably won’t like it.
Here at Deep State Journal, we have taken sort of a hand-off approach to masks. If you want to wear one, well, OK. We won’t make fun of you.
If you don’t want to wear one, you are certainly free to make that decision and in fact we celebrate it with you.
But now, it has become so much more than just a friendly debate.
Mask Nazis are everywhere, cajoling, screaming, even calling police on, and beating up,, shooting and stabbing Americans without masks.
So, enough Mr. Nice Guy. The fact is, the mantra here at Deep State Journal is this:
“If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied during 1930s Germany, now you know.”
Because the simple fact is, if you are looking for scientific rationale that promotes universal mask wearing, you won’t find it now.
That’s because the issue of masks has become as political, no even more political, than guns, abortion, immigration and taxes.
We’ve past all points of rational thought on the subject and entered mask fantasy land (not that kind of fantasy, the bad kind.)
We are now to the point where 19-month-old babies are being forced to wear them on airplanes. In the absurd position of Canada’s chief public health officer calling on people to wear masks when engaging sexual activities.
It’s often been said that there simply is no rational thought in a political cult. And the “new normal” mask Nazis certainly fit that bill.
Joe Biden has called for a national mask mandate, some governors are proposing heavy fines, home confinement and even jail time to those not wearing masks.
You can no longer board an airplane without a mask, get a haircut, get your nails done or even attend school.
So, certainly there is medical and scientific evidence to back all this mask hysteria up.
Right? Well, no, not exactly.
Let’s take a look at what the leading government, medical and scientific literature said before this became a political issue, a matter of governmental control, not public health.
On Aril 3, several weeks into the lockdown over the Communist Chinese-created coronavirus, but before the big media push for universal masking, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued guidelines for protection for workers exposed to people with the virus.
OSHA stated clearly what governments around the world had said all along, “Surgical masks and eye protection were provided as an interim measure to protect against splashes and large droplets (note: surgical masks are not respirators and do not provide protection against aerosol generating procures)”
In other words, they knew then that since the virions of coronavirus are roughly 100 nanometers, 1/30 the size of surgical mask filtrations, surgical masks (not to mention cloth ones) do not help, at all.
This explains why all of the places overseas with universal mask orders in place for months, like France, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Peru and the Philippines failed to stop the spread of infection.
It also explains similar problems in California and Hawaii.
The truth was then, and still is, that surgical masks could possibly stop large droplets from those coughing with very evident symptoms, but that’s it.
And cloth masks, you, the ones you see most people wearing these day, they are than useless, they are dangerous.
This is why the CDC, even as late as May, was citing the 10 trials that showed “no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks.”
And even the patron saint of liberals everywhere, Dr. Anthony Fauci, spoke assertively against universal mask wearing early in the epidemic.
“There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask,” Dr Fauci told “60 Minutes.” He went on to explain that masks can only block large droplets, they give a false sense of security, and they cause people to get more germs on their hands by fiddling with it.
Those are facts that don’t change with time, or political seasons.
And several weeks later, Surgeon General Jerome Adams said that one has to assume that “wearing a mask improperly can actually increase your risk of getting disease.”
Of course, only a very small percentage wear masks properly, or even wear the proper masks.
Nothing about the biology of the virus or our discovery of it has changed in the past few months that would lead us to believe that masks are somehow more effective against it than they were in March, April or May.
No, the science hasn’t changed.
The only thing that has changed is the politics.
Governments found they could no long control our lives through lockdowns, so they created the mask mandate as a way of permanently controlling the American people.
In fact, Dr. Jeffery Klausner, an infectious disease doctor at UCLA, said mask wearing is all psychological, not physiological. He told the Los Angeles Times that “fear spreads a lot faster than the virus,” and that a mask only “makes you feel better.”
What is so dangerous about this is that, as Fauci warned, many immunocompromised people will go to dangerous places thinking the mask protects them.
Swedish epidemiologist Anders Tegnell warned because scientific evidence for mask-wearing to prevent COVID is “astonishingly weak,” it is “very dangerous” to believe that face masks could control the spread of the disease rather than simply hand washing. Sweden of course has almost no cases, and almost no one wears a mask.
So, the question is, how have we gone from public officials universally warning about the lack of effectiveness of masks to our current mask mandate mania?
The answer is simple. Because we complied."
Man's Best Friend
There are some companies that claim their masks kills germs. That's wonderful! --if it's true. Even if they do, there's still one big flaw. We don't put masks on our pet dogs. Dogs, cats, and birds which breath in and out the same air we do. They also breath in and out the same germs. Some of those germs are undoubtedly coronavirus germs. So there goes the rational for wearing masks. Unless we put germ-proof masks on every living breathing thing on the earth, we cannot be safe. The whole idea of wearing masks for our health is futile.
(t.b.c.)
NANCY PELOSI
February 7, 2020 Friday. On Fox News last night,
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ms-13-gang-members...
Tucker Carlson and a number of other talk hosts mentioned that Nancy Pelosi may be losing her mind. One example given was where she said that members of the Central American gangster group MS-13 are God's children and have been given a spark of divinity. This group, among other things, has been recorded by video camera of killing a homeless man with a machete. Because Pres. Trump wants to bar them from entering the country, Nancy Pelosi calls him "inhuman."
The MS-13 is much like the Muslims and their Islam religion. They reward their members with a higher office when they do murder. That is much like the Muslim religion which rewards its followers with Paradise the more enemies they kill in battle.
I have written a poem about Nancy Pelosi, which could be sung to the theme song of the 1959 Western TV series Yancy Derringer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR8_U5Hl6DE
Nancy. Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy. Nancy Pelosi.
Like Hillary,
Nancy Pelosi
Wants to make the country
Lousy.
THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
February 4, 2020 Tuesday. President Triump gave his third State of the Union Address tonight. He told about the accomplishments of his administration regarding the economy. He said it's been the best for women and blacks. The Democrats would disagree with that. They say the economy has benefited the rich.
Mr. Trump wants Congress to pass a few bills which include letting parents send their children to the best schools in the community. Democratic liberals hate that. He wants to end late term abortions. Again, Democratic liberals hate that. He wants to improve our roads and bridges. Nancy Pelosi would not applaud to this, so supposedly Democratic liberals hate that, too, if it helps Donald Trump become reelected. He honored Rush Lambaugh, the number one talk show host in the conservative radio world with the Presidential Medal of Honor. Democratic liberals hate that.
Not mentioned was the national debt. The national debt is over $23.2 trillion and still climbing.
At the end of Mr. Trump's address, Nancy Pelosi tore up her copy of his speech. This illustrates the contempt and the hatred the Far Left has for President Trump.
Mr. Trump says the best is yet to come. That remains to be seen.
KOBE BRYANT
February 2, 2020 Sunday.
Condolences to the families of Kolby Bryant and the 8 people who were killed in the helicopter crash of last Sunday, January 26.
The wife of Kobe said she is devastated. What other word can describe the horror of suddenly losing loved ones to an accident as tragic as this?
We read in Genesis 37:34-35 when Jacob's sons lied to him that Joseph was killed by a beast: "And Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins, and he mourned for his son many days. And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to comforted. And he said, 'For I will go down into the grave to my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.'"
USA TAXES AIDING MUSLIM GROUPS
January 31, 2020 Friday.
https://www.meforum.org/60302/dhs-approves-100k-grant-to-cair
This story is very disturbing. The Department of Homeland Security is handing out taxpayer money to Muslim jihadist organizations. According to the article, USA funding of Islamic jihadist groups has actually increased during the Trump Administration; and support for these groups is greater than it was during the Obama Administration. This is outrageous, scandalous and treasonous. The very organization in the federal government that is suppose to protect us from groups like al-qada and ISIS is instead helping them to do harm to America. What is going on here? Is President Trump aware of this? Is he so wrapped up in these impeachment hearings that Obama holdovers in the DHS can sneak past him thousands if not millions of dollars to aid our worst enemies? Either Mr. Trump needs to stop this now, or we must make a united stand to end this insanity. Friends of America like Franklin Graham, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and Rush Limbaugh should use their influence to correct this matter.
THE KILLING OF IRANIAN ARMY GENERAL IN IRAQ
January 3, 2020 Friday. The United States scored a victory in Iraq when one of our drones bombed and killed Iranian terrorist General Suleimani.
There are quite a few ironies in this military intervention. For one thing, as everyone can see clearly, is that is an escalation of US military involvement in the Middle East, which is the exact opposite to what President Trump promise when he was a candidate in 2016. The lesson we should have all learned by now is that we cannot retreat from the hot spots of the world. It doesn't do any good to make promises to leave certain countries without making sure the overall situation doesn't change for the worse. It would be best if the United States maintained a permanent military presence to insure peace in the region.
This clashes with Tucker Carlson's (of Fox News) opinion about what should be done. He wants an end to all American forces in Iraq. He says they are dying in that region for no cause and with no end in sight.
I am in full agreement with him that our troops are losing their limbs and lives in an endless war without a cause. It is heartbreaking to see wounded American veterans with artificial legs. Why should send red-blooded human American troops to the Middle East to get their arms and legs blown off when we could send robots instead. In many cases, that is what we do in Afghanistan. We have sent robots to patrol dangerous places, and in the process, have lowered the casuality rate of our troops. I would encourage the further development and deployment of robots to replace our soldiers in areas of the Middle East to keep the peace.
It would be different if our troops were fighting for a cause. The cause that Ann Coulter told us to take up--to convert the Muslims to Christianity--would be a great cause. It would be a big step towards bringing a lasting peace to the Middle East.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020
Hoping every one has a prosperous and healthy new year.
This year is a presidential election year; so much of our news will be about politics. Many of us expect Donald Trump to be reelected. The question is: Will he win the election by a landslide, or can the Democratic Party come up with a candidate who the majority of us just think will help the country better in the near future. Let us pray that God will give us the wisdom to chose our next president and leaders in Congress carefully.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
December 25, 2019. As with most Christmas Days, we try to think of what is the true meaning of Christmas. The answer usually is: God's love for us in sending His son Jesus to pay for our sins. "For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son." (John 3:16)
And just as important, "For without charity, we are nothing." (I Corinthians 13:2)
PEARL HARBOR DAY
December 9, 2019 Monday. Two days ago was Pearl Harbor Day. On Tucker Carlson's Show on Fox News, he had a guest who is a veteran of the Pearl Harbor attack. He said he was 20 years old at the time; and that he lost his best friend that day. He saw the rising sun on the Japanese planes as they came in low to strafe their targets. He said 70 percent of the base was destroyed by the Japanese. He said he will never forget that day, and he will never forgive.
I have read at least two books on the Pearl Harbor attack. Here are some interesting facts I've learned:
* There was a communication on Japanese plans for Pearl Harbor on someone's desk in Washington. It was received on Friday, December 5th. The decoding and translation of it was put off until Monday.
* Japanese pilots were trained to bomb Pearl Harbor, and they made practice drills on an island in the Kuriles which looked very much like Pearl Harbor.
* The Japanese understood that an air attack during the daylight hours would not be successful. Their only chance for success was right after sunrise at dawn.
* The first wave of Japanese planes approaching were spotted by radar. The colonel who received the message from the radar post dismissed the sighting as American planes that were expected to arrive from San Francisco.
* Even if American fighters were were sent to intercept the Japanese planes, it is said the Japanese planes still have been able to destroy the naval base at Pearl Harbor. I tend to disbelieve that. Why would the Japanese think their only chance for success was to strike at dawn?
* American planes at Hickham Field at Pearl Harbor were all lined up in order to protect them from saboteurs--but were easy targets for Japanese strafers.
* Thirty of our airmen were killed when their officer's quarters was hit by a bomb as they were having breakfast.
* Most of the damage to Pearl Harbor was done in the first 10 minutes of the attack when everybody thought the whole thing was a joke with Japanese suns painted on American planes. It was only when the battleships were sinking that they knew it was the real thing.
* The Navy thought the battleships were safe from torpedoes because the harbor was shallow. An ordinary torpedo would simply stick in the muddy bottom of the harbor. But the Japanese altered the fins on the torpedoes so that they could be used in shallow water.
* One of the first battleships to sink was the Oklahoma. It was torpedoed and then it capsized so that top was on the bottom of the harbor and the bottom was up on the top in the air. The survivors had to made their way up to the bottom of the ship where there was air for them to breath. One sailor tried to keep morale high by imagining a trip to the nearby soda fountain shop and having a dish of ice cream. I think it would have been better if they all remained quiet to conserve oxygen--and to silently do some praying. A total of 429 of Oklahoma's crew perished that day.
* The USS California was torpedoed and bombed. It sank with a loss of 98 men.
* Japanese bombers made three passes over the Arizona before one of their armor-piercing bombs penetrated the upper decks of the ship and exploded in the ammunition section of the ship. The immense explosion lifted the ship out of the water; and then it settled to the bottom of the harbor broken into two pieces. The number of sailors and officers lost on that ship was 1,177. The total number of lives lost at Pearl Harbor that day was 2,335.
* The Japanese were disappointed that none of the six aircraft carriers we had then were docked at Pearl Harbor that day. Three of them (the USS Yorktown, the USS Ranger, and the USS Wasp) were part of the Atlantic Fleet. The USS Lexington was 500 miles southeast of Midway Island. The USS Saratoga was at San Diego. The closest aircraft carrier to Pearl Harbor was the USS Enterprise, which was 215 miles west of Oahu.
* After the raid was over, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto realized the treachery of the attack and said, "I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve." American Admiral Halsey voiced that resolve with the words, "Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell."
The Japanese showed us how fanatical they were in the Battle for Iwo Jima--sending a message to us, "We will fight you to the death." So we sent a message to them, "Surrender or be destroyed." We dropped two atomic bombs on them to show them we can and we would destroy them. They surrendered.
We are not at war with the Japanese today. However, the war in the Middle East is different. The message our enemy has sent us is this: "We love death more than you love life."
HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY!
November 28, 2019 Thursday. Hoping everyone will have a happy and safe Thanksgiving Day. We should always give thanks to God for what we have.
When I was a boy, I saw that we had a Mother's Day and a Father's Day. I asked my parents why we didn't have a Children's Day. My father said, "Everyday is Children's Day." How can he mean that? I wasn't getting toys everyday. But they were feeding me, clothing me, washing my clothes, letting me use their bathroom, and providing me with a nice warm bed to sleep in. We forget how much we have until we lose it or until someone from overseas tells us how much we really have. Some of our leaders realized this, and that is why we have Thanksgiving Day--to remind ourselves that we in the United States and Canada have truly been blessed by God.
Thank you, Holy Father in Heaven, for all the blessings you have given us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
GIVING AIDS TO THE NEEDY
November 25, 2019 Monday. Candidate Pete Buttigieg gave his stand on AIDS and HIV patients donating their blood during the debate last week. He said it should not be a crime for carriers of AIDS and HIV to donate their blood if they know they have those dreaded diseases.
This is a guy who claims to be Christian and who claims that being in a a gay marriage has helped him become even more Christian.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/pete-buttigieg-thinks-it-should-be-legal-to-knowingly-give-someone-hiv
His reason for doing away with such laws is because they are old and archaic. The law he calls old and archaic is the law of love--"You shall love your neighbor as yourself," and the golden rule--"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Would Peter Buttigieg want someone to give him blood that is contaminated with the AIDS and HIV virus?
Many have called his line of reasoning "insanity." And that's what it is.
THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT
November 15, 2019 Friday. The impeachment of Donald Trump has taken place in Congress starting Nov. 13, Wed. I have not watched the proceedings too carefully because I find the whole affair to be boring. From what I've heard so far:
* There is little or no evidence of any crime worthy of impeachment.
* The hearings are extremely unfair. Only statements and testimonies from Democrats, Far Leftists, and Trump haters are allowed to be heard. Mr. Trump and his supports are completely shut out. This is the most alarming aspect of the impeachment affair--it is an example of one-party rule.
It is likely these hearings will end up going nowhere. The sooner they are finished the better.
AL-BAGHDADI
October 28, 2019 Monday. Congradulations to Pres. Trump and the U.S. miliatary for getting rid of al-Baghdadi, the number one leader of ISIS.
It is said that the intelligence and information needed to carry out the raid to destroy this villain took years to collect. I just hope it didn't involve bribing some Muslim official with millions of dollars.
Al-Baghadadi was trapped in a one-way tunnel. He blew himself up with two of his children. How can they prove that they got Baghadadi if his body has been blown to bits?
Pres. Trump says Al-Baghdadi died as a coward. During WW2, the Japanese on Iwo Jima threw their children and themselves off a cliff--committing suicide rather than surrendering to the Americans. Were they cowards?
Some of the newsmen at CNN said Pres. Trump's remarks concerning the death of al-Baghdadi were crude. They forget how ISIS members celebrate the deaths of their enemies with cheering, dancing and passing out candy.
Nancy Pelosi said al-Baghdadi is only one death. There will be others to take his place. I agree with that. Al-Baghdadi is only one battle.
WHO KARES ABOUT THE KURDS?
October 8, 2019 Tuesday. Yesterday, President Trump announces the withdrawal of troops from northern Syria, as he promised in his presidential campaign. He was strongly denounced by members of both parties in Congress. One exception was Ron Paul who said we can't keep our troops in the Middle East for all eternity. Another guy in favor of our withdrawal, as he is with the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, is Tucker Carlson of Fox News. He said we shouldn't be fighting in endless wars where we have no goals.
On either his show or one of the ladies (Laura Ingraham or Shannon Bream), Victor David Hansen came on saying our foreign policy is a mess in the Middle East: We are allies with Turkey though we are not friends with them. And we are friends with the Kurds even though we are not allies with them.
After reading this article on Jidhad Watch, I've had a change of heart:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/10/dont-romanticize-the-kurds
The Kurds are just as bad as the Turks when it comes to the treatment of Christians and Jews.
Turkey is no better than the Kurds. The Christians there number only one half of 1% of the population, yet their president considers them a threat to their stability.
https://www.meforum.org/7243/turkey-turns-on-its-christians
In fact, according to this web site, the bombing they are now carrying out in northern Syria is directed at Christians.
https://mail.aol.com/webmail-std/en-us/suite
My sympathies are or were with the Kurds. They were promised their own homeland after World War I. But they never got it. When Pres. Bush the First freed Kuwait from Sadaam Husein, he afterwards asked anyone to rise up and dispose of Saddam Hussein. The Kurds responded. They expected help from the US Army in their struggle against the Iraqi forces, but they received none. They were crushed. Saddam wanted to destroy them all with his poison gas. The US protected the Kurds by declaring their space to be a "no-fly zone." During the second Persian Gulf War against Iraq, under Pres. Bush the Second,, the Kurds refused to fight with the US forces because they did not trust us.
In my opinion, Pres. Trump is playing politics with the Kurds. He knows we have no treaty of defense with them. We really shouldn't have any troops in Syria. If we started pouring troops into Syria, critics from all over the country will be crying out that we have no business being in Syria.
CONSTITUTION DAY
September 17, 2019 Tuesday. Today is Constitution Day. You may say, "So what? Big deal. So it's Constitution Day." But it is a big deal. The Constition is the supreme law of the land.
It wasn't meant to be. Back in 1783, it was merely a pact to hold the 13 states together. Then 1861-1865, we had the Civil War which decided if we were one nation or many states with most of the power held by the governors of each state. Abraham Lincoln declared in his Gettysburg Address that we are one nation under God. However, the Gettysburg Address is not a legal document. The Constitution, on the other hand, is. But it says nothing about the United States being one nation under God. The only thing it says about God is "in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven." Some liberals say that even these words are not found in the Constitution. If that's true, then indeed the Constitution says nothing about God. Because of this, the ACLU was able to get the Supreme Court to ban the teaching of the Bible in our public schools.
We need to establish Judeo-Christianity as the religion of the United States. It needs to be put into our Constitution or we need to adopt a new Constitution that makes Judeo-Christianity the religion of our nation.
PATRIOT'S DAY 2019
September 11, 2019, Wednesday. Today is the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It regarded as some as the beginning of the Muslim war against America although the World Trade Center was attacked previously. Ann Coulter has been calling it a war since that time. (We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.) I am in agreement with that statement.
Sadly, we are losing this war. We have invaded some of their countries. We have killed some of their leaders. But we have not converted them to Christianity. We haven't even tried to convert them to Christianity. The exact opposite seems to be true. A box of Bibles that was shipped to Iraq by a Christian church was ordered to be burned by the US Army. In Afghanistan,the US government help to craft their constitution which makes Islam the national religion.
The war is being lost mainly within our own borders. More and more, speech is being restricted that may offend Muslims. There were some jokes on Fox News that illustrated this fact. One talk show guest said that there use to be 7 worlds that you could not say on TV about 10 years ago. Today, there are 15,000 words you cannot say in private on social media. Another joke was that Twitter has censured a Fox News talk guest for criticizing Osama bin Ladin 18 years ago.
Here are a few examples of setbacks and defeats the cause of freedom have suffered in the US and the rest of the Western world:
* In Sweden, a 65 years woman was harassed by the police for critizing Islam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38_NOFmuhZ8
The Swedes are suffering terribly, especially the womenfolk, from sexual assaults by the Muslim immigrants they welcomed into there country. Sweden is now known as "the rape capital of the world."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iERLyAxddVE
How many crimes are more heinous than rape? Yet, to Muslims rape is nothing, and is even considered a religious obligation.
*In Britain, criticism of Islam is also forbidden.
https://onenewsnow.com/culture/2019/09/25/uk-thought-police-all-criticism-of-islam-prohibited
In the current (October 2019, Europe's Fading Cosmopolitan Dream, p. 49) issue of Newsmax Magazine, Joel Kotkin says that, "The European press often downplays jihadism and crimes associated with refugees because it threatens the preferred narrative." He notes that anti-Semitism and anti-Israel feelings are rising in Europe because of the increase in Muslim immigrants and far left progressives.
In the USA, more and more, criticism against Islam is being less tolerated. Judge Jeannine Piro of Fox News found that out in March of this year. Fox News suspended her after she replied to Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.
As for me, I am still banned from making any comments on Jihad Watch since I wrote that all mosques should be destroyed. I was also suspended by Facebook for two days for saying that Muslims should not be allowed to hold public office in America.
(to be continued)
LABOR DAY
September 2, 2019 Monday. Happy Labor Day to everyone.
I wonder if it's really "Happy" Labor Day. It should be called "Worry Day" with Hurricane Dorian threatening the Florida coast. God only knows how much damage Dorian will cause and how many lives will be lost. Say a prayer for those who are effected by this terrible storm.
We could call this day, "Happier Labor Day." According to Fox News, 6 million jobs are available in America. In contrast, Europe and the rest of the world are seeing a recession. It's ironic that America is in the midst of prosperity while half of America hates Pres. Trump who helped bring this prosperity to us for us to enjoy. God bless America. And God bless President Donald Trump.
BEYOND MARS
August 16, 2019 Friday. Last Thursday night, at his campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Pres. Trump made it our goal is to send men to Mars and plant the America flag. This space feat would bring great glory to our nation; and we can be proud that we not only landed the first men on the moon, but also the first men on Mars.
But is planting the flag on Mars worth billions and billions of dollars? There are three reasons for going into space: 1) scientific exploration, 2)colonization, 3) tourism and recreation. The plan we have, so far, is to go back to the moon by the year 2024. This will cost a fortune and add significantly to our national debt which is already over $22 trillion. The money for these space projects must be approved by Congress. Will Congress give its approval?
President Trump mentioned the investments that are being made by private companies like SpaceX and Boeing who are expected to invest 1.1 trillion dollars. NASA is also expected to made money by renting the launch facilities for these companies.
The 16 Psyche Asteroid - Recently, I have read about a space probe from the USA that will be launched in the year 2022. It will take four years to reach Psyche, in the year 2026. Psyche an asteroid in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is 140 miles across, which is the distance between San Diego and Los Angeles, or the distance between Buffalo and Syracuse. The probe will check out the metals that make up most of the asteroid. It will give us clues as to what is deep inside the core of our own planet.
According to some sources, there's another item that needs to be checked out on Psyche--WEALTH! You've heard of the old expression, "It pays for itself." This Psyche thing not only pays for any and all future missions to that distant mini world, it pays for any and all projects we may want to undertake here on earth as well as on the moon, Mars, and Venus.
According to this web site:
this asteroid contains enough heavy metals including gold and platinum to make it worth $700 quadrillion. That's a lot of money.
The US national debt is currently over $23.5 trillion. That is money we borrowed from our children and from our children's children. Some say we can never pay all that money back.
With the mining of Psyche, we would not only pay all that money back, we would have plenty of money left over. We would be able to back up every paper dollar bill that we print with gold. We could even take the paper money out of circulation and use gold coins.
"Whatever you do, do for the glory of God." (Colossians 3:17; I Corinthians 10:31)
Landing the first man on Mars would bring great glory to the USA. Winning the Super Bowl would have brought great glory to Jim Kelly when he was the quarterback of the Buffalo Bills. One thing he said about playing in the Super Bowl was, "I'm doing it for myself." We should not be going to Mars for ourselves. We need God to help us get there safely because as Werner von Braun said, once we sent men into outer space and they get into trouble, "All we can do is pray."
Praying is not what they do or tell you to do in the old Soviet Union or in Communist Red China. "Why haven't the Russians gone to the moon?" is a question many of us have asked. The answer one of our satellites found out was big black stain on the ground where once stood their moon rocket. It seems like it exploded, and thus, it ended the Russians desire to land men on the moon.
One way to glorify God with the gold from Psyche is to use some of it to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem. Right now, some the items that are being made for the priestly service in the temple are made of plated gold. With some of the gold from Psyche, those items could be made of solid gold or with platinum and gold.
(to be continued)
MASS SHOOTINGS
August 6, 2019 Tuesday. The mass shootings of last week Friday and Saturday left 31 dead and shocked the nation. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims. The only problem is that families of victims of mass shootings don't like it when you tell them that. It's like the Kennedy Assassination. What good are prayers going to do now?
President Trump said of the mass shootings that America is not a nation of hate. The opposite of hate is love. Are we a nation of love? God is love. Jesus said, "A new commandment I give to you. Love one another." (John 13:34) Yet we have virtually outlawed the Bible from our public schools. We can't say prayers in our schools. Rather than love, we have abortions, homosexual marriages, and high divorce rates. All of these are against God's laws. Instead of teaching about love, Christian values, and Christian principles, some of our public are teaching our children about Islam. This is a religion that teaches about fear, hate, pain and killing. Muslims may not be responsible for all the murders and violence that occur in our country, they add to our problems, and, I think, they are an inspiration to those who are prone to violence.
President Trump advocates the death penalty for all mass murderers. This is a good idea. The shooter who was responsible for the mass murder of students at Parkland High School in Florida is still alive after two years in prison. This is a travesty of justice. We need to correct this error. It's the least we can do.
FIRST MOON LANDING 50TH ANNIVERSARY
July 20, 2019 Saturday. Fifty years ago today, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. That was truly a historic occassion because only 12 other men walked on the moon. And no other country other than then United States has sent men to the moon.
What is noteworthy is that many of our astronauts returned from space with a deeper appreciation for the spiritual things--like God and the Bible.
It is my belief that the Lord allowed a God-confessing nation to be the first and only nation to land men on the moon while disallowing a God-denying nation to receive glory of landing the first man on the moon. Hopefully, we will remain faithful to God as we venture further out into space. July 20, 1969 is a date that the world should remember as the day when the first man set foot on the moon.
Some of our astronauts believe that the end of the moon program in 1972 was a mistake. We should have set up moon bases and space stations in lunar orbit. We should also have set our sights on landing men on Mars.
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
July 4, 2019 Thursday. This is the 243rd birthday of the United States of America. It is a big milestone because, historically, republics don't last more than 200 years.
There is much to worry about as well as to celebrate. Our national debt is over $22 trillion.
The biggest worry is the loss of our Christian values. We are living in the post-Christian era where political correctness dominates our culture. We hear cries of racism, sexism, homophobia, and well as Islamophobia to keep our leaders from protecting our health and safey.
The latest controversy is over the removal of the Betsy Ross flag sneakers from the market because it is a racist flag that represents our country when slavery was a national institution.
Racism, racism, racism. Aren't you sick of hearing that word? The Democratic Party debate started with Kamala Harris accusing former Vice president and leading candidate Joe Biden of racism for not supporting busing 40 years ago. This set the stage for infighting and division and complete chaos. There was little or no discussion on how to solve our nation's problems. Instead, the Democratic Party bent on self destruction as it proposes new programs such as the New Green Deal that will cost trillions of dollars that will put the nation in greater and greater debt.
Back to the flag, the flag was designed to meet at least two needs: it must be simplistic, and it must be easily recognizable. The flag was made to have a union square at the upper left corner. This was for mariners who could turn the flag upside down to show other sailors that they were in trouble. The stars were placed in the union square in a circle to symbolize the perfect and unending unity among the states. Another thing that was impractical was adding another stripe with the addition of a new state. The War of 1812 flag had 15 stars and 15 stripes. After that, the number of stripes was kept at 13.
The stars on the flag also have a interesting story of their own. The original stars were to have six points. But Betsy Ross showed that making 5-pointed stars was much easier.
The Betsy Ross flag represented a confederation of 13 states that was trying to win their independence from Great Britain. It was a flawed country that did not allow women to vote nor blacks nor native Americans the right to vote or hold office. It was a beginning. It was the birth of a new nation that was sexist, racist, and homophobic compared to what it is today. That's because the United States was just a baby. We were just starting out on a new life. You can't expect much from a baby. It wets and craps in its diapers. It cries and has to be fed often. But today we have grown to be one of the world's greatest nations.
There's nothing wrong with that Betsy Ross flag. It represents the beginning of freedom and liberty. But the far left and the communists often resort to name calling and accusations to keep their enemies off balance. They are calling the Betsy Ross flag "racist."
CROSSING THE DMZ
July 1, 2019 Monday. Today, President Trump crossed the DMZ into North Korea to become the first sitting president of the USA to do so. Supposedly, this was a historic moment. But if conditions don't significantly improve in North Korea, then this event would be no more important than the first astronaut landing on the moon.
On this web site, we see how horrible it is to live in North Korea especially if you're a Christian.
https://www.destinationtips.com/destinations/asia/kim-jong-un-increases-size-people-starve-31-terrible-facts-life-inside-north-korea/2/
https://www.christianheadlines.com/blog/north-korea-70-000-christians-concentration-camps.html
https://www.faithwire.com/2019/02/14/christian-imprisoned-in-north-korea-gives-devastating-account-of-life-behind-bars/
If President Trump can bring about freedom of religion in North Korea, that would be truly awesome and wonderful.
WAR WITH IRAN
June 21, 2019 Friday. On Fox News tonight, Tucker Carlson told us that attacking Iran for its downing of one of our drones over the Persion Gulf would have been a mistake. Such an action would have taken over 150 Iranian lives. And, according to Tucker Carlson, it would have cost President Trump the election in 2020.
The recall of the attack on Iran may have been a wise decision, but what if Iran decides again to destroy US property without fear of any consequences or retaliation. What if North Korea realizes they can at US targets without fear of any reprisals? What if Russia and Communist Red China decide they can attack us without fear of any retaliation?
The drone was unmanned and merely a piece of property. What if a neighbor of yours smashed up your automobile because it was too close to his driveway? You could sue him and make him pay for the damages. But in the Persian Gulf, there is no higher authority to appeal to. Our military is the only higher authority that is keeping the peace in the Middle East.
Trouble with Iran started many years ago back in 1979 when the Shah of Iran (our friend) was disposed of by the ayatollah Khomeini. From that time, Iran has been American's bitter enemy. They seized our embassy and held our ambassador and his staff until the end of the Carter Administration.
Our local newspapers did not allow Americans to forget the anguish and humiliation of 60 of our fellow Americans being held captive. In the Bufalo News, on the front page in the lower right corner, we were reminded how many days the Iranians were keeping them prisoners. We would read, "This the 256th day of American embassy personnel being held in Iran." The next day we would read, "This is the 257th day American embassy personnel being held in Iran." And it would continue until the 444th day.
In the meantime, there were riots in the streets of Teheran with the mob shouting, "Death to America," and burning the American flag. They even called us The Great Satan.
The Shah of Iran was a man with cancer and a man without a country. No one would take him in.
America was angry with all this and more. Jimmy Carter tried to send a commando team to rescue our imprisoned embassy staff. But the helicopters sputtered in the Iranian desert storm. Two of them collided. The Iranians displayed their burnt dead bodies in public for all to see.
The feelings we had for Iran were illustrated in a cartoon that one of the guys had hanging in the men's room at Kaufman's Bakery where I was working at the time. It showed our Marines shoving an American flag up the butt of the ayatollah.
What would have Russia done if Iran had taken their embassy captive? One Russian diplomat explained it this way: "The time is now two o'clock. Fifteen minutes from now, there would be no Iran."
How would King David have handled this situation? We read in II Samuel 10:1-19 about the emissaries David sent to the new king of Ammon. He treated them shamefully. He knew by doing so that "they stank before David." And so there was war. David and the armies of Israel slew 40,700 men.
In these times, one incident after another has taken place between the US and Iran. We've managed to stay out of a war with them. The shooting down of the drone has been nearly forgotten. Mr. Trump has been proven right that there was no need to take action. But Iran is developing nuclear weapons. So someday, we will have to take action.
Tucker Carlson told us that US intervention has been tried in Afghanistan and in Iraq and it has failed. It failed because we've poured millions and millions of dollars into those countries, but nation doesn't work. Nation building does work, it's just that we haven't really tried it. We've allowed those countries to continue to be who they are. We've allowed them to remain Islamic. We may have done worse. Before we intervened, these countries were dictatorships. After we intervened, they became Islamic.
Under the dictatorships, the other religions such as the Christians enjoyed their freedom to worship. But under Islam, they became third or fourth class citizens, and even worse than dogs.
After watching Tucker Carlson's show on Monday, July 8th, it seems planning for war with Iran would be more prudent than ever. They are developing super bugs to infect populations with viruses that have no cures. They are also going ahead with their uranium enrichment program. This should be alarming because Iran is on the US State Department's list of state sponsors of terrorism.
https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/
One newsman, I think it was Tucker Carlson, said when Iran possesses nuclear weapons, they will be able to force us to end the trade sanctuaries against them. I hope we will have the will to destroy their nuclear weapons capability before that happens.
HOLLYWOOD WITH NO HEART
June 9, 2019 Sunday. Hollywood stars are calling for a boycott of the state of Georgia for the banning of abortions when a heartbeat can be detected in an unborn child. That would be about 10 weeks or over 3 months after conception.
The following information was taken from this web site:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/7247-fetal-development-stages-of-growth
"Your baby's arms, hands, fingers, feet, and toes are fully formed. Your baby can open and close its fists and mouth. Fingernails and toenails are beginning to develop and the external ears are formed. The beginnings of teeth are forming. Your baby's reproductive organs also develop, but the baby's gender is difficult to distinguish on ultrasound.
By the end of the third month, your baby is fully formed. All the organs and extremities are present and will continue to mature in order to become functional. The circulatory and urinary systems are working and the liver produces bile.
At the end of the third month, your baby is about 4 inches long and weighs about 1 ounce.
Since your baby's most critical development has taken place, your chance of miscarriage drops considerably after three months."
If everyone knew that, I am sure most people would be against abortion after three months and more for boycotting Hollywood rather than Georgia.
UFOs FROM HEAVEN
June 3, 2019 Monday. A number of UFOs have been spotted by Navy pilots which show them to be extremely powerful because of the way they turn and accelerate. They are seen to turn at sharp right angles; and they accelerate at speeds that would crush a normal human being.
The Armstrong church discussed such a phenomenon. It is found in the Bible in the beginning of the Book of Ezekiel. It is God taking a ride on His portable throne. Perhaps our UFO and Creator God will soon be making a permanent landing on earth. He just wants to let us know that.
NO CHICK-FIL-A IN BUFFALO
May 29, 2019 Wednesday. I am ashamed of my city for banning Chick-Fil-A at the airport. This is an anti-Christian act which goes against our God-given principles and rights of freedom of expression and freedom of religion. Chicken-Fil-A has not been bothering anybody concerning their sexual orientation. Their only "offense" according to the gay community is that they donate their money to other Christian organizations which the gay community considers unfriendly to their cause. This action is proving how intolerant the gay community really is when they have the power to influence city officials into preventing a Christian company from doing business. My only objection to Chick-Fil-A is their closing on Sundays for religious observance. As a former member of the Armstrong religion, I do not believe that Sunday is, or ever was, the Christian Sabbath. But that's their business.
"One man esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he that regards not the day, to the Lord he does not regard it." (Romans 14: 5 & 6)
April 25, 2019 Thursday.
MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG [pronounced BOOT'-ta-jedge (no "d" sound), not BUT'-ti-gig]
“That’s the thing that I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand,” Buttigieg said of the vice president, who has opposed same-sex marriage. “That if you have a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.”
Dear God,
Why did You make Pete Buttigieg the way he is?
Answer: Gays are not born. They are raised that way. Babies are not sexually mature. Little children have no sexual desire for either boys or girls. Sexual arousal may begin as early as eight years of age. I know because I got a buzz whenever I saw a handsome man kissing a beautiful woman on TV when I was a young boy. Some boys as young as eight, from what I've heard on TV, even commit sexual crimes.
Is it wrong for two men to feel the same way for each other? David and Jonathan had such a relationship. David said after Jonathan's death, "Your love to me was wonderful--passing the love of women." (II Samuel 1:27). In my opinion, it was wrong for them to feel that way about each other. In my opinion, Jonathan may have lost his life in battle because of this "love" - while David just barely got away with it. (David's life was in danger when he was before King Achish of Gath as we read in I Samuel 21:11-15. He had to pretend he was a mad man to escape King Achish - the most humiliating event in David's life.) David got away with it just as he got away with committing adultery with Bathsheba and marrying her after killing her husband. The penalty for adultery and murder was death. But David was spared again and again.
Paul says in Romans 1:27, "...also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust towards one another--men with men working that which is unseemly and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet." This "burning" is good and honorable, according to Paul, through marriage. If an unmarried man and and an unmarried woman burn for each other, they should get married. (I Corinthians 7:9). God does not allow men to marry men. He calls this an abomination. (Leviticus 18:22) and (Leviticus 20:13). The penalty for this abomination was death. God did not change His mind with the introduction of Christianity. He says through Paul, "Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind...nor covetous...shall not inherit the kingdom of God." (I Corinthians 6:9 & 10)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg says he is a gay and a Christian. He is deceived. He may be gay, but he is not Christian because "not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." (Romans 2:13)
All this confusion has taken place because the Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Yet, there is a clash of principles within our own Constitution. One Constitutional law says that whatever powers aren't given to the federal government, such as the issuance of marriage licenses, belongs to the states. However, another law says that whatever license is issued in one state must be honored in all the other states. And so the Supreme Court has usurped the powers of the states to issue or not to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
Abraham Lincoln said in his Gettysburg Address that we are one nation under God. But the Gettysburg Address is not the supreme law of the land. And the Constitution says nothing about this nation as one that is under God. The Constitution is secular. And, therefore, it treats marriage, not as holy, but as secular. Marriage has become a Constitutional "right" that cannot be denied to anyone regardless of race, color, creed, or sexual orientation.
Gay people argue that Jesus never mentioned homosexuality in any of the four Gospels. Straight people argue that there are a lot of sins, such as beastiality, that are not mentioned in the Gospels. What is really amazing is the absence of the words "idols, idolatry, and idolater." These words appear in The Acts of The Apostles, the epistles, and the Book of Revelation, but not even once in any of the four gospels.
One Bible scholar noticed that, too, and saw that there is a connection. Wherever you have idolatry you have homosexuality. Mayor Buttigieg is a Catholic. There is some idolatry in the Catholic Church. The statues of Jesus, Mary and Joseph are idolatry. The crucifixes are also idolatry. The Catholic Church denies that they pray to these objects, but in fact, they do. When I was in Holy Name, we were taught a lesson about a Catholic boy who prayed to the crucifix on his bedroom wall. He wasn't praying to the crucifix, we were told, but to Jesus in heaven which the crucifix represents. When the boy's Protestant grandmother came to visit, the boy took down the crucifix from his bedroom wall. So now, we are told, the boy is praying to the wall. In the first case, with the crucifix, the boy is praying to God. In the second case, without the crucifix, the boy is praying to the wall.
THE ATTACK ON THE NOTRE DAME
April 15, 2019 Monday. The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France caught fire and was severly damaged before the blaze was under control. That's what I read on the Internet. I thought, "This smells like the Muslims to me." But I wasn't sure. Am I being too harsh, too judgmental on the Muslims? Is it just my immagination or my Islamaphobia running wild? Maybe it's just an accident. Maybe it's no big deal. But it was a big deal. It was big news on Fox News. It was also big news on JihadWatch.org.
Here are some circumstantial evidence to suggest this "accident" was an act of terrorism:
1) There were two fires in two separate locations which means it had to be arson.
2) The area of Paris in which the Notre Dame Cathedral is located is mainly inhabited by Muslims.
3) Some of the workers that were working on the cathedral are Muslims.
4) There have been other churches in France that have been set on fire.
5) The Muslims have bragged that even Rome will be set on fire.
Hopefully, the people of France, Europe, America, and the world will learn from this attack and will do what is necessary to avoid anymore such attacks. May God help us.
THE MUELLER REPORT
March 25, 2019 Monday. After more than two years of hearings by Investigator Robert Mueller into President Donald Trump's possible collusion with the Russians to steal the election, the final report tells us that there is no evidence. There was no collusion.
I told my friend Ron last year that I thought these hearings were a waste of time and a waste of money. They sure were. The total cost of the investigations is $35 million. That's a lot of wasted dollars. And it was a lot of wasted time. The Democrats could have joined the Republicans and President Trump in finding ways to bring our jobs back that were drained away by Communist Red China. Instead, they felt destroying Trump was more important. It is more important for them to accuse Mr. Trump of doing what they are guilty of. There is strong evidence that Hillary colluded with the Russians or the Ukrainians to win the elections.
The only satisfaction to be had by all this wasted time and money is that our President Trump is cleared of any wrongdoing concerning the Russians. It is curious how he allowed this "witch hunt" as he called it, to go on and on and on. It's seems to be the work of the devil. There's a scripture in the Bible that goes like this:
"Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Resist and be steadfast in the faith--knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace who has called us into his eternal glory by Christ Jesus--after you have suffered a while--make you perfect, established, and settle." (I Peter 5:8-10)
This scripture in the Book of Revelations describes the devil as "the accuser of our brethren,":
"And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, 'Now is come salvation and strength and the kingdomof our God; and the power of His Christ; for the accuser of our brethren of His Christ. For the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.'" (Revelation 12:10)
Satan the devil is the author of waste and division. And that's what the Mueller investigations were--a big fat waste of time and money that only further divided this troubled land.
THE UNITED NATIONS OF AMERICA
March 11, 2019 Monday.
The United Nations was founded after World War II with the ideal that people need to talk about their grievances and not resort to war. We must never have war again--at least not the big wars like World Wars I and II.
The Charter of the United Nations talks about this and even mentions that people have rights:
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
AND FOR THESE ENDS
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and
to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and
to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,
HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS
Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby establish an international organization to be known as the United Nations.
The only problem was that the Soviet Union was a member of the United Nations. They were a communist dictatorship, and their goal was to spread communism throughout the world by whatever means necessary.
Another problem that soon arose was the inclusion of Middle Eastern countries whose religion and government were Islamic. This is another group of people whose goal is to spread their beliefs throughout the world by whatever means necessary including force.
Recently, these two groups have gained power and influence in the USA. They have gained control of the Democratic Party. They have also gained control over our media and our educational institutions. They are backed by powerful and wealthy people with a lot of money.
The United Nations was our last hope for peace. Unfortunately, it has not served the cause of peace. Instead it has turned into a squabbling, inept and even corrupt organization that bashes Israel every chance it gets.
With the election of three Muslims to Congress, and with more to come, I fear that Congress is becoming a divisive, quarreling, Jew-hating, anti-Christian organization much like the United Nations.
NO DEAL
February 28, 2019 Thursday. President Trump said he walked away from Kim Un Jong at their meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam when the leader of North Korea would not agree to give up his nukes. I didn't think he would. A small country like the dictatorship of North Korea does not want to give up its nuclear weapons once they spent a lot of money, time and energy in obtaining them.
The setting of their meeting seemed wrong. They met in Hanoi, Vietnam, the capital of the one country that defeated us in war only 40 years ago. I think their meeting should have been in Seoul, Korea. At least they would be in a friendly country, and Kim Un Jong wouldn't have to travel 60 hours across China by train. When I heard about the agreement Mr. Trump and Kim Un Jong signed prior to their meeting, I was reminded of the Paris Peace Treaty that Secretary of State Rogers signed 40 years to end our involvement in the Vietnam War. He had to sign his name 80 or 90 times. But to what end? The North Vietnamese broke the treaty and marched into Saigon to destroy freedom and democracy for all time. A treaty to the communist is merely a piece of paper to be ignored while building up their military and preparing for war. Call me a pessimist, but I suspect Kim Un Jong is using this opportunity for peace for his own advantage.
THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS 2019
I did not watch all or even most of President Trump's State of the Union Address. I heard him speak about the need for love and unity. I believe it was his attempt to reach across the aisle to work with the Democrats. This is necessary since they have control of the House of Representatives. But the Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Shummer are stubborn mules. They have stated that they refuse to work with the president. I am pessimistic that there will be much cooperation between the House and the president especially with the 2020 elections coming up in two years. I believe President Trump has done a great job in improving the economy and in keeping the promises he made. But I fear Mr. Trump is only slowing down the course to destruction that Obama has set us upon. He will not be able to reverse the course. The current national debt is climbing to $22 trillion. This is not good news.
60 MINUTES' INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDRIA OCCASI0-CORTEZ
The interview with newly elected Congresswoman Alexandria Occasio-Cortex highlights for us her youthfulness, her Latino beauty, her spirit, her eagerness, her enthusiasm, and her zeal, but poorly concealing her faults. Here are some of them:
1) She wants national heathcare for everyone. One commentator said that would cost $30 trillion. That would more than double our national debt.
2) She would increase taxes for the rich by up to 70%. Taxes increases usually slow down business growth and cost jobs. The rich usually avoid high taxes by moving to a different part of the world where there are no high taxes.
3) She says President Donald Trump is a racist. Black Americans are currently enjoying one of the highest, if not the highest, rate of employment in recent history. When you make a statement like that--that Mr. Trump is a racist--you should give at least two examples why you think he is a racist. Congresswoman Occasio-Cortex gave us none. Which means that her charge that Mr. Trump is a racist is nothing but mere name calling.
4) She said she is for open borders and no southern wall. Allowing illegal aliens into the country hurts black employment.
5) 60 Minutes tells us that Alexandria Occasio-Cortex that she is a grassroots candidate who received donations of $200 here and there. This is misleading. According to FactCheck.org, Miss
Occassio-Cortex got some of her money from a group who got it from George Soros, who is a liberal anti-American socialist billionaire.
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/08/does-ocasio-cortez-have-ties-to-soros/
Therefore, we may have reason to be wary of what are Congresswoman Alexandria-Cortex's true intentions are for America.
HAPPY NEW YEAR'S DAY 2019
I hope everybody has a happy and safe 2019. Many thanks to President Trump for bringing prosperity to most of the country. God bless President Trump and Vice President Pence and their families. May God bless America and save us from all our troubles.
I do not relish the prospect of turning 70 years old in April. However, I am excited about our space program. It seems like American astronauts are going off into space in our own rockets. We will be seeing the launching of Falcon 9 rockets, Boeing rockets and the first phase of Space Launch Systems (SLS) rockets that soon will return us to the moon and also enable us to reach Mars.
GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH
December 3, 2018 Monday. The passing away of President Bush last Friday, November 30, 2018 seemed rather sudden to me. There was no warning. There was no previous public announcement that he was taken to the hospital or that he had become ill and fell into a coma. He simply aged into weakness and was gone from us.
Mr. Bush was wheel-chaired bound. In my opinion, when an elderly person cannot walk anymore, his health suffers and his life is in jeopardy.
His wife Barbara passed away seven months earlier. It has been said that when one mate dies, the other one passes away soon after.
President Bush’s death has received quite a bit of news coverage. Fox News did extensive coverage of Mr. Bush’s death. The CBS news show 60 Minutes devoted half of their time the three former living presidents concerning Mr. Bush.
Some commentators will say George H. W. Bush was a great president. I rather not say he was a great president, but I think he was better than his Democratic Party opponent would have been.
Some of things I remember about him are:
* He rescued Kuwait from Saddam Hussein in the first Iraq War. I was so impressed by our military response that I wrote it down in my personal diary. When I was in the Armstrong religion, we were told that the war in Korea was a stalemate and that the war in Vietnam was a defeat. We were told that America would never win another war again. The victory in Kuwait over Saddam’s forces certainly proved that prophecy to be false.
* After the war, Mr. Bush urged anyone to remove Saddam Hussein from power. The Kurds revolted against him, but they were crushed. The Kurds believed President Bush would help them to overthrown Saddam Hussein. He said he made no such promise.
* President George H. W. Bush committed our nation to the landing of men on Mars. However, he gave no timetable. He simply said that whenever we can do it, we will do it.
* He is famous for his promise, “Read my lips. No new taxes.” Some say he broke his promise by raising “fees” instead of “taxes.”
* It was during his administration that the Berlin Wall came stumbling down. It was almost like a shock to me. I thought it would never come down--at least not in my lifetime.
* At the end of his term in office, Mr. Bush succeeded in signing law a tax cut which helped stimulate the economy. The economic upturn didn’t happen until Bill Clinton came into office. So Mr. Clinton was credited for the prosperity the country enjoyed during his administration.
Mr. Bush counted his blessings. He served his country during World War II( as a pilot in the Navy. He survived being shot down in Pacific. He went on to marry Barbara and be the father of six children. He served in Congress. And he became our nation’s 41st president. Mr. Bush died at the age of 94, at the end of a long life.
Goodbye, President Bush.
THE PITTSBURGH MASSACRE
November 1, 2018 Thursday. Last week Saturday (October 27), the nation was shocked by the news that a gunman shot and killed 11 members of a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh. With flags flying at half mast, the nation is still in mourning over this senseless tragedy.
This heinous crime is similar to the one several years ago in which a white man came to a black church in South Carolina who befriended him. He then pulled out a gun and killed several of our innocent, defenseless black Christian brothers and sisters.
There is also the Las Vegas concert massacre that occurred not too long ago in which one gunman (maybe two?) machine gunned down many innocent country music lovers.
How evil! How appalling! How could God allow so many innocent people to be killed at the hand or one person? Why aren’t people safe to enjoy a music festival, or to attend a religious service in America without losing their lives?
President Trump has demanded the death penalty. Even the death penalty seems too good for a mass murderer. Can’t we bring back death by slow torture? How can a murderer of eleven people really pay for his crime?
Some politicians like Hillary Clinton, in the wake of such a horrible crime as this, would advocate more gun control laws and even the end to the Second Amendment. I would say that America needs to exercise its Second Amendment rights. We need to arm ourselves as we did in the Old West and in the days of our Founding Fathers. We especially have to protect our innocent defenseless people who gather together in one place and who are the favorite targets of mass murderers. We have to protect our concert goers, our church goers, our senior citizens attending a Christmas party, our high school children, and other groups of people who have been killed in recent years by allowing them to arm themselves.
HILLARY CLINTON AND THE END TO CIVILITY
October 9, 2018 Tuesday
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1049684159185055745
HILLARY CLINTON AND THE RETURN TO CIVILITY
October 20, 2018 Saturday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL3zzmtMXDg
PATRIOT’S DAY, 9/11/2018
September 12, 2018 Wednesday. Yesterday, we observed the 17th anniversary of the attacks that brought down the World Trade Center in New York City. It’s a day we will never forget because 3,000 people died in those attacks. And their sons, daughters, wives, and husbands are still with us still grieving over their loss.
There are two other reasons why we should observe Patriot’s Day. The one reason is because we need to get closer to God as a nation. We need to ask God for His protection. And we need to ask Him to help us to embrace Judeo-Christian values.
The other reason is educate ourselves about the dangers and evils of Islam. (TBC)
JOHN MCCAIN - August 26, 1936 - August 25, 2018
The first thing I noticed about John McCain’s birth and death dates is that he didn’t quite make it to his 82nd birthday. That’s what happened to my mother. She died when she was almost 94 years old.
When my mother was on her death bed, and when it was decided to let her die, I was told she would not last to the end of the week. It was Monday. She passed away on Tuesday. The same thing happened to John McCain and Barbara Bush. They didn’t last long after all hope was lost.
John McCain is a man of contrast. Some say he is a hero. Others say he is a traitor. He was flying over North Vietnam when he was shot down and captured by the enemy. He was badly wounded. He leg and arm were broken. He was taken as a POW. He could have gained his freedom because he was the son of an admiral. But he refused special treatment and wanted to be like the other prisoners. He said to his captors that he would take his freedom only after the other Americans were let go.
John McCain came home after the war and became a United States Senator. He also ran for president in the 2000 presidential elections. I was in New Hampshire at the time and was happy to see him and to say hello to him. He had a puzzled look on his face. That’s because I called him by somebody else’s name. I think I called him Ron Paul. Silly me.
In the Senate, he was considered to be a “maverick.” He was a Republican, which means he should vote in favor of conservatism. But, instead, he was maybe a RHINO, and sometimes voted with the liberal Democrats.
Even in death, John McCain is a controversial figure. He feuded with President Trump, so wanted him to stay away from his funeral. He invited Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama. If John McCain was a patriot, I find it difficult to understand why he would invite Obama to his funeral. Obama is very pro-Islamic. He once said, “The future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” He also made the principal goal of NASA to establish good relations with Muslim countries.
It is regrettable that John McCain and President Trump did not get along with each other, even to his death.
What saddens me about John McCain’s death is the way he died. He died of brain cancer. This a disease that attacks one’s own personality.
Before my mother died, one of the nurses administered an injection of morphine into her body. This would make her death as painless as possible. The Bible has something like it in Proverbs 31:6 where it says, “Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish, and wine to those that be of heavy hearts.”
My wish is that everyone will enter the next life as painlessly as possible.
In times of mourning, we all come together and pay our respects: This is the thought of an idealist. The funeral of John McCain shows that we can carry our bad feelings even to the grave. In one family I knew, the son / brother of the deceased man was thrown out of the funeral home. There was just too much anger and resentment to let bygones be bygones.
CATHOLIC PRIEST CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL
August 17, 2018 Saturday. Over 300 Catholic priests in Pennsylvania are accused of sexual abuse of one thousand children over a 70 year period. What are we going to do about that? What is the Archbishop going to do about that? What is the pope in the Vatican going to do about that?
The right thing to do is find out the truth in the matter. Then apologize fiercely for what happened. Then try to make amends to the children and the families of the children. The priests who were involved should be fired for violating the trust of those families, the trust of Catholic hierarchy, and the trust of the Catholic laity.
The deeper issue is that of the unmarried priesthood. When I was in Holy Name, we acknowledged that in the days of the apostles, most of them were married men. We were told that priests in the Catholic Church do not marry in order not be burdened with family problems, but to be free in able to serve the congregation. Today, that simple observance is more like a commandment or law that a Catholic man must obey if he is to serve as a Catholic priest. It is even regarded as a holy commandment. Yet, the one who was single in our early church years, the Apostle Paul, strongly condemns such a practice his letter to Timothy. He calls it a doctrine of devils--forbidding to marry. (I Timothy 4:3).
The truth is the opposite of what the Catholic Church teaches about an unmarried priesthood. The Apostle Paul tells us in I Timothy 3:1, that “A bishop (or overseer, or priest) MUST be blameless, the HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE….”
Many Catholic men, including myself when I was Catholic, consider the joining the priesthood as fulfilling a higher calling of God. Yet, celibacy for a lot of those men is too high a price. And so it not surprising that there is a shortage of priests in the Catholic Church. With a married priesthood, this shortage, along with their child abuse problems, would most likely disappear.
Priests, popes, bishops, pastors and everyone else who shepherds of God’s flock have an extra obligation to be as sinless as possible. They should be on their best behavior. At Holy Name, the teacher told us that a Catholic priest is “Another Christ.” Therefore, we expect them to live up to, not just a high standard, but the highest standard of their calling. They should ACT like “another Jesus” the humble carpenter of Nazareth, and not like “another God Almighty” who can do whatever they please.
TOMMY ROBINSON DAY
August 3, 2018 Friday. The month of August is without any holidays to celebrate. It’s a summer vacation month, so who really cares. Well, I do. So I suggest that we have a holiday in honor of British protestor Tommy Robinson who just got out of the Queen’s prison in England on bail. He was arrested and quickly incarcerated for criticizing the religion of Islam. Tucker Carlson interviewed him on his show last night (August 2nd). Ir was the first and only interview by the press since his release. Tucker told us how bad it is in England to speak out against Islam. This is a nation that is suppose to be one of West’s greatest champions of freedom. He also said this is what America may look like in the future if we are not careful.
Since Tommy is not an American citizen, I suggest also that we grant him American citizenship.
The ironic thing about Tommy’s imprisonment is that he suffered as a Christian in a Christian country. The official church of England, which the Christian church under the authority of the British crows--that means Queen Elizabeth. England should be protecting Christianity. But instead it is protecting Islam.
Before Tommy Robinson, there was Ann Coulter. She is my heroine for saying after the 9/11 attacks: We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities, we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.”
We need champions like Tommy Robinson and Ann Coulter. We need people who will stand up against Islam and the Muslims. Just like in World War II, we didn’t need people like Neville Chamberlain who gave in to Hitler and the Nazis. But rather we needed people like Winston Churchill who said, “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/08/glazov-gang-the-torture-of-tommy-robinson
After reading the above web page, I was thoroughly disgusted and aghast. One million of our lady British cousins in the capital city of London are rape victims - caused by Muslims. Ironically, the sin is not rape when it comes to “the religion of peace.” The sin is having feelings of anti-Islam, Islamaphobia, or anti-Muslim. I am not ashamed when I confess that I am Islamaphobic, anti-Muslim, and anti-Islamic. Such people who do these things should be shot. As King David said in Psalm 139:19-22, “Surely you will slay the wicked, O God. Depart from me therefore, you BLOODY men. Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate you? (Yes, they do hate God. They hate Him by killing His servants the Christians and the Jews.) I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them my enemies.”
The apostle Paul tells us that we must put on the whole armor of God because we are actually fighting against the devil. He tells us, “Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth; and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Above all, taking the shield of faith with you should be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God. Praying always…” Ephesians 6:13-18
One Bible minister said that all these instruments of war are for our front part to attack. There is nothing for our back. Paul says in Hebrews 10:38, “Now the just shall live by faith; but if any man draw back, My Soul shall have no pleasure in him.”
NATO UNDER ATTACK
July 15, 2018 Sunday.
The Enemy: Indifference; National Economic Interests; Ignorance and Stupidity; Muslim Infestations.
Indifference: The Soviet Union crumbled away. The Berlin Wall was knocked down years ago. Germany is reunited. Poland is free. Hungary is free. All the other Eastern Bloc countries are free. Russian tanks are a distant memory. There is no threat. We can go on with our lives without fear. Who needs NATO? Pres. Trump says our NATO allies are legally bound to pay their fair share to their own defense. What’s the penalty for disobeying an old Cold War relic like NATO? Who’s going to enforce NATO rules and regulations?
National Economic Interests: Germany is importing natural gas through a pipeline from Russia. Canada is trading with Russia. All the NATO countries are trading with Russia--even the US is trading with Russia. This good. It promotes prosperity, friendship, and peace. Isn‘t that what we want?
Ignorance and Stupidity: After the 9/11 attacks, George Bush removed the Muslims from all blame. Most of our Western leaders believe Islam is a peaceful religion. To doubt that is to be labeled Islamophobic. Shame on all of you who have this embarrassing disease of the mind. It is also unchristian not to welcome them into our countries. Our friends are Saudi Arabia and Qatar who back up our weak dollar, even though they also back up ISIS who kill thousands of Christians.
Muslim Infestations: So we welcome millions of Muslims through our borders. One German town is 70% Muslim. Dearborn, Michigan is like a little Arab country. London has a Muslim mayor. Canada has a Muslim prime minister. CAIR is making sure Muslims have the Constitutional right to destroy the United States. Rapes in Sweden and other Western countries are drastically up. Knife attacks in Paris, bombings in Manchester, machine gun shootings in Las Vegas, San Bernardino, and Orlando are normal occurrences. Islam is the fastest growing religion in the US and Britain. Holland is rapidly becoming Muslim. And so is Belgium. Muslims in Switzerland are insisting they change their Christian flag. Italy is having Muslim problems. And so is Greece. Mosques are popping up all over the US teaching young Muslims to commit jihad against Westerners and Western values. Even without converting the world to Islam, Islam is becoming an inspiration for young confused haters to become active shooters like in the Parkland High School attack in Florida.
Conclusion: Mr. Trump is going to Helsinki to meet with Russia’s Putin. He says he has “low expectations.” That could be said of his trips to Brussels and London. Why didn’t he just stay home? Unless Mr. Trump can persuade our NATO allies and even ourselves (our media, our government, our educational institutions) that Islam is a threat, the future is bleak.
July 18, 2018 Wednesday. The one missing dimension I think I saw in Mr. Trump’s trip to Europe is God. There didn’t seem to be any mention of God between him and the leaders of our NATO allies. There are many verses in the Bible, particularly in the book of Proverbs that say planning by leaders succeeds only with the help of God. The only thing I saw and heard about God was that Queen Elizabeth is the head of the Church of England, and that she reigns on the throne from the time of her anointing with the sacred oil until her death, or as one Londoner said, “until she loses her marbles.” Well, it seems like not only has she lost her marbles, but also all or most of Great Britain and Ireland have lost their marbles. They have allowed mosques to be built throughout the isles. Sharia Law is increasingly replacing English common law. British subjects like Tommy Robinson are placed behind bars for speaking out against Islam.
I was at my friend’s house yesterday. He hates Pres. Trump. He was watching CBS. CBS had Mr. Trump look like he was flip flopping. First he said that Putin is right and his intelligence officers were wrong in accusing Russia in interfering with our elections. Then after Putin left, he said his intelligence officers were right and that Putin was wrong. On Fox News, Pres. Trump explained that he got one word wrong (“wouldn’t rather than “would”) which changed the meaning of his sentence.
Mr. Trump also said on Fox News that he told NATO’s leaders that they were losing their culture, and that crime within their countries was rising dramatically because of all the Muslim immigrants they were allowing through their borders. That’s what I said, too. Good for you, Mr. President!
PRES. TRUMP NOMINATES BRETT KAVANAUGH TO THE SUPREME COURT
July 9, 2018 Monday. The wait is over, President Trump announced his choice as to who he wants to fill the seat of Anthony Kennedy. That man is Brett Kavanaugh.
Like Anthony Kennedy, Brett Kavanaugh is of Irish descent. And like Anthony Kennedy, he is Catholic. But being Catholic is no guarantee that he is pro life. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is a Republican and, since she is Polish, I would guess she is a Catholic. Yet, she is pro-choice (“Should I kill my baby or should I not kill my baby?”).
Mr. Kavanaugh said he will be a strict interpreter of the Constitution. This means he will interpret the law according to what it says, not what he wants it to say. I wonder why we don’t appoint robots or computers to the bench.
I once watched a Twilight Zone story in which a man in the future was put on trial before a jury that consisted of computers. His case was carried out at supersonic speed. He was found guilty in less than five minutes. His verdict was given to him on a reel of tape, and his sentence was carried out immediately.
We don’t trust machines to make judgments for us. Yet, why should we trust judges who are appointed and approved by mere politicians? I’m not saying that Pres. Trump is a politician. But he is influenced by party politics. He wants a conservative judge on the bench, but to make sure he is confirmed by the Senate, he must have some Democratic Party votes who will approve of Brett Kavanaugh as our next Supreme Court Justice.
September 18, 2018 Tuesday. The Democrats are making it very difficult for Brett Kavanaugh to be nominated to the Supreme Court. They are throwing all kinds of dirt. They are mud slinging. They are bringing up old girl friends from way back when he was in high school.
September 21, 2018 Friday. The media’s investigation into Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault against Christine Blasey Ford, a high school co-ed, continues. In the words of Tucker Carlson, it’s growing ugly. It’s not only ugly, the whole thing stinks. If Judge Brett Kavanaugh can endure these vicious attacks on his character and his reputation, he is truly a strong man.
Many questions are being asked, but there are also many question that aren’t being asked, such as these:
1) Why didn't she tell her principal or her counselor at the school?
2) Didn't she tell any of her girl friends or classmates?
3) If she had told them the truth, why didn't the school expel Bret Kavanaugh?
4) There should be records of this attempted rape, as the liberal news media are calling it.
5) Why didn't she go to the authorities at the time?
“I BELIEVE YOU”
Fox News showed us an ad site on Facebook in which several young women give their opinion that Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth, and that Brett Kavanaugh should be disqualified for his attempted sexual assault on her.
This reminds me of an incident I experienced at Kensington High School. I don’t remember how it started, but I don’t usually start fights. I poked this guy lightly in the back near his waist as we were climbing the stairway to our next class. He turned around and punched me hard in the eye. Then he ran away from me. I’m glad he did because he was bigger and stronger than me. I went down to the principal’s office and reported him. The assistant principal Mr. Blombertg and I went to our class, and I picked him out. We went back down to the principal’s office. He was sitting at the table across from a girl, and he was telling her a whole bunch of lies about me. She replied to him, “I believe you.” As I walked behind him, he pushed his chair back and hit me with the chair.
His mother said I broke his glasses.
The school expelled him.
“THIS IS A CIRCUS”
That’s what Judge Kavanaugh said during the Senate hearing to confirm his nomination to the Supreme Court. No, it wasn’t, Judge Kavanaugh. It was a war. A circus is an event in which you go with your family for pleasure and enjoyment. There was no joy or fun that one could see in these hearings. It was a war between the forces of evil (abortion) and the forces of good (life).
Even though there is an obvious difference between a circus and a war, there are some similarities between the two. Both require training and planning. For a war, troops must be trained. They must be in top physical shape. The general of the army and his staff must prepare a strategy for assaulting and overcoming the enemy. Likewise, a circus also requires that the personnel and animals be trained, and that the show runs smoothly according to script. Both Brett Kavanaugh and his accusers read from scripts.
Senator Dianne Feinstein said that Judge Brett Kavanaugh was too temperamental to qualify for the Supreme Court when he lashed out at Ford for accusing him of attempted rape.
ATTEMPTED RAPE AND RAPE
This is the most heinous crime anyone can accuse an honorable man like Judge Brett Kavanaugh. It doesn’t matter now if the accusation is true or false. There’s plenty of crummy little kids out there who will say to his two young daughters, “You’re father is a rapist.”
Dr. Christine Ford and her testimony have been highly regarded as creditable because she is a woman. A woman is truthful. A woman never lies. But from Senator Dianne Feinstein, we learn that a woman can be indelicate, insensitive, and indiscreet. Rather than have the confirmation hearings held behind closed doors when there is a possible sexual misconduct charge that could ruin a seating judge’s reputation, Senator Feinsten presents the humiliation of Brett Kavanaugh as a spectacle before the entire world--like a circus, as Mr. Kavanaugh described it.
TEMPER, TEMPER
As I mentioned, most of the time, Judge Kavanaugh, Senator Feinstein, and Dr. Ford were reading from a script. When Mr. Kavanaugh went into a rage about how he was being humiliated, he was reading from a script. He wrote that script maybe hours before he read it. So he PLANNED to raise his voice. He put power and thunder into his written words and spoke those written words as any man would who was being publicly disgraced. For that, he was labeled “temperamental.” He has a temper. That should disqualify him from sitting on the Supreme Court. He’s also Irish. Irish people have hot tempers. We can’t have any Irish men or Irish women sitting on the Supreme Court, can we?
Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts commented on Judge Kavanauagh’s supposed, yet unproven, sexual abuse by saying, “I AM ANGRY!!!” You are angry, Senator Warren? And you lost your temper?!!! Oh, no!!! That means you are disqualified from serving in Congress. You should resign from your seat and go home!
HYPOCRISY
As an attorney, Hillary Clinton once defended a rapist, and she won his case on a technicality. Afterwards, she had a big laugh. She went on to become a senator in the U.S. Congress.
Bill Clinton was actually accused of raping Juanita Broadrick of rape and of biting her lip. He also pulled down his pants in front of Paula Jones and telling her to kiss it. He went on to become President of the United States.
Brett Kavanaugh was falsely accused of sexual abuse. For that, almost half of our US senators refused to confirm him to the Supreme Court. All the witnesses who were at this supposed crime said it never happened. Yet, many people in the liberal media say Judge Kavanaugh is still guilty in some way for this crime that never happened.
“SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP”
That’s what Senator Hirono of Hawaii told us men. Women received the right to vote in the United States. They hold high offices in the government. So, what happens? Reverse sexual discrimination--one woman senator tells us men to sit down and shut up. This is one of the things the Far Left does. When they can’t win an argument, they resort to name calling. When that doesn’t work, they try to shut us up.
“Politics” is a dirty word with most Americans. But Senator Dianne Feinstein has not only played politics with her hearing on Judge Kavanaugh, she has played dirty politics, and even the dirtiest politics by accusing him of sexual abuse and rape in spite of lack of evidence and witnesses. Women are suppose to be loving, kind, tender, gentle, and caring, like Dr. Christine Blassey Ford (sic). A woman, such as Senator Dianne Feinstein can also be a dirty politician.
October 6, 2018 Saturday. We now know that Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed, and is now a justice in the Supreme Court. We also know that Senator Dianne Feinstein is one of the dirtiest politicians in American history.
Congratulations to Judge Brett Kavanaugh for being confirmed as our newest Justice to the Supreme Court of the United States!
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
July 4, 2018 Wednesday. This Fourth of July 2018 is being observed on a upbeat note. The economy is much better than it has been in the last nine years. In fact, the economy is so good that President Trump’s opponents, the Democrats, admit that it is really good, and wish it wasn’t so.
There is still the national debt that must be contended with. The Democrats keep coming up with more ways to spend money we don’t have. They want free college tuition for everybody. They want open borders to whomever wants to come in.
One concern about our young people is that they don’t care much for patriotism. They don’t love their own country. In the past, this could be explained that when America is prosperous, we tend to look inward at our own personal problems rather than those of the country. I fear it is worse than that. Our colleges and universities are actually teaching our young people to hate their own country. One teacher says she’s not a citizen of this country; she is a citizen of the world. Even Bill Clinton said that when he was president. Students are being taught to hate our Founding Fathers because some of them owned slaves. Some religions like Islam still practice the institution of slavery. Is there any outcry against them? No.
I believe that President Trump has provided the leadership that this country needs to solve this world’s many problems. We should pray to God that He will bless Mr. Trump with abundance of wisdom throughout his remaining years in office.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CANADA!
July 1, 2018 Sunday. Today marks the 151st birthday of Canada. It comes at a time of somewhat strained relations between Canada and its neighbor to the south, the United States. This is due to Pres. Trump’s intention to levy tariffs on Canadian goods entering the USA because of Canada’s tariffs on US goods coming into Canada. Along with further increases in tariffs on US goods coming into Canada, Canadians have threatened to boycott all American goods and services-including summer vacations to American resorts. This ill will is based on Canada’s resentment of living next to a giant that too often takes them for granted.
Here’s a brief history of Canada:
* Canada started out as a French colony, with its two major cities of Montreal and Quebec City, that was surrendered to the British after the French and Indian War.
* During the American Revolutionary War, one third of the British colonists remained loyal (Loyalists) and fought with Britain against George Washington and one third of the other colonists who were known as the Americans or the Patriots. After the Revolutionary War, the Loyalists withdrew to the land around Lake Ontario. New York residents pushed out the Canadians who were living south of St. Lawrence River and west of the Niagara River.
* Grievances with Great Britain and the desire to make Canada a part of the United States brought on the War of 1812 between the Americans and the British. In that war, the American burned the capital of Canada, which was Toronto at the time. In retaliation, the British burned Washington, DC, and, unfortunately, Buffalo, NY.
* Friendly relations were established between Canadians and Americans after the War of 1812. Canada became the terminus of the Underground Railroad. They accepted 30,000 of the 100,000 of black slaves seeking freedom.
* There was a sour note back in 1844 with the words “Fifty four forty or fight.” It was over the Oregon territory which consisted of Oregon, Washington State, and British Columbia. But the issue was resolved peacefully.
* The American Civil War brought Canada, Britain, and the US to the brink of war when a Union ship stopped and boarded a British ship to to remove two Confederate agents. The British sent troops to Canada that were to be used to attack the United States. . Abraham Lincoln apologized for the incident and released the two Confederate agents.
* After that, there was harmony between our two countries. Canada and the USA fought on the same side in World War I.
* Over the years, Canada and the United States have signed treaties for their mutual benefit. We have a treaty that preserves the quality of the water of the Great Lakes. We have a treaty that in the event of disaster, the citizens of both countries will be treated equally in receiving food, medicine and shelter in both countries. And, of course, there is NATO, in which the one will come to the defense of the other in case of an attack.
* On Friday, August 26, 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau it became obvious that he is a Muslim convert. He entered a part of a mosque that only Muslims are allowed to enter. He said he converted from Christianity to Islam because Islam is more peaceful. In one video I saw about Justin Trudeau, an Muslim woman is shouting, “We have a weapon in Canada.” So much for the idea of Islam being more peaceful than Christianity. In Islam, you are allowed to lie for Allah. Prime Minister Trudeau must have been exercising his right to lie as a Muslim when he said Islam is more peaceful than Christianity.
Personal Experiences:
1) I use to go across the border into Canada with my parents when I was a child once a year. We would go to Crystal Beach, Ontario. There was the Crystal Beach Amusement Park there with all the rides. I would ride the merry-go-round and most of the other rides in Kiddyland. The Little Dipper was a small roller coaster ride that I was brave enough to go on. The next biggest roller coaster was the Giant Coaster. You have to be up to a certain height to be allowed on the Giant Coaster. When I was 12 or 13, I went on the biggest roller coaster in the park which was The Comet. The Comet was located right on the edge of Lake Erie.
My mother played Bingo in one of their halls and won an aluminum pot with glass cover that was made in Toronto. I still have and use that pot.
Before we went back to the United States, we would buy some fireworks. Fireworks were illegal in New York State. We would buy sparklers, lady fingers, and the 1 ½ inch firecrackers. We never got caught carrying them over, but I was sure scared that we might be.
2) When we were old enough to drive, my friends and I would visit Canada at least once a year as always. But we sometimes had trouble getting in. One time, we were turned back because I didn’t have a shirt on. It was a warm summer day. We were planning to spend a few hours at the beach across the border. Yet, they wouldn’t let us in because I didn’t have a shirt on.
Another time, I forgot to wear a shirt. Fortunately my friend had an extra shirt in the car, and he let me borrow it before we crossed the Peace Bridge.
3) When you cross the Peace Bridge into Canada, the first question they ask you is, “Where were you born?” They don’t like it when you say, “Buffalo.” It has to be, “The United States,” or whatever country you were born in.
4) Around 1979, in the summer, the five of us planned to go to Crystal Beach to enjoy the rides. There were two couples and me, the odd man, with a bad sunburn on my face. We crossed the Peace Bridge and came to the first customs man. He must have seen something he didn’t like, and so he directed us to the customs building. My friend and I went into the building. The guy behind the counter asked a few questions. He wanted us to show him our birth certificates. I was asking him a few questions to find what was wrong. My friend was a bit temperamental and said, “Come on, Mike. Don’t bother with him. Let’s go,” or something like that. The customs man erupted and said something like, “This is not the United States! This is CANADA!!!” Before I left the building, I looked back at him like I was sorry this happened. He didn’t look back at me. He sat at his desk like he did what he had to do. We got back in the car; and another customs man directed us where to go. It was to the United States. We were glad to go back home. I was glad we were out of that war zone. We each went back to our homes and got our birth certificates. When we crossed the Peace Bridge and came to the first customs man, he simply waved us on our way to Crystal Beach without any questions and without looking at our birth certificates. On the road to Crystal Beach, there were two blond girls walking along the side of the road. They both raised their right arms and waved to us. That made me feel good. It was like they were saying, “Glad you’re here.”
5) It was September 1999. I was working at DRM, and I hadn’t been to the beach all summer. I was determined to go to the beach that year before it was too late. I decided to go to Lake Ontario. As I was driving between Niagara Falls and Lewiston on the Robert Moses Expressway, I realized that I forgot my suntan lotion. So I pulled down my hair (whatever I had left back then) in the front so that I could protect some of my forehead from the sun. I was driving in the left lane. Suddenly, there was a fork in the highway; and I was making a sharp turn around to my left, over a bridge (the Lewiston-Queenstn Bridge), and to the other side of the Niagara River--which happens to be Canada (Queenston, Ontario). The view was spectacular, but I couldn’t believe how easy it was to make a mistake like that. Well, so what? It didn’t matter if I go to an American beach or a Canadian beach. Did it? I pulled up to the customs booth and see a young brown-haired brown-eyed woman with a cap on her head with the word “Canada” written across it. Yep, I’m in Canada, all right. She asks me where I’m going. I told her, “To the beach.” She replied, “It’s too cold.” She told me to go to the customs building. I should have told her that I made a mistake and that I want to go back. But instead I decided to answer a few questions and then will let me stay. I went into their building, which was quite impressive. The walls on the inside were glass. A beautiful blue-eyed blond customs woman wearing a wedding ring asks me some questions. She and a tall guy went into a room. I went to look at my reflection in the glass wall. I saw the mess I did to my hair after I realized I was without suntan lotion. I fixed it up, but it was too late. The beautiful blond lady came out and told me I had to leave. She escorted me outside and dutifully supervised my ouster from her country. She nearly witness a collision between me and a tractor trailer truck; but I hit the breaks and let the truck go ahead of me. I had enough fun for the day, so I went home. The following week, I made another attempt, but this time I took a different route and made to Lake Ontario.
6) Not long after that, I told my mother I was going to Niagara Falls. She asked me, “What‘s in Niagara Falls?” I said to her, “Niagara Falls.”. I went to Niagara Falls and parked not too far from Goat Island. I walked to Goat Island. Then I headed towards the Rainbow Bridge that goes to Canada. I was carrying my camcorder with me and taking pictures of the falls while on the bridge. I came to Canada on the other side to their customs building. A tall elder gentleman sitting at a chair greeted me and said, “Where were you born?” After saying, “The United States,” he let me go on. I walked down what looked like a bike path until I came to a sign that said something like, “Don‘t go any farther.” I turned around and went back. I came about a hundred feet of the Horseshoe Falls, then went back towards the Rainbow Bridge. It was still summer with the sun shining on my face. After an hour or so of walking, I had a sunburn on my face. I saw the beautiful blond blue-eyed customs woman I met in Queenstown. She had a smile on her face. I guess she saw me and recognized me. I went back across the bridge and to my car, and drove home.
7) I believe the last time I went to Canada was sometime after I got my Class A Commercial Driver’s License. Companies want drivers who are allowed to drive into Canada. So I crossed the Peace Bridge sometime in the year 2005 to see if I would have any difficult getting into Canada. I drove to one of the Canadian customs guys. He asked me where I was born. He also asked me where I was going. I told him I was going to the beach. He had this funny look in his eyes as though he didn’t like my answer. So I said, “To be more specific, Byrdie Bay.” (It might be called Waverly Beach which is a few miles west of the Peace Bridge on Lake Erie.) He asked me if I was carrying anything over. I told him, “My blanket, my towel, my transistor radio, my watch, my suntan lotion.” I wanted to be perfectly honest with him. He had this funny look in his eyes as though he didn’t like my answer. Perhaps that’s not what he wanted to know. Anyway, he said, “All right,” and let me come in.
I went to the beach and spent a few hours there. Then I went to a gas station to fill up. In the gas station was a police woman with a pretty smile on her face. Maybe if I had a little more nerve, I could have said hi to her. I might have had a Canadian police woman for my friend. Maybe.
8) On October 14, 2018, Sunday, I drove to Niagara Falls to visit my neighbor who was a patient at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center. I arrived too late for the early visiting hours, so I took a walk to Niagara Falls while waiting for the next visiting hours period. It is a mile away from the hospital to the falls, so it was quite a hike for me at my age of 69. I crossed the Rainbow Bridge and waited in line. Behind me was a group of women from the Orient. One of them spoke in English with what I thought was a French accent. I asked her where she was from. She said she's from Japan. After what seemed like 20 minutes, it was my turn to go into the customs building to be questioned. The lady who questioned me had the name McDonald on her name tag. She asked me where I was born. I started saying "Buffalo, New York." As soon as I did, I realized my mistake and quickly added, "United States." She asked me if I'm bringing anything into Canada. I didn't know what to say. Should I tell her about the set of keys in my pocket? My wallet? The coins I have in my pocket? She helped me out by asking, "Tobacco? Alcohol?" I said no. She asked me how long I was staying in Canada. I underestimated the time it would take to walk from the customs office to the foot of the falls. I told her 15 minutes. We said thank you to each other, and I was on my way. There seemed to be a lot of people from the Orient that I passed by. One was a young woman who was really pretty with her long dark hair, bangs and lipstick. There were other people there I didn't like, such as those who wear burkas. It was good to see a lot people who were actually excited by the spectacular view they were looking at. I went a little bit beyond the falls and then turned back to the Rainbow Bridge. I felt like I was going to be late again to see my neighbor at the hospital. So I hurried along. I even jogged a little bit. But jogging only made my problem worse. And it was getting dark. I couldn't find the entrance to the bridge. I went to this door, but it was locked. I went to that door, but it was locked, too. So I asked one of the customs agents for help. He was kind enough to lead me to where I could get back onto the bridge and over to the USA. He showed me the coin changers where I could get two dollars worth of quarters to insert into the turnstile for the bridge toll. I thought I needed two dollars of Canadian quarters, so I used the coin changer thinking I was going to get Canadian coins. Instead, I received American quarters. I grumbled like a crabby old man because I already had a lot of American quarters in my pocket.
I apologize to that young Canadian customs agent because I was grumpy. He was a really nice guy who was directing traffic and who went out of his way to help me out. I blame the long walk from the hospital for making me tired. The walk from the bridge to the falls and back took me 45 minutes instead of 15 minutes. That made me so tired that I could hardly think of what I was saying. I was slurring my words very badly. I must have sounded drunk or on drugs to that customs guy. When I asked him where the entrance to the bridge was, he asked me, "Which bridge?" I thought that was a strange question. How many bridges are around here? But I think he was testing me. He must have thought I was out of my mind the way I sounded. I am very grateful to that Canadian customs official for the help he gave me.
We were standing in this one spot, and then he told me I was in somebody's way. I looked and it was a beautiful young blond woman with a smile on her face. I said, "Sorry," and got out of her way. She was one of the most beautiful young blond women I ever saw. Wow!!! If she's not Miss Canada, she ought to be.
So I went across the bridge back to the American side. There was no line there. I went into the building where there were two customs guys at the counter. One of them asked me a few questions, looked at my enhanced driver's license, and then gave me an okay. Leaving the building, I had no idea where I was going. I wandered around in the dark for a little bit. Then I put my geography knowledge to work. The Niagara River runs from south to north. That means I want to go east. So I went north and east--away from Goat Island. I had my atlas road map with me. So when I came to a street that was on my map, I was no longer lost. However, by the time I got to the hospital there was only 5 minutes left of the last visiting hour. I didn't think they would let me in, so I went to my car and drove home.
OTHER THINGS CANADIAN
1) Canada 101
Lesson #1 What is the capital of Canada, Luann?
I worked in a bank office in 1978. One of the young ladies named Luann just got off the phone and thought she should share something funny with the rest of us. She said, “This lady said she lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!”
I was a little bit indignant with her and told her, “That’s the capital of Canada.”
She said, “I didn’t know that.”
2) The Union of Canada and the United States
As a super patriot and ultra nationalist, I often thought about the day Canada and the United States would be one country. I am not the only one to ponder this. When I was in Mr. Lewandowski’s Ec World class in 9th grade at Genessee Humoldt Junior High School, he told the class that experts agree that such a union is certain. It will happen.
That was over 55 years ago and counting. I am not certain it will ever happen. I am quite certain it will never happen. Many Canadians fear such a union. They compare it to a marriage between a mouse and an elephant. They feel more comfortable in a group like NATO.
GOV. BROWN, PRES. TRUMP & GOD
June 25, 2018 Monday. Sunday’s first segment of 60 Minutes showed Governor Jerry Brown accusing President Trump of going against God’s will by abandoning the Paris Agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He blamed President Trump for the largest forest fires that were raging within his state. This was God’s wrath and nature’s anger that President Trump brought on California, he said.
It’s true that God can cause natural disasters to punished us for our wrong actions. I have mentioned this as the reason why we had so many hurricanes after we asked Israel to give up land to the Palestinians. But is God punishing California for the decision President Trump made regarding withdrawing from the Paris Agreement?
According to what Ann Coulter wrote in her book Adios, America!, on page 196, quoting Sen. John McCain, that “there is substantial evidence” illegal aliens from Mexico are setting off these fires.
The raging forests fires in California appear to be an act of God, or, the Wrath of God. It is due to a dry spell that California is currently experiencing. The only thing man can do is use controlled burning, according to one authority. Still another authority says that the water reservoirs that should be full are empty because of some judge’s order to protect a non-native fish. My own wish is to see California desalt the waters in the Pacific Ocean; then pump the fresh water to the regions where it is arid due to lack of rain.
If the raging California forest fires are the result of the Wrath of God, then what is God angry about? Is it because President Trump dropped out of the Paris Agreement on climate change? Or is it for some other sin? Is it for adultery? God punished King David and Israel when he committed adultery with Bathsheba. The punishment for adultery in the Bible is death. The rate of adultery or infidelity in California has skyrocketed in the last 25 years. Over a thousand people are murdered every year in California.
(t.b.c.)
June 14, 2018 Thursday
HAPPY 72nd BIRTHDAY, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP!
And congratulations on your trip to Singapore!
Thank you for bringing to America the lowest unemployment rate in years.
I am glad you remembered the fallen Americans whose remains are still left in North Korea.
Please remember the Christians in North Korea who are suffering horribly in North Korea and are under constant threat of death.
I pray always that God’s richest blessings will be upon you in Jesus’ name.
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
June 9, 2018 Saturday. Charles Krauthammer, one of the greatest conservative voices in the political world, announced this week that he only has a few more weeks to live. The problem is terminal cancer. Cancer - the terrible plague that we just cannot conquer after years and years and billions and billions of dollars of medical research. When will we ever defeat cancer? When? WHEN?
From what I’ve read, it’s not that we can’t cure cancer, it’s that we don’t want to cure cancer. Treating cancer as well as treating every other disease is big business. We don’t want cures. Cures are what costs us our jobs. We only TREAT diseases, we do not cure them. We treat them through (1) drugs, (2) radiation, and / or (3) surgery.
One book says that cancer was already cured back in 1925. The cure for cancer is oxygen injections or something like that. Another book says cancer cures can be found in hospitals just outside the border in Mexico and Canada. Another source says if you try to find a cure for cancer or any disease, you will be killed, as were eight doctors in Florida not too long ago.
“This book is intended for general information only. It does not constitute medical advice or practice. We cannot guarantee the safety or effectiveness of any treatment or advice mentioned. Readers are urged to consult with their health care professionals.”
And blah, blah, blah.
One author told his story in which he had heart problems and felt dizzy while driving on the road. He pulled to the side and got help. He was taken to a hospital where, after two weeks, he was diagnosed with some kind of disease. The doctors told him it was incurable. He then heard about an alternative medicine doctor in Reno, and he went to see. The alternative medicine doctor put the author on his special machine. In five minutes, the alternative medicine doctor came up with the same answer that the doctors in the hospital gave him after two weeks. “And there’s no cure for it,” said the author who was certain of the answer. The alternative medicine doctor replied, “Not in THIS country.” Fortunately, he had a supply of the needed medicine, and the author was cured.
I hope and pray that Charles Krauthammer finds a cure for his cancer.
In the meantime, America, get sick and stay sick. It’s good for the economy.
June 21, 2018 Thursday. Charles Krauthammer is gone. All we can do is turn to I Thessalonians 4: 13-18 “But I would not have you be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (dead), that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord that we who are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall precede them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.”
In the Book of Psalms, David says,“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me…(Psalms 23:4). I don’t believe that either in David or Charles are in heaven. I believe they are both in the good part of Hades. But wherever they are, “the Lord is with them.”
One commentator from the Washington Post (I once had trouble telling the difference between the Washington Times and the Washington Post. Which one is the good newspaper and which one is the bad newspaper? It’s really easy, though when you remember that “Post” stands for Piece Of Sh-T) said Charles Krauthammer is responsible for the War in Iraq because he claimed Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction--namely poison gas. This commentator says our troops went into Iraq and found no weapons of mass destruction. So Charles Krauthammer and President George Bush were wrong. I beg to differ. When dictator Saddam was ruler over Iraq, we had to set up a no-fly zone in northern Iraq to keep Saddam’s jets from dropping poison gas bombs on the Kurds. Also, In one news interview, the moderator asked an American imam if believed Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. He said, “Yes, and we have the receipt to prove.” He meant that the USA sold those weapons of mass destruction to Saddam.
Why weren’t any weapons of mass destruction found when our troops invaded Iraq? One suggestion is that Saddam moved them to Syria.
Our troops did discover 11 mobile labs buried south of Bagdad.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/14/sprj.irq.labs/index.html
The were labs that produced chemical and biological poisons. Doesn’t that count.
REMEMBERING D-DAY
June 6, 2018 Wednesday. We remember D-Day today which occurred back in 1944 which was the invasion of Europe by the allied forces lead by the US, Great Britain, Canada and free French forces. One commentator understated the magnitude of the operation by saying that Hitler‘s wall was built over several years, but it was overcome in a few hours. It was not that simple. It “only” cost 2,000 American casualties at just Omaha Beach alone. As one of my teachers at Kensington High School told us that it was a near disaster. Some of the landings took place virtually unopposed by the Germans. But the Omaha Beach landing was a nightmare. Almost half of the first troops to disembark drowned in the sea because they couldn‘t swim. The offshore destroyers and battleships stopped shelling the beaches 20 minutes before our troops landed, which enabled the Germans to go back into their bunkers, man their guns and shoot at our troops. Most of the tanks that assaulted the beach were overturned in the strong ocean current and sank to the bottom of the sea. All communications were cut off between the beach landers and the offshore ships. One general on one of the ships was told to find out what was going on. He saw a big mess that had him cancel any more assault forces and almost recommended that the survivors on the beach be evacuated. The battle for Omaha Beach was saved when two destroyers without orders moved within a 1000 feet of the shore and were blasting the machine gun positions. This allowed our troops to slowly advance inland from the beach in small groups or parties. In the aftermath of the assault, General Eisenhower marveled how powerful our forces were not because we won a great victory, but because we suffered such terrifying losses, yet we still were able to keep on fighting.
June 11, 2019 Tuesday.
The 75th Anniversary of D-Day (Thursday, June 6th) has come and gone. We remembered how the Greatest Generation defeated the Nazis--the world's greatest threat to freedom. We admire their heroism and their sacrifices. We remember those that made the supreme sacrifice.
At that time, it was easy to know who your enemy was and what the stakes were. The Nazis had conquered Europe and were intent on capturing the world along with Japan. After Pearl Harbor, there was no question about our resolution. We were determined to defeat our enemy at all cost. Today, we are not sure who our enemy is or who our enemies are. Today, we are not sure who our enemy is or who our enemies are. We have a group living among us whose beliefs are just as bad as the Nazis with hatred of Jews and Christians and their lust for world power. Yet, we are not allowed to say anything evil against "the religion of peace."
Many of our soldiers prayed to God for His protection. In this respect, we could follow their example. We need to pray to God that He will give our leaders wisdom and to ourselves as well.
June 6, 2022 Monday. On this day, June 6th, 2022, I remember reading how the D-Day Invasion was nearly a total disaster. General Ike Eisenhower was very doubtful of its success even before he gave the order to commence the invasion. He wrote a note saying that he takes full responsibility for its failure.
First of all, the Germans had the coasts of Europe heavily fortified from Norway to Spain. The Nazis had to be fooled that the invasion was going to take place in part of France that was much closer to Germany rather than at Normandy.
Secondly, the Allied battleships that were shelling the coasts of Normandy which forced the German defenders to evacuate their pillboxes. But the bombardment was halted twenty minutes before the first American assault forces reached the beaches of Omaha. This allowed the German defenders to go back into their pillboxes and unleash a rain of death on our soldiers. The first assault was such a disaster that none of their objectives were achieved. Those soldiers who made it alive ashore (about half of them) were hiding from the withering machine gun fire from the German pillboxes. None of them shot back at the Germans. One general tried to rally his troops by attacking the pillboxes with hand grenades. I believe he knocked out one or two of them before he was killed.
Thirdly, more than two dozen amphibious tanks were sent to the shores of Omaha. But because of the strong currents, 27 of them sank in the ocean. Only two of them made it to shore; and they were way off their target zone.
The invasion was saved the next day when two destroyers came close to a thousand yards of the pillboxes and destroyed many of them.
When General Eisenhower set foot on the shores of Omaha long after the beaches were finally secure, he remarked how powerful our forces are by the shear number of losses we had taken. If any other nation had suffered the tremendous losses that we did on D-Day, they would have been ruined. But our forces were able to absorb those great losses and keep on going.
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE (PIE IN THE SKY)
May 25, 2018 Friday.
Captain’s Log Star Date 1513.8. We finally arrived at the peace conference. All the delegates from North and South Korea have pledged love, friendship, and peace throughout the galaxy.
Captain’s Log Star Date 1513.9. President Donald Trump has threatened to cancel the peace talks. This, for one thing, will end his chances of being awarded the coveted Zefram Cochrane Peace Medal (formerly called the Nobel Peace Prize).
The Nobel peace prize is a piece of garbage, especially when it was given out to people like Obama and Jimmy Carter, who did absolutely nothing for peace. It was also given to Yassar Arafat, a PLO terrorist.
Peace cannot be achieved through appeasement nor by honoring those who are villains of freedom and human rights. Peace can only be had by strength; as the old Roman proverb says, “If you want peace, prepare for war.”
We also need God on our side. God often brings war to a nation that has forsaken His laws. We need to pray that God will continue to give us leaders who fear His Name and who will stand up to our enemies.
June 15, 2018 Friday. The agreement between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is for the complete de-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula. It’s a wonderful prospect thait Bill Clinton assured us would happen when he was president. Now, it’s supposedly really happening in our time. Maybe. We’ll just have to wait and see.
IF THE HAT FITS, WEAR IT
May 21, 2018 Monday. On tonight’s Fox News, viewers saw Hillary at Yale’s graduation ceremony pulling out a Russian hat and holding it over her head. She was showing everyone that Mr. Donald Trump’s campaign has Russian collusion in it through and through even though after one year of investigation there is no evidence of such. There is much evidence, on the other hand, of the Clinton’s scandal in which they turned over control of 20% of America’s supply of uranium to the Russians.
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/russia-scandal-uranium-one-clinton-foundation/
In typical Old Russian / Marxist / Leninist style, Hillary points the finger the other way so that the guilty party accuses the innocent of the crime. It is unfortunate to see our brightest and most intelligent students being given the banner to go forth and contribute further to the Far Left intelligentsia.
THE BOY’S AND GIRL’S SCOUTS OF AMERICA
May 15, 2018 Tuesday. Recently the Boys’ Scouts of America had to drop the “Boy” from its name and admit girls into its organization. Some have claimed that this does harm to the boys in that organization. I don’t see how this could hurt them. It might hurt the girls by wearing pants and other clothing that the boys wear. This battle against the Boy’s Scout is not new. It has been going on since I started listening to Concerned Women for America back in 1995. The ones who made a fuss over the name “Boys Scouts of America” were the mothers of the boys. They contributed a lot of their time in helping the Scouts. They do a lot of the cooking and maybe the cleaning for the organization. Perhaps the harm comes from mother’s being the leaders instead of the fathers. Fathers play an important role in raising children. They are looked up to as examples. In the Armstrong church, we were taught that an absent, indifferent or abusive father can affect the boys in the family so that they will grow up as homosexuals. The Armstrong church even boasted of its Imperial Schools in which the teachers in its elementary and high schools were all men. The Girl’s Scouts is not much better. I’ve heard that lesbian leaders are in many of the packs within that organization.
I really don’t see any harm of mixing the girls with the boys. I think the same way about mixing boys and girls in elementary and high school gym classes as long as they are supervised and that they stay out of each other‘s dressing rooms. The only exception might be in tackle football. What is the harm? After all, we have family picnics and church picnics. Does anyone have any empirical evidence that mixing boys and girls in sport activities is harmful? Perhaps we will soon learn. Or will we? We live in a progressive, idealistic world in which hard evidence against certain activities are suppressed and go uncorrected.
For those who object to the change, there’s faith-based boy’s organizations like The Assemblies of God’s Royal Rangers, The Seventh Day Adventist’s Pathfinders, The Calvinist Cadet Corps, The Knights of Columbus Columbian Squires, Navigators USA, and The Baden-Powell Service Organization.
FRANCE
May 2, 2018 Tuesday. French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife paid a three-day state visit to the United States in April. They were here Monday, April 23 to Thursday, April 26. President Trump and First Lady Melania welcomed President Macron and Mrs. Macron. My heart was gladden to see them toast the love and friendship our two countries have for each other.
Both leaders expressed gratitude for the sacrifices our two countries made for each other. As “Our Oldest Ally, France helped us to win the American Revolutionary War. Without French help, Great Britain, the world’s only super power at that time, would have easily crushed George Washington and his Continental Army. We returned the favor in both World War I and World War II by liberating France from the German and Nazi armies.
When I was in the Armstrong church, I read a report on how our church was doing in France. Some of the listeners there wrote and asked what the Bible is. Armstrong talked a lot about the Bible, yet many in France didn’t know anything about the Bible.
According to Armstrong, the people from the northern part of France are descendants from the Tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Israel that sprang from Reuben, the firstborn son of Jacob. He was disqualified from receiving the Birthright because he defiled his father’s bed by laying with one of his concubines. This, according to Armstrong, identifies and characterizes the French people as being of the Tribe of Reuben because they are renown for their extramarital affairs.
Also, according to Armstrong, France would be one of the ten members of the coming United State of Europe that would fight against and defeat the USA. They would take our people to Europe and keep them as slaves until the Second Coming.
I was a little upset about this and asked Mr. Sell, our Church of God minister about that. I questioned him, “France is going to fight AGAINST us? France?!!! FRANCE?!!!” He said after they have taken our people into captivity, the church will broadcast the message to the people of France that they are the Tribe of Reuben, and that they shouldn’t treat their brother (the Tribe of Joseph) that way. They will then set their American and British captives free and shelter them until all Twelve Tribes of Israel are taken back to the Holy Land.
It is not likely France will ever turn against us in such a way. But it is possible. They, along with Britain, Sweden, and Germany have been letting in a lot of Muslim immigrants. These Muslims have shown that they are willing to perform jihad acts against their infidel hosts by running them down, gunning them down, or blowing them up. These Muslim martyrs leave behind a family of 3, 4 or more children who are only too willing and happy to take up the cause of Mohammed. The Muslim population in France two years ago (2016) was 5,720,000 or 8.8% of the population of France which was almost 67 million in 2016. On the infidel side, the birthrate is less than 2 children per family. France is increasingly becoming more and more Muslim each year.
Mr. Macron addressed the Congress of the United States. One of the first things he mentioned was that France and America share a history of embracing liberty, tolerance, and equal rights. We might agree that this is true. The Bill of Rights has been part of the US Constitution almost from the time of its ratification. The Universal Rights of Man became a part of the United Nations at its third session in Paris. The United Nations has been called the world’s last hope for peace. Unfortunately, it has failed miserably.The Soviet Union used its veto power to thwart the United Nations from fulfilling its mission of keeping the peace and defending freedom. NATO was created to defend Western Europe from communist expansion.
Mr. Macron says a strong militarism will allow our cultures and identities to be respected, protected, and to flourish. It would also be helpful if we in the West could identify the threats and dangers to the ideals of peace and freedom. Those enemies have made themselves known whenever they attack with the shout of “Allahu Akbar!” Such was the case of a Muslim woman who stabbed 5 people on a bus in Paris and left one of the dead.
This is what jihadwatch.com had to say about the attack:
They quote The Islamic State from four years ago, in which they (Muslims) are called upon to kill “the filthy French” as well as Americans, Canadians, and British.
The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:
"So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him…."
I read the French national anthem. One verse says that the enemy has slit our throats. Another verse says that the French people shall avenge. Be indignant, France! Be angry, France! The Muslims are raping your wives, your daughters, and your sisters. They are stabbing you in the neck.
I pray for France. God have mercy on France. God save France. God bless France. Vive la France!
BARBARA BUSH
April 19, 2018 Thursday. Deepest sympathies to the Bush Family for the lost of his beloved wife, and their mother, aunt and grandmother Barbara Bush who passed away last Tuesday at the age of 92.
I wasn’t really a big admirer of Barbara Bush. She was not one of the great beauties we’ve had in the White House like Jacqueline Kennedy, Rosalyn Carter, her daughter-in-law Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and, even today, the lovely Melania Trump. One comedian during the Bush the I Administration joked that she looked like his mother. That’s the way we humans are; we judge by appearances. Even Samuel the prophet was guilty of doing that. (I Samuel 16:7)
It has been said that Barbara Bush was a good Christian woman and that she certainly has her place in heaven. My own beliefs are that she is now with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the good part of Hades who wait for the sound of the Seventh Trumpet to signal the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus and the rising of the dead in Christ--the First Resurrection. May God bring that Day soon.
In Ecclesiastes 7:, King Solomon tells us, “It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.”
So we should spend a little time thinking about our deaths because we all our going to die except for the very few who are living and are made immortal at the at the time of the Second Coming. These are my reflections on death:
1) When my grandparents passed away when I was a little boy, I started fearing death. I asked my mother what it is like to die and go to heaven. Is it cold in heaven? If heaven is cold, how do we keep ourselves warm? She really couldn’t answer my questions.
2) An old lady friend of mine Mary was sitting at the other side of the table when she said to me, "I miss my Chester, Michael.” Chester was her bald-headed, slightly overweight husband who passed away the year before. I said to her, “That’s what I’ve read.” She gasped. She might have thought I was insulting her. I explained to her, “I took a course at ECC called Aging, Dying, and Death. The book we were using had a survey in it. The question was, ‘What is your greatest loss.’ The list included: your parents, your brother your sister, your friend, your pet. The number one answer was - your mate. When you lose your mate, that is your greatest loss.”
This is what the Bible says in Genesis 2:18, “It is not good for man (or woman) to be alone…” Mary lost “her Chester,” and Mr. Bush lost “his Barbara.”
3) The Bible has many mysteries that are hard to understand. In the case of Lazarus, who was sick, died and was entombed (John 11:1-45), when Jesus was taken to his tomb, He wept. Why did He weep when He knew He was going to resurrect him a minute later? Jesus even told Martha, Lazarus’s sister, that her brother will rise again. (John 11: 23).
4) Lazarus was in the tomb for four days. His body was decaying. And his soul? What about his soul? After Jesus raised him from the death, what did he say about how it was in Hades? He said nothing. Could Herbert W. Armstrong be right? Is there no life after death except for the Resurrection which will occur at the sound of the last and seventh trumpet? It may be that the main theme of John’s Gospel was about Jesus being God. As God, He was able to raise the deceased from their graves.
5) In Hebrews 9:27, Paul says that “it is appointed unto men once to die…” But what about Lazarus? He already died once. I asked The Christian Jew Foundation that question. The response I got was that at the end of his normal life, he would die again.
6) After Jesus died on the cross, strange things happened according to Matthew 27:51-53, “And behold the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent. And the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept arose. And came out of the graves after His resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many.”
This is a strange scripture. It is not recorded anywhere else in the Bible. It is real? No one seems to dispute that are uninspired. Who were these saints who were brought back from the dead? How many of them were there? Why did they wait three days and three nights before showing themselves to the people of Jerusalem? Did they die again and go back to their graves like Lazarus? They already died once. Why do they have to die twice? Shouldn’t they still be alive today? Are they still alive today?
MISTAKE NUMBER TWO
March 25, 2018 Sunday. President Trump signed the Omnibus Spending Bill last Friday. It provided a half billion dollars to Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions.
This crazy unChristian bill is over two thousand pages long. Nobody was able to read the entire bill. It is also a very un-American and undemocratic bill because there is no accountability. No one knows who puts in certain items in the bill that is nothing but pure pork. One example is on how to train yak herdsmen in Tibet for the caring of their animals.
Laura Ingram of Fox News said that President Trump did not need to sign this bill.
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/380057-fox-news-hosts-tear-into-trump-over-spending-bill
President Trump gets high praise for his tax cut which stimulated the economy. He also appointed a highly qualified judge to the Supreme Court. But the signing of this omnibus bill, in my opinion, is the making of his second mistake. His first mistake was going to Saudi Arabia and bowing to its king.
Mr. Trump declared himself to be a Christian not too long ago. When a Christian gives his word that he will follow the teachings of Christ, he should do so. What happens when a Christian like Mr. Trump “sins” and lets down the voters who elected as our leader? The Bible says that we forgive him. (Then came Peter to him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Till seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I say not to you, ‘Until seven time,’ but, ‘”Until seventy times seven.’” Matthew 18:21-22.) But when November 2020 comes around, we will remember him.
Mr. Trump promises never to sign another bill like that again. I hope he can keep his promise and all the other promises he makes.
BILLY GRAHAM - HIS TIME HAD COME
February 25, 2018 Sunday. Last week, Billy Graham passed away. Even though there were some indications that his death had come, there was shock when it was confirmed that he was truly dead. He was 99 years old when he passed away Wednesday, February 21st. Wow! I didn’t know he was that old.
When my mother was dying, she knew her time had come. She wanted to die. But I wasn’t ready. I wanted her to recover and to take her home from the hospital. Her doctors knew she was dying. The priest who gave her her last rites knew she was dying. When she died, it seemed so unfair of God to do this to her.
I am sure Franklin Graham and those close to Pastor Billy Graham feel the same way. They feel a great loss, and it really hurts. I felt great pain after my mother died. It gradually went away day after day.
Unfortunately for the 17 student who were shot dead at Parkland High School in Florida, they died before their time. This is the hardest kind of death to face. Job of the Bible had to accept this kind of death when a tornado brought down the house in which his 10 children (7 sons and 3 daughters) were in. They were young adults just like those at Parkland High School when their lives were taken from them. All Job said was, “The Lord gave; and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.” (Job 1:21).
But life goes on. We don’t know how long we ourselves are going to live. Someday soon, Jesus will return and will put an end to death itself. “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. For the former things are passed away.
Pastor Billy Graham loved and served the Lord, and he died in peace.
As he is laid to rest, I remember when he came to Buffalo in the summer of 1988. It was hot and humid in Western New York at that time. I watched him on TV as he gave his sermon overlooking the Niagara River. It was a beautiful scene with the blue skies, the green trees and the blue water. But the weather was very sticky; and Pastor Billy Graham must have been miserable while he gave his presentation. Yet, he was gracious and refused to give any sign of his discomfort. One of his assistants offered him water, but he said no. It wouldn’t have helped much. The only things that would help are a nice air-conditioned room and a nice cool shower. Sorry Buffalo didn’t have nicer weather for you, Pastor Billy Graham.
JESUS SPEAKS
February 19, 2018 Monday. Vice President Pence was mocked for saying that Jesus talks to him. Joyce Behar of The View suggested that he is mentally ill. It is possible that the vice president heard the voice of Jesus or is he mentally ill? Here are some points to consider:
* In one of his radio broadcasts, Harold Camping stated that the Bible contains all the revelations from God that we need. He said Revelation 22:18, it says, “If any man shall add to these things, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book.” Harold Camping said to the effect that if we hear voices in our minds that we suppose come from God, then we are adding to the Bible, which is wrong.
* Jesus does speak to us, and that is through the Gospels. But is that all? John the Apostle said in John 20:25, “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, that if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.”
* One reason why Jesus doesn’t speak to us very often is because we don’t want to listen to him. Jesus was the God of the Old Testament (the Word of God) who gave the Ten Commandments in a voice that sounded like thunder. The people of Israel told Moses, “Speak with us and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.” (Exodus 20:19). This is usually the exception rather than the rule. Jesus usually speaks like a human rather than like thunder. The few times he spoke like thunder were when he spoke to Job in the whirlwind (Job 38:1), possibly when he spoke to Ezekiel (2:24), and when he appeared to John in a vision in Revelation 1:10.
* He often speaks to us in our dreams, as it says in Job 33:14-15, “For God speaks once, even twice…In a dream, in a vision of the night when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumbering upon the bed.”
Biblical examples:
1) Joseph and his dreams - Joseph the son of Jacob had two dreams in which his father, mother, and brothers would bow down before him. (Genesis 37:7&9) His dream came true over seven years later when he was prime minister of Egypt, second only before pharaoh. His brothers came to him for food.
2) Dreams of the butler and the baker - Pharaoh's chief butler and chief baker were accused of doing wrong. They each had dreams which Joseph interrupted. The baker was hanged and the butler was restored to his office. (Genesis 40)
3) Pharaoh and his dreams - Pharaoh himself had two dreams which disturbed him. The one dream was about seven fat cows and seven lean cows. The lean cows ate up the fat cows. The second dream was about seven ears of good corn and seven ears of thin corn. The seven think ears of corn devoured the seven good ears of corn. Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream and told him that there would be seven years of plenty and then seven years of famine. He advised Pharaoh to collect a fifth of the grain from the seven years of plenty in order to save themselves from the seven years of famine. (Genesis 41)
4) King Nebuchadnezzar and his dreams - The king of Babylon dreamed about a huge statute made of gold, silver, brass, iron, and iron and clay. A stone came from heaven, hit the feet and destroyed the entire statue. The stone grew to become an everlasting Kingdom. The statue represented the world empires starting with Babylon and ending with the Beast with the ten-horns that would fight against Christ at His Second Coming. (Daniel 2:31-45)
5) Joseph the foster father of Jesus - God told Joseph the husband of Mary, in a dream, to take her as his wife, and not to divorce her when she was pregnant with the Lord Jesus. (Matthew 1:19-25)
6) Other dreams of Joseph - God told Joseph to take Mary and the Child to Egypt and stay there. (Matthew 2:13) God told Joseph in another dream to return to the Holy Land because all those who sought the child‘s life were dead. (Matthew 2:19-20) Joseph was told by God in a dream not to go to Judea but to Galilee. (Matthew 2:22)
* After His Resurrection from the death, Jesus appeared to many of his friends and disciples.
* He appeared to Paul and talked to him many times.
* He appeared to John in a vision to give him the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation.
Personal Experiences:
1) This happened quite a few years ago when I was living on Goemble in Buffalo. It was the time of the first heart transplants. The newsman on the TV was saying that the patient who had the heart transplant is…..
“Is dead.”
That’s the message that came to my head. I heard no voice in my mind. It was like knowing the truth. It was like 1 + 1 =. You automatically know the answer.
But the newsman said the heart transplant patient is alive and is doing well. However, I knew the patient would die. I KNEW IT.
The next day, the newsman on the TV said the heart transplant patient was dead.
2) In 1985, I worked at Central Stores at UB North Campus in Amherst, NY. I just had my car painted on the right door. I was with my co-worker Ron when I suddenly got a vision of my car door having been ripped by a blue truck that doesn’t move on a dark, rainy day. I told Ron that something terrible is going to happened. About a week later, I was driving to work on a dark, rainy morning on Bailey Avenue. I think I was trying to pass someone by going in the right lane. That’s when I sideswiped a blue garbage dumpster that was sticking out a few feet into the street. It tore a large gash in my door. When the car was repaired, Ron asked me if I was going to have anymore accidents. He was wondering if I had anymore visions. I told him, “No! Never!” That was wishful thinking. My beautiful little dark chamois metallic 1980 Ford Mustang did not go to its grave peacefully.
3) In 1988 or 1989, I was working at Thermographics, a card printing company that was located on Hertel and Elmwood in north Buffalo. One week, my car was in the repair shop. So I rode my bicycle to work. My mother said she had a dream in which she saw me limping. She told me to be careful. I rode my bicycle to work and was almost at the building when I saw a driveway of gravel stones. Some of the gravel stones were on the sidewalk. I should have gotten off my bicycle and walked the rest of the way. Instead, I continued to ride my bicycle over the sidewalk with some gravel stones. That caused my bicycle to slip. I fall down and go boom. And I hurt my knee. There were some guys in a nearby parked car. They laughed at me. But when they saw me get up and limp to the building, they were aghast. My mother’s dream came true.
4) The Buffalo Bills finally made it to the Super Bowl in January 1991 against a team they had already beaten in their regular season, the New York Giants. But this wasn’t your typical lopsided Super Bowl game. Up to this time, it proved to be the most exciting Super Bowl game in the history of the NFL. The momentum of the game shifted first from the Bills then to the Giants then to the Bills then to the Giants. In the end, the final score was to be decided by the foot of Buffalo Bills kicker Scott Norwood. As a guy who believes in God, I said a prayer that the kick would be good. The answer I got back was “No.” I said another prayer that the kick would be good. The answer was “No.” I prayed earnestly, “Please, Lord. Please make Scott Norwood’s field goal kick good. The answer was “No.” I prayed again and again. But the answer was still “No, and “No.” So I resigned myself to watching Scott Norwood missing the field goal and the Bill’s going down in defeat. And that’s what happened. The next kicker for the Bills in place of Scott Norwood was Steve Christie. He said he was watching the ball game, and he noticed that Scott Norwood was set wrong for the kick. The way I feel about the NFL now, I would say Scott Norwood was set right to miss the field goal. He deliberately missed the field goal as he was suppose to.
5) In 1995, I was working at Superior Temps on International Drive in Williamsville, NY. One night, I had a dream in which I drove to work and parked the car. I got out of the car carrying something in my hand. Then I walked to the building. In front, there were four women. Three were middle aged and one was a young woman. I said good morning to the three from right to left. Then when I saw the young woman, I noticed that she was crying. I said to her, “Are you crying?” Then I woke up. About a day or so later, I drove to work and parked the car. I got out of the car carrying my boom box without the speakers. We were editing resumes on the computer all day long, which is a boring job; so we were allowed to bring our radios in with headphones. I saw the four ladies standing in front of the building. I said good morning to the three middle-aged women calling them by their names. Then I looked at Tammy, a 20-year old woman who was standing on the left side of the three ladies. She was crying. I said to her, “Are you crying?” Then I remembered that this was what I dreamed the other night. Tammy had some kind of intestinal problem that flared up on her now and then. I told Sandy, the girl who was hired the same time I was, about the dream I had and what just happened a minute ago. I asked her if she had similar experiences. I forgot what she said. I told her that the dreams I remember when I wake up usually don’t happen. One case I told her about was a famous personality who, in my dream, passed away. But he/she did not die. He/she is still alive today, although he/she is not in good health. Silly me! After what happened in 1988, all I had to do was talk to my own mother. I did talk to my Worldwide Church of God minister Mr. Sell about that. I said to him that I sometimes have dreams that come true. For instance. I would dream that I would be sitting on the porch and I would look across the street and see a girl walking by. Then, the next day, I would be sitting on the porch, and I would see a girl walking by just the way I dreamed it. He said I should “try the spirits.” (I John 4:1-5)
My co-worker Ron and I were discussing the spirit world one time. One of the thoughts that came to my head was that someone was going to be killed. I don’t know what happened to that guy, but I don’t want anything more to do with that kind of thinking and the spirit world.
Sometimes I try to find out from the Lord if the Buffalo Bills are going to win or lose. When I think they are going to win, they lose. When I think they are going to lose, they win. So whatever gift God has given me, I can’t take it to the bank and cash in on it.
6) I don’t usually remember the dreams until they come true. But that’s not always the case. Back when I was in high school, I had a really bad dream. When I woke up, it was only a dream. I was glad it was only a dream. But several days later, the bad dream came true.
* When I was going to Erie Community College, I took Sociology and Psychology. I looked through the books we were using. There was not one word about God. We learned about parapsychology which includes telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, and reincarnation. One teacher said that there is nothing more important than money. That’s what we learned in college. That’s what we see on The View.
THE STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS 2018
February 2, 2018 Thursday. As I watched President Trump deliver his first State of the Union Address last Tuesday night, January 30th, I thought back to George Washington and how he would have delivered one of his State of the Union Addresses. I would think it would be in a dignified manner as it would befit that of the Father of Our Country. Instead, it was more like a pep rally in which the President himself was applauding more than half the time. Well, there’s nothing wrong with having an enthusiastic president. It depends on the times as well as the style of the man. Franklin Roosevelt wouldn’t be clapping in his State of the Union Address right after our entrance into World War II. And President Obama’s attendance at a funeral memorial service was like that of a pep rally. It depends on the mood of the audience.
On the right side of the aisle sat the Republicans who were cheering and applauding during the president‘s speech. Most of the time, their clapping sounded like the Soviet style clapping with nearly everyone in unison. On the Far Left of the aisle was the Dead Party who stand for nothing but abortion, illegal immigrants, and Muslim immigrants.
President Trump spoke of unity, yet the Democrats wouldn‘t even stand up and cheer for the improvements that were made in the lives of Black Americans during the first year of his administration. One member of the Far Leftist explained that Mr. Trump represents the opposition party. So they must oppose EVERYTHING Mr. Trump tries to do for the sake of the next elections.
This is what George Washington warned us about. He didn‘t want America divided into political parties. He wanted us to be united. However, we have been divided into two political parties since Washington‘s time. Washington himself was labeled as a member of the Federalist Party because he sided with most of their policies. Washington himself was labeled as a member of the Federalist Party because he sided with most of their policies that favored a strong central government. Thomas Jefferson on the other hand, was a strict Constitutionalist who acted only according to what was written in the Constitution. Yet, the greatest act he did as president was not in the Constitution. He acquired from France the Louisiana Purchase which doubled the size of the United States at that time. These two presidents with different political views and from different political parties acted in the best of the United States.
But in today‘s dangerous world where each and every decision can mean the difference be the prosperity of America and the ruin of America, the Democratic Party has chosen the ruin of America over the prosperity of America for the sake of the Party. They want to allow more illegal immigrants from Mexico who commit a large percentage of the crimes in this country. And they want to allow more Muslims into the country who want to make America an Islamic country. The Democrats want more of these people into the country so that can become Democrats and elect the Democrats back in control of Congress and the White House.
In contrast to the way Washington and Jefferson ran the country -- for the good of the country -- a Republican congressman came to President Barak Obama with some good ideas that would help the country. Obama‘s response was: “We won. You lost.”
President Trump spoke about the union, that it is strong. It is not strong. He seems to exaggerate a bit now and then. We are almost at war with each other. The news media is Far Left liberal. CNN and MSNBC mercilessly verbally attack Mr. Trump every day, 24 hours a day. The late night comedy shows also fiercely attack Mr. Trump. If the other presidential candidate (Hillary) had won, there would have been an all-out civil war. I believe one senator said he was going to lead an impeachment of Hillary as soon as she stepped into the White House. Some Red States threatened to secede from the union if she had won the election.
At the end of his State of the Union Address, President Trump said, “In God we trust.” To me, it wasn’t enough. So what? What are we going to about that?
So we trust in God. We trust in God all right. We trust that He is unhappy that the United States is the only country in the world that recognizes homosexual marriage. (Correction: I remember that The Netherlands became the first country to legalize gay marriage. I am surprised to find in Wikipedia a long list of nations who recognized and / or perform gay marriages. There are over 32 countries on the list.)Joe Kennedy was the Democratic Party‘s responder to President Trump‘s State of the Union Address. He gave his full support to the gay-lesbian agenda which includes homosexual marriage. At the end of his rebuttal, he invoked the name of God and asked Him for His blessing on America. As a Catholic, he went against his own religion with his support of the gay agenda. He, or at least the Far Left and most of the Democratic Party are in favor of bringing in more Muslims from the Middle East. The Muslim religion makes them enemies of the homosexuals. We who belong to the Christian religion are quite tolerant of homosexuals. We don’t really care what they do in the privacy of their own bedrooms. We are willing to live and let live. Yet, many homosexuals still hate us. They bring lawsuits against Christian bakers to try to force them to bake same-sex wedding cakes for them.
Concerning the national debt, President Trump said nothing about this in his State of the Union Address. Yet this is the biggest worry our nation faces. Perhaps the tax cut will help create more jobs which will help pay for the national debt. Perhaps, as President Trump stated before, that we first need to rebuild our infrastructure that is badly in need of repair.
We seemed to be a nation not under God. We are one nation, but that‘s all. When we became one nation, the Constitution became the supreme law of the land. The Constitution says almost nothing about religion. That’s because religion use to be within the jurisdiction of the individual states. Therefore, with the Constitution as the supreme law of the land, the Supreme Court could rule that Bible reading in the classrooms was unlawful. This is the exact opposite of what our Founding Fathers envisioned. Our schools are now spiritually empty. “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” (Romans 3:8). And so we have abortion, divorce, murder, and school massacres.
CALIFORNIA WLDFIRES, CLIMATE CHANGE AND GOVERNOR BROWN
December 10, 2017 Sunday. Tonight, on 60 Minutes, Governor Brown was interviewed on 60 Minutes. He blamed the disastrous wildfires that are burning out of control around Los Angeles on President Donald Trump. He said President Trump is ignoring God’s Wrath by withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on protecting the environment. There was no time given to President Trump for a rebuttal. So the whole segment was one sided. Donald Trump would say that the Paris Agreement was also one sided. Besides that, he said we would be using clean coal.
Hopefully we will be using clean coal. We also have shale oil. In fact, we have more shale oil than all the oil that’s in both Russia and Saudi Arabia put together. Hopefully that also will be used so that it is environmentally friendly. We must fear God’s Wrath, as Governor Brown said, because the Bible states, “…and You should destroy them who destroy the earth.” (Revelation 11:18)
Perhaps Governor Brown should look at California’s policy on sanctuary for illegal immigrants. Statistics show that many of these fires are started by illegal immigrants from Mexico (according to Ann Coulter‘s book Adios, America!, Chapter 12, p. 196). Those are some of the ones who we should blame for “destroying the earth.”
We should try to work together to solve our problems rather fight each other. It’s been said that oil is too valuable to burn. There are many uses for oil such as in making nylons, plastics, and fertilizers. I think Governor Brown has the right idea in using solar panels. California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico and Texas have plenty of sunshine. And we have a lot room for these solar panels. We could place solar panels all along the side of our highways. We could also exploit the geo-thermal heat that we have in abundance.
Another problem we have is shortage of fresh water. California is showing the way in recycling its sewage to produce fresh water. We should also consider desalting sea water.
AMERICAN EMBASSY IN JERUSALEM, CAPITAL OF ISRAEL
December 8, 2017 Friday. Every night I pray for the Second Coming, the rebuilding f the temple in Jerusalem, and the moving the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. As of last Wednesday, my last prayer has been answered. President Trump has announced that the American embassy there will be moved to Jerusalem.
This is really no big deal except that Mr. Trump is finally carrying out his promise which he made during the presidential elections. After all, it’s what we should have done in the first place when Jerusalem was made the capital of Israel. Nations who have relations with us have their embassies in Washington, D.C., not in New York City. Supposedly we have our embassy for Brazil in the capital of Brazil, which is Brasilia, not in Rio de Janeiro. And yet, many of countries around the world have criticized this move as a threat to the stability to peace in the Middle East.
The moving of our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem will take four years. This means that Mr. Trump’s term of office will have come to an end before the embassy is finally relocated to Jerusalem. If there is another person--a Democrat, like Hillary--she may very well decide to keep the embassy in Tel Aviv rather than allow it to be moved to Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is called the apple of God’s eye. In the future, God will be jealous for Jerusalem and make it the greatest city in the world. It is my hope that the American embassy in Jerusalem will reflect glory of God and be a very beautiful building.
THE KATE STEINLE CASE - OUTRAGEOUS VERDICT
December 2, 2017 Saturday. “Nothing about Mr. Garcia Zarate’s ethnicity, nothing about his immigration status, nothing about the fact that he is born in Mexico had any relevance as to what happened on July 1, 2015,” the defense attorney said.
What happened on July 1, 2015 in San Francisco was that Kate Steinle was walking on a pier with her father and brother when she was shot in the back. She said she couldn’t breath. Soon after that, she died in her father’s arms.
The case has political overtones. The liberal media has hushed up the story as much as possible. I asked one of my liberal friends what he thought about Kate Steinle death. He doesn’t watch Fox News, so he never heard of Kate Steinle.
As to what the defense attorney said, if Garcia Zarate didn’t have a gun, Kate Steinle would still be alive. If Garcia Zarate had been in Mexico where he belongs, Kate Steinle would still be alive.
Liberal and far left politicians in San Francisco and Sacramento believe in open borders between the US and Mexico. They seem to be welcoming legal and illegal immigrants to take advantage of our welfare benefits. Then when they commit a felony, they seemingly are granted immunity from our laws. Their only punishment is deportation.
Donald Trump was elected president to put an end to this abuse of justice. Hopefully he will do exactly that. He has threatened to cut off federal funds to San Francisco which will persuade California city and state officials to protect American citizens as well as immigrants.
THE LAS VEGAS SHOOTINGS
October 3, 2017 Tuesday. “An act of pure evil” is how President Trump has described the worst massacre in US history that took 59 lives. We should not jump to conclusions until we get all the facts, but that’s what I did when I heard the news. I immediately thought it was an Islamic terror attack. After all, it’s what they have been doing in the past few years. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack. I thought Congress should declare war on Islam. But evidence seems to suggest that the shooter had no connection to any Islamic terrorist group. If that is true, then it is unsettling that Islamic terrorist groups do not have a monopoly on murderous atrocities. The shooter was a millionaire American who stockpiled several assault rifles with lots of ammunition. It goes against the politically correction accepted explanation that poverty is the chief reason for heinous crimes like these. The main reason for crimes like these and the spread of Islam is that we have rejected the God of the Bible and His Savior Jesus Christ. We are becoming more and more violent like in the days of Noah before the Flood.
SOUR GRAPES - THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
October 1, 2017 Sunday. The Bible says, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.” I wish to be called one of God’s children, so I have to be careful what I say about the NFL.
I’ve had some complaints about the NFL and the Buffalo Bills for many years now, as I am sure football fans around the country have about their team and the NFL.
One of my earliest complaints has been the football stadium in Orchard Park that use to be Rich Stadium but is now New Era Field. It replaced War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo which was built somewhere around 1930, and was nicknamed, “The Old Rock Pile.” The one that was suppose to replace the Rock Pile was to be built in Lancaster; and it was going to be a domed stadium. But Mr. Ralph C. Wilson, the owner of the Buffalo Bills, had some disagreement with the builder, and so the domed stadium was never built. Instead, an open-air stadium was built in Orchard Park, in what we call in Western New York “The Snow Belt.” To give you an idea of what the Snow Belt is like, I once went on a pleasure cruise in my car on Route 290 from north to south. It was a cloudy day in winter. North of Broadway, it was bone dry. But when I was somewhere south of Broadway, I was immediately in the middle of a snow storm. It was windy and the snow was coming down hard. I got off the expressway and got back on going north. When I went north of Broadway, there was suddenly no snow. Everything north of Broadway was bone dry. My car was covered with about an inch of snow. I felt somewhat embarrassed.
I am just as embarrassed that Western New York built a 78,000 seat open-air football-only stadium in the Snow Belt. The seating has been reduced in number down to 72,000 with the inclusion of luxury boxes. Those 72,000 seats are anything but luxury. I went to three games. Those seats are nothing more than aluminum benches with backs to them. When the weather gets cold, you have to bring a pillow or something to sit on. It does get cold at the stadium during wintertime. I asked a co-worker and friend of mine if he wanted to go to a Bills game with me when it was winter. His response was, “It‘s too cold.” Another time, one co-worker was going to a Bills game when it was winter. One of the girls gave him this advice, “Don‘t freeze you’re a-- off.” When I saw him again on Monday, I asked him how he enjoyed the game. He said he only stayed there for half of the game because it was cold.
The late Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson would rub salt in the wound when he gave his reason why attendance in the wintertime was so low. He said it was because Buffalo is a small market. Yeah, sure. We just can’t compare with giant megalopolises like Green Bay, Wisconsin. The NFL has more salt to rub in the wound. Just recently, after we spent several million dollars renovating the stadium, the NFL told us it wasn’t good enough to host a Super Bowl game. We need to have a dome stadium like the one that was suppose to have been built 45 years ago in Lancaster, they said. Our county executive said no. I agree with that statement even though I think it would be great for Buffalo to have a dome stadium. But what would become of the stadium we have now? Would it sit unused and rust away? My own suggestion--even greatest hope, fondest wish, and heartfelt prayer--is for New Era Field / Ralph C. Wilson Stadium / Rich Stadium to have a geodesic dome built around and over the stadium from the ground up, much like the American pavilion in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Spaceship Earth building at the EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, and the one at the South Pole in Antarctica. It would also be great if this dome was retractable like Roger Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Racism - As soon as the Colin Kaepernick became controversial, Hillary Clinton accused those of criticizing those who protested as being racists. This is because more that 70% of the players in the NFL are blacks. The NFL was formed in 1920. Black players were kept out of the NFL until 1946. After that, American football fans marveled at the accomplishments of their heroes like Jim Brown, Walter Peyton, and Jerry Rice. They played for OUR team. We loved them.
But now, they have turned against us. They are kneeling down or sitting down during the national anthem. They said it has to do with our country mistreating blacks and people of color.
What they seem to miss is that for the last eight years, this country has been under the administration of a black president who did absolutely nothing for the black people. And yet, most black people would gladly vote Obama to a third term if he was allowed. And Obama would again do absolutely nothing for them. One news commentator, Hannity, I believe, said that love for America is what binds us together. That may be true for half of Americans. We are a divided country. The thing that united us all was the NFL. We were all for OUR team. Now that is taken away from us.
“The Meek Don’t Inherit the NFL” That is what one sportswriter once wrote in the Buffalo newspaper. This is the opposite of what Jesus taught us in the Bible where he said, “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.” (Matthew 5:5)
Here are some more Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount that do not apply to the NFL:
1) “Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.” Players in the NFL seem to love to cheat. The deflated footballs the New England Patriots were using is one example. Several years ago, the Raiders used a play that they practiced on all week in which they would fumble the ball to each other until they got it into the end zone. Happily, cheating has been reduced by the use of instant replay and multi-angle cameras. Sometimes, however, teams try to defeat this piece of technology by running a new play before the old play can be challenged.
2) “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” That’s not how you make money in the NFL and the NHL. The NHL was losing viewers because it was so boring watching players skate around and back and forth in the ice rink. So they added fighting to the sport to bring back the fans. I can’t find any direct quotation, but the Armstrong church observed that the axiom of competitive sports seem to be, “If you hurt them enough, you win.”
This quotation is attributed to Red Saunders and Vince Lombardi: “Winning is not everything; it‘s the only thing.” The NFL has eliminated a lot brutality in the sport. In years gone by, we use to see spearing with the helmet and chop blocking which were designed to maim the opposing player.
3) Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.” This is quite laughable especially when the Bible says, “For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.” (Luke 6:45) What comes out of these NFL players many times is the filthy F word and spit. That spitting is disgusting. It is not casual spitting as though they had a cold and needed to clear the gunk out their mouths. It is deliberate contemptuous spitting that they do just when the camera focuses on them. Even the coaches do it. The white NHL is just as bad as the black NFL. A few years ago, I watched the goalie of the Stanley Cup champions turn his head and spit just as the cameras and microphones came before him to interview him. Any player who spits should be fined $5,000. This is prime time - family time on our living room TV sets. It should not be allowed.
When I was in the 3rd grade at Holy Name, the science book we were using had a little side note in italics that said spitting causes tuberculosis. I tried to verify this on the Internet. Here is one item from the UK that I found
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/spitting-on-the-street-spreads-disease-6300837.html
If this article is true, then spitting is not only a bad example to our youngsters, it is a health menace.
Long Hair - Some players in the NFL wear their hair down below their shoulders. The Bible says in I Corinthians 11:14, “Does not nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame to you?” The Armstrong Church told everyone that Jesus did not have long hair by pointing this scripture out. It surprises me that the NFL allows its players to have long hair. The Army would not allow its soldiers to have long hair. But I guess the NFL is not the Army. You can’t even see the names on the back of their jerseys because its covered with long hair. Why bother having their names on their jerseys if you can’t read it?
Long Hair - Some players in the NFL wear their hair down below their shoulders. The Bible says in I Corinthians 11:14, “Does not nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame to you?” The Armstrong Church told everyone that Jesus did not have long hair by pointing this scripture out. It surprises me that the NFL allows its players to have long hair. The Army would not allow its soldiers to have long hair. But I guess the NFL is not the Army. You can’t even see the names on the back of their jerseys because its covered with long hair. Why bother having their names on their jerseys if you can’t read it?
Kneeling - When a man goes down and kneels on one knee, it’s usually when he asks a woman for her hand in marriage. These NFL players have taken something that is holy, humble and beautiful and turned it into what is now evil, proud, and ugly.
Cheerleaders - When you look at the sidelines of New Era Field / Ralph C. Wilson Jr. / Rich Stadium in Orchard Park, New York, it’s not what you see, it’s what you don’t see. You don’t see are the Buffalo Jills -- the cheerleaders of the Buffalo Bills. That’s because they are on strike. They are on strike because they want to be treated as employees of the Buffalo Bills organization. They’ve been on strike for three years now. From what I’ve read on their web site, they’ve won a recent court case, and we may soon see them again back on the sidelines of Sunday home games. I am so happy for them! They are so pretty! It’s not just me who thinks they are pretty. When I was working at one company, this one lady was bragging that her brother’s girl friend is a Buffalo Jill, and she is beautiful. At other company I worked for, one guy named Jeff was saying that he went to the ballgame and was watching the Jills. He said in a loud voice, “They are beautiful!”
The Bible has a few things to say about beauty. One of the sort of negative things the Bible says about beauty is in Proverbs 31:30, Revised Standard Version, which says, “Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” Beauty is vain, says Solomon. He had 1000 wives and concubines, some, if not most, or even all of them were beautiful. Yet that’s what he says about beautiful women. He might have meant that their beauty doesn’t last forever. We all get old and gray and not as good looking as we use to be.
Beauty can be used for either good or evil. In the Bible, Solomon took wives from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, and of the Hittites who turned his heart to idolatry. As a result, the kingdom was split in two--Israel and Judah. The two kingdoms often fought each other. They were both eventually conquered by their enemies. The Book of Esther starts out with king of Persia summoning his wife Queen Vashti to show off her beauty. In her pride, she refused his order. She was therefore removed as queen. A beauty contest was held in which the beautiful Jewish woman Esther became the new queen of Persia. She saved her people from their enemy Haman who planned to destroy all the Jewish people in the Persian Empire. Beauty is not that critical in the NFL, but it is welcomed. After all, we built the stadiums to watch the football players, not the cheerleaders.
Buffalo is not the only team without cheerleaders. There’s also the New York Giants, the Cleveland Browns, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Chicago Bears. The Pittsburgh Steelers use to have cheerleaders but let them go in 1969. One source said the owners were too religious to have scanty-clad women on the field. Another source said that management didn’t want the cheerleaders because the Steelers are macho. They don’t need cheerleaders. The Chicago Bears let go of their cheerleaders -- the Chicago Honey Bears -- in 1985 because some of them along with a few from the other teams posed topless for Playboy Magazine. Before the Playboy incident, TV cameras would show the cheerleaders on the sidelines waving, smiling and dancing. After the incident, the showing of cheerleaders was taboo. Cheerleaders were considered “dirty”. Even today, TV cameras are very shy about showing us folks at home the cheerleaders. They might show them close up from the neck up.
In some ways, they are dirty. One of the ex-cheerleaders of the Chicago Honey Bears said that when they chanted, “Go all the way,” it was obvious. It meant something else besides getting a touchdown. And on this one Thursday night football game I was watching, it seemed the cheerleaders were in the same position a center is in just before he long hikes the ball to the punter.
So the TV camera were off the cheerleaders and were instead on the players and coaches who were spitting and swearing. Or else they were on the fans in the stands.
In Dallas, the cheerleaders are just as famous as the players. Their uniforms are, as one Buffalo Jill put it, winners. They are one of kind, all right. Unfortunately, it copied in one form or another by the cheerleaders of the other teams. Some think that the way to beat it is by having fewer threads and more skin. Most guys seem to preferred that kind of outfit. I prefer the more conventional outfits. Back in 1981, my mother and I, and two friends attended the Monday Night Football game at Rich Stadium with the Bills playing the Dolphins. The uniforms the Jills were wearing consisted of their white boots, red bikini bottoms, and red jackets. Mom didn’t like the bikinis bottoms. She said, “They should wear a short skirt.”
Yes, Mom! A short skater skirt, Mom! With sneakers and socks rather than boots.
Having a squad of NFL cheerleaders is an honor to each of our communities. The NFL players are recruited from all across the country. Hardly any of the players play for their hometown. But the Buffalo Jills are local gals and do come from the Buffalo area.
One of my teachers at Kensington High School told the class that being a cheerleader is a great big asset to a young woman’s job search. Employers are really impressed when they see on a young woman’s resume that she has been a cheerleader.
NFL cheerleaders represent their respective teams and communities. They could help to unite the country by participating in a dance party where they could sing and shake hands with each other.
One thing I would wish they would do. Every Thanksgiving Day, six teams will be playing. If and when the TV cameras show the cheerleaders, I would like them to do more than just smile and say, “We’re number one.” I would like them to say, “Happy Thanksgiving Day,” to all the folks at home. The same for Christmas, New Years, and maybe Hanukah.
“Our product is football” - This statement is not a problem, but it is an incorrect one that I remember 45 years ago when the Buffalo Bills were putting up a fuss about naming the stadium. Rich Products, which is a Buffalo company that manufactures coffee creamers and other dairy sweets, wanted to name the stadium, “Coffee Rich Stadium,” after their coffee creamer Coffee Rich Creamer. After much bickering, Rich Products agreed to drop the word “Coffee,” and settled for naming the new stadium “Rich Stadium.” The statement, “Our product is football” is incorrect because professional football is not a product. The Buffalo Bills do not make footballs. Their business is a service. And that service is entertainment. Their entertainment is professional football. Cheerleading is almost the same. It is a service; and that service is entertainment. Both football and cheerleading are two types of entertainment.
Praying - The Bible says, “Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (I Thessalonians 5:17-18). I can’t argue about that except it doesn’t look right when a God-fearing NFL football player goes down on one knee and bows his head and humbly thanks God for 8 or 10 seconds for the wonderful touchdown he scored while his teammates are jumping up and down celebrating around him. It’s just a game. It’s not a time to show worship to God. That can wait a few seconds when the player returns to the sidelines. He might raise his arms and say, “Thank you, God!” as soon as he scores the touchdown.
As Solomon would say, “To every thing there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven. …a time to embrace, a time to refrain from embracing. …” Ecclesiastes 2:5. The time when you score a touchdown is NOT a time when you refrain from embracing, from laughing, from celebrating.
Prayer should be something private. As Jesus said, “When you pray, enter into your closet and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father which is in secret, and your Father which sees in secret shall reward you openly.” Matthew 6:6. Even so, I am in favor of school prayer and opening prayers--just as it says in Proverbs 3:6, “In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.”
Fake - Fixed - Rigged Football - Throughout the history of the Buffalo Bills, it seems like they usually ended up with the short end of the stick. We Bills fans would often blame the owner Ralph Wilson for being so cheap and not going after the good players to make the Buffalo Bills a really great team. The Buffalo Bills have been consistent losers. Against the Miami Dolphins, they own the longest losing streak in the history of the NFL. Their losing ways seem to fit a predictable pattern--no matter how well they do, they lose in the end. Their losing ways could also be blamed on bad calls from the referees. In one case, a Miami Dolphin offensive player was guilty of holding a Bills defensive player who would have made a decisive tackle. Films of the play not only show the Dolphin player guilty of holding, he actually tackled the Bills guy from behind. But there was no penalty called even though the referee was standing next to and looking at the two players. The Bills player even protested to the official while he was on the ground in the arms of the Dolphin player; but the referee refused to throw his flag. Losing was so common for the Bills that it seemed like it was part of their game plan. If fact, I don’t think it’s a possibility, I am sure of it., In overtime against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Bills were certain winners when quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick lobbed a beautiful spiral pass into the end zone. As the ball sailed through the air, I was absolutely certain that it was NOT the winning play. A lowly, pathetic team like the Buffalo Bills just doesn’t win the game that easily against the mighty Pittsburgh Steelers. Stevie Johnson was right under the ball and had it in his hands, but he dropped it. The Bills had to punt the ball to Pittsburgh. The Steelers muscled their way on the ground into the end zone and won the game. As for Stevie Johnson, he was in a corner all by himself feeling really down. Yeah, sure. And the announcers were saying that he should just shake it off and just go on and play the best he can. Baloney! He dropped that ball on purpose. None of the announcers or sportswriters said it was fake football. Well, I’m saying it. Football is rigged. For the sake of the odds makers and the stockbrokers, certain teams have to win and certain teams have to lose. The players today are making so much money that it doesn’t make much difference to them whether they win or lose.
One other example of fake football is Super Bowl 49 between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. I was for the New England Patriots, so I can’t be accused of being a sore loser. It was near the end of the game. Deion Sanders called it the worst call in Super Bowl history. I call it the stupidest thing I ever saw. The Seattle Seahawks only had to keep the ball on the ground and let the clock run out to win the game. But they elected to throw the ball which ended up being intercepted by New England. New England went on to score and win the game. That is my best example of fixed football.
STILL AT WAR WITH NORTH KOREA?
September 22, 2017 Friday. It is often said that the war in Korea that started in 1950 never ended. No peace treaty was ever signed. So, technically speaking, we are still at war. Well, technically speaking, there never was a war in Korea in 1950. Nobody declared war on anyone. The same was true in Vietnam. The Vietnam War was our longest war, yet we never declared war on North Vietnam or the Viet Cong.
But we did sign a peace treaty that supposedly ended the Vietnam War. American troops were withdrawn. Then North Vietnamese troops poured in and captured the capital city of South Vietnam (Saigon). Which means that a peace treaty means nothing. Peace depends on you being strong enough to enforce peace on your enemy--not a piece of paper. Neville Chamberlain found that out the hard way. After he signed a peace treaty with Hitler, the Germany army which had seized half of Czechoslovakia, took over the rest of Czechoslovakia.
DOES NORTH KOREA HAVE GOOD REASON FOR GOING NUCLEAR?
September 21, 2017 Thursday. There’s an argument that North Korea has a legitimate reason for arming itself with intercontinental ballistic missiles and thermonuclear warheads. It has been noted that President Kaddafi of Libya complied with our demands to disarm. Though he met with our demands, he was still killed. Thus, Kim Jong Un has a good reason for arming himself with nuclear weapons. Is this true? If this is true, why haven’t we heard from Kim Jong Un explain that to us? I do not believe this the reason why North Korea is arming itself with nuclear weapons. Back in 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. There were no American troops in South Korea. This was naked aggression and an attempt to unite all of Korea under communist rule through military force.
PRAY FOR FLORIDA
September 7, 2017 Thursday. The USA seems to be the target again of a super massive hurricane that is soon to strike the Florida Keys and march northward right through the entire length of the Florida penisula, then through Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia. The area around Houston is still suffering from the floods brought about by Hurricane Harvey. The total economic fallout from this storm is still to be felt. Not only do we have to look after the people who were made homeless by Harvey, but the prices at the gas pumps are suppose to go up because of damage to the oil refineries in southern Texas. And now we have a super storm that is to wreak destruction on nearly the entirety of Florida. Our President Trump should call on the whole nation to ask God for his mercy and not let the people of Florida suffer from this horrendous storm. Our own pastors and ministers should lead us to pray for God’s mercy.
THOUGHTS ABOUT IRMA AND THE FUTURE OF FLORIDA
September 8, 2017 Friday. As I watch the news on TV seeing the people of Florida trying to evacuate their state, I am feeling the frustrations of millions of Americans in what seems like a hopeless situation. There are millions of cars using the highway and they are going nowhere. By nowhere, I mean traffic is crawling at a very slow 5 mph. Why? What’s the hold up? Is there a solution to this problem? Can we learn from this calamity? In such an emergency as this, there are two courses of action that can be taken. You can either stay home and tough it out and hope for the best, or you can pack your car, head for the highway, and get stuck in traffic. Name your poison.
Our highway systems were built for mass transit and interstate commerce. They obviously were not built for mass evacuation. Perhaps we should train ourselves to be better prepare for mass evacuations. A few practice drills every so often might be very helpful. Florida’s airports were shut down. Rather than shut them down, we might use them for evacuation. Also, our railroad system should be use for mass evacuation. We need to seriously think about these things.
There are predictions based on scientific data that Florida and other lowlands in Texas, Louisiana and other parts of the southeast USA are sinking under the ocean due to climate change and the brutal assaults of these super hurricanes. This a a tremendous loss of valuable real estate (family homes, businesses), farmland, and national territory. What is to be done about this? Is anyone thinking about these things? Is anyone coming up with any answers?
I have one or two suggestions: 1) President Trump wants to build The Wall. I think we should consider building The Dike. The Dike would extend 20 miles out from our current southeast shoreline. It would start from the Texas-Mexican border at Brownsville. It would go along the Texas coastline, the Louisiana coastline, the Alabama-Mississippi coastline, around the entire Florida coastline including The Keys. The Dike would go along the Georgia coastline, the Carolinas coastline, the Virginia coastline, the Maryland-Delaware coastline, the New Jersey coastline, the Long Island coastline, across the Long Island Sound to Rhode Island, around the Massachusetts coastline, along the New Hampshire coastline, and along the Maine coastland to the Maine-Canadian border.
Can we really build The Dike? God says we can. In Genesis 11:6, God was watching mankind building the Tower of Babel, and he said, “…now NOTHING will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do.” It’s not likely that will happen. That would be too expensive. An alternative might be to enclose portions of the lowlands--just like New Orleans is protected by levees and pumps. This is what we have to do in places like Miami, Tampa and even New York City.
For now, I think we need for pumps and generators for cities like New Orleans. We should have plenty of backup pumps and generators in case some of them fail. Another thing we should have is what California is now doing. They are purifying or recycling their sewage so that they will have more drinkable water rather than waste pollution.
Another suggestion I have concerns controlling of the weather. We seem to be able to predict where Hurricane Irma was going to hit even while it was still in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We knew it would hit the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rica, Cuba, and then go north straight up the Florida peninsula. If we can predict where a hurricane is going to go, can’t we steer it to where it won’t do any harm like in the Sahara Desert or Antarctica?
HURRICANE HARVEY
August 26, 2017 Saturday. My prayers go out to the Corpus Christi - Galveston - Houston area in south Texas. I have some friends and relatives who live in that part of the country. I pray for their safety as well as for all those people living in Texas and Louisiana.
Is God punishing Texas and the U.S. for some terrible sin or sins? One Bible minister (I think it was the Christian Jew Foundation) said that whenever we do something wrong to Israel, and Jerusalem in particular, God immediately punishes us for it. There were several examples given of wrong actions taken on Israel in one part of a newspaper, then on the front page was the story of a great hurricane hitting the USA. I am not sure if I have the right answer, but the recent resignations of Steve Bannon and Sabastian Gorka from the Trump Administration might the reason for this hurricane. These two men were supposedly pro-Israel and anti-Muslim in their views. I know Sebastian Gorka is very pro-Israel and an expert on Islamic terrorism.
I also feel Mr. Trump is shifting a favorable policy away from Israel and more and more towards the Arabs. He is becoming more and more like George Bush the Younger who declared Islam to be a religion of peace only two days after the 9/11 attacks. He has allowed American jets and arms to be shipped to the Arab states of Qatar and Saudi Arabia. He has delayed or even cancelled the moving of the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He has promised to drain the swamp in Washington, yet he is leaving many anti-Israel Obama holdovers in the government and the military.
Here's an article that was just published in Israel Breaking News today (August 28, 2017):
https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/93902/hurricane-harvey-divine-reaction-latest-us-mid-east-peace-push/?utm_source=Breaking+Israel+News&utm_campaign=f797c85e34-BIN_morning_8_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b6d3627f72-f797c85e34-86578021&mc_cid=f797c85e34&mc_eid=81dad859c6#UISOz3cKtSJu37mK.97
Besides praying, I wish there were other things that could be done to fight or even take advantage of super storms like these. Couldn’t we build wind generators to harness the power of these hurricanes to provide electricity for our needs? And couldn’t we build pumps and pipelines to carry water away from coastal lowlands to the arid regions of west Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada? Sometimes praying isn’t enough. Mr. Beer, the man who became the Armstrong church minister in Buffalo after Mr. Sell left town, commented on what Jesus said about having faith as small as small as a mustard seed. He said, “…you could say to this mountain, ‘Remove hence to yonder place,’ and it shall be moved, and nothing shall be impossible to you.” (Matthew 17:20). Mr. Beer explained that if he wanted a mountain moved from one place to another, and he had good reason to move the mountain from one place to another, he would get himself a bulldozer and a dump truck and dig up the mountain and haul it away until it was completely removed. He backed up this statement by quoting the Apostle James who said, “Faith without works is dead.” (James 2:17)
May God open our hearts to help the unfortunate citizens of Texas who even now are suffering from this monstrous hurricane.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
August 18, 2017 Wednesday. Protests and riots have broken out in in the city of Charlottesville, Virginia. There has been one death. Among the rioters were White Surpremists, the Klu Klux Klan, and Nazis. In the aftermath of these riots came the call for more laws against hate speech, more clamping down on hate groups, and better law enforcement. Only a few voices were heard calling for the return to Christian values and the fear of God. That is the really permanent solution this ugly problem of racism.
THE SIMPSON PARDON
July 23, 2017 Sunday. O.J. Simpson received a pardon for his crime of breaking, entering and stealing his own memorabilia. He will be released on November the 1st.
The larger issue everyone every one has on their minds is the brutal stabbing murder of his wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. I was at work in the office on the day of the verdict back in 1995. We were all gathered around the TV set when O.J. was declared not guilty on all charges. Then I heard one young woman let out a cheer, “YE-AHHH!!!”. I looked to see where that was coming from. In a large group of young white women sitting on the floor in front of the TV, there was one young black woman sitting in their midst who was happy. I looked at her with anger in my eyes. One of the lady supervisors escorted her safely out of the room.
I asked Sandy, one of the girls who was hired at about the same time as I was, “If he didn’t do it, then who did it? The prosecuting attorney said they had no intention of investigating the case any further. All the evidence they collected points to O.J. as the only suspect. OJ’s actions in the aftermath of the murders were not those of an innocent man. He was running away from the police in his Bronco vehicle. He was pointing a gun at his head and threatening to shoot himself.
Did O.J. Simpson really kill Nicole and Ron? Most whites say he did. Most blacks say he didn’t; and they are happy that O.J. won his case in court. It was an “us versus them” mentality. The same situation existed among the members of the jury. The black members said O.J. was not guilty and said they would still vote “not guilty” today. From what I’ve read, one of the said to the ones who thought O.J. might be guilty that they could vote “not guilty” and go home now or they could stay in court forever.
The Constitution of the United States guarantees that a person charged with a crime is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law tried by his/her peers. One common expression we have in the USA is that if you want a trial by jury, it means you are guilty. And if you are tried by jury, you will usually be found “not guilty.“
He may not be guilty of murder, but in another trial, he was convicted of wrongful death for which he was sued $58 million.
In the Bible, there is no mention of jurors. At least two witnesses are needed to sentence anyone to death for the crime of murder. So in spite of the heinousness of the crime, O. J. Simpson would not suffer death if he were found guilty of murder because there were no witnesses. He could only be sentence to life in prison according to the Bible.
THE UNITED STATES SPACE FORCE
July 9, 2017 Sunday. After midnight, I was watching Gutfeld and three other Fox News hosts discuss the need for a new federal government agency or branch of the military that would be known as the United States Space Force or Space Corps. The US Air Force is opposed to this idea. They think outer space is their realm of defense. I believe they are right. The discussion, however, turned into satire and sarcasm when it was also suggested that we may need a US Underground Force. This issue of weapons in space needs to be taken seriously and not left in the hands of comedians and funny men like Greg Gutfeld. For one thing, there is Communist Red China that moving rapidly in all areas of the military. They were disallowed from participating in the International Space State Project because they are too military. So now, they are planning their own space station which will probably employ the latest in space technology weaponry. They have built a man made island in the South China Sea and claimed sovereignty over that man made island and all of the South China Sea. Along with all that, one of their military generals said several years ago that their goal is the extermination of all people on the continents of Australia and North America, and then to incorporate them into China Proper and colonize them with their own people. They have never renounced their ambitions. They have plans to send men to the moon and also establish bases there on the moon. They also have plans to send men to Mars. It is my opinion that they will establish colonies on the moon and Mars and claim them as their own--just as they claim the South China Sea as their own--and wish to claim Australia and North America as their own. We must do everything we can to thwart their ambitions. We have no choice if we wish to continue into the 22nd century.
THOUGHTS ABOUT OTTO WARMBIER
June 20, 2017 Tuesday.
I don’t know Otto Warmbier. All I know is that he was an American college student, age 21, who went to North Korea, presumably stole a poster, was sentenced for 15 years, and who died after spending 1 year and a half in prison.
It reminds me of when I was in Kensington High School. I walked into my History class one day and was immediately attracted to a bright red Nazi flag hanging on the front wall. Our teacher, Mr. Millard, told us the story behind that flag. He said the guy who brought it back from Austria which was under Hitler’s Regime almost lost his life. As he reached out to grab the flag, he was shot in the side by a rife bullet. He, fortunately, survived his injury and was allowed to take the flag home as a souvenir.
You have to wonder about people who do crazy things like that. Some would say they asked for it. I still feel sorry for him. I wished our medical people could have saved his life.
June 21, 2017 Wednesday.
Joseph Stalin once said that when one person dies, it’s a tragedy. When a million people die, it’s a statistic. That seems to be the way I feel now. Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice complained about the United Nations doing absolutely nothing about the 250 Christian children who were kneaded into dough last October 2016. I certainly care. But what’s 250? It’s just a number whereas Otto Warmbier is a name. He was young 22 year-old man. He was a college student. We know where he lived. We know what his phone number was. We know his father’s name. We have pictures of Otto and his father.
June 22, 2017 Thursday. Otto’s father blames Obama for doing nothing. Obama told him to stay quiet in order to not to upset the North Koreans. Obama is either inept or uncaring. I think he is uncaring--just as he is pro abortion. A pro abortion guy cares nothing about the person who lives outside the womb anymore than he care about the unborn baby inside the womb.
June 23, 2017 Friday. After Otto Warmbier died, John McCain said that North Korea committed an act of murder. In Genesis 9:6, after the Flood, God said, “Whoever sheds man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.”
It’s hard to tell what we should do according to the Bible. King David punished the people of Ammon when they disgraced his servants who were sent to paid honor to their new king. But Otto Warmbier wasn’t send by our government to North Korea.
Our U.S. government tries to protect it’s citizens even when they travel abroad overseas. But there is only so much we can do. It would have been half way decent of North Korea to demand the U.S. or the family of Otto Warmbier pay a fine for stealing a poster, and then, once the fine was paid, to let him go. But North Korea is a brutal nation. They often initiate skirmishes (artillery shellings) with South Korea along the border. They stole our spy ship the USS Pueblo and tortured its crew. 60 Minutes told how they have strict laws that send many of their own people to prison. Once they are in prison, they seldom get out alive. Their dictatorship spends a large percentage of their national wealth on military weapons. As a result, many of their people are starving.
May God have mercy on the people of North Korea and rid them soon of their evil wretched government. May he send Our Lord Jesus to bring freedom, real peace, and prosperity to North Korea as well as to the rest of the world. “Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” (Revelation 22: 20)
June 14, 2017 Wednesday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP!!!
Hoping that you have a great day in making America great again! God bless you with His Holy Spirit of love, strength, wisdom, knowledge, and courage.
LONDON BRIDGE ATTACKS
June 4, 2017 Sunday. Last Saturday night, Muslim terrorists struck England again. One of them was running over pedestrians in a van on the London Bridge. Three Muslim terrorists were attacking shoppers on nearby Borough Market with knives. The total number of casualties was 7 dead and 48 wounded. The death toll may rise because 21 of the wounded were critically injured. All 4 of the Muslim terrorists were killed by armed policemen.
June 5, 2017 Monday. We know they were Muslim terrorists because one of them said, “This is for Islam,” just before he stuck a knife into one guy. Some of the shoppers thought it was all a joke until he saw the blood. It was no joke.
The terrorist group ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks. They are happy to bring fear into the heart of Britain.
Last week, one of the residents of Manchester said in the aftermath of the attack, “Life goes on.” Life goes on, such as it is, according to Captain Picaard of the United Star Ship Enterprise on Star Trek TNG episode, “The Royale.” We have to simply get use to an occasional terrorist act now and then. Hopefully, there won’t be too many of them. And, if we’re lucky, none of us or our loved ones will be injured or killed. It’s just driving a car or flying in an airplane. We take our chances and hope for the best. If it happens, maybe it will happen to somebody else.
Prime Minister Theresa May called for tougher measures to fight Islamic extremism. Alas, yes. England use to be such a peaceful society. Its policemen were unarmed. But now they brought in all these Muslims from “the religion of peace.” They’ve brought wolves into the sheep pen. So now they have to get tough. They have to arm themselves.
My question is: How much of this senseless, insane violence from the Muslim World are we in the Western World going to take before we say, “Enough is enough.” Or are we just going to learn to live with it? The Bible seems to indicate that the West will reach a point where we will actually go to war with the Muslim World for supporting terrorists like ISIS. In the Book of Daniel, it says, “And at the time of the end shall the king of the South (Saudi Arabia?) push at him. And the king of the North shall come against him like a whirlwind with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. And he shall enter into the countries and shall overflow and pass over.” Daniel 11:40
THE MANCHESTER BOMBING
May 23, 2017 Tuesday. Nineteen young people were killed and 50 people were injured by a suicide bomber in Manchester, England last night at an Ariana Grande concert around 10 PM their time. This follows President Trump’s visit to his first foreign country, Saudi Arabia, since his election. Mr. Trump made a speech there pleading for the leaders of the Muslim religion to try to get to the root of this problem concerning terrorism and violent radical Islam.
The root cause of most terrorist acts and violent “radical” Islam is the second half of the Koran which contains verses such as killing the infidel, the Jew, and the Christian. This half of the Koran must be deleted and not ever to be read again. The civilized world must not tolerate the violent teachings of Islam anymore.
I am jumping to conclusions by assuming that the suicide bomber who committed this unspeakable crime was a Muslim. But it seems this type of violence is rather typical of Islamic jihadists whose beliefs are that killing and being killed for Allah will bring them great happiness in paradise.
We can only be thankful that security measures were in place at the Manchester concert which prevented many more deaths from taking place. We pray for the families of those who were lost in that tragedy.
May 24, 2017 Wednesday. My suspicions were confirmed that the suicide bomber of the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester was a Muslim. His name was Salman Abedi. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the atrocity, and they are even rejoicing over the carnage. And the carnage now stands at 22 dead.
President Trump calls the jihad terrorists “losers.” Are the jihad terrorists “losers.” Yes and no. I say “no” that the Manchester bomber was a winner because he was one just man and he killed 22 people and injured 47 other people. I say he was a winner because he brought fear, humiliation and disruption. Ariana Grande cancelled the rest of her world tour because she was broken. Perhaps ISIS can do this to her again or to any performer who plans a world tour. This means more security is needed for each and every rock concert that attracts large crowds. Increased security means more money which is added to the price of the tickets for these concerts. More security also means more inconvenience for the average patron who must undergo more thorough searching to ensure the safety of all attendees.
I say “yes” that the jihad terrorists are losers because their reward is not 72 virgins in paradise for their “martyrdom.” They are murderers. The New Testament apostles have a few things to says about murderers:
1) Paul says in I Corinthians 6:9 “Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God?"
2) In Galatians 5:19,21, Paul says, “Now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these: ….MURDERS…of which I tell you before as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God."
3) The John says in I John 3:15, “Whoever hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no MURDERER has eternal life abiding in him.”
4) This is what happens to murderers according Revelation 21:8, “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and MURDERERS…shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death."
May 25, 2017 Thursday. President Trump won’t say the M-O-N-S-T-E-R word. That’s what he said in his speech in Saudi Arabia. He said he doesn’t want jihadi terrorists to be honored, glorified and embolden by such a name. I think the word “monster” suits these jihadis just fine. It is something like Hitler. It is a mass murderer of defenseless women and children. What else do you call someone or something that wants to kill you? who wants to give you as much pain and suffering as he / it possibly can? A monster, that’s what. What do you call a person who starves a woman almost to death, and then feeds her a bowl of stew that what’s left of her little son? A monster, that’s what. What do you call someone who hold a woman’s private so that she can’t urinate and so that she explodes inside? A monster, that’s what. What do you call someone who marries a 9-year old girl, takes her to bed and kills her sexually by tearing up her insides? A crazy monster, that’s what. And what do you call a person who straps a bomb filled with nails and kills 22 young people, including a beautiful 8-year girl, at an Ariana Grande rock concert in Manchester, England? A goddamn crazy monster, that’s what.
JAMES COMEY
May 12, 2017 Friday. The firing of Director of the FBI James Comey by President Trump was shocking news to everyone. The way James Comey received the news of his firing (by announcement over TV news) has made this event even more distasteful. I am not happy at all about this action. There are some who are now saying that Mr. Trump fired James Comey just as he was beginning to investigate Mr. Trump’s supposed interference or rigging of the presidential elections. However, many of the agents in FBI are happy that James Comey is gone. Some of them have resigned when he went before the nation to list all the federal violations made by Hillary Clinton by downloading secret and classified information into her personal server; he then simply dismissed all the evidence against her and would not press any charges.
THE NEW PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
May 9, 2017 Tuesday. President Donald Trump congratulated the newly elected president of France Emmanuel Macron. Mr. Macron is 39 and the youngest man ever to be French president. Other than that, conservatives, such as ConservativeHQ, are not happy that he is the new leader of France. They say Macron’s election spells doom for France and French culture. They quote Macron as saying that there is no French culture. It is believed that Macron plans to Islamize the educational system of France, and thus turn France into a Muslim nation.
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/25622
GOODBYE BILL
April 20, 2017 Thursday. Bill O’Reilly of Fox News was one of my favorite news reporters and commentators. I think my favorite is Sean Hannity because he is more conservative and is less hesitant to endorse a good conservative candidate. Bill was let go by Fox News because of the sexual harassment of five women. If you are raised a good Catholic and Christian, that is something you shouldn’t do. Bill Clinton probably did worse. Maybe, maybe not, I don’t know. He paid something like $7 or 13 million in settlements. For that kind of money, it must have been more than just leering at a black girl and calling her “Hot Chocolate.” Whatever he did, it angered many advertisers so that they refused to sponsor his show.
The Factor goes on without Bill O’Reilly with Dana and Eric filling in. My personal choice for a permanent replacement would be a pretty lady. I am sorry to see Megan Kelly leave. I miss her and hope that Fox News will have someone as good looking as her on in her place.
April 23, 2017 Sunday. The Tea Party and other conservative groups claim Bill O’Reilly was fired unfairly. They say Fox News is becoming more liberal and does not want conservative talk hosts on their network anymore. If that is true, Bill O’Reilly should state his case and tell us that he is not guilty. This does fit in with Bible prophecy in which “…the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.” (II Timothy 4:3)
NO WIN WAR
April 15, 2017 Saturday. The missile attack of Tuesday, April 4th on an air base in Syria was in defense of humanity, as Mr. Trump described it. The people who suffered from these saran poison gas bombings are grateful to America that they are spared more of these horrific and Nazi-like poisonings. I’m sure we in the USA are happy to help them out. But don’t look at them as friends.
Looks like this video is gone, too.
This video shows what happens when these hapless Syrians who are poison gassed by Assad’s force flee to the West and take up residence in America.
In time frame 1-40, we see that the typical American neighborhood has been changed to an Arab / Muslim culture. The American businesses were driven out, and the Muslims took over.
In time frame 2:00, we see a car going by with one guy and his three wives. Polygamy is not allowed in the USA. But we see it with our own eyes in this video in Dearborn, Michigan. They apply for government assistance, and live at taxpayer’s expense. It is no surprise that they vote for Obama and other Democratic politicians who give them all their benefits. In return, the Muslims give them their votes.
They cheat the welfare system. They apply for and receive Medicare benefits while owning the latest cars and living in houses worth $250,000. That’s a quarter of a million dollars.
In time frame 2:43, we learn that immigrants from the Middle East represent the fastest growing group, and that Obama has taken in more Middle Eastern immigrants than from Mexico and Central America. Seven million Syrians have applied to come here as refugees. The total population of Syria is about 19 million. That means over one-third of the people of Syria want to move to the United States.
Time frame 4:30, “You never see American flags?” The driver responds, “Never. Never.” To be fair, we don’t see too many American flags flying from American homes unless it’s a national holiday. But I believe you won’t see any American flags flying from Muslim homes in Dearborn, Michigan on the Fourth of July. From what I’ve read, the celebration of Independence Day is discouraged in the Muslim-populated areas of America because the tail end of Ramadan takes place around July 4th, and we don’t want to offend Muslims by celebrating Independence Day on their holy days of Ramadan.
Time frame 4:35, “The Muslim community does not blend in with American society. “
Time frame 4:50, “Do not assimilate with the Americans. They are your enemies.” If we are their enemies, then they are our enemies. What are they doing in our country?
PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE
April 15, 2017 Saturday. A confrontation appears to be forming between North Korea and the United States over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and testing. These are against international law. If we are to punish North Korea for violating international law, we need to destroy all their nuclear weapons and they entire nuclear weapons production facilities. Such an action may require extensive damage to North Korea’s other defensive facilities such as radar, and anti-aircraft guns.
It is not a well-kept secret that North Korea has all of its cannons and missiles aimed at South Korea. The capital city of Seoul, in particular, is in the sights of North Korea’s heavy guns. It would seem imperative that the amount of damage North Korea inflicts on Seoul and the rest of South Korea should be kept to a minimum as much as possible. So I would think a first strike on North Korea would be necessary in order to achieve this desired goal.
A pre-emptive strike was thought about 72 years ago back in years just after World War II. America had the atomic bomb. Russia stole the secrets to it and started making atomic bombs. Winston Churchill urged a pre-emptive strike to take out Russia’s nuclear weapons. But we didn’t agree. So now more nations have nuclear weapons. And to defend ourselves, we must have escalation, which means more nuclear weapons. We’ve spent billions and even trillions of dollars building up our nuclear arsenal and our nuclear deterrent. What a waste of money! Finally, we have international laws that make it a crime for other nations like North Korea to possess nuclear weapons and to threaten us with them.
MISSILE ATTACK ON SYRIA
April 12, 2017 Wednesday. Last week Tuesday, President Trump ordered two U.S. Navy destroyers to launch 60 missiles, 59 of which hit the Syrian air base from which sarin gas was dropped on innocent civilians including 25 children. The missiles destroyed 20 Syrian aircraft. Mr. Trump also gave a warning that stronger action would be taken if chemical and poison gas weapons were used again.
Most of the world applauds President Trump’s action. He gave a 40 minute warning so that those in the target area could flee to safety. No troops were involved, so no America lives were lost.
It was a decisive attack which sent a clear message to the world that America has the might and the power to enforce international law. Moreover, with Mr. Trump (rather than Obama) sitting in the White House, we have the will to use that power.
NO CHOO CHOO?
March 23, 2017 Thursday. I was listening to Tom Bauerly on WBEN AM radio yesterday. He was talking about ending passenger rail travel. Specifically, he mentioned the abandoned Central Railway Station on Paderewski Drive in Buffalo. There have been talk, from time to time, of reviving the old station as an alternative to tearing it down.
I am one of those who would like to see the station renovated and put to use. However, that may be impossible because the difference in the population of Erie County today compared to what it was at the time it was built. My only suggestion is that it could be used as connection between downtown Buffalo and the suburbs to the east. But even that is a poor idea. There is no reason for stopping at Paderewski Drive unless the building were converted into a shopping mall.
As for passenger rail travel in the rest of the country, though I never rode on a train, I am a big enthusiast when it comes to passenger rail travel. From what I have read in the past, passenger rail service has not only be neglected by American railroad companies, it has been torpedoed by the auto industry.
The airline industry also wouldn’t care to have a healthy passenger rail service to compete against. There are some limited railroad services between airports in the suburbs and the downtown areas. Shanghai in Communist Red China is one instance that comes to mind. The subway system in New York City is credited for relieving auto traffic congestion considerable. Without the subway, auto traffic in the Big Apple would be impossible, from what I’ve heard.
I’ve always dreamed of connecting areas of the country where there is little rail transportation at the present time. I am talking about Alaska. If only there was passenger rail service from the lower 48 states to Alaska, I would eagerly hop on a train and go there. I’ve read that the rail service they have now in Alaska is responsible for most of the development between Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Another area of passenger rail service we have neglected in the United States is maglev rail transportation. Trains of these kind are known to go up to 260 miles an hour. This is what they have in Shanghai. It is suppose to be the world’s fastest train. There are plans to have high speed maglev trains from London to Tokyo that would take only 3 1/2 hours to complete.
(In the USA, we still use the English system of measurement rather than the metric system as the rest of the world does. Converting kilometers per hour to miles per hour would be as follows:
A train moving at 400 kilometers per hour would be moving at 248 mph.
A train moving at 430 kilometers per hour would be moving at 267 mph.
A train moving at 3,500 kilometer per hour would be moving at 2,174 mph.)
To reach Tokyo would require digging a tunnel under the ocean. If that is possible, then traveling from Alaska to Russia by maglev train should also be possible. So in the future, every major city on the earth will be connected by high speed, quiet, non-polluting, and (hopefully) cheap maglev train transportation. The only drawback I see in the video is that there are two types of maglev trains. Will the train tracks of the future be compatible so that either type of train can travel anywhere the other train can go?
FAKE EDUCATION
February 28, 2017 Tuesday. On one of Sean Hannity’s TV shows recently, he had former Speaker of the House Newt Ginrich on as a guest. He was talking about the fake news story that has been getting a lot of media attention. Newt mentioned “fake education” because that is the source of “fake news.” Our teachers and professors are drumming propaganda into our children’s minds that Christianity is wrong, America is wrong, the Republican Party is wrong, America and Christianity are evil unless it helps those who hate us and want to destroy us.
Barak Obama spoke of the need for national unity before leaving the White. Donald Trump also spoke of the need for national unity. This was George Washington’s desire--that America be united and not divided. That is why He opposed the idea of political parties. How do we do it? How do we all get on the same page?
Education is the answer. But what kind of education? When I was attending Erie Community College, one teachers said that money is the most important thing in the world. I did not argue with her. Money seems to help make our lives easier, more comfortable, enjoyable, and manageable. With money comes power. Power and money--that’s what our society values the most. We all want to have more money.
Education is the answer. But what kind of education? When I was attending Erie Community College, one teachers said that money is the most important thing in the world. I did not argue with her. Money seems to help make our lives easier, more comfortable, enjoyable, and manageable. With money comes power. Power and money--that’s what our society values the most. We all want to have more money.
Another teacher at Erie Community College said she would not pledge allegiance to that (USA) flag. She is a citizen of the world. There use to be an American flag hanging in every classroom at Erie Community College at one time. The last time I was there, there were no American flags in any of the classrooms. There was only the one American flag flying outside of the library on the flagpole. I think it is important that our college students learn to love their country. Instead, we have kicked R.O.T.C. off of most, if not all of our campuses; and we have removed the American flag from our classrooms.
The Armstrongs built three college campuses. One was in Pasadena, California. Another was in Big Sandy, Texas, and the third one was in St. Albans / Brickett Wood in England. The Armstrongs boasted that their colleges provided the missing dimension in education. They said other colleges and universities taught their students how to make a living. But Ambassador Collage taught their students how to live life. These colleges came to an end after the passing away of the Armstrongs. But the idea of teaching students the meaning of life is essential. The proof of their success is in the divorce rate of their graduates. They had only one couple who divorced--and that was a couple they advised not to get married (according to Armstrong).
This is what our Founding Father had in mind when they drew up the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. This document states: “Religion, morality and knowledge being essential to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” What we have today in our colleges and universities today is knowledge. We don‘t have religion and morality. We don‘t have happy marriages. We have students with colleges degrees who are making a lot of money. But we have a high divorce rate. Half of this country‘s marriages end up in divorce. One millionaire once said after several divorces that he would give up his wealth for one happy marriage. Religion and morality are actually frowned upon by our public educational institutions, and even outlawed by our government. The Supreme Court banned the reading of the Bible and the saying of prayers in our classrooms. We are no longer a nation that feels religion and morality are essential to good government and the happiness of mankind. We only have knowledge, knowledge, and knowledge. Instead of religion and morality, we have anti-religion and immorality.
Much of this lawlessness is organized and well-financed. That, and the Supreme Court decision against Bible reading and prayer, is why I believe the changes and reforms President Trump makes to this nation while he is in the White House will not stop our rapid decline once he leaves.
CHEAP SHOT
February 21, 2017 Tuesday. I was reading some of the letters to the editor in the Buffalo News. One letter was short one-sentence criticism of Donald Trump that President Trump is an insult to intelligence and an intelligent community. When I was attending Erie Community College, we were taught that when you make a statement like that, you should give at least two explanations or reasons for your statement. There is no way you can explain that statement. It is just the mindless hate of Mr. Trump that has been going on since he announced his candidacy for president.
Donald Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a degree in Economics. He is a billionaire. He knows how to do business with the Communist Red Chinese and with other countries--friendly or otherwise. How can anyone say he’s not intelligent?
There are times when he contradicts himself. Hillary has done the same thing. Politicians are renown for making plenty of contradicting statements. The Far Left liberal press seldom notices when Hillary makes a contradictory statement. They, in fact, either ignore them or try to cover them up.
I do not excuse Donald Trump when he makes a contradictory statement. He must learn to always use the facts to back up his statements.
I pray that God will give Donald Trump the strength to endure the pressures of office of the presidency. He was not strong enough to put up with the constant criticisms and name calling when he ran for president in 2012. He dropped out. Donald Trump should learn to expect this. In the Bible, as one turns away from the ways of this world and practices righteousness and the ways of Christianity, he (she) will face persecution, as Paul says in II Timothy 3:12, “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.”
THE MUSLIM TRAVEL BAN
February 6, 2017 Monday. No, that’s not right. There is no Muslim travel ban. Pres. Donald Trump enacted an executive order banning visits from seven Muslim nations that he considered dangerous and too risky to allow citizens from those seven countries to enter the US. A Muslim ban would be unconstitutional it would seen. We cannot discriminate against a religion. But, in my view, Islam is scarcely a religion. It is more of a code of hate and conquest. Our government should carefully convene a convention or committee to really look into the question of allowing Muslims into the country. Their book, the Quran, commands its adherents to chop limbs off the non believers and to attack them until they are no more.
TELL NO LIES
January 25, 2017 Wednesday. Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked by a reporter if he will tell them the truth. His response was they have to be honest with the American people. I think his response was too kind to a hostile liberal press that wants to destroy him. They’ve even taken shots at Donald Trump’s youngest son. His answer should have been what is in the Bible. “Answer not a fool according to his folly lest you also be like unto him.” (Proverbs 26:4). The next verse seems to contradict that statement, “Answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit.” (Proverbs 26:5). The Armstrong church was questioned about those two verses. They had an answer. It’s the answer that Jesus showed us when his enemies confronted him with a question. He answered their question with a question as in Matthew 15:3-6 where he said, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded saying, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.’ But you say, ‘Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, ‘It is a gift, by whatsoever you might be profited by me.’ And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free.’ Thus, have you made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.”
What Press Secretary Spicer should have told that reporter was: “Did you ask Obama eight years ago if he was going to tell the truth?”
The word “fool” is a very nasty word. In Matthew 5:22, it says, “But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause whall be in danger of the judgment; and whoever shall say to his brother, ‘Raca,’ shall be in danger of the council; but whoever shall say, ‘You fool,’ shall be in danger of hell fire.” So I am careful not to call anyone names. I was simply quoting from the Bible when I wrote “fool.
”The Lord has created us to be his very sons and daughters, yet he seems to have a low opinion of us. Even of us who believe in him, it says in John 2:24, “But Jesus did not commit himself to them because he knew all men. And needed not that any should testify of man for he knew what was in man.” When Peter tried to dissuade Jesus from going up to Jerusalem to sacrifice himself for our sins, he said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan, for you are an offense to me.” He called Peter “Satan.” And after his resurrection, he was walking with two of his disciples who failed to recognize him. He said to them, “Oh fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken.” He called his disciples, “fools.” Well, if the Lord Jesus should call me “Satan” and “fool” then I won’t feel too badly because I’m just like Peter, his two disciples, and everybody else. He called us “worthless servants” in Luke 17:10 when he said, “So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, ’We are unprofitable servants. We have done that which was our duty to do.’”
In John 18:19, after Jesus was arrested and taken to the High Priest, the High Priest asked Jesus of his disciples and of His doctrine. Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I even taught in the synagogues and in the temple where the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing. Why ask me? Ask them who heard me what I have said to them. Behold, they know what I said.” And when He had thus spoken, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with the palm of the his hand saying, “Do you answer the priest so?” I believe the reason the officer whacked Jesus in the face was because he knew what Jesus was doing. Jesus answered a question with a question--He was calling the high priest a fool.
The Book of Job starts off with God praising Job before Satan. He says to Satan, “Have you seen my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and upright man, one who fears God and eschews evil?” (Job 1:8) Yet, at the end of the Book of Job, Job is asking God for answers as to why He has punished him so severely that he killed all his children, taken away his donkeys, oxen, sheep, camels, most of his servants, and his health by smiting him with boils all over his body. Instead of giving Job answers, God gives him more questions. He talks to him like a fool--asking him question after question after question.
God also calls us sheep. He warns us about wolves in sheep’s clothing. David’s famous Psalm 23 starts out, “The Lord is my shepherd,” and we are his sheep. One booklet I read that’s offered by the Christian Jew Foundation was A Shepherd Looks At Psalm 23. He said that sheep are stupid animals. They make the same mistakes over and over again. They are extremely dependent and helpless. The shepherd has to watch over them constantly.
In Romans 7:19, Paul comments about his own (and our) sinful nature. He says, “For the good that I would do, I do not. But the evil which I would not, that I do." The Apostle Paul said in I Corinthians 13:1-13 that if we can speak in different languages, can foretell the future, can understand all things, can move mountains with our faith, and be generous with our wealth, but have not charity or love, we are nothing. So the Bible tells us that we are not only dumb sheep that keep on sinning and sinning, but also it says that without love we are just plain nothing.
As for lying, that is also a serious matter. The 9th commandment of the Ten Commandments is: “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.” Exodus 20:16.
Revelation 22:15 says, “For without are dogs and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers and idolaters and whosoever loves and makes a lie.” The Armstrong church really emphasized obedience to the Ten Commandments. We were to be completely honest in our conversations. If someone asked one of us, “How are you?” and we responded, “I’m fine. Thank you. How are you?” that statement would be wrong if something was wrong with us like a headache or sore throat. We would have to explain that we are having problems or else we have lied. We would have broken the ninth commandment; and that is a sin. As Mr. Armstrong wrote in one of his booklets, all lies are black lies. There are no white lies.
There are some exceptions to lying. It seems God does not want us to tell the truth to our enemies if they intend to do harm to us or our loved ones. This is shown in Judges 16 where Samson fell in love with a Philistine woman named Delilah. She tried to have him tell her the secret of his strength. Three times he lied to her. When he finally told her the truth, he lost his sight, and, soon after that, his life.
In a case before that, Rahab the harlot helped the two Israelite spies who entered Jericho (Joshua 2:1-10). The men of Jericho were looking for them. Rahab hid them and lied to the men of Jericho that they were no longer in the city, but that they had gone by the river Jordan. The Armstrong church said that God uses pagan sinners to fulfill his purpose. Yet, this “pagan sinner,” Rahab, went on to marry Salmon, an Israelite of the Tribe of Judah, to become the great great grandmother of King David according to Matthew 1:5. Rahab was mentioned by the Apostle Paul as a woman of faith in Hebrews 11:31.
God not only uses “pagan sinners” to lie for Him, He also uses the devil to carry out His purpose. He asked His angels how He may entice the wicked King Ahab to go up and fight at Ramoth-Gilead to die in battle. The devil came forth and say to God, “I will be a lying spirit in the mouths of his prophet.” And God said to him, “You shall persuade and prevail. Go forth and do so.”
God also conceals the truth through the use of parables. After Jesus told the parable of the sower of seeds, his disciples asked him why he does he speak to the crowd in parables. Some Christian churches teach that Jesus spoke in parable to make His teaching clearer--so they could understand better. But Jesus that he spoke in parables so that they wouldn’t understand. (Matthew 13:13)
There also seems to be a case when a white lie was told. It was told by Sarah, the wife Abraham, who, according to what the Apostle Paul said in Hebrews 11:11, had faith to believe that she would bear a son even though she was 91 years old. She told a white lie--even to God Almighty. God asked her why she laughed. She told him she didn’t laugh. But God told her she did. (Genesis 18:15)
As a Christian, I feel it is important to always speak the truth and to always obey God‘s commandments. If you point out someone’s fault, you shouldn’t be guilty of the same thing or something worse. Both Jesus and Paul spoke out against hypocrisy. (Matthew 7:1-3) and (Romans 2:1-3)
You should try to keep your promises. Jesus said we shouldn’t swear; and that whatever we say we are going to do or not going to do, we should simply say “yes” or “no.” (Matthew 5:37)
In the Bible, there are two places where it says that God cannot lie. In Number 23:19, it says, “God is not a man that he should lie…” And in Titus 1:2, the Apostle Paul says, “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.”
One of the prayers we use to say when I was in Holy Name of Jesus School was the Act of Faith. The end of the prayer is like this: For in revealing them (the teaching of the Catholic Church), you can neither deceived nor be deceived.
God can certainly not be deceived. He is all knowing. But we’ve seen that He can deceive. However, when it comes to making promises, He cannot lie. He always keeps his word.
Likewise, it is my fervent hope that the promises that President Donald Trump made will also be kept.
GET THE US OUT OF THE UN?
January 24, 2017 Tuesday. A bill has been introduced in Congress to end our membership in the corrupt world organization known as the United Nations. Much as I dislike the United Nations, such a move would be a mistake. The latest outrage at the UN is that because the US abstained on the vote to condemn Israeli settlements in occupied territory. This vote took place in the UN Security Council where the five permanent members of the UN are able to back up any resolution passed there with their military might. This is very similar to what happened in the Korean War. The Soviet Union abstained, or walked out, of the vote to send in troops into Korea to thwart the armies of the attacking North Koreans. What would happen with US departure from the UN? Would the UN Security Council vote for troops to fight against Israel should they violate the resolution? My own view is that we should exercise our status as the world’s number one super power to expel all nations in the United Nations who do not honor the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
WOMEN’S MARCH AROUND THE WORLD
January 23, 2017 Sunday. Women have been marching in Washington D.C., and I think women are marching all over the world. From what I’ve read, pro-life women’s groups were excluded from the march. Jason Watters of Watter’s World on Fox News was interviewing some of the women. Some of the women walking by were using profanity, which was blanked out. One woman screamed that she has a right to her body. Which means, she has a right to abort her baby if she want to. Half of aborted babies are girls. Don’t women have the right to be born? In any case, I feel that the women’s march is another sign that this is the She Generation which will be cut short by the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
January 20, 2017 Friday. “President Donald Trump.” That’s going to take a while getting use to saying. It reminds me of when I was 10 years old. I was use to hearing “Senator John Kennedy.” Then after his inauguration, it was “President John Kennedy.” It took a while getting use to that.
The inauguration of Donald Trump shoots down at least three prophecies. The first one was my own exaggeration which I mentioned on my About Me page. I said the next president (Obama) would be our last president.
Another prophecy was the one from the Bible Code that I feared would happen. That is the one in which Donald Trump would win the election, but that Hillary would steal the White House. Maybe that can still happen, but it is unlikely. It also means that the Bible Codes may be helpful once in a while. Certainly when a major event happens, someone with a computer and knowledge of the Hebrew language is bound to find that event written in the Bible Code--after the event happens. It’s usually a tricky thing to try to determine what the future will be by finding words in a biblical Word Search Puzzle where some words are written across, some are written up and down, some are written diagonally, and some words are written backwards.
A third prophecy that was shot down was the one in which we (America) are Babylon. My friend Ron even thought this might be true. We are suppose to be Babylon, or the Kingdom of the South. Russia is suppose to be the Kingdom of the North. The King (Obama) is also supposedly born in Kenya, which is 2000 miles south of Jerusalem, which is another argument for us being the Kingdom of the South. The Kingdom of the South is suppose to push at the Kingdom of the North. The proponent of this prophecy then predicted that Obama would not finish his term in office. The Russians would attack America; and Obama along with millions of Americans would be killed in the attack. That didn’t happen.
My own personal opinion as to what will happen from now on is that Donald Trump will be a one-term president. He will bring in prosperity to America and Israel. He may move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as he promised. The temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt during his administration. Then according to the prophecy of the Apostle Paul in II Thessalonians 5:3, major reversals will take place: “For when they shall say, ‘Peace and safety,’ then sudden destruction comes upon them as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”
Though I am not certain when the temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt and the Second Coming of Our Lord will be, I think these are exciting times. As Jesus said in Mark 13:37, “And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch.”
OBAMA'S FAREWELL ADDRESS
January 12, 2017 Thursday. I did not watch Obama’s Farewell Address live. I have a certain dislike of Obama which kept me from doing so two nights ago. But I am watching a video of his speech so that I may critique it.
At he beginning of the video, he gets a long and enthusiastic applause, a lot of cheering, and a standing ovation. On the video I was watching, it lasted almost two minutes. Obviously, a lot of people like him and even love him.
He said he learned a lot from listening to the people of America. This contradicts what I’ve heard some Republican congressman have said when they tried to make suggestions to him. “We won,” was his answer to them. Obama has an agenda. You are either with him or against him. He doesn’t make compromises.
He talks about when he moved to Chicago when he was 20 years old. He said he became active with ordinary working people. The thing is: he never worked a day in his life. And he was sitting in the church pews listening Jeremiah Wright cursing America.
Some in the crowd chanted, “Four more years. Four more years.” Obama responds, “I can’t do that.” That’s what worries me. Will Donald Trump really be president of the United States on January 20th, or will the White House be stolen as someone predicted using the Bible Code? There are some on the Internet who tell us to watch January 15 and January 19 because Hillary and Obama have been planning martial law and a military takeover for the past several years. There’s even videos on the Internet that show Communist Red Chinese soldiers in United Nations uniforms now here in the United States who are ready to take over the country.
He uses the Declaration of Independence to tell us that everyone in the world is created equal with equal God-given rights and freedom to come into America and do whatever you please. He mentions immigrants coming from across oceans. When he mentioned acrossing the Rio Grande, he got cheers.
He mentions the radical ideal of a more perfect union.
"It’s why GI s gave their lives at Omaha Beach and Iwo Jima, Iraq and Afghanistan--and why men and women from Selma to Stonewall were prepared to give theirs as well."
Really? The people who were rioting in Selma and Stonewall were prepared to give their lives as our GI s at Omaha Beach, Iwo Jima, Iraq, and Afghanistan? I don’t believe that for an instant, “Mr. President.”
"So that’s what we mean when we say America is exceptional. Not that our nation has been flawless from the start, but that we have shown the capacity to change, and make life better for those who follow.”
Our children who follow us will not appreciate the $20 trillion national debt they will spend their entire lives paying for. Our children may not have a future when the dollar and our economy crashes because of the national debt.
"For every two steps forward, it often feels we take one step back." I think for every one step forward, it always feels like we take two steps backward. I mentioned the national debt. Obama promised to reduced the national debt; instead, he has doubled the national debt. He promised to withdraw our troops in Iraq. All of his generals advised him not to do that. He did it anyway. What happened was that the Middle East became destabilized and ISIS took over. He stabs our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel, over and over. He drew a red line in the sand in Syria warning Assad not to use poison weapons. He did nothing when Assad used poison weapons. What he did was make American resolve and American promises worthless. Communist Red China now claims the South China Sea to be their territorial waters. Obama did nothing. He has made race relations worse. When 5 police officers in Dallas were slain, he blamed their deaths on bigotry in the police department.
“But the long sweep of America has been defined by forward motion, a constant widening of our founding creed to embrace all, and not just some.
If I had told you eight years ago that America would reverse a great recession,"
Did America really reverse a great recession under Obama? According to Sean Hannity of Fox News, we had only 1% growth rate in our economy while Communist Red China had 3 or even up to 5% growth rate in their economy. Home ownership for black people in America is down under the Obama Administration. Many people lost their full time jobs with benefits and now have to work two part time jobs without benefits. Close to 50 million Americans are receiving food stamps. This is nothing to brag about, Mr. Obama.
"reboot our auto industry,"
Our auto industry was greatly streamlined during Obama’s administration. But should he take any credit for that? From what I’ve read, Cadillacs are being imported from Communist Red China. And Ford was ready to set up a plant in Mexico.
and unleash the longest stretch of job creation in our history…if I had told you that we would open up a new chapter with the Cuban people,”
Opening up a new chapter with the Cuban people may not have been a good idea. There is no need to have diplomatic ties with dictatorships.
GOOD RIDDANCE TO OBAMA
December 30, 2016 Friday. There is less that 22 days remaining of the Obama Administration. Yet, to me, it can’t end soon enough. Obama seems to acting like the devil in Revelation 12:12 where it says, “Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea, for the devil is come down to you having great wrath because he knows he has but a short time.” In the short time he has, he has managed to have the United Nations declare new Israeli settlements illegal. He has soured relations between the United States and Russia over the supposed hacking of the elections. And he has made the suggestion to Donald Trump that he (Obama) would have won a third term if it were not for the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. Obama has been a terrible president for the United States.
Obama has been bringing in thousands of immigrants into this country from the Middle East at a time when our economy is in a state or recession or worse. Many of this Middle East immigrants have no love for America. Some of them have show their willingness to kill Americans.
It is suggested that Obama was in favor of a Illinois state bill that would allow a baby which survived abortion to be put to death. If this is true, than that would mean killing an American citizen according to the U.S. Constitution.
Obama has increased the national debt to $20 trillion. Some say this is not his fault--that Congress is responsible for our spending. But Obama practiced anything but frugality. Besides his cabinet members, he had a team of czars to help him run the country. His administration invited everyone to apply for food stamps. He had his personal barber fly in from Chicago to give him a $200 haircut. Michelle had over twenty attendants waiting on her. The other First Ladies before her had one, two, or three. He practiced frugality with our military veterans where we learn five years into his administration that some of our veterans were dying in the waiting rooms of their local VA Hospital while waiting for medical attention.
In contrast, the captured Muslim terrorists we have at Gitmo are treated as honored guests. They are given one-to-one (doctor-to-patient) medical attention. They are allowed to read their Koran. They have prayer rugs. Their book of hate The Koran, the holy book of Satan, is handled with kid gloves or is not even allowed to be handled by any of the infidel guardsmen. On the radio recently (Wednesday, January 4th, 2017), I’ve heard that our federal government wants to spend one million dollars to provide a soccer field for the imprisoned Islamic terrorist at Gitmo. Talk about reversed priorities! Then when these terrorists prisoners are freed, most of them, if not all of them, (correction: 12 ½% of them according to Bill O’Reilly) go back to fighting and killing Americans.
Obama is a devil who stabbed Americans in the back, and spit and laughed in our faces.
THE BLIZZARD OF ‘77
Buffalo, New York
The official start of the Blizzard of ‘77 is January 28, 1977. But the birth of the blizzard started in early November 1976. When it began snowing in western New York in early November, it kept snowing day after day after day--every day. We usually get a lot of snow in early November, but then it stops after a few days. Most of the snow we get in early November melts away. Then we just get occasional snowfall up until January. (We seldom have snowfall on Christmas Day.) Then in January, we usually get about 12 days of snow in a row.
My home in Buffalo was a two-family house with a two-car garage and driveway that took up most of the backyard. I tried to shovel the snow off the driveway and also off the path along the back of the house for our garbage cans onto the small lawn between the driveway and my neighbor’s fence. There’s also the side yard between the two houses where the snow had to be cleared out. Each day, the snow hill on the lawn would get higher and higher and higher. I had to bring the garbage cans into the garage so that I could use the sidewalk space by the in back of the house to throw the snow. As more and more snow fell, I had to use half of the driveway as a place to put the snow. In the front of the house, there was a snow hill that covered all of the small front lawn plus the porch. The snow hill was higher than the porch railing.
At the time of the blizzard, I was attending school at Niagara Frontier Vocational Rehabilitation Center to improve my typing skills. I was doing the inter office mail for them. One of the deliveries was to another building across the street. While I walking outside, the wind and snow that was hitting my face felt like needles.
When I was in the classroom, I told the teacher Barbara Lewis, a light-skinned young black lady, what I heard on the weather on TV--that this storm is coming directly from the North Pole. It may or may not have come directly from the North Pole, but what happened was that the cold temperatures froze the surface of Lake Erie so that the daily snowfall would build up on the ice. Then when the blizzard with its strong wind hit Lake Erie, it blew the tons and tons of snow that was on the lake onto the city.
It was a Friday. We leave early on Fridays--about two hours earlier--at three o’clock. It’s a good thing because a lot of working people who quit their shifts at 5 PM were unable to make it home. They were stranded at the banks or factories or stores where they worked.
Before we left for our cars, I told Barbara, “See you Monday--assuming I survive today.” That was a piece of Star Trek I took from the story, “The Doomsday Machine.” Barbara replied, “And that goes for all of us.”
So I took off in my red 1970 AMC Javelin down Leroy to Grider and onto the expressway. I didn’t use the expressway too much. I just needed to get from Grider to Bailey Avenue. I turned off onto the ramp that would take me to Olympic Avenue. As I was going down the ramp, I kept hitting the brakes trying to slow down. I was not able to slow down. At the end of the ramp was a snow bank. I drove into the snow bank and came to a stop. I put the car in reverse, but I wasn’t able to get out. A guy came along and said, “I’ll help you and then you help me.” He pushed me out of the snow bank and I drove to a spot where I felt I would not get stuck in the snow. I went out of the car. There were three guys trying to push the guy’s car out of the snow. The snow and wind were really brutal. They felt like needles on my face. I was about halfway between my car and the other car when the three guys succeeded in pushing my hero in his car out of the snow. He honked the horn for those who pushed him out. I didn’t even thank him for pushing me out.
Thank you, my hero.
I took off again and got onto Bailey Avenue. It was really horrible. You could only see about ten feet ahead of you. There wasn’t any law at that time that required you to turn on your headlights when there was precipitation. We didn’t need a law to tell us to turn on our lights while driving in a blizzard in the afternoon. We all had our lights on.
Driving was slow and almost bumper to bumper. We depended on the guy in front of us to figure out where to go and to make tracks so we can drive on. The side streets were hopeless. If you go into a side street, you don’t come out. I followed traffic to Doat Street to Goemble (pronounced gimble) where I lived. Fortunately for me, there was a nice fresh pair of tire tracks on my street. Unfortunately, before I got to my house, another car was coming at me from the other direction. There was a young couple in the car. I asked the driver if he would drive backwards because I live in the fourth house (now third house). He said no. So I drove backwards to let him continue to Doat. I was unable to go back on Goemble, as I tried several times. I drove back to Bailey Avenue. I went passed Hazel because there was too much snow there. I turned right on Walden, and then I took a chance and drove down on Burgard. I was half way down Burgard when I had to stop. There were cars that were stuck in the snow, and there were guys trying to push them out of the snow. After a few minutes, one of the guys told me I should turn around and go down some other street because there were a lot of cars stuck in the snow up ahead. I told him I live on Goemble and that I want to park the car on the side of the road. The guy told the other fellows what I told him. Four guys pushed my car into a parking spot. I didn’t even thank them.
Thank you for pushing my car into the parking space, guys.
I walked home to 141 Goemble.
According to Wikipedia, the blizzard lasted four days--Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. From what I remember, there was a break in the weather the next day Saturday. I went outside and walked back to the car with an old scoop shovel. The guys had pushed me into a parking space on the right side of the road facing south towards Walden Avenue. I was able to shovel myself out of the parking space and turn the car around north facing Hazel. As I made my way towards Hazel, I would get stuck in the snow here and there. So I would get out of the car with my scoop shovel and shovel myself free. I did that about three times. There were about 4 or 5 abandoned cars in the middle of the street that I had to maneuver around. When I got to Hazel, I was okay. I drove around the corner to Goemble, through my driveway and into the garage. I think it took me an hour to get the car back home from Burgard.
My friend who use to live upstairs was stranded in downtown Buffalo. He spent the night at Columbus Hospital. He was home the next day. He said he had enough. He walked all the way home from downtown.
There was a travel ban in the city. Some people from the suburbs who drove into the city to take in the sights got ticketed by the police for doing so. I remember watching on TV how a policeman stopped two young women in a car. They had their radio blasting while they were listening to “Dancing Queen” by Abba as the police officer was questioning them. They said they were nurses.
Although blizzards are dangerous--causing some people to die in them--others laughed it off. There was one cartoon that was reprinted by the Buffalo News that came from the Philadelphia Enquirer. It was a picture of an airplane flying through a storm with its radio on. The man on the radio who was reporting the news said, “And in upstate New York, the search goes on for Buffalo.”
We did not have school on Monday. I don’t know what day I went back to school. Tuesday? Wednesday?
The blizzard had quite a psychological effect. A year later, I was working for this electronics firm. It started snowing very hard, and it looked like we might be experiencing another blizzard. We thought we would be stranded in the building overnight. One of the guys (Ralph) said, “If only we had stocked up on beer.” The manager let us leave early so that could make our way home before conditions got worse. I was able to make it safely home. Soon after that, the storm died out.
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
December 15, 2016 Thursday. Next Monday, December 19th, 2016, the electors of electoral college meet in their state to vote for the next president and vice-president of the United States. This process could take up to 9 days. By December 29th, all the electors should submit their votes in to the President of the Senate and the Archivist. To become president, Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton must win 270 votes. Supposedly, Trump has won 306 electoral votes while Hillary has won 232 electoral votes.
However, there have been some challenges in the swing states for a recount. So far, the recount has supported the votes the Trump received. Not only that, Trump has gained more than a hundred votes in some states.
Also, some electors have voiced their opinions and have stated that they will not vote for Trump as they are suppose to. As many as 20 electors have said this. This would bring Trump’s count down to 286 votes while Hillary’s count would be 252 votes.
Some wonder why we need an elector college. One group thinks that the candidate with the majority of popular votes should win the White House. I am wondering why we need an electoral college if it just as corrupt as our primary elections with super delegates who are committed to one particular candidate regardless of the vote. We should abolish electors and only have the elector college as a system in which the winner of the majority votes in each state takes all. There’s no need in this modern age for electors who can be bribed, threatened, or free to cast their votes for whomever they like.
This worries me because what I mentioned before about the Bible Codes in which one interpretation says Trump with win the election but that Hillary will steal the White House. There is also one health institution that reports Hillary has been scheming to take the White House despite the fact that Trump has won the election.
I wish Donald Trump were as worried as I am. He seems sure that he will be in the White House on January 20th. He is appointing all his cabinet members and making other plans after he is sworn in. I would suggest to Mr. Trump that he pause for a minute to make sure that things go the way they are suppose to. As Jesus told the Church of Philadelphia in Revelations 3:11, so I would say to Donald Trump: Hold fast that which you have that no man (or woman) take your crown.
POST ELECTION THOUGHTS
December 9, 2016 Friday. The election of Donald Trump as our next president was truly a pleasant surprise to me. I thought for sure that Hillary would win the election either by hook or by crook. My friend Ron agreed with me that Hillary would win. On my Religion page, I mentioned that I believe this generation to be the She Generation. That is the number one reason I thought Hillary would win.
In the Book of Revelation of the Bible, there is a mention of a woman who is committing fornication with the nations. In the Armstrong church, we were taught that Bible prophecy has a duel meaning to it. In some cases, there is an instance when prophecy has been fulfilled on a small scale in the past; but it is also to be fulfilled on a large scale in the future. The Divided States of America - After the elections, Mr. Trump said he wants to play a part in which America comes together again. This seems to me impossible. There was one news item on recently in which a professor said we are as close to a civil war as we have been since the Civil War 155 years ago. I agree. It is all because we have abandoned our Christian Heritage and instead embraced evolution and abortion as our sacred truths. The Bible is not even considered to be logical or useful in our modern day and age by liberal scholars, academic scholars and more and more Americans. We are ignoring it. We feel it is irrelevant. I believe conditions are getting worse.
There’s a parable that Jesus told in Matthew 13:33. He said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened.” The Catholic Church and other Christian churches understand this parable to mean that leaven is Christianity, and that it will spread throughout the world until the whole world is Christian. But the Christian Jew Foundation says this is wrong. They said that throughout the Old Testament, leaven is pictured as a type of sin; and sin can lead to death. (James 1:15) Even in the New Testament, the Apostle Paul says, “Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new lump as you are unleavened. “ I Corinthians 5:6-7.
The history of empires shows that they begin as small nations which grow into large nations which grow into empires. Then there is the decline. The moral rot and decay set in; then there is a giant crash. Moral decay is setting into the empire of the USA.
The Democratic Party is largely responsible for this decay. They use to be the party of the working people. Now they are the party of the non-working people. It is my opinion that more and more states will become blue states until all the states are blue states in fulfillment of the parable that Jesus gave about the woman who hid the leaven in the meal. If the electoral college confirms Donald Trump as president of the United States, I think this will be only a temporary setback for the Democratic Party.
THE DEATH OF FIDEL CASTRO
November 30, 2016 Wednesday. Fidel Castro passed away at the age of 90. He was ruler of Cuba from 1959 to 2006, for 47 long years. It seems like an eternity to me. That’s from the time when I was 10 years old to when I was 57 years old. And even after he retired, his communist dictatorship still continues to this day in Cuba under the rule of his brother Raul. He was at the very least, an irritant to the United States of America. He welcomed Russian missiles that could hit American cities in a matter of a few minutes. President Kennedy had those missiles removed through what he called a “quarantine,” or blockade of the island. Castro sponsored revolutions in Bolivia and Nicaragua.
Reading about Fidel Castro’s life in Wikipedia is very interesting. He was studying to be a lawyer at the same time he adopted anti-imperialist politics at the University of Havana--right under the very nose of Fulgencio Batista. He led two revolutions: one in the Dominican Republic, and one in Colombia. He led a revolt in Cuba in 1953, but failed. He was imprisoned for one year. One year in prison? You would think he would be shot for doing that.
At one time, he allowed certain Cubans to immigrate to the US in exchange for medical supplies. The people he allowed to immigrant to the US were hardened criminals that he
let out of his prisons. These criminals preyed on American society.
Castro confiscated the land belonging to the rich and distributed this land to the poor people. This may have been one of the few good things about Castro, along with universal medical care and education for all of Cuba‘s citizens. Yet, the socialism Castro imposed on his people stagnated the economy. People had no motivation to work harder because everyone was paid the same wage. As a result, food production was down. Cubans were barely able to keep themselves fed, as reported by 60 Minutes. Wikepedia had this to say about Fidel Castro: “critics view him as a dictator whose administration oversaw human-rights abuses, the exodus of a large number of Cubans, and the impoverishment of the country's economy.”
According to this web site, Castro slept with 35,000 women, had 8 children, and made a personal fortune by providing drug traffickers a safe haven in Cuba while the rest of the country starved.
http://nypost.com/2016/11/27/inside-fidel-castros-life-of-luxury-and-ladies-while-country-starved/
Castro not only enjoyed God‘s blessings with a long life and a long rulership, but the Lord also protected him from most hurricanes. It seemed every time a hurricane ravaged the Americas, Cuba was spared. With the exception of one or two, they would all miss Castro‘s island.
“Life is unfair.“ Everyone knows that. God is unfair, it seems. All these blessings and good fortune that Castro enjoyed reminds me of two scriptures in the Bible:
1) Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes. Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not upon them. Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry. They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about. They sing to the music of tambourine and harp; they make merry to the sound of the flute. They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace. Yet they say to God, “Leave us alone. We have no desire to know your ways. Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?” (Job 21:7-15)
And this one,
2) There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: righteous men who get what the wicked deserve, and wicked men who get what the righteous deserve. (Ecclesiastes 8:14)
I don’t want to be too judgmental. There might be a chance that I am wrong about Fidel Castro, and that he’s not really a bad guy after all. So let’s get it straight from the horse’s mouth. From Fidel Castro himself, he said he was going to hell. Researching what he meant by this, I have found that he was a follower of Saul Alinsky, who believed that hell is a place where the wicked and those short of virtue go in the afterlife.
Jesus tells us where the wicked go in his parable of Lazarus and the rich man. Both Lazarus and the rich man die and both go to Hades. It a place that is divided so that no one can cross over from one to the other. There is a good Hades and a bad Hades. The good Hades is where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Noah and all the other departed saints dwell. The bad Hades is where those who have been selfish and insensitive to the needs of others. These bad folks seem to be in some kind of physical discomfort because “the rich man” wants Abraham to let Lazarus cool his tongue with water. This is where we would find Fidel Castro.
But Fidel Castro doesn’t stay in bad Hades forever. It says in Revelation 20:5, “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.” It says in Revelation 20:12, “And I saw the dead, small and great stand before God, and the books were opened. And another book was opened which is the book of life and dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." It says in verses 14 and 15, “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
According to what I heard when I was in the Armstrong church, the wicked are raised from the dead to the flesh and blood human beings that they were when they were alive. They are given a hundred years to learn God’s truth and right way of living. At the end of that one hundred years, they are either given eternal life, or they are thrown into the lake of fire to be destroyed forever.
OBAMA--THE LIKEABLE GUY
November 17, 2016 Thursday. On his show last night, Bill O’Reilly characterize Obama as a likeable guy that most people in America are comfortable with. Bill found it hard to explain. I do not find it hard to explain. Obama is a liberal who is pro-abortion, mostly anti-Israel, and pro-Muslim. He is the liberal main stream media’s president. They may criticize him once in a while, but, generally, he is their man. Therefore, Obama enjoys good press coverage. And that’s how many Americans perceive him--as a good man who is doing the best he can, but that Republicans are blocking most of his programs. If you disagree with him, in the eyes of the liberal main stream media, it is because Obama is black, and you are a racist. In truth, at least the way I and many conservatives see him, he is doing everything he can to humiliate America and our friends and allies, and to hinder the growth of our economy by putting restrictions on American companies through his executive orders. Many conservatives believe Obama is not through yet wrecking our American institutions. Some say he wants to declare a national emergency in response to the post election rioting that is going on, and to declare martial law so that he remains in power after January 2017. His departure from the White House cannnot come soon enough for me.
CONGRATULATIONS MR. TRUMP!
November 9, 2016 Wednesday. Congratulations Donald Trump for winning the November 8th presidential elections and becoming the next president of the United States of America! My prayers go out to you, Mr. Trump, that God will give you the wisdom and strength to make this country great again as you promised.
BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU VOTE
November 8, 2016 Tuesday. It’s always a good idea to drive as safely as you can to your place of voting. This is especially true at night because many voters can’t get to the polls before they get out of work at the end of their shift. By that time, it’s after 5 o’clock and after dark.
Last Friday, Democratic Party Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine had another concern about our safety. He is worried that American voters may fall victim to terrorist attacks--specifically from al-qada, the enemy responsible for the destruction of the World Trade Center, and who we supposedly vanquished not too long ago.
Ironically, his boss, Hillary Clinton, should she win the presidency, will be importing five times more potential terrorists - those lovely peaceful Muslims from Syria - than what we are bringing in now.
So if you see anything suspicious, like a man wearing a burka, stay away at a safe distance and call the police. On the other hand, you’re probably just imagining things, you Islamophobic infidel!
NEW YORK - THE BLUE STATE
November 6, 2016 Sunday. Donald Trump has been campaigning in Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. He needs these states’ electoral votes and a few others if he is to beat Hillary Clinton in the presidential elections this Tuesday. One state he is not campaigning in is New York--his own home state--and the third largest state in terms of population and electoral votes. NYS is so overwhelmingly for Hillary that it would be a complete waste of time and money for Trump to bother campaign there. Why? What makes New York State so pro-Hillary?
To find the answer, I checked some of the Letters to the Editor in the Buffalo News. Here is what I’ve found:
1) Donald Trump pays no taxes - which means he cares nothing about being a good citizen, and that he doesn’t care about the middle and lower class citizens. The writer doesn’t realize that many of Hillary’s donors don’t pay taxes either.
2) Donald Trump cares little about animal life. His advisors have actively opposed animal protection policies. His son hunts exotic animals. Sometimes protecting animal life can go to extreme. In California, a judge ordered the reservoirs to drain in order to protect a certain specie of fish that wasn’t even native to the region.
3) Donald Trump is a narcissistic, lying, racist, misogynistic bully. This seems like mere name calling that the writer can give no examples of. I don’t believe everything he says, but we live in an imperfect world.
4) One writer quoted Abraham Lincoln’s inaugural address and said Donald Trump would take us backward to a world of bigotry, isolationism and white supremacy. He thinks Hillary Clinton will take us down a path towards greater social justice and economic opportunity.
5) Donald Trump is full of hostility and mean spiritedness who wants male privilege, a return to black discrimination, the repeal of women’s rights (sending them back to the kitchen), and the deportation of all Hispanics. This is an outright lie. He is only going to go after illegal immigrants who have broken the law.
NEW EMAIL REVELATIONS
October 31, 2016 Monday. FBI Director James Comey has reopened the case against Hillary Clinton in which she has opened top secret emails with a personal server which jeopardizes our national security. It also a crime for which some have serve prison terms in violation of only a few emails. Mrs. Clinton is looking more and more like someone who is inept, incompetent, careless, uncaring, and untrustworthy. Her answer is that the FBI has no evidence of this. Either the FBI is lying or Mrs. Clinton is lying.
DIRT
October 13, 2016 Thursday. Four women have come forward to accuse Donald Trump of having groped and kissed them against their will. One them said he did this to her more than 30 years ago. Two of them said he did this to them in 2005. Another said this incident took place 13 years ago.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/10/12/two-women-accuse-trump-of-unwanted-sexual-touching/
Even though these acts of sexual harassment happens years ago, they are still inexcusable and appalling. Many of Trump’s supporters have refused to back him anymore.
I am quoting Dr. James Dobson, a Bible minister who said this about Donald Trump’s tape:
“I do not condone nor defend Donald Trump’s terrible comments made 11 years ago. They are indefensible and awful. Am sure there are other misdeeds in his past, although Jesus said, ‘Let him who is without sin cast the first stone,‘ he said according to WND. I am, however, ore concerned about America’s future that Donald Trump’s past.” That echoes my sentiments exactly.
The issue is open borders and more “free” trade with third world nations to export more of our jobs overseas. Hillary also wants immigration from Syria by 500 per cent. She wants to appoint judges to the Supreme Court who will limit our Second Amendment rights so that we can’t defend ourselves from these Muslim Syrians immigrants if they decide to turn on us.
The issue is open borders and more “free” trade with third world nations to export more of our jobs overseas. Hillary also wants immigration from Syria by 500 per cent. She wants to appoint judges to the Supreme Court who will limit our Second Amendment rights so that we can’t defend ourselves from these Muslim Syrians immigrants if they decide to turn on us.
Donald trump is right about Hillary. She cannot win on issues. She is “a total disaster.” She can only win because she would be the first woman president in the history of the United States.
Forgiveness and Repentance
The Bible has a lot about how God is full of mercy and is willing to forgive. Jesus tells about the parable of the prodigal son in which the younger of two sons took his inheritance, went to a distant country and spent his money on harlots and foolish living. There was a famine in that country; and the son was forced to do menial labor to survive. Yet, he still didn’t have enough to eat. He finally came to his senses and decided to return back to his own country and to his father. The son went back to his father, and he was willing to be as one of his servants. The father was so happy to see his son. He welcomed him back, and gave him a ring, new clothes, sandals, and he threw a party for him.
One time, Peter asked the Lord Jesus, “How often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times? But the Lord Jesus answered him, “Not seven times, but seventy times seven.” He then told a parable about a man who owed his lord a lot of money. His lord was going to throw him into prison, but the man asked for forgiveness. And his lord forgave him. But the man went out and found one of his servants who owed him some money. The man demanded he pay him. The servant asked forgiveness, but the man threw his servant in prison. The lord then heard about this and changed his mind. He threw the man in prison for not forgiving his servant. Jesus tells us that God is forgiving, and that we must be forgiving as God is forgiving.
One time, a young man came to Jesus and asked him what he must do to be saved. Jesus told him “…if you will enter into life, keep the commandments.” (Matthew 19:17) The man asked him which ones. Jesus named five of the Ten Commandments plus “Love your neighbor as yourself.” The young man said, “All this things I have kept, even from my youth. What more do I lack?” Then Jesus said to him, “If you will be perfect, go and sell all that you have, and give to the poor. Then you shall have treasure in heaven; and come follow me.” But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful--for he had great wealth.
By that rule, Donald Trump is not perfect. And neither am I. Who wants to be perfect if you have to give everything you have away to the poor?
THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES
October 4, 2016 Tuesday. I didn’t want to watch the Vice-presidential debates on TV. I thought it would be boring. And worst of all, I thought it might be a program about cheap shots, especially from the Democratic Party candidate. But I turned it on because it was my duty to be an informed citizen who is responsible, as a voter, to know what the issues are about. After watching 15 or 20 minutes of the debate, I shut it off. It wasn’t worth watching. When the lady moderator told Kaine that he was allowed to interrupt Pence, the whole thing turned into a brawl--especially on the part of Kaine. As in the first presidential debate, I was hoping that I and the American people would be better informed about each of the candidate’s position on the main issues. I was deeply disappointed. There was not only interruption after interruption after interruption, there was distractions and dragging into the mud about Trump not paying any taxes. This is not an issue. This was not a civilized discussion and presentation about which team has the better plan to lead America in the next four years. Instead, it was a brawl.
RUSSIA AND THE ARTIC
October 2, 2016 Sunday. Tonight, I was watching 60 Minutes in which the first segment was about an experimental camp on the Artic Ocean near the North Pole. The story was done by Leslie Stalh. She said the ice they were on was moving at a rate of 8 miles a day. That was because of the ocean currents and the wind. I never knew the ice cap was in motion. She said Russia is fortifying its entire sea coast on the Artic Ocean because the Artic is rich in oil and gas that is worth billions of dollars. Russia has stated that the Artic Ocean belongs to Russia. On the ocean floor at the North Pole, there is a Russian flag. They have even staged unannounced war games to show that any economic sanctions the world may impose on Russia would be meaningless and ineffective.
Communist Red China has already claimed the South China Sea as its own property. It has created a man-made island in the middle of the South China Sea. They have stated that any nation using the South China Sea must first obtain their permission.
This is what happens when we have someone like Obama in the White House whose line in the sand means nothing. This is what happens when Obama becomes the first man in the White House to bow before our enemies and to apologize to the world for our past actions as the unwilling policeman of the world. He cares more about his golf game than he does about the future security of the United States or, even less, the flood victims of Louisiana.
CONCERNS IN OCTOBER
October 2, 2016 Sunday. There are a few worries I have as we begin the month of October in the year 2016.
For one thing, Obama has transferred ownership and control of the Internet to some branch of authority of the United Nations. In all likelihood, we will lose the freedom to publish whatever we want.
For another thing, the Communist Red Chinese monetary currency, the yuan, has been place on par with the U.S. dollar. Many experts speculate this will quickly result in the crash of the dollar.
Thirdly, there is the rumor of an Obama military takeover of the country and the cancellation of the November elections.
Fourthly, at the very least, Obama is bringing in thousands of Muslim immigrants into this country as part of his program to gain new Democratic Party voters for Hillary.
THE CHARLOTTE RIOTS
September 25, 2016 Sunday. Last week, I tried to watch my favorite news program on Fox News--The O’Reilly Factor, Megan Kelly, and Shaun Hannity, but instead saw black people rioting in Charlotte hour after hour after hour and day after day after day. That’s one thing I don’t like about racial rioting--that’s all you can watch on Fox News are these angry black people screaming and yelling and running around and throwing things and breaking things. After four days, things started to return to normal. I was able to watch O’Reilly, Kelly, and Hannity. The little bit that I saw on TV and the Internet made me curious and suspicious. There were several white people mixed in with the black mob. I supposed they might be instigators. My suspicious were confirmed or at least stated clearly on one web site
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/264278/protest-thugs-and-real-evil-charlotte-daniel-greenfield
It says that the black man who was shot and killed had a long criminal record, and that he was carrying a gun at the time of the shooting. He was anything but a “quiet family man.“ The article also says that many of those “protestors” and rioters who were arrested had ID cards which showed they were bussed in from other states.
The web site below is even more alarming. It says those rioters were the same rioters that caused the violence in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. These rioters were funded by George Soros and their directive came from Attorney Loretta Lynch.
http://planetfreewill.com/2016/09/23/charlotte-riots-show-hallmark-of-george-soros-operation/
Whether that’s true or not, what seems to be coming our way are the nationwide racial riots that occurred back in 1968 when I was 19 years old and a gradate of Kensington High School. I see this as inevitable with the lax attitude of many of our liberal politicians who will not arrest those who break the law. I am deeply concerned how these mobs are so anti-American and anti-police.
PATRIOT’S DAY (9/11)
September 11, 2017 Monday. When al-qada attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon sixteen years ago, I was asleep. I was working second shift at a romance ad company known as NVS. My mother woke me up saying, what I thought was, “A girl was killed at the Trade Center.” I went to the TV and saw the World Trade Center smoking. And then it collapsed. I told my mother, “The World Trade Center collapsed!” She said she knows. It happened several minutes ago. When I saw those buildings come down, I said to myself, “Someone is ready and willing to go to war with us.“
That day happened to be Primary Day. So I went to the polls to vote in the elections. Some people in New York City who worked at the World Trade Towers also went to vote on Primary Day. This act of civil duty and responsibility saved their lives. For me and the rest of us, it was all in vain because the results of those primary elections were negated by the governor a weeks later because of the chaos in New York City. They were rescheduled again at a later date.
After I voted, I went to work at my office job. One guy, Peter, who was up on his current events, said it was probably the deed of Osama bin Laden. I never heard of Osama bin Laden before. We had a TV set in the lunchroom and we were watching the Twin Towers being struck and collapsing over and over again. We also saw the Arabs in Lebanon cheering and dancing and passing candy to each other. I was so angry and said to one lady that we ought to conquer Lebanon “and make them live under the flag they hate. Make them live under the flag they hate.” She said she was scared.
President Bush was in Florida in a grammar school class when the three planes struck the towers and the Pentagon. He immediately left the school building, took off in Air Force One and hide in a bunker in Arkansas. He then flew back to Washington and told the nation that Islam is a religion of peace. Yet they hid certain facts from us. Al-qada invoke the name of Allah 80 or 90 times as their reason for their terrorist acts. They are never short of manpower. They have so many who want to join their ranks that they have to turn some away. And where do they find all these recruits? From the “peaceful” religion of Islam, that’s where.
I told Peter we lost our freedom. He didn’t understand. I explained that before the 9/11 attacks we could go anywhere we wanted to (almost). Now there will be barriers, security areas, off-limit areas. We will need identification and security codes. We will need cameras and electronic sensors. All this extra security will cost billions of dollars.
One beautiful young (engaged) lady named Amy said she was talking on the phone with another lady at the World Trade Center when they were suddenly disconnected.
After 9/11, there were many Americans displaying the flag. I had a small flag flying on my car radio antenna. There were also many instances of Americans going back to God. Many of us sang, “God Bless America.” This slowly came to an end, and we went back to “normalcy.” I was talking to one state worker for about a minute. When I said goodbye to him, I said, “God bless America.” He gave me a very unenthusiastic, “Yeah.” Also, from what I’ve heard, college and university students who were singing “God Bless America” were told to shut up.
According to the Christian Jew Foundation, there are two parts to Islam: the military and the religion.
1) Military - The Muslims try to conquer their enemies, the infidels, by using whatever weapons they can find--guns, knives, trucks, bombs, airplanes.
2) Religion - Their god Allah commands them to wage war again the infidels until they are victorious. I feel as a Christian and a patriot that it is my duty to tell my fellow Americans about how rich our Christian faith is and that it is the source of our wisdom, our strength, and our principles which we need to fight Islamic jihad.
TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION POLICY
September 1, 2016 Thursday. Donald Trump gave what would be his policy on immigration if he becomes our next president. It’s about ending sanctuary cities, building a wall, making sure illegal immigrants don’t go over or under the wall, prosecuting illegal aliens who commit crimes in this country, and not letting illegal aliens take our jobs. This all sounds good to me. It probably sounds bad to Hillary and all the Democrats because they want illegal aliens to come in and acquire the right to vote. Naturally, these illegal aliens will vote for Democrats. For politicians (particularly Democrats), it’s not about doing right for the good of the country; it about getting more votes, more money, and more power.
COLIN KAEPERNICK
September 1, 2016 Thursday. San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand up for our national anthem before the start of the pre-season football games. His reason is that America’s policemen oppress our nation’s young blacks. He should put his money where his mouth is instead of taking it out on our flag and our national anthem. He could do that by contributing to the support of the Guardian Angels who patrol city streets and subways. Many citizens voice a common complaint against Colin Kaepernick in that he is unappreciative of the success and wealth he has won here in America--not to mention that this borders on treason. His action reminds me the scripture the Apostle Paul wrote in II Timothy 3:1-2, in which he said, “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, UNTHANKFUL, unholy, …” Ingratitude stinks to high heaven.
THE LOUISIANA FLOOD
August 21, 2016 Sunday. Heavy rains in Louisiana flooded that state last week. Many people are homeless. Some are dead. My heart goes out to those suffering people. I wish we could do something massive to help them out. The first idea that comes to mind is that we perhaps need to enclose those lowlands within a massive dike to keep the sea and the Mississippi River from flooding these lowlands. More trees need to be planted to soak up the water. We need lots and lots of pumps to pump the water out of this flooded region. Some areas of the country are dry and the crops are burning out. Isn’t there a way to build a nationwide water pipe and reservoir system to transport excess water to places where it’s dry?
This type of weather is what the Armstrong church said was one of the curses that God was cursing America with. He said in the Bible in Amos 4:7&8, “and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city. One piece was rained upon; and the piece where it rained did not wither. So two or three cities wandered into one city to drink water; but they were not satisfied. Yet have you not returned to me, says the Lord.” James Caan once said when he was filming a movie in Buffalo, “You will never run out of water.” Well, we in upstate New York are running out of water. It hasn’t been raining much here during the last two or three months. But there have been heavy rains in Texas, Maryland and Louisiana.
As for our President Obama, it seems like he never misses a chance to spit in our face whenever we Americans are in distress. He has been spending his time on vacation keeping up his golf score. His attitude is: “Your end of the boat is sinking, Red State.” Donald Trump was recently accused of being uncaring. Yet, the sight of Obama playing golf in Massachusetts while many in Louisiana go homeless is the perfect example of an uncaring, unconcerned, callous, hard-hearted, out-of-touch, totally self-centered, insensitive, unloving, irresponsible, unresponsive, worthless, contemptible man that we have in America today.
We are cursed with two curses: 1) foul weather, and 2) a president who tries to be as odious as possible.
CRY BABIES
August 6, 2016 Saturday. A few days ago, Donald Trump was giving a speech in Virginia or Florida in an auditorium. There was a little baby that was crying its head off. One report is that Trump said, “Get that thing out of here.” We Christians may see this whole incident as another flaw in Mr. Trump’s character for which we can forgive him. However, the liberal news picked that up as something that was really terrible to say to a woman with a baby. It may have cost him a few percentage points in the poll ratings. The President of the United States even declared Mr. Trump as unfit for the office of the presidency. But there’s another way of looking at it. Left wing radicals and Muslims will try to disrupt a speaker they don’t like by any means possible. Is it possible then, that an anti-Trump woman would bring in her baby into the auditorium, and then stick it with a pin to make it cry its head off in order to disrupt the speaker? This is a violation of the speaker’s freedom of speech and of the audience’s right to hear their speaker. A considerate mother would try to quiet the baby down by sticking a rubber nipple or a bottle of milk in its mouth. If that doesn’t work, she should try to make her way to the ladies’ room to see if there is a problem. An auditorium or a theater is no place for a crying baby.
August 12, 2016 Friday. Mr. Trump has clarified the story on Fox News about the crying child at one of his campaign stops. He said he did not tell the woman to leave with her child. He said he was, in fact, talking to the woman and joking around with her.
One of Donald Trump’s complaints is that the liberal news media is quick to jump on any little thing that he may do wrong while ignoring some of the terrible deeds that Hillary does. He says he is fighting against two opponents: 1) Hillary, and 2) the liberal main stream media. The media is biased because we live in Satan’s world, as Mr. Armstrong would say. Satan is the prince of the air as it says in Ephesians 2:2, “Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience.” Armstrong said that means the airwaves, the TV and radio broadcasts that appeals to our lusts, and which also includes lying. Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics once said, and continues to say, that real journalism has died years ago. They refuse to report about the evils of abortion and the evils of Islamic terrorists while ridiculing Christianity, creationism, and the Bible. Thomas Jefferson once said, “If I had to choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, I wouldn’t hesitate to choose the latter.” In today’s age, he would look around and say what Hillary once said, “What difference does it make?” Both government and news media are corrupt.
TRUMP AND THE GRIEVING MUSLIM PARENTS
August 2, 2016 Tuesday. The Democratic National Convention has been over for five days now, but Donald Trump is still in hot water over what a Muslim father said to him about their Muslim son dying in Afghanistan. Mr. Trump stated that his policy, if and when he becomes president, would be a temporary halt to all those who come from Muslim countries. The Democrats, especially Obama, have used the tragedy these parents are suffering from to portray Donald Trump as a cruel, insensitive, inhuman, hot tempered businessman who is unfit to be president.
The grieving Muslim parent holds up a copy of the U.S. Constitution and shows it to Donald Trump. So what’s in the Constitution that Mr. Trump needs to see? Nothing. Is there an amendment that says we must import as many Muslims as want to come into the United States? No, it doesn’t. Does it say that most Muslims are loyal, trustworthy, kind, courteous, and patriotic? It doesn’t. And some of us, like Mr. Trump (but not Mr. Obama) have learned that a Muslim can easily be a foe rather than a friend. Mr. Obama should blame himself for the death of their son,. He was his commander in chief. Not only that, he has these rules of engagement in which the Taliban enemy can only be shot at if they are shooting first at you. They can walk right by our troops unharmed unless and until they, the Taliban enemy, starts shooting. What he should have shown was a copy of the Koran. It says that when a Muslim dies in battle, he goes directly to Paradise where he is given 72 virgins. Shouldn’t Mr. Kahn be happy for his son rather than distraught?
60 MINUTES INTERVIEWS DONALD TRUMP AND MICHAEL PENCE
July 22, 2016 Friday. The mainstream liberal media is always against the conservatives and constantly attacks them. Last Sunday’s interview of Donald Trump and Michael Pence by Leslie Stahl was no different. She starts off saying that the world is in chaos, and she wanted to know if they were ready for the challenge. The world is in chaos? How can that be with Barrack Husein Obama, the world’s smartest man, in the White House as President of the United States. And Hillary Clinton, the world’s smartest woman (if not the world’s smartest person) was Secretary of State. How can the world be in chaos with the two world’s smartest people in the White House?
Leslie Stahl asks about ISIS. She asks Donald Trump if he would declare war on ISIS. When Mr. Trump said yes, she asked if he would send troops on the ground. Oh, no, Leslie! We don’t want to send troops on the ground, do we, Leslie? Yet, isn’t that why the world is in chaos, because there’s no America troops on the ground, thanks to our wonderful president Barrack Husein Obama?
Leslie asks Donald how he would defeat ISIS? Not with American troops! No, no! Loretta Lynch knows how to defeat ISIS. You defeat ISIS with love. That’s how you defeat ISIS, Leslie. With love.
Donald Trump says the war in Iraq was handled badly. He said he was against the war in Iraq while Hillary was for it. Mike Pence was for the war in Iraq, but we’re all entitled to make a mistake; and that was long ago. Was the war in Iraq a mistake? It depends. What are you trying to do in Iraq? The war began originally in response to Saddam’s refusal to allow inspections for weapons of mass destruction--namely poisonous chemical and gas weapons. He used those weapons on the Kurds. In my opinion, the mission failed when the new Iraqi government drew up a constitution that made Islam the national religion. Iraqi Christians now have less freedom because of our actions than they did under Saddam.
Leslie brought up the subject of water boarding and spent a few minutes discussing it with Donald Trump. The fact that ISIS uses water to drown its victims was only mentioned briefly. It is non lethal water boarding that was the center of Leslie’s utter disgust.
Lastly, Leslie seems to have a distaste for Donald Trump’s name calling. There’s nothing wrong with name calling according to the Bible if it’s true. Jesus did some name calling himself. The main thing is that you must not be guilty of the same sin, and even any sin, if you are going to resort to name calling.
July 11, 2016 Monday. We can all agree with Mr. Obama when he said that last week was quite a week.
BATON ROUGE SHOOTING
July 17, 2016 Sunday. Three police officers were killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana today.
And
DALLAS SHOOTING
July 9, 2016 Saturday. Five police officers were killed and nine others were wounded by a black gunman.
These two shootings represent a small portion of the violence that is taking place in America and around the world by only a few individuals. Some shooters are Muslims and feel it is their religious duty to kill the infidels. Other shooters have hatred for white people and are only too happy to do away with them. Whatever the reason, they are able to get their hands on powerful weapons and create a great slaughter. This, I believe, is what Jesus meant when he said in Matthew 24:37 that, “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in coming of the Son of Man.” Jesus mentions that they were eating and drinking and getting married when the Flood came suddenly on them all. There’s another similarity between the time before the Flood and our time. It says in Genesis 6:5, “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” It also says in Genesis 6:11, “The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was FILLED WITH VIOLENCE.”
HILLARY CLINTON - DISHONEST, IRRESPONSIBLE AND ABOVE THE LAW
July 6, 2016 Wednesday. The dismissal of the email case again Hillary Clinton by FBI Director James Colby is absolute proof that she can get away with anything. She doesn’t care if she lies when she lies; and half the American people don’t care if she lies when she lies.
Donald Trump often calls her “Lying Hillary.” But he seldom gives the reasons why Hillary is a liar. At Erie Community College, we are taught that when we make a statement, we should back it up by at least two example. The FBI has given us four reasons why Hillary Clinton is a liar:
1) Gowdy: Clinton said she never sent or received any classified information over her private e-mail, was that true?
Comey: Our investigation found that there was classified information sent.
Gowdy: It was not true?
Comey: That’s what I said.
Gowdy: OK. Well, I’m looking for a shorter answer so you and I are not here quite as long. Secretary Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her e-mails sent or received. Was that true?
Comey: That’s not true. There were a small number of portion markings on I think three of the documents.
2) Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said, “I did not e-mail any classified information to anyone on my e-mail there was no classified material.” That is true?
Comey: There was classified information emailed.
3) Gowdy: Secretary Clinton used one device, was that true?
Comey: She used multiple devices during the four years of her term as Secretary of State.
4) Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said all work related emails were returned to the State Department. Was that true?
Comey: No. We found work related email, thousands, that were not returned.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said neither she or anyone else deleted work related emails from her personal account.
Comey: That’s a harder one to answer. We found traces of work-related emails in — on devices or in space. Whether they were deleted or when a server was changed out something happened to them, there’s no doubt that the work related emails that were removed electronically from the email system.
Gowdy: Secretary Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails and were overly inclusive. Did her lawyers read the email content individually?
Comey: No.
THE BENGHZI REPORT
Early this month (July 8th, 2016), we learned from the Benghzi Report that the attack lasted 8 hours--from the time it started to the time the last American died. In that time, nothing was done. There was confusion as to what kind of clothes the American military mission that was to be flown in from Spain were to wear. Should they wear military uniforms or should they wear civilian uniforms so as not to offend the Libyan government. There was also a stand down order which some American officers disobeyed so that more Americans would not die. In the aftermath, Secretary Clinton told the American people that the perpetrators of the attack were terrorists. But to the families of the four dead Americans, she lied to them and said it was a spontaneous protest that was due to an anti-Muslim video on the Internet presented several months ago. Lastly, we learned that there were early warnings of an imminent attack. The British and other nationals removed their personnel out of harms way before the attack began.
Now this same Hilary Clinton who was our Secretary of State at the time of the Benghazi attacks and who could not protect four Americans from a needless death, wants to be president and to be trusted with 300 million of our lives. There is a scripture in the Bible that has something to say about that: "He (or she) who cannot be trusted in little, cannot be trusted in much.” (Luke 16:10)
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
July 4, 2016 Monday. Today we celebrate our 240th birthday as a nation. We, of course, do this traditionally by shooting off fireworks.
For several reasons, I often wonder why we celebrate Independence Day. One is that Great Britain was one of the world’s greatest champions of liberty, freedom and justice at the time in 1776. It still is today. Was the struggle and bloodshed really necessary? This may seem like a silly question today. But it wasn’t to the American colonists. According to our grammar school textbooks, only one third of the American colonists were in favor of and supported the war for independence. One third of the colonists actually fought with Great Britain against George Washington and the Revolutionary Army. The other one third of the colonists remained neutral for most of the war. So we gained our independence from Great Britain. Then one and half centuries later, we are allies in the greatest war the world has ever experienced--World War I. Twenty years later, we are again allies in even a greater war that threatened their very survival as a free nation. We are still the greatest of allies together with Canada and 25 other countries in the NATO alliance.
One of the major grievances of the American colonists was that King George was exercising too much power over them. Our Founding Fathers gave us a Constitution that would limit the powers of the federal government. Which brings up the second reason why we shouldn’t bother to celebrate the Fourth of July. Today more and more power is being taken away by Barak Hussein Obama who is acting much like a foreign king with his executive orders. There is speculation that he may declare a national emergency before November and suspend the elections, and so remain in office after his term expires in January. Not only that, he is busy bringing in all these Muslims (250,000 a year) into our country to make this a Islamic state. And Hillary Clinton has promised to bring in five times (1,250,000) more Muslim immigrants into this country if she becomes the next president. Many of these Muslims don’t even want to observe our Independence Day because of their Ramadan holy days.
The third reason and the biggest reason for not celebrating the Fourth of July is our tremendous national debt of nearly 20 trillion dollars. Our Founding Fathers would be aghast if they could see all the money we owe.
This is a day when we really need to pray to God Almighty for His help and guidance.
July 4, 2017 Tuesday. It is the Fourth of July once again. It is quite different than it was last year. Last year I seriously thought there was going to be a historical upheaval and that Barak Obama would seize power and make himself dictator over the United States for as long as he lived. Or, just as bad, or worse, that Hillary Clinton would win the White House and bring in five times more Muslim immigrants than Obama.
Thankfully, Mr. Trump was elected, which ended what I think would have been a bleak future for the United States. We still have the monumental national debt to contend with. That is a national disgrace. Mr. Trump promised to bring down or even eliminate the national debt after he rebuilds our deteriorating infrastructure andrestores our military to protect our national interests and those of our allies.
May God bless our leaders who pledged to make America great again. May God bless America.
BRITISH EXIT FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION
June 28, 2016 Tuesday. Last week, over half of the British people voted to leave the European Union. The main reason was because of Britain being forced to receive immigrants from Middle Eastern countries. These immigrants are mostly Muslims, and they do not assimilate into their hosts’ countries. It is my opinion that the British people did the right thing. I believe that Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries are spreading Islam throughout Britain as well as to the United States and the Western world in order to subjugate them to Sharia law. There is still a danger they still may do this. The Muslim population in the Western world is increasing slowly but surely, and, in some cases, rapidly. Because of their high reproductively (having a lot of children), they can easily outnumber the native infidel populations by the next generation. Not only is this a danger to the future of our NATO partners, it is also a burden on our countries because require public assistance or welfare. They are only too happy to go on welfare because we infidels are their servants, and so we doing only doing our duty as third class citizens in giving them our money. They are also a strain on our economies because unemployment is high, and jobs are scare. They are only making a bad situation a lot worse. They are also a menace to the female population of they new countries because the rape crimes have gone up. Muslim men regard women who do not wear the burka or the hijab as whores and deserving to be raped.
One World Government
There is a sort of dismay that this departure of Britain from the European Union will not only cause more dissatisfied members to leave the European Union, but it may hamper the nations of the world from forming a one world government. The Armstrong Church would preach that mankind dreams of a one world government. At the same time, everyone agrees that a one world government in the hand’s of man would be a nightmare. What kind of government would this world government be? Would it be a Muslim government where everyone must be a Muslim or they are a third class citizen? where all women would be treated as third class citizens? Would it be a Catholic government under the pope? Would it be a communist government like in Cuba, North Korea and China where the individual has no inalienable rights? Even in a democratic or republican government, we would have problems. There is so much corruption with all these lobbyists buying off all of our politicians.
This web site shows why it is not a good idea to be importing Muslims into our Western countries:
Leading US Imam and Professor: Muslims Can Take Property of “Filthy” Christians and Jews (Video)
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/12/leading-us-imam-and-professor-muslims-can-take-property-of-filthy-christians-and-jews-video/
So-called president Obama wants us Christians and Jews to open our hearts and do what is right and generous according to our Judeo-Christian faith to these Muslims who wish to evict us from our own homes according to their religion.
D-Day
June 6, 2016 Monday. This is the 74th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy. My heart and focus of attention when I think of D-Day is the American landings at Omaha Beach. It was a near disaster that almost resulted in the complete defeat of the Allied forces that day. The tanks that were suppose to support our troops were overcome by the ocean currents. Most of them capsized trying to fight the currents. Naval support had halted twenty minutes before the first wave of American troops hit the beach. This allowed the Germans who had evacuated the bunkers and pillboxes to go back and man their machine guns. Half the Americans didn’t know how to swim; so many of our soldiers drowned. Today, I was watching the History Channel that had the D-Day invasion films and stories on. What a horrible event that was! When one of the first seven landing craft on the beach lowered its ramp, the Germans machine gunned all the soldiers. The casualty rate of the first assault wave was 85%. Gen. Omar Bradley was not getting any communications from them. He sent out a patrol boat to find out why. He received word that the American forces had been nearly wiped out. He was deciding that those remaining on the beach should be evacuated.
Man-Made Earthquakes
May 8, 2016 Sunday. On 60 Minutes tonight, it was reported that Oklahoma is experiencing a high (over 900 a year) number of man-made earthquakes caused by the oil industry returning salt water waste deep underground. It just seems to me that all this mess with the salt water and the man-made earthquakes are so unnecessary. Oklahoma is a dry state with lots of sunshine. Why can’t they use solar energy to distill the water so that it can be used for drinking, irrigation, and recreational purposes? This modern age of ours has taught us that we just cannot dump our wastes into our lakes and streams nor dispose of it underground where it can’t be seen and where it causes “earthquakes.” There was one 60-Minute story about California trying to recycle raw sewage to be used as drinkable water. We need to think “recycle” in every aspect of our lives.
Donald Trump’s Triumph
May 6, 2016 Friday. Congratulations to Mr. Donald Trump for his victory in Indiana’s Tuesday primary. His nomination as the GOP’s presidential candidate is certain.
Ted Cruz suspended his campaign; and soon afterward, so did John Kasich. I am glad to see Ted Cruz drop out. Though his platform is very much similar to Donald Trump’s, I feel Ted Cruz has no business running for president of the USA since he was born in Canada. I don’t care what any judge may say, the Constitution is clear that one of the qualifications of the president is that he/she must be a natural born citizen of the U.S. This means Mitt Romney should not have run for president since he was born in Mexico. And it is questionable about John McCain. He was born in the Panama Canal Zone. It seems like if you were born outside the USA and you want to run for president, all you need is a six gun or a gang of thugs to wipe anybody out if someone should challenge you on the birth issue. The first ones to challenge Obama on his qualification was Bill and Hillary Clinton. Then for some unexplained reason, they were silenced.
The big question now is can Donald Trump unite the GOP. And the answer really is: Who cares? Some parts of the Republican Party are just as liberal as most of your Far Left Democrats. Donald Trump only has to show the majority of American voters that he really is going to make America great again.
Long Live The Prince
April 25, 2016 Monday. We mourn the passing of Prince, one of the nation’s talented entertainers. Like so many of our gifted actors, actresses, singers, and song writers, Prince rose from the bottom to dazzling heights of fame, glory and wealth. Like Elvis, Whitney Houston, and others, Prince turned to drugs. Instead of expanding his horizons, like Elvis and Whitney, he descended into a world of total self-centeredness and selfishness. Jesus warns what happens a person is not rich towards God. He says, “You fool! This night your soul shall be required of you. Then whose shall those things be which you have provided?” (Luke 12:20)
Deflategate
April 25, 2016 Monday. Tom Brady of the New England Patriots is being penalized for throwing footballs that were underinflated. This infraction was presumably discovered when one of Tom’s passes was intercepted by the other team. What puzzles me is that the referees get their hands on the ball after the end of each play. Didn’t they notice the difference?
Free Stuff
April 25, 2016 Monday. Bill O’Reilly and Jesse Watters on the O’Reilly Factor argue that we should strive to make ourselves more educated in order to achieve our goals and becoming productive citizens. This is in contrast to expecting the government to give us everything for free. God wants us to do work and reap the rewards or the fruits of our labors. When we do this, that is called a blessing. We work hard; God blesses us; and we enjoy the bounty of labors. The trouble with free stuff is that we can no longer afford to give out free stuff. Our national debt is rapidly approaching $200 trillion. The dollar is on the verge of collapse and our economy is on the verge of collapse. If and when we get our budget back into balance, then we could offer “free” stuff to our citizens. The Bible says we should be generous to our poor. But it warns us about being lazy. II Thessalonians 3:10, says, “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
April 18, 2016 Monday. The so-called missing 28-pages of the Report on the 9/11 Attacks reveal that Saudi Arabia government officials were responsible for the destruction of the Twin World Trade Center Towers in New York City and the damage done to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. There is a bill in Congress that would hold Saudi Arabia financially responsible for some or all the damages and injuries that we’ve suffered in that attack. Obama says he will not sign the bill. Saudi Arabia has threatened to sell all of its American assets. Obama has shown that he is loyal to the king of Saudi Arabia when he bowed to the king as well as the prince of Saudi Arabia. We suffered a bloody nose worse than Pearl Harbor. Yet, we just have to suck it up and go on as if nothing happened.
The Disdain of Obama
March 31, 2016 Thursday. I’m a little late in my response to Obama’s trip to Cuba and Argentina. I would rather ignore it altogether. But it’s hard for me to ignore blatant disdain and dishonor from someone who claims to be the POTUS. He goes to a baseball game and does the wave with the dictators of Cuba while 35 people are murdered and 270 are wounded in Brussels, Belgium by Islamic terrorists. He goes down to Argentina to a tango party and dances the tango with someone other than his wife. His hatred and disdain for the West, our Western allies and for the Office of the Presidency of the United States is widely documented. He has not only dishonored our country and our allies, he even dishonored his own wife, his own marriage, and his own family. One local radio personality remarked that it is apparent that Obama has checked out of his job. I rather think Obama is still in the White House doing all he can to humiliate, discredit and disrespect our Western culture and values as much as he can for his last 294 days in office. Some Muslims were celebrating the Brussels terrorist attack by passing out candy. Obama appears to be celebrating the sufferings and deaths of over 300 people by attending a baseball game in Cuba and dancing the tango in Argentina. He has shown that he loves our enemies and that he hates us and our friends.
The Brussels Attack
March 22, 2016 Tuesday. Today. ISIS attacked two more civilian targets in the West. One was at the Brussels airport and the other was at the Maelbeek metro station in the center of Brussels. Thirty-four people are dead and 200 or more people are injured. The response of the Democratic candidates was pathetic. Hillary wants the military to do everything in its power to punish ISIS except water boarding; but we shouldn’t limit the number of Muslims immigrants coming into this country. Bernie Sanders has some fantastic dream of making the Muslim countries fight and destroy ISIS. Obama, in the meantime, did not think it was much of a big deal. He did not cut short his trip to Havana, Cuba. He was enjoying a baseball game. The Republicans were justifiably outraged and spoke of some of the actions they would take to eliminate ISIS.
I was listening to a Jamie Glaznov video last night. It was a speech he made last year. And he expressed his anger that the American media and most, if not all, of our politicians refuse to separate the words “Islamic” and “extremists.” Bill O’Reilly called the members of ISIS “savages.” But then he or someone on his show said we do not have any problems with the Muslims here in this country. He knows that ISIS regards innocent civilians as “infidels.” This term is a religious word used by the Muslims and is found in their Koran. One retired U.S. general on Bill O’Reilly’s show revealed the only solution to this problem. Muslims should lose their citizenship--even if they are natural-born citizens.
Political Lies And Insults
Written on March 1, 2016 Tuesday. Concerned Americans are worried that the 2016 Presidential Race is deteriorating into a shouting match in which the remaining candidates are hurling insults and accusations of lying. As a graduate of Erie Community College, my hope is that these statements and accusations will be backed up by at least two reasons or explanations. Simple name calling is boring and childish. Most of us are intelligent adults, and we want intelligent answers not mere name calling. Another name for name calling is cheap shot. We the voting public want more than cheap shots. We want a plan for our future.
Chief Justice Loretta Lynch
February 15, 2016 Monday. Antonin Scalia hasn’t had a chance to roll over in his grave before Obama selects Attorney General Loretta Lynch to succeed him on the Supreme Court. The greatest fault about Lynch is that she vows to prosecute anyone who makes an anti-Muslim comment. Muslims are at war with us. They brought down the World Trade Centers and have recently massacred hundreds of innocent people in Paris, France and San Bernardino, CA. This is another typical outrage of the so-called President of the United State. Any senator who gives their vote to her should be voted out of office.
March 27, 2016 Sunday. Obama has appointed Merrick Garland as the next Supreme Court judge to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The Tea Party calls on the GOP not to consider voting to approve of his nomination because of his record on gun control. He is also in favor of environmental regulations. We all like a clean environment, but some groups are trying to hurt our energy industry, put people out of work, and make us dependent on foreign energy.
The New Hampshire Primary
February 14, 2016 Sunday. The outcome of the primary in New Hampshire produced few surprises. Democratic voters voted for their neighbor Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The Republican favorite was Donald Trump. What is interesting is what was said and done afterwards. First prize in hypocrisy goes to Hillary. She was speaking up for the black Americans who are so poor and oppressed. This so-called “champion of oppressed blacks” had a husband in the White House who signed the bill for free trade with Communist Red China. This has caused many of our factories and jobs to leave this country and relocate over there. It has cause the loss of many jobs for many black Americans as well as white Americans. She should be blamed for the oppression her husband caused on these black and white Americans.
Donald Trump and Voter Fraud in Iowa
February 5, 2016 Friday. Donald Trump is making a big stink over his loss in Iowa. He claims Ted Cruz is guilty of voter fraud. This is quite an accusation. After all, Ted Cruz is supposedly a man of conservative Christian principles. How could a decent man do something so dishonest? Well, if Ted Cruz was an honest man, he should not run as president of the U.S. because he was born in Canada. I may not know all the technicalities concerning that one qualification for president, but that’s the way I read it in the Constitution. If this is what we can expect from an honest man in the primaries, what can we expect from a dishonest woman in the general elections except massive voter fraud unequaled in the history of the world. From what I’ve heard, our presidential ballots are being counted somewhere in Europe (Spain) by a company that’s owned by George Soros. Are we crazy? Have we lost our collective minds?
February 6, 2016 Saturday. It seemed like we have problems with the words “natural born citizen” as it is written in the Constitution. When we talk about a natural born citizen of Florida, we know what we mean. When we talk about a natural born citizen of Alaska, we know what we mean. When we talk about a natural born citizen of Kentucky or any other state, we know what we mean. But when we’re talking about a natural born citizen of the United States, we don’t what we mean or what the Constitution means. We have to go to court and let some judge figure it out. Never mind what we read with our own eyes; and never mind common sense.
Obama’s Last State of the Union Address
January 18, 2016 Monday. So-called “President” Obama made his last (Thank God!) State of the Union Address last Tuesday, January the 12th. Since I have utter contempt for a “leader” who is doing everything he can to destroy America and who does not share my Christian values, I certainly did not watch or listen to him. I did catch a few words he said from some of the comments that were made afterwards. He talked about the divisiveness that we find in America. That is not new. We are a divided country. A shrinking number of us are still Christian, while a growing number of Americans are becoming ultra liberal. He spoke about the need for better understanding and kinder thoughts for the Muslims. I suppose this is in contrast to Trumps’ calling for a temporary halt in Muslim immigration. It’s probably the first time the word “Muslim” as been spoken in a State of the Union Address. That is not reassuring to me. It would be different if the Muslim World recently revised the Koran to exclude all the commands to treat infidels as less than dogs, to kill the Jews, to hate the Christians, to chop heads off, and to chop hands off. But they haven’t. They are still the violent, blood-thirsty, war-mongering religion they’ve been for hundreds of years. Another thing I want to mention is his use of the word “kids.” When I was in 5th grade, I tried to tell my nun teacher that a child is a kid. She corrected me and said that a kid is a baby goat; a child is a person. We are trying to teach our children proper English. Yet, we have a president of the United States with a college degree who uses the word “kids” in his State of the Union Address. This is an unwelcome precedent and a further deterioration of our English language. Now, “kids” all across America can point to Obama’s State of the Union Address in which the president of the U.S. referred to children as “kids.” Lastly, he said the economy is improving. This is a flat out lie. Millions of Americans are receiving food stamps. Many are receiving Medicaid and Medicare. Instead of promoting job creation, Obama’s administration has promoting the increase in food stamp applications. And the income for average Americans has decreased since Obama took office. This phenomena has not happened since World War II. He wants to find a cure for cancer. How noble. But this is the devil’s world. The American medical industry does not want cures for any disease. They only want to treat diseases using drugs, surgery and radiation.
Elvis’s Birthday.
January 8, 2016 Friday. Bill O’Reilly was saying that Elvis died at an early age because his heart gave out since he was not able to handle all the pressure. He said Elvis Presley was the greatest entertainer ever. If he knew a little more about Elvis and the life he lived, he wouldn’t have lavish such high praise for him. He may have been a great entertainer, but he wasn’t much of a great person. I read a small book about Elvis that was told by one of his fired long-time bodyguards. Here are some of the things he said:
1) Elvis thought of himself as no less than a god. His bodyguards had to sweat in the hot burning Southern sun while Elvis was trying to show them he could move a cloud in the sky with his mind.
2) He seriously contemplated having his estranged wife’s boy friend wiped out by a hit man.
3) He would go on a binge diet in which he had to eat a certain food, like peanut butter, until he made himself sick.
4) He did not know how to play the guitar even though we’ve often seen him on stage with a guitar.
5) He hated Catholics and he hated blacks. One time when he was angry, he called his black chorus girls the N word.
6) He laughed at his bodyguards when there was a death threat made against him; and his bodyguards were on stage to shield him from any bullets. He thought it was cute that they would die for him.
7) He craved adoration from his fans. One time, the audience was too quiet for him, so he started handing out money to his audience to get them to go crazy over him.
8) He was into all kinds of drugs. One time he was trying to do some karate fighting in a gym. One former drug addict saw him sweating profusely and said, “Man, I wish I had what he’s got.” I believe he took a drug (uppers) in the morning to keep himself going during the day; and he took a drug (downers) at night so that he could fall asleep.
9) He had a gun, and whenever he didn’t like what was on TV, he would shoot the TV so that it would explode.
10) He only paid his bodyguards $60 a week because he wanted them to be dependent on him, he figured he was sharing everything he owned with them anyway.
11) He was very generous; but his bodyguards said it was because he wanted to see his benefactor go nuts over getting an expensive item like a late model limousine absolutely free.
12) Some woman was angry with him while he was playing pool. She called him an S.O.B.; so he threw the cue stick at her--hitting her in the breast. She suffered permanent paralyses in that one breast.
January 15, 2016 Saturday. At the end of his book, Red West stated, “We love the S.O.B.” And that’s how I feel. For all his faults, we still love him. I bought several of his early recordings. “Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear,” was the very first Elvis record I bought. I also bought “Jailhouse Rock.” I very much liked his song, “Hound Dog,” but I never bought that recording for some reason or another. I like his later recordings when his voice changed to a deeper voice that was more operatic. My favorite song of his is, “The Wonder of You.” I really like watching and listening to Elvis impersonators. When I first saw Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show, the girls were screaming at him. I couldn’t understand that. I thought girls only scream when there’s something terribly wrong. I went to see the movie, “Jailhouse Rock.” I couldn’t believe how many girls there were at the theater. Then they were screaming and yelling when Elvis was singing. Some of the guys were clapping their hands to the music. I couldn’t understand that. It’s just a movie. It was just a picture on a movie screen. Everybody was acting like it was the real thing. I couldn’t understand that.
Trump - Hater In Chief
January 4, 2016 Monday. Donald Trump was asked why he allowed himself to be interviewed by Esquire Magazine when they turned around and used everything he said against him. My main objection to why Mr. Trump should not have given an interview for Esquire is that they are profiting from him. He gave them the opportunity to make big money and do good business by ridiculing him.
The December Republican Party Debates
December 15, 2015 Tuesday. So what is the future President Trump going to do about Islamic terrorism? That was my main concern and interest in watching the Republican debates. His chief opponent seemed to be Jeb Bush who said he was a silly one-liner. Jeb said you have to have a strategy for defeating ISIS. Jeb said you have to rely on our Muslim friends to defeat ISIS. I say you don’t need and you don’t rely on any Muslims. They are all our foes. To make them our friends, you have to give them money. They get rich by being our friends. They get stronger so that they hurt us more. That’s why the enemy is Islam and not just ISIS. It’s been said that killing ISIS is like cutting off one of the heads of Hydra--another ten takes its place. That’s because there’s so many young Muslim men who are very willing to join ISIS and al-qada and other militant groups that they can’t accept them all. So our war is against Islam and not just ISIS or al-qada.
Pearl Harbor Day
December 7, 2015 Monday. Before the 9/11 attacks, Pearl Harbor was the greatest military disaster in United States history. It was the cause of our entry into World War II. It was a sneak attack for which we hope will never happen again. But the reality of the slow attack is already upon us. We are slowly being Islamized. More and more Muslim immigrants are allowed into our country. More and more mosques are being built. More and more ISIS terrorist camps are hiding away throughout the country. More and more goods from Communist Red China are flooding the country. More and more jobs are being shipped overseas. Our own Judeo-Christian religion is slowly dying. Less and Less Americans consider themselves Christian. This day, Pearl Harbor Day, will not be much observed, especially by our news media. They may cover the gathering at Pearl Harbor of a few old survivors of the attack if there are any still alive. But the day is a fading historical event that’s fading into greater and greater irrelevancy to our news media. It is even becoming politically incorrect to remember Pearl Harbor. It is an unnecessary embarrassment. Why uncover old wounds? After all, the U.S. and Japan are the best of friends. We are allies. Japan has even considered coming to our aid in case we come under attack. So why should observe Pearl Harbor Day? Because we still need resolution now more than ever before. Our armed forces are at its lowest in preparation than at any time in recent years according to one US general. And we have a crushing national debt. We still have enemies. Japan is not one them, although Donald Trump may disagree. We just have different enemies. The one in the WH is our biggest enemy. He is forcing the states to accept these Muslim terrorists immigrants.
I knew one guy who was at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack. His name was Lenny, and he was my boss at See-North in downtown Buffalo back when I was in the Armstrong church in the 1970s. He said he was on this one ship. I don’t know the name of it. His ship was ready to move out for shooting practice. The guns were loaded with tracer bullets. So when the attack came, the ship’s guns were firing tracer bullets at the Japanese planes until they loaded the guns with the real bullets. I believe he said they didn’t knock down any Japanese planes; they were just trying to protect the ship. Later in the war, he said in the Battle of Iwo Jima or the Battle of Okinawa, his ship was sunk.
The San Bernardino Shootings
December 4, 2015 Friday. Fourteen people were killed and 21 wounded in a shooting in San Bernardino in California, a far eastern suburb of Los Angeles last Wednesday. The killers were armed with AK-47 rifles. The number of shooters killed were two, a man and his wife. Both of them were Muslims. This was another act of Muslim terrorism. And it was a great victory for them. Only two Muslims sacrificed their lives to destroy 14 infidels and injure 20. It was another black eye for America and the West. Some reporters say that the Muslim shooters were radicalized. And how does a Muslim become radicalized? Answer: By reading the Koran where it says to hate the Christian and kill the Jew and the rest of the infidels. Muslims like to slaughter as many of the infidels as possible. They love crowds like at the social club building in San Bernardino and the Boston Marathon. New York City is a nice juicy target for them--so many people crowded into one tiny space.
There was the usual rhetoric that not all Muslims are terrorists, and that not all Muslims are evil. Well their Koran is evil. It tells these Muslims to chop our infidel heads off and kill the Jews. All of them don’t have to be evil. Two of them was enough for now. They love death more than we love life. Children of terrorists want to grow up to be like their father.
Bill O’Reilly was asking Mr. Trump a number of questions. He asked about all those thousands of Muslims who were cheering the collapse of the two World Trade Centers. Bill O’Reilly said there were only a few. I remember 9/11. I remember how they were celebrating in Lebanon. They were cheering and passing out candy to each other. Yasser Arafat, the president of the PLO, knew better. He had to quiet them down least the wrath of America be poured upon them.
Can the violence be stopped? Bill O’Reilly said you can’t stop them all. Mr. Trump advocates shutting down the mosques that aids the terrorists. He also says all the other mosques should be under surveillance. Those are steps in the right direction. Some other big helpful steps would be a reduction in the Muslim population in the United States. Instead, thanks to Obama’s refugee program, we are forced to take in and increase the Muslim population. Are we insane? We want the violence to stop, yet we are importing all these Muslims. At least we should be fingerprinting, foot printing and retina scanning every Muslim that’s on America soil.
CAIR apologized for the murders that blackened the name of the already blackened name of Islam. If CAIR really cares about the victims of the San Bernardino shooting, they would give each of the families of those who died in the shooting a million dollars. And they should give the injured of that shooting attack at least a half million dollars.
Mocking a Deformed Reporter
November 30, 2015 Monday. 'Big' Headlines: Trump Mocks Deformed Reporter. Trump loses top rating in the polls. Trump fails to gain Black Pastors' endorsement. I still like Trump. I think many Americans still like Trump. He is our best hope in making America great again. But we are seeing what God told us in Daniel 4:17, that God sets up over the kingdom of men the basest of men. If God selects Mr. Trump as our next president, by the time January 17, 2016 rolls by, we may not be too happy about the kind of man we have voted into the White House. I mean, what is Mr. Trump going to say or do next before the 2016 Presidential Elections?
The Mellowing of Ben Carson
November 30, 2015 Monday. Fox News reported that Dr. Ben Carson is softening up his position on the Muslim refugees that coming into America. "Aw, come on, people. We know they don't want to destroy America." How does he know? Did he ask them? It wouldn't do any good because they lie to us infidels. Cameras showed him with the Muslim newcomers. What if he was handing out to them small Bibles or copies of the First Christmas Story? What would they do with them? They would probably throw them at him. That's what they did with the food they received in Hungary. Muslims DO want to destroy America. Please, America, don't bring anymore Muslims to America.
The Paris Terrorist Attack
November 18, 2015 Wednesday. Last Friday night, or Saturday morning in Europe, eight ISIS terrorists struck Paris with machine gun fire. Over a hundred people were killed and many were wounded. For their friends and families, their world has changed terribly for the worse. There was complete and continuous coverage of the event on the news channels (Fox and CNN). The next day, Saturday morning, I went to a chess tournament. I had the radio on in the car as I drove to downtown Buffalo. You would hardly know there was a major terrorist attack. There was the usual commercials and radio programs. Everything is back to normal. So what is the aftermath of these attacks going to be? We are going to have increased security measures and increased cooperation among the Western nations. Then we have the usual cries of Islamophobia from the Muslims. What you don’t have are cries of anguish and indignation from the Muslims that these attacks were carried out in the name of Allah and the Islam religion. You don’t have Muslims grieving for the victims and the families of those victims. What you have instead is the guarding against the world’s outrage of these senseless violent acts and possible repercussions. Someday, the world is going to wise up and deal forcefully and permanently with the Muslim people who think of us infidels as worse than dogs, and the murdering of us as merely target practice, and the practicing of their insane religion.
Mr. Trump’s response to what Obama had to say echoes my own feelings. Obama is an embarrassment to the United States. He insists that the terrorist attack was merely a setback and that the importing of Syrian refugees, most of whom are Muslims, will continue. Most of the states in the Union have declared that they will not accept these undocumented refugees. I applaud their action. They are doing something to defend themselves because Obama is doing everything he can to destroy us. I really believe this country cannot survive another year under Obama. Congress is under the control of the Republican Party and Republican Speaker Paul Ryan, but they are doing nothing to stop Obama.
Mrs. Clinton and the other Democratic Party candidates insists that we are not at war with Islam or the Muslims. We Americans should remember the words of our hated enemy Osama bin Laden who demanded that we become an Islamic nation or be destroyed. We are at war with Islam and the Muslims, and we are losing that war because of people like Obama and Hillary.
Bill O’Reilly had a Muslim imam guest from Oregon on his show Monday night. He suggested a one million man army to march before the nation and denounce the violence the terrorists are perpetrating in the name of Allah and Islam. The imam promised they will. I say: Don’t hold your breath. Besides, they can say whatever they want. However, they can lie for Allah as well as kill for Allah.
Also, over the weekend, I heard Republican candidate Carly Fiorina say that she believes Obama is a Christian because he said he is and she takes him at his word. How sweet and naïve of her. As Mr. Trump pointed out last Monday night, Christians communities have been virtually wiped out in Iraq, and Obama didn’t do anything to help them. Mr. Trump also pointed out that as a Syrian Christian, it is almost impossible to find refugee in the United States. But as a Syrian Muslim, it is very easy into enter the United States.
Practice What You Preach
October 20, 2015 Tuesday. In San Francisco at Evert Middle School, the principal, Lena Van Haren was holding up the result of the student government elections because they were not in accord with the school's social engineering policy, as told by Bill O'Reilly of the O'Reilly Factor on Fox News tonight. The school is 80% Hispanic, 20% white, and 10% black. Yet, most of those elected were white. If the school wants a politically correct student government, they should start at the top. The principal, Lena Van Haren, is a blond, a white woman. She should resign her job as principal, and the school should hire someone in her place who is 60% Hispanic, 20% white, and 10% black.
The Democratic Debates
October 14, 2015 Wednesday. I did not watch much of the Democratic Debates. I tuned in late. Then after watching and listening to Hillary for a few minutes, I turned it off. I cannot stand that lying hypocrite. She is especially hypocritical when she says that the Bible is her source of inspiration. This is how she said it a few years back:
"At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement."
Then she marches with the gays. She says Kate Davis should be sent to jail; so she insists that we must take the holy and sacred institution of marriage and share it with the gays, which God said is an abomination.
She is the strongest supporter of Planned Parenthood and abortion--the slaughter of innocent unborn (and sometimes born) babies. Incidentally, these born babies are what our Constitution calls United States citizens.
She and the Democratic Party are pushing for financing the college education of every illegal alien who can sneak into this country. Our Founding Fathers would be aghast to see how insane we've become. We have a $18 trillion national debt, yet Hillary and the other Democrats want to make it much larger. That's like pouring gasoline on a forest fire. The reason for this proposal is to gain more Democratic voters. This is corrupt politics at its worst. George Washington warned us about political parties. He said it would divide the country. We now have politicians like Hilary who are willing to sacrifice the safety of this country and the future of this country for the sake of their political party and their political careers to get elected.
Hillary wants the federal government to be able to sue the gun manufacturer for any and all crimes by the purchaser of their products. This confirms what many have said--that Hillary is more anti-2nd amendment than Obama.
Nothing was to be said about her emails. General Paetraus lost his career over his emails. Yet, Hillary covers up her fault, denies it happened, then when ordered to do so, she turns over only a fraction of the evidence to Congress. She wants us to give her a pass; after all, it was just a small simple mistake.
She failed in Benghazi. Four Americans were killed in Benghazi while she was the secretary of state. Those four Americans begged for help, but no help came. Hillary latter lied and said the attack was the result of some Mohammad video that was on the Internet a year ago.
One pollster is surprised that 60% of Americans do not believe she is telling the truth. I am surprised and dismayed that 40% of Americans believe she is telling the truth and would vote for her as our next president.
Thoughts about the Pope’s Visit to the USA
September 26, 2015 Saturday. Pope Francis was welcomed to the United States by enthusiastic crowds in Washington and New York. He met with Mr. & Mrs. Obama. His main message was about climate control or global warming. Some interesting observations to note are: (1) He met with Obama who voted for a law when he was a state senator to end the lives of babies who survived abortion. But he wouldn’t meet with Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid who are also abortion proponents. (2) He rode in an open motorcade that looks like a white jeep. Anyone with a gun could have shot him. One pope was shot by a young Turkish man several years ago. Pope Francis would have been shot by a Muslim if (3) he spoke out against the Muslim immigrant invasion to Europe and America. Also, ISIS wants to take over Rome and behead him. Instead of the problem we’re having with the Muslims, he spoke out about climate control. This is an important topic. It is about global pollution. It’s been said that if every country in the world were as industrialized as the United States, we wouldn’t have any breathable air left. We would all be dead. Now China is the greatest polluter of the planet. He doesn’t seem to offer any solution to the pollution problem. (4) When Obama was elected, he was invited to Notre Dame to give a presentation. Obama wanted the crosses covered, which they were. Now Obama calls the pope “Holy Father.” I think that’s worse than uncovered crosses. We are all brothers and sisters. There’s only one Holy Father and that’s the one I pray to every night.
Trumps Cancels Appearance On Fox News
September 26, 2015 Saturday. Donald Trump stills leads in the polls as the most favorite candidate to win the Republican Party nomination, but he seems a little too sensitive to criticism. He has alienated another natural ally--Bill O’Reilly of Fox News. We still need a Donald Trump in the White House to fix the mess that Obama made, to bring back jobs from China, and to make America great again. But Donald Trump is showing that he really is a divider. This is unfortunate. I had this bad feeling he was eventually going to do or say something wrong that would offend the majority of conservative voters.
Trump: "I love the Muslims"
September 21, 2015 Monday. But they don’t love you. It’s against their religion. They only pretend to love you. They pretend to love infidel women to lure them into their religion and then to enslave them. If you are an infidel, they are only allowed to pretend to be friends with you and to pretend to love you. If they really did befriend you and love you, an infidel, then they would be just like an infidel and become worthy of death.
The Boy With the Bomb, I mean, the Clock
September 18, 2015 Friday. A young schoolboy, Ahmed Mohamed, was arrested in Irving, Texas, for bringing to school a homemade clock that looked like a bomb. Megan Kelly of Fox News says she feels sorry for the boy. I do not. Not with a name like Ahmed Mohamed. There are, or should I say, were a lot of young boys in the Middle East who had bomb jackets strapped around their waist and blew themselves up killing close to a hundred people. One imam said he doesn't blame the police because of the current climate of fear. And who helped create that climate fear? It was the Muslims. And it is their religion to strike fear into the hearts of the infidels. How long will it be before this young innocent Muslim lad starts building bombs that look like clocks? And Obama is inviting him to the White House. The caliphate-in-chief always sides with the Muslims.
Inept President?
September 17, 2015 Thursday. Last Sunday, Donald Trump said in Dallas, "We have a president who doesn't know what the hell he's doing." I disagree. Obama knows exactly what he's doing--he's destroying the United States of America. He helps our enemies and hurts our friends. He's helping to send all our jobs overseas. Fifty million Americans are on food stamps. He's bringing in immigrates into the USA. He refuses to protect our borders from illegal immigrants. He's disarming America, including reducing our nuclear arsenal. We have the largest national debt in the history of the world. We owe more money than exists in the world.
Patriots Day
September 11, 2015 Friday. It's been 14 years since 4 hijacked airplanes took the lives of over 2500 Americans in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania. Since that time, it seems like we are fighting a losing war. We went into Afghanistan and Iraq and thought we liberated those people from Saddam Hussein and the Taliban. But these nations have Islam constitutions and now ISIS has moved into the region while our forces have moved out. At home, more and more mosques are being built and more and more Muslims are being imported into our territory. We have a president elected twice who says Islam shall not be defamed in the world. Islamic organizations within the country, like CAIR, are becoming stronger and more influential. A candidate who is strongly anit-Islam must be elected to the White House in November of 2016 or we are finished.
Donald Trump Not Humble
September 10, 2015 Thursday. Dr. Ben Carson says he reveres the Bible and quoted a scripture in the Book of Proverbs about the need to be humble before the Lord. This is true. God does resist the proud. Mr. Carson says he does not find this quality in Donald Trump. Maybe Mr. Trump has not shown himself to be humble, but he has expressed another quality--righteous indignation and simple anger about how our country is hurting by enemies foreign as well as domestic.
Kate Davis
September 4, 2015 Kate Davis, a clerk in Kentucky refuses to gives marriage licenses to gay couples who want to get married. The Federal government having her thrown in jail for violating the law and violating the rights of gay people to get married. Donald Trump says he sympathizes with Kate Davis, but the law is the law. It's hard to argue that except the Supreme Court interprets the law, not makes the law. Our inalienable rights, according to the Declaration of Independence, come from God. God did not give gays the right to marry. He forbids homosexuality and says if they don't repent of their life style, they shall not enter the Kingdom of God.
September 10, 2015 Thursday. The liberal press has found a lot of background material (dirt) on our persecuted Christian heroine. She went through several marriages and divorces. She had some children out of wedlock. This is what Jesus and Paul warned us about. We cannot go around being hypocritical. Maybe Kate Davis has repented of her past mistakes. If so, we forgive her. But you should practice what you preach. If you expect others to live a Christian life, you yourself must first live a Christian life. Some say she is merely hungry for the publicity. Maybe. But the apostles and Paul were guilty of denying Jesus and even fighting against him. That feeling of guilt may have drove them to zealousness. Perhaps that is what is driving Kate Davis. Her past is making her zealous of her faith.
The First Republican Debate
August 7, 2015 Friday. I don’t know about you, but I getting awfully tired of politics already. I tried to watch the debates because that’s what a good citizen is suppose to do--to be informed of what the candidates stand for. I watched a little bit of it, and thinking I could read or find out more about the debates the next day. I just wish Donald Trump were president already so that he can start making America great again as he promises to do. And I wish Obama and Hillary were forever gone from the poltical scene, never to return again. Donald Trump is starting to talk too much. He is attacking the beautiful Megan Kelley and calling her names. They are suppose to be on the same side. But that’s Donald Trump for you. You can’t accuse him of not talking too much. Unfortunately, he talked about the possibility of running as a third party candidate if he does not get the Republican nomination. That’s means in a three-way race, Hillary will become president. I admire Mr. Huckabee and Rand Paul for their stand against abortion. They said abortion should be illegal even to save the life of the mother. They should have added that abortion is never necessary to save the life of the mother in this day and age. Also, Donald Trump mentioned his concern about the national debt. He said it is $18 trillion. If it goes up to $24 trillion, the US will become like Greece on steroids, as Trump said.
Much Ado About Nothing - Is John McCain A Hero?
July 20, 2015 Monday. Donald Trump was caught in a slip which many, including Rick Perry, say he should apologize for. Mr. Perry even said Mr. Trump should disqualify himself from the presidential race for the remark he gave about McCain being captured after he was shot down over North Vietnam. Some people regard Mr. McCain as a hero because the North Vietnamese were going to free him since he was the son of an admiral or some high ranking military officer. But Mr. McCain thought that would hurt the morale of the other American prisoners, so he did not want to be released for that reason. That’s tempting, isn't it? If that were you or I, would you or I jump at the chance to be set free from captivity and go home? But does that make him a hero? A hero is someone who risks his life to save another person. After learning that their act was an act of heroism, a hero usually says, “I was just doing what I thought was right at the time.”
This is just another vain attempt to discredit Mr. Trump. The liberal or left-wing media hate Donald Trump probably because of his stand on illegal immigrants. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are guilty of our nation’s lax policy on illegal immigrants. The Democrats want more Democratic voters; and the Republican businessmen want more cheap labor.
Rare Earth
July 20, 2015 Monday. Yesterday's 60 Minutes was a repeat about China's monopoly of rare earth metals which we use in all of our electronics--from the TV sets we watch to the ipads we enjoy and to the most advanced military aircraft we fly. At the end of the story, the major American company that produces rare earth metals is on the verge of bankruptcy. The US government only gives an encouraging word, but no help. That is typical of Obama. He has bowed to two Chinese leaders, as well as to the Saudi Arabian leader, and to the Russian leader; so he is more interested in serving our enemies than in improving our defenses. He only gives lip service to the needs of the United States of America and our allies.
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Domestic Terrorist Attack & the Constitutional Convention
July 16, 2015. Thursday. Four US Marines were shot dead by a Muslim, See my comment on this under Issues - Islam for July 16.
Ariana Grande
July 10, 2015 Friday. So I go into a donut shop and spit on some of the donuts and lick the frosting off of some others. Then I say, "I hate America," and "I hate Americans," even though I was born and raised here and made a lot of money here. I'm caught on camera. So I apologize. And so now everything is all right.
It would be nice if she donated some money to a veterans group. As for an apology, don't bother. You make a fortune singing love songs and then, out of the blue you say you hate 300 million people. And you're only 22 years old. We understand. You're immature. you're just a little kid who doesn't know any better. You probably don't even know where America is.
Iran's Nuclear Program
June 30, 2015 Tuesday. Last night's The O'Reilly Factor featured a speaker who said that we've painted ourselves into a corner. I already forgot what he meant by that, but the idea seems to be that we are helpless to do anything. Most likely, we won't be doing anything as long as there is a Muslim president sitting in the White House. The only thing we are doing is the wrong thing--we are giving Iran billions of dollars not to build nuclear facilities for only their promise not to so. They do not allow on-site inspections. And they don't seem willing to keep their promises. After all, they are the lying Muslims, and we are the infidels who must be slain. If I were president, the talking would be over. It's not we who have painted ourselves into a corner; it's Iran who has painted big red bulls eyes on their nuclear facilities...as well as their Islam government.
Charleston, South Carolina
June 19, 2015 Friday. How not to start a race war: Young white man enters black church while they are having Bible school; then he shoots nine black people to death. This is so sick! It has united us all in anger at this young man and in sadness over the killing of these defenseless, innocent black people. The governor of South Carolina has promised the death penalty. But, alas, you can only execute a mass murderer once. We do have the medical technology to bring him back to life and do it all over again, but that's not the kind of people we are. But what kind of God do we have who allows mass murder in his very presence ("For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Matthew 18:20)? Reading the Bible, we know that God does allow this to happen. He even told us it will happen. God is a God of Love who is angry with the wicked everyday. (Psalm 7:11)
The Psalmist laments for Israel and the Church when he says, "But you have cast off and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies. You make us to turn back from the enemy and they which hate us spoil for themselves. You have given us like sheep pointed for meat and have scattered us among the heathen. You sell your people for nothing and do not increase your wealth by their price. You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me. For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes, by reason of the enemy and avenger. All this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant. Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way. Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death. If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god, shall not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart. Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off forever. Wherefore hide your face and forget our affliction and our oppression? (Psalms 44:9-24)
He commands us to repent, but we won't. In Revelation 9:20, after one third of the people of the world are destroyed, mankind will still not repent of their sins.
Some of our leaders call for greater gun control. But how can you keep guns out of the hands of wicked people? Once a wicked person has a gun, he has enormous power. It's not like in the old days where you get one or two shots with a hand gun. Killing people is very easy with our small, modern weapons. I suggest we each have our own weapon like they do in Texas.
Another observation: Megan Kelly wants the media to hide the face of Mr. Roof, the Charleston mass murderer. We should do whatever is right, but we still show pictures of Adolf Hitler.
Bill O'Reilly wants all firearms to be registered, from what I understand. From what I've read, gun lobbyists, gun owners, and gun clubs are opposed to this. If all guns were registered, the federal government would know owns a gun, and they would come after that person if and when guns are outlawed.
The National Debt
June 16, 2015 Tuesday. Bill O'Reilly spoke about the $18 trillion national debt. He correctly stated that if this problem is not solved soon, our economy will collapse. I hope and pray our leaders will act wisely to prevent such a disaster. However, I've read that this is exactly what Obama wants in order to achieve his goal of world government. If that's true, he should come before the American people and tell us about his wonderful plan for world government through the collapse of the dollar and the economy.
Presidential Announcements
June 15, 2015 Monday. Bill O’Reilly was commenting about Hillary Clinton’s presidential announcement today. She was attacking the very rich who own more than 25% of the nation’s wealth--more wealth than all the kindergarten teachers in the country.
Mrs. Clinton believes we should have a law or something to limit the amount of money a person can earn. Bill O’Reilly said the federal government cannot dictate what the salary of a CEO should be. What Hillary said is the same baloney Obama says all the time. He attacks the rich after taking their money. Then he does whatever they tell him to.
The rich are filthy rich because her husband Bill betrayed the Democratic Party. Rather than helping the little guy and the common working man, he betrayed the United States of America by sending all our jobs to China. We are now in a state of perpetual depression. It use to be said in the old days, "An honest day's pay for an honest day's work." Now, it's "Buy low, sell high." China is Corporate America's heaven on earth. The CEOs built cheap factories and make cheap products with cheap labor. Then they are free to dump their waste and pollution into Red China's rivers and lakes and into their air.
Donald Trump is the candidate I admire most. He promises to bring back our jobs from China and to make America great again. What I fear is that he won't take the heat the Far Left will give him. I am afraid he will drop out. I am not familiar with the song; the lyrics seem to tell about a poor homeless mother with a baby child in her arms. Hitler once commented, saying you have the freedom to starve. I could go a lot of different directions with this song. We should feed and cloth the poor since we are a rich nation. But are we a rich nation? We are $18 trillion in debt.
Jeb Bush sounds okay to me. He promises to improve the economy. But he will be Bush III. And if he's anything like Bush II, then he will outsource more jobs to third world countries like South Korea and Guatemala. I've heard he favors the illegal immigrants. He has promised to move our embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Bush II also promised to move our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but Morocco protested; so our embassy stays in Tel Aviv.
Nation Building
May 18, 2015 Monday. On The O'Reilly Factor tonight, Bill O'Reilly looks at the chaos in Iraq and the Middle East and tell us our efforts there were wasted and that nation building does not work. I am sick of hearing that. Mr. Bush never said our troops were in Iraq for the purpose of nation building. He even said we were not nation building. The opposite happened after we disposed of Saddam Hussein. We allowed the new government there to write in their Constitution that Islam (that war-like insane "religion") is the religion of the nation. When they did that, I knew our efforts were in vain and were a waste of lives and money. This comes from the Washington Post on the Constitution of Iraq:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101201450.html
Article 2:
First: Islam is the official religion of the State and it is a fundamental source of legislation:
A. No law that contradicts the established provisions of Islam may be established.
B. No law that contradicts the principles of democracy may be established.
C. No law that contradicts the rights and basic freedoms stipulated in this constitution may be established.
This is ridiculous! Talk about contradictions: Items A and B already contradict each other. The more you have of Islam, the less you have of democracy. The more you have of democracy, the less you have of Islam.
When the Iraqis wrote that into their Constitution--right under the noses of the U.S. military--then and there they had less freedom than they did under Saddam Hussein.
This is from the Constitution of Kuwait, the nation we rescued from Saddam Hussein during the administration of George Bush the First.
http://www.kuwaitconstitution.org/kuwaitconstitutionenglish.html
Article 2
.The religion of the State is Islam, and the Islamic Sharia shall be a main source of legislation
This is from the Constitution of Afghanistan where we have sent our troops and spent our money since the 9-11-2001 attacks.
http://www.afghan-web.com/politics/current_constitution.html
Article One
Ch. 1. Art. 1
Afghanistan is an Islamic Republic, independent, unitary and indivisible state.
Article Two
Ch. 1, Art. 2
The religion of the state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is the sacred religion of Islam.
This is what we get for our blood and money for NOT nation building. Islam is at war with us, and we are losing that war. Just look at who or what is in the WH right now.
Stupid American Colleges, Universities and Public Schools
May 18, 2015 Monday. On the same Bill O'Reilly Show, near the end, was a humorous look at what our American students know about basic American history and American institutions. Most of the student could not answer simple questions. The hardest question was about the words of the Star Spangled Banner, which is understandable. Mr. O'Reilly pointed out that students in private school did well in answering those questions. Our public educational institutions are controlled by the Left (according to former Leftist David Horowitz). They are becoming more and more indoctrination centers of communism, socialism, and Marxism. They are even embracing Islam. Instead enforcing patriotism and our Christian heritage, public educational institutions harbor anti-military, anti-patriotic people like Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama.
Was Jesus A Rebel?
May 14, 2015 Thursday. For the second day in a row, I heard Tom Bauerle, my favorite radio talk personality, call Jesus a rebel. His reason for doing so is that He gave a "smart" answer to the Pharisees who asked him if it was right to pay taxes to Caesar or not. The first thing I want to say is: Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane three times to God the Father to spare Him from the ordeal of suffering and dying on the cross. THREE TIMES! He did not rebel. He obeyed His Father and suffered and died on the cross. He DID NOT WANT to suffer and die on the cross. If he wanted to be a rebel, this was His golden opportunity. His answer to the Pharisees about paying taxes to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and unto God the things unto God was correct. The lawyers and Pharisees looked for every and any way to arrest Jesus. They couldn't find anything wrong with his answer.
May 16, 2015 Saturday. Even after they successfully arrested him and put Him on trial, they still couldn't find any charges against Him that would stick.
Muhammad Drawing Contest
May 7, 2015 Thursday. I was listening to Tom Bauerle (pronounced BOW-wer-lee) on local Buffalo radio station WBEN AM about whether Muhammad drawings should be banned or not. All callers, as far as I know, said no. Maybe a Muslim or two called in and said yes. A person who enjoys drawing pictures of butchers / monsters should have the privilege and the right of doing so. I personally would not waste my time or crayons doing that. Tom also talked about the future of the United States and he is not optimistic. This is the main theme of my web site. I will be going into this later on. I wish to mention here that the average life span of a republic such as ours is only 200 years. We need more people like Tom to show more concern about our country.
The Press and Hillary
May 6, 2015 Wednesday. On Bill O'Reilly's show, he pointed out that Hillary has a favorable press since the main stream media is liberal and Hillary is a liberal Democrat. I want to point out that we no longer have a free press. One writer to a conservative web site stated such was the case. The MSM is owned by far left sympathizers.
60 Minutes - The Arab-Israeli War
May 3, 2015 Sunday. I was watching 60 Minutes today as I do every week. The first story was about the children of Gaza being killed by the Israelis for the terrorist killing of one of Israel's little boys. One guy said these Gaza children have seen three major conflicts in their lives so far. No they haven't. They have only seen one war. That's how the Arabs regard their relationship with Israel and the Jews. Since its birth in 1948, there has only been one war--the war to destroy Israel. There have been many battles. They have lost every battle. Israel knows this. Israel knows they only have to lose one battle and its all over--their country will be wiped off the map. I didn't listen much of what they were saying. It all makes me sick. I know the ending. I know Israel will lose the last battle and two-thirds of the Israelis will be gone. Then Messiah will come or Jesus Christ will come again, and He will be their savior and king.
May 4, 2015 Monday. Another things is what Abdul Gamal Barakah Falah Jabalah or whatever that guy's name is said about having 4 or 5 children. This is the Arab's way of winning their war with Israel. These people have 5 children. Then their children have 5 children. Then each of their children's children have 5 children. They will all be raised as Israel / Jew hating Muslims according to their Koran. On the other side of the border, Israeli women have maybe one child or two, maybe none. Time and numbers are on the Arab side.
I stand corrected: The average Jewish couple in Israel has 3 children. God bless Israel.
Racial Violence
April 29, 2015 Wednesday. The subject on talk radio and TV programs is the Baltimore riot. The outstanding personality of this riot is the mother who was beating her son for rioting in the city. Some say she is a heroine. Others says she is a villain. I would say she is a little of each. She is not a model Christian citizen. She is an unwed mother of six children. She raised one child who went rioting in the city. Despite her unchristian like background, she went and yanked her son out of the riot by the ear. This is very commendable. Rioting and looting and destroying property are crimes against civilization and sins against Christianity. A black parent would usually defend their child no matter what. They would deny he did anything. They would say he has every right to be angry.
April 30, 2015 Thursday. I have learned that riots and violent protests have broken out in New York City. There is a common threat that ties the NYC rioting to the Baltimore rioting and that is that both cities have liberal Democratic mayors.
May 2, 2015 Saturday. When I attended Sabbath services of the Worldwide Church of God in the 1970s, my pastor, Mr. Sell, did a sermon on race relations. He even made a prediction--that race war is coming. He was certain about that as though it was written in the Bible. The Bible does say that nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. (Matthew 24:7)
The Armstrong church said that the Greek word that was translated “nation” is something like “ethnos” from which we get the word “ethnic” from. Jesus went on to say in Matthew 24:8 that “All these are the beginning of throes,” or birth pangs. In other words, Jesus predicted that there will be religions deceptions, wars, rumors of wars, famines, earthquakes, and pestilences; and that these will continue to occur from the time of the apostles until our time-the end time-near the Second Coming. These “pangs” would continue to increase and increase and get worse and worse until the Lord Jesus appears again. So Mr. Sell’s prediction on a future race war is only part of the answer. Race war has already occurred; it is occurring now; and it will continue to occur in the future. And it’s not just white versus black and black versus white. It is everybody versus everybody.
I remember Garner Ted Armstrong wasting, and I mean wasting, a whole half hour on his radio show telling us how the Chinese hate the Japanese, and that the Japanese hate the Chinese; and that the Chinese hate the Russians; and that the Russians hate the Chinese; and that the British hate the French; and that the French hate the British; and that the Poles hate the Germans; and that the Germans hate the Poles. And he went on and on like that for a whole half hour. He mentioned that in Africa, there are black tribes down there who look so much alike that you couldn’t tell them apart even if your life depended on it. Yet, they hate each other.
What is the answer to all this racial hatred? Is it natural for races to hate one another? The answer may be either yes or no. In Samuel 16:7, Samuel was sent to the family of Jesse to annoint the next king of Israel. He looked at one of Jesse’s sons and thought he was going to be the next king because he was so big and handsome. But the Lord said to him, “Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature because I have refused him. For the Lord sees not as man sees. For man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” So that’s the way we are. That’s the way we naturally are. We look on the appearance. That’s our business world, in fact--first appearance counts, first impressions count.
In the Bible, it says, "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6) On the other hand, train up a child in the way he should not go and when he is old he will not depart from it. We are as our parents trained us. If our parents hate someone, they will also teach us to hate someone. It's been demonstrated that children have no hate. White children, black children, red children, yellow children can all get along and play with each other. It's what they are taught by their parents that matter.