Praise God

I don't mind being the old man on the corner yelling, "the end is near, repent." That is what I am.

Romans 12:4 says "For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function." Writing has always been what I've been able to do, so that obviously is the function I have as a member of the living church of Jesus Christ, I will speak the words of the only true God and try to help others find the light.

Example one-when the first Apple Computer was put on the market, the Apple 1 cost the consumer $666.66. Proves nothing, you say. When Mike Wozniak, who co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs was asked years later if the price was the mark, he laughed and replied - he didn't even realize that the 666 number was in any way related to Satan and it had nothing to do at all with the '666' number of the beast or anything pertaining to satanic stuff. http://myoldmac.net/FAQ/Apple1-priced$666.66-Why-WozAnswers.htm This is supposed to be one of those people who is the smartest guy in the room wherever he goes and he doesn't know something as basic as the mark of the beast? Is he stupid or is lying?

Example two-Facebook, which is now 800 million strong wants to know everything about you, and wants EVERYONE to know everything about you. No more can you have the false security of blocking every one but friends from seeing where you've been, what you like, where you live, the places you frequent, the movies you like, the book you read. Facebook has Timeline now, and am gleefully talking about no one has to agree to share information now. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=11&ved=0CBwQFjAAOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Flatimesblogs.latimes.com%2Ftechnology%2F2011%2F09%2Ffacebook-f8-music-movies.html&ei=iA7-TqSeIbTZiAKIhozLBQ&usg=AFQjCNEP9wFslieSjWU50dcfnyvs3G8pGw&sig2=iJfVHqb3ZK_BE7PQhIGPdQ

Our entire lives are on computer, our medical records, our ancestry, our school records, any law infractions, how much before people wake up and smell the overpriced coffee?

I am saddened by our world, do not serve the world, the computer, and go online only when needed.

A Time To Reflect

How do we diefine ourselves? If we are the sum total of our life's work, then we can not define ourselves-others must do it for us.

But if asked, in a few simple sentences, who would you say you are?

I am many things. I am a Christian, a husband, a father, a farmer, a writer, a disk jockey-but those are, with the exception of the first three, jobs. Are we defined by other work?

Our view of ourselves is very important. Our mental outlook affects our dealings with others.

It is important to know ourselves. That is not an attempt at humor: if I were attempting humor I would put a red nose and clown shoes on my next word. Knowing ourselves is not easy-it takes years and an awareness of self. Some people, in my opinion, never have that awareness.

Know yourself. Know your faults, your weaknesses as well as your strengths. This sometimes requires looking at yourself as others see you. I know I am sometimes seen as abrasive or brusk. I don't intend either of these, of course, but I am aware that I have that trait.

The bigger question is what are we leaving behind us? Will we be just one more carbon trail? Will we enrich the lives of those who knew us?

I have never made New Year's Resolutions. I don't believe that if you are honestly ready to change yourself that you need to wait until a certain day to do it. But it doesn't hurt to reflect on our lives as the New Year approaches. Are you doing as you ought? Are you fulfilling your destiny whatever it is? Or are you just one more dead weight, sucking the life out of the universe?

Turkeys Unite!!

Do not wish me a Merry Christmas before Thanksgiving!

I don’t want to hear Christmas songs. I don’t want “pre-Holiday sales.” I don’t want fat people ringing bells outside of every store wishing me “Happy Holidays.”

Thanksgiving has been given the short shrift by America, less attention has been paid to it over the last one hundred years. Why? Because it’s not easily marketed. There is no mayflower and pilgrims light up scene like that of the Christmas nativity, no trees strung with turkey lights. More importantly, there is no “thanksgiving” presents.

Christmas is, indeed, the most wonderful time of the year, but not because of what you receive as a gift.  Let me resay that. Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year because of a gift you received over 2000 years ago.

Thanksgiving has come to mean Football games and commercials for “Black Friday” sales.  

Our country was founded because the pilgrims wanted religious freedoms. Today, people want an app for their religion.

History is being rewritten and whitewashed by Americans who have no idea what history means. Thanksgiving is not about simply one day. We should be thankful on Thanksgiving, but we should be thankful daily. But that is something too difficult for the typical American to understand. They are thankful only when the government tells them when to be thankful and who to be thankful to.

God bless America and America bless God.

I Wear A Tin Foil Hat

            I love conspiracy theories. I don't believe I'm alone in that either. Most people probably wont admit to the fact, but I've never been one to follow what others do.

            JFK had Marilyn Monroe killed. That will probably never be proven, especially as since more time goes by, the more god-like Kennedy becomes to a lot of Americans. However, Kennedy was the Bill Clinton of his day and would screw anything female. He had wanted to outdo his Dad in every respect, the bootlegger and stock manipulator Joe Kennedy. The elder Kennedy had an ongoing affair with Gloria Swanson, the sex symbol of that generation. Monroe slept with anything male so the couple were a perfect match. While her dalliance with Kennedy was ongoing, she was also carrying on with Frank Sinatra and several mob bosses. It became a matter of “national security,” don't you feel safer?

            LBJ is a party to the Kennedy assassination. Johnson wanted to be President and had fought hard for the nomination in 1960 only to have it stolen by that “rich kid.” He had been picked as the running mate largely because of his predilection for stealing elections. He was laughingly called  “Landslide Lyndon “ by his constituents. But Kennedy was going to drop Johnson from the ticket in 1964. The Texan was an embarrassment to the administration. Johnson knew that without the Kennedy name behind, he would never get to the top of the ticket. So he hushed up and rushed through the investigation so as to bury the truth.

            Gerald Ford is part of two of biggest news events in the second half of the twentieth century. Ford was part of the Warren Commission They are the ones who investigated the “conspiracy” behind Kennedy assassination. For the rest of his life, Ford not only said he believed, but would fiercely defend the findings of the “lone gunman” and the “magic bullet.” Ford was also part of the Watergate story as he was chosen by Nixon to replace the discredited Agnew in 1973 and then became President with Nixon's resignation in 1974. Was Ford offered a deal, I'll pick you, you pardon me? It certainly sounds like a deal was at least hinted at . Ford admits in his autobiography A Time to Heal that he had a meeting with General Alexander Haig,Nixon's Chief of Staff on August 1 and was asked if he would be in favor of a pardon for the President if he were to resign. That is the closest Ford ever came to admitting anything.

            I believe Yoko Ono had John Lennon killed. The couple had been having marital problems for the last five years before his death. John had a mistress and had had one through much of the marriage. John was divorcing her and moving on with his life. She knew the weight of being the former Mrs. John Lennon wouldn't amount to a lot of publicity for her ever continuing need for the public eye (remember Cynthia Lennon, John's first wife, I rest my case).

            Lastly, Bill Clinton is NOT the father of Chelsea. No one would argue that the Clinton's have had a political marriage for many years, but I contend it was always that way. Both of them married the other to achieve political goals, Hillary wanted to be President. She still does. But she knew with Bill's charisma and her brains, she could get him into the White House, and then maybe herself. What did Bill need? Bill needed to be perceived as a normal married guy. But part of the picture of normal married guy is a child. Bill had his affairs, Hillary had hers, the result of one of those said affairs was Chelsea Clinton. The father of Chelsea? Vince Foster, the white house staffer who committed suicide in the park shortly after the Clintons took office. The world would have known the truth about Chelsea and would have seen the sham that is the Clintons.

            Oh, yeah, and Elvis is dead.

Henry Clay-Where Are You Know?

“I would rather be right than be President,” so said Henry Clay. Henry Clay was a compromiser. He was known as the “Great Pacificator” or the “Great Compromiser.”

He played a more integral part of our country than anyone other than our Founding Fathers. Yet few today have heard of him. How is this possible?

Born in 1777 in Hanover, VA, Clay moved to Kentucky as a young man and studied law. He entered the state’s House in 1803 and became Speaker of the U.S. House his first year, in 1811

Clay’s greatest political ambition was to be President. He was an official candidate in 1824, 1832, and 1844. Besides being a successful attorney in Kentucky, in roughly 50 years, he was in the state assembly, the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate and served as Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams.

It could be argued that Henry Clay saved the Country from going to Civil War on numerous occasions. Those arguments could be substantiated by history.

The first such occasion was the Missouri Compromise. As Speaker of The House during this critical time, he was able to pass the historic legislation. It can not be argued that without this defining moment, the duality of Americana would have been at war.

The last such event in which he was involved was thirty years later in the Compromise of 1850.

In between though years, he created what he called The American System, tariffs and internal improvements that would have made The United States a better and stronger nation.

It could feasibly be argued that if he had been elected President the Civil war might never have happened.

This could have happened because in his last race for the Presidency, in 1844, he lost by roughly 5000 votes. My personal opinion is that the election was stolen from him by James K. Polk working closely with his mentor, former President and Clay foe Andrew Jackson.

The War with Mexico would never have happened under Clay, he didn’t have the lust for expansionism the way Old Hickory and his Protégée, Young Hickory (as Polk was called) did. That war led to the renewed fervor over states rights that finally exploded with the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.

. . .Like A Horse and Carriage

In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. He created man as a sort of caretaker of the Earth, and then in what I will say was his greatest creation, woman.

This is a blog about love. This will not become a hack piece about love. I want to talk about a once in a lifetime love. Maybe even rarer than that.

As for everything in life, we should look to the bible to find the answers.

Proverbs 31:26 She opened her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.

The woman in a loving relationship speaks with wisdom to the man in the relationship. The topic with which she speaks of wisdom is irrelevant. She speaks with the best interest of her partner at heart; therefore she would not speak foolishly.

As for the man in a loving relationship? We have all heard this. Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. Simply put, his partner is the most important person in his life. More important than his parents, kids, friends, television, internet.

Too often, lust is confused for love. I believe it is such because too few of us truly understand love. My dad once described it by saying you should be more concerned by your partner than yourself.

Unfortunately, what we see is a world increasingly concerned with looks, money and power. The last few weeks will prove that by simply remembering all the coverage of the “royal” wedding. Women all over America were shown once again that it did not matter what your education level, whether you
are a moral and wholesome person or a complete scoundrel, or any of the other things that we should aspire to: instead, the spin of the wedding was her looks and his money.

Is it any wonder that the divorce rate is as high as it is? Actually, I’m surprised that the rate is not higher.

Love is NOT hard to understand, but it is sometimes hard to explain because few of us ever experience it or have it shown to us as something to emulate. Parents need to try to explain love to their children. We tend to shy away from issues involving sex and love. Kids can be exposed to
thousands of references to sex, from internet advertising to TV marketing, but how often are they exposed to love, honest and simple love? This is our failing. Until and unless we change this one simple thing, relationships between couples and God will continue to deteriorate.

Raising the Roof

The debt ceiling debate seems to be the only thing on the mind of EVERYONE in Washington. So why is it a concern? Or should I say, why NOW?

Our country is not fiscally sound, I dont believe that can not be argued by anyone. However, this is not a new phenomenon.

Our country's monetary system used to be backed by gold. Ask anyone of a certain age about the currency declaring it could be redeemed at face value for gold.

In 1933, FDR was sworn into the office of the Presidency. He was elected to save the country from the depression that nasty Herbert Hoover had gotten us into. One of his first acts was to take America off of the gold standard, thus controlling the value of our money. He also made it illegal to own gold.

http://www.conservativeusa.org/eo/1933/eo6102.htm

Since then, our wealth, our fiscallness, if I may invent such a word, has depended entirely upon some arbitrary value. One of the reasons gold has the value it does is because more can't be made. If we print money, then it ceases to have value.

That was the beginning of the problem. If the value can be changed, then legislators can decide how much something is worth. It should be the people, the people upon which the nation was founded, the people upon whom the principles were derived for the nation, it should be the people who decide the value. Should we be allowed to go into a home and tell the owner the value of something they possess? How is this different from what the government does to us?

The debt ceiling is only part of the problem. If we as a nation were more self-sufficent and did not import so much of our merchandise almost 92 billion in 2010 to just China alone. 

https://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html

We also have the highest coroporate tax rate in the world. Companies are standing in line to either leave America, or to never come here.

http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/16/america-to-have-the-highest-corporate-tax-rate-in-april/

What you saw, my fellow Citizens, was smoke and mirrors, bread and circuses, making a crisis out of everything to inflict more legislation on our already overburdened law books.

We are seeing the last vestiges of the greatest civilation ever on planet Earth. Do I believe it is too late to apply CPR? No, lady liberty can be saved, but it will take more than the bandaids that are being applied.

A Speech Politico

Freedom of thought, a reprieval of want, and the necessity to forge our own way are the key to successful living. I speak not for myself but for those who have no voice.

Is it wise to give away these choices to make your existence easier?

Should we silence lady liberty and give freedom to none?

My fellow Americans and friends, these are easy questions. For far to long we have accepted the premise that if a law benefits one person, it should be passed. That gives us what we have today.

We understand the importance of exercise and fitness, yet we tolerate and even insist upon adding to our bloated and and grotesquely out of shape system of laws and legislations.

I believe we should begin controlling our own destiny instead of asking Congress to mandate that everyone else change theirs. I'm not suggesting we let though who are disabled do without. I don't believe that and the Country has proven historically it doesnt believe that.

We were promised a Square Deal, a New Deal, and a Fair Deal. All we have gotten has been a Raw deal. We were promised a Great Society, but you had to believe that it was only possible through legislation and government interference.

We must begin to re-discover our founding principles. Read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. These are the foundations our Country was built on. The house of our founding fathers is still in good condition, and must be moved back into.

Our Disappearing Principles

The principles this country was founded on have not changed. To be free and independent of and from tyranny in all forms. To these ends, simplistic laws were written and agreed upon.

While these laws have not changed, additional ones were written, in varying degrees of necessity and clarity.

I will argue that while there have been valid reasons for some of them-most of them however are the result of either a power or monetary grab, or both.

That is why I contend that the pre-Civil war America was a better nation, a stronger nation. A more self-reliant nation.

This of course will be open to debate, but debate itself is one of the things that makes America the greatest of all nations.

Some will argue that the blight of slavery makes this the lowest point of our history. Other than several hundred masters that became rich through the sweat and blood of others (several of whom were Presidents) I would say no one would argue the pro side of slavery.

Debate and, yes compromise are woven into the very fabric of our nation. Ours owuld not even be a country if not for debate and compromise.

The words today have become less honorable. Only in a debate can one honestly learn multiple sides of an issue-and its only after multiple sides have been heard that a truly intelligent decision can be made.

And unfortunately compromise seems t have become a codeword for caving in to some political partisians. But in all situations, except on a battlefield, compromise can be used.

The art of the compromise is almost a lost one. We should learn from each other and work with each other. We dont have to be 100% right 100% of the time.

My Equipment is Bigger

With our economy in the shape it is in, there are still some jobs that

should not be done. Or maybe I mean they need to be changed and things done

differently.

I know that farmers play a critical role in our world, but do they

have to show us how important they are and how big their equipment is?

From roughly May-October in the Midwest, Farmers drive their equipment

up and down the highways, causing traffic snarls. I’m convinced the

reason they do this is to show us how impressive their equipment is. It’s

the farming version of muscle cars or young buxom girls that the old

guys strap onto their arms and wear as jewelry.

I have an idea. President Barry has all this money he is dying to

spend, think of a kid with his Dad’s credit card, why not created a

separate road system for farm equipment. The crops would get done on time,

and the rest of us who don’t farm could get to where we’re going on time

without leaving an hour earlier.

I’ve worked the fields by hand, and know what a hard job it is, it is

NOT a hard job however to sit in an air conditioned cab and listen to the

radio. Although long hours may be required, the big business farming of

today does not compete with the noble profession of yesteryear.

Presidential History And My Bucket List

I am a history buff. It is mostly US history, and one of the things on my “Bucket List” is to visit the gravesites of each President.

Whether or not I agree with them or not is not important. We can learn something from each Chief Executive, you know things that didn’t work, or things that we might want to replicate.

We must not forget our history. It is part of each of us. How many of us can not name the presidents but can tell you the stats of their favorite teens for the last ten years. It is our duty as Americans to be passionate about our heritage: to know how the Country came into being. We must also be aware of our duty to future generations to preserve our country.


My favorite Presidents don’t belong to one party or another.  I want to write about one of them today.


John Adams was the first Vice President and the second President of the United States.  "By my constitution, I am but an ordinary man. The times alone have destined me to fame-and even these have not been able to give me much."  So said John Adams of himself in his self-deprecating way. I disagree. I believe him to be a great American and the greatest of the founding fathers.


Before becoming President in 1797, John Adams built his reputation as a blunt-speaking man of independent mind. A fervent patriot and brilliant intellectual, Adams served as a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress between 1774 and 1777, as a diplomat in Europe from 1778 to 1788, and as vice president during the Washington administration.


Adams also was the father of the Navy, and during his time in the Continental Congress, he was the one who chose Washington to lead the Army and Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.


He was one of only a handful  of the framers who never owned slaves, he knew it was instinctively wrong while Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Hamilton, and even Ben Franklin while they knew it was wrong still possessed them.


America would be a totally different country without John Adams.


Adams was a Federalist. He believed in a strong military and as the son of a church Deacon, he was extremely moral. However, his Presidency is almost forgotten and the few things it is remembered for is not good, such as the Alien and Sedition Act http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/sedition/.   This was four laws that were submitted by the Federalist congress to oppress opposing viewpoints. Adams never liked the laws, but did sign it into law. It was a horrible law that basically reversed the First Amendment and made it a crime to speak out against the government. This was not only the low point of his Presidential term, but also of his entire political career.


Adams lived another twenty five years after his electoral loss to his Vice President, Thomas Jefferson, in 1801.


John Adams died on July 4^th, 1826, the 50^th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.


A last bit of Presidential trivia: Jefferson died on the same day as Adams. They were the only two Presidents that signed the document.