Reproductcons – Utopianism

I was a friend of both Senator Jessie Helms and Senator John East, US senators from North Carolina. Both squeezed a win for the Republican Party, a win for the US Senate and a win for the United States of America by representing the Tar Heel State in the US Senate. Like the famous Representative Broyhill who represented North Carolina in the Congress for so many years, a win in North Carolina by a Republican is always a tight squeeze and a miracle.

The “looney-tunes” always played by the state Republican Party, and indeed the National Republican Party, leads one to believe that the only political intelligence left in the country is solely in the hands of Democrats. Republicans would rather sit in the bleachers and watch the game than get out in the 'rough & tumble' of the contest. Eventually, Republicans are afraid of getting their hands dirty in the disgustingly dirty contact morass of twenty-first century politics.

According to the “paper trail” which I have in my possession, my folks came over from England in the early 1600s living first in Morristown, New Jersey. After the poorer, hardworking wedge, from which I descend, moved to Wayne County and they were some of the few Republicans around. In fact, as a child, my mother and her first cousin were the only two Republicans who were the “poll watchers” at another cousin's small country store, where the voting took place.

Back then, the Democrat primary determined total “rulership” in the state. There was not one Republican, one black, one woman, in the state legislature or state electorate anywhere. Only male, white Democrats controlled everything, and to a great extent. In the year 2009, nothing has changed from 80 years ago, when I was a child. My hardworking, tax-paying, God-fearing relatives would weep in absolute disbelief at the tyranny practiced by the Democrat Party. Not only just against the few Republicans but the hypocrisy of going out into the hinterlands or pocossin and hauling in - on Model A Fords - blacks, who were given candy bars to vote a certain way and to whom these white, bigoted poll registrars and political “land hogs” would have no contact any other time of the year. It was simply a matter of paying for votes in order to get selected-and-protected politicians elected: the US form of absolute slavery, called pragmatism.

The white, male, Democrat elitists controlled every area of government and everyone who worked in government. In order to get a job as a school teacher, highway department worker, etc. first approval was from the local Democrat hierarchy. In a country, bursting out with liberty and seeking sanctum from royal control, the underlings – whether black, poor tenant farmers, poor cotton mill workers – were the subjects of white Democrat supremacy. Every school board, (even the trustees of black colleges) all colleges and universities (whether state supported or Christian denomination supported), were appointed and subjected to the white pharaohs of dominance and compliance. Commerce, academia, even the newspapers (Josephus Daniels, etc.) danced to the tune of the Democrat Party. After 80 years, I can say with all sincerity and with little fear of being wrong, “Little has changed in the old North State.”

At the university, I found that the Democrat Party was entirely in charge since UNC-CH was mostly a male repository at that time (few females, no minorities). My first encounter with the totalitarianism and control of the Democrat slave master was when Dr. Wallace Caldwell, head of the History Department and leading Mason in North Carolina, asked me to take an application for professorship to South Building for an entering professor. I remember that the professor was to get a salary of $4,500 a year and the great Egyptian scholar, Dr. Caldwell, said, “He has jumped all the hoops of the Democrat Party.” It was disgusting in a land of the free, home of the brave country - supposedly built on the idea of equality - that the sons of legislators, Democrat office holders, judges, law enforcement, and even large Democrat contributors got special attention by those paid by the university to give them special attention.

I remember asking one student, who actually was stupid enough to represent himself in a political science class as a Republican, why there were no minority political groups on campus. He said, “For the same reason there are no blacks or no centaurs on campus. This is a Democrat university; this is where future monarchs of the Democrat Party in North Carolina get their marching orders - those who will control the golf courses, the country clubs, every area of life in which the privileged live.” From that day to this day, nothing has changed except there are some black students at the state-supported university, as well as the expanded university system.

After coming back from the war, I knew that in order to get anywhere involving anything in this state, one had to be a registered Democrat. I became very active in the all white, all male, all powerful Democrat Party – even to becoming president of the Young Democrats and an officer in the all white, all male, all powerful Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees). In 1968, I was “Young Man of the Year”. Sitting with Governor Terry Sanford and US Representative L.C. Fountain, at the temple of Democrat politics, the Sir Walter Hotel in Raleigh, I was told that the Democrats would always “run” the state of North Carolina because the party controls the votes of everyone who gets a government check of every type. The black vote, the labor vote, the NEA vote, the votes of other minorities – gays, etc. - and the votes of all liberals in all colleges...nothing has changed.

In 1964, since one of my friends was running as a Republican for Congress (Herbert Howell), and mostly because I had read Goldwater's Book In Your Heart You Know He's Right, I attended, as an observer, the Republican Convention at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. I decided to go back to my roots - the conservative principles of my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents; the conservative principles to which I have pledged my life as found in the life of Christ and the Christian church.

I am a conservative. No Christian can support or vote for anyone or anything in the Democrat Party philosophy – big, expanded collectivist government; homosexual advancement such as same-sex marriage; abortion; euthanasia; regressive taxation. I have given about everything I have to give to my country, I am a totally blind, 100% disabled, service-connected veteran. At 80 I still work every day and still pay more taxes each year than I ever thought I would make in money. I have behaved myself; worked hard. I do not use your jails, your schools, your libraries, your parks, your athletic and other facilities. I never got one minute of rehabilitation from V.A. and have had little government reimbursement for anything involving my service as a medical officer. I worked my way through eight years of professional university training. From poverty, I believe I did everything right and to this very hour, I continue to live a life of obedience in a world of deception.

I resent the fact that the “Reproductcons – Utopianism” Party has become such a disgrace to those of us who want to support it. The majority of the people of this state and nation, like me, are conservative, God-fearing, productive, hard-working patriots. They need leadership. The “looney-tunes” NRC has promoted dysfunction and disaster. We tried to drag such old horses as Dole and McCain across the finish line, knowing full well, in our full intelligence of what the adversaries would elect with such horrible consequences. (Surely if you can see, or hear, or think, you have an understanding of what is happening to the psyche of the responsible citizens.)

The truth is the truth whether anyone believes it or not. We do what we do because we believe what we believe. I believe, before I became totally blind, God wanted me to see the world with its many failures and very few successes. I have traveled through every continent. Since I could not see, I took in everything through my other senses. And, foolish me, I thought that people would be interested in my understanding of the world's politics. It did not take me long to find out no one cares. But, I care and I am sickened that this great nation is hell-bent toward a chasm of destruction. If an invading army had done to this country what Republicans, Christians, conservatives, patriots have allowed to happen, we would say, as I was told in every conquered country, “why did not someone in leadership stand up and fight?”

The veterans who were willing to wear the uniform to fight for their county on foreign soil should be ready to fight for their country here, at their front door. The Christian church, which has sent out 90% of the world's missionaries to bring the message of hope and love to a destitute world, should be willing to limit the destruction here. The conservative mothers and fathers who are trying to rear children in this time of increasing decadence, should be willing to put up a fence and draw a line which says “enough is enough.” A dying Republican Party should recognize that our industries – life support, health care, education, family values – instead of getting better are continually getting worse.

When the Republicans were in charge – White House, Senate, House of Representatives – they were foolish enough, and suicidal enough (with the failures and embarrassment of the two Bush presidents) to think they could spend and spree like Democrats, fool their base of support and instead of saving this democratic republic have made it difficult for any Republican to get elected. I own an office plaza and next to it another large office building in which the Obama headquarters was located during the recent election. Night and day, the parking lot was full of cars. These Democrats are organized. They got the big prize: White House, Senate, House, State and County offices. It has become a 'now or never' in the future of the Republican Party and the future of this democratic republic.

The Democrat Party knows the well known Communist Party dictum “the end justifies the means”. A good example, this responsible Republican, a veteran writer and caller on national talk shows has lived in the same house for over 40 years. Not once, in all that time, has the Republican Party ever sought to organize me in any political activity. I hear the same thing over and over. There are sixteen hundred Christian radio stations, there are hundreds of Christians active on the internet. There are thousands of patriotic veterans in every community, homeschooling parents – real Christian parents who want the best in education for their children – many have not given up on this country. I still believe there is a plurality of decency in this nation. When will the Republican leaders decide to lead instead of just stumble around from one failure to another?

Exiled from Political Correctness

#357



You don't have to look very far to find that everyone is a victim of something. Most of us are a victim of the heresy of the bottom line. All industry, all commerce is built on the bottom line. In the church, in the college even at your favorite fast food cafe, everyone is counting numbers instead of making numbers count.

There was a time when the university learning experience was one of life's greatest challenges, becoming a well-read, well-rounded, well-informed, well-traveled individual has been replaced by just passing the course, getting a piece of paper. There was a time when, next to the home, the relationship with others of your faith, in your place of worship was, a God-preparing, eternal vista for life after death. There was a time when the restaurant visit was an enjoyable leisurely gourmet experience. This is not in today's callous intemperance, impersonal, bare table, economizing, presentation which lends no credence to a memorable event. Poorly trained servers are only exceeded by the impoverishment of chef experience.

Today, it is necessary to make a transatlantic trip in order to hear “bon apetit”. Please, please bring back the days of airline food, when airlines were interested in serving a descent meal with good corn on your tray instead of inspecting the corns on your feet.

After President Nixon returned from his opening to Communist China in 1972, I was one of the first Americans to visit China along with a plane load of doctors and lawyers. I had stood on the Island of Macau and just wondered what life was like behind the red, translucent curtain of Communist China. I thought I had witnessed poverty in eastern NC. But, the poverty of the coolies was beyond description, living in crowded communes all wearing the same uniform, all with the same hair cuts (men and women) a totally controlled, collectivist, authoritarian, Godless society. Having totally eradicated every visage of spiritual faith and tradition, even to the beating up of all monuments and tombstones to build roads, the Communist system is simply utilitarian. Those who SEEK communism in this country have never SEEN raw communism, the enslavement of human beings, the tyranny of free will as found in a totalitarian system. “The end justifies the means” applies to every area of life from the cradle to the grave, with total control. You eat the communist food. You dress the communist dress. You live in the communist's house. You are cremated in the communist's crematorium. Like the hogs and chickens on the collectivist's farm, you are a slave to the system.

Incomprehensible, a democratic republic buying cheap, slave industry merchandise paid for by our almost worthless fiat dollars, and then borrowing back these dollars so our coupon clipping, entitlement supported populous, can buy these consumer items is a vicious circle that should be an insult to all freedom loving, human-rights-supporting, citizens and an embarrassment to the financial wizards of God fearing democracies.

In two years, mark my word, with things going as they are now, under the Obama administration, there will be so much inflation and so much authoritarian control, political correctness will mean very little to anyone, even the talking heads on television. The liberal talking and thinking academics, the minorities who actually believe there black messiah would make a change in their life, are taking over the church and making it powerless. So the liberal fringe element, communists are taking over every area of government believing “the end justifies the means”. We are enslaved by a national debt which can never be repaid, looking down the barrel of a gun, pointed at us, by the lenders who just may come over to collect their indebtedness.

Desperately twittering and clinging to the proposition that even though all men are created equal our rights have been subtracted. Remember, God did not believe in vote taking anymore than those who in military authority depended on taking a vote before making this a land of the free and a home of the brave. The promiscuous society believing in political correctness, that anything goes, if it feels good, do it, bad is good, has come back to bite and even eat us.

Miralce Worker

#356

Miracle Workers

There were too many for even the Apostle Paul writing in Hebrews 11 to describe. But, heroes of the faith are numerous and an inspiration to those who can still be inspired. Likewise, volumes have been written about just average everyday, persons who through the grace of God have become miracle workers, Helen Keller, Napoleon Hill, Andrew Carnegie, etc. By grace, through faith, in Jesus Christ, we come in a relationship with the greatest miracle worker, the very son of God, who put on a tent of human flesh and dwelled among us never going but a few miles from the stable in which he was born, never lead an army, wrote a book, owned a home, or any other possessions other than his one garment, for which men gambled, but by whose birthday we date every legal document. In recent years, we have seen modern miracle workers, Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's pizza, billionaire philanthropist though partially reared in an orphanage, and subjected to every disappointment one can imagine, has crowned his life with a crowing faith, which has lead to promotion of the pro life movement and the building of Catholic colleges and cathedrals.

Add to the list, such names as Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and even Steve Jobs of Apple Computer fame, who has just undergone a liver transplant and returned to work. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” -Steve Jobs

Irma Bombeck reminds us not to confuse success with celebrity. Think of Madonna and Helen Keller. We could also say don't confuse importance of salaries. The quarterback gets a tremendous salary; but at a time of physical need, the EMS technician is far more important. The television soap opera actor or talking head news reporter, is not as important as the disadvantaged mission worker to the destitute lost. An uneducated kitchen worker serving food in a homeless shelter is the most important thing in the world to the hungry with an empty stomach.

The coach, the highly paid, is only paid for performance. A losing coach is soon looking for a another job. Symbolic acts often lead to changes. Political correctness has given a new twist to the adage “honesty is the best policy.” As Winston Churchill said, “Words are weapons. Use them wisely.” Like a small hole in the dike, a small crack in a wall, a pinhole in a roof, and a compromised seam in a jet, damage can become widespread and dangerous very quickly. The good a philanthropist does over many years is overlooked and forgotten very quickly with one small indiscretion. Only a true miracle worker can live the complicated 21st century life, without discomfort or discovery under the microscope of present day rapid reporting through the internet and ambitious vindictive hounds of deterrence.

True success, true happiness in life is going to bed at night anxious to get up in the morning and ready for another day.

Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst

The word "big" does not begin to describe Boeing, a global aviation leader and the world's second largest military contractor. Nearly 12,000 Boeing jetliners command the skies. Today, the company has 150,000 employees in 49 states and 70 countries and reported revenues of $66.4 billion in 2007, with 40 percent from overseas. It has been long a symbol of the Seattle economy. Boeing (BA) CEO Jim McNerney is eager to move the company to China. Whether moving Boeing to China means shifting its headquarters from Chicago to Beijing is up in the air. But Boeing already has $600 million in supplier partnerships with China -- such as a deal with Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. Can one even imagine the Northwest area decimated by the moving of Boeing as compared to Detroit and the decimation of the automobile industry.

Yesterday, the stock market reached the magical 10,000 mark. From over seas and elsewhere, it is believed that the American recession may be on the way out. Even if improvements are shown in industry and banking, unemployment will still lag far behind; because the average employer, large or small, is afraid to take a risk in unpredictable times. Markets will go up in bad times and in good times. But, it is in times of the unexpected that people refuse to take risks. I remember very well the day the market reached 3000. I thought it was something I would never see and then my total bewilderment when it reached 13,000. It is a matter of elementary physics that things will go down much more rapidly than they will go up.

Thankfully, I spent the first years of my life, with parents who always prepared for a “rainy day.” My entire life has been in preparation for a long monsoon season, living frugally, saving everything not throwing away anything. Conservatism is not a political posture. It is a matter and manner of life. This great country was built by conservatives. Those who saved and were able to invest, those who valued the trees in the forest, those who valued the water as well as the water ways, are the true patriots of the plateaus.

Parents, politicians, pastors, can wear a “mask” of concern, but it is in our very “guts” that we learn the stability of actions. You can fool some people some of the time, but you cannot fool everyone all the time. The real essence of your commitment will eventually show itself. The famous song, “Let there be Peace on Earth and let it begin with me” can apply to every area of life. If you want to meet your best psychiatrist, look in a mirror. I learned long ago that I could not do much to change other people. But changes in me would help other people. The greatest government program, the greatest spiritual experience is at the end of my arms, my own hands and what I can do with them. The greatest change in my life comes from putting one foot in front of the other, walking away from temptations and problems, walking towards opportunities for service and personal development.

If you are capable of discernment, if you can think for yourself, you are not a failure. It's up to you. Believe me, others may say they are concerned about you. They may even tell you that they will pray for you. But, generally speaking, it is up to you, you and the God who created you. It is very trite, even so far, found on our money “Trust in God”. I firmly believe that if you were to ask any person who has gone on from this life regardless of destination, what they would have done differently, you would get the same answer, “Trust in God.” Anytime I made a wrong decision, without exception, it was because I depended on myself. I have used this in every graduation address I have ever given. “I have failed God many times, but he has never failed me.”

Learn early, there will be a pay day, some day. The song is right, “This world is not our home. We are just passing through.” Our citizenship is in heaven. We are strangers and pilgrims here. (I Peter 2:11) If you are totally committed to Christ, do not expect your parents, your siblings, even perhaps your wife or children to understand you.

As you age, you will find that you have hoped for the best, but prepared for the worst in your relationships. It is very easy for children to cut off the machinery keeping you alive, toward the end because you have become terribly expensive and a real bother in their lives. Besides, the more of your estate you take up in your final care, the less there is for them to fuss over.

A person's interest controls their thinking. If you live for sex, sex is what you get. If you live for athletic contests, athletic contests on television or on the field, is what you get. If you live for food, food and all the dietary complications are what you get. If you live for drugs, legal or illegal, alcohol and dependency of every type is what you get. If you live for money, what it has bought and what it has cost you is what you have left.

You are not stuck where you start. Only you and you alone know where you need to change. Believe me, very few, actually care about you. Graveyards get very few visitors. One of the finest doctors I ever knew, a true college friend, one who felt he could share with me his most inner thoughts came to me before he killed himself. He told me he had been very successful in everything except his marriage. Spiritually, he could not bring himself to walk away from his family; because he knew that his wife would keep his children and most of his property. It was a sad moment when I learned of his suicide. It was a sad moment last week, when I learned of the suicide of a Baptist pastor in the western part of NC. I still remember the dreadful day as a member of the board of deacons, we walked into the church ahead of the casket of the Chairman of the Board of Deacons who had committed suicide.

It is only when you put a plug into the wall socket and you make the electrical connection which gives the energy or light you need that you are connected with the source. It is essential to be connected with the source, your only hope in all preparations. Victory in your life depends on connecting with the source of all power.

Two of my friends, two of the more outstanding men in this city, died last year, victims of suicide. One a remarkable surgeon, the other a very successful businessman, but left families. They had reached the “end of their line.” I wish they had come to me, and old blind veteran, and talked first. Life is a trip, not a destination, the scripture tells us it is a race, with a finish line. When we cross the finish line, we will be battered, many of us will limp across. Character determines destination...righteousness is the greatest evidence of character. With the safety and sanctity of the Holy Spirit of God in our hearts, regardless of problems, we can endure to the end.

Double Mindedness

The human mind, genus Homo sapiens is described as follows, refers to the aspects of intellect and consciousness manifested as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all of the brain's conscious and unconscious cognitive processes. "Mind" is often used to refer especially to the thought processes of reason. Subjectively, mind manifests itself as a stream of consciousness.

The crowning glory of man is his mind, his neurological system, his ability to reason. HE IS THE ONLY ANIMAL THAT KNOWS HE IS GOING TO DIE. The bird has a far superior ocular system (lens of the eye). The cat has a far superior skeletal system (muscle). The canine has a far superior olfactory or auditory system. But, man, created in the very image of God, has a remarkable ability to think and make decisions. How tragic it is that genus homo sapiens, given free will through the very mercy of God, had so abused his mental capacity through addictive drugs and other excesses which has caused him to bring disaster not only to himself but to the lives of others. Carnal man, as from the very beginning, so “beguiled” by Satanic powers, is mentally capable of so much. In my military career, I studied the quantum theories involved in subliminal perception. Now we know, that through wireless technology a person sitting with others at a table can be “targeted” so that mental processes can not only be read but programmed. Can you understand now why television and anything involving impulses of sight (light) and sound (pulsation) have become so affective? The digital system is now used because it is so affective.

Do you ever feel manipulated? Do you ever feel the public has become dumbed-down because of the chemicals, the nano-technology, and other parameters of control to which the human mind is subjected and over which we have little knowledge. You can be sure that there are those who know what they are doing.

Do we satisfy our mental images with the antics of today's White House anti-Christ, the fornication of David Letterman or a rich man's investment instincts of Rush Limbaugh? Does the average brain recognize the double-minded inscription portended by politicians who want you to think they care about you when in reality they only care for self? The first time I heard the phrase double-minded was in the Truman-Dewey election when Harry Truman accused Thomas Dewey of talking out of both sides of his mouth. Hypocrisy and dishonesty in speech (all speech originates in the brain) has become the rule rather the exception. If you can find one straight talking, honest, dependable communicator of any type (salesperson, politician, preacher, employee) you are an extremely fortunate person. As one lady said to me once about marriage, if it works out, fine, if not, it is expected.

The tragedy is the mind of genus homo sapiens, who has within it's spiritual context the very essence of communicating with the Creator of the universe, has become debilitated in a senseless “log jam” of frivolity and free-olity.

One of my friends in Los Angeles was well acquainted with Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World. The Huxley brothers, Aldous and Julian, have promoted the Perennial Philosophy, that of bringing a creator, almighty God of power, down to a level of human presence, the thought of God not as a consuming fire, a God of wrath but a kindly Father. Of course, Christ himself, referred to God as Father 23 times in John Chapter 14. And, we do refer to our loving heavenly Father, in almost parental terms. Let us never forget the sovereign God who flung the very stars into space. (Five words: He made the stars also. Genesis 1:16)

Huxley experimented with the Bates method of vision correction. I studied it briefly (staring into the sun). Let us never forget that the source of all energy available to us through the plant life we eat and the incomprehensible power of God, even the power that raised Lazarus from the dead, is available to us through our finite minds, a mental ability which we should cherish and another reason that God will hold every person responsible who has in any way participated in the death of his chief creation through killing of any type.

Learn to use your God given mind. There is a reason that Asian people remove their shoes at the door. Why bring in the germs from the street to your floors and carpet where your children playing on the floor will come in contact with disease unnecessarily? Just a common disease like diarrhea causes the death of 4 to 6 million people around the globe every year, a unnecessary disease when proper hygiene is utilized.

We hear an advertisement often on the radio from black related colleges that “a mind is terrible thing to waste”. A mind is a terrible thing to waste at any age. I have spent a lifetime imploring black parents in particular to get their children away from the wasteland of television, video games, comic books, and senseless music. We are better than that. On the farm, every winter, at “hog-killing time” I noticed that even as the hogs were being shot, hauled out of the pen to be butchered those left inside the pen, still alive, were just unconcerned in the muck and nosing around in the trough. There are very few children who do not have the ability to learn, who want to learn. A child's mind is like a sponge, ready to soak up knowledge.

Clay P. Bedford said, “You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”

On The Defensive

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been honoring men and women from all corners of the globe for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and for work in peace. The foundations for the prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment of the Nobel Prize. But who was Alfred Nobel? He was a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author and pacifist. It is significant that he made all his wealth from explosives, (TNT, and other explosives used in warfare) and yet his awards are known as peace prizes.

The Nobel prizes have cheapened themselves by cheap winners, such as Al Gore, Yasser Arafat and God help us, Jimmy Carter.

There was a time when, if the Queen of England knighted a subject, or anyone and Sir was added to the front of the honoree's name, it was a real honor. But, in recent years as she has stuck her knighting wand to the shoulders of just anyone, the title has become so cheap that some, I am informed, refuse to even accept it. Singers who have been knighted by Queen Elizabeth in recent years: Sir Paul McCartney and Sir George Martin, the fifth Beatle, and Elton John.

The Nobel Peace prize has received it's last “hurrah”. From now on they should just keep the prize and use the money on some rewarding endeavor. Since the self-promoting President Obama had spent hundreds of millions to buy the presidency, evidently an attached promotional prize, the Nobel award, comes with the package. If the candidates for the prize had to be in Oslo by February 12^th, the new president had not been in office long enough for anyone to know what he was going to do, certainly not the subsequent 8^th month fiasco disaster, such as the bailouts, economic depression, flatulent czars and Copenhagen mish mash. This incompetent president pretends to be an internationalist and the Oslo accords are the darlings of the internationalists, the globalists, the one world ideologues. His favorite charity, ACORN, will appreciate the $1.4 million in money. But the honor, like the mistaken report of Will Roger's death, is greatly exaggerated. Mr. Obama campaigned on a policy of peace. Of course, when you kill all the enemies and you have all the weapons yourself, it is possible to have peace. It seems, much to the liberals' chagrin, that peace in war-torn Afghanistan, Pakistan, and other conflicted countries is easier said than done.

Of significance this past weekend, was Mr. Obama's favorite supporters, the Gay-Lesbian and Trisexual Coalition. (The trisexuals will try anything.) who were demonstrating on the mall of our Nation's Capital. As usual, their language on national TV and radio, like their morals, should have stayed in the closet. Their most resourceful anger was directed at the military on whom we are still depending on to win wars. Their chief military advice was to put gays, straights, and unisex all in the same barracks to end all domestic and international conflict. “Don't ask. Don't tell” should have been the title for the Obama political campaign. He has asked no advice and can tell little without his teleprompter. This totally blind veteran has traveled through Afghanistan 3 times and I could advise this very uninformed President that the jungles of Vietnam and the ice of the Chosin Reservoir were a “marry-go-round” compared to the Hindu Kush, the entrenchment of the nomads defending the poverty and poppies of Afghanistan's porousness.

Deception is Satan's greatest tool. In the voodoo scent of Mrs. Robinson's White House, the President has forgotten that God is still on the throne. There are enough praying warriors in this Christian nation to not only reverse the international enemies of the land of the free and the home of the brave; but we can transform our domestic enemies, by making our protest stations, our nations protractors.

The worm, the mule, the horse, even the Nascar racing car, will only turn right or left. The American patriot is not a horizontal citizen. We have a vertical dimension, always available to God's most precious possession, mankind, vertical salutation and eventual repatriation. To save our country, and we see easily it is up to us to save it, we will get off our knees, stand straight, and demonstrate the stability and fortitude ancestral worthy citizens bequeathed to us.

To visit monasteries, temples, zongs, stupas, and many other religious fortresses, I had to climb a hill. Lazy Christians stopped exercising in any way, long ago. Just to genuflect or cross themselves or kneel at the altar, is a righteous overreaction or fanaticism. Somewhere, somehow, some way, we will start reaching, grasping, and clinging to the mantel of sobriety known well by the prophets, priests and patriots of history.

Recently we have had much rain in the Southern USA. Think of the great, beautiful city of Manila in the Philippines, 80% covered by water. Weeks after the flood, much of the city is still covered by one or two feet of dirty, diseased water. Much of southern India (I have spent considerable time both in the Philippines and India.) has been ravaged by floods. The crops are gone. Once in India, during a flood, I witnessed the destitute looking for drinking water, the bloated dead cows, wrecked homes and infrastructure. They wonder, as we in our own lives wonder, if the sun will shine again.

Someone said that in each life some rain is bound to fall
And each one sheds his share of tears
And trouble troubles us all
But the hurt can't hurt forever
And the tears are sure to dry

And it won't rain always
The clouds will soon be gone
The sun that they've been hiding has been there all along

And it won't rain always
God's promises are true
The sun's gonna shine in His own good time
And He will see you through
“It Won't Rain Always”, song by Bill and Gloria Gaither

Tough Times

As I have gotten older, I have a new appreciation for my relatives who I studied as they aged. There were many of them; because I came from the stock of two very old and established eastern NC families. They all lived long, eventful lives. Having returned from the decadence and tom-foolery of academia I now realize that these ancient relatives taught me more from their life experiences than could be gained from the stacks of many libraries. Our older relatives studied all the volumes available to them and mixed with their common sense produced wisdom which is sorely needed in these days of academic depravity and neutrality. There were doctors, lawyers, teachers, farmers in my family household of faith who had already forgotten more than today's professionals know. The well-paid agricultural extension agents were amazed to learn about farming operations from my father or the grafting of fruit trees from my grandfather.

I was often astounded to hear an aunt who had never had a facial or manicure give me a Bible reference, quote it exactly, and say, “That is the answer to your question, that will solve your problem.”

Those who are not ashamed of God will find that He is not ashamed of them, ever ready to pour out His abundant mercy. Why not enjoy all He has to offer? Get over pretension. The very hairs on your head are numbered. (Matthew 10:30)

Aunt Sarah was a most remarkable woman, a young girl while her father was away fighting in the Civil War. Dying at age 100, around 1958, she and my grandmother would talk about how the Yankees came down the road plundering and burning. She talked about their beautiful horses, their shining swords. She was too young to lead the cows and the mules way down into the swamps like the older boys and girls to keep the Yankees from stealing them. But they could talk about putting food into washtubs and hiding the tubs in wells which were concealed, leaving enough pork meat in the smokehouse and chickens in the chicken house so the Yankees would go ahead and steal those things along with corn and hay, and move on in their march to the sea. (Sherman's march to the sea, 1864)

Recently, the young pastor of the great family church built in 1874, visited me and questioned me about many historical facts involving the church and community. He said, “There is a portrait of an old man hanging in the church office. Do you know who he is?” I said, “I remember the day that Aunt Sarah gave a picture of Reverend Worley to a traveling photographer, going through the community and she paid him to reproduce the small picture into a large frame with the bubble glass.” The picture has been hanging in the church ever since. He was one of the first pastors of the church and rode 30 miles on horseback to preach. Imagine one of today's pansied procurers riding a horse or anything else to preach. We have limousine pastors just as we have limousine politicians. Aunt Sarah's husband, who had inherited a large part of my great grandfather's estate, died young. He is buried in the old family cemetery with many of my great, great grandparents, aunts and uncles, Spanish flu and Civil War victims. At that time, a widow only received a child's share of an estate. Her husband's estate was divided between her four children. She lived a month at a time with each child, all prominent and wealthy relatives. Knowing her absolute devotion to the church, where she always sat on the front pew, they made sure she was always in attendance.

She was known far and wide in all denominational circles. All her grandchildren, leaving the area, from advanced education and prominent marriages hardly knew her. I was at her funeral and before her burial next to her husband in the ancient cemetery one of her “stuck up” granddaughter's who I believe had never spoken to anyone in my personal family, insisted that the casket be opened at the grave, so her two daughters (They did not arrive in time for the funeral) could see the great grandmother they had never seen before. I thought then, as now, how tragic, that with all the technology and wealth the world had provided this saintly woman's grandchildren and great grandchildren they did not know her. I remembered, that on one occasion, one of my relatives had recorded Aunt Sarah discussing her life, her problems after her husband's early death and her memories from the Civil War to World War II. I heard this tape replayed one time. So, I know it did exist. How tragic that this family does not have this memory in their possession. Photographs, letters, even tapes are lost when family members die and their possessions are scattered by antique dealers or even yard sales.

As an example, my next door neighbor, Bill, died with not one relative at his memorial service. The family heirlooms which he prized including his great, great grandfather's musket and many other items were dispersed by the trust department of a local bank to the highest bidder.

In these tough times, when the unemployment rate is higher than it has been since the great depression, when accumulated wealth has decreased in value, when wise people are taking time to validate their lives, and evaluate their “things”, it is good to remember that in a history of a free people and a free country, there have been tough times before. On the farm, during times of drought we found the plants would send their roots down much deeper seeking moisture. When the rains did come, and they always do, the plants grew with renewed vigor. This is a good time to send our roots down in remembrance of the family and those around us, who have helped us get this far. For those of us who are Christian, it is a good time for remembrance (at the Lord's table with His holy elements) of what He has done for us and regardless of how bad things get in this life. Tough times here, only mean thrills there.

Inquisition Consequences

With the exception of Brazil and the northeast coastal region of South America, all of that continent as well as Central America, Mexico, and some of the Caribbean islands were part of the Spanish colonial empire from 1492 to the 1820s. The establishment of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Spain in 1478, the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, and the admission of almost 100,000 Spanish Jews into Portugal are backdrops to the colonial history. From the early days of the Catholic Church, its bishops had the right of inquisition (the right to inquire) on matters of faith and morals. Bishops had the power to try heretics for matters of faith. Their authority included the power to administer capital punishment to heretics, excommunicate and conduct autos de fé. The Church had taken the position that "once a Catholic, always a Catholic". One could convert to Catholicism, but once a member of the faith it was forbidden to leave the fold.

When they took control of the nations the conquistadors usually banned possession of steel swords by the subjugated peoples for civil obedience and to the Spanish a sword represented their chivalry, honor, and devotion as Christian Knights. After the conquistadors landed, the captains of their ships burned their ships. The conquering Spaniards knew that they were in South America to stay. When I visited Simon Bolivar's home, (the man who lead the conquest of most of South America) I realized the simplicity of their religious pilgrimage.

In my long life, I have had the privilege of hearing many great preachers of the gospel including Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse, a great Presbyterian preacher who preached over 400 times from the book of Romans alone. Dr. Barnhouse said, “If and when you reach God's heaven and He asks you why He should let you in, what are you going to tell him?” Will you compare your discipleship with the Christians who were burned on poles to give illumination to Nero's Gardens in 64 AD?

God's people are to live contrary to the world. Does it include martyrdom? I do believe our lives should be such a testimony to the love, forgiveness and compassion of Christ, that unbelievers are attracted to Him because they see Him in us. There are many consequences in inquisitions. It is not necessary to brainwash or force the love of God into someone. God wants us because of repentance, and devotion not just repatriation.

In this day of the merchandising of the gospel, when God's message has become just a whimsical message for the TV evangelist, the faith healer, the cheapening of God's message, does not lower the character of the Christian or his MASTER.

On March 23^rd, 1775, the patriot, Patrick Henry, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, said, “Give me liberty or give me death.” In spite of what Mr. Obama has said: "We're no longer a Christian nation." " America has been arrogant." "After 9/11, America didn't always live up to her ideals." "You might say that America is a Muslim nation." - Barack Obama.

...we are still very much Christians who want a Christian nation. From 1799 to 1892, the US Supreme Court declared this a Christian nation. Seventy percent of our population today declare themselves to be Christian. With all our problems, can you even imagine what life in this democratic republic would like be today without the influence of Christians. The same Supreme Court has lowered our standards. A twenty one word innocuous prayer calls the court in 1963 to take prayer out of our schools. Prayer has been replaced by police officers. Ten years later, in January 1973, (Roe vs. Wade) the door was opened for legalized abortion. In 2005 there were 1,200,000 abortions. The abortion rate for 2005 was 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44.

In this time of the greatest recession since the Great Depression, when senior citizens depend more than ever on Social Security, we have effectively killed our crop of producers of the taxes which would pay the Social Security of senior citizens. In a mad dash for change, in a religious zealotry for the promises of a new Messiah, we are seeing the dismemberment of the greatest nation of which the world has dreamed. From sea to shining sea, prairies of agricultural abundance, cities of industrial and commercial prosperity, skyscrapers containing offices of world class financial stability, college and university campuses producing scholars of every discipline, we have a nation to which loyal citizens could pledge allegiance.

Has it occurred to you that the consequences of this inquisition are almost unrecoverable? We do not have to burn down the house to get rid of the mold. The conquistadors removed every valuable item and idea from the South American nations to control them and instill within them their ideology. Is such clubbing necessary here?

In this nation, which has more colleges and universities, every study of any discipline, has the diploma just become a piece of paper? The greatest progress in our history, was made during the Industrial Revolution, there was very limited government at that time. When will we learn, not just in dealing with overseas powers, that throwing money and regulations at everything, does not make us smarter, or more industrious (students or factories).

Fireworks

My home in Wilmington is on the river waterfront. My home at the beach is about equidistant from the ocean. About 5 times a year, the taxes I pay to live in this area are used to buy fireworks, which evidently, to politicians and those who have never experienced combat, or a training simulated situation where you crawl under wire carrying a weapon as artillery is fired over you, can even imagine. They get a thrill from this noise and evidently have some sort of sadistic pleasure in seeing the exploding lights. Only the demons in hell could be thrilled with fireworks, a neurosis beyond the ability to comprehend. How can any person get a thrill from explosions when they know that so many of their relatives have been killed in warfare by such, that so many children have been tormented by such, that tremendous wealth has been destroyed by such? Think for a minute about the children in hovels along the 2000 mile Pakistan-Afghanistan border where drones (unmanned small planes since we are too cowardly to risk our pilots anymore, taking the humanity out of warfare) bomb, shattering lives and homes. It is a known fact that CIA operatives set off bombs in thickly populated areas of Baghdad to antagonize one side or the other in the promotion of this senseless war.

In WW I, which lasted 4 years, 16 million were killed. In WWII, the deadliest war in history, 60 million were killed. Can anyone even imagine the terror of such conflict both for military and civilians? Today's make believe war on terror, like the make believe war on drugs, is just a product of Washington political imagination. Homeland Security is much more interested in terrorizing the American population than any war on terror. It should terrorize all of you to know that a $27 million facility has been built in Hardin, Montana reportedly for the imprisonment of Americans who do not agree with the Obama Administration's policies and as is shown in this commentary are not POLITICALLY CORRECT! (Guantanamo American Facility) The guards are from foreign countries, Germany, Argentina, etc. The prison is built on an Indian reservation and escapes much scrutiny of the public. Of curiosity, is commander of this facility. Just read what Zachery Roth has to say about Michael Hilton, this new American behind the American Police Force. (Source: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/american_police_force_leaders_long_criminal_record.php – may have since been moved, link is from 2009)

Since yesterday, details have been emerging about the background of the man behind APF -- a California-based grifter, who has said he's a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Montenegro, and uses the name Michael Hilton.

Over the years, Hilton has served jail time for fraud, and had a string of arrests and other run-ins with the law. Based on reports from the AP, the Billings Gazette, and Prison Legal News, here's a quick rundown:

• 1988: Hilton arrested in Santa Ana, Calif. for writing bad checks.

• April 1990: Hilton is again arrested in Santa Ana for writing bad checks and for grand theft.

• 1992: A civil judgment of $83,000 is entered against Hilton and Ilia Dokovich.

• March 1993: Hilton pleads guilty in Orange County court to 14 felonies, including 10 counts of grand theft. One charge involves a $20,000 real estate scam, in which Hilton persuaded an associate to give him a deed on property in Long Beach, Calif., saying it was to be used as collateral on a loan, then sold the property to someone else. According to the AP, he spent six years in prison in California.

• 1999: A small claims judgment is entered against Hilton for $3,979.

• 2000: the same plaintiff obtains another small claims judgment against Hilton in Los Angeles County, this one for $1,852.

• March 2000: Hilton is accused of fraud, larceny, and breach of contract, in connection to a venture in which Hilton and others recruited the plaintiff to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars to create collectible Super Bowl commemorative coins.

• Around the same period: Hilton also faces two similar fraud suits: In one, he's accused of posing as a fine arts dealer to deceive a Utah couple into giving him a $100,000 silver statue. In the other, he is said to have teamed with a doctor to recruit investors for a southern California assisted-living facility that was never built.

• November 2002: Hilton files for bankruptcy, in order to avoid eviction by his landlord.

• March 2003: Hilton is arrested for DUI in Huntington Beach.

• February 2004: Hilton files for bankruptcy once more, again to avoid eviction.

• January 2006: A $5,052 judgment lien is entered against Hilton in Orange County, CA.

A Lexis search conducted by Prison Legal News turned up the following aliases used by Hilton: Miodrag Dokovich, Miodrag Djokich, Miodrag Djokovich, Michael Hamilton, Anthony M. Hilton, Michael A. Hilton, Michael Milton and Hristian Djokich, plus related variants.

This, believe it or not, is the record of this commander of this prison facility, evidently hired by Mr. Obama.

The deceit in the present administration is like a small amount of arsenic in a beautiful chocolate cake, deadly for all those who will be fooled. Don't expect the state-controlled news media to inform you of the treason going on in your country. You voted for this administration. Is this the change you want?

Recently, I employed two Iraq veterans to work for me, ex-Marine, and ex-Navy. I took these two combat veterans to lunch one day and I asked, “What bothered you most about your experience?” Both said without hesitation, almost together, “The screams and cries of children.” I said, “The one thing I have never been able to erase from my memory is the screams of adults in hospitals.”

War is horrible; and as we sit here in our comfortable isolation from war, I ask God, not to let us forget those who are fighting the battles and the many who are pulverized in belongings and neuropathy on both sides (particularly the small children, alive, who will never recover).

Andy Williams, the veteran pop singer, 81 years old, has accused Barack Obama of "following Marxist theory" and "wanting the country to fail". He is not the only one to believe that the Obama administration is leading us right down the red brick road to communism. “We are not in Kansas anymore.” “We are not in America anymore,” not the America that this 80 year old writer and 81 year old Andy Williams know. Industries are destroyed. Banking systems are destroyed. Insurance systems are destroyed. Health care is almost destroyed. Dreams are destroyed. Liberty and freedom are on the chopping block.

We spoke of fireworks. It is like the building of a magnificent home whic has been the ideal of the world, the ideal to which travelers from everywhere have come just to visit a dream which people have floated on junk cars to reach, a dream which illegal aliens have risked life and limb to cross porous borders just for work and then having a deceptive nest of snakes and vipers stick a match to it and burn it down.

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. (Psalm 27:1 – 4)

Immorality and Freedom

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Immortality and Freedom

With cities, states and Americans all over the country struggling to make ends meet, bringing the Olympics to the United States would have been more costly to tax payers than worthy. Hosting the Olympics is an extremely and continuously expensive endeavor as pointed out in an article written by Gordon T. Anderson of CNN Money back in 2005:
“Sydney spends about $32 million a year for maintenance and upkeep of venues it built to host the event in 2000, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

Many of those facilities are barely used. The mountain bike track was shuttered because so few people went there, and the equestrian facilities require about a $1 million subsidy to stay open.

The lavish, privately owned Sydney SuperDome, site of the basketball and gymnastics competitions in 2000, filed for bankruptcy reorganization.

Montreal -- whose 1976 Olympiad, which I attended, is synonymous with fiasco, from wild construction cost overruns to the accidental extinguishing of the Olympic torch -- is also still paying for it.

All told, the province of Quebec has paid some $1.4 billion in Olympic-related interest, Knight-Ridder reported. Annual maintenance on publicly owned facilities comes to about $22 million.”
Since Chicago would have had to put up billions to get the city ready for the Olympics and since they do not have the luxury of having several extra billion dollars sitting around, it is a good thing for the people of Chicago and all Americans that the International Olympic Committee did not select them as the site. Chicago would have either had to borrow the money, putting its citizens in further debt or the United States government would have borrowed the money for them, putting the rest of the country into further debt. (Bailouts, bailouts, bailouts, etc.) Chicagoans should be happy that the Olympics will not be hosted in their city because they would be paying for continuous upkeep of new sites built.

Whether Chicago had won the Olympics or not it was ridiculous for both Obama’s to be traveling to Denmark, an estimated $5 million trip, not including Oprah. Apparently when your travel budget is paid for by the American tax payers, common sense is not part of the equation. The Obama’s would serve Americans much better if they actually showed that they too care about our money and how it is spent. American Presidents should not be involved in the Olympic lobbying process which is why delegations are created. Did Obama really think he was going to woo over the Olympic Committee at the last minute so they would select Chicago? Was it truly necessary to spend millions of extra traveling dollars for Obama to fly over there and waste valuable time and effort (regardless of how short that time) on something like the Olympics?

The other victory for Americans is that Obama found 25 minutes to spend talking to the Commanding General of the Afghanistan war on his way home from Denmark. General McChrystal recently told “60 Minutes” that he had only spoken with Obama once in the past 70 days. Since Obama is the Commander-in-Chief and we are actively in a war against terrorism in Afghanistan isn’t it logical that he would talk to the General commanding said war more often than not? So you see Obama’s failure at winning the Olympics for Chicago is a victory for tax payers. Obama’s failed trip to Denmark is a victory for Americans because he finally met with General McChrystal.

There have been phones in the White House since 1877 and Rutherford B. Hayes.

UPDATE: It was reported on “Special Report” that Obama spent 70 minutes with the IOC pushing Chicago for the Olympics and only 25 minutes with General McChrystal. Obama's priorities are seriously questionable.

This explains without apology, my feeling of the Obamas taking two presidential planes full of supporters to Denmark in an attempt to influence the bringing of Olympics to the crime-ridden, Mafia-controlled, city of Chicago. No one is surprised to hear me admit that politically I am a little right of Genghis Khan.

But for those of you who supported and voted for this despicable Obama Administration, you are getting about what you deserved. It probably does not bother most of you who voted for him that we have some of our finest young men and women embedded in a winless war in Afghanistan and the Middle East. It probably does not bother many of you that we have a culture of death being promoted by this administration, incomprehensible in its immorality. To think that a baby, created in God's own image, whose body possesses billions of cells, each cell with DNA information that would fill thousands of pages, each baby with a brain possessing billions of intricate cells, each precious child with the ability, after birth, to bring joy to parents, grandparents and to make a contribution to the world, all which only God has predetermined. Is it conceivable that a country could be so immoral as to elect someone to the highest office in the land, who in 8 months time, has reversed over 200 years of progress in industry, banking, insurance, education, attempted health care degradation, and has placed your children and grandchildren into an impossible debt which can never be repaid. There is no way that the indebtedness of this nation can be repaid. Even if by some miracle, he and his enablers in congress could be stopped.

Only virtuous people are capable of freedom. It is easy to talk about liberty but costly to defend. (I speak as a totally blind, 100% disabled, service connected veteran.)

Christianity at one time was the conscience of the government. With voodoo worship in the White House, a culture of corruption in the congress, talking to anyone in Washington, your State House or your local Court House, is like going to the nearest wall and talking to it.

Incomparable Anticipation

In my world travels, one island in the middle of the Pacific – Samoa - I spent several days there at that famous hotel owned by the American who met the American troops on the beach when they recaptured the island during World War II. (Aggie Grey Hotel) Sadie was still alive when I was there – a remarkable woman who made sure that this old veteran was treated well and had one of her employees escort me to a nearby church on Sunday morning. This was one of the highlights of my life, since I was in a state of depression at the time. When I went into this wood-framed building (I had about 10% vision in one eye at that time) it was filled with people dressed in white, all barefoot. I could not understand anything being sung but knew it was my grandmother's favorite hymn (What a Friend We Have In Jesus). The woman missionary, speaking in a real high-pitched voice, came down the aisle of the church to greet their visitors and she told me in English the verse for her message – Psalm 84:5. This verse has since become the cornerstone in my life because if we have the strength of Lord we can do, and indeed, can endure anything. How it grieves me to think of the tsunami, last week, that devastated that island.

My parents, probably due to so much hard work, were old early in life. A few months before my mother died at age 62, I took she and my father to their only daughter's home because my sister had a new baby girl. In my sister's beautiful home, she brought this new beautiful baby over and placed her into my mother's lap, as my father sat holding the baby's older brother. As I did many times in their later years, I watched them very closely. I could imagine what was going through my mother's mind as she looked at her first and only grand daughter. She would never live to see her in a school play (Salem College) or walk down the aisle in her wedding dress. But, she must have thought of the joys as well as disappointments which are in every girl's life. She knew the incomparable anticipation of life or death, of the joys that God has prepared for those who know Him, in children, grandchildren, friends and faith.

For many years, at my church, I would purchase a birthday cake each time one of the older ladies had a birthday. I would take my large crystal pedestal cake plate and make a big deal of her birthday at prayer meeting. I heard one of the oldest members (she had been a member of the church and had sat in the same pew for 86 years) say to another, “It will all soon be over and I can hardly wait.” This wonderful lady, like all of us, should have joy in the knowledge that we have an answer book in which we can find a solution to all of our problems. We, as God's children, should find great joy in hearing God's Word, in reading God's Word, believing in God's Word and singing the old hymns of our faith.

We have a right to anticipate God's blessings because He has promised us and He is a God of honor. We have a right to anticipate God's comfort, God's peace and God's reward because He is a God of honor. We do not have to convince God of our faith. We do not have to convince family or friends of our faith. We cannot hide it.

In the famous book by Dr. George Lofton, Character Sketches, we have the sermon Bed Too Short, Blanket Too Narrow. When you have the incomparable anticipation of faith in life and reward in death, something is always going to stick out. You cannot hide it.

From The Imitations of Christ, Book Three by Thomas à Kempis: “Grant me, O Lord, the grace to know what should be known, to praise what is most pleasing to You, to esteem that which appears most precious to You, and to abhor what is unclean in Your sight.”

Whistling in the Dark

C.S. Lewis was an Irish born writer and author of such greats as The Screwtape Letters and The Chronicles of Narnia. He was a “cradle catholic” but fell away from his faith during his early years and became an atheist, but came back to his faith while on the facility at Oxford. He said, “My faith is now my faith.”


In 1940 Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters. This was a series of letters he wrote portraying letters between two devils – the mysterious way people have in denying the Christian religion, which, as he said, was a mystery to the devil and more a mystery to God and “how far is too far” and “when is enough enough”?


As a contemporary of Lewis, although he is dead, in my eighty years, I have seen life take a complete 180 degree turn. Every promise and every prophecy in God's Word to this moment has been fulfilled, and it is certainly true that we now find evil called good and good called evil. The truth is now called a lie and a lie is now called truth.


Not just the theologians but the early scientists would never have been convinced that human beings would accept the radical practice of homosexuality, an abomination to God and to everything which we believe to be decent. How any sane person can study human anatomy, genetics, and anything else pertaining to biology or sociology and defend homosexuality, gay marriage, and certainly the placing of practicing homosexuals in the pulpits of God's most precious bride, His church, in direct defiance of every “God-directive” found in His book, such as the first chapter of Romans, is beyond human comprehension. It is a perversity and stench in the nostrils of almighty God - repugnant to every thing that human beings call decent.


Christ, now on the outside of most churches, looking in, must say, “What is wrong with those people?” That powered and puffed church people can sit on padded pews, smiling and smug, while most of those around them, and certainly those unreached at home and abroad, are on a “fast track” to hell, is probably a mystery to a sovereign God. IF Christians, who believe in God's Word, who have the spine to live the Christian life, believed in God's power, you could not keep them out of the church house every time the door is opened, because they would be there seeking the greatest power in the world, the power received through prayer, worship and giving. Their lives at home before their most precious possessions - their children - would be totally changed. As one young girl, whom her mother heard praying by her bed, “God help my mother to be as nice at home as she is at church.”


Mary Bethune, black educator (Bethune-Cookman University), advisor to FDR, said, “Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”


I have been in many places where the Queen of England was visiting: Cicily, Mexico, etc. There is always much cleaning, painting, many preparations. Once, when she was about to visit Chicago and all the preparations were being made, the mayor called the Blackstone Hotel (where I have stayed) and asked the manager if they were ready for the Queen's visit. The manager said, “We are always ready for royalty.” In our homes, in our churches, in our lives (the temple of God), we should be consumed by the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords.


Thomas Paine, signer of the Declaration of independence, and writer of Common Sense,

nor Adam Smith, nor any other economist in the fore front leading this nation into economic greatness would believe that the American people would elect anyone to the highest office who would in eight month's time almost totally destroy every vestige of American economic power that has made this country an example for the world. (I have traveled through 157 countries.) Who would have believed that Americans who have fought a cold war against communism, who have witnessed what totalitarianism has done to human rights in many countries (Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, etc.) would elect a communist to the presidency?


To show how dumbed down the American education system has become, we believe we can follow a decadent and corrupt leadership in accumulating more debt to pay off debt. We have elected people into government - local, state federal – who believe you can put sewage treated with poisoned chemicals into our national waterways and then take the water from our rivers, treat it again with poisoned chemicals, and pipe it into homes and industry for consumption. We support a health system who raped our citizens with a needle by putting untested chemical poisons into their systems when religious groups such as the Amish, Mennonites, Muslims, etc. have shown that people live well without such.


Even Margaret Mead, world famous anthropologist in my lifetime, or Jane Addams, Nobel Prize winning sociologist, would never have believed that technological advances would lead to the complete destruction of the American home through the funneling of pornography from the dirty streets and dirty bookstores of your town into your clean living room where your children are subjected to every sinful act and imagination Satan has to offer. Even the earliest evangelists and Christian crusaders who founded the hospitals and colleges in our country, who brought the “Good News” of salvation to every cross roads, which led to the building of churches for worship, would have believed that homes and schools would become not breeding and feeding grounds for spiritual development but filling stations for degradation and degeneration.


In 1803, President Jefferson and Congress appropriated $2,500 (about the price of a first class air line ticket today) for Lewis & Clark to begin an expedition for a route to the Pacific Ocean. After years of trauma in finding this route, can you even imagine the joy in their heart on the Columbia River when they saw and heard that great expanse of ocean. Likewise, can you even imagine the joy in the heart of David Livingston when he discovered the noise and spray of the Great Victoria Falls in Africa? (As I stood at it's edge, heard the great resounding noise, and felt the spray, I could only imagine the joy in David Livingston's heart.) Think of the joy, we as children of LIGHT will know one day when the great gates of pearl of LIGHT open to us (even those of us who have been blind most of our lives) and we know the joy of redemption, the faith we have, that we lived in these times of repugnance and unbelievers thought we were just whistling in the DARK in defending our Savior, our country, our family.

Contented with Mediocrity

In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Brave New World fifth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Futuristically, the book predicts much of the addictive claims of President George H. W. Bush's new world order. Today's globalists, seeking to satisfy every qualm and queer with technology, promotes learning while sleeping, resolving unhappiness by taking a pill, and emphasizes conditioning over breeding and the chemical infusion to embryos in order to achieve maximum potential.

The “brave new world” is upon us. Absolutes such as the periodic table with atomic weights which have not changed since creation, the twelve notes on the piano, whose tones have not changed since creation, the interaction of oxygen and carbon dioxide, totally necessary since creation, have become ambiguous in the need to satisfy those contented with mediocrity. As a scientist, as a believer in balancing the equations of science, one who knows the laws of human nature, I have little leverage or compromise with those who rationalize absolutes. As a born again, committed Christian, a believer in the supreme Creator, I can understand why God hates unbelievers and idols. Man is a vertical as well as a horizontal being, desperate for the spiritual as well as the physical precepts of life.

The entire concept of political correctness should annoy anyone. You never hear a politician answer a question with honesty, only trying to appease everyone. There is always so much ambiguity involved in every act or thought of life. I heard a senator say recently, “we remain in ambiguity about our relationship with Taiwan.” There was a time when our country would have gone to war with Communist China over the islands between Red China and free China, Quemoi and Matsu. Now we dance around porous borders, whether attached to our country, or to a country where we are supposedly involved in a war: Iraq – Syria - Iran, Afghanistan – Pakistan – Iran.

We try to buy friends abroad with billions of tax dollars from hardworking, sweating, frugal, God-fearing Americans, whose basic creed is the honor of God, family and country. American governments take advantage of that creed at the point of a gun. Mediocrity promotes the bailout of American conglomerates (financial, manufacturing, insurance, etc.) while paying out bonuses to inept executives and board members.

It is time to understand that the reason the medical community is receiving so little support in this health care debate, is because these average citizens have been treated so poorly by the health care community, particularly in emergency rooms and the cutthroat practices of hospitals enabled by profiteering insurance companies (staph infections in hospitals, ten dollar aspirin tablets, denial of claims, profiteering drug companies).

It is time to realize that the reason Americans have so little affection for airlines is the way they have been treated on airlines (schedules inspections, harassment, fake charges, etc.) My only son recently asked me to visit his family which would of necessity be a flight. I said, 'It has been 20 years since I was on an airplane and I never expect to get on another.” As a totally blind, 100% disabled veteran, service connected, who gave his eyes for your country, I refuse to be treated like cattle in a cattle car, or chickens in a coup, both on the way to market, by any other human beings or disreputable business with little or no oversight, such as airlines. This comes from a traveler who has been around the world 8 times by air.

It is time to understand why the church receives so little support from the Christian and those secular citizens who only recognize hypocrisy. We have seen the cheapening of devout faith by the likes of Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, and many other millionaire, “servant” freeloaders who never miss an opportunity to advertise a book, a cruise, or just a donation for someone, somewhere, mostly them.

You will never see a con man that you do not like; because we are contented with mediocrity. Restaurants come and go because many accept mediocrity. (Have you ever sat and eaten just anything because you did not want to make a fuss?) Ten percent of all products are recalled. But of the recall, only one customer in 100 will take it back.

The tyranny you live under is the tyranny you put up with. Most doctors have never had a patient to question a diagnosis. You better make sure the pharmacists can read his writing. The greatest cause of death in the health care community is the taking of the wrong medications. How many times have you read the printed material which comes with every pill which warns you about taking it? Parents will hold a screaming child for a vaccination many times affecting the child's health an entire life, when we know full well that vaccinations have lead to many diseases, even death. Can you imagine the stupidity of having another person's blood transfused into your body with all the antigens, mutations and complications which genetic tissue from one individual brings to another. Much of the microbiology is yet to be discovered.

Remember, you only go around one time. Be sure. Be very sure, your compass is correct. Don't be contented with mediocrity.

Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay is the man who gains riches by unjust means. When his life is half gone, they will desert him, and in the end he will prove to be a fool. (Jeremiah 17:11)

Slamo Whamo

In 1949, Loretta Young won an Academy Award for her movie, “The Perfect Marriage.” In the movie she said, a perfect marriage was like a perfect crime. You never get away with it.

The Chicago mafia, the democrat party, the misfits, and the unfits in America thought they could get away with the nomination and election of Barack and Michelle. Michael Moore has termed Barack Obama as the common man.The only thing common about Obama was his education in a Muslim madrasa when he was young. His education in a Catholic facility in Hawaii and certainly the money required to matriculate at Harvard, was not that of a common man. The mansion in Chicago is not Section 8 property. Michelle's employment at a Chicago hospital where she was paid $315,000 a year did not materialize because of an Affirmative Action program. The hospital where she worked did not take welfare patients. His employment in the windy city as a community organizer, was simply a further affirmation of the influences of such groups as ACORN. Here in the south, we call these political organizers registering and hauling people to the polls, “walking around money.”

It is significant in this time of health care debate, when in the guise of socialized medicine, old people are advised to have Nembutal (a pain-killing / killer) in their medicine cabinet (just in case). There is a pressure for old people to die because in the programs those beyond age 65 will get decreased care, even though the most rapid growing age of our population are those over 85. There must be an unqualified commitment for the sanctity of human life. In the Hitler - Stalin socialistic system of medicine there was little empathy for old people. In the Chinese and even present day American system of medicine, there is little empathy for the unborn.

In the September 29^th, 2009 news reports there are articles on the continued debate regarding abortion. The question looms as a test of President Obama’s campaign pledge to support abortion rights but seek middle ground with those who do not. Mr. Obama has promised for months that the health care overhaul would not provide federal money to pay for elective abortions, but White House officials have declined to spell out “what he means.” It is further reported that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has lobbied for decades to persuade the government to provide universal health insurance, says it opposes the bill unless it bans the use of subsidies for plans that cover abortion.

In his quest for money for Chicago, but in defiance of certain air pollution, by two large planes instead of one plane traveling through the atmosphere, both of the Chicagoans, the Obamas, are flying separate planes to Denmark, lobbying for future Olympics. It is amazing beyond all words of expression that these presidential candidates will sell their very souls to Satan lying, cheating and stealing to raise the millions necessary to get into the White House, and then spend most of their time after winning the White House, polluting the air with plane exhaust. It was bad enough with the Rich Bushes, both father and son, who spent more time on vacations than “Flipper” spent in the ocean. But the Obama's have hardly had enough time for Mrs. Robinson's voodoo rituals. (Michelle's mother, Mrs. Robinson, is a follower of voodoo; and her witches cleansed the White House before the Obamas occupied it).

The fictitious Red State – Blue State liberal conservative malarkey, in a time of national and international chaos, must be altered as we seek to advert the crumbling of the republic. In a race, whether patriotic or prophetic, there are barriers and hurdles which we must climb or jump over in order to reach our goal in spite of the diminution of the dollar, and in spite of the fatalities of the free, in spite of the galloping gluttony of liberalism. The Slamo of Obamo must be qualified or muted. Your life and certainly the very livelihood of your children and grandchildren, depends on your lustful love for your country.

One of the great thrills of my life, as a free man, free to travel the world, and free to enjoy the greatest recreation in the world, was enjoying the performing arts, I often attended plays in London. I was there for Agatha Christie's 25^th Anniversary of “The Mousetrap”. At every British performance, anywhere, “God Save the Queen” is sung with much gusto, a tradition which I admire.

My country, 'tis of thee,

Sweet land of liberty,

Of thee I sing;

Land where my fathers died,

Land of the pilgrims' pride,

From every mountainside

Let freedom ring!

“America” by Samuel Francis Smith

Consuming Fire

Twice in the scripture, once in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 4:24) and once in the New Testament (Hebrews 12:29) our God is described as a consuming fire. In one of the most colorful illustrations of God's power, the three Hebrew young men who would not bow to King Nebuchadnezzar's idol, an image of gold 90 feet high and 9 feet wide. They were thrown into the fiery furnace, heated up seven times hotter than usual, so hot that those that threw them in the furnace were destroyed. Even the wicked king recognized the Son of God walking with them in the fire. It is significant that Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked out of the furnace without even the smell of fire on their clothing. There is no record of God walking out of the fire with them. (Daniel 3)

All the disciples were interesting. Perhaps Simon Peter was the most interesting. Peter was an old man when he wrote in his epistle, That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. (I Peter 1:7) This verse has been a stronghold to many of us in times of need. Peter was familiar with fire; because he had warmed himself at the enemy's fire when he three times denied our blessed Lord with cursing on the night of the crucifixion. Later, after the resurrection, by a fire on the seashore, Christ had asked him again, three times if he loved Him. At Pentecost it was Peter who preached the great sermons, Acts 2, when fire came down and 6000 people were saved.

The fire of God's love and passion consumed the very being of the all the disciples as they went forth to convert the world and most died as martyrs. Like the fire falling on Mt. Carmel (I Kings 18) when the prophet Elijah, demonstrated for time and eternity the consuming power of God to unbelievers. This is the day for believers to get off their knees and to stand up for the sovereign power of God to cleanse the world of impurities by the all consuming fire of love which burns in the heart of every Christian. Christ does not need cowards to carry His cross. He needs those with conviction and courage. I truly believe that 95% of faith is just raw courage. Christ, standing on the outside, looking into our church houses, would say, “What is wrong with those people?” A preacher at the pulpit does not have enough passion to preach the fullness of sin's ruin and Christ's redemption, but will just read something which he copied from the internet or some other place.

One cannot love without giving. One cannot love without serving. The greatest joy in the world this day or ever is the Joy of the Lord, found in giving, serving and worship. Paul said, “Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice.” (Philippians 4:4)

The scariest thing for a blind person is fire, because we cannot see it (I am a totally blind, 100% disabled, medical-officer veteran of the Korean conflict). I must be so careful in preparing my food, and I often have the awful awakening experience in the middle of the night in thinking that the house is on fire. Fire is so destructive, so deadly, I do not believe one ever recovers from the fire of warfare. I can still hear two girls screaming from burns in an Army hospital after they burned in a house after fire fights. My grandparents talked about their parents telling them about homes burning, in the community on Sherman's march to the sea, through eastern North Carolina, burning houses and barns.

One of the saddest days of my life was when the barn burned on the farm, only twice in my life, in spite of all the horrors of life at that time, I saw my father cry. The other time was when my mother died. Looking at the burned barn, burned farm equipment, the thought occurred to me, “will he and my mother still be as faithful in their Christian belief?” You would never have known that anything had happened, they were singing as usual at church the next Sunday. Many times I have referred those who have gone through the fire to this verse from Peter, an old man who had experienced much. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. (1 Peter 1:7)

These days, when we hear so much about the value of gold, the importance of investing in Gold, the fire which determines our faith is much more valuable than gold. Remember, the potter uses fire to make something beautiful, and he never takes his eye off the wheel.