Hair Brush

#543

Moses, in his second meeting with God (first meeting, back of desert, burning bush, no record of any contact of God with Moses previous 40 years, but God knew where Moses was, and Moses did not have to ask, “is that you God?”) Moses came down from Sinai with tablets hand written by the hand of God. You find three things in all religions...Pagan religions of South America or Egypt...prayer, adoration, sacrifice.

Cecil B. DeMille, portrayer of great Bible movies said, of the Ten Commandments, “the most difficult commandment to visualize is the first commandment, about the worshiping of idols.”

It is obvious that the producer, DeMille, did not know much about idols, the idol of money, the idol of power, the idol of prestige, and most of all, the idol of appearance. Any child, almost any home, can tell you which idol his parents worship...the one they sit in front of almost constantly...the one they bow down to daily as they change the channel, brighten the color etc., the idol of the television set. In a high school poll, it is discovered that most television sets in most homes are never turned off...that most children sit in front of a television set three to seven hours a day. At least, in ancient idol worship, where they carved out an idol from a piece of wood, at least the scraps of wood could be used in a fire.

For many, bank accounts have become a God. For some, the green government check has become an idol. A Pentecostal preacher told me about a sick member of the church. He offered to pray for his healing, he said, “you can pray but remember I get a check”.

I was in Argentina during the Juan Peron reign. Argentina had the world's fourth largest GNP...only exceeded by USA, UK, Japan. Peron ruled Argentina with an iron hand turning this once prosperous country into a sociological socialist nightmare. I still remember soldiers on the streets with machine guns. His wife Evita, an actress, brought the finishing touches with her welfare culture involving the poor. He had two wives, Eva (Evita) and Isabelle and both of them brought the once prosperous Argentina into the depths of slavery. I was once there when inflation was so bad that prices were going up every day. Each item in a store, would have just one price after another written on it with previous ones marked through. On planes, they took the real wealth, gold and artwork of Argentina, to foreign countries and, as Marco Polo before them, and Genghis Khan before him, they signed their names on fiat paper money which rapidly became worthless. We are heading in the same direction in America.

19 of the world's countries are on the brink of bankruptcy including USA and the UK. We are spending five billion dollars a day just servicing our national debt. Pension funds and Social Security will become a part of the great American financial disaster. We will see municipal and other bonds in default. In California the pension debt is 60 to 90 billion with no way to pay it.

Seldom is the truth told on the state controlled news. As in the Iraq war, throwing babies out of bassinets. Depleted uranium or agent orange, one does not know what to believe anymore. When you see the soap opera drama of Obama and Netanyahu, you know it is fakery leading to an attack of Israel on Iran. America will say, “we told them not to do it, they are so mean”. When, as in most things, it is all approved ahead of time by the Council on Foreign Relations, the Tri-lateral Commission, the Bilderbergs, Goldman Sachs, and the other globalists who rule the world. David Rockefeller said, “some men are born to rule, most are born to be ruled”.

With Israel, everything is a soap opera. I remember crossing the Allenby bridge from Jordan into Israel. There was no problem at the Jordan side but on the Israeli side, a van of “stupid” and bewildered American tourists, armed Israeli soldiers, pointing weapons at you...even an old blind man...taking out of my camera bag...my “hair brush” saying they must X-ray the item...all drama...all deceit. As if, I have not paid enough taxes each year for the ten million Israel gets each day from US tax payers.

Since 1850, the average depression has lasted about 8 years. Japan has been in a deep depression for 10 years.

The New American Century, 1997/98 operated by neoconservatives, Paul Wolfowitz said, “we are heading into an age of globalism where everything will be in the control of one world government”. We are already there, only pushed by a non-conservative, very much a left wing radical, Communist Obama and his czars.

Everything is planned ahead of time even to the desert uniforms Americans were to wear in the first Gulf War. Industry and wealth has moved overseas but Americans can no longer put money in Swiss or other foreign bank accounts. Federal, state and all municipalities are cutting workers. Scare tactics are being well controlled. The media is so anxious for you to despise Christians that they always point out “Christian” militias, and “Christian” pedophile Priests. It is reported, that in many Wall Street firms, Bear-Sterns etc. SEC was present most of the time and never recognized a problem. It is reported that everyone knew about the Madoff scheme except SEC regulators. It is known that everyone knew about the House Ways and Means Chairman Rangel's problems counting money, except fellow Democrats.

Your government thinks you are very stupid...sent you two notices that you would be getting a census form. But, you have proved over and over, that you do not mind paying this excessive postage particularly to a post office which must now close on Saturdays...just to save money...a new thought process for government. There are three certainties, death, taxes, and a lying, deceiving government.

Exegesis

#542

Exegesis

In the “roaring” 1920's and 1930's dance contests, trying to prove endurance were the activity of the young set. In the Audubon Ballroom in New York City, Alma Cummings, on March 31st 1923 outlasted all competition, dancing 27 hours. I was not there, I had not been born, all we have are the records of the event from those who were there and the recording of the event.

This is Holy week, recognizing the second greatest event in the history of the world, the crucifixion and resurrection of our blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, only begotten son of God, the creator, atonement sacrifice for the sins of the world.

Real Christians, all over the world, have the discernment of the “exegesis” of this great historical and spiritual event. At your on risk, you deprecate this greatest event in Christianity.

Every Jewish family celebrates the passover, as did our Jewish Lord and his disciples. The youngest male in the Jewish family asks four questions in celebrating passover. Each question begins with this phrase, “why is this night different from all other nights?”

“On all other nights, we eat either unleavened or leavened bread, but tonight we eat only unleavened bread?”
“On all other nights, we eat all kinds of vegetables, but tonight, we eat only bitter herbs?”
“On all other nights, we do not dip [our food] even once, but tonight we dip twice?”
“On all other nights, we eat either sitting or reclining, but tonight we only recline?”

In Egypt, on that passover night, a young spotless lamb had been brought into the family, they had shown their love for it. But the father, as did our Heavenly Father allowed the lamb to be killed, its blood poured on the door post of the house so the death angel passed over. In Pharaohs house, in all Egyptian's houses, even the animals of the Egyptians...even after all the plagues, the oldest son was killed but, the Jewish families escaped Egypt...over 2.5 million...passing through the Red Sea on dry land heading toward the promised land. As with another salvation, many years before, on the other side of the flood, eight human beings were saved. God has arranged for our salvation, through the sacrifice of his only son, the Word (John 1) with him from the very foundation of the universe. The Jews knew what it was to be saved.

Christianity started out stranger than science-fiction, a man being raised from the dead. Genesis 3:20 forever solves evolution...with the creation of Adam and Eve...from the dirt of the earth...the same elements in the human body that you find in dirt. It has never changed and, whether attempts at killing people in Russian subways (7 million Russians travel by subway each day), bullying of a young girl in the state of Massachusetts so that she commits suicide, technology has changed the world but the human heart is still evil and we have only one salvation.

Jesus Christ never offered salvation any way except through him. He presented himself as salvation, a person. He told us that he was the way, the truth, the life...the light, the door...the bread of life. Jesus Christ was either the biggest fraud in history, or the truth.

He was one with us in order to redeem us...putting on a “tent of human flesh” and dwelled among us. The essence of everything is his word. Opening the bible is looking into the mind of God. Don't cheapen God talking about other books, “the Book of Mormon”, “Science and Health” (Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science, not Christian or science). All authority in Heaven and Earth were given to Christ. You do not need further explanations from Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons or anyone else. The average defiler of God's word, academics, Atheists etc. has never spent 20 hours of study in God's word determining the truth of the resurrection. The skeptics of his day asked him for a sign. God has no intention of giving anyone a sign about anything except, Jonah, who spent three days in the belly of a large fish. We worship the sovereign God of the universe, HE IS BOSS.

The resurrection is the basis of Christianity and it is a fact. Some doubted then, grieved women wandering around in a cemetery missed the tomb, the Jews moved him, and of course the scientific explanation, he became resuscitated after the cross...the usual answers of gnosticism. Everyone is an expert in religion. Some of the simplest minded people I have ever known, people not interested in anything, knew all about religion. Most people who speak about Christ do not know him. Who would risk an empty, Christ-less grave...your own or that of Christ without thoroughly investigating? The disciples who witnessed the resurrection witnessed, held him, after his resurrection, knew the truth. They convinced the world, from then until now. These disciples were so convinced, so convinced that, alone, knowing they would never see one another again, became martyrs: Bartholomew skinned alive in Armenia, Luke hanged in Greece, Mark dragged trough the streets of Alexandria in Egypt, Thomas crossing the worst mountains in the world, the Himalayas, going all the way to India, Peter the weakest of the disciples, tempestuous, denying our Lord until the very end crucified upside down, John self centered, showing little love for anyone except himself, becoming the giant of scripture. His followers, His church, knew him in life, knew him in the resurrection, knew him in his ascended glory.

This one event, the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord, dramatized in Baptism, completely captivated in one cataclysmic event, the men and women of his day. We either become a new creation in him or it was all for nothing. Peter was a miserable failure but Christ specifically said, after his resurrection, “go tell Peter”, picking him out among all the others. Mark, dropping his white robe in the garden of Gethsemane, had deserted in fear. People do not go through what his disciples went through for a lie. Thousands, who have been martyred, on mission fields, do not go through what they have gone through for a lie. Today's Christians, do not subject themselves to the unbelief, disbelief, and recycled hypocrisy of the world, for a lie.

If your Easter is just a good time, new Spring clothes, chocolate rabbits and colored eggs, you have missed the true meaning of Easter. Even, if you observe Lent, prayer, fasting and repentance, without knowing the relationship of Christ, you have missed the true meaning of Easter. “To know him, the power of his resurrection, the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death” (Phl 3:10)

Cyclopean Eye

#541

You will notice in the forehead of a newborn child a very soft spot where the cranial bones have not knitted since birth. In the literature, this is called the “cyclopean eye”.

On our American fiat, worthless bills, mostly because of the influence of the grand order of Masons, over the Egyptian pyramid, you have the all seeing eye of god. Never before, in the history of man, have we had the means to instantaneously deal with people all over the world. Through the ether, cyberspace, internet of the computer, the world is in the snare of interfacing with one another. The sovereign God of the universe, the eternal one who “spoke” and the universe was formed is in control of everything...whether we like it or not...he does not ask our permission for anything.

In his book The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and in 1970, when he was in America, He was asked by a reporter, “why did 60 million Russians have to be killed?” He is reported to have said, “because Russia forgot about God”. A member of the Carter administration, Zbigniew Brzezinski said, “there will be an awakening of consciousness throughout the world.”

The world is poisoned by the same geographical harm, genetically modified food, one world order bankers, knowledge which brings the entire world together. We must bypass the firewall of fear, be ready to support those concerned about the world, the flesh, the devil.

Financial systems of the world have been bought and paid for by a one world bank...Goldman Sachs...brainchild of the Rothschild banking conglomerate. You find the headquarters of this one world bank at 85 Wall Street. American Treasury Secretaries have held dual allegiances of the American Treasury and the one world bank, Robert Rubin under Clinton, Paulson under G. W. Bush and Geithner under Obama. The most powerful, Paulson, paying 26 million for his apartment at 15 Central Park West. Paulson, who bailed out all of his friends in the financial community is reported to have received a 200 million dollar bonus from the Rothschilds. It is well known that Obama was picked by the one world bank, Goldman Sachs, to handle the American fall into the chasm of depression.

Like a train heading for a cliff, falling into a endless chasm many Americans are trying to make the decision of riding the train to the cliff or taking a jump...now.

The only solitude we have in our dilemma, God knows the end of the parade as well as the beginning. His faithfulness is ever present to those who KNOW him. The book Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes by Blair S. Walker means much in these trying times. Hold on to the “cyclopean”, all seeing eye of God.

Point of View

#540

The great North Carolina, US Senator, Jesse Helms, became famous through a radio program called “Point of View”. He did not expect to get famous, I don't believe he even expected to get political when I first knew him. He would often use our friend, Judge Chub Sewell, when he was away as his guest. Judge Sewell said, all he knew was what he read in the papers.

Woody Allen said, “eternity is very long, especially towards the end”. Christians believe in eternal life. When you open the Bible, it is like looking into the mind of God. God talks more about Hell than he does about Heaven but death and the fear of death hovers over all religions.

There are many delusions about death. We actually believe other people will die, but not us. We join groups because groups live on. Man is the only animal who knows he is going to die. We are faced with it's certainty every day...every time we pass a cemetery...every time we pass a funeral home. This weekend, a Mennonite family of 12, well known singers, ten were killed in a terrible vehicle accident when a truck crossed the center line. As Mennonites, pictures were shown of neighbors building boxes for their burial much as did my ancient ancestors around the time of the Civil War and even during the Great Flu Epidemic at the beginning of the 20th Century. Seasoned wood planks were kept on hand so the men in the community could build boxes in order to bury family members. My mother, who survived the 1918 flu epidemic said the worst sound was the sound of men building coffins before the sick had died. ALL knew that death was just around the corner.

Historians tell us that people did not think much about dying in the ancient world. It was a matter of acceptance. There was no bible, the people only knew what they heard from the profits. Amazingly, life and nature taught them the rudiments of death. Moses, having spent 40 years in the desert, after leaving Egypt, scared for having killed an Egyptian, even though he had been reared in the Pharaoh's house, had no problem recognizing God speaking to him from the burning bush. There is no record that God had any contact with Moses during his 40 years in the desert but, obviously, God knew Moses's whereabouts the entire time and Moses did not question who was talking to him. Only the modernist, Agnostics which we find even in today's pulpits, want to change God instead of God changing them. The most lies told in any one week, are told in the most segregated hour of the week, the worship hour on Sunday morning in churches and usually told with a hymn book in the hand when people sing of God's expectations and promises and they, singing away, do not believe one word they are singing. “My Jesus I love thee, I know thou art mine, for thee all my sins, I resign” or, “standing on the promises of God, my king”, or, “Jesus savior, pilot me” etc.

There is no word on mortal tongue as sweet as the sound, mother. Yet, we know, that the most selfish and selfless animal on earth is a woman. She is wired that way. Watch any animal, hog, dog, cat, bear, protect her young. One congressmen said he had rather fight any black bear than have a fight with Maxine Waters, congresswoman from California. He said, “she is the most viscous human being one can imagine”.

It is rare for me to meet a young woman who does not smoke cigarettes. I asked someone, “knowing what we know about smoking tobacco, why do most women smoke?” He said, “it is a matter of liberation”. Women will often talk with others about intimate things. My wife told me what my dentist friend wore to bed, his wife had told her. Research the breakup of any church, any school problem, any business fold up, troubles in any hospital or social group and you will usually find a woman at the bottom of it. Over 50% of all marriages end in divorce...usually in favor of the woman. There are many more women alcoholics than men alcoholics. I think of Genevieve, my secretary, one of the most talented, intelligent people I have ever known yet completely intemperate in her addiction...to alcohol. She had so embarrassed her children that they would not even come about her yet, at the church, everywhere, she was the persona of perfection...when sober. Make this test, see how many women will let you get out into traffic when traffic is lined up at an intersection and you need to get through. Check the grocery store, see how concerned they are about the people in line behind them and, so it goes. But, if it were not for the mothers, who did not abort us, we would not be here to discuss this point of view.

In many parts of the world, particularly Kashmir, on the shores of Lake Srinagar, I noticed that it was the women of the culture who seemed to be responsible for everything...their homes, their children, their own financial support. I was told that the men were away in military or construction projects. Throughout the world, particularly Mexico , Latin America and China, men have left homes as legal and illegal migrants to work in America and Africa (China) in order to send money home for family support. In fact, traveling all over the world, I find the family units completely disrupted by financial survival. Always, without exception, in any part of the world, the mother is at home with the children while the father is away, now, more than ever, for many months at the time. In the Communist countries, under complete totalitarian government control, family life is a matter of government compliance. When I was in the Balkans, while still under U.S.S.R. control mothers were given a bonus to have children...double bonus for twins. In my several trips to Communist China, mothers were subjected to forced abortion and under the one child policy, most children were boys. You expect this type thing under Godless, authoritarian, Marxist doctrine.

The tragedy is, in America, where the family was always the inspired hope of the nation, mothers are being torn from the home, in the workforce, necessary for family financial survival. Did we ever think we would see the days in America, when the early rearing of children would take place in a public nursery or that females would go to war leaving small children behind?

89% of Americans believe there is a judgment at the end of your life. God is not on trial, we are. He only requires trust.

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.” (1 Cor 13:13)

Overqualified

#539

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/us/29overqualified.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me

Addition by Dr. Morris,

If you ask the largest employer in town, or the smallest employer in own, what is your biggest problem these days, recession or not, each one will give the same answer...employees.

I could write a book about employees. Each time I have an opening, we are "flooded" with applicants. Anyone, anywhere, without a job will make an application for any job and, they will ell you anything in order for you to hire them. The resumes are punctuated with the well worn phrases "organized, people person" etc. Today, my last did not show up for work. This is the third "military type" male I have hired recently. I can well understand why we are not winning wars anymore. Today's drop out, in the Air Force Reserves, making his monthly appearance at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, drives a 50,000 dollar car via US Government which gave him $15,000 to enlist in the reserves. Before him, an Iraq veteran, said he was going to the bathroom and never returned. Before him, an Iraq veteran, just walked out the door, stole money from my car (change in the console)...never returned. This totally blind, 100% disabled, service connected veteran, who was a medical officer with the rank of Captain,went into the service making $352 a month...a fortune compared tot he doctors of WWII. The ROTC students out at the university get twice as much each month for their schooling maintenance than the 100% disabled veterans in the area.

This year, so far, 46 teachers have been fired in NC for sexual activity with students and, the "beat goes on". When will the world become alerted to what has happened to the work ethic of this country...recession or not?

Get Up And Go To Work

#539

Get Up And Go To Work

One of the great movies of the last half of the 20th century was the 1953 movie Calamity Jane, starring Doris Day and Howard Keel. It had previously been on the radio in 1950 starring Bob Hope and Jane Russel. At Deadwood, South Dakota, the movie and history introduces the relationship between Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok. Wild Bill, known for his Wild West Show, performed in London, and it was the first time Queen Victoria had been out of Buckingham Palace for twenty five years since Prince Albert died. At the performance, when the American flag was brought out by Wild Bill riding his horse surrounded by American Indians, the Queen stood and bowed to the flag. Reportedly, this was the first time British royalty had bowed to the American flag. Queen Victoria is supposed to have said that the American Indians were the most beautiful people she had ever seen, a women whose British empire controlled most of the worlds population.

There are probably more lies told by people holding a hymn book than any others at any time. Millions, on Sunday morning, stand in a church, singing, “my Jesus I love thee, I know thou art mine, for thee all my sins I resign.” Wild Bill, a Western entertainer, Calamity Jane, a sharpshooting Western entertainer, and even Queen Victoria, royalty, all could tell the truth from a lie.

Americans, from a history of Western civilization, Christian belief, knew the truth from a lie, in fact, from 1799 to 1892 the U.S. Supreme Court declared American a Christian nation. It was Americans who led in the development in the worlds resources. It was Americans who built industry. It was Americans who led in Academia, in entertainment, and it has been Americans who have chosen to sit around, watching useless decadent television, useless decadent video games, useless and often decadent computer screens. There was a time, when fathers would have shot a man who brought porno into his house. Now, in every American home, just at arms length the worst decadent pornography is readily available to anyone who has paid the light bill and has turned on the computer...a sewer in the home...even the “so called” Christian homes. It is much easier to just stay at home draw a government check and government stamps and play with video games or watch any and everything Satan wants you to watch on the computer or the television set. The television set stays on in most homes ten and a half hours a day non stop.

I was in Rwanda, Central Africa, at the beginning of the carnage there when 800,000 were killed in the Hutu and Tutsi warfare. This country is called the Switzerland of Africa, a largely agriculture country. One half of its wealth comes from coffee. It is one of the worlds most beautiful, pastoral, scenic environments. Even though coffee was grown and shipped all over the world, the people did not drink coffee. At the time I was there, they were just beginning to introduce coffee drinking to the population. Now, coffee houses have grown up in every city and all the people are drinking coffee. The various blends are shipped into the big coffee systems of America...Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, etc.

This goes to show us that people can change. The country of Rwanda was a wash in poverty. By developing the international coffee market, the people, even the poorest people are beginning to prosper. Coffee is grown on small farms, and much as it was in the Southern United States with tobacco, families are farming small coffee farms. Before America decided to get rid of tobacco and let China grow that crop for the world, Americans and in particular cigarette manufacturers made much money and paid much tax from tobacco. Perhaps, fewer people are smoking, and we know that multiple thousands die from smoking each year. But, we also know that multiple thousands die from drinking coffee and eating excessive sweets. NAFTA and KAFTA cause most industry to leave America. The unions have almost disappeared. The union bosses who, with their money and votes, supported the democrats know now, that the democrats let them down the road to oblivion.

If America is to come out of this world depression, it must re-establish itself as with an entrepreneur spirit such as that found in Rwanda...bringing a new day of industry and employment to people. In traveling through China, one thing you will notice everywhere, everyone is working, everyone is busy. In Iceland, I was aware that most of the people were just sitting around, living off the largesse of the government. I noticed in Greece, that most people were just sitting around, in cafes, mostly eating and drinking, just living off the government. We know, now, that both Iceland and Greece are bankrupt. Other members of the EU and Goldman Sachs will not send in financial reserves to support them. The people of Rwanda, and some other third world countries of the world, have decided to change their life by getting up and getting busy.

America has turned out several generations, much more interested in vacation time than work time. Much more interested in pleasure than providing. It bothers me to hear that young healthy people always talk about their time off the job rather than appreciation of time on the job. School should prepare young people for living not for leisure.

An astronaut cannot survive in outer space without being connected to a life support system. America will not survive in inner space or outer space without getting reconnected to a system of healthy active life and a direct connection to the abundant life.

Grave Robbers

#538

Grave Robbers

As a university student, I worked during the school year, in Memphis, selling pre-need cemetery property. I learned more than I ever wanted to know about death and cemeteries at this job, at one of the South's largest cemeteries. The cemetery in whose mausoleum, Elvis was interred before being moved to Graceland. Often, because of family disputes, a body was kept out at the mausoleum for a long time before burial...such was the case with Judy Garland and Kate Smith.

Cemeteries are a source of intrigue to the living. In Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities, Jerry Cruncher was a grave robber. None of these events in the past, compare to present day grave robbers.

The most shameful inept agency in all history is the United States Veterans Administration. It is so large and obviously so out of control. There are sixty thousand veterans living in south eastern north Carolina alone. Several Veterans Administration lawyers have been sent to prison in recent months for their part in the fraud of dead veterans families, getting their hands on the proceeds due veterans families at their death. Connie Hanson got almost five years in prison for stealing one million dollars from thirty three veterans. A patient care group has defrauded veterans out of prescriptions claiming to represent the VA, getting private information such as credit card numbers. Congressmen and Senators can act so indignant about the treatment of Americas veterans, but they do nothing to change the system. Not one penny of interest has ever been payed to a veteran when his benefits were not correct. I can speak with certainty this totally blind, 100% disabled service connected veteran, medical officer with field rank has never received anything but a hard time from the VA. Delay, deny, and hope for you to die, is the montre for this organization. And even in death, you cannot expect fair treatment. In the American experience, next to slavery, the greatest shame of this nation is its treatment of disabled veterans and handicapped citizens, and as the case anytime you appeal to any government agency, you always get back the same letter in which anyone can dictate written on expensive paper by an expensive computer and an over payed bureaucrat, “we cannot handle your particular problem, we advise you to get an attorney.”

Not until recent years, has a veteran been able to appeal to the VA with his own personal attorney.

Americans voluntarily pay their taxes...it is a voluntary tax system...you voluntarily fill out the forms and make payment. Of course, you always know that IRS has the clout and the jail cells awaiting if you do not dance to the tune in which they play. America has always depended on the patriotism of its citizens to fill the ranks of the military. More than ever, particularly for those who have served, particularly for the families of those who are buried, American young men and women are becoming less willing to put everything on line for their country...knowing full well, how little it is appreciated. Talk is cheap, and we all hear the chatter from advertisements telling how much veterans are loved.

A friend of mine, who I payed to drive me to a veterans hospital, and who witnessed my treatment at the hospital spoke of the big sign hanging in the hospital which read, “our veterans come first.” He knew what I had given up going through so many years of school so I could give care in a military hospital. He knew I had waited thirty years for a VA housing adaptation allowance. He knew that my pension had never been correct. He knew that I had been scorned by the Chief of Staff of the hospital for making a suggestion (“we are just waiting for you to die”). Over and over again, on talk radio and every other form of media the VA is scorned for ineptness. It is evident that they simply do not care...that there is no congressional oversight.

Our nation has a fascination with stars, movie stars, ball-team stars, even media stars. Millionaires who just run up and down a ball court, or who can hit a ball with a stick or club. Does the public not realize that if it were not for the men and women, mostly from poor or minority homes, who have met the challenge, and have defended this nation, there would be no room for their great financial gain and notoriety and celebrity of stars.

Do not ever confuse celebrity with accomplishment. In my long life, I have known many accomplished people whose names were never in the headlines, who were payed very little for their work. In the movie, Diary of a Country Priest, we find such a person. A priest whose frugal lifestyle and simple commitment was a matter of amusement to young people. One of my greatest heroes, was a WWII Army nurse who came back from the war with an illness that could not be diagnosed according to military nomenclature numbers. She went before many appeals boards, many claims lawyers, but never could establish a pension for this non-descript harassing medical involvement. She died, still working a mediocre job as a private nurse in private homes never having been recognized in any way for her service on foreign battlefields. There is no chip in the computer that will recognize the fight that this writer starves himself through eight years of university education to come out, immediately commissioned and wound up as a totally blind veteran unable to practice his profession. But the nurse and I are the fortunate ones, we came back alive. Think of the millions who lie buried, 126,000 on foreign soil, and then the VA lawyers, such as happened recently, go to prison for banking to their personal accounts money due to dead veterans families.

None of us, stars or the insignificant, are role models for the world. It just takes one man plus God and anything can be accomplished. George Muller of England, cared for 9,720 orphans living day to day by faith. Faith that the money would come in that he could care for these children. Thomas A Kempis, just one man, plus God, wrote the book that has thrilled millions, “Imitation of Christ.”

A newspaper headline in WWI read, “Great Battle Won, Only One Man Killed.” For the family of this one man, his life was over and theirs would never be the same again. How easily we forget the horrors of war. Vietnam is now in its third generation from the horrors of agent orange. Still there are mutations, children born without an arm, a leg, an eye. It will take a long time for the people of Iraq to recover from depleted uranium. I have traveled through Afghanistan several times. The first day of the war, I said on radio, “I don't believe the people in the Pentagon have seen the Hindu Kush...some of the worlds most vicious mountains, difficult even for helicopters.” I remember the people riding on donkeys, herding goats. I have photographs, taken thirty years ago at the boarders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, showing migration from one country to the other poverty stricken peasants, all their belongings and sacks on their shoulders, barefoot with barefooted children. Dale Carnegie, “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” would never recommend bombing with drones.

The first time I was in Russia, I noticed so many people were drunk from vodka. I said to my friend, a newsman with WOR, NYC, “if I lived here I would stay drunk too.” I believe people everywhere are looking to escape. This week, in Connecticut, the Eli Lilly Warehouse was robbed from the roof of 35 million drugs. I believe many young people are just swallowing anything to escape. We try to put the well worn cloak of impunity on everything. Veterans, Boards of Appeals uncertain reasons for warfare, agnosticism about country and church. Church members are much more interested in changing God, than in God changing them. Mans will and Gods will does not coincide. Perhaps the greatest robbery of all, even more depressing than the robbery of a grave, is the robbery our children experience in not having hope for the future.

Letter to my Lord

#537

Letter to my Lord

The apostle Paul, in his letters of the New Testament, always referred to our Lord Jesus Christ, so I am speaking to our Lord meaning, our Lord Jesus Christ.

I think everyone should write his or her obituary before death. When you look at a tombstone, there is usually a date of birth, hyphen, date of death. It is what happens during the hyphen, the time in between birth and death, that matters. It interests me to hear political advertisements, politicians who list their many accomplishments, degrees, memberships, and successes. Never yet, have I seen a political advertisement in which a politician refers to his failures. There are usually memberships in civic clubs, academic, and professional groups, even church membership. In most obituaries, references made to parents, and if the family is “blue bloods” grandparents.

The world has totally changed in my lifetime. There was a time, when any church members funeral would be held in his church but, the family has gotten so cheap that often the funeral of even the church members are held at the funeral home. I cannot imagine a family whose member had been loyal to and supported a church their entire life not having the funeral at the church...but they do because of the greater expense involved. I understand that every time the body is moved the funeral home adds on an additional charge. Why not just take the casket directly to the cemetery...and always have a grave side service? I was at a cemetery in Paris, where I had gone to visit the grave of one of my world heroes, and a man came by pulling a cart on which there was a casket...three people following. I thought, this is the future for the death of people in the world except now, more so than ever it is mostly a cremation process.

In the obituary, you want to list your academic achievements, your professional activities, and certainly any elective offices held or board appointments. For the benefit of readers, you always give your wives or husbands and children by each. For the older, there will probably be numbers of children or grandchildren because, in every sense of the word, the DNA you leave behind in your family is more important than anything else.

The Christian life is different. If not different, something is wrong. Every morning of my life, probably because of the military, I rise very early. I have my time of prayer...seeking Gods guidance for the day...then a time of thanksgiving where I observe communion. Since I believe that Gods atonement covers our health as well as our salvation, I have a small piece of bread for healing and a small sip of wine in thanksgiving for His redemption on the cross.

Another thing I do each week, on Friday night, although totally blind, I write on a legal pad all my blessings of the week, my concerns, my ambitions looking forward to another day, another week. Someone has said, “happiness is going to bed at night tired, looking forward to another day of activity.” I cannot understand lazy people...those just content to sit around and wait to die. There is too much to do. Work has never killed anyone, but lack of work will make you a sullen, sorry, useless individual. This week, the city was working on the street in front of my house. I asked one of my employees, “what is going on?” He said, “they all have on city uniforms, two Mexicans are working very hard, and two blacks are standing...watching. This is the reason that fifty percent of the population pays fifty percent of all the taxes. Fifty percent of the population pays no tax at all...just living, watching, already dead. This is the reason that some obituaries are so short.

Next to my bedside table, I keep my prayer list. For most of the years of my life, it has contained people and things for which I am very concerned. Enough to bring such to the attention of God. I wish I knew my name were on such lists.

My congressman called me one night last week after I had gone to bed. I told him, “your name is on my prayer list here next to me beside my two telephones. I can always reach over and ask Gods blessing upon you. In fact, I asked Gods blessing on all politicians because they have already been judged by God and they need all the help they can get.”

On the prayer list, you can even list those whom you do not like. For instance, there is nothing about Moslems, or the Coran, or religious cults, or tyrannical rulers that I can like. I have neighbors living around me that I do not like. I have some of the sorriest, most useless relatives in the world that no one, with good sense, could like, but they need my love and my prayer brought to the attention of God. I know so many pretenders of the faith, preachers who are imposters. I know prisons are full of lost men and women, homes where there are unloved children, and nursing homes filled with unloved elderly. I have seen poverty, such as the world cannot imagine, and survived such myself. I need to bring all this to Gods attention because only He, in His omnipotence, sovereign power of the universe can change things.

Most people, have no idea about how most of the world lives. Once, some work was being done on my house and I moved for a few days into a duplex I owned (one side was furnished and empty). I was awakened, during the night, from the other side by a man beating his wife. It was the most horrible thing I have ever heard. The Sheriff told me, “don't get involved.” Another time, I made a house call on a patient in a poor section off town. I will never forget, as long as I live, and I can hear it now just as I did then, a young girl being whipped by a father. She was crying and screaming...begging. He kept shouting, “I told you to never go there!”

Yet, in our letter to our blessed Lord, we think God for our senses. Those of you with sight, should be so thankful for being able to see...both the beauty as well as the ugly of the world. Thank our blessed Lord for our sense of hearing, your sense of smell, your sense of taste, and your tactile sensations. Those of you who sleep well should be thankful for that. Think of the many people who never get a good night sleep. Because today's young people have not taken care of themselves, junk food, drugs (both legal and illegal), crazy living habits, in reverse to what has been the normal order, many parents will bury their children. Pity the parent who does not, from the cradle onward, teach sound living habits, responsible eating, and faithfully investing in faith...the ultimate objective of every parent for a child.

In your letter, thank God for the blessings of living. But remember, you learn more from your mistakes than you do from your successes.

Thank God that you were blessed with appreciation for good music, good books, a good mind that can learn and comprehend the intricacies of the learned world of knowledge.

When one has been exposed to the learning disability of so many people you wonder if those with good minds show sufficient for good appreciation of God given ability to learn, comprehend, to memorize...just to have common sense.
I think of the young people I knew in and out of school who did not have the ability to learn...who could not retain anything and who wanted so desperately to succeed to live in a world of accomplishment. Irma Bombeck, said, “don't confuse celebrity with success, think of Madonna and Helen Keller.” But, even celebrities should be so thankful for talent. Those with talent are so far ahead of the rest of us, even if the talent is no more than just being able to throw a ball or to have the skill to play a musical instrument. There are those who have reached the height of celebrity by just being able to make people laugh...Bob Hope, Bill Cosby, Moms Mabley, etc. They have the sense of timing, the sense of voice modulation (Jack Benny, Red Skeleton, etc) where by they could make a fortune and live better than the Pharaohs of Egypt simply because they were blessed with an unusual talent.

With all your thankfulness, the greatest blessing of God-given-life, is for your name to be written in the “Lambs-Book of Life.” In your obituary, in your biographical information, the most important love you can show to your family, friends, is for them to know, and for you to be certain that your clinical death was just a passing phase of your eternal life.

I went to a funeral, a relative, the son said, “I know dad is enjoying himself in heaven with his cousins”...and he gave their names. I don't know what would lead him to believe that any of them were in heaven. God will not allow any sin to enter heaven and so, with all your planning, make sure of your eternal security.

Guard Your Mouth

#536

Guard Your Mouth

According to historians, Abraham Lincoln had a premonition of his death. Before his assassination, he reportedly told his wife that he dreamed about walking to the East room of the White House and there in a casket lay the President of the United States with guards at each corner of the casket. He heard weeping all over the White House and the words constantly uttered, “the President is dead”. Within a few weeks, the dream actually came true. Lincoln was in a casket in the White House with guards.

Inscribed on the fireplace in the dining room of the White House are these words by President John Adams; "I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof."
President Adams, second president of the United States, like many other men who have held this title, by all reports, like Lincoln, was a honorable man. We have had less honorable men in my lifetime, myself living through 13 presidents. I thought we had hit the absolute bottom with the Bushes, both 41 and 43, and the pervert Clinton but never in anyone's craziest imagination could we believe that the White House and this country would be brought into the sewer of degradation going on there now.

On Friday, March 12th, the Huntington Post reports that in the scam of the century, the signing of the tyrannical “healthcare” legislation, Vice President Joseph Biden used the profane “F” word so that all his fellow Americans could better understand his sewer mouth which has been well known in Washington.

A bid deal was made of this when Vice President Cheney used the same type language, but, bad language has become such a daily fare in all communication, particularly news broadcasts, talk radio, etc. that one hardly pays any attention anymore.

One of my friends, a chief congressional aide to a congressman, told me that most congressmen had sewer mouths...that they cleaned up their language for the media. President Lyndon Johnson was known to be one of the worst offenders. Those who have listened to the Nixon tapes know that he would have been an embarrassment to his Quaker mother. We know that others in various administrations such as Hillary Clinton are known for their foul language. Are our national leaders trying to demonstrate to the youth of America that we truly have the worst schools...showing that everyone has a lack of education?

In the future, because lyrics in popular music have become so trashed...so totally insane...talk radio will take over. Already, many stations are devoted to talk shows. I'm capable of listening to four radios at a time including one short wave and all are totally dominated by talk shows. I find that even young people enjoy the sounds of language...every individual, who has ever lived in history, having a distinct voice. We enjoy hearing individuals express themselves with clean, clear, thoughtful voice. There will never be anything attractive or educational by the use of the “N” word, “F” word, “S” word, and “P” word or any of the other four letter words that monopolize the conversation of the less literate. If you want to show low class, limited education, a trashy upbringing, use cheap, limited four letter words in punctuating your conversation. Many young people would not be able to talk at all if they could not use the four letter word, “like”. Conversation, speaking, clarity is a matter of education.

Written by God's own hand, the Ten Commandments demands that God's name is not to be taken in vain. So many times, I hear someone use the name of my Blessed Lord, Jesus...it is Jesus this and Jesus that. Often I say, “Oh you know him too?” I have never known a drunk woman, and I have overheard some drunk parties in my time, who did not at some time, come out with, “Oh my God”. God is jealous of his name. The Jewish people hold the name of God so sacred, they will not even write it. I believe next to idols worship (and we have many worshipers of idols all around us...the idol of television...the idol of computers...the idol of immoral living) God honors his name. Pitiful the person who so risks God's wrath for cursing in his name.

The most beautiful charm of foreign travel “strange airports with strange sounding names” where announcements are made in many languages with a tone sounding in between. This always tells you that you are in a foreign airport, a country that respects many languages. Of course, in American airports, everyone is expected to understand English.

On the other side of the cross, after the flood, several hundred years, mankind had again multiplied and were again awash in sin. They attempted to build the Tower of Babel. It was at that time that God again upset the ambitions of (Mice and Men) and limited their activity by a confusion of speech. Those who have studied the “romance languages” (English, French, Spanish, Italian etc.) know that from certain roots you can easily study and comprehend many languages but, book knowledge of a language is very different from a speaking, thinking knowledge. Once, one of my many trips to France...and I do have a book knowledge of French, able to read French literature, I was trying to speak French at a fancy French dinner party. The frustrated lady said to me, “Oh please speak English!”

God's economy in everything always works. Man's economy in anything almost never works. Each profession, each discipline of study, usually has it's own vocabulary. Anyone can understand sociology...that is the reason it is so easy to get a degree in sociology, but it takes a brain to understand physics, engineering, chemistry, medicine...this is the reason so few attain the new languages involved in computerese, nano technology, NASA idioms, peculiar to those in those fields of endeavor.

No matter how small the tribe, no matter how remote the civilization, I have never seen any group of people who could not communicate. With new technology, translation will be instantaneous. There may not be a need to learn other languages but as long as there are airports, international travel, warfare, mathematics, men will need to understand one another. Understanding one another can be easily accomplished without the profane tone. Shame on Vice President Biden. Shame on any entertainer who cannot get laughs without foul language. The famed entertainer Red Skelton said he had amused and entertained audiences for many years without using the first four letter word.

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. (Psa 19:14)

Life is a Banquet

#535

Life is a Banquet

Thank you for allowing me to attend your “Life” banquet last evening at the University.

There is not a more Pro Life person on this earth than this writer. I invite you to go to my blog directed by my Facebook, Dr. Thomas Morris, where you will also find my bio. There is seldom a day that I am not contacted by a Pro Life organization. I had wanted to attend the Keyes, Reagan and other activities. I told Reverend Sprouse I would like to pay for one of the tables and attend if I were able. I am sure I was the oldest person there. There was no doubt in my mind that I was the only disabled person there (I am a totally blind, 100% disabled, service connected, medical officer, veteran on the Korean era). The country's largest minority, is the disabled (32%, larger than black, 13%). I know the importance of life. I have lived in a cocoon of blackness for over 50 years, but at least, I have had light unlike the millions of the most innocent who were aborted from their cocoon of safety and the millions buried in military cemeteries who the world has forgotten also. If ten or twenty airliners were to crash each day, the world would be in a state of shock but, 3000 babies can be killed in this country each day and few care (1,452 black who Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, called weeds) yet, Reverend Sprouse could not find enough interested people to fill the table for which I had paid. Again, thank you for letting me have the privilege of being in your presence.

I did not sleep much last night, bewildered by the banquet. The only word I have to describe your affair is the word “excess”. I thought the entertainment was excessive, laughing and clapping, when in the reality of the subject, there should have been prayer, fasting and repentance. I thought the food was excessive. I wish I had the food I sent back on my plate to eat this weekend. You could have used more of the money I gave you by serving less food...food which these people did not need. I believe more people are killed from overeating (gluttony) than are killed by abortion. Look at your statistics, nearly one half the population obese, diabetic. When I was in medical school, we were embarrassed to even talk of abortion. Diabetes was a rare disease. The sound at your banquet was excessive. Reverend Sprouse said that young people, like you, want everything loud. It was insulting and obtrusive. I am 80, probably the oldest one there and I could hear very well without all that volume.

As we left, I said to someone, the only interest of your guests at this banquet, is their own “life”. I don't see anything but I hear entirely too much. In conversations at the tables around me, going and leaving, there was no conversation about God's work, or his love for life, or the saving of life. Face it, it was a gathering place for political opportunists, a gathering for your contributions, your plans, a supposed gathering for those who should be willing to give simply because of our love for God and God's love for the unborn.

As a student, the first surgery I ever witnessed was that of a caesarian section. I still remember the baby's cry...as if it were yesterday. God wanted me to see children around the world. I have been on 8 round the world trips, my passport stamped in 157 countries, most many times, every continent.

On a gorilla photography safari in the Congo, near Goma, where, 100 years ago a choir of ten thousand Africans sang “All Hail The Power Of Jesus's Name”, at the funeral of George Greenfield, who had brought the light of Christ to dark Africa. I was in a village where the people had never worn shoes. My guide said, “now there is a mother”. He described a Pygmy woman, pregnant, with a small baby in her arms surrounded by small children. He interpreted my words to her, “you are a wonderful mother”. She said back to me, “these children are the joy of God”.

In this time of political correctness, few appreciate the direct comments of this old, blind, field grade medical officer. The Koran does not permit abortion. A friend, a black doctor, said to me in my house recently, “the black race is being erased by HIV AIDS and abortion”. The many Pro Life groups who contact me are not interested in the evil of the killing, but like so many other groups, political parties, religious ministries etc. only interested in money...as if money will change the hearts of men. My friend, Senator Jesse Helms, said to me long ago, “it is only the throwing of bundles of worthless fiat money wherein we think all the world's problems will be settled”.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. (Phl 4:19)

I have two grandsons, lawyer and engineer, raised on the foreign mission field by their missionary parents. Once, the younger said to me, “most so called Christians are just pretending”. I remember the well known article I wrote in Command (magazine of military Christian officers entitled “Masquerade Party”. I was writing about children and abortion long before most of you were born in “Help and Food the Household of Faith” and other magazines. Face it, the church has failed. Catholics, who control 70% of the voting population, voted 54% for the culture of death in the White House. As I told a Pro Life commentator, who called me recently, wanting a contribution, “you are going about it the wrong way”. Only through Jesus Christ, the giver of life, will you ever change the tide of Eugenics...certainly not through excessive eating, laughing and clapping, entertainment, poor sound and poor servers at the table. I have gotten more care at McDonald's. The person serving me never recognized that I could not see anything. This is how alert most Christian groups are to the world around them. General Booth, of the Salvation Army, said, “one man told me that if I really believed in the Christ I preached I would not stop talking”. The great prince of preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon said, “anything that causes a man to get down on his knees to God is game to him”. It is time for prayer at the White House, the Court House, the Church House. Only through prayer will you find what God can do with this holocaust.

Men do what they do because they believe what they believe. It was a picture of Emmett Till in his open casket on the cover of Jet magazine that started the civil rights movement. It will be an image of the unborn baby, thoroughly publicized, that will change hearts in the abortion holocaust. Use your time, treasure, talents toward that mission. Thank God, we are not stuck where we start, using the same methods of eating and entertainment that has led to the death of the church. Character determines destination. I have enough character and I have paid sufficient price, for YOUR country, to express my opinion on this matter. Life is a banquet and most so called “believers” are starving.

Thank You,

Financial Stress

#534

I was born during the height of the Great Depression. I could easily have titled this commentary “Canning Jars and Potato Hills”. The thing that kept most farm families from starving to death during this horrendous drought or desert was self preservation. City people were hungry. My grandparents told of visiting one of their relatives in town. They were embarrassed...just how hungry they were...how little food they had on the table...even for company. The children of this family, my grandfathers brother, became some of the wealthiest people in Eastern North Carolina. The husband of one, chairman of the board, one of the largest state's utilities.

On the farm, when the potatoes were dug, they were put into potato hills (potatoes piled in a pyramid, pine straw and other insulation over the potatoes and then soil packed over the entire mound with an opening at the top, covered, to keep weather out). Then, anyone could retrieve potatoes from the hill. All garden excess was canned or dried and then, there were farm animals and wild animals used for cooking. Farm people, other than not having any cash, were able to survive because they had few other expenses. They heated their houses with cut wood, they knew how to raise a window in the summer. I have here in my office a kerosene table lamp which we use for light and by which I studied at night. FDR, like Obama, typical liberal democrats, (FDR actually had several of vowed communist in his cabinet, even Henry Wallace, vice president) tried to solve the nations problems by digging the hole deeper. Mr. Obama, destroyed perfectly good automobiles and then loaned money to the owners of the clunkers in order for them to buy new cars...they could not pay for the old ones. With Roosevelt, 1933, after he had chopped down growing crops of corn, tobacco, cotton, and had killed and buried 50 million pigs in his agriculture stabilization program, first started “parity” in which each family got two dollars then, 1935, he started social security which is now broke. Likewise, liberal, communist tinged democrats started, 1965, medicare and medicaid...now both broke. Carter, 1980, started the housing debacle “Fannie and Freddie” whereby people who could not pay their rent, many without any means of paying, were put into houses in which they could not afford. ALL government housing programs are broke. The postal service is broke, the veterans administration is broke. Every government program is broke. Now, your only last freedom, your last privacy, your choice of health care is under government control with all the warts of the insurance companies, now will be a disaster and soon broke. ON THIS YOU CAN DEPEND.

The question now, what you can depend for financial success?

1.Humbleness: Several generations have been spoiled, watching television constantly, seeing nothing but the good life, lives of “the rich and famous” thinking that everyone should live that way. Children are spoiled into thinking they must have “designer clothing” top notch “stardom” athletic shoes...new expensive car to drive to school, everything they want...”taste buds” for only the most expensive foods regardless of nutrition. I went through eight years of university training to become a Doctor, medical officer in the US Army where I lost all eyesight, living on one dollar a day, never wearing anything but second hand clothes. Now a multi-millionaire, I still live very much the same way. So, this depression will not bother me very much. Frugal living, a Christ inspired existence, has enabled me to give much of my income to charity...particularly disabled student scholarships who have been ignored by the government, the public, everyone else. “The largest minority in the country are the disabled...estimate thirty two percent. The black population is only thirteen percent.” THERE ARE NO CIVIL RIGHTS FOR THE DISABLED. Next to slavery, the greatest shame of this nation is its treatment of disabled veterans and handicapped citizens. “I am a totally blind, 100% disabled, service connected, decorated, medical officer veteran, of the Korean era.” I have a right to speak. The disabled veteran gets less pension than the college ROTC student for maintenance. William Manchester (biographer of General Douglas MacArthur), a 100% disabled veteran, said, “no one cares, least of all your country.”

2. Connectedness: Keep in touch with your family and friends, your church, your community. Let me warn you, of all people, your family cares least. Animals travel in packs. It is only when one wanders off from the group that he is most easily attacked by the world, the flesh, the devil. Someone may be able to help you. In the Great depression of the thirties when some of my relatives lost their farms, they moved their possessions into family barns and lived with family members. In each small town, mules with carts would line the streets. Even those who owned vehicles could not afford to drive them. I remember, at my grandfathers great and beautiful farm, the old tractor, rare in that time, sat idle...so did the old truck. My grandmother could afford to drive her car on desperate missions. The pastor rode a horse to church. Church yards were full of buggies and surreys but, the church houses were full, people at the front on their knees pleading to a merciful God for help. Twenty seven times in the book of Psalms, “the mercies of the Lord endure forever”. Your greatest help, in time of need, always available, Gods promise to never leave nor forsake those who trust in Him.

3. Mind-set: Without God, you cannot know God. When God permeates the trillions of cells in your mortal body you will have the survival skills necessary to overcome anything. God wanted me to see the poverty of the world, most of it below the 30th parallel. (I have traveled around the world 8 times, had my passport stamped in 157 countries) I have seen poverty such as this country has not experienced, YET. Mind you, God is still in control of everything...even the hairs on your head are numbered. Can you imagine what it would be like to have ten to twenty airliners crash each day in the world? This is how many babies are killed each day in this country (3000 each day, 1,452 black). God has not forgotten, nor should we his wrath, for the killing of his chief creation. The pagans in Washington, particularly the White House, may not believe or care. Conservatism is a mind set. We have heard that “only the strong will survive”. I assure you, conservation will help you survive.

4. Perseverance: At the time of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the rest of the world was not in depression. Most of the world's other nations are worse off than America. (UK, Iceland, Dubai, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal) At the time of the Great Depression, America had 90% of the worlds gold which backed up our money. Today, our money is backed up by thin air, the world considers our fiat dollars worthless. I'm told, in Hong Kong, people laugh when you try to pay for anything with dollars. Persevere in your patriotism. (what else can you do?) Persevere in your faith (what else can you do?) Persevere in your saving and conservation habits. (what else can you do?) Persevere in your decency, your Christ like witness to the world around you. (What else can you do?) God's love is unconditional. He loves us in good times and in bad times. “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us”. (Rom 5:1-5)

This very morning, I sent a message to my only child, my son, long time foreign missionary, now professor at a leading seminary. “Can you imagine what it was like, for Christ, during his ministry, living and working among the tyrants of the occupying Roman Empire?” Your writer lives by faith, not sight. Most of you will learn to live not knowing what the future holds. Learn, the one who holds the future. I'm told that the definition of faith is the security found in the cleft of a rock or under a mother bird's wing. Faith, is a verb. Faith, is action, based on belief, sustained by confidence. Opening the Bible is like looking into the mind of God. The verse exactly half way between the 1189 chapters of the Bible, God tells us to trust in him, and put no confidence in men. Surely, by now, you should have learned not to put any confidence in politicians. In the whims and wiles of the Satanic forces which want to cripple you in your race toward life's goal. Life in good times or bad times is more than a destination. Don't get trapped by looking at distractions along the highway.

Alchemy

#533

Alchemy

A CIA agent visited me at my house. He had heard me on the radio and called telling me that he would just like to meet me and visit with me for a few minutes. He was totally astonished at my book collection...because he loved books. He was more emphatic with his appreciation because of my total blindness. I told him then, as I tell you now, I like to be surrounded with books. I like the feel of them because any person who knows how to read, and who can use a dictionary, has all the knowledge of the world at his fingertips. It is simply a matter of using your time wisely to read and study. I have little patience with individuals, adult or otherwise, who spend their life in front of an idiot box called a television set. Don't you realize that these programs are not real...they are manufactured to captivate you...to extort from you all reality of imagination, decency, motivation? You think that visually you are getting a cheap high...letting alchemists of degeneracy infect and warp your mind leaving you none the better for your experience. It is molestation of the worst sort, a rape of the intellect to watch the stench or triviality portrayed so convincingly...often silly maturated, literary hi jinx that in the long run leave you less than what you were before you saw the activity.

In reading good books there is a methodological stability of learning first from the eyes which receive the impulses from the page then through the optic nerves to the cochrane cortex of the brain...knowledge forever stored, brought back in recollection. Of all the historic sciences, alchemy is the oldest probably, 3000 years before the birth of Christ, first in Mesopotamia then in about every civilization...Persian, Egyptian, Chinese etc. There were those who practiced and studied as alchemists...seeking for their own knowledge and imparting their knowledge to others, knowledge they had redeemed from life and everything affecting life. The Greek and Roman civilizations were punctuated by brilliant minds who wanted more than just the ordinary. Within their reasoning abilities they sought for answers to the questions of earth and human existence.

The alchemist's wisdom was manifest not just in their knowledge of life's objectives but in conjuring up elixirs and other minerals and metals of interest both from a healing and helping parameter. It is from the helping aspects of this pseudo-science that many systems were developed and it is from the healing aspects that the materia medica which we now call pharmaceuticals, have developed.

Gold and silver were already known to be precious metals and a feeble attempt was made to create such. This was the beginning of organic and inorganic chemistry. Using weird combinations of herbs, plants, fire and water...probably the birth of medicine. Standing at Oxford University is a statue of Roger Bacon, one of the first alchemists who was born, probably around 1214. Bacon introduced the scientific method or empirical knowledge to the academic curriculum. Until this very day, the scientific method projects that any theory must be subjected to scrutiny and that others must, with the same experiment, get the same results. It was Bacon who introduced “peer review” and, with the honesty of the Catholic Church, the fact that he was a Friar of the church, he so introduced spirituality into the human concept of learning.

The inner life of a man is much greater than the outer life of a man. The vertical aspects of life are just as great as the horizontal aspects of human living. Though a member of the genus homo-sapiens, man is the only animal who knows he is going to die. Man is blessed by his creator, made by the sovereignty of God (Psalm 139). An individual, unlike any other, who has ever lived, your own distinct facial and body characteristics, your own distinct voice, your own distinct iris flex in your eye, fingerprints and soul. Like the masterful handy work of every snowflake that has ever fallen, designed by God, you are your own person and your inner life is greater than your outer life. Your DNA, your personality, your physiology, determines your life. Within yourself, you are your own alchemist, certainly with divine perceptions, prepared to run the race set before you.

Within your mind, you have a relationship with your creator that pagan man cannot understand. One book, and one book only, when you open it, the Bible, it is like opening the mind of God...the creator of the universe...the one who threw the very stars into space, who has them individually named...the one who holds the oceans of the world within his hands...the one who measures the height of the Himalayas with his fingers...the one who gave the exact measurements of the gold “Ark of the Covenant” to his “chosen” people...and who had previously given the measurements of another ark of deliverance, the ark which Noah built using the measurements given him by god, measurements which are still used in ship building until this very day.

How men cheat themselves by not having a personal relationship with heir creator. Religionists cannot understand this relationship...they can understand keeping a few laws, rules or regulations. They cannot understand the freedom of inner thought any more than they can understand how and why religious people stoned Stephen, but just before Stephen died, the sky opened up and he saw the one who had created him.

In all my world travels, there is no city in the world as interesting as the city of Rome. I thought of what it must have been like when the apostle Paul finally reached it. Paul, an old man, imprisoned in a cistern, but from that prison came some of the most remarkable information the world has ever known...divinely inspired. His hand held onto parchment by the very one who had knocked him off his horse on the road to Damascus and then, instead of killing Christians, became the expositor of the church, writing 14 books of the New Testament. Such is the saint's delight in knowing personally the creator of the universe (John 1).

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Psalm 8:4)

Barack Stew

#532

Barack Stew

Not since FDR's funeral was held in the East room of the White House have I been aware of so much death, the death of the Constitution.

Our founding fathers left the tyranny of Europe looking for freedom and opportunity. They were willing to go through the harshness of existence here but died never realizing the abundance of this land. Most, like my fore-bearers, ate many meals of just stew...anything they could get together...wild animals such as rabbits, birds...wild fruits and vegetables, eggs...they did whatever they had to do in order to keep body and soul together. They went to church or other meetings carrying Blackstone's Law Book and their Bible under one arm and their musket over the other shoulder.

After bribery never before seen in this country, threats, lying, cheating, thieving, the last great freedom of this republic melted away like the snows of this harsh winter with the liberal Democrat majority and their hero communist organizer, Barack Obama. The new legislation controlling the last freedom we have...freedom of healthcare, is now controlled by the government, the IRS, the control freaks produced by this “Barackracy” and totalitarianism never seen before in the world. In just 14 months, the “Barack stew” has resulted in the greatest expenditure of money we have ever known. More debt than George Washington and George W. Bush and all the presidents in between combined.

In a depression that makes the Great Depression look nominal the joblessness continues. The government is a job killing machine. Congress legislated 150 billion on jobs this week and yet joblessness increases. 40 percent of all people out of work have been out of work for six months, a never before seen figure. Even in the depths of the Great Depression, and I was living then, and there was not only financial depression but psychological depression of unbelievable depth, most people just hanging on to the rim of a great black hole.

The 2700 pages of legislation is nothing but tyranny. If you can be fined for not buying something which the government demands, then there is no limit to how much fine the government can put on you. It is as simple as that, government totally out of control.

There was a great migration to this land of opportunity from Italy, Ireland, Poland and particularly China and Japan. In most large cities with ports of entry of migrants, there were entire areas of the city perhaps known as “China-town” or “the Italian section”. There is no doubt that the children and grandchildren of the immigrants who flooded this country will now seek to return to the country from which their grandparents fled a century or so ago. Most still have a certain allegiance to their heritage, their genetics, Chinese-Americans, Italian-Americans, Polish-Americans etc. In fact, I understand, that many Chinese-Americans are returning to China where they find they have a better chance at a job and progress.

In this time of depression, financial insecurity, where Wall Street can get a bail out from the government but the business man on Main Street must have a “sell out” of his business, we find that the businessman must make clear, responsible, daily decisions. Politicians just have to make one decision, “how to get re-elected”. In this time of depression, vacant offices, empty stores are just another sign that there are many people not only looking for jobs but unable to buy anything. The only way you cure joblessness is by manufacturing or selling something. Using this as the criteria, most of the people out of work will not find a new job unless it is a job working for the government which just creates more depression because those who are working, those who own property, must pay greater and greater taxes to support the federal, state, local “Barackracrats” who just shift papers.

Most of us who believe in justice believe that the third branch of government will come to their senses and correct this corruption of the Constitution. In recent years, the judicial, particularly the Supreme Court has been unwilling to correct the mistakes of the two other branches of government, congressional and administrative. Two aging, ill Supremes will probably resign and it is a known fact that two very liberal justices are lined up to take their places. Besides, what need is there for the Constitution when it is no more than just a piece of paper which neither branch respects?

At the time of the Great Depression, our Fiat dollars were backed up with gold. America owned 90% of the world's gold. Dollars are now backed up by thin air. Americans are working for dollars that don't buy anything. China controls most of the gold in the world. China and Russia have hoarded most of the world's gold reserves and China mines more gold than any other country.

My parents, grandparents, great grandparents and most citizens of my age have never known anything about leisure or vacation. I understand that most contracts entered into by workers have more agreements concerning time off for holidays and vacation than anything else. “Barack's stew”, the “Barackracy”, seeks to enslave doctors, nurses and other healthcare employees while legally enabling federal enforcers to keep them in line. I found in the hospitals of communist totalitarian states that the bureaucrats in charge of the hospital had more power over patient care than those educated to give patient care. It has already been decided that, as in the case with the military, a number will be assigned to each illness and a certain medical procedure will be assigned to each number (DD 2807). In other words, treating the human body will be very much like working on a vehicle...”one size fits all”. If a certain Rx does not work...too bad...as with the Veterans Administration...deny, delay, go home and die.

For most of American history, married women did not work outside the home. She stayed at home, raised her children, cared for her family. With ever increasing taxation and regulations, it has become necessary for both husband and wife to work in order to pay the bills. Books have been written on what this has done to family life and to children. At least mothers had the option of working. As government has steadily increased in size everyone must work. Soon, children will be employed as soon as some type of job is available in order for a family to survive.

Too ridiculous for words, in California, hard hit by the depression, the federal government is giving $8,000 trying to sell the excess houses on the market. Now the weakest, strangest governor to ever take office, the prideful, pretty Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger is giving $10,000 to each California home buyer. Where is California or the government getting this money? They are both broke. And, it is the usual lie, whether $18,000 or 18 dollars, it does not go to the buyer but to the seller.

When we think of the word traitor we think of Benedict Arnold. When you think of the one man who has done more than any other to destroy your country you should think of “Barack stew”...the inedible, corrupt mess he has whipped up during the past 14 months.

Search For The Bottom

#532

International Business Machines was founded by some survivors of the Civil War around 1880. It consisted of three different machine companies, the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company and the Computing Scale Corporation, at a time when all machinery was rare. IBM gained it's prominence under the management of Thomas Watson. His typewriters and business machines became the nations greatest. Notoriety was found in the production and sales formulas. All over the factory were found signs with just one word, “Think”. In 2008 IBM was ranked number one in the world of super computer manufacturers.

Who put the poison in the well that has led to America's decline in manufacturing and the dearth of educational progress? How and why did we let so many industries leave our shores...CAFTA...NAFTA allowing stringent government agencies and ludicrous taxation...a world offshore banking system, global one world order...to do to our country what few invading Armies could do? At the same time, foreigners crossing our borders at will turning the Southern border between Mexico and the United States into a battleground of illegal drug activity and warfare. The border city of Juarez Mexico, across the border from El Paso Texas, has become the worlds most dangerous city. The city has been almost totally destroyed by the warfare of viscous drug dealers. Businesses have closed, much of the population has fled, 400 killings so far this year. The Mexican military is intruding into the border states at least 6 miles, fully armed, seeking and shooting. Several US patrol officers have been killed and three American consular border officials were killed this week. This week, two Mexican police officers, their bodies, chopped into small pieces, were found in garbage bags yet, the constant flow of undocumented Mexican citizens, flooding US schools, hospitals, prisons, seem to bother few in Washington. The Democrat party wants the illegal Mexicans because it wants their votes. The Republican party wants the illegal Mexicans because it wants their cheap labor and, regardless of how bad things get in America, for most illegal aliens, things here are better than they are there where the bottom has almost been reached.

Mexico City, the world's largest city, sitting in the mouth of a large volcano, is a place of disease and desperation. Imagine this, in this cesspool of violence lives the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, worth 54 billion who still lives in the five bedroom house in which he has lived for the past 30 years. Imagine this, simply because the New York Times was having financial problems, he gave this “fish wrapper” 250 million dollars. I have traveled through Mexico several times. It is a place of poverty and depravity. One would think that the world's richest man would spread some of his wealth there just as Mr. Obama wants to spread our wealth among the refugees from Mexico.

Where is the bottom?

An on-duty Colorado state trooper was pulled over Monday and accused of driving drunk after several people called 911 to report a State Patrol vehicle driving erratically, authorities said. Video captured by a television station helicopter showed the arrest of 48-year-old David Dolan, who was in uniform. Sheriff’s deputies put handcuffs on him and placed him in the back of a patrol vehicle. Here is the list of the most corrupt officials in Washington given to us by Judicial Watch;
1. Christopher Dodd
2. John Ensign
3. Barney Frank
4. Timothy Geithner
5. Eric Holder
6. Jesse Jackson
7. Barack Obama
8.Nancy Pelosi
9. John Murtha (Now Dead)
10.Charles Rangel

Where is the bottom?

This week, with much fanfare, Mr. Obama signed into law so called “healthcare” legislation which supposedly will put everyone under the umbrella of government socialized medicine. It means that each citizen will have a chip embedded for medical information. It means practitioners will get less money...many are already refusing to take medicaid and medicare patients. It means more abortions, more euthanasia, more authoritarian control. Democracy is now defined as “government can do anything it wants”.

Where is the bottom?

Since the time of Jesus, 69 million of his followers have died as martyrs. ACORN has gone out of business, we have seen more lying, cheating and stealing in government than ever in history. It is time for “onward Christian soldiers” to be more than a song...rather a rallying cry for all Americans who still love a land of opportunity and home of the free. Have we really reached the bottom?

Fairies At The Ball

#531

In the early history of American life, particularly in the rural areas, there was no greater disaster than a house fire. I remember well, as a child, there would be chimneys standing in fields where houses had once stood. There was often a well or some large trees nearby. This had been a home place with a well, shade trees etc. until fire demolished the dwelling, just leaving the chimney. Most rural homes were built so that the kitchen area was separated from the sleeping area of the house because it was usually in the kitchen that a fire would get started. At least, since there was no firefighting equipment, only the kitchen would be burned. The houses of which both my mother and father were reared were built this way, both had survived the Civil War and the kitchens and living quarters had later been connected with large dining living areas.

The world is changing so rapidly, we do not pretend anymore. Also, when we were young, a girl in your class may not have been interested in boys or a boy in your class may not have been interested in girls but at the prom, they pretended to be men and women...the girl wore a gown...the boy a suit or tux. In our new Democracy, which is defined as anything goes as long as it is government controlled, we have a lesbian, Constance McMillen in Itawamba county Mississippi, who wanted her lover to attend her prom with her, dressed as a man. The school decided to cancel the prom. In Cinderella's day, the fairy godmother would have handled the problem with Cinderella, the Prince and the slipper, but McMillen appealed to the ACLU and lawyers to handle the problem. Thank God, there was a time when pretending to be a girl was to her advantage...why upset the entire school prom with “sexual variance”?

Oprah settled her defamation lawsuit by pretending she would rather have her celebrity than the satisfaction of the notoriety of her school in South Africa.

Daimler Mercedes-Benz accused of bribery has settled a lawsuit for 150 million pretending that nothing is wrong rather than to go through the harassment of Toyota.

Britain and Israel are pretending to solve their problems concerning fake passports whereby Israel Mossad is pretending to solve intelligence problems with British help.

Episcopalians and Lutherans pretend the scripture has changed in order that homosexual men and women can fill pastorates and even become Bishops in their church (Mary Glasspool, lesbian, new Bishop in the Episcopal Church).

Big pharmacy is pretending that it does not send out it's representatives to coax prescription writers into using their products. Every doctor knows and so does everyone who works in a doctors office about the samples, the free meals, the vacations paid for by big pharmaceuticals. Do you remember when you did not see prescription drugs advertised on television? Do you remember when the doctor studied his journals and knew what to prescribe rather than be instructed by a drug manufacturing representative?

In the 2700 page legislation, squeezed out of the Congress by President Obama, and which we laughingly call “healthcare”, we find that chips will be installed in each patient and that the entire legislation will be controlled by IRS. We pretend this is socialized healthcare. The specialists who's fees will be cut 21% (Cardiologist, Anesthesiologist etc.) will not pretend to care for patients under government duress.

We pretend that lawyers with battered brief cases full of money are not paying off congressional representatives, senators, government agencies but look at the number of politicians and others who are on the way to jail for corruption. North Korea just executed by firing squad, it's finance minister Pak Nam-ki for corruption with N. Korea's money. Unless we pretend otherwise, it would take a large firing squad to eliminate American finance corruption...Greenspan, Bernanke, Paulson, Rangel, Geithner etc.

At one time the sun never sat on the British Empire. England was the bank account for the world. In one year, England will be a financial disaster. America was once the greatest credit nation, now it is the worlds greatest debtor nation. I keep hearing television commentators say, “America is the world's wealthiest nation”. When will they stop pretending? America, like England...Iceland, Greece, Spain, is broke.

When I was a young man, the greatest social event of the North Carolina year was the debutant ball in Raleigh. This was the occasion when the young daughters of North Carolina's “rich and famous”, the “blue bloods” of the state, presented their daughters to society. The fashionable gowns and parties cost the rich families of the state much money. There was no pretending. The rich Democrat legislators knew who they were and that they ran things in the state...that their daughters were better than anyone else's daughters. It was very much the same way with the sons of these Democrat legislators who had no problem getting into the University at Chapel Hill where they were welcomed into the most elite fraternities. The University had special “proctors” specially designated University officials who made sure these “Southern gentlemen” received every courtier and courtesy the state had to offer. I knew some of these “big deals” on campus. There was never any pretending that they were like the rest of we “slobs”.

Bangalore India is known as the Silicon Valley of India...gathering place of India's brightest. The big problem has been the insemination of the Muslims with the Hindus...Muslim boys, Hindu girls. The Hindu girls do not dress like the Muslim girls and there is no longer any pretension that there is not some attraction.

To open the Bible is like opening the mind of God. 3,000 years on the other side of the cross or 2000 years on this side of the cross all have redemption through the righteousness of one person...Jesus Christ. Some think they can pretend to believe and get by with it but they know better...just as the Muslim knows his beliefs...just as the Hindu knows his beliefs, just as we have our Judeo-Christian beliefs. A member of the Jewish faith, with a tattoo, cannot be buried in a Jewish cemetery.

One can pretend about education, wealth, power but we are not in a fairyland of pretension. It is time to have a reality check. No magic wand, no fairy godmother is going to change anything. William Jennings Bryan said, “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

Bryan was walking down the street with a friend and a black slave took off his hat in recognition to Bryan. Bryan removed his hat in recognition to the slave, and the friend asked him why? Bryan said, “I cannot let him pretend he is different than me.”