Poltergeist

#662

I was in the Central African nation of Zambia, in a very small city where the plane made a stop once a week. We disembarked the plane because a plane repair was necessary. I was sitting, waiting to get back on the plane, when a group of villagers came into the building to say goodbye to a young man who was leaving on the plane. They were all crying and acting as if they would never see him again. The thought occurred to me, having been in Africa many times with the poor electrical systems, the poor plumbing systems, broken down vehicles everywhere, are they sad to see this young man leave or, are they frightened that he is getting on a plane who has mechanics that have the same mentality and work ethic as those who do the repairs and work on the other mechanical and electrical work in the country? Always, a plane having mechanical problems, in a foreign country, I was afraid the airline mechanics were not up to the job. It is a frightful thing to think of falling thousands of feet out of the air. A true poltergeist experience.

In Mississippi this week, powerful air currents which we can not see, tornado, swiped through a 12 mile area near Yazoo City leaving homes, churches, and businesses in splinters and leaving 10 people dead, many injured.

We live in a time when most are indifferent to the abilities and character of those around us. In all my years as a doctor, I never had the first patient ask me my status in my graduating class... whether I was first in my class or last. We just assume, that anyone in a profession, a business, possess the education requirements to have a license, to have the skills necessary. We well know that many do not. This is the reason we have so much fakery and fraud in every area of political, spiritual, and business life. Cream always rises to the top. Usually because of ability. Family name, appearance, personality, may get you somewhere in society but does not get you very far in professional competence. It is true that who you know is often more important than what you know. But, when a surgeon approaches the operating room table I don't care how good looking he is, I want him to know what he is doing. We live in a politically correct world, everyone trying to say the right thing. To not be offensive to anyone. How many times have you heard, after some scam or tragedy, “Life goes on, everything happens for a reason, lets just get over it.”

As a Christian, I often ask, “How could God love me so much, love me enough to die for me, love enough to bless me while on this Earth... forgive me for my rightness, protect me in spite of my carelessness?”

As a American, having seen the depravity and poverty of the rest of the world why should I be so blessed to be a citizen of this country when I have not been the example of a patriot... have not shown my patriotism in all my actions.

As a son, why was I blessed with two responsible, loving, dedicated parents when, over 50% of children even in America, do not have parents. I can trace my family back many generations, have seen photographs of great grandparents etc. know stories of my ancestors. Think of the boys and girls born in this country who have never seen their father. Who know nothing about their family background. Just think, I was reared in a church, where both my mother and father were reared as children. I did not realize it then, but all the families were so concerned about my parent's children. I can remember the first time I came home after entering college and all the older families of the church were so happy that I had gained this opportunity. I can remember the first time that I walked into the same church as a blind veteran of a war and their tearful reaction. The people in my community, the people in the church were I was reared, had a large flag in the front of the church with a star for every community son serving in WWII. Each Sunday, they would pray for each one of these stars individually. At the end of WWII, there was not one gold star on the flag of the 50 blue stars.

As a grandson, I was blessed to know all of my grandparents, knew their concerns in my development. In the old country homes, in the dining room, chairs being so expensive, a long bench was always on one side of the dining table. This is the way it was in both grandparents homes. I can well remember how grownup I felt, as a small child, when each grandmother would pick me up and sit me on that bench between two older family members. Perhaps more so than parents, grandparents always emphasize the importance of school. They had such wonderful stories to tell about family traditions and family history. I wish I had listened more. Evidently, I was the only one who did listen because I am the one younger cousins always go to for information. Since so much of your family background and history is not recorded you should listen very carefully to those who know because, when the oral memory is gone, it will be gone for ever. Always write names on the back of photographs. It only takes one generation for everyone to forget those in a photograph. Before 1950, and that was only 70 years ago photographs were very rare. There are practically no photographs before 1900. Most had a picture taken perhaps once in their life. I have inherited many old family photographs and would like to know who they are. I recently sold the photograph of one pre 1850 NC governor's wife. A historian told me that it was the only one in existence. Why did it get away from the family? I have the photograph of a former governors nephew, made by a world famous photographer (W.C. Yates). Why did it get away from the family?

As is the case with a Christian, an American the son or daughter of hardworking, caring parents the grandchild of productive, concerned grandparents, why should God, the men and women who have died for this country, the parents that have worked so hard for their children the grandparents who have left such a marvelous legacy have cared when we seem to care so little? We, certainly as Americans, have inheritance unlike any other place on the globe.

Sometimes, just for your information, write your biographical history... the things that identify you as a person. Identification theft is the biggest crime in this country... Someone always trying to steal your identification. Mostly because of financial gain. Two of my former employees, went to prison, for stealing my identification. They thought with impunity, they could write checks on my bank account. Remember, if your personal signature is not on a check and the bank cashes the check the bank is responsible. Since the bank most replace the money you can be sure that the bank will prosecute the thief. Lowest on the list of importance for law enforcement is I.D. Theft. “The law expects you to take care of your things.” Of the 7 deadly sins, perhaps greed is the most fashionable... not just among punk criminals but study your mornings newspaper, the worlds largest investment bankers, the worlds most recognized news makers. Administrative notables, now serving the President, who were former officers of Goldman-Sachs... the world's largest bank which has scammed billions from the American tax-payer while their chief officers were getting millions in bonuses for performing the treachery. You, the hard working taxpayer, will bail them out. The next great bail out... .com, financial and banking, automobile, insurance, housing, will be the movie industry. Slowly but surely, the Poltergeist noise of bristling contempt is breezing through all areas of American business life.

Kleptocracy

#661

With Americans more disillusioned with their government more than anytime in history the ratings for Congress and the President at a all time low levels, lying, cheating, stealing, a regular fair on the menu of daily life. Instead of a democracy, many believe, we are a “kleptocracy” (government of thieves).

Now this may seem like a conspiracy, the man who started the conspiracy theory involving government was J. Edgar Hoover, 1st director of the F.B.I. Hoover was appointed the director of the F.B.I. In 1935 and served till his death in 1972. He introduce the words “conspiracy theory” as it pertained to the Mafia, which Hoover maintained did not exist. While he was declaring there was no such thing as the Mafia, the Mafia was taking over. Using the liquor business particularly through prohibition his agents were able to penetrate states that without the vehicle of liquor he would have no control. Today Mr. Hoover would probably say “There is no such crimes as “gangs” Even though they have permeated every city and much of the country side.

We choose willfully not to believe the national sinfulness of this nation. We simply cannot believe that other citizens are willfully killed in undeclared wars. We simply cannot believe that the F.D.R. Administration knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor ahead of time. It is hard to believe, although already admitted that Clinton-Reno orchestrated the burning alive of 85 women and children at the Davidian Religious compound in Waco TX. Covered up and hushed up, we know that President Kennedy was assassinated by his own country. There is nothing about the Oklahoma City bombing that makes sense, much about the NYC 9/11 catastrophe does not make sense. Like the Bay of Tonkin during the Vietnam War we know that lies were told... by your government.

If the average citizen gets a driver's license, or if you are handicapped, as is this writer, you must produce a birth certificate to get a state identification card. A birth certificate is needed for military service, certainly for working with federal intelligence agencies. Yet, we have a president in the White House that has spent millions of dollars on attorney's to keep anyone from seeing his birth certificate.

Few leaders in the world are God chosen. The 501 C3 certification of a church can be its downfall in this anti-church, anti-christian national protracted antagonism.

We are a spoiled country, obese, diabetic, while 25 million in the world die from starvation... 15 million are children.

We are just recovering from the largest bankruptcy in history. Lehman Brothers Investment Bank, losing billions, expecting to be bailed out by the tax payer. In this fraud, and this is what it was called by Congress, the CEO made 500 million and other bank officers made millions shorting the stock. On top of that, the CEO sold his multi-million dollar vacation house in Florida to his wife for $100 dollars... just in case of federal intervention. Goldman-Sachs, along with Treasure secretary Henry Paulson and other Treasury officials made millions with a scam-fraud picking of the pockets of the American taxpayer. It is only with the crooks in the banking business, the Congress business that you have “thievery” beyond the wildest dreams of the pirate Blackbeard or the Conquistadors who robbed South America of its gold. In the meantime, the hardworking, God fearing taxpayer clips coupons to buy groceries so he can pay his pay-check as tax. Tax bailouts, handouts, sell-outs to conglomerates whose officials and board of directors live better than ever all though they were unable to manage the business.

This diabolical financial recession is like a man trying to climb a mountain. He falls back 50 feet, gets up, brushes off, reevaluates, and then tries to recapture the distance he has fallen. This President, who has never worked a day in his life, who has never run a business of any kind, simply because the faller is ready to attempt to reclaim what he has lost, says “The recession is over” Bailouts work like giving the man who fell down from his own ineptness from climbing a reward for falling. If the climber of the mountain, like the CEO and boards of directors of these corporations, had used the correct mountain climbing procedures and methods for fall prevention (SLCD, ropes, etc.) The catastrophe would not have happened. The individual, the small business man prepares for failure as he makes his climb... a way out. HE KNOWS, THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BAIL HIM OUT. He knows that he will not get a reward for failure.

IN EVERY SITUATION IN THE WORLD, YOU HAVE TWO CHOICES. God's leadership or your floundering around. It is bad enough to think of the poor leadership of this nation in this world and in warfare. Have you ever thought of the screams of innocent children and concerned mothers as manned and “unmanned” (drones) planes drop bombs on homes. Have you considered the children of America enslaved for ever with the debt brought on by thieves elected and unelected (a child born this morning owes the government $48,000)? Do you think one of these financial wizards... just one member of Congress has ever thought about “loving his neighbor as himself”? (Mark 12:31) G.K. Chesterton said “The world will except and dogma without authority but will not accept dogma with authority... Authority such as God's inspired word, the Magna Carta or even the Constitution of the United States. Even in the most uncivilized areas of the world, the natives have the innate natural law morality that stealing is wrong. Never confuse Christianity with niceness, never confuse celebrity with success. Believe me, blind man talking, you can always run through darkness because He sees you even if you can not see Him... the darkness of guilt, the darkness of sin, the darkness of depression. Find the name that fits your darkness. The Lord that healeth the is the Lord that provides. In all things be a God seeker, a God finder.

Purpose or Business?

I have been talking on talk radio since its inception many years ago, locally and nationally. Larry King didn’t like me because I never asked a politically correct question. One of my friends, who died two years ago said, “Tom, I’ve heard you say a thousand times that people no longer care about anything, but they don’t. They don’t care.”

The present recession is more a loss of a sense of purpose than a sense of business. The Pope said recently that democracy has its weaknesses, and it does. We have the freedom to propose and try to accomplish anything that capitalism will enjoy.

I graduated from a very small country school. I still remember the day that Mr. Bryson, the school principal, said to the seven boys who were in my high school graduating class “You are Americans. You can do anything you want to do.” Three are dead, but all did succeed. If I were an official or a director of one of the largest corporations in this nation (GM, Chrysler, Ford, AIG, GE, etc.) or if I were an official or a director of one of the largest banks or financial institutions in this country, such as Wachovia (Ken Thompson, UNC-CH, Morehead scholar), I would be ashamed to show my face around the power brokers of this country. But the corporate heads have so little respect for the corrupt politician before which they appear in Washington (and they know there’s no honor among puppets). Like John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, they just hide within the genome in which they feel more comfortable.

Can you even imagine Henry Ford or Charles Wilson with hat in hand, asking for a bailout of their competitive companies, to which nearly 7,000 dealers depend? In my lifetime, I have seen competitive, capitalistic American businesses bow down to corrupt government officials and instead of taking pride in a superior product, depend on highly-paid lobbyists to keep them afloat.

I was always too much of an American patriot to buy a foreign-made car with some foreign name on it. To me, there was a sacredness in the Ford or General Motors emblem. I own my thirteenth Cadillac at present. I had some difficulty with the car, which even now has very low mileage, and I called the Cadillac headquarters. An official from General Motors, a woman, called and told me that there was nothing they could do. I said, “In your advertisements, you say that there is plenty you can do for a car like mine, almost new.” I further told her, “General Motors will not self-destruct, but the American people will stop buying your product.” It seems that both have happened.


Tragically, we come in contact with businesses every day in our everyday life where all purpose for their existence seems to have vanished. How many times have you been in a place of business, perhaps a restaurant, even a fast-food place, and thought “I would like to manage this place for about ten minutes“? When you lose interest in your business, when your employees are no longer loyal to your business, the public on which you must depend will recognize your problem, as you go out of business. In New York City, 100 restaurants open every day and 100 restaurants close every day. The greatest cost of business operation is not rent, utilities, or overhead, but your loss of purpose.

In my business activities, I write many letters to agencies, locally, statewide, and nationally. If you get any answer at all, it is usually a generic response, easily sent to anyone about anything, and saying absolutely nothing. You can depend on one sentence in any letter from any government agency where, evidently, they are just paid to sleep: “YOU NEED TO HIRE A LAWYER.” The most insulting result of citizen inquiry is the sending of printed pamphlets. I wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission recently about the total lack of transparency with a large corporation and the fact that I had been unable to communicate with this company at all. I fully explained my dilemma, enclosing supporting evidence. I received a pamphlet from FTC with a generic letter which said “If you do not find your answer in the enclosed pamphlet, please write us a letter explaining your problem.”

You are a fortunate patient if your doctor touches you anymore. The routine now and for many years is this: an assistant who knows how to read a weight scale and automatic blood pressure instrument writes down why you are in to see your physician. In the assembly line, you wait for the doctor until he runs in breathlessly, peruses today’s data, might look at an old chart, and since he knows you only feel you have seen a doctor if you get a prescription from him so you can buy some expensive drugs, you leave, trying to decide his purpose for studying medicine. To pay his large overhead, to keep two expensive cars in the driveway, and to support an expensive wife and more expensive children, his brain is busy calculating the number of patients he must suffer through every hour.

The Hippocratic oath was thrown out years ago. Bioethics determines everything from conception to death. We have enough intelligence to know that if a nation will slaughter sixty-three million of its most innocent and valuable citizens in the abortion clinics, citizens who might have made great musicians, artists, scientists, perhaps a bishop or President. Old, worn-out seniors who can contribute nothing anymore, but who eat up most of the healthcare dollars in their last months of life, will most certainly be euthanized. A proposed purpose for this is already in the thinking of the most pro-abortion politicians ever pushed by you and the media.

When Hitler started his book-burning and cleansing of the libraries of Germany in 1933, the first book on his list was the 1904 biography of Helen Keller. The disabled were the first to be eliminated. Hitler’s doctrine of Aryan supremacy did not have room for disabled people. I am a totally blind, 100% disabled, service-connected veteran. I represent the largest minority in this country (estimated 38 million). We are well aware that the purpose of many politicians is our extinction.

In God's economy, every life is important, we do not know why, some are born less fortunate than others. On remote islands in the south Pacific, in the poverty of Asia, in the bush of Africa, I saw young people who probably do not have a future of enlightenment. There challenge in life is just as important as anyone's. Now matter how difficult, I have never known anyone who wishes that he had been aborted, instead of facing the struggle. Their future, and preparation for the future is up to the individual, the state can have a part. In Singapore, the cleanest city I have visited, the funds in the employee's retirement funds is matched by the employer, the combination is then matched by the state, this is called the “Forbidden Fund”. The citizens of Singapore know they have a fund for their retirement, it cannot be touched until retirement. There is actual spending money there, not an IOU, as in the American social security trust fund.