Escape From Reality

About 50 years ago, I took my first visit to London, one of the world's greatest cities. I stood outside Buckingham Palace, thousands of acres right in the middle of the city, 775 rooms, 400 servants, a 40 acre garden, it's own post office, police station, and helicopter landing pad. Hundreds of horses to draw royal gilded carriages on special occasions, all just for one old royal couple (today, she is 85; he,89), human beings like the rest of us. But, this is not their only house, I have been in Windsor castle, the castle at Edinburgh.

This morning, millions of people around the world watched the nuptials in Westminster Abbey of William and Kate, future crowned heads of the United Kingdom, rulers of the British Empire, Canada, Australia, and many other places. They were married in Westminster Abbey before 1,900 invited guests, large screens set up across the city so that the peasants could watch the affair on television.

Incredibly, thousands lining the streets, turned on by the sounds of horses' hooves, trumpets and cathedral bells. The couple had been living as man and wife for many months, little is known of the bride's family, but we do know that William's father was a philanderer, and so, evidently, was his mother.

Evil has been so glamourized, not just here in America, but around the world. Lifestyles have been downplayed, the seven deadly sins have been downplayed. We don't consider pride, anger, envy, lust, laziness, gluttony or greed as sinful in this world of cellphones and credit cards.

One of my friends here on the coast enjoyed fishing, he also enjoyed sleeping late. Over the years he had discovered the best place in the sound for catching fish. So every morning around 10, he would go out in his boat and catch a good number of fish, enough for his family and some to sell, returning home around 2 in the afternoon. Then, he and his wife would have a siesta, the children would get home from school around 3:30, he would play ball with his sons, and the family would eat around 5-6 in the afternoon. One of his friends said, “why don't you stay out longer and catch more fish, many fish markets would be glad to buy them?” My friend said, “and then what?” He said, “ then you would make enough money to buy new boats, hire new people and then catch more fish.” My friend said, “and then what?” He said, “then you could start selling fish all over the state, up and down the sea coast. You could become a rich man.” My friend said, “and then what?” He said, “after you became a rich man, you could retire, sleep late, go out just what you want to and have a siesta with your wife.” My friend said, “and then what?” He said, “you would die a rich man.” My friend said, “and then what?”

America is known for ordinary men ruining their health trying to obtain wealth, then using their wealth to try and regain their health. David Rockefeller, one of the world's richest and most powerful men, leader of the Bilderbergers, is in a wheelchair, his rich brothers died in poor health. The Vanderbilts, Astors, Fords made great fortunes, climbed over other people to get ahead, but most died in poor health. Remember, as you ogle the British royalty, they hauled back all the valuable marbles from the Acropolis in Greece. They took back gold and jewels, riches beyond compare, from India and other areas of the empire, as the natives in these places shrivel with hunger. There is nothing wrong with wealth, nothing wrong with making money, as long as you follow God's principles of living and giving.

Woe in the scripture means “pitiful”. The prophet Habakkuk tells us the very valuable lesson (Habakkuk 2). First, pitiful is he that increases that which is not his (disreputable business practices). Second, pitiful is one with evil covetousness in his house, so that he might be better than others (the man whose house is on a hill so he can look down on his poor neighbors). Third, pitiful the one who builds a city with iniquity (the crooked politician). Fourth, pitiful the one who gives his neighbor strong drink (those in the liquor business, state-controlled or not). Fifth, pitiful the one who worships idols of wood and stone (anything that consumes your time, even the television and the computer).

From the beginning of time, I do believe, because of the conscience instilled in all of us, men have tried to do right. The Old Testament is filled with the keeping of Jewish law. At the Jewish Passover, Jewish priests would slaughter, as a sacrifice, 250,000 sheep, blood would be up to the priest's ankles. The New Testament church preaches sin's ruin and Christ's redemption.

Yesterday, David Wilkerson, one of America's best known preachers, author of The Cross And The Switchblade was killed in a highway disaster. Every time I passed by, or went into, the church he founded in Times Square in New York City, and today, I realized and do realize that God has blessed humanity with real messengers of deliverance, delivery from doubts and fears. Politicians spend their time and efforts trying to get reelected, pastors spend their time and efforts putting on a front, merchants spend their time and efforts in survival, educators and social workers spend their time and efforts in man-made solutions to Satanic evils. We, who claim the name of Christ, live by faith and must spend our time and efforts with those of faith.

Cocoa Beans

Following the civil war, the 630,000 of America's finest young men lost in conflict, the colony of North Carolina losing the most, carpetbaggers from the north, flooded the south land, taking over anything they could to make some profit. The dirty dealings, then as now, were mostly hatched from control-freak fraternity clubs at Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Amazing, such is still going on, Wall Street, K Street, and certainly with the present administration.

If all else fails bailouts, sellouts and cop-outs---you start another war. Imagine the audacity of saying that starting the war in Libya was a humanitarian effort. Why not relieve the brokenness further down in dark Africa, in Sudan or even the Ivory Coast, where over 1000 have been killed in the present struggle over the last few months? The difference is that Libya has some of the largest oil and fresh water reserves in the world, under the Sahara. The Ivory Coast only has cocoa beans, cars and planes do not burn chocolate.

Another mystery: Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger, gay bodybuilder, sneaking into the Kennedy family, ex-governor of California, now wanting to take over the presidency of the European Union. Don't forget that in 1939, Schwarzenegger's father was one of Hitler's “brownshirts”. In an interview, Schwarzenegger said Hitler was one of his heroes.

As gasoline has reached $5 a gallon in the nation's capital, gold at over $1500 a ounce, silver at $45 an ounce heading to $300, can you even imagine the price of gold, a dozen eggs, or the price of gas, when silver reaches $1000 an ounce? We know that by 2020, the interest on the national debt will $1 trillion a year, greater than all tax collection. The dollar will be devalued 30% this summer. McDonalds has about 14,000 restaurants in America. Soon the McDonald's dollar menu will be the only place you will be able to dine. Other restaurants may as well go ahead and close.

This week marked the anniversary of two of America's most shameful acts. Acts that do not make sense and which are closely connected to the CIA. I speak of the unnecessary killing of woman and children at the religious complex at Waco, Texas and the unnecessary killing of children at the Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Seismograph studies tell us that two bombs went of at the Murrah building, not just one truck bomb. Like the 9/11 mystery in Manhattan, the truth will prevail. We will learn how a 47 story building just fell...a building not hit by any plane, just imploding internally, falling into its footprint.

The United States has been technically bankrupt my entire life. Our ancestors, our parents, most responsible people know, we are a God fearing, hard-working, tax-paying citizenry. There was a time you could expect a return of some sort on your investments whether securities, real estate, or even a small business. Today, when anyone speaks of a safe return, I say, “in what, the Zimbabwean dollar?” (At the last figures, 231,000,000% inflation). We can no longer invest in the post-WWI German Wiemar Republic (there 1 trillion fiat paper Marks was worth one gold Mark). Perhaps this is the reason FDR confiscated all American gold in 1933. Have you ever questioned why most advertisements now concern gold? Gold bugs beware.

In this same world, post-WWII, banks are loaning much more money than they actually control. For example, Goldman Sachs 330% more. If you want to study greed at its worst, study the banking system, particularly those of you whose homes are in foreclosure. Remember, entitlement claims more of the US budget than all taxes received.

In my lifetime, I saw the beginnings of sexual liberation and have seen the results of sexual liberation (liberated women, liberated homosexuals, STDs and AIDS). In my lifetime, I have seen the “slow crawl” of Americans attempting to make democracies of countries that know nothing of democratic republics or liberty. So many nations have always been kingdoms, tribes, police states. Most cannot understand our system of lying, cheating and stealing.

America's secret in warfare has been our esprit de corps. Men and women committed to protecting their country, believing in their national leader. We have one in the White House now that the military mind cannot trust...”Don't Ask Don't Tell”, fortunes paid to contract killers. I am told that there are CIA operatives who make a one year salary for a one month contract on the battlefield, in some cases $35,000 a month. There are more American civilians on contract in war-torn countries than military people in uniform.

I wonder what my friend Dr. Little, US missionary to Afghanistan, killed by the Taliban, would say about such, knowing that he had served the people there for most of his life. There was not a peep in the news about that killing, but Wikileaks has spread the news about many others. The royalty of Saudi Arabia knows how it has been double crossed. We now have the world in turmoil, the middle east, North Africa, new chaos started between Vietnam and Cambodia, Japan is in a mess following their nuclear explosions. The EPA has upgraded the effects of the nuclear explosion from a 5 to a 7 on a scale of 10. One scientist will say that the radiation fallout from the Japan disaster will not affect America, another will say that the Midwest can expect crop failures, just as there are crop failures already in Australia and Russia.

In the meantime, cheer up, listen to the sound of bells, trumpets and horse's hooves as the royals marry in London-town. Prince William was turned on at a Cambridge play by a girl in a see-through dress, and now the United Kingdom, bankrupted by socialism, is turned on by the wedding. The “Kate dolls”, like “Diana dolls” in 1981, are selling for a handsome price ($75 average). America is capitalizing every way possible on the wedding of the royals: movies, TV, cakes, dolls, gowns; even Barbara “Wah-Wah”, (who, like this writer, is old and worn out) is there reciting back to you every sordid detail of the tryst

Wake up, it is spring. You can do little to control the global ponzi scheme, hypocrisy is the word of the day. Even the Donald, wanting to become the Republican president of your country, gave $50,000 to Rahm Emanuel, he contributes to all Democrats including the Clintons. If a RINO can solve the world's problems, he will save the cocoa beans.