Key To Prosperity

I have made many trips around the world, traveled extensively through 157 countries, studied most of the large cities of the world. I have been amazed at the worlds great buildings such as the Taj Mahal in India built by a Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in honor of his dead wife. The greatness of Windsor Castle in England, the York Cathedral, the beauty of Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris, St. John the Divine in New York City, and even the capital of the great state of Texas. The difference in the building in a Cathedral, Church or Temple is that believers have given with faith. A national monument is usually built with taxes. Great homes and many landmarks are usually built with private funds from hard working individuals.

At one time, I was active in a great church. Magnificent beyond words to describe. Built by the free will giving of dedicated believers. The great pastor would say, “If I tell my people to jump in the fire I will smell clothes burning. If I tell my people to jump into the river I will hear water splash.” I thought this was great at the time but since realized he had enough ego to actually believe the members of that church gave, because of him, not as “unto God.” Another great radio preacher, who I enjoyed listening to, simply because of his brilliant mind, would always take up two offerings at each service. And his large congregation would clap their hands before each offering. He preached money more than anything else. He actually preached and I sincerely believed that he believed, that one would go to hell if not a tither. He preached over and over, that your surest form of worship is in giving of your means, giving all the tithes first fruits etc. I don't know how much was given at that church each week. But they gave many millions each year. All checks were made payable to the Pastor because it was his belief that the church members were responsible to him and he was responsible to God. I have heard him say, “It is my business if I take your money in my airplane and dump it into the ocean.” There are about as many far fetched ideas in giving to God as in many other denominational issues.

Jesus preached more on giving than anything else. Of his twenty-nine parables, sixteen are on giving. I truly believe you cannot out give God. I truly believe that you can give without loving but you cannot love without giving. I truly believe it is a personal matter, between you and God. I can say, without fear of contradiction, that the key to prosperity is giving. If a man is right with his giving, right with his pocket book, he is probably right about everything else.

The plan for Christian giving is given in Paul's second letter to the church at Corinth, “God loves a cheerful giver.” (2 Corinthians 9) You can be sure that God will direct you in your giving as well as your living if you have enough trust to do so. (Philippians 2:13). Faith is a verb and I truly believe that 90% of faith is just raw courage. Faith is action, based on belief sustained by confidence. We must have confidence in Him knowing that it is not law that dictates our giving but our trust in the Sovereignty of God. He knows our needs more than we do. And He knows how much He can trust us.

The children of Israel had been in slavery for over 400 years. They saw with their own eyes the deliverance of God. Leaving houses provided by their slave masters they dwelled in tents and these two and a half million people were forced to depend solely on God for their welfare. Almost immediately, slavery did not seem so harsh and they longed for the “cucumbers and melons” of Egypt. Almost immediately, their unbelief was shown in the worship of a gold calf. God has perfect accounting books, a perfect calculator. Because of their unbelief they died in the desert after wondering for 40 years, although at one time, they were within a short distance of the promised land. Look in the mirror and find the key to your prosperity!

God does not need our money. For every beast of the forest [is] mine, [and] the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world [is] mine, and the fullness thereof. (Psalms 50:10-13) I am as convinced about my attitude of giving as I am convinced of my salvation that God expects us as Christians to happily give for His work. My greatest joy is to return to God most of what He has generously given to me. I truly believe that ten percent is the bare minimum. If it were required in the Old Testament, under law, surely we can do much better with grace. I am responsible to God for every penny I spend. William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, at Christmas, so intent on not spending one dime more than necessary to greet the churches throughout the world, on his Christmas telegram just had one word, “others.” I do not give to lazy people, I do not give to organizations that do not spend wisely and honor God fully. (United Way, Red Cross, etc)

The Christian does not waste anything. Even Christ, fed the thousands from a small boys lunch which a loving mother had prepared for a small hungry boy, had His followers to pick up the baskets of scraps. In this day of credit cards when usury laws do not apply when you can be charged as much as 30% interest, I cannot imagine blood-bought, baptized, redeemed believers falling into satans clutches with death and buying things which you can easily live without. Your government, your banks, are intent on enslaving you. Through credit cards, mortgages and the greedy tax pickpocket ,many of you have voted for your enslavement.

Christians are taught that we are a new creation, we are the light and salt of the world. We are different from the world, different in our living, our giving, our saving, and even our spending. You can never invest what you have spent. Pennies make dollars and dollars take care of themselves, if you invest wisely. Don't mind the heathen calling you tight or frugal. We grow the plants to manufacture the paper and ink for our fiat paper currency. Out of thin air, the federal reserve takes this money and makes us greedy over it. There is nothing more dirty on God's earth than money. Paper bills, after being in circulation for some time have about every disease known to man on them. Yet, men will lie, cheat, and steal for dirty money. But, if the entire crust of the earth were gold, men would lie, cheat, and steal for a handful of dirt.

The key to our prosperity is in the control of our working, saving, spending and giving. Life is more than what we possess. God only had to say it one time, “love of money is the root of all evil.”(1 Timothy 6:10) I understand Mr. Madoff's office where he robbed his customers of sixty-five billion dollars was called the North Pole because it was white with cocaine powder and elicit sex. Mr. Madoff is now in prison like so many of his fellows who are consumed with greed. You can be sure of this, he will leave this world with empty hands, so did his associate Mr. Picower. So has every other tyrant of greed who had a false sense of prosperity. Remember, it is not what you have but what God has for you.

Veteran's Day

My driver stopped near the intersection. He said, the police are holding up traffic because of a funeral. He described everything to me. I knew about the death, it had been on the news. The Church, one of the oldest in the state, used as a hospital during the Civil War was a gathering place for the “blue bloods” of the city. He said they slid the expensive casket out of the hearse and the widow who had followed him to Canada when he fled the city to escape the Vietnam draft, followed the casket into the church along with her daughter who was born in Canada, the two sons who were born after they returned here, grandchildren, etc. I wondered how many of the “well healed” people in the church remembered that he had left his country for Canada rather than to serve in the military. Since his family were people of great wealth, he could live there until the wars end, come back to the city and carry on the family tradition of “blue blood”, aristocratic, “big me, little you”, “country club” pretensions as he professed to love his country and serve his city.

After he had left the city for Canada with the blessings of his wealthy family, his high school sweetheart joined him there, they were married and had their first child in Canada. As was the case with Bill Clinton and so many others who preferred not the wear the uniform of the military service, he lived a life of charades. Always looking down at we mere mortals who were from the poor homes and life was a struggle both in the military and out.

Just a few weeks before, my driver had driven me down to Castle Street, which at one time, here in the city of Wilmington, North Carolina was the center of black commercial establishments. A black friend of mine, who called me often to lament the world conditions as a fellow veteran had told me that he wanted the hearse to drive down Castle Street from the funeral home to the National Cemetery after his final service. And, on that Sunday the hearse drove slowly down Castle Street with the flag covered casket of my friend, the grand finale of his life. His nickname was Weed, called that because he grew so fast as a child. (neither he nor his family realized that the founder of planned parenthood, the promoter of eugenics, Margaret Sanger, called all black people weeds.)

I had come to know Weed through “talk radio”. He knew I was a veteran and he called and paid tribute to me, he would actually weep over the radio in describing how America had treated him as a WWII veteran after combat in the Pacific. He had been reared here in the city. He told how he had shined David Brinkley's shoes as a young shoeshine boy. (Brinkley, famed newscaster was raised and is buried here). He told, how when he returned from the war in uniform he was ordered to the rear of the bus. He told, even though he had spent many years up north in college and working, he was treated with as much bigotry after serving his country as when he was a black boy on the streets here. He would weep telling of how much he wanted to come back here to live and this was the very thing that took him through combat in the pacific.

William Manchester, 100% disabled veteran, biographer of General Douglas MacArthur, has said, “Those who have not known war, have not worn the uniform, have little appreciation of those man enough to defend their country.”

During the Vietnam War, I was still being hospitalized with eye surgery. I am a totally blind 100% disabled veteran of the Korean era. Hospitalized at the VA hospital in Durham, I received surgery directly across the street at the Duke Eye Center. This was at the time of the protesters from UNC-CH (where I graduated) and Duke University. They would protest around the federal facilities such as the VA hospital. While on the second floor corner room of the Duke facility directly across from the VA a black nurse one morning, telling me how much she despised the military, just spat on me. My mother and sister arriving a little later after a long trip were preparing to get me out of the place when Dr Banks Anderson, assured them that such would never happen again.

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE. At my expense, I attended the 25^th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion. There are several large military cemeteries in France. The one I visited, had 7,900 white crosses. Again, at my expense, on a world trip I walked into the largest military cemetery in the world in the Philippines which has 18,000 white crosses. There are 126,000 of our finest Americans buried on foreign soil. In Arlington alone, in this country, there are 250,000 buried including some of my relatives. FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.

WWI was the war that was supposed to end all wars. 10 million people were killed in WWI, 21 years later WWII was fought when 60 million were killed. Five years later, in the Korean conflict 55,000 Americans lost their lives. Five years later, the beginnings of the long Vietnam struggle in which 58,000 Americans lost their lives. When you feel of the marble slabs in our nations capital, and run your hand over the engraved names, when you think of the mothers and fathers who gave up sons and daughters, wives and children who gave up a daddy who loved them very much you realize again and again, FREEDOM IS NOT FREE. There has only been a few months, in the history of mankind when a war was not being fought somewhere on the planet. The difference is, they have become more horrible. The DU factor now (depleted uranium) which coats the bullets for greater penetration of armor, suicide bombers and other technology of scientific discoveries (drones, etc) makes war almost unthinkable both for the warriors involved and the civilians.

I have seen the callous attitude in too many VA hospitals and have experienced enough of the worlds ingrates to last the remaining years of my life. A friend of mine, a top notched VA doctor talked with me privately in his private office. He said, “I stopped shedding tears long ago. But last week, I cried again. The aunt of a young man who had just returned from Iraq brought him here to the hospital. He had come home from a VA hospital. He still had wounds that were oozing puss. He had not received the care he should have received, not even antibiotics. I put him in the hospital here and hope to save his life.”

Just this past week, when we here the depressing details of just one medical officer, a Muslim psychiatrist, actually counseling returning veterans not to fight Muslims and then shooting his unarmed fellow soldiers fragging is given a bad name. Children are expelled for making a drawing of a gun in a public school. The elderly in wheel chairs, are abused before boarding a plane. Technology strips us naked at most federal facilities. Yet, that FBI military doctor and certainly his fellow citizens attending his Mosque, knew the hatred of this Army Major who not only wore the gold leaf of rank but the medical caduceus of health care, “to do no harm.” On this Veterans Day, we realize more than ever that political correctness is defeating our country. Character determines destiny. Our destiny is in question unless we have a complete reappraisal of our character.

Reset Button

The reset button is as normal in the 21^st Century living as the handle on the water faucet in the 19^th Century. The garbage disposal, the cable box many such technologies have such.

Our Nation is almost evenly divided now, 50/50 the producers who pay most of the tax responsible for most of the nations progress, and the 50% taxeaters dependent on the other 50% through their food stamps, section 8 housing, welfare checks, supplemental income checks, NIT (a progressive income tax system where people earning below a certain amount receive supplemental pay from the government instead of paying taxes to the government). Disgorge of dependency extends from one generation to another. We have an entire population addicted and dependent on government subsidy or out right government grants. The children of welfare parents brought up by a politically correct school system, actually believes the country is supposed to support them. They never know the honor of work or the integrity of responsible living. Anxious to get the communist totalitarian collectivist system operating in this nation. The only thing they know how to do, like sheep to the sheerer go to the polls and vote in lockstep the straight democrat ticket.

When the 9-11 terrorist attack caused President George W. Bush to mount his Presidential Jet and flee, pity he did not go on to his 100,000 acre ranch in Paraguay. Our nation would have been much better off if he had just stayed there and the Republican Party which he damaged beyond repair, might have a chance of recovery. So, the reset button was pushed and, beyond comprehension a Marxist Sunni Muslim easily won the Presidency, due to this 50% population of welfare users propped up by the Liberal academic community and the state-supported controlled media who “carry their water.”

To date, the national debt has increased by 1.3 trillion, the automobile, banking, financial, insurance communities have been taken over by this culture of death. The unemployment is now officially 17.5% and is probably 20% (it was only 18% during the Great Depression). The female secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, like the vice-president Biden, both of whom have agendas as want-to-be presidents. And like the two immediate past secretary of state, Rice and Albright, are bringing disaster to our economic, financial and diplomatic future. We are involved in two wars which we cannot win. We have a $50 trillion deficit future which we cannot repay when you consider the entitlements. We have a lackadaisical outlook when a Muslim Doctor, right under the nose of the Nations capital under the nose of Walter Reid Hospital, is encouraging returning service members not to fight Muslims. Certainly, knowing this psychiatrist was attending a Mosque in Maryland and just off base at Fort Hood, a warning flag of some type should have been a concern to the Military outside the combat zone. It is time for a reset button involving our national security at all levels of government, pushing the American people into a health care system which at least 50% of the tax payers oppose should take a back seat when surveying mental problems among those who think they are physically and mentally healthy.

During my years attending functions with UN Officials in New York City I found that imagery is all important, not just with 3^rd world nations who want to give a sense of progress but especially Russia and China hardstrapped by the Marxist control system. Russia, trying to escape the stigma of the czars and China, trying to escape the system of the dynasties. “The end justifies the means.” The authoritarian systems of government are intent on improving on their image from a system of escaping enslavement to capitalistic opportunities. Many Americans, are perfectly content to trade capitalism for authoritarian enslavement.

A young man and his live-in girlfriend had trouble. He left home with their baby in the baby seat of the car. As he was driving the baby began to fret. He reached around, took the baby out of the baby seat and threw the baby out of the window. A fifteen year old girl waiting outside the school building for her father was lured to another place, gang raped by as many as 10 for 2 ½ hours while another 10 or 15 looked on taking pictures with their cell phones and was then left half naked beaten under a bench.

Where was the compassion in either of these cases? Have we reached the place in this country that our hearts are cold as stone? It is time for the reset button to be pushed, homes, schools, government, military and certainly kicking out “political correctness” from the Church. We do what we do because we believe what we believe. It is time for the absolute button of right and wrong to be pushed.

The darling of the liberals, those who have never seen the need for a reset button will continue to sing with Michael Jackson “Because I'm bad, I'm bad-come on (bad bad-really, really bad) You know I'm bad, I'm bad-you know it (bad bad-really, really bad) You know I'm bad, I'm bad-come on, you know (bad bad-really, really bad) And the whole world has to answer right now Just to tell you once again, Who's bad . . .”

Preperation

You can be sure, if you have two brain cells still synapsing that within the next two years there will be a series of terrorist attacks in this country. I have been thinking for many years, that the first objective of Islam would be the entertainment and porno center of the world. The Los Angeles and San Fransisco areas of California. I expected a nuclear wipe-out there and also in the New York – Chicago area. Muslims have suggested that they do not want a nuclear residual (you can not enter a nuclear zone for 50 years). Rather they want a series of explosions perhaps athletic events, shopping malls. Enough to damage and dismay a “soft” American populous who will easily give in to foreign domination and occupation thinking that giving up the wealth of the wealthy would enable the masses to keep living their lackadaisical lifestyle.

You will see lines around banks. People trying to get out money with no place to spend it. There will not be any delivery trucks on the highways. There will be no operating gasoline pumps. Grocery stores, if open, will be empty. One young person told me he expected to eat all his meals at fast food restaurants. Restaurants, fast food or other wise, will be closed. Electricity will be off. No water will be coming out of the faucets.

Katrina, was an excellent example of our unpreparedness to face a disaster of any type. Think of it. The prison doors were opened. Prisoners of every stripe were let out on an unsuspecting, unforgiving public. Men who had not experienced sex for a long time were seeking your young daughters. Homosexuals, were seeking your young sons. Crime and insolence had nothing to worry about. There were no law enforcement officers. They were at home with gasless vehicles, trying to protect their own families. Nursing home patients were left in their beds to drown as the flood waters rose. The advocates of taking away weapons were left to fight off their attackers with wooden spoons and cans of disinfectant spray. As my father taught us long ago, locks mean nothing to a thief strong enough to kick down a door.

Everyday, in every way, public service advertisements should be on every medium of communication. Reminding the public of the necessity to prepare for the eventual terrorist attack. It is not a matter of why, but when and how. Anyone, with any sense at all, knows that it is coming. We are the infidel, the enemy, only one small strip of land on the Mediterranean Sea is hated more by the Islamic world than is the United States of America. Israel has experienced their hatred for a very long time. Israel knows what it is like to hear the sound of deadly missiles. Israel knows what it is like to scrape up and bury the spattered remains of their loved ones. Just as with preparations for a hurricane, Americans should prepare for terrorism.

There will be no gas for your vehicle. If fortunate enough not to worry about nuclear fall-out have comfortable shoes you will be walking everywhere. Have batteries for flashlights and for battery operated radios. Have a shovel for a “slit trench” (ask someone who has been in the military to explain to you the function of a slit-trench. In a few words, you will not have water to flush a toilet. Elimination must take place in your yard. You dig a line trench over which you eliminate and throw in dirt afterwards. This is getting back to basics in survival. Most young, spoiled Americans have never seen an outhouse.)

Liberated women, in the front lines promoting abortion will now wish there were young fighters to protect them. Remember, those that have promoted a culture of death aborting the most innocent of human life will find there is no empathy for older people in a time of crisis. As one who has been in a cocoon of blindness, isolation for most of my life (A totally blind 100% disabled service connected veteran) I can tell you, without fear of contradiction, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. The politicians – bureaucrats who were elected and promised to protect you and help you, will be at home frantic curled up in a fetal position. I have lived in a hurricane area most of my life. We know they are coming every year. It never fails, every time everything, it is as if it has never happened before... Unprepared law enforcement officers will be at there homes with gasless vehicles trying to protect their families from the rampaging criminals already antagonizing our crime-ridden communities. I don't know what the spoiled youngsters and boomers will do without telephones and televisions?

Start now, fill empty juice and other containers with water and store in a bathroom or the back of an utility room. Old water is better than no water. Start now buy extra canned goods such as sweet potatoes and peanut butter, food that will not spoil and yet will give you energy. Start now, prepare for health disasters your prescriptions, oregano, charcoal for stomach upsets. There are many books available to assist you in preparing for a disaster. And it will be a disaster that may last for a very long time.

In India, I saw the “death wagons” go by every day picking up the dead bodies in the streets for Hindu cremation. In this poor country of a billion people, there are people who are born on the streets live their entire lives on the streets and die on the streets. Out walking in the mornings, even near five star hotels, a mother and her children would be getting out of a cardboard box, their home. These people are accustomed to this type poverty/death. It will be a new experience for spoiled Americans. The 1959 film, “On The Beach” demonstrated that a nuclear cloud xould destroy the world. If we are fortunate, as in Iraq dead people will be put on the streets and picked up for mass burial.

You know your body, you know yours and your families needs more that anyone else. Prepare for “life survival.” More important, now is a good time to think of “soul survival”. If you have not made that “arrangement” with an eternal God whom you can trust. Time is ticking, life has always been a matter of preparation, preparation for living and preparation for dying. We cannot afford the luxury of procrastination, denial or rosecolored glasses.

Poisoning The Well

One of the most atrocious acts during the Civil War when the Yankees moved through the communities, especially a farm. Poisoning the well water. They knew, as we know, people and animals cannot live without water. So the Yankee soldiers would throw a dead decomposing hog into the well, or stable manure, fertilizer or salt if they could find such. So, the smart southern people, would always keep one or two wells camouflaged, because people and animals must have water. From the very beginnings of history this has been the method used by the enemy bringing death, suffering and destruction to so many people. The greatest poison in the world Satan strategically puts into the hearts of men.

This week, we saw one of the most horrible actions that can take place in the time of war. One soldier, turning on others. Throughout the history of warfare, medals have been given for soldiers in esprit d'corp saving the lives of their fellow soldiers. Think of how many medals of honor were giving in WWII for young men who fell on hand grenades to save the lives of his pals.

In my years in the health care field, I have known some psychiatrists. One told me, “It is a fake science, but it pays well.” Inconceivable, this army medical officer, psychiatrist, Muslim would so despise the country he had sworn to defend, that he would go out of town to buy weapons, with which to indiscriminately shoot his fellow comrades like shooting fish in a barrel. We have experienced the tragedy of suicide bombings. I don't believe this country is ready for such. We know how the suicide bombers are “stoked” with drugs. I am sure when the truth comes out about this doctor he will have a drug problem. There are more suicides among psychiatrists than among any other kind of doctor. And, doctors are very well known for using drugs, particularly psychiatrists.

The tragedy is, the state run news media, as with everything else, tries to be so politically correct about the entire tragedy... First thing the Muslim doctor was dead, then trying, for the sake of the Muslim president to keep his religion completely silent.

Many men were still in the military during the Korean conflict from WWII. I had one friend who was a Japanese doctor. He served during the conflict but was never sent into the Pacific area. When the Pentagon stops being so stupid, they either will stop taking Muslims into the military service and certainly not sending them to fight Muslims. And, when medical officers and others working with such will stay away from the officers club, stay sober for awhile, stop being so politically correct about everything they can ascertain ahead of time and prevent such a disaster.

In my many years as a medical officer, in army hospitals, I saw many problems. I did not have the rank to correct anything. The greatest problem was most of the commanding officers were all drunks, just trying to keep breathing until retirement time. In the military, in the civil service, in all government bureaucracies, “you play along to get along.” And like the stupid monkeys, you see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing. This is the way you get promoted. This is the way you have good evaluation in your personnel file.

In the Western world, we prepare for success, never failure. There are many suicides never reported, never suspected. My cousin, a pilot, told me he aimed his personal plane over the Atlantic Ocean, prepared to never come back. But just before there was not enough fuel to return, he thought of what the loss of his life would mean to his parents. God turned him around, he came back, and later died a natural death.

The test of a man is not what he does when everything is going well, but what he does when things go wrong. We are not promised a bed of roses, but only by trusting in God, His protection.

As a totally blind, 100% disabled service connected veteran for most of my life. Twice, two people have told me, “If I were in your condition I would kill myself.” Once, by a cousin who actually thought she was a Christian.

I went across the wall (through checkpoint Charlie) to East Germany twice, poor, bleak, falling buildings always the definition of Marxism. One German doctor told me while in the desolation of East Germany the depravity of communism is poison to your entire system. People never get well from any disease in the communist system. (I wish the puppets and perverts in Congress who are trying to force the communist health care system on America would realize this) He told me, when the wall came down and he saw the beauty of the western side (before only seen on TV) colors, fashions, new buildings, nice cars, clear skies. Hope and inspiration came back into his body.

Most of the darkness and poisons of the world, men bring on themselves. Disbelief in self is the greatest poison a human being can suffer. To think that homicide or suicide is your only escape. Tragic is the mind without hope and without the faith in the grace of God which is beyond wisdom or understanding.

Disbelief in country most of which is due to the corruption and evil of politicians, the deception of the news media, the compromise of academia and the corporate world can only be neutralized with a surge of God-inspired patriotism.

Disbelief in the Church, the Bride of Christ given by God to lead and comfort those who will follow, has been diminished by prissy pastors, pickpocket TV evangelist and others who have bowed down with more love to the world than of God. (1 John 2:15)

With all the evil that afflicts the world and has a debilitating influence on this country have the good sense not to forget the greatness of America. Remember its great music “smoke gets in your eyes”, “night and day” etc. Remember the great scientific discoveries made by the scientists of this country, DNA, nanotechnology, etc. Artistic triumphs, World Trade Center, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, etc. Service to the world, 90% all Christian Missionaries, Red Cross, etc. Right is never wrong and wrong can never be right. Men do what they do because they believe what they believe. We have a country that does not believe in poison but compassion. We cannot afford to judge ourselves or allow others to judge us by our failures, but our successes. We stand on the shoulders of greatness, great fathers, great mothers. Our country measured not by great battles but great people.

Perils of Prosperity

A local advertisement from a veterinary hospital states that pets should have purified water, water that has been circulated through a purifier so there are no chemicals or anything debilitating to the furry creatures. According to Wikipedia in 2006 Americans spent $39 billion on pet food. I know dog and cat owners, right here in this town, who spend more money on pet care than I spend on my own personal care. When I see these figures, I think of the children I have seen in third world countries whose mother goes to a “mud hole” or river bank each day for a jug of water which is used for drinking, cooking...everything. In third world countries, children's bellies are distended because of hunger.

In America, 50% of children survive on food stamps. In fact, right here in this town, most children drink polluted water and have the sparsest of diets. The great seedsmen, Luther Burbank said, “If plants were treated like children in America, the country would be grown up with weeds and trees”. There was a time when a man's family came first, housing, food, clothing. The Marxist knew exactly what they were doing when Americans became totally addicted to the television. Uncle Miltie with a dress on, Ed Sullivan, Bishop Fulton Sheen, I Love Lucy. Decent shows, screens to which several generations have become addicted to the extent that children think this is the way they should spend their time. With the onset of indecency, and the control of news, Americans have lost all concept of reality.

We have seen the evolution of wall to wall coverage of athletic events. We think it perfectly normal to pay $200 to $5,000 for a seat to athletic events plus $12 for a soft drink. Whooping and howling as millionaires run up and down the courts or the field. These same millionaire athletes, living a lifestyle of decadence outside the arena, one does not bat an eye when the girlfriend kills one, a man with a family at his home.

How did our ancestors survive before so many inoculations? Just a few weeks after birth, the inoculations start. There is no way a vaccination can be effective until a child is two years of age anymore than a vaccination is effective on an old person. Our grandmothers knew how to treat most minor health problems...sniffles, headaches, etc. Doctor's offices, which at one time were small at best, now have waiting rooms like large auditoriums. I go to one doctor who is in practice with 62 other doctors. The place is run like a well-greased machine. I would rather have the money that goes into that practice each day than a license to steal. Most of the patients are old people, on Medicare or Medicaid. What better way for an old person to spend a day, when the care is free? Just wait until the new socialized health care programs get in full gear. Instead of a Muslim army medical officer shooting his fellow soldiers, there will be many shootings in health facilities and hospitals.

In my lifetime, it was just a matter of life insurance, then there was burial insurance. Particularly the black people always had that 25 cents a week in the envelop on the front porch for the collector of burial insurance. The first citizens to know about hospital insurance were the organized workers, unions, teachers, government workers. Then came automobile insurance, homeowners insurance, pet, even jewelry insurance. Now you insure everything. You tell God that He can just go on vacation, you don't need him for His input in “protective care”.

There has been a total take-over of life activity through government controls. I know of very few things you can do at all anymore without a permit or license. You need a license for any type work. A permit to do anything around your house. An inspector, looking at one of my buildings where a past owner had run a short electric outlet said, “You must pay for a permit and get my permission to do anything in your building more than using a 6' extension cord”. It's all a matter of money, more money in the coffers for the bureaucrats to waste. California has just increased its withholding tax 10%. Elected officials actually consider the money in the tax budget as their own spending money.

In most of these government programs, once the camel gets his nose under the tent, once the news media is willing to push the greed, your life is under their control.

Houses, cars, clothing, will all last a long time. It is this constant bombardment by advertisers that keeps people dissatisfied with what they have, always willing to spend for something new and with the taxation and controls of government, prosperity becomes a peril. If you did not buy, the tax would not be collected. These are the rules to live and die by:

1. Don't buy.

2. Refuse to comply.

3. Ask why.

4. Occupy, until Jesus comes (Luke 19:13).

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Do your shopping at the farmer's market and as much buying as possible at yard sales and swap shops. You can buy anything you want online, it is only by cutting off the flow of money through taxes to undisciplined politicians that they may awaken. It is time for corrupt politicians, Obama-nation, to learn that most of us will not be their enablers anymore.

In Old Testament law, there was over 200 sacrifices, religious people trying to cleanse their souls from unbelief. There is only one sacrifice for sin and it has already been made. When the unsaved, political leaders or otherwise, understand sins ruin and Christ's redemption, they will also understand the perils involved in the prosperity of the wicked.

Moochers

One of the most interesting studies in the world is that involving political geography and how cities get started, what develops politicians,etc. Having traveled the world, every continent, at night, listening to the BBC broadcast from London, I have never heard them give the weather report from any city I have not visited. In studying the maps of any country you will find that geography determines the development of a city. For protection, families would build their houses close together usually near a river because river transportation and boats was the only mode of transportation for many years. As in the many islanded Indonesia (a nation of 5,000 islands), the expense of building bridges is so prohibitive that the ferries we hear of sinking make the connections between cities and so it was with the early rivers here. Mostly ferries connecting either side of a river as was the case here with the Cape Fear River. But, as bridges were built, so were roads and later railroads. Fortunes were made with the early railroads (Vanderbilts), the first railroad in North Carolina was from Wilmington to Weldon, the railroad owned by then Governor Dudley, who's mansion still sits here on the bank of the river.

In Europe, the cities were walled for protection and from the beginnings of military forces, produced by the families of the city, slowly but surely the head military men became the first politicians. Today, most politicians are lawyers but western civilization and it's political leaders is a product of the military.

Perhaps from the pillaging, pilfering, contraband, graft and corruption, easily learned in military exploits, the early politicians learned there was security and safety with their nose in the public tax trough. It becomes just a matter of keeping your position there, whatever the cost. The early politicians, like today's, with their lackey bureaucrats, know that government produces nothing, their power comes in their ability to tax. The one time protectors want to continue the charade and never let the enslaved know that they do not own anything but rather those empowered with the ability to tax and regulate own everything. It becomes a matter of raising their pay, steadily stealing through empowered expense accounts (now to the extent of giving politicians and bureaucrats credit cards) and just keeping the process going without going to jail.

The enslaved, who now must get a permit or a license, for every human action except breathing, are so enthralled by these politician moochers that they further regulate themselves by entwining and entangling into Homeowner Associations, where, believe it or not, in the true Marxist system, their neighbors further regimentize their lifestyle.

You could never convince our forefathers, who believed in freedom, who loved every idea of liberty, that their descendants would submit to the inhumanity of men. Even if we had been invaded by a foreign army, we would not have less liberty than we have today with a combined occupying force of obsessing elected political tyrants and wannabe stewards of the streets (in Cuba, the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution patrols every street, regulates and reports the “goings on” in every residence).

Beyond comprehension, the moochers of the universe, elected politicians, their bureaucratic lackeys, de-sanitized homeowner watchers, all are allowed without too much resistance to massage the pocketbooks of their captors. Every Marxist leader (Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev) has said, in speaking of Western Civilization, that each democracy will fall when it's officials realize they can live well off the enslaved. It is simply a matter of staying in power. It is simply a matter of keeping your political party in power. It is simply a matter of buying off any interference or by the scare tactic of political correctness, threats of being called a racist, become a pacifist because it is “nice” to turn the other cheek. As far as the eye can see, your children and grandchildren are up to their eyeballs in debt ($50 trillion, social security, military, civil service, retirements, $12 trillion federal debt, $250,000 indebtedness for each American man, woman and child). The American experiment, once the envy of the globe, like the Christian church, once the last hope of the globe, are both in a climate of despair, mostly of our own choosing. When will we learn to stand up for God, family and country and keep our hard earned heritage from the moochers preying upon us?

God Bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, My home sweet home.

God Bless America -

Keep On Keeping On

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Keep on Keeping On

One of my mother's sisters, a very wonderful aunt, never let me forget the first time she saw me speak in public. She said I was about four, dressed in a white suit with a red bow tie, and at a large county-wide Sunday school convention, I gave the poem, “Keep On Keeping On”.

The sense of this poem has served me well as a totally blind, 100% disabled, service connected veteran of the Korean War. I had to think back many times to the disabled people I have known in my life. One very wonderful school teacher, only had four fingers on each hand but the sweet music she brought forth out of a piano, even though she had to contrive every selection to fit her disability, was truly remarkable. The normal hand can reach a complete octave. Her ability to play the piano, and do all her other duties as a teacher, was a gift. Another man who had lost his legs in WWI, had contrived a bicycle type cart affair which he could operate with handles and could move himself from his house on the edge of town, uptown, so he could sell candy and pencils on the street. Remember, this was the time before social security disability and when disabled veterans, very much as today, were left to fend for themselves. Another lady, well known in the town of Pikeville, NC, born with mangled feet (she was a patient of mine) spent her entire life walking on her knees. You would see her in town, her dress shortened just above the knee, she wore knee pads, proper and prim with her hat and her purse, shopping. Her stocking feet out the back. There are many others. With the scientific progress of vaccinations, we have more people with autism, attention deficit disorder, cancer and every other type autoimmune debilitation than ever before.

I have little patience with healthy people who crawl underneath the tent of disadvantaged disability. Sure, the playing field is not level; many of us come from disadvantaged homes. Look in the mirror and see the person responsible for your future.

I was in the holy city of Benaris, India. I had been out on a boat in the holy Ganges,the holy river of the Hindus, where there were cremations going on along the banks as the people were in the water doing their religious rituals. Getting off the boat, I felt something hanging onto my legs. Blind, I could not see what it was and I asked my guide, “What is hanging onto me?” He said, “These are the begging children. Their legs have been chopped off by enslavers and they are professional beggars.” The same thing happens in the Philippines where the feet are burned off the children. Those of you who like the loud sound of drums and drummer in your church, remember it is not new in religious rituals. Even in a valley in Israel, where the children were sacrificed to pagan gods, the loud beating of drums drowned out the cries of the children as they do in India and the Philippines, when God's chief creation, these innocent children, are defiled and disabled so that healthy people can take advantage.

I do not have a refrigerator in my house that would hold the money stolen from me when people have short changed me over the years. I have been worked over by so many stockbrokers that I have lost count. They all have the same mantra: We know how to make money for you. Just this past week, three bankers came in my house telling me that I am too disabled to handle my affairs, that they will just sell a large part of my estate and start over with their investment ideas so I can be cared for if I become more disabled. The politically correct, the ne'er do wells, those who have been dumbed down by the recent seasons of television ineptness, academic insolence, have forgotten that real men brought this world and country into it's maturity. Even in the Apostle's Creed, many in Church refuse to say “men” anymore, rather just give silence. Like marriage, the modernists and agnostics have tried to change the meaning of that word. Integrity is a forgotten word in most vocabularies. Character determines the destiny of a man and this is the reason that so many men are totally lost.

Rom 5:3 And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
Rom 5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Rom 5:5 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 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Even if I were naïve enough not to believe in God, I would have to believe in a superior being who can bring justice to such a deceitful world. There has to be a balance at the other end of the see-saw. On this Veteran's Day, take a look at those who loved your country enough to defend it, particularly those who have suffered loss. On this Veteran's Day, think of the 126,000 who are buried on foreign soil.

I long for the purity of heaven, a place where there is no deceit, where there is no clamoring to satisfy Satan.

Keep On Keeping On
If the day looks kinder gloomy
And your chances kinder slim,
If the situation's puzzlin'
And the prospect's awful grim,
If perplexities keep pressin'
Till hope is nearly gone,
Just bristle up and grit your teeth
And keep on keepin' on.
Frettin' never wins a fight
And fumin' never pays;
There ain't no use in broodin'
In these pessimistic ways;
Smile just kinder cheerfully
Though hope is nearly gone,
And bristle up and grit your teeth
And keep on keepin' on.
There ain't no use in growlin'
And grumblin' all the time,
When music's ringin' everywhere
And everything's a rhyme.
Just keep on smilin' cheerfully
If hope is nearly gone,
And bristle up and grit your teeth
And keep on keepin' on.

Sink Holes

Jay Leno, as a part of his famous television program, presented a walking all-stars segment in which he asked people on the street questions about politics, government or life in general. It was amazing the answers he received. During the last National election, this type of programming was used to establish the fact that very few voters knew anything about candidates or issues. I never cease to be amazed at how few people know about these things. As one of the regular members of my baptist church said one time, “I don't understand why one of our fine Southern Baptist preachers has not been selected for Pope”. This is just one of the “sink holes” afflicting our democracy...a dumbing down of the public through the “brainwashing” of “idol worship”...that monster in your living room called the television set.

A few days ago on a busy street in this town my driver said, “A large sink hole just opened in the street”. Of course, almost immediately a car was partially engulfed and on the news was the almost routine announcement of another sink hole. On the main super highway artery here, that goes from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, just finished in the past twenty years, this is a constant problem. It is strange to me that with today's technology, these sink holes cannot be determined when the highway construction is going on. Earlier roads in this country were not so affected. “Sink holes” are well known in North and South Carolina because of the thin crust underneath the topsoil. As Mary Poppins said about the pie crust, “easily made, easily broken”. The Castle Hayne aquifer and the many large sumps, particularly in the swamp areas, hardly noticed before the time of airplanes and like the Carolina Bay lakes (White Lake, Jones Lake, etc.) often are as much as 7 miles in diameter. We don't know how they were formed, speculation, meteors, but, like the sink holes they must be dealt with almost on a daily basis. However, they do make nice oval clear water lakes. Most are so caustic that fish have trouble surviving. In some parts of the world, sink holes are so large, buildings have been engulfed, automobiles lost.

Think of the “sink holes” affecting your life, the “sink hole” of national debt. Trillions of dollars, which it is impossible to repay. With retirement benefits for military and government employees, social security, we are now $50 trillion dollars in debt. If one of my ancestors, from the time he first put his foot on American soil in 1620, had been give $1 million dollars a second his entire life, each of descendents from then until now, every second for their entire life, even today, my family with all these millions given every second through many generations, would not be able to pay the national debt. Much of your taxes are just interest paid on the debt. Since Obama took over, the national debt has increased over one trillion. There has been $750 billion in bail outs, which we were assured would bring more employment but unemployment has increased by 2.7 million. Around 600,000 new jobs, all in government. Interest rates are down to zero for those of you depending on living off your savings, Lehman Brothers owes $2.4 billion, which they can never repay. CIT filed for bankruptcy this week, one of the five largest bankruptcies in history, the company owes $10 billion more than it is worth.

In the beginning of the American experiment, American bank notes were used. Now, Federal bank notes are used, made up of thin air, no backing of any kind except the ability of the treasury to tax the American people and following the ten rules of Marxism. The Federal Reserve, not Federal and no reserves, are just putting American citizens into further slavery...an inescapable “sink hole”.

Since Obama, the government has approached every conglomerate, automobile, financial services, bank, insurance company, all with wheelbarrows full of money. Of course, no one is going to turn down free money. Like the people who bought houses they could not afford with mortgages they could not pay and now the same people are offered $8,000 to buy another house. Like the people who could not afford their cars but then were offered money for their clunkers which they still cannot afford, all are in “sink holes”.

In the health care debate, which takes up 1/7^th of the entire American economy, the word “alternative” care has never been mentioned, nor has any provision for supplements, which usually are more effective for the health of the human body than toxic chemicals. Just one company in the pharmaceutical industry spends $400 million on advertising attempting to excite both doctors and patients about certain drugs. The drug business, whether legal or illegal, is a “sink hole” which closely resembles a grave.

A “sink hole” of which most people are not aware: Every time you use your search engine and google up any type of information, it is all recorded in a giant database. The perverts or sex offenders find this out at trial when information is presented about the number of times they have watched porno. The government knows more about your online activity than you do. The government knows more about your business than you do. With the enforced digital information on your television, the infrared equipment to inspect your house, every other infringement on your privacy, you have provided the matches, with your votes for representation in Washington, that has exploded a “sink hole” from which few, if any, will escape. A chip has been put in your television with that sticky label saying that if you take it off to investigate the chip, the warranty is no longer any good.

I'm often asked why a high school girl in Richmond, California is raped for 2.5 hours by 10 men while 20 other are onlookers, why one house in Cleveland, Ohio contained the bodies of 11 raped and decomposing black women, why a Muslim Army psychiatrist can shoot 13 of his fellow soldiers and wound over 30 others without anyone at a medical facility recognizing his obvious mental problem. Where were the parents of these men during their lives? A school child cannot draw a gun on a piece of paper but a field grade medical Army officer can walk into a facility dressed in Muslim burial robes and attempt to kill other soldiers. Don't tell me, that someone had not discovered his Mohammed addiction and his hatred for the government which he was paid to defend. We have been so casual in our effort to be politically correct that we have overlooked the “sink holes” of Muslim terrorist cells operating across the country.

The “sink hole” of addiction, sex, drugs, alcohol and even the love of money, is one of the most difficult to disentangle yourself and crawl out of the hole. Just saying “no” is often not enough. Until one looks up at this serpent on the rod, as Moses lifted up the serpent for healing in the desert, chances of your redemption from the slavery of addiction are very remote. The sinking sand in the “sink hole” of addiction, whether chemical or one of your senses (pornography, alcohol, tickling ears, sexual perversion) will lead you from your hell on Earth to an eternal hell.

The greatest “sink hole” in the world is being mired up with unbelievers (in church as well as outside of church) when, as a believer, you know you should free yourself, climb out and be the creation the Creator intended for your life. The world, the flesh and the devil will keep you mired in the “sink hole” of sin's ruin without the redemption of Christ. Wake up and live! You are a vertical, as well, as a horizontal creature. The train only goes around the track one time. Free yourself from the “sink holes”, get aboard, and live in the liberty God has provided for you.

Work, Night is Coming

About 50 years ago, I attended a large Christian conference in the city of Atlanta, Ga. Among the many speakers, including this writer, was the president of a large candy manufacturing company. He said, “I recently sent my wristwatch back to the manufacturer and in the place of the word “Hamilton” I had inscribed, “The Night Commeth” (John 9:4). Reared on a farm, and growing up, I never knew anything but hard work and, many times, we worked even after dark.

It is very difficult to find anyone, anymore, who finds honor in work. Everyone wants a job, wants a paycheck, but very few want to work. This very morning, I let a woman go from my employ, a University graduate who never came to work one day on time. Her attitude, her insolence, her inability to grasp the job was evident for many weeks and I should have let her go long before I did. These people never think that their attitude towards God and their fellow man is as afflicting as a crippling disability.

It would give everyone new outlook on life to write their own obituary. Just what have you done with the life which you were given? Has your being on Earth made anyone better? The NBA basketball star makes $100,000 a game, millions of dollars a year. At least, for all this money paid him for his sport, and it is just a game, he did bring pleasure to people who enjoy watching his sport.

All over the world, but particularly in Europe, I have visited some of the great cathedrals of the world. The great domes, the great naves, the architectural features which claim your attention and admiration. Great stained glass windows (rose window, Notre Dame, Paris), the carefully carved wood work, the Romanesque stone structure resisting the weather of time, all these features giving a superior stability worthy of the God which they were built to honor.

God's real temple is the body of his most precious creation, made in his image, the human being. No matter how great the building, if it is uncared for, if it is not correctly maintained, if it has only those inside who are pretending to worship, who are not serious about God's building and God's work, who are not in a real relationship with the power it was built to honor, then the building is for nothing. If the human being does not honor the temple enough to protect and give the very best of mind, soul and spirit ability then your body is a waste.

It is a sacrilege not to honor a cathedral of worship, one designed and built by artisans willing to work. It is a greater sacrilege to abuse your body by not accepting the responsibility God has instilled in us to honor him with our care and our productive efforts. We are better than barbarians. King Solomon, the world's wisest man, and until now, the world's wealthiest man, had much to say about work.

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man. (Proverbs 6:6-11)

God went to the smallest, lowest animal life to show us industriousness, work, conservation, preparing for the future. Once on my front porch, of course I am blind and could not see what they were talking about, two young men were discussing an ant which was going across the porch carrying a stick much larger than the ant himself. The ant and what he was doing was brought to our attention, his industriousness, his workaholic attitude, his preparations for something, his doing the impossible (carrying something larger than himself). The other young man got up out of his chair and went over and stepped on the ant. Demonstrating his disdain for a sub-ant accomplishment. So it is with we mortals, if you try to work more than the ordinary, more than the expected, if you climb the ladder too fast the jealous and the less ambitious will most assuredly knock you down. If you desire popularity, stay with the ne'er do wells.

Next week, will be Veteran's Day. This old blind veteran, like most veterans, will not observe the day because it is necessary for most to work. Those who observe holidays, take a day off each week, take off on long vacations are the salaried government workers of the world (bureaucrats). Are the bankers, preachers, teachers and those who spend their time lamenting because they are in a fixed income condition. I never knew my hard working father not to have several jobs. As a totally blind, 100% disabled service connected veteran, I have always worked several jobs at a time (editor, writer, manager of my real estate properties, owner of several businesses, supervisor of a large stock portfolio) there is nothing I detest and protest like laziness and slothfulness. The earliest Americans, our pilgrim fathers, learned early in the establishment of the colonies that those who would not work, would not eat (2 Thessalonian 3:10). It was announced this morning, that 50% of children of our nation depend on food stamps. It was announced last week, that in 1970, 90% of all American children were reared in homes with both parents. This year, 60% of all American children are reared in a single family home. 37% of all black children are reared in a single family home.

Most of the great historic buildings of our country, large and small, were built before power tools. The farmers of this nation fed this country and a large part of the world when farming was mostly done with mules and hand plows. The work ethic is now at a sickening level. There is still honor in work. There are two great reasons for work. One: You work to avoid poverty. Two: You work because it is your Christian obligation. Lazy people are always tired. You work hard to make any athletic team. Wealth is not your 401K.

Take a piece of paper, write down everything you treasure in your life. The world has nothing we can take with us when we leave. Your security is in God and God alone. Often, when someone calls me, relative or otherwise, and starts talking about their problems, their lack of finances, I always ask this question, “Do you still have any birds around your house? Do you still hear them singing? Can you still see their beauty?” God is still on the throne. He takes care of those birds and I believe he will still care for you. Remember, if you can hear, think of those who cannot. If you can see, think of those like your writer who cannot see one thing, if you are still able to work, even if no more than keeping house and providing for yourself, be thankful. Cut no slack for young people who just want to spend their life laying around, living off the work of others.

Liars, Wanna Be Boors

Joseph Stalin, a very wicked man in every respect, probably told the truth when he said, “It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”

Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, running against the American installed President Karzai of Afghanistan, probably realized he was fighting a losing battle against the liars, wanna be boors, both in Afghanistan and America whose Opium War with all the intrigue of all the Chinese dynastic Qing opium merchant trade promoted by the British Empire, now refereed by Karzai's brother with the help of the CIA, is a democrat party-type charade worthy of an Academy Award Oscar.

The paradox of the ages, America trains her enemies. In Somalia, President Mohamed Farrah Aidid turned his country into a cauldron of savagery while his son, Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid was a college student in California. The son is now the ruler of the totally wrecked country. Over and over, the sons of third world country tyrants come to the US for education supposedly to learn the American way of progress in a democratic society just to return home more the barbarian than their ancestors.

The worst smell in the world is the smell of a decomposing dead animal, corruption. It is obvious that voters love the smell of corruption. Last week, the citizens of NC were subjected to the same “good ol' boy” politics which have afflicted the old north state my entire lifetime. “There is no honor among thieves.” The ex-governor Easley and his chief political supporters tried to out-lie and out-boor one another before the state elections committee. We have known in this state, all of my lifetime that a check to the democrat party (At one time the price was $20,000, now it is up to $50,000.) would buy you a seat on any state board such as Department of Transportation or trustee on a university board. When I was young, it was necessary to vote the democrat ticket just to be a state employee of, DOT, school teacher, state hospital system.

Now, for the well-healed democrat elitest the big check can buy prominence. I remember the political signs of Ralph McDonald, Willis Smith, J. Melville Broughton, William Umstead, Luther Hodges. It was a curiosity that these men would spin the big bucks; but then it became obvious when a republican Holshauser or Martin were accidentally elected that money flows from the democrat cisterns in Raleigh to Obama-type organizers down every pig path. This is the way you get in power and stay in power unless, now and then a republican squeezes in, such as Helms and East.

There was a time, with Dr. Black, at least the money was exchanged in the mens' toilet. With the Scotts and Umstead, it was a matter of brown paper bags. Now, the checks are written with an “understanding” they would go in the right pocket.

Republicans will never win in this state or elsewhere until they learn that you cannot take Dale Carnegie's book How To Win Friends and Influence People, to a gun fight. The democrats are always out for blood, not at all fascinated by psychological warfare. When “cousin Wayland Spruill” walked into the legislature as if calling hogs to the trough (souy, souy, souy) he had the buckets of money. He knew how to feed the dollars to the democrats who knew how to pay for votes. When this totally blind, 100% disabled veteran in dress uniform, stood beside a prominent citizen in the Jaycees, the senator from Columbia in Tirrell County knew how to ask for money in order to get legislation moving.

During the 2008 election the parking lot stayed full of cars night and day at the Obama headquarters. They were serious about winning the election. In this town, where several “RINOs” have been elected, each time a real republican runs I send a message to come by my house for a check. Twice, recently, after giving the candidate a check, my advice and encouragement, I ask my assistant to see the person to the door. Each time, I ask my assistant, “Did the candidate ask you to vote for him?” The answer is always the same. The novice candidate does not realize that he must ask everyone for a vote.

I get so tired of hearing democrats talk about rich republicans. Every vote, every time, the democrats raise most of the money. Surely, there is enough republican money somewhere to conduct training sessions for republican candidates and campaign workers so that with the message of conservatism which most voters “know in the heart” is right. We can win elections for God, family and country.

Cross Dressing

Tonight is Halloween, at last Satan has a holiday all to himself. Halloween began in Europe with the Druids who worshiped evil spirits. The ancient Druid witches would kill viscous animals then use their skins to dress in and go around the villages trying to scare people. In Ireland, pumpkins and turnips became jack-o-lanterns with a variety of scary faces. Not to be out done, when the celebration of Halloween came into America, during my lifetime, it was first a more or less innocent partying time for college students, and then high school students, to go into their aura of pretending....wanting to be someone else. Of course, as with every other holiday, commercialization became rampant so that children are now involved. Halloween approaches Christmas as being the one holiday where the most money is spent. As with every other Satanic observance, from the school house the “haints” and goblins went out into the community in a “trick or treat” mythology. As if children were not obese enough and had enough “rotten” teeth, they are now led around in neighborhoods by their pagan parents knocking on doors seeking handouts. Is it any mystery that many of these children will be seeking handouts the rest of their lives?

The fastest growing religion in America among young people is that of Witchcraft. Today's x-generation knows much more about Harry Potter, his wizards and gremlins, than they do about the saving grace and marvelous faith of Jesus Christ. There are now Wiccan chaplains in the military services. The disgusting costumes, which many children wear, even children from Christian believing homes, are such things as a pregnant nun and a Roman collared priest. Mysticism and cultism is promoted in this Halloween celebration. It must provoke the wrath of God that some supposed “Christian” churches actually observe Halloween. Can you believe in any stronger way to put doubts and fears into the tender “believing” eyes of a child than the MIXED MESSAGES pertaining to the creator God and the paradox of obscene spirits?

Standing at the front windows of some friend's 5^th Ave apartment in Greenwich Village I witnessed the tragedy of a gay Halloween parade. It is impossible to describe the Satanic elements of such a travesty. Without even thinking of the Christian principles involved, clear minded people would not participate in such activity. Even Godless communists do not observe Halloween anymore than they observe Christmas. Even the followers of Islam would not think of observing a celebration of wicked spirits anymore than they would observe the Christians observance of Christmas. In a time of adherence to the gay agenda, one would think that the solid mentalities, even if not Christian, would not risk children's lives in the criminal decadence of this horrendous observance just to satisfy the crossdressers of the gay community. Most gay men want to dress as women, and most lesbians want to dress as men. One of my employees and his wife, both recent graduates from the local university, were amazed and sickened to see the female contingent of university education management, all who seemed to be lesbians because they were dressed in men's suits and showing much affection for each other. My father had one sister, who was a bull dyke, was the most masculine woman I have ever encountered. She brought nothing but misery to the lives of her family, especially her children. Life is cruel enough for people who are mixed up sexually without adding to the complexity, or to children, the insanity of pretension in dressing as a “spook”.

Cross dressing has always been a mystery to this writer. I so much enjoy the nice clothes and the nice appearance of a real man. I respect my fellow man too much not to always look my best. One of the valued memories of my father, a dirt farmer, before he would go to town, or any place where he would be meeting people, he would put on a nice suit with a tie. You always do the best you can with what you have, and if God made you a man look and act like a man.

One of the businesses I owned was a large private club. Occasionally, my book keeper would pick me up and take me to the place. Usually on a Saturday night when there was much business. One night, I noticed three large black women signing the book and paying the entrance fee. It turns out, that these were cross dressers. They were automobile mechanics from a nearby town, who on the weekend, would dress in these outlandish, stylish women's gowns with wigs and authentic make-up and wearing much jewelry, furs and high heels. I do not know if they were gay or not but I understand this was the greatest thing of their life. They owned a large black limousine and would have their driver, wearing a black suit, take them to a nearby club each Saturday night where they would party and pretend to be women. This is just how far such sickness can go. Once, in London, a friend took me into a restaurant/bar which was a gathering place for lesbians. These large, loud, brassy women were all dressed in men's double breasted suits.

As Charlton Heston, who died recently, starred in 85 movies, said, “I was a good actor because I was a good pretender”. Pretending has now run the course. Pretending Christians have cheapened the very name of our blessed Lord. Pretending patriots have cheapened the mission of this blessed Country. GET REAL! The time for Halloween is over. The time for tricking and treating is over. The time for standing at the door with an open bag wanting a handout is over. The time for the disgusting costumes of political correctness, bailouts, sellouts, cop outs, is over. Reality is staring us in the face. Character determines destination. Mediocrity, ambiguity, hypocrisy, lying and cheating, is leading us in the wrong direction and not towards the destination of liberty.

City Upon a Hill

One of the great visual delights of the world is to fly over a great city of the world at night and witness the lights such as Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, Chicago and certainly New York City. When Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers and he was in the shackles of his slave masters (the very iron shackles which must have given him an immunity against sin) and the antigens which see him through a life, putting him near the top of God's heroes. He could probably see the lights of Hebron and his 17 year old heart must have been crushed. A City Upon a Hill was used by our blessed Lord in his Sermon on the Mount. The Sea of Galilee is perhaps the most famous body of water in the world. I have been around the sea several times, it is 39 miles long and about 17 miles wide. This mountain where the beatitudes was preached is near the sea. Christ was speaking to believers in this sermon: "You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden." (Matthew 5:14).

The three great cultures in the history of the world. The Greek, in which we have so much literature. The Roman, in which we have so much history, and the American, in which have so much confusion. We are still a young culture, 230 years is a young country. In the past 70 years, the keyword has been “out”. Gays have come “out” of the closet. Religion has come “out” of the schools. Integrity has come “out” of government, servitude has come “out” of the Church. We bailout failure, give handouts to the lazy, shellout to our foreign enemies and generally speaking taxpayers are soldout.

The greatest spin-out in history is the attempt to convince everyone that we are physically sick. In this time of health care legislation, when 1/7^th of the total revenues of this country will be spent on sick care, the government, the media, everyone, has convinced the public that we are all sick. There is no reason that anyone should be sick. God's word has given us a lifestyle, method of preventing illness, which if followed, would keep everyone well. Such diseases as diabetes and arthritis are unnecessary. We eat the wrong foods, enjoy bad habits, are prescribed exotic chemicals and expect “this greatest of God's creation” not to rebel at these toxins. The Jewish people, the Islamic people, Bible believers, know God's diet. It is beyond comprehension that one thinks he can eat the worst pork products (chitterlings, lungs, feet, etc.) and expect to stay well. More people die from overeating than die from starvation. With an increase in age, should be a decrease in the ingestion of food. Yet, I have known old people who just gorge themselves, can hardly wait for the next meal. On cruise and expedition ships, there are usually at least five big buffets a day. These elderly, overweight passengers were always in line gorging themselves as if it were “the Last Supper”. The eating of large portions of meat is the greatest stress a human being can put on the body's physiology. I hear of the size of steaks at steakhouses and can only surmise that the eater is a glutton. There is nothing more disgusting than a buffet.

Recently, a product of organic living told me she did not eat commercial apples because they had been sprayed with poisons. She evidently did not think the peelings, the most nutritious part of the apple, could be washed. Right after that, she lit up a cigarette. I told her, that I was reared on an eastern North Carolina tobacco farm. From the time the tobacco seed is put in the ground until the last leaves are harvested, the plant is poisoned every week. The sticky leaves (gum on the leaves) are put into the curing barn where the poison is baked into the leaves. It is in the tobacco leaves that you smoke in cigarettes, chew in chewing tobacco or smoke in smoking tobacco. 500,000 people die in America each year from the habit of smoking cigarettes. The FDA (Federal Drug Administration) is the greatest promoter of disease known to mankind, giving people the idea that we are all sick and they have approved the cure for our sickness. Those in white lab coats are always correct. This fraud President, Obama, made sure the “doctors” who are pushing his “sick” plan, all appeared with him in white clinic coats.

Vegetarians are the only human beings sensible in their eating habits. Next to vitamins B-12 and B-17 we get about all the vitamins and nourishment we need from vegetables. Cultures who eat fish are usually healthy. Every food entering the gullet should be well cooked.

The greatest evil to the diets of mankind has been the generic engineering and modification of plants and animals. Can you even imagine the foolishness of buying seedless grapes and then going to the health food store to get the benefits of grape seed? Potato peelings, as well as the outside of most vegetables and legumes, are a great source of health. Wild berries from the woods and ditch banks are healthy beyond words to describe.

The most dangerous substance known to man, as far as diet is concerned, is aspartame, synthetic sweeteners. We are stupid enough to pay employees in the public school who, supposedly, direct healthy eating for students. Can you even imagine the stupidity of having soft drink machines in the public schools, filled with aspartame and other synthetics, simply because the school officials would rather have the money put into the drink machines than healthy, vibrant students.

Politicians, like school board members, like school officials, like the pharmaceutical industry, like doctors, often even to my sorrow, like parents and preachers, will lead by deception. We are living in a world of deception. God is not mocked and you will not forever be fooled. You will reap what you sow, the light upon the hill still fights the darkness.