If there is anything that makes me special, it is the fact the Almighty God of Creation created me, then He revealed Himself to me, and then He drew me near to Himself.  He offered me the Gift of Salvation which is the most precious gift I have ever been offered or accepted.   I shudder to think what I would be had I not been born again.  Without this truth in my life I would be nothing.  

After reading the above paragraph I hope that you will understand that I think less of myself than I think of most others.  The realization of my Salvation is wonderful and this gift is available to any and all who are interested in knowing the knowledge of truth.  Having said this, I will continue to try and express my opinion about what is happening in America.  I have given this subject much thought.  

America has been under attack by evil forces since the day she declared her independence.  The battle to destroy her from within is becoming more evident as time marches on. 

The founding fathers realized that they were dependent upon Providence for their success.  The Revolution was hard fought and winning the war against England was a gift from the Hand of God.  There have been many more struggles in our brief history.  The war of 1812, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, the Korean and Vietnam Conflicts, Desert Storm, the war in Iraq, and the war in Afghanistan, not to mention the Cold War, the Industrial Revolution, Prohibition, the Great Depression and the Civil Rights Movement.   Some of these conflicts were justified such as WWII and others, but the vast majority of them were uncalled-for and were an enormous waste of life, blood and resources

All of these conflicts were a direct result of sin.  The misbehavior of people have consequences.  Being an American and living in America requires that the American people be responsible for their actions as well as the actions of their elected representatives.  It seems that we have been led down a primrose path to destruction by the great deceiver Satan himself.   It's getting worse and worse especially during the past 100 years.  

 Our Founders tried to make our government bullet-proof by having three different but equal branches of government, the Executive, the Judicial and the Legislative Branch.  Each branch is supposed to have a limited power over the other two.  This is what the Constitution is all about.  The Constitution does nothing more than to define our Government and to limit its power.  From this standpoint it is the Law of the Land.

 Do you know or remember where our rights come from?  Our RIGHTS are endowed to us by our Creator.  That is where our rights come from, not the government, not the church, not the Free Masons, and not any other organization.  The Declaration of Independence declares as much.  This document also declares that to secure these God given rights, our Government was instituted.  

 The preamble to the Constitution reads; "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."  In a way this preamble declares that  "We the People" authored this document, not the Government, not the Church, not the President, not the Congress and not the Supreme Court.  We the people!

 Of course, there are the Amendments.  The first ten Amendments are known as the "Bill of Rights."  Not that we need a bill defining our rights, because Almighty God endowed our rights to us, and the Declaration of Independence states as much.  Not only that, but the word entitled is mentioned in the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, it states;   "and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,"  We the People are the "them" mentioned here.   We are entitled to choose.  We are not entitled to a free house or a free car or a free medical plan.

 So, here we are!   The worse attack on the American people started almost 100 years ago. The Federal Reserve Act was enacted December 23, 1913.  Two other atrocities forced on the American People in the same year were the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments.  There is much speculation that neither of these Amendments were lawfully ratified.  It seems that the Secretary of State at the time declared them passed when actually they did not have three fourths of the State legislators in agreement on either of these Amendments.  Both Amendments were placed in the Constitution in order to remove power and therefore rights from the people.  Both Amendments seem contradictory to the intent and the heart of the original Constitutional Document and the Declaration of Independence. 

The Sixteenth Amendment seems to say that "we the Government" may tax you the Citizen any way we choose, it reads; "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." 

The Seventeenth Amendment took power away from the individual State's legislators by allowing US Senators to be elected by popular vote.  This is wrongly dividing the Constitution's original intent of the separation of power.  Now the Senators are placed in office by the very same people who elect the  Representatives.   You may have heard the expression, "money talks and BS walks," well this seems to be the very case with both houses of Congress but especially the Senate, now that it is the popular vote that places Senators in office for six long years.  They all are rich or are becoming rich at the expense of you and I.

The National debt is said to be in the teens of trillions, but more than likely it is in the hundreds of trillions.  The present Executive branch has an arrogant agenda, and the Democrats and the Republicans in Congress are undecided how to proceed.  Some of the Democrats are blindly following the President and others want to make a deal.  Some of the Republicans are more interested in keeping their job than they are in doing their job.  There is defiantly a snake in the woodpile and the vast majority of Congress seem to be afraid to proceed.  There are only a few who want to do the right thing just because it is the right thing to do.  The rest seem to be terrified.  I believe the terrified ones will soon be as embarrassed as a teenaged bed wetter.  Much of what we have been led to believe IS JUST NOT TRUE.  A child can smell a fake a mile away.  Why can't we?

 Another serious problem in America and in the World is the Islamist, (radical Muslims).  They want to totally destroy our way of life and replace it with a totalitarian form of government.  Some Americans believe that Muslims are devoted to their beliefs so much so that they want to influence governmental politics.   They are wrong, that is not true!  This movement by the Islamist is a political movement and it uses Islam, this so-called religion, to implement and permote its agenda.

I have transcribed a portion of the Book entitled;  "The Cross in the Shadow of the Crescent" ~by Erwin W. Lutzer. 

"AN ASTUTE OBSERVATION When asked about the atrocities that Muslims carry out against Christians in countries like Nigeria, some Muslim representatives will give the excuse that what we’re seeing in such regions of the world is actually a political battle, and not a religious one. When I talked about this recently with a prominent Christian minister who speaks frequently in Muslim countries, he recounted for me a conversation he had with a pastor in Malaysia. The pastor’s church had been vandalized and looted by local Muslims. As the pastor shared about what happened, the Christian minister observed, “Islam is really a political ideology that uses religion to protect and support it. Without the protection of religion it might not even survive.” The Malaysian pastor agreed wholeheartedly."  

Islamist are a real threat to our way of life read below where I have transcribed more from this wonderfully informative book. 

"In July 2012, a Muslim convert to Christianity was beheaded in Tunisia, and the grisly murder was shown on Egyptian TV.  The footage shows a young man being held down by masked men with a knife to his throat. One man chants a number of Muslim prayers in Arabic, mostly condemning Christianity. The man holding the knife to the Christian convert’s throat begins to cut, slowly severing the head amid cries of “Allahu Akbar” (“god is great”)… “The footage of this brutal beheading is the latest alarming indication of the violent threat to religious freedom in the post-Arab Spring order,” said a Barnabas Fund spokesperson.   [The Barnabas Fund is a ministry that aids Christians who are persecuted and suffer for their faith.]

Especially tragic in this escalating wave of violence against Christians is the Western media's silence.  Why are we not hearing more about this?  One possible reason for the reluctance to report such incidents "may be fear of provoking additional violence.  Another is most likely the influence of lobbying groups such as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation [OIC]…and the Council on American-Islamic Relations [CAIR] ­­ –both of which have shamed the media from coverage that is in anyway perceived as anti-Muslim.  And it should come as no surprise to us that the writer of the Newsweek article, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who grew up Muslim and renounced Islam in 2002, had had to live in hiding due to constant threats against her life for her outspoken stance on Sharia, free speech, and women's rights." 

These are many atrocities performed by Islamist.   The vast majority of Americans don't have a clue about what is going on in Washington, Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world.

I am no prophet, I can't see, nor do I know the future of America.  However, the vast majority of Americans have had their backs turned toward God and His Commandments for so long that I doubt that He will continue to bless America as He has for so long.  There is only a remnant of believers who try to live their lives in a way that is obedient and pleasing to Him.  Israel, God's Chosen People,  was conquered and place in bondage many times because of their disobedience.    Can we Americans anticipate anything less?

~by Adverse Yaw

Dhimmi  (pronounced Zimme) a person living in a region overrun by Muslim conquest who was accorded a protected status and allowed to retain his original faith.  Dhimmis (pronounced Zimmes)   plural form.  Dhimmitude (pronounced Zimmetude) is a neologism borrowed from the French language. It is derived by adding the productive suffix -tude to the Arabic noun dhimmi, which refers to a non-Muslim subject of an Islamic state.  (Similar to Servitude)  See a previous post August 2, 2013 entitled DHIMMITUDE !

It could be said of this young man (Robert Van Tuinen) that he was deliberately trying to start something!  I doubt that this was his whole purpose, however, if it was his purpose I say BRAVO!  He did accomplished showing that the establishment has moved away from liberty toward oppression and tyranny.   Are we the people (Americans who love freedom and liberty) going to allow the progressives to define and dictate what freedom is and what it is not by their unconstitutional rules?  Are public educational institutions now to be used to stifle truth for the benefit of the progressives, and their progressive agendas and ideals?  This Video is a tiny indication of what is happening in America today.   If we don’t speak out about this we will eventually lose our liberty, our rights and even our lives.  Must there be bloodletting in order for we the people to remain free?  The longer that we the people allow progressives to behave in this manner and the longer that we allow them to stifle truth­–––greater are the chances that   someday soon we will have to risk life and limb to remain free. This young man wasn’t yelling fire in a crowded theater, nor was he disrupting classes.  He was simply passing out copies of the Constitution on "Constitution Day" to fellow students on campus.   

Video: Don’t Try Giving Away Copies Of The Constitution At Modesto Junior College

Some crazy kid named Robert Van Tuinen, a student at Modesto Junior College (MJC) in California’s Central Valley, thought it would be appropriate to commemorate Constitution Day on Sept. 17 by passing out free copies of our Nation’s founding document to fellow students walking around the campus. (Cut and paste this URL into your browser and watch the Video.)  http://bit.ly/1fk0Qz7   It didn’t go so well. Nice try, kid. Did you think this was a free country? Van Tuinen was shut down by college police, who along with school administrators told him he had to do that sort of thing in the campus free speech zone (because the whole U.S. isn’t a free speech zone), and that he’d already missed his chance, at any rate, because he hadn’t scheduled his plan to use the free speech zone the requisite number of days in advance. George Lucas went to MJC and based his major directorial debut, American Graffiti, about life in Modesto. Now his JuCo alma mater is giving the U.S. Constitution the graffiti treatment.

The Declaration of Independence begins; “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Notice the phrase, “Laws of Nature and of Nature's God . .” In America this phrase truthfully reveals from where our rights come. Our rights come from the Laws of Nature or from Nature’s God who is the Creator of all things, the Lord of Host, the only Almighty God. Our rights don’t come from Government!  Our rights were given to us by God Himself. The declaration continues in the next paragraph where it states; “”We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The Creator created us and granted us these rights, and they are unalienable. (Unalienable means; not to be separated, given away, or taken away.) The next phrase in the same paragraph is profound, and it is extremely important that we know and understand what it says and what it means. It reads; “--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, . . .” In other words, our Government was instituted and is in place to protect these rights and to maintain the continuation of these rights which were given to us by God.  This is the sole purpose of United States Government, nothing else. The next phrase in the same paragraph is also profound, and it too is extremely important that we know and understand what it says and what it means. It reads; “ -That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." In the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States are these words; “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” Is there any farther explanation needed to understand why our Nation, The United States of America has prospered for the past 200+ years?  I think not!   America was created, and has been blessed  by Almighty God. Should we change any of these words? Should we depend up on our Government and the cripples who have gained their false power to grant us our rights? Or should we realize that our rights come to us directly from God and God only. THINK ABOUT THAT! ! !

If want to see our President’s statement on this issue go to; http://wapo.st/1auCfVq and check it out. If you want to read the op-ed of President Putin go to; http://nyti.ms/18fAMAe and read this. First of all enclosed is the final paragraph in Putin’s op-ed which reads; “My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is “what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.” It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.” Notice both articles are from the most liberal of liberal organizations, and since when did Putin learn about the Lord’s blessings? I thought he was a communist at one time? This is obvious deceit, both articles are written to deceive the masses. Secondly it is apparent, to those who are interested in truth and are willing to accept truth, that these two presidents are sharing the same bed, and have become very lovie-dovie, at least for a time. Remember Satan is the master of deceit, and those who use deceit are very susceptible to it. Once a full time liar a person become pathological or a pathological liar. These two above-mentioned statements are so much BS. Chip Wood’s explanation is his  honest  opinion and to the point. I agree with the vast majority of what he has to say.  Enjoy the Read. Obama And Putin Got It Wrong: Why The U.S. Is Exceptional September 20, 2013 by Chip Wood What a wonderful brouhaha Russian President Vladimir Putin stirred up when he (or one of his PR flacks) wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times earlier this month. Much of the piece was pretty much what you would expect from the Russian strongman and former KGB thug. He denied that Syrian president Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his own citizens. “No one doubts that poisoned gas was used in Syria,” Putin wrote. “But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons.” If you buy that one, he has a bridge is Vladivostok he’d like to sell you. And don’t assume that his remark about “powerful foreign patrons” was a sly reference to Russia’s relationship with Syria. No, no, not a bit. After all, Putin wrote: “We are not protecting the Syrian government, but international law.” Yes, I know. It’s hard to keep from laughing out loud at some of his absurd protestations. Here’s another one: “We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.” Like you did in Chechnya, comrade? But nothing stirred up more response than Putin’s parting shot. In his final paragraph, he said he disagreed with President Barack Obama’s comments regarding American exceptionalism. The Russian near-dictator had the unmitigated gall to lecture his American audience on the subject, writing: “It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.” And he concluded: “We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.” I doubt if Putin himself believes what he wrote in that final sentence any more than our own President really believes in American exceptionalism. Oh, sure. Barack Obama has used the words a few times, such as in his address to the Nation that Putin referenced, but never with any real conviction. Four years ago, for example, Obama answered a reporter’s inquiry on the subject by saying: “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” Doesn’t that fill your heart with patriotic fervor? Yes, America is exceptional. And it’s exceptional for a reason that neither Putin nor Obama will ever admit. America is unique among all the countries that have ever existed for one simple but profound reason: The United States was founded on the principle that our rights come from God, not from government. One of the most majestic phrases in the English language is the one Thomas Jefferson included in Declaration of Independence expressing that thought. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” It was our Creator who gave us our rights — rights that are unalienable. That means they cannot be withdrawn or transferred. At least, that’s the theory. I have no doubt that the Founding Fathers would be shocked by how powerful the Federal government has become today. And dismayed at how much it encroaches on our liberties (not to mention our wallets). By the way, the Declaration of Independence not only opened with an acknowledgement of God, it also ended with the same recognition: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of a divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” Yes, this country was founded on the principle that our rights come from God — and that governments exist not to grant them, but to protect them. The Declaration also said: “That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The men who drafted our Constitution worked very hard to craft a document that would limit what a central government was allowed to do. They wanted to “bind it down” with the chains of a constitution. But even that wasn’t enough to satisfy the leaders of our new Republic, who were very aware of the lessons of history. They knew that governments, always and everywhere, tried to expand in reach and power. Even before the new Constitution was submitted to the 13 States for ratification, they added a list of Amendments, to make even more specific what the new government was not allowed to do. The first eight Amendments in what became known as the Bill of Rights enumerate a whole list of things that the new central government cannot do. The 1st Amendment begins: “Congress shall make no law…” And just to make sure that the people’s rights shall not be infringed, the framers added the 9th and 10th Amendments, basically saying that if they overlooked anything, government can’t do that either. They made it as clear as they could in the 10th Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” While government in this country was limited, the ability of our people to prosper was not. America became the freest, the wealthiest and the most powerful nation on Earth. It made us the hope (and the envy) of the world. That is why the United States is exceptional — or maybe I should say why this country was exceptional. Because there is no question that our central government has become a bloated monstrosity, bearing almost no resemblance to the very limited government our Founding Fathers envisioned. One of the charges against King George in the Declaration of Independence was: “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.” Let’s face it: Those colonists had it easy, compared to all the ways that our present government “eats out” our substance. I wouldn’t be the first to suggest that it’s time for a new American revolution. Until next time, keep some powder dry. –Chip Wood P.S. There was one more comment in Putin’s opinion piece that merits a rebuttal. He said, “No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations.” Wrong again, Mr. President. There are many of us who believe one of the greatest things we could do for freedom, peace and prosperity in the world is to get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S. And our numbers are growing every day.

The heart and soul of Israel is it's people but the sustainer of Israel is The One and Only Almighty God, Creator of the Universe, Lord of lords and God of all gods. The Story below is proof that Almighty God is behind Israel. The beginning of the Israeli Air Force is a useful history to know and understand. Be sure and watch the Video. ----- GOOD STORY NOT KNOWN BY MANY. The only four (4) airplanes Israel had when the war of independence began were smuggled from Czech Republic . They were German "Messerschmidt 109". They were assembled overnight in Tel Aviv and were never flight tested. This is a short video about their pilots. Watch it. You will not be disappointed. P.S. Contrary to popular perception (by the people who do not know history), the United States ' assistance to Israel during the war of independence was quite different. Americans were not allowed to join the fight and arms embargo has been established and enforced by the FBI. At the same time Arab armies were very well supplied by the same countries who maintained arms embargo against Israel and of course had great advantage in manpower.

Information:  Some information is true and some is not. Most deceit, or untruth, contains enough truth to make it believable. So having said this; the question remains. What should we believe and what should we disbelieve? The Internet is so full of information, some of it is true and good, and much of the information just isn’t true. Therefore, how can we believe any of it? If something appears to be a duck, it swims on top of the water, it has webfeet, it waddles a little when it walks and it quacks, chances are good that what you see and hear is a duck. The youngest toddler can identify a duck when given the chance. Why is it that the older we become the more proof we require to convince ourselves that it really is a duck? Could it be that we don’t want it to be a duck because we believe that it being a duck is somehow to our disadvantage, therefore we have convinced ourselves that it is a chicken. We believe it to be a chicken so strongly, and we convince all of our friends and acquaintances that it really is a chicken and not a duck. But, the truth remains and a duck is still a duck. It seems to me that whatever is true is true because it is true and it doesn’t matter how badly we want it not to be true, truth stands on its own.

We were given the gift of discernment when we were created, but somehow this ability dwindles away with maturity. For instance, preteen children can instantly smell a fake, and most times they can identify the party who just faked. We, the mature ones, are so sure of ourselves in our faking ability that we have taken it to new heights. We Americans are so good at it that we are constantly faking ourselves. We have become so accustomed to the smell of a fake that we can’t even smell a new one that comes our way. Therefore, we call a lie truth, and truth a lie. We do this most times to convince ourselves that what we want to be true is true when it really is not. We do this for a myriad of reasons. However, when we do these things they are to our disadvantage. And, that is the truth!

Watch the Video and decide for yourself whether it is true or not.

http://bit.ly/15ZSeFP

Ezekiel was instructed by Almighty God to say these words to His people.  When you read the words of Ezekiel do they ring a bell inside your mind?  Do these hearers of Ezekiel’s words parallel many of us here in the United States of America?  And, are they not the same words as the good news of the Gospel of Jesus?   Can it be more simple than this?

 

Ezekiel 33: 12-16  ESV

“And you, son of man, say to your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him when he transgresses, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it when he turns from his wickedness, and the righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousnesswhen he sins.  Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die.  Again, though I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ yet if he turns from his sin and does what is just and right, if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live.

 

Ezekiel 33: 30-33 ESV

“As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.’  And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.  And behold, you are to them like one who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays well on an instrument, for they hear what you say, but they will not do it.  When this comes—and come it will!—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”

  I’m not the most intelligence person in the World, however, I do understand some of the simplest things, essential things, especially things that must be accomplished in order to survive another day of life. I know to stay dry and get out of the cold rain, to stay off peaks during a lightning storm, to remove tiny pieces of gravel from the inside of my boots while hiking, to take cover before or during a hail storm, not to play with fire near an open container of gasoline or other combustibles and the list goes on. There are thousands of useful bits of knowledge that I know. A vast majority of people understand these simple things, even the most ignorant of IGMOS understand.

  Why on earth is it a good idea to send pain and death to Syria? The only beneficiary is the Military-Industrial Complex. Why don’t we develop a TRUTH-Industrial Complex. How long will we the people be duped by politicians who have been in bed with the Military-Industrial Complex since the end of WWII and before? Are we stupid? Or what? Forrest Gump said it right when he said, “Stupid is as stupid does.” If any of our Congressmen or Congresswomen vote to send death and pain to Syria, then, we should vote totally against them. TOTALLY!

 

 

I experienced one more adventure after my struggle to the top of Mt. Elbert, 14,450 ft ASL. On my drive back to Oklahoma from Colorado, I thought that I would stop by The Black Mesa and climb to the top of Oklahoma, which is 4973 ft. ASL.  In my imaginary bag of High Points I already have a total of four states.  I thought to myself why not make it five.  There was Humphreys Peak, 12,633 ft. ASL, Highest Point in Arizona, done that.  There was Wheeler Peak, 13,161 ft. ASL, the highest point in New Mexico, done that.  There was Guadalupe Peak, 8751 ft. ASL, the highest point in Texas, done that too.  And, of course Mt. Elbert which I had just hiked, the highest point in Colorado.

 

While hiking Mt. Elbert, I met a young man who claimed that he had just climbed Mt. McKinley, 20,320 ft. ASL.  That is the highest point in Alaska and North America.  (It’s possible that he did and was telling me the truth, but it is so easy to say you did when you didn’t, if you know what I mean.)   If I were to do all the high points in the fifty states I would have to do that one too, which is also known as Denali.  Real danger is in involved in hiking that mountain.  From 1903 through the end of the 2006 climbing season, ninety-six individuals died on Denali. The fatality rate is slowly declining and is around 3.08/1,000 summit attempts.  Forty five percent of these fatalities were due to injuries sustained by falls.  I’ll make that hike the last one on my list to attempt.  By then I’ll have age as an excuse for failure, I should be in my seventies or eighties by then, if I am blessed enough to live that long.

 

In the glove box of my pickup I had several old road maps.  I had Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas, but not New Mexico so upon my arrival in Clayton, NM I plugged the name Kenton, OK into my GPS.    I followed the directions and it led me straight to Kenton.  Kenton  seemed totally empty, there was nothing open, no service station, no McDonalds, no place to spend a dime, with the exception of the Post Office.  Luckily for me, I was there before it closed or I could have missed out completely.  I limped into the Post Office which was nothing more than a doublewide portable building.  It was extremely quiet, not even the sound of an electric fan could be heard.  Suddenly a nice lady appeared from the back part of the structure.   I asked her if she knew where the trailhead for the highest point in Oklahoma was and she told me in detail where to go.  I then asked about the population of Kenton.  She said that it was around seventeen but there were more than fifty if you counted all the ranchers in the area.  I asked if she knew the length of the hike to the top of Oklahoma.  She replied, “four miles.”  I asked one way or round trip.  She wasn’t sure but said that she hoped it was round trip for my sake.  Although my feet were blistered and sore I thought to my self, what the heck, it can’t be that bad.  I can handle it.  The vertical assent was only a little over 600 ft.  That would be a piece of cake, compared to the hill I had just climbed.   Four miles wasn’t going to be that bad.  I headed for the trailhead.

 

Not only is the state of Oklahoma filled with wonderfully hard working folk, it is a place of variety.  I have sprayed crops in Oklahoma, and I knew of the agriculture in the panhandle and the high plains.  I had worked in the oil and gas industry.  I am familiar with the cattle ranches out west, the Black Diamond Water Melons grown in the center of the state, the hills in the eastern and northeastern part of the state.  I love the tall woods with huge deep blue lakes found in the eastern, and central parts.  But, I hadn’t been to this part of the state.  It was different.  It was high desert with many mesas and a beauty that only the high desert provides.   Lucky for me there had been a lot of rain recently and the wild flowers were everywhere. Their vibrant colors lit up the landscape.  The beauty was breath taking which made my spirit soar.  God is so good to me to allow me to see so much of His creation and its beauty, and to see it in a time of peace.

 

A little preparation was needed before I started down the trail.  I was out of water, with the exception of a half bottle that was left over, that I had purchased back in Pueblo, Colorado.    I still had some ice and melted water in my cooler, and I used it to fill my camelback bladder.  I put on fresh socks and a lighter pair of hiking boots and made sure I had a few snacks to munch on along the way.  I wasn’t sure if it was going to be a four-mile hike or an eight-mile hike.  There was one SUV in the parking area, so I assumed that I would see someone on the trail. 

 

Before I had hiked a mile, I met a young woman who was headed in the opposite direction.  I asked her if the mesa to our south was the one that was the high point.  She said no it was quite a distant west of where we were standing.  She also told me that her brother was behind her, but she had decided to quit before reaching the summit because it was too hot.  The temp was around 90 deg f.   I still didn’t know for sure whether or not this would be a four-mile or an eight-mile hike.  I continued on.  I saw a bench that was imprinted “Mile One,” and a mile farther on another bench that was imprinted “Mile Two.”   I started to realize that it would probably be more than four miles.  The trail started to rise to a mesa that was south of where I had been hiking.   As I was climbing, I met a young man with a OSU baseball cap on his head.  He told me that once on top of the mesa that the trail continued for a little less than a mile and the elevation gain wasn’t more than fifteen feet from there.   I climbed farther and another bench that was imprinted “Mile Three.”  Once on top of the Mesa, it was about eight tenths of a mile to the monument.  The flowers were awesome.  The hike was easy but long.  I recommend it.  It’s a wonderful hike.  Probably best done in the early morning.

Below are some snapshots I took on this hike.  Enjoy!  The photos don't do justice to the beauty there.

I have just completed the highest hike of my life, 14,450 feet above sea level. Mt Elbert is the 14th fourteener (a mountain over 14,000 feet above sea level) that I have hiked. Hiking to and above 14,000 ASL is a hobby of mine. I’ve been doing it for more than ten years.  Often, as it was in this case, my hiking buddy is Ray Shem. We have done several together, (he has done 39 so far), and I have done several solo. It is a kick, and an adventure that fewer than one percent of the world will ever experience. Because of physical exertion you get high on endorphins that begin to flow in your blood stream. Finally you are so highabove everything that in any direction you look, you’re looking down on God’s creation.  One of the greatest benefits is that you never meet a jerk or anyone with a negative attitude above twelve or thirteen thousand feet. I’ll probably do it as often as possible until I am no more on this Earth.

To enjoy the hike fully a person should get physically fit and then spend as much time as possible at a higher altitude (6,7,8 or 9  thousand feet ASL) which will give their bodies enough time to acclimate to the thinner atmosphere. The climbing is always strenuous, and the air is always thin. On this particular occasion, I had been working out on a bicycle and hiking the steepest hills I could find near my home in Mustang, Oklahoma. I would run up and down the bleachers at the high school so that my legs would be accustomed to that sort of effort. I was in decent shape, not the greatest, but not too bad for an older guy. The FAA believes me to be too old to fly Airliners because I’m closer to seventy than to sixty. Oh well! It is always exhilarating to hike a fourteener. Most of the other hikers are young, healthy,upbeat and interesting. Although, all kinds of people hike fourteeners ––– I’ve met people at the summit in their eighties, and some very obese and unfit, but they all had a “can-do” attitude or they never would have made it. They may groan about sore muscles or tired feet, they may mention having a headaches or feelings of nausea, but they are doing it, and it requires much effort. I love people who try as hard as they can, who may hurt a little but never whine or complain. Of course, some don’t make it to the top for many reasons, but I applaud them for their effort, even if their limit is just a few hundred feet above the tree line. They are awesome for giving it a shot. Hiking the first fourteener doesn’t require superhuman ability but it does require determination. The second is much easier, because you know the way the accomplishment will make you feel.

I became slow and cautious on my way down after an ankle break three years ago. On this particular day, I was the next to the last person to leave the top and the guy behind me was in no hurry to start down. I started far enough ahead of him that I never saw him again.  The hikers ahead of me were faster, and I watched them disappear into the tree line below.  Soon, I was the only person on the mountainside.   We had selected the trailhead that required a horizontal hike along the “Continental Divide Trail” for three or four miles before the final assent began. This was an easy trail to follow, however, there were several ups and downs of more than a couple hundred feet. (When hiking up the side of a mountain one hates to give back altitude that one has already gained, therefore, at the time, ups and downs seem to be such a waste of productivity.) On my way down, I reached the “Continental Divide Trail.” I remembered to turn left which was north. This all looked familiar as I checked the time. I should be back at camp by not later than sixteen hundred or four o’clock pm. I was excited. The assent took me a little over an hour for each thousand feet of altitude gain. (Every time I think about 1000 feet per hour I always remember the Instantaneous Vertical Speed Indicator in a Lear 24 that I used to operate. Climbing off the end of a runway it would peg-out at the 6,000 feet per minute mark and remain there until we were well over 18,000 feet. Now, 1000 feet per hour was considered a good rate of climb. I had hiked north on the “Continental Divide Trail” for almost three miles when I thought that I must have missed my turn down to the trail head. At the time, this part of the hike seemed to be much shorter earlier in the morning.  So, I backed-tracked trying to find my turn that I thought I had missed.  After back tracking twice, each time going a little farther than the time before each way, I met a fellow who claimed to have lived in the area for twenty years. (He was from Shawnee Oklahoma) He advised me that the trailhead that I was looking for was a long way back north of where we were. Soon it was dark. I dug out my head lamp and continued the procedure of back and forth looking for the turn. I stopped and changed my socks and continued to hike. My feet were sore, tired and blistered. I kept hiking first North and then South thinking I must have missed the turn. I had departed the camp with a hundred ounces of water, and a 20 ounce bottle of Gatorade, some trail mix, a sandwich and several power bars. I don’t wear my faith on my sleeve, however, everyone who knows me knows that I am a man of faith and of prayer. I had asked the Lord several times on that night to give me direction and to help me find my way down. He didn’t say a word, He gave me no direction at all. He didn’t give me a sign, nothing, nada. It was like He didn’t hear me, but I knew then and I know now that He did hear me, and that He knew my situation. He knows what is best for me now and what was best for me then, this I know. Although, I don’t always feel His presence ––– He is always with me. It was soon 2300 or eleven o’clock PM.  Although I saw what looked like lion tracks, I felt no fear or anxiety about my situation what-so-ever. I decided to take a nap, I found what looked like a place that I wouldn’t slide down the mountain and dug out my space blanket that I always carry when hiking. I also dug out an extra fleece vest. I wrapped up as best as I could and slept. I was exhausted, my feet were sore and sensitive. Other than that, I was fine. I slept off and on for six hours.  When I found myself shivering I would readjust the space blanket and warm up a little. I had no matches, no map, no gun, no knife, and I was wearing my normal attire for this time of the year which is a tee shirt and shorts. I was not lost because I knew where I was, I was on the “Continental Divide Trail” near the base of Mt. Elbert, Colorado. I knew where my pickup was parked. The truck was at the Mt. Elbert, Half-moon Train Head. I just wasn’t sure how to get to where I wanted to go from my location at the time. I arose around 0500. I realized that my determination to go on wasn’t going to be a factor, because I had no choice but to walk down. Both my feet were extremely tender but so what? I could still walk. I could still think, and I still had food and water. But the question was should I walk North or South to find this elusive turn off. It wasn’t very dark as the moon was full and still up. The sun was making light to the east, and as I started walking, I heard voices that seemed to be coming from the South. I walked south and found two hikers that had been on the trail for two weeks. They had set up camp about a hundred feet above the trail. I asked if they knew of a trailhead near. The told me that the maps that they had were poor at best. They were unsure of their exact position, but the knew that there was a trailhead a couple miles north and another probably three or four miles south along the trail somewhere. I turned around again and headed North because I was going to the nearest trailhead, and two miles sounded better than three or four. I met several that had come from the trailhead but their description of it was lacking, and I still wasn’t sure if it was where I wanted to go, but I was going. Finally, a couple of guys were headed up the trail, and I stopped to visit. I asked them how far to the trailhead and he indicated less than two miles. I asked if he saw a black pickup in the parking lot and he replied, “A black Tundra with a Ron Paul Bumper Sticker on it?”  When he said that I immediately knew that I was going to be back in camp soon because he described my truck to the T. (He must have been a policeman or something because he was particularly observant.) When I arrived at the campsite, Ray was still asleep in his tent, but he was really glad to see me. He had notified the county Sheriff and was planning to lead a search party looking for me later that morning. We cooked up some coffee, and we sat around and shot the bull for an hour. We then drove into Leadville for some breakfast. He notified the Sheriff and canceled the search party. I didn’t feel too bad but didn’t want to hike another fourteener for at least a week or so. We packed up, paid our fees, drove to Salida and checked into a motel for a hot shower and a nap. We had dinner went to bed and rested up for the next day’s adventure. I’ll tell you about that one with photos later.          

August 7, 2013 Dear Representative Hall: Dear Senator Cornyn: Dear Senator Cruz: We, the undersigned, call on Congress to stop trying to exempt members and staffers from ObamaCare and to implement the law which requires them to be covered through insurance exchanges on the same basis as the rest of us have to do. Or repeal ObamaCare completely! How can a government expect it's citizens to trust it, and to believe what it says when the government and the government employees obviously think of themselves as better and much more important that the citizen? Congress has become a cauldron of deceit filled with deception and arrogance! What happened to honor? There will be a day of judgement. Sincerely, Mr. A. W. Doudney 87 CR 2215 Detroit, TX 75436

In the book of Jeremiah (particularly the first three chapters), Almighty God speaks to Judah and Israel through his young prophet Jeremiah. After all of the wonderful things that God had given both nations, after all of the miracles that He had performed on their behalf, after His devotion to them and after His love for them . . . . . they disappointed the Lord their God. Instead of walking in a way pleasing to God they chased after their own desires. They created their own gods of wood and stone. It's obvious to me that they created these gods in order to justify in their own minds their despicable behavior. On several occasions in this passage He refers to them as whores. In the final verses of the third chapter there is the weeping of repentance. As you may read below; A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the LORD their God. “Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to you, for you are the LORD our God. Truly the hills are a delusion, the orgies on the mountains. Truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.” “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.” ~Jeremiah 3: 21-25 ESV Can you see a parallel between then and now in America? I encourage you to read the first three chapters of Jeremiah and see if you can see similar things presently taking place here in the USA.  It appears to me that our nation's behavior parallels that of ancient Israel and Judah.  ~Adverse Yaw  

WHAT IS EVIL?  And how does it effect us?

Webster describes evil as anywhere from;  “sinful acts” to “unlucky happenings” with many different definitions in-between.

Wikipedia goes into greater detail;

Evil describes willful, immoral acts. It also serves as a blanket term for bad things.

Evil is profound immorality. In certain religious contexts evil has been described as a supernatural force. Definitions of evil vary, as does the analysis of its root motives and causes.  However elements that are commonly associated with evil involve unbalanced behavior involving expediency, shelfishness, ignorance, or neglect.  ~Wikepedia

There has been much said and written about the abstract noun evil.   Of course the word could be used as an adjective or even an adverb, but wherever or however it is used there is controversy to the truth of the matter. 

The bottom line for everything is Truth.  Whatever is real and whatever is.  Truth can be hidden, it can be misunderstood, however, truth remains true no matter what I or anyone else says about it.  Sir Winston Churchill once said, “The truth is incontrovertible.  Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” And how true are his words.  Truth IS, and always has been since eternity before, and eternity after the creation of the Universe and all the time in-between.  Truth may seem incomprehensible but  Understanding truth is possible, however, it requires a tiny bit of trust and due diligence. 

I believe the vast majority of today's young people are not interested in truth nor or they interested in understanding anything more than what is going on a few inches in front of their pointed little beaks.  This is one of the indicators that evil in American is on the upswing.   Anything that is not true is evil.

The Holy Bible defines evil.  Evil in the sight of God is a phrase found several times in the Old Testament.   The Bible says evil is most displeasing to God.     Evil is always linked to untruth in one way or another.  Therefore, if we learn the difference between what is true and what is not, we are a leg up on the rest of mankind in understanding the noun evil. 

False gods, self-interest and arrogance are only a few examples of what is most displeasing to Almighty God. 

Evil in the sight of God, is mentioned and most times with the term “false gods.”  The old testament mentions evil twelve times it referred to sins committed by individuals that were not leaders,  sixteen times it referred to national sins, thirty-three times it referred to a leader, such as a king, twenty-three times it referred to a person committing the sin was following someone else’s example, and six times it referred to one doing evil was forcing others to do likewise.   It all of these times the sinner was always thinking untruths about themselves.  Never were these individuals thinking about the truth as it related to them and the God Who created them. 

You could not say that self is an antonym for evil, not even the word love or the word good, because you might have a good liar or as good thief.  But the best antonym for evil is truth.  And what is truth? 

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.  ~John 14:16

There are winners, and losers.  Those who find the Father are the winners, and those who don’t are the losers.   There is truth and deceit.  Truth will always be the winner.  I choose to follow Jesus, the way, the truth and the life.    

One word says it all...  Dhimmitude--  I had never heard the word until now. Type it into Google and start reading. Pretty interesting. Supposedly It's on page 107 of the healthcare bill, however I haven't actually read the healthcare bill because I can't find a copy of the bill with page numvers.  I did Google the word  and it exists.. It is a REAL word.  Word of the Day: Dhimmitude:   Dhimmitude is the Muslim system of controlling non-Muslim populations conquered through jihad.  Specifically, it is the TAXING of non-Muslims in exchange for tolerating their presence AND as a coercive means of converting conquered remnants to Islam. ObamaCare allows the establishment of Dhimmitude and Sharia Muslim diktat in the United States.  Muslims are specifically exempted from the government mandate to purchase insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured. Islam considers insurance to be "gambling", "risk-taking", and "usury" and is thus banned. Muslims are specifically granted exemption based on this. How convenient. So I, as a Christian, will have crippling IRS liens placed against all of my assets, including real estate, cattle, and even accounts receivables, and will face hard prison time because I refuse to buy insurance or pay the penalty tax.  Meanwhile, Louis Farrakhan will have no such penalty and will have 100% of his health needs paid for by the de facto government insurance. Non-Muslims will be paying a tax to subsidize Muslims. This is Dhimmitude. I recommend sending this onto your contacts.  American citizens need to know about it! Voting this year may be the most important thing you can do for your family, your country, and for the future of all Americans...

This is supposed to be a Christian Nation.   Not Muslim! Have we become a nation of knuckle heads?   Have we been in the Ostrich position with our buttocks exposed for so long that we can't comprehend the light of day? We better start doing something about this!  We could start by repealing this fraudulent Health Care Bill ! ! ! !  Or we may become a nation of wounded buttocks!    

Divide and conquer seems to be one of many preferred tools in achieving perceived success these days.  Presently race has been just one of those methods in the news and gender is another.   Those wishing to be on top use all kinds of diversions to hide truth.  (The truth being that others are just as important as ourselves.) Our minds are continuously thinking of ways to be more successful–––to climb to the top pentacle, to be boss hog. The real question is; what is true success?  If you were to ask a person on the street to define success you would get as many different answers as the number of people you ask the question.  There are thousands of answers to that simple question because there are thousands of people.  Are there that many differing successes?  I don’t think so!  But, we Americans are all thinking about being successful.  We all want to make our mark.  We want to be known to posterity as being successful in every way. We want to leave behind a great heritage. We forget and seldom remember that we all arrive on planet Earth the same way, and we all depart planet Earth the same way.  It is the time between the eternities that we find or fail to find true success. I could go on and on about the benefits of true success–––peace, tranquility, happiness and joy to name only a few, but the useful information I wish to convey is the real definitive answer to the question; what is true success?  And, where do we find it, and/or how do we achieve it. God’s instruction manual for humanity on planet Earth, The Holy Bible, is where we go if we truly want to find true success.  This is where the tire meets the road.  Few people want to know the real truth, most of us are only interested in our version of what we perceive truth to be.  NOTHING ELSE! DON’T WANT TO GO THERE, DON’T WANT TO HEAR THAT, NOT INTERESTED IN THAT,  I’M COVERING MY EYES AND MY EARS, DON’T LIKE THAT SOUND.  This is the attitude of a vast number of Americans today. This attitude of ours is because the past two or three generations we have been taught that we (self) are the most important person on planet Earth.  What we should have been taught and should teach our children is to always before we think about anything else, we should think about God, our creator.  And second, to always think of others before ourselves.  But there I go again, chasing a rabbit, back to the definition of true success. The Bible is filled with the history of men and women of failure and of success.  The book of Ecclesiastes spells it out in great detail and at the end of the book gives us the answer.  It says in the final two verses;  “The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.   For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.” “The end of the matter;”  is true success or true failure.  “Fear God and keep his commandments.”  The simplest version of his commandments are words spoken by Jesus in  Matthew 22:37-40.   And Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the great and first commandment.   And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.   On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” Think about it America!  Almighty God is the one who brought us here, He is the one who keeps us safe.  Shouldn’t we devote a majority of our time thinking about Him?  Then thinking about others.  Shouldn’t self be placed on a back burner?

MANY OF MY FAVORITE HEROES ARE BLACK Willy Nelson sang the popular country song, "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys."  Cowboys may have been his heroes, but not mine!  Although, as a young boy I thought that Roy Rogers and Dale Evans hung the moon.  Were they Heroes?   Not so much.  I know that if anyone could or should be known as a hero it would be Jesus Christ.  But to me Jesus is much more than a hero.  He is my Lord, my Savior, my Friend and a constant companion.  Webster defines hero: a : a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability. b : an illustrious warrior. c: a man admired for his achievements and noble qualities. d : one who shows great courage. Using the c & d definitions will qualify my all of these heroes who are of color.   For anyone to succeed at anything will always require focus, effort, and dedication.  Success doesn't make a hero, however when the opposition to their success is racial hatred and prejudice­­–––success over and against these odds creates heroes to be honored and revered.  Those who would promote racial hatred are detrimental to truth, peace, love and the true American way.  There are many who fit into this category both white and people of color. Although I may disagree with some of their philosophies I honor and respect their courage, their tenacity and their struggle.  Think about the people mentioned below, and what they have have stood for.  Think about the stand that they have had to make in order to achieve their goals.

People like Dr. Ben Carson, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Thomas Sowell, Senator Tim Scott,  Allen West, Dr. Bill Cosby, General Colin L. Powell, Nelson Mandela, Jackie Robinson, Alan Keyes and Booker T. Washington are only a few of true American Heroes who worked hard and stayed focused on truth.  These black Americans had parents that helped them to become what they are, therefore the parents who paid a significant price to keep each of these on track are heroes as well.  Not only do the black people of America owe these men and women a great debt of gratitude so do the rest of us.  America would not be great if it were not for these heroes and others unknown heroes that have stood just like them.

There are many people who could meet most of the "c" definition, however, they fail the test of a hero because they fail in the last part of that definition.  They have no noble qualities.   Many of them became what they are because they used deceit and deception to fool the masses.  The quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln;  "You can fool all the people some of the time and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time."  The true qualities of those deceptive individuals are beginning to show.  Black people, people of color or white people who fail to have noble qualities will, more often than not, try to use more brut force to accomplish their goals.  Their arrogance and hatred for others will always eventually reveal itself.  Sadly but true we have many within our government who fit this description. But, thankfully we have hundreds of others such as the ones mentioned above who promote the family unit, hard work and the tenacious attention to truth.  May our Heavenly Father continue to bless these who are true to themselves and the American Way.

 

 

     

July 20, 2013 Dear Representative Hall, Dear Senator Cornyn, Dear Senator Cruz, Tax Day, April 15th, has become an unnecessary major source of stress and anxiety for millions of hardworking American taxpayers kept up at night wondering if they’ve complied with the impossible tax code. Our tax system punishes productivity, success, hard work, innovation, savings and investment and, after paying taxes on the same dollars s everal times, even death is considered a taxable event. We need to return to a system where taxes are fairly collected to fund the legitimate functions of government. The Founding Fathers never envisioned an income tax, which is why it took the 16th Amendment to get it passed. Our present tax system is politicized and manipulated to shape citizen behavior and redistribute wealth (the richest 1% pay 40% of all income tax, but earn 23% of all income). This is accomplished by fanning the divisive flames of class hatred to buy votes and hand out political favors to whichever special-interest group has the most high-powered lobbyists and tax attorneys. It is completely naive to think that the current monstrosity can be properly and fairly “reformed” or “simplified”. Multiple failed attempts have been made to simplify and reform the current system, only to see complexity return in short order. We can do better. We must and we can. We’ve won two World Wars and put men on the moon, so changing our tax system is achievable and necessary for our economic survival. As your constituent, I expect you to address this issue in a manner that is best for America and her citizens! Abolish the IRS! As you know, (if you don't shame on you), the IRS has never been a lawful agency. The federal income tax has never been a lawful tax. The IRS has always been a tool for Congress, the President and other public servants to use for bullying a majority of the American workers and American business people. It's nothing more than a collection agent for the Federal Reserve Bank which is another unlawful agency. We the people have had to deal with this unconstitutional business for 100 years! It has never been fare and it's time to face the truth and eliminate it. You may be one of those who care more about yourself than you care about the truth. Most people tend to have this flaw. However, Congress men and women should be held to a higher standard. Congress has become a bunch of smoke blowers who have become masters at getting nothing done, and allowing the worst kind of legislation to pass. You guys have become untrustworthy by association. It's about time to light some fires under you associates. I'm loosing hope fast! Sincerely, Mr. Wayne Doudney P.O. Box 132 Detroit, TX 75436

Was George Zimmerman guilty of the murder of Trayvon Martin?  Who knows?  I'm not God, nor was on the jury, therefore, I don't know, nor do I have an opinion.

It would be wonderful if all the hoopla of the Zimmerman trial was finally over after the jury has announced the verdict of not guilty. However, I'm afraid it's far from over. The progressives would have used either verdict, guilty or not guilty to their advantage. The not guilty verdict, however, will prove more beneficial for their deceitful purposes. There must be hundreds of murder trials going on in America every day, yet none of them have been in the news like this one. It is a shame that racism is still used so commonly in the 21st Century for political purposes. I believe that all of the hoopla being used now will continue for a time, and it will be used to promote two primary objectives.

First, it will be used to continue hiding newsworthy items such as the 2012 Benghazi attack, the corruption at the Federal Reserve Bank, the IRS scandal, the stupidity and foolishness of Obamacare and any other news that could be detrimental to the progressive agenda. This tactic will be accomplished because of the distraction of our attention from where it should be, and to divide and conquer the American opinion. The Progressives in collusion with their greatest allies which are the popular news media, ABC, NBC, CBS and all of their liberal affiliates will use this event to hide behind and to hide their own evil agenda. Truth would destroy them and they know it.

Second it will be used to justify the destruction of the Constitution and/or to modify the true meaning of this document. Remember the Constitution is the foundation of our Government, it does nothing more than to define our Government and limit it's power. The Progressives have already made much progress in limiting and changing the meaning of the First, Second and Forth Amendments to the Constitution. This vast amount of hoopla used in causing doubt in the validity of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights has become their modus operandi when it comes to hiding truth. I remind you and myself that all the amendments were ratified in order to limit the governments power. 

The progressives wish to control Americans as completely as they possibly can. They have already made inroads in the curtailment of many freedoms that have been ours for years. Such as religious freedom, freedom to defend ourselves and freedom to move about freely without being searched. We have lost our freedom of speech because of perceived political correctness, and the fear of the listening ears of the government. Many unborn children have lost their right to life. And, the list of freedoms and liberties we have lost continues on and on.

It would be wrong to blame President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton or any other individual for all the faults of our present Government. These individuals are only an indication of what is wrong. They may or may not be deliberate in their attempts to harm our country. They may be caught up in the process or they may be like most human beings, greedy for something or the other.

The fact is that we are in a spiritual battle. Evil is in a struggle to win over good. Satan is in a major struggle to try and win over Almighty God. Almighty God doesn't need our help to defeat and destroy Satan and all of his angels and agents, this has already been accomplished. But, it is, and will be more important as time goes on, that we choose whom we will serve.

Anyone with the ability to think and reason will choose a winner who has already won over a looser. If not they just might be an IGMO. It appears that we are nearing the age of a New World Order where IGMOs are in charge. I hope not! But, I don't know. If we end up there it will be most uncomfortable for productive people, however, it won't last long, even if God delays his return for a thousand more years. History indicates that this New World Order will fail as many other New World Orders have failed in the past.

Personally I choose to follow the winner. No matter what. I choose to follow Jesus Christ today, tomorrow and forever.

 

I am of the opinion that evil is common in society today is because of greed, hatred, jealousy, selfishness, pride and arrogance to mention only a few things.   Evil will be and always has been a part of humanity since the Fall of Adam, however, I believe that ignorance is a primary reason that evil is so common in America.  A large number of people in America don’t necessarily want to be evil, but they just don’t seem to know any other way to live.   However, if this group of Americans had a knowledge and an understanding of Who God Is, and an understanding of His love for all, I believe that Evil as we know it would be a lot less significant.  Especially if these folk understood scripture such as John 3:16.

There are people in this world and in America who are deliberately evil and wicked. They know about Almighty God and they choose to be evil.  Most of these are incorrigible.  I don’t understand why this is so, but I believe it to be so.   Therefore, it would behoove us as Christians and as Disciples of Jesus Christ to spread the Good News of God’s love, and allow his light to shine through us into dark places.   It would also behoove us to be vigilant and aware of our surroundings.  We should arm ourselves in order that those who would harm our families, our friends and us could be stopped.  

I guess that this attitude of mine makes me a “Red Neck Conservative.”  Maybe I am, but it makes sense to me.

Just a thought.

~Adverse Yaw

       

It seems to me that all learning is a building block affair. For an example we learn to roll over before we learn to sit up, we learn to sit up before we learn to crawl, we learn to crawl before we learn to walk, and we learn walk before we learn to run, and we learn to run before we learn to play in organized sports. We didn’t skip any portion of this building block process. If we didn’t learn one portion of the process well it is always indicated by our weakness when learning a later stage. In other words, we must learn to run well before we can be a great Soccer player. I remember learning to drive. It became evident that I hadn’t learned about kinetic energy when I tried to make a turn before slowing down. My dad, who was my instructor at the time, learned that he hadn’t spend enough time talking about kinetic energy. I can remember him yelling at me to SLOW DOWN! He made his point louder and louder until I finally burned off some of the kinetic energy by heavy breaking. It was such a wild ride that both our adrenal glands worked overtime. It’s needless to say, but I learned about kinetic energy that day. Although, I had never heard the word before, nor did I hear it that day I did gain an understanding of how it worked. My son, Andrew, learned about kinetic energy when he crashed his brand new motorcycle at the young age of nine-years-old. Not only did it damage his new motorcycle, but left a large scratch in his new shinny white motorcycle-helmet. I was so thankful that he was wearing the helmet. I failed to explain to him about kinetic energy, just as my dad had failed to explain it to me. Andy and I are both are better drivers today because of the lessons learned back then, block by block. How can we expect our children to learn to read, write, add, subtract, multiply and divide if they first haven’t learned about thinking and about what thinking is? Shouldn’t we first teach them how to discipline their minds, by helping them to discipline their behavior? It’s like telling someone all the fundamentals and all the theories of flight, then showing them the airplane, handing them the keys and admonishing them to be careful. Chances are good that they would get high enough the above ground to crash and burn. We don’t give our kids a bicycle and say “there it is kid, good luck!” It takes a little instruction, a little trial and error, and before you know it they are doing the craziest things on their new toy, it’s same with an airplane, a car, a motorcycle and any other mechanical device created to improve our lives. Block by block we teach them and block by block they learn. It is no different when it comes to getting along other people or the personal responsibility of being a part of our society. All are blocks of learning, and in order to learn anything very well, one must learn to think. The brain is no more important than the heart they are both required for life to continue here on planet earth. Now the mind is a different story. The mind is not an physical organ, nor is it who we are, but it is a slave that was given to each of us by our Creator. We can allow it to remain idle and atrophy away. We can fill it with wonderful thoughts. We can allow all kinds of evil to fill it or we can purge it of evil and discipline it. We can make it work for us or we can allow it to work against us. We have complete control over it. It is entirely up to us how use it. Shouldn’t we allow our children to have this information? The choosing of how they use their minds will still be theirs. If they don’t know and understand the control they have over their minds, chances are that their mind will control them. I believe that a vast majority of IGMOs in America don’t have a clue of just how much power they control in that little slave that we call the mind. That little slave controls most of them most of the time. Just a thought. ~Adverse Yaw

If for whatever reason a person is alone trying to fly an airliner full of people. This person doesn’t know very much about it, and isn’t willing to listen to reason. What do you think will happen? Depending on many circumstances many different things could possibly happen. The passengers could remove this person and replace him. Surely there is a person aboard who would at least listen to reason, but in this case all the First class passengers are trembling with fear. There are one or two of them trying to convince the rest of them to listen to reason. But the majority is convinced that these few are total idiots and completely ignore them. The Coach Class passengers, most of them traveling on free tickets, are in total ignorance because the First Class passengers are afraid to tell them the truth because of the panic that might transpire. After all, this present person at the controls seems to be keeping the airliner aloft, therefore, the passengers do nothing. They refuse to think about the consequences because this has never happened before. However, it has happened before but they didn’t know because they didn’t study history. They think that it will all work out somehow! They are wrong! So, the hero at the controls is able to convince everyone that he has a plan. He has kept the airliner aloft without crashing for several hours so he is their hero. However, when total fuel starvation causes all the engines to fail. Then all will parish! Even the ones in Coach Class that didn’t know there was a problem until the engines went silent. All are just as dead as the First Class passengers who were trembling in fear. Is there a parallel here? Who is the man with a plan at the flight controls of our Government? And, who is trembling with fear? And, who are the freeloaders that are totally ignorant of a problem? And, who are the one or two “idiots” that are trying to get everyone to think?  And, who are the ones who won't listen to reason and refuse to hear the truth? The fuel low warning lights are starting to flash! We are truly on the eve of destruction! ~Adverse Yaw  

How many more imposter gods does America serve? How long will America continue limping between several different opinions?  Either the Lord is God or He is not!

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It doesn’t matter how badly we want something to be true, even if there are millions of us who want something to be true.  If it isn’t true, it isn’t true!

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The prophets of Baal wanted there to be gods like they thought gods should be.    Baal doesn’t exist, didn’t exist, and will never exist.  It didn’t matter how badly the 450 prophets want it to be so, it was not so.  Elijah proved it!  Read part of the story below from,  1 Kings 18: 20-29, ESV

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So Ahab sent to all the people of Israel and gathered the prophets together at Mount Carmel.  And Elijah came near to all the people and said, “How long will you go limping between two different opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” And the people did not answer him a word.   Then Elijah said to the people, “I, even I only, am left a prophet of the Lord, but Baal's prophets are 450 men.  Let two bulls be given to us, and let them choose one bull for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood, but put no fire to it. And I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood and put no fire to it.  And you call upon the name of your god, and I will call upon the name of the Lord, and the God who answers by fire, he is God.” And all the people answered, “It is well spoken.”  Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are many, and call upon the name of your god, but put no fire to it.”   And they took the bull that was given them, and they prepared it and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no voice, and no one answered. And they limped around the altar that they had made.   And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, “Cry aloud, for he is a god.  Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.”  And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.   And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.

 

A thought about the human mind. The mind is not who we are, the contrary, the mind is our servant. We should strive hard to control it, and not to allow it to control us. It should be our own personal slave. We should constantly discipline it, educate it, and exercise it. We should always encourage it to welcome good thoughts. We should force it to purge itself of all evil and bad thoughts. We need to keep it pointed in the right direction by forcing it to stay focused in God's Word and to constantly think on Him. My own mind is often a lazy one, but the Lord and I are presently working on that. Just a thought! ~Adverse Yaw

I just finished a wonderful book by Viktor Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning" I was told that the only part of the book that might be of interest to me was the first part. But, I thoroughly enjoyed the entire book. The second part did require the use of a dictionary on occasion. Dr. Frankl was an Austrian Psychiatrist who was incarcerated during WWII in several concentration and extermination camps in Europe. Twenty-five out of twenty-six prisoners did not survive those camps. Before his incarceration he had developed a psychotherapy known as Logotherapy which dealt with more logic than many earlier forms of psychotherapy. (Keep in mind that my descriptions are of an uneducated student and layman.) The book is an eye opener and I recommend that people who search for truth and meaning in their lives give it a read. A few things that I learned from reading this book: My own theory that attitude is one of the most important aspect of living a life of meaning was confirmed by this book. If a person has a WHY they will be able to determine the HOW. If there is no WHY in their life they are left with a void and an emptiness. Life without a WHY is a miserable existence. (This might explain why unemployed people on the dole are so unhappy.) Below is an excerpts from the afterward by William J Winslade. In this excerpt he is quoting a Norwegian professor of philosophy who had been incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp. He writes; "My colleague remarked how strongly he agreed with Frankl about the importance of nourishing one's inner freedom, embracing the value of beauty in nature, art, poetry, and literature, and feeling love for family and friends. But other personal choices, activities, relationships, hobbies, and even simple pleasures can also give meaning to life. Why then, do some people find themselves feeling so empty? Frankl's wisdom here is worth emphasizing: it is a question of the ATTITUDE one takes toward life's challenges and opportunities, both large and small. A positive attitude enables a person to endure suffering and disappointment as well as enhances enjoyment and satisfaction. A negative attitude intensifies pain and deepens disappointments; it undermines and diminishes pleasure, happiness, and satisfaction; it may even lead to depression or physical illness." All of this brings to mind the popular song of the 60ties: "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones. Perhaps a better title for this song would have been " My Attitude is Crummy and I'm so DISSATISFIED. But, then what do I know I'm just an old retired Aviator. ~Adverse Yaw