WILL THE LESSONS WE HAVE LEARNED BE APPLIED?


You may ask, “What Lessons?” And you may ask, “Applied to what?”  Thank you for asking and now if you will grant me the latitude and opportunity, I will explain what I mean.  I hope that it will be informative and allow for sanity to return to the American scene.  However, with the level of Woke-ness now existing, I am not sure that anything could bring sanity back.  I pray that I am wrong and that the polls indicating the dissatisfaction with the Biden administration and the Left are right and sanity is being restored in the populace.

We have endured two years of lunacy with regard to the COVID virus and the pandemic that locked down the entire world and some are still locked down.  The effects of that action and the actions embodied in that lockdown will continue to surface into the foreseeable future and they are not good. 

The lockdowns resulted in the complete destruction of much of the world’s economy.  America, most assuredly, has paid a dear price for the draconian measures that fly in the face of all the scientific and medical evidence now revealed.  I am not saying the virus was or is a hoax.  It is not!  It is very real, but the evidence to support mandated vaccines for everyone, masks for the world, and isolation that damaged the human psyche does not exist.  If you believe it does, please follow the mandates and line up single file behind the government pied pipers such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and the CDC.

Our founders warned us that “Freedoms lost are never regained.”  We have willingly given up freedoms in the interest of safety that did not manifest itself.  But, alas, those freedoms we relinquished are possibly forever lost and the toe in the door by the powers that be will become a superhighway of restrictions.  I lament even one person dying from this virus and know too many families who have suffered that loss.  If the government’s mandates and rejection of possible drugs to treat early provided the promised relief, I would support it, but it has not, does not, and will not.

Will we recognize the tyrannical censorship that has occurred by Big Tech at the government’s behest provide a warning that inspires millions to rise up and throw off the shackles of tyranny?  Will the calls for, threats, and desires of those in the government fold for ‘internment camps’ to reeducate those who disagree provide sufficient fuel to cause millions to rise up and reject those bonds of destruction?

Will the war on Christianity, personal faith, and family cause enough concern that millions will reject the mandates, manipulations, and lies spewed forth by the propaganda arms of the Leftists and Globalists?  I continue to be amazed at how willingly Americans and other countries actually clamored for the government to strip them of their rights and to dominate their lives.  All this, for the impossible promise of the government to protect them from the invisible virus they deemed capable of annihilating the population of the world.

I believe that every human life matters and is important!  Sadly, we have entered an era in human history when our American government is pressing to contest that idea and offer curricula to be taught to our children and the public that elevates some ethnicities above others.  That is wrong, anti-American, anti-biblical, and destructive.  Will we recognize the poison of that pollution and apply the lesson to future governments?  I can only hope.

Our government and various entities in this present age have made human life nothing more than a number.  When society descends to the place of depravity that human life is only a number, it buries its conscience beneath a mountain of statistics and genocide becomes easy.  As Pogo said, “We have seen the enemy and it is us.”  Unfortunately, too few are willing to step forward and accept the target on their backs by speaking out and unifying, to reject this present lunacy.

As I peruse the mountain of documented evidence of the damage done by the lockdowns and the lack of benefit and effectiveness of the measures imposed to flatten the curve, I weep.  As I view that information, the statistical, medical, and scientific data I conclude that it is the work of diabolical evil in the name of the better good that has enacted these policies. 

Let me share a scenario that I read somewhere and apply it to this present conundrum.  It goes like this…A serial killer is preying on a community, but both the mayor and chief of police are focused on protecting their positions and jurisdictions.  The police arrest a suspect that appears guilty.  The jury convicts the individual and the murders ceased.  But, years later, new evidence is uncovered that indicates an investigator planted evidence to secure an arrest and the person in prison is not guilty. 

What do we do?  In a moral society, the evidence of impropriety would be made public and a move to ensure that justice is done.  But that would mean that the police force and civilian authorities’ reputations would be damaged, and the public would feel less safe.  What happens, too often, is a conspiracy of silence occurs and the new information is suppressed supposedly for the better good.  I suggest that this is a scenario that could be applied to the actions of our government and entities in this pandemic.

I insist that government officials and bureaucracies can never be trusted to police themselves.  Power corrupts and ultimate power corrupts ultimately.  The more power the federal, state, and local authorities are allowed the more they desire.  We move from seemingly insignificant losses of liberty to total loss of liberty.  We metamorphosis from a few rogue officials into an oligarchy which becomes a despotic dictatorship.  Liberty lost is never regained short of a revolution.  That revolution could be bloodless but seldom is.

In the United Kingdom answered a Freedom of Information request to answer the question, “Can you advise on deaths purely from COVID with no underlying causes?”  The answer was shocking or should be.  I do not mean the simple numbers, but that the data has been available to doctors, epidemiologists, data scientists, and public policymakers all along.  They either ignored it or they were aware of it and proceeded to take us down the path taken without justification.

As of today, about 140,000 people have died in England and Wales from COVID.  Of that number only about 17,000 were in people with zero comorbidities.  The report indicates that since the beginning of the pandemic only 3.774 of the people in England and Wales who succumbed to COVID-19 were healthy individuals with zero comorbidities under the age of 65. That is approximately 2.7%

If that information is available in the United Kingdom, then it cannot be assumed that it is not readily available in the United States.  Couple that with admissions from Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer, the largest vaccine maker.  He said, “And we know that the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection if any.  The three doses, with the booster, they offer reasonable protection against hospitalization and death and again, that’s I think very good and less protection against infection.” 

One additional note, that should cause everyone to take note, is that 75% of the COVID deaths in the United Kingdom were among the fully vaccinated.   In, Israel has reported that most hospitalized patients in Israel were fully vaccinated.  Even our own Dr. Fauci, according to NBC News has acknowledged that hospitalizations are rising in the U.S. among the fully vaccinated.

This is not meant to be a pro or anti-vaccine blog but one that says, The Government is not trustworthy and unless we learn that lesson and throw off the chains of tyranny, we will find that one crisis after another surfaces to completely obliterate our Constitution and Inalienable Rights.  Do what you feel you must regarding COVID.  I do not desire anyone to suffer the horrors of any illness that can result in death.  But something bigger than COVID seems to be at work here.  What will we do?  What can we do?  My conviction is that we first return to God and proceed from there.

God bless you and God bless America!

HEY, I’M A VICTIM, NOTHING IS MY FAULT…


That seems to be the mindset of multitudes today.  I sometimes become amused at their denial or pretense that they are the misunderstood victim.  The image of the TV Steve Urkel on TV sitcom Family Matters.  His famous line was, “Did I do that?”  Yes, Steve, you did it and yes, people we are responsible for our actions. 

I laughed some time back when P.J. O’Rourke declared: “Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology, and women’s studies – – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.”  Now, I am not suggesting there is no value in those studies but his statement that the objective was to give everyone a free pass from responsibility and accountability was what triggered my response.  I laughed because he had the daring to say it and cried because that condition is so prevalent it is frightening.

We are in an era where the weaponized intelligence and law enforcement arms of the federal government are being employed to destroy some and protect others depending on their status in the ‘Old Boy Crony Community’ in Washington.  We have witnessed the media become transformed from news reporting agencies to news-making propaganda arms of political parties and activism objectives and causes.

The incessant projecting and blame-shifting that is transpiring is more than troubling it is dangerous and a threat to our Republic and Freedom.  The hatred for Donald John Trump was so pronounced that the political establishment utilized every tool they could find to destroy him and anyone supporting his objectives.  I agree he can be quite caustic and crude, but he attempted to do most of what he declared he wanted to do for us, the American citizens.  He, like Ronald Reagan, sought to restrict the government rather than allowing the government to continue restricting us.  I believe that was the intent of our Founding Fathers and the Constitution.

The media was the voice of the FBI and the Leftists spreading the lies that were debunked regarding Russia Gate.  They have not stopped, and they keep adding to the list of things they spin all designed to restrict the citizen and strip us of our inalienable rights.  They are hell-bent on ensuring that Donald J. Trump will never again be able to run for president.  Will they succeed?  I don’t know but with the turncoats like Romney and others in the Republican Party, they may well succeed. 

We have witnessed the ‘mostly peaceful protests’ as the media and Democrats describe the riots, looting, burning, and destruction in America.  The reaction of law enforcement, district attorneys, the Justice Department, and the media is to decry any violence and justify those actions, and insist it is not the fault of the rioters, but the fault of those of us who support the Constitution, the Bible, and Life.  We are the oppressors in their view and those committing acts of violence and crimes in protest are the victims.  It’s not their fault and they have no accountability.  That mindset will bring down the Republic.

The more recent event in Waukesha, Wisconsin where the inane or insane act by the District Attorney to grant no bail or low bail to Darrell Brooks, Jr. resulted in his driving an SUV into a Christmas parade, killing innocent citizens.  This is one of the dozens of events that resulted in the loss of life or property by innocent people because of the woke mentality of white oppression being the blame for all crimes and problems regarding racial relations and within minority communities.  Whatever happened to personal responsibility and holding the guilty accountable?

Now, let’s consider the infamous Alec Baldwin.  His assertion should win him an Oscar for playing the part of an innocent victim.  He blames the evil gun for killing Halyna Hutchings.  He says that he never pulled the trigger although others on the set said he did, and the trigger pull was not part of the script.  He admits to releasing the hammer but denies pulling the trigger.  I’m sure he will find a way to blame Trump or those of us who support him.  After all, It’s not his fault, he is an innocent victim.  Yeah, and pigs fly over my house daily bothering my unicorns eating green cheese from the moon.

How about Stacey Abrams among others that although she lost the election insists, she actually won.  Maybe it’s because she identifies as the governor of Georgia.  At the same time, she was claiming that she won but the election was stolen from her blasted President Trump for his challenge to the way the presidential election was handled in Georgia.  Seems like speaking out of both sides of the mouth to me.

We faced a Christmas season where organized theft rings in San Francisco and other municipalities in America, mostly in Democratic-led cities stripped stores of their products.  The state Attorney General shouted that his successful prosecution of some of the criminals and believed it would deter others.  Rob Bonta successfully navigated the court to sentence five of the six thieves he prosecuted. Thieves who stole and fenced millions worth of merchandise.  What did they get?

Danny Drago, one of the thieves has not been sentenced but according to the record, Flower was sentenced to three years in state prison, but the judge agreed to spare her from that time behind bars if she completes two years’ probation and spends 364 days in San Mateo County jail.  Morales and Villanueva were sentenced to probation. Villatoro was sentenced to probation and 30 days jail time.  Wow!  I’m impressed with those heavy sentences for theft of millions, the destruction of private property, and the disruption of the lives of the community around them.  I hope you can see my tongue firmly planted in my cheek and sense my sarcasm.

The illustrious Attorney General Rob Bonta believes this will deter others from committing crimes.  His assertion to such made me laugh, cry, become angry and I had to restrain myself from throwing something at my television.  When you add to that the Soros-funded policies of District Attorney Chesa Boudin to release people from jail unless they threatened public safety.  Non-accountability for crime resulted in the forced release of a woman who stole $40,000 worth of merchandise.

America, we are living in a time where everyone (one the Left) is a law to themselves and doing what is right in their own eyes.  That is a dangerous situation because human beings are not angels and in our era of moral failure that endangers every law-abiding, God-fearing, morally conscious citizen.  When marauding bands of criminals can rove through cities and communities with impunity and find the media, the woke prosecutors, and politicians insisting they are not at fault but victims, we are in danger of losing the Republic. 

I can envision a time when every citizen must be armed to the teeth to protect his or her home, family, life, and property.  The idea of victimization being advanced by the woke community is a dire threat to peaceful existence and will disrupt our Republic.  If we want to keep our Republic and Freedom, we MUST oust the corrupt and incompetent politicians and bureaucrats and restore America to Constitutionalism and restore our moral mooring.

God bless you and God bless America.

WHAT DO THE HEADLINES TELL US ABOUT MODERN AMERICA?


Taking the headlines and lining them up for review has been a strategy of mine for a long time.  Even before I read the article, I will lay out the headlines side by side to see the theme of the message the media (conservative and liberal) is attempting to convey.  It frequently reveals the root cause of the events transpiring and the direction or desired direction of the politicians, pundits, and media.  It invites one to use critical thinking which prods one to dig deeper and allows the discovery of the root to be reviewed.

One headline I saw referred to what happens when people stop believing the government and the media.  Although I suggest that this condition is not new, it is a worthy consideration in 2022.  Sadly, too many have memories about as long as gnat’s eyelash and fail to connect the dots of the data provided in history.  I capsulize the answer to the question by saying society crumbles, governments topple, and distrust becomes the driving force.  It opens the door to potential and likely chaos and open rebellion and resistance.

I believe that the Soviet Union collapsed largely because everybody lied to everybody else and distrust in the economic and political systems collapsed.  In today’s America, Diogenes would be hard-pressed to find an honest man in politics or the media.  The government has been exposed for lying to the public. The media has been caught with their pants down and exposed themselves as liars, propagandists, and unworthy of listenership. 

In today’s American Pravda and politics, there is no longer a pretense to seek any plausibility.  The end justifies the means, and their agenda takes precedence over the needs and best good of the people.  The Republic is secondary to their quest for power and control.  We are fed fallacious information from the media and governmental bureaucracies.  The USDA made the easily debunkable claim that “2021 retail food price inflation continued at the same pace as 2020.” 

We are headed down the same path as the Soviets, in large measure, because the media has become nothing more than propaganda arms of the Leftists agenda.  There are some rays of hope in the emergence of some real media outlets who seek to engage in journalism, not propaganda.  We must find ways to bypass Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.  We must be alert and while we are distrusting of the government and media, we need to keep our eye on the prize for occasionally they unintentionally tell us their agenda and we can strategize against it.

The mania and the politically correct world of the WOKE have infected our society and people, previously sane and reasonable have surrendered to the smears hurled at them.  I have been warning for some time that the Left is seeking to end our religious liberty and freedom.  Biden has, as is his modus operandi, engaged in hassling Religious Colleges demanding they join the WOKE agenda.

If we lose our Religious Freedom, we will find ourselves either abandoning our core convictions and faith or risking jail or worse.  This administration is opening Title IX investigations on Religious Universities and Colleges for maintaining moral standards.  If you quote, teach, or preach the Bible you are deemed a racist, bigot, homophobe, xenophobe, and may be labeled a domestic terrorist.  They are demanding that we abandon our core beliefs, or they will put us out of business.  So much for the Declaration of Independence’s stated objective and view.

Many of us have shouted from the rooftop for decades the importance of the United States Supreme Court.  Sadly, too few have taken our warnings to heart.  We have encouraged everyone to pressure our Senators and our Congressmen and women to insist on any nominee being a Strict Constructionist and Originalist.  If we fail to interpret the Constitution as it was intended, we will find it an ever-morphing document that is meaningless and a tool for destruction for those who desire to fundamentally transform us into something other than the Free Constitutional Republic designed by our Founders.

President Biden has vowed to nominate a Black female justice and no others need to apply.  Not that anyone openly applies and campaigns for the nomination.  I am convinced that his nominee will be a carrot to appease the WOKE wing of his party and an attempt to appease the Black community.  His nominee will undoubtedly be more liberal and more of a political activist than Justice Stephen Breyer. 

Biden said, “I have made no decision except one: The person I nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience, and integrity.”  I would applaud that if it were the truth.  He insisted that his nominee will be the first Black woman nominated.  I do not mind that it is a woman or that that woman is Black or any other ethnicity.  That is not my concern.  My concern is will, the nominee view, the Constitution as an ever-evolving document or as it was originally constructed and intended.

The Supreme Court is extremely important in many aspects and actions of the government.  One is how they rule on DOJ activities and end-runs around the constitution and the Law.  Recently it was revealed that Special Investigator Durham’s court filing revealed that the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz withheld key evidence from the Special Counsel. 

Horowitz concealed crucial information from John Durham in connection with the ongoing prosecution of Michael Sussmann, a former attorney to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.  He failed to disclose that his office is in possession of two cellphones used by former FBI general counsel James Baker.  He failed to disclose that Sussmann sought a meeting with Horowitz the IG.  He said to Durham’s team that he had no other filer or documentation relating to this cyber matter.  That was a lie!   That is a crime!  But how will the courts rule? 

We are being invaded by illegals with the aid, of the federal government or the Biden administration.  Sheriffs in border states are pushing back over the Biden administration’s ‘secret flights’ of illegals shipping them to various locations across inland America.  They call this activity “government-sanctioned human trafficking.”  It is diabolical in its design and is part of the plan to seize full control of our elections and our nation.  America, the Left, namely the Democratic Party and their activists are no longer attempting to veneer any hint of plausibility to their lies.  They are openly seeking to transform America into a Liberal Leftists Oligarchy that will lead to a totalitarian regime which they control.

We can defeat them by being informed and by standing our ground for Faith, Family, and Freedom.  We must unite and fight this assault and attempted coup on our Republic.  What we do in this year’s election will set the tone for the future and if we fail, we can kiss our freedom goodbye. 

God bless you and God bless America!

THE MYTH – SQUEAKY-CLEAN POLITICIANS…


Well, Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Robinette Biden, Jr., as well as Hillary Rodham Clinton and William Jefferson all, told us they were squeaky-clean, honest, and transparent politicians.  If you believe them, I would like to offer you a deal on some prime oceanfront property in the middle of Arizona.  I will even through in some green cheese from the moon’s surface, a unicorn, and a flying pig.  That’s as believable as their assertions and maybe more so.

The Biden family appears to be owned by China and other devious and corrupt countries.  Peter Schweizer a Breitbart News contributor has released information that has been corroborated by Hunter Biden’s business partner and other sources.  The information indicates that the Biden Family or Syndicate received at least $31 million from individuals closely linked to the highest levels of Chinese Intelligence. 

That money was received when Joe Biden was Vice President under Barack Obama and has continued while he has been sitting as President of the United States of America.  I do believe that is a violation of the law and should bring the question of treason into the equation.  It won’t, but it should! 

One of the players was a man named, Che Feng whom Hunter refers to as the Super Chairman.  Hunter said, “I don’t believe in the lottery anymore, but I believe in the Super Chairman.”  His business partner was the Vice Minister for state security in China.  Whoa Nellie that smells of corruption and the selling of American secrets is not out of the question.  Feng helped Hunter secure a $20 million deal. 

Another player is Mr. Zhao who helped with that deal and also sent Hunter $5 million from a business called Harvest Global.  That is a very interesting and suspicious name considering China’s continued cyber intelligence gathering.  To make it more dangerous and devious, the Vice Minister’s job in China was to oversee the entire Chinese spy apparatus. 

Some have wondered about Biden’s throwing Ukraine to the dogs and under the bus in this Russian imbroglio.  I think I may have stumbled on at least one reason for his actions other than ineptitude.  Sam Nunberg, privy to information on the highest levels under Trump has suggested that Biden gave Putin a green light with Ukraine for spite or payback for Ukraine cutting off Hunter’s cash cow.

Ukrainian energy company Burisma stopped bribing him after the 2016 election of former President Donald Trump.  The cash flow stopped but not the thirst for vengeance and payback by the Bidens.  If you recall, Hunter was paid the handsome sum of $80,000 per month to simply sit on the board.  What Fortune 500 Company pays that per month for board members? 

If you recall, the Mainstream Media won’t tell you, that Joe Biden bragged as Vice President that he was solely responsible for getting the investigator fired who was examining the bribery allegations involving Hunter.  First, they cut Hunter’s fee in half and then cut him off completely.  How dare anyone stop the flow of illicit cash to the Biden’s or any politician?  That is anathema and if given the opportunity the sullied politician will retaliate. 

President Trump strengthened NATO and approved the sale of heavy arms to Ukraine while he was in office.  Biden has reversed course and offers them tokens and blankets not protection against aggression.  He was supposed to help Europe stop Putin’s Nord Stream pipeline but instead, he wrapped it in a package and handed it to Putin free of charge.  Biden’s actions regarding Ukraine will likely embolden China in its pursuit of Taiwan.  Who would expect Biden to take a hard line against China?  I don’t see any hands.

Next, we have to wonder about the motive of the Biden administration to save Iran’s seat in the United Nations General Assembly for non-payment of dues.  Biden arranged funds to cover the debt and keep Iran securely in the UN and voting.  Why would you do that?  Why, unless you see them as an ally in the destruction of the United States of America as the Free Constitutional Republic? 

In less than two weeks the Biden team arranged for $18 million blocked Iranian funds to be released.  Wow!  Maybe the motivation is to create a wag the dog situation with a war in the Middle East and divert attention from America’s economic woes and soaring inflation.  William Jefferson Clinton was a master at that tactic and Biden’s team is not oblivious of the results.  After all, it was Obama’s own Rahm Emanuel who said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”  Everything is political and nothing is about the best good of America and Americans. 

Let me irritate some who hate Trump with a passion.  What would have been the response in the Media, Washington, Hollywood, and on the Internet if President Trump had bailed out an avowed foe as did Biden with Iran?  It would have taken less than a day for the articles of impeachment to have been drafted and presented and probably not much longer for the vote to have passed the House of Representatives.  Frankly, I would agree with the move if he had done that.

Let’s take that a step further and include the Ukraine and Russia situation.  If Trump had greenlighted Russia as Biden has, the howls of corruption and collusion would echo in the Halls of Congress, and immediately the articles of impeachment would have been forthcoming.  

Of course, Biden took a hard line, according to the pundits when he said, “If Russian were to invade, they would be “held accountable.”  I’m sure Putin is shaking in his boots.  Then Biden watered down that stance saying, “It depends on what it does.  It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, et cetera.” 

How can a sitting President provide intelligence to an adversary as Biden did when he clearly informed Putin that NATO was divided about how to respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  He made it clear that Putin could do some things short of a full takeover and have a free pass.  In history, that kind of allowance leads to full dominance over time and Putin has time.

Since Russia imports gas from Ukraine Putin would be less likely to touch the supply route.  Not so anymore, because Biden handed him the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that liberates Russia to deal with Ukraine anyway, they please.  Thanks, President Biden you are making the world a much safer place and stemming the tide of oppression and aggression.  Don’t step in the Unicorn poop when you go in the backyard.

America, we have a disaster in the White House, and regardless of whether he is calling the shots or echoing what he is told it is destructive.  We must rectify the error in the subsequent elections.  Now is the time to begin vetting candidates to oust the RINOs and evict the Leftists.  We can do this if we band together and take our country back.

God bless you and God bless America!

WE MUST RETURN TO GOD…


I realize that this blog post may not win friends and influence people positively in some camps.  I cannot be concerned about that.  I am not attempting to be caustic or divisive but based on my Christian worldview and my commitment to God, I believe that we have erred, as a nation, in our drift from God and the Bible.  You may disagree and that is your right and privilege.

One can argue, inaccurately that our Founding Fathers were opposed to anything of the Bible and God being taught in the public schools or embraced in government.  There are too many references and direct quotes from them at the time of the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution that counters that view for me to spend much time on it. 

However, I will cite a few references in my comments and plea for a return to our moral moorings and in that to God and the Bible.  All roads do not lead to heaven.  You may believe that, but I stand on the Bible, and it is expressively clear that Jesus is the way to the Father and there is only one way to heaven and that is through His Grace – Salvation.  Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Light and He said, “No man comes to the Father but by me.”  He is the Door!  If you choose to unfriend me or challenge me, that is your prerogative and I respect your right to hold your own views and express them.  That won’t sway me in my convictions, but I won’t become argumentative and hateful. 

The Father of American Education and author of Webster’s Dictionary of 1828, had this to say regarding the Bible in schools: “In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed.”

Webster defined the word education as: “EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts, and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.” [Emphasis added]

Fischer Ames who is considered the author of the First Amendment supported the Bible in public education.  He said: “Why should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook?  Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble.  The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.”

He further stated: “We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We’re starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. … We’ve become accustomed of late to putting little books in the hands of children containing fables with moral lessons. We are spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other manmade book.”

Another of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Rush, asserted his support powerfully saying, “If we were to remove the Bible from public schools, we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.”  That is exactly what we have done!  The incorrect view that the founding fathers wanting nothing of God, Christianity, or the Bible in education or government has brought us to the precipice of losing our republic to tyranny and despotism.

We are rapidly reaching the place where those in power in Washington, state, and local entities are becoming Hitleresque and imposing regulations and mandates that are in direct conflict with the American Constitution.  However, they do so in the name of safety and use the phrase, “for the good of all.”  Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”  That may sound harsh and cruel, but it was insightful to the reality that rights, freedoms, and liberties once ceded are never regained.  Governments nor Tyrants ever, short of a revolution, give back the lost rights.

In the Engel v. Vitale case (1962), the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-1 against New York’s Regents’ prayer, a non-denominational prayer which, state education officials had composed for public school children to recite.  One year later, a case originated by a Philadelphia area man named Ed Schempp challenged mandatory Bible reading in Pennsylvania schools.  The case went to the Supreme Court, and they ruled 8-1 that devotional Bible reading or other government-sponsored religious activities in public schools was unconstitutional.  They were wrong based on the writings of the Founding Fathers’ original intent.

If you honestly examine Engel v. Vitale, you will discover something that is ignored or missed by local schools and most citizens.  The court did not say the students could not organize and offer prayer only that the schools themselves could not.  However, the reality is that Prayer has been banned based on what is happening.  If you wear a Christian T-shirt to school, you will likely be sent home.  However, if you wear one depicting almost anything else you will likely not be sent home.  That is discrimination and religious persecution. 

We may soon have a government mandate and program where the government issues every citizen an N95 mask and failure to wear it could result in incarceration or worse.  We may soon find ourselves so policed in our speech and thought that anything other than the defined government acceptable ideology and agenda will be deemed hate speech, insurrection, and sedition.  Under government laws, the latter of those could result in long prison sentences and even execution.  Am I being melodramatic and exaggerating?  Not intentionally, because there are proposals for those very things floating around the Halls of Congress, the White House, and other segments of government.

Even now, the Department of Justice has brought charges of sedition against the leader of Oath Keepers and other members of that group.  This is all tied to the January 6th incident in Washington.  In using this tactic, they are attempting to make January 6th an organized preplanned attempt to overtake and overthrow the government by Trump and his supporters.   Some of the events may have been preplanned but the evidence suggests it was not Trump supporters or with Trump’s support.  We are treading on very thin ice, and this shows how tedious the state of the Republic really is.

If we return to God as 2 Chronicles 7:14 admonishes and practice the Christian lifestyle and manner we would find love rather than hate being sown throughout our society.  We would find that there was more tolerance of differing views rather than intense vitriolic hatred.  We would find more listening to opposing views rather than attempting to silence all voices that disagree with our position.  The Bible says, “God is Love!”  It does not say that He has love but that He is love.  If He lives in our hearts, we too will manifest love.

If you are on the Right or the Left and you are spewing hate, you are part of the problem not a pathway to a solution.  I do not want to see a Civil War.  I want to see a return of America to a Republic where all are viewed as being created equal and have certain inalienable rights including, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.  The problem in America is not simply Right vs. Left, Republican vs. Democrat, or Conservative vs. Liberal.  It is a heart problem.  I do not mean the organ in the chest that pumps blood but that part of us that makes us who we are and drives our actions and interactions.

I believe that in these last days there will be those who earnestly seek to return to God and demonstrate love.  There will be others who become rigid in opposition and the resulting persecution and hate may push us over the precipice of destruction into a Civil War and many on both sides will perish.  In that scenario, the Republic will crumble, and everyone will pay a severe price.

We need to return to God and our moral foundations.  I pray we do.  God bless you and God bless America!

WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR AMERICA TO AWAKEN?


I am serious in my inquiry as to what it will take for the sleeping giant of America to awaken and the people unite to resist tyranny?  How many liberties must be stripped from us?  How many usurpations of the Constitution must transpire?  How many mandates and regulations must be issued?  Will we realize the danger we are in before or after we have been attacked by outside forces as we are disintegrating within?  What will it take?  I pray that we awaken before it is everlastingly too late!

I believe that the presidency of Joe Biden has weakened our standing in the world and made us incredibly vulnerable to our enemies.  I believe that his appeasement and milquetoast positioning of America is unimaginably dangerous for our Republic.  We have been transformed from being viewed as the protector of the weak in the world to being among the weak and growing weaker.  Our enemies do not fear us, and our friends are losing respect for us.  That is a dangerous condition and one all should be concerned about.

We are being reduced from the economic and military giant to a run-of-the-mill nation.  We have witnessed our energy independence disappear in just a few short months.  We are returning to energy servitude to nations that hate us and kowtowing to nations that chant “Death to America” viewing us as the great satan of the world.  That should give everyone pause and is a reason for concern.

We have experienced the metamorphosis from being the nation that defeated the evil regimes and agendas of Germany and Japan in World War II to one that would have difficulty defeating such an enemy today.  We have been transformed from being the nation and leadership that forced the demise of the Soviet Union and the tearing down of the Berlin wall to a nation that is laughed at and ignored by those forces that desire our demise.

We were warned by Nikita Khrushchev and other world leaders of Communist countries who predicted our demise.  I recently read an article citing the prediction of Historian Peter Turchin, a Russian defector who fled to the United States in 1978.  He has researched the records of 414 societies spanning millenniums from 30 regions of the world to uncover his predictions regarding America.

Turchin concluded that civil unrest will likely erupt and reach the shattering point of our society.  He classified 1,590 incidents – riots, lynching, and political events where at least one person was killed from 1780 to 2010 and identified 50-year cycles of peaks in brutality in 1870, 1920, 1970.  He has predicted that the worst-case scenario of an all-out civil war is likely.

He has predicted that we have passed the line of demarcation and will continue to plunge into disarray, and it will ultimately result in the demise of the Republic known as the United States of America.  Is he right?   I pray he is not!  But what will it take for America to awaken to our condition and plight?  What will it take for us to unite to resist the rise of tyranny and governmental oppression?

We have an enemy more dangerous than all the Islamic jihadists in the world and are ill-prepared to deal with that enemy.  We have two major enemies more dangerous than the rest.  The internal strife that has divided us, and the Republic of Communist China.  Couple that with adversaries such as Iran and Russia and we are on the precipice of danger unlike we have ever faced.  Will we wake up in time to prepare for an attack from outside our borders?  Will we return to sanity and restore our moral moorings in America?  I wish I could predict that we will, but I am only cautiously hopeful.  It is my faith in God that keeps me going not my confidence in the Government of the American populace.

China has amassed a vast military arsenal and is capable of putting a million boots on the ground or more at any time and anywhere.  With China flexing its muscle and rattling its sabers over Taiwan the Biden administration is ill-equipped to deal with it.  Biden and his family are indebted to China on so many fronts that any likelihood of his standing up to them is inconceivable. 

The Obama dismantling of our military and the purging of the ranks of senior officers of those who are more God-fearing, constitutionally oriented, and conservative does not bode well.  Trump tried to build up the military but was unable to replenish the ranks of senior and flag officers, therefore we have a very large contingent of Leftist Woke officers in the senior ranks of our military.

China has also transformed itself into an economic super-power or as one said, an “economic imperial giant.”  They are presently threatening to attack our forces in Taiwan and are determined to take over that nation.  They are making other inroads in the Atlantic and appear to be virtually in control of the Panama Canal.  Some would argue that they also control the Wall Street Journal and much of our federal government.  If that is accurate, we are up the proverbial creek without a paddle, and paddling by hand cannot prove successful. 

China is attempting to make inroads in Africa seeking a naval base in Equatorial Guinea further threatening our national security.  If this is successful with China’s economic might they will further corrupt the leaders of that poverty-stricken country and permit the Red Warships to sail freely in the Atlantic and rule the seas.

Vladimir Putin has amassed over 200,000 troops to invade Ukraine again and Biden is impotent to stop him other than issue meaningless and powerless threats of sanctions.  Putin knows Biden too well, having dealt with him and Obama watched the Obama administration’s reaction when the Russians took over Kiev.  What did they do?  They armed the Ukrainians with packaged food and warm blankets.  Nice way to stop aggression, right?

Add to that terrible condition the actions of Biden are allowing the Mullahs of the Islamic world to position themselves to rule the Middle East.  We have abandoned our only friend in the region, Israel, and alienated the more moderate nations.  God help us!

Thanks to Joe Biden and his administration we are once again dependent on foreign oil.  He is depleting our strategic oil reserves and destroying the Oil and Gas industries.  One has to wonder why Biden would support the Russian oil pipeline into Germany while shutting down our Keystone pipeline.  He is empowering Putin to rule Europe and China to rule Asia creating a condition worse than that of the World War II era.  When will America awaken?  Will America awaken?  Are we watching America be destroyed and destroyed at such a rapid pace that it is astounding?

I believe that Biden is suffering from diminished mental capacity, but his handlers are using the weak, incredibly ineffectual, and in my view, criminal president to further the Globalist agenda and made America incredibly weak and vulnerable.  I am not certain that even if we win super-majorities in 2022 there is time to stop this destruction.  Will the damage have been so severe that it is impossible to turn the tide?  I hope not, but my trepidation grows almost daily.

What do we do?  For me and my house, we are trusting God and have committed ourselves to prayer and fasting interceding for the Republic.  I am placing my all on the line to stand for Faith, Family, and Freedom.  I stand on 2 Chronicles 7:14 and call all believers to join me. 

God bless you and God bless America!

HOW BAD IS THE BIDEN PRESIDENCY?


Among the many problems transpiring during the Biden presidency and as a result of the Biden policies is the “Supply Chain” issue.  Good news if you are a Leftist who desires to fundamentally transform America and destroy our Republic, IT IS GOING TO GET WORSE!  That’s right, I am telling you without needing to be prophetic that the supply issue is going to get worse.

The unyielding position of the Leftists on the mandates is now affecting truckers and the railroad and if they go on strike, you had better be stocked up in non-perishables.  You may or may not have seen the selves increasingly becoming empty as in the early days of the pandemic, but you will. 

Many Americans who work for a living have reached the point of no return in their tolerance of the draconian mandates issued by this administration and other governmental entities.  Truckers are saying, “Enough” and when they do, if the railroad follows suit, we are in deep trouble.  The Canadian truckers have had enough and should a significant number of eighteen-wheeler drivers from either nation decide to sit this one out, we are in trouble!

The Burlington Northern – Santa Fe (BNSF) railroad may have 17,000 works out on strike soon.  If that happens, the supply issues in the United States will take an incredibly disruptive hit.  We depend on the railroad and truckers to get goods from one location to another.  If items are not being shipped, supply ends, and shelves become bare.  That invites looting, mayhem, and home invasions if it continues for very long.  The last empty shelves issue is still a bad taste in the mouths of many.

What is the issue with the BNSF?  A new work policy to be implemented on February 1, 2022, which disregards the health issues, exhaustion, and inept scheduling is the straw that may break the camel’s back for the workers.  These situations with the railroad and truckers can be directly tied to the Biden administration’s inept and insane policies and assaults on our economy and our freedoms.

President Joe Biden’s actions are intolerable, and I predict that America will not long stand for it.  We will either unite regardless of political ideology and party affiliation and reject this bunch of destructionists or we will become sheep led to the slaughter and watch America be no more.  I know which choice I will make because I have already made it.  I am not a docile sheep that does not or cannot think for myself.

The old story of the frog and the pan of water is somewhat applicable in today’s America.  If you throw a frog into a pan of boiling water, that frog will immediately leap out.  It may be injured but it won’t die by sitting in the water.  However, if you put the frog in lukewarm water and slowly turn up the heat it will sit there and boil to death. That seems to be what is happening to many today.  They have been slowly turning up the heat and we keep saying, “Well, this too will pass” or “it’s just another political cycle.”  NO!  It is destruction!

I am becoming more and more convinced that most voters do not care about Biden’s agenda.  What they really care about is the day-to-day decline in our economy and the continual usurpations of our liberties and freedoms.  Many are beginning to awaken, and I am hopeful that in November of this year and 2024 we will see a massive turnout that rejects the destruction.  Will that solve all our problems, NO but it will be a good beginning.

A recent IBD/TIPP poll reveals just how dismal he is in the eyes of the voting public.  That poll reported that “The share of Americans who give him an A or B [on handling coronavirus] has fallen from 56% in April to 41% in January.… President Biden’s handling of the economy gets good grades only from 34% of Americans.… President Biden gets good grades from only 28% on the immigration issue.… Only 36% of those who took part in the survey give him good grades for his overall performance.”

I pray that Americans have reached the point they are fed up with grandiose promises.  I pray that we move beyond our complacency and reject the mandates and demand a return to normal.  Well, return to as much normal as is possible in the wake of the damage done already.  We can fix the supply problem, the mandate problem, the energy problem, and the interpersonal and interracial problems in America.  But we have no hope of achieving those objectives if the Left stays in power. 

It is my firm conviction that God will help us, but only if we return to Him and apply the prescription of 2 Chronicles 7:14 to our lives and our nation.  Although this passage was not directed at the unbeliever the people of God, I believe that if the believers will apply it and do it, the unbeliever will see the benefits. 

America is not without fault.  I know no one who uses reason and sound logic with any measure of understanding of our true history that says it is.  We have made mistakes or committed sins that deserve judgment.  However, if we are seeking to extract our pound of flesh for previous sins rather than seeking reconciliation and moving forward together toward the American Ideal of the Declaration of Independence, we will fail. 

The Bible both urges and commands us to love one another.  We know that love covers a multitude of sins.  We know that love seeks the best good of the other person and is willing to work through some wrongs and misguided actions.  We know that love is a healing balm.  Are there those who reject love and prefer hate?  Of course, but I know from experience that love overcomes hate if continuously applied.

If we could convince ourselves of the truth of the assertion of the Declaration of Independence that “All are created equal and endowed with certain unalienable rights by our Creator” we would find common ground to debate our differences.  If I believe you are a person created in the image of God, I will regard you differently and with more respect.  I will recognize that life is filled with choices and each of us has a right to choose what we believe and to express that view.  We do not have the right to infringe upon the inalienable right of another.

America, Joe Biden has been a dismal failure! Many of us knew that he would be, but most of us did not realize just how terrible and destructive he would be in the first year.  I believe God warned us, history warned us, and some preachers were bold enough to warn us.  The only thing I heard in my spirit before the 2020 election was, “The election is up to you.”  I was staggered when I heard that.  I first thought it was up to Roy Beaird, but then I realized that God was telling me that it was up to the believers!

We were repeatedly urged to apply 2 Chronicles 7:14 individually and collectively.  Rather than doing that the Church began to choose sides and go to war with each other.  We did not, on a national scale, follow the directive.  That directive was multifaceted.  God’s People are the people to do this.  The first command was to humble ourselves.  We did not do that but rather took a position of pridefulness and blasted others rather than focusing on our sins.  The next was to Pray AND Seek God’s Face.  In doing that we were to turn from our wicked ways.  Rather, we said, “I have no sin, it’s the other side that is wrong.”   God said, THEN, I will hear… THEN, I will forgive… THEN, I will heal their land.

America, I ask that you join me in a national time of repentance, seeking God’s face, turning from evil to good, and praying.  We can see America restored, but it will not be without casualties and difficulty. 

God bless you and God bless America!

NOT TRYING TO START A WAR, BUT I HAVE QUESTIONS…


Let me say at the outset, I am not trying to increase the divide between those who are pro-vaccine and those who are anti-vaccine.  I have said from the beginning, that I view this as a personal choice.  I believe that it is none of my business, your business, or the government’s business who is and who is not vaccinated.  I view it as a matter that each individual must assess through their own research and in prayer.  If you feel good about it, then do it.  If you do not, then be at peace and follow your heart.  I know that some on both sides will find that repulsive and may seek to castigate and vilify me.  Please don’t.  You want to be respected for your choice, so I ask that you respect others for theirs.

If we are honest, there are some discrepancies that should raise questions.  I, for one, am unable to blindly accept whatever the CDC, the WHO, the so-called experts (who disagree), and the White House on this matter.  I am not saying the threat is not as serious as the White House and Dr. Fauci are claiming.  However, if it is then why did the White House turn down a proposal that would have added more than 730 million at-home COVID tests to the market per month? 

They have suggested that they are going to seek to bolster rapid home tests through the “FDA’s regulatory approval process.”  I find that incredibly interesting since that was not the approach to rush the vaccine to market.  If tests will help to identify those positive and allow them to seek early treatment, why would it not be desirable to supply adequate test kits?

The administration even suggested that the United States, “Did not have the capacity to manufacture over-the-counter tests at that scale.”  Seriously?  Why Not?  If we have the capacity to produce the vaccine, why not the test kits?  Is there a reason to not allow citizens to test themselves in their own homes which would result in more tests being done?  Is it more lucrative and controllable to test people at a control site than at their own discretion at home?  I don’t know the answer, but with a minimum of $13,000 provided to hospitals for each positive test, I wonder.

Former Customs and Border Protection commissioner, Mark Morgan reported that this administration allowed 600,000 migrants to illegally enter the United States without testing or mandating them to be vaccinated?  Why one policy for the illegals and another for law-abiding citizens?  At least one reason for such a high number of illegal entrants is that 60-70% of our Border Patrol have been pulled off the front lines.  None of them are being screened for COVID or any other disease, so it seems.  Why?  If COVID is the threat they insist, and it may be, why would they not insist on testing those coming here legally or illegally?

The insistence of a Vaccine Passport is troubling on many levels, and I view it as a direct conflict with the constitutional guarantees for Americans.  It smacks with tyrannical despotism and something that is done in Authoritarian Dictatorships around the world, not Free America.  But alas, that is the call and more citizens than I am comfortable with endorse such a move.  I am reminded of Benjamin Franklin’s assertion: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”  At what level of usurpation of our Freedoms will we draw the line in the sand?  The Bible says that “God has not given us the spirit of fear…”  (2 Timothy 1:7).

Are we entering an era in America where we have to show our papers to the modern Gestapo to participate in a Free Society?  Is that freedom?  That is easily a precursor and conditioning tool for the entrance of the Mark of the Book of Revelation.  I did not say this was the mark!   Alarmingly, this plan is being rolled out around the world and in some, heretofore, democratic republics.  It is being implemented in some large U.S. cities such as Washington, D.C., New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.  Others would and probably will if these are allowed to stand.  Those with much power are seizing and amassing even more.  Is that the objective?

The World Health Organization published a guide for this process in August 2021.  The title of this guidance is Technical Specifications and Implementation Guidance on Digital Documentation of Covid-19 Certificates.  That sounds like a Pandora’s Box that will lead us to Biblical prophecies that none of us desire to embrace or should not desire to embrace.  It is designed to give commonality for the countries issuing these passports so they can mesh together and network globally.  Who paid for this?  Guess who?  The Bill Gates Foundation and four other funders.

I have never ascribed to the vaccine being the Mark of the Beast, but this is a precursor to anesthetizing people into accepting that kind of event.  It is a forerunner to digital money and a cashless society.  It is a forerunner to tracking every human being on the planet and may even reach the place where we are arrested for potential crimes against humanity or the government before we commit them.  Is that freedom? 

If Covid-19 is dangerous enough to require such austere measures, would it not behoove the government to provide at-home tests for every household.  Would it not behoove the government to make every treatment that has any measure of success available to people at the very outset of symptoms?  Why wait until the person has pneumonia and is incapable of breathing requiring intubation from which few survive?  Why not be proactive rather than reactive? 

The guidance and those pursuing the Vaccine Mandate insist that the vax pass system cannot work if there is a critical mass of people who come together and decide not to use it.  A critical mass!  Interesting and they include both vaccinated and unvaccinated in that equation.  Our federal government is a government by the ‘consent of the people’ not by the ‘coercion of the people.’  If we lose that we lose our freedom.  Again, even if this virus is as dangerous and threatening as they are proclaiming, dare we lose our freedom trying to stop a virus that cannot be seen and penetrates everywhere? 

We have endured pandemics in our history and survived without shutting the world down or mandating that every person comply and have papers to prove their compliance to travel, do commerce, or work?  Is that America?  Will these mandates precipitate the most massive and inclusive Civil Rights movement in our time?

Even a CBS News correspondent has blasted the crushing COVID lockdown policies on kids saying, “They have suffered and sacrificed the most.”  The mental stability of children and adults living under draconian mandates and isolation is yet to be fully investigated.  What we know now is that the suicide rate has increased, family violence has increased, drug addiction and alcoholism have increased.  Is it possible that the draconian tyranny being imposed in the mandates and lockdowns doing more damage than the virus we are seeking to escape?

This correspondent cited statistical data for the scientific community that healthy teens have a “one-in-a-million” chance of catching and dying from the coronavirus.  They have a greater chance of dying in a car crash than COVID.  She cited the statistical data that suicide attempts among girls have risen 51% this past year.  Also, black children are nearly twice as likely to die by suicide as whites.  What are we doing? 

My plea is sanity and civility.  We can accomplish anything if we will work together, talk to each other, and not divide up in camps making people of our own household the enemy.  If we will turn to God and seek His guidance and help, we can overcome this pandemic.  If we will insist that the federal government be “by consent of the people” rather than by ‘coercion’ we can overcome.  Remember in 2022 when you vote where the candidates and their parties stand on the issues and VOTE!

I urge each person to follow their hearts and listen for the guidance of the Spirit of God in this and all matters!

God bless you and God bless America!

AMERICA IS IN DEEP EXCREMENT…


Yes, I said it and that is exactly what I see.  I try to look at things realistically from a biblical view. I attempt to take what God has said in His Word and apply His Words to my life and my world.  That frequently places me in the crosshairs of those on the Left, the P.C. Police, and those who mistakenly position themselves as pacificists in the name of tolerance. 

I am often told that if we would just show the Love of God, we will eventually win those on the other side to become morally right in their lives and views.  To that I say, as have others, to take that position you have to dismiss well over half of the New Testament.  We are to be salt and light.  If we are to be light, we have to bring truth to the table and present it articulately.  I believe the directive that was given in 1 Peter 3:15 – “but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.”  ESV.

Sadly, those on both sides of the issue are taking positions of vilification rather than reconciliation.  We don’t listen carefully and fully.  We listen until we hear something we do not like, and we lash out.  That is destructive, not productive.  I am not suggesting that we abandon our convictions and beliefs, but that we counter with a godlike demeanor and soften our words, not our message.

Why do I say that America is in deep excrement?  One of the many reasons is the utter failure of both the Supreme Court and Congress.  Their actions on so many fronts indicate that they are either ignorant of the constitution or have chosen to ignore it.  We could rehash the many failures of both, but the latest involves the COVID mandates.  I don’t care which side of the vaccination issue you fall on this should be of interest to you. 

The case, National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) v. Department of Labor (OSHA) which mandates that employers with at least 100 persons must submit to the vaccination or be regularly tested.  That mandate applied to 84 million workers.  This was to provide a pathway for the administration to regulate business without congressional legislation.  That is a usurpation of both the 10th amendment and our personal liberty and freedom guaranteed by the constitution. 

It seems that the frequent waffler Chief Justice Roberts believed that the government had overreached stating that COVID mitigation policies would best be left to the states and Congress.  Justice Neil Gorsuch endorsed that view.  In the discussion, Justice Stephen Breyer made the Bidenesque claim that was “750 million new cases yesterday, or close to it, that is a lot.”  He seemed to forget that there are only 334 million Americans and he insisted that vaccines and masks would prevent 100% of coronavirus infections.  WOW!  With that wisdom, I believe you can see why I suggest the deep excrement.

But Breyer’s idiotic assertion was surpassed by Justice Sonia Sotomayor.  She compared human beings to machines.  She said, “Why is a human being not like a machine if it’s spewing a virus, blood-borne viruses?” She falsely claimed that there were 100,000 children in serious condition from COVID-19.  The inconvenient truth as reported by the Health and Human Services confirmed that pediatric hospitalizations were 3,342.  Justice Sotomayor, where do you get your facts?  I know, you got the talking points of the Leftists and regurgitated them.  That is not what you are to do as a Supreme Court Justice.  You are to be apolitical in your view.  You are to judge according to the constitution, not personal ideology.

To take this a step further the sitting president, Joe Biden, and his Democratic cohorts have mastered the art of psychological projection.  They seem to be incapable of recognizing the truth and displaying honesty, so they accuse the Republicans, Conservatives, and Christians who hold to biblical moral standards of practicing their own sins.  Whatever you hear them accusing the other side of is usually what they are guilty of. 

Mr. Biden accused Trump and his supports of being those who seek to ‘dismantle our democracy.’  Congressman Eric Swalwell, D-California offered his lament, “I’m worried that if Republicans win the midterm elections, that voting in this country as we know it will be gone.”  Congressman, that is exactly what your side is trying to do, end voting and become an oligarchy or dictatorship.  Again, they spout lies, hysteria, paranoia, and play on the fears of those who are ill-informed or uninformed.

Another factor in our placement in the excrement is a new poll that shows only 11% of adults (I say that loosely) believe that Joe Biden is a strong leader.  Someone said, “That same 11% believe that Tiger Woods is a scary place for a picnic.”  On the other side of that coin, 57% consider him to be a weak leader. 

The president’s comments on the events of January 6, 2021, included the declaration that we are in a battle for the soul of America.  He is right but not for the reasons he cited.  He is pitting one side against another rather than seeking to find common ground, open discussion, or any semblance of tolerance.  He is, by his rhetoric inciting a civil war in America.  If you disagree with him or them, they claim that you are an insurrectionist, anarchist, racist, homophobic pig and need to be reeducated or eradicated. 

I do not make New Year’s Resolutions but take the opportunity at the beginning of each year to reflect on the year passed and seek to chart a better course.  I look for opportunities rather than focusing on failures or difficulties.  In the past year, we were inundated with fearmongering and there was a genuine attempt to strip us of our American Spirit.  Patriotism was in the crosshairs as were the home, family, morals, and anything conservative.  

If we do not return to a condition in which we apply biblical principles and learn to respect the rights of others to have a dissenting view we will end in chaos and destruction.  I agree with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich that America is broken and both sides need to stop ranting and start listening.  The Old Testament’s eye for an eye needs to be replaced with the New Testament’s love they neighbor and the realization that vengeance does not belong to man but God.

We need to rediscover the art of listening.  We do not have to agree on all things but at least listen, we just might learn something constructive and develop an understanding of why people think as they do.  In that discovery, we can find responses that are not caustic but informative.

We need to allow ourselves to learn new things, and, in that discovery, we need each other.  None of us have a full picture of reality.  None of us have a full understanding of the truth.  If I learn to add what you know and share with what I know, I am much more informed and hopefully wiser.

We need to commit ourselves to helping our fellow man and our country.  We need to become involved in our communities, churches, and our government.  Each year we see the ravages of natural disasters, addiction, homelessness, and crime.  If we would reach out our hands and our hearts to those in need, we would find compassion becoming stronger and, in that state, we could make America better.

Again, I ask not one to abandon their convictions or beliefs, but I do ask that we restrain ourselves from tit for tat and insult for insult.  Soft answers can turn away wrath.  If I show another understanding and actually listen, I find that their anger, over time, subsides and I am able to communicate.  They may not accept my presentation of truth but at least they hear me. 

God bless you and God bless America!

HOW MUCH DOES CHINA OWN IN AMERICA?


Some of us have been concerned for several years over the increased foreign ownership of land in the United States of America.  I can envision no scenario in which it is a good policy to allow foreign governments or foreign agents to own land, businesses, infrastructure, etc. in the United States of America.  I say that with emphasis when it comes to those who are clearly our adversaries, not our friends, such as China or Russia.  Yet, it continues to transpire and how much they own is not fully discernable but what we know is frightening.

The ownership of farmland by China is incredibly disconcerting to this American.  Farmland, the source of our food supply owned by China should cause the hair on the back of all American’s necks to stand on end.  If you cannot see the danger in that you are not thinking.  If they control the land, they control the supply, the price, and thereby have the power to cause starvation in the USA. 

Imagine an administration that is in bed with the Chinese government and what that would mean to America if China decided to do the abhorrent and reduce our food supply.  Wait, you don’t have to imagine it we have one today in the Biden administration.  An administration that seems to be owned by Xi and the Chinese along with his family.  Does that bode well for America and Americans? 

What we know and is open to public view is probably a drop in the bucket to reality.  But what we know is deeply disconcerting.  We have a sprinkling of U.S. lawmakers who have expressed concern over the increased Chinese purchases of American farmland.  They may be responding after the cows are out of the barn, but at least some of them are taking note.  Will they be able to do anything?  Not unless we gain a change in the presidency, Congress, and the courts. What I mean is, not unless we strip the power from the grips of the liberal leftist globalist and put it in the hands of those who will fight for America.

At the outset of 2020, Chinese investors owned a minimum of 192,000 acres of U.S. agricultural land valued at about $1.9 BILLION.  In 2018 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that China’s agricultural investments in other nations had grown more than tenfold.  That demands questions?  Why?  But the answer is so clear and threatening everyone should insist that the U.S. government implement laws to prevent it from happening in America before it is too late.

Surely everyone can see the danger in allowing China to control our food supply.  We are paying subsidies to foreign-owned land in the United States.  Seriously, we are paying them to destroy us!  How can anyone think that is a good idea?  Some states are taking action that imposes restrictions on foreign ownership of farmland, but it may be too little too late.  We are rapidly headed toward a Chinese-owned agricultural monopoly and if that happens, America is toast.

By doing a little more research in an effort to find some of the hidden portions of this iceberg I discovered that at least 30 million acres of American farmland are owned by foreign investors.  That is a portion of land roughly the size of Mississippi or Pennsylvania.  That is deeply disconcerting.

Six states currently have bans on foreign ownership of farmland:  Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota, and Oklahoma.  Hey American States, including my home Texas, why haven’t you followed suit? 

It is not just farmland that China is purchasing but residential properties as well.  China owns more residential real estate than any other foreign country.  They have massive holdings on the West Coast and impact the real estate market.  They also have incredible influence over the American media and our national policies are being dictated by pro-China advocates and rhetoric.

The New York Times, for example, their largest shareholder Carlos Slim has close ties and business ventures with Chinese firms in the pocket of the Chinese government.  His Giant Motors have a vested interest in China’s JAC Motors engaged in penetrating the Latin American market with designs on the U.S. market.

The Washington Post (WaPo) under the ownership of Jeff Bezos and many of Amazon’s biggest-selling products such as Echo, and the Kindle are manufactured in China.  It is fiscally profitable for Bezos and the WaPo to back China even if it means losing our Republic.  The globalists are not concerned about the America of our Founders they are concerned about a globe filling their coffers and enhancing their power, control, and influence.

Cable News Network (CNN) is a property of WarnerMedia which is so closely tied to China it might as well be called Chinese News Network.  If you recall how CNN reacted to the Wuhan virus you can see what I’m suggesting.  Couple that with NBC, ABC, and Bloomberg, and you quickly realize how much influence China has in the American media.  Therefore, their propaganda is presented 24/7/365 and the followers of those media outlets drink the Kool-Aid and regurgitate the rhetoric.

China has long owned Hollywood and is seeking to control the content that America sees via the Big Screen, the television, and various social media platforms including TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

I am doubly concerned to learn that the Chinese are buying strategic land in Texas.  In 2020 they purchased over 100,000 acres in West Texas for what is deemed an economic project.  The U.S. Intelligence believes, as do I, that this is less economic and more intelligence gathering.  Interestingly, this land is framed by the pristine Devils River, the legendary Pecos River in West Texas borderlands of Val Verde County.

Beginning in 2015, GH America Investment Group has purchased over 130,000 acres of property in Val Verde County.  You will not be surprised to learn that GH America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Xinjiang-based Guanghui Industry Investment Group.  Must I remind everyone that Xinjiang is notorious for its so-called re-education camps, where China detains Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities against their wills and violates their human rights?  Why do they want in America?  Could that be a clue?

Pay attention to the fact that China emerged from the COVID-19 shock earlier than the rest of the world and is planning for the long term.  China outpaced the United States in attracting foreign direct investment for the first time in history. 

If America is loaded with corrupt politicians owned by China, where does that lead?  If the American Media is controlled by China and we are lambasted with pro-China rhetoric constantly, where does that lead?  If we continue the Big Tech censorship of anything regarding the agenda of the Leftists and the Globalists, where does that lead?  If American business continues to be undercut by Washington, where does that lead?  If our American culture and core values continue in the crosshairs of the Leftists and Washington, where does that lead?  It leads to the demise of America.

If we allow China to own us, we will find our liberty only a faint memory and our children’s children will become serfs to a foreign godless entity that will make their lives a living hell.  That will be the legacy we leave to our children.  I am not willing to quietly let that happen.

Therefore, I am committed to sounding the alarm and standing for Faith, Family, and Freedom!  Will you join the rest of us so committed?

God bless you and God bless America!