X X X ? ? ? – – – 7.8% – – – ? ? ? X X X

October 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Unemployment Statistics—according to whom? (according to people not out of work)

FISHY

Fishy # One – – – Here, fishy, fishy, come take my baited hook.  You’ve been waiting for years for something this good.

Fishy # Two – – – Stinks to high heaven.  How many stinking lies are we supposed to swallow?

Fishy # Three – – – How did all these fish appear, just now?  One month before election, the unemployment number suddenly does a magic trick?  Come on now, you’ve got to be kidding

At least two members on the Bureau of Labor Statistics are significant contributors to the current administration’s political campaign.

If you count all the people who have given up looking for work, the unemployment rate would be much higher—no chance of re-election.

The BLS statistics do not count the people who have given up looking for work.

The BLS statistics are usually revised (more honest direction) a week after posting.

Somebody knows they are pulling something over on us.

Will Americans take the bait, again, and swallow the well-designed fish-hook, line, and sinker?

Filed Under: Financial, Political---Cultural

“I ONLY REGRET . . . “

October 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

If you do what’s right,

If you stand for what’s right,

If you stand against evil,

If you act against evil,

You will break somebody’s rules,

You will suffer for it.

 

Don’t be surprised.

Don’t complain.

“I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”     —–Nathan Hale

Filed Under: Inspirational, Political---Cultural

FINANCIAL “POLLITICS”

October 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

If economic headlines from Europe sway the U.S. Stock Market on a daily basis, then it is easy to influence the coming election with manipulated polls and doctored unemployment headlines.

Don’t be fooled now.

Objects in your media mirror and not as they appear.

TRUTH will be TRUTH, whether we see it now, or later.

Filed Under: Financial, Political---Cultural

“YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT”

October 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I DID TOO BUILD THAT.

JUST THINK WHAT I COULD BUILD IF GOVERNMENT DIDN’T GET IN THE WAY.

Filed Under: Inspirational, Political---Cultural

DEBATE – – – WHO WON? – – – WHO’S WORRIED?

October 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Sic’em, Mitt!

You won—keep it that way.

Don’t ever let up the pressure.

Keep pouring it on by posing all the unanswered (and unanswerable) questions on the campaign trail (daily and in the debates).

Make it your trademark.

Make him squirm, more.

 

What about BHOB*?

Should he be worried?

Probably “Yes” about the next debate.

Possibly “No” about the election.

Very simply, when you consider all the illegal and unconstitutional grabs for power so far, you can count on BHOB* to use the remaining devices and weapons at his disposal to stay in power.

And that power will not be presidential.

 

*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.”

 

Filed Under: Political---Cultural

X X X – D M Z – X X X

October 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment

(inspired by Dan Celia yesterday)

Demilitarized Zone

—in war

—in politics

—in America

—in church

—in future

In war there is a marginal status between a Demilitarized Zone and a No Man’s Land.  A DMZ is supposed to be a safe area between sworn enemies who agree to leave you alone there.  A NML is a similar area between sworn enemies who agree to not leave you alone there—fair game.

In politics, tonight there is a presidential debate, where some will pretend a DMZ format.  It’s America, where we agree to disagree in a civil conversation, and afterward come together for the best interests of the country.  That’s the America I grew up in.  Not today.  We are in a NML worse than any war in our history.  Nothing safe.  Nothing sacred.  If we don’t take out the enemy now, he will laugh, because he couldn’t care less about America.

The church in America has been told we belong in the DMZ.  If we stay between their  lines, we will be left alone.  Don’t offend, don’t fight, don’t meddle.

The spiritual DMZ in this country has a bunch of rules and aka’s:

—freedom of worship, not freedom of religion

—political correctness in the pulpit

—sedated saints are safer

—state approved churches (what country are we in?)

—tolerance (for their way, or the highway)

—follow all the rules of pacifist democracy, and you won’t get hurt

—501c3  or else ACLU

—DMZ shrinks into NML

Is spite of all the outcry of “No Fair,”  “You Can’t Do That In America,”  the Demilitarized Zone is now the No Man’s Land.  And strangely enough, Christians are the main target—just like old times of the first century.

The zone between the lines becomes a line, a fence to straddle.

The devil owns the fence.

“Because you are lukewarm, I will vomit you out of my mouth.”     —–Jesus said that, to the church.

(Europe had it and lost it, for the same above reasons.)

Filed Under: Faith Based, Inspirational, Political---Cultural

YOU CAN DO IT – – – WHEN YOU HAVE TO

October 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Another frog and duck story (even though you’ll see this story first)

The other was about two ducks and a frog. This one is about two frogs and a duck.

 

Two small frogs were crossing a muddy road with very deep ruts.  One frog made it across—the other fell into a rut and couldn’t get out. So the first frog went for help (I don’t know what “help” looks like for a little frog).

When the first frog was on his way back with “help,” he met the other frog halfway home.

“How did you do that?  I thought you couldn’t jump out.”

“You see, a truck came along, and I had to.”

 

(Someone will have to ask the obvious question, and I will answer it.)

Filed Under: Fun, Inspirational

“MINE”

October 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Two ducks and a frog were best friends at a pond.

The pond dried up.

The ducks could fly to another pond.

The frog could not.

Solution.

They were on their way to the new pond (all three of them).

The two ducks held a stick in their beaks.

The frog held on between.

A farmer saw them passing overhead.

He asked, “Whose idea was that?”

The frog said, “MINE.”

 

You might tell the story when you’re tempted to boast.

Filed Under: Fun, Inspirational

VOLUNTARY / MANDATORY

October 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

“You shall have no other gods before me.”—–mandatory

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.”—–mandatory

He said “shall,” not “should.”—–mandatory

“Choose you this day whom you will serve.”—–voluntary

“You must be born again.”—–mandatory

“Follow Me“—–mandatory

“If you confess Jesus is Lord, you will be saved.”—–voluntary

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, . . .”—–voluntary

“. . . but he who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven.”—–mandatory

“Husbands, love your wives.”—–mandatory

“Wives, submit to your husbands.”—–mandatory

“Children, obey your parents.”—–mandatory

“You shall eat the fruit of every tree in the garden . . . “—–mandatory

“. . . but you shall not eat the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden.”—–mandatory

 

From day one God gives lots of mandatory instructions (whether we like it or not), with one universal exception.  If you don’t like the way God set it up and explained it in the Bible, you do have a way out—very simply:

God does not override free will—voluntary

BUT,

He just has the last word, in everything.—–mandatory

 

And one more thing—suppose you want to be part of God’s people, but still want the option to do your own thing.  We can never sidestep or outsmart the “IF‘s” in the Bible, even if we are a part of His people.

“IF MY PEOPLE, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways; THEN I WILL hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land.”

Filed Under: Faith Based, Inspirational

CRY “FOUL” = CRY “WOLF” ?

October 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

When does crying, “Foul”  equal crying, “Wolf” ?

Commentators, analysts, talk show hosts, authors, and everyday Americans have become accustomed to yelling and hearing about the foul things that BHOB* is doing to our constitutional freedoms.

People come running, no one sees a wolf to kill, and everyone goes back to work and home.

He steps further over the line, and everybody yells louder.

People come running, no one sees a wolf to kill, and everyone goes back to work and home.

He starts using the billion rounds of ammunition on us, and no one comes running, because everyone is running away, or trying to.

 

First, Hitler came for the gypsies.  I wasn’t a gypsy, so I did nothing.

Then, Hitler came for the Catholics.  I wasn’t a Catholic, so I did nothing.

Then, Hitler came for the Jews.  I wasn’t a Jew, so I did nothing.

Then, Hitler came for me.  There was no one else left to do anything.

 

*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.”

Filed Under: Inspirational, Political---Cultural
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