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Friday, August 22, 2014
Sunday, August 17, 2014
No one to blame but ourselves...
I was talking to someone the other day (I won't say who, or where I was, but the conversation was important enough I feel I need to share). We started talking about the ebola patients that were coming into the U.S. Then, the conversation got around to Israel.
"But, they have been fighting since the beginning of time. They will never quit fighting," she said. I then explained to her how this latest round of fighting got started. Three teenage boys, one of them an American. I explained how the Hamas was hiding behind the Palestinians, and why Israel is killing the Palestinians in the fire.
Then, not wanting to speak anymore about it, the conversation somehow went to the Border, and what should be done about that, and how Rick Perry has decided to deal with it. I voiced my support for Perry.
Finally, she said, "I don't like to talk about religion or politics. I don't want to have to choose sides."
I smiled. Then, as respectfully as I could, I told her, "You say that now. You feel that way, now. But, the time is going to come, and soon, when you won't have a choice. Those people who are coming over into our country from the borders? Some of them are terrorists. Soon, they will be coming into your yard. They will be killing your family, in front of you. They will try to kill you. You will be faced with a choice then. Do you listen to the government who tells us to be tolerant of Islam? Or do you fight to be the Christian God has called you to be? Do you welcome the illegal immigrants and give them quarter? or do you defend what's yours and demand they get off your property. You will die, one way or the other. Will you die on their side, or God's? The time is coming, and it's going to be here faster than you think. You, yourself, may have to witness and deal with it. You may have to suffer for your indecisiveness. So, just think about all that was said here today."
I remember about 15 years ago, when the age limit to buy alcohol in Texas was raised to 21. I went to jail on the DAY the law went into affect, because I failed to I-D an 18 year old in a sting operation in Austin, Texas.
A year later, I worked at another convenient store. There was a line of people at the counter and I was the only cashier that day. An old gentleman came with his six pack of beer.
The law was that you had to be over 21 AND have a valid Texas ID. AND. Not OR. And I didn't want to lose my job or go back to jail. The man was clearly in his 50s or 60s. I asked him for his ID. He looked at me like I was crazy.
I explained to him that I couldn't sell the alcohol to him if he didn't show his ID, and then I explained why. He shook his head in disgust and frustration, cussing me as he was walking out the door.
I stopped him. "Sir!" I said.
He stopped and turned around.
"I just have a question to ask you," I said. "Did you know that they were going to vote on this law before it passed?"
"Yes," he said.
"Did you call your congressman to tell him how you felt about the law? Did you write a letter? What did you do to stop this law from being passed?"
He shook his head, then answered, "I never thought it would ever happen here."
"Then you shouldn't be cussing me. It's YOUR fault you have to follow the law."
Everyone in line clapped.
It's the same premise today. If we don't secure our rights and our freedoms from those in our government who think we have too much, then when we can't fight back, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
"But, they have been fighting since the beginning of time. They will never quit fighting," she said. I then explained to her how this latest round of fighting got started. Three teenage boys, one of them an American. I explained how the Hamas was hiding behind the Palestinians, and why Israel is killing the Palestinians in the fire.
Then, not wanting to speak anymore about it, the conversation somehow went to the Border, and what should be done about that, and how Rick Perry has decided to deal with it. I voiced my support for Perry.
Finally, she said, "I don't like to talk about religion or politics. I don't want to have to choose sides."
I smiled. Then, as respectfully as I could, I told her, "You say that now. You feel that way, now. But, the time is going to come, and soon, when you won't have a choice. Those people who are coming over into our country from the borders? Some of them are terrorists. Soon, they will be coming into your yard. They will be killing your family, in front of you. They will try to kill you. You will be faced with a choice then. Do you listen to the government who tells us to be tolerant of Islam? Or do you fight to be the Christian God has called you to be? Do you welcome the illegal immigrants and give them quarter? or do you defend what's yours and demand they get off your property. You will die, one way or the other. Will you die on their side, or God's? The time is coming, and it's going to be here faster than you think. You, yourself, may have to witness and deal with it. You may have to suffer for your indecisiveness. So, just think about all that was said here today."
I remember about 15 years ago, when the age limit to buy alcohol in Texas was raised to 21. I went to jail on the DAY the law went into affect, because I failed to I-D an 18 year old in a sting operation in Austin, Texas.
A year later, I worked at another convenient store. There was a line of people at the counter and I was the only cashier that day. An old gentleman came with his six pack of beer.
The law was that you had to be over 21 AND have a valid Texas ID. AND. Not OR. And I didn't want to lose my job or go back to jail. The man was clearly in his 50s or 60s. I asked him for his ID. He looked at me like I was crazy.
I explained to him that I couldn't sell the alcohol to him if he didn't show his ID, and then I explained why. He shook his head in disgust and frustration, cussing me as he was walking out the door.
I stopped him. "Sir!" I said.
He stopped and turned around.
"I just have a question to ask you," I said. "Did you know that they were going to vote on this law before it passed?"
"Yes," he said.
"Did you call your congressman to tell him how you felt about the law? Did you write a letter? What did you do to stop this law from being passed?"
He shook his head, then answered, "I never thought it would ever happen here."
"Then you shouldn't be cussing me. It's YOUR fault you have to follow the law."
Everyone in line clapped.
It's the same premise today. If we don't secure our rights and our freedoms from those in our government who think we have too much, then when we can't fight back, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
Saturday, August 16, 2014
A Terrifying Thought...
by Shonda M. Ponder
August 15, 2013
I remember when I was a kid, during the Cold War. There was a movie that came out called Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze. The thought of Red Dawn actually happening was terrifying. Today, the enemy is ten times worse, and the thought of these terrorists invading our country should be more than terrifying--for the simple reason that once they do, they will never stop. No matter how many we kill, they will just keep coming. Perhaps they learned from our trip to Normandy.
The thing is, they are not afraid to die. In fact, they live to die. And, to torture those who they have no tolerance for is a rewarding experience for them. Our women and children will not be safe. Our men will have to watch as their wives get raped, and their sons sodomized, their daughters sold into slavery, and their loved ones buried alive, burned slowly for sport, spit on (although that is preferable to the rest of what will happen), beaten, skinned alive, beheaded, submerged in acid, and a number of other terrifying atrocities.
Once they are here, there will be no one to appeal to, but God. And, if you haven't listened to God before now, what makes you think He is going to listen to you now? The only thing left for you to do at this point is to join their religion, or die for your God, and hope that that's enough to keep you out of a worse hell than the one you just came from.
I don't mean to be gloom and doom, or sound graphic and insensitive, or hard and angry. But, I am. Because WE THE PEOPLE are letting it get to this point, and there is nothing stopping it from happening.
Reader beware: Our American pride and unified narcissism is going to destroy us all. We love our guns, our parties, our clothes, our homes, our food, our pets, our trucks and boats, and vacation spots and football games and schools...and our national symbols. Our pride in all these things is going to destroy us. When it is over, we will have nothing left. Maybe then we will learn to live to die, just like they do, because then, we will have nothing more to lose.
We are already slowly being infiltrated. When it happens, we will be able to do nothing but wonder how in the world things got this way. I can tell you how it got this way: apathy. It got this way because too many people continue to hold the belief that it will never, or can never happen here. If they would stop and take notice, there are a lot of "will nevers" and "can nevers" that have already happened just in the last decade.
Wake up, America! Before it's too late!
August 15, 2013
I remember when I was a kid, during the Cold War. There was a movie that came out called Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze. The thought of Red Dawn actually happening was terrifying. Today, the enemy is ten times worse, and the thought of these terrorists invading our country should be more than terrifying--for the simple reason that once they do, they will never stop. No matter how many we kill, they will just keep coming. Perhaps they learned from our trip to Normandy.
The thing is, they are not afraid to die. In fact, they live to die. And, to torture those who they have no tolerance for is a rewarding experience for them. Our women and children will not be safe. Our men will have to watch as their wives get raped, and their sons sodomized, their daughters sold into slavery, and their loved ones buried alive, burned slowly for sport, spit on (although that is preferable to the rest of what will happen), beaten, skinned alive, beheaded, submerged in acid, and a number of other terrifying atrocities.
Once they are here, there will be no one to appeal to, but God. And, if you haven't listened to God before now, what makes you think He is going to listen to you now? The only thing left for you to do at this point is to join their religion, or die for your God, and hope that that's enough to keep you out of a worse hell than the one you just came from.
I don't mean to be gloom and doom, or sound graphic and insensitive, or hard and angry. But, I am. Because WE THE PEOPLE are letting it get to this point, and there is nothing stopping it from happening.
Reader beware: Our American pride and unified narcissism is going to destroy us all. We love our guns, our parties, our clothes, our homes, our food, our pets, our trucks and boats, and vacation spots and football games and schools...and our national symbols. Our pride in all these things is going to destroy us. When it is over, we will have nothing left. Maybe then we will learn to live to die, just like they do, because then, we will have nothing more to lose.
We are already slowly being infiltrated. When it happens, we will be able to do nothing but wonder how in the world things got this way. I can tell you how it got this way: apathy. It got this way because too many people continue to hold the belief that it will never, or can never happen here. If they would stop and take notice, there are a lot of "will nevers" and "can nevers" that have already happened just in the last decade.
Wake up, America! Before it's too late!
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Answer to Rick Perry's Revolutionary Idea
According to The Conservative Tribune, Rick Perry is calling on the American people to stand up and fight Barack Obama, saying, "It's time for us to start a little rebellion." Yes, Rick Perry, I agree. To say that Americans are "concerned" about the direction this country is taking is an understatement, if you ask me. But the question begs to be answered: what good is a battle of ideas going to do at this point? Haven't we BEEN doing that?
You speak of the Declaration of Independence, and King George, saying that Obama is another tyrant we must fight. Let's look at this for a moment:
"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..."
Is this not a "battle of ideas?" Have we not been out-spoken about our disagreements with his policies and executive over-reach and all the lies and backstabbing he has done? Have we not screamed when he murdered four of our servicemen in Benghazi, leaked information that got all of our heroic Navy Seals killed, forced us into deeper debt and indentured servitude for health insurance that doctors are now rejecting? And, of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg. It seems that scandal after scandal has enveloped the Oval Office, and yet, Obama still sits high on his throne, getting stronger by the day--nay, even hour.
Further into the Declaration of Independence, we (THE PEOPLE) read:
"...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."
Governor, a rebellion is certainly needed, yes. But, not a battle of ideas. Ideas alone is not going to "alter or abolish" the present administration from the White House. And, there is certainly enough dead Republicans voting Democrat now to warrant the whole "Right to Vote" thing null and void, don't you think?
It's certainly time for a revolution.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
Have we not been prudent? I submit that we are overly "prudent". I submit that we have fought with our pens and our keyboards until our fingers bleed, wrote books, tried to educate others, and even tried to fight with-in the laws by using our court systems, and our Bill of Rights, which gives us the right to peaceably assemble and say what we want to say without fear of retaliation, and to petition our government for a redress of grievances. How is that working out for ya? How is that working out for any of us?
Hint: It only works when the powers that be do not ignore us.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Bingo.
For those who do not know what it means, despotism, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, means, "a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power". With his "I can do whatever I want, I'm the president" attitude, and then his executive stroke of a pen, Obama has certainly proved that he has "unlimited power" that WE THE PEOPLE did not give him permission to use.
Yes, Mr. Governor, it is time for a revolution. But, I'm afraid we are way past the "battle of ideas" stage.
Pilot
You speak of the Declaration of Independence, and King George, saying that Obama is another tyrant we must fight. Let's look at this for a moment:
"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..."
Is this not a "battle of ideas?" Have we not been out-spoken about our disagreements with his policies and executive over-reach and all the lies and backstabbing he has done? Have we not screamed when he murdered four of our servicemen in Benghazi, leaked information that got all of our heroic Navy Seals killed, forced us into deeper debt and indentured servitude for health insurance that doctors are now rejecting? And, of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg. It seems that scandal after scandal has enveloped the Oval Office, and yet, Obama still sits high on his throne, getting stronger by the day--nay, even hour.
Further into the Declaration of Independence, we (THE PEOPLE) read:
"...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."
Governor, a rebellion is certainly needed, yes. But, not a battle of ideas. Ideas alone is not going to "alter or abolish" the present administration from the White House. And, there is certainly enough dead Republicans voting Democrat now to warrant the whole "Right to Vote" thing null and void, don't you think?
It's certainly time for a revolution.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
Have we not been prudent? I submit that we are overly "prudent". I submit that we have fought with our pens and our keyboards until our fingers bleed, wrote books, tried to educate others, and even tried to fight with-in the laws by using our court systems, and our Bill of Rights, which gives us the right to peaceably assemble and say what we want to say without fear of retaliation, and to petition our government for a redress of grievances. How is that working out for ya? How is that working out for any of us?
Hint: It only works when the powers that be do not ignore us.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
Bingo.
For those who do not know what it means, despotism, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, means, "a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power". With his "I can do whatever I want, I'm the president" attitude, and then his executive stroke of a pen, Obama has certainly proved that he has "unlimited power" that WE THE PEOPLE did not give him permission to use.
Yes, Mr. Governor, it is time for a revolution. But, I'm afraid we are way past the "battle of ideas" stage.
Pilot
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