American Patriots

 

I NEVER CARED...

 

I never cared if you were "gay" or whatever acronym you chose to call yourself, until you started shoving it down my throat.

 

I never cared what color you were, until you started blaming me for your problems.

 

I never cared about your political affiliation, until you started to condemn me for mine.

 

I never cared where you were from in this great Republic, until you began condemning people based on where they were born and the history that makes them who they are.

 

I have never cared if you were well off or poor, because I've been both, until you started calling me names for working hard and bettering myself.

 

I've never cared if your beliefs are different from mine - until you said my beliefs are wrong.

 

I've never cared if you don't like guns, until you tried to take my guns away.

 

Now, I care. I've given all the tolerance I have to give. This is no longer my problem. It's your problem. You can still fix it. It's not too late. It will be FIXED. Soon.

 

I'm a very patient person at times. But I'm out of patience. There are literally Tens of Millions of people just like me that are sick of all your Anti-American crap!

 

I've always cared about life, and all lives, but now you try to force the notion on me and my other fellow citizens and patriots that certain lives matter more than others. You protest, riot, attack, burn and loot. Your so-called "movement" has become a radical out-of-control bunch of thugs, criminals and anarchists who are doing harm to our Country.

 

We have had enough! America is the greatest country on Earth, and if you don't like America then you can leave. We are done caring about your misguided "feelings".

 

You don't have the right to enjoy American freedoms if you are trying to take that right away from other Americans.

 

 

"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."   -Winston Churchill-

 

Income Inequality

 

 

In early January 2020, Bob Lonsberry, a talk radio personality on WHAM 1180 AM, said this in response to Biden’s “Income inequality speech”:

Two Americas

The Democrats are right, there are two Americas.

The America that works, and the America that doesn’t.

The America that contributes, and the America that doesn’t.

It’s not the haves and the have nots, it’s the dos and the don’ts.

Some people do their duty as Americans, obey the law, support themselves, contribute to society, and others don’t. That’s the divide in America.

It’s not about income inequality, it’s about civic irresponsibility.

It’s about a political party that preaches hatred, greed and victimization in order to win elective office.

It’s about a political party that loves power more than it loves its country. That’s not invective, that’s truth, and it’s about time someone said it.

The politics of envy was on proud display a couple weeks ago when President Biden pledged the rest of his term to fighting “income inequality.” He noted that some people make more than other people, that some people have higher incomes than others, and he says that’s not just.

That is the rationale of thievery. The other guy has it, you want it, Biden will take it for you. Vote Democrat.

That is the philosophy that produced Detroit. It is the electoral philosophy that is destroying America .

It conceals a fundamental deviation from American values and common sense because it ends up not benefiting the people who support it, but a betrayal.

The Democrats have not empowered their followers; they have enslaved them in a culture of dependence and entitlement, of victim-hood and anger instead of ability and hope.

The president’s premise – that you reduce income inequality by debasing the successful – seeks to deny the successful the consequences of their choices and spare the unsuccessful the consequences of their choices. Because, by and large, income variations in society is a result of different choices leading to different consequences. Those who choose wisely and responsibly have a far greater likelihood of success, while those who choose foolishly and irresponsibly have a far greater likelihood of failure. Success and failure usually manifest themselves in personal and family income.

You choose to drop out of high school or to skip college – and you are apt to have a different outcome than someone who gets a diploma and pushes on with purposeful education and/or employment.

You have your children out of wedlock and life is apt to take one course; you have them within a marriage and life is apt to take another course.

Most often in life our destination is determined by the course we take.

My doctor, for example, makes far more than I do. There is significant income inequality between us. Our lives have had an inequality of outcome, but, our lives also have had an in equality of effort. While my doctor went to college and then devoted his young adulthood to medical school and residency, I chose another avenue.

He made a choice, I made a choice, and our choices led us to different outcomes. His outcome pays a lot better than mine. Does that mean he cheated and Joe Biden needs to take away his wealth? No, it means we are both free men in a free society where free choices lead to different outcomes.

It is not inequality Joe Biden intends to take away, it is freedom. The freedom to succeed and the freedom to fail. There is no true option for success if there is no true option for failure. The pursuit of happiness means a whole lot less when you face the punitive hand of government if your pursuit brings you more happiness than the other guy. Even if the other guy sat on his arse and did nothing. Even if the other guy made a lifetime’s worth of asinine and shortsighted decisions.

President Biden and the Democrats preach equality of outcome as a right, while completely ignoring inequality of effort. The simple Law of the Harvest – as ye sow, so shall ye reap – is sometimes applied as, “The harder you work, the more you get.” Biden would turn that upside down. Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society.

Entitlement will replace effort as the key to upward mobility in American society if President Biden Barack gets his way. He seeks a lowest common denominator society in which the government besieges the successful and productive to foster equality through mediocrity. He and his party speak of two Americas, and their grip on power is based on using the votes of one to sap the productivity of the other. America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes, it is divided by the differences in our efforts. It is a false philosophy to say one man’s success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man’s victimization.

What Biden offered was not a solution, but a separatism. He fomented division and strife, pitted one set of Americans against another for his own political benefit. That’s what socialists offer. Marxist class warfare wrapped up with a bow.

Two Americas, coming closer each day to proving the truth to Lincoln’s maxim that a house divided against itself cannot stand.

Horse Sense

 

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,

And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding". ~ Proverbs 9:10 

 "... none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand" ~Daniel 12:10

I don't go to church, I am the church! When we understand this, we start to understand the Kingdom of God that Jesus preached. I go to fellowship with my brothers and sisters in Christ, so that I don't forsake the assembly of myself with other believers, but that can be anywhere... even online.

 

As it is written: "Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there I am in the midst of them."

 

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Understanding The Bible

 

Then and Now

 

 

The Difference Between Then and Now

Albert Bruce Sabin was born in 1906 in Bialystok, Poland.  He died in 1993.

A Jewish doctor and a virologist known for opening a polio vaccine refused the patent money, allowing it to spread to everyone, including the poor.

Between 1959 and 1961, millions of children in eastern countries, Asia and Europe were vaccinated: the polio vaccine stopped the epidemic. Sabin refused to patent his vaccine, waiving commercial exploitation by pharmaceutical industries, so that the low price would guarantee a more extensive spread of the treatment. From the development of his vaccine Sabin did not gain a penny, and continued to live on his salary as a professor. The Sabin Vaccine Institute was founded in 1993 to continue the work of developing and promoting vaccines. To commemorate Sabin's pioneering work, the institute annually awards the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal in recognition of work in the field of vaccinology or a complementary field.

He said: "Many people insisted on patenting the vaccine, but I didn't want to. It is my gift to all the children of the world."

Medical Career

Sabin trained in internal medicine, pathology, and surgery at Bellevue Hospital in New York City from 1931 to 1933. In 1934, he conducted research at The Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine in England, then joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University). During this time, he developed an intense interest in research, especially in the area of infectious diseases.

In 1939, he moved to Cincinnati Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. During World War II, he was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and helped develop a vaccine against Japanese encephalitis. Maintaining his association with Children's Hospital, by 1946, he had also become the head of Pediatric Research at the University of Cincinnati. At Cincinnati's Children's Hospital, Sabin supervised the fellowship of Robert M. Chanock, whom he called his "star scientific son."^[8]

Sabin went on a fact-finding trip to Cuba in 1967 to discuss with Cuban officials the possibility of establishing a collaborative relationship between the United States and Cuba through their respective national academies of sciences, in spite of the fact that the two countries did not have formal diplomatic ties.^[9]

In 1969–72, he lived in Israel, serving as President of Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. After his return to the United States, he worked (1974–82) as a research professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. He later moved to Washington, D.C. area, where he was a resident scholar at the John E. Fogarty International Center on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.

Then we had scientists with integrity who refused to get rich off of other people's misery. Now we have scientists producing God knows what for huge profits.

 

Disease is Profitable

 

Whale of a Story

 

The story of Jonah is about a man who thinks his "will" is equal to, or superior to, God's will. Boy, was he wrong! 2 Kings 19:28 and Isaiah 37:29  confirm man's so-called "free will" is directed by God.

 

Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.^" But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. ~Jonah 1:1-3

 

Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. ~ Jonah 1:17

 

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. ~Matthew 12:40

After Jonah's ordeal, he got his mind right and did as God commanded. How often have we tried to flee from God and needed to get our mind right?

 

Critics of the Bible often point out what they consider to be errors or contradictions in the text. For example, in the book of Jonah the word fish is used. In Matthew the word whale is a poor translation of Hebrew to Greek to Latin Vulgate, and eventually English KJV in 1611. Fish and whales are two different species.

The "error" can be quickly cleared up by learning the correct definition of words. Translators sometimes change the original language to a word or phrase in an effort to give the reader "a clearer understanding".   

The "great fish" the Lord prepared could swallow a man. In addition, the creature either did not have a digestive system or else Jonah was protected from the creature. How was Jonah able to breathe under water in the belly of a fish? Only God and Jonah know for sure and I will take their word for it.

Even Bible stories for children perpetuate the myth of a whale instead of the accurate description of a great fish. These mistranslations of Scripture keeps people ignorant of the truth and the accuracy of God's word.

 

Churchianity teaches that man has "free will" which is obviously not true... ask Jonah. Man has free choice, but not free will. You can run from God, but you can't hide.

 

There is a moral to this story. Jonah hated the people of Nineveh and wanted them to be punished. Humans are often upset at God's forgiveness, of kindness towards, and grace given to those they think deserve punishment for their sins. 

  

But humans are rarely upset at the idea that God will eternally roast folks in an "ever-burning hell." These reactions are part of the flesh nature, which go away as the mind is renewed and the heart purified and Divine nature takes root.

Churchanity teaches that God is mean and cruel and will punish the wicked forever. The Bible teaches just the opposite. God does not seek retribution, He seeks reconciliation. For it is written: “As I live, says the Lord, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall confess to God.”  ~ Romans 14:11

 

The conversion of Saul of Tarsus is another example of God's love and forgiveness. God turned an enemy into a friend. ~ Acts 9     

 

Just as God arranged for Jonah and Paul to repent, He will make it happen for you. You can ignore, you can resist, you can flee, but you cannot escape the love God. 

If you want to know the original meaning and use of words in the Bible, a Strong's Concordance can be most helpful. 

 

 

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Render To Caesar

Hyper-Inflation Is Coming. Protect Your Income

Legally Pay Zero Taxes

 

Let's take a look at Matthew 22:20-22

And He (Jesus) said to them, “Whose image and inscription is this (coin)?”

They said to Him, “Caesar’s.”

And He (Jesus) said to them, “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” When they had heard these words, they marveled, and left Him and went their way.

Your income does not belong to Caesar (the IRS). Is there an IRS inscription on U.S. money? Who labored for that money? Can another person demand any part of your income? What gives the IRS the right to take income from you?

Some will say Congress gives the IRS the "right". By what authority does Congress enact legal thelf? When someone takes something that does not belong to them, it's thelf... pure and simple.

The United States was a prosperous nation prior to 1916 without an income tax. There are lawful ways to fund government. Income tax is not one of them. Congress was elected by The People to represent the interest of The People. 99.9% of the American people do not want an income tax. Citizens have a Right, yea a duty to protect their income from thieves. 

Thou shall not steal is one of God's Commandments. Don't encourage stealing or participate in it.

Protect your income. Don't allow thieves to "break in and steal" ~ Matthew 6:19-21