Dec. 28, 2008 at 19:53
by BrendaBee
Doug Giles is a preacher I could enjoy listening to. I certainly enjoyed reading this article where he gives his readers 7 guide lines for surviving the current or any other crisis in their lives. He used straight down to earth nitty gritty language about serious things, not the rice cereal of infants first solid food language churches have spoon fed us for several decades now. We have lived on rice cereal for far too many years and it has produced a couple rice cereal generations.
Giles points out that "God’s not in the least bit interested in your carnal comfort but in His crafted character reflected in your life. Y’know . . . who you are at your core, who you are when no one sees, the habits of your heart,.....:" When was the last time anyone, preacher or otherwise, looked you in the eye and called what you are espousing bullshit and challenged you to look deeply into yourself for what you really believe? Actions, not words reveal the character and beliefs of an individual!
Giles rightly informs us that this is exactly what God does. So if you are running around spouting ideas that you do not yourself believe you are certainly in for a behind the woodshed lesson when the moment of truth arrives. Or as Giles says, "I learned at an early age that cow crap helps make plants grow. God allowing the poop to hit the fan in our lives is the only way to produce the fruit He likes."
This brought to mind all the people out there crying about the poor and needy and advocating for more government handouts and universal health care and that all people are entitled to all the perks and bennies far beyond the "life, liberty and PURSUIT of happiness" our forefathers thought of as the only necessities of any people who were proud and self reliant new Americans. It also reminded me that these same people in studies have been found to be the very ones who are cheap when giving their own earnings to charity, or their own time to the needy.
A good article that I highly recommend to anyone. If nothing else you may get a chuckle out of his non-preacher-like language.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going
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Nov. 11, 2008 at 09:49
by BrendaBee
I have often sneered at the so called "intelligentsia" or "intellectuals" on this blog. This is very probably because I have had to spend too much time with this group and found that I often had to escape home to my "blue collar" background for a fresh breath of air and to hear some common sense on the issues. That's why I enjoyed Thomas Sowell's article today in Townhall. He presents some interesting facts that may surprise some of you who are inclined to give these self styled "chosen ones" more credit than they deserve. These chosen ones truly believe that they have the "right to rule" due to their supposed superior intelligence.
One thing I have to make clear: those who consider themselves and conduct themselves as intellectuals need not have a Ph.D. And, not all Ph. D's are overly impressed with themselves. We have both represented in the blogosphere, and even here in Greensboro/Guildford.
Another interesting fact: Barack Obama was elected in large part by the intellectuals and those who were overly influenced by the intellectuals. From the intellectuals in the Main Stream Media who gave Barack Obama favorable covererage 65% of the time to the 32% of the time this courtesy was extended to McCain. ( Or, Obama unfavorable coverage 35% of the time and McCain unfavorable coverage 68% of the time) to the students who unfortunately are a captive audience and therefore entirely too much influenced these chosen ones who unfortunately inordinately populate our colleges and universities.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
"Intellectuals"
by Thomas Sowell
"History fully vindicates the late William F. Buckley's view that he would rather be ruled by people represented by the first 100 names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard."
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Nov. 7, 2008 at 09:04
by BrendaBee
Found this and felt I just had to pass it on. Wouldn't it be wonderful if teachers actually used the lesson plans provided? I have continued to deplore peoples understanding of history on this blog as the reason so many are apt to make mistakes that have been made previously. BB
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Friday, November 07th
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On Nov. 7, 1917, Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. (Go to article.)
On Nov. 7, 1867, Marie Curie, the Polish-born French physicist twice awarded the Nobel Prize for her work on radioactivity, was born. Following her death on July 4, 1934, her obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
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On November 7, 1874, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about criticisms of President Grant, an image which includes the first important use of the Republican Elephant. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.) |
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The Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant for the first time, in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine.
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Passage of a referendum made Colorado the first state to grant women the right to vote .
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Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
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| 1929 |
The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt won an unprecedented fourth term in office, defeating Thomas E. Dewey.
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| 1956 |
Eugene O'Neill's play "Long Day's Journey Into Night" opened on Broadway.
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| 1962 |
Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
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Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt died at age 78.
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Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African-American mayor of a major American city.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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President Richard M. Nixon was re-elected in a landslide over Democrat George McGovern.
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Congress over-rode President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Act, which limits a president's power to wage war without congressional approval.
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L. Douglas Wilder won the governor's race in Virginia, becoming the nation's first elected African-American governor.
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David N. Dinkins was elected New York City's first African-American mayor.
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Basketball star Magic Johnson announced that he had tested positive for the AIDS virus and was retiring.
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House Speaker Newt Gingrich resigned following an election in which the Republican House majority shrunk from 22 to 12.
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Repblican George W. Bush was elected president over incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore, though Gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin. The winner was not known for more than a month because of a dispute over the results in Florida.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York, becoming the first first lady to win public office.
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Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, became the first Muslim elected to Congress. |
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Oct. 19, 2008 at 16:55
by BrendaBee
Remember when Democrats in NC wanted to extend SCHIP, (State Children's Health Insurance Program) to cover children in families with an income as high as $80,000 a year. The opponents, including me, said families would drop their coverage to enroll their children in the state program.
well it seems the opponents were correct. (See below):
Hawaii ending universal child health care
By MARK NIESSE, Associated Press Writer Mark Niesse, Associated Press Writer – Fri Oct 17, 7:37 pm ET
HONOLULU – "Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.
Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan."
It seems that even those who have just can not resist getting something for nothing even if they have to lie about it. I wonder so often where honor and dignity and pride have gone. My parents still had it and instilled it in me even if it took my Dad's belt a few times to do it. I tried to put it in my children, but admit sadly that I failed to some extent. When they got out into society they could not stand against their peers so they accepted the morals of their group. You see, they quickly learned that to stick with the truth regardless of personal outcome was not admirable. In fact, they were often told how stupid they were. They also learned that they hadn't a chance against a lying foe. The lying one seemed to be believed even when it was so obvious that they were lying.
So I often wonder where honor and dignity and pride have gone. BB
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Oct. 17, 2008 at 16:53
by BrendaBee
As is often the case something over on Joe Guarino's blog sets me off and away I go. Today it was a discussion on whether or not this financial crisis with the federal government's bail out and then buying into smaller banks is the beginning of Socialism. One comment was all it took to jog the memories:
- Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful. Alexander Hamilton
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Oct. 4, 2008 at 17:11
by BrendaBee
I was so distressed when Congress did not listen to the will of the people and passed the give away to Wall Street Fat Cats. And adding another $2 billion in pork just added the insult. It was disgusting to see these people stand with a straight face and tell the American people this bill was one where they had to hold their nose and pass it, but it had to be done. Had to be done to keep the money from the financial fat cats following into their coffers was what they didn’t say. I wonder how many promises of cash were made to those who managed to hold out until the last few minutes?
I am sure there will be a back lash in November. At least on the Republican side. Somehow Conservatives tend to hold a grudge longer, or have longer memories. The other voters who were against the Bail Out will somehow be persuaded that the extra goodies made it all worth it. No matter that we have just put another burden of our debt on future generations. I wonder how we of this time will be viewed? Certainly not a period in which I will be proud to have been a part.
Senator McCain lost big time during this past week. If the meeting in the White House had ended with a Yes vote he would have been viewed as having been the "bipartisan deal maker" which was his aim. I sincerely believe that he was sincere in his dropping all and going back to Washington over this issue. He has never to my knowledge pulled a stunt, or been anything but straight with the American people. This is not to say he has not been wrong on many occasions during his career. ( Remember I have been around and politically aware during all of it.) But right or wrong John McCain has always been sincere in his beliefs that he was acting in the best interest of the country. Senator John McCain is the last remaining patriot in Washington.
Senator McCain is able to change his mind and admit having made a mistake. This is a non-existent quality in most other politicians. He has changed his mind after hearing from the people. The immigration bill that he hammered out and pushed to give amnesty and fast track to citizenship to the immigrants already here in the US was such a time. The people said, “Hell no! Close the borders up tight and then maybe we can talk about what to do with those who are here.”
It was stupidity in the extreme to get the horse before the cart and Senator McCain should have known it. People would have stampeded across the borders if that bill had passed. I doubt the Army could have kept them out unless we lined up soldiers along all borders and coast lines shoulder to shoulder 24/7 until a very high fence was built.
He was wrong, very wrong, to accept this Bail Out Bill. I believe it will cost him the election. Since yesterday I have been so disheartened, disgusted and angry and seriously thinking of just plain staying home this election. I’ll lay odds many more conservative people are having these thoughts. We can not in any way stomach voting for Obama because we believe with all our intelligence, instincts and conscience that Obama as President of the United States would be a disaster; not only for our country but for the free world. But neither can we any longer back Senator McCain. Somehow he has sold his soul to be president. He backed a huge $700 billion bail out of the top dogs on Wall Street which he should have known was the wrong way to help the economy, and then he further voted for a boat load of pork which he has spent these last years deriding.
The really sad fact of the matter is that he had the ticket to the presidency handed to him on a platter, and he could have grabbed it up anytime up to the taking of the final vote in the House. All he had to do was a typical McCain change of mind and stand up and say, “I am here to represent the American people and the American people are telling us they do not want this bill. The American people are telling us to slow down and look for alternatives to this huge Bail Out of Wall Street. I urge my fellow Congressmen to vote against this bill. I voted for it in the Senate, but I was wrong.”
The people would have understood that Senator McCain had again listened to them, and they would have voted for him. Now they just won't. BB
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Sep. 23, 2008 at 20:42
by BrendaBee
To my post on Obama lying to Florida's elderly population about McCain's stand on Social Security reform the Progressive jerks got around to their usual garbage. I usually ignore it but today I just plain got pissed off. I answered snarky and stupid comments like these below and then thought I would post my comments because there are damned fools out there who need to hear some straight talking too. (I am also PO'ed because my stocks went down 62% because of this fiasco.)
Comments I answered: " Deregulated capitalism is a failure. We have known that for h a hundred years - hence the anti-trust, monopoly and other regulations. Without them the results of laissez faire capitalism are monopolies and cartels.
After the last depression safeguards were put in place that lasted until Bush. " and
" Fancy confusing things with 'facts' like these" .:BrendaBee wrote: Examples are all over the place: The Soviet Union went bankrupt, France is bankrupt and being held up with foreign aid ( a good bit of it from US tax payers), the best and brightest are leaving England because of the high taxes (70% of income from individuals and businesses), China is riff with child labor, pollution and poverty, North Korea is a pit of misery. All of these countries follow the creed of socialism/communism. The only difference between the two is that communism makes no bones about who owns everything whereas socialism pretends all is privately owned while legally "stealing" all the profits gained by those who actually work for a living to give to those who prefer sitting on their ass and whining. BB
I answered: " Actions speak. McCain backed the bill in 2005. McCain has pressed for many bills to curb irresponsible spending, corruption and ear marks. Obama has done just the opposite and his voting record is the most liberal (meaning voting for spending)of any other Senator.
Furthermore, this mess goes back to Bill Clinton's demanding the passage of the bill making it easier for low income and minorities to get loans. Loans that they were, and are, unable to afford. The lending institutions had a go ahead from the Democratic president to have a feeding frenzy with wink, wink behind doors promises that the government would bail them out if they got in trouble. Then after the feeding frenzy got started a Democratic Congress made damned sure nothing stopped it in 2005. Actions! History! Facts! Not words! Any bozo off the street or in the Senate can and does spout off nice sounding words at any opportunity. Words that mean little when spoken and even less after wards because they are just as easily forgotten as there is no sure record of them unless they were recorded, and then the claim can and is made that the words were taken out of context. But it takes courage and conviction to step up to the plate and put your name on the dotted line with a vote or sponsoring a bill where there is no where to hide if it was the wrong move.
"Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened." Winston Churchill It does seem that the old gent had it right doesn't it? Most people don't want the truth; instead they want a pretty lie that fits with their own thinking and needs. I would say there are several on this site who sound as if they haven't the guts to stand up and support themselves, but would rather take my money from me that I have worked for to support them instead. Big Daddy nurturing the irresponsible from cradle to grave. No matter that history has proven again and again that socialism destroys a society and a country. Examples are all over the place: The Soviet Union went bankrupt, France is bankrupt and being held up with foreign aid ( a good bit of it from US tax payers), the best and brightest are leaving England because of the high taxes (70% of income from individuals and businesses), China is riff with child labor, pollution and poverty, North Korea is a pit of misery. All of these countries follow the creed of socialism/communism. The only difference between the two is that communism makes no bones about who owns everything whereas socialism pretends all is privately owned while legally "stealing" all the profits gained by those who prefer sitting on their ass and whining. BB "
and " Matt, I was not pointing fingers because as you say there is enough blame to go around. I am merely pointing out to some that this particular problem dates back to a Democrat president's decision to open the market to those who could not afford home ownership. Of course they want that home right off the boat, or as soon as they cross the border, or right out of school. There is no such thing as saving for a down payment. Or maybe deciding the kids don't need their own computer, TV and cell phone or $75 jeans.
But Mr. Clinton and cohorts decided that everyone DESERVES to own their own home, and went about making it easy for the banks to get the money to them. Then all hell broke loose as the greed escalated. Plenty of blame to go around so pointing fingers is useless. I am also tired of having George Bush blamed for everything that has happen. He and his administration is even being blamed by many of his countrymen for 9/11!!
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Indeed "confusing facts" A Person since you do it all the time. And once more, you are one of the greatest advocates of some sitting on their ass and living off the sweat of others who are not so lazy or stupid. It is one thing taking care of those who are less able to care for themselves. (Might I point out again that Conservatives and Republicans give much more to charity and volunteer their services more than Progressives?) Yes, taking care of the poor is right and just, but it is a different ball game when my grandchildren are being saddled with the bill for health care, subsidized housing loans and God knows what else for people making twice or more of the poverty level who can not handle their finances well enough, or realistically enough, to purchase their own insurance or purchase a home they can afford or no home at all until they can afford it.
So go snark somewhere else. I really have little patience for fools! Brenda Bowers
By the way, I voted for Bill Clinton twice and would vote for him again if he was able to run. He was a very good president with much to offer and with all the stupidity he had to accept because he is an alpha male rather than a saint it is a wonder he accomplished as much as he did. That doesn't however mean I feel the same about his wife. I wouldn't vote for her to be a street sweeper. BB "
and "I forgot one last thing: yes China does own the United States. They own us because we have been selling our souls for that extra cell phone and every thing else we the people think we just can not live without. We are the most wasteful, immature, irresponsible people on Earth. And, we are also the most well off people on Earth. Any one from any other country comes here and marvels at what we have. They also marvel at our stupidity in managing our affairs. To the rest of the world the American public is a bunch of buffoons. Our education system spends more money per pupil than any other country and yet our children are uneducated. We have teachers who can not locate the Civil War in the correct century so it is no wonder. Then again these same kids who can't read will be the teachers of tomorrow. We are importing more doctors because Americans who manage to get thru medical school can't pass the AMA exams. We are sending technical jobs overseas not wholly because it is cheaper labor costs but because we simply don't have the people with the smarts to do the job. We are so silly we purchase pet rocks for God's sake! They like Americans as a group and individually, but they pity our ignorance and immaturity also. BB "
It certainly feels good to let it all out from time to time. BB
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I have watched the bigger players setting themselves up not to fail over most of my lifetime. In the Great Depression it was big business that failed; business that over extended and made bad moves failed as they should in a free market. Governments which had been the biggest players up to that point had to step in to keep their empire afloat. Then government slowly became less and less powerful and more and more controlled as they appeared to take on more responsibility for the mobs.
Instead the Power from that time on moved to Big Business. The "big players" in business have shoved more and more responsibility onto the government so they could not fail regardless of what they did. It was all for the sake of making big money faster.
Example: Medicare was not to help the elderly as the majority of elderly didn't need help, and those who did had a perfectly good program already in place to help them. Medicare was to help the "big players" in the health care arena. Who are they? Why Medical equipment and drugs, with a side slap to insurance companies who would get their full share later from another direction. Who are the losers in the medical field? The middle class tax payers and the doctors (as doctors and tax payers). Yes, the doctors who are hemmed around with all kinds of regulations that come between them and their patients, but none of the protections. Doctors who give up years of their life for their education then graduate with huge educational debts. Doctors appear to make big money but their expenses are very big too. So you see, the Health care sector has been crumbling since 1935 with the first "free" medical care for the masses. It only needs the final step which is Universal health care in the last hold out country/society/free men and women. With the take over by government of the health care industry the big players of medicine, medical equipment and drugs will fade into government. But, the big players of will remain just in another guise.
This time the first step is being taken by Big Business Financial sector who are making out while the small financial players are being picked off and taken over by the big fish or the government. Government has already taken over the mortgage industry and credit insurance industry with the acquisititon of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and AIG,
In the not too distant future there will be two large financial institutions, no more, and no competition. Then after a time they too will fade away into the government, BUT the big players in these financial institutions will still be around only no longer playing banker. Who will lose? The middle class tax payer and the small independent bankers who are much like the doctors in the health care sector.
Last to move will be Big Player Production. Factories and producers have been setting themselves up for years to have all their liabilities turned over or taken over by the government. Big Player Food Production, or agriculture, is already inured against loss by the government programs enacted over the the past 80 years so only the products other than food are still to be taken over. The means are in place for this however. Example: The vastly underfunded pension plan fund is one example. All companies have to do is stop paying their promised pensions and the Fund is set up to take over. The crisis will come when someone notices that the fund is non-existent because the companies didn't pay their dues while no one was watching. So the funds and a few other insulators for the Big Players Production will fail and a crisis will ensue and the government will take over production, all production including most certainly the greatest producer of jobs: the small businesses.
And in the end of course will be the "Big Players" taking over and using government itself.
Hot dam! It was/is a vast and brilliant master plan. Purely Machiavellian. I wonder if Obama is the last Pide Piper to be put in place? BB
Some will point and say, " Is the crazy old bird back on another conspiracy theory again?" No I'm not. It is the history of the world that has gone before and will continue as long as there is one man wanting power over another. Getting power takes money; getting big power takes big money. Some have been getting it in this past 80 years and now are consolidating their gains and making their move to a new world order. But not to worry since not much will change for us. We will still go our way with our daily chores, triumphs and tragedies and hardly notice that we have lost control of all, even our own lives. And all under the guise of justice for all, "spreading the wealth" and caring for the helpless and needy whom we all seem to feel is us. BB