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For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Monday, July 30, 2012

Social Security - Emtitlement checks?

> SOCIAL SECURITY NOW CALLED 'FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENT' /ENTITLEMENT!
>
> Have you noticed, your Social Security check is now referred to as a
> "federal benefit payment"?
>
> I'll be part of the one percent, to forward this, our government gets
> away with way too much in all areas of our lives, while they live
> lavishly on their grossly overpaid incomes! KEEP passing THIS AROUND
> UNTIL EVERY ONE HAS READ IT.....
>
>
> This was sent to me, I am forwarding it because it does touch a nerve in me.
>
>
> Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your
> employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you
> averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.
>
> If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your
> employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the government
> pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working you'd
> have $892,919.98.
>
> If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year
> and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire
> at age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on
> deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have
> a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.
>
> Entitlement my butt, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!!
> Just because they borrowed the money, doesn't make my benefits some
> kind of charity or handout!!
>
> Congressional benefits ---- free healthcare, outrageous retirement
> packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid
> sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my
> social security retirement entitlements?
>
> We're "broke" and can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless.
>
> In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , and Turkey .
> And now Pakistan .......former hideout of bin Laden. Literally,
> BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
>
> Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do
> they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations
> pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign
> Countries!
>
> They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most
> of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when it’s
> time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why
> did the government borrow from it in the first place? Imagine if the
> *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.
>
> Sad isn't it?
>
> 99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.

How to stop a massacre ... Thanks good friend from Denison!

If this doesn't open go to Google and do:  How to stop a massacre.

Concealed carry is an important 2nd amendment freedom.

http://www.infowars.com/how-to-stop-a-massacre-surveillance-video-reveals-simple-low-cost-solution-that-works-everywhere/

Roy Rogers Festival opening in Portsmouth Ohio


Roy Rogers museum, festival opens in Portsmouth, Ohio

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MONDAY, 30 JULY 2012 09:02
Roy Rogers with Dale Evans. Image courtesy LiveAuctioneers.com and the Written Word Autographs.
Roy Rogers with Dale Evans. Image courtesy LiveAuctioneers.com and the Written Word Autographs.

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AP) – Happy Trails! The southern Ohio city of Portsmouth celebrates hometown hero Roy Rogers in an annual festival this week that also features a new museum's opening.
A ribbon cutting will be held Wednesday for the Roy Rogers Memory's museum that's intended to be a year-round attraction. Organizers will have movie posters, autographed photos, a cowboy hat and other items on display. A larger museum in Branson, Mo., closed a few years ago after declining attendance.
The late Rogers was born in Cincinnati as Leonard Franklin Slye. He starred in movie westerns, including ``King of the Cowboys.'' He also teamed with his late wife Dale Evans in a popular 1950s TV series.
The festival marks the 100th anniversary of Evans' birth year.
The four-day festival features singers, memorabilia and other entertainment.
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Wikipedia's top five sources ... The Blaze


TECHNOLOGY

EVER WONDER WHERE WIKIPEDIA’S INFO COMES FROM? HERE ARE ITS TOP 5 SOURCES

Due to the fact that that Wikipedia is “collaboratively edited,” leaving open the potential for error and misrepresentation of facts, many academics have long advised pupils to avoid using the site as a source. Still, the online encyclopedia of sorts does have many truthful posts and contributors and encouraged to fact check and source information posted on the site.
But where does Wikipedia, which has more than 22 million articles, get all of its information? WebEmpires.org “crawled the entire database of English Wikipedia to compile a list of Wikipedia’s top sources.” What it found was more than 22 million websites, which it then proceeded to rank by number of times it was used as a source in articles.
The top five sources of information are as follows (see the full list here):
  1. Google Books
  2. Web.Archive.org
  3. BBC News
  4. YouTube
  5. New York Times
Web Empires Shows Wikipedias Top Sources Referenced in Its Articles
Wikipedia sources (Image: Web Empire)
As Web Empires points out, some of you may be wondering about the #2 spot — Web Archive. This site archives content from websites that have been taken offline, for various reasons. Web Empire writes that it expects Web Archive to take the top slot as the most used Wikipedia source in the “near future.”

Medicare X ... Thanks Dr. H.!


Subject: Medicare Part X
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life wrote a blank check payable to "The United States of America" for an amount "up to and including his life."
That is honor, there are too many people in this country who no longer understand this. .
"God Bless Our Veterans"
Medicare Part X
"NEW SENIOR PROGRAM....
New Medicare Program



You're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you. So what do you do?

Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot four Politicians.

Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need!
Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That’s great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They’re all covered.

As an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now.

And who will be paying for all of this? It’s the same government that just told you that you they cannot afford for you to go into a home.

And you can get rid of 4 useless politicians while you are at it.

Plus, and because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore.

Is this a great country or what? "

Santa Barbara ... Thanks Dr. Hovermale!


Subject: Santa Barbara



The first picture and the last picture are taken at the beach in Santa Barbara right next to the pier. There is a veterans group that started putting a cross and candle for every death in Iraq and Afghanistan .
The amazing thing is that they only do it on the weekends. They put up this graveyard and take it down every weekend. Guys sleep in the sand next to it and keep watch over it at night so nobody messes with it.

Every cross has the name, rank and D.O.B. and D.O.D. on it.

Very moving, very powerful??? so many young volunteers. So many 30 to 40 year olds as well.


Amazing !


Did you know that the ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed?,



and that they filed another suit to end prayer from the military completely.
They're making great progress.

The Navy Chaplains can no longer mention Jesus' name in prayer thanks to the ACLU and our new administration.




Keep forwarding this e-mail to others. I'm not breaking this one. I'm asking that you not break it either.





If I get it a 1000 times, I'll forward it a 1000 times!
Please, let us pray...
Please send this on after a short prayer.
Prayer for our soldiers... please don't break it!


Prayer:
'Heavenly Father, hold our troops in Your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in this our time of need. These things I humbly ask in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, Amen.'


GOD BLESS YOU FOR PASSING IT ON

“If we ever forget that we're one nation under GOD,
then we will be a nation gone under.”

-Ronald Reagan
.

We the people are coming back obama ... Thanks Dr. Hovermale!


From: carolyn clemons [mailto:crc5440@columbus.rr.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 4:27 PM
To: carolyn clemons
Subject: YOU & I ARE MEMBERS,--for old geezers!
Wow - Can't say it much better or clearer!
Maybe some of you don't qualify as "old geezer" but think you'll appreciate this anyway.
They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, geezers, and in some cases dinosaurs. Some of us are "Baby Boomers" getting ready to retire. Others have been retired for some time. We walk a little slower these days and our eyes and hearing are not what they once were. We have worked hard, raised our children, worshiped our God and grown old together. Yes, we are the ones some refer to as being over the hill, and that is probably true. But before writing us off completely, there are a few things that need to be taken into consideration.
In school we studied English, history, math, and science which enabled us to lead America into the technological age. Most of us remember what outhouses were, many of us with firsthand experience. We remember the days of telephone party-lines, 25 cent gasoline, and milk and ice being delivered to our homes. For those of you who don't know what an icebox is, today they are electric and referred to as refrigerators. A few even remember when cars were started with a crank. Yes, we lived those days.
We are probably considered old fashioned and out-dated by many. But there are a few things you need to remember before completely writing us off. We won World War II, fought in Korea and Viet Nam . We can quote The Pledge of Allegiance, and know where to place our hand while doing so. We wore the uniform of our country with pride and lost many friends on the battlefield. We didn't fight for the Socialist States of America; we fought for the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave." We wore different uniforms but carried the same flag. We know the words to the Star Spangled Banner, America, and America the Beautiful by heart, and you may even see some tears running down our cheeks as we sing. We have lived what many of you have only read in history books and we feel no obligation to apologize to anyone for America .
Yes, we are old and slow these days but rest assured, we have at least one good fight left in us. We have loved this country, fought for it, and died for it, and now we are going to save it. It is our country and nobody is going to take it away from us. We took oaths to defend America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that is an oath we plan to keep. There are those who want to destroy this land we love but, like our founders, there is no way we are going to remain silent.
It was mostly the young people of this nation who elected Obama and the Democratic Congress. You fell for the "Hope and Change" which in reality was nothing but "Hype and Lies."
You have tasted socialism and seen evil face to face, and have found you don't like it after all. You make a lot of noise, but most are all too interested in their careers or "Climbing the Social Ladder" to be involved in such mundane things as patriotism and voting. Many of those who fell for the "Great Lie" in 2008 are now having buyer's remorse. With all the education we gave you, you didn't have sense enough to see through the lies and instead drank the 'Kool-Aid.' Now you're paying the price and complaining about it. No jobs, lost mortgages, higher taxes, and less freedom.
This is what you voted for and this is what you got. We entrusted you with the Torch of Liberty and you traded it for a paycheck and a fancy house.
Well, don't worry youngsters, the Grey-Haired Brigade is here, and in 2012 we are going to take back our nation. We may drive a little slower than you would like but we get where we're going, and in 2012 we're going to the polls by the millions.
This land does not belong to the man in the White House nor to the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. It belongs to "We the People" and "We the People" plan to reclaim our land and our freedom. We hope this time you will do a better job of preserving it and passing it along to our grandchildren. So the next time you have the chance to say the Pledge of Allegiance, Stand up, put your hand over your heart, honor our country, and thank God for the old geezers of the "Grey-Haired Brigade."
Footnote:
This is spot on. I am another Geezer signing on. I will circulate this to other Geezers all over this once great county.
Can you feel the ground shaking??? It's not an earthquake, it is a STAMPEDE.

Free Speech applies to Christians too- Cal Thomas


Free speech applies to Christians, too

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    Sunday July 29, 2012 7:45 AM
     
    Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy is in hot water with the LGBT community because he committed the cardinal sin in an age of political correctness: Thou must not speak ill of anything gays, lesbians, bisexuals or transgenders wish to do.
    In an interview with the Baptist Press and later on a Christian radio program, Cathy, whose father, the philanthropist Truett Cathy, founded the company, defended marriage between a man and a woman and when asked about the company’s support of traditional marriage said: “Guilty as charged. We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit.” Cathy believes American society is rotting (and where is evidence to the contrary?) because the country has turned away from God.
    That was it. Cathy did not say he would deny someone with a different view than his the right to eat in or work at any of his fast-food restaurants, which would violate the law. He did not say anything hateful about them. He simply expressed a deeply held conviction rooted in his Christian faith.
    The reaction tells you everything you need to know about certain liberals who believe every sort of speech, activity and expression should be protected, except the speech, activity and expression of evangelical Christians.
    Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said he would try to deny Chick-fil-A’sapplication for permits to open restaurants in that city. Now that’s discrimination. Menino wants to ban Chick-fil-A in Boston, not for discriminating against customers or employees, but because of its owner’s beliefs, a threat he has since backed away from. Does Boston have “thought police” who might investigate whether other business owners already operating in the city hold similar views? I’ll bet there’s someone at Durgin-Park who holds similar views. What about a player for the Boston Red Sox? Better follow them to see if any of them go to church.
    Maybe Menino would like to force business owners in the city to testify before an official panel of grand inquisitors and then deny operating licenses to anyone who believes traditional marriage should be the norm.
    In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has said, “Chick-fil-A’s values are not Chicago values.” Are Chicago values represented by the anti-Semitic firebrand Louis Farrakhan, with whom Emanuel is going to partner in hopes of reducing the number of homicides in his city? Are Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic and anti-gay sentiments somehow more palatable, more of value, than Dan Cathy’s support of marriage and family?
    The Weekly Standard found a video posted on the Nation of Islam’s website of a Farrakhan speech two months ago in which he blasted President Barack Obama for endorsing same-sex marriage. Farrakhan said Obama is “the first president that sanctioned what the scriptures forbid.” He added, “Sin is sin according to the standard of God,” and “the Bible forbids it.”
    That goes a lot further than Dan Cathy.
    The Jim Henson Company has decided to pull its Creature Shop toys from Chick-fil-A and donate profits already made to GLAAD, the media-monitoring group that promotes the image of LGBT people. I knew Jim Henson when we both worked at the NBC-TV station in Washington in the mid-1960s. While we never discussed politics, I don’t think at the time, at least, he would have wanted his characters, which appeal to everyone, involved in a cultural and political battle.
    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Sen. Rick Santorum, both also former presidential candidates, have called for a show of support for Cathy. They want people to eat at Chick-fil-A restaurants on Aug. 1.
    This is more than an economic battle. It is a First Amendment issue. Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Constitution. Dan Cathy has a right to his opinion, so does Farrakhan, so do we all.
    The real “war” in this country is not only against the supposed civil right of nontraditional marriage. It is a war against conservative Christians and a denial of the same rights the LGBT community claims for itself. Free speech is an American value. We shouldn’t settle for anything less.
    Cal Thomas writes for Tribune Media Services.

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