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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.











Thursday, July 4, 2013

Problem with public housing ... Thx Sarah R and Denny G!


Subject: Fw: The Problem With Public Housing


 
  







The problem with public housing is that the residents are not the owners.

The people who live in the house did not earn the house, but were merely loaned the property by the actual owners, the taxpayers. Because of this, the residents do not have the "pride of ownership" that comes with the hard work necessary to become owners.

In fact, quite the opposite happens. The residents resent their benefactors, because the very house is a constant reminder that they themselves have not earned the right to live in the house. They neither appreciate the value of the property nor understand the need to maintain or respect it in any way.

The result is the same, whether one is talking about either a studio apartment or a magnificent mansion full of priceless antiques. If the people who live there do not feel they've earned the privilege of occupancy, they will make this obvious through their actions.

Note the common theme of the following photographs.....



















The desk, built from timbers of the HMS Resolute and a gift from
Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes
is considered a national treasure and icon of the presidency.

The White House belongs to the people of America .
Its treasures should NOT be used by ANYONE for a foot rest..!
These photos, ongoing proof that this man has no class whatsoever,
all show an innate disrespect for our White House.


SO, HERE'S A MESSAGE FROM THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA :

Mr. Obama, you're not in a hut in Kenya or Indonesia, or in Chicago public housing.

You're in the White House, Barry, property of the people of the United States .

With all due respect, get your @#%*+#% feet off our furniture..!


Portsmouth obituary Jack Appel and Sarah R's comments ... Thx Sarah!

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Jack H. Appel
AIKEN, S.C. – Jack H.Appel, 79, died peacefully Friday, June 28, 2013, at his residence.
A native of Wilmington, Ohio, Jack was a son of the late Ralph Franklin Appel and Helen Henry Appel. He was first married to the late Barbara Martin Appel and then to the late Paula Robinson Appel . He worked for a number of years for Kawneer Corporation, first in Niles, Mich., and then in Harrisonburg, Va. Jack then joined EFCO Corporation in Monett, Mo., where he served as Executive Vice President until his retirement in 1998. He had lived in Aiken since August of 2012.
Survivors include a daughter, Tracey Kenney (Mike), Linden, Va.; two sons, Marty Appel (Brenda), Aiken, S.C. and Jeff Appel (Sherry), McGaheysville, Va.; three grandchildren, Sara Kenney, Justin Appel and Jonathon Appel; two sisters, Martha Burton, Columbus, Ohio, and Nancy Davis (George), Portsmouth, Ohio.
Funeral services will be held Friday, July 5, 2013, at 10 a.m. at the graveside in Eastlawn Memorial Gardens in Harrisonburg, Va.
Please visit the online guestbook at www.shellhouseriversfuneralhome.com. SHELLHOUSE - RIVERS FUNERAL HOME, 715 EAST PINE LOG RD., AIKEN, S.C.


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to me
no, Jim was not a " hill topper" or a Mabert "guy. hie lived on o7th I believe.
JIm  is in the Football hall of fame at Maryland.  he and Janet live in J upiter
there was an older Sister Jodi and a younger brother..their mother worked at Bragdon's as did Janet ( and Me)

Makin Island- Pacific- WW II ... Thanks Dr. H!


 Subject: Fw: Makin Island WWII
 

 
 

Pictures shown at the end..
                     Makin Island

A true story about 19 marines killed on a Pacific island (defending against the Japanese)  during World War II.   Before retreating, the  surviving Marines asked the islanders to please bury the dead Marines for us.

Years later,   a man  was found who had been a teenager during the war, and he remembered where the  19 Marines were buried. The United States Marine  Corps sent a C-130 and an Honor Guard and found all 19 had been buried with their helmets on, their rifles in their hands, in perfect condition. The islanders had really done a wonderful job.

As the bodies  were being loaded for the trip home, a voice from out of nowhere started singing "The Marine Hymn"; it gave everyone goosebumps. Turns out, the voice was from a man who spoke no English but remembered the song the Marines taught him when they landed. Very touching. Photos of the 19 Marines are at the end of the presentation which may be seen by clicking on the link below. 
 
 THIS IS ONE OF THOSE GESTURES FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO WORDS. 
Semper if!





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People and places are different ... Thomas Sowell 7-4-13 Left and failed ideas

Thomas Sowell commentary: Equality can't happen because people and places are different

The fundamental problem of people on the political left seems to be that the real world does not fit their preconceptions. Therefore they see the real world as what is wrong, and what needs to be changed, since apparently their preconceptions cannot be wrong.
A never-ending source of grievances for the left is the fact that some groups are "over-represented” in desirable occupations, institutions and income brackets, while other groups are “under-represented.”
From all the indignation and outrage about this expressed on the left, you might think that it was impossible that different groups are simply better at different things.
Yet runners from Kenya continue to win a disproportionate share of marathons in the United States, and children whose parents or grandparents came from India have won most of the American spelling bees in the past 15 years. And has anyone failed to notice that the leading professional basketball players have for years been black, in a country where most of the population is white?
Most of the leading photographic lenses in the world have — for generations — been designed by people who were either Japanese or German. Most of the leading diamond-cutters in the world have been either India’s Jains or Jews from Israel or elsewhere.
Not only people, but things have been grossly unequal. More than two-thirds of all the tornadoes in the entire world occur in the middle of the United States.
Asia has more than 70 mountain peaks that are higher than 20,000 feet and Africa has none. Is it news that a disproportionate share of all the oil in the world is in the Middle East?
Whole books could be filled with the unequal behavior or performances of people, or the unequal geographic settings in which whole races, nations and civilizations have developed.
Yet the preconceptions of the political left march on undaunted, loudly proclaiming sinister reasons why outcomes are not equal within nations or between nations.
All this moral melodrama has served as a background for the political agenda of the left, which has claimed to be able to lift the poor out of poverty and in general make the world a better place. This claim has been made for centuries, and in countries around the world. And it has failed for centuries in countries around the world.
Some of the most sweeping and spectacular rhetoric of the left occurred in 18th-century France, where the very concept of “the left” originated in the fact that people with certain views sat on the left side of the National Assembly.
The French Revolution was their chance to show what they could do when they got the power they sought. In contrast to what they promised — “liberty, equality, fraternity” — what they actually produced were food shortages, mob violence and dictatorial powers that included arbitrary executions, extending even to their own leaders, such as Robespierre, who died under the guillotine.
In the 20th century, the most sweeping vision of the left — Communism — spread over vast regions of the world and encompassed well over a billion human beings. Of these, millions died of starvation in the Soviet Union under Stalin and tens of millions in China under Mao.
Milder versions of socialism, with central planning of national economies, took root in India and in various European democracies.
If the preconceptions of the left were correct, central planning by educated elites with vast amounts of statistical data at their fingertips, expertise readily available, and backed by the power of government, should have been more successful than market economies in which millions of individuals pursued their own individual interests willy-nilly.
But, by the end of the 20th century, even socialist and communist governments began abandoning central planning and allowing more market competition. Yet this quiet capitulation to inescapable realities did not end the noisy claims of the left.
In the United States, those claims and policies reached new heights, epitomized by government takeovers of whole sectors of the economy and unprecedented intrusions into the lives of Americans, of which Obamacare has been only the most obvious example.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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Some of you may be wondering what Judge Roy Moore has been doing since he was removed from the bench for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments from his courtroom wall. Please read the poem he wrote. It's below his picture.

Judge Moore


The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama . Judge Moore was sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments in his courtroom foyer.. He has been stripped of his judgeship and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in Alabama ! The judge's poem sums it up quite well..

America? the beautiful,
or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride;
I'm glad they'll never see.

Babies piled in dumpster's,
Abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty;
your house is on the sand.

Our children wander aimlessly
poisoned by cocaine
choosing to indulge their lusts,
when God has said abstain

From sea to shining sea,
our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God's love
and a need to always pray

We've kept God in our
temples, how callous we have grown.
When earth is but His footstool,
and Heaven is His throne.

We've voted in a government
that's rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges;
who throw reason out the door,

Too soft to place a killer
in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby
before he leaves the womb.

You think that God's not
angry, that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait
before His judgment comes?

How are we to face our God,
from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do,
but stem this evil tide?

If we who are His children,
will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face
and mend our evil way:

Then God will hear from Heaven;
and forgive us of our sins,
He'll heal our sickly land
and those who live within.

But, America the Beautiful,
If you don't - then you will see,
A sad but Holy God
withdraw His hand from Thee..

~~Judge Roy Moore~~

This says it all. May we all forward this message and offer our prayers for Judge Moore to be blessed and for America to wake up and realize what we need to do to keep OUR? America the Beautiful.

Pass this on and let's lift Judge Moore up in Prayer. He has stood firm and needs our support.

IN GOD WE TRUST

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