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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!

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Sunday, February 8, 2015

Lou Holtz nails it ... Thx Ramey H!

Lou Holtz Nails It

image YEP, VERY PROFOUND… AND TRUE… Lou Holtz nails it
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 Obama 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, Obama 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 are 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.
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 got a job in a restaurant. 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 Barack Obama 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 Barack Obama 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 short sighted decisions.
Barack Obama 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.”
Obama 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 Barack Obama 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 Obama 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.
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
Lou Holtz
Leo “Lou” Holtz (born January 6, 1937) is a retired American football coach, and active sportscaster, author, and motivational speaker.
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  1. SonOfLiberty4eva says:
    Hey! Great article. Got to go listen to The Commander in Chief “speak to you”, about how safe we are and what a good job he has done ridding the world or terrorist. Honey, please pass the gas mask.

Great speech by Newt Gingrich at Freedom Summit on Radical Islamism ... Thx Ramey H!

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Thomas Jefferson ... Thx good patriopt friend, Paul XC!



I know Jesus in Bible but I know Thomas Jefferson in history.  Jesus was perfect as God's only son.  Jefferson was groomed early on with special abilities and was so instrumental in the for ming of this great nation.  God is still in control.  This is not the worst of time in man's inhumanity to man, although it may well be that. 

The more we learn about Jefferson the more we are amazed.  Thx Paul C!


Thomas Jefferson n
 
His Portrait is on the Two $2.00
Dollar Bill.
 
This is amazing.
There are two parts.
Be sure to read
the 2nd part (in
RED).
 
Thomas Jefferson
was a very remarkable man who started
learning very
early in life and never stopped.
 
At 5, began
studying under his cousin's tutor.
 
At 9, studied
Latin, Greek and French.
 
At 14, studied
classical literature and additional languages.
 
At 16, entered
the College of William and Mary.
Also could write in Greek with one hand
while writing the same in Latin with the other.
 
At 19, studied
Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
 
At 23, started
his own law practice.
 
At 25, was
elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
 
At 31, wrote the
widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America" And
retired from his law practice.
At 32, was a
delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
 
At 33, wrote the
Declaration of Independence.
 
At 33, took
three years to revise Virginia's legal code and wrote a Public Education
bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
 
At 36, was
elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick
Henry.
 
At 40, served in
Congress for two years.
 
At 41, was the
American minister to France and
negotiated commercial treaties with
European nations
along with Ben
Franklin and John Adams..
 
At 46, served as
the first Secretary of State
under George
Washington.
 
At 53, served as
Vice President and was elected
president of the American Philosophical
Society.
 
At 55, drafted
the Kentucky Resolutions and
became the active head of Republican
Party.
 
At 57, was
elected the third president of the
United
States.
 
At 60, obtained
the Louisiana Purchase doubling
the nation's
size.
 
At 61, was
elected to a second term as President.
 
At 65, retired
to Monticello.
 
At 80, helped
President Monroe shape the
Monroe
Doctrine.
 
At 81, almost
single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first
president.
 
At 83, died on
the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along
with John Adams.
 
Thomas Jefferson
knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government.
He understood
actual history, the nature of God, His laws and the nature
of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand
today.
 
Jefferson really knew his stuff.
 
A voice from the past to lead us in the future:
 
John F. Kennedy
held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds
in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps
the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in
the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined
alone."
 
 
"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in
Europe,we shall become as corrupt as Europe."
--
Thomas
Jefferson
 
"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those
who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
--
Thomas
Jefferson
 
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."
--
Thomas
Jefferson
 
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
--
Thomas
Jefferson
 
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government."--
Thomas
Jefferson
 
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."--
Thomas
Jefferson
 
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms
is,as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

--
Thomas
Jefferson
 
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time
with the blood of patriots and tyrants."--
Thomas
Jefferson
 
"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

--
Thomas
Jefferson
 
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
 
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than
standing armies.
 
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their
currency,first by inflation, then by deflation, the
banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks
will deprive the people of all property - until
their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
 
I wish we could get this out to every American!
 
I'm doing my part.
 
So Please do yours.
 





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