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Welcome to my blog http://www.skegley.blogspot.com/ . CAVEAT LECTOR- Let the reader beware. This is a Christian Conservative blog. It is not meant to offend anyone. Please feel free to ignore this blog, but also feel free to browse and comment on my posts! You may also scroll down to respond to any post.

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, September 17, 2015

The Grand Canyon of Arizona ... Thx Marge R! These are absolutely professionally great photographs!

The Grand Canyon of Arizona





Welcome to awesome Photos of the Grand Canyon.

There is a Grand Canyon of Yellowstone which is nice, but no comparison to the beauty and
Grandeur of the Grand Canyon of Arizona.

Following, are real photos taken by Professionals that most visitors are unable to capture
with their cameras. The Photos were received in an email, too good to delete, should be
shared with others. They are posted here for people to see and enjoy.


Pueblo-like dwellings over the Colorado River at Nankoweap Creek.

Horseshoe Bend

Canyon Walls as viewed from the Colorado River.

Grand Canyon Colors varies with the position of the Earth relative to the Sun.

Bright Angel Trail



Cheyava Falls

Rafting, but not on the Rapids! 



Lover's Leap!

Beaver Falls

View from Commanche Point.

Ribbon Falls

Hermits Rest

Colorado River

Muddy Water Rafting

Marble Canyon

Winter

Sky Walk

Havasu Falls

F5e Fighter Planes over the G. Canyon.

Trump's Trump ... Thx Paul C! Very informative and enlightening!

I have wanted this, Paul.  He is shaking the tree and a lot of snakes are falling out.  I, a Tea Party guy, like to see the republicans become opposition to the secular progressive democrats.  The Tea Party gets good people elected and then the politicians of both parties squelch the bejeebers out of them.  Let's vote all too long time  'servants of the people' out of office.  Term limits, sharpening the way for legal immigrants, etc. are absolutely necessary.  The long list of candidates impress me that there will be an exiting cabinet in our 2017 team for America.  I love all serving politicians but not  'teeth picking, gum chewers' of inside political habits.

Thanks again for this informative article on Donald Trump!
Trump’s Trump
American Thinker
July 28, 2015
By G. Murphy Donavan

The Author, a two-tour Vietnam veteran as a junior officer, was a former Intelligence officer and Director of Research and Russian (nee Soviet) Studies, USAF Intelligence, at Bolling AFB when DNI James Clapper was the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, HQ USAF.  Prior to that he served as command intelligence briefer in Hawaii where he updated CINCPAC, John McCain’s father, on POW matters. The author was also a former senior research fellow for Intelligence at the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica

    Donald Trump is a piece of work even by New York standards: tall, white, loud, brash, entrepreneurial, successful, rich, ruthlessly candid, well-dressed, and fond of heterosexual women. He has married at least three delicious ladies in fact. Trump has five children and seven grandchildren. Indeed, his progeny are well above average too, smartly groomed, photogenic, and successful to boot.

    As far as we know, Donald does not have any tattoos, piercings, unpaid taxes, or under-aged bimbo interns. He is not a drunk or a junkie either. Trump projects and enterprises probably employ more folks than the NYC school system -- or the United Nations.

    You could say that Trump is living the life, not the life of Riley, but more like Daddy Warbucks with a comb over. “The Donald,” as one ex-wife calls him, is not just living the American dream. Trump is the dream -- and proud of it.

    You could do worse than think of Trump as upwardly mobile blue collar. He is the grandson of immigrants and the product of Long island, a Queens household, and a Bronx education. The Donald survived the Jesuits of Fordham University for two years before migrating to finish his baccalaureate at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

    When readers of the New York Times, The New Yorker , and the New York Review of Books speak of “the city”, they are not talking about the Queens or the Bronx.  Growing and schooling in the blue-collar boroughs gives Trump a curb level perspective, something seldom found in Manhattan. Or as any “D” Train alumnus might put it, Trump has “a pretty good Bravo Sierra detector.”

    So what’s not to like about Donald Trump? He doesn’t just stay in four-star hotels; he builds them. He doesn’t just own luxury condominiums; he makes them. He doesn’t just own historic buildings; he restores them. He doesn’t just eat at the best restaurants; he creates them. He just doesn’t belong to the best country clubs; he builds those, too.

    And Donald Trump, unlike the Manhattan/Washington fantasy Press and every Beltway political pimp, doesn’t just pay lip service to a bigger and better economy, he creates micro-economies every day.

    The only thing we don’t know about Donald Trump is why he would like to immigrate to the District of Columbia.

    In any case, the merits of entrepreneurs like Trump might best be defined by the character or motives of his critics. Trump detractors are for the most part “B” list politicians, ambulance chasers, and a left-leaning Press corps that lionizes the likes of Nina Totenberg, Dan Rather, Chris Matthews, Andrea Mitchell, and Brian Williams.

    If the truth were told, most of Trump’s critics are jealous, envious of his wealth and they loath his candor.  Donald might also be hated for what he is not. Trump is not a lawyer, nor is he a career politician who lives on the taxpayer dime. Trump is paying for his own campaign. Bernie, Barack, McCain, and Kerry could take enterprise lessons from a chap like Trump.

    Unlike most government barnacles, Trump can walk and chew gum at the same time. He knows how to close a deal and build something. He is a net creator, not consumer, of a kind of wealth that provides “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for Americans -- real jobs not feather merchants.

    Today, Trump has nothing left to prove. Yet, success has allowed him the rarest of public privileges, an electoral pulpit and the courage to speak his mind. Alas, truth is not necessarily a political asset in a socialized democracy.

    Indeed, the erstwhile presidential candidate stepped on his crank recently by suggesting that Mexico, already exporting dangerous drugs, cheap tomatoes, and even cheaper labor, was also exporting violent felons to the US.

    Truth hurts! Trump’s rude candor is underwritten by nearly half a million illegal felons in American jails. Coincidentally, events have conspired to support Trump’s take on Mexican dystopia with the El Chapo Guzman jailbreak and the murder of Kathryn Steinle by Francisco Sanchez.

    Senor Sanchez sported a lengthy criminal record and had been deported on four previous occasions. San Francisco, a "sanctuary" city, failed to honor existing warrants and released Sanchez from jail just before he blew Kate Steinle away.

    As serendipity would have it, Trump then went to Phoenix on 12 Julyand gave a stem winder to a sell-out crowd on the subject of illegal immigration. Senator John McCain was not pleased to have The Donald on Arizona’s front lawn and intemperately called Trump supporters “crazies.” Trump returned fire saying that McCain was no hero.

    Here again Trump cut to the quick, pointing out that no one qualifies as a hero because he was shot down or captured. Indeed, being a hostage in North Vietnam is not necessarily heroic either. McCain is thought by some to be a heroic because he refused to accept an early release.

    In fact, the Hanoi parole offer was a ruse, a Hobson’s choice, designed to embarrass McCain and his father at CINCPAC.

    If McCain took the parole and abandoned his fellow POWs, he would have shamed his father and been ostracized by shipmates. Indeed, had John McCain not been the son and grandson of famous victorious, Pacific Command flag officers, no one would have noticed him then or now.

    Few of the demagogues who have come to John McCain’s defense could name any of the 600 Vietnam-era POWs other than McCain. McCain is famous today because he, like John Kerry, has parlayed a very average Vietnam military service into a three-decade political sinecure.

    We know of 50,000 Vietnam veterans that might be more deserving than John McCain. Unfortunately, they died in a war that generals couldn’t win and politicians couldn’t abide. A body bag seldom gets to play the “hero.”

    McCain is no political hero either.

    He is famously ambiguous on domestic issues like immigration. He is also a Johnny-come-lately to Veterans Administration rot, which has metastasized as long as McCain has been in office. On foreign policy, McCain is a Victoria Nuland era crackpot, supporting East European coups, playing cold warrior, and posturing with neo-Nazis in Kiev. McCain pecks at Putin too because the Senate, like the Obama crew, hasn’t a clue about genuine threats like the ISIS jihad or the latest Islam bomb.

    To date, Trump has run a clever campaign. He is chumming, throwing red meat and blood into campaign waters and all the usual suspects are in a feeding frenzy. McCain, the Press, the Left, and the Republican establishment all have something to say about “the Donald.” It is truly amazing how cleverly Trump manages to manipulate the establishment.

    If you are trying to sell an idea or a candidacy, there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

    Who knows where the Trump campaign goes? For the moment, he has scored direct hits on Mexico and McCain. With El Capo on the loose again, every time a toilet flushes in Sinaloa, Mexican garbage is likely spill out in Los AngelesHollywoodSan FranciscoPortland, or Seattle. Indeed, it’s hard to believe that the Left Coast could survive without cheap labor, pistileros, meth, coke, heroin, or weed. Necrotic immigration and its byproducts are ready made targets for a gunslinger like Trump.

    Trump is no bigot. He probably employs more Latinos and Blacks than Enrique Peña Nieto or Barack Obama. In his own way, Donald Trump is both immigrant and POW, a refugee from Queens and still a prisoner of Wharton. The Donald is The Dude, the guy with babes and a role of Benjamins that would choke a shark. He is the wildly successful capitalist that some of us love to hate.

    Before democratic socialism, success and effectiveness were measures of merit.  It doesn’t take much insight to compare Trump’s various enterprises with federal programs.  Public education, banking oversight, public housing slums, poverty doles, veterans fiascos, Internal Revenue hijinks, and even some Defense Department procurement programs are consensus failures.  The F-35 “Lightning” fighter is an illustration, arguably the most expensive single DOD boondoggle in history. Pentagon progressives seldom win a catfight these days, but they still spend like sailors.

    If and when Trump fails, he is out of business.

    In Trump’s world, failure has consequences.  In contrast, Washington rewards failure with better funding. Indeed, generational program failure is now a kind of perverse incentive for Beltway politicians and apparatchiks to throw good money after failed programs.

    The difference between Trump and McCain should be obvious to any fair observer; Trump has done something with his talents. McCain, in contrast, is coasting on a military myth and resting on the laurels of Senatorial tenure.

    Any way you look at it, Donald Trump is good for national politics, good for democracy, good for America, and especially good for candor. If nothing else, The Donald may help Republicans to pull their heads out of that place where the sun seldom shines.
 

Ben Carson - Debate Preparation ... Thx Ben Carson!

Ben Carson's America

Dear Fellow American:

When I speak tonight at the CNN Republican presidential debate, I will speak as I always have -- with sincerity and authenticity, remaining true to my values.

These values are your values and they took me from the most humble of beginnings to a candidate for president.

These same values made America a great nation – as Ronald Reagan said, “A shining city on a hill.”

When I travel to great places like Iowa, Arkansas, California, New Hampshire, Colorado, South Carolina, Nevada, and Ohio, I seemingly resonate with the people as they hear my personal story of struggle.

I believe I represent what every one of us can become, with determination and faith.

I grew up in a single-parent home under the guidance of my quiet, soft-spoken mother.

She was tough on my brother and me, but for that I am forever thankful. She refused to be a victim and taught us never to be one.

We need a president who will listen to you and the American people, and act.

We need a president who will appoint the very best advisers, who will work to make America better and stronger.

I have optimism and hope, and I am willing to fight in order to lift people up. I’m running for president because I believe our strength is in our unity, and we need to take a sharp turn away from eight years of President Obama’s political correctness.

President Obama promised to be a uniter, not a divider. In fact, our country today is terribly divided.

President Obama promised to uplift the poor, but his policies have had the opposite effect.

President Obama promised America would be respected.

But the world laughs at America under his leadership.

Iran is ready to gain a $100 billion windfall under Obama’s agreement – at the very same time the Iranians continue to say they will wipe Israel off the map — as they chant “death to America.”

At home, Obama’s leadership has only made things worse.

When Obama leaves the White House, America will have a work force far smaller than when he took office.

Kids entering the workforce today have little hope of finding good paying jobs.

And, instead of letting the engine of our free enterprise system work, Obama has sought to limit it with higher taxes, government-controlled medicine and stringent regulations on business.

This has got to stop.

We need to heal, inspire and revive America.
  
The nonsense of political correctness must stop.
  
The latest polls show I can win the Republican nomination.

But I need your help. 
   
Please stand with me by donating to my campaign.


Almost 500,000 Americans have already donated. They know I am not backed by Wall Street or the Washington insiders.

Stand with me and make your voice heard today — Donate Here Now.


I truly believe that together, we will once again be One Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
  
Sincerely,

Ben Carson

P.S. When I stand on the debate platform tonight at the Reagan Library, I will know that you and millions of Americans are with me. This is not my battle, this is our battle. I am not a career politician. I am an ordinary American like you who aspires to great things. I thank you in advance for your support and your prayers. Show your support today – Go Here Now.
 
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