SamKat: 01/02/14

Welcome

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, January 2, 2014

Social Security Changes in Congress through the years ... Thx Paul C!

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent "Trust" fund and put it into the General fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratically-controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the "tie-breaking" deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.

Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

MY FAVORITE :
A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive SSI Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

Then, after doing all this lying and thieving and violation of the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is, uninformed citizens believe it!

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/socialsecurity/changes.asp#WoFmH2e2xvicecm6.99

New tool in fight against drugs in Portsmouth OH ... Thx Jim Keg ...

Health officials: New tool in fight against drugs is working in Portsmouth, OH

Posted: Jan 01, 2014 10:18 PM EST Updated: Jan 01, 2014 10:29 PM EST

By Ben Nandy, Reporter - email

PORTSMOUTH, Oh. - Chris Webb, of Scioto County, met with 13 News, along with his mother and health professionals from the Portsmouth Health Department to speak frankly about his struggle with drugs and his recovery.

"Where Portsmouth McDonalds is, all the way to Wheelersburg, I sped over 100 miles and hour, trying to get pulled over, and I had an AR 15 with me, and a pistol in my lap. I was gonna shoot it out with the cops," says Webb as he recalls the day he decided to get sober. "I came back into town, picked up my girlfriend, did more dope, went to my mom's house and told her I need help. Something's gotta give."

"I've never seen him that bad," says his mother, Regina Webb.

Now a recovering addict, Webb says he had tried to tell his family about his addiction to pills and heroin.

"He just said, 'I'm doing stuff I know better than to do,' and he was 21 or 22 by that time," says Regina Webb. "That should have been my first sign."

Now, 27, and expecting a child soon, Chris Webb goes to the Portsmouth Health Department for monthly Vivitrol injections.

He has been clean since August, and says his cravings are completely gone.

Vivitrol blocks opiates, so heroin and many painkillers have no effect and cravings are reduced, or in Webb's case, erased.

About 125 people in the Portsmouth area have gotten the shot since it was introduced here more than a year ago.

"Some of them stay on it for three or four months, and feel like they can go on to the oral form (naltrexone) of the medication," says nurse, Lisa Roberts of the Portsmouth Health Department. "Others stay on it for a year, or longer, so each patient is individually assessed."

Webb couples this with counseling and lifestyle changes.

It is a decision, not a miracle.

"A drug addict is a walking zombie," says Webb. "Because you're already dead, until you decide to give yourself life again." And you have to make it through detox for it to work. "If you can get the opiates out of your system, vivitrol doesn't have a downside to it," says Dr. Randy Schlegel, who works with the Scioto County Health Coalition and is part of Webb's team of supporters.

The listed side-effects haven't bothered Webb.

Now, he even speaks to classes about the dangers of drugs so they don't struggle the way he has, or die, the way many of his friends and family have.

"I've been to 26 funerals since 2004," says Webb.

"They make the best soldiers, because they've been there and done that, and lived it, and they know a lot," says Roberts. "He was a drug dealer. He was a drug user. He was a criminal. He actually just admitted that he tried to get arrested so that he could kill a cop, you know. But look what we've done with him now. Chris is part of the solution now. That's one of the things we really make an effort to do here, is get these people who were previously part of the problem, and have them come over to our side and be part of the solution."

Webb says sharing with others is part of his treatment.

"I help kids stay interacted in sports, help them stay in school," says Webb. "I'm thankful that my little cousins have stayed in school, and that they're all smart. They might not be the smartest kids to some people, but they're smart to me, because they're making the right choices.skegley.blogspot.com