Stop the Steal!

STOP THE STEAL!

It’s Tuesday, November 5th at 7:30 p.m., and more polls are expected to close in the Midwest at the top of the hour.  Vice-Presidential Harris has 89 elector votes based on winning New England (minus one elector in Maine) and the mid-Atlantic States (New York, New Jersey, Maeryland, etc.) she was expected to win.  The Southeast (including the battleground states of Georgia and North Carolina) have to gone ex-President Donald Trump who now has 135 electoral votes, temporarily putting him in the lead...

God is my refuge

GOD IS MY REFUGE

The word “refuge” is a very interesting word.  It is basically a hiding place. Most people have their own informal refuge or secret place they go to when they are super stressed or need to think through a problem.  For a teenager, it might be their room or a friend’s house where they can just chill. To others, a favorite place that serves comfort food.  Some adults might go to a vista where they feel a communion with nature.  Others a movie. Still...

NIGHTMARE

I remember how as a child my mother would say to me “Pleasant dreams” when she wished me good night. Mercifully, when we close our eyes, we often have just that.  But what if our dreams are not pleasant?  What then? Then, we have what is called a nightmare, which is a most unpleasant dream. I’ve had them and likely so have you. If you look up the etymology of “nightmare,” you’ll learn that the term goes back to the twelfth century...

As you heal from your aneurysm repair

AS YOU HEAL FROM YOUR ANEURYSM REPAIR

This post is a continuation of a previous post titled Omi’s Aneurysm. In this post, I plan to journal what I hope will be a very uneventful recovery in the days and months ahead following my dear wife’s surgery, which occurred on August 9, 2024 for a 7 mm saccular, intracranial aneurysm. The word “intracranial” means within the cranium, or inside the bones that form the head. More than likely in this context, it refers to the largest of the...

October surprise?

OCTOBER SURPRISE?

An October surprise is often an unplanned event the month before the general election (though, it could conceivably be a staged event as well.) An example of what many see as a staged event is when, in 1968 with the unpopular bombing of North Vietnam in full swing, President Johnson (D) announced the weekend before the election, that there would be a halt to the bombing and he held out the suggestion of peace talks. This was an initiative that...

Apartheid by any other name

APARTHEID BY ANY OTHER NAME

The term Apartheid was first used in 1948 in South Africa to describe a separate, if not equal, segregation of the races, including these four categories: Whites, Bantu (black African), Mixed races and Asian.  The term was a new compound of words from different languages.  The first segment of the word (“apart”) is clear enough in its meaning.  It refers to some sort of collection “by itself, away from others.”  From the word “hood” which refers to “head,” “manner,” “state” or “condition,” we get the “heid.” The Whites...

Do not believe every spirit.

DO NOT BELIEVE EVERY SPIRIT

The World Population Clock estimates that there are almost 8.2 billion souls on Earth.  No doubt, it uses a simple algorithm weighing births against deaths and showing a net gain over time.  But is that the end of it?  Are things as simple as that?  In his famous work, Paradise Lost, poet John Milton (1608-1614) wrote: Of course, just because the famous muse penned this doesn’t mean that it is true.  Yet, each of the two testaments in the Bible seems to suggest that there was more than...

SECOND AMENDMENT BLUES

If you follow my blog, you’ve already read this post. And, regretably, you’ll see it again and again in the coming weeks and months. Just with different photos, the names of different schools, or towns, and the different number of dead and wounded. Talk to your elected representatives and senators, or those running for Congress. Democrats in Congress would be very eager to speak to you about banning assault weapons. The’ve been trying to to this for decades! Before Uvalde...

In memory to a

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Veterans Day this year falls on Monday, November 11th. On Veterans Day, Americans remember the sacrifices that millions of American vets have made through the almost 250 years that the United States has enjoyed freedom and independence. For many families, Veterans Day is a grim reminder of their personal loss; a father, a husband, a son (or a daughter.) On Saturday, November 23rd, only several days before Thanksgiving, the Kohler family will observe the twenty-fifth anniversary of a very personal...

Are we making God in our own image?

ARE WE MAKING GOD IN OUR OWN IMAGE?

  • September 1, 2024
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I have revised this post I published three years ago to include a recent interview that Mr Trump sat for on the Mark Levin show. Tump said a number of things, including: “I’d like to think that God thinks that I’m going to straighten out our country.” Trump thinks this is why he was spared six weeks ago from assassination. I agree with him that God likely intervened to spare his life, but I disagree with him over God’s motivation....

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