tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39533704971267425362024-02-19T09:04:22.995-07:00Spillers of SoupSPIELEN NICHT … NUR TÖTENchasmatichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962911972107586613noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953370497126742536.post-76962860198789667842016-02-21T07:58:00.001-07:002016-02-21T07:58:08.767-07:00THE BITTER CUP<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;">However bitter may be the cup which our
Heavenly Father gives us, it will in the end overflow with blessings rich,
abounding, and eternal.</span></em><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have cancer. Multiple Myeloma to be
precise. It is a blood cancer and is found in bone marrow. All of my bones.
There is no "cure" for it; it cannot be totally eradicated like some
other cancers. Breast cancer, prostate, bladder, thyroid all can be treated
with a combination of surgery and radiation therapy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am not so fortunate. The best course of
treatment is with chemotherapy. The goal is to reduce the cancer to a small
amount held in remission. Sooner or later the chemo becomes ineffective as
the cancer cells develop immunity. At that time a different regimen of chemo is
applied. Sooner or later there will be no chemo that will be effective and
the cancer will progress.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's the sooner now, ran out of later.<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I
first started medical treatment for my cancer the prognosis* went from two,
three, five years up to ten or fifteen years. Now the Chemo options have just about
run their course. The medicine is having less and less an effect on the cancer.
My kidneys, I am on dialysis, will get to a point where they cannot be revived.</span></span> My bones will erode like, well think osteoporosis. the least little bump may break something. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">*My
oncologist said to me in an eye to eye contact: </span><span style="color: #052e65; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%;">Charlie, start thinking in terms of months.</span><span style="color: #052e65; line-height: 150%;">”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Based on
that we are making more effort to get the missus into assisted living. She needs it
for her dementia and will want to be set up for my sooner rather than later
demise. It would not do to have her wake up one morning and find me dead on the
floor; put her on cruise control and chas, take care of business as much as
possible to gather up loose ends. Her family will help and step in when needed.
Until then I … think in terms of months.<o:p></o:p></span></span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Holy
Spirit is with me in my time of trouble.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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have come to accept that as my fate. I admit to being afraid, and angry, and
sad but I am at peace with God's will for me. if this be my fate, it is
God's will, not mine, and I accept it. I will not lay on the couch whimpering
or behave with a negative attitude. The following passage of scripture tells of
Jesus entering the garden of Gethsemane to talk with His father,
God. It reveals Jesus' thoughts and feelings of what is to become of Him
the next day — the crucifixion — and how Jesus accepts God's will for him.<u1:p></u1:p></span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
Garden of Gethsemane <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matthew 26: 36
- 46<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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</span></b></span><span class="black"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Then came Jesus with them unto a place
called Gethsemane, and said unto the disciples,</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span class="red">Sit you here, while I go and pray yonder.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very distressed.</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="reftext"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">38</span></b></span><span class="black"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Then
said he unto them,</span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span class="red">My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even unto death: tarry you here,
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</span></b></span><span class="black"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">And he went a little farther, and fell
on his face, and prayed, saying,</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span class="red"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup
pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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</span></b></span><span class="black"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">And he came unto the disciples, and
found them asleep, and said unto Peter,</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span class="red"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What, could you not watch with me one hour?</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="reftext"><b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">41<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></b></span><span class="red"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Watch and pray, that you enter not
into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.</span></i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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</span></b></span><span class="black"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">He went away again the second time,
and prayed, saying,</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span class="red"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it,
your will be done.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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</span></b></span><span class="black"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">And he came and found them asleep
again: for their eyes were heavy.</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></b></span><span class="black"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">And he left them, and went away again,
and prayed the third time, saying the same words.</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></b></span><span class="black"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Then came he to his disciples, and
said unto them,</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"> <span class="red"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the
Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> He moved "a stone's
throw away" from them, where He felt overwhelming sadness and anguish, and
said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"My Father, if it is possible,
let this cup pass me by. Nevertheless, let it be as you, not I, would have
it."</i> Then, a little while later, He said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"If this cup cannot pass by, but I must drink it, your will be
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</span>chasmatichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962911972107586613noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953370497126742536.post-26372763623723131482016-02-14T09:27:00.001-07:002016-02-14T09:27:05.035-07:00FEAR AND FAITH<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">Fear and Faith cannot occupy my heart at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">These are troubled times and sometimes I am afraid. That’s fine, I’d have to be catatonic not to be. But I have learned over the decades (6.5 of ‘em and not done yet) that I do not want a fear-based existence. A spiritual framework helps. Mine is Christian but any will do if it includes morals, character values, behavioral guidelines, a perspective of how one fits in the world and a notion of God, or a Supreme Being, Master of the Universe, whatever you choose to call it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Fear or faith? Um, I'll go with faith. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">It’s the uncertainty, the fear of the unknown, what’s gonna happen next. And, am I prepared for it? That’s why we have always had fortune tellers, sages, those like Cayce, Nostradamus, shamans reading entrails; they attempt to see into the future. Might as well flip a coin, be just as reassuring. It gives us comfort and makes the darkness not so dark. <span id="goog_1278834561"></span>The Book of Revelation<span id="goog_1278834562"></span>, last one in the Bible, deals with this as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"> But, folks, the fear won’t go away if we rely on external things because they don't matter. What is awaiting me tomorrow or next year or ten minutes from now does not matter. How I deal with it, <u>that</u> matters. If I die, OK. If I don’t die, OK too. What life I live - Does. Not. Matter. How I live my life, that’s the thing. Life is an Inside Job. And <em>running scared</em> is not an effective strategy. </span><br />
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"I will try, and I will stumble, but I will fly, He told me so.<br />
Proud and high or low and humble, many miles before I go."</div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Nobody knows the future; it cannot be “predicted”. Probabilities maybe, projection of trends and dynamics, but what about the random nature of life? All the people on Earth love, laugh, get sick, die, breed or ... go haywire and kill themselves or others for no apparent reason. Buildings fall down, aircraft come apart and crash in infinite combinations. Occam’s Razor demonstrates: slice a thing (or personality) very thin but eventually the thing falls on one side of the blade or the other. One side or the other: no preference, wind blowing, somebody jiggled the blade, who knows, and one teeny weeny electron tips the balance. If it is flying around its nucleus no telling where it’s gonna fall. If I hadda turned left instead of right back at that corner ... I would/would not have run over that kid that jumped out into the street. We are not machines and we do not live in a machine world. Come to think of it, all the machines I have ever seen are not infallible either. Sooner or later a wheel comes off, something comes unglued. Or a brick falls from the sky</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><br />chasmatichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962911972107586613noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953370497126742536.post-88267731303997771542016-02-09T07:00:00.000-07:002016-02-09T07:00:08.123-07:00BLUES PRIMER<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My Art Director and Public Radio Interpreter has brought to my attention a source of The Blues. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"You say you're feelin' bad and you don't know why</span></i><br />
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been lyin'</span></span><span style="color: #ac193d; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
</span></span><span style="color: #ac193d; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An' just one thing before
I'm fired</span></span><span style="color: #ac193d; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">
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certified"</span></span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you are new to Blues music, or like it but
never really understood the whys and wherefores, here are some very fundamental
rules:<br />
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1. Most Blues begin with: "Woke up this
mornin’..." <br />
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2. ”I got a good woman" is a <u>bad</u> way to begin the
Blues, unless you stick something nasty in the next line like, "I got a
good woman, with the meanest face in town." <br />
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3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right,
repeat it. Then find <br />
something that rhymes - sort of: "Got a good woman with the meanest face
in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like
Margaret Thatcher and she weigh 500 pound." <br />
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4. The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch...ain't
no way out.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> 5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords,
Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport
Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound
train.
Walkin' plays a major part in the Blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> 6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet.
Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough
to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Memphis</st1:place></st1:city>. <br />
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7. Blues can take place in <st1:city w:st="on">New York City</st1:city>
but not in <st1:state w:st="on">Hawaii</st1:state> or anywhere in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Hard
times in <st1:city w:st="on">Minneapolis</st1:city> or <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Seattle</st1:place></st1:city> is probably just clinical depression.
<st1:city w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city>, <st1:city w:st="on">St. Louis</st1:city>
and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kansas City</st1:place></st1:city>
are still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the Blues in any
place that don't get no rain. </span></span><br />
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<br /> <span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> 9. You can't have no Blues in an
office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot
or sit by the dumpster. <br />
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10. Good places for the Blues: <br />
a. highway <br />
b. jailhouse <br />
c. empty bed <br />
d. bottom of a whiskey glass <br />
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11. Bad places for the Blues:<br />
a. Nordstrom's <br />
b. gallery openings <br />
c. Ivy League institutions <br />
d. golf courses<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">12. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be an old person, and you slept in it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> 13. Do you have the right to sing the
Blues? Yes, if:</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> a. you're older than dirt <br />
b. you're blind <br />
c. you shot a man in Memphis <br />
d. you can't be satisfied <br />
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No, if: <br />
a. you have all your teeth <br />
b. you were once blind but now can see <br />
c. the man in Memphis lived <br />
d. you have a 401K or trust fund <br />
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14. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad
luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the Blues. Sonny Liston could have. Ugly white
people also got a leg up on the Blues. <br />
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15. If you ask for water and your darlin' gives you gasoline, it's
the Blues. Other acceptable Blues beverages are: <br />
a. cheap wine <br />
b. whiskey or bourbon <br />
c. muddy water <br />
d. black coffee <br />
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The following are NOT Blues beverages: <br />
a. Perrier <br />
b. Chardonnay <br />
c. Snapple <br />
d. Slim Fast <br />
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16. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a
Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to
die. So are the electric chair, substance abuse and dying lonely on a
broken-down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match
or while getting liposuction. </span><br />
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17. Some Blues names for women: <br />
a. Sadie <br />
b. Big Mama <br />
c. Bessie <br />
d. Fat River Dumpling <br />
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18. Some Blues names for men: <br />
a. Joe <br />
b. Willie <br />
c. Little Willie <br />
d. Big Willie <br />
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19. Persons with names like Michelle, Amber, Jennifer, Debbie, and
Heather can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Memphis</st1:place></st1:city>. <br />
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20. Blues Name Starter Kit:<br />
a. name of physical infirmity (Blind, Mute, Lame, etc.)
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b. first name (see above) plus name of fruit (Lemon, Lime,
Kiwi, etc.)<br />
c. last name of President (Jefferson, Johnson, Fillmore,
Clinton, etc.) < B R><br />
For example: Blind Lime Jefferson, Pegleg Lemon Johnson or Lame
Kiwi <br />
Clinton, etc. (Well, maybe not "Kiwi.") <br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I don't care how tragic your life is: if you own a computer, you cannot
sing the blues, period. Sorry<i>! </i></span>chasmatichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962911972107586613noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953370497126742536.post-92129327238692793562016-02-07T07:00:00.000-07:002016-02-07T07:00:13.130-07:00IN THE BEGINNINGSome folks think things got started in a random, everything bumping around and gee look what happened kinda way. Or maybe space aliens visited and showed us how to build pyramids. Or, I dunno, it's all some kind of huge, uh, coincidence.<br />
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<tr><td align="center"><b><span style="color: #9c9c63;">Genesis</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="center"><b><span style="color: #9c9c63;">1</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="S1">The Creation</a></b></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="1">1</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="2">2</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness <i>was</i> upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="3">3</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">¶ And God said, Let there be light: <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/108/47/4.html#6">2 Cor. 4.6</a> </span>and there was light.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="4">4</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God saw the light, that <i>it was</i> good: and God divided the light from the darkness.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="5">5</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="6">6</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="7">7</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which <i>were</i> under the firmament from the waters which <i>were</i> above the firmament: and it was so.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="8">8</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God called the firmament Heaven. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/108/61/3.html#5">2 Pet. 3.5</a> </span>And the evening and the morning were the second day.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="9">9</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">¶ And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry <i>land</i> appear: and it was so.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="10">10</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God called the dry <i>land</i> Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that <i>it was</i> good.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="11">11</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, <i>and</i> the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed <i>is</i> in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="12">12</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And the earth brought forth grass, <i>and</i> herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed <i>was</i> in itself, after his kind: and God saw that <i>it was</i> good.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="13">13</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And the evening and the morning were the third day.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="14">14</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">¶ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="15">15</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="16">16</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: <i>he made</i> the stars also.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="17">17</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="18">18</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that <i>it was</i> good.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="19">19</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="20">20</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">¶ And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl <i>that</i> may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="21">21</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that <i>it was</i> good.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="22">22</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="23">23</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="24">24</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">¶ And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="25">25</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that <i>it was</i> good.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="26">26</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/108/46/11.html#7">1 Cor. 11.7</a> </span>after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="27">27</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">So God created man in his <i>own</i> image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/108/40/19.html#4">Mt. 19.4</a> · <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/108/41/10.html#6">Mk. 10.6</a> </span></td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="28">28</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God blessed them, <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/108/01/5.html#1">Gen. 5.1</a>, <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/108/01/5.html#2">2</a> </span>and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.</td></tr>
<tr><td align="right" valign="top" width="5%"><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="29">29</a></i> </td><td valign="top" width="95%">And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which <i>is</i> upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which <i>is</i> the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One hundred miles along the entire US border. Mean anything to you? Those of you who went to school when they had subjects like Geography can probably name all fifty states, maybe throw in some capitols too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I got this from the <a href="http://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-constitution-free-zone-map">ACLU website</a>. I am borrowing and posting so folks like us get an idea of what is going on right before our very eyes. I give the ACLU full credit for the text and map. I don't want them coming after me with lawsuits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is what it means to me: </span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Look for Waco-like events followed by a cascade of smaller
operations; show trials of prominent dissidents and Breitbarting of others; a
blizzard of draconian regulations; confiscation of weapons and wealth; and rule
through intimidation and Soviet-style terror. Expect successive waves of
state-sponsored urban riots, deflation and inflation and revaluation, price
controls, closing of international borders; internal travel restrictions, closing
the internet to civilians, a fully captured news media ... </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Think Martial Law, Executive Orders, UN involvement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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optimistic part. I don't think people understand what they're up against.</strong></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">H</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ere's what it means to the ACLU; be sure to check out the map. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The problem:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Normally under the Fourth
Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the American people are not generally
subject to random and arbitrary stops and searches. The border, however, has
always been an exception. There, the longstanding view is that the normal rules
do not apply. For example <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the authorities
do not need a warrant or probable cause to conduct a “routine search.” <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"But what is “the border”?
According to the government, it is a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the
“external boundary” of the United States. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a result of this claimed authority,
individuals who are far away from the border, American citizens traveling from
one place in America to another, are being stopped and harassed in ways that
our Constitution does not permit. The Border Patrol has been setting up
checkpoints inland — on highways in states such as California, Texas and
Arizona, and at ferry terminals in Washington State. Typically, the agents ask
drivers and passengers about their citizenship. Unfortunately, our courts so
far have permitted these kinds of checkpoints – legally speaking, they are
“administrative” stops that are permitted only for the specific purpose of
protecting the nation’s borders. They cannot become general drug-search or
other law enforcement efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Patrol agents are not remaining confined to that border security purpose. On
the roads of California and elsewhere in the nation – places far removed from
the actual border – agents are stopping, interrogating, and searching Americans
on an everyday basis with absolutely no suspicion of wrongdoing. The bottom
line is that the extraordinary authorities that the government possesses at the
border are spilling into regular American streets. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Much of U.S.
population affected</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Many Americans and Washington
policymakers believe that this is a problem confined to the San Diego-Tijuana
border or the dusty sands of Arizona and Texas, but these powers stretch far
inland across the United States. To calculate what proportion of the U.S.
population is affected by these powers, the ACLU created a map and spreadsheet
showing the population and population centers that lie within 100 miles of any
“external boundary” of the United States. The population estimates were
calculated by examining the most recent US census numbers for all counties
within 100 miles of these borders. Using numbers from the Population
Distribution Branch of the US Census Bureau, we were able to estimate both the
total number and a state-by-state population breakdown. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This custom map was created with help from a map expert at World Sites
Atlas."</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";">See if your aunt in Tallahassee or your pal in North Dakota is affected. My cheesehead kin in Wisconsin are, fer gosh sakes! </span><br />
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or Constitution-lite Zone. That’s 197.4 million people who live within 100
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metropolitan areas as determined by the 2000 census fall within the
Constitution-free Zone. (The only exception is #9, Dallas-Fort Worth.) Some
states are considered to lie completely within the zone: Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, Rhode Island and Vermont.</span></span><br />
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powers inland is part of a broad expansion of border powers with the potential
to affect the lives of ordinary Americans who have never left their own
country. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It coincides with the
development of numerous border technologies, including watch list and database
systems such as the Automated Targeting System (ATS) traveler risk assessment
program, identity and tracking systems such as electronic (RFID) passports, the
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), and intrusive technological
schemes such as the Secure Border Initiative Network (SBINet) or “virtual
border fence” and unmanned aerial vehicles (aka “drone aircraft”). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the extraordinary powers of agents at the border is also part of a general
trend we have seen over the past 8 years of an untrammeled, heedless expansion
of police and national security powers without regard to the effect on innocent
Americans. This trend is also typical of the Administration’s dragnet approach
to law enforcement and national security. Instead of intelligent, competent,
targeted efforts to stop terrorism, illegal immigration, and other crimes, what
we have been seeing in area after area is an approach that turns us all into
suspects. This approach seeks to sift through the entire U.S. population in the
hopes of encountering the rare individual whom the authorities have a
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Americans does not challenge this creeping (and sometimes galloping) expansion
of federal powers over the individual through the rationale of “border
protection,” we are not doing our part to keep alive the rights and freedoms
that we inherited, and will soon find that we have lost some or all of their
right to go about their business, and travel around inside their own country,
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am talking about a look that is in the eyes. Face too, but not so much, it is all in the eyes. Men mostly, but the women have to be strong as well; folks that have killed others, buried family, lost crops, pulled victims or bodies out of wrecks; y'know, that have a pretty good idea of what life and death are all about. They are tried in the fire and hammered out on the Anvil of Life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is get-down time. Batten down the hatches, we're in for </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">stormy weather</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. Executive Orders, Martial Law, race riots, food shortages and some other catastrophic conditions I can't think of right now. All the poignant film clips of the Dustbowl Depression years, families living in a busted down Model A or a tent, all the Wall Street guys jumping out of windows, it ain't some James Stewart/Frank Capra movie. It all happened and it's gonna happen again. A lot of men know this, more than show it - denial helps keep the lid on - but check it out. Look at your neighbors, at the guy that changes your tires, at people that get their hands dirty for a living. It is not a look of defeat. It is a look of <strong>dpjk</strong>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The look says:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Are you serious?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What's so funny?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cut the crap.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You talk like a sausage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Piss off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><em>I've found that machinists are the most dpjk people I have ever met in this business. Like friggin' special forces of manufacturing. I design in +/- a couple thousandths and they machine in +/- a couple ten thousandths. When they like you they stare at you with cold, mean, dead expressions. When they don't like you they just get up and leave without saying a word. Very dpjk. - </em>Philistine</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A lot of people are scared nowadays. They cover their fear with a pasted-on smile, with a false bonhomie. I'd rather have the <strong>dpjk</strong>.<strong> </strong>at least I know where I stand. Up front and no surprises</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As <a href="http://www.woodpilereport.com/">Remus</a> says, avoid crowds. Watch out for anyone that enters your perimeter. Those who would do you harm are always oh so clever, and they think they are invisible. If you maintain Situational Awareness you can see right through them. </span> <strong> </strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;"><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, there's a whole lot in life I don't care much about,
but I am pretty well centered in my own spirituality and the older I get I
reckon there's probably 23 different ways to get into Heaven. "Everybody's
got their own way to butter their bread" as my father would say,
"don't trust the priests, son, all they got a key to is the
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to the evidence and less to the arguments. The walk is more important than the
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smelled the foul sulphur breath of Satan as I lay dying; I have crawled the
narrow path to lay at Jesus' feet, asking He intervene with Father God to spare
my life; there are wicked wild hounds that visit me in the dark hours before
dawn, scratching at my door, looking to carry me away if I drop my guard; but I
do not fear them. I have been washed in the Blood of the Lamb. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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their game I want to say “Kid, I served in the military, blowing things up and
killing people; I ran with bikers, shot junk, robbed banks; my hands have
taken lives and saved lives; I worked with the Billy Graham Crusade; I’m
thirty years clean and sober; I’m half dead with the cancer; I got a million
miles of highway under my ass, slept with dogs, danced with angels; I got
screwdrivers older than you … what are ya gonna show me, uh?”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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possible cirrhosis of liver, my wife heading into dementia, probably a couple
things I haven’t thought of yet, my outlook has changed. I am definitely not
suicidal nor do I feel defeated in any way. I will not sit on the couch
whimpering either. Mind you I’m not gonna buy a motorcycle and go a hundred mph,
defying death. A lot of things that used to bother me (we all have ‘em, little
things like the toothpaste or some jerk in front of us in traffic) don’t bother
me anymore. Some other things that I have taken for granted, like a nice sunset
or my wife hugging and kissing me, now these things mean a lot to me. When it
comes down to standing up against a threat, some jerk wants to harm me, I have
an advantage. I can say to the guy “look, I am willing to die for my beliefs,
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Gee, maybe you should join these guys. Find out if they have a local chapter.</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why does every movement arrange itself as opposed to something? How about the happy Luddites that could care less what you do so long as you stay off my front porch? Meanwhile I'll be sure to keep the things from the past that work- stored food, non-treated water, solar powered clothes dryer (a 50 cent line strung in my backyard), and so forth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People who worship the golden calf deserve what they get. Empty lives staring at tiny lit up boxes. An iPad cannot grow you a garden, nor catch you a fish. When the battery runs down you can throw it at someone or prop open the back door. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is needed is balance, introspection, lack of ego, shunning vanity, humility, and grace. Appreciation. Luddites don't have any more of these than some apple freak Subaru toe hair hippie, nor some slicked-up graphics hipster with every gadget imaginable. Humans are just raccoons picking up shiny objects. Luddites just think very little of other humans. More like misanthropes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The funny thing is my house has witnessed it all. Built in 1908, the old gal has been poked, prodded, added onto, scrubbed, painted, wired, and sided. She is a veritable fly paper of all the good and bad ideas that have been forced upon her. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I treat her right she'll always do what she's always done best. Keep us warm and dry and give us space to manage productive activities. And with zero opposition to any other person's lifestyle required ... </span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">except hippies.</span> </span><br />
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Warfare is for dope-smoking commies. Standing on your own. No leeching. No
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Luddites were
a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_movement"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">social movement</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> of
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</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">textile</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> artisans in the
nineteenth century who protested – often by destroying mechanized </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom" title="Loom"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">looms</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> – against the
changes produced by the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Industrial Revolution</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">,
which they felt were leaving them without work and changing their way of life.
It took its name from </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Ludd"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ned Ludd</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The movement
emerged in the harsh economic climate of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Napoleonic Wars</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and
difficult working conditions in the new textile factories. The principal
objection of the Luddites was to the introduction of new wide-framed automated
looms that could be operated by cheap, relatively unskilled labour, resulting
in the loss of jobs for many skilled textile workers. The movement began in
1811 and 1812, when mills and pieces of factory machinery were burned by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handloom" title="Handloom"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">handloom</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaver" title="Weaver"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">weavers</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, and for a
short time was so strong that Luddites clashed in battles with the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Army"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">British Army</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Measures
taken by the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_government" title="British government"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">British government</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to
suppress the movement included a mass trial at </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">York</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in 1812 that resulted in many
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and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation" title="Penal transportation"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">penal transportations</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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destroying new machines had a long tradition before the Luddites, especially
within the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_industry"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">textile
industry</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Many inventors of the 18th century were attacked by vested
interests who were threatened by new and more efficient ways of making </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yarn</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloth" title="Cloth"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cloth</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Crompton"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Samuel Crompton</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, for
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i' th' Wood</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in 1779 to prevent it being destroyed by the mob.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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technology</span></a>. Its name is based on the historical legacy of the
British <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite" title="Luddite"><span style="color: blue;">Luddites</span></a> which were active between 1811 and 1816.
Neo-luddism includes the critical examination of the effects technology has on
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represents a personal world view skeptical of modern technology and critical of
many purported benefits.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to the notion of supposed technological progress are sentiments that are echoed
across history. In <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels"><span style="color: blue;">Gulliver's Travels</span></a></i> (1726) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift"><span style="color: blue;">Jonathan
Swift</span></a> ridiculed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society"><span style="color: blue;">Royal
Society</span></a>, the oldest scientific society in Britain, and both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau"><span style="color: blue;">Henry David Thoreau</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson"><span style="color: blue;">Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></a> extolled the virtue of unaltered nature.
Neo-luddism conjures pre-technological life as the best post-technological
prospect (see also <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitivism"><span style="color: blue;">primitivism</span></a>), or as Robin and Webster put it,
"a return to nature and what are imagined as more natural
communities". </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recent expression of neo-luddism by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski"><span style="color: blue;">Theodore
Kaczynski</span></a>, also known as the Unabomber. The manifesto states:</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the
life-expectancy of those of us who live in 'advanced' countries, but they have
destabilized society, have made life unfulfilled, have subjected human beings
to indignities, have led to psychological suffering (in the Third World to
physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural
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benefits of the evolving industrial society and embraces the inevitability of
change while recognizing that change does not compel the uncritical adoption of
new, seemingly useful innovations which may have unanticipated consequences.
The balance of benefit and burden for acceptance of new technologies must be
arrived at individually. The Reform Luddite movement resists the trend toward
industrialization but does not reject and seeks to ensure that change does
truly produce a net benefit overall.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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doubts about the nature of benefits from uncritically embracing new information
technology. Neo-luddism holds the belief that we were better off before its
advent and is the opposite of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technophilia"><span style="color: blue;">technophilia</span></a>,
the belief that technological innovation will remedy all ills. Reform Luddism
alternatively holds that an individual chooses to embrace or not an individual
technology, that is to "Turn it on" or "Turn it off" and
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-23314"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></strong></sup> “Judge not, that you be not judged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <sup class="versenum" id="en-NKJV-23320"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span></strong></sup> “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. </span><br />
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me start this way, with observations on my growing up and hanging around with
my dad. He came from Europe and grew up outside of <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Chicago</place></city>.
He liked horses, was always working with them, training and taming and settling
them. And trading them. His friends included an eclectic mix: Hungarian
Gypsies that were hard Balkan boyos; some minor mob guys - Dagos
- small timers from the Cicero area that were mostly bootleggers
and bookies, connected but not heavy; some machinists and workers from
the EMD/General Motors plant, various town guys most of whom went to WWII and
came back. What all these fellas had in common was morals, sense of community,
honor, strength, the good old virtues. They vibed calm, deadly if necessary; do
the right thing always, no speaking falsely, word is my bond. No showboating or
colorful language tossed around just to hear themselves talk, no hey look at me
how important I am sort of conduct. The Polack that ran the junkyard, he still
dressed like a Polack even though he came home from the Pacific with a sack
full of ears and a face full of shrapnel. "Wat? Wat? I went dere. I done
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like the heroes in Patriots</em> who read the bible, believe in the
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shrewd preppers, got the cabin, the water filters, the cases of beans, so forth
up the country someplace, and they're sitting at a Starbucks downtown, being
all clever, when boom boom out go the lights. They get stuck with gridlock scramble and whoa,
left their pistol in the vehicle and all of a sudden it is too late even for them.
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missing in action and so on for WWI and WWII; none of it makes any sense. Tilt
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Europe. The welcome mat for refugees has been abruptly pulled in, replaced with
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people can feel it, a troubling sensation that something isn’t quite right. It
might come to them when they are enduring the commute to work, packed into
train carriages like cattle, or tapping their fingers on the steering wheel
while they’re staring at the rows of glowing red brake lights in front of them.
It comes to them while they are sat at their desk doing the same old things
they did yesterday, for eight hours straight, desperately trying to pay off
their degree or their mortgage or the credit card debt that they were promised would
make them happy. It comes to them when they’re dozing in a room lit up by the
television screen, when they are falling asleep in bed with their laptop. They
know something is wrong but they don’t know what it is, but they know it is
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exists for the men who are seeing their communities, traditions and identities
being eroded and attacked and want to fight back. We exist for the men who know
that something must be done but don’t know where to start. We exist for the men
who know that the politicians only serve themselves, not the people of our
great nations. The Iron Legion is a brotherhood that gives support and
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saving Private Ryan. All blue skies and don’t sit under the apple tree. The support
of the citizens was a confluence of events and circumstances and timing that
gathered such men in our country and offered them a mission: to keep the world
safe for democracy. Unfortunately that confluence cannot be replicated in this
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of a Fourth Reich, one that’s going to last a thousand years or so. The rise of
a Nationalist movement would stand a better chance of success after doing a
little house-cleaning here at home. The German movement got rid of any dissenters
and strongly urged the indecisive to join the movement or get on the cattle
cars. The Russians did likewise, with trains to Siberia. We don’t have a vast
wilderness so quick deaths and shallow graves would have to suffice. We do have
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do
Good to Please God</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> “Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds
before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father
in heaven. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">2 </span></sup>Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not
sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the
streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have
their reward. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">3 </span></sup>But when you do a charitable deed, do not let
your left hand know what your right hand is doing, <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">4 </span></sup>that your
charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself
reward you openly.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Model Prayer</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“And when you pray, you shall not be
like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on
the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to
you, they have their reward. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">6 </span></sup>But you, when you pray, go into
your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who <i>is</i>
in the secret <i>place;</i> and your Father who sees in secret will reward you
openly. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">7 </span></sup>And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the
heathen <i>do.</i> For they think that they will be heard for their many words.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">8 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Therefore do not be like them. For
your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">9 </span></sup>In
this manner, therefore, pray:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our Father in heaven,<br />
Hallowed be Your name.<br />
<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">10 </span></sup>Your kingdom come.<br />
Your will be done<br />
On earth as <i>it is</i> in heaven.<br />
<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">11 </span></sup>Give us this day our daily bread.<br />
<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">12 </span></sup>And forgive us our debts,<br />
As we forgive our debtors.<br />
<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">13 </span></sup>And do not lead us into temptation,<br />
But deliver us from the evil one.<br />
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">14 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“For if you forgive men their
trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">15 </span></sup>But
if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive
your trespasses.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fasting
to Be Seen Only by God</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">16 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Moreover, when you fast, do not be
like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces
that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have
their reward. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">17 </span></sup>But you, when you fast, anoint your head and
wash your face, <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">18 </span></sup>so that you do not appear to men to be
fasting, but to your Father who <i>is</i> in the secret <i>place;</i> and your
Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lay
Up Treasures in Heaven</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">19 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures
on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">20 </span></sup>but
lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys
and where thieves do not break in and steal. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">21 </span></sup>For where your
treasure is, there your heart will be also.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Lamp of the Body</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">22 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The lamp of the body is the eye. If
therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">23 </span></sup>But
if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the
light that is in you is darkness, how great <i>is</i> that darkness!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
Cannot Serve God and Riches</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">24 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“No one can serve two masters; for
either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the
one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do
Not Worry</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">25 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Therefore I say to you, do not worry
about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body,
what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than
clothing? <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">26 </span></sup>Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow
nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you
not of more value than they? <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">27 </span></sup>Which of you by worrying can
add one cubit to his stature?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">28 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So why do you worry about clothing?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">29 </span></sup>and
yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">30 </span></sup>Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which
today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, <i>will He</i> not much more <i>clothe</i>
you, O you of little faith?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">31 </span></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What
shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">32 </span></sup>For
after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that
you need all these things. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">33 </span></sup>But seek first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. <sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">34 </span></sup>Therefore
do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things.
Sufficient for the day <i>is</i> its own trouble.</span><br />
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<span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></span><br />chasmatichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962911972107586613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953370497126742536.post-78102567812809892042016-01-20T07:00:00.000-07:002016-01-20T07:00:06.376-07:00DOWN AROUND MY PLACE 2<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, I went back to the default settings on the camera. the pix turned out better. I reckon the camera is smarter than me. Well, for the pictures. I dunno, maybe for a couple more things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I posted on this a few days ago; here are some detail pix and my usual excellent commentary. There are a lot of people that died without ever hearing my voice. Don't be numbered among them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">North: overlooking sorghum fields stripped after harvest. That mountain, elevation 9750 ft. is about 25 miles north of town. The highest elevation in our part of the state. Ruins of a fort there from the Indian days, Butterfield Stage Lines ran past there as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">South: These mountains 30 miles south are on private ranch property, beyond them the border. All the ranchers down that way can tell stories about illegals desecrating the land, wrecking windmills and wells, ripping fences and gates. The ranchers like AKs. Cheap and cheery, they make good, uh, varmint guns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">East: More mountains, poppies bloom on the south slopes in Spring; mountain lions and ibex up in there, hunters get after 'em and realize that a 200yd shot means a half mile up & down to get the carcass. Needless to say they usually leave them where they drop. The coyotes don't mind. The determined ones bring back the head if there is any kind of rack. A state park, some rock-hounding, several homes in the gap between the big ones to the right (rugged) and the little (gentler). Kinda remote, more than half an hour away from a loaf of bread. Beyond the mountains gets you to Texas eventually, with miles of salt flats in the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">West: Red Mountain some 20 miles west, so called to differentiate it from Black Mountain, not in the pix. Black Mt. has a lot of lava rock which lends the color. Red Mt. has, um, dirt and rocks. Beyond the mountain Arizona a couple hours away. We have prevailing west winds all year long and in the Spring, when the land is pretty dry, we get strong west winds pushing dust that will close highways, local roads, even the interstate (I-10) and bring us a lot of Arizona real estate (airborne). The dust storms are enough to make grown men cry, women tremble, children run and hide, dogs to bark and horses to bolt in sheer panic. </span><br />
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live down in by the border in New Mexico. Sometimes it is bleak,
sometimes the magnitude of the landscape is amazing. Having a sixty mile
horizon can humble a person. Sunsets can be a gift from God if the skies are a bit
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Native Americans, we call them "Indians" since that's what they call
themselves, they can get real spiritual here. The Anglos, sometimes
referred to as Gringos, the land could break their hearts. The Hispanics,
mostly Mexicans, they get called Meskins but not in a derogatory
way. They're more used to the environment down here. When I think about
it, what we call each other gets pushed aside since there are Mexicans that go
back three or four generations and Anglos that grew up side by side with
them, fighting Nature, rejoicing it, simply being ordinary folks. During WWII
all the able-bodied men went to war and none of them were even aware of ethnic
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the 1600s. Humble maybe.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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feeling I want to convey is the vast flat hostile terrain. Distance perception
is warped. Look at a thing and think it is close and it is 20 miles away. It
must have broken many settlers or soldiers that had to travel. "Oh, look
honey, there's the mountains" and they'd see them all day for a
week before getting to the foothills. Twenty-five miles a day was typical
unless the mule died or a wheel came unstuck or some Injuns objected to the
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used a Canon Power Shot SD770, one of those PHD (push here dummy) cameras that
fit in pocket or purse and do well for us grabbing quick pictures at Eastern
Star meetings. The Brocker likes it because she don't have to do
anything more than point and click the thing. I use the macro
function when I take pictures of some of my shootin' irons. I think I screwed
up the setting for these three pictures. I got into the settings, chose the
little mountain icon that means landscape, or infinite or something and the shots
came out clear but the color washed. Hmph, where's Eisenstein or Arbus when ya
need 'em? Anyway I will go back to the default normal standard typical
chimpanzee settings and leave my creativity at home. Using a camera is not
something I want to go to school on. I left these pictures high resolution so
you can clip 'em from me. Send ten dollars as a courtesy, er, fer <u>each</u>
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pump: out here <u>nothing</u> grows unless you water it. Unless you count the
cactus which will grow anywhere, anytime. When SHTF, never mind gold coins or
SUVs or even ammo, water trumps all else. Unless you use the ammo to steal the
water, but it would be a fight to the death. I gots the rambles, hang on: Our
water table was maybe 90' twenty years ago until some farmers got too clever
and planted alfalfa, they can get three mebbe four cuttings a year,
and the water table fed from underground aquifers that originate in Colorado,
the level dropped to 250-300'. When the county proposed putting meters on the
wells they were considered as Revenuers and you know what happens to them.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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guy powers his pump with electric, most common, and he has a diesel back
up. There are a lot of windmills around here and none of them are painted all
kindsa queer colors. They are working windmills that usually keep cattle tanks
topped up. Some are used for household. Interesting, when you scan the
landscape wherever you see trees there is water. Believe me, 40' trees do stand
out in all the busted-ass flatlands. Older technology has ditches along the
borders of the fields and a siphon system conveying into open furrows along the
crop lines. This is of course inefficient due to evaporation but cheap
and simple. Think: 100 year old method. Newer fields have underground drip
lines, soakers. A lot of the ground, you have the topsoil, a foot or foot
and a half, and then you got <em><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">caliche,</span></em>
which everyone down here thinks is a clay but it is, of course, calcium
carbonate which binds clay, sand, rocks, beer cans, whatever into a
miserable hard heart-breaking (back-breaking too) layer which discourages
digging. Them poor bastards a hunnert years ago would have all they could do to
scratch out seed furrows let alone dig down. Of course when you get past
about a yard down it clears up some. Imagine doing work like that in hundred
degree weather with the wind blowing and the 'yotes got your chickens and the
mule is on a hunger strike and pa, pa, junior got bit by a rattler and ... um,
rambling, yes. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I first came down here I admit I was a bit prejudiced toward the migrant
workers, lined up in the grocery store to buy a bag of fried chicken and a six
pack to have on the shuttle bus back across the border. Then I laid hundreds
of feet of 2" PVC for computer communications, had to bury it
18" and a dinky little Ditch Witch to help; I erected a few
service masts and so forth ... you see the punchline don't you? My
attitude changed for these migrant workers out there all day picking chiles,
cotton, melons, onions, and other truck farm veggies all day every day
hunnert degrees and wind and scorpions and caustic all over their hands they
don't even wipe the sweat or they'll go blind. Sigh, learned a huge lesson in
giving respect where it is earned.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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local mountains: 20-30 miles away, of some minor fame and attraction;
ibex, some cats, goats, there are some caves, misguided miners thought the
hills were full of gold, bust yer ass for six months and end up with an ounce.
One town guy killed his wife, bashed her head in with a table lamp (maybe the
winds drove him nuts, like in France when they got the Mistrals and murder
is exempt from capital punishment, under Napoleonic Law IIRC, anyways he wraps
her body in some carpeting and carries her up in the Floridas
mountains and dumps her in an abandoned shaft. Problem was,
the parcel got stuck about 20 feet down and it was not long before it
was discovered and gave the fuzz evidence to convict the mook. He was
all "What? what? She up and ran off on me" and people figured, he's
such an asshole anyway she prolly did. Until they found the
rug-wrapped corpse. Some Boy Scouts or something, up there sneaking
around, gonna go down the mine shaft just like their Scoutmaster told them <u>never
ever</u> to do. Also rumors of finding small cannons and gold stashed by <em><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Conquistadores</span></em> travelling through.
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.chasmatichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962911972107586613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953370497126742536.post-77027754316016617672016-01-17T07:00:00.000-07:002016-01-17T07:00:03.914-07:00SERMON on the MOUNT Matthew 5<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm going to post this in three installments. There's a lot of content and it is not to be skimmed over. Those of us with God in our lives won't feel uncomfortable. Any of you readers that do not have a spiritual alignment, please read anyway. I don't want to hear minds slamming shut on this stuff. Think of what is being said in terms of Universal Truths. Put these words into some context that you feel comfy with. Don't worry, ain't nobody gonna jump out and brainwash you, make you sell flowers in airports; you won't have to drink any Kool-Aid or anything.</span><br />
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<span class="chapternum"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">5</span></b></span><span class="chapternum"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-1"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-2"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">2 </span></sup></span><span class="textmatt-5-2"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-5-3"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">3 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Blessed <i>are</i> the poor in spirit,</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="woj">For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.</span><br /><span class="textmatt-5-4"><sup>4 </sup></span><span class="woj">Blessed <i>are</i> those who mourn,</span><br /><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="woj">For they shall be comforted.</span><br /><span class="textmatt-5-5"><sup>5 </sup></span><span class="woj">Blessed <i>are</i> the meek,</span><br /><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="woj">For they shall inherit the earth.</span><br /><span class="textmatt-5-6"><sup>6 </sup></span><span class="woj">Blessed <i>are</i> those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,</span><br /><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="woj">For they shall be filled.</span><br /><span class="textmatt-5-7"><sup>7 </sup></span><span class="woj">Blessed <i>are</i> the merciful,</span><br /><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="woj">For they shall obtain mercy.</span><br /><span class="textmatt-5-8"><sup>8 </sup></span><span class="woj">Blessed <i>are</i> the pure in heart,</span><br /><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="woj">For they shall see God.</span><br /><span class="textmatt-5-9"><sup>9 </sup></span><span class="woj">Blessed <i>are</i> the peacemakers,</span><br /><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="woj">For they shall be called sons of God.</span><br /><span class="textmatt-5-10"><sup>10 </sup></span><span class="woj">Blessed <i>are</i> those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake,</span><br /><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="woj">For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.</span></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-5-11"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">11 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-11"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-12"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">12 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great <i>is</i> your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.</span></span><br />
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<span class="textmatt-5-13"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">13 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<span class="textmatt-5-14"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">14 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-14"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-15"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">15 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lamp stand, and it gives light to all <i>who are</i> in the house.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-15"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-16"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">16 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span class="textmatt-5-17"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">17 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-17"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-18"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">18 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-18"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-19"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">19 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches <i>them,</i> he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-19"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-20"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">20 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds <i>the righteousness</i> of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span class="textmatt-5-21"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">21 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-21"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-22"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">22 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-22"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-23"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">23 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-23"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-24"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">24 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-24"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-25"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">25 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-25"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-26"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">26 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Assuredly, I say to you, you will by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span class="textmatt-5-27"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">27 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“You have heard that it was said to those of old,</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-27"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">‘You shall not commit adultery.’</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-27"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-28"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">28 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-28"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-29"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">29 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast <i>it</i> from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-29"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-30"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">30 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast <i>it</i> from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></sup><br />
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<span class="textmatt-5-31"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">31 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-31"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-32"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">32 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span class="textmatt-5-33"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">33 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to the Lord.’</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-33"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-34"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">34 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But I say to you, do not swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is God’s throne;</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-34"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-35"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">35 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by <city w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Jerusalem</place></city>, for it is the city of the great King.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-35"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-36"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">36 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Nor shall you swear by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-36"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-37"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">37 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span class="textmatt-5-38"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">38 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-38"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-39"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">39 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-39"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-40"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">40 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have <i>your</i> cloak also.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-40"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-41"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">41 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-41"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-42"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">42 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
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<span class="textmatt-5-43"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">43 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-43"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">and hate your enemy.’</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-43"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-44"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">44 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-44"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-45"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">45 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-45"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-46"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">46 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-46"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-47"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">47 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more <i>than others?</i> Do not even the tax collectors do so?</span></span><span class="textmatt-5-47"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span><span class="textmatt-5-48"><sup><span style="font-family: Verdana;">48 </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.</span></span></div>
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chasmatichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962911972107586613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953370497126742536.post-87571950518430490052016-01-15T07:00:00.000-07:002016-01-15T07:00:01.919-07:00NACHT und NEBEL<em>Nacht und Nebel</em>. Night and fog. The fog is real, and I do not mean that stuff coming off the ocean. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><em>"It's
like being in Caligula's Rome. A half breed faggot of dubious provenance on the
throne and toadying grifters running the place. You gotta forgive me, I'm not
well ... sometimes I think I've seen too much. I wish Putin had grown up in
Boise." – Remus</em></span></span><br />
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</span></span>And he has another year to pull these kinds of stunts. Hope our Congress can stop him.<br />
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<strong>Martial Law and Executive Orders</strong> <strong>do not need any civil or judicial approval.</strong> Pretty much the whim of whoever is in the driver's seat. I have posted on these topics, not to fill pages but to ring yer bell; look out the windows, sniff the wind, wakey-wakey.<br />
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If you don't think something like this is gonna happen you need oxygen. All that is needed is precipitating events. Like some natural disaster, solar flares or drought or earthquake, maybe Hoover Dam collapses. Toss in enemy incursions whether real ... or <em>agents provocateur. </em>Could be as simple as <a href="http://preparednesspro.com/is-there-a-water-disaster-coming-your-way/">this.</a><br />
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Like the Kent State incident.<br />
This event was National Guard troops fully sanctioned by the Powers That Be to suppress dissent. Then it was raggedy-assed hippies and you and I were the establishment. Next time it will be you and I fighting to maintain The Constitution and our way of life and the troops will be deployed to defend the rape of our nation.<em> </em><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong><em>This ain't about Jews and Germans, it is about the pattern we will see unfolding sooner rather than later.</em></strong></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana;"><em>Don't get distracted by the fact that it was Germans and Jews and the 1930s. What I am talking about is now being promoted by Blacks and Whites and so-called Christians and Muslims and elected politicians and ... and ... Marxists and socialists and Democrats and fascists and maybe your next door neighbor. This kinda thing is coming soon to your town. And I offer this; it is history and I believe it. I do not think </em><em>mankind</em><em> has changed for the better since the '30s.</em> </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana;">The Gestapo</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana;"> had the authority to investigate treason, espionage and sabotage cases, and cases of criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and <country -region="-region" w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Germany</place></country>. A law passed by the government in 1936 gave the Gestapo <i>carte blanche</i> to operate without judicial oversight. The Gestapo was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws. As early as 1935, however, a Prussian administrative court had ruled that the Gestapo's actions were not subject to judicial review.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana;">A further law passed later in the year gave the Gestapo responsibility for setting up and administering concentration camps. In September 1939 the security and police agencies of Nazi Germany were consolidated into the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), headed by Heydrich. Gestapo became Amt IV (Department IV) of RSHA and Müller became the Gestapo Chief, with Heydrich as his immediate superior. After Heydrich's assassination in 1942, Ernst Kaltenbrunner became head of RSHA, and Müller remained the Gestapo Chief, a position he occupied until the end of the war.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana;">Adolf Eichmann was Müller's direct subordinate and head of Department IV, Section B4, which dealt with Jews.</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana;">The power of the Gestapo most open to misuse was called <i>Schutzhaft</i> – "protective custody", a euphemism for the power to imprison people without judicial proceedings. An oddity of the system was that the prisoner had to sign his or her own <i>Schutzhaftbefehl</i>, an order declaring that the person had requested imprisonment – presumably out of fear of personal harm (which, in a way, was true). In addition, thousands of political prisoners throughout Germany – and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree – simply disappeared under Gestapo custody.</span><br />
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<b><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana;">Nacht und Nebel</span></i></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana;"> (German for "Night and Fog") was a directive (German: </span><i><span lang="DE" style="font-family: Verdana;">Erlass</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana;">) of Adolf Hitler on 7 December 1941 signed and implemented by Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Wilhelm Keitel, resulting in kidnapping and disappearance of many political activists and resistance 'helpers' throughout Nazi Germany's occupied territories. It was a specific punishment for opponents of the Nazis in occupied countries and intended to intimidate local populations into submission by denying families and friends of <i>"les disparus"</i> all knowledge of what had happened to them.</span></div>
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Get the fear. <em>Kristallnacht</em> had the Jews as targets in 30s Germany. Read about it <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht">here</a>. </div>
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It is not much of a stretch to replace Jews with Whites or Christians or Conservatives or anyone considered an enemy of the regime. SEIU will be the goons and the rabble will soon be incited to riots. </div>
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I am not paranoid. The stage is set for a recurrence of this sort of thing. Me, I always suss out the exits, to a room, building, or city. I avoid crowds even on a sunny day.</div>
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And you?<br />
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And you, what are you here for?<br />
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I'll tell you what we are all here for: <em>we are all here to go.</em> <br />
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Go? Where to? That depends on your spiritual framework. Heaven; Nirvana; the other side; come back again hopefully on a higher plane; <br />
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out into space, some planet where ammonia-breathing reptiles rule; Marduk, say hello to Harry Houdini when you see him; <br />
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cold dark hole six foot East and West and six foot perpendicular.<br />
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Wherever and however you envision it. Because, you see, we are in a waiting room, perched precariously on the skin of this planet. Hang on, we are hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour. Spinning on our orbit at similar speed. Wasn't for gravity we'd all be flung out into space ready or not like a bean spun off a turntable, 33-1/3 or 45. We are all here waiting to go.<br />
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Ever notice, we are always waiting? Waiting for something to happen. Waiting for something to stop happening. Waiting for someone to get out of our way. Waiting for somebody to stop talking so we can jump in with what we have to say. Waiting for our ship to come in, we wait so long not realizing that all this time we have been on the ship. Look at your own self. Can you see how your life is defined in terms of waiting? Oh yeah, moments of glory or infamy, all boxed in by times of waiting.<br />
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These guys are waiting. Waiting for My Man. That's what you do, you a junkie, is wait. Wait to score, wait to get off, wait to get sick again enough that you go out, gotta score.They were waiting long before Kurt Cobain. I guess ol' Kurt couldn't hack it in real time; he got impatient.<br />
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I am not a patient man. The concept of waiting rubs me the wrong way but that is what it is. Anyone who owns a clock or looks at the sun is ... waiting.<br />
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method of choice in assassinations because: little to no evidence. No
forensics: window, out, fall. Killers will not leave anything like DNA, tooth
marks, clothing scraps. Only the fading essence of Victor the Cleaner.</span></div>
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pattern, I sense a pattern. It is almost as if … nah, coincidence is a stretch
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Well, Harry had a good job working for the
Secret Service<br />
He had a wife and kids at home who made him awful nervous<br />
He'd never done a damn thing you could call experimental<br />
And he had this aching feeling that his life was accidental<br />
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So one day he burned his pinstripe suit and his leather shoulder holster<br />
He snapped a polaroid and made a giant wanted poster<br />
He took it to a print shop and ordered up a thousand flyers<br />
And walked next door to the laundromat and blew his brains out in the drier<br />
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And the tag on his toe read: death by misadventure<br />
Ain't that some way to go? death by misadventure<br />
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Well, Harry's wife Estella took this matter rather lightly<br />
She could have cried and cried but then her looks might come unsightly<br />
She thought about her wardrobe and how much it was outdated<br />
And how this trumped up family thing was vastly overrated<br />
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Her kids both turned against her and they took to drugs and stealing<br />
Some junkie killed 'em both for two dime bags that they were dealing<br />
And sitting home alone disgusted by it all<br />
She blew the sole survivor off with ninety nembutals<br />
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And the tag on her toe read: death by misadventure<br />
Ain't that some way to go? death by misadventure<br />
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So be careful how you choose your path and who you pick to go with<br />
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death<br />
Some folks get confused and never quite know how they're going<br />
When you're laid out on that slab we're all the worse for knowing<br />
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That the tag on your toe reads: death by misadventure<br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It might come to that since we cannot stop the downward spiral. The union members, the Blacks, the Hispanics, the poor, the student radicals, a whole </span><br />
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</span></span> What do we have? Good intentions?</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got this from an </span><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/clowardpiven_government.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">American Thinker archived post</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"It is time to cast aside all remaining doubt. President Obama is not trying to lead <country -region="-region" w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country> forward to recovery, prosperity and strength. Quite the opposite, in fact.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"In September of last year, </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">American Thinker</span></a></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> published my article, </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis</span></a></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. </span></em><a href="http://truthandcons.blogspot.com/2009/03/links-to-all-three-manufactured-crisis.html"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em>Part of a series</em></span></a><em>, it connected then-presidential candidate Barack Obama to individuals and organizations practicing a <span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6967"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">malevolent strategy</span></a></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> for destroying our economy and our system of government. Since then, the story of that strategy has found its way across the blogosphere, onto the airwaves of radio stations across the country, the </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O373c7Up4KQ&feature=player_embedded"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Glenn Beck television show</span></a></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juVCmOYJWgI&feature=player_embedded"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bill O'Reilly</span></a></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, and now </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=1595814&spid=32364"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mark Levin</span></a></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"The methodology is known as the Cloward-Piven Strategy, and we can all be grateful to David Horowitz and his </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Discover the Networks</span></a></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> for originally exposing and explaining it to us. He describes it as:</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. </span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were two lifelong members of Democratic Socialists of America who taught sociology at <place w:st="on"><placename w:st="on">Columbia</placename> <placetype w:st="on">University</placetype></place> (Piven later went on to City University of New York). In a May 1966 Nation magazine article titled "The Weight of the Poor," they outlined their strategy, proposing to use grassroots radical organizations to push ever more strident demands for public services at all levels of government. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>"The result, they predicted, would be "a profound </em></span><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/clowardpiven_government.html##"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>financial</em></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> and political crisis" that would unleash "powerful forces ... for major economic reform at the national level."</em></span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"They implemented the strategy by creating a succession of radical organizations, most notable among them the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), with the help of veteran organizer Wade Rathke. Their crowning achievement was the "Motor Voter" act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1993 with Cloward and Piven standing behind him.</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"It should be clear to anyone with a mind and two eyes that this president and this Congress do not have our interests at heart. They are implementing this strategy on an unprecedented scale by flooding <country -region="-region" w:st="on"><place w:st="on">America</place></country> with a tidal wave of poisonous initiatives, orders, regulations, and laws. As Rahm Emmanuel said, "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste."</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><em>"These people are our enemies. They don't use guns, yet, but they are just as dangerous, determined, and duplicitous as the communists we faced in the Cold War, <country -region="-region" w:st="on">Korea</country>, <country -region="-region" w:st="on"><place w:st="on">Vietnam</place></country>, and bush wars across the globe, and the Nazis we faced in World War II."</em></span></span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wqcizZebcaU?rel=0" width="420"></iframe><br />chasmatichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962911972107586613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953370497126742536.post-508925265892080642016-01-10T07:00:00.000-07:002016-01-10T07:00:21.757-07:00LAUS DEO<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"></span></span><br />chasmatichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14962911972107586613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953370497126742536.post-59942834765106071222016-01-08T07:00:00.000-07:002016-01-08T07:00:04.922-07:00 MARTIAL LAWHear ye one and all. Take due notice and govern yourselves accordingly.<br />
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I posted this a couple months ago, back when we dreamed of voting the rascals out. I don't think these scoundrels will let go willingly.<br />
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Now with predominantly Black urban centers like Baltimore going up in flames we might see the government step in with Martial Law. Oh, no, not against the Black Negro Afro-American People of Color lowlife looters and arsonists and murderers but against those of us who would dare oppose them. <br />
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Just recently a reader brought this to my attention, some wicked war games (if that's all they are):<br />
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2015, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command is conducting a massive military
drill in an area covering the entire American Southwest. At first glance, this
drill looks like a response to a Red Dawn style attack. However, after reading
the operational plan of Jade Helm, it is clear that this drill is about the
martial subjugation of the people of Texas, Utah & Southern California who
have risen up against some unspecified tyranny. Further, this drill is also
about martial law being used as a preventative measure in states which “might”
lean towards civil war against the United States government. The operational
elements & impact of Jade Helm 15 cannot be considered in isolation. A
careful analysis reveals how this drill is connected to Army policies
associated with the confinement of detainees in what is commonly called camps.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Check it out and learn what's happening to us. I do not have solutions but in the end it will be fight or flight and I don't run so very good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The President and the pols in office have a lot of power. If they cannot get what they want by manipulating the legislative process, by bribery, by vote-stacking, so forth, they can use more forceful methods. Technically legal and compelling the military and law enforcement entities to obey, the powers can and will be abused.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> If they want an excuse to declare Martial Law, maybe the assassination of somebody perhaps as high up as the VP. Y'know, somebody they can afford to lose for the cause. Get good ol' Joe near a grassy knoll somewhere, doesn't have to be Dallas, and ... I'm just sayin'.</span><br />
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fine morning we will wake up to Executive Orders. Our President has declared that he will use Executive Orders to get what he wants and there is no way to stop him. Any resistance will be met with Martial Law and military and law enforcement officers providing the muscle.</span></span></div>
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President and the pols in office have a lot of power. If they cannot get what
they want by manipulating the legislative process, by bribery, by
vote-stacking, so forth, they can use more forceful methods. Technically legal
and compelling the military and law enforcement entities to obey, the powers
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"executive orders" for an astonishing list of what has been done at
nothing more than the whim of the POTUS and his cronies.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Constitution</span></b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Presidents have issued Executive Orders since 1789. Although there is no
Constitutional provision or statute that explicitly permits Executive Orders,
there is a vague grant of "executive power" given in Article II,
Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and furthered by the declaration
"take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" made in Article II,
Section 3, Clause 4. At the minimum, most Executive Orders use these
Constitutional reasonings as the authorization allowing for their issuance to
be justified as part of the President's sworn duties, the intent being to help
direct officers of the US Executive carry out their delegated duties as well as
the normal operations of the Federal Government - the consequence of failing to
comply possibly being the removal from office.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Until the early 1900s, executive orders went mostly
unannounced and undocumented, seen only by the agencies to which they were
directed. However, the Department of State instituted a numbering scheme for
executive orders in 1907, starting retroactively with an order issued on
October 20, 1862, by President Abraham Lincoln. The documents that later came
to be known as "Executive Orders" probably gained their name from
this document, captioned "Executive Order Establishing a Provisional Court
in Louisiana." </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Until the 1950s, there were no rules or guidelines
outlining what the president could or could not do through an executive order.
Presidents since have generally been careful to cite which specific laws they
are acting under when issuing new executive orders.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Wars have been fought upon executive order, including the
1999 Kosovo War during Bill Clinton's second term in office. However, all such
wars have had authorizing resolutions from Congress.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<em><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The extent to which the president may exercise military
power independently of Congress and the scope of the War Powers Resolution
remain unresolved constitutional issues, although all presidents since its
passage have complied with the terms of the Resolution while maintaining that
they are not constitutionally required to do so.</span></em><o:p></o:p></div>
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Relying on his good will?</span></u></strong></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Critics have accused presidents of abusing executive
orders, of using them to make laws without Congressional approval, and of
moving existing laws away from their original mandates. Large policy changes
with wide-ranging effects have been effected through executive order, including
the </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_integration" title="Racial integration"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">integration</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> of the
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forces</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> under Harry Truman and the desegregation of public
schools under Dwight D. Eisenhower.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">One extreme example of an executive order is Executive
Order 9066, where Franklin D. Roosevelt delegated military authority to remove
any or all people (used to target specifically Japanese Americans and German
Americans) in a military zone. The authority delegated to General John L.
DeWitt subsequently paved the way for all Japanese-Americans on the West Coast
to be sent to internment camps for the duration of World War II.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Executive Order 13233, which restricted public access to
the papers of Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, was more recently
criticized by the Society of American Archivists and other groups, stating that
it "violates both the spirit and letter of existing <country -region="-region" w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country>
law on access to presidential papers as clearly laid down in 44 </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Code" title="United States Code"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="color: blue;">USC.</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">
2201–07 and adding that the order "potentially threatens to undermine one
of the very foundations of our nation." </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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is quite common for US Presidents to issue executive orders that instruct
federal agencies to promulgate administrative regulations in order to
circumvent the legislative process in the <country -region="-region" w:st="on">US</country>
Congress altogether, though, as alluded to above, this can violate the <country -region="-region" w:st="on"><place w:st="on">US</place></country>
Constitution in a number of ways. US Presidents are quite aware that US
congressional politics can defeat or otherwise prevent the passage of
legislation presidents deem politically important. In this regard, US
Presidents have issued executive orders calling upon federal agencies, such as
the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Department of Energy
(DOE), to amend administrative regulations where the political process of
adopting new congressional legislation necessary to implement multilateral
environmental regulatory treaty obligations a president wishes for the US to
assume would prevent US ratification of/accession to that treaty. </span></em><o:p></o:p></div>
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late in the day ... blah blah" just like the wine people, pretentious
BS. (Friends, back in the bad old days when I drank wine I'd
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when or where it was bottled.) Cap? Uh, yeah, corks were a nuisance. I'm
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always easy to know. Chances are you have some real misperceptions about
caffeine. For starters, do you know the most common sources of caffeine? Well,
maybe two of the sources aren't too hard to name -- coffee and tea leaves. But
did you know kola nuts and cocoa beans are also included among the most common
caffeine sources? And do you know how much caffeine content can vary from food
to food? Turns out it's quite a lot actually, depending on the type and serving
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160 milligrams in some energy drinks to as little as 4 milligrams in a 1-ounce
serving of chocolate-flavored syrup. Even decaffeinated coffee isn't completely
free of caffeine. Caffeine is also present in some over-the-counter pain
relievers, cold medications, and diet pills. These products can contain as
little as 16 milligrams or as much as 200 milligrams of caffeine. In fact,
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by the bushel full and associate with a lower crowd. Fly-Crash-Burn-Die is the
usual pattern. Not my style. But I do like coffee and when I was among friends
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> New Years resolutions are but empty promises. Good intentions, sure, but not productive. If something in your life is not working for you, why you gonna wait, some special day, to fix it? Do it now. whatever it is, <em>do it now</em>. </span><span style="color: black; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Never mind schemin' about the future and dreamin' about the past. </span><br />
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Tomorrow's sun will rise either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds but it will rise. </span></div>
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Any way, I spent some years living and working in Canada. Not a dodger, this was after I got out of the Army. Wasn't so bad. Quiet, bucolic, provincial; the slow pace finally got to me but I don't see them having the same problems we got here. <br />
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Migrating Northward looking better and better every day.<br />
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