I know Congress is expected to vote on raising the debt ceiling today but they had BETTER reject it! People like myself are still paying attention to what those crafty little bankers are up to.......trying to STEAL our money!
Like I said before, who ever votes to raise the debt ceiling SHOULD be put on display with tar and feathers for all to see. NO MORE! These bankers who run Washington should be thrown overboard in the ocean with an anchor attached to their legs.
And to Warren Buffet who is quoted as saying, "whoever does not raise the debt ceiling is asinine"...........sorry Mr. Buffet, I know you are just worried about losing your precious millions of dollars. That is all you care about!
Pay attention people to what your policy makers are voting into law. You had better pay attention! And that means business!
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
Thoughts of summer on my mind......
I wanted to post something perhaps a little more positive because I just got a wonderful visit from my nephews whom I love very much! Luke, Ben and Ollie and their mom and dad just added a new addition to the family, a little girl. Wow she sure is going to have a fun yet competitive time growing up with three older brothers. I know she will be teased and picked on but she will learn to be strong indeed.
These are the wonderful gifts that God gives to us and He is a GOOD God for sure. He also gives us the beautiful flowers that start to bloom out of the dead barrenness of winter and the bright, warm sun that lights up your day. I took these pics, except for the one of Lillianna, because I always have a camera in my hand. So enjoy the beauty of God's Creation..........The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Heaven is His thrown, and the earth is His footstool and the clouds are the dust of His feet! Praise and Honor, Wisdom and Truth belong to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ!
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Edited Post......I just know you are dying to see this!
Please check out the edited version of my post titled, "Highly Classified". Just scroll down a few posts! Must read!
How is your privacy?..........a repost on a very important matter!
Imagine if someone was watched while taking a dump on the toilet? Preposterous right? But actually this happens so much more than we realize. In this exploding age of technology, anyone can have access to your privacy with one push of a button all the while your unassuming mind fossilizes in the local morgue.
Every cell phone has a GPS tracking device........do you really NEED a cellphone? Would you ever be able to disappear even if you WANTED to go incognito? And what about your laptop or computer? Your computer has an address with cookies that are used specifically to collect information about you and your surfing habits. I wonder how many people who have pornographic addictions actually think they are surfing the net in privacy.......you know, hiding their "sin" from their unsuspecting, deficient spouse? Perhaps their jealous and paranoid spouse is keeping tabs on them. And what about your car? Has it ever occurred to you that you may have a GPS tracking device on it without your knowledge? Or that anyone could quietly slap one onto your car to follow you via satellite........perhaps your dominating, overbearing, controlling spouse or a stalker who has no life but thinks yours is more exciting even though you sit home every night counting bee bees and collecting bottle caps?
And what about these new scanners at the airports that reveal your naked bodies? We may as well be walking around naked (I have already seen this on many occasions when I lived in the suburbs of Philly.......naked men communing with nature while I was TRYING to enjoy a run). You can choose not to fly, but with all the other technology out there, one way or another your privacy is going to be exploited to the max. Talk about Orwellian and Big Brother......global police state. I find it interesting that George Orwells "1984" was banned from the Amazon book store!
Businesses are now adopting in droves this RFID (radio frequency identification) technology used for the purposes of efficiency in mass production. Walmart is the leader in this global supply chain and they advocate RFID microchips in each and every product or unit that is shipped. One day however, this technology will take a nefarious turn and they will be implanting humans with these microchips to keep track of everyone. So you will not be able to escape or hide anywhere.
And what about your email? Or when your post a comment on a blog? Even if you use a moniker, do not think for a second that no one knows who you are or that you are not vulnerable because your stalker is waiting to pounce on you the first chance they get. And we ALL know about facebook, my space and twitter users. Even when you set those so-called privacy settings, you are still fair game.
Even walking into a store anymore is dangerous. I can not tell you the number of times a stranger has, like a bulldozer and with such aggression, invaded my space. Many times I have been left with my jaw hanging wide open. I have had strangers whip out their cell phone cameras and take a picture of me without my consent and on another occasion while perusing books a middle aged woman, who I had never met before in my life, runs up to me, pushes down my book to see what I was reading and then demands to know what I was reading. Was this really any of her business? (I should have said to her "Einsteins theory of relativity"), Or other people who stare you down in personal growth. Perhaps that is why I am a recluse. People have no respect for your privacy/space or your will for that matter.
I do not know about you and who is watching you but I can assure you that someone is lurking in YOUR shadows. How much of a price do you put on your privacy? Is it worth a million dollars? Is it worth your very life? In this age of television and media and these reality shows and CCTV, is it any wonder why we have such an alarming suicide rate? People will begin to go insane when their privacy is stolen. Privacy and solitude keep you mentally stable. It helps you to stay focused and it allows you to feel as though you have SOME power and control in your life, even when everything else in your life is falling spectacularly to pieces.
But the worst part of all this technology is that many will become victims and will be exploited without their consent and they will be powerless to stop it!
Every cell phone has a GPS tracking device........do you really NEED a cellphone? Would you ever be able to disappear even if you WANTED to go incognito? And what about your laptop or computer? Your computer has an address with cookies that are used specifically to collect information about you and your surfing habits. I wonder how many people who have pornographic addictions actually think they are surfing the net in privacy.......you know, hiding their "sin" from their unsuspecting, deficient spouse? Perhaps their jealous and paranoid spouse is keeping tabs on them. And what about your car? Has it ever occurred to you that you may have a GPS tracking device on it without your knowledge? Or that anyone could quietly slap one onto your car to follow you via satellite........perhaps your dominating, overbearing, controlling spouse or a stalker who has no life but thinks yours is more exciting even though you sit home every night counting bee bees and collecting bottle caps?
And what about these new scanners at the airports that reveal your naked bodies? We may as well be walking around naked (I have already seen this on many occasions when I lived in the suburbs of Philly.......naked men communing with nature while I was TRYING to enjoy a run). You can choose not to fly, but with all the other technology out there, one way or another your privacy is going to be exploited to the max. Talk about Orwellian and Big Brother......global police state. I find it interesting that George Orwells "1984" was banned from the Amazon book store!
Businesses are now adopting in droves this RFID (radio frequency identification) technology used for the purposes of efficiency in mass production. Walmart is the leader in this global supply chain and they advocate RFID microchips in each and every product or unit that is shipped. One day however, this technology will take a nefarious turn and they will be implanting humans with these microchips to keep track of everyone. So you will not be able to escape or hide anywhere.
And what about your email? Or when your post a comment on a blog? Even if you use a moniker, do not think for a second that no one knows who you are or that you are not vulnerable because your stalker is waiting to pounce on you the first chance they get. And we ALL know about facebook, my space and twitter users. Even when you set those so-called privacy settings, you are still fair game.
Even walking into a store anymore is dangerous. I can not tell you the number of times a stranger has, like a bulldozer and with such aggression, invaded my space. Many times I have been left with my jaw hanging wide open. I have had strangers whip out their cell phone cameras and take a picture of me without my consent and on another occasion while perusing books a middle aged woman, who I had never met before in my life, runs up to me, pushes down my book to see what I was reading and then demands to know what I was reading. Was this really any of her business? (I should have said to her "Einsteins theory of relativity"), Or other people who stare you down in personal growth. Perhaps that is why I am a recluse. People have no respect for your privacy/space or your will for that matter.
I do not know about you and who is watching you but I can assure you that someone is lurking in YOUR shadows. How much of a price do you put on your privacy? Is it worth a million dollars? Is it worth your very life? In this age of television and media and these reality shows and CCTV, is it any wonder why we have such an alarming suicide rate? People will begin to go insane when their privacy is stolen. Privacy and solitude keep you mentally stable. It helps you to stay focused and it allows you to feel as though you have SOME power and control in your life, even when everything else in your life is falling spectacularly to pieces.
But the worst part of all this technology is that many will become victims and will be exploited without their consent and they will be powerless to stop it!
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
A double standard in our society!
I debated in my mind if I should write a post on infidelity in light of the recent scandal regarding Arnold Schwarzeneggar's affair 10 years ago. So I decided today that I would even though I am not married and never have been married. I think one of the BIGGEST reason why I never got married is because I do not trust men and I am not being unkind, I am simply reasoning with reality in my mind.
There is evidence every where including the evangelical church that men cheat. I could go down the list and name one name after another of men who cheated on there wives......from McGreevy, to Haggard, to Edwards and who can forget Tiger Woods. And remember Mark Sanford and Jimmy Swaggart, Elliot Spitzer and Brett Favre and who was the name of the man who had an affair with the new intern, Chandra Leevy, who showed up dead? Oh and what about Newt Gingrich who has been married three times and had an affair while his wife was on her death bed!
I believe it is true that men cheat more than women do. Is that a sexist remark? I do not know, but what about the facts? It is true that more women are raped than men, more women are domestically abused than men and more women are forced into marriage without their consent than men are. It is also true that more women are treated like sex objects than men are. And it is true that more men are redeemed in society after a "mistake" than women are. If a high profile woman cheats on her husband, she is basically labeled a "whore" and disgarded like a dirty rag but if a man cheats, well, he's just being a man after all and is sowing his "wild oats" because it is just nature for a man to carry on the human race, right? If you ever watch a nature program, the males dominate the females to carry on the species. Yet so many men behave in the same such fashion because they are hunters and expect to always have the upper hand. But that's in the wild, not a civilized society!
Women are expected to look and act perfect so much of the time.......is it not true that more emphasis is put on women's appearance, such as their weight and their age, than men's. How many weight loss ads do we see for women but not for men? Why is it that men can look like slobs and no one cares but if a woman has the slightest imperfection it is magnified? If a woman gets mad or becomes emotional she is considered a live wire or a psycho but if a man gets angry......well he is just a man with a lot of testosterone. It's bullshit!
Women are treated more like second class citizens than men are.....is it any wonder why there has been a radical feminist movement for many years now! Can you really blame women for that, who for so many years have been suppressed and are now fighting for their rights........the same rights that men have. Just like the blacks who practically burned Los Angeles down because they were sick and tired of being treated like second class citizens. Are women any different who feel mistreated?
If a woman poses in playboy or is a prostitute or has a natural desire for sex, she is basically a whore and is deserving of such treatment and disrespect but a man can put secret cameras and watch a woman naked, (a peeping Tom....remember the ESPN reporter whose naked pictures where posted all over the web), he can read playboy magazine and he can look at internet porn and go to a strip club and still be a "man". And what about in current day archaic societies where a woman is disregarded as trash because she is no longer a virgin? Or she is stoned to death because she cheated on her husband? Those are indeed facts that are happening in our world today and there is no denying such realities.
Women are sexually harrased more than men and women are paid much less than men even though their work is equal to a man if not better. During World War II, women put together the airplanes, tanks, bombs and ships that men traditionally did because all the men were fighting over seas. Who can forget Rosie the Riviter? Women became so skilled on those assembly lines and actually flew fighter jets.....a job equal to a man and some women even taught men how to fly. With all their efforts and hard work, women still were not respected in our society because they were told they were no longer needed on the assembly line and needed to go back to the homes. Even while the women worked hard on those assembly lines they were still treated like sex symbols......pin up girls that all the men lusted after. Were these women acknowledged for their skilled hands and smart brains? No, because women have always been treated like sex symbols by our society and truly it is sad!
How long did women have to fight for their right to vote? And if a women asks for a raise or desires to be compensated for her work, is she not looked upon as selfish? If a woman is attractive natually, is any other quality noticed about her.....perhaps her intellect or her experience or her skills or is she just regarded as a sex object and nothing else because she couldn't possibly have brains now could she?
There is no doubt in my mind that we live in a sexist society and it is unfortuate for so many women!
There is evidence every where including the evangelical church that men cheat. I could go down the list and name one name after another of men who cheated on there wives......from McGreevy, to Haggard, to Edwards and who can forget Tiger Woods. And remember Mark Sanford and Jimmy Swaggart, Elliot Spitzer and Brett Favre and who was the name of the man who had an affair with the new intern, Chandra Leevy, who showed up dead? Oh and what about Newt Gingrich who has been married three times and had an affair while his wife was on her death bed!
I believe it is true that men cheat more than women do. Is that a sexist remark? I do not know, but what about the facts? It is true that more women are raped than men, more women are domestically abused than men and more women are forced into marriage without their consent than men are. It is also true that more women are treated like sex objects than men are. And it is true that more men are redeemed in society after a "mistake" than women are. If a high profile woman cheats on her husband, she is basically labeled a "whore" and disgarded like a dirty rag but if a man cheats, well, he's just being a man after all and is sowing his "wild oats" because it is just nature for a man to carry on the human race, right? If you ever watch a nature program, the males dominate the females to carry on the species. Yet so many men behave in the same such fashion because they are hunters and expect to always have the upper hand. But that's in the wild, not a civilized society!
Women are expected to look and act perfect so much of the time.......is it not true that more emphasis is put on women's appearance, such as their weight and their age, than men's. How many weight loss ads do we see for women but not for men? Why is it that men can look like slobs and no one cares but if a woman has the slightest imperfection it is magnified? If a woman gets mad or becomes emotional she is considered a live wire or a psycho but if a man gets angry......well he is just a man with a lot of testosterone. It's bullshit!
Women are treated more like second class citizens than men are.....is it any wonder why there has been a radical feminist movement for many years now! Can you really blame women for that, who for so many years have been suppressed and are now fighting for their rights........the same rights that men have. Just like the blacks who practically burned Los Angeles down because they were sick and tired of being treated like second class citizens. Are women any different who feel mistreated?
If a woman poses in playboy or is a prostitute or has a natural desire for sex, she is basically a whore and is deserving of such treatment and disrespect but a man can put secret cameras and watch a woman naked, (a peeping Tom....remember the ESPN reporter whose naked pictures where posted all over the web), he can read playboy magazine and he can look at internet porn and go to a strip club and still be a "man". And what about in current day archaic societies where a woman is disregarded as trash because she is no longer a virgin? Or she is stoned to death because she cheated on her husband? Those are indeed facts that are happening in our world today and there is no denying such realities.
Women are sexually harrased more than men and women are paid much less than men even though their work is equal to a man if not better. During World War II, women put together the airplanes, tanks, bombs and ships that men traditionally did because all the men were fighting over seas. Who can forget Rosie the Riviter? Women became so skilled on those assembly lines and actually flew fighter jets.....a job equal to a man and some women even taught men how to fly. With all their efforts and hard work, women still were not respected in our society because they were told they were no longer needed on the assembly line and needed to go back to the homes. Even while the women worked hard on those assembly lines they were still treated like sex symbols......pin up girls that all the men lusted after. Were these women acknowledged for their skilled hands and smart brains? No, because women have always been treated like sex symbols by our society and truly it is sad!
How long did women have to fight for their right to vote? And if a women asks for a raise or desires to be compensated for her work, is she not looked upon as selfish? If a woman is attractive natually, is any other quality noticed about her.....perhaps her intellect or her experience or her skills or is she just regarded as a sex object and nothing else because she couldn't possibly have brains now could she?
There is no doubt in my mind that we live in a sexist society and it is unfortuate for so many women!
Friday, May 13, 2011
Will there be a Richter 10.0 earthquake to hit the United States?
On Saturday night @ 10pm, the History Channel is airing "MegaQuake" 10.0 and what will be the outcome of such an event. I wonder how many people even think about this? Have they even prepared themselves for such an event? Or do they considered it far fetched? Scientists have been warning that Los Angeles is way over due for a large quake and who knows when the New Madrid fault line will split the country in half?
Scientists were warning that Japan was way over due and we saw what happened there recently. Istanbul, Turkey along the North Anatolian fault line, is also way over due. When will the next megaquake hit? NPR is wise enough to prepare California residents with an earthquake emergency kit, but yet most folks likely do not even think about it. With natural disasters increasing in size and destruction, I think all of us should consider that it could happen where we are!
I believe God is shaking the foundations of this earth to get more "apples in His cart" so to speak before He wraps things up. The intellectual elite of the world will tell you it is "Global Warming" because they simply DO NOT want to acknowledge God and His Lordship over creation, including man himself! So instead, they invent imaginations that elavate man to a status he does not deserve.
When a nation can legally allow a mother to abort a third term fetus and discard it like it is trash while this child is gasping for air, do you think God will turn His eye away from that? When a nation legally allows homosexuals to marry and then forces the rest of the people to teach homosexual relationships in social studies curriculum as normal, do you not think that God, who in His wisdom, designed the male and female relationship and said that it was good, will allow this perversion to continue? When a nation can continue to saddle the people with taxes to pay for the rich (usury), and can continue to burden the people with a monumental debt that they can not pay for, and when the gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow wider and wider, do you think that God is not watching?
Ecclesiastes 8:11......"Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil".
I am not the Judge, God is and He said it is His Word so people need to be warned!
Scientists were warning that Japan was way over due and we saw what happened there recently. Istanbul, Turkey along the North Anatolian fault line, is also way over due. When will the next megaquake hit? NPR is wise enough to prepare California residents with an earthquake emergency kit, but yet most folks likely do not even think about it. With natural disasters increasing in size and destruction, I think all of us should consider that it could happen where we are!
I believe God is shaking the foundations of this earth to get more "apples in His cart" so to speak before He wraps things up. The intellectual elite of the world will tell you it is "Global Warming" because they simply DO NOT want to acknowledge God and His Lordship over creation, including man himself! So instead, they invent imaginations that elavate man to a status he does not deserve.
When a nation can legally allow a mother to abort a third term fetus and discard it like it is trash while this child is gasping for air, do you think God will turn His eye away from that? When a nation legally allows homosexuals to marry and then forces the rest of the people to teach homosexual relationships in social studies curriculum as normal, do you not think that God, who in His wisdom, designed the male and female relationship and said that it was good, will allow this perversion to continue? When a nation can continue to saddle the people with taxes to pay for the rich (usury), and can continue to burden the people with a monumental debt that they can not pay for, and when the gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow wider and wider, do you think that God is not watching?
Ecclesiastes 8:11......"Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil".
I am not the Judge, God is and He said it is His Word so people need to be warned!
Monday, May 9, 2011
Pray for the Wilkerson family
The Rev. David Wilkerson dies at 79; founder of Teen Challenge ministry
David Wilkerson, a small-town pastor, felt a call in the 1950s to travel to New York to minister to drug addicts and gang members. His recovery program later spread worldwide.
The Rev. David Wilkerson, an… (World Challenge Inc.)
April 30, 2011|Times staff and wire reports
The Rev. David Wilkerson, an evangelical pastor who founded the Teen Challenge ministry and wrote the best-selling book "The Cross and the Switchblade," died Wednesday in a car accident in East Texas. He was 79.
Wilkerson's car smashed head-on into a tractor-trailer rig after veering into oncoming traffic on U.S. 175 west of Cuney, southeast of Dallas, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange. Wilkerson was not wearing a seat belt, according to investigators. His wife, Gwendolyn, was also in the car and was wearing a seat belt. She was hospitalized with serious injuries but is expected to recover.
Wilkerson, whose father and grandfather were preachers, was born May 19, 1931, in Hammond, Ind. He attended Central Bible College in Springfield, Mo., and after being ordained in the Assemblies of God Church in 1952, he became pastor of a congregation in Philipsburg, Pa.
In the late 1950s he felt a call to go to New York City and minister to drug addicts and gang members, and he founded Teen Challenge, which offers a Bible-based recovery program for substance abusers.
Wilkerson began expanding the Teen Challenge ministry to other cities, including a rehabilitation center in Los Angeles' Adams-Normandie neighborhood in 1963.
"The church has failed," Wilkerson said in a 1963 interview with The Times. "And young people are tired of its social club image. They want some real and vital answers to give them courage to resist urban pressures and temptations."
Teen Challenge centers were later established throughout Southern California to work with drug users of all ages in addition to troubled youths. The organization now has a national and international reach.
In "The Cross and the Switchblade," Wilkerson wrote about his early years in New York. The 1963 book became a best-seller and was made into a 1970 movie starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada.
Wilkerson moved his ministry headquarters to Texas in the 1970s and launched World Challenge, an international evangelical outreach organization.
In 1987, Wilkerson returned to New York to start Times Square Church, a nondenominational Protestant church in an area of Manhattan that was then riddled with X-rated movie houses, strip clubs, prostitution and drugs. It continues to hold services in a converted Broadway theater.
Besides his wife, Wilkinson's survivors include four children and 11 grandchildren.
news.obits@latimes.com
David Wilkerson, a small-town pastor, felt a call in the 1950s to travel to New York to minister to drug addicts and gang members. His recovery program later spread worldwide.
The Rev. David Wilkerson, an… (World Challenge Inc.)
April 30, 2011|Times staff and wire reports
The Rev. David Wilkerson, an evangelical pastor who founded the Teen Challenge ministry and wrote the best-selling book "The Cross and the Switchblade," died Wednesday in a car accident in East Texas. He was 79.
Wilkerson's car smashed head-on into a tractor-trailer rig after veering into oncoming traffic on U.S. 175 west of Cuney, southeast of Dallas, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange. Wilkerson was not wearing a seat belt, according to investigators. His wife, Gwendolyn, was also in the car and was wearing a seat belt. She was hospitalized with serious injuries but is expected to recover.
Wilkerson, whose father and grandfather were preachers, was born May 19, 1931, in Hammond, Ind. He attended Central Bible College in Springfield, Mo., and after being ordained in the Assemblies of God Church in 1952, he became pastor of a congregation in Philipsburg, Pa.
In the late 1950s he felt a call to go to New York City and minister to drug addicts and gang members, and he founded Teen Challenge, which offers a Bible-based recovery program for substance abusers.
Wilkerson began expanding the Teen Challenge ministry to other cities, including a rehabilitation center in Los Angeles' Adams-Normandie neighborhood in 1963.
"The church has failed," Wilkerson said in a 1963 interview with The Times. "And young people are tired of its social club image. They want some real and vital answers to give them courage to resist urban pressures and temptations."
Teen Challenge centers were later established throughout Southern California to work with drug users of all ages in addition to troubled youths. The organization now has a national and international reach.
In "The Cross and the Switchblade," Wilkerson wrote about his early years in New York. The 1963 book became a best-seller and was made into a 1970 movie starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada.
Wilkerson moved his ministry headquarters to Texas in the 1970s and launched World Challenge, an international evangelical outreach organization.
In 1987, Wilkerson returned to New York to start Times Square Church, a nondenominational Protestant church in an area of Manhattan that was then riddled with X-rated movie houses, strip clubs, prostitution and drugs. It continues to hold services in a converted Broadway theater.
Besides his wife, Wilkinson's survivors include four children and 11 grandchildren.
news.obits@latimes.com
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Highly Classified?
So Bin Laden's body is "highly classified" and this is why they will not release pictures of his dead body? Hummm.......well, my bowel movements are "highly classified" but I could just as easily post pictures of my beautiful stool!
Barak Obama.......He's our MAN......IF HE CAN'T DO IT, NOBODY CAN!!!!!!!!!!
Now, are we REALLY to believe this? They have shown pictures of all the other dead bodies of terrorists including Sadam....so what is the problem with Bin Laden.
Well if you want to believe in Santa Claus, well you go right ahead if it comforts you. In the meantime, I simply DO NOT trust my government with the TRUTH!
Barak Obama.......He's our MAN......IF HE CAN'T DO IT, NOBODY CAN!!!!!!!!!!
Now, are we REALLY to believe this? They have shown pictures of all the other dead bodies of terrorists including Sadam....so what is the problem with Bin Laden.
Well if you want to believe in Santa Claus, well you go right ahead if it comforts you. In the meantime, I simply DO NOT trust my government with the TRUTH!
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