:-)

It rains solid diamonds on Uranus and Neptune

"The universe declares Your Majesty

And You are Holy Holy"

There

was one original thought in that piece about Turkey.

That maybe the Russians had intercepted communications and tipped the Turks off about the coup.

I haven't read that anywhere.

Pure speculation on my part.

One other thing.

Lot of stories about how the coup was a false flag event liked to use the fact that the authorities rounded up. arrested and imprisoned so many people so quickly as evidence the coup had to be staged by the state.

Not necessarily.

The names of those to be purged eventually could have already been assembled by the Turkish government and they were just waiting for the right set of conditions which the coup handed to them. Or maybe they were planning a real false flag event in the future and the coup merely speed up the process of the purges. Either one of those scenarios has just as much validity as thinking the purges took place to quickly for it not to have been a false flag event. This would also be something I haven't read anywhere else.

Now, how bout them damn ass cheeks woman :-).

Morning

Knucklehead.

Love you.

Be awesome today.

I know you will.

Let

them laugh, mock and scorn.

He who has ears?

Let him hear.

Peace y'all.

I've

been sitting here for four hours now.

I haven't had a bite to eat all day.

I'm not the least bit hungry.

I'm fully in conduit mode.

Things are just flowing.

If it's like other times?

As soon as I get up the hunger will hit.

Holy spirit anybody?

Deuteronomy 8:2-3

Sweetheart?

How about we take a lil much deserved hiatus, then go fuck up some religious and political institutions?

It will be fun.

Promise.

Love you Virgie.

So?

The geo-political forces of change are upon us.

The chess board of light and darkness is being set up.

People should ask themselves, which team are they on?

Sluggard vs. Diligent?

Wicked vs. Righteous?

Perverseness vs. Integrity?

Mischief vs. Wisdom?

Fools vs those with Understanding?

Deceit vs. Prudent?

Slothful vs Upright?

Scorner vs Wise?

Poverty and Shame vs Honor?

Afflicted vs Merry?

Wrathful vs Discretion?

Destruction vs Mercy?

Contentious vs Instruction?

Foolishness vs Knowledge?

Evil vs Boldness?

Folly vs Uprightness?

Vain vs Virtuous?

People don't take sin seriously anymore.

(Lord knows I'm a sinner, so don't even go there)

People act like there's no judgement.

Have fun with that.

Yep...

"Who feels it knows it, Lord;

Who feels it knows it, Lord

Who feels it knows it, Lord;

Who feels it knows it, Lord

Who feels it knows it, Lord;

Who feels it knows it, Lord

Who feels it knows it, Lord;

Who feels it knows it, Lord"

:-)

Turkey

Ya might wanna go back and read the post about the four winds and what they represent :-).

The Four Winds

I'll try and make it brief but there is so much here that is so important.

Seven letters to churches

There are seven letters to churches in the Book of Revelation.

Take a guess where all seven are located.

Yep, modern day Turkey.

That alone should tell you something.

One of the churches was the church at Pergamum.

The city had a temple to Zeus.

"The alter of Satan" the book of Revelation says was located there.

German archaeologist excavated it in the late 1800's.

It was returned to Germany.

This type of architecture was emulated during Nazi Germany.

Albert Speir used it in his design of the Zeppelinfeld at Nuremberg where the large Nazi rallys were held.

Hilter's fascination with the occult is well documented, it was all about maximizing evil.
This is nothing to play around with.

Turkey today.

There was an attempted coup in Turkey a lil over a year ago.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkeys President has managed to purge the intelligentsia from the country's university's, as well as purging the judiciary and more recently, experienced officers of the military.
All three major civic institutions have now been effectively purged.

Recently, narrowly passed constitutional reforms pretty much make the Turkish president an Islamic Dictator.

Don't forget Turkey is a member of NATO, and after the US has the largest military in the alliance.

The people who were purged from academia, the judiciary and the military?

All replaced with younger, loyal  Islamist.
BTW, the only Western leader to congratulate Erdoğan on his consolidation of power via constitutional reforms?
The Donald, go figure right?

I firmly believe that the US staged the attempted coup against Erdoğan.

Think about that for a second.

If true?

We attempted a coup against a NATO ally with the second largest military in the alliance.

Why do I think we were behind the coup?

We don't like the direction the country is headed.

The main reason I think we were behind it?

We waited way to long to see how things played out before we condemned it.

It's our NATO ally.

There was a coup attempt.

If we weren't behind it why didn't we condemn it in the strongest possible manner immediately?

It took us 12? 14 hours? before we did so.

No way the Turkish military takes on a task like that without some large outside force backing it.

My son, and others, think it was a false flag event exercised by Erdoğan to give him an excuse to purge the military.

The night of the coup the plotters had Erdoğan's jet in their cross hairs.

They didn't shoot it down. The pilots told the fighter pilots they were a civilian flight.

This is why my son thinks it was a false flag episode.

My problem with that is, if it was a false flag event?

Why let it be known that Erdoğan's jet was in the fighter pilots cross hairs?

Wouldn't that be something you would want to conceal?

Anyway, (Said in my best Ricky voice :-)
 The coup attempt was discovered just hours before it was to take place, this along with a whole host of other reasons is why it failed.
How did they find out about it? Sources credit the Turkish intelligence agencies.
I think we have all seen a state player (Russia) that has exceptionally keen cyber abilities.
Perhaps they offered an assist? Did all those back-doors in Cisco products (internet routers and switches) placed there by the NSA now come back to haunt us just like many of us thought they would?
Maybe, who knows.
I do know this, speaking as a former Network Operations Control Analyst, any back door put (alternate method to reach device electronically) on a router or switch to be used by one entity to gather data could be exploited (hacked) by another entity for the exact same purpose.
To think it couldn't be is a fools folly.
But that's a whole different post.

False flag event or not, the effects are still the same.
Purges, stifling of dissent, crackdown on media, consolidation of power etc.

So what is the point in all of this?

Turkey sits at the crossroads of east and west.

It has and will continue to be, strategically important due to the Bosporus straight.

Look where Russia is.
Russia has always wanted easy access to the Mediterranean.

Why do you think we wanted Turkey in NATO in the first place?

What do you think the Russians would want?

Many of the officers that were purged in the Turkish military had 20+ years of contacts with their counterparts in NATO.

That doesn't exist any more.
Gone. For good. Never coming back.

Why else would you do that unless you planned on leaving the alliance sometime in the near future?

The Antichrist

Now think about this for a second, how big of a hero would a President of Turkey be to the Islamic world, and what better way to thumb your nose at the west than to remove yourself from NATO? 

That individual would almost certainly be worshiped as a God in the Islamic world. 

Yeah, the Antichrist, I'm going there.

Daniel 7:23-25

“He gave me this explanation: ‘The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time."

I remember sitting in on of Brother Joe's bible study sessions on the book of revelation and he stared talking about Turkeys role and I already knew about the academic and judicial purges that had taken place and it was like the gears in my head all started to mesh together like, "Oh my goodness this makes perfect sense to me now", much more so than the reunification of The Holy Roman Empire scenario did to me at an earlier time. (See below).

I don't really believe Erdoğan's the guy.

But the chess board is clearly being set up.

Revelation 17 8-11

The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come. This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while. The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.

"The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven" .

There have been seven kingdoms, empires etc that have ruled over Jerusalem:

Egyptians

Assyrians

Babylonians

Medo-Persians

Greek

Roman

Ottoman Turks (1493-1909)

"Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come"
The five who have fallen are the Egyptians

Assyrians, Babylonians, Medo-Persians, and Greeks.
The "one is" at this time would be The Romans at the time of John writing the Book of Revelation. 

"The other has not come yet..." would be the Ottoman Turks ...

"The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven." 

Of the seven kingdoms listed above, which one has the greatest likely hood of being the eighth king (Kingdom)? Egypt? With all it's inner turmoil gonna take on Israel? Same for the Syrians. Iraq? (Babylonians) Oh it's gotta be the Persians then right? (Iran). Why? Haven't they already thumbed their nose at the west enough? What would be the shock value there? The Shia only make up 16% or so of all Muslims. The Greeks are gonna rule over Jerusalem? Again, with all their inner turmoil, it just doesn't seem to make much sense.

The Romans?

This one gets interesting. I worked with a guy who was really into all of this years ago. He thought the formation of the European Union was the putting back together of the Holy Roman empire and that through the European Union, Rome would once again rule over Jerusalem. The temple in Jerusalem will again be destroyed by the same people who destroyed it the last time which would have been The Romans, so this makes sense, or so the case for this scenario went.

The historian Josephus, who witnessed the destruction of the temple by the Romans in 70 AD. noted that while it was the Roman Legion who destroyed the temple, the legion was based out of Antioch (Our favorite place again, Turkey) and consisted mainly of  Arab and Turkish conscripts from that area.

Why would the Ottomans be considered "The Beast" mentioned in Revelation 17 8-11?

Oh, I don't know, maybe for the genocide of the Armenians, many of them Christians. 

To this day Turkey (The remnant of The Ottoman empire), refuses to acknowledge the genocide.

Islamic caliphate, or Sunni vs. Shia anybody?

The last last Sunni Islamic caliphate? The Ottoman Caliphate, under the Ottoman dynasty of the Ottoman Empire. (I'm not counting ISIS here, however they did bring back the idea of a Caliphate ruling  over the area) I watched and interview with Jake Sullivan the other day. He said there were twenty five million Sunni Muslims living between the Shia strongholds of Baghdad and Damascus. They are displaced militarily, socially, politically and economically. We may very well defeat ISIS, but this is just going to keep reforming and reconstituting until it eventually results in a new Islamic caliphate.

Daniel 2 40-43.

Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.

Islamic resurgence anybody?
Revelation 13:3

One of the heads of the beast appeared to be fatally wounded. But the mortal wound was healed, and the whole world was astonished and followed the beast.

The Bible is also just filled with verses about army's coming from the north to overtake Jerusalem.

So much for brevity :-).

Closing

I do what the voice in my head tells me :-).
I really struggled with this piece, way more than others I've ever written.
That voice just said, "Just get started, I'll help you piece it all together, just keep plugging away."
I do what I'm told...mostly...sort of...:-).
I always do what I'm told in regard to that voice :-).

There is hardly an original thought contained here.
Others know way more than I do about what I've written.
That is why I made the links available.
This is merely the synthesis of things I have read over the last year or so.
I know better than to pretend I have it all right.

Nich told me one time about something I believed:
"That doesn't make any sense".
I told him, "It only needs to make sense to me, why does it need to make sense to anyone else?"
This is pretty much the same kinda scenario.
If it helps make the world make more sense to others?
Then I did my job.
People are like "You don't work".
I'm like, "Really? You try it for a while." :-).

Just like Brother Joe says, Christians shouldn't be scared or worried.
There is a blueprint available for whats going on in the world today.

The whole point here is this, whether or not there are pieces here that are correct and others that are not?

The geo-political chess board is being set up, the forces of light and darkness are being assembled.
I just wish other could see it as clearly as it has been laid out for me.

Pergamon

Pergamon Altar

Nazi Party Rally Grounds

Cathedral of light
NSA ANT catalog
Turkey purges hundreds of civil servants in latest decrees 8/25/17
2016–17 purges in Turkey
Turkey As The Antichrist Nation Seven Scriptural Proofs – Turkey Fallen To The Islamists
Turkish Constitutional Referendum 2017
False Flag
Jake Sullivan
Islam for dummies cheat sheet.
Islamic Antichrist Joel Richardson
The Seat of Satan: Ancient Pergamum

Betcha I know why I needed to get this done today sweetheart :-).

Love ya Lucy.

Purple

Well?

Because.

That's why :-).

Morning

Dingleberry :-).

Love you.

Watched

this last night as well :-).

Lets just say it was kinda of a NPR evening :-).

Charlie Rose interviews Bill Gates and Warren Buffett

They both go on about how GDP growth of 2% will be enough for the economy in the future.

I'm over here like my man Bernie throwing shoes at the TV (not really) yelling, "Not if the majority of the gains keep going to the upper 1% it won't!"

Neither one of them ever mentioned that. 

Charlie :"What do you enjoy?"

 Warren "I enjoy running Berkshire, it's been my painting for 50 some years I get to paint what I want, I don't have to do what Wall street is telling me to do next quarter, something like that, I own the brush, I own the canvas and the canvass is unlimited, that's a pretty nice game and I get to do it everyday with people I like, I don't have to associate with anyone that causes my stomach to churn you know. I've got a good deal."

It's kind of the idea isn't it Lucy?

Isn't that what we're all after?

Warren "I'm eight six...I've never seen anybody who felt good about their children, who felt bad about their life."

Because

we were wondering about it last night as we were watching the show on Voyager.

How big a change in the Earth's orbit would be required to destroy all life?

"However, to destroy all life on Earth the orbit would have to change by at least hundreds of thousands of miles"

Sounds like a lot right?

But when you consider that the earth is an average of 93 million miles from the sun?

900,000 miles would equal .0096 of that distance or .96%

Less than one percent of the distance further or closer would destroy all life.

Another way of looking at it?

The Distance between the Earth and Venus "on average, it is 25 million miles".

The distance between the Earth and Mars is "on average 139 million miles".

Less than 1% room for error.

Seems to me like we're at the right place :-).

Watched

it last night.

Twice :-).

The Farthest, Voyager in Space.

Some highlights:

87 years ago we thought the Milky way was the entire universe.

One lifetime ago :-).

If you point a straw toward the big dipper?

The amount of space you see will contains thousands of galaxies with billions of stars each.

(You can't see them with the naked eye, they are to dim but they are there)

Think about it for a second.

The space equivalent to the opening of a straw in the night sky.

contains thousands of galaxies with billions of stars.

Now think about the whole sky.

Exactly.

Jupiter's moon Io has volcano's and is "the most geologically active object in the Solar System"

Io 

Uranus rotates top to bottom not left to right 

Uranus tilt.

 Neptune’s largest moon Triton has geysers spewing nitrogen gas as high as five miles in the air.

Triton 

Psalm 19:1-3

Yep

(Pretty sure most know my views on Reagan's policies but the quote is true.)

They

cut the water off tomorrow :-).

Didn't give a fuck yesterday.

Don't give a fuck today.

Whatcha think I feel about tomorrow? :-).

Think

I'm going to beat my personal best of eating on eighty five cents a day.

I found some Ramen at the damaged grocery store that cost thirty nine cents for a five pack.:-).

Promise.

Oh yeah,

afternoon knucklehead :-).

I

think of China's new silk road initiative like this, were going around the world blowing stuff up, they're building things. 

The four winds have to be leveled before they are unleashed right?

Betcha

I eat today :-).

Betcha I sleep with a roof over my head tonight. :-).

Betcha I have clothes to wear :-).

Betcha I give thanks all the day long for every lil thing. :-).

Brother Joe's

calling.

Think about this for a second.

Leave home.

Travel almost 7000 miles to a nation you've never been to before.

You don't know anybody.

You don't have a job.

Hardly any money.

No home.

Etc. 

What do you think his family was telling him?

Here's what I just don't understand.

Why make it any harder than it already is?

What good are you doing?

What are you going to alter?

Why not make it as easy on the person as you possibly can?

I don't think it's an accident that Brother Joe is my pastor.

I don't think it's an accident that I stumbled upon New Chapel UMC (While riding :-).

I don't think it's an accident that five people had their calling to the lord while attending New Chapel, etc.

I could go on but I'll go ahead and stop.

 John 8:47

Here's

the worlds flow of goods and services in the future.

China's 'New Silk Road

The article kind of sells them short.

I wouldn't be so quick to do so.

Also?

You can count on days when I walk into the room in full-on Kewlrockindaddy mode, black leather biker boots, ratty jeans with the holes in them, (Long Johns underneath if it's cold enough) the torn Harley riding shirt I like so much with the wicking in the arm pits to help stay dry, the one with the bleach stain and the button missing and the rips on the sleeve from the last time the bike was laid down, matching the do rag to the boxers, either black, white or orange, (That used to bother me a lil but not anymore, nobody thinks twice about a woman's thong or bra strap showing, why should the end of the legs of my boxers be considered offensive?) The Maui Jim sunglasses, the Rasta friendship bracelet and just be like, "Lets go have lunch somewhere where this type of apparel is appropiate."

I mean seriously, like just out of the blue and stuff.

Get ready Lucy :-).

So

I'm thinkin when we have breakfast, conversation, reading and such in the mornings?

I'll just keep doing what I'm doing now while sitting with you, I'll just pretend your not there while I'm writing and you can still read things for yourself :-). That way, it will be just as close to the same as it is now, only I'll get the pleasure of your company :-).

This

“Go for the jugular,” Trump advised in his 2009 book “Think Big.”

Always get even: “You need to screw them back 15 times harder. You do it not only to get the person who messed with you but also to show the others who are watching what will happen to them if they mess with you.”

is the guy that evangelicals voted for? 

I'm sorry, I missed this part of the bible.

Plannin

on it :-).

Frequently.

Intensely.

RNM

"The people must be wise enough to stop be lead astray."

Morning

Knucklehead.

Love you.

So?

What happens when Pakistan is no longer dependent on US aid and Turkey leaves NATO?

What will our status in the world be then?

Love it!

Definition

of vermin.

Treasury secretary’s wife boasts of travel on government plane, touts Hermes and Valentino fashion

Because they're gonna help the working class right?

Matthew 24:3-4

"The

universe declares your majesty, you are holy..."

Had

lunch with Bro Joe yesterday :-).

I showed him some things that were given to me :-).

I asked him if he thought I was crazy.

"You're only crazy about what's good Andrew.":-).

Great to have someone like Bro Joe in your corner :-).

We're

gonna push Pakistan right into the arms of the Russians and the Chinese.

They are already there providing aid and warming relations.

Then they'll go in and make Afghanistan work and the world will laugh at us and our global standing will be further diminished.

Betcha.

Dollbaby?

How bout we go fuck up the political and religious institutions of the day?

Huh?

How bout we do that?

Just sounds like something we should go do :-).

Besides, it will be fun.

Promise.

Two positive people with the lord's blessing right? :-).

How many times did I say, "If it's me and you against the world, so be it."

Seriously, how many times?

Looks like we'll see it come to fruition :-).

Love you Virgie.

Yep :-)

Isaiah 65: 22-24

"For as the days of a tree,

so will be the days of my people;

my chosen ones will long enjoy

the work of their hands.

They will not labor in vain,

nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;

for they will be a people blessed by the Lord,

they and their descendants with them. 

Before they call I will answer;

while they are still speaking I will hear."

I

went to Dick Gregory's lecture when he came to WKU.

I couldn't find anyone to go with me so I went alone :-).

The two things I remember about his lecture:

He told a story about sitting at the counter of a diner in the deep south during the civil rights movement. He was delivered his order of fried chicken when a man got up, came over to him and told him he was going to do to Mr. Gregory whatever he did to his chicken. Everybody's watchin. Know what he does? He bends over and kisses his fried chicken :-). The guy went and sat down as people laughed.

He talked about ganja for a second. This is like 85? 86? He said, "All of you parents that are so against your children somking pot? Get up in the morning and go do without your coffee for a while."

Psalm 121:1-2

Psalm 121:1-2

"Education

= an escape plan from poverty".

I

would have left right when you did if you said you wanted me to.

Amen

"The American military should not be a stage background"

Morning

knucklehead.

Love you.

That

voice?
Yeah, that one?

It said:
"It's in your power to stop this now if you want.'

I said:
"Deal."

It said:
"No more, no more mowing grass, no more washing cars, no more Sunday dinners without "her", no more worship without "her", no more, period. If they can't make a decision? Make one for them."

I said:
"Deal".

I'll eat ramen cooked with hot water at the gas station before I'll eat Sunday dinner there without you again. I'll fast if I have to. I'll start having a moving sale.I'll have a bonfire. Whatever I gotta do.

But this kinda nonsense about guilting people under knowingly false pretenses? That shits over. Forever.

I'm 52 years old. I don't have to explain anything to anybody if I don't feel like it. Deal with it.

I

never really understood that line you said about:

"You don't owe them any allegiance." (family)

Lets just say, I get it now :-).

How

many times did I say things like:

"The day will come and things won't end like they think they will."

Or:

"I will be the one that gets to decide where and when our last encounter will be"?

How many times have people come at me with malevolent intent only to be thwarted and turned back?

Thats an accident right?

Love you Lucy.

I'm

gonna have to correct myself. I believe David told me that when he was in school, they took a field trip to the Jefferson Davis memorial. 

That would make me one of two people I've ever known that have been there ::-).

Y'all

just crack me up :-).

Now seriously, daddy needs some pussy :-).

Love ya Bambi.

Funny

all the uproar over no phone minutes and then Al text Halie about me mowing the grass?

Why not just text Halie about having me contact them?

I knew he had the number :-).

I know all of y'all all got each others numbers.

Also?

Why wait three days to show up if me not having phone minutes was really bothering you that much?

Isn't it all so very...

interesting :-)?

Matthew 10: 34-39

“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn

“‘a man against his father,

a daughter against her mother,

a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—

a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it."

:-)

Luke 9:61-62

"And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God."

And

the winner for best actress goes to:

Mom! 

For her role in Vergie's bullshit! :-).

Rumi

"Your heart knows the way. 

Run in that direction."

Have.

Do.

Will.

Rumi

 

Rumi's answer to questions asked by a disciple. 

What Is Poison?

Rumi – Any thing which is more than our necessity is Poison.

It may be Power, Wealth, Hunger, Ego, Greed, Laziness, Love, 

Ambition, Hate or Anything.

What Is Fear?

Rumi – Non acceptance of Uncertainty.

If we accept that uncertainty,

it becomes Adventure.

What Is Envy?

Rumi – Non acceptance of Good in others.

If we accept that Good, it becomes Inspiration.

What Is Anger?

Rumi – Non acceptance of things which are beyond our control.

If we accept, it becomes Tolerance.

What Is Hatred?

Rumi – Non acceptance of person as he/she Is.

If we accept person unconditionally, it becomes LOVE.

Here's

another thing.

Everybody has the right to their views, attitudes, beliefs, and values. Everyone.

What gets forgotten here in our current culture is that everyone else also has the right to see your views as: ill informed, repugnant, abhorrent, revolting, repulsive, repellent, disgusting, offensive, objectionable, cringe-worthy, vile, foul, nasty, loathsome, sickening, nauseating, hateful, detestable, execrable, abominable, monstrous, appalling, insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, contemptible, unsavory, unpalatable, ghastly, gross, horrible, horrid, etc.

I'm the only person I know who has been to the Jefferson Davis Memorial

I was gonna say that the definition of a quandary would be: being a free speech advocate and a history buff living in our current times, but after thinking about it for a while? It's not really.

It's no accident that these statues and memorials to the confederacy were put on the lawns of courthouses and public parks etc. It was done to send a clear message of fear and intimidation. I mean, if your message is so great? Does it really need to come with fear and intimidation? Wouldn't people rally to it on it's own merit?

So now we can't even move these 1500 or so public displays to a non-public place like a museum or some kind of historical\educational facility without a bunch of  knuckledraggers getting their collective panties in a wad? Fuck 'em. Move em all. Hell, set up one museum and move all of them there so the history will be preserved. Think of the money that would be spent as infrastructure investment, creating jobs, tourism dollars and the like, I'm mean since were all about the free market and all :-). I'm not saying destroy them, just relocate them to a place tax payer money doesn't support them. Same position I have with the damn battle flag. You wanna fly one? Speaking as a free-speech advocate? Go right ahead, I got no problem with it, hell I'll help you put up your flag pole. Having peoples tax money pay for it to be flown over government offices and such? Total horse shit

I promise you I'd go to such a historical\educational facility if one ever existed, because I like the history and the stories behind the people. Doesn't mean I endorse an appalling economic system, just means I like history and the stories about the people, the tactics that were used etc. I'm the only person I know who has been to the Jefferson Davis Memorial yet anyone who really knows me knows I think racism is the equivalent of evil. BTW? that memorial would be hard to relocate given it's size. It's massive.

Here's something else to consider, In what other country would a region try to form it's own country through violent means, fail, and then still be allowed to have it's flag and memorials displayed to the world some 150+ years later? Where else would that fly?

I don't have answers, I really don't. My buddy was like, "Man four or five years ago it wasn't like this." My reply? "It's the times we live in." I wouldn't expect it to get better anytime soon. Another friend of mine posted all the cities where the alt-right is planning demonstrations and such. Given the incidents in Charlotte? Good luck getting a permit here sometime in the near future. Which, being a free-speech advocate I really don't like either, but I understand that legitimate public safety concerns outweigh your right to peacefully assemble. The key word here being, "legitimate".

These things just do not belong in public places anymore, they just don't. Put them where the people that want to see them can go and visit them. I just don't understand how that is trampling your so called blessed heritage etc? It's not. They would still exist, anybody that really wanted to could go see them.

Welcome to your new destiny. You're in the minority now. Chickens come home to roost much?

Pictures are mine.

(BTW? The Jefferson Davis memorial is the largest free standing non-rebar reinforced concrete structure in the world.)

Any Questions :-)

Mom reads the blog everyday. :-).

It's why I wasn't worried about running out of minutes.

Nice try.

Love you.

Oh yeah, no more "Morning Sunshine" till we wake up together.

Yeah

The RNC and all those who ran for the Republican presidential nomination? I do blame them for letting Trump get so out of control.

Know who else I blame? "The media." I despise that term anymore. Every time he called in to a cable news network or some radio or TV show? That network should have had to provide as much air time to the other candidates. The greed for ratings and profits and cult of personality that the media seem to revel in helped get him elected.

 As CBS CEO Les Moonves said, Trump’s campaign “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS” and that “The money’s rolling in, this is fun.” He went on to say “it’s a terrible thing to say, but bring it on, Donald, go ahead, keep going.”

Finished

the thirteen books of the old testament Prophets.

 Jeremiah prophesied against the political and religious leaders of his day :-).

Just sayin'.

Still

haven't heard one sermon on the eviels of racism.

Not one.

Going to church for 30+ years now.

Not one sermon.

Sickening really.

This

country will always be haunted and seperated by salvery.

It always has been.

It always will be.

The civil war has never and will never end.

"This

 could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last:

Many more will have to suffer,

Many more will have to die - don't ask me why.

Things are not the way they used to be,

I won't tell no lie;

One and all have to face reality now.

'Though I've tried to find the answer to all the questions they ask.

'Though I know it's impossible to go livin' through the past -

Don't tell no lie."

Math

and science anyone?

Jeremiah 33:25-26

"...made my covenant with day and night and established the laws of heaven and earth."

Just

in case anybody was wondering.

Why is the teen birth rate so much higher in rural areas?

Rural teens at high risk for pregnancy, analysis finds

 "The prevailing stereotype is that teen parenthood is primarily an urban and suburban phenomenon," says Bill Albert, chief program officer for the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit. In fact, "the landscape of teen childbearing is more open spaces and fresh air than gridlock and high-rises," he says.

Well,

"But as a victorious North fixed its gaze on a prosperous future, the American South was mired in poverty that would persist for generations."

I wonder why?

Did Confederate symbols gain prominence in the civil rights era?

Oh

yeah.

If you were ever gonna loose me?

You already would have.

I know you'll never believe me, I accept that.

But it's the truth.

Time

to go cook and eat some ramen :-).

Love you.

The posts

about light and time yesterday?

I was literally told to get up and start writing notes.

It was 2 in the morning or something and thoughts had been swirling around in my head for a minute but usually I kind of go over them in my head and when I wake up I'm like yeah, this, this and this will be our post today. 

But this night? 

"Get up now and start writing notes, not just the title headings but actually notes on what you will write tomorrow."

Okay.

Deal.

So I did.

Love you Lucy.

I love it Lucy.

I just love it.

I pray for more.

More understanding that is :-).

Those who were given wisdom will shine as bright as the brightest star for eternity :-).

Daniel 12:3

How

to eat on 85 cents a day :-).

Monday.

Sleep till 10 or so.

I know Halie has to take Ryder to pre-school orientation around 12.

Holler and see if she is home.

Shes with Christians dad having breakfast and says: "There is coffee if you want it, go help yourself."

Oh hell yeah, I wasn't going to think about having anything till 12 or so.

There is coffee?

I was excited because I thought it was all gone.

I make a beeline to their place.

Fuck yeah, good coffee?

This day is already going better than expected.

Holy shit!

Two farm fresh eggs in the frig as well?

Good coffee and two eggs?

Awesome.

Hung out with Halie, helped clean the kitchen up etc.

I was going to the library and knew I would be hungry afterwards so now what?

Go to store, get a banana, .35 :-).

 Get a four pack of ramen $1.00:-).

But how to cook with no electric?

I thought about it for a second and you know? 

There are lil hot water spouts on the sides of commercial coffee makers right?

Get some Ramen, stop by the lil gas station that is on the way home from the library.

Deal.

Bingo.

They had the hot water I need.

Crush up the ramen put it in a 32 ounce Styrofoam cup, add the flavoring, add hot water, put the lid on it.

Took me ten minutes to get home.

When I did get home?

Best ramen I ever had.

Banana?

Thirty five cents.

Two packs of ramen?

Fifty cents.

Promise Lucy.

I

actually had to think yesterday for a second :-).

Vietnam.

Would you have gone?

I have the same pat answer I always give.

Oh hell no, I would have been right there on the front lines burning my draft card etc.

This lil tiny country is a threat to our way of life blah blah blah, like there is no way they can go on existing without having their coke and Kentucky Fried Chicken or something even though they have existed for thousands of years before us or some other kind of nonsense..

Then I remembered my great uncle Leo.

Conscientious objector in WW2.

My family may have persuaded me to go.

If I did I? It would have been as a conscientious objector to honor my great uncle.

Dad flat out told me one time:

"If it was you and you had to go to Canada? I wouldn't blame you."

At least I had to think for a second :-).

Cause

you know, I just can't figure out that I was to mow grass, then when I said okay, after dinner, then all the sudden? 

I don't have to mow grass. 

Just can't possibly make sense of it Lucy :-).

Sweetheart?

I can walk out my backdoor and practically have farm fresh eggs.

Christian or Halie neither one mind if I fry them up at their place.

Ramen is $1.00 for a four pack.

That's two meals for .50 each

If I can make it on $1.35 for a day?

Then I can make it on other days for the same or less.

Woman logic,

also known in some circles as the gift that keeps on giving :-).

So, you were so worried about me having dinner last night but don't give a shit about me having breakfast or dinner today?

See why we love yall Lucy?

Love ya Dollbaby.

Muhammad Ali.

"If I want to die, I'll die right here right now, fighting you, if I want to die. 

You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, No Japanese. 

You my opposer when I want freedom. 

You my opposer when I want justice."

Well

Donald Trump's presidency is headed to a very dark place

Surprise surprise surprise, who would have ever thunk it?

He let you know what his beliefs were when he didn't disavow David Dukes endorsement.

Trump Won't Disavow David Duke, KKK Support, 'I Will Do Research On Them'

"Well, I have to look at the group. I mean, I don't know what group you're talking about. You wouldn't want me to condemn a group up that I know nothing about. I'd have to look. If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow them if I thought there was something wrong. But you may have groups in there that are totally fine and it would be very unfair...

Tapper interjected, "The Ku Klux Klan?"

Trump continued, "So give me a list of the groups and I'll let you know."

Tapper clarified, "I'm just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here."

Trump ignored the KKK part, and said, "honestly, I don't know David Duke. I don't believe I've ever met him, I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him, and I just don't know anything about him."

He is a vile, disgusting pig.

Period.

Thank you :-)

Now?

Ass cheeks :-).

How about for real this time :-) ?

Seriously,

yall had years to get your shit together and this is the best yall can do :-)?

It's just not the day to fuck with me.

It's just not.

 

I

couldn't tell you the last time I had a conversation where someone actually made me think about things for a minute :-(.

Yep :-)

“With her I’m free, with her I’m me.”

I

told you a while back.

We're gonna start doing some things my way.

Don't act all surprised and shit ;-).

Seriously

I'm sick of the lies and deciet I've been putting up with for years now.

I've told everyone.

Multiple times.

Back the ever-livin fuck off.

I know better.

Stop it, or ruin it for everybody.

 Yalls call, not mine.

Or I might take the truck being that I have 3/4 of a tank of gas in it.

Or even better, put the bike in the back of the truck and when the truck runs out of gas take the bike as far as I can.

Sick of this fucking game.

Get yalls shit together and leave me alone till it is.

Love ya Lucy :-).

Bro Joe

defined righteousness Sunday as:

"Doing ones obligation faithfully in the covenant relationship with God."

"I and I

didn't come to fight flesh and blood but spiritual wickedness in high and low places."

Makin a ton more sense these days.

 

I'm

down to One minute on the phone.

I won't buy more minutes.

I don't know how else to make it more clear to people.

Please tell them to stop calling and texting or I'll put gas in the bike and get as far away from everyone as I can get.

Been nice enough long enough.

Please people, stop.
I'm stressed enough as it is already.
Next time I have to say something I wont be near as pleasant.

Yes

I see God everywhere, even in Audioslave lyrics ;-).

I mean what do people think?

I just sit around all day and make this stuff up?

Not me.

I know better.

I know where my strength comes from.

I've always told you that Lucy :-).

Don't

ever worship the gifts, always worship the giver.

Or as Chris Cornell wrote:

"I am not your rolling wheels
I am the highway
I am not your carpet ride
I am the sky."

Things

I have read about "The two witnesses" of late.

Using public computers so to go back and find the history and sources and provide the links was next to impossible ( I tried). My point is, I've read what others think and the following are not my thoughts but come from others, not saying I necessarily agree with all the viewpoints posted but I do find them...interesting shall we say? :-).

"They shall have an elevated status or role during the end times."

"They will be the personification of the Holy Spirit on earth."

"They will fulfill the prophetic message of the church." 

"They will be able to apply Gods judgement on earth and he will use them as vessels to reveal his message."