THE PARADOX OF ABORTION

The paradox of abortion is that at the time in history when we are most capable ever of addressing this issue we seem to be the most divided and hateful towards the other over it.

Does society at large have any right to control our individual rights? The simple answer is yes.

An unborn child is not a "body part." It's DNA, blood type, nervous system, brain, organs and gender are it's own. It's future and potential are it's own. Even it's AGE is it's own! 

From ancient times a mother was "with" child. 

The only reason there is even such a contentious legal debate over abortion is because there is another life at stake. A life that is protected by the womb.  The womb is the property of the mother. But that does not change the reality of the purpose of the womb to nurture and protect the life inside it, WITHOUT EVEN the conscious effort of the mother. In fact, the womb even protects that life FROM the mother!

At what point is all this so?? I know this -- it is before God designed an unborn child to leave the safety of the mother's womb to establish it's place in the world. 

The womb has only one God given purpose - which is to produce a NEW and separate life. 

Does society have the right to place ANY standards on us and what we do with our bodies? Can society have laws that limit our rights to drugs we put into our body or even to wear a seatbelt? Can it write laws against taking our life? Does a society have the right to pass laws which protect the weak against more powerful people, even from a parent? YES TO ALL. 

What is reasonable to expect of a woman? At what point is it appropriate for the law to require a woman to make a decision by about destroying the life with all it's potential that she is carrying?  Furthermore, it is reasonable for there to be variations or exceptions - such as to save the life of the mother. 

We factor into our laws the recognition that people can make the choice to violate the law.  That is an important point which seems absent from the debate about abortion. If a women or physician does violate an abortion law, what is a reasonable punishment? Could the punishment even be as simple as the knowledge that they have violated the law?? 

We can work this problem out as a society! it won't be to everyone's satisfaction. There are reasonable ways to approach the issue of terminating a pregnancy.  We can only meet someplace in the middle of the extremes!

Science and medical technology has never made is more possible to balance the ethical challenges of unwanted pregnancy!! We do not need to tear society apart over this issue.  

1984 IS SOONER THAN WE THINK

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. 

H.L. Mencken

THE YEAR IS 1984. In his novel "1984," George Orwell gave us a frightening glimpse into a dystopian account of a totalitarian state. Advances in technology and data collection make an Orwellian slippery slope even more slippery.

Let's get real . . . 

The Federal Reserve and Central Banks around the world are developing plans to launch Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). This is the future of "money." 

This isn't your ordinary credit card and it is not Bitcoin. 

Transactions will amount to a transfer of Digital Currency from the buyer's digital wallet account to the seller's.

Will "money" exist in a non-digital form like "cash" does today?  The expectation is that CBDC will replace "cash," which is why there is talk that we are going to a "cashless society." 

In a way today, most money and transactions are already digital. People use credit/debit cards. We pay our bills with ACH and Electronic Transfers. Checks too simply are a means of moving money from one account to another. But there will be distinct differences in the new world monetary system with CBDC. 

The new digital currency will know who it's owner is.  A transfer amounts to the money having a new owner. And since the money is created by Central Banks, the Central banks know the owner of every CBDC "dollar." Injecting money into the economy is a matter of creating more CBDC and assigning ownership. 

In addition to CBDC knowing it's owner, the money will know what what it is being used for. It is kind of like your credit card knowing it is buying gasoline versus a dinner or shoes. Again, Central Banks will know all that too. 

Keep in mind that Central Banks get their authority from the government. They also work in tandem with the Treasury which handles the government's tax reciepts and expenditures.  

As part of President Biden's very recent Executive Order, the Federal government directed the USA Treasury and Federal Reserve to develop plans for implimenting CBDC. One requirement they were given was to make the money "programable."  

The conversion to CBDC brings with it profound societal and personal implications. Some good, some not so good. 

Programable CBDC allows the Government to control the "use" of the money - that means the government can ultimately control "who from, who to and what for" of every CBDC dollar. This allows government to sanction or cut off money going to something, be it a country a company, or a person or a thing (such as diesel fuel). 

Getting nervous yet?  

Where it gets alarming is when government combines all this with the concept of a "social scoring system" such as China has done and other governments are considering. 

Programable CBDC introduces a means by which governments can control spending down to the individual.  Therefore, if the Federal government decides that individuals should only be allowed to buy 1000 gallons of gasoline a year, when one reaches that level, your digital wallet will not permit you to buy more, even if you have the money in your account. 

"Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."  Slavoj Žižek

It is that last element, "programable," which gets scarey.  The announcement of a programable CBDC is not some wild conspiracy theory or some far off concept. In March 2022 the Biden White House issued an Executive Order directing the Treasury and Federal Reserve to develop plans for "responsible digital currency." The order called for the "highest urgency!"

THE GREAT RESET AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER ARE NO LONGER CONSPIRACY THEORIES. THE ACTORS ARE SPEAKING OPENLY.

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." Rahm Emanuel

The conversion to a new form of money along with the massive conversion process that such a change over must entail, presents a unique opportunity for governments and economies around the world to restructure their debt. 

Now that it is plain to see that America can neither afford to carry or pay off it's staggering debt, and with higher interest rates that debt threatens to cause another financial crisis worse than the last, the government needs a new plan. The change over to CBDC will provide Treasuries and Central Banks around the world, including the USA Federal Reserve, the opportunity they need to recast (write-down) tens of trillions in Debt. 

We are slaves to debt. We must work to pay credit card debt, student debt and other loans.  It was our choice -- we sold ourselves into slavery. Americans are slaves to nearly 200 trillion dollars in unfunded Federal debt and liabilities.  Our "Master" is the government. 

The "Great Reset," including CBDC, will give the Government much greater control over the people and behavior at the expense of individual freedom. But not to worry -- It is all for the good, Right?  Come'on Man!!

1984 is sooner than we think. 

THE INFAMOUS "Z"

WHAT DOES THE INFAMOUS "Z" MEAN? 

 There are various explanations and interpretations for the symbolic "Z" popping up on Russian military equipment and across Russia.  Some think it represents a "Za pobedy" for victory. Others say it stands for targeting Zapad (West) or even President Zelinsky who is aligned with the West.

The "Z" means what Putin wants it to mean.  It will come to stand for Putin's justification for attacking Ukraine - his primary ambition.  

The "Z" is Putin's swastika. Hitler used the swastika as an emblem to represent unifying the "Aryan race." The "Z" may well be Putin's goal for mother Russia to defeat the West and reunite the lands he believes belong in Russia's orbit.  

Thus the "Z" is symbolic of all three - The Russian race's Victory over the West.

Why now? Because the One World Order is using the pandemic to do a "Global Reset."  Also, the One World Order has the USA President it wanted AND SO DOES Putin! 

The "West" has crossed a line. The western biological weapons labs are too close for Putin's comfort.  The added threat of Western missiles in Ukraine is the last straw. Plus, who is to say that Ukraine doesn't build larger nuclear plants to supply Europe with electricity that can replace Europe's need for Russian oil & gas.  

Putin is on a mission. Putin aims to push back the "One World Order" that Klaus Schwab, Soros and the global elite are seeking. Putin's' mission is his devine spiritual destiny to reclaim Russia. 

BTW, speaking of Hilter and the Aryan race, the name Iran, which was Persia until it declared independence, is derived from "the land of Aryans." The Iranian ayatollah's supported Hitler's efforts to wipe out the Jews in Europe. During WWII, Russia lost 24 million fighting Hiltler's "Ayran race" which too sought to take over Europe.  

The Nazi's dominated Germany, Austria and France during WWII times. Today, Anti-Semitism is on the rise throughout Europe at the same that Germany and France dominate the European Union.  Major new world proponent George Soros certainly has his hooks into Zelinsky who is uber pro-Euro!  Soros has a very controversial past with the Nazis! With Ukraine and the European Union strengthening their relationship, could this be the "Nazification" that Putin is ultimately referring to? 

By the same token, Russia is also part of Asia. Like Russia, China is seeking to overthrow the West's hegemony. No country is watching the battle in Ukraine closer than China!

All the complicated inter-relationships, history and interests are partly why the situation in Ukraine can easily become a world war. In many respects it already is.

No coincedences!!

TIMING IS EVERYTHING!

USA Trucker Convoy Heading to Washington

Russian Military Convoy heading to Kyiv Ukraine

THESE TWO CONVOYS HAVE PROFOUND CONTRASTS AND AN EVEN MORE PROFOUND SIMILARITIES! 

This 3.1.22 morning there are two convoys heading to Nation's capitals. The "truckers" to Washington D.C. and the Russian military to Kyiv, Ukraine. 

THEY HAVE MORE IN COMMON THAN MEETS THE EYE. Of course they are both convoys of large vehicles. And they both have a message for a nation's leaders. 

TWO LESS OBVIOUS ASPECTS THE CONVOYS HAVE IN COMMON: 

Firstly, they both speak to the failure of American leadership. 

The second thing they have in common is much less obvious and much more profound. BOTH convoys carry forgeign "weapons" of destruction. The Russian convoy carries soldiers. The USA Trucker convoy "symbollically" carries weapons that are destroying our nation in an entirely different, but much better planned way. Let me explain. 

Trucks carry goods & products - shipments from manufacturers. American manufacturing has been decimated by China. The Chinese Communist Party is determined to replace the USA as the world's hegemomy and dominate the world economically!

Both communist China and communist Russia want the West to be DEPENDENT on them economically in ways that are essential to our population. Both China and Russia are succeeding and they will continue to do so if the West allows them like we have been for the last few decades!! 

Foreign dependence leads to the types of entanglements that George Washington warned us about in his "Farewell Letter."  All the pitfalls that Washington warned of in his letter are present today in a big wsy!  

George Washington did NOT write his Farewell letter for the 1790's. He wrote for 250 years into the future -- he wrote it for us today!

Empires do fall -- Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Roman, even the England is a fallen empire that America replaced as the last great world Super Power. We have begun our decent. China is rising.  

THE TIMING COULD NOT BE MORE PROFOUND -- THE TIME HAS COME TO STAND UP FOR FREEDOM!

READ: WAKE UP AMERICA -- KNOW OUR ENEMY!

“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand."   

Lincoln quoted the Bible!

THE N-WORD

What's one difference between the N-Word and the F-Word? Whites can say the F-Word. 

IS THERE A DOUBLE STANDARD WITH THE N-WORD? ARE CULTURAL STANDARDS DIFFERENT OR JUST CATCHING UP?

I think most folks recognize that it is culturally acceptable for Blacks to use the N-Word, while it is NOT for non-Blacks. Have you wondered why?  Consider the following other derogatory terms:

• Jews don't use the K-Word the way blacks use the N-word. 
• Italians don't use the W-Word the way blacks use the N-word. 
• Chinese don't use the C-Word the way blacks use the N-word. 

If Jews, Italians and Chinese used their derogatory slur to describe themselves as freely as Blacks use the N-Word do you think those terms would be as "off limits" as the N-Word is?

I suspect that if Jews called each other "kikes" as freely as Blacks use the N-Word, it would be FAR more acceptable for gentiles to say "Kike."  

If all those slurs were used more freely, like Blacks used the N-Word, they would still have a certain degree of hate associated with them, however society would no longer be able measure the level of racist HATE merely by the use of the word.  One would have to evaluate whether the user INTENDED to express hate!!  One would have to consider the CONTEXT!!  For example, a Jew can display a swastika in the context of an article about the Holocaust. 

Blacks can use the N-Word in brotherly and humorous ways.  They can use in hateful ways too.  The point is that Blacks have largely converted the N-Word into a multipurpose word that can mean many things when Blacks themselves use the term.

I can assure you that Jews have NOT done so with the expression "Kike." I don't think Chinese have done that with the term "Chinc" either. 

So why don't we apply comparable criteria with the N-Word? Why is the exception made when it comes to intent and context as it relates to when it is acceptable to use the N-Word?

Whether you approve of it or not, the N-Word has been redined by Blacks. Plus it is fair to say that there is a double standard when it comes to the N-Word. Why is that?  

I think one reason ties in with Critical Race Theory and the notion that Blacks can NOT be racist and ALL Whites are racist. I don't buy it!!  But many Blacks do which is why the N-Word is still deemed off-limits for anyone who isn't Black.

Furthermore, I see a cultural battle taking place between those who want to retain that double standard and those that recognize it is unfair and inappropriate. Besides, isn't that how culture shifts? I'm pretty sure Elvis Presley would be shocked at the dance moves in today's Superbowl Half-time shows!  (There are some of us who still are disgusted at how woman are objectified. Pardon me for believing in God. But that's a double standard for another debate.)

In AVENUE Q, the Tony winner for "Best Broadway musical," there is a hit song that nails it. The title is:

"Everyone is a little bit racist, sometimes."

The key is sensitivity. The other key is to recognize that one may use a so called "racist" word without true hateful intent. Therefore, when judging a person for the use of such a term CONTEXT has to be taken into consideration.

I will conclude with a little Etymology Trivia regarding the term "Kike." 

We are mostly all aware that "Kike" is an ethnic slur for a Jewish person. But why - where did it come from? Here is an interesting popular theory on how it emerged. 

One popular theory is that it is derived from the Yiddish word for a 0 (circle) “kikel.”  It is a reference to how some Jewish immigrants at Ellis Island signed their entry forms with an "O" (a circle) as opposed to an X, which Jews associated with the cross of Christianity. Immigration officers described those who signed forms with a circle as “kikel,” eventually being shortened to “kike.” 

X's and O's are not hateful letters. They aren't loving letters either even though they can mean "hugs and kisses." Context is everything!

 

IF THE SHOE FITS . . .

I have been posing the following question for many months on my Facebook feed. 

"Why did you vote for Joe Biden?Seriously why?"

No one has bothered to answer it. In this blog post I will take a shot at it. You can be the judge if the shoe fits.  But before I do, please read this linked article which sets the stage for what I will say. 

Biden’s aweful results were predictable!  Here is what we knew on election day:

1. He's been more inaccessible to voters and the media than any Presidential candidate in decades.

2. He wouldn't address serious signs of his son's influence pedaling and corruption and very valid concerns that China, Russia and Iran stood to gain from Biden’s conflicts of interest.

3. He would damage energy production and our achieved energy independence and energy exports.

4. He would dismantle our border security and literally promote a crisis at our border. Heaven knows the damage to come from that.

5. He had an absolutely terrible reputation for bad judgment on foreign affairs and big decisions. 

6. He chose the worst vice president.

7. He was notorious for racist, sexist and factual gaffes and his behavior around little girls was beyond creepy. 

8. His cognitive capacity was obviously questionable and unlike Trump who went to lengths to prove he was fit for office, Biden mocked the notion of any testing?  

9. He was literally engaged in the Russian collusion Hoax and must have known the Steel Dosier was a fraud. 

10. It was obvious the Biden was influenced by the "Squad" and was moving to the radical Left on everything thing from killing the filibuster to voting reform to critical race theory.  And, if he could get away with packing the court he'd do it in a minute.

11. He campaigned from his basement!

I could go on, but the point is that Biden’s presidency is turning out just as could be expected! So I will recall the question again and then I will offer a possible answer.  See if the shoe fits. 

If there were so many reasons not to vote for Biden, then why did people vote for him?  

People voted for the only Democrat candidate they thought could beat Trump. It wasn't so much a vote for Biden as a vote against Trump.  

Hate for Trump and his supporters drove Biden voters to the polls. A vote for Biden was less a vote FOR Biden to be the POTUS than it was the desire for relief from the sickness and contempt people felt every time they looked at Trump. 

In effect, for more than a deciding number of voters who voted for Biden the act of  "pulling the lever" was a psychologically violent act against Trump. Voting was vengeful. It was about as gratifying as hitting Trump over the head. Many wished him dead from covid. 

Biden embodied hatred and contempt for Trump. He proudly spoke of taking Trump out back and beating him up. He verbally pounced on Trump supporters who dared to question him at his rare public appearances.  Biden exploited and encouraged hatred for Trump, and media fed him him every opportunity to do so.

For the other half who voted FOR Trump whether we liked him or loved him or simply tolerated his antics and obvious character flaws, we pulled the lever for what Trump's policies and leadership was accomplishing.  Which is nearly everything that Biden has managed to destroy in just 12 months. The train wreck isn't over!

Biden PROMISED to reverse everything that Trump did. Those who voted for Biden got precisely what they voted for. Their will never be another one like Trump. 

Biden also promised to "unity." The result is the opposite!  That was predictable. Why would anyone think that an act of hate could "unite this country??" Hate only gets one more hate!  Hate is the shoe! How does it fit?

"You are not to hate your brother in your heart. Instead, you are to firmly rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

You are not to take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am Adonai."  

Leviticus 19:17-18 

The great irony I see is that there was one other President that the Left hated as much or more than Donald J Trump. Guess who! 

HE HYPOCRISY IS GREATER THAN THE TRUTH.

RECOGNIZING GOD

DO YOU RECOGNIZE THESE TWO IMAGES?  

There is an obvious similarity between these two images. Many people will recognize the image on the left as a famous stained glass "Rose Window" hanging in a church.  Very few will recognize the other image to the right of it.  Ironically, that image is an even more compelling basis for believing in God. 

Can a scientist reconcile faith in God?  What if that scientist was one of the most credible and accomplished scientists in the world?  What if that scientist started out as an atheist with no faith throughout his life?

Could such a scientist find God in any sort of scientific way? Could such a scientist find God with the help of another highly educated and intelligent atheist?

What if the scientist I am referring to based his conclusions on logic and evidence?  What if this scientist came to his belief in God because it was the only plausible explanation for scientific facts?

The scenario I have posed is not hypothetical.  It is a real story.  If you have a hard time coming to faith, but wish you could, this story may be for you. But you would have to be a very intelligent scientific type to get through this story.  If so, perhaps you recognize the image on the right. If you are an atheist, better yet. 

By the way, the scientist I referred to is Francis S. Collins, the former director of the Human Genome Project. The other highly intelligent atheist who reached the same conclusion about God is C.H. Lewis. 

Here is Collins simplest scientific explanation for God:

"God, who is not limited in space or time, created this universe 13.7 billion years ago with its parameters precisely tuned – that fine-tuning argument – to allow the development of complexity over long periods of time. That plan included the mechanism of evolution to create this marvelous diversity of living things on our planet and to include ourselves, human beings. Evolution, in the fullness of time, prepared these big-brained creatures, but that’s probably not all we are from the perspective of a believer.

God, in that case, having a house that’s now well-designed for it, gifted humanity with free will and with a soul. We could argue about what a soul actually means. And at that point, humans received this special status: made in God’s image, not in physical terms, but in spiritual and mental terms. We humans used our free will to disobey God – that’s what the story of the Garden of Eden is all about – leading to our realization of being in violation of that moral law. Thus we were estranged from God. For Christians like myself, Jesus is the solution to that estrangement."

Here Collins telling his story:

https://youtu.be/EGu_VtbpWhE

In a Dark Time

A poem by Theodore Roethke

In a dark time, the eye begins to see,

I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;   

I hear my echo in the echoing wood—

A lord of nature weeping to a tree.

I live between the heron and the wren,   

Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den.

What’s madness but nobility of soul

At odds with circumstance? The day’s on fire!   

I know the purity of pure despair,

My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.   

That place among the rocks—is it a cave,   

Or winding path? The edge is what I have.

A steady storm of correspondences!

A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon,   

And in broad day the midnight come again!   

A man goes far to find out what he is—

Death of the self in a long, tearless night,   

All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.

Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.   

My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,   

Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?

A fallen man, I climb out of my fear.   

The mind enters itself, and God the mind,   

And one is One, free in the tearing wind.