Sunday, February 28, 2021

MAKING SENSE OF THE EQUALITY ACT

The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to pass the Equality Act, a bill that would ban discrimination against people based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It would also substantially expand the areas to which those discrimination protections apply.

The Civil Rights Act covered discrimination in certain areas, like employment and housing. The Equality Act would expand that to cover federally funded programs, as well as "public accommodations" — a broad category including retail stores and stadiums, for example.

Importantly, the bill also explicitly says that it trumps the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (commonly known by its acronym RFRA). The law, passed in 1993, set a higher bar for the government to defend laws if people argued those laws infringed upon religious freedom.

Under the Equality Act, an entity couldn't use RFRA to challenge the act's provisions, nor could it use RFRA as a defense to a claim made under the act.  (You better bake that cake whether you want to or not!) 

I wonder what is to stop a lawsuit against a pastor who objects to performing a same sex marriage. 

I have read the actual legislation that passed in the House. This is my read. 

The Equality Act extends established protections to one's gender identity. The Bill literally inserts wording into existing laws in order achieve that. The effects and implications of the Equality Act go further.

Gender as defined by genital developed in the womb is irrelevant legally. Biological sex is subordinate to choice.  

In effect the child (minor) has superiority over their parents in making the choice of their sex. It would be presumptuous for a parent to assume the sex of their child at birth. I wonder, if in the future it will be legal for a doctor to tell an expecting parent that they are having a "boy" or a "girl."

Biological males will be free to compete in "women's sports" and biological males are free to enter "ladies" rooms. So long as they "identity" as women. 

Where is the issue?  It depends on who you ask and on the situation. Some see this as a matter of personal freedom and the right one has to non-discrimination. In that respect, it may seem that America is moving down the path toward being a more progressive and just Nation. But that depends on whose rights are being protected. 

If one thinks otherwise, is to be considered a bigot and phobic. To act otherwise is to risk committing a Federal discrimination or hate crime. 

The biblical view of the sexes is in effect immoral at best and quite possibly may lead to illegal behavior. 

Are we a more just nation if a biological man who identifies as a female can take out his penis in the shower with your daughter? Ask the biological man and you get one answer.  Ask the father of a little girl and you might get another.

Are we a more just nation if a 9 year old child can be counseled and prescribed puberty blocking drugs without parental consent?  And what if that child grows up to regret their decision?  What will the politicians who superseded their parents response be then?

Are we a more just nation if women's sports and records of achievement are decimated by biological men?  Ask the biological male MMA fighter who nearly killed his female opponent and you get one answer. Ask her and you might get another.

Women have struggled for centuries to get to where they are today in sports. With the stroke of a pen, the Left threatens their gains. A women who worked tirelessly her entire life for an athletic achievement can have that taken away from her permanently because of radical politics. It's happening already.

Are we a more just nation if we force people to act against their religious beliefs to please the view of people who think that God's definition of Man and Woman is trumped by the United State's legal view?

Like I said, it depends on who you ask and on the situation. 

None of this speaks to the science. None of this speaks to studies of the failures of gender reassignment. None of this speaks to the psychological damage of altering one's gender through drugs and surgery.  None of this speaks to the rights of parents. 

The Equality Act puts government above parents, science and God. 

None of this speaks to love either. The thing that creates the most dissonance for me personally is the following.  While I disagree with the Equality Act, I still may love a person who suffers from Gender Dysphoria. My heart can empathize with their confusion, fear, pain and other struggles, even though I support the rights of those who dissent with the Equality Act.

To me personally, the great injustice of the Equality Act is what Liberals believe it turns anyone who disagrees with it into. 

THERE, DOES IT MAKE SENSE NOW?

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

MY BEST BLOG POST EVER

 



This is my best blog post ever ... I wish I wrote it. All credit belongs to Ross Rant.  Here's a link to subscribe to his newsletter.

                                                                         

The political theater is done. Now maybe the country can move on. Article II section 4 is clear, there never could be a constitutional trial of a person who was not an official. That was why Roberts refused to officiate. Pelosi waited too long to send it over, and when she did, the Senate was in recess and there was no possible way to get it back in session before January 20. Lawyers always taught me you have to stay within the four corners of the document. The constitution is completely clear.  You have no authority to try a private citizen, but only an official. End of story. Trump is gone now, so maybe they will let the country move on, or maybe some US Attorney in DC will file charges of accessory after the fact, and start the whole fiasco all over again. .

Here is some data that is illuminating, and will provide good perspective. Unemployment is heavily concentrated in certain states, and in a few job types.  NY, San Fran, Vegas, and Boston had the worst unemployment by far. NY Metro has 1 million unemployed-10% of total-NY has 6% of US population.  Vegas was due to nobody traveling and being close to 100% dependent on tourism. The best stats were Austin, Dallas, Phoenix and Atlanta where there was not the massive shutdowns. Hospitality was responsible for 3.7 million lost jobs, 37% of total, followed by government 1.26 million,  and education 1.2 million for a total of 6 million unemployed-60% of total. So the real issue is not spending $1.9 trillion on a wide array of left wing wants such as $5 billion on homeless-mainly in CA and OR and Seattle, or tens of billions on “climate change things, etc. that have zero to do with the virus, and none of  which will  help the economy return to normal. For further perspective the number of people unemployed in February before the shutdown with a 3.5% rate, was 4.4 million.  So if there are 10-12 million now, that is not the total number who we need to get reemployed.  It is more like 4-5 million jobs, an achievable number by late summer if everything including schools are reopened soon, and we get to mid-May with vaccine administered.  

I don’t have data to prove this, but just anecdotally it is my sense that many companies are doing very well, and when the economy fully opens things will really hum as CA, NY and IL let hospitality reopen. Earnings for the Russell 2000 have been excellent, suggesting that mid-sized companies are doing well. Just take Anaheim.  If they would let Disney reopen, thousands of jobs get reinstated not just at Disneyland, but at the hotels and restaurants in the area. If NYC let restaurants reopen fully, hundreds of thousands of jobs return.  And now there is a public news report that Biden actually has considered a ban on travel into and out of FL. I would love to see that one tried.

In case you missed it, oil is just below $60, up from $35.79 on Oct 30, and $10.01 0n April 21. Low income people just got the equivalent of a big tax increase, so Joe’s answer is shut down fracking and the pipeline. Makes perfect sense.

Savings data breakdown: the top 80% of taxpayers saved 75% of the excess savings and the 60%-80% cohort saved 10.2% but spends 20% of all personal outlays. The bottom 20% saved 3.5% of excess savings and account for 3% of personal outlays. In a new survey, people making under $50,000 said they saved 17% of the last check and will save 29% now , and people making over $100,000 saved 41% of the last check. So as is logical, the wealthy top 20% saved the most because they have the most excess disposable income, They will likely use these savings to invest, or donate to good use. The bottom 20% is able to save excess to their norm which means they are doing OK on average, and the mantra from the Fed that they don’t have $400 saved is likely not true, as several analysts have contended. What is of note is that few need the whole $1400, so it is a waste which is why some Dems agree they should lower the income levels.

The real solution is to get as many people vaccinated as possible, as fast as possible, and get schools fully reopened 5 days a week, not one day a week, and end all lockdowns which have now been proven to have caused far more problems than they solved. As of now, around 50 million have had at least one shot. That is more than all the Covid positive tests to date. Mid-February.  They are doing 1.66 million a day and ramping up. Let’s just use 1.5 million. By May 1 that is 113 million more. Over 30 million are immune because they had the virus. That is a total of 143 million had at least one shot, or had the virus, and most of the number will have had a second shot by May. Now add J&J starting March 1. So add a minimum of another 30+- million, total now 173 million. Add kids under 18 or 72 million more= 245 million by May 1 that are low risk or immune. That is more than 75% of the total population. Kids will get vaccinated over the late summer.  If almost all  nursing home residents are vaccinated, as they will be, and most very vulnerable co-morbidity people, the hospitalizations and deaths by May 1 will be nominal.  Less than in a normal flu season where 60,000 on average die. The government and press are hyping this with constant daily, oh my God this is terrible pronouncements. Reality- the US has already given 30% of all the shots across the world.  We are doing great by comparison. Stories in the press are always about some minimally educated single mother with 2 or 3 kids who can’t pay the rent. Her issue is not the virus, it is bad life choices. It is all political. The White House admits this is all about 2022, not about solving the real problem. Saying one day a week to have schools open is not having schools open. It is cover for the teachers unions. It is outrageous politics instead of kids welfare. If they did what I have laid out above there is minimal need for another wasteful spending program which has tens of billions for groups favored by the White House. It will not create jobs. Only the private sector being fully opened will do that. Clearly the White House is counting on, if they give away enough free money to voters, they will combine that with the impeachment hearings, and be able to win in 2022. That is what is really going on. You add on HR1, and the Dems believe they will retain complete control of DC for years to come.

In case you are delusional to think $1.9 trillion is going to the needy workers, or to the poor, or to good use, here are just a couple of examples of the many things in the $1.9 trillion- $300 million to migrants-I assume to give money to illegals coming across now, $5 billion for the homeless-I guess we pay then to take drugs and live in tents, $20 billion to USPS-instead of fixing the system, $300 million to Endowment for Arts, $300 million for Endowment for Humanity-never heard of this one, $30 billion Dept Of Education-they already have a large budget, $300 million to NPR (devoted to Democratic views), $25 million of cleaning supplies for the capital (That is a lot of toilet paper), $520 million for ADMIN costs for Social Security-maybe they are going to hire a whole additional staff, $1 Billion to Amtrak, $13 million to Howard U-racial equality feel good stuff.   Supposedly, only a relatively small  amount  is actually to do with Covid, or to people who actually need it, but the mantra is, if they don’t pass this the economy will collapse, and people will be in the street starving to death-or that is how they make it sound.  Maybe they can house the poor in Kennedy Center. This is just a partial list, but Biden claims we need the $1.9 Trillion to save the economy, and for the suffering voters.  Keep in mind the bipartisan Problem Solvers said they had a bill for half as much that was targeted, and McConnell had one for $600 million that really was targeted to Covid. As Everett Dirksen famously said- a billion here, a billion there, and soon you are talking about real money. Think of it this way, only 50% of Americans pay any federal tax, so the cost of a $1.9 trillion bill for actual taxpayers is $12,102 per taxpayer. The 49% who think the $1.9 Trillion should be approved have no idea what is really in the bill. They only think they are going to get another few thousand in their bank account. Apparently some voters in GA are now angry because they are not going to get an extra $2000, but only $1400 because that was why they voted for the Dems. Just in case you still have any delusion about what all of this waste of money is really all about. Buy votes. And they are just getting started according to Biden. None of this is gong to create any jobs in the private sector.

I have read various articles that surmise that the political crowd, the press and the elites in DC and Silicon Valley were happy to take advantage of the virus, and make it into more than it really is. The elites in DC used it to go after Trump again. The press used it to go after Trump again. Silicon Valley saw it as a massive opportunity to make billions, and the health elites saw it as an opportunity to claim their models and what they perceived as intellectual superiority, ruled the world. The teachers unions saw it as an opportunity to cash in with big payoffs from cites and DC in the form of money that gets eventually translated into higher salaries and pensions since their pension programs are all gong insolvent. That is what is really behind the school shutdowns. I doubt any of these people conspired actively to collude on any of this, but they each seized on the opportunity to make it work for them, and we all paid a horrible price. The minority kids paid the worst price of all. Their lives are seriously compromised if they live in a big city and cannot get in to a Catholic or charter school. The world has had pandemics before, and never a total shutdown.  The damage to the world, other than to China, has been horrific. Many people died who would not have, had they been able to see a doctor, and many small business owners would still be in business, or stay and their staff employed.  We will never know the real number, but it is clear to me that it paid $2000 per death for hospitals to say it was Covid, and not the real underlying cause of death like cancer or heart. This may have been to the worst catastrophe in US history and it did not need to be if the health experts like Fauci had used a much more all-encompassing analysis to make determinations on shutdowns, and if the teachers had not been greedy. Had they moved immediately to totally isolate nursing homes,  and mandated masks and distancing, in January or February, we could have avoided much of the worst ramifications. We now constantly hear Trump being blamed for not having everyone already vaccinated. Reality as I have said before.  The vaccines were just approved 90 days ago. Around 50 million are already vaccinated. You can only produce it under very strict conditions so it takes time to roll out which  is what they said. Many states are simply incompetent when it comes to such a massive logistics challenge, so some states are a mess. The US is so far ahead (14% vaccinated) of the rest of the world, (3.7% in the EU), other than UK and Israel, it is not even a comparison. But Biden and the press blame Trump, when the real issue is everyone wants their shot yesterday, and there are unrealistic expectations of how fast all this is possible to happen.  Were it not for Warp Speed there would be no vaccine.

A ten year today yields you around .7% after tax depending on your state. Plus you will have a loss  of principal. Despite the best efforts of the Fed, rates will slowly rise from here. It is likely that in 2021 earnings will be very strong in 2H of the year so you should be much better off in the stock market for now. Low rates equal higher P/E ratios plus higher earnings means higher stock prices in the short run. However it also means everyone is further out the risk curve the further into the year we go. Low rates means many can’t retire on their CD or annuity, or on their bond yields. That combined with better health, keeps more old people working and fewer jobs for young people. The real issue is real rates on the ten year are negative. Just for perspective, Airbnb is worth more than Marriott, Hilton and Hyatt combined. Door Dash is worth more than Wendy, Yum and Dominos. Tesla is worth more than the major auto companies. Some day this all has to get rectified by the market. Junk bonds now yield below 4%.  That is really out the risk curve. Companies with a lack of liquidity should be out raising all the junk debt they can  right now with the longest Term possible. Powell said inflation has been low for several decades and so we should not be fearful all the stimulus will increase inflation. Problem is he ignores we never had zero interest rates before, and that matters. One day this massive bubble is going to burst big.

Key stat. The VIX is at the lowest its been since February1. It is at 19.97.  It had hit 85.47 on March 18.  This means fear is out of the market right now which is good for higher stock prices. Some of us have long term fear.

The press fell all over themselves to compliment Cuomo and tout him vs Trump.  Now we find out there was a major coverup of the truth about nursing home deaths so Cuomo would look good and not have the DOJ find out what was really happening with all those deaths. It will be interesting to see how the press deals with Cuomo now. He should be in jail as he directly caused 15,000 deaths. What do we hear out of DC- crickets./ So now we have this in NY, and the possible recall in CA. Maybe all is not lost. The CA recall will be very telling. The two top governors in the Dem party, and the biggest shutdown advocates are possibly going to be thrown out of office for their incompetence. If Cuomo gets to walk with no legal repercussions it will make the whole system a corrupt joke. Now Biden is nominating the woman in charge of CA Labor Dept as deputy Labor Secy.  Under her leadership CA has had over $30 Billion in fraud in the unemployment payments just in 2020. Sounds like a good choice to me if you want complete incompetence and waste. Keep in mind that the White House has said they are going to use CA as their template for how to do things. Ironic if anything ever was.

Biden expects to work with the EU in confronting Russia. A few days ago, at a public press conference, Lavrov, foreign minister of Russia, lambasted the EU as “an unreliable partner” while the foreign minister of the EU was standing next to him. Now Lavrov has said if the EU imposes more sanctions Russia will go it alone. Good luck Joe on your foreign policy that has hit a wall everywhere, from China, to Russia to Iran, all in just 21 days. And now the White House has refused to say Israel and Saudi are important allies. “It is under review”. And now they intend to go back to funding the Palestinian Authority where the money gets corruptly stolen. Great message to Iran and Palestinians. The Dems lambasted  Trump for stopping support for WHO because they covered up for China. Biden rushed to rejoin. Tis past week WHO again covered up for China and claimed the virus did not come from China, even though  they never were given the information they requested and needed. Now Biden is “very concerned” about the WHO investigation. Pompeo says there is little doubt it came from the lab. Now Biden looks like an idiot.

It is notable that Biden sets goals, like 100 million shots in 100 days, or 50% of schools open one day a week, when the goals are already more than achieved-schools- or they are well on the way to be over achieved-100 million shots. So the game is set very low goals that they later can say look what we over achieved. It is setting the tone for what we can expect over 4 years.  

 This one will blow your mind.  OR now has a new training manual for math teachers. It teaches that math is not to be taught to get the right answer, as that is a characteristic of white supremacy. ????  I guess I am a white supremacist as I believe we should always strive to get the right answer to a math problem. It tells teachers “There should not be a focus on math being an objective subject with only right or wrong answers, and to teach that perpetuates fear.” Huh??  It tells teachers to come up with two right answers to math problems to promote “equitable outcomes for black and Latinex students”. In other words, minority students get to have a good grade for wrong answers to 2+2. Maybe it is really 5 or 6 in this new race based math world. The manual for teachers states that there is no right or wrong answers in math. There could be various answers to a math problem.  That is news to mathematicians since a few thousand years ago.  Teachers are told to find ways to “show how math is used to promote capitalist, racist and imperialist views”. I am not making this up. We have hit such a level of absurdity that it is really scary that wrong answers in math are OK if you are  a minority.  It actually is as racist as anything since it clearly implies that minority kids can’t always get the right answers so the goal is to make them not feel bad by letting them give wrong answers. And then they wonder why black kids often get bad educational outcomes, and can’t succeed in the real world where 2+2=4. How are black kids ever going to be successful if this is how they are taught.

 

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Economic Game Changer

Here's a video I did while exercising on my treadmill explaining a change to monetary policy which I believe has and will continue to have a profound effect on the world for decades to come.  Please pardon my appearance.

I posted a blog article with a similar message. 

Friday, February 5, 2021

WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN HURT YOU

PERSPECTIVE:

Here are some facts about our national financial situation as of 2/4/21:

Federal Debt - 28 trillion

Federal Deficit YTD - 4.57 trillion

DEBT PER TAXPAYER - $223k

OTHER LIABILITIES:

Social Security Deficit - 22 trillion

Medicare Deficit - 32.5 trillion

Total Unfunded Federal Liabilities (per citizen) - $480k

Source: See for yourself 

When I studied economics 43 years ago at Babson College those numbers would have been unthinkable.

One cannot appreciate how financially out-of-whack our nation is without making an historical comparison for context. To give you a sense of historical context let's look at just one detail -- Debt:GDP.

Consider our nation's Debt to GDP ratio. For many decades we have been seeing this rise. The general sense was that as long as the Debt to GDP ratio stayed under 100% we didn't have to worry.

DEBT TO GDP:

1960 - 52%

1980 - 35%

2000 - 59%

NOW - 130% and growing faster than ever!

There is more:

  • Personal Debt (per citizen) - 63k
  • Student Loan Debt (per student) - 38k
  • State Debt (per citizen) - 3.7k
  • Local Debt (per citizen) - 6.4k

If these numbers look scary now, wait till you see them in a couple of years!  They are worsening at a truly alarming rate!

Most politicians and media are turning a blind eye to the seriousness of debt. Covid has provided a tremendous distraction. China's debt to GDP ratio is several times worse than the USA. How convenient a distraction.

The main reason we are getting away with such perverse fiscal mismanagement is because we have stopped believing debt matters. Under Modern Monetary Theory we can print our way out everything. Everything except two things:

1) The first is inflation. In the event of inflation, the government would use taxes and interest rates to slow down the economy and tamp down inflation. But when the government slows the economy it also increases the need to print more money to pay it's liabilities. Plus, rising interest rates would DRAMATICALLY  increase the cost of carrying our debt. Those effects feed back into the problem of insolvency.  It is a viscous cycle!

2) On our paper currency is printed "IN GOD WE TRUST." Also printed on our money within the Great Seal of our Nation on the reverse side is the phrase "Annuit coeptic" which comes from the Latin words annuo, "to nod" or "to approve", and coeptum, "commencement, undertaking." It is literally translated, "[providence] favors our undertakings" or "[providence] has favored our undertakings.

If as a Nation we no longer "Trust in God," at some point God will no longer "approve" of U.S.  AND, at some point the public will no longer believe in the faith & credit of the United States behind the dollar.

BOTTOM LINE:

America is broke. Then again so is Europe and Asia, etc.  People don't know it but that doesn't mean it ain't so.  It also doesn't mean that people won't figure it out one day.  

There are a number of ways for this to end.  NONE OF THEM ARE PRETTY.

WELCOME TO THE GLOBAL RESET AND THE ULTIMATE NEW WORD ORDER.

In the event things get "out of hand, ala a financial crisis worse that the last, and it becomes clear that we cannot print our way out like we have been doing, then money becomes worthless.   Here is a possible result . . .

The world will replace currencies, as we have known them for thousands of years, with one new worldwide digital currency and in the process the Central Banks will wipe out most goverment debt.  Paper money becomes worthless. Each of us would have to accept the new digital mark that identifies us into order to buy or sell.  Hmmm ... what does that sound like?

I know -- it sounds crazy.  But I'll bet the Holocaust sounded crazy too Jews and other Germans in the 1920's.

Epilogue:

What is interesting to an investor is how do you play the time in between!  I definitely have thoughts and ideas on that.  

Plus, in the meantime which could be who knows how long, it goes without saying to count one's blessings and enjoy things in life: e.g. family, food, fishing, farming, friendship, faith, etc. 

As wise as it is to plan and prepare for the future, in between the past and the future is the present.  We live in the moment. 


Tuesday, January 26, 2021

PATRIOTS FIGHT ON FOR AMERICA

Trump doesn't quit.  He keeps fighting for the people and the Nation we love. 

Trump Creates ‘Office of the Former President’ to Advance US Interests, Carry on Trump Admin Agenda. 

INSURRECTION AND IMPEACHMENT ARE JUST ANOTHER HOAX IN A FIVE YEAR ATTEMPT TO STOP TRUMP'S ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT AGENDA.

As we watch Biden's radical Left agenda for our nation unfold, and the One World Order alliances take hold in the USA, Trump's MAGA slogan is more relative and important than ever before. 

America's and the world's greatest existential threats and enemies are giddy over the election.  China, Iran and Russia got their man. 

They are all counting on the most recent impeachment stopping Trump. They are all counting on being able to exploit this latest impeachment hoax to silence their opposition.  As always, the mainstream media, big tech and the Deep State are all too eager to participate.  

The truth finds way.

There is evidence to believe that the Capital assualt was planned in advance. History is evidence too. And there have been over 500 peaceful Trump rallies. There is also enormous evidence of Antifa inciting violence!

Trump explicitly told his supporters to be peaceful. But the planners & instigators knew Trump would encourage his supporters to march on the Capitol so they were able to exploit that.  

There is proof that anti-Trump provocateurs disguised themselves as Trump supporters and embedded themselves in the crowd at the front of the march. They performed violence and whooped up the crowd. The rest was an expectable chain reaction. 

Of course you will not get the otherside of the story on mainstream media. That's why America is in the mess we are in! They are the reason we got President Trump in the first place. Our Press isn't objective or non-partisan. The mainstream press is the propaganda arm of the Left and China. The world has figured this out!

That does not make the actions of those who entered the Capitol illegally acceptable! Each case must be heard and appropriately prosecuted.  

But before the investigations into what actually happened were even started, Pelosi rushed to impeach the President in one day. The Speaker, who is supposed to represent ALL Americans, didn't want to let the facts surface. Pelosi didn't want to let calmer heads prevail. She leveraged the heat, emotion and confusion of the moment to rush through an impeachment.  That wasn't justice - it is a lynching

Democrats want to impeach Trump because they are afraid of him. They are afraid of the fact that half our nation still enthusiastically supports him. They are afraid of the success of his agenda. They are afraid of how disastrous Biden/Harris will be. Most of all they are afraid of the truth. So they are doing everything they can to silence, cancel and bury the truth.  

This is not how our Republic was intended to work. These are fascist-like actions of power hungry partisans driven to redesign America according to their Socialist New World Order agenda.

Biden is cognitively impaired puppet and most of the world, let alone Americans know it. He lacks the mental capacity to cope with what's in store. We also know this election was anything but fair. 

Trump doesn't quit. Neither will the patriots who love America. 


 https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/trump-creates-office-of-the-former-president-to-advance-us-interests-carry-on-trump-admin-agenda_3671398.html

 

Sunday, January 24, 2021

DID YOU ENJOY THE PEACE?

Peace through strength brought down the Soviet Union. President Trump pursued a similar philosophy.  President Obama left Trump a depleted and aged military. Trump achieved peace as he rebuilt the USA Military stronger than it has ever been.

DID YOU MISS THIS IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA THAT IS FAWNING OVER BIDEN/HARRIS?  While they were giving Biden/Harris a tongue bath this happened. 

24 HOURS AFTER JOE BIDEN SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT:  

Troops were ordered BACK into Syria. The convoy entered the country from Iraq via the al-Waleed crossing “to bring arms and logistical equipment to bases in Hasakeh and Deir Ezzor provinces." 

To his very last days President Trump was bringing our soldiers home. Trump is the first President in over 20 years to END our wars and bring our troops home. 

What is equally remarkable is that as Trump successfully brought our military actions to a close, he increased the actual and perceived strength of the US Military at home and abroad. Think about that!!

Trump often stated that his objective was to achieve "peace through strength." Trump reduced the presence of our military in foreign conflicts, yet he managed to increase the recognition of our Commander In-Chief's ability and willingness to meet any threat. Think about that!!

Biden is a puppet and we all know it.  The entire world questions his mental capacity and cognitive functioning!  Biden presents an image of weakness to our enemies China, Russia and Iran. All these country's literally celebrated the results of this election. They interfered and they clearly got the result they were striving for. Think about that!

Some believe we are in the so called "End of Days." Who can say?  

What I will say is: The period of peace that Trump achieved will be short lived under the new President. 

Biden has assembled the same bad actors to be part of his administration that produced horrendous results in the past. The new Administration looks a lot like the one that produced ISIS and the largest refugee crisis in the history of the world.  Not even one month into Biden's Presidency, ISIS claimed credit for twin bombings in Iraq.

Like the Administrations before him, the Obama Administration brought us only wars and conflicts in the Middle East. The Trump Administration achieved peace in the Middle East like NO OTHER President in history has. In fact, the relationships forged between Israel and it's Arab/Muslim neighbors are a first in the history of the world!

Sadly, under Biden, history is repeating itself. And with that, the endless wars will be back. 

By the same token, if you are familiar with the scriptures and the patterns taking place you might say that prophecy is presenting itself. If that's the case perhaps what we are witnessing is what was foretold. If so, the last war for a thousand years is being ushered in. 

I enjoyed the peace while it lasted! 

Isaiah 12:2 - "Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense ; he has become my salvation.”

🙏PSALM 91🙏

Saturday, January 23, 2021

RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE

UN-CATHOLIC JOE BIDEN WASTES NO TIME SETTING OUT TO TAKE LIFE AWAY FROM THE UNBORN.

“And I will give you mercy, and he shall have mercy on you, ” Jeremiah 42:12

PERSPECTIVE:

In order for Pharaoh and Hitler to achieve their goals, they had to first convince the population that a Hebrew/Jew was not a human life.

ABORTION --
Perhaps no other topic triggers as strong emotions and divides us in a greater way than the issue of abortion. The Left and the Right start with a fundamental disagreement over the basic question of when life begins: 


WHAT IS THIS?
What do you see in this picture?

I see a life in a womb filled with all the potential to be an independent human being. How about you?

As I see it, the real question is:
WHEN DOES THIS LIFE BECOME WORTHY OF ANY PROTECTION AT ALL? 
Clearly we have laws to protect a baby from the mother. We manage to balance rights between parties all the time in a justice system.  But the Left denies the unborn this right by simply denying them any claim to life!  

But rather than trying to answer the question of when life begins, I offer the following context to help one consider this question. 

Womb in hebrew is Rachamim. (The sound “cha” in “ra-cha-mim” is pronounced like the Spanish “ja” in the word “Jalapeño.”) 

“Ra-cha-min” is a noun, but it can also be used as a verb, as it often happens in prayer. When it is a verb, we say: “ra-chem” for “have mercy.”

It is amazing that the emotion “mercy” or “compassion,” “ra-cha-min,” is derived from the name of the most motherly organ in the human body: the womb, “re-chem.” 

The womb is where the strongest motherly connection of compassion between the mother and the baby are first developed. 

The English language recognizes that every WOMan has the divine gift of compassion, not only mothers.

In the English language we have three "tenses"  - past, present and future. The Hebrew language has one more called the "imperative."  It is the form of "requesting something from others." The imperative tense of the hebrew word “Ra-chem” means to give or have mercy. 

I believe the we can find a solution to the debate on abortion.  I truly believe there is a way to respect and show mercy to both mother and the unborn.

To find a solution we need to "come together." We need to make "mutual concessions." The word for that is "compromise." Surely we all have enough rachem to find a compromise.  

What I personally find most disconcerting is the attitude that pro-Abortion people take towards pro-Life people. The desire to protect the unborn, which is just as likely to be a girl as a boy, is at least as noble a cause as the pro-Abortion cause.  Perhaps if we all accepted that premise of each others cause we could begin to find the basis for a compromise.