Quote of the day:
“Over the years the quality of our presidential timber has declined; today we are pretty much satisfied if our president stays out of jail and occasionally says a complete sentence.”
Dave Barry
From a while back:
Yesterday the king of Jordan said that ISIS is an evil entity that needs to be destroyed. Jordan is a Muslim country, y'all. He also said that ISIS is responsible for the death of over 150,000 Muslims in addition to all the others. President Obama said that the attack on Paris by ISIS was a “setback”.
I am concerned about Obama's mind. He does not seem to grasp what damage could be done by just a few terrorist here on American soil...or maybe he does. While in the USAF I went to a course in surviving a nuclear attack. The greatest danger was not a missile with an explosive warhead like Hiroshima, it would be like this:
When I was in the USAF I went to a seminar about a nuclear attack. One of the methods they expect is an attack to come from a terrorist group that would use small packages of radioactive material that would NOT explode on its own and package it with C-4, Semtex or some other powerful explosive in the size of a backpack or something similar. Once the packages were strategically placed and detonated there would NOT be a mushroom cloud or a monstrous blast of wind and heat but there would be a radioactive dust cloud that would move on the prevailing west to east winds and kill millions from radiation poisoning. With the right number of devices in the right places an enormous number of us would be dead in about 14 days and that land, like Chernobyl, would be uninhabitable for at least a century. There was no mushroom cloud there, it was radioactive debris blown into the atmosphere. Our enemies know they can not win an open confrontation with the US...but they think they could win under these circumstances. Who do we retaliate against? Who is our enemy? He planted these bombs? It ain't Putin or that lunatic from North Korea...it could be someone like we saw in Paris. Who do you want to be in command during the circumstances above? It HAS to be someone that can be in control of this country and themselves...they MUST be level headed. There are so many of our enemies that have or will have (see the deal with Iran) access to nuclear material. It is my belief that we must plan on the worst case scenario...and a nuclear attack as I described is indeed possible.
Here is some local news:
Over in Greer, S.C. there is a small outreach church that caters to those people that feel disenfranchised by other churches. The pastor of this small church has three jobs. He is in the real estate business, a pastor and owns a tattoo parlor. The local bible-thumpers are raising hell calling him representative of the devil because of the tattoos. I don't get it. What has a mark on your skin have to do with what is in your heart and mind? The ones that I think are advocates of the devil are those televangelists and their wives that put on obvious bleeding-heart drama. What really turns me off is those evangelists that have hairstyles that are reminiscent of The Monkees, a really bad comb-over, hair made by DuPont and/or a wife with a weeks worth of Maybelline on her eyes. I know, what does a hair style and make-up have to do with what’s in your heart and mind? Nothing. But I think they would be much better accepted if they had a tattoo of an iguana on their neck. I would like to see those people's houses and cars as compared to the rest of us. I can't help it, y'all...I think it is scam, but the best musicians by far are with Jimmy Swaggart. I invite y'all to read about John the Baptist. This man was the true evangelist. He went throughout the countryside delivering a message of salvation. He wore animal skins for clothing and lived in caves. He sacrificed everything for what he believed...including his head. Do we see that kind of dedication today including the rejection of worldly goods? I think not...except for Billy Graham.
This Date in History November 18
1978 In the 1950’s a man named Jim Jones organized a church in Indianapolis and named it The People’s Temple. It was a Christian church and Jones preached heavily about racial equality and therefore the greatest majority of the church members were black even though Jones was Caucasian. In 1965 Jones moved the church to Ukiah, California. In 1971 he again moved the church to San Francisco, California. The local newspaper in San Francisco began researching Jones and the church and accused him of financial fraud, physical abuse and mistreatment of children. The resulting turmoil attracted the attention of the Justice department and the IRS and in 1977 Jones moved the church to a remote part of Guyana, South America. A year later former members of the church implored US Representative Leo Ryan to look into the mistreatment of children in Jones’ church and Ryan flew into an airport close to church compound and paid Jones a visit. Things went pretty well until some of the members present grabbed Ryan’s arm and begged him to get them out of there. It seemed that Jones saw fit to have rifle toting guards around the perimeter of the compound to keep everybody inside. At this point one of Jones’ guards attacked Ryan with a knife but was unsuccessful in getting to him. Ryan and the four others that had accompanied Ryan went back to the airport and were getting aboard the charter plane when three of Jones guards burst out of the jungle and shot and killed Ryan and the others that were with him. At this point Jones knew that there would be hell to pay for the killing of a member of Congress and ordered everyone in the compound to commit suicide and offered up some poison laced Kool-Aid. Those that refused to drink were shot and killed. A very few escaped into the jungle and hid and witnessed the mass suicide. On this date, members of the Guyana National Police showed up looking for the missing Rep. Ryan at the behest of the US State Department. They found Ryan’s corpse at the airport and when they went to the compound, they found 913 bodies including 276 children. Jones had chosen to blow his own brains out with a pistol. It was one of the largest mass suicides in recorded history.
1863 On this date Abraham Lincoln boarded a train to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He is going there to make “a few appropriate remarks” the next day at the dedication of the National Cemetery there (been there) where the Union dead were buried after the great battle in July of that year. The previous speaker at the ceremony ranted for an hour and fifteen minutes. Lincoln got up and delivered one of the most electrifying speeches ever uttered using only 226 words. Here it is:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate...we cannot consecrate…we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom…and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
After reading this think about the leadership we have today.
Thanks for listening I can hardly wait until tomorrow
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