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    This video comes to me from a super conservative buddy BUT it gets to the core of our angst in America over hate and theft. Even though we disagree on politics, we are one on FAITH.

    It is my belief that:

    •  We enjoyed the peace of the 50's when most of us were children because our parents had seen the horrors of WWII and were glad to be moving on.

    •  We were in the Korean Conflict pretty soon and war of a cold sort with Communism.

    •  We did not get taken under by McCarthy seeing a communist under every bush / he was exposed for a bully of fear and false accusation.

    •  We went to churches and saw nothing wrong with prayer in school / even were respected if they did not want to participate.

    •  Then MISTRUST entered the picture when "you could not trust anyone over 30." Emory led an Affirmation Vietnam Rally / Berkeley and many other schools got angry and let it all hang out.

    •  Kennedy got killed along with Martin Luther King, Jr. And Bobby Kennedy, I felt progress with peace was lost Nixon conspired his way into the White House and got caught.

    •  Clinton was attractive, but had personal morality issues / the Congress went crazy over Impeachment more to get even over Nixon than a real need to Impeach.

    •  Reagan was a great actor who fronted the sales pitch for VooDoo economics nothing has trickled down to me and others of the middle class except Recession.

    •  Media left a neutral position and exploited our hate and fears to draw viewers and great wealth to Conservative Commentators.

    •  Churches started invading the airwaves and the Mega Church put on a big show with money as its goal along with entertainment of the worshipers by men and buildings.

    •  We were to the point you could not just be a Moderate thinking person you had to take some side be Extreme to be heard.

    •  Each side said it had a solution = help the poor with unending welfare / help the rich with unending tax breaks got to war in the Middle East where oil was the real objective.

    •  Scheming your way to the top became the mantra over Serving your way to the top.

    •  We now have the politics of hate where no one works to Compromise.

    •  The Tea Party formed to pour gasoline on hate and threaten their fellow Republicans if they dared to compromise. Fox News throws out claims that other media is "Liberal" and only they tell the truth.

    •  People quit thinking for themselves they just want to side with a winner without any consideration to the moral tune being played in fact the are little or no morals today.

    I am getting too old and impatient to keep quiet. I am tired of the LOVE of money and Jesus was right over such being the root of all evil.

    In Matthew 23 Jesus says this (Today's English Version):

    "The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees are the authorized interpreters of Moses' Law. So you must obey and follow everything they tell you to do; do not, however, imitate their actions, because they don't practice what they preach. They tie onto people's backs loads that are heavy and hard to carry, yet they aren't willing even to life a finger to help them carry these loads. The do everything so that people will see them. Look at the straps and scripture verses on them which they wear on their foreheads and arms, and notice how large they are? Notice also how long are the tassels on their cloaks? They love the best places at feasts and the reserved seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted with respect in the market places and to have people call them 'Teacher.' You must not call anyone here on earth "Father," because we have only the one Father in heaven. Nor should you be called "Leader," because your one and only leader is the Messiah. The greatest one among you must be your servant. Whoever makes himself great will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be made great."

    Read the following verses on how Jesus condemns Hypocrisy . . .

    Jesus continues with a prediction of their punishment ... Jesus ends with this:

    "Jerusalem, Jerusalem? You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings., but you would not let me? And so your Temple will be abandoned and empty. From now on, I tell you, you will never see me again until you say, 'God bless him who comes in the name of the lord.' "

    This morning, I choose to listen to Jesus, the man and quit being distracted by sweet little Jesus boy of Christmas . . .

    To whom do you pay attention this morning????
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( December 17th, 2014 @ 6:11 am )
 
I agree with Eric on Entitlements. As a matter of fact I was on the first Title XX Funds Committee in the Santee-Wateree District of SC. It covered the Florence / Sumpter / Bishopville / Camden area. WE had some millions of dollars allocated to us and this committee decided which proposals to fund.

I started the discussion by stating: "We are a blessed country and we care about helping people who really need help, HOWEVER, if we fund a program which makes someone want to take welfare for a minute more than necessary, we are making a bad mistake. That was 5 generations ago and we still have those insisting they deserve a free ride. Workfare is the term now used to describe a program requiring proof that jobs are being sought or some kind of education to be productive.

Personally, I fail to see why one red cent should be given unless the recipient works the same 40 hours I do to produce my income and pay my bills. Oops ~~~ I forgot we now have corporate and rich WEALTHFARE and a busted economy since Trickle Down theory is a bunch of bunk.

Stan ~~~ we both lived in the Vietnam War era. You came out a raving Conservative while I maintain the center of the spectrum on Liberal/Conservative. The media I observed at the time was neutral UNTIL the war raged on and on with no will to win and Nixon lying about his plans for peace to get elected. He had no better plan than LBJ who got us into it after JFK was about to get us out.

AND ~~~ what was it happened to Nixon? What will happen to Bush/Cheney as more on torture comes to us every day? We MUST either pardon or prosecute those who promoted this awful way to treat prisoners of war. Don't excuse it by calling those being tortured "terrorists." We have become the promoters of terror in prison camps. . .

See yesterday's news on Torture: www.dailykos.com
( December 16th, 2014 @ 7:31 pm )
 
God Bless you Gene.

The media has never been neutral; there was no peace during the 50's or 60's; the Vietnam War was poorly prosecuted by the Democrats, and the Democrats eventually defunded the war, and lost it - first war America ever lost; Clinton was impeached for lying under oath - twice - and was disbarred.

This is the way I saw it. I was there too.
( December 16th, 2014 @ 7:16 pm )
 
Good points... however, some of us aren't from the 50's... so our view is different on some issues... and you forgot about the rise of the entitlement attitude, and entitlement culture... where hard work/workers pay for the entitlement of others... which is then turned into division for political sport... (from both sides).

The good news is the "good news of Christ"... Merry Christmas.



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