IN HARMS WAY & COURAGEOUS

When I hear words like; courageous, hero, self-sacrificing, I think of several things.  I think of a young teacher, named Jesus, who preached 2,000 yrs. ago, and laid down his life for his friends.  I think of our Military History, and the young men who laid down their lives, not for God and country, but for the one they were fighting beside, and it didn't make any difference, whether they were and are, Sailors, Airmen, Soldiers, they are still laying down their lives for their friends.  During his Gettysburg address, Pres. Lincoln spoke of such sacrificial love by saying that whether the soldiers were from the north or south;  ''......THAT THEY GAVE THEIR LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION''.   In my 66 yrs. I've [LEARNED] that when it comes to "Crunch Time", its been the

teachers, whether with degrees or not, who have the right stuff.

 

Those who've had and still have the greatest effect of my life are those who teach from life and/or a text book.  It was the teachers from Sandy Hook CT and Moore OK, who literally saved some many young lives, by becoming a human shield.  I truly believe that by doing this, those body counts would have been much higher.  By doing this, they went from familiar surroundings to the front lines, they went from teacher to soldier, and the only thing they could offer, were their lives.   I believe that the most devoted word you can use for a person is, [TEACHER].    The next time you look at a teacher,just give it a moment, and think that this person might be willing to lay down their lives for their friends.       For all those who teach, I thank GOD for blessing us with such dedicated people.

                           

 

 

THE OLDEST QUESTION IN ALL HUMANITY

......WHY...... Start with Boston and go back to Cain & Abel, and the answer has always been there.  Just about all of us either worship thye God of The Bible - Koran - Torah, or a God of some other name, but it's been my experience, in life, that no matter what our faith is based on, or even none at all, most of us believe that in this world, the good guys out number the bad guys, and if we just do good things, it will somehow insulate us from the bad guys/stuff.   There's a majority in this world, who believe that as long as the good stuff in their religious beliefs are followed - OR - as long as they are stellar parents, workers, contributors ( good stuff ) are followed, then, SOMEHOW, the bad stuff/guys will go somewhere else, because, ''THOSE THINGS JUST DON'T HAPPEN HERE''.  There is ONE in this world, who has been here, just as long as God, and is the answer to the the age old question.  His name, among others is SATAN.    If our good stuff, either giving/receiving comes from our spiritual beliefs, - OR - just leading the good stuff/guy life, then where does all the bad "EVIL" stuff come from.   The people of the U.S., if not the world, have absolutely no concept of "EVIL".  NONE AT ALL.  I was there on 9/11, right across the street from ground zero.  But let's go back one year from that date, to the first morning I went to work at one of our clients, Leahman Bros..  I was walking down Vesey St., when I looked up, and there they were, and said something like a prayer;  "GOD, the minds you created to build these, are the same minds to bring them down".  I knew then that only evil minds can do this, and they did.   EVIL doesn't desciminate to color, age, ethnicity, level of living, rich, poor, illiterate, genious, and yet instead of excepting this, since day one answer, we've wasted millennias, looking for the LOGIC of it all, and it's always in times of adversity.  Ever hear someone say, WHY, after hitting the power ball.  And yet, as defined, EVIL does not fit what EVIL has done, all this time.   Satan is never mentioned.  If you ignore his existence, and the acts that he's been responsible for, since Cain murdered Abel, then LET 'WHY' BE YOUR EPITAPGH.

I'M GUILTY...I DID IT...BUT HERE'S WHY

There was a time when the someone commited a crime and was caught, they made their admission of guilt and served their time.   If you want to know why our children are falling away, and we americans are not standing firm with boldness and courage, and have become judicial whimps and wusses, here's a good place to start.        Maureen O'Connor, former Mayor of San Diego, became the latest billion dollar donor to the Los Vegas Gambling Fund.   She won that much, but her loses exceeded that.  So instead of an admission and prison time, she blamed it on a split personality, due to a brain tumor, which to me makes sense, because one personality won, and the other personality lost, but of course that's not what she meant.  She saying that the tumor made me do it, not that pride, greed, lust, envy, anger, gluttony and sloth  had anything to do with it.  Her tears flowed, looking dejected and depressed, hobbled around on a cane looking humble and weak, and the reason for all of this, is quite simple; I (MAUREEN), GOT CAUGHT.     And now we have Jesse Jackson Jr, who was caught donating to his favorite charity, himself, and the prelude to this, was nothing short of a hollywood movie.  We had your alleged:  nervous break downs, bi-polar disorder, counseling and when seen on TV, he took a page or two out of the Maureen O'Connor book, which means very simply I (JESSE), GOT CAUGHT.   The consequences of all this, not just from them, but from so many others who play this 'COWARDS GAME', will fall on the shoulders of our children, who are getting a great education that when they're in a criminal justice situation, that the main part of their defense, will be to explain why they were caught and are guilty.  Whether you're a pauper or a prince, and everything in between, there's one thing for sure, that we do so very expertly and with pride,  and that is we will do anything not to accept full responsibilty of our actions.  Remember that when your phone rings at 3 am, and it's the Police.

THE PROGRESSION OF FEAR

In the opening scenes to, '2004: A Space Odysee', it theorizes a group of chimps, in a dinosaur bone yard.   Curiously, they start picking up these bones,  play with them, and soon discover its use as a weapon, to kill their prey, whether for hunger or survival, and since that day we are continually finding new ways to kill.  Nothing will stop that progression.  Let's say that all the privately owned assault weapons would disappear right now.  The progression would continue, and our politicians will make sure that it does, with help from strong and powerful lobbies like the NRA.  On Saturday, in Chicago, a 'STOP THE GUN VIOLENCE' rally was taking place, when two blocks away, two young teens were gunned down, with four more gun deaths added to that, that day.   Assasult weapons were not used.   The first recorded murder, is in The Bible, with Cain beating to death his brother Able.  Today these assault type weapons are in the possesion of these groups in the U.S.: The Military - Law Enforcement, and the private citizens who are of the Pro-Gun Lobby.  I recently read a facebook comment from a 13 yr. old, who supports the stocking of weapons to fight against the government, who wants to take them away from us, and I'm willing to bet the farm that he doesn't have a clue what that means.    This fear factor has been and always will be passed down by we parents, who are so very sucsessf(ail) in getting high marks in this area.   This type of invisible fear, will put a weapon into a person's hand, quicker that anything else.   I saw it happen many times over, in the 30 yrs. I spent in Law Enforcement.     When it comes time to use these stock piles, it will be against ourselves.  "Country will rise up against country, and nation upon nation'' (Revelations).  Look, if  you actually think that this DAY OF TYRANNY. of us against our own government, will happen, don't you think we ought to be stock piling tanks, planes, missles, etc.  Sounds foolish.  'E-X-A-C-T-L-Y'

'WHAT BLIND/ARROGANT FOOLS WE MORTALS BE'

As I explain this, don't be to quick to to cut and run, at least give yourself and I the respect that goes with this.  All I'm going to do is state the facts and the truth, that can be easily checked, and may I say again, just the facts and the truth.  Want to know who's going to take away our right to have firearms,  to speak and worship, freely?  Like Doonesbury said, 'WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY IS US'.  We are going to give them away/allow them to be taken away.  We will have a 31/2 year period of time, where the world will be at total peace, and prosperity will swept over us, like a tsunami of sucsess, with no unemployment, and bustin' at the seams bank accounts and investments.  The crime rate will disappear, prisons will be empty, and we will want for nothing, because our government will control this all, and no one will complain, with all this prosperity abounding.  Gun shops will fall by the way side, because mass shootings will end, with the military and law enforcement being de-clawed, because there services will be deminished.  Stay with me on this for just a few more moments.  First of all, all of this will happen.  IT WILL HAPPEN.  Oh yes, and now for the vinegar.  The 31/2 years after this will be hell on earth, and when this happens, we would have  already happily relinqueshed ALL of our Constitutional Rights.  We will be waring with other nations, and ourselves.  ALL OF THIS WILL HAPPEN.  There are hundreds of millions of people in this world, right now, who have knowledge of all of this, and they think that because of whatever they think their faith is based on ( and that is all faiths), which includes doing alot of good stuff, gives them a ['LOCK CINCH'] on any of this bad stuff happening to them, not realizing that they allowed their faith to be swept away, during the first 31/2 years.  It doesn't make any difference to me whether or not you believe in GOD and HIS scriptures, ......BUT....remember this; The entire Bible is built on Obedience and Truth, remember this as you read the Book of Revelations. Don't see the Bible as a Holy Book, then see it as a series of warnings and promises, that will be kept. The first time I read it, it scared me, but not any more.  ['IF'] you do read this, yeah right, just like you read the Constitution, and  before you flick this off, ask yourself one question, ''What if this does happen"?  Doomsday prepping won't save you.

THE NEW DANGER WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS

I served 30yrs. in Law Enforcement, and am now retired, and with that being said, here's where I'm coming from.  The idea of arming school personel is a 'SUICIDE/DEATH' WISH.  You can teach anyone/any age on how to use a fire arm, that's the easy part.  It's the when and how, along with the coordination of effort, or the lack thereof, that gets to the '...'WISH' part.   Columbine had two armed Police Offficers assigned to the school.  One of the first things those shooters did, was to attack the ones with the guns.   The armed school personel are taught to shoot, at a range, with carefully guided instruction, in a NON-THREATENING enviroment.    These same people  will also need TACTICAL TRAINING.   The past school shooters used weapons that can kill at 500 yds.  The 9mm hand gun has an effective range of 25 yds.  Yep...do the math.  The same armed school personel, will  not only have to return fire, but will either have to advance/hold their ground, during the school evacuation.  While all this (or something close to it) is going on, Police, Fire, EMT's, etc., will be responding.  Without a COORDINATED TATICAL PLAN, between them and the armed school personel, then you can count on the body count going up, due to victims of friendly fire.     Imagine this;  these Emergency Services Units, need to enter the school, and knowing you have two groups of people firing their weapons, along with the screams and crys for help.  Firearms going off inside a building, under those conditions, sound like bombs going off, and not knowing from whom, and their locations.    These kind of school shooters want to and are ready to die.  If they know that any school personel are armed, or their may be a Police presence of 1/2 Officers, they will attack in groups of 2/3 in a strategic manner.  They already have and will, and they will stand their ground as THEY ADVANCE AND FIRE, room by room, person by person  and at anything that moves.  The NRA originally endorsed armed personel in the schools, so then the NRA should fund it, ALL OF IT, and continue to do so, along with recruiting/hiring/training, and another endorsement from the NRA, is that of MENTAL HEALTH.  Good.  The NRA can MENTALLY SCREEN all their applicants.  What you have now, are school personel, who one day are parents/grandparents and are school teachers, and literally, the next day will have to step over the bodies of other teachers/students, return fire and shoot to kill.  And lastly, those armed school personel, what/how much extra ammo, can you carry with you, during any given school day?