Liberty University Betrays Christianity

Dear Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr.

As the President of Liberty University, your recent endorsement of Donald Trump is a stab in the womb for all those who wish to see the carnage that is abortion in America stopped.    Trump in on record supporting abortion rights for women and at one point did not even object to partial birth abortions when asked.   I can’t believe you are not completely informed about this.  Your endorsement of Trump in no different than telling every student at Liberty University that abortion is a viable option.

What did he offer you Jerry?  Trump said he would make deals with everyone.  Is he planning on supporting Christians by killing their babies?  Did he give you a ride on his plane?  Did he offer Liberty University more money in financial aid for students?  Is it really about the money?  Did he pay you personally?

Trump has a long history of supporting Democratic causes and views.  He has promised to work with them, to make deals.  Obviously, he has made a deal with you where you are willing to compromise your Christian values for some sort of gain.   What was said in that closed door meeting between you two where you agreed to do this?  Is there some sort of dirt you need to avoid?  I do not know what really happened but given the history of Liberty University, it is very suspicious.

Congratulations on your stance.  It is one that shows no principle, no backbone and nothing but contempt for the cause of life.  I would urge every student at Liberty University to go elsewhere.  I know that for my children I will urge them not to consider every going to a place that has the same values as any secular institution.  Your choice to endorse Trump is a betrayal of life, and a betrayal of every student and alumni of Liberty University.

It is always sad when a “believer” appears to fall.

Sincerely,

Keith Risman

What is Success?

If you can look back on each day and honestly say:  (Casting Crown Lyrics)

Lord,

I want to sign Your name
To the end of this day
Knowing that my heart was true.

Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1967:

“Be a bush is you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be the trail, If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”

Can you look in the mirror and say that you gave all within your ability? Will God sign off on your day? Would you sign off on your own day?  What does that voice inside you say?

Be encouraged that no matter the circumstance each day is new.  Ask God for guidance and follow his lead.  It’s not always going to me financially rewarding or filled with physical blessings, but it will enliven the heart in all circumstances.  Joy in the Lord by far overwhelms joy in riches and gold.  I pray for you that you will find your best each day.

Misleading News Helping The Wealthy

If the Griswold’s  were to leave New York For Disney Land In LA instead of Wally World while driving their gas guzzling station wagon   1976_Pontiac_Grand_Safari2with grandma strapped to the roof  they would travel 2789 miles. Four Years ago they would have spent $976 on gasoline.  Today that same trip would be $418.  That means that Clark Griswold would have over $500 extra to spend on the family vacation.

Yet today’s news is all about how bad the drop in oil prices is impacting the economy.  Are the media really that dumb?  Can they not think for themselves?  If everyone in the country has more money in their pockets because oil prices have dropped, that is more money for every single industry except for oil. The costs of making plastics goes down, the cost to make cars goes down. The cost to ship goods across the country goes down so prices go down and more goods can be bought.  More sales at better margins means more profits.  Manufacturing costs go down so profit margins go up. (unless you sell oil)  So the news media, everyone of them are morons. That may be true, or there is something else driving that?

If I were a 20 year old college student living on a stipend and student loans burdened by an over taxing educational load while using recreational drugs, I could still figure this one out.

Who do you think tells the media that the drop in oil prices is bad?  (Oil companies, green energy companies, environmentalists and Wall Street investors dealing in oil)  Everyone of these entities are seeking to reverse the drop because they stand to benefit either their causes or their bottom lines.   The media is now too lazy, too ineffective and too out and out bought to even question the crap they are fed.    So what if CBS or NBC report on the ‘disaster’ low oil prices are?  So what if their reporting hurts every consumer in the United States.  They do not care.  It is far less expensive to just republish the news releases they get than to investigate how the drop in oil prices impacts most businesses and the consumer.

So what if they hurt the economy?  So what if they want prices to go up so ISIS can have more profits for Jihad, or Iran has more money to create a nuke?  The media and government are so corrupt they will push damaging information in pursuit of profits and agendas to the exclusion of common sense.   There is no allegiance to truth, no allegiance to facts.   Wally

The concept of a moral high ground has thoroughly vanished from the American media.  We can only hope it is they that get stuck with the broken down station wagon hauling grandma at $4.00 a gallon and that at some point they can no longer afford the to take the trip.  They are the Wally World of today and they need to close.

 

The 5 Worst Enablers

All drug use and alcohol abuse is ultimately the responsibility of the drug user or alcohol drinker.   Since no one is forcing them to abuse the substance they are the ones putting the substance into their bodies.ecstacy-04 Ecstacy – FROM DEA IMAGES

1.)  So the first enabler is themselves.   But is is a disease you say!  There is truth to that, particularly after the substance has bonded with their  chemistry and their chemistry thirsts for more and more drug.   Perhaps they need to self medicate to reduce some other life pain, emotional or physical.  These too are real needs    No matter the underlying cause the abuser chooses his poison and the consequent impact of that poison.  Addiction only continues with the consent of the addicted.

2.) The second and most insidious enabler is idleness.  When the Russian proverb said that “Idleness is the mother of all vices”  it is clear that those whose lives are filled with boredom and a lack of interest will find ways to occupy themselves.  One such way is with substance abuse.  If someone has no responsibilities, nothing that requires a sharp brain, then they have no deterrent to continued abuse.    Drug use among the unemployed is 18%.  Not every aspect of this study made sense, but there was a clear link in that those not in the workforce had much higher rates of drug and substance abuse.

3.).  The third enabler is one that rewards idleness.  For those unwilling to work for a living, but able to do so, the government check or unemployment check provides the means for survival without any of the responsibilities associated with providing for oneself or for your family.  The feelings of worthlessness associated with that existence is overwhelming.  This drives many toward alcohol and drug abuse.  Since Obama took office the percent of the US population that no longer works and is no longer looking for work has risen from 31 percent to 35 percent.  This has removed 4 percent of the population from the workforce.  That and number 4 below makes the government directly responsible for much of the drug use in the US.

4.)  The huge expansion of disability payments to able bodied individuals from age 20 to 65 has further exacerbated drug and substance abuse.  Not all of this is abuse of illegal substances, since being disabled has became so easy that a whole industry has grown up around it, including drugs to treat non-existent symptoms.  Understand that if you truly can not work, then you should get benefits, but not being willing to work is not a disability.  In the current government run structure this has become big business.  The statistics bear this out as does the personal experience of most Americans who can’t but help know of individuals collecting disability payments who are obviously not disabled.    It is theft, but a theft that has become common and acceptable.

5.) The last enabler is perhaps the most scary.  It is the victimization of American society.  We have gone from a society that prides itself on independence, on solving problems and moving toward to success, to one which glorifies victims.  If someone is laid off, they are told they can’t get a new job, they are too old, too black, too Hispanic, too something and because of that they are victims. As victims the government will help them.  The idea that they need to pursue a successful future is stolen from them.  Those making minimum wage are told that they deserve more without working for it, because they are victims.   The fact that the vast majority of those that stay in the workforce for any period of time receive promotions and raises it ignored.  These same individuals are encouraged to destroy the very people that employ them.

A robust economy would have a dramatic impact in reducing the abuse of drugs and alcohol.   Given current government policy that does not look likely  in the near future.

 

Understanding Islam

There was an article on the Drudge Report that discussed executions in Saudi Arabia.  Many of which were conducted by beheading.  Just looking at images for that is beyond gruesome.  beheadings

I did not reproduced any of those here.  In 2015 there were 157 executions in the kingdom.  A number of these were for non-lethal crimes such as drug dealing.   There is no standard in sharia law on how to handle these crimes so the judges just decide.  Some drug dealers get death, others 10 years in prison.

In contrast, in the US there were just 28 executions with a population that is 10 times that of Saudi Arabia.    Many here complain that US law is unfair.  Perhaps it is not perfect, but by any reasonable standard it is far less cruel and capricious.   The truth is that in the US, based on our law, (perhaps not always its implementation) that all lives matter.

There is no such assumption in Islam.  There is a clear view that Jewish lives and Christian lives do not matter.  Criminals are not rehabilitated, they are mutilated.  There is no prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

This is not a Saudi thing, it is an Islamic thing.  The death toll in Saudi Arabia, the more “civilized” of the Islamic countries tells the tale.  What of the death toll cause by ISIS?   We need to recognize that these are sides of the same Islamic coin.  In an age where the risk of terrorism and Islamic fueled violence is on the rise we are fools if we do not identify the origins of that violence and the truly barbaric elements that make up its belief system.

We need to say no to every attempt to validate Islamic Law(Sharia) in this country.  It is by far antithetical to the Constitution and our system of law.  If you want a system of law where life is cheap,  just move to an Islamic state.

Why They Hate America

ABC, NBC,   CBS and a majority or our liberal arts schools have been sending the message to the world that the US is imperial, domineering,  and utterly devoid of conscience with regards to the exploitation of other countries.  At the highest levels of our society and media the message has gone out to the rest of the world that we are evil.

Combine this with the beliefs of Islam:

“And KILL them (the unbelievers) wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.” (Sura 2, verse 191).

And thanks to the liberal left, ABC, NBC and CBS we have a setting that promotes death like we saw yesterday.  They have so brainwashed people that they do not report clear dangers for fear of being considered racist.   This fake view of Islam, of open borders, of criminal illegal immigrants results in real American deaths every week.  Those promoting these things are responsible for San Beridino.

In every sense the US is the most successful country that has ever existed. We give more to the rest of the world than any other country and have a standard of living that far surpasses that of any other place on earth.  That is because Americans are exceptional.  Instead of building up these successes, Obama is out apologizing for the America of 200 years ago.  He is apologizing for the America that went to war to eliminate slavery. Where are the reparations for the families that lost their lives to free the slaves?

It is time for the media to stop parroting the messages given by the left and by liberal teachings that bear no relation to reality.  The Koran specifically calls on Muslims to kill infidels.  It is not a religion of peace.  It is time to recognize that. Believing in Islam is the same as believing murder is OK if the person does not believe as you think they should.  It is time for the media to report the truth on a whole range of issues.  They are responsible for what happened and for future terror around the world.

 

Higher Energy Costs – A Federal Fraud

From the Wiki on Climate Change:

A poll performed by Peter Doran and Maggie Kendall Zimmerman at University of Illinois at Chicago received replies from 3,146 of the 10,257 polled Earth scientists. Results were analyzed globally and by specialization. 76 out of 79 climatologists who “listed climate science as their area of expertise and who also have published more than 50% of their recent peer-reviewed papers on the subject of climate change” believed that mean global temperatures had risen compared to pre-1800s levels. Seventy-five of 77 believed that human activity is a significant factor in changing mean global temperatures. Among all respondents, 90% agreed that temperatures have risen compared to pre-1800 levels, and 82% agreed that humans significantly influence the global temperature. Economic geologists and meteorologists were among the biggest doubters, with only 47 percent and 64 percent, respectively, believing in significant human involvement. The authors summarised the findings:

Handpicking scientists who hold your their view (79 scientists out of 3146 that responded) is not scientific method, its propaganda.  Recent publications have also shown that the raw data in scads of places where cooling was demonstrated has been tampered with.  Emails hacked from this same group show purposeful tampering.  Real evidence shows no warming now for 18+ years. 

Any journalist who does the full research will find that global warming/climate change is a fraud and a farce.  It’s become the cause celeb to rape the middle class of taxes, increase their living expense, and destroy their way of life.  The Soros and Buffets and GEs are raking in the clean energy cash while pretending that this is some reality.

Based on this our federal government has caused the closure of numerous coal plants, the loss of 1000’s of jobs and increased electricity costs for every American.    Presenting lies to the US population with the resulting damage to that population’s well being is criminal.    The news media, the federal government and big business are to blame.  It is the average American citizen that pays the price.

When are these organizations going to be held accountable for this.  More and more we are looking like the old Soviet Union where the freedom to create opportunity is stripped by the elite who want to leave that opportunity for themselves.  That is why the Presidents Climate Change Motorcade burns more carbon that most small cities.

Democracy fails and capitalism fails when the watchdogs and the government collude.  If you doubt that just watch the same story appear in every big media outlet over and over again.  In the case of climate change every American is paying for it in increased taxes, extra work and a lower standard of living.

 

 

Closing Borders – The Business Case

Company after company has voted to hire illegal aliens collectively saving millions in payroll expense while adding substantially to the bottom line.  Each of these companies, whether agricultural, manufacturing, or service oriented not only violates the law by hiring these aliens, but also contributes to the endangerment of the American public.

These companies  have paid to get politicians to look the other way.  They have lobbied for sanctuary cities and policies which now free illegal immigrant criminals back out into society.  Each and every death caused by these illegal immigrant criminals has been a result of this lobbying effort.    These companies are to blame and should be held accountable.

The winds are changing where this will no longer be the case:

The penalties going back for years will be collected:

First offenders can be fined $250-$2,000 per illegal employee.

For a second offense, the fine is $2,000-$5,000 per illegal employee.

Three or more offenses can cost an employer $3000-$10,000 per illegal employee. A pattern of knowingly employing illegal immigrants can mean extra fines and up to six months in jail for an employer.

Letting in 200,000 Syrian refugees is just an extension of this open borders process.   If just .1 percent of these are terrorists, that is 200 terrorists.  That translates to lots of dead Americans.  Again, companies whose lobbying efforts have opened the southern border are also responsible for this and the destruction that follows.

I expect power to change hands in 2017.   At that point, I would expect that every company that broke immigration laws pay the penalties, or be sued by those damaged by their hiring of illegals.  The profits of convenience will be wiped out.   All those who lost legit jobs to illegals should sue as well.  My hope is that every company that has done this damage to the American worker, or his family will be held accountable.