BREAKING NEWS
Major stock indexes close at multi-year highs on Fed’s outlook and pending bank test results. Dow adds 219 points.
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That’s the headline screaming at me at 4:04 on Tuesday March 13, 2012. Here’s another one: Fed perks up on jobs but holds tight on policy.
Right underneath that headline is this one: My doomsday tab: $130K on bunkers, guns and more.
First we get a slew of stories telling us that everything is looking good, the markets are back in the game and going through the roof, hiring is up, and everything seems to be going back to normal. Right below that is a story about crazy doomer preppers taking out second mortgages on their houses, so they can fund their doomsday preparations for 2012. Huge amounts of food, a bug-out location in a distant and remote location, vehicles to get them there, and tons of firearms to keep them safe.
I’m no genius, but it seems the message here is, “Everything is fine, but there are still dummies out there wasting money on the 2012 scare, an asteroid strike, EMP, or some other crazy end-of-the-world scenario.”
Meanwhile, to the best of my knowledge no one has figured out what to do with the crushing debt we owe. The Fed is still pouring money into the economy and Greece has defaulted, but that’s being downplayed now. Everybody knew it was going to happen and when it did it’s more of an anticlimax than anything. Of course there are countries lined up waiting for the Greek domino to hit them, but that’s not being discussed much either.
Fuel prices continue to climb, China’s economy seems to be slowing it’s red hot growth spurt, and the price of groceries seems to rise every week, but the future is looking brighter?
Is it just me or is there a big disconnect here? That’s not a rhetorical question… I really want to know what you think about current events. Sound off below.
“Hey Jarhead! You’re all ate up, Man. The economy is improving!”
– or –
“Hey Jarhead, you nailed it, Dude.”
Don’t limit comments to the economy either. Feel free to discuss anything from Afghanistan to the fact that Kim Kardashian is pregnant. (Or is she?) OMG!
Honest to God, can you believe there’s actually a website devoted to that drivel??? It makes me want to move to Mars when I see stuff like that.
-Jarhead Survivor
The Big Disconnect – MSM vs. Everybody Else
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The question you have to ponder is if the government is promoting everyone get skinny, especially in poor black neighborhoods where people live in “food deserts”, would that not decrease their chance of survival if SHTF? Wouldn’t that make that population more desperate and likely to riot because the skinner you are, the quicker you starve to death? After all each pound of fat is 2,000 calories.
A person 30 pounds over weight can easily survive a month with water and a bare minimum of food, especially if they are doing nothing and get past the hunger of the first couple of days.
Shouldn’t the government be encouraging people to store food and keep the weight on if the economy looks like it is going to fail?
Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground, Obama’s friend, thought killing 25-30 million people would be a good way to overthrow the USA. How many of those 20 million unemployed do you think are prepping and stockpiling food? Think after two years of no job they now living on the edge?
Going by Lincoln’s speech, I think the amount of people killed in the civil war (600,000) was exactly what Lincoln predicted, an accounting to God of the innocent blood shed of every slave on our soil.
Now that we have shed the innocent blood of 40+ million babies through abortion (Luke 1:36) and basically committed black genocide killing black babies at 3x the rate of white babies, what is the payment going to be this time? Through abortion the former slave owners (sorry democrat “progressives” is what they called themselves after 1880) have keep the black population at the same % of the population as it was in 1860, 12-13%.
There are people in power that do not have a clue and there are those pulling the strings that know exactly what they are doing. They are looking to take down our country for Satan, their literal blood father and they have been doing it for 40 years come the end of 2012/Jan 2013.
Same with violating Deut 28:12 and borrowing money from other nations. What lives in Obama knows it too. Our probation period for that was up about Aug 2011, 40years after Nixon killed the gold standard to borrow for the Vietnam War.
Yep, SHTF is coming and I do not expect anything from the government, or LSM, except the oppressing thumb because no one is willing to say we shouldn’t borrow money from other nations because God told us not too. So, everything they do will fail from this point on and they will continue spending until disaster hits.
Time to stock up on GGG (God, Gold, and Guns) is already here.
Jarhead:
You have it spot on. Remember, the mainstream media are all about entertainment– the six o’clock news is no different than the seven o’clock kickoff. My own family is starting to call me “Dr. Doom”, so I’m starting to keep a lower profile of preps. As a cop, I’m a bit more in the public eye, so I can’t allow myself to appear too far off the beaten track. I agree with you wholeheartedly. Keep prepping, keep it somewhat under the radar, and know that the excrement is gonna hit the air handler– probably sooner than later.There’s a bit of a comparison to carrying a concealed weapon–the operative word is CONCEALED.
as usual, you nailed it dude.
John also. (it sounds right anyhow) Planned Parenthood has always been about exterminating Negros and Papists.
Which one are you? Ha, ha
lots of Negros have Irish names, and I don’t especially “look irish”.
(i more closely resemble the “Pennsylvania Germans” from my mothers family)
well i SEE lots of folks that i know are looking for work. i SEE no new construction sites. i SEE inflation in the store and everywhere else. i SEE that i don’t count as unemployed because i get a small pension, yet i can’t find a job. i SEE businesses closing EVERY DAY. i SEE empty buildings, once prime real estate filled with businesses. i SEE the concerned look on peoples faces. i SEE a government preparing to do battle with its own citizens. you can BELIEVE the man behind the curtain if you want to, but not me.
I KNOW THEY KEEP TELLING EVERYBODY THAT THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS LESS THAN 9% BUT IN REALITY IT IS OVER 12%MAYBE EVEN 15% YOU JUST DON’T MATTER IF YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED AND EXHAUSTED YOUR BENEFITS AT THAT POINT YOU BECOME A NONPERSON
John Williams at Shadowstats.com puts the real unemployment rate(as calculated during the great depression) at closer to 25%……that’s just slightly different than what is reported on the news.
My basic rule of thumb when it comes to mainstream media is this.
Whatever they say is a LIE.
Ron Paul is not a viable candidate means he has more support than anyone else out there.
The economy is picking up means people have been getting their tax refunds and spending them like crazy.(yet getting less since prices have sky rocketed) Just because stuff costs more doesn’t mean it’s worth more or the economy is better.
Jobless rates are down means people have given up looking for a job and have learned to live with less. Or not as many new people have joined the folds of the unemployed because the businesses are getting by with the bare minimum employees and they don’t have any more to lay off.
The government tells the population to have 3 days stored in case of a weather emergency, yet they buy up all the supplies they can to store for long term. So basic rule of thumb is they LIE. Whatever they tell you is a lie, so you need to go and find out what they are covering up through alternative media.
You are dead on. I believe the Depression that is rushing towards us will make the GREAT DEPRESSION, of the 1930’s, look like a Sunday School Picnic in the Park.
It is official, sending people to Washington, to make our laws, over and over again for 10, 20, 30, 40, and yes, even 50 years, is now a recognizable Mental Illness. The only know cure is forgetting party loyalties and voting for the other Guy or Gal, the cure works every time it is implemented.
Ditto to riverrider’s comments. You don’t need the media, with their Disneyesque fairy tells, to SEE what is happening all around us. My husband thinks I am overreacting, but my family WILL be prepared.
oops…. fairy tales (freudian slip)
Uuuumm…did I miss something or is abortion still voluntary? I didn’t notice any bribes to abort, but rather welfare rewards more kids. I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but can we keep them tied to some logical underpinning? On to topic, believe nothing the MSM says. Believe nothing the government says. And be darned sure you believe nothing the bankers say. Follow your little repillian brain screaming at you to panic. He is a better guide than the media.
not merely voluntary, enthusiastically supported. “the banality of evil” applies here today, as much as it did for the Germans of seventy years ago. when the administration can execute a “Fast and Furious”, just to create statistics to match their rhetoric; how the MSM reports about the “economy” is no big deal. an elective abortion is the fully premeditated killing of an innocent, unique, defenseless human.
(or can’t you see that?) excuse us for noticing.
Chastity, (true self respect) is a foreign concept to the young women of today. the MSM says nothing, against that.
The MSM says nothing because that point of view is less profitable. Sheesh, don’t you know nuttin?!
MSM is all about ratings. They say whatever gets them ratings…so the american people don’t want to fact facts, but want to think everything is hunky dory…so that is what they say. I have found myself trying to “read between the lines” by looking at foreign media, and the “fringe” news sites. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
in my neck of the woods, its about status quo- we didn’t rise too far in the bubble years, so we didn’t have as far to fall. But it is there, none the less. my best guess (barring WW3) is that it will start getting worse this year, and really hit the fan in 2013.
That is supposed to be Face facts…sigh..
Jarhead, and all of you are spot on with what is really going on. I don’t feel so alone now. Groceries and gas are up, but my pay is not. In fact, I have had my hours cut back recently. I’ll do without some things now. I just hope I’m not in south Texas when SHTF…
First, the economy is not improving at all. it may appear that way, but the bottom line is manipulation of market and when the funds dumped for the manipulation run out, that mkt will correct tself and be twice as bad due to the newly acrued dept from the last prop-up boondoggle. All this means is that its a god time to buy gold and silver(and now copper it seems) because when everything else goes up they go down. In the big picture, the wheels are still coming off the wagon and yo cant put them back on til it stops. Second the world front is in chaos, politically and econmically and ta bad thing about chaos is that it spreads like a DISEASE! Thirdly, the politicos are STILL ignoring we the people which means that no matter how much the economy improves, in teh end you are still loosing your freedom, you are still in danger and you still have lost your representitive fomr of govt. We are back at square one in hte big pic. Excessive taxation without representation. I challeng anyone with a functioning brain to look at todays political state of affairs and tell me with a straight face that those people in WA DC represent what they want America to be OR that even RESEMBLES the level of freedom we had when our Constitution was written! We are so far removed from being a Constitutional Republic, that even the Illusion of freedom is now slipping away. Anyone who falls for this and stops prepping as if “All is well again” is either stupid or plainly has thier head in the sand. And last but not least, what comes with “waking up” is the realization that the govt cant find its ass with both hands, so whe we the people ar ein peril be it from terrorism hurricane earthquake or whatever all the GOVT is gonna do is treat you like a criminal and pick up the bodys after the fact. The truth is that you have to be responsable for yopur own safety,security and welfare and that folks is the way our country was founded in the first place. Pleas note that the DHS(Department of homeland OBSCURITY) just awarde a supply bid for 450 mil rounds of 40 cal ammo. good luck to those of you who are still casually napping with the sheep.
DHS is not purchasing 450 million rounds, they have the option to over a 5 year period. This not the MSM. Disinformation does no one any good here.
ATK ATK +0.25% announced that it is being awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) agreement from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (DHS, ICE) for .40 caliber ammunition. This contract features a base of 12 months, includes four option years, and will have a maximum volume of 450 million rounds.
ATK was the incumbent and won the contract with its HST bullet, which has proven itself in the field. The special hollow point effectively passes through a variety of barriers and holds its jacket in the toughest conditions. HST is engineered for 100-percent weight retention, limits collateral damage, and avoids over-penetration.
“We are proud to extend our track record as the prime supplier of .40 caliber duty ammunition for DHS, ICE,” said Ron Johnson, President of ATK’s Security and Sporting group. “The HST is a proven design that will continue to serve those who keep our borders safe.”
ATK will produce the ammunition at the Federal Cartridge Company facility in Anoka, Minn. Deliveries are expected to begin in June.
We are in the calm before the storm. Why is the govt.wanting to bar farm kids from working on parents farms and stop them from attending FFA?Why no pipeline to Canada, why no domestic drilling on public lands? They are trying to make as many helpless, unskilled people as possible to make us all reliant upon our govt. Watch the Gold, when you see it take a significant dip in price, next, look out. Their failure will come when they realize just how many of us there are who are learning the “Old Ways”, gaining skills and preparing. If nothing happens, then I was ready,learned some new skills and have alot of extra resources, but, IF something does happen then ….well you know.
There’s all sorts of drilling for oil on public land, look what’s going on in the Dakotas. There’s a natural gas boom going on in the Marcellus Shale Formation as well. What all that drilling amounts to is squandering the future. When it’s gone it’s gone. Wouldn’t it be better to use up other peoples oil first? And in the case of fracking for natural gas they’re ruining a lot of drinking water in the process. You can live without natural gas, water not so much.
The XL pipeline is an export pipeline. It’s designed so that oil from the Canadian Tar Sands can get to the Gulf Of Mexico and be exported out of North America. The XL pipeline was set to be approved by the Obama admin and was stopped mostly by Nebraska farmers who worried about it contaminating the ogallala aquifer. The pipeline will be routed around the aquifer and will get approved. All the all the political noise about it was just noise.
The rules about farm kids not working on their families farms were just plain stupid.
Drilling is up on public land owned by the states, but is down in the area of 14% on federal land since 2010.
It seems to me that the MSM is helping our Social/Facist president look good.. The real numbers ore out there but the Sheeple drinking Koolaid arnt interested in them… an artical yesterday titled the “finally the truth about Obamacare” has the CBO reporting the costs have doubled and it still hasnt come into effect 100%… Also it reported that the Mean unemployment in the U.S at 15%… The MSM doesent care about the truth or reporting it they are just feeding everybody Koolaid…
Also the liberal machine like ABC news is starting to brand/report groups and organisations like the Oath Keepers, The 10th Amendment and any group organized for the Constitution as extream…. Excuse me… EXTREAM… because we believe in the Constutition and what it stands for…….
The MSM are little more than the propaganda machine for the liberal-Democrat/Progressive view. The government cooks the numbers on inflation, unemployment etc. and they report it as truth, because it suits their agenda. You would never know from the MSM that more Americans have been killed in Afghanistan in the last 3 years than during the entire Bush administration. It doesn’t fit the agenda.
YOU ARE SO RIGHT ABOUT ALL IN THIS ARTICLE.THE KARDASHIAN STUFF IS A MERE DISTRACTION FROM REALITY SINCE THEY CANT PUT A SHARP ENOUGH SPIN ON THE REAL NEWS THEY CHOOSE TO SIMPLY IGNORE IT COMPLETELY MUCH LIKE THE OLD MOUSE TRAPKEEP THE VICTEM BUSY WITH THE BAIT AND LET THE TRAP SLAM DOWN ON THEM AND KIM IS APPARENTLY THE NEWEST BAIT THE GUYS ARE SUPPOSED TO DROOL AND THE THE GIRLS WILL THEN TRY TO EMULATE KIM AND GOSSIP ABOUT HER,FORGETTING COMPLETELY THAT THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE BY THE MOMENT;AT LEAST THAT IS THE PLAN
The stock market is being propped up by a number of different things none of which indicate “good times”. We have the unusual and unique yearly payout of billions of dollars to “non” taxpayers called EITC. Not suprisingly the people who get EITC by their nature aren’t good at handling money so they spend it as quick as they can. So the economy is enjoying a mini-boom thanks to this redistribution of wealth. This will end soon. Another factor is with interest rates at record lows investors have few choices where they will invest and are willing to dip their toe in a stock market that seems to be doing well. I think though that the smart money is selling stocks to these bullish investors and soon the market will reflect the reality of our world situation. A second dip or crash is inevitable, the only question seems to be when and how bad.
Yes—the elite know what’s about to take place. Mass starvation. The F.E.M.A. camps [all of them] have been activated. I must admit that it really bothers me when I see small children and expecting mothers. By the time everyone can see that they have been lied to, the grocery shelves will be empty
Can anyone say feasts and circuses? Keep the masses fat dumb and happy with their reality tv and bs news stories and they will walk gladly to the slaughterhouse! I agree with Spook and others. You cant have the constitution without God in it! You take God out and its just a piece of paper with some peoples names on it. Watch whats going on in Syria right now. About to have another little war that our boys are fighting. Keep your eyes on Israel!
I think the gov’t is “fiddling while Rome burns”. Every serious threat is continually denied, people who want to be ready for anything are called wackos and all the while the gov’t is storing mega amounts of emergency food, medicine and supplies. What is wrong with this picture?
Ending the wars in Iraq and The ‘Stan and ending the Bush tax cuts will take care of a big chunk of the debt. It’s a concern, but it’s not the end of the world.
We need to reform Medicare and SSI, but making Medicare a means-tested program and not exempting income over $106,800K from paying SSI would take care of a big chunk of that. We could make SSI means tested as well, but I don’t think that will happen and I wouldn’t support it. You pay into the thing, you ought to get something back from it.
These things are very fixable. But, will we actually fix them? I’m thinking it’s about 50/50.
Like you said, we all knew a default on Greece’s debt was coming, it was just a matter of when and how bad it would be. So, it’s now and it’s bad, but not too bad for us. The USA didn’t have huge exposure there and Germany isn’t going to get screwed, so we’ll still be able to sell the Germans stuff. Greece’s GDP is about on par with the state of Maryland’s GDP, it’s just not that big of a fish. It’ll suck a lot for the Greeks, though. I wonder how many government officials nd bankers will get hug from light-poles?
But, then there’s this:
Driving Is A Dying Activity In America
http://www.businessinsider.com/remember-when-americans-used-to-drive-2012-3
Our roads and bridges are crumbling. most of the money to fix them comes from state and federal gas taxes and people are driving less in cars that are getting better and better gas milage. Plus, every DOT in the country wants to build more and more roads. So we have less and less income to pay for more and more roads. Everything in America is dependent on roads. What happens to the economy when bridges start to fall into rivers? I’d worry about this one and worry doubly that its not being talked about.
And there’s this:
Deficits Push N.Y. Cities and Counties to Desperation
http://tinyurl.com/7psaztt
State budget cuts hit small-town Ohio
http://tinyurl.com/7vcbsho
We have cities and counties that are going broke all over the country. Not only is it going to suck for those folks that live in places like Buffalo as these towns go broke, as they default on their bonds the municipal bond rate for other cities (and counties and school districts) that are stress will go up leaving less money to fix the streets and pay for police.
You really have to search not just for stories about this ↑, but for stories that connect the dots and shows how this relates and fits in with the rest of the country.
So yeah, we’re pretty F’d.
Corrected:
I wonder how many government officials and bankers will get hung from light-poles?
I really need to get a new keyboard.
Answer: none will hang.
Ebb & flow my friend.
Read – The Creature from Jekyll Island if you want to get a base understanding of the banking system & Federal Reserve’s relationship.
Are you familiar with Max Keiser? Awesome stuff. Search on You Tube for: Keiser Report: Europe’s Neo Feudalism.
The way things work in Greece, I wouldn’t be surprised if mobs strung a few folks up, but it wont change anything in the end. Germany owns Greece now. Which works out OK for us because that means Germany can still buy our shit.
Neo Feudalism, I love the new label trying to figure out which the wind is going to blow. Once again, it’s speculation by another of the less informed.
Look at Celente – he makes a very bold prediction in 2009 that there would be food riots in the streets, complete civil unrest & chaos in 2012. Everybody who follows the line of thinking has lined their shelves & gun lockers in panic mode. It is the end of the 1st quarter & no hint of it, in fact unemployment has stabilized.
A guy like Michael Ruppert removed all doubt as to his sanity when he opened his mouth & made bolder, end of the world predictions for this year.
Global economics is not as simple as who buys what from whom. Crashing an economy isn’t as simple as your neighbor losing his/her job.
Right on, right on. The MSM exists to divide, distract and sway the people. They will sway public opinion with “polls”, they are very good at disracting the public…IS Snookie pregnant?…and they are very good at dividing us. Until we decide that the Constitution applies to ALL of us EQUALLY, then we are lost. The media will continue provide these three services to the gov’t, and we will continue to buy into those services, no matter what side you are on. Remember folks, there is more than one flavor of kool aid!
You’re right, Jarhead. I wonder the same thing.
Manipulation – that’s all it is & only about control. It happens everywhere, all of the time, even on this blog. We speculate about these illusionary things called “news”, form opinions based upon … vague, distractions & try to prepare for … what?
Starting every January until April, without fail, what do we see in the news? People caught in IRS fraud, safe little tax tips & hidden secrets (as if) – all to scare you into paying taxes. Did you know that vast majority over pays taxes & why? Fear – better to pay too much than to have the boogie man knock on your door.
The housing market is turning around, banks are easing lending restrictions, stocks rally, gas will eventual tumble down to obsene prices as opposed to disgusting prices & so on. It is all a giant game that we cannot control or ever figure out, ever.
We are in deep debt but to whom? China, yes they are #2 on the list but the holder of the greatest number of IOU’s is our own privately held Federal Reserve – that’s a known fact that was presented in the MSM.
Fact – America is the number one economy in the world. Don’t be so simple minded to think that we will sink under any weight of debt. If we sank, as some so foolishly believe, the world would end – no question.
Greece, Spain, Portugal, Iceland & Argentina fail – so what, what is their contribution to the world economy? Zip, they do not matter in the grand scheme of worldwide economic contributions, power and or domination. Bail them out & we own them.
Can’t you see the game? Buy a country at a steep discount, equity is built in by default & start parting out if necessary. Economics 101.
I find it so ironic that we scramble & try to prepare for that which we have no idea of knowing what is coming, if anything. We had the recession of ’72, hyperinflation of ’80, housing crash of the 90’s, Y2K & yet we still plug along, strange isn’t it? Ha!
Of course today it’s different because this time it’s the real deal … says who?
Kim Kardashian, Rush’s stupid remark & other pointless sensationalist bits of “news” provide an invaluable service – keep our eye on the bouncing ball while the sleight of hand manuevers the people & power positions.
Finally, are preppers lunatics? Yes, because they act irrationally & try sell it to others. By definition trying to create a fact from an illusion is psychosis.
Welcome to the game!
I think Jason is an agent for “The Man”.
Your a lunatic Brad!!
Survivalist blog humor … priceless.
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having the same problem with the media as well trying to figure out what’s next ?
the media is talking out both sides of their mouth. one day it’s all good, the next it’s all bad.
whether their trying to sell papers to both camps or it’s deception by design i can’t tell. for now i’m riding the middle of the road.
not buying the “everything is rosy” stuff, but not digging a bunker in the back yard…………………….yet :-)
> many of us there are who are learning the “Old Ways”
Plus, teaching them to others.
> try to prepare for that which we have no idea of knowing what is coming,
I know what is coming, peace and prosperity for the world ushered in by Satan as the false messiah who will forgive sins and debts so people worship him at the Temple Mount.
I have been following the red heifer crowd and the cloning of calves in Texas for about five years (+?) now.
This is the future being given to the youth today by removing God from schools and history, along with having an almost insurmountable debt. Falling into Satan’s lap.
I know deflation is here (well, for me at least my house is worth $50,000 less then I paid for it) and probably going to get worse, followed by massive inflation. It is one reason I have been getting rid of my collectibles. Food, guns, ammo, basic tools, and skills will be barter material, not “things”. I started prepping with food three years ago. Cost has skyrocketed for food.
I entirely disagree with saving SSI and Medicare. It is a losing ponzi scheme for the youth and I do not want them saddled with it. Imho, It is part of the scorpion’s sting to turn people to mush from the inside out, same with TV. It is a horrible thing for people to look forward to retiring … with nothing. Making them dull, soft, and mushy, and not wanting to achieve. imho, The only ones to get it should be the blind and crippled and not with the pittance we throw at them now.
The question that bothers me the most as a prepper, that I think about a lot, is what will happen to all the badly wounded soldiers that can no longer fend for themselves? They really deserve better then to be left to fail on their own as will probably happen during a depression and loss of government services. I use to volunteer cook and serve at a soup kitchen where 150+ people would line up for a meal. It is bad enough seeing small children and able bodied veterans there, never mind a guy with no legs or arms having to go through that after serving his country.
But, it does not matter, we have children as leaders as prophesied and nothing real is likely to be done on anything and I think everything will be ended by 2018 (1948 plus 70 years) at the max.
1. If you are seeing a veteran with no arms or legs lined up at a soup kitchen you should get new glasses.
2. Don’t you know, your God hates amputees? He will heal any disease, part any sea, work any miracle of ANY nature EXCEPT to restore a limb to an amputee? Maybe he just hates victims of IED’s. What do you think?
“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”
— Thomas Paine
“The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on nothing; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing and admits of no conclusion.”
— Thomas Paine
“Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist. ”
– C. S. Lewis
“Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.”
– Tom Stoppard
‘If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshiped. ”
– Evelyn Underhill
Do you have an original thought on the subject?
Very nice rebuttal Jason….well put indeed sir.
Grassy ass. (That’s Spanish)
> What do you think?
Matthew 7:6?
I think you can’t explain this:
Curse of Tippecanoe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_tippecanoe
“For the next 120 years, presidents elected during years ending in a zero (occurring every 20 years) ultimately died while serving in office, from Harrison to John F. Kennedy (elected 1960, died 1963).”
No matter, I know, not believe, and that is what separates me from most people and why I was allowed to solve it even when it stumped people such as Jack Anderson.
Mary had a little lamb.
john,
I think for you Proverbs 16:18.
Matthew 7:6 applies to believers in Christ, clearly not applicable to VetRun.
Be careful, the Bible & God’s word is not an instrument of warfare as so many have come to believe – it is completely the opposite.
I truly hope you aren’t stupid enough to believe that your smarter than everyone else. If so, you’d be right & that would separate you from the intelligent.
Mary had more than a lamb my friend.
Yep, your correct Jar Head. Its scary actually. Were being lied to on a daily bases. I’m afraid the majority of us choose to accept the lies. Because its either “too much to think about” or the beers still cold and the game is on. I for one find it overwhelming. Sometimes I take a few days off from the non mainstream media, and prep planning. Its a ton to think about. On a fixed budget, its even tougher. What do I get with my spare 20 bucks this week. A box of ammo? couple cans of beans? spare chain for the chain saw? you get the idea. I have a young family who depends on me am I doing the right thing? I know im not the only one who feels this way, but sometimes it feels like im the loan voice. Lets face it, the ill conceived notions and what I feel are evil motives coming from those in elected office, and there advisers, are not possible with a strong, prepared, educated, god fearing American public. Take that same public remove there moral compass, there education, and thoughts or skills than lean towards self sufficiency and now its becoming more feasible isn’t it? So, Mr citizen, your hungry. How about you turn in that nasty old gun and well give you some food. Your house is cold? how about you sign over a few acres of your land to us and well be sure you and your family are warm this winter. When they control the health care,(Obama Care) energy( NO we cant drill, no Oil pipeline from Canada), food, and housing (Freddie, Fannie now there talking about principle reduction??!!!!! whose taking the $$ loss) they control the people.
Mean while presidential hopefuls are talking about birth control !!! Seriously? we have a birth control issue here ?? Thats our biggest concern here folks?
So, yes I feel the wool is being pulled over our eyes. Everything’s just fine here nothing to see. Keep paying your taxes. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…………..
Steve, birth control is a “Moral Compass” issue. Our young women are being turned into materialistic floosies. Their “reproductive health” is threatened by STDs, which the “Pill” does nothing about. Our kids are being robbed of their childhood by being “sexualized” at the youngest possible age. That’s why the birth control issue resonates among some Republican constituiencies.
Irishdutchuncle
I do not disagree with one thing you said.
However not one of those concerns are the responsibility of the federal government. That’s what parents are for. Can some bureaucrat in DC keep my child from getting a STD? No.
How about 5 dollar a gallon gas? The price of food? The state of our economy? Irans nuke program? Those are the things I need my “federal government” to address. As a parent or even on a state government level they are too large to address. That’s the function of the federal government. Provide what the local and state government can not. Utah can do nothing to deter Iran. Utah can not run a oil pipe line from Canada. That’s the federal governments job. Not to worry about my Childs sexual behavior. No disrespect, and I agree with your concerns, but they should not be the concern of the person running for the office of the president.
I agree with you Steve but the problem is parents have gotten extremely complacent & downright lazy. They expect the schools to raise & babysit their kids while they Facebook & play with phone apps.
All day long I see parents texting while they have kids in tow. It makes me want to grab their phone & toss it in the toilet.
One Sunday morning I stopped at my favorite haunt – Starbucks, to get my usual morning coffee with my 6 year old. We sat at a table and played a little board game & I looked out side & saw mom, dad & their 10 year old daughter all on separate phones texting! It was enough to make me sick.
What is so damn important that you need to stare at that phone & type away? It isn’t any wonder why kids are so disconnected & struggle with basic morality issues.
> I think for you Proverbs 16:18.
Too bad you split it in ½ , because it was talking about
17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
Then that would apply to me.
>Seriously? we have a birth control issue here ?? Thats our biggest concern here folks?
The talk about birth control by the LSM and and covering pre-existing conditions is a smoke screen being used for a wider agenda. They pretty much do not give a hoot about women. What is being driven by covering pre-existing conditions is health care for homosexuals with AIDs. This is the un-talked about payback.
It costs the Federal government about $33 billion a year for AIDs treatment and it is rife with fraud. I posted elsewhere the congressional report Obama used for his stupid electric scooter comments.
According to the CDC about 60% of people with AIDs rely on the government for treatment. Now that they can apply to private insurance plans for better treatment, that shifts the $33 billion from the government to the insurance companies, that will be sued for not providing the best and latest drugs. This will soon put private insurance companies out of business by making policies too expensive for people. When they go out of business, you will effectively end up with single payer anyways.
Since the two biggest at risk groups to get AIDs are now #1) black women (from bi-sexual black men) and #2) Hispanic women, you will see more marches and Obama trying to energize the base (blacks and Hispanics) by making them feel minimized, side lined, and hopeless.
BUT, that is not the main driving force, the radicals (such as Obama, Soros, Jeff Jones, Bill Ayers, Maurice Strong, etc.) are using homosexuals and people with AIDs like sheep in a minefield to take down the USA under the burden of its own social programs. This has probably been more effective then increasing the welfare rolls. That is the true long term objective, taking down America. They could care less about homosexuals, a cure for AIDs, or reproductive “rights” for women, it is just a smoke screen for the original long term agenda of the Weather Underground Group.