The United States Navy suffered possibly more loss of life through yet another collision involving a Japan based Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.. The United States Third Fleet was struck by two consecutive typhoons in 1944 and 1945 causing the loss of almost 800 lives, three destroyers, damage to dozens of other ships and the loss of over 200 airplanes. Typhoons and hurricanes have destroyed fleets from time immemorial. Battles and entire wars have been won and lost because of changing weather patterns. The Space Shuttle Challenger was lost because of freezing temperatures upon o-rings. Clouds covered the Japanese city of Kokura forcing the B-29 bomber to drop their atomic bomb on Nagasaki instead. NASA is intervening to somehow lessen the potential disaster of Yellowstone's morphing supervolcano. God shook the earth, separated the waters, and even somehow kept the sun in place for a time to give the Israelites safe passage and victory. Yet we, a supposed Christian nation, apparently have no interest in His power, His words, or His warnings in these most dangerous of times. 'God bless America' is the best that we can do. The following preface is from May....the post after that is three years old.
I wrote two posts last year that I titled 'Stephen K. Bannon I' and 'Stephen K. Bannon II.' I've mention Mr. Bannon often in these posts and all in the positive, but I also added this sentence in one of those posts..."as necessary as this reform movement is (as to) our responsibility as citizens, it will not effect God's judgments advancing upon this world, and that America as it stands before God has not changed one iota with Donald Trump... or even Stephen K. Bannon."
So Steve Bannon is out at the White House. That's really no surprise, especially after the American Prospect interview, but there's also a lot of intrigue involved. The fact that Mr. Bannon is so quickly back in charge at Breitbart indicates that this departure was well planned out in advance. My concern is if this is part of President Trump's attempt to redesign his base and co-opt those of us who wanted honesty, transparency and integrity in the White House.
Alex Marlowe took the helm at Breitbart and did a very good job. Who will host the Monday through Friday radio show? If Marlowe remains, will he now be under the thumb of such a domineering personality as Steve Bannon? We should find that out very soon.
Steve Bannon's remark that he was "going to war for Trump against his opponents-on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America" is problematic at the least and troubling at the worst. It's troubling in what it did not say. Donald Trump has shown himself very clearly not to be the man who he told us that he was during the campaign.
Back in 2012...I contacted politicians, talk show hosts and various leading conservative organizations to warn them that if Mitt Romney was to be the nominee then 5 to 7 percent of the Christian vote would not show up. That's exactly what happened. To this day pundits try to explain that election result but they have no real concept of of Christianity in America beyond the evangelical. These same conservative pundits may be once again missing the mark, only they'll have missed it by much more this time.
We are constantly told that the Republican Congress is not doing anything but they worked very hard, very quickly and concocted an Obamacare repeal and replace 'Obamacare Lite' scam bill for President Trump in which he got behind 100%! If it were not for the Freedom Caucus, President Trump would have had his legislation. We are not going to war for someone who has consistently lied to us many times and then tweeted us to death with nothing more than a pastiche of his campaign promises.
If Steve Bannon supports the president when support is deserved and criticizes when criticism is necessary then these new developments may be good, for he is a powerful communicator extraordinaire, but if the plan is for him to be President Trump's personal general through conservative talk radio....he already has one....Rush Limbaugh. If we are not careful then we will wind up with a new conservative base, only it will be a hardened, reactionary, compassionless grouping of people who only want power and prestige returned to America, who really have no concern for integrity in leaders, and less for the warnings that God has given America over decades.
Go in a new direction if you want.....we're staying with the God who brung us.....our dance will be one of joyful praise to a longsuffering God who continues to extend His hand even though we have smited it away time and again. It's not that you will be leaving us but that you will be refusing to return to Him who holds your only hope in His hands.
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES.....March, 2017
We are not as of yet holed up in our homes, although many truly are, but we are holed up in the gated community of our minds. An unwanted visitor wants in with information that would upset us but we refuse to open the gate. An intruder invades our peace and we call for security. A message is not filtered so we block the sender. When we travel by means of special news bulletins, dark stories that cannot be avoided by newspaper editors and even tragedies close to home, we lock the doors of the vehicle and hurry through to our destination, and perish even the thought of our GPS running amok where we might get lost and be forced to confront reality.
No...we will not tear down the Asherah poles nor burn the bronze idols. That's phase two and phase three! We won't entertain any evidence that God will judge us. We will cover our ears and shout baby syllables should anyone disturb our serenity with biblical warnings. We will cut out of the Bible, not miracles as Thomas Jefferson did, but anything that might convict us as to our having compromised God's commands to us to be set apart.
God loves us! He knows our heart. We blush at how much God must be pleased with us. We elected Donald Trump! OK maybe he doesn't give a rat's posterior about God but he gave us a good Supreme Court nominee! We shall continue to keep up appearances.
I wrote two posts last year that I titled 'Stephen K. Bannon I' and 'Stephen K. Bannon II.' I've mention Mr. Bannon often in these posts and all in the positive, but I also added this sentence in one of those posts..."as necessary as this reform movement is (as to) our responsibility as citizens, it will not effect God's judgments advancing upon this world, and that America as it stands before God has not changed one iota with Donald Trump... or even Stephen K. Bannon."
So Steve Bannon is out at the White House. That's really no surprise, especially after the American Prospect interview, but there's also a lot of intrigue involved. The fact that Mr. Bannon is so quickly back in charge at Breitbart indicates that this departure was well planned out in advance. My concern is if this is part of President Trump's attempt to redesign his base and co-opt those of us who wanted honesty, transparency and integrity in the White House.
Alex Marlowe took the helm at Breitbart and did a very good job. Who will host the Monday through Friday radio show? If Marlowe remains, will he now be under the thumb of such a domineering personality as Steve Bannon? We should find that out very soon.
Steve Bannon's remark that he was "going to war for Trump against his opponents-on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America" is problematic at the least and troubling at the worst. It's troubling in what it did not say. Donald Trump has shown himself very clearly not to be the man who he told us that he was during the campaign.
Back in 2012...I contacted politicians, talk show hosts and various leading conservative organizations to warn them that if Mitt Romney was to be the nominee then 5 to 7 percent of the Christian vote would not show up. That's exactly what happened. To this day pundits try to explain that election result but they have no real concept of of Christianity in America beyond the evangelical. These same conservative pundits may be once again missing the mark, only they'll have missed it by much more this time.
We are constantly told that the Republican Congress is not doing anything but they worked very hard, very quickly and concocted an Obamacare repeal and replace 'Obamacare Lite' scam bill for President Trump in which he got behind 100%! If it were not for the Freedom Caucus, President Trump would have had his legislation. We are not going to war for someone who has consistently lied to us many times and then tweeted us to death with nothing more than a pastiche of his campaign promises.
If Steve Bannon supports the president when support is deserved and criticizes when criticism is necessary then these new developments may be good, for he is a powerful communicator extraordinaire, but if the plan is for him to be President Trump's personal general through conservative talk radio....he already has one....Rush Limbaugh. If we are not careful then we will wind up with a new conservative base, only it will be a hardened, reactionary, compassionless grouping of people who only want power and prestige returned to America, who really have no concern for integrity in leaders, and less for the warnings that God has given America over decades.
Go in a new direction if you want.....we're staying with the God who brung us.....our dance will be one of joyful praise to a longsuffering God who continues to extend His hand even though we have smited it away time and again. It's not that you will be leaving us but that you will be refusing to return to Him who holds your only hope in His hands.
KEEPING UP APPEARANCES.....March, 2017
We are not as of yet holed up in our homes, although many truly are, but we are holed up in the gated community of our minds. An unwanted visitor wants in with information that would upset us but we refuse to open the gate. An intruder invades our peace and we call for security. A message is not filtered so we block the sender. When we travel by means of special news bulletins, dark stories that cannot be avoided by newspaper editors and even tragedies close to home, we lock the doors of the vehicle and hurry through to our destination, and perish even the thought of our GPS running amok where we might get lost and be forced to confront reality.
No...we will not tear down the Asherah poles nor burn the bronze idols. That's phase two and phase three! We won't entertain any evidence that God will judge us. We will cover our ears and shout baby syllables should anyone disturb our serenity with biblical warnings. We will cut out of the Bible, not miracles as Thomas Jefferson did, but anything that might convict us as to our having compromised God's commands to us to be set apart.
God loves us! He knows our heart. We blush at how much God must be pleased with us. We elected Donald Trump! OK maybe he doesn't give a rat's posterior about God but he gave us a good Supreme Court nominee! We shall continue to keep up appearances.
We will not recant our primary vote for Donald Trump....unless convinced by the plain truth of 'sort of thinking'....for to do so would be to go against Make America Great Again....here we linger....we don't have the slightest idea of what the Old Testament prophets were talking about or the Olivet Discourse....God bless America!
