Dispatches....0648 hrs.....6/4/18
The NFL is back on the front burner. The post before this was on expecting the unexpected. Well, I had long hoped and prayed that American men would once again begin to honor the Lord's Day....for this was essential if God was ever to have mercy upon our nation....and I knew that sports....particularly the NFL.....was the biggest obstacle to that.....but I never considered that the NFL would just collapse on its own. Yes this assault on America (kneeling) is on our flag....it's nothing but communist methodology....but God may use it to free many of us from Sunday/game day.....and as the NFL may continue to diminish in viewership.....then surely many of those who are no longer interested in professional football may instead actually look to God....on the day that He commanded us to look to Him.....and not split the day into a pious church service and rambunctious touchdown cheers....and therefore wherever America is headed in this coming judgment....it would be the better for it.
(0820 hrs 6/6/2018) Note: To those select few in the NFL that say that they honor the concept of 'team' I would say.....the Soviets always produced a great Red Army hockey team....they must be your model.....but there are some other teams that you might want to consider....a Navy seal team or an Army ranger team or a Green Beret team or the entire Marine Corps or Minutemen or the team at the Alamo or Doughboy Yanks or Jimmy Doolittle's squadron or the task force teams on D-Day 74 years ago today....all of which and many more that have or are giving you the right to disparage their efforts so that you can get your picture in the paper as if you actually have a clue as to freedom and liberty. And to the new team in Washington....Donald and Ivanka.....the once formidable conservative talk radio....Fox News....and Rasmussen....I guess that we were cut from your team.....but we're still wearing the same uniform....it's you that stuck a new logo on the helmet....a dollar sign.
Syrian President Assad gave an offhand comment in an interview that he plans to visit North Korea. It would be the first visit by a foreign head of state to North Korea since Kim Jong-un took power while it would also be a rare trip abroad for Assad himself. Assad may be seeking assurances that North Korea's military and political assistance continues....or they may be coordinating plans in case war breaks out between the United States and North Korea.
It's also being reported that Kim Jong-un has removed....either from the earth or their jobs is uncertain....the country's top three generals....and replaced them with younger generals. A few possible reasons for this have been offered. Essentially they revolve around this....the old men might have been too belligerent in this Kim quest for peace.....replaced by moderates.....or they might have been too queasy about war....replaced by more hardline younger generals. What is certain is that the new top three generals must be Kim loyalists which means that there was some concern that the older men might have had some reservations about what was about to happen.
The Tea Party appears dead.....replaced by the T Party (Trump). Half of the 2010 then incoming Republican class that was given the Tea Party label have moved on...some even seem to regret the original name given to them.
Steve Bannon is back! Italian voters are revolting against their own establishment while Steve Bannon is in the middle of it. Someone ought to take away the wrinkled field jacket type coat that he wears all the time....or maybe not....because if he looked a little better then he might be unstoppable. I remain firm in my opinion that Donald Trump won the election because of Steve Bannon. I remember that morning when Bannon was not on his Breitbart radio show. When I heard that he joined the Trump campaign I knew that Trump would win....this because I personally have never witnessed anyone in my 68 years as motivational in a political sense than Bannon.
The problem is that he lives the philosophy of his favorite book....William Strauss and Neil Howe's 1997 futurist book The Fourth Turning, An American Prophesy, What the Cycles of history Tell us About America's Next Rendezvous with History. Here's a short synopsis of the book from a 2017 post of mine...."Time moves in cycles and those cycles have shown to contain four distinct...'turnings.' The cycle begins on a "high' and them moves or turns to an "awakening' then to an "unravelling" and finally to a "crisis." Now there's a whole lot more than that in this thesis but essentially it points to continuous cycles....each one with four evolutions....labelled 'turnings.' Well, according to the authors....writing in 1997....we should be entering the 'crisis' turning right about now."
Steve Bannon really believes that right now....today....is the time that a totally new cycle will begin and he therefore lives his life to influence what the new paradigm will be. His ideas are not a return to a conservative constitutional republic but are truly what could be termed....revolutionary.....and that is not what we need. I wrote this also in that 2017 post...."My point then and now is different than a futurist's take on cyclical events. To put it in very simple terms...we trust in God and He blesses us....then we forget where the blessings came from and we fall away. This hasn't anything to with time cycles. It has to do with fallen man.....and God's long suffering but limited patience. So the chronological essence may at times somewhat coincide with the thesis put out by these two authors....but this is not time cycles dealing with man....but rather God dealing with man.....and the pattern is similar to the constant repenting of the Israelites only to fall right back into idolatry before repenting again! Are we then at a Turning? No...we are at judgment."
One last thing on Steve Bannon.....PJ Media is reporting that Mr. Bannon said that we no longer have the luxury of opposing the establishment.....and that...."the time was now to embrace the establishment." Embrace the establishment? Well that's actually exactly what has been happening in the Trump administration....at least Bannon tells it like it is. Now there are a lot of us who will never go there but they may not need us as so many seem to have abandoned much of what they formerly professed to believe....with the exception of 401k related and national economy issues (minus concerns about the national debt of course) and a military and economic hegemony around the world.
And this just in and headlining all the news services: The Supreme Court in a 7 to 2 decision sided with the Colorado baker who only wanted to make a living as a baker and still hold to his Christian convictions. After losing all the way to the Supremes he was finally vindicated! The decision did not clarify or change the Colorado law but it did say that in this case the Colorado Civil Rights Commission's decision was inconsistent with the baker's First Amendment rights! I would think that this would be an important and much needed precedent to revert to in future violations of our Constitution's First Amendment's rights!
Robert F. Kennedy was shot a half century ago today. I was eighteen years old....and devastated. RFK was a flawed individual....as we all are....and a politician who knew the tricks.....but he was the candidate who he said that he was. His passions....civil rights and Vietnam.....the former right.....and the latter wrong....were at least real. The Democrat Party of today is not the Democrat Party of 1968....it changed somewhere between Robert Kennedy and when Edward M. Kennedy became 'The Lion Of The Senate.'
The NFL is back on the front burner. The post before this was on expecting the unexpected. Well, I had long hoped and prayed that American men would once again begin to honor the Lord's Day....for this was essential if God was ever to have mercy upon our nation....and I knew that sports....particularly the NFL.....was the biggest obstacle to that.....but I never considered that the NFL would just collapse on its own. Yes this assault on America (kneeling) is on our flag....it's nothing but communist methodology....but God may use it to free many of us from Sunday/game day.....and as the NFL may continue to diminish in viewership.....then surely many of those who are no longer interested in professional football may instead actually look to God....on the day that He commanded us to look to Him.....and not split the day into a pious church service and rambunctious touchdown cheers....and therefore wherever America is headed in this coming judgment....it would be the better for it.
(0820 hrs 6/6/2018) Note: To those select few in the NFL that say that they honor the concept of 'team' I would say.....the Soviets always produced a great Red Army hockey team....they must be your model.....but there are some other teams that you might want to consider....a Navy seal team or an Army ranger team or a Green Beret team or the entire Marine Corps or Minutemen or the team at the Alamo or Doughboy Yanks or Jimmy Doolittle's squadron or the task force teams on D-Day 74 years ago today....all of which and many more that have or are giving you the right to disparage their efforts so that you can get your picture in the paper as if you actually have a clue as to freedom and liberty. And to the new team in Washington....Donald and Ivanka.....the once formidable conservative talk radio....Fox News....and Rasmussen....I guess that we were cut from your team.....but we're still wearing the same uniform....it's you that stuck a new logo on the helmet....a dollar sign.
Syrian President Assad gave an offhand comment in an interview that he plans to visit North Korea. It would be the first visit by a foreign head of state to North Korea since Kim Jong-un took power while it would also be a rare trip abroad for Assad himself. Assad may be seeking assurances that North Korea's military and political assistance continues....or they may be coordinating plans in case war breaks out between the United States and North Korea.
It's also being reported that Kim Jong-un has removed....either from the earth or their jobs is uncertain....the country's top three generals....and replaced them with younger generals. A few possible reasons for this have been offered. Essentially they revolve around this....the old men might have been too belligerent in this Kim quest for peace.....replaced by moderates.....or they might have been too queasy about war....replaced by more hardline younger generals. What is certain is that the new top three generals must be Kim loyalists which means that there was some concern that the older men might have had some reservations about what was about to happen.
The Tea Party appears dead.....replaced by the T Party (Trump). Half of the 2010 then incoming Republican class that was given the Tea Party label have moved on...some even seem to regret the original name given to them.
Steve Bannon is back! Italian voters are revolting against their own establishment while Steve Bannon is in the middle of it. Someone ought to take away the wrinkled field jacket type coat that he wears all the time....or maybe not....because if he looked a little better then he might be unstoppable. I remain firm in my opinion that Donald Trump won the election because of Steve Bannon. I remember that morning when Bannon was not on his Breitbart radio show. When I heard that he joined the Trump campaign I knew that Trump would win....this because I personally have never witnessed anyone in my 68 years as motivational in a political sense than Bannon.
The problem is that he lives the philosophy of his favorite book....William Strauss and Neil Howe's 1997 futurist book The Fourth Turning, An American Prophesy, What the Cycles of history Tell us About America's Next Rendezvous with History. Here's a short synopsis of the book from a 2017 post of mine...."Time moves in cycles and those cycles have shown to contain four distinct...'turnings.' The cycle begins on a "high' and them moves or turns to an "awakening' then to an "unravelling" and finally to a "crisis." Now there's a whole lot more than that in this thesis but essentially it points to continuous cycles....each one with four evolutions....labelled 'turnings.' Well, according to the authors....writing in 1997....we should be entering the 'crisis' turning right about now."
Steve Bannon really believes that right now....today....is the time that a totally new cycle will begin and he therefore lives his life to influence what the new paradigm will be. His ideas are not a return to a conservative constitutional republic but are truly what could be termed....revolutionary.....and that is not what we need. I wrote this also in that 2017 post...."My point then and now is different than a futurist's take on cyclical events. To put it in very simple terms...we trust in God and He blesses us....then we forget where the blessings came from and we fall away. This hasn't anything to with time cycles. It has to do with fallen man.....and God's long suffering but limited patience. So the chronological essence may at times somewhat coincide with the thesis put out by these two authors....but this is not time cycles dealing with man....but rather God dealing with man.....and the pattern is similar to the constant repenting of the Israelites only to fall right back into idolatry before repenting again! Are we then at a Turning? No...we are at judgment."
One last thing on Steve Bannon.....PJ Media is reporting that Mr. Bannon said that we no longer have the luxury of opposing the establishment.....and that...."the time was now to embrace the establishment." Embrace the establishment? Well that's actually exactly what has been happening in the Trump administration....at least Bannon tells it like it is. Now there are a lot of us who will never go there but they may not need us as so many seem to have abandoned much of what they formerly professed to believe....with the exception of 401k related and national economy issues (minus concerns about the national debt of course) and a military and economic hegemony around the world.
And this just in and headlining all the news services: The Supreme Court in a 7 to 2 decision sided with the Colorado baker who only wanted to make a living as a baker and still hold to his Christian convictions. After losing all the way to the Supremes he was finally vindicated! The decision did not clarify or change the Colorado law but it did say that in this case the Colorado Civil Rights Commission's decision was inconsistent with the baker's First Amendment rights! I would think that this would be an important and much needed precedent to revert to in future violations of our Constitution's First Amendment's rights!
Robert F. Kennedy was shot a half century ago today. I was eighteen years old....and devastated. RFK was a flawed individual....as we all are....and a politician who knew the tricks.....but he was the candidate who he said that he was. His passions....civil rights and Vietnam.....the former right.....and the latter wrong....were at least real. The Democrat Party of today is not the Democrat Party of 1968....it changed somewhere between Robert Kennedy and when Edward M. Kennedy became 'The Lion Of The Senate.'
